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which one those dudes is CN?
which one those dudes is CN?
Falling In A Trap
With 2:31 remaining in the fourth quarter, Lamar Odom, at the behest of Vinny Del Negro, checked into the game for DeAndre Jordan. Odom’s contributions over the next 40 seconds consisted of standing around doing nothing in particular, then fouling Tim Duncan following a rebound. Jordan checked back into the game with 1:52 remaining.
The reason for this subs ution, at least on the surface, makes sense – it was a close game, and Del Negro didn’t want Gregg Popovich employing his famed “Hack-a-[insert poor free throw shooter's name here]” strategy on DeAndre Jordan. Jordan’s free throw accuracy currently hovers around 40%, a considerably lower efficiency than Chris Paul running high pick-and-roll.
The funny thing about this strategy is that Lamar Odom has been equally bad shooting free throws this year. He’s made just 45% of his attempts from the line this year. Admittedly, it’s a small sample, just 15-for-33, but Odom has never been a particularly strong foul shooter. He made just 59% last season, and hasn’t made 70% of his free throws since Kevin Garnett played in Minnesota.
Opposing teams don’t intentionally foul Lamar Odom. Why? Because they want him on the floor. If they fouled him, and he missed his free throws, he wouldn’t be preventing any upgrade over Jordan, and there would be no reason to take Jordan off the floor. So they foul Jordan, baiting Del Negro into taking him out of the game, making the Clippers hilariously easier to deal with – The Clippers usual “closing” lineup of Paul, Crawford, Barnes, Griffin, and Jordan, as our very own Jovan Buha profiled for ESPN Los Angeles, has an offensive efficiency of 119.4 and a defensive efficiency of 89.9, which would both lead the league by sizable margins over the course of a full season. When Jordan checks out, replaced by Odom, those splits tumble to 110.6/103.6 – still a productive lineup, but not a dominant one.
Fouling Jordan isn’t inherently a tactical advantage – opposing coaches do it to spring a trap on the unwitting Vin Del Negro. And he falls in. Every time.
-Jeremy Conlin
http://clipperblog.com/2013/03/29/la...-clippers-102/
Luva crossed the floor?
got damn u watched that fuk for 18 minutes ?
U can skip through youtube vids, tbh
bull you watched it
jeremy conRon's trap theory contains both true and false viewpoints imho. he was right about the reason why the opposing teams don't foul odom, they want him on the court because he's easier to deal with than demonkey jordan, but vinny has his own reasons to put him there. odom has better mobility and he's a better perimeter defender, which is supposed to be more helpful in crunch time. it was a failed attempt but that was a nice try, and he acted swiftly enough to take him out when it didn't crank out the expected effects
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