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#114: What changes in the playoffs? | Gibson Pyper (Half Court Hoops)

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Is There a Lot of Switching Going on in the NBA?

In the playoffs, you have to know everyone on the floor. You can't just be like, I'm guarding patty Mills and I'll focus on just patty Mills. If you're switching, you now have to focus on four to five different guys on the court on the fly in real time while going full speed. This increases what we'd call your cognitive load, all this psychological stress. And if you're not guarding Steph Curry, Clay Thompson, Kevin Durant and that offense, it's tailor made to suppress your shooting percentages. Yeah. Think about like 27 in a row from the Houston Rockets. They actually had two that they made that didn't count. So technically people are

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