The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hoops Tonight - Suns-Mavericks reaction: , Ja Morant injury

Episode Date: May 9, 2022

Jason reacts to Luka Doncic and the Mavericks 111-101 Game 4 win over Chris Paul, Devin Booker, and the Phoenix Suns.  He then previews Warriors-Grizzlies Game 4 as Golden State holds a 2-1 series lead, reacts to Ja Morant's injury, and discusses whether Jordan Poole injuring Morant was a dirty play. He also gives his prediction for Game 4 of the Celtics-Bucks series as Giannis Antetokounmpo looks to guide Milwaukee to a commanding 3-1 series lead. #HerdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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All right, welcome to Hoops Tonight, presented by fans. Duel here at the volume. Happy Sunday, everybody. I'm Jason Tiff. I hope all of you are enjoying your weekend. Happy Mother's Day, to all of the mothers out there. Very strange game in Dallas tonight between the Sons and the Mavericks. We're going to break that game down in its entirety. I also am going to share my thoughts after all of the scuttle butt surrounding the Jom-Mrant knee injury. And then stick around for the end. I'm going to go over some of the stats that I found that have updated from the Celtics Bucks series. Also a couple of quick housekeeping notes. don't forget to subscribe to the volume's YouTube channel.

Also, look for a link in the description to this video to subscribe to our newsletter. It's a great place for you to keep up to date with all of the content at the volume. And as always, follow me on Twitter at underscore Jason LT so you can see my film breakdowns that I do to support a lot of the stuff that I talk about on the show. But let's start with Dallas and they're tying the series against Phoenix. And I told you guys that I predicted this series to go to six games, mainly because I trusted Luca to be able to overcome the massive talent disadvantage between these two teams, just with the way that he can control a basketball game and his ability to control the pace and the

flow with his consistent good decision-making. And ironically enough, he's still not shooting the ball particularly well. That's going to be the thing that's going to be really freaky for the sons in terms of the threat, the appropriate fear that they should have, that they can lose this series, should come from the fact that Luca once again tonight, had 26 points on 25 shots, was not efficient, was missing that stepback three that he goes to. He's been hitting that in his playoff career over 40%. Our guy Carson pointed that out on TikTok the other day.

He's one for 10 tonight. And there's a version of this story. Again, I'm still picking Phoenix to win this series. I believe they'll win in six or seven games. But the threat here for Dallas to overcome them is what if Lucas starts making some of these shots? Because that's when things could get really, really dangerous. His ability to consistently make you pay for sending double teams,

but to victimize mismatches makes him such a huge problem. And I'll use an example, a stretch of the game there in that third quarter when he was attacking campaign. So campaign had a really rough night tonight. He's actually a pretty decent backup point guard, but Dallas has been really good sliding their feet and containing dribble drive guys this entire season. And they've been putting him

a bind. Chris Paul's foul trouble obviously was an issue. We'll get to that in a little bit. But when you play guys on the floor that are small, like campaign is, you just know that Luke is going to go after him. You know that Luca's going to make a concerted effort to make you pay for having a player like that on the floor. And what was super interesting is no matter where they had him, even if it was in like their weird kind of like little matchup zone that Phoenix was doing, Luca would just bring the ball over to where campaign was there and then attack him. And he's so good like campaign was pressuring up on him, but Luca almost has like that Nikola Yokic-esque spin move where I always talk about how post players, one of the biggest things we train them to do, we do this with

high school kids with the pad, you know, the pad that you hold. You want to kind of air on one side of the body because most post defenders do something like that, especially when they're trying to front before the post entry, but they spin off on the other side. You're supposed to feel where the defender is and spin to that side. It's kind of like a license to use your chicken wing too. Like when you spin. You can use your shoulder and elbow to create more separation. And Luca was just doing that time and time again. If campaign stayed behind him, he'd back him down and get into his post moves. If he would press up, he'd spin off of him and go all the way to the rim. And then he, you know, and Luca has a gift for this with a pump

fake. But what he would do is they'd put a shooter, a good shooter one pass away. Like Dorian Finney Smith was incredible tonight. I believe he made eight three-point shots. They'd put Dorian Finney Smith one pass away. And Luca would kind of back down Cam, and then just go up with the pump fake, and then out of the pump fake, immediately make the pass because on that shot fake, the guy guarding Doreen Phiney Smith would come over to help. And it was like the best way to catch him in between that stunt. We call that stunt doubling.

If you don't want to, if you don't want to actually give up an open shot, but you want to dissuade the offensive player from feeling comfortable, you lunge at him and then come back, right? Well, Luca was catching them in the lunge to get to open shooters. It's all just part of what makes him such a dynamic half-court surgeon the way that he is. It's one of the biggest reasons why I value Lucas' skill set so much compared to some of his peers around the leagues. Obviously, his defensive issues are going to have to be addressed, although he's been a lot better defensively in the last two games. Dallas in general has been way better defensively in the last two games.

That's the reason why they've been as successful as they are. We've talked about this at length on the show. Avoiding Phoenix's set defense. getting cross matches in transition so that you don't have to attack McHale Bridges every time. Everything about what Dallas does is predicated on what they do on the defensive end of the floor. And, you know, one of the things that they've been doing, it almost kind of reminds me of the Utah Jazz series. They're doing a good job of making it so that they don't give up too much in switches to DeAndre Dayton by crowding him, by stunting. A lot of, all year long Dallas has been a gimmicky defense in the sense.

that like, they know they don't have the personnel. They don't have Phoenix Suns personnel. They don't have Boston Celtics personnel. They don't have six wings on the roster that can guard multiple positions. That's not what they're working with. They have a handful of really good players. Reggie Bullock and Dorian Finney Smith are fantastic two-way players. They were 10 for 17 from three tonight, too, between the two of them, which is awesome.

Those two guys are obviously your stereotypical traditional great defensive players. Reggie Bullock can do lock and trail stuff, so he's great to put. on guys that run off of screens for shots, right? He's also, Balak is very good with ball pressure and being disruptive. And then Dorian Smith is just, he's not quite the level of a McHale Bridges, but he's a similar archetype of player, super long wing with super long arms that bothers really good players. I remember watching Dorian Finney Smith back in like 2017 or 2018 do a number on LeBron James in a game in Dallas.

And I was like, man, this guy has physical tools at the wing position defensively that are just really, really difficult to deal with. But Dallas, outside of those two guys, has a lot of offensive-minded players. And Jason Kidd has just done a really nice job of talking them into committing to the defensive end of the floor and bringing it on that side of the floor and competing. And they've stifled a really, really good Phoenix Sun's defense in the last couple of games. A lot of, you know, after the first quarter, we saw Monty Williams talk about this. And this is something that I hit on heavy last night in the show. If you guys remember, dribble contain. I did this whole thing talking about how Memphis has a huge weakness with

dribble contain and how it's one of the most valuable skills in the NBA right now. Well, one of the things that's been really hurting Phoenix in these two games is they're giving up easy dribble drives. If you guys remember that opening quarter interview after the first quarter, they're interviewing Bonnie Williams, and he specifically talked about, we have to do a better job of keeping the ball handler in front because when we don't, we have to help too much. That's when they get out to shooters. And I think the, I think the Mavericks made 14 threes in the first half or something crazy like that, you know, compared to, I think Phoenix had only made five. So like massive advantage in the three-point shooting element of the game just because they were getting dribble penetration.

And that's where Phoenix, and this is part of the dynamic of going on the road versus at home. dribble drive defense is so much about just sitting in a defensive stance and moving your feet. And when you're feeding off the energy of the home crowd, it's just easier to do that. and Phoenix is running into the classic problem that happens when you go on the road, you still have to compete defensively the same way you did at home. There were stretches at home where it looked like Dallas was helpless against their defense, especially late third, early fourth quarter of game two. They have to find a way to recapture that.

I believe they will when they get home. The last thing I wanted to touch on from this particular game was the Chris Paul Fowl Trouble thing. And, you know, for a player in Chris Paul who's famous, like his reputation is smart decision maker, you know, the adult in the room, the guy that you can trust to have the ball in his hands. And we're coming on a couple of really weird games here, seven turnovers in game three, then the foul trouble today. We'll talk about the foul trouble in just a second.

But, you know, with Chris Paul's playoff resume, there's some weird stuff like this, like all the decisions at the end of that crazy Oklahoma City game that he tricked off and may or may not have tricked off the series. He has, like there was that weird moment in the bubble in game seven where like he was scoring in switches over Robert Covington time in time again. And then on the last possession,

he like panicked and threw the ball to shake Gilgist, Alexander and almost turned it over. And you're just like, it's so strange for a player who's typically so dependable in these situations to have some black marks on his resume in the playoffs. And, you know, And it's just confusing because there's no excuse for the decisions that he was making today.

Like, do I love that sixth foul? No. Like, yeah, technically on the offensive rebound, he kind of reached in on Jalen Brunson, but I thought it was a really, really weak foul in a playoff setting. But at the same time, you know that there are two different kinds of scenarios that take place on a basketball court. Scenarios where you take the whistle out of the equation entirely, or scenarios where you make the ref make a judgment.

The second you decide to reach in and hit him on the arm like that, you have now put the ref in a predicament. He now either has to blow the whistle and call a foul on you to foul you out of the game, or he has to ignore you hitting an offensive player on the arm while he's shooting. I'll give you an example. Luca Donchich, middle of the second quarter, I believe. He already had two fouls, I think, at this point. He was trying to avoid his third foul.

Devin Booker's isolating him on the right wing. It's clear that Devin Booker is going to try to attack the rim on. on Luca with the sole intent to either get a wide open layup because Luca will give him the layup because he's in foul trouble or to try to draw that additional foul on Luca. So what does Luca do? He looks over at the refs, shows him his hands, puts his hands behind his back. On that possession, he didn't keep his hands behind his back the whole time, but he was making a statement to the ref. I am not going to reach. Keep that in mind, don't call a foul on me. then Devin Booker did a hard dribble drive to the left

and Lucas slid with him, took the drive in the chest and fell over and drew an offensive foul. He is now playing the psychological game with the ref. I know I'm in foul trouble. I know you're watching me. I know Devin's hunting me looking for a foul. I'm telling you right now, I'm not going to foul it. And even though he might not even have had legal guarding position,

like that offensive foul was kind of a 50-50 call, right? but he was winning the psychological battle with the ref by showing his hands the way that he did. There was a time where the Lakers did this back in 2019 with Brandon Ingram and Coosma and LeBron when they did the same thing in a game against James Hart. At the entire game, they're like looking at the refs and showing them their hands the whole time. It's the psychological game, right? Let's go back to Chris Paul's fifth foul. You have four fouls in its early second half.

You know you only have two left. you get a stop and get a rebound and you dribble up the floor deliberately veer into Jalen Brunson's path and stop and a collision happens and there's bodies all over the floor again

yes you have a chance to draw a foul there but you have put the referee in a predicament where he has to make a judgment call you put him in a predicament where he has to decide am I calling a foul on Jalen or am I calling a foul on Chris? And are you going to get that call sometimes? Yes. But you put yourself in that predicament. Had you done nothing and dribbled the ball up the floor, yes, you take away the potential

reward of drawing a bullshit foul on Jalen Brunson. But you also take out the possibility of you picking up your fifth foul. That's poor decision making. I thought at least five of the six fouls against Chris Paul tonight were good calls. And even the sixth one, it was close. That's just poor judgment. He knows better. He's been in too many of these games to do that.

And again, it's like, I trust Chris Paul. I think he's going to pull through. I think Phoenix will win this series. But like, it's really strange to have a player that's historically as dependable as Chris do reckless things like that in that type of setting, just really, really strange. Again, Dallas has a chance. Never count out Luca. They absolutely can win this game, this series.

Their defense has gotten considerably better. That's a huge thing that if they can carry that with them to Phoenix, they have a real chance to win. Luca still hasn't shot well. That's their chance to steal game five as Luca goes into Phoenix and shoots really well, but Phoenix is the better team. They have two of the last three games at home.

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All right, let's move on to this John Moran thing for a minute. So obviously this came out while we were recording the show last night, so we didn't have a chance to really react to it. But, okay, so John Moran goes on Twitter. and shares out this video of like Jordan Poole seemingly pulling on his knee while he's planted. I didn't see another angle of this video where it doesn't look so much like he pulled as much as his hand was just there. And Jaws knee kind of buckled a little bit. It's hard to say. And obviously John Moran ends up deleting the tweet. You have Memphis's coach come out and basically insinuate that it might have been done intentionally.

Obviously, Jordan Poole comes out and says, I was going for the ball. It's your textbook. He said he said type of situation, right? Now, my initial interpretation is, you know, like, obviously it's possible that Jordan Poole pulling on John Morant's knee was responsible for the issue. But there was also a play earlier in the game where John Morant was closing out on a shooter on the three-point line on the left wing and appear to slam his knee the same knee into the shooter as he was going by. So that very well may have called it. It also could have been an issue he's been dealing with for a while. We don't know. But the bottom line is, is like, there's a gray area in some of these things.

And then there are like clear black and white type of issues. To me, the Dylan Brooks issue was so black and white. Clearly knocking the dude out of the air, clearly attempting to hard foul a player that was flying. It was obviously a dangerous play. To me, that was so cut and dry, has to be ejected, has to be suspended, super dirty, have absolutely no respect for that player, anything involved in it, right? Then there's, like if I'm ranking the dirty fouls in the series, that's a clear number one.

Then there's a significant drop off to the Dremont thing. The Dremont thing was dangerous. Hit a guy in the face. I thought he loaded up and did it on purpose. And then he dragged Brandon Clark out of the air. However, it was clear that Dremond was trying to gather Brandon Clark so that he wouldn't make the layup and get an and one. It was dangerous.

I thought it deserved the ejection, but it was a clear, significant level below the Dylan Brooks thing because he was obviously not branching into that very, very, very dangerous play that Dylan Brooks did on Gary Payton, too, right? Gary Payton the second. So I thought there was a clear delineation between those two. To me, the Jordan Pool thing is even further below the Dremont thing. One, I've played in a shit ton of basketball games in my life. And I've played against dirty players. I have never, ever, ever, ever seen a player do anything remotely similar to that. grabbing a guy's knee while it's planted and trying to pull it out of whack. I've never seen that before. And so because of that, to me, it's kind of like a benefit of the doubt type

situation. We're looking at Jordan Pula player who does not have a history of making dirty plays. To me, these series are so physical with the way guys are grabbing arms and shoulders to get leverage on people, right? Like the chicken wing is an example. To me, it's like a swim move. A defensive end tries to get around an offensive lineman by kind of like swimming around him, right? I thought Jordan Poole was trying to pull himself closer to Jod to try to get a hand on the ball. I didn't think it was intentional. Was there a chance that it was intentional? Yes.

But we can't jump to that conclusion. To me, it was safe to jump to that conclusion with Dylan Brooks because it's a play we've seen often in basketball history. It's a play we know is dangerous. We know it's so dangerous that it's an unwritten rule amongst basketball players that you're never supposed to do that. This is an entirely different situation. I hope Jaws okay. I hope he's able to play tomorrow. We don't know.

There is reporting that he might not play. I hope he's able to play. To me, the Jahn-Nee situation is a separate topic from the Jordan Poole situation because I don't think it was intentional. But for the sake of the series, obviously I hope they come back. Obviously, I hope he plays. One last note. Do not count out Memphis if they don't have Jaw.

Are they a lesser team? Yes. Would I favor Golden State? Yes, but I was going to favor Golden State. was at 100%. The thing is, is there's a reason why Memphis was so successful

this year with with jaw off the floor. And it had a lot to do with the fact that Ja was their weakest defensive player. They were about 5.9 points per 100 possessions

better on defense without Jaa this year. As a result, they actually had a better net rating without Jaa this year. As I said, so many times on the show, I don't translate to that to the playoffs

because in the playoffs, elite high-end shot creation becomes so much more valuable. So I'm obviously going to heavily value Jha in that predicament. Just look at this series. Nobody on Memphis

can create a show shot except for Jah, right? So I don't think that Memphis cruisies are better without Joss. However, they are a different type of good team without him. They go to another big wing usually in that role. They become much bigger, much more athletic in terms of like their overall size and athleticism profile of the lineup. John Morant is a freak athlete, but he's not a freak athlete on the defensive end of the floor in terms of like covering a ton of ground and keeping guys in front and that kind of stuff. So Memphis becomes a better defensive team. They become more imposing physically without John Morant. that is their opportunity to try to drag out this series is go big without Jha and just try to

physically dominate Golden State. Still am picking Golden State. I still think Golden State now would Jha out if he does end up missing the series. Golden State is going to win this series in five games, I believe. But it's still going to be an interesting game. I still expect it to be a dog fight because Memphis doesn't become a bad team without Jha. They just become a slightly lesser different team at that point. All right, before we get out of here today, I wanted to quickly touch on some of the metrics from yesterday's Celtics-Bucks game. Obviously, this is something I've been keyed in on all series, particularly the difference between the way the teams are performing in half-court versus in transition. It's so much of this comes down to Boston's

offensive decision-making. It controls the pace of the game. We talked about this a lot in last night's show, but all the data tells us that Boston is a significantly better half-court team, but Milwaukee has managed to steal two games in transition. Like, that's where this this whole series has been determined to give you an idea. So for the entire series, the in transition, Milwaukee is averaging 1.41 points per play compared to Boston averaging 1.024 points per play. So literally Milwaukee is winning this series in transition. And it shows in the stats. They won game one. They were 20 points better than Boston in fast break points. They lost game two. They were even in fast break points. They won game three. They were 10,

points better than Boston in transition. They are winning this series in transition. In the half, in the half court, Boston has consistently been the better team. Obviously, they were the better team in the first two games. We talked about that. But the question was, if we go to Milwaukee, will Milwaukee's half court offense get better? No, it actually has been worse. It was worse in Milwaukee than it was in the first two games. So last, in yesterday's game, Milwaukee averaged 0.76 points per half court play. Boston average zero point zero point. So Boston was the better half-court team in Boston. They've continued to be the better half-court team here in Milwaukee.

What does that mean? What that means to me is that's how this series is going to be determined. Boston has demonstrated that that is a replicable skill to be the better team in the half-court. Not because Janus is the best player in the series. He's also probably the best half-court creator in the series. But Boston has far more players on the floor at any given moment that can dribble drive, pass, and shoot. And that combination makes them much harder to guard.

Boston has, or Milwaukee has some more traditional spot-up guys, guys that aren't great at attacking closeouts and things along those lines. So so much more is on Janus and Drew Holliday's plate to create shots. Boston doesn't have that problem because they have more offensive talent surrounding Jason Tatum, right? But this is how this series is going to be determined. If Boston takes smart shots and can stay in the half court, they will win. if they continue to get wrapped up in poor decision-making, quick three-point shots off the dribble, just overall sloppy offense, they will continue to let Milwaukee get out in transition, and they will lose. You know, I picked Boston to win this series in five, but the reason why this is up in the air is Boston

has killed themselves in two of these games in transition. That's where this thing has been, that's where this series has swung. and the issue is that's controllable if you're Boston. That's just take care of the basketball. Make smart decisions. Don't get rushed. Those kinds of things.

But if you're Milwaukee, the way that you win this series is you run at all costs, push on every possible possession because in the half court you are not scoring against this Boston defense. You know, Janus, and I mean this is a compliment to him.

I think Janus is on a tier by him. himself at the top of the league. I think this reminds me of LeBron circa 2013, where it appears that there's a definitive gap between LeBron and the next guy. I thought LeBron was the best player in the world from 2012 to 2020 without interruption. But right around 2014 when KD rose, and then obviously in 2015 when Steph rose, it got close. And obviously, even though I thought LeBron was better than those guys, I thought they were kind of in the same tier as him. On any given night, they were capable about playing him, right? With Janus, it kind of feels like the way it did with LeBron in those first couple of years when he

was at the top of the league, where it's like, who is the second best guy? Is it Kobe? I mean, yeah, but Kobe was nowhere near as good as LeBron in 2013. Was it, you know, KD? Yeah, but he's still a baby. He's not quite developed yet. For Janus, it's a different dynamic because he's kind of fending off guys that are established guys like KD and LeBron and Steph, right?

But Janice is in a tier by himself at the top of the league right now. We have to just acknowledge that based on what we're seeing on the floor. The interesting thing is Boston is still having a massive impact on him. Boston has held him to 15% below his regular season true shooting percentage. She's shooting 48.9% in true shooting in this series. That's insane. Now, true shooting is just literally your field goal percentage, but weighted with three-point shots and free throws. It's all it is. But it's incredibly impressive what Boston's done to him.

That said, he's been able to impact the game a ton just with his relentless attacking of the rim in his playmaking and his defense. He's averaging 31, 11, and 9 in this series, which is insane. Obviously not efficient, but he's putting up the impact metrics. And as I have said, credit Boston for the lack of efficiency. If they did it to KD, they were obviously going to do it to Yannis. They're the best defensive team of this era. I've said that many times. and it was really, it honestly was kind of nice to hear J.J. Reddick and Tim Legler say the same thing on the pod that they did the other day. Because obviously those guys have a lot more credibility than I do because they've been around for a long time. They're established. But guys, I wasn't saying that for poops and giggles. I'm literally a guy who covered the Lakers for the last two years.

All my Twitter followers, for the most part, are Lakers fans. I don't stand to gain anything by advocating for the Celtics. But what I do do, guys, is I put in the work. I watch a shit ton of tape. I watch almost every game twice. okay, and when I was digging into the tape and when I was digging into the numbers, we are seeing things from this Boston defense that we have never seen before from any other team in recent NBA history. Okay?

So I'm just acknowledging what I'm seeing with my eyes. That's why Boston was a minus 200 favorite before the series. To Janice's credit, he has been so great that he has overcome that to the extent that he's been able to pull out a couple of games. It actually kind of reminds me of LeBron

in the 2015 finals against Golden State. Them taking a 2-1 lead on the strength of greatness from LeBron, or in this case, Janice, inefficiently, remember LeBron was horribly inefficient in that series because Golden State was loading up on him. Janice is dealing with the same thing now, but eventually the better team that consistently gets better shots

is going to take over. And that's what I think is going to happen in this series. I think Boston is going to win game for tomorrow. I think they're going to win. I think it'll be a relatively close game, but I wouldn't be surprised if Boston won by 10, 15 points. And then I think they're going to go home and win game five in Boston in front of their home crowd win big. I think they'll have control of that game.

And then I think they're going to go into game six in Milwaukee. And all of the offensive things that Boston will have figured out, I think they will have taken hold. And I think they'll be consistent there. And I think they'll be able to go on the road and win a game there. I think Boston wins the series in six. I know people think I'm crazy. But I'm just paying attention to what I'm seeing in the numbers. I'm paying attention to what I'm seeing in the film.

And I'm trusting that. I'm not stupid enough to think that Janus isn't capable of overcoming that. Of course he is. LeBron damn near did it in 2015. He went in Game 5 in Golden State and had another crazy, you know, 46-point game or something, and it just wasn't quite enough. And maybe Janice is capable of that. You know, one of my friends, Demand Rangula, was talking on Twitter yesterday about how,

you know, Janus might have to average 50 to win this series. And he's right. He might literally have to average 50, but he's also capable of that. That's not out of the realm of possibility. That's just what he's going to have to do. Yannis is going to have to put up otherworldly performances down the stretch of this series to win.

He just also might be capable of doing it. I just am still picking Boston at this point. All right, guys, that is all I have for tonight. I sincerely appreciate your support. As always, we will be back after the final buzzer of Warriors Grizzlies tomorrow night, and I will see you guys then. The volume.

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