The defensive plan from Denver and GS has been designed to stop Lillard - and it worked. It also exposed Dame as he is unable to adjust in any meaningful way. Steph has dominated this matchup quite handedly. A third scorer? Play him off the ball more?
The biggest takeaway from this is he quit on the team during the second half of this game. The biggest stage of his basketball career and he absolutely shit the bed.
Y'all saying dame quit? Nah, hes just looking ag who has to go. Which is about half the roster and the head coach.
Realize this will always happen if he is your #1 option. Sad reality and I hate to admit it. But you all know it's true. His style of play can easily be schemed against by a good defense.
Don't really think he quit but it doesn't matter. He played like he did. Bad body language and matador defense and not absorbing the hits at the rim. Wow. Shocked.
He’s just worn down. He’s not a quitter. Green single handedly beat us the way he played and push the ball and controlled both offense and defense. We need a player like him.
When Dame dribbles up the court and Leonard (or Kanter) comes up to set the high pick and roll, GS traps or blitzes Dame. To this, STOP SETTING THE FUCKING HIGH PICK! You have to mix it up! But EVERY SINGLE TIME the high pick is set! WTF? Try a screen with the forwards, with CJ. Try setting picks down low or out on a wing, letting Dame take his man one on one and keeping an eye out on rolling players away from the ball. The predictability is what is frustrating! It becomes a coaching problem! Just listening now to Stotts (post game interview).....bad answers. He doesn’t have answers.
Quite frankly he was the worst player on the floor tonight. A case where single game +/- is an accurate reflection of how things went.
I think we need an offensively dominant center who can pass in the high post... hopefully by February next season we’ve got one playing for us. Get it done Olshey!
We need either a third ball handler capable of making/creating shots, or a PF who can score on any big. That’s the only two things that can beat this trap rn.
Get a real PG and move Dame to SG. He's got limited handles in traffic. Leaves his feet to often with no plan and nobody to throw it to other than the other team. Let them double our SG and have our pg drive and score or drive and dish.
That’s the joke yes. It’s almost like people forget that Nurkic was a major contributor to our success this season and we’re now outmatched without him.