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I did a film 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.800 thread on both of today's games, including an extensive film 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:33.200 thread on Celtics thunders. You guys can find that on 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:34.840 my Twitter feed. And the last but not least, keep 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.240 dropping mail bad questions in the YouTube comments so we 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:40.359 can keep hitting them throughout the week. All right, Well, 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:44.040 we had a showdown between the top two teams in 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:48.480 my power rankings yesterday and it did not disappoint. And 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:51.840 you know, early on there was a very specific matchup 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.400 that was going horribly for the Celtics. We talked a 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.600 lot about Boston's defensive personnel and there's a lot of 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.280 focus on Jason Tatum, who I think is capable of 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.080 being one of the best permit defenders in the league 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.400 when he's locked in. You saw some of that against 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:05.800 Shake Guild just Alexander down the stretch of this game. 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.880 Jalen Brown is another wing athlete. Christaps Porzingis has a 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.120 rim protector. Al Horford is the excellent team defender, the 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.600 guy that can cause Joel Embiid problems. And there's a 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.200 lot of focus in those departments. But the Celtics actually 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.280 have one of the best defensive guard course that you'll 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.640 find in the league. Derek White and Drew Holliday are 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:27.040 both excellent guard defenders, and Shay was just cooking those dudes. 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:32.320 Outside of a late possession where Derek White got to 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.560 stop on shake Guildes Alexander, it was a lot of 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.560 him just going right around those guys and either finishing 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:42.320 at the rim or wrecking havoc with the pass. And 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.160 specifically Drew Holliday just looked like he was stuck in 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.440 the mud in this game. He was bad on both 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.120 ends too, freight from the field with three turnovers on 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.480 the other end, but really really struggled defensively. Got benched 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.400 for Peyton Pritchard late in the game. Derek White did 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.560 a better job on both ends of the floor, but 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:00.720 he struggled to stay in front of shit. That was 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.600 the key matchup early on. And then the other thing 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.560 that I thought the Thunder did really well is they 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:10.120 attacked Porzingis when he was roaming off the ball. This 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:11.640 is a thing that we see a lot around the 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.880 league these days is taking your primary rim protector and 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:18.760 just putting them on the worst offensive player from the 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.440 other team, at least the worst off ball other player 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.320 right or offensive player, And then that puts you in 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.800 a position where you know you might concede some catch 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.599 and shoot threes to that guy, but if he's roaming 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.640 around wrecking havoc on all of the other action elsewhere 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:33.760 on the floor, it can be a beneficial trade off 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:35.680 for you. Right. But what the Thunder did, which I 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.599 thought was really smart, is again porzingis in that case, 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.839 his focus is on the other four guys. He's not 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.440 hyper concerned with what the bad offensive player is doing. 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.480 He spent most of the game on Josh Giddy and 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:50.520 a good amount of it on Aaron Wiggins as well. 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.400 And one of the things I liked is they just 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.039 look to get Josh Giddy the ball one way or another. 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.160 There was a you know, a play where they had 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.440 Giddy with the ball the right elbow and it's all 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:03.960 this other action going on, and it looks like it's 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.279 designed to get someone else the ball, But then Josh 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.920 Gitty just rips to the left and gets by Porzingis 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.000 and gets an and one off the glass. He hit 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.600 another three in Porzingis's face in the right corner on 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.960 a play where Porzingis was just being a little passive 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:20.200 because he's not worried necessarily about Josh Gitty as a scorer. 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.120 Josh Gitty hit a second half three off of a 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.159 dig down, hit a couple of threes. There was a 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.680 play where he was on Aaron Wiggins and he's watching 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:28.800 the rest of the floor and they just backscreen for 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.040 him and Aaron Wiggins cuts along the baseline that hit 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.200 him and he gets a wide open layup. It's a 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.920 very important, you know, counter when they have a guy 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.680 that they're using as a roamer to make sure that 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:40.760 he also has to account for the guy that he's 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.280 actually guarding. And you know, one of the other things too. 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.280 And I've talked about this on the show before. This 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.760 is another common theme around the league where it's like, 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:49.960 we don't think this guy can shoot, so let's just 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.680 give him wide open looks. And they did that with 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.600 Josh Gitty again, and it's like, I understand that as 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.679 an initial strategy, but I think you need an audible 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.760 from it quickly, because one these guys are pros and 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:06.880 two most bad shooters in the NBA are actually streaky shooters, 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.080 and if they start to feel good with their shot, 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.160 they can really knock him down. And so it's one 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.120 of those things where like it's one thing if you 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:17.359 leave him wide open and he misses the first one, 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.760 he might spiral mentally, and that might be a good 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:22.840 strategy for you the rest of the game. I'll give 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.120 you an example like the like when the Lakers decided 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.320 to ignore Miles Turner in the n Season Tournament championship game. 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.760 He ended up going one for five. It worked out. 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:32.480 The one he made was late in the game. He 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.640 had already missed a bunch of them, right, It's like 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:36.680 that worked out in that case. But there have been 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.640 plenty of examples this year where the Lakers ignored a 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:42.440 guy I think like Dante Xum from the Mavericks, and 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:46.039 he keeps making shots and they keep ignoring him, and 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.839 it's like, this is a professional basketball player. He's gonna 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:52.360 make shots, right, And so they conceded the open threes 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.080 to Josh Gidty, and instead of adjusting when Josh Getty 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.880 started making them, he kept making them. He ended up 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.800 hitting two massive ones late in the game. And then 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.520 for Boston, their best success was coming from their two 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.760 man game with Jason Tatum and Derek White, or Jayson 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:09.960 Tatum with Peyton Pritchard. And the main reason why they 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.240 were having success there is, again, you've got a bigger 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.240 defender loudort On Jason Tatum, who they do not want 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.960 to switch under any circumstances. And then you've got these 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:21.920 smaller guards, you're thinner guards guarding Peyton Pritchard or Derek White, 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.080 and so they don't want to switch and they don't 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.400 want to hedge because those guys, you know, Derek White 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.840 and Peyton Pritchard can both shoot, you know, catch and 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.680 shoot threes off the move relatively easy. Derek White's been 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.000 killing teams with that this year, and so they were 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:35.640 able to get a lot of paint touches out of it. 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:39.200 That was the primary driving force of Boston's offensive success, 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.480 although they did have a lot of the typical offensive 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:45.080 issues you come to expect from Boston, like Tatum hunting 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.240 pull up threes. He took seven more pull up jump 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.840 shots in this game, leading to only six points. That's 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.440 been a consistent theme throughout this season and then as 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.480 a team just taking a lot of like early clock, 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.480 more difficult threes rather than you know, running some offense 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.640 to try to get higher quality shots, and so okay, 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.720 so he started to pull away. In that third quarter, 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.560 they started to get hot with their three point shooting 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.680 right like. They hit two quick threes to start the 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.640 third quarter which quickly get them the lead, and then 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.680 they just start to slowly pull away, and then the 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.400 Thunder bench really grew the lead. In the early fourth quarter. 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:23.040 Jalen Williams Jay will the backup center, ended up hitting 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:26.320 a huge above the break three on the left wing, 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.360 basically in a bailout situation at the end of the clock. 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.200 That felt like free money. That was an awesome shot. 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.960 Vasili J Mitchitch had a really nice like pump fake 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.720 drive a closed out kickout pass to Keason Wallace in 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:43.040 the right corner which he made Jadub Jaylen Williams was 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.600 starting forward. He ended up hitting a nasty little driving 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.959 fade away over Luke Cornett and then suddenly the thunder 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.240 were up eighteen and it seemed like the game was over. 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.240 But then the Celtics made a run and they were 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.160 awesome on offense. In this run a lot of the 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.200 same things I was just talking about. Derek White hit 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:02.240 a couple of wing threes, actually scored on ten consecutive 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:06.040 possessions up until Jaln Brown's garbage time three late in 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.960 the game when it was already over, and they made 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:12.000 it into a game. But when you're down eighteen, you 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.959 have to play perfect defensively, and they just gave up 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.960 too many baskets on the other end against the Shake 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.600 Gilders Alexander Chet Homegrin pick and roll action and so 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:24.280 what I want to do here, which is what I 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.320 thought was the most interesting part of this game. Down 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.840 the stretch, when Boston really locked in and tried to 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.200 make it a game, they put Jason Tatum on Shake 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:36.520 Gildos Alexander, and then from there Shay started spamming the 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.040 Chet pick and roll to try to get easy shots 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:43.000 despite the fact that Jason Tatum was causing some disruptions 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.320 on the ball. And from there a really interesting chess 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.840 match took place, one that kind of reminded me of 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.200 the type of adjustments that you see in a playoff series, 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.280 and I wanted to dive into that. On a possession 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.199 by possession basis. So first time they were on the 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.720 pick and pop. Now again, just imagine shake gild A 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.320 Sallex Enter on the ball. Chet comes to set the screen. 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:07.720 Porzingis is basically showing to help Tatum as she's coming 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:09.880 over the top of that screen, and Chet is popping 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:11.640 to the three point line. So the first time they 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:15.160 run it, Peyton Pritchard rotates off of j Dub and 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.280 they actually end up forcing a turnover. So the second 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:22.800 time they do it, for whatever reason, Pritchard just doesn't rotate. 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:25.960 He's guarding Josh Giddy this time in the left corner. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:29.439 Shay comes off the screen, Chet pops to the left 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:33.000 wing extended, and Pritchard just doesn't rotate for whatever reason, 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:35.720 even though he just did on the previous possession, and 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.360 Chet hits the wide open three. Important note because Chet 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.120 on unguarded catch and shoot jump shots this year is 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.400 shooting forty seven percent. That's one point four to two 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:47.720 points per shot, so that's something that you can never 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.800 afford to do. And from there we start to see 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:54.640 the beginnings of a personnel shortcoming for Boston. That's showing 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.880 to the surface, which is basically that Porzingis is not 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:02.720 fast enough to show on ball screen while recovering to 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.280 Chet at the three point line. No shame in that. 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.360 There's like two centers in the league that can do that, 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:12.080 maybe three, like go Bear Anthony Davis and and you know, 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.160 Bam out of Bio maybe Draymond. Like there's only a 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.120 small handful of guys that are that are fast enough 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:17.920 to do that. So there's no shame in that. But 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.880 that was the personnel shortcoming that they started to have. 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:24.280 Right so, third time down the floor they go to 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:29.080 run that that same pick and pop action. Right this time, 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.840 Jalen Brown is the weak side guy in position to rotate. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.840 He actually stunts into the passing lane and then recovers 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.719 it gets Shay to hesitate. Chet's not open anymore, Porzingis 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.880 can recover. Now Shay's stuck on an island with Jason Tatum. 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.640 That's what the that's what that little dig down rotation 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.839 or fake, little you know, stunt into the passing lane 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:52.680 that Jaylen Brown accomplished. It gave Jason Tatum the opportunity 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:54.360 to guard Shae on an island and try to get 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.600 a stop. Shae goes left, gets to a pump fake 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:59.880 and Tatum jumps out of his shoes and lands on 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.600 top of Shae, sends him to the foul line. Right, 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.360 So we've run it three times now and the Thunder 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:08.200 have gotten a bucket on two of the possessions. Five 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.720 points and three possessions. So spamming that action again. There's 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.640 so much focus on, you know, the individual defense. It's like, oh, 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.679 Jason Tatum on Shae Gilde Alexander and I understand people 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.080 want basketball to be one on one so bad, but 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.720 it's just not that. It's it's all about a five 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.440 man unit and what they can accomplish together. This is 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.560 a great example of how like, even if you have 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:32.240 a great person to throw at an individual, if they 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.840 have an action they can run that brings multiple defenders 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.480 into the action, they can have success. And again, like 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.959 even if Tatum does a better job and gets a 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:41.920 stop on Shae there because of the pick and popp 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:43.680 or they give up the basket, that would still be 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.920 three points and three possessions. So we get our first 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:50.199 major adjustment. On the fourth possession down the floor, the 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.200 Thunder go back to that Shade Chet pick and pop. 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:59.960 This time, though Boston switches Derek White onto Chet home 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.439 and in the possession when shit in the idea there 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:05.400 is just you're putting an athlete. You're putting a much 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.160 faster player, bringing more foot speed into the action. And 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.920 so Derek White can kind of soft hedge and be 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.440 there to help as the screen is going by, but 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.640 then he has the speed to recover to Chet. So 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.560 on this possession, Shay ends up throwing a kickback pass 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.000 to Chet, who tries to drive on Derek White. Derek 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.800 White guesses the close out angle right beats Chet to 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.760 that right hand drive and ends up taking the ball away, 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:28.760 so they end up getting a stop. And one of 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.680 the interesting things there, there's two little adjustments I think 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.560 that you'd see from the Thunder in a playoff series 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.400 if they kept doing that. One, give the ball to 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.040 Chet at the foul line and just let him go 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.000 to work against Derek White. I think I think he's 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.520 demonstrated that he can have success there. And then two, 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.000 you know, Chet was setting a lot of ghost screens 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.520 down the stretch, and there's a very important distinction between 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.760 when to ghost screen and when to actually screen. So 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.000 to be clear, what is a ghost screen. A ghost 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:56.920 screen is when I run up like I'm gonna set 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.360 a screen, but without actually setting one. I basically just 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:02.319 get right to where I'm about to set a screen, 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:04.960 and then I shoot off to the three point line. 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:06.880 And basically the idea there is I'm trying to get 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:10.920 my guy to hedge, because if he hedges and I 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:14.120 slip out, I have an opportunity for a quick catch 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:15.839 and shoot three or a lot of times you'll see 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.800 that and pick and roll from big guys slipping to 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.240 the short role and they're looking for an opportunity to 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.520 catch that over the top pass. But it only is 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:26.680 open if the guy hedges, right. If the guy doesn't 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.080 hedge and he's staying home, then it's actually more important 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.120 for you to set a screen because if you set 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:36.760 the screen and the guy's not actually hedging, your defender 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.200 is not actually hedging, then I might be able to 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.160 actually set a solid screen on Jason Tatum, which would 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.240 get Shaite downhill right. And so that was one other 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.000 adjustment I think they would have picked up on film 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.000 in a playoff series. It's like, hey, when they put 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.440 Derek White on you, we need to read whether or 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.960 not he's hedging. He's not hedging. We need to set 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:57.240 solid screens and try to get Shaye separation from Jason 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.760 Tatum so he can get downhill. So fifth time down 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:04.360 the floor, this Derek White adjustment has caused some problems, 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.840 so they go to a double drag action. They bring 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.080 two screeners up into the action. I think it was 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:12.200 Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren if I remember correctly, and 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.920 on that possession, it ends up leading to a switch 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.800 from Boston, Shay gets Derek White on him. This is 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.280 when Derek White gets that key stop that I was 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.680 telling you guys about, although Jalen Brown ends up getting 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:28.480 beat back door basically by Lou Dort for offensive rebound 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.440 put back. So the sixth time down the floor they 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:35.640 go back to Porzingis on. Chet still goes screening, not 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.760 setting good screens, and what ends up happening is the 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.840 pop's not open because Chet's not setting a good screen 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:44.080 and Porzingis is in a really soft coverage. He's not 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.720 back in a He's back instead of up in the hedge, 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.080 so it ends up in his Shae Tatum iso. Anyway, 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:54.720 Shay's icing isolating Tatum on the left wing. Christops Porzingis 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:58.240 is guarding Chet Holmgren, but he's way down at the 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.840 foul line. Okay, and again this is an example of 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:05.119 what I'm talking about. Tatum, good one on one defender, hasn't. 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.880 The only score Shay has on him at this point 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.480 is a pump fake foul, which Tatum's probably not gonna 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.440 fall for the next time. Right, So instead of letting 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:17.680 Tatum guard Shay, Porzingis is way too far in help, 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.200 Shay just throws an easy kickout pass to Chet at 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.200 the above the break and he knocks down yet another three. 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:27.080 Like we mentioned earlier, that's an extremely high percentage shot. 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:30.240 You could argue Chet's one of the best standstill shooters 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:33.560 in the league. So bad help. Another big defensive mistake 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:38.200 from Boston as they get another basket. So, for those 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.200 of you guys keeping track, we had five points through 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.360 three possessions. They didn't score on the fourth, so five 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.000 through four. They get an offensive rebound put back on 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.800 the fifth, so we're up to seven on five, and 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.040 then on the sixth possession they give up a three. 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:53.200 Now we've given up ten points in six possessions. So again, 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:57.880 Boston literally scored on ten consecutive possessions down the stretch 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.400 of the game, but they gave up baskets give up 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:05.360 ten points on six possessions, which ends up being basically 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.320 what prevents Boston from ever getting the opportunity to gain 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.719 the lead seventh time. Down the floor, they go back 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.760 to Derek White on Chet Holmgren. It's a really interesting 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.080 possession where they just had a lot of struggle with 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.840 this a couple possessions ago, so they don't bring Chet 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.040 into the action. On the other side, you could see 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.720 Josh Giddy and Jalen Williams kind of debating which one 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.440 of them should go set the screen. They hesitate too long, 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.359 Shay has no choice but to attack Jason Tatum and Iso. 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.320 That's when he takes the really really difficult fade away, 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.399 drifting into the baseline along the right block and he 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.360 ends up missing there. So in total ten points over 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:43.400 seven possessions, basically looking at Shay heliocentric ballscreen game right 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:47.040 so down the stretch after as we see there, because 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:49.359 they started to figure it out with the Derek White 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.480 on chrisops Porzingis thing, there were defensive mistakes in there 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.359 that still led to ten points for the Thunder on 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:59.359 seven possessions, but from a schematic standpoint, they figured out Now, 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:01.679 if we have Eric White on krisops Porzingis and we 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.320 have Jason Tatum on Shay, they don't get the same 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.200 high quality shots. As long as we follow our defensive 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.840 principles elsewhere on the floor, go to a good step 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:14.879 for the Celtics, Right, But I always talk about diversity 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:18.840 of shot creation. Shay is a shifty skill guard, right, 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.520 Jalen Williams is a downhill athlete. This is why I 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:27.359 always talk about like the spamming actions or heliocentric basketball 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:31.360 should be used in short bursts. Identify your advantage, get 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.239 whatever you can out of it. When the adjustments are 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.200 made and they've started to figure it out audible quickly, 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:39.639 one of the things that happens in basketball is you 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:41.639 see the same thing over and over and over and 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:43.880 over again. The defense just kind of figures out how 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:46.679 to guard it just by virtue of they practiced guarding 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:49.680 it over the course of the previous dozen possessions. Right, 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:53.600 So it's important to know when you've kind of squeezed 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.000 the sponge for all it's worth, make an adjustment down 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.000 the stretch. All Jalen Williams. The last couple of possessions, 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:02.199 Jalen Williams Peyton Pritchard on him. Key mistake here. I 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.280 thought from Boston as well, Drew Holliday didn't play particularly well. 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.240 I shouldn't even say didn't play. Drew Holliday was garbage 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:10.120 in this game. It's not a good Drew Holida game. 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.240 He'd be the first person to tell you that it happens. 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:16.439 Sometime guys play. Sometimes guys play bad games. Right, But 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:21.119 Joe Mizoula ends up going with Peyton Pritchard down the 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.080 stretch of the game. This is where it's a personnel 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:27.080 shortcoming because Jalen Williams is like, wow, I have Peyton 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:30.080 Pritchard on me. I'm going right through this dude, And 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.840 he just drives right into him, bullies in with the 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:35.680 shoulder behind the back. Drouble goes into the lane and 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:37.440 draws a foul and gets to the foul line right, 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:39.480 So easy bucket. And again, do you remember how I 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:41.600 said Derek White got a key stop on Shaye Late 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:43.480 You actually, if I remember correctly, you got a second 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:45.280 one too, on a step back three that Shaye took 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:48.840 in between these two possessions. But like again, it's because 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:51.280 Derek White got lots of possessions and at the end 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:53.720 of the game he was focused enough to play really 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.320