mjkvol wrote:76ciology wrote:Nets just didnt have any options.
After watching G1 and post game, it just seems that Sixers knew Nets will double team heavy. That the Sixers even spent the entire week practicing making accurate passes to the shooters (doc rivers strike/ball baseball analogy postgame).
Jacque Vaughn, who’s great in these press con, also sounds satisfied in doubling Jojo. I thought when Sixers were knocking those 3s, he should have stopped sending double teams. But it sounds like he doesn’t mind them, and he said its not those 3s off double teams that killed his team but its the 3s off second chance points. Where if Nets were to take away those 3s off second chance points and take away those off the dribble 3s from Tobi and Harden, his team could have won.
If I'm Vaughn, I'm going down with that plan and just saying "if they can continue to hit 3's like that, so be it". He's picking his poison, and the likelihood of the Sixers getting cold from 3 is far higher than stopping the P&R, especially with his personnel. His point about 2nd chance 3's is a good one.
Embiid scores around 1.00ppp on his money spots around the FT line and left elbow (shoots at 50-54%). Sixers scores around 1.18-1.20ppp when team double teams of Embiid or Harden. Sixers is the best 3pt shooting team in % at 38.+%
Not only that doubling a lot leads being prone to getting outrebounded which Cam Johnson talked about here
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Numbers aside, I feel players get demoralized giving up open 3s and getting outrebounded and can be easier to be in a “next play mode” and live with it if Embiid is just shooting contested jumpers.
Just my point of view. But I also see your point and JV’s POV
