{"id":141803,"date":"2024-11-27T18:32:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T23:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/?p=141803"},"modified":"2024-11-28T02:31:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T07:31:47","slug":"celtics-to-switch-up-defense-after-kristaps-porzingis-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/?p=141803","title":{"rendered":"Celtics to Switch Up Defense After Kristaps Porzingis Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One week ago, a sampling of the NBA\u2019s centers who switched onto guards for the greatest number of minutes revealed that <strong>Neemias Queta<\/strong> spent more than 34% of his time on the floor defending the perimeter \u2014 the greatest share by far in the league.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Celtics are locking down the 3-point line and leaving their bigs to guard basically everything else<\/p>\n<p>Queta looks bad on defense by design, because Boston\u2019s bigs are doing a big lift so everyone else can stay home on the perimeter<\/p>\n<p>(H\/T Owen Philips \ud83e\udd8b) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wHcNTBbm4G\">pic.twitter.com\/wHcNTBbm4G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cameron Tabatabaie (@CTabatabaie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTabatabaie\/status\/1859312057968984299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Al Horford<\/strong> trailed him closely at 28% and <strong>Luke Kornet,<\/strong> once exclusively a drop defender, ranked sixth at 26.1%. Boston\u2019s defense, bent on taking away the rim as much as the three-point line before, shifted to the latter extreme early this season and cut off the perimeter.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Screen Recording 2024-11-27 at 5.41.55 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/streamable.com\/o\/nhgciv#?secret=qaTLohmi12\" data-secret=\"qaTLohmi12\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"1108\" height=\"584\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/celtics-defense-worth-watching-after-worst-loss-of-the-season-vs-hawks\/\">The result showed in the team\u2019s significant drop-off in rim protection<\/a>. Through Sunday, prior to <strong>Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is\u2019<\/strong> return, Boston allowed 65% shooting to opponents inside five feet, which ranked 24th after a third-place finish one year ago. The team enjoyed improvements elsewhere, reducing the number of three-point attempts they allowed from 36.7 to 35.0, forcing 13.9 turnovers per game compared to a league-low 12.0 in 2024 and their defensive rating (111.1) didn\u2019t fall far behind last year\u2019s 110.6 point per 100 possessions allowed.<\/p>\n<p>The visuals on that end became startling, though, including a near loss to Toronto where <strong>Jakob Poeltl<\/strong> went wild and the Hawks pulling off one of the league\u2019s great regular season upsets, going at guards like <strong>Derrick White<\/strong> cross-matched inside repeatedly. It didn\u2019t bother <strong>Joe Mazzulla<\/strong>, who now expects to return to their traditional defensive approach more often.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Screen Recording 2024-11-27 at 6.17.25 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/streamable.com\/o\/ujqnt0#?secret=16soERgnG4\" data-secret=\"16soERgnG4\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"1108\" height=\"610\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think when Ime (Udoka) got here and we were able to switch with Al and he was one of the most attacked guys in isolation and he had great isolation numbers, and what we were able to do with Rob (Williams) and his versatility,\u201d he said. \u201c(Then we developed) Luke and his versatility, and now you have KP and Neemy, I think just the versatility you have allows for you to dictate the shot quality on the other end &#8230; I think we\u2019re second or third in points per shot defense, which is right where we want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team mixed it up on Monday anyway, improving to a 95.9 defensive rating in the win while holding the Clippers to 50% shooting inside in the first half and 51.5% in the second. Porzi\u0146\u0123is blocked two shots and White saw him alter 6-7 others and joking that his role now changes to simply allowing Porzi\u0146\u0123is to block shots he would\u2019ve.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Screen Recording 2024-11-27 at 5.33.10 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/streamable.com\/o\/rfgj2t#?secret=foYy5xrnq9\" data-secret=\"foYy5xrnq9\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"1108\" height=\"618\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Payton Pritchard<\/strong> and<strong> Jrue Holiday<\/strong> said they can defend more aggressively on the perimeter with Porzi\u0146\u0123is dropping behind them. Porzi\u0146\u0123is, like Queta and Horford, can also guard the perimeter, creating some enticing double-big combinations that can defend, space and rebound. The Celtics tied for 13th to begin the season on the defensive glass after finishing seventh in 2024.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Has Celtics Defense Been Good? | Garden Report\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-OjMhyn9R-4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, we had a lot of minutes playing together,\u201d Queta said. \u201cI think we can all coexist. We have so many different bigs that are so versatile, we play double-big as well sometimes. There\u2019s always room for everybody to get in there and play &#8230; (Porzi\u0146\u0123is) can change a little bit. I might not have to help as much at the rim. You get another rim threat you can throw lobs at, shoot threes. He just boosts our team and gives us another completely different look.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Queta defended <strong>Kevin Porter Jr.<\/strong> off the bench in the win, guarding away from him on his way to four blocks to maintain the focus on rim protection that Porzi\u0146\u0123is provided in the drop. That proved a change of pace from the more prevalent nights where he switched away from the rim. Queta\u2019s emergence earlier in the season coincided with a defensive boost that Boston rode from that point on, acknowledging the need for help inside. Now, the Celtics can have the best of both worlds, forcing 13 turnovers and limiting the Clippers to 26 three-point attempts while playing better interior defense.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Screen Recording 2024-11-27 at 5.34.00 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/streamable.com\/o\/kwx96i#?secret=seDbANcEdn\" data-secret=\"seDbANcEdn\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"1108\" height=\"586\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey went to Zubac post-ups,\u201d Mazzulla said. \u201cIf they\u2019re gonna post him, then the ball\u2019s not in James Harden\u2019s hands. So you just gotta fight for the ones you\u2019re willing to give up vs. the one\u2019s you\u2019re not. It\u2019s the transition after makes, which we were giving up earlier in the year that we\u2019ve gotten better at, transition off turnovers, which we have to get better at, getting back cut on your body position, which we have to get better at, and your individual defense &#8230; some of the offensive rebound ones, those are the ones that you can control and we have to fight to not give up. The twos that we work to give or the ones that we can control tactically are the ones that we focus on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Screen Recording 2024-11-27 at 5.44.24 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/streamable.com\/o\/1pep0c#?secret=cI2Se3jg8l\" data-secret=\"cI2Se3jg8l\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"1108\" height=\"568\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Despite Mazzulla\u2019s approval of their play on that end, blaming dips on individual efforts over scheme, Brad Stevens joined the NBC Sports Boston broadcast during Monday\u2019s win and said he sees room for improvement defensively. Jaylen Brown, after the narrow win over Toronto in overtime, stressed that the Celtics don\u2019t want to give up layup after layup even if they\u2019re focused on taking away threes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Screen Recording 2024-11-27 at 5.40.47 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/streamable.com\/o\/j3k271#?secret=bHoD708qFM\" data-secret=\"bHoD708qFM\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"1108\" height=\"588\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mazzulla vowed before training camp that the team would adapt to a changing league while it attempts to repeat, and after many around the league anticipated a surge in three-point volume to mirror how the Celtics weaponized it, Boston only allowed 40+ attempts four times. Last year, it happened 25 times, leading to six extra Celtics losses when opponents got hot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(The defense) will definitely change,\u201d Mazzulla said on Wednesday. \u201cBecause (Porzi\u0146\u0123is) is back. You take a look at, that\u2019s some of the reason it\u2019s a catch-22. You want to switch to keep the ball out of the paint, but you end up being susceptible to other things when your bigs are on the perimeter. So we just gotta continue to get better at that, but it\u2019ll be different now that KP\u2019s back there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One week ago, a sampling of the NBA\u2019s centers who switched onto guards for the greatest number of minutes revealed that Neemias Queta spent more than 34% of his time on the floor defending the perimeter \u2014 the greatest share by far in the league. 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