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Speaker 1: heavy Friday. Everybody hope all you guys are having a
Speaker 1: great week. We are going to go through a film
Speaker 1: session of Game five at the Eastern Conference Finals today.
Speaker 2: The main thing I.
Speaker 1: Wanted to dig into because if viewed, Game six is
Speaker 1: kind of a pivot point. I think if the Knicks
Speaker 1: win Game six, they obviously have a very good chance
Speaker 1: to go to the finals because they will be a favorite.
Speaker 1: A favorite in Game seven at home. Obviously things wouldn't
Speaker 1: be over at that point, But all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you go from the big underdog the team that's got
Speaker 1: to overcome the crazy deficit too. More likely than not
Speaker 1: you might end up coming out of this thing right.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to dig into the film and see
Speaker 1: what kind of stuff actually translates forward to get to
Speaker 1: a potential Game six. I've got about forty clips for
Speaker 1: us to watch. Off the top, will go over just
Speaker 1: a couple of the concepts that I noticed on film,
Speaker 1: and then we'll get out of here for the rest
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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk some basketball. So first and foremost,
Speaker 1: this is an important detail. And again this is we
Speaker 1: talked about this last night in terms of the natural
Speaker 1: kind of human nature oscillations and urgency that take place
Speaker 1: in playoff series. It showed up on film when I
Speaker 1: rewatched it this morning. A lot of pacers guys just
Speaker 1: not quite bringing that requisite energy that you need from
Speaker 1: them in order to win this type of road close
Speaker 1: out games. Specific guys that stood out to me obviously
Speaker 1: Tyrese Haliburton in his passivity. I thought Pascal Siakam was
Speaker 1: brutal on both ends of the floor in this game.
Speaker 1: Was just leaving a lot of stuff short in the
Speaker 1: short to mid range on offense and then on defense,
Speaker 1: just in general, not winning the physical battle against Kat
Speaker 1: that he needs to win. His job is in his
Speaker 1: ISOs is to force Cat towards.
Speaker 2: His left hand.
Speaker 1: Indiana with Rick Carlisle has been planning help on the
Speaker 1: left hand drive for Cat and so there were several
Speaker 1: times that Sakam and Turner and other sequences lost contain
Speaker 1: of Cat and let him get to his right hand.
Speaker 1: And when he got to his right hand, they weren't
Speaker 1: set up to help on that side, because again it's
Speaker 1: not the way they were setting up their loaded up defense,
Speaker 1: and so when he went to his right hand, he
Speaker 1: was able to get all the way to the rim
Speaker 1: and in many.
Speaker 2: Cases draw fouls as well.
Speaker 1: Siakam gave up deep seals and offensive rebound seals to
Speaker 1: Cat where it almost looked like he was floating around
Speaker 1: and not paying attention, and all of a sudden, Cats
Speaker 1: just you know, dropping down and throwing that elbow in
Speaker 1: his chest and creating a passing angle. It just kind
Speaker 1: of seemed like Siakam was a little bit half asleep
Speaker 1: in this game. Aaron Neith Smith stepped up the ball
Speaker 1: pressure a couple of points in the game, but didn't
Speaker 1: come out with the same level of intensity on the
Speaker 1: ball that we know that he's capable of bringing. So,
Speaker 1: like a lot of this is some of that natural
Speaker 1: back and forth, but there were also some real things
Speaker 1: that the Knicks figured out that led to that led
Speaker 1: to some success, like the Mikhale Bridges posts ups of
Speaker 1: Tyrese Haliburt no g Anobi cleared side post ups, a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff from those two that they can continue
Speaker 1: to explore. The realities of the fact that if they
Speaker 1: deny Tyrese Halliburton and face guard him and keep him
Speaker 1: away from the ball, that he has a tendency to
Speaker 1: kind of just step away and let other people do it.
Speaker 1: The reality of the fact that you have guys like
Speaker 1: Andrew Nemhard under control in this series, and that there's
Speaker 1: not a ton of other ball handling for the Pacers
Speaker 1: to go to in those situations. They're even with me
Speaker 1: acknowledging from the tape that the Pacers did not bring
Speaker 1: their best last night. There were some obvious things that
Speaker 1: the Knicks did that do translate to a potential Game
Speaker 1: six that they could look at in order to give
Speaker 1: themselves a better chance to extend this series to a
Speaker 1: game seven. We've gone through all of that in the film. Today,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and get started with our first clip.
Speaker 1: So fun fact, the Knicks have actually scored on their
Speaker 1: first possession in every single game of this series, and
Speaker 1: they did so again last night off of an action
Speaker 1: that may look familiar to you, guys. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: it in a second. So we have a little off
Speaker 1: ball action. Brunson enters into McHale coming off of a
Speaker 1: wide screen. Then he's going to go down for a
Speaker 1: double wide pin down with og Anoby. Now, those of
Speaker 1: you guys who might remember the Knicks again have scored
Speaker 1: on their first possession in every game of the series.
Speaker 1: They scored on back cuts from this guy in the
Speaker 1: first two games of the series. So in game one
Speaker 1: and in game two. Game one, I think it was
Speaker 1: Michale Bridges who broke free on this baseline cut, and
Speaker 1: then in game two it was og Nobi who broke
Speaker 1: free on this baseline cut. But we have seen this
Speaker 1: action to start the game three times in the series
Speaker 1: from the Knicks to this point double wide pin down.
Speaker 1: We see og Nanobe cut through and on the times
Speaker 1: that they scored, this guy was actually top locking. And
Speaker 1: then og and McHale were literally able to just backcut
Speaker 1: as you can see, Indies adjusted by basically hugging the
Speaker 1: person and making sure that he can't cut that easily,
Speaker 1: but he cuts her in. After the cut, you can
Speaker 1: actually see Aaron Nee Smith just a slight step to
Speaker 1: the right as OG's cutting through.
Speaker 2: Watch as OG's cutting through.
Speaker 1: Boom right there, that little step from Nie Smith to
Speaker 1: the right as Brunson's coming off gets in that little
Speaker 1: extra bit of separation. Now he can take a drop
Speaker 1: coverage shot against Turner. Pretty well defended. But again the
Speaker 1: action that they've run multiple times in the series to
Speaker 1: start games and have gotten a bucket out of second
Speaker 1: possession of the game, they run the exact same action.
Speaker 1: Kale Bridges comes up, but he's denied, so instead they
Speaker 1: go to Kat. Then they go to run the double
Speaker 1: wide pin down. They're unable to even set a screen
Speaker 1: on Og with the hug. All of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: audible is instead of coming up off this way, Kat
Speaker 1: just enters to Mitch and then Brunson's gonna wheel around
Speaker 1: these two, So he wheels around. Nie Smith once again
Speaker 1: defends it pretty well. But Brunson was just all business
Speaker 1: last night.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: He came out with his head on fire. Tough little
Speaker 1: step back jump shot. Here's a perfect example of just
Speaker 1: some of the physicality the Knicks were bringing early in
Speaker 1: the game. So, as you can see, we have full
Speaker 1: court pressure on Tyre's Halliburton on the Knemhard on the
Speaker 1: Nie Smith screen, We're gonna get a hard headge from Brunson.
Speaker 1: Look At how hard he comes out attacks the basketball.
Speaker 1: He's like swiping and grabbing. There's a physical, hard blitz
Speaker 1: of Haliburton here. Halliburton retreats immediately right and Brunson gets
Speaker 1: the hell out. When Brunson gets out, Mitch has to
Speaker 1: switch out on the Nie Smith. Watch Brunson tag Turner.
Speaker 1: Look At how physically he is on Turner. He's grabbing him,
Speaker 1: he's holding him, he's keeping him out of the lane, making.
Speaker 2: Sure they can't actually go there.
Speaker 1: Then as Brunson passes him off to Og and closes
Speaker 1: out to Nemhard, look at the physicality from Og on
Speaker 1: Turner right in his back, shoving him, pushing him. So
Speaker 1: when the post entry goes, he forces it over the
Speaker 1: top because again and these are fouls, but these are
Speaker 1: fouls that you're gonna get away with in the postseason. Again,
Speaker 1: like we've seen a lot of it going both ways
Speaker 1: in this series. That's just playoff basketball. Good physicality on
Speaker 1: the post entry forces the turnover. Pacers were laid on
Speaker 1: a tag here at a ball screen with Brunson and
Speaker 1: Mitchell Robinson. Mitchell Robinson brings vertical spacing, which is a
Speaker 1: unique thing to have in the starting lineup that you
Speaker 1: don't get when it's just Cat out there.
Speaker 2: All it is simple ball screen.
Speaker 1: As Kat comes off the ball screen, we're in a
Speaker 1: drop right Turner's back, but he's up at the level.
Speaker 1: Because of the pull up shooting threat, these guys have
Speaker 1: to tag the roller. They do not tag the roller
Speaker 1: us who's open Mitchell Robinson on the lob dunk. Another
Speaker 1: example of just kind of like that missing bit of
Speaker 1: intensity from the Pacers early in the game is they
Speaker 1: were just laid on their tags and laid on some
Speaker 1: of their rotations. All right, so o g Nobi little
Speaker 1: cleared side post up. Og Nanobe has run eleven post
Speaker 1: ups and ISOs in this series, and he has scored
Speaker 1: on six of them. One of them technically was a
Speaker 1: miss and an offensive rebound put back, but I'm counting
Speaker 1: it as a bucket because it more or less worked
Speaker 1: the same way. But cleared side just a jab and
Speaker 1: go a little low gather draws a foul. This has
Speaker 1: been an effective play in the series, just having Og
Speaker 1: go one on one against one of the pacers smaller players.
Speaker 1: I think it's something they should explore when things bogged down.
Speaker 1: Here's a little double drag action. So as you can see,
Speaker 1: we have two ball screens being say set for Brunson.
Speaker 1: As the double drag gets run, Tyre's Aliburton goes under
Speaker 1: that second screen that forces Turner to step up, and
Speaker 1: when Turner steps up, Haliburton lets Mitch get by him.
Speaker 1: And when Mitch gets by him, now there's no choice
Speaker 1: because the roller gets behind the coverage. You've got a
Speaker 1: tag from the weak side. The tag is going to
Speaker 1: come from top end. Swing back to McHale, extra pass
Speaker 1: to Kat in the corner, wide open three bucket. Pretty
Speaker 1: consistently in this series, when the Knicks have like trusted
Speaker 1: their action instead of just playing one on one, they've
Speaker 1: gotten really good stuff out of it. Big theme in
Speaker 1: this game was just Cat getting downhill. Here's an example
Speaker 1: in semi transition where he's just kind of trailing to
Speaker 1: play and by the time he catches it, there's two
Speaker 1: on the ball on Brunson. Now it's just an easy
Speaker 1: right handed rip for Kat just grabs it and goes
Speaker 1: gets all the way to the basket, and he just
Speaker 1: knows that once he gets rumbling downhill. These dudes literally
Speaker 1: can't stop him. This is just a nasty brunts and
Speaker 1: pull up three over turner. Nothing here but just greatness.
Speaker 1: Too far back off of a switch. It's contest, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Look at how high Karl Anthony Towns is
Speaker 1: coming out on this ball screen against Haliburton. You could
Speaker 1: just see that they were really trying to play Halliburton
Speaker 1: into being passive. Here's Hallie. It gets worked back around.
Speaker 1: Watch how high cat comes up. He literally is meeting
Speaker 1: Halliburton twenty six feet from the basket. That forces Haliburton
Speaker 1: to flatten his drive. Look, he wants to go downhill,
Speaker 1: but he has to flatten his drive out sideways and
Speaker 1: that forces him into this ridiculously tough leaning jumper going
Speaker 1: to his left. Another Brunson full of three. Once again,
Speaker 1: this is just greatness. A little step back over Ben
Speaker 1: Shepherd boom. He was all business last night. Fourteen points
Speaker 1: in the first quarter. A lot of blitzing with Brunson
Speaker 1: on Halliburton in the first half when Halliburton would bring
Speaker 1: how Jalen Brunson into the action at all, they were
Speaker 1: just getting super aggressive with Brunson in those blitzes, ball
Speaker 1: gets worked back around. Let me get over there. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we have Halliburton nine seconds on the clock. Shepherd's
Speaker 1: gonna screen for him. Watch how Brunston gets out there
Speaker 1: and this gets worked around to TJ. McConnell, which is
Speaker 1: a shot that the Nicks will live with. And this
Speaker 1: shot does go in. But the key is is they're
Speaker 1: trying to get ted Tyre's Halliburton to not be aggressive.
Speaker 1: And you'll look all night long, Halliburton is like in
Speaker 1: a race to get rid of the ball. Like Brunson
Speaker 1: hasn't even gotten to him yet. He's just in a
Speaker 1: race to get rid of the ball. And again there's
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that necessarily with them setting up rotation situations.
Speaker 2: It's just we talked about it last night.
Speaker 1: As a playmaking guard, you've got to mix in the
Speaker 1: appropriate amount of aggression to keep the defense. It's honest,
Speaker 1: very similar one here on the next possession, nice little
Speaker 1: strip from TJ McConnell. We go down to the other end.
Speaker 1: Let me fast forward. Okay, so same exact action we
Speaker 1: have Shepherd's screen, Brunson comes up, Caliburton passes out of it.
Speaker 1: Look at how he like picks up the dribble before
Speaker 1: Brunson's even there. That's easy rotation back Shepherd drives, They
Speaker 1: the Nicks rotate out of it, great contest force, some
Speaker 1: miss get the defensive rebound. So again you forced a
Speaker 1: pretty tough contested drive for Ben Shepherd and a catch
Speaker 1: and shoot three for TJ McConnell out of that action.
Speaker 1: That's something that Nicks will live with once again. Look
Speaker 1: at the bodies and the attention thrown at Halliburton in
Speaker 1: the ball screen. Three guys on the ball, just forcing
Speaker 1: these guys, these lesser shooters to make some tough contested
Speaker 1: catch and shoot threes, and the Pacers did miss a
Speaker 1: couple of those payoff shots in the first half. Nie Smith,
Speaker 1: especially on the Indiana front. As a potential adjustment for them,
Speaker 1: we talked a lot last night about being better with
Speaker 1: their double teams and just trying to prevent Kat from
Speaker 1: having those opportunities to quickly attack. Watch as they go
Speaker 1: to post up Cat on the weak side. Here, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get the ball back over there. Okay, so we
Speaker 1: have a post up of Ben Mather and balls on
Speaker 1: the floor. They gotta go like right, they need to
Speaker 1: be double in the double needs to already be there,
Speaker 1: especially with this much time on the shot.
Speaker 2: Clock, because they wait.
Speaker 1: There's a pretty simple little back down here for Cat,
Speaker 1: and by the time the double team comes, he's too
Speaker 1: close to the rim. Watch at this point doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: He's too he's way bigger than you guys, and he's
Speaker 1: right at the rim. The double has to come earlier.
Speaker 1: This is another example of Kat attacking one on one
Speaker 1: no double and Siakam gives up the right hand just
Speaker 1: an absolute disaster defensive possession relative to what their game
Speaker 1: plan is. Again, you could see Siakam, he's trying to
Speaker 1: send him right, but there's no double team and he
Speaker 1: gives up the or excuse me, he's trying to send
Speaker 1: him left, but he doesn't even like he needs to
Speaker 1: be a little bit higher on this side, and it's
Speaker 1: just is too easy for Cat to just rip through
Speaker 1: over the top no double team or whatever whatever. This
Speaker 1: token kind of fake dig down from Ben Mathern was like,
Speaker 1: that's just lacking the defensive intensity you need to actually
Speaker 1: like this is a This is a play in Indiana
Speaker 1: where Sakam is gonna be on the high side and
Speaker 1: they'll be more prepared for this and they'll just play
Speaker 1: you know again, they'll just execute their scheme better. But
Speaker 1: a lot of like just simple mistakes in their defensive
Speaker 1: scheme last night. Here's another example of Cat just kicking
Speaker 1: Siakam's ass on the glass, like okay, like I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna shots up. SACOM's not really even fighting right, Likeams
Speaker 1: just kind of walking and Cat just is like, all right, fine,
Speaker 1: I'll just bury you real quick. Like that's just way
Speaker 1: too easy. Seacom's not even competing down there. He's got
Speaker 1: to compete down there. We're finally gonna get to see
Speaker 1: a double team of Cat here. I just thought they
Speaker 1: messed up a rotation and gave up way too easy
Speaker 1: of a read. So I'll watch it full speed first
Speaker 1: and then i'll show you guys what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: So Kat goes to the post. Let's fast forward a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 2: On the post.
Speaker 1: Here comes the double right as he's turning his back right,
Speaker 1: easy kick out past the due McBride catching you three.
Speaker 2: Now, where does this go wrong?
Speaker 1: Watch Ben Matherins actually guarding Ben Matherins guarding Due McBride.
Speaker 1: Ben Shepherd's daring delon right, and you can actually see
Speaker 1: Ben mather and go you double, you double. He wants
Speaker 1: Shepherd to go when Shepherd goes now, Ben is responsible
Speaker 1: for both of these guys effectively, right, and he's specifically
Speaker 1: responsible for the guy closest to Kat because these two
Speaker 1: then become responsible for defending these guys two on three.
Speaker 1: Right do starts to relocate. Ben should see this. Ben
Speaker 1: should see Deuce is going. Delon writes back over here,
Speaker 1: but instead he sticks with Delon and just lets Deuce relocate.
Speaker 1: That's bad, double team. You can't when you give up
Speaker 1: a when you send a double. The past you got
Speaker 1: to give up is this pass. You gotta be like, hey, Kat,
Speaker 1: if you can somehow handle this ball pressure and through
Speaker 1: the physicality, get it on time and on target. Delandre Shammett, congrats,
Speaker 1: will give you a wide open three. What you can't
Speaker 1: do is have him be like, oh shit, I'm screwed. Wait,
Speaker 1: there's a wide open shooter ten feet right in front
Speaker 1: of my face like that. That's not going to get
Speaker 1: the job done. Ben Matherin's gotta be tracking Duce McBride
Speaker 1: on that possession. Big time bench contribution here. Watch Delawn
Speaker 1: Wright as og In Andobi's driving Delawn Wright sneaks behind
Speaker 1: Andrew Nemhart along the baseline, sneaks behind him.
Speaker 2: On the strip.
Speaker 1: He's in the right place, in the right time to
Speaker 1: get the ball because of that corner. Crash makes the
Speaker 1: kickout pass on Andrey Shaman, who then sticks to three.
Speaker 1: That's a huge sequence. You go from getting a stop
Speaker 1: for Indiana to three points for the Knicks from your bench.
Speaker 1: So right here is a classic example of tyrs Halbert
Speaker 1: just getting rid of the ball too early. Turner goes
Speaker 1: to set the screen. You could see Kat preparing to
Speaker 1: come up aggressively up to the level or blitz or
Speaker 1: whatever coverage he's gonna run on that play, but on
Speaker 1: the right hand side of the screen. Then Haliburton rejects
Speaker 1: the screen boom. Notice right as Og hops boom, that's
Speaker 1: when he crosses over. Now he's got clean dribble penetration.
Speaker 2: But look at how.
Speaker 1: Quickly he gives up the ball. He's already turning around
Speaker 1: and jumping. No one's even made contact with him yet,
Speaker 1: He's already turning around and jumping to get rid of
Speaker 1: the ball. Just not being enough of a scoring threat,
Speaker 1: even though he got like a really nice little straight
Speaker 1: line drive there. Nice screen navigation from Shaman here too.
Speaker 1: Look at Shamant battling through these screens, beats hto the spot,
Speaker 1: takes the contact in the chest and gets to stop.
Speaker 1: Really nice work from Shamit. I love this little action,
Speaker 1: this little kind of like crossing action at the top
Speaker 1: of the key to try to get Cat downhill again.
Speaker 2: Look all it is is like a little dribble pitch.
Speaker 1: Cat kind of trails the play delawn right, just kind
Speaker 1: of dribbles right at turner and then just pitches it,
Speaker 1: and that just gives Cat an opportunity to get like
Speaker 1: a head of scheme when he's already got momentum. Another
Speaker 1: example of him getting to his right hand and just
Speaker 1: powering through everybody and finishing. Nice work from the pacers
Speaker 1: here handling the blitz. On this particular possession. We get
Speaker 1: an early guard screen that gets brunts in onto Halliburton.
Speaker 1: Hard attack of Halliburton leaves the pocket open. Og has
Speaker 1: to step over. We get our week side two on
Speaker 1: one swing extra pass wide open three. But Nie Smith
Speaker 1: missed a couple of these wide open threes in the
Speaker 1: first half.
Speaker 2: Here we get.
Speaker 1: Another chance for Og and Obi to attack out of
Speaker 1: like a clear side iso, they dribble out, they see
Speaker 1: the matchup, they like they just pitch it to og.
Speaker 1: This is the one that didn't get counted as a bucket,
Speaker 1: but was a bucket and an offensive rebound.
Speaker 2: I like that action.
Speaker 1: I think it's something that Nick should explore when everything's
Speaker 1: bogged down. So fast forwarding a little bit, Matherin just
Speaker 1: hit a transition three, cut the lead to seven, and
Speaker 1: over the course of the next you know, half a
Speaker 1: quarter or so, the Knicks are about to go on
Speaker 1: a twenty to seven run to put themselves up by twenty.
Speaker 1: We're gonna cover that real quick and then we'll be
Speaker 1: done for the day. So here another example of Karl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns just winning the ground battle against Pascal Siakam.
Speaker 1: Watch how he gets this deep seal, so like, look
Speaker 1: at Siakam. Watch how Siakam's just kind of floating, walking, floating,
Speaker 1: just kind of chilling. Now he takes his eyes off
Speaker 1: the cat, like what is he looking at? So Kat's like,
Speaker 1: all right, you're just gonna let me in deep seal
Speaker 1: here word just creates the passing angle, easy finish. Like
Speaker 1: Siakam looked like he was half asleep in this game.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what was going on there.
Speaker 2: So uh.
Speaker 1: And then that's another one of those like little short
Speaker 1: shots that Siaka missed. Just just kind of a weird
Speaker 1: game from him. Now Mikhale Bridges is going to post
Speaker 1: up Jalen Bruns. And by the way, this was the
Speaker 1: second time in the game that McHale got a bucket
Speaker 1: against Halliburton. In the post, he hit a little left
Speaker 1: shoulder fade and here he hits a little right shoulder
Speaker 1: fade towards the middle. They're gonna let those guys work
Speaker 1: one on one. I would continue to explore that. Look
Speaker 1: at the Halliburton face guarding from Bridges faceguard, deny faceguard
Speaker 1: deny face guard deny, face guard deny. That actually forces
Speaker 1: them to just look another direction. Halliburton just goes and
Speaker 1: stands off on the side. They end up running a
Speaker 1: little action with Nemhard and Jeris Walker. Jaris Walker misses
Speaker 1: the three more denial of Haliburton, full court pressure as
Speaker 1: soon as he gives up the ball. Look at Bridges
Speaker 1: Bridges deny, deny, deny. One of the things they did
Speaker 1: here which I like is this is a great way
Speaker 1: to attack it. Deny if he's gonna be in between
Speaker 1: the ball and the man quickly reverse the floor. Suddenly
Speaker 1: he's on the right side, right, So as soon as
Speaker 1: the ball gets reversed, suddenly Haliburton's on the right side
Speaker 1: of the action where he can get to the ball
Speaker 1: before bridges. So he does, gets there and then immediately
Speaker 1: gets rid of the ball, picks up his dribble. But
Speaker 1: look look at the aggression that we got Mitchell Robinson
Speaker 1: up at the level we got Brunson digging. There's three
Speaker 1: on the ball with Haliburton again, good pressure, great defense
Speaker 1: from Mitchell Robinson forces the travel and as far as
Speaker 1: Hyrys Haliburton goes, guys like this is literally what Okac
Speaker 1: is going to do to him. They're going to swarm
Speaker 1: him at least to start the series, and his ability
Speaker 1: to handle it and get the ball out is going
Speaker 1: to be a big part of whether or not they
Speaker 1: can force Okac to change their game plan. All right,
Speaker 1: this is what it looks like when they actually handle
Speaker 1: cat appropriately in terms of sending it in the right
Speaker 1: direction and having the help in the right position. So
Speaker 1: watch how Sam is way up on the right hand
Speaker 1: when they go back to cat here. Okay, boom, Watch
Speaker 1: how he hops, like as soon as you see the pass,
Speaker 1: watch Siakam hops up on their right hand drive. Oh shit,
Speaker 1: I need to send them left. Okay, look at all
Speaker 1: the bodies. Everyone's looking and Nie Smith not yet, but
Speaker 1: Nemhard and Haliburn, everyone's looking at Kat cat racks to
Speaker 1: the left, but look where the help is. They meet
Speaker 1: him early and they're prepared and Nie Smith takes a charge.
Speaker 1: So again their game plan and they want to send
Speaker 1: Kat left and have him in help there.
Speaker 2: If that's fine.
Speaker 1: You just got to make sure the help gets there early,
Speaker 1: and I would explore double teaming more. You just got
Speaker 1: to take away the easy reads and make him throw
Speaker 1: the passes over the top. This was a huge two
Speaker 1: way sequence from Jalen Brunson. Nemhar is gonna get downhill
Speaker 1: here and he's going to make a nice peel off
Speaker 1: kind of help side rotation at the rim and force
Speaker 1: a miss big time play there. And again it's just
Speaker 1: about making the read. And talked about this earlier. I
Speaker 1: was talking about this actually with the guys before we
Speaker 1: started the show. Mem Hard was forcing some stuff at
Speaker 1: the rim in this game in traffic. This just needs
Speaker 1: to be a kickout past Toniesmith and instead he tries
Speaker 1: to shoot over Brunson smokes the layup. We go out
Speaker 1: the other way on the other end of the floor,
Speaker 1: little guard guard screen. The quick guard screen gets Haliburton
Speaker 1: switched onto him. Now we're running a ball screen with Haliburton.
Speaker 2: Looking out easy.
Speaker 1: This layup is just by getting a more favorable on
Speaker 1: ball matchup early in the possession. Bruntson again just win
Speaker 1: in the ground battle. Watch how he just dislodges Aaron E.
Speaker 1: Smith on this drive. Watch the bump once he gets
Speaker 1: downhill against the pressure. Downhill, down hill, downhill, boom. See
Speaker 1: that bump. You're gonna ride my hip. That's great, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bump you off. Knocks him loose. Now he's got
Speaker 1: an easy layer in the gap there. Brunston was phenomenal
Speaker 1: in this game. Hand down, man down on this one.
Speaker 1: Another little short range missed from Siakam. We're going down
Speaker 1: the other end. Ball gets swung over to Brunson and
Speaker 1: Nie Smith has his hands down. That ain't gonna work.
Speaker 1: He's feeling too good with the jumper Tonight. Some really
Speaker 1: high quality drop coverage defense here by Mitchell Robinson on Haliburton.
Speaker 2: So the denial.
Speaker 1: There's a temporary sequence where Brunson is switched on too Haliburt,
Speaker 1: which kind of gets him out of their denial. By
Speaker 1: the time they actually execute the switch again, it's just
Speaker 1: a quick hitch over to Haliburt and now he's got
Speaker 1: the ball. Also, because of the positioning, McHale's not really
Speaker 1: in a spot to beat him over the top of
Speaker 1: the screen, so Haliburton gets downhill. Watch Mitch. This is
Speaker 1: textbook drop coverage defense. He's accounting for the role man,
Speaker 1: he's dropping back. He's made him make a decision. Haliburton
Speaker 1: doesn't like any of his passing reads, so he's got
Speaker 1: a default back to the scoop shot, and Mitch is
Speaker 1: there to swat that shit.
Speaker 2: Out of bounce.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna see a lot of off ball denials
Speaker 1: here over the course of the next few possessions. Watch
Speaker 1: we have Miles Turner with the ball. Watch everyone else
Speaker 1: off ball denying, deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, not letting
Speaker 1: that easy swing pass, even like getting away with physicality.
Speaker 2: Again, this is the Playoffs.
Speaker 1: All that physicality and while all this aggression is happening
Speaker 1: in the off ball denials, watch Mitch attacking the basketball
Speaker 1: and he swipes it off of Turner's leg. As we
Speaker 1: always talk about, there are two sides to a switch, right,
Speaker 1: So we get a ball screen. In the ball screen,
Speaker 1: Nie Smith switches on to Mitchell Robinson and Turner switches
Speaker 1: onto Jalen Brunson. Jalen Brunson gets the ball back and
Speaker 1: goes to attack, misses a step back three. But what's
Speaker 1: the other side of the switch. The other side of
Speaker 1: the switch is you've got Mitchell Robinson on Aaron Nesmith.
Speaker 1: Watch how aaron Ne Smith just gets buried by Mitch
Speaker 1: easy offensive rebound put back. More off ball denials. Fast
Speaker 1: forward a little bit here, so throw the ball Turner.
Speaker 1: Watch all the denials. See that they're trying to get
Speaker 1: Siakam to screen for Haliburton, so you can come off
Speaker 1: the screen. But look at McHale. Just physical hugging denial there.
Speaker 1: That's what you got to bring immediately in game six, Now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, we have Turner dribbling out the
Speaker 1: clock out at half court, nowhere to go. Finally gets
Speaker 1: the ball. Denie Smith with six on the shot clock,
Speaker 1: and he's got to take this bad pull up three.
Speaker 1: You can play the Pacers into a lot of those
Speaker 1: bad possessions if you bring that pressure, which again is
Speaker 1: kind of what concerns me about a potential Oklahoma City matchup.
Speaker 1: Here's another they're successful double team of by the way,
Speaker 1: also after the turner or the Nie Smith miss, we
Speaker 1: do get another offensive rebound. But look at the off
Speaker 1: ball denials or in the passing lanes, and Indiana is
Speaker 1: really starting to come apart at the seams now with
Speaker 1: the turnovers. Here's a double team of Cat that works.
Speaker 1: Notice they just bring the double, Like just as soon
Speaker 1: as he puts the ball on the floor, boom, here
Speaker 1: comes the double attack the basketball and they end up
Speaker 1: calling the foul on Cat there. So like, I really
Speaker 1: think Indiana's got a double and bring early help. Keep
Speaker 1: sending Cat towards that left hand. When you have the
Speaker 1: early help coming, they can't just keep letting him get
Speaker 1: to his right hand in single coverage. Look at the
Speaker 1: hard hedge from Brunts and look at that they're hedging
Speaker 1: with Brunson forty five feet from the basket. Haliburton immediately
Speaker 1: getting rid of the basketball. Again, like these guys aren't
Speaker 1: even in scoring position, and Halliburton's getting rid of the basketball.
Speaker 1: He's like he has an opportunity here to drive, like
Speaker 1: just keep going. OG's not in position. Turn the corner,
Speaker 1: turn the corner and attack like this. At this point
Speaker 1: in time, Halliburton's gotta shoot this gap and make something
Speaker 1: better happen. He's just getting rid of the ball away
Speaker 1: too early. Great defense by Bruntson strips it off of
Speaker 1: Neie Smith's leg. A really good rotation out of a
Speaker 1: double team of Siakam here, so Siakam's got Brunson hard double.
Speaker 1: Watch the rotations. Bridges is over, Boom, Bridges is over
Speaker 1: a little bit of a missed extra pass here from
Speaker 1: Nie Smith that's got to go over to Halliburton. I
Speaker 1: thought Tyres Sliburton really telegraphed this pass. See as we
Speaker 1: get up here, look at how he's looking through the
Speaker 1: whole time as he's coming off the ball screen, not
Speaker 1: even looking at the rim, looking down at the pocket,
Speaker 1: looking down at the pocket, looking down at the pocket,
Speaker 1: looking down at the pocket, still looking down at the pocket.
Speaker 1: Here's the pocket pass. Mitch's recovery athleticism gets the block.
Speaker 1: Mitch's recovery athleticism always blows me away. But yeah, I'd
Speaker 1: like Haliburton is like, straight up not even looking to
Speaker 1: score the basketball. Two more clips, guys once again losing
Speaker 1: control of Kat to his strong hand and go back
Speaker 1: out to Kat here. Okay, so we have Kat, we're
Speaker 1: supposed to be sending him to his left, that's where
Speaker 1: all the help is. There's no help on the right
Speaker 1: hand side Kat, Like this is just a straight up
Speaker 1: loaded up iso. Siakam is going to try to send
Speaker 1: him to his left, but Kat just beats him to
Speaker 1: the right, like he's just as soon as you do that,
Speaker 1: it's dead on arrival. Like, look at where the help is.
Speaker 1: Look at them Hart. They are planned to meet Kat
Speaker 1: on a left handed drive. Haliburn's not even thinking about
Speaker 1: it because he's thinking he's gonna send Kat towards his left.
Speaker 1: He doesn't gives up the right hand. Now by the
Speaker 1: time Thomas Bryant meets him at the rim, it's too
Speaker 1: late that a big steal for Mitchell Robinson. In transition,
Speaker 1: Lob to og Andnobi draws a foul, goes to the line,
Speaker 1: makes both free throws, and all of a sudden the
Speaker 1: Knicks are up twenty and heading down to Indiana for
Speaker 1: a game six. So again as you guys can see
Speaker 1: on the tape, some obvious Lackaday's goal stuff from the Pacers,
Speaker 1: but some obvious stuff that works right, some obvious examples
Speaker 1: of physicality and bal denials, and how they can play
Speaker 1: Tyree Saliburton into his worst tendencies. Some reality is about
Speaker 1: finding opportunities to post up ogn and o B and
Speaker 1: Michale Bridges. Some reality is about the fact that we
Speaker 1: know Brunson can play better than he did on the
Speaker 1: road in Indiana in Game four, and so it's all
Speaker 1: there on the table. The job is. There's no complication
Speaker 1: there in terms of what kind of game plan they
Speaker 1: need to run or whether or not they can do
Speaker 1: the job. They just have to be the best version
Speaker 1: of the Knicks when they go down to Indiana. Get
Speaker 1: to give themselves a chance. And again, as you guys
Speaker 1: can see here, we're watching the tape. What do you
Speaker 1: think the Pacers are doing today? They're watching the tape,
Speaker 1: and I guarantee you there's been some ass chewings for
Speaker 1: some specific guys. I guarantee you Siakam's watching the tape
Speaker 1: and a little embarrassed with the way he played, And
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a just a hillacious effort from the
Speaker 1: Pacers on Saturday night. That should be a super super
Speaker 1: interesting game. Again, we will be covering it live on
Speaker 1: YouTube after the final buzzer.
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