https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27608388/pelicans-add-defensive-guru-bzdelik-staff Pelicants stealing all our asset or fartita to cheap?
I haven’t done the analysis but I’m sure someone has. Other than the fact they kind of had to “switch everything” because of Hardens shortcomings, and the overall small-ball lineup, what has GSW offensive efficiency been against the Rockets vs other teams?
For playoff series that both Curry and Durant played, goes like this: keep in mind, Moute basically didn't play when we had the best defense. 108.8 NOP 2018 won 4-1* 114.5 HOU 2018 won 4-3 115.7 HOU 2019 won 4-2** 116.1 UTA 2017 won 4-0 117.1 POR 2017 won 4-0*** 121.3 CLE 2017 won 4-1 121.9 LAC 2019 won 4-2 122.2 SAS 2017 won 4-0 124.6 CLE 2018 won 4-0 * Curry missed one 1, off bench in another ** Durant missed 1 game *** Durant missed 2 games For Playoff series when either Durant or Curry missed entire series 110.1 TOR 2019 lost 2-4 no Durant, Klay missed 1 game* 113.7 SAS 2018 won 4-1 no Curry 116.4 POR 2019 won 4-0 no Durant * Technically, Durant played 12 minutes in Game 1, GSW was a 116.5 in that game You believe NBA switching defenses are designed to hide weaknesses, or to take away something from the offense? I'm a big advocate our switching defense (a variant of match-up zones) was a perfect scheme in 2018....to take away offenses reliant on perimeter picking We didn't "switch everything" to accommodate Harden. We did it because that's the best defense against GSW's heavy diets of picks in 5-out Motion. It flattens it. Awesome at disrupting PnR's, too. I'm a firm believer we ran it against everyone in 2018 in order to perfect the vital communication required of heavy switching. We didn't have the personnel to run it to perfection last year.
Both! I probably picked too much on Harden with the comment, but I believe part of the reason we ran it was because we didn’t have the personnel to run other defenses better in any scenario regardless of who playing. Part of the reason. Very informative overall. Those were ORtg numbers I assume? What happens if you add the two pre-KD years out of curiosity?
Yeah, and they are the bb-ref numbers, which calculate like 1pt higher than how NBA.com's ORtg works. The difference is in how they count possessions. Yeah, I'm a big believer in highly aggressive, match-up zones can do a lot of things...including getting a guard in frontcourt defense. However, I'm still picking the NBA variant of match-up zone to defend GSW, no matter if I want to hide one player's deficiencies or not. It's only when I lack *two* key positional solutions to the plan, or my defensive-IQ and communication breaks down that I'd question whether I should use a hawking, switching defense that requires such quick-thinking and fockass.
