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Speaker 2: All right, welcome to hoops tonight. You're at the volume
Speaker 2: heavy Friday.
Speaker 1: Everybody, hope all of you guys are having a great
Speaker 1: end here week. We are diving into the film from
Speaker 1: Game two of the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: We're gonna specifically be focusing on the success that Shay
Speaker 1: Gilders Alexander was having against Minnesota's defense last night. The
Speaker 1: specific things I want to be calling out are the
Speaker 1: way that he consistently beat ball pressure, the way that
Speaker 1: he used that ball pressure to get defenders into the
Speaker 1: sidecar where he was able to use his physicality to
Speaker 1: get separation, the repeated use of snaking ball screens and
Speaker 1: snaking help defenders against the zone basically just meaning reversing
Speaker 1: angle immediately immediately after he comes off of the screen.
Speaker 1: And then a couple of examples from late in the game,
Speaker 1: or Shay actually beat a loaded up Minnesota defense. But
Speaker 1: what I think is the example of what Minnesota should
Speaker 1: try to do as they head on the road into
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Speaker 2: Of those shows. All right, let's talk some basketball.
Speaker 1: So all we're gonna do here in terms of clips
Speaker 1: is go through every single made basket that Chae Gills
Speaker 1: as Alexander had tonight, and every single assist. I want
Speaker 1: to dive into the specific ways that he was having
Speaker 1: some success. And again we'll dig into some of the
Speaker 1: details on both ends of this coverage. So starting out,
Speaker 1: just a simple step back jump shot over over Jada
Speaker 1: McDaniels here in the left corner. There's because of Hartenstein.
Speaker 1: Obviously you have Gobert. This is like kind of a
Speaker 1: traditional ice coverage in the sense that as Hartenstein's going
Speaker 1: to throw the DHL, watch how Jaden overplays the high side.
Speaker 1: That's textbook coverage. You're trying to force the ball handler,
Speaker 1: in this case, the DHO guy to go against the
Speaker 1: screen towards the baseline. In that coverage, you're always going
Speaker 1: to see the big man drop down into the short
Speaker 1: corner and essentially they're going to try to force you
Speaker 1: to hit the roll man around this elbow or to
Speaker 1: take some sort of contested mid range jump shot. That's
Speaker 1: literally what the coverage is designed to concede. This is fine,
Speaker 1: that's not the kind of thing that like, Shay's made
Speaker 1: some really tough jump shots, but that's not the kind
Speaker 1: of thing that's like actually really really hurting you in
Speaker 1: the big picture. It's the incessant stuff right at the rim,
Speaker 1: the fouls, that kind of thing where they're getting burned.
Speaker 1: This is a perfectly fine coverage that I think you
Speaker 1: can live with over the course of the series. Here
Speaker 1: this is an example of something that I don't think works,
Speaker 1: just a simple first step move driving to the left
Speaker 1: from Shae against Ant.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So the big difference here is, as you can see,
Speaker 1: there's no none of that loaded up feel that you're
Speaker 1: getting from Oklahoma City. When you're getting these ISOs, these
Speaker 1: straight ISOs between Ant and you know, case On Wallace,
Speaker 1: or Aunt and Alex Crusoe or Aunt and lou Dort,
Speaker 1: you're not seeing okay, see, you leave this much space
Speaker 1: for Aunt or Julius to operate. That's the main difference
Speaker 1: in the defensive scheme that I've been noticing over and
Speaker 1: over again, even that last video.
Speaker 2: We just watched that last clip that Ice coverage. It
Speaker 2: two on two.
Speaker 1: They're guarding ball screens two on two, they're guarding one
Speaker 1: on one. You're gonna see a little dig from Gobert.
Speaker 1: First of all, highlight the quickness of the first step.
Speaker 1: This is one of the elite lateral quickness athletes in
Speaker 1: the league. And Shae just toasts him a little bit
Speaker 1: of like a jab step fake that you can see
Speaker 1: here right. Hobby just jabs to the right and then
Speaker 1: go gets downhill. Rudy's gonna throw like kind of a
Speaker 1: fake dig, but that's useless. Jaden McDaniels because he gets compromised,
Speaker 1: offers a late contest. But as you can see, they're
Speaker 1: not meeting Shaye with any sort of help defender until
Speaker 1: he's already at the rim. Very different than what we're
Speaker 1: seeing on the other end of the floor. We did
Speaker 1: see Minnesota throw more, you know, kind of congestion and
Speaker 1: help at Shaye late in the game. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: that in a minute. Nothing too crazy here, just a
Speaker 1: left shoulder fade. Let's fast forward transition push ends up
Speaker 1: on Dante DiVincenzo he's got size on him. Really cook
Speaker 1: Dante in the first two games, he was just hopeless
Speaker 1: on an island. Just bumps him, spins off, fades over
Speaker 1: that left shoulder, knocks it down.
Speaker 2: Beautiful war Here.
Speaker 1: This is the I talked about how last night in
Speaker 1: the live show there are like seven or eight shots
Speaker 1: that Ant took that I just hated. Here's one of them.
Speaker 1: Twenty one to fifteen seventeen seconds on the shot clock.
Speaker 1: Let's just walk into a contested twenty eight footer like that.
Speaker 1: That's not good basketball. We go down to the other
Speaker 1: end of the floor ball screen. On the ball screen,
Speaker 1: Jaden chases over the top. Shae snakes it, meaning like
Speaker 1: he works it back across the angle, freezes go Beart
Speaker 1: with just a little high hesitation like right there, just
Speaker 1: freezes go Beart.
Speaker 2: Go bear lunges out.
Speaker 1: See that right foot, that little shift from Rudy as
Speaker 1: he goes from squared up on Shae to opened up
Speaker 1: the other direction on Shae. Shae then crosses over again
Speaker 1: and elevates and draws the fount And this is this
Speaker 1: is example of what I've been talking about in terms
Speaker 1: of like non basketball plays, and there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: few examples of this today, and again, I know there
Speaker 1: are gonna be a certain segment of Shae Gilvis, Oxander
Speaker 1: or Oklahoma City thunder fans who are gonna get sensitive
Speaker 1: about this. But like, I think we can have a
Speaker 1: nuanced discussion about Shae, which is like, he's incredible, but
Speaker 1: he relies on a lot of non basketball plays. It's
Speaker 1: not just Shae. So does Brunson, So does Austin Reeves
Speaker 1: on the team that I root for. So does Luka
Speaker 1: Doncic on the team that I root for. I am
Speaker 1: of the opinion Luka Doncic make this exact same move
Speaker 1: a million times.
Speaker 2: I don't want Luca to be doing this either.
Speaker 1: I think the NBA would be better if if everything
Speaker 1: was done within the spirit of the game of basketball.
Speaker 1: A simple way to think about it is nice move
Speaker 1: from Shay he breaks Rudy off. But in theory, if
Speaker 1: you're playing basketball, you're trying to get away from the
Speaker 1: defender or power through the defender to go all the
Speaker 1: way to the rim. The only time you would ever
Speaker 1: power into a defender is if you were trying to
Speaker 1: get all the way to the rim because you had
Speaker 1: a size and strength advantage. Any basketball player in this
Speaker 1: situation would try to get separation from Rudy Gobert to
Speaker 1: try to make a shot, and instead, watch how Shade
Speaker 1: jumps into him, extending his arms out, trying to get
Speaker 1: the foul. The entire purpose he knows Rudy's right there.
Speaker 1: He's not shooting that shot to try to get a
Speaker 1: shot off. He's shooting that shot to try to commit
Speaker 1: a faul, to try to draw a foul. And like
Speaker 1: so I'm of the opinion that in general, league wide,
Speaker 1: we need to legislate out non basketball plays. It's not
Speaker 1: a good television product to watch Shaye drive into Rudy
Speaker 1: Gobert and take a jump shot. That's that's not fun
Speaker 1: basketball to watch. And again I'll put there's like three
Speaker 1: or four examples from the film today of calls like
Speaker 1: that that I think need to be removed from the game.
Speaker 1: But that is a separate discussion from the fact that
Speaker 1: Shae is an incredible basketball player.
Speaker 2: Ball gets worked back around to Shay.
Speaker 1: Here, you're gonna see a perfect example of a dislodge
Speaker 1: in the post. This is this is what's so important
Speaker 1: about post play. So, like, Shay does not have a
Speaker 1: size advantage here, he is smaller and thinner and shorter
Speaker 1: armed than Jaden McDaniels. Right, But if you watch as
Speaker 1: he works into the lane, he's going to bump him
Speaker 1: off with a hard dribble right here.
Speaker 2: Boom bump. That little bump.
Speaker 1: Right there, you can literally see it dislodge Jaden, cave
Speaker 1: in his chest and send him back. Look at where
Speaker 1: his right foot ended up almost right underneath the basket.
Speaker 1: That's what gives Shay that space to then lean into
Speaker 1: the one like fade away and get plenty of separation.
Speaker 1: And he's just such a deadly shot maker that close
Speaker 1: to the basket. Another snake move here, good clean look
Speaker 1: for ant off the catch. One of the shots in
Speaker 1: the first half.
Speaker 2: That I liked. He just wasn't making them go down
Speaker 2: to the other end.
Speaker 1: Ball screen reject rescreen. Here's the snake right boom crossover.
Speaker 1: You can see the freeze with the headfake right the
Speaker 1: high hesitation he's selling the pull up jump shot which
Speaker 1: gets Rudy to hop up. Same exact kind of sequence.
Speaker 1: But here's another grift, a non basketball play like no
Speaker 1: one would take this shot. No one would ever take
Speaker 1: this shot, Like, oh, let me go into the rim.
Speaker 1: Protector's chest, even though I'm giving up six or seven
Speaker 1: inches of height and just try to shoot over the
Speaker 1: top of him like that. That's not a real basketball shot.
Speaker 1: U Shay's gonna beat Dante off the dribble. Here again,
Speaker 1: Dante got cooked the entire series to this point. But
Speaker 1: like once again, this is one of the big talking
Speaker 1: points that I want to hit in terms of Minnesota's
Speaker 1: defensive scheme. Look at how far out Dante's meeting Shay.
Speaker 1: That's twenty six feet from the basket. You're giving one
Speaker 1: of the best drivers in the history the game a
Speaker 1: long runway.
Speaker 2: To beat you off the dribble. He's able to turn.
Speaker 1: The corner, bump Dante off, knock down a little mid
Speaker 1: range pull up. Just individual greatness from shake ye Oldes Alexander.
Speaker 1: Here again with the side step three over Jaden McDaniels.
Speaker 1: Nothing too crazy about this. He slows down, just kind
Speaker 1: of methodically dribbles down and then goes into high speed
Speaker 1: off of that step back, gets just enough separation to
Speaker 1: rise up and.
Speaker 2: Knock it down.
Speaker 1: Here's another example of Jaden just applying too much ball
Speaker 1: pressure on Shae Like this is you can't keep him
Speaker 1: in front I don't understand this. You're picking him up
Speaker 1: full court and he's able to just get you out
Speaker 1: of position and draw foul. And again like non basketball play,
Speaker 1: like Shae's once again taking acting like he's going to
Speaker 1: shoot a jump shot, Like no one would ever shoot
Speaker 1: a shot here ever in a real basketball game, unless
Speaker 1: they were simply trying to get to the foul to
Speaker 1: the foul line. Like it's another non basketball play. But
Speaker 1: from the standpoint of the technique from Jaden here, I
Speaker 1: just don't understand picking him up this far away from
Speaker 1: the basket when you just can't keep him in front
Speaker 1: off the dribble. Little drop coverage work here from Shae
Speaker 1: a classic example of just putting the defender in the sidecar.
Speaker 1: So watch how we get lots of ball pressure against
Speaker 1: Shae in the form of Jaden once again picking him
Speaker 1: up really our away from the basket. Shay's easily able
Speaker 1: to get downhill. Now he can control the physical dynamic
Speaker 1: of the drive. He's going to work back into Jaden
Speaker 1: with physicality, see that right there, Like he could have
Speaker 1: just gone downhill, but he's gonna work back into Jaden
Speaker 1: with physicality, keep him trapped on his side. Then push
Speaker 1: off a little bit. You can see the off arm
Speaker 1: into Jaden mcdaniels's chest. And by the way, this is
Speaker 1: the kind of thing that people are complaining about. Is like,
Speaker 1: Shaye plays with physicality, which is great. I have no
Speaker 1: problem with this being a non call. I want Shay
Speaker 1: to be able to do this. Basketball is a contact sport.
Speaker 1: But for all the people out there that are like, oh,
Speaker 1: he had his head and shoulders ahead of the defender
Speaker 1: and he got bumped on his drive. Per the rule book,
Speaker 1: that's a foul. Per the rule book, this is an
Speaker 1: offensive foul. If you guys want to get into the
Speaker 1: rule book, we can have a whistle every five seconds.
Speaker 1: These games could take four hours and we could have
Speaker 1: all the eleventh, twelve, thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth man on
Speaker 1: the bench playing it closing time because everyone's fouled out.
Speaker 2: This is the thing like, let Shae do this. I'm
Speaker 2: cool with this.
Speaker 1: This is physicality, But just stop rewarding him for non
Speaker 1: basketball plays. But gives him in that little shove side step.
Speaker 1: That's what creates the separation for him to get into
Speaker 1: that little mid range pull up.
Speaker 2: Again, nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 1: I to me, basketball is of contact sport and the
Speaker 1: discretion of officials generally in NBA history, has allowed physicality.
Speaker 1: I want Shae to be able to play with physicality too,
Speaker 1: all right, more snaking the health defender.
Speaker 2: As you can see as Julius.
Speaker 1: Steps up, watch the crossover move from Shay. Here Boom
Speaker 1: snakes him and easily gets into the lane. Just just
Speaker 1: toasting these dudes off the dribble.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Here's one of those post up front brackets that I
Speaker 1: was talking about, so as you can see, watch lou
Speaker 1: Dort post up front against Julius over the top pass.
Speaker 1: Dort comes flying in and knocks the ball away. That's
Speaker 1: the bracket the backside of the post front. Thundergo out
Speaker 1: the other way and we get another non basketball play
Speaker 1: from Shay as he goes to the low gatherer against
Speaker 1: Nikhil Alexander Walker, like no one would ever take the shot.
Speaker 1: Like if you were if you were playing basketball anywhere
Speaker 1: and someone took the shot, you'd be like, what the
Speaker 1: fuck are you doing?
Speaker 2: Like that's not basketball.
Speaker 1: You're You're gonna just run into the defender and take
Speaker 1: a left handed floater at the foul line. Like that
Speaker 1: is a non basketball play that serves the purpose only
Speaker 1: to try to draw a foul. It just so happened
Speaker 1: to go in that time. Uh, this is another bucket
Speaker 1: I believe against Dante. Let's see in a switch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so just drives against Dante along the baseline out of
Speaker 1: the zone. Here, so screen now he's got Dante on
Speaker 1: the zone. Just hard dribble drive to that left hand,
Speaker 1: dribble pull up. Like again, this is what I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: Like mixed in with all the non basketball plays and
Speaker 1: ref bullshit, there's like beautiful shot making and beautiful basketball here,
Speaker 1: Like we can have a nuanced discussion, like Shay's a
Speaker 1: remarkable basketball player irrespective of the vowl drifting stuff. But
Speaker 1: I think there's a conversation if you had there snaking
Speaker 1: the help defender.
Speaker 2: Again. Here, let's get down into a ball screen. Here
Speaker 2: we go with Nas ball screen dribble to the right.
Speaker 1: See how he crosses over right there, immediately crosses back
Speaker 1: over and shifts NAS's weight out of position, bumps him off.
Speaker 1: This is fine. I have no problem with this bump off.
Speaker 1: Look at the off arm again, Like buy the book.
Speaker 1: That's technically an offensive foul. But I have no problem
Speaker 1: with this at all whatsoever. This to me is just
Speaker 1: playoff physicality. You to to the point about the head
Speaker 1: and shoulders thing, the I have my head and shoulders
Speaker 1: past the defender. Okay, yeah, you're right. He does like
Speaker 1: he has beat Nas. Read here, Therefore I am okay
Speaker 1: with him him because he's beat nas Reed given him
Speaker 1: that off arm and giving him that shoulder to get
Speaker 1: him out of the way.
Speaker 2: That's the whole point.
Speaker 1: You've won the angle. You're now entitled to the space.
Speaker 1: Attack it with physicality, with the intent to go through
Speaker 1: and to get to a layup, not to take some
Speaker 1: shot you would never take under those circumstances.
Speaker 2: Dislodge is NOAs Now.
Speaker 1: He's got Nas out of position and he's going for
Speaker 1: a layup, and Nas has to come forward. This is
Speaker 1: not a grift. This is a legitimate, hard basketball foul.
Speaker 1: I snaked nas Reed, got him out of position, dislodged him.
Speaker 1: Because I dislodged him, he's got to recover. The only
Speaker 1: way he can recover is by not going vertical. If
Speaker 1: he goes straight up and down, I'm just gonna score.
Speaker 1: So he has to come back to me to try
Speaker 1: to make up the ground. So I'm gonna go to
Speaker 1: the rim and draw the foul. That to me is
Speaker 1: like a good honest basketball foul. Same sort of thing here,
Speaker 1: another snake of the ball screen, same sort of thing
Speaker 1: as you can see here as he beats Jaden, immediate crossover,
Speaker 1: finds the soft spot in the drop coverage.
Speaker 2: Nice contest for Rudy. Really nice shot there from Shae.
Speaker 1: More ball pressure here, Like look at just literally picking
Speaker 1: him up forty five feet from the back. Look at
Speaker 1: how easy it is for Shaye just to go right
Speaker 1: around him, Like, it's just it's it was infuriating to
Speaker 1: watch that. This mort it's just a stupid game plan.
Speaker 1: But as he gets into the lane, here's another Like,
Speaker 1: I just don't understand how this is being rewarded with
Speaker 1: free throws. Look at this, Shae got two free throws
Speaker 1: for that. Watch it again. I'm gonna play it him
Speaker 1: fast speed. Shay got two free throws for this. You
Speaker 1: can see how annoyed everyone is. And by the way,
Speaker 1: this is the very next possession. You can probably guess
Speaker 1: now why Jada McDaniels did what he did. And again,
Speaker 1: like there's no defense for that behavior. That's just childish
Speaker 1: behavior from Jada McDaniels, Like you're not accomplishing anything by
Speaker 1: shoving Shay. You're just proving to him that you're pissed
Speaker 1: off and showing him that you're in that he's in
Speaker 1: your head. But at the same time, I understand the frustration.
Speaker 1: I understand the frustration that Minnesota's guys are dealing with
Speaker 1: more ball pressure getting beat here, like again, picking up
Speaker 1: Shae full court when you can't keep him in front,
Speaker 1: picking him up full court. Oh he dribbled out, Let's
Speaker 1: go pick him up full court again. Oh wait, now
Speaker 1: I'm right around him again, like like it just it,
Speaker 1: like legitimately makes no sense. I don't understand why they're
Speaker 1: picking him up this far away from the basket. Great
Speaker 1: finish through traffic. There another non basketball move from Shay here,
Speaker 1: Like what is this? That's not a basketball move? You're
Speaker 1: just going to dribble into the defender and shoot a
Speaker 1: pull up without any separation? Like yeah, like, I just
Speaker 1: I don't understand rewarding that with free throws. All right, now,
Speaker 1: we're gonna look at Shay's assists from last night's game.
Speaker 1: A couple of feeds to Hartenstein that were really nice,
Speaker 1: pretty basic ball screen feed here, as he's got a
Speaker 1: downhill against Jaden. He sees a nice runway for Hartenstein,
Speaker 1: pitches it back to Hartenstein. Rudy again trying to disrupt
Speaker 1: the floater up top instead of down low, and Hartenstein
Speaker 1: just doesn't have any problems with that. Yo Get showed
Speaker 1: in the last round that you can bother him down low.
Speaker 1: Shae backcuts Jane McDaniel's here once again. More pressure, unnecessary
Speaker 1: pressure that leads to rim pressure in the form of
Speaker 1: a back cut. On the back cut, Julius has no
Speaker 1: choice but to step over. Shaye makes the nice little
Speaker 1: pass to beat the nail held bucket from lou Dort.
Speaker 1: The middle feed against the zone. Cruso did a great
Speaker 1: job here, scoring in the middle of the zone again
Speaker 1: like the zone is designed to concede catches here in
Speaker 1: the zone, Hartenstein on the baseline forces Gobert to be
Speaker 1: accounting for him. You can like literally see Gobert on
Speaker 1: that Hartenstein backcut. You can see him back up. There's
Speaker 1: that little shot for Alex and he knocks it down.
Speaker 1: Another really nice pace baseline feed to Isaai Hartenstein ball
Speaker 1: screen drives baseline. Rudy's there once again instead of crowding
Speaker 1: the paint everyone's staying attached to their shooters off ball.
Speaker 1: That leaves Hartenstein wide open. They're just defending these ball
Speaker 1: screens two on two, great feed, simple zone defense. Look,
Speaker 1: swing pass to Jadubb knocks it down. Now there's two
Speaker 1: examples right here of what I think is the defensive
Speaker 1: scheme that Minnesota should use on Oklahoma City in game
Speaker 1: in game three, so first of all, I would still
Speaker 1: be playing a little bit further off of Shae. But
Speaker 1: of the main thing is I just want you guys
Speaker 1: to see the switching of the ball screens. So switching
Speaker 1: ball screens so that Shae can't get automatic baked in
Speaker 1: dribble penetration as he comes off of a screen. Then
Speaker 1: look at how Julius is sagging off of Shae and
Speaker 1: forcing him to drive intohim. See how he's sagging off
Speaker 1: instead of pressuring. Then look at all the defenders.
Speaker 2: See this.
Speaker 1: This is what I want Minnesota to do in game three. Now,
Speaker 1: Shaye makes the kickout past to case On Wallace. In
Speaker 1: case On Wallace knocks it down. But this is a
Speaker 1: contested three that he knocks down in a low pressure situation.
Speaker 1: They're up twenty one. This game is over right, Like
Speaker 1: This is an example of a shot where I want
Speaker 1: to see case On Wallace have to knock that down
Speaker 1: in Minnesota in a close game. Totally different defensive scheme.
Speaker 1: Another example here, same sort of thing. Shay's gonna drive,
Speaker 1: He's gonna get swarmed, So let's get to the switch.
Speaker 1: Shae drives, gets swarmed. Look at this, he's getting sworn now.
Speaker 1: Jalen Williams rotate from nas. He beats the close out,
Speaker 1: gets into the lane and makes the layup again. They
Speaker 1: beat this coverage a couple of times, but this is
Speaker 1: the kind of coverage I want to see Minnesota deploy
Speaker 1: as we get into Game three. And then nothing too
Speaker 1: crazy here. Just this is one of those hard double
Speaker 1: teams that Shay face down in the fourth quarter. I
Speaker 1: really don't like double teaming Shade this far away from
Speaker 1: the basket. But like now, like this is just such
Speaker 1: an easy read, Like, Okay, you're gonna double me when
Speaker 1: a swing pass gets a wide open three, Like they're
Speaker 1: gonna beat that every single time. All right, that's it
Speaker 1: for today again, as you guys can see, like just
Speaker 1: just some realities to the way that ball pressure is
Speaker 1: causing problems. And then ball screens with Shay's ability to
Speaker 1: stake to help defender, so I'd switch drop back, less pressure,
Speaker 1: contain pack the paint, force these guys to make the
Speaker 1: kickout reads and to knock down the threes that they
Speaker 1: get out of those situations. All right, guys, it's all
Speaker 1: have for today is always a sincerely appreciate you guys
Speaker 1: for supporting me and supporting the show. I will see
Speaker 1: you guys tonight after Eastern Conference Finals Game two. But
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