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Speaker 1: let's talk some bad basketball. So the game one of

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Speaker 1: this series kind of fell pretty cleanly in line with

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Speaker 1: lot of minutes where porzingis or Horford regarding them, and

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Speaker 1: so that fundamentally altered Dallas's approach in pick and roll, right,

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Speaker 1: we were seeing Gafford and Lively have to sit in

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Speaker 1: So couple metrics. Dallas scored zero points from the role

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Speaker 1: Boston was constantly getting Dallas in rotation and getting great

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Speaker 1: They generated thirty four spot up possessions in this game.

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Speaker 1: Hit a couple of big threes in that stretch as well.

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Speaker 1: Really nice shift from Sam Hauser in that first half.

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Speaker 1: Peyton Pritchard came into the game and had to guard

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Speaker 1: everything will be fine. These are a little things they

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Speaker 1: can try to attempt to free up a little bit

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Speaker 1: more opportunity for their players to get into the paint

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Speaker 1: and to generate those lib dunks in corner threes. One,

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Speaker 1: get the ball up the floor quicker so that you

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Speaker 1: have more time to work for better matchups. We saw

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Speaker 1: Luca getting hounded in the backcourt by Jalen Brown. You

438
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Speaker 1: can either set backcourt screens to try to free look

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Speaker 1: up so he can get up the floor cleaner. Or two,

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Speaker 1: just have Kyrie bring the ball up the floor. Him

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Speaker 1: bring the ball to the floor with pace. He's a

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Speaker 1: little bit faster you get yourself up the floor. You

443
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Speaker 1: can run an off ball action for Luca to try

444
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Speaker 1: to get a switch during the same sequence so that

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Speaker 1: you can kind of work for those matchups. Try to

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Speaker 1: get Derek White on the Luca to start the possession.

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Speaker 1: Another type of another type of screen you can set

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Speaker 1: to help free things up in a ball screen. What

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Speaker 1: if you just run a rams screen. Now, what a

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Speaker 1: ram screen is is when you have a player pinned down,

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Speaker 1: like set a screen down on your role man's defender

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Speaker 1: so that he can come up and set the ball screen.

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Speaker 1: So now imagine this. You have Derek Lively on the floor.

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Speaker 1: He's standing underneath the basket. Okay, He's got Jason Tatum

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Speaker 1: on him, which is the problem because if he comes

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Speaker 1: up into the screen, he's just gonna switch onto Luca. Right. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's let's say Derek Jones Jr. Has Chris tops Porzingis

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Speaker 1: on him. Okay, what he would do is Derek Jones

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Speaker 1: Junior would just run down and set a hard screen

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Speaker 1: on Jason Tatum. Okay, if he sets a hard screen

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Speaker 1: on Jason Tatum and actually makes good contact while at

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Speaker 1: the same time, Lively sprints up to go set the

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Speaker 1: ball screen. If he does that, Tatum will in all

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Speaker 1: likelihood switch with Porzingis, and Porzingis will then go up

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Speaker 1: to the screen with Lively. Then PJ. Washington or Derek Jones,

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Speaker 1: whoever sets that screen, can clear Tatum out to a

467
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Speaker 1: spot up position, then you're in your traditional matchups. Or

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Speaker 1: you have Porzingis in the ball screen so that Luka

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Speaker 1: can attack and now Lively can roll hard to the rim.

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Speaker 1: Did not see that last night. Would hope to see

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Speaker 1: that in game two. Just literally have whoever Porzingis is

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Speaker 1: guarding set a hard ram screen or downscreen on Tatum

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Speaker 1: so that Lively or Gafford can sprint up into the

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Speaker 1: ball screen and have an opportunity to actually rep to

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Speaker 1: actually be a vertical spacer in pick and roll. I

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Speaker 1: think that's something they could do. They just this is

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Speaker 1: all part of the pacing of it. You've got to

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Speaker 1: get the ball up the floor quickly so that you

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Speaker 1: have time to do this kind of stuff. More hunting

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Speaker 1: of the guards instead of hunting Horford. So one of

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Speaker 1: the things that Luca did a lot is just bring

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Speaker 1: or PJ, Derek Jones, Junior, PJ Washingon, whoever Horford was on,

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Speaker 1: into the screen, get Horford on a switch, and then

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Speaker 1: look to attack Horford. Horford is a really big, strong

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Speaker 1: player who's a great positional defender. He's not a guy

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Speaker 1: that's super aggressive. What he is is he reads your

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Speaker 1: body language. He beats you to spots and he takes

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Speaker 1: contact in the shoulder and he makes really good contests.

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Speaker 1: That's how he has so much success against guys like

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Speaker 1: Joel Embiid for instance, over the course of his career.

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Speaker 1: The power players he fares really well against. But Luca

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Speaker 1: can look to attack the guards. They did not post

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Speaker 1: up very much last night. They only had five post

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Speaker 1: ups in the entire game, but they got one point

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Speaker 1: six points per per possession out of it. That's really good.

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Speaker 1: So running more guard screens for Luca so that he

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Speaker 1: can look to attack not into ball screen but through

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Speaker 1: ice own post up situations with a smaller defender on him,

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Speaker 1: I think that's a better option than trying to target

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Speaker 1: even like a Houser who's six ' eight and can

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00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 1: kind of absorb some of the contact, like go after

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Speaker 1: the smaller players if you're not having success in pick

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Speaker 1: and roll. So those are all some tactical things that

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Speaker 1: can do. But here's the reality. Boston is switching a lot,

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Speaker 1: so Kyrie and Luca just have to be better. Zero

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Speaker 1: point five to four points per Iso is not going

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Speaker 1: to cut it. They're going to have to win more

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Speaker 1: of those battles by getting buckets and getting into the lane,

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Speaker 1: drawing multiple defenders and making quality kickout passes. They were

510
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Speaker 1: both Lucas always going to fill up the box score

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Speaker 1: the guys at the top of the league typically do.

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Speaker 1: But I did not think Luca played a good game.

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Speaker 1: He was abysmal on the defensive end of the four,

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Speaker 1: which is what we're about to get to right now.

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Speaker 1: On the defensive end, rewire your thinking to stay home

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Speaker 1: off the ball. We talked about that earlier, but you

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Speaker 1: cannot afford to be swarming the basketball against Boston. They

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Speaker 1: are too good at shooting and passing out of it

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00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 1: and then knocking down shots to make you pay. So

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Speaker 1: they need to do a better job of staying home

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Speaker 1: off the ball too. Luca just has to do a

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Speaker 1: way better job of containing the basketball. I've got damn

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Speaker 1: near ten clips in here of Luca getting toasted off

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Speaker 1: the dribble and bad things happening to Dallas's defense as

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Speaker 1: a result. He just has to do a better job.

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Speaker 1: And then lastly, I put in all caps just do

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Speaker 1: a better job. That means everything. That you're doing needs

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Speaker 1: to be done with more pace, with more force. Every

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Speaker 1: close out needs to be harder. Every screen needs to

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Speaker 1: be set harder. Every cut needs to be harder. Every

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Speaker 1: drive needs to be harder. You need to sit in

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Speaker 1: a defensive stance better, slide your feet better, help and

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Speaker 1: rotate better. Everything just has to be way better for

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Speaker 1: Dallas heading into game two. All right, on that note,

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Speaker 1: let's get into the film, all right. Our first clip here.

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Speaker 1: One of the things I thought was interesting with Boston

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Speaker 1: switching or Dallas doing some switching. Tatum ended up getting

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Speaker 1: Kyrie irving on him in this switch situation. And what

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Speaker 1: you see here is Jalen Brown misses a three, but look,

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Speaker 1: Derek Jones Jr. Tries to get back in front and

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Speaker 1: box him out. But this is Tatum just being way

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00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 1: bigger than these guys and he just cleanly gets the

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Speaker 1: offensive rebound and makes a kickout pass to Derek White,

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Speaker 1: who knocks down the three. You're gonna see several examples

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Speaker 1: of that where Dallas getting caught up in some switches

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Speaker 1: and some cross matches caused some problems for them on

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Speaker 1: the defensive glass, especially in the early portion of the game.

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Speaker 1: Very similar thing here. As you can see at the

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Speaker 1: on this possession, Gafford is actually guarding Derek White, and

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Speaker 1: Derek White relocates out to the right corner, and as

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Speaker 1: he relocates to the right corner, as Jalen Brown makes

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Speaker 1: this kickout pass, as Derek White gets his kickout pass,

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Speaker 1: Gafford has to close. Because Gafford has to close now,

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00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: al Horford is under the basket with all of these

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Speaker 1: smaller players on him, and al Horford gets a big

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Speaker 1: rebound that gets kicked out for Jalen Brown, who knocks

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Speaker 1: down or misses the three. But it was another opportunity there.

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Speaker 1: So again, offensive glass became a factor early because Dallas

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Speaker 1: was getting into some cross matches off of switches. And

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Speaker 1: in transition, here's one of the possession where Wreford switched

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Speaker 1: on to Luca, so again we get a ball screen.

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Speaker 1: This was one of the things that I appreciated with

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Speaker 1: Joe Mizula too. This was a dead ball situation where randomly,

564
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Speaker 1: for no particular reason, Missoula switched Horford back onto Gafford

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00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: and Tatum back onto Derek Jones. This was not their

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Speaker 1: base scheme. They did the opposite of this. The majority

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Speaker 1: of the game, but they randomly did it just to

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Speaker 1: mix up the coverage. This is a great way to

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Speaker 1: just keep an offense off balance. Horford switches on to

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Speaker 1: Tatum Jalen Brown just tracks Gafford into the lane, and

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Speaker 1: then watch the job that Horford does in ISO, sliding contact,

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00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 1: absorbing contact, staying in front, forcing him into a really

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00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: difficult over the top jump shot that he misses. Gafford

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Speaker 1: does get an offensive rebound, and I put this in

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Speaker 1: my notes too. I put that Gafford needs to do

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Speaker 1: more work on the offensive class. I have one other

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Speaker 1: clip in this film session where Gafford gets an offensive rebound,

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Speaker 1: but this is another counter. I should have honestly put

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Speaker 1: this in my list of adjustments, and so that's my fault.

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Speaker 1: But when Gafford gets switched or has either get switched

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Speaker 1: onto a smaller defender, or when Gafford and Lively just

582
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: have Tatum or Brown on them in these matchups so

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00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: that they can switch those ball screens, they have to

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00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: make Boston pay on the offensive glass. They have to

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Speaker 1: make them pay more. See how Gafford gets that inside position.

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Speaker 1: They have to do a lot more of that. In

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Speaker 1: game two. You need to bully them make them pay

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00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: for putting smaller players on your center. If they can't

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Speaker 1: do it in the post, they have to do it

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00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: on the offensive glass. So we get a transition attack

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Speaker 1: here from Jalen Brown up the left wing. In the process,

592
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: Gafford gets pulled in and help gafferd's helping al Horford

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00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: relocates here to the right corner. It gets a wide

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Speaker 1: open three out of it. So again, a lot of

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Speaker 1: the instincts from Gafford and Lively to help underneath the

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Speaker 1: basket are going to be are going to actually be

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Speaker 1: detrimental to Dallas's ability to defend in this matchup. Here's

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Speaker 1: the first backcourt steel or shouldn't say backoard. This one was

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00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: past half court, but the first deal that Jalen Brown

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00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: got against Luca watched the jobb he does fighting over

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00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: the top of the screen with physicality, splits the gap,

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00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: forces a turnover, gets a big dunk on the other

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Speaker 1: end as a result. A lot of physical ball pressure

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Speaker 1: from Jalen Brown in this game. So here's our first

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Speaker 1: example of the problem with attacking Horford and porzingis in

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Speaker 1: ball screens. When when Horford is on him, or excuse me,

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Speaker 1: when when they're guarding Derek Jones instead of Gafford, So

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Speaker 1: I see Tatum's on Gafford, So Gafford's not going to

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Speaker 1: set the screen because if he does, it's just going

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Speaker 1: to end in a switch and then Tatum will be

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Speaker 1: on the ball. So instead they end up running off

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Speaker 1: of Derek Jones's side. Now watch this, Horford's dropping Jalen

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Speaker 1: Drew Holliday is chasing look at Tatum though Tatum is

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Speaker 1: on Gafford. Nothing's open here, so Horford's in his drop.

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00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: Drew Holiday is chasing over the top, so Kyrie has

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Speaker 1: no opening. Right, Tatum is taking away the lob pass

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Speaker 1: to Gafford. The old Jalen Brown is staying home in

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Speaker 1: this corner. Derek White is in position to easily get

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Speaker 1: to this corner, so there's no corner three kickout. The

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Speaker 1: only quality read here is Derek Jones Junior, who's going

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Speaker 1: to have to take an above the break three, which

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00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: is a lower percentage shot for him, and certainly a

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Speaker 1: lower percentage shot than anything they get when they can

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Speaker 1: get Gafford or Lively actually into the ball screen. As

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00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: a result, Horford forces Kyrie into this impossible shot that

626
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: he airballs, so that's the first example on film of

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00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 1: just how difficult it is for them to score in

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00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,479
Speaker 1: ball screens by virtue of their ability to put Tatum

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Speaker 1: on the center and Horford on a wing. Okay, now

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00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: we're going to get a transition attack off of the

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Speaker 1: airball by Drew Holliday. Notice the notice the defense kind

632
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 1: of coalesce around him. Okay, draws help from Derek Jones.

633
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: Kick to Jalen Brown. Jalen Brown drives, gets into the lane.

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00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: Easy drop off to Drew Holliday underneath the basket. So again,

635
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Speaker 1: just like it's just so easy for Boston to just

636
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: beat one guy off the dribble, make an easy kickout pass,

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00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 1: beat another guy off the dribble, easy drop off pass,

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00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: you get a layup. That's gonna be the story of

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00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 1: the series. How well can Boston well can Dallas contain

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00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: in space? Get a driving kick here from Tatum, Watch

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00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: the defense coalesce around him on the move. Crossover gets

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00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 1: into the lane, Watch the defense coals around him. Kyrie

643
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: steps up PJ. Washington Because Kyrie steps up off of

644
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 1: Drew Holiday. PJ. Washington digs down on a cracksdown onto

645
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 1: Drew Holiday. Nice kickback pass from Jason Tatum for a

646
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: great shooter for stand still corner three can't pack the

647
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: pain against this team. He just can't do it the

648
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: way he did in the other rounds. Here's another example

649
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: of the pick and roll problem that we talked about earlier.

650
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: So here we go. We have Lively's being guarded by Tatum,

651
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: so Lively's not gonna be brought into the ball screen.

652
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: Kyrie wants to go at Porzingis, so Derek Jones sets

653
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: the pick Boston ice. Is it meaning they refuse the

654
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: use of the screen. Kyrie ends up driving into the ice.

655
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: Derek Jones pops to above the break. Notice Jalen Brown

656
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: doesn't even rotate to him, because that's what they want.

657
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 1: This entire scheme is designed to force Dallas to tilt

658
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: their offense towards above the break. Three point shots for

659
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: bad shooters or I shouldn't say bad shooters, but mediocre

660
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 1: and inconsistent streaky shooters. Here's another example of Dallas swarming

661
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: in transition. Watch how many bodies go around Drew Holliday

662
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: on this transition attack Boom, three bodies around him. What

663
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: happens kick to Derek White open three bucket just can't

664
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 1: do that. You just can't do that in this matchup.

665
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: You have to reprogram your entire approach to defense, to

666
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: staying home, and then the on ball guy has to

667
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: just do a better job of containing. Okay, so Derek

668
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: Jones just missed a pick and pop three right. So

669
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 1: now in this case, notice they get a little brush

670
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: screen from Lively to get Tatum onto Luca to start right.

671
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: Then Derek Jones sets the pick as Luca gets downhill. Now,

672
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 1: Derek Jones just missed it above the break three, so

673
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 1: this time he's gonna roll, but he's not a vertical spacer.

674
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 1: And look at this. In the last matchup, when they

675
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: would do this, this would be Lively setting the pick

676
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: right and then Derek Jones would be spotting up up

677
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 1: here on the wing. So when Lively would roll, these

678
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: two bodies would not be there. This would be empty

679
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: space or Drew Holliday would have to come further down.

680
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: And if Drew Holiday's down here, that's where Luca can

681
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: throw this skip pass to Kyrie here in the corner.

682
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 1: But he can't do that because Lively is sitting in

683
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: the dunker spot. This area is occupied. Now Derek Jones

684
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 1: is rolling and the open space is up here. This

685
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: is now all wasted space, right, So now Derek Jones

686
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 1: is rolling into the lane, he's not a vertical spacing threat.

687
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 1: If that's gaffered, Luca might just be able to throw

688
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: it up, but it's not. It's Derek Jones. He ends

689
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: up kind of settling into the spot under the basket,

690
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: and when he catches here, he's trying to go up

691
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: straight vertical against a player that's got damn near a

692
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,720
Speaker 1: foot of height on him, and he smokes the layup.

693
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping these clips are doing a good job

694
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,800
Speaker 1: of demonstrating to you guys how Boston's kind of adjustment

695
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say adjustment, but a game plan of putting

696
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,320
Speaker 1: Tatum on the set just kind of jinks up everything

697
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,799
Speaker 1: for Dallas's pick and roll attack. Here's an example of

698
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: Porzingis being a switch. So we have Hardy on the ball,

699
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,439
Speaker 1: then they switch. Now Lively's on White. Lively, I thought,

700
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: for the most part, did a good job on switches.

701
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 1: As we said before the series, that's kind of what

702
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: we expected. This is the problem, though, Porzingis just takes

703
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: Jaydon Hardy down, pump fakes a couple times knocks downer jumper.

704
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:24,240
Speaker 1: That's just easy. Here's Howser defending Luca on a switch,

705
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: swipes the ball away from him. Great work from Howser individually,

706
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 1: AND's then a turnover for Boston. Though. Here's another example.

707
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:35,919
Speaker 1: Now Porzingis is on Josh Green, Tatum's on Lively. Watch

708
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 1: what happens ball screen. Josh Green pops Luca gets into

709
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: the lane, Josh Green's open, doesn't want to take it,

710
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 1: shoots this ugly floater off the front of the rim.

711
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 1: See how like Dallas literally does not know what to

712
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: do to counter this issue at this point. This was

713
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 1: just a play I included because I thought it was

714
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: a really impressive play from Porzingis. This is a fake

715
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: dribble handoff. So I want you to watch Lively closely

716
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: right here, So Lively's on the ball. Watch as Porzingis

717
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 1: dribbles at I think it's at Derek White, or is

718
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: it at Tatum? Let's see is at Tatum. So watches

719
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: Porzingis dribbles at No. Tatum cuts actually, and then it

720
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: is at Derek White. So watches Porzingis dribbles at Derek White.

721
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 1: Watch what happens to Lively watch Lively's attention as Porzingis

722
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: is faking the drible hand off right there, see boom

723
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: right there, for a split second he favors the dribble

724
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 1: hand off side, preparing for a switch. As a result,

725
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 1: Porzingis is able to turn the corner and he gets

726
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 1: into the lane and throws it down. Really impressive play

727
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: from Porzingis. That's another great way to beat switching. By

728
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 1: the way, there's actually another example of that later on

729
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 1: in the game that Drew Holliday does. Here's that stop

730
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 1: that Howser got in the corner again eleven on the

731
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: shot clock, straight ISO against one of the lesser perimeter

732
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,919
Speaker 1: defenders for Boston, and he just does a really good

733
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: job and gets a great contest and forces him into

734
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: a bad miss off the backboard. In transition. This is

735
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: a classic trailing three. So Gafford's attention, he's on Porzingis, right,

736
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 1: Gafford's attention is on Pritchard and getting back into the lane.

737
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 1: Look where he runs to. He runs to the free

738
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: throw line, and then he goes, oh shit, I forgot

739
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: I'm guarding Porzingis, who then settles into this trailing transition three.

740
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,359
Speaker 1: Most basketball coaches love a big that can shoot in

741
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 1: transition because it's just one of the biggest loopholes in

742
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: a transition defense is you prioritize the rim, you prioritize

743
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: the ball, and so as a result, a big trailing

744
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: to play is almost always open. This was a nice

745
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 1: block by Porzingis in a ball screen against Kyrie, and

746
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: so this is another example of a random situation where

747
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 1: they mix the coverage. This time Tatum's on Kliba and

748
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: Porzingis is on the vertical spacing threat. When these opportunities

749
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: are there, you have to capitalize on him. The lob

750
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: is open right there, Boom, lob is open. That's gotta

751
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 1: be a lot that You got to throw that right

752
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: up here so Gafford can dunk it instead. Kyrie takes

753
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 1: this shot and gets blocked by Porzingis. Kyrie shot selection

754
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: was really bad in the first second half. I thought

755
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: he was just missing. First half though, Kyrie was making

756
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 1: a lot of bad decisions. Another ISO possession where we

757
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 1: get a switch where Horford ends up on Kyrie right.

758
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 1: Once again, Horford holds up really well on a switch

759
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:19,240
Speaker 1: on an island against Kyrie. Irving. Watch this defense funnels

760
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,720
Speaker 1: him into the paint, gets a great contest, forces a miss.

761
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: Horford's switching defense was amazing in this game. So at

762
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 1: this portion in the game, this is when Jalen Brown

763
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,479
Speaker 1: starts looking to attack Luka Doncic in two man game

764
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 1: with Howser, So Derek Jones is on Jalen Brown. This

765
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,240
Speaker 1: is actually the same play that they ran when Jalen

766
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:39,839
Speaker 1: got the dunk. I'll show you guys when we get

767
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: to that clip here in a minute. But basically all

768
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 1: that happens is Howser sets the pick, Jalen Brown, switches

769
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: kind of like a soft switch onto Jalen Brown, and

770
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown just beats him off the dribble cleanly and

771
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: gets a bucket. Here's another example of them swarming in

772
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 1: transition and giving up an open three. So watch Drew

773
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: Holiday attack. All these bodies kind of coalesce around him.

774
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: Easy case got past to Howser, who it's the no

775
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,479
Speaker 1: dip jumper in the corner. Here's that exact same action

776
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:06,319
Speaker 1: that they just ran for Jalen Brown. This time they

777
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:09,720
Speaker 1: get the dunk. So again Howser sets the pick, Jalen

778
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 1: Brown attacks down hill, crosses over on Luca, gets the dunk.

779
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: You're gonna see a lot of examples of this over

780
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: the course of the rest of this game. Luca was

781
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: just so bad on the ball. He was just so bad,

782
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,839
Speaker 1: and he just simply has to do a better job.

783
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 1: This is one of the stops that Prichard got on Kyrie.

784
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: Fast forward a little bit here. Okay, So Pritchard on

785
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,839
Speaker 1: an island against Kyrie Irving. This is a matchup that

786
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,760
Speaker 1: Dallas has to win if they're gonna win this series.

787
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: And Pritchard just does a really nice job, absorbs contact,

788
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 1: forces Kyrie into a tough layup, and he misses it.

789
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 1: Here's another example of the pick and pop situation. So

790
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 1: this was the too big look that I talked about.

791
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 1: What they would do is they'd put one of their

792
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: bigs onto Lively and then they'd put the other big

793
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: onto PJ. Washington, and they'd had that same exact issue. Right,

794
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: Luca comes downhill drop coverage. Look at all this congestion

795
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: in here because of Lively and Horford. Again, that is

796
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 1: where this matchup screws everything up for Dallas. They can't

797
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: set ball screens with their centers, so they have to

798
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,280
Speaker 1: put their centers in the dunker spot, which just causes

799
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 1: everything to get screwed up with the spacing. PJ. Washington's

800
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,959
Speaker 1: wide open, but he's a mediocre. I think he's below

801
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,320
Speaker 1: thirty percent on above the break threes in this postseason.

802
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:21,839
Speaker 1: I think he was twenty nine and a half coming

803
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: into the night. So like that SHOT's probably not going

804
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 1: to go in. Here's another Porzingis shot attempt against the switch,

805
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:32,840
Speaker 1: so we get ball screen switch. Derek Jones is on Porzingis,

806
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: swing pass, walks him down to the elbow, gets the

807
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:39,280
Speaker 1: ball back strong with it, gets a little closer, knocks

808
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:43,280
Speaker 1: down the jumper. Here's Horford defending Luca on the switch again,

809
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: screen switch. When Lively rolls, Jalen Brown stays with him.

810
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 1: Look at this job, absorbs contact, beats him to a spot,

811
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:55,240
Speaker 1: gets a great contest on that pull up three, forces

812
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 1: him into a miss. All right, We're gonna get another

813
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: Porzingis attack of a switch here. All right, So we

814
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 1: have Lively on Porzingis, Derek White with the ball, Porzingis

815
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: sets the screen. Josh Green switches Porzingis, walks him down

816
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 1: to the elbow post entry, pump Fay gets a little closer,

817
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: knocks down the jumper, just did a brilliant job of

818
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 1: beating that coverage last night. On the other end of

819
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: the floor, a nice stop from Tatum on Luca going

820
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:22,919
Speaker 1: the other way. A random double team from Luca. So again,

821
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,720
Speaker 1: instead of just getting matched up and playing defense, Luca's

822
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: dribbling against his primary defender, Luca double teams for no reason.

823
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 1: You can already guess how this movie ends. Swing swing, swing.

824
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown three knocks it down. This is bad defense.

825
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: Another backcourt rip of Luca just guesses, beats him to

826
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 1: a spot, swipes him, goes up and dunks it. Here's

827
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:48,280
Speaker 1: another bad Luca defensive possession. He's guarding Drew Holliday. Drew

828
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 1: just kind of dribbles at Tatum and then just cuts

829
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: downhill on Luca beats him. Drop off pass for Derek White.

830
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 1: Luca just has to do a better job containing the basketball.

831
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 1: This is when Boston went up twenty nine. Dallas tried

832
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: zone for one possession on It wasn't anything to do

833
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: with the coverage. Here is pass to Tatum and then

834
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 1: they screen the top part of the zone and Tatum

835
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: hits a contested pull up three. Now you're up twenty nine.

836
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: Here's another one. Of Gafford's offensive rebounds against Tatum. This

837
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 1: again is something I think they need to do a

838
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: lot more of a better job of in Game two,

839
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: just just making Boston pay for putting a forward on

840
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 1: your center, missus. The shot bullies gets inside position, gets

841
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: put back. I talked about the ugly stretch of offense

842
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: from Boston. This was just one random example. So again

843
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: they went almost they went four minutes without getting the

844
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:46,720
Speaker 1: ball in the paint a single time, and over about

845
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 1: what a six minute span they got the ball in

846
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:52,439
Speaker 1: the paint twice total. But it's a lot of stuff

847
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,720
Speaker 1: like this, eighteen seconds on the shot clock, just random

848
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: contested jab step three, a lot of just kind of

849
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 1: bad process from Boston in that stretch. Time out gets

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00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: called right after Luca hits the step back three. Here's

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Speaker 1: your run. Here's the run that Boston fans told me

852
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:07,840
Speaker 1: is totally normal. Twenty nine to nine. Notice out of

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00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 1: the time out, the what the job is here? Howser

854
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,879
Speaker 1: sets the pick, get Luca on a switch, get out

855
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 1: of the way. Tatum drives on Luca, beats him cleanly,

856
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 1: engages the rint protector. And again, when you engage the

857
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: rint protector, you give Porzingis an opportunity. Luca honestly fouls

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00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:24,399
Speaker 1: him by just bumping into his back there just doesn't

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00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 1: get called, so it ends in his stop. But that's

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00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 1: really good process, although Lively ends up getting called for

861
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: a travel, same possession after the travel, Jalen Brown does

862
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: the same thing. Bringhauser, set the pick, get Luca, drive

863
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 1: right by Luca, get into the lane, draw foul just

864
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: Luca's inability to contain the basketball. This time, Jason Tatum

865
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: does it in a ball screen, so it brings Cleba

866
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Speaker 1: into the action or Lively into the action, gets downhill,

867
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: beats Lively off the dribble, gets into the paint, kick

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Speaker 1: to Porzingis. This doesn't go in, but that's a really

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00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 1: good look. And then in the process again all these

870
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 1: things are connected. So Lively's on Tatum right, So when

871
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 1: Tatum makes this pass, Lively ends up making an impromptu

872
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,239
Speaker 1: close out to Porzingis. So now no one's matched up

873
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: with Tatum, so no one thinks to box him out.

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00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 1: So Tatum gets the ball because that's Lively was the

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Speaker 1: one who switched on to him, right. So that's an

876
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: example of how getting into rotation can cause problems for you.

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00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 1: On the glass as well. Porzingis gets a dunk. Another

878
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: Tatum driving kick here going out, Lively beats him clean

879
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: help a little overhelped too, Like what you don't need

880
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: to be sending three bodies at Tatum on the drive here,

881
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 1: You're just gonna give yourself a lot of issues. This

882
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: one ends with Jalen Brown driving into the lane and

883
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: drawing another foul. So again that close out opportunity. Look

884
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: at the closeout. He's got PJ. Washington sprinting at him

885
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: this way, so the rip through to the right is

886
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 1: easy because he's just his momentums carrying him too far.

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00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:53,320
Speaker 1: So by this whole sequence was generated by Tatum beating

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00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 1: Lively off the dribble, and those are both fouls. By

889
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:58,320
Speaker 1: the way, I'm Lively like he's he's not vertical. He's

890
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 1: going down over Brown. Here's another example of the difference

891
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 1: in vertical spacing between Derek Jones and a center. Okay,

892
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 1: so we're trying to attack Horford ball screen. They basically

893
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 1: are are It's a high drop with a drew chasing.

894
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 1: It's effectively like a blitz. Derek Jones is rolling, but

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00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 1: he's just not the vertical spacer that Lively or Gafford.

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00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 1: Is that's a dunk if that's Lively or Gafford. Two

897
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 1: more another Jalen Brown hunting Luca play have tatums at

898
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: the pick, get Luca, beat him off the dribble, swing

899
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 1: swing wide open. Three. And then lastly Jalen Brown again

900
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:34,839
Speaker 1: drives past Kleiba, draws multiple defenders, gets Horford. But this

901
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: is what so quality stuff from Boston again. Six out

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00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:40,319
Speaker 1: of the first seven possessions out of the time out,

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00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 1: you got quality driving kick possessions. Right, that's all good

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00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 1: on the Dallas front, though that can't be a help

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00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 1: from Gafford. That just can't. You got to force Jalen

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00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 1: Brown to make a contested layup over Kleiba before you

907
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: just hard help and leave a shooter wide open like this.

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00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:58,279
Speaker 1: So yeah, I hope that film session does a good

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00:45:58,320 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 1: job of kind of breaking down for you guys some

910
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 1: of the issues that Dallas was having with Boston last night. Obviously,

911
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,839
Speaker 1: some of the stuff with Boston's offensive process as well,

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00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 1: when it's good versus when it's bad. And then, like

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Speaker 1: I said, the adjustments for Dallas who went over earlier,

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00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:11,839
Speaker 1: I will go over them again. But there's some things

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00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 1: they need to work on offensively and defensively to do

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Speaker 1: a better job in Game two. As always, I sincerely

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys for supporting the show. I'm recording a

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Speaker 1: mailbag right after this that'll be out on Saturday morning,

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00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 1: and then obviously we're going live after Game two with

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Speaker 1: Colin on Sunday night. I will see you guys. Then

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Speaker 1: the volume