Great breakdown! Hope you continue to breakdown finch's poor coaching blunders throughout the season as this team is likely to repeat this performance over and over again. I think this really highlights a problem his teams have had since he has gotten here. The failure to make good adjustments when the team loses momentum during the game is a huge reason why this team just can't seem to get over that play-in hump to a legit contender. They have tons of talent
I understand that fit and chemistry mean a lot in basketball but finch has been given everything he has been asking for. They were getting killed on the boards so Connelly went out and got him one of the best bigs in the league in Gobert. He wanted a smart, pass first veteran point guard and Tim traded Dlo to make that happen with Mike C. He helped put and keep savvy veterans on the squad like Kyle Anderson and Naz Reid. Put another scorer on the team with Milton. Added some wing depth with Brown Jr and NAW. The have great young players waiting to play in Garza, Minott and Miller. What more does finch want? He has to be able to make at least a 6th seed playoff team out of this group after two years of barely making it there. Another play-in bout is just unacceptable with the talent on this team. If they can't make another leap they have to start questioning what this coaching staff is realistically capable of. In this league you don't get to just keep hanging around in mediocrity as the talent on your squad continues to age out of their primes.
I would have loved to see Finch put Jmac in to get some better offensive looks in the 3rd and 4th but it seems like Finch is almost incapable of making in game adjustments. It's one of the biggest reasons we consistently end up blowing these big leads. Start benching players that want to revert back to iso/hero ball, and aren't playing D, and maybe we won't fall back into bad habits in the second half of games.
I’m a Hawks fan, but this was a very good break down. Minnesota was scorching hot in the first half, but Dejounte would not be denied in the third quarter. Atlanta’s run to start the fourth quarter pretty much broke the T’Wolves’ spirit.
I can prove to everyone how bad of a coach Chris Finch is by 1 simple exercise. Take any interview with him from the past to the future and listen to it and then replace every time he says "Flow" with "Pass till someone is open" and reflect on how stupid and low level his perspective is on what is actually going on. This is the low level messages he is delivering to the team on a daily basis and we shouldn't be shocked to see them lose games like this. Finch seems like a nice guy but we need a real system and not chanting "Flow" which is just some vague term that anyone can use their own confirmation bias to describe any good or bad situation with no real detail or depth.
Wow new sub here and found your channel listening to Flagrant Howls with Phil Mackey and Kyle Theige on SKOR North. Love this breakdown!!! You seem to know a lot of about identify and breakdown the schemes. With this said wondering what type of action you would switched to when a team changes to drop coverage? Do we need to pull up from mid range vs probing to the middle? or what would the offense look like with Rudy pick and poping as he isn't a shooting threat? Can you run action with a non shooting center threating in pick and pop? With two bigs (sometimes 3 with Naz) I don't see us going to a motion offense at all. Do we need to reject the screen but from further out to give the ball handler more room to action the lane?
I liked the analysis, I think the lack of adjustments is more the problem and not the Twitter talk about Finch not taking time outs (he literally took 2 or 3 in the 3rd quarter…) But I had bigger problems with the lack of adjustments in defense once Murray began knocking downs those mid-range shoots. They didn´t give him different looks and once he caught fire, to keep defending him with drop coverage in the p&r was suicidal. No defense also means no transition offense, that can help if you aren´t able to attack 5vs5 as we saw in the second half. And out of the X´s and O´s, I think that the mental strenght of this team once a bad run happens in a game is really something to look at, as it feels that it has been happening
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Hadn't noticed at all. Good to know!
Got here from the hawks side of nba twitter, but still really interesting, thank you!
On point. Congrats
Great breakdown! Hope you continue to breakdown finch's poor coaching blunders throughout the season as this team is likely to repeat this performance over and over again. I think this really highlights a problem his teams have had since he has gotten here. The failure to make good adjustments when the team loses momentum during the game is a huge reason why this team just can't seem to get over that play-in hump to a legit contender. They have tons of talent
I understand that fit and chemistry mean a lot in basketball but finch has been given everything he has been asking for. They were getting killed on the boards so Connelly went out and got him one of the best bigs in the league in Gobert. He wanted a smart, pass first veteran point guard and Tim traded Dlo to make that happen with Mike C. He helped put and keep savvy veterans on the squad like Kyle Anderson and Naz Reid. Put another scorer on the team with Milton. Added some wing depth with Brown Jr and NAW. The have great young players waiting to play in Garza, Minott and Miller. What more does finch want? He has to be able to make at least a 6th seed playoff team out of this group after two years of barely making it there. Another play-in bout is just unacceptable with the talent on this team. If they can't make another leap they have to start questioning what this coaching staff is realistically capable of. In this league you don't get to just keep hanging around in mediocrity as the talent on your squad continues to age out of their primes.
I would have loved to see Finch put Jmac in to get some better offensive looks in the 3rd and 4th but it seems like Finch is almost incapable of making in game adjustments. It's one of the biggest reasons we consistently end up blowing these big leads. Start benching players that want to revert back to iso/hero ball, and aren't playing D, and maybe we won't fall back into bad habits in the second half of games.
Finch and the players have failed to make adjustments year after year time for Finch to leave this off-season
I’m a Hawks fan, but this was a very good break down. Minnesota was scorching hot in the first half, but Dejounte would not be denied in the third quarter. Atlanta’s run to start the fourth quarter pretty much broke the T’Wolves’ spirit.
as a hawks fan, you guys deserve better coaching.
Great breakdown, hawks got grit. All i need
I can prove to everyone how bad of a coach Chris Finch is by 1 simple exercise. Take any interview with him from the past to the future and listen to it and then replace every time he says "Flow" with "Pass till someone is open" and reflect on how stupid and low level his perspective is on what is actually going on. This is the low level messages he is delivering to the team on a daily basis and we shouldn't be shocked to see them lose games like this. Finch seems like a nice guy but we need a real system and not chanting "Flow" which is just some vague term that anyone can use their own confirmation bias to describe any good or bad situation with no real detail or depth.
Hawks fan, but dropping you a sub, you deserve more of them. Fantastic breakdown of this game all the way through.
Wow new sub here and found your channel listening to Flagrant Howls with Phil Mackey and Kyle Theige on SKOR North. Love this breakdown!!! You seem to know a lot of about identify and breakdown the schemes. With this said wondering what type of action you would switched to when a team changes to drop coverage? Do we need to pull up from mid range vs probing to the middle? or what would the offense look like with Rudy pick and poping as he isn't a shooting threat? Can you run action with a non shooting center threating in pick and pop? With two bigs (sometimes 3 with Naz) I don't see us going to a motion offense at all. Do we need to reject the screen but from further out to give the ball handler more room to action the lane?
I liked the analysis, I think the lack of adjustments is more the problem and not the Twitter talk about Finch not taking time outs (he literally took 2 or 3 in the 3rd quarter…) But I had bigger problems with the lack of adjustments in defense once Murray began knocking downs those mid-range shoots. They didn´t give him different looks and once he caught fire, to keep defending him with drop coverage in the p&r was suicidal. No defense also means no transition offense, that can help if you aren´t able to attack 5vs5 as we saw in the second half. And out of the X´s and O´s, I think that the mental strenght of this team once a bad run happens in a game is really something to look at, as it feels that it has been happening