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What most of you are missing is that you don't just settle for what the Lakers concede, you work for what you want. I can flat out ing guarantee you we aren't winning a series shooting primarily midrange jumpers. We need trips to the rim and threes.
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This was shown by Miami.. Attack, attack attack, make bynum and gasol work hard inside defensivley then kick out for midrange jumper or three....This will improve our chances rebounding and actually being able to drive it home at the end of the game..
That and RJ & Neal are going to have to be assassins from mid-range. The way Hill is playing lately, I'd rather see Neal steal some of his minutes.
Don't know what we can do to stop the Lakers gobbling up all those offensive boards though. Clearly we can't dominate the Lakers - the best we can hope for is to play them tight, and a few extra possessions could sway the series.
That's why you can't settle for what they're giving you. We need finishes at the rim and three point shots. Mid range shots don't get you to the FT line, and they don't get you an extra point per make.
Parker/Manu/Hill...
need to be very aggressive against Fisher...because Fisher is the key.
Fisher will grab,push,flop,etc...
but will force Parker to change his direction and likely burn precious seconds off the 24 sec clock--which will end up in a forced shot.
If Parker can attack Fisher and force the refs to call fishers fouls-this will change the game.
Artest is the same thing--if he is allowed from the beginning to be grabby and riding on players backs...this will again force the spurs to play from a position of weakness.
If the lakers out-physical the spurs,they have the advantage.
If the spurs make the lakers pay by drawing fouls early,the spurs can beat the lakers since the spurs speed and execution will trump the lakers size & physicality.
That was how they defended the pnr the last game against the Spurs. After TP got stuffed the first time, none drove up the lane to challenge Bynum. Smart move because why risk injury and exposing your timing to their big men.
TP and Manu are warriors, If Bynum will wait for them at the rim he will have to sit early as we all know how crafty manu is and how good TP finishes a drive. GHill is also a known scorer and so is Neal.
This is the second half and approaching the tail end. Pop will not give the lakers a chance to gameplan against their O.
RJ could be a huge key. He strikes me as an exceptional mid-range shooter (neither fish nor fowl if ya know what I mean).
RJ also seems to come up big in the playoffs and wanders during the regular season (too long in NJ?).
And Neal seem to have the mid-range game down. (Euro players are virtuosos at the lost arts.)
That's right. All zones have seams -- you just have to go at the hoop and expose (create) the mf-ing seams. Then you get that smirky Bynum in foul trouble (and when that happens the smirky Phil soon loses his smirk). Manu has the capacity to frustrate the out of these guys -- he's done it before.
Gotta make sure the screens are set high (outside 3 point line). A few of them were set well inside the 3 point line which will make it easier for Bynum to backpedal to the rim. If you get him high, Manu or Tony can attack Bynum while he is still retreating towards the rim and make it harder for him to defend.
You'd think there would be more players devoting themselves to mastering the mid-range.
Mike Mitc was a great mid-range shooter for the Spurs way back when.
If the zebras are not biased for the Lakers, we might have more than even chances of toppling the Lakers. The problem is to get them to call a 3 second rule correct is hard enough, let alone calling a foul on Pau or Bynum.
No , just watching the LA/Mavs game, and the Lakers have set up camp in the lane.
I wonder if the shift of Dice into the starting lineup is partly to address this. Dice is a threat to drift back after the pick and hit the midrange jumper. Blair doesn't offer that option, and Tim is still our best post scorer. Dice as a starter may create some matchup problems for LA if they're using this strategy.
Dyess in S5 + Tp getting corner treys every game they've played after the LA game
Bonner seems to intimidated now, and can't hit what he usually hits hmm
There was no NBA 3 pointer when the Spurs joined the league, so your best shot if you couldn't finish at the rim for some reason was a mid range 2. That's why players worked on it back then. Now. it's just a change of pace or a finishing shot for players who don't do well at the rim.
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