[Feigen] Upon further review, MDA not giving up on Switching Defense

I don't understand all the analysis here. It's really pretty simple. Melo can't switch and play iso D on anybody. Neither can Capela. So you can't play the two of them together. And the next piece is you don't switch Melo off into iso. Gotta climb over and defend. Switch everything else. When Melo is in there he's the 5. You don't let him defend on an island on a switch. Same thing with Capela. Capela has went from mediocre to poor on switches this season. Can't switch him. Period.

1. Don't play Capela and Melo together.
2. Don't switch Capela or Melo into iso.
3. If Capela/Melo get stuck in iso, they gotta come up and the defense has to rotate.

Pretty simple really.

It's not going to fix much really. Because we're missing two stellar perimeter defenders. But when we finally get those defenders we're still going to be here. Switch everything but Melo and Capela. Period.

 

Yup, same thought... Tucker denied the perimeter shot first and MCW put himself out of position.

 

It is that hard imo, when teams are running different actions at an NBA level speed you have to be able to make quick decisions and recognize what the offense is trying to do. Its NOT easy, you need high level IQ players to make it work.

Some people are good at communicating some aren't, apparently Ariza was a big communicator for our defense last year so that might have been an issue.

 

Bingo. Everything I've seen is either inattention, confusion/passivity, or reaction speed.

And one upshot of that analysis is that the nostalgia for Trevor and Luc is mistaken. Quickness and alertness are more important than ever. I'm glad we've gotten younger. Now we need to get comfortable with the new rules and get on the same page.

 

Maybe not Trevor, but Luc is an really an elite defender in this league. Like I'm talking top 10 perimeter defender.

 

If defense experiment fails

Predict wins for each 20 games

7-13
15-5
15-5
10-12 (rest players)

Total 47 wins

 

MCW made two steps in the wrong direction, pretended to go back and intercept/steal......

 

I get what you're saying.

Do you remember what their adjustments were when the Warriors were taking advantage with slip screens?

Bballbreakdown seems to suggest that that was a routine switch for the Rockets in the replies. Which looking at analysis from the WCF that might be accurate?

 

I found the adjustment. Looks like they don't switch on the slip here. This group's communication isn't quite there yet. Not saying that it won't get there though. Just needs time.

 

Tbh, I just see a lot of intelligence from ariza on this play

 

Melo and Gerald Green are pretty bad defenders. Let's get Ennis back and see how it looks.

 

Damn. Watching how we were last season makes me sad. Especially Capela. Hope he gets it together.

 

Now we know who was recognizing and calling the switches. Hint, it wasn’t PJ.

 

My god look at how beautiful the switching looks. This also looks alot harder than people are realizing. If people were able to run the switch as effectively as we were more people would be using it. We looked sooooo in sync right here it is incredible and sad

 

Individual defense is pretty bad, so MDA is not giving up Switching Defense.

you have world-wide famous bad defenders: Knight and Melo.

then you got slow Green, first-step-slow Ennis and low IQ MCW.

Are you kidding me?

Where is the beef?

 

I've said this for a long time. Its obvious that they are just cutting to the basket and there is ZERO help defense at the rim. That is why players like TREZ will always destroy the rockets.

 

Wasn't the problem with guarding Trez that he was slipping the screens and also destroying Melo when it was one-on-one? It seemed to me that they were specifically targeting Melo with Trez, not so much that there wasn't help.

 

Luc may be the better one on one defender but Ariza is the great communicator. Ariza’s ability to see, switch and communicate almost instantly makes him an extension of coach Bzdelik.

 

I agree, I mean I'm fine with saying we can move on from Luc/Ariza and be contending but I dont like people minimizing what they meant for us last year, its like you only care about a Rockets logo and not at all about the players.

 

Says all you need to know.

This guy is clueless when it comes to defense.

Always has been.