#190: Stan Van Gundy on playoff game-planning & stopping great offense

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🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Coach Stan Van Gundy discusses game-planning for a playoff series, what the strategy was against LeBron James in 2009, facing off against Kobe Bryant's Lakers and more. We also discuss the progression of great offense, and slowing down the hyper-skilled offensive players in today's game. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	Thank you.
0:01.0	Thank You, Basketball Podcast, My name is Ben. Welcome back to another episode and today it's a very special one. It's a mind I've
0:16.7	wanted to pick and chop things up with for quite a while. He is a long time coach, can we say legendary coach at this point?
0:27.1	No, you're not. No. Now broadcaster educating us throughout the throughout the week on color games.
0:38.0	Stan Van Gundy, coach, thanks so much for joining us.
0:41.0	Yeah, happy to be here.
0:42.0	So we were we were talking a little bit right
0:46.4	before we started to record about the evolution of the game. I do want to hear your
0:51.6	thoughts on how things have changed you you got in the
0:54.2	NBA in the mid 90s and for my money not only have things changed over the decades and we've
1:00.3	had the spacing and pace and space and three point boom but even just some of the tactics in the last few
1:06.3	years with offensive ratings exploding has been incredible so I do want to talk about that. But the first thing I really wanted to sort of hear your thoughts on are we have the playoffs coming up and you hear this all the time about like playoff basketball
1:24.8	is so different than regular season basketball.
1:27.9	Some people say playoff basketball is a different sport.
1:31.2	Just in your experience, what is the difference between regular season and playoffs?
1:38.9	What is, what changes from like a coaching standpoint, a strategy standpoint, whatever, when you shift
1:46.5	from the 82 game season to that 16 game season.
1:49.6	Well I think the main thing that changes is the level of preparation that you're able to do and the level of focus that players can have when they're focused on the same team throughout a series.
2:05.0	I mean, you know, in the regular season, look, you're playing four games a week,
2:10.0	and a lot of times the only preparation you're really getting is an hour's walk through
2:17.2	with your team and players looking at a little bit of film and then you're on to the next team that in the playoffs you've got, you know, a couple of days usually at least before the start of a series to zero in and then you can continue to zero in as a series
2:36.4	goes on so you're going to know the personnel number one I think that's the one
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