the hornets manipulating normal help principles
how to take away the help defender
i love this simple play that the charlotte hornets run out of time outs:
it's really just a normal high pick and roll. devonte' graham brings the ball up, gordon hayward fakes setting a screen and slips to the wing, then miles bridges comes to set another and rolls to the rim:
the new york knick defenders trap graham, and in their heads they believe they're fine doing so because the bottom defender (in this case, immanuel quickley) will help cover the roller in the paint.
pause it here, and everything looks great:
but when the pass is thrown, bridges finds himself wide open below the basket. so where did the help defender go?
turns out quickley had to chase terry rozier, who was going around a pj washington screen on the other side of the floor while the high pnr was occurring:
it also helps that pj can shoot the 3 as well, which forces his defender (mitchell robinson) to step out even farther from the paint and removes him as a help option.
simply excellent spacing and timing, and executed to perfection.
here's another look at this play, this time run against the philadelphia 76ers:
nice.
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Keep it up man, good stuff as always. One of the most underappreciated content streams out there.
One random thing I noticed, was Graham hard-selling the drive and pass to the corner, which gets Quickley to leave the paint and chase after Rozier, before making the jump pass to Bridges. Also, the timing between Graham, Rozier, and Bridges is just impeccable; Terry watches the ball handler so as to make his cut to the corner just as bridges fakes his screen/dives middle and Devontae drives right. Beautiful stuff man, keep it up!