The beauty of OKC is that while you can toggle your initial assignments against them, they space and screen so well (and unconventionally) that they end up getting the matchups they want anyway.

Yeah

If Dort refuses to be screened, then use Ingram to screen for someone else. Use his dogged determination against him.

I too got seduced by head to head matchups instead of my initial instinct that Phoenix was fraudulent.

Been thinking a lot about this tim cato piece as I watch the Mavs bludgeon the Clippers theathletic.com/5372810/2024/0…

I think Luka figured out Zubac's pick-and-roll positioning

That’s why you get Pat Bev. So he can tell the story of that bucket he gave up on the pod

About time ISTyrese returned

Great ATO by Laurence Fishburne

All Myles Turner needed to do was hedge out a tiny bit harder and they’d call a foul

It begins

Game 3 was a perfect storm for Orlando, but the switch to start Carter again:

1. Juiced the spacing for the first unit, since Carter moves around more than Isaac
2. Reunited the Magic's effective second unit

Not sure why they changed it up in G1 + G2. Could cost them the series

In hindsight, some interesting replies and QTs on this one

I really wish Darvin called his last timeout just for the hell of it.

Real sneaky of TNT to put on a Lakers-Nuggets re-run and presenting it as live

LeBron has been absolutely worked on those dunker spot cuts.

I guess TNT at least dubbed different announcers on top of this one

Real sneaky of TNT to put on a Lakers-Nuggets re-run and presenting it as live