The Miami Heat are changing their scheme to account for Danny Green's impressive NBA Finals shooting performance entering Game 6. Chris Bosh, who will assume duties guarding Green, vows that Green will not have any more open shots for the remainder of the series.
"He has a knack for shooting, but he won't be open tonight," Bosh said Tuesday. "We'll see how he shoots with somebody always on him."
The problem this creates for Miami is that they now have less focus on guard Tony Parker, as their defense attempted to collapse on him and force the point guard to give up the ball while driving through the lane, a trademark style of his. Green has shined thanks to the Heat's focus on Parker, hitting an NBA Finals record 25 3-pointers on 38 shots during the series.
"The thing about Green, he doesn't have any plays run for him," Heat forward Shane Battier said. "That's the puzzling part. It's not like a Ray Allen coming off a screen. Most of [Green's] shots come off of defensive breakdowns on our part. So it just goes into our overall game plan of playing with a sharper, clearer mind and just doing our job.
"He's done a good job of watching our guys who are ball hawks. We have a tendency to do that. He just goes to the open space. He utilizes the oldest trick in the book: the old blind spot."
When asked if he told Green to take a different approach to the Heat defensive scheme, Greg Popovich said, "I haven't said anything."
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