Check out this blog’s analysis of the Pistons’ D on LeBron in game 5. Most interesting thing is that it appears that RAH-Sheed totally f’ed the help D on some key baskets at game’s end.
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Monday, June 04, 2007
Breaking Down Bron’s 25: Rasheed, Where You At?
I couldn’t resist going back to the DVR to take another look at the end of Game 5 of the Cavs-Pistons series, which edges Games 4-5 of the Warriors-Mavs series as my favorite of the 2007 Playoffs because of the surpassing individual performance by LeBron – and the fact that it may herald the ushering in of a new NBA era.
There’s been so much criticism of Detroit’s strategy on D that I was interested to see what they were actually doing. I was especially interested in seeing exactly how DET could have possibly given up three completely uncontested dunks in the halfcourt O down the stretch – seemingly unthinkable against the once-vaunted Pistons D.
What I noticed was this:
- DET *did* double-team LeBron more than I remembered and usually it worked, getting the ball out of his ”
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