Watching older basketball sereis is just informative in general. Like watching the 2000 Blazers-Lakers WCF and you see some modern concepts like Sabonis dragging Shaq to the FT line, or the Blazers defense not really guarding guys like Harper or Shaw.
What's funny about this clip it reminds me of the 2022 drop coverage that Boston employed on Curry in the finals. Daniel Li had a good video on it, talked about how Boston did it to try and limit the extra passing from Curry-Draymond PNR.
It worked pretty well until game 5/6 from what I recall from the Thinking Basketball videos but Steph also had that insane game 4 so it makes sense that the Celtics would try adjusting the gameplan
I watched game 7 of that series semi recently and while yes there are some modern concepts, there’s also stuff like Steve smith getting hot in the second half and the Lakers continuing to go under every screen on him for no apparent reason.
It’s actually wild how many little things we take for granted are relatively recent concepts. Phil Jackson used to give up corner threes on purpose as late as 2010.
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u/Asleep_Ground1710 Bulls 2d ago
Watching older basketball sereis is just informative in general. Like watching the 2000 Blazers-Lakers WCF and you see some modern concepts like Sabonis dragging Shaq to the FT line, or the Blazers defense not really guarding guys like Harper or Shaw.
What's funny about this clip it reminds me of the 2022 drop coverage that Boston employed on Curry in the finals. Daniel Li had a good video on it, talked about how Boston did it to try and limit the extra passing from Curry-Draymond PNR.