Hardwood Paroxysm

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Matt Moore, NBA Writer for @ActionNetworkHQ. Podcast host: Action Network, Locked on NBA, Locked on Nuggets.Episodic writer. Part-time Maniac. I hate your team.

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Look, I get it. It's Giannis. Nothing is stopping him. I get it. But, man. I mean. I MEAN...

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Look, it's one play and I don't want to zapruder all of these, but this is a pretty clear discrepancy. This was absolutely called a reach-in foul on the other end. This is a turnover for points the other way.

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Sheesh. (Giannis is an all-world defender still, despite some folks thinking he's not anymore. But doing this on individual plays is BAD.)

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Yeah I've been just watching clips to just understand how GREAT they are at everything defensively. And maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like the reach by Ajay here at the four second mark gets called on 90% of the league? But also, great defense throughout?

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What frustrates me a lot of the time is how often Jokic is just "there." Whenever he has to guard both corner spacer and rim, he won't do either. You've gotta at least have active hands to throw off the corner pass.

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OK, you're switching this. Cool. Shai can cook him but you need to trust process with one one one defense and force tough twos even if he's making all of them. But then DDV stunts one pass away. There is ZERO point in switching if you do this. It defeats the entire purpose.

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JDub is rapidly climbing up the list for best passers in the league for me. If you watch his placement on lobs and kickouts, it's so precise. He's not flashy but he manipulates the defense and the passes are right in the pocket.

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Shai is so good at turning guys parallel so they cannot stay lateral. Then he raises the off-arm and when the defender has his arm over Shai's, all Shai has to do is raise his arms up into a shooting motion and it's a foul.

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Why the Nuggets' decisions confused me

Hardwood Paroxysm

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The Nuggets moved away from hard traps, hedge, blitz principles to soft doubles and delayed hedge and recovers in Game 7, and it flummoxed the Clippers. They got some good sequences to Zu as the short roller out of it, but it also screwed up their flow.

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Here's how I opened Buckets last night on the emergency pod.

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Shorts

This was logged as an assist.

Look, I get it. It's Giannis. Nothing is stopping him. I get it. But, man. I mean. I MEAN...

Look, it's one play and I don't want to zapruder all of these, but this is a pretty clear discrepancy. This was absolutely called a reach-in foul on the other end. This is a turnover for points the other way.

Sheesh. (Giannis is an all-world defender still, despite some folks thinking he's not anymore. But doing this on individual plays is BAD.)

Yeah I've been just watching clips to just understand how GREAT they are at everything defensively. And maybe I'm wrong, but I *feel* like the reach by Ajay here at the four second mark gets called on 90% of the league? But also, great defense throughout?

What frustrates me a lot of the time is how often Jokic is just "there." Whenever he has to guard both corner spacer and rim, he won't do either. You've gotta at least have active hands to throw off the corner pass.

OK, you're switching this. Cool. Shai can cook him but you need to trust process with one one one defense and force tough twos even if he's making all of them. But then DDV stunts one pass away. There is ZERO point in switching if you do this. It defeats the entire purpose.

JDub is rapidly climbing up the list for best passers in the league for me. If you watch his placement on lobs and kickouts, it's so precise. He's not flashy but he manipulates the defense and the passes are right in the pocket.

Shai is so good at turning guys parallel so they *cannot* stay lateral. Then he raises the off-arm and when the defender has his arm over Shai's, all Shai has to do is raise his arms up into a shooting motion and it's a foul.

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Why the Nuggets' decisions confused me

The Nuggets moved away from hard traps, hedge, blitz principles to soft doubles and delayed hedge and recovers in Game 7, and it flummoxed the Clippers. They got some good sequences to Zu as the short roller out of it, but it also screwed up their flow.

Here's how I opened Buckets last night on the emergency pod.

Yeah I've been just watching clips to just understand how GREAT they are at everything defensively. And maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like the reach by Ajay here at the four second mark gets called on 90% of the league? But also, great defense throughout?

Shai is so good at turning guys parallel so they cannot stay lateral. Then he raises the off-arm and when the defender has his arm over Shai's, all Shai has to do is raise his arms up into a shooting motion and it's a foul.