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Speaker 1: All right, let us talk some basketball. So, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the things that I used to say a
Speaker 1: lot during the playoffs playoffs last year, is like, there's
Speaker 1: this cliche, right, styles make fights, And this is kind
Speaker 1: of a perfect example of that because you have two
Speaker 1: completely different styles. Right. You've got this rim assault team
Speaker 1: in the Los Angeles Lakers, full of guys that constantly
Speaker 1: apply pressure on the rim. Lebron James and Anthony Davis,
Speaker 1: obviously Dennis Schroeder to a certain extent. Rii Ha Chamura
Speaker 1: plays a power game that tries to get close to
Speaker 1: the rim, and even Dangelo Russell and Austin Reeves are
Speaker 1: pick and roll ball handlers that prefer to get as
Speaker 1: close to the rim as possible. They're constantly trying to
Speaker 1: advance towards the best and the warriors. Why they will,
Speaker 1: while they will take rim opportunities that are there, they
Speaker 1: play that as a counter to their three point attack.
Speaker 1: They're hunting three point shots from their guards. And you
Speaker 1: know a lot of times, you know people will be like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go small so we can play that big
Speaker 1: team off the floor, or a big team will say
Speaker 1: we were gonna play big so that we can force
Speaker 1: them to size up and compete with us. And usually
Speaker 1: it has a lot less to do with what the
Speaker 1: specific styles are and what their weaknesses and strengths are,
Speaker 1: and just who's doing a better job. And there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a push and pull in this series that you
Speaker 1: will see. In the games where the Lakers are super
Speaker 1: engaged defensively and are very, very relentless with their attack
Speaker 1: of the rim, they are going to have a ton
Speaker 1: of success. And in the games where the Warriors are
Speaker 1: able to shake free from the weakness of the Laker defense,
Speaker 1: which is typically their perimeter defenders. Although we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about Jared Vanderbilt in the job he did tonight, they're
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of success. There's going to be
Speaker 1: a push and pull. When the skill wins, the Warriors
Speaker 1: will win. When the size and power wins, the Lakers
Speaker 1: will win, and Round one goes to the Lakers. There's
Speaker 1: so many different angles I want I want to hit
Speaker 1: from this. I want to talk about some game plan stuff,
Speaker 1: some matchups that we kind of saw coming in our
Speaker 1: series preview. I thought Golden State unlocked a couple of
Speaker 1: different things and the towards that towards the end of
Speaker 1: that fourth quarter as a Lakers, as someone who's rooting
Speaker 1: for the Lakers, I will tell you that I cannot
Speaker 1: think of a team that's more terrifying than Golden State
Speaker 1: down ten in the fourth quarter. Why they're the team
Speaker 1: one of the teams that I covered so closely this year,
Speaker 1: and I can't tell you how many times they came
Speaker 1: back from ten down, including in a game against Milwaukee
Speaker 1: this year without Johannest they came back what down eight
Speaker 1: with like less than two minutes left, Like the Warriors
Speaker 1: are never dead. But in the process of that comeback
Speaker 1: in that fourth quarter, I thought they I thought we
Speaker 1: learned some things about weaknesses in the Lakers in a
Speaker 1: way for Golden State to counter some of the defensive
Speaker 1: stuff that the Lakers were doing. But I want to
Speaker 1: start with the Lakers on the defensive end, and I
Speaker 1: want to start with the dynamic of Jared Vanderbilt. So
Speaker 1: you know, there is generally speaking, running a drop coverage,
Speaker 1: and again, drop coverage implies that the defense. The center
Speaker 1: is sitting back. But let's just call it a traditional
Speaker 1: screen and roll coverage, where you're asking your guard to
Speaker 1: chase over the top and you have your big man
Speaker 1: somewhere between where the ball handler is and the rim,
Speaker 1: depending on how much separation the guard gets right. Typically,
Speaker 1: I hate that against a Steph Curry led offense, especially
Speaker 1: when he's spaming high pick and roll, which he really
Speaker 1: didn't do in this game until the very end. But
Speaker 1: a lot of it has to do with the type
Speaker 1: of personnel that you have. If your drop coverage big
Speaker 1: is Al Horford, who is not a guy that's going
Speaker 1: to be super that's not going to be much of
Speaker 1: a pest against a pull up jump shooter because he's
Speaker 1: not the best athlete anymore and he's not as big
Speaker 1: as some of the bigger centers in the league. And
Speaker 1: you have a small guard, someone like a Derek White
Speaker 1: or a Marcus Smart chasing over the top, there's not
Speaker 1: as much length on both ends of that cover for
Speaker 1: it to work. But when we sub in Jared Vanderbilt
Speaker 1: and we sub in Anthony Davis, Anthony Davis, who I
Speaker 1: believe is the best defensive player in the world. When
Speaker 1: he's locked in who is much longer and causes a
Speaker 1: lot more problems in those pull up jump shooting situations,
Speaker 1: and Jared Vanderbilt, applying back pressure with real length suddenly
Speaker 1: flips that dynamic. So this is where I want to
Speaker 1: talk about Jared Vanderbilt, because again, back pressure is very
Speaker 1: different than front pressure. Why because the guard typically can't
Speaker 1: see it coming right. So if I'm a guard and
Speaker 1: I know that I got separation and I'm getting downhill
Speaker 1: and I've got a small guard chasing me, I know
Speaker 1: if I elevate into my shot, he's not blocking that thing.
Speaker 1: But Jared Vanderbilt actually is a super long athlete that's
Speaker 1: good at fighting over the top of screens and can
Speaker 1: apply real back pressure on these guys from behind against
Speaker 1: Steph Curry is the best player in the world in
Speaker 1: my opinion, and he's gonna win that matchup several times
Speaker 1: in the series. I'm almost certain of it. But all
Speaker 1: you can ask as a defender is to make it
Speaker 1: difficult on him, and he forced Steph Curry into a
Speaker 1: ten ten for twenty four shooting night and just twenty
Speaker 1: seven points on twenty four shots, which is far below
Speaker 1: the normal level of efficiency of Steph Curry. So again
Speaker 1: it's just one game. That matchup is going to go
Speaker 1: a bunch of different directions, and I think we're going
Speaker 1: to see his very specific counter. But credit to Jared
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt and Anthony Davis for making that kind of like
Speaker 1: sandwich coverage that chase over the top with big man
Speaker 1: help at the ball screen, and that works the same
Speaker 1: for off ball actions as well. It's the exact same concept.
Speaker 1: Those coverages have the exact same principles in an off
Speaker 1: ball setting as well. But they had a lot of
Speaker 1: success making things difficult on Steph Curry, and I thought
Speaker 1: that was one of the foundational pieces to how the
Speaker 1: Lakers won Game one. Now, the Warriors won on a
Speaker 1: run at the end of this game, and there was
Speaker 1: a couple of different things they did. Three things in
Speaker 1: particular I want to call attention to. First of all,
Speaker 1: they switched to his own and again, like we're going
Speaker 1: to talk a lot about zone when we get into
Speaker 1: the Heat Knicks game, but zone is tricky. It's a
Speaker 1: tricky balance. If zones are designed to give things away
Speaker 1: at the expense of taking other things away, and so
Speaker 1: they're more of like a solving a puzzle type of
Speaker 1: thing than a personnel brute force type of thing, and
Speaker 1: really smart basketball players tend to figure that out. So
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much zone they're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to run in the series, But in that small sample size,
Speaker 1: just as a curveball and you're down double digits in
Speaker 1: the fourth I loved the way that it just threw
Speaker 1: the Lakers off in a small sample size. Then what
Speaker 1: did the Warriors do? They pushed the ball like crazy
Speaker 1: in transition when guys were attacking the offensive glass. Guys
Speaker 1: like Anthony Davis and Jared Vanderbilt, the two guys that
Speaker 1: were causing so many problems for the Warriors in the coverage,
Speaker 1: were stuck in the backcourt as the Warriors are running
Speaker 1: down the floor, and they got a bunch of easy,
Speaker 1: quick baskets in transition. And then, lastly, the last little
Speaker 1: adjustment that I saw from Golden say something that I
Speaker 1: talked about a lot in our series preview. In the
Speaker 1: series preview I preview, I talked to you guys about
Speaker 1: how the fundamental defensive principle for the Lakers, which is
Speaker 1: gonna be top lock as much as possible, don't let
Speaker 1: them use the screens but if they do happen to
Speaker 1: get past you, then lock and trail and force them
Speaker 1: downhill into all of your size. And Lebron James and
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis are gonna be ignoring Kevon Looney and Draymond
Speaker 1: Green every opportunity they get to sag in the paint,
Speaker 1: and so you'll force them to curl over the top
Speaker 1: of screens and to backcut and do all these different things.
Speaker 1: They're gonna funnel them into all of the size. But
Speaker 1: if you go to high pick and roll, just give
Speaker 1: Steph the ball at the top of the key against
Speaker 1: Jared Vanderbilt, I think they can actually cause the Lakers
Speaker 1: more problems. And they did. Steph ended up hitting a
Speaker 1: couple threes at a high pick and roll in this
Speaker 1: game down the stretch. I think that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: major counter that the Warriors are gonna have to go to.
Speaker 1: Then there's gonna be another counter from the Lakers. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if you start to see the Lakers
Speaker 1: switch and just throw Anthony Davis on Steph. But that
Speaker 1: provides another predicament for the Lakers, because now Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: is away from the basket, dealing with Steph Curry, and
Speaker 1: if you beat them off the dribble or just simply
Speaker 1: plays point guard and makes a read to somewhere else
Speaker 1: someone else, there's not as much rim protection. But these
Speaker 1: are again, these are two incredibly good teams that have
Speaker 1: a bunch of versatility in different punches that they can
Speaker 1: go to. You're gonna see a bunch of different types
Speaker 1: of games. This game was much more free flowing, but
Speaker 1: you know in this series we're gonna see rock fights.
Speaker 1: We're gonna see a bunch of different types of games
Speaker 1: because of the different types of ways that these teams
Speaker 1: can cause problems for each other. But make no mistake.
Speaker 1: In Game one, the Laker identity of size and physicality
Speaker 1: and defense won the day. Anthony Davis thirty points and
Speaker 1: twenty three rebounds was a freaking monster on the defensive
Speaker 1: end of the floor everywhere. Lebron James couldn't buy jumps
Speaker 1: out to save his life, but he had a lot
Speaker 1: of success around the rim and attacking. In transition, the
Speaker 1: Warriors ran a lot of drop coverage in their sets
Speaker 1: against Austin Reeves and D'Angelo Russell. I think that's interesting
Speaker 1: that reminded me of Game one. Of the Memphis LA
Speaker 1: series where Austin Reeves was really really good early just
Speaker 1: attacking pick and roll. Those guys love to operate in
Speaker 1: that short to mid range with little floaters and pull
Speaker 1: up shots and things along those lines. I think Golden
Speaker 1: State another adjustment that's available for them is what Memphis did,
Speaker 1: just start switching everything that bait the Lakers into their
Speaker 1: worst tendencies, which is stagnation, Anthony Davis and Lebron James
Speaker 1: settling for jump shots instead of attacking the rim, dribbling
Speaker 1: the shot clock out, not playing with any sort of
Speaker 1: pace or flow right. So I'd like to see Golden
Speaker 1: State try to switch a little bit more as well.
Speaker 1: I think that could cause the Lakers some problems. One
Speaker 1: other schematic thing, and this is something to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on throughout the series. The Warriors did go on
Speaker 1: a run in the first half, in that middle of
Speaker 1: the second quarter when the Lakers went up I think
Speaker 1: like five or seven points or something like that, and
Speaker 1: the next thing you know, the Warriors were up by
Speaker 1: three or four, and Jordan Poole hit a bunch of
Speaker 1: shots in that stretch, and Klay Thompson hit a bunch
Speaker 1: of shots and I thought Jeff Angunny did a really
Speaker 1: nice job of breaking down the reality of game plan discipline. Okay,
Speaker 1: so game plan discipline is like, hey, we have this
Speaker 1: list of rules that we ask everybody to pay attention
Speaker 1: to in their defensive responsibilities. Right, And it's clear what
Speaker 1: the responsibilities are for the Lakers. It's Lebron James and
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis sitting back in the paint but making reads
Speaker 1: identify where the guards are. If they're in trouble, run
Speaker 1: up and off for help and then get back. But
Speaker 1: if they're not in trouble, sit back, right, and then
Speaker 1: all the guards are supposed top lock and deny, and
Speaker 1: then when they get beat, they're supposed to lock and trail.
Speaker 1: That's clearly what the what the scheme is. But Troy
Speaker 1: Brown Junior in particular, Dangel Russell got lost in a
Speaker 1: couple of these as well. But there's a bunch of
Speaker 1: plays there in that second quarter where Laker guards started
Speaker 1: to do things that are going to play directly into
Speaker 1: Golden State's hands. Dennis Schruder is having a problem ducking
Speaker 1: under picks. That means instead of chasing over the top,
Speaker 1: you go underneath the pick, which gives the guard a
Speaker 1: moment of separation, Troy Brown Junior kept trying to shoot
Speaker 1: the gap. What does that mean? We're chasing each other
Speaker 1: over a screen instead of me following him, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: shoot under the screen. Problem is is they train these
Speaker 1: guards to flare out in that instance, and the passers
Speaker 1: will throw that pass over the top, and then the
Speaker 1: screener can reverse the screen on Troy Brown and catch him,
Speaker 1: and then Klay Thompson can get free in the corner
Speaker 1: for like a flaring three out to the wing. Right.
Speaker 1: When you get away from your game plan discipline, which
Speaker 1: is lock and trail, stay attached to your shooters, you're
Speaker 1: gonna give up wide open looks. And that push and
Speaker 1: pull in the game plan is gonna be something that
Speaker 1: we see throughout this series and games that the Warriors win,
Speaker 1: the Lakers will not be as tight with their discipline,
Speaker 1: and in games that the Lakers win, the Warriors will
Speaker 1: not be as tight with their discipline. Same thing with helping,
Speaker 1: like the Warriors need to load the paint up and
Speaker 1: try to take The Lakers won the points in the
Speaker 1: paint battle fifty four to twenty eight. In this game,
Speaker 1: they committed a ton of fouls. They gave up twenty
Speaker 1: nine free throw attempts, and again, a lot of people
Speaker 1: are gonna talk about the free throw disparity. I'm glad
Speaker 1: Jeff and Gunny pointed it out. It's something I've been
Speaker 1: pointing out all season. The Lakers are one of the
Speaker 1: best teams in the league at defending without fouling and
Speaker 1: one of the best teams in the league at drawing fouls,
Speaker 1: and the Warriors are one of the war teams in
Speaker 1: the league at both. So you're gonna see a huge
Speaker 1: free throw disparity and just about every single one of
Speaker 1: these games, you guys might as well get used to it.
Speaker 1: Even Steve Kerr in his third quarter or in his
Speaker 1: post halftime interview told one of the reporters covering the
Speaker 1: game that he didn't think it was an officiating problem.
Speaker 1: It's just the reality of them fouling. They need to
Speaker 1: pack the paint, make things more congested. That even makes
Speaker 1: it harder for the referees to see the contact of
Speaker 1: the contact that's taking place, makes you get away with
Speaker 1: more fouling, enforces Lebron James and Anthony Davis to play
Speaker 1: in traffic. I thought Golden State kind of stayed a
Speaker 1: little bit too home off the ball and let the
Speaker 1: Lakers be too comfortable. But size won in this game.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Jared Vanderbilt defensively, Anthony Davis defensively and
Speaker 1: scoring in the paint again. Lebron James thought played a
Speaker 1: solid game. Dangel Russell, especially in the first half, made
Speaker 1: a bunch of big plays. Really solid effort from a
Speaker 1: really good Lakers team. And I think there's some good
Speaker 1: opportunity for the Warriors to find counters again. I'd love
Speaker 1: to see a lot more Steph high pick and roll.
Speaker 1: I'd love to see Klay Thompson be a little bit
Speaker 1: more aggressive in that Austin Reeves matchup. He struggled in
Speaker 1: this particular game, but he did get some good looks
Speaker 1: in the Austin Reeves matchup. Another thing you saw the
Speaker 1: Lakers do or the Warriors do at the end of
Speaker 1: the game, which I thought was really smart, as they
Speaker 1: started switching or they started running guard to guard screens
Speaker 1: before the ball screen. So run a guard to guard
Speaker 1: screen to get Austin Reeves switched on to Steph, then
Speaker 1: run your ball screen. Because Austin Reeves is one of
Speaker 1: those smaller, less athletic guards. That's not gonna bother Steph
Speaker 1: in a back pressure situation. There's so many counters available
Speaker 1: to both teams. There's gonna be so many swings in
Speaker 1: this series. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope you guys
Speaker 1: did too, Man, I would certainly love to see seven
Speaker 1: games of that. What an incredible game. I think I
Speaker 1: just about hit everything. We're gonna be going again tomorrow
Speaker 1: morning with the guys from Nerd Sesh, the group that
Speaker 1: we just brought on. You guys have heard of seeing
Speaker 1: Carson on the show. I'm gonna watch this game over
Speaker 1: again in the morning and we'll touch it in a
Speaker 1: deeper sense from a film study point of view in
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning's matchup. In the meantime, let's move on to
Speaker 1: Nicks and Heat. So very interesting game because Eric Spolser
Speaker 1: went heavy on zone and the Nix in particular, I
Speaker 1: didn't think responded well to the way that that they
Speaker 1: the way that they attacked the zone. Again, like we
Speaker 1: talked about, zone is designed to take away certain things
Speaker 1: and give other things right, and so it's more about
Speaker 1: solving than brute force, and so a lot of teams
Speaker 1: play into the hands of the zone by making silly
Speaker 1: decisions right, and a lot of the knicks passing around
Speaker 1: the perimeter taking contested threes instead of finding the open
Speaker 1: threes that were there in the zone. They were not
Speaker 1: occupying the middle of the floor. A lot of this
Speaker 1: is Julius Randall, in my opinion. Julius Randall like and
Speaker 1: he had eight assists in this game. But Julius Randall
Speaker 1: is a little slow making reads. He's a little bit
Speaker 1: hesitant to to kind of like take what the defense
Speaker 1: gives him and tries to force the action a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'd love to see him operate out of the middle
Speaker 1: of the floor more. And it's a simple question of math.
Speaker 1: As soon as you get Julius Randall to catch at
Speaker 1: the top at the at the free throw line, bam
Speaker 1: Adebayo has to step up. If bam Adebayo has to
Speaker 1: step up suddenly, if Mitchell Robinson is in the dunker spot,
Speaker 1: Julius Randall can just throw it up. It's a simple
Speaker 1: question of floor balance and occupying spots where zone defenders
Speaker 1: are and filling two spots where a zone defender has
Speaker 1: to cover multiple spots. Right. So bam Adebio is responsible
Speaker 1: for the rim, and he's also responsible for the foul line.
Speaker 1: So if you can occupy both of those spots by
Speaker 1: getting Julius Randall to catch and getting Mitchell Robinson opportunities
Speaker 1: around the rim, you can beat him quickly with like
Speaker 1: pass pass finish above the rim right. But if you
Speaker 1: play directly into their hands by playing strictly on the
Speaker 1: perimeter and just jacking up shots, you're gonna run into
Speaker 1: some problems. And it was a sophisticated zone. And like Eric's,
Speaker 1: one of the other best ways to attack zones, especially
Speaker 1: in the higher levels of basketball, when you have great
Speaker 1: ball handlers, just to run ball screens right. So if
Speaker 1: I've got if I'm on the right side of the
Speaker 1: floor and I'm attacking the top right guy in the zone,
Speaker 1: if I set a screen on his outside, I can
Speaker 1: get downhill and draw one of the help defenders and
Speaker 1: make an easy read out to one of those two
Speaker 1: guys right. But Spolster was having the other guard just
Speaker 1: sprint over and essentially show on that ball screen, right
Speaker 1: Julius Jalen Brunston actually ended up hitting a tough, contested
Speaker 1: three over Caleb Martin in one of those sequences at
Speaker 1: the end of the Towards the end of the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter credits of the Knicks, they made a bunch of
Speaker 1: big plays down the stretch. Two plays in particular, Jalen
Speaker 1: Brunston hit that pull up three on the right wing
Speaker 1: that I was talking about against that ball screen coverage
Speaker 1: in the zone that Spolster was using. And then there
Speaker 1: was that play where Julius Randall just bullied his way inside. Again.
Speaker 1: I talked a lot about how and this is gonna
Speaker 1: matter more when Jimmy's out there and they're running less zone.
Speaker 1: The Knicks are eventually going to solve the zone, and
Speaker 1: then Spolser will have to go back to using it
Speaker 1: in spurts rather than using it in larger doses. Again,
Speaker 1: like I said, there's just too many smart basketball players
Speaker 1: on the floor. But when they're doing that switching, that's
Speaker 1: another big thing that Julius Randall's gonna need to do.
Speaker 1: Just back his way down, get to that elbow area
Speaker 1: where he can either shoot over the top of a
Speaker 1: smaller guard in a high percentage short range jump shot,
Speaker 1: or he can dry second defender and make a kick
Speaker 1: oout pass. He had a really nice play at the
Speaker 1: end of this game where he backed his way down,
Speaker 1: drew the help defender, kicked it to Josh Hart in
Speaker 1: the right corner, and he knocked it down. So credit
Speaker 1: to the Knicks for battling through. But I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I'm seriously fearful for them because their guards are not
Speaker 1: playing as well as I thought. The Heat guards continue
Speaker 1: to basically play the Nicks guards to a standstill, which
Speaker 1: is a big problem in my opinion. You can't be
Speaker 1: getting you know, Jalen Brunson and a manual quickly scoring
Speaker 1: less points than Kyle Lowry and gave Vincent Like that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a problem, right, So I need to see
Speaker 1: I need to see the Nick's guards playing better over
Speaker 1: the course of this series to feel confident about their
Speaker 1: chances to win. But they you know, at the end
Speaker 1: of the day. And I'll say the same thing about
Speaker 1: the Lakers. They blew a what a thirteen point lead
Speaker 1: or twelve point fourth quarter lead, but a win is
Speaker 1: a win, and and that's the same thing here. Like
Speaker 1: it was an ugly game. They got flummixed by the zone,
Speaker 1: but they got the win and that's all that matters.
Speaker 1: They're gonna need to make the necessary adjustments going into
Speaker 1: Game three. In Miami. All right, guys, that is all
Speaker 1: I have for tonight. As always, I sincerely appreciate you
Speaker 1: guys for supporting the show. We will be back tomorrow
Speaker 1: with the Nerd Sash guys, and I'll see you guys there.
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