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Los Angeles' 7-foot starters, Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum, were widely expected to be an awful matchup for smallish New Orleans, but New Orleans rookie coach Monty Williams concocted an impressive game plan to minimize the big men's impact. Can someone tell me what this game plan is ? Can the spurs implement the plan on Marc and Randolph
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NOH played a 26-year old 7-foot center in Aaron Gray. The Spurs too have a 26-year old 6'11 center on their bench. However, he won't be a part of our plan because he is unable to spread the floor, and is no good at wiping Pop's ass after Pop takes a dump.
This. (1)
(2) Plus the NO not-so-bigs run like crazy
(3) Plus pushing the tempo with Paul and Jack exploiting the decrepit Fischer.
(4) Plus playing some zone.
Only option 3 is available for Spurs players.
Well spurs can run
But I don't know about the zone now. I alwyas wanted a zone D to disturb the other temas offense.
maybe a 3-2 zone switch into 1-1
i thought you were here to tell us their plan...
Too bad Gray sprained his ankle with 1:07 left in the game.
Borrowing Chris Paul from NO
Their plan was to kick Pau in the vajeje... Lakeshow goes as far as Pau takes them...
He doesn't play in Memphis though....
Wasn't so much about gameplan. Biggest difference is that LA's Gasol played like excrement while Memphis' had the game of his life.
If either Gasol plays just a good game (as opposed to one on the extremes), LA & San Antonio are both 1-0.
Our guys don't have to neutralize Gasol/ZBo to win this series, they just have to prevent from having one of the most efficient front lines in history...which really shouldn't happen if we tried to guard them with Darko's chair.
Replacing a finesse player in David West with a bigger but offensively less skilled player in Gray is actually paying dividends for the Hornets. Look at the frontcourt players they used vs LA:
1. Emeka Okafor: 6'10" C, shot blocker
2. Carl Landry: 6'9" PF, scrapper who is willing to bang in the paint
3. Aaron Gray: 7'0" C, can body up, box out and finish when needed
4. Jason Smith: 7'0" PF, used sparingly, usually when others are in foul trouble
5. DJ Mbenga: 7'0" C, Spot minutes only
They may not have a high level of offensive skill, but they are willing to tough it out in the paint. Compare that to who the Spurs play:
1. Timmy: HOF big who's fundamentally sound, but isn't young anymore
2. Bonner: Can shoot, but will give up rebounds and get scored on in the paint like there's no tomorrow
3. Blair: Energetic and tough, but is about as tall as the average SG, which causes him to be a liability on D. Also finds it tough to finish when matched up against bigger defenders
4. Dice: Way past his prime. Looks great on some days, bad on others.
Honestly, which big man rotation looks more suited for playoff ball?
As it stands, DJ Mbenga has got more playing time in the 2011 NBA playoffs than Tiago Splitter.
True story.
Yep...our big man rotation should have been.
6-11 Tim Duncan
6-11 Tiago Splitter
6-11 Ian Mahinmi
6-9 Luis Scola
New Orleans secret game plan
3 turnovers per game.
If you only turn the ball over 3 times in a game instead of league avg 13 you are saving at least 10-12 points by our opponent.
Combined that with Gasol's worst playoff game as a Laker and you got yourself a win.
Watch game 2. Hornets will turn the ball over 10 times and the Lakers will win by double digits. Call your bookie.
"Triangle and two" defense
Monty sees an opponent with a big frontline and plays guys based on their size, not on their salary or their level of corporate knowledge.
“This playoff probably isn’t for him,” Popovich said. “Playoffs is a time for people who feel very confident about what they’re doing, and George isn’t in that category yet. He needs more time.”
--- on the topic of George Hill's minutes before the Mavs rolled over us in 2009.
i guess you can go with the NO plan. hope randolph sucks.
If the Grizz had Derek Fisher and a d-leaguer eating minutes then it'd be no problem for the Spurs tbh.
Anyway yesterday's game was a masterful display by CP3 as he made lightning quick decisions that dissected the Lakers defense. One of the problems with the Spurs is that they don't have a consistently great passer on the level of CP3/Kidd/Williams/etc; the Spurs players lose a lot of easy scoring opportunities simply because they don't get the ball quickly or at all. Especially for Blair and RJ, the latter of whom struggles to get a touch even for his bread and butter transition game.
Anyway like the Hornets, the Spurs need to move the ball around quickly against bigger teams and exploit what the floor positioning is like. Make their bigs come out to the perimeter and exploit them like CP3's nasty jumper on Gasol in the 4th yesterday.
Pop may carry 5 bigs on the roster, but rarely, if every, will he use 5 bigs in a game. Actually, the Spurs only have 4.5 bigs, because Bonner only counts as .5. While being a terrible defender, he's more of a SF in a big body. And with Splitter being chained to the bench, that leaves 3.5 bigs to counter any opposing frontlne.
Monty Williams proves, once again, that attempting to match size of your opponents, is the way to go. No team has had playoff success with small ball.
Last time I checked, Monty Williams doesn't have 4 rings. How dare you insinuate that he might be coaching better than a certain Spurs coach right now?
Bonner the SF, now I know that sounds crazy but what if he played there. He would have to give up jumpers cause he's too slow too guard any SF. But he would'nt be getting pushed around giving up offensive rebounds and clogging the paint in a bad way.
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