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Fred Katz

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The Athletic NBA Daily
Wolves advance to Conference Finals + Can the Celtics come back?

It's especially the thing with them when they play against a team that is willing and able to put smalls on town. I did a story a couple of weeks ago on...

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wolves advance to Conference Finals + Can the Celtics come back?

how this is when Detroit was putting Tobias Harris on him on how towns as habits just completely change, not his production, even just his habits completely change when he has a small on him versus a big and how that affects the Knicks, how his shot selection changes. He takes way fewer threes when he's a small on him than when he has a big on him. He doesn't get to the line as much.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wolves advance to Conference Finals + Can the Celtics come back?

how this is when Detroit was putting Tobias Harris on him on how towns as habits just completely change, not his production, even just his habits completely change when he has a small on him versus a big and how that affects the Knicks, how his shot selection changes. He takes way fewer threes when he's a small on him than when he has a big on him. He doesn't get to the line as much.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wolves advance to Conference Finals + Can the Celtics come back?

how this is when Detroit was putting Tobias Harris on him on how towns as habits just completely change, not his production, even just his habits completely change when he has a small on him versus a big and how that affects the Knicks, how his shot selection changes. He takes way fewer threes when he's a small on him than when he has a big on him. He doesn't get to the line as much.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wolves advance to Conference Finals + Can the Celtics come back?

And the Knicks are way worse. The Knicks offense is way worse when the Knicks are, When towns was primarily guarded by a non big man during the regular season, the Knicks went 11 and 14 in those games. when he was primarily guarded by a big man, they went 35 and 12 in those games. That is such a ginormous difference.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wolves advance to Conference Finals + Can the Celtics come back?

And the Knicks are way worse. The Knicks offense is way worse when the Knicks are, When towns was primarily guarded by a non big man during the regular season, the Knicks went 11 and 14 in those games. when he was primarily guarded by a big man, they went 35 and 12 in those games. That is such a ginormous difference.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wolves advance to Conference Finals + Can the Celtics come back?

And the Knicks are way worse. The Knicks offense is way worse when the Knicks are, When towns was primarily guarded by a non big man during the regular season, the Knicks went 11 and 14 in those games. when he was primarily guarded by a big man, they went 35 and 12 in those games. That is such a ginormous difference.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wolves advance to Conference Finals + Can the Celtics come back?

And when the Knicks fell off at the end of the year, when the offense started to look worse at the end of the year, guess what that coincided with? It coincided with about half the league starting to put wings on towns, which was something that only really happened with the super elite defenses at the beginning of the year. Now the whole league started to catch on and everybody was doing it.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wolves advance to Conference Finals + Can the Celtics come back?

And when the Knicks fell off at the end of the year, when the offense started to look worse at the end of the year, guess what that coincided with? It coincided with about half the league starting to put wings on towns, which was something that only really happened with the super elite defenses at the beginning of the year. Now the whole league started to catch on and everybody was doing it.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wolves advance to Conference Finals + Can the Celtics come back?

And when the Knicks fell off at the end of the year, when the offense started to look worse at the end of the year, guess what that coincided with? It coincided with about half the league starting to put wings on towns, which was something that only really happened with the super elite defenses at the beginning of the year. Now the whole league started to catch on and everybody was doing it.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wolves advance to Conference Finals + Can the Celtics come back?

And the Charlotte Hornets were doing it. And the Washington Wizards were doing it. And you didn't have to be an elite team or an elite defense in order to do it. And the Detroit Pistons did it throughout that series in the first round. And Boston, you knew, was going to do it. They did it all regular season. And it is just something they have to figure out the habits.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wolves advance to Conference Finals + Can the Celtics come back?

And the Charlotte Hornets were doing it. And the Washington Wizards were doing it. And you didn't have to be an elite team or an elite defense in order to do it. And the Detroit Pistons did it throughout that series in the first round. And Boston, you knew, was going to do it. They did it all regular season. And it is just something they have to figure out the habits.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wolves advance to Conference Finals + Can the Celtics come back?

And the Charlotte Hornets were doing it. And the Washington Wizards were doing it. And you didn't have to be an elite team or an elite defense in order to do it. And the Detroit Pistons did it throughout that series in the first round. And Boston, you knew, was going to do it. They did it all regular season. And it is just something they have to figure out the habits.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wolves advance to Conference Finals + Can the Celtics come back?

Like, Towns takes like three threes a game when there's a small guarding him as his primary guy. And that... It just can't be the case.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wolves advance to Conference Finals + Can the Celtics come back?

Like, Towns takes like three threes a game when there's a small guarding him as his primary guy. And that... It just can't be the case.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wolves advance to Conference Finals + Can the Celtics come back?

Like, Towns takes like three threes a game when there's a small guarding him as his primary guy. And that... It just can't be the case.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wolves advance to Conference Finals + Can the Celtics come back?

Who gave them a chance? The Boston Celtics trying to silence the doubters. Who would have ever thought they could make the conference finals for the 907th season in a row? Nobody would have ever predicted it. But we believe Celtics, man.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wolves advance to Conference Finals + Can the Celtics come back?

Who gave them a chance? The Boston Celtics trying to silence the doubters. Who would have ever thought they could make the conference finals for the 907th season in a row? Nobody would have ever predicted it. But we believe Celtics, man.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wolves advance to Conference Finals + Can the Celtics come back?

Who gave them a chance? The Boston Celtics trying to silence the doubters. Who would have ever thought they could make the conference finals for the 907th season in a row? Nobody would have ever predicted it. But we believe Celtics, man.

The Zach Lowe Show
Playoff Comeback or Collapse?! NBA Breakdowns With Fred Katz and Adam Mares. Plus, a Draft Lottery Preview With J. Kyle Mann.

I'm doing great. I'm doing great. I'm exhausted from apparently never, ever getting to cover a normal basketball game for probably the rest of my life at this point.