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This move has been obvious to every poster in this board since the regular season. Why it took Pop so long to implement it is beyond me.
since Pop switched defensive assignments last game, tbh..
How do you guys think Paul and Tom Rivers will adjust to DG's length/the team D?
This move has been obvious to every poster in this board since the regular season. Why it took Pop so long to implement it is beyond me.
More Tom Rivers Jr obviously
I don't think they can. He's the offense. It's like the spurs with their limited ball handlers, except the drop off from parker to cojo is not nearly as bad as CP to ?
Because Pop doesn't pull out all the stops in Game 1. He gradually mixes in stuff throughout the series so coaches have to continually adjust.
It's true that they don't really have an alternative..Tom Rivers' has done one of the worst jobs I've ever seen as a GM, tbh..
Not to mention the toll it's taking on Paul, of course, he's not being aggressive, at all..
Tom's only viable move right now is to implore his starters + Crawford to "play harder", "compete", "make some shots". What else can he do with that roster? Start Hedo just for the lulz? Give more playing time to his scrub ass son?
Complain more probably.
DANNY DOMINATION
Cliff Paul with 7 points.
Crawford was like 1/10 tonight too. Wasn't LDN guarding him at some point as well?
I am going to go out on a limb and say: you don't reveal your best adjustments right out of the gate? We both seem confused. It seems pretty straight-forward and I am confused that so many arm-chair generals don't understand pretty basic tactics. It is difficult to spring a trap in reverse.
The counter to your PG getting shutdown by a wing defender is to force that wing defender off him by having a capable shooting guard who can create his own shot. Red doesn't fit the bill nor do any other Clipper wings, except Crawford, who is terribly inefficient. Their wing rotation has been their fatal flaw all year.
Chris Paul is going to get exhausted in this series.
He had a great "butt check" on Parker- but was fairly well contained.
How is that not a fine.... Not technically a flop but....
The show all your cards in game 1 is a stupid argument
you can't adjust to someone with size defending you
its not an X and O strategy
CP0 isn't gonna run out on the court in platform shoes next game to match his size
He'll "get used to" our best wing defenders on him so we need to splice in some minutes guarding him with horrible defenders.
All dominant scoring PGs in the league are struggling against teams that have long SGs that can defend and quick enough SFs tbh not really surprising he is struggling against one of best perimeter defender in today's nba.
Btw fortunately for us if we win dat serie, Houston has no capable PG
Dont forget he scotched us in game one. He plays like Rondo.. Hogs the ball way too much.
It's Pop and he is stubborn.
Not sure what defensive assignment changed. I saw four different guys covering Paul at different times. The Clippers just played bad. I hate Chris Paul as much as anyone does, but he's more likely to go for 27 in the next game than he is to go for 7.
Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that it is stupid. It MAY mean that YOU are stupid, however. I don't know.
Making Chris Paul taller is not the only adjustment that can be made. Implying such is an excluded middle fallacy. And, there is a cost to putting a wing on Paul, not just a benefit. No one on this board figured it out before Pop did. He was specifically asked about it post-game, and gave a "We tried/played hard." answer. He paused. He detected that that answer didn't come off well and added: "This isn't a strategy session, is it? No? OK." What did he mean? He meant: "Hey, dumbass, I know my wings can shut down Chris Paul much better than my guards, but I'm not going to come out in the post-game and tell you why I didn't have Green on Paul or whether or not I will in the next game. We have strategy sessions where we game-plan that and when and where and why to do that and this isn't a strategy session, but thanks for letting me know Danny is a better defender than Tony or Patty."
You weren't the guy, were you?
Strange that the team with the much better PG is losing the series... maybe some people here exaggerate the value of the PG position.
Then I guess we can use Bonner and Baynes on him as well.
Jesus...
Why doesn't Pop do that with Kawhi/LeBron then? Start off with a defender on Bron that way when he throws Kawhi on him he catches him off guard!
jesus christ...
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