Shakeia Taylor

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The Athletic NBA Daily · Luka and the Lakers get physical | Are the Bucks finished? · 23 Apr 2025 podcast

You know, he said he's he backs everyone back their guy here. So if he's overrated, people in Indiana do not agree.

Tyrese Halliburton continues to reiterate that they don't like each other. He said it before this series began. He said it tonight after the game. They don't like each other. There's probably a little bit of like game respects game, of course, but they don't like each other. And it was obvious all the way down both benches.

I would say in game one, but especially tonight, you know, there was a dust up on the court. The players were hyping up the crowd who were really in support of the beef. I actually turned to someone sitting by me and I was like, hey, this crowd wants the smoke. Like they were chanting, you know, Bobby sucks. Even if Bobby Portis wasn't touching the ball. It's a nice change.

After practice on Monday, I wrote how this team isn't a team that relies on one player to sort of be the star to carry the team. Right. Obviously, Halliburton is the guy, but they have a balanced scoring attack. They support each other. There is a real effort from everyone on the team to go out there and, you know, shut things down. Nimhard.

I can't even, I mean, he had a slump going into the end of the regular season. In the postseason, he got activated, right? He's playing well on both sides of the court. He's putting the clamps on Damian Lillard, who people expected to come out tonight and light it up. There was a real expectation, you know, because with Lillard on the court, he kind of opens up Milwaukee's offense.

He changes their ability to have spacing on the court. And none of that happened. In fact, I don't know if you guys even noticed, he only had 11 points well into the second half of the game. His three-pointer very late in the game came when Milwaukee was trying to fight their way back. But by then, the Pacers were like, it's too late.

They're going to have to slow Indiana down. Indiana's plan of attack from the beginning has been we are young and we are fast and we're just going to fly around the court. And that's exactly what they've been doing. They've been getting up and down the court really fast. And it makes sense. Milwaukee look tired, which is absolutely Rick Carlisle and his team's game plan. Tire them out.

Tyrese Halliburton talked about the wear down effect. They are fully aware that that is the way to get the bucks to show weakness. Like they know there's no really stopping someone like Giannis. But what you do is if you slow everyone else down, or I should say, keep them you know, sped up and keep them from scoring well, that's, that's going to be the plan.

So I guess Milwaukee has to figure out how do we slow this team down, but also how do we keep you? Cause you got six guys you have to keep out of double figures, right? Indiana has consistently had six guys in double figures this series. So I don't really know how you get six people, you know, to all be, to all have a bad night at once, but that's gotta be the goal.

In the beginning, I really was like, okay, this is gonna be, this is gonna go six or seven. They're gonna stretch this out. Giannis is gonna wanna, you know, want to fight because he didn't play, you know, last year's playoffs. This is gonna be a huge deal. But after tonight, I don't know that six or seven is is going to be the number of games in this series.

If the Pacers continue to come out and just attack them and send a crowd the way they've been doing. Right. Like they know all they have to do is send two and three. And guys are switching off and making sure that Giannis. even though he's going to score, he's got to fight for it, right?

He's got to put his shoulder down, and he's having to dig into multiple guys just to even get the shots he's getting. So defensively, Indiana has been, from everything I've heard in the time I've been here and been around the team, they're sticking to the plan, and they haven't kept it a secret. As far as Lillard goes, Doc Rivers said pregame he didn't even know what to expect

from Lillard in, you know, the Tuesday night game. So I'm assuming, you know, because Lillard really didn't have a ton of time to get ready for this game. Yeah. That on Friday, we'll see a completely different performance from him because he'll have had more time to, you know, get his legs and get in some practice time.

And, you know, tonight will probably be a big recovery night for him considering, you know, what he just experienced with the diagnosis.

The Athletic NBA Daily · Warriors win without Curry + Can NBA referees improve? · 19 Mar 2025 podcast

Thank you. I'm very excited to be here. Thank you for reading the piece as well.

I couldn't answer any questions as to why the NBA isn't doing it, but I know that, you know, this program, this app was created by two NBA referees and they got the idea in the bubble.

I tried to kind of push as to like what in the bubble made that, you know, a thought considering there weren't fans there to go at them the way they are now, but they had the idea in the bubble and it was James Williams, who people call Gucci and Kane Fitzgerald, who is now in Secaucus at the main, you know, officiating center for the NBA. And their idea was, Hey,

We need constant and consistent and updated training. We don't write the rules. We're not a part of the rules making process, but it's our job to litigate them, so to speak. And this whole idea is getting people properly trained on positioning and sequencing and how to use your eyes to make better calls.

Well, I have to start by telling you where I found out about Ref Masters. I found out about it in the most unconventional way, which is typically how I get a lot of ideas, to be honest, just random conversations. But I went to a women in sports panel at a Soho house here in Chicago, and the woman sitting next to me happened to be the executive vice president of Ref Masters.

And we got to chatting, you know, how you are when you're in a social context and we're just chatting and she gives me her card. I give her my card and we're talking about what they do. And I found it incredibly interesting, not only as a writer who attends tons of games and I've been, you know, to every sport on a professional level, I've covered to a certain degree.

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