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Kawhi Leonard's midrange pull-up is a Kobe Bryant-Michael Jordan throwback | Signature Shots
In this episode of Signature Shots, ESPN analyst Kirk Goldsberry begins by reliving the NBA's greatest midrange moments featuring Michael Jordan, Kobe ...
How The Clippers SHOCKED THE LAKERS Without Paul George
https://www.instagram.com/heatchecknba/ On opening night, for the battle of LA, as Lebron gets the ball up top and hits Kawhi with the little shot fake, on his way to the basket you can see that all 5 Clippers are around him. So James finds Danny Green in the corner and a sharpshooter like him loves these opportunities and knocks it down. Here is another unstoppable combination. The king turns on the jets, and blows past Harckless, forcing Harrell to help out. And as soon as James sees that the help defender commits to him and that there is a switch, he slows down, waits for Anthony Davis to get his positioning against a small guy, and lobs it inside for an easy finish. Perfect execution. So watching these plays, how in the world did the Clippers manage to come out with the victory and shock the Lakers even without Paul George on the floor. Let me explain. What up everybody my name is Stefan and this is Heat Check. Welcome to the new season and let’s get into it. Well, being undersized in this matchup may have forced them to double, or to give up easy baskets, but at the same time the Clippers showed incredible effort on the defensive end. Montrez Harrel did a great job on Lebron contesting him and trying to make things difficult. Right here on the high pick and roll James is dangerous if he gets a full head of steam like this, but Harrel has very quick feet for a big man, so he stays attached and has a hand in the face on this tough fadeaway. Another one where Lebron accelerates. The Clippers big man follows the action and helps out at the right time. And finally look at this. James is full speed towards the basket but Trez is right there and spectacular defensive stop for him. And similar thing while guarding Anthony Davis. The advantage in size was obvious for the brow, but look at the effort here from the defense, as the hand is right in his face, and you can clearly see what hard work can do for your team. Again, Patrick Patterson is attached to Davis the entire time, ending with a great contest and a miss. Ok, let’s go on offense now. This is what having a superstar like Kawhi can do for your team. Look at how he knows exactly where he wants to go and the shot that he wants to take. Right here, he gets a screen, and attacks Howard. As soon as he sees Dwight backing down, Leonard raises up for an open midrange shot. Easy money. This is the exact same type of execution just moments later. Screen, goes to the elbow, his favorite spot. Howard doesn’t come out, and another bucket. Kawhi had a nice shooting game, 10/19 from the field, but it was all the other guys who made the difference in this game. The bench in particular. 62 to 19 in favor of the Clippers. That’s crazy. When talking about this team, their depth is the main weapon. All guys can contribute offensively and defensively. Ok, since there’s no way for me to cover everything in a video, I wanted to save my guy for last. I loved that the Clippers formed a strong team just for the simple fact of seeing Patrick Beverley hyped all the time, screaming yelling and chasing people maniacally all over the court. He brought his familiar intensity at the very first game of the season. You gotta love a guy like this who’s the vocal leader and in a way created this whole hard working environment that we saw on display last year against the Warriors in the playoffs. So yeah if this is opening night, I can only imagine what type of season this is going to be. I told you I got something in store for you this season. Let me know if you liked this updated style of my breakdowns. That’s it for now, if you liked this video, subscribe and hit the notification bell so that you don’t miss my future in depth analysis. Talk to you in the next one, Peace out. `
Jayson Tatum is reportedly taking some Kobe Bryant out of his game | The Jump
Jorge Sedano, Amin Elhassan and Matt Barnes react to a report from Tim Bontemps that Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum is changing his game, effectively taking the Kobe Bryant out of it as he tries to shoot fewer midrange jumpers. #TheJump #NBA #Sports ✔ Subscribe to ESPN+: https://plus.espn.com/ ✔ Get the ESPN App: http://www.espn.com/espn/apps/espn ✔ Subscribe to NBA on ESPN on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2yxs3Og ✔ Subscribe to ESPN on YouTube: http://es.pn/SUBSCRIBEtoYOUTUBE ✔ Watch Latest Episodes on WatchESPN: http://es.pn/LatestEpisodes ✔ Watch ESPN on YouTube TV: http://es.pn/YouTubeTV Get more ESPN Shows on YouTube: ► First Take: http://es.pn/FirstTakeonYouTube ► SportsCenter with SVP: http://es/pn/SVPonYouTube ESPN on Social Media: ► Follow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/espn ► Like on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/espn ► Follow on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/espn Visit NBA on ESPN on YouTube to get up-to-the-minute NBA coverage, scores, highlights and commentary. More on ESPN.com: http://www.espn.com
Chris Paul: Mastering the Midrange
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The NBA Duo No One Is Talking About (Ft. Anthony Davis, DeMarcus Cousins, and Pick and Rolls)
The NBA is now filled with superstar duos. We have Paul George and Kawhi Leonard, Russell Westbrook and James Harden, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, LeBron James and Anthony Davis, Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum, wait go back to Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis in his time with the Pelicans wasn’t surrounded by much, but he was once a duo with another superstar. #NBA #Duo Check out my Twitch- https://www.twitch.tv/mjallday2k Instagram- @MJ2K_ALLDAY Twitter- @mj2kallday The Pelicans in 2017-2018 had a roster that included both Boogie and Davis. Keep in mind that DeMarcus had been traded midseason in 2016-17 and so there hadn’t been much time to gel that previous season. The beginning of the 2017 season was a chance to really see what the two were made of and we did. Let’s talk about what each did for each other. Keep in mind that Anthony Davis is the jack of all trades as a big man. He can finish around the rim using his 7’ 6” wingspan and soft touch. He can post up down low and hit a fadeaway or hook, even if he doesn’t post up often because he’s just not overpowering. AD can step up to the 3 point line and knock it down, he’s a midrange assassin and has handles to get by people from the perimeter and either pull up or drive to the hole. There’s really no weaknesses in his game and so you would think just about anybody would fit with Anthony Davis, except Anthony Davis has his preferences. AD likes playing his natural position of power forward over center due to floor positioning. Over 60% of his shots were with less than 2 seconds of getting the ball. DeMarcus Cousins is a different story. Boogie is an overpowering force, a guy that likes to operate in the low post. But even with the Kings offense revolving around him, the Kings had the highest pace in the league. That means that DeMarcus was no stranger to a faster style offense so even with him being 6’ 11” 270 lbs, Boogie was able to keep up. That’s because Boogie also has handles. DeMarcus was evolving his game from the slow grinded out post game to keep up with the fast-paced, 3 point revolution, shooting 33% from 3 in 2015-16 after previously shooting 0.1 3s a game. Boogie was also a really good passer for a big man and just had natural instincts on drop passes inside the paint, or kicking it out to the open 3 point shooter. Since DeMarcus played the 5, AD was able to slide to his natural position at the 4. Anthony Davis averaged a career high 28.1 points per game that season. He also averaged a career high 34% from 3. DeMarcus’s presence down low afforded Anthony Davis space on the perimeter where an either undersized 4 or smaller guard awaited him. DeMarcus Cousins averaged a career high 5.4 assists per game as a center, most of those assists going to Anthony Davis. A lot of those were lob passes to Anthony Davis as Boogie and AD ran an interesting pick and roll with AD as the roll man and Cousins as the ball handler. That means that both the defense’s big men are at the top of the key and so AD really has no one to contest him at the paint if he rolls and if Boogie can deliver him a dotted pass. On top of that, DeMarcus doesn’t just stay in the low post area, he’ll come out to the three point line and actually sizeup his defender which is typically the center. While he was on the Kings, he was really the only guy the defense had to focus on. With AD on the court, there’s less defensive help on the drive and so Boogie had his best driving season, shooting 52.2% on all drives. In fact, Boogie had his most efficient season ever, with a career high effective field goal percentage of 53%. DeMarcus Cousins took a career high 6.1 3s a game shooting his second highest 3 point field goal percentage at 35.4%. Davis would often get two players to attach on to him on the roll meaning Cousins got so many open looks. Boogie averaged 25.2 points that season. There’s also a thing called rebounding and both of these guys are just, well, really good at it. All what I said are the on-court tangibles that can be analyzed along with some on-court intangibles like timing and awareness. But what about the off-court intangibles. Davis and Cousins loved playing with each other. In limited minutes in 30 games, Cousins did average 16.3 points and 8.2 rebounds and his passing ability hasn’t just disappeared. I do think he can be better than what he showed last season, but even if he isn’t, most of what I talked about with them as a duo still apply. A lot of these other duos are just purely based off of talent, but this duo is much, much more than that and honestly, we need to keep an eye on DeMarcus and Davis. But what do you think? How will DeMarcus play next season? How about the Lakers.
James Harden The Story behind the Beard
James Harden has become a master in isolation by adding new twists to some of basketball’s best moves. Here’s how he turned one of Stephen Curry’s tricks on its side to create one of his signature moves.Being a great scorer in the NBA has always been about creating space. From Mikan’s drop step to Kareem’s sky hook to MJ’s fadeaway to Hakeem’s Dream Shake, if a player has wanted to get a shot off, he has needed room to let it fly. Those moves once created great position to score around the basket and in the midrange, but as the game has expanded outward, the need for moves to create looks from behind the 3-point line and at the rim has increased. As a result, the NBA’s go-to maneuvers now look more like something you’d seen on a playground, or a game featuring James Harden. One player dribbling the air out of the ball as they size up their defender may not be the brand of hoops that James Naismith had in mind, but they have set up Harden’s groundbreaking game. Through an array of jab steps and herky-jerky fakes, Harden has unleashed a mix of hyperefficiency and prolificness unlike anything the NBA has seen before. The reigning MVP is so effective that some of his go-to shots would be considered “bad” in the hands of most players. RELATED The 3-Point Boom Is Far From Over Steph Curry on the Evolution of Steph Curry To catch up to Stephen Curry’s wizardry, Harden and the Houston Rockets have taken off-the-dribble 3-pointers to another level. The Rockets have built their offense around pull-up jumpers, with Harden leading the charge; the reigning MVP has taken 740 pull-up 3-point attempts this season, nearly twice as many as the next player. Of the 27 players who have taken at least 150 pull-up 3-pointers, Harden ranks sixth in percentage at 36.4. He scores 1.09 points per possession on those looks, nearly the same as he scores in the restricted area. Harden’s stepback 3-pointer is the shot in his vast offensive arsenal that gets the most attention—even from fellow superstars—but another move has quietly also been creating open off-the-dribble 3s for him and players all over the league: the side step. What’s a side step? It’s a quick separation move wherein the ball handler lunges to their right or left before lifting for a shot. Like the stepback, the side step freezes defenders by quickly faking a drive. But rather than taking a hard dribble and pushing off their lead foot to go backward, the offensive player presses off their outside foot and jolts laterally. It’s simple and effective, and it maximizes the 3-ball. “It’s amazing to me that you have the best athletes in the world on him and then he, in one or two moves, can create enough space to get a wide-open 3,” Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni said at a practice earlier this season. “People just don’t do that. It’s almost impossible. … Everything is kind of in slow motion to him.” Players like Harden and Curry have stretched the definition of what is possible beyond the arc, and each has done so using his singular abilities to get his shot off. Curry’s deft handle and fluid motion allows him to dribble into shots more easily than anyone; Harden, meanwhile, built on what’s worked for so long in the NBA to create something new. This is the story of how Harden got there, and why the league is following suit. The origin of the side step can be traced back to the “zero step,” in which the pivot step after a player has discontinued their dribble isn’t counted as one of the two steps allotted before a stop, pass, or shot. According to Ronnie Nunn, a former NBA referee of 19 years and the league’s director of officials from 2003 to 2008, the zero step came about in the 1960s, and creativity bloomed from there. “Now comes the one-two in any direction you want to go,” Nunn said in a phone interview. “Kind of like a Gale Sayers being able to go right and left. Like a crossover but without a dribble.” With the zero step, players could take two steps in any direction they wanted. Mostly, it was forward or backward. The latter gave birth to the stepback, which is when a player springs away to avoid a defender’s reach. “Everybody been using side-step, stepback moves,” Kevin Durant told me before a game. “I remember Kobe using them, T-Mac using them. We’re all students. I don’t think anybody in 2019 is creating anything in basketball. They’re just making everything their own. They’re just adding their own flavor and style to it.” But it’s not all ballet. A more brutish relative of the stepback is the bump-off. That’s when a player springs off direct contact with a defender into a shot. The goal is to create more separation by sending the defender’s momentum forward while the offensive player leans back or to the side.
Tracy McGrady calls out Rockets' tactics vs. Warriors: 'It's OK to shoot midrange shots!' | The Jump
Rachel Nichols, Jackie MacMullan and Tracy McGrady talk Houston Rockets vs. Golden State Warriors in the 2019 NBA playoffs, in particular the struggles of James Harden. McGrady says the team needs to shoot more midrange jumpers, like Kevin Durant has been doing, while Nichols says the style of basketball in the playoffs makes Harden more susceptible to struggles. #TheJump ✔ Subscribe to ESPN on YouTube: http://es.pn/SUBSCRIBEtoYOUTUBE ✔ Subscribe to ESPN FC on YouTube: http://bit.ly/SUBSCRIBEtoESPNFC ✔ Subscribe to NBA on ESPN on YouTube: http://bit.ly/SUBSCRIBEtoNBAonESPN ✔ Watch ESPN on YouTube TV: http://es.pn/YouTubeTV ESPN on Social Media: ► Follow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/espn ► Like on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/espn ► Follow on Instagram: www.instagram.com/f/espn Visit ESPN on YouTube to get up-to-the-minute sports news coverage, scores, highlights and commentary for NFL, NHL, MLB, NBA, College Football, NCAA Basketball, soccer and more. More on ESPN.com: http://www.espn.com
Trey Burke 24 Points Full Highlights (11/16/2018)
The bucket-getter Trey Burke, the "Allen Iverson 0.7.1" Trey Burke, the redemption story Trey Burke, those are the Trey Burkes we're not seeing this year. We're seeing the bricklayer Trey Burke, the benched for Emmanuel Mudiay Trey Burke, and the DNP Trey Burke. What happened to last year's version? Was it all a mirage? Did his 42-point game even really happen? Hopefully this game marks a return to form. I was really digging his midrange game last season, and it would be a shame if one of the few practitioners of the art had to stop because he lost all his minutes to some bust who was too scared to play in college and ran to China instead. I'm actually feeling like a midrange renaissance is just around the corner for the NBA, so if he can hold on a few more seasons until teams are so paranoid about threes that they give up endless open long twos, that would be to his advantage. Also, I'm just gonna pretend that the Knicks won this game. For some reason I was pulling for them, even though I like the Pelicans. This is weird, because I don't think I've ever rooted for them before in my life. Not being a hater, just saying I hate the team who gave up a first-round pick for Andrea Bargnani. All clips property of the NBA. No copyright infringement is intended. Check out http://downtobuck.net !