Comments on: Roy Hibbert Must Stay Out of Foul Trouble

By: Heat Thrive When Hibbert Sits | Eight Points, Nine Seconds

Heat Thrive When Hibbert Sits | Eight Points, Nine Seconds — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 01:48:22 +0000

[...] Avi Friedman gave a good rundown of why it is imperative for Roy Hibbert to stay out of foul trouble tonight — and in any other game in this series the Pacers plan to win. When he is out, it changes the [...]

By: LeBron James

LeBron James — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:48:47 +0000

darrrrrr me no like Danny Granger.
derrrr he be a tough guy but he scare of LeBron!!!
darrrrrrrrrrr me say he a stupid!

By: Jeremy Comstock

Jeremy Comstock — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:13:29 +0000

I really think that it’s time for Fesenko to make an appearance. Amundson has not been effective and Fesenko has much more of what seems to be giving the Heat the most trouble: size. While Fesenko is not a great shot-blocker, he has been an extraordinary defensive presence in the past. Plus he’s got 6 fouls to use, and he has a history of making them count.

By: wait

wait — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:43:11 +0000

Other players of the Pacers have to step up to help Hibbert. if he has to defend Wade and James every time, he is going to get fouls. He can’t afford to sit out. Granger need to move quicker. Granger needs to make James work harder. Fast breaks will kill Miami quickly!

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 22 May 2012 04:39:08 +0000

I don’t know… but I’m beginning to feel that it’s over. The reffing is starting to get fixed, now that it’s getting too close for comfort for stern the MORON and the Heat. The first half of the last game was okay, I had no complaints, but I started going nuts in the second half. That was Indiana, I’m petrified to see what crazy calls they’ll make tonight.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:27:43 +0000

I tend to agree. Obviously it’s not up to me, but I would be clogging the paint a little more, and conceding the 3 if we had to. They have not shown any consistent ability to make the 3 at a high rate, while they are most effective from drives to the basket, or drive and dish plays (like to Haslem down the stretch). I’d rather be beat by Mario Chalmers (let him top score for them again) than by LeBron and Wade driving and getting us into foul trouble.
Maybe some zone or match-up zone looks could be in order until they prove they can beat us with perimeter shooting. But we HAVE to keep Hibbert and West in the game so we can control the boards, and also have an advantage in the paint offensively, seeing as we haven’t exactly been lighting it up from downtown either.

By: Joe B

Joe B — Tue, 22 May 2012 02:17:10 +0000

Hibbert is the stop sign…when he is gone, you only have a yield…and who ever slows down for a yield?

By: dwain

dwain — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:18:00 +0000

i really see this as much a problem of defensive strategy as it is Roy’s foul problem. If Roy settles into the paint they draw him out with short jumpers or pick and roll set ups between Wade and LBJ or one of those two and whomever else is coring for them. Roy and to the same extent West are so slow footed that they are unable to close on a penetrating enemy fast enough to get in front of them. they are left to swipe at this penetrator as he goes by. They can’t move their feet fast enough to keep themselves from fouling by reach. Since Battier is pulling West to the 3 point line and Roy’s target also trys this, they are completely out of place to defend the paint and get rebounds. Until coach V comes up with a method that allows the Pacers to defend against the open 3(or allows it expecting to get a better result clogging the paint and keeping Miami from having any offensive rebounding, and just take the lumps open 3′s give us) and clog the paint with our slower footed big men, fouls will be a problem for our bigs because they will be catching up against attacks in the paint and reaching.
As to the fouls Miami draws from our bigs in the paint defending against drives and layups, they will just have to pick their spots, try to draw charges and give weak side help to each other when the attackers come.Pacers have been very bad at weak side help in the paint, because they are slow footed(our bigs) and because Miami has most of there secondary players clearing out past the 3 point line to open the middle up.
All this said Pacers will not win unless they concentrate on out rebounding Miami(any team) to limit second chances, and give our offense second chances.
i agree with most of the points in this piece but i think foot speed of our bigs forces the onus on the coach to devise a better rebound first defense plan, rather than depend on the player to limit his fouls specificly, because the player(Roy, David) is going to play the defensive set up they are in to the best of their ability and as hard as they can, i think it has become obvious that Wade and LBJ scoring alone isn’t going to beat us…they have never outscored the whole Pacer team the whole game(second half maybe). coach needs to make a choice and set a defensive strategy that allows his team to out rebound first, score from the paint first(our scoring) and secondly try to limit 3 point scoring by Miami, and cut our players loose to do their best without limits.