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All right, well coon hoopsainai here at the volume. Happy Thursday, everybody, Oh bo if you guys have had it great week so far. We're doing three game reactions today. The Sacramento Kings tried out their new DeMar deroz In look against the Golden State Warriors. After that we're going to take
a look at the Spurs and the Magic. The debut of Chris Paul and Victor Webbin Yamen together and then at the tail end, I got a good look at the Miami Heat in their starting group in the first half against Charlotte a couple days ago, so we're going to talk about that. And then I've got fifteen clips in a session of Timp's tape at the tail end of the show as well. You guys know the joke before we get started. Subscribe to Hoops Tonight YouTube channels.
You don't miss any more of our videos. Follow me on Twitter at underscore jsonlt so you guys don't miss any show announcement. So forget about a podcast feed wherever you get your podcast or Hoops Tonight. Then keep dropping mailback questions in those YouTube comments so we can keep hitting them throughout the remainder of the season. I do want to hit the Oklahoma City Thunder, who tried their starting lineup yesterday and looked amazing, but I haven't had
a chance to get to that game yet. I plan on I recorded with Claire d loun yesterday on the GM survey that's going out on Friday, But on Friday morning, I plan on hitting that Thunder game as well as probably the Lakers, Bucks game from later tonight, so we'll have like a small short preseason reaction and then we'll also have the GM survey for tomorrow. But let's not
Golden State Sacramento. So Sacramento ended up going with their smaller starting group, as was kind of reported around the league, kean Ellis alongside Dearon Fox in the back court, with DeMar de Rozen at the three, Keegan Murray at the four, and then Sabonis at the five. I was concerned about how they'd hold up physically, both on the glass and on the defensive end. They held up really well on the glass, only gave up four offensive rebounds in the
entire game, but their defense was a disaster. They gave up one point two points per half court possession to Golden State. That's like a really, really bad number. They're constantly losing shooters all over the place, falling down, running into screens, all that kind of stuff. Golden State ended up getting one point five points per jump shot in the first half, and they were a lot of really good looks, so obviously a lot they got to tighten up defensively, but we knew that was going to be
the case. The DeRozan fit on offense was literally perfect as I figured it would be. It's just this too much of a natural basketball fit in terms of the way his skill set kind of meshes with Sacramento's five out attack and the way that they like to run action going from side to side and having guys coming off of like pinned downs into dribble handoffs. With Sabonis coming out of the corner. It just is too much
of an obvious fit. And his first bucket was a classic Chicago action out of the left corner, Draymond Green went under the screen. He hits the elbow jumper right second bucket another elbow jumper coming off of a dribble handoff into a Sabonis ball screen. His third bucket, another elbow jumper coming off of a Sabonus drible handoff. You guys get the point. It's just his skill set just so perfectly lines up with what the Kings try to do.
It's just such a seamless offensive fit. His fourth bucket was this like really tough, like Kobe esque left shoulder fade over Kyle Anderson ry pump bake three times and then rows up and knocked the shot down. But his fifth bucket once again, same kind of thing, double wide pinned down. This time some bonus was operating as a passing fulcrum from the opposite side, comes around guys chasing.
No one's in help because there's not a big guy involved in so since it's not a big guy involved, DeRozan curled this one, got into lane, absorbed the contact and made a little floater. But perhaps the most important bucket that he got in the game was a six bucket, which was him spotting up in the right corner with Dearon Fox running action out of the left side of the floor, and he was able to hit a three
in the corner. And that's gonna be the important piece because I think Fox is going to be pretty comfortable spacing off of DeRozan, but DeRozan's gonna have to be comfortable spacing off of Fox for this to work in the big picture. They had a one forty four offensive rating with Derozen on the floor last night. That is a awesome first outing for the Sacramento Kings. Again, they're gonna have to guard a lot better to be a serious team, but they're gonna score a shit ton of
points and that's a good foundation. Keigan Murray last king I wanted to shout out from this particular game, just showed some off the dribble pop. He had this like kind of step back jump shot that he hit over Gary Payton. But there was this other move that he hit Kevin Looney with that where he kind of like
came down the floor in transition. Looney was a little bit on his heels, got downhill into his step back, but then out of the high hesitation in the step back, as Looney stepped out of his stance to contest the shot, he crossed back over to the right and went right around into the basket for La. It was a pretty high level counter move and so just something to keep an eye on Keegan Murray's offensive development. We still don't know what type of player he's going to be when
he's fully well rounded. And every time I see those little flashes of that high level offensive creation, that's just a glimpse set a potential higher ceiling for this team in the long run. On the Warriors front, Stephan Draymond both looked great. Steph looked like he didn't have Chris
done on him. I talked about that in the Clippers game like Christine's one of the very best players in the league at guarding guards, right, and so I didn't expect him to have as much trouble as soon as he got into a different matchup, and he immediately started getting separation from Kean Ellis, who was struggling with some of the Warrior screening actions and just some of this switching and just kings not being sharp and not staying attached.
He had thirteen points on eight shots. Looked like a I think he was five for eight from the field, nice little bounce back outing from Steph. Draymond, hit a couple of threes, did a wonderful job orchestrating the offense from the top. Hit Steph on a couple of back cuts. He could easily have had ten assists in that first half. Of guys were hitting shots, but just the very few jump shots that the Warriors did miss, several of them came off of Draymond Green feeds and were pretty good looks.
Kevon Looney and Brandon Paziemski looked good with the starters. Looney I talked in the mail bag and yesterday's show about how like these Warriors with two big looks with Draymond at the four. Like Tray Jackson, Davis has a speed advantage, Kvon Looney has a size and strength advantage, and so it makes sense to kind of just swap
them in and out based on the matchup. Loony's always had Sabonis's number in terms of being able to absorb his contact and not let him get bullied underneath the basket. He forced Sabonis into jump shots that I think is the right kind of like matchup to go there, and that's what I kind of expect the Warriors to do on an in a night out basis during the regular season. If they're going to play center next to Draymond, I think they'll probably change between those two depending on the matchup.
Brandon Pizemski eight assists did a wonderful job, especially in the second half when the starters went out and he has had to start running more action of beating lowman help with skip passes. We're going to talk about this
in Tim's tape here at the tail end of the show. Basically, in a ball screen a lot of teams are going to tag from the weak side, especially teams that don't trust their ball screen defense, and so the opening the way you beat their pick and roll coverage is that skip pass, and it's just a difficult pass, and it's a pass a lot of players don't see because they kind of only see what's happening in the immediate vicinity
around them. And POD's got three assists on that in the third quarter, just by making the easy read that was available in ball screens. And you know, again, as we're watching the Warriors here at the start of the year, the addition of the Anthony Mountain in the growth of Brandon Pazemski is offensive player, These two things are going to be key for this team. The Anthony Maltain hit a pull up three against drop coverage at the top of the key. He had sixteen points and three assists.
Between those two guys through two games, thirty six points and sixteen assists with them playing obviously limited minutes in a preseason context, So very very encouraging stuff from those two guards. Again, those two guys are going to be one of the big swing factors for the Warriors this year. How good of a job they do creating shots when Steph needs a break or when he's off the floor. Right, Jonathan coming out a nice bounce back game, just quicker decisions,
some nice spot up shooting. As a team, the Warriors struggled defensively, but Dearreon Fox has always given the Warriors guards some issues, and like, obviously not having Andrew Wiggins in the lineup is something that's going to play a role there. He was beating Dan Anthony Melton off the dribble pretty easily, though I was hoping Melton would have held up a little better in that matchup. But some of this is, like Darren Fox is one of the
top twenty five players in the league. I had him at twenty four, and he's just really really hard to guard. So sometimes you just got to kind of acknowledge the superstar problem, which is like Darreon Fox is just really damn good at basketball, and sometimes you've got to kind of account for that as a team rather than expecting some individual to shut him down. Right, But so, really nice forward for the Warriors offense off of that first game against the Clippers. Moving on to Spurs Magic. The
Spurs as a team looks super sloppy right now. Their transition defense was legitimately embarrassing last night. They got one point, the Magic got one point. Six y three points per transition possession in the first half. Now, before you like think too much about this, like a dunk is two points per possession, so like they were. They were literally eighty percent of a dunk every single time down the floor in transition. That is like so so so bad.
It was a layup line. No one was stopping the ball, no one was protecting the rim, like I would imagine Greg Popovich is very pissed off after watching the film of that, and that's something they're going to be harping on over the next couple of days. Victor women Yamo is really sloppy. He was four to fifteen from the field, was taking a lot of really difficult iso jump shots. He had four turnovers. He tried to jam like a no look behind the back pass in traffic that got
turned over. In transition, he tried to dribble tween a guy's legs and it got turned over. So just kind of a sloppy outing for Wemby. I didn't I wouldn't really look too much into it. He was kind of almost playing borderline like it was an unserious game, and so I think some of that's preseasons, some of that's just him getting into the flow. Some of it's just him trying shit that he's probably been practicing over the summer, So I wouldn't read too much into it. But obviously
Wenby was a little sloppy. The spacing was really tough. Orlando was not concerned about Jeremy Sohan's ability to hit jump shots, so they just put Goga Patadze on him and just had him sit in the basket, and so it just was like a tree standing under the rim anytime the Spurs were trying to do anything. And I think we'll probably see a lot of that this year, especially since Wemby is the kind of guy that I
think they're gonna want. Most teams are going to want to put more athletic, physical, shorter forwards that are going to try to disrupt his base. I think we're going to see a lot of Bitadze type players, like bigger just center types just getting put on Sohan and just
sitting underneath the basket. That's going to be something that the Spurs are going to have to confront Schematically, keeping Sohan super active as a screener and as a cutter and as an offensive rebound to try to offensive rebounder to try to punish teams for helping off of him. We did see some of the upside. We saw some sharp five out possessions. I got one that I'll show you guys, an example of just running a simple five out action that gets wide open three because it just
gets a defender to make a mistake. Wenby ended up catching a lob from CP three on like a cleared side ball screen on the left side of the floor. Generally speaking, as you guys know, I'm a big fan of cleared side ball screens because I just think, especially with really good players, it just gives so much space for guys to work, especially guys that are still developing
as playmakers. I think it makes the most sense. There was a possession that I put in the film Session two that you guys will see where Wenby got a short roll catch coming off of a ball screen where he was coming down right in the middle of the floor and so Han was kind of in the dunker spot, so Goga was waiting right underneath the basket and Palo was waiting right underneath the basket, and like a drop coverage and instead of like trying to take an easy
read that was available, there's a kick out to the right corner, or like maybe an opportunity for a little floater, like a Yokic style like pick and roll floater in the mid range or in the short range. He tried to like just drive into all that traffic and ended
up getting blocked by Goga at the rim. And one of the things I talked about in terms of like juicing up Wewenby's offense, I want to see him hunt and be more willing to take the easy looks that he can get in ball screens and so like i'd love to see him add like that little like ten to eight to ten foot floater as he's just kind of rolling into the to the kind of semi circle area just to get easy, little touch shots before he runs into all that traffic. It'll be easier on his body.
It's a shot that he can rely on in a postseason setting. It's an easy way for him to get like an extra three or four easy shots a game that don't involve him getting into all that traffic underneath the basket, which again is going to be a huge problem with Sohan on the floor over the course of this season. So again, sloppy for the Spurs, but a lot of upside. I'm hoping they look sharper later on in the preseason. We'll see Orlando looks super sharp on
defense again. They did a great job running off of turnovers and long rebounds. I talked about their transition scoring earlier, still not loving their lack of ball movement. This is something I talked about after their first preseason game. There was this really weird Palo possession where Plo gets swung the ball at the top of the key and Goga's
on the left wing is unguarded. Franz is in the left corner, He's guarded right, and Goga's calling for the ball, and Franz is pointing to Goga for him to throw the ball, and instead of throwing the easy pass to Goga is standing right there, Paolo just points out him and asks him to cut, and then he looks to the other side as if he wants to run action over there, and both Goga and Franz like show this kind of negative body language, like what the hell are
we doing here? Because the thing is is like you run action to get an advantage. That's the whole purpose of running action. So you already have your advantage right there. There's a two to on one on the weak side. Now, Okay, Goga's not a shooter. I get it. Okay, swing the ball to Goga. Goga's just going to flow into a dribble handoff with Franz. He's going to screen Franz's defender. It's a two on one there. Franz is going to get downhill. It's like a guaranteed driving lane from there.
He's either gonna get all the way to the rim or make a kickout pass two shooter on the week side. And so a lot of this is like you gotta make quicker decisions, take the easy stuff that the defense is giving you. Again, this is a big thing that I'm gonna be talking a lot about in these film sessions.
And again I'm gonna show you guys some examples. There's one in particular from the Spurs game where it's like, you run basic action that flows out of the five out concepts and if a guy's open, take the opening that's there. There's a lot of possessions in a basketball game. Not everything has to be tough. Just take the easy stuff that is available for you on the offensive. End of the floor. So again we're gonna be watching Orlando's offensive growth over the course of the season. Lastly, the
Miami Heat, again I just watched their starters. I didn't have as much time. Again, I'm trying to get to as many of these as possible by it while also doing our season previews, and it's just time consuming. But I got to see the Miami Heat starters against Charlotte in the first half. I watched that on Tuesday or yesterday on Wednesday, and things stood out to me. First of all, Bam aggressively shooting three. He took five of them.
He was two for five, six points. It's one point two points per shot, So good start to the Bam jump shooting experience. The key is him taking them so frequently and with so much confidence that he eventually gets guarded out there. This is like my Kyle Kuzma theory
the Lakers. When Kyle Kuzma was with the Lakers used to take a ton of threes and he always shot in like the low thirties, like thirty one, thirty two percent until that last year before he left, and like it just didn't matter because he was so aggressive and his release looked good that like teams generally guarded Kuzma as though he was a good shooter, and then also like he had because he took so many of them
so confidently. There were games usually about once a week, where he'd go four for seven from three and it could be a huge impact on a game. And so again that's the key with Bam is just take them, take them. Take him if he takes five a game, Hell, I would take six or seven a game. If he takes six or seven a game and he makes two or three of them, and he just sticks with it. Over the long term, it will eventually reflect and won
him getting better at it, more comfortable. But two in defense is starting to account for it and to guard him there. Once Bam starts actually getting guarded from the three point line, then the positive trickle down effects of him shooting extend far beyond points per shot and extend into now you're an overall half court offense improves because you have better spacing and better opportunity for Jimmy to attack or Yovich to attack with advantages out of the post.
And so that's why I kind of like the idea of Bam taking more of those I almost think he has to in order to build this out if you want to have a Bam at a bio Kelllware look. And by the way, I only watch the starters in this particular game, so I haven't had a chance to check out kill Kelllware. We will get to him at some point soon here. But like let's say kell Aware
flashes as like a legitimate five man option. Well, if you want to play Bam next to him and have a big look, it's going to require Bam being an aggressive and guarded three point shooter. And so that's something that I think is worth building out. Jimmy Butler looks healthy, he looks spry. You looked like Jimmy Butler. I thought that was encourage coming off the knee injury. Everything that Terry Rozier does and that fit with this team. It's
gonna come down to him hitting jump shots. He was zero for six last night or two nights ago in that game. Last year, he was one point zero three points per jump shot, which is just not good enough. He hit his open catch and shoot threes at a high percentage, but shot poorly on pull ups and shot poorly on contested shots, and those specifically are the shots that have the potential to raise the ceiling for this Heat team. That's why they're so important. The Heat defense
picked up right where it left off last year. They allowed to zero point eighty six points per half court possession in the first half. Again, they were top five defense last year. That was one of the most encouraging parts of them as like a foundation to build on. Just shot the first outing. Again, I haven't had a chance to look at the bench groups, so we'll talk about them later on in the preseason or early in
the regular season. But I just I had some time on Tuesday and I watched that, and I just wanted to get that into today's show while we had some time. Side note on the Hornets front, I cannot get enough of watching Trey Mann play basketball. Another seven for twelve from the field, fourteen points, four sists, no turnovers, plus ten and nineteen minutes. Has this like weird mix of like early two thousands guard with like some like a little bit at Jamal Crawford, a little bit of Alan
Iverson just like it. Just it's so much fun to watch. And I wonder if he's got some sixth Man of the Year juice this year, something to keep an eye on. All right, I'm that note. Let's get to Tim's tapefore get out of here. By the way, sorry, I'm moving a little quickly today. I've got a little bit of a deadline. I had to get this episode in a little bit earlier, so I wasn't able to get into as much detail. But we are going to do some more preseason reaction tomorrow. All right, let's take a look
at our film session. So first clip, how do you beat switching without having to ice simple things to understand like screening angles. So again, first of all, you got to identify what scheme you're playing against. Miami likes to do a ton of switching. Boom switch, easy switch. You know that switching is the scheme that they're in. So there's no point in setting a hard lateral screen on Terry Rozier because he's not trying to get separation from Rosier.
It's just going to be a switch, right, So you actually need a screen with the intent of getting an advantage out of it. Watch how Miles Bridges comes and screens the bottom side of Terry Rozier because he knows all he's really doing. When he sets this screen is triggering the switch. That's all he's doing. Is not trying to get separation for Lamello. He's triggering the switch. Watches he turns and spins as he sets the screen to create a seal boom. See, all he's actually trying to
do is get the switch while having inside position. Now he is inside position. So as soon as LaMelo Ball pulls Jimmy Butler out a little bit, now Lamello can throw this over the top pass to Miles creates enough of a passing angle for him to get in there and now Myles Bridge as he ends up finishing, but he could also make a kickout pass here as well. Again, these are ways that you can look to get easy
shots out of switches. And here's the thing. You run those kinds of actions, maybe they don't give up an interior seal. Maybe you don't get the easy one, and then you have to attack a matchup. But again, as one of the big themes that I'm always talking about on this show is like hunt the easy stuff first, and then when the easy stuff doesn't work, counter it
by going to the tougher shot. Making the tougher Iso ball the tougher post up looks things along those lines, but take the easy shots that are available to you. This next one is just for fun. Everyone watched Trey Mann and just the ridiculous bag of tricks that he has off of the dribble. Here skip pass into a little dribble hand off ball screen. Watch this dribble combination just disgusting. And then that just kind of harkened back to about twenty years ago and what we used to
see the guards around the league do. All right, clip number three, this is an example of once again a basic like like a secondary break action that the Spurs run and they get a wide open three out of it. So this is uh uh, this isn't a what I would just call like delay Chicago basically. So delay action is when you bring the ball at the floor and you pass to the big man at the top of the key and you flow into action on the opposite
of the floor. This is a Chicago action, which is a pin down into a dribble handoff, right, So we're getting the pinned down into the dho right. So all this is this is not any sort of super complicated five out concept. This isn't some sort of dramatic, you know, schematic genius. All it is is running a basic action when you get up the floor to see if Orlando will make a mistake, and if they don't, then you
might have to get more deliberate about your execution. In this case, as they run the Chicago action, swing back to Wemby. Wemby dribbles into it. Notice Googa is the guy guarding Sohan. He's going under everything. Because he's going under everything, so Han's able to kind of turn the corner a little bit. This pulls the defender from the right wing down to the elbow. That's an overhelp, right. So that's the mistake, which gets a wide open three
for Julian Champagnie. Right. So again you get an open look by running a basic action which triggers a mistake. Now what should have happened here for Orlando, as we know, is this is an overhelp. Sohan's going to be driving, Goga's meeting him on the other side. You're not worried about him taking a jump shot. It's an overhelp, right. But the only way you're gonna get the overhelp is
if you run the action. You have to run the action to get the defense to potentially make a mistake again if it's not open, if he doesn't dig down as hard, he throws the passa champaigne champagne Dho's to Chris Paul. Chris Paul comes off in Wemby flows into another ball screen and you work it until they make
a mistake. That's the whole concept of five out flow side to side, until each time you go side to side, the help defense loose up a little bit because guys aren't getting back to their spots, they get a little bit sloppier in their shell drill. That is the purpose behind running action to see if you can get the defense to make a mistake. In the full episode, I talked about the short roll catch for Wenby that he
kind of turned into a really tough shot. So this is that one first of all, as you could see from a spacing concept, because they have Goga on Sohan and because Sohan's not a threat to shoot, there's just constantly extra traffic here around the basket. Here we have Palo in a drop coverage coming off. This is where I want to see Wemby again, like look to take some easier shots in this range instead, Lookrey catches, he's got some space here. This could even be just a
little short, little pick and pop jump shot. But instead we have literally four Orlando Magic players with a foot in the paint, and Wenby just tries to cram his way in there, and Goga gets a block. And so again, this is kind of what I was talking about earlier, just little details like, Okay, here's an easy read, Franz is digging down. Just make the kickout past the Harrison Barnes.
Let's take an easy three when we get it. Or if fron stays home and pollows deeper and a drop, or Chris gives him the pass later, a little floater in this range, or just catch and take a jump shot right there. Just catch and take a little easy jump shot right there. Take the easy shots and the easy reads that are available in ball screens. This is just trying to do a little too much. Tries to cram it into that space and gets blocked. Keep an eye on that Sohan spacing concept here at the beginning
part of the season, though. All right, here's our cleared side ball screen that gets Wenby the dunk. Okay, so again, because of the cleared side, there's just a little bit more space for Chris to operate. As a result, he's able to get down here into this short corner area that allows him to engage Mo Wogner a little bit more. And then this is Wenby's superpower. Wemby kind of stunt, or of Wagner kind of stunts. But notice Chris Paul
throws a pump fake. Then Mo Wagner tries to recover back to Wemby, but he's just so damn tall he just goes right over the top of him and dunks on him. Little bit of a dirty play there from Mo Wagner too, trying to back out a guy who's jumping on a dunk attempt. But we'll go ahead and glaze over that for a second. Here's an example of
the pick and pop and how that can create easy opening. So, as I talk about all the time, drop coverage has an easy counter, which is the pick and pop. So as Chris Paul is coming off, he's engaging Wagner in a drop right, So that puts two on the ball. Now, if Wenby's rolling, it's easier for Wagner to kind of account for both of them. But because he's because he's not now we have this close out for Wagner all the way from here right. As a result, they end
up rotating with Franz that actually is not Franz. I can't tell who that is at this exact second, but I think that's their rookie, that the rookie from Colorado, if I remember correctly. They both call it close out. They get two on the ball, right. So now we have two on the ball with Wemby, which creates a two on one here between the shooter and the corner, and Malki brand him right underneath the basket. Cole Anthony
has to make up his mind. He ends up being caught in no man's land and Wemby beats with a no look pass. So again that two on one, that two on one, this two on one here is created by the weak side rotation right here, this guy closing out to Wemby. That happens because on the pick and pop,
Wagner is not in position to rotate. This is such an easy action to create initial advantage that then you can play off and you can imagine a scenario like if Wemby, if this guy closes out hard and this guy stays home, there's a kickout pass over here to the corner. Let's say they rotate like Cole Anthony rotates up and the Magic rotate over from the weak side. Now you've got an opportunity to flow into action off the rights, off this left side of the floor. Maybe
Chris Paul pins down for Safan Castle. There's just an initial advantage that you can turn into a read by running that pick and pop action. Here's that play I talked about earlier where the Magic had kind of funky, stagnant offense and Goga and Franz looked a little frustrated with Paolo. So again, here we go. Wemby throws a random double team off of Jalen Suggs. This creates an advantage situation. Now Palo's at the top of the key. Here's our situation. We've got four spurs all on the
right side of the floor. We got Goga by himself in Franz in the corner. Palo's literally looking at him. Goga, excuse me, is literally calling for the basketball. Franz is gesturing in that direction. Again. All you have to do there is swing to Goga. Goga flows into a djo.
Franz is going to get downhill into this area and probably pull all of these spurs into health and one of these dudes is gonna be wide open, but instead Polo looks him off and goes the other way to where Wenby is gonna be able to get a great contest on Suggs. Anyway, watch Goga, watch his body language. He's like, what are we doing here? And then watch Franz what are we doing here? And again like they're because they're frustrated, because it's like you, what are we
running action for? We're running action so we can get an advantage. We got one on the left side of the floor. Move the day of basketball, make a quick decision, flow into the next action if you have to, yet it probably works its way back. Like the thing with Pallo here is like you can imagine a scenario you
throw that pass right here. You might throw that pass and Stefan Castle might close out a Goga and then you might end up just getting right back to a wide open catch and shoot three for Pallo at the top of the key. Just like take the easy reads that are available to you and just play off of it. All right, let's take a look at some of these DeRozan plays. With the kinks. Here's a basic Chicago action
out of the left corner. So here we go again, pin down into a dh o Draymond Green is on the ball, goes under easy little read for Derozen at the elbow to knock down the jump shot. Next one, same sort of thing, dribble hand off, dribble handoff into a ball screen. Looney switches, but he switches soft, so Derozen is comfortable just rising up into his spot knocking it down. It's another one pin down into a dribble
hand off. Switch again. Looney's more aggressive on the switch this time, which actually forces Derozen to pick up again. And I talk about how you run action to get guys to make mistakes. Right, first mistake, Jerymond Green goes underneath both picks against de Rozan, who's just an a lead shooter from that range. Right, second pick, Kevon Looney
too soft on his switch. Right third pick. Looney's harder on the switch, takes away that first read, but DeRozan just gets to his spot off of a little wonderble pull up again, tougher shot, but now he's in rhythm. And again what I was saying earlier is like These are all shots that are kind of like the kinds of shots that the Kings can generate within their offense. In DeRozan's great at them. So it's kind of just like a natural fit for him to be running these
types of actions. And I think this is the weak side spacing. Okay, So again, as I talked about, it's important for as the erin's running action for Derozen to be able to make plays on the on the opposite side. So because you're gonna see this a lot when dearon Fox is running action, you're gonna see DeRozan's defender drop down into the paint and help because they're not as worried about him as a catch and shoot. Guy Kaminga closes off the drive kick out pass, it gets deflected,
so it kind of disrupts the rhythm. But this is the shot that Derozane is going to have to make to make teams pay for helping off that week side his first one last night, here's that Keegan Murray crossover that I was telling you about that was so disgusting. Watch him. You get the head of steam. He's got loony hard dribble at his left step back that high hesitation right here. When he does that step back dribble right here, he could rise into a jump shot, which
is what gets Looney to step out of it. And then Keegan just crosses him over and gets a wide up and lamp. Really advanced counter move there from Keegan Murray. All right here the couple of the three examples of Brandon Pizemski beating low Man. Help, so we're gonna get an action here a little ball screen with Tray Jackson Davis comes off the ball screen. Look at here, here's our lowman Jalen McDaniels. Watch this rifle pass from Pods right into the shooting pocket. Boom knocks it down and
again that's the read. Like as you're looking at this play develop nothing else is open. They're set up at the on ball. Defender is behind Pajemski, which is going to make it harder for him to make a shot. Alex Len is in no roller behind coverage, so it's not like the lob is going to be open. Jaylen McDaniels is packing the paint. There's an easy read right there for you want to skip pass to Moody. Same sort of thing here. Get a ball screen with Trace
crossover to set his man up for the screen. Little details too. Look notice how Pods turns his body looking like he's driving to the right. Everything's pointing to the right, shoulders to the right, balls in his right hand, everything is facing towards the right. That gets the on ball defender to jump high side, which then Padjemski crosses over, which creates the passing angle, or excuse me, the screening angle for Trace to get a good screen. Pods gets downhill.
This is our low man, because Alex lenn is fully committed to the ball. Now his job is to come over and help he does. There's our kickout pass to Kaminga. A nice patient read from Brandon Page. I liked how confident Kaminga looked taking catch and shoot threes last night too. I thought that was encouraging all right. Last one, POD's flown into action ball screen chasing over the top Rollers kind of getting behind len low Man help low Man is all the way into the paint. Pods throws the
skip pass, Moody knocks it down. That's like, that's the kind of playmaking that you need to be able to run that action. Look at Pods talk your shit, man, look at him talking that shit. Go back Pods knows it because he's picking him apart. He's been doing it the entire third quarter. This is all in the first five minutes of the quarter. Look at him, he's like talking his shit. Good for him, that's good. That's impressive playmaking.
That's the kind of shit that they're gonna need from him in order to get to where they want to go this year. All right, guys, nice quick, tight, little thirty three minutes today. That's that's probably the shortest we've gone into a long time. But again, I was under a little bit of a time crunch today. As always, I sincerely appreciate you guys for supporting the show. We'll hit Thunder tomorrow as well as Lakers Bucks. And then I've got I think, like almost an hour of GM
survey stuff. We're hitting like is we're hitting like the all defense or the best defensive players in the league stuff with Draymond and Anthony Davis getting kind of left out where who we think is gonna win MVP this year? The like who's the best player in the league debate between Yokich and Luka. Doncic talked a little bit about why I think Jason Tatum is the best small forward in the NBA. And then we talked a little bit about the CBA and some of the limitations on team building,
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