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Speaker 1: let's talk some bad basketball. So the game one of
Speaker 1: this series kind of fell pretty cleanly in line with
Speaker 1: a lot of the things that I was expecting coming
Speaker 1: into the series. I specifically talked about the idea of
Speaker 1: putting Jason Tatum onto Daniel Gafford and forcing they actually
Speaker 1: ended up putting Horford to start the game on Derek
Speaker 1: Jones Junior, but Derek Jones instead of PJ. Washington. But
Speaker 1: Derek Jones Junior and PJ. Washington ended up getting a
Speaker 1: lot of minutes where porzingis or Horford regarding them, and
Speaker 1: so that fundamentally altered Dallas's approach in pick and roll, right,
Speaker 1: we were seeing Gafford and Lively have to sit in
Speaker 1: the dunker spot with Tatum on them, while Derek Jones
Speaker 1: and PJ. Washington were trying to figure out how to
Speaker 1: pop and roll properly with Luca and Kyrie in ball screens,
Speaker 1: and just neither of them are very good above the
Speaker 1: break three point shooters. Neither of them are great role
Speaker 1: men in ball screens, especially when there's more traffic on
Speaker 1: the back line. With Tatum and Lively and Gafford being
Speaker 1: down there. You saw that direct the effect Dallas's ability
Speaker 1: to attack and pick and roll. Boston ended up doing
Speaker 1: a lot more switching than I expected to. We saw
Speaker 1: Horford hold up really well. We saw a bunch of
Speaker 1: other guys hold up really well in switches. We saw
Speaker 1: on the offensive end for Boston, we saw how they
Speaker 1: were able to space Dallas out and challenge their depth
Speaker 1: of perimeter personnel. We saw Luca struggle to contain on
Speaker 1: an island in straight iso situations and giving up a
Speaker 1: lot of dribble penetration. Just a lot of the things
Speaker 1: that we talked about being a problem for Dallas in
Speaker 1: this series kind of manifested. Chris topsporzingis spacing the floor,
Speaker 1: hitting threes and then beating switches in the high post.
Speaker 1: It was again just one game, but the first game
Speaker 1: in this chess match kind of went exactly as I expected.
Speaker 1: And I even said before the series that I thought
Speaker 1: that Boston would have at least two blowout victories in
Speaker 1: the series, and we got our first one here in
Speaker 1: game one tonight, I want to go over some metrics
Speaker 1: and then we're going to go into specifics of all
Speaker 1: those little things that I just talked about and get
Speaker 1: into some more detail, and then we'll get into the film.
Speaker 1: So couple metrics. Dallas scored zero points from the role
Speaker 1: man in this game. Zero. They averaged nine per game
Speaker 1: against Minnesota and ten per game against Oklahoma City. That
Speaker 1: is a direct result of their ability to put Jason
Speaker 1: Tatum onto Daniel Gafford and Derek Lively, so that you're
Speaker 1: bringing your big guys into ball screens and you're just
Speaker 1: getting Tatum in a switch. If you do that, or
Speaker 1: if you want to attack the center, you have to
Speaker 1: bring PJ. Washington or Derek Jones into the action. Actually,
Speaker 1: in retrospect, I'm surprised that we didn't see Minnesota try
Speaker 1: that more like put Jaden McDaniels on gafferd or Lively
Speaker 1: and put go Bear on like a PJ. Washington and
Speaker 1: Derek Jones Junior to try to disrupt Dallas's pick and
Speaker 1: roll attack. In retrospect, that's something they probably should have tried,
Speaker 1: because you saw how much it kind of discombobulated Dallas
Speaker 1: last night. In ball screens, Boston got one point two
Speaker 1: to six points per possession including passes, Dallas only got
Speaker 1: zero point eight nine. Another big kind of like indicator
Speaker 1: of those things that I was just talking about isolation defense.
Speaker 1: Boston did a lot of switching in this game, even
Speaker 1: in ball screens with Horford in particular, they ran a
Speaker 1: lot of switching with Horford and a you know, but
Speaker 1: Dallas was hunting Horford, they were hunting Sam Houser, they
Speaker 1: were hunting Peyton Pritchard, and all those guys just held
Speaker 1: up really well on isolations. They Dallas ISO twenty four
Speaker 1: times in the game including passes, and got just zero
Speaker 1: point five to four points per possession. So tip of
Speaker 1: the cap to the entire Boston roster. All of those
Speaker 1: guys just did a really really good job. Again, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get into some more specifics there in a in
Speaker 1: a minute. I'm just kind of going over the numbers
Speaker 1: right now. Jump shooting, Boston outshot Dallas badly one point
Speaker 1: zero seven points per jump shot. Dallas only got zero
Speaker 1: point eight five. That also doesn't really reflect the difference
Speaker 1: because Boston got cold towards the tail end of the game,
Speaker 1: but they were red hot early when they went up
Speaker 1: by twenty nine points, Dallas really struggled to get Boston
Speaker 1: into rotation. The dead giveaway there was the spot up possessions.
Speaker 1: Boston was constantly getting Dallas in rotation and getting great
Speaker 1: opportunities to take catch and shoot threes or drive closeouts.
Speaker 1: They generated thirty four spot up possessions in this game.
Speaker 1: Dallas generated only twelve, So that's a massive indicator to me.
Speaker 1: The total number of spot up possessions is a great
Speaker 1: way to just kind of take a look at how
Speaker 1: often you're getting the defense into rotation, and Boston just
Speaker 1: did a way better job of it than Dallas. Now
Speaker 1: let's get into some of the specifics. So depending on switches.
Speaker 1: So we saw this early in the game, a lot
Speaker 1: of Horford switching on to Luca in ball screens and
Speaker 1: then holding up really well in isolation. We also saw
Speaker 1: Boston go with a two big look with Porzingis and
Speaker 1: Horford on the floor together. That ended up being interesting
Speaker 1: because when Luca would like go to hunt al Horford,
Speaker 1: Porzingis was also on the back line, which kind of
Speaker 1: took away that driving opportunity for Luca. And allowed Horford
Speaker 1: to kind of overplay the mid range and three point
Speaker 1: pull up game right, and so that helped Horford a lot.
Speaker 1: But I thought he just did an unbelievable job on
Speaker 1: Luca Doncics in this game. I have a bunch of
Speaker 1: clips in the film session that you guys will see.
Speaker 1: Sam Hawser there's a stretch where Kyrie and Luca were
Speaker 1: both hunting him and he got multiple stops, Ripped Luca
Speaker 1: clean on an ISO on the right elbow, got a
Speaker 1: great contest on a three above the break. He forced
Speaker 1: Kyrie into a jump shot off the side of the
Speaker 1: backboard in the left corner. Howser held up really well.
Speaker 1: Hit a couple of big threes in that stretch as well.
Speaker 1: Really nice shift from Sam Hauser in that first half.
Speaker 1: Peyton Pritchard came into the game and had to guard
Speaker 1: Kyrie for a little bit, got a couple of big
Speaker 1: stops on him. Just everybody in Boston in a Boston
Speaker 1: uniform just held up really well in their perimeter assignments. Again,
Speaker 1: zero point five to four points per ISO, including passes
Speaker 1: for Dallas. That's a major hip of the cap to
Speaker 1: the Boston perimeter defenders. Boston completely shut down Dallas's pick
Speaker 1: and roll attack, and I found it really fascinating, And
Speaker 1: it was a combination of a bunch of different things.
Speaker 1: First of all, like we talked about earlier, having Tatum
Speaker 1: on Gafford and Lively and then putting Porzingis and Horford
Speaker 1: either on Derek Jones Junior or PJ. Washington, we have
Speaker 1: I'll show you guys a bunch of clips of like
Speaker 1: Josh Green, PJ. Washington, Daniel Derek Jones Jr. Struggling to
Speaker 1: know what to do in those ball screens when they
Speaker 1: pop they'd miss a three above the break, or like
Speaker 1: Josh Green at one point, like drove and missed a
Speaker 1: bad floater in the lane because he didn't know what
Speaker 1: to do when he popped on the ball screen when
Speaker 1: they tried to roll to the basket. There's just a
Speaker 1: lot of traffic in there and they're not great vertical spacers.
Speaker 1: That caused issues in the drop coverage. Both Horford and
Speaker 1: Porzingis had drop coverage possessions where they got awesome contests
Speaker 1: on Luca and Kyrie driving down hill. Jaden Hardy had
Speaker 1: a couple of bad possessions in drop coverage again driving
Speaker 1: Against's dropped coverage where he had bad misses at the rim,
Speaker 1: excellent defense from Boston's from Boston centers the switching. That's
Speaker 1: another great way to cover a ball screen, as long
Speaker 1: as your big guys can defend in space against someone
Speaker 1: like Luca or Kyrie. Porzingis gave up a couple of
Speaker 1: step back threes to Luca, but Horford in particular, they
Speaker 1: didn't want to switch with Porzingis. Luca just kind of
Speaker 1: dragged him out a couple of times and he had to,
Speaker 1: but Horford was just magnificent on switches against Luca. It
Speaker 1: did a lot of damage to Dallas's ball screen. So
Speaker 1: in the regular season, Dallas averaged one point zero one
Speaker 1: points per possession in ball screens including passes. They got
Speaker 1: zero point eight to nine last night, so substantial dip
Speaker 1: in their production in one of their most important play
Speaker 1: types because of all of the work that Boston did defensively.
Speaker 1: One of the things too, is like when guys defend
Speaker 1: well on switches, and when you can defend in your
Speaker 1: drop coverage, and when they don't know what to do
Speaker 1: with the role man in terms of PJ and Derrek
Speaker 1: Jones Junior, that allows your other play to stay home.
Speaker 1: So like another big kind of storyline last night was
Speaker 1: that the two big storylines from last night from Boston
Speaker 1: defensively was they were taking away the lob dunks and
Speaker 1: they were taking away the corner threes the lob dunks.
Speaker 1: In order to get those lob dunks, a couple of
Speaker 1: different things need to happen. In straight iso situations, Luca
Speaker 1: needs to get deep penetration so that he can manipulate
Speaker 1: the rim protector to step over and help so that
Speaker 1: he can throw the lob to the big man under
Speaker 1: the basket. On ball, the switching defenders were just keeping
Speaker 1: Luca further away from the basket, not allowing him to
Speaker 1: manipulate the rim protector. In those ball screens the lob,
Speaker 1: it's just really difficult to find those opportunities unless they're
Speaker 1: like in the last series where it's Lively and Gafford
Speaker 1: picking from the top of the key and then rolling
Speaker 1: hard so that they have a head of steam and
Speaker 1: they can get their one two down and jump nice
Speaker 1: and high so that Luca can give them a pass.
Speaker 1: With such a big window for them to finish. Going
Speaker 1: straight vertical from under the basket is just a lot
Speaker 1: harder it's a smaller window and you need to generate more.
Speaker 1: You need to manipulate that rim protector more, and so
Speaker 1: putting Tatum on Gafford and Lively basically neutralized the lob
Speaker 1: game in pick and roll as far as the corner
Speaker 1: threes go. In order to generate corner threes, you have
Speaker 1: to force those help defenders in the corner to actually
Speaker 1: help guard the action, and they just didn't need to
Speaker 1: because of all the things we just talked about, because
Speaker 1: of the fact that they weren't a threat to kick
Speaker 1: back to PJ. Washington or Derek Jones Junior on the pop,
Speaker 1: because when those guys would roll hard, they weren't the
Speaker 1: vertical spacing threats that Gafford and Lively are. Because Tatum
Speaker 1: was holding up underneath the rim against Gafford and Lively,
Speaker 1: that allowed them to guard that action basically three on
Speaker 1: three right with Luca and his defender, with the screener
Speaker 1: and his defender, and with Tatum in the center, all
Speaker 1: just kind of working in the middle of the floor.
Speaker 1: That allowed those corner three point shooters to be accounted
Speaker 1: for by Boston's off ball defenders because they did not
Speaker 1: have to come into the action to help stop it
Speaker 1: because they were having success guarding it three on three,
Speaker 1: and so by virtue of doing that, you take away
Speaker 1: the corner threes, you take away the lob dunks, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, Dallas's pick and roll attack
Speaker 1: falls apart. Christops Porzingis. As I said last night with Colin,
Speaker 1: I thought last night was just an excellent showcase of
Speaker 1: everything that makes him a ceiling razor for this Boston team.
Speaker 1: The three point shooting, he hit threes in pick and Pop.
Speaker 1: I've got examples of all this on film. He hit
Speaker 1: threes on Picking Pop. He hit threes spacing the floor.
Speaker 1: There's a long one on the right wing where Luca
Speaker 1: was kind of sinking down to the nail and it
Speaker 1: was just a swing pass and Porzingis hit like a
Speaker 1: twenty seven footer right trailing threes in transition. I've got
Speaker 1: that in the film session where Porzingis is just trailing
Speaker 1: the play as everyone else is driving, and then he
Speaker 1: just gets a little pitch back and knocks down a
Speaker 1: twenty five footer on the left wing. He was amazing
Speaker 1: spacing the floor as a shooter, beating switches. There's a
Speaker 1: stretch there in the second quarter, where like every every
Speaker 1: time down the floor, Porzingis was getting a smaller guard
Speaker 1: on him in those ball screen switches, just walking him
Speaker 1: down to the elbow and getting great looks in post
Speaker 1: up situations there at the elbow in scoring, and then
Speaker 1: his rim protection as well. That obviously highlight plays like
Speaker 1: him blocking Josh Green in transition when he tried to
Speaker 1: dunk on him, but he was just really good in
Speaker 1: his drop coverage at the rim, bothering shots for Dallas.
Speaker 1: I thought he was incredible. Jalen Brown physical ball pressure
Speaker 1: on Luca up the floor. This is a big part
Speaker 1: of just like being a pain in the ass and
Speaker 1: setting the tone and making a player feel uncomfortable. He
Speaker 1: just picked up Luca full court and made him work
Speaker 1: on his way up. He had two separate possessions where
Speaker 1: he ripped Luca clean either right after half court or
Speaker 1: before half court and got run out dunks the other way.
Speaker 1: Those are not only is that points on the scoreboard,
Speaker 1: but that adds to just the level of discomfort and
Speaker 1: the lack of confidence that Luca displayed in this particular game.
Speaker 1: I thought Jaylen Brown really set the tone with what
Speaker 1: he did on the defensive end of the four. Also
Speaker 1: had a big stretch of rim protection in the second
Speaker 1: half where he was in help side making plays at
Speaker 1: the rim, big block, and Derreck Jones Junior on a
Speaker 1: dropstep dunk attempt out of the left dunker spot. He
Speaker 1: was incredible. Next big note, Dallas really needs to reprogram
Speaker 1: their defensive instincts. I'm sure you guys a bunch of
Speaker 1: examples of this on film, but in the Minnesota series,
Speaker 1: really in all of the other series is that they
Speaker 1: were playing in they were swarming the ball, swarming SGA,
Speaker 1: swarming Jalen Williams, you know, swarming Anthony Edwards, swarming Karl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns. Because those guys just weren't surrounded by the
Speaker 1: requisite amount of shooting to make teams pay for sending
Speaker 1: all those additional bodies at the basketball. Every single time
Speaker 1: they did that to Boston last night, those guys made
Speaker 1: the right reads and generated quality three point shots and
Speaker 1: made them pay for it. In this series, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to reprogram the way they think about help defense.
Speaker 1: They have to stay home because this team is such
Speaker 1: a good three point shooting team that you're better off
Speaker 1: trying to bait them into ISOs and even if they
Speaker 1: score an ISO, it'll probably be less efficient than what
Speaker 1: they're getting out of their catch and shoot three point
Speaker 1: shooting at this point in this type of matchup. And
Speaker 1: so again Dallas is really going I'll show you guys
Speaker 1: some examples on film, all these possessions where a guy
Speaker 1: kind of gets a little bit downhill and then like
Speaker 1: three black jerseys will coalesce around him and then it's
Speaker 1: just a kickout in a wide open three from there.
Speaker 1: That's something that they're going to have to figure out.
Speaker 1: Boston's bad stretch. So they go up twenty nine and
Speaker 1: then Dallas cuts it to eight, and you know, I
Speaker 1: had all these Boston fans like it's a game of runs.
Speaker 1: It's a game of runs. It's like yeah, but like,
Speaker 1: ideally you don't go from being up twenty nine to
Speaker 1: only up by eight. I'm sure that you'd prefer to
Speaker 1: flatten that out a little bit so that you regain
Speaker 1: control of the game when they get it down to
Speaker 1: seventeen or eighteen points, right like, And this is something
Speaker 1: that has burned Boston over the course of this season.
Speaker 1: They did blow leads against Golden State, against Cleveland, I mean,
Speaker 1: they blew a twenty two point lead in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter against Cleveland and lost a game, and so like
Speaker 1: I do think it, like even though Boston won and
Speaker 1: it was super impressive in this game, it was concerning
Speaker 1: and they did they they played really really bad basketball
Speaker 1: over that stretch they had. This is crazy. As I
Speaker 1: was watching, I literally could not believe this. From one
Speaker 1: eighteen left in the second quarter to eight twenty two
Speaker 1: left in the third quarter, so what's said, almost five
Speaker 1: minutes of game time there. Over the course of that span,
Speaker 1: they did not get the ball in the paint a
Speaker 1: single time, literally once. They did not get the ball
Speaker 1: in the paint a single time. They just passed the
Speaker 1: ball around the perimeter and took bad three point shots,
Speaker 1: and in the process, over that span from one eighteen
Speaker 1: to eight twenty two, they cut the lead. So the
Speaker 1: following two possessions Tatum did at the eight twenty two
Speaker 1: mark in the third quarter, the first paint touch was
Speaker 1: Drew Holland a dribbled up the floor and took a
Speaker 1: terrible transition three that barely grazed the front of the rim.
Speaker 1: Derek White got the offensive rebound and got fouled. That's
Speaker 1: how he got to the line that was their first
Speaker 1: paint touch over the course of that span. Right from there,
Speaker 1: I guess it was only a four minute span and
Speaker 1: a five minute span anyway. From there, Tatum had a
Speaker 1: driving turnover on the next possession where he got in
Speaker 1: the paint, but he turned it over. Then the following
Speaker 1: possession they had another zero paint touch possession, so two
Speaker 1: paint touches total, one was an offensive rebound foul and
Speaker 1: one driving turnover. From the one eighteen mark of the
Speaker 1: second quarter to what does that take you down to?
Speaker 1: Like the seven minute mark of the third quarter, that
Speaker 1: was when the league got cut from twenty six to fourteen. Okay.
Speaker 1: Then from there Luca and Kyrie had their confidence. That's
Speaker 1: when Kyrie hit that tough left shoulder fade. Luca hits
Speaker 1: a step back three. All of a sudden, it's an
Speaker 1: eight point game. From there, Joe Mizoula calls a timeout,
Speaker 1: and for the record, right here, it could have been
Speaker 1: a lot worse. In that same span, Dallas was not
Speaker 1: playing well. Kyrie missed two wide open threes and an
Speaker 1: open mid range jumper. Luca took a really bad step
Speaker 1: back three against Al Horford. He got blocked, he kicked
Speaker 1: the ball away on a turnover a separate time, the
Speaker 1: role players missed a couple of layups in that stretch.
Speaker 1: Like given how poorly Boston was playing, Dallas could have
Speaker 1: taken the lead or pushed it a little bit over
Speaker 1: the course of that stretch. But thankfully for Boston's sake,
Speaker 1: Dallas wasn't playing very well at that point. But to
Speaker 1: Boston's credit, they righted the ship. Joe Mizoula calls a timeout.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned last night with Colin. With Colin Cowherd,
Speaker 1: they I thought the main adjustment was just get back
Speaker 1: to driving and kicking. That was exactly what they did.
Speaker 1: They went right back to driving and kicking on six
Speaker 1: of their first seven possessions after the timeout. They had
Speaker 1: quality driving kick possessions, all from Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum.
Speaker 1: Three of them, actually four of them were driving at
Speaker 1: Luka Doncic. All of them were just trying to get
Speaker 1: Luca in switches, beating him off the dribble, making kickout passes,
Speaker 1: and getting high quality threes from there. Again, there's a
Speaker 1: huge difference in Boston offense between when they get paint
Speaker 1: touches before their threes versus when they just pass the
Speaker 1: ball around on the perimeter and get threes. When they
Speaker 1: pass the ball on the perimeter and take threes, they
Speaker 1: go through cold spells, they lose control of basketball games.
Speaker 1: When they are deliberate about playing driving kick basketball, they
Speaker 1: can be frightening and really really difficult to beat because
Speaker 1: of just the quality of the shooting that they have,
Speaker 1: in the quality of the passing that they have when
Speaker 1: they start playing driving kick basketball. So again, you saw
Speaker 1: that for roughly what's that roughly six minutes of game time,
Speaker 1: you get two paint touches, you blow. You go from
Speaker 1: twenty six point lead to an eight point lead. Right,
Speaker 1: you go six of your first seven possessions after the
Speaker 1: timeout where you get quality driving kicks. All of a
Speaker 1: sudden you have a nineteen point lead. Right. I think
Speaker 1: the Horford three, No, no, it is a Tatum three
Speaker 1: at the top of the key off of a No,
Speaker 1: it was a Horford three because Jalen Brown at backpack
Speaker 1: driving kicks at the end of the run. One was
Speaker 1: that ended up in Tatum's hand on the top of
Speaker 1: the key, and then a Horford won in the left corner.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, they were up twenty two. They
Speaker 1: were literally up twenty two because of just getting back
Speaker 1: to what makes them great, which is playing that drive
Speaker 1: in kick basketball. So again, paint to great is a
Speaker 1: cliche you hear a lot in the game of basketball,
Speaker 1: and that is especially true for Boston. Again, I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to hyper focus on the bad stretch, and I'm
Speaker 1: very impressed that they were able to regain control of
Speaker 1: the situation and do what they were supposed to do,
Speaker 1: get the ball in the paint, make those driving kick plays,
Speaker 1: regain control. But they just have to be careful because again,
Speaker 1: Dallas will respond at some point in the series, and
Speaker 1: if you have four or five more stretches like that
Speaker 1: in this series, this thing could drag out and Dallas
Speaker 1: could have an opportunity. If you limit those stretches, you're
Speaker 1: going to win. I'll make it more. I'll just take
Speaker 1: it a step further. If you limit those stretches, you
Speaker 1: could win this series in five games. You can win
Speaker 1: the series in four games. That's the level of talent
Speaker 1: advantage that you have in this matchup. You just have
Speaker 1: to be deliberate about the way that you execute on
Speaker 1: the offensive end of the floor. Again, completely inexcusable for
Speaker 1: a team with as much talent and athleticism as this
Speaker 1: Boston team has to go almost five minutes a game
Speaker 1: time without getting the ball in the paint. That's just
Speaker 1: something that can't happen. Adjustments for Dallas moving forward into
Speaker 1: Game two. On the offensive end of the floor. I
Speaker 1: have a bunch of different notes here because this is
Speaker 1: going to be challenged. This is not easy. These are
Speaker 1: not easy simple like, oh, just do this and then
Speaker 1: everything will be fine. These are a little things they
Speaker 1: can try to attempt to free up a little bit
Speaker 1: more opportunity for their players to get into the paint
Speaker 1: and to generate those lib dunks in corner threes. One,
Speaker 1: get the ball up the floor quicker so that you
Speaker 1: have more time to work for better matchups. We saw
Speaker 1: Luca getting hounded in the backcourt by Jalen Brown. You
Speaker 1: can either set backcourt screens to try to free look
Speaker 1: up so he can get up the floor cleaner. Or two,
Speaker 1: just have Kyrie bring the ball up the floor. Him
Speaker 1: bring the ball to the floor with pace. He's a
Speaker 1: little bit faster you get yourself up the floor. You
Speaker 1: can run an off ball action for Luca to try
Speaker 1: to get a switch during the same sequence so that
Speaker 1: you can kind of work for those matchups. Try to
Speaker 1: get Derek White on the Luca to start the possession.
Speaker 1: Another type of another type of screen you can set
Speaker 1: to help free things up in a ball screen. What
Speaker 1: if you just run a rams screen. Now, what a
Speaker 1: ram screen is is when you have a player pinned down,
Speaker 1: like set a screen down on your role man's defender
Speaker 1: so that he can come up and set the ball screen.
Speaker 1: So now imagine this. You have Derek Lively on the floor.
Speaker 1: He's standing underneath the basket. Okay, He's got Jason Tatum
Speaker 1: on him, which is the problem because if he comes
Speaker 1: up into the screen, he's just gonna switch onto Luca. Right. Well,
Speaker 1: let's let's say Derek Jones Jr. Has Chris tops Porzingis
Speaker 1: on him. Okay, what he would do is Derek Jones
Speaker 1: Junior would just run down and set a hard screen
Speaker 1: on Jason Tatum. Okay, if he sets a hard screen
Speaker 1: on Jason Tatum and actually makes good contact while at
Speaker 1: the same time, Lively sprints up to go set the
Speaker 1: ball screen. If he does that, Tatum will in all
Speaker 1: likelihood switch with Porzingis, and Porzingis will then go up
Speaker 1: to the screen with Lively. Then PJ. Washington or Derek Jones,
Speaker 1: whoever sets that screen, can clear Tatum out to a
Speaker 1: spot up position, then you're in your traditional matchups. Or
Speaker 1: you have Porzingis in the ball screen so that Luka
Speaker 1: can attack and now Lively can roll hard to the rim.
Speaker 1: Did not see that last night. Would hope to see
Speaker 1: that in game two. Just literally have whoever Porzingis is
Speaker 1: guarding set a hard ram screen or downscreen on Tatum
Speaker 1: so that Lively or Gafford can sprint up into the
Speaker 1: ball screen and have an opportunity to actually rep to
Speaker 1: actually be a vertical spacer in pick and roll. I
Speaker 1: think that's something they could do. They just this is
Speaker 1: all part of the pacing of it. You've got to
Speaker 1: get the ball up the floor quickly so that you
Speaker 1: have time to do this kind of stuff. More hunting
Speaker 1: of the guards instead of hunting Horford. So one of
Speaker 1: the things that Luca did a lot is just bring
Speaker 1: or PJ, Derek Jones, Junior, PJ Washingon, whoever Horford was on,
Speaker 1: into the screen, get Horford on a switch, and then
Speaker 1: look to attack Horford. Horford is a really big, strong
Speaker 1: player who's a great positional defender. He's not a guy
Speaker 1: that's super aggressive. What he is is he reads your
Speaker 1: body language. He beats you to spots and he takes
Speaker 1: contact in the shoulder and he makes really good contests.
Speaker 1: That's how he has so much success against guys like
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid for instance, over the course of his career.
Speaker 1: The power players he fares really well against. But Luca
Speaker 1: can look to attack the guards. They did not post
Speaker 1: up very much last night. They only had five post
Speaker 1: ups in the entire game, but they got one point
Speaker 1: six points per per possession out of it. That's really good.
Speaker 1: So running more guard screens for Luca so that he
Speaker 1: can look to attack not into ball screen but through
Speaker 1: ice own post up situations with a smaller defender on him,
Speaker 1: I think that's a better option than trying to target
Speaker 1: even like a Houser who's six ' eight and can
Speaker 1: kind of absorb some of the contact, like go after
Speaker 1: the smaller players if you're not having success in pick
Speaker 1: and roll. So those are all some tactical things that
Speaker 1: can do. But here's the reality. Boston is switching a lot,
Speaker 1: so Kyrie and Luca just have to be better. Zero
Speaker 1: point five to four points per Iso is not going
Speaker 1: to cut it. They're going to have to win more
Speaker 1: of those battles by getting buckets and getting into the lane,
Speaker 1: drawing multiple defenders and making quality kickout passes. They were
Speaker 1: both Lucas always going to fill up the box score
Speaker 1: the guys at the top of the league typically do.
Speaker 1: But I did not think Luca played a good game.
Speaker 1: He was abysmal on the defensive end of the four,
Speaker 1: which is what we're about to get to right now.
Speaker 1: On the defensive end, rewire your thinking to stay home
Speaker 1: off the ball. We talked about that earlier, but you
Speaker 1: cannot afford to be swarming the basketball against Boston. They
Speaker 1: are too good at shooting and passing out of it
Speaker 1: and then knocking down shots to make you pay. So
Speaker 1: they need to do a better job of staying home
Speaker 1: off the ball too. Luca just has to do a
Speaker 1: way better job of containing the basketball. I've got damn
Speaker 1: near ten clips in here of Luca getting toasted off
Speaker 1: the dribble and bad things happening to Dallas's defense as
Speaker 1: a result. He just has to do a better job.
Speaker 1: And then lastly, I put in all caps just do
Speaker 1: a better job. That means everything. That you're doing needs
Speaker 1: to be done with more pace, with more force. Every
Speaker 1: close out needs to be harder. Every screen needs to
Speaker 1: be set harder. Every cut needs to be harder. Every
Speaker 1: drive needs to be harder. You need to sit in
Speaker 1: a defensive stance better, slide your feet better, help and
Speaker 1: rotate better. Everything just has to be way better for
Speaker 1: Dallas heading into game two. All right, on that note,
Speaker 1: let's get into the film, all right. Our first clip here.
Speaker 1: One of the things I thought was interesting with Boston
Speaker 1: switching or Dallas doing some switching. Tatum ended up getting
Speaker 1: Kyrie irving on him in this switch situation. And what
Speaker 1: you see here is Jalen Brown misses a three, but look,
Speaker 1: Derek Jones Jr. Tries to get back in front and
Speaker 1: box him out. But this is Tatum just being way
Speaker 1: bigger than these guys and he just cleanly gets the
Speaker 1: offensive rebound and makes a kickout pass to Derek White,
Speaker 1: who knocks down the three. You're gonna see several examples
Speaker 1: of that where Dallas getting caught up in some switches
Speaker 1: and some cross matches caused some problems for them on
Speaker 1: the defensive glass, especially in the early portion of the game.
Speaker 1: Very similar thing here. As you can see at the
Speaker 1: on this possession, Gafford is actually guarding Derek White, and
Speaker 1: Derek White relocates out to the right corner, and as
Speaker 1: he relocates to the right corner, as Jalen Brown makes
Speaker 1: this kickout pass, as Derek White gets his kickout pass,
Speaker 1: Gafford has to close. Because Gafford has to close now,
Speaker 1: al Horford is under the basket with all of these
Speaker 1: smaller players on him, and al Horford gets a big
Speaker 1: rebound that gets kicked out for Jalen Brown, who knocks
Speaker 1: down or misses the three. But it was another opportunity there.
Speaker 1: So again, offensive glass became a factor early because Dallas
Speaker 1: was getting into some cross matches off of switches. And
Speaker 1: in transition, here's one of the possession where Wreford switched
Speaker 1: on to Luca, so again we get a ball screen.
Speaker 1: This was one of the things that I appreciated with
Speaker 1: Joe Mizula too. This was a dead ball situation where randomly,
Speaker 1: for no particular reason, Missoula switched Horford back onto Gafford
Speaker 1: and Tatum back onto Derek Jones. This was not their
Speaker 1: base scheme. They did the opposite of this. The majority
Speaker 1: of the game, but they randomly did it just to
Speaker 1: mix up the coverage. This is a great way to
Speaker 1: just keep an offense off balance. Horford switches on to
Speaker 1: Tatum Jalen Brown just tracks Gafford into the lane, and
Speaker 1: then watch the job that Horford does in ISO, sliding contact,
Speaker 1: absorbing contact, staying in front, forcing him into a really
Speaker 1: difficult over the top jump shot that he misses. Gafford
Speaker 1: does get an offensive rebound, and I put this in
Speaker 1: my notes too. I put that Gafford needs to do
Speaker 1: more work on the offensive class. I have one other
Speaker 1: clip in this film session where Gafford gets an offensive rebound,
Speaker 1: but this is another counter. I should have honestly put
Speaker 1: this in my list of adjustments, and so that's my fault.
Speaker 1: But when Gafford gets switched or has either get switched
Speaker 1: onto a smaller defender, or when Gafford and Lively just
Speaker 1: have Tatum or Brown on them in these matchups so
Speaker 1: that they can switch those ball screens, they have to
Speaker 1: make Boston pay on the offensive glass. They have to
Speaker 1: make them pay more. See how Gafford gets that inside position.
Speaker 1: They have to do a lot more of that. In
Speaker 1: game two. You need to bully them make them pay
Speaker 1: for putting smaller players on your center. If they can't
Speaker 1: do it in the post, they have to do it
Speaker 1: on the offensive glass. So we get a transition attack
Speaker 1: here from Jalen Brown up the left wing. In the process,
Speaker 1: Gafford gets pulled in and help gafferd's helping al Horford
Speaker 1: relocates here to the right corner. It gets a wide
Speaker 1: open three out of it. So again, a lot of
Speaker 1: the instincts from Gafford and Lively to help underneath the
Speaker 1: basket are going to be are going to actually be
Speaker 1: detrimental to Dallas's ability to defend in this matchup. Here's
Speaker 1: the first backcourt steel or shouldn't say backoard. This one was
Speaker 1: past half court, but the first deal that Jalen Brown
Speaker 1: got against Luca watched the jobb he does fighting over
Speaker 1: the top of the screen with physicality, splits the gap,
Speaker 1: forces a turnover, gets a big dunk on the other
Speaker 1: end as a result. A lot of physical ball pressure
Speaker 1: from Jalen Brown in this game. So here's our first
Speaker 1: example of the problem with attacking Horford and porzingis in
Speaker 1: ball screens. When when Horford is on him, or excuse me,
Speaker 1: when when they're guarding Derek Jones instead of Gafford, So
Speaker 1: I see Tatum's on Gafford, So Gafford's not going to
Speaker 1: set the screen because if he does, it's just going
Speaker 1: to end in a switch and then Tatum will be
Speaker 1: on the ball. So instead they end up running off
Speaker 1: of Derek Jones's side. Now watch this, Horford's dropping Jalen
Speaker 1: Drew Holliday is chasing look at Tatum though Tatum is
Speaker 1: on Gafford. Nothing's open here, so Horford's in his drop.
Speaker 1: Drew Holiday is chasing over the top, so Kyrie has
Speaker 1: no opening. Right, Tatum is taking away the lob pass
Speaker 1: to Gafford. The old Jalen Brown is staying home in
Speaker 1: this corner. Derek White is in position to easily get
Speaker 1: to this corner, so there's no corner three kickout. The
Speaker 1: only quality read here is Derek Jones Junior, who's going
Speaker 1: to have to take an above the break three, which
Speaker 1: is a lower percentage shot for him, and certainly a
Speaker 1: lower percentage shot than anything they get when they can
Speaker 1: get Gafford or Lively actually into the ball screen. As
Speaker 1: a result, Horford forces Kyrie into this impossible shot that
Speaker 1: he airballs, so that's the first example on film of
Speaker 1: just how difficult it is for them to score in
Speaker 1: ball screens by virtue of their ability to put Tatum
Speaker 1: on the center and Horford on a wing. Okay, now
Speaker 1: we're going to get a transition attack off of the
Speaker 1: airball by Drew Holliday. Notice the notice the defense kind
Speaker 1: of coalesce around him. Okay, draws help from Derek Jones.
Speaker 1: Kick to Jalen Brown. Jalen Brown drives, gets into the lane.
Speaker 1: Easy drop off to Drew Holliday underneath the basket. So again,
Speaker 1: just like it's just so easy for Boston to just
Speaker 1: beat one guy off the dribble, make an easy kickout pass,
Speaker 1: beat another guy off the dribble, easy drop off pass,
Speaker 1: you get a layup. That's gonna be the story of
Speaker 1: the series. How well can Boston well can Dallas contain
Speaker 1: in space? Get a driving kick here from Tatum, Watch
Speaker 1: the defense coalesce around him on the move. Crossover gets
Speaker 1: into the lane, Watch the defense coals around him. Kyrie
Speaker 1: steps up PJ. Washington Because Kyrie steps up off of
Speaker 1: Drew Holiday. PJ. Washington digs down on a cracksdown onto
Speaker 1: Drew Holiday. Nice kickback pass from Jason Tatum for a
Speaker 1: great shooter for stand still corner three can't pack the
Speaker 1: pain against this team. He just can't do it the
Speaker 1: way he did in the other rounds. Here's another example
Speaker 1: of the pick and roll problem that we talked about earlier.
Speaker 1: So here we go. We have Lively's being guarded by Tatum,
Speaker 1: so Lively's not gonna be brought into the ball screen.
Speaker 1: Kyrie wants to go at Porzingis, so Derek Jones sets
Speaker 1: the pick Boston ice. Is it meaning they refuse the
Speaker 1: use of the screen. Kyrie ends up driving into the ice.
Speaker 1: Derek Jones pops to above the break. Notice Jalen Brown
Speaker 1: doesn't even rotate to him, because that's what they want.
Speaker 1: This entire scheme is designed to force Dallas to tilt
Speaker 1: their offense towards above the break. Three point shots for
Speaker 1: bad shooters or I shouldn't say bad shooters, but mediocre
Speaker 1: and inconsistent streaky shooters. Here's another example of Dallas swarming
Speaker 1: in transition. Watch how many bodies go around Drew Holliday
Speaker 1: on this transition attack Boom, three bodies around him. What
Speaker 1: happens kick to Derek White open three bucket just can't
Speaker 1: do that. You just can't do that in this matchup.
Speaker 1: You have to reprogram your entire approach to defense, to
Speaker 1: staying home, and then the on ball guy has to
Speaker 1: just do a better job of containing. Okay, so Derek
Speaker 1: Jones just missed a pick and pop three right. So
Speaker 1: now in this case, notice they get a little brush
Speaker 1: screen from Lively to get Tatum onto Luca to start right.
Speaker 1: Then Derek Jones sets the pick as Luca gets downhill. Now,
Speaker 1: Derek Jones just missed it above the break three, so
Speaker 1: this time he's gonna roll, but he's not a vertical spacer.
Speaker 1: And look at this. In the last matchup, when they
Speaker 1: would do this, this would be Lively setting the pick
Speaker 1: right and then Derek Jones would be spotting up up
Speaker 1: here on the wing. So when Lively would roll, these
Speaker 1: two bodies would not be there. This would be empty
Speaker 1: space or Drew Holliday would have to come further down.
Speaker 1: And if Drew Holiday's down here, that's where Luca can
Speaker 1: throw this skip pass to Kyrie here in the corner.
Speaker 1: But he can't do that because Lively is sitting in
Speaker 1: the dunker spot. This area is occupied. Now Derek Jones
Speaker 1: is rolling and the open space is up here. This
Speaker 1: is now all wasted space, right, So now Derek Jones
Speaker 1: is rolling into the lane, he's not a vertical spacing threat.
Speaker 1: If that's gaffered, Luca might just be able to throw
Speaker 1: it up, but it's not. It's Derek Jones. He ends
Speaker 1: up kind of settling into the spot under the basket,
Speaker 1: and when he catches here, he's trying to go up
Speaker 1: straight vertical against a player that's got damn near a
Speaker 1: foot of height on him, and he smokes the layup.
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping these clips are doing a good job
Speaker 1: of demonstrating to you guys how Boston's kind of adjustment
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say adjustment, but a game plan of putting
Speaker 1: Tatum on the set just kind of jinks up everything
Speaker 1: for Dallas's pick and roll attack. Here's an example of
Speaker 1: Porzingis being a switch. So we have Hardy on the ball,
Speaker 1: then they switch. Now Lively's on White. Lively, I thought,
Speaker 1: for the most part, did a good job on switches.
Speaker 1: As we said before the series, that's kind of what
Speaker 1: we expected. This is the problem, though, Porzingis just takes
Speaker 1: Jaydon Hardy down, pump fakes a couple times knocks downer jumper.
Speaker 1: That's just easy. Here's Howser defending Luca on a switch,
Speaker 1: swipes the ball away from him. Great work from Howser individually,
Speaker 1: AND's then a turnover for Boston. Though. Here's another example.
Speaker 1: Now Porzingis is on Josh Green, Tatum's on Lively. Watch
Speaker 1: what happens ball screen. Josh Green pops Luca gets into
Speaker 1: the lane, Josh Green's open, doesn't want to take it,
Speaker 1: shoots this ugly floater off the front of the rim.
Speaker 1: See how like Dallas literally does not know what to
Speaker 1: do to counter this issue at this point. This was
Speaker 1: just a play I included because I thought it was
Speaker 1: a really impressive play from Porzingis. This is a fake
Speaker 1: dribble handoff. So I want you to watch Lively closely
Speaker 1: right here, So Lively's on the ball. Watch as Porzingis
Speaker 1: dribbles at I think it's at Derek White, or is
Speaker 1: it at Tatum? Let's see is at Tatum. So watches
Speaker 1: Porzingis dribbles at No. Tatum cuts actually, and then it
Speaker 1: is at Derek White. So watches Porzingis dribbles at Derek White.
Speaker 1: Watch what happens to Lively watch Lively's attention as Porzingis
Speaker 1: is faking the drible hand off right there, see boom
Speaker 1: right there, for a split second he favors the dribble
Speaker 1: hand off side, preparing for a switch. As a result,
Speaker 1: Porzingis is able to turn the corner and he gets
Speaker 1: into the lane and throws it down. Really impressive play
Speaker 1: from Porzingis. That's another great way to beat switching. By
Speaker 1: the way, there's actually another example of that later on
Speaker 1: in the game that Drew Holliday does. Here's that stop
Speaker 1: that Howser got in the corner again eleven on the
Speaker 1: shot clock, straight ISO against one of the lesser perimeter
Speaker 1: defenders for Boston, and he just does a really good
Speaker 1: job and gets a great contest and forces him into
Speaker 1: a bad miss off the backboard. In transition. This is
Speaker 1: a classic trailing three. So Gafford's attention, he's on Porzingis, right,
Speaker 1: Gafford's attention is on Pritchard and getting back into the lane.
Speaker 1: Look where he runs to. He runs to the free
Speaker 1: throw line, and then he goes, oh shit, I forgot
Speaker 1: I'm guarding Porzingis, who then settles into this trailing transition three.
Speaker 1: Most basketball coaches love a big that can shoot in
Speaker 1: transition because it's just one of the biggest loopholes in
Speaker 1: a transition defense is you prioritize the rim, you prioritize
Speaker 1: the ball, and so as a result, a big trailing
Speaker 1: to play is almost always open. This was a nice
Speaker 1: block by Porzingis in a ball screen against Kyrie, and
Speaker 1: so this is another example of a random situation where
Speaker 1: they mix the coverage. This time Tatum's on Kliba and
Speaker 1: Porzingis is on the vertical spacing threat. When these opportunities
Speaker 1: are there, you have to capitalize on him. The lob
Speaker 1: is open right there, Boom, lob is open. That's gotta
Speaker 1: be a lot that You got to throw that right
Speaker 1: up here so Gafford can dunk it instead. Kyrie takes
Speaker 1: this shot and gets blocked by Porzingis. Kyrie shot selection
Speaker 1: was really bad in the first second half. I thought
Speaker 1: he was just missing. First half though, Kyrie was making
Speaker 1: a lot of bad decisions. Another ISO possession where we
Speaker 1: get a switch where Horford ends up on Kyrie right.
Speaker 1: Once again, Horford holds up really well on a switch
Speaker 1: on an island against Kyrie. Irving. Watch this defense funnels
Speaker 1: him into the paint, gets a great contest, forces a miss.
Speaker 1: Horford's switching defense was amazing in this game. So at
Speaker 1: this portion in the game, this is when Jalen Brown
Speaker 1: starts looking to attack Luka Doncic in two man game
Speaker 1: with Howser, So Derek Jones is on Jalen Brown. This
Speaker 1: is actually the same play that they ran when Jalen
Speaker 1: got the dunk. I'll show you guys when we get
Speaker 1: to that clip here in a minute. But basically all
Speaker 1: that happens is Howser sets the pick, Jalen Brown, switches
Speaker 1: kind of like a soft switch onto Jalen Brown, and
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown just beats him off the dribble cleanly and
Speaker 1: gets a bucket. Here's another example of them swarming in
Speaker 1: transition and giving up an open three. So watch Drew
Speaker 1: Holiday attack. All these bodies kind of coalesce around him.
Speaker 1: Easy case got past to Howser, who it's the no
Speaker 1: dip jumper in the corner. Here's that exact same action
Speaker 1: that they just ran for Jalen Brown. This time they
Speaker 1: get the dunk. So again Howser sets the pick, Jalen
Speaker 1: Brown attacks down hill, crosses over on Luca, gets the dunk.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see a lot of examples of this over
Speaker 1: the course of the rest of this game. Luca was
Speaker 1: just so bad on the ball. He was just so bad,
Speaker 1: and he just simply has to do a better job.
Speaker 1: This is one of the stops that Prichard got on Kyrie.
Speaker 1: Fast forward a little bit here. Okay, So Pritchard on
Speaker 1: an island against Kyrie Irving. This is a matchup that
Speaker 1: Dallas has to win if they're gonna win this series.
Speaker 1: And Pritchard just does a really nice job, absorbs contact,
Speaker 1: forces Kyrie into a tough layup, and he misses it.
Speaker 1: Here's another example of the pick and pop situation. So
Speaker 1: this was the too big look that I talked about.
Speaker 1: What they would do is they'd put one of their
Speaker 1: bigs onto Lively and then they'd put the other big
Speaker 1: onto PJ. Washington, and they'd had that same exact issue. Right,
Speaker 1: Luca comes downhill drop coverage. Look at all this congestion
Speaker 1: in here because of Lively and Horford. Again, that is
Speaker 1: where this matchup screws everything up for Dallas. They can't
Speaker 1: set ball screens with their centers, so they have to
Speaker 1: put their centers in the dunker spot, which just causes
Speaker 1: everything to get screwed up with the spacing. PJ. Washington's
Speaker 1: wide open, but he's a mediocre. I think he's below
Speaker 1: thirty percent on above the break threes in this postseason.
Speaker 1: I think he was twenty nine and a half coming
Speaker 1: into the night. So like that SHOT's probably not going
Speaker 1: to go in. Here's another Porzingis shot attempt against the switch,
Speaker 1: so we get ball screen switch. Derek Jones is on Porzingis,
Speaker 1: swing pass, walks him down to the elbow, gets the
Speaker 1: ball back strong with it, gets a little closer, knocks
Speaker 1: down the jumper. Here's Horford defending Luca on the switch again,
Speaker 1: screen switch. When Lively rolls, Jalen Brown stays with him.
Speaker 1: Look at this job, absorbs contact, beats him to a spot,
Speaker 1: gets a great contest on that pull up three, forces
Speaker 1: him into a miss. All right, We're gonna get another
Speaker 1: Porzingis attack of a switch here. All right, So we
Speaker 1: have Lively on Porzingis, Derek White with the ball, Porzingis
Speaker 1: sets the screen. Josh Green switches Porzingis, walks him down
Speaker 1: to the elbow post entry, pump Fay gets a little closer,
Speaker 1: knocks down the jumper, just did a brilliant job of
Speaker 1: beating that coverage last night. On the other end of
Speaker 1: the floor, a nice stop from Tatum on Luca going
Speaker 1: the other way. A random double team from Luca. So again,
Speaker 1: instead of just getting matched up and playing defense, Luca's
Speaker 1: dribbling against his primary defender, Luca double teams for no reason.
Speaker 1: You can already guess how this movie ends. Swing swing, swing.
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown three knocks it down. This is bad defense.
Speaker 1: Another backcourt rip of Luca just guesses, beats him to
Speaker 1: a spot, swipes him, goes up and dunks it. Here's
Speaker 1: another bad Luca defensive possession. He's guarding Drew Holliday. Drew
Speaker 1: just kind of dribbles at Tatum and then just cuts
Speaker 1: downhill on Luca beats him. Drop off pass for Derek White.
Speaker 1: Luca just has to do a better job containing the basketball.
Speaker 1: This is when Boston went up twenty nine. Dallas tried
Speaker 1: zone for one possession on It wasn't anything to do
Speaker 1: with the coverage. Here is pass to Tatum and then
Speaker 1: they screen the top part of the zone and Tatum
Speaker 1: hits a contested pull up three. Now you're up twenty nine.
Speaker 1: Here's another one. Of Gafford's offensive rebounds against Tatum. This
Speaker 1: again is something I think they need to do a
Speaker 1: lot more of a better job of in Game two,
Speaker 1: just just making Boston pay for putting a forward on
Speaker 1: your center, missus. The shot bullies gets inside position, gets
Speaker 1: put back. I talked about the ugly stretch of offense
Speaker 1: from Boston. This was just one random example. So again
Speaker 1: they went almost they went four minutes without getting the
Speaker 1: ball in the paint a single time, and over about
Speaker 1: what a six minute span they got the ball in
Speaker 1: the paint twice total. But it's a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: like this, eighteen seconds on the shot clock, just random
Speaker 1: contested jab step three, a lot of just kind of
Speaker 1: bad process from Boston in that stretch. Time out gets
Speaker 1: called right after Luca hits the step back three. Here's
Speaker 1: your run. Here's the run that Boston fans told me
Speaker 1: is totally normal. Twenty nine to nine. Notice out of
Speaker 1: the time out, the what the job is here? Howser
Speaker 1: sets the pick, get Luca on a switch, get out
Speaker 1: of the way. Tatum drives on Luca, beats him cleanly,
Speaker 1: engages the rint protector. And again, when you engage the
Speaker 1: rint protector, you give Porzingis an opportunity. Luca honestly fouls
Speaker 1: him by just bumping into his back there just doesn't
Speaker 1: get called, so it ends in his stop. But that's
Speaker 1: really good process, although Lively ends up getting called for
Speaker 1: a travel, same possession after the travel, Jalen Brown does
Speaker 1: the same thing. Bringhauser, set the pick, get Luca, drive
Speaker 1: right by Luca, get into the lane, draw foul just
Speaker 1: Luca's inability to contain the basketball. This time, Jason Tatum
Speaker 1: does it in a ball screen, so it brings Cleba
Speaker 1: into the action or Lively into the action, gets downhill,
Speaker 1: beats Lively off the dribble, gets into the paint, kick
Speaker 1: to Porzingis. This doesn't go in, but that's a really
Speaker 1: good look. And then in the process again all these
Speaker 1: things are connected. So Lively's on Tatum right, So when
Speaker 1: Tatum makes this pass, Lively ends up making an impromptu
Speaker 1: close out to Porzingis. So now no one's matched up
Speaker 1: with Tatum, so no one thinks to box him out.
Speaker 1: So Tatum gets the ball because that's Lively was the
Speaker 1: one who switched on to him, right. So that's an
Speaker 1: example of how getting into rotation can cause problems for you.
Speaker 1: On the glass as well. Porzingis gets a dunk. Another
Speaker 1: Tatum driving kick here going out, Lively beats him clean
Speaker 1: help a little overhelped too, Like what you don't need
Speaker 1: to be sending three bodies at Tatum on the drive here,
Speaker 1: You're just gonna give yourself a lot of issues. This
Speaker 1: one ends with Jalen Brown driving into the lane and
Speaker 1: drawing another foul. So again that close out opportunity. Look
Speaker 1: at the closeout. He's got PJ. Washington sprinting at him
Speaker 1: this way, so the rip through to the right is
Speaker 1: easy because he's just his momentums carrying him too far.
Speaker 1: So by this whole sequence was generated by Tatum beating
Speaker 1: Lively off the dribble, and those are both fouls. By
Speaker 1: the way, I'm Lively like he's he's not vertical. He's
Speaker 1: going down over Brown. Here's another example of the difference
Speaker 1: in vertical spacing between Derek Jones and a center. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're trying to attack Horford ball screen. They basically
Speaker 1: are are It's a high drop with a drew chasing.
Speaker 1: It's effectively like a blitz. Derek Jones is rolling, but
Speaker 1: he's just not the vertical spacer that Lively or Gafford.
Speaker 1: Is that's a dunk if that's Lively or Gafford. Two
Speaker 1: more another Jalen Brown hunting Luca play have tatums at
Speaker 1: the pick, get Luca, beat him off the dribble, swing
Speaker 1: swing wide open. Three. And then lastly Jalen Brown again
Speaker 1: drives past Kleiba, draws multiple defenders, gets Horford. But this
Speaker 1: is what so quality stuff from Boston again. Six out
Speaker 1: of the first seven possessions out of the time out,
Speaker 1: you got quality driving kick possessions. Right, that's all good
Speaker 1: on the Dallas front, though that can't be a help
Speaker 1: from Gafford. That just can't. You got to force Jalen
Speaker 1: Brown to make a contested layup over Kleiba before you
Speaker 1: just hard help and leave a shooter wide open like this.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I hope that film session does a good
Speaker 1: job of kind of breaking down for you guys some
Speaker 1: of the issues that Dallas was having with Boston last night. Obviously,
Speaker 1: some of the stuff with Boston's offensive process as well,
Speaker 1: when it's good versus when it's bad. And then, like
Speaker 1: I said, the adjustments for Dallas who went over earlier,
Speaker 1: I will go over them again. But there's some things
Speaker 1: they need to work on offensively and defensively to do
Speaker 1: a better job in Game two. As always, I sincerely
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys for supporting the show. I'm recording a
Speaker 1: mailbag right after this that'll be out on Saturday morning,
Speaker 1: and then obviously we're going live after Game two with
Speaker 1: Colin on Sunday night. I will see you guys. Then
Speaker 1: the volume