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and yes I know suns have not won yet
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front him?
with who?
Foul him?
and yes I know suns have not won yet
Game one should be a 1-1 matchup vrs Duncan. Amare wont guard TD on defense though, reported by TNT and ESPN. He wouldnt stand a chance. But TD will be guarding Amare, believe it.
After game 1 id answer this. Right now we should just man him up and see what happens.
would you want duncan to risk getting in foul trouble with amare to begin with?
That's a tough question a lot of coaches have surely tried to answer this year...
Dallas is trying all kind of things in the series...
The guy should be kept as far of the basket as we can, that means a defender capable of moving fast enough to stay in front of him... so maybe Horry can do the job for a time... for the rest of the game double team him if our bigs struggle.
by the way I have no beef in letting duncan guard him
I want duncan to guard him in 4
by the way if duncan's ankle is not better duncan may not be the answer
Like Ray Allen, Stoudemire will probably get his but I think we can shut down the rest of the team to a degree. Make Stoudemire shoot from outside and protect the lane(are you listening Nash?).
Robert Horry
Just FYI...
During the regular season against the Spurs, Amare averaged 38.7 points on 73.3% from the field -- his highest numbers against any team in the league.
Well if it makes you feel any better here's the shooting percentages for some others against the Spurs.
Nash 37.5%
QRich 33.3%
JJohnson 38.5%
Only Amare and Marion had big series against the Spurs.
With the Suns' three point shooting and a first team all defensive player at the four, you don't double team him. If Duncan can't stop him, you let him score 35 on 30 shots and you hold the rest of the team to 60.
it seems to me that horry could be pretty effective against amare, especially if duncan has mobility problems with his ankles, amare would undress him.
The question is how will the Spurs prepare for AJ and his Mavericks.
You've got to keep him out of the paint as much as possible. If he catches the ball real low he's sort of like Shaq - he'll dunk the ball faster than you can react to him catching it. Gotta be physical with him. If you can make him catch the ball from ten feet out, he's not going to hurt you as much. He doesn't have a lot of options to go to out there.
I can't imagine that Duncan will start on him. I think that Pop is going to want to make sure that Tim stays out of foul trouble and stays fresh on the other end. I can't imagine guys like Nazr and Rasho chasing Marion around the perimeter. Duncan's probably slightly better for that.
Everyone will get a chance. I can see it being Tim late in games when Horry is in the game. I can see Horry getting some minutes on him too. But I would be surprised if Nazr and Rasho didn't check him most of the time, especially early in games.
They may have to double team him some, but they'll have to be careful. It's going to better to force him to make a shot one-on-one than it will be to leave their perimeter shooters open.
The defense in general needs to tighten up. The Spurs won the last series, but the defense wasn't what it has been in past seasons and even at other times during the past season.
I honestly don't think Amare is the main concern....it is the man with the ball and that Nash most of the time.
I say trap him off and on to keep off balance and on his heels as much as possible. TP has had a solid playoff history vs. Nash so I think keeping him in check is not as hard as it may sound.
Nash is the MVP....but a terrible defender....take it to him early in the games and he may be in foul trouble early and you will get him out of the game. I thin Phoenix was a great regular season team....but not a Championship teambecause of the lack of "D".....same can be said of Dallas.
Amare will have to play defense, actually they whole Suns will have to play defense agains the Spurs. They will play a lot different than they've been playing in their 1st 2 series.
Man defense...no double teams. Duncan, Horry, and Nazr will guard him at times. But you defend him best by limiting Nash's ablilty to get him the ball where he likes it. Force him away from the basket, but make him put it on the floor.
Let him score 40+ but limit everybody else. If he is forced out of his normal comfort zone offensively even 25% of the time he has the ball, he's having to work a lot harder for the baskets. If the Spurs make him defend a little too, it'll take its toll as the series goes on. Attack the rim with Manu, Parker, Barry, Horry to try to get him in foul trouble. Get the ball to Duncan whenever he is being guarded by Amare for the same reason. When Massenberg and Rasho are in, take the foul over the dunk. Between them that's 12 potential team energizer dunks a game that can be erased.
Well...we definatly have to a better job guarding the pick-N-roll than we did with the Sonics.
We let James get too active sometimes...and were slow to block him out.
Amare is 10 times better than James...and gets many of his baskets of power slams once nash dishes to him of the pick-N-roll.
A lot is going to come down to just recognizing it and getting into place quickly.
Hopefully we can draw some charges early and get him into foul trouble.
Other than that...its mostly shutting down the others and hope he is the only one to really go off.
Amare killed the Spurs this year on pick and roll. They played Nash who fed Amare. Pick your poison. Amare also got a lot of points off putbacks. Got to try to keep him off the offensive boards and Nazr should help there. Best way to slow Amare is to try to get him in foul troble with Duncan in the low post or Parker and Manu penetrating.
spurs only played suns with nazr once right?
Why would the Spurs defend Amare? That's why he has lawyers.
What the are you talking about?
Do me a favor:
Go look up Timmy's stats from the Spurs' 2003 series against the Suns.
Tell me how many points Duncan averaged that series.
Recall that Amare was a rookie fresh out of high school.
Then tell me Amare wouldn't stand a chance guarding Duncan.
Ya .
give ball to TD them amare will be in foul trouble
How about with a Jedi light saber?
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