Watching from Heat's perspective
Posted: Thu Jan 8, 2009 2:10 pm
I think you'll know/ evaluate your team's D better by trying to view it from the other side.
Re-watch the game and pretend you're a Heat fan (I know it's very hard to shake off the fact you're a Nugget fan, but try) and I what I found was our D still needs some work.
The first half especially, the rotation was often slow, and the Heat were able to get many open jumpers, they just clanged them.I thought we came out of the second half very aggressive on D, and actually played suffocating D for a few first minutes, resulted in Wade forcing (taking) a turnaround fadeaway three that went in.
If we could play this type of D throughout a game, then we'd be very good. But the problem is... we don't.
I think we still need a great defender at 3 and 5, those guys who commit to D 100% and will rarely have defensive lapses. Or if Melo can actually come back to play lockdown D for the rest of the season. Otherwise I don't see us having much success in the post season.
Re-watch the game and pretend you're a Heat fan (I know it's very hard to shake off the fact you're a Nugget fan, but try) and I what I found was our D still needs some work.
The first half especially, the rotation was often slow, and the Heat were able to get many open jumpers, they just clanged them.I thought we came out of the second half very aggressive on D, and actually played suffocating D for a few first minutes, resulted in Wade forcing (taking) a turnaround fadeaway three that went in.
If we could play this type of D throughout a game, then we'd be very good. But the problem is... we don't.
I think we still need a great defender at 3 and 5, those guys who commit to D 100% and will rarely have defensive lapses. Or if Melo can actually come back to play lockdown D for the rest of the season. Otherwise I don't see us having much success in the post season.