a little related to Dre's post. I posted this in the Amir Johnson thread regarding AA;

He's pretty critical to our defense though i agree he's not the sole reason we win games. I didn't catch most of the 4th. We were up 7, and then i came back we were up 1. Amir was not in the game after he was killing it in the 4th. I turned it off. I plan on watching it later, but we gave up back to back 30+ quarters and Ben Gordon LIT us up. From the looks of it Flip didn't even try Afflalo who IIRC shut down JJ when Rip couldn't as well as bothered AI.

We gave up 109 points. If the Original Zoo crew had entered the game when we were up 11, i'm almost positive this would've been a blowout. Sheed's absence is a factor, and Amir didn't play nearly as much as he should, but Dixon was awful in that short stint. I counted 10-12 points he gave the opposition. This isn't going to fly against better teams. It would've have been a loss had CHI not sucked so much.

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I'm going to go back and watch the rest of the game, but i feel like i should start diagraming Dixon's bad defensive possessions. Having both Hayes/Dixon play is killing us defensively.

Also did Amir get taken out b/c of foul trouble or Flip stupidity? We were rolling with him in the game when i stepped away.

It's scary how again one person can almost beat our whole team. Obviously our perimeter defenders aren't cutting it so the solution is to start playing an even weaker one?

Heavy min 3 games in a row for Tay.

Also i remember Flip saying he was going to cut Dice's min. Obviously he needs it (1-10). I like Theo. I'm excited about him, but not if he takes min from Amir. Max is still playing ahead of Amir sometimes inexplicably. Theo needs to take Dice's min, and today it looks like he cut into Amir's. What happens when Sheed gets back?

edited to add;

I love agressive Tay. I wish there was a button so we could keep him that way.