Warriors for the past 3 years during the playoffs pick out your poorest 3-point shooters and leave them open while keeping the best perimeter shooter is covered as a means of doing the time tested pack the paint help defense known to happen in the playoffs. This is how the Warriors protect Curry and try to keep in him fresh for the fourth quarters. So Harden gets his double-triple coverage as he drives in the paint while Ariza was covered tight. Or Dwight Howard had the defense collapse on him in the Post Up while Ariza was closely guarded on the perimeter and Harden/Bev so-so guarded. Results in Mucho turnovers for Harden. Dwight didn’t want to run PnR after hyper extending knee in game 1 of WCF vs GSW. (14/15 to 15/16) Same mentality without D12 by Spurs; “swarm” the paint/ Harden while leaving Dekker/Harrell open & rotate help off Capela (with another player rotating onto Capela in the paint).....stay close to Gordon, Ryno & Lou W.....so-so in the vicinity of Ariza/Beverley. Of course Nene got hurt and Harden got tired rotating defensively himself vs Gasol/LMA/Dedmon/D West as D’Antoni went 3 guards & Harden as SF/PF. (16/17) Now, the Rockets have no weakness on the perimeter.....to a point. Teams will use the same ploy defensively with the Warriors doing it best against the Rockets; but still too many holes left open on the perimeter. GSW in particular will drop off of JJ, Luc MaM and Tucker on the perimeter like they did to OKC in 15/16 when they left Andre Roberson open and dropped off of him to provide def help in the paint vs Westbrook/Durant. Trying to keep the stars as jump shooters. Roberson made many of his 3 in the first 4 games; but as per Warriors strategy.......beat us by making those four the better of a 7 game series. Tucker 37%, Luc 36% and JJ shoots 27%. It’s not about the % of Tucker/Luc as much as quantity. Tucker shoots 3.7 per game while Luc shoots 2.9 per game. I have confidence Tucker and Luc will make enough of them. JJ is shooting the same as with Utah.....wrist injury has been a factor as well as the usual depth pe4ception issues that come with Toyota Center. JJ will get even more open shots from 3 in playoffs than right now. Warriors will stay in Gerald Greens and E Gordons grills. In the vicinity of Ariza/CP3/Ryan. Ryan if he makes his 1st then close.....because if he make his 1st he can go off on a roll and make his next 5 with a hand in his face (on the road). cont’d
cont’d from post #21 per stats/NBA.com (play types): http://stats.nba.com/players/hand-off/ Gerald Green: Off Screens: regular season (15/16): 11.2% freq.....0.69 ppp (found on page 5) playoffs (15/16)............: 13.5% freq....0.86 ppp (page 1) regular season (16/17): 13.2% freq.....1.11 ppp ((page 6) playoffs (16/17)............: 17.1% freq.....1.00 ppp ( pg 3) regular season (17/18): 14.2% freq......0.81 ppp (pg 1) Cuts: reg season (15/16): 3.6% freq..............0.92 ppp (pg 4) playoffs (15/16).....: 3.8% freq..............0.00 ....... (pg 1) reg season (16/17): 5.9% freq.............1.06 ppp (pg 7) playoffs (16/17)......: 1.2% freq............1.00 ppp (pg 3) reg season (17/18): 1.3% freq.............0.50 ppp (pg 1) Hand offs: reg season (15/16): 11.8% freq............0.80 ppp (pg 4) PO’s (15/16)..........: 13.5% freq...........0.29 ppp (pg 2) reg season (16/17): 7.7% freq............1.48 ppp (pg 7) PO’s (16/17)...........: 6.1% freq...........2.20 ppp (pg 1) reg season (17/18): 5.3% freq............1.06 ppp (pg 2) Spot Up: reg season (15/16): 35.0% freq..........1.01 ppp (pg 2) PO’s (15/16)..........: 36.5% freq..........0.84 ppp (pg 1) reg season (16/17): 27.9% freq..........0.97 ppp (pg 6) PO’s (16/17)..........: 41.5% freq.........1.50 ppp (pg 3) reg season (17/18): 35.1% freq.........1.16 ppp (pg 1) Gerald should do good in hand offs, spot ups, cutters and transitions in the playoffs. His quick release and good range while shooting anywhere along the 3-point line makes Gerald Green more than worthy of playing in the playoffs. I have no doubt Gerald Green wont be shy as he shoots about 7 a game without any consciousness......and will shoot it well.
GSWarriors: Player 3P%: Curry 42.3% (9.8 / gm) Klay 43.9% (7.1 / gm) Durant 42.0% (6.1 / gm) Nick Young 37.3% (4.1 / gm) Casspi 45.5% (0.4 / gm) Livingston 0.0% ( 0 / gm)....catch and shoot 3 (zero) Cook 42.7% (3.0 / gm) Iggy 29.2% (1.8 / gm)............catch and shoot 3’s (26.2%) Draymond 30.6% (3.6 / gm)...catch and shoot 3’s (30.8%) Can you tell who will be the Rockets pigeons on the perimeter?
I forgot to mention the Rockets aren’t going up against the Warriors in the 1st 2 rounds. That Gerald Green is going to go off. Hide the women and children. It might get nasty.
Gerald Green is the action figure you forgot you had and stopped playing with a long time ago, but now the TECHNODROME is attacking the Turtle layer and you're all out of actual turtles.
@basketballholic STATS-Players-Defense-Dashboard-3 pointers http://stats.nba.com/players/defense-dash-3pt/ Player.....................opponent 3ptFG%......opponent 3PA / game............opponent FG% Ryan Anderson..............40.1%................................2.5...................................36.1% Harden...........................39.0%................................4.9...................................36.3% Capela...........................39.6%.................................3.2...................................36.9% CP3................................35.6%................................3.9....................................36.4% Tucker............................35.9%.................................3.6...................................35.9% Luc MaM........................32.6%.................................3.3...................................36.1% Gerald Green.................33.7%.................................2.7...................................37.4% Joe Johnson**.............31.8%..................................3.0...................................35.8% Eric Gordon...................30.4%..................................3.5...................................35.9% Nene..............................29.9%..................................2.1...................................36.6% T Black...........................29.2%.................................1.4....................................35.7% Ariza...............................28.7%.................................3.3....................................35.9% **Joe Johnson isn’t killing the Rockets on the perimeter. Understood that rotations can cover some of the flaws players have on the perimeter. Warriors cover for Curry in the post while the Rockets help out a player like Ryan Anderson. As I said the other day....I would like JJ to chase Curry off the 3-pt line and rush to the next closest shooter on the perimeter. That defender leaves to help on Curry on his drives. That defender is usually set up at the FT line elbow. Just don’t let Curry go left to that left corner. He shot about 64% from that corner in 14/15 playoffs. Here is your team @ballscientist1 : defending 3’s Livingston......36.6% Nick Young.....40.9% (phew-wee) Looney............38.0% Bell.................39.2% Klay................39.3% Cook...............36.2% Durant............34.4% Iggy.................28.3% I notice I didn’t look up West/MeGee/Draymond
I don't trust him...he is so inconsistent. Love his energy but he shoots too much - especially when he is off.... I would give him 3 shots, and if he hits 1 or 2...he plays more...if not...to the bench. DD
He's a streaky shooter with confidence issues. Good thing on this team, everyone encourages him to let it fly.
GG can't seem to adjust when the other team is playing with desperate intensity. D'Antoni better have a quick leash with him in the playoffs. Tonight's insertion in place of EG was not encouraging at all.
Too spastic. JJ is too slow. Looks like he is ready for the assisted living center. The "snap" in his game is gone.
All I know is that I don't ever wanna see both Green and Joe in the game at the same time. They are just not reliable on defense and cannot afford to have both of them fouling and just not being effective.
Playoffs will tell the story... to me it seemed like the rockets didn't want it bad enough last night.