rjfan
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I'm doubting that Conley actually gonna be the Murray stopper on D, and the way that the Nuggets are calling screen after screen to take O'Neale out of his front in exchange of Mitchell, Ingles, Clarkson, Niang and Conley kinda suggets me that they're more than happy with him beating everyone of that group out of the dribble. Murray success doing that also gets as a hint.
That being said, i don't think that cutting Conley out of the rotation is the right call to the way the Nuggets adjusted their defense, and how i think is the better defensive change.
They're packing their paint to take out our free drives and the Gobert pnr with basically everyone attacking Porter and Jokic (both by cutting Porter minutes, playing Grant more and making him close more inside than outside) and giving the space for who in hell be on the perimeter to shoot, while also giving bigger pressure on the ball handler to shoot of the dribble and/or make the right pass. Conley been the only guy out of Mitchell that consistently find his shot off ball, and made shots on drives or went to the line, and also took the right passes to Gobert and back to the perimeter, something that both Ingles and Clarkson weren't able to do (at least consistently), while not being better defenders than Conley, so yeah, he's clearly ahead of these two on earn his playing time there.
On defense, the strategy of play 2 on 2 with O'Neale and Gobert on Murray and Jokic ain't working. They're finding ways to get Murray out of O'Neale, and when Royce gets to avoid the switch, they're making us pay with Joker hability not only to make threes, but of taking whatever we give when Gobert is pulled out of the rim, both in lack of rim protection or rebounding. My best answer is release the Morgan, play less of Ingles, Clarkson and especially Niang when they're not earning their time on the floor on offense (cause sincerely at this point are we really believing they'll earn it on defense ?), use his defensive skills to be better equiped to switch, to play 3 on 2 defense on Murray and Jokic two men game (and isolating the worse off ball Nuggets player on the floor out of them) and not be so damn small and unathletic down there on the boards.
Malone made his adjustments to what Snyder called the Jazz to do to get a 3-1 lead. With game 7 on tuesday, If we run the same thing, we better hope that O'Neale, Clarkson, Ingles and Niang be hot all game long from downtown, and or insane nights from Mitchell and Conley, and that if it be enough, or they could even pack up their things before the game.
That being said, i don't think that cutting Conley out of the rotation is the right call to the way the Nuggets adjusted their defense, and how i think is the better defensive change.
They're packing their paint to take out our free drives and the Gobert pnr with basically everyone attacking Porter and Jokic (both by cutting Porter minutes, playing Grant more and making him close more inside than outside) and giving the space for who in hell be on the perimeter to shoot, while also giving bigger pressure on the ball handler to shoot of the dribble and/or make the right pass. Conley been the only guy out of Mitchell that consistently find his shot off ball, and made shots on drives or went to the line, and also took the right passes to Gobert and back to the perimeter, something that both Ingles and Clarkson weren't able to do (at least consistently), while not being better defenders than Conley, so yeah, he's clearly ahead of these two on earn his playing time there.
On defense, the strategy of play 2 on 2 with O'Neale and Gobert on Murray and Jokic ain't working. They're finding ways to get Murray out of O'Neale, and when Royce gets to avoid the switch, they're making us pay with Joker hability not only to make threes, but of taking whatever we give when Gobert is pulled out of the rim, both in lack of rim protection or rebounding. My best answer is release the Morgan, play less of Ingles, Clarkson and especially Niang when they're not earning their time on the floor on offense (cause sincerely at this point are we really believing they'll earn it on defense ?), use his defensive skills to be better equiped to switch, to play 3 on 2 defense on Murray and Jokic two men game (and isolating the worse off ball Nuggets player on the floor out of them) and not be so damn small and unathletic down there on the boards.
Malone made his adjustments to what Snyder called the Jazz to do to get a 3-1 lead. With game 7 on tuesday, If we run the same thing, we better hope that O'Neale, Clarkson, Ingles and Niang be hot all game long from downtown, and or insane nights from Mitchell and Conley, and that if it be enough, or they could even pack up their things before the game.
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