How Jayson Tatum & Celtics DOMINATED Luka Doncic & Mavericks in Game 1 | NBA Finals | Hoops Tonight

How Jayson Tatum & Celtics DOMINATED Luka Doncic & Mavericks in Game 1 | NBA Finals | Hoops Tonight

all right welcome to Hoops andai here at the volume happy Friday everybody hope all you guys are having a great end to your week as promised we’re going to do a deep dive into game one of the NBA Finals we’re going to do a monologue off the top where I go over everything I found in my film session then we’ll do the film session at the end I have 39 Clips to go through so we’re going to do a deep dive into game one you guys know the drill before we get started subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel so you don’t miss any more of our videos follow me on Twitter _ jlt so you guys don’t miss show announcements don’t forget about our podcast feed wherever you get your podcast Hoops tonight and then keep dropping mailbag questions in those YouTube comments so we can keep hitting them throughout the remainder of this series and then into the off seon and then last but not least before we get started I want to talk to you guys about game time an amazing ticket buying experience as much 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dunker spot with Tatum on them while Derrick Jones and PJ Washington were trying to figure out how to pop and roll properly with Luca and Kyrie in ball screens and just neither of them are very good above the break three-point Shooters neither of them are great rle men in ball screens especially when there’s more traffic on the backline with Tatum and Liv and Gafford being down there you saw that directly affect Dallas’s ability to attack and pick and roll Dawson ended up doing a lot more switching than I expected to we saw Horford hold up really well we saw a bunch of other guys hold up really well in switches we saw on the offensive end for Boston we saw how they were able to space Dallas out and challenge their depth of perimeter Personnel we saw Luca struggled to contain on an island in uh in straight ISO situations and giving up a lot of dribble penetration just a lot of the things that we talked about being a problem for Dallas in the series kind of manifested christops porzingis spacing the floor hitting threes and then beating switches in the high post it was again just one game but the first game in this chess match kind of went exactly as I expected and I even said before the series that I thought that Boston would have at least two blowout victories in the series and we got our first one here in game one tonight I want to I want to go over some metrics and then we’re going to go into specifics of all those little things that I just talked about and get into some more detail and then we’ll get into the film so couple metrics Dallas scored zero points from the rle man in this game zero they averaged nine per game against Minnesota and 10 per game against Oklahoma city that is a direct result of their ability to put Jason Tatum onto Daniel Gafford and Derrick Lively so that you’re bringing your big guys into ball screens and you’re just getting Tatum in a switch if you do that or if you want to attack the center you have to bring PJ Washington or Derrick Jones into the action actually in retrospect I’m surprised that we didn’t see Minnesota try that more like put Jaden McDaniels on Gafford or Lively and put gobear on like a PJ Washington and Derrick Jones Jr to try to disrupt Dallas’s pick and roll attack in retrospect that’s something they probably should have tried because you saw how much it kind of discombobulated Dallas last night in ball screens Boston got 1.26 points per possession including passes Dallas only got 0.89 another big kind of like indicator of those things that I was just talking about isolation defense Boston did a lot of switching in this game even in ball screens with Horford in particular they ran a lot of uh of switching with with Horford and they uh you know but Dallas was hunting Horford they were hunting Sam Hower they were hunting Payton Pritchard and all those guys just held up really well on isolations they um Dallas ised 24 times in the game including passes and got just 0.54 points per possession so tip of the cap to the entire Boston roster all of those guys just did a really really good job again we’re going to get into some more specifics there in a in a minute I’m just kind of going over the numbers right now jump shooting Boston outshot Dallas badly 1.07 points per jump shot Dallas only got 0.85 that also doesn’t really ref reflect the difference because Boston got cold towards the tail end of the game but they were red H red hot early when they went up by 29 Points Dallas really struggled to get Boston into rotation the dead giveaway there was the spot up possessions Boston was constantly getting Dallas in rotation and getting great opportunities to take catch and shoot threes or drive Closeouts they generated 34 spot up possessions in this game Dallas generated only 12 so that’s a massive indicator to me the the total number of spot up possessions is a great way to just kind of take a look at how often you’re getting the defense into rotation and Boston just did a way better job of it than Dallas now let’s get into some of the specifics so defending on switches so we saw this early in the game a lot of Horford switching on to Luca in ball screens and then holding up really well in isolation we also saw Boston go with a two big look with porzingis and Horford on the floor together that ended up being interesting because when would like go to hunt Al Horford porzingis was also on the backline which kind of took away that driving opportunity for Luca and allowed Horford to kind of overplay the mid-range and three-point pull-up game right and so that helped Horford a lot but I thought he just did an unbelievable job on LCA donic in this game I have a bunch of Clips in the film session that you guys will see Sam Hower there was a stretch where uh Kyrie and Luca were both hunting him and he got multiple stops ripped Luca clean on an ISO on the right elbow got a great contest on a three above the break he forced Kyrie into a jump shot off the side of the backboard in the left corner Hower held up really well hit a couple of big threes in that stretch as well really nice shift from Sam Hower in that first half Payton Pritchard came into the game and had to guard Kyrie for a little bit got a couple of big stops on him just everybody in in Boston in a Boston uniform just held up really well in their perimeter assignments again Z .54 points per ISO including passes for Dallas that’s a major tip of the cap to the Boston perimeter Defenders Boston completely shut down Dallas’s pick and roll attack and I found it really fascinating and it was a combination of a bunch of different things first of all like we talked about earlier having Tatum on Gafford and Lively and then putting porzingis and Horford e either on Derrick Jones Jr or PJ Washington we have I’ll show you guys a bunch of clips of like Josh Green PJ Washington Daniel Jones Jr struggling to know what to do in those ball screens when they pop they’d miss a three above the break or like Josh Green at one point like drove and missed a bad floater in the lane because he didn’t know what to do when he popped on the ball screen when they triy to roll to the basket there’s just a lot of traffic in there and they’re not great vertical spacers that caused issues in the drop coverage both Horford and porzingis had drop drop coverage possessions where they got awesome contests on Luca and Kyrie driving downhill Jaden Hardy had a couple of bad possessions in drop coverage driving against Boston’s drop coverage where he had bad misses at The Rim excellent defense from Boston’s uh from Boston centers the switching that’s another great way to cover a ball screen as long as your big guys can defend in space against someone like Luca or Kyrie uh porzingis gave up a couple of step back threes to Luca but Horford in particular they didn’t want to switch with porzingis Luca just kind of dragged him out a couple of times and he had to but Horford was just magnificent on switches against Luca it it did a lot of damage to Dallas’s ball screen so in the regular season Dallas averaged 1.01 points per possession in ball screens including passes they got 0.89 last night so substantial dip in their production and one of their most important play types because of all of the work that Boston did defensively one of the things too is like when guys defend well on switches and when you can defend in your drop coverage and when they don’t know what to do with the role man in terms of PJ and Derrick Jones Jr that allows your other players to stay home so like another big kind of storyline last night was that the two big storylines from last night from Boston defensively was they were taking away the lob dunks and they were taking away the corner threes the lob dunks in order to get those lob dunks a couple of different things need to happen in straight ISO situations Luca needs to get deep penetration so that he can manipulate the rim protector to step over and help so that he can throw the lob to the big man under the basket on ball the switching Defenders were just keeping LCA further away from the basket not allowing him to manipulate the rim protector in those ball screens the lob it’s just really difficult to find those opportunities unless they’re like in the last series where it’s Lively and Gafford picking from the top of the key and then rolling hard so that they have a head of steam and they can get their onew down and jump nice and high so that Luka can give them a a pass with such a big window for them to finish going straight vertical from under the basket is just a lot harder it’s a smaller window and you need to generate more uh you need to manipulate that rim protector more and so putting Tatum on Gafford and Lively basically neutralized the lob game in pick and roll as far as the corner threes go in order to generate Corner threes you have to force those help defenders in the corner to actually help guard the action and they just didn’t need to because of all the things we just talked about because of the fact that they weren’t a threat to kick back to PJ Washington or Derrick Jones Jr on the pop because when those guys would roll hard they weren’t the vertical spacing threats that Gafford and Lively are because Tatum was holding up underneath the rim against Gafford and Lively that allowed them to guard that action basically three on three right with Luca in his Defender with the screener in his Defender and with Tatum in the center all just kind of working in the middle of the floor that allowed those Corner three-point Shooters to be accounted for by Boston’s off ball Defenders because they did not have to come into the action to help stop it because they were having success guarding it three on- three and so by virtue of doing that you take away the corner threes you take away the lob dunks and then all of a sudden Dallas’s pick and roll attack falls apart christops porzingis as I said last night with Colin I thought last night was just a an excellent showcase of everything that makes him a ceiling Razer for this Boston team the three-point shooting he hit threes and pick and pop I’ve got examples of all this on film hit threes on picking pop he hit threes spacing the floor there was a long one on the right wing where Luca was kind of sinking down to the nail and it was just a swing pass and porzingis hit like a 27f footer right trailing uh threes in transition I’ve got that in the film session where porzingis is just trailing the play as everyone else is driving and then he just gets a little pitch back and knocks down to 25 footer on the left wing he was amazing spacing the floor as a shooter beating switches there was a stretch there in the second quarter where like every time down the floor porzingis was getting a smaller guard on him in those ball ball screen switches just walking him down to the elbow and getting great looks in postup situations there at the elbow in scoring and then his Rim protection as well that like obviously highlight plays like him blocking Josh Green in transition when he tried to dunk on him but he was just really good in his drop coverage at The Rim bothering shots for Dallas I thought he was incredible Jaylen Brown physical ball pressure on Luca up the floor this is a big part of just like being a pain in the ass and setting the tone and making a player feel uncomfortable he just picked up Luca full court and made him work on his way up he had two separate possessions where he ripped Luca clean uh either right after half court or before half court and got run out dunks the other way that those are not only is that points on the scoreboard but that adds to just the level of discomfort and the lack of confidence that Luca displayed in in this particular game I thought Jaylen Brown really set the tone with what he did on the defensive end of the floor also had a big stretch of Rim protection in the second half where he was in helps side making plays at The Rim big block on Derrick Jones Jr on a drop step dunk attempt out of the left dunker spot he was incredible um next big note dallis really needs to reprogram their defensive instincts I’m going to show you guys a bunch of examples of this on film but the Minnesota series and really in all of the other serieses that they were playing in they were swarming the ball swarming SGA swarming Jaylen Williams you know swarming Anthony Edward swarming Carl Anthony towns because those guys just weren’t surrounded by the requisite amount of shooting to make teams pay for sending all those additional bodies at the basketball every single time they did that to Boston last night those guys made the right reads and generated quality three-point shots and made them pay for it in this series they’re going to have to reprogram the way they think about help defense they have to stay home because this team is such a good three-point shooting team that you’re better off trying to bait them into isos and even if they score an ISO it’ll probably be less less efficient than what they’re getting out of their catch and shoot three-point shooting at this point in this type of matchup and so again Dallas is really going I I’ll show you guys some examples on film all these possessions where a guy kind of gets a little bit downhill and then like three black jerseys will Co coales around him and then it’s just a kick out in a wideopen three from there that’s something that they’re going to have to figure out Boston’s bad stretch so they go up 29 and then Dallas cuts it to eight and you know I had I had all these Boston fans like it’s a game of runs it’s a game of runs it’s like yeah but like ideally you don’t go from being up 29 to only up by eight I’m sure that you’d prefer to flatten that out a little bit so that you regain control of the game when they get it down to 17 or 18 points right like and this is something that has burned Boston over the course of this season they did blow leads against Golden State against Cleveland I mean they blew a 22-point lead in the fourth quarter against Cleveland and lost a game and so like I I do think it like even though Boston won and it was super impressive in this game it was concerning and they did they they played really really bad basketball over that stretch they had this is crazy as I was watching I literally could not believe this from 118 left in the second quarter to 822 left in the third quarter so uh what’s that almost 5 minutes of of game time there over the course of that span they did not get the ball in the paint a single time literally once they did not get the ball in the paint a single time they just passed the ball around the perimeter and took bad three-point shots and in the process over that span from 118 to 822 they cut the lead uh so the the following two possessions Tatum did at the 822 Mark in the third quarter the first uh paint touch was Drew holiday dribbled up the floor and took a terrible transition three that barely grazed the front of the rim Derek white got the offensive rebound and got fouled that’s how he got to the line that was their first paint touch over the course of that span right from there I guess it was only a four-minute span not a five minute span anyway from there um Tatum had a driving turnover on the next possession where he got in the paint but he turned it over then the following possession they had another zero paint touch possession so two paint touches total one was an offensive rebound foul and one driving turnover from the 118 Mark of the second quarter to what does that take you down to like the seven minute Mark of the third quarter that was when the lead got cut from 26 to 14 okay then from there Luca and Kyrie had their confidence that’s when Kyrie hit that tough left shoulder fade Luca hits a step back three all of a sudden it’s an eight-point game from there Joe Missoula calls a timeout and for the record right here at eight it could have been a lot worse in that same span Dallas was not playing well Kyrie missed two wide open threes and an open mid-range jumper Luca took a really bad step back three against Al Horford that got blocked he kicked the ball away on a turnover a separate time the role players missed a couple of layups in that stretch like given how poorly Boston was playing Dallas could have taken the lead or pushed it a little bit over the course of that stretch but thankfully for Boston’s sake Dallas wasn’t playing very well at that point but to Boston’s credit they rided the ship Joe maula calls a timeout as I mentioned last night with Colin uh with Colin coward they I thought the main adjustment was just get back to driving and kicking that was exactly what they did they went right back to driving and kicking on six of their first seven possessions after the timeout they had uh quality driveing kick possessions all from Jaylen Brown and Jason Tatum three of them actually four of them were driving at Luca donic all of them were just trying to get Luca in switches beating him off the dribble making kickout passes and getting high quality threes from there again there’s a huge difference in Boston’s offense between when they get paint touches before their threes versus when they just pass the ball around on the perimeter and get threes when they pass the ball on the perimeter and take threes they go through cold spells they lose control of basketball games when they are deliberate about playing drive and kick basketball ball they can be frightening and really really difficult to beat because of just the quality of the shooting that they have and the quality of the passing that they have when they start playing drive and kick basketball so again you saw that for roughly what’s that roughly six minutes of game time you get two paint touches you blow a you go from 26 point lead to an eight-point lead right you go six of your first seven possessions after the timeout where you get quality driving kicks all of a sudden you have a 19-point lead right I think the Horford 3 no no was a Tatum three at the top of the key off of a a no it was a Horford 3 because Jaylen Brown had back-to-back driving kicks at the end of the run one was the that ended up in Tatum’s hand on the top of the key and then a Horford one in the left corner all of a sudden they were up 22 they were literally up 22 because of just getting back to what makes them great which is playing that drive and kick basketball so again paint to Great is a is a cliche you hear a lot in the game of basketball and that is especially true for Boston again I’m not trying to hyperfocus on the bad stretch I’m just and I’m very impressed that they were were able to regain control of the situation and do what they were supposed to do uh get the ball in the paint make those driving kick plays regain control but they just have to be careful because again Dallas will respond at some point in the series and if you have four or five more stretches like that in this series this thing could drag out and Dallas could have an opportunity if you limit those stretches you’re going to win I’ll make it more I I’ll just take it a step further if you limit those stretches you could win this series in five games you could win the series in four games that that’s the level of talent advantage that you have in this matchup you just have to be deliberate about the way that you execute on the offensive end of the floor again completely inexcusable for a team with as much talent and athleticism as this Boston team has to go almost five minutes a game time without getting the ball in the paint that’s just something that can’t happen adjustments for Dallas moving forward into game two on the offensive end of the floor I have a bunch of different notes here because this is going to be Challen this is not easy these are not easy simple like oh just do this and then everything will be fine these are a little things they can try to attempt to to free up a little bit more opportunity for their players to get into the paint and to generate those lob dunks and Corner threes one get the ball up the floor quicker so that you have more time to work for better matchups we saw Luca getting hounded in the back court by Jaylen Brown you can either set backcourt screens to try to free LCA up so he can get up the floor cleaner or two just have Kyrie bring the ball up the floor have him bring the ball up the flooor with Pace he’s a little bit faster get your get yourself up the floor you can run an off Ball action for Luca to try to get a switch during the same sequence so that you can kind of work for those matchups try to get Derek white on the Luca to start The Possession another type of uh another type of screen you can set to help free things up in a ball screen what if you just run a ram screen now what a ram screen is is when you have a player pin down like set a screen down on Your Role man’s Defender so that he can come up and set the ball screen so now imagine this you have Derrik Lively on the floor he’s standing underneath the basket okay he’s got Jason Tatum on him which is the problem because if he comes up into the screen he’s just gonna switch on to Luca right well P let’s let’s say Derrick Jones Jr has christops porzingis on him okay what he would do is Derrik Jones Jr would just run down and set a hard screen on Jason Tatum okay if he sets a hard screen on Jason Tatum and actually makes good contact while at the same time Lively Sprints up to go set the ball screen if he does that Tatum will in all likelihood switch with porzingis and porzingis will then go up to the screen with Lively then PJ Washington or Derrick Jones whoever sets that screen can clear Tatum out to a spot up position then you’re in your traditional matchups where you have porzingis in the ball screen so that Luca can attack and now Lively can roll hard to the rim did not see that last night would hope to see that in game two just literally have whoever porzingis is guarding set a hard Ram screen or down screen on Tatum so that Lively or Gafford can Sprint up into the ball screen and have an opportunity to actually rep to actually be a vertical spacer in pick and roll I think that’s something they could do they just this is all part of the pacing of it you’ve got to get the ball up the floor quickly so that you have time to do this kind of stuff more hunting of the guards instead of hunting Horford so one of the things that Luca did a lot is just bring PJ uh or PJ drick Jones Jr PJ Washington whoever Horford was on into the screen get Horford on a switch and then look to attack Horford Horford is a really big strong player who’s a great positional Defender he’s not a guy that’s super aggressive what he is is he reads your body language he beats you to spots and he takes contact in the shoulder and he makes really good contests that’s how he has so much success against guys like Joel embiid for instance over the course of his career the Power Players he fares really well against but Luca can look to attack the guards they did not post up very much last night they only had uh five post-ups in the entire game but they got 1.6 points per per per possession out of it that’s really good so running more guard screens for Luca so that he can look to attack not in a ball screen but through ISO and postup situations with a smaller defender on him I think that’s a better option than trying to Target even like a Hower who’s 68 and can kind of absorb some of the contact like go after the smaller players if you’re not having success in pick and rolled so those are all some tactical things they can do but here’s the reality Boston is switching a lot so Kyrie and Luca just have to be better 0.54 points per ISO is not going to cut it they’re going to have to win more of those Battles by getting buckets and getting into the Lane drawing multiple Defenders and making quality kickout passes they were both uh Luca is always going to fill up the box score the guys at the top of the league typically do but I did not think Luca played a a good game he was abysmal on the defensive end of the floor which is what we’re about to get to right now on the defensive end rewire your thinking to stay home off the ball we talked about that earlier but you cannot afford to be swarming the basketball against Boston they are too good at shooting and pass passing out of it and then knocking down shots to make you pay so they need to do a better job of staying off the ball two Luca just has to do a way better job of containing the basketball I’ve got damn near 10 Clips in here of Luca getting toasted off the dribble and bad things happening to Dallas’s defense as a result he just has to do a better job and then lastly I put in all caps just do a better job that means everything that you’re doing needs to be done with more Pace with more Force every close out needs to be harder every screen needs to be set harder every cut needs to be harder every Drive needs to be harder you need to sit in a defensive stance better slide your feet better help and rotate better everything just has to be way better for Dallas heading into game two all right on that note let’s get into the film we’re this close to crowning a new NBA champion and with the action heating up on the court it’s even hotter at draftking Sportsbook an official sports betting partner of the NBA and draftking Sportsbook has you covered every step of the way with same game parlays live betting odds boost and so much more don’t miss out as the NBA postseason winds down down it’s super easy to get started with DraftKings if you’re a first timer try betting on something like a team to win go to the DraftKings Sportsbook app select your team and place your first bet it’s that simple the odds in the NBA Finals right now you can get the Celtics to win at minus 210 or if you’re into the underdog Dallas Mavericks 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glass especially in the early portion of the game very similar thing here as you can see at the uh um on this possession Gafford is actually guarding Derek white and Derrik White reloc loates out to the right corner and as he relocates to the right corner as Jaylen Brown makes this kickout pass let’s get it moving here I don’t know why it’s not there we go as uh dere as Dereck white gets his kickout pass Gafford has to close because Gafford has to close now Al Horford is under the basket with all of these smaller players on him and Al Horford gets a big rebound that gets kicked out for Jaylen Brown who knocks down or misses the three but it was another opportunity there so again offensive glass be became a Factor early because Dallas was getting into some cross matches off of switches and in transition here’s one of the possessions where Horford switched on to Luca so again we get a ball screen this was a one of the things I I appreciated with with Joe Missoula too this was a dead ball situation where randomly for no particular reason Missoula switched Horford back on to Gafford and Tatum back onto Derrick Jones this was not their base scheme they did the opposite of this the majority of the game but they randomly did it just to mix up the coverage this is a great way to just keep an offense off balance Horford switches onto Tatum Jaylen Brown just tracks Gafford into the lane and then watch the job that Horford does in ISO sliding contact absorbing contact staying in front forcing him into a really difficult over-the-top jump shot that he misses Gafford get does get an offensive rebound uh and I put this in my notes too um I put that Gafford needs to do more work on the offensive glass I have one other clip in this film session where Gafford gets an offensive rebound but this is another counter I should have honestly put this in my list of adjustments and so that’s my fault but when Gafford gets switched or ha either gets switched onto a smaller defender or when Gafford and Lively just have Tatum or brown on them in these matchups so that they can switch those ball screens they have to make Boston pay on the offensive glass they have to make him pay more see how Gafford gets that inside position they have to do a lot more of that in game two you need to bully them make them pay for putting smaller players on your Center if they can’t do it in the post they have to do it on the offensive glass so we get a transition attack here from Jaylen Brown up the left wing in the process Gafford gets pulled in in help gafford’s helping Al Horford relocates here to the right corner and gets a wide open three out of it so again a lot of the instincts from Gafford and Lively to help underneath the basket are going to be are going to actually be detrimental to Dallas’s ability to defend in this matchup here’s the first backourt steal I shouldn’t say backourt this one was pass half court but the first deal that Jaylen Brown got against Luca watch the job he does fighting over the top of the screen with physicality watch this splits the Gap forces a turnover gets a big dunk on the other end as a result lot of physical ball pressure from uh Jaylen Brown in this game so here’s our first example of the problem with attacking Horford and porzingis in ball screens when uh uh when Horford is on them uh or excuse me when when they’re guarding Derrick Jones instead of Gafford so as you can see Tatum’s on Gafford so gafford’s not going to set the screen because if he does it’s just going to end in a switch and then Tatum will be on the ball so instead they end up running off of uh uh derck Jones’s side now watch this Horford’s dropping Jaylen uh or uh Drew holiday is chasing look at Tatum though Tatum is on Gafford nothing’s open here so Horford’s in his drop Drew holiday is chasing over the top so Kyrie has no opening right Tatum is taking away the lob pass to Gafford the O Jaylen Brown is staying home in this corner Derek white is in position to easily get to this corner so there’s no Corner three kickout the only quality read here is Derrick Jones Jr who’s going to have to takeen above the break three which is a lower percentage shot for him and certainly a lower percentage shot than anything they get when they can get Gafford or Lively actually into the ball screen as a result Horford forces Kyrie into this impossible shot that he airballs so that’s a the the first example on film of just how difficult it is for them to score in ball screens by virtue of their ability to put Tatum on the center and Horford on a wing okay now we’re going to get a transition attack uh off of the air ball by Drew holiday notice the um notice the defense kind of coales around him okay draws help from Derrick Jones kick to Jaylen Brown Jaylen Brown drives gets into the lane easy drop off to uh Drew holiday underneath the basket so again just like it’s just so easy for Boston to just beat one guy off the dribble make an easy Kick Out Pass beat another guy off the dribble easy drop off pass you got a layup that’s going to be the story of the series how well can Boston or how well can Dallas contain in space get a driving kick here from Tatum watch the defense coales around him on the Move crossover gets into the lane watch the defense coales around him Kyrie steps up PJ Washington because Kyrie steps up off of Drew holiday PJ Washington digs down on or cracks down onto Drew holiday nice Kickback pass from J Jason Tatum for a great shooter for a standstill Corner three can’t pack the pain against this team you just can’t do it the way you did in the other rounds here’s another example of the pick and roll problem that we talked about earlier so here we go here we go we have uh Lively’s being guarded by Tatum so Lively’s not going to be bought brought into the ball screen Kyrie wants to go at porzingis so Derrick Jones sets the pick Boston ices it meaning they refuse the use of the screen Kyrie ends up driving into the ice Derrik Jones Pops to above the break notice Jaylen Brown doesn’t even rotate to him because that’s what they want this entire scheme is designed to force Dallas to tilt their offense towards above the break three-point shots for bad shooters or I shouldn’t say bad Shooters but mediocre and inconsistent streaky Shooters here’s another example of B of Dallas swarming in transition watch how many bodies go around Drew holiday on this transition attack boom three bodies around him what happens kick to Derek White open three bucket just can’t do that you just can’t do that in this matchup you have to reprogram your your entire approach to defense to staying home and then the on ball guy has to just do a better job of containing okay so derck Jones just missed a pick and pop three right so now in this case uh notice they get a little brush screen from Lively to get Tatum onto Luca to start right then Derrick Jones sets the pick as Luca gets downhill now Derrick Jones just missed and above the break three so this time he’s going to roll but he’s not a vertical spacer and look at this in uh in the last matchup when when they would do this this would be Lively setting the pick right and then Derrick Jones would be spotting up up here on the wing so when Lively would roll these two bodies would not be there this would be empty space or Drew holiday would have to come further down and if Drew holiday’s down here that’s where Luca can throw this skip pass to Kyrie here in the corner but he can’t do that because Lively sitting in the dunker spot this area is occupied now Derrik Jones is rolling in the open spaces up here this is now all wasted space right so now Derrick Jones is rolling into the lane he’s not a vertical spacing threat if that’s Gafford he Luca might just be able to throw it up but but it’s not it’s it’s Derrick Jones he ends up kind of settling into the spot under the basket and when he catches here he’s trying to go up straight vertical against a player that’s got damn near a foot of height on him and he smokes the layup so I’m hoping these clips are doing a good job of demonstrating to you guys how A’s kind of adjustment I shouldn’t say adjustment but game plan of putting Tatum on the center just kind of Janks up everything for Dallas’s pick and roll attack here’s an example of porzingis beating a switch so we have Hardy on the ball then they switch now Lively’s on white Lively I thought for the most part did a good job on switches as we said before the series that’s kind of what we expected this is the problem though porzingis just takes Jaden Hardy down pump fakes a couple couple times knocks down a jumper that’s just easy here’s Hower defending Luca on a switch swipes the ball away from him great work from Hower individually ‘s in a turnover for Boston though let’s go back here’s another example now now porzingis is on Josh Green Tatum’s on Lively Watch What Happens ball screen Josh green pops Luca gets into the lane Josh Green’s open doesn’t want to take it shoots this ugly floater off the front of the rim see how like Dallas literally does not know what to do to counter this issue at this point this was just a play I included because I thought it was a really impressive play from porzingis this is a fake dribble hand off so I want you to watch Lively closely right here so Lively’s on the ball watch as porzingis dribbles at I think it’s at Dereck white or is it at Tatum let’s see it’s at Tatum so watch as porzingis dribbles at uh no Tatum Cuts actually and then it is it Dereck white so watch as porzingis dribbles at Derek white watch what happens to Lively watch Lively’s attention as porzingis is faking the dribble hand off right there see boom right there for a split second he favors the dribble handoffs side preparing for a switch As a result porzingis is able to turn the corner and he gets into the lane and throws it down really impressive play from porzingis that’s another great way to beat switching by the way there’s actually another example of that later on in the game that Drew holiday does here’s that stop that Hower got in the corner again 11 on the shot clock straight ISO against one of the Lesser perimeter Defenders for Boston and he just does a really good job and gets a great contest and forces into a bad Miss off the backboard in transition this is a classic trailing three so gafford’s attention he’s on porzingis right gafford’s attention is on Pritchard and getting back into the lane look where he runs to he runs to the free throw line and then he goes oh I forgot I’m guarding porzingis who then settles into this trailing transition three most basketball coaches love a big that can shoot in transition because it’s just one of the biggest loopholes in a transition defense is you prioritize the rim you prioritize the ball and so as a result a big trailing to play is almost always open this was a a nice block by porzingis in a ball screen against Kyrie and a b so this is another example of Rand like a a random situation where they mix the coverage this time Tatum’s on kba and porzingis is on the the vertical spacing threat when these opportunities are there you have to capitalize on him the lob is open right there boom lob is open that’s got to be a lob that that you got to throw that right up here so Gafford can dunk it instead Kyrie takes this shot and gets blocked by porzingis Kyrie’s shot selection was really bad in the first half second half I thought he was just missing first half though Kyrie was making a lot of bad decisions another uh ISO possession where uh we get a switch where Horford ends up on Kyrie right once again Horford holds up really well on a switch on an island against Kyrie Irving watch this defense funnels him into the paint gets a great contest forces a Miss Horford’s switching defense was amazing in this game so at this portion in the game this is when Jaylen Brown starts looking to attack Luca donic in two-man game with Hower so Derrick Jones is on Jaylen Brown this this is actually the same play that they ran when Jaylen got the dunk I’ll show you guys when we get to that clip here in a minute but basically all that happens is as Hower sets the pick Jaylen Brown switches kind kind of like a soft switch onto Jaylen Brown and Jaylen Brown just beats him off the dribble cleanly and gets a bucket here’s another example of them swarming in transition and giving up an open three so watch true holiday attack all these bodies kind of coales around him easy kick out past to Hower who it’s the no dip jump Jumper in the corner here’s that exact same action that they just ran for Jaylen Brown this time they get the dunk so again Hower sets the pick Jaylen Brown attacks downhill crosses over on T Luca gets the dunk you’re going to see a lot of examples of this over the course of the rest of this game Luca was just so bad on the ball he was just so bad and he just he just simply has to do a better job um this is one of the stops that Pritchard got on Kyrie fast forward a little bit here okay so Pritchard on an island against Kyrie Irving this is a matchup that Dallas has to win if they’re going to win this series and Pritcher just does a really nice job absorbs contact forces Kyrie into a tough layup and he misses it here’s another example of the pick and pop situation so this was the two big look that I talked about um what they would do is they’d put one of their bigs onto Lively and then they’d put the other big onto PJ Washington and they’d have that same exact issue right Luca comes downhill drop coverage look at all this congestion in here because of lively and Horford again that is where this matchup screws everything up for Dallas they can’t set ball screens with their centers so they have to put their centers in the dunker spot which just caused cuses everything to get screwed up with the spacing PJ Washington’s wide open but he’s a mediocre I think he’s below 30% on above the break threes in this postseason I think he was 29 and a half coming into the night so that like that shot’s probably not going to go in here’s another porzingis uh shot attempt against a switch so we get ball screen switch drick Jones is on porzingis swing pass walks him down to the Elbow gets the ball back strong with it gets a little closer knocks down the jumper here’s Horford defending Luca on the switch again screen switch when Lively rolls Jaylen Brown stays with him look at this job absorbs contact beats him to a spot gets a great contest on that pull up three forces him into a miss all right we’re going to get another porzingis attack of a switch here all right so we have Lively on porzingis drick white with the ball porzingis sets a screen Josh Green switches porzingis walks him down to the Elbow post entry pump fake gets a little closer knocks down the jumper just did a brilliant job of beating that coverage last night on the other end of the floor nice stop from Tatum on Luca uh going the other way a random double team from Luca so again instead of just getting matched up and playing defense Luca’s dribbling against his primary Defender Luca double teams for no reason you can already guess how this movie ends Swing Swing Swing Jaylen Brown three knocks it down it’s is bad defense another back court rip of Luca just guesses beats him to his spot swipes him goes up and dunks it here’s another bad Luca defensive possession Drew he’s guarding Drew holiday Drew just kind of dribbles at Tatum and then just cuts down hill on Luca beats him drop off pass for Derek white just Luca just has to do a better job containing the basketball this is when Boston went up 29 Dallas tried Zone for one possession honestly it wasn’t anything to do with the coverage here they just passed to Tatum and then they screen the top part of the zone and Tatum hits a contested pull up three now you’re up 29 here’s another one of gafford’s offens of rebounds against Tatum this again is something I think they need to do a lot more of a better job of in game two just um just making Boston pay for putting a forward on your Center misses the shot bullies get in gets inside position gets the put back I talked about the ugly stretch of offense from Boston this was just one random example so again they went almost five they went four minutes without getting the ball in the paint a single time and over about a what a a six minute span they got the paint the ball in the paint twice total but it’s a lot of stuff like this 18 seconds on the shot clock just random contested jab step three a lot of just kind of bad process from Boston in that stretch timeout gets called right after Luca hits the step back three here’s your run here’s here’s the run that Boston fans told me is totally normal 29 to9 um notice out of the timeout what the what the job is here Hower sets the pick get Luca on a switch get out of the way Tatum drives on Luca beats him cleanly engages the rim protector and again when you engage the rim protector you give porzingis an opportunity Luca honestly fouls him by just bumping into his back there just doesn’t get called so it ends in a stop but that’s really good process although Lively ends up getting called for a travel same possession after the travel Jaylen Brown does the same thing bring Hower set the pick get Luca drive right by Luca get into the lane draw a foul just Luca’s inability to contain the basketball this time uh Jason Tatum does it in a ball screen so he brings kba into the AC or Lively into the action gets downhill beats Lively off the dribble gets into the paint kick to porzingis this doesn’t go in but that’s a really good look and then in the process again all these things are connected so Lively’s on Tatum right so when Tatum makes this pass Lively ends up making an impromptu close out to porzingis so now no one’s matched up with Tatum so no one thinks to box him out so Tatum gets the ball because that’s Lively was the one who switched on to him right so that’s an example of how getting into rotation can cause problems for you on the glass as well porzingis gets a dunk another Tatum driving kick here going at Lively beats him clean help a little overh help too like what you don’t need to be sending three bodies at Tatum on the drive here you’re just going to give yourself a lot of issues this one ends with Jaylen Brown driving into the lane and drawing another foul so again that closeout opportunity look at the out he’s got PJ Washington sprinting at him this way so the rip through to the right is easy because he’s just his momentum’s carrying him too far so by this whole sequence was generated by Tatum beating Lively off the dribble and those are both fouls by the way on lively like he’s he’s not vertical he’s he’s going down over Brown here’s another example of the difference in vertical spacing between Derrick Jones and a center okay so we’re trying to attack Horford ball screen they basically are are uh it’s a high drop with the Drew chasing it’s effectively like a blitz Derrick Jones is rolling but he’s just not the vertical spacer that Lively or Gafford is that’s a dunk if that’s Lively or Gafford two more another uh Jaylen Brown hunting Luca play have Tatum set the pick get Luca beat him off the dribble Swing Swing wide open three and then lastly Jaylen Brown again drives past CBA draws multiple Defenders gets Horford but this is what so quality stuff from Boston again six out of the first seven possessions out of the timeout you got Quality Drive and kick possessions right that’s all good on the Dallas front though that can’t be a help from Gafford that just can’t you got to force Jaylen Brown to make a contested layup over kba before you just hard help and leave a shooter wide open like this so yeah I hope that film session does a good job of kind of breaking down for you guys some of the issues that Dallas was having with Boston last night obviously some of the stuff with Boston’s offensive process as well when it’s good versus when it’s bad and then like I said the adjustments for Dallas went over earlier I won’t go over them again but there’s some things they need to work on offensively and defensively to do a better job job in game two as always I sincerely appreciate you guys for supporting the show I’m recording a mailbag right after this that’ll be out on Saturday morning and then obviously we’re going live after game two with Colin on Sunday night I will see you guys then [Music]

Jason Timpf reacts to Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and the Boston Celtics’ dominant 107-89 Game 1 win over Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving, and the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals. Jason heads to the film to break down how Boston was able to jump out to their 29-point first half lead, how the Mavs clawed back in the early third quarter, and to share what he expects to happen in Game 2.

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