A video from bballbreakdown.com made the rounds earlier in the week, even garnering a retweet from Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey. It professed to elucidate the viewer as to why Patrick Beverley is a “lockdown defender.”
The narrator zeroes in visually on Beverley’s tactics, underscoring a low and wide stance which he explains is a break from established fundamentals. The narrator surmises that its this unorthodox approach which is the catalyst for Beverley’s productivity.
But was Beverley actually a good defender? I remember him routinely getting destroyed, defending his man far too aggressively, and in result, getting buried under screens.