How The Lakers Can Effectively Defend Boston’s Pick and Roll
The KG-Pierce high screen-and-roll has been devastating. It has become Boston’s go-to move that the Lakers haven’t defended properly. Here are some suggestions:
1. Kobe must guard Pierce, since Pierce has been waltzing his way to a billion points guarded by the likes of Radmanovic and Walton. Radmanovic especially won’t fight screens, won’t go over them, in fact, he even gets beaten when Pierce DOESN’T take the screen. Radmanovic essentially stops moving when he feels another body next to him.
2. Pau Gasol must drop BELOW the screen and discourage penetration. Instead, Pau jumped OUT on the screen every time, leaving the lanes wide open for Pierce.
If Pierce shoots behind the screen, let him. That’s a lower percentage shot than him driving and getting 2 fouls. If Pierce makes one, tip your hat. If he makes two in a row, THEN Pau should come out on the screen.
Lastly, defenses could rotate quicker, namely Lamar Odom. But Odom has always been a poor help defender, because he
1) isn’t a shotblocker
2) doesn’t move quickly enough to draw charges
In sum, I see the following scenario playing out:
Kobe faces Pierce at the top of the key. Let’s say KG comes up to Kobe’s left to set a screen. If Pierce does takes the screen (going to Kobe’s left), then Kobe needs to fight over the screen. Gasol MUST sag below the screen to defend Pierce’s penetration off the screen. Let Kobe contest Pierce’s shot from behind. By sagging, Gasol is also in position to defend KG if KG rolls and Pierce hits him with the pass. By not jumping out at the screen, Gasol is challenging Pierce to shoot pull-up jumpers, which is what we should prefer to giving up free throws and getting into foul trouble.
A good mix-up would be to have Kobe go UNDER KG’s screen when possible, again, the key being to deny Pierce penetration.
Another challenge is that KG sets good screens, actually, illegal screens, and it’s tough to get around them. Unfortunately, that’s up to the refs.
On our part, we need to defend the pick-and-roll to deny PENETRATION. Give up the perimeter shot – it’ll come and go. Play the percentages.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
They set effective screens on Kobe when he was guarding Pierce.
The problem is the help defense…it sucked…that would be odom, radman, walton, farmar, the whole team.
ahem…bynum.
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