Preliminary Sacramento kings Strategy:
Before I get into the details let me tell you what you are going to hear from our opponent. He is going to go into great detail about Amare Stoudmire's great performance against Paul Millsap and Boris Diaw. He's going to talk about Andrew Bogut's great defensive ability. he's going to talk aboutt Carlos Delfino's defensive length and ability to stop Lebron. he's going to talk about Kyle Lowry's fantastic year last year and James Harden's ability at the SG position.
He's going to try to confuse you with conjecture and descriptions and his love for his team but here are the facts:
- In a head to head match up versus the players his players would need to face versus the Kings, except for Amare Stoudimire, his players fare even or very very poorly versus the Kings they would be matched up against.
- His team really has NO answer to stop the best player in all of basketball. Carlos Delfino is in a 28.0/7.4/6.8 to 3.0/1.9/1,0 deficit to LeBron in head to head matchups. Some might say he played a back up role to the player who player versus LeBron in those matchups, I say his coach didn't play him against Lebron because he knew how badly he would get and did get burned by him.
- Derrick Williams is a rookie from a bad draft class. if you believe he can suddenly shut down the best player in the world, stop reading this, there is nothing more for me to say to you.
- Bogut is a great defensive center but so is Chandler and their head to head matchups show they about just about even against each other.
- Much like our match with Dirk, Amare will be allowed to play against Millsap one on one but he allows Millsap to do what he wants as well. We can live with Millsap and Diaw's game against Amare knowing that we can shut down the rest of the Blazers and make Aamare beat us. In his entire time in the game, Amare has never shown he can singlehandedly carry a team to playoff success.
- Like the Warriors, the Blazers lack true, deep playoff experience. Look who IP is trotting out as a deep playoff team:
K Lowry, Derrick Williams, James Harden
Robin Lopez, Carlos Delfino, Ramon Sessions, Anthony Morrow
Anthony Tolliver, G Hendersen, J Jerebko, P Mills
Do any of these players have a ring like Billups or Chandler? Do any of the Blazers have the Finals experience that the players of the Kings have? What about playoff experience and success?
Like the Warriors the Blazers have a good matchup versus the Kings at PF and are lacking everywhere else. They lack playoff experience. They lack leadership. They lack the ability to overcome the effect that the best player on the planet will impose upon this series because the blazers have absolutely no answer to stop his ability to score, create, dish, get to the line, get their players in foul trouble and be the transcendent, difference making player in the game.
Topic: CB Draft Western Conference Finals: Kings (1) Vs Blazers (2) (Read 32355 times)