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Ginobili’s Three Set Up By The Play Before

The Spurs were ahead of the Mavs for the entire game last night, but there were a few times where it looked like the Mavericks were going to get over the hump and take the lead.  At one point in the 4th quarter, the Mavs were able to cut the lead down to 5 points after a Jason Terry three pointer.  The Spurs answered with a heavy dose of Tim Duncan, and with an 8 point lead, the Spurs close the door on any chance of a Maverick comeback:

Manu Ginobili knocked down a pretty open three point shot to give the Spurs an 11 point lead with under 2 minutes left. How was he so wide open?

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Jason Kidd is going under the Tim Duncan screen, which means Brendan Haywood needs to hedge, and hedge hard.  He doesn’t do that though, and he slumps off of him, allowing for Ginobili to pull up for the open three pointer.  Why was Haywood so afraid to come out and hedge hard, well because he was burned the play before:

In this play, Haywood hedges out to the three point to defend the shot, and that allows Ginobili to hit a rolling Tim Duncan for an open mid-range jumper.  This play was obviously in the back of Haywood’s mind as he defended the pick and roll on Manu’s three.

This was a perfect example of the Spurs running something until the Mavericks proved they could stop it.  The Mavericks were unable to stop the pick and roll, and the Spurs were able to keep using it to give them the win.
22
Apr 2010
POSTED BY Sebastian Pruiti
POSTED IN 2010 Playoffs 4th Quarters Dallas Mavericks San Antonio Spurs
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  • JW

    Kidd and Haywood are awful pick & roll defenders. Kidd runs into the pick in the first clip and that really is on him (assuming that Haywood communicated with him about the pick). It’s pick your poison when you try to defend the pick & roll with parker/duncan and manu/duncan. If you blitz your big hard on the wing pick & roll then there must be a player rotated into the lane to defend agaisnt the roll man. Duncan spaces off the pick well and he can slip it as well. Haywood and Kidd also face the likelihood of getting split by Parker. It’s too hard of a recover for Haywood or Dampier to show hard and rotate to the roll man. Sometimes there will be help in the lane for a count or two until the big recovers, but the Mavs should just rotate with Haywood taking the “closest” rotation which opens up an obvious mismatch in the paint with a guard on Duncan. If you are the Mavs then you hope for a quick switch back.

    It’s awful pick & roll defense by the Mavs. San Antonio needs to running pick & roll to death against Dallas. They also need to expose Jason Kidd. Kidd can’t stop penetration and he doesn’t contest shots.

  • Mark

    Yeah, the pick and roll is hard to stop when run correctly with good offensive players. I’m enjoying the western conference playoffs so much. So many good teams with fun offenses to watch. LAL’s triangle, SA’s pick and roll stuff, Dallas and Dirk and especially Utah/Denver.

    Utah runs a really good system with one of the best PG’s in the league while Denver is content to get the ball to its best player and let him go to work. Two contrasting styles but very fun to watch.

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    [...] been burnt by hedging too hard the play before (going into this play in way more depth over at NBAPlaybook.com) Haywood elects to drop into the lane, as Ginobili’s defender, Jason Kidd, tries going under [...]

  • LSumm

    Haywood was bad on both plays. He never hedges or helps on either play. Both times he’s caught in “no man’s land.” Ginobli could have damn near pulled up on the first one if he wanted to, too!