It’s almost always defense mistakes that send rookies to the bench.
Even very good ones — often including lottery picks — can find themselves riding the pine due to missed defensive assignments, getting confused by more complex NBA coverages.
Sometimes, it’s just that the speed of the game can be too much for first-year players on the defensive side of the ball.
Not Boston Celtics wing Romeo Langford, though.
The Indiana native might have had a cascade of minor injuries and bad luck to start the season, but what he did not have in abundance were those aforementioned issues so common to players as they enter the league.
While he certainly had his fair share of mistakes on both ends, he largely held his own, and was working towards carving out a consistent role before the season was suspended on March 11.
Watch the video above to see some of the former Hoosier’s best defensive moments of the 2019-20 season so far while we wait for some live-action games to see him grow as a player when the season (hopefully) resumes.
