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Speaker 2: co slash audio. All right, well, good to hoopsaid I
Speaker 2: hear at the volume. Happy Thursday, everybody. Hope if you
Speaker 2: guys are having a great week. Just a quick film
Speaker 2: session this morning. I want to be focusing on a
Speaker 2: few things from the Oklahoma City Thunder's big victory last
Speaker 2: night against the Nuggets. I want to talk about some
Speaker 2: of the ways they were forcing turnovers on Nikola jokicch
Speaker 2: by winning the position battle with him. After that, I
Speaker 2: want to put a light on J Dubb, who I
Speaker 2: thought played a phenomenal second quarter in this game, and
Speaker 2: I just kind of want to focus on his semi trains,
Speaker 2: psition drives and the consistent rim pressure he was generating,
Speaker 2: some of the higher quality kickout reads he was making.
Speaker 2: Just a little shout out to JDub for what I
Speaker 2: thought was a big balance back game in game two.
Speaker 2: And then after that we're going to move over to
Speaker 2: the Celtics Knicks series and what I want to focus
Speaker 2: on there is specifically some of the things that the
Speaker 2: Knicks were doing better on defense. I want to highlight
Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson and his competitiveness defensively. I want to talk
Speaker 2: about a concept that I talked about last night involving
Speaker 2: the idea that the Celtics are letting the Knicks off
Speaker 2: the hook for some of their natural coverage openings because
Speaker 2: of their complete inability to knock down jump shots, and
Speaker 2: you can see it starting to have a mental impact
Speaker 2: on the Celtics. I'll show you guys some examples of that,
Speaker 2: and then the final sequence, I want to highlight just
Speaker 2: how Mitchell Robinson made the adjustment and Ojan Andobi made
Speaker 2: the adjustment from what happened on the possession where Jason
Speaker 2: Tatum got his big dunk, and I want to focus
Speaker 2: on how they managed to get a stop on that
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Speaker 3: Of the postseason. All right, let's talk some basketball.
Speaker 2: So over in the Thunder Nuggets series again, as I mentioned,
Speaker 2: these high post entries were where the Thunder were forcing
Speaker 2: a bunch of turnovers, and it kind of started with
Speaker 2: the basic concept of Jokic losing contact with the guards
Speaker 2: that were behind him. It wasn't as big of a
Speaker 2: deal with the biggs, although Chet gets him once, you
Speaker 2: guys will see. But one of the things that these
Speaker 2: perimeter players for the Thunder were doing is they weren't
Speaker 2: switching by running up and trying to deny Yokic to catch.
Speaker 2: They were abating the high post entry and then they
Speaker 2: were shooting the gap without contact. So as you can see,
Speaker 2: Doord is not pressing up on Jokic, He's waiting for
Speaker 2: the pass. He's literally baiting him into the pass. And
Speaker 2: then when the pass comes, he's just gonna dip underneath
Speaker 2: and go get the basketball. So again, if he ran
Speaker 2: up and made physical contact with Jokic, makes it very
Speaker 2: easy for Jokic to seal. And he's basically taking advantage
Speaker 2: of Jokic's laziness here because Jokic is not doing the
Speaker 2: job of creating that seal, creating that passing angle, and
Speaker 2: so Door's able to just shoot the gap and take
Speaker 2: the ball away. You're gonna see several examples of that
Speaker 2: here in this opening sequence. This one is the one
Speaker 2: that Chet forced. And once again I just want to
Speaker 2: give credit to Chet and credit to the Thunder for
Speaker 2: just battling Yokic off of position. Here, Jokic tries to
Speaker 2: get an inside seal on sheet. Look at sheet, immediately,
Speaker 2: try to swim around and get that left arm in there,
Speaker 2: and that left arm ends up being just enough to
Speaker 2: force Yokic to lose control the ball, just that little
Speaker 2: bit of contact right there. And again there's two sides
Speaker 2: to this coin. Yoka has to do a better job
Speaker 2: of ceiling and creating that clear passing window, but there's
Speaker 2: the Thunder also on the other side of that, making
Speaker 2: Denver pay for that sloppiness. I talked last night about
Speaker 2: how they were attacking the pocket pass. You'll see multiple
Speaker 2: arms getting in into that you know, passing window every
Speaker 2: single time. Here's an example. We have Russ come off
Speaker 2: the screen. There's our pocket right, that's where we're looking
Speaker 2: to make the pass. You're gonna see Hartenstein get a
Speaker 2: hand in. You're gonna see kese on Wallace get a
Speaker 2: hand in. You're gonna see active hands immediately. You'll see
Speaker 2: as they reach in. Hardenstein's the first guy to get
Speaker 2: a hand on it, and the Kesan shoots in there
Speaker 2: and he gets a hand on it. Just attacking the
Speaker 2: pocket and preventing Denver from getting to their connective passing sequences. Again,
Speaker 2: like if Yokicic catches at the elbow, if Yollkicic catches
Speaker 2: in the pocket, if yoll caicch catches on the block,
Speaker 2: that's where he can be the guy that creates that
Speaker 2: huge advantage that keeps the Denver offense humming. But if
Speaker 2: you can disrupt the ball even from get into that spot,
Speaker 2: it goes a long way towards helping you get stops.
Speaker 2: Here's another Yokics turnover on a high post entry very
Speaker 2: similar to the one we talked about earlier, This one
Speaker 2: from Aaron Wiggins. So Yokic at this phase is sealed
Speaker 2: on Wiggins there on his shoulder, but they get disconnected.
Speaker 2: You'll see him get disconnected. So Jokic works up a
Speaker 2: little higher, steps up to get higher. But look there's
Speaker 2: no contact now. Because there's no contact, that allows Aaron
Speaker 2: Wiggins to shoot the gap without having to worry about
Speaker 2: a Jokic seal. Watch Aaron Wiggins shoot the gap and
Speaker 2: just go to the basketball.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: See, did a wonderful job of this all night, just
Speaker 2: not worrying about necess because they know if Yokic catches there,
Speaker 2: they're dead.
Speaker 3: To rights anyway.
Speaker 2: But if they can get there before he catches it
Speaker 2: and force that turnover, then it's easy buckets out and
Speaker 2: transition the other way. Really nice work from Aaron Wiggins
Speaker 2: jumping that passing lane. All right, let's talk about Jadubb.
Speaker 2: This is an example of one of those semi transition drives.
Speaker 2: So again it's not technically a fast break, but this
Speaker 2: is this is what I would consider semi transition. It's
Speaker 2: like basically a three on four break, right like, but
Speaker 2: everyone's back pedaling like this is now the on ball defender.
Speaker 2: And look, this was on a made basket. I was
Speaker 2: trying to remember last night if it was on a
Speaker 2: mad or miss basket, it was on a Mate. So look,
Speaker 2: made basket inbound to Jadub. Denver's not set in their
Speaker 2: transition defense. Now all of a sudden, Jamal Murray's dead
Speaker 2: to rights and Jadubb just hits that gap in the
Speaker 2: middle of the floor. There gets Downhill forces the gold
Speaker 2: ten from Gordon. You're gonna see several examples of that here,
Speaker 2: same thing here against Christian Brown made basket.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 2: Look, this is literally Denver's scoring and they're just giving
Speaker 2: the ball to j Dub and Jadubb's catching Christian Brown.
Speaker 2: Look at where Christian Brown picks him up. Boom, He's
Speaker 2: making first contact with j Dub south of the foul line.
Speaker 2: Like that, that's as I mentioned last night, Christian Brown
Speaker 2: had a rough night guarding on the ball. But like
Speaker 2: a lot of this from Denver where they're not set
Speaker 2: and Jadub's just making them pay with these hard semi
Speaker 2: transition drives and like he's not even getting picked up
Speaker 2: until he's basically in the finishing zone there in the middle.
Speaker 1: Of the floor.
Speaker 2: This one's off of a close out on the left
Speaker 2: wing against Jokic. Fast forward a little bit, so ball
Speaker 2: gets swung nine seconds what look, no messing around, just downhill,
Speaker 2: get into the teeth of the defense.
Speaker 3: He draws a foul. One thing. I will say there,
Speaker 3: we'll go back. These are those.
Speaker 2: Situations though, where like you know, if it's a this
Speaker 2: was a blowout, but like if it's Game four and
Speaker 2: the series is two to one Denver or two to
Speaker 2: one OKC, and it's a pivotal game in the series,
Speaker 2: Like these are the kinds of decisions from j Dub
Speaker 2: where like you're shooting over two people when there's a
Speaker 2: clear kickout read to Aaron Wiggins, who's a knockdown three
Speaker 2: point shooter. These are the kinds of basic decisions that
Speaker 2: Jaydub has to get a little more consistent making. Makes
Speaker 2: the decision on this one once again, semi transition. Look
Speaker 2: Denver's backpedaling, Look at where Yo kich is. Jokica has
Speaker 2: his back turn to the basketball, Jada left to right crossover.
Speaker 2: Once again, Brown doesn't pick him up physically until south
Speaker 2: of the foul line gets to the baseline. He does
Speaker 2: actually tie him up a little bit, but so much
Speaker 2: rim pressure. There's four nuggets staring at him and the paint.
Speaker 2: He gets a clean kickout to Aaron Wiggins. Lots of
Speaker 2: rim pressure on those semi transition drives. This was from
Speaker 2: earlier in the game. Just one of the examples of
Speaker 2: the better interior passing I was talking about. Just hits
Speaker 2: Isaiah Hartenstein in that little short range spa spacing zone.
Speaker 2: Here's that action they were running all throughout the early
Speaker 2: second quarter. Again, DeAndre Jordan was matched up with case
Speaker 2: On Wallace and they just spammed this action and got
Speaker 2: two wide open threes for it. Next thing you know,
Speaker 2: David Adelman was taking DeAndre Jordan out of the game.
Speaker 2: Simple simple action, right ball screen. Christian Brown's not gonna
Speaker 2: switch DeAndre Jordan's on the ball. As we always talk about,
Speaker 2: if you run a traditional drop coverage in any way,
Speaker 2: shape or form high drop, low drop at the level
Speaker 2: in any way, you're going to concede a pick and
Speaker 2: pop three every single time. There's case On Wallace on
Speaker 2: the pop bucket. Same exact thing on this next possession,
Speaker 2: and DeAndre Jordan got taken off the floor right after
Speaker 2: this go screen. Same exact thing two on the ball,
Speaker 2: pick and pop three bucket all right, Celtics knicks. I
Speaker 2: wanted to update you guys on a stat I talked
Speaker 2: about the difference in the shot quality in game one
Speaker 2: versus Game two. In Game one, the Celtics in the
Speaker 2: second half took twenty six guarded, catching sho and off
Speaker 2: the dribble jump shots. They took only fifteen in the
Speaker 2: second half of Game two, and I thought most of
Speaker 2: them were really good looks, even though, like especially the
Speaker 2: off the dribble ones that they got. Derek White absolutely
Speaker 2: clean look at an off the dribble, three off of
Speaker 2: the left wing missed it. Jalen Brown right at the
Speaker 2: top of the key missed it. There were some really
Speaker 2: clean looks in there. I thought overall their shot selection
Speaker 2: was better. But in this particular video, I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: focusing on one some of the ways that Boston's inability
Speaker 2: to shoot was becoming a problem for their ability to
Speaker 2: capitalize on the natural openings in New York's defense, and
Speaker 2: then two Jalen Brunson and the job that he did
Speaker 2: on defense, as well as Mitchell Robinson on the final
Speaker 2: sequence of possessions. So this is the example of the
Speaker 2: pick and pop three. That happened late. Now, Horford had
Speaker 2: just gotten a wide open look out of the right
Speaker 2: corner here and he missed it.
Speaker 3: But it was a clean look.
Speaker 2: As I just mentioned in our thumb Nuggets video, when
Speaker 2: you run a traditional drop of any sort against a
Speaker 2: pick and pop, it's gonna be wide open every single time.
Speaker 2: So let's watch what happens Horford's screen. Cat's in the
Speaker 2: somewhat high drop on the sequence, Horford's wide open on
Speaker 2: the pick and pop. This is the type of natural
Speaker 2: opening that is going to exist within Boston's offense against
Speaker 2: this coverage against New York. This is a shot you
Speaker 2: have to take, and he just doesn't take it because he's,
Speaker 2: just like every other Celtic, completely lost confidence in his
Speaker 2: ability to knock down jump shots. He drives into Cat
Speaker 2: and again this isn't a bad look by any means.
Speaker 2: But this is a play where Cat's going to be
Speaker 2: much more impactful defensively than he was in that drop coverage. So,
Speaker 2: like that pick and pop three, you gotta take that again.
Speaker 2: Like when it comes to Boston, I want Tatum and
Speaker 2: Brown to be working to generate shots closer to the
Speaker 2: basket so that they can draw more attention so that
Speaker 2: they can generate clean catch and shoots. But the pathway
Speaker 2: forward for Boston isn't stopped taking wide open catch and
Speaker 2: shoot threes. It stopped taking the bad ones and then
Speaker 2: work earlier in the clock to try to get good
Speaker 2: ones first. Jalen Brunson on defense, I thought this was
Speaker 2: an excellent possession. Watch the way he navigates the screen
Speaker 2: first guard guard action switched on to Derek White. Now
Speaker 2: they're gonna bring Tatum up. Watch how he fights through
Speaker 2: the first screen, gets over the top a re screen,
Speaker 2: gets caught by that one. So now his next job
Speaker 2: is get inside position to prevent Tatum from having an
Speaker 2: inside seal. He fights and gets it inside position. Look
Speaker 2: at the work he does to fight Tatum physically to
Speaker 2: stop him from getting a catch deeper down here, he's
Speaker 2: literally hitting him like a football sled to fight him
Speaker 2: into the catch further away from the basket. And then
Speaker 2: right here, like I get Tatum's read, I understand what
Speaker 2: he's thinking. He's thinking, Oh, like Josh Hart's in the gap.
Speaker 2: Josh Hart's in the gap. Therefore, I just take this
Speaker 2: easy kick out to Derek White. But there's seven seconds
Speaker 2: on the shot clock. I'd love to see Tatum at
Speaker 2: least try to back down Brunson a little bit more,
Speaker 2: because what you get is a semi contested three right
Speaker 2: watch kick to Derek White. Hart gets a decent contest
Speaker 2: and it's a little bit more rushed.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: If you take this and you back him down for
Speaker 2: an extra dribble or two, you might pull this guy
Speaker 2: in further. You might pull this guy in further, and
Speaker 2: it might be a very clean catch and shoot where
Speaker 2: Derek White can really feel comfortable going into that shot.
Speaker 2: I thought that was just a little bit of like
Speaker 2: a lazy play from Jason Tatum, but good work from Brunson.
Speaker 2: Like Brunson again, like when you're talking about that work defensively,
Speaker 2: like Jalon Brunson knows he can't guard Jason Tatum necessarily,
Speaker 2: but what he can do is he can keep him
Speaker 2: in front and by doing that work to get that
Speaker 2: inside position, fighting him further out. And then you know
Speaker 2: in Game one, in particularly, he at a couple of
Speaker 2: stops where he positioned himself in front of Tatum, so
Speaker 2: Tatum had to knock down a shot over the top
Speaker 2: instead of going through him, and you're going to see
Speaker 2: some examples later on in the video of him doing
Speaker 2: the exact same thing to Jalen Brown. This next clip
Speaker 2: is a botched coverage, a botched hedge and recover sequence
Speaker 2: between Cat and Brunson. So Cat and Brunson end up
Speaker 2: guarding the action, and as you guys can see, Brunson
Speaker 2: goes hedge. They're gonna rescreen here, Brunson goes hedge and
Speaker 2: Kat goes switch, and so because they're not on the
Speaker 2: same page, there's a wide open three for Jalen Brunson here.
Speaker 2: But even if this was like a well defended hedge
Speaker 2: and recover, there's always a gap between the hedge and
Speaker 2: recover and the defender coming back because typically what Cat
Speaker 2: would do here is as Brunson's hedging. Let's call this
Speaker 2: ojan and OBA. Let's pretend this is og. OG's gonna
Speaker 2: duck under this pick and try to pick Jaylen Brown
Speaker 2: up on the other side of the screen. But the
Speaker 2: only way he's gonna be able to do that is
Speaker 2: by leaving a gap between when Brunson leaves and when
Speaker 2: Og recovers right or in this case, Cat recovers. So
Speaker 2: even though this one is particularly wide open, this is
Speaker 2: a shot that would be open against this coverage, just
Speaker 2: with a late close out from the guy coming underneath
Speaker 2: the screen. So once again, the hedge and recover has
Speaker 2: these natural openings. Not to mention, Derek White could slip
Speaker 2: out of it typically and get open. He just doesn't
Speaker 2: because cat switches. But these natural openings that are appearing
Speaker 2: in these coverages, Boston is not making them pay for it,
Speaker 2: and that is putting them in the bad position of like, oh,
Speaker 2: we can't even capitalize on the normal stuff We've been
Speaker 2: cooking New York with every single game this season. Just
Speaker 2: that SHOT's not going in. The SHOT's not going in
Speaker 2: right now for the Celtics. One other thing I'll say,
Speaker 2: this is not Horford, this isn't this is a top
Speaker 2: tier athlete in this league. Why not drive? There's nine
Speaker 2: on the shot clock. Why not just get downhill into
Speaker 2: the teeth of the defense. You might generate a wide
Speaker 2: open ketching shoot three, or for Drew Holliday here in
Speaker 2: the left corner. You might force Mitchell Robinson to step
Speaker 2: up and then McHale Bridges might have to dig down
Speaker 2: on Horford and you might generate a wide open catch
Speaker 2: and shoot for Tatum. You know there's at least a
Speaker 2: there's enough time on the clock to at least see
Speaker 2: if New York makes a defensive mistake. But again, I
Speaker 2: don't hate that shot. Again, that's a wide open shot.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying like that's an example specifically with Tatum
Speaker 2: and Brown where if they were more reliable generating easy two's,
Speaker 2: that would be an advantage. Here is another successful hedge
Speaker 2: and recover from Jalen Brown or Jalen Brunson gets out
Speaker 2: on the hedge. Look at what the hedge makes Tatum do.
Speaker 2: Look at how this step, See how he uses his
Speaker 2: life foot Watch how Tatum has to use his left
Speaker 2: foot to plant and go backwards with his momentum. That's
Speaker 2: what the hedge accomplishes. Drew's trying to screen Og. That
Speaker 2: gives Og an opportunity to recover and get back into
Speaker 2: position he does. Drew Holliday is in this light like
Speaker 2: in this pop here, but Jalen Brunson's in the passing lane.
Speaker 2: That's one of the things that you'll see like Tyrese
Speaker 2: Haliburton in particular do an amazing job of on his
Speaker 2: hedge and recovers. Is like he'll hedge and as he's
Speaker 2: getting out, He'll be really high with his hands in
Speaker 2: that passing lane to make it so that the past
Speaker 2: the slipping, the slipping shooters just not open. And then
Speaker 2: one on one against og like these one on ones,
Speaker 2: Tatum's not beating him off the dribble. He's taking really
Speaker 2: tough over the top jump shots and if they go in, great,
Speaker 2: but if not, you know, there's nothing they can do.
Speaker 2: How about Jaylen Brunson getting a couple stops on an
Speaker 2: island against Jaylen Brown. This is a tough one too.
Speaker 2: Look the way that. Look at how Drew Holliday's screen.
Speaker 2: We're gonna show a couple examples of this where the
Speaker 2: screening angles can change the drive. Drew Holliday's trying to
Speaker 2: screen on this like right side of the ball handler
Speaker 2: right that puts Brunson in the position. Look at where
Speaker 2: Brunson goes. Look at where Brunson had to lunge because
Speaker 2: he thinks Jalen Brown's coming that way. Next thing you know,
Speaker 2: the screen is rejected. Watch the job Brunson does recovering
Speaker 2: and beating him to a spot here like that recovery
Speaker 2: athleticism with his foot speed boom, I can't beat him
Speaker 2: over here, but I can beat him over here, and
Speaker 2: he gets to that elbow. Now all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: it's a straight iso against a switch. And what's Jalen
Speaker 2: Brunson's job. He can't physically hang with Jalen Brown. Jalen
Speaker 2: Brown's gonna be able to bully him to something closer
Speaker 2: at the basket. But at the very least, you stay
Speaker 2: in front, you wall up, and you make him make
Speaker 2: something over the top of you.
Speaker 3: And that's what he does.
Speaker 2: Keeps himself in front, makes Jalen Brown and again that's
Speaker 2: a makeuple shot. But my point is Jalen Brunson is
Speaker 2: doing the best he possibly can, and again he cuts
Speaker 2: him off twice there too, right hard drive to the left.
Speaker 3: Bump, spin back bump. Look At how the chest.
Speaker 2: Look At how Jaylen Brown's chest is consistently squared up
Speaker 2: with Jaylen or excuse me, Jalen Brunson's chest is consistently
Speaker 2: squared up with that shoulder for Jalen Brown, so that
Speaker 2: he can't ever turn the corner. Really good defense from
Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson, and then again by doing the switch thing.
Speaker 2: And this is why I've been a proponent of them
Speaker 2: switching instead of hedging, instead of hedging and recovering. Although
Speaker 2: right again, I talked about this last night. Some of
Speaker 2: these hedges and drops are working because Boston is just
Speaker 2: decomposing as a jump shooting team. But if you switch,
Speaker 2: you run the at least the possibility of them doing
Speaker 2: something stupid and settling. Here, Jalen Brown's got Brunson on
Speaker 2: a switch with thirteen seconds on the shot clock, and
Speaker 2: this is the shot he gets. Starts with him containing
Speaker 2: the drive though right beats him to the spot, and
Speaker 2: then Jylen Brown is just gonna take this stupid ass
Speaker 2: pull up. This is one of the bad shots at Boston.
Speaker 2: Take didn't take too many bad shots down the stretch,
Speaker 2: but that was one of them. But yeah, two big
Speaker 2: stops on an island against Jalen Brown. It's a huge deal.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: This is one of the buckets that one of the
Speaker 2: fouls that Tatum drew late in the game. This is
Speaker 2: an example similar to what we talked about earlier of
Speaker 2: flipping the screening angle. So watch how Horford runs up
Speaker 2: on og and Andobi's left side, and because he's running
Speaker 2: up on Ogan Onobe's left side, you can actually see
Speaker 2: Cat in his pick and roll coverage, preparing to cover
Speaker 2: that side of the screen. But then watch Horford right
Speaker 2: at the last second. Look at how he's faking like
Speaker 2: he's gonna screen. Look at his shoulders are set. Horford's
Speaker 2: shoulders are set in a way that it looks like
Speaker 2: Tatum's gonna come off the screen this way right. But
Speaker 2: if you watch right at the last second, Horford goes nope,
Speaker 2: screen on the.
Speaker 3: Other side, and look at Cat.
Speaker 2: Cat comes up to the point where he's left foot
Speaker 2: is all the way up here at the level of
Speaker 2: the screen, on the left side of the screen. But
Speaker 2: I should say left side of the actual defender. But
Speaker 2: because Horford flips the angle, now Tatum's going the other way.
Speaker 2: That puts Cat in the position. Now he has to
Speaker 2: move his big body this way aggressively to make it
Speaker 2: to that spot. Now, look at his shoulders. His shoulders
Speaker 2: are completely turned, his hips are completely turned. That makes
Speaker 2: a very easy crossover to snake the pick and roll
Speaker 2: from Tatum snakes it. Kat's now dead to riots. He
Speaker 2: has no choice but the foul Tatum at the rim.
Speaker 2: Now let's take a look at what succeeded for Boston
Speaker 2: on this sequence. And then we'll talk about the adjustment. Oh,
Speaker 2: jannob backpedaling dealing with Tatum almost around half court, Horford
Speaker 2: comes up and sets a screen. Tatum's got a full
Speaker 2: head of steam against Mitchell Robinson about ten to fifteen
Speaker 2: feet in front of him, and this is just too
Speaker 2: difficult to guard somebody in that type of situation. So
Speaker 2: I want you guys to see the adjustment. So Joe
Speaker 2: Mizula makes a bet. He goes, well, we just got
Speaker 2: Tatum a dunk by letting him run the length of
Speaker 2: the floor, so let's not burn this time out. Let's
Speaker 2: let him run the length of the floor, and New
Speaker 2: York won't be set in their defense. Huge difference. Look
Speaker 2: where Og is Og just got burned because he got
Speaker 2: screened out here, and it created this massive runway that
Speaker 2: Tatum could attack. The adjustment is Og makes no attempt
Speaker 2: to pick Tatum up that far. They know the Horford
Speaker 2: screen is coming because it just worked. Look at how
Speaker 2: they're sandwiching Horford. Mitchell Robinson is leaning on that right
Speaker 2: handed drive for Tatum, and Ognanobi's leaning on that left
Speaker 2: handed drive for Tatum, and if you watch them, they
Speaker 2: both just kind of sit on Horford. Look at this,
Speaker 2: they're doing it from the start of the possession. They're
Speaker 2: just sitting on Horford on either shoulder, basically being like,
Speaker 2: if he goes that way, you get him. If he
Speaker 2: goes that way, I'll get him. Like it's just like
Speaker 2: a like they're just waiting for that drive angle and
Speaker 2: they're waiting further back. Instead of wiping out og And and
Speaker 2: Obi at half court and making it a one on
Speaker 2: one with a runway, now it's a one on two
Speaker 2: with a runway, and these two guys only have to
Speaker 2: worry about one direction. One guy having to worry about
Speaker 2: both directions with a head of steam is much harder
Speaker 2: then two guys each having to deal with just one
Speaker 2: direction drive while Tatum is like second guessing and not
Speaker 2: getting as much of ahead of a steam right, so
Speaker 2: he gets going, has to Now his momentum's gone. Just
Speaker 2: the two of them being situated on both sides of
Speaker 2: the screener caused Tatum to hesitate. Now all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: he's lost all his moment to him, he should have
Speaker 2: just picked the direction and gone, but it is what
Speaker 2: it is. Then they decide to switch. Okay, so now
Speaker 2: that Tatum now that Tatum's lost his momentum. They trust
Speaker 2: Mitchell Robinson to be able to do the job. So
Speaker 2: Mitchell kind of gets a little out of position reaching,
Speaker 2: but he's still in the play. Tatum crossover get gets
Speaker 2: Mitchell's stance open. Now he's got a driving angle. Mitch
Speaker 2: quickly turns his hips and makes a very similar move
Speaker 2: to what we talked about with Brunson. He wants to
Speaker 2: beat Tatum to a spot further back. This is where
Speaker 2: Tatum lost his control here. If he would have maintained
Speaker 2: his handle, he just lost control of the ball a
Speaker 2: little bit. If he would have maintained his handle, this
Speaker 2: dribble got wide. If he'd have maintained his handle, he
Speaker 2: would have had a decent look at like a mid
Speaker 2: range pull up, like a little step back in here,
Speaker 2: but continues to turn. This is where it gets smart
Speaker 2: again with og. Og is reading the whole play. He
Speaker 2: sees Mitch is a little bit out of position, so
Speaker 2: he peels off a Horford to pick up Tatum and
Speaker 2: watch what Mitch does. Mitch switches into a box out
Speaker 2: of Horford, so Og is able to make it so
Speaker 2: that Tatum couldn't get into an easy little fading jump shot.
Speaker 2: There he has to go wild with the one like
Speaker 2: fade away. And then the finish of the play, McHale
Speaker 2: bridges peels off of Jalen Brown and double teams and
Speaker 2: attacks the passing angle. Tatum reads it sees Brown open,
Speaker 2: but look at the pressure again. It's a lot easier
Speaker 2: to put two on the ball with active hands into
Speaker 2: like because even if this pass gets through, it's probably deflected.
Speaker 2: It's probably looping a buys Mitchell Robinson a chance to
Speaker 2: bail out and close out gets the deflection orces the turnover.
Speaker 3: We're going the other way.
Speaker 2: So some really smart defensive stuff from the Knicks down
Speaker 2: the stretch that game. I wanted to make sure that
Speaker 2: they were properly highlighted. Again, it's not all Celtics de composing.
Speaker 2: It's a combination of that in the Knicks playing some
Speaker 2: really good basketball. All right, guys, it's all I have
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