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Kyrie Irving Says He Wants To Defend NBA’s Best Guards

By Sam Richmond

Nov 15, 2014; Cleveland, OH, USA; Cleveland Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving (2) does his signature mustache handshake in the fourth quarter against the Atlanta Hawks at Quicken Loans Arena. Mandatory Credit: David Richard-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 15, 2014; Cleveland, OH, USA; Cleveland Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving (2) does his signature mustache handshake in the fourth quarter against the Atlanta Hawks at Quicken Loans Arena. Mandatory Credit: David Richard-USA TODAY Sports /
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Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Kyrie Irving wants more responsibility on defense.

Kyrie Irving has, simply put, been a very poor defender throughout his NBA career.

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It’s why the Cavaliers often haven’t let him defend the opposing team’s top guard and instead gave him the easier defensive matchup.

However, it appears Kyrie is sick of getting hidden on defense and now wants to square off against the best competition.

From Cleveland.com:

"Based on the lineup, whatever our team needs, if one person gets going whether it be the one or two, I’m going to guard them,” Irving said. “It’s just more or less a personal challenge. It takes a team effort to guard everybody and for me, I’m either on the one or the two. We just have to figure that out.”Irving said he had a chat with the coaching staff and asked not to be reassigned.“I told them that whenever I have a chance to guard the point guards, just leave me on him and we have our two guards guard the twos,” he revealed. “I just have to do the job at stopping the head of the snake.”"

It will certainly be interesting to see if the Cavs’ coaching staff heeds Irving’s request.

Cleveland plays the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night and John Wall represents the type of challenge Irving says he wants to take on.

The Cavs played the Wizards last week and Wall scored 28 points with Irving not defending him.

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