Tim Legler Touchscreen 🖥️ How the Celtics beat the Mavericks in Game 3 | SC with SVP

Tim Legler Touchscreen 🖥️ How the Celtics beat the Mavericks in Game 3 | SC with SVP

the duo of Boston Stars Tatum and brown had 61 actually outscored by the Dallas Duo of Kyrie and Lucas 6261 but this is the graphic that matters when the Celtics hold their opponent to double digits in the playoffs they’ve won 31 consecutive postseason games that dates back to 2019 Tim legler is back and it didn’t turn into the blowout that the third period third quarter I should say appeared it would turn this game into all credit to Dallas for that but the the the performance from from Boston there in in that stretch and then the the the the moments that got them the victory what are you going to what are you going to focus in on well it’s after the comeback and now you’ve got a settle into one possession game and we get right back to Boston executing again after all that ugly mess of stretch where it’s like they forgot who they were yeah they get to a lot of isolation basketball out of that they come out of the timeout and here’s what they’re going to run and this is one of their favorite sets they go to this an awful lot out of timeouts late in games when they need something you’re going to get the ball dribbled here over to the wing and then they run this little screen action for Tatum who then will run out and set a ball screen here it’s all designed to engage three guys and see if you can get enough switches and you’re going to end up with Derrick Lively out on the perimeter and that’s going to matter later on in the possession so here you go Tatum gets a first screen now he runs into a ball screen and here’s what I’m talking about and I just think Dallas did far too too much of this in in this series and tonight you just indiscriminately switching you don’t want Derrick Lively out this far from the rim and you’ve also now got a situation where Jason Tatum is now going to mismatch and he’s going to run into the mid post and that matters too so all of these things have consequences but here you go and actually Dallas pretty good shape right here this isn’t even even bad defense on a part of Hardway this Ball’s driven Baseline that’s where you want it to go he’s riding his hip but it’s what happens on the backside remember I said Jason Tatum was in mid post well that means right here that Josh Green’s not in position to slide down and help which means now that’s got to come from the weak side which is going to be Kyrie Irving and that means now there’s two Shooters on a weak side of the floor and Derek Lively is out on the perimeter he’s a center he wants to rim protect he’s not great at reading this situation on first pass when it comes out but he is the guy to take the first pass and you’ll see he makes a bad read he runs over here to the corner shooter and that is going to leave a massive Gap right here for Dereck white now that’s incredible pass by Drew howay left-handed wraps it around but you see Derek Lively just sort of out of place and Boston makes you pay every single time and then here I’m diagramming these Scot because these I think the two biggest baskets in the game that took it from three to six now it’s back to four 220 to go and this is just Jon Jason Tatum again getting a ball screen and this time instead of coming over here on that screen that Horford set and setting the ball screen instead he reads that he’s got a switch right here with a smaller player and that ball goes right into the paint and then this is just really honestly this is very weak weak side defense these guys don’t put up much of a fight he catches the ball spins out again Lively out of position and Jason Tatum gets the dunk same set two different reads first one Tatum rolls into the post Drew holiday drives you get a three to second one Tatum rolls into the post they hit him on the switch that time and he gets the finish this is one of the things they like to go to and they executed as well as anybody and this these two possessions were have typified the issues Dallas has had repeatedly in this series with communication with Personnel uh with with a lot of mistakes on that end and they’re playing against a team that just flat out capitalizes whenever you do that brown hit a tough two big time pull up jum midrange it’s not touchscreen material because it’s just a one-on-one shot thank you for saying it not everything’s touchs screenable but I think that bucket ultimately was as big as any in this game and and to be fair and and to give ourselves a little wiggle room here I thought we were going to be looking at that third quarter because that just looked to like the wagon they’ve been all year long and people somehow try to convince themselves it was going to be different here it’s just not they’re just they’re the best team in the NBA I’ll be having a lot of conversations about this team here over the next several days however long this series goes on if Dallas could still win a game I don’t think they’re winning more than one now and that third quarter will be somewhere featured it’s something that I’m going to do because from an ex0 standpoint and an execution standpoint offensively it’s as good as it gets and it also summed up a lot of this series Scott think about this Dallas is a minus 63 from the three-point line in this series through three games almost almost two to one tonight Boston had 17 Dallas had they’re minus 21 points on average per night in this series they also have 36 assists in three games that’s 12 per game think about it Luca averaged almost 10 himself in the regular season they have 12 assists per game over the first three games of the series because of the fact that Boston is so good at covering ground once they force you to pick the basketball up and they’re forced into a lot of difficult shot maker that eventually is going to run out on you and it did tonight in that third quarter series go beond Friday or is this a WP it’s hard for me to imagine Dallas winning that game with Boston I just think they’re so laser focused now and wanting to get this over with you’re not going to be shocked by it Dallas a very good team they’ve got two great players could they win a game at a home yeah and everybody always wonders is there part of it it’s like hey that team wouldn’t mind winning that thing in a game five in their home court a little bit more Boston wants this over with exactly and they also want to look up at the end this and look at this run of what will it be 16- two in the postseason if they finish that off it’s one of the great postseason records we’ve ever had and I haven’t mentioned it yet but you know because you watch the game but no porzingis in this one again it just like he’s and you saw the Difference Maker he was in game one not as much in game two because he was limited by the injury but he’s like a he’s a luxury to this team that that’s that’s amazing that a guy that impactful could be will be okay without him they have been and they were again tonight p [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

Tim Legler joins SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt and uses the touchscreen to break down how the Boston Celtics edged the Dallas Mavericks in a back-and-forth Game 3 in the 2024 NBA Finals.

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