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This was a wonderful article. I wonder if teams will double down on gunking up the Dallas O beginnings with: switching screens, grab all cutters, full court press on-ball, early show high tag ...

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Definitely expect to see all that stuff. Wouldn’t surprise me to see more full court pressure on Luka. You do have to be careful because Dallas will use the same alignment for different kinds of cuts, so they might anticipate your early switches

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I just got around to reading this...and I wonder if you think that this explains much of Dallas' early struggles this year. If Dallas is super-dependent on getting into a rhythm, would explain why they struggle with COVID absences, plus the way that Richardson/Finney-Smith shooting so poorly creates "record scratching" in the offensive flow

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