Matt Moore
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Okay.
So in OKC with the starting unit, the best strategy is going to have to be blitzing Shay.
And the big key with this, now I'm watching all of Shay's assists for an MVP project.
And so I could tell you, if you're going to do this, one of the things that you cannot fall into, you can't treat Shay...
You have to risk the foul, which is obviously scary with Nicola, but I think you have to, if you just play at the level, if you're just containing him by playing at the level of the screen, he will just jump pass over and your biggest flashing middle.
And that's usually Chet Holmgren and Chet's been gotten really good at making those plays.
Jalen Williams is really good at making those plays in the open space and that short roll dynamic.
So what you want to do is you want to then bring help there.
Even if he does get the pass on, oversell to that Chet thing.
You want to generate a situation where these other guys have to beat you.
And they beat them in the last game.
That's relevant to say.
They shot the lights out.
You have to live with the variance.
You have to.
You have to live with the variance and be like, I am going to make Alex Caruso, Kaysen Wallace, Lou Dort.
Those guys are going to have to beat me.
Now, this gets difficult when it's like they put a lineup out there where it's Isaiah Joe and Kenrich Williams in particular.
That small ball lineup with Kenrich Williams is a problem.
Kenrich, I think, is an automatic guy that you want to be able to contain on.