OKC Thunder guard Dennis Schröder has been exactly what we expected him to be–an energetic, playmaking and scoring guard. But he’s also been something we didn’t expect: a good defender.
Dennis Schroder is not a name typically associated with great defense. He’s a slashing, clever guard who butters his bread by galloping past his defender for easy layups. When he can’t, he finds the teammate who can.
OKC Thunder fans didn’t think of Dennis Schröder as a good defender because he wasn’t. He was atrocious. If you looked at ESPN’s real plus-minus last year, you’d see Dennis Schröder a frog hair’s distance from the bottom of the list.