Hello, welcome to the Hoop Collective Podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we're doing all together here at the TD Garden on Saturday night before game two right here Tim

Bon Teps. Hello Tim McMahon banned McMahon I should say. Howdy partners I would

say it's a pleasure to be with you but I would be lying.

All right. Well, you should be heavy, you should be, how do I want to say it?

Ecstatic. You should be, have pleasure to have our special guest for this episode. One of our favorite guys, we're so happy to have him back.

Matt, you know him is stats, but his real name is Matt, let's just be clear, Matt Stats Williams. Thank you guys for having me.

So stats we are one game in this I felt like game one was a pretty heavy outlier for the Mavericks.

Just about everything that I've read that you produced for us

indicates to me that the Mavericks were totally out

of the way they normally play.

And I would expect that to sort of correct on on Sunday. What are some of the things that you

pulled out that we all now know are smart because of you?

Yeah, so I think I'll start with the ball movement for them.

Obviously the Luca one assist was the big thing right, fused in a playoff game in his

career, but six assist opportunities also the fewes in a playoff game in his career.

But as a team they only had 205 passes.

That's a scary low number.

It was their fewest in any game since player tracking began 2013-14

as a collective unit.

So while the focus was a lot on Luca,

it was the entire team. And give more credit I think to the Celtics and I'd want your thoughts on is that more of the Celtics defense or maybe the Maves offense just wasn't jelling like they normally do.

They played tight McMahon, don't you think?

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