Stretch and or mobile 4 equals chip????

[sundizz]

Just realized how important a stretch four is to winning a chip. Moreso, if they can rebound and dribble up to get the break started.

Robert Horry
Rasheed Wallace
Lamar Odom
Rashard Lewis (finals)
Boris Diaw
Chris Bosh
Draymond Green

It is almost uncanny how important they are and how often teams that utilize them win a chip, opposed to a traditional setup like LMA and Robin or Zach and Marc.

[InfiniteBaskets]

Only if they play on a team where the the stretch 4 moves to center and they go small ball to neutralize the other team's slower bigs.

Miami did this to some success and the Warriors did it to take out Mozgov.

But you can only get away with that kind of play against teams with slower big men that can't hurt you as much on the boards. Had Warriors gone small and left Bogut on the bench against the Rockets they would have been out-boarded and out-msucled by Dwight down low.

[ShackEelOKneel]

Just realized how important a stretch four is to winning a chip. Moreso, if they can rebound and dribble up to get the break started.

Robert Horry
Rasheed Wallace
Lamar Odom
Rashard Lewis (finals)
Boris Diaw
Chris Bosh
Draymond Green

It is almost uncanny how important they are and how often teams that utilize them win a chip, opposed to a traditional setup like LMA and Robin or Zach and Marc.

You do realize that LMA is a stretch 4, right?

[clutchinho]

Makes perfect sense. The 4, and to a lesser extent the 3 is the perfect support position in basketball. Basketball games are decided by mismatches, and your biggest mismatches come from having guys who disrupt an entire defense's gameplan, which is either the 5 (biggest guy on the court) or a guard (too quick and skilled to be truly contained)


Now there's only 1 ball, which is why true winning teams have their 3 and 4 doing the dirty work to enable the gamewinners at other positions to win the game. Relying on a star 4 isnt the right path to a championship, Malone, Barkley, Webber, its been proven.

[ShackEelOKneel]

Makes perfect sense. The 4, and to a lesser extent the 3 is the perfect support position in basketball. Basketball games are decided by mismatches, and your biggest mismatches come from having guys who disrupt an entire defense's gameplan, which is either the 5 (biggest guy on the court) or a guard (too quick and skilled to be truly contained)


Now there's only 1 ball, which is why true winning teams have their 3 and 4 doing the dirty work to enable the gamewinners at other positions to win the game. Relying on a star 4 isnt the right path to a championship, Malone, Barkley, Webber, its been proven.

Duncan.

[clutchinho]

Duncan.

If Duncans a 4 then Iverson was a point guard and Lebron guards 5 positions.

[ShackEelOKneel]

If Duncans a 4 then Iverson was a point guard and Lebron guards 5 positions.

[StephHamann]

Now there's only 1 ball, which is why true winning teams have their 3 and 4 doing the dirty work to enable the gamewinners at other positions to win the game. Relying on a star 4 isnt the right path to a championship, Malone, Barkley, Webber, its been proven.