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What are our problems defensively?

NAOS said:
Fuggin' DMC, braugh. He should still be wearing the note. Biggest head-scratching decision in the DL era.
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Yup. He's like that one girl you were dating back in the day and for whatever reason you just messed around with her and didn't make her your girlfriend. DMC def got away. Miss that dude and his attitude.
 
franklin said:
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What would Jerry do?
 
I haven't looked at the responses but my initial inclination would be bad habits. Quin and his staff aren't going to just break the players of them after years and years of being enabled or not taught properly under Ty.

That and personnel. Kanter and Burke just don't physically cut it.
 
QuinSnydersHair said:
I haven't looked at the responses but my initial inclination would be bad habits. Quin and his staff aren't going to just break the players of them after years and years of being enabled or not taught properly under Ty.

That and personnel. Kanter and Burke just don't physically cut it.
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Was just about to post this. Problem #1 and problem #2, probably in the order you just put them. Burks is adequate, although not great. Hayward and Favors are good, but can't make up for the other's faults.
 
I'd say the PNR defensive scheme is lacking. The bigs needs to hedge harder on the pick. Right now the soft hedge is leaving the guy getting picked and the big out of position. I remember watching the Clippers game and watching how they defended the PNR vs how the Jazz defended the PNR. Their bigs was hedging hard and fast stopping the PNR before it was able to be affective. The Jazz soft hedge allows the opposing teams PG to attack the bigs going down hill. So he has to back off and force the guard to shoot an easy shot to prevent the rolling big or close out on the guard and leave the roll man in a size mismatch with the guard.

A hard hedge allows the picked defender a chance to recover because the bigs stop the dribble penetration before it even starts.
 
I have noticed that Back side wings and guard crash into the paint on drives. When we already have 3 guys in the paint and you are covering a 3pt shooter. You can't come that far back in. But it is a double edged sword because we struggle to rebound sometimes.
 
da ThRONe said:
I'd say the PNR defensive scheme is lacking. The bigs needs to hedge harder on the pick. Right now the soft hedge is leaving the guy getting picked and the big out of position. I remember watching the Clippers game and watching how they defended the PNR vs how the Jazz defended the PNR. Their bigs was hedging hard and fast stopping the PNR before it was able to be affective. The Jazz soft hedge allows the opposing teams PG to attack the bigs going down hill. So he has to back off and force the guard to shoot an easy shot to prevent the rolling big or close out on the guard and leave the roll man in a size mismatch with the guard.

A hard hedge allows the picked defender a chance to recover because the bigs stop the dribble penetration before it even starts.
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The big doing the stay down low thing can work very well if the big has good feet and great BBIQ. Larry Sanders, Tyson Chandler, Anthony Davis, etc. do it well. Our bigs don't really have the skill set to hedge hard.

The basic problem is neither our guards nor our bigs have enough BBIQ in our defensive system to execute correctly. Hopefully by the end of December we will see some improvement.
 
da ThRONe said:
I'd say the PNR defensive scheme is lacking. The bigs needs to hedge harder on the pick. Right now the soft hedge is leaving the guy getting picked and the big out of position. I remember watching the Clippers game and watching how they defended the PNR vs how the Jazz defended the PNR. Their bigs was hedging hard and fast stopping the PNR before it was able to be affective. The Jazz soft hedge allows the opposing teams PG to attack the bigs going down hill. So he has to back off and force the guard to shoot an easy shot to prevent the rolling big or close out on the guard and leave the roll man in a size mismatch with the guard.

A hard hedge allows the picked defender a chance to recover because the bigs stop the dribble penetration before it even starts.
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Clippers have Barnes, Deandre, Paul etc. Athletic and smart players can defend pnr with lots of repetition. The formula is one athletic big man who knows how to block or at least alter shots, one perfect pitbull who knows how to make pressure on guards and one perimeter player who is at least mediocre (2004 pistons, 2001 philly etc)
 
Considering how 2 of our starting 5 were backups last year, and 2 others played behind Millsap and Josh Howard just a few years ago, under the worst coach in the league, I think they're doing just fine.

This is why fans were clamoring for the kids 3+ years ago over the vets. We could have taught them how to play defense via actually playing. We could have assessed who really cared enough to play defense and who had the attitude. Instead, we played guys like Big Al, Sap, Howard, Raja, Jefferson, etc. the future has arrived and where are those vets now? Are they part of our rebuilding? Ooops.

I think 90 percent of our defensive issues com from experience/bad habits and Kanter (he's always sucked and always will suck at defense. Too slow).
 
On thing that no one mentioned is defensive rebounding. In all three games of this road trip the Jazz are being killed on the defensive boards.

Take away the easy put backs by Millsap and Lavoy Allen and the Jazz win both of those games.

The team rebounding is poor right now.
 
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