I'm glad I wasn't imagining "Oh man, Precious is playing really well."
Knicks burned Cade multiple times weakside (and one time he was getting burned and they threw the ball away).
No Hart means no "hiding" Duren on Hart and starting with Tobias on KAT which is one of the things I was curious to see for the playoffs.
Mikal cannot contain Cade (see: The Games in MSG) so I think it's gonna be OG on Cade, which means no postups for him - maybe you let Ausar face up once or twice vs Brunson to see if that can be poked at?
Teams overplaying Beasley on the perimeter but feels like the Pistons aren't leveraging that - Stew fake DHOs, just attacking with the ball as the defense anticipates Beasley flying around screens, etc.
I felt like I was WAY overdoing the Precious love in the notes but it was like "this man just keeps doing things for them"
I am TERRIFIED of the Pistons off the ball defense come playoffs when teams are really scheming and strategizing to capitalize teams weaknesses. Cade + Schroder in particular.
That's a good point with OG on Cade taking that aspect of his game away, maybe more of those early actions to try and force the switches???....I would definitely go to some Ausar post ups on Brunson BUT he has to be careful of Brunson taking charges on him and getting him in foul trouble that way
That's a good point, you should be able to use Beasley "shooting gravity" to get some DHO keeps and off ball slips to get easy buckets (maybe "saving it" for the playoffs???)
Fun, exciting game to watch!! One thing I was thinking while watching the game was how well Ron played in such a big game and how young he is. I looked it up and he is the same age or younger than 9 out of the top 20 players in this years top 20 draft as per Tankathon. Hopefully he continues to grow!
I'm glad I wasn't imagining "Oh man, Precious is playing really well."
Knicks burned Cade multiple times weakside (and one time he was getting burned and they threw the ball away).
No Hart means no "hiding" Duren on Hart and starting with Tobias on KAT which is one of the things I was curious to see for the playoffs.
Mikal cannot contain Cade (see: The Games in MSG) so I think it's gonna be OG on Cade, which means no postups for him - maybe you let Ausar face up once or twice vs Brunson to see if that can be poked at?
Teams overplaying Beasley on the perimeter but feels like the Pistons aren't leveraging that - Stew fake DHOs, just attacking with the ball as the defense anticipates Beasley flying around screens, etc.
I felt like I was WAY overdoing the Precious love in the notes but it was like "this man just keeps doing things for them"
I am TERRIFIED of the Pistons off the ball defense come playoffs when teams are really scheming and strategizing to capitalize teams weaknesses. Cade + Schroder in particular.
That's a good point with OG on Cade taking that aspect of his game away, maybe more of those early actions to try and force the switches???....I would definitely go to some Ausar post ups on Brunson BUT he has to be careful of Brunson taking charges on him and getting him in foul trouble that way
That's a good point, you should be able to use Beasley "shooting gravity" to get some DHO keeps and off ball slips to get easy buckets (maybe "saving it" for the playoffs???)
Yeah Precious doesn't give them what Mitchell Robinson does, and it's usually one or the other who gets run, but he was doing a lot of good stuff.
Fun, exciting game to watch!! One thing I was thinking while watching the game was how well Ron played in such a big game and how young he is. I looked it up and he is the same age or younger than 9 out of the top 20 players in this years top 20 draft as per Tankathon. Hopefully he continues to grow!
And how about him getting significantly more minutes than Fontecchio......sign of the potential playoff rotation????