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I'm not sure if this is a bug or my misunderstanding, so I'll post it here first.

I've tried Box and 1 (outside focus) yesterday in PL, but I wasn't sure if this was really a problem, as the opponent had pretty balanced and better team and I wasn't sure what exactly happened.

But today, I had a perfect candidate for this defense. His PG is clearly his best player on the court with averaging 40+ points per game in last few games. Other players are by far weaker, so I've decided to give it another shot.

I've set up a lineup with two great outside defenders on SG and sub SG, all other starters with average OD skill, and SG-C backups with low OD. I had some time on my hand to scan through Play-by-play, and here are numbers of match-ups defending his PG, based on comment on close guarding, backing off and fouls (starter + substitute):

PG: 3
SG: 2 + 2
SF: 3 + 0
PF: 2 + 0
C: 9 + 5

So, my clearly best outside defenders on SG positions were defending him 4 times combined, and centers with average and lousy OD 14 times (53%). This doesn't look right at all. Of course, it would be better if I just switched PG and SG defending positions, but I wanted to try this one. :)

BTW, his PG *did* perform worse than in previous games (26p, low FG%), but note that his game shape is 5 this week, so it might be a reason. What would happen if he had a "normal" game shape, god knows. :)

his PG did tend to drive inside a lot

No, that's not it. His most shots were for 3p (15 out of 29 according to boxscore), mostly guarder by centers.

Ok, here's a distribution by shot types and defending positions. It's not easy to format table here properly, but I hope it's clear enough.

Po 3p Mid Pnt Total
PG 1 1 1 3
SG 2 1 1 4
SF 3 0 0 3
PF 1 1 0 2
C 7 4 3 14

Tot 14 7 5 26

As you can see, there's only 5 attempts from the paint, 3 of them guarded by centers.

Brugi

Doesn't make much sense, I agree.