No way Lillard is 6'3 nor Derrick Rose and bunch of other guys... I suspect Lin had a spine growth. His torsoe got longer since he was drafted. Not necessarily a good thing. But when he does guard these smaller guards it does look like it agonizes his lower back.
Not just for Lillard, but Mathews and Williams also, we need second-line paint and rim protection by Howard and Asik, and sometime one of our forwards, no over-helping though. Our guards need to be close on their men and push them out to the perimeter. Perimeter defense will be a key against the Blazers since they have a below league average 2P% and 28th in points in paint.
Bev needs to be on Lillard all the time unless he fouls out. Lin will struggle to stay in front of a fllag pole. He is slow laterally.
The question is how to defend Lillard/Aldridge pick and roll. Obviously you want Bev/Lin to go above the screen, but that needs PF (Jone/Asik/Dmo) to fall back to block the lane for Lillard, that leave Aldridge open for jumpers. I can see we may switch like we often do, but do you think Bev/Lin can stop Aldridge's jumpers? Now, if we let Parsons guard Lillard and Jones on Aldridge, we can stop the pick and roll fairly well by simply switching, but question is can Parsons stop Lillard one on one.
Because Beverley is really Wolverine, his knee is stronger than it was prior to the injury. I am more interested to see how Lillard is able to go past the regenerated, superior knee of Beverley.
I want Lin on Lillard offensively since Lillard doesn't play defense. If Lin is not playing like a scared pussycat then he should easily be able to exploit this match up.
If Parsons is on Lillard (Parson might have some limited success on him), you have mismatches everywhere. I think Matthew is too big and strong for Lin or Bev to guard (limited mins fine). Our PG definitely wouldn't be guarding Batum. I said, our PGs stay with their PGs. Parsons on Matthew might make more sense with Harden on Batum or even on Aldridge. Jones simply can't guard Aldridge but might have some good success against Batum. If you look at their stats, when Batum and/or Matthew shoot a higher %, they win. So I'm more concern with Batum or Matthew going off. Aldridge (can shot over anyone anyway except Asik & Howard) and Lillard will have their - just make it tough on them but don't allow their SG or SF to go off.
I agree with PGs on PGs. I guess what I am thinking is if Aldridge and Lillard go off on us, then we need a plan to stop that pick and roll. It may create mismatch but what we are trading would be to ask their role players to step up instead of having their star players unstopped. I think outside of Aldridge and Lillard, the rest of their team lacks ability to create for themselves even if it is a mismatch. If we can stop their two stars, the game becomes whether their role players can make their jump shots. I like the chance of us winning if they do that.
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What is the minutes distribution going to be like? Everyone plays more minutes during playoffs, so I'd imagine Bev would be playing somewhere in the mid-30s if not more. How many minutes would we really have to deal with Bev not being on the floor?
I don't care what Lillard does. His D is so Garbage, in fact the whole teams defense is garbage. Batum's wing D is alright but he's not stopping Parsons ,Harden, Lin, or Beverleys penetration. They also have no true shot blocker. I honestly can I see us sweeping the Blazers for many reason. But the main reason is that we are going to make the defensive stops when we have to because we can. They are not because they can't. For as much as we bad mouth are teams defense I'll take it over the Blazers all day. They only beat a top nine Western Conference team twice in fifteen tries sin January 18th. One of which came last night in OT over Warriors in which they gave up a 117 points. A little off subject but it really annoys me when I hear all this talk about Hardens D and that's why he's not the best guard in the league . What guard in this league has Hardens abilities to score, but to also make others around him better. His basketball IQ is off the charts( watch how he plays the game) and he wants to rip your heart out on the court, he wants that last shot he wants to take life out of teams and crowds and he can and does(most clutch player in the league based on last five minutes of games that are close). Now how many clutch player are there in this league let alone guards. I could go along all day with stats and what not but James Harden is a top five player in this league and definitely deserves MVP votes regardless of his "defense". It's the same with people that want to vote Joakim Noah(who plays In Tom Thibodeau defensive system which the Rockets were consistently top five in the league in D when playing within it) DPOY and NBA First Team Center over Dwight because he has had some big assist games he's good but he ain't Dwight, not his year not next year not last year. The Recorded and unrecorded individual stats don't compare. Dwight is hands down best Center in the league. But haters are gonna hate.
Bev will probably be on court whenever Lillard is on. Luckily Lin has guarded Lillard fairly when in the past few games as opposed to when he guards someone like Isaiah Thomas. I just don't want to see Harden or Parsons or Lillard.
