pepe1991 wrote:swarlesbarkley wrote:pepe1991 wrote:Just go through all this and tell me they cared about his shooting. I dare you.
I think it's funny that you had to pull screenshots from highlight clips to make your point here. If it were obvious, just a simple highlight video would've worked.
I watched the video you grabbed the first two screenshots from. The first image was great ball movement that got Gordon free as the last person in a chain of 2-3 passes. The second image was Kawhi (who was guarding Gordon) getting caught on a Vuc screen and Gordon taking advantage. Maybe lazy defense here but basically the same play as the DJ game winner.
Also in the video - Gordon making a tough shots near the rim with Kawhi guarding, Kawhi running Gordon off the 3 and Gordon driving and finding Iwundu, Gordon making a stepback 2 with Danny Green closely guarding him two times, in fact, the only play where they weren't "guarding" Gordon was in the first image, which, again, was more a result of great ball movement - not their philosophy to leave him wide open.
you can watch any highlight video from youtube from that games to figure it on your own .
Out of 20 threes he took, 17 were not contested.
So, yea, ... they simply didn't guard him that much.
Where do you get that info from? I'd be interested to see how many shots by our other guys were uncontested. Because when I watched the highlights, sure seemed like they had Kawhi or Danny Green guarding Gordon pretty closely and that his uncontested 3s came from good ball movement.
