Mo Dakhil

on the boards and that allowed them to play slower basketball right allowed them to play set defense because they get the ball on the hoop more when they're getting those second chance points they're able to set their defense on the other end of the court and you mentioned it but gobert has been absolutely phenomenal on yokich for two games now like in the post and they've kind of taken that away and something that was key to me in this one

was they didn't really double Jokic all that much late in the game.

And that's their way of saying, hey, we'll let Jokic score, but we're not going to let him get four or five assists in a quarter and hurt us with the way he kicks the ball around and has us flying and in rotation and in tough spots.

I felt like that was the first thing I kind of noticed right away was just saying –

We trust Rudy to stand him up, play him well in the post.

We're not going to send help.

And when they did that, it made it harder for everybody else to get those things.

The cuts from Aaron Gordon or finding Murray open for a three or all that Christian Brown and that stuff, I think it kind of slowed them down offensively and had them playing later into the shot clock than they wanted to.

And I think that put a lot of pressure on the Nuggets on the offensive end.

We'll talk about that.

Yeah, I think you've touched on it.

I think they're focused more on the fact that they're focused on taking that specific pocket pass away, or at least make them hesitant a little bit.

And it's everything that you said.

We're going to stick with Murray.

We're going to fight over the top of it.

We're going to show a little bit, but still stay attached.

We're not going to get too overextended.

And then we're also going to have a little bit of help from the other side, right, where the side Murray's coming towards.

You know, just a little bit of just, hey, I'm going to show a little bit and then get back to my guy and kind of dig.

Excuse me.