Illmatic12 wrote:Todd3 wrote:c'mon man...Stan has taken a team to the Finals and 3 ECF with his offense. What has Randy Whitman's defense done that is so great?
I heard the Pistons scouting report on Wall said "struggles scoring more than 8 pts on Reggie Jackson"
Be fortunate DET has one of the worst benches in history that allowed your team to get a 2pt win when your starters got thoroughly whooped, and save the chess match BS like SVG got outcoached or something. The 50-15 bench differential was the difference, not 1 end of game play.
The Pistons lead the league in pick and roll plays run. The Wizards didn't uncover any big secret there.Todd3 wrote:Teams are already all focused on the Dre/Reggie PnR, but few can stop it w/o sending help. That is why they run it so much. Teams are able to send help a lot though because our shooters have yet to make them pay consistently for it. That is the secondary option off it. When they help we pass for open 3s, but guys haven't been making them enough.
On that last play, you can see the plan was for Gortat to help off Dre onto Reggie, and then Ersan's man rotated onto Dre. Looking at it again, had Ersan spread to the 3pt line, Reggie could have gotten our best shooter an open look for the win. But he stayed too close to the action and didn't give enough room to get a clean pass to him. I don't know what the play call was supposed to be, but had Ersan done a better job recognizing his man was rotating off him, he could have gotten himself an open 3, or drew Morris' man and passed to him for uncontested shot instead of the one he got.
Yeah, Ilyasova was inattentive to how the play was unfolding. In his defense, he probably wasn't expecting that defensive look, where the PnR ballhandler to be forced so far from the middle of the floor. Jackson had a big covering him, so it would have been hard for him to instantly see the passing lane across the court. 9 times out of 10 the big defending Drummond would never leave him in the PnR like that. Gortat gave up a ton of layups throughout the game because he was so afraid to leave Andre.
I agree, the Wiz starters didn't show up, I was just as surprised they won a game like that. In past years Washington's bench unit has given them nothing, a big complaint was how heavily they relied on Wall/Beal to win games.
I'm looking forward to the next Wiz-Pistons matchup, maybe the scheduling will be more in Detroit's favor next time. I predicted the Pistons as a solid playoff team for sure, this should be a strong team once Jennings and Meeks return to bolster the bench.
Wow did the Wizardsmake the best defensive play EVEEERRRRR on that play or something? You're really talking it up my man.