dakomish23 wrote:Pillendreher wrote:spearsy23 wrote:Schematically Russ is going over screens and the roll man is taking a deep drop specifically to force Rubio into mid-range shots. If he repeatedly hits them that's not on Russ or Adams, that's when you either concede it's not working or you live and die on the percentages. I can't watch Slick's link right now, but anecdotally there are definitely times when a mediocre or even bad shooter starts making shots at a high percentage and seems to make more difficult ones in addition. To me that means you need to adjust your defense, but that's a Donovan issue. I also hate the deep drop and Chase over picks look because it allows penetration which almost always results in scrambling defense at the very least.
Adams wasn't dropping back tho. They were semi-trapping those actions with Adams leaving Gobert and Russ lagging behind the play. And that's when Melo comes into play.
Is it on Russ to go to the man in the corner when that happens? Because when someone picked up the the roll guy, Rubio was sitting and waiting.
Tagger is supposed to just tag and recover back to his guy, but some teams are moving away from even having a tagger at all because it opens up the corner 3. OKC is...apparently not one of them.
If the backside help has to go another direction or can't get back in time, someone has to rotate to help on the kickout, and then another guy has to help on the man who's left open. If the guy trapping the box or sinking and filling gets caught out, someone has to get out to cover the kickout, and then the other guy performs an X-out, where they cross paths to make sure no one gets left out.
It's a bit confusing to explain, but there's a great explanation from Dylan Murphy on the Basketball Dictionary:
https://medium.com/the-basketball-dictionary/x-out-78e01e2e4c9d