Tony Jones

They rebounded five of their first six missed shots.

There were a couple of things, and Z, you made some, these are some really good points, because I asked Nick Nurse before the game, I said, you know,

Tell me about Darius Garland and Donovan Mitchell and how difficult for a coach like you, because Nick Nurse constantly stresses POA, point of attack defense, point of attack defense.

And, you know, how difficult is it for those guys?

And, you know, Nick told me, say, hey, you know, Donovan's like a running back out there.

You know, Darius is such a great pick and roll player.

It's hard to keep those eyes out of the paint.

But that's definitely a priority for us.

and then they proceeded to give up every single paint touch in the world off the dribble today and it was it was an easy game for the cavaliers right paint touch drive just like z said drive draw kick tyson in the corner three sam in the corner three or

Donovan's pulling up for three or Darius Garland's pulling up for three.

You know, Philly came out in the drop and Darius Garland killed that in the first quarter.

And then Donovan Mitchell killed the drop in the third quarter.

They tried to adjust.

They said, okay, let's adjust.

We're going to go zone.

Donovan promptly shoots over the zone.

It was one of those games.

And, you know, Evan hit, you know, three or four jumpers in the first quarter.

that really hurt them as well, because now if you even have to go out and you have to guard ever only the three, then that's even more spacing for for the guards to do damage.

So, you know, it was kind of a perfect storm.