Sometimes, perfect defense means nothing. Just ask Chris Bosh and LeBron James. They both played flawless defense on Tony Parker as the clock winded down on the first game of the NBA Finals. And then he did this:
If the Heat are going to even this series, then they are going to have to find a way to stop Tony Parker and the Spurs. How, exactly, do they go about doing this?
One way to do this would be to simply think that that shot was lucky, and not something that will happen again. Playing perfect defense, the Heat could think, will win out over the long run.
Or, they could look at the bigger picture. They could realize that Parker's Game 1 performance—in which he scored 21 points, had six assists and did not commit a single turnover—is the norm and they have to do anything and everything to stop it.
That would be the wise path to take. The obvious adjustment would be to put LeBron James on Parker the entire game. But when the Heat did that in the fourth quarter, it didn't seem to slow down the Spurs. The Spurs outscored the Heat in the final period by a score of 23-16, and Park ...
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NBA Finals 2013: What Heat Must Do To Stop Tony Parker and Spurs
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