Les Claypool
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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And whether it's Dean Wade coming in and being like, Oh, you're going to switch into Dean Wade and he's going to hold up defensively. Well, Have you not watched any of these Cavs games? Like he does a terrific job and stretches the floor. Strews, if you want to use him flying off of screens in a catch and shoot, that's a little bit different.
It's not even a key moves more into his three than say a DeAndre Hunter does right now. But you have all of these options on top of if you want to go double bigs with Alan Mobley, you can do that. If you want to split them up like they did at the end of the Boston game and keep Mobley in and keep Hunter in, you can do that. Ty Jerome is like everybody's favorite player right now.
Sam Merrill provides spacing as well. And then you have the studs in the backcourt who, depending on the night, if one doesn't have it going, the other one probably does. And Donovan Mitchell is not afraid of Austin at all. And whatever you think about him and likely not really being considered like a top 10 player for the majority of whatever his production has been, you know this.
He is capable of some absolutely high-level defense. scoring outburst in the playoffs because he's done it his entire career, even though there's not the deep run in there to get really excited. I mean, it seems ridiculous that this is a team, for the most part, that went to seven games of the Orlando Magic, if you want to talk about two teams going in opposite directions. So,
I was trying to figure out something here. Could I find any kind of number here with Cleveland? I'll just run through it. They have the best clutch winning percentage. They're number one in clutch shooting. They're shooting 55% in clutch time. That is a crazy number because, again, clutch time, the shots just don't go in as much.
That's why I think sometimes when we look at these players, we're like, oh, this guy's like one for 18 in his last game winning shot attempts as the buzzer expires. You're like, you know how hard so many of those shots are? I don't know that anybody has a good field goal percentage of that stuff to compare their 55 percent clutch shooting percentage with, let's say, who's in last in the NBA.
It's Houston, which, again, we've talked about their offense being terrible in the clutch time, yet the record is still pretty good. But Houston shoots 37 percent as a team that's last in the NBA on clutch shooting to put that number to perspective. We mentioned the nine guys. Some of you would say 10. Let's just run through a bunch of these ridiculous things.
Is there one thing they do here that isn't necessarily great if we go points per possession? Well, on spot-up shots, they're number two in points per possession. They're number two on handoffs. They're number three on the pick-and-roll man. That's the roll man receiving the pass. They're number three on pick-and-roll ball. Ball handler, ball handler, keeping it obviously off the pick and roll.
They're number one in points per possession in transition. They're number one on points per possession in cuts. The only thing I could find, funny enough, when Mitchell and Garland's creativity, they're 14th in points per possession on isolation. So you run through it. It's hard to find anything there that's a negative with Cleveland or isn't outstanding.
So I think it'll be a Hunter kind of Strews decision. It also be a Hunter Allen decision for Atkinson, depending on the matchup. Um, the, again, how they close with Boston may be a window into what Atkinson will want to do with the Hunter Mobley lineup out there. Um, Look, they are special right now.
You could talk about touches where they don't move the ball a ton because they're fifth lowest in touches for the NBA tracking stuff. Like how many touches per game do you have over the course of an entire game for all your players? So they're fifth lowest. Does that mean anything? Well, Houston's 30th, Boston's 28th. I love them, and I'm getting real dangerous here.
I don't want to make too much of Friday night's game because Drew and Przingis did not play. But do not hit me with the they've never done anything before because I cannot wait for that series. And we'll see how I feel about it going into it to see who I pick. Again, having that kind of open mind about it tells you everything you need to know about what I think about this basketball team.
Let's pivot to Boston. All right. So Boston, number three on offense, number five on defense last year, number one on offense, number two on defense. Last year was a special basketball team. And I still think that they're really special. We know when they have their five guys, they're going to be brutal to deal with because Przingis provides that spacing that you need for a stretch five.
I think every team actually needs that. Doesn't mean every team's going to have it. But then on top of that, you have the Przingis rim protection numbers, which he doesn't get nearly enough credit for. I have mentioned this. I mentioned it with Bill, the hunt happy scenarios where they get really hunt happy in their matchups.
where when I'll watch them, I'll admit there are certain things on certain nights where I'm like, wow, they're getting a little stagnant. Do I really like what they're doing here on offense? And even in these moments where I wonder if I like it or if it's some kind of flaw, there's almost no number over the course of the season that backs up this being that big of a deal.
So it's like I'm being too hard on them. They're number four in clutch offense. They're 24th on clutch defense. So what does that mean? They can't play defense when it matters most. I don't know. I don't know what to do with that number because OKC, as we mentioned, we did the West. They're 23rd. So maybe that number doesn't really mean anything.
They have the second lowest amount of drives in the NBA. So it's like, OK, is that something? Does this team settle a little bit? too much. Well, Denver's last. Denver's last on drives. They pass it per game, the fifth lowest in the NBA. Total number of passes in a game. Behind them, though, Lakers, Denver, Milwaukee. Maybe Milwaukee's not your
Maybe the Lakers are going to be a little less movementy with Luka being so dominant with the ball and LeBron and Reeves looking for his kind of matchups. Denver maybe is just different from everybody else because Jokic is just this maestro pulling all the strings and all these different things. But like these numbers don't really mean anything, even if they seem a little bit lower.
I mean, they even have one number here where they have the most shots in the NBA between 25 and 29 feet. So that's 33 attempts on those shots per game. That's five more than number two Golden State. That's a pretty big differential between number one and two, but they make 37% of them.
So there could be a few things over the course of a Celtics game where I'm like, I don't know what's going on there. I think if there's an anti-Celtics argument, it could be, hey, they coasted through the East because everybody was hurt the whole time. So some of those questions we had about stagnant
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