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I saw one of the best coaching moves of the yr tonight.

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by leebigez, Dec 28, 2001.

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  1. leebigez

    leebigez Contributing Member

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    This thread might be moved , but anyways. His team down by 20, I was about to turn the pathetic game to another. Krueger calls a timout with 5 mins left and goes to a 1-2-2 zone. I watched as one ofe the greatest coaches who has coached the game watch his team struggle badly. They became stagnant, holding the ball and settle for long jumpers. After Atl hit a couple of shots by Terry and SAR you could see the panic in the Heat as the once flowing offense became worse than ours. Enventualy the Hawks came back and took the league. With 12secs left and the ball, Mia calls a play, but Atl went back to a man to man and the Heat looked confused and wound up with a **** shot.

    With the way Marbury was killing us last night, it would have been nice to see us switch it up and play a little zone and Make Marjle or someone else beat us.
     
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    Exactly. Rudy does not know how to add in wrinkles to throw the opponent off.

    Rudy's idea of adjustments is by putting KT at center or something.

    :rolleyes:
     
    #2 kidrock8, Dec 28, 2001
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    Dont forget Matt Bullard at center
     
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    Have you guys seen our zone?

    It's quite pathetic.

    I think it would take all year for our guys to even grasp a zone...
     
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    BGM, i thought it was cool that a coach actually used the zone to his advantage. Why are we giving up baskets at a 47% clip with a zone being legal?
     
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    I would like for us to be able to use a zone, but whenever I do see them try a zone, it looks very bad.

    Our big men are too worried about avoiding the 3 second rule that they're not paying much attention to their areas, making it easy for the opposing team to drive to the basket.

    Our guards play like they have a superior center behind them that can reject the ball, they (even oscar unfortunately) try to jump the passing lanes too much, making it easy for the ballhandlers to drive past them.

    Also the Suns have much better shooters than the Heat, they could counter us with Googs (prolific rocket killer) at C and Rogers at PF. Marbury could drive and dish to anyone for a shot that they would probably hit.

    I just don't see a zone fixing anything...
     
    #6 Band Geek Mobster, Dec 28, 2001
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    We did. You just didn't notice. We went to a trap on Marbury and Majerle missed two three pointers in a row on the same possession. The second Griffin and Torres watched bounce lazily out of bounds and we got called for touching it. Marbury then got by three guys.

    We held Marbury to 2 points in the 3rd, as I recall, by switching defenses.

    leebigez, zones are not the end all, they can be the most pathetic defense around. imo, man with rotations is often the better defense when you have speed and no center. It does not surprise me in the least that we play more man than zone. You make it sound like man cannot double team and trap or something.

    You are is the land of gimmicks and illusion if you believe zone is the only way to beat Marbury from running his Francis-esque pick-n-roll rather than man-on-man with traps and aggressive rotation like how the Bulls and Pippen killed Stockton/Malone. Minnesota would play a zone and San Antonio would, but that is because their number one concern is keeping Garnett, Duncan and Robinson roaming around the action. That doesn't necessarily fit us.
     
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    leebigez Contributing Member

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    Crispee, I know what you're saying, but even with the 3 sec defensive call, which they call as often as offensive 3 sec rule a 1-2-2 is very workable, The 4 & 5 are on the shoeblocks and the 2 & 3 are on the elbows of the ft line and the pg is at the top. The way Marbury was going and getting layups and 8ft jumpers, something could have been done. You play defense inside out. Would you rather have Marbury doing pre game layup drills or the other players shooting from 23ft? Its about a failure to make adjustments which also goes back to lack of preparations.
     
    #8 leebigez, Dec 28, 2001
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