Episode 6: How Three-Point Shooting Changed Everything

Mind the Game with LeBron James and JJ Redick

UNINTERRUPTED | Wondery

Basketball, Sports

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Welcome to Episode 6 of Mind the Game with LeBron James and JJ Redick. This episode was recorded a few weeks and it's our favorite one yet. Here we discuss the evolution of shooting in the NBA and how it's completely changed the way basketball is played. First we discuss how purpose of the modern NBA offense is to put two on the ball and the best players at doing that (Luka Doncic, Nikola Jokic, James Harden). Then the guys dig into early shot clock three-pointers and self created three-pointers like step-back threes and how those have also expanded the modern NBA offense. Which leads us into how difficult it is for defenses today to stop these offenses covering so much space. And finally, JJ and LeBron tough on the catch-and-shoot three-pointers and play a thought experiment where LeBron has to draw up his favorite ATOs for JJ — plays like "Victory", "Oklahoma", and "Clippers Down." Again this is one of the nerdiest episodes of Mind the Game we'll ever do and we can't wait for you all to see it! Subscribe to Mind the Game podcast with LeBron James and JJ Redick today for more NBA insight, analysis, highlights and more.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I'm just trying to limit it to three hates this time.
0:03.5	Three and under.
0:04.5	That's the rule.
0:05.5	You know what I hate.
0:06.5	Yeah, you know what I hate, man.J. Reddick brought to you by Uninterrupted and
0:29.3	Three Four Two productions.
0:30.7	This is episode six. This episode is all about how three pointers
0:35.9	change the game and yes I am biased and yes this is my favorite episode we have done so far.
0:44.3	We explore pickup points, high pick and rolls,
0:48.4	the deep range with which players can shoot with,
0:51.1	the Step Back Three, LeBron's own evolution as a shooter.
0:56.6	And perhaps closest to my heart,
0:59.0	we nerd out on all the different catch and shoot sets that teams run to get shooters open.
1:05.6	There is a lot of basketball and shooting in this episode.
1:12.0	We recorded this a few weeks ago in Los Angeles prior to the start of the
1:16.5	playoffs, but again most of this stuff we do is not topical. I hope you enjoy episode six of mine the game with LeBron James and
1:24.6	J.J. Reddick before we get to our conversation I'm just going to drop some plays.
1:29.6	All right a lot of these are catch and shoot plays, set pieces, some side out of bounds.
1:35.3	This is sort of an end game victory.
1:37.8	I don't know who came up with this.
1:40.1	I know, I think Brad Stevens ran this when he was the Boston Celtics coach.
1:45.2	I know Clay Thompson got a game winner on this this season. This is a variation of it.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from UNINTERRUPTED | Wondery, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of UNINTERRUPTED | Wondery and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.