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Speaker 1: So some stats from the dominant first game of the
Speaker 1: season from the Boston Celtics. They got one point three
Speaker 1: points per half court possession. That's obnoxious to good. A
Speaker 1: one thirty offensive rating in static half court environments where
Speaker 1: the Knicks had their defense set that's insane. They took
Speaker 1: sixty nine jump shots and got one point three to
Speaker 1: four points per attempt. That's insane. They generated twenty unguarded
Speaker 1: catch and shoot threes. They got one point sixty five
Speaker 1: points per attempt on those shots. They took thirty off
Speaker 1: the dribble jump shots, made fourteen of them for one
Speaker 1: point three points per attempt. They got one point two
Speaker 1: to three points per pick and roll including passes, one
Speaker 1: point seven to one points per ISO including passes, one
Speaker 1: point seven five points per post up including passes, and
Speaker 1: they converted spot up possessions at one point five to
Speaker 1: eight points per possession. All those numbers are insane in
Speaker 1: any of those categories. When you're over one point per
Speaker 1: possession by any amount, that's good. And they were substantially
Speaker 1: over one point per possession, closer to two points per
Speaker 1: possession in many of those cases. It's about as dominant
Speaker 1: of an offensive performance as you will see. Again, as
Speaker 1: we talked about last night, a lot of attacking Karl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns, Jericho Sims, and Jalen Brunson in action with Brunson,
Speaker 1: they did it a couple of different ways. Like a
Speaker 1: lot of times you'll see them attack players with the
Speaker 1: live dribble, meaning like or as the screener. So like
Speaker 1: if Brunson is guarding a guy who doesn't have the ball,
Speaker 1: and let's say Jason Tatum as the ball, you bring
Speaker 1: Jaln Brunson's man into the action. Brunson has to hedge, right.
Speaker 1: We talked about that last night, but they also did
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff like that where they just had
Speaker 1: Jlen Brunson on the ball. So essentially Jalen Brunson's guarding
Speaker 1: Derek White. Derek White's dribbling out above the break, and
Speaker 1: they'll have someone like Tatum come up and set a
Speaker 1: screen and McHale Bridges doesn't want to switch because it
Speaker 1: causes the same problem where now Brunson is on Tatum,
Speaker 1: so McHale Bridges is hedging to try to prevent Derek
Speaker 1: White from just driving right down to the rim and
Speaker 1: then Tatum would slip out of it and get wide open.
Speaker 1: A lot of attacking Brunson like that. The Karl Anthony
Speaker 1: Towns and Jericho Sims stuff was just classic drop coverage
Speaker 1: stuff just off on the ball, but also off the ball,
Speaker 1: where like they use Karl Anthony Towns as man or
Speaker 1: Jericho simms his man to screen down. Then he's going
Speaker 1: to help as the guy's coming to curl over the top.
Speaker 1: And if he's sitting too far back, he can just
Speaker 1: come right off of that screen and come right out
Speaker 1: and shoot a three right they It's one of those
Speaker 1: things where we talked about this last night. When it
Speaker 1: comes to Boston, you can't give them baked in advantages, right.
Speaker 1: What that means is like if there is a coverage
Speaker 1: that has an automatic advantage that's baked in, so like
Speaker 1: if you're hedging and the shooter slips out, he's going
Speaker 1: to be wide open every single time. There's no version
Speaker 1: of that where you can recover in time. It's not possible.
Speaker 1: If the ball handler threatens at all coming off the
Speaker 1: screen and you hold your hedge long enough to stop
Speaker 1: that driving lane, the guy slipping out of the screen
Speaker 1: is guaranteed to be open. And so if you give
Speaker 1: Boston like baked in openings, they're so good at capitalizing
Speaker 1: on those that you're going to get killed. Jason Tatum too,
Speaker 1: Like you know what, we talked a lot last night
Speaker 1: about how Boston can generate easy shots, and obviously that's
Speaker 1: the Lion's share of what they do offensively, But there
Speaker 1: was a lot of really tough individual shot creation from
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum last night. Tough isolation jump shots, tough driving layups.
Speaker 1: He had a couple of these ridiculous passes. He had
Speaker 1: a lefty feed to Luke Cornett where a brief window
Speaker 1: opened up between the rim and that dunker spot area
Speaker 1: where there were literally two nicks surrounding Cornette, and Cornette
Speaker 1: just kind of slipped into that gap and Tatum just
Speaker 1: rifled the left handed pass that had him right in
Speaker 1: the hands and he was able to pump fake to
Speaker 1: get Jericho Sims off of his feet and get an
Speaker 1: easy layup. And then there was another one where he
Speaker 1: came off of a ball screen at the top of
Speaker 1: the key induce mcbright on the right side, sucked into
Speaker 1: the paint just a little bit, like didn't even get
Speaker 1: all the way into the paint. He came like maybe
Speaker 1: three four steps off of I believe it was Derek White,
Speaker 1: and Tatum comes off in just rifles a left handed
Speaker 1: pass that gets on a rope right into the shooting pocket,
Speaker 1: a knocks down the three. Just some really really high level,
Speaker 1: high degree of difficulty shot creation from Jason Tatum last night.
Speaker 1: Here is an absolutely bonker stat that will blow your
Speaker 1: mind about just how good of a night that Jason
Speaker 1: Tatum had last night. He ran twenty four ball screens
Speaker 1: last night, various concepts right so guard screens and slipping
Speaker 1: out of it, a big man coming up, set in
Speaker 1: and pick popping or rolling that sort of thing. Out
Speaker 1: of twenty four ball screens that Jason Tatum ran last night,
Speaker 1: ball screens in ISOs, so ISOs, in ball screens combined
Speaker 1: static shot creation situations, the Celtics scored fifty five points
Speaker 1: on them. They shot twenty for twenty four from the
Speaker 1: field in Tatum ISOs and pick and rolls. That's two
Speaker 1: point twenty nine points per possession. One point twenty nine
Speaker 1: would be very very good. That's like off the charts,
Speaker 1: completely outrageous shot creation from Jason Tatum last night. He
Speaker 1: was ten for thirteen on jump shots, himself four for
Speaker 1: five at the rim. Just again, it's only one game,
Speaker 1: and I for the record, it's not possible to maintain
Speaker 1: that level of play. If Tatum maintains that level of
Speaker 1: play's best basketball player of all time, and that's obviously
Speaker 1: not going to happen. But if he can stay even
Speaker 1: anywhere in the same stratosphere of the way that he
Speaker 1: produced last night, now we're talking about a guy that
Speaker 1: could very much win MVP if he can keep up
Speaker 1: this level of play. Boston at a one forty five
Speaker 1: offensive rating last night, We're gonna take a lot of
Speaker 1: look at that on film. I've got about twenty clips
Speaker 1: from that particular game. On the Lakers front, they did
Speaker 1: a lot of stagnate, like a switching to try to
Speaker 1: stagnate Minnesota. So essentially, if you're running a screening action,
Speaker 1: that's where you get those baked in advantages. Right. This
Speaker 1: is a big thing I talked about last night with
Speaker 1: the Knicks. If you're the Knicks and you're trying to
Speaker 1: beat Boston, you basically have two options for trying to
Speaker 1: prevent them from attacking Jalen runs In and Karl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 1: One is just switching everything right, and then you have
Speaker 1: to ask those guys to contain. Option two is pre switching,
Speaker 1: which is something that Boston does a lot. They did
Speaker 1: it a lot last night to protect guys like Luke Cornett.
Speaker 1: That means like Luke Cornett's man is coming up to
Speaker 1: set a ball screen because the Knicks are trying to
Speaker 1: attack Luke Cornett, well, Drew Holliday might just be like,
Speaker 1: I'll run with him, you go switch to my man. Now.
Speaker 1: There was this interesting possession last night where like Jericho
Speaker 1: Simms I think it was Jericho Simms and Michale Bridges
Speaker 1: can't remember who the two Nicks were, but they were
Speaker 1: trying to decide who was going to go set a
Speaker 1: screen for Deuce McBride. And as they're trying to pick
Speaker 1: at first, Jericho goes to go, but then he sees
Speaker 1: that Drew Holliday is pre switched on to him, so
Speaker 1: then he stops and he's like, this ain't gonna work.
Speaker 1: So he runs back and points to the other Nick
Speaker 1: who is in that action and says, you go set
Speaker 1: a screen for him, and then he runs up and
Speaker 1: Drew Holiday switches on to him, and then Jericho goes like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, I guess I'll go set it now. He
Speaker 1: runs up and Drew Holiday switches again onto Jericho Simms.
Speaker 1: As he goes up, then they're able to just switch
Speaker 1: the ball screen. That's pre switching. That is a way
Speaker 1: that you can protect your weaker defensive players. So just
Speaker 1: Imagine a scenario where let's say Mikael Bridges is on
Speaker 1: the ball and you have og Anobi on the weak
Speaker 1: side with Karl Anthony Towns. If Karl Anthony Towns's man
Speaker 1: goes to set a screen, just send og with them
Speaker 1: and ask a cat to stay home on that week side.
Speaker 1: That's one way they can look to protect. Secondly, just
Speaker 1: in situations where they do get switches with Jalen Brunson
Speaker 1: and Karl Anthony Towns, you have to slide your feet
Speaker 1: and contain the basketball because again, there's baked in advantages
Speaker 1: that come from the screening actions like we talked about earlier,
Speaker 1: but when you take those away by switching, it then
Speaker 1: becomes about individual advantage creation attacking matchups. Right. There are
Speaker 1: other ways to attack switching we've gone into right, like
Speaker 1: attacking the offensive glass on the weakside, slipping out of screens,
Speaker 1: that sort of thing, but it more comes down to
Speaker 1: individual greatness at that point. One of the things the
Speaker 1: Lakers did a lot last night with Minnesota was switch
Speaker 1: a lot of Ruey lebron ad switching in that three
Speaker 1: four five group. They were also happy to switch guys
Speaker 1: like Austin Reeves or Dalton connect onto Julius Randall. They
Speaker 1: were just willing to switch everything. And when they switch everything,
Speaker 1: it takes away the automatic advantages that are baked into
Speaker 1: the screening action, and then it becomes about can you
Speaker 1: contain the basketball? And the Lakers just did a really
Speaker 1: good job for the most part last night containing Julius Randall.
Speaker 1: Not as much with Amp, but they still did a
Speaker 1: decent job on him as well. One of the things too,
Speaker 1: you'll see is like they'll switch and then it'll be
Speaker 1: like Ad on Julius Randall, and then as he's going
Speaker 1: to work, everyone else just stays home and takes away
Speaker 1: those kickout reads. Ad slides his feet a little bit,
Speaker 1: absorbs from contact in his chest, forces him to pick
Speaker 1: up his dribble. Now all of a sudden, all the
Speaker 1: other guys go into deny mode, and then as Julius
Speaker 1: is looking to make a kickout pass, he ends up
Speaker 1: turning the basketball over. Those are turnovers that are created
Speaker 1: by switching, containing and playing the passing lanes. Really really
Speaker 1: sharp stuff from the Lakers last night. A big part
Speaker 1: of how they were forcing turnovers. AD thirty six points
Speaker 1: despite going three for twelve on hooks, floaters, and layups.
Speaker 1: That is an insane stat because those are the go
Speaker 1: to scoring moves for ad. AD's offensive dominance in recent
Speaker 1: years has come almost entirely down to hooks, floaters and layups,
Speaker 1: and he couldn't make them last night. Still got thirty six,
Speaker 1: got to the foul line a bunch, He was five
Speaker 1: for eight on jump shots, hit a couple of massive threes.
Speaker 1: Just an unbelievably dominant performance from him. The other guy
Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to talk about last night was
Speaker 1: Dalton connect seamless fit for the Lakers on offense, And
Speaker 1: it really just comes down to a combination of three factors. One,
Speaker 1: he can come off of a screen and hit a
Speaker 1: three that is going to force the screen defender in
Speaker 1: many cases to show high to try to stop him
Speaker 1: from taking that shot. The three that he hit on
Speaker 1: the top of the key was a play where Rudy
Speaker 1: Gobert was sitting way too far back right. But he
Speaker 1: also set up Jackson Hayes for a dunk on the
Speaker 1: exact same action in a play where nas Reed was
Speaker 1: on the floor and nas Reed showed high and when
Speaker 1: he showed high, came off and turned like he was
Speaker 1: gonna shoot jumped, made the feed to Jackson Hayes. Jackson
Speaker 1: Hayes got a dunk. So the first piece is being
Speaker 1: able to shoot on the move. The second piece is
Speaker 1: being able to make the reads. You have to be
Speaker 1: able to actually see the easy reads that are available
Speaker 1: for a movement shooter coming off of a screen. He's
Speaker 1: able to do that. The third piece of it is
Speaker 1: bringing real downhill athleticism. There's a play in the third
Speaker 1: quarter where he's driving on the left wing in a
Speaker 1: ball screen with Anthony Davis, and because he brings real force,
Speaker 1: he dragged both guys with him and Ad popped. And
Speaker 1: remember the pick and pop is a great counter to
Speaker 1: a drop coverage. Dalton just turned elevated, threw a two
Speaker 1: handed pass to Ad on the left wing, and he
Speaker 1: knocked down a three. So that combination of downhill force,
Speaker 1: the ability to hit shots on the move, and the
Speaker 1: ability to make the reads on those screen defenders when
Speaker 1: he's coming off of those actions just makes him a
Speaker 1: seamless fit. He had a nice driving finish in transition
Speaker 1: as well. Again, he got a little bit caught in
Speaker 1: help a couple times on shooters where he gets up
Speaker 1: some decent looks. One in the right corner that win
Speaker 1: in a couple of others that missed, so he's got
Speaker 1: a little bit of obviously a lot of growth still
Speaker 1: to make on the defensive end of the floor. But
Speaker 1: I thought that was his second quarter shift in particular,
Speaker 1: just a really really nice first appearance for Dalton connect
Speaker 1: in the NBA. One other shout out on the Lakers
Speaker 1: front de Lo when the Wolves cut it to four
Speaker 1: early in the fourth quarter, he made two back to
Speaker 1: back plays and pick and roll that immediately grew the
Speaker 1: lead back up to eight and kind of get gave
Speaker 1: the Lakers an opportunity to exhale and kind of saved
Speaker 1: that shift with ad off the floor and it was
Speaker 1: a ball screen where he got Dante DiVincenzo and jail
Speaker 1: meaning he trapped him on his backside, slowly worked into
Speaker 1: the lane and made a little lefty floater, and then
Speaker 1: another one a high paced ball screen where he really
Speaker 1: got going downhill Kimer who was but somebody fell over
Speaker 1: for the Wolves and Dante de Vincenzo was chasing him,
Speaker 1: had to like jump over the top. Dilo got a
Speaker 1: good head of scheme coming off the ball screen that
Speaker 1: really forced the big to engage him through a beautiful
Speaker 1: lob to Jackson Hayes who got it done. Shout out
Speaker 1: to D'Angelo Russell. Those were two really big plays that
Speaker 1: changed the dynamic of that particular game. On the Wolves front,
Speaker 1: the Julius Randall Nasriie front court was a disaster Defensively.
Speaker 1: They tried zone two and it didn't work. That was
Speaker 1: the primary driving force of the second quarter run for
Speaker 1: the Lakers. That front court for the Wolves was really
Speaker 1: really bad defensively. They're gonna have to be much better.
Speaker 1: Julius Randall in general on tape, just a legitimately embarrassingly
Speaker 1: bad performance, getting back cut all over the place. The
Speaker 1: lebron dunk in front with Bronni in the right corner,
Speaker 1: that was a backcut on Karl Anthony Towns really posterized
Speaker 1: him on a baseline cut when he wasn't paying attention.
Speaker 1: He was getting back cut for offensive rebounds. Just again,
Speaker 1: it's one game, but like, if this continues, Wolves fans
Speaker 1: should be pissed. This is kind of embarrassing effort for
Speaker 1: a guy like you got some pressure on you here.
Speaker 1: This is a team that made the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 1: This is a team that made a trade with the
Speaker 1: intention of staying in contention, and you just got to
Speaker 1: bring better effort. It was not a good look for
Speaker 1: Julius Randall last night. The switching that I talked about,
Speaker 1: it baited the Wolves into twenty one ISOs. That's a
Speaker 1: very heavy ISO attack. But that's a big part of
Speaker 1: their counter for dealing with switching. That's one of those
Speaker 1: things where I'd like to see the Wolves add some
Speaker 1: of those other ways to attack switching right, So like
Speaker 1: different ways to attack switching, creating proper space for your
Speaker 1: ISOs so that they're more efficient in those situations. Changing
Speaker 1: your screening angles, so like, hey, they're gonna be switching
Speaker 1: these ball screens, why don't we just have Ant on
Speaker 1: the left wing and have Julius Randall come set the screen,
Speaker 1: but instead of screening laterally so that Ant can come
Speaker 1: off sideways, screen the backside so that when there's a switch,
Speaker 1: he sealed onto that so that Julius Randall has that
Speaker 1: inside seal and Ant can just float an easy pass
Speaker 1: over the top. Now Julius Randall's going downhill, you have
Speaker 1: a four on three. Now you don't have to play
Speaker 1: isolation basketball. You can play advantage basketball at that point
Speaker 1: One thing they did really well to attack switching was
Speaker 1: attack the offensive glass, especially in the second half. Again,
Speaker 1: one of the downsides to switching is a lot of
Speaker 1: these possessions were ending with Anthony Davis on the perimeter
Speaker 1: guarding somebody. When that happens, all of a sudden, when
Speaker 1: the shot goes up, you're much smaller on the back line,
Speaker 1: you can do some damage to them on the offensive glass. There.
Speaker 1: The Wolves rebounded forty five percent of their own misses
Speaker 1: in the second half, so really really exciting, like a
Speaker 1: little positive trend in the mess that was last night
Speaker 1: for the Timberwolves. Love one of the things I talked
Speaker 1: a lot about in the offseason, a lot of helping
Speaker 1: off of Jaden McDaniels and him just not being able
Speaker 1: to hit shot. Same goes for Nikhil Alexander Walker. They
Speaker 1: just are going to have to be able to hit
Speaker 1: more of these jump shots, or more teams are going
Speaker 1: to copy and sag in the paint and really try
Speaker 1: to make things tougher on Aunt and Julius Randall. They
Speaker 1: did shoot better than the Lakers last night. They got
Speaker 1: zero point ninety six points per jump shot on fifty
Speaker 1: two attempts. Compared to just zero point seven for the
Speaker 1: Lakers per jump shot on forty seven attempts. But that
Speaker 1: to me is a positive Lakers thing more than anything
Speaker 1: else like that. That means you could have easily lost
Speaker 1: by twenty twenty five points if the Lakers at a
Speaker 1: better shooting night. Just not a good first showing for
Speaker 1: the Wolves. They got a lot of stuff they need
Speaker 1: to get better at all. Right, let's take a look
Speaker 1: at the film. So we're starting with the Celtics first
Speaker 1: possession of the game. A little bit of a decoy
Speaker 1: action here on the left side of the floor where
Speaker 1: they fake like they're gonna set a little ball screen,
Speaker 1: but Drew slips out of it. They quick run to
Speaker 1: Tatum and then Horford runs into the ball screen. One
Speaker 1: of the things you'll see a lot in the highest
Speaker 1: levels of basketball, little details like if you walk up
Speaker 1: into a ball screen, it makes Cat's job easy. If
Speaker 1: you run into the ball screen, you might catch him
Speaker 1: being a little flat footed. Watch as Horford runs into
Speaker 1: the ball screen, Cat is just too far back and
Speaker 1: Tatum just comes off and easily knocks off the knocks
Speaker 1: down the jump shot. A lot of attacking Cat in
Speaker 1: drop coverage a lot of attacking Jericho Sims in drop coverage.
Speaker 1: I want you guys to really pay attention in this
Speaker 1: portion of the film. Study Watch how you're going to see.
Speaker 1: Watch how you're gonna see the counter You're gonna see
Speaker 1: the Knicks. A lot of deep drop against Tatum, and
Speaker 1: then it's gonna flow into suddenly. Now we're coming way
Speaker 1: up to the level of the screen, and now we're
Speaker 1: in rotation the whole time. So good first possession there
Speaker 1: to get Tatum a good look. Here's an example of
Speaker 1: the exact same concept in an off ball screen. So
Speaker 1: we got Kat guarding here on the right wing. Horford's
Speaker 1: going to set a pin down for Jalen Brown. But
Speaker 1: as Jalen Brown comes off, this functions just like a
Speaker 1: drop coverage. So Jalen Brown's going to come over the screen.
Speaker 1: Kat is kind of coming up to the elbow to help.
Speaker 1: As Jalen's curling, watch Horford pop easy swing pass for
Speaker 1: the three. Now that is the baked in result of
Speaker 1: the coverage, but also Cat's are just not doing a
Speaker 1: good job. Kat is capable of closing that gap sooner,
Speaker 1: just like he's capable of coming up higher on that
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum pull up three. Celtics were really really attacking
Speaker 1: Kat's laziness in the first part of this game. These
Speaker 1: are some examples of corner crashes to generate easy shots
Speaker 1: or extra possessions. Excuse me. This dynamic right here out
Speaker 1: of the corner is one of the most common little
Speaker 1: push and pull fights that you'll see in a basketball game.
Speaker 1: These guys crashing out of the corner and these guys
Speaker 1: trying to either box them out or high point the
Speaker 1: basketball watches. Derek White just runs in, taps it out.
Speaker 1: The resulting chaos ends in a wide open three for
Speaker 1: Derek White in the left corner. Same exact thing here.
Speaker 1: Fast forward a little bit quick, little dribble handoff three
Speaker 1: for Drew Holliday. But watch this dynamic right here, Jaylen
Speaker 1: Brown og Anobi Jalen Brown just goes over the top,
Speaker 1: forces a loose ball that goes off of Kat, forms
Speaker 1: an extra possession for Boston. Another example of Cats laziness.
Speaker 1: I talk a lot about this is like like big
Speaker 1: Man in transition just having a habit of just wanting
Speaker 1: to sag back in the paint and not just not
Speaker 1: really working anymore. In modern basketball, we have a transition situation,
Speaker 1: kind of a chaos situation. Look at cats dropping back,
Speaker 1: never commits to anybody. He's still not guarding anybody, Still
Speaker 1: not guarding anybody. Jalen Brunson's reaching instead of just sprinting
Speaker 1: around to get in front. He should like he should,
Speaker 1: but Kat's still just not guarding anybody. Kat still just
Speaker 1: not guarding anybody. As a result, we have this quick
Speaker 1: two on one at the top of the key. Josh
Speaker 1: Hart closes out of Drew Holliday. Another wide open three
Speaker 1: for Jalen Brown. So they were just making it way
Speaker 1: too easy on Boston at the start of this game.
Speaker 1: One of the things I was talking about in the
Speaker 1: monologue the unwillingness to switch any screening action involving Brunson.
Speaker 1: Once again, this is with Brunson on the ball, so
Speaker 1: watches McHale. McHale doesn't want to give up a switch
Speaker 1: because he doesn't want Tatum and Tatum to be guarded
Speaker 1: by Brunson. So as Derek White comes off, we'll get
Speaker 1: our heads right boom hedge. This is where Tatum is
Speaker 1: wide open on the slip once again. Noticing the monologue
Speaker 1: two I talked about screening angles, don't screen laterally to
Speaker 1: try to get Derek White going side to side, screen
Speaker 1: the backside so you have inside position. Watch how he
Speaker 1: screens and ends up on his backside and slips out
Speaker 1: of it easy back again. That's a baked in screening
Speaker 1: opening that Boston is going to capitalize on every single time.
Speaker 1: You can't afford to make those sorts of coverage mistakes
Speaker 1: against Boston. Here's that lefty pass from Tatum to Cornette.
Speaker 1: Let's get in there. So here's that little opening that
Speaker 1: opens up here. So if McHale bridges on Cornette's right
Speaker 1: side and Jericho Sims on the left side, look at
Speaker 1: us tight this window is. It's not really open. The
Speaker 1: ball's already out. Watch when Tatum throws the ball. McHale
Speaker 1: Bridges is kind of still in position, but like, look
Speaker 1: at this pass, lefty rifle on a dot pump, fake
Speaker 1: easy finish, beautiful pass from Jason Tatum. A couple more
Speaker 1: examples of Tatum hitting threes against deep drop coverage with
Speaker 1: Jericho Sims. Let's fast forward a little bit so he
Speaker 1: Tatum comes off this ball screen, look at how far
Speaker 1: back Jericho Simms is. Notice two, This is an example
Speaker 1: of stackpick and roll and how stackpick and roll will
Speaker 1: really divide the focus of your ball screen defender. So
Speaker 1: watch howser. Hawser is going to look to set a
Speaker 1: backscreen on Jericho Sims as Tatum is coming off the screen.
Speaker 1: This pulls Jericho Sims's attention to Houser instead of to Tatum.
Speaker 1: Then Jericho Simms tries to counter this screen by getting
Speaker 1: like almost underneath it, so he sprints back. That allows
Speaker 1: Tatum to settle into a wide open pull up three
Speaker 1: off the dribble, knocks it down. Same exact thing, same
Speaker 1: exact action. Here comes the ball screen. The only difference
Speaker 1: is this time they don't run stack, so they run
Speaker 1: more of a ram screen. So essentially, instead of having
Speaker 1: Houser come up in backscreen for Cornett, they just have
Speaker 1: Derek White's screen. Jericho Simms before Cornett goes into the
Speaker 1: action generates a little bit of separation, but once again,
Speaker 1: in a deep drop, Tatum just settles right into the
Speaker 1: pull up three off the dribble and knocks it down.
Speaker 1: So again, pay attention to that as we get into
Speaker 1: the examples later on. In the video of them putting
Speaker 1: two on the ball. At this point in the game,
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum has already hit three pull up threes against
Speaker 1: drop coverage and pick and roll, an example defensively of
Speaker 1: the thing that we're going to see from the Celtics,
Speaker 1: just like they did so much in the postseason last year,
Speaker 1: putting centers on the worst above the break shooter and
Speaker 1: putting Tatum on the actual center. Cornett's guarding Josh Hart.
Speaker 1: This puts them in a situation where Cornett can help.
Speaker 1: So we're going to see a quick attack with Jalen
Speaker 1: Brunson and Derek White, but watch Cornette. Cornette's not worried
Speaker 1: about Josh Hart. We have a hard double team here.
Speaker 1: As Brunston's trying to get separation from White, there's Josh Hart.
Speaker 1: They'll throw a close out. Just be like, fine, take
Speaker 1: that shot. See how soft of a closeout that is
Speaker 1: from Cornett. That's a classic defensive game plan thing that
Speaker 1: we've seen from Boston for a couple of years now.
Speaker 1: How'ser hits at three here? But one of the things
Speaker 1: I was talking about again, like the refusal to switch.
Speaker 1: This is an easy action to guard if you talk. Okay,
Speaker 1: so campaigns guarding Hauser. Duce McBride's on Pritchard, Cats guarding Cornett.
Speaker 1: Cornett you literally don't have to worry about because he's
Speaker 1: not going to shoot a three. Why is this not
Speaker 1: just a switch? Why isn't duce McBride just switching out
Speaker 1: to Howser and campaign staying on Pritchard, But instead they
Speaker 1: try to chase Cornette, gets a good screen on him,
Speaker 1: duce McBride is late to see it and Cornett and
Speaker 1: Howser gets an open look like that. That is it coverage.
Speaker 1: You simply cannot run against Boston. It was not a
Speaker 1: good defensive game plan for Tom Thibodeau against the Celtics
Speaker 1: last night. So now we're gonna get another high ball screen.
Speaker 1: But notice the difference in the coverage. Boom aggressive up
Speaker 1: at the level. Here's a switch, So this is what
Speaker 1: you should do. But instead instead of just asking Kat
Speaker 1: to slide his feet, they just hard double team with
Speaker 1: duce McBride and that ends up giving Pritchard a wide
Speaker 1: open three in the left corner. So just way too
Speaker 1: often putting two on the ball and two on the
Speaker 1: ball against Boston, you just can't do it. So instead
Speaker 1: of a two on one, this is more of a
Speaker 1: three on two. Watch we get a ball screen and
Speaker 1: watch how they guard it. Swing double the swing into
Speaker 1: a ball screen with Drew Holliday coming off of Horford.
Speaker 1: Watch Ogn and Ob dig down into the lane. Og
Speaker 1: digs down Boom. Now we're guarding three on two. We're
Speaker 1: guarding three on two against this particular team that is
Speaker 1: about as good as you can possibly be a capitalizing
Speaker 1: on those situations. Swing to Jalen Brown. Jalen Brown drives
Speaker 1: on Anonobe. When he drives on Ananobe because like, look,
Speaker 1: look where Anob has to close out from Andnobi's closing
Speaker 1: out from here, that's easy basketball for Jalen Brown beats
Speaker 1: him off the dribble. This forces Juce McBride to help.
Speaker 1: Drew Holliday relocates the three point line. Another wide open
Speaker 1: catching two three knocks it down. Here's another example of
Speaker 1: just a basic screen that doesn't get switched that generates
Speaker 1: an advantage and ends in another wide open three. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get a high post entry to Jalen Brown at
Speaker 1: the right elbow, a backscreen of Al Horford Onduce McBride
Speaker 1: because they're not switching it. This allows a good screen
Speaker 1: from Horford to get Drew Holliday very deep post position. Boom.
Speaker 1: Now we have a very deep post position. Drew Holliday
Speaker 1: is going to score here if you leave him one
Speaker 1: on one. As a result, Kat has no choice but
Speaker 1: the double team. He does another wide open three for Horford.
Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, here Horford misses. But watch how we have
Speaker 1: our rotation situation. Horford's wide open. This forces Campaign and
Speaker 1: og Ananobi to panic close out. Both guys panic close out.
Speaker 1: Now what happens because Campaign left Sam Hauser. Now Hauser
Speaker 1: has a wide open corner. Crash gets the offensive, rebound,
Speaker 1: saves it, shovels it to Jalen Brown, and Jalen Brown
Speaker 1: knocks down the three. This was just a ridiculous shot
Speaker 1: from Jason Tatum, Just a really high level piece of
Speaker 1: shot making off of a between the legs dribble into
Speaker 1: his step back run some action. Nobody's open ends in
Speaker 1: iso good downhill pressure, step back knocks it down. Beautiful
Speaker 1: shot from Jason Tatum. Another two on the ball situation
Speaker 1: for Tatum and a ball screen, so we get Tatum
Speaker 1: a pie Cornette sets. But again, as Jericho Sims was
Speaker 1: getting torched by that pull up three earlier, he's gonna
Speaker 1: come way out to the level boom. Now we have
Speaker 1: two on the ball again. Cornette slips, Jalen Brunson rotates
Speaker 1: down to Derek White. This leaves Pritchard open. Nice Reid
Speaker 1: from Cornette to Prichard. Jalen Brunson long close out. Derek
Speaker 1: White sees too much congestion in the paint, relocates to
Speaker 1: the corner again. Another smart spacing principle on display for
Speaker 1: the Celtics as they get a wide open three out
Speaker 1: of it. Here's another just completely ridiculous left handed skip
Speaker 1: pass from Jason Tatum starts with a little quick post
Speaker 1: up from Jay the Brown. We swing it back out.
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna flow into the ball screen with Tatum now,
Speaker 1: simple action handoff screen, still in a drop, but there's
Speaker 1: enough congestion here to kind of make the the pull
Speaker 1: up three tough. Look at what Tatum sees, though Deuce
Speaker 1: McBride is kind of helping. He's like three steps off
Speaker 1: of Derek White. This is only going to end in
Speaker 1: the three if you can rifle a pass on a
Speaker 1: line into the shooting pocket for Derek White. Look at
Speaker 1: how accurate this passes off of a dribble left handed,
Speaker 1: whips it across the court. Right into the shooting pocket,
Speaker 1: catch and shoot three for Derek White. Just an insane
Speaker 1: piece of playmaking from Jason Tatum. Do you guys remember
Speaker 1: last night when I talked about limbo, a concept that
Speaker 1: JJ Reddick has been talking about with the Lakers a lot.
Speaker 1: I talked about the idea that limbo also applies to
Speaker 1: help defense as well. Here's a great example of that.
Speaker 1: So Jason Tatum's gonna look to ISO. I believe he
Speaker 1: ends up isoing Josh Hart on a switch. So screen switch,
Speaker 1: here's our ISO again. Limbo to me is when you're
Speaker 1: not accomplishing either of the tasks that you're set out
Speaker 1: to do. So a lot of cases here, Kat's responsibilities
Speaker 1: are basically like help on the drive and then close
Speaker 1: out to Horford at the three point line. The one
Speaker 1: thing you can't afford to do is to leave him
Speaker 1: open and fail to help. So Tatum makes a move.
Speaker 1: Kat doesn't actually get in there and help Jason Tatum,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, al Horford's wide open. This
Speaker 1: is limbo, This is accomplishing nothing. Tatum goes right through
Speaker 1: him for a layup, like if if you're gonna help
Speaker 1: help stop the ball, if you're not stay glued to
Speaker 1: the shooter, but like getting caught in limbo, that's the
Speaker 1: worst thing you can do and help defense. Here's that
Speaker 1: example that I was talking A second example like of
Speaker 1: what I was talking about earlier about using Brunson on
Speaker 1: the ball handler, just because you know that when Brunson's
Speaker 1: on the ball, the Knicks are going to want to hedge.
Speaker 1: So Tatum comes in screens same thing we saw earlier,
Speaker 1: hedge from Michale Bridges baked in screen opening for Tatum.
Speaker 1: He actually misses this shot, but it's a wide open
Speaker 1: catch and shoot three. One more. I wanted to show
Speaker 1: you guys an example of a beautiful spacing principles from
Speaker 1: the Celtics in the second half of this game. Another
Speaker 1: blitz of Tatum up at the level of the screen.
Speaker 1: So we swing, here's our ball screen, Bridges on the ball,
Speaker 1: cat comes way up to the level. We got two
Speaker 1: in the ball now, boom, okay, that makes Tatum's first
Speaker 1: read Horford on the pop Ananobe rotates. What I want
Speaker 1: you to see here is instead of just standing Derek
Speaker 1: White here and in standing Jalen Brown there, in which
Speaker 1: case Josh Hart might be able to do something like
Speaker 1: let's say Let's say that oj and anobe Hard helps
Speaker 1: here and Tatum has to throw a skip pass. If
Speaker 1: Tatum throws a skip pass, josh Hart probably can close
Speaker 1: out to the passing lane. I've talked about this concept
Speaker 1: on the show in the past. You close out to
Speaker 1: the passing lane to prey on indecisiveness. So Tatum throws
Speaker 1: a skip past to Derek White. If you close out
Speaker 1: to the passing lane, maybe you get him to not
Speaker 1: want to take the three because he sees the clothes
Speaker 1: out coming. But then when he looks over to Jalen Brown,
Speaker 1: Josh Hart could be right in the passing lane to
Speaker 1: take that opportunity weigh, which might buy enough time for
Speaker 1: og And and Nobody to recover and josh Hart to recover.
Speaker 1: But instead, Derek White flashes to the high post. This
Speaker 1: forces josh Hart to fully commit to him. Watch how
Speaker 1: he flashes boom. Now josh Hart has to commit, and
Speaker 1: now Jalen Brown is completely wide open. Easy three. And
Speaker 1: because you don't have anybody in the dunker spot, the
Speaker 1: next rotation is brunts and he has to come all
Speaker 1: the way across the floor. So a little detail there
Speaker 1: just like him flashing high posts instead of staying on
Speaker 1: the weak side wing generates a better looking shot for
Speaker 1: Jaln Brown. So we're gonna be moving on to the
Speaker 1: Lakers Wolves game here in a second. But again, I
Speaker 1: just when we talk about the Celtics, it's not just
Speaker 1: taking threes for the sake of taking threes. They generate
Speaker 1: high quality threes through quality offense, and running any sort
Speaker 1: of traditional coverage against them is suicide because their system
Speaker 1: is set up to capitalize on that by generating elite
Speaker 1: shooters wide open threes. And so you have to be
Speaker 1: willing to switch to shut off screening actions and you
Speaker 1: have to do a better job of containing the basketball.
Speaker 1: Beautiful work from Boston last night. All, let's move on
Speaker 1: to the Laker game. This is a ridiculous move from
Speaker 1: Ruy Hotcha Mura in a wing attack situation against Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 1: So Lebron comes to set the screen, Julius Randall ends
Speaker 1: up tagging the roller, so Anthony Edwards switches back out
Speaker 1: onto Ruey. Now we get a straight up one on
Speaker 1: one here. Anthony Edwards is one of the hardest guys
Speaker 1: in the league to beat off the dribble without a screen.
Speaker 1: Now he can struggle with screen navigation, he can struggle
Speaker 1: off ball with backcuts and things like that, but usually
Speaker 1: a head up one on one situation, he's so louterally
Speaker 1: quick and he's so strong he can't do anything with him.
Speaker 1: Ruy just rips right through and bodies him and dunks
Speaker 1: all over Rudy Gobert. It was like just like an
Speaker 1: absolutely insane highlight for Ruyacha Mura mixed into that game.
Speaker 1: Some really nice defensive activity from Ruy. Hatcha Mura here.
Speaker 1: So we get Julius Randall being guarded by Austin Reeves
Speaker 1: in a transition cross match, Ruey's gonna double team. When
Speaker 1: he double teams, Julius steps through, which forces Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: to step up. He throws a drop off pass to
Speaker 1: go beart. Anthony Davis gets out of position. Look at
Speaker 1: the recovery from Ruey to get back into the play
Speaker 1: and block the shot at the rim. Really nice defensive
Speaker 1: work from Rudy to be in two places at once.
Speaker 1: Here's an example of what I was talking about earlier
Speaker 1: about switching to stagnate the offense. So Rui's on Julius
Speaker 1: Randall quick run through. Now ad switches okay. Now that
Speaker 1: Ad switches, there's no advantage in the screen situation. Julius
Speaker 1: Randall has to tack off the dribble. He attacks off
Speaker 1: the dribble, Ad shuts it down. Notice these guys aren't overhelping,
Speaker 1: they're staying the passing lanes. So when Julius Randall goes,
Speaker 1: oh shit, I need to get rid of the basketball now.
Speaker 1: Notice Austin recovers to Conley to deny the passing lane.
Speaker 1: Dilo recovers to Jaden to deny the passing lane. Julius
Speaker 1: tries to force it and Delo gets an easy steal
Speaker 1: switch stagnate contain deny the kickout passes. Here's an inverted
Speaker 1: ball screen for Anthony Davis that gets him a really
Speaker 1: good look around the foul line. So we're in a
Speaker 1: horn set. We get a high post entry to AD.
Speaker 1: Max Christy cuts through and Austin flashes to the elbow
Speaker 1: and then he turns and sets the inverted ball screen
Speaker 1: for AD. Conley throws a hedge. When he throws the
Speaker 1: hedge that as he's recovering, he ends up getting in
Speaker 1: go Bear's way, and that action ends up generating separation
Speaker 1: for Ad to knock down an easy little fifteen footer.
Speaker 1: Talks a lot about corner crashes. JJ Redi's been talking
Speaker 1: about him all preseason. Shot goes up. Here's that battle
Speaker 1: that we talk about. Max Christy beats a Anthony Edwards
Speaker 1: ends up generating an extra possession. D Lo hits the three.
Speaker 1: That's three extra points you get just by a little detailed,
Speaker 1: little margin that you're generating crashing out of the corner.
Speaker 1: Talked about this in the monologue. But one of the
Speaker 1: downsides to switching AD's on Gobart. That should help you
Speaker 1: on the defensive glass right, But now we're gonna do
Speaker 1: some switching here. Austin switches out onto DDV. Ad ends
Speaker 1: up switching out. Ruey ends up taking Gobert. Ad switches
Speaker 1: onto Jaden McDaniels. So when Jaden ends up taking this shot,
Speaker 1: now we've got a massive size mismatch underneath the basket.
Speaker 1: Go Bear ends up getting an offensive rebound. Great way
Speaker 1: to attack teams that switch. Another corner crash this time
Speaker 1: Ruey Hatchamurrow watch him come flying in, gets the offensive rebound,
Speaker 1: ends up getting two extra points. Nice little example of
Speaker 1: waves of cutting here. So we're gonna get a couple
Speaker 1: of cuts in a row, one from Dalton connect and
Speaker 1: then one from D'Angelo Russell and rapid secession, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna see how it generates an opening. So Dalton pump
Speaker 1: fakes throws the ball to Rui. Now in this situation,
Speaker 1: Dalton sees an opening for a cut. When Dalton cuts,
Speaker 1: Mike Conley goes with him. Look at Dante DiVincenzo too.
Speaker 1: Let's watch Dalton first. So as Dalton cuts through boom cut,
Speaker 1: Mike Conley ends up going with him, And because Conley's
Speaker 1: going with him, he can't see what's happening behind him.
Speaker 1: Now watch Dilo. As soon as he sees Dante DiVincenzo
Speaker 1: not paying attention, not looking at him. Oh shit, my
Speaker 1: man's not paying attention, I might as well just cut
Speaker 1: still not paying attention. Cut, okay, but normally you might
Speaker 1: see some help side there. But Dalton cutting through ends
Speaker 1: up essentially clearing the lane for de Lo to easily
Speaker 1: get the layup on the cut. Wolves a little two
Speaker 1: three zone with that defensive front court of Naz Red
Speaker 1: and Julius Randall that they were struggling so much with.
Speaker 1: Here's a quick, easy basket. They get out of it
Speaker 1: with a really nice high post feed to D'Angelo Russell.
Speaker 1: So we're in a two three. Delo kind of sneaks
Speaker 1: into the middle. Now, the reason why you want to
Speaker 1: get the ball to the middle is in a normal
Speaker 1: two three zone, you have three defenders on the back line.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty easy setup, right because one guy can
Speaker 1: guard any corner shooter, one guy can guard the basket,
Speaker 1: one guy can guard the other corner shooter, and if
Speaker 1: the ball ends up on the strong side, you can
Speaker 1: kind of slide over or slide back the other way
Speaker 1: as the ball switch aside. If you get the ball
Speaker 1: to the high post, then the center has to step up.
Speaker 1: As soon as the center has to step up, now
Speaker 1: you only have two guys on the back line. If
Speaker 1: there's only two guys on the back line, someone's going
Speaker 1: to be open. On a cut. Delo sneaks in there,
Speaker 1: catches nos Reed steps up. Both Nikhil Alexander Walker and
Speaker 1: Julius Randall are now on a three on two. As
Speaker 1: soon as Osried steps up there in a three on two,
Speaker 1: if Nikil Alexander Walker steps down to Jackson, Ruey's getting
Speaker 1: a wide open three. If Julius Randall rotates over to Jackson.
Speaker 1: Now Dalton connects getting a wide open three instead, none
Speaker 1: of them do. Jackson Hayes gets a dunk. Nice little
Speaker 1: attack of the zone there. This is an action I
Speaker 1: Joe Vat does a really nice job covering the Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors called this out last night. He was digging
Speaker 1: in through some of the tape of JJ Redick and
Speaker 1: Lebron James when they were doing that Mind the Game podcast,
Speaker 1: and JJ talked about a simple action involving a backscreen
Speaker 1: for someone who's a lob threat and that person being
Speaker 1: the shooter, the screener being the shooter backscreen for a
Speaker 1: lob threat, and then after setting that backscreen, that guy
Speaker 1: then coming off of another screen at the top of
Speaker 1: the key looking to shoot. They referred to it as
Speaker 1: Finland and the Lakers ran a bunch of this kind
Speaker 1: of action last night and got a lot of really
Speaker 1: good stuff out of it. I want to show you
Speaker 1: two different examples. The first one is an example where
Speaker 1: the screen defender shows and then this The second one
Speaker 1: is an example where the screen defender does not show
Speaker 1: so in the first one. Both times it looks a
Speaker 1: little different too, because this time they run it with
Speaker 1: Jackson Hayes having the ball as a dribble handoff guy.
Speaker 1: The second time, they run the exact same concept, but
Speaker 1: they have another player up here that's actually making the pass,
Speaker 1: actually making the entry pass. So watches Dalton connect backscreens
Speaker 1: for Lebron. He backscreens for Lebron. This causes these guys
Speaker 1: to sink in and help. Then Dalton connect comes off,
Speaker 1: comes off the screen. Notice nos Reed shows high. When
Speaker 1: nos Reed shows high, that allows Jackson Hayes to slip
Speaker 1: the screen and get an easy dunk. Here's the exact
Speaker 1: same concept in a different version. One other thing too.
Speaker 1: On the defensive end. Here, once again the Lakers and
Speaker 1: everyone else know you can offer a late contest on
Speaker 1: Jaden McDaniels. That means Lebron can help in the paint,
Speaker 1: force the pass, run out, and get a good contest.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna make them pay enough for it to matter.
Speaker 1: But as we go at the other end, we're gonna
Speaker 1: run Finland again, this time with d Lo as the
Speaker 1: trigger man up up the top of the key. You
Speaker 1: can see them setting the play up. Delo dribbles over. Okay. Now,
Speaker 1: same backscreen for Lebron. Okay, backscreen this time, though, Notice
Speaker 1: Gobert sits way back, so when Dalton comes off, now
Speaker 1: there's nobody at the level because Gobert is so far back,
Speaker 1: so Dalton can just rise up and fire knocks down
Speaker 1: the three. Those are the types of decisions you make.
Speaker 1: Defenses make when you run good action. At the beginning
Speaker 1: of Possessions, here's a really nice transition attack from Dalton,
Speaker 1: Connect defensive play from ad. Look at the size and
Speaker 1: athleticism from Dalton as he gets downhill on Anthony Edwards
Speaker 1: and finishes easily in the pain. Really nice second quartership
Speaker 1: from Connect. There's a really nice slip of a screen
Speaker 1: from Rudy Gobert. This is a basic screening concept. When
Speaker 1: you know that your man is going to be showing high,
Speaker 1: then your screen doesn't matter anymore because the entire purpose
Speaker 1: of your screen is to get the ball handler downhill
Speaker 1: or separation. And if he's not gonna get downhill or
Speaker 1: get separation, because the screen defender is going to show,
Speaker 1: it's more important for you to slip watches. Go Beart,
Speaker 1: who's one of the best screeners in the league, doesn't
Speaker 1: even try to screen. Austin just slips out because he
Speaker 1: knows Ad is coming high. Because he knows Ad is
Speaker 1: coming high, Rardy Gobert slips out of it rolls hard
Speaker 1: now as Aunt starts to turn the corner. Because Gobert
Speaker 1: rolls hard, this forces Ruey to stay groundbound as he
Speaker 1: prepares for the lob. He doesn't jump until the last second.
Speaker 1: At that point, An it's got too much of ahead
Speaker 1: of steam. It's an easy and one little screening detail
Speaker 1: from Gobert. Beautiful set to start the third quarter from
Speaker 1: JJ Reddick. We're gonna get Austin off of a pair
Speaker 1: of screens here at the elbow to catch on this side,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna flow into ad screening for Lebron, who's
Speaker 1: then going to flow into a screen for Austin, who's
Speaker 1: then going to slip the screen. All of this action
Speaker 1: is designed to occupy Rudy Gobert's attention, which ends up
Speaker 1: getting Anthony Davis a lob on the switch. Let's watch
Speaker 1: it one more time in slow motion again. Watch how
Speaker 1: all of this action just forces the Wolves to make
Speaker 1: a bunch of decisions and rapids secession. Lebron comes off,
Speaker 1: here's a screen. Jaden ends up hedging just for a
Speaker 1: second because the hedges just for a second. That allows
Speaker 1: Lebron to get open on the roll. Now Jaden's out
Speaker 1: of position. Because Jaden's out of position, Rudy has to
Speaker 1: step up. Because Rudy has to step up, AD's wide
Speaker 1: open on the lob. I've talked a lot about how
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert gets unfairly maligned for the defensive end to
Speaker 1: the floor and how most of the issues for him
Speaker 1: come down to the offensive end. Here's an example of
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Here is a lob that maybe
Speaker 1: not This isn't the most perfect lob in the world. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as a guy like Luca Gonna maybe put this in
Speaker 1: a spot where it's easier for Rudy to dunk. Sure,
Speaker 1: but this still should have been a dunk. Look at
Speaker 1: where this pass goes. That should be caught, That should
Speaker 1: be caught and dunked. Why why is that not a
Speaker 1: catch and a dunk like that is that should be?
Speaker 1: That should be a dunk And it's not because Rudy
Speaker 1: can't catch and finish anything around the basket as well
Speaker 1: if it, as well as his peers around the league.
Speaker 1: That is the main issue with Gobert has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with defense. He just is such a limited offensive player.
Speaker 1: Talked a lot about Ruey in him after the game,
Speaker 1: talking about attacking Julius Randall for standing and not paying attention.
Speaker 1: Here's a basic example of that here. Julius Randall's not
Speaker 1: paying attention gets back cut by the time he notices it.
Speaker 1: Ruy dunk's all over his head. Really rough off ball
Speaker 1: defensive performance from Julius Randall. I've talked about how Ruey
Speaker 1: one of the big things standing in his way to
Speaker 1: becoming a more reliable playoff player is his ability to
Speaker 1: track shooters. Here's a good example of that here. So
Speaker 1: there's a switch he ends up on Dante DiVincenzo gets
Speaker 1: sucked into help, but he's not tracking man in ball
Speaker 1: d DV does a nice little relocation to the left wing.
Speaker 1: By the time Ruey notices it's too late, hits a three.
Speaker 1: Has to do a better job at tracking shooters. Here's
Speaker 1: an example of what I was talking about in the
Speaker 1: show last night about the Wolves changing the pace of
Speaker 1: the game with ball pressure. Notice this full court ball
Speaker 1: pressure picks him up, picks him up. Dante Divincenzo's denying.
Speaker 1: They switch. Now we're denying over here. This forces the
Speaker 1: Lakers two guards to waste a bunch of time. So
Speaker 1: now we have thirteen on the shot clock and the
Speaker 1: worst ball handler on the floor for the Lakers has
Speaker 1: the ball in Max Christy. This possession is basically dead
Speaker 1: on arrival. But this is also what I was talking
Speaker 1: about last night where Ad had so many opportunities in
Speaker 1: the third quarter, where it was like he was missing shots.
Speaker 1: He was back to back wide open layups on go Berr.
Speaker 1: He's missing little short, little floaters. He just was struggling
Speaker 1: right well. They needed him to keep shooting, and so
Speaker 1: this was kind of where it felt like the lid
Speaker 1: came off for Ad. Seven seconds on the shot clock,
Speaker 1: no choice but to create a shot. Does a nice
Speaker 1: job getting downhill, nice little dribbled into a step back
Speaker 1: over go Bar knocks it down. Another little action we
Speaker 1: saw from the Lakers last night several times, and you
Speaker 1: get you guys are gonna see the the two different coverages. Okay,
Speaker 1: so first, Ady's gonna set a backscreen for Gabe and
Speaker 1: go Beart is not going to help. Because Gobert doesn't help,
Speaker 1: Gabe gets wide open. This is Dalton connect in the
Speaker 1: left corner. Even Donte de Vincenzo doesn't want to help
Speaker 1: because Dalton Connects one of the best shooters on the team.
Speaker 1: Gabe gets a wide open layup. Next possession, exact same thing.
Speaker 1: Look at the difference in the way that that it's covered. Okay, backscreen.
Speaker 1: This time Gobert sits much further back and nas Reid
Speaker 1: sinks into the paint. As a result, when nas Reid
Speaker 1: sinks in, Gabe Vincent makes this kickout pass or sees
Speaker 1: he sees the kickout pass to Ruy Hachimura, Go Bear
Speaker 1: sees it happen. Go Bear rotates to Ruy that gets
Speaker 1: Ad wide open. Ady gets downhill and gets the and
Speaker 1: one on it. So again, you saw the two different
Speaker 1: ways to cover it. The first way the first time
Speaker 1: Gobert doesn't help. The second time Gobert does help, helps
Speaker 1: on the corner pass and Ad ends up getting an
Speaker 1: end one. Last one. This was that read I was
Speaker 1: talking about with Dalton connect and Anthony Davis, who made
Speaker 1: five jump shots in the game. Dalton brings nice downhill
Speaker 1: pressure draws both guys in the ball screen. Ad gets
Speaker 1: a wide up and three at the top of the
Speaker 1: key or at the left wing and knocks it down.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, that is all I have for today,
Speaker 1: A good little film session. We're gonna do a bunch
Speaker 1: more of those, much smaller throughout the season. That was
Speaker 1: more of like, we don't have any other games to cover,
Speaker 1: so let's hit a bunch of film. But the way
Speaker 1: we're gonna do that during the season is I'm gonna
Speaker 1: break down the games off the top, and then as
Speaker 1: I'm watching my film, I'm gonna drop, you know, somewhere
Speaker 1: between five ten fifteen clips into a folder, and then
Speaker 1: basically at the tail end of the show, we're gonna
Speaker 1: do brief film sessions so that you guys can see
Speaker 1: those visual representations. That's all I have for today. Again,
Speaker 1: We're gonna be back tomorrow morning break down some of
Speaker 1: the Wednesday night games, and then we'll be back on
Speaker 1: Thursday Night Live after the final buzzer of Nuggets Thunder.
Speaker 1: I'll see you guys, then the volume. What's up guys?
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