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After the Victor Wembanyama earthquake, the comedown was dizzying as June 2024 approached. A high school class already seen as weak watched its best prospects tarnish their stock even further: Buzelis and Holland ended up on the worst G League team in history, Isaiah Collier got stuck in the USC quagmire&#8230; not to mention the big Kentucky busts, Aaron Bradshaw and Justin Edwards. Every follower had their own camp to defend: the pro Edey, pro Clingan, pro Castle, pro Sheppard crowds. Paradoxically, almost nobody saw Risacher as the number one pick, but he looked like the "safest" prospect in this whole mess. Just like in 2013, in situations like this the level of the draft often gets saved by <strong>good picks outside the lottery</strong>. Ajay Mitchell, Kyshawn George and Pelle Larsson stand out as obvious hits. But another player was also <strong>about to blow up: Cam Spencer</strong>! The 53rd pick, already 26 years old, it's time to introduce this hipster of a player.</p><h1>I. A star level production</h1><p>The Grizzlies 2026 situation was one of the strangest in the NBA last year and one of the hardest to read. Looking back, the whole mess around Taylor Jenkins and his staff at the end of the 2025 season looks a lot more like <strong>a move to lock in Iisalo</strong> than anything else, and therefore secretly a change of era already underway. The Desmond Bane trade a few weeks later, done for financial reasons, later confirmed the owner's reluctance to go over the luxury tax. A problem that has always put a kind of glass ceiling on the Ja and JJJ project, making the whole thing frustrating. But on the other hand, this team didn't really look like a contender even at 100 percent of its best version. So why go into the tax for that? The Bane trade weakened an <strong>already good but imperfect basketball project</strong> even further. Then the start of the season, with Ja Morant nursing an ankle and Zach Edey never leaving the hospital, sent the Grizzlies into a very negative spiral and forced the front office to face reality.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C1DM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd5ed6a81-dcc0-4a82-941b-8fd87b55a282_1200x675.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C1DM!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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A chance to clean up the finances too, to start over from zero. To give Iisalo the roster he wants. To cash out while JJJ still has value. So the opportunity has been taken, and the 2026 season is thrown in the trash from a competitive standpoint. But not entirely. It allowed the front office to <strong>test a bunch of role players</strong> and see who fit the coach&#8217;s philosophy. This is finally where we get to the player who managed to emerge from all this: Cam Spencer. The former UConn guard put together an absolutely stunning statistical season. Behind his <strong>6&#8217;3&#8221; light frame with a 6&#8217;5&#8221; wingspan</strong>, nothing suggested an explosion like this was coming. The stat to remember should be his minutes, which jumped from 207 to 1,670. This is essentially his rookie NBA season, and you could have cut him some slack on the progression curve. 11 points and 5.5 assists per game on average, but let&#8217;s not stop there.</p><p>Let&#8217;s look at three of the key areas of production: usage (his volume of responsibility), points per shot (his efficiency), and AST to USG ratio (his tendency to pass the ball). Here are Spencer&#8217;s numbers in that exercise:</p><ul><li><p>20 USG% (40th percentile)</p></li><li><p><strong>1.33 points per shot (97th percentile!)</strong></p></li><li><p>1.64 AST to USG (100th percentile!)</p></li><li><p>also 11.6 TOV% (57th percentile, he barely turned the ball over)</p></li></ul><p>In other words, Cam Spencer was an efficiency machine, both for himself and for everyone else. When he shot, he was a monster in terms of return, but that wasn't all he did. He also created a huge amount for his teammates. 1.33 points per shot is 12 percent more efficient than league average <strong>(112 TS+ / +14.8 rTS)</strong>. Let's try to get a sense of how impressive that is by looking at who has put up similar numbers. Players with at least 20 USG%, 1.30 points per shot, and 0.8 AST to USG (still well short of Cam's mark) are as follows: Nikola Jokic, Shai Gilgeous Alexander, Austin Reaves and Cam Spencer. And even within that group, nobody passes as much as he does, and he's closer to SGA and Jokic in efficiency than to Reaves. <strong>Two MVPs, one max contract, and one 53rd pick</strong> from the worst draft of the decade. Fascinating.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!olDh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbca1154-d82b-4a13-9d13-8854062e1ec3_910x301.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!olDh!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbca1154-d82b-4a13-9d13-8854062e1ec3_910x301.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!olDh!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, 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/__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbca1154-d82b-4a13-9d13-8854062e1ec3_910x301.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!olDh!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbca1154-d82b-4a13-9d13-8854062e1ec3_910x301.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!olDh!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbca1154-d82b-4a13-9d13-8854062e1ec3_910x301.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!olDh!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbca1154-d82b-4a13-9d13-8854062e1ec3_910x301.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Players in 2026 with Min 20 USG% &amp; 1.30 PTS/Tir &amp; 0.80 AST:USG (source : Cleaningtheglass)</figcaption></figure></div><p>One fundamental difference remains though: <strong>the volume of responsibility</strong>. Where the other three are the centerpiece of the offense while playing 35 minutes a night, Cam Spencer only does this on 20 USG% and 23 minutes. So if we tighten the usage range to between 20 and 25 percent and lower the AST to USG threshold slightly to 0.75, only one other name shows up: Kon Knueppel. Probably the stylistic comparison that makes the most sense. But even there, we're talking about an efficiency anomaly for a rookie. <strong>Cam Spencer is a total outlier</strong>, his production simply doesn't make sense. So naturally now we start wondering, how is he pulling off numbers this stellar? And maybe even more importantly, can it hold up in a more competitive context?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BzDa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BzDa!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BzDa!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BzDa!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BzDa!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BzDa!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png" width="840" height="231" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/df248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:231,&quot;width&quot;:840,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:30418,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/i/213533306?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BzDa!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BzDa!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BzDa!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BzDa!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Statistical comparaison between Cam Spencer &amp; Kon Knueppel (via CleaningTheGlass)</figcaption></figure></div><p></p><h1>II. Legit elite traits?</h1><p>Cam Spencer is already 26, so obviously his room for growth looks smaller than, say, a 20 year old Kon Knueppel. In theory he'll develop fewer additional skills going forward and <strong>will largely remain the player he already is</strong>. In a way that works out fine, because Cam already has some genuinely excellent tools. In two words: <strong>shooting and passing.</strong></p><p>Let's start with the skill that got him to the NBA in the first place, the one that got him to UConn too, coming from a small school. Let's talk about his shot. Cam Spencer doesn't just shoot at a very good level, <strong>he's a true elite shooter</strong>. The word elite gets thrown around so much these days that it loses its meaning, but Cam is honestly, quite easily, one of the ten best shooters in the NBA right now. Over five years of college basketball he shot 42 percent from three and 87 percent from the free throw line, 44 percent even across his last two seasons combined at Rutgers and UConn. Since entering the NBA: 44 percent from deep again and a ridiculous 95 percent at the line. <strong>Since arriving in the league he's only missed 8 free throws</strong> (145 of 153). To give you an idea, Victor Wembanyama, a solid free throw shooter himself, has missed more than that just in the NBA Finals alone. Over that same stretch, Armand Duplantis has broken his own pole vault world record about as many times as Cam has missed a free throw. It's absurd.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;62b03076-7bde-479e-89da-2a7233b035a3&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>You could make the volume argument, but in reality, since 2022 Cam has taken 768 three point attempts and made 44 percent of them. So is it because he only gets open looks in Memphis, and before that in UConn's incredible system? Maybe that's a small factor boosting the numbers a bit. That said, Cam Spencer shot <strong>42 percent on pull ups</strong> last season, which made up 50 percent of his three point attempts. And on <strong>wide open threes, the little guy was shooting&#8230; 56 percent</strong>! 56.6 percent to be exact, way ahead of anyone else in the league in that category. A score that makes you wonder how defenses keep leaving him alone sometimes.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f5354193-c92d-4077-8ec7-11dda8dd75e4&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>That number obviously needs to be confirmed over a bigger sample, but it suggests you probably can raise Spencer's workload while keeping this massive source of efficiency intact. Cam Spencer knows how to shoot, he's done it his whole life, and everything points to him continuing to do it no matter the circumstances.</p><p>Something interesting to track over the course of the 2026 season is <strong>how gradually he earned this elite shooter status</strong>. Early in the season you can find plenty of possessions where he's left wide open, where defenders go under the screen, where teams play drop coverage against him.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;81208c90-d5b7-4354-a618-3132ab1bd9e6&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Those sequences got rarer and rarer as the season went on, because Cam is lethal when open but also has a very quick pull up and can even shoot off balance in motion. In half a season he built up this genuinely absurd shooting gravity. 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target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gv2T!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb1bfe2b0-0b09-4d32-b51f-fa2d0e13cf3d_1197x679.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gv2T!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb1bfe2b0-0b09-4d32-b51f-fa2d0e13cf3d_1197x679.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gv2T!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gv2T!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb1bfe2b0-0b09-4d32-b51f-fa2d0e13cf3d_1197x679.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">End of the season : defender goes over the screen.</figcaption></figure></div><p>If he confirms this level, that shooting threat can obviously be a source of efficiency downstream, on swing passes where he's spotted up, but it can also be a source of advantages elsewhere thanks to his gravity. That's exactly what sets him apart from a simple sniper in my eyes, his ability to really exploit that gravity for his teammates through genuinely excellent passing.</p><p>If I had to sum up his passing in one word I'd say <strong>incredibly mature</strong>. It comes from his understanding of everything happening on the court, and that's honestly how he made his way into the NBA. It also comes from the fact that he's got this Olympian calm about him and <strong>is almost always under control</strong>, never rushed.</p><p>One notable thing worth pointing out is how well he knows all his team's systems (he loves the Iverson cut) and <strong>understands the underlying principles</strong>. You'll often see him telling the ball handler what to do, or telling off ball players where to go. It's hard to quantify but really valuable to have a player like that, maybe even more so with such a young core. A good example of this shows up in mismatch situations, meaning pick and roll or transition situations. <strong>He has really fast processing speed</strong> to recognize when the big is guarding him, meaning a small defender is stuck on a big man. And he'll constantly look for that entry pass before help can arrive. That often meant getting JJJ going downhill, but it's easy to imagine the same thing translating to Cam Boozer and Zach Edey.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;b30a79ef-7b66-4455-9487-9c6642067d93&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Iisalo's offense had this big principle I'd call "replace." As soon as one pick and roll got run, <strong>another player would slide back up to the top of the key</strong>. That way, if the first drive doesn't produce anything, there's already a second wave ready to go. Cam Spencer was one of the best at applying this principle off the ball, but also aware of it with the ball in his hands. It might sound simple, but running this principle often got other players, better drivers than him, going downhill on a live dribble. A good example here is one where he recognizes the Heat&#8217;s defense is solid and that if he drives nothing good happens, but the only opening is Jaquez Jr drifting slightly out of his zone. He hits Coward, who can attack downhill immediately!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yIax!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9859d7ea-6e3f-4e1b-b0ce-58e08c86abc0_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yIax!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9859d7ea-6e3f-4e1b-b0ce-58e08c86abc0_1280x720.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yIax!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;cbd39821-d521-4b51-b574-2423f392c3df&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p>This attention to small details is what allows him to <strong>make basically any pass his body is physically capable of.</strong> He's not the biggest guy, doesn't have the longest arms, and yet he's an excellent pick and roll player almost purely on brainpower (and his shooting gravity). He can make any kind of pass, the pocket pass, the lob, <strong>the skip pass too.</strong> As soon as the weak side defender comes down to tag the roller and opens up the corner, he'll spot the pass and very often make it almost on reflex. His head is always up and he stays in control thanks to a functional dribble. He'll often put his defender on his back, scan the floor, and hit the open man.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;183bdc01-7dd2-4a74-8826-ed9ccdb2f9ea&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>What impresses me most of all is how quickly he reacts. He's constantly reading the defense and <strong>adapting on the fly with no predetermined plan.</strong> It's a hard quality to describe, but it jumps out at you watching him. He fully understands how valuable a shot at the rim is and is constantly hunting for it. This one against the Nets is genuinely great. Coming off a screen, he sees two defenders step up on him because of the shooting threat. So he sets up to hit the popping big, but at the last second spots the cutter, and therefore a better shot, resets, and lets it go.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;eeffc276-298f-491e-bab8-5eefd1eb3930&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>With this constant control, <strong>he's even capable of manipulating defenders</strong> in short sequences, though in a slower, more deliberate way. Watch here, his shooting threat pulls the defense in and Alexander Walker steps up to cover the roll. He then threatens the kick out to the corner, pulls Walker away from the paint, and creates a shot at the rim, the best shot in basketball.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;acae003d-e47b-46b5-9c57-bb62d4434764&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>We&#8217;re looking at a player who only really scores in one way, but he does it at such an elite level that it becomes a genuine burden on opposing defenses. And he&#8217;s fully aware of it!</p><p>The obvious ceiling on more creation and true superstar upside is his finishing at the rim, which is really limited. But even there, he uses his tools perfectly to create collective danger. As mentioned, he draws huge gravity that pulls defenders in, and that quite often opens driving lanes for him. Spencer&#8217;s decision making in these spots is very simple: <strong>either nobody&#8217;s there and he finishes, or help comes and he kicks it out.</strong></p><p>Starting from this (simplified) framework, you can understand three stats that describe him really well:</p><ul><li><p>only 9 percent of his shots taken at the rim (7th percentile)</p></li><li><p>1.64 AST to USG (100th percentile)</p></li><li><p>17.4 assist percentage off drives (first in the NBA)</p></li></ul><p>Basically, nobody has as strong a tendency to pass as he does. Even more so off the drive, where he rarely finishes but passes constantly. At the end of his drives, he passes the ball more often than Jamal Shead, Russell Westbrook, or Davion Mitchell. <strong>He&#8217;s a true pass first player</strong> once his shot at the rim gets taken away. That&#8217;s a limitation, but it&#8217;s also a strength, because again, it&#8217;s a fantastic source of offense for his teammates. <strong>His deceleration is honestly shocking</strong> in this regard, and I hadn&#8217;t clocked that at all before. It lets him get defenders off balance and, again, buy himself time to scan the floor.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;7cef3498-9d5a-4d12-9c6d-4c99ac8d7b74&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>He's capable of  really advanced passes in this mode, all while staying clean with the ball and able to pass off either hand. His passing was honestly a real eye opener watching this guy this year, and it's what sets him apart from the pack.</p><p>Another player out of UConn whose passing might have been hidden behind an outstanding team system, following Stephon Castle and Donovan Clingan. Maybe something worth watching going forward, but that's a tangent. Cam Spencer simply knows how to play basketball, and he's so good at what he does that it seems impossible to me that he won't keep doing it with a bigger role. He knows he has this unusual gravity and plays into it, and that's unlocked the rest of his offensive game. Look at his patience here.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;4cc3886a-ac21-4b47-9c87-cb78392a4568&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>It&#8217;s getting harder and harder for me not to see him keep progressing given the 2027 roster. You might think that with more competition around him he&#8217;ll play less, but honestly I think it&#8217;s the opposite. This roster is a <strong>fantastic opportunity for him to shine.</strong> </p><p>A perfect duo partner for him would be an excellent screen setter who can punish mismatches on switches. He&#8217;s got two of those in Edey and Boozer. He&#8217;d be perfect alongside a short roll monster he could feed if teams send two defenders at him. Cam Boozer just showed up. He&#8217;d also want another elite level passer capable of finding him when he&#8217;s moving off ball, maybe out of the post. CAM BOOZER JUST SHOWED UP. A more dynamic pick and roll partner than JJJ? CAM BOOZER! Potentially a pick and pop threat he can occasionally work off of? Quinten Post, Isaiah Stewart, and CAM BOOZER.</p><p>This Memphis team could honestly be renamed Hipster Land given how many under the radar interesting profiles it&#8217;s packed with, but Cam Spencer felt like one of the most interesting stories of all. The fit with the coach and with the future star is just too perfect for this not to work out. So remember the name, and in a few months, when Cam and Cam become one of the NBA&#8217;s biggest attractions, you won&#8217;t be surprised, and you&#8217;ll get to say &#8220;yeah, I called it.&#8221;</p><p>Thanks all for reading ! </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Souvenez vous de son nom : Cam Spencer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Analyse de la saison 2025/26 du joueur des Grizzlies]]></description><link>https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/souvenez-vous-de-son-nom-cam-spencer</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/souvenez-vous-de-son-nom-cam-spencer</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dreamcast Show]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:00:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J-6v!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb721557b-0a12-4427-8c74-dd379e4e6cee_1280x720.png" length="0" 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Apr&#232;s le s&#233;isme Victor Wembanyama, la redescente fut vertigineuse &#224; l'approche du mois de juin 2024. La classe de lyc&#233;en d&#233;j&#224; pressentie comme faible voyait ses meilleurs &#233;l&#233;ments ternir leur c&#244;te : Buzelis et Holland dans la pire &#233;quipe de G-League de l'histoire, Isaiah Collier dans le bourbier USC&#8230; Sans m&#234;me parler des gros &#233;checs de Kentucky Aaron Bradshaw et Justin Edwards. Chaque suiveur avait sa confr&#233;rie &#224; d&#233;fendre : les pro-Edey, pro-Clingan, pro-Castle, pro-Sheppard&#8230; Paradoxalement, personne ou presque ne voyait Risacher comme le num&#233;ro 1 mais il semblait le prospect le plus &#171; s&#251;r &#187; dans ce joyeux bordel. A l'instar de 2013, dans ce genre de situations, le niveau de la draft est souvent relev&#233; par <strong>les bons coups hors lottery</strong>. Ajay Mitchell, Kyshawn George ou Pelle Larsson s'imposent comme des &#233;vidences. Mais si un autre joueur &#233;tait sur le point d'exploser : <strong>Cam Spencer</strong> ! 53e pick, d&#233;j&#224; 26 ans et toutes ses dents, il est l'heure de d&#233;couvrir ce joueur hipster.</p><p></p><h1>I. Une production de star.</h1><p>Le contexte des Grizzlies 2026 &#233;tait l&#8217;un des plus particuliers de NBA l&#8217;an pass&#233; et un des plus compliqu&#233;s &#224; lire. Avec du recul, l&#8217;imbroglio autour de Taylor Jenkins et son staff pour finir la saison 2025 ressemble bien plus &#224; un move pour <strong>s&#233;curiser Iisalo</strong> qu&#8217;autre chose. Et donc secr&#232;tement &#224; un changement d&#8217;&#232;re d&#233;j&#224;. Le trade de Desmond Bane quelques semaines plus tard pour des raisons financi&#232;res venait plus tard confirmer les r&#233;ticences du propri&#233;taire &#224; d&#233;passer la taxe. Un probl&#232;me qui a toujours plac&#233; un certain plafond de verre au projet Ja &amp; JJJ, rendant le tout frustrant. Mais d&#8217;un autre c&#244;t&#233;, il ne semblait pas que cette &#233;quipe &#233;tait contender m&#234;me &#224; 100% de sa meilleure version. Alors pourquoi aller dans la taxe pour cela ? Le trade de Bane venait donc affaiblir encore un peu <strong>un projet sportif bon mais imparfait</strong>. Puis le d&#233;but de saison avec un Ja Morant sur une cheville et un Zach Edey qui ne quitte pas l&#8217;infirmerie plongea les Grizzlies dans une spirale tr&#232;s n&#233;gative et mit les dirigeants face &#224; leurs responsabilit&#233;s.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C1DM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd5ed6a81-dcc0-4a82-941b-8fd87b55a282_1200x675.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C1DM!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>L&#8217;occasion de tanker, une ann&#233;e o&#249; la cuv&#233;e s&#8217;annonce exceptionnelle, se pr&#233;sente. L&#8217;occasion aussi d&#8217;assainir les finances, de repartir &#224; 0. De donner &#224; Iisalo l&#8217;effectif qu&#8217;il souhaite. De cash out tant que JJJ a de la valeur. L&#8217;occasion sera donc saisie et la saison 2026 est donc jet&#233;e &#224; la poubelle sportivement. Mais pas totalement. Elle a permis de <strong>tester &#233;norm&#233;ment de joueurs</strong> de seconde zone et ainsi de voir qui matchait avec la philosophie du coach. C&#8217;est ici qu&#8217;on aborde (enfin) le joueur qui a r&#233;ussi &#224; &#233;merger de ce contexte : Cam Spencer. L&#8217;ancien de UConn a sorti une saison absolument ahurissante statistiquement. Derri&#232;re son profil physique de <strong>6&#8217;3&#8221; avec 6&#8217;5&#8221; d&#8217;envergure</strong>, rien ne laissait pr&#233;sager une explosion telle. La stat &#224; retenir devrait &#234;tre son nombre de minutes qui est pass&#233; de 207 &#224; 1670. C&#8217;est en r&#233;alit&#233; sa premi&#232;re ann&#233;e dans le circuit NBA et on aurait pu &#234;tre indulgent avec la progression. 11 pts et 5.5 AST de moyenne mais ne nous arr&#234;tons pas l&#224;.</p><p>Regardons les <strong>3 facteurs importants d&#8217;une production</strong> : l&#8217;usage (volume de responsabilit&#233;s), les pts/tir (l&#8217;efficacit&#233;), et l&#8217;AST:USG (propension du joueur &#224; passer la balle). Voici les chiffres de Spencer dans l&#8217;exercice :</p><ul><li><p>20 USG% (40e centile)</p></li><li><p>1.33 pts / tir (97e centile !)</p></li><li><p>1.64 AST:USG (100e centile !)</p></li><li><p>aussi 11.6 TOV% (57e centile, il perdait peu de ballons)</p></li></ul><p>Autrement dit, Cam Spencer &#233;tait une <strong>machine &#224; efficacit&#233;</strong>, pour lui mais aussi pour les autres. Quand il tirait, il &#233;tait un monstre de rentabilit&#233; mais il ne faisait pas que &#231;a. Il cr&#233;ait aussi &#233;norm&#233;ment pour les autres. 1.33 PTS / Tir c&#8217;est 12% plus efficace que la moyenne (112 TS+ / +14.8 rTS). Essayons de nous rendre compte de la performance en regardant qui a eu une production similaire. Les joueurs avec <strong>min 20 USG%, 1.30 pts/tir et 0.8 AST:USG</strong> (loin du score de Cam) sont les suivants : Nikola Jokic, Shai Gilgeous Alexander, Austin Reaves et Cam Spencer. Et encore de cette liste, personne ne passe autant que lui et il est plus proche de SGA et Niko en efficacit&#233; que de Reaves. <strong>Deux MVPs, un contrat maximum et un 53e choix</strong> de la pire draft de la d&#233;cennie. Fascinant.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!olDh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbca1154-d82b-4a13-9d13-8854062e1ec3_910x301.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!olDh!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbca1154-d82b-4a13-9d13-8854062e1ec3_910x301.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!olDh!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbca1154-d82b-4a13-9d13-8854062e1ec3_910x301.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!olDh!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbca1154-d82b-4a13-9d13-8854062e1ec3_910x301.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!olDh!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbca1154-d82b-4a13-9d13-8854062e1ec3_910x301.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!olDh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbca1154-d82b-4a13-9d13-8854062e1ec3_910x301.png" width="910" height="301" 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/__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbca1154-d82b-4a13-9d13-8854062e1ec3_910x301.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!olDh!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbca1154-d82b-4a13-9d13-8854062e1ec3_910x301.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!olDh!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbca1154-d82b-4a13-9d13-8854062e1ec3_910x301.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!olDh!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbca1154-d82b-4a13-9d13-8854062e1ec3_910x301.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Players in 2026 with Min 20 USG% &amp; 1.30 PTS/Tir &amp; 0.80 AST:USG (source : Cleaningtheglass)</figcaption></figure></div><p>Une diff&#233;rence fondamentale existe cependant : le volume de responsabilit&#233;s. L&#224; o&#249; les 3 autres sont le coeur de l&#8217;attaque tout en jouant 35min par match, Cam Spencer ne fait &#231;a &#171; que &#187; sur 20 USG% et 23 minutes. Alors si on resserre les crit&#232;res d&#8217;usage entre 20 et 25% et qu&#8217;on baisse &#224; 0.75 l&#8217;AST:USG (un poil moins de passes), un seul autre nom ressort : Kon Knueppel. Sans doute la comparaison stylistique qui fait le plus de sens. Mais l&#224; encore, on parle d&#8217;une <strong>anomalie d&#8217;efficacit&#233;</strong> pour un rookie. Cam Spencer est un outlier total tant la production n&#8217;a aucun sens. Alors forc&#233;ment maintenant, on se demande comment r&#233;alise-t-il des chiffres aussi stellaires ? Et peut-&#234;tre encore plus est-ce que &#231;a peut durer dans un contexte plus comp&#233;titif ?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BzDa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BzDa!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BzDa!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BzDa!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BzDa!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BzDa!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png" width="840" height="231" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/df248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:231,&quot;width&quot;:840,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:30418,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/i/213533306?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BzDa!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BzDa!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BzDa!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BzDa!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf248291-f25e-471b-bd01-0d02ab7f4049_840x231.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Comparaison statistique entre Cam Spencer et Kon Knueppel (via CleaningTheGlass)</figcaption></figure></div><p></p><h1>II. Des qualit&#233;s vraiment tr&#232;s fortes ?</h1><p>Cam Spencer a d&#233;j&#224; 26 ans, alors forc&#233;ment la marge de progression semble plus faible qu&#8217;un Kon Knueppel de 20 ans. Il pourra en th&#233;orie d&#233;velopper moins d&#8217;attributs suppl&#233;mentaires dans son jeu et <strong>restera bien plus le joueur qu&#8217;il est d&#233;j&#224;.</strong> Quelque part &#231;a tombe bien, Cam a d&#233;j&#224; des attributs vraiment excellentissimes. En deux mots : <strong>le shoot et le passing</strong>.</p><p>Commen&#231;ons par le skill gr&#226;ce auquel il est en NBA. Celui qui lui a permis de rejoindre UConn &#233;galement lui qui sortait d&#8217;universit&#233; mineure. Parlons de son tir. Cam Spencer ne tire pas juste &#224; un tr&#232;s bon niveau, il est un vrai <strong>shooteur d&#8217;&#233;lite</strong>. Le mot &#233;lite est souvent galvaud&#233;, et &#224; force d&#8217;attribuer ce terme &#224; n&#8217;importe qui il en perd de sa valeur. Mais Cam est vraiment assez facilement un des 10 meilleurs shooteurs de NBA actuellement. En 5 ann&#233;es de NCAA il a tir&#233; &#224; 42% de loin et 87% aux lancers francs. 44% m&#234;me sur ses deux derni&#232;res saisons respectivement &#224; Rutgers et &#224; UConn. Depuis qu&#8217;il est en NBA : 44% &#233;galement derri&#232;re l&#8217;arc et un ridicule 95% aux lancers francs. Depuis son arriv&#233;e en NBA, <strong>il n&#8217;a rat&#233; que 8 lancers francs</strong> (145/153). Pour vous donner une id&#233;e, Victor Wembanyama, un bon tireur de lancers, en a rat&#233; plus simplement sur les finales NBA. Sur la m&#234;me p&#233;riode, Armand Duplantis a autant battu son propre record du monde de saut &#224; la perche que Cam n&#8217;a rat&#233; de lancers francs. C&#8217;est insens&#233;.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;62b03076-7bde-479e-89da-2a7233b035a3&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>On pourrait prendre l&#8217;argument du volume pas si important mais en r&#233;alit&#233;, depuis 2022, Cam a tir&#233; 768 tirs &#224; 3 points et en a rentr&#233; 44% d&#8217;entre eux. Alors est-ce que c&#8217;est parce qu&#8217;il n&#8217;a que des tirs ouverts &#224; Memphis et pr&#233;c&#233;demment dans l&#8217;incroyable syst&#232;me de UConn ? Peut-&#234;tre que c&#8217;est un petit param&#232;tre qui booste le rendement. Cela &#233;tant dit, Cam Spencer est &#224; <strong>42% sur les pull-up</strong>s l&#8217;an pass&#233;, qui repr&#233;sentaient 50% de ses tirs lointains. Et sur les 3pts <strong>&#171; wide open &#187;, le petit loustic tirait &#224;&#8230; 56% !</strong> 56.6% pour &#234;tre pr&#233;cis, loin devant n&#8217;importe qui d&#8217;autre en NBA dans l&#8217;exercice.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f5354193-c92d-4077-8ec7-11dda8dd75e4&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Un score qui demande &#224; &#234;tre confirm&#233; sur un plus gros &#233;chantillon &#233;videmment, mais qui laisse penser que oui, on peut augmenter le volume de responsabilit&#233;s de Spencer tout en conservant une source de rentabilit&#233; immense. Cam Spencer sait tirer, il a fait &#231;a toute sa vie et tout porte &#224; croire qu&#8217;il continuera de le faire peu importe les circonstances. </p><p>Quelque chose d&#8217;int&#233;ressant &#224; suivre sur le d&#233;roulement de la saison 2026 c&#8217;est &#224; quel point <strong>il a acquis ce statut</strong> de shooteur d&#8217;&#233;lite au fur et &#224; mesure. Sur le d&#233;but de saison, on peut retrouver pas mal de s&#233;quences o&#249; il est abandonn&#233;, o&#249; on passe sous l&#8217;&#233;cran et o&#249; on d&#233;fend en drop face &#224; lui. </p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;81208c90-d5b7-4354-a618-3132ab1bd9e6&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Des s&#233;quences qui se sont faites de plus en plus rares avec l&#8217;avancement de la saison parce que Cam est l&#233;tal s&#8217;il est ouvert mais poss&#232;de &#233;galement le pull-up tr&#232;s rapide et m&#234;me du tir en mouvement en d&#233;s&#233;quilibre. En une demi saison, il a acquis cette gravit&#233; de shooteur assez d&#233;lirante. Le drop (int&#233;rieur qui reste bas) semble improbable, m&#234;me le switch doit &#234;tre bien ex&#233;cut&#233; parce qu&#8217;il peut profiter du mini temps de latence pour se cr&#233;er une poche d&#8217;espace et d&#233;gainer.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K0OI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5bed4563-e743-49aa-9982-4ebbb83d2acf_1195x674.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K0OI!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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une source de rentabilit&#233; en fin de cha&#238;ne sur des renversements o&#249; il sera plac&#233;, mais &#233;galement une <strong>source de d&#233;calages</strong> de par sa gravit&#233;. C&#8217;est pr&#233;cis&#233;ment ce qui le distingue &#224; mes yeux d&#8217;un simple sniper, sa qualit&#233; &#224; vraiment exploiter sa gravit&#233; pour les autres gr&#226;ce &#224; un tr&#232;s, tr&#232;s bon passing.</p><p>Si on devait r&#233;sumer son passing en un mot je dirais que je le trouve incroyablement <strong>mature</strong>. C&#8217;est gr&#226;ce &#224; sa <strong>compr&#233;hension de tout ce qui se passe sur un terrain</strong> qu&#8217;il s&#8217;est fait sa place en NBA. Et c&#8217;est aussi gr&#226;ce au fait qu&#8217;il est d&#8217;un calme olympien et presque <strong>toujours sous contr&#244;le</strong>, jamais press&#233;.</p><p>Un point marquant qui vaut la peine d&#8217;&#234;tre soulign&#233; c&#8217;est &#224; quel point il conna&#238;t tous les syst&#232;mes de son &#233;quipe et comprend les principes. On le voit souvent indiquer au porteur de balle quoi faire, aux joueurs off ball o&#249; se placer&#8230; C&#8217;est assez inquantifiable, mais tr&#232;s valuable d&#8217;avoir ce genre de joueurs. Peut-&#234;tre encore plus pour une &#233;quipe de jeunes. Un bon exemple pour cela sont les situations o&#249; il fait face &#224; un mismatch. C&#8217;est-&#224;-dire les situations de P&amp;R ou alors les situations de transition. Il a une tr&#232;s bonne vitesse de processeur pour reconna&#238;tre que le grand est sur lui et surtout que par cons&#233;quent un petit est sur un gros. Et il va en permanence chercher l&#8217;entry passe avant qu&#8217;une aide puisse venir. Cela servait souvent &#224; mettre JJJ sur orbite, mais il est assez simple d&#8217;imaginer la transposition avec Cam Boozer et Zach Edey.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;b30a79ef-7b66-4455-9487-9c6642067d93&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>L&#8217;attaque d&#8217;Iisalo avait ce grand principe que j&#8217;appelle de &#171; replace &#187; : d&#232;s qu&#8217;un P&amp;R &#233;tait jou&#233;, un autre joueur venait se replacer en t&#234;te de raquette. Ainsi, si le premier drive ne donne rien, on a une deuxi&#232;me salve pr&#234;te &#224; &#234;tre lanc&#233;e. Cam Spencer &#233;tait un de ceux qui appliquait le mieux ce principe quand il &#233;tait off ball, mais aussi qui en avait conscience ballon en main. &#199;a peut para&#238;tre simple, mais appliquer ce principe permettait souvent &#224; d&#8217;autres joueurs, meilleurs driveurs, d&#8217;&#234;tre mis sur orbite. Typiquement ici, il a conscience que la d&#233;fense du Heat est bonne et que s&#8217;il drive, rien de tr&#232;s bon arrivera mais la seule ouverture est Jaquez Jr qui d&#233;zone l&#233;g&#232;rement. 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data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;cbd39821-d521-4b51-b574-2423f392c3df&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p>Cette excellence dans les petits d&#233;tails est ce qu&#8217;il lui permet de faire <strong>n&#8217;importe quelle passe que son corps lui permet</strong>. Il n&#8217;est pas le plus grand, celui avec les plus longs bras mais est pourtant un excellent joueur de Pick&amp;Roll presque que sur la force de son cerveau (et sa menace de tir). Il sait faire n&#8217;importe quel type de passe : la pocket pass, la passe de lob mais aussi la skip passe. D&#232;s que le d&#233;fenseur c&#244;t&#233; faible descend couvrir le roll et lib&#232;re le corner, il va voir la passe et tr&#232;s souvent la faire en r&#233;action. Il a tout le temps la t&#234;te lev&#233;e et est sous contr&#244;le gr&#226;ce &#224; un dribble fonctionnel. Il va souvent mettre son d&#233;fenseur direct dans son dos, scanner le terrain et servir le joueur seul.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;183bdc01-7dd2-4a74-8826-ed9ccdb2f9ea&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Ce qui m&#8217;impressionne par dessus tout c&#8217;est &#224; quel point il r&#233;agit vite, il lit la d&#233;fense en permanence et est dans <strong>l&#8217;adaptation sans aucun sch&#233;ma pr&#233; d&#233;termin&#233;.</strong> C&#8217;est assez dur &#224; lire comme qualit&#233; mais elle saute aux yeux avec lui. Il a parfaitement conscience de la rentabilit&#233; des tirs au panier et va en permanence chercher le tir au panier. Celle-ci contre les Nets est absolument g&#233;niale. En sortie d&#8217;&#233;cran, il voit deux d&#233;fenseurs monter sur lui &#224; cause du tir. Donc il part dans l&#8217;optique de servir le pop mais voit au dernier moment le cut, et donc un meilleur tir potentiel, se repositionne et d&#233;gaine.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;eeffc276-298f-491e-bab8-5eefd1eb3930&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Avec ce contr&#244;le permanent, il est m&#234;me capable par s&#233;quence de manipuler les d&#233;fenseurs mais dans un registre particulier et lent. Voyez ici, son tir attire les d&#233;fenseurs et Alexander Walker vient couvrir le roll. Il menace donc le kick-out vers le corner, fait sortir NAW et cr&#233;e donc un tir au panier, le meilleur tir du basket.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;acae003d-e47b-46b5-9c57-bb62d4434764&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Nous sommes face &#224; un joueur qui ne score que d&#8217;une fa&#231;on, mais le fait de fa&#231;on tellement &#233;lite que c&#8217;est un vrai poids sur les d&#233;fenses adverses. Et il en a parfaitement conscience !</p><p>La limite &#233;vidente &#224; plus de cr&#233;ation et un vrai upside de superstars reste le drive qui est super limit&#233; &#224; la finition. Mais l&#224; encore, il utilise parfaitement ses qualit&#233;s pour cr&#233;er du danger collectif. Donc on l&#8217;a dit, grosse gravit&#233; de tir qui attire les d&#233;fenseurs. Et donc qui assez souvent, lui ouvre des lignes de drive. Et le sch&#233;ma de pens&#233;e de Spencer dans ces situations est tr&#232;s simple : soit il y a personne et je finis, <strong>soit une aide va venir et je kick out.</strong></p><p>C&#8217;est &#224; partir de ce sch&#233;ma (simplifi&#233;) qu&#8217;on comprend 3 stats qui le d&#233;crivent tr&#232;s bien :</p><ul><li><p>seulement 9% de tirs pris au panier (7e centile)</p></li><li><p>1.64 AST:USG (100e centile)</p></li><li><p>17.4 AST% en fin de drive (1er de NBA)</p></li></ul><p>En gros, <strong>personne n&#8217;a une aussi grosse tendance &#224; passer que lui</strong>. Encore plus en fin de drive, o&#249; il finit rarement mais passe extr&#234;mement souvent. Sur ses situations de drive, il passe le ballon plus que des Jamal Shead, Russell Westbrook ou Davion Mitchell. C&#8217;est un vrai pass first une fois que son tir est bloqu&#233;. C&#8217;est une limite, mais aussi une force parce que l&#224; encore, c&#8217;est une formidable source d&#8217;attaque pour ses co&#233;quipiers. Sa <strong>d&#233;c&#233;l&#233;ration est assez choquante</strong> dans cet aspect et je n&#8217;en avais pas du tout conscience. Elle lui permet de faire sauter les d&#233;fenseurs, et encore une fois de s&#8217;offrir du temps pour scanner le terrain. </p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;7cef3498-9d5a-4d12-9c6d-4c99ac8d7b74&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Il est vraiment capable de passes tr&#232;s audacieuses dans ce registre, tout en ayant une grande propret&#233; et peut aussi passer des deux mains. Le passing a vraiment &#233;t&#233; une claque en regardant ce joueur cette ann&#233;e et c&#8217;est ce qui le distingue de la masse.</p><p>Encore un joueur sorti de UConn chez qui le passing &#233;tait peut-&#234;tre cach&#233; par un syst&#232;me collectif hors norme apr&#232;s Stephon Castle et Donovan Clingan. Peut-&#234;tre quelque chose &#224; surveiller &#224; l&#8217;avenir, mais on s&#8217;&#233;gare. Cam Spencer sait jouer au basket-ball et est tellement fort dans ce qu&#8217;il fait que cela me para&#238;t impossible de ne pas le voir refaire de m&#234;me avec un plus gros volume. Il sait qu&#8217;il a une gravit&#233; hors norme, et en joue avec patience et contr&#244;le ce qui a d&#233;bloqu&#233; tout le reste de son jeu offensif.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;4cc3886a-ac21-4b47-9c87-cb78392a4568&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>J&#8217;ai encore plus de mal &#224; ne pas le voir continuer sa progression au vu de l&#8217;effectif 2027. On pourrait penser qu&#8217;avec plus de comp&#233;titivit&#233;, il jouera moins mais en r&#233;alit&#233; je trouve que c&#8217;est tout l&#8217;inverse. L&#8217;effectif en place est une <strong>magnifique opportunit&#233; pour lui pour briller</strong>. </p><p>Un duo parfait pour lui serait un int&#233;rieur excellent poseur d&#8217;&#233;cran, qui peut punir les mismatchs face aux switchs. Il en a deux avec Edey et Boozer. Il serait parfait avec un monstre de short roll &#224; qui il pourrait passer la balle si on monte &#224; deux sur lui. Cam Boozer vient d&#8217;arriver. Il aurait besoin aussi d&#8217;un autre passeur de tr&#232;s haut niveau qui serait capable de le trouver quand lui bouge off ball, pourquoi pas depuis le post-up. CAM BOOZER VIENT D&#8217;ARRIVER. Un partenaire de main &#224; main plus dynamique que JJJ ? CAM BOOZER ! Potentiellement un joueur de Pick&amp;Pop dont il se sert parfois ? Quinten Post, Isaiah Stewart et CAM BOOZER.</p><p>Cette &#233;quipe de Memphis pourrait &#234;tre renomm&#233;e Hipster Land tant elle d&#233;borde de profils int&#233;ressants sous les radars mais Cam Spencer me paraissait &#234;tre l&#8217;une des histoires les plus int&#233;ressantes. Le fit avec le coach et la future star est trop parfait pour que la sauce ne prenne pas. Alors souvenez-vous du nom et dans quelques mois, quand Cam et Cam seront une des attractions de NBA, vous ne serez pas surpris et vous pourrez dire &#171; oui, je savais &#187;. </p><p>Merci &#224; tous de la lecture.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A la saison des mariages, et si le plus réussi était celui entre Kingston Flemings et les Hawks ?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Analyse de l'arriv&#233;e du num&#233;ro 8 de la draft 2026 &#224; Atlanta.]]></description><link>https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/a-la-saison-des-mariages-et-si-le</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/a-la-saison-des-mariages-et-si-le</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dreamcast Show]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:01:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>C'est l'&#233;t&#233;, il fait beau, il fait chaud et nous connaissons tous un couple d'amis qui ont scell&#233; leur union pour l'&#233;ternit&#233; pendant cette p&#233;riode. Alors il est d&#233;sormais temps de parier sur quelle association durera le plus longtemps, laquelle sera la plus fructueuse. Et si je vous disais que cela pourrait bien &#234;tre un couple qui s'est form&#233; aux yeux de tous le 23 juin 2026, au Barclays Center, lorsque les Hawks ont jet&#233; leur d&#233;volu sur le meneur des Cougars de Houston : Kingston Flemings ? Alors forc&#233;ment, avec les jeunes et les amourettes r&#233;centes, on voit de suite tout en grand et on esp&#232;re mondes et merveilles. Mais que doit-on esp&#233;rer de fa&#231;on raisonnable ? Et pourquoi cette s&#233;lection pourrait se transformer en un des meilleurs coups de la draft 2026 ? Bienvenue dans cette analyse, entre biais de jeunisme et tentative de rationalit&#233;.</p><h3>I. Renforcer les forces&#8230;</h3><p>Pour bien comprendre pourquoi un fit marche ou non, il faut d'abord comprendre quel est le squelette de l'&#233;quipe. Alors voici une petite mise en contexte de ces nouveaux Hawks. On monte dans notre machine &#224; remonter le temps et <strong>on recule d'un an pour aller &#224; la draft 2025.</strong> Les Hawks ont le pick num&#233;ro 13 et, &#224; ce moment-l&#224;, les plus gros noms de la cuv&#233;e sont d&#233;j&#224; pass&#233;s. Il reste des paris (Hansen Yang, Joan Beringer, Derik Queen), des role players annonc&#233;s (Asa Newell, Thomas Sorber, Drake Powell) quand soudain le t&#233;l&#233;phone sonne. Les Pelicans veulent absolument monter en 13 pour r&#233;cup&#233;rer un Derik Queen dont ils sont amoureux et proposent d'offrir leur pick 23, accompagn&#233; d'un pick non prot&#233;g&#233; qui sera le plus favorable entre celui des Bucks et le leur. Pour une draft 2026 qui s'annonce incroyablement dense, Atlanta ne pouvait pas refuser. Mieux, il y a m&#234;me fort &#224; parier que les Hawks avaient d&#233;j&#224; leur &#171; guy &#187; en la personne d'Asa Newell et qu'ils l'auraient pris quoi qu'il arrive.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!naea!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8db46d9-97af-441b-b530-2f2058add8f4_1600x900.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!naea!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8db46d9-97af-441b-b530-2f2058add8f4_1600x900.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!naea!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8db46d9-97af-441b-b530-2f2058add8f4_1600x900.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!naea!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8db46d9-97af-441b-b530-2f2058add8f4_1600x900.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!naea!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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presque certitude un pick lottery 2026 tout en draftant leur joueur. Alors &#233;videmment, le gain pur est g&#233;nial, mais la victoire est double puisque les Hawks avaient dans le m&#234;me temps swapp&#233; leur pick avec les Spurs. Autrement dit, si tu te retrouvais &#224; tanker, c'&#233;taient les Spurs qui repartaient avec le s&#233;same. Mais l&#224;, tu vas pouvoir &#234;tre tr&#232;s comp&#233;titif, <strong>construire une identit&#233;</strong>, tout en sachant qu'&#224; l'&#233;t&#233; 2026 tu auras un <strong>&#233;norme apport de talent pur !</strong> </p><p>Donc, pendant une saison enti&#232;re, les Hawks ont pu b&#226;tir une identit&#233; de jeu forte, renforc&#233;e par le <strong>d&#233;part de Trae Young le 8 janvier 2026.</strong> On pourrait d&#233;battre de la contrepartie (CJ McCollum et Corey Kispert), assez faible pour un moteur offensif comme Trae Young. Mais ce serait se tromper de cible. L'enjeu de ce trade &#233;tait pr&#233;cis&#233;ment qu'il ne parte pas contre rien. Parce qu'Atlanta semblait avoir tranch&#233; : pas de contrat maximum pour Ice Man. Pour des raisons qui s'entendent et qui m&#233;riteraient elles aussi un article &#224; part enti&#232;re, mais ce qui en ressort, c'est que le fit entre lui et la direction que prenait l'&#233;quipe ne marchait plus. La fameuse identit&#233; avait en r&#233;alit&#233; d&#233;j&#224; chang&#233; avant m&#234;me qu'il ne parte officiellement. Et cette identit&#233; est claire et nette : <strong>on veut avant tout &#234;tre une d&#233;fense d'&#233;lite</strong>.</p><p>Alors maintenant, on se demande &#233;videmment comment devenir une &#233;norme d&#233;fense en NBA en 2026. Disons que, quand tu n'as pas Victor Wembanyama, la strat&#233;gie la plus adapt&#233;e est de <strong>cr&#233;er des pertes de balle</strong> de fa&#231;on massive. Les deux meilleures d&#233;fenses de saison r&#233;guli&#232;re &#233;taient celles qui provoquaient le plus de turnovers (OKC et Detroit). Les trois autres qui compl&#233;taient le top 5 &#233;taient &#233;galement top 10 en d&#233;fense : Toronto, Phoenix et&#8230; Atlanta ! Les Hawks ont provoqu&#233; une perte de balle sur 15,7 % des possessions d&#233;fendues l'an pass&#233;. Depuis le 8 janvier, le score &#233;tait de 16,1 %, soit le <strong>top 4 de la NBA</strong>. 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l'&#233;chec Porzingis, Atlanta a donc opt&#233; pour une d&#233;fense collective de switch, provoquant des pertes de balle de fa&#231;on collective. L'effort n'&#233;tait pas individuel puisque l'on comptait <strong>huit joueurs de la rotation de fin de saison &#224; un minimum de 1,5 STL %</strong> ! Retenons donc ceci : switchabilit&#233;, intelligence de rotation et cr&#233;ation de pertes de balle !</p><p>C'est l&#224; qu'on parle enfin du petit nouveau, le choix num&#233;ro 8 de la draft, Kingston Flemings. Qui est-il ? Et pourquoi ce fit fonctionne-t-il ? Pr&#233;cis&#233;ment parce qu'il coche presque tous les crit&#232;res pour ne pas affaiblir cette d&#233;fense des Hawks. Kingston Flemings est un meneur de jeu de <strong>6'2 avec une envergure de 6'4"</strong> qui a &#233;t&#233; draft&#233; pour sa cr&#233;ation offensive certes, mais qui a l'avantage de ne pas du tout &#234;tre un mauvais d&#233;fenseur. Dans cette draft des meneurs, il est probablement, &#224; mes yeux, <strong>le plus pr&#234;t et fonctionnel d&#233;fensivement</strong> &#224; l'instant T. Mais ne nous m&#233;prenons pas non plus : il le fait dans un style assez particulier. Parfois compar&#233; &#224; Jrue Holiday par certains, je m'inscris totalement en faux sur ce point. Kingston n'est pas un d&#233;fenseur sur l'homme &#233;touffant et massif. Non, Kingston est relativement fin, l&#233;ger, mais incroyablement souple et vif, et surtout dot&#233; d'un cerveau qui tourne excellemment bien.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;04d68cc9-454d-470e-8710-319939478747&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Flemings jouait &#224; Houston, dans l'un des syst&#232;mes d&#233;fensifs les plus agressifs du pays (connu pour les &#171; monster traps &#187;), extr&#234;mement exigeant dans les rotations. Et le meneur, encore plus pour un freshman, &#233;tait vraiment plus qu'int&#233;ressant dans l'exercice. Extr&#234;mement vif sur les lignes de passes, avec des mains actives. Toujours bien plac&#233; dans les pr&#233;-rotations, les &#171; tags &#187; au panier, et avec un bon potentiel sur les close-outs gr&#226;ce &#224; une flexibilit&#233; de cheville sensationnelle. Regardez ici comme son agilit&#233; et son second voir troisi&#232;me saut lui offre de la marge de manoeuvre pour tenter l&#8217;interception.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;2fa4cc90-ef12-4e90-96cd-cebb52e20867&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>En r&#233;sum&#233;, il &#233;tait le moteur offensif (unique) de cette &#233;quipe mais ne se reposait pas en d&#233;fense, puisqu'il participait activement &#224; la cr&#233;ation de pertes de balle avec <strong>3,0 STL %</strong> ! Pour mettre les choses en perspective, parmi les sophomores/freshmen de NCAA pr&#233;sent&#233;s &#224; la draft qui avaient un minimum de 20 % d'USG (un minimum de responsabilit&#233;s), ils n'&#233;taient que sept &#224; avoir un minimum de 2,5 STL % : Cam Boozer, Darryn Peterson, Caleb Wilson, Ebuka Okorie, Brayden Burries, Meleek Thomas, et donc Kingston Flemings. Et encore, avec son 3,0 %, il &#233;tait premier, tout en ayant 27 % d'USG (et non 21 % comme Burries). Bref, <strong>Flemings sait jouer dans un sch&#233;ma qui cherche &#224; provoquer des pertes de balle</strong>, et c'est m&#234;me mieux que &#231;a : il &#233;tait d&#233;j&#224; comp&#233;tent dans l'exercice.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;b5830dcb-8f0a-4d53-82e9-13fd5cee1405&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Mais l&#224; o&#249; tout s'imbrique parfaitement et nous offre un c&#244;t&#233; tr&#232;s satisfaisant, c'est que <strong>Flemings n'est pas un d&#233;fenseur on-ball parfait</strong> &#224; mes yeux, ou du moins ce n'est pas l&#224; o&#249; il excelle (et c'est l&#224; o&#249; la comparaison avec Jrue est un non-sens). Il n'est pas mauvais, mais ce n'est pas ce qu'il est, et tant mieux, puisqu'Atlanta a d&#233;j&#224; Dyson Daniels, Nickeil Alexander-Walker, et vient d'ajouter Lu Dort, aka le meilleur d&#233;fenseur du point d'attaque ou presque de la NBA. Et Devin Carter &#233;galement, plus discr&#232;tement. Donc Flemings se fera peut-&#234;tre chasser, mais il jouera bien plus off-ball que on-ball, l&#224; o&#249; il aura une vraie plus-value ! La question est de savoir jusqu'o&#249; ira l'impact. Parce que si le cerveau n'est pas une question, ce sont davantage les mensurations qui posent question. En NCAA, on le voyait m&#234;me parfois faire d'excellentes rotations au cercle gr&#226;ce &#224; son jump vertical hors du commun et sa capacit&#233; &#224; se contorsionner, mais il reste fin et peu puissant. Arrivera-t-il &#224; impacter autant en NBA ? Un autre jeune prospect aux mains d'or, avec un tr&#232;s bon saut vertical, qui excellait dans le playmaking d&#233;fensif, s'appelait Reed Sheppard (je ne peux pas m'en emp&#234;cher&#8230;) et c'est aujourd'hui &#224; cause de sa d&#233;fense qu'il ne joue pas plus de 25 minutes. </p><p>Seulement voil&#224;, Flemings est tout de m&#234;me bien plus grand, et donc switchable. Surtout, il est tomb&#233; chez Snyder et non chez Udoka, dans un syst&#232;me qui cherche &#224; cr&#233;er de la transition (l&#224; o&#249; Houston est 21e), et qui n'a personne d'autre &#224; prot&#233;ger (Houston a Sengun). Ainsi, je pense que <strong>le plancher d&#233;fensif est d&#233;j&#224; int&#233;ressant</strong>, et plus particuli&#232;rement dans ce syst&#232;me.</p><p></p><h3>II. &#8230; et combler ses faiblesses ? </h3><p></p><p>Question triviale, mais si Atlanta &#233;tait une superbe d&#233;fense, top 5 depuis le d&#233;part de Trae, pourquoi n'&#233;taient-ils pas contenders ? &#201;videmment, c'est &#224; cause de l'attaque. Qu'est-ce qui a manqu&#233; &#224; cette &#233;quipe, concr&#232;tement ? Ce que disent les stats, la tactique, l'&#233;limination en playoffs contre les Knicks, c'est qu'<strong>il y avait un manque monumental de cr&#233;ation</strong>, pour soi-m&#234;me comme pour les autres. 30e &#233;quipe sur 30 en efficacit&#233; en isolation. 24e sur 30 en efficacit&#233; sur pick-and-roll ball handler. Lorsque les Knicks se sont mis &#224; blitzer McCollum, il n'a pas &#233;t&#233; capable de faire des passes qui cassent compl&#232;tement la d&#233;fense. Et tous les autres (hormis peut-&#234;tre NAW) &#233;taient incapables de se cr&#233;er eux-m&#234;mes leurs tirs. Jalen Johnson est un formidable passeur, moteur de transition, menace de lob, joueur de short roll ou de main &#224; main, mais on commence aussi &#224; apercevoir un plafond de verre concernant sa cr&#233;ation pour lui-m&#234;me. Et m&#234;me CJ McCollum, pourtant en feu sur ses pull-ups, reste un peu l&#233;ger sur ce plan.</p><p>Les Hawks survivaient en attaque gr&#226;ce &#224; deux aspects : <strong>la transition</strong>, avec la 4e fr&#233;quence et la meilleure efficacit&#233; ; et le fait <strong>de perdre peu de ballons</strong>, o&#249; ils &#233;taient la 6e meilleure &#233;quipe. Mais ils manquaient cruellement de puissance de feu, d'un joueur qui serait la fameuse intersection dont j&#8217;adore parler entre cr&#233;ation pour soi-m&#234;me et pour les autres. Et &#231;a tombe bien : si Flemings a &#233;t&#233; draft&#233; si haut, c'est parce que, th&#233;oriquement, le joueur a ce profil. Ce potentiel.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;9a9d416e-a897-44f6-bff9-027667afce90&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Le superpouvoir de Flemings se situe vraiment dans son profil physico-athl&#233;tique. Il a un <strong>premier pas ultra-rapide</strong>, le plus rapide de la cuv&#233;e, mais &#233;galement une bonne d&#233;c&#233;l&#233;ration au d&#233;part de son drive. Ce cocktail lui permet d'avoir des changements de rythme assez impr&#233;visibles mais redoutables, et de d&#233;s&#233;quilibrer son d&#233;fenseur presque sur commande. Comme il a aussi une flexibilit&#233; de cheville et de tout le corps ph&#233;nom&#233;nale, cela lui permet d'agir un peu dans les <strong>quatre directions sur le plan horizontal</strong>, ce qui est tr&#232;s rare. Et &#231;a lui permet aussi de baisser son dribble&#8230; mais aussi de le remonter au besoin. Je ne pense pas qu'il ait le meilleur handle de la cuv&#233;e, mais je pense avoir un biais d'esth&#233;tisme avec lui, ou plut&#244;t d'anti-esth&#233;tisme. Parce que ce n'est pas toujours &#171; beau &#187;, mais sa capacit&#233; &#224; remonter le dribble tr&#232;s haut jusqu'&#224; ce que son d&#233;fenseur donne ses appuis, puis &#224; red&#233;marrer comme une fus&#233;e, c'est assez intrigant. En bref, il a <strong>une excellente gestion de son rythme et un premier pas d&#233;vastateur</strong> qui fait qu'il va forc&#233;ment cr&#233;er des d&#233;calages. Le meilleur exemple de la s&#251;ret&#233; de son dribble est cette possession face &#224; Arizona State o&#249; il donne presque l&#8217;impression qu&#8217;on le dirige avec un joystick tant le changement de direction est brutal mais sans perte d&#8217;inertie.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;41c12e4f-dcd5-4424-90fe-53ad31530c0c&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Le &#171; probl&#232;me &#187; pour l'instant porte plus sur ce qu'il se passe apr&#232;s. Autant je suis plut&#244;t tr&#232;s chaud (trop ?) sur le passing de Flemings, autant <strong>le scoring pose un peu question.</strong> Il a de si petites mains et un petit corps qu'il lui est <strong>compliqu&#233; d'&#234;tre un vrai finisseur au cercle</strong>, encore moins de provoquer des fautes. Ses meilleures possessions de finition sont celles o&#249; il finit extr&#234;mement rapidement, avant que la rotation ne soit arriv&#233;e. Un peu comme Tyrese Maxey dans ses jeunes ann&#233;es.  Ca marche parfois, mais pas toujours et il peut se mettre dans des situations compliqu&#233;es, loin du cercle.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;0ae6dffa-94e6-4179-85c3-ab2f13e94ded&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;6dadbe23-9abd-4ae9-88f9-725e395c5ae4&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>C'est d&#233;j&#224; bien, mais &#231;a limite le potentiel. De m&#234;me, on sent qu'il n'a <strong>pas encore une immense confiance en son tir &#224; 3 points</strong>, car lorsqu'il tire, il est un peu pench&#233; en arri&#232;re. Et forc&#233;ment, quand tu ne prends pas beaucoup de tirs au panier parce que ton bagage n'est pas tr&#232;s &#233;largi, et que tu ne prends pas non plus &#233;norm&#233;ment de tirs lointains, tu te retrouves &#224; prendre une pellet&#233;e de mi-distance. Que dis-je, un tractopelle de mi-distance : 194 tirs &#224; mi-distance contre 106 &#224; 3 points et 166 tirs au cercle, ce qui correspond &#224; 42 % de ses tirs. C'est &#233;norme. Il r&#233;ussissait ces tirs &#224; mi-distance &#224; 44 %, ce qui, en revanche, est vraiment bon et montre qu'il ma&#238;trise son pull-up.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f552889f-22cf-4f81-bf20-632ed070749f&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>La question est de savoir si c'est une vraie limite ou si c'est gommable. Pour le coup, je pense qu'il faudra retravailler un peu la m&#233;canique et l'&#233;quilibre, mais il &#233;tait tout de m&#234;me &#224; 38 % &#224; 3 points, avec en prime <strong>85 % aux lancers francs.</strong> En ajoutant &#224; cela le mi-distance, on obtient finalement un joueur au toucher ind&#233;niable. L&#224; o&#249; les limites en drive sont r&#233;elles et &#233;videntes, le shotmaking est, pour moi, un axe de progression &#233;vident et assez simple s&#8217;il corrige ce balancier.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;28d5361a-6360-4395-90bb-8727e6e329b4&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Pour revenir aux Hawks, c'est peut-&#234;tre &#231;a qui est int&#233;ressant : les hommes de Snyder <strong>ont aussi besoin de ce profil de shotmaker</strong>, ce joueur capable de se cr&#233;er son tir par s&#233;quence, et Flemings pourrait l'avoir &#224; terme gr&#226;ce &#224; sa capacit&#233; de stop-and-go et &#224; son toucher de balle ind&#233;niable.</p><p>Le tout en portant aussi la casquette du cr&#233;ateur pour les autres, &#224; l'inverse d'un McCollum par exemple. Kingston a une capacit&#233; &#224; d&#233;s&#233;quilibrer une d&#233;fense, mais il sait aussi l'exploiter. Il peut passer en mouvement, dans le dribble, par-dessus son d&#233;fenseur, et peut m&#234;me manipuler la d&#233;fense avec ses yeux. </p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;95a38605-16aa-411e-baaf-df7606f6c479&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>C'est plus <strong>un passeur de drive-and-kick</strong>, et parfois de skip pass, qu'un vrai scientifique du pick-and-roll comme l'&#233;tait Trae Young, mais je trouve que l'&#233;quilibre entre qualit&#233; des passes et propret&#233; est plus que satisfaisant. Flemings est un vrai <strong>joueur passe-first</strong>, on l'a d&#233;j&#224; vu en Summer League, mais il perd relativement peu de ballons dans ce registre. Et une fois de plus, &#231;a colle avec ces Hawks qui aiment perdre peu de ballons. Parmi les jeunes de NCAA qui avaient un minimum de 25 % d'USG et 20 % d'AST (qui faisaient un minimum de passes), seuls Ebuka Okorie, Keaton Wagler et Darius Acuff perdaient moins de ballons, devant les Dybantsa, Philon, Boozer et Mikel Brown de ce monde. (Il a l'air pas mal, cet Okorie, non ?)</p><p>Le but de ces petits filtrages n'est pas d'en tirer un fait pr&#233;cis mais plut&#244;t une tendance, et celle-ci est de dire que Flemings perd peu de ballons vu son volume. Et compar&#233; &#224; un Wagler, Flemings prend largement plus de risques, et c'est &#231;a qui est int&#233;ressant !</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;bc354904-c644-4eda-adfc-a0280f60ff3d&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p>Prenons ce match face &#224; Iowa State (pas le plus simple, mais l'un de mes pr&#233;f&#233;r&#233;s de sa part) et cette possession dit &#233;norm&#233;ment : d'abord, il d&#233;passe son d&#233;fenseur une premi&#232;re fois avec une aisance d&#233;concertante, puis attire le low man sur lui. Et boom, skip pass &#224; deux mains par-dessus, gr&#226;ce &#224; son jump. Deux mains, aussi, parce qu'il a une pr&#233;f&#233;rence motrice pour ce mouvement en raison de la taille de ses mains. Le ballon revient sur lui, excellentes rotations d&#233;fensives, et <strong>&#224; partir d'absolument rien, il d&#233;passe une nouvelle fois son d&#233;fenseur</strong>. Il ne regarde m&#234;me pas vraiment le panier et sert directement, encore, un co&#233;quipier. </p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;2a01689a-3df4-4bb1-bb17-e7a446e02c8a&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Quand je vois ce genre de possessions, je vois exactement ce dont ces Hawks ont besoin : un cr&#233;ateur de d&#233;calages qui pourra le faire encore et encore en NBA. Et la bonne nouvelle, c'est qu'il pourra aussi avoir une part off-ball que Trae Young n'avait pas, puisqu'il excelle aussi dans les drives lanc&#233;s pour attaquer les close-outs. Et ce joueur n'apportera peu ou pas de compromis d&#233;fensifs. Il peut aussi se cr&#233;er son tir et a un vrai potentiel de shooteur. Cerise sur le g&#226;teau, il perd peu de ballons mais en provoque de l'autre c&#244;t&#233; ! Alors tout n'est pas parfait : la finition posera question, le gap physique &#233;galement, et le vrai niveau de shotmaker n'est pas encore connu. Mais on pourrait bien se retourner dans pas si longtemps, lorsque Flemings sera All-Rookie First Team, et se dire que le 23 juin 2026 n'aura &#233;t&#233; que le d&#233;but d'une union idyllique.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl1YgYjo4tY&amp;t=351s">Scouting Vid&#233;o Disponible ici.</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's wedding season, and what if the best match of all was between Kingston Flemings and the Hawks?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Analysis of the 8th pick in the 2026 NBA Draft]]></description><link>https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/its-wedding-season-and-what-if-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/its-wedding-season-and-what-if-the</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:42:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xGMk!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F264862f1-57d9-41f1-9089-5bedc6d398b4_1280x720.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>It's summer, the weather is warm, and we all know a couple of friends who sealed their union for eternity during this time of year. So it's about time to bet on which partnership will last the longest, which one will be the most fruitful. And what if I told you it could well be a couple formed in front of everyone on June 23, 2026, at the Barclays Center, when the Hawks set their sights on the Houston Cougars' point guard: Kingston Flemings? Naturally, with young players and fresh crushes, we immediately imagine the biggest possible outcomes and hope for the world. But what should we reasonably expect? And why could this pick turn into one of the best steals of the 2026 draft? Welcome to this analysis, somewhere between youthful bias and an attempt at rationality.</p><h3>I. Building on strengths&#8230;</h3><p>To understand why a fit works or not, you first need to understand the team's skeleton. So here's a bit of context on these new Hawks. Let's hop in our time machine and <strong>go back a year, to the 2025 draft</strong>. The Hawks hold pick number 13, and by that point the biggest names of the class are already gone. What's left are gambles (Hansen Yang, Joan Beringer, Derik Queen) and announced role players (Asa Newell, Thomas Sorber, Drake Powell) when suddenly the phone rings. The Pelicans desperately want to move up to 13 to grab a Derik Queen they've fallen in love with, and they offer their pick 23 along with an unprotected pick, the more favorable of the Bucks' and their own. For a 2026 draft already shaping up to be incredibly deep, you simply cannot turn that down. Better still, there's good reason to believe the Hawks already had their guy in Asa Newell and would have taken him regardless.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!naea!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8db46d9-97af-441b-b530-2f2058add8f4_1600x900.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!naea!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8db46d9-97af-441b-b530-2f2058add8f4_1600x900.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!naea!, 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Pelicans trade up for the 13th pick to draft Derik Queen and give away their own 2026&#8217;s draft pick</figcaption></figure></div><p>A windfall, then: the Hawks land, almost for certain, a 2026 lottery pick while still drafting their player. Obviously the pure gain is great, but the win is twofold, since the Hawks had, at the same time, swapped their pick with the Spurs. In other words, if you found yourself tanking, it was the Spurs who would have walked away with the golden ticket. Instead, you get to stay highly competitive, <strong>build an identity</strong>, all while knowing that by the summer of 2026 you'll receive a massive infusion of pure talent!</p><p>So for an entire season, the Hawks were able to build a strong on court identity, reinforced by the <strong>departure of Trae Young on January 8, 2026</strong>. One could debate the return (CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert), which looks fairly light for an offensive engine like Trae Young. But that would be missing the point. The whole stake of this trade was making sure he didn't leave for nothing. Because Atlanta seemed to have already made up its mind: no max contract for Ice Man. For reasons that make sense and would deserve an article of their own, what stands out is that the fit between him and the direction the team was heading no longer worked. That famous identity had, in reality, already changed before he even officially left. And that identity is crystal clear: above all, <strong>they want to be an elite defense.</strong></p><p>So now, naturally, the question becomes: how do you build a huge defense in the NBA in 2026? Let's just say that when you don't have Victor Wembanyama, the best available strategy is <strong>to force turnovers on a massive scale</strong>. The two best regular season defenses were the ones that forced the most turnovers (OKC and Detroit). The other three teams rounding out the top 5 were also top 10 defenses: Toronto, Phoenix, and&#8230; Atlanta! The Hawks forced a turnover on 15.7% of the possessions they defended last season. Since January 8, that number rose to 16.1%, <strong>good for top 4 in the league.</strong> From that angle, it clearly helps not to have Trae Young on the floor.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8NyZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F375cf6b6-b005-41c0-8752-350f66b52bb0_1384x721.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8NyZ!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F375cf6b6-b005-41c0-8752-350f66b52bb0_1384x721.png 424w, 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opted for a collective switching defense built around forcing turnovers as a group. The effort wasn't concentrated on one player, since <strong>eight rotation players from the end of the season posted at least a 1.5 STL% !</strong> So let's keep this in mind: switchability, rotation intelligence, and turnover creation!</p><p>This is finally where the new kid comes in: pick number 8, Kingston Flemings. Who is he? And why does this fit make sense? Precisely because he checks nearly every box needed to avoid weakening this Hawks defense. Kingston Flemings is a <strong>6'2 point guard with a 6'4" wingspan</strong> who was drafted primarily for his offensive creation, but who has the added benefit of being anything but a poor defender. Among the point guards in this draft class, he's, in my view, <strong>the most ready and functional defensively right now</strong>. But let's not get it twisted either: he does it in a fairly particular style. Sometimes compared to Jrue Holiday, I strongly disagree with that comparison. Kingston is not a suffocating, physically overwhelming on ball defender. No, Kingston is relatively slight and light, but incredibly fluid and quick, and above all his basketball IQ runs at an excellent level.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;04d68cc9-454d-470e-8710-319939478747&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Flemings played at Houston, inside one of the most aggressive defensive systems in the country (known for its "monster traps"), an extremely demanding scheme when it comes to rotations. And the guard, even more impressively for a freshman, was genuinely more than solid in that exercise. Extremely sharp on passing lanes, with active hands. Always well positioned in pre rotations, on tags at the rim, and showing real promise on closeouts thanks to sensational ankle flexibility. Look at him here and watch how his agility and his insane second jump offers him the opportunity to attempt a steal.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;2fa4cc90-ef12-4e90-96cd-cebb52e20867&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>In short, he was the (sole) offensive engine of that team, yet he never coasted on defense, actively contributing to turnover creation with a <strong>3.0 STL% </strong>! For some added perspective, among NCAA sophomores and freshmen entering the draft with at least 20% usage (a meaningful workload), only seven posted at least a 2.5 STL%: Cam Boozer, Darryn Peterson, Caleb Wilson, Ebuka Okorie, Brayden Burries, Meleek Thomas, and Kingston Flemings. And even then, with his 3.0%, he ranked first, all while carrying a 27% usage rate (not 21%, like Burries). In short, <strong>Flemings knows how to play within a scheme built around forcing turnovers</strong>, and even better, he was already skilled at it.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;b5830dcb-8f0a-4d53-82e9-13fd5cee1405&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>But what makes everything click perfectly, and feels genuinely satisfying, is that <strong>Flemings isn't, in my eyes, a flawless on ball defender</strong>, or at least that's not where he shines (and that's exactly where the Jrue comparison falls apart). He isn't bad at it, but it simply isn't who he is, and that works out fine, since Atlanta already has Dyson Daniels, Nickeil Alexander Walker, and just added Lu Dort, arguably the best point of attack defender in basketball right now. Devin Carter quietly adds to that group too. So Flemings may get hunted at times, but he'll play far more off ball than on ball, and that's exactly where he'll add real value! The real question is how far his impact can go, because if the basketball IQ isn't in doubt, his measurables raise more legitimate questions. In college, you'd occasionally see him make excellent rotations to the rim thanks to his uncommon vertical explosiveness and his ability to contort his body, but he remains slight and not especially powerful. Will he be able to impact the game the same way in the NBA? Another young prospect with great hands and a strong vertical leap who excelled at defensive playmaking was named Reed Sheppard (I can't hold myself&#8230;), and today it's precisely his defense that keeps him under 25 minutes a night.</p><p>Still, Flemings is noticeably taller, and therefore more switchable. More importantly, he landed with Snyder and not Udoka, in a system built around generating transition (an area where Houston ranks 21st), and one with no other rim protector to babysit (Houston has Sengun). So I believe <strong>his defensive floor is already promising</strong>, particularly within this system.</p><p></p><h3>II. &#8230;and filling in the gaps?</h3><p></p><p>A fairly obvious question: if Atlanta was a great defense, top 5 since Trae left, why weren't they contenders? Obviously, it's the offense. What exactly did this team lack? What the stats, the tactics, and the playoff elimination against the Knicks all point to is a <strong>massive shortage of creation</strong>, both for themselves and for others. 30th out of 30 teams in isolation efficiency. 24th out of 30 in pick and roll ball handler efficiency. When the Knicks started blitzing McCollum, he wasn't able to make passes that fully broke the defense down. And everyone else, aside perhaps from NAW, was unable to create their own shot. Jalen Johnson is a terrific passer, a transition engine, a lob threat, and a strong short roll or dribble handoff player, but you can also start to see a real ceiling in his ability to create for himself. And even CJ McCollum, hot as he was on his pull ups, simply doesn't provide enough on that front.</p><p>The Hawks survived offensively thanks to two things: <strong>transition</strong>, where they ranked 4th in frequency and were the most efficient team, and <strong>taking care of the ball</strong>, where they were the 6th best team in the league. But they badly lacked firepower, a player who could sit at that famous intersection I love between creating for himself and creating for others. And as it happens, that's exactly why Flemings was drafted so high: on paper, he fits that profile, that potential.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;9a9d416e-a897-44f6-bff9-027667afce90&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Flemings' superpower really lies in his physical and athletic profile. He has an <strong>ultra quick first step</strong>, the fastest in the class, but also strong deceleration coming out of his drive. That combination gives him unpredictable yet dangerous changes of pace and lets him throw his defender off balance almost at will. Because he also has phenomenal ankle and overall body flexibility, it allows him to operate a bit in <strong>all four horizontal directions</strong>, which is very rare. It also lets him lower his dribble... and raise it back up when needed. I don't think he has the best handle in the class, but I suspect I have an aesthetic bias toward him, or rather an anti aesthetic one. Because it isn't always "pretty," but his ability to raise his dribble up high until his defender commits his weight, then explode off like a rocket, is genuinely intriguing. In short, he has excellent rhythm control and a devastating first step that inevitably creates advantages. The clearest example of how sure his handle is comes from a possession against Arizona State where he gives the impression of being a 2K player by not being influenced by the sharpe change of direction and keeping all his momentum.  </p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;41c12e4f-dcd5-4424-90fe-53ad31530c0c&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The "problem" right now has more to do with what happens after the advantage is created. While I'm quite high (maybe too high) on Flemings' passing, <strong>his scoring raises a few more questions.</strong> His hands and frame are small enough that <strong>finishing at the rim, let alone drawing fouls, becomes difficult for him.</strong> His best finishing possessions come when he finishes extremely quickly, before the rotation has even arrived, somewhat like a young Tyrese Maxey.  It works sometimes, but not everytime and it forced him to finish in very unorthodox position often far from the rim. </p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;0ae6dffa-94e6-4179-85c3-ab2f13e94ded&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;6dadbe23-9abd-4ae9-88f9-725e395c5ae4&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>That's already valuable, but it caps his ultimate ceiling. Similarly, you can sense he <strong>doesn't yet have full confidence in his three point shot</strong>, since he tends to lean back a bit on his release. And naturally, when you don't take many shots at the rim because your bag isn't especially deep, and you also don't take many shots from deep, you end up taking a ton of midrange jumpers. Or rather, a bulldozer's worth : 194 midrange attempts against 106 three pointers and 166 shots at the rim, meaning midrange makes up 42% of his shot diet. That's enormous. He made those midrange shots at a 44% clip, which is genuinely excellent and shows real mastery of his pull up game.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f552889f-22cf-4f81-bf20-632ed070749f&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The question is whether this is a real limitation or something fixable. My take is that his mechanics and especially balance will need some work, but he still shot 38% from three, with an <strong>85% mark at the free throw line</strong> on top of that. Combine that with his midrange numbers and you get a player with genuinely undeniable touch. While the limitations off the drive are real and clear, his shotmaking looks like an obvious and fairly manageable area for growth.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;28d5361a-6360-4395-90bb-8727e6e329b4&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Coming back to the Hawks, this might be exactly what makes the fit interesting: <strong>Snyder's team also needs this kind of shotmaker</strong>, a player who can generate his own shot in a sequence, and Flemings could eventually provide that thanks to his stop and go ability and his undeniable touch. </p><p>All while also wearing the hat of a creator for others, unlike a player such as McCollum. Kingston can throw a defense off balance, but <strong>he also knows how to take advantage of it</strong>. He can pass on the move, off the dribble, over the top of his defender, and can even manipulate a defense with his eyes.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;95a38605-16aa-411e-baaf-df7606f6c479&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>He's more of a <strong>drive and kick</strong>, and occasionally skip pass, passer than a true pick and roll scientist like Trae Young was, but I find the balance between the quality of his passing and his ball security more than satisfying. Flemings is a genuinely <strong>pass first player</strong>, something already visible in Summer League, yet he turns the ball over relatively rarely in that role. And once again, this matches perfectly with a Hawks team that values taking care of the ball. Among NCAA prospects with at least a 25% usage rate and a 20% assist rate (players carrying a real passing workload), only Ebuka Okorie, Keaton Wagler, and Darius Acuff turned the ball over less, ahead of names like Dybantsa, Philon, Boozer, and Mikel Brown. That Okorie guy sounds pretty good, doesn't he?</p><p>The aim with these small filters isn't to draw one precise conclusion but rather to highlight a trend, and that trend is that Flemings turns the ball over relatively little given his usage. And compared to someone like Wagler, Flemings takes noticeably more risks, which is exactly what makes it interesting!</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;bc354904-c644-4eda-adfc-a0280f60ff3d&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Let's go back to film with the game against Iowa State (not the simplest one for him, but one of my favorites of his). This possession says a lot: first he blows by his defender with disconcerting ease, then draws the low man toward him. And boom, a two handed skip pass over the top, made possible by his leaping ability. Two handed, in part, because he has a natural preference for that motion due to the size of his hands. The ball comes back to him, the defense rotates excellently, and <strong>out of seemingly nothing he beats his defender a second time</strong>. He doesn't even really look at the rim and immediately finds another teammate</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;2a01689a-3df4-4bb1-bb17-e7a446e02c8a&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>When I watch possessions like that, I see exactly what these Hawks need: a creator of advantages capable of doing it again and again in the NBA. And the good news is he'll also be able to contribute off ball in a way Trae Young never could, since he also excels attacking closeouts off the catch. And this is a player who won't force much of a defensive tradeoff. He can also create his own shot and has real scoring upside. The cherry on top: he turns the ball over rarely while forcing turnovers on the other end! So nothing here is perfect: finishing will remain a question mark, the physical gap will as well, and his true level as a shotmaker isn't fully known yet. But it wouldn't be surprising if, before too long, Flemings makes the All Rookie First Team and we look back and realize that June 23, 2026 was only the beginning of a truly idyllic partnership.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl1YgYjo4tY&amp;t=352s">Vid&#233;o format avaiblable here !</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darryn Peterson Isn't the Player You Think He Is. He Might Be Better.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scouting Report of the potential frsit pick of the stacked 2026 draft : Darryn Peterson.]]></description><link>https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/darryn-peterson-isnt-the-player-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/darryn-peterson-isnt-the-player-you</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dreamcast Show]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:18:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Oz12!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96d8f8cb-5660-4ab8-acb2-1378ba9adc01_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>Every draft year, there&#8217;s one prospect whose scouting report is a nightmare to write. A real riddle, full of holes and missing pieces, impossible to pin down with any certainty. This year, that player has a name, and he sits very high on the mock draft boards: Darryn Peterson. He arrived at Kansas as the near-unanimous No. 1 prospect of the 2026 class, but the narrative around him has slowly shifted, painting a picture of a guy who doesn&#8217;t love basketball and underwhelmed all season. Let&#8217;s be honest: today&#8217;s exercise is anything but simple. But let&#8217;s start from one premise, trying to evaluate WHAT WE ACTUALLY SAW. Beyond the narratives and the preconceptions, </span><strong><span>what if Darryn Peterson secretly deserves to be the true No. 1</span></strong><span> pick of the 2026 draft?</span></p><h1><strong><span>I. The Foundation to Reach the Stars?</span></strong></h1><p><span>What do Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Steph Curry, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Nikola Jokic, Kevin Durant, and about 99% of NBA superstars have in common? Yeah, I know, bold way to open an article. We&#8217;re not talking about rings, legacy, or mentality here, but a fundamental basketball quality. </span><strong><span>THE fundamental quality, really : touch.</span></strong><span> And yet, even though it underlies everything, this is, in my eyes, one of the hardest traits to evaluate in a prospect. Who could have guessed Kawhi Leonard had that kind of touch back at San Diego State? Free-throw percentage is usually the best indicator of touch, but sometimes elite touch is hidden behind bad mechanics, poor energy transfer, or a flawed hand placement. Who could have predicted Shai Gilgeous-Alexander would become the league&#8217;s best shotmaker out of Kentucky? Yet by raising his release point above his head instead of below it, he&#8217;s turned into an elite shooter (38% from three over the last two seasons) on top of being the best mid-range scorer in the league.</span></p><p><span>Let's not dance around it. </span><strong><span>Darryn Peterson might have the best pure touch</span></strong><span> of any prospect I've ever had the chance to watch. I'd like to think I have an opinion of my own here, not just an echo of what's been said since 2020, and I genuinely can't recall a player with this level of pure touch. I'm not sure he's the best "shooter" right now, but he might have the most impressive foundation. And yet it's incredibly hard to evaluate this outside of free-throw percentage, since even a player with terrible touch can occasionally pull off a spectacular finish. I myself could get lucky and impress you with one clip, the real challenge is detaching from highlight reels and taking a more thorough approach.</span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;2513c90d-4996-4661-a4d5-229d43965409&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>I remember exactly the first time I watched Peterson in a high school game, and even though those games don't mean much, the touch shines through so clearly it's undeniable. It jumps off the screen, especially on one thing that struck me immediately: he looked </span><strong><span>almost ambidextrous with his floater</span></strong><span>. At 17 years old. What's impressive is that he confirmed this in college, at Kansas. In fact, because of his lack of athleticism and his struggles finishing through real size at the rim (more on that later), Peterson leaned on that floater even more. He can pull it out from almost anywhere on the floor, sometimes (often?) to a fault, but I think he belongs to that rare group of players who can make that shot work at an acceptable rate.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iyng!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8569cd3-22c0-4deb-bee7-d8f99e4aed16_1307x705.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iyng!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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Naturally, that quality shows up most clearly in his jumper, which is without question the part of his game that impressed me the most. This is really the turning point of this whole piece, and of my evaluation of Darryn. He&#8217;s 6&#8217;5&#8221; with a 6&#8217;10&#8221; wingspan, sure, but </span><strong><span>Darryn Peterson is fundamentally a shooter before he&#8217;s a driver.</span></strong><span> Starting from that premise completely changes how you view him, because the expectations shift entirely. And yet, statistically, Peterson is far from the most eye-popping shooter we&#8217;ve seen lately. 38% from three on 83% free throw shooting is very good. But not elite.</span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;c9c001c3-dec6-40a2-8263-bb6f00a52fd2&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>The best shooting prospect we've seen recently is Kon Knueppel. Kon is a perfectly oiled machine with flawless mechanics. On free throws or jumpers, </span><strong><span>the motion never changes.</span></strong><span> The lower-body energy transfer is always clean, he's always balanced, always in control. Naturally, with that innate touch, he's just delivered the best shooting season by a rookie in league history. The word for it would be "clean." Maybe too clean, actually. Part of why his numbers are so good is that he only shoots when he's balanced enough to execute his mechanics properly. There's a small but real category of shots he simply "can't take." Of the 8 threes he launches a game, 6.5 are "open" or "wide open" according to NBA tracking cameras.</span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f31b884f-36c4-4f07-8782-e654285223f4&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>And that&#8217;s where Peterson is completely different. Watch his shots closely and you&#8217;ll notice most of his attempts come off-balance. His footwork is almost never the same twice, his legs drift forward or sideways constantly. </span><strong><span>His shot relies almost entirely on his incredible touch</span></strong><span>, and whether it goes in depends almost solely on his upper body. He&#8217;s far &#8220;messier&#8221; in how he gets his shots off, but at this level I think that&#8217;s actually a strength, it lets him fire from way more situations. In that sense, he reminds me much more of a Michael Porter Jr., a Jamal Murray, or even a Steph Curry. I have so many clips of him completely off-balance, often contested, shooting like it&#8217;s nothing, and it drops in barely grazing the net, often not even touching the rim. Completely absurd, and it&#8217;s that consistency of an absurd outcome that gets me.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Km2S!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8540f48-a4ec-4efc-9f45-9c0fdf31e320_1368x772.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Km2S!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8540f48-a4ec-4efc-9f45-9c0fdf31e320_1368x772.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Km2S!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">This shot goes in&#8230;</figcaption></figure></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aMtl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f3b15c4-2fd9-4caf-9383-4bcf504b393a_1367x764.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aMtl!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f3b15c4-2fd9-4caf-9383-4bcf504b393a_1367x764.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aMtl!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aMtl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f3b15c4-2fd9-4caf-9383-4bcf504b393a_1367x764.png" width="1367" height="764" 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1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aMtl!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f3b15c4-2fd9-4caf-9383-4bcf504b393a_1367x764.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">This one too !</figcaption></figure></div><p><span>That doesn&#8217;t mean his catch-and-shoot mechanics are bad. Quite the opposite, I think they&#8217;re excellent. When he&#8217;s open and set, his release is lightning-fast and perfectly balanced. Since the shot barely relies on his lower body, when he is open and adds just a bit more leg drive, it looks almost effortlessly easy. That shows up clearly in one specific way : I&#8217;ve rarely seen </span><strong><span>a player so unbothered by closeouts.</span></strong><span> If he&#8217;s in shooting position, a closeout barely affects his shot or how fast he gets it off. He doesn&#8217;t need to jump higher, since he&#8217;s already tall and his mechanics are already that quick. Kansas&#8217;s own Lucky Luke, basically, except with a 6&#8217;10&#8221; wingspan. </span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;837d5437-ed7c-40a0-b633-def4c7b02361&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>You see the same thing on his pull-up. Since the shot comes out fast and his arms are long at the end of an already tall frame for a ball-handler, the release point is high, and he&#8217;s rarely bothered by a closeout from behind (smaller defenders can even become liabilities here). Similarly, if the closeout from a help defender isn&#8217;t committed enough, he&#8217;ll let it fly  and with a pretty solid hit rate, I&#8217;d say.</p><p><span>I don&#8217;t think those percentages are all that elite given the difficulty of his shot diet, but in another sense they actually are elite, given just how wide that shot diet is. </span><strong><span>The flexibility of his shot is the key.</span></strong><span> Darryn Peterson can fire from pretty much anywhere on the floor, and sure, that drags his overall percentage down but it creates constant, ever-present danger. On the positive side, there&#8217;s also been a lot of noise around him supposedly &#8220;not loving basketball&#8221; or being totally disconnected from his teammates. Relationship-wise, I have no idea. But on the court, I actually found him very connected, especially on broken plays, where the first option falls apart. </span><strong><span>He relocates extremely well</span></strong><span>, reads his direct defender well enough to slip behind him, and loves &#8220;flare screens&#8221; : a perimeter screen that frees a shooter by moving him to the side, away from his defender.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MRBp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0652111-c379-49c5-9683-22488185076c_1383x765.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MRBp!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Perfect relocation in the back of the opposent.</figcaption></figure></div><p>The one real limitation I see in his shot is his <strong>proprioception</strong>. He regularly locks into a predetermined move and ends up missing the chance for an even better play. That&#8217;s coachable, but it also says something about his real ceiling as a true creator if he isn&#8217;t reading space all that well yet. He doesn&#8217;t have that razor-sharp reactivity, that ability to read every micro-movement from a defender the way someone like Keaton Wagler does. The clearest example: he gets a hard closeout that cuts off one side, drives one dribble anyway, and still settles for a contested shot. The &#8220;correct&#8221; read would&#8217;ve been to keep attacking the mismatch, but he had already mentally committed to the shot before the play even unfolded. This play tells you so much about this problem.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;4c225e8b-30a1-4208-8ee4-07419c55a71c&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>Darryn Peterson will never face a drop coverage in the NBA. I&#8217;m fairly confident of that. And we&#8217;ll get back to this, but I&#8217;m also not sure doubling him is the smartest plan either, which naturally brings us to the idea of switching onto him. And here, I&#8217;ll admit I have real reservations. Genuine ones, but that&#8217;s also the whole difficulty of evaluating his Kansas season, where, </span><strong><span>without access to his medical file, it&#8217;s hard to be definitive.</span></strong><span> I see a solid first step, but nothing special. His handle, on the other hand, is genuinely good, with both hands, and a real ability to change direction sharply. But the biggest limitation, for me, is agility and flexibility. </span><strong><span>His direction changes, even when successful, are abrupt but lack range</span></strong><span>. It&#8217;s a bit like a plastic ruler, or anything moderately elastic, the biggest bend happens when you push from the sides, not the center. And Peterson&#8217;s ankles give off that same vibe of bending a ruler from the center. You can sense there&#8217;s more in there, but as things stood, he couldn&#8217;t access it.</span></p><p><span>The result was that he didn&#8217;t really navigate space, he attacked it abruptly whenever it opened up. He didn&#8217;t wrap around defenders. He couldn&#8217;t change direction at will because of stiff ankles. He couldn&#8217;t contort his body at the end of a drive either. He&#8217;s often compared to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander because of similar measurements, but I push back hard on that comparison given the gap in flexibility and agility, which is one of Shai&#8217;s real secrets. Or at least I push back on it until proven otherwise&#8230;</span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;a88c07bf-2d09-4656-9767-6b1090e6170f&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>To sum up: I genuinely think Peterson holds the single most devastating, most valuable skill in this draft : touch. And there's an enormous amount to extract from it, starting with his scoring, even if it makes him somewhat context-dependent. In isolation, I don't think he's all that dominant, and a lot of those possessions ended in tough mid-range looks because he simply couldn't blow by his man. And he can make those but reducing him to just that would be an enormous waste. </span><strong><span>Make him a Curry, not a Kobe.</span></strong><span> For the pessimists out there: make him a Jamal Murray, not a Jaylen Brown&#8230;</span></p><p></p><h1><span>II. A game of bluff</span></h1><p><span>An offensive player&#8217;s job is to put pressure on the defense, to destabilize its structure  and when you ask how Darryn does that, the answer is pretty clear. Where Dybantsa does it through sheer driving power, and where it&#8217;s a bit murkier with Cam Boozer ( likely through pure versatility), Darryn does it, and will keep doing it, through his shot and his gravity. </span><strong><span>He already has that gravity</span></strong><span>, and a huge chunk of Kansas&#8217;s good offensive possessions were simply Peterson coming off a screen or running an action that drew a double-team and freed a teammate. But players who only create advantages through their shot and their gravity tend to be fairly capped prospects. Sorry, Reed Sheppard, my beloved on, but you&#8217;re a good example of that. Without any rim pressure, your scoring is fairly limited, and you quickly become a player who lives and dies by his shooting touch.</span></p><p><span>On paper, he has gorgeous physical tools : </span><strong><span>6&#8217;5&#8221; barefoot, 6&#8217;10&#8221; wingspan</span></strong><span>. The same measurements as Harden, Cade, SGA, Dylan Harper&#8230; basically the dream. But on the other hand, that&#8217;s also exactly where we saw the biggest limitations at Kansas, given that he wasn&#8217;t at 100%. So what&#8217;s real, and what isn&#8217;t? Does he have actual dealbreaker flaws?</span></p><p><span>Let&#8217;s start with the drive, we touched on it earlier, but it&#8217;s a major point of tension in this report. In isolation, I have doubts, but in other sequences, thanks to the quality of his handle, Peterson shows real comfort attacking downhill. </span><strong><span>He&#8217;s excellent at splitting the pick-and-roll</span></strong><span>. The moment a defender steps up on the other side of the screen, he quickly adjusts his angle to slip between the two defenders and get to the rim (which says a lot about his confidence in both hands).</span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;54c6fd76-7fce-40e7-96ee-63178d28339e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>Similarly, because of his shooting gravity, a defender can be baited into jumping at him after a screen action, opening up a driving lane. What he does with that space, though, is more debatable &#8212; at least it was at Kansas. In stretches, it was pretty obvious he genuinely couldn&#8217;t do much beyond pulling out a floater, and at times it was almost painful to watch. But at other moments, he looked fully in control and still chose that shot out of sheer love for it. He passed up plenty of driving lanes, and I think - despite his measurements - it&#8217;s important not to get it twisted: he is not (yet) a driver.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBNh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13a29535-6f68-4b59-bdd6-fdae8065f060_1378x768.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBNh!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13a29535-6f68-4b59-bdd6-fdae8065f060_1378x768.png 424w, 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see real limitations, </span><strong><span>flexibility limitations, but also a lack of vertical pop</span></strong><span>. He&#8217;s no Dylan Harper, who can play off both feet and rise back up at the rim through contact with someone like Chet Holmgren and still finish. Peterson needs to load up his jump and gather momentum first, which leaves him pretty limited in traffic. </span><strong><span>He&#8217;s a far more horizontal athlete than a vertical one</span></strong><span>. And yet, it&#8217;s not all bad and that&#8217;s part of his charm, too. He&#8217;s nothing like Tre Johnson, who, despite similar measurements, has essentially zero rim pressure due to a weak lower half (knock-kneed, notably) and an inability to absorb contact.</span></p><p><span>That&#8217;s also what separates him from a guy who&#8217;s just a great shooter : he actually has real tools too. In some of my favorite clips, </span><strong><span>you see him absorb contact in stride, with a loaded jump</span></strong><span>. But more than anything, I think this part of his game also reflects Peterson&#8217;s defining trait: touch, with both hands. I rarely use this word, but Peterson is, to me, one of the rare true illustrations of &#8220;talented&#8221; in basketball. He can put a first step on Dybantsa and finish through a mid-air hand switch on the other end. I won&#8217;t go as far as calling him ambidextrous, but </span><strong><span>his ease finishing on either side of the rim is a massive plus</span></strong><span>, especially paired with those long arms that let him find creative angles. And even though he&#8217;s not a flawless athlete, he&#8217;s remarkably coordinated in these movements, which adds a genuine extra weapon to his game.</span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;2654adbf-af10-40b0-a3ef-080779cc62ec&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>To close out the scoring section, let&#8217;s go back to the Tre Johnson comparison, who I actually like a little bit. But there&#8217;s one other FUNDAMENTAL difference: </span><strong><span>drawing fouls</span></strong><span>. In a pre-draft interview with Kevin O&#8217;Connor, Tre said he wanted to add the ability to draw free throws, to feel out contact on drives, to &#8220;grift&#8221; . Well, Tre is miles away from that right now: at a </span><strong><span>13% free throw rate, he&#8217;s roughly 50% below the NBA average</span></strong><span> in fouls drawn! Peterson, on the other hand, has that real talent for recognizing contact and hunting whistles - whether by stopping at mid-range for a quick pump-fake and absorbing the bump, or by driving, feeling the defender&#8217;s arms tangle with his own, and instantly hunting the foul. A </span><strong><span>37.2% free throw rate</span></strong><span> gets flagged as a red flag by some, but let&#8217;s zoom out. That&#8217;s 37% while being almost entirely incapable of getting all the way to the rim - the single action that draws the most fouls in basketball. That&#8217;s pretty remarkable, no?</span></p><p><span>Time to address the elephant in the room. </span><strong><span>Is Darryn Peterson actually a good passer?</span></strong><span> I&#8217;ve touched on this already, but the modern truth about top NBA players is that they live at the intersection of scoring that&#8217;s nearly impossible to stop and passing that&#8217;s at least good enough to punish the pressure they generate. And on that front, if you believe what&#8217;s being said everywhere, Peterson is basically nothing. Look at him : a 1.0 assist-to-turnover ratio, that&#8217;s terrible! Let&#8217;s all take a breath and actually think about why that number looks the way it does, because there&#8217;s something fairly obvious here: </span><strong><span>it says far more about the role Peterson was given than about his actual passing ability.</span></strong><span> Kansas&#8217;s offense was so mediocre that the best available option was almost always to get Peterson a shot, since the moment the ball left his hands, the drop-off in finishing quality was massive. He had to be the one finishing. So yes, part of it is that this role genuinely suits him, and he&#8217;s not remotely a pass-first player. But I put very little weight on that stat, and even if I did, I&#8217;d be far more worried about Mikel Brown&#8217;s 1.5 ratio than Darryn Peterson&#8217;s 1.0.</span></p><p><span>So where does that leave us? The first undeniable thing, again, is that he generates enormous gravity. He pulls a huge amount of defensive attention toward him, and that's a real positive. From there, I see two clearly distinct situations: when he draws defenders with his shot, and when he draws them by driving. Because he's so in love with his jumper, his decision-making in those moments isn't always great. But I don't think he's bad at all, because while he might not be a great processor of space, </span><strong><span>he's a genuinely strong reader of systems.</span></strong><span> He has good basketball IQ, and it shows up in the same way it does in his off-ball game: he reads defenders well and brings real value.</span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;2e8d864a-6b3f-4b76-8900-33dfc438468c&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>His shooting gravity often pulls the low man up to the level of the screen on the pick-and-roll, freeing up the roller. That roller often gets tagged by a weak-side defender, which leaves a shooter open and Peterson finds that shooter regularly with skip passes where his sheer arm length does the work. What&#8217;s most interesting is that </span><strong><span>he can make that pass with either hand</span></strong><span>. Naturally gifted. What&#8217;s especially appealing is that he can release the pass quickly, but he can also hold the ball, freeze his defender behind his back, threaten with the shot, and then deliver the pass a beat later. That&#8217;s appreciated too.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qq4C!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6300ac51-59fe-4140-86ab-823458b23865_1387x767.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qq4C!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6300ac51-59fe-4140-86ab-823458b23865_1387x767.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qq4C!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, 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data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;4eb1cf6b-4696-4500-a122-3387d873c40e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p><span>I find it interesting that where he struggles more is against stunts, when the third defender in a pick-and-roll comes from the top of the floor instead of from below, the way Arizona executed so well, and the way a lot of NBA teams do too (OKC, just to name one, or Nick Nurse-style Sixers with Kyle Lowry against the Knicks in 2024). There, he has trouble pressuring the defense, because the roller is no longer open and he doesn&#8217;t always navigate those tight pockets well, given his lack of flexibility.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6eT8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fddefa12b-c4cc-47a2-ac27-e09ed4bcd7d4_1323x722.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6eT8!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fddefa12b-c4cc-47a2-ac27-e09ed4bcd7d4_1323x722.png 424w, 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there&#8217;s a lot to like there too. The problem is volume. He often doesn&#8217;t go all the way to the rim, as mentioned earlier. But when he&#8217;s at full strength, when he manages to slip the double-team, drive, elevate, draw a third defender, and deliver a pass behind that defender using his long arms  it&#8217;s genuinely impressive. I wouldn&#8217;t call that a bad passer. He&#8217;s not a genius passer who makes defenses dizzy with his processing every single possession, but I think </span><strong><span>he can be just good enough to capitalize on his massive gravity.</span></strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;27fc4c55-956f-40b1-aafb-784001dbcde0&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>I&#8217;m deliberately not diving into defense in this piece, but it&#8217;s worth noting that Peterson is a good defender. He executes schemes well, can switch across a lot of different matchups, and adds real value as a defensive playmaker thanks to his huge wingspan. He&#8217;s no All-NBA defender, and he&#8217;s not great navigating screens, but his defense reflects a strong basketball IQ. Nearly a </span><strong><span>3% steal rate and a 2% block rate</span></strong><span>, both in the 80th percentile at his position. And for a player projected to be an offensive star, not being a target on defense is an enormous structural asset. That&#8217;s part of what makes a guy like Tatum so valuable too : it is about what doesn&#8217;t happen when you star isn&#8217;t a defensive liability !</span></p><p><span>Putting all of this together, I&#8217;m fairly confident that Darryn Peterson is the prospect I&#8217;d pick first overall and maybe it&#8217;s for the best that I&#8217;m not actually a GM, so we can all avoid the drama. His floor is probably not as high as Boozer&#8217;s, but his ceiling is simply enormous, and the highest of this entire class in my eyes. And that&#8217;s despite a rocky season. Because the stretches where Peterson looks good are, by far, the most impressive stretches in this entire draft class. His first half against BYU, his outings against Baylor and Kansas State&#8230; those look like flashes of a future star. A real one.</span></p><p><span>Thank you all for reading and good draft day everyone !</span></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darryn Peterson n’est pas le joueur que vous pensez, il est peut-être meilleur.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scouting Report du potentiel choix de draft #1 2026 : Darryn Peterson]]></description><link>https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/darryn-peterson-nest-pas-le-joueur</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/darryn-peterson-nest-pas-le-joueur</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dreamcast Show]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:57:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Oz12!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96d8f8cb-5660-4ab8-acb2-1378ba9adc01_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>Chaque ann&#233;e &#224; la draft, il y a un joueur pour qui r&#233;aliser le scouting report est d&#8217;une difficult&#233; sans nom. Une vraie &#233;nigme, un bout d&#8217;emmental tant il y a de trous &#224; remplir et de faits manquants pour avoir un avis d&#233;finitif. Le cas de cette ann&#233;e a un nom et est plac&#233; tr&#232;s haut dans les mock drafts : Darryn Peterson. Arriv&#233; &#224; Kansas comme le quasi-unanime num&#233;ro 1 de la cuv&#233;e 2026, la fameuse narrative a peu &#224; peu chang&#233; &#224; son sujet, d&#233;peignant un joueur qui n&#8217;aimerait pas le basket et qui aurait d&#233;&#231;u cette saison. Alors on ne va pas se mentir, l&#8217;exercice du jour est plus que complexe, mais partons d&#8217;un postulat : celui d&#8217;essayer d&#8217;&#233;valuer CE QU&#8217;ON A VU. Au-del&#224; des narratives et des pr&#233;jug&#233;s, et si Darryn Peterson m&#233;ritait secr&#232;tement d&#8217;&#234;tre vraiment le </span><strong><span>first pick de la draft 2026</span></strong><span> ?</span></p><p></p><h1><strong><span>I. Les fondations pour toucher les &#233;toiles ?</span></strong></h1><p><span>Quel est le point commun entre Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Steph Curry, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Nikola Jokic, Kevin Durant et &#224; peu pr&#232;s 99 % des superstars de l&#8217;histoire de la NBA ? Oui, je sais, on commence cet article sur les chapeaux de roues. On ne parle pas de bagues, de legacy, de mental ou que sais-je, mais bien d&#8217;une qualit&#233; fondamentale du basket. LA qualit&#233; fondamentale m&#234;me : </span><strong><span>le toucher de balle</span></strong><span>. Et pourtant, bien qu&#8217;elle soit &#224; la base de tout, cette qualit&#233; est sans aucun doute l&#8217;une des </span><strong><span>plus dures &#224; &#233;valuer</span></strong><span> chez un prospect &#224; mes yeux. Qui aurait pu penser que Kawhi Leonard avait ce toucher de balle &#224; San Diego State ? Souvent, le meilleur indicateur du toucher est le pourcentage aux lancers francs, mais parfois un toucher de balle supr&#234;me se cache derri&#232;re une mauvaise m&#233;canique, un mauvais transfert d&#8217;&#233;nergie, un mauvais placement des mains. Qui aurait pu pr&#233;dire que Shai Gilgeous-Alexander deviendrait le meilleur shotmaker de NBA lorsqu&#8217;il &#233;tait &#224; Kentucky ? Mais en remontant son &#171; set point &#187; au-dessus de sa t&#234;te et non en dessous, le voici devenu un shooteur d&#8217;&#233;lite &#224; 38 % &#224; 3 points depuis deux ans, en plus du meilleur joueur de mid-range de la ligue.</span></p><p><span>Mettons les pieds dans le plat. Darryn Peterson est peut-&#234;tre </span><strong><span>le prospect avec le meilleur toucher de balle</span></strong><span> que j&#8217;aie eu la chance de voir. Je pense avoir un avis personnel qui n&#8217;est pas juste une r&#233;p&#233;tition de ce que je peux lire &#224; droite &#224; gauche depuis 2020, et je n&#8217;ai pas en m&#233;moire un joueur avec ce niveau de toucher de balle pur. Je ne suis pas s&#251;r qu&#8217;il soit le meilleur &#171; shooteur &#187; pour l&#8217;instant, mais il a sans doute la fondation la plus impressionnante. Et pourtant, c&#8217;est incroyablement dur d&#8217;essayer d&#8217;&#233;valuer cela en dehors du pourcentage aux lancers francs, puisqu&#8217;il peut arriver que m&#234;me un joueur au toucher horrible r&#233;ussisse une finition spectaculaire. Moi-m&#234;me, sur un coup de chance, je pourrais vous impressionner, et l&#8217;int&#233;r&#234;t comme la difficult&#233; est justement d&#8217;essayer de se d&#233;tacher des &#171; highlights &#187; pour avoir une approche plus exhaustive.</span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;2513c90d-4996-4661-a4d5-229d43965409&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p><span>Je me souviens parfaitement de la premi&#232;re fois o&#249; j&#8217;ai vu Peterson lors d&#8217;un match de high school, et m&#234;me si ces matchs ne valent pas grand-chose, le toucher de balle brille tellement qu&#8217;il en devient irr&#233;futable. Il br&#251;le la r&#233;tine, notamment sur un aspect qui m&#8217;avait imm&#233;diatement frapp&#233; : il semble presque </span><strong><span>ambidextre en termes de floater</span></strong><span>. &#192; 17 ans. Et l&#224; o&#249; c&#8217;est impressionnant, c&#8217;est qu&#8217;il a confirm&#233; cet aspect en NCAA, &#224; Kansas. En fait, par son manque d&#8217;athl&#233;tisme et sa difficult&#233; &#224; vraiment finir au cercle (on y reviendra), Peterson d&#233;pendait encore plus de ce floater. Et il peut le d&#233;gainer &#224; peu pr&#232;s n&#8217;importe o&#249; sur le terrain, parfois (souvent ?) en abusant, mais quelque part, je pense qu&#8217;il fait partie de cette caste rare capable de r&#233;ussir ce genre de tirs &#224; un taux acceptable.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iyng!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8569cd3-22c0-4deb-bee7-d8f99e4aed16_1307x705.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iyng!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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Forc&#233;ment, cette qualit&#233; se retrouve parfaitement sur le </span><strong><span>jumpshot</span></strong><span>, qui est sans aucun doute l&#8217;aspect o&#249; il a le plus impressionn&#233;. Je pense que c&#8217;est un peu le tournant de cet article et de mon &#233;valuation de Darryn. Il mesure 6&#8217;5&#8221; et poss&#232;de des bras de 6&#8217;10&#8221;, certes, mais Darryn Peterson est avant tout un </span><strong><span>shooteur plut&#244;t qu&#8217;un driver</span></strong><span>. Partir de ce principe change compl&#232;tement la vision du joueur, car les attentes ne sont plus les m&#234;mes. Et pourtant, Peterson est loin d&#8217;&#234;tre le shooteur le plus impressionnant qu&#8217;on ait vu d&#8217;un point de vue statistique. 38 % &#224; 3 points avec 83 % aux lancers, c&#8217;est tr&#232;s bon, mais pas du tout &#233;lite.</span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;c9c001c3-dec6-40a2-8263-bb6f00a52fd2&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>Le meilleur prospect shooteur que l&#8217;on ait vu r&#233;cemment est Kon Knueppel. Kon est une machine parfaitement huil&#233;e &#224; la m&#233;canique impeccable. Aux lancers comme sur son jumpshot, le </span><strong><span>mouvement est toujours le m&#234;me</span></strong><span>. Le transfert d&#8217;&#233;nergie du bas du corps est toujours bon, le joueur est toujours &#233;quilibr&#233; et sous contr&#244;le. Logiquement, avec son toucher de balle naturel, le voici qui vient de nous offrir la meilleure saison au shoot pour un rookie de l&#8217;histoire. Le mot pour le d&#233;crire serait &#171; propre &#187;. Mais peut-&#234;tre justement trop propre. Il affiche de tels pourcentages aussi parce qu&#8217;il ne prend des tirs que lorsqu&#8217;il est en capacit&#233; d&#8217;&#234;tre &#233;quilibr&#233; et de mettre en place sa m&#233;canique. Il existe une certaine part de tirs qu&#8217;il &#171; ne peut pas prendre &#187;, m&#234;me si elle est infime. Sur ses 8 tentatives &#224; 3 points par match, 6,5 sont &#171; open &#187; ou &#171; wide open &#187; d&#8217;apr&#232;s les cam&#233;ras de tracking de la NBA.</span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f31b884f-36c4-4f07-8782-e654285223f4&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>Et c&#8217;est l&#224; o&#249; </span><strong><span>Peterson est tr&#232;s diff&#233;rent</span></strong><span>. En regardant ses tirs, on se rend compte que beaucoup de ses tentatives sont d&#233;s&#233;quilibr&#233;es. En fait, son footwork est rarement le m&#234;me : les jambes partent souvent vers l&#8217;avant ou sur le c&#244;t&#233;. Son tir ne </span><strong><span>d&#233;pend presque que de son toucher de balle</span></strong><span> fabuleux, et sa r&#233;ussite dans l&#8217;exercice ne d&#233;pend presque uniquement que de son haut du corps. Il est bien plus &#171; sale &#187; dans sa prise de tir, mais je pense qu&#8217;&#224; ce niveau-l&#224; c&#8217;est une qualit&#233;, parce que &#231;a lui permet de d&#233;gainer dans bien plus de circonstances. De ce point de vue, il me rappelle bien plus un MPJ, un Jamal Murray, voire un Steph Curry... J&#8217;ai tellement de clips de lui en d&#233;s&#233;quilibre total, souvent contest&#233;, qui tire comme si de rien n&#8217;&#233;tait et &#231;a rentre presque sans toucher le filet  souvent sans toucher l&#8217;arceau, en tout cas. Compl&#232;tement absurde, et c&#8217;est cette r&#233;p&#233;tition de la performance qui m&#8217;impressionne.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Km2S!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8540f48-a4ec-4efc-9f45-9c0fdf31e320_1368x772.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Km2S!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8540f48-a4ec-4efc-9f45-9c0fdf31e320_1368x772.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Km2S!, 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1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aMtl!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f3b15c4-2fd9-4caf-9383-4bcf504b393a_1367x764.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Celui-ci aussi.</figcaption></figure></div><p><span>Cela ne veut pas dire que sa m&#233;canique en catch-and-shoot n&#8217;est pas bonne, bien au contraire : je pense qu&#8217;elle est </span><strong><span>excellente</span></strong><span>. Quand il est seul et ouvert, la m&#233;canique est extr&#234;mement rapide et l&#8217;&#233;quilibre parfait. En fait, comme le tir ne d&#233;pend que tr&#232;s peu du bas du corps, quand il est ouvert et qu&#8217;il met un peu plus de jambes, cela donne une vraie impression de facilit&#233;. Cela se retrouve parfaitement sur un aspect pr&#233;cis, mais j&#8217;ai tout simplement rarement vu un joueur aussi </span><strong><span>peu d&#233;rang&#233; par les close-outs</span></strong><span>. En fait, s&#8217;il est en position de d&#233;gainer, le close-out ne va pas vraiment affecter son tir ni la vitesse &#224; laquelle il le d&#233;clenche. Il ne va pas sauter plus haut, parce qu&#8217;il est d&#233;j&#224; grand et que sa m&#233;canique est d&#233;j&#224; tr&#232;s rapide, presque en un seul mouvement. Le Lucky Luke de Kansas en somme, avec des bras de 6&#8217;10&#8221;. </span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;837d5437-ed7c-40a0-b633-def4c7b02361&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>On retrouve cette composante sur son pull-up. Puisque le tir part rapidement et que les bras sont longs au bout d&#8217;un corps d&#233;j&#224; grand pour un porteur de balle, le tir part d&#8217;assez haut et n&#8217;est que rarement d&#233;rang&#233; par un close-out venu de derri&#232;re (les joueurs plus petits peuvent m&#234;me devenir des cibles). De la m&#234;me mani&#232;re, si le close-out de l&#8217;int&#233;rieur n&#8217;est pas franc, il d&#233;gaine, avec un plut&#244;t bon pourcentage de r&#233;ussite, je pense.</span></p><p><span>Je pense que ces pourcentages ne sont pas si &#233;lite au vu de la difficult&#233; des tirs, mais qu&#8217;en r&#233;alit&#233; ils le sont au vu du r&#233;pertoire de tirs concern&#233;. </span><strong><span>La mall&#233;abilit&#233; de son tir est la cl&#233;</span></strong><span>. Darryn Peterson d&#233;gaine d&#8217;&#224; peu pr&#232;s partout sur un terrain de basket et, certes, cela r&#233;duit son pourcentage de r&#233;ussite final, mais cela apporte une dangerosit&#233; de chaque instant. Pour en rajouter une couche dans le positif, il y a toute cette histoire autour de lui selon laquelle il &#171; n&#8217;aimerait pas le basket &#187; ou serait compl&#232;tement d&#233;connect&#233; de ses co&#233;quipiers. Relationnellement parlant, je n&#8217;en sais rien. Mais, basketballistiquement parlant, je l&#8217;ai au contraire trouv&#233; tr&#232;s connect&#233; notamment sur toutes les actions &#171; cass&#233;es &#187; o&#249; le premier syst&#232;me n&#8217;a rien donn&#233;. Il se relocalise extr&#234;mement bien, lit bien son adversaire direct pour s&#8217;&#233;chapper dans son dos, et adore les &#171; flare screens &#187; : un &#233;cran de d&#233;marquage au p&#233;rim&#232;tre permettant de s&#8217;&#233;loigner vers le c&#244;t&#233; et de se s&#233;parer de son d&#233;fenseur. Je pense m&#234;me que plein d&#8217;opportunit&#233;s de tirs ont &#233;t&#233; manqu&#233;es par le niveau moyen de ses co&#233;quipiers.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MRBp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0652111-c379-49c5-9683-22488185076c_1383x765.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MRBp!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0652111-c379-49c5-9683-22488185076c_1383x765.png 424w, 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1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZSvl!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7eda55b6-5a38-4d1f-8dff-f6986e7a6eea_1380x765.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Parfaite relocalisation dans le dos de son d&#233;fenseur.</figcaption></figure></div><p><span>La seule limite que je trouve &#224; son tir, c&#8217;est sa </span><strong><span>proprioception</span></strong><span>. Il lui arrive r&#233;guli&#232;rement d&#8217;avoir des mouvements pr&#233;d&#233;termin&#233;s et donc de manquer potentiellement une occasion d&#8217;action encore plus rentable. Cela se travaille, mais cela en dit aussi un peu long sur son vrai potentiel de cr&#233;ateur pur, s&#8217;il ne g&#232;re pas si bien les espaces. Il n&#8217;a pas ce c&#244;t&#233; r&#233;activit&#233; &#224; toute &#233;preuve, cette lecture de chaque micro-mouvement de l&#8217;adversaire, comme peut l&#8217;avoir un Keaton Wagler, par exemple. Le meilleur exemple est quand il re&#231;oit un hard close-out qui lui coupe un c&#244;t&#233;, et qu&#8217;il y va tout de m&#234;me apr&#232;s un dribble. La &#171; bonne action &#187; serait de dribbler, d&#8217;attaquer le d&#233;calage, mais il se contente d&#8217;un tir tout de m&#234;me contest&#233; parce qu&#8217;il y avait pens&#233; avant m&#234;me que l&#8217;action ne se joue r&#233;ellement. Cette action est terriblement parlante :</span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;4c225e8b-30a1-4208-8ee4-07419c55a71c&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>Darryn Peterson n&#8217;affrontera aucun drop en NBA, j&#8217;en suis plut&#244;t certain. Et on y reviendra plus tard, mais je ne suis pas s&#251;r que le doubler soit la meilleure id&#233;e non plus, alors forc&#233;ment il reste l&#8217;id&#233;e du switch face &#224; lui. Et l&#224;, j&#8217;avoue avoir des r&#233;serves. De vraies r&#233;serves, mais c&#8217;est aussi l&#224; toute la difficult&#233; de sa saison &#224; Kansas, o&#249;, sans acc&#232;s &#224; son dossier m&#233;dical, il est dur d&#8217;&#234;tre d&#233;finitif. Je vois en lui un bon premier pas, mais pas g&#233;nial. Le </span><strong><span>handle, </span></strong><span>pour le coup</span><strong><span>, est tr&#232;s bon, et des deux mains,</span></strong><span> avec une vraie capacit&#233; &#224; changer de direction brusquement. Mais la grosse limite est, selon moi, au niveau de l&#8217;agilit&#233; et de la souplesse. Ses changements de direction, m&#234;me r&#233;ussis, sont brusques mais manquent d&#8217;amplitude. C&#8217;est un peu comme une r&#232;gle en plastique ou n&#8217;importe quel objet un minimum &#233;lastique : la plus grosse d&#233;formation arrive en appuyant sur les c&#244;t&#233;s et non au centre. Et Peterson, avec ses chevilles, donne un peu l&#8217;impression de plier une r&#232;gle en appuyant au centre. On sent qu&#8217;on peut faire mieux, mais qu&#8217;en l&#8217;&#233;tat il n&#8217;y arrivait pas.</span></p><p><span>Le r&#233;sultat, c&#8217;est qu&#8217;il ne naviguait pas vraiment dans les espaces, mais les attaquait brusquement quand il y en avait. Qu&#8217;il ne s&#8217;enroulait pas autour du d&#233;fenseur. Qu&#8217;il ne pouvait pas changer de direction &#224; volont&#233; en raison du manque de flexibilit&#233; de ses chevilles. Qu&#8217;il ne pouvait pas non plus se contorsionner en fin de drive. S&#8217;il est souvent compar&#233; &#224; Shai Gilgeous-Alexander en raison de leurs mensurations, je m&#8217;inscris compl&#232;tement en faux l&#224;-dessus, en raison de la diff&#233;rence de souplesse et d&#8217;agilit&#233;, qui est l&#8217;un des secrets de Shai. Ou du moins je m&#8217;y inscris jusqu&#8217;&#224; preuve du contraire&#8230;</span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;a88c07bf-2d09-4656-9767-6b1090e6170f&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>En r&#233;sum&#233;, je pense vraiment que Peterson poss&#232;de le </span><strong><span>skill potentiellement le plus d&#233;vastateur et le plus pr&#233;cieux de la draft</span></strong><span> : le toucher de balle. Et qu&#8217;il y a &#233;norm&#233;ment &#224; en tirer, ne serait-ce que sur son scoring, m&#234;me si cela le rend un peu d&#233;pendant du contexte. En isolation, je pense qu&#8217;il n&#8217;est pas si fort que &#231;a, et beaucoup de possessions de ce style finissaient sur des tirs &#224; mi-distance compliqu&#233;s parce qu&#8217;il ne pouvait pas d&#233;passer son d&#233;fenseur. Et il peut les mettre, mais le r&#233;duire &#224; cela serait un g&#226;chis &#233;norme quand tu vois le chaos qu&#8217;il s&#232;me avec son tir en mouvement. </span><strong><span>Faisons-en un Curry, pas un Kobe Bryant</span></strong><span>. Pour les plus pessimistes : faisons-en un Jamal Murray, pas un Jaylen Brown&#8230;</span></p><p></p><h1><span>II. Poker menteur</span></h1><p><span>Le but d&#8217;un attaquant au basket est de savoir mettre la pression sur la d&#233;fense, de savoir en d&#233;s&#233;quilibrer la structure et donc, &#224; la question &#171; comment fait-il ? &#187;, la r&#233;ponse est assez claire avec Darryn. L&#224; o&#249; Dybantsa le fera gr&#226;ce &#224; une puissance de drive ind&#233;niable, l&#224; o&#249; c&#8217;est un peu plus flou avec Cam Boozer et passera sans doute par de la polyvalence, Darryn le fait, et le fera, gr&#226;ce &#224; son tir et &#224; sa gravit&#233;. </span><strong><span>Cette gravit&#233;, il la poss&#232;de d&#233;j&#224;</span></strong><span>, et bon nombre des bonnes actions offensives de Kansas n&#8217;&#233;taient qu&#8217;une zone action ou une sortie d&#8217;&#233;cran de Peterson qui attirait une prise &#224; deux et lib&#233;rait un partenaire. Mais les joueurs qui ne cr&#233;ent des d&#233;calages que par leur tir et leur gravit&#233; sont, en r&#233;alit&#233;, des joueurs relativement limit&#233;s en plafond. D&#233;sol&#233; Reed Sheppard, mon fils ma bataille, mais tu en es un bon exemple. Sans pression sur le cercle, tu es relativement limit&#233; dans ton scoring, et assez vite tu deviens un joueur ultra-d&#233;pendant de ton adresse.</span></p><p><span>Et c&#8217;est l&#224; toute la question centrale avec Peterson. Sur le papier, il a de magnifiques outils physiques : </span><strong><span>6&#8217;5&#8221; pieds nus, 6&#8217;10&#8221; d&#8217;envergure</span></strong><span> : ce sont les m&#234;mes mesures que des Harden, Cade, SGA, Dylan Harper&#8230; En gros, le r&#234;ve. Mais d&#8217;un autre c&#244;t&#233;, c&#8217;est aussi l&#224; qu&#8217;on a vu de grosses limites &#224; Kansas, du fait qu&#8217;il n&#8217;&#233;tait pas &#224; 100 %. Alors, qu&#8217;est-ce qui est vrai, qu&#8217;est-ce qui est faux ? A-t-il des d&#233;fauts r&#233;dhibitoires ?</span></p><p><span>Commen&#231;ons par le drive, qu&#8217;on a un peu &#233;voqu&#233; plus haut, mais qui est un point de tension &#233;norme du scouting report. En isolation, j&#8217;ai des doutes, mais sur d&#8217;autres s&#233;quences de jeu, gr&#226;ce &#224; la qualit&#233; de son handle, Peterson a une vraie aisance balle en main pour arriver au panier. Il excelle dans l&#8217;art de </span><strong><span>&#171; split &#187; le pick-and-roll.</span></strong><span> D&#232;s qu&#8217;un d&#233;fenseur remonte de l&#8217;autre c&#244;t&#233; de l&#8217;&#233;cran, il change rapidement sa course pour passer entre les deux d&#233;fenseurs et filer au panier (ce qui d&#233;montre bien sa confiance dans ses deux mains).</span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;54c6fd76-7fce-40e7-96ee-63178d28339e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>De m&#234;me, gr&#226;ce &#224; sa gravit&#233; au tir, apr&#232;s une sortie d&#8217;&#233;cran, son d&#233;fenseur peut &#234;tre amen&#233; &#224; sauter sur lui, ouvrant ainsi une ligne de drive. </span><strong><span>Ce qu&#8217;il fait de ces espaces est cependant plus discutable</span></strong><span>, du moins l&#8217;&#233;tait &#224; Kansas. Par s&#233;quences, c&#8217;&#233;tait assez &#233;vident qu&#8217;il ne pouvait quasiment rien faire d&#8217;autre que d&#233;gainer un floater, et &#231;a pouvait m&#234;me faire piti&#233;. Mais par moments, il semblait aussi en pleine possession de ses moyens et restait malgr&#233; tout tr&#232;s amoureux de ce tir. Il a refus&#233; bon nombre de lignes de drive, et je pense que, malgr&#233; ses mensurations, il ne faut pas s&#8217;y tromper : il n&#8217;est pas (encore) un driver.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBNh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13a29535-6f68-4b59-bdd6-fdae8065f060_1378x768.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBNh!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13a29535-6f68-4b59-bdd6-fdae8065f060_1378x768.png 424w, 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meilleur niveau, je vois tout de m&#234;me des limites : </span><strong><span>limites de souplesse, mais aussi de verticalit&#233;</span></strong><span>. Il n&#8217;est pas un Dylan Harper, capable de jouer des deux pieds et de red&#233;coller &#224; l&#8217;arr&#234;t au contact de Chet Holmgren pour finir. Il a plut&#244;t besoin de charger son saut, de prendre de l&#8217;&#233;lan, et se retrouve donc tr&#232;s limit&#233; dans le trafic. </span><strong><span>C&#8217;est un athl&#232;te bien plus horizontal que vertical</span></strong><span>. Et pourtant, tout n&#8217;est pas &#224; jeter, et c&#8217;est aussi ce qui fait le charme du joueur. Il n&#8217;est pas comparable &#224; Tre Johnson, qui, malgr&#233; des mensurations physiques similaires, ne poss&#232;de quasiment aucune pression sur le cercle, en raison d&#8217;un bas du corps trop faible (des genoux qui s&#8217;entrechoquent, notamment) et d&#8217;une incapacit&#233; &#224; g&#233;rer le contact.</span></p><p><span>C&#8217;est aussi ce qui le diff&#233;rencie d&#8217;un simple shooteur g&#233;nial : il a aussi de vraies qualit&#233;s. Sur certaines s&#233;quences (mes pr&#233;f&#233;r&#233;es), on le voit capable d&#8217;absorber le contact une fois lanc&#233;, avec un saut charg&#233;. Mais, plus que tout, je pense que l&#8217;on retrouve aussi dans cet aspect du jeu le trait fondamental de Peterson : le toucher de balle, des deux mains. Je n&#8217;utilise jamais ce terme, mais Peterson est pour moi l&#8217;une des rares illustrations du mot &#171; talentueux &#187; au basket-ball. Il est capable de poser un premier pas sur Dybantsa et, derri&#232;re, d&#8217;aller finir en changeant de main en l&#8217;air. Je n&#8217;irais pas jusqu&#8217;&#224; dire qu&#8217;il est ambidextre, mais sa capacit&#233; &#224; </span><strong><span>finir des deux c&#244;t&#233;s du panier</span></strong><span> avec aisance est un immense plus, d&#8217;autant plus avec ses bras tentaculaires qui lui permettent de trouver des angles int&#233;ressants. D&#8217;autant que, si l&#8217;athl&#232;te n&#8217;est pas parfait, il est tr&#232;s coordonn&#233; dans ce type de mouvement, ce qui peut rajouter une arme &#224; son arsenal.</span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;2654adbf-af10-40b0-a3ef-080779cc62ec&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>Pour finir sur le scoring, reprenons la comparaison avec Tre Johnson, que je trouve amusante. Mais il existe une autre diff&#233;rence FONDAMENTALE : </span><strong><span>la capacit&#233; &#224; provoquer des lancers francs</span></strong><span>. En interview pr&#233;-draft avec Kevin O&#8217;Connor, Tre d&#233;clarait vouloir ajouter cette capacit&#233; &#224; provoquer des lancers francs, &#224; sentir le contact pendant le drive, &#224; &#171; grifter &#187;. Disons que Tre en est extr&#234;mement loin : avec </span><strong><span>13 % de Free Throw Rate</span></strong><span>, il est environ 50 % en dessous de la moyenne NBA en lancers provoqu&#233;s ! Peterson, lui, poss&#232;de &#224; mes yeux ce talent de savoir reconna&#238;tre le contact, d&#8217;aller chercher des lancers. Soit en s&#8217;arr&#234;tant &#224; mi-distance pour faire un petit pump-fake et absorber le contact, soit en drivant, en sentant les bras du d&#233;fenseur dans les siens, et en cherchant les lancers instantan&#233;ment. </span><strong><span>37,2 % de FTr</span></strong><span> : certains y voient un red flag, mais prenons un peu de recul. On parle de 37 % en &#233;tant incapable, ou presque, d&#8217;aller au contact ; pr&#233;cis&#233;ment l&#8217;action qui provoque le plus de fautes. C&#8217;est assez remarquable, non ?</span></p><p><span>Il est temps de parler de l&#8217;&#233;l&#233;phant dans la pi&#232;ce. </span><strong><span>Darryn Peterson est-il un bon passeur ?</span></strong><span> J&#8217;en ai d&#233;j&#224; parl&#233;, mais le constat que l&#8217;on peut faire aujourd&#8217;hui des meilleurs joueurs de NBA, c&#8217;est qu&#8217;ils se situent &#224; l&#8217;intersection d&#8217;un scoring compliqu&#233; &#224; arr&#234;ter (peu importe presque le comment) et d&#8217;un passing au minimum bon pour exploiter la pression qu&#8217;ils mettent sur la d&#233;fense. Et l&#224;, &#224; en croire ce qu&#8217;on lit &#224; droite et &#224; gauche, Peterson serait un moins-que-rien. Regardez-le, son ratio passes/balles perdues n&#8217;est que de 1, c&#8217;est nul ! On se calme, on respire, et on essaie de comprendre ce chiffre, parce qu&#8217;il y a quelque chose d&#8217;assez &#233;vident : il en dit bien plus </span><strong><span>sur le r&#244;le donn&#233; &#224; Peterson que sur son niveau de passeur.</span></strong><span> L&#8217;attaque de Kansas &#233;tait si moyenne que la meilleure option &#233;tait presque toujours de trouver un tir pour Peterson, puisque d&#232;s que le ballon quittait ses mains, la perte de qualit&#233; du finisseur &#233;tait &#233;norme. Il fallait qu&#8217;il finisse. Alors oui, c&#8217;est aussi parce que ce r&#244;le lui va bien, et qu&#8217;il n&#8217;est pas du tout un joueur &#171; pass first &#187;. Mais je n&#8217;accorde que peu d&#8217;importance &#224; cette statistique, et quand bien m&#234;me j&#8217;en accorderais, je serais davantage inquiet du 1,5 de Mikel Brown que du 1 de Darryn Peterson.</span></p><p><span>Alors, qu&#8217;en penser ? La premi&#232;re chose ind&#233;niable, on y revient, c&#8217;est qu&#8217;il poss&#232;de une &#233;norme gravit&#233;. Il </span><strong><span>attire &#233;norm&#233;ment les d&#233;fenseurs vers lui</span></strong><span>, et c&#8217;est positif. &#192; partir de l&#224;, je distingue clairement deux situations : celles o&#249; il les attire par le tir, et celles o&#249; il les attire sur drive. Par son amour du tir, son decision making n&#8217;est pas toujours bon. Mais je pense qu&#8217;il est loin d&#8217;&#234;tre mauvais, car s&#8217;il n&#8217;est pas un excellent lecteur d&#8217;espace, il est en revanche un </span><strong><span>tr&#232;s bon lecteur de syst&#232;mes</span></strong><span>. Il a un bon sens du jeu, et on retrouve ici ce qu&#8217;on observe d&#233;j&#224; dans son jeu sans ballon : il lit bien les d&#233;fenseurs et poss&#232;de de r&#233;elles qualit&#233;s.</span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;2e8d864a-6b3f-4b76-8900-33dfc438468c&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>Par son tir, il attire souvent l&#8217;int&#233;rieur &#224; monter sur le pick-and-roll, lib&#233;rant ainsi le rouleur. Ce rouleur est souvent &#171; tagg&#233; &#187; par un joueur du c&#244;t&#233; oppos&#233;, ce qui laisse un attaquant libre  et Peterson l&#8217;a trouv&#233; r&#233;guli&#232;rement par des skip passes o&#249; sa longueur de bras parle d&#8217;elle-m&#234;me. Le plus int&#233;ressant, c&#8217;est que je l&#8217;ai vu le faire des deux mains. Naturellement talentueux. Ce qui est tr&#232;s appr&#233;ciable, c&#8217;est qu&#8217;il peut lib&#233;rer rapidement, mais aussi fixer, mettre son d&#233;fenseur en prison dans son dos, menacer avec le tir, puis lib&#233;rer dans un second temps. C&#8217;est aussi tr&#232;s appr&#233;ciable.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qq4C!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6300ac51-59fe-4140-86ab-823458b23865_1387x767.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qq4C!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6300ac51-59fe-4140-86ab-823458b23865_1387x767.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qq4C!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, 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data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;4eb1cf6b-4696-4500-a122-3387d873c40e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p><span>Je trouve cela int&#233;ressant, car l&#224; o&#249; je l&#8217;ai trouv&#233; plus en difficult&#233;, c&#8217;est face aux stunts  quand le troisi&#232;me homme du pick-and-roll vient du haut du terrain et non du bas, comme le faisait tr&#232;s bien Arizona, et comme le font beaucoup d&#8217;&#233;quipes NBA (OKC, pour n&#8217;en citer qu&#8217;une, ou les 76ers de Nurse et Kyle Lowry en 2024 face aux Knicks). L&#224;, il a du mal &#224; mettre la pression sur la d&#233;fense, parce que le rollman n&#8217;est plus ouvert et qu&#8217;il ne va pas toujours naviguer dans ces petits espaces, manquant de souplesse.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6eT8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fddefa12b-c4cc-47a2-ac27-e09ed4bcd7d4_1323x722.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6eT8!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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aujourd&#8217;hui qu&#8217;&#224; l&#8217;&#233;tat de flash, mais il y a aussi beaucoup &#224; aimer. Le probl&#232;me, c&#8217;est le volume : souvent, il ne va pas jusqu&#8217;au panier, comme dit pr&#233;c&#233;demment. Mais quand il semble &#224; 100 %, qu&#8217;il parvient &#224; contourner la double-&#233;quipe, &#224; driver, &#224; sauter, &#224; attirer un troisi&#232;me d&#233;fenseur, puis &#224; lib&#233;rer derri&#232;re ce d&#233;fenseur gr&#226;ce &#224; ses longs bras, c&#8217;est impressionnant. Ce n&#8217;est pas ce que j&#8217;appellerais un mauvais passeur. Ce n&#8217;est pas un passeur de g&#233;nie, qui donne le tournis aux d&#233;fenses &#224; chaque possession par sa science du jeu, mais je pense qu&#8217;il peut &#234;tre </span><strong><span>suffisamment bon pour exploiter son immense gravit&#233;.</span></strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;27fc4c55-956f-40b1-aafb-784001dbcde0&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>Je fais le choix, dans cet article, de ne pas d&#233;velopper la d&#233;fense, mais il faut aussi pr&#233;ciser que Peterson est un bon d&#233;fenseur. Il ex&#233;cute bien les syst&#232;mes, peut switcher sur beaucoup de profils et apporte un vrai plus sur le playmaking d&#233;fensif gr&#226;ce &#224; sa grande envergure. Il n&#8217;est pas un d&#233;fenseur All-NBA, n&#8217;est pas g&#233;nial dans la navigation d&#8217;&#233;crans, mais je trouve que sa d&#233;fense t&#233;moigne de son bon QI basket. Pr&#232;s de </span><strong><span>3 % de STL et 2 % de BLK</span></strong><span>, deux chiffres dans le 80e percentile &#224; son poste. Et pour un joueur amen&#233; &#224; &#234;tre une star offensive, ne pas &#234;tre une cible pour l&#8217;adversaire est une valeur structurelle immense. C&#8217;est d&#8217;ailleurs aussi, en un sens, la force d&#8217;un Tatum : ce qui n&#8217;arrive pas de par le profil de ta star !</span></p><p><span>Tous ces &#233;l&#233;ments mis bout &#224; bout, je crois &#234;tre assez s&#251;r que </span><strong><span>Darryn Peterson est le prospect que je choisirais en num&#233;ro 1</span></strong><span> et c&#8217;est peut-&#234;tre tant mieux que je ne sois pas GM, pour qu&#8217;on s&#8217;&#233;vite un drame. Il n&#8217;a sans doute pas le plancher aussi haut qu&#8217;un Boozer, mais le potentiel est tout simplement &#233;norme, et le plus &#233;lev&#233; &#224; mes yeux. Et cela, malgr&#233; une saison en demi-teinte. Car les s&#233;quences o&#249; Peterson est bon sont, de loin, les s&#233;quences les plus impressionnantes de cette cuv&#233;e. Sa mi-temps contre BYU, ses sorties contre Baylor ou contre Kansas State ressemblent &#224; des sorties d&#8217;un futur grand, tr&#232;s grand. </span></p><p><span>Merci &#224; tous de la lecture !</span></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scottie Barnes, 2026 Playoffs' best-kept secret]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eliminated in the first round, the Raptors' wing still delivered one of the most impressive individual performances of the post-season. Here's why.]]></description><link>https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/scottie-barnes-2026-playoffs-best</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/scottie-barnes-2026-playoffs-best</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:15:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/12b5243b-d94e-4d72-9f1e-d8bce7f4efa4_1600x882.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our memory loves winners. After the Playoffs, we tend to remember the individual performances that brought success and pushed teams through each round. Yet after a month and a half of post-season basketball, the individual performance that impressed me most may belong to a player eliminated in the first round of the Playoffs. Scottie Barnes.</p><p>When the Playoff series between the Toronto Raptors and the Cleveland Cavaliers tipped off, you could reasonably expect major offensive problems on the Canadian franchise&#8217;s side. This young team was about to face one of the best interior defenses in the league &#8212; Cleveland allows the 4th worst efficiency at the rim &#8212; while carrying one of the worst spacings in the NBA (25th in three-point attempt frequency, shooting just 35.8% from deep).</p><p>The Cavaliers came in as clear favorites, armed with one of the most efficient offenses in the NBA (8th in offensive rating) and a defense tailor-made to suffocate the Raptors. But no one had fully accounted for Scottie Barnes&#8217; growth in one of the most important skills in basketball: creating shots at the rim.</p><p><strong>The driver at the wheel</strong></p><p>Before diving into the most important part of this piece, it&#8217;s worth understanding that there was a genuine shift in Barnes&#8217; offensive approach from the regular season to the Playoffs. To illustrate this revolution in the 2022 Rookie of the Year&#8217;s game, the drive numbers tell the story best.</p><p>During the regular season, Scottie posted fairly average numbers with just 7.8 drives per game (87th). But once the playoffs began, that number more than doubled &#8212; over 16 drives per game (6th) across the seven-game series. The young wing had gone from a somewhat passive player to a machine that relentlessly attacked defenses.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EO0-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5124a62e-73eb-48bd-ad79-13d84f582f2c_2924x1464.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EO0-!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5124a62e-73eb-48bd-ad79-13d84f582f2c_2924x1464.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EO0-!, 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his 16.7 drives per game during the post-season, 8 turned into passes and over 7 into shot attempts (or trips to the free-throw line). The former 4th overall pick had leveled up. He had become the driver of this team &#8212; the one with his hands on the wheel &#8212; and he nearly steered the Dinosaurs to an upset.</p><p>To visualize his evolution during the final stretch, the cleaningtheglass.com stats on Usage Rate and AST:Usg (the tendency to generate assists) are equally telling.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7B1A!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F99c42c6e-a450-421a-a193-3150d476bbf5_2924x1466.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7B1A!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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Gilgeous-Alexander posting a higher Assist Rate (percentage of teammates&#8217; baskets assisted). His impact on the team showed up directly in rim efficiency numbers. When he was on the floor, the Raptors&#8217; efficiency at the basket improved by +10% (90th percentile).</p><p>From secondary creator, Scottie Barnes was nearly heliocentric for the duration of a series. The question then becomes: how did he generate so many shots &#8212; especially at the rim &#8212; for himself and his teammates?</p><p><strong>A &#8211; TALL &#8211; defense manipulator</strong></p><p>Let&#8217;s start with the first adjective in this section&#8217;s title: &#8220;Tall.&#8221; Why do his size (6-8, 203 cm) and wingspan (7-3, 221 cm) matter so much to Scottie Barnes&#8217; passing game and creation?</p><p>Height allows the wing to see the floor more clearly, with a field of vision that is less obstructed by the bodies around him and by help defenders. 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On the pass below, his height allows him to throw over the shoulders of Evan Mobley and Jarrett Allen without needing to loft the ball in a high arc.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;d8c721f9-df92-4d3a-9856-a3f77a714545&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Because the ball leaves from such a high release point, it can travel faster through space &#8212; it moves in a straight line rather than a curve.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWmM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3624c211-1c88-487f-909f-dda9c77d2456_1738x972.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWmM!, 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games. His wingspan is equally important to his playmaking at the rim. On this play, it&#8217;s not his height but his length that allows him to navigate around Jarrett Allen&#8217;s body and find a shot at the basket.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;d05bcd9b-8356-44b8-8a95-c84ae18a48a8&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Now that we&#8217;ve established why his size makes him a passer with tremendous upside, let&#8217;s dig into the details of what makes him one of the best passers in the NBA.</p><p>Watching the series against Cleveland, what struck me most wasn&#8217;t his size &#8212; that hasn&#8217;t changed dramatically since he was drafted &#8212; but rather his ability to manipulate the defense. This first example, in a short-roll situation where he starts as the screener, is a compelling display of his basketball IQ. With a shot fake from a zone he&#8217;s known to favor, he freezes the Cavs&#8217; defense and finds Jakob Poeltl all alone at the rim.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;2b7e4e8a-a381-4008-943d-c808b01c6ae9&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Less than 20 seconds later in the same game, another demonstration of Scottie Barnes&#8217; mastery of visual manipulation. The young wing pushes in transition and has two options: a corner three or a layup at the rim. Knowing the latter is the higher-value play, he fixes his eyes on the corner shooter, selling the pass &#8212; which traps the defenders caught between the two off-ball players &#8212; and opens up a shot at the basket for the Raptors.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;de42eb9c-1f96-41cf-b434-fbc7c25f22ca&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>His growth in manipulating defenses is tightly linked to his progress as a scorer, particularly near the rim where he shot 69% in that zone. He has become a genuine source of defensive breakdowns through the gravity his drive and post-up scoring now command, and he can finally unlock his ability to manipulate defenses as a result.</p><p>On the possession below, he manages to stay in control despite stunts coming from both sides &#8212; a sign of his development both as a ball-handler and in reading timing. Once again, he draws the defense with the threat of his scoring, then finds a slim window to hit Collin Murray-Boyles with the ball slightly ahead of the defense.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;4ecd5d9a-0035-4c5f-8e67-7d18b65ac842&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>It&#8217;s time to build around Scottie</strong></p><p>Given what he showed as a primary creator in this Playoff series, the time has come to build a team around him. 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>These two former top-3 picks don&#8217;t provide the spacing needed to open up more room for Scottie Barnes, and their styles demand the ball far too much to allow for an offense truly centered around the Raptors&#8217; number 4. Given his ability to generate rim opportunities for the team despite a lack of spacing and vertical threats, you can dream big if the Canadian front office manages to shake things up.</p><p>Toronto&#8217;s summer looms as critical for the franchise&#8217;s future, and we can&#8217;t wait to see how Bobby Webster and company decide to surround their young prodigy. Let&#8217;s not forget &#8212; in addition to being on track to become the engine of an offense, Scottie Barnes is already one of the 10 best defenders on the planet.</p><p><em>Exciting times ahead in Toronto.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scottie Barnes, prêt pour être chef d'orchestre ?]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#201;limin&#233; au premier tour, l'ailier des Raptors a pourtant livr&#233; une des performances individuelles les plus impressionnantes de la post-season. Voici pourquoi.]]></description><link>https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/scottie-barnes-pret-pour-etre-chef</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/scottie-barnes-pret-pour-etre-chef</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dreamcast Show]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:11:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3d8e8491-96a2-433f-84f5-bd7d624693d0_1600x882.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Notre m&#233;moire aime les vainqueurs. Apr&#232;s les Playoffs, on se souvient souvent des performances individuelles qui ont amen&#233; des succ&#232;s et permis de passer un tour. Pourtant, apr&#232;s un mois et demi de post-season, la performance individuelle qui m&#8217;a le plus marqu&#233; est peut-&#234;tre celle d&#8217;un joueur &#233;limin&#233; au premier tour des Playoffs. Scottie Barnes.</p><p>Quand la s&#233;rie de Playoffs entre les Toronto Raptors et les Cleveland Cavaliers a commenc&#233;, on pouvait s&#8217;attendre &#224; de gros probl&#232;mes offensifs du c&#244;t&#233; de la franchise canadienne. Cette jeune &#233;quipe allait faire face &#224; une des meilleures d&#233;fenses int&#233;rieures (Cleveland inflige la 4&#232;me pire efficacit&#233; au cercle) avec un des pires spacings de NBA (25&#232;me fr&#233;quence de tirs &#224; 3 points avec seulement 35,8% de r&#233;ussite).</p><p>Les Cavaliers arrivaient donc favoris avec une des attaques les plus efficaces de NBA (8&#232;me offensive rating) et une d&#233;fense taill&#233;e pour stopper les Raptors. Mais c&#8217;&#233;tait sans compter la progression de Scottie Barnes dans une des comp&#233;tences les plus importantes au basket : la cr&#233;ation de tir au cercle.</p><p><strong>Les mains sur le volant</strong></p><p>Avant d&#8217;aller dans la partie la plus importante de cet article, il est important de comprendre qu&#8217;il y a eu un vrai changement dans l&#8217;approche offensive de Barnes entre la saison r&#233;guli&#232;re et les Playoffs. Pour illustrer cette r&#233;volution dans le jeu du rookie de l&#8217;ann&#233;e 2022, les chiffres sur drives sont les plus parlants.</p><p>Sur la saison r&#233;guli&#232;re, notre ami Scottie affichait des scores assez moyens avec seulement 7,8 drives par match (87&#232;me). Mais une fois les playoffs commenc&#233;s, le nombre de drives a plus que doubl&#233; avec plus de 16 drives par match (6&#232;me) sur la s&#233;rie de sept matchs. Le jeune ailier &#233;tait pass&#233; d&#8217;un joueur quelque peu passif &#224; une machine &#224; agresser les d&#233;fenses.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EO0-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5124a62e-73eb-48bd-ad79-13d84f582f2c_2924x1464.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EO0-!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5124a62e-73eb-48bd-ad79-13d84f582f2c_2924x1464.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EO0-!, 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ses 16,7 drives par match pendant la post-season, 8 se transform&#232;rent en passes et plus de 7 en tentatives de tirs (ou de lancers-francs). L&#8217;ancien 4&#232;me choix de draft avait chang&#233; de dimension. Il &#233;tait devenu le driver de cette &#233;quipe, celui qui a les mains sur le volant et qui allait amener les dinosaures &#224; un match de l&#8217;upset.</p><p>Pour mettre en image, et en chiffres, son &#233;volution pendant la phase finale, on peut aussi utiliser les stats de cleaningtheglass.com sur le Usage Rate (volume de responsabilit&#233;) et le AST:Usg (la tendance &#224; g&#233;n&#233;rer des passes d&#233;cisives).</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7B1A!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F99c42c6e-a450-421a-a193-3150d476bbf5_2924x1466.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7B1A!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>Son volume de responsabilit&#233; est pass&#233; de 24% &#224; 29% pendant la s&#233;rie contre les Cavaliers, mais surtout la tendance &#224; g&#233;n&#233;rer des paniers pour ses co&#233;quipiers a explos&#233; : seulement Nikola Jokic et Shai Gilgeous-Alexander qui affichent un Assist Rate (% des paniers de ses co&#233;quipiers assist&#233;s) plus &#233;lev&#233;. Son impact sur le collectif se voit directement dans les stats de r&#233;ussite au cercle. Lorsqu&#8217;il &#233;tait sur le terrain, l&#8217;efficacit&#233; au panier des Raptors augmentait de +10% (90&#232;me centile).</p><p>D&#8217;un cr&#233;ateur secondaire, Scottie Barnes a presque &#233;t&#233; h&#233;liocentrique le temps d&#8217;une s&#233;rie. Se pose alors la question de comment il a fait pour g&#233;n&#233;rer autant de tirs, notamment au cercle, pour lui et ses co&#233;quipiers.</p><p><strong>Un &#8211; GRAND &#8211; manipulateur de d&#233;fense</strong></p><p>Commen&#231;ons par le premier adjectif de notre deuxi&#232;me partie : &#171; grand &#187;. Pourquoi la taille (6-8, 203 cm) et l&#8217;envergure (7-3, 221 cm) sont-elles aussi importantes dans le jeu de passe et la cr&#233;ation de Scottie Barnes ?</p><p>La taille permet &#224; l&#8217;ailier de mieux voir et d&#8217;avoir un champ de vision qui est moins limit&#233; par les joueurs autour de lui, mais aussi par les d&#233;fenseurs en aide. L&#8217;envergure permet de mieux contourner les corps et offre un volume d&#8217;angles de passe plus &#233;lev&#233;.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZmUd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe23326c-bc6c-444b-9940-167572f5163b_1754x844.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZmUd!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe23326c-bc6c-444b-9940-167572f5163b_1754x844.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZmUd!, 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>C&#8217;est un avantage &#233;norme, surtout dans des situations o&#249; il y a peu d&#8217;espace. Sur la passe ci-dessous, sa taille lui permet de passer au-dessus des &#233;paules d&#8217;Evan Mobley et de Jarrett Allen sans que la trajectoire du ballon soit en cloche.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;d8c721f9-df92-4d3a-9856-a3f77a714545&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Gr&#226;ce &#224; la hauteur &#224; laquelle part le ballon, il peut aller plus vite dans l&#8217;espace parce qu&#8217;il navigue en ligne droite plut&#244;t qu&#8217;en courbe.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWmM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3624c211-1c88-487f-909f-dda9c77d2456_1738x972.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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l&#8217;attaque des Raptors de forcer une s&#233;rie en sept matchs. Son envergure est tout aussi importante dans sa capacit&#233; de playmaking au cercle. Sur cette action, ce n&#8217;est pas sa taille mais son envergure qui permet de contourner le corps de Jarrett Allen pour trouver un tir au cercle.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;d05bcd9b-8356-44b8-8a95-c84ae18a48a8&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Maintenant qu&#8217;on a &#233;tabli pourquoi sa taille faisait de lui un passeur au grand potentiel, rentrons dans le d&#233;tail de ce qui fait de lui un des meilleurs passeurs de NBA.</p><p>En regardant la s&#233;rie contre Cleveland, ce qui m&#8217;a aussi le plus saut&#233; aux yeux, ce n&#8217;est pas sa taille, parce qu&#8217;elle n&#8217;a pas tant &#233;volu&#233; que &#231;a depuis sa draft, mais plut&#244;t sa capacit&#233; &#224; manipuler la d&#233;fense. Ce premier exemple sur une situation de short-roll, o&#249; il commence en poseur d&#8217;&#233;cran, est une d&#233;monstration int&#233;ressante de sa lecture du jeu. Avec une feinte depuis une zone de tir qu&#8217;il affectionne, il fixe la d&#233;fense des Cavs et peut trouver Jakob Poeltl seul au cercle.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;2b7e4e8a-a381-4008-943d-c808b01c6ae9&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Moins de 20 secondes plus tard dans le m&#234;me match, une nouvelle illustration du savoir-faire de Scottie Barnes en termes de manipulation visuelle. Le jeune ailier porte la balle en contre-attaque et deux options s&#8217;offrent &#224; lui : un tir dans le corner ou un tir au cercle. Afin d&#8217;obtenir le deuxi&#232;me, car plus rentable, il fixe des yeux le joueur dans le corner en amor&#231;ant sa passe, ce qui pi&#232;ge les d&#233;fenseurs coinc&#233;s entre les deux joueurs off-ball et offre un tir au cercle aux Raptors.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;de42eb9c-1f96-41cf-b434-fbc7c25f22ca&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Ses progr&#232;s en manipulation de d&#233;fense sont &#233;troitement li&#233;s &#224; sa progression au scoring, notamment proche du cercle avec 69% de r&#233;ussite dans cette zone. Il est devenu une vraie source de d&#233;calage par sa gravit&#233; au scoring sur drive et sur post-up, et il peut enfin faire parler sa capacit&#233; &#224; manipuler les d&#233;fenses.</p><p>Sur la possession ci-dessous, il arrive &#224; rester en contr&#244;le malgr&#233; des stunts des deux c&#244;t&#233;s, signe aussi de ses progr&#232;s au dribble et dans la lecture du timing. Il fixe encore une fois la d&#233;fense gr&#226;ce &#224; son scoring, puis trouve un petit espace pour servir Collin Murray-Boyles avec un petit temps d&#8217;avance.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;4ecd5d9a-0035-4c5f-8e67-7d18b65ac842&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>Il est temps de construire autour de Scottie</strong></p><p>Avec ce qu&#8217;il a montr&#233; en tant que cr&#233;ateur primaire sur cette s&#233;rie de Playoffs, il est venu le temps de construire une &#233;quipe pour lui. Cette saison, il a d&#251; partager la cr&#233;ation avec des porteurs de balle comme RJ Barrett et Brandon Ingram &#8212; deux joueurs avec qui la synergie n&#8217;est pas &#233;vidente.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WYAw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0b29293-9950-43f9-8156-160c15c584cb_1732x968.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WYAw!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0b29293-9950-43f9-8156-160c15c584cb_1732x968.png 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style de jeu pour permettre une offense concentr&#233;e autour du num&#233;ro 4 des Raptors. Au vu de sa capacit&#233; &#224; cr&#233;er des situations au cercle pour le collectif malgr&#233; l&#8217;absence de spacing et de menace verticale, on peut r&#234;ver &#224; de grandes choses si le front office canadien arrive &#224; faire bouger les choses.</p><p>L&#8217;&#233;t&#233; des Raptors s&#8217;annonce crucial pour le futur et on a h&#226;te de voir comment Bobby Webster et ses coll&#232;gues vont d&#233;cider d&#8217;entourer le jeune prodige. Rappelons qu&#8217;en plus d&#8217;&#234;tre en route pour devenir la plaque tournante d&#8217;une attaque, Scottie Barnes est d&#233;j&#224; un des 10 meilleurs d&#233;fenseurs du monde.</p><p><em>Exciting times ahead in Toronto.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mike Brown took the Knicks over the top. But let's ask ourselves how.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tactical breakdown of the series against the Cavaliers.]]></description><link>https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/mike-brown-took-the-knicks-over-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/mike-brown-took-the-knicks-over-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dreamcast Show]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 17:12:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UMEw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b62134b-b327-4374-9b03-cca0c04dfddb_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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NBA Finals for the <strong>first time since 1999</strong>. Mike Brown accomplished what Tom Thibodeau never could, and he did it in a single season with 99% of the same roster. Naturally, that raises questions. That sparks curiosity. What's behind this tactically dominant playoff run? A month of invincibility is impressive enough, a month of invincibility in the playoffs is something else entirely.</p><p></p><h1>I. The Sword and the Shield</h1><p>Coming out of the series against the 76ers, the takeaways were fairly clear: the offense had genuinely changed, KAT was more involved as a creator than ever, Brunson was running off screens, and if you put your big (Embiid) on Towns, you were dead before the game even started. For several reasons. The first, fairly standard, is that if you don't switch the P&amp;R, you're either sitting in a drop in which case Brunson's pull-up is open, and so is Towns' pop from the top. Or you double Brunson and immediately give up an advantage. But the second reason is far more interesting. If your rim protector is on KAT and KAT has the ball, <strong>he can directly hit cutters</strong> to the basket without that protector being anywhere near the action. </p><p>Unless you also switch off-ball actions, but that's exactly <a href="/__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/jalen-brunson-changed-the-knicks?r=8bd6k9">the secret behind Jalen Brunson as a screener</a>: he attracts so much defensive attention that the 76ers simply refused to switch, and they got eaten alive for it. </p><p>So the Cavs arrived with a pretty well-conceived game plan against these Knicks and the evidence is that they were up +20 after three quarters played in the series. The defensive plan was easy enough to read, you could see it on the very first action of the game. <strong>Switch every off-ball screen</strong>, keep one of the two bigs on Josh Hart, and have him systematically help at the rim. The result: KAT is facing a big, so no immediate advantage, and every cut - like Bridges' here - gets neutralized by the switch.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;afe88d83-d650-44b2-8371-8e286f5ca030&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Layer in a <strong>roamer whenever the Knicks found a decent angle</strong>, that's Jarrett Allen dropping off Josh Hart to protect the rim and Cleveland had made the first move, successfully slowing down the offense. But Mike Brown did what he does exceptionally well: turn a weakness into a strength. Take what the opponent gives you and exploit it. Because at the end of the day, that's basketball, that's the playoffs. You can't control everything, every decision is a choice, a bet that the opponent won't make you pay for what you leave them. That the Knicks wouldn't give the ball to Josh Hart when Allen abandons him. And indeed, that's not what the Knicks did. In Game 1, at least.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTIB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fde48a628-1a2f-453a-8602-ee7880be0e22_680x383.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTIB!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fde48a628-1a2f-453a-8602-ee7880be0e22_680x383.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTIB!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, 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1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTIB!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fde48a628-1a2f-453a-8602-ee7880be0e22_680x383.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 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Sure, there was some luck involved,  there always has to be for that kind of feat, but more than anything, that final stretch was a testament to Mike Brown's adjustments. The right moves at the right moment. On offense, he benched Josh Hart for Shamet to go five-out, and since Cleveland switches everything, you get to <strong>choose which defender you're going to attack</strong>. That defender ended up being James Harden, targeted by Jalen Brunson and what followed was a genuine spiritual experience.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;705f50d1-b578-4833-a046-8be17d1e7cc8&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>But again, the Hart-to-Shamet swap wasn't a minor detail: it was <strong>the counter to the counter-move</strong>. One step ahead. Once Harden can no longer hold his own in isolation, the Cavs pressure and double Brunson but he kicks it out, ball movement, and now the corner looks are going to... Shamet, not Josh. Textbook. The Garden explodes. And it means everything.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;14133b8b-88eb-4ce2-87b9-d878ecc1a54d&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>At that exact moment, everyone thinks: "OK Josh, this series isn't for you &#8212; bring back Shamet or McBride." Pretty much everyone, except the Knicks coaching staff, who rolled out the same starting five for Games 2, 3, and 4. And the reason is probably best described as offensively defensive. Let me try to unpack that. By keeping Josh Hart, Mike Brown imposed a real <strong>war of attrition</strong>, and it was Atkinson who cracked first. By leaving Josh on the floor, the Cavs were tempted to put one of their two bigs on him. But the other big had to guard KAT, and Wade was on Brunson. The defense was functional, but the offensive sacrifice was enormous. And you start to understand just how much <strong>fear the Knicks' attack inspires</strong>. To slow it down, the defensive personnel deployed has to be elite and that quality you lose on the offensive end.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n5ur!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F433e45a2-62d2-43a3-a292-0ae888c8abbf_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n5ur!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F433e45a2-62d2-43a3-a292-0ae888c8abbf_1280x720.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n5ur!, 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Mike Brown offered a trade : leaving Josh out there and it paid off, better protecting his king in the process. Cleveland's spacing suffered, and as the staff also hit the right schematic buttons (more on that later), the Cavs' offense ran straight into a brick wall. 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The general defensive idea for New York was to <strong>compress the floor around Cleveland's stars and their drives</strong> because most of the time, the court featured Dean Wade, Evan Mobley, and Jarrett Allen. Leaving one of them open, then, wasn't a real problem. Or at least, it was a problem you were willing to live with. Since Cleveland under Atkinson had always been an extremely pick-and-roll-centric team, almost exclusively built around its two dominant ball-handlers, the solution was never going to be reinventing their base offense. No, that doesn't happen. Sure, you'd have liked to see more inverted P&amp;Rs; for Mobley. Sure, you'd have liked Harden more off-ball to initiate actions like he was against Detroit. But you can't change the foundation of an offense overnight. It reminds me of the 2018 Rockets, who 'should have changed their approach in the second half of Game 7 against the Warriors.' Change the strategy that pushed the greatest team in history to seven games? Complete nonsense. Exactly the same as... the 2025 Knicks! As a fan, I dreamed of a KAT-centered offense under Thibs, or at least a more creative role with ball-screen initiations but looking back, we hadn't seen a shred of it in the regular season. How could they have reinvented themselves with their backs against the wall against the Pacers?</p><p>Anyway, the only card Cleveland had to play was fairly obvious : <strong>more spacing</strong>. More shooters : Sam Merrill, Max Strus, Jaylon Tyson. In some ways, I'm with Atkinson on this, the Cavs with better spacing found really good looks, taken by really good shooters. And there's an undeniable element of Knicks luck involved. Merrill going 0-for-7 in Game 2 combined with Strus going 1-for-4 is wildly improbable, especially given how open they often were.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p-he!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95d214b0-8e11-4054-ae1c-9726fb97afeb_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p-he!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95d214b0-8e11-4054-ae1c-9726fb97afeb_1280x720.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p-he!, 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more spread, it was primarily <strong>his defense that collapsed</strong> and that wasn't even the only issue. You also got absolutely demolished on the glass, both offensively and defensively, once you went small. The clearest example is Game 4: Dean Wade plays only 12 minutes, Allen only 25, and you give up 44% offensive rebounding rate. 99th percentile Knicks performance while on the other end, Cleveland managed just 15%. Also 98th percentile for the Knicks in terms of defensive rebounding. 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impossible to win unless you're shooting like gods. Cleveland wasn't, and got absolutely routed at home. That margin is also this large because the New York offense, on top of the rebounding dominance, could just run <strong>freely once one of the two bigs was off the floor.</strong></p><p>The third quarter of Game 3 is a perfect example. Jarrett Allen sits, and the entire Mobley-placement dilemma comes to life. Atkinson tries to keep him as a roamer on Hart, but that puts a smaller defender (Strus) on Towns. Josh then takes the ball, pulling Mobley away from the rim and forcing him to defend, then feeds Towns to attack the mismatch</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;abf21b7b-fbda-4a9a-929d-7c9140d2a3ce&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Then when Mobley rotates back to KAT, Hart immediately clears out for a five-out. Towns stays at the perimeter just to draw Mobley, you don't even need elaborate sets, because in these conditions the spacing is absolutely massive and Cleveland has no roamer. Even when Mitch Robinson comes in moments later, his offensive rebounding pull acts like a magnet on Mobley, and the Knicks keep generating excellent shots.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!e9KW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc011562d-2d94-4551-a77a-0c7b0a18851d_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!e9KW!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc011562d-2d94-4551-a77a-0c7b0a18851d_1280x720.png 424w, 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How thoroughly <strong>he out-coached Kenny Atkinson</strong>. But at the microscopic level too, he was operating with rare precision. And that's probably why the Knicks swept the Cavs so convincingly. Mike Brown landed the uppercut, and the other boxer didn't fight back. He dropped straight to the canvas. But again, the 'what' isn't the best question. It's the 'why.'</p><h1>II. Chess not checkers</h1><p>The truth is that the very beginning of the series was lost by Brown. Or at least, it served as a reminder that despite the team's undeniable tactical progress, it still has two defensively vulnerable and attackable players in Brunson and KAT.</p><p>The starting idea was the same one we'd seen against the 76ers and Maxey, and against McCollum in the second half of the serie against the Hawks : a<strong>ggressively pressure Mitchell or Harden</strong> the moment a screen involved one of the two weak links : what you'd call a 'hard hedge' or a 'blitz' depending on the level of aggression deployed.</p><p>The problem was that Cleveland had plenty of answers to that, starting with rejecting the screen. Since Towns is waiting on the right, I go left and it's over. </p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;49e80497-bdb9-45b8-a31b-d8f6c46e5e70&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The other issue was that in Game 1, whenever Cleveland found the short roll, the decisions were straightforward, and at moments the spacing clicked. And in Game 1, it was going in.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;83d7c2ad-8982-4e4d-a181-cae079a463f9&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>That's also part of what makes this comeback so remarkable from a tactical standpoint. Because Mike found the right counter, and not just for one game. For the rest of the series.</p><p>The first mission was to defensively reduce the KAT and Brunson problem. And for the big cat, the adjustment was probably the most clever. Here's roughly how it must have gone down : Karl-Anthony, sorry to break it to you, but you're still a bit heavy on your feet, despite your offseason work. So if you want to be on the other side of the screen to complete the two-man blitz, you need to leave early to get there in time. And if you're not on time, the whole thing is pointless. You've now wiped out two defenders. But since you leave early, you're easy to read, which is exactly why Mitchell was rejecting the screen so effortlessly. So here's what's going to happen: instead of guarding Allen, <strong>you'll cover Evan Mobley</strong> far less threatening as a roller. That way, no one is ever diving behind your back, and you can stay locked on the ball. On the ball, <strong>you're going to drop</strong> : stay low and contain a potential drive from the ball-handler.</p><p>So who's on Allen? OG Anunoby, obviously, the all-purpose piece that makes all of this possible.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!llEQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f5715b1-c2ec-4e8c-98ed-66b81eb010d8_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!llEQ!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f5715b1-c2ec-4e8c-98ed-66b81eb010d8_1280x720.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!llEQ!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The perfect adjustment : KAT in drop &amp; OG on Allen.</figcaption></figure></div><p>And it's a double win. The Allen P&amp;R; simply stops being called because OG would just switch on the ball-handler. And the one with <strong>Mobley is slowed dramatically</strong> because it exposes all his weaknesses. He's not a lob threat, not an elite screener, and while he's reasonably solid on the short roll against a blitz, he's far less effective against a drop. Against a blitz, two defenders converge on the ball-handler, leaving him alone with time to make the pass. Against a drop, KAT was still right in front of him. He'd have to take multiple dribbles to engage him, but his handle is still average. Thinking and acting quickly in tight spaces is hard, especially when the spacing wasn't optimal with Wade and Allen.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;ec796912-4626-4d15-879d-35171c14f677&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Because yes, the Knicks added their signature to this drop: an <strong>extremely aggressive 'tag' on the roller</strong>  : cutting off his potential path, and again, the weaker your spacing, the less you'll be able to punish this core Brown principle.</p><p>In the end, we saw way too many turnovers in those situations. The counter is a floater or a pick-and-pop (staying at the top, in the open zone). But Mobley doesn't have a floater, and his three-point shot was exactly what the Knicks' defense was inviting.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WFdN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F45cde10d-c4a5-454c-856b-90b7ed288586_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WFdN!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F45cde10d-c4a5-454c-856b-90b7ed288586_1280x720.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WFdN!, 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1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4M3S!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff142fb67-5d1b-4057-9654-befd44e68cbf_1280x720.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 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Alright Jalen, here's what's going to happen: you're <strong>switching onto James Harden</strong>. We're going to bet that he won't be able to attack you. And it really is that simple. Harden never truly managed to hurt Brunson or answer the challenge. What Brunson did to him in Game 1, Harden never gave back.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;6a69db11-bb10-46ef-aa58-bc1662939408&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>And against Mitchell, we're continuing the hard hedges, especially when the spacing is poor, but <strong>we'll be better prepared</strong>. Already, whenever possible, we're going to go under the screen, to cut off a potential roll and force a pop. I think this was a genuine instruction, because conventionally, the goal is to go over the screen to trap the ball-handler. By going under, you leave Brunson alone for a split second before recovering  but you cut the short roll and draw a pop instead. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9XU2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F14ceb6f1-daaa-478d-aeeb-1c0982663389_1442x488.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9XU2!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F14ceb6f1-daaa-478d-aeeb-1c0982663389_1442x488.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9XU2!, 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is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-MsP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7eb5f2af-cbc0-42f0-8837-7100b864cc5a_1451x488.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-MsP!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7eb5f2af-cbc0-42f0-8837-7100b864cc5a_1451x488.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-MsP!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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OG, Mikal, Josh, Deuce, SHAMET, and even Karl-Anthony Towns.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iHd2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff94ea562-fdf9-4c1b-a5a3-f794f2168907_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iHd2!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff94ea562-fdf9-4c1b-a5a3-f794f2168907_1280x720.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iHd2!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This possession is a perfect example of communication : OG has already anticipated on Strus to prevent an open look from a good shooter, then comes the peel switch: meaning Brunson is supposed to go back to Mobley. But OG gets caught... yet great communication and a great rotation from Brunson allows for a secondary rim help from... Towns (you're not dreaming) !</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;57bd2bf9-4a37-4774-b985-ebcb832f96ac&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>They kept raising their level throughout the series</strong>, while the Cavs did exactly the opposite. And it showed on the other end too. Starting in Game 2, Mike Brown arrived with the explicit intention of punishing the switch-everything scheme and targeting Harden even harder. First action: Brunson comes off a zoom action against Harden, receives an off-ball screen, plays a hand-off, and arrives with speed against a stationary Harden. Drive ! Then they target him with KAT directly in the post. Until Cleveland cracks. And once the Cavs stop switching everything, we saw everything we'd seen against the 76ers come flooding back, that's the moment the <strong>playbook becomes utterly unguardable again.</strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;916ff95c-4819-48c3-8a77-81db444ea70e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>And here's where he was truly sharp: he also managed to generate really high-quality offense through Josh Hart, which wasn't always the case in Game 1. In Game 3, we saw Hart much more as a screener and the counter-move is brilliantly clever. Since the roamer (Allen) is above you and dropping off, go ahead and set a screen. That instantly creates a 2-on-1 on the ball. A screen that's hard to navigate, and an open shot for the cutter.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c_Eg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6d8d5132-2bbe-4be3-95e4-d8afc3eb3792_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c_Eg!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6d8d5132-2bbe-4be3-95e4-d8afc3eb3792_1280x720.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c_Eg!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, 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The moment they switched, Harden was involved, off-ball screens were pulling Mobley away from Josh, and that was that. This image says it all: you make the choice to play two bigs so your rim protector is... 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Tactically, on the small details and on the broader principles. We could have also talked about transition, both offensive and defensive. The Cavs posted <strong>three games above 18% turnover rate</strong>, which is absolutely enormous. But that was a weakness already visible in the previous round, and one Mike Brown had clocked. In the end, the Knicks dominated on the glass, in turnovers, on the offensive and defensive tactical battle. <strong>They dominated, full stop</strong>. They're finishing this series with three games above 123 offensive rating. The best regular-season offense was Denver, at... 122. That brings their total <strong>playoff offensive rating to 126.7</strong>. INSANITY. Maybe it doesn't guarantee a ring, but the level of Eastern Conference domination has been suffocating, historically unprecedented. +22 net rating. No team with that kind of margin after three rounds has failed to win the championship. If hope isn't justified in these conditions, it never will be. Four more for the history books&#8230;</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mike Brown a fait passé le 'cap' aux Knicks, mais demandons-nous comment !]]></title><description><![CDATA[R&#233;cit tactique de la s&#233;rie Knicks-Cavs.]]></description><link>https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/mike-brown-a-fait-passe-le-cap-aux</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/mike-brown-a-fait-passe-le-cap-aux</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dreamcast Show]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 16:29:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UMEw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b62134b-b327-4374-9b03-cca0c04dfddb_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Voici la phrase que chaque supporter des Knicks &#224; travers le monde se r&#233;p&#232;te en boucle depuis le 25 Mai 2026 et &#224; raison : la franchise New Yorkaise est de retour en finale NBA pour la <strong>premi&#232;re fois depuis 1999</strong>. Mike Brown a fait ce que Tom Thibodeau n&#8217;avait pas r&#233;ussi, le tout en une seule saison et avec le m&#234;me effectif &#224; 99%. Alors forc&#233;ment, &#231;a interroge, &#231;a intrigue. Qu&#8217;est-ce qui se cache derri&#232;re ce run de Playoffs ultra dominant d&#8217;un point de vue du coaching ? Un mois d&#8217;invincibilit&#233; c&#8217;est bien, un mois d&#8217;invincibilit&#233; en Playoffs, c&#8217;est encore mieux.</p><p></p><h1>L&#8217;&#233;p&#233;e et le bouclier</h1><p>En sortie de la s&#233;rie face aux 76ers, les enseignements de ce sweep &#233;taient plut&#244;t clairs : l&#8217;attaque a vraiment chang&#233;, KAT est plus &#224; la cr&#233;ation que jamais, Brunson court &#224; travers des &#233;crans et si vous placez votre big (Embiid) sur Towns vous &#234;tes morts avant m&#234;me de jouer. Pour plusieurs raisons. La premi&#232;re, assez classique, est que si vous ne switchez pas le P&amp;R, cela veut dire que soit vous &#234;tes en drop et dans ce cas le pull-up de Brunson est ouvert mais aussi le pop de Towns qui reste en haut. Soit vous doublez Brunson et dans ce cas il y a un d&#233;calage imm&#233;diat. Mais la seconde raison est bien plus int&#233;ressante. Si le protecteur de panier est sur KAT, et que KAT a la balle, il peut directement <strong>envoyer des passes &#224; des cuts</strong> sous le cercle sans que le protecteur de panier y soit. </p><p>A moins que vous ne switchez &#233;galement les actions off ball mais c&#8217;est l&#224; le secret de <a href="/__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/jalen-brunson-a-change-les-playoffs?r=8bd6k9">Jalen Brunson en poseur d&#8217;&#233;cran</a> : il attire tellement la peur que les 76ers ne switchaient pas et se sont faits mang&#233;s tout cru l&#224;-dessus. </p><p>Donc les Cavs sont arriv&#233;s avec un plan relativement bien pens&#233; en r&#233;alit&#233; face &#224; ces Knicks et j&#8217;en veux pour preuve qu&#8217;ils &#233;taient &#224; +20 apr&#232;s 3 Quart Temps jou&#233;s dans la s&#233;rie. Ce plan d&#233;fensif &#233;tait assez clair &#224; lire et on l&#8217;a vu d&#232;s la premi&#232;re action du premier match. On <strong>switch tous les &#233;crans off-ball</strong>, un des deux bigs reste sur Josh Hart et vient syst&#233;matiquement en aide au panier. R&#233;sultat KAT a face &#224; lui un big donc pas d&#8217;avantage direct, et tous les cuts comme celui de Bridges ici sont neutralis&#233;s par ce switch. </p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;afe88d83-d650-44b2-8371-8e286f5ca030&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Avec le suppl&#233;ment d&#8217;un <strong>roamer</strong> si jamais les Knicks arrivent &#224; trouver un bon angle, c&#8217;est &#224; dire Jarrett Allen qui d&#233;zone de Josh Hart pour venir prot&#233;ger le cercle. Cleveland avait avanc&#233; en premier ses pions et r&#233;ussi &#224; freiner cette attaque mais Mike Brown a r&#233;ussi ce qu&#8217;il sait tr&#232;s tr&#232;s bien faire : tourner une faiblesse en une force. Prendre ce que l&#8217;adversaire vous donne, et l&#8217;exploiter. Parce qu&#8217;au final, c&#8217;est &#231;a le basket et c&#8217;est &#231;a les Playoffs. Vous ne pouvez pas tout contr&#244;ler, chaque d&#233;cision est un choix, un pari de dire que l&#8217;adversaire ne sera pas rentable avec ce que je lui laisse. Que les Knicks n&#8217;iraient pas donner la balle &#224; Josh Hart quand Allen l&#8217;abandonne. 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celui des Pacers au MSG l&#8217;an pass&#233;) sur un match de Playoffs. En r&#233;alit&#233;, certes il y a eu de la r&#233;ussite mais il en faut forc&#233;ment pour ce genre d&#8217;exploit et surtout cette fin de match a &#233;t&#233; symbole des ajustements de Mike Brown. Les fameux bons ajustements au bon moment. En attaque, le coach bench Josh Hart pour Shamet pour avoir un 5 out et vu que Cleveland switch tout, on a tout le loisir d&#8217;appeler le <strong>d&#233;fenseur que l&#8217;on veut</strong>. Et ce d&#233;fenseur sera James Harden, attaqu&#233; par Jalen Brunson et s&#8217;en est suivi une vraie exp&#233;rience spirituelle. </p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;705f50d1-b578-4833-a046-8be17d1e7cc8&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Mais encore une fois, le changement Shamet-Hart n&#8217;est pas un d&#233;tail puisqu&#8217;en r&#233;alit&#233; c&#8217;&#233;tait le <strong>contremove au contremove</strong>. Juste avec un coup d&#8217;avance. Une fois que Harden ne tient plus le 1 contre 1, les Cavs vont mettre la pression et deux sur le num&#233;ro 11, sauf qu&#8217;il lib&#232;re, mouvement de balle et cette fois-ci on trouve &#224; l&#8217;oppos&#233;&#8230; Shamet et non Josh. Ficelle, explosion du Garden et tout un symbole.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;14133b8b-88eb-4ce2-87b9-d878ecc1a54d&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>A ce moment pr&#233;cis, tout le monde se dit &#8220;ok Josh, c&#8217;est pas une s&#233;rie pour toi ramenez Shamet ou McBride&#8221;. A peu pr&#232;s tout le monde sauf le coaching staff des Knicks en r&#233;alit&#233; qui repart avec le m&#234;me 5 majeur pour le match 2. Et 3 et 4. Et la raison est sans doute offensivement d&#233;fensive. Je vais essayer de d&#233;velopper cette id&#233;e mais en gardant Josh Hart, Mike Brown a impos&#233; une vraie guerre des nerfs, et c&#8217;est Atkinson qui a craqu&#233; en premier. En laissant Josh, les Cavs ont &#233;t&#233; tent&#233;s de mettre un des deux bigs sur lui. Sauf que l&#8217;autre doit &#234;tre sur KAT et Wade &#233;tait sur Brunson. La d&#233;fense &#233;tait bonne mais en faisant &#231;a, le <strong>sacrifice offensif</strong> est assez grand. Et on se rend compte de la peur que provoque l&#8217;attaque des Knicks. Pour la ralentir, le personnel d&#233;fensif mis en place doit &#234;tre de qualit&#233;, et cette qualit&#233; tu la perds en attaque. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n5ur!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F433e45a2-62d2-43a3-a292-0ae888c8abbf_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n5ur!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F433e45a2-62d2-43a3-a292-0ae888c8abbf_1280x720.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n5ur!, 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1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n5ur!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F433e45a2-62d2-43a3-a292-0ae888c8abbf_1280x720.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Cette attaque est le meilleur bouclier de la d&#233;fense. Mike Brown a propos&#233; un &#233;change de dames en laissant Josh jouer &#233;norm&#233;ment. &#199;a a &#233;t&#233; payant et il a pu encore mieux prot&#233;ger son roi. Le spacing des Cavs en a pris un coup, et comme le staff a aussi appuy&#233; sur les bons boutons sch&#233;matiques, sur lesquels on reviendra plus tard, l&#8217;attaque de Cleveland s&#8217;est empal&#233; dans cette d&#233;fense des Knicks. Au Game2 les Knicks placent un run de 18-0 et je pense qu&#8217;il faut peut-&#234;tre plus retenir le &#8220;0&#8221; que le &#8220;18&#8221; qui &#233;tait en grande partie un coup de chaud (inesp&#233;r&#233;) de Josh Hart. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SGBt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8355169-6af3-4457-ac65-d43c97e5fe9f_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SGBt!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>L&#8217;id&#233;e g&#233;n&#233;rale de la d&#233;fense de New York &#233;tait de <strong>resserrer le terrain autour des stars</strong> et des drives de Cleveland puisque sur le terrain, il y avait tr&#232;s souvent Dean Wade, Evan Mobley et Jarrett Allen. Donc finalement, laisser un de ces joueurs ouverts n&#8217;&#233;tait pas un vrai probl&#232;me. Ou du moins c&#8217;&#233;tait un probl&#232;me avec lequel tu &#233;tais pr&#234;t &#224; vivre. Comme cette &#233;quipe de Cleveland a toujours &#233;t&#233; sous Atkinson une &#233;quipe extr&#234;mement Pick&amp;Roll centr&#233;e, et presque exclusivement autour de ses deux porteurs de balle dominants, la solution ne pouvait pas &#234;tre de r&#233;inventer un fond de jeu. Non, &#231;a &#231;a n&#8217;arrive pas. Oui, on aurait aim&#233; plus de P&amp;R invers&#233;s pour Mobley. Oui, on aurait aim&#233; un Harden plus off ball au d&#233;part des actions comme contre Detroit. Mais <strong>la base du fond de jeu ne peut pas changer d&#8217;un jour &#224; l&#8217;autre.</strong> &#199;a me fait penser aux Rockets 2018 qui &#8220;aurait d&#251; changer de m&#233;thode pendant la 2e MT du Game7 face aux Warriors&#8221;. Changer la strat&#233;gie qui les a fait pousser en 7 la meilleure &#233;quipe de l&#8217;histoire ? Non-sens absolu. Exactement aussi comme&#8230; les Knicks 2025 ! En tant que fan, j&#8217;ai r&#234;v&#233; d&#8217;une KAT-offense sous Thibs, ou du moins d&#8217;un r&#244;le plus cr&#233;ateur avec des P&amp;R porteur de balle etc&#8230; Mais avec le recul, on n&#8217;en avait pas vu une miette en SR, comment auraient-ils pu se r&#233;inventer dos au mur face aux Pacers ?</p><p>Bref, la seule carte &#224; jouer pour les Cavs &#233;tait assez logique : plus de spacing. Plus de shooteurs : Sam Merrill, Max Strus, Jaylon Tyson. En un sens, je rejoins Atkinson m&#234;me si la communication en tant que coach est catastrophique, les Cavs avec ce bon spacing ont trouv&#233; de tr&#232;s tr&#232;s bons tirs, pris par de tr&#232;s tr&#232;s bons shooteurs. Et l&#224;-dessus, il y a un c&#244;t&#233; <strong>r&#233;ussite pour les Knicks</strong>, c&#8217;est ind&#233;niable. Le 0/7 de Merrill au match 2 combin&#233; au 1/4 de Strus est hautement improbable d&#8217;autant plus vu qu&#8217;ils &#233;taient souvent grand ouverts. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p-he!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95d214b0-8e11-4054-ae1c-9726fb97afeb_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p-he!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95d214b0-8e11-4054-ae1c-9726fb97afeb_1280x720.png 424w, 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c&#8217;est qu&#8217;une fois qu&#8217;il a d&#233;gain&#233; plus de line-up &#8216;spaced out&#8217; et &#8216;small ball&#8217;, c&#8217;est surtout <strong>sa d&#233;fense qui s&#8217;est effondr&#233;e</strong>, mais pas que ! Tu t&#8217;es aussi fait <strong>d&#233;molir au rebond</strong>, offensif comme d&#233;fensif par ces Knicks une fois que tu jouais plus petit. Le meilleur exemple est le Match 4 : Dean Wade joue 12minutes, Allen seulement 25 et tu prends 44% de rebond offensif dans la t&#234;te. 99e centile en termes de performance des Knicks pendant que de l&#8217;autre c&#244;t&#233;, les Cavs n&#8217;ont r&#233;ussi &#224; prendre que 15%. L&#224; encore, 98e centile pour les Knicks en termes de performance de protection du rebond. 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d&#8217;avance pour les Knicks avant m&#234;me que le match ne commence et un match impossible &#224; gagner&#8230; &#224; moins de tirer comme des demi-dieux. Ce que Cleveland n&#8217;a pas fait et a donc pris une rouste monumentale &#224; domicile. Si l&#8217;&#233;cart est aussi grand, c&#8217;est aussi parce que l&#8217;attaque New-Yorkaise, en plus de la domination au rebond, a pu d&#233;rouler <strong>une fois qu&#8217;un des deux gros &#233;taient dehors</strong>.</p><p>Le 3e QT du Match 2 est un bon exemple. Jarrett Allen sort et l&#224; tout le dilemme du placement de Mobley prend forme. Atkinson essaie de le garder en roamer sur Hart, mais ce qui signifie un plus petit (Strus) sur Towns. Josh prend alors la balle, &#233;cartant Mobley du panier et le for&#231;ant &#224; d&#233;fendre puis sert Towns qui peut aller attaquer le missmatch. </p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;abf21b7b-fbda-4a9a-929d-7c9140d2a3ce&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Puis quand Mobley passe sur KAT, de suite Josh Hart sort pour laisser place &#224; un 5out. Towns reste au p&#233;rim&#232;tre juste pour attirer Mobley et tu n&#8217;as m&#234;me pas besoin de grands syst&#232;mes parce que dans ces conditions, le spacing est juste monumental et les Cavs n&#8217;ont plus de roamer. M&#234;me avec Mitch Robinson quelques secondes plus tard, son impact au rebond offensif fait qu&#8217;il attire Mobley tel un aimant et les Knicks continuent de se cr&#233;er d&#8217;excellents tirs. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!e9KW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc011562d-2d94-4551-a77a-0c7b0a18851d_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!e9KW!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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Mais &#224; l&#8217;&#233;chelle microscopique aussi, il a &#233;t&#233; d&#8217;une pr&#233;cision rare. Et c&#8217;est sans doute gr&#226;ce &#224; cela que les Knicks ont sweep&#233; si facilement les Cavs. Mike Brown a mis un uppercut, et le boxeur en face n&#8217;a pas ripost&#233;, il est tomb&#233; raide dans les pommes. Mais encore une fois, le quoi n&#8217;est pas la meilleure question, c&#8217;est le pourquoi.</p><h1>Chess not checkers</h1><p>La v&#233;rit&#233; est que le tout d&#233;but de la s&#233;rie a &#233;t&#233; perdu par Brown. Ou du moins, un rappel que malgr&#233; les progr&#232;s ind&#233;niables tactiquement de l&#8217;&#233;quipe elle garde deux d&#233;fenseurs friables et attaquables en Brunson et KAT. </p><p>L&#8217;id&#233;e de d&#233;part a &#233;t&#233; celle qu&#8217;on avait vu contre les 76ers et Maxey, et contre McCollum sur la deuxi&#232;me partie de s&#233;rie contre Altanta &#224; savoir <strong>monter agressivement sur Mitchell ou Harden</strong> d&#232;s qu&#8217;il y avait un &#233;cran impliquant un des deux maillons faibles. Faire ce qu&#8217;on appelle un &#171; hard hedge &#187; ou un &#171; blitz &#187; selon l&#8217;agressivit&#233; mise. </p><p>Le probl&#232;me est que Cleveland avait dans sa besace bon nombres de parades &#224; cela notamment le fait de rejeter l&#8217;&#233;cran. Vu que Towns m&#8217;attend &#224; droite, je pars &#224; gauche et c&#8217;est gagn&#233;. L&#8217;autre probl&#232;me a &#233;t&#233; que sur ce match 1, lorsque Cleveland trouvait le short roll, les d&#233;cisions &#233;taient simples et par moment on retrouvait cet excellent spacing. Et sur le match 1, c&#8217;est un peu rentr&#233; dedans.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;83d7c2ad-8982-4e4d-a181-cae079a463f9&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>C&#8217;est l&#224; o&#249; ce Comeback est incroyable aussi d&#8217;un point de vue tactique parce que Mike a trouv&#233; la bonne parade mais pas juste pour un match, pour le reste de la s&#233;rie ! </p><p>La premi&#232;re mission &#233;tait donc d&#233;fensivement de r&#233;duire le probl&#232;me KAT et Brunson. Et pour le gros chat, l&#8217;ajustement est sans doute le plus malin. Voici comment &#231;a a d&#251; se passer &#224; peu pr&#232;s. &#8220;Karl Anthony, d&#233;sol&#233; de te l&#8217;annoncer mais tu es plut&#244;t lourd sur tes pieds, malgr&#233; ton travail physique de l&#8217;&#233;t&#233; dernier. Et donc si tu veux &#234;tre de l&#8217;autre c&#244;t&#233; de l&#8217;&#233;cran pour venir fermer la fameuse prise &#224; deux et le blitz, tu dois partir tr&#232;s t&#244;t pour &#234;tre &#224; l&#8217;heure. Et si tu n&#8217;es pas &#224; l&#8217;heure, &#231;a n&#8217;a aucun sens de le faire car deux d&#233;fenseurs seront effac&#233;s. Mais comme tu pars t&#244;t, tu es tr&#232;s facile &#224; lire et c&#8217;est pour cela que Mitchell rejetait l&#8217;&#233;cran si facilement. Alors voil&#224; ce qui va se passer, tu ne vas plus d&#233;fendre Allen mais <strong>Evan Mobley</strong>, bien moins mena&#231;ant verticalement sur le roll. Donc tu n&#8217;auras jamais personne qui plonge dans ton dos et tu pourras &#234;tre focus sur le ballon. Et sur le ballon, tu vas faire un <strong>&#8220;drop&#8221;</strong> c&#8217;est-&#224;-dire de rester bas et contenir un potentiel drive du porteur de balle.&#8221;</p><p>Mais alors, qui est sur Allen ? C&#8217;est OG Anunoby &#233;videmment, l&#8217;homme &#224; tout faire et qui rend tout cela possible. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!llEQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f5715b1-c2ec-4e8c-98ed-66b81eb010d8_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!llEQ!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f5715b1-c2ec-4e8c-98ed-66b81eb010d8_1280x720.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!llEQ!, 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Le P&amp;R avec Allen n&#8217;est plus appel&#233; car OG ferait juste un switch sur le ballon. Et celui avec <strong>Mobley est grandement ralenti</strong> parce qu&#8217;il met en exergue les faiblesses du joueur. Il n&#8217;est pas un joueur de lob, pas un super poseur d&#8217;&#233;cran et s&#8217;il est plut&#244;t bon sur short roll derri&#232;re un blitz, il l&#8217;est beaucoup moins face &#224; un drop. Face &#224; un blitz, deux d&#233;fenseurs sont sur le porteur et donc il se retrouve seul avec beaucoup de temps pour faire la passe. Face &#224; un drop, KAT &#233;tait encore en face de lui et il fallait donc prendre plusieurs dribbles pour le fixer, sauf que son dribble est encore moyen. R&#233;fl&#233;chir et agir tr&#232;s rapidement dans des espaces tr&#232;s r&#233;duits, encore plus quand le spacing n&#8217;&#233;tait pas optimal avec Wade &amp; Allen. </p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;ec796912-4626-4d15-879d-35171c14f677&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p>Parce que oui, les Knicks ont ajout&#233; leur signature &#224; ce drop, &#224; savoir un &#8216;tag&#8217; tr&#232;s agressif sur celui-ci. C&#8217;est &#224; dire venir couper la course potentielle de roll et l&#224; encore, moins bon ton spacing est, moins tu arriveras &#224; punir ce principe fort de Brown. Finalement, on a vu beaucoup (trop) de pertes de balle dans l&#8217;exercice. Le contremove est le floater ou le pick &amp; pop (rester en haut dans la zone libre). Mais Mobley n&#8217;a pas de floater, et son tir &#224; 3pts &#233;tait tout ce que demandait la d&#233;fense des Knicks.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WFdN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F45cde10d-c4a5-454c-856b-90b7ed288586_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WFdN!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F45cde10d-c4a5-454c-856b-90b7ed288586_1280x720.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WFdN!, 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Brunson</strong>. Alors mon bon Jalen, voil&#224; ce qui va se passer. Tu vas switcher sur James Harden. Et on va prendre le pari qu&#8217;il n&#8217;arrivera pas &#224; t&#8217;attaquer. Et c&#8217;est aussi simple que &#231;a&#8230; mais Harden n&#8217;a jamais vraiment r&#233;ussi &#224; faire mal &#224; Brunson et &#224; r&#233;pondre &#224; cela. Ce que Brunson lui a fait au Game1, il ne lui a jamais rendu. </p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;6a69db11-bb10-46ef-aa58-bc1662939408&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Et face &#224; Mitchell, on va continuer nos hard hedge, surtout quand le spacing est mauvais mais on y sera <strong>mieux pr&#233;par&#233;</strong>. D&#233;j&#224;, lorsque c&#8217;est possible, on va venir passer sous l&#8217;&#233;cran, pour couper un potentiel roll et forcer un pop. Je pense que c&#8217;est une vraie consigne puisque de fa&#231;on conventionnelle, le but est de passer au-dessus pour enfermer le joueur. 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3e homme pour couvrir cette action. En r&#233;alit&#233;, on d&#233;fendait &#224; 3 une action &#224; deux. Et les Knicks ont &#233;t&#233;, comme depuis janvier, excellents dans les rotations off-ball. OG, Mikal, Josh, Deuce, SHAMET et m&#234;me Karl Anthony !  </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iHd2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff94ea562-fdf9-4c1b-a5a3-f794f2168907_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iHd2!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff94ea562-fdf9-4c1b-a5a3-f794f2168907_1280x720.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iHd2!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Cette possession est un parfait exemple de communication, OG a d&#233;j&#224; anticip&#233; su Strus pour emp&#234;cher un tir ouvert par un bon shooteur, puis on &#8216;peel&#8217; switch : c&#8217;est &#224; dire que Brunson est cens&#233; repartir sur Mobley. Mais OG se fait avoir&#8230; mais bonne communication et bonne rotation de Brunson qui permet une aide en second rideau de&#8230; Towns (ce n&#8217;est pas un r&#234;ve) !</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;57bd2bf9-4a37-4774-b985-ebcb832f96ac&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Ils n&#8217;ont cess&#233; de <strong>monter en r&#233;gime</strong> dans cette s&#233;rie, pendant que les Cavs faisaient tout l&#8217;inverse. Et &#231;a s&#8217;est aussi vu de l&#8217;autre c&#244;t&#233;. D&#232;s le match 2, Mike Brown est arriv&#233; avec l&#8217;intention de punir le switch all et Harden encore plus fort. Premi&#232;re action : Brunson arrive d&#8217;une zoom action face &#224; Harden. C&#8217;est &#224; dire qu&#8217;il re&#231;oit un &#233;cran off-ball joue un main &#224; main et arrive donc avec de la vitesse face &#224; un Harden statique&#8230; et c&#8217;est drive. Puis apr&#232;s on le cible avec KAT directement en post-up. Jusqu&#8217;&#224; faire craquer Cleveland. Et une fois que les Cavs ne switch plus tout, on en revient au probl&#232;me qu&#8217;on eu les Sixers : c&#8217;est &#224; ce moment que le playbook redevient injouable et si puissant.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;916ff95c-4819-48c3-8a77-81db444ea70e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Et l&#224; o&#249; il a &#233;t&#233; fort, c&#8217;est qu&#8217;il a r&#233;ussi &#224; produire de l&#8217;attaque de tr&#232;s bonne qualit&#233; aussi avec Josh Hart, chose qui n&#8217;&#233;tait pas toujours le cas au Match 1. Au match 3, on l&#8217;a beaucoup plus retrouv&#233; en poseur d&#8217;&#233;cran et le contremove est ultra malin. Vu que le roamer (Allen) est sur toi et d&#233;zone, va donc poser un &#233;cran. Et donc cela cr&#233;e instantan&#233;ment un 2v1 sur le ballon. Ecran compliqu&#233; &#224; naviguer et donc tir ouvert pour l&#8217;attaquant.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c_Eg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6d8d5132-2bbe-4be3-95e4-d8afc3eb3792_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c_Eg!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6d8d5132-2bbe-4be3-95e4-d8afc3eb3792_1280x720.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c_Eg!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, 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D&#232;s qu&#8217;ils switchaient, Harden &#233;tait impliqu&#233;, on avait des premiers &#233;crans off ball pour enlever Mobley de Josh et le tour &#233;tait jou&#233;. Cette image est terriblement parlante : tu fais le chois de jouer &#224; deux bigs pour que ton protecteur de panier soit&#8230; Strus ?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kPHa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b7eb0ca-ec71-4a9b-8940-7fceb6f5f59d_680x383.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kPHa!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b7eb0ca-ec71-4a9b-8940-7fceb6f5f59d_680x383.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kPHa!, 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fait exploser en pleine t&#234;te. Tactiquement sur des petits d&#233;tails comme sur des principes plus g&#233;n&#233;raux. On aurait aussi pu parler de la <strong>transition</strong>, offensive comme d&#233;fensive. Les Cavs ont fait 3 perfs au-dessus des <strong>18% de pertes de balle</strong>, c&#8217;est absolument &#233;norme. Mais c&#8217;&#233;tait une faiblesse que l&#8217;on avait vu au tour pr&#233;c&#233;dent, et que Mike Brown avait vu. Finalement les Knicks ont domin&#233; au rebond, aux pertes de balle, sur la bataille tactique offensive comme d&#233;fensive. Bref, <strong>ils ont domin&#233;</strong> quoi. Ils finissent cette s&#233;rie avec 3 perfs au-dessus des 123 d&#8217;offensive Rating. La meilleure attaque de SR &#233;tait Denver avec&#8230; 122. Ce qui porte leur total d&#8217;<strong>offensive Rating &#224; 126.7 </strong>en Playoffs ! INSANITY. Ca ne veut peut-&#234;tre pas dire qu&#8217;ils vont remporter la bague, mais le niveau de domination de l&#8217;est a &#233;t&#233; &#233;crasant, dans des niveaux historiques. +22 de Net Rating, aucune &#233;quipe avec un tel score apr&#232;s 3 tours n&#8217;a pas remport&#233; la bague&#8230; si dans ces conditions l&#8217;espoir n&#8217;est pas permis, il ne le sera jamais. Encore 4 pour la post&#233;rit&#233;.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jalen Brunson changed the Knicks' Playoffs, just not the way you think !]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deep dive in Mike Brown's offense et Brunson's key role.]]></description><link>https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/jalen-brunson-changed-the-knicks</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/jalen-brunson-changed-the-knicks</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dreamcast Show]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 17:11:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I0D1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5917261b-efd7-406b-af49-6d7de93ecdb2_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Only 4 teams remain, both series are tied at 2-0, which strongly suggests a Knicks-Pistons conference final. After a regular season full of ups and downs, the Knicks are arguably <strong>the most impressive team</strong> of these Playoffs. Two narrow one-point losses, and since then, the machine has been running at full speed. But what if I told you those two losses forced Mike Brown to pull his secret weapon out of his sleeve, one that completely changed the dynamics of this team? So, what's the secret? Let's head to the Garden.</p><h1>The diamond shone too bright, it had to be hidden.</h1><p>Before diving into the Playoffs and what has changed, we need to hop in our time machine and go back to the start of the season. When Mike Brown arrived, he publicly stated that he had several goals for the offense, notably to increase three-point frequency (done) and to use Brunson differently. In reality, Mike Brown had put his finger on one of the best-kept secrets in the entire NBA: <strong>Brunson is elite off the ball</strong>, and has been for several seasons.</p><p>The secret was findable by anyone, right there on NBA.com's playtype database. Looking at spot-up stats (situations that arise from a ball reversal where the player is off-ball), Brunson ranked in at least the 82nd percentile league-wide for 4 straight years. Better yet, over the last two seasons he clocked in at the <strong>97th and 99th percentile</strong>. In other words, he was the best or one of the top-3 players in the NBA at that type of play in terms of efficiency. The issue was volume : it was generally quite low and you'd find the same pattern in off-screen situations: 95th percentile in 2024, but fewer than one possession per game in that category. All of this to say that, behind his image as a high-usage, heliocentric pick-and-roll guy, Brunson was hiding <strong>another dimension</strong> of his game under Thibodeau. And Mike Brown wanted to at least try to exploit it.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Hk2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F105c25f8-1448-4bb2-a7c4-738563c20487_1062x651.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Hk2!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F105c25f8-1448-4bb2-a7c4-738563c20487_1062x651.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Hk2!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, 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season</strong> against the Cavs. I love looking at opening plays or start-of-quarter sets, because you really get to see a coach's intentions. And that play was... a Jalen Brunson spot-up. After an initial action that goes nowhere, the Knicks run an empty-side P&amp;R for OG while Brunson cuts from corner to corner. Short roll from Hukporti, extra pass, open look for number 11.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;674c473b-315a-44a7-8f33-c27812bff473&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>But the frustrating part for me as both a Knicks fan and a basketball tactics junkie is that after an ultra-promising start to the season, the Knicks gradually fell back into a <strong>very classic pick-and-roll offense</strong> where Brunson carries massive usage. In the end, while it was less pronounced at the beginning of the year, New York was running just as many Brunson isolations as in previous seasons, with slightly more spot-ups and off-screen actions, but the gap is negligible. Brunson's assist rate was similar to prior years, and you can clearly see that trend creep back in as the season progressed. In short, everything changed in certain sets but nothing really changed in the big picture, goodbye motion offense, until these last few weeks.</p><h1>Jalen &#8216;Curry&#8217; Brunson &amp; Karl &#8216;Nikola&#8217; Towns</h1><p>We're coming out of Game 3 of the Knicks-Hawks series: to everyone's surprise, Atlanta leads 2-1 after a second one-point victory. And when you look at the numbers, you see what has been happening for several seasons with these Knicks: the offensive rating is in freefall : 114, 114, and 108 across the first three games. Far from the blazing 120 points per 100 possessions of the regular season. The opponent deploys a wing (often Kuminga) on KAT and can therefore switch the P&amp;R. 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The remarkable evolution of the Knicks&#8217; offensive rating during the 2026 Playoffs.</figcaption></figure></div><p>With their backs against the wall, Mike Brown pulled his best trick out of the hat, and the offense took off into the stratosphere: <strong>126, 134, 151, 149, and 116 in offensive rating</strong> since. In other words, since that game in Atlanta, New York's offense has been an absolute steamroller. In the halfcourt alone it's even more spectacular: 119, 131, 140, and 100 over the last four games (regular season average: 100). Let me rephrase that so you don't miss it: the Knicks scored 140 points per 100 half-court possessions against the 76ers in Game 1. Faced with such a dramatic shift, the obvious question is: what changed ? The short answer: Mike Brown's <strong>motion offense is back</strong>, and nobody really knows how to defend it.</p><p>But for the tactics lovers and those who like to dig deeper, let's get into the details. Start with one stat (among many) that illustrates this sudden change: the <strong>number of screens set</strong> per 100 possessions by our beloved Brunson. Regular season: 5.4. Playoffs: 12. More than double. That's where the secret lies. Brunson is deployed as an off-ball chaos agent, but then who has the ball? Karl-Anthony Towns, obviously. <strong>KAT has almost become New York's primary creator</strong> lately, and one stat really drives that home: his AST:USG ratio. This metric shows how much a player dishes assists relative to his usage rate. From 0.57 in the regular season (35th percentile at his position) to 1.12 in the Playoffs (90th percentile!). Spectacular, and very telling of what Mike Brown is trying to build.</p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/ALLCITY_NBA/status/2051777095613772161?s=20&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;Brunson is setting 12 off-ball screens per 100 possessions in the playoffs so far, up from 5.4 in the regular season. Fun wrinkle from NY &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;ALLCITY_NBA&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;ALL NBA Podcast&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1719750054012215296/oQoEDpE__normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-05T21:32:34.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/upload/w_1028,c_limit,q_auto:best/l_twitter_play_button_rvaygk,w_88/fsd8f72wjqn5tcz5qkrx&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/THOi1CqxGt&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:1,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:42,&quot;like_count&quot;:377,&quot;impression_count&quot;:45701,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:&quot;https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2051776894832427013/vid/avc1/1280x720/CfMuRVpw5nWvp6OX.mp4&quot;,&quot;video_preview_media_key&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p>The direct benefit of this is that it allows them to bypass the first line of defense. While New York was struggling and turning the ball over on the first three games against the Hawks, the <strong>offense became much cleaner</strong>. Where the Daniels/NAW or Edgecombe/PG frontline could bother Brunson with their length, it's much harder to force turnovers against KAT in the post, where he shields the ball from Embiid or Drummond. This adjustment is almost critical because Philadelphia and Atlanta thrive on exactly that : creating live-ball turnovers and transition buckets. And so does Detroit, for that matter. Oh, and the Thunder built their championship on it too. Over the first three games, the Knicks gave up 13, 19, and then 22% transition defense. Since then: 13, 9, 6, 8, and 8% . Elite-level numbers. By forcing more possessions to start in the half-court, the Knicks are also winning the mathematical battle: if 10% are transition, 90% are half-court, playtype with lower efficiency for the opponent. And since the Knicks are also excellent on the boards, they're actually very, very good at <strong>controlling the pace of a game</strong>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Phj7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fba34cd62-f2d1-4dc6-affe-d71d1f0526e4_1010x606.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Phj7!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fba34cd62-f2d1-4dc6-affe-d71d1f0526e4_1010x606.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Phj7!, 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alongside KAT's evolution  particularly in Brunson's personal efficiency. First three games: <strong>1.05 points per shot</strong>. Last five: <strong>1.30 points per shot</strong>. An insane jump, especially given that across both series combined, he's shooting 37% from three. So no running hot from deep. Just significantly better shot quality for the little man, and efficiency skyrocketing, mirroring his team's trajectory. From 16% of his shots at the rim in the regular season, he's moved up to 30% in the Playoffs. He has doubled his volume on the best shot in basketball : that's simply incredible. Overall, <strong>his efficiency is up</strong> compared to the regular season (1.17 to 1.19 points per shot), and it's the first time in his career that's happened. League-wide, it's an anomaly: in the Playoffs you don't get to feast on the Wizards or Pelicans anymore, so star efficiency typically drops. 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The first time he has been more efficient in the Playoffs than in the Regular Season.</figcaption></figure></div><p>And to bring it full circle, here's a chart showing shot quality creation as a function of potential assists during these Playoffs. Who do we find right at the top? Karl-Anthony Towns. <strong>He's the player generating the best shot quality in the entire NBA</strong> and for good reason: when he has the ball, he often draws the opposing paint protector, leaving the lane completely empty. If you organize the floor well, which the Knicks have been doing these past few games, it's a fruit tree just waiting to be harvested, with wideopen rim attempts coming regularly. And in recent games, efficiency at the rim has been shooting upward. That's exactly what saved New York in Game 2: even though they shot poorly from three (27%, usually a death sentence), the Knicks attempted 44% of their shots at the rim. Almost one in two, with solid finishing. 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on the floor?</p><h1>Your favorite surgeons</h1><p>Mike Brown's playbook is extensive, so let's open it in chronological order which will give us a narrative thread to follow.</p><p>Against Atlanta, here's the play that started it all : the spark that set the whole city on fire: <strong>the flex action</strong>. Flex action is fairly straightforward: KAT has the ball at the top of the key and Brunson comes to set a screen for OG Anunoby in the corner. Really, the whole secret is there with Jalen: you don't want to switch against him. Even less so in an action involving OG, because that creates two mismatches. So OG's defender usually has to navigate the screen, and that's where location becomes critical: since it's coming from the corner toward the basket, if the screen isn't switched and is navigated poorly, Anunoby gets a step and the cut to the rim is open.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f7eec36d-f954-404e-a9a4-c14d57aa3d2a&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The Hawks quickly tried an adjustment: <strong>Brunson's defender goes to close the cut first</strong>, then recovers once OG's man navigates the screen. The problem: this leaves Brunson open. Or Jos&#233; Alvarado, since New York loves to run similar actions with him and he has excellent reads in those situations.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jm1a!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3d382101-6c3a-459b-9a4b-f07489812990_1178x312.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jm1a!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3d382101-6c3a-459b-9a4b-f07489812990_1178x312.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jm1a!, 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why not amplify that advantage with a screen for Brunson himself? That's what's known as a 'Screen the Screener' action. Brunson sets the screen, then receives one of his own, allowing him to create advantages and sometimes flat-out open looks. It's extremely useful against lockdown on-ball defenders like NAW or Daniels.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cIna!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4189e97c-fe0c-40f5-89dc-918149e7c165_1049x645.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cIna!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4189e97c-fe0c-40f5-89dc-918149e7c165_1049x645.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cIna!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, 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1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cIna!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4189e97c-fe0c-40f5-89dc-918149e7c165_1049x645.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Knicks &#8216;Screen the Screener&#8217; for Brunson against the Hawks.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Often this 'STS' is a hand-off with KAT, since KAT is the best screen-setter among the Knicks starters (not the most glamorous title) and what makes this two-man game interesting is its <strong>unpredictability</strong>. Because Brunson can stop and play the hand-off classically, or keep going, accelerate, and cut to the basket. One sequence really stands out: when Daniels sees the hand-off, he sprints to get between KAT and Brunson. The problem? Brunson doesn't take the ball and cuts instead. But now Daniels is glued to KAT and eats the screen, whereas if he'd gone behind, he probably stays in contact.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;b883c812-7a0c-4ac3-ab14-8cebe1e0c9ab&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Against the 76ers, things started again with Brunson off-ball for OG to <strong>test Philadelphia's coverage</strong>. This time the screen isn't in the corner but slightly higher &#8212; what you'd call a 'RIP screen' rather than a true flex (which comes strictly from the corner). But we're splitting hairs; the concept is the same, and the 76ers reacted the same way as Atlanta: cover the cut, even if it means leaving Brunson for a moment. <strong>Still no switch </strong>! So Brunson got back to his spot. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vt3N!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8e47309-4629-41f7-90bd-70cd72eb0afc_1186x661.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vt3N!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8e47309-4629-41f7-90bd-70cd72eb0afc_1186x661.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vt3N!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, 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screen and it was another rim bucket. Interesting to note OG's importance in my view here. Even with Alvarado, no switch, which means the 76ers didn't want Edgecombe matched up with him, and that speaks to a real offensive threat.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;84697ad9-d02b-4133-8cbe-048c841b752a&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The 76ers tried almost everything in Game 1 and the Knicks had an <strong>answer for all of it</strong> (including the Brunson P&amp;R counter). One wrinkle they used more was involving Mikal Bridges and Tyrese Maxey in the action. I find this interesting because the 76ers switch, but a second KAT screen comes to remove Grimes and opens the cut. That forces a low man to help, freeing Josh to drive. And if he can drive, it's because <strong>Embiid is pulled away from the basket</strong> and we're back to our original premise: the paint protector (Embiid) is occupied by KAT. 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another rim bucket.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;9abe2e63-e83a-40b9-8bbd-047cb6436bad&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>In Game 2, the Knicks kept targeting Maxey on-ball but also Oubre, and we saw three things that saved New York: Maxey's communication breakdowns, Oubre's poor off-ball defense, and <strong>Brunson's gravitational pull</strong> (once again). First possession of the game: a <strong>CHIN action.</strong> Same principle : Brunson screens for a cut to the basket, just with both corners occupied this time. Edgecombe tries to stick with his man without switching, but Maxey switches onto Brunson. Result: layup.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;a58218ea-db53-473b-b705-0325cf6e69d2&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Then came two TWIRL actions. The first is a stagger twirl: two screens for Mikal, but he only uses one and goes straight to the rim. Paul George reads it and signals the switch to Maxey, but Maxey stays glued to Mikal... from behind him. And it's a bucket.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f09f9cef-d4b1-47f5-b1dc-b2f46b49fb37&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>It's a bucket again because the low man is Kelly Oubre &#8212; who is simply terrible in that role. And when Brown pulls out a stunning Bilbao action to <strong>trap Maxey and Edgecombe,</strong> it hits again. Brunson screens for Mikal, but it's really a decoy &#8212; Mikal ends up as the screener for a popping Brunson. Poor communication, the 76ers' guards are terrified of a free Brunson, and yet another cut opens. 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and I think the right answer is a team that can switch nearly everything and has elite off-ball defenders. In other words, <strong>Detroit looks like the worst possible matchup for this attack</strong> and it'll be a real test. The other tension point remains: what happens if Embiid (or another roamer) guards Josh Hart for 48 minutes? A big question, but the Knicks have shown some interesting counters there too, both on-ball and in how they use him as a decoy&#8230;</p><p>We'll close on this brilliant play call: while Brunson plays a hand-off with KAT, Josh and OG set a stagger screen for Mikal on the opposite side. That demands the <strong>attention of all three off-ball defenders</strong> so when Brunson attacks the rim... everyone's head is turned.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;66c1c280-5840-47f4-a473-83a541ca73c5&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>A perfect summary of what's happening with the Knicks in these Playoffs: they make you think everything is happening in the right hand, but it's already been done in the left. All of this was made possible by a quiet internal revolution that Mike Brown had been keeping up his sleeve since day one. And he told us as much when he arrived. Maybe someone will find the answer but for now, these Knicks are in a great position to reach their second straight conference final. Stay tuned...</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jalen Brunson a changé les Playoffs des Knicks, mais pas comme vous le pensez.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Analyse de l'attaque de Mike Brown pendant ces Playoffs.]]></description><link>https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/jalen-brunson-a-change-les-playoffs</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/jalen-brunson-a-change-les-playoffs</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dreamcast Show]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 16:47:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I0D1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5917261b-efd7-406b-af49-6d7de93ecdb2_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Ils ne sont plus que 4, les deux s&#233;ries sont &#224; 2-0 ce qui sugg&#232;re assez fortement une finale de conf&#233;rence Knicks-Pistons. Apr&#232;s une saison r&#233;guli&#232;re faite de hauts et de bas, les Knicks sont peut-&#234;tre l&#8217;&#233;quipe qui impressionne le plus durant ces Playoffs. Deux petites d&#233;faites d&#8217;un point, et depuis la machine est lanc&#233;e. Mais si je vous disais que ces deux d&#233;faites ont oblig&#233;s Mike Brown &#224; sortir de sa manche sa carte secr&#232;te, et qu&#8217;elle a compl&#232;tement chang&#233; la dynamique de cette &#233;quipe ? Alors, c&#8217;est quoi le <strong>secret</strong> ? Direction le MSG !</p><h1>Le diamant brillait trop, il fallait le cacher</h1><p>Avant de parler des Playoffs et de ce qui a chang&#233;, il faut prendre notre machine &#224; remonter dans le temps et revenir au d&#233;but de saison. Lorsque Mike Brown arrive, le voici qui d&#233;clarait &#224; qui voulait l&#8217;entendre qu&#8217;il avait plusieurs objectifs pour cette attaque mais notamment augmenter la fr&#233;quence &#224; 3 pts (chose faite) et aussi utiliser Brunson de fa&#231;on diff&#233;rente. En r&#233;alit&#233;, Mike Brown avait mis le doigt sur un des secrets les mieux gard&#233;s de toute la NBA : <strong>Brunson est &#233;lite sans ballon</strong>, et ce depuis plusieurs saisons.</p><p>Le secret pouvait &#234;tre trouv&#233; par n&#8217;importe qui puisque disponible sur la database de <a href="http://nba.com">NBA.com</a> dans l&#8217;onglet playtype. Si on regarde les stats sur les situations de &#8220;spot up&#8221; (situations qui arrivent apr&#232;s un renversement de jeu et donc o&#249; le joueur est off-ball) on voit que Brunson &#233;tait au minimum 82e centile de NBA depuis 4ans. Mieux encore, sur les deux derni&#232;res saisons il est <strong>97e et 99e centile</strong> ! Grosso-modo, c&#8217;&#233;tait le meilleur ou un des 3 meilleurs de NBA dans l&#8217;exercice en termes de rentabilit&#233;. Le probl&#232;me &#233;tait sur le volume, qui &#233;tait globalement assez r&#233;duit et on trouvait les m&#234;mes indicateurs sur les situations de &#8220;off screen&#8221; : 95e centile en 2024 mais moins d&#8217;une possession par match dans l&#8217;exercice. Tout &#231;a pour dire que derri&#232;re ses airs de joueur h&#233;liocentrique &#224; mega volume de P&amp;R, Brunson cachait <strong>une autre facette de son jeu</strong> sous Thibodeau. Et Mike Brown voulait au moins tenter de l&#8217;exploiter.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Hk2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F105c25f8-1448-4bb2-a7c4-738563c20487_1062x651.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Hk2!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F105c25f8-1448-4bb2-a7c4-738563c20487_1062x651.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Hk2!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, 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saison face aux Cavs. J&#8217;aime beaucoup les situations de d&#233;but de match, ou d&#233;but de Quart-Temps, parce qu&#8217;on voit vraiment la volont&#233; d&#8217;un coach. Et cette action est&#8230; une situation de spot-up de Jalen Brunson. Apr&#232;s une premi&#232;re action qui ne donne rien, les Knicks jouent un empty side P&amp;R pour OG pendant que Brunson coupe d&#8217;un corner &#224; l&#8217;autre. Short roll de Hukporti, extra passe et tir ouvert pour le num&#233;ro 11.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;674c473b-315a-44a7-8f33-c27812bff473&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Mais le truc frustrant pour moi fan des Knicks et fan de tactique est qu&#8217;apr&#232;s un d&#233;but de saison ultra prometteur, les Knicks sont petit &#224; petit <strong>retomb&#233;s dans une attaque de Pick&amp;Roll</strong> tr&#232;s classique o&#249; Brunson a un mega usage etc&#8230; Au final, alors que c&#8217;&#233;tait moins le cas sur le d&#233;but de saison, New-York joue autant d&#8217;isolations pour Brunson que les ann&#233;es pr&#233;c&#233;dentes, un poil plus de spot-up et de sortie d&#8217;&#233;cran mais l&#8217;&#233;cart est n&#233;gligeable. Brunson est autant assist&#233; que les ann&#233;es pr&#233;c&#233;dentes et on voit clairement que cette tendance est r&#233;apparue au fur et &#224; mesure de la saison. Bref, tout a chang&#233; dans certains sets mais rien n&#8217;a r&#233;ellement chang&#233; au final : adieu la motion offense, jusqu&#8217;&#224; ces derni&#232;res semaines.</p><h1>Jalen &#8216;Curry&#8217; Brunson &amp; Karl &#8216;Nikola&#8217; Towns</h1><p>Nous sommes &#224; la sortie du match 3 de la s&#233;rie Knicks-Hawks : &#224; la surprise g&#233;n&#233;rale c&#8217;est Atlanta qui m&#232;ne 2-1 apr&#232;s une seconde victoire d&#8217;un petit point. Et quand on regarde les chiffres, il se produit ce qui se produit depuis plusieurs saisons avec ces Knicks : l&#8217;offensive Rating est en chute libre : 114, 114 et 108 sur les trois premiers matchs. Bien loin des flamboyants 120 points par 100 possessions de saison r&#233;guli&#232;re. L&#8217;adversaire place un ailier (Kuminga souvent) sur KAT et peut donc switcher le P&amp;R. 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">L&#8217;&#233;volution remarquable de l&#8217;offensive Rating des Knicks pendant les Playoffs 2026.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Dos au mur, Mike Brown a alors sorti de son chapeau son plus beau tour et l&#8217;attaque est repartie dans des hauteurs folles. <strong>126, 134, 151, 149 et 116 d&#8217;Offensive Rating</strong> depuis. Autrement dit, depuis ce match &#224; Atlanta, l&#8217;attaque de New-York est en mode rouleau compresseur. Sur le seul demi-terrain c&#8217;est peut-&#234;tre encore plus spectaculaire : 119, 131, 140 et 100 sur les 4 derniers matchs (moyenne en Saison R&#233;guli&#232;re &#224; 100). Je r&#233;&#233;cris la phrase pour que vous ne passiez pas &#224; c&#244;t&#233; de l&#8217;info : les Knicks ont scor&#233; 140 pts / 100 poss sur DEMI TERRAIN contre les 76ers au Game 1. Forc&#233;ment face &#224; un tel changement, on se demande : mais qu&#8217;est-ce qui a chang&#233; ? La r&#233;ponse courte est : la <strong>motion offense</strong> de Mike Brown est de <strong>retour</strong> et personne ne sait vraiment comment la d&#233;fendre.</p><p>Mais pour les amateurs de tactique et ceux qui aiment creuser, rentrons un peu plus dans le d&#233;tail. Partons d&#8217;une stat (il y en a pleins) qui montre bien ce changement brutal : le <strong>nombre d&#8217;&#233;crans pos&#233;s</strong> par 100 possessions par notre Brunson d&#8217;amour. En saison r&#233;guli&#232;re : 5.4. En Playoffs : 12 ! (via @ALLCity_NBA) Plus du double. Tout le secret est l&#224;, Brunson est d&#233;ploy&#233; en agent du chaos loin du ballon mais alors pendant ce temps l&#224;, qui a le ballon ? Karl Anthony Towns &#233;videmment. <strong>KAT</strong> est presque devenu le <strong>cr&#233;ateur principal</strong> ces derniers temps de New-York et une stat est assez folle vis-&#224;-vis de &#231;a : son AST:USG. Cette stat montre &#224; quel point un joueur fait des passes par rapport &#224; son nombre de ballons. De 0.57 en Saison R&#233;guli&#232;re (35e centile &#224; son poste) &#224; 1.12 en Playoffs (90e centile!). Spectaculaire et tr&#232;s parlant de ce que Mike Brown veut faire.</p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/ALLCITY_NBA/status/2051777095613772161?s=20&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;Brunson is setting 12 off-ball screens per 100 possessions in the playoffs so far, up from 5.4 in the regular season. Fun wrinkle from NY &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;ALLCITY_NBA&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;ALL NBA Podcast&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1719750054012215296/oQoEDpE__normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-05T21:32:34.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/upload/w_1028,c_limit,q_auto:best/l_twitter_play_button_rvaygk,w_88/fsd8f72wjqn5tcz5qkrx&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/THOi1CqxGt&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:1,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:42,&quot;like_count&quot;:377,&quot;impression_count&quot;:45701,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:&quot;https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2051776894832427013/vid/avc1/1280x720/CfMuRVpw5nWvp6OX.mp4&quot;,&quot;video_preview_media_key&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p>L&#8217;avantage direct de cela est que &#231;a permet de contourner le premier rideau : alors que New-York gal&#233;rait et perdait beaucoup de ballons sur les 3 premiers matchs face aux Hawks, <strong>l&#8217;attaque est devenue bien plus propre</strong>. L&#224; o&#249; le premier rideau Daniels/NAW ou Edgecombe/PG peut emb&#234;ter Brunson de par sa longueur, bien plus compliqu&#233; de cr&#233;er des pertes de balle sur KAT en post-up qui prot&#232;ge sa balle face &#224; Embiid ou Drummond. L&#224; o&#249; cette parade est presque vitale est que Philadelphie et Atlanta vivent l&#224;-dessus. Cr&#233;er des pertes de balle et de la transition. Et Detroit aussi d&#8217;ailleurs. Ah, et le Thunder a b&#226;ti son titre l&#224;-dessus aussi. Sur les 3 premiers matchs les Knicks ont conc&#233;d&#233; 13, 19 puis 22% de transition d&#233;fensive. Depuis : 13, 9, 6, 8 et 8%. Qui sont des chiffres d&#8217;&#233;lite. En for&#231;ant plus de possessions &#224; d&#233;marrer sur demi-terrain, les Knicks gagnent aussi d&#8217;un certain point de vue la bataille math&#233;matique. Si 10% sont des transition, 90% sont sur demi-terrain et donc moins rentables. 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y a un beau changement avec celui de KAT mais aussi Brunson d&#8217;un point de vue de son efficacit&#233; personnelle. 3 premiers matchs : <strong>1.05 pt/tir</strong>. 5 derniers : <strong>1.30 pt/tir</strong>. Une augmentation dingue sachant que sur les deux s&#233;ries prises s&#233;par&#233;ment, il tire &#224; 37% &#224; 3pts. Donc pas de surchauffe de loin, juste de bien meilleurs tirs pour petit bonhomme et une efficacit&#233; qui monte en fl&#232;che, &#224; l&#8217;image de son &#233;quipe. De <strong>16% de tirs pris au cercle, il est pass&#233; &#224; 30% sur les Playoffs !</strong> Il a doubl&#233; son volume du meilleur tir du basket, c&#8217;est tout simplement incroyable. Au global, son efficacit&#233; est en hausse par rapport &#224; la saison r&#233;guli&#232;re (1.17 &#224; 1.19 pts/tir) et c&#8217;est la premi&#232;re fois de sa carri&#232;re que cela arrive. A l&#8217;&#233;chelle de la ligue c&#8217;est une anomalie : en Playoffs tu ne joues plus les mauvaises d&#233;fenses des Wizards ou des Pels et donc globalement, l&#8217;efficacit&#233; des stars baisse. 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1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IH8C!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd067608-0bcd-4e36-877a-30646e409a1b_1128x718.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">L&#8217;efficacit&#233; (Pt/tir) de Jalen Brunson en carri&#232;re. Premi&#232;re fois qu&#8217;il est plus efficace en Playoffs qu&#8217;en Saison R&#233;guli&#232;re.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Et pour boucler la boucle, voici un graphique qui nous donne la cr&#233;ation de bons tirs en fonction du nombre de potentiels assists durant ces Play-offs. Tout en haut nous retrouvons nous ? Karl Anthony Towns ! Il est <strong>le joueur qui cr&#233;e les meilleurs tirs de toute la NBA</strong> et pour cause : lorsqu&#8217;il a la balle, il attire souvent le protecteur de panier adverse et la raquette est donc tr&#232;s souvent compl&#232;tement vide. Si vous animez bien le terrain, ce que les Knicks font depuis quelques matchs, c&#8217;est un arbre juteux dont vous pouvez r&#233;colter les frutis avec des tirs au cercle souvent grand ouverts. Et depuis quelques matchs, l&#8217;efficacit&#233; au cercle est en plein d&#233;collage justement. Et c&#8217;est ce qui a sauv&#233; New-York au Game 2. M&#234;me s&#8217;ils ont tr&#232;s mal tir&#233; (27% &#224; 3pts qui est souvent r&#233;dhibitoire) les Knicks ont pris 44% de tirs au cercle ! Presque un tir sur deux avec une bonne r&#233;ussite. Et &#231;a a permis de survivre.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dHdQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc664e24-becd-4e17-89e3-b839be4c6086_680x680.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dHdQ!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc664e24-becd-4e17-89e3-b839be4c6086_680x680.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dHdQ!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">La cr&#233;ation de bons tirs parmi les 30 plus gros volumes de potential assists en PO 2026 (d&#8217;apr&#232;s AllCITY_NBA)</figcaption></figure></div><p>Mais alors, comment &#231;a se mat&#233;rialise de fa&#231;on CONCR&#200;TE sur le terrain tous ces beaux  chiffres ?</p><h1>Vos chirurgiens pr&#233;f&#233;r&#233;s</h1><p>Le playbook de Mike Brown est tr&#232;s fourni alors ouvrons le dans l&#8217;ordre chronologique o&#249; il a &#233;t&#233; utilis&#233;, ce qui nous permettra d&#8217;avoir un fil conducteur.</p><p>Contre Atlanta, voici l&#8217;action avec quoi tout a d&#233;marr&#233;. L&#8217;&#233;tincelle qui a par la suite foutu le feu &#224; toute la ville : la <strong>flex action</strong>. Flex action c&#8217;est assez simple : KAT a la balle au centre du terrain et Brunson vient poser un &#233;cran pour OG Anunoby dans le corner. En fait, tout le secret est l&#224; avec Jalen : tu n&#8217;as pas envie de switcher face &#224; lui. Encore moins une action avec OG parce que cela cr&#233;erait deux mismatchs. Donc le d&#233;fenseur de OG doit souvent naviguer cet &#233;cran et c&#8217;est l&#224; o&#249; la localisation est tr&#232;s int&#233;ressante : comme c&#8217;est depuis le corner vers le panier, si l&#8217;&#233;cran n&#8217;est pas switch&#233; et mal naviguer : &#231;a laisse un temps d&#8217;avance &#224; Anunoby et le cut au panier est ouvert.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f7eec36d-f954-404e-a9a4-c14d57aa3d2a&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Donc les Hawks ont tent&#233; un ajustement assez rapidement : le d&#233;fenseur de Brunson va venir fermer le cut dans un premier temps, puis lorsque celui de OG a navigu&#233; l&#8217;&#233;cran, il revient en position. Probl&#232;me : cela laisse alors directement Brunson ouvert. Ou Jos&#233; Alvarado puisque New-York aime reproduire ce genre d&#8217;actions avec lui, qui a une tr&#232;s bonne lecture des situations.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jm1a!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3d382101-6c3a-459b-9a4b-f07489812990_1178x312.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jm1a!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3d382101-6c3a-459b-9a4b-f07489812990_1178x312.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jm1a!, 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Knicks Flex action contre les Hawks.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Ils sont m&#234;me venu ajouter une seconde couche parfois &#224; cela : si Brunson a un temps d&#8217;avance sur son d&#233;fenseur (qui couvre le cut), autant amplifier ce d&#233;calage avec un &#233;cran pour Brunson lui-m&#234;me ! C&#8217;est ce qu&#8217;on appelle les actions en <strong>&#8216;Screen the Screener&#8217;.</strong> Brunson pose l&#8217;&#233;cran, puis en re&#231;oit un lui-m&#234;me et &#231;a lui permet de cr&#233;er des avantages (quand ce n&#8217;est pas un tir grand ouvert), aller dans ses spots et parfois c&#8217;est extr&#234;mement utile face &#224; de bons d&#233;fenseurs on-ball comme NAW ou Daniels.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cIna!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4189e97c-fe0c-40f5-89dc-918149e7c165_1049x645.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cIna!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, 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/__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4189e97c-fe0c-40f5-89dc-918149e7c165_1049x645.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cIna!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4189e97c-fe0c-40f5-89dc-918149e7c165_1049x645.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cIna!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4189e97c-fe0c-40f5-89dc-918149e7c165_1049x645.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cIna!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4189e97c-fe0c-40f5-89dc-918149e7c165_1049x645.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Knicks &#8216;Screen the Screener&#8217; pour Brunson contre les Hawks.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Souvent ce &#8216;STS&#8217; est un main &#224; main avec KAT parce que KAT est le meilleur poseur d&#8217;&#233;cran des titulaires des Knicks (pas un titre tr&#232;s glorieux) et ce qui est int&#233;ressant sur ce jeu &#224; 2 c&#8217;est <strong>l&#8217;impr&#233;visibilit&#233;</strong>. Parce que Brunson peut se stopper, jouer le main &#224; main de mani&#232;re classique ou continuer sa course, acc&#233;l&#233;rer et couper au panier. Cette action est assez marquante. Lorsque Daniels voit le main &#224; main, il sprint pour se mettre entre KAT et Brunson. Probl&#232;me, Brunson ne prend pas la balle et coupe. Sauf que Daniels est d&#233;sormais coll&#233; &#224; KAT et meurt sur l&#8217;&#233;cran, alors que s&#8217;il l&#8217;avait navigu&#233; en chassant par derri&#232;re il serait sans doute au contact.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;b883c812-7a0c-4ac3-ab14-8cebe1e0c9ab&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p>Face aux 76ers, on a donc commenc&#233; encore une fois avec Brunson off ball pour OG <strong>pour tester la couverture des 76ers</strong>. Cette fois-ci l&#8217;&#233;cran n&#8217;est pas dans le corner mais l&#233;g&#232;rement plus haut, ce qu&#8217;on pourrait appeler un &#8216;RIP screen&#8217; plut&#244;t qu&#8217;une action en flex (vraiment depuis le corner). Mais l&#224; on chipote, le principe reste le m&#234;me est les 76ers ont fait comme Atlanta &#224; savoir couvrir le cut quitte &#224; laisser Brunson un temps. Mais toujours <strong>pas de switch</strong> ! Et donc Brunson a pu retourner dans son spot. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vt3N!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8e47309-4629-41f7-90bd-70cd72eb0afc_1186x661.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vt3N!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8e47309-4629-41f7-90bd-70cd72eb0afc_1186x661.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vt3N!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8e47309-4629-41f7-90bd-70cd72eb0afc_1186x661.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vt3N!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8e47309-4629-41f7-90bd-70cd72eb0afc_1186x661.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vt3N!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8e47309-4629-41f7-90bd-70cd72eb0afc_1186x661.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vt3N!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8e47309-4629-41f7-90bd-70cd72eb0afc_1186x661.png" width="1186" height="661" 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/__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8e47309-4629-41f7-90bd-70cd72eb0afc_1186x661.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vt3N!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8e47309-4629-41f7-90bd-70cd72eb0afc_1186x661.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vt3N!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8e47309-4629-41f7-90bd-70cd72eb0afc_1186x661.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vt3N!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8e47309-4629-41f7-90bd-70cd72eb0afc_1186x661.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Knicks &#8216;1 through RIP&#8217; contre les 76ers.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Et quand ils l&#8217;ont invers&#233; avec OG poseur d&#8217;&#233;cran plus tard, Edgecombe meurt dans l&#8217;&#233;cran et encore un tir au cercle. Assez int&#233;ressant de voir l&#8217;importance de OG &#224; mes yeux. M&#234;me avec Alvarado, pas de switch, ce qui signifie que les 76ers ne veulent pas avoir Edgecombe face &#224; lui et t&#233;moigne d&#8217;une vraie force de frappe.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;84697ad9-d02b-4133-8cbe-048c841b752a&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Les 76ers ont un peu tout essay&#233; au match 1 et les <strong>Knicks ont eu r&#233;ponse &#224; tout</strong> (notamment le P&amp;R Brunson P&amp;R) et quelque chose qu&#8217;ils ont plus tent&#233; c&#8217;est aussi d&#8217;impliquer Mikal Bridges (et Tyrese Maxey dans les actions). Je trouve &#231;a int&#233;ressant parce que d&#8217;abord, les 76ers switchent mais le second &#233;cran de KAT vient enlever Grimes et ouvrir le cut. Ce qui force un low man &#224; venir en aide, et lib&#232;re Josh qui peut driver. Et s&#8217;il peut driver, c&#8217;est parce que Embiid est loin du panier et on en revient &#224; notre postulat de base : le protecteur de panier (Embiid) est sur KAT. Et &#231;a, face &#224; ces Knicks, c&#8217;est du suicide.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!65GF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef17bc29-8a5b-4ca7-964c-c56b66628964_1057x646.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!65GF!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef17bc29-8a5b-4ca7-964c-c56b66628964_1057x646.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!65GF!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Knicks Zoom action &amp; pourquoi Embiid n&#8217;est pas au panier.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Mais quand il ne l&#8217;est pas, les Knicks appellent un post-up pour KAT, qui cr&#233;e une prise &#224; deux et&#8230; encore un tir au cercle !</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;9abe2e63-e83a-40b9-8bbd-047cb6436bad&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Au match 2, les Knicks ont encore cibl&#233; Maxey on ball mais aussi Oubre et on a vu trois choses qui ont sauv&#233; New-York : le manque de communication de Maxey, le niveau tr&#232;s faible de Oubre off ball et la <strong>gravit&#233; de Brunson</strong> (encore une fois). Premi&#232;re action du match : une <strong>CHIN action</strong>. M&#234;me principe de Brunson poseur d&#8217;&#233;cran pour une coupe au panier, juste cette fois-ci les corners sont occup&#233;s. Et cette fois-ci, Edgecombe veut rester coll&#233; sans switcher mais Maxey lui switch pour couvrir Brunson. R&#233;sultat : tir au panier !</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;a58218ea-db53-473b-b705-0325cf6e69d2&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Puis on a eu deux actions en TWIRL. La premi&#232;re est un stagger twirl : deux &#233;crans pour Mikal mais en r&#233;alit&#233; il n&#8217;en prend qu&#8217;un seul et file au panier ! Paul George lit bien et indique le switch &#224; Maxey mais ce dernier reste coll&#233; &#224; Mikal&#8230; tout en &#233;tant derri&#232;re lui. Et c&#8217;est panier !</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f09f9cef-d4b1-47f5-b1dc-b2f46b49fb37&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p>Et c&#8217;est panier aussi parce que le low man, c&#8217;est Kelly Oubre et qu&#8217;il est tout simplement tr&#232;s mauvais dans l&#8217;exercice. Et quand Brown sort de son chapeau une exceptionnelle Bilbao action pour <strong>pi&#233;ger Maxey et Edgecombe</strong>, &#231;a fait encore mouche. Brunson pose un &#233;cran &#224; Mikal mais en r&#233;alit&#233; c&#8217;est un leurre et Mikal se retrouve lui m&#234;me en poseur d&#8217;&#233;cran pour un Brunson qui pop. Mauvaise communication, les guards des 76ers sont terrifi&#233;s par un Brunson libre et encore un cut. 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demander comment ralentir cette attaque et je pense que la bonne r&#233;ponse est une &#233;quipe qui peut presque tout switcher et qui a de tr&#232;s bons d&#233;fenseurs off ball. En d&#8217;autres termes, <strong>Detroit semble &#234;tre le pire match-up</strong> possible pour cette attaque et ce sera un vrai test. L&#8217;autre point de tension reste aussi : que se passe-t-il si Embiid (ou un autre roamer) se met sur Josh Hart pendant 48min ? Grosse question mais l&#224; aussi les Knicks ont montr&#233; des choses int&#233;ressantes. On ball &#233;videmment, mais aussi sur le fait de cr&#233;er des leurres avec lui.</p><p>On finira sur ce playcall g&#233;nial : pendant que Brunson joue un main &#224; main avec KAT, Josh et OG pose un stagger pour Mikal &#224; l&#8217;oppos&#233;. Ca n&#233;cessite <strong>l&#8217;attention des trois d&#233;fenseurs off ball</strong>, et donc quand Brunson arrive au panier&#8230; tout le monde lui tourne la t&#234;te.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;66c1c280-5840-47f4-a473-83a541ca73c5&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p>Un beau r&#233;sum&#233; de ce qui se passe chez les Knicks durant ces Playoffs : on vous fait croire que tout se passe dans la main droite, mais tout s&#8217;est d&#233;j&#224; pass&#233; dans la main gauche ! Tout &#231;a a &#233;t&#233; permis par une <strong>mini r&#233;volution</strong> en interne, que Mike Brown gardait tranquillement sous le coude depuis le d&#233;but. Et il nous l&#8217;avait dit d&#232;s son arriv&#233;e. Peut-&#234;tre que quelqu&#8217;un trouvera la parade, mais pour l&#8217;instant ces Knicks sont en bonne position pour atteindre leur deuxi&#232;me finale de conf&#233;rence de suite. Affaire &#224; suivre&#8230;</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How I Changed My Mind on Cameron Boozer. Twice.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Duke's prospect Cam Boozer scouting Report.]]></description><link>https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/how-i-changed-my-mind-on-cameron</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/how-i-changed-my-mind-on-cameron</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dreamcast Show]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 10:03:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yixn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a491371-19d9-4159-a749-000fdae66298_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yixn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a491371-19d9-4159-a749-000fdae66298_1280x720.png" 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1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yixn!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a491371-19d9-4159-a749-000fdae66298_1280x720.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>I love you, me neither. But a little bit anyway.</em> That&#8217;s how I could quickly sum up my personal assessment of Cam Boozer for those who don&#8217;t want to read further. But in a way, my opinion as a regular French guy on his couch is deeply uninteresting. What is far more interesting is the <em>why</em>. How can one change their mind about him so radically? And it&#8217;s a great reflection of the deeply divided community around Carlos&#8217;s son : how can views be so polarized, and where is the middle ground in this black-and-white world? Cam Boozer is a prospect with a <strong>fascinating evaluation</strong>, who taught me a lot and made me think and rethink his case like few before him. So here is my logbook. Come aboard with me on this journey, whose goal is to build his <strong>scouting report</strong> in an unconventional way.</p><p></p><h1><strong>The Tinder Syndrome: Not the Guy in the Photo</strong></h1><p>We are in July 2025, one year before the 2026 draft. And the starting point is a confusion. The confusion of reading scouting reports left and right and watching snippets of games, wondering why this player isn&#8217;t unanimously projected as the number one pick and isn&#8217;t described as a truly generational player. In fact, looking at his stat line coming out of Duke, you get pretty much the same feeling.</p><p>The archetype, for those unfamiliar, is pure <strong>fantasy</strong>: an offensive hub from the interior. Incredibly efficient at 1.30 points per shot (all the more impressive in NCAA), who shoots threes (39%+ from high school), who doesn&#8217;t turn it over, who gobbles up rebound after rebound, and who is the statistical leader in NCAA in absolutely every single metric.</p><p>Then comes the question: why isn&#8217;t he seen as the undisputed number one? Like a Flagg, Cunningham, or Zion? The answer lies in the film, and from the very first game you understand. Cameron Boozer is very powerful, that&#8217;s a strength, but he is at least <strong>as athletically stiff as he is powerful</strong>. You find the bodybuilder frame of his father Carlos, but you sense that the muscle-building may have been pushed a bit too far, at the expense of flexibility and agility. The other glaring flaw that quickly catches the eye is the player&#8217;s lack of creativity. His handle is very simple, basic, he doesn&#8217;t really have the ability to beat his defender with it or react in real time. His passing looks decent, but you rarely see him manipulate a defender with his eyes or a shot fake.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xVP2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb74214fb-73dc-4dc9-90da-8495e790641b_1389x703.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xVP2!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb74214fb-73dc-4dc9-90da-8495e790641b_1389x703.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xVP2!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, 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profile isn&#8217;t fully there: the <strong>creation of advantages</strong>. Cameron Boozer has an incredibly high dribble that he physically cannot lower. Because his center of gravity is very high, and lowering such a heavy body isn&#8217;t easy it requires exceptional quads and ankles.</p><p>In reality, that&#8217;s where the disappointment comes from: he&#8217;s no Derik Queen in that regard. But Queen&#8217;s drive and handle were anomalies. They were, as a prospect, what made him special (before the Pelicans placed him next to Zion F*cking Williamson : a driver with no shot and a defensive compromise). 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Cam Boozer finds himself up against an opponent he can&#8217;t physically dominate and gets blocked.</figcaption></figure></div><p>His drive relies solely on <strong>his power and touch</strong>. On &#8220;running&#8221; drives (stampede action) against stationary defenders, he excels for good reason : he is extremely massive, and even if he lacks the deceleration and body control needed, if he comes at you full speed, you&#8217;re probably moving back no matter who you are. So either he finishes with an open layup, or the force alone is enough to create just enough space for a push shot he has mastered. 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<strong>situational</strong>. If there&#8217;s no open driving lane, it&#8217;s over. If there&#8217;s traffic and he needs to navigate left and right like an eel, it&#8217;s over. Naturally, when you project that against better athletes, you figure the margin will shrink even further. In summary, he&#8217;s not the advantage creator you might have hoped for given his profile. But is that truly a dealbreaker? Should we write him off entirely?</p><div><hr></div><h1><strong>Mr. Robot</strong></h1><p>Cameron isn&#8217;t Queen, but in a way that&#8217;s a good thing. Because building around Queen is incredibly complicated. And let&#8217;s talk about the quality that gives Cam a floor too high to fail: <strong>his shot</strong>. Not his best skill, but the one that will allow him to survive in the NBA if it proves effective. Profiles like Sengun, Queen, and Sabonis are fantasy archetypes : the offense running through your big who spaces the floor for rim protection and unlocks your offensive spacing. Essentially, the search for the new Jokic. But it&#8217;s incredibly hard to build around them and it requires perfect conditions: without a shot (and often without roll threats), they need to be on-ball as much as possible. And ideally, surrounded by as many shooters as possible. Otherwise, having two non-shooters on the floor together immediately becomes a major problem. On the other side, you have to hide their defensive weaknesses. But since spacing is needed, they&#8217;re often the center and don&#8217;t play alongside a true rim protector. These profiles are far more comfortable at the 4 defensively, as evidenced by Sengun&#8217;s best stretches  clearly when Steven Adams managed the center and relieved Alperen of that task. Even if the offense was good, albeit atypical, it also had its flaws, mainly spacing, as we saw against the Warriors in 2025.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vQeY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F434881c1-a0e6-468f-a844-31605faef629_1168x624.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vQeY!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F434881c1-a0e6-468f-a844-31605faef629_1168x624.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vQeY!, 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protect the rim and shoot can be counted on one hand (Chet, Wemby, JJJ, a healthy Porzingis), winning with this archetype is immensely difficult. <strong>But with Cam, everything changes</strong>. His shot allows him to play alongside a true rim protector, even if that guy isn&#8217;t a unicorn. In fact, it&#8217;s not just that he <em>can</em>, it&#8217;s that he <em>loves</em> playing with another vertical big. Especially to serve them on a silver platter. And that brings us to the central point of his game: his passing. Again, at first glance, nothing flashy, few passes that manipulate the defense.</p><p>But the closer you look, the more you see that his micro-skills are of a very, very high level. This is where we&#8217;ll use superlatives we might later regret. While I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s the best passer I&#8217;ve seen as a prospect, and probably not even the one with the highest potential in this draft (Mikel Brown Jr.), I think he is one of the prospects with the highest <strong>understanding of the game</strong> I&#8217;ve ever seen. If not <em>THE </em>prospect. Cameron Boozer is an onboard computer who knows at every moment what action is being run, where his teammates are, and who reads the opposing defensive coverage extremely quickly.</p><p>One play that left a deep impression on me was against Louisville: he notices that the defense is collapsing around him, creating a 2-on-1 at the perimeter, calls the flare screen from Ngongba for Isaiah Evans himself, and delivers the pass to the shooter with <strong>perfect precision and velocity</strong> so he can release quickly. You rarely see <strong>passes of that quality</strong>, and John Scheier understood this well. If last year&#8217;s offense was made <em>for</em> Cooper Flagg, this year&#8217;s was made <em>by</em> Cam Boozer. 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Cameron Boozer calling the flare screen for Isaiah Evans and delivers a perfect pass.</figcaption></figure></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ih9m!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce61173b-cd7e-4354-8e4d-a00b2b15cbda_1190x368.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ih9m!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce61173b-cd7e-4354-8e4d-a00b2b15cbda_1190x368.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ih9m!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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/__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce61173b-cd7e-4354-8e4d-a00b2b15cbda_1190x368.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ih9m!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce61173b-cd7e-4354-8e4d-a00b2b15cbda_1190x368.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ih9m!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce61173b-cd7e-4354-8e4d-a00b2b15cbda_1190x368.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ih9m!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce61173b-cd7e-4354-8e4d-a00b2b15cbda_1190x368.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Already, thanks to his size and positive wingspan, he can pass over many defenders on pick-and-rolls when he&#8217;s the ball handler or from the post. His precision is excellent (always in stride for his teammate) and this precise skill shows up in transition. The power he puts into his passes is impressive and helps <strong>amplify small windows</strong> of advantage. And again, he reads situations perfectly and often knows where the open man is. From the post, his ability to find skip passes is quite impressive, not Luka Doncic-level in creativity, but incredibly effective.</p><p>But perhaps the most impressive thing is his ability to find&#8230; the other big man he&#8217;s playing with. I&#8217;m not a big fan of stat overload when discussing prospects, but some numbers are very telling: Cam Boozer is in the <strong>99th percentile in Rim Assist</strong>. Given his size, the most effective double-teams on him come from the baseline, bringing in a tall player to bother him which often leaves a window for the other big before the rotation can close. And Boozer has a perfect understanding of where quality shots are, which is why he so often tries to find shots at the rim. Don&#8217;t forget: Rim is (and will forever be) King.</p><p>An onboard computer who sees the whole floor and that shows up in the <strong>short roll</strong> too, where I found him very good. In fact, I even felt he improved in that area as the season progressed. Thanks to his imposing frame, he sets good screens, and behind them, he scans the floor extremely quickly. Once again, he loves threatening the rim to free up a cutter. Ultimately, this short roll passing reinforces that very safe floor he carries. And the more you watch, the more a specific trait emerges in this area : <strong>hip speed</strong>. Which is very good! That&#8217;s a bit of a surprise given the rest of his physical and athletic profile. This musclebound player built on heavy feet who struggles to contort in space actually has excellent hip speed. He can turn quickly, which once again serves his fast mental processing. A very good reaction time, large and precise and powerful hands, the coordination between hands and eyes : these are all not-so-sexy skills that are incredibly functional.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E6jR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdcbe66e-0a76-44ee-bd9a-5d9f77761ce4_1176x317.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E6jR!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdcbe66e-0a76-44ee-bd9a-5d9f77761ce4_1176x317.png 424w, 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Short-roll read where Boozer finds the skip pass in a split second against Clemson Tigers men&#8217;s basketball.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Watching this player and projecting his role, one name that comes to mind often is <strong>Alperen Sengun</strong>. In many ways, particularly in size and scoring. The tragedy of the Turk&#8217;s career is not being 1 or 2 inches taller. Because of that, he ends up having to attempt a lot of push shots and small fadeaways with a very arcing trajectory to get over taller defenders. He <strong>can&#8217;t release the ball above his opponent</strong> and that is the ultimate ceiling, the scoring cap that prevents him from being a top-25 NBA player in my eyes. I find there&#8217;s something similar with Cam, and that they share many traits: the lack of mobility, good defensive hands, the weak left hand, the passing for their size, etc.</p><p>And yet, when I look at what makes up their passing, I feel like I&#8217;m watching two almost opposite players and that&#8217;s what I find so fascinating about scouting. We humans love to compare, to categorize, to draw precise lines around players. And yet, even two similar players are deeply different, and I found the debate interesting enough to bring to you.</p><p>I&#8217;m speaking here mainly of prospect/rookie Sengun. When he arrived in the NBA, it felt like a breath of fresh air, and to me the skills to build a true elite offensive creator were there particularly through a few superpowers: <strong>his creativity and his flexibility</strong> allowing him to find impossible angles. Yet a few years later under Ime Udoka, you can&#8217;t help but notice that creativity was contained and reduced in his game, and some of his flaws weren&#8217;t erased : the main one being his real-time reading, I think. His ability to see the whole game at all times. He&#8217;s a monster in the short roll because those passes are often pre-determined, but he&#8217;s not quite elite at <strong>reacting to the unexpected.</strong> </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aSAY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff828d17c-5831-4ced-9809-a2335875de0e_1186x316.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aSAY!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff828d17c-5831-4ced-9809-a2335875de0e_1186x316.png 424w, 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Alperen &#350;eng&#252;n misses a passing window because he had already predetermined that he was going to score.</figcaption></figure></div><p>He doesn&#8217;t read the game <em>that</em> well. And on the other side of the table, Boozer isn&#8217;t creative in the slightest but may be one of the best prospects at reading the game and coverages in real time. He has a genuinely broader peripheral vision than Sengun. Yes, he can&#8217;t contort in the air and for now doesn&#8217;t manipulate the defense the way Sengun can. But <strong>this player does not make mistakes</strong>. He reads everything so well that when he does turn it over, it&#8217;s remarkable. Like when Xavi misplaced a pass.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9lfG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9adbd5ea-8990-43f2-a206-0846e438c262_1600x900.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9lfG!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9adbd5ea-8990-43f2-a206-0846e438c262_1600x900.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9lfG!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, 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loses the ball. The very next possession: same post-up, and a skip pass over the defense to the opposite corner. What should we take from that? What should we prefer? The fact that an 18-year-old gets caught by an aggressive trap or the perfect adjustment with a key pass right after? I&#8217;ve always been of the school that proactive visual manipulation and passing &gt; reactive passing, because those are &#8220;big-time passes.&#8221; When they happen, they create shots of rare quality. But Boozer actually creates excellent shots too, and above all loses far fewer balls. And doesn&#8217;t that have incredible value in today&#8217;s NBA? Having a player who, nine times out of ten, will give you an 8/10 play rather than someone who five times will give you a 10/10? 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The difference in processing early in the game against California Golden Bears men&#8217;s basketball when facing a double-team.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><h1><strong>2026 &gt; 2018</strong></h1><p>What makes the best offensive players in the NBA? Fairly empirically, and especially today: scoring. It might seem counterintuitive, but individual scoring has never been more important than it is in 2026. Jokic, Shai, Luka, Embiid, Tatum, Wemby&#8230; they are all, first and foremost, ultra-efficient scorers. To the point where their gravity creates space and unlocks their passing. And then secondarily, the quality of their passing elevates them into another stratosphere of collective creation. What makes these players is actually the <strong>intersection of scoring that attracts the defense and passing to exploit those advantages</strong>. That&#8217;s one reason KD isn&#8217;t a true collective offensive engine in 2026: he never had the passing to truly exploit his gravity, or at least not at the level of others. It&#8217;s also the intersection that players like Scottie Barnes, Josh Giddey, or even sometimes Lamelo Ball can&#8217;t quite reach (though Lamelo&#8217;s case is very specific). Giddey is the most telling example: the passer is intrinsically a top-10 in the NBA, I think, but without scoring, without a threat, you don&#8217;t destabilize the defense, and therefore&#8230; no one to pass to.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bg8u!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1321d72-74ee-45dc-865d-f4c9349c007f_1600x900.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bg8u!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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advantages he had in NCAA? Because quite undeniably, he had them at Duke, and that&#8217;s what made him the player he was : the Thanos of NCAA, the perfect alloy of mega-efficient scoring and brilliant passing. But will the scoring translate? What happens if you take that scoring away?</p><p>Let&#8217;s recall the <a href="https://draftballr.com/players/cameron-boozer">stats first</a>, to show you where this player is starting from: 31 USG%, 1.30 pts/shot, which is +9 relative TS% compared to NCAA (equivalent to 116 TS+), 100th percentile in Rim Pressure, 99th percentile in Rim Assist, 100th percentile in Box Creation (volume of responsibilities), 0.80 AST:USG (fairly balanced), 1.8 AST/TOV (fairly clean), 54% free throw rate (89th percentile). We&#8217;re basically talking about <strong>MVP-level production</strong> if it translates.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RUo1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50537097-de29-4d4a-81f0-f3888c11544e_1060x466.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RUo1!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50537097-de29-4d4a-81f0-f3888c11544e_1060x466.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RUo1!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, 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test and the stats is fairly wide. And that&#8217;s precisely the point of scouting: knowing where to draw the real limits of a profile and where the player can grow. Cameron seems to have <strong>fairly obvious limitations</strong> he may never surpass: the handle, the very high center of gravity, the heavy feet and stiff ankles, the footwork that isn&#8217;t all that advanced, the stubborn reliance on his right hand, the lack of verticality&#8230; How could he overcome all of that against increasingly elite competition?</p><p>Indeed, with all these flaws, Boozer&#8217;s scoring arsenal at Duke wasn&#8217;t all that varied: the vast majority of his points came from the post-up. If you remove that massive scoring source, what does he have left? And the concerns are legitimate as we saw how much he struggled against physical profiles that matched or exceeded his own, as mentioned earlier. In that sense, the fear of seeing him become a Sengun-lite, not truly dominating and instead living on short mid-range push shots rather than at the rim, is real. Because like the Turk, he has an <strong>enormous tendency to go right</strong>, and he&#8217;ll be shorter than most interior players. But the key differentiator from Sengun could once again come from his shot and his positional versatility.</p><p>Sengun&#8217;s best basketball was, oddly enough, played alongside Steven Adams on offense. Because Adams&#8217; threat on the offensive glass forced opponents to put their big on him, which automatically freed Sengun, he&#8217;d end up guarded by a smaller player. It&#8217;s also the secret to the Knicks&#8217; two-big lineup: as soon as Mitchell Robinson is on the floor, KAT no longer has the opposing big on him and the Knicks almost automatically feed him in the post.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ltPa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a5e1f52-0e05-4b09-a99f-60b3f57706e8_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ltPa!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ltPa!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a5e1f52-0e05-4b09-a99f-60b3f57706e8_1280x720.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">How the NBA can tactically unlock Boozer&#8217;s weaknesses. Ex: the Knicks.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Cameron Boozer, by virtue of his viable shot (if real), can play the four and therefore alongside another big which could free up his post-up game! It&#8217;s not a common profile, but not impossible to find either. And the cherry on top is that you wouldn&#8217;t have the spacing compromise the Rockets dealt with, for example. Cameron Boozer will dominate either on the post-up&#8230; or on the offensive glass, where he is simply a monster with 12.5 OReb%. He has a sense for the game, for positioning, and that&#8217;s where his ground strength serves him. Low man wins. To illustrate how unique this profile is : among NCAA freshmen this year with <strong>12 OReb% AND 20 AST%</strong> (meaningful share in collective creation) there was one. One and only one. Cam Boozer.</p><p>In reality, he&#8217;s arriving in an NBA that seems almost <strong>tailor-made for him</strong>: there has never been more space, and at the same time, switch-all defense is no longer a priority. Drop-coverage giants (Edey, Clingan, Gobert, Wemby&#8230; Mara?) are back stronger than ever, and defenses are more creative than ever. No, Boozer isn&#8217;t a great defender but he has minimum mobility, very reactive hands (almost 3 STL%), and you find that computer again off-ball defensively: he reads systems very well and knows how to position himself. On top of that, he&#8217;ll contribute on the glass. Yes, he&#8217;ll get targeted, but teams will know how to hide him too, and he&#8217;ll contribute through his positioning, his rebounding IQ, and his ability to trigger transitions. That&#8217;s the deal with Cam Boozer: no matter which team drafts him, they&#8217;ll immediately have someone who <strong>wins the possession battle</strong> through his presence, without turning the ball over so much.</p><p>He may not be the primary option, but the range of ways to use him is actually far more diverse than just the post-up. To list them quickly: he can be used as a screener in pick-and-pop, which can also open up his power drive. He can play the short roll at a near-elite NBA level, or be a true passing hub from the elbow in a motion offense. His post-up won&#8217;t be elite, but likely disruptive enough to force smaller players to switch onto him. And this guy is a monster on the offensive glass.</p><p>Ultimately, the central question of this section is about his efficiency : can it hold? Or will he become a Banchero-lite, inefficient in the NBA? When you think about it, Paolo was already inefficient in NCAA, and Cam is already efficient in NCAA despite all his current limitations. And the reason for that is his basketball IQ. Boozer is an <strong>analytics darling</strong>, a true one. He only takes threes, shots at the rim, or draws fouls. He took just 12 long twos all year. That&#8217;s an insane rate - Harden-esque - and it&#8217;s admirable in the sense that if he can&#8217;t get to his spot, he won&#8217;t take an unprofitable shot. And in reality, even if he&#8217;s not an elite finisher at the rim like a Dybantsa, he is a machine for frequency at the rim, and from a profitability standpoint that&#8217;s excellent. 64% at the rim isn&#8217;t elite, but given the volume <strong>he creates almost entirely by himself</strong>, it&#8217;s an incredibly efficient return. On top of that, he has a real knack for <strong>drawing fouls</strong>, patiently waiting for the defender to jump at his fakes to earn the most profitable shot of all: the free throw. Again, not pretty but devastatingly effective, made possible by his micro-skills of power to get into the paint, hip speed, and reading his direct defender.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TceY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff4835f43-39bc-4c7c-a787-2726bdc7e664_1191x382.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TceY!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff4835f43-39bc-4c7c-a787-2726bdc7e664_1191x382.png 424w, 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Cam. I know you&#8217;re here for this : how do we evaluate him ahead of the draft? I think I&#8217;ve reached the point where the cocktail of skills simply has too much value in today&#8217;s NBA. I believe he&#8217;s already a player at a similar level to Sengun (probably even more valuable) and therefore his floor is to be a top-60 NBA player. That&#8217;s just extraordinary. So, it seems fairly unlikely to me that he becomes a repeat advantage creator, but I wonder if it&#8217;s truly impossible: could re-athleticization, a leaner build happen? A few examples exist in the NBA (Naz Reid, Rudy Gobert, even Nikola Jokic) but I don&#8217;t want to fall into survivorship bias.</p><p>But even without that, I believe he&#8217;ll be very efficient in the NBA because of his basketball comprehension, just perhaps not with a massive 35 USG% workload. In any case, that&#8217;s not what I&#8217;d ask of him if I drafted him. But then again, I&#8217;m on my couch. Even without that usage, I think he can be a nightmare to guard alongside a good ball-handler with a pull-up game, and he&#8217;ll be easy to slot in next to another big. His basketball IQ is at the center of everything, and I think it&#8217;s truly special. The world where he sits at 25 USG%, 105 TS+, wins the possession battle, and is one of two creation outlets for his offense is too obvious and if that&#8217;s not a top-5 to top-10 NBA player, it&#8217;s comfortably a top-30? How many players in this class have a higher ceiling with as high a probability of reaching it? Maybe one, maybe two, maybe three. 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15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Carlos Boozer in a Jazz jersey&#8230; same story repeating itself with Cameron ?</figcaption></figure></div><p>I have a hard time seeing him truly fail, and I think in the right situation the output could be sensational: imagining him on DHOs with Curry makes my head spin; alongside Edey intrigues me enormously; in Jordy Fernandez&#8217;s Boomer offense sounds great&#8230; And what if he lands in Utah with Will Hardy and a rotation featuring JJJ and Kessler? Too many possibilities, too many intriguing fits, and I never would have thought I&#8217;d say this a few months ago, but I can&#8217;t see him dropping out of my top 3 ( maybe even top 3) in the stacked 2026 draft.</p><p>Thanks everyone for reading. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=micIydJ0cMw">Video version available</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment Cam Boozer m'a fait changer d'avis. Deux fois. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scouting Report du prospect de Duke Cameron Boozer.]]></description><link>https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/comment-cam-boozer-ma-fait-changer</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://dreamcastshow.substack.com/p/comment-cam-boozer-ma-fait-changer</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dreamcast Show]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 14:23:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C6N_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7392c06d-d176-460c-8c40-a0abf4a6c7cd_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Mais un peu quand m&#234;me. Voici comment je pourrais r&#233;sumer rapidement mon &#233;valuation personnelle de Cam Boozer pour ceux qui ont la flemme d&#8217;aller plus loin. Mais quelque part, mon avis de petit Fran&#231;ais sur le canap&#233; est profond&#233;ment inint&#233;ressant. Ce qui est beaucoup plus int&#233;ressant, c&#8217;est le pourquoi. Comment peut-on changer d&#8217;avis si radicalement ? Et c&#8217;est un beau reflet de la communaut&#233; tr&#232;s divis&#233;e autour du fils de Carlos, comment peut-on voir des avis si tranch&#233;s et o&#249; est le juste milieu de ce monde si manich&#233;en ? Cam Boozer est un prospect &#224; <strong>l&#8217;&#233;valuation fascinante</strong>, qui m&#8217;a appris beaucoup et fait penser et repenser son cas comme peu avant lui. Alors voici mon journal de bord et embarquez avec moi dans ce voyage qui a pour but de faire son <strong>scouting report</strong>, de fa&#231;on peu conventionnelle.</p><ol><li><p></p></li></ol><h1><strong>Le syndrome Tinder : pas celui sur la photo</strong></h1><p>Nous sommes en juillet 2025, un an avant la draft 2026. Et le point de d&#233;part, c&#8217;est une incompr&#233;hension. L&#8217;incompr&#233;hension en lisant les scouting report &#224; droite &#224; gauche et en regardant des bouts de match de pourquoi ce joueur n&#8217;est pas <strong>projet&#233; num&#233;ro 1</strong> de fa&#231;on unanime et n&#8217;est pas d&#233;peint comme un joueur vraiment g&#233;n&#233;rationnel. A vrai dire, en regardant la ligne de stat en sortie de Duke du joueur, on se fait un peu la m&#234;me r&#233;flexion. </p><p>L&#8217;arch&#233;type, pour ceux qui ne le connaissent pas, rel&#232;ve du <strong>fantasme</strong> : un hub offensif depuis un poste int&#233;rieur. Qui est ultra efficace avec 1.30 point/tir (d&#8217;autant plus impressionnant en NCAA), qui shoote &#224; 3 pts (+ 39% depuis le lyc&#233;e), qui perd peu de ballon, qui gobe rebond sur rebond  et qui est le leader statistique de NCAA dans absolument n&#8217;importe quel m&#233;trique. </p><p>Vient alors la question de pourquoi n&#8217;est-il pas vu comme le num&#233;ro un incontest&#233; ? Comme les Flagg, Cunningham ou autres Zion. La r&#233;ponse se trouve dans le film, et d&#232;s le premier match on comprend. Cameron Boozer est tr&#232;s puissant, c&#8217;est une force mais il est au moins <strong>aussi rigide athl&#233;tiquement qu&#8217;il est puissant.</strong> On retrouve l&#224; le corps body build&#233; de son p&#232;re Carlos, mais on sent que la prise de muscle a peut-&#234;tre &#233;t&#233; pouss&#233;e trop loin, au d&#233;triment de souplesse et d&#8217;agilit&#233;. L&#8217;autre d&#233;faut flagrant qui saute rapidement aux yeux c&#8217;est le manque de cr&#233;ativit&#233; du joueur. Le handle est tr&#232;s simple, basique sans vraiment de capacit&#233; &#224; d&#233;passer son adversaire gr&#226;ce &#224; lui, de r&#233;agir en temps r&#233;el. Le passing lui parait bon, mais on ne le voit que rarement manipuler un d&#233;fenseur par le regard ou une feinte de corps.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xVP2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb74214fb-73dc-4dc9-90da-8495e790641b_1389x703.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xVP2!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb74214fb-73dc-4dc9-90da-8495e790641b_1389x703.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xVP2!, 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1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xVP2!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb74214fb-73dc-4dc9-90da-8495e790641b_1389x703.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Illustration du dribble tr&#232;s haut de Boozer et son incapacit&#233; &#224; baisser son centre de gravit&#233;.</figcaption></figure></div><p>La cons&#233;quence directe est que la composante la plus importante pour ce profil, <strong>la cr&#233;ation de d&#233;calages,</strong> n&#8217;est pas compl&#232;tement la<strong>.</strong> Cameron Boozer a un handle incroyablement haut, qu&#8217;il ne peut physiquement pas baisser. En effet, son centre de gravit&#233; est tr&#232;s haut et baisser un corps si lourd n&#8217;est pas simple et n&#233;cessite des quadri et des chevilles exceptionnelles. </p><p>En r&#233;alit&#233; c&#8217;est de l&#224; que vient la d&#233;ception : il n&#8217;est pas Derik Queen sur cet aspect. Mais l&#8217;anomalie de drive et de handle &#233;tait Queen. C&#8217;&#233;tait ce qui le rendait sp&#233;cial en tant que prospect (avant que les Pelicans le mettent &#224; c&#244;t&#233; de Zion F*cking Williamson : un driveur sans tir a compromis d&#233;fensif). Les avantages qu&#8217;il cr&#233;e sur son dribble sont peu clairs, s&#8217;il est face &#224; un adversaire qui lui est &#233;gal physiquement il n&#8217;arrive pas &#224; cr&#233;er de s&#233;paration et on l&#8217;a vu bon nombre de fois se faire contrer &#224; cause de cela : Virginia au tournoi de conf&#233;rence, UCON contre Tarris Reed, Kansas d&#232;s le d&#233;but de saison&#8230; </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!31uj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf83ef5d-05eb-4de5-8aac-7c566d15876e_1600x900.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!31uj!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf83ef5d-05eb-4de5-8aac-7c566d15876e_1600x900.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!31uj!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf83ef5d-05eb-4de5-8aac-7c566d15876e_1600x900.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!31uj!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf83ef5d-05eb-4de5-8aac-7c566d15876e_1600x900.png 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Cam Boozer se retrouve face &#224; un adversaire qu&#8217;il n&#8217;arrive pas &#224; dominer physiquement et se fait contrer.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Son drive repose uniquement sur sa <strong>puissance et son toucher</strong>. Lors de drives &#171; lanc&#233;s &#187; (stampede) face &#224; des d&#233;fenseurs statiques il excelle. Et pour cause, il est extr&#234;mement massif. Ainsi, m&#234;me s&#8217;il n&#8217;a pas la d&#233;c&#233;l&#233;ration et le body contr&#244;le n&#233;cessaire, s&#8217;il vous arrive &#224; pleine vitesse dessus, vous allez probablement reculer peu importe qui vous &#234;tes. Par cons&#233;quence, soit il finit avec un lay up ouvert, soit il arrive &#224; se cr&#233;er juste ce qu&#8217;il faut d&#8217;espace pour placer un flotteur, un tir qu&#8217;il ma&#238;trise. En efficacit&#233;, je suis &#224; peu pr&#232;s s&#251;r que Cam est bon (n&#8217;en ai pas la certitude car pas les moyens d&#8217;avoir synergie).  </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!egLX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8bcde798-17ee-4a41-9913-f2d3c83ed6bb_1181x317.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!egLX!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8bcde798-17ee-4a41-9913-f2d3c83ed6bb_1181x317.png 424w, 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">La puissance sur drive de Cam Boozer lanc&#233; face &#224; un futur pivot NBA Henri Veesaar. </figcaption></figure></div><p></p><p>Mais on se rend compte que cela n&#233;cessite des conditions et que c&#8217;est tr&#232;s circonstanciel. S&#8217;il n&#8217;a pas cette ligne de drive ouverte, c&#8217;est mort. S&#8217;il y a beaucoup de monde et qu&#8217;il doit naviguer de gauche &#224; droite tel une anguille, c&#8217;est mort. Forc&#233;ment, quand on projette &#231;a face &#224; de meilleurs athl&#232;tes, on se dit que la marge va encore diminuer. En r&#233;sum&#233;, ce n&#8217;est pas le cr&#233;ateur de d&#233;calages qu&#8217;on pouvait esp&#233;rer par son profil, mais est-ce vraiment r&#233;dhibitoire ? Doit-on tout abandonner pour autant ?</p><ol start="2"><li></li></ol><h1><strong>Mr Robot</strong></h1><p>Cameron n&#8217;est pas Queen, mais quelque part tant mieux. Parce que construire autour de Queen, qu&#8217;est-ce que c&#8217;est compliqu&#233;. Et parlons de la qualit&#233; de Cam qui fait que son plancher est bien trop haut pour &#233;chouer : <strong>son tir</strong>. Pas son meilleur skill, mais celui qui lui permettra de survivre en NBA s&#8217;il s&#8217;av&#232;re effectif. Les profils comme Sengun, Queen, Sabonis sont des fantasmes : le jeu qui passe par ton int&#233;rieur qui ecarterait le protecteur de panier adverse et d&#233;bloquerait ainsi tout le spacing de ton attaque. La recherche du nouveau Jokic en somme. Mais il est incroyablement dur de construire autour d&#8217;eux et &#231;a n&#233;cessite des conditions parfaites : sans tir (et souvent sans menace de roll), il est n&#233;cessaire qu&#8217;ils soient le plus souvent ballon en main. Et si possible, avec le plus de tireurs autour d&#8217;eux. Parce que sinon, attaquer avec deux non shooteurs devient de suite un gros caillou dans la chaussure. Et de l&#8217;autre c&#244;t&#233;, il faut cacher les <strong>lacunes d&#233;fensives</strong> de ces joueurs. Mais comme il faut du spacing, ils sont souvent le poste &#8216;5&#8217; et ne jouent pas avec un vrai protecteur de cercle &#224; c&#244;t&#233; d&#8217;eux. Ce genre de profils est bien plus &#224; l&#8217;aise en &#8216;4&#8217; en d&#233;fense. Ce n&#8217;est pas un hasard si les meilleurs passages d&#233;fensifs de Sengun dans la zone d&#233;fensives d&#8217;Udoka sont survenus aux c&#244;t&#233;s de Steven Adams : Adams g&#233;rait le centre et d&#233;lestait Alpi de cette t&#226;che. Mais l&#224; encore m&#234;me si l&#8217;attaque &#233;tait bonne, bien qu&#8217;atypique, elle avait aussi ses limites, notamment en termes de spacing, comme l&#8217;ont d&#233;montr&#233; les Warriors en 2025. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vQeY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F434881c1-a0e6-468f-a844-31605faef629_1168x624.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vQeY!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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prot&#232;gent le cercle et shootent se comptent en r&#233;alit&#233; sur les doigts d&#8217;une main (Chet, Wemby, Porzingis en sant&#233;), la difficult&#233; de gagner avec cet arch&#233;type est immense, mais <strong>avec Cam tout change</strong>. Ce tir lui permet de vivre avec un vrai protecteur de panier, m&#234;me si ce dernier n&#8217;est pas une licorne. En fait non, ce n&#8217;est pas qu&#8217;il peut, c&#8217;est qu&#8217;il aime jouer avec un autre Big vertical. Notamment pour le servir sur un plateau. Et &#231;a nous permet de faire la transition vers le point central du joueur : son passing. Encore une fois, &#224; premi&#232;re vue, rien de bien clinquant, peu de passes qui manipulent la d&#233;fense. </p><p>Mais plus on s&#8217;approche, plus on voit que les micro skills qu&#8217;il a sont de tr&#232;s tr&#232;s haut niveau. C&#8217;est dans cette partie qu&#8217;on va utiliser des superlatifs qu&#8217;on regrettera plus tard. Si je ne pense pas qu&#8217;il est le meilleur passeur que j&#8217;ai vu en qualit&#233; de prospect, et sans doute m&#234;me pas le meilleur de la draft (Mikel Brown Jr), je pense qu&#8217;il fait partie des prospects avec la plus grosse <strong>compr&#233;hension du jeu</strong> que j&#8217;ai eu la chance d&#8217;analyser. Si ce n&#8217;est LE prospect. Cameron Boozer est un ordinateur de bord qui sait &#224; chaque instant quelle action est jou&#233;e, o&#249; sont ses co&#233;quipiers et qui lit extr&#234;mement vite la couverture d&#233;fensive adverse.</p><p>Une action qui m&#8217;a profond&#233;ment marqu&#233;e : contre Louisville o&#249; il remarque que la d&#233;fense se contracte autour de lui, laissant un 2v1 au p&#233;rim&#232;tre, <strong>appelle lui-m&#234;me le flare screen</strong> de Ngongba pour Isaiah Evans et sert le shooteur avec une pr&#233;cision et une v&#233;locit&#233; parfaites pour que ce dernier puisse d&#233;gainer rapidement. Ce n&#8217;est pas souvent que l&#8217;on voit des passes de ce niveau et John Scheier l&#8217;a bien compris. Si l&#8217;an pass&#233; l&#8217;attaque &#233;tait faite POUR Cooper Flagg, elle &#233;tait cette ann&#233;e faite PAR Cam Boozer. Dans le playbook bien fourni de Duke, on pouvait r&#233;guli&#232;rement jouer des actions avanc&#233;es (Chin Action, Flex, High Low, Inverted P&amp;R&#8230;) gr&#226;ce &#224; la pr&#233;sence de Cam et sa compr&#233;hension du jeu.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z_60!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff4fbe349-8203-4834-845a-4864f1244667_1389x704.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z_60!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Pour rentrer un peu plus dans le d&#233;tail, gr&#226;ce &#224; sa taille et son envergure positive, il peut passer par dessus beaucoup de d&#233;fenseur sur les P&amp;R o&#249; il porte la balle ou depuis le post-up. Sa pr&#233;cision est excellente, toujours dans la course de l&#8217;attaquant, et ce skill pr&#233;cis se voit sur la transition. La puissance qu&#8217;il met dans ses passes est impressionnante et permet d&#8217;accentuer les petits temps de d&#233;calage. Et encore une fois, il lit parfaitement les situations et sait souvent o&#249; se trouve le joueur seul. Sur le post-up, sa capacit&#233; &#224; trouver des skip passe, m&#234;me si elles ne sont pas aussi cr&#233;atives que celles de Luka Doncic, est impressionnante. Et elles sont vraiment efficaces. </p><p>Le plus remarquable est peut-&#234;tre sa capacit&#233; &#224; trouver&#8230; l&#8217;autre big man avec qui il joue. Je ne suis pas un immense fan du surplus de statistiques lorsqu&#8217;on parle de prospect, mais certaines sont tr&#232;s importantes et une est tr&#232;s parlante : Cam Boozer est <strong>99e centile en Rim Assist</strong>. Au vu de sa taille, les prises &#224; deux les plus effectives sur lui sont depuis la baseline pour amener un joueur grand capable de le g&#234;ner. Mais ce compromis laisse souvent une fen&#234;tre pour l&#8217;autre int&#233;rieur le temps que la rotation se fasse. Et Boozer a cette compr&#233;hension parfaite d&#8217;o&#249; se trouvent les tirs rentables, et c&#8217;est pour &#231;a qu&#8217;il tente tr&#232;s souvent de trouver des tirs au cercle. N&#8217;oubliez pas : Rim is (and Will forever be) King. </p><p>Un ordinateur de bord qui voit tout le terrain et &#231;a se voit aussi sur le <strong>short roll</strong> o&#249; je l&#8217;ai trouv&#233; tr&#232;s bon. A vrai dire, j&#8217;ai m&#234;me trouv&#233; qu&#8217;il avait progress&#233; dans le domaine au fur et &#224; mesure de la saison. Gr&#226;ce &#224; sa charpente imposante il pose de bons &#233;crans et derri&#232;re, il scanne extr&#234;mement rapidement le terrain et l&#224; encore, il adore menacer le cercle pour lib&#233;rer un cut au panier. Finalement ce passing de short roll renforce encore ce c&#244;t&#233; plancher tr&#232;s s&#251;r avec lui. Et plus on regarde, plus un aspect pr&#233;cis apparait avec lui dans cet aspect : <strong>la vitesse de hanches</strong>. Qui est tr&#232;s bonne ! C&#8217;est un peu une surprise au vu du reste de son profil physique et athl&#233;tique. Lui le musclor b&#226;ti sur des pieds tr&#232;s lourds et qui a beaucoup de mal &#224; se contorsionner dans l&#8217;espace poss&#232;de une excellente vitesse de hanche. Il peut se tourner rapidement et donc c&#8217;est une nouvelle fois au service de son processus c&#233;r&#233;bral rapide. Un temps de r&#233;action tr&#232;s bon, des mains grandes, pr&#233;cises et puissantes, la coordination entre ses mains et les yeux&#8230; autant de skills pas ultra sexy mais incroyablement fonctionnels.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E6jR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdcbe66e-0a76-44ee-bd9a-5d9f77761ce4_1176x317.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E6jR!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Lecture sur short roll o&#249; Boozer trouve la skip passe en une fraction de seconde contre Clemson.</figcaption></figure></div><p>En regardant ce joueur et projetant son r&#244;le, le nom qui me vient souvent est Alperen Sengun. Les deux joueurs se rapprochent sur plein d&#8217;aspects notamment la taille et le scoring. Le drame de la carri&#232;re du Turc est de ne pas faire 5 ou 6cm de plus. A cause de &#231;a, il se retrouve &#224; devoir tenter beaucoup de push shots, de petit fadeaways, avec une courbe tr&#232;s arqu&#233;e pour passer au-dessus des d&#233;fenseurs g&#233;n&#233;ralement plus grands. Il ne peut pas faire partir le tir par dessus son adversaire, et c&#8217;est la limite ultime, le <strong>plafond de son scoring</strong> qui l&#8217;emp&#234;che d&#8217;&#234;tre un top25 NBA &#224; mes yeux. Je trouve que c&#8217;est un peu pareil avec Cam et qu&#8217;ils partagent beaucoup de traits : le manque de mobilit&#233;, les bonnes mains d&#233;fensives, le manque de main gauche, le passing pour cette taille etc&#8230;</p><p>Et pourtant, quand je regarde ce qui constitue leur passing, j&#8217;ai l&#8217;impression de voir deux joueurs presque oppos&#233;s et c&#8217;est ce que je trouve passionnant &#224; propos du scouting. Nous les humains, on aime comparer, mettre dans des bo&#238;tes, d&#233;limiter pr&#233;cis&#233;ment les joueurs. Et pourtant, m&#234;me deux joueurs proches sont profond&#233;ment diff&#233;rents et je trouvais le d&#233;bat int&#233;ressant donc je vous le soumets.</p><p>Je parle ici principalement du prospect/rookie Sengun. Quand il arrive en NBA, c&#8217;est un vent de fra&#238;cheur et pour moi les skills pour b&#226;tir un vrai cr&#233;ateur offensif d&#8217;&#233;lite sont l&#224;, particuli&#232;rement au travers de quelques superpouvoirs : <strong>sa cr&#233;ativit&#233;</strong>, sa souplesse qui lui permet de trouver des angles impossibles. Pourtant, quelques ann&#233;es plus tard, sous Ime Udoka, impossible de ne pas dire que la cr&#233;ativit&#233; a &#233;t&#233; cadr&#233;e et r&#233;duite dans son jeu. Certains de ses d&#233;fauts n&#8217;ont pas &#233;t&#233; gomm&#233;s, le principal, &#233;tant je pense, sa lecture en temps r&#233;elle. C&#8217;est &#224; dire sa capacit&#233; &#224; voir tout le jeu tout le temps. C&#8217;est un monstre de short roll parce que ce sont des passes pr&#233; d&#233;termin&#233;es souvent mais il n&#8217;est pas si &#233;lite pour r&#233;agir &#224; l&#8217;impr&#233;vu.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aSAY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff828d17c-5831-4ced-9809-a2335875de0e_1186x316.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aSAY!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff828d17c-5831-4ced-9809-a2335875de0e_1186x316.png 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1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aSAY!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff828d17c-5831-4ced-9809-a2335875de0e_1186x316.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Alperen Sengun manque une fen&#234;tre de passe parce qu&#8217;il avait pr&#233;d&#233;termin&#233; qu&#8217;il allait scorer.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Il ne lit pas si bien le jeu et de l&#8217;autre c&#244;t&#233; de la table Boozer n&#8217;est pas cr&#233;atif pour un sou mais est peut-&#234;tre un des meilleurs prospects pour lire le jeu et les couvertures en temps r&#233;el. Et il a une vraie vision p&#233;riph&#233;rique bien plus grande que Sengun. Alors oui, il ne peut pas se contorsionner en l&#8217;air et pour l&#8217;instant ne manipule pas la d&#233;fense comme Sengun peut le faire. Mais <strong>ce joueur ne fait pas d&#8217;erreur</strong>. Il lit tout tellement bien que lorsqu&#8217;il perd un ballon, cela nous marque. Comme quand Xavi ratait une passe. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9lfG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9adbd5ea-8990-43f2-a206-0846e438c262_1600x900.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9lfG!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9adbd5ea-8990-43f2-a206-0846e438c262_1600x900.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9lfG!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, 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contre California o&#249; il se fait prendre &#224; deux sur son post-up et perd la balle. La possession d&#8217;apr&#232;s : m&#234;me post-up et skip passe par dessus la d&#233;fense au corner oppos&#233;. Que retenir ? Que doit-on pr&#233;f&#233;rer ? Le fait qu&#8217;un joueur de 18ans se fasse avoir par une trappe agressive ou alors l&#8217;adaptation parfaite pour une passe clef derri&#232;re ? J&#8217;ai toujours &#233;t&#233; de l&#8217;&#233;cole de pens&#233;e qui estime que la manipulation visuelle et le passing pro actif sont plus valorisables que le passing r&#233;actif parce que ce sont des &#8216;big time passes&#8217;. Si elles arrivent, c&#8217;est un tir d&#8217;une qualit&#233; rare. Mais en r&#233;alit&#233;, Boozer cr&#233;e aussi d&#8217;excellents tirs et surtout perd bien moins de ballons. Et cela n&#8217;est-il pas pr&#233;cieux dans la NBA actuelle ? Ne faut-il pas un joueur qui vous fera 9 fois sur 10 une action 8/10 plut&#244;t qu&#8217;un autre qui fera 5 fois une action 10/10 ? Je pense qu&#8217;avec Boozer on rentre dans une telle case : <strong>la qualit&#233; de ses lectures</strong> est telle que la r&#233;gularit&#233; peut &#234;tre pr&#233;f&#233;r&#233;e &#224; la cr&#233;ativit&#233;. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7a1M!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F44358dc0-a5b8-49c0-8e05-71cfb2004703_1600x900.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7a1M!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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start="3"><li></li></ol><h1><strong>2026 &gt; 2018</strong></h1><p>Qu&#8217;est-ce qui fait les meilleurs joueurs offensifs de NBA ? De fa&#231;on assez empirique et &#224; fortiori aujourd&#8217;hui : c&#8217;est le scoring. Ca peut paraitre contre intuitif mais en r&#233;alit&#233;, le scoring individuel n&#8217;a jamais &#233;t&#233; aussi important qu&#8217;en 2026. Jokic, Shai, Luka, Embiid, Tatum, Wemby&#8230; tous sont avant tout des scoreurs ultra efficaces. Au point o&#249;, leur gravit&#233; cr&#233;e des espaces et d&#233;bloque leur passing. Puis dans un second temps, la qualit&#233; de leur passing les fait passer dans une autre stratosph&#232;re en termes de cr&#233;ation collective. En fait ce qui fait ces joueurs c&#8217;est <strong>l&#8217;intersection</strong> entre <strong>scoring</strong> qui attire la d&#233;fense et <strong>passing</strong> pour exploiter ces d&#233;calages. C&#8217;est une des raisons qui fait que KD n&#8217;est pas un vrai moteur offensif collectif en 2026 (et que Embiid a progress&#233; l&#224;-dessus) : il n&#8217;a jamais eu le passing pour vraiment exploiter sa gravit&#233;, o&#249; en tout cas pas au niveau d&#8217;autres. C&#8217;est aussi cette intersection que n&#8217;arrive pas &#224; atteindre des Scottie Barnes, Josh Giddey ou m&#234;me parfois Lamelo Ball (m&#234;me si cas tr&#232;s particulier). Giddey est le plus parlant : le passeur est intrins&#232;quement, je pense, un top10 de NBA. Mais sans scoring, sans menace, il n&#8217;est pas possible de d&#233;s&#233;quilibrer la d&#233;fense et donc&#8230; il n&#8217;y a personne &#224; qui faire la passe.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bg8u!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1321d72-74ee-45dc-865d-f4c9349c007f_1600x900.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bg8u!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1321d72-74ee-45dc-865d-f4c9349c007f_1600x900.png 424w, 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celle-ci : aura-t-il les m&#234;mes d&#233;calages qu&#8217;en NCAA ? Parce que de fa&#231;on assez ind&#233;niable, il les avait &#224; Duke et c&#8217;est ce qui faisait le joueur qu&#8217;il &#233;tait, le Thanos de la NCAA qui &#233;tait l&#8217;alliage parfait de scoring m&#233;ga efficace et passing g&#233;nial. Mais le scoring va-t-il se retranscrire ? Que se passe-t-il si on enl&#232;ve ce scoring ? </p><p>Rappelons d&#233;j&#224; les <a href="https://draftballr.com/players/cameron-boozer">stats</a> pour vous montrer d&#8217;o&#249; part ce joueur : 31 USG%, 1.30 pts/tir soit +9 relative TS% par rapport &#224; la NCAA (&#233;quivalent de 116 TS+), 100e centile en Rim Pressure, 99e centile en RIm Assist, 100e centile en Box Creation (volume de responsabilit&#233;s), 0.80 AST:USG (plut&#244;t &#233;quilibr&#233;), 1.8 AST/TOV (plut&#244;t propre), 54% FTr (89e centile). On parle d&#8217;une production de <strong>MVP</strong> en gros si elle se retranscrit.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RUo1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50537097-de29-4d4a-81f0-f3888c11544e_1060x466.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RUo1!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50537097-de29-4d4a-81f0-f3888c11544e_1060x466.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RUo1!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_848, 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plut&#244;t gros car encore une fois le d&#233;calage entre test visuel et statistique est assez grand. Et c&#8217;est l&#224; tout l&#8217;int&#233;r&#234;t du scouting : savoir <strong>poser les limites r&#233;elles</strong> d&#8217;un profil et identifier l&#224; o&#249; le joueur peut progresser. Cameron semble alors avoir des limites assez &#233;videntes qu&#8217;il ne pourra jamais d&#233;passer : ce handle, ce centre de gravit&#233; si haut, ces pas lourds et ces chevilles rigides, ce footwork pas si avanc&#233;, cette obstination &#224; aller sur sa main droite, son manque de verticalit&#233;&#8230;Comment pourrait-il surmonter tout &#231;a face &#224; une adversit&#233; qui augmente ?</p><p>En effet, avec tous ces d&#233;fauts, la palette de Boozer n&#8217;&#233;tait pas si fourni &#224; Duke au scoring : une immense majorit&#233; de ses points venaient du post-up. Si on lui enl&#232;ve cette source immense de points, que lui restera-t-il ? Et les craintes sont l&#233;gitimes, quand on voit le mal qu&#8217;il a eu face &#224; des profils physiques qui lui &#233;taient &#233;gaux ou meilleurs comme dit pr&#233;c&#233;demment. En ce sens, la peur de le voir devenir un Sengun-lite, qui ne domine pas vraiment et vit plut&#244;t dans la short mi-distance qu&#8217;au cercle est r&#233;elle car comme le turc, il a une immense <strong>propension &#224; aller sur sa droite</strong>, et sera plus petit que les autres int&#233;rieurs. Mais pourtant, la clef et la diff&#233;rence majeure avec Sengun pourrait encore une fois venir de son tir et de son poste. </p><p>Le meilleur basket de la carri&#232;re de Sengun &#233;tait bizarrement jou&#233; avec Steven Adams, y compris en attaque. Gr&#226;ce &#224; sa menace du rebond, il for&#231;ait les adversaire &#224; mettre leur &#8216;int&#233;rieur&#8217; sur lui, ce qui lib&#233;rait automatiquement Sengun qui se retrouvait avec un plus petit sur lui. C&#8217;est aussi le secret de la line-up &#224; 2 bigs des Knicks : d&#232;s que Mitchell Robinson est l&#224;, KAT n&#8217;a plus l&#8217;int&#233;rieur sur lui et les Knicks le nourrissent presque automatiquement au post-up. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ltPa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a5e1f52-0e05-4b09-a99f-60b3f57706e8_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ltPa!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Comment la NBA peut d&#233;bloquer tactiquement les lacunes de Boozer. Ex: les Knicks.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Cameron Boozer, de par la viabilit&#233; de son tir si elle est r&#233;elle, pourra jouer poste 4 et donc &#224; c&#244;t&#233; d&#8217;un autre int&#233;rieur, ce qui pourrait donc lib&#233;rer son post-up ! Ce n&#8217;est pas un profil simple &#224; trouver, mais pas impossible non plus. La cerise sur le g&#226;teau serait qu&#8217;il n&#8217;y aurait pas de compromis sur le spacing, comme les Rockets en avaient par exemple. Cameron Boozer dominera soit au post-up&#8230; soit au rebond offensif o&#249; c&#8217;est juste un monstre avec 12.5 OReb%. Il a un sens du jeu, du placement et c&#8217;est l&#224; o&#249; sa force au sol lui sert. Low man wins. Pour vous dire &#224; quel point le profil est unique, cette ann&#233;e en NCAA des freshmen qui ont <strong>12 OReb% ET 20 AST%</strong> (une certaine part dans la cr&#233;ation collective) : il y en a un seul. Le seul et unique Cam Boozer. </p><p>En r&#233;alit&#233;, il arrive dans une NBA dessin&#233;e presque sur mesure pour lui : il n&#8217;y a jamais eu autant d&#8217;espace et dans le m&#234;me temps, on ne cherche plus &#224; tout prix le switch all en d&#233;fense. Les g&#233;ants en drop (Edey, Clingan, Gobert, Wemby&#8230; Mara ?) sont de retour en force et les d&#233;fenses sont plus cr&#233;atives que jamais. Non, Boozer n&#8217;est pas un bon d&#233;fenseur mais il est un minimum mobile, a des mains tr&#232;s tr&#232;s r&#233;actives (presque 3STL%) et on retrouve cet ordinateur en d&#233;fense off ball : il lit tr&#232;s bien les syst&#232;mes et sait se placer. En plus, il apportera sa force au rebond. Oui il se fera cibl&#233;, mais normalement on saura aussi le cacher et il apportera son placement, sa science du rebond et sa capacit&#233; &#224; lancer des transitions. C&#8217;est &#231;a le deal avec Cam Boozer : peu importe l&#8217;&#233;quipe qui le draftera : elle aura imm&#233;diatement quelqu&#8217;un qui gagnera <strong>la bataille des possessions</strong> de par sa pr&#233;sence, sans perdre de ballons. </p><p>Il ne sera peut-&#234;tre pas une premi&#232;re option mais l&#8217;&#233;ventail des possibilit&#233;s pour l&#8217;utiliser est en r&#233;alit&#233; bien plus diversifi&#233; que juste le post-up. Si on fait une liste rapide, il peut &#234;tre utilis&#233; en poseur d&#8217;&#233;cran avec le pick&amp;pop, qui peut aussi ouvrir son drive en puissance. Il peut rapidement s&#8217;imposer comme l&#8217;un des meilleurs de la ligue sur le short roll. Ou &#234;tre un vrai passing hub depuis le poste haut dans une attaque en mouvement. Son post-up ne sera pas &#233;lite, mais sans doute suffisamment dissuasif pour switcher les petits sur lui. Et si vous switchez, ce mec est un monstre au rebond offensif&#8230;</p><p>En somme, la question centrale de cette partie est sur son efficacit&#233;, peut-elle tenir ? Ou deviendra-t-il un Banchero lite, qui sera innefficace en NBA ? Quand on y pense, Paolo &#233;tait d&#233;j&#224; inefficace en NCAA et Cam est d&#233;j&#224; efficace en NCAA malgr&#233; toutes ses limites actuelles. C&#8217;est notamment li&#233; &#224; son QI Basket. Boozer est une <strong>darling des analytics</strong>, une vraie. Il ne prend que des tirs &#224; 3pts, au cercle ou provoque des fautes. Il n&#8217;a pris que 12 longs 2 points toute l&#8217;ann&#233;e. C&#8217;est un taux fou, Hardenesque et appr&#233;ciable dans le sens o&#249; s&#8217;il n&#8217;arrive pas &#224; aller dans son spot : il ne prendra pas un tir non rentable. Et en r&#233;alit&#233;, m&#234;me s&#8217;il n&#8217;est pas une machine d&#8217;efficacit&#233; au cercle comme un Dybantsa, il est une machine &#224; fr&#233;quence au cercle et d&#8217;un point de vue rentabilit&#233; c&#8217;est excellent. 64% de r&#233;ussite au cercle, ce n&#8217;est pas &#233;lite mais sur son volume, qu&#8217;il se cr&#233;e presque uniquement seul, c&#8217;est d&#8217;une rentabilit&#233; plus qu&#8217;int&#233;ressante. En plus de cel&#224;, il a un vrai savoir-faire pour <strong>provoquer les fautes</strong>, attendre patiemment que l&#8217;adversaire saute dans ses feintes pour provoquer le tir le plus rentable : le lancer franc. Encore une fois, pas tr&#232;s joli, mais diablement efficace et rendu possible par ses micros skills de puissance pour s&#8217;approcher du panier, vitesse de hanches et lecture de son d&#233;fenseur direct.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TceY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff4835f43-39bc-4c7c-a787-2726bdc7e664_1191x382.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TceY!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Les 2 skills secrets de Cam Boozer : sa provocation de fautes et sa domination au rebond offensif.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Bon, je crois qu&#8217;il est l&#8217;heure de conclure notre magnifique voyage avec Cam. Je sais que vous &#234;tes l&#224; pour &#231;a, comment l&#8217;&#233;value-t-on en pr&#233;vision de la draft ? Je crois que je suis arriv&#233; au point o&#249; le cocktail a juste trop de valeur dans cette NBA l&#224;. Je crois qu&#8217;il est d&#233;j&#224; un joueur d&#8217;un niveau similaire &#224; Sengun, sans doute m&#234;me plus valuable. Et donc son plancher est d&#8217;&#234;tre un top50 de NBA. C&#8217;est juste hors norme. Alors, cela me semble assez improbable de le voir devenir un cr&#233;ateur de d&#233;calages &#224; r&#233;p&#233;titions mais je me demande si cela est impossible : est-ce qu&#8217;une r&#233;athl&#233;tisation, un affinement est possible ? Quelques exemples existent en NBA comme Naz Reid ou Rudy Gobert voire Nikola Jokic mais je ne veux pas tomber dans le biais du survivant. </p><p>Mais m&#234;me sans cela, je pense qu&#8217;il sera efficace en NBA de par sa compr&#233;hension du jeu, mais il faudra peut &#234;tre un volume plus modeste que 35 USG%. En tout cas, ce ne serait pas ce que je lui demanderais si je le draftais mais encore une fois, je suis dans mon canap&#233;. M&#234;me sans cet usage, je pense qu&#8217;il peut &#234;tre un enfer &#224; d&#233;fendre entour&#233; d&#8217;un bon porteur de balle qui a le pull-up et qu&#8217;il sera facile &#224; ins&#233;rer &#224; c&#244;t&#233; d&#8217;un autre int&#233;rieur. Son <strong>QI Basket est au centre de tout</strong>, et je pense qu&#8217;il est vraiment sp&#233;cial. Le monde o&#249; il est &#224; 25 USG%, 105 TS+, gagne la bataille des possessions et devient un des deux cr&#233;ateurs de son attaque est trop &#233;vident. Si ce n&#8217;est pas top5-10 NBA, c&#8217;est sans doute ais&#233;ment top30 ? Combien de joueurs ont un plafond plus &#233;lev&#233; dans cette cuv&#233;e avec une aussi grosse probabilit&#233; de l&#8217;accomplir ? Peut-&#234;tre un, peut-&#234;tre deux, peut-&#234;tre trois mais c&#8217;est un sujet pour plus tard&#8230; </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KvQu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F484ba2a9-d6d4-4d83-908b-d662de0e2272_900x506.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KvQu!, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/dreamcastshow.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F484ba2a9-d6d4-4d83-908b-d662de0e2272_900x506.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KvQu!, 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et je pense qu&#8217;au bon endroit le rendu peut &#234;tre sensationnel : l&#8217;imaginer sur des DHO avec Curry me fait chavirer, aux c&#244;t&#233;s de Edey m&#8217;intrigue &#233;norm&#233;ment, dans la Boomer offense de Jordy Fernandez me plait&#8230; Et que dire de s&#8217;il atterit au Jazz avec Will Hardy, et une rotation JJJ et Kessler. 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