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Sure do miss Bruce....
This is playoff basketball. It's unacceptable for anybody to hit 12-14 FGs on you. The Spurs need to change how the person guarding Dirk guards Dirk. It's obvious that Dirk is good enough to adjust to whatever schemes the Spurs throw at him so the Spurs need to employee a combination of these 3 techniques to get his focus off.
First and foremost, throw choir boy, text book defense out the window. It obviously doesn't work. It's time to start ruffling Dirk's feathers. Trip him, push him, elbow him, step on his feet. Yes, you might get a technical, a flagrant 1, or even ejected but Dirk needs to have a fear of playing his normal basketball. He's too good for any of the Spurs defenders right now so you need to be extremely rough with him. Also, judging by the past, everyone knows he hates to be physically and mentally tested.
Second, stop worrying about contesting the shot. Dirk isn't fazed by anybody putting a hand up because he knows he can shoot over anybody on the Spurs. You have to take out Dirk's base: see legs. You take out his legs and all of a sudden his jumper doesn't have that same comfort level or strength. He'll also start jumping lower with constant body contact. Get underneath his body and start pushing his lower half of his body out when he's posting up. I wouldn't even worry about getting a hand up with him until you can master bodying him up with force.
Third, talk trash to him and get in his face. Make everything he does a living . Make him labor just to walk up the court. Battle him fiercely to get a rebound. Don't let up on him for one second. Make it to where basketball is no fun for him. He gets no rest whatsoever. Knock him down or off balance every chance you get.
Sadly, Bruce Bowen was a master at most of these. He surely is missed now.
Sure do miss Bruce....
Sweep the leg!
the only thing the spurs can do is throw doubles at him. the spurs don't have a guy like kenyon martin on their team or really anybody that can stop him 1 on 1
Mahinmi?
his mobility....height..
Most importantly,
He's not a Rookie....
Ok, so you will be fine when Stevenson will hurt Gino or when Damp gonna put Parker on his back?
OK...
I miss Bruce during times like this :-(
Tonya Harding?
There are two ways to slow down Dirk:
-be a Golden State Warrior.
-play him in the Finals.
I would let Duncan guard him....if nothing else Timmy can get away with more
There are 2 ways to be irrevelant:
-play for the Hornets
- cheer for the Hornets
I guarantee the Spurs can do it. It's just going to take a whole lot more than move your feet and get your hand up. That's nice but Dirk is playing on another planet right now.
het blair to rip his ing arms off, antonio make him fear going to the hole, and have RJ just straight up knock him the out, since he obviously isnt busy doing anything else
I'd throw Duncan at him some times too.
you beat me to it.Tonya Harding?
just have the spur defending him wear another team's jersey like preferably a laker jersey, because the spurs will never get any respect from the refs
I wish we had Horry to take a cheap one on that piece of Nowitzki.
lol fail.I would let Duncan guard him....if nothing else Timmy can get away with more
One of the few times Duncan defended Dirk he picked up a foul.
while i believe injuring dirk would be very effective.
I don't think it is sports manlike thing to do.
Can you imagine if someone took out manu or one of our players.
Even with Bowen on the team Dirk was shooting a su iously high FTA/FG. It's impossible to stop someone when he's blowing the refs as hard as Nowitzki has the past few years.
Yet, my irrelevant team beat your relevant team in five games.
Also, my irrelevant team has the same amount of championships as your relevant team.
I don't have a problem with Dirk draining shots. But to foul him like wimps and give him the And1(s) is inexcusable. I'm looking at you Matt.
They have tried that already on both Ginobili and Parker. And this guy is right, they need to step up the D on Dirk and make him sweat for each shot. If he's comfortable, he can score at will. If you are going to get calls against you just for looking at him you might as well rough it up a little bit. Contemporary BB is made of pussies nowadays.
Watch some file from 15 years ago. 70% of the calls Dirk got tonight were no calls at all.
let him score, if he's score and takes majority of the shots, that means no one else, it's still a team sport. oh yeah and also just let him shoot, quit touching his arm or bumping him on the jump shot, after the 3rd time in a row you would think some one (bonner) woud learn. if you foul you foul hard, don't get the and 1
Obviously there was no answer to defending Dirk either way, but I hated the closing out strategy in the 2nd half..they had Bonner defending Dirk with Timmy shadowing down low, getting ready to help..the Spurs got KILLED using this strategy..I don't mind doubling Dirk, but the rotations were poor when this strategy was used..Dirk swung the ball to the wing every time, and it led to 3 easy layups in the middle of the paint for the Mavs once Duncan rotated to Nowitzki..
Bogans defending Dirk won't work..Bogans' only good defensive skill is his post D, but the refs aren't going to allow him to get physical with Nowitzki, as we saw tonight..if he isn't allowed doing that, he can't really do anything else, since he doesn't have notable foot speed or athleticism..
The p&r D against Dirk-Kidd was extremely poor..the Spurs inexplicably left him open(McDyess on most of them) to close off Kidd's driving lane, causing a late rotation on Nowitzki's shot..Kidd NEVER likes to finish at the rim, he's always looking to pass, there's no reason to overplay him like that..Dirk's defender just needs to stick on him..
Yes, this was obviously an inevitable point that somebody was going to make, but I don't see the harm in trying out Mahinmi..Ian's main flaw as a player is that he's foul prone..the refs are clearly calling the touch fouls on Dirk regardless of the defender tonight, so might as well try the player with the most ideal physical tools to go up against him..I don't see the harm for trying it for a few possessions..
The Spurs don't have a chance at defending Dirk IMO..it comes down to double-teaming or letting him score..I prefer letting him score, since I don't trust the rotations of the Spurs' D..the refs are going to call a foul if you breathe on him or he's just going to score either way..
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