Beware: Oden Is Coming For You

[Sportsman]

First off, the Spurs haven't beaten OKC.
All this is conjecture, as Oklahoma certainly is not forfeiting the series.


But Greg Oden is not controlling Tim Duncan.
He is way too raw and limited at this point in his career.


Oden was brought in to play versus the far more limited skills of Hibbert.
He will not see the court at all versus OKC. He might get some minutes versus Splitter....maybe...


Chris Bosh will defend Duncan. Bosh is not a bad defender.
Nobody on the HEAT is going to be able to defend Duncan perfectly, but Bosh is by far and away the best option. Bosh can make Timmy work a little bit.....he has semi-decent defensive skills.


If Miami resorts to using Greg Oden as the "Duncan Stopper" it will be a short series.

Bosh is not a bad defender????

 

[hockey878]

Duncan isn't going to start shooting threes and Duncan moves pretty slow. Oden just needs to stay attached to him which he can easily do. I'm not talking about Oden playing 30 minutes anyway. Maybe 10-15 minutes to give Duncan some different looks, especially a defender that is big and strong that can push him around a bit on the block and boxing out for rebounds. The Heat need to get Duncan to work more than he is used to, old people don't like to work hard.

When did I say duncan is going to shoot 3's?

Do you not understand how defensive rotations work?

If one guy rotates the whole team rotates. If oden just doesn't rotate when everyone else does it will mean a WIDE OPEN 3 or layup for someone. You can't just skip a rotation and stay on duncan... Seriously, please watch a heat game closely before you come on here and try to talk about how oden won't have to rotate off duncan. With all the trap and hard hedging the heat do on pick n rolls oden would have a hard time keeping up with the ball movement of the spurs.

one thing against a bad passing team like indiana. a team like the spurs would exploit oden out there defensively in a heartbeat.

the fact that you don't understand this is somewhat astonishing.

 

[hockey878]

Bosh is not a bad defender????

literally clueless...

he is perfect in the heat system. mobile, agile and can ROTATE QUICKLY.

a concept you appear completely ignorant too.

 

[purguy12]

Oden is a joke. Guy does a stupid dance like he is part of the reason the team is winning. He is only on the team as a LBJ look alike.

 

[hockey878]

this explains some of it...

Chris Bosh is key to the Heat's pick-and-roll defense - SBNation.com

 

[purguy12]

literally clueless...

he is perfect in the heat system. mobile, agile and can ROTATE QUICKLY.

a concept you appear completely ignorant too.

Bosh is an avg defender. Nothing special. Hibbert and West beat him up a little in this series. He isn't bad but nothing great.

I do agree he is a good fit in that offense because he spreads the floor and takes his guy away from the basket.

 

[hockey878]

the whole thing addresses the bosh defense comment.

the last two videos in particular relate to defending duncan and why it would be difficult for oden to recover.

this doesn't even consider all the other switching/blitzing/rotations that the heat do in a game that make their defense so disruptive.

 

[hockey878]

Bosh is an avg defender. Nothing special. Hibbert and West beat him up a little in this series. He isn't bad but nothing great.

I do agree he is a good fit in that offense because he spreads the floor and takes his guy away from the basket.

As a one on one post defender he struggles. Particularly against strength (west).

as a team defender in the heat system. he is an asset. because of his quickness. he allows them to be attack pick n rolls aggresively