Great comp, as always. Is this loop from the song in the Rush Hour car scene? BTW, this play seems really difficult to defend, pick your poison if you will.
Thanks man. It is indeed. Can I Get A....by Jay-Z. Your Hawks run the essentially same play by the way, with Mike Scott or Korver in the Patterson role, but they only do so occasionally (
How U Good to hear. This play really shows how valuable stretch forwards are becoming to the spacing of the modern NBA offenses. The more big men you can get out of the lane the better
The cut at the beginning of the play doesn't seem to make a difference, and there's little off-ball movement. I'm not sure how this is different to just a high screen & roll play.
The "Loop" or "Iverson" Cut does get some defenders a little out of ideal help position, but you're right that this essentially is just a high pick&roll. It's not just some random setting however - the Raptors are very particular about what type of pick&roll settings they run for different personnel groupings. Here, they overload the strong-side, which forces the weak-side help defender to essentially choose between the roll-man and Patterson in the slot. If the defender is late to tag, the roll-man almost always will be open. If the defender over-commits tagging, Patterson will be almost always open for 3 or in position to attack hard close-outs. So, yes, this isn't all that fancy of a play, but good offense doesn't have to be fancy if you take advantage of your players' strengths, which the Raptors do quite well here.
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Great comp, as always. Is this loop from the song in the Rush Hour car scene?
BTW, this play seems really difficult to defend, pick your poison if you will.
Thanks man.
It is indeed. Can I Get A....by Jay-Z.
Your Hawks run the essentially same play by the way, with Mike Scott or Korver in the Patterson role, but they only do so occasionally (
How U Good to hear. This play really shows how valuable stretch forwards are becoming to the spacing of the modern NBA offenses. The more big men you can get out of the lane the better
The cut at the beginning of the play doesn't seem to make a difference, and there's little off-ball movement. I'm not sure how this is different to just a high screen & roll play.
The "Loop" or "Iverson" Cut does get some defenders a little out of ideal help position, but you're right that this essentially is just a high pick&roll.
It's not just some random setting however - the Raptors are very particular about what type of pick&roll settings they run for different personnel groupings.
Here, they overload the strong-side, which forces the weak-side help defender to essentially choose between the roll-man and Patterson in the slot.
If the defender is late to tag, the roll-man almost always will be open. If the defender over-commits tagging, Patterson will be almost always open for 3 or in position to attack hard close-outs.
So, yes, this isn't all that fancy of a play, but good offense doesn't have to be fancy if you take advantage of your players' strengths, which the Raptors do quite well here.
Thanks, I didn't really think of it as a way to ensure that the second big is out of the play. Love your channel, btw.
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Happy to clear it up. I'm sure there were others wondering about the same thing.