Why Kristaps Porzingis is the biggest X-Factor in the NBA Finals| Good Word with Goodwill

Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill and The Athletic’s Tim Cato discuss why Kristaps Porzingis returning to the Celtics lineup may be too much for Dallas to handle and send a championship back to Boston. 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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Another X factor that I really want to get to because you covered Kips Stas Po Angus when he was playing next to Luca.

And it was, it wasn’t, it was, it wasn’t even a choppy fit next to each other.

It just didn’t seem like the two guys seemed like two guys with two ships passing in the night except they were on the floor together.

He’s a much different, more confident player, even though we haven’t seen him in a while in Boston and now he’s gonna come back at a reasonable for health.

Can he be the player that tilts this series one way or the other?

Yeah, absolutely.

I, I think if Christ Steps is at his best, this is II, I don’t see how Dallas guards a Boston team where Christ steps is bombing and making from 30 ft.

This is a very hard team to guard, you know, they, they can maybe still win the series just by outscoring them.

But Chris stops and in his health is his ability to, you know, if Dallas ends up having to switch, you know, the one thing about Boston is they can run a pick and roll with any player on the court.

It’s not just that they have all these defenders, they have every single player can initiate the offense.

And so what you do is ok, uh Jrue Holiday Kyrie’s guarding, you pull him up into the screen and then you get that switch on to Kyrie, you know, at times Dallas is gonna have to do that, have to give that up.

And then if Christ steps is scoring over him just by, just by shooting from 15 ft, you know, kind of on that mismatch switch.

That’s a really hard thing to guard.

I don’t know how Dallas goes about trying to solve that.

And so I, I think early on Dallas is actually probably gonna, you know, I, I think in the first quarter they’re gonna make him take a few shots.

They’re, they’re, they’re gonna…

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Publish date : 2024-06-03 16:52:19

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