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Speaker 1: All right, welcome to Hoops tonight. You're at the volume.
Speaker 1: Happy Thursday, but I do I hope all you guys
Speaker 1: are having a great week. We got a quick film
Speaker 1: session this morning. I want to focus in on a
Speaker 1: couple of things with the Boston Celtics and their win
Speaker 1: over the Knicks last night in Game five one, just
Speaker 1: their offensive process. I want to focus in on Jalen
Speaker 1: Brown and just the job he did not forcing the
Speaker 1: issue early in the game, didn't take a tough, contested
Speaker 1: jump shot of any kind until about halfway through the
Speaker 1: second quarter. Just took advantage of easy, simple reads that
Speaker 1: were there in front of him all game long. As
Speaker 1: a team, you guys are going to see a clear
Speaker 1: theme in this film session, a lot of intentionality attacking
Speaker 1: Brunson through his chest right to the front of the rim,
Speaker 1: something that we haven't seen them successfully pull off really
Speaker 1: at any point in this series for any extended stretch.
Speaker 1: Well they did last night. And then at the tail
Speaker 1: end of it, we're going to focus on Luke Cornette
Speaker 1: and the defensive job that he did in the second half.
Speaker 1: I just want to high We're just going to watch
Speaker 1: all six of his blocks in the second half, and
Speaker 1: I want you guys to see just the specific way
Speaker 1: that he was able to be effective playing off of
Speaker 1: ash Hard And these are going to be obviously things
Speaker 1: that are going to have to be you know, these
Speaker 1: are things that Boston's going to have to leverage if
Speaker 1: they're going to win in Game six down in New York.
Speaker 1: I just pulled the offensive rating numbers, which I thought
Speaker 1: was fascinating. The offensive ratings for Boston and all three
Speaker 1: losses have been very low. But in each of the
Speaker 1: two wins, in Game three and in Game five, they
Speaker 1: had a half court offensive rating over one ten. And
Speaker 1: it's very clear that that's the driving force behind this team.
Speaker 1: When they reach their ceiling is when the balls popping
Speaker 1: around in the half court and they're able to reach
Speaker 1: their ceiling on that end of the floor. And again
Speaker 1: it's not a Tatum thing. They did it with Tatum
Speaker 1: in Game three, they did it without Tatum in Game five.
Speaker 1: But it's that intentionality that's going to have to be
Speaker 1: there for Boston in order to have any chance to
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Speaker 1: after each show. So that's the game plan for tonight.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk some basketball. So I want to
Speaker 1: start with this first possession here and really just highlight
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown setting the tone and the way that he
Speaker 1: wanted to attack on this night. So in this particular case,
Speaker 1: it actually starts against Josh Hart in a switch here
Speaker 1: against the along the right wing gets Josh Hart, action
Speaker 1: gets shut down. Now there's only nine seconds on the
Speaker 1: shot clock. There's no choice but for him to attack Heart.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have the opportunity to attack Brunson here, but
Speaker 1: watch just really aggress have moved downhill towards his left hand,
Speaker 1: brings oj Anobi both feet into the paint. Makes the
Speaker 1: kickout pass back to Horford on time on target. Doesn't
Speaker 1: ending to make but it's just a sign of the
Speaker 1: type of night that Jalen Brown was trying to have.
Speaker 1: He was trying to trust his teammates. He was viewing
Speaker 1: the offense as a team goal of scoring points, not
Speaker 1: of him putting up box score numbers. And also just
Speaker 1: an intentionality driving towards the basket. Now, this was the
Speaker 1: first time that the Nick's left Derek White open in transition,
Speaker 1: but I want you guys to see a specific part
Speaker 1: of it. You can see them starting to communicate and
Speaker 1: get matched up. McHale Bridges is sitting here thinking that
Speaker 1: Derek White is being carded. You could see him identify
Speaker 1: Derek White as he looks back to his left. I
Speaker 1: think he thinks that Karl Anthony Towns is going to
Speaker 1: get him. But then we get this brush screen from
Speaker 1: porzingis here against Jylen Brown, and both Kat and McHale
Speaker 1: Bridges end up stepping up into that little app in
Speaker 1: case Jalen Brown tries to turn the corner. There's Derek
Speaker 1: White wide open. Jalen Brown trusts him right in the
Speaker 1: shooting pocket, easy bucket. Drew Holliday misses this shot. But
Speaker 1: I want you guys to see just the intentional effort
Speaker 1: to try to go through Jalen Brunson's chest to the
Speaker 1: front of the rim. Again, You're gonna just see a
Speaker 1: ton of that in this game. Offensive rebound gets swung around.
Speaker 1: This is literally what happens after the offensive rebound they
Speaker 1: go around Brunson, has to close out to Jalen Brown.
Speaker 1: Now Jalen Brown goes through Brunson right to the front
Speaker 1: of the rim. Just a very uh, just an effort
Speaker 1: specifically to attack Jalen Brunson in his lack of strength,
Speaker 1: which I think is fascinating because for the majority of
Speaker 1: the series they've struggled against Brunson, and they've also been
Speaker 1: kind of more primarily focused on attacking Karl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 1: But real advantage there to go through Brunson's chest. Porzingis
Speaker 1: tries to attack Brunson here and it turns it over
Speaker 1: by missing. Ohjan and o be on a dig down,
Speaker 1: so they throw it into Porzingis he's dribbling down, Porzingis
Speaker 1: ends up turning it over because he just doesn't see
Speaker 1: Og get in there. You can kind of just see
Speaker 1: Og dig down and get a piece of the ball
Speaker 1: right there. One thing with Porzingis, I agree that I
Speaker 1: would go lean heavily into Cornette in Game six, But
Speaker 1: Porzingis is so talented and so capable of having a
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five point night in that sort of game
Speaker 1: just by getting something going with this three point shooting.
Speaker 1: And also there is a conditioning element to what's happening
Speaker 1: to him, which is stemming from the illness that he
Speaker 1: dealt with, and so in theory, in each passing game,
Speaker 1: he's gonna feel a little bit better. I would at
Speaker 1: least give Porzingis off the bench. I would give Porzingis
Speaker 1: a shift or two, maybe one at the beginning of
Speaker 1: each half, you know, in the late first quarter, lights
Speaker 1: third quarter, and just see what he's got. And if
Speaker 1: he's got it, then you can ride him a little
Speaker 1: bit longer. But then if he doesn't, you can give
Speaker 1: him the quickly you know, the quick pull. But it's
Speaker 1: just one of those things where you know, needing to
Speaker 1: win three games in a row against a team as
Speaker 1: good as the Knicks. He's a fire power piece, He's
Speaker 1: a wild card that could potentially work in your favor,
Speaker 1: and so I think it's at least worth giving him
Speaker 1: a shift. This I thought was just another example of
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown just kind of like having such impressive floor
Speaker 1: game last night and just feeling the just kind of
Speaker 1: feeling the flow of the game. He has no intention
Speaker 1: of trying to score here in transition. He knows that
Speaker 1: he doesn't have any sort of real advantage going through
Speaker 1: og and Andobi. But what he does is he just
Speaker 1: goes hard into a hard jump stop here around the
Speaker 1: foul line watch and as a result, he brings four
Speaker 1: knicks within a few feet of him and Derek White
Speaker 1: ends up getting wide open trailing in transition. If you
Speaker 1: watch his body language through this possession again, you can
Speaker 1: literally see how he's just driving for the sole purpose
Speaker 1: of occupying attention, but he sells it. Boom, easy kick out.
Speaker 1: Up Here we go. Jaylen Brown attacking Jaylen Brunson again,
Speaker 1: this time transition cross match. He gets him straight up
Speaker 1: early in the possession throw down to the post. Aggressive
Speaker 1: move occupies Karl Anthony Towns that leaves Cornette open great
Speaker 1: interior past Cornette in the same way that in the
Speaker 1: same way that Jaylen Brown was bringing rim pressure and
Speaker 1: playmaking early in the game, Derek White was bringing insane
Speaker 1: shot making early in the game. And just whether it
Speaker 1: was gaps against switches, you know, in transition cross this
Speaker 1: was his second transition crossover pull up three or this
Speaker 1: was just a high hesitation, but he did one out
Speaker 1: of a crossover earlier. A lot of a high level
Speaker 1: shot making from Derek White that was providing the offensive
Speaker 1: pop early in the game. Once again, same sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson or excuse me, Jaylen Brown gets Jalen Brunson
Speaker 1: attacks through. Jalen Brunson occupies the rim protect or, leaving
Speaker 1: the easy offensive rebound put back for Cornette. Howser misses
Speaker 1: the shot. This is just stack pick and roll again.
Speaker 1: So Cornette's gonna screen and Howser's gonna slip out of it.
Speaker 1: This is kind of like a version of stack pick
Speaker 1: and roll that the Warriors used to run with Klay Thompson.
Speaker 1: Most stack usually stems out of the bottom, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of down underneath the basket, and they relocate up here.
Speaker 1: The Warriors used to run it with Klay Thompson coming
Speaker 1: off of the wing and slipping out to the opposite wing,
Speaker 1: and so this is what that looks like. And again
Speaker 1: he misses that shot. But it's just an example of
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown just trusting the easy reads throughout the game.
Speaker 1: Two on the ball, Howser's open, Just throw the pass,
Speaker 1: No need to force anything already. This is an offensive
Speaker 1: rebound kickout from Jalen Brown. So he gets the ball
Speaker 1: here at the top of the key against Og. He's
Speaker 1: just standing waiting for the play to develop, and he goes, oh, look,
Speaker 1: Howser's open, and he just throws it to him. Again,
Speaker 1: just relentlessly trusting these easy swing passes, kick ahead passes,
Speaker 1: transition kickouts. Like just Jalen Brown was just not forcing
Speaker 1: the issue early and was just operating as a passing
Speaker 1: fulcrum of his team first team, and it was just working.
Speaker 1: Same sort of thing here Chris Topsporzingo Sen's of drawing
Speaker 1: a foul slipping out of a ball screen. If you
Speaker 1: guys watched once again, as he comes up to set it,
Speaker 1: notice the inside position screen too. Let's take a look here.
Speaker 1: So the inside position screen, he knows that this screen
Speaker 1: doesn't serve any purpose other than to trigger a switch,
Speaker 1: so he doesn't need to Typically, if you're trying to
Speaker 1: set him up for a drive, his screening angle is
Speaker 1: going to be perpendicular to where he's at right now,
Speaker 1: on Mikal Bridges's left shoulder, so that Jalen Brown can
Speaker 1: attack downhill over that side of the screen. Instead, he's
Speaker 1: screening directly behind McHale Bridges for the sole purpose of
Speaker 1: triggering the og An and Obi switch, but giving him
Speaker 1: inside position. As og switches out, McHale's not in position
Speaker 1: to be able to handle the slip and he ends
Speaker 1: up drawing a foul. There. Nice pass from Jalen Brown.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to highlight this shot because this was
Speaker 1: the first like tough contested shot that Jalen Brown took
Speaker 1: in the whole game, and it was in you know,
Speaker 1: six and a half minutes left in the second quarter.
Speaker 1: Just to show you how deliberatey he was being, he
Speaker 1: actually hit a little jump shoot run here. He ends
Speaker 1: up hitting four jump shots in this run. I think
Speaker 1: we have one more that I show in this film session.
Speaker 1: Go screen Peyton Pritchard a lot of ghost screen action.
Speaker 1: You're going to see a ton of this moving forward
Speaker 1: where it's just you know, Prichard coming up to set
Speaker 1: a screen as notice the pre switch from the Knicks too,
Speaker 1: So instead of sending Brunson up there, they said McBride
Speaker 1: hedge and recover, close out Peyton, Pritchard just shows the
Speaker 1: ball and ends up getting a clean look from three.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see a ton of this sort of action.
Speaker 1: And generally speaking, if there's a switch, if like Mitchell
Speaker 1: Robinson decided to switch, you can see he's got his
Speaker 1: body and focus completely on Jalen Brown and Pritchard's slipping
Speaker 1: out of it. So this guy can sometimes get caught
Speaker 1: off guard in the gap just because his entire focus
Speaker 1: and attention is on a different defender. Or in a
Speaker 1: hedge and recover situation with Duce McBride, he's hedging, but
Speaker 1: look at where he is now. He's out of position.
Speaker 1: Now he's got to close out. On those closeouts, you
Speaker 1: have such an advantage just by like showing the ball
Speaker 1: or throwing a jab step. It's just easy to beat
Speaker 1: a defender in those specific types of situations. Here we
Speaker 1: go again, same exact thing, Derek White screen slip and
Speaker 1: once again now look at this time they switch. So
Speaker 1: on this one Duce McBride just got beat on a
Speaker 1: hedge and recover, so this time he's switching. But look,
Speaker 1: Mitchell Robinson is slow to react. Now they have to
Speaker 1: rotate from the weak side. He doesn't get there in time.
Speaker 1: Derek White's open another jumper from Jalen Brown, this time
Speaker 1: a drop coverage jumper. Moving to his right. Mitchell Robinson
Speaker 1: switches the first one screen technically not a drop, but
Speaker 1: it kind of functions as a drop because Michale bridges
Speaker 1: his back in McHale's and Mitch is trying to go over,
Speaker 1: and so there's that gap right as McHale's too far
Speaker 1: back and Jalen just settles into it knocks it down.
Speaker 1: So four jumpers made in that run. He hit like
Speaker 1: a little three coming off of a wide off of
Speaker 1: like a wide pinned down kind of action, and then
Speaker 1: he hit a pull up jump shot over I think
Speaker 1: over Jalen Brunson, if I remember correctly, But again a
Speaker 1: little brief burst there where he's super aggressive trying to
Speaker 1: look to score the back basketball. And again that's part
Speaker 1: of his job too. Like when I talk about these
Speaker 1: things with with floor game and managing the flow of
Speaker 1: basketball games. That doesn't mean that Jalen Brown shouldn't look
Speaker 1: to be aggressive as a scorer. It's about balance. It's
Speaker 1: about balancing the times in the game where it makes
Speaker 1: sense for you to you know, here, for the next
Speaker 1: few minutes, I'm getting buckets. But like, you just can't
Speaker 1: come out the gates in the first quarter and do
Speaker 1: that and not establish any sort of flow in the game.
Speaker 1: I've talked a lot about the ability to beat closeouts
Speaker 1: with a hard jab step when someone's closing out on
Speaker 1: a specific shoulder, so more like a side close out
Speaker 1: versus a face up close out. Here's another ghost screen.
Speaker 1: We've seen this a million times. Right screen, there's the
Speaker 1: hedge from Brunson that creates a small gap. So as
Speaker 1: you can see here, Jalen Brunson is sprinting at Drew
Speaker 1: Holiday's left shoulder. So what is Drew Holiday gonna do?
Speaker 1: A jab boom? Watch Jalen Brunson on the jab Look
Speaker 1: at where his left foot is all the way over here.
Speaker 1: That gives him the angle and then once again that
Speaker 1: intentional effort to go through Jalen Brunson towards the front
Speaker 1: of the rim Drew Holliday gets all the way there
Speaker 1: and finishes this time Jalen Brown's turn off of an
Speaker 1: offensive rebound, Horford slaps it out, goes to Brown. He's
Speaker 1: got brunts in on him, just right through him, missus.
Speaker 1: But Cornette wants to this is the thing you occupy
Speaker 1: that riom protector, watch Kat, Kat leaves his feet. As
Speaker 1: soon as Kat leaves his feet, boom, he has no
Speaker 1: chance to get the offensive rebound. Now Cornett's in a
Speaker 1: commanding position to get the offensive rebound. Now, three consecutive
Speaker 1: possessions where the Knicks lose Derek White in transition. The
Speaker 1: first one here, and you can kind of see as
Speaker 1: they're running down the floor this like close up, Josh
Speaker 1: Hart's pointing, get up, get up, get this guy, get
Speaker 1: that we gotta They're trying to communicate, but it's just
Speaker 1: not manifesting in execution, and they end up leaving Derek White.
Speaker 1: How about again on the very next possession. This might
Speaker 1: be a few possessions later. Let me see, Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is a few possessions later. But it happens three times
Speaker 1: in a relatively short span of time here in the
Speaker 1: early third quarter. Fast forward a little bit trailing wide open.
Speaker 1: This one is the very next possession again, so Derek
Speaker 1: Whitez just hit his second transition three on literally the
Speaker 1: very next the very previous possession, still not matched up
Speaker 1: with him, still not matched up with him, still not
Speaker 1: matched up with him, and then we get a panic
Speaker 1: close out that draws a foul. The knicks transition execution
Speaker 1: on defense was as bad as I've seen them. Another
Speaker 1: nice driving kick from Jalen Brown gets Downhill, draws in
Speaker 1: all the defense. Look at look at him, defenders he
Speaker 1: has around him. He's got three knicks literally within three
Speaker 1: feet of him. Kick out the Pritchard corner three bucket.
Speaker 1: Here's a ghost screen action with Pritchard and Hawser. We've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of ghost screens in this game. Fast
Speaker 1: forward a little bit, so Pritchard's our handler. Same concept, right,
Speaker 1: so Howser's going to screen as he screens og lingers.
Speaker 1: They switch it right but once, just like I talked
Speaker 1: about on that play with Mitchell Robinson, Josh Hart is
Speaker 1: now responsible for Hawser. And look at where he's bought.
Speaker 1: His body's positioned, his face is turned towards Prichard, his
Speaker 1: hips are all screwed up. His like He's just a
Speaker 1: little off balance, and Howser's running still once again. Now
Speaker 1: you've got this like closeout situation and Josh Hart's just
Speaker 1: not even close to being there in time, and Howser
Speaker 1: just rises and fires. A lot of these kinds of actions.
Speaker 1: Look at the just simple, simple dribble pitch action here
Speaker 1: with Howser. Howser just made a three right handoff Og
Speaker 1: wants to get up. Jalens still pursuing easy over the
Speaker 1: top pass to Drew Holiday layup. It's effectively the same
Speaker 1: kind of principle as a ghost screen, Drew Holidays just
Speaker 1: slipping to the basket instead of to the three point line.
Speaker 1: There once more for good measure, another Jalen Brown, Jylen
Speaker 1: Brown attack of Jalen Brunson out of a double drag.
Speaker 1: So on the double drag, Jalen Brunson switches the final
Speaker 1: screen and Jalen just goes right through him, draws a
Speaker 1: foul last possession that will highlight for the Celtics offense.
Speaker 1: Before we start talking a little bit about Cornett, although
Speaker 1: you get a little teaser there with Cornette's block, we
Speaker 1: go down the floor. This is I just thought, like
Speaker 1: a really quickly flowing in rhythm Celtics offense little transition
Speaker 1: probe semi transition probe from Jalen swings out. Notice the
Speaker 1: the one of the accomplishments of that semi transition probe
Speaker 1: from Jalen Brown. Look at all the Knicks defenders. Josh
Speaker 1: Hart's keyed in on him, ogn Andobi's kick completely keyed
Speaker 1: in on him. Mitchell Robinson is keyed in on him,
Speaker 1: and Cornett swing out. Now the defense is not loaded
Speaker 1: up in any real way. There's no gapping here around
Speaker 1: the elbow. That Jalen Brown transition pushed essentially creates an
Speaker 1: already kind of like disheveled Knicks defense. Swing Cornett goes
Speaker 1: like he's gonna set a ghost scream, but then he
Speaker 1: realizes Derek White's driving, so he gets out drive and
Speaker 1: drop off to Cornett. Cornett handoff to Houser coming off
Speaker 1: that same exact action we just saw with Drew Holliday.
Speaker 1: Look at Mitchell Robinson a little too high dunk for Cornett.
Speaker 1: So if you guys watch it in full speed, watch
Speaker 1: how this rhythm breaks down the Knicks defense. It's in
Speaker 1: my transition push swing, swing, drive, the close out hand
Speaker 1: off bucket all right, let's take a look at Cornett's
Speaker 1: defense here down the stretch. Once again, he's guarding Josh Hart.
Speaker 1: Little drop coverage, get screen and stack right. Josh Hart
Speaker 1: is now wide open. His job is to contend with
Speaker 1: Josh Hart in these situations. That's handling him, attacking closeouts,
Speaker 1: getting good contests on three point shots, keeping him off
Speaker 1: the offensive glass. In this case, he throws a nice
Speaker 1: heard close out that baits him. He throws a nice
Speaker 1: heart close out that bates him into driving. Then he
Speaker 1: forces the drop off. Now he's the roamer again. He's
Speaker 1: back to focusing as an off ball help side defender,
Speaker 1: and he gets Carl Anton Towns same thing, starts to
Speaker 1: drop kickback on the drive, and hey, there's Josh there's
Speaker 1: Josh Hart's one offensive rebound last night. This is this
Speaker 1: is this got logged as an offensive rebound. Boop, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can go ahead and have that back. And then
Speaker 1: he just panic throws it out of bounce once again,
Speaker 1: this time just kind of a chaotic offensive rebound. He's
Speaker 1: not even on Josh Hart in this specific sequence, but
Speaker 1: Carl Town's just not aware that Cornett was stocking him
Speaker 1: this whole game. Here in the second half, again dealing
Speaker 1: with Heart blocks Jalen Brunson again, sinking off of Heart
Speaker 1: gets o j Ananobe this time and that leads to
Speaker 1: that transition sequence where they end up scoring. And then
Speaker 1: I believe this is the one where he blocks Josh
Speaker 1: Hart in the corner. Let's see, so we get a
Speaker 1: corner kickout and this time he closes the gap. Look
Speaker 1: two feet in the paint and he gets all the
Speaker 1: way out to block Josh Hart for three. Just really
Speaker 1: really impressive stuff from Luke Cornett and that defense. And
Speaker 1: again I think you guys can see from the tape
Speaker 1: just the flow that the offense had, and it just
Speaker 1: starts with the you know, their lead shot creator, not
Speaker 1: forcing the issue and just trusting simple reads and creating
Speaker 1: advantages while also you know, probing when he needs to
Speaker 1: and being aggressive when he needs to. You get shot
Speaker 1: making from Derek White. Excellent flow throughout the offense as
Speaker 1: guys are getting in and out of screens quickly and
Speaker 1: being aggressive and decisive in those situations. And then just
Speaker 1: a really like just a kind of a showcase of
Speaker 1: what Luke Cornett is capable of as a defensive player.
Speaker 1: In that second half, as the Celtics end up bringing
Speaker 1: this series back to New York, and again a lot
Speaker 1: of those concepts will travel, and if they travel with
Speaker 1: those concepts, they're going to give themselves a really good
Speaker 1: chance to win. All Right, guys, That's all I have
Speaker 1: for today is always as sincerely appreciate you guys for
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