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Put those big boys in there---when Harris or Terry drives to the hole...knock 'em into the front row. Used to work on Parker against the Lakers a few years ago.
regular season.
Put those big boys in there---when Harris or Terry drives to the hole...knock 'em into the front row. Used to work on Parker against the Lakers a few years ago.
Because the Mavericks have a better team.
Yeah, that's the only thing that we have to compare it to -- the bigs haven't got minutes in this series. So we don't know it's going to fail if it hasn't been tried. I don't want to see them in major minutes. But I also don't want the Spurs to switch on pickandrolls, leaving Duncan guarding Harris and Parker guarding Dirk.
Rasho!! and run some high lows with Timmy and Rasho too.
I hope Rasho sees the floor next game. I can deal with him guarding somenoe and possibly getting burnt. Everyone else has given up points, whats the damn difference really
Exactly. We'd be better off playing lazy defense, especially against Dirk. Just guard him loosely and let him shoot his 17ft jumper. He'll make a lot of them, but it will be a lot better than him shooting freethrows every 10 seconds. Our little guys have done a terrible job against Dirk in this series, because not only are they not challenging his jumpshot, but they're also sending him to the line over and over on ticky tack crap. Duncan would just stay back and let him shoot.
Duncan's PF seemingly has all but disappeared since then. Would he be as ineffective now as he was in April?
Put Rasho in and then feed the ball to whoever Dirk is guarding. He will be fauled out by halftime
Who cares how the spurs match up with mavs - how do the mavs match up with spurs?
No, of course he wouldn't.
I'm all for Duncan guarding Dirk or Howard and Bowen guarding the other one. Maybe even switching back and forth throughout the game. Then letting Rasho guard Diop. And Manu/Tony take Terry/Harris.
I'm not saying it will work, but I would have tried it by now if I was Pop.
Will he try it, im going to say no
Really, the more you think about it the more you realize how we've played right into their damn hands.
They're going to outscore us unless we play perfectly using small ball. They had the advantadges and the better team to play that way. Its just the way it is!
I understand Dirk is a tough matchup, but let Rasho have his try at him. Is Dirk going to drive past him every single time? Well, if so, I don't mind Duncan rotating off of the useless centers of Dallas because that sure as beats a rotation by a small guy leaving a shooter open. The smaller Spurs can't change a shot but they can give up 3s.
The rebounding is killing us. We've played them this way before and at least we didn't have the rebounding issues we've had.
The sad thing is that Pop never gave Rasho a damn chance in the series. I can understand making the adjustment to small ball if using your bigs didn't work, but the fact is that Pop never tried playing Spurs ball. He defaulted to Horry and small ball.
If the Spurs don't pull out this series, the offensive rebounding and defensive woes are going to lead to a summer of second guessing beyond belief.
The main reason to scratch the small ball is that Dirk is having to do nothing on defense. Unfortunately, Big Shot Rob has turned into No Shot Rob. By playing Rasho, you are forcing Nowitzki to cover either him or Tim. Make Dirk do some work- get some fouls- something. If nothing else, Rasho will set some screens and get some guys better looks. Oh, and just let Rasho cover Dirk. Leave Tim on their center- inside rebounding.
Make them matchup to US!! Put some twin tower basketball in the paint!
Swat at everything that comes our way.
It's do or die.
Except in the one game they won.
Well, he has to try something else, even if there's a chance it will fail miserably, because there is no way the Spurs win 3 straight against Dallas playing small-ball 111-109 games. It's not their game and hasn't been since reknowned well-tailored coaching genius Bob Hill patrolled the sidelines.
If he changes for game 5 and the Spurs win it will look like Pop ed up games 2-4. I think Pop will stay with smallball and we will always wonder "what might have been".
I'm not scared of Dirk driving by Rasho. Dirk is so lost in the lane. I haven't seen him finish in ages. Help defenders just have to try to stay out of his way when he comes smashing into you and throws up nonsense.
Someone explain to me why Rasho can't cover Dirk. Don't get me wrong, I don't expect him to shut him down, but I don't think its as bad as say, having Tony Parker switch onto Dirk. I think at this point if you can play some solid d on him, then you're doing a good thing. Especially if you're able to clear the glass when you play said defense and may actually give them fewer shots.
You may be right. How can people say he was wrong if he never puts it on the floor to succeed
BTW, for all the hate that Barry has gotten for his ups, he should be given some props for the way he dleand the glass yesterday. he did a really good job.
Exactly. The scoring was low for both teams in game 1, that's in OUR favor.
Put the 14 feet in the paint and swat like and let's play some godamn Spurs basketball!!
Do or Die,
someone text message Pop!!!
It's true that rasho can't run with the mavs, pop is right here, but we have to do something to help our defense
Exactly. Rasho never even got a chance in this series...and to give him one in Game 5, after his ass has been sitting on the bench for most of 4 games, how can you expect an average guy to produce on cue like that?
I don't recall using Rasho much in Game 1 either...
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