John Hollinger

I mean, I'm surprised you don't think it's that huge of a deal.

But I don't know.

You've been around the league very long.

I mean, they have a rule in place to do technical foul for an egregious flop.

which they never call.

They have a rule in place to do fines for kind of egregious flops, which these don't really qualify as because the rule for being fined for flopping is what they call STEM criteria.

It's secondary.

So like after the first kind of action, if you continue, theatrical, and I'm trying to remember what the E and the M are, but basically it's like, it's when you do the whole to do and flail your arms and like end up three rows in the crowd.

uh which isn't really what shea or most of these guys are doing interesting all right uh what about chet holmgren he's taken some heat here for having a brutal series he was excellent against the lakers it's one thing to go up against jackson hayes and deandre ayton and now webbanyama's keeping him out of the paint some of the number i think he's shooting 46 from the field this is a guy who was just a dunking machine most of the season third team all nba can he turn it around in this series

Yeah, I think there's two interesting things going on with Chet.

One, I think they're reluctant to play him at five against this team.

And so he's been out on the perimeter more.

Because if you look, they'll start Hartenstein and then they'll bring in Jalen Williams with a Y. And so Chet is usually the four in those alignments.

And the other thing is that not only has he not been able to get to the rim as much because of Wemby's presence, he takes so long to load up his three point shot that he's been run off the line pretty easily by these San Antonio defenders.

And I think that's the other area that that's really hurt them is that they use him as a floor spacer, too.

And he just is getting into his motion is slow enough that he hasn't really been threatening enough to open the floor for them.

Interesting.

Why do you think he's reluctant to play the five?

Is this like an Anthony Davis thing?

I don't want to bang with the big boys.