EwingsGlass wrote:Nalod wrote:EwingsGlass wrote:EwingPSD wrote:Swishfm3 wrote:ToddTT wrote:How are we still so bad at handling the double teams?
Do coaches get any blame for this?
Why not have Brunson play off the ball and have DD or Deuce bring the ball up?
I thought they handled the doubles fine. They didn’t turn it over and got the ball to someone wide open at the 3 point line or someone at the foul line area with a 4 on 3. The players who we had surrounding Brunson weren’t good offensive players. If the players can’t put the ball in the hole it really doesn’t matter what you do
They had Hart bringing up the ball in Indiana. That actually seemed to confuse the Indiana set defense and gave Brunson an extra step before the defense had a chance to switch. Here, the double was Lebron and he was playing behind Brunson with his length making Brunson worry about being blocked from behind. They also had Anthony Davis patrolling the paint which limited Brunson to floaters or mid range jumps, taking the layups out of his repertoire. I mean, if the takeaway is to have two presumptive HOFers guarding our lead scorer, well, that’s a great strategy.
That and DDV did not have a great game. Hope he is not reverting back to the mean of his career.
1) We are bad at double teams because Brunson can't see over the defenders. Its part of the small guy narrative. They break it the best when Brunson splits the defenders with a bounce pass to Hartenstein. They avoid it when JHart brings the ball up.
2) DDV didn't revert by any means. 60% from 3 was the abberation. His 38% from 3 last night was well within margin. Its just his volume was much higher because those 3s were really the only open looks we were getting. But some of those were pretty long threes cause thats all we had available to us. Feel like having either of OG or QG back might have turned that game.
3) Anthony Davis took away the paint. Josh Hart, Precious and iHart shot a combined 11 for 37. Well below all of their averages. If there is a place where we underperformed, these guys had trouble with the defense in the paint. They handled their business pretty well on the defensive end, but its hard to win with your bigs shooting 30% instead of 55%. 20% of 37 shots is more that the margin of loss.
End of the day, I am surprised they won the prior two games (even against Charlotte) as undermanned as they were. They either need to focus on getting healthy or need to turn Fournier into reinforcements.
I did not catch the Charlotte game but they were missing Haywood and Lamelo and are without Rozier now so while it was an away game that could have gotten away from us, it did not.
The pacer game was a fun suprise for sure. The defense held them to 104 pts. And DDV, then Brunson caught fire.
Vs. Lakers it was evident early knicks looked tapped out and Lakers wanted to make a statement in the garden on a saturday night. The arena was buzzing, the Stars were out and it was on prime time. Hate Lebron if one so chooses, but the old man can still bring it.
