Hoops Tonight - Cavs Beat Knicks With “Force”, Nuggets Rollercoaster, Steph Curry’s 52

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bit about the concept of playing with force. I want to talk about some of the things that Cleveland does on offense to keep their offense moving smoothly in the half court, mainly just playing with a lot of pace. I want to talk about what that means. After that, we had an insane slate on Tuesday night. We had a scheduled day off yesterday, so we want to get to those games.

end of the game. And then right at the end of the show, we're going to talk about Steph curry Is fifty two point night against the Grizzlies, a little bit about the Grizzlies defense and where their defense has been going and wrong, and then a little bit on the Steph Jimmy Twoman game, which was what devastated the Grizzlies down the stretch. You guys are the drip before we get started. Subscribe to the Hoops and I YouTube channels.

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And the last but not least, keep dropping mail bag questions in the YouTube comments. We've already done our mail bag this week, but we'll do another one next week. You have all of these episodes between now and then to drop your questions into the comments. All right, let's talk some basketball. So with Knicks Caves, I want to start with the concept of force, and I don't mean like Star Wars force, I mean like the physical idea of playing with force, bringing power to everything that you do

on the basketball. At court, the Knicks are a big and strong team. They have three power players in their starting five and josh og Anobi and Karl Anthony Towns, and without Jalen Brunson, they've looked a lot more like last year's team and that they're trying to win by

outworking you. Since Jalen Brunson went down, their top ten in defense, second points off of turnovers, so a lot of defense to transition sequences, top ten in fast break points per game, and top ten in offensive rebounding, so a lot more in line with what you remember from some of the more GrITT and grind type of Knicks teams that we saw in the last couple of years. So in short, they're trying to make up for Brunson being out by outworking teams, and they came out early

in this one and just outworked the Caves. They were the more physical team that was running harder, They were keeping the calves out of transition, they were scoring the ball with savvy cuts. They had a very good jump shooting first half. They were over ten on catch and shoot jump shots in the second half, so that's where things kind of went south for them. But they shot the ball well, they moved the ball well, they outworked the calves, and they controlled things Earlier they were playing

with more force. Now what does that literally mean to me? That means just doing everything harder, so in transition, sprinting instead of like running hard right, closing out with desperation versus just a token close out, crashing the glass harder, sliding your feet on defense better, setting more physical screens, essentially just bringing the physicality to Cleveland, just winning that

battle in the trenches. In that third quarter, Cleveland finally showed up to the fight and they returned the force that allowed their talent advantage to take over. A simple stat to demonstrate this as transition points. A huge part of what makes the Cavs successful is they play fast. We're gonna talk a lot about this concept in a half court for them later, but here I'm focusing on transition. They had just seven transition points in the first half

of this game. They had twenty transition points in the second half. But you gotta get stops to get out in transition. Again, all of these things are intricately connected to each other. In the first half, they had a one to thirty point four defensive rating. You're taking the ball out of the net every damn time, it's going to be really difficult to get the ball up the floor into transition.

And I'm bringing up this concept of force because I think it's an important factor when we get into the postseason. As soon as things shift from getting through this game to getting through this seven game series, we'll talk about adjustments, but often the biggest adjustment that any team can make is just play with more force. One of the things I've noticed as a math and all of these brilliant statistical professionals have been getting into the league is there's this like intense.

but which style wins the fight. If a big fighter and a small fighter who's very fast get into the ring, there's a version of that where the small guy can win using his speed, just like there's a version of that where the big guy can win using his size. Often it's not about some adjustment, it's just about whatever that advantage is, getting leveraged more, getting leverage better to control the situation. And so like we'll see those oscillations back and forth in playoff series as you know, the

urgency shifts from one team to the next. This is why I always look at Game three as like the Buzzsaw game, right, because it's like you go up two to oh at home and you go on the road. It's really hard to run as hard screen, as hard slide, as hard rebound as hard as the team that's at home down two oh playing in front of their home crowd, bringing so much force.

offensively as the Cavs started to take control. The Cavs gave him a day off last week against Portland, and he's been great since coming back. He's in this kind of brutal shooting slot before then, and you could see some of his decision making take a slide as well, and since he came back twenty nine points, eight rebound, seven assists, sixty three percent true shooting in four games, So looks just like the old Donovan Mitchell, better version. I mean, the hell that's damn near a thirty point

triple double. Really high level play out of Donovan Mitchell as of late. I thought Evan Mobley was brilliant in the fourth quarter when Cleveland put the game away. He had a big three on the wing and he had a nice, driving, little drop off pass to Jared Allen underneath the basket. He was super active on the offensive Glass was super active on the defensive end. I thought he was a big part of that shift in force

that we talked about. Jared Allen was brilliant all night, specifically with the speed of his cuts, both in rolls off of ball screens, but also around the rim when he's relocating from dunker spot in dunker spot, and I was really causing fits for Kat who can be a little slow footed from time to time. And this is where I want to get into this foundational concept that every one on the calves is great at and I'm talking about it here in the with respect to Jared Allen, but this is the idea.

As the defense is getting back the ball popping around. You have an advantage from the transition push. You can play off of that if the defense tries to rotate and just play driving kick basketball right. The entire purpose when we get into the half court of running action is to get an advantage, and so if you can get that advantage from the transition push, then you don't

have to slow down and action. But once you get in the half court, there are a lot of teams in this league that can struggle against ball pressure and denial and so many different things. In large part they play into that by playing too slow. This is an issue I've seen with the Lakers from time to time as a team that I root for, right, and there's an upside sometimes to their brutal, brutally slow approach in the way that it can disrupt the rhythm of a game.

And that's an entirely different conversation for another day, and we've talked about it before, but one of the things that can happen is like, it's a lot easier to chase a guy over the top of a screen, both on ball and off ball, to chase a relocating shooter, to tag a roller, to do any of those things when the ball handlers not flying off the screen, when the off ball shooter's not flying off the screen, when the relocating shooter is slowly relocating versus quickly relocating, when

the role man is rumbling down the lane instead of sprinting down the lane. And I clipped a several examples from today's game involving Jared Allen that you guys can find on my Twitter feed at underscore jsonlt. But there's an action early in the game's first bucket that the Cavs get and all it is is, uh, if I remember correctly, it was like a Garland. I think it might have just been Struce coming off of a ball screen with Jared Allen.

sprints on his roll to the rim. He sprints so Kat has no damn chance as he's backpedaling in his drop coverage to get there in time, and so Struce is able to just easily float it up into the air. Easy two handed dunk for Jared Allen, there's another play clip did. It's in the exact same thread, So if you go to my Twitter feed and you find that clip, it's the next one down. Evan Mobley is driving across

the lane out of the right corner Jared Allen. Typical four out one in spacing, when you're occupying the dunker spot, you always want to be in the dunker spot opposite the basketball. Not too hard to figure out why, because if the guy who's helping helps on the strong side, it just creates more space between you and the helper so that you can create a nice easy passing angle. Once the ball crosses the midline, you have a job. And this goes way back to high school. They're teaching

this to Biggs in high school. Right when you cross that midline as the ball handler or pass the ball across the midline, that guy has to move from the weak side dunker spot. Now the d week side has shifted to the strong side. He's got to get to the opposite side.

into e everything. Everything they do happens with great pace. Sam Marrill in his ghost screen actions that he runs with Garland and Mitchell, he's sprinting in and out of those cuts. This is a simple concept that makes life easier for you on the offensive end of the floor. We talked about the idea of like doing things at game speed as a shooter. Kevin Durant talks about this concept all the time. That has more to do with

translating to a game environment. Don't practice doing something at a slower speed than you're gonna have to do it when it actually matters, right, But similarly, when we get into these offensive situations, if you jog into everything, you're easy to guard. If you sprint into everything, you're infinitely harder to guard. That's what it means to play with

pace in the half court. I think it's one of the foundational traits that makes this Cavs offense so great, and every time you watch them, that sort of thing screams off of the screen. It's an element that Kenny Atkinson has brought to this team and it's been a big part of their transformation over the course of this season.

with it. As a game was unfolding, I was thinking to myself, and really hasn't hit kind of a hot jump shooting streak yet, And that felt like a factor that would come into play at some point down the stretch.

And it did, and he just started rising like and it just has this ability to rise up at a spot on the court and he gets such great lift on his jump shot that he can really get to it whenever he wants, and he's become such a great jump shooter that it's kind of just like a let's cross our fingers and pray he misses kind of thing. And he just wasn't missing down the stretch of that game, and it allowed the Wolves to get back into control.

It felt like the Wolves had the game won at multiple points, but Denver just did a good job of doubling the ball out of Anthony Edwards's hands. Minnesota looked like they'd never seen a double team before, as they just pissed down their leg and get a terrible shot over and over again in those situations. The Wolves led in the final minute of the fourth quarter of overtime and double overtime, yet still needed that insane Russell Westbrook sequence at the end in order to win table. That

Russell Westbrook thing. We'll talk about that here in a minute, but there was another reason in addition to Minnesota's poor execution, that Denver was able to consistently come back and almost win that game. Jokich in crunch time had fourteen points, four assists, and zero turnovers in the clutch a portion of this game spanning the end of the fourth quarter, and both overtimes, he was completely indomitable, throwing Gobar around

and getting an easy floater in the lane. He had a nasty turnaround left shoulder fade away over Julius Randall. He hit one of his patented above to break threes at the top of the key, another nasty left shoulder hook over Julius Randall again, all while being doubled and hounded and grabbed and scratched and clawed everywhere. He'd often take a double team, have to get rid of the ball, sprint back up to flash to get the ball back, and then quickly turn away from the double to try

to get a bucket before the double came. It was just remarkably high degree of difficulty and he was just crushing these dudes. I talked after Jokic's thirty twenty twenty game a few weeks back that it probably wasn't even a top five performance from him this year. These are

all now Jokic stat lines from this year. Sixty one, ten and ten, fifty six, sixteen and eight, forty eight, fourteen and eight forty one, eighteen and nine, this one's crazy, thirty seven, eighteen and fifteen, thirty six, twenty two and eleven, thirty five, twelve, and fifteen. Here's another crazy one, twenty two and seventeen, the thirty one to twenty one to twenty two game earlier this year, he had a twenty

three to twenty and sixteen as well. He's averaging thirty thirteen and ten on sixty six percent true shooting for the season. This is the greatest offensive basketball player to ever touch the court. Conversations get way more complicated when you factor in defense, like Jokic is having legitimately a really bad defensive season, and I've seen a lot of talk about people wanting to vault Yokic up the all

time list for what's happening in this regular season. I think that's a little more complicated because it's been a two sided coin with Yokic at times this year. But I have never seen a basketball player produce at this volume, with this variety, with this level of efficiency, with this complete level of unstoppability. You literally cannot stop Jokic from either getting a great shot for himself or for someone else. You can tilt it towards a lesser teammate to make

a shot. Denver's margin for air has shrunken a little bit over the years as the supporting cast has lost a little bit of that firepower. But you just about never see Nikola Jokicic look visibly uncomfortable on a basketball court.

There have been these brief moments here in time, like for instance, against Minnesota in the postseason last year, he had his moments, but he also had like Game five of that series where he just ripped through him like tissue paper for one of the greatest playoff performances I've

ever seen. As good as Steph Curry was offensively, and he's up there, he never had the physical imposition that Jokicz brings to the table that, oh, you leave me in single coverage I'm just gonna get a shot right at the rim with zero variants, guaranteed two points like

Steph never had that. As good as Lebron was offensively back in twenty eighteen, like he could get high percentage looks, he had Scott high efficiency and volume, but he still never had that go to move against any type of defender that he could hit sixty plus percent of the time. Jokic does. The three point shot was the variable that put him over the top for me last year when

he couldn't shoot. It felt like you could do more with double teams and crowding him on pick and roll in particular when he was like rolling into that short roll area. You can do more of that kind of stuff to lessen his impact. You guys might remember the tail end of the Timberwolve series where he kept popping above the break to avoid that traffic jam on those rolls, and he just couldn't hit that shot. He hit six of them against Minnesota on Tuesday. That's the thing that

makes him completely unguardable. I'll just say from personal experience, as someone who's actively rooted against this guy in a playoff series three times, I can confidently state I've never been more scared of an offensive player on that end of the floor in any sort of big spot late in the game. Then I was scared of Nikola Jokic, and I hope to the basketball gods that I don't have to do it again this year. I want to

talk about Westbrook for a minute. I want to set aside the reality of Westbrook's fit and how things have gone in total with the Nuggets just for a minute. I think we can all agree, including Laker fans, that Russell Westbrook is a much better basketball fit with Denver than he was with either of the LA teams. Right, So let's just take that piece and set it aside for a second. When Russell Westbrook signed with the Nuggets,

you Nuggets fans will probably remember what I said. I said that he undoubtedly has a higher ceiling than Reggie Jackson. There's no way that Reggie Jackson could ever do the things on a basketball court that Russell Westbrook is capable of doing. But I also said that he has a much lower floor than Reggie Jackson, and a lot of people like interpreted that as like, oh, like he'll have games where he doesn't produce. That's not it at all.

It's strictly mistake making. Russell Westbrook is incredibly prone to mistakes, regardless of the surrounding circumstances of the game. Doesn't matter if it's the first quarter or the final possession of a big game, he is mistake prone.

that success. So like, for instance, everyone's going to focus on the final sequence, I want to set that aside for second as well, the overtime possession where he makes the post entry past to Jokich and then he cuts through the lane and then he just throws Nikiel Alexander Walker to the ground with a swim move right in front of the reth easiest offensive foul call in the league. They're going the other way, just turn the ball over

for no reason in the big spot in overtime. In second overtime, Nuggets up by one, he's guarding Anthony Edwards, the only guy who's been torching your ass over clutch time. He's guarding Anthony Edwards out up at the top of the key and he just goes catatonic and he's just standing up there like twenty five feet from the basket, and ant just backcuts right behind him. Easy pass. I think it was from Julius Randolph. I remember correctly easy pass on the back cut layup. Now Minnesota has the

lead again. Forget about like just that split second decision making at the end of the game. There were two other situations in that same overtime sequence where Russ either tricked off an offensive possession or gave up a bucket because he's just mistake prone. He just makes mistakes, and like a lot of these people were like making Laker fans out to be jerks for just pointing out these like basic things that we learned from rooting for the guy.

I still vividly remember in big spots many times fourth quarters, two three minutes, left huge possession, Russ forcing it in transition when there was nothing there in smoking a layup. You guys saw it again last night as they blew a game to the Spurs in a big sequence late down too, as he smoked this crazy reverse layup and it led to another layup going out the other way. That happened to me two other Laker fans rooting for him many times over the course of the year and

a half that he was there. I still vividly remember a game against the Brooklyn Nets in La Stanley Johnson signs with the Lakers, like of does an incredible job picking up hard in like full court all game. It's this really important game for the Lakers too, as they're trying to float in the standings. And one of the biggest possessions of the game late in a one possession game, Russell Westbrook is guarding Patty Mills. What's your job guarding

Patty Mills? Game playing, discipline, attention to detail. He's the best shooter on the court. You gotta track him. He was ball watching just like that play I was talking about with aunt. Pat Mills relocated to the left corner hard and hit him. He hit the dagger, the game was over. I've been there, guys. I wasn't trying to like talk shit for the sake of talking shit. I wasn't trying to be personal. I wasn't trying to be a dick. I like, I rooted for the guy for

a year and a half. It was in my best interests as a fan for him to be good, and he just repeatedly undercut his successes with that mistake making. And then there you go, in a big possession late Anthony Edwards turns.

turned a win into a loss. And like, look, Nicole Jokic after the game, excellent leadership says, this kind of shit happens sometimes, and he's not wrong. I literally just watched Lebron do it the other day. I watched Lebron the other day lose a shooter in the weekside corner and then turn the ball over on the baseline. Here's the thing. I've been watching Lebron his entire career. That was fucking weird. That was highly unusual from Lebron James.

I watched Russell Westbrook this entire phase of his career. That is something he is absolutely prone to doing in these sorts of spots, and so like again, it's there's there are some realities, right, like Jamal Murray's healthy, Russell Westbrook's probably not out there, right. There are ways for Mike Malone and the Nuggets to shield against this sort of thing by keeping him out of the game in

those spots. But the problem is is like there is some reality to the fact that there is an opportunity, There is a there is a potential outcome here where the Nuggets are in a big game, four down two to one in a series on the road at you know, some one of these big Western Conference teams, and it's a late third quarter stretch where the Nuggets are up by two and Russ could take over the game and win it for you, and you could go into the mid fourth quarter stretch up by twelve.

this out, I wasn't trying to be a dick. I was just being honest about my own personal experience rooting for the guy, in relaying a message that every Lakers fan will tell you. Even Clippers fans will tell you that this was a reality. It's not a big deal. They're gonna be able to cover fourth. They should be able to keep him out of these sort of high leverage situations. But keep an eye on it in the postseason for a big bench stretch and a big quarter.

There he's mistake prone and it could be something that ends up costing you a game. Last note on the Nuggets poor We move on Aaron Gordon. I don't think of this Aaron Gordon shooting stretch as some sort of anomaly or just random hot streak or anything along those lines. I genuinely believe Aaron Gordon is just a great shooter.

of the wrist. He's super confident with it. Made two more massive ones in that overtime game against Minnesota, was stepping into one. Even the ones he missed were like barely off. Like the guy is just flat out a really good shooter. Now, a couple different things that I want to say about it real quick. First of all, young players, Aaron Gordon built a jim at his house, and again we don't not all of us have.

cutting that corner. And Aaron Gordon paid his dues, paid the price to become a great shooter, and he's there now. Second piece of it. I think that this Denver Nugget season is headed for some sort of like second or third round exit. I still view them as a championship contender. I would be foolish, all of us would be foolish to write off Nikola, jokicch and pretend like they can't get the job done. They absolutely can get the job done.

And if jokicchen the Nuggets were hoisting the trophy in June, I would not be shocked. I'd be a little surprised, but I wouldn't be shocked. That said, I do think they probably lose in the second or third round. In that we're headed towards some sort of pivot this summer. The original contrus diduction of the team involved this idea that Yokic inverted the spacing by bringing rim protectors out around the elbow above the break area. Just because of

Yokich's threat as a scorer in those ranges. This creates all this space along the baseline right. That is how Aaron Gordon used to be an effective offensive player for the Nuggets. His ability to be a vertical spacer along the baseline. Michael Porter Junior was the weak side three point shot spacer, close out attacking spacer, second side creator

type of role. Right, I believe Aaron Gordon's development as a jumpshooter allows him to actually fill the Michael Porter Junior role of being a weak side spacer who can run second side action, who can do those sorts of things for this team. Someone in a mail bag a while back pitched the idea of a swap between the Timberwolves and the Nuggets of Jaden McDaniels from Michael Porter junior.

type of player at the three next To Aaron. Gordon they can flip those roles now and they can have a defensive minded three who works along the baseline While Aaron gordon is now working the weak side as that shooter space or second side. Creator there is a certain Flexibility denver has this summer in their team construct that they literally would not have had if it wasn't For

Aaron gordon's development as a jump. Shooter AND i just think it's a huge development for the potential Of denver to keep this, going to keep this era in this construct of the team going with a minor pivot as opposed to having to do a more dramatic.

attacked every time down the. Floor John ray has his, moments but he's just really small yet a little moment where he Guarded Steph curry for a few possessions in that, game and like stayed attached to him pretty well because he's such a freaky. Athlete but he's just small and he has a lot offensive. Responsibility it's a lot to ask and to make matters, worse they're just spiraling in general as a. Team they're down to the eight seed

and all things are looking pretty bleak for The. Grizzlies but just in the last week The grizzlies at, home all at, Home i've given up the most points The lakers have scored in a game That, Luca lebron And austin have all played, in the most unguarded catch and shoot threes that The celtics have generated in a single game all, season and fifty two points To Steph, curry all in one, week all at. Home point, being if you want to get your offense, going go To memphis

play The. Grizzlies there were two main factors that were causing The grizzlies to have so much trouble Guarding. Steph he did hit a lot of really tough contested shots in this. Game you're not getting to fifty points unless you can hit, tough contested, shots And steph has looked. Fantastic that's the subplot, here is Like steph is just peaking right at the right, time preparing for this playoff.

Run he's averaging twenty eight points per game on sky high sixty six percent true shooting in his last twenty three. Games and, again that to me is where you Want steph to. Be, like you don't Need steph to be twenty twenty, one thirty two points a game like kind of lower, efficiency just like trying to create everything. Himself this is a version of the team where you want him more like the twenty twenty two version Of, steph where he's in that high twenties, range super efficient picking his.

Spots there's a team concept that he's thriving. In. Right steph's playing, great but his offense in this game was supplemented by two. Things one drop coverage Was. Zachy steph got almost a dozen really clean looks in this game Because zachi ed was sitting right underneath the basket Ignoring, draymond And draymond is just setting these monster screens On Jalen wells and so as a, Result steph is able

to just come free and clear off of these. Screens AND i clipped a few examples on My twitter, feed by the, Way so go to UNDERSCORE jsnlt and you guys see some examples of What i'm talking. About but, like this was the coverage The spurs used Against steph back in twenty. Thirteen this is the coverage that all of us freaked out about back in twenty twenty two when The celtics tried to use this coverage in the.

Finals drop coverage concedes pull up jump. Shots Steph curry is the greatest pull up jump shooter in the history of. Basketball that is the shot that that coverage. Concedes it is suicide Against Steph.

common strategy that you'll see against The. Warriors, essentially all that means is If steph is trying to come off of an off ball screen towards the top of the, key instead of getting behind him and locking and trailing, him you top lock so that he has no choice but to back. Cut right denial more or less accomplishes

the same. Thing If steph is flashing to get the ball and you're just a catch and you're just in the passing, lane denying it concedes a. Backcut if you're going to concede backcuts as part of top locking and, denial you need to have backside. Help and there was just no backside. Help and so there were just so many of these situations where they were giving up these

backcuts and just getting these super clean. Looks and this is WHERE i want to shout Out Draymond green, too BECAUSE i talk a lot about this concept on the. Show but the idea of your value in a vacuum versus your value on your specific, Team Draymond green's offensive value in a vacuum is not as high as it is specifically on this. Team and one of the main reasons why is because they run this motion five out offense with all this cutting and, screening And draymond is

just incredible at reading those plays. Developed if you picked Up draymond and put him on like The, lakers where it's more of a, spread pick and roll type of, situation, yeah you'd have some success as a short roll guy off Of luca and, blitzes but he's not going to be able to unlock that high post passing part of his.

Game the high post passing part of his game is uniquely valuable in a system like this where there's all this off ball cutting and, screening and he just does a wonderful job Hitting steph And jimmy and all these guys in these, cuts in these slips out of those screening. Actions, again his value offensively is uniquely super high on This warriors.

Team that's really all that. Matters steph got his rhythm from all the easy ones he was getting from those defensive, breakdowns and then he just porched with the tough ones to get up to the fifty. Two the last piece THAT i want to talk about is the two man game Between jimmy And. Steph they ran it three times down the stretch in this game and got great looks every single. Time i've put all three of these clips in a single tweet On, Twitter so, again go to

My twitter feed to Underscore Jason. Ltis you guys can see. It since we had to wait till today to cover these, GAMES i just wanted to get all that stuff out On. Twitters you guys can see it. There but there's basically three different types of. Actions all that Involves steph And jimmy. Together and, again whether it's off ball or on, ball

the coverage concepts more or less stay the. Same but in these, Situations santy did three completely different, things and in those three completely different, things The warriors burned them every single. Time first, One steph driving right around the top of the. Key jimmy sets the ball screen For. Steph When jimmy sets the, Screen santy Al dama is the screen, defender but instead of showing or helping or dropping or, anything he just stays glued up To Jimmy

butler around the right lane. Line that Allows steph to turn the corner because his man is getting, screened And steph gets downhill and makes a little right handed scoop shot in the lane over the rim. Protector, okay the SECOND seq part of the sequence an off ball. Action Believe draymond was the. Passer IF i remember, correctly there is a off ball screen That Jimmy butler sets For Steph curry going towards the left. Corner in this, Situation

santi Al dama runs kind of like a modified drop. Coverage, again this is an off ball, action but the action still have similar coverage concepts or principles to what you have in an on ball. Situation santy's the screen. Defender he's not glued up To. Jimmy he's kind of sitting on the other side of the, screen just like ten feet back From. Steph that's not gonna. Work santi offers a token late, contest but it doesn't Bother steph at.

All he drills the three out of the left. Corner, then on the final play in the, sequence same sort of Deal Steph jimmy two man game out by the top of the. Key santi's been burned, twice gave up the drive To, steph gave up the three to Step so what does he?

they're two very different types of. Players the player is fast enough to Track steph around is probably not going to be strong enough to deal With jimmy in AN iso. Situation and a player is big and strong enough to deal With jimmy in AN iso situation probably isn't going to be fast enough to deal With steph out on the. Perimeter the fundamental concept of any great two man game is dictating or by drawing different types of. Defenders. Right this is why The Lebron Anthony davis two man game

never really took off with The. Lakers how are you Guarding lebron big strong? Forward how are you Guarding anthony big strong? Forward you can switch every once in a, while you'd See lebron And ad face a team that had, to you, know Guard Anthony davis With, nurkic for, instance like The. Suns one of the reasons why The lakers always dominated The suns was they could just run ball. Screens they had to run drop. Coverage lebron And ad would porch him and drop. Coverage But steph And jimmy

very different archetypes of. Players they're gonna draw very different types of. Defenders they're gonna be less susceptible to switching in those sorts of, situations, Right and so that that's kind of like the core concepts that makes the concept that makes that two man game so. Effectively and then even when teams do, Switch jimmy's like so damn good at inside, seals and in those inside, seals he can

create that over the top passing. Angle he's so good at high pointing the, Ball he's so good at getting to the. Line he had another play down the, stretch and this one where he pumped faked On Jaron jackson and drew a. Foullock that's like one of his superpowers that's just so valuable to this particular. Team super excited for tonight's showdown against The. Lakers we are going live

on YouTube after the final buzzer Of Warriors lakers. Tonight we're also going to do another one of those kind of like chat, mailbags so make sure you guys come hang. Out the big matchup for tonight is perimeter speed versus perimeter. Size The lakers are susceptible to some perimeter, speed The warriors are susceptible to some perimeter. Size it's gonna be like That styles Make fights. CONCEPT i talk about will The warriors use their speed more effectively than The lakers

use their. SIZE a couple ski keys to the game to pay attention To lebron And luca punishing. SMALLS i think that's going to be a huge part of their, attack not turning the ball over to avoid The warriors.

lack of foot speed can be an. Issue and then The warriors non Shooters Gary, Payton Brandon, Pajemski Draymond, green these, GUYS Jj, reddick excuse, ME Jj redick is going to concede a million threes to those guys, tonight and so those guys are gonna have to be able to knock those shots down to keep the defense. Honest super, excited huge, game major seating, implications star power all over the. Place just one of those like classic regular season. Moments i'm

super super excited about. It we'll get into it tonight after the final. BUZZER i will see you guys. Then as, ALWAYS i thank you guys for supporting me and supporting the, show AND i will see you tonight.