<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>McHale on Aldridge: "He's been a handful for us all year long and we're going to have to…(cont.)</p>— Jenny Dial Creech (@jennydialcreech) <a href="https://twitter.com/jennydialcreech/statuses/458129273987936256">April 21, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>McHale (cont.): ...come up with a couple of new ways to keep the ball out of his hands. We just didn't have any answers for him."</p>— Jenny Dial Creech (@jennydialcreech) <a href="https://twitter.com/jennydialcreech/statuses/458129338781556736">April 21, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
If Aldridge can drop 40 on us with fallaways then let him keep shooting them. We need to get a little more physical with him though. I'd rather have Aldridge shooting 20 footers than the rest of the team with open threes. With his best game ever tonight they barely beat us. Harden isn't going to shoot that poorly again. We're fine. We just need to protect the paint better. Too much penetration tonight.
This, I'd rather Lamarcus shoot long twos than him scoring in the paint which gives him a lot of confidence
Aldridge is 7' tall and shoots over his head. Nobody is affecting his jump shot. Jump shooters will regress to the mean. The shots he hit were tough shots.He had a good night and Harden didn't. It's one game and Dwight and Omer were both in foul trouble. Chill out people.
I know you guys love hero ball d-league allstars but I would put Casspi on him. He's agile enough to cause problems with his LA jumper and strong enough to hold his own. All you need is someone that's aggressive and Casspi will do that.
This team obviously never practice double teaming or zone defense. I never seen a single double teaming of Aldridge. They need to learn how to double team hard and switch players. Howard won't go out to guard Adridge when they do pick n roll leaving Adridge wide open for 3. Good shooters will make shot..it doesn't matter how far away from the basket.
LaMarcus Aldridge is soft. You can screw with him by putting a big 3 on him and you have that guy with Casspi. I know he's not the hero ball d-league allstar a niche nba crowd wants but I would put Casspi on him. He can't do any worse than the 46 and 20.
LMA is a great player no doubt, but the Rox defensive philosophy is gonna make him look like an all time great if they don't make adjustments. Rox won 3-1 against the Blazers in regular season, but LMA punks the Rox on a regular basis. They can't allow LMA to punk them so bad in the playoffs, that's the Blazers main chance of winning this series. That would be playing right into Portland's hands.
Just wondering, should they have sent Dmo into the game? I know LMA was having one of those games and it probably wouldn't have made a difference but so far this season, DMO has been the better defender then Tjones, and they were basically letting Jones go one-on-one at the end of the game so its not like we were using some sort of defensive scheme. Dmo knows his role, he doesn't try to do too much offensively and knows his minutes come from playing defense, if we aren't going to use the TT lineup, this seems like the only other alternative. Your guys' thoughts? BTW, not too irritated with the loss, a LOT had to happen for the blazers to win, the only thing i'm worried about is Beverley, man it's gonna suck if he can't play
DMo deserves a chance to prove himself before I write this but DMo has bigger lead feet than terrance jones. Aldridge will shoot fade a way jumpers against dmo too.
I was talking about from the tip. You know when we already had 4 games of knowledge that Jones gives Aldridge whatever he wants down low.
To guard Aldridge, you have to cut down on the offensive rebounds. Asik or D-Mo might be the guys to do it....Asik more so.
Any of you guys remember how the rox defended Aldridge in 2009? I know scola had the main assignment, but can't remember if and how they doubled. All i know is, it worked, or it at least limited him. Can we reproduce that or do we just not have the perimeter/veteran savvy on defense to make it possible. Or could it be that LMA is just a much better player then 09 and there's just not much we can do period. Thoughts?
I think when Houston sends out guys with lead feet against Aldridge he will punk them. Lets not go out on tangents.
