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Clifford Augustin

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The Ringer NBA Show
Thunder Just One Win Away From an NBA Finals Appearance. Plus, Can the Knicks Reclaim Home Court? | Real Ones

They're just throwing a lot of bodies at him. And even when you got Kaysen on him and other people, like they did a really good job on him. What he doesn't have yet that Shea has is the ability to put somebody on his hip. Like that is an equalizer sometimes. Like Ant wants to play facing you off of that live dribble. And again, in a lot of those instances, he's up high on the court. Do you know?

The Ringer NBA Show
Thunder Just One Win Away From an NBA Finals Appearance. Plus, Can the Knicks Reclaim Home Court? | Real Ones

They're just throwing a lot of bodies at him. And even when you got Kaysen on him and other people, like they did a really good job on him. What he doesn't have yet that Shea has is the ability to put somebody on his hip. Like that is an equalizer sometimes. Like Ant wants to play facing you off of that live dribble. And again, in a lot of those instances, he's up high on the court. Do you know?

The Ringer NBA Show
Thunder Just One Win Away From an NBA Finals Appearance. Plus, Can the Knicks Reclaim Home Court? | Real Ones

They're just throwing a lot of bodies at him. And even when you got Kaysen on him and other people, like they did a really good job on him. What he doesn't have yet that Shea has is the ability to put somebody on his hip. Like that is an equalizer sometimes. Like Ant wants to play facing you off of that live dribble. And again, in a lot of those instances, he's up high on the court. Do you know?

The Ringer NBA Show
Thunder Just One Win Away From an NBA Finals Appearance. Plus, Can the Knicks Reclaim Home Court? | Real Ones

Listen, we'll just geek out for a second. Do you know what I'd say? Like if you're playing a basketball game and you got a primary scorer and they're running a zone, do you know where you do not want that guy to be?

The Ringer NBA Show
Thunder Just One Win Away From an NBA Finals Appearance. Plus, Can the Knicks Reclaim Home Court? | Real Ones

Listen, we'll just geek out for a second. Do you know what I'd say? Like if you're playing a basketball game and you got a primary scorer and they're running a zone, do you know where you do not want that guy to be?

The Ringer NBA Show
Thunder Just One Win Away From an NBA Finals Appearance. Plus, Can the Knicks Reclaim Home Court? | Real Ones

Listen, we'll just geek out for a second. Do you know what I'd say? Like if you're playing a basketball game and you got a primary scorer and they're running a zone, do you know where you do not want that guy to be?

The Ringer NBA Show
Thunder Just One Win Away From an NBA Finals Appearance. Plus, Can the Knicks Reclaim Home Court? | Real Ones

If you're going to double him, like it's hard to double if he's in the middle, right? But against a zone, like you don't want that guy, your best player all the time to be at the top of the key. Now, If you start him at the top of the key and then you run him through so he's getting to the wing or the baseline, that's fine.

The Ringer NBA Show
Thunder Just One Win Away From an NBA Finals Appearance. Plus, Can the Knicks Reclaim Home Court? | Real Ones

If you're going to double him, like it's hard to double if he's in the middle, right? But against a zone, like you don't want that guy, your best player all the time to be at the top of the key. Now, If you start him at the top of the key and then you run him through so he's getting to the wing or the baseline, that's fine.

The Ringer NBA Show
Thunder Just One Win Away From an NBA Finals Appearance. Plus, Can the Knicks Reclaim Home Court? | Real Ones

If you're going to double him, like it's hard to double if he's in the middle, right? But against a zone, like you don't want that guy, your best player all the time to be at the top of the key. Now, If you start him at the top of the key and then you run him through so he's getting to the wing or the baseline, that's fine.

The Ringer NBA Show
Thunder Just One Win Away From an NBA Finals Appearance. Plus, Can the Knicks Reclaim Home Court? | Real Ones

But the reason you don't want him at the top of the key is because all eyes have their butts to the baseline and they're looking at him. So everyone is in a natural support position to help against the dude with the ball. You're theoretically your best player. That's where they have ant almost all the time.

The Ringer NBA Show
Thunder Just One Win Away From an NBA Finals Appearance. Plus, Can the Knicks Reclaim Home Court? | Real Ones

But the reason you don't want him at the top of the key is because all eyes have their butts to the baseline and they're looking at him. So everyone is in a natural support position to help against the dude with the ball. You're theoretically your best player. That's where they have ant almost all the time.

The Ringer NBA Show
Thunder Just One Win Away From an NBA Finals Appearance. Plus, Can the Knicks Reclaim Home Court? | Real Ones

But the reason you don't want him at the top of the key is because all eyes have their butts to the baseline and they're looking at him. So everyone is in a natural support position to help against the dude with the ball. You're theoretically your best player. That's where they have ant almost all the time.

The Ringer NBA Show
Thunder Just One Win Away From an NBA Finals Appearance. Plus, Can the Knicks Reclaim Home Court? | Real Ones

And so if a team is dedicated to like stacking, you know, the lanes and choking off your angles to the basket or doubling you, soft doubling you off a pick and roll, it's going to be tough sledding if he's always there. They, Minnesota did some stuff late in the game that I liked. They got him off the ball and they started running him off of screens.

The Ringer NBA Show
Thunder Just One Win Away From an NBA Finals Appearance. Plus, Can the Knicks Reclaim Home Court? | Real Ones

And so if a team is dedicated to like stacking, you know, the lanes and choking off your angles to the basket or doubling you, soft doubling you off a pick and roll, it's going to be tough sledding if he's always there. They, Minnesota did some stuff late in the game that I liked. They got him off the ball and they started running him off of screens.

The Ringer NBA Show
Thunder Just One Win Away From an NBA Finals Appearance. Plus, Can the Knicks Reclaim Home Court? | Real Ones

And so if a team is dedicated to like stacking, you know, the lanes and choking off your angles to the basket or doubling you, soft doubling you off a pick and roll, it's going to be tough sledding if he's always there. They, Minnesota did some stuff late in the game that I liked. They got him off the ball and they started running him off of screens.

The Ringer NBA Show
Thunder Just One Win Away From an NBA Finals Appearance. Plus, Can the Knicks Reclaim Home Court? | Real Ones

And the few times they ran him off of screens, he got right downhill. He got right downhill and on top of the basket. And you just got to move him around and you got to help him out because he is developing into the offensive player that Shea is. Shea's got some years on him. Shea's got some experience on him. Shea is a little bit more

The Ringer NBA Show
Thunder Just One Win Away From an NBA Finals Appearance. Plus, Can the Knicks Reclaim Home Court? | Real Ones

And the few times they ran him off of screens, he got right downhill. He got right downhill and on top of the basket. And you just got to move him around and you got to help him out because he is developing into the offensive player that Shea is. Shea's got some years on him. Shea's got some experience on him. Shea is a little bit more

The Ringer NBA Show
Thunder Just One Win Away From an NBA Finals Appearance. Plus, Can the Knicks Reclaim Home Court? | Real Ones

And the few times they ran him off of screens, he got right downhill. He got right downhill and on top of the basket. And you just got to move him around and you got to help him out because he is developing into the offensive player that Shea is. Shea's got some years on him. Shea's got some experience on him. Shea is a little bit more

The Ringer NBA Show
Thunder Just One Win Away From an NBA Finals Appearance. Plus, Can the Knicks Reclaim Home Court? | Real Ones

polished in terms of you throw this at me i can do i have these answers to the test doesn't mean ant won't get there but like last night he let them take him out of that game and he was brilliant in terms of spraying it around but they they needed and they should they had a chance to win but like you need him that to point produce a little bit more than that they had a chance to win i don't i there was never a moment during the game where i was like

The Ringer NBA Show
Thunder Just One Win Away From an NBA Finals Appearance. Plus, Can the Knicks Reclaim Home Court? | Real Ones

polished in terms of you throw this at me i can do i have these answers to the test doesn't mean ant won't get there but like last night he let them take him out of that game and he was brilliant in terms of spraying it around but they they needed and they should they had a chance to win but like you need him that to point produce a little bit more than that they had a chance to win i don't i there was never a moment during the game where i was like