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Topic subjectExactly what system do you think Harden's shots are from?
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2687365, Exactly what system do you think Harden's shots are from?
Posted by Premiere, Sun Feb-10-19 09:05 PM
The whole point has been they can't even run the PnR anymore because teams switch it because it was so effective. And people even stopped switching so much because of how they were leaving their bigs on islands to get cooked.

The answer for Harden now is selective trapping and using multiple defenders so that they can all expend all their energy on him. And ball denial (or an inspired night from a Paul George or Jrue Holiday that just turns an insanely efficient 45 into a less efficient 38). D'Antoni gets credit for Harden's 12 assists in Y1 of his tenure in Houston; since then, the Harden/Capela PnR has been so good, teams started using entirely different defenses for it. D'Antoni creates set plays, he tells guys where to be, he runs the rotations. Alla this scoring, he has about as much to do with as Phil did with a fadeaway from Jorn over a double team.