Enjoy the game … btw, it’s better if the sound is very low or entirely muted to avoid the histrionic announcing of the game.

No confusion here, friend.

When did anyone ask for you to give an example?

Or, when did you mention that what you were doing was giving an example? [until now, of course]

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If you want to give an example to illustrate clearly what you’re trying to say about “help never ever being given properly from a defender positioned in a corner of the floor against a hot 3PT-shooter, stationed in that spot”, if the dribble penetration comes down the lane from the top of the key towards his side of the floor, then, by all means, go ahead and explain yourself further? … possibly, by identifying [i] where exactly on the court each of the 10 players are to start the sequence, [ii] what the ball’s starting position is, [iii] what the ball’s movement is, and [iv] what the resulting player movement is.

Cause, in that case … I’m all ears & eyes. : )

I get it.

You don’t like examples – I’ll stop trying to use examples from the game last night where Calderon got burnt….Sorry for confusing you friend:)

I can’t be more clear when I say “you don’t leave a hot three point shooter to help” – ever.

Although you’re a good guy who I suspect likes to help everyone.

What are you talking about with, ” … at the top of the circle”?

Who said anything about [Calderon or anyone else] providing help at that location on the floor? : )

Oh wait…that’s what happens in Toronto. Never mind.

Thank god I’m a Detroit fan

Ferry/Cavs Front Office are more ‘lucky’ than skilled in having acquired LBJ.

If the rules on your particular NBA team say to help vs a specific drive situation, then, as a player on that team, you best be leaving that hot 3PT-shooter open, momentarily, and then depend on your ‘bredren’ to rotate out; or, be prepared to suffer the wrath of your coaching staff and the vets on your squad.

No mocking or talking down intended.

Appreciate your view….for what it’s worth (not sarcastic at all…wait a second).

And obviously it depends on where the five players are.

But you can’t forget overriding defensive rules, which trump any ‘force baseline’ or ‘forcemiddle’ defensive philophosy.

Don’t leave a three point shooter to help, especially one that’s hot. It’s really simple actually.

re: #59

IMO, this is by design, according to the unique defensive system which each team plays.

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From my perspective, while it’s okay for a team to one finesse defensive player like Chris Bosh, it is by no means okay to have a whole boatload of them … which is the Raptors’ situation since Feb/2006 [for the most part].

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For the most part, Feschuk got it right yesterday.

When your team can’t Rebound in the NBA … it means that you better go out and get some more players who can rebound, to go with the one you have already.

And, the same applies to defending 1-on-1 in the Low Post with a certain degree of physicality.

The Answer to the Riddle is … it depends, on where the offense has its five players located.

[in general, simplistic positional-based rotation rules like "closest big, steps up" ... do not hold court in the NBA environment]

You’ll get no dispute from me, re:” the tactical advantages of “forcing baseline” vs “forcing middle”.

That’s not what I’m talking about here, however … i.e. whether one way is superior to the other, especially at this level of competition and depending on the nature of a team’s specific personnel.

FACT IS … though … there is little, if any, inherent advantage to playing the game one way or the other, as long as it fits with the personnel on your team, as there have always been very good coaches who believed thoroughly in the advantages of “forcing to the middle”, where their shot-blocker is and they can defend in numbers.

The defence is ‘force’ middle – not ‘trap’ middle.

The two guard (AP) foreces Roy middle. It’s not on Calderon to fall back at that point leaving his man WIDE open. Closest big steps up if necessary and other big recovers.

Actually, IMO … Jose doesn’t look as though he’s working nearly hard enough … at least, not to this point.

The rotation rules you’re applying do not cover the sequence of events which need to occur if a team is “forcing to the middle”.

And, if you recall from the post-game interviews, there were times that the Raptors mentioned when they were momentarily confused on defense, as to which player was exactly responsible for doing what, as they are in the midst of making this specific systemic change-over.