He's In It For Life So as I get a better handle on how this is going to work, I think I've hit upon a general structure. I want to keep each post somewhat concise, but a lot of the things I want to look at are going to take 15-20 plays to illustrate the point. First of all, getting and captioning that many screengrabs is going to make my eyes bleed. Also, it's probably hard to digest more than a few at a time for a reader who hasn't watched each play over and over.
So to that end, I'm going to break a lot of topics down into "series", which you can see on the right navigation. The first two were of Phoenix's pick and roll defense and Portland's halfcourt offense respectively.
Ideas for upcoming and ongoing series include:
- (Bad) power forward defense: examining how well desrever are the less than stellar reputations of players such as Kevin Love, Carlos Boozer and David Lee):
- A look at point guard play focusing on offense initiation and creation. Jrue Holiday and Jeff Teague will be among the first two I look at.
- "Keeper watch", looking at some of the less-heralded young players being given minutes by the rebuilding/tanking/youth movementing teams in the league:
- The Spurs. I'll get into it more in that series, but the Spurs organization has a certain mystique, to the point where it's basically assumed that most talented players who never make it for some reason would have turned out fine if they just had the good fortune to play for the Spurs. Call it the Kawhi Leonard/Michael Kidd-Gilchrist conundrum.
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