Deni Avdija was outstanding yet again and is clearly Portland’s best shot creator.
Unfortunately for the Blazers, Scoot and Shaedon Sharpe, especially Sharpe, too often thought it was their turn to force individual plays.
Can’t do that in the playoffs and against a defense as good as the Spurs.
Unfortunate that NBATV no longer does first-round games, because Cleveland-Toronto is the most NBATV series that ever NBATVed
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Favorite Arizona set that I talked about on the pod – here is it 7 times against Kansas.
Swing → DHO into a P&R (Miami action) with the 2nd screener shallow cutting or setting a cross screen for a post-up. Also a screen-the-screener option for a shooter.
Koa Peat stutter rip drives:
Official preview!
We break down Arizona's offense and defense, X's and O's, personnel, and things we will be watching for. Then, we highlight the keys and schematics that will determine who moves on to the Championship game.
I am very biased, but I recommend this podcast:
"No, I'm supposed to screen, not you!"
Podcast: Michigan dominates its way to the Final Four and first look at Arizona umhoops.com/2026/03/30/p...
Breaking: ESPN senior writer Kevin Pelton has been hired for a front office role with the Houston Comets, where he is serving as assistant GM & vice president of analytics
He'll also work with the Sun FO this season, including as the team prepares for offseason activity
"When you have the big-time stop and four guys block out, one guy gets a rebound, then you lead the break, and all five guys have a big, big part in beautiful basketball -- it just feels so much greater for all of us."
Leak out after the contest. Lendeborg sprints in transition. Cadeau hits-ahead. Play out of a broken floor.
6 passes. 2 dribbles. All 5 players touch the ball. Layup.
UConn
do you think that was intentional, “play the drive physical and see if they call it,” or neither?
Crammed this one in!
Reacting to Michigan's win over Alabama and previewing its massive matchup with Tennessee with a Final Four trip on the line.
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so it’s actually the opposite. Bama loves to look for ball screen rejects, i.e. going away from the screen. But defenses are trying to force the ball handler to *use* the screen because that’s where their help is.
Rejects often break down the defense because it forces you to help elsewhere.
from an offensive or defensive perspective? not totally following your question
Alabama off-ball 🛞 on drives
outrebounded*
I didn't see this article until this morning, but apparently Florida's goal to face guard Stirtz and force one of Iowa's role players to catch the inbounds (which is really hard, in practice) www.si.com/college-bask...
Iowa also got rebounded (by %) in Big Ten games so it isn't like they are typically stout on the glass
If you would have told me pregame that Iowa would outrebound Florida, there is no way I would have believed you. Any of the other 4 factors, in one game, sure.
But Florida is the best rebounding team in the country. They outrebounded every single opponent this season but one... until losing to Iowa
The Big Three (separated by .01)
I said that above, no?
Also interesting... Jonathan Safir, Florida assistant, created a guide for fouling when leading with @kenpom.com in 2020.
If Florida had fouled Stirtz, it wouldn't have been the right call according to Safir and Ken's chart:
Which is why Florida was pressing under 10 seconds.
Of course, they didnt execute the foul and ultimately lost in regulation on Iowa’s three.
