This was the most obvious result of the offseason moves. I can’t believe how much energy I had to spend trying to convince people on r/nba the impact Porzingis would have, especially against Miami’s zone. When people talk about a player being the “missing piece, that’s exactly what he’s been.
davidasc22
It’s ultimately what pundits and posters who barely watched any games or knew very little about Porzingis before this season have struggled to understand and why so many of us were extremely excited about him being traded for Marcus Smart.
Porzingis adds an element of verticality to our offense in what he can do both in the post and stretching the offense with deep 3s.
He’s a gameplan breaker when combined with all the shooters and scorers in our offense.
There is essentially no effective way to gameplan against the Celtics in today’s NBA, which isn’t to say a team can’t beat us, but rather that a general gameplan with the personnel that most teams have isn’t going to be successful against the Celtics, which is why the Celtics won nearly 80% of their games.
Your only hope in GENERALLY beating the Celtics is to shoot a high percentage from 3 AND have us miss and shoot a low percentage from 3.
The first is difficult because we play generally tight defense and the second is difficult because we space the floor really well.
When everyone on the court can hit 3s, you can’t double team anyone, but if you play players like Brown and Tatum 1:1, you’re going to get cooked. With multiple actions in a possession, we’re eventually going to get someone open for a 3 anyways.
So the key to beating the Celtics is probably zone, enter Porzingis… who makes playing Zone REALLY difficult, because he is so effective in the post game. He is so effective that if you DON’T double him, he again is going to score over you. If you do double him, he’s going to recognize the open man who is a decent to excellent 3 point shooter.
So beating Porzingis generally comes down to having the right personnel to beat him, but that personnel is few and far between.
Porzingis shot .400 or less in 11 games. We were 5-6 in those games.
In the games where he shot above .400 (46 games) we lost 9 games. 37-9
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27percentfromTrae
Sounds like KP is their next target
pyroaquatics
Just have to hope he makes it out of this series in one piece
I_AM_ACURA_LEGEND
They gonna try to hurt him
Honestonus
Want Porzingas to become the Draymond of this team (minus the antics). The guy who fills roles
Of course, as Mike said, first just win one please
nrj6490
If they hurt KP…
AddsJays
That was kind of the whole point of the trade. You absolutely cannot count on other teams to remove Miami from the playoffs. You have to do it yourself consistently. To do that, you need to deal with the zone in some ways. KP was probably the only reasonable solution and Brad made it happen.
WhiteImpDragon
Man, I didn’t remember Jovic last year, was he in their team? LoL
bchoter
Naveen’s post being shared in reddit? Fellow Pinoy? 🙂
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This was the most obvious result of the offseason moves. I can’t believe how much energy I had to spend trying to convince people on r/nba the impact Porzingis would have, especially against Miami’s zone. When people talk about a player being the “missing piece, that’s exactly what he’s been.
It’s ultimately what pundits and posters who barely watched any games or knew very little about Porzingis before this season have struggled to understand and why so many of us were extremely excited about him being traded for Marcus Smart.
Porzingis adds an element of verticality to our offense in what he can do both in the post and stretching the offense with deep 3s.
He’s a gameplan breaker when combined with all the shooters and scorers in our offense.
There is essentially no effective way to gameplan against the Celtics in today’s NBA, which isn’t to say a team can’t beat us, but rather that a general gameplan with the personnel that most teams have isn’t going to be successful against the Celtics, which is why the Celtics won nearly 80% of their games.
Your only hope in GENERALLY beating the Celtics is to shoot a high percentage from 3 AND have us miss and shoot a low percentage from 3.
The first is difficult because we play generally tight defense and the second is difficult because we space the floor really well.
When everyone on the court can hit 3s, you can’t double team anyone, but if you play players like Brown and Tatum 1:1, you’re going to get cooked. With multiple actions in a possession, we’re eventually going to get someone open for a 3 anyways.
So the key to beating the Celtics is probably zone, enter Porzingis… who makes playing Zone REALLY difficult, because he is so effective in the post game. He is so effective that if you DON’T double him, he again is going to score over you. If you do double him, he’s going to recognize the open man who is a decent to excellent 3 point shooter.
So beating Porzingis generally comes down to having the right personnel to beat him, but that personnel is few and far between.
Porzingis shot .400 or less in 11 games. We were 5-6 in those games.
In the games where he shot above .400 (46 games) we lost 9 games. 37-9
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Sounds like KP is their next target
Just have to hope he makes it out of this series in one piece
They gonna try to hurt him
Want Porzingas to become the Draymond of this team (minus the antics). The guy who fills roles
Of course, as Mike said, first just win one please
If they hurt KP…
That was kind of the whole point of the trade.
You absolutely cannot count on other teams to remove Miami from the playoffs. You have to do it yourself consistently. To do that, you need to deal with the zone in some ways. KP was probably the only reasonable solution and Brad made it happen.
Man, I didn’t remember Jovic last year, was he in their team? LoL
Naveen’s post being shared in reddit? Fellow Pinoy? 🙂