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It's not "age", it's defensive matchups. Anyways, the Spurs' Big 3 isn't even the oldest out of the remaining playoff teams. Poor take.
IMO, I think we just need to double team CP3 to get the ball out of his hand, let others do the play making. We need to give them the dose of their own medicine. We can't afford to play one on one defense on CP3, we need to apply pressure on him the whole time, double team triple team, make it hard for him to make plays for his teammates. On offense, please no more one on one move! we need motion offense. No more faking 3's just pass the ball and shoot when open.
It's not "age", it's defensive matchups. Anyways, the Spurs' Big 3 isn't even the oldest out of the remaining playoff teams. Poor take.
Take parker out and the average age of the starters is around 45 or so. Sub in Horry/Barry and they qualify for social security.
He didn't "morph" anything. He benched both centers for the entire remainder of the series. He put Oberto ahead of both of them in the rotation. He never used them, even when the Dallas offense was scoring at will in the paint.
Let's not forget that he was completely changin the rotation of a 63 win team supposedly to to "match up" with two teams that weren't as good. There's an argument to be made that it was a good idea against Artest and Wells, but there was no reason to do it against Dallas.
I have zero faith in Pop to make a smart decision. The only one he's made in the last three years was putting JV under the basket against Phoenix so they couldn't leave him alone.
Duncan and Ginobili are both younger than Nash and Shaq. Try again.
Did I say Phoenix was young?
Were they not a "contender"? The eldest of the Spurs' Big 3 is 32. Oh noes.
I can see where the Bowen on Peja would make sense but if you put TP on Chris he is going to be so worn out chasing that little man all around because most of the time going the other way Pargo is guarding Tony. So TP will tire a great deal for his defense and then he is affected on offense
Pargo and Paul backcourt for extended minutes? Good.
We want Chris Paul to do everything. In the two games the Spurs won against the Hornets this season, Paul was the leading scorer in both and took the most shots in both (except he took two less than West, 17-15 in one of the games). Everyone else on that team was shut the down. And surprisingly, the Spurs WON both of those games! Paul needs to be a scorer for the Spurs to win. I know he's great but he can't do it all by himself. The Spurs have the equipment to shut down everybody on the Hornets except Paul. These are a must, I'm just hoping Pop does it. He's too ing stubborn sometimes....
When paul decides to turn up his play he is unguardable, when he is on he will score everytime. He does thing nba fans would never dream of being done. And as we've seen in the mavs and this series you can't double him because
1) he'll split the double team or get away from it.
2) the hornets have a selection of guys that will mostly always hit the open shot.
so what are you to do? You have to really get in his head, he's only a third year player so you can get into his head, play up on him tough and hope he doesn't go on a hotstreak like he often does. I believe he is one of them people that you would have to say "You can't stop him, you can only hope to contain him."
Why is Utah so effective in slowing him down? Does Deron Williams just use his weight advantage? Do they double hard?
Personally i think the only reason utah has our number is because paul tries to hard, it's not a weight or strength thing because there are plenty of strong pgs in the league that don't make issues for cp3. It just seems like cp want's to outplay him everytime and he plays out of himself. Chris played hornets basketball one time this season against the jazz and we were blowing them out, i think it was a 24 point halftime lead (don't take my word for it) but he went right back to the showing up deron williams act and they came back. luckily we still got the win.
I still think that the way you deal with Paul is by enticing him to become a scorer by negating his teammates as much as possible. The Hornets are beatable if it's just Paul and West who are playing well. They become nearly unbeatable if they get solid or big contributions from Peja AND one other player.
I think the other thing the Spurs HAVE to do in the next few games is really attack Chandler. He'll block some shots, but he'll also get himself into foul trouble if you go right at him and make him work to do something other than be a weakside shot blocker.
People underestimate the hornets, your not gonna shut down everyone. They have so many scoring options.
He shot like 30% and averaged 14 ppg against the Jazz this year. That's why I was wondering if they do something different against him.
I don't think anyone thinks they are going to shut everyone down. But you can definitely slow some of them more. The Hornets are good but they aren't invincible.
Right, but thinking that you can simply rotate back to Peja at the three point line is a recipe for disaster. I think you dare Paul and West to score 70 by committing to take away the uncontested jump shots from Peja, Peterson, Pargo, and Wells. It might be that a zone look is a good bet; it might be that a hard man-to-man approach at the three point line will work -- whatever the choice is, you HAVE to take away something.
Given that Peja is killing the Spurs from behind the arc, I'd say that the first place to try to get some relief is by denying him looks from distance. Commit to sticking to Peja in transition; don't give help on Paul or West from Peja. If the Hornets want to go to pick-and-roll games with Peja, switch everything and contest him off the screen. Again, it's about taking away something.
Peja is shooting 60% from behind the arc this postseason.And he looks like a compltely different player when Ginobili is on him, he's confident in his midrange shot and taking it to the basket, which hasn't always been his strong suit.
I also agree with whoever (FWD?) said that Spurs need to attack Tyson Chandler. He often commits bad fouls and they should try to get him in foul trouble as much as possible.
Also, you can't always rely on David West to go 4-11 or whatever for 10 points. He's going to bounce back and CP3 is always going to be able to do his thing, he's pretty much unguardable for the Spurs. That's why Spurs need to do their best in shutting everyone else down. I'm just surprised Pop and the coaching staff didn't see this before Game 1.
Paul and West are obv. the hornets 2 of the hornets top 3 scoring options. luckily, for yall Pargo hasn't gotten hot like in the dallas series. Then i think i would say yall are in deep deep trouble.
The Hornets are the bestest ever. They will win 10 championships.
For a guy who wanted to talk about basketball, there doesn't seem to be much dialogue happening here. A lot of: here's what the Spurs should do, followed by a lot of: the Hornets are just too good.
are you talking about me?
No, the guy behind you....
Nah man, we're talking about Dizzy ing Gillespie.
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