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Speaker 2: All right, wellcome hoops tonight you're at the volume heavy Monday.
Speaker 2: Everybody up all if you guys are having a great
Speaker 2: start to here week, we are going to do a
Speaker 2: little bit of a deep dive into last night's game
Speaker 2: one between the Houston Rockets in the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 2: Off the top, I'm going to go through some of
Speaker 2: the metrics that came out of that game, some super
Speaker 2: interesting ones that demonstrate the clear skill gap between the
Speaker 2: two teams. And then down the stretch, we're going to
Speaker 2: go through about thirty five clips worth of film from
Speaker 2: that game to demonstrate some of the concepts that I
Speaker 2: was talking about in the series preview as well as
Speaker 2: during the show last night. You guys know the Joe
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Speaker 2: All right, let's talk some basketball. So I'm just going
Speaker 2: to off the top here. List off some of the
Speaker 2: some of the stats that came out of last night's game. So,
Speaker 2: first of all, per cleaning the glass, the gap in
Speaker 2: half court offense. Last night between the Warriors and the Rockets,
Speaker 2: the Rockets logged a sixty five point five offensive rating
Speaker 2: in the half court versus the Warriors.
Speaker 1: Last night, the.
Speaker 2: Warriors logged a ninety five point two offensive rating, So
Speaker 2: a singular half court possession was worth thirty or i
Speaker 2: should say, point three points more per possession for the
Speaker 2: Warriors than it was for Houston last night. Huge gap there.
Speaker 2: Golden State actually won the transition points battle thirteen to eleven.
Speaker 2: It was second chance points where Houston was able to
Speaker 2: make up some ground. Houston won the offensive rebounding battle
Speaker 2: twenty two to six, as we saw, but Golden State
Speaker 2: did do a better job of converting those offensive rebounds
Speaker 2: into points. The actual second chance points battle was twenty
Speaker 2: two to twelve instead of twenty two to six in
Speaker 2: offensive rebound meaning Houston was getting one point per second
Speaker 2: possession while Golden State was getting two points per second possession.
Speaker 2: That allowed them to shrink that gap as well. Did
Speaker 2: we only saw four possessions of zone for both teams.
Speaker 2: Both teams really struggled. Golden State scored just once in
Speaker 2: four possessions against zone. Houston scored zero times in four
Speaker 2: possessions against zone. My guess is we see a lot
Speaker 2: more zone for both teams over the course of the series.
Speaker 2: Rescue shot making Synergy classifies this as any shot that
Speaker 2: goes up in the last four seconds of the shot clock.
Speaker 2: Golden State got one point two eight points per shot
Speaker 2: in the final seconds of the shot clock. Houston got
Speaker 2: zero point four to six. Now that's those steph prayers
Speaker 2: over Jalen Green or over Then Thompson from thirty five
Speaker 2: feet on the light, the out by half court, or
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler sidestep jump shots. The Golden State Warriors are
Speaker 2: just so much better at tough show making that in
Speaker 2: those late clock sequences. I expect them throughout the series
Speaker 2: to convert more of those into points than Houston is
Speaker 2: going to be able to. We saw a massive gap there.
Speaker 2: Out of bounds plays Golden State one point sixty four
Speaker 2: points per possession, Houston zero point eighty six. Overall jump
Speaker 2: shooting forty six jump shots for Golden State one point
Speaker 2: one to three points per shot, forty four jump shots
Speaker 2: for Houston zero point sixty four points per shot. So
Speaker 2: like there is just a massive skill and execution gap
Speaker 2: between these two teams that was on display and was
Speaker 2: clearly showing in the numbers. But on that note, let's
Speaker 2: get into some of the things that I noticed on
Speaker 2: film during the game during my rewatch this morning. So
Speaker 2: one of the things I talked about was the idea
Speaker 2: that as you can see here, as we start on
Speaker 2: the screen, Shanggon is on Moses Moody, And because Shangun
Speaker 2: is on Moses Moody, it makes it so that some
Speaker 2: of these pet actions are more switchable for the Rockets. Right,
Speaker 2: So as you can see, Fred van Vliet was on Draymond,
Speaker 2: Dylan Brooks was on Jimmy Butler, they're now switching this
Speaker 2: off ball screen. You have a Men Thompson on Steph.
Speaker 2: So the classic Steph Draymond pick and roll, that's just
Speaker 2: gonna be a switch. It's just gonna end with Dylan
Speaker 2: Brooks on Steph and with the men Thompson on Draymond
Speaker 2: Green any sort of three man action, they're gonna switch
Speaker 2: wide pin down Draymon and Jimmy. They're going to switch
Speaker 2: it shuts down their primary screening actions, and so what
Speaker 2: I was curious about is how Golden State would look
Speaker 2: to attack that. And one of the things I talked
Speaker 2: about last night was they did a lot of work
Speaker 2: to try to get Jalen Green onto Steph before attacking
Speaker 2: shanng Gooon. In a screening action very first possession of
Speaker 2: the game, you see a perfect example of it. We
Speaker 2: go to Jimmy Butler up up here, we have Steph
Speaker 2: with the men Thompson POD's with Jalen Green. Moses Moody
Speaker 2: is getting ready to set this like a screen over here.
Speaker 2: Wide as we see, there's an interchange with Stephan Pods
Speaker 2: Pods cuts through that gets Jalen Green onto Steph. Then
Speaker 2: they set the screen with Moody. Moody makes good contact
Speaker 2: and step gets a pretty clean look coming off the screen.
Speaker 2: You'll see a lot of examples of that in the
Speaker 2: film of the warriors going out of their way to
Speaker 2: go at Jalen Green in screening actions. This was the.
Speaker 1: Insane Shanngoon dunk on Draymond Green.
Speaker 2: I thought this was just a perfect example of how
Speaker 2: to be ice coverage, so I wanted to go over
Speaker 2: this for a second so as you can see classic
Speaker 2: ice coverage. Notice that Moses Moody's playing the high side.
Speaker 2: The way ice coverage works is you're getting ready to
Speaker 2: set up all screen, right, and what the Rockets want
Speaker 2: to do is they want to get Jalen Green downhill,
Speaker 2: going towards the middle of the floor. But what just
Speaker 2: about every team in the NBA will do is they'll
Speaker 2: ask this guy to massively overplay the middle side and
Speaker 2: funnel him back towards the sideline, and then they'll sit
Speaker 2: there big in a drop coverage, essentially trying to force
Speaker 2: Jalen Green to drive into this gap and take some
Speaker 2: sort of stupid mid range jump shot. And then the
Speaker 2: ideally you would sync in with these guys to help
Speaker 2: on the roll. They didn't sink in very well. Jalen
Speaker 2: Green just drives into that gap, creates an easy pocket
Speaker 2: feed to Shangun Pods isn't in there, step isn't in there,
Speaker 2: and then we just get the body bag on Dream.
Speaker 2: That was just an insane dunk from Alpern Shangoon. This
Speaker 2: is another example of attacking Jalen Green in screening action.
Speaker 2: So we have a Men Thompson on steph. We have
Speaker 2: Jalen Green defending pods. As they set that screen, Jalen
Speaker 2: Green jumps up. Notice the screening angle from pods. Pods
Speaker 2: is not actually trying to screen a men Thompson. All
Speaker 2: he's trying to do is trigger the switch and he
Speaker 2: wants inside position. He doesn't want a men Thompson to
Speaker 2: be able to loop back around to get behind him,
Speaker 2: and so he screens on the backside so that when
Speaker 2: the switch happens, there's this obvious lane there for pods
Speaker 2: to sink into.
Speaker 1: There's the feed. He gets a nice little floater.
Speaker 2: He ends up missing that one, but that's an example
Speaker 2: of how they can get clean looks attacking Jalen Green.
Speaker 2: I thought Steph was really great in his defense against
Speaker 2: switches last night. There was a couple buckets they gave up.
Speaker 2: There was a one against Jabari Smith in the post
Speaker 2: that will show later, but for the most part, Steph
Speaker 2: held up really well.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 2: Steph just individual defense on Jalen Green. Watch the physicality.
Speaker 2: Just immediately puts his hands on him and make sure
Speaker 2: that he knows that he's not going that Jalen knows
Speaker 2: he's not going to get a runway. He's going to
Speaker 2: be physical and make sure that he cuts off that
Speaker 2: momentum before he can actually get going downhill. Great defense
Speaker 2: from Steph. Force is the miss I talked last night
Speaker 2: about the spacing that Shangun was able to provide from
Speaker 2: the mid range. This is what we see from like
Speaker 2: you know, Isaiah Hartenstein and a bunch of guys that
Speaker 2: can shoot these like little short pop shots. Draymond's sinking
Speaker 2: down Dylan Brooks on Steph. Well, here's Shanggun just hanging
Speaker 2: out by the foul line where he can just shoot
Speaker 2: a little shot to space the floor. Identical action to
Speaker 2: the first possession of the game for Golden State. Once again,
Speaker 2: we have the setup right, We have pods with Jalen Green,
Speaker 2: we have Steph with him and Thompson. We have Moses
Speaker 2: Moody getting ready to set the actual screen. Right, So
Speaker 2: here we go. We get our first screening action with
Speaker 2: these two. Notice Draymond's the fulcrum instead of Jimmy like
Speaker 2: he was early. We get the first screen to get
Speaker 2: the switch. Now STEP's on, uh has Jalen Green on him?
Speaker 2: Look at Shangoon, He's sitting in help He's not ready.
Speaker 2: Moses Moody's that's a good pick. And so you're attacking
Speaker 2: the two weakest defenders on the floor for Houston. This
Speaker 2: is a very good look for Steph. Just happens to
Speaker 2: miss it. He missed some of the easy ones early,
Speaker 2: but these are I've always said this is how you
Speaker 2: get your rhythm. There were a lot of easy looks
Speaker 2: for Steph early in the game that allowed him to
Speaker 2: get his rhythm, which then he got his confidence, got
Speaker 2: into his groove, and just started cooking the rockets with
Speaker 2: tough shot making as the game progressed. Here's another example
Speaker 2: of shanguon mid range spacing. Let's fast forward a little
Speaker 2: bit so as you can see once again, a men
Speaker 2: Thompson's driving, Draymond's sinking down, Shangun's just kind of hanging
Speaker 2: around eight feet from the basket shoots that little short
Speaker 2: range jump shot. It's a nice way for Shangun to
Speaker 2: be able to space the floor there. Now Shangun's gonna
Speaker 2: try to go at Steph in an inverted ball screen
Speaker 2: in the middle of the floor. Notice he immediately dives
Speaker 2: down and stabs at the basketball. That disrupts his rhythm.
Speaker 2: He's now broken Shangun's rhythm here gets the ball back though,
Speaker 2: backs down the physicality disrupting the base probably fouls him here.
Speaker 2: I mean this is a valley basically like slow and
Speaker 2: right on right on the forearmers. He's shooting the hook.
Speaker 2: But again, it's playoff basketball. There's fouls that occur on
Speaker 2: just about every possession. You need to bring the physicality
Speaker 2: and force the refs to make a call, especially in
Speaker 2: a seize mismatch like this. Refs are generally gonna let
Speaker 2: you get away with a lot of physicality when you
Speaker 2: are the guy that has a size and strength disadvantage.
Speaker 2: Then on this miss we get a transition cross match,
Speaker 2: and this how you can use the chaos from transitions
Speaker 2: cross matches to create offense. So in the push, notice
Speaker 2: Moody is now being guarded by Jalen Green, which means
Speaker 2: Shanggoon is guarding Gary Payton. The Warriors immediately identify it.
Speaker 2: Steph hasn't even crossed half court yet. It's fuck everything else.
Speaker 2: We're just gonna run a high ball screen. Why because
Speaker 2: they're like Gary Payton is one of their guys that
Speaker 2: they trust as a screen and roll threat. They trust
Speaker 2: Gary Payton, they trust Jimmy, they trust Straymont. They're not
Speaker 2: going to run a bunch of spread pick and roll
Speaker 2: with Moses Moody because they don't trust him as much
Speaker 2: as a read and react threat. But as soon as
Speaker 2: they get Gary Payton onto Shangun immediately in fall screen,
Speaker 2: boom hits the pocket, Gary Payton gets downhill, Jimmy Butler
Speaker 2: cuts behind Tarry Easton. You get your classic tic tac
Speaker 2: toet sequence. That's classic Warriors basketball that you can get
Speaker 2: because you have your regular traditional matchups that the Warriors
Speaker 2: like to attack. Here's another clean I talked a lot
Speaker 2: last night about how I thought Fred van Vliet actually
Speaker 2: got some pretty clean looks against drop coverage. Here's another
Speaker 2: example of that. He gets Draymond Green deep in a drop,
Speaker 2: Steph gets hit on the screen, gets a clean look there.
Speaker 2: He missed most of them in this game, but I
Speaker 2: actually thought Fred got some decent looks that he might
Speaker 2: be able to hit over the course of the series.
Speaker 2: This is an example of Steph beating a switching scheme
Speaker 2: by just going really, really fast. So I want to
Speaker 2: play at full speed first. As you can see, Steph
Speaker 2: comes off of the curl and gets the tough layup
Speaker 2: over Tari Easton at the basketball. Let's look at some
Speaker 2: specifics here. So Steph's being guarded by Tari Easton. We
Speaker 2: get the screen. Now, watch as Raymond screens Dylan Brooks
Speaker 2: is gonna switch. But what I want you to see
Speaker 2: is what happens to Dylan Brooks's weight distribution right on
Speaker 2: the switch. Watch notice as he's passing off Draymond, his
Speaker 2: weight and his body is turned this way towards the baseline.
Speaker 2: Look at how Steph's body is turned that way towards
Speaker 2: towards the scores table right. What that allows is for
Speaker 2: Steph to have that split second of momentum advantage before
Speaker 2: Dylan Brooks can get his body turned around. That allows
Speaker 2: Steph to get that initial separation. Then no messing around,
Speaker 2: just attack quickly. Because Steven Adams isn't actually up to
Speaker 2: catch him, He's able to turn the corner on Dylan Brooks.
Speaker 2: And then this was the first of several just insanely
Speaker 2: tough shots that Steph hitting this game. This crazy scoop
Speaker 2: over Tara Easton at the basket man a man look
Speaker 2: with Steven Adams early in the game before they went zone.
Speaker 2: Very simple progression here, So as you screen the top
Speaker 2: man as Steph comes off, you have some nail help
Speaker 2: here from Tari Eason, and this is you know, probably
Speaker 2: an overhelp from Tarry Easton. But again Steven Adams can
Speaker 2: give up some dribble penetration there, so I get it.
Speaker 2: Notice what Jimmy does immediately when he sees Tarry Easton's
Speaker 2: step up, he just gets ready to drive into that slot.
Speaker 2: He gets into the gap. Steven Adams has all of
Speaker 2: his momentum going towards the corner, so Jimmy's.
Speaker 1: Able to just pop for an easy floater there.
Speaker 2: We talked earlier in the at the beginning of the
Speaker 2: show about just how bad Houston's half court offense was.
Speaker 2: This is something I would look to go to a
Speaker 2: little more. This is against the mismatch and Steph this
Speaker 2: little right shoulder fade that he takes. But regardless of
Speaker 2: whether or not it's Steph or another. One of Golden
Speaker 2: State's smaller players in the regular season, Jabari Smith Junior,
Speaker 2: got one point twenty nine points per post up, including
Speaker 2: passes lower volume. He only ran forty nine possessions in
Speaker 2: the whole season, but that's at least worth exploring a
Speaker 2: little bit more as a half court option for Houston
Speaker 2: when nobody else on their team can even come close
Speaker 2: to generating consistent offense. We get a transition, but this
Speaker 2: is right after that made basket. This is that transition
Speaker 2: push I talked about last night. Steph just brings the
Speaker 2: ball up with pace, and when he does, he ends
Speaker 2: up engauging Steven Adams in a transition cross match that
Speaker 2: gives him an option for a player he can easily
Speaker 2: drive right around. So he drives right around Steven Adams.
Speaker 2: And then second insane finish, Shangoon waiting at the rim,
Speaker 2: Jabari Smith coming from behind, up and under just ridiculous
Speaker 2: shot from Steph Curry. This was Houston's first zone defense rep.
Speaker 2: I wanted to show you guys an example of just
Speaker 2: how much this zone can move around and kind of
Speaker 2: shape shift and become whatever that possession needs it to be. So,
Speaker 2: as you guys can see, Aman Thompson and Fred Van
Speaker 2: Vliet are the top guys. Steven Adams is underneath, Shane
Speaker 2: Gun's in the corner, and Dylan Brooks is in the
Speaker 2: opposite corner. Notice as Golden State moves around, how everyone
Speaker 2: just kind of moves kind of moves with Golden State's
Speaker 2: offense and adjusts and moves. Dylan Brooks started in this corner,
Speaker 2: Now he's going to be in the opposite corner. Fred
Speaker 2: van Vliet started as a top man, now he's down
Speaker 2: in the corner. Shangon started as a low man. He's
Speaker 2: now up at the top of the key. This gets
Speaker 2: past Dylan Brooks now rises up to the wing. Now
Speaker 2: Steven Adams is now in this corner and Shangoon is
Speaker 2: the low man. Aman Thompson's up top and Fred van
Speaker 2: Bleetz in the corner. See how they can like move
Speaker 2: and shift spots to take away openings as the possession
Speaker 2: calls for it. All of a sudden, there's six on
Speaker 2: the shot clock and there's no advantage in Brandon Pajemski
Speaker 2: has to settle for a step back three again. Houston
Speaker 2: was they were lower volume because they didn't start running
Speaker 2: it till the end of the year, but they were
Speaker 2: consistently one of the best zone defenses in the NBA
Speaker 2: last year at volume. Here's a Shangoon initiated possession against
Speaker 2: Quinton Post attacking at the top of the key. Here,
Speaker 2: nice little hook over his left shoulder. When you look
Speaker 2: at all of the actual initiated possessions from Shangun. So
Speaker 2: if Shangoon ran a post up, if Shangoon ran an iso,
Speaker 2: Shanguon ran an inverted ball screen. There were thirteen of
Speaker 2: those possessions last night, and the Warriors only allowed eight points.
Speaker 2: They actually defended the Shangun initiated actions pretty well. It
Speaker 2: was just like catches in the pocket. We talked about
Speaker 2: offensive rebounds, some of that mid range spacing that was
Speaker 2: where Shane Goon did most of his damage. This was
Speaker 2: Golden State's one bucket for the zone and it was
Speaker 2: just a classic example of Fred Van Vliet saying darry
Speaker 2: to score to Draymond. So like, if this is anybody else,
Speaker 2: Fred's matched up, but he's just not guarding Draymond. So
Speaker 2: Draymond just drives right down the middle and shoots.
Speaker 1: A little floater.
Speaker 2: Here's Golden State's first zone wrap against as a defense
Speaker 2: against Houston. Notice it's like a one to three one setup.
Speaker 2: The biggest difference between their zone and Houston zone is
Speaker 2: they're using this top man to pressure the ball no
Speaker 2: matter what. So you know, Buddy Heel's picking up the
Speaker 2: ball way out here. Pods is basically responsible for the middle,
Speaker 2: and Draymond's basically responsible for the whole baseline.
Speaker 1: Pods in.
Speaker 2: Buddy switched spot, so very similar to what we talked
Speaker 2: about with Houston, with being adjustable depending on what the
Speaker 2: possession calls for. Houston doesn't really seem to have any
Speaker 2: idea how to attack. They passed to the corner, it
Speaker 2: ends up in a double team. The result is a
Speaker 2: fading catch and shoot three over a double team in
Speaker 2: the right corner. Here's another example, same thing. Notice Buddy
Speaker 2: Heels pressuring out top. They just have no idea how
Speaker 2: they want to attack. Notice as they're flashing to try
Speaker 2: to get catches, Gie Santos is up there. Pods is
Speaker 2: literally denying the high post catch. The whole point of
Speaker 2: the possession is to get him to dwindle into the
Speaker 2: clock because they don't know what to do. Finally, Fred
Speaker 2: van Vliet drives and they eventually get a post entry
Speaker 2: pass to Jabari Smith, but by the time they get
Speaker 2: it to him, it's only seven seconds left, he's completely
Speaker 2: surrounded by help defenders and he ends up turning the
Speaker 2: basketball over. I thought this was classic Draymond Green gamesmanship.
Speaker 2: So we have a Jimmy Butler drive and Gie Santos
Speaker 2: is cutting through from the slot through to this corner.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler is going to rip baseline and drive along
Speaker 2: this baseline. Watch what Draymond Green does. Just classic dream uk.
Speaker 2: Green literally just fucking throws a block at Jabari Smith's
Speaker 2: as he runs right into him. Now, the genius in
Speaker 2: this play is it looks like a duck in So
Speaker 2: the way he can get away with this is technically,
Speaker 2: if Jimmy Butler's driving along this baseline, whatevery big in
Speaker 2: the NBA will do is what they call teeing up.
Speaker 2: He's going to flash right here to the top of
Speaker 2: the charge circle to make himself available for a catch.
Speaker 2: Should Jimmy Butler drive through this baseline, he would run
Speaker 2: into Draymond Green. So Draymond Green has to relocate up
Speaker 2: here naturally as part of the possession. But Draymond Green
Speaker 2: uses that as an excuse to basically get away with
Speaker 2: throwing a moving screen at Jabari Smith, which gets Gi
Speaker 2: Santo's open. Nice little gamesmanship from Draymond Green. I thought
Speaker 2: this was a bad decision from Jabari Smith. Junior catches
Speaker 2: on the wing here. This is in the zone. Look again,
Speaker 2: He's gonna rip baseline and when he rips baseline.
Speaker 1: There's already two rockets there.
Speaker 2: And Jimmy and Draymond are easily equipped to help. As
Speaker 2: soon as he gets in there. Draymond just digs in
Speaker 2: there and forces a turnover silly decision from Jabari Smith.
Speaker 1: And then down on the other end the floor.
Speaker 2: Look at this back door cut pass from Draymond to
Speaker 2: Steph Curry. I don't even know how Draymond thought this
Speaker 2: was open, Like as STEP's going through, it doesn't look open,
Speaker 2: and the ball is like Dylan Brooks's in position. Jabari
Speaker 2: Smith is behind, but he just feeds it perfectly into
Speaker 2: this super tight window and Steph gets a layup. Just
Speaker 2: that's the chemistry you build over a decade playing together.
Speaker 2: Another clean drop coverage look for Fred van Vliet that
Speaker 2: he misses, and then this is where Fred fucks up.
Speaker 2: He ends up gambling on Steph in the back court
Speaker 2: and when he does that ends up getting Steph a
Speaker 2: clean drop coverage look against Shang Gun that he knocks down.
Speaker 2: I talked a lot about how you can do a
Speaker 2: better job on defense and double teams by pressuring the
Speaker 2: ball so the kickout passes are harder. As Shanegun drives here,
Speaker 2: I want you guys to see what happens when the
Speaker 2: double team comes. So he drives right here, he sees
Speaker 2: he sees the red right. So Pods is there, Moody's there,
Speaker 2: they're double teaming. Or excuse me, not Moody. Looney is there,
Speaker 2: they're double teaming. He sees Fred as the reed, but
Speaker 2: against the pressure, he has to find a passing angle.
Speaker 2: And so look, he knows he wants to make that pass,
Speaker 2: but Looney and Pods pressure the hell out of him.
Speaker 1: And look at this pass that it forces. It forces a.
Speaker 2: High deflective, looping pass across the court, which gives Pods
Speaker 2: a chance to rotate and then force the turnover. That's
Speaker 2: why it's so important when you're double teaming to pressure
Speaker 2: the ball. If you allow easy kickouts on double teams,
Speaker 2: you're gonna get killed. Another botch switched from Jalen Green.
Speaker 2: So again, look here early possession. We have Jalen Green
Speaker 2: on Steph screen flowing into the handoff. Jalen Green botches it,
Speaker 2: get gets disconnected. It's a deeper shot, but because Steph
Speaker 2: is disconnected, he knows he can get into his rhythm
Speaker 2: and he knocks down the shot once again, though incredibly
Speaker 2: difficult shot making from Steph Curry. I thought this was
Speaker 2: just a genius off ball cut move from Steph to
Speaker 2: get open against some n Thompson. So I want to
Speaker 2: play at full speed first, and then I want to
Speaker 2: see if you guys notice what I'm talking.
Speaker 1: About here back cut lea. This is the genius of
Speaker 1: this move.
Speaker 2: Do you guys remember when we did the uh when
Speaker 2: we covered the Warrior the Warriors Grizzlies game, how I
Speaker 2: talked about the physicality and how Steph was able to
Speaker 2: use that push off move against what was his name,
Speaker 2: not Luke Canard, the other white dude who plays for
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies.
Speaker 1: I'm blanking on his name right now, Conchard, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Conchart was guarding Steph and Steph like kind of shoved
Speaker 2: off of him to get open into the screening action.
Speaker 2: That's a pretty common move you'll see from shooters around
Speaker 2: the NBA, but it's a great way to set up
Speaker 2: a backcut. So watch as Steph. I'm gonna play this
Speaker 2: in slow motion. Watch how Steph shoves himn That shove
Speaker 2: triggers a man thinking he's going to come off of
Speaker 2: this screen. Watch how hard a man reacts to the shove,
Speaker 2: he goes completely out of position. Then Steph beats him
Speaker 2: on the back cut. Really really smart gamesmanship from Steph
Speaker 2: Curry to get himself another easy one. A little piece
Speaker 2: of tough shot making from Jimmy. Butler hits a little
Speaker 2: bright shoulder fade over a men Thompson. Notice that little
Speaker 2: shoulder fake is worth everything there on the shoulder fake.
Speaker 2: Look at him in A man's got his head turned
Speaker 2: and his body takes that whoops, star guys. His body
Speaker 2: takes that one negative step way back here to the
Speaker 2: second block, and that gives Jimmy the separation and needs
Speaker 2: to knock down the shot. Jimmy made six jump shots
Speaker 2: in this game, five in the mid range. That was
Speaker 2: a huge piece of ceiling raising on offense for the Warriors.
Speaker 2: I have no idea what Jalen Green was doing here.
Speaker 2: I think Dylan Brooks is also in this action. Let's
Speaker 2: get over to the corner here, so we have Jimmy
Speaker 2: being guarded by Dylan Brooks and Pods comes up to
Speaker 2: set the screen, and I like, Jalen Green just ends
Speaker 2: up like just clawing all the way up here to
Speaker 2: double team. And my thing is like, let's say that's
Speaker 2: a switch. Let's say it's a switch. Make Jimmy dribble
Speaker 2: off the screen, sit back a little bit, and if
Speaker 2: Jimmy dribbles off the screen, then you pick him up
Speaker 2: that way. Dylan Brooks, as he's dribbling off, can drop
Speaker 2: back and get inside position on Pods to prevent the slip. Instead,
Speaker 2: Jalen Green just throws this bullshit double team and it
Speaker 2: just makes the easiest slip pass ever to Pods on
Speaker 2: the back door. A lot of defensive mistakes from Jalen
Speaker 2: Green in this one. Another stot. Draymond Green gets a
Speaker 2: good stop against Shangoon. He won most of those battles
Speaker 2: last night, like I talked about. And then we get
Speaker 2: this ISO three from Jimmy Butler against the men Thompson
Speaker 2: at the end of the clock that puts the Warriors
Speaker 2: up twenty. Another nice bit of shot making from Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 2: Draymond did this a couple times last night. So they're
Speaker 2: trying to set up a high low action here, right,
Speaker 2: So Tarry Yeason has inside position on Steph Curry, Draymond
Speaker 2: Green's guarding Shanggon, but Shang Goon just shows an unwillingness
Speaker 2: to score here, and so when Shangoon throws the pass,
Speaker 2: Raymond just drops back and he's able to disrupt and
Speaker 2: get the pass. Then on the other end of the floor,
Speaker 2: going to fast forward a little bit, you guys know
Speaker 2: what happens here, Steph gets Jalen Green on a switch
Speaker 2: late in the shot clock. Here's one of those last
Speaker 2: four seconds of the clock shots that I was talking about.
Speaker 2: One of the most ridiculous shots I've seen Steph hit
Speaker 2: in his career.
Speaker 1: Boom.
Speaker 2: Another example of Draymond getting a steal dropping off the passer.
Speaker 2: So notice he's guarding Steven Adams, but he's not worried
Speaker 2: about Steven Adams as a scorer. So as the cutter
Speaker 2: comes through and men Thompson, Draymond drops back and ends
Speaker 2: up getting his steal. Draymond was unbelievable on defense last night.
Speaker 2: This was Moses Moody's rescue possession late in the game.
Speaker 2: I thought this was really impressive too. So we have
Speaker 2: Pods ends up trying to create something. He ends up
Speaker 2: picking up his dribble in the middle of the floor.
Speaker 2: Moody just flashes right in front of Fred van Vliet,
Speaker 2: gets open for like a little catch and shoot seventeen
Speaker 2: foot er fading to his left and knocks it down.
Speaker 2: I was a big shot in that game when the
Speaker 2: game got down to four. This was just an insane
Speaker 2: piece of shot making from Steph Curry look running to
Speaker 2: his right from about thirty five feet against the contests
Speaker 2: from Amen Thompson, just sticks it off the back of
Speaker 2: the rim.
Speaker 1: Just unbelievable shot.
Speaker 2: Alrighty, This was a really impressive help defense sequence from
Speaker 2: Brandon Pajemski and Moses Moody. The two of them were
Speaker 2: just fantastic down the stretch of this game. So notice
Speaker 2: as the drive occurs here Pod steps up first, so
Speaker 2: Pods is on Shane Jabari Smith is going to drive
Speaker 2: past Jimmy Butler and Pods and Jimmy are going to
Speaker 2: execute like a switch on the drive. So notice Pod
Speaker 2: steps up, But where's the red right? You have Moody
Speaker 2: guarding him Men Thompson here in the right corner. The
Speaker 2: next obvious read for Jabari Smith is to drop it
Speaker 2: off to Shangoon. Pods catches the drive, Moody makes the
Speaker 2: rotation and forces the steel. Jimmy Butler cleans it up.
Speaker 2: Really really good defense in that sequence from Moses Moody
Speaker 2: and from uh Brandon Pajemski. This was one of the
Speaker 2: big time rebounds that Brandon Pajemski had at the end
Speaker 2: of the game, just out working Fred van Vliet. Here
Speaker 2: after the shot goes up, Moody gets a clean look
Speaker 2: but watch so Pods and and Fred are both watching,
Speaker 2: but Pods makes the effort gets to the tap and
Speaker 2: when he gets to the tap, he occupies both Shangoon
Speaker 2: and Jabari Smith, which allows Draymond Green to come in
Speaker 2: and clean it up from behind. Warriors attacking Jalen Green
Speaker 2: in action again, this time to get two on the
Speaker 2: ball and open up.
Speaker 1: The pocket with Pods.
Speaker 2: Classic sequence right ball screen A Men Thompson is chasing
Speaker 2: Jalen Green, is kind of like hanging out a little
Speaker 2: too long that creates the pocket to Pods. He has
Speaker 2: a baked in driving lane past Jalen Green, which forces
Speaker 2: Shangoon to step up, easy kickout to Moody and knocks
Speaker 2: down a much needed three and big for Moody as well,
Speaker 2: for as much as he had struggled lately. And then
Speaker 2: here we go the dagger from Jimmy Butler, that classic
Speaker 2: side step shot that I always talk about. He gets shanggoon.
Speaker 2: Watch the side step going to his right. This is
Speaker 2: the game. This is the go to move that Jimmy
Speaker 2: Butler has now that he can get to and knock
Speaker 2: down whenever he needs to. So yeah, as you guys
Speaker 2: can see a lot of the stuff that we talked
Speaker 2: about last night, Jalen Green being attacked in action, the
Speaker 2: Warriors defending extremely well against the Rockets, their zone causing
Speaker 2: them issues. There's just such a gap in that skill IQ, gamesmanship,
Speaker 2: decision making, playmaking, all of that skews heavily in Golden
Speaker 2: State's favor. And as long as they don't completely hemorrhage
Speaker 2: points on the margins, they're going to do really well.
Speaker 1: And again they did all right.
Speaker 2: They were so much more efficient on their second chances
Speaker 2: that they only lost the second chance points battle by
Speaker 2: ten and as a result, they were able to allow
Speaker 2: their half court execution to carry them over the top.
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