lawdog1
Supporter
- 60,011
- 72,374
Have my eye on caspi for us once he gets healthy.
Isn't he out for like 6 weeks?
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Have my eye on caspi for us once he gets healthy.
Yup.Isn't he out for like 6 weeks?
Yup.
At the risk of sounding like a doc rivers apologist, in my opinion our struggles with GSW have very little to do with Doc.dont know what to expect from this team for the last part of the season and the playoffs. i just hope we stay healthy and give whoever we play hell.
my dreams of beating gsw are almost gone. not due to our roster but due to the gameplan or lack thereof regarding the matchup. i just dont think doc has a clue about what to do vs. gsw.
you would think that he would know to slow the game down and value every possession. dont turn the ball over, take good shots, etc etc. but...he doesnt.
shameful that i, personally have done a 180 on both blake and doc. blakes bball iQ is just absent at times, doc has purely been given too much credit for his winning year(s) in boston. IMO
At the risk of sounding like a doc rivers apologist, in my opinion our struggles with GSW have very little to do with Doc.
There's a reason why this team is like 184-33 over the past three seasons. I mean sure it looks like doc doesn't have a clue against gsw, but the entire league doesn't. Schematically, it's really tough to gameplan for GSW because nothing you draw up works with any kind of efficiency because they switch everything, which blows up whatever you were trying to do. Most teams only switch 3/4, or 1/2, but gsw is switching 1-5 and they rarely have miscommunications in doing so. Switching requires elite level communication, something that few teams can replicate.
If you look at teams in recent memory who've had any kind of tangible success against the warriors, those teams had crazy good one on one players that couldn't be stopped. KD and Russ last year, bron and kyrie in the finals, and even then the cavs had to have some luck or else they would have been ousted in five games. This is why on a much smaller level, even this season, our best players against gsw have been Austin and Jamal, guys who can go 1 on 1 and get their own. They obviously aren't close to being elite at it though, which is why we get smacked.
The Clippers 'guy' in that regard is Blake Griffin. He's the only one w/the size and ability that can counter their switching. This isn't on Doc, this is on him. I still am a blake believer though, and hopefully when we see them in round 2 we can ride him to 6 games or so against them and have some luck swing our way.
See, where I agree with you is that LAC does in fact have the personnel to switch (although it isn't a perfect switching dynamic. CP and JJ aren't ideal in this regard) but switching is tough to implement man, especially over the course of an 82 game season. Breakdowns are going to happen against GSW, especially in the regular season.maybe i do place too much blame on doc. and gsw is a great team. but there are a few things that i feel that should be accomplished schematically against gsw. i have always said that LAC has the personnel to play 5 man switch ball on D vs. gsw. without bogut, alot of their illegal screens arent as good and dont even require switches.
gsw comes down court and runs the same things over and over. you can expect the 3 man weave to get movement, in addition to things like that 3 man pick play similar to a trips WR formation in the NFL. now, there are alot of teams that are still unprepared to stop the stuff that gsw runs. but LAC should not be one of them. LAC is to the point where we/they should lose to gsw because gsw played better and not because there are numerous blown assignments on defensive rotations, un-challenged wide open shots given up, and LAC allowing gsw to run wild and free in a high paced bball game.
those things can be corrected and havent been corrected by doc and staff.
but i am with you 100% or maybe 90%, doc doesnt deserve as much blame as i give him.
Elite level switching (which is what it takes against gsw, if you go the switching route) can't just be thrown in in game 57 of 82 against them in the middle of a 3 or 4 game week. You're going to have breakdowns because of this, no matter how good or bad doc's game planning is.
In regards to our 3 seed hopes. Also have to factor in that Houston has the toughest schedule in the league from here on out:Verified account@bball_ref 6h6 hours ago
Blake Griffin has a PER of 24.0 & BPM of 5.1, both career highs. Since '73, only CP3 & Brand have done that in a season for the@LAClippers
LAC is about to kick off a 16-games-in-26-nights patch of their schedule, but a lot of the contests are super winnable if they get hot
vs HOU - @ MIL @ CHI - vs BOS - @ MIN @ MEM - vs PHI - @ UTA - vs MIL @ DEN - vs CLE - vs NYK @ LAL - vs DAL - vs UTA vs SAC
HOU is tough but a must-win. CHI/MEM SEGABABA are tough. BOS/CLE are both tough but you get off days. Jazz twice but Clips play them well
I'd say 14-2 or 13-3 are what LAC would need in this patch to stay competitive for the 3-seed, and those are at least reasonably in play
Then there are 7 games left spread out over last 2 weeks of the season. Wiz, Suns, Lakers, Mavs, Kings are easy, big games vs Rox/@ Spurs
@RowanKavner
JJ said this is as good as he's seen Blake play. “It’s a cliché, but he has played like he’s on a mission."
Like I've said before, he's not good enough as a shooter to shoot solely long 2's. And that isn't even a knock on him, most are not. But if you're going to go, for example, idk 5/12 on Jumpers, and are gonna miss 7 jumpers, then you midas whale have at least one of those 5 makes be 3's. Furthermore, if you take that example, just turning one of those field goals into a 3 makes that 5/12 more efficient and produces more points.Blake needs to keep letting the 3s fly. 2 - 3 a game for sure and more if he's hitting. Just making himself a threat from out there makes him so much more difficult to deal with.
He's our horse and is hitting a groove at just the right time. Gotta ride him into the playoffs.@FredKatz how about Blake Griffin's last 11 games? 26.2 Points, 8.5 boards, 6.2 assists - and remember when all he did was dunk? He's 10-of-21 from 3.
Welp, the door is still semi open for the 3 seed, but if we lose tonight that door is shut.
This is a real must win game for us. Win this, and the 3 seed is definitely in play. Lose this, and you can forget about it.
The Warriors are not losing the 1 seed though.With Durant out for at least 4 weeks/indefinitely, best scenario is probably to stay at 4/5 and the Spurs gets the #1 seed from the Dubs.
With Durant out for at least 4 weeks/indefinitely, best scenario is probably to stay at 4/5 and the Spurs gets the #1 seed from the Dubs.
The Warriors are not losing the 1 seed though.
The Spurs have the league's most home-heavy remaining schedule, with 14 of their 23 games at the AT&T Center. That includes two home games against the Warriors, who they trail by just three games in the loss column.
In the fight for the 4 seed, the Jazz have a half game lead, but the Clippers have won both head-to-head meetings (with two remaining) and have the easier schedule going forward. The Clippers play 13 of their 23 remaining games at home and 13 against teams below .500. Only three of their remaining games are on the road against a team currently over .500.
The Jazz currently rank third defensively and if they can hold onto that spot, they will have earned it. Of Utah's remaining 22 games, 10 are against top-10 offenses and only four are against bottom-10 offenses.
Don't think Law was referring to their regular season prowess. They're going to win a lot of games. But their make up isn't necessarily ideal for the playoffs especially with no rim protection now that Duncan has retired.right on cue, Kawhi hits the game winner over PG
to be honest I think the exact same thing on almost a yearly basis and mostly because of their age at the beginning of the seasons but they are almost always on top of the West come post season