Why Is Jrue Holiday Guarding Embiid?! NEW Defense Explained
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- Опубликовано: 8 ноя 2023
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The Celtics put Jrue Holiday on Embiid, and the defensive matchups were pretty interesting so let’s break down why they did it.
They would need to double Joel anyways, so, right here Jrue battles him and we got Porzingis as the roamer ready to come down and help.
And look how Philly responds. Oubre slides down low to take Brown with him and now he’s unable to split the difference if the pass goes over to that side. Instead- now the entire wing is clear for Harris.
Although Porzingis overcommitted here and on the swing pass we got an open shot for Tobias, the Celtics chose to live with that, and in this situation they got lucky with a miss.
You see that they were comfortable to just let Holiday fight with Embiid and Kristaps comes later on as help, but this time he’s just a step late and his punishment is this poster dunk right in his face.
Like, look at this, Jrue is literally in the paint pushing and shoving with a guy double his size.
And having Harris up top makes it more difficult for Porzingis as he’s all the way out here.
He commits to doing it on the dribble, and this could have been a pass to the cutter, instead it’s a tough 1 hander over 2 guys and Embiid misses. That’s a battle won for the Celtics.
And the task was slightly easier whenever Joel got the ball further out. Holiday is a master when it comes to the perimeter, so any time you start further out that’s just playing to his strengths, and the Celtics won a lot of those possessions.
But they lost a lot of them as well. Right here we got another David vs Goliath fight, and Horford doubles 1 pass away. And it’s off of Maxey, a 40% 3 point sniper. So we got an easy bounce pass, Brown is late on the rotation here and Tyrese knocks it down.
And things got worse when Jrue was out for a breather and Horford was matched up with Embiid. Not that he can’t guard him anymore, but Joel was focused on scoring against big Al and in this game shots were falling for him.
He finished the game with 27 points on 50% from the field.
On the contrary, when Boston guarded him with Holiday plus a second guy, Embiid knew that he would probably look to find one of his teammates.
The Celtics didn’t lose this game because of a big night for Joel or because the Sixers hit a bunch of threes off of his passes. In fact, the Sixers were 9 for 34, a horrific 26.5% from downtown. But having 13 more rebounds and 16 more points in the paint makes things a lot easier.
If they were going to give this up, Boston needed to shoot lights out and they didn’t. In fact they were horrible from the field- 39.6%. And there’s no way you’re going to win a game like this.
But even with all of that- they still got a chance to tie it at the end so I guess they can feel ok even in a loss.
And this creative defensive strategy that Joe Mazzula tried out against Minnesota as well looks pretty interesting, although in my opinion Porzingis has some work to do in terms of timing his doubles, and making better decisions when he’s in that position as a roamer. Something that Robert Williams was extremely good at these past few years.
On the contrary the Bucks defense at the start is horrible, and I talked about that plus a bunch more shocking things at the start of this season, so check out this video. Talk to you in the next one, peace out. 
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Celtics lost because their two main guys had a combined 27 pts with 10/27 shooting.
It's been like that for the past 4 years now.
Hasn't that always been the problem of J&J? when they're not hitting their jumpers everything goes down the drain fast although Tatum can atleast somewhat facilitate.
This season will show once and for all if that’s a championship duo, no more excuses this is about as flawless of a roster that you could build
Meaning the other team played good defense
@@hittkid6312yeah they should’ve traded one of the two for a playmaking guard.. Caruso would be a good fit for Celtics and I ain’t even a fan of them but already got ideas
The fact that this is even an option for this team proves how great Holiday is on defense.
I told Celtics fans when they picked up Jrue he's so strong he will be able to defend Bigs. I'm glad they got to see that early.
@@Wallyworld30 it's a cheat code that the Celtics could get both jrue and porzingis in the same offseason
@@MrE_ No such thing as a cheat code. Boston gave up their defense in the paint for perimeter defense. They are saying "If we can stop Dame/Maxie we can beat Bucks/Sixers. I'm not so sure because now Embiid/Giannis will eat like it's a buffet.
@@Wallyworld30Dame Giannis combo overrated
@@Alan-dn3tj Bullshit it's overrated. Dame went off for 37 yesterday and Giannis went off for 54 points today.
One of the best basketball analysts on RUclips! But man you gotta find different background music this shit sounds like it’s out of a horror movie.
Holiday's legs and core are more like a running back than a basketball player.
Jrue has a lower center gravity than Embiid, so he can gets under Embiid's legs more where Embiid places the ball.
When bigger guys are guarded by small guys they are vulnerable when they face up because they dribble so high off the ground, easy to knock the ball away.
Nice breakdown! Great to see coaches experimentint. I noticed milwaukee went zone late against detroit with payne, lillard, beasley, crowder and lopez and it actually worked.
It really did work. I was impressed Coach Griff apparently is much better at making in game adjustments then Bud ever was. Once the Bucks and Coach Griff get comfortable with Griff's different defensive schemes they could be a juggernaut. Even with their struggles they beat the Sixers and are off to a 5-2 start tied for Second in East with Boston.
Without Giannis ejection they would hav blow the Pistons out, ut seems that he threw the bucks out their momentum, but towards the end of the game, Lillard did actually good effort on defense, Beasley play better than what I think he would and Coach Grif made in game adjustment, with a versatile small ball line up and good zone defense.
I love how the Bucks can win close game with either defense or offense
Because Detroit don't have enough shooters to beat a zone
Sixers were clamping Tatum and Brown which left Prozingis to carry the load. There is no reason to believe they won’t do that again when they are currently top 5 on defense. Sixers shot poorly as well from 3 which is not normal for them this year. Joel is also below his season average in points and they were still up 14 with 3 mins to go in the 4th. Celtics just hit some 3 lucky “hail mary” 3’s around the 2 min mark that probably wont happen again but the Sixers won that game convincingly.
3 point win is not really “convincing”
@@cheswaitforit5049the celtics made lucky shots at garbage time with 2 minutes left. It’s more on the Sixers being sloppy. But game was over at the 3 min mark when the sixers were up 13. If this was the play-offs, that won’t happen again.
@@cheswaitforit5049Did you just start watching basketball yesterday. There’s plenty games where the score doesn’t reflect how dominant a win actually was.
Sixer fans love to talk shit when they up
This aged like Milk
Let me say this Jrue Holiday is my fav player in the nba
W Favorite player he’s one of mines too
I just can’t take anyone who considers Tatum an MVP candidate seriously. Dude has the best teammates and yet is invisible
Nah. Tatum always become Embiid’s dad when it counts the most
@@zoommash7238He’s really not. Joel is always injured and the “I score everything” game plan has never worked in the play-offs. He now has a real coach with real ball movement. Joel is now used better and his a 10x better player than Tatum on both ends. Watch how the Celtics lose to this 76ers team this year.
@@zoommash7238 Celtics were always better than sixers yes but Tatum isn’t even close to embiid lvl
Can you do a video on Clippers defense struggles over the last 2 games and in general? I feel like I see Zubac getting exploited all the time (players switch onto him and they just go for it whether thats rushing the paint or shooting when he drops even a little bit).
Am I wrong?
bruh the sixers had that 3pt chance all the time and miss big time, imagine if embiid paired up with steph.. all those missed 3's with at least 40% efficiency would be so strong
He played with his brother once and that went very well. Still sad he was part of the harden trade
And then it would be even worst for the Celtics next time
@@maartenvz Seth has always been an amazing shooter but he's not good at creating his own shot. He's a spot up shooter that needs someone to create him an open look. Then he's also a Turnstile on Defense. If Seth could get off 10 three point attempts per game he'd be an allstar but the most he's been able to get off is 6 per game. He's a net negative player because of this and why he isn't getting any minutes with Dallas.
Maxey is a 40% 3 pt guy but I concur we need another one which is why I really want us to go after Buddy Hield or Bojan Bogdonovich bcuz they would be shooting flames on this team 😊
@@Byronic19134 maxey just erupts for 50 points, he's a great player. the thing about buddy hield is everytime he's rumored to join a team, he goes somewhere else. I'm still sad lakers chose russ over hield back then
Could you make a vid about the pelicans
What about them exactly? They’re a bit of a boring team, same story every year, good team in theory mid team in practice
hows your guys's day going so far?
@@alia2842 good
It’s going.
so far it's as far as it gets
Been up for 4 hours and it’s only 930
Bad bro, in a dark place atm, hope everyone is doing better.
Sixers was ballin ! We’re not gonna shoot 26% from three often so it will be even worst for the Celtics next time
this defense was actually very common pre 2010, having a big anchor the inside while one of your best defender try shutting down the other teams best offense. Back then no such thing as "bigger size means better defense", guys can just look at you play and tell you got better defense.
lol, it's just not true
Yeah after 2010 size magically started to matter.
S/O to Joel Embiid playing like a dominant big
Jrue is a chad bro haha. Not a lot of guards can do that
Celtics lost coz their main offense did not show up
Jrue is going for DPOY hard
Giannis is going to dominate this Boston backcourt
Bogus
I don’t think he’ll put up 2021 finals stats but yeah he’ll definitely do good
Using porzingis as a roamer is a great strategy that will also impact giannis.
Hell no🤣🤣🤣
VS Boston in 2022 Playoffs in 7 games Giannis avg 34/15/7. This was when they still had Robert WIlliams, Grant Williams and a Pre-Cooked Al Horford. Giannis is gonna run roughshod over this current lineup. Only hope that Boston has is they catch fire from 3pt and outscore them. This current Celtics team might have to put Jrue on Giannis and KP as help defender. I expect Jrue will get cooked by Giannis/Dame same way Jimmy Buckets cooked Jrue last year in the playoffs.
not just unicorn. the other players too. they are just watching jrue vs joel.
I’m like super late on this. But I wanna state that Celtics have been running this coverage on Embiid for years. Jrue just replaced smart in the role. Nothing new
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Since Derrick White's hair was running away from he finally decided not to run after it anymore. Good choice.
I thought Celtics will easily win East Finals this season but changed my mind.
Harass the two make the other three score.
That "poster dunk right in his face" at 0:48 looks like a travel to me. Embiid clearly dribbles, establishes pivot foot with his left foot, drop steps with his right, and then takes another step before the dunk.
If I'm Embiid I'm getting 1 offensive foul on Jrue, making him feel like shit for guarding me
He would of done that to Smart but it ain't going to effect Jrue.
Ahhh my favorite, the battle of the frauds
First
Celtics still lost hahaha Celtics was actually very lucky Sixers outside shots didnt go in and were like 25%. Next time Celtics gets beaten up by a big margin if Sixers shots improves
Tatum and Brown will lay an egg against the top teams. This is nothing new from them.
glazing jrue so much. They literally lost bro.
Purpose of this video? Go back to what you used to do
where are your free throw attempts man? i need em. for better sleep ofc
Baha, bcoz Embid is such a MVP 🤣
Embiid played amazing and your hating. Weird
Mvp!