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Game 3 tactics.

Jingled said:
o_O I'm so confused right now.
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I'll break it down for you: if Crowder is missing all his shots I would rather see Udoh take his minutes as Udoh is a better defender (including help defender) and only takes high percentage shots (tough to get production out of Crowder when he's shooting 16.7% from the field this series).
 
carolinajazz said:
I'd like to be optimistic but we are just over matched by the Rockets. They have shooters who can't be stopped or covered no matter what we do. I see no scenario in which the Rockets shoot a low enough percentage where we can outscore them. We have no defensive scheme in which we can keep them from shooting lights out from 3 point range. They are in the same category as GS which means there hasn't been a defense invented that can keep them from outscoring us big time. I have no answers, do you?
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I actually do have an answer for this situation. Houston is not that much better than Jazz actually. We beat them twice in the regular season. The problem we ran into right now is we are too afraid of foul trouble with Harden. If we have to lose by over 20 points per game, let the foul come. The key problem is Harden, we let him get into the paint freely and does what he wants to do there. That creates open shots for other players. We need to play Jazz basket ball and not Houston basket ball. Use Grayson Allen, get to Harden's body, be aggressive, let the foul comes. See who is afraid of body contact. That will change the game.
 
UB said:
You are doing good things on this board.
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fishonjazz said:
From what I understand the reason we are employing the embarrassing gimmick defense is because we are scared of harden shooting threes and stepback threes in particular.
Why are we so afraid of that again? Harden shot 36.8% from three this year. That's ok but nothing to freak out about. I'm fine with him taking and making threes at a 36/37 percent clip. That's what he shoots against defenses that play him straight up.
Against the jazz and their gimmick defense in the playoffs harden is shooting 44% from three.

The rockets as a team shot 36% from 3 in the regular season.
Against the jazz gimmick playoff defense they are shooting 39% from three.

Doesn't seem to be working.

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So I agree with you here, but to help with context, he shot around 40% in the last 20 games and probably around 44% in the last 10-12 games (too lazy to do math again). So I don't think our defense is necessarily responsible for him shooting better, but clearly it's not helping all that much either (while causing problems elsewhere).
 
Peterson said:
I actually do have an answer for this situation. Houston is not that much better than Jazz actually. We beat them twice in the regular season. The problem we ran into right now is we are too afraid of foul trouble with Harden. If we have to lose by over 20 points per game, let the foul come. The key problem is Harden, we let him get into the paint freely and does what he wants to do there. That creates open shots for other players. We need to play Jazz basket ball and not Houston basket ball. Use Grayson Allen, get to Harden's body, be aggressive, let the foul comes. See who is afraid of body contact. That will change the game.
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The playoffs are always a bit of a different animal, but I do agree with that game plan overall.
 
Strutter said:
So I agree with you here, but to help with context, he shot around 40% in the last 20 games and probably around 44% in the last 10-12 games (too lazy to do math again). So I don't think our defense is necessarily responsible for him shooting better, but clearly it's not helping all that much either (while causing problems elsewhere).
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Fair enough.
Basically we are ****ed

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