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Speaker 1: and they get out to the perimeter. They close out well.

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Speaker 1: But that's going to be a huge factor in this

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Speaker 1: particular series. To me, the Luca attacking mostly comes down

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Speaker 1: to the fatigue battle. Boston is going to be trying

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Speaker 1: to wear Luca out and Dallas is going to be

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Speaker 1: trying to make Luca's job easier so that he doesn't

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Speaker 1: get worn out. Last week I want to look at

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Speaker 1: is just Jason Tatum as the offensive initiator for Boston again.

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Speaker 1: Josh Green got the assignment in the March first game

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Speaker 1: and Tatum just torched him. He was too small to handle.

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Speaker 1: Tatum just there was a sequence of possessions in the

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Speaker 1: second quarter where he just literally looked to attack Josh

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Speaker 1: Green every single time down the floor. He went on

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Speaker 1: like a nine to zero run by himself, just attacking

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Speaker 1: Josh Green out of like the right elbow in straight

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Speaker 1: iso and post up situations. Now, Darrek Jones Junior is

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Speaker 1: not as strong as Josh Green, but he is longer

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Speaker 1: and better at contesting those pull up jump shots. I

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Speaker 1: actually think he's just a better matchup for Tatum in

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Speaker 1: general in terms of having the length to actually contest

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Speaker 1: those shots. My main concern for Dallas with Tatum is

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Speaker 1: actually just Tatum as a passer. Tatum's not shooting well

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Speaker 1: in this postseason run. He's at zero point eight two

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Speaker 1: points per pull up jumper. That's bad. Zero point nine

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Speaker 1: points per catch and shoot jumper, that's bad. He's seven

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Speaker 1: for thirty three on face up jumpers zero point five

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Speaker 1: to two points per shot. That's really bad. So, like

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Speaker 1: Tatum's jumper just isn't there right now, and if it

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Speaker 1: comes back in a big way in the series, Boston's

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Speaker 1: just gonna win, Like, forget about it. Boston's winning if

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Speaker 1: Tatum shoots well. But he hasn't been shooting well. That said,

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Speaker 1: Dallas has entry points that Tatum can look to exploit

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Speaker 1: to easily get the defense in rotation. Again, any action

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Speaker 1: involving Tatum and Luca is likely to end with the

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Speaker 1: defense in rotation for the same reasons that I just

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Speaker 1: broke down for you guys. Right, Like, anytime Tatum has

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Speaker 1: the ball and set and get brings Luke into the screen,

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Speaker 1: Luca's probably gonna switch. They're gonna double. You'll be in rotation.

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Speaker 1: And if Luca, if Tatum sets the screen, switch on

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Speaker 1: to Tatum and throw the ball back to Tatum. Now

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Speaker 1: you're in rotation anyway. Right, So I think that's gonna

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Speaker 1: happen pretty consistently. But Tatum has the size to make

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Speaker 1: passes out of that. He is, in my opinion, one

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Speaker 1: of the best passing forwards in the league. It's one

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Speaker 1: of the most underrated traits about his game. He's incredible defensively,

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Speaker 1: and he's incredible as a playmaker. The primary concerns with

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Speaker 1: Tatum involved his ability to consistently get to his spots

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Speaker 1: and make shots right like is for him. It's his

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Speaker 1: inconsistency as a score that has held him back. But

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Speaker 1: his playmaking is something that I think is underrated, and

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Speaker 1: so I'm worried about for Dallas. Just Tatum functioning is

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Speaker 1: like this glue guy offensively that just consistently runs a

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Speaker 1: basic action the beginning of a possession to get the

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Speaker 1: defense in rotation, and suddenly it's Derek White, Drew Holliday,

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown and Crisops porzingis running four on threes and

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Speaker 1: just torching them. That's my main concern with Tatum. So again,

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Speaker 1: this series to me comes down to rotations. For Dallas,

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Speaker 1: they have to do a really good job flying around

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Speaker 1: and chasing guys off the three point line. It's doable,

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Speaker 1: but it's going to be a tough job. I don't

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Speaker 1: hate the other matchups Kyrie on Kyrie and PJ. Washington

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Speaker 1: are both guys that can guard on the perimeter. I'm

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Speaker 1: really just worried about them operating with an advantage. Like

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Speaker 1: it's not PJ Washington guarding Jalen Brown with two guys

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Speaker 1: dug down into driving lanes that I worry about. It's

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown catching on the left wing with PJ. Washington

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Speaker 1: closing out at him and him just getting easy buckets

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Speaker 1: looking to attack quickly with that guy closing out right

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Speaker 1: keys for both teams with Boston on offense for Boston

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Speaker 1: be deliberate about attacking Luca. If they let him guard

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Speaker 1: in an island, you'll wear him out. Not to mention,

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Speaker 1: you'll get great shots, but you'll wear him out, which

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Speaker 1: will hurt him on the offensive end. And most likely

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Speaker 1: you're just going to get the defense in rotation. In

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Speaker 1: the March first game, they had thirty three assists. They

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Speaker 1: had fourteen assists on their first seventeen made field goals.

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Speaker 1: They did a great job in that March first game

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Speaker 1: of getting the ball bouncing around, secondly pushing in transition.

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Speaker 1: You guys will see some examples in film, but anytime

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Speaker 1: they got a transition cross match, it just made it

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Speaker 1: so that Dallas couldn't run their actual defensive game plan,

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Speaker 1: which ended up in problems. So like just running up

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Speaker 1: and down the floor, forcing Dallas into cross matches will

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Speaker 1: help them. And then again, get the ball reversal in

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Speaker 1: every possession, Get the ball across the floor, make it

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Speaker 1: across the midline and make these guys defend against the

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Speaker 1: make these guys defend closing out rather than load it up.

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Speaker 1: Remember Dallas is a load up defense. That's what they

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Speaker 1: did to Minnesota, and they weren't very good at getting

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Speaker 1: the ball side to side. Boston has to get the

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Speaker 1: ball side to side on the Dallas front protect Luca's legs.

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Speaker 1: I would have him switch and then double out of

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00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:57,880
Speaker 1: every single one of those situations. That way, he has

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Speaker 1: no screen navigation and no hard close like just make

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Speaker 1: his job super easy, because in my opinion, the best

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Speaker 1: pathway for Dallas to win this series is for Luca

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00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 1: to go absolutely super nova on offense and to shake

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Speaker 1: Boston's foundation the way he shook Minnesota's foundation in Game five,

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Speaker 1: and then to lead Boston into their bad offensive stretches.

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Speaker 1: As we know, Boston can lose sight of the goal

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Speaker 1: and their execution on offense from time to time. Luca

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Speaker 1: going super nova is a great way to play Boston

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Speaker 1: into those tendencies. Lastly, I think they need to lean

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Speaker 1: into Cleiba and Lively and then switch as much as possible. Again,

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Speaker 1: more stagnation, less ball movement. Boston ceiling is higher. It

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Speaker 1: just is. That's a fact going into the series. We

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Speaker 1: know Boston when they play their best, is better than anybody, right,

534
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Speaker 1: but they're inconsistent in that level, and so you have

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Speaker 1: to try to play them to the lower end of

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Speaker 1: their variants and the best way to do that is

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Speaker 1: when they're stagnant taking bad pull up jump shots and

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Speaker 1: they're not popping around in rotation getting easy shots. And

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Speaker 1: so it's gonna be tough. But like, the one guy

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Speaker 1: you have to protect is Luca, but I would switch

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Speaker 1: everybody else and leave him on an island and just

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Speaker 1: force Boston to score. And then it's gonna be about

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Speaker 1: Boston being deliberate to attack Luca and keep the defense

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Speaker 1: in rotation as much as possible. The volume