Fivethirtyeight's basketball analytics have some great shots of Clevelan's predicament against GS.
Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving, the two Cleveland stars playing in this series who combined to miss all but one game of last season’s Finals, were worked over exactly as expected.
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The Cavs’ plan for Love defending the pick-and-roll — a big concern before the series — seemed to be having him double-team the ballhandler. But traps only work if you can actually trap the player, and Love’s attempts at doing so led to plays that looked like this:
Or this:
Trap the ballhandler: once again Kevin seems confused as to the precise definition of ballhandler, a term normally not susceptible to ambiguous meaning.
This is a "natural" problem, "systemic," "structural," not susceptible to "adjustment." This is a PROBLEM. Kevin needs his GPS reprogrammed.
Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving, the two Cleveland stars playing in this series who combined to miss all but one game of last season’s Finals, were worked over exactly as expected.
...
The Cavs’ plan for Love defending the pick-and-roll — a big concern before the series — seemed to be having him double-team the ballhandler. But traps only work if you can actually trap the player, and Love’s attempts at doing so led to plays that looked like this:
Kev, dude, the Dubya with the ball, do you even know here's at, man?
Or this:
Trap the ballhandler: once again Kevin seems confused as to the precise definition of ballhandler, a term normally not susceptible to ambiguous meaning.
This is a "natural" problem, "systemic," "structural," not susceptible to "adjustment." This is a PROBLEM. Kevin needs his GPS reprogrammed.
