JJ Redick

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214 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 4 May

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The Zach Lowe Show · Playoff Drama! NBA First-Round Action Heats Up With Rob Mahoney. · 28 Apr 2025 podcast

I am having not watched Bogdan Bogdanovich entire career, every single game, having not watched every international game, having not watched his games in Europe.

Yeah, this series is stretching Jokic to the absolute outer bounds of his versatility. I mean, there are possessions where he runs. He starts by running an inverted pick and roll as the ball handler and finishes by shooting a three in isolation. I mean, that's literally what happened on one possession, I think, in late in the third quarter. They're running him off pin downs.

They need to run some cross screens for him. Like they're using the absolute versatility.

limits of his versatility just to survive in this series you mentioned mpj he gets crapped on all the time because of his contract because his handle hasn't developed because his defense is is a little bit spacey at times it was in this game or particularly early off of chris dunn his defense is a big pivot point in the series because he's guarding chris dunn and as you suggested he's

Clearly in game four, adjustment number one is whatever help you're giving off Chris Dunn in games one to three, dial it up by 50% in game four. Ignore him completely. And you got to be on time. You got to be on time no matter where Chris Dunn is. If he's on the strong side, it doesn't matter. Rules don't apply. Your job is to help. And he screwed that up a few times.

He played 42 minutes with a bad shoulder. Six of 11, four of seven on threes, 17 points. The Nuggets needed every one of those points. Crap on Michael Porter Jr. when he deserves it. Recognize that that's a ballsy performance. Christian Brown, I thought, was the unsung hero of the game. Eight of 19, not great. One of seven, not great. The one was huge.

I thought his defense was some of the best he's played. And you can see the Nuggets trying to figure out When can we sit Jokic back a little bit on these pick and rolls? Because when he's up to touch, it's a problem for us. It's a good battle when the Clippers have to pass it around and figure out how to find the open guy. But they're trying to like, can we sit him back a little bit?

You can only do that if Christian Brown is like roaring down Harden's tail on those pick and rolls. But you mentioned Dunn. And that was the adjustment that enabled the comeback was the Clippers went to Bogdanovich over Dunn and did something that I was waiting for them.

When will they feel pressed to do this, which is play, go all in on a lineup with only one non-shooter in Zoo instead of two with Zoo plus Dunn or Zoo plus Derrick Jones Jr. or God forbid, Ben Simmons plus one of those other guys. And they went all in on it. And the Nuggets had zero answer defensively like normal. Norm Powell went crazy. Every shot was wide open.

All of a sudden, the spacing just bent the Nuggets defense and just broke it. And I'm interested to see how quickly they go back to that. They should and will, I think, start Chris Dunn still. But you mentioned Batum, and Batum is the guy that I like in those lineups the best because of his combination of size, defense, and shooting. I've got my eye on that lineup with...

Batum in Dunn's place in the starting five. I thought that was an issue. And they went zone. Yeah. In a way that really seemed to confuse the Nuggets.

Oh, they went pre, they went prevent offense big time to the point that Yoko tried to walk the dog a couple of times. And the Clippers were like, you're not doing that. And one of those possessions, he had to throw that like a, like a sudden, like pick the ball up and lob it to Aaron Gordon, Aaron Gordon, just like sprinting. printed up the court with the ball and turned it over immediately.

It's like, oh my God, they're kind of disintegrating here. They really were.

I do. The zone, I thought, confused them and at times confused me because I think if you rewatch the possessions, there are some in there that are actually man-to-man, except the matchups are just different. They just straight up put Kawhi on Jokic a couple of times. And if you look at the way the matchups are flowing, it's kind of man-to-man. I think they just got them... off balance.

And one of the things his own does is it fucks up all the matchups. So if you get a stop, everything's scrambled going the other way. And Kawhi is killing the nuggets on cross matches because he's guarding Michael Porter Jr. The nuggets want no part of Michael Porter Jr. On him. Michael Porter Jr. Wants no part of just like, okay, I got to take Kawhi. Um, I'll just do it.

He's running away from that matchup and Kawhi is feasting in the void of that. Um, Aaron Gordon, it's an awesome moment for him. Just a player that I think every basketball diehard can appreciate everything he does. Awesome moment for him. And I like the Nuggets.

They've sprinkled in some Murray-Gordon two-man game to try and get him going as a roller and use Jokic as a little bit of a spacer, secondary playmaker. They've even done Murray-Gordon-Jokic staggered screens, which I like. And... I still don't think they're running enough Murray Jokic pick and roll. They only ran 19, according to Second Spectrum, in game four.

For the series, they're running about 20 a game, 1.4 points per possession, no matter how you slice it. That's very, very good. I feel, I don't know. It's like, we're going to talk about the Knicks in a second. I have no idea why there's not more Brunson cat pick and roll.

in theory, this looks like Nuggets in seven. It's two, two, both teams have won on the road. The Nuggets have home court advantage. Don't feel good if I'm a Nuggets fan, but, but like, I also, the series has been strange enough where it, every time you feel like, okay, the Clippers have it figured out. They're clearly the better team. They blow out Denver in game three.

It sort of comes back to this muddy middle. And so I, I guess we're just going to kind of live there. Any, are any parting thoughts before we go to Pistons Knicks?

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