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Jamal Murray is reading the game at a PHD level, punishing defenses no matter what they do to defend him. Friday’s game at Memphis was the latest example
Video analysis by Chris Dempsey on Jamal Murray’s performance from last night’s game.
1: Maybe the simplest read in all of basketball. Defender goes under, take the shot. If you’re a shooter in the NBA and can’t make that read there’s a SERIOUS problem.
2: Solid reaction to a defender overdropping, but still nothing I’d call a “PhD level read”, he simply saw there was space in front of him and took the floater.
3: This… isn’t even a read. He simply makes a difficult shot over his defender.
4: Pocket pass to the pop, again this is a very simple read, especially between players who’ve played with each other for a long time.
Yeah, I agree. I’m not impressed by any of what the clip shows.
There’s a lot of magic to the Jokic-Murray 2 man game, but I don’t think this describes it.
The amount of gaslighting that’s been done for Murray is kinda insane. PHD level? Wtf is that. If you’d describe one player on the Nuggets as “reading the game at a PHD level” there is a completely different Nugget you should be talking about.