How Does Glen Davis Finish At The Rim?
Most undersized post players have a hard time scoring against this Laker front line. In fact, we even talked about how the Utah Jazz were having a tough time finishing against the Lakers’ big men earlier in the playoffs. However, the one player who hasn’t seemed bothered by the long arm of the Lakers is Glen “Big Baby” Davis. Davis has been the Celtics’ best player off the bench this entire series, scoring 10.25 points per game on 51.6% shooting, and maybe most importantly, Davis has only had 1 shot of his blocked during the entire series. This is pretty significant considering that he had the largest percentage of his shots blocked in the NBA during the regular season (out of players who played 10 MPG for over 40 games).
So how has Glen Davis been able to finish at the rim this series?
No Wasted Motions
When you are smaller than the defenders who are playing against you, you can’t wait for them. What I mean by that is if you have a step on them (or have them out of position), you can’t wait for them to recover, you need to attack. No extra dribbles or meaningless pumpfakes:
Lamar Odom (Glen Davis’ defender) needs to hedge out on the screen, and that frees up Davis for the roll. Paul Pierce hits him and Davis makes the catch and goes straight up with it before the help defense can make it over. If Davis takes a dribble or makes a pump fake there, he loses his advantage and the defense would be able to alter the shot. However, by going quickly, Davis catches the defense off guard and is able to finish with the And 1.
