aggo wrote:here's the non-trolling real analysis:
in the first half,
thibs unlocked several important concepts
1/ he now recognizes that this is about offense and not defense. pacers struggle in half court and to get them in half court you have to hit shots.
he threw away precious-ihart until the second half when we were up big.
he played precious at 5 when they went obi at 5
he played burks with brunson and stuck burks in the wing and corner 3
2/ defensively we recognize that josh hart cant defend pascal in the paint. several times during the game we early crossmatched ihart onto pascal.
I dont know if thibs will go one step further, but the Hali-turner pnr has given us problems and thibs is really going to think about crossmatching even more:
ihart - pascal
josh hart on myles turner
this makes a lot of sense because we've been switching that pnr a lot anyway.
3/ McBride is not a pg
in the 1 game that McBride exploded against Philly he played offball c+s3.
his best game against pacers was again, offball c+s 3.
thibs already knows this because several times this series he has subbed in brunson early when we detected even a hint of McBride struggling to bring the ball up, which has happened.
4/ ind ball pressure vs brunson in backcourt
I really wished we did this sooner, this should've already been happening in the Philly series. but we have committed to pre-empting any full court pressure on brunson by keeping him off ball if there is even a hint of indiana looking to pressure him in the backcourt. its inbounded to anyone but brunson when indiana shows pressure. this adjustment is late, but very welcome.
Bad take on Deuce. He was effective helping to bring the ball up and take the pressure off Brunson. He had 4 assists and got in the lane a few times.
RIP mags
