Zach Lowe
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Appearances Over Time
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Oso comes up.
Chet, iHeart, Big Jill and Williams, whoever it is, they're up pretty high to cut off the ball handler.
Two shooters on the weak side.
In comes the low man.
As you pointed out on Twitter, they seem to like having Shea as the low man.
The Suns, even though Shea is just blocking shots at the rim like fucking Dikembe Mutombo in this series.
And then there's one other guy.
And this is where you really feel Jalen Williams' size, when he's the zone-up guy between Shea's guy in the corner and the other shooter on the wing.
The Suns try to bring that shooter up toward the top of the arc to make that Jalen Williams defender defend the most space possible.
And it just doesn't even matter because the Thunder are so big and so fast, especially when they have J-Dub, the size factor, and so tenacious that you can see the ball handler's pause
and second guess themselves.
Like Booker had one, you highlighted on Twitter, where Iguodaro was like wide open under the rim, rolled to the rim, rolled behind the big guy defender.
Booker rises up to shoot or pass or something 12 feet away.
Looks like an easy dump off, but he sees this monster, 6'8", Jalen Williams, rotating down toward Iguodaro.
kind of panics because he's coming real fast and he's big and tries to throw it against his momentum back outside and it gets picked off.
And there was like three of those where Devin Booker went left on a pick and roll, got up, thought he had something, realized, I don't know what I have.
I might have something.
It's not what I thought I had.
And I might have that or other thing over there, but they're coming that way and threw this pass against his momentum and it was stolen or it went out of bounds.
And there's just...