Offensive Game-Plan


The game-plan is for scoring to come from everyone and for my team to use it's height advantage. If Mullin and Thompson get tired from my teams run 'n' gun system Tom Chambers will come in at Small Forward and Magic will move to Shooting guard so Mark Jackson can come in at Point and take over the playmaker role and use all of the teams creative weapons. If we choose to go this route he can either give it to Magic to post up on whoever decides to guard him, and if help comes onto Magic he can kick it back out for someone to drive or give it to a wide open Russel. Jackson could give it to Chambers so he can use his height advantage on whoever guards him or he could give it to Schayes to shoot. Russel will be the garbage man cleaning up all the missed shots and putting them in himself. Or Mark Jackson if needed Mark Jackson can attempt to score off the ol' pick 'n' roll.
Now if Thompson and Mullin are in, Magic can either create a scoring chance for himself by posting up or he can go in to post and cause them to double him and he can kick it out to an open Mullin to shoot or Thompson to cause an ISO for himself. Once again Russel will clean up all the garbage and put the missed shots in the bucket himself.
Our offence will be fast fast fast and will be doing something different on every possesion to confuse the Hawks defenders.


Defensive Game-Plan

Duncan and King are most likely to do most of the Hawks scoring. Everyone will be playing a Zone except for Bill Russel who will be roughing up Tim Duncan constantly. The goal is to make Tim Duncans life hard as possible. The Zone will be designed that every player will be immediately met by a defender. We want Gary Payton to be forced to do all the scoring himself. If they somehow get the ball to T-Duncan he will be double teamed immediately and everyone will move over a space to make sure no shooters are left open. King will also be found double-teamed and just like with Duncan everyone re-position themselves to make sure nobody is left open. Like i said before, the goal is to force Gary Payton to try to score all by himself.


Overal Game-Plan:

Well my game-plan consists of the team using mainly 7 players. So yes the Hawks have a stronger bench but really how often are you going to see Magic and Russel on the bench? Not very often...if ever. The plan is really tire out and frustrate the Hawks and make them go to players they usually dont go to. The plan is to have Gary Payton score the most points for the Hawks and to make sure he cannot use his 2 offensive weapons in King and Duncan.

I just think my starting 5 is all around quite better and that Tim Duncan and Bernard King cannot beat Magic Johnson and Bill Russel. I just feel his two main scoring options wont cause all that many problems and that Gary Payton won't really phase Magic Johnson all that much.

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