Mavs' Comments on Blazers' 4th Quarter Offense

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  1. fumanchu

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    ISO can work if:

    1) It's done in small doses so that the other players aren't taken out of the game by their lack of involvement.

    2) If and when the double comes, the other players are making the right plays and hitting their shots.

    3) The star player actually being clutch.

    As someone above mentioned, it has worked for the Heat and Lakers because they had all these factors work out. In the case of Lebron and Cleveland, see 3.
     
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    ISO works if you have 2 or more players who can do it so you can mix things up, or have a mismatch that one of the players can routinely take advantage of.

    I think Dallas simply didn't game plan for Roy being a factor, which would be the "mismatch that one of the players can routinely take advantage of" category.
     
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    Iso is a nice weapon to have, but it's not something that should be the majority of your plays. The problem was that, with Roy down, we didn't have someone who was capable of running an iso. Miller is okay in spots, but once a defense keys on him it's dicey. If Roy can still run an iso effectively for 30% of the game (I like that number a lot actually) then that gives the Blazers a nice weapon to go to, especially when they desperately need a basket.

    The problem in the past was that we relied so heavily on Roy to carry us, and we ran so many isos, that teams prepared for it and knew when and how to stop it. That's not the case now.
     
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    The 2006 Miami Heat won the title playing ISO ball with Wade all game long for those 4 wins. So yes, it can be done. And what LeBron did was amazing. He took the worst team in the NBA to the NBA Finals in only 4 years after being drafted out of high school. Just because he didn't win the title, you still have to be amazed at that. Oh, and we did it last night for one of the biggest comebacks in NBA playoff history.
     
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    There is no one play/offense that is going to work in 100% of the games. Having said that, ISO and Pick & Roll are the two most difficult styles to defend and easiest to implement.

    If the shot clock were 45 seconds, I think you'd see teams run different types of motions, but its difficult to run a motion in the NBA.

    Ultimately, it comes down to having a team where you either have the best player on the court, better shooters, or a deeper team. Considering Dallas has us in all those categories, it's pretty amazing we compete as well as we do.
     
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    Yeah, but they also had a still somewhat healthy Shaq on that team. Shaq at that time had waaaay more respect from the refs than anyone on our team.
     
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