How Panathinaikos Shut Down Fenerbahce | The Bonga Effect — Transcript

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1. 0:00Yeah, sure. You know, if you have
2. 0:02problem in offense, you need to continue
3. 0:03to play very hard defensively and that's
4. 0:05this that we're doing. Uh they are team
5. 0:08that they never give up. If you remember
6. 0:10some situations, they immediately go to
7. 0:12trap the ball. It was problem for us.
8. 0:14But okay, we have experienced players.
9. 0:16They know how to handle also this
10. 0:17situation. It's generally good game.
11. 0:20There are a lot of players that they
12. 0:21contribute to this win and you know some
13. 0:23of them and I will I will say one name
14. 0:25amazing defensively with Mr. Bonga.
15. 0:29True.
16. 0:30>> When a coach like Oradovich singles out
17. 0:32one player after a win and that player
18. 0:34finished with zero points, that tells
19. 0:37you everything about how this team is
20. 0:39built this season. Four games, four
21. 0:41wins, all at home. Second best defense
22. 0:44in the league, second best offense. So,
23. 0:47let's look at how they actually did it.
24. 0:49Quarter by quarter, possession by
25. 0:51possession. And Bonga is the thread
26. 0:54running through all of it.
27. 1:05Saras opened the game by running ball
28. 1:07screens straight at Mitloo looking to
29. 1:10target his hedge out. [music] The idea
30. 1:12is simple. Force Mitloo to step up then
31. 1:15attack the space behind him. Watch how
32. 1:17Bingham reads it, [music] slips the
33. 1:19screen, and gets the short roll pass
34. 1:21with Panathaniko scrambling. He has the
35. 1:24advantage, but he can't punish it.
36. 1:33On the other side, Khalitzakis was
37. 1:35assigned to Horton Tucker with clear
38. 1:37instructions. Deny him the ball. Don't
39. 1:40let him drive. And if it comes to it,
40. 1:42give him space to shoot because once
41. 1:44Horton Tucker gets downhill to the
42. 1:46basket, there's no stopping him.
43. 1:54After that first hedge out, the Greens
44. 1:56adjusted immediately and went to
45. 1:58switching with Mitoblau. But Horton
46. 2:00Tucker finds the matchup he wants, gets
47. 2:02Grant on the switch, and attacks him.
48. 2:07Starting the first quarter, the Greens
49. 2:09had problems on defense, and the biggest
50. 2:11one was in transition. They couldn't
51. 2:13control Fenerbachce running the floor,
52. 2:15and they weren't using fouls to stop it
53. 2:17either. You can see Ordovic on the
54. 2:20sideline desperately asking them to
55. 2:21foul. He's especially unhappy with
56. 2:24Grant, who lets a few of these go
57. 2:26without taking the foul.
58. 2:34Those possessions looked like last
59. 2:36season's Panathanikos, not this one.
60. 2:39This season, they've come out defense
61. 2:41first, fully locked into the plan. And
62. 2:44what you're seeing here is the opposite
63. 2:45of that. Ordovic has seen enough.
64. 2:49Francisco comes in for Grant.
65. 2:56The same problems show up in the half
66. 2:58court. Rotations are a step late,
67. 3:00closeouts don't arrive, and Fenerbachce
68. 3:03are getting open looks. Panathanikos
69. 3:06can't control the game, so Oradovich is
70. 3:08forced into [music] the classic
71. 3:09three-man sub earlier than he'd like,
72. 3:11bringing in Lassort, Hayes Davis, and
73. 3:14Badio.
74. 3:42Did that solve the problem immediately?
75. 3:45No. Watch the miscommunication here,
76. 3:47leaving Nicolo Melly with an open shot.
77. 3:50The fact he doesn't convert is
78. 3:51irrelevant. [music] That look shouldn't
79. 3:53exist.
80. 3:59But possession by possession, the
81. 4:01defense starts to tighten up and the
82. 4:03switching is where it begins.
83. 4:07Watch how the Greens take away the low
84. 4:09post entry on the Badio Sunley mismatch.
85. 4:12Hayes Davis gets up with high hands and
86. 4:14shuts the passing window while Badio
87. 4:17fights to front Sani and keep him off
88. 4:19the catch.
89. 4:32Coming out of the timeout, Baldwin sets
90. 4:35up Yasikvichas's atto. Probably a Spain
91. 4:38action. He never gets to run it. The
92. 4:41[music] Greens blitz the ball screen
93. 4:42before it develops and Lassort picks it
94. 4:44off.
95. 4:54Ordovic is coaching this one possession
96. 4:56by possession, switching one time down,
97. 4:59blitzing the next. [music] But the
98. 5:00miscommunication and bad rotations keep
99. 5:03coming back, leaving Fenerbachce players
100. 5:05wide open. [music] They put up 12 threes
101. 5:08in the quarter, 11 of them uncontested
102. 5:10and only made three. The process was
103. 5:13bad, even if the result wasn't, and the
104. 5:15numbers say it clearly. a defensive
105. 5:18rating of 120 in the first quarter and
106. 5:2192.6 across the rest of the game.
107. 5:31One thing to keep in mind though,
108. 5:33Fenerbachce aren't shooting well this
109. 5:35season. They've started at 33% from
110. 5:38three. So, some of those uncontested
111. 5:41looks may well have been by design.
112. 5:43There are guys you can live with
113. 5:44shooting it, but not Mellie, Shields,
114. 5:47Bingham, or Sanley. Ending the quarter
115. 5:50with Francisco isolating Bingham on the
116. 5:52switch and knocking down the three. Or
117. 5:55immediately checks the scoreboard, sees
118. 5:58they have one team foul left to give,
119. 6:00calls for it straight away, and Bonga is
120. 6:03there to execute.
121. 6:19Fenerbachce out of bounds and Hayes
122. 6:21Davis and Badio are right there to get
123. 6:23the deflections and disrupt the [music]
124. 6:25inbound.
125. 6:30Yasikovichas started the second quarter
126. 6:33by attacking the switches and hunting
127. 6:35mismatches, putting Panathaniko's guards
128. 6:37in the low post with Klyurn, Key, and
129. 6:39Melly [music] as Fenerbachce went at
130. 6:42Francisco in the ball screens. Bonga was
131. 6:44sitting low near the basket, leaving
132. 6:46space on Key. Watch here, the Greens go
133. 6:49to a triple switch and Bonga ends up on
134. 6:51Bingham. No advantage in the post. So
135. 6:54Horton Tucker attacks Lassort instead
136. 6:56and gets blocked. [music]
137. 7:07Now Klyurn spots the mismatch and tries
138. 7:10to attack Francisco. Not sure here why
139. 7:13Lassort helped there and left the only
140. 7:15perimeter threat, Marcus [music]
141. 7:16Bingham, open. Ordovich is not happy.
142. 7:20Not sure if he's asking one-on-one D in
143. 7:22the mismatches.
144. 7:30Bonga gets his body on Horton Tucker and
145. 7:33kills the transition. Francisco fouls
146. 7:35Klyurn in the short corner and Sars is
147. 7:38furious with Bingham again. His
148. 7:40positioning on the post up is poor.
149. 7:43Badio's ball pressure sets it up.
150. 7:45[music] After the switch, Bonga gets his
151. 7:48body on Baldwin and stops him from
152. 7:49getting downhill. Badio fights in the
153. 7:52low post to deny the entry. Bonga comes
154. 7:54with high hands and the window closes.
155. 7:57Venerbachce can't get the ball inside to
156. 7:59punish the switches with their bigs.
157. 8:04Bunga leaves Key to help on Francisco.
158. 8:07Klyburn finds him and Key sells a double
159. 8:09fake to finish. Sodus is still fighting
160. 8:12with Bingham who once again isn't in the
161. 8:14right place on the post up.
162. 8:21Bio puts his body in on defense and it
163. 8:23turns straight into a transition three
164. 8:25for the Greens.
165. 8:27>> FRANCISCO STOP AND POP AND DROP TO BLOW
166. 8:31THE ROOF off the arena.
167. 8:36Silvan Francisco
168. 8:38>> is in a menacing mood.
169. 8:42>> And this combustible cauldron at
170. 8:45capacity erupts.
171. 8:50>> Better not get back on defense even by
172. 8:53>> the switch defense jams up the
173. 8:55Fenerbachce offense. Baldwin hits a
174. 8:58couple of tough shots, but the big
175. 8:59picture is [music] that the Greens were
176. 9:01solid. Panathanikos went from a
177. 9:03defensive rating of 120 in the first
178. 9:06quarter [music] to 89.5 in the second.
179. 9:09And Fenerbachce's two-point shooting
180. 9:11collapsed from 75% to 41.7%.
181. 9:15[music] And when you narrow it down to
182. 9:16the group that did the damage, Badio
183. 9:19Bonga Lassort, and Hayes Davis on the
184. 9:21floor together, the numbers [music] get
185. 9:23absurd. 20 possessions, a defensive
186. 9:26rating of 70, a plus [music] 60 net
187. 9:29rating. Fenerbachce shot 33% from two
188. 9:32against them and turned it [music] over
189. 9:34on 30% of their possessions. That's the
190. 9:36lineup that flipped this game.
191. 9:49>> Getting the dunker kicking out for a
192. 9:50three. Here comes the double team again.
193. 9:52This time they miss a wide open three.
194. 9:55>> Top fake step in footwork met by
195. 9:58multiple players. Get it out.
196. 9:59>> And the saw answers with the big block.
197. 10:03>> Vener will come again. Bing and corner
198. 10:05three off and Yu.
199. 10:11>> What makes this even more remarkable is
200. 10:13where the third quarter came from. The
201. 10:16second unit, Manzukas, [music] Grant,
202. 10:18Moglu, Khalitzakis, Roavopouloolis, and
203. 10:21Yabusle laid the groundwork. And then
204. 10:24Bonga, Hayes Davis, and Lassort came
205. 10:27back in and carried on the same
206. 10:29defensive work without a drop.
207. 10:31Panathanikos finished the quarter with a
208. 10:33defensive rating of 87.5,
209. 10:36better than the 89.5 they posted in the
210. 10:38second. Fenerbachce shot 41% effective
211. 10:42field goal, 22% from three, and turned
212. 10:45it over on 31% of their possessions.
213. 10:48That's [music] depth and cohesion, not
214. 10:50one hot lineup. And it's not a secret
215. 10:52anymore that this team is tracking
216. 10:54toward [music] being a top defensive
217. 10:55side in the league. Right now, they sit
218. 10:58second in defense behind Redar, allowing
219. 11:0098.3 points per 100 possessions and
220. 11:04second [music] in offense behind
221. 11:05Valencia with 127.6 per 100. It's early.
222. 11:10The sample is small. [music] They
223. 11:12haven't played many tough games yet and
224. 11:13none on the road. But the signs are
225. 11:16scary. They go defense [music] first and
226. 11:19with the talent they have on top of that
227. 11:21the mixture can be explosive. The most
228. 11:24[music] important part is the size. Big
229. 11:26bodies at every position. Length in the
230. 11:29intermediate spots. They look a lot like
231. 11:31the 24 [music] to 25 Fenerbachce team
232. 11:34that won the trophy. Hayes Davis,
233. 11:36Deshaawn Pierre, Bonsie Coulson, Devin
234. 11:39Hall holding down those positions.
235. 11:40[music]
236. 11:41That's exactly how Saros likes to build
237. 11:43a team. And tonight, Panathanikos fed
238. 11:46him his [music] own poison.
239. 12:06End of the quarter and the defense
240. 12:08closes it out the same way it played all
241. 12:10night. Bonga pressuring the ball.
242. 12:13Rogavopouloolis holding key in the low
243. 12:15post. No easy way in. Ograovich looks
244. 12:18satisfied. And to be honest, he looks
245. 12:20like he's enjoying this team. You can
246. 12:22see it in how he interacts with his
247. 12:24players, even in the tough moments when
248. 12:26he's shouting at them.
249. 12:31[music]
250. 12:41>> [music]
251. 12:43>> Now, let's focus on Isaac Bonga. Zero
252. 12:46points, one assist, one steal, two
253. 12:48blocks, and a net rating of plus 49.8
254. 12:52across 83 possessions. Everything
255. 12:54[music] that matters about his game is
256. 12:56in that gap between the scoring column
257. 12:58and the impact. He plays positionless on
258. 13:01both ends. He guards [music] anyone
259. 13:03comfortably from Baldwin to Bingham. and
260. 13:06he's the safety valve behind everything.
261. 13:08Closing out with that length,
262. 13:10deflecting, stealing, bullying his man
263. 13:13off his spot before the catch. And he's
264. 13:15an economy player. He doesn't take shots
265. 13:18out of the system. [music] He doesn't
266. 13:19need the ball to feel part of the game.
267. 13:22He follows the plan, does his job, and
268. 13:24lets everyone [music] else eat. For me,
269. 13:27he's one of the most important signings
270. 13:28of the off season. Maybe the most
271. 13:30important of all. Not for what he
272. 13:32produces, but for what he connects. He's
273. 13:35the link that makes the [music] star
274. 13:37power around him work and he makes every
275. 13:39lineup he's in functional. Panathanikos
276. 13:42can put a small body like Francisco out
277. 13:44there and not pay for it defensively
278. 13:46because they frame him with Badio, Hayes
279. 13:49Davis, Manzuk, Yabusellle,
280. 13:51Rogavopouloolis. The size they can roll
281. 13:54out is immense and Bonga is the piece
282. 13:57that holds it all together.
283. 14:00And if you put next to him probably
284. 14:01[music] the best two-way player in the
285. 14:03league, the potential gets scary. Hayes
286. 14:06Davis finished with 19 points on 30%
287. 14:09usage, and 58% true shooting. 60% from
288. 14:13two, 40% from three, four rebounds,
289. 14:16three steals, and a net rating of plus
290. 14:1946. carrying the heaviest offensive load
291. 14:22on the floor and still guarding at the
292. 14:24highest level. Switching across
293. 14:26positions, fighting in the post, taking
294. 14:28on whoever the scheme asked him to take.
295. 14:31That's the combination that makes this
296. 14:33team different. Bonga does the
297. 14:35connecting work with no shots. Hayes
298. 14:37Davis does the scoring without giving
299. 14:39anything back on defense. And around
300. 14:41them, Oradovich [music] can mix and
301. 14:43match whoever fits the matchup. And all
302. 14:45of this is happening with Wancho,
303. 14:47Slucas, and Nun out. [music] and Mustafa
304. 14:50Fall barely able to go. A minute and a
305. 14:52half on the floor before he had [music]
306. 14:54to come off. That's four rotation pieces
307. 14:56missing and the team is 4-0 with the
308. 14:59second best [music] numbers on both
309. 15:00ends. When they're all back, the ceiling
310. 15:03moves again.
311. 15:06That's how Penathanos took apart
312. 15:08Fenerbachce. A shaky first quarter and
313. 15:11then a wall for the next 30 minutes.
314. 15:14Four wins from four. And the man who
315. 15:16swung it finished with zero points. If
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322. 15:32we love.
323. 15:34>> Grant trapped, finds a PASS
324. 15:37FOR
325. 15:38>> OH, IT'S GOT TO BE A TIMEOUT, TOO.
326. 15:39>> He drifted off.
327. 15:41>> Time out. No doubt. That's
328. 15:44>> That's a back breaker right there. Not
329. 15:46only 15, but look at how broad
330. 15:48[laughter] it is.
331. 15:49>> I like it. It will COME UP THIS SEASON.