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JJ Redick (0:30)
Let's try to limit it to three hates this time.
LeBron James (0:33)
Three and under.
Guest Speaker (0:34)
That's the rule.
LeBron James (0:35)
You know what I hate? Yeah, you know what I hate, man.
Podcast Host (0:54)
Welcome to Mind the game with LeBron James and JJ Redick. Brought to you by uninterrupted and three four two productions. This is episode six. This episode is all about how three pointers change the game. And yes, I am biased. And yes, this is my favorite episode we have done so far. We explore pickup points, high pick and rolls, the deep range with which players can shoot with the step back three. LeBron's own evolution as a shooter. And perhaps closest to my heart, we nerd out on all the different catch and shoot sets that teams run to get shooters open. There is a lot of basketball and shooting in this episode. We recorded this a few weeks ago in Los Angeles prior to the start of the playoffs. But again, most of the stuff we do is not topical. I hope you enjoy episode six of Mind the Game with LeBron James and JJ Redick. Before we get to our conversation, I'm just going to drop some plays.
Guest Speaker (1:59)
All right.
Podcast Host (2:00)
A lot of these are catch and shoot plays, set pieces, some side out of bounds. This is sort of an end game victory. I don't know who came up with this. I know. I think Brad Stevens ran this when he was the Boston Celtics coach. I know Klay Thompson got a game winner on this this season. This is a variation of it. There's different ways you can get to it. The basic concept here is that you're going to get a screen and a screen here. So this is a back screen along the baseline. As that's happening, this ball is going to be skipped all the way to the corner. This is the shooter, the circled player right here. So he receives a screen. As that ball's in the air, the five man turns back around and screens the shooter. You get an open shot a lot of times. There's two reasons why this play can work. Number one, a lot of times, if this is a shooter away from the ball and the ball Is over here. This defender is going to be in a top lock trying to prevent him from getting the ball. So you use that against him by having the re screen. Second thing is, let's say this defender fights over the top. What is everybody's tendency when the ball is in the air? They turn and look at the ball, right? They stop for a second. So that re screen can get the shooter open. Okay, a million different ways to get into a hammer action. But I'll just break it down very simply. The shooter is right here. There's usually a screener somewhere on the baseline. And let's say this is the passer and the big wing. As he drives baseline, this guy will come set a hammer screen for the shooter who then catches the pass along the baseline. Like I said, a million different ways to get into this. San Antonio spurs back when they had Boris Diao, Manu Ginobili, Boris would post up on this block or Manu would catch on this block. And I mean, these guys would literally. To make that skip pass, Boris would jump out of bounds to make that skip pass. Manu, if he would drive or post, he would jump out of bounds to make this skip pass. All right, pistol. Pistol action is just any interaction in a five out. Normally. Normally you have a five out setup. That's the ball handler. There's a man here in the corner. This guy can also start here in the wing. It actually doesn't really matter. There's a number of options. You can run out of pistol. This guy can come catch the ball and he can chase it. This guy can catch the ball, keep it going to a ball screen. For the purposes of this episode, this is a a variation of pistol. This would just be a pistol flare. So this guy can come set a ball screen or ghost screen. He comes off the screen. As that happens, the five man sets a flare screen for the shooter. Balls. Right here, you've got a shooter coming off a flare screen. And then the five man can either slip to the basket or continue on set a ball screen. Just different options out of pistol. All right, Indiana slash. What the fuck? All right, going to run this two different ways. So let's say this guy's the shooter. This is a side out of bounds play. Ball's right here. This is the five man. This is typically a big wing. So picture this as Jimmy Butler or Kawhi Leonard. The inbounder will throw to the five man. The five man will reverse it. As that happens, the shooter, we'll set a back screen on the bigger player. You can either get a switch, the bigger player can punish a mismatch, or even if they don't switch, then there's a pick. The picker get balls over here. Ball's over here. Now it's been reversed. This guy goes and sets a rip screen, a back screen on the bigger player who can cut either way to the basket. Then there's a pick to pick for the shooter. I ran this a lot in Philadelphia. And when we would run it, I would sometimes take it out, or I would be here. So if I took it out, say this is me as that ball is reversed. This guy comes to set a back screen. I give a little nudge and I get the pick right here. I don't go off. Back screen. The other thing the shooter will do. You see Duncan Robinson do this all the time. This again, this is Jimmy Butler. Here's the five. All right, Ball's in. Ball reverses. Duncan goes to set the pick. He simultaneously just slips out of there and gets the screen from the five man. Coming up top, Oklahoma. Oklahoma small. Again, every team has different terminologies, but this is generally considered Oklahoma action. Now, you can run it to either way. It's Golden State. Klay Thompson's over here. Sometimes, for the purposes of this, this is going to be me running this. So this is a double drag. It starts with a double drag screen. The shooter's the first screen. So I set a screen. Ball handler comes off. Five man sets a screen. Soon as he sets the screen, he then picks me. That's Oklahoma action. So double drag into a pick, the picker. Show you two variations of this. Let's say you put the shooter as the second guy. Miami did this a lot last year with Max Strus. Golden State does this with Clay. So this is the five man again. As the ball handler comes off this first screen from the 5, the shooter will just slip into space. A lot of times this is actually an empty side. So shooter has this whole side again. Shooter, five man, first screen. As he comes off, shooter goes to set. The screen slips into space as the ball handler comes off and the shooter goes. Five men can also set a little flare screen right there. Again, every time that you generally see this, this is an empty side. Here's one variation of Oklahoma, Oklahoma small action that Utah will run for Markkanen. So this is Markkanen right here. He'll come up from the. Basically the block. He'll set the first screen. Big guy will come up, he'll set the second screen. Ball handler comes off. So now you've got Markkanen here. Ball handler over here. Five men has just set the second ball screen. He then goes and screens Oklahoma Action. Just a little variation. All right, Finland. We're calling this Finland. In some ways, this is a variation of Oklahoma Small. It also has the same sort of concept that Indiana has. So floor is spaced. This is the shooter right here. All right, Same thing. Double drag. This is typically bigger wing, four man, double drag. As that happens, the shooter will set a back screen on the bigger wing or four man who can look for a lob. So now you've got that guy running for a lob. Shooter's already set the screen. Ball handler's over here. This is the five. Five then goes and runs a pin away for the shooter. All right, that's Finland for the purposes of this episode. But again, same sort of concepts as Oklahoma. Same sort of concept as Indiana. All right, clipper down or 15 down. I think LeBron calls it clipper down because he stole it from us. But we called it 15 down and you see a lot of this. All right, so this is the five right here. This is the shooter in the corner. Again, this is. Let's say it's me. This is Chris Paul with the ball. This is DeAndre Jordan. 15. 15 was the call for our high pick and roll between a 1 and a 5. So 15 down is 15 into a down screen. So DeAndre would come up like he was going to set the pick and roll. Chris would come off. He would. DeAndre would slip it and then go set a pin down for me. Chris then hits me coming off left to right. Action. Free game. Previous episode we talked about Iverson cuts. All right, this is Iverson, Ricky. Don't know why I call it that, but I do. Five mans right here. Shooters right here. Ball handlers right here. All right, the wing is going to run this Iverson cut off of these two screens. The ball handler is going to hit the wing off of the Iverson cut and chase it to the corner. Ball's right here. Again, remember, the shooter set the first screen five minutes at the second screen on the Iverson. So the shooter's right here. Five just goes and pins away. Open three up top. It's essentially the same concept as Oklahoma. You're just doing it off of an Iverson cut. Iverson. Ricky, maybe we should call it Iverson Oklahoma.