My own recipe, to win the next game, and this series, is to focus on PG. Not Kawhi. But PG. Look, Kawhi can't be stopped, he is going to score and be effective in any situation, no matter how much or little you double team him. You can double Kwhi all game, he will not score, but involve the teammates, then we could stop double team him in lets say 4th quarter. What would happen. Nothing, Kawhi would not get cold, he would instantly break down any single matchup. The guy has no memory, and you mentally cant impact this player. He is a cold blooded, even maybe a robot literally. We have to live with him splitting many single matchups and live by that.
PG, on other hand. He is a player that has hot and cold streaks. He, if doubled, for serious streches of the game, not getting baskets, he can get really cold. PG is not a robot, he is a soft human being. This player, can be impacted psychologically in a game by the opponents and their strategy. He has a memory. He is every bit outstanding as Kawhi in terms of skill set, physically, but mentally is very far from Kawhi.
Every game we won against Clippers, it was games where PG was cold and made a lot of misses. You can count the games in this series, but also last season. On other hand, every game we lost, PG was productive and effective, and got in a streak.
The key to winning series is not Kawhi. Luka and Kawhi cancel each other out to some extent. Its all about PG however. He needs to get doubled, and there is no way, we can allow for him to get hot, as we did in last game. Whenever he makes a basket, the next time he get the ball he needs to get doubled, so that he cant get in rhythm, that he needs. Once in a while you release that double team, and I bet you, he will get cold and make many misses. He has a memory, and if he has not had enough points in some time, he has a clear tendency to get cold and miss many shots and take bad decisions. His tendency here when cold, is also to force things, as he has the ego to want to get in a streak again and get points. Its here that he makes most of his inefficient efforts and costs the team. This is where we need to have PG, and we can impact him to get to this level.
Once PG is cold, we channel the ball to him, and double Kawhi. And let DFS take PG.
This strategy will enforce that towards end of the games, Clippers have a Kawhi double teamed unable to score, and a cold PG with space, also unable to score. This is what we want to get to. This is what we had in first two games.
PG, on other hand. He is a player that has hot and cold streaks. He, if doubled, for serious streches of the game, not getting baskets, he can get really cold. PG is not a robot, he is a soft human being. This player, can be impacted psychologically in a game by the opponents and their strategy. He has a memory. He is every bit outstanding as Kawhi in terms of skill set, physically, but mentally is very far from Kawhi.
Every game we won against Clippers, it was games where PG was cold and made a lot of misses. You can count the games in this series, but also last season. On other hand, every game we lost, PG was productive and effective, and got in a streak.
The key to winning series is not Kawhi. Luka and Kawhi cancel each other out to some extent. Its all about PG however. He needs to get doubled, and there is no way, we can allow for him to get hot, as we did in last game. Whenever he makes a basket, the next time he get the ball he needs to get doubled, so that he cant get in rhythm, that he needs. Once in a while you release that double team, and I bet you, he will get cold and make many misses. He has a memory, and if he has not had enough points in some time, he has a clear tendency to get cold and miss many shots and take bad decisions. His tendency here when cold, is also to force things, as he has the ego to want to get in a streak again and get points. Its here that he makes most of his inefficient efforts and costs the team. This is where we need to have PG, and we can impact him to get to this level.
Once PG is cold, we channel the ball to him, and double Kawhi. And let DFS take PG.
This strategy will enforce that towards end of the games, Clippers have a Kawhi double teamed unable to score, and a cold PG with space, also unable to score. This is what we want to get to. This is what we had in first two games.