Rick Pitino's Celtics Full-Court Press vs. Bulls (1997)
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
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A compilation of all 32 possessions on which Rick Pitino's 1997-98 Celtics pressured the Chicago Bulls. The last team in the NBA to use the full-court press to such a degree. December 3, 1997.
Full court is only useful when you have a deep and young rotation. Pull this with a veteran squad and you're asking to be red shirted.
I noticed that the 2004-2006 Pistons occasionally pressured full-court, though it was a temporary switch-up rather than a primary defensive tactic for them. It was usually just Lindsey Hunter pressuring the ball-handler 1-on-1 and leaving the other 4 defenders waiting in the half-court. But there were a decent amount of times where they also trapped the ball-handler with two defenders on the sidelines.
After the 2004/05 rule changes I don't think many teams have found success with full-court pressure as the Pistons did when they occasionally ran it.
The day after Game 4 of the 2005 Finals, Ben Wallace talked about how pressuring the guards helped make things more difficult on Duncan by running down the shot-clock.
"I think our guard play is really the big key to slowing Duncan down, because they are pressuring up the floor and then when he does catch the ball, he's got to fight against either me, Rasheed, McDyess and the shot clock. So I see him get a little frustrated doing that."
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"So it's either, you force him off the block or if he gets deep post position, you front him. But I think that only works when our guards pressure, when our guards up pressure, it makes it easy for us to front down in the block where they can't just come down and throw the ball over the top of you."
- ASAP Sports, June 17, 2005
The high point of the Rick Pitino era in Boston was game # 1 of his tenure, a 92-85 win over the defending champ Bulls on Halloween night 1997.
I haven't seen defence like this in the NBA since Rick Pitino smh
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LamarMatic Great video man.
Makes me want to binge watch some dynamic defensive teams (90s Sonics, 00s Pistons, 10s Heat).
I was at this game
full court press is tiring.
I remember the Celtics beat the defending-champion Bulls in their season opener (Oct. 31, 1997) and Rick Pitino's first game as Celtics coach. For that briefest of moments I actually thought the Celtics might go all the way that year but they finished like 10 games under .500 and missed the playoffs that year.
sean2015 they had a decent team too they screwed trading billups and letting Bowen go they would of had a core of billups walker pierce and Bowen
@@dougfresh4454 what you've written is very true but I personally think that Rick Pitino spent his entire time in Boston very bitter that he didn't get Tim Duncan and/or Keith Van Horn in that '97 draft. Even with Bowen and Billups in that lineup the Celtics were still missing a legitimate center -- which they eventually got with Kendrick Perkins and later Kevin Garnett.
and then they got Paul
@@Michael-kt3tf Pierce couldn't carry that team. You need a center. I consider Tim Duncan the best center I've seen in my lifetime and I've seen guys like Kareem, Ewing and Shaq.
Ah i used to call this Celtics team the Boston Wildcats since Pitino drafted several of his Kentucky players to this team (Walker, Mercer, McCarty)
Walker and McCarty were drafted in 96 and rookies for the 96-97 season. McCarty was with the Knicks before the Celtics. Pitino came to the Celtics for the 97-98 season, he drafted Mercer yes, but not Walker or McCarty.
Billups with the hoops, love that video !
Had Pitino had the players this may have worked. I know all the shit about him but I truly think he's one of the best coaches ever
Really on offense is where they struggled. They turned the Bulls over 20+ times and couldnt score enough points to beat them.. thats crazy.
The bulls had no ball handlers other than Jordan which was crazy
@@CoachTJD well they had Harper
Edwin Betancourt Harper wasn’t a great ball handler.
Pippen was out injured right?
@@TerrenceJDooley I don't remember. You really feel Harper wasn't a good ball handler? He was a PG the majority of his career.
Edwin Betancourt he was a 2. But played PG in Phil Jackson’s offense. Who never really had traditional PGs.
Thanks coach
82 games? I don't think so
They should have only run the press for 10 games in the regular season, I don't know what coach pitino was doing.
Full court press should be used only situational not the whole game. Jordan was breaking the press with ease. You can do it in College all game because not every player is NBA caliber and they will make mistakes
SaNdMaNoNdAtRaK the idea is to make the NBA players mentally choke by making them play perfect instead of good. Make the other team give it to you so you don’t have to play offense
As a Celtics fan, I liked patino.
Ron Mercer wore KG's no 5.! Ooops Bill Walton's no. 5 wore it first!
Also John Bagley
Mercer was awesome..
I saw Dee Brown on the bench behind Pitino.
Bulls had no business winning this game......
They stood around waiting for the trap... Celtics were trapping in middle of the floor, no big was flashing middle and advancing the ball...
This is how some dudes on nba 2k play all game and it’s annoying as fuck. Lol
😂😂
Man forgot Chauncey Billups was playing at this time
First of all, why the fuck are they fronting the press? I mean, the aim is to stop the ball not give the opposing team a head start when its thrown ahead of em.
Not used to announcers getting up Jordan’s ass for a bad pass.
Who TF is Rusty Larue???
A basketball player
The fuck did Pitino trade Billups?
this is the only way to beat gsw
Antonio Williams yup
Gotta have a great bench though
I would like to see somebody beat them on defense like this or full court trap the whole game... you gotta be in great shape to pull that off
Nah that’s not a great way to go at golden state they’ll just screen you off of their ballhandlers and get easy looks
@@davidfebreeze428 Not in the backcourt. Green is not going tp shoot and has/had suspsect handles as does Klay. That would leave Steph and KD and KD dribbles to high.
Patio! Sent this organization back 20 years. Great college coach. But this pressing. Full court was just insane..this wasn't college paying. Your not going to press the world chsm o s the whole game. Maybe do it partially??? But the players got so tired of this game stule..then he trades hall ofcdzmer..Billups ect. Gjves tracvis..a 30 million contract??????? Come on slick Rick. Liked pitino..thought he was going to be the one yo take them to the promise land. Boy! Was I wrong..
No pip no chip
i forgot how fucking horrible luc longley was. good god.
Highschools run this more than NBA teams lol #why
XxNova Zayn cus nba players have insane handles and will blast right through their defenders on a one v one
Mfer’s could barely dribble at that time 😂it’s painful to watch even Jordan has no left hand
This doesn't even look like basketball
Celtics lost this game by 10. No one can argue that this strategy “worked”
They generated 25 turnovers. The heart and grit demonstrated by the Celtics is the point of the video