Media Day is up on us. I'm wondering... - How many times will media members (*highkin*) try to go viral with a gotcha question to Dame/Billups? - will any of our new additions be unvaccinated?
Roster comparison. Last season to current. 2020-2021 dame, ant cj, elleby, blevins norm, djj, nas roco, melo, collins nurk, kanter, giles STOTTS 2021-2022 DAME, ANT, Smith, Cook CJ, MCLEMORE, ELLEBY, Blevins NORM, NAS, SNELL, BROWN, Watford ROCO, NANCE, Chriss, Patterson NURK, ZELLER BILLUPS
https://www.nba.com/blazers/video/t...126-lillard-media-availibility-9-28-21-462787 NO MORE DROP COVERAGE!!!!
Sounds like we are going to be up at the level of the screen on ball screens or just below in the middle of the floor as a base. I've always referred to that as an "aggressive drop". Chauncey has talked about being a help team and was curious what that was going to look like. Small part of me feared we'd see a hedge and recover base scheme. We've seen that that shit doesn't work in large doses. I'm sure we'll see some hedging and blitzing at times, especially on side ball screen with an empty corner. Sometimes in the middle of the floor based on the other teams lineups.
We saw Stotts implement it for a decade without success. He even lied about changing it last year when he fell back into old habits without giving any other coverage a chance. His defense on Steph Curry in the playoffs was an abomination and he was ridiculed for it all over the media. He also publicly chastised guys for trapping and hedging. He also had to be personally implored by guys like Evan Turner and Mason Plumlee to get more aggressive on ball screens because he wanted to be more conservative. So save me the lecture on the merits of that shitty defense and just let me be happy that Billups is bringing something new.
Hey man. Im just as disappointed about the defense we've seen the last couple years. Change was clearly needed. I'm not arguing any of that. But how much of that blame people wanna put on the scheme alone is a whole other deal. Terry clearly didn't have the buy-in from the players and we saw how that affected the effort / discipline and execution of whatever scheme we were in. That alone (plus the clear personnel improvements defensively) is going to have a larger positive affect than any tweaks Chauncey is going to make scheme wise imo
I hope you guys caught Chauncey's post-practice media session too. Can really see the similarities of his approach and the presence he commands to how Dame is.
Click on the dame interview link i posted above and scroll down to the Chauncey and Nurk vids. Cant link separately for some reason
