redslastlaugh wrote:YouTube short at 1:07 talking about beautiful 5-out ball movement but JT misses the three
To me, I was watching that play, thinking “JT drive that baseline!! You can drive that into a paint finish!!” And I forget the shot clock situation, but on plays like that, five NBA players and nobody wants to step inside the line and attack, it just looks low effort. Make or miss, it looks like soft, low effort basketball.
Well, JB does step inside the line and attack but he's immediately met by a help defender, so he ahd 2 defenders on him and quickly makes the right play to pass to the open man - Jrue.
Jrue then has a defender right in his grill, so makes the right play to pass to wide open Al. He kind of has a slow release on his shot though (has a high relase point and takes some time to get his arms way up there, square up so he can shoot it) and Dyson Daniels is such a good defender he was able to close out really quick to get right up on Al to take away the open look, so he made the right play to pass to the open White.
White was open, but again - really good closeout by Wallace to come out quickly on white so then he wasn't open anymore..which left JT wide open and white made the right play to pass him the ball.
Tatum then has an open look and makes the right play to shoot the ball. I guess you could have said Tatum should have drived the ball baseline there but:
a) 3 points is more than 2
b) There were 2 defenders closing out quickly so if he had put the ball on the floor there, he's double teamed with nowhere to go and the shot clock running down. Plus another defender for the Hawks was right near the rim and could have helped if Tatum got near the rim.
It was good defense by ATL on that play, yet we still managed to get a really good look, by a good shooter. We just didn't get the bounce on that one..but the process was good for us..
