- 497
- 91
This might sound crazy but IMO OKC is easier to guard then GS. The way they played in the halfcourt today plays right into the hands of the Clippers. With GS, you have to defend against Steph as soon as he pasts halfcourt and hedge hard on screens, which strechs out the defense and alows the good passing bigs like Lee and Green to find the open guy (a slashing Iggy, the other big in the paint or Klay in the corner) from the top of the key when they get the ball from Curry after the pick. That is tough to defend for 48 mins.
OKC is so iso centric, its like KD and Russell just take turns shooting, while the other just stand and watch. This allows the Clippers to have ten eyes on the guy with the ball and all in position to help. Rebounding is easier too because of this, as you arent scrambled by lots of ball and player movement.
Give Russell a slight cease to the lane and he is taking it almost everytime, regard of who how many ppl he has to go through. That results in crazy drives to the basket, which alot of times end in a TO or wild attempt at the rim. He'll score his far share of points doing that like he did today, but that's a win on defense for the Clips and today was a perfect example.
Keeping my fingers cross that this continues for the rest of the series as CP3 shooting like Ray from deep will not
Now lets get game 2.
OKC is so iso centric, its like KD and Russell just take turns shooting, while the other just stand and watch. This allows the Clippers to have ten eyes on the guy with the ball and all in position to help. Rebounding is easier too because of this, as you arent scrambled by lots of ball and player movement.
Give Russell a slight cease to the lane and he is taking it almost everytime, regard of who how many ppl he has to go through. That results in crazy drives to the basket, which alot of times end in a TO or wild attempt at the rim. He'll score his far share of points doing that like he did today, but that's a win on defense for the Clips and today was a perfect example.
Keeping my fingers cross that this continues for the rest of the series as CP3 shooting like Ray from deep will not
Now lets get game 2.