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Speaker 1: All right, welcome to hoops to night. You're at the volume.
Speaker 2: Happy Wednesday, everybody hopeful if you guys are having a
Speaker 2: great week as promised for getting into game one of
Speaker 2: the Western Conference Finals. In some film today, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be zooming in on the second half in the run
Speaker 2: that Oklahoma City went on. There within that second half run,
Speaker 2: we saw Oklahoma City Stars, specifically Shaye and Jay Dubbs,
Speaker 2: start to win their one on one matchups. And what
Speaker 2: made this particularly interesting to me was seeing the dramatic
Speaker 2: difference in the way the two teams are defending each other.
Speaker 2: Because it's not as simple as Shaye and Jay dubb
Speaker 2: winning their one on one matchups versus Anthony Edwards and
Speaker 2: Julius Randall winning their one on one matchups. These two
Speaker 2: teams are defending each other very differently. We talked about
Speaker 2: this a lot in last night's show. It is not
Speaker 2: a coincidence that Minnesota attempted so many more three point
Speaker 2: shots than Oklahoma City. That wasn't a process thing from
Speaker 2: the standpoint of the offense hunting those types of shots.
Speaker 2: It was a matter of the way they were being defended.
Speaker 2: You guys are gonna see a bunch of examples right
Speaker 2: off the front here of how one on one actions
Speaker 2: for Oklahoma City are getting defended one on one, two
Speaker 2: on two actions for Oklahoma City are getting defended two
Speaker 2: on two. In that situation, the kickout reads aren't there,
Speaker 2: but there are more opportunities in and around the paint
Speaker 2: right similar in an opposite manner on the opposite end
Speaker 2: of the floor.
Speaker 1: All the one on ones.
Speaker 2: With Ant and Julius, they're getting defended two on one,
Speaker 2: sometimes three on one. All of the ball screens they're
Speaker 2: getting defended three on two, sometimes four on two. And
Speaker 2: so in a way, the way that the series will
Speaker 2: go down, it's gonna come down to these guys doing
Speaker 2: their respective jobs against those respective defensive schemes. Meaning, like
Speaker 2: we saw in the second half of this game, Shaye
Speaker 2: and j Dub have to win their one on one matchups.
Speaker 2: These guys are gonna have to get into the and
Speaker 2: they're gonna have to finish through a little bit of
Speaker 2: contact against that defender that's been guarding them the whole possession,
Speaker 2: or in this case, pick and roll finding the openings
Speaker 2: for the two on two sequences with Isaiah Hartenstein, whoever
Speaker 2: it is that's in the action, Kendridge, Williams, so on
Speaker 2: and so forth right, that's gonna be their specific job
Speaker 2: for Minnesota.
Speaker 1: On the opposite end of the floor.
Speaker 2: As crazy as it sounds, they just got to keep
Speaker 2: trusting that those guys are going to knock down those
Speaker 2: threes on those kickouts. You're gonna see so many examples
Speaker 2: in this footage when Julius and Aunt threaten the paint
Speaker 2: at all, there are three four something like Shay's just
Speaker 2: straight up ignoring his man and sitting in the paint.
Speaker 2: Hartenstein sitting in the paint. They are packing the paint
Speaker 2: and daring Minnesota to make kickout threes. And so there
Speaker 2: are some refinements on both ends, right, Like, I don't
Speaker 2: think Shay's gonna keep getting the whistle that he got
Speaker 2: in game one, so his approach is going to have
Speaker 2: to gear more towards shot making than it is towards
Speaker 2: drifting as the series progresses, Right, there are realities for
Speaker 2: both of them as it pertains to being efficient enough
Speaker 2: on those drives to win that battle. In the large sample,
Speaker 2: on the opposite end of the floor, there are complications Julius.
Speaker 2: There are some kickouts that he threw in that second
Speaker 2: half run or the pass was a little bit off target.
Speaker 2: Because it was off target, it made for an easier rotation.
Speaker 2: Because of the easier rotation, tougher shot. You know, guys
Speaker 2: like Nazaret or Mike Conley were missing threes that were
Speaker 2: more contested than they needed to be. So there are
Speaker 2: some things about like deliberately getting the ball into the paint,
Speaker 2: drawing the defense in and getting the pass out on
Speaker 2: time and on target to the right read so that
Speaker 2: you can make those so that you can capitalize on
Speaker 2: those opportunities. Anthony Edwards, there were several sequences where he
Speaker 2: either didn't attack enough to bring the appropriate attention or
Speaker 2: just early in the clock settling for shots that prevented
Speaker 2: him from generating those open catch and shoots. And so again,
Speaker 2: the job for both stars on both teams is going
Speaker 2: to be very different over the course of this series.
Speaker 2: And I want to spend today's film session again it's
Speaker 2: going to be a way to explain Oklahoma City's run,
Speaker 2: but I also want to use today as just an
Speaker 2: example of what we're going to be looking for heading
Speaker 2: forward in the series for both of these teams to
Speaker 2: reach the success that they're trying to reach.
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Speaker 2: So right away from the start of this film session,
Speaker 2: here in the early third quarter, I want you guys
Speaker 2: to see just the difference in the way these teams
Speaker 2: are guarding each other. So we're gonna head down to
Speaker 2: the other end of the floor. Minnesota is gonna get
Speaker 2: a driving kick from Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 2: Watch what happens when Ant gets into the paint. So Ant,
Speaker 2: this is just a simple transition cross match. Isaiah Hartenstein
Speaker 2: has no choice but to pick up Ant. Ant makes
Speaker 2: a dribble drive move. Watch the way Oklahoma City reacts
Speaker 2: in the paint. So again, as you can see, by
Speaker 2: the time Ant gets into the paint, lou Dort has
Speaker 2: now completely ignored his man. He's in the paint. Shay's
Speaker 2: completely ignored his man. He's in the paint. Chet has
Speaker 2: completely ignored Jada McDaniels. He's in the paint. Jadubb has
Speaker 2: his back turn to Mike Conley. All five Thunder players
Speaker 2: are geared towards Anthony Edwards. And so what does Aunt do.
Speaker 2: He makes a quality kickout pass to Jada McDaniels, hits
Speaker 2: him right in the shooting pocket, really clean catch and shoot. Look,
Speaker 2: this is the kind of read that Ant is gonna
Speaker 2: have to make over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: This is if Aunt tries to solve his.
Speaker 2: Problems by flying through these five by and trying to finish,
Speaker 2: it's gonna do. Only all it's gonna do is make
Speaker 2: things harder for them on the offensive end of the floor.
Speaker 2: These are the kinds of reads they're gonna have to
Speaker 2: keep making. Now we're gonna head over to the other
Speaker 2: end of the floor. And this is actually an example
Speaker 2: of an overhelp from Julius Randall. But I want you
Speaker 2: guys to watch the way Rudy Gobert reacts. So we
Speaker 2: fast forward. Shae ends up driving out of a ball
Speaker 2: screen that turns into a switch and peels off, And
Speaker 2: now it's Rudy Gobert against h Shay Gilds Alexander. But
Speaker 2: watch Julius help off of Jadub and because of that help,
Speaker 2: look at all the other guys. The other guys are
Speaker 2: accounting for their man kick out. You can literally see
Speaker 2: Rudy Gobert say like, stay out, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: I got this, I got it under control. We want
Speaker 2: to defend one on one. You're gonna see some more
Speaker 2: examples here. Watch the reaction.
Speaker 1: We're going down to the other end again on this one.
Speaker 2: So one of the things you'll see here because I
Speaker 2: have a couple other examples in the film. Mike Conley
Speaker 2: is seeing a very deep drop coverage and so he's
Speaker 2: able to get some clean looks at pull up threes
Speaker 2: and floaters and stuff like that. He's gonna have to
Speaker 2: be aggressive and look to score because Hertenstein is really
Speaker 2: daring him to look to score. Similarly, here we go
Speaker 2: another JDub drive. Watch how little reaction there is from
Speaker 2: the other four wolves on this drive. There's literally no
Speaker 2: reaction from the other four wolves as JDub looks to drive.
Speaker 2: It is very much more of a one on one.
Speaker 2: We're gonna trust our guy on an island to do
Speaker 2: his job style of defense. This is an example of
Speaker 2: Isaiah Hartenstein with excellent pick and roll defense. Watch how
Speaker 2: he gets up to the level and gets it to
Speaker 2: get rid of the ball, but still recovers back to Gobart,
Speaker 2: which causes Gobert to pick up his dribble early because
Speaker 2: he's facing pressure from the side that puts him in
Speaker 2: a really tough spot where the two on one read
Speaker 2: is over here.
Speaker 1: This is his short role read.
Speaker 2: He's got to find out which one of these guys
Speaker 2: is open, but he picks up his dribble early, finds
Speaker 2: himself trapped by two centers and just pitches it right
Speaker 2: to shake Gilsis Alexander. But again like this is Isaiah
Speaker 2: Hartenstein getting up and getting ant to stop, but also
Speaker 2: recovering back to the ball.
Speaker 1: Aunt has to push this just a step further.
Speaker 2: He needs to attack a little bit more or drag
Speaker 2: this off further to the left to get Isaiah Hartenstein
Speaker 2: further out so that when Rudy catches, he's got more
Speaker 2: space in here to make a better cleaner read.
Speaker 1: We're gonna see a few.
Speaker 2: Examples here of Chet looking to be aggressive against some
Speaker 2: inattentiveness from Julius Randall. The first one here Julius Randall's
Speaker 2: kind of just floating along the baseline. SHA's driving. Once again,
Speaker 2: look at the lack of reaction from any other Wolf
Speaker 2: on on this shade. Drive like Shay's like got Jaden
Speaker 2: compromise in. None of the other Wolves care. This is
Speaker 2: a one on one basketball team. You do your job.
Speaker 1: We're gonna stay home. But Julius, Look at Julius.
Speaker 2: Julius is just kind of standing and Chet starts to
Speaker 2: sneak along the baseline and gets himself a little post
Speaker 2: catch here on the left block. Hits him with just
Speaker 2: a little simple left shoulder hook. Nice work from Chet.
Speaker 2: Here's another one of those deep drop looks that Conley faces,
Speaker 2: one of only two shots he made in the game.
Speaker 2: That's a look that he's gonna be able to get
Speaker 2: against this defense. Once again, Julius being inattentive on Chet.
Speaker 2: See look, he's just not paying attention sinking in simple
Speaker 2: swing pass from Jdeb to Chet just looks to drive
Speaker 2: immediately and gets into the lane. Jaden has no choice
Speaker 2: but to pick him up. I didn't really see a
Speaker 2: foul here. It looked kind of like Cheches fell over,
Speaker 2: but there were a few of those in the second
Speaker 2: half of this game, corner kick from an so Ann
Speaker 2: had just hit a pull up three on the last possession.
Speaker 2: Shae comes down, tries to match it, misses. We go
Speaker 2: down to the other end. Watch the way Oklahoma City
Speaker 2: reacts to this ant drive ball screen gets him in jail.
Speaker 1: Once again.
Speaker 2: Look at the way, Look at the way all of
Speaker 2: these OKC defenders like Shaye, just like straight up comes
Speaker 2: over in double teams temporarily and works against jad up again.
Speaker 2: Look at Shae again, double teaming. Look at the bodies
Speaker 2: in the pain. This is not going to be a
Speaker 2: high scoring series for Anthony Edwards. This is not going
Speaker 2: to be a Julius Randall got You want to know
Speaker 2: how Julius Randall hit.
Speaker 1: A high point total.
Speaker 2: They gave him a bunch of open catch and shoot
Speaker 2: threes in the first half. They took the catch and
Speaker 2: shoot threes away in the second half. All of a sudden,
Speaker 2: Julius Randall wasn't scoring. This isn't going to be an
Speaker 2: open scoring type of series for either of these guys.
Speaker 1: On the ball.
Speaker 2: Their scoring opportunities will come out of the rotation sequence
Speaker 2: is after they get rid of the ball and gets
Speaker 2: in the lane, draws three more bodies on help, kicks
Speaker 2: it out to Mike Conley just misses this one. He
Speaker 2: actually knocks down, but again you can see you can
Speaker 2: see how this process is gonna work for Minnesota. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be getting into the lane, drawing the bodies and
Speaker 2: making those kickouts. Now, from this point in the game,
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City's up fifty three to fifty. From this point
Speaker 2: in the game, you guys will see an obvious kind
Speaker 2: of shift in the way that both teams are accomplishing
Speaker 2: their goals. Shay and Jay Dub are gonna start winning
Speaker 2: their one on ones like consistently down the floor and
Speaker 2: on the other end of the floor, You're gonna see
Speaker 2: Aunts start to settle for some bad ones. You're gonna
Speaker 2: see Julius start to make some poor kickout passes. You're
Speaker 2: gonna see missed kickout threes. That's where things are going
Speaker 2: to go off the rails. The two different jobs, very
Speaker 2: different jobs for the Stars start to tilt in the
Speaker 2: opposite direction from where they were to start this game.
Speaker 2: Shae gets an and one here watch the lack of
Speaker 2: help side reaction.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 2: Shay's just Shae gets all the way down to his
Speaker 2: right foot at the bottom of the of the semi circle,
Speaker 2: and there's very little reaction from any timberwolve off the ball.
Speaker 2: Shay's able to get a clean step back. Another that
Speaker 2: was another I mean, I don't know where the foul is,
Speaker 2: but Sha gets Shae was getting rewarded for a lot
Speaker 2: of that kind of stuff last night. But you can
Speaker 2: see the one on one stuff very different on this
Speaker 2: end of the floor. Here's a cornerkick from Julius. Watch
Speaker 2: the difference in the way he's being guarded post Shay's
Speaker 2: in a strong side zone, completely ignoring his man, so
Speaker 2: that makes it so that Julius can't hit towards the
Speaker 2: baseline side.
Speaker 1: He's got to go middle.
Speaker 2: Hartenstein is right underneath the rim, and even Isaiah Joe
Speaker 2: is a foot in the paint off of Nikhil Alexander Walker.
Speaker 2: Just very different in the way that they're defending these actions.
Speaker 2: Here's the kick that's the job on this end of
Speaker 2: the floor. Minnesota's got to make these kickouts every single time.
Speaker 2: That is their pathway to victory. One detail though, look
Speaker 2: at how that pass is just high and outside, which
Speaker 2: kind of makes it for a funky release because now
Speaker 2: he's got a no dip it and he's got pushed
Speaker 2: from a normal corner three to a behind the backboard
Speaker 2: corner three in the deep, deep corner. So Julius has
Speaker 2: to be really deliberate about getting this pass right in
Speaker 2: the shooting pocket so that Mike Conley can take a
Speaker 2: clean normal catch and shoot instead of a rushed no
Speaker 2: dip corner shoot in the deep, deep corner behind the backboard.
Speaker 2: This is another one go down to the other end
Speaker 2: of the flour JDub straight iso against Nikkeile Alexander Walker
Speaker 2: against See Notice how Conley is not digging down, He's
Speaker 2: getting back. That's the difference in their scheme. Notice Aunt,
Speaker 2: what was Shae doing on the other end in this
Speaker 2: exact same sequence. Shae was leaving this guy and stepping
Speaker 2: up into the lane. Ant is staying put. It's a
Speaker 2: one on one game for Oklahoma City. Same thing here
Speaker 2: against Julius Randall. See like Nikkeil Alexander Walker's face guarding
Speaker 2: Shaye off the ball, Ants staying home in the strong
Speaker 2: side corner.
Speaker 1: It's a one on one game.
Speaker 2: Nice shot though from jdeb See how Shane and Jadab
Speaker 2: are starting to win those matchups like consistently every time
Speaker 2: down the floor. That's literally when the game started to
Speaker 2: tilt in their favor.
Speaker 1: Here's an example of one of.
Speaker 2: Those shots from Dante Devensna that I just really didn't like,
Speaker 2: twenty one seconds on the shot clock, like a twenty
Speaker 2: eight footer off the dribble, and it's just that's not
Speaker 2: the shot you're going.
Speaker 1: To regain your rhythm with.
Speaker 2: Alright, this time Shay one on one against the Keile
Speaker 2: Alexander Walker. We did get a late keeloff double team
Speaker 2: from Dante here, very rare, but once again Shay starting
Speaker 2: to win that matchup. I thought this was an example
Speaker 2: of Julius Randall forcing the issue against a triple team,
Speaker 2: when I think this is the one we just saw
Speaker 2: something ahead. This is Julius Randall forcing against a triple
Speaker 2: team when there were corner kicks that were available. So again,
Speaker 2: like losing discipline, losing control of the situation, crowds into it.
Speaker 2: You need to get a good shot. Like in this situation,
Speaker 2: you've driven, we have a pinon flair from Nikkeiel Alexander Walker.
Speaker 2: You've got a nas read right here in the strong
Speaker 2: side corner. If Keson Wallace is going to put a
Speaker 2: foot in the paint off the strong side corner off
Speaker 2: of naz Reid. You have to make that pass every
Speaker 2: single time. This is not doing your job against the
Speaker 2: defensive scheme that you are facing. You can see the difference. Okay,
Speaker 2: see one on one. They're winning those battles all the
Speaker 2: one on threes, one on twos. These are the situations
Speaker 2: where Minnesota has to make Oklahoma City pay for this
Speaker 2: style of defense. Instead, you settle for a tough, contested
Speaker 2: mid range jump shot over a triple team. Shake gets
Speaker 2: all the way to the rim.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 2: You'll see help at the rim, but look at how
Speaker 2: late the help is because Minnesota doesn't want to help here.
Speaker 2: Shake gets all the way downhill. The guys come over late,
Speaker 2: right at the end after Shay has already split it.
Speaker 2: I really like Shaye, by the way, working one on
Speaker 2: one against Julius and Nas in this matchup. These are
Speaker 2: matchups I think he should be hunting more. He can
Speaker 2: get downhill against those guys or find openings just in
Speaker 2: basic screening action as they don't want to give up
Speaker 2: that switch. But all three Wolves have to leave there
Speaker 2: try to block this shot, or I should say those
Speaker 2: two in help. As a result, Shay actually is able
Speaker 2: to get up and beat them back to the ball
Speaker 2: and get an offensive rebound. Shay's really starting to win
Speaker 2: that battle at the point of attack. Now here's one
Speaker 2: of those post ups transition cross match Nazeri against Jay Dove,
Speaker 2: straight post up. Ja Doub wins the battle, but just
Speaker 2: being physically aggressive. Baseline double See like, look, there's the
Speaker 2: baseline double team.
Speaker 1: These are not one on ones. These are one on twos.
Speaker 2: You gotta stop thinking score and you gotta start thinking
Speaker 2: pass out of these post ups. You're playing right into
Speaker 2: o Casey's hands by trying to bully Rue and trying
Speaker 2: to score through these double teams. This was a really
Speaker 2: weird sequence. Another bad Julius Randall defense sequence. Julius Randall's
Speaker 2: on the ball, He's on JDub. Jdubb drives. JDub kicks.
Speaker 2: Everyone's matched up. Dante's on Casson, Nazarite is on Isaiah,
Speaker 2: Joe ants on, Kendrich Williams, Nikkeile, Alexander Walker is on Shay.
Speaker 2: Watch who quits playing. Jadub drives, Julius is on him
Speaker 2: kick Watch jadab JDub relocates to the top of the
Speaker 2: key and Julius decides to just point someone else go
Speaker 2: get him. Well, no one's there, Julius, He's wide open.
Speaker 2: Now Nikkeile Alexander Walker has to close out JDub ball
Speaker 2: fake gets into the lane. Really nice acrobatic finish in
Speaker 2: traffic cornerkick from Julius. But once again, I want you
Speaker 2: guys to watch it. Watch the location of the pass.
Speaker 2: Middle of the floor. There's our double team. Relocate, relocate
Speaker 2: double team from j dub Okay, there's our kick. If
Speaker 2: this pass hits nas right in the shooting pocket, it's
Speaker 2: a comfortable catch and shoot. Instead, the pass is low
Speaker 2: and because of the low pass, look at where Nasried
Speaker 2: has to catch it all the way down by his toes,
Speaker 2: which disrupts the rhythm and slows it down just enough
Speaker 2: so that case On Wallace can get a good contest
Speaker 2: on that shot. Those are those little details like and
Speaker 2: here's the thing, guys, there's a version of this game
Speaker 2: where that conleague corner three goes in. There's a version
Speaker 2: of this game where that nas Re corner three goes in.
Speaker 2: But you increase your change, like I talked about, variances
Speaker 2: far down the list for me below processed defense things
Speaker 2: along those lines. Put the ball in the shooting pocket.
Speaker 2: You give him a better chance to knock that shot down.
Speaker 2: Once again, look at how it looks like a one
Speaker 2: on one and Nasri doesn't even remotely consider helping until
Speaker 2: Nikkiel's dead to rights. He's like, Okay, oh shit, Nikkiel's
Speaker 2: dead to rights. I gotta get over there. And this
Speaker 2: is a hell of a defensive play. But it's just
Speaker 2: to me, it was jarring watching the film this morning
Speaker 2: when you really got, when you really look at it,
Speaker 2: just how different these two teams regarding each other, and
Speaker 2: gets a little one on one here at the top
Speaker 2: of the key, doesn't get into the pain enough to
Speaker 2: draw a double team, but you can see the bodies
Speaker 2: all behind him, goes into a little step back once again,
Speaker 2: look at Shae Shae. As as soon as Nikhil Alexander
Speaker 2: Walker cuts through, Shae's like, I'm done with him. I'm
Speaker 2: no longer worried about Nikhil Alexander Walker. I'm officially just
Speaker 2: in a soft zone double team of ANT, right, So
Speaker 2: ANT in this case needs to just wait for Nikil
Speaker 2: to relocate, continue to probe in this area and make
Speaker 2: the kickout pass instead, he settles for a little pull
Speaker 2: up mid range jump shot, and I like the mid
Speaker 2: ranges when you get down to fifteen feet. Once you
Speaker 2: get out to twenty feet, it doesn't really make a
Speaker 2: ton of sense to me here on this possession, Ant
Speaker 2: finally gets some downhill penetration against j dub And in
Speaker 2: the transition crossmatch. By the way, this is a small
Speaker 2: group for Oka. See there's no center on the floor.
Speaker 2: Rudy's kind of got an inside seal on Shay that
Speaker 2: prevents him from being able to protect the rim. Ant's
Speaker 2: able to get through into the lane, beats a dig.
Speaker 2: By the way, there's a dig from Isaiah Joe and
Speaker 2: actually gets on the way the rim on this one.
Speaker 2: There's going to be opportunistic things like that, especially in
Speaker 2: semi transition situations like that where there's cross matches. But
Speaker 2: again it's gonna be few and far between. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be a passing series for Ant and Julius. I thought
Speaker 2: this was a big time late shot clock kind of
Speaker 2: rescue sequence from Kenrich Williams. Dante gets cleanly beat. This
Speaker 2: hasn't happened often, but when he gets cleanly beat, that
Speaker 2: forces a help That help puts the defense in rotation.
Speaker 2: Go Bear's gonna slide over, Nasri's gonna slide over. Dante's
Speaker 2: gonna end up back on ken Rich. Now there's six
Speaker 2: seconds on the shot clock, and the best you can
Speaker 2: get here is this guy's just got to create a
Speaker 2: bucket against the closeout. Kenrich just boom, pull back, triable bucket.
Speaker 2: Here's a quality corner kick from Anthony Edwards to Nikhil
Speaker 2: Alexander Walker. Once again, I want you guys to pay
Speaker 2: attention to just the difference in the way he's being guarded.
Speaker 2: Ken Rich, full on double team, Crusoe, foot in the paint.
Speaker 1: Gets him in jail.
Speaker 2: Crusoe bails on Nikkeile Alexander Walker entirely, he's in the paint.
Speaker 2: Shae Yildes Alexander bails on Dante entirely, he's in the paint.
Speaker 2: Look at this, guys, there's there is no aunt just
Speaker 2: forcing it through all this shit. That's not that's not
Speaker 2: gonna be the pathway here. Corner kick the Dante's open
Speaker 2: corner kicked to Nikila is open. He makes the corner kick, boom,
Speaker 2: pump fake. That's a that's that's a you're not gonna
Speaker 2: like You're not gonna get a better shot forcing through
Speaker 2: the quadruple team than a Nikile Alexander Walker catching shoot
Speaker 2: three on the corner when he's been in the forties
Speaker 2: all year long. On this kind of shot, he just
Speaker 2: just missed it, just left it short. Here's that picking
Speaker 2: pop from kenridg Williams. Once again. The hesitancy to not
Speaker 2: that they don't want to switch knas onto Shay so
Speaker 2: to end up on the ball. Ken Rich just hops
Speaker 2: easy picking pop three knockdown, big shift from Kendrick Williams.
Speaker 2: In the second half yesterday, naz Reid's gonna force a
Speaker 2: post up here once again. Watch the corner kick reads
Speaker 2: that he doesn't make. I think he tries to force
Speaker 2: it through Chet. Yeah, a little screening action. Tries to
Speaker 2: go through Chet. There's a man down. Nikaile Alexander Walker
Speaker 2: is completely unguarded in the right corner. This pass has
Speaker 2: to be made, and instead he tries to force it
Speaker 2: through the rim protector turnover. Shay one on one against
Speaker 2: Nikhel just beats him. We get another peel off, double
Speaker 2: little late peel off from Dante. Dante did twice right
Speaker 2: when Shaye was going up for his shot. Was able
Speaker 2: to come over and get a contest. And by the way,
Speaker 2: that's one of the things. One of the things you'll notice,
Speaker 2: okay Se won a bunch of one on ones in
Speaker 2: a row. Now, what's starting to happen now that Okayse's
Speaker 2: winning those one on one We've seen back to back
Speaker 2: situations where Shay went to a pull up and Dante
Speaker 2: did a late peel off double. You, Okasee, by winning
Speaker 2: their ones, can turn that into opportunity to generate quality
Speaker 2: catch and shoots as Minnesota starts to overreact to that
Speaker 2: one on one success. Similarly, Minnesota go down to the
Speaker 2: other end, beat them, beat them, beat them with those
Speaker 2: kickout passes, hit a bunch of corner threes. Do it
Speaker 2: again and again and again, and you might see those
Speaker 2: guys start to stay home just kind of inherently because
Speaker 2: of their basketball instincts, which will create some more opportunities
Speaker 2: in the paint. Or you might get an audible from
Speaker 2: our Daginal or he basically goes, it's time to stay
Speaker 2: home and make these guys scorers. But you've got to
Speaker 2: beat the base scheme. Oka see beat the base scheme
Speaker 2: enough times that Minnesota is starting to crack a little bit.
Speaker 2: On the other end of the floor, Minnesota is not
Speaker 2: beating Okay sees base scheme because they're not hitting those
Speaker 2: corner threes or not hitting those kickout passes often enough.
Speaker 2: Now down eleven, and this is just losing control of
Speaker 2: the situation. Tough tough pull up three early in the
Speaker 2: clock down On the other end, as much as I
Speaker 2: hate this call, Shae once again just rejects the ball
Speaker 2: screen against Ant. Also, I don't think I don't think
Speaker 2: go Bear needs to be up this high, especially when
Speaker 2: you're trying tobaate Shane into taking jumpers instead of driving
Speaker 2: go Beart's got to be further back.
Speaker 1: But uh it, it gets beat.
Speaker 2: Hate the call, but still a bucket from Shae winning
Speaker 2: his one on one matchup. So I think there's a
Speaker 2: pretty clear trend that you guys can see from the film.
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City's packing the paint leaving shooters open, Minnesota is not.
Speaker 2: And whichever team can beat that scheme more effectively over
Speaker 2: the course of this series is gonna win and force adjustments,
Speaker 2: force that second layer of of whatever defensive idea Mike
Speaker 2: Mark Dagenel has or Chris Finch has, and in game one,
Speaker 2: Minnesota in the second half was unable to crack that
Speaker 2: scheme and Oklahoma City was and that was the difference
Speaker 2: in the game.
Speaker 1: And it's in Game two.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be on Minnesota because Okay, se he's not
Speaker 2: gonna bail on that scheme.
Speaker 1: It just worked.
Speaker 2: They held them to forty points in the second half.
Speaker 2: The only way they're gonna play them out of that
Speaker 2: scheme is by relentlessly making those reads and knocking down
Speaker 2: those shots. That's the pathway in Game two, Minnesota can
Speaker 2: win this series. I think they have the advantages they need,
Speaker 2: but I just didn't think they were nearly good enough in.
Speaker 1: That second half.
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