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Good idea, lets get the mavs into the bonus every quarter and let Dirk shoot free throws all night.
I would say just let him score. Do not even try to double or have any help defense. Guard everyone else and let Dice, Blair and Ian play one-on-one physical defense (active ball denial and do not let him have his positions). We have 18 fouls this to play with but probably he will get tired quickly when he is the one man scoring team.
Good idea, lets get the mavs into the bonus every quarter and let Dirk shoot free throws all night.
+1
Blair can push him around in the post until he´s fouled out and still get more minutes than he did.
He just put up 20/20, it´s time to unleash the BEAST.
have temple kick him in the balls.....
Look at it another way, even if we double team him, he will be shooting FT all night anyway. The idea is to force him to be the focal point and score, and letting the rest of his teammates go cold.
Instead of contesting his shots, we may consider to make him fight for possession to tire him out. We just need to take 5-6 s off the clock while he looks to fight off the defenders to get the pass. After doing so, with less time on the clock and having exerted plenty of energy to get the ball, we can realistically hope that he will miss more. Of course, he might still get bailed out by the referees anyway but what choice do we have ?
I am just saying i like our chances of keeping the likes of Kidd, Butler, Barea, Terry, etc quiet more than chances of keeping Dirk from scoring/getting to the FT line.
At this point in his career Dirk is extremely difficult to slow down. He's 7 feet tall and has a killer jump shot. If you crowd him he pump fakes you to death and if he doesn't get you up in the air, he hits one of his crazy leaners. If you let him get to the rim, there's a great chance he's going to get an and-1. If you bite on one of his pump fakes he's either going to get a wide open look or an and-1.
He's also become very good at identifying where the double team is coming from and can find the open man.
There are really no weaknesses in his game anymore. Years of being the focus of everyone's defense have forced Dirk to be a complete player.
IMO the best defense against him is to keep him guessing. Bring the double team on the catch sometimes. Bring the double team on the dribble other times. Bring the double team from unexpected places. Single him up a lot of the time. Use different defenders against him. Of course you always want to crowd him and be physical.
But even with all that he's still going to get his. You just don't want him to get 30+ and have a hot hand at the end of the game.
yes, I want the old rules back. It's gotten pretty bad now you can't rough someone up anymore. BB is a physical sport by definition.
Dirk Stopper is that aggressive thug that the front office along with Pop does not like with size and speed.
The Spurs does not have an explosive player with size that can score at will that demands double team all night.
In order to stop Dirk and Dallas is to make them double more and play more defense, Dirk is having a field day; he is not playing any defense. So he is not using any energy or not getting into no foul problems.
That's why I've advocated inserting Blair. There's no way he's going to far any better on Dirk. Don't expect him too and if he's not smart he'd probably foul out. My point on Blair is getting him into the low post on the offensive end and causing some havoc. Running him on the pick-n-rolls with Manu. Allowing him to do what he does best, clean the glass. His effort, desire and proclivity to rebound would be more benefical to the Spurs than watching Bonner give up "and-1's" and chuck up missed 3-pointers.
Seeing the Spurs get exposed -again- because they do not have an athletic, long, PF on the roster to matchup against the opposition, this is where I figured the acquisition of Tyrus Thomas would've served them well.
+1 From a Spurs fan. You man up and play the game. If you get outplayed you lose. I detest injurying or roughing up the players. I want to see good backetball, not that .
I like how you think..., lets injure his ass and then watch Dampier clothesline Ginobili on a drive to the basket and watch him get injured too.To stop Dirk "Weinerschnitzel" Nowitsky his defendant need to play him close and physical, no matter the refs protect him more than a father protecting his virgin first born. If "The weinerschnitzel" goesw for a lay-up hit him hard so next time he will think about it...these are the play-offs, treat him as they treat Manu, put him on the floor a couple of times, for real, not the flops he/she has been pretending for years.
Spurs in 6...
Smart move. That way, no matter who advances to the next round, we all end up losers.
this.
Carlisle wont lean back and watch and just complain with the refs. Najera and Stevenson would see some courttime for the purpose to take away the drive from Gino and Parker the same way...
Everybody loses and instead of a classic series it becomes a cheap and classless...
Here's to hoping that Pop and staff give DeJuan Blair more of a shot in the rest of the games. Even if it turns out to be a failure, he deserves at least 12-15 minutes to find that out. And really, it's not like shorter defenders have never given Dirk trouble. Udonis Haslem, Kenyon Martin, Bruce Bowen, Stephen Jackson - none of those guys are taller than 6'9. Even if Blair gives up some points on D, you know he's money in the paint, and will generally demand attention when he's getting close to double digit scoring and snagging rebounds. He helps OUR TEAM control the tempo.
How many years this guys were in the league when they played Dirk?
make them 6 fouls count damn it!
who cares?
Matt Bonner has been in the league for 4-5 seasons, and he still sucks, same for many players. Not to mention, Bonner is not planning on being with the Spurs for 3-4 more seasons like Blair officially is. Might as well give him some playoff experience, and not make the same mistake we made with George Hill.
Put jefferson on him as a PF and double team Dirk from the blind side. Use the small lineup to allow for quicker rotations on the pass out.
1) cut out the and-1s;
2) shut down Butler.
My biggest beef with the refs can be summed up in 1 word
Consistency.
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