Celtics survive Heat comeback, keys to Jayson Tatum & Boston playoff run | Hoops Tonight

Celtics survive Heat comeback, keys to Jayson Tatum & Boston playoff run | Hoops Tonight

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So you guys don’t miss any of our content over the course of this season all right let’s talk some basketball this game was kind of a classic Celtics Heat game where the Celtics kind of were stiff arming them around 10 points for most of the night and he go on a little

Bit of a run at the end of the game Tyler Harrow gets hot from three-point land he comes off of a ball screen on Drew holiday and hits a pullup three going to his right and then there kind of it’s kind of this funny sequence

Where he misses a deep three like a 27f footer off the back of the rim but you can tell it felt good because it was like perfectly straight just a bit long and he gets the they get the offensive rebound they work it back around to Tyler I think Haywood heith gets the

Rebound they work it back to Tyler Harrow and he shoots an even deeper one from like 30t and sticks it they get it I think it got as close as three if I remember correctly down the stretch but Jaylen Brown made two gigantic plays down the stretch of this game he fought

For an offensive rebound under the basket on Caleb Martin that got worked around for christops porzingis 3 on the left wing and then in a play where Jason Tatum was trying to post up Duncan Robinson on the left side of the floor Duncan was fronting him the ball got

Worked around and The Possession kind of broke down for Boston but Jaylen Brown came off of a little pin down screen on the right side of the floor and hit a gigantic three-point shot on the left wing that helped Boston pull away and then they closed the game on the

Defensive end of the floor Drew holiday finally got a big stop on Tyler Harrow kind of flattening out his driving lane and funneling him towards the Baseline the ball ended up in Haywood he Smith’s hand who’s a guy who can knock the shot down but he was out of rhythm and so

Drew holiday took uh did his job by making sure that Tyler Harrow didn’t get the shot Jason Tatum had a big block and help side defense against bam at a bio then they went to Bam in an ISO at the middle of the floor there against Jason

Tatum late in the game in a critical possession Tatum knocked the ball away from him twice to disrupt his rhythm they did like a random switch to get porzingis back onto him he misses the jumper Tatum comes in and cleans up the defensive glass and they get the win

Another big win for the the Celtics who had an undefeated week which will be reflected in our power rankings when we get there later on in the show but I wanted to dive again one of my goals for this uh for this like kind of home

Stretch of the season all of these teams have a really good idea of who they are now and there’s a little bit of wrinkle in there with some of the trade editions and and and certain teams kind of adding in little pieces here or there that

Could tweak things but for the most part we’re going to find out a lot about teams down the stretch there’s no more malays once you get out of the Super Bowl most teams are pedal to the metal the rest of the way with exception of the tanking team so it’s like easier to

Get a read from the effort standpoint uh you’re not going to see a coaching change you’re not going to see a rock roster change you might see the occasional buyout guy that might make a difference like a Kyle Lowry to the Sixers or a den witty to the Lakers but

For the most part you’re getting a a pretty consistent uh product from these teams so it’s the best chance for us to learn from these teams so what I want to do for Boston today is I want to dive into some stuff that I picked up on film

That I think will be important for them down the stretch of the season so F uh first of all Boston’s match up attacking against Miami switches this was a huge part in this particular game Miami in general does a lot of switching compared to most teams in the league it’s a big

Part of their defensive versatil versatility that they get with guys like bam at a bio that can switch out on the perimeter players Jimmy Butler can do the same thing although he didn’t play in this particular game and so Boston in a lot of cases was trying to pick on

Duncan Robinson or pick on Tyler harrow in that switching scheme to try to generate an advantage as a matter of fact the Celtics had 30 post-ups in isos in this game in total leading to 33 points but there was an interesting delineation in the style with which they were attacking and some interesting

Results in there that I want to dive into so this is a concept that I’ve spent a lot of time talking about on this show with Celtics fans and I wanted to do a more detailed version of it today so it’s the difference between attacking with a cleared side of the

Floor versus attacking in the middle of the floor so a couple of things first of all for the defens from the defensive perspective when you clear the side when you allow an offensive player to or when the offense clears the side and they have the offensive player working with

One side of the floor with nobody on the Baseline side so to to to visualize this whether or not they’re attacking out of the block or the elbow or somewhere outside the three-point line if the corner is vacant the strong side corner is vacant and the strong side dunker

Spot is vacant it’s a cleared side meaning that offensive player can pretty safely assume that if he has his back turned towards the Baseline he doesn’t have to worry about some digging down if he does see someone coming from all the way on the opposite end of the floor

It’s easier for him to identify it it simplifies his read so he only has to read kind of one side of the floor if that makes sense right on the defensive side it’s actually easier to load up on a clear side action while taking away the shooters because usually it’s a

Tough skip pass that’s got to go over length and all the way to the opposite side of the floor to get a shooter So in theory it’s easier to guard that way the problem is when you go to the middle of the floor all these openings are created

Because it’s so much harder to double or dig down without leaving a shooter one pass away imagine you’re working from the middle of the floor usually the open shooter is an easier pass but there’s more to see and most of the passers in the league can’t identify it quickly

Enough this is why I talk about on the show if you’re a LeBron Nicole yic Luca donic Trey young all these like all the top tier passers in the league you want to work out of the middle of the floor because out of the middle of the floor

You are those guys are actually capable of making the reads and the defense is in a much more difficult predicament in the middle of the floor with having to cover ground without leaving Shooters open but it’s just really hard for the run-of-the-mill players of the league like guys that are not top tier

Playmakers I should say it’s harder for those guys to make those reads in the middle of the floor and so one of the things I’ve been clamoring for Non-Stop over the last couple of years for Boston is clear the side because what ends up happening is when they work at the top

Of the key or they work at the elbow they dig down the defense will dig down into driving Lanes meaning like the guy will split the difference so let’s say that Tatum’s at the left elbow and there’s a shooter in the corner and there’s a shooter on the wing in that

Case those two Shooters Defenders are in between they’re playing about a 50/50 Gap kind of in between the shoot Shooters and Tatum to where they can easily close out if Tatum throws a swing pass but if Tatum drives they’re in Easy position to shut down the driving lanes

That is what actually leads to a lot of these settling possessions from guys like Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown like we’re really critical of those guys for settling including myself but the staff deserves some blame for that because they’re orienting the floor in a way that’s putting him in a situation where

He’s probably going to settle because if he tries to drive right he’s driving into traffic with an easy rotation to the shooter so there’s not much of an advantage created or vice versa whereas when they clear the side when they double they have to leave somebody

Completely and come all the way to the opposite side of the floor to double team which makes easier reads for Tatum to work with it just simplifies everything for those guys and so this by the way this is a concept I’ve talked about a lot but it shows up in the

Numbers they ran 30 post-ups and isos in this game leading to 33 points so on the surface that’s good production right what’s at 1.1 points per possession but they ran 16 of those 30 in the middle of the floor those 16 only led to 13 points that’s

0.81 points per possession on the 14 possessions where they ran a cleared side post uper ISO they scored 20 points which amounts to 1.43 points per possession and that includes a Jaylen Brown clear side post up where he drew a foul on Duncan Robinson and then missed both free throws so that’s incredible

Production compared to the opposite and one of the big things you’ll see too is so many of those middleof the floor isos and post-ups are ending in difficult pullup jump shots by virtue of the fact that there’s not as much space for a drive or for a bully ball attack these

Guys you need to simplify their reads because Tatum and brown are not super super high level Playmakers and so by clearing the the side it just makes things easier for them it is a it is a clear benefit on the scoreboard as well those guys score more efficiently when

They work with a cleared side of the floor it’s just something by the way and we know we know that they do it I mean they did it for roughly half of their possessions last night that was a big part of how they came back against the

Miami Heat in games five and game six there was a lot of Jason Tatum on the cleared side of the floor especially while they were trying to uh navigate late game situations and so it’s just again I’ve said this a lot on the show but specifically with Boston it’s about

The discipline and them just being diligent about making sure they get the ball to the right spots because when they do they score they just do there was a sequence down the stretch of this game where um they ran a Derek white Jason Tatum two-man game on the left

Side of the floor Duncan Robinson switched he fronted the post Tatum created an angle for an over the top pass Derek white threw it to him a double team came immed immediately along the Baseline side because again if you want a double team on a cleared side

It’s much much harder to do and so they double team along the Baseline and it put bam a bio in a two-on-one situation where Jaylen Brown was weaking leaking ac across the Baseline and I think it was Al Horford that was on the opposite wing and and bay Metabo was looking both

Ways he didn’t know what to do Jaylen snuck underneath the rim Tatum hit him and he had a wide open layup underneath the basket on the very next possession instead of running it on the cleared side again they ran it in the middle of the floor and got nothing out of it and

So again like this is this is the a pretty consistent theme with this team that that little detail in execution and like because of the way that their roster is put together they are a matchup attacking team porzingis attacking matchups in the post Jaylen Brown and Jason Tatum attacking matchups

In the post that’s a huge part of what they do and so floor orientation is going to go a long way 1.43 points per possession compared to 0.81 based on that specific difference and so it’s something I’m going to be tracking a lot over the course of the rest of the

Season uh they did a really nice job against Miami Zone Miami ran seven possessions of Zone in the first half and Boston scored 13 points on them which is 1.86 points per possession they were doing a really good job of just setting up Tatum on the right side of

The floor and screening the top man of the Zone imagine a two3 Zone you have two Defenders when you screen that top guy and Tatum comes off you’re easily going to engage that second top guy once you engage that second top guy you’re almost guaranteed a wideopen look on the

Left wing they got one for Payton Pritchard there then they ran it again and that top guy didn’t want to leave as Josh Richardson didn’t want to leave Pritchard so Tatum was able to hit the Jets and turn the corner and he got all the way to the rim and finished over

Kevin Love they also had a nice play where they posted up Jaylen Brown on the left block and they kind of baited bam into zoning up right on the strong side block and then Al Horford snuck along the backline and Jaylen Brown made a nice pass for a feed so they basically

Played Miami out of their Zone again 1.86 points per possession and then Miami didn’t run Zone at all in the second half of this game saw a lot of examples of how important christops porzingis is to the Celtics in this game obviously beating switches in the post trimmed a bunch of

Clips of that that you can find in that thread that I was talking about his Rim protection and then his floor spacing in particular when Tatum drives Tatum had a driving layup against Caleb Martin late in the game where he was at the top of the key about 40 feet from the basket

And he beat Caleb Martin to the left and got all the way to the basket for an easy uncontested layup but part of the reason why that worked is porzingis was on the right wing and they screened they set a screen on bam on that side of the

Floor so by occupying the rim protector with a screening action away from the ball they made it so that there was no size on the backline for Tatum to drive into and so when he like I’ve said he’s one of the most physically gifted forwards in this league so when Tatum

Kind of gets downhill like that and he’s not going up against Real Rim protection he’s going to finish every single time which I thought was really smart and again like porzingis is just a huge swing factor for the Celtics needs to be healthy needs to be on the floor couple

Notes on the Miami Heat Tyler Harrow’s off ball defense was atrocious in this game he was constantly struggling with switches and leaving slippers open because guys would expect him to do one thing and he’d do something else he just in general like he made some big shots

Down the stretch of this game and he’s so important to this team in terms of scoring pot but like it’s just really difficult to build a good strong team defense if you’ve got a weak link off the ball the way that Tyler Harrow has been they’re also just not getting

Anything out of Terry Rosier he’s averaging 13 points five rebounds and six assists on 36% shooting and 23% from three since coming over to the heat he’s had one 20-point game in 10 tries he had 21 10 uh 20-point games in 30 tries for the Hornets so until they get him going

I mean you’re not getting any of the benefits of that deal right like they’re 25th in offense since the Terry Rosier trade so that’s something to keep an eye on but strong effort for the Boston Celtics again we’re going to be covering them uh uh in detail here down the

Stretch as we try to learn as much as we can before making our playoff Predictions

Jason Timpf reacts to Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics beating a Miami Heat team that did not have Jimmy Butler by a score of 110-106. With Tatum, Brown, and Porzingis all scoring over 20 points, the Celtics demonstrated how they have so many different weapons on the offensive end of the floor.

Timeline:
00:00 – Celtics hold off Heat
02:23 – Boston film study
11:06 – Celtics pick apart Miami’s zone
12:09 – Porzingis perfect complement
13:09 – Tyler Herro defense suffers

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