Here's another go-to set of the Heat: <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mQFU-jtuoUs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> It's one of the Heat's better plays, so they usually go to this primarily in the 4th quarter. Not sure if there's a widely known name for this set. If there is, please let me know.
Some Thunder offense: <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yumJfCO1h8g" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Simple stuff, yet very effective because it directly involves their two best players and puts defenses in uncomfortable positions. Pick your poison, basically. IIRC the Rockets had success defending this in the last meeting against the Thunder by leveling the pick&roll (soft hedge -- 0.5/1 dribble responsibility), with the rest of the team zoning up behind them (similar to what the Celtics did in the last clip).
The Thunder's equivalent of the Rockets 1-2 High Pick&Roll: <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/znjPWZoHzEY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Really, the only difference is that at times they'll bring Durant off a pindown before going into the pick&roll, whereas the Rockets always go straight into the Lin-Harden pick&roll. Well, that, and the fact that Westbrook > Lin and Durant > Harden. --- More OKC Pick&Roll offense, here with Durant & Westbrook switching roles: <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/O9PQwx5-KDE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
More Thunder offense: <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wgR8aHMwZyA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> You may recognize this, as the Rockets also will initiate the offense quite a bit themselves by having the trailing big set a wide pindown for one of the guards/wings.
Like Thunder & Rockets, the Nuggets also quite often initiate their offense with single wide pindowns. The Nuggets, though, do it out of a few different settings and are probably most successful among those three teams in utilizing their single packages: <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/V2-aGjnR7Vg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Also, if you hadn't had enough, some more Thunder offense: <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gdgb2KolmhM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Gotta take away the easy pull-up jumpers off the catch and make Martin do something he's uncomfortable doing: dribbling the ball more than 2-3 times, but you guys already know this. If you can't tell, the Thunder offense is quite basic for the most part, which works well for them because they have the personnel (stars) do to so.
Celtics & Knicks sets: <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Wa3VBR3j6p4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yV4gtJMdZFw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Kinda weird to see Novak hit some of these open jumpers. Still process > result, especially with this small a sample.
HMMMHMM you seem to have a large collection of offensive sets. Do you think you would be up to coaching the Rockets? If so, you've got my vote!
Ha. That's very kind of you. But no, I definitely could not. X's & O's are only a small portion of what makes a good coach and picking things apart is vastly different from drawing things up, much less with constant roster turnover. I'd like to think that I have a pretty good basketball mind, but I probably know less than 1/10 as much basketball as Gregg Popovich for example. And I still might be giving myself too much credit there. I think people generally underrate just how good/knowledgeable NBA coaches are.
Here's one Spurs pick&roll wrinkle, where they screen the ball-screener before going into the pick&roll to keep teams from downing the pick&roll (forcing it sideline/baseline). Some teams will still manage to do so, however they'll usually be out of ideal position and thus give up (middle) penetration anyway. Occasionally teams are able to guard the first few actions, but more often than not the Spurs still find a way to break defenses down and get a good look. <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0mRNDBbMwVQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Here's the Knicks hand-off set that you may have seen the Knicks go to a bunch these first couple of playoff games: <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ugTH91GmLTs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Pretty unique. The Pacers at times will have their guards/wings scissor (X) cut off the post, but I don't think any other team runs anything similar. None of the .500+ teams, anyway.
What are these videos you are posting? Are these the so-called "plays" that the GARM keeps calling for McHale to use? Haha, just kidding . Really interesting to see the patterns. Thanks for doing these videos. Is it even possible to do a video for the Rockets for the way they've played the past couple of games?
Some more Spurs offense, because the Spurs offense is awesome: <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uwxqIBBEecQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Lots of teams (GS, CHI, LAC, ATL, MIL, TOR, ...) use hawk action to set up snug angle pick&rolls to create middle penetration. Some teams still manage to down the pick&roll (forcing the ball-handler sideline/baseline), but the Spurs usually find a way to create a good shot anyway. You're welcome. It would be possible to do shorts compilation of certain sets the Rockets ran in the playoffs, however you do have a point in that the Rockets offense at times was very much free-flowing/random against the Thunder, yes.
HMMMHMM, where did you learn all those coaching X&Os terminologies? I assume you must have some experience playing or coaching organized basketball?
The set the Spurs ran to tie the game late in the 4th last night: <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jPjvgVi9kJk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Pacers have the same set in their playbook as well. I do not. I've played against some now-pros in youth leagues growing up and still occasionally play pick-up with some (semi)-pros (BBL, Pro A, Pro B) during the summer, but the highest level I've played myself was probably no higher than low level D2/high level D3 competition. Though there's some overlap, the terminology I learned back then is pretty useless, as most of it was foreign. There's still lots of terminology I don't know, but what I do know, I've picked up in talking to/listening to coaches (coaching camps/clinics), NBA broadcasts, newsletters from D1/NBA personal and various internet sites. This really is just a hobby of mine. I have a couple friends who do coach professionally, so I occasionally get asked for input/ideas and I do help help out a friend of mine coaching a local youth team (16-18 year olds) whenever he can't make it, but I do not coach myself regularly.
Following up on how the Spurs utilizing Hawk action to set up snug angle pick&rolls, here the Warriors doing the very same: <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/R3NPGcwq-Yc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> As you can see, unlike the Spurs, the Warriors pretty much exclusively use their 2/3s as the pick&roll screener, which allows them to hide offensively challenged guys like Ezeli and Draymond Greene as weakside screeners for the cutter. This also enables them to get away with playing Bogut and Ezeli together, as the action essentially splits up the court into two sides. Earlier in the year the Warriors actually tired utilizing Ezeli as the screener, but it didn't take them long to realize that wasn't going to work out. <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hHnsjmc3-T0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Some more Warriors offense, here taking a page out of Rick Adelman's playbook: <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/EyUe5VimrvA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Big corner offense fan. Wish the Rockets would still have the personnel do run some corner. Warriors personnel fits it very well, obviously. Also, if you still care for those, a couple of Celtics & Nuggets sets: <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jeCvxkD0c8s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> The Rockets run pretty much the identical BOB play. Of course Doc Rivers is great with X's & O's, whereas McHale is clueless. <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YUcsZWYLkTM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
This isn't really hard to find. Anyone who is interested in basketball can find this guy who actually does all the hard work and uploads all these plays of different teams. Search Youtube Golden state warriors elevator and the Channel name is (How U).
Unless HMMMHMM, is the uploader, I don't think he should take credit for these unless he is just forwarding them along for discussion which is completely fine.
