This. And Switch the damn pick to chase the running Lilard off. They did none of above because they never practiced.
With 0.9 left and a two point lead there were essentially several things that the Blazers needed and they executed on all three... 1. Do not let them shoot a three to win. Even if we give up a layup we go into overtime FAIL 2. Do not let Lillard get the ball. Aldridge is their best player but in a catch/shoot situation where a 3 wins the game, Lillard is the last guy we want with the ball. FAIL 3. Do not let the Blazers get an open look. FAIL Those seem to be the three most important things for us on that possession and we failed on every single point.
It very clearly looks like Harden just allows Lillard to run around him and watched Parsons trail him all he had to do was force Matthews into him or fight through th screen M was setting and that would have foced Liilards timing and depth off, baffling why Harden just stood there watching the play develop and didn't even try to step over and foul him off the ball WTF ?A?A? McHale is such garbage as a strategist...
there was no screen...parsons didnt get touched by any blazer. No blazer was blocking his path. Lillard simply outran him.
LOL at this point in the picture Lillard is pretty much getting to full speed...Harden is facing the other way and standing flat footed, he never would've made it over.
See, this is me. You face guard and make the ball go over your head furthest from the inbounder. That was basically a handoff.
No body was even looking at the passer they all had their backs turned. if anyone saw how it was set-up they could have disrupted the pass of fouled before he had a chance to catch it.
