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Speaker 1: All right, well coon hoopsainai here at the volume. Happy Thursday, everybody,
Speaker 1: Oh bo if you guys have had it great week
Speaker 1: so far. We're doing three game reactions today. The Sacramento
Speaker 1: Kings tried out their new DeMar deroz In look against
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors. After that we're going to take
Speaker 1: a look at the Spurs and the Magic. The debut
Speaker 1: of Chris Paul and Victor Webbin Yamen together and then
Speaker 1: at the tail end, I got a good look at
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat in their starting group in the first
Speaker 1: half against Charlotte a couple days ago, so we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about that. And then I've got fifteen clips
Speaker 1: in a session of Timp's tape at the tail end
Speaker 1: of the show as well. You guys know the joke
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Speaker 1: hitting them throughout the remainder of the season. I do
Speaker 1: want to hit the Oklahoma City Thunder, who tried their
Speaker 1: starting lineup yesterday and looked amazing, but I haven't had
Speaker 1: a chance to get to that game yet. I plan
Speaker 1: on I recorded with Claire d loun yesterday on the
Speaker 1: GM survey that's going out on Friday, But on Friday morning,
Speaker 1: I plan on hitting that Thunder game as well as
Speaker 1: probably the Lakers, Bucks game from later tonight, so we'll
Speaker 1: have like a small short preseason reaction and then we'll
Speaker 1: also have the GM survey for tomorrow. But let's not
Speaker 1: Golden State Sacramento. So Sacramento ended up going with their
Speaker 1: smaller starting group, as was kind of reported around the league,
Speaker 1: kean Ellis alongside Dearon Fox in the back court, with
Speaker 1: DeMar de Rozen at the three, Keegan Murray at the four,
Speaker 1: and then Sabonis at the five. I was concerned about
Speaker 1: how they'd hold up physically, both on the glass and
Speaker 1: on the defensive end. They held up really well on
Speaker 1: the glass, only gave up four offensive rebounds in the
Speaker 1: entire game, but their defense was a disaster. They gave
Speaker 1: up one point two points per half court possession to
Speaker 1: Golden State. That's like a really, really bad number. They're
Speaker 1: constantly losing shooters all over the place, falling down, running
Speaker 1: into screens, all that kind of stuff. Golden State ended
Speaker 1: up getting one point five points per jump shot in
Speaker 1: the first half, and they were a lot of really
Speaker 1: good looks, so obviously a lot they got to tighten
Speaker 1: up defensively, but we knew that was going to be
Speaker 1: the case. The DeRozan fit on offense was literally perfect
Speaker 1: as I figured it would be. It's just this too
Speaker 1: much of a natural basketball fit in terms of the
Speaker 1: way his skill set kind of meshes with Sacramento's five
Speaker 1: out attack and the way that they like to run
Speaker 1: action going from side to side and having guys coming
Speaker 1: off of like pinned downs into dribble handoffs. With Sabonis
Speaker 1: coming out of the corner. It just is too much
Speaker 1: of an obvious fit. And his first bucket was a
Speaker 1: classic Chicago action out of the left corner, Draymond Green
Speaker 1: went under the screen. He hits the elbow jumper right
Speaker 1: second bucket another elbow jumper coming off of a dribble
Speaker 1: handoff into a Sabonis ball screen. His third bucket, another
Speaker 1: elbow jumper coming off of a Sabonus drible handoff. You
Speaker 1: guys get the point. It's just his skill set just
Speaker 1: so perfectly lines up with what the Kings try to do.
Speaker 1: It's just such a seamless offensive fit. His fourth bucket
Speaker 1: was this like really tough, like Kobe esque left shoulder
Speaker 1: fade over Kyle Anderson ry pump bake three times and
Speaker 1: then rows up and knocked the shot down. But his
Speaker 1: fifth bucket once again, same kind of thing, double wide
Speaker 1: pinned down. This time some bonus was operating as a
Speaker 1: passing fulcrum from the opposite side, comes around guys chasing.
Speaker 1: No one's in help because there's not a big guy
Speaker 1: involved in so since it's not a big guy involved,
Speaker 1: DeRozan curled this one, got into lane, absorbed the contact
Speaker 1: and made a little floater. But perhaps the most important
Speaker 1: bucket that he got in the game was a six bucket,
Speaker 1: which was him spotting up in the right corner with
Speaker 1: Dearon Fox running action out of the left side of
Speaker 1: the floor, and he was able to hit a three
Speaker 1: in the corner. And that's gonna be the important piece
Speaker 1: because I think Fox is going to be pretty comfortable
Speaker 1: spacing off of DeRozan, but DeRozan's gonna have to be
Speaker 1: comfortable spacing off of Fox for this to work in
Speaker 1: the big picture. They had a one forty four offensive
Speaker 1: rating with Derozen on the floor last night. That is
Speaker 1: a awesome first outing for the Sacramento Kings. Again, they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to guard a lot better to be a
Speaker 1: serious team, but they're gonna score a shit ton of
Speaker 1: points and that's a good foundation. Keigan Murray last king
Speaker 1: I wanted to shout out from this particular game, just
Speaker 1: showed some off the dribble pop. He had this like
Speaker 1: kind of step back jump shot that he hit over
Speaker 1: Gary Payton. But there was this other move that he
Speaker 1: hit Kevin Looney with that where he kind of like
Speaker 1: came down the floor in transition. Looney was a little
Speaker 1: bit on his heels, got downhill into his step back,
Speaker 1: but then out of the high hesitation in the step back,
Speaker 1: as Looney stepped out of his stance to contest the shot,
Speaker 1: he crossed back over to the right and went right
Speaker 1: around into the basket for La. It was a pretty
Speaker 1: high level counter move and so just something to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on Keegan Murray's offensive development. We still don't
Speaker 1: know what type of player he's going to be when
Speaker 1: he's fully well rounded. And every time I see those
Speaker 1: little flashes of that high level offensive creation, that's just
Speaker 1: a glimpse set a potential higher ceiling for this team
Speaker 1: in the long run. On the Warriors front, Stephan Draymond
Speaker 1: both looked great. Steph looked like he didn't have Chris
Speaker 1: done on him. I talked about that in the Clippers
Speaker 1: game like Christine's one of the very best players in
Speaker 1: the league at guarding guards, right, and so I didn't
Speaker 1: expect him to have as much trouble as soon as
Speaker 1: he got into a different matchup, and he immediately started
Speaker 1: getting separation from Kean Ellis, who was struggling with some
Speaker 1: of the Warrior screening actions and just some of this
Speaker 1: switching and just kings not being sharp and not staying attached.
Speaker 1: He had thirteen points on eight shots. Looked like a
Speaker 1: I think he was five for eight from the field,
Speaker 1: nice little bounce back outing from Steph. Draymond, hit a
Speaker 1: couple of threes, did a wonderful job orchestrating the offense
Speaker 1: from the top. Hit Steph on a couple of back cuts.
Speaker 1: He could easily have had ten assists in that first half.
Speaker 1: Of guys were hitting shots, but just the very few
Speaker 1: jump shots that the Warriors did miss, several of them
Speaker 1: came off of Draymond Green feeds and were pretty good looks.
Speaker 1: Kevon Looney and Brandon Paziemski looked good with the starters.
Speaker 1: Looney I talked in the mail bag and yesterday's show
Speaker 1: about how like these Warriors with two big looks with
Speaker 1: Draymond at the four. Like Tray Jackson, Davis has a
Speaker 1: speed advantage, Kvon Looney has a size and strength advantage,
Speaker 1: and so it makes sense to kind of just swap
Speaker 1: them in and out based on the matchup. Loony's always
Speaker 1: had Sabonis's number in terms of being able to absorb
Speaker 1: his contact and not let him get bullied underneath the basket.
Speaker 1: He forced Sabonis into jump shots that I think is
Speaker 1: the right kind of like matchup to go there, and
Speaker 1: that's what I kind of expect the Warriors to do
Speaker 1: on an in a night out basis during the regular season.
Speaker 1: If they're going to play center next to Draymond, I
Speaker 1: think they'll probably change between those two depending on the matchup.
Speaker 1: Brandon Pizemski eight assists did a wonderful job, especially in
Speaker 1: the second half when the starters went out and he
Speaker 1: has had to start running more action of beating lowman
Speaker 1: help with skip passes. We're going to talk about this
Speaker 1: in Tim's tape here at the tail end of the show. Basically,
Speaker 1: in a ball screen a lot of teams are going
Speaker 1: to tag from the weak side, especially teams that don't
Speaker 1: trust their ball screen defense, and so the opening the
Speaker 1: way you beat their pick and roll coverage is that
Speaker 1: skip pass, and it's just a difficult pass, and it's
Speaker 1: a pass a lot of players don't see because they
Speaker 1: kind of only see what's happening in the immediate vicinity
Speaker 1: around them. And POD's got three assists on that in
Speaker 1: the third quarter, just by making the easy read that
Speaker 1: was available in ball screens. And you know, again, as
Speaker 1: we're watching the Warriors here at the start of the year,
Speaker 1: the addition of the Anthony Mountain in the growth of
Speaker 1: Brandon Pazemski is offensive player, These two things are going
Speaker 1: to be key for this team. The Anthony Maltain hit
Speaker 1: a pull up three against drop coverage at the top
Speaker 1: of the key. He had sixteen points and three assists.
Speaker 1: Between those two guys through two games, thirty six points
Speaker 1: and sixteen assists with them playing obviously limited minutes in
Speaker 1: a preseason context, So very very encouraging stuff from those
Speaker 1: two guards. Again, those two guys are going to be
Speaker 1: one of the big swing factors for the Warriors this year.
Speaker 1: How good of a job they do creating shots when
Speaker 1: Steph needs a break or when he's off the floor. Right,
Speaker 1: Jonathan coming out a nice bounce back game, just quicker decisions,
Speaker 1: some nice spot up shooting. As a team, the Warriors
Speaker 1: struggled defensively, but Dearreon Fox has always given the Warriors
Speaker 1: guards some issues, and like, obviously not having Andrew Wiggins
Speaker 1: in the lineup is something that's going to play a
Speaker 1: role there. He was beating Dan Anthony Melton off the
Speaker 1: dribble pretty easily, though I was hoping Melton would have
Speaker 1: held up a little better in that matchup. But some
Speaker 1: of this is, like Darren Fox is one of the
Speaker 1: top twenty five players in the league. I had him
Speaker 1: at twenty four, and he's just really really hard to guard.
Speaker 1: So sometimes you just got to kind of acknowledge the
Speaker 1: superstar problem, which is like Darreon Fox is just really
Speaker 1: damn good at basketball, and sometimes you've got to kind
Speaker 1: of account for that as a team rather than expecting
Speaker 1: some individual to shut him down. Right, But so, really
Speaker 1: nice forward for the Warriors offense off of that first
Speaker 1: game against the Clippers. Moving on to Spurs Magic. The
Speaker 1: Spurs as a team looks super sloppy right now. Their
Speaker 1: transition defense was legitimately embarrassing last night. They got one point,
Speaker 1: the Magic got one point. Six y three points per
Speaker 1: transition possession in the first half. Now, before you like
Speaker 1: think too much about this, like a dunk is two
Speaker 1: points per possession, so like they were. They were literally
Speaker 1: eighty percent of a dunk every single time down the
Speaker 1: floor in transition. That is like so so so bad.
Speaker 1: It was a layup line. No one was stopping the ball,
Speaker 1: no one was protecting the rim, like I would imagine
Speaker 1: Greg Popovich is very pissed off after watching the film
Speaker 1: of that, and that's something they're going to be harping
Speaker 1: on over the next couple of days. Victor women Yamo
Speaker 1: is really sloppy. He was four to fifteen from the field,
Speaker 1: was taking a lot of really difficult iso jump shots.
Speaker 1: He had four turnovers. He tried to jam like a
Speaker 1: no look behind the back pass in traffic that got
Speaker 1: turned over. In transition, he tried to dribble tween a
Speaker 1: guy's legs and it got turned over. So just kind
Speaker 1: of a sloppy outing for Wemby. I didn't I wouldn't
Speaker 1: really look too much into it. He was kind of
Speaker 1: almost playing borderline like it was an unserious game, and
Speaker 1: so I think some of that's preseasons, some of that's
Speaker 1: just him getting into the flow. Some of it's just
Speaker 1: him trying shit that he's probably been practicing over the summer,
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't read too much into it. But obviously
Speaker 1: Wenby was a little sloppy. The spacing was really tough.
Speaker 1: Orlando was not concerned about Jeremy Sohan's ability to hit
Speaker 1: jump shots, so they just put Goga Patadze on him
Speaker 1: and just had him sit in the basket, and so
Speaker 1: it just was like a tree standing under the rim
Speaker 1: anytime the Spurs were trying to do anything. And I
Speaker 1: think we'll probably see a lot of that this year,
Speaker 1: especially since Wemby is the kind of guy that I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna want. Most teams are going to want
Speaker 1: to put more athletic, physical, shorter forwards that are going
Speaker 1: to try to disrupt his base. I think we're going
Speaker 1: to see a lot of Bitadze type players, like bigger
Speaker 1: just center types just getting put on Sohan and just
Speaker 1: sitting underneath the basket. That's going to be something that
Speaker 1: the Spurs are going to have to confront Schematically, keeping
Speaker 1: Sohan super active as a screener and as a cutter
Speaker 1: and as an offensive rebound to try to offensive rebounder
Speaker 1: to try to punish teams for helping off of him.
Speaker 1: We did see some of the upside. We saw some
Speaker 1: sharp five out possessions. I got one that I'll show
Speaker 1: you guys, an example of just running a simple five
Speaker 1: out action that gets wide open three because it just
Speaker 1: gets a defender to make a mistake. Wenby ended up
Speaker 1: catching a lob from CP three on like a cleared
Speaker 1: side ball screen on the left side of the floor.
Speaker 1: Generally speaking, as you guys know, I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of cleared side ball screens because I just think, especially
Speaker 1: with really good players, it just gives so much space
Speaker 1: for guys to work, especially guys that are still developing
Speaker 1: as playmakers. I think it makes the most sense. There
Speaker 1: was a possession that I put in the film Session
Speaker 1: two that you guys will see where Wenby got a
Speaker 1: short roll catch coming off of a ball screen where
Speaker 1: he was coming down right in the middle of the
Speaker 1: floor and so Han was kind of in the dunker spot,
Speaker 1: so Goga was waiting right underneath the basket and Palo
Speaker 1: was waiting right underneath the basket, and like a drop
Speaker 1: coverage and instead of like trying to take an easy
Speaker 1: read that was available, there's a kick out to the
Speaker 1: right corner, or like maybe an opportunity for a little floater,
Speaker 1: like a Yokic style like pick and roll floater in
Speaker 1: the mid range or in the short range. He tried
Speaker 1: to like just drive into all that traffic and ended
Speaker 1: up getting blocked by Goga at the rim. And one
Speaker 1: of the things I talked about in terms of like
Speaker 1: juicing up Wewenby's offense, I want to see him hunt
Speaker 1: and be more willing to take the easy looks that
Speaker 1: he can get in ball screens and so like i'd
Speaker 1: love to see him add like that little like ten
Speaker 1: to eight to ten foot floater as he's just kind
Speaker 1: of rolling into the to the kind of semi circle
Speaker 1: area just to get easy, little touch shots before he
Speaker 1: runs into all that traffic. It'll be easier on his body.
Speaker 1: It's a shot that he can rely on in a
Speaker 1: postseason setting. It's an easy way for him to get
Speaker 1: like an extra three or four easy shots a game
Speaker 1: that don't involve him getting into all that traffic underneath
Speaker 1: the basket, which again is going to be a huge
Speaker 1: problem with Sohan on the floor over the course of
Speaker 1: this season. So again, sloppy for the Spurs, but a
Speaker 1: lot of upside. I'm hoping they look sharper later on
Speaker 1: in the preseason. We'll see Orlando looks super sharp on
Speaker 1: defense again. They did a great job running off of
Speaker 1: turnovers and long rebounds. I talked about their transition scoring earlier,
Speaker 1: still not loving their lack of ball movement. This is
Speaker 1: something I talked about after their first preseason game. There
Speaker 1: was this really weird Palo possession where Plo gets swung
Speaker 1: the ball at the top of the key and Goga's
Speaker 1: on the left wing is unguarded. Franz is in the
Speaker 1: left corner, He's guarded right, and Goga's calling for the ball,
Speaker 1: and Franz is pointing to Goga for him to throw
Speaker 1: the ball, and instead of throwing the easy pass to
Speaker 1: Goga is standing right there, Paolo just points out him
Speaker 1: and asks him to cut, and then he looks to
Speaker 1: the other side as if he wants to run action
Speaker 1: over there, and both Goga and Franz like show this
Speaker 1: kind of negative body language, like what the hell are
Speaker 1: we doing here? Because the thing is is like you
Speaker 1: run action to get an advantage. That's the whole purpose
Speaker 1: of running action. So you already have your advantage right there.
Speaker 1: There's a two to on one on the weak side. Now, Okay,
Speaker 1: Goga's not a shooter. I get it. Okay, swing the
Speaker 1: ball to Goga. Goga's just going to flow into a
Speaker 1: dribble handoff with Franz. He's going to screen Franz's defender.
Speaker 1: It's a two on one there. Franz is going to
Speaker 1: get downhill. It's like a guaranteed driving lane from there.
Speaker 1: He's either gonna get all the way to the rim
Speaker 1: or make a kickout pass two shooter on the week side.
Speaker 1: And so a lot of this is like you gotta
Speaker 1: make quicker decisions, take the easy stuff that the defense
Speaker 1: is giving you. Again, this is a big thing that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be talking a lot about in these film sessions.
Speaker 1: And again I'm gonna show you guys some examples. There's
Speaker 1: one in particular from the Spurs game where it's like,
Speaker 1: you run basic action that flows out of the five
Speaker 1: out concepts and if a guy's open, take the opening
Speaker 1: that's there. There's a lot of possessions in a basketball game.
Speaker 1: Not everything has to be tough. Just take the easy
Speaker 1: stuff that is available for you on the offensive. End
Speaker 1: of the floor. So again we're gonna be watching Orlando's
Speaker 1: offensive growth over the course of the season. Lastly, the
Speaker 1: Miami Heat, again I just watched their starters. I didn't
Speaker 1: have as much time. Again, I'm trying to get to
Speaker 1: as many of these as possible by it while also
Speaker 1: doing our season previews, and it's just time consuming. But
Speaker 1: I got to see the Miami Heat starters against Charlotte
Speaker 1: in the first half. I watched that on Tuesday or
Speaker 1: yesterday on Wednesday, and things stood out to me. First
Speaker 1: of all, Bam aggressively shooting three. He took five of them.
Speaker 1: He was two for five, six points. It's one point
Speaker 1: two points per shot, So good start to the Bam
Speaker 1: jump shooting experience. The key is him taking them so
Speaker 1: frequently and with so much confidence that he eventually gets
Speaker 1: guarded out there. This is like my Kyle Kuzma theory
Speaker 1: the Lakers. When Kyle Kuzma was with the Lakers used
Speaker 1: to take a ton of threes and he always shot
Speaker 1: in like the low thirties, like thirty one, thirty two
Speaker 1: percent until that last year before he left, and like
Speaker 1: it just didn't matter because he was so aggressive and
Speaker 1: his release looked good that like teams generally guarded Kuzma
Speaker 1: as though he was a good shooter, and then also
Speaker 1: like he had because he took so many of them
Speaker 1: so confidently. There were games usually about once a week,
Speaker 1: where he'd go four for seven from three and it
Speaker 1: could be a huge impact on a game. And so
Speaker 1: again that's the key with Bam is just take them,
Speaker 1: take them. Take him if he takes five a game, Hell,
Speaker 1: I would take six or seven a game. If he
Speaker 1: takes six or seven a game and he makes two
Speaker 1: or three of them, and he just sticks with it.
Speaker 1: Over the long term, it will eventually reflect and won
Speaker 1: him getting better at it, more comfortable. But two in
Speaker 1: defense is starting to account for it and to guard
Speaker 1: him there. Once Bam starts actually getting guarded from the
Speaker 1: three point line, then the positive trickle down effects of
Speaker 1: him shooting extend far beyond points per shot and extend
Speaker 1: into now you're an overall half court offense improves because
Speaker 1: you have better spacing and better opportunity for Jimmy to
Speaker 1: attack or Yovich to attack with advantages out of the post.
Speaker 1: And so that's why I kind of like the idea
Speaker 1: of Bam taking more of those I almost think he
Speaker 1: has to in order to build this out if you
Speaker 1: want to have a Bam at a bio Kelllware look.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I only watch the starters in
Speaker 1: this particular game, so I haven't had a chance to
Speaker 1: check out kill Kelllware. We will get to him at
Speaker 1: some point soon here. But like let's say kell Aware
Speaker 1: flashes as like a legitimate five man option. Well, if
Speaker 1: you want to play Bam next to him and have
Speaker 1: a big look, it's going to require Bam being an
Speaker 1: aggressive and guarded three point shooter. And so that's something
Speaker 1: that I think is worth building out. Jimmy Butler looks healthy,
Speaker 1: he looks spry. You looked like Jimmy Butler. I thought
Speaker 1: that was encourage coming off the knee injury. Everything that
Speaker 1: Terry Rozier does and that fit with this team. It's
Speaker 1: gonna come down to him hitting jump shots. He was
Speaker 1: zero for six last night or two nights ago in
Speaker 1: that game. Last year, he was one point zero three
Speaker 1: points per jump shot, which is just not good enough.
Speaker 1: He hit his open catch and shoot threes at a
Speaker 1: high percentage, but shot poorly on pull ups and shot
Speaker 1: poorly on contested shots, and those specifically are the shots
Speaker 1: that have the potential to raise the ceiling for this
Speaker 1: Heat team. That's why they're so important. The Heat defense
Speaker 1: picked up right where it left off last year. They
Speaker 1: allowed to zero point eighty six points per half court
Speaker 1: possession in the first half. Again, they were top five
Speaker 1: defense last year. That was one of the most encouraging
Speaker 1: parts of them as like a foundation to build on.
Speaker 1: Just shot the first outing. Again, I haven't had a
Speaker 1: chance to look at the bench groups, so we'll talk
Speaker 1: about them later on in the preseason or early in
Speaker 1: the regular season. But I just I had some time
Speaker 1: on Tuesday and I watched that, and I just wanted
Speaker 1: to get that into today's show while we had some time.
Speaker 1: Side note on the Hornets front, I cannot get enough
Speaker 1: of watching Trey Mann play basketball. Another seven for twelve
Speaker 1: from the field, fourteen points, four sists, no turnovers, plus
Speaker 1: ten and nineteen minutes. Has this like weird mix of
Speaker 1: like early two thousands guard with like some like a
Speaker 1: little bit at Jamal Crawford, a little bit of Alan
Speaker 1: Iverson just like it. Just it's so much fun to watch.
Speaker 1: And I wonder if he's got some sixth Man of
Speaker 1: the Year juice this year, something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm that note. Let's get to Tim's tapefore
Speaker 1: get out of here. By the way, sorry, I'm moving
Speaker 1: a little quickly today. I've got a little bit of
Speaker 1: a deadline. I had to get this episode in a
Speaker 1: little bit earlier, so I wasn't able to get into
Speaker 1: as much detail. But we are going to do some
Speaker 1: more preseason reaction tomorrow. All right, let's take a look
Speaker 1: at our film session. So first clip, how do you
Speaker 1: beat switching without having to ice simple things to understand
Speaker 1: like screening angles. So again, first of all, you got
Speaker 1: to identify what scheme you're playing against. Miami likes to
Speaker 1: do a ton of switching. Boom switch, easy switch. You
Speaker 1: know that switching is the scheme that they're in. So
Speaker 1: there's no point in setting a hard lateral screen on
Speaker 1: Terry Rozier because he's not trying to get separation from Rosier.
Speaker 1: It's just going to be a switch, right, So you
Speaker 1: actually need a screen with the intent of getting an
Speaker 1: advantage out of it. Watch how Miles Bridges comes and
Speaker 1: screens the bottom side of Terry Rozier because he knows
Speaker 1: all he's really doing. When he sets this screen is
Speaker 1: triggering the switch. That's all he's doing. Is not trying
Speaker 1: to get separation for Lamello. He's triggering the switch. Watches
Speaker 1: he turns and spins as he sets the screen to
Speaker 1: create a seal boom. See, all he's actually trying to
Speaker 1: do is get the switch while having inside position. Now
Speaker 1: he is inside position. So as soon as LaMelo Ball
Speaker 1: pulls Jimmy Butler out a little bit, now Lamello can
Speaker 1: throw this over the top pass to Miles creates enough
Speaker 1: of a passing angle for him to get in there
Speaker 1: and now Myles Bridge as he ends up finishing, but
Speaker 1: he could also make a kickout pass here as well. Again,
Speaker 1: these are ways that you can look to get easy
Speaker 1: shots out of switches. And here's the thing. You run
Speaker 1: those kinds of actions, maybe they don't give up an
Speaker 1: interior seal. Maybe you don't get the easy one, and
Speaker 1: then you have to attack a matchup. But again, as
Speaker 1: one of the big themes that I'm always talking about
Speaker 1: on this show is like hunt the easy stuff first,
Speaker 1: and then when the easy stuff doesn't work, counter it
Speaker 1: by going to the tougher shot. Making the tougher Iso
Speaker 1: ball the tougher post up looks things along those lines,
Speaker 1: but take the easy shots that are available to you.
Speaker 1: This next one is just for fun. Everyone watched Trey
Speaker 1: Mann and just the ridiculous bag of tricks that he
Speaker 1: has off of the dribble. Here skip pass into a
Speaker 1: little dribble hand off ball screen. Watch this dribble combination
Speaker 1: just disgusting. And then that just kind of harkened back
Speaker 1: to about twenty years ago and what we used to
Speaker 1: see the guards around the league do. All right, clip
Speaker 1: number three, this is an example of once again a
Speaker 1: basic like like a secondary break action that the Spurs
Speaker 1: run and they get a wide open three out of it.
Speaker 1: So this is uh uh, this isn't a what I
Speaker 1: would just call like delay Chicago basically. So delay action
Speaker 1: is when you bring the ball at the floor and
Speaker 1: you pass to the big man at the top of
Speaker 1: the key and you flow into action on the opposite
Speaker 1: of the floor. This is a Chicago action, which is
Speaker 1: a pin down into a dribble handoff, right, So we're
Speaker 1: getting the pinned down into the dho right. So all
Speaker 1: this is this is not any sort of super complicated
Speaker 1: five out concept. This isn't some sort of dramatic, you know,
Speaker 1: schematic genius. All it is is running a basic action
Speaker 1: when you get up the floor to see if Orlando
Speaker 1: will make a mistake, and if they don't, then you
Speaker 1: might have to get more deliberate about your execution. In
Speaker 1: this case, as they run the Chicago action, swing back
Speaker 1: to Wemby. Wemby dribbles into it. Notice Googa is the
Speaker 1: guy guarding Sohan. He's going under everything. Because he's going
Speaker 1: under everything, so Han's able to kind of turn the
Speaker 1: corner a little bit. This pulls the defender from the
Speaker 1: right wing down to the elbow. That's an overhelp, right.
Speaker 1: So that's the mistake, which gets a wide open three
Speaker 1: for Julian Champagnie. Right. So again you get an open
Speaker 1: look by running a basic action which triggers a mistake.
Speaker 1: Now what should have happened here for Orlando, as we know,
Speaker 1: is this is an overhelp. Sohan's going to be driving,
Speaker 1: Goga's meeting him on the other side. You're not worried
Speaker 1: about him taking a jump shot. It's an overhelp, right.
Speaker 1: But the only way you're gonna get the overhelp is
Speaker 1: if you run the action. You have to run the
Speaker 1: action to get the defense to potentially make a mistake
Speaker 1: again if it's not open, if he doesn't dig down
Speaker 1: as hard, he throws the passa champaigne champagne Dho's to
Speaker 1: Chris Paul. Chris Paul comes off in Wemby flows into
Speaker 1: another ball screen and you work it until they make
Speaker 1: a mistake. That's the whole concept of five out flow
Speaker 1: side to side, until each time you go side to side,
Speaker 1: the help defense loose up a little bit because guys
Speaker 1: aren't getting back to their spots, they get a little
Speaker 1: bit sloppier in their shell drill. That is the purpose
Speaker 1: behind running action to see if you can get the
Speaker 1: defense to make a mistake. In the full episode, I
Speaker 1: talked about the short roll catch for Wenby that he
Speaker 1: kind of turned into a really tough shot. So this
Speaker 1: is that one first of all, as you could see
Speaker 1: from a spacing concept, because they have Goga on Sohan
Speaker 1: and because Sohan's not a threat to shoot, there's just
Speaker 1: constantly extra traffic here around the basket. Here we have
Speaker 1: Palo in a drop coverage coming off. This is where
Speaker 1: I want to see Wemby again, like look to take
Speaker 1: some easier shots in this range instead, Lookrey catches, he's
Speaker 1: got some space here. This could even be just a
Speaker 1: little short, little pick and pop jump shot. But instead
Speaker 1: we have literally four Orlando Magic players with a foot
Speaker 1: in the paint, and Wenby just tries to cram his
Speaker 1: way in there, and Goga gets a block. And so again,
Speaker 1: this is kind of what I was talking about earlier,
Speaker 1: just little details like, Okay, here's an easy read, Franz
Speaker 1: is digging down. Just make the kickout past the Harrison Barnes.
Speaker 1: Let's take an easy three when we get it. Or
Speaker 1: if fron stays home and pollows deeper and a drop,
Speaker 1: or Chris gives him the pass later, a little floater
Speaker 1: in this range, or just catch and take a jump
Speaker 1: shot right there. Just catch and take a little easy
Speaker 1: jump shot right there. Take the easy shots and the
Speaker 1: easy reads that are available in ball screens. This is
Speaker 1: just trying to do a little too much. Tries to
Speaker 1: cram it into that space and gets blocked. Keep an
Speaker 1: eye on that Sohan spacing concept here at the beginning
Speaker 1: part of the season, though. All right, here's our cleared
Speaker 1: side ball screen that gets Wenby the dunk. Okay, so again,
Speaker 1: because of the cleared side, there's just a little bit
Speaker 1: more space for Chris to operate. As a result, he's
Speaker 1: able to get down here into this short corner area
Speaker 1: that allows him to engage Mo Wogner a little bit more.
Speaker 1: And then this is Wenby's superpower. Wemby kind of stunt,
Speaker 1: or of Wagner kind of stunts. But notice Chris Paul
Speaker 1: throws a pump fake. Then Mo Wagner tries to recover
Speaker 1: back to Wemby, but he's just so damn tall he
Speaker 1: just goes right over the top of him and dunks
Speaker 1: on him. Little bit of a dirty play there from
Speaker 1: Mo Wagner too, trying to back out a guy who's
Speaker 1: jumping on a dunk attempt. But we'll go ahead and
Speaker 1: glaze over that for a second. Here's an example of
Speaker 1: the pick and pop and how that can create easy opening. So,
Speaker 1: as I talk about all the time, drop coverage has
Speaker 1: an easy counter, which is the pick and pop. So
Speaker 1: as Chris Paul is coming off, he's engaging Wagner in
Speaker 1: a drop right, So that puts two on the ball. Now,
Speaker 1: if Wenby's rolling, it's easier for Wagner to kind of
Speaker 1: account for both of them. But because he's because he's
Speaker 1: not now we have this close out for Wagner all
Speaker 1: the way from here right. As a result, they end
Speaker 1: up rotating with Franz that actually is not Franz. I
Speaker 1: can't tell who that is at this exact second, but
Speaker 1: I think that's their rookie, that the rookie from Colorado,
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly. They both call it close out.
Speaker 1: They get two on the ball, right. So now we
Speaker 1: have two on the ball with Wemby, which creates a
Speaker 1: two on one here between the shooter and the corner,
Speaker 1: and Malki brand him right underneath the basket. Cole Anthony
Speaker 1: has to make up his mind. He ends up being
Speaker 1: caught in no man's land and Wemby beats with a
Speaker 1: no look pass. So again that two on one, that
Speaker 1: two on one, this two on one here is created
Speaker 1: by the weak side rotation right here, this guy closing
Speaker 1: out to Wemby. That happens because on the pick and pop,
Speaker 1: Wagner is not in position to rotate. This is such
Speaker 1: an easy action to create initial advantage that then you
Speaker 1: can play off and you can imagine a scenario like
Speaker 1: if Wemby, if this guy closes out hard and this
Speaker 1: guy stays home, there's a kickout pass over here to
Speaker 1: the corner. Let's say they rotate like Cole Anthony rotates
Speaker 1: up and the Magic rotate over from the weak side.
Speaker 1: Now you've got an opportunity to flow into action off
Speaker 1: the rights, off this left side of the floor. Maybe
Speaker 1: Chris Paul pins down for Safan Castle. There's just an
Speaker 1: initial advantage that you can turn into a read by
Speaker 1: running that pick and pop action. Here's that play I
Speaker 1: talked about earlier where the Magic had kind of funky,
Speaker 1: stagnant offense and Goga and Franz looked a little frustrated
Speaker 1: with Paolo. So again, here we go. Wemby throws a
Speaker 1: random double team off of Jalen Suggs. This creates an
Speaker 1: advantage situation. Now Palo's at the top of the key.
Speaker 1: Here's our situation. We've got four spurs all on the
Speaker 1: right side of the floor. We got Goga by himself
Speaker 1: in Franz in the corner. Palo's literally looking at him. Goga,
Speaker 1: excuse me, is literally calling for the basketball. Franz is
Speaker 1: gesturing in that direction. Again. All you have to do
Speaker 1: there is swing to Goga. Goga flows into a djo.
Speaker 1: Franz is going to get downhill into this area and
Speaker 1: probably pull all of these spurs into health and one
Speaker 1: of these dudes is gonna be wide open, but instead
Speaker 1: Polo looks him off and goes the other way to
Speaker 1: where Wenby is gonna be able to get a great
Speaker 1: contest on Suggs. Anyway, watch Goga, watch his body language.
Speaker 1: He's like, what are we doing here? And then watch
Speaker 1: Franz what are we doing here? And again like they're
Speaker 1: because they're frustrated, because it's like you, what are we
Speaker 1: running action for? We're running action so we can get
Speaker 1: an advantage. We got one on the left side of
Speaker 1: the floor. Move the day of basketball, make a quick decision,
Speaker 1: flow into the next action if you have to, yet
Speaker 1: it probably works its way back. Like the thing with
Speaker 1: Pallo here is like you can imagine a scenario you
Speaker 1: throw that pass right here. You might throw that pass
Speaker 1: and Stefan Castle might close out a Goga and then
Speaker 1: you might end up just getting right back to a
Speaker 1: wide open catch and shoot three for Pallo at the
Speaker 1: top of the key. Just like take the easy reads
Speaker 1: that are available to you and just play off of it.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a look at some of these
Speaker 1: DeRozan plays. With the kinks. Here's a basic Chicago action
Speaker 1: out of the left corner. So here we go again,
Speaker 1: pin down into a dh o Draymond Green is on
Speaker 1: the ball, goes under easy little read for Derozen at
Speaker 1: the elbow to knock down the jump shot. Next one,
Speaker 1: same sort of thing, dribble hand off, dribble handoff into
Speaker 1: a ball screen. Looney switches, but he switches soft, so
Speaker 1: Derozen is comfortable just rising up into his spot knocking
Speaker 1: it down. It's another one pin down into a dribble
Speaker 1: hand off. Switch again. Looney's more aggressive on the switch
Speaker 1: this time, which actually forces Derozen to pick up again.
Speaker 1: And I talk about how you run action to get
Speaker 1: guys to make mistakes. Right, first mistake, Jerymond Green goes
Speaker 1: underneath both picks against de Rozan, who's just an a
Speaker 1: lead shooter from that range. Right, second pick, Kevon Looney
Speaker 1: too soft on his switch. Right third pick. Looney's harder
Speaker 1: on the switch, takes away that first read, but DeRozan
Speaker 1: just gets to his spot off of a little wonderble
Speaker 1: pull up again, tougher shot, but now he's in rhythm.
Speaker 1: And again what I was saying earlier is like These
Speaker 1: are all shots that are kind of like the kinds
Speaker 1: of shots that the Kings can generate within their offense.
Speaker 1: In DeRozan's great at them. So it's kind of just
Speaker 1: like a natural fit for him to be running these
Speaker 1: types of actions. And I think this is the weak
Speaker 1: side spacing. Okay, So again, as I talked about, it's
Speaker 1: important for as the erin's running action for Derozen to
Speaker 1: be able to make plays on the on the opposite side.
Speaker 1: So because you're gonna see this a lot when dearon
Speaker 1: Fox is running action, you're gonna see DeRozan's defender drop
Speaker 1: down into the paint and help because they're not as
Speaker 1: worried about him as a catch and shoot. Guy Kaminga
Speaker 1: closes off the drive kick out pass, it gets deflected,
Speaker 1: so it kind of disrupts the rhythm. But this is
Speaker 1: the shot that Derozane is going to have to make
Speaker 1: to make teams pay for helping off that week side
Speaker 1: his first one last night, here's that Keegan Murray crossover
Speaker 1: that I was telling you about that was so disgusting.
Speaker 1: Watch him. You get the head of steam. He's got
Speaker 1: loony hard dribble at his left step back that high
Speaker 1: hesitation right here. When he does that step back dribble
Speaker 1: right here, he could rise into a jump shot, which
Speaker 1: is what gets Looney to step out of it. And
Speaker 1: then Keegan just crosses him over and gets a wide
Speaker 1: up and lamp. Really advanced counter move there from Keegan Murray.
Speaker 1: All right here the couple of the three examples of
Speaker 1: Brandon Pizemski beating low Man. Help, so we're gonna get
Speaker 1: an action here a little ball screen with Tray Jackson
Speaker 1: Davis comes off the ball screen. Look at here, here's
Speaker 1: our lowman Jalen McDaniels. Watch this rifle pass from Pods
Speaker 1: right into the shooting pocket. Boom knocks it down and
Speaker 1: again that's the read. Like as you're looking at this
Speaker 1: play develop nothing else is open. They're set up at
Speaker 1: the on ball. Defender is behind Pajemski, which is going
Speaker 1: to make it harder for him to make a shot.
Speaker 1: Alex Len is in no roller behind coverage, so it's
Speaker 1: not like the lob is going to be open. Jaylen
Speaker 1: McDaniels is packing the paint. There's an easy read right
Speaker 1: there for you want to skip pass to Moody. Same
Speaker 1: sort of thing here. Get a ball screen with Trace
Speaker 1: crossover to set his man up for the screen. Little
Speaker 1: details too. Look notice how Pods turns his body looking
Speaker 1: like he's driving to the right. Everything's pointing to the right,
Speaker 1: shoulders to the right, balls in his right hand, everything
Speaker 1: is facing towards the right. That gets the on ball
Speaker 1: defender to jump high side, which then Padjemski crosses over,
Speaker 1: which creates the passing angle, or excuse me, the screening
Speaker 1: angle for Trace to get a good screen. Pods gets downhill.
Speaker 1: This is our low man, because Alex lenn is fully
Speaker 1: committed to the ball. Now his job is to come
Speaker 1: over and help he does. There's our kickout pass to Kaminga.
Speaker 1: A nice patient read from Brandon Page. I liked how
Speaker 1: confident Kaminga looked taking catch and shoot threes last night too.
Speaker 1: I thought that was encouraging all right. Last one, POD's
Speaker 1: flown into action ball screen chasing over the top Rollers
Speaker 1: kind of getting behind len low Man help low Man
Speaker 1: is all the way into the paint. Pods throws the
Speaker 1: skip pass, Moody knocks it down. That's like, that's the
Speaker 1: kind of playmaking that you need to be able to
Speaker 1: run that action. Look at Pods talk your shit, man,
Speaker 1: look at him talking that shit. Go back Pods knows
Speaker 1: it because he's picking him apart. He's been doing it
Speaker 1: the entire third quarter. This is all in the first
Speaker 1: five minutes of the quarter. Look at him, he's like
Speaker 1: talking his shit. Good for him, that's good. That's impressive playmaking.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of shit that they're gonna need from
Speaker 1: him in order to get to where they want to
Speaker 1: go this year. All right, guys, nice quick, tight, little
Speaker 1: thirty three minutes today. That's that's probably the shortest we've
Speaker 1: gone into a long time. But again, I was under
Speaker 1: a little bit of a time crunch today. As always,
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Speaker 1: The like who's the best player in the league debate
Speaker 1: between Yokich and Luka. Doncic talked a little bit about
Speaker 1: why I think Jason Tatum is the best small forward
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