April 24, 2025 • 18 mins
Jason breaks down the film from the Boston Celtics Game 2 win over the Orlando Magic including Jaylen Brown leading a big third quarter run over Paolo Banchero that proved to be the difference in the game.
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All right, well, good to Hoops and I here at
the volume heavy Thursday. Everybody, Hoop, all you guys are
having a great week. Just a quick film session today.
I have about fifteen seventeen clips.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
To go through.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
We're going to be focusing in on the run that
took the Boston Celtics from fifty to forty nine, a
one point lead in the early third quarter to a
Peyton purchad three along the left wing, a very nice
read from Jalen Brown in a ball screen that put
them up fifteen and put them in control of the game.
Just gonna focus on some specific matchup stuff. Not a
ton of really advanced schematics taking place in the series,
(02:30):
just with the sheer degree of switching that is occurring.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But we're gonna look in in.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Some of the specific dynamics, some of the specific types
of switches that are getting attacked, and also going to
have some fun highlighting some high level one on one basketball.
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let's talk some basketball, So we're gonna get right into
it here with a I talked last night about how
(03:16):
primarily Jalen Brown was looking to attack centers, and as
you can see, look at all the screens being switched.
They fight through that first one, but they're gonna end
up giving it up as soon as they have an opportunity.
Here we have a switch on the two man game
between Porzingis and Jalen Brown. We have seven seconds on
the shot clock. And the key here is watch how
Jalen Brown, right when he gets the switch, he takes
(03:37):
the step back here because he knows his best opportunity
to get this big dude off balance is to really
make an aggressive driving move towards the basket. Now, as
you can see, watches Jalen Brown. What I want you
to see is look at where Wendell Carter Junior's feet
end up on this really aggressive driving move from Jalen Brown.
So he gets downhill with that hard hesitation move.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Look at where.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Wendell Carter Junior's right foot end. It ends up all
the way down almost at the third block, and so
as a result, you can see his weight on that
last crossover move shift way back and that gives Jalen
plenty of opportunity to get into his step back. And
then this is the athleticism piece. I talk about it
all the time. The hardest piece of pull up shooting
is getting straight up and down. If you look at
(04:18):
the end of the shot, if you look at him,
he's going pretty much straight up and down. That's at
the end of the shot. It's more or less just
to catch and shoot jump shot right. But in order
to get there, he's got to take his body from
all the way down in this athletic position, jumping all
the way back, and he's got to use both of
his feet to catch his weight and to shoot all
that momentum straight up. It's all about the legs when
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it gets into that tough three point shot making Pollo
obviously doing a healthy amount of attacking Orlando's smalls in
the post. This is an excellent example of the Celtics
just rotating out of it really well, kind of like
a windshield. Wiper type of rotation. To what I'm looking
at there is just everybody kind of going to the
next step in the line right so as you can see,
Horford's basically bring in the double Wen Delle Carter Jr.
(04:59):
Setting hin in the screen on chrisops porzingis so he
can't close out right, So that's going to put the
onus on Jalen Brown to get there. That's where we're
gonna get our windshield wiper rotation. Jalen Brown's gonna go
to Franz, Drew Holliday is going to go to kcp al,
Horford's going to go to Corey Joseph, and the advantage
is going to be gone.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
See boom.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Just like that, you successfully doubled Palo out of a
double team or out of a post mismatch without having
to give up anything. This is one of the things
that gets difficult about having hesitant catch and shoot shooters
out of doubles. This just has to be a jump
shot right here, especially if you look at the type
of close out Jalen Brown's offering. Franz is already looking
to the next pass in the line, and what's ending
(05:37):
up happening here is Casep's not really in a position
to shoot because he's an extra two feet behind the line.
Franz has no interest in shooting that. This is where
it's like, if you really want to create opportunity for
Palo to be able to attack mismatches, you've got to
have guys on the floor that are willing to shoot
off the catch and shoot quickly off the catch.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Another Jaylen Brown pull up three. The main thing I'm
highlighting here, like we.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Talked about yesterday, is just how easy this is on
Jaln Brown's legs as a way to get a relatively
high value possession without having to over exert himself physically.
And if you watch Franz, like look at where Franz
is defending. He's on his heels the whole way left.
His left foot is all the way down near the
elbow here on the left side. Al hoeverd It gets
a really nice offensive rebound here over Franz Wagner. Look
(06:19):
at this bit of shot making from Derek White. So
on the offensive rebound, he makes the kick out to
Jalen Brown. Jalen Brown had the three point shot going,
but we get a really nice close out from Pallo
here and on the closeout that leads to Derek White
being the next read. Look at KCP sprinting at him.
Watch the footwork of Derek White once again to get
his feet established and to get the lift to knock
(06:40):
down the shot. And if you look at where he
took off, he took off with his left foot right
in between the three point line in the corner and
it lands right in the exact same spot. So once again,
exact same concept I was just talking about with Jaylen Brown.
This is literally the athleticism piece of movement shooting, getting
off of a sprint into a straight up and down
jump shot. As a right handed shooter, we always talk
(07:00):
about how when you're a right handed shooter, you got
to swing that right leg around to square up your momentum.
Watch watch that right leg from Derek White as he's
squaring up in mid air. Look at how it just
kind of kicks up and swings around a little bit.
That is part of that momentum of the right handed
shooter squaring up as he's moving towards his right. This
was an interesting little late double from Jalen Brown. Jalmbar
(07:22):
I got himself in some trouble here, because KCP is
a good corner three point shooter that you don't necessarily
want to leave open. But look at how Jalen's athleticism
makes a huge difference on the close out anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So we get a.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Little kickback here from Paalo Pallo goes Jalen Brown brings
the late double. There's two point seven on the shot clock,
so I don't necessarily hate the double because Paolo has
a tendency to miss some of these reads. I mean
he's even missing just Corey Joseph standing wide open here
on the left wing, but he makes the kickback to KCP.
Watch this close out from Jaylen Brown. He identifies it
at the last second, starts his momentum, and then gets
(07:54):
out there. Now what I want you to look at
here is casep. This is not a movement three CACP
is standing still. But watch what KCP does with his
right leg on the jump shot. He brings it up.
He brings it up and like kind of lands off
of one foot like he's taking a one leg fade away.
That is literally the effect of the Jalen Brown close out.
He has literally spooked KCP into tweaking the lower half
(08:15):
of his form. A little bit, so it doesn't seem
like much, but Jalen Brown made just a little bit
of an impact on that shot with his close out
by bringing that level of intensity caused KCP.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You're clearly in kcp's.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Head a little bit with the way he swung his
right leg around even though he wasn't on the move.
This is actually an earlier possession of going backwards a
little bit here, just because I wanted to highlight Jalen
Brown's closeouts. He's on the ball here against Pallo, and
he's conceding the three as he should. He's going to
go under this ball screen if I remember correctly, he
goes under. Let's see just Wendell Carter slips out of it.
But notice he's not necessarily pressuring over the screen. So
(08:48):
Pallo settles into the shot. It seems like he's in
that position where this is basically a concession. But look
at the closeout. It's a great contest. Look it at
the top of the shot. He's right there. That's an
insane bit of recovery defense. And if you listen to
the live broadcast, obviously we don't have sound on, but
if you listen to the live broadcast, Jalen let out
like this huge yell right as he was doing that
(09:09):
close out like you could tell he was like, man,
I almost got it.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
This was a nasty one on one move from Pala
Bancaro against Drew Holliday. So the big thing here is
I want you to look at the way that Palo
sets up the driving move with a pullback like he's
gonna go back behind the three point line. Watch his feet.
So he's on the catch, he's ripping to the left,
and then on the left he's gonna step back like
he's gonna take a jump shot.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Right, so he steps back. Look at his weight.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Look where his left foot goes all the way back
to the three point line. Watch what happens with Drew
Holliday's feet right when that happens. Okay, so he's sliding.
As soon as Pala goes back, watch Drew boom that
little hop. See that little hop just with both feet.
He hops up instead of back. And because of that hop,
that hop is biting on the step back here from Palo.
As Palo sets up the step back, that left foot
(09:55):
gets back there. That's what causes Drew to step up.
Drew steps up immediate at the same time as Pollo
makes his aggressive move, and so he just toasts him
off the dribble and ends up getting this nice dunk
with two hands through the lane as the help isn't
set up. But once again, it's just how you can
set up these kinds of moves. He rips through first
of all, don't mess around with trying to dribble in
front of a guy like Drew Holliday, right this is
(10:16):
a smart attack. He just catches and rips right away
to protect the ball, steps back to set up a
four driving for driving opportunity, gets him to bite on it.
Nice dunk there.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I've talked about.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
This is a concept I wanted to highlight because we
talked about this a lot during the regular season. This
is the problem with trying to drive the basketball in
five out spacing when you don't occupy the dunker spot.
So theoretically you're like, oh, Chris hops porzingis great three
point shooter, Al Horford, great three point shooter, Drew Holiday,
Derek White, like, this is a lineup where we can
space the floor, but because of the way the floor
(10:50):
is situated with all five guys out at the three
point line. Look what happens when Jalen Brown tries to drive.
He tries to drive, but look at where CACP is.
He's digging right down into the drive. Now Derek White's
trying to compensate for that by spacing further out. So like, yeah,
he could pitch this back to Derek White for three,
but that's a you know, tough shot to get in
this type of situation with five out spacing. So as
(11:12):
you can see, KCP can dig and that forces Jalen
Brown to take that retreat dribble right Now, watch how
they reconfigure the spacing. Now, in theory, what you'd rather
do here is you could just slide Drew Holliday through
down here to this block and then you move Derek
White down to this corner. Now we have our four
out one in spacing with Drew Holliday in the dunker spot.
(11:33):
That creates a either a clear help side defense advantage
where Corey Joseph would be the help defender on the drive,
or Franz Wagner would switch with switch with Corey Joseph,
which would put Horford on Corey Joseph, which would create
a rebounding mismatch as he comes in through the lane,
but instead what they do and this kind of more
or less accomplishes the same thing just because of the
(11:54):
way Orlando is defending. But Derek just clears that angle. Now, Now,
look at all the space here. As Derek White is
moving through here, Jalen Brown doesn't even wait for the
spacing to reset. Now because Derek White has cleared that side,
there's no dig down from KCP that gives him the
driving angle and he's able to turn the corner. He
draws the help. The pass is just a little low.
(12:17):
This is another example of that on time on target
passing that I always talk about. If Jalen can put
this into the shooting pocket, that can turn into an
easy extra pass here or an easy extra pass there,
but it ends up being fumbled. Still get a decent
look for Derek White. But I just think that's an
interesting example of the spacing. Again, Look, Jalen Brown tries
to drive at five out easy dig down, clear that
(12:39):
side and create a bigger driving angle. Now he's able
to turn the corner. That sort of stuff matters when
it comes to try, when it comes to playing driving
kick basketball. Now, in this possession, Franz Wagner is going
to hit a little mid range jumper. But the key
here is the defense of Al Horford on these forwards.
Look at Al Horford as he's containing the ball against Franz,
giving ground, staying in front, meeting him at the basket.
(13:01):
Really really nice defense. This gets worked around and now
he's gonna have to do it again against Paolo little scream.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Franz gets the switch.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I thought chrisps Porzingis threw a little bit of an
unnecessary double here, but they're just crowding him because he's
not passing super well. Right swing swing gets back to
Franz and then also Franz take the three. There's two
seconds on the shot clock. Take the three. You're dribbling
into a lower percentage, well higher percentage, but a lower
value shot. I talked last night about the two man
game with Porzingis, how he's slipping into like little high
(13:29):
post catches, switches and short role possessions. Wendell Carter Junior
hangs out too high on the screen, Cacp's chasing that
leaves KCP over the top, That leaves a Porzingis over
the top, and then Palo's a little bit slow on
his rotation. But this is just a power move from porzingis.
This is the classic old man vet move. Instead of
like going into the lane to try to dunk on
(13:51):
Palo or make an extra pass, he just shoots the
sweet little bank shot off the glass.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
There. Another example of.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Chrisops porzingis attacking a double team in the post, so
we get ball scream with Jaylen Brown forces the switch.
This gets Polo onto Jalen post entry is made after
they swing. Notice also because they're fronting the post. Because
Corey Joseph is fronting Jalen, Brown's not the guy who's
gonna make the post entry, so he swings it to
Derek White. That gives Chris aps Porzingis the opportunity to
(14:19):
flip the post position and then Polo doubles as soon
as he turns his back. Chris hops gets it out
and they end up getting a clean look for Al
Horford out of the right corner.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
He just happens to miss it. This was funny.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Do you remember that move that Plo Boncaro hit Drew
Holliday with? How about some sweet revenge from Drew Holliday
hitting Pallo with the exact same move. Drive to the
left fake like he's gonna just that little head fake,
like he's gonna go into the dho Oh you want it,
Jalen Brown. Nope, go and turn the corner. And then
this is the really smart move here. If he just
(14:51):
goes to the rim, Palo's probably gonna block him. But
watch how Drew Holliday creates that last bit of separation
just by bumping Pallo off. Just that little bump there.
This is a fun little Steve Nash like sequence from
Derek White as he just dribbles through the lane. We
get a little swirl around Horford as he gets this layup.
But what I want you to watch is the cut here,
(15:12):
because the cut here is what messes up the help defense.
So right here, Drew Holliday is flashing through the lane
and as he goes through, Wendell Carter Jr. Is staying
with him, and it basically functions as a lead blocker
that takes Franz out of the play. Now Franz can't
help because, as you can see, Franz can't go there
with Wendell Carter Jr. In the way that allows Derek
(15:33):
White to turn the corner get all the way to
the front of the rimd. This is just a really
nice move from Jalen Brown against Pallo in ISO a
little bit of a detail. Pallo I thought was defending
with too much of an open stance. Here as we
work our way back to Jalen, watch how Paolo concedes
the drive with his stance. See the stance. See how
he's opening up to the left, And like, here's the thing.
(15:55):
If you're going to open up, first of all, you
don't want to let Jalen Brown get to his wrong
hand like that. But secondly, if you're going to open up,
you want to open up towards the sideline and you
want to have help planned. This is a clean one
on one with no help and so for you to
just concede the driving lane is in my opinion, bad defense.
And then Jaln Brown really nice two a sequence. Watch
how he's aggressive with the switch instead of passive with
(16:17):
the switch. He lunges out and brings some contact and
actually forces Corey Joseph to spin beats him to that spot,
takes the ball away. And then this was the play
that makes you just think Jalen's got a little bit
more juice in the legs than we thought.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
At this point in the postseason run.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I thought this was some really nice defense from uh
Prichard on Palo. And then this is an example of
a couple of those kickout raids that Palo is missing earlier.
So we get a transition cross match against Pritchard. He
backs him down, Celtics are crowding him. Watch the kickout raids.
This was funny. So again, not a terrible shot, but like,
I've got two shooters here on the weak side, both
(16:53):
with their hands out ready to catch and shoot with
six seconds on the shot clock. Instead we get the
lower value little right shoulder face and that was also
the Goga bitad's ages net look at just for fun,
look at them.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
This is a nasty elbow. Good god, some wwe shit
right there.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
And then the last one here, the shot that put
the Celtics up fifteen, just the classic lowman read from
Jalen Brown. So we're setting up a little ball screen
here on the left side of the floor. Some good
ball pressure from Orlando gets him into a later clock situation,
but the Celtics do eventually get over there. Now we
have our setup, okay, so watch specifically Anthony Black as
(17:33):
he sinks in as the lowman. So good screen from
Cornette that gets Jaylen Brown downhill, that puts Cornette behind Goga.
As soon as Cornett is behind Goga, that triggers the
low man, and Jalen Brown just takes the read that's
available to Pritchard. Pritchard confident playoff jump shooting against a
good closeout puts a Celtics up fifteen. They're able to
(17:55):
stiff arm the Magic from there. So yeah, just a
kind of a fun example of matchup attacking, some nice
ISO moves, some quality defense, just some fun basketball there.
As the Celtics get a big win without Jason Tatum
at home against the Magic. That's all we have for tonight, guys.
We will be back tonight for another night of NBA
Playoff reactions on YouTube after the final buzzer of Nuggets Clippers.
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All right, well, good to Hoops and I here at
the volume heavy Thursday. Everybody, Hoop, all you guys are
having a great week. Just a quick film session today.
I have about fifteen seventeen clips.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
To go through.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
We're going to be focusing in on the run that
took the Boston Celtics from fifty to forty nine, a
one point lead in the early third quarter to a
Peyton purchad three along the left wing, a very nice
read from Jalen Brown in a ball screen that put
them up fifteen and put them in control of the game.
Just gonna focus on some specific matchup stuff. Not a
ton of really advanced schematics taking place in the series,
(02:30):
just with the sheer degree of switching that is occurring.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But we're gonna look in in.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Some of the specific dynamics, some of the specific types
of switches that are getting attacked, and also going to
have some fun highlighting some high level one on one basketball.
You guys are the joke before we get started. Subscribe
to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channels. You don't miss any
more of our videos. Follow me on Twitter at Underscore JCNLTS.
You guys don't miss you announcements. Don't forget about our
podcast few where we get your podcast on our Hoops Tonight.
It's also super helpful we leave a rating and a
(02:54):
review on that front. We also have social media fia
is on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, where Jackson's doing great
work this year. Make sure you guys follow us there
and then keep dropping mail bag questions and the YouTube
comments so that we can get to him in our
mail bags throughout the remainder of the season. All right,
let's talk some basketball, So we're gonna get right into
it here with a I talked last night about how
(03:16):
primarily Jalen Brown was looking to attack centers, and as
you can see, look at all the screens being switched.
They fight through that first one, but they're gonna end
up giving it up as soon as they have an opportunity.
Here we have a switch on the two man game
between Porzingis and Jalen Brown. We have seven seconds on
the shot clock. And the key here is watch how
Jalen Brown, right when he gets the switch, he takes
(03:37):
the step back here because he knows his best opportunity
to get this big dude off balance is to really
make an aggressive driving move towards the basket. Now, as
you can see, watches Jalen Brown. What I want you
to see is look at where Wendell Carter Junior's feet
end up on this really aggressive driving move from Jalen Brown.
So he gets downhill with that hard hesitation move.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Look at where.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Wendell Carter Junior's right foot end. It ends up all
the way down almost at the third block, and so
as a result, you can see his weight on that
last crossover move shift way back and that gives Jalen
plenty of opportunity to get into his step back. And
then this is the athleticism piece. I talk about it
all the time. The hardest piece of pull up shooting
is getting straight up and down. If you look at
(04:18):
the end of the shot, if you look at him,
he's going pretty much straight up and down. That's at
the end of the shot. It's more or less just
to catch and shoot jump shot right. But in order
to get there, he's got to take his body from
all the way down in this athletic position, jumping all
the way back, and he's got to use both of
his feet to catch his weight and to shoot all
that momentum straight up. It's all about the legs when
(04:38):
it gets into that tough three point shot making Pollo
obviously doing a healthy amount of attacking Orlando's smalls in
the post. This is an excellent example of the Celtics
just rotating out of it really well, kind of like
a windshield. Wiper type of rotation. To what I'm looking
at there is just everybody kind of going to the
next step in the line right so as you can see,
Horford's basically bring in the double Wen Delle Carter Jr.
(04:59):
Setting hin in the screen on chrisops porzingis so he
can't close out right, So that's going to put the
onus on Jalen Brown to get there. That's where we're
gonna get our windshield wiper rotation. Jalen Brown's gonna go
to Franz, Drew Holliday is going to go to kcp al,
Horford's going to go to Corey Joseph, and the advantage
is going to be gone.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
See boom.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Just like that, you successfully doubled Palo out of a
double team or out of a post mismatch without having
to give up anything. This is one of the things
that gets difficult about having hesitant catch and shoot shooters
out of doubles. This just has to be a jump
shot right here, especially if you look at the type
of close out Jalen Brown's offering. Franz is already looking
to the next pass in the line, and what's ending
(05:37):
up happening here is Casep's not really in a position
to shoot because he's an extra two feet behind the line.
Franz has no interest in shooting that. This is where
it's like, if you really want to create opportunity for
Palo to be able to attack mismatches, you've got to
have guys on the floor that are willing to shoot
off the catch and shoot quickly off the catch.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Another Jaylen Brown pull up three. The main thing I'm
highlighting here, like we.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Talked about yesterday, is just how easy this is on
Jaln Brown's legs as a way to get a relatively
high value possession without having to over exert himself physically.
And if you watch Franz, like look at where Franz
is defending. He's on his heels the whole way left.
His left foot is all the way down near the
elbow here on the left side. Al hoeverd It gets
a really nice offensive rebound here over Franz Wagner. Look
(06:19):
at this bit of shot making from Derek White. So
on the offensive rebound, he makes the kick out to
Jalen Brown. Jalen Brown had the three point shot going,
but we get a really nice close out from Pallo
here and on the closeout that leads to Derek White
being the next read. Look at KCP sprinting at him.
Watch the footwork of Derek White once again to get
his feet established and to get the lift to knock
(06:40):
down the shot. And if you look at where he
took off, he took off with his left foot right
in between the three point line in the corner and
it lands right in the exact same spot. So once again,
exact same concept I was just talking about with Jaylen Brown.
This is literally the athleticism piece of movement shooting, getting
off of a sprint into a straight up and down
jump shot. As a right handed shooter, we always talk
(07:00):
about how when you're a right handed shooter, you got
to swing that right leg around to square up your momentum.
Watch watch that right leg from Derek White as he's
squaring up in mid air. Look at how it just
kind of kicks up and swings around a little bit.
That is part of that momentum of the right handed
shooter squaring up as he's moving towards his right. This
was an interesting little late double from Jalen Brown. Jalmbar
(07:22):
I got himself in some trouble here, because KCP is
a good corner three point shooter that you don't necessarily
want to leave open. But look at how Jalen's athleticism
makes a huge difference on the close out anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So we get a.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Little kickback here from Paalo Pallo goes Jalen Brown brings
the late double. There's two point seven on the shot clock,
so I don't necessarily hate the double because Paolo has
a tendency to miss some of these reads. I mean
he's even missing just Corey Joseph standing wide open here
on the left wing, but he makes the kickback to KCP.
Watch this close out from Jaylen Brown. He identifies it
at the last second, starts his momentum, and then gets
(07:54):
out there. Now what I want you to look at
here is casep. This is not a movement three CACP
is standing still. But watch what KCP does with his
right leg on the jump shot. He brings it up.
He brings it up and like kind of lands off
of one foot like he's taking a one leg fade away.
That is literally the effect of the Jalen Brown close out.
He has literally spooked KCP into tweaking the lower half
(08:15):
of his form. A little bit, so it doesn't seem
like much, but Jalen Brown made just a little bit
of an impact on that shot with his close out
by bringing that level of intensity caused KCP.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You're clearly in kcp's.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Head a little bit with the way he swung his
right leg around even though he wasn't on the move.
This is actually an earlier possession of going backwards a
little bit here, just because I wanted to highlight Jalen
Brown's closeouts. He's on the ball here against Pallo, and
he's conceding the three as he should. He's going to
go under this ball screen if I remember correctly, he
goes under. Let's see just Wendell Carter slips out of it.
But notice he's not necessarily pressuring over the screen. So
(08:48):
Pallo settles into the shot. It seems like he's in
that position where this is basically a concession. But look
at the closeout. It's a great contest. Look it at
the top of the shot. He's right there. That's an
insane bit of recovery defense. And if you listen to
the live broadcast, obviously we don't have sound on, but
if you listen to the live broadcast, Jalen let out
like this huge yell right as he was doing that
(09:09):
close out like you could tell he was like, man,
I almost got it.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
This was a nasty one on one move from Pala
Bancaro against Drew Holliday. So the big thing here is
I want you to look at the way that Palo
sets up the driving move with a pullback like he's
gonna go back behind the three point line. Watch his feet.
So he's on the catch, he's ripping to the left,
and then on the left he's gonna step back like
he's gonna take a jump shot.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Right, so he steps back. Look at his weight.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Look where his left foot goes all the way back
to the three point line. Watch what happens with Drew
Holliday's feet right when that happens. Okay, so he's sliding.
As soon as Pala goes back, watch Drew boom that
little hop. See that little hop just with both feet.
He hops up instead of back. And because of that hop,
that hop is biting on the step back here from Palo.
As Palo sets up the step back, that left foot
(09:55):
gets back there. That's what causes Drew to step up.
Drew steps up immediate at the same time as Pollo
makes his aggressive move, and so he just toasts him
off the dribble and ends up getting this nice dunk
with two hands through the lane as the help isn't
set up. But once again, it's just how you can
set up these kinds of moves. He rips through first
of all, don't mess around with trying to dribble in
front of a guy like Drew Holliday, right this is
(10:16):
a smart attack. He just catches and rips right away
to protect the ball, steps back to set up a
four driving for driving opportunity, gets him to bite on it.
Nice dunk there.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I've talked about.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
This is a concept I wanted to highlight because we
talked about this a lot during the regular season. This
is the problem with trying to drive the basketball in
five out spacing when you don't occupy the dunker spot.
So theoretically you're like, oh, Chris hops porzingis great three
point shooter, Al Horford, great three point shooter, Drew Holiday,
Derek White, like, this is a lineup where we can
space the floor, but because of the way the floor
(10:50):
is situated with all five guys out at the three
point line. Look what happens when Jalen Brown tries to drive.
He tries to drive, but look at where CACP is.
He's digging right down into the drive. Now Derek White's
trying to compensate for that by spacing further out. So like, yeah,
he could pitch this back to Derek White for three,
but that's a you know, tough shot to get in
this type of situation with five out spacing. So as
(11:12):
you can see, KCP can dig and that forces Jalen
Brown to take that retreat dribble right Now, watch how
they reconfigure the spacing. Now, in theory, what you'd rather
do here is you could just slide Drew Holliday through
down here to this block and then you move Derek
White down to this corner. Now we have our four
out one in spacing with Drew Holliday in the dunker spot.
(11:33):
That creates a either a clear help side defense advantage
where Corey Joseph would be the help defender on the drive,
or Franz Wagner would switch with switch with Corey Joseph,
which would put Horford on Corey Joseph, which would create
a rebounding mismatch as he comes in through the lane,
but instead what they do and this kind of more
or less accomplishes the same thing just because of the
(11:54):
way Orlando is defending. But Derek just clears that angle. Now, Now,
look at all the space here. As Derek White is
moving through here, Jalen Brown doesn't even wait for the
spacing to reset. Now because Derek White has cleared that side,
there's no dig down from KCP that gives him the
driving angle and he's able to turn the corner. He
draws the help. The pass is just a little low.
(12:17):
This is another example of that on time on target
passing that I always talk about. If Jalen can put
this into the shooting pocket, that can turn into an
easy extra pass here or an easy extra pass there,
but it ends up being fumbled. Still get a decent
look for Derek White. But I just think that's an
interesting example of the spacing. Again, Look, Jalen Brown tries
to drive at five out easy dig down, clear that
(12:39):
side and create a bigger driving angle. Now he's able
to turn the corner. That sort of stuff matters when
it comes to try, when it comes to playing driving
kick basketball. Now, in this possession, Franz Wagner is going
to hit a little mid range jumper. But the key
here is the defense of Al Horford on these forwards.
Look at Al Horford as he's containing the ball against Franz,
giving ground, staying in front, meeting him at the basket.
(13:01):
Really really nice defense. This gets worked around and now
he's gonna have to do it again against Paolo little scream.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Franz gets the switch.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I thought chrisps Porzingis threw a little bit of an
unnecessary double here, but they're just crowding him because he's
not passing super well. Right swing swing gets back to
Franz and then also Franz take the three. There's two
seconds on the shot clock. Take the three. You're dribbling
into a lower percentage, well higher percentage, but a lower
value shot. I talked last night about the two man
game with Porzingis, how he's slipping into like little high
(13:29):
post catches, switches and short role possessions. Wendell Carter Junior
hangs out too high on the screen, Cacp's chasing that
leaves KCP over the top, That leaves a Porzingis over
the top, and then Palo's a little bit slow on
his rotation. But this is just a power move from porzingis.
This is the classic old man vet move. Instead of
like going into the lane to try to dunk on
(13:51):
Palo or make an extra pass, he just shoots the
sweet little bank shot off the glass.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
There. Another example of.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Chrisops porzingis attacking a double team in the post, so
we get ball scream with Jaylen Brown forces the switch.
This gets Polo onto Jalen post entry is made after
they swing. Notice also because they're fronting the post. Because
Corey Joseph is fronting Jalen, Brown's not the guy who's
gonna make the post entry, so he swings it to
Derek White. That gives Chris aps Porzingis the opportunity to
(14:19):
flip the post position and then Polo doubles as soon
as he turns his back. Chris hops gets it out
and they end up getting a clean look for Al
Horford out of the right corner.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
He just happens to miss it. This was funny.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Do you remember that move that Plo Boncaro hit Drew
Holliday with? How about some sweet revenge from Drew Holliday
hitting Pallo with the exact same move. Drive to the
left fake like he's gonna just that little head fake,
like he's gonna go into the dho Oh you want it,
Jalen Brown. Nope, go and turn the corner. And then
this is the really smart move here. If he just
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goes to the rim, Palo's probably gonna block him. But
watch how Drew Holliday creates that last bit of separation
just by bumping Pallo off. Just that little bump there.
This is a fun little Steve Nash like sequence from
Derek White as he just dribbles through the lane. We
get a little swirl around Horford as he gets this layup.
But what I want you to watch is the cut here,
(15:12):
because the cut here is what messes up the help defense.
So right here, Drew Holliday is flashing through the lane
and as he goes through, Wendell Carter Jr. Is staying
with him, and it basically functions as a lead blocker
that takes Franz out of the play. Now Franz can't
help because, as you can see, Franz can't go there
with Wendell Carter Jr. In the way that allows Derek
(15:33):
White to turn the corner get all the way to
the front of the rimd. This is just a really
nice move from Jalen Brown against Pallo in ISO a
little bit of a detail. Pallo I thought was defending
with too much of an open stance. Here as we
work our way back to Jalen, watch how Paolo concedes
the drive with his stance. See the stance. See how
he's opening up to the left, And like, here's the thing.
(15:55):
If you're going to open up, first of all, you
don't want to let Jalen Brown get to his wrong
hand like that. But secondly, if you're going to open up,
you want to open up towards the sideline and you
want to have help planned. This is a clean one
on one with no help and so for you to
just concede the driving lane is in my opinion, bad defense.
And then Jaln Brown really nice two a sequence. Watch
how he's aggressive with the switch instead of passive with
(16:17):
the switch. He lunges out and brings some contact and
actually forces Corey Joseph to spin beats him to that spot,
takes the ball away. And then this was the play
that makes you just think Jalen's got a little bit
more juice in the legs than we thought.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
At this point in the postseason run.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I thought this was some really nice defense from uh
Prichard on Palo. And then this is an example of
a couple of those kickout raids that Palo is missing earlier.
So we get a transition cross match against Pritchard. He
backs him down, Celtics are crowding him. Watch the kickout raids.
This was funny. So again, not a terrible shot, but like,
I've got two shooters here on the weak side, both
(16:53):
with their hands out ready to catch and shoot with
six seconds on the shot clock. Instead we get the
lower value little right shoulder face and that was also
the Goga bitad's ages net look at just for fun,
look at them.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
This is a nasty elbow. Good god, some wwe shit
right there.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
And then the last one here, the shot that put
the Celtics up fifteen, just the classic lowman read from
Jalen Brown. So we're setting up a little ball screen
here on the left side of the floor. Some good
ball pressure from Orlando gets him into a later clock situation,
but the Celtics do eventually get over there. Now we
have our setup, okay, so watch specifically Anthony Black as
(17:33):
he sinks in as the lowman. So good screen from
Cornette that gets Jaylen Brown downhill, that puts Cornette behind Goga.
As soon as Cornett is behind Goga, that triggers the
low man, and Jalen Brown just takes the read that's
available to Pritchard. Pritchard confident playoff jump shooting against a
good closeout puts a Celtics up fifteen. They're able to
(17:55):
stiff arm the Magic from there. So yeah, just a
kind of a fun example of matchup attacking, some nice
ISO moves, some quality defense, just some fun basketball there.
As the Celtics get a big win without Jason Tatum
at home against the Magic. That's all we have for tonight, guys.
We will be back tonight for another night of NBA
Playoff reactions on YouTube after the final buzzer of Nuggets Clippers.
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Speaker 1 (18:17):
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