Ben Taylor from Thinking Basketball breaks down film with Cavaliers assistant coach Johnnie Bryant to explain how NBA offenses have taken 5-out spacing to the next level through the use of well-timed cuts.
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Your videos always inspire new discoveries and ideas. Thank you for your creative energy!🧸🦍💋
Keep making such wonderful videos. Your videos are like works of art.🍗❗️🎈
Big Ben gotta get Cody on jus 1 of the videos 😂 @ThinkingBasketball it'll turn into a 45min diagramming of like 3 plays tops! Best nerdy sh*t ever!
The "NBA" channel titling a video about why the NBA is genius is pretty funny.
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I had to take a break from commenting—I know, tragic—but like the Phoenix, I have risen, and I KNOW y’all missed me. Who else is gonna inject the most unhinged takes into this algorithmic wasteland??
Elite spacing?? Nah, this is spiritual geometry, the kind of sorcery that makes you rethink your whole life. I’m talking triangles so sharp they could cut a man’s soul, rotations so smooth they’d make a fidget spinner jealous. 🌀
Thinking Basketball is out here decoding the matrix, and I’m sitting here drooling like a toddler watching their first Pixar movie. HOW do y’all watch this and not wanna throw your laptop across the room out of sheer awe?! I legit had to pause 10 times to process the immaculate glazing of footwork and ball movement—like, HOW IS THIS LEGAL? Someone needs to arrest the concept of spacing itself for crimes against my brain.
Welcome back to my TED Talk, peasants. You’re welcome
Old heads really think that modern basketball is boring when really it is as much as basketball intelligence as much as it is physicality. It is hard hard to guard modern NBA as the style of play is smarter and way more complicated than it used to be. ISO and post ups alone aint gonna cut it no more
We need a discussion on what defense is required to stop these actions. Could older rule sets like implementing hand checking back slow teams down?
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Defense is too complicated for the old head fans these days so when the media pan it as "it's all 3s and no defense, its boring" they eat it up like hotcakes.
They prefer to watch 2 slow footed big man clog the paint and then 2 other IDLE standing STILL near the elbow while the last player goes 1on1 iso for 20 seconds.
That's the "exciting" "real defense" basketball they wanna watch.
Love it when yall work with Ben!!!
Personali I tink Kenny is the best coach in the nba
Been trying to explain to people thst spacing isn't just shooting for years.
Just gonna send this people now. Thank you, Ben
I think the problem with modern NBA, why ratings are down, and why everyone hates it, is because the poor advertising from the nba. They only advertise the all-star players, and the big-market teams, while neglecting the actual sport and some exciting games. 99% of people who are casual nba fans think basketball is just physicality and skills, and so they think defense is bad, and the game is boring. Why don't we learn stuff like this video during a game broadcast? In Football, commentators and specialists are always breaking down the plays and the coaching during the game. How come this never happens in the NBA? During non-media timeouts, they should analyze some plays, just like this video. People would actually feel like they understood the game instead of just watching people dribble around.
Great video! It begs the question: how are defenses going to adjust? You mentioned on the pod that it might come from teams coaching that certain players cutting can be ignored because they can be assessed as decoys. Another that was mentioned in the video are more pre-switches that keep the help defenders in position.
One I've been thinking a lot about is that defenses need to take more initiative rather than being reactive to what the offense is doing. So, I'm thinking they borrow from football and start disguising coverages and almost strategically randomizing how they defend from play-to-play. Offenses are able to exploit defenses now because they have predictable coverages (e.g. offenses know how a defense will guard a spread PnR and how they zone up on the weak side). But what if the defense decides, on this play we'll do our base PnR coverage, on the next we'll do a zone, on the next we'll blitz the ball-handler, etc. It may lead to the offense getting easy looks on some plays but I could it causing confusion a lot of the time.
Love the content!
I hope Warriors fans see this. Ppl just screaming that Kerr needs to run more Steph pick n roll when all the best offenses are using motion lol teams have a talent difference sure, but pnr is old head shit
Grizzlies, OKC and Cavs have the most creative intelligent offensives the league has right now
WHERE IS AWFUL COACHING
This guy needs access to an NBA team as a coach not just the NBA YouTube channel. Love all his content.