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🔥Hot Hand Theory Ep #88🔥
XJ & Geoff explain why the Lakers will be way better than people think:
🔹how Kessler+Grimes+Mamu fill specific needs
🔹LA’s biggest upgrade: an optimized Luka Doncic
🔹Redick’s track record curating strategy to roster
Link: piped.video/BGQyt5AlOQ0?is=Om3L…
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This angle of Luka Doncic making one of the most special passes you'll ever see in your life 🤯🤯🤯
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Q: “You got a lot of good shots, what did you like?”
Redick: “We emphasized screening in our pregame meeting. I think we did a good job screening. They’re not switching a lot, and they’re sending our side p&r’s to the middle…”
Listen close, you can hear Laker fans EXHALING.
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With 0.3 seconds left in the quarter, Nikola Jokic attempts the first ever full-court tip in. HTF was this so close?? 🤣🤣
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Imagine you're Stephon Castle--you've controlled these moments your whole life. And then some 7'7 dude claps for the ball and you get to watch him go to work.
Oh ya, Wemby had the game-tying 3 AND a block just before this.
The dude is unreal.
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No player in the NBA is as effective or blatant in stalling with a lead than Nikola Jokic. He does this by delaying the refs 5-second count (fumbling the ball or passing it to the ref) and then rolling it to his teammate. Tonight he wasted almost a minute of game clock in the 4Q.
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Julius Randle grabs a missed free throw and races the ball up the court before zipping the ball to Rudy Gobert as if to say, "fine, here ya go." Gobert fumbles the pass and Randle slumps his shoulders before walking off.
Chemistry issues in Minnesota.
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"People in the crowd are stunned"
Carter Bryant has unreal bounce. Look at the reaction of his teammates 🤣
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The Zach LaVine shot was very strange to watch live. Doug Christie was adamant it was a 3 and the refs were just like, "naw we're good" 🤣
Not a great look, especially given today's events
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Per the Last 2 Minute Report, there were two incorrect calls late in last night’s Kings-Suns game. Suns center Mark Williams should've been called for a 3-second violation with 1:25 to go. Zach LaVine’s 3-pointer with 18.5 seconds to go was incorrectly scored as a 2-point basket.
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The Pacers put a smaller guy on Wemby who can stay in front of him so Wemby simply re-posts and goes to work from the midrange
IDK what you're supposed to do if he just casually becomes a 3-level scorer
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Cade Cunningham with an intentional missed FT SO good that it tricks both the refs and the Warriors announcer
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One of the most awkward sequences you'll ever see on live TV. While filling time before the Kings/Warriors tip-off, Sam Mitchell does not take kindly to being the butt of a joke related to his NBAtv salary and doesn't hold back 👀👀
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It's absurd how desensitized we've become to Steph Curry doing this. The moment, the range...everything. It should be more shocking but he's just made it look so normal for so long. Unbelievable.
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Some things are bigger than basketball. Raptors' HC Darko Rajaković, asked about the death of Dejan Milojević, answers through tears:
"I told my guys I loved them. And the opening play of the game was an ATO that (Dejan) brought to the NBA..."
"I dedicate this team win to him."
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JJ Redick continues to prove he's cut out for this. Here he fouls up 6 with 17 seconds left. The analytics support this decision (most losing outcomes with such little time see the Grizzlies hitting multiple 3-pointers). Great situational coaching.
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The Lakers' defense couldn't keep up with Miami's pace. This basket finally set JJ Redick off inspiring a profanity-laced tirade.
104 points in the first 38 minutes and 30 seconds. The Heat would score just 16 points in the final 9:30.
Coaching matters.
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I am speechless. I've never seen anything like this.
The Timberwolves were down 7 with 25 seconds left and go into halftime down 15. Here is the unedited footage. Make sure to stick around for Jamal Murray FLEXING in front of Kevin Harlan and Harlan standing up to make his call.
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"stop flopping and play basketball"
After Draymond Green nails Keon Ellis with a screen, Steve Kerr gets T'd up after becoming irate accusing Ellis of "flopping all over the place."
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LMAOOOOOO the Raptors' announcers have HAD ENOUGH!!!
"you're telling me that's not an and-1? If that were LeBron it'd be an and-1."
21-2 FTA advantage for LA here in the 4th quarter.
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The Blazers' broadcast team wasn't happy with Cole Anthony going through Toumani Camara's legs for a loose ball.
"That's the second time. And if you remember, Jaden Ivey got hurt on the exact same play. It ended his season. And Cole Anthony was involved."
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ESPN threw in the towel on covering sports in good faith a long time ago. Zach Lowe was the last remnant of a dying breed. They see your attention as currency & only seek to exploit it with low-brow analysis. YOU have the power to punish these poor decisions. Choose better media.
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Did I mention that JJ Redick wanted to infuse more ball and man movement into this offense? The Lakers open the game with an absolute beauty drawn up by Redick that starts with a LeBron James off-ball screen for Austin Reaves and ends with an Anthony Davis alley-oop.
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One of my favorite possessions of the night
VJ Edgecombe had not had a great game thus far. The play is called for Tyrese Maxey. Look at Maxey's reaction to not getting the ball. VJ calmly gets to his spot and nails the middle anyway.
He's got the stuff.
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"Keon Ellis has a GPS on Steph Curry"
Steph Curry tries almost every off-ball trick he has but can't shake Keon Ellis loose.
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"Give me the f***ing ball!"
In a tie game with 20 seconds left, Collin Sexton calls for the ball but is waved off demonstrably by Isaiah Collier who ends up getting an 8 second violation. This leads to a HEATED exchange on the bench 🔥😲
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IDK Shohei Ohtani hitting 3 home runs the same night he threw 6 shutout innings with 10 k's has to be the greatest individual game ever right?
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Jalen Brunson has one of the best inside-out dribbles in the entire NBA. This is pure filth.
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HOLY SHIT
Chris Paul gets Paul George on a switch and hits a ridiculous shot before eying him all the way down the court. Tyrese Maxey responds with a steal and an off-hand POSTER.
I LOVE THE NBA
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Really cool moment here. The shorthanded Knicks take a beating from the Pacers after an all-time game 7 performance. Down 17, the MSG crowd still has the wherewithal to appreciate the effort of Josh Hart. Hart averaged 43 MPG these playoffs and played game 7 through an ab strain.
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Anthony Davis slides to Center and all of a sudden packing the paint ain't so easy
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Even if it's not a foul there's no chance Keon Ellis flopped there. Also not sure Draymond Green ball screens are the place Steve Kerr should want more inspection 😂
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We know James Harden is an all-time great player and a lock HOF'er, but he's proving himself as one of the great floor raisers of all time. You put him on the team and they'll be competitive. How else can you explain this year's Clippers?
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Getting some "this is standard zone beater" responses, so I'm putting this here as a mass response; JJ Redick is infusing principles that make all the action you see here (ball+man movement, quickness of passing, screening, cutting, etc) more prevalent. THAT is what he is doing.
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This is why you trade for Chris Paul. Look at him methodically put the pieces in place here to set Stephon Castle up for the and-1. The Spurs look competent without Victor Wembanyama, and their young guys are learning positive, winning habits.
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Portland's broadcast showed a clip of Deandre Ayton dressed up as The Grinch inspiring Blazers' color commentator Lamar Hurd to devote multiple minutes of game time explaining why The Grinch is "one of the five most misunderstood beings in the history of civilization."
No words.
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Absolutely hilarious view of this Nikola Jokic post up. Watch JJ Redick, this is what Jokic does to coaches 🤣🤣🤣
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Luka Doncic is legitimately one of the greatest and most valuable passers this sport has ever seen. And there’s an absurd amount of data that shows it.
You wanna know why NBA discourse is in shambles? Because mainstream media profits off of talking about the top talent this way.
.@Chris_Broussard is delivering some bad news to Lakers fans 👀
“Luka Doncic is a ball hog. A great ball hog. A Hall of Fame ball hog (future). An all-time elite ball hog. HE’S A BALL HOG.” 😅🤣
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Oh my God
Indiana executes the perfect missed FT play down 2 creating an open 3 at the buzzer for a chance to steal the win in Dallas
🤯🤯🤯
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I have absolutely no idea who this player is because it can't be Quentin Grimes lmaooo
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In 64 minutes with Draymond Green, Jimmy Butler, and Brandin Podziemski on the court, the Warriors are allowing 93.6 points per 100 possessions and have a +18.6 net rating.
They looking like they are capable of defending at a scarily high level again.
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Julius Randle made his debut for the Minnesota Timberwolves tonight and I think Timberwolves fans had two questions:
1) How would Chris Finch weaponize him?
2) How interactive would he and Anthony Edwards be?
Let's analyze the tape, shall we?
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WATCH RUSSELL WESTBROOK THIS ENTIRE PLAY
Anyone who watched Pelicans/Nuggets yesterday knows Russ turned the game around for Denver with his energy and I'm pretty sure he hasn't stopped moving since.
How the hell does he contest this shot??
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Coming off a blowout opening game loss, the Knicks rebounded with a throttling of their own beating the Pacers 123-98. Today I'm gonna show you how Hart, Bridges, and OG unified the defense AND optimally leveraged the space created by Jalen Brunson & KAT.
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With Davis on the bench JJ Redick is deploying a Rui/LeBron frontcourt. The idea of older LeBron becoming a supersized version of Draymond has been floated around for years, here it is in action. Reaves hits LeBron with a slip pass, KD stunts off Rui but it doesn’t matter. And 1.
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The Sixers were down 13 with 5 minutes left and Quentin Grimes almost single-handedly willed Philly back into it on both ends
The dude's engine never stops
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This angle of Victor Wembanyama's block on Matas Buzelis is legit hilarious
Matas and Stacey King have no idea how it's possible Wemby blocked that 🤣🤣
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Rick Carlisle just matched Obi Toppin’s minutes with Jimmy Butler and Obi responded with arguably the best game of his career. Butler was 4-11 with Obi as the primary defender.
22 pts (7-8)
2 rebs
2 asts
4 blks
1 stls
Check out the two-way highlights you won’t find elsewhere!!
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Nickeil Alexander-Walker smiling as he picks Jamal Murray up full-court and slides with him sums up what the Timberwolves just did to the Nuggets in that first half. What a defensive masterclass.
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Immanuel Quickley hits two 3's before assisting RJ Barrett for three consecutive 3s, capped off by a 4-point play. Final lines:
IQ: 23 pts (5-7 from 3) 8 ast 6 reb 2 stl 1 blk +29
RJ: 23 pts (3-6 from 3) 8 ast 7 reb +10
They were hyped in Toronto tonight
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No team (including Boston) knows how it wants to play in big moments more than Denver. How do you even stop this two-man game? They have so many variations with so many counters. Almost every one built around the maestro that is Nikola Jokic.
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Donte DiVincenzo and Anthony Edwards just tried to stick the proverbial knife in the Suns' big 3 era. This would have been an all-time in game alley-oop. Somehow a foul was not called here 🤣🤣
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"There's no way he's a normal 19-year-old."
Hugo Gonzalez clamps for an entire possession.
Anfernee Simons scores on the other end--he's got 25 already.
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Karl-Anthony Towns is being paid 49 million dollars this season to sometimes help Jalen Brunson get the mismatch he wants. Abhorrent lack of maximizing the talent around Brunson.
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TJ McConnell tries to draw a foul on Donte DiVincenzo and instead is called for an offensive foul for an unnatural basketball play. DiVincenzo then spends the entire walk up the court trash talking McConnell to the fans.
"this motherf*cker..."
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Kings fans want to care about their team so badly and Russell Westbrook is giving them a reason to
He's done everything tonight
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Watch Stephon Castle this entire possession. He has the size, hands and quick feet to be an elite guard defender, but this type of discipline to stick with a manipulator like Steph Curry is beyond his years.
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Most know about Josh Hart's huge game Tuesday night, but I want to show you the HUGE adjustment Hart & Tom Thibodeau have made that could change the trajectory of Hart's impact against well-coached teams in the playoffs. Strap in friends, Josh Hart in the half-court, a thread 👇:
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This is the stuff you're gonna see when you think size matters more than space against a Joe Mazzulla-coached team
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The Knicks dominated the Grizzlies last night, looking like a title contender against an elite opponent for the first time all season. Obviously their offense was great, but it was a defensive adjustment that should give Knicks fans the MOST encouragement going forward.
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His first 3 seasons, Paolo Banchero has been in the 91st, 94th and 98th %iles in midrange volume despite never having above avg efficiency.
Better teammates+more space was supposed to fix that.
At some point, it's on Jamahl Mosley to coach it out of him.
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It's silly how easy Nikola Jokic makes this pass look. But look at when he makes it. It's EXACTLY when D'Angelo Russell is leaning away from the baseline. Jokic knew D'Lo would lean that way if he looked at the top of the key and leveraged it.
Brilliance.
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However high you are on Scottie Barnes the defender it may not be high enough
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Brilliant ATO here from JJ Redick
The Kings are guarding Austin Reaves as aggressively as possible, doing anything to keep the ball out of his hands.
Redick leverages that aggression against them and sets up an easy layup off a back cut for Jake Laravia.
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Sometimes it legitimately feels like Nikola Jokic thinks he's on a playground. Make sure you stick around for the slow-mo replay because holy shit.
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Steph Curry will get most of the credit, as he should this shotmaking is preposterous. But don't miss Trayce Jackson-Davis keeping the ball alive and Chris Paul doing what Chris Paul does by firing a perfect pass to Steph on the relocation.
Game.
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Many people saying "what about player X?" I didn't say Jokic was the only player to do this, I said the most efficient+blatant.
Here is my all-time favorite stall moment. Trae Young gets almost 20 seconds off the clock up in a playoff game and clueless Reggie Miller BERATES him.
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The Lakers were up 84-74 late in the 3rd quarter, since then the Spurs are on a 40-14 run. Victor Wembanyama has completely controlled the game defensively affecting almost every possession.
Oh ya, and he can do stuff like this against Anthony Davis.
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Whatever *it* is, Rob Dillingham appears to have it. He has a ton of room for growth in many areas, but the dude can put the ball in the hoop. His handle is so slick and he gets to his spots very comfortably.
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This has a case for the most ELECTRIC minute of basketball played this season. De'Aaron Fox and Jamal Murray trade middies before Fox and Nikola Jokic trade catch & shoot 3's. Neither team wants to lose and both offenses are executing at an elite level.
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Karl-Anthony Towns has been a good player the past two seasons at PF, but is it being slept on just HOW high his impact was at Center?
“This is a guy whose offensive impact per EPM was never lower than the 97th percentile across like 7 seasons. He was a top 10 offensive player.”
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The Knicks' lineup best suited to defend Tyrese Haliburton and the Pacers' elite ball movement while approaching their peak offense (and arguably their best overall lineup) has played 20 seconds this series.
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Why is Minnesota for real? This right here. First play out of a timeout and Denver leans on old reliable. We've seen it a million times. This is an Aaron Gordon alley-oop. Rudy Gobert has seen it too. He dissects and defends it perfectly. The Minnesota defense has been fantastic.
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Sorry, I gotta rant about this.
The Knicks defense conversations are getting EXHAUSTING. Yes there are things they can do to be better. Yes Jalen Brunson is limited and prone to being attacked. YES, Karl-Anthony Towns is an awful rim protector who is somehow even worse in drop..
The Knicks' defense tonight is like hiding behind the whole Precious debacle
KAT was bad AGAIN. Him and Brunson on the floor was tough to watch tonight. You have to give some credit to the Cavs too
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The Detroit Pistons' broadcast takes a moment to discuss the All-Star starters and snubs:
"C'mon man Jalen Brunson, are you kidding me?"
"I agree with you...he's almost gotta be there."
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Hello NBA Friends!
Yesterday the second big trade of the 2023-2024 season occurred yesterday. The Knicks tip off at 3 PM today so I thought I'd tackle their big acquisition. I watched every OG Anunoby play and narrowed down 5 areas I think will matter to the Knicks.
Tap in.
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If this was the first thing to happen all night I'd agree. This was their third awkward interaction of the final few minutes of this game. I feel pretty comfortable saying it's not 100% copacetic in Minnesota.
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Sweet postgame embrace between Cade Cunningham and Kevin Durant, both of whom were great tonight.
Cade: 28 pts (9-19), 13 ast, 2 stl, 2 blk
Durant: 43 pts (14-26), 6 ast, 5 reb, 2 stl
Has to be cool for Cade to get respect like that from all-time greats.
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The Knicks’ starting lineup was -16 in 16 minutes tonight. They were a mediocre lineup across a ludicrous regular season sample and have gotten killed in the playoffs. If they have any interest in competing for a championship, Mitchell Robinson or Deuce McBride will start game 3.
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MAJOR BLUNDER
Down 1 with 14 seconds left, Grizzlies' rookie Jaylen Wells grabs a rebound and goes coast to coast for a go ahead layup only for the refs to blow the play dead thinking Taylor Jenkins called a timeout that replays confirm he did NOT call.
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Klay Thompson plays one-man transition defense before getting his bench amped up by putting his former Kevin Durant on skates
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Apparently when Yang Hansen isn't nailing 3-pointers he's dishing out dimes like these
The Blazers might have something here
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"I promise you, I promise you, I promise you"
Donovan Mitchell convinces Kenny Atkinson to challenge a foul call only for the replay to confirm he clearly smacks Vince Williams Jr. on the arm.
NBA players calling for challenges is getting silly 🤣🤣
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The Knicks got a DECISIVE victory over the rival Heat on the backs of new additions Karl-Anthony Towns and Mikal Bridges. But I'm here to show you why this wasn't just one game. It was sustainable progress in the form of pace, schematic variety, and emphasis of spacing.
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Per Second Spectrum, Zion Williamson is seeing almost 10% more double teams than any other basketball player to play in the NBA since 2014. This is a big reason why.
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Obi Toppin in his first ever NBA Finals game:
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The most Obi Toppin game imaginable. Sketchy defense. Some head scratching decision-making early. QUICK processing. Great scoring. Net positive.
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Y'all wanted to see this team without Jayson Tatum. Season low 104 points and 8 3-pointers made. Everyone knows how good this Celtics team is, not enough know that Jayson Tatum is what makes them work. He slides each other player into their ideal role.
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Donovan Clingan put in THE rookie performance of the preseason against Utah. That's why our performer of the night (14 pts, 20 rebs, 4 asts, 4 blks) is ALSO getting a full film breakdown. Everybody needs to see the insane two-way ceiling Clingan showcased last night.
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Doug Christie fighting for his guys.
De'Aaron Fox skies for a dunk and Jaren Jackson checks him causing Fox to land harshly on his left hip. Christie is furious drawing a reaction from JJJ. The replays look scary but thankfully Fox seems to be alright.
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Quentin Grimes is doing everything he can to show Jason Kidd he should play more. The shooting and defense remain excellent, but Kidd clearly has a bias towards initiating guards. Look at how Grimes manipulates the low-man here to create an open corner 3.
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The NBA is awesome because one week you think Washington is in hell then the next you're psyched about Kyshawn George, Tre Johnson and Alex Sarr.
Kyshawn: 34 pts 11 reb 4 ast 2 stl 3 blk
Tre: 17 pts 3 reb 2 ast
Sarr: 14 pts 9 reb 5 ast 3 blk 1 stl
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Warriors fans general indifference to Podziemski is so befuddling. He’s exactly the type of player you need next to Steph/Butler/Draymond. There’s a strong argument he’s their 4th best player.
Yet it seems many would rather focus on his limitations than what makes him impactful.
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This Donovan Clingan sequence showcases why he's such a special prospect. He has 6 blocks and is dominating the glass on both ends.
1) uses his size+feel to get Kris Murray an advantage for the dunk
2) rejects Naz Reid and DiVincenzo on b2b possessions
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