Post#153 » by CharityStripe34 » Tue Jan 30, 2024 6:35 pm
Ron Swanson wrote:I will say, as much as I've been dismissing the obsession with the number of Dame/Giannis pick-and-rolls, this was certainly the game where you should have spammed it over and over again, especially in crunch time. Jokic was getting annihilated in the Brook pick & pop game and whenever Giannis had a sliver of space to attack the rim.
I'm confident they'll get it together with an actual grown-up on the bench now though. It's like people forget that even prime Lebron had to adjust his game to playing with D-Wade, and yet I still see people here griping about how it's all on one guy rather than it being a two-way street.
Not quite comparable, but when Greece played against Serbia in that epic game in Belgrade 1.5 years ago, the NT coach did exactly this multiple times that game in crunch-time. He took Kalathes (who's a good passer and quick) and ran pick-and-roll against Jokic and Giannis got like 4-5 straight easy baskets against him catching the ball at the FT line.
Figured last night they would go to it and try and put Jokic on an island with Khris being the strong-side kick out shooter.
"Wes, Hill, Ibaka, Allen, Nwora, Brook, Pat, Ingles, Khris are all slow-mo, injury prone ... a sandcastle waiting for playoff wave to get wrecked. A castle with no long-range archers... is destined to fall. That is all I have to say."-- FOTIS