Lillard in a slump!

[stampedehero]

LOL! Really, I just scanned my DVR and counted 6 times in the first quarter alone Dame was outside the 3pt line looking to get around his defender when a second defender would step up. 6 times he was double teams outside the 3pt line in the 1st quarter. thats not smothering? Hell of alot more smothering than he saw when he was lights out earlier in the season.
Not saying Dame is playing top game. He is def. slumping, but lets give some credit to other teams focusing more on him now?

>> When that happens he needs to Pass......

 

[MarAzul]

LOL! Really, I just scanned my DVR and counted 6 times in the first quarter alone Dame was outside the 3pt line looking to get around his defender when a second defender would step up. 6 times he was double teams outside the 3pt line in the 1st quarter. thats not smothering? Hell of alot more smothering than he saw when he was lights out earlier in the season.
Not saying Dame is playing top game. He is def. slumping, but lets give some credit to other teams focusing more on him now?

I had a coach years ago that had a theory on how to defend against top guards. I won't say PGs because the term had not been invented at that time yet. As it turned out, I did not end up getting a chance to play much for this coach, but that was another story. So I ended up Coaching an Armed Services team and scouting games of the opposition teams this coach would face.

The theory he had about guards and how to defend them was rather simple and logical. You divide the by the number of assists they create by number of shots they miss and if the result is less than one, you pressure the guard hard when he is handling the ball. If the result is greater than one, then you defend the guard when handling the ball in a normal one on one way but attempt to pressure him to go where he does not intend to go, if you have scouted the tendencies. The key here is to have the other players take away his passing lane since his preference is to pass for the assist rather than shoot. When scouting then you needed to identify the passing lanes that could be closed and still have defensive integrity. Not all that easy.

Damian is easy to set a defensive plan to stop, his plan is to shoot. If he does pass, it usually is to Lamarcus for a long shot or to Wes for a long ball. And there are several player on the team he does not pass to at all. So go ahead and double team him perhaps even triple and take your chances. You shut down the prime ball handler and the next to top scorer with double team, this will normally produce a win.
It is much more difficult to plan a successful defense against the guard that comes in over 1.2 in this formula.
Rod Strickland and Dave Twardzik were the only Blazers to do it. John Stockton and Magic Johnson were the best in the NBA history. (TP was a bit over 1)

 

[MarAzul]

One more thought on Dave Twardzik. Ramsay had him come in and run the offense when resting Walton who was the hub of the offense normally. When he sat then DT would run his assist
generating game and that made the Champs real hard to defend, two games on the opposite ends of the basketball spectrum. Of course, both were on the floor when Ramsay wanted to scramble the look, very effectively.

 

[illmatic99]

Is he contractually obligated to wear the shoes?

 

[riverman]

Face it folks! It took two years and change but Lillard has finally hit the rookie wall! Now he'll get a chance to snap out of it!

 

[riverman]

Is he contractually obligated to wear the shoes?

Shoes haven't missed a 3pt shot yet

 

[Boise Blazer]

 

[riverman]

Although his midrange shot was money against the Jazz

 

[S550]

He'll be alright. I will say it is quite unusual for a player on the level of Dame to have this long of a drought but I wonder if the Currys, CP3s, etc had any long slump like this any point of their careers

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

ESPN radio sports updates keeps playing a clip of Tim Legler saying that he thinks Lillard is the best PG in the league.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Yikes: 2-30

His outside shot is broken.

The only way out of that slump is to keep shooting.

 

[S550]

You can pretty much say now that a quarter of the season Lillard has been in a slump..

That's a lot of games. Damn what a mighty fall..

 

[magnifier661]

Lillard is going to go 13/20 for 35 against Dallas.

 

[Blazinaway]

Yikes: 2-30

His outside shot is broken.

The only way out of that slump is to keep shooting.

and do what he used to do, spend extra time in the gym and fix that shot!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I've mentioned it before but Lillard has just gone from wearing two splints on his shooting hand to one splint. The one splint must be enough to alter his shot. I wonder how his finger is healing and how soon he will be to not needing it?

 

[blue32]

Dude needs to burn those shoes.

 

[Blazinaway]

I've mentioned it before but Lillard has just gone from wearing two splints on his shooting hand to one splint. The one splint must be enough to alter his shot. I wonder how his finger is healing and how soon he will be to not needing it?

maybe go back to the two splints until he can have both off? his shooting is simply awful with only one!