technical basketball details etc

I could watch Pistol Pete Maravich demonstrate ballhandling drills to Red Auerbach all day ...

pic.twitter.com/BWWbqcVFbH

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) March 11, 2021

"hip mobility" is the new scouting buzzword lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Eid7669zY

marcus would be an amazing player development coach someday. he talks the game really well.

such obvious passion too

yeah i could see him really wanting to do a job like that

never been clear to me who the guys are who help the players do drills, are they on the development staff or what they tend to be young theyre not coaches theyre not ball boys

Andrew Wiggins struggling a bit at Warriors practice. 👀

(via @LetsGoWarriors, h/t @dubs4o8)pic.twitter.com/convmX6EFR

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) October 1, 2021

https://www.nba.com/stats/events/?GameEventID=429&GameID=0022100172&Season=2021-22&flag=1&title=Clarkson%20REBOUND%20(Off:0%20Def:1)&sct=plot

never seen this play before. the pacers used it to break the jazz zone. it's like the elevator doors play but in reverse

this is cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2T4bJh165g

Ralph Miller, the coach of the Oregon State Beaver hoops team from 1970-1989 favored a similar heavily pass-oriented offense. I think he cribbed it from Phog Allen. He hated to see his guards dribbling more than twice.

Fascinating video

that was great, thanking u

Ya watched that a couple weeks ago and been telling all my bball friends about it

NEW Breakdown: Ty Lue shows again why he is one of the best X's & O's coaches in the NBA - NASTY ATO counter! pic.twitter.com/U4MAFvOKCd

— Half Court Hoops (@HalfCourtHoops) December 7, 2021

love it

I made diagrams of 34 types of ballscreens, from Angle PnR to Wedge Roll

If you see a pick-and-roll but don't know its name so you can't look it up, try looking for it on this page and hopefully you'll find the right one

Lmk which ones I've left out!https://t.co/aBO1HPCn7T

— Bowser2Bowser (@bowser2bowser) January 21, 2022

that is excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyA_wTOzza4
Alex Caruso talks defense

i want to thank caruso for shaving his head

love that

hes really thinking about the shot clock good stuff

chasing down the origin of the shamgod https://theathletic.com/3139815/2022/02/24/the-unknown-history-of-the-shammgod-crossover-or-as-philly-calls-it-the-pooh-allen

guess nba assistant pooh allen did it on national tv when shamgod was still in high school lol

“If you know Pooh,” Rozier said, “you know he’s going around showing people that clip.”

finally track down the penn coach who taught it to pooh and

O’Hanlon said he doesn’t remember when he first did “The Reach Across.” He was always trying to come up with new moves and discovered this one on his own and never saw anyone do it before him. “I did come up with that,” he said. “I didn’t steal it from anyone.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN8vvtQ4ir8

whats going on with DSJs shot form? looks like hes fumbling it right before he releases it

Highlights from Dennis Smith Jr.’s private workout this week in Las Vegas in front of several NBA personnel. pic.twitter.com/MiidVmp0uo

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) July 14, 2022

it looks like he's using some wrist action to generate backspin rather than like flicking it off the fingers as one does. definitely a little weird.

looks like hes catching then adjusting so his hand is way on top and to the side of the ball then compensating for that weird placement by thumbing very intensely, good luck man

yeah some sort of pre-shot rotation. takes him so long to set it up yikes.

Former Toronto Raptors center Lucas Nogueira released these team scouting reports on John Wall and Bradley Beal from round one of the 2018 NBA Playoffs.

Why? I don't know. But cool. pic.twitter.com/qGUWz2FbwA

— Quinton Mayo (@RealQuintonMayo) July 27, 2022

i wonder how common it is for teams to include stuff like ppp and ts% in communicating with players

The Bucks have tweaked their approach to pick-and-roll defense this season and the early results are extremely promising - they're taking away all of the juiciest options and forcing teams to settle for more tough shots. https://t.co/k7gm0R1zdi pic.twitter.com/0DNjv3GYnu

— Todd Whitehead (@CrumpledJumper) November 11, 2022

i like those visualizations!

found these defensive mistakes videos which look at more minute details than most breakdowns positioning routes on screens etc and the guy is just bitching the whole time hes really disappointed in the players lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpDYP4Xzkjw

Love that. Luka not shaking the harden comparisons lol. That Javale signing looks crazier by the day. Do they have even a single plus defender on the roster outside of dorian?

hes like harden who shows up in the playoffs

Harden made the conf finals a couple times

he made finals once even but his playoff numbers are bad where luka has killed it, which makes sense to me hardens game has always been a little gimmicky but luka is a flat out baller

omg that defensive mistakes video had me in tears.

it’s like your uncle morty giving you a hard time about your shoes

🚨BREAKDOWN🚨

Steve Kerr added a new ATO set that takes advantage of 3 concepts:

1) Steph Curry's gravity
2) Steph Curry's screening
3) Jordan Poole's downhill explosion

Simple but brilliant play design that makes full use of the team's dynamic offensive weapons.

⬇️⬇️⬇️ pic.twitter.com/FoyQIq0sR8

— Joe Viray (@JoeVirayNBA) November 26, 2022

luka the post god
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI8wq7vUxoo

lukas a freak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17H6OaQQ5qY

good one on haliburton, its crazy how much he uses the look away or just keeps his eyes on the rim, its like he can take a snapshot and doesnt even need to look anymore

caitlin cooper wrote a whole thing on haliburtons jump passing https://www.indycornrows.com/platform/amp/2022/8/3/23285985/on-the-aerial-exploits-of-tyrese-haliburton which tyrese actually shouted out on jj redicks podcast

Very cool to hear Tyrese Haliburton give @C2_Cooper a shoutout for the jump pass article on Old Man and the Three. pic.twitter.com/VC4ucmKWH5

— Tony East (@TEastNBA) November 11, 2022

also this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSlCsBgbP-g

caitlin cooper is good af

what is this shot

This is one of the wildest shooting forms I’ve witnessed 😭💀 pic.twitter.com/nbizW4kclM

— NBA Memes (@NBAMemes) December 5, 2022

wild that he is a 10 year vet and shoots like that

never shouldve let him back in

coach nicks dream is coming true

I don't think we're talking enough about how Victor Wembanyama is making floater 3-pointers a thing over in France. He's made multiple of these shots this season, and it breaks my brain every time he does it. Think Luka is the only other person I've seen try this more than once? pic.twitter.com/5T3MhWjit6

— Sam Vecenie (@Sam_Vecenie) January 3, 2023

I know this sounds dumb but if you have the requisite strength and skill etc it doesn’t seem like a bad shot at all

i was watching mavs celtics last game with my dad who is a big box score reader but not that big of a game watcher outside the celtics and he was getting all fired up about luka to kind of an annoying degree tho tbf luka was cooking the celtics were just guarding him straight up letting him get his i was like just watch him get tired as the game goes on and sure enough by mid third quarter he was chucking stepback 3s then in the fourth he had one basket and the celtics wrecked the mavs easily, his style of play its just obviously not good its not the good way to play basketball

mavs barely squeaked into the conf finals and got destroyed, they were a second round quality team that year, i mean it was nice for them dont get me wrong and they were on a roll for sure but stuff like that happens no one is consulting the history books over it

like the lakers last year sometimes there just a bunch of pretty good teams and one of them wins a couple rounds

i think one reasonable theory about lukas game is that its a high floor and not necessarily capped ceiling but its more difficult to raise the ceiling of his teams to contender status because he doesnt play good team ball, of course thats just speculation at this point since hes never had a contending quality roster

the suns that year were defending conference champs, brought back the same nucleus, won 64 games, and were the 1 seed by 8 games so gonna have to disagree w/ you on that one. don't retcon that game 7 into them being some mediocre opponent

i agree w/ you & have consistently agreed that he has conditioning, stamina, modulation issues that he has to figure out as his career progresses so if "style of play" just means a decrease in usage so that he can last longer across games/the playoffs then yeah. but the heliocentric possessions where ppl stand around and watch luka thing that you guys really pick at i just don't think is as big of a problem bcuz he's simply too good. i'm not chalking james harden's playoff failures up to "style of play" and then pinning that on luka

he just stands around when he doesnt have the ball and that includes defense its really bad its harmful not sure what else to say about that hes giving back a bunch there

xp didnt say the suns were mediocre tho they did have some issues what i said was the mavs barley squeaked through (seven game series) then got wrecked (five games series)

sorry but beating the 1 seed on the road in game 7 by 40 points does not count to me as squeaking through but whatever

i watched that celtics game too and maybe your analysis of it is correct, it's subjective. luka was out of his mind incredible in the first half and did not match that in the second half. but my take away from that game was that the mavs are built on the concept of having two high level star players and if kyrie is going to go 9-23 and 1-7 from three vs a team as good as boston then the mavs are not going to be competitive

you're presenting a theoretical scenario where luka tries less hard and passes more in the first half of that game, gets his teammates involved more and is able to have more stamina to dominate in the fourth quarter. i would submit that if luka wasn't playing like the best basketball player of all time in the first half the mavs would've been down by 20+ and nothing that happened in the second half would've even mattered. so i guess it's a matter of perspective

but again people have been talking about luka figuring out a better balance between domination and stamina since he was putting up first half triple doubles vs the clippers in the 21 playoffs and i don't think he has taken a serious critical approach to that aspect of his game so all of that stuff i agree w/

that celtics game they were targeting him on defense was part of the reason he was so tired the other part is he plays a very tiring style, good teams are going to do the same until theres a solution for it, he could get in better shape we dont have any idea how much hes capable of increasing his stamina, its seems like probably some but also he likely doesnt have naturally high stamina, his style of expending a ton of energy with the ball then resting the rest of the time just makes him vulnerable to scheming

you really want your perennial mvp candidates to elicit the reaction from opponents wtf are we supposed to do with that, like whatre you gonna do vs joker whats the plan here you got nothing, giannis youre like wall him off hope the bucks dont hit threes its not great but its what you have, embiid the obvious plan is to have al horford haha jk he has stamina issues too, but luka the plan is pretty clear youre gonna go after him on d which tbf is just good for scoring points and it will tire him out and then you hope he fades in the second half it has a decent chance of working

maybe in the regular season where he's not playing as hard sure, that is real. in that suns series they were putting luka in every single pick and roll every single time they could and some games it was fruitful and in other games it was a disaster. he is big so you can only take so much advantage of him on defense, i don't think ppl feel like we're dealing w/ a trae or early steph curry level point of attack defender where just purely from a size perspective there is very little that person can do, tho steph is also a great example of how guys can continue to get stronger and better at defense over the years to the point where the defense is no longer dragging down the offense. you can also more easily scheme away from having the same guy getting picked on every time in the playoffs than you can or do in the regular season. so yeah idk

luka is legitimately an extremely bad defender hes not close to where he should be

i agree that he is not close to where he should be but the individual numbers on his defense do not suggest that he is extremely bad specifically and the mavs have played great defense for long stretches w/ him on the floor

if you took shai off OKC and put luka in his place and told j dub and chet that they had to stand around for 5 extra possessions a game as they watched luka cook i think OKC would prob be a worse regular season team but i don't think their playoff ceiling would be lower and it quite possibly could be higher. and if shai was on dallas i don't think anyone would be saying that they have a significantly better shot of winning a playoff series. so how much of it is the warts of the player vs the warts of the roster

the mavs have played great defense for long stretches w/ him on the floor

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mavs playing good team defense in the regular season in stretches against just ok teams is one thing, throwing luka and kyrie out there against a quality prepared playoff opponent is a completely different proposition, the mavs could just try to effort and swarm their was through it switch a bunch fly around and so forth it could even work thats what they did in that suns series, but what they cant do is just play solid and make minor adjustments, a fwiw they are for the season a not good defensive team

luka on okc is an interesting thought experiment would we even know that jdub is a good player, prob not, maybe close watchers of the team would figure it out, tho would okc let luka play the way he likes to idk hard to say

but yeah putting luka on a better team would be good for him he should look into that, not the nugs tho that would just be unfair

it would be interesting to see if joker could get him to play better ball tho

they’re bffs it is fated I’m afraid