05-13-2022, 11:05 AM
Interesting to see Kidd's strategy vs Monty's.
Mavs were hard hedging, trapping, doubling, pre rotating....whatever it took to get the ball out of Booker and/or Paul's hands and force the ball to bounce around to others.
Suns continue to show Luka mostly single coverage and switch everything. The strategy has worked in PHX with Luka going bonkers in games 1 and 2 but getting little help and being totally gassed at the end. Game 5 was weird from the jump with the Mavs offensive strategy of posting up at the 3 pt line and being totally stagnant...saw that in the first half of 4th quarter last night.
Luka was just so much more intentional last night for most of the game. He accepted the switch and then diagnosed and got into the offense instead of just pounding the ball until there are 5 seconds left on shot clock.
It will be interesting to see if the Suns fire more doubles at Luka and if Luka can bring that same approach when they don't.
Mavs were hard hedging, trapping, doubling, pre rotating....whatever it took to get the ball out of Booker and/or Paul's hands and force the ball to bounce around to others.
Suns continue to show Luka mostly single coverage and switch everything. The strategy has worked in PHX with Luka going bonkers in games 1 and 2 but getting little help and being totally gassed at the end. Game 5 was weird from the jump with the Mavs offensive strategy of posting up at the 3 pt line and being totally stagnant...saw that in the first half of 4th quarter last night.
Luka was just so much more intentional last night for most of the game. He accepted the switch and then diagnosed and got into the offense instead of just pounding the ball until there are 5 seconds left on shot clock.
It will be interesting to see if the Suns fire more doubles at Luka and if Luka can bring that same approach when they don't.
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