Trail Blazers Game 2 Adjustments vs. Spurs and Wemby: Trust Donovan Clingan and … Play Better
A breakdown of the Trail Blazers potential Game 2 adjustments as they look to even the series with the San Antonio Spurs.
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Literally the day after Mike talked about how detrimental it would be for Dundon to cut medical staff, we get a story about his bs affecting the medical staff 😂
Great video, Mike, but sadly a moot point when the new owner is actively sabotaging the team and killing the golden goose.
To me the offense looks so basic, fine letting Deni pick run pick and roll. I swear my rec league team has run offenses more complicated.
PSSST – Wemby is a freak. 3 keys to the game: hit 3s
Best strategy? Hope Wemby catches a cold and can't play the rest of the series. Seriously we need as Shaq says "The others to step up, namely JG, Toumani (offensively) and Sharpe.
Those Lobs to Vic and Kornet are killers . Haven’t seen a team stop that yet. Haven’t seen anything like it since Chris Paul with the clippers except Castle and fox can throw the lobs even higher with Vic.
Grant needs to set up; he has the talent to be a bigger factor.
When the 3s are not going in they need to take more 2s .
settle in on offense, probe the defense, move the ball, when they jump passing lanes attack the rim if not screen and cut. in other words use this as a formula to get in the groove to play better. also get 2nd chance shots by offensive rebounding cmon Portland we got this JS
I'm going with Avdija, he was positive after the game. Follow his leadership on the court. Maybe also try to block out Kornet from the lane when Wemby is on the bench.
Blazer’s have to be better in the non-Wemby minutes. Blazer’s 3rd quarter run ended right when Wemby checked out
5:45 I agree here with you Mike. Some fans were definitely interesting about Clingan
Rob wasn't much better than DC in the first game or at all.
your channel is called locked on blazers and you didnt watch the entire blazers opening playoff game?
no one is talking about Deni's ankle injury — wonder how much that will impact him in the series, if at all
Mike , regarding Vit, do you have an idea why Tiago almost never puts him in the same lineups of Deni ? I thought the whole idea to bring him was capitalizing on Deni’s ability to create open looks guys couldn’t convert.
get sidy and kris in there to crowd wemby and pick up a couple fouls
Need more RW on Wemby. Also think they need to take attack the paint more even if we get stood up by Wemby. At least make him work, tire him out a bit. He didn’t need to exert any real effort on D in game 1 because we played way too scared staying away from the paint
Guess what the Spurs are going to do? They are going to make game 2 adjustments vs. Portland: Trust all ten of their rotational players and play better!!!
mi Yamo Clingan n Sharpe
The chair and the background scream "Hey day job boss, I'm really pinched for time is it okay for me to record an episode in the conference room nobody likes?"
I think Richman's observation about Clingan not being great on the ORebs in #1 and the Spurs not really running out on the Blazers are related. I'd have to go back and watch it again but I suspect they made getting the rebound a point of emphasis, which is a trade-off that limits your ability to leak out for the break.
The only realistic adjustment is to wave a white flag. However, you'll have to borrow one because blazers ownership won't pay to buy one.
The team needs to get better shooters!!! Poor shooting players do not help a team in today's NBA!!!
Blazers got killed in transition. All 5 need to get back on defense and stick to a Spur during transition play.
Clingan (and others) should try to bang with Wemby. Clingan needs to go hard to the hoop a few times with Wemby covering him.
Blazers should put pressure on the ball in the backcourt. Limit the time they have in the forcourt.
Luke Kornet went 5 of 6 on fgs. Ridiculous. Can't happen.