Game 2
Game 3
#1 Play - Offense
Great angle of attacking and going early for the jump works in moments like this where all the defenders load up on the same place and there's noone to challenge the shot in the perimeter.
#2 Play - Offense
Steal was clean, bullshit call. Garino made a mistake and helped one pass away, Doncic's mistake was not passing to Llull to punish Garino's mistake as Llull also was cutting to an even better angle too.
#3 Play - Offense
Doncic misses Llull on the strong side once again, which was the right passing option instead of Thompkins.
Then turns the ball over after what looks like a carry (angle not super clear), which means usual dribbling transition in tight space problems.
#4 Play - Defense
Good rotation but precisely great positioning and active hands on the rotation which prevents Voigtmann taking an open 3 or him finding an open Vildoza at the same time.
#5 Play - Defense
Good defensive playmaking to punish Poirier's memorized read.
#6 Play - Offense
Very good passing execution, put Ayon in a favourable finishing position even if Gustavo himself didn't realize it.
#7 Play - Defense
If a wing is guarding a point guard, he never should play aggressive like that. Usually the guard will be quicker and beat a defender who does a move like that. The wing always should react calmly and let himself cover up distance with size instead of trying to be as quick as the smaller point guard. Luckily for Doncic, Vildoza isn't a pull-up threat so it didn't cost Real Madrid defense a bucket.
#8 Play - Offense
Great passing execution from Doncic.
#9 Play - Offense
Was a solid 1-2 on the shot footwork actually. But he rushed his shot too much, there was still time left on the clock for his normal release speed on the shot.
#10 Play - Defense
This is how a wing should defend a point guard. Betting on size, covering distance, not reacting unnecessarily fast and without gambling.
#11 Play - Offense
He had good position to turn around right shoulder without pivoting inside due to Poirier. Broke up his position with passing and Granger pushed him around for the 2nd ball.
#12 Play - Offense
Great cut by Ayon and good passing execution from Doncic punishing Baskonia loading up on Doncic post-ups with Poirier.
#13 Play - Defense
Doesn't run back in transition. First sign of him being tired. Has played 10 minutes straight without rest, but 10 mins isn't that big of a deal. Must improve conditioning.
#14 Play - Offense
Good to see him beat an overplaying guard with ease at first, but more importantly that crossover when Shengelia helped. He doesn't do that crossover often which limits his vertical attacking game. Here he does it horizontally and it sets up his leveraged position to be able to fake out Shengelia.
He doesn't miss that Bodiroga move often, my theory is that his ball control issues affected it and he front rimmed it due to not handling the ball properly to release it. It's just a theory though, as it cannot be seen on tape and only the player who attempted the shot knows it whether it's true or not.
#15 Play - Defense
11 minutes straight playing isn't ideal lineup management by any coach. Doncic shouldn't be on the floor that much until he improves his conditioning. Clear exhaustion causes unbalanced close-out.
#16 Play - Defense
Basically same as what I wrote in play #15. Just instead of an unbalanced close-out, he shows heavy feet and inability to change directions due to exhaustion.
#17 Play - Offense
As good as he is at moving around smaller guys on the post when he has the ball, two possessions from this game show how bad he is at fighting for post position when he doesn't have the ball.
#18 Play - Defense
Not exactly a perfect defensive play as Huertas makes the 3. However, I'm very fine with this. His rotation to Shengelia was necessary and pretty good as Shengelia is more of a threat to make that open spot-up 3 compared to Huertas even if Huertas ended up making it in this possession. Doncic also immediately challenges for the pass to Huertas in the air as soon as he sees Vildoza changing his pass to the corner and tries to stunt Huertas when Huertas is attempting the shot.
#19 Play - Offense
Pretty good recovery afterwards but notice how he gets the ball disrupted due to exposing the ball with a carry which he wouldn't be using had he had elite ball control in between his high and low dribbling.
#20 Play - Offense
Not smart to get a foul like that for an OReb.
#21 Play - Defense
That's just such a poor post defense technique. Doesn't even make contact on the catch, doesn't lower himself to lower his center of gravity against a bigger player. Started to not care on defense in the 4th quarter of this match. Honestly, not on offense either.
#22 Play - Offense
Good vision, but that area of the floor is the place where you don't throw a no-look pass because on the execution of the pass, it needs to go under the rim. He threw a no-look to fool Voigtmann & Janning but the pass ended up a turnover.
#23 Play - Offense
I like the way he used closing out defender's momentum against himself as a close-out attacker but obviously not enough time on the clock and it ended up forcing him to throw up a floater.
Crazy shot that will always make his career highlights obviously, but crazier that this isn't even the craziest shot of this series. Going against Llull in that department is always an impossible task, to be fair.
#24 Play - Defense
Loses Huertas here.
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