Ben Taylor from Thinking Basketball breaks down some of the highest IQ player reads during the 2025 NBA Playoffs, headlined by the Thunder defense and Tyrese Haliburton’s court vision.
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Struggling to comprehend how Luka's shot wasn't a travel.
Damn thinking basketball guy on nba channel lfg
3:29 4 players touched the ball in a matter of seconds in perfect synchrony. This is literally what makes this years Pacers so good
lol that thunder chair pull, he TRIPPED HIM! lol
that BUTT screen is a foul? is it not?
This video really shows just how good Indy vs OKC might be. Both teams are each featured an equal majority of the time on both defense and offense. Really shows that both team's coaches and players play very high iq basketball
Jokic was robbed
Thinking Basketball The Goat.
Keep bringing this guy on, love his vids
8:39 I love that the fan goes "I know you know I know!"
Thinking basketball gets official credit from theNBA thats Awesome
The only time I will like and upvote one of these corporate channels
Glad to see Luka not getting snubbed for getting traded at the worst time for playoff cohesion.
6:19 the number 6 best play in these playoffs, of course capped off with michael “the possession ends here” porter jr whiffing a wife open 3
But why is it smart what the fan have done? Again, you didn't explain.
Let nuggets and timberwolves fans tell it dort’s chair pulls are all fouls, dirty fouls at that 😂
SGA pass from the floor was off Gobert's hand.
we need some daniel li content as well
Best content out there, thinking basketball
Playoffs have been fantastic this year
I love how even on plays where the offense scores he still shows that what the defense did was really good like at 4:30
Nembhard always be giving the biggest bumps on his drives he know what they wanna do 😂
Lulll i do this on 2k
Top 10(0) Smartest Plays of the Playoffs
Loved this. Great video.
2:00 I'm glad Myles Turner has his defensive reputation back. He was lost on that for a while, but now I feel like he is a solid a reputable rim defender again.
Haliburton always has a little over the top no look pass which is not neccesary. He always makes an exrtra twist after he allready made the no look pass which serves no purpose at all.
8:39 anyone have an idea why it's smart to leave 0.1 on the clock instead of running it out?
The top 45 plays of the playoffs 😁I’m here for it
as a diehard podcast listener, seeing all the positivity in these comments has made me very happy. great video 🙂
Thunder put Caruso on Jokic cuz no fouls would be called on him in a matchup like that. And then they beat the Nuggets by flopping on the other end allowing SGA to shoot 30+ FTs. This is the leagues fault, makes games really hard to watch, please do something next year
That butt screen by Steph curry seems illegal no?
Loved this focus on the game beyond scoring plays
rudy falls for that pass every time this the 4th time ive seen luka get him 😭😭😭
2:35 that was not a block by OG lol
3:55 I thought my GPUs gonna go bye bye. Lol
thats not High IQ dats poor defends
Very good video.
hmmm
As awesome as Ben is with his analysis, gotta say I love the Giannis Huggies clip
Absolutely love this kind of coverage. Hard to watch this and then think Basketball is worse now, like these jealous retired guys and ESPN dummies say.
Imagine if Bird got an And 1 on all those plays like SGA too! 😂
dang actually a great video