Here's what the calf strain timeline data looks like. This is one of the wider range of outcomes for that middle 50%. I plan to use this tool to help ballpark what to expect for various injuries throughout the year. bball-index.com/injuries/

Kessler rightfully gets a lot of credit for cleaning up mistakes (& did a ton yesterday), but I want to shout out Jaden Hardy and Bronny James here. After Thybulle is beat, Kessler rotates to traps the box and we see Harden sink & get into the dump off guy's body + Bronny bust ass to get to the corner, w/Hardy then full sprint to closeout, Bronny good help & recover forr a heavy contest.

Wrong team, but this was sick

DeRozan had been cooking LaRavia all game so LA uses a lurker to provide deterring help. Help AROUND the paint = middle is open Denver runs a help beater and gets an easy bucket.

Ice + Drop from LA and Kessler signals to switch. AR recovers to Jokic, but Grimes is late to go from zoning up to his own man + is in a closed stance and gets back cut

In Q1 LA was consistently in drop with their Centers One benefit of drop/switching (vs hedging) is your low man doesn't need to rotate each screen and you don't need to sink or fill behind it. That's supposed to limit dump off buckets like this. Luka should stay home here.

The Lakers half court offense yesterday was a bit rough A couple screenshots from the tracker I'll be sharing with the Discord's Courtside tier this year.

The P&R screener immediately setting a down screen instead of rolling/popping is called Veer. This is LA's 2nd Veer set in the 2H from yesterday. We saw Veer action just 26 times last season in 92 games (131 ORtg on those plays).

Denver disrupts the zipper entry for LA but LA's able to get to a veer action down screen for Mamu nonetheless

The Mamu package of sets is mostly adding flare screens after 3-man actions. Here's one: Double Drag Flare Idk why Mamu tries to curl this. Denver had it defended well either way.