Great video, thanks for making it!
I’m wondering if anybody knows anything about bigs hedging screens in the modern NBA. We pretty much never do it, but I used to hear that it was a good way to mix up the PnR defense. We get burned by guys shooting 3s over our drop coverage a lot, so I’m always wondering if that would be worth using every now and then. Maybe it’s just too hard for the big to recover.
I don’t know why we even bother going to drop coverage against guys who can dribble off a screen and pull up. I honestly think we know going into the game that it’s not going to work but we save the switching for a critical point in the game because we know it will work, at least long enough to hold them off.
I say this because there is no way professional players and a coach DON’T know that guys like Trae, Bogey, Steph, Klay, etc. will murder drop coverage, but we see it time and time again when we have to defend these guys. It has to be a game flow decision and they know they can’t switch everything all game or the other team will adjust by the end, so we do the opposite.
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r/bostonceltics users in post game threads after a loss, you claim that Joe can’t make adjustments and yet here I’ve found several… curious.
Jokes aside, hope you enjoyed this example of Al Horford supremacy. My next video was going to be about Porzingis and how he makes it so easy for us on offense, but earlier I was challenged by a user on here that “If you’re gonna put up ridiculous claims then back it up. Dude was a +31 over that stretch.” after I commented that Payton Pritchard was “terrible” at the start of the season because he: “held the ball too much, was very indecisive especially on his drives and was also shooting terribly”.
I am always willing to back up my claims with evidence, so in the next couple of days expect a video about Payton Pritchard, why he struggled to open the season and how he got back on track to being a good bench piece. With a side of why small sample size +/- is a noisy as all hell stat.