Isiah Thomas

And where you see where SGA likes to shoot from mid-range, they have a double team trap set up for him.

at the elbow.

So if he goes right, he's forced into a double team.

If he goes left, he's forced into a double team.

On the back line, they keep Wimby as a rim protector.

And then they have a smaller player in rotation shooting out to the corners.

That's why you see those corner threes right now that OKC is knocking down.

those are the ones that they're giving up because they're taking the elbow shots or the mid-range shots away from SGA.

So, you know, it's similar to what we did with Jordan.

You know, we would force Jordan left, trap him going left.

SGA is more of a passer than Jordan was at that particular time.

Jordan was what we called a reluctant passer.

He would actually take on the double team, right, as a challenge and try to score over the double team as opposed to kicking it out.

And when Phil Jackson came along, put him in a triangle and put those snipers around him, that's when everything changed.

I would say Ralph Sampson.

Early Ralph Sampson, you know, his first three years in the NBA, I believe he was in the NBA Finals his third year.

His third or fourth year he was in the NBA Finals playing against the Celtics.

Upset the Laker dynasty.

Remember, they swept the Lakers.

And that's when they changed the playoff format because they didn't want the Lakers going out early.