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Thinking Basketball
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Merging film study with stats - created by Ben Taylor, host of the Thinking Basketball podcast and author of Thinking Basketball book. Additional Thinking Basketball content is available on the NBA App, NBA UA-cam page, and other official NBA social media platforms, as well as the More Thinking Basketball channel.
What happened to Minnesota's defense??
Where did that dominant, top-ranked defense go for the Minnesota Timberwolves in the playoffs against Denver? This detailed film breakdown & scouting report explores how the Nuggets have adjusted behind Nikola Jokic, Aaron Gordon, Jamal Murray and Coach Michael Malone to solve the Timberwolves defense during the 2024 NBA playoffs.
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Twitter: @elgee35
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Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/12kpkAvUj6LGxzViDIH0qH
Support at Patreon: www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball
Book: www.amazon.com/Thinking-Basketball-Ben-Taylor/dp/1532968175
Website: www.thinkingbasketball.net
Twitter: @elgee35
Find additional Thinking Basketball content on the NBA App, the More Thinking Basketball channel and the Thinking Basketball podcast.
Stats courtesy:
www.pbpstats.com @bballport
www.basketball-reference.com
stats.nba.com
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Footage in this video is owned by the NBA and its partners. It is intended for critique and education.
Music by csus (instrumental)
#ThinkingBasketball
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Nuggets title defense begins & ends with Jamal Murray and Jokic's aggression. Simple as that. Wolves are not designed to score 120+ a game. Nuggets are if both are in attack mode.
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this is getting to the point that joker is almost annoying. Like he is so good it’s frustrating. I was so ready for the Cinderella story of the wolves and then boom, joker got his powers back from the basketball gods.
consideration the players he's guarding in everyone of these clips. He gets matched up 1 on 1 vs some of the best scorers in history on a nightly basis, which makes some of the opponent field goal percentages even more impressive
This video is perfection
What I know is Game Six is going to be lit.
I'm from Serbia and with family and everyday life, obviously, it's hard to watch games live and also hard to watch the replay - I just wanna say thank you because this is better than watching the game.
Nice breakdown!!!
You not gonna respond to Awful Coaching throwing dirt on ya name champ????
Coaching staff did really an excellent job adjusting and find their strong points. Kudos to the coaching staff.
overrated defense...
I swear AG is the sneakiest guy. He literally acts like a cat lol
KAT is trash
you must have seen the awful coaching video
9:04 yo KAT weak for this
LMAO thats all KAT does on offense. He's essentially a tall 3&D wing where he attacks closeouts from the perimeter. He's not gonna muscle through a defender who got in his face on time and finish through a crowded lane at the rim.
Awful coaching, feat thinking idiotically about basketball in North Korea is the matchup we all need!!!!
For wolves to win,Edward’s need to play more aggressive, and the Timberwolf defense need to get to the plays before nuggets do
Awful Coaching got on their ass so much that they had to make a video about defense lmao.
Great offense from the champs but the whistle changed after game 2. If they were calling all games equal I feel like Minnesota would have taken 1 out of the 3 they went down.
I was hoping to see some analysis of Dale Ellis. He was a master of relocating without all the hyper speed, heavy screen action, and physicality pioneered by Reggie. But we can see a lot of modern off-ball action in Ellis' game. He also was great with the one bounce dribble relocate that Klay uses to perfection. It seems like this dude who once dominated the league, scoring more per game than Reggie ever did, while shooting a ridiculous percentage from outside, all generated by his off-ball movement, has been mostly forgotten.
Ellis off-ball using screens: ua-cam.com/video/38Yq1rhSIUs/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/56yjG5u-bZk/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/56yjG5u-bZk/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/Jt9yVTauZbo/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/Jt9yVTauZbo/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/fE7p9olrzto/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/JmuBDvXSsRk/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/t0n9aw7KOLk/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/t0n9aw7KOLk/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/qXdO3at0ONg/v-deo.html Ellis relocating one side to the other along the baseline like Ray Allen: ua-cam.com/video/c_ZBHLwR2ow/v-deo.html Some modern looking off-ball right here: ua-cam.com/video/c_ZBHLwR2ow/v-deo.html One bounce dribble relocating like Klay: ua-cam.com/video/c_ZBHLwR2ow/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/qXdO3at0ONg/v-deo.html Just for fun, this is why Dale was better than Klay offensively...posts up Jordan. ua-cam.com/video/qXdO3at0ONg/v-deo.html
7:18 The nuances of this play are nuts. Immediately after the pick Joker hesitates, right when the defender is looking for his cut. He even takes a tiny step back to really sell no cut. He then takes a lunge but hesitates like he was faking the cut, like some fucking Inception shit, so the guy reacts to not bite on the cut, but just leaves the front door open like Joker RSVP'd that shit.
imagine being the DPOY but your team can’t let you guard the opposing teams best player because you’re a liability
They caught momentum off Murray not being suspended
Curry definitely. Only unanimous mvp for a reason
Another big thing about Joker is he actually plays clean. He doesn't do LeBron pivots and rarely abuses the gather step like Harden (and most the league).
Joker is like is Larry Bird and Shaq had a baby. its NUTS to think about how much better he is than Shaq. Mind you its a much softer ruleset.
The beginning of Jokic-Doncic Rivalry
26:20 "I don't know how you miss this rebound, even at 39"
easy 2peat coming!! there is no stopping this sorcery
Awful Coaching owns you
Coach Nick was whining that it was a choice not to use KAT on Jokic, but Game 4 already showed how that was suicide.
I love Joker because he has 80's/90's old school "plumber" athleticism, but he dominates a league full of so called superior modern athletes.Proving that skill will always trump athleticism.He's by far the most effective player in the NBA.I put him in the same family as guys like Magic & Bird.They weren't super athletic.Just super skilled/crafty with super high b ball IQ's.
WE LIVE IN NORTH KOREA
3:23 over 900000000000 IQ play
That "wasted season" for Aaron Gordon in Orlando where he essentially played the points paying whopper dividends for the Nuggets
Gobert has been getting so much crap but he's the sole reason the Nuggets didn't win those games by 40+ points.
Great video. Thanks
Dare I say it; This guy has the potential to be better than Kareem, Willt, Magic, Bird, and even...Jordan. Yes, I really do think we could be looking at the best player to ever play, as long as he keeps working hard and dodges major injuries. I'm very excited to see what he can do next season, and more importantly, what he can do when this team starts to put good players around him.
And the best work by Jokic on these 3 games was, good-hard screens. That was the win.
thanks for making videos so i don’t have to watch the idiot talking heads in the media
Jokic calling himself a freak of nature is hilarious
The one team that was built to beat the Nuggets is getting exposed. Who is gonna beat the nuggets?
Fantastic breakdown 👌 👏 👍
I known it’s all about jokic here but Aaron Gordon has become my favorite player. There’s just something about him that’s so special I can’t tell 🤔
would have 4 MVPs by now if now for sensationalism
Poor Rudy. Everyone is blaming him like there is someone who can stop Jokic 1on1 when he goes to another gear like that. The only one I can think of that can MAYBE stop Jokic is Wemby two years from now.
-offense- -defense- nuggets win (TBD) championships
The coaching of Mike Malone is just outstanding
The best bb I've seen since '14 Spurs Beautiful Game. Praize to Nicola - but whole team is amazing. Pure bb chess. Tons of sweet on practices and good chemistry. Minny is better individually. Great defence. But temwise - Denver is something special. Nicola is leading the way as Tim did. Great coaching, great scouting, great culture. They play better then simple sum of their abilities. This is amazing and fun to watch.
I truly believe that if the nuggets didn't have 4 days off we would be looking at a very different series right now. The nuggets were always the better team, but the T-Wolves were doing something they couldn't figure out. If this was like a normal series i'm not sure they would have been able to turn it around