Hack DeAndre Jordan every second he is in the game...

to people saying our guys would foul out...Doc has been taking dj out even in the 4th until 2 minute mark this whole playoffs.

 

Yes!!!! I love the strategy. Eventually they will have to take him out. Disrupts their set offenses.. which we don't have so doesn't matter.

 

Our coach should be fired if he doesn't do it considering Jordan's impact on our game

 

Lol if it was this simple Im pretty sure the Spurs wouldve done it

 

Honestly it's a good idea, especially when Dwight comes out. I'd use a guy like Papa for this, you know he's a decent player but he hardly plays any ways. If it makes Doc take him out of the game as he's shown he will do then you have to do it. He impacts the game too much to just ignore it.

 

This worked out well for the Spurs.

 

Useful at times. I hate the idea of using it when losing. It doesn't seem quite as bush when we have a 10pt lead. I'm still not a fan of intentional off the ball fouling.

 

It worked well enough that they were a miracle shot away from winning game 7 in LA.

Good math is good math... I'll take bad FT shooting over DAJ dunks, CP3 stutter steps and Griffin post ups any day of the week.

 

Little different than the spurs situation. No DJ means Howard can dominate at will in the paint, something a little more mitigated against old man Duncan. Plus it allows harden to attack which is pretty much the center of our offensive rhythm

 

Kinda hypocritical to do that when we have been complaining about Hack-a-Dwight all the time, no?

 

BUT THE THING IT DEANDRE MAKES ALL THE BIG FREE THROWS

 

Yeah, would be good to utilize them if going that route, lots of free fouls there.

 

I like the idea of just fouling him when Harden is on the bench. It prevents the Clippers from heating up and it allows Harden to get even more rest. Just foul Jordan every possession and buy Harden 15 minutes of rest compared to 3min of gametime. Go ahead and play him 42mpg+ but he'll be well rested. Sloan used to excel at doing that.

It might also offset the times Harden & Jordan are on the court together. Jordan is kryptonite down there.

 

^^^ that makes some more sense, selectively is more sensible. Them being in the bonus early helped us as much as the hacking hurt if not more. I did like seeing Jordan sit a lot though both for foul trouble and foul shooting trouble.

 

Duncan played extremely well that series whether DJ was on him or not.

That wasn't the reason they were in that series. Hack a DJ should have cost them game 2 at LA.

 

this should only be done in right situations. this should never be done every second he is in the game. a big issue is the rockets struggle to play defense without picking up silly fouls.

 

Get Dorsey and Papa on this and get DJ to the Greek.

 

If you foul Deandre with player X (Papa, Nick, Dorsey, etc) then you have to leave him in as opposed to sub during free-throws to ensure the same player is available to take another foul on the next possession.

If you take him out, well, then someone who you don't want picking up gimme-foul has to taken them (assuming continuity of strategy).

If you do leave them in (for continuity of strategy), then player X (back-end of rotation guy) has to in be for the offensive possession. Think about what that does to our expected points per possession. That quickly diminishes the advantage assuming DJ shoots even his standard 40% or roughly .8 PPP.

The reason the Spurs are able to pull this off is b/c of their depth and interchangeable parts. Pop feels the offensive decline isn't enough to offset even 50% FT Shooting. In this case, the Spurs averaged 1.07 PPP during the regular season. So, by Pop's math, the expected value of 1 PPP using hack-a on a 50% FT shooter - via a bench player's fouls - is still exceeded net of the offensive efficiency dropoff. That implies he thinks his bench guys - replacing whichever starter(s) - produce at a rate that is no worse than .06 PPP vs the team's normalized production (skewed heavier in favor of the starters)

I don't think McHale feels a lineup integrating player X will sustain aggregate team production at anywhere near the rate of a normalized lineup. And, given the offensive deficiencies in their game, I agree.

Net-Net, there's no way i'd leave the defense on auto-hack-a-DJ. For strings of 5-7 possessions, yes. That's the extent of it when you weigh foul trouble vs offensive efficiency drop-off.

 

The problem with that is Dorsey is even worse at FTs than Jordan. They'd gladly get themselves into the bonus just to put Dorsey at the line.