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Lol! Freaking Russians hacking Twitter!
Does ST even care about defense? First Love, now Lopez.
Lol! Freaking Russians hacking Twitter!
The Spurs should go to the teams that wanted him a while back. Suns, Lakers.
He wasn't that bad this past year if I remember right. Plus in the Spurs system with the right coaching, he could be better. David Lee arguably played the best defense of his career with the Spurs.
Spurs don't look like they can get equal value or even close value for Aldridge. Lopez sadly might be as good as they can get.
Added bonus of Aldridge crying and shutting down when Paul George gets more touches, and seeing Laker fans worldwide despise his soft play and weak mindedness.
Aldridge for Lopez looks really viable. According to the trade machine, LA is expected to win 5 more wins while Spurs have 4 more loses.
Lopez contract is 2 years and Aldridge is at 3 years.
Bertans for Summer League MVP tbh
Re: the years, the trade machine still counts the 16-17 season as a year.
Lopez is expiring, Aldridge has the opt out
imho if we sign Paul it doesn't make sense to trade Alridge...one of the benefits of having Paul is the chance of rivitalizing LMA with p.a.p...if we don't sign Paul (or Rose, in case) then the road could be shopping LMA for future draft choices (interested should be Boston and Phila) and try to sign a small four and a big man.
We have 3 pg's on the roster. One is injured. Do we really need to sign Paul to a max? Honestly, 18 free agency isnt bad. Bradley could be had.
Rosen | How to dethrone the Warriors
OFFENSE
- Do not be sucked in to playing small ball.
- Instead, feature a quick-footed post-up big man, who can pass, shoot and, most importantly, make quick, explosive moves.
- Both the center and the power forward must be menacing shot-blockers.
- Attack GS’s small-ball lineup by always sending these two bigs to the offensive glass.
- Any smart, good-shooting, long-armed point and shooting guards would work.
- The bench has to be deep and versatile.
- Because trying to run with the Warriors is futile, an opponent must fast break only on turnovers and any other optimal situations. When running opportunities do present themselves, 3-pointers should be shunned and the ball must be forcefully driven to the hoop.
- Set the pace with slow-down, but quick-passing and quick-cutting sets. Actually, the Triangle would be extremely effective.
- In any case, avoid quick shots and make the Warriors play defense for a minimum of 20 seconds on every possession.
- Get Steph Curry involved in as many high- or mid-level screens as possible, thereby forcing him to switch on to a bigger, stronger player who has the ability to drive into the lane. Overall, and except for his fast hands, Curry is the weakest link in the Warriors defense.
- Take good care of the ball.
- That means making no out passes or cross-court passes while the passer is airborne.
DEFENSE
- The Warriors certainly feature several players who are excellent shooters from downtown.
- However, more damaging than their triples are the numerous layups, dunks and floaters generated by dive-cuts, back-door cuts, screen-rolls and baseline screens that demand perfect coordination from the defenders.
- To counteract these devastating high-percentage interior shots, various zones must be employed and staffed by long-armed, quick-footed defenders.
- For example, a well-rehearsed, semi-trapping 1-3-1 alignment with a dominant shot-blocker nearest the hoop and a secondary shot-blocker in the middle. However, the only Warriors who should be trapped are Curry (but only if he bags three consecutive treys) and Kevin Durant (always).
- Throw in an occasional 2-1-2 and 1-2-2. Also some match-up zone.
- Change defensive looks after ever timeout, quarter break and especially after the clock is stopped for free throws. This, to prevent the Warriors from getting into a comfortable rhythm against any of the defenses.
- These defenses will effectively negate the Warriors’ perpetual-motion offense as well as the efficiency of their screen/roll game.
- Overplay Klay Thompson’s right shoulder.
- Zones will work because the zone offenses used in the NBA are simplistic and are minimally effective.
- However, one of the detriments to playing zones is the vulnerability to consistent outside shooting. For sure, forcing the Warriors to shoot 50 or more treys will often be costly, but playing straight-up defense certainly hasn’t worked.
- Let Draymond Green shoot as many 3-pointers as he wants.
- Another drawback in playing zones is yielding offensive rebounds, since the defending bigs have no specific opponents to box out. That’s why the frontcourt must feature long, quick, hungry rebounders.
- Zones also need a few extra seconds to set up, which make them more susceptible to fast breaks.
- Also, offensive guards and wings must diligently retreat on defense whenever a shot goes up. This, to prevent one of the Warriors from leaking out.
But there’s a much more viable way to subdue the Warriors. That is, if the Spurs can take the court with a healthy Tony Parker (or Chris Paul?) and an undamaged Kawhi Leonard.
In fact, it says here that had Zaza Pachulia not stomped on Leonard’s foot, today’s victory parade would have been celebrated in San Antonio.
ByCharley Rosen
Glad they did not
Look to trade kl
Spurs would have been in the lottery if they had successfully trade LMA this summer.
Yep. Looks like I was flat wrong on getting rid of him.
I still don't like him that much in crunch time as he doesn't have any great go to moves to get to the rim, but we would be ed without him. Probably wouldn't even be in the top 8 without him at this point of the season.
I take the good with the bad when it comes to LMA. We were spoiled for years for having a top 5 player of all time in Tim and that's why he gets held to a ridiculous standard. LMA is not a champion but he is a winner in the sense that he was able to lead his blazer teams to multiple playoff appearances in the West. That's not easy to do and you have to some sort of drive of wanting to win to be able to go the playoffs multiple times like LMA did in Portland. Just look at Anthony Davis and how he has only had 1 playoff appearance his whole entire career. Even worse look at Cousins whose never gotten to the playoffs. LMA playing at a high level and watching the young guys develop is the only reason why the spurs have been worth watching this year with Kawhi being out.
LMA's been fine when Kawhi hasn't played.
When Kawhi has played, LMA doesn't seem comfortable trying to score.
Is FO still open in trading LMA?
If anybody wanted him they would be.
They already said they couldn't get anything good for him, and that was when he was younger and performing better.
Draymond Green?
B
Melo?
only if this trade brings Durant to SA - Pop
trade him for ANYTHING at this point...
shoulda blown it up last year...
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