(08-06-2020, 08:23 PM)omahen Wrote:(08-06-2020, 08:03 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: At any point in this game was Boban anywhere near the 3pt line when he was in? No. No matter what he was around the basket getting rebounds and clogging up the paint. It was working, until Rick never went back to it.
Please rewatch Bobi 5 minutes. First bucket of the game was Zubac after PnR against Bobi. Second basket of the game for Clippers was Zubac against Bobi. Fourth offense Bobi was switched on Kawhi who missed open shot - Zubac grabed offensive rebound. 6th offense George-Zubac PnR (Bobi didn't come up) and George had a wide open 3 - missed. 7th attack was the only successful defense when Bobi made Kawhi miss a layup. 8th defense Zubac another offensive rebound against Bobi. Final offense against Bobi was George PnR who successfuly scored a layup against Bobi. Clippers attacked Bobi every single time and it lead to lay-ups, offensive rebounds or open shots in 8 out of 9 cases. Of course you can argue Clippers would continue to miss open shots with Bobi in.
(08-06-2020, 08:21 PM)dirkfansince1998 Wrote: One screen is enough to get a layup or wide open shot every single time.
This!
Quote:Clippers attacked Bobi every single time and it lead to lay-ups, offensive rebounds or open shots in 8 out of 9 cases.
This is true. This is what good coaches do. They exploit the obvious matchup potential and they try to force Boban off the floor. Remember this guy destroyed the Clippers, they know that its kill or be killed against him.
Rick Carlisle has to be smarter than the other coach.
The counter to that is not to take your advantage off the floor, but to attack them inside, repeatedly, forcing them to collapse inside or give up high % shots and foul trouble.
We saw that some with the trouble they had defending against the size of KP.
You can't matchup to them anyway on the wings can you?
If you had Shaq, and they put his big body in the PnR over and over, would you go away from Shaq?