Guybrush wrote:
martin wrote:
Guybrush wrote:What's happening with our team in the second half?! We actually used to have good finishes until that Lakers game.
Oh, and one more thing...I just can't believe it that one Hedo Turkoglu had a triple-double against us.
of course you can't believe, he's a turk 1 you don't like them, do you, after this summer?
seriously if anyone can get anything ridiculous it's only against us.
Well, if you wanna go back to history, go even further and you will see that we were in war with them for quite some time.
So, that's not the point, and even though, Hedo speaks Serbian and he's a very good friend with Divac and Stojakovic, those should be pluses.
The point is that now he's an average player, even that is questionable, and he managed to get a triple-double against us. Smart needs to think of something, I have a feeling that he's not rotating players in a good way again.
His first half rotations looked good. But I do not think they adjusted well in the second half. It is like they follow the game plan going in well, but when the defense adjusts to the offense, they need to adjust the offense accordingly too. That is were they fall apart. It is when the oposing defense changes strategy, they are not capable of adjusting their offense to make them pay in other ways. Then that leads to turnovers, which leads to fastback points and/or fouls and they get us in transition. It throws the game out of wack.
The need to be able to adjust. If they are staying home on the shooters, then throw it down to the low block. If they change how the are playing pick and roll defense, then run something else. The problem was we were gettting into the driving lanes and kicking out to open shooters in the first half, then in the second Orlando limited the lanes, and the help defense came from the low block, so the shooters weren't open. They took contested shoots and much harder shoots. The only one who could create shoots from himself was Ellis, and he was having trouble driving because the help that came from the low post, and when he dumped it off to Lou, that often resulted in a block, or turnover. And because most of the shots were perimeter, we were pretty much one and done. They need to learn how to run better low block plays were you pass it in on the post, and run some plays from there. Or even hight post plays were you clear a side for two players and then run some plays like they did last year. Or even pushing the ball off of makes and misses and speeding up the tempo so the other team doesn't have time to setup their defense. It is adjusting to the different matchups and strategies that they need to get better at. It is a work in progress. I like what I saw for the first 2 quaters.
: 2010 - 2011