Comments on: STAY ON THE SHOOTERS! – Part 4

By: Marcus Thompson

Marcus Thompson — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:29:05 +0000

It is partly the zone defense. They just don’t have it down tight. The best-executed zone defenses don’t leave guys THAT wide open. The problem is, in the zone or not, the Warriors lack discipline on defense. They lose focus, they gamble, they get lost in the shuffle. All of it leaves someone wide-open. Nellie, or any coach, doesn’t really like face guarding (remember, it took him until the final play to have Barnes face guard Ray Allen) because it opens up penetration. Unless you are like the Pistons and have several solid man-to-man defenders, you rely on help defense and rotations. Face-guarding someone leaves a hole in the rotation, unless you run like a box-and-one. Ideally, Nellie would like for the players to get the rotation down, that way, there won’t be guys that wide open. Sure, there’ll be open looks. But a guy will know ‘Let me not drift too far. I have a noted shooter in my zone.’

By: Marcus Thompson

Marcus Thompson — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:19:54 +0000

What do I have against Sarunas? Just that he’s slow and he can’t create. PGs need to create. But I agree, he has been solid. He has to make that free throw, though.

By: commish

commish — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:23:04 +0000

Hey Marucs, with the Forum shut down, are you going to take some questions (as opposed to rants) from the Warrior faithful? If so, why doesn’t Nellie and the coaching staff make the players D-up against the outside shooters? Every game some no name or known name goes off from the parimeter. Is that because of the zone defense Nellie prefers? Like you, I was throwing up my hands which is more than any Warrior defender was doing when Gordon took his shot.

By: jim

jim — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:59:22 +0000

What do you have against Sarunas? He plays with energy and helped bring the W’s back into this game. Besides, his passes are intelligent and well executed and he is finding his place on the floor. I have liked what I have seen from him in the last two games.

By: beau

beau — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:38:29 +0000

and watching it on tv, you get the angle from directly behind gordon and when he put that 3 up, it looked dead on. by the grace of his extra adrenaline, they escaped.