NBA offenses have become a video game
The Indiana Pacers have by far the most efficient offense in NBA history after the first month of the season, and combined for 309 points with the Hawks in a recent NBA Cup game. This detailed film breakdown & scouting report explores how Tyrese Haliburton uses shooting, passing, pace, along with Rick Carlisle's tactics, to lead the league's offensive explosion.
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Called Indiana PACErs for a reason
It’s absolutely absurd that the pacers have almost no nationally televised games
Teams are being lead by guys who are elite scorers and passers instead of one or the other. Teams are being lead by peak Oscar Robertson's while being surrounded with shooters and vertical spacers. Unless they change some rules to help defense (they won’t) this is going to be the new norm.
Basically, in the regular season constraints it's very hard to implement a defensive scheme and really scope out a team- in the euroleague you get a week between games to practice, in the NBA regular season you have back to backs. I mean, the players are also really good, but it's easier to freelance on offense than it is on defense. It's why playoffs basketball is so different- you meet a team enough times in a row and get time to prepare so the defense is a lot better.
Bob and Nique were incredulous all game. Way to include their calls.
Buddy’s role in the pacers offense can’t be emphasized enough. He got a rep as a chucker early in his career, but his movement and quick decision making opens up so much for his teammates
Yes, the pacers/haliburton breakdown I was asking for recently! Thank's a lot, Ben! <3
Being on the pacers would be such a joy. Sprinting around all night is a major part of my open gym playstyle cause people absolutely hate dealing with it and I’ve always been a runner so it’s not even tough to pull off
do a video on the magic's defense, it would be a good contrast to this offensive focused video and would be very interesting to see broken down
Splendid game and wonderful breakdown
With scoring approaching the 60s pace, when does someone challenge Wilt's 100 pt game?
Would have been interesting to include some snippets from the ORL-IND game to show how they stopped that IND offense (at least until the Magic put their third string in). Looking forward to a video on the Magic’s defense soon!
Seeing these scores is so hilarious to me having grown up watching basketball in the late 90’s/ early 2000’s, where a team scoring 90 points was a high scoring game
Ben, this must be the sixth time I've watched this video since you put it out. Amazing work putting this together, and these offenses are absolutely fascinating.
Them trading to get toppin for free made a lot of sense with them imo. They look like a fun watch Haliburton has been incredible.
I love how much joy and creativity Haliburton plays with. He's probably my second favorite player to watch in the NBA after Jokic.
Games like these really show me how hard it is to play defense in todays nba. You can be the most skilled defender, but more than likely you won’t be able to lock up a good scorer without letting them bait you on fouls.
fantastic work!
I love your videos so much. I'm so happy I discovered your channel a couple years ago. :)
What a great video! An analysis on the Orlando Magic and their great season would be awesome