Been watching Rusty's content for years and he NEVER complains about officiating. He actively defends the players doing it to the extent that it's more of an acknowledgement that it's the leagues fault for allowing it to be a thing. Not last night.
Blk% is a solid equalizer to paint a picture of how dominate of a rim protector is across all eras.
It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. If Rudy's on the floor Victor is just going to park is his 8'9'' ass in the paint and atrophy their points in the paint. If the Wolves decide to go with Naz Reid on the floor for spacing, that severely diminishes their paint defense creating a death by a thousand slashes situation.
Finch is gonna have to decide whether he wants to try and win this series in a defensive bloodbath(Rudy plays) or try and become a three point juggernaut by stretching the floor with Naz
I believe that Gobert is very likely to get played off the floor early and often, or Finch will carefully curate his minutes to coincide with Victor getting his rest. Essentially turning him into a back up big.
Castle is going to be the make or break X factor this upcoming series. It's going to be a TON of DHO's with him being the initiator and/or him taking threes.