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Saw this on SSR:

http://www.sbnation.com/2013/1/25/39150 ... lems-video

Here's my breakdown...

Two things in that video and in general I've noticed:

1) The Lakers should try hedging on pick and rolls.
2) The spacing on offense is terrible.

IamBBAnalysis wrote:Two things in that video and in general I've noticed:

1) The Lakers should try hedging on pick and rolls.
2) The spacing on offense is terrible.

Agree to both. But I swear for the life of me knowing the lack of foot speed of this current team that we just dont jump the PG on the pick in roll every single time to get the ball out of there hands also. Gotta trust Dwight and the weakside support to be able to defend the rim and give back support

That vid shows how god awful our pick and roll defense has been and how disorganized in general we are on that end. At first I thought it was mostly Duhon and Kobe guilty of just watching the ball, but you can see almost everyone has been doing it. We knew Pau was bad but that makes him look miserable. When he hedges, they just go around him, when he doesn't they just shoot easy shots, when he steps up they just get layups. We don't know who and when to switch, just lots of confusion. And it shows how bad Dwight as been a lot of the time to, not rotating, not challenging, and definitely not hedging... just wow at our D...

IamBBAnalysis wrote:
1) The Lakers should try hedging on pick and rolls.

no, especially if the pnr involves dwight or pau. They are way too slow and gets blow by on a switch way too easily. They need to stay with the roll guy and protect the paint, let the pg shoot a long jump shot. long jump shot by a pg vs penetration/layup/assist, take your pick. Force play makers to shoot jump shots, rather than making plays for others.

tenten wrote:

IamBBAnalysis wrote:
1) The Lakers should try hedging on pick and rolls.

no, especially if the pnr involves dwight or pau. They are way too slow and gets blow by on a switch way too easily. They need to stay with the roll guy and protect the paint, let the pg shoot a long jump shot. long jump shot by a pg vs penetration/layup/assist, take your pick. Force play makers to shoot jump shots, rather than making plays for others.

I considered that...which is why I said "try". The problem is what the Lakers are doing on D does not take the other team out of their comfort zone. Making the team's best player not make plays is usually a good idea.

What about running a zone? Seems like every other team can it effectively why can't we?

P.S.haven't watched the video so I don't know if that was mentioned.

That video convinced me that there is no hope for us defensively.

supaflash wrote:That vid shows how god awful our pick and roll defense has been and how disorganized in general we are on that end. At first I thought it was mostly Duhon and Kobe guilty of just watching the ball, but you can see almost everyone has been doing it. We knew Pau was bad but that makes him look miserable. When he hedges, they just go around him, when he doesn't they just shoot easy shots, when he steps up they just get layups. We don't know who and when to switch, just lots of confusion. And it shows how bad Dwight as been a lot of the time to, not rotating, not challenging, and definitely not hedging... just wow at our D...

This sums us up defensively to a T... I've been noticing exactly what you're describing all season long and the only solution I've come up with, albeit a crazy solution that probably wouldn't work, would be for us to press the ball handler far earlier in the shot clock thus doing everything possible to prevent them from getting set up to run a tradition PnR. It might just create more chaos with our lack of speed coming even more into play or it could create confusion for our opponents offensively and improve our defense. Who knows but at this point I'm willing to try anything so long as I don't have to see Pau get ran circles around anymore.