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Speaker 1: Hoops tonight. So in the top tier of teams, we

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Speaker 1: had the Clippers, the Bucks, the Celtics, and the Warriors

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Speaker 1: a lot of double pick and roll. They'll do it

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Speaker 1: both ways, like they'll either have both bigs come up

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Speaker 1: and set ball screens on both sides, and then Marcus

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Speaker 1: Smarter Tatum a Brown will like pick a side to

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Speaker 1: go off of, and then one guy will roll to

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Speaker 1: the basket and the other will pop. Sometimes they both

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Speaker 1: go on the same side and do the same concept.

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Speaker 1: We talked about this a little bit um yesterday with Milwaukee.

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Speaker 1: The concept behind double pick and roll is you want

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Speaker 1: your shooting big to pop to the three point line,

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Speaker 1: and you're rolling big to roll to the basket. Generally speaking,

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Speaker 1: both screen defenders will drop and usually get great stuff

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Speaker 1: at the top of the key at the very least,

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Speaker 1: if not a jump shot. You can quickly flow a

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Speaker 1: new dribble handoff from there and get some good stuff

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Speaker 1: also out of horns. I saw them run a lot

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Speaker 1: of uh like little interchanges before they'd run double pick

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Speaker 1: and roll. So they'd have like Horford down screening for

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Speaker 1: Marcus Smart, and Marcus Smart would come up and then

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Speaker 1: Smart and Williams would set the ball screen. And the

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Speaker 1: big thing there is guards just don't know how to

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Speaker 1: defend ball screen actions as the screener we see. I

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Speaker 1: talked about this a lot when we talked about inverted

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Speaker 1: pick and roll with the Denver Nuggets. But essentially, when

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Speaker 1: you turn a guard into a screen defender, they just

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Speaker 1: don't have a lot of experience with that. More often

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Speaker 1: than not, they just hug up to their man, and

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Speaker 1: your ball handler can get good advantages going off that.

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Speaker 1: And there are four low sets. The most frequent thing

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Speaker 1: they would do is have Tatum start on the block

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Speaker 1: and have one of the bigs, even either Williams or

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Speaker 1: Horford coming pinned down for Tatum, and then have Tatum

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Speaker 1: sprint up to the top of the key. Now Marcus

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Speaker 1: Smart is up there with the basketball, and from there

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Speaker 1: they'll do a couple of different things. They'll either have

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Speaker 1: Smart use Tatum as a ball screen, or they'll have

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Speaker 1: Tatum come off of a drible handoff. But almost every

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Speaker 1: time they did that, it would result in a guard

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Speaker 1: getting switched onto Tatum and almost immediately if Tatum had

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Speaker 1: the basketball, he'd give it back up to Marcus Smart

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Speaker 1: and then go post to the elbow. Or if he

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Speaker 1: set the ball screen and Marcus Smart came off to

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Speaker 1: get the switch, he would just run to the elbow. Now,

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Speaker 1: the idea there is if Tatum comes off of a

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Speaker 1: pin down at the block, his defender is now trailing

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Speaker 1: the play. When his defender is trailing the play, and

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Speaker 1: he sets a ball screen, that forces the switch because

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Speaker 1: now at that point Tatum's man is trailing the play,

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Speaker 1: He's not in position shin to do anything else at

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Speaker 1: that point. Same thing with the dribble handoff. It just

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Speaker 1: basically forces the switch on the screening action in that case,

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Speaker 1: but all of its designed to get Tatum at the

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Speaker 1: elbow with a triple threat attacking a guard. He's That's

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Speaker 1: one of the spots on the floor where he's pretty successful. Um,

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Speaker 1: they also run a bunch of stuff out of five out.

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Speaker 1: The main thing that I saw there was uh like

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Speaker 1: actions that set up dribble handoff. So they'd have like

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Speaker 1: Tatum and Brown on the wings, smart uptop and then

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Speaker 1: Williams and Horford in the corners. They'd have them both

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Speaker 1: come up and set flare screens, and then Tatum and

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Speaker 1: Brown will come off, but then they'd immediately turn around

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Speaker 1: and set another pin down, or they'd make a post

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Speaker 1: entry to Horford on the wing and then he'd go

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Speaker 1: do a dribble handoff with Tatum again. All all little

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Speaker 1: like interchanges that are designed to get that first drive.

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Speaker 1: Because this is a driving kick offense. It is predicated

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Speaker 1: on everyone's ability to extend the advantage and everyone's ability

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Speaker 1: to shoot at the end of the play or to

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Speaker 1: finish at the rim, whether that says a cutter um

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Speaker 1: or driving all the way to the basket. But everything

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Speaker 1: is designed to get that initial advantage so they can

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Speaker 1: do their driving kick. As you can imagine, a pretty

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Speaker 1: common theme around the league, but this is one of

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Speaker 1: the better driving kick teams in the league. This team

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Speaker 1: and the Clippers um are the two best that I've

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Speaker 1: seen at it. A couple other offensive looks that I

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Speaker 1: wanted to go over transition ball screens. They'll do a

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Speaker 1: lot like pointless ball screens just to get switches. The

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Speaker 1: Clippers did a ton of this too on tape. But

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Speaker 1: like you know, Marcus Smart comes up the floor and

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Speaker 1: they're not really running everything the defenses and seat the

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Speaker 1: offensive players aren't even in their spacing yet. But tatums

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Speaker 1: down the floor. He'll just come and set a quick

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Speaker 1: ball screen for Marcus Smart get the switch and then

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Speaker 1: run down to the elbow or if it's a if

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Speaker 1: it's a big man like al Horford, then they'll quickly

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Speaker 1: run out and drag the big man out and try

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Speaker 1: to drive past him to the basket. Um. The other

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Speaker 1: thing that I've seen them do a lot is transition

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Speaker 1: drivel handoffs, uh with two with the double screen, So

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Speaker 1: like Tatum and Brown will sprint the wings and they'll

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Speaker 1: get to the deep corner and then Al horfor like

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Speaker 1: Marcus smartle bring the ball up the floor, and what

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Speaker 1: he'll do is he'll just pitch it to al Reford

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Speaker 1: at the top of the key and then he'll run

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Speaker 1: down and set a pin down for Tatum, and Horford

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Speaker 1: will dribble into it like a dribble handoff, so it

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Speaker 1: acts as like a double screen, but the last guy

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Speaker 1: dribble hand hands the ball off off the dribble to Tatum,

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Speaker 1: then he curls around that and he has an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to get downhill again. Everything is designed to start the

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Speaker 1: driving kick. That's the fundamental um foundation of their offense.

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Speaker 1: So in isolation, they were the fifth most frequent isolation team,

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Speaker 1: a twelfth most efficient. A consistent theme here, um Uh.

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Speaker 1: Tatum's numbers and isolation and post up are actually not

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Speaker 1: that great. He's he's more of a point forward than

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Speaker 1: he is a scoring forward. He just doesn't know it yet.

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Speaker 1: But we'll get into that here in a minute. So

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Speaker 1: Tatum only average zero point nine one points per possession

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Speaker 1: and isolation. Jalen Brown was awesome one point zero four

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Speaker 1: points per possession. They were middle of the pack pick

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Speaker 1: and roll frequency and efficiency team. They were fourth in

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Speaker 1: post up efficiency, which is really good. Jalen Brown and

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Speaker 1: Al Horford are pulling the weight there once again. Jalen

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Speaker 1: Brown excellent post player in terms of scoring efficiency. Jason

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Speaker 1: Tae him not so much. Um off screen actions. Uh,

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Speaker 1: this kind of stuff reminds me of of what the

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Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls did. Again, when you're talking about having Tatum

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Speaker 1: and Brown coming off of curling off of screens, or

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Speaker 1: dribble handoffs rather than just attacking with a live dribble.

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Speaker 1: It just gives them more advantages. We talked about this

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Speaker 1: a lot with the Chicago Bulls with Zach Lavine and

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Speaker 1: Demarta Rosen, Like, it's just easier to play basketball when

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Speaker 1: you're defender isn't set in up in your airspace to

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Speaker 1: start the possession, but rather he's trailing the play or

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Speaker 1: he's closing out at you. The more advantaged situations that

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Speaker 1: you create, the better. Jalen Brown once again amazing off

557
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Speaker 1: of screens. Jalen Brown one point one one points per possession,

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Speaker 1: which is in the seventy seven percentile. Marcus Martin Derrek

559
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: White both did really well in those situations this year.

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Speaker 1: But spot up is where this where this team is

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Speaker 1: most successful, and that is the result of driving and kicking.

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Speaker 1: They had the most spot up possessions in the league.

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Speaker 1: Um uh, it's funny too, like when you when I

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Speaker 1: watch tape and I like because obviously you guys know,

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Speaker 1: I use a big combination of metrics and film right now,

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Speaker 1: the metrics that I focus on our possession by possession,

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Speaker 1: like I don't ever look I hate catchalls, like I

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00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: don't want you to tell me what you know, Uh

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Speaker 1: what Jayson Tatum's offensive real plus minuses like that? Just

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Speaker 1: to me, that's insignificant stat that accomplishes absolutely nothing. That's

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Speaker 1: just my opinion. I think the game of basketball is

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Speaker 1: way too complicated to simplify every single type of possession

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Speaker 1: into one single number. But I love looking at points

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Speaker 1: per possession on specific play types because that's just the scoreboard.

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Speaker 1: Like if you run a hundred post ups and you

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Speaker 1: score a hundred and eleven points out of it, then

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Speaker 1: you averaged one point one one points per possession. That's

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Speaker 1: just the scoreboard, and I'm I'm simplifying it down to that, like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: spot up possessions, this is how many points you scored

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Speaker 1: out of them. That's how good you were attacking closeouts.

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Speaker 1: That's just that. That's just the scoreboard. There's some context

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Speaker 1: on tape, right, Like maybe you're, uh, you're playing with

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Speaker 1: better creators so you get better spot up reps. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that absolutely is a factor. Maybe you're a post player

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Speaker 1: but you don't have great shooting around you, so you're

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Speaker 1: running all your post ups and wor spacing. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: there is some context there. But I at least can

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Speaker 1: take scoreboard information from those numbers that I'm grabbing, whereas

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Speaker 1: with the catchalls, I don't get anything from it. But

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, like I I always

591
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: think it's interesting when I see connections between what I'm

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Speaker 1: seeing on tape and what I'm seeing in the numbers.

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Speaker 1: When I watched the Boston Celtics, I think they're a

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Speaker 1: great driving kick team. When I watched the l A Clippers,

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Speaker 1: I think they're a great driving kick team that stands

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Speaker 1: out on tape. So when I go to the numbers

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Speaker 1: and I see that the Clippers and Celtics are two

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Speaker 1: of the very best spot up teams in the league,

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Speaker 1: that tells me that my eye test is correct, which

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Speaker 1: is good. And sometimes you need to go both ways there,

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Speaker 1: Like if I'm watching, you know, Kendrick Nunn this year

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Speaker 1: for the Lakers, and I'm thinking, man, it seems like

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00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: he's struggling and pick and roll, But then I look

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Speaker 1: at his pick and roll ball handler possessions and he's

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Speaker 1: torching everybody like he's averaging one point one four points

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Speaker 1: per possession. Then that means I'm I mean, they're not

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Speaker 1: watching the film correctly enough, or I need to go

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Speaker 1: back and look at it again and see if there's

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Speaker 1: something that I'm missing there. You kind of use the

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Speaker 1: two to help each other, if that makes sense. But

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Speaker 1: their spot of possessions are the result of driving kick basketball.

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Speaker 1: They were eight in spot of efficiency. This is where

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Speaker 1: Jayson Tatum was the most effective, finishing driving kick possessions.

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Speaker 1: He had one point one two points per spot up possession,

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Speaker 1: which was seventy nine percentile in the league. Uh Jalen Brown,

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Speaker 1: Marcus Smart, Grant Grant Williams, al Horford, and Peyton Pritchard

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Speaker 1: were all over one point one point per possession in

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Speaker 1: closeout situations. So essentially, they're really good at driving and

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Speaker 1: kicking the basketball, and they're really good at finishing when

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Speaker 1: they get those opportunities. That's why they were the second

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Speaker 1: best offense in the league after January eight. UM. So

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Speaker 1: looking at the offensive end of the floor in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: because this is where this is where Boston had the

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Speaker 1: most struggle UM in this playoff run. There were two

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Speaker 1: specific areas that I wanted to look at, turnovers taking

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Speaker 1: care of the basketball, and then their general offensive process,

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Speaker 1: which we'll talk about in a second. Their inability to

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Speaker 1: take care of the basketball and consistently make good decisions,

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Speaker 1: consistently undercut themselves in the playoffs, in every single one

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Speaker 1: of the series. They were talented enough to beat that

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee team in five games without Chris Middleton. They were

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Speaker 1: talented enough to beat that Miami team in four games.

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Speaker 1: They were talented enough to beat that Warrior's team and

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Speaker 1: maybe six games, right, but they were. But in all

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Speaker 1: cases it extended much further than sure should. Seven games

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Speaker 1: against the Bucks, seven games against the Heat, three consecutive

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Speaker 1: losses against the Warriors to actually blow that series. That

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00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:46,719
Speaker 1: that's that's where that offensive process stuff ended up biting them. Turnovers,

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Speaker 1: ignite the fast break, which they were such a terrible

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Speaker 1: transition defense team. Like I said, and I shared those

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Speaker 1: numbers earlier, like when teams faced Boston set defense in

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Speaker 1: the half court, they really struggled to score. They did.

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Speaker 1: But when teams are able to avoid that situation entirely

644
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: because you keep turning the damn basketball over and now

645
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 1: they're attacking your helter skelter bad transition defense, they don't

646
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: have to score against your half court defense, and they're

647
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: gonna kill you there. Also, when you turn the basketball over,

648
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: it prevents you getting a shot on the rim. It's

649
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: like worse than a miss. It's like a worst version

650
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: of a miss. They were fourteen and three when they

651
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 1: held their turnovers to fifteen or fewer. They were owing

652
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: seven when they went over fifteen turnovers. That's how much

653
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: of an indicator it was for them and their success

654
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: last year. And then simply when I when I'm saying

655
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 1: offensive process, I'm referring basically to the approach of their

656
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 1: ball handlers. Like I said earlier, Jayson Tatum is a

657
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: point forward. He just doesn't know it yet. He's got

658
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: a little bit too much of that Kobe Bryant mentality,

659
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: Like I'm this three level score, And the truth of

660
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: the matter is is he's not that great creating his

661
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: own shot in isolation. He's not that great pull up

662
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: jump shooting. He's not that great finishing at the rim.

663
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 1: His one real rank offensively where he actually excels compared

664
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: to the rest of the league is three point shooting,

665
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: pull up three point shooting, catching shoot three point shooting.

666
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 1: Everything else he does offensively, Jalen Brown is better than him,

667
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: But Jayson Tatum is actually a very good passer when

668
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: he actually plays to that archetype. He is a point forward.

669
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: He is a big forward that can score the basketball,

670
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 1: but his main gift is the ability to create advantages

671
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: and get his offense moving with the past. That's his

672
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: best skill. They were seven and oh when Jayson Tatum

673
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 1: had at least eight assists in this playoff run. They

674
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: were seven and ten when Tatum had seven or fewer.

675
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: He too frequently lost sight of his best identity and

676
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: played a bad brand of basketball for his skill set

677
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: and hurt the team a lot. Check this out. In wins,

678
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics had an assistant turnover ratio of two

679
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,959
Speaker 1: point zero three. In losses, they had an assistant turnover race.

680
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 1: You have one point to nine. That's a thirty seven

681
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 1: percent drop and assist the turnover efficiency from wins the losses.

682
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: So to put it simply, when they drove the basketball

683
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: to kick it two teammates to start the driving kick,

684
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,759
Speaker 1: they kicked everyone's ass when they drove the basketball and

685
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: over penetrated and tried to force the action for themselves.

686
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 1: They turned the basketball over, they didn't get their driving

687
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,479
Speaker 1: kick going, and they hurt their defense and they lost

688
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: basketball games. And that's why you had like these really

689
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,760
Speaker 1: ugly stretches of basketball, but then these like incredibly dominant

690
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: stretches of basketball, huge runs in games. They blew out

691
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: a ton of teams from January eight to the end

692
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: of the season. That game one of the NBA Finals,

693
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, when they got going on both

694
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 1: ends of the floor, when they were really driving and

695
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: kicking the basketball, when like getting wide open catch and

696
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: shoot threes for Peyton Pritchard and Marcus Smart and now

697
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,320
Speaker 1: Horford and you know, Jalen Brown made a couple of

698
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: tough ones. But it's a lot of driving kick in there.

699
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: When they play that style and they're locked in defensively,

700
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 1: they're just in their damn near impossible to beat in

701
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:13,359
Speaker 1: those situations moving to the defensive end of the floor.

702
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: So their scheme, they switch one through three when Horford

703
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 1: and Williams are on the floor, and they switch one

704
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: through four when they have one center on the floor,

705
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: and then they run a drop without Horford and Robert Williams.

706
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: Now in their drop, they're supposed to be at the

707
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,240
Speaker 1: level of the screen. That's the way that drop coverages

708
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 1: account for pull up jump shooting in theory. But it's

709
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: so much harder to do in theory than it is

710
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: in practice. Fatigue inevitably caused their coverages to fail against

711
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,800
Speaker 1: the teams like Miami and and UH and Golden State.

712
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: So for instance, UH, if you run a drop coverage

713
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: right and the guard chases over the top of the

714
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: screen and you have a big at the level of

715
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 1: the screen, then there is no pull up three. And

716
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 1: the more that the guard is attached to the backside,

717
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 1: the more Horford or Williams can drop back and take

718
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: away the role. When it's run properly, it works great.

719
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: The problem is is when you get tired, it's very

720
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: easy to get caught on a ball screen as the guard.

721
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,359
Speaker 1: When you get tired and you're the big, it's very

722
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 1: easy to run up maybe to the top of the

723
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,359
Speaker 1: key instead of to the NBA line. Maybe you run up,

724
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 1: you know, between the free throw line and the top

725
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: of the key, like you just don't quite get high

726
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: enough because you're tired. That's what happens. Whereas when it

727
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: was switching, you offset all of that physical wear and

728
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:36,839
Speaker 1: tear onto mental focus and energy and and so that's

729
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: the thing. Like in theory, I get you Dooka's game plan. Hey,

730
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: We're gonna be super physical on the ball. We're gonna

731
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 1: chase him over the top. You know, here's our big

732
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,240
Speaker 1: man waiting at the level of the screen. In theory,

733
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,479
Speaker 1: it makes sense, but in practice it's just really, really

734
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 1: difficult to execute. But yeah, so again I'm talking a

735
00:36:56,360 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 1: lot about bad Boston as it pertains to UM, as

736
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: it pertains to this Warrior series, because that's why I

737
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 1: have them at number two and the Warriors at number one.

738
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: But making no mistake, this is a very good basketball team,

739
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk about why here in just a second.

740
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,839
Speaker 1: So looking at their metrics, they were first in defensive rating.

741
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,280
Speaker 1: As I said, they were second in defending the paint,

742
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: second in blocks per one hundred possessions. Robert Williams and

743
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 1: Al hor for just menaces around the rim at all times.

744
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,799
Speaker 1: They were eleventh in defending the three, which is really

745
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: solid when you consider how good they are defending the paint.

746
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,839
Speaker 1: Um Usually for teams that sell out to defend the paint,

747
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: they're gonna give up a lot of three point shots,

748
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: but they run around like crazy and rotation and they

749
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: take that stuff away. This is a damn good defensive team,

750
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 1: especially in the half court. Their half court defense held

751
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 1: three of the four teams they played in this playoff

752
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: run under um Um. I think they held excuse me,

753
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,399
Speaker 1: they held. Their overall defense held three of their four

754
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 1: opponents to ten offensive rating or less, and then only

755
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 1: the nets scored more than that. And then in the

756
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,760
Speaker 1: half court they stifled everybody. If you look up scoring

757
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 1: against Boston and the half court on cleaning the glass,

758
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: it's kind of frightening how good they were. Um their

759
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 1: areas for improvement. They need to be better as a

760
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 1: defensive rebounding team and better as a transition defense team.

761
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: That's on coaching. I don't know if Missoula is going

762
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: to fix that. I don't know if they'll bring in

763
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 1: another assistant. I don't know if it was just a

764
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 1: bad season for them. They're gonna have to figure out

765
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 1: those particular things. The other thing, too, is their offensive

766
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: process is directly related to their transition defense. When they

767
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: take care of the basketball, when they play driving, kicked

768
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: basketball and generate good shots, they have an opportunity to

769
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: get their defense set while the ball is being taken

770
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 1: out of the basket. The two are very intricately related.

771
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 1: But that's what's so cool about the game of basketball. Um.

772
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: Tatum's rim finishing in particular really hurt them. In transition defense,

773
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:41,720
Speaker 1: he missed of his layups against Golden State. That's just really,

774
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,919
Speaker 1: really really bad. The other thing to the other last

775
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: area improvement for Boston potentially defensively is forcing more turnovers.

776
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: They were the middle of the pack turnover team. With

777
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: how athletic they are, they should be able to force

778
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: more turnovers turnovers playing the passing lanes and being more

779
00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: aggressive on the ball. UM looking in defense on the

780
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 1: UH on the in the Warriors series, Steve Kerr's plan

781
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 1: look like, what I'm gonna do here too, is I'm

782
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:10,240
Speaker 1: gonna talk a little bit about the game plan that

783
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr used against Boston in UH in this particular

784
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 1: segment tomorrow, I want to focus on some of the

785
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 1: personnel things and the actual, like just basketball technique things

786
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: that Golden State did to swing that series. UM. Steve

787
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 1: Kurr's plan was to attack Boston's desire to not switch

788
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: screens with their bigs. They showed up in the numbers

789
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: pretty crazy. So the Warriors attempted twenty one point seven

790
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:37,319
Speaker 1: pull up jumpers per game in the regular season one

791
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: point seven that went up. That went up to twenty

792
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 1: eight point two against Boston, So they had a significant

793
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: increase in pull up jump shooting against Boston. They were

794
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: spamming high pick and roll even though they don't like

795
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: to to get Steph Curry pull up jump shop opportunity

796
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: to pull up jump shot opportunities, because they knew that

797
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: was the weakness in Boston's defense. Their incessant for a

798
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: lot a desire to run drop coverage even though it

799
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 1: doesn't work against teams like Golden State. Golden State's a

800
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:07,839
Speaker 1: smart team, They're gonna find ways to attack it. They

801
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,319
Speaker 1: massively increase their pull up jump shooting volume and then

802
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 1: in percentage. The Celtics shot on pull up jumpers in

803
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 1: that series, which is not a strength of Theirs. The

804
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: Warriors shot pull up jumpers, it's their strength. So that's

805
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: it's easy to see how that ended up backfiring on

806
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:25,320
Speaker 1: them the way that it did. They also were dropping

807
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: on off ball screens, which I thought was really weird.

808
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: Sometimes Rob would just like hug up onto Looney while

809
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 1: he was setting off ball screens, and so there was

810
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: just no help in Clay Thompson and Steph Curry would

811
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 1: just come flying off and get wide open threes. Other

812
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 1: times he just dropped a way back into the paint.

813
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,320
Speaker 1: Al Horford just ran like kind of like a modified

814
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 1: drop coverage on off ball pin downs and stuff. And

815
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 1: too often he was just way too low as Clay

816
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: Thompson and staff would come running off for shots. Just

817
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: just a really poor, poor XS and nose game planning

818
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 1: from Boston in that series. UM. The other thing too,

819
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 1: and this, this is this is something that I'd like

820
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 1: to see the Boston addressed this year. And I talked

821
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: a little bit about this at the beginning of the show.

822
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: One of the fundamental concepts of Boston's defense is using

823
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 1: Rob Williams as a roamer. So they attached him to

824
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 1: somebody that can't shoot right, so Kevin Looney for instance,

825
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,839
Speaker 1: in the UM in the Warrior series, or put him

826
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 1: on bam at a bio in in the Miami Heat series.

827
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 1: But what will end up doing is he just kind

828
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,280
Speaker 1: of runs around it, does whatever the hell he wants.

829
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: Like you know, Draymond Green will catch the ball on

830
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:27,240
Speaker 1: the block and he'll just randomly run over and double

831
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: even though Draymond Green is not gonna hurt you out

832
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 1: of the post right, or he'll randomly over help on

833
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: a guy who doesn't need help on a drive because

834
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 1: he's got it contained. And what it ended up happening

835
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: as a result is his man is free to do

836
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: whatever the hell he wants around the rim. Kevon Looney

837
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 1: had twenty one offensive rebounds in the NBA Finals, and

838
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 1: then just in general, his random double teams opened up

839
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: those Golden State blender possessions where it's past past past,

840
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,359
Speaker 1: closeout attack, close out attack, lay up, wide open three,

841
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It got it got it

842
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: got them into that Golden State chaos that is so bad,

843
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,919
Speaker 1: that's so difficult to handle. It did not look good

844
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: on tape. So I'd really like to see Boston kind

845
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: of rain in UM Rob Williams this year and give

846
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 1: him a little bit more of a structured role defensively,

847
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: because I think even though you'll lose some of his

848
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: highlight blocks and some of the crazy plays you can create,

849
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 1: I think he actually does more damage than good when

850
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 1: he's recklessly roaming around like that. UM, looking back at

851
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: their coaching staff for a second, this is an incredibly

852
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 1: talented team that was unbeatable when they played well, but

853
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 1: they frequently lost sight of their offensive identity and they

854
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: were sloppy in the details of defense. So if they

855
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: get somebody in there, whether that's Missoula or it's a

856
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:44,280
Speaker 1: Frank Volgo or Quinn Snyder that they add to the staff,

857
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Speaker 1: or it's Brad Stevens coming down in the end of

858
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: the season, if they get someone in there that runs

859
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 1: a little bit of a tighter ship on the details,

860
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 1: they could become a very very dangerous basketball team. I

861
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:57,280
Speaker 1: think coaching is actually a weakness on this particular roster.

862
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 1: So the best case scenario, know is that toughness lingers

863
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:05,319
Speaker 1: with Udoka gone, that they still have that same mentality

864
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: that they had from him, that Joe Missoula just does

865
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Speaker 1: a better job of coaching the details and the xs

866
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Speaker 1: and ohs. Maybe Brad Stevens gets involved, like I said,

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Speaker 1: maybe they signed somebody the bench. Uh, Malcolm Brogden significantly

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Speaker 1: improves their ball handling and decision making, you know. Again,

869
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Speaker 1: and with with this Malcolm Brogden piece, it's the aggregate

870
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Speaker 1: ball handling that helps with avoiding turnovers. The other thing, too,

871
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: is just it's just giving you another matchup opportunity. So

872
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: if Marcus Smart Jayson Tatum, Jalen Brown, and Malcolm Brogden

873
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: are all on the floor, and they've got You're playing

874
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 1: a team like the Warriors last year, for instance, and

875
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 1: they got Gary Payton the second just like up in

876
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 1: Jayson Tatum, just like disrupting his handle, doing all this

877
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:51,239
Speaker 1: crazy stuff. And they got Andrew Wiggins on Jalen Brown,

878
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 1: and you know they've got you know, Draymond Green, you know,

879
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,839
Speaker 1: guarding Marcus Smart. I'm just throwing out random matchups. Maybe

880
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 1: Malcolm Brogden that fourth one, he has a better matchup.

881
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 1: Maybe he's getting guarded by a guy who struggles a

882
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: little bit more in full court defense, like an Auto

883
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: Porter junior or Moses Moody or something like that. Right,

884
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: that's kind of where your advantage is. Particularly, Miami did

885
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of damage um to Boston

886
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 1: by full court pressure or attacking them right when they

887
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:22,919
Speaker 1: cross half court. Just increasing your aggregate ball handling helps

888
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: in those situations and most importantly helping it so that

889
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 1: Jayson Tatum and Jylen Brown can attack with an advantage

890
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: and with a triple threat, rather than having to bring

891
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 1: the ball off the floor and get to their spots.

892
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: I think that the Malcolm Brogden addition is really really

893
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 1: going to help them. Um, they need Rob Williams to

894
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:41,439
Speaker 1: be fully healthy for this playoff run instead of playing

895
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: on a balky knee, and he needs to find a

896
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 1: more structured defensive role. Like I said, if all of

897
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 1: those things go right, that edges them past Milwaukee to me,

898
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 1: and actually it gives them a really good chance to

899
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 1: win the title this year. The worst case scenario is

900
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:56,839
Speaker 1: that the loss of you Man Udoka's emotional leadership hurts

901
00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: the team in their toughness health issues, particularly really with

902
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: Rob Williams and Malcolm Brogden. Malcolm Brogden, I don't think

903
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 1: has played over sixty games in the last three years,

904
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:06,720
Speaker 1: so that's something he's got to figure out. Rob Williams,

905
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,319
Speaker 1: obviously with a knee, had to get another surgery. They're

906
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: not very deep. Like I said, They've got a really

907
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 1: talented top eight, but there's not a whole lot after that. Um,

908
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: and then maybe Brogden ends up not solving their ball

909
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 1: handling issues. I believe he will to a certain extent,

910
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 1: but that would be the worst case scenario is that

911
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: their ball handling issues linger, and then what will end

912
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 1: up happening is that if all those things happen, they'll

913
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: just get beat by a smarter basketball team. They'll get

914
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: beat by a team that's sharper in those details, that's

915
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:33,840
Speaker 1: more disciplined, and they'll end up going home unhappy. Biggest

916
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:38,799
Speaker 1: X factor for this team is Jayson Tatum. I had

917
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: him six in my player rankings because I think that

918
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: he's potentially the best wing defender in basketball. I have

919
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: never seen a basketball player do a better job guarding

920
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant then Jayson Tatum did in the first round

921
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: of this playoffs of this year's playoff run, and then

922
00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 1: when he plays to his strengths offensively, when he is

923
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 1: point forward, he looks like a bona fide superstar in

924
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 1: wins in this playoff run, he averaged seven and seven

925
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 1: on six true shooting. That's Lebron James type of numbers.

926
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 1: That's superstar stuff. That's how good Jayson Tatum is when

927
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 1: he has his head on straight. That's why I had

928
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Speaker 1: him at number six. The problem is is he has

929
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 1: these nights where he just loses sight of that and

930
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 1: he hunts his own shot, takes bad pull up threes,

931
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 1: doesn't look to be the facilitator and rather looks to

932
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: be the score in losses. In this playoff run, he

933
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 1: average twenty three, seven and five on true shooting, and

934
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Speaker 1: like I said, seven and oh when he had at

935
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 1: least eight assists, seven and ten when he did it.

936
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Speaker 1: So it's it's a legitimate thing with Tatum is inconsistency.

937
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 1: I would argue that the reason why the Celtics lost

938
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: in this playoff run was in large part due to

939
00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: the Tatum's inconsistency. I think him getting out played so

940
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 1: badly by Steph Curry was a huge part of why

941
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: they lost in the NBA Finals. So a couple of

942
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:09,359
Speaker 1: specific flaws that he needs to address to be more

943
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: consistent his rim finishing. Like I said in the restricted

944
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,480
Speaker 1: area against Golden State, the reason here is he hunts

945
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 1: for fouls instead of going out strong. He sticks his

946
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: arms out as far as he can and tries to

947
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:22,840
Speaker 1: like scoop up to the rim, trying to draw that

948
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 1: hack foul. But they just let too much of that

949
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:26,799
Speaker 1: stuff go during the playoffs, and so what ends up

950
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 1: happening is he just misses all of his layups. Not

951
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 1: only does that hurt him in his in his efficiency,

952
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:34,800
Speaker 1: it hurts the team in transition defense when he smokes

953
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 1: a layup, falls down into camera, Row, turns and complains

954
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:39,279
Speaker 1: to the refs while the team is running the other way.

955
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 1: If he takes on the role of point forward rather

956
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 1: than scoring wing and takes care of the basketball focuses

957
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:52,720
Speaker 1: on creating the initial advantage, then he's a superstar. Jalen

958
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: Brown is the better pure score anyway. Jalen Brown is

959
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 1: better in isolation by a lot, and Jalen Brown is

960
00:47:57,880 --> 00:47:59,879
Speaker 1: better in post ups by a lot. It's a more

961
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 1: organic fit between the two of them. If Tatum takes

962
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 1: on more of that point forward role and Jalen Brown

963
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:07,799
Speaker 1: takes on more of that scoring role. Either way, the

964
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Speaker 1: ball ends up working its way back to Tatum anyway.

965
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 1: And he's an excellent play finisher like we talked about earlier.

966
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:16,360
Speaker 1: So that's what makes him the biggest X factor for

967
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 1: the Celtics team in my opinion, Like he could be

968
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 1: the sixth best player in the world, or he could

969
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,360
Speaker 1: be the sixteenth best player in the world. That's the

970
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:27,880
Speaker 1: gap between his good and his bat And he was

971
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: the sixth best player in the world for a good

972
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 1: two thirds of this playoff run. But it wasn't every night,

973
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:38,280
Speaker 1: and he played poorly in the finals and it costs

974
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:41,399
Speaker 1: his team. So I don't see any scenario where he's

975
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:44,840
Speaker 1: not the X factor. The way he plays will be

976
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:48,840
Speaker 1: the largest determining factor and how in in the in

977
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 1: the fortunes of the Boston Celtics this year. Al Right, guys,

978
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 1: that is all I have for today. Tomorrow we're covering

979
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors. I want to dive a lot

980
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 1: further into some of the things that they did really

981
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:02,839
Speaker 1: well against Boston from a personnel standpoint, basketball technique, stuff

982
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,240
Speaker 1: that I find to be very interesting, a very deserving

983
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:07,319
Speaker 1: number one for me, and I'm excited to talk about them.

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Speaker 1: I will see you guys tomorrow. The volume