Which seems like.....An additional Dish (to the right, open man) is the counter to the counter. Yes?
Yes, which depends on having good shooters. We've also seen that in these playoffs, with mixed results. If the team has good shooters, or gets hot, it works. If not, it gets ugly fast.
Yes this is precisely what we’ve seen happening in these playoffs.
Yes. I keep seeing over and over again hard closeouts, guy drives the closeout, and then gets MET at the rim. They are letting everything go there. This killed Phoenix, in particular.
This is downstream from a big emphasis in the new officiating: being less strict about the exact path a defender takes to meet the driver. They had been calling EVERYTHING that wasn't perfect lateral movement as a foul, and now you can run into guys a lot more without maintaining technically perfect "legal guarding position."