What to do when Lebron defends Tony?

[Malik Hairston]

Tony made some incredible shots against Lebron last year, but they were of the MVP-caliber, miracle variety(step-back fadeaway 3, game winning shot in game 1, etc)..the offense was mostly ineffective once Lebron switched to Parker..

That's not a knock on TP, he shouldn't be expected to dominate against Lebron, obviously..

Miami made the switch tonight, with a few minutes remaining in the 4th quarter, and the only subsequent points the Spurs scored(excluding Manu's garbage time 3 at the buzzer) was a Parker 3 off the catch when Lebron switched on the pick..

The Spurs have defended great perimeter players in the playoffs in past, like Kobe, Durant, Paul, etc, but all of those players would hide on defense, rather than defend the Spurs best players..what would you do when they make the Lebron on Parker switch in the 4th?..

[baseline bum]

More Bellinelli obviously

[TheGreatYacht]

Let Manu take over... Oh they tried that today, nvm

[100%duncan]

Drive and kick.

[BatManu20]

Manu sometimes, move the ball, try to to exploit mismatches, post up Diaw more etc. It's all you really can do. We don't have many options because of our lack of shot creators after Tony.

[Baam]

TP making 3s is all you could ask... The problem is that we don't have any mismatch like Boris on Durant, there isn't an obvious go to matchup especially with the way they shut down our bigs this game...

[Buddy Mignon]

Tony made some incredible shots against Lebron last year, but they were of the MVP-caliber, miracle variety(step-back fadeaway 3, game winning shot in game 1, etc)..the offense was mostly ineffective once Lebron switched to Parker..

That's not a knock on TP, he shouldn't be expected to dominate against Lebron, obviously..

Miami made the switch tonight, with a few minutes remaining in the 4th quarter, and the only subsequent points the Spurs scored(excluding Manu's garbage time 3 at the buzzer) was a Parker 3 off the catch when Lebron switched on the pick..

The Spurs have defended great perimeter players in the playoffs in past, like Kobe, Durant, Paul, etc, but all of those players would hide on defense, rather than defend the Spurs best players..what would you do when they make the Lebron on Parker switch in the 4th?..

Just make sure you wipe ya ass after you .

[crc21209]

Keep moving the damn ball instead of Tony trying to go 1 on 1 against him. They could also run a screen or a double screen to try and get him off of Parker. If all that fails, get Parker off the ball and let Manu handle the ball with Parker in motion...

[Baam]

Let Manu take over... Oh they tried that today, nvm

[Chinook]

Run the offense through Ginobili. Also, there should be a mismatch somewhere else on the court. Exploit that. If all else fails, go into Green mode.

[DarrinS]

Move and pass

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

Let Manu take over or drive and kick.. or how about, shocker, give TIMMY TOUCHES

[apalisoc_9]

Oh I don't know..

Maybe tell Parker to ing explpoit the mismatches..

Just have Ginobili run the point too if Parker is his usual hero balling mode

[UZER]

Set a damn pick for parker when James switches off. They leave him on an island.

Parker usually needs space to operate on a mismatch, but LeBron switching off on Parker is not a mismatch.

[CitizenDwayne]

The exact opposite of what he did tonight.

[Baam]

Run the offense through Ginobili. Also, there should be a mismatch somewhere else on the court. Exploit that. If all else fails, go into Green mode.

your homerism is growing by the second, there's no offense that can be defined as Green mode, there's only TP, Boris or Manu creating wide open shots for him...

[james evans]

we played good tonight. normally i'm critical of parker and ginobli, but those 4 straight freethrows fuked us and nothing more. . that's the main reason we lost. we would have been up by at least 6 at one point in the 4th forcing the heat to shoot 3's. we just can't keep it close with them late in the game. ginobli had a bad turnover at the end of the game but he's no way as bad as he was last year. we'll win game 3

[TDfan2007]

Feed Leonard on the block. Either that or run the offense through Manu and Timmy and get Tony going on off-ball action.

[TheGreatYacht]

"Give it to Manu" - Spoelstra

[Chinook]

your homerism is growing by the second, there's no offense that can be defined as Green mode, there's only TP, Boris or Manu creating wide open shots for him...

Yeah, since there aren't any plays that can be run for Green out there and all...

[TheGreatYacht]

your homerism is growing by the second, there's no offense that can be defined as Green mode, there's only TP, Boris or Manu creating wide open shots for him...

Noooooo LOL. The hate towards Tony has blinded homers into thinking Green is Stephen Curry? I'm out

[MeloHype]

Yeah give the ball to Leonard so he can pass the ball back to Tony so he can waste another 10 seconds and take a re ed shot

[spurraider21]

how about they actually try setting a screen for manu, which has always been his bread and butter. when manu got the ball late, it was an iso. the one pick and roll they ran, he gave a good pass to Duncan who didn't see it coming

[still.focused]

Drive and kick.

Drive & kick only works when players are forced to rotate
LBJ can shut down Parker w/o a help defender so everyone else just stays at home
Prolly should have Parker run James all around the court while running the offense thru Manu, Boris and TD

[hommeaetage]

Every time Bron switches unto Parker, everyone else just stand there and watch. It's like they forget the whole playbook. How about running some double screens to free Parker, or go to the Post to either Leonard or Duncan