Episode 2: The Hardest Actions to Guard in Basketball

Mind the Game with LeBron James and JJ Redick

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Basketball, Sports

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🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Welcome to another episode of Mind the Game with LeBron James and JJ Redick. We first want to thank everyone for watching and sharing the first episode and we're proud to share this next one with you all. Today we examine the hardest actions to guard in the NBA and the best ways to defend against these actions. The two main actions we focus on are the Golden State Warriors post splits and the way Draymond Green acts as a hub for Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Kevin Durant and the rest of the roster made that play nearly impossible to defend against. The other play we talk in detail about is the inverted pick-and-roll with Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray of the Denver Nuggets. There are several examples of duos that make that play hard but we take an extra close look at what Jokic does that makes this play so unstoppable. We also dive into other schemes like ghost-screens with a great big shooter like Kristaps Porzingis of the Boston Celtics and how Boston gets creative on offense. A few other topics we discuss are why teams blitz Luka Doncic of The Dallas Mavericks, the lack of creativity in men's college basketball and the mileage LeBron has put on his body in 2024. There's so much more we discuss so let's get into it. Cheers. Mind the Game is presented by Uninterrupted and ThreeFourTwo Productions. Subscribe to Mind the Game with LeBron James and JJ Redick today for more NBA insight, analysis, highlights and more. And if you'd like to see some of the visuals referenced in this episode, please subscribe to Mind the Game on YouTube at YouTube.com/@MindtheGame

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0:00.0	You're 84 too. I'm 84 yes sir. Yeah we got bad indigenous for those. Oh it's what it works. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Have you spent any time with Mark Dagnol by the way?
0:09.0	I'm all. Bro, he's, he's ridiculous. He's so good. No he's he's so good. He's on his shit.
0:20.1	He's young too. Is he younger than us? So yeah, I think he was in I think he's in 85 I looked it up the other day. He's definitely younger
0:26.4	Nice. Yeah like that.
0:28.6	Yeah. Cool. We're already rolling so you guys he's wow. Oh, we already roll oh like this is what we do this is really
0:34.7	done. Welcome to episode 2 of Mind the Game Podcast with LeBron James and J.J. Reddick.
0:57.0	Presented by Uninterrupted and 342 Productions.
1:01.0	First of all, just wanted to say thank you for all of you who listened and watched to episode one.
1:07.0	We greatly appreciate the positive response from all of the stuff that we talked about.
1:13.0	There's a lot more of X&O stuff in episode 2.
1:18.0	The title of episode 2 is simply the hardest actions to guard in the NBA.
1:25.0	No, not necessarily the hardest players to guard,
1:28.0	but some of the best players in the world
1:31.0	are involved directly in these actions as you will see
1:35.3	when we break it down. And two of the actions that we focus primarily on in
1:40.0	this episode are the Golden State Split Screens and inverted pick and rolls.
1:47.0	All right, before we get to the plays that we're going to cover, I want to go over some of the key terminology.
1:52.0	All right, the first two words are TIP. I want to go over some of the key terminology.
1:52.8	All right, the first two words are tilt and fire.
1:57.3	I want to be clear here, every team in the NBA
2:01.2	has a code word or a word for a double team. A lot of teams I played on, we had
2:09.2	a color scheme. So blue was a double team from the nail.
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