Zach Lowe

And they showed us in game one that when we do have wings on him and we do switch wing to wing, he's just going to roll and they're just going to throw the ball to him and he's going to get the ball and he's going to get offensive rebounds.

He's going to live at the basket.

And I think that largely changed the shot diet the way that the Thunder wanted it to.

We saw him, like, Chet's dropping back.

Hartenstein's dropping back.

The rolls to the rim are just not there in the same way.

They're there.

He can roll, and he has gravity, and he's opening up threes for other people.

But he's not getting those easy catches where he just lords over the rim and just catches above everybody else.

I thought that adjustment...

essentially did what was intended to do to the point that i'm already wondering the the next question is all right so if you're if you're mitch johnson and you know that you're seeing a more traditional defense potentially in game three how do i get when be loose at the rim again so did you see the same thing and then what is your answer to that question if you're mitch johnson

Yeah, they just threw everything in the trash from game one.

on a play that's that's one of the things I mean where like you can design your whole defense to get under screens against Steph Castle they're gonna have a bunch of different counters that make it hard one of them is wait which screen is he using why is there why are there two screeners at half court what's happening there's 22 on the shot clock and I'm backpedaling and I'm already navigating the screen like it's just hard to do that it's hard to get under like like I said the other day

We've come a long way from, all right, we're going to duck Rayjean Rondo screens like five times on the same possession at the foul line.

Like it's just teams of offenses have gotten way smarter about counter about preventing you from doing that.

And when he can get into his bag, I know that shot you're talking about.

It's a straight pick and roll

Hartenstein doesn't want to help, but he does a little bit because Wemby hammers him on the screen.

I think in game three, I see also Wemby just like, I'm going to start slipping screens real hard and get to the rim.

And he catches it at the foul line, and Hartenstein's back in front of him.