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

He played very well and he's played tough. And this has been a physical nasty series. Like all of these series have been. And yeah, you know, the Knicks are going to pull out of it. And yeah, but the Tobias thing has been really fun. I like this Tobias. And they're lost without him. They don't know what to do without him. Should we play a Sarr Thompson? Should we play a Ron Holland?

Should we just play Cade at the four? What happens when we play Cade at the four? They just don't know what to do. I'm a little surprised. Deep cut. Is Simone Fontecchio, like, dead? Like, what happened to him? I thought he was going to play a little bit in this series.

The... The Pistons have only scored 109 points per 100 possessions in this series. Offensively, when I picked the Knicks in five, I said, I just don't see if they're going to be able to score enough to keep up with the Knicks. Now, it turns out keeping up with the Knicks has not been that difficult, and they still haven't been able to do it. What have you thought of Kat's defense in this series?

I think okay is, I think I'm like 80% of okay. I think I'm like a little less than okay. There have been segments of the series when they've asked him to come up to the level of the screen against Cade, and he's just been too late. And so he's got to like panic and rush out. And Durin has had streaks of dunk, dunk, dunk. And then they've sat him back a little bit and said, can you try dropping?

And that hasn't worked. But he's been, other points he's been okay. Spinning it forward to the likely Boston game, Knicks matchup in the second round. Obviously, Boston dominated that matchup in the regular season, but you hit it exactly on the head.

I'm watching Orlando-Boston, and Orlando has successfully dragged the Celtics into the mud, which I did not really think they're going to be able to do this level. Celtics' three-point game fell off volume-wise in Orlando in games three and four. Only 38% of their attempts have come from three in this series. It was 50% in the regular season. And that's obviously Orlando's plan.

Orlando's base defense in this series is we are switching everything Wendell Carter Jr. 's are five. Switchier than Cat, but it's not like he's, again, prime Kevin Garnett. Corey Joseph's are one. A little stouter than Jalen Brunson, maybe. Not maybe defensively, but it's not like he's a 6'5 point guard. It's Corey Joseph.

But we're switching everything, and that means Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown, you can have Wendell Carter Jr., and attack his feet, or you can play bully ball against Corey Joseph. And guess what? You can get all the way to the basket, and we're not sending help from anywhere.

We're going to make you make decisions at the rim, particularly if Cornette is on the floor, so there's a little bit of traffic there. And if not, we're going to count on Wendell Carter Jr., Or Corey, we're going to count on Wendell Carter Jr. being big enough to like, you're going to miss some of those shots.

And we're going to count on Corey Joseph to stand you up and make you take 12 foot jump shots. And we are not sending up. There's a moment in the late in the third quarter last night in game four where where Jason Tatum is driving on Corey Joseph and Caleb Houston out of pure reflex rotates off Peyton Pritchard in the corner, gets into the paint and then realize you can see it in his head.

Oh, wait, I'm not supposed to do this. And sprints back at Peyton Pritchard. And I'm watching this and I'm wondering, is this a blueprint that the Knicks and other teams can go to against the Celtics just as a way of like, yeah, cat's not Wendell Carter jr. Brunson's like Corey Joseph, but it's not like those guys are all world defenders.

And can we just slow the game down, make the Celtics devolve into one-on-one play and just decrease their three point volume. Is that a roadmap for the Knicks or not?

As you're saying this, it also strikes me like... Cat is not as nimble on his feet as Wendell Carter Jr., and Wendell Carter Jr. is not super nimble, but he's pretty nimble. And this scheme falls away if the contested layups are just dunks. And Jalen Brunson is not Corey Joseph in the sense that the Knicks need Jalen Brunson's offense on every single possession. The Magic don't

really need Corey Joseph to do anything except hit a couple open threes. So go ahead, exhaust yourself on defense. Jalen Brunson doesn't have that luxury. But it has been interesting. Other teams I'm sure are watching this happen to Boston. And I thought Boston in game four, and I think was Stan Van Gundy on the call, I think he was, was noting this.

They were busting out some more set plays, I think to get people moving. They were rolling to the rim more with Porzingis and Cornette. I think to try to get the magic to almost not think. Like, defend this like you normally would. There's a big guy rolling to the rim. What would you normally do?

I normally rotate inside, whereas when the game pauses and it becomes static, they can think and remember, like, oh, yeah, we're staying home. And I thought that was smart, but... I mean, look, Orlando made them earn that road win. I mean, this was a nice homestand for the Magic and encouraging in the sense of Wagner is fighting through whatever is going on with his jump shot.

The team doesn't have enough ammo offensively. We all knew that. But the defense has held up and they were in these games against. They won one and they were in the other. I mean, this is like a little more juice, a little more talent offensively. They're not that far from being a problematic playoff team.

It's a lot of great backup center hair sitting on the magic bench right now.

It's funny. Bankaro is so interesting in this regard. He's kind of a Rorschach test for NBA fans because he's averaging 32 points per game, 44% shooting, 43% on threes, which means 44% on twos and like not great on twos. And so you can see people nitpick his game a little bit, particularly people who lean towards more of an analytics heavy bent.

I watch these games and I'm like, this dude is a freaking monster. He's got it. Like you said, when there's anybody who can help him, Because you just don't see a lot of guys who, within 45 seconds, look awesome as a pick-and-roll ball handler, and then look awesome as a screener, roller, finisher, and then look awesome as a post-up isolation guy, and then look awesome in transition.

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