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NYK scored 1.727 points per possession with these two on the court in G4.
Alvarado just kept screening and moving when Wemby was "guarding" him in the 4Q.
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Knicks closing with Brunson-Alvarado has been a big adjustment
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Alvarado's total touch time in G4 was 105 seconds, his lowest tally of the series, despite playing his most minutes.
This got me thinking about Haliburton-TJM as a pairing, instead of TJM-Haliburton, & countering for centers "guarding" guards:
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@bomani_jones pulling out a @C2_Cooper stat on The Right Time made me do the whole guy blinking gif reaction completely involuntarily
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As Deng Xiaoping once said: "It doesn't matter if the cat is black or yellow, as long as it gets buckets"
Jun 11
The Thunder didn’t play like the Celtics, and the Celtics didn’t play like Nuggets, and the Nuggets didn’t play the Warriors, and the Warriors didn’t play like the Bucks. If anything, the lesson from the playoffs is that there isn’t a lesson from the playoffs. Find your own path
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One of my least favorite playoff traditions is projecting grand unified theories of basketball from the finals, as if star players can be easily replicated, when very few finals teams play anything alike
Jun 11
An anonymous Western Conference scout says Jalen Brunson has brought back the prototype of a small guard who can lead a team
“Brunson has kind of brought back the smaller, scoring, tough physical point guard that can lead a team. And Acuff has some of those traits. He might even have a little more.”
(Via espn.com/nba/story/_/id/4901…)
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The Thunder didn’t play like the Celtics, and the Celtics didn’t play like Nuggets, and the Nuggets didn’t play the Warriors, and the Warriors didn’t play like the Bucks. If anything, the lesson from the playoffs is that there isn’t a lesson from the playoffs. Find your own path
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This can only bring you pain.
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My best guess, for tonight, is that when Castle picked up his fourth foul two minutes into the second half, SAS subbed in KJ - instead of Harper. NYK shifted OG to Fox, who was left to initiate without another ball-handler. OG ducked under a fair amount.
Jun 11
I'm still trying to assess if this is largely a symptom of a bigger problem (i.e., dearth of reliable on-ball creation), misidentifciation of who should've been the focal point, or both.
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Fox had 44 touches in the second half, the most of any Spur. Only 5 touched the paint. San Antonio scored 0.387 points per chance out of his touches. He shot 2-of-6 w/ 2 turnovers when defended by OG.
No one for the Spurs attempted more than six shots against any match-up.
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Still mystified by those Fox decisions
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Knicks closing with Brunson-Alvarado has been a big adjustment
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the spurs are shooting 61% from three and 61% overall with only 1 turnover
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the ref analysis is too much
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Wemby rolled into the pin-in to create the passing lane to the opposite wing against the high tag, as noted below.
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SAS scored 0.833 points per chance out of horns against NYK in G2, compared to 1.029 vs. OKC.
The Knicks are high tagging with their guards and the Spurs just haven't been able to make these hook passes back to the wing. Opportunity for Wemby to roll into a pin-in or flare.
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Doing whatever they could to keep the bigs out of the action and stationed down low. Knicks are gonna have to find ways to either force them up or punish Spurs in the rotation.
Jun 10
Another note on this to watch for: Even when the bigs for the Spurs were guarding KAT, they didn't guard KAT in the pick-and-pop.
Look at this PnR coverage.
Hedged with Kornet and dropped with Wemby to contain and then rotated a weak-side defender at the point of the pop.
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