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Speaker 1: a series preview of the two six matchup in the
Speaker 1: second round in the Eastern Conference, the New York Name
Speaker 1: hosting the Indiana Pacers. Going to break the series down
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Speaker 1: some basketball. So the season series Pacers won two to one,
Speaker 1: kind of like many playoff previews, not a ton of
Speaker 1: useful information in terms of who played in the regular
Speaker 1: season games. Julius Randall played in the first game, Neither
Speaker 1: Julius Randall nor Ojan and Obi played in the last
Speaker 1: two games. There was a game where both Pascal Siakam
Speaker 1: and Buddy Heald played. There was a game where TODJ.
Speaker 1: Gibson played nineteen minutes. So this series will obviously look
Speaker 1: very different from the regular season. But we did get
Speaker 1: some information about some of the coverages that we expect
Speaker 1: both teams to use, so we'll get into that a
Speaker 1: little bit, and some of the individual matchups that I
Speaker 1: expect to see over the course of the series. Some
Speaker 1: of the metrics from the regular season, the Knicks had
Speaker 1: a one to fifteen point three offensive rating and the
Speaker 1: Pacers had a one twenty three point seven offensive rating
Speaker 1: in the three matchups, that's an eight point four point
Speaker 1: per one hundred advantage for the Indiana Pacers, the Knicks
Speaker 1: out rebounded them badly. The Knicks had a seventy six
Speaker 1: percent defensive rebounding a defensive rebound percentage meaning seventy six
Speaker 1: percent of opponents misses they were able to corral and
Speaker 1: get out. Going the other way, the Pacers only grabbed
Speaker 1: sixty six percent of their available defensive rebounds. Big matchup
Speaker 1: in this series. We know the Knicks are the best
Speaker 1: offensive rebounding team in the league and the Pacers are
Speaker 1: a bad defensive rebounding team. So that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: big piece in this series, and we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: it a lot today. But there's a push and pull
Speaker 1: there because the Pacers are also an excellent transition pushing team,
Speaker 1: so that'll be an interesting matchup. The Knicks one the
Speaker 1: points in the paint fifty four point seven to fifty
Speaker 1: three point three in the three game series, the Knicks
Speaker 1: one second chance points seventeen to eleven point three, and
Speaker 1: the Knicks one points off of turnvers eighteen to twelve
Speaker 1: point three. The Pacers did win fast break points scored
Speaker 1: per game thirteen point seven to twelve point three, So
Speaker 1: let's start with the Knicks on offense, the Pacers are
Speaker 1: almost certainly going to put Aaron Nesmith on Jalen Brunson
Speaker 1: from the start of the series. I expect physical ball pressure,
Speaker 1: as much full court pressure as Nie Smith can manage,
Speaker 1: given where he ends up in any transition situation might
Speaker 1: be worth having Dante DiVincenzo or Deduce McBride bring the
Speaker 1: ball up some even Josh Hart potentially if he ends
Speaker 1: up with Tyres Haliburton on which we'll talk about in
Speaker 1: a minute, just to try to save Jalen's legs as
Speaker 1: much as possible. In ball screens where they try to
Speaker 1: bring Miles Turner up into the action, I expect, based
Speaker 1: on the film, for the Pacers to primarily run a
Speaker 1: high drop. But one of the things that Rick Carlisle
Speaker 1: does is he loves to mix up coverages. It was
Speaker 1: a big thing I noticed on tape, Like they don't
Speaker 1: go down the floor and just run a deep drop
Speaker 1: every possession or a high drop every possession, or a
Speaker 1: hedge every possession, or a blitz every possession. They have
Speaker 1: kind of a baseline coverage, but then they'll just mix
Speaker 1: things up, so like random Turner ball screens they'll blitz
Speaker 1: random Halliburton ball screens. They'll blitz, but then they'll drop back.
Speaker 1: On the next possession, they'll have Halliburton hedge and recover
Speaker 1: on a guard guard screen. Then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they'll have him switch. Then they'll double team out of
Speaker 1: the switch. Sometimes I've literally seen Brunson call Halliburton into
Speaker 1: a screen to try to get him switched, and then
Speaker 1: Brunson then Haliburton randomly blitzed. So like a lot of
Speaker 1: mixed up coverages. But I do think the base coverages
Speaker 1: will be Turner ball screens, a high drop, and the
Speaker 1: base coverage that I think we'll see with Halliburton is
Speaker 1: a hedge and recover. But we'll see over the course
Speaker 1: of the series how much they're willing to switch Haliburton. Again,
Speaker 1: we did see and you guys will see on tape.
Speaker 1: There are examples where Halliburton will switch on to Brunson
Speaker 1: and then they'll just quickly double team and then be
Speaker 1: able to rotate out of it relatively quickly. The Knicks
Speaker 1: did run a lot of guard guard screens to attack Indy.
Speaker 1: They did in a lot of cases try to avoid
Speaker 1: bringing Miles Turner into the action. Imarily focus on attacking
Speaker 1: Indiana's guards. They do have some weak guard defenders in
Speaker 1: their rotation, but they also have a lot of speed
Speaker 1: at that position, so it's not going to be as
Speaker 1: easy as it might have appeared in the regular season
Speaker 1: when Jalen Brunston could attack you know, Ben Mathern or
Speaker 1: or Buddy Healed, like, those guys are obviously just not
Speaker 1: around anymore. Ben's hurt and Heal plays for the Sixers,
Speaker 1: so a lot of harder matchups in those guard guard screens.
Speaker 1: Outside of Halliburton, Brunson has looked really good in this
Speaker 1: matchup in the regular season. He's averaging thirty six points
Speaker 1: per game in the regular season matchup forty nine percent
Speaker 1: from the field, thirty two percent from threes, getting to
Speaker 1: the foul line ten times per game. I think we'll
Speaker 1: see Andrew Nemhart on Dante DiVincenzo. Dante is just a
Speaker 1: total green light shooter. He's flying off of screens and
Speaker 1: pulling up. He's shooting spot up situations. He'll occasionally take
Speaker 1: a pull up three in a ball screen. He had
Speaker 1: a really up and down series against Philly. He was
Speaker 1: just three for seventeen from three in games three, four,
Speaker 1: and five. But he was eleven for twenty two from
Speaker 1: three in games one, two, and six, and he was
Speaker 1: unbelievably good in game six. It was his best game
Speaker 1: of the series. Is big part why Deuce McBride didn't
Speaker 1: play as much. Dante played incredible on both ends of
Speaker 1: the floor. But Andrew Nemhart is gonna get that assignment again.
Speaker 1: Big thing with him is just staying attached, pushing him
Speaker 1: into rushed shots further away from the basket. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be the key for Nemhard in that matchup. Tyres Haliburton
Speaker 1: on Josh Hart again, doing his job in the scheme.
Speaker 1: So if Brunson's calling Josh Hart into screens to try
Speaker 1: to target Halliburton and his job is to hedge and recover,
Speaker 1: he needs to hedge and recover properly. If it's to
Speaker 1: switch and then to wait, wait for the double team
Speaker 1: and then rotate out of it, that's what he's got
Speaker 1: to do. If it's a blitz, it's all about gameplay
Speaker 1: and discipline for Tyres Haliburton. You're not expecting him to
Speaker 1: hold up on an island against Jalen Brunson. You're just
Speaker 1: expecting him to do whatever Rick Carlisle asks him to do,
Speaker 1: and then primarily whenever he's on Josh Hart, but not
Speaker 1: into getting pulled into an action. He's got to be
Speaker 1: careful about Josh Hart crashing the offensive glass. Josh has
Speaker 1: been an absolute wrecking ball in this postseason run. He's
Speaker 1: averaging four offensive rebounds per game. He had six in
Speaker 1: Game six in Philly, So that's definitely gonna be something
Speaker 1: Tyreez is gonna have to keep an eye out on,
Speaker 1: just making sure that he tries to throw a token
Speaker 1: box out at Josh Hart every time a shot goes up.
Speaker 1: Pascal Siakam on Ojan Andobi so again, when the Knicks
Speaker 1: are on offense, o Jannobi does the majority of his
Speaker 1: work in transition and in spot up situations. That's the
Speaker 1: vast majority of his play types that you'll see as
Speaker 1: him running his lane in transition and him spotting up
Speaker 1: in attacking closeouts. He's shooting thirty nine percent so far
Speaker 1: in the postseason on unguarded catch and shoot jumpers, and
Speaker 1: sixty three percent when he shoots that pull up mid
Speaker 1: range jumper where like he'll pump fake and kind of
Speaker 1: rip through to that foul line area and he'll raise up.
Speaker 1: He's knocking down that shot at a really high clip,
Speaker 1: but he's only three for eleven unguarded catch and shoot jumpers.
Speaker 1: So for Siakam, it's just gonna be about making smart
Speaker 1: help and recover decisions. He's gonna be as one of
Speaker 1: the lengthier athletes on the floor, a guy that Indiana's
Speaker 1: gonna lean on to dig down into disrupt driving lanes
Speaker 1: and to help at the rim. And so he's just
Speaker 1: gonna have to kind of toe that line because if
Speaker 1: he can get a solid contest on Nie Smith, Nesmith
Speaker 1: will probably miss. Nesmith needs to be open, and so
Speaker 1: again just kind of staying in that range where he
Speaker 1: can dig down and help but also recover out and
Speaker 1: throw a good clothes out. And also one of the
Speaker 1: things we got to remember, Oh Gina, No, he does
Speaker 1: have some slashing ability. That was how we dunked on
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid at the end of the game. Same kind
Speaker 1: of thing when we go to the other side of
Speaker 1: the floor with aeron Nie Smith, like Aaroni Smith, same
Speaker 1: type of player, wide open catch and shoot player, can
Speaker 1: knock it down, but when it comes to like chasing
Speaker 1: him off the line, he can really slash downhill. And
Speaker 1: even though Og is more of a forward and Nemhar
Speaker 1: or excuse me, nies Smith is more of a guard,
Speaker 1: they're both kind of similar kind of catch and shoot
Speaker 1: slashers on the wing. And so for specifically for Pascal Yakam,
Speaker 1: he's just gonna have to make sure he kind of
Speaker 1: stays attached in those help and recover situations with OG.
Speaker 1: Miles Turner on Isaiah Hartenstein, my main concern is just
Speaker 1: keeping him off the glass. He had ten offensive rebounds
Speaker 1: in two games against the Pacers this year, twenty one
Speaker 1: offensive rebounds in six games against the Sixers. And then
Speaker 1: similar kind of thing in terms of like helping and recovering.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Hartenstein's is really good at that little left handed
Speaker 1: pop shot in the lane. He's fourteen for twenty on
Speaker 1: floaters in the Sixers series. So once again, same kind
Speaker 1: of thing with Siakam on OG. With turn Around, Hart
Speaker 1: and Seign, it's all going to be about making sure
Speaker 1: they don't get punished for helping too much, and that
Speaker 1: means quick recoveries to Heart and Sign after he contains
Speaker 1: whatever actions he's helping on. Quick recoveries for Siakam two
Speaker 1: OG whenever he is helping on any sort of action
Speaker 1: in the lane. Keys for both teams. When the Knicks
Speaker 1: have the ball, for the Knicks, be ready to adjust quickly. Again,
Speaker 1: Rick Carlisle loves to mix up coverages. You're going to
Speaker 1: see random blitzes, random doubles. Just have to be able
Speaker 1: to adjust quickly on the fly to be able to
Speaker 1: make sure those possessions don't turn into lost possessions. Alleviate
Speaker 1: Brunson's workload again, having Josh Hart bring the ball to
Speaker 1: the floor when he has Aliburton on him, because Haliburton's
Speaker 1: probably not going to want to pick him up full
Speaker 1: court with all of his offensive responsibilities. Early guard screen
Speaker 1: to get more favorable matchups again, especially in early offense.
Speaker 1: Closer out to half court, teams are more well likely
Speaker 1: to throw a token switch in situations like that. So
Speaker 1: stuff like that can help Brunson get easier matchups than
Speaker 1: Nene Smith because need Smith is just a big, strong
Speaker 1: guard that can you know, we talked to after the
Speaker 1: Sixers series about that lower center of gravity screen navigating
Speaker 1: guy that kind of flatten out Brunston's drives. Nie Smith
Speaker 1: is very much that type of player. Lastly, for the
Speaker 1: Knicks attack the offensive glass relentlessly. It's one of your
Speaker 1: biggest matchup advantages in this series. They need to capitalize
Speaker 1: on it. On the Pacers front. Most teams don't look
Speaker 1: to run against the Knicks. They were the seventh best
Speaker 1: transition frequency defense in the regular season. They just, you know,
Speaker 1: part of the problem with the way that the Knicks
Speaker 1: crash the offensive glass, teams have to be prepared for
Speaker 1: and so teams don't leak out as much. They're more
Speaker 1: willing to kind of stay back to try to clean
Speaker 1: up the defensive glass. But I wonder if the Pacers,
Speaker 1: and again this is going to be risky, and I
Speaker 1: wouldn't start the series thinking this way, but if they
Speaker 1: need to get into a tough spot and they need
Speaker 1: to kind of mix things up, I wonder if the
Speaker 1: Pacers can look more to leak out as a counter
Speaker 1: to their offensive rebound attack, meaning like, yeah, you're gonna
Speaker 1: give it, give up some offensive rebound putbacks, but every
Speaker 1: time the ball does bounce into your hands those kick
Speaker 1: ahead passes, you can get easy baskets and avoid New
Speaker 1: York's half court defense. I'm curious to see if the
Speaker 1: Pacers try that for stretches during the series, and then
Speaker 1: lastly protecting Tyris Haliburton. The Knicks are going to go
Speaker 1: at him on most possessions. That was a big thing
Speaker 1: I noticed in the regular season. It's all about game
Speaker 1: plan discipline for Tyres, hedging and recovering, switching and doubling, blitzing, whatever,
Speaker 1: just has to be sharp within the game plan. Moving
Speaker 1: to the Pacers on offense, I think we'll see Dante
Speaker 1: DiVincenzo on Tyres Haliburton to start the series when he
Speaker 1: brings Isaiah Hartenstein into ball screen. So in this case,
Speaker 1: Miles Turner, I think we'll see Hartenstein at the level.
Speaker 1: I think what that means is he'll be up waiting
Speaker 1: for Tyrese as he comes off the screen. The pick
Speaker 1: and pot for Miles Turner is going to be open
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have to close out to that. But
Speaker 1: they had a lot of practice with that in the
Speaker 1: embied series, right like the Isaiah Hartenstein and Mitchell Robinson
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time containing Tyrese Maxey on a
Speaker 1: coming off of a ball screen and then sprinting back
Speaker 1: to close out to Joel Embiid. That's going to be
Speaker 1: a big thing that they're going to have to do
Speaker 1: with Miles Turner, and then I also think we'll see
Speaker 1: a lot of Duce McBride in this matchup. Douce spent
Speaker 1: almost no time on Tyres Haliburton in the regular season
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, just something I noticed on tape, but
Speaker 1: he had a lot of good reps on MAXI, and
Speaker 1: I think I think he'll have more opportunities like that
Speaker 1: in this series, especially on nights where Dante Divincenzo's not
Speaker 1: shooting the ball particularly well. But Halliburton's a master at
Speaker 1: getting the defense in rotation. He's the ultimate make the
Speaker 1: easy read every single time kind of guy. Right. He
Speaker 1: hasn't been an elite shot maker since his hamstring injuries.
Speaker 1: Matter of fact, he's shooting just twenty seven percent on
Speaker 1: pull up jumpers in the playoffs so far, but he's
Speaker 1: been great close to the rim. He's six for eight
Speaker 1: on floaters and he's eighty one percent on overall shot
Speaker 1: attempts at the rim. So big thing for the Nickson
Speaker 1: this series I think is going to be focusing on
Speaker 1: containing Halliburton and make him shoot longer range pull up jumpers. Right,
Speaker 1: It's almost like think of it more as like catching
Speaker 1: the ball handler as he comes off. We've talked about
Speaker 1: this in other high drop coverages, but when Hartenstein and
Speaker 1: Robinson come up to the level, they just kind of
Speaker 1: have to keep ty Reese in front. If they can
Speaker 1: do that, even if they have to come less far out,
Speaker 1: if they can keep tyres in front and keep him
Speaker 1: out of that float range, keep him out of that
Speaker 1: layup range, I think that you have a chance to
Speaker 1: play him into less efficiency, but watch out for him
Speaker 1: off the ball though. Tyree is shooting really well on
Speaker 1: jumpers off the catch, shooting forty percent, and he's shooting
Speaker 1: forty four percent overall in spot up situations. It's actually
Speaker 1: been his second most common play type after pick and roll.
Speaker 1: So ty Resee is getting a lot of close out opportunities.
Speaker 1: So you just got to stay attached to him off
Speaker 1: the ball. I think we'll see Jalen Brunson on Andrew
Speaker 1: Nemhart and again Nemhard runs some second side action. He's
Speaker 1: shooting pretty well on pull up jumpers so far in
Speaker 1: the postseason, but he's below a point per possession in
Speaker 1: ball screen, so he hasn't been the most efficient guy
Speaker 1: in the world in terms of generating offense there, but
Speaker 1: he's been completely dead catch and shoot situations. He killed
Speaker 1: the bucks and catch and shoot situations, So Brunson just
Speaker 1: has to watch out for him off the ball one
Speaker 1: of the things for the thing for the Knicks to
Speaker 1: watch out for. Usually the Pacers will use TJ McConnell
Speaker 1: like kind of is like the backup guard when Haliburton's
Speaker 1: off the floor, But they also have stretches where they
Speaker 1: play both of them, especially when TJ has it going.
Speaker 1: And so in those situations, I think I'd slide Brunson
Speaker 1: to Nie Smith and then I'd move and then I'd
Speaker 1: move Josh Hart over to TJ McConnell if that was
Speaker 1: the case. Like again, whenever Halli Burton and TJ McConnell
Speaker 1: are both on the floor together, I think you got
Speaker 1: to keep your two best perimeter defenders on there because
Speaker 1: TJ McConnell would have a lot of success on Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 1: TJ is just a monster dribble drive guy who can
Speaker 1: cause all sorts of issues if he gets a favorable matchup.
Speaker 1: So again I'd put TJ on nemhard, but I would
Speaker 1: not excuse me, I'd put I've been mixing up names
Speaker 1: this whole damn show. I apologize it's been a grind.
Speaker 1: I would keep Brunson on Nemhard when he's on the floor,
Speaker 1: but I would not put him on TJ McConnell if
Speaker 1: I could have that. So when but when nem Hard
Speaker 1: and Smith are on the floor together, I think he
Speaker 1: put Josh Hart on AARONI Smith. He is a classic
Speaker 1: spot up shooter and transition athlete right The vast majority
Speaker 1: of his play types are attacking closeouts and running his
Speaker 1: lane in transition, similar to what we were talking about
Speaker 1: with og Anobi. He's shooting really well when he's open
Speaker 1: and pretty poorly when you get a good contest and
Speaker 1: so and similar to Ojannobi, he's got real downhill slashing force. So,
Speaker 1: like again Josh Hart, I think matches that force best,
Speaker 1: and I think he can kind of be the guy
Speaker 1: that towes that line between helping and recovering and throwing
Speaker 1: out solid closeouts. And again, he might have to spend
Speaker 1: some time on TJ McConnell depending on how the rotation
Speaker 1: works out. This is a matchup I think is going
Speaker 1: to work favorably for the Knicks. Ogn Andobi on Pascal
Speaker 1: Siakam just a much tougher matchup than all of these
Speaker 1: slow footed forwards and centers that Milwaukee put on him,
Speaker 1: and Siakam was cooking those guys off the dribble. OG
Speaker 1: would be able to beat him to spots better and
Speaker 1: actually force him to shoot over the top. And he's
Speaker 1: got the strength, fact to not be bullied off of
Speaker 1: his spots, and so I think Og just kind of
Speaker 1: keeping Siakam in front will go a long way. Siakim
Speaker 1: shot just thirty six percent on pull up jumpers in
Speaker 1: the Bucks series and did not make a pull up three,
Speaker 1: just zero point seven to two points per shot attempt.
Speaker 1: So if Og can contain and make him shoot over
Speaker 1: the top, I think he can play him into some
Speaker 1: lower efficiency Hart and sign on Turner. Turner is shooting
Speaker 1: super well in the postseason, right, forty four percent from
Speaker 1: three on seven attempts, fifty four percent on unguarded catch
Speaker 1: and shoot jumpers. So now, again, like I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: the Knicks just dealt with a much better version of this,
Speaker 1: kind of like pick and pop threat with Joel Embiid,
Speaker 1: so hard and Signed and Robinson know exactly what they
Speaker 1: need to do, just containing the ball handler and then recovering,
Speaker 1: sprinting and closing out to Miles Turner. Now, Miles Turner
Speaker 1: did not shoot that well in the regular season, and
Speaker 1: so a big thing that would help the Knicks is
Speaker 1: if Miles Turner had some regression back to the mean
Speaker 1: keys for both teams. For the Pacers, they need to
Speaker 1: look to run, especially when the Knicks have bad floor balance.
Speaker 1: When they're kind of attacked the offensive glass super aggressively,
Speaker 1: Halliburton is gonna have to hit shots. I think the
Speaker 1: Knicks are going to try to dare him to shoot
Speaker 1: pull up jumper. He's gonna have to hit him. Inverted
Speaker 1: ball screens with Siakam. This is a big thing that
Speaker 1: I talked about in a video breakdown earlier in the season,
Speaker 1: But the one of the big actions that the Pacers
Speaker 1: had a lot of success with in the regular season
Speaker 1: was Siakam is the ball handler and then come have
Speaker 1: like nemhard set of screen and then slip and when
Speaker 1: that hedge comes from the guard because they don't want
Speaker 1: to put a guard on Siakam, he can kind of
Speaker 1: slip into the back line. I think that'd be useful
Speaker 1: because I think I'm looking to attack one on one
Speaker 1: on og Anobi is not going to work out in
Speaker 1: his favor, and so using those guard guard screens to
Speaker 1: kind of generate better openings I think will make the
Speaker 1: game easier for Siakam. On the Knicks front, got to
Speaker 1: get back and transition defense, Like if they're going to
Speaker 1: attack the offensive glass like crazy, they just got to
Speaker 1: make sure they have somebody back. Make Caliburton shot maker,
Speaker 1: like we talked about earlier, containing in ball screens, hard
Speaker 1: closeouts on guys like Miles Turner, Andrew Nemhard and their
Speaker 1: Nie Smith, guys that can beat him in spot up situation,
Speaker 1: and then continue to punish the pacers on the offensive
Speaker 1: glass to dissuade them to push in transition, because we
Speaker 1: know that that's going to be a big aspect in
Speaker 1: this series. In terms of a pick, I think the
Speaker 1: Knicks matchup really well with Indiana. They can hang with
Speaker 1: their foot speed in a way that Milwaukee could not,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, they're also a much more
Speaker 1: physically imposing team. They're much stronger physically, which I think
Speaker 1: bodes well for the physical playoff environment. Their offensive rebounding
Speaker 1: is also a really nice counter to Indiana's transition attack.
Speaker 1: If they do enough damage on the offensive glass they
Speaker 1: might dissuade them from running. And then I really like
Speaker 1: the og An Andobi matchup on Pascalciakam. I think that
Speaker 1: can go a long way towards towards slowing him down.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna pick the Knicks to win this series
Speaker 1: in six games, all right, So yeah, Pacers certainly have
Speaker 1: a chance. I just think that the Knicks are a
Speaker 1: bad matchup for them with their speed combination of speed
Speaker 1: and strength, and then they they've got a really good
Speaker 1: defender to guard Pascalciakam, which I think is gonna make
Speaker 1: things a little bit tougher on them. Gonna be fun
Speaker 1: series though. Now we're in the second round, all all
Speaker 1: really good teams left with exception of whoever Boston ends
Speaker 1: up playing. So it's gonna be a fun one. That's
Speaker 1: all I have for today is always a sincerely appreciate
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