Lillard: What's the Solution?

[Orion Bailey]

Solution. Rest and recorvery from injuries. IT was a great ride. Cant wait for a Healthy team next year!!!!!

 

[Hoopguru]

When Dame dribbles up the court and Leonard (or Kanter) comes up to set the high pick and roll, GS traps or blitzes Dame.

To this, STOP SETTING THE FUCKING HIGH PICK!

You have to mix it up! But EVERY SINGLE TIME the high pick is set! WTF?

Try a screen with the forwards, with CJ. Try setting picks down low or out on a wing, letting Dame take his man one on one and keeping an eye out on rolling players away from the ball.

The predictability is what is frustrating! It becomes a coaching problem! Just listening now to Stotts (post game interview).....bad answers. He doesn’t have answers.

Right on...Its so predictable Dame slowly bring it up, and dribbling way to much. With traps and basically zone defense in the NBA now you must push the ball. Look at what Green did, he pushed every freaked time and created.

 

[Labinot41]

There is no solution for Lillard himself, the only solution is better teammates. An former NBA Player should know it

 

[Hoopguru]

When a defense is selling out to stop one player using doubles, triples, traps, jumping screens, and hedging to that players side of the floor, the only way to defeat that defense is for the other players to punish it by scoring consistently. CJ can't do it; Mo and Aminu can't do it'; Kanter, Meyers, and Zach can't do it. Hood made a good stab at it but he can't do it

Portland needs more talent and they have to recognize something critical: teams get a two-fer for using that defense on Dame: one is that they take out the best and most efficient scorer Portland has; the bonus is they shut down the only guy who can consistently run the Blazer offense, such as it is

Portland is vulnerable when a 6'2 guard is their #1 scorer and #1 playmaker/facilitator. Dame is by far the best player, but he has limitations and Portland's reliance on him leaves them a shipwreck when a good defensive team takes Dame out of the flow

what Portland needs is another player, preferably a wing, as talented as Dame so an opponent can't sell out to stop Dame. CJ isn't close to being that player, and of course, getting a player like that is a real long shot

The Warriors couldn't use that defense if Portland had Kawhi or Paul George to pair with Dame. But those ships have sailed, if they were ever even close to port

Good comments, but I think if they were to push the ball up quickly and get motion going there would be more creating and less chance of trapping and zoning the p&r.
Jake is the one guy that can move well without the ball and it's disappointing he hasn't been given a chance.

 

[GDiama]

 

[Labinot41]

Stotts should be fired for playing Aminu and Harkless together. I would understand it if they were elite defenders, but they aren't. They are liabilitys on both ends and stotts still cant see it

 

[Aussie Blazer!]

Since the Blazers love small guards, any chance we go really crazy next year and do some trade to get Isaiah Thomas to replace Curry? His coming back from an injury and can torment teams on offense

 

[Blazers Roy]

If Olshey was running the Warriors, they would still have Mark Jackson as coach because why not have stability?

 

[stampedehero]

When Dame dribbles up the court and Leonard (or Kanter) comes up to set the high pick and roll, GS traps or blitzes Dame.

To this, STOP SETTING THE FUCKING HIGH PICK!

You have to mix it up! But EVERY SINGLE TIME the high pick is set! WTF?

Try a screen with the forwards, with CJ. Try setting picks down low or out on a wing, letting Dame take his man one on one and keeping an eye out on rolling players away from the ball.

The predictability is what is frustrating! It becomes a coaching problem! Just listening now to Stotts (post game interview).....bad answers. He doesn’t have answers.

You have more insight that the guys who get paid to be the coaches on this team..