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Speaker 2: co slash audio. All right, welcome to Hoops today. You're
Speaker 2: at the volume heavy Tuesday. Everybody hop all of you
Speaker 2: guys are having a great week. We got our first
Speaker 2: film session of the second round today.
Speaker 3: We have sixty six clips.
Speaker 2: To hit from the two games. I'm gonna be focusing
Speaker 2: on the entire second half from Denver OKC, specifically some
Speaker 2: of the dynamics at play with how much easier it
Speaker 2: was for Denver and the half court offensively versus OKC,
Speaker 2: which I think is very interesting in the big picture.
Speaker 2: And then in the Celtics game, we're going to be
Speaker 2: focusing on their shot selection in the second half. Fair
Speaker 2: warning to Celtics fans, it will be one of the
Speaker 2: most frustrating film sessions you've ever watched, because they played
Speaker 2: some straight CTE basketball in that second half and cost
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Speaker 2: start off with Denver, ok Seed, I will never overreact
Speaker 2: to one game. I would not change my prediction until
Speaker 2: I saw something be repeated in a game two. But
Speaker 2: I am severely concerned for Oklahoma City after that first game,
Speaker 2: in large part because in the second half, in particular,
Speaker 2: Denver had their defense solved and got great shots every
Speaker 2: single time. Down on the floor, they had what a
Speaker 2: thirty one point quarter and a thirty five point quarter,
Speaker 2: And on the other end of the floor, through a
Speaker 2: combination of some one two two zone, some double teams
Speaker 2: of Shay, especially late as he was driving but also
Speaker 2: on his wing ISOs, they were strong side zoning and
Speaker 2: a bunch of different stuff like that, and okay, see
Speaker 2: just looked lost. They looked like they didn't have any
Speaker 2: idea how to attack. There's also a basic reality in
Speaker 2: the sense that in order to match up with Jokic
Speaker 2: on the glass, they have to play Hartenstein and Alex
Speaker 2: Cruso is just such an important defensive player for them
Speaker 2: to be able to hold up in this matchup. If
Speaker 2: you have Hartenstein and Crusoe on the floor, you make
Speaker 2: yourself easier to guard. And so there's another question to
Speaker 2: be another conversation to be had about whether or not. Okay,
Speaker 2: so you should consider just playing small and understanding they're
Speaker 2: going to get beat up on the glass, but at
Speaker 2: least be able to score the ball more effectively. And
Speaker 2: those are the kinds of things they're gonna have to
Speaker 2: figure out over the course of the series.
Speaker 3: But I left that series.
Speaker 2: I left that game last night thinking Denver literally gives
Speaker 2: up to what twenty nine points off of turnovers and
Speaker 2: still wins. Denver gets very little in the way of
Speaker 2: consistent offensive contribution from anybody on the roster outside of
Speaker 2: Yokichen they win. That does not god well for Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2: For the rest of the series, especially considering how uncomfortable
Speaker 2: they looked in the half court. So let's look at
Speaker 2: some of these clips as we get into the details.
Speaker 2: So this first one, we have the Gordon high post
Speaker 2: entry here to the Jemal Murray high post entry to
Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon that Alex Cruso jumps the high side and
Speaker 2: gets the steal again, and it wasn't twenty nine to
Speaker 2: twenty three. So Oklahoma City gets twenty three points off
Speaker 2: of turnovers compared to just five for Oklahoma for Denver,
Speaker 2: so an eighteen point advantage for Oklahoma City in a
Speaker 2: clear margin. That is what Oklahoma City does better than everybody.
Speaker 2: That was where they caught Denver off guard last night.
Speaker 2: You catch Denver off guard with your defense and you
Speaker 2: score twenty three easy ones in transition and you still
Speaker 2: lose the game. Just a devastating game one outcome for
Speaker 2: the Thunder. And that's that's just an easy place where
Speaker 2: Denver can clean stuff up. Like if we watch Gordon here,
Speaker 2: the mistake he's making is he's his contact. His contact
Speaker 2: with Alex is on Alex's left shoulder. There there's nothing
Speaker 2: ceiling Alex from working up this high side Aaron Gordon's
Speaker 2: gonna have a do a better job in game two
Speaker 2: of just ceiling and creating a better passing angle. There,
Speaker 2: Jdubb shooting a little floater over Jokic in a drop coverage.
Speaker 2: He gets a ball screen here, a little double screen.
Speaker 2: Little reverses the second screen and takes this kind of
Speaker 2: like contested leaning away from his body floater against Jokic.
Speaker 2: Last night, JDub was one for six on two's that
Speaker 2: were outside of the restricted area and two for five
Speaker 2: at the rim, so three for eleven overall in the paint,
Speaker 2: and you guys will see plenty of examples in this
Speaker 2: film session of him just taking like pretty mediocre contested
Speaker 2: mid range shots, especially early in the clock. Here goes
Speaker 2: Jokicic just posting up Chet home grindly. Fast forward a
Speaker 2: little bit so Yokic on Chet, they run a little
Speaker 2: loft ball action. Jokicic just easily backs him down, gets
Speaker 2: to his spot and knocks down the little left shoulder hook.
Speaker 2: Jokic just did his work against Chet. That was a
Speaker 2: big part of why they ended up going to Hartenstein
Speaker 2: down the stretch, not just for the glass but also
Speaker 2: dealing with him in their defensive scheme, so they could
Speaker 2: put Hartenstein on Jokic and put Chet on Gordon behind
Speaker 2: the ball.
Speaker 3: But Chet are.
Speaker 2: Jokicch last night thirteen post ups, fifteen points last night
Speaker 2: including passes, and remember when both teams are getting less
Speaker 2: than zero point nine points per half court possession, getting
Speaker 2: over a point per possession on a Jokics post up
Speaker 2: is one of the more efficient play types that Denver
Speaker 2: can go to in the series. Alrighty, this was an
Speaker 2: example of the offensive rebounding problem that Denver presents. Fast
Speaker 2: forwarding a little bit here, so Chet's out of the play,
Speaker 2: ends up chasing Jamal Murray down and tries to go
Speaker 2: for a block at the rim. Now, what I want
Speaker 2: you guys to watch is the dynamic with Jokic behind
Speaker 2: the play there as Chet's out of the play. Look
Speaker 2: at the size advantage. It's Jokic with a bunch of
Speaker 2: six four sixty five guys around him. He's gonna just
Speaker 2: eat everybody alive on the glass in this matchup. And
Speaker 2: you're gonna see some more examples later in the game.
Speaker 2: There's just not a whole lot they can do. Same
Speaker 2: sort of thing here. Look like Chet shows on this
Speaker 2: dribble handoff and gets a good contest on Jamal which
Speaker 2: forces a miss. But now look at this dynamic. You've
Speaker 2: got Yoki rolling to the rim, Gordon on the baseline,
Speaker 2: and Christian Brown crashing out of the corner, and it's
Speaker 2: j Dubshay and Alex Cruza. They're just completely overwhelmed. Shay
Speaker 2: steps over to try to box out Jokic and Christian
Speaker 2: Brown is the beneficiaries right there.
Speaker 3: He ends up drawing a foul.
Speaker 2: These dynamics are replicable, guys, and this is the main
Speaker 2: thing I want you to pay attention to. As you
Speaker 2: can see here, there are problems that Oklahoma City cannot
Speaker 2: solve in this matchup. This is not They're not going
Speaker 2: to suddenly get bigger and more physically imposing as the
Speaker 2: series progresses.
Speaker 3: This is going to be a problem throughout here we go.
Speaker 2: This is the Cruso peel off block. A lot of
Speaker 2: examples of this last night. Alex Crusoe was amazing in
Speaker 2: his help side defense and his on ball defense, so
Speaker 2: yokich as soon as he turns his shoulder. We saw
Speaker 2: so many examples of this last night. Whenever Denver would
Speaker 2: turn their back to an OKC defender. This guy would
Speaker 2: just leave and try to get back into the plague.
Speaker 2: It's a big block on Jokics there. Look at how
Speaker 2: Denver's guarding these sga ISOs Jokich's strong side zoning. Gordon
Speaker 2: is gapping down off of Chet. Michael Porter and Jamal
Speaker 2: Murray both are basically foot in the paint. They're just
Speaker 2: packing the side and as they they relocate through, Alex
Speaker 2: Crusoe relocates through, Shay gives it up to him. Then
Speaker 2: they immediately double Shay off of the Off of that
Speaker 2: dribble handoff, Chay actually makes a nice pass through Christian
Speaker 2: Brown's legs here to Alex Crusoe, but now Alex Cruso
Speaker 2: drives through, makes a nice drop off. This was a
Speaker 2: good example of them breaking down the double team. But
Speaker 2: I mainly just wanted to highlight that clip to show
Speaker 2: you guys just how aggressive Denver is being in there
Speaker 2: loading up against Shay, and like we talked about this,
Speaker 2: like I talked about it in the series preview, They're
Speaker 2: gonna load up. This is going to be a processing
Speaker 2: series for the Oklahoma City Thunder. So now we have
Speaker 2: Hartenstein in the game and we're getting that look that
Speaker 2: I talked about. Hartenstein on Jokic and Aaron Gordon on Chet,
Speaker 2: and they run a ball screen to get Dort switched
Speaker 2: onto Jokic. Then Jokic basically attacks Dort and look at
Speaker 2: Chet that's in help. And these are the kinds of
Speaker 2: shots that Jokic is so good at. He spins off
Speaker 2: the small and floats over the big, just elite shot
Speaker 2: making there from Nicola Jokich a double team of Shay
Speaker 2: on this iso along the baseline. But this creates a
Speaker 2: rebounding mismatch underneath the basket because now Chet and Hartenstein
Speaker 2: are going two on one against Jokich and they're able
Speaker 2: to get in there and get an offensive rebound. If
Speaker 2: Denver is going to double team Shay and throw all
Speaker 2: this attention at Shay, you have to make them pay
Speaker 2: for it through quick processing to get quality looks and
Speaker 2: by attacking the offensive glass. Aaron Gordon here gets open
Speaker 2: in transition and makes a three. A lot of examples
Speaker 2: in the second half of Aaron Gordon getting open in
Speaker 2: transition at the three point line, most famously on the
Speaker 2: game winner, something Oklahoma City is gonna have to pay
Speaker 2: attention to. They got to track Aaron Gordon. He is
Speaker 2: running to the three point line. Another example of how
Speaker 2: Denver is guarding OKC. We're gonna get a Hartenstein Shay
Speaker 2: two man game with some weak side action. But look,
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray's ignoring that action. They're not worried about this
Speaker 2: at all whatsoever. On the play, Denver is defending the
Speaker 2: ball screen three on two and Shay and Hartenstein just
Speaker 2: stay on that side of the floor. These guys are
Speaker 2: kind of cutting and moving around, but there's no attempt
Speaker 2: to actually get the ball across to the other side.
Speaker 2: They just try to score three on two and that's
Speaker 2: really hard. We get a Shay airball because of an
Speaker 2: excellent rear view contest from Christian Brown off of the
Speaker 2: ball screen. But if they're just going to play two
Speaker 2: on three and one on two all series and not
Speaker 2: actually look to move the ball and beat Denver's loaded
Speaker 2: up defense, this series could get ugly for Oklahoma City
Speaker 2: pretty quick. Once again, similarly to that last iso that
Speaker 2: we saw from Shay on the other side of the floor,
Speaker 2: look at how they're loaded up strongside zone loaded up
Speaker 2: from Yokich. It almost looks like a box in one
Speaker 2: with the way they set up against these ISOs. They
Speaker 2: run a nice little off ball action for Isaiah Joe
Speaker 2: as he kind of relocates up to the top. There
Speaker 2: cuts through relocates to the top. Watch Michael Porter Junior
Speaker 2: excellent read and react defensive play to get a late
Speaker 2: contest on Isaiah Joe and force an airball. Look at
Speaker 2: how Yokic in the middle of the floor commands so
Speaker 2: much attention on this pocket pass. He's got four bodies
Speaker 2: completely geared up on him. So what ends up happening
Speaker 2: here is it creates all these really high quality offensive
Speaker 2: rebound opportunities on the back line for Gordon, for Russ
Speaker 2: four Brown on the miss. Look at Gordon, Gordon's untouched,
Speaker 2: Gordon's untouched crashing because Yokic is drawing four bodies on
Speaker 2: that roll to the basket. I just I don't see
Speaker 2: a solution for Okac.
Speaker 3: For that problem.
Speaker 2: I don't know how they're going to be. If you
Speaker 2: let Jokic operate free and clear in the middle, he's
Speaker 2: going to kill you. If you send extra bodies to him.
Speaker 2: Christian Brown and Aaron Gordon and all of them are
Speaker 2: going to demolish you on the glass. I'm having a
Speaker 2: hard time coming up with like a schematic adjustment for
Speaker 2: the fact that Denver can just beat the shit out
Speaker 2: of this team on the glass, so many of these
Speaker 2: types of shots for OKC in the half court against
Speaker 2: Denver defense, high ball screen against the drop. Nineteen on
Speaker 2: the shot clock. Jdubb just takes another look at look
Speaker 2: at this great rear view can test from Russ. Russ
Speaker 2: is right there and there's seventeen seconds on the shot clock.
Speaker 2: And but that's the thing. Ja Dob's just very young.
Speaker 2: He's young, and he hasn't been in too many of
Speaker 2: these types of series. And last night he took a
Speaker 2: lot of bad shots and he went five for twenty.
Speaker 2: And you know that doesn't mean he can't go twelve
Speaker 2: for twenty in Game two and look like the hero.
Speaker 2: But there's a level of consistency that you see from
Speaker 2: Vetteran basketball players that you don't see from the younger
Speaker 2: basketball players. Really nice back to or cut here from
Speaker 2: Russ on the Jamal Murray drive. Watch Russ as Jamal drives.
Speaker 2: Nice read on that backhut. Great pass from Jamal quickly
Speaker 2: goes up and finishes. When OKC, excuse me, when OKAC
Speaker 2: actually looked to move the ball in the middle of
Speaker 2: the floor. They got good stuff. Here's an example. Shade
Speaker 2: comes off the ball screen. There's three Nuggets defending the action.
Speaker 2: Simple driving kick to Jalen Williams, wide open catch and shoot,
Speaker 2: three goes in. Just that's the processing piece that they're
Speaker 2: gonna have to be very sharp with in this series.
Speaker 2: I thought I just pulled this clip because I thought
Speaker 2: it perfectly demonstrated the problem that Okays he's dealing with
Speaker 2: with Yo Kitchen this series. Look at he just looks
Speaker 2: like a man amongst boys, a man amongst boys.
Speaker 3: Look at this.
Speaker 2: Got ripping right through the biggest man on the floor,
Speaker 2: and then look at look at just the lack of size.
Speaker 2: Yo Kich just just looks like a refrigerator among a
Speaker 2: bunch of smaller humans.
Speaker 3: It's just crazy.
Speaker 2: I don't know how they're gonna be able to handle
Speaker 2: this over the course of the series. All Right, we're
Speaker 2: gonna skip ahead to crunch time here for a minute
Speaker 2: because I want to focus on some of the specific
Speaker 2: dynamics on both ends of the floor. I thought this
Speaker 2: was just a massive shot from Jamal Murray. Four and
Speaker 2: a half minutes left, Denver goes up by or Okay
Speaker 2: goes up by eleven and it's a straight iso. Good
Speaker 2: screen navigation from Alex. You end up in a late
Speaker 2: clock situation after Jokic passes the ball out of the
Speaker 2: Hartenstein drive.
Speaker 3: Boom.
Speaker 2: Now you need to create a bucket against the other
Speaker 2: team's best defender with seven seconds. Watch this nasty double
Speaker 2: cross boom boom. That's disgusting. Took some of the steam
Speaker 2: out of the crowd too, like a big shot in
Speaker 2: that moment in the game. Okay See's first offensive possession
Speaker 2: out of that another example of okay See just not
Speaker 2: really knowing what to do in the half court. It's
Speaker 2: just a straight ISO and Shay just throws up a
Speaker 2: really bad shot in the middle of the floor. Denver
Speaker 2: gets the defensive rebound. Here's another example of a successful
Speaker 2: double and rotate against Shay double team.
Speaker 3: The ball.
Speaker 2: Rotate to Crusoe. Aaron Gordon also even misses this rotation here.
Speaker 2: I think Jadubb's gotta knock down the shot. But still
Speaker 2: you're getting a contested catch and shoot three out of
Speaker 2: a Shade double team. Because Denver rotates the ball well,
Speaker 2: it rotates on defense.
Speaker 3: Well, I should say.
Speaker 2: These are the types of reeds that Denver that Okac
Speaker 2: is gonna have to make consistently, consistently, watches Shaye drives
Speaker 2: off this ball screen Jdub's open on the cut. If
Speaker 2: Shaye throws this ball to j Dub, it's a dunk,
Speaker 2: misses it, they end up having to run again. Shaye
Speaker 2: does make a nice read here into the pocket to
Speaker 2: heart and Sign who hits the floater. But again, those
Speaker 2: are the those reads are going to be open against
Speaker 2: this Denver defense, and okayse he's gonna have to be
Speaker 2: relentlessly making those reads every time down the floor. Jokic
Speaker 2: going one on five and just getting to the rim
Speaker 2: nine point game, two point two and a half minutes left.
Speaker 2: Watch Jokich here just drives into five Thunder players and
Speaker 2: gets into the lane and draws a foul.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 2: I just don't see a solution for this problem. More
Speaker 2: Denver packing the paint. Look at how they're loaded up
Speaker 2: on Shay guys. And part of the issue here is
Speaker 2: you've got Hartenstein and Crusoe on the floor and you
Speaker 2: know even Chet as well. There's just a lot of
Speaker 2: iffy shooters here. Jdubb just missed a wide open catch
Speaker 2: and shoot three like it just turns into this situation
Speaker 2: where it becomes kind of like isoball the triple team?
Speaker 2: They rotate out of it, rotate to Jdubb. This is
Speaker 2: the passing lane close out from Jamal that we talked
Speaker 2: about on playback last night. Watch how Jamal doesn't close
Speaker 2: out to Jaydubbit closes out to the passing lane that
Speaker 2: bits JDub into throwing this pass fake which allows Russ
Speaker 2: to rotate. JDub ends up passing it off to Hartenstein,
Speaker 2: who misses the floater big time rebound fro Russell Westbrook too.
Speaker 2: In crunch time with six point game, two minutes, fifteen
Speaker 2: seconds left, Denver runs a random possession of a one
Speaker 2: two two zone?
Speaker 3: Is it on the next possession?
Speaker 2: Let's see here it is so I I couldn't tell
Speaker 2: if this was a man to man or a zone
Speaker 2: in playback last night. I'm kind of looking at it
Speaker 2: as a zone because watch how as these guys relocate through,
Speaker 2: like as Jadup cuts through, Russ stays put. See how
Speaker 2: they're just like staying in that like kind of Z
Speaker 2: one two two zone type of look. But what it
Speaker 2: may be is kind of a similar principle to what
Speaker 2: we talked about on those Shay ISOs on the wing,
Speaker 2: where they just use the two closest defenders on either
Speaker 2: side of the driving lane to essentially zone up in
Speaker 2: just these two spots. But as you guys can see,
Speaker 2: every time Shay gets the ball, whether it's at the
Speaker 2: top of the key, whether it's on the wing or
Speaker 2: over here, they're manning up and then they're basically having
Speaker 2: the other four defenders zone up in like a box
Speaker 2: in one on Shay's ISOs, and it just flummecks them
Speaker 2: this they end up throwing a quick little swing pass
Speaker 2: the chat Homegern and missus a three more Yokic dominance.
Speaker 2: This time A gets Alex Crusoe. Let's fast forward, we
Speaker 2: get a ball screen switch, toss the ball back to
Speaker 2: Jokic against Alex, and then it's just back down. Four
Speaker 2: dribbles ready, boom one, two, three, four, left shoulder hook.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a double team from Jadub here and
Speaker 2: Chet's on the back line, and it just doesn't matter. Again, Like,
Speaker 2: I'm curious if you guys have some ideas drop him
Speaker 2: in the comments. I don't understand a pathway for Oklahoma
Speaker 2: City to solve that specific problem in this series, and
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean they can't find solutions on this end
Speaker 2: of the floor. Okay, see has a lot of solutions
Speaker 2: on this end of the floor. But on the defensive end,
Speaker 2: I don't know how they're going to stop Denver from
Speaker 2: just routinely putting up sixty five point halves the way
Speaker 2: that they did in that second half. Here we go again,
Speaker 2: same sort of Yokic Shay loaded up ISO. They brought
Speaker 2: a lot of these kind of late double teams like
Speaker 2: what Russ does here miss jump shot. This was Chet's
Speaker 2: first opportunity to win this game that he blew. He
Speaker 2: beats Aaron Gordon on this like corner crash and has
Speaker 2: the game in his hands right there. You finished that.
Speaker 2: It's one seventeen, one to eleven with a minute twenty
Speaker 2: seven left in Denver's in an infinitely tougher spot to
Speaker 2: try to win this game. Good example of jab step
Speaker 2: work from Nikola Jokic. Here fast forward. He ends up
Speaker 2: faced up with Isai Hartenstein at the top of the key. Okay,
Speaker 2: what I want you guys to look at is look
Speaker 2: at where Look at where Hartenstein's feet is as he's
Speaker 2: pressuring Jokic. He's got his left foot on the three
Speaker 2: point line. Now, watch as he's working this jab step
Speaker 2: game jab jab again. Look at where Hartenstein's feed are.
Speaker 2: Now he got Hartenstein from the NBA line to the
Speaker 2: top of the key, and that creates the separation for
Speaker 2: him to step into that three and knock it down more,
Speaker 2: packing the pain on shake Gildes Alexander, Jamal little hedge
Speaker 2: and recover drives again late double team from Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 2: Shaye makes the right read and kicks the jdup here,
Speaker 2: but then Jadub needs to make the next read right. So,
Speaker 2: first of all, first mistake, he has the ability to
Speaker 2: get middle here, and if he gets middle, he will
Speaker 2: likely take Jamal Murray or take Jokic with him. And
Speaker 2: if he takes Jokic with him towards the middle of
Speaker 2: the floor, Jamal Murray has to make a decision either
Speaker 2: to step up and help or to drop back on
Speaker 2: one of these two guys. And you've got two guys
Speaker 2: that can finish at the rim. Instead, he racks Baseline
Speaker 2: into Alex Crusoe. Okay, now it's an easy set of
Speaker 2: a help reads because Alex Crusoe is a complete non
Speaker 2: threat and Alex Crusoe, because he's a non threat, has
Speaker 2: to relocate out and Jay dub has an opportunity to
Speaker 2: kick to dort Here on the right wing if he
Speaker 2: makes a clean catch and shoot clean close out read instead,
Speaker 2: though he tries to finish in traffic over a set
Speaker 2: of three defenders Bruss great late contest, great defensive rebound
Speaker 2: from Jokic. So as you can see, if he racks
Speaker 2: to the middle, if he racks to the middle, he's
Speaker 2: likely getting a layup for or a dunk for one
Speaker 2: of these two guys. If you rack Spaceline, fine whatever,
Speaker 2: even though that's the bad read, there's your kickout. These
Speaker 2: are the kinds of reads that Oklahoma City's going to
Speaker 2: have to make that they just did not make in
Speaker 2: Game one. And I talked about this before the series.
Speaker 2: This is where they've shown growth this year, but a
Speaker 2: lot of regression last night. And then, just for fun
Speaker 2: for Nuggets fans, here's the game winner. Really nice read
Speaker 2: in transition from Russell Westbrook. Big time shot from Aaron
Speaker 2: Gordon to steal game one. All right, let's talk Boston's offense.
Speaker 2: Fair warning, Celtics fans, this is going to be a
Speaker 2: tough watch for you. The Celtics on four consecutive possessions
Speaker 2: to start the third quarter took off the dribble threes
Speaker 2: or ISO threes.
Speaker 3: Up the floor.
Speaker 2: Jalen Brown has a mismatch against Jalen Brunson. Just takes
Speaker 2: a bad pull up three to start the half. Next possession,
Speaker 2: same thing, Jalen Brown, no attempt to get the ball
Speaker 2: in the paint, has a mismatch.
Speaker 3: You got one of their weaker defenders. What are you
Speaker 3: gonna do?
Speaker 2: How about another ISO jab step three off? How about
Speaker 2: your third shot of the third quarter. Okay, guys, we're
Speaker 2: running some bad offense. We need to get something going.
Speaker 2: Let's see what we got. How about it Drew Holiday
Speaker 2: step back three without any other movement on the possession.
Speaker 2: He makes it, but it's like this is not good.
Speaker 2: That's not good process. Fourth shot of the third quarter, again,
Speaker 2: no attempt to get the ball in the paint. Another
Speaker 2: off the dribble three. At least this one there's a
Speaker 2: decent amount of separation, but still like these are just
Speaker 2: every time down the floor. They're just dribbling up the
Speaker 2: floor and taking it the first three that they get.
Speaker 2: Any attempts to get some separation on something to keep
Speaker 2: an eye on to you. Look at how bad this
Speaker 2: miss was from Tatum, and I'm gonna be calling this
Speaker 2: out throughout the film sessions. As a star, he needs
Speaker 2: to read that. He doesn't have a going Look at
Speaker 2: the miss hits the backboard first, that's a brick, and
Speaker 2: there's like a bunch of those to show that example.
Speaker 2: But here we go off the offensive rebound. So offensive rebound,
Speaker 2: Tatum pressures the rim on the offensive rebound draws, the
Speaker 2: second defender makes a kick. Derek White clean catch and shoot.
Speaker 2: Look goes in. Boston took fifteen unguarded catch and shoot
Speaker 2: jump shots in the second half of this game, including overtime.
Speaker 2: They got eighteen points on them, one point two points
Speaker 2: per shot. They shot poorly on unguarded catch and shoots
Speaker 2: in the first half, but they actually made their unguarded
Speaker 2: catching shoots in the second half. The problem is on
Speaker 2: the other twenty six and tested or off the dribble
Speaker 2: jump shots they took. They got just twelve points on
Speaker 2: those shots. There was a clear line between their process
Speaker 2: and their success in the second half. Here's another off
Speaker 2: the dribble three with lots of clock left, no attempt
Speaker 2: to get the ball in the paint. Again, it's not
Speaker 2: a bad look for Derek White. We know they can
Speaker 2: win playing that one way. My thing is, you've got
Speaker 2: to be able to make the read and change your
Speaker 2: play style if it's obvious that something's not working. Here's
Speaker 2: another classic example of that ideology. Watch Jalen Brown. Okay,
Speaker 2: so he smokes this has to pass it out? Sure, whatever, Okay,
Speaker 2: Jalen Brown's man runs out. He throws the pass out
Speaker 2: to Drew Holiday. Just stay right there, Just stay right
Speaker 2: there and call for the ball, and you're gonna get
Speaker 2: a lamp or a dunk.
Speaker 3: Instead.
Speaker 2: He runs out to the corner to take a three.
Speaker 2: Look at all the space he could have driven that,
Speaker 2: and like they're not making threes. It just doesn't make
Speaker 2: any sense. See's get a couple of mismatches here through
Speaker 2: a screen. You get Brunton on Horford and you get
Speaker 2: Cat on White. Okay, so theoretically you should be looking
Speaker 2: to attack there or there. Instead, they run a ball
Speaker 2: screen with Tatum, which brings og In and Obi into
Speaker 2: the action, and Tatum ends up taking Tatum ends up
Speaker 2: having OJN and Obi on him and swinging it back
Speaker 2: to Derek White. This goes in. But that stupid offense.
Speaker 2: You just took your mismatch and brought the other team's
Speaker 2: best defender into the action and ended up having to
Speaker 2: take a contested catch and shoot like twenty eight footer
Speaker 2: at the end of the clock. Also, I wanted to
Speaker 2: come back. Shout out to Jalen Brunson in the way
Speaker 2: he battled Horford here. There were a couple examples of
Speaker 2: this down the stretch. Let me show you guys, watch
Speaker 2: him battling and fronting the post trying to deny those
Speaker 2: post entry opportunities. Great work from Brunson. I don't know
Speaker 2: what the hell they're doing on offense. On this possession,
Speaker 2: Derek White hits a three, but like once again, like,
Speaker 2: no attempts to get the ball inside in any way,
Speaker 2: shape or form, just a swing pass and a contested
Speaker 2: twenty seven footer off of the left wing. Again, Jalen
Speaker 2: Brown has missed every three that he's taken in the
Speaker 2: second half, and they've all been pretty bad shots. Let's
Speaker 2: see what he looks to do here on the skip
Speaker 2: eleven seconds on the shot clock. You can't shoot right now,
Speaker 2: drive the closeout. Drive the close out. You will generate
Speaker 2: a better shot for a better shooter. Instead, he takes
Speaker 2: another three and misses it. I don't know what the
Speaker 2: hell this possession was. Derek White literally just dribbles the
Speaker 2: clock out and takes a three. Scott Brunson off the
Speaker 2: dribble twenty seven footer like that. I just don't understand it.
Speaker 2: Here we go again, another zero penetration move, just to
Speaker 2: swing past to Horford for early clock transition three. Tatum
Speaker 2: after the Knicks, make this little run here to cut
Speaker 2: it to eleven. Hits a couple of threes, but these
Speaker 2: are once again, you guys have seen this is in
Speaker 2: the context of the previous possessions.
Speaker 3: The offense is sluggish. There on a run, this is
Speaker 3: fool's goal.
Speaker 2: Tatum hits a couple of threes here, boom one, and
Speaker 2: then look at this one. This is basically over a
Speaker 2: double team at the top of the key screen with
Speaker 2: Brunson contested. Thirty footer.
Speaker 3: Goes in.
Speaker 2: That's great. This is bad process. The offense in general
Speaker 2: is still sluggish. They went right back to being cold
Speaker 2: right after those two shots. At the very least, though,
Speaker 2: this was one of the few possessions in the second
Speaker 2: half where Tatum looked to attack downhill. Watch when he
Speaker 2: brings it's forced to Brunson. The quality of shot they generate, attacks, dislodges, draws, help, clean,
Speaker 2: catch and shoot. Look for a great shooter and same
Speaker 2: Houser in the corner. He smokes it, but you get
Speaker 2: the point. Another example of me not knowing what the
Speaker 2: hell Tatum's doing. Ball screen just another early clock contested
Speaker 2: pull up three that he misses. I don't know what
Speaker 2: the hell this possession is just swing and shoot like
Speaker 2: they're just they're just taking the first available three without
Speaker 2: making any attempt to try to get the ball inside.
Speaker 2: There's another zero drive possession like Horford hits this shot,
Speaker 2: but there's just no attempt to get the ball inside.
Speaker 2: All right, early fourth quarter, Jalen Brown's turn to try
Speaker 2: to assert control over the situation. Let's see what he does.
Speaker 2: I soo against kat. Let's see what you got and
Speaker 2: you know what's crazy? Look at this, Look at the spacing.
Speaker 2: If Jalen just goes to the basket, if he just
Speaker 2: rips right and goes, he will draw McHale, bridges and help,
Speaker 2: and he will generate a wide open catch and shoot
Speaker 2: three for Derek White, like guaranteed that will happen if
Speaker 2: he just rips right. Look at how open cat stances.
Speaker 2: Kat is incapable of containing Jaylen Brown in this stance
Speaker 2: driving to the right. Instead, Jalen waits for McHale to
Speaker 2: get into the driving lane and for that space to
Speaker 2: go away, and then he settles for this tough step back,
Speaker 2: mid range jump shot and airballs it. It's like baffling
Speaker 2: to me. Peyton Pritchard's turn to get in on the
Speaker 2: action and just take a step back. Three some quality
Speaker 2: switching from New York there, Jason Tatum against Josh Hart.
Speaker 2: This is actually a nice little snatchback dribble. But again
Speaker 2: look at the clock. Eighty four to eighty. Tatum comes
Speaker 2: off of this action. Snatchback dribble breaks Josh off in theory.
Speaker 2: You don't hate this shot, but what I want to
Speaker 2: I'm more concerned about what happens after this point, Brick. Okay,
Speaker 2: look at the miss. The miss is off to the
Speaker 2: left of the rim. This is a miss by feet.
Speaker 2: It barely grazed the bottom of the backboard outside of
Speaker 2: the rim, and he got clean separation and a great look.
Speaker 2: So like it's clear that his jump shot is off.
Speaker 2: Read that make the adjustment. A rushed contested corner three
Speaker 2: from Derek White here swing swing contested three nineteen on
Speaker 2: the shot clock.
Speaker 3: Miss.
Speaker 2: Here is a clean wide open catch and shoot three
Speaker 2: that goes in. There's a manned down situation. It's a
Speaker 2: five on four in transition boom, Nobody within the area
Speaker 2: code wide open goes in very next possession. How about
Speaker 2: a movement three versus a contest coming off of a
Speaker 2: flare screen. This is a much much tougher shot.
Speaker 3: Miss.
Speaker 2: Here's where I start to get really annoyed with Tatum. Okay,
Speaker 2: so you just had a bad miss. You get cat
Speaker 2: again on a switch here eight seconds on the shot clock.
Speaker 2: No attempt to try to drive on cat and generate
Speaker 2: the rim pressure. Get a quality shot. Just go right
Speaker 2: to the step back brick. Look at where it hits
Speaker 2: the backboard, first backboard, then rim. So his jump shot
Speaker 2: is off by feet plural, and he needs to make
Speaker 2: an adjustment. At this point, the jumpers off by feet.
Speaker 2: The game is tied. I need to look to be
Speaker 2: more aggressive. Let's see if we see any change in
Speaker 2: approach from Tatum.
Speaker 3: Here we go.
Speaker 2: Jaylen Brown, off of an offensive rebound, drives a close out,
Speaker 2: gets to the rim and lays the ball up, but
Speaker 2: right next right on the next possession, back to settling
Speaker 2: for Jaylen Brown. Just got to the rim, just got
Speaker 2: a lay up. How about a catch and shoot three?
Speaker 2: Mildly contested catch and shoot three with twelve seconds on
Speaker 2: the shot clock, even though he can't shoot in this half.
Speaker 2: All right, Knicks have the lead now off of a
Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson three against al Horford. Now things are getting
Speaker 2: into serious crisis mode. Let's see how Boston looks to
Speaker 2: attack on offense starts with this kind of iffy catch
Speaker 2: and shoot three. It's a decent look for Derek White
Speaker 2: fifteen seconds of the shot clock. Don't hate it, and
Speaker 2: at least they got the ball inside to Brunson. Don't
Speaker 2: hate it. But what the hell is Drew Holliday doing here?
Speaker 2: A spinning off of a spinning out of rhythm offensive
Speaker 2: rebound kickout three with thirteen on the shot clock, out
Speaker 2: of the corner while he's leaning one of the worst
Speaker 2: shots I've seen and Drew take in his career. Okay,
Speaker 2: nine seven ninety five Tatum on cat. Oh, we're driving
Speaker 2: to the basket now, guys, drive into the basket. Drawing
Speaker 2: multiple defenders, drop off the drew holiday, beautiful extra pass,
Speaker 2: clean catch and shoot. Look it goes in. Okay, so
Speaker 2: we know that Tatum driving to the basket is working.
Speaker 2: He just drove to the basket successfully on Cat. You
Speaker 2: don't need to run this screening action again. But Tatum
Speaker 2: instead is going to take another off the dribble three
Speaker 2: eleven on the shot clock. Another off the dribble three,
Speaker 2: even though he knows his shot is off. He literally
Speaker 2: he knows his shot is off. He bricked the shit
Speaker 2: out of his of like three or four of his
Speaker 2: jump shots in his half. And what do we get
Speaker 2: another outside the rim miss look, barely grazes the left
Speaker 2: side of the rim and goes down. Doesn't even go
Speaker 2: up off the rim, which means he barely grays the
Speaker 2: left side of the rim. And then we get a
Speaker 2: couple moves on Jalen Brunson here that are both geared
Speaker 2: towards the pullback. Again, no attempt to actually drive. It's
Speaker 2: like pullback. Everything's geared towards the pullback. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: get a three. He's driving to get jump shots. He's
Speaker 2: not driving to get to the basket on this play, right,
Speaker 2: here he's very capable of right here spinning pound the dribble,
Speaker 2: spin and you're in this part of the lane, drawing
Speaker 2: multiple defenders and making something good happen. No, but it's
Speaker 2: geared towards the pullback. Everything mentality wise is geared towards
Speaker 2: the pull up jump shot. I do want to give
Speaker 2: Brunton some credit for his defense here. Again Tatum's letting
Speaker 2: him off the hook, but these are some nice off
Speaker 2: the dribble cutoffs from brunts and sliding his feet. He
Speaker 2: was great on defense down the stretch of this game.
Speaker 2: This is why I was so annoyed at this play.
Speaker 2: As you guys saw, they were mixing in hedges and
Speaker 2: recovers with Brunson, especially on some of those Tatum cat actions.
Speaker 2: But when Brunson was switched on Tatum, he was able
Speaker 2: to actually bait Tatum taking into taking bad shots. You
Speaker 2: guys will see another example of it in overtime. Here's
Speaker 2: a random possession where they threw the hedge and recover
Speaker 2: and gave up a layup hedge slip, wide open layup.
Speaker 2: That was what tied the game and sent it to overtime.
Speaker 2: So like for the Knicks, just trust Brunson's ability to
Speaker 2: defend on an island, and you'll bait Boston into doing
Speaker 2: stupid shit. If you do this, you can give them
Speaker 2: these easy reads that they're going to take layups. Tatum,
Speaker 2: big possession of the game, gets a switch on to Mitchell.
Speaker 2: Robinson settles for the step back three again again like
Speaker 2: it's so clear at least he's inside the rim on
Speaker 2: that one, but like, like he just it was so
Speaker 2: clear that the jumper wasn't there for him, and he
Speaker 2: just made no attempt to change his approach. Another just
Speaker 2: unbelievably stupid shot from Drew Holliday, no passes step back
Speaker 2: three against literally against the knicks best defender. A zero
Speaker 2: pass step back three for Drew Holiday, down three in overtime.
Speaker 2: Here's the other Tatum io against Brunson, fast forward.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 2: If you don't hedge, that's the same action they just
Speaker 2: hedged and recovered and gave a layup on at the
Speaker 2: end of regulation. Brunson beats him to the spot a
Speaker 2: couple times and forces him into a mid range fall
Speaker 2: away that he misses airballs. Two minutes left in overtime,
Speaker 2: we get a Jason Tatum post up off of a
Speaker 2: switch with McHale Bridges and we get a layup. There
Speaker 2: is a clear indication that every single time Boston applied
Speaker 2: rim pressure and trusted their process, they got either good
Speaker 2: stuff at the rim or good catch and shoot stuff
Speaker 2: that went in. And every time they did something stupid,
Speaker 2: they played into variants.
Speaker 3: And that's the thing.
Speaker 2: It's not about Boston being able to play like this.
Speaker 2: I expect them to win a game in this series
Speaker 2: where they take, you know, fifty to fifty five through
Speaker 2: a lot of those kinds of shots, because when they're
Speaker 2: all in rhythm, that's part of what makes them so scary.
Speaker 2: But you have to be able to read the room,
Speaker 2: read the shot result, read the flow of the game,
Speaker 2: and change your approach when the situation calls for it.
Speaker 2: And Boston just let New York off the hook tonight.
Speaker 2: And I just I mean, you, guys, I think the
Speaker 2: tape speaks for itself. That's one of the dumbest halves
Speaker 2: of basketball that I've seen Boston play in the Jason
Speaker 2: Tatum era. All right, guys, it's all I have for today.
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