Zach Lowe made some waves recently by stating that Nick Young is playing defense this year, which is apparently surprising because he apparently hasn’t played defense at any point in his career. I wouldn’t know. DownToBuck does not care about defense.
Still, I’m going to challenge Zach on this. How on earth did he figure out that Young is playing D this year? Nobody has the time or the ability to follow every player in the league and note whether or not they consistently give effort on the non-fun side of the ball. He probably saw Young play inspired defense for, like, two possessions max and then made a tweet about it which all the nerds just lapped up because 1.) Nick Young is funny and 2.) it’s the kind of thing where you don’t really want to go out and verify it.
So, yeah. Zach Lowe was wrong. I just proved it. I would like to beef with him so that we can fight on the internet but I’m not sure I have the standing to initiate such a conflict. People like me don’t get to start beefs with people like Zach Lowe. But if he ever sees this, he should feel free to start one himself so that I can kick his ass at beefing.