Can the Celtics stop Luka Doncic in the NBA Finals?| Good Word with Goodwill

Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill and The Athletic’s Tim Cato look at how the Celtics will try and stop Luka Doncic in the NBA Finals. Hear the full conversation on “Good Word with Goodwill” – part of the “Ball Don’t Lie” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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I feel like in game five, Dallas started setting their screens so high up on the floor for Luca that it was like you guys can’t run around the floor as quick as we can move the ball around the floor.

If you’re gonna blitz us, we are setting the screen down there at half court.

You can’t cover 40 ft of space with three guys or two guys and everybody in rotation and we’re gonna just, you know, get you open shots that way.

I feel like that’s a strategy that they’re gonna try to replicate against Boston, whether Boston switches or blitzes, even though Boston doesn’t blitz, they feel like they can switch everything.

I think Luca can hunt even.

I think I won’t say he’ll hunt Jalen Brown, but I feel like he can wear Jalen Brown down offensively by making him accountable defensively.

You know what I mean?

And like you said, the Horford’s the Sam Hauser, even the poor Zings, even when he’s out there assuming that he’s all the way, right?

Like I don’t feel like there’s any matchup that Luca wouldn’t be comfortable in if he found himself there.

Boston’s big question is kind of, I think they can win either path.

And so those two paths are, they can just start doubling him and they can get better at that throughout the course of the series.

But they don’t do that a lot.

Like there, there’s gonna be some in series learning if that’s what they choose to do or they can single him.

But I think, I think if they choose to just switch everything to let them score one on one that has to be something they commit to for the entirety of this series.

I, I think, I think it’s a huge disadvantage if, if, if Boston kind of panics if, if Dallas gets a game and, and Boston panics and switches halfway through because the whole idea of saying, hey Luca, we understand like, you know, we’re, we’re, we’re gonna…

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Publish date : 2024-06-03 18:26:51

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