thelead wrote:Bensational wrote:that's where i think the analytics will really come into play. i think we'll see some very smart basketball from the team this year, where players aren't necessarily aiming to get a complete stop, but are aiming to direct players to the most inefficient scoring positions. it might look lazy at times, and might look like we're giving them open looks, but i think it will all be by design. You don't need as much lateral quickness if you're just shepherding players, as opposed to trying to stop them individually.
Directing them where though? This is how its going to go down: opposing pg blows by jameer, bbd leaves his man to stop the ball, opposing player passes to bbd's man for an open jumpshot. If afflalo rotates, he gives up an open three. If Vuc rotates, we give up an open dunk. Jameer is not quick, afflalo isn't quick, hedo is the antithesis of quick, bbd is only quick to run to a mcdonalds, and vuc isn't the quickest either. I don't see rotations working very well.
This could all very well change is we see more of Harkless/Moore, but the very fact that we have to hope that unproven players play is very inditing to our situation.
I think the defense will be more a case of directing the opposition to particular areas, regardless of whether or not another player can rotate to cover or defend. Jameer is quick enough to keep most other PGs from getting straight to the rim, but that might mean he's giving up a lot of space by playing off his man, and what would appear to be an open look. But that open look isn't so bad if we know that player shoots significantly lower than average from that spot.
It all sounds like the basics of defense, but the difference will be that we'll have solid, quantifiable numbers to support where and why players should be allowed to shoot certain shots.
Happy for him though. Hope he makes the roster.
