Nate Pissed about D

[MIXUM]

keep blaming nate.....keep hating on quick....keep saying im a trolll....


most will have the travis outlaw look on their face come mid april..... 'what happened deer in headlights look"


after we lose to the knicks...maybe more of you will realize we r in trouble. maybe if we are the 9th seed by the break....it will be a much needed wake up call after our 4 game lead over utah is down to 2.


GO SERGIO!!!! GO OUTLAW!!!!! GO KP....EVERYTHINGS FINE!!!!

 

[Tince]

keep blaming nate.....keep hating on quick....keep saying im a trolll....

no................no..................ok

 

[Nikolokolus]

Watching the Spurs-Celtics game, San Antonio is like a defensive clinic on the pick on the roll. Parker or Ginobili do their best to fight through and go above the pick rather than fall behind.
Then you have guys like Bonner or Thomas showing on the pick and leaving just enough time until Parker and Ginobili get back on their man.
Then if the dribbler somehow gets to the hoop, Duncan is always right there to meet him in front of the rim. If the ball is passed to the roller, someone is always rotating over.

But it all starts with guards being able to fight through screens and able to recover on their man, which we have a lot of trouble doing.

Honestly what you are describing is Nate's whole notion of "staying connected" The man knows defense, but I'm increasingly of the opinion that unless you have one or two players on the floor who are able to understand the entire defensive scheme and are then able to communicate with everybody else (calling out rotations, directing traffic, etc.) then it just isn't going to click ... not for awhile anyway.

Think about it, are the Spurs loaded with loads of hyper-athletic guys that are somehow magically more physically capable of of fighting through screens and rotating over more quickly than the Blazers? Not so much, they're pretty "old" and aside from Ginobli and Parker I wouldn't characterize that team as anything more than average physically.

They are successful, because they can all read and react to whatever an offense throws at them, and that only comes from long years of experience and a willingness to sacrifice energy at the defensive end.

I love what KP has been able to do in three short years (it's nothing short of miraculous in some respects) but this roster is overloaded with offensive players and woefully deficient in veterans and defensive specialists, some modest changes are in order and the time is now IMO

 

[yenniedn]

keep blaming nate.....keep hating on quick....keep saying im a trolll....


most will have the travis outlaw look on their face come mid april..... 'what happened deer in headlights look"


after we lose to the knicks...maybe more of you will realize we r in trouble. maybe if we are the 9th seed by the break....it will be a much needed wake up call after our 4 game lead over utah is down to 2.


GO SERGIO!!!! GO OUTLAW!!!!! GO KP....EVERYTHINGS FINE!!!!

It's like a recording that just won't/can't get deleted.

edit: actually, I just found the perfect parallel for Mixter . . . any of you guys gets those insanely annoying "THIS is the second notice that the extended warranty on your vehicle has expired . . ." telemarketing calls? I get them like 4x/day and those fucks are trained to hang up on you if you press a key in order to get someone live to yell at. Those calls and these posts are one and the same.

no................no..................ok

That's funny shit.

 

[Uther TheGardener]

i think Kp and Nate arent seeing eye to eye....I can see KP getting frusturated at nate's of gear his "schemes" to the personal on the team why do so few plays go threw aldridge and oden?

whats up with nate letting outlaw chuck? why play batum for so little?

and my #1 top thing that Nate does that drives me nutz: When he takes out people that are hot....

why the heck are you going to take out someone that is helping the team win? be in hot defensively or offensively?

 

[alex42083]

I love what KP has been able to do in three short years (it's nothing short of miraculous in some respects) but this roster is overloaded with offensive players and woefully deficient in veterans and defensive specialists, some modest changes are in order and the time is now IMO

I agree. We don't need something drastic here, but having a veteran or two here that's been through the grind of knowing what it takes would help a bit ... if the goal this season is to make the playoffs.
We've let way too many teams shoot 50 percent or better in the first half. It's not our players' faults, some of them are just way too young and are still learning the NBA game. They can get picked apart easily.

Sergio is a mediocre team and on-ball defender. Nicolas, G.O., Jerryd, Rudy -- they're all still learning the NBA game.
Brandon's a good defender when he wants to focus there, LaMarcus I think is one of our best defenders. And unfortunately because we're mediocre defensively, Joel is left out on an island way too much.

Unfortunately, there's no quick fix to this. We can bring in someone, but our core guys just need to learn the game through experience.

 

[gatorpops]

Brian, you made some good points in your earlier post, and I agree with you that we're not that far apart in our opinions of the Blazers.

I'm sure you read the explanation that our pace is so low because our offensive rebound rate is high and we rarely fast break.

I'd be curious to see what our record is when our pace is significantly higher than normal.

I too would like to know.

It seems to this observer that pace is some what of a problem. When Sergio is able to get the pace quickened and the passing gets quickened the teams begins to score in bunches and the defense gets better and steals become better for fast breaks.

Sergio and Rudy are players like that. They can't play well in a slower pace. Roy does but if it is for long stretches he and the team become very predictable.

On the defensive side this team feeds off the offensive flow and become quicker over all.

g

 

[PapaG]

We are rated high on that chart mainly because we are near the top (#5) in turnover ratio, #2 in rebound rate and #1 overall in offensive rebound rate.

We are also dead last in pace factor.

Our solid rebounding is really skewing the numbers making us statistically seem like a better offensive team than we are on the court.

Well, if pace is an issue for skewing those stats, shouldn't the team being #5 in the NBA in point differential (+3.5) also be adjusted according to pace?

 

[Ed O]

Well, if pace is an issue for skewing those stats, shouldn't the team being #5 in the NBA in point differential (+3.5) also be adjusted according to pace?

I think so. It was that logic that led me to argue that the Blazers' team from 05-06 was one of the worst of this decade. They finished with the worst record in the NBA at -8.9 point differential (second-to-worst was the Knicks, with -6.3) and had the third-lowest Pace in the NBA.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2006.html

*shiver*

Our +3.5 point differential is more impressive given our slow Pace than it would be if we played a more up-tempo game.

Ed O.