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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Basketball - Would a Bosch "Crime Analysis" Collage Help?

Michael Connelly's grizzled detective, Harry Bosch, studies a case laying out photographs on a table. Solve puzzles by assembling the pieces. Use the "big picture" and the granular details. 

It might not seem "efficient" as film study, yet it calls attention to the action/inaction of everyone on the floor. 

Here are a few screenshots from the Celtics-Knicks, Game 5, a.k.a. "the Kornet Game." 

Every game "sums" individual possessions. Most focus on "end of game" actions, but winning individual possessions gets underrated and undertaught in my opinion. 


Half-court action, at first glance an isolation with Brown against a smaller, defensively challenged Brunson. Kornet is in the "dunker" and Horford spaced in the corner. 


Brunson in position to take away the middle, Brown not 'threatened'. 


KAT has no "line of sight" for Kornet. He doesn't appear to be able to limit a Kornet cut. Will Kornet cut to the low block? He could also screen for several players. He's not a shooter, so relocating may not move KAT, aside from avoiding a defensive three seconds call. 


Pritchard and White space high.

What happens? Brown gets into the paint, uses a "Euro step" and "draws two." As KAT leaves Kornet, Brown delivers a 'wraparound' and Kornet gets an easy two. "Great offense is multiple actions." 


Lagniappe. Winning on the road...good suggestions at home, too.  

Lagniappe 2. Breaking down 'types' of possessions.  

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