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Ok, you are coaching the Jazz. How do you stop Parker/Gino from abusing Jefferson on PnR?

I said this in another thread, but one big way that Jefferson can help us in this series is to get their already-thin frontline into foul trouble.

Dear Al,
Please use your beautiful jukes to get your defender in the air, then create contact so as to draw a foul. The second that two of their guys are saddled with any kind of foul trouble, they set screens a little more hesitantly and roll to the basket a bit more cautiously. This is very important.

thanks,
Jazzfanz.
 
NAOS said:
I said this in another thread, but one big way that Jefferson can help us in this series is to get their already-thin frontline into foul trouble.

Dear Al,
Please use your beautiful jukes to get your defender in the air, then create contact so as to draw a foul. The second that two of their guys are saddled with any kind of foul trouble, they set screens a little more hesitantly and roll to the basket a bit more cautiously. This is very important.

thanks,
Jazzfanz.
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Lets just assume that Jefferson is what he is. That he doesn't have another gear on defense. That he wont suddenly decide to start drswing contact.

He's been in the league 7-8 years now, don't expect him to suddenly morph his game.
 
Play a match-up or 3:2 zone. Make Parker beat you with long jumpers.

If we're brave we could try to double Parker as soon as he crosses mid-court, but it depends on how many other Spurs players on the floor can score.

Or maybe we put Gordon Hayward on Parker, assuming he can chase Parker around, and put Harris on Leonard. The Bulls used to put Jordan or Ron Harper on Stockton to try to limit his space to move.
 
How? Send Bell in to throw an elbow to Manu's face ala MWP. Manu would hopefully miss the series and Bell would too after being suspended. Win win.
 
Edgewriter said:
Favors on Duncan = Flop, Favors his bench with foul trouble three pays in.

Have Al switch to the other "big" (splitter, whatever) only when Duncan goes up for the PNR. Duncan is slow now. Al can handle him since he rarely fouls anyone.
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to foul someone you actually have to play on the defense end.;
since Al rarely plays defense he rarely fouls
 
jazzfan1971 said:
Lets just assume that Jefferson is what he is. That he doesn't have another gear on defense. That he wont suddenly decide to start drswing contact.

He's been in the league 7-8 years now, don't expect him to suddenly morph his game.
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I dunno....
Jefferson doesn't actually have playoff experience, and I think he could be convinced that we need him to pull a special ace out of the sleeve. If what we need to win THIS SERIES is for him to FOCUS on PnR defense (ala phoenix game) and DRAW FOULS, then draw up the war plan. Get him excited. This is new basketball for him, and he's feeling it.
 
NAOS said:
I dunno....
Jefferson doesn't actually have playoff experience, and I think he could be convinced that we need him to pull a special ace out of the sleeve. If what we need to win THIS SERIES is for him to FOCUS on PnR defense (ala phoenix game) and DRAW FOULS, then draw up the war plan. Get him excited. This is new basketball for him, and he's feeling it.
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This.
 
jazzfan1971 said:
Lets just assume that Jefferson is what he is. That he doesn't have another gear on defense. That he wont suddenly decide to start drswing contact.

He's been in the league 7-8 years now, don't expect him to suddenly morph his game.
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.....you got that right...you sure got that right!
 
@ESPNStatsInfo: The #Spurs scored 48 points from inside 5 feet in their win Sun, the most by any team in a game in the last 2 postseasons

I didn't get to watch the game. But, was this due to Jefferson's inability to guard the PnR? Or was it just the whole team sucking?
 
jazzfan1971 said:
@ESPNStatsInfo: The #Spurs scored 48 points from inside 5 feet in their win Sun, the most by any team in a game in the last 2 postseasons

I didn't get to watch the game. But, was this due to Jefferson's inability to guard the PnR? Or was it just the whole team sucking?
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It was basically all on Jefferson. He sucks and it is very frustrating. Never runs the floor or plays defense. Screws over the whole team.
 
It's hard to believe it's all Jefferson, but that's what one missed/slow rotation can do to a team.
 
jazzfan1971 said:
We've seen this weakness out of Jefferson's game all year. A fast guard on the other team sets up in a PnR with Jefferson's man and simply comes off a screen and goes all the way to the rim shooting over the 6'10" Jefferson like he isn't even there.

It's basically a layup drill for the other team.

I have no doubt we'll see a heavy dose of that in the Spurs matchup. We're also probably going to see a ton of zone defense as that kills us as well.

So, budding coaches, how do you change the Jazz defense to stop the PnR?

Switching probably wont help. Just make it worse.
Playing a zone might help a bit, but, then we'll get torched from outside due to a very good 3pt shooting team in the Spurs.
Rotating over a 3rd player will help some, but, it'll open up corner 3s which will really hurt as the Spurs will exploit any weakness.

My best solution is to just go under on the screens. Just dare Parker and Manu to shoot 3s. Try to get out on the break on any misses and just out run them. In fact, out running them will be key to beating their zone as well.

But, if you have a better solution I'd be very interested.
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I know this might be a bit gimicky, but I would try and get them deeper into the shot clock and use some of our youth by going full court press. You can hide Al and play some to Favors strenghts. Would have to go deeper into the depth chart.
 
We did the same thing we did with Nash.

We need to do something between what Kanter and Jefferson do. Kanter edges way to hard and deep and lets everyone go right past him, Al gives too much space and lets Parker execute his floater. And in the event that Jefferson is able to close on Parker, everyone else has to rotate on the perimeter and pray the Spurs have a below average shooting day.

They aren't going to put Favors in the pick n roll, they are just going to try and isolate him on the 3pt line and swing it to his man when if he over helps.
 
Aside from not playing Al at all, the Jazz need to develop a consistent habit of forcing baseline every time.

The Jazz regularly abused the Lakers in the late 90's, winning 8 out of 9 playoff games, but in Phil Jackson's first year in LA the Lakers won 3/4 with essentially the same personel. While the triangle offense made a huge difference offensively, the defensive difference between the Del Harris and Phil Jackson coached Lakers teams is Phil always has a consistent gameplan for defending screen-roll - which is to keep the PG out of the middle of the floor by forcing the pick&roll baseline every time.

By forcing baseline with your bigman protecting the rim and picking up the dive man from the weakside - you limit the PG to essentially 3 options (pullup jumper from the baseline, hit the screener stepping back at the elbow, or if he's really good he can try to thread the needed crosscourt to a shooter outside the 3pt line). If you've got active length, defensively you can smother him at times. If you don't, you'll still give up some quality looks, but the key is the consistency. Defensively, you know where he's going to be at all times so he's not breaking down your defense like Parker does when he gets into the lane. The principle rotation is from the weakside to the screener at the elbow - instead of scrambling to cover the entire court when the Spurs start swinging the ball around the horn. Additionally, you're forcing either the PG and screener to settle for jumpshots rather than drive or roll to the rim.

It's probably too late in the season to try such a drastic shift in strategy, but longterm going forward - especially if Al remains on the team - I would consider this strategy because you have nice length with Favors and Hayward at the 2, Millsap has the foot speed to rotate and it helps cover Al's limitations by funneling instead of forcing him to read&react.
 
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