Ben Taylor from Thinking Basketball offers his full compilation of the smartest player reads, play designs and defensive schemes from the 2024-25 regular season, Playoffs and 2025 NBA Finals.
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Calling the swapped foot layups "goofy-footed" after the same type of stances in skateboarding is a 10/10 call in spite of how different those sports are.
Allowing Caruso to just mug Jokic. It's amazing what refs will let small guys get away with, and if Jokic used his weight, flop to an offensive foul
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AC is that guy
I love how the “top 10” was like 25 plays 😂
Jajajajajajaaja multiple players talking to nobody at the same time 🤣
LOVED EVERY SECOND OF THIS!!!❤
Modern screens are so bs
honestly insane that thinking basketball is on the official nba channel doing a video
You know your great when your opponents coach says that you gotta start praying when he gets the ball
https://youtu.be/xDzJvl7eIJw?si=jdjxsjLFDezLapv1
Having OKC at number one @27:23 is everything that's wrong with todays basketball. Why is NBA promoting this shit?
14:18 CP3 told wemby to miss it
Shout out to Eric Apricot! – Ah yes, the greats recognizing the greats.
the best thing that happened to this channel🔥🔥
36:47. This is greatness bruh.
That draymond moving screen at 7:30 is too funny. That's lineman work
This is such a great video!! Love understanding the intricacies within all of these great moments.
Every single example is against my team Detroit…
I look forward to these vids every year. So glad to see Ben continue working with the official NBA channel. These are the kinds of voices we need in basketball media. People who love and celebrate the modern game, and who know how to communicate the complexities of the game in a way that makes the viewer excited to learn more about basketball. Not bitter ex-players who stopped actually watching the sport years ago and only want to make the modern game look bad so that their era/individual legacy looks more impressive by comparison. We desperately need more of this to counteract all that negativity, because the game is better than it's ever been and the average person doesn't know it!!
Jokic should have been MVP this year. When you realize who the people are who get the important votes, you realize why he did not win it. When people like Stephen A Smith has a vote, it becomes a diluted result. It should be player and coaches, both current and former.
Shai is great, but Jokic meant way more to his team. You take Jokic off the nuggets and they might not even make the play in. Take shai away and the Thunder are still a top 6 team.
Nemhard: chair pull
Luke dort: backing up and leaving his feet in to trip up ball handler.
NOT THE SAME😂
SGA had some smart plays this playoffs.
Cut to foul baiting lmfao.
So glad josh hart got called in that pritchard play. Hart falls asleep in some of the most egregious ways. Did something similar in playoffs to cost the knicks a major stop deep in the pacers series
The Steph highlights are so funny. Literally Hollywood
2:45 JARACE WALKER SIGHTING MY BELOVED
"It's like jazz" may be the best description of how some NBA teams play.
7:15 the rules for illegal screens is not what anyone thinks they are. The spirit of the rules for illegal screens is to avoid hockey-style body checking, tripping, elbowing, clotheslining, excessive grabbing or pulling (note some grabbing is ok), etc. Basically anything that someone might fairly judge as not being a 'basketball play.' It has nothing to do with having feet set to avoid movement, and hasn't for a very long time. In this specific case, Draymond might have been able to be called for excessive grabbing (nothing to do with movement or not), but everything else about his screen is totally legal.
Caruso deservingly gets the title of smartest play in the season