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We are going to go through a film 37 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:10,640 Speaker 1: session of Game five at the Eastern Conference Finals today. 38 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 2: The main thing I. 39 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: Wanted to dig into because if viewed, Game six is 40 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: kind of a pivot point. I think if the Knicks 41 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 1: win Game six, they obviously have a very good chance 42 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: to go to the finals because they will be a favorite. 43 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,800 Speaker 1: A favorite in Game seven at home. Obviously things wouldn't 44 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: be over at that point, But all of a sudden, 45 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: you go from the big underdog the team that's got 46 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 1: to overcome the crazy deficit too. More likely than not 47 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:33,799 Speaker 1: you might end up coming out of this thing right. 48 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: So I wanted to dig into the film and see 49 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 1: what kind of stuff actually translates forward to get to 50 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 1: a potential Game six. I've got about forty clips for 51 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: us to watch. Off the top, will go over just 52 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: a couple of the concepts that I noticed on film, 53 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:50,359 Speaker 1: and then we'll get out of here for the rest 54 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: of the day. You guys know the Joe before we 55 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: get started. Subscribe to the Hoops and I YouTube channels. 56 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:54,919 Speaker 1: You don't miss any more of our videos. 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So first and foremost, 66 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:20,839 Speaker 1: this is an important detail. And again this is we 67 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: talked about this last night in terms of the natural 68 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 1: kind of human nature oscillations and urgency that take place 69 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: in playoff series. It showed up on film when I 70 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:33,920 Speaker 1: rewatched it this morning. A lot of pacers guys just 71 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: not quite bringing that requisite energy that you need from 72 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: them in order to win this type of road close 73 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: out games. Specific guys that stood out to me obviously 74 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: Tyrese Haliburton in his passivity. I thought Pascal Siakam was 75 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: brutal on both ends of the floor in this game. 76 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: Was just leaving a lot of stuff short in the 77 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: short to mid range on offense and then on defense, 78 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 1: just in general, not winning the physical battle against Kat 79 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: that he needs to win. His job is in his 80 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: ISOs is to force Cat towards. 81 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 2: His left hand. 82 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 1: Indiana with Rick Carlisle has been planning help on the 83 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: left hand drive for Cat and so there were several 84 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 1: times that Sakam and Turner and other sequences lost contain 85 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:17,840 Speaker 1: of Cat and let him get to his right hand. 86 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: And when he got to his right hand, they weren't 87 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: set up to help on that side, because again it's 88 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: not the way they were setting up their loaded up defense, 89 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: and so when he went to his right hand, he 90 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: was able to get all the way to the rim 91 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 1: and in many. 92 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:30,719 Speaker 2: Cases draw fouls as well. 93 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 1: Siakam gave up deep seals and offensive rebound seals to 94 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: Cat where it almost looked like he was floating around 95 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 1: and not paying attention, and all of a sudden, Cats 96 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: just you know, dropping down and throwing that elbow in 97 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: his chest and creating a passing angle. It just kind 98 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: of seemed like Siakam was a little bit half asleep 99 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 1: in this game. Aaron Neith Smith stepped up the ball 100 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: pressure a couple of points in the game, but didn't 101 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: come out with the same level of intensity on the 102 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: ball that we know that he's capable of bringing. So, 103 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: like a lot of this is some of that natural 104 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 1: back and forth, but there were also some real things 105 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: that the Knicks figured out that led to that led 106 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:09,479 Speaker 1: to some success, like the Mikhale Bridges posts ups of 107 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: Tyrese Haliburt no g Anobi cleared side post ups, a 108 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: lot of stuff from those two that they can continue 109 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 1: to explore. The realities of the fact that if they 110 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: deny Tyrese Halliburton and face guard him and keep him 111 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 1: away from the ball, that he has a tendency to 112 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 1: kind of just step away and let other people do it. 113 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:27,159 Speaker 1: The reality of the fact that you have guys like 114 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 1: Andrew Nemhard under control in this series, and that there's 115 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: not a ton of other ball handling for the Pacers 116 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: to go to in those situations. They're even with me 117 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: acknowledging from the tape that the Pacers did not bring 118 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 1: their best last night. There were some obvious things that 119 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 1: the Knicks did that do translate to a potential Game 120 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: six that they could look at in order to give 121 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: themselves a better chance to extend this series to a 122 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 1: game seven. We've gone through all of that in the film. Today, 123 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 1: let's go ahead and get started with our first clip. 124 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:04,600 Speaker 1: So fun fact, the Knicks have actually scored on their 125 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: first possession in every single game of this series, and 126 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: they did so again last night off of an action 127 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: that may look familiar to you, guys. We'll talk about 128 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: it in a second. So we have a little off 129 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: ball action. Brunson enters into McHale coming off of a 130 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: wide screen. Then he's going to go down for a 131 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 1: double wide pin down with og Anoby. Now, those of 132 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: you guys who might remember the Knicks again have scored 133 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 1: on their first possession in every game of the series. 134 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: They scored on back cuts from this guy in the 135 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: first two games of the series. So in game one 136 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: and in game two. Game one, I think it was 137 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 1: Michale Bridges who broke free on this baseline cut, and 138 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: then in game two it was og Nobi who broke 139 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:51,719 Speaker 1: free on this baseline cut. But we have seen this 140 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: action to start the game three times in the series 141 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 1: from the Knicks to this point double wide pin down. 142 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 1: We see og Nanobe cut through and on the times 143 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 1: that they scored, this guy was actually top locking. And 144 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 1: then og and McHale were literally able to just backcut 145 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 1: as you can see, Indies adjusted by basically hugging the 146 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: person and making sure that he can't cut that easily, 147 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: but he cuts her in. After the cut, you can 148 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 1: actually see Aaron Nee Smith just a slight step to 149 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: the right as OG's cutting through. 150 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 2: Watch as OG's cutting through. 151 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 1: Boom right there, that little step from Nie Smith to 152 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: the right as Brunson's coming off gets in that little 153 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: extra bit of separation. Now he can take a drop 154 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: coverage shot against Turner. Pretty well defended. But again the 155 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 1: action that they've run multiple times in the series to 156 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: start games and have gotten a bucket out of second 157 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: possession of the game, they run the exact same action. 158 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 1: Kale Bridges comes up, but he's denied, so instead they 159 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: go to Kat. Then they go to run the double 160 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: wide pin down. They're unable to even set a screen 161 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: on Og with the hug. All of a sudden, the 162 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: audible is instead of coming up off this way, Kat 163 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: just enters to Mitch and then Brunson's gonna wheel around 164 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 1: these two, So he wheels around. Nie Smith once again 165 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: defends it pretty well. But Brunson was just all business 166 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 1: last night. 167 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 2: Man. 168 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 1: He came out with his head on fire. Tough little 169 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 1: step back jump shot. Here's a perfect example of just 170 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: some of the physicality the Knicks were bringing early in 171 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: the game. So, as you can see, we have full 172 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: court pressure on Tyre's Halliburton on the Knemhard on the 173 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: Nie Smith screen, We're gonna get a hard headge from Brunson. 174 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: Look At how hard he comes out attacks the basketball. 175 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: He's like swiping and grabbing. There's a physical, hard blitz 176 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 1: of Haliburton here. Halliburton retreats immediately right and Brunson gets 177 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 1: the hell out. When Brunson gets out, Mitch has to 178 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: switch out on the Nie Smith. Watch Brunson tag Turner. 179 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 1: Look At how physically he is on Turner. He's grabbing him, 180 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 1: he's holding him, he's keeping him out of the lane, making. 181 00:08:57,679 --> 00:08:59,200 Speaker 2: Sure they can't actually go there. 182 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: Then as Brunson passes him off to Og and closes 183 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 1: out to Nemhard, look at the physicality from Og on 184 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: Turner right in his back, shoving him, pushing him. So 185 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 1: when the post entry goes, he forces it over the 186 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 1: top because again and these are fouls, but these are 187 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 1: fouls that you're gonna get away with in the postseason. Again, 188 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 1: like we've seen a lot of it going both ways 189 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: in this series. That's just playoff basketball. Good physicality on 190 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: the post entry forces the turnover. Pacers were laid on 191 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 1: a tag here at a ball screen with Brunson and 192 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 1: Mitchell Robinson. Mitchell Robinson brings vertical spacing, which is a 193 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: unique thing to have in the starting lineup that you 194 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: don't get when it's just Cat out there. 195 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 2: All it is simple ball screen. 196 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 1: As Kat comes off the ball screen, we're in a 197 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: drop right Turner's back, but he's up at the level. 198 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: Because of the pull up shooting threat, these guys have 199 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 1: to tag the roller. They do not tag the roller 200 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:06,679 Speaker 1: us who's open Mitchell Robinson on the lob dunk. Another 201 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:08,440 Speaker 1: example of just kind of like that missing bit of 202 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 1: intensity from the Pacers early in the game is they 203 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 1: were just laid on their tags and laid on some 204 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 1: of their rotations. All right, so o g Nobi little 205 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 1: cleared side post up. Og Nanobe has run eleven post 206 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 1: ups and ISOs in this series, and he has scored 207 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: on six of them. One of them technically was a 208 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 1: miss and an offensive rebound put back, but I'm counting 209 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 1: it as a bucket because it more or less worked 210 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,959 Speaker 1: the same way. But cleared side just a jab and 211 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: go a little low gather draws a foul. This has 212 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 1: been an effective play in the series, just having Og 213 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: go one on one against one of the pacers smaller players. 214 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: I think it's something they should explore when things bogged down. 215 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 1: Here's a little double drag action. So as you can see, 216 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: we have two ball screens being say set for Brunson. 217 00:10:56,559 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: As the double drag gets run, Tyre's Aliburton goes under 218 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: that second screen that forces Turner to step up, and 219 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: when Turner steps up, Haliburton lets Mitch get by him. 220 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: And when Mitch gets by him, now there's no choice 221 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: because the roller gets behind the coverage. You've got a 222 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:14,679 Speaker 1: tag from the weak side. The tag is going to 223 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: come from top end. Swing back to McHale, extra pass 224 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 1: to Kat in the corner, wide open three bucket. Pretty 225 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:26,239 Speaker 1: consistently in this series, when the Knicks have like trusted 226 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,320 Speaker 1: their action instead of just playing one on one, they've 227 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: gotten really good stuff out of it. Big theme in 228 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: this game was just Cat getting downhill. Here's an example 229 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 1: in semi transition where he's just kind of trailing to 230 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,080 Speaker 1: play and by the time he catches it, there's two 231 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: on the ball on Brunson. Now it's just an easy 232 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: right handed rip for Kat just grabs it and goes 233 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: gets all the way to the basket, and he just 234 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: knows that once he gets rumbling downhill. These dudes literally 235 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 1: can't stop him. This is just a nasty brunts and 236 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 1: pull up three over turner. Nothing here but just greatness. 237 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:06,839 Speaker 1: Too far back off of a switch. It's contest, it 238 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Look at how high Karl Anthony Towns is 239 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,200 Speaker 1: coming out on this ball screen against Haliburton. You could 240 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: just see that they were really trying to play Halliburton 241 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 1: into being passive. Here's Hallie. It gets worked back around. 242 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 1: Watch how high cat comes up. He literally is meeting 243 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:37,559 Speaker 1: Halliburton twenty six feet from the basket. That forces Haliburton 244 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: to flatten his drive. Look, he wants to go downhill, 245 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: but he has to flatten his drive out sideways and 246 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 1: that forces him into this ridiculously tough leaning jumper going 247 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 1: to his left. Another Brunson full of three. Once again, 248 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 1: this is just greatness. A little step back over Ben 249 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 1: Shepherd boom. He was all business last night. Fourteen points 250 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 1: in the first quarter. A lot of blitzing with Brunson 251 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 1: on Halliburton in the first half when Halliburton would bring 252 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: how Jalen Brunson into the action at all, they were 253 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: just getting super aggressive with Brunson in those blitzes, ball 254 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 1: gets worked back around. Let me get over there. Okay, 255 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: so we have Halliburton nine seconds on the clock. Shepherd's 256 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:26,680 Speaker 1: gonna screen for him. Watch how Brunston gets out there 257 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:31,839 Speaker 1: and this gets worked around to TJ. McConnell, which is 258 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:33,319 Speaker 1: a shot that the Nicks will live with. And this 259 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 1: shot does go in. But the key is is they're 260 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 1: trying to get ted Tyre's Halliburton to not be aggressive. 261 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: And you'll look all night long, Halliburton is like in 262 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: a race to get rid of the ball. Like Brunson 263 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: hasn't even gotten to him yet. He's just in a 264 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 1: race to get rid of the ball. And again there's 265 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that necessarily with them setting up rotation situations. 266 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 2: It's just we talked about it last night. 267 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: As a playmaking guard, you've got to mix in the 268 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 1: appropriate amount of aggression to keep the defense. It's honest, 269 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 1: very similar one here on the next possession, nice little 270 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 1: strip from TJ McConnell. We go down to the other end. 271 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: Let me fast forward. Okay, so same exact action we 272 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 1: have Shepherd's screen, Brunson comes up, Caliburton passes out of it. 273 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 1: Look at how he like picks up the dribble before 274 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 1: Brunson's even there. That's easy rotation back Shepherd drives, They 275 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 1: the Nicks rotate out of it, great contest force, some 276 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 1: miss get the defensive rebound. So again you forced a 277 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: pretty tough contested drive for Ben Shepherd and a catch 278 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: and shoot three for TJ McConnell out of that action. 279 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: That's something that Nicks will live with once again. Look 280 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 1: at the bodies and the attention thrown at Halliburton in 281 00:14:53,040 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 1: the ball screen. Three guys on the ball, just forcing 282 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: these guys, these lesser shooters to make some tough contested 283 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: catch and shoot threes, and the Pacers did miss a 284 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 1: couple of those payoff shots in the first half. Nie Smith, 285 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 1: especially on the Indiana front. As a potential adjustment for them, 286 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 1: we talked a lot last night about being better with 287 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: their double teams and just trying to prevent Kat from 288 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 1: having those opportunities to quickly attack. Watch as they go 289 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: to post up Cat on the weak side. Here, I'm 290 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: gonna get the ball back over there. Okay, so we 291 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 1: have a post up of Ben Mather and balls on 292 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: the floor. They gotta go like right, they need to 293 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 1: be double in the double needs to already be there, 294 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 1: especially with this much time on the shot. 295 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 2: Clock, because they wait. 296 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: There's a pretty simple little back down here for Cat, 297 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 1: and by the time the double team comes, he's too 298 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 1: close to the rim. Watch at this point doesn't matter. 299 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 1: He's too he's way bigger than you guys, and he's 300 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 1: right at the rim. The double has to come earlier. 301 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 1: This is another example of Kat attacking one on one 302 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 1: no double and Siakam gives up the right hand just 303 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 1: an absolute disaster defensive possession relative to what their game 304 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: plan is. Again, you could see Siakam, he's trying to 305 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: send him right, but there's no double team and he 306 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 1: gives up the or excuse me, he's trying to send 307 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 1: him left, but he doesn't even like he needs to 308 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 1: be a little bit higher on this side, and it's 309 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 1: just is too easy for Cat to just rip through 310 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 1: over the top no double team or whatever whatever. This 311 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 1: token kind of fake dig down from Ben Mathern was like, 312 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 1: that's just lacking the defensive intensity you need to actually 313 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 1: like this is a This is a play in Indiana 314 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 1: where Sakam is gonna be on the high side and 315 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: they'll be more prepared for this and they'll just play 316 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: you know again, they'll just execute their scheme better. But 317 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 1: a lot of like just simple mistakes in their defensive 318 00:16:55,800 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 1: scheme last night. Here's another example of Cat just kicking 319 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:06,679 Speaker 1: Siakam's ass on the glass, like okay, like I'm just 320 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 1: gonna shots up. SACOM's not really even fighting right, Likeams 321 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 1: just kind of walking and Cat just is like, all right, fine, 322 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: I'll just bury you real quick. Like that's just way 323 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 1: too easy. Seacom's not even competing down there. He's got 324 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: to compete down there. We're finally gonna get to see 325 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:30,399 Speaker 1: a double team of Cat here. I just thought they 326 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 1: messed up a rotation and gave up way too easy 327 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 1: of a read. So I'll watch it full speed first 328 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 1: and then i'll show you guys what I'm talking about. 329 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: So Kat goes to the post. Let's fast forward a 330 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 1: little bit. 331 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 2: On the post. 332 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 1: Here comes the double right as he's turning his back right, 333 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 1: easy kick out past the due McBride catching you three. 334 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:52,160 Speaker 2: Now, where does this go wrong? 335 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:59,160 Speaker 1: Watch Ben Matherins actually guarding Ben Matherins guarding Due McBride. 336 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:02,200 Speaker 1: Ben Shepherd's daring delon right, and you can actually see 337 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 1: Ben mather and go you double, you double. He wants 338 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 1: Shepherd to go when Shepherd goes now, Ben is responsible 339 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 1: for both of these guys effectively, right, and he's specifically 340 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: responsible for the guy closest to Kat because these two 341 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 1: then become responsible for defending these guys two on three. 342 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 1: Right do starts to relocate. Ben should see this. Ben 343 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 1: should see Deuce is going. Delon writes back over here, 344 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 1: but instead he sticks with Delon and just lets Deuce relocate. 345 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:40,040 Speaker 1: That's bad, double team. You can't when you give up 346 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 1: a when you send a double. The past you got 347 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,200 Speaker 1: to give up is this pass. You gotta be like, hey, Kat, 348 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 1: if you can somehow handle this ball pressure and through 349 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 1: the physicality, get it on time and on target. Delandre Shammett, congrats, 350 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: will give you a wide open three. What you can't 351 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,880 Speaker 1: do is have him be like, oh shit, I'm screwed. Wait, 352 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:02,160 Speaker 1: there's a wide open shooter ten feet right in front 353 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:04,679 Speaker 1: of my face like that. That's not going to get 354 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 1: the job done. Ben Matherin's gotta be tracking Duce McBride 355 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 1: on that possession. Big time bench contribution here. Watch Delawn 356 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 1: Wright as og In Andobi's driving Delawn Wright sneaks behind 357 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: Andrew Nemhart along the baseline, sneaks behind him. 358 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 2: On the strip. 359 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 1: He's in the right place, in the right time to 360 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 1: get the ball because of that corner. Crash makes the 361 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 1: kickout pass on Andrey Shaman, who then sticks to three. 362 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 1: That's a huge sequence. You go from getting a stop 363 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:38,639 Speaker 1: for Indiana to three points for the Knicks from your bench. 364 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: So right here is a classic example of tyrs Halbert 365 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 1: just getting rid of the ball too early. Turner goes 366 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 1: to set the screen. You could see Kat preparing to 367 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:54,919 Speaker 1: come up aggressively up to the level or blitz or 368 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:56,959 Speaker 1: whatever coverage he's gonna run on that play, but on 369 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: the right hand side of the screen. Then Haliburton rejects 370 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: the screen boom. Notice right as Og hops boom, that's 371 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 1: when he crosses over. Now he's got clean dribble penetration. 372 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:09,800 Speaker 2: But look at how. 373 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 1: Quickly he gives up the ball. He's already turning around 374 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: and jumping. No one's even made contact with him yet, 375 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 1: He's already turning around and jumping to get rid of 376 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:24,080 Speaker 1: the ball. Just not being enough of a scoring threat, 377 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: even though he got like a really nice little straight 378 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:31,520 Speaker 1: line drive there. Nice screen navigation from Shaman here too. 379 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 1: Look at Shamant battling through these screens, beats hto the spot, 380 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 1: takes the contact in the chest and gets to stop. 381 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:42,360 Speaker 1: Really nice work from Shamit. I love this little action, 382 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,400 Speaker 1: this little kind of like crossing action at the top 383 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: of the key to try to get Cat downhill again. 384 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:48,520 Speaker 2: Look all it is is like a little dribble pitch. 385 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: Cat kind of trails the play delawn right, just kind 386 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: of dribbles right at turner and then just pitches it, 387 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 1: and that just gives Cat an opportunity to get like 388 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: a head of scheme when he's already got momentum. Another 389 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 1: example of him getting to his right hand and just 390 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:11,360 Speaker 1: powering through everybody and finishing. Nice work from the pacers 391 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 1: here handling the blitz. On this particular possession. We get 392 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 1: an early guard screen that gets brunts in onto Halliburton. 393 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 1: Hard attack of Halliburton leaves the pocket open. Og has 394 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: to step over. We get our week side two on 395 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 1: one swing extra pass wide open three. But Nie Smith 396 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 1: missed a couple of these wide open threes in the 397 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: first half. 398 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 2: Here we get. 399 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:37,439 Speaker 1: Another chance for Og and Obi to attack out of 400 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:41,680 Speaker 1: like a clear side iso, they dribble out, they see 401 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 1: the matchup, they like they just pitch it to og. 402 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: This is the one that didn't get counted as a bucket, 403 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 1: but was a bucket and an offensive rebound. 404 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:50,160 Speaker 2: I like that action. 405 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: I think it's something that Nick should explore when everything's 406 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 1: bogged down. So fast forwarding a little bit, Matherin just 407 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:01,159 Speaker 1: hit a transition three, cut the lead to seven, and 408 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 1: over the course of the next you know, half a 409 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,320 Speaker 1: quarter or so, the Knicks are about to go on 410 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:11,680 Speaker 1: a twenty to seven run to put themselves up by twenty. 411 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,399 Speaker 1: We're gonna cover that real quick and then we'll be 412 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,640 Speaker 1: done for the day. So here another example of Karl 413 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,680 Speaker 1: Anthony Towns just winning the ground battle against Pascal Siakam. 414 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 1: Watch how he gets this deep seal, so like, look 415 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: at Siakam. Watch how Siakam's just kind of floating, walking, floating, 416 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 1: just kind of chilling. Now he takes his eyes off 417 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 1: the cat, like what is he looking at? So Kat's like, 418 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,440 Speaker 1: all right, you're just gonna let me in deep seal 419 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 1: here word just creates the passing angle, easy finish. Like 420 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,160 Speaker 1: Siakam looked like he was half asleep in this game. 421 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 1: I'm not sure what was going on there. 422 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 2: So uh. 423 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 1: And then that's another one of those like little short 424 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,200 Speaker 1: shots that Siaka missed. Just just kind of a weird 425 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:57,200 Speaker 1: game from him. Now Mikhale Bridges is going to post 426 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 1: up Jalen Bruns. And by the way, this was the 427 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,440 Speaker 1: second time in the game that McHale got a bucket 428 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 1: against Halliburton. In the post, he hit a little left 429 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 1: shoulder fade and here he hits a little right shoulder 430 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,920 Speaker 1: fade towards the middle. They're gonna let those guys work 431 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 1: one on one. I would continue to explore that. Look 432 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 1: at the Halliburton face guarding from Bridges faceguard, deny faceguard 433 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 1: deny face guard deny, face guard deny. That actually forces 434 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: them to just look another direction. Halliburton just goes and 435 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 1: stands off on the side. They end up running a 436 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 1: little action with Nemhard and Jeris Walker. Jaris Walker misses 437 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 1: the three more denial of Haliburton, full court pressure as 438 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 1: soon as he gives up the ball. Look at Bridges 439 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: Bridges deny, deny, deny. One of the things they did 440 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: here which I like is this is a great way 441 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 1: to attack it. Deny if he's gonna be in between 442 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 1: the ball and the man quickly reverse the floor. Suddenly 443 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 1: he's on the right side, right, So as soon as 444 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,880 Speaker 1: the ball gets reversed, suddenly Haliburton's on the right side 445 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:08,440 Speaker 1: of the action where he can get to the ball 446 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:13,360 Speaker 1: before bridges. So he does, gets there and then immediately 447 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,919 Speaker 1: gets rid of the ball, picks up his dribble. But 448 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 1: look look at the aggression that we got Mitchell Robinson 449 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:22,680 Speaker 1: up at the level we got Brunson digging. There's three 450 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 1: on the ball with Haliburton again, good pressure, great defense 451 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 1: from Mitchell Robinson forces the travel and as far as 452 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 1: Hyrys Haliburton goes, guys like this is literally what Okac 453 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 1: is going to do to him. They're going to swarm 454 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: him at least to start the series, and his ability 455 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 1: to handle it and get the ball out is going 456 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:48,239 Speaker 1: to be a big part of whether or not they 457 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: can force Okac to change their game plan. All right, 458 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,640 Speaker 1: this is what it looks like when they actually handle 459 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: cat appropriately in terms of sending it in the right 460 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 1: direction and having the help in the right position. So 461 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,639 Speaker 1: watch how Sam is way up on the right hand 462 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,920 Speaker 1: when they go back to cat here. Okay, boom, Watch 463 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,119 Speaker 1: how he hops, like as soon as you see the pass, 464 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 1: watch Siakam hops up on their right hand drive. Oh shit, 465 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 1: I need to send them left. Okay, look at all 466 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 1: the bodies. Everyone's looking and Nie Smith not yet, but 467 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 1: Nemhard and Haliburn, everyone's looking at Kat cat racks to 468 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,640 Speaker 1: the left, but look where the help is. They meet 469 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 1: him early and they're prepared and Nie Smith takes a charge. 470 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,360 Speaker 1: So again their game plan and they want to send 471 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 1: Kat left and have him in help there. 472 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 2: If that's fine. 473 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,479 Speaker 1: You just got to make sure the help gets there early, 474 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: and I would explore double teaming more. You just got 475 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 1: to take away the easy reads and make him throw 476 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 1: the passes over the top. This was a huge two 477 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 1: way sequence from Jalen Brunson. Nemhar is gonna get downhill 478 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 1: here and he's going to make a nice peel off 479 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 1: kind of help side rotation at the rim and force 480 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 1: a miss big time play there. And again it's just 481 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 1: about making the read. And talked about this earlier. I 482 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 1: was talking about this actually with the guys before we 483 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:06,199 Speaker 1: started the show. Mem Hard was forcing some stuff at 484 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 1: the rim in this game in traffic. This just needs 485 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 1: to be a kickout past Toniesmith and instead he tries 486 00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:16,360 Speaker 1: to shoot over Brunson smokes the layup. We go out 487 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: the other way on the other end of the floor, 488 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 1: little guard guard screen. The quick guard screen gets Haliburton 489 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:30,120 Speaker 1: switched onto him. Now we're running a ball screen with Haliburton. 490 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:30,640 Speaker 2: Looking out easy. 491 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:34,679 Speaker 1: This layup is just by getting a more favorable on 492 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:40,719 Speaker 1: ball matchup early in the possession. Bruntson again just win 493 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 1: in the ground battle. Watch how he just dislodges Aaron E. 494 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 1: Smith on this drive. Watch the bump once he gets 495 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 1: downhill against the pressure. Downhill, down hill, downhill, boom. See 496 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,640 Speaker 1: that bump. You're gonna ride my hip. That's great, I'm 497 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:59,400 Speaker 1: gonna bump you off. Knocks him loose. Now he's got 498 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:06,680 Speaker 1: an easy layer in the gap there. Brunston was phenomenal 499 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 1: in this game. Hand down, man down on this one. 500 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: Another little short range missed from Siakam. We're going down 501 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 1: the other end. Ball gets swung over to Brunson and 502 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,840 Speaker 1: Nie Smith has his hands down. That ain't gonna work. 503 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 1: He's feeling too good with the jumper Tonight. Some really 504 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:30,360 Speaker 1: high quality drop coverage defense here by Mitchell Robinson on Haliburton. 505 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 2: So the denial. 506 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,640 Speaker 1: There's a temporary sequence where Brunson is switched on too Haliburt, 507 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 1: which kind of gets him out of their denial. By 508 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,879 Speaker 1: the time they actually execute the switch again, it's just 509 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 1: a quick hitch over to Haliburt and now he's got 510 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 1: the ball. Also, because of the positioning, McHale's not really 511 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 1: in a spot to beat him over the top of 512 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,359 Speaker 1: the screen, so Haliburton gets downhill. Watch Mitch. This is 513 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,360 Speaker 1: textbook drop coverage defense. He's accounting for the role man, 514 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: he's dropping back. He's made him make a decision. Haliburton 515 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 1: doesn't like any of his passing reads, so he's got 516 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 1: a default back to the scoop shot, and Mitch is 517 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: there to swat that shit. 518 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 2: Out of bounce. 519 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 1: So you're gonna see a lot of off ball denials 520 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 1: here over the course of the next few possessions. Watch 521 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 1: we have Miles Turner with the ball. Watch everyone else 522 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:27,399 Speaker 1: off ball denying, deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, not letting 523 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,360 Speaker 1: that easy swing pass, even like getting away with physicality. 524 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 2: Again, this is the Playoffs. 525 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 1: All that physicality and while all this aggression is happening 526 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 1: in the off ball denials, watch Mitch attacking the basketball 527 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 1: and he swipes it off of Turner's leg. As we 528 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,160 Speaker 1: always talk about, there are two sides to a switch, right, 529 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 1: So we get a ball screen. In the ball screen, 530 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 1: Nie Smith switches on to Mitchell Robinson and Turner switches 531 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 1: onto Jalen Brunson. Jalen Brunson gets the ball back and 532 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:05,080 Speaker 1: goes to attack, misses a step back three. But what's 533 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:06,600 Speaker 1: the other side of the switch. The other side of 534 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 1: the switch is you've got Mitchell Robinson on Aaron Nesmith. 535 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,280 Speaker 1: Watch how aaron Ne Smith just gets buried by Mitch 536 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 1: easy offensive rebound put back. More off ball denials. Fast 537 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 1: forward a little bit here, so throw the ball Turner. 538 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 1: Watch all the denials. See that they're trying to get 539 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 1: Siakam to screen for Haliburton, so you can come off 540 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 1: the screen. But look at McHale. Just physical hugging denial there. 541 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 1: That's what you got to bring immediately in game six, Now, 542 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, we have Turner dribbling out the 543 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 1: clock out at half court, nowhere to go. Finally gets 544 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 1: the ball. Denie Smith with six on the shot clock, 545 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 1: and he's got to take this bad pull up three. 546 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 1: You can play the Pacers into a lot of those 547 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 1: bad possessions if you bring that pressure, which again is 548 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 1: kind of what concerns me about a potential Oklahoma City matchup. 549 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:03,720 Speaker 1: Here's another they're successful double team of by the way, 550 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 1: also after the turner or the Nie Smith miss, we 551 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: do get another offensive rebound. But look at the off 552 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: ball denials or in the passing lanes, and Indiana is 553 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 1: really starting to come apart at the seams now with 554 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:23,400 Speaker 1: the turnovers. Here's a double team of Cat that works. 555 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,160 Speaker 1: Notice they just bring the double, Like just as soon 556 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 1: as he puts the ball on the floor, boom, here 557 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:33,760 Speaker 1: comes the double attack the basketball and they end up 558 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,040 Speaker 1: calling the foul on Cat there. So like, I really 559 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 1: think Indiana's got a double and bring early help. Keep 560 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,360 Speaker 1: sending Cat towards that left hand. When you have the 561 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 1: early help coming, they can't just keep letting him get 562 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 1: to his right hand in single coverage. Look at the 563 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 1: hard hedge from Brunts and look at that they're hedging 564 00:30:53,840 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 1: with Brunson forty five feet from the basket. Haliburton immediately 565 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,800 Speaker 1: getting rid of the basketball. Again, like these guys aren't 566 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 1: even in scoring position, and Halliburton's getting rid of the basketball. 567 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 1: He's like he has an opportunity here to drive, like 568 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:13,719 Speaker 1: just keep going. OG's not in position. Turn the corner, 569 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: turn the corner and attack like this. At this point 570 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 1: in time, Halliburton's gotta shoot this gap and make something 571 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 1: better happen. He's just getting rid of the ball away 572 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:30,959 Speaker 1: too early. Great defense by Bruntson strips it off of 573 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 1: Neie Smith's leg. A really good rotation out of a 574 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:44,479 Speaker 1: double team of Siakam here, so Siakam's got Brunson hard double. 575 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 1: Watch the rotations. Bridges is over, Boom, Bridges is over 576 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:53,600 Speaker 1: a little bit of a missed extra pass here from 577 00:31:53,640 --> 00:32:04,240 Speaker 1: Nie Smith that's got to go over to Halliburton. I 578 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 1: thought Tyres Sliburton really telegraphed this pass. See as we 579 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 1: get up here, look at how he's looking through the 580 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,720 Speaker 1: whole time as he's coming off the ball screen, not 581 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:19,280 Speaker 1: even looking at the rim, looking down at the pocket, 582 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 1: looking down at the pocket, looking down at the pocket, 583 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:26,000 Speaker 1: looking down at the pocket, still looking down at the pocket. 584 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 1: Here's the pocket pass. Mitch's recovery athleticism gets the block. 585 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 1: Mitch's recovery athleticism always blows me away. But yeah, I'd 586 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,960 Speaker 1: like Haliburton is like, straight up not even looking to 587 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:51,800 Speaker 1: score the basketball. Two more clips, guys once again losing 588 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 1: control of Kat to his strong hand and go back 589 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 1: out to Kat here. Okay, so we have Kat, we're 590 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,360 Speaker 1: supposed to be sending him to his left, that's where 591 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,480 Speaker 1: all the help is. There's no help on the right 592 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,600 Speaker 1: hand side Kat, Like this is just a straight up 593 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:14,640 Speaker 1: loaded up iso. Siakam is going to try to send 594 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,600 Speaker 1: him to his left, but Kat just beats him to 595 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 1: the right, like he's just as soon as you do that, 596 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,479 Speaker 1: it's dead on arrival. Like, look at where the help is. 597 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:26,320 Speaker 1: Look at them Hart. They are planned to meet Kat 598 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,800 Speaker 1: on a left handed drive. Haliburn's not even thinking about 599 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,480 Speaker 1: it because he's thinking he's gonna send Kat towards his left. 600 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 1: He doesn't gives up the right hand. Now by the 601 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,160 Speaker 1: time Thomas Bryant meets him at the rim, it's too 602 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 1: late that a big steal for Mitchell Robinson. In transition, 603 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,800 Speaker 1: Lob to og Andnobi draws a foul, goes to the line, 604 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:50,840 Speaker 1: makes both free throws, and all of a sudden the 605 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,960 Speaker 1: Knicks are up twenty and heading down to Indiana for 606 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 1: a game six. So again as you guys can see 607 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,920 Speaker 1: on the tape, some obvious Lackaday's goal stuff from the Pacers, 608 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,440 Speaker 1: but some obvious stuff that works right, some obvious examples 609 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,800 Speaker 1: of physicality and bal denials, and how they can play 610 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:08,640 Speaker 1: Tyree Saliburton into his worst tendencies. Some reality is about 611 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,800 Speaker 1: finding opportunities to post up ogn and o B and 612 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,920 Speaker 1: Michale Bridges. Some reality is about the fact that we 613 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,320 Speaker 1: know Brunson can play better than he did on the 614 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,920 Speaker 1: road in Indiana in Game four, and so it's all 615 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,799 Speaker 1: there on the table. The job is. There's no complication 616 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:26,480 Speaker 1: there in terms of what kind of game plan they 617 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,799 Speaker 1: need to run or whether or not they can do 618 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,399 Speaker 1: the job. They just have to be the best version 619 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,080 Speaker 1: of the Knicks when they go down to Indiana. Get 620 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,239 Speaker 1: to give themselves a chance. And again, as you guys 621 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,040 Speaker 1: can see here, we're watching the tape. What do you 622 00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 1: think the Pacers are doing today? They're watching the tape, 623 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:42,480 Speaker 1: and I guarantee you there's been some ass chewings for 624 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,360 Speaker 1: some specific guys. I guarantee you Siakam's watching the tape 625 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,040 Speaker 1: and a little embarrassed with the way he played, And 626 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:52,719 Speaker 1: you're gonna get a just a hillacious effort from the 627 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,520 Speaker 1: Pacers on Saturday night. That should be a super super 628 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,239 Speaker 1: interesting game. Again, we will be covering it live on 629 00:34:58,280 --> 00:34:59,600 Speaker 1: YouTube after the final buzzer. 630 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,040 Speaker 2: We'll see you guys then. What's up, guys? Theres always I. 631 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,040 Speaker 1: Appreciate you for listening to and supporting OOPS tonight. 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