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Speaker 1: So again, Yeah, I wanted to. I watched a bunch
Speaker 1: of bits and pieces from a bunch of different games.
Speaker 1: So rather than like doing super big deep dives into
Speaker 1: individual games, I want to kind of bounce around with
Speaker 1: ten takeaways and then we'll get into our film. So
Speaker 1: first takeaway, Kate Cunningham has the potential to be a
Speaker 1: really impactful two way player. The Pistons Lakers game last
Speaker 1: night was really fascinating in the sense that, like, the
Speaker 1: Lakers are a team that typically physically bullies you. That's
Speaker 1: what their advantage is, right, Like the paint. The Lakers
Speaker 1: are a paint dominant team, but they do it without
Speaker 1: getting a lot of dribble penetration. It's a lot of
Speaker 1: rolling hard into the paint, cutting hard into the paint, posting,
Speaker 1: and trying to generate rim pressure by just backing dudes
Speaker 1: down and trying to play bully ball around the basket right,
Speaker 1: and the Lakers got bullied last night. They ran into
Speaker 1: another really big frontline. Jalen Duran played great, Isaiah Stewart
Speaker 1: played great. K Cunningham played great, Tobias Harris played great,
Speaker 1: And that really is the key is all four of
Speaker 1: those guys can reason a well guard Lebron and ad
Speaker 1: on an island. None of them can get completely shredded
Speaker 1: in bullie situations. Like both Tobias Harris and K Cunningham
Speaker 1: did a really nice job guarding Lebron, James and Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis in individual post up situations. Kaye did a great
Speaker 1: job on Lebron. He did about as good a job
Speaker 1: as I've seen a player on Lebron that's given up
Speaker 1: some weight and size in a very long time. Forced
Speaker 1: him consistently into those right shoulder turnarounds that he wasn't
Speaker 1: able to make. He wasn't Lebron wasn't able to really
Speaker 1: leverage his size inside, and again, like you always want
Speaker 1: to have defensive versatility, right, We've seen throughout this season,
Speaker 1: like Jalen Duran when he runs into spacing bigs kind
Speaker 1: of like what happened to Carl Town's the other day,
Speaker 1: he kind of gets lost, he doesn't know where to be.
Speaker 1: His big man instincts that drag him into the paint
Speaker 1: keep causing him to lose shooters off the ball. It's
Speaker 1: a little bit of a rough look, but when they
Speaker 1: run into a power frontline, it's actually a really nice
Speaker 1: matchup for Detroit. And one of the specific things that
Speaker 1: Detroit did last night was they did a lot of
Speaker 1: switching when you have four guys between Tobias Harris, Kate Cunningham,
Speaker 1: Isaiah Stewart, and Jalen Duran at various points in the game.
Speaker 1: In the game, they were even able to put Kate
Speaker 1: on Austin for stretches and switch the Lebron Austin ball screen.
Speaker 1: And if you guys remember and we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about this as one of the other takeaways that can
Speaker 1: be a weakness for the Lakers, which we're going to
Speaker 1: get to in a second, and they were able to
Speaker 1: capitalize on that. I also thought Kid Cunningham on the
Speaker 1: offensive end was unbelievable last night, just picked the Lakers
Speaker 1: apart down the stretch, picking on matchups, hunting Austin reeves, hunting,
Speaker 1: hunting ruy Hat Tramura, like he straight up posted ruy
Speaker 1: Hat Tramura and bullied him to a spot, hit a
Speaker 1: nice little left shoulder fade, spun off of him and
Speaker 1: drew a foul. He was getting buckets on Austin Reeves.
Speaker 1: He was just he was just frying every single one
Speaker 1: of the Lakers perimeter defenders. I thought Kid was amazing
Speaker 1: last night. It was just kind of like a little
Speaker 1: glimpse into what he can be, which is a really
Speaker 1: interesting two way player that can pick teams apart in
Speaker 1: the half court. But he also has enough size and
Speaker 1: quickness to be pretty versatile defensively online switching look and
Speaker 1: that's again, when you're talking about defensive versatility, it'd be
Speaker 1: nice if the Pistons just had a really good switching
Speaker 1: look and didn't always have to feel like they need
Speaker 1: to run a drop coverage. It's a way to kind
Speaker 1: of give yourself that defensive versatility. Really impressive win for
Speaker 1: the Pistons last night. Again, we have a tendency as fans,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure Lakers fans were thinking of this, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk to some Lakers today, but Lakers fans
Speaker 1: and a lot of other fans, we have a tendency
Speaker 1: to be like, oh, we just didn't play hard tonight,
Speaker 1: or oh, like they this is we're bullshitting out there,
Speaker 1: this is this isn't what we really are. And it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's always a little bit of that, Like that's certainly
Speaker 1: part of it. I think I think even Pistons fans
Speaker 1: would agree if like the Lakers and the Pistons played
Speaker 1: a playoff series tomorrow, that the Lakers are beating them, right, Like,
Speaker 1: it's not about that, but sometimes we do a bad
Speaker 1: job of acknowledging what the winner did in those types
Speaker 1: of situations. I thought the Pistons played a great game.
Speaker 1: I thought they brought incredible physicality. They talked a bunch
Speaker 1: of shit, and they backed it up with the way
Speaker 1: that they were playing. Jaden Ivy was incredible, Cade was
Speaker 1: incredible as a stewart was incredible, Tobias Harris made a
Speaker 1: bunch of big plays. It was just a really impressive win.
Speaker 1: So shout out to the Detroit Pistons. Number two, the
Speaker 1: Lakers will struggle to beat teams that have big bodies
Speaker 1: that can switch Lebron ad actions, and like we talked
Speaker 1: about earlier, the guard action with Austin Reeves, right, this
Speaker 1: was something going way back to the Lakers season preview.
Speaker 1: If you guys remember, one of the biggest weaknesses for
Speaker 1: the Lakers over the course of the last several seasons
Speaker 1: has been running into switching defenses. And one of the
Speaker 1: main reasons why is think of it like this, Switching
Speaker 1: defenses shut down screening actions. One of the most important
Speaker 1: parts of what makes the Lakers offense successful is rollman
Speaker 1: possessions and cut possessions and weak side skips. Right, So
Speaker 1: like everything that they get out of ball screens. Right,
Speaker 1: So they run a ball screen and they hit Ad
Speaker 1: on the roll and he makes like a little floater
Speaker 1: in the lane, or he gets a dunk right, or
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, you stay home on the roller, the
Speaker 1: pick and roll ball handler, it hits a shot off
Speaker 1: the glass or something like that. Or oh, they stepped
Speaker 1: over to help on Ad on the roll, so Ruey
Speaker 1: cuts along the baseline and they hit Ruey and Ruey
Speaker 1: dunks in on the baseline, or they skip it to
Speaker 1: the other side of the floor and Ruey hits a
Speaker 1: three in the corner or something like that. Like, they
Speaker 1: get a lot of their offense off of screening actions
Speaker 1: and rolling and cutting late game situations it's like, we're
Speaker 1: gonna spam the Austin Lebron ball screen. Why because typically
Speaker 1: teams won't switch it, and they can get a pocket
Speaker 1: pass to Lebron, which allows him to get downhill without
Speaker 1: having to beat somebody off the dribble. The Lakers have
Speaker 1: to manufacture paint pressure through screening actions, and so when
Speaker 1: they run into switching schemes, that shuts off that automatic
Speaker 1: baked in dribble penetration that they get, or cut or
Speaker 1: roll penetration that they get, and suddenly it becomes about
Speaker 1: can Lebron James and Anthony Davis score in the post?
Speaker 1: And the reason why is because Austin is pretty good.
Speaker 1: I'm creating his own shot, but he's not great at it.
Speaker 1: D Loo not great at creating his own shot, ruly
Speaker 1: okay at it? Not great at it. So when team
Speaker 1: is really tighten the screws defensively, it turns into Lebron,
Speaker 1: can you back your man down and get a bucket?
Speaker 1: And Anthony Davis can you draw a double team and
Speaker 1: make those kickout passes? And it's like Lebron's backing down
Speaker 1: Kid Cunningham and Kate's holding his ground and Lebron's taking
Speaker 1: that right shoulder fade away that he's never made over
Speaker 1: like thirty five percent of the time in his entire career.
Speaker 1: Right you go to Anthony Davis in the post, he
Speaker 1: draws a double team, he rifles a pass right out
Speaker 1: of bounds in the right corner, because again, he's a
Speaker 1: capable kickout passer in those situations, but not great.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Again, as far as the Lakers go against switching schemes
Speaker 1: in high leverage moments, I'm not as worried about it
Speaker 1: because Lebron James is gonna play better. Lebron played really
Speaker 1: poorly last night. He really struggled to leverage his gifts
Speaker 1: in those post up situations. I'm not worried about him.
Speaker 1: He has a weird habit of kind of getting stronger
Speaker 1: as the season goes along. He's clearly not really at
Speaker 1: full speed yet this season, and that's going to reflect
Speaker 1: poorly in games like this when the Lakers kind of
Speaker 1: come out flat. But in these kinds of regular season nights,
Speaker 1: when they run into a good athletic team that's switching action,
Speaker 1: it's can Lebron and Ad dominate the game out of
Speaker 1: the post. They did not last night, and they lost
Speaker 1: do I think that Lebron and Ad can leverage that
Speaker 1: when it comes time, when it's really winning time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they're inconsistent with it in the regular season. And
Speaker 1: that is a big part of why I said in
Speaker 1: the season preview for the Lakers, switching teams are going
Speaker 1: to cause the Lakers problems. It takes away their baked
Speaker 1: in offensive advantages and forces them to earn those advantages
Speaker 1: through physical exertion, which Lebron and Ad don't always want
Speaker 1: to do over the course of the regular season. Number three,
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves may need to consider taking a few games off.
Speaker 1: I thought last night was one of the probably the
Speaker 1: worst defensive game of Austin Reeves' career to this point.
Speaker 1: Was dying on screens everywhere, was routinely getting attacked one
Speaker 1: on one, was getting beat to the offensive glass.
Speaker 2: He looked a step slow.
Speaker 1: Austin, Do I think he should be guarding the other
Speaker 1: team's best player every night? No, and that's something the
Speaker 1: Lakers need to address. But he is a good perimeter defender.
Speaker 1: He competes, He's got enough size to where he can
Speaker 1: at least kind of get.
Speaker 2: In the way.
Speaker 1: He's good at poking the ball away when guys have
Speaker 1: sized mismatches because he attacks down low instead of trying
Speaker 1: to contest up high. Austin is a solid defender. He's
Speaker 1: not good enough to be the best point of attack
Speaker 1: defender on a team, but he's a solid defender. But
Speaker 1: he was getting fried last night and he looked a
Speaker 1: step slow. I understand you played eighty two games last year.
Speaker 1: I understand you've played every game so far the season.
Speaker 1: I understand that's a point of pride. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, especially when they have got like
Speaker 1: I Cam Reddish stepped in and actually played pretty well
Speaker 1: last night, it's kind of funny. I don't think Cam
Speaker 1: Reddish should be playing as many minutes as Darvin Ham
Speaker 1: played him last year, but it's always funny when he
Speaker 1: checks into the game. How immediately you're like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: this is what it looks like when the Lakers have
Speaker 1: a six to eight athlete on the floor with long
Speaker 1: arms who plays hard right Like you immediately go like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, Like that's how good this looks next to
Speaker 1: Lebron and and Cam's not even a very good player.
Speaker 1: He's just six s eight and rangey and athletic, and
Speaker 1: he plays hard, and it kind of changes the dynamic
Speaker 1: of how the Lakers look athletically. But like, do I
Speaker 1: want Cam playing twenty minutes a night for a serious
Speaker 1: playoff team. No, But like he got some burn last
Speaker 1: night and he looked okay, And it's one of those
Speaker 1: things where it's like, let Cam step in for like,
Speaker 1: let Cam and Gabe and Dalton and Max and d
Speaker 1: Lo run the back court for a few games. Take
Speaker 1: get that ankle right, because like this team is gonna
Speaker 1: they're already so unathletic on the perimeter. They can't also
Speaker 1: have Austin playing with the bad wheel and getting fried
Speaker 1: all over the floor. He needs to take some time
Speaker 1: get that ankle right, get back to full speed so
Speaker 1: that he can be a more staunch force on the
Speaker 1: perimeter for the Lakers. On defense, number four Russell Westbrook
Speaker 1: is still one of the very best one on one
Speaker 1: get a stop guys in the NBA. Super interesting game
Speaker 1: between the Raptors and the Nuggets last night in Denver,
Speaker 1: as Toronto looked like they were gonna sneak out of
Speaker 1: there with a win.
Speaker 2: Toronto's been really feisty.
Speaker 1: I was watching the Laker game the other night, and
Speaker 1: the Lakers jump them in the first half, and then
Speaker 1: the Raptors like really wore the Lakers down in the
Speaker 1: second half and made that into a game. Then they
Speaker 1: turned around and beat the Kings the next night. Then
Speaker 1: they turned around and went into Denver and had them
Speaker 1: dead to rights late before Yo Kitchen. The Nuggets out
Speaker 1: executed them and ended up getting the win anyway. But like,
Speaker 1: Toronto's a little feisty, and they've proven that over the
Speaker 1: course of the last week. So they end up in
Speaker 1: a late game situation where the Nuggets are up one
Speaker 1: twenty one to one nineteen and they run a play
Speaker 1: for RJ. Barrett to get an ISO against Russell Westbrook
Speaker 1: on the left wing. And we're gonna look at this
Speaker 1: play in a little bit more detail in the film session.
Speaker 1: But Rust did an incredible job of disrupting Barrett's rhythm
Speaker 1: from the start of the possession, hard reachins, slapping at
Speaker 1: the basketball making Barrett uncomfortable, a good hard bump on
Speaker 1: the one dribbled drive that he made where he chested
Speaker 1: him up and hit a hard bump by swiping at
Speaker 1: the basketball, and by taking that hard bump.
Speaker 2: He took our r J. Barrett out of his natural rhythm.
Speaker 2: Now RJ.
Speaker 1: Barrett still somehow got a shot up that went in
Speaker 1: and out and almost went in, but it was again,
Speaker 1: that's playing the results. If that shot goes in, that's
Speaker 1: not Russell Westbrook's fault. I thought it was unbelievable defense
Speaker 1: on that final possession where he made RJ. Barrett take
Speaker 1: an outer rhythm, janky, clunky step back three well above
Speaker 1: the break. I thought it was an awesome defensive player
Speaker 1: play for Russell Westbrook. And that's a tough job, because
Speaker 1: that's the job you're taking, where it's like, if he
Speaker 1: gets scored, if he scores on me, I get roasted
Speaker 1: online for the next twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: Right Like, it's a tough job.
Speaker 1: And I thought Russ did a really really good job
Speaker 1: to close out that game for the Denver Nuggets. Number
Speaker 1: five Passcalciaka has become one of the most devastating mismatch
Speaker 1: attackers in the post in the NBA.
Speaker 2: Down the stretch of.
Speaker 1: The MAVs game, there was just not a player on
Speaker 1: the MAVs that could guard Passcalciakam. Even when they went
Speaker 1: to PJ. Washington late, he was just getting right around
Speaker 1: him and right to the rim. Now, now as we're
Speaker 1: having other problems that continue continually gave up easy buckets
Speaker 1: on makes and on Missus in transition as Indiana kind
Speaker 1: of exposed their lack of foot speed. And that's the thing,
Speaker 1: like for one of the things that will be a
Speaker 1: downside of going the Klay Thompson direction instead of the
Speaker 1: Derek Jones junior direction is you're just not as fast
Speaker 1: and you're just up and down the floor and transition
Speaker 1: gonna have some issues. And there's a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: that Indiana can expose with Dallas where it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: Tyres Halliburton and uh and Ben Matherin are isoting Luka
Speaker 1: Doncic at the top of the key and just beating
Speaker 1: him off the dribble because they're faster. Oh you're you
Speaker 1: made a shot in the lane.
Speaker 2: That's nice.
Speaker 1: Well, we're just gonna run it right down the lane
Speaker 1: the other way, right down the floor, and transition the
Speaker 1: other way. Catch you in rotation, drive it close out
Speaker 1: with Andrew Nemhart and get a layup like the even
Speaker 1: on every miss basket, they're looking to push up the
Speaker 1: floor and they really really exposed the MAS for a
Speaker 1: lack of team speed. Actually, I should skip ahead Number
Speaker 1: six is the MAVs with Klay Thompson will struggle against
Speaker 1: teams with speed. That was something that Indiana showed last night. Now,
Speaker 1: going back to number five, Pascal did a lot of
Speaker 1: damage attacking out of the post against everybody that Dallas
Speaker 1: had because they didn't really have anybody that can guard him,
Speaker 1: and it's given Indiana a different look they can go
Speaker 1: to in the half court, especially now at this point
Speaker 1: in the season where Tyre's Halliburton is still kind of
Speaker 1: getting his legs underneath them. Pascal is getting one point
Speaker 1: three to four points per possession including passes on post ups,
Speaker 1: which is by far the best in the league among
Speaker 1: players who have run at least twenty five this year.
Speaker 1: Those are you guys wondering who's in second place. It's
Speaker 1: Julius Randall with the Minnesota timber Wolves. But yeah, moving
Speaker 1: forward to number six, I do think the MAVs will
Speaker 1: struggle against teams with speed. Their counter to that is
Speaker 1: going to have to be really sound execution on offense
Speaker 1: to try to prevent turnovers and bad misses that lead
Speaker 1: to transition pushouts. Floor balance, meaning like when guys misshots,
Speaker 1: making sure that you're relocating on the perimeter so that
Speaker 1: you have guys that are back, and then just really
Speaker 1: good attention to detail and transition defense, sprinting, communicating ball
Speaker 1: in basket first, then spreading out to shooters at least
Speaker 1: making them make a jump shot in those situations. But
Speaker 1: there again that it just you can make up for
Speaker 1: personnel limitations by being very sharp. But if you're not
Speaker 1: sharp and you're dealing with personal limitation, that's when you
Speaker 1: can get exposed. Number seven, The Kings can really put
Speaker 1: you into some matchup problems. They closed with DeMar Derozen,
Speaker 1: Malik Monk and earon Fox last night, and he just
Speaker 1: kind of run out of bodies and it ended up
Speaker 1: being a lot of Demarta Rosen attacking against Tyler Harrow.
Speaker 1: DeMar de Rosen was unbelievable down the stretch of this game.
Speaker 1: Caught Tyler Harrow's hand in the cookie jar and hit
Speaker 1: a pull up three at the top of the key.
Speaker 1: He iso bam at a bio and hit a pull
Speaker 1: up jump shot around the elbow like he did the
Speaker 1: same thing to Anthony Davis and the Laker game. Where
Speaker 1: like it is a luxury for dearon Fox and for
Speaker 1: Demona Sabonis and for Malik Monk and for Mike Brown
Speaker 1: and the Kings.
Speaker 2: That they have another guy that they.
Speaker 1: Can really lean on in these late game situations to
Speaker 1: generate offense. Derozen was un believable down the stretch of
Speaker 1: this game as they stole a game from Miami. Miami
Speaker 1: was up one o eight to one oh three. They
Speaker 1: got out of their droz and hits that big shot,
Speaker 1: plus the falas of Bonus gets a huge offensive rebound,
Speaker 1: another play where he kind of was engaged with Bam
Speaker 1: and just hit it with a little swim move, get
Speaker 1: a little bit of separation, got that ball, just hit
Speaker 1: that little pop shot and stole a game in Miami
Speaker 1: against the heat. The Kings are starting to play a
Speaker 1: little bit better. We'll be interested to see if they
Speaker 1: can get some momentum here. Number eight, Steph Curry still
Speaker 1: really good at basketball. I've got a fun stretch for you,
Speaker 1: got Warriors fans in the in the film session where
Speaker 1: a late third quarter stretch where Steph just started spamming
Speaker 1: split action and other screening actions with Looney while he
Speaker 1: was being guarded by Jordan Poole, and he generated points
Speaker 1: on five out of six possessions by just making the
Speaker 1: right read every single time. I'm gonna show you guys
Speaker 1: in the film session the way that he does it.
Speaker 1: But like, the Warriors team has got such a high floor.
Speaker 1: They're so good on defense, they're flying around, they've got
Speaker 1: so much speed, they're so good in training, and now
Speaker 1: you're adding Steph Curry to the equation as a guy
Speaker 1: that can really methodically run half court offense. Really really
Speaker 1: excited to see how the Warriors perform against their next
Speaker 1: four opponents, which are all pretty tough. I think it's Celtics,
Speaker 1: I think the Calves are in there. I want to
Speaker 1: say it's the Knicks two, and then it's the MAVs.
Speaker 1: So they got four really really tough games coming up.
Speaker 1: We'll get to learn a lot about the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 1: Number nine, Jason Tatum's pull up jumper is on fire.
Speaker 1: You've got a crazy hot streak against the Atlanta Hawks
Speaker 1: last night, just picking them apart with step back threes
Speaker 1: and good playmaking and attacking in the post port Dyson
Speaker 1: Daniels is too small for him. Really big game from
Speaker 1: him last night. But last year, Jason Tatum was getting
Speaker 1: zero point nine to six points per pull up jump
Speaker 1: shot off the dribble. This year, he's up to one
Speaker 1: point zero eight, a really positive trend for the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 1: And then finally number ten, Jalen Green's shooting makes him
Speaker 1: into a very interesting prospect once again. Last night hit
Speaker 1: a really nice movement three coming up to the top
Speaker 1: of the key out of action in the half court.
Speaker 1: That movement three piece is going to be really exciting
Speaker 1: for him because he's such a good athlete that if
Speaker 1: he can get really consistent with that shot, he's going
Speaker 1: to become very difficult to guard. Remember that's something that
Speaker 1: Tyres Maxie added to his game, where it's like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start in the right corner and just sprint up
Speaker 1: off of a double screen catch at the top of
Speaker 1: the key and just rise and fire. I don't have
Speaker 1: to deal with ball pressure, I don't have to deal
Speaker 1: with as much physicality. I can just run up and
Speaker 1: get to basketball and shoot. And he's a good enough
Speaker 1: athlete and he's vertical enough that he has such a
Speaker 1: high release point that it's a really difficult shot to guard.
Speaker 1: And then just like you get it did against the
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks after they cut the game down to three,
Speaker 1: hits a massive pull up three on the right wing.
Speaker 1: That ice is the game, puts the Knicks away. Big
Speaker 1: win for the Uston Rockets last night. A lot of
Speaker 1: teams in my power rankings lost last night, but the
Speaker 1: Uston Rockets did avail themselves well as they got a
Speaker 1: big win over a good team in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, let's get into our film session. All right,
Speaker 1: So our first clip, this is the Russell Westbrook defense clip.
Speaker 1: So once again, I want you guys to watch as
Speaker 1: Russ comes up on RJ. Bhar Watch how quickly he
Speaker 1: starts attacking the pocket to try to make RJ feel
Speaker 1: uncomfortable and disrupt his rhythm. You're gonna see it almost immediately.
Speaker 1: So in mound clear space, watch Russ. It's reach one, boom,
Speaker 1: poke at it, poke at it again. Let's poke at
Speaker 1: it again. Here it comes boom. Just try to make
Speaker 1: him feel uncomfortable, messing up with his footwork. Then here
Speaker 1: comes the bump, right hard drive. Watch him beat the
Speaker 1: beat him to the spot and bump him. Now he's
Speaker 1: off rhythm once again. So all he's done to this
Speaker 1: point is focus on attacking RJ.
Speaker 2: Barrett's rhythm.
Speaker 1: In his bass again, he actually gets a really nice
Speaker 1: contest here too, like this is a great contest on
Speaker 1: the shot, excellent contest, but he had a lot of
Speaker 1: opportunity early in the possession to disrupt the rhythm. Now
Speaker 1: I want you to not pay attention to Russ at
Speaker 1: all for a second. Just watch RJ. Barrett and watch
Speaker 1: his feet and watch how out of sorts he is
Speaker 1: this whole possession. By the way, great job from Marj Barrett.
Speaker 1: Still getting a decent look against against really really tough defense.
Speaker 1: But watch how like kind of disheveled this play looks
Speaker 1: because of Russ attacking early, like, it just looks like
Speaker 1: he's a little bit unorthodox. So shout out to him
Speaker 1: for almost getting that thing to go in. But I
Speaker 1: thought that was incredible defense from Russell Westbrook. All right,
Speaker 1: moving on to the Lakers Pistons game, there's an example
Speaker 1: of the Pistons with their size. So again, they have
Speaker 1: Isaiah Stewart, who they could put on Jackson Hayes in
Speaker 1: this lineup, right, But they have Tobias Harris that they
Speaker 1: can put on Lebron and they have Kad Cunningham on
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves. And because Kate Cunningham is big. They can
Speaker 1: When the Lakers go to this Lebron Austin two man game,
Speaker 1: it's just switch, right. So because of the switch, there's
Speaker 1: no driving lane. That's the whole point. It's all about
Speaker 1: baked in driving lanes.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So if Kate's chasing and Tobias steps up, Lebron's gonna
Speaker 1: roll and he's gonna be wide open. But Kate's not chasing,
Speaker 1: he's switching, and Tobias is just containing. Now they're going
Speaker 1: to turn back and go to the post. And Kate
Speaker 1: just did a really nice job all night just forcing
Speaker 1: Lebron into these right shoulder fades. Another one too, Like
Speaker 1: you guys saw the play that got overturned. Isaiah Stewart
Speaker 1: all night long on Lebron post ups, whether it was
Speaker 1: Jackson Hayes or Anthony Davis, did such a nice job
Speaker 1: putting himself in position where it's like, hey, if you
Speaker 1: come this way, I'm going to be there waiting for you.
Speaker 2: At the rim. He looked like you.
Speaker 1: Pissed Lebron off in that late third quarter stretch and
Speaker 1: I was like, this could get ugly. But again, a
Speaker 1: shout out to the Pistons. They talked a lot of
Speaker 1: shit last night, and they backed it up. Here's an
Speaker 1: example of just like when the Lakers get into space
Speaker 1: that can look slow sometimes, this time Jade and Ivy
Speaker 1: just absolutely toast Lebron James off the dribble. So double
Speaker 1: team of Kate in the post. Kate just did a
Speaker 1: wonderful job attacking matchups all night. But the big problem
Speaker 1: here is Lebron straight up one on one against Ivy,
Speaker 1: and Ivy just goes right by him.
Speaker 2: To the rim.
Speaker 1: Here's Kate hunting Austin Reeves, so Ruey starts the possession
Speaker 1: on him, and he did some work against rue too,
Speaker 1: but it's here comes the screen to get Austin on
Speaker 1: the switch, just goes hard dribbled move to the right,
Speaker 1: absorbs the contact and just turns the corner on him
Speaker 1: and makes that little easy floater in the lane. This
Speaker 1: time the Lakers actually, we're able to get a favorable
Speaker 1: matchup in a switch. And this is where you got
Speaker 1: to be a little bit more diligent, right, So I
Speaker 1: like how they're using Lebron out of the post to
Speaker 1: get a switch. So here's the post on this particular possession.
Speaker 1: They don't have as many of their big bodies out there, right,
Speaker 1: they just have Kate and they have Stu. So with
Speaker 1: Kate and Stu, they're going to switch any Lebron AD action.
Speaker 1: So they want to get Austin into the action so
Speaker 1: they can force a switch on the handoff. He gets
Speaker 1: the switch and gets inside positioned on Ivy. Then they're
Speaker 1: able to kind of throw it to him on that
Speaker 1: seal and he gets an easy layout. But once again,
Speaker 1: look at Stewart again, this is a tough bank shot
Speaker 1: because Stu does a great job coming over and contesting
Speaker 1: Lebron off of Ad. There's another one of those possessions
Speaker 1: where Austin just like really struggled at the point of attack.
Speaker 1: Watch him just die on the screen. There's just nothing there,
Speaker 1: just no effort on the ball, and he just kind
Speaker 1: of gives up the hard drive that forces Lebron to
Speaker 1: hard help, which forces Ruy to rotate, draw the foul
Speaker 1: on the.
Speaker 2: Ron.
Speaker 1: Holland draws the foul driving at Ad at the basket.
Speaker 1: But like again, like as we go back here, just
Speaker 1: Austin's clearly gassed. Like this big possession, fourth quarter possession,
Speaker 1: He's clearly gassed. He clearly doesn't trust his foot to
Speaker 1: move like. I think he needs to take a couple
Speaker 1: of days off. Here's another play where Jade and Ivy's
Speaker 1: just going right at Austin Reeves doing the same thing
Speaker 1: that Austin does to people sometimes, where he just kind
Speaker 1: of drives in there and gets that contact. When the
Speaker 1: Lakers ran action the other play I don't have in here,
Speaker 1: but right after this they ran a horn set again
Speaker 1: in a ball screen and got the game down to five.
Speaker 1: This is when the Lakers cut into one oh three
Speaker 1: ninety eight. But when they ran action against the switching,
Speaker 1: they were having more success, and I'm a little disappointed
Speaker 1: that they didn't stick with this more often down the stretch.
Speaker 1: But here's an example off of action, We're gonna get
Speaker 1: ad comes and sets the screen on Tobias inside position,
Speaker 1: easy over the top pass finish. When they were more
Speaker 1: diligent about it, they were better again. They ran a
Speaker 1: ball screen on the very next possession. It was like
Speaker 1: a double drag, I think, if I remember correctly, out
Speaker 1: of horns, and they ended up getting a dunk for
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis. But it was just too much dribbling the
Speaker 1: ball off the floor, trying to attack against the switch
Speaker 1: and just not getting good stuff.
Speaker 2: Out of it.
Speaker 1: Here's that ridiculous left shoulder fade that Kate Cunningham hit
Speaker 1: over Ruey Hotcha Mura. This is again not even with
Speaker 1: the size advantage. He's given up weight here, but look
Speaker 1: at how he bumps Ruey and Ruey's always struggled to
Speaker 1: hold his ground, but Ruey kind of gives up that
Speaker 1: angle on that bump there, and really really nice little
Speaker 1: fade away jump shot from Kid. And then this was
Speaker 1: inevitably going to start happening. So as the Lakers were
Speaker 1: getting cooked on these ISOs, it was inevitable that they
Speaker 1: were going to have to start shading towards the ball
Speaker 1: more so this time. I believe Kid goes at Austin
Speaker 1: on this one. Let's see, he's clearing the side so
Speaker 1: that he can get his ISO. Gets his ISO. Now
Speaker 1: we're digging down, right, So Kid's been causing problems for Austin.
Speaker 1: We're digging down now. The inevitable counter to that is
Speaker 1: what if you just get beat by a swing pass
Speaker 1: in a three point shot? And that's what Jade n
Speaker 1: Ivy does. Big time shot from j and n Ivy.
Speaker 1: It was awesome all night, all right. Moving on to
Speaker 1: Pacers MAVs, and this was a nice little split cut
Speaker 1: action from the from the Pacers that again playing a
Speaker 1: lot through passcal in the post split cut, two worst
Speaker 1: defenders on the floor for the MAVs involved in the play.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have Obie Toppin is gonna fake like he's
Speaker 1: setting a flare screen on Luca. So as you watch
Speaker 1: as he comes over to set that flare screen on Luca,
Speaker 1: Ben Shepherd's kind of breaking, so he's gonna talk switch right,
Speaker 1: So Luca's gonna be like, hey, Clay, you switch out,
Speaker 1: I'll take top. And as he comes over, but Toppin's like, wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: Luca's gonna guard me, but he's standing way the hell
Speaker 1: out here, so he goes, fine, I'm just gonna cut.
Speaker 1: Luca's not paying attention. Nice pass from Siakam gets a bucket.
Speaker 1: Really nice split action there from the Pacers. A little
Speaker 1: bit of Luca hunting that we saw in this game.
Speaker 1: In this case, Ben Matherin going at Luca in space again,
Speaker 1: just he's got his match up clear the side. They
Speaker 1: clear the wing so that there's more space. They interchange,
Speaker 1: gets beat off the dribble, It gets the end one.
Speaker 1: Lucas looked pretty slow here in the early part of
Speaker 1: the season. You can tell what that calf injury just
Speaker 1: kind of disrupted his conditioning to.
Speaker 2: Start the year.
Speaker 1: Here's another example of that inside seal that we talk about.
Speaker 1: So Dinwoody tries to screen to Haliburton hedges and recovers.
Speaker 1: So then they go to set it again, but this
Speaker 1: time they know the hedge is coming. So right when
Speaker 1: Halliburton goes to hedge out Dinwitty, look at the angle
Speaker 1: of the screen. He's not screening to get Kyrie at drive.
Speaker 1: He's screening to get inside position. Watch him bump him bump, Yeah,
Speaker 1: look at where he's setting the screen. That's all in
Speaker 1: order to trigger that hedge and get his little opportunity
Speaker 1: to roll downhill. Tyree scambles and misses it. Dinwoody makes
Speaker 1: a nice little floater in the lane. Easy basketball. Here's
Speaker 1: a made basket by Dinwitty. Watch how Dinwoody falls over
Speaker 1: look it out quickly. Indiana capitalizes on it. Run up
Speaker 1: the floor's five on four. Where's our advantage? Oh Nemhard's
Speaker 1: wide open on the right corner. Close out hard jab step,
Speaker 1: easy drive and taking advantage of the five on four
Speaker 1: in transition because of didn't Woody falling over another transition push.
Speaker 1: Look at the floor balance here, guys. So I've got
Speaker 1: one player above the break. I think it's PJ Washington.
Speaker 1: I've got Luca that's below the break, Klay Thompson below
Speaker 1: the break, Kyrie Irving below the break, and Daniel Gafford
Speaker 1: below the break. So bad floor balance and then jogging
Speaker 1: on the side, quick run up the floor, easy layup
Speaker 1: a really bad transition defense, and Indiana definitely put their
Speaker 1: footspeed on display in that game. This was a really
Speaker 1: nice offensive rebound for Miles Turner, just poking it out
Speaker 1: on Luca that causes the offensive rebound, and then Tyre
Speaker 1: Saliburton finds himself wide open in the middle of the
Speaker 1: lane hits the shot that ends up being your dagger.
Speaker 1: Miles Turner had a really nice game in this one.
Speaker 1: I wanted to just kind of show an example of
Speaker 1: some Miles Turner at thirty did a bunch of damage
Speaker 1: in the post when Dallas went to centerless looks, and
Speaker 1: then he also did some damage in pick and pop situations.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to kind of show you an example
Speaker 1: of beating ice coverage without having to set a screen.
Speaker 1: So again, so this is setting up to be a
Speaker 1: ball screen, right, So clear sideballscreen. Haliburton's gonna come off
Speaker 1: of Miles Turner. Right, But watch if you look at
Speaker 1: the most NBA teams are going to ice side ball screens,
Speaker 1: ICE meaning try to reject the use, force the ball
Speaker 1: handler to reject the screen and force them towards the sideline.
Speaker 1: So Clay is going to jump way onto the high side.
Speaker 1: Here he jumps onto the high side to force Tyrese
Speaker 1: Haliburton to go. Gafferd's there to kind of corral You're
Speaker 1: trying to force Tyres into some sort of like tougher
Speaker 1: kind of like contested mid range shot in this area
Speaker 1: around the short corner. But notice Turner doesn't even bother
Speaker 1: setting a screen. There's no reason for him to set
Speaker 1: the screen because it's an ICE. If he sets the screen,
Speaker 1: Aliburn's just gonna have to reject it anyway. So instead
Speaker 1: Turner stops and pops because he knows Gafford is the
Speaker 1: other half of the ice coverage. The ice coverage is
Speaker 1: to corral Halliburton in this area of the floor. But
Speaker 1: in order to crawl Haliburton, they have to use the
Speaker 1: big and a drop. The best counter for a drop
Speaker 1: is a pop. We're popping to Turner here. Tyrese does
Speaker 1: a nice job dragging it further down. The further you
Speaker 1: drag it down, the longer the rotation gets a straight up,
Speaker 1: wide open look for Miles Turner. I also like it
Speaker 1: when teams use the pick and pop just to get
Speaker 1: the defense in rotation. Here's an example of that from
Speaker 1: the Knicks game. So normally this would be Karl Anthony Towns,
Speaker 1: but they're actually guarding Josh Hart with the center, which
Speaker 1: is something that we saw Boston do on Opening Night,
Speaker 1: and like I said, it's copycat league, you're gonna see
Speaker 1: lots of teams continue to do that. They do that
Speaker 1: because Carl Towns is the more dangerous above the break shooter,
Speaker 1: and so you put a wing on him so that
Speaker 1: they go Brunts and Towns ball screens they can just
Speaker 1: switch them. But if you run a if you put
Speaker 1: your center on Josh Hart, he essentially becomes the guy
Speaker 1: that has to pick an popped and he's not as
Speaker 1: good of a shooter.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: But what I like about this is that you do
Speaker 1: it anyway as an opportunity to just get the defense
Speaker 1: in rotation, so as you can see, it's going to
Speaker 1: look just like a typical ball screen. Right, Brunson tries
Speaker 1: to turn the corner. Shangun is dropping. Josh Hart pops right,
Speaker 1: Josh Hart pops. Here's our closeout opportunity. Right, just shows
Speaker 1: the ball that forces the close out beats him off
Speaker 1: the dribble. Now, boom right here got a four five
Speaker 1: on three. Right, they're five on four. Right in the
Speaker 1: five on four, Brunson relocates over to the wing. Swing
Speaker 1: out that forces Jalen Greene to rotate wide open shot
Speaker 1: for Michale Bridges in the right corner, knocks it down.
Speaker 1: Beautiful basketball. Again, just trusting to get the defense in
Speaker 1: rotation off of the pick and pop by getting a
Speaker 1: close out. Watch it full speed one more time. Close
Speaker 1: out beats it swing swing wide open three. Here's a
Speaker 1: really nice example of the Rockets playing defense to get
Speaker 1: in transition once again. Notice they trust Amn Thompson here,
Speaker 1: so no one's overhelping. They're not allowing for easy kickout opportunities.
Speaker 1: They trust. Thompson does a nice job beating Brunts into
Speaker 1: the spot, forcing him into a tough fadeaway jump shot
Speaker 1: gets a great contest. Now watch Houston's speed in transition.
Speaker 1: Everyone's home off the ball. There was no kickout opportunity.
Speaker 1: That also makes it easier for you to rebound right,
Speaker 1: get the offensive defensive rebound. A couple of knicks are slow,
Speaker 1: we got an opportunity to run the floor. Here Jalen
Speaker 1: Green pushes out with pace. Notice how Jalen Green beats
Speaker 1: both of these two with just straight line speed. Now
Speaker 1: you're dead to rights. Now I've got a two on one.
Speaker 1: The two on one, Carl Towns has to step up
Speaker 1: to stop Jalen Green. It's that Tarry Easton ends up
Speaker 1: getting the reverse layup. Nice defense to transition sequence there
Speaker 1: from the rockets. This was unbelievable. Watch this, uh watch
Speaker 1: this short roll slip from a men Thompson. This was
Speaker 1: one of my favorite players from last night. So once
Speaker 1: again we're trying to attack Brunson. Right, Brunson's going to
Speaker 1: hedge like small guards do in this situation. When he
Speaker 1: goes to throw his hedge, though, here comes the hedge boom.
Speaker 1: As he throws the hedge, Thompson slips. Thompson on the slip,
Speaker 1: watch him on the catch, throw a pass faked Van
Speaker 1: Fleet in the corner. Watch McHale bridges completely bite on
Speaker 1: the pass fake. Then he just goes right into his
Speaker 1: hop step dunk. Unbelievable play on the short role from
Speaker 1: a men Thompson. And again, remember coming out of coming
Speaker 1: out of coming into the NBA draft. The number one
Speaker 1: kind of like offensive skill that everyone was excited about
Speaker 1: with them men Thompson was his playmaking ability in his
Speaker 1: feel for the game. All right, this was the Jalen
Speaker 1: ground dagger three. Just a ridiculous shot kind of he
Speaker 1: hit the one against Dallas over on this side of
Speaker 1: the floor, but he gets a double team on another
Speaker 1: screening action to try to attack Brunson, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter about the double team. He just rises over the
Speaker 1: top and hits the shot. Really nice piece of shot
Speaker 1: making from Jalen Green. Who's done that two games now?
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to King's heat. In this one,
Speaker 1: we've got Demarta Rosen creating his own shot against Bam
Speaker 1: and a Bio in a switch again hedge and recover
Speaker 1: with Harrow. How much of a luxury is it that
Speaker 1: he can end up in a switch against some of
Speaker 1: the best defensive players in the league. And still create
Speaker 1: his own bucket. I thought this was a beautiful postfeed
Speaker 1: against We got to switch here, right, So Rosier is
Speaker 1: guarding de Rosen, Bam is on Sabonis. DeRozan rejects the
Speaker 1: screen and forces the switch. So now Bam is on Derozen.
Speaker 1: Now Rosier is on Sabonis. So Sabonis runs down to
Speaker 1: the block. Rosier does what the Miami Heat always do
Speaker 1: with post mismatches. They always front the post. Keegan Murray
Speaker 1: here is in the corner though, which makes it really
Speaker 1: tough for Jimmy to bracket it. Miami typically wants to
Speaker 1: bracket their post front, meaning they want to post, but
Speaker 1: they want somebody in this area. So if you throw
Speaker 1: the over the top pass, that can get in there
Speaker 1: and disrupt it. In this case, Demarta Rosen perfect over
Speaker 1: the top feed to Saboni's easy bucket. This is all
Speaker 1: the interesting sequence where the Heat, on back to back
Speaker 1: possessions spammed their double drag action but tweaked it on
Speaker 1: the second time and made it harder on themselves. So
Speaker 1: here's the double drag run with two occupied corners. Okay,
Speaker 1: the two occupied corners create a much larger gap for
Speaker 1: Tyler Harrow to operate with over here to try to
Speaker 1: turn the corner, which obviously allows Malik Monk to help.
Speaker 1: But then you have a kickout pass over here in
Speaker 1: the left corner. So watch on this play. As Harrow
Speaker 1: comes this way, there's so much space over here that
Speaker 1: he's able to drag Sabonis's hedge and turn the corner.
Speaker 1: When he drags the Bonus's hedge and turns the corner,
Speaker 1: that allows Bam at a bio to get behind Sabonis.
Speaker 1: When Bam gets behind Sabonis, and remember that's the action
Speaker 1: of the double drag, Jimmy's gonna pop, BAM's gonna roll, right,
Speaker 1: So Jimmy pops, Bam rolls, but Bam gets behind the
Speaker 1: entirety of the three man defense of the action that
Speaker 1: forces Malik Monk to step up and tag. Then Tyler
Speaker 1: t he earns the corner, makes a beautiful kickout pass
Speaker 1: to Rogier, who hits the three. But here's the weird part.
Speaker 1: They go down the other end. This is the next
Speaker 1: possession for the Kings. DeRozan ends up catching Tyler Harrow's
Speaker 1: hand in the cookie jar. Notice right there, as soon
Speaker 1: as DeRozan feels that contact, right there, he knows he's shooting.
Speaker 1: DeRozan knows right there as a read, got my hand
Speaker 1: in the let. This is that high hesitation, right left hand.
Speaker 1: High hesitation is a bridge move. He can go to
Speaker 1: anything from there. He can shoot from there, he can
Speaker 1: drive left. From there, he can cross over, go between
Speaker 1: the legs behind the back. From there, he can do
Speaker 1: everything he can do a step back from there, and
Speaker 1: in an out dribble, he can do everything from the
Speaker 1: high hesitation. That's his decision making dribble. Every really good
Speaker 1: ball handler makes their decisions out of high hesitation because
Speaker 1: it bridges to whatever they need to do from there.
Speaker 1: Right sitting in his high hesitation, Tyler Harrow's left arm
Speaker 1: is in on Demarta Rosen's right hand. So now Demarta
Speaker 1: Rosen knows right away I'm gathering into the three catches.
Speaker 1: His hand in there, hits it. Now it's a four
Speaker 1: point play. Now it's one eight, one oh seven. So again,
Speaker 1: now Miami just ran an action and scored out of
Speaker 1: a double drag. Right, so let's do the exact same thing, right,
Speaker 1: don't fix what isn't broke. For whatever reason, they decide
Speaker 1: to load up the side that they're driving to and
Speaker 1: keep this left corner wide open. So now as Tyler
Speaker 1: Harrow comes off of this off the double drag, look
Speaker 1: at how much more congestion there is in this area. Now,
Speaker 1: Like there's just no area for Tyler Harrow to turn
Speaker 1: the corner. So Bonus also doesn't hedge quite as hard.
Speaker 1: But even then, Tyler's probably gonna look to drive this
Speaker 1: more if it's not so congested in here, and instead
Speaker 1: he ends up having to snake the ball screen and
Speaker 1: take a really tough fifteen foot fade away. The only
Speaker 1: now here's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking the idea is
Speaker 1: part of it is like, okay, maybe we're gonna set
Speaker 1: a pin in flare, right, so like uh, Pella Larson
Speaker 1: shout out there as a wildcat, sets a nice little
Speaker 1: pinin flair to try to generate Rogier a decent look.
Speaker 1: But I still think they get a contest there. The
Speaker 1: only real defense for this, I think is if you're
Speaker 1: trying to clear the side. If Harro wants to kick
Speaker 1: back for a Butler iso, so like then it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: if it doesn't work here, you work it back over
Speaker 1: to this side, and Butler has a cleared side My
Speaker 1: thing is like it just worked with occupied corners, so
Speaker 1: why not run it again and see if you can't
Speaker 1: get the exact same look, You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: That was just a little bit confusing. But again I'm
Speaker 1: being kind of nitpicky there.
Speaker 2: Interestingly enough, if he.
Speaker 1: Were leaving Tyler Harrow on an island against the rosen
Speaker 1: on this possesion, which I thought was strange again with
Speaker 1: especially with Jimmy Butler on Kegan Murray. But one of
Speaker 1: the things I talk about all the time with really
Speaker 1: good pull up shooters is don't worry so much about
Speaker 1: trying to contest the shot, focus on attacking down low right.
Speaker 1: We talked about that with Russell Westbrook. Watch Tyler Harrow
Speaker 1: wait for DeRozan to expose the ball and swipe it.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: He's not even looking at the contest. He's just looking
Speaker 1: at attacking the pocket. Really nice defense draws the foul
Speaker 1: hits both free.
Speaker 2: Now we're up three.
Speaker 1: They end up going back to Jimmy, just like we
Speaker 1: were talking about. They finally go to Jimmy on Derozen here,
Speaker 1: but Terry Rosier digs down once again.
Speaker 2: Jimmy too.
Speaker 1: Notice Jimmy is attacking the pocket reaching attacking the pocket.
Speaker 1: Terry probably shouldn't have dug down there, but he did
Speaker 1: that forces to close out. Boom, Malik Monk beats the
Speaker 1: closeout just ridiculous jack hammer dunk. And then here we
Speaker 1: are on the final possession. Notice the bonus on this
Speaker 1: swim move. Good defense from Pelo Larson. By the way,
Speaker 1: how about Pelo Larson, the rookie get earning the trust
Speaker 1: of Eric Spolstra here down the stretch, beats Daron Fox
Speaker 1: to the spot. Impromptu double team from Jimmy Butler. Only
Speaker 1: thing with the Jimmy Butler double team is he's one
Speaker 1: of the guys that's in position to secure the defensive rebound.
Speaker 2: So in this.
Speaker 1: Case you probably trust Pela because there's so much time left.
Speaker 1: But because Jimmy leaves the rebound situation, now it's a
Speaker 1: four on three down here, but de Rozan has inside
Speaker 1: position and watch the bonus. Just a little subtle shove
Speaker 1: on Bam gets the separation, hits the little pop shot
Speaker 1: knocks it down. So yeah, like a couple of impromptu
Speaker 1: double teams from Terry Rozier and from Jimmy Butler down
Speaker 1: the stretch that cost Miami. There all right onto Warriors Wizards.
Speaker 1: Here was a really nice play where Jonathan Kmingo in transition.
Speaker 1: Notice again on this possession, he's in transition, Steph's up
Speaker 1: up the floor. I thought this was a moment of
Speaker 1: growth for Jonathan Kamingo. Watch us, he's looking, He's looking
Speaker 1: for Steph the whole time, tracks him down, hits him
Speaker 1: in the right corner for three. Again, if you want
Speaker 1: to play the Warrior system and this isn't like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're catering things for Steph, you better throw the ball
Speaker 1: to Steph whenever you can, because there's there's aren't many
Speaker 1: play types in the league that are as valuable as
Speaker 1: as Steph curry anything from the three point line. All right,
Speaker 1: this is that sequence of actions where Steph was attacking
Speaker 1: Jordan Poole. Steph really just put Jordan Pool in the
Speaker 1: blender here in this late third quarter stretch. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna run it out of split. So we're gonna throw
Speaker 1: the post entry to Looney and then we're gonna set
Speaker 1: this flare screen for Jordan Pool. But Steph picks up.
Speaker 1: Jordan does a good job chasing. But now for Steph,
Speaker 1: he knows that Jordan is recklessly chasing, and so he
Speaker 1: knows his best chance is to bait him in committing
Speaker 1: a dumb foul. So notice how he pump fakes, gets
Speaker 1: him closer, kind of dribbles into him, gets into this
Speaker 1: spot right here. Once again, he knows Jordan's being way
Speaker 1: over aggressive in his pursuit, so he just leans back
Speaker 1: into him and takes the floater and draws the foul.
Speaker 1: Little veteran gamesmanship there from Steph Curry. Same exact thing
Speaker 1: on the next time down the floor. This time's Looney
Speaker 1: sets a much better screen. So now when Looney sets
Speaker 1: the much better screen, it's hard to do this. This
Speaker 1: is what the Warriors do to you too. They wear
Speaker 1: you down with their screening actions. You start to get tired.
Speaker 1: Jordan's chasing, He's working Boom Looney. What lays the wood
Speaker 1: that generates the separation Valancechunis is a little bit more
Speaker 1: on the contained side of this. So when Steph hits
Speaker 1: the step back, he overplays the step back that allows
Speaker 1: Steph to get separation to hit the fifteen foot that
Speaker 1: then runs into this next possession Valanceudis just had a
Speaker 1: step back jump shot hid in his face by Steph Curry.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So now on this play he's gonna step further out.
Speaker 1: We're gonna run a ball screen here with Looney. This time,
Speaker 1: Valanceutis has to come way out because he knows Steph
Speaker 1: just hit a pull up jump shot that causes the
Speaker 1: role to be wide open. Looney gets the layup. Great
Speaker 1: little athletic finish from Kamon Looney too. Okay, so we're
Speaker 1: three for three here. Steph ends up drawing another foul
Speaker 1: on the next possession, gets free throws. Then on this
Speaker 1: possession he actually misses a layup on this one. But
Speaker 1: this was a great example of a reed in the
Speaker 1: split cut as well. So same thing on the opposite
Speaker 1: of the floor. They're setting it up the same way
Speaker 1: they did, just it's a mirror image. Jordan Poole is
Speaker 1: top locking this time, though he's trying to prevent Steph
Speaker 1: from coming back this way towards the screen. So what's
Speaker 1: the read THREEID is just cut and he does hard
Speaker 1: cut kaminga hits him, just smokes the layup on this one.
Speaker 1: But really smart gamesmanship from Steph Curry in the late
Speaker 1: third quarter stretch of this game. Last one from this
Speaker 1: late third quarter run Chicago into a Reeves screen. So
Speaker 1: this is that Chicago or Zoom action right, So you're
Speaker 1: having a pinned down into a dribble handoff. But watch
Speaker 1: how it works. Steph sets the first screen, they switch it.
Speaker 1: Then Loony comes over and sets the next screen for Curry.
Speaker 1: Now he's got his defender and trail position right now
Speaker 1: that the defenders in trail position. If Steph fakes anything
Speaker 1: downhill this way, this defender is going to react to it.
Speaker 1: Watch how Steph gives it one hard step boom that
Speaker 1: forces that hard step. Now he's done. It's over. He's
Speaker 1: already lost the battle. He reacted to that step from Steph.
Speaker 1: That gets him plenty of separation and then the beauty
Speaker 1: with Steph. The thing that everybody doesn't account for enough
Speaker 1: is how strong his legs are and how quick he
Speaker 1: is at resetting his base.
Speaker 2: Watch this hard step back. Watch the end of the
Speaker 2: shot though.
Speaker 1: So now he's gonna push really hard off of that
Speaker 1: right foot, and then he's gonna get both feet back boom.
Speaker 1: Notice how both of his feet are at a forty
Speaker 1: five degree angle back the other way. It's because he's
Speaker 1: stopping all of his backward momentum, all of his momentum
Speaker 1: is carrying him away from the basket, so he's stopping
Speaker 1: that on a dime and meeting it with opposite force
Speaker 1: so that he can go straight up and down.
Speaker 2: Notice how it's still good.
Speaker 1: He jumped forty five degrees, but he went straight up
Speaker 1: and down because he had all of his momentum going
Speaker 1: the other way, straight up and down. Open look for Steph.
Speaker 1: Curry's gonna go in. Well over forty percent of the
Speaker 1: time hits that one puts the Warriors back up double digits.
Speaker 1: Beautiful basketball from Steph Curry. This is funny too. I lie,
Speaker 1: there's one more so Now Jordan Pull's pissed off, right,
Speaker 1: He's frustrated Steph's been giving him the business. Now he's
Speaker 1: just gonna commit a foul in the back court. Oh
Speaker 1: that's not even Jordan Poole, is it? But again, frustrates
Speaker 1: them gets him to commit a silly foul in the
Speaker 1: back court. Okay, this is a really nice inside seal
Speaker 1: from Jason Tatum. This is bread and butter for the
Speaker 1: Celtics when they're attacking switching defenses. Kick out watch Jason Tatum.
Speaker 1: It's getting ready to screen the inside side right screen,
Speaker 1: trying to force that switch. Easy over the top pass
Speaker 1: that forces the step over from Garrison Matthews, easy kickout
Speaker 1: pass to Derek White.
Speaker 2: Beautiful Celtics basketball.
Speaker 1: This is an example of how to beat a dig
Speaker 1: down without necessarily shooting the basketball, but by rather just cutting.
Speaker 1: They're gonna dribble through, They're gonna kick it back out.
Speaker 1: It's going to turn into a Tatum ISO. But with
Speaker 1: our Tatum ISO. Here's our setup right, Dyson Daniels on
Speaker 1: the ball, Garrison Matthews digging down Drew Holidays here on
Speaker 1: the left wing. Notice Garrison doesn't see Drew Holliday cutting through.
Speaker 1: Tatum just throws an easy pass. Again, if you're going
Speaker 1: to offer hard help, we talked about this in the
Speaker 1: in the Lakers Pistons game. That's where you have to
Speaker 1: prove the ability to score off the ball. Drew Holiday
Speaker 1: does it there with a cut. Nice pass from Jason Tatum.
Speaker 1: This is a really nice corner kick from Jason Tatum.
Speaker 1: Once again, nothing this is this is good defense. Garrison
Speaker 1: Matthews is gonna throw a good close out. But watch
Speaker 1: the pass. The pass is on time, on target, right
Speaker 1: in the shooting pocket. So even though Garrison Matthews gets
Speaker 1: a great close out, Housers able to go straight up
Speaker 1: with it, and that makes the close out worthless. Hits
Speaker 1: a three. And then here's just Jason Tatum step backs.
Speaker 1: I want to I want to the first two in particular.
Speaker 1: The third one is just like outstanding shot making. But
Speaker 1: this is where I want to show you the footwork element.
Speaker 1: As Tatum's coming off against Tyson Daniels. Watch the hard
Speaker 1: dribble move before the step back right here, ready, right boom,
Speaker 1: right there, that's the fake drive again. Everything is about
Speaker 1: the move and the counter move. Nothing works unless everybody
Speaker 1: respects both sides of your move. If they don't respect
Speaker 1: the drive, they can overplay the shot. If they don't
Speaker 1: respect the shot, they can overplay the drive. In this case,
Speaker 1: that hard step with his left foot causes Now watch
Speaker 1: Dyson daniels reaction to that step. Dyson daniels reaction to
Speaker 1: that step brings him well down to the top of
Speaker 1: the key. That allows Jason Tatum to settle into the
Speaker 1: step back three and once again, notice it's straight up
Speaker 1: and down. Notice the leg work is done early boom,
Speaker 1: straight up and down to the end. It looks like
Speaker 1: this crazy jump shot it's not. It's a stand still,
Speaker 1: wide open shot that he generated without standing footwork and
Speaker 1: ball handling. Sook at another one. This one's on the
Speaker 1: left wing, same sort of thing. Watch the hard step
Speaker 1: step boom, hard step on that right handed drive. Watch
Speaker 1: how the defender reacts his left foot his left foot,
Speaker 1: the defender's left foot comes all the way down to
Speaker 1: the elbow that allows Tatum to get the separation he
Speaker 1: needs to knock the shot down. And then this last
Speaker 1: one wasn't even about footwork. It was just a ridiculous
Speaker 1: shot over Trey Young. Incredible shot making from Tatum. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: let's get back to the full screen here. All right,
Speaker 1: that is all I have for today is always this.
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Speaker 1: So no games tonight for the election. So the plan
Speaker 1: as of right now is tomorrow I have the Nerd
Speaker 1: Sash guys coming on and we're gonna be bouncing around
Speaker 1: the league talking about a bunch of differ stuff. I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna do kind of like a buy or
Speaker 1: sell segment is what I'm thinking, buying or selling early
Speaker 1: season Trent.
Speaker 2: So that should be fun. We haven't seen the nerds
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