Both those guys play a lot better defense than Tre and Tristan do. Defense was not the problem last night though so as I stated in my last post I wish both could of got some minutes to see if we could pull ourselves out of our shooting funk.
I guess I have two thoughts on that:
A) I don't see Jaden as a great defender. He certainly had his moment against K State, but I don't think he's head-and-shoulders better than Tre or Tristan, and especially Tristan. I've seen several occasions of him struggling to keep his guy in front of him off the dribble.
I think his role has been needing to be in when we go small because we can't afford to go small and also have Tre out there. But we played all the bigs last night for the most part.
B) With Gabe, he's a good on-ball defender but there comes a tipping point where his offensive struggles outweigh that. Last night, it was painfully obvious we couldn't score. Most other coaches in that setting go way down their bench hoping for a spark. Here, you don't even have to go that far. You can go with the guys who were apparently worthy of minutes up until 2 weeks ago.