prophet_of_rage wrote:These examples are horrible and with the aid of video you should be embarrassed to be supporting what is simply an agenda.
Video number one. We have steve Novak forcing the ball handler sideline baseline away from the basket. Ballhandler pump fakes. Novak bites on the fake and tries not to foul. He lands and the shooter makes a contested jump shot. No middle penetration. No rotation necessary by the defence. Breakdown in individual discipline by the defender to bite on the fake but a contested pull up isn't a bad shot to give up.
Video number 2. Are you guys crazy baming Stat for not getting back from 47 feet away when it was Fields who was supposed to step in off the double team and rotation. Watch the video. Stat is running back as soon as the ball is passed out of the double team. Smith ducks back to his man instead of stopping the ball so Stoudemire could help the helper.
It seems to me that there was clearly a double team on the ball to stop penetration on the pick and roll or at least an aggressive trap. The ball gets reversed Lin side to Gooden. JR Smith stands him up for a second then recovers. Meanwhile Amar'e is running back on a diagonal cut. Lin is out of the play standing above the line of the ball meaning he isn't doing anything defensively in that sequence. No way can amar'e travel 50 feet faster than Gooden can travel 16 feet. Fields stays with his man opening up the take off lane and Carmelo is actually out of the play behind his offensive rebounder. Smith needed to stay with his man a second longer to force him to make a decision to pass the ball. Lin being ball side should have dropped down to take away the opposite elbow in case Gooden drove left while Fields steps into the lane and Amar'e picks up Fields man in help of the helper. We are watching five players fail on a defensive possession.
Video 3 looks like Stoudemire and Davis double teaming on an inbounder forcing a difficult pass which gives Lin enough time to step into the passing lane and strip Gooden as Gooden turns basket side. If one wanted to pick on players then you could say that Lin got lucky that Gooden turned to go right and into him versus going fundamentally left where Lin would have been behind the play. Lin allows the catch and does not jump the lane to steal it clean. Either way the interception of the pass is created by the double team on the ball.
Video 4 Lin has the ballhandler at the 45 and does a good job forcing sideline baseline into he help defence of Anthony who has Ilyasova under the basket in a fronting position. Baron drops down to the foul line to protect the elbow and Fields is playing the weakside block. Gooden walks Amar'e down into a back screen on Anthony which Fields should call. Amar'e is fronting him the entire way. Lin fails to keep the ballhandler sideline baseline because he overcommits and steps on the baseline, allowing the live dribbler to go back middle and eliminate the help defence. Lin's man pulls up for the jump shot. While this is happening Amare fronts Gooden ball side and Illyasova curls off his back pick into the key. As the shot is taken Lin does not box out the shooter, watching the fight for the ball, Davis does not react to Illyasova in the middle of the key and Fields does not indicate anything. Because the ball is in flight Anthony abandons Illyasova and goes to cover the backside of the rim to trap Gooden as Amare is in front of him. The ball goes over the basket, taking Amar'e out of the play making the play between 6'10 Gooden and 6'7 Anthony. A tip of the ball goes to Illyasove with no other help defender reacting to the ball and Anthony and Amar'e trying to hold off Gooden down low. The result a putback by Illyasova with three Knicks watching two fight for the ball. As the ball goes through Lin jogs down to be in the rebounding mix but fails to actually touch Illyasova standing next to him in case the ball pops out the cylinder.
If you're going to breakdown tape actually break it down. Do not just watch it with an agenda.
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