From what I saw in the 2nd and 3rd quarter, he was switched onto the primary ball handler a lot and was subsequently pulled away from the basket... and Harden was the main guy defending Jonas. Our other guys have to step up and rebound by committee and crash the boards.
Because Capela cannot shoot the 3, teams can get away with this without having to go small against us...
He rarely has any bad games...so the first time (at least, in recent memory) he has a bad game, you make this thread? Smh, some CFers just have nothing better to do than to b**** and moan.
Here's the problem with Capela.. He has the wrong combination of skills limitations to help us get past the Warriors in the playoffs. 1. He can't shoot the three. Why is this a key skills limitation??? Because if he could shoot the 3, then the opponents would have to take their big off the floor and attempt to defend Capela with a PF or small. Without that skill, teams with power bigs can bludgeon us both with their own switches and also on the boards by hammering us with their size. 2. He's not as big, long, and strong as traditional power bigs. So over the course of a long season and then into the playoffs they can beat him down. And do. We've seen this the last two seasons already. 3. He's not quick enough to effectively stay with the best smalls in the league of the course of an extended playoff season. Points #2 and #3 put him and our team in a quandry and expose his limitations. He either has to get bigger and stronger to battle power bigs better OR he has to get lighter to get quicker in switches. The problem is if he gets bigger and stronger he gets slower and his switchability deteriorates almost directly proportionate to his strength/bulk increase. Not to mention his already low stamina becomes even more of an issue. But if he's lighter he gets pushed around even more. Go back and study video of Capela when he was a rookie. He was noticeably quicker than what he is today. That's why when he was a rookie I was calling on us to develop his shooting, not his physicality. Because If you've got a quick 7-footer that can shoot, switch, and run, then you eliminate all these old skool power bigs like Jonas from the equation. The opponent has to counter with a quicker/faster defender. And Jonas has to sit down. We chose to develop Capela physically and leave his shooting skills development for another day....actually another contract. That was our mistake. This is why I don't hate Capela, contrary to what many of the more idiotic posters here believe. It's not his fault he followed our player development protocol/plan. He followed it to a T, working very diligently. He became EVERYTHING we asked him to become. We asked him to become the wrong thing, a traditional PnR center. And we chose to try to develop his strength and bulk him up while he learned the intricacies of the PnR with Harden.We got what we asked for. In spades. We should have developed his shooting from day 1, accentuated his quickness in defensive switching and developed his defensive mentality, alongside running pick and rolls, and worked to increase his stamina instead of bulk training. Now we've got a guy that's the third highest paid player on the team who is too slow to switch on to smalls like Curry and be effective, but he's not strong enough nor long enough to bang against opposing power 5's in our lineups. And his stamina has gone down the tubes. It's on us...not Capela. We have made ourselves #alsorans.
I've been saying for months Capela's defense has been inconsistent as hell all season.... but it's gone a lot worse since he came back from Injury. He gets bullied far too easily in the paint. He struggles to boxout a decent tall and strong center a lot of the time. His switch defense is all over the place. He loses focus a lot of the time. Not to mention, he cannot hit the mid-range or 3 pointer, so he's very limited. Not saying he's bad center or anything, because he's actually pretty decent. But there's a lot of faults to his game. So I wouldn't say this topic is an overreaction at all.
What about Spurs with LaMarcus? What about Denver with Joker? What about Clippers with Montrezl, who plays big and aggressive in the paint? Yep, they better rest Nene till the playoffs, they are gonna need him
capela messed up on that last play, but the game could have been different if we actually tried to defend early in the game, starting shumper is just wrong....
You have to close your eyes balls and plug your ear balls to not realize we switch a lot of things. Clint is good rebounder but he can’t rebound if he’s out on the perimeter. Clint can’t protect the rim if he’s switched out on the perimeter. The Rockets have schemed better but that principle is still part of our defense. If you want a center who can matchup with anyone (big centers, quick centers, athletic centers, and perimeter players ) then you’ll be searching for a while...
We could double team when the other team has a large center - mix it up a bit.......there are so few of them though that this thread seems pointless. DD
I FEEL FOR HARDEN! When he has to go in the paint and guard the other teams center because our center is being abused, it's atrocious!! CAPELLA HAS BEEN OUT PLAYED BY COUSINS, TOWENS AND VALANCUIS!!! He has not been himself since he came back from injury
Those aren't true bigs, Capela can out bang all you named. The true tradtiotrad centers like Jonas Adams Embiid are the ones strong enough to give Capela fits
Really? Have you been watching rockets games? It's not about him getting a double double, is that he gets bodied easily in the post, regularly.
