Speaker 1: The volume. The NBA Finals are here. This is your
Speaker 1: last chance to bet on the NBA until next season,
Speaker 1: and DraftKings Sportsbook and official sports betting partner of the
Speaker 1: NBA is pulling out all the stops to make this
Speaker 1: a finals. To remember, one team will be crown champ
Speaker 1: and the other will be lost to history. Who you
Speaker 1: got winning at all? Put your hoops expertise to the test.
Speaker 1: All season long, DraftKings has been the go to spot
Speaker 1: for NBA player props and that doesn't stop now. Who's
Speaker 1: going to carry their team to the chip? Try placing
Speaker 1: a bet on your personal MVP to drop thirty, forty
Speaker 1: or maybe even over fifty. Ready to place your own bet,
Speaker 1: download the DraftKings sports Book app, lock in your bets
Speaker 1: and finish the season as a winner. Here's something special
Speaker 1: for first timers. New DraftKings customers. Bet five dollars to
Speaker 1: get three hundred dollars in bonus bets if your bet wins.
Speaker 1: Don't miss your last chance to bet on the NBA
Speaker 1: this season. Download the DraftKings sports Book app and use
Speaker 1: code hoops that's hoop. That's code hoops for new customers
Speaker 1: to get three hundred dollars in bonus bets if your
Speaker 1: bet wins. When you bet five bucks only on DraftKings,
Speaker 1: the crown is yours. Gambling problem called one hundred gambler
Speaker 1: In New York call eight seven seven eight hope and why,
Speaker 1: or text hope and why to four six seven three
Speaker 1: sixty nine and Connecticut help is available for problem gambling
Speaker 1: call eight eight eight seven eight nine seven seven seven seven.
Speaker 2: Or visit CCPG dot org.
Speaker 1: Please play responsibly on behalf of Boothill Casino and Resort
Speaker 1: in Kansas twenty one plus. Age and eligibility varies by
Speaker 1: jurisdiction void in Ontario. Bet must win to receive reward.
Speaker 1: Minimum minus five hundred odds required. Bonus bets expire one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty eight hours after issuance. For additional terms
Speaker 1: and responsible gaming resources, see dkang dot co. Slash audio.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome to hoo tonight. You're at the volume
Speaker 2: heavy five day. Everybody.
Speaker 1: Hope all of you guys are having a great end
Speaker 1: to your week well as promised. Today, we're going to
Speaker 1: hit our film session on game one of the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: We have eighty five clips to go through today.
Speaker 1: We're going to get into a ton of detail and
Speaker 1: a bunch of specific concepts happening on both ends of
Speaker 1: the floor, a couple of big picture takeaways, and we'll
Speaker 1: talk about this a lot more in tomorrow's mail bag.
Speaker 1: I'll go into some more detail. But there were some
Speaker 1: obvious things that Oklahoma City could improve on. There's a
Speaker 1: certain identity with the Pacers that is going to be
Speaker 1: there every single game, no matter what, right, and I
Speaker 1: think that that specifically is one of the rationalizations or
Speaker 1: explanations for some of the crazy shot making that we
Speaker 1: see from the Pacers. There's this joke that we've been
Speaker 1: thrown around about devil magic and voodoo and all this
Speaker 1: crazy stuff that the Pacers have going for them as
Speaker 1: they continue to hit these crazy tough.
Speaker 2: Shots at the end of games to win.
Speaker 1: But you know, there is some to be said about
Speaker 1: the way that they move the ball around and the
Speaker 1: way that they keep everyone involved. And so it wasn't
Speaker 1: just tough shot making. It was a bunch of different
Speaker 1: guys making tough shots, Like Andrew Nemhardt hits that crazy
Speaker 1: step back, Aaron Nesmith hits that crazy movement three out
Speaker 1: of the left corner, Miles Turner hits a step back
Speaker 1: three off of the left wing, and a couple of
Speaker 1: really tough shots on picking pops right. We have Tyrese
Speaker 1: Halliburton in the Crazy outha dribble jump shot he hits
Speaker 1: going to his right. All four of those dudes hit
Speaker 1: huge shots down the stretch, and there is something to
Speaker 1: be said about keeping the ball moving, keeping everyone involved,
Speaker 1: an offense that has a lot of flow and rhythm
Speaker 1: to it, and how that keeps people in rhythm and
Speaker 1: makes it so that it's more likely for multiple players
Speaker 1: to feel good in a big spot late in the game.
Speaker 1: In this game on the thunder side, or two dudes
Speaker 1: who looked comfortable shooting anything away from the rim now
Speaker 1: shake Gil Just Alexander and lou Door and as you
Speaker 1: guys will see in the film, a lot of opportunities,
Speaker 1: a lot of missed kickout reads. I talked last night
Speaker 1: about how I liked Shake gild justs Alexander and his approach,
Speaker 1: specifically with respect to attacking the game to try to
Speaker 1: get his rhythm early on after going back and rewatching
Speaker 1: a lot of his shots. I thought there were several
Speaker 1: in there that were pretty questionable pretty early in the
Speaker 1: clock and part of the reason why that rhythm didn't
Speaker 1: exist for his team. Jay dut came out just settling
Speaker 1: for really tough seventeen to nineteen foot pull up jump shots.
Speaker 1: Once he started attacking, good stuff happens. You'll see this
Speaker 1: in the film. We also saw some explanation for why
Speaker 1: Mark Dagnault went away from his bigs down the stretch,
Speaker 1: specifically Isaiah Hartenstein leaving shooters wide open. That was a
Speaker 1: big issue all night long. Is just his natural tendency
Speaker 1: as a big is to sink into the paint, something
Speaker 1: you can't really do against this Indiana team. And then
Speaker 1: Chet Holmgren, you're gonna see a couple of mistakes on offense,
Speaker 1: a couple of mistakes, and like transition defense, he just
Speaker 1: looked like he wasn't super mentally engaged in the game,
Speaker 1: and so that led to the inevitable rebounding problems that
Speaker 1: the Thunder had down the stretch. But again, a lot
Speaker 1: of the same stuff with Oklahoma City in terms of processing,
Speaker 1: making the appropriate kickouts, guys knocking down threes, them getting
Speaker 1: into their ball and player movement, as opposed to just
Speaker 1: their two top guys trying to force bad shots every
Speaker 1: single time down the floor, right, So we're gonna get
Speaker 1: into a bunch of examples tonight again or today again.
Speaker 1: As I said, we have eighty five clips. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: kind of work through it with you as we go along,
Speaker 1: and you guys will see some of the stuff that
Speaker 1: I'm talking about quickly before we get started, Subscribe to
Speaker 1: Hoops Tonight YouTube channel so you don't miss any more
Speaker 1: of our videos. Follow me on Twitter, underscore JSNLTS, you guys,
Speaker 1: don't miss you announcements. Don't forget about a podcast feed
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcast on Hoops Tonight, So it's
Speaker 1: a super helpful if you leave your rating and a
Speaker 1: review on that front. And then Jackson's doing great work
Speaker 1: on our social media feeds and Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok.
Speaker 1: Make sure you guys follow us there to continue to
Speaker 1: get content throughout the remainder of the seasons. Talk some basketball.
Speaker 1: So I talked a lot last night on the live.
Speaker 1: If you guys remember about the at the level coverage
Speaker 1: is not working for Indiana because them losing contained. So
Speaker 1: we saw a lot of this classics Shae chet two
Speaker 1: man game to start this game, and the main thing
Speaker 1: that you're gonna see right away is Turners at the level,
Speaker 1: But the entire purpose of the at the level is
Speaker 1: not to take away the pull up jump shot like
Speaker 1: turn I guarantee you Carlisle's not worried about Shae like
Speaker 1: taking a bunch of like rear view contest, pretty tough
Speaker 1: pull up threes. What he does have Turner up there for, though,
Speaker 1: is to stop Shae from turning the corner if he
Speaker 1: If he If Turner's way back here and Chet lays
Speaker 1: a screen on Shae, Shay can really get ahead of
Speaker 1: Steam on this runway, and then this could be tougher
Speaker 1: to deal with. Right turn her up at the level,
Speaker 1: but he loses contained and Shaye gets all the way
Speaker 1: to the basket. It's a nice finish, but that's an
Speaker 1: example of that cover not working because they can't contain
Speaker 1: the ball at the level. Similarly, another two man game
Speaker 1: at the top of the key here, this time with
Speaker 1: Shay and Chet. Again, let's fast forward a little bit.
Speaker 1: We have Turner at the level. Chat's open on the
Speaker 1: pick and pop close out. Right, here's our close out opportunity,
Speaker 1: and Turner gets beat on the closeout. So Turner came
Speaker 1: around and was great down the stretch of this game,
Speaker 1: the Pacers pivoted to more of a deep drop coverage,
Speaker 1: which you guys will see, and Turner got super hot
Speaker 1: as a jump shooter. It hit three big ones late
Speaker 1: and so, and he also did some work beating switches
Speaker 1: as you guys will see in the game. So Turner
Speaker 1: came around but early in the game struggling in the
Speaker 1: base coverage against the Shay Chat pick and roll. Here's
Speaker 1: an example of Indiana just starting to offer more help
Speaker 1: in this Shay Chet pick and roll. Once again, same thing,
Speaker 1: we're up at the level. Notice that Turner is a
Speaker 1: little hesitant to leave Chet now because he just got
Speaker 1: beat on a pop. Right, So how does Indiana adjust.
Speaker 1: We have Halliburton and Nie Smith basically ignoring their guys
Speaker 1: to sag into the paint. As Shaye drives, there's Nie
Speaker 1: Smith waiting. There's the bump on the shoulder and a
Speaker 1: block at the basket. Once again, look at the approach
Speaker 1: from Shay. Shae has done the job. He's brought a
Speaker 1: third defender in into a two man game.
Speaker 2: Jadub is open again.
Speaker 1: You throw the swing pass here In all likelihoods, Siakam
Speaker 1: closes out. Then Halliburton goes to close out to Dort
Speaker 1: kase on Wallace sets a pin and flair there. They're
Speaker 1: going to get an open a shot for Dort in
Speaker 1: the corner, but instead we're forcing the issue through traffic
Speaker 1: and getting blocked. You're going to see a lot of
Speaker 1: that kind of thing from Shae and j Dub in
Speaker 1: this game. Another Shaye Chet ballscreen. The Thunder ran over
Speaker 1: fifty ball screens last night. Steady dose of this. The
Speaker 1: Pacers were in like the mid thirties if I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: so substantially more pick and roll from the Thunder in
Speaker 1: this game than what we saw from Indiana. Same sort
Speaker 1: of thing where we see Turner kind of hesitant to
Speaker 1: leave Chet. See that he's just hesitant to leave check
Speaker 1: because he just got burned on the pop a couple
Speaker 1: possessions ago, hard help from Siakam in the lane, and
Speaker 1: then this is poor spacing. We talk a lot about
Speaker 1: the importance of spacing. As Shay's driving, Dort wants to
Speaker 1: go through to the dunker spot, and so instead of
Speaker 1: occupying this wing, they occupy the dunker spot in the corner.
Speaker 1: That puts Halliburton in a position where he can get
Speaker 1: underneath Dort, and he feels comfortable closing out to case
Speaker 1: On in the case, and then Siakam is comfortable splitting
Speaker 1: the difference between Dort and Shay because Dort doesn't really
Speaker 1: bring much in the way of vertical spacing ability, and
Speaker 1: so if Dort is way up here, that creates a
Speaker 1: much easier simple two on one read. If this guy
Speaker 1: steps over and helps on Shay, it's either swing to
Speaker 1: the corner or swinging to the wing.
Speaker 2: You get it open. Three.
Speaker 1: I thought that was just poor spacing from Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1: But again, you're gonna see a consistent theme here the
Speaker 1: thunder when they get in the paint, lots of bodies
Speaker 1: from the Pacers waiting for them right at the basket.
Speaker 1: There's a I thought the Pacers did we We've talked
Speaker 1: about this a lot coming into this series. This has
Speaker 1: been kind of the story of the Pacers postseason run.
Speaker 1: But overall, with exception of the turnovers which they cleaned
Speaker 1: up in the second half, I thought the Pacers did
Speaker 1: an excellent job of beating mismatches with size throughout the game.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see a ton of examples in the film session.
Speaker 1: Here we get a simple double drag right, So we
Speaker 1: throw the ball to Halliburton. Here's your double drag, meaning
Speaker 1: it's basically just a staggered ball screen. Seacam sets the
Speaker 1: first one, he set the second one. We get a switch, right,
Speaker 1: So now j dub is on Halliburton, Dort is on
Speaker 1: Nie Smith, and Cason Wallace is on Siakam. Watch how
Speaker 1: quickly so they have the switch. Seacam's on the left wing.
Speaker 1: They're in kind of like five out spacing. Watch how
Speaker 1: quickly they get the ball to a cleared side with
Speaker 1: Siakam swing turner gets the heck out. Siakam dives to
Speaker 1: the block. Now all these do are above the break
Speaker 1: to force Oklahoma City to make some decisions. They make
Speaker 1: the decision to stay hugged up to their man. That
Speaker 1: leaves a clean one on one down. Here a case
Speaker 1: in tries to basically three quarter front. That gives the
Speaker 1: baseline to Siakam and Siakam just quick attacks and scores.
Speaker 1: So like again, look at how quickly they get from
Speaker 1: oh cool.
Speaker 2: We got our switch. We got the switch.
Speaker 1: We wanted clear the side clear the get everybody above
Speaker 1: the break to clear space, pitch it down. Siakam quickly
Speaker 1: goes to work. That's just how surgical the pacers can
Speaker 1: be attacking mismatches. Triple handoff. Get Siakam on the case
Speaker 1: on again. Right here we get the DHL quick switch.
Speaker 1: This time they attack it right from the middle of
Speaker 1: the floor. Siakam goes quick right shoulder fade. Really nice
Speaker 1: little jump shot there. Talk the last night about how
Speaker 1: in the traditional coverages that the pacers were using it
Speaker 1: conceded quite a few open shots. Here's another example of that.
Speaker 1: And again, like guys like I in the big picture,
Speaker 1: the actual the percentages were actually pretty solid. Uh for Indiana.
Speaker 1: They did hold Oklahoma City, including passes below a point
Speaker 1: per pick and roll. But I think it's a little
Speaker 1: bit more complicated than that because there were these like
Speaker 1: clear huge mistakes and openings that you'll see. But then
Speaker 1: there are also like a lot of possessions where there
Speaker 1: are openings that Shae and Ja Dove just shoot some
Speaker 1: stupid shot instead of moving the ball through. So like
Speaker 1: there's a version of it where Oklahoma City can be
Speaker 1: much more efficient against these coverages. And so I do
Speaker 1: think that over the course of the series, if Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City does start processing better in burning these coverages more frequently,
Speaker 1: that Indiana might have to consider doing more switching. But again,
Speaker 1: watch as the hedge. So this is the hedge right
Speaker 1: Casein comes to set the screen for Shae. We have
Speaker 1: a lingering hedge from Halliburton to try to prevent Shae
Speaker 1: from turning the corner. And then right as Nemhard gets
Speaker 1: off of Casin to recover, him and Haliburton run into
Speaker 1: each other and that ends up clearing all this space
Speaker 1: for Shay to settle into a wide open pull up
Speaker 1: three and one of the best.
Speaker 2: Looks he got all night.
Speaker 1: I talked last night about how I thought Turner's drop
Speaker 1: coverage is actually pretty effective against j Dub. Here's an
Speaker 1: example of that. Just drop, drop, drop and force him
Speaker 1: to take these tough mid range jump shots. And the
Speaker 1: thing is is JDub is just not as good at
Speaker 1: this as Shay is. And so it's one of those
Speaker 1: things where like J Dub is letting them off the
Speaker 1: hook when he takes that type of shot, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna see a steady dose to this, Like there's seventeen
Speaker 1: seconds on the shot clock. He could have tried to
Speaker 1: turn the corner and get downhill into Turner's chest. He's
Speaker 1: setting the tone here. This is the kind of shot
Speaker 1: JDub wanted to take early in this game, a contested
Speaker 1: eighteen footer off, another deep mid ranger from j Dub again,
Speaker 1: plenty of time on the shot clock. You have a
Speaker 1: power miss Matt here. Just like these are tough shots
Speaker 1: to like get going with, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like this is how he started the game and to
Speaker 1: kind of set the tone for the way he played.
Speaker 1: Right on the other end of the floor, we have
Speaker 1: our first failed attempt for the Pacers to get the
Speaker 1: ball to a mismatch. So on this like little cutthrough action,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see a lot of this sort of thing
Speaker 1: from Chet. You'll there are several examples tonight or from
Speaker 1: the last night's game that you'll see in this film session.
Speaker 1: The Thunder will do these kinds of switches where they
Speaker 1: want to try to keep Chet in lowman positions so
Speaker 1: that he's in position to help at the rim. So
Speaker 1: he just points up and goes case and you go
Speaker 1: get Miles Turner. I'm gonna stay down here to get
Speaker 1: Obi toppin that way I can be ready to help
Speaker 1: at the rim. But as soon as Turner clears out. Now, now,
Speaker 1: Chet and Turner are really far away and we're gonna
Speaker 1: end up with a mismatch. We get the mismatch with
Speaker 1: Turner on Cason Wallace. Casin does a great job fronting
Speaker 1: the post and they fail to get the ball in.
Speaker 1: Topping dribbles himself into some trouble and ends up throwing
Speaker 1: the ball away. We had a similar turnover to this
Speaker 1: one earlier in the game. This is actually the second
Speaker 1: time that the Thunder stripped Turner on a roll. This
Speaker 1: is an example of just the damage the Thunder can
Speaker 1: do digging down from the weak side. So we get
Speaker 1: our screen, we get our role pocket pass watch Dort.
Speaker 1: Dort comes flying in boom strips it. That processing in
Speaker 1: the middle of the floor without turning the ball over
Speaker 1: is the key to the series for Indiana.
Speaker 2: They will get open looks.
Speaker 1: Turner misses this shots it's a pick and pop three,
Speaker 1: but this is open and it's gonna keep being open.
Speaker 1: So again the pick and pop. It's just a simple concept.
Speaker 1: Right as Demhar turns the corner, Case's chasing chet is
Speaker 1: in drop that leaves Turner open on the pop misses it.
Speaker 1: But that look is something that the Pacers should be
Speaker 1: able to get consistently throughout the remainder of the series.
Speaker 1: Here's an example of the Pacers. You know, I talked
Speaker 1: a lot of the in the video with Sam Vessini
Speaker 1: about how I think their best bet to get stops
Speaker 1: is just to really load up on ball screens and
Speaker 1: force Oklahoma City to shoot. And you're gonna see an
Speaker 1: example of it here. You get a ball screen. They're
Speaker 1: up at the level. This is a good at the
Speaker 1: level coverage from Turner. Notice he doesn't let Shay turn
Speaker 1: the corner. He's up there before he gets ahead of
Speaker 1: Steam forces him to get rid of the ball. Check
Speaker 1: gets over the top. That forces low man help from
Speaker 1: Obi Toppin, who tags the roller. Now we have our
Speaker 1: two on one. On the weak side, Halliburton just stays
Speaker 1: attached to Dort enough to make him not throw that pass.
Speaker 1: But notice he's got all that weight on that inside
Speaker 1: foot so he can push out on the close out.
Speaker 2: There's the kickout.
Speaker 1: Haliburton almost gets a hand on it and then gets
Speaker 1: a great contest on Cason Wallace there on the weak side.
Speaker 2: That is the strong base.
Speaker 1: Scheme that I really like for Indiana in this series,
Speaker 1: just loading up on ball screens and forcing them to
Speaker 1: shoot on the weak side. Another example of Turner losing
Speaker 1: contain at the level. Again this is this is the
Speaker 1: same coverage right ball screen at the level, but he
Speaker 1: gets split and now he's dead to rights and ends
Speaker 1: up giving up the layup right. So again, same coverage.
Speaker 1: And when we talk about adjustments in the postseason, we
Speaker 1: always talk like, oh, well, this doesn't work. That doesn't work.
Speaker 1: Everything can work if it's done right. Last possession turners
Speaker 1: at the level. He stops the ball.
Speaker 2: It works.
Speaker 1: This possession turners at the level. He doesn't stop the ball.
Speaker 1: It doesn't work. Right. Execution is the majority of the
Speaker 1: battle here. Alrighty uh, Shay's gonna beat Aaron Nee Smith
Speaker 1: off the dribble here, but watch the way all the
Speaker 1: pacers react. So gets beat off the dribble. Boom, three
Speaker 1: pacers meet Shae in help. Dort is wide open on
Speaker 1: the right wing. Cruso's wide open on the left wing.
Speaker 1: There's even a decent little vertical spacing opportunity here with
Speaker 1: Hartenstein twenty seconds on the shot clock. This is the
Speaker 1: shot Shay takes. I guess you'd call that a pass,
Speaker 1: some kind of lob pass something. But again in traffic.
Speaker 1: There are reeds there, there are reads there, but the
Speaker 1: reeds are being missed and stuff is getting forced in traffic.
Speaker 1: This next possession is attached to that. On the miss
Speaker 1: Shae falls down. As Shay falls down, he's on the ground.
Speaker 1: We have a five on four going the other way.
Speaker 1: Look at how fast the Pacers run I talked about
Speaker 1: last night. The Pacers, in their commitment to running, is
Speaker 1: responsible for a good portion of their success in this postseason.
Speaker 1: Look at everybody run and as a result, they end
Speaker 1: up getting an open three for Halliburton in the five
Speaker 1: on four. Here's an example of a classic backcut pass
Speaker 1: from Hartenstein to Shay that ends up leading to an
Speaker 1: open three. So backcut, Hartenstein hits him, forces siak him
Speaker 1: to step up, passed to dort TJ McConnell rotates Caruso's
Speaker 1: the extra pass, big time shot on this turnover. A
Speaker 1: kind of an overcooked pocket pass from Haliburton. I actually
Speaker 1: thought that was Haliburton's fault, just through it a little
Speaker 1: too hard and Shay just taking a lot of these
Speaker 1: like like look at that, like that like nineteen thirteen,
Speaker 1: you're getting double teamed. Okay, on the double team, you
Speaker 1: drive in you face more help and there's fourteen on
Speaker 1: the shock, like zero passes on the possession. You don't
Speaker 1: have separation and you're just rising and firing into a
Speaker 1: really tough contested little fourteen footer. Like I just didn't
Speaker 1: think that was a very good shot. A lot of
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. That's like he played himself into
Speaker 1: a rhythm and it worked out over the course of
Speaker 1: the game for him, but the team was in a rhythm.
Speaker 2: TJ.
Speaker 1: Mcconne's gonna get a lay up here, and you're going
Speaker 1: to see an example of the role gatty that Turner
Speaker 1: brings to the table on the ball screen to watch
Speaker 1: hart and Stein that little step there. Hartenstein has the
Speaker 1: chance to cut off the drive, but he doesn't want
Speaker 1: to leave Turner and so easy little scoop shot layup
Speaker 1: for TJ. Hartenstein had a rough night leaving shooters open.
Speaker 1: You guys are going to see some examples throughout this
Speaker 1: film session. But he did kick Thomas Bryant's butt on
Speaker 1: the glass and he just threw him out of the
Speaker 1: way there and got another put back, kind of reminiscent
Speaker 1: of the Mitchell Robinson problem.
Speaker 2: In the last round.
Speaker 1: The obvious targets for post mismatches against this team for
Speaker 1: Indiana are Isaiah Joe and Cason Wallace. I even thought TJ.
Speaker 1: McConnell had some success just attacking with power. You're going
Speaker 1: to see that here against Isaiah Joe. Quick spin, little
Speaker 1: right shoulder fade away. That's a Those matchups are matchups
Speaker 1: I really like for Indiana in this series. Here's another
Speaker 1: example of one of those traditional coverages not working for Indiana.
Speaker 1: All you have is Thomas Bryan on the ball, Caruso
Speaker 1: coming off. Neither of these guys are huge offensive threats,
Speaker 1: so I'd probably just switched this.
Speaker 2: But they don't.
Speaker 1: So as Siakam runs through, he ends up getting in
Speaker 1: Thomas Bryant's way and basically screens Thomas Bryant, and that
Speaker 1: leaves Isaiah Hartenstein.
Speaker 2: Open for the layup.
Speaker 1: I'm really really interested to see because I do think
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City will process better. I've dag Nault's gonna be
Speaker 1: seeing all this, these same stupid shots that Shane Ja
Speaker 1: Dubb took, so like, I'm almost certain that Oklahoma City's
Speaker 1: gonna come out and move the ball more in Game two,
Speaker 1: and so I'm just really curious to see how well,
Speaker 1: Indiana's based like base coverages work, not so much in
Speaker 1: like the ball screens with Shaye, like I want to
Speaker 1: load up on the ball screens with Shay. It's more
Speaker 1: just in these like other coverages off the ball, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of like simple switches that could have taken
Speaker 1: away some of these easy opportunities that you'll see. Here's
Speaker 1: the first three that Hartenstein concedes. So we get like
Speaker 1: a little ball screen here on the right and Siakam
Speaker 1: screening for TJ or planning to the Pacers will run
Speaker 1: a lot of these, like early Siakam screens to try
Speaker 1: to get switches, but there's no reason to even run
Speaker 1: that action because Toppin's being ignored by Hartenstein. Easy swing
Speaker 1: past to TJ McConnell and Top and knocks it down.
Speaker 1: And you'll see several examples of that with Hartenstein throughout
Speaker 1: the rest of this game. All right, watch the transition
Speaker 1: defense off of this steal, so Shay Ripsney Smith. Watch
Speaker 1: the Pacers sprint back. That effort stops Shay from getting
Speaker 1: a lay up, and you're gonna see so many examples
Speaker 1: of that. Top and Kate got off to a really
Speaker 1: rough start in this game. He really heated up from
Speaker 1: three and got himself back on track and was huge
Speaker 1: for the Pacers in this game. This is a tough
Speaker 1: shot against basically a set defender in Hartenstein. But again
Speaker 1: Hartenstein sagging a little bit, not too bad. Probably needs
Speaker 1: to apply a little bit more pressure there. You'll see
Speaker 1: a couple more examples like that. Another kind of mediocre
Speaker 1: pull up two from JADEB comes off with this little
Speaker 1: action with Caruso, turns the corner and just immediately settles
Speaker 1: like just ten on the shot clock. He just he's
Speaker 1: coming off the screen looking to shoot pull up jump
Speaker 1: shots instead of looking to attack. And you will see
Speaker 1: that shift as we get later into the game. Another
Speaker 1: Hartenstein open shot. He's got Ben Sheppard. Okay, Ben Shepherd
Speaker 1: can shoot the ball. You need to be paying attention.
Speaker 1: That's just bad defense. Like look, all it is is
Speaker 1: just a simple relocation that cut through from Matherin kind
Speaker 1: of occupies Isaiah's attention for a second, but Wiggins is
Speaker 1: not beat that. There's no passing angle there, so Hartenstein
Speaker 1: is just leaving another shooter open. And again there's several
Speaker 1: examples of that, and I think if I had to
Speaker 1: guess why Dagnaut went away from his bigs late. It
Speaker 1: was ultimately that it was ultimately he didn't trust them
Speaker 1: to be in the right spots on defense. I showed you,
Speaker 1: So there's two that I've shown you already. There was
Speaker 1: a third early in the first quarter, and at the
Speaker 1: very beginning of this Hartenstein ship where he left Andrew
Speaker 1: and Emhard wide open in the left quarter. All three
Speaker 1: of those threes went in. So that's nine points already
Speaker 1: of Indiana's twenty eight points that came off of Hartenstein
Speaker 1: leaving shooters open. And we're fifteen minutes into the game.
Speaker 1: Jadub finally attacks, gets rewarded for it. Look, just gets
Speaker 1: Ben Mathurn on his hip and attacks, draws a foul,
Speaker 1: gets rewarded for it, finally stops settling. We get a
Speaker 1: Turner mismatch against Jadub. He's trying to get them to
Speaker 1: set up for another post up. Look how he's pointing,
Speaker 1: but once the ball gets swung then he ducks in.
Speaker 1: As soon as the ball gets swung over to his
Speaker 1: side on the floor, he ducks in, ducks in on
Speaker 1: JDub creates the passing angle, draws a foul. Turner did
Speaker 1: a really nice job in this game. We got some
Speaker 1: aj Mitchell minutes, some rookie NBA Finals minutes in the
Speaker 1: first half of this game. This is a couple of
Speaker 1: shots there and then gets beat by the classic tyrese Haliburton.
Speaker 2: Fly By.
Speaker 1: Gets a little bit inattentive on this screen, doesn't appear
Speaker 1: to see the screen coming and gets hit. You could
Speaker 1: tell he notices it at the last second. And then
Speaker 1: I always talk about that top foot right when I'm
Speaker 1: talking about good screen navigation.
Speaker 2: Look at his left foot.
Speaker 1: That's the foot that you got to get above Miles
Speaker 1: Turner's left foot, and he just doesn't because he's caught
Speaker 1: off guard. So he gets drilled by the screen that
Speaker 1: puts him in trail position. Then all Halliburton has to
Speaker 1: do is basically show him the ball and then he'll
Speaker 1: go flying by. Shay's starting to get his jumper going here,
Speaker 1: let's pass forward a little bit. One upside to taking
Speaker 1: all those mediocre shots is it just kind of helps
Speaker 1: get his rhythm. Nice little step back twenty footer. I
Speaker 1: thought Chet had a few of these kind of poor
Speaker 1: forces early in this game. Here again a zero pass
Speaker 1: possession where he just tries to drive through Turner and
Speaker 1: just kind of just doesn't have an angle and just
Speaker 1: forces it up and bad. Miss lou Dort did a
Speaker 1: great job in this game of hitting like these kind
Speaker 1: of short, close out contested threes. Here's an example, like
Speaker 1: Siakam is digging down off the strong side corner. Skam
Speaker 1: closes out Dort like kind of like pump fakes, but
Speaker 1: then he just shoots that like semi contested short corner
Speaker 1: three and knocks it down. Sga gets a steal in
Speaker 1: the post entry here, great defense, but immediately runs down
Speaker 1: after his good defense and just jacks up a bad
Speaker 1: shot again right away. Again not a terrible shot for Sga.
Speaker 1: We know he can make that, but it's just one
Speaker 1: of those things, you know, where he's just struggling to
Speaker 1: really feel the flow of the game. Jdeb attacks, something
Speaker 1: good happens, doesn't Settle, puts his shoulder into Siakam, draws
Speaker 1: Haliburton in help, creates an open corner three. First teammate
Speaker 1: another turnover on a post entry. But watch the transition defense.
Speaker 1: So TJ looks away, swing the Nie Smith Nie Smith
Speaker 1: forced Caruso plays the passing lane, gets the steal. Watch
Speaker 1: the pacer sprint. Look at Obi toppin' man, and you'll see,
Speaker 1: like with the way the floor is set up, you
Speaker 1: have good floor balance. Right, I've got dudes above the
Speaker 1: break basket and ball. Right, we have two guys stop
Speaker 1: in the ball. We're matched up off with TJ McConnell
Speaker 1: and Obi topping. They force at least a semi contested
Speaker 1: three in transition off of a turnover. A lot of
Speaker 1: really good transition defense in this game. Another good example here,
Speaker 1: turnover these two guys, the two guys back, watch them
Speaker 1: both ball in basket ready, top in basket, TJ McConnell, ball,
Speaker 1: watch everyone else sprint back and get matched up, and
Speaker 1: Shae does them all favor. I'm telling you, Like I
Speaker 1: I always get a different feel for a game after
Speaker 1: I rewatch it, and I was like, oh, like Shay's
Speaker 1: working his way into rhythm. Like I see he's attacking
Speaker 1: the finals. And I go back and watch and I'm like, like,
Speaker 1: this is just you're making the game a lot tougher
Speaker 1: than it needs to be.
Speaker 2: By forcing the issue the way that he did.
Speaker 1: Another good attack from j dub here, and like it's
Speaker 1: it's about like an intentional unwillingness to accept being cut
Speaker 1: off like Nie Smith beats him to the spot here, retreat, dribble,
Speaker 1: attack again, going the other way, Just keep going, make
Speaker 1: something happen. Pretty clear, Uh, pretty clear. Pretty obvious difference
Speaker 1: in performance from JDub based on whether or not he
Speaker 1: was settling versus attacking. I talked in the series preview
Speaker 1: about TJ McConnell and his ability to beat people off
Speaker 1: the dribble and the value there. He beats Shay, that
Speaker 1: forces Dort to help off of top end, that creates
Speaker 1: a cut top and shows the ball, gets Dort to jump,
Speaker 1: that forces Shay to step up and help. TJ McConnell's
Speaker 1: wide open right there in the dunker spot, easy little shot,
Speaker 1: nice driving kick sequence started by TJ mcconne's dribble penetration.
Speaker 1: Here's a great low man possession from Tyrese Aliburton, and
Speaker 1: I think Tyre's Alliburton's defense has been very underrated in
Speaker 1: this postseason run. He's done good in ISO's you'll see
Speaker 1: some examples. Turner at the level forces Chet to roll
Speaker 1: past Turner, Shaye makes the past, and Haliburton ties him
Speaker 1: up over the top with his length. Really nice defensive
Speaker 1: play from Halliburton. All right, Pacers are gonna beat another
Speaker 1: pick and roll switch here with Turner. So we have
Speaker 1: Dort and Chet. Good screen from Turner noted that's the
Speaker 1: beginning there. Dort does such a good job of navigating
Speaker 1: screens on this one. He gets hit that forces the switch.
Speaker 1: Turner dives physical seal from Turner on the one that
Speaker 1: he turned over, the one that Haliburton threw that bounce
Speaker 1: pass if you watch it, if you go back and
Speaker 1: watch it, it was just not a very physical seal
Speaker 1: from Turner. Much more physical seal here. Creates a good
Speaker 1: clean passing angle, gets a bucket. Really nice work from Turner.
Speaker 1: Here's that recurring theme I was talking about with the
Speaker 1: pacer sending lots of help on drives. You're gonna see
Speaker 1: a lot of that in the second half. Shay's gonna
Speaker 1: get downhill beats them hard. Watch boom three pacers coalesce
Speaker 1: around him. Jew Is open misses the shot. In order
Speaker 1: for the Thunder to break the Pacers of this sort
Speaker 1: of hard help at the rim, they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: hitch shots. Notice Turner is in a softer drop like
Speaker 1: a deeper drop coverage in the second half of this game.
Speaker 1: That was the big adjustment from uh Ra Carlisle. As
Speaker 1: the game progressed, Shay started to get a little bit
Speaker 1: more free in the mid range in drop coverage. I
Speaker 1: thought this was a really bad transition defense sequence from Chet.
Speaker 1: Chet literally just gets outrun by Siakam. Here, look at Siakam,
Speaker 1: beautiful bounce pass from Halliburton, and again Chet like, if
Speaker 1: you're having a rough offensive night, that's fine, that's part
Speaker 1: of the game. You're a young player, it's the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1: But those are the mistakes you can't make if you're
Speaker 1: also having your rough offensive game. Rare example of Cason
Speaker 1: Wallace actually beating Halliburton one on one. Isaiah Joe and
Speaker 1: Cason Wallace did a lot of attacking Halliburton in action
Speaker 1: and in one on one, and Haliburton held up pretty well.
Speaker 1: But this is a rare example of Caseon actually having
Speaker 1: some success. Beats him with a little scoop shot. Here's
Speaker 1: another example of Oklahoma City really just conceding three by overhelping.
Speaker 1: Look at nies Smith like, there's no advantage here that
Speaker 1: would dictate Jadab being this far in the lane. Like
Speaker 1: Turner's on the roll, but dorts with him.
Speaker 2: This is an.
Speaker 1: Overhelp swing swing open three for Nie Smith. Good close
Speaker 1: out from Jadab But again, like these are, this is
Speaker 1: a team that's been shooting really well on those kickouts
Speaker 1: all postseason. And this is just an example of what
Speaker 1: I talked about last night in terms of the Thunder
Speaker 1: having options, in terms of loosening up their coverage a
Speaker 1: little bit, not being so crazy with their help. Kind
Speaker 1: of another recurring theme down the stretch of this game,
Speaker 1: the Pacers doing damage against switches on the offensive glass.
Speaker 1: So we get a ball screen. There's our ball screen.
Speaker 2: Switch. Siakam dives. At this point.
Speaker 1: You can try to throw it into the poet, but
Speaker 1: you also can just get it up on the rim.
Speaker 1: There's five seconds on the shot clock. Mammart has to
Speaker 1: do something quickly, kick out a little bit of an
Speaker 1: overhelp from Chet. Chet actually gets a piece beautiful close out,
Speaker 1: but look at our mismatch. This is the other side
Speaker 1: of the switch, and Siakam ends up getting an easy
Speaker 1: put back to erase the good defensive play from Chet.
Speaker 1: We talked about in a series preview about Halliburton's hedge
Speaker 1: and recovers not being very good against slips.
Speaker 2: Here was an example.
Speaker 1: So as Haliburton hedges good hard, aggressive hedge to stop
Speaker 1: Shae from turning the corner, but Cason gets behind him
Speaker 1: an easy little kick ahead pass for a layup. Another
Speaker 1: example of Tyre's Haliburton holding up in ISO. I believe
Speaker 1: this one was also against Cason. Wallace hedge a little
Speaker 1: bit of a nail help casing one on one against Hallie,
Speaker 1: slides beats into the spot. Good contest, Really nice work
Speaker 1: there from Haliburton. Now this is like a chaotic sequence,
Speaker 1: but I thought it was another example of an overhelp
Speaker 1: and it led to another wide open three for Obi toppin.
Speaker 1: Again like lost control of the ball, it's nearly turned
Speaker 1: over and Nemhart saves it.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah. But like, look as this.
Speaker 1: Is happening, Nemhart is not in an advantageous position, and
Speaker 1: yet Dort is sitting right under the basket and leaving
Speaker 1: Obi top and open Chats there to help too, and
Speaker 1: they end up just conceding and open three to top
Speaker 1: in on the weak side. Obi top in transition cross
Speaker 1: match on the run ahead ends up getting You can
Speaker 1: actually see them all identify it. Thomas Bryant identifies it
Speaker 1: and goes oh, Toppin's got a mismatch. I'm gonna clear
Speaker 1: to the corner. He clears out Hartenstein's kind of lingering.
Speaker 1: But then they swing the ball around. And when they
Speaker 1: swing the ball around, now Hartenstein has to account for
Speaker 1: Thomas Bryant in his corner three point shooting that creates
Speaker 1: the over the top passing angle. Perfect feed from themhard,
Speaker 1: nice finish Pacers, just absolutely relentless, punishing mismatches. I talked
Speaker 1: a lot in the series throughout this postseason, like what
Speaker 1: you need to score against Oklahoma City is the size
Speaker 1: to beat mismatches, the passing ability to pass through their aggression,
Speaker 1: and then the shooting ability to knock down shots when
Speaker 1: they double team. And the Pacers do have those piece
Speaker 1: it's just a question of like can they take care
Speaker 1: of the ball, which they did it in the first half,
Speaker 1: and then they did in the second half. They went
Speaker 1: from forty five points to sixty six points or whatever
Speaker 1: they had in the second half.
Speaker 2: Failed grift from Shae.
Speaker 1: This was such a smart play from TJ McConnell, beating
Speaker 1: a pre switch with a little swing pass.
Speaker 2: So again TJ comes.
Speaker 1: Up here, he wants to try to attack Shay right
Speaker 1: so he's gonna call Mathin up into the action. Matherine
Speaker 1: goes to go up into the action so that TJ
Speaker 1: can attack Shay, but Alex Cruso goes, no, dude, I'll
Speaker 1: go that way. I can switch it that way, you
Speaker 1: can stay home. But in that brief interchange as they
Speaker 1: both ran up with Ben to try to pre switch,
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of a miscommunication as Shay doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to understand what's happening. TJ rifles the swing, passes
Speaker 1: Siakam in the corner, and he knocks it down. Beautiful
Speaker 1: work from the pacers. Really nice kind of patient pick
Speaker 1: and roll attack here from JDub with Isaiah Hartenstein.
Speaker 2: Ball screen. Jadub puts him in jail.
Speaker 1: Okay gets some trapped on his backside, and then Hartenstein
Speaker 1: clears out Thomas Bryant with a gortat screen clears him
Speaker 1: out with that screen so that JDub can slither right
Speaker 1: in behind and get the layup. Ben Matherin's athleticism was
Speaker 1: really popping in this game. Simple backcut on Alex Cruso
Speaker 1: draws a foul. He's an apex athlete among athletes, and
Speaker 1: that is an advantage in a series like this, where
Speaker 1: Oklahoma's athleticism can be overwhelming at times. I thought this
Speaker 1: was great defense. Wigans ends up drawing a foul on
Speaker 1: a back cut here, but like watch Matherin, watch him
Speaker 1: navigate the screen boom and then beats him to the spot.
Speaker 1: Really really sharp defense from mather and Shakam just ends
Speaker 1: up giving up a back cut here and drawing a foul.
Speaker 1: You know, Ben Matherin, if there's something to get really
Speaker 1: excited about. If you're a Pacers fan too, you're already
Speaker 1: nearly you know, you're at least in the conversation for
Speaker 1: being a championship level team if you can compete in
Speaker 1: the series, right, and Ben Matherin just still has so
Speaker 1: much room to improve over the course of the coming years.
Speaker 1: Ben Matherin again, Alex Caruso just beats him off the
Speaker 1: dribble with the hesitation. Dribble once again, nothing fancy, just
Speaker 1: right here, high hesitation, just for a second, right there, hesitation.
Speaker 1: Then he hits the Jets and beats Alex off the
Speaker 1: dribble again. So much potential there in the big picture.
Speaker 1: JDub attacking again, gets downhill against Thomas Bryant, gets into
Speaker 1: his body and finishes like. That's what I mean when
Speaker 1: I say that Oklahoma City has these obvious ways to
Speaker 1: play better. They obviously can play a lot better just
Speaker 1: by Jdab being more of an attacking force and then
Speaker 1: both guys passing through passing through the aggressive help more efficiently.
Speaker 1: Baseline out of bounce, we talked a little bit about
Speaker 1: this last night on playback. Usually on baseline out of
Speaker 1: bounce plays, the fallback option if nothing is open is
Speaker 1: this guy who's on the strong side in line with
Speaker 1: the lane line will just seal and then the guy
Speaker 1: will throw it over the top pass. That's a super
Speaker 1: common kind of like release valve you'll see on baseline
Speaker 1: out of bounds plays at every level. Ben Matherin messes
Speaker 1: up though, because his action is dictating that he runs
Speaker 1: to this corner specifically so that he can clear Jaydub out.
Speaker 1: But he does and he drifts out to the wing,
Speaker 1: so then when the over the top pass comes, Jadub
Speaker 1: just jumps it.
Speaker 2: A nice little bit of gamesmanship too from Isaiah Hartenstein.
Speaker 1: You can actually see him pull on Thomas Bryant's jersey
Speaker 1: right there to stop him from being able to beat
Speaker 1: Jadub to the ball.
Speaker 2: This is a ridiculous and.
Speaker 1: One from Andrew Nemhard driving through Alex Caruso very well defended,
Speaker 1: runs through the double drag. Cruso gets through both screens,
Speaker 1: beats him to the spot, and Nemhar just powers through
Speaker 1: him for an and one ridiculous shot. Watch the way
Speaker 1: that Indiana guards this ball. Screen ball goes to j
Speaker 1: Dubb two man game with Hartenstein. Look at them hard.
Speaker 1: He's got Cason Wallace and he's just defending the action.
Speaker 1: Three on two is a free safety and conceding this
Speaker 1: swing pass contested three to case and he misses it again.
Speaker 2: That's the coverage. You can see it pretty clearly.
Speaker 1: Indiana is leaving dudes open and Oklahoma City's going to
Speaker 1: have to hit those shots. Really nice move here from Caruso.
Speaker 1: He beats Obi Topping with just a simple in and
Speaker 1: out dribbles fast forward a little bit hard in and
Speaker 1: out right here Boom buckles him, gets in, draws the
Speaker 1: and one a little another example of overhelp from the
Speaker 1: thunder here, and again it's a recurring theme. Both teams
Speaker 1: are doing it. The difference is is the Pacers are
Speaker 1: like this super reliable catch and shoot team and the
Speaker 1: thunder a little bit more. You know, it depends on
Speaker 1: the night. And like that's the thing is If if
Speaker 1: both teams get away with this or run this sort
Speaker 1: of coverage and the Pacers shoot the way that they're
Speaker 1: capable of shooting, and the thunder go hot and cold
Speaker 1: at times, the Pacers have a very good chance to
Speaker 1: win this series.
Speaker 2: Look at this.
Speaker 1: Ball, scream it's topping to go to the ball. Hartenstein
Speaker 1: is there and help, so is Wiggins. We're triple teaming
Speaker 1: the ball and leaving shooters open and when they pass
Speaker 1: it out, they're gonna knock them down. It's really that simple,
Speaker 1: nothing too crazy. JDub missus A Reid here.
Speaker 2: Comes.
Speaker 1: It comes off of a ball screen with Hartenstein attacks
Speaker 1: draws the help. You've done your job, you drew Nemharden help.
Speaker 1: Halliburton is coming over to tag Cason Wallace. Aaron Wiggins
Speaker 1: is wide open on the right wing and stead he
Speaker 1: shoots over a double team misses it.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Time for the Pacers Devil Magic to start heating up
Speaker 1: a little bit. It's gonna start with a Miles Turner
Speaker 1: semi contested three along the right wing, and again it's
Speaker 1: all about the rhythm. Everyone's involved. Throughout this game, Turner
Speaker 1: just catches and fires over the top of Hartenstein knocks
Speaker 1: it down. We get a time out eight point game
Speaker 1: out of the time out. Really smart play design from
Speaker 1: Mark Dagnelt, taking advantage of the fact that the Pacers
Speaker 1: are not switching a lot of these off ball actions.
Speaker 1: They just simply have Shay backscreen for Cason Wallace because
Speaker 1: Nemhar doesn't want to help and these guys don't want
Speaker 1: to switch, so Cason's able to just sneak right behind
Speaker 1: for the layup. Really nice play design from Dagnault. We
Speaker 1: get a hedge and recover on this sequence. Here a
Speaker 1: lot of guard screens attacking Halliburton, topping and siakam down
Speaker 1: the stretch of this game. We get the hedge and recover.
Speaker 1: It works, they stop him from turning the corner. Haliburton
Speaker 1: gets back and doesn't concede the easy kickout, but then
Speaker 1: he sits in some nail help digs down on Shay.
Speaker 1: Cason's open just can't make them pay again, Like if
Speaker 1: this is the way they're going to guard, Shay's making
Speaker 1: the reads now. But at this point in the game,
Speaker 1: these guys are out of rhythm. If he invested more
Speaker 1: earlier in the game and trying to get these guys
Speaker 1: some cleaner looks, as he was kind of forcing the
Speaker 1: issue in traffic, there's a better chance of these guys
Speaker 1: knocking down shots late in the game, right like Turner
Speaker 1: missed early in the game, two wide open above the
Speaker 1: break threes. That's an investment from Halliburton into his shooting
Speaker 1: that pays off later in the game. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: a random double team here on a Nies Smith drive.
Speaker 1: Nie Smith drives, okay, and look at Dort. So Dort
Speaker 1: is on the weak side with Obi Toppin. Nie Smith
Speaker 1: is driving, not threatening, Okay, they're hounding him around the baseline.
Speaker 1: Dort brings this random double team. In the random double team,
Speaker 1: Nie Smith just powers through, pivots around really well. Now
Speaker 1: Toppin's wide open again, kick out knockdown. So like it
Speaker 1: paid off in the first half when they forced a
Speaker 1: bunch of turnovers, but in the second half when they
Speaker 1: stopped forcing turnovers as the Pacers kind of settled down
Speaker 1: taking care of the basketball, all that overhelp, all that
Speaker 1: gambling ended up leading to open threes.
Speaker 2: Dort misses another kickout.
Speaker 1: On this play, Turner's helping, but in the close out
Speaker 1: from Turner and we end up with another transition cross match.
Speaker 2: Because Turner is.
Speaker 1: The guy who closes out at Dort, he's first up
Speaker 1: the floor. Because he's first up the floor, chats all
Speaker 1: the way back at the basket, we're gonna get a
Speaker 1: cross match. That cross match leaves Jadub against Turner. Nie
Speaker 1: Smith misses the corner three, but there's Turner rebound draws
Speaker 1: the foul. Another example of the Pacers beating size mismatches
Speaker 1: on the offensive glass more Pacers Voodoo, this time Miles
Speaker 1: Turner shows the ball, beats Chet with a step back,
Speaker 1: and banks it in. I don't know in retrospect, judging
Speaker 1: by the celebration from Turner, I'm gonna guess it probably
Speaker 1: was not an intentional thing. Another example hedge and recover,
Speaker 1: this time not working. Topping throws the hedge. By the
Speaker 1: time he recovers, he kind of gets in Nemhard's way
Speaker 1: a little bit, so by the time Demhard picks up
Speaker 1: the ball, he's already south of the foul line. Shay's
Speaker 1: got too much momentum and he's able to power through
Speaker 1: and draw foul. Another beautiful Miles Turner shot in the
Speaker 1: pocket in a ball screen. Let's fast forward a little
Speaker 1: bit here screen the reset. I think the pass actually
Speaker 1: comes from nemhard ball screen. In the pocket. This is
Speaker 1: a tough shot, like a leaning, drifting pocket elbow jumper.
Speaker 1: Really nice work from Myles Turner. Another example of a
Speaker 1: good drop cover drap from Miles Turner against j Dub
Speaker 1: Chase give ground, meet him at the rim. Great contest
Speaker 1: forces a miss. He's JDub didn't settle, but I do
Speaker 1: like that coverage for Indiana in that particular action. On
Speaker 1: the other end, Halliburton gets a little semi transition opportunity
Speaker 1: to attack Shake Gills as Alexander beats him off the
Speaker 1: dribble for the scoop shot.
Speaker 2: Nice finish. Chet makes a I.
Speaker 1: Thought a fine attack here, beats Turner and he's right
Speaker 1: at the rim.
Speaker 2: He makes that layup.
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City's in pretty good shape and maybe Chet stays
Speaker 1: in the game, but he misses that one and Dagnauld
Speaker 1: ends up pivoting off of him here in just a
Speaker 1: couple possessions. This is a really nice split from Shay
Speaker 1: against Siakam. Watch how he just immediately attacks and protects
Speaker 1: the dribble with a kind of a scissor dribble right
Speaker 1: as he gets onto Siakam, immediate scissor dribble to change
Speaker 1: direction and protect the ball. And again look at Siakam's
Speaker 1: right here. That's why you need to use the scissor
Speaker 1: dribble instead of the crossover. A low gather is a
Speaker 1: way to draw a foul. There again, as you if
Speaker 1: you do a low gather, you might catch his arm
Speaker 1: and draw foul. But another way to protect the basketball
Speaker 1: and to not necessarily grift, but to just beat someone
Speaker 1: off the dribble, but try to not turn the ball
Speaker 1: over is protect the ball by going through your legs.
Speaker 1: He does quick change his direction, gets all the way
Speaker 1: to the rim in a really nice finish in traffic.
Speaker 1: Chet defensive switch. I thought, pretty well, here switch ball,
Speaker 1: scream with Turner, they pass it back to Halliburton looks
Speaker 1: to attack Chat. I thought this was a really nice contest.
Speaker 1: Forces the miss, and now we have Chet out of
Speaker 1: the game. So with Chat out of the game, we
Speaker 1: have six five sixty six sixty six six four six
Speaker 1: two sixty three. Really a small lineup out there for
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City. Watch Siakam, Haliverton misses, but Siakam is just
Speaker 1: taller than all these dudes and not really anything they
Speaker 1: can do, and he just gets it over the top
Speaker 1: of him and draws a foul. We are up nine
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City with less than three minutes left, and we
Speaker 1: get to more devil magic. In this case, watched aaron
Speaker 1: NEI Smith running out to this corner three on the move,
Speaker 1: rising and firing against the contest. Insane shot from aaron
Speaker 1: Ne Smith, and again we're calling it devil magic as
Speaker 1: a joke. It's part of the rhythm that Indiana invests
Speaker 1: throughout the game. Another packed paint on a drive the split,
Speaker 1: nice work. Three pacers meet Shae in the lane. There's
Speaker 1: our kickout Jadub missus. Little extra detail to watch Haliburton's
Speaker 1: close out. Halliburton's close out is not going at Jadub.
Speaker 1: It's going right in between him and Cason. It's a
Speaker 1: passing lane close out, and the result is it forces
Speaker 1: j Dub to throw a pass fake. He throws a
Speaker 1: pass fake that breaks his rhythm a little bit and
Speaker 1: is part of the reason why he leaves that shot
Speaker 1: just a tiny bit short. Here's the insane Andrew Nemhard
Speaker 1: step back against Shay. Unbelievable stuff, just elite one on
Speaker 1: one work brings his game.
Speaker 2: Back to three.
Speaker 1: We get a guard guard screen attacking Haliburton in the hedge.
Speaker 1: Two on the ball, Cason slips, Pacers react door to Oh.
Speaker 1: These are the good looks that Oklahoma City got down
Speaker 1: the stretch that they were missing. Unbelievable block from lou
Speaker 1: Dort here vertical takes the contact blocks him on the
Speaker 1: way down. Shaye beats everyone to the ball and then
Speaker 1: somehow finishes this layup their two bodies at the rim.
Speaker 2: Big time sequence.
Speaker 1: At that point you're thinking the game's over right, but nope,
Speaker 1: big time stop here from Nemhart and Siakam on Shae.
Speaker 1: I thought Nemhar just did a nice job of staying
Speaker 1: body to body with Shae and disrupting his base. Like
Speaker 1: this little bump right there. That little bump as he
Speaker 1: fights through gets Shay a little off balance. Now watch
Speaker 1: Shay's footwork as he elevates on Siakam. He kind of
Speaker 1: goes to a right left takeoff off two feet, but
Speaker 1: he just doesn't yet much lyft because his footwork is
Speaker 1: a little off because of the bump from Nemhard and
Speaker 1: so Siakam is able to beat him at the rim.
Speaker 1: Watch him again, I'm gonna watch it, and played him
Speaker 1: full speed. Watch Shae just get a little bit bumped
Speaker 1: off balance right before he takes off. That makes it
Speaker 1: so he doesn't get as much lyft, which is why
Speaker 1: he gets blocked at the rim. An excellent little two
Speaker 1: man stop there from those two guys. Another Sam offensive
Speaker 1: rebound off of the miss. Because Shae misses the layup,
Speaker 1: he's last thunder up the floor. These four guys are
Speaker 1: ahead of him. Siakam's trailing, so as a result, in
Speaker 1: the transition cross match, we have Skam on Shay right
Speaker 1: or Shae on Siakam. I should say he takes him
Speaker 1: right down. They go like they're gonna go to the post.
Speaker 1: But instead of going to the post, Nemhard goes, well,
Speaker 1: I just hit this crazy step back, might as well
Speaker 1: try another, but look at Siakam. He just dives on Shae,
Speaker 1: gets inside position and gets the put back.
Speaker 2: Huge huge play in this game.
Speaker 1: On the other end, Shay overcooks the mid range jump
Speaker 1: shot against Nemhard actually gets a decent look. He kind
Speaker 1: of like sheds Nemhard with the body bump here gets
Speaker 1: a really good look, just misses it off the back
Speaker 1: rim rebound.
Speaker 2: You guys know the rest. Tyre's Halliburton.
Speaker 1: Makes an aggressive driving move against Cason Wallas. Watch Cason
Speaker 1: Walls is squared up, but as Halliburton starts to turn
Speaker 1: the corner, Cason has to bail on being squared.
Speaker 2: Up to recover. Look at his hips.
Speaker 1: He's got his hips completely turned towards the baseline. That is,
Speaker 1: right when Tyre's Halliburton decides to pop up off the ground.
Speaker 2: Game over one, oh Indiana heading into Game two crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: As you guys can see pretty clearly from the film,
Speaker 1: there's some obvious fixable things for Oaklham City. Shay's got
Speaker 1: to make more of an effort early in the game
Speaker 1: to invest in the rhythm of his teammates by making
Speaker 1: the appropriate kickouts j dub He's at his best when
Speaker 1: he's attacking, not settling. And then guys are gonna have
Speaker 1: to hit those open catch and shoot jump shots when
Speaker 1: Indiana overhelps and on drives and then on the other
Speaker 1: end of the floor, a little bit more selective of
Speaker 1: when to swarm, because Indiana, when they take care of
Speaker 1: the basketball, is gonna get the ball out against you,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna hit those threes again. I am not
Speaker 1: worried about Indiana having a letdown in Game two. They're
Speaker 1: gonna come out and they're gonna play Pacers basketball. But
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City is certainly capable of coming out with force
Speaker 1: and playing a lot better. I believe they will, and
Speaker 1: I believe they'll win Game two. But really really impressive
Speaker 1: work from the Indiana Pacers to steal game one on
Speaker 1: the road. All right, guys, this all I have for
Speaker 1: today is always sincerely appreciate you guys for supporting us
Speaker 1: and supporting the show. We'll be back tomorrow with a
Speaker 1: mail bag based on the NBA Finals as well as
Speaker 1: some other topics going on around the NBA, and then
Speaker 1: back for Game two live on YouTube after the final
Speaker 1: buzzer on Sunday.
Speaker 2: What's up guys?
Speaker 1: As always, I appreciate you for listening to and supporting
Speaker 1: OOPS tonight. They would actually be really helpful for us
Speaker 1: if you guys would take a second and leave a
Speaker 1: rating and a review. As always, I appreciate you guys
Speaker 1: supporting us, but if you could take a minute to
Speaker 1: do that, I'd really appreciate it. The volume