Game Thread GAME# 81: BLAZERS @ LAKERS - APRIL 9, 2019 - TUESDAY, 7:30 PM, NBCSNW

Got it thanks

 

I remember the double drag action being called something different, so this makes sense.

 

Guys listen, OKC Game starts 2 and half ours before our game, we can watch that game and see how it ends and then decide if we want to win or loose on purpose to avoid okc

 

They should rest Dame.

 

We’re locked in at #4. Scrub game tomorrow.

 

Its definitely not true. Dame killed this very same Lakers team with a buzzer beater last season, off the top of my head. I’m sure there’s more.

ESPN is tabloid-style trash. They just invent things.

 

0.7 left. not a buzzer beater

 

@KingSpeed look at this

 

Exactly

 

Thanks

 

I really don't like it either. Dame drops off and chucks a long three at around 31-33 seconds and the other team gets this long rebound and stuffs it down the Blazers throats. Then the Blazers come right back up and try an ISO and miss when Dame is double or triple teamed.

 

looks like on a teleprompter someone is scrolling an OT discussion between barfo and maris

 

But by trapping or hedging, you're putting a defender in the ball handlers face off the screen, making the pass more difficult and affording extra time for help side to rotate, increasing the chance they can be of help. With hedging. The key is to stop dribble penetration and handoff the ball handler back to the original defender, and then to fill the passing lane rotating back into position, where the helpside hands off the rolling big back to his original defender.

If done properly, the ball handler always has a defender in his face, theirs defense course enough to account for the roll man at all times and disrupt what would be a longer and more difficult lob, and there's no dribble penetration.

Much harder to lob against that then trailing the ball handler and letting him and the roll man to get downhill and making the dropping big try to guard both, or choose correctly.

With McGee, the Lakers had an extremely high chance of getting a great shot in the pick n roll all-season, and we didn't try anything else.

 

Ah gotcha. I guess I was was conflating it with a “game winner”.

Im steadfast in my opinions on ESPN though.

 

best we can hope for is a 3-6 vs SA. Clips out of the picture for 6 after OKC won tonight

 

Man I hope there are some orders from upstairs to rest Dame tomorrow

Giannis isn’t playing tomorrow, the Thunder will win. I desperately want Utah over OKC

 

Good News is... the OKC and Bucks game is early and we will know the result before our game.

 

The way the floor is spaced and the amount of skill on the floor in today's NBA makes it much harder to execute that scheme consistently and it's why you see it so rarely use compared to even 4-5 years ago. I also don't think we have personnel pull it off.

This is the best example I can give:

The Celtics from 2008-2012 were the league's best defensive team using a hedge and recover + aggressive help screen that you just described.

Fast forward to 2019 and you have the #1 defense Milwaukee Bucks using the most extreme version of drop coverage I've ever seen a team use and limiting shots at the rim at a historic rate.

This is after horribly under performing with Kidd who used an aggressive hedge and recover scheme that gave up both tons of shots at the rim and from 3.