Crash: I'm disrupting chemistry

[MARIS61]

I've always seen Roy as an iso heavy, need the ball in his hands type of player. It remains to be seen whether he can be an effective "closer" off the bench and a second or third option the rest of the time he is out on the floor. I think Camby will be ok. After all, it is only two games.

Regarding your question, I think it was somewhere between the racism thread and Mixum's constant ray of sunshine that encouraged me to finally pull the trigger!

repped.

I like your style already.

 

[hasoos]

I don't think LMA was less aggressive last night; he was just hounded hard, and in a new way. The double-team scheme the Rockets ran on LMA last night was really clever; instead of the double guy being the guy guarding the entry passer to LMA, they had the guy guarding the far-side spot-up shooter run cross court to double LMA and close off the key when he goes right. It leaves the left/baseline open, but LMA still isn't comfortable going left yet.

Until he can go quicker to the hoop (which he did a couple times successfully in the 3rd, starting his move immediately on catching the ball) or go left more, opposing defenses will have good luck against him.

In all honesty, except for some Ruben Patterson type mistakes and over-enthusiasm, I though Crash played great last night. He and Roy had a good two-man game going in the 3rd.

At the same time, we had no cutters. Lamarcus would get the ball and nobody cut through the paint. Everybody just stood around and watched. Nobody else was making Houston guard them. So the double team is easy when all your guys just sit there, watch, jack 3 pointers and miss. We made the game easy for Houston.

 

[BBert]

Hi All,

I've been reading this board for a long time now all the way back to when the big migration happened. I'm getting sick and tired of trying to talk Blazers with people in the midwest who don't care about basketball though so I figured I'd finally create an account.

I think Gerald Wallace will be fine, it takes more than two games to get used to each other in a structured system. I'm more concerned about Brandon Roy reintegrating in a secondary role, and LaMarcus losing his killer mentality.

Welcome.

 

[BBert]

I don't think LMA was less aggressive last night; he was just hounded hard, and in a new way. The double-team scheme the Rockets ran on LMA last night was really clever; instead of the double guy being the guy guarding the entry passer to LMA, they had the guy guarding the far-side spot-up shooter run cross court to double LMA and close off the key when he goes right. It leaves the left/baseline open, but LMA still isn't comfortable going left yet.

Until he can go quicker to the hoop (which he did a couple times successfully in the 3rd, starting his move immediately on catching the ball) or go left more, opposing defenses will have good luck against him.

In all honesty, except for some Ruben Patterson type mistakes and over-enthusiasm, I though Crash played great last night. He and Roy had a good two-man game going in the 3rd.

This.

 

[BBert]

At the same time, we had no cutters. Lamarcus would get the ball and nobody cut through the paint. Everybody just stood around and watched. Nobody else was making Houston guard them. So the double team is easy when all your guys just sit there, watch, jack 3 pointers and miss. We made the game easy for Houston.

And this.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

At the same time, we had no cutters. Lamarcus would get the ball and nobody cut through the paint. Everybody just stood around and watched. Nobody else was making Houston guard them. So the double team is easy when all your guys just sit there, watch, jack 3 pointers and miss. We made the game easy for Houston.

Totally agree; we also need to see LMA cutting and catching the ball in the key for faster shots. Camby at the top of the key throwing lobs and bullet passes to the cutting men would be nice.

 

[McNicholicious]

I don't think it is wallace's fault. We are just struggling to integrate all of these guys into our offense. We need to go back to what has been working, feed Aldridge the ball and let him do his thing. It will be nice for Aldridge to play less minutes, but we need to remember to work the offense through him a bit.

 

[hasoos]

I don't think it is wallace's fault. We are just struggling to integrate all of these guys into our offense. We need to go back to what has been working, feed Aldridge the ball and let him do his thing. It will be nice for Aldridge to play less minutes, but we need to remember to work the offense through him a bit.

Oh I think everybody remembers that, but the current team. They have got away from what made them successful.

 

[Ed O]

First of all: Welcome, Steelblazer!

Secondly: I don't think that Wallace is to blame for the team losing.

I think that the team's utter lack of size is a bigger issue. It's forcing Aldridge into playing lots of minutes, given that he and Camby are the only big guys on the team. While Wallace can (and should) play some power forward, not having a reliable third big guy is REALLY hurting this team.

I'm giving Cho the benefit of the doubt so far, but I can't believe we haven't added a decent big all year... and I don't think Collins is in that area code, either.

Ed O.

 

[MickZagger]

Our help defense was awful last night. The Rockets guards and wings were running a clinic on how to score in the paint against us. We gave Kevin Martin way too much space. Then you had Scola's greasy-ass pulling his typical old man YMCA routine with up-and-unders and silky jumpers.

Houston played like they wanted it.

 

[Steelblazer]

Thanks for the welcomes all!

Wallace can be devastating on the wing and spot PF minutes with how aggressive he is. And although we have the potential to really let loose and play some small ball in spells, I wish we could parlay some of those wings we seem to have an excess of now into a serviceable big. Maybe Greg's knees will decide enough is enough and come back strong...

 

[Steelblazer]

Hey, I'd take Scola's greasy ass as a backup big.

 

[McNicholicious]

They just said that Wallace would have started tonight if Rudy was able to go, but because he isn't playing tonight they want scoring off the bench. Look for Wallace to be in the starting line up against the Bobcats.

 

[STOMP]

I think that the team's utter lack of size is a bigger issue. It's forcing Aldridge into playing lots of minutes, given that he and Camby are the only big guys on the team. While Wallace can (and should) play some power forward, not having a reliable third big guy is REALLY hurting this team.

Atlanta and Houston have undersized starting lineups and only one marginal Big coming off the bench each. I thought it was their guards shooting the lights out while Portland was clanking from the outside that largely lost those games

STOMP

 

[TripTango]

well theres no time to mold. losing home games to houston and atlanta more or less ended our season

Never gets old -- love it! Is anyone keeping a tally?