Michael Pina
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And so just like the defense knows exactly what's coming, which is probably going to be Kevin Durant, high pick and roll, or maybe without Perrin Chagoon, usually.
Or Kevin Durant just drawing two because...
the defense is just unafraid of him swinging the ball and they're, they know that they're trust their ability to rotate behind the play or Alper and Shangoon two man game with usually Durant, honestly.
And I just think that that predictability is, it has not worked out well for them.
And, you know, their spacing is really bad.
And what they count on usually is, you know,
a lot of isolation basketball with either KD or Shangoon Jabari Smith being counted on to hit wide open shots, which sometimes he does.
Sometimes he doesn't.
Sometimes he's run off the three point line and has to hit a two dribble pull up.
And that's your offense.
But there are plays where like there was a play in the Spurs game where, you know, Shangoon gets it at the elbow and, you know, Kevin Durant is denied.
um, on a DHO.
Uh, and they basically doesn't know what to do.
And there's like nine seconds on the shot clock.
And he looks over at Jabari and Jabari sprints over, takes the ball and he hits a step back, uh, mid range jumper over blue coordinate.
But it's like, that wasn't, that's not what he may have dug.
He knows that's not sustainable offense.
And I don't like when I watched them play, um,
throughout the basketball game their half court offense they'll run stuff like they'll run things they can get amen thompson moving like amen thompson will rip screen and dive he will uh you know they'll run a flare screen for reed shepherd that shifts the defense and then he can flip it back to amen and amen can drive a closeout and he's so he's got the quickest first step in the
So we can get into the paint at will, but they don't really do that.