The Miami Heat are playing Basketball Chess 

Miami and Denver are playing chess. Want to see them duke it out in the finals. Both well coached and I see it going to 7 games.

Hilarious when fans claim that Heat vs Nuggets will be bad because the Finals ratings won't be as high. It probably is factually true that the ratings will be lower, but actual fans know what the real matchup is.

So Spoelstra actually studied the Celtics defensive schemes and weaknesses while Boston coach seems to have no idea what he's doing.

This defensive scheme to force Boston away from getting into the paint is really killing the Celtics hard, who get their best looks when they are able to initiate multiple drive and kicks on a possession. Jimmy's ability to track passing lanes is also incredibly broken. I do wonder what Spo is going to do if they play Denver tho. They've switched up defensive schemes drastically between series but Denver's offense is incredibly hard for Miami to game plan against simply because of playstyle and available personnel. But hey, it's Spo. He's gonna cook up some crazy shit and it might just work.

that's how i thought. their defense works as a synchronized system, demanding continuous deny, moving, and rotation. their defense is simply phenomenal.

This is a great breakdown wow. Hopefully Miami wins tonight!

Jimmy my MVP with Heat Nation deserve a ring ❤❤❤

IDK why Spo doesn't have a Coach of the year yet. He's a GENIUS winning with "undrafted" players SMH.

I’m happy that Caleb is getting love. Him and his brother were absolute beasts at UNR, the whole town loved them when they were here. It was insane to watch them tear it up together at Mackey

00:04 that's how in sync Miami players are

up 3-0* wild. subscribed. terrific breakdown

One of the reason why Bam is now a great release valve is thanks to his improve range in shooting that defense respects. Before,there were barely any cutters especially Duncan robinson due to the fact that bam's opponent sag of of him making the paint packed.

how you would not love this squad.....their offense and defense are beauty

incredible viedo!! thanks for making this for a heat fan!!

Those bounce passes from Bam are so beautiful!

Great breakdown! I love it, keep it up! Looking forward to see another video on G3. Subbed.

If the Heat wins the championship, they will be the most impressive and the most successful NBA team to win it all. Here are the factors: -They heavily underachived this season -They were a play in team that almost didn't make it and lost to the Hawks -There's literally NO SUPERSTARS -No superteam -Kevin Love and Kyle Lowry are NOT top 75 greatest players of all time or anyone in the roster -The Heat are in a much tougher division in the East -Their 3rd best player in Tyler Herro got injured -Destroyed the Bucks that had an MVP, defensive player of the year, 6th man of the year and coach of the year candidate plus an all NBA and defensive team selection players -Beaten the favorites to win it all in multiple years with the Celtics -Sweep or win 5 or 6 games against the Celtics/Nuggets without going to a game 7 -Beaten 3 top 5 MVP candidates in Giannis, Jokic and Tatum -Beaten a dominant center that almost averaged a triple double and who is the more deserving 3rd MVP winner in Jokic - Beaten a masterlcass in Murray and a complete team chemistry in the Nuggets that has a solid coach -And because of 3 unknown killers in Max Struss, Gabe Vincent and Caleb Martin (WHO? For real though)

after watching this video so its all about the details, not just only about who you got on your team. play as a whole team, anyone can play good D and offense! cant wait to watch Nuggets and Heat battle with each other!

fire video!!! i LOVE a team that treats all of its players with the deserved respect. Spoelstra and his crew are on another level.

Spo the mastermind

Fantastic video, I learned a lot.

Great breakdown good sir. That's a like and sub

Excellent breakdown

Bam with u.d. and Kevin love has truly evolved. Jim was always a dog. They get smart players to do the rest of the work. Kyle Lowry is a point guard who is a dog on defense also. Spolestra has the ability to break you down from watching video with pat. Great defense understand offense with the right minds.

Great content bro

Simply masterful. Teamwork, fundamentals, conditioning, basketball IQ, and more all done at the highest levels from every position. It's incredible to watch.

The clips with Robinson and Bam is beautiful basketball, what an underrated duo

Finally a heat vid 🔥

Hey, I wanted to ask about the possession at 5:20. I would argue that there was no open man. I think what Robinson is doing in that play is teasing the pass. You stay just off enough that the opponent appears to be left open but because you're anticipating the pass, you have a quick first step and you're able to go directly to the ball to attempt to steal. I used to do this whenever I had to play zone. I would try to manipulate passes so I could snag steals.

Yeah boston is playing checkers while coach spo is playing chess

Erik is a top ten coach in NBA history

Great analysis!

6:07 Yes please, I would like to see that breakdown 🔥😁

Brilliant analysis

Best analysis of this series of the web

Great analysis! Spoelstra and his staff are top notch. Spo will be in the hall of Fame one day.

Trust me we have most definitely unlocked something very dangerous to other teams by having bam handle the ball! 🤯WOOOW MAN when i saw that and what we were doing to Boston, i knew we had something DANGEROUS

Thank you for this video cuz I was arguin that Bam been like a baby Jokic and my bros tried to laugh me out the room but as a 5 he plays the hub and makes pretty much all the passes asked of him DHOs back cuts all that

This reminds me of the 2011-15 heat jump defence

Are the Celtics not rewatching the videos of these games? 😂

This is what casuals don’t understand about the Heat. It is impossible to play like this for 82 games. The Miami heat are a 16 game team not 82. It would be impossible to sustain this amount of energy and effort throughout the year. Great job showing this.

Miami’s zone defense is no joke, idk why Tatum don’t post up anymore, anyways I think Denver vs heat will be interesting

I don't know which team and player I want to win the championship, I just love both jokic and butler. Miami is isane team in every way, but nuggets is insane team in every way too. But nuggets has bigger size And I think that will be really important issue

Spoelstra (and whoever helps him) are pretty amazing at times. There are a few other great coaches, but he's consistently terrific.

Excited to see what coach spo has in store for Jokic. Look out for Love

1 sub for you! Nice analysis!

great anaysis!

12:53 you forget those might be rotation players but one of the best players in the world they can handle their own, NBA has a very high level of players.

Let’s go heat 🔥

I never know how good Miami Heat is playing. It would be a very interesting game when Heat is playing against the Nuggets. It would be a game of wits and strategies. The disadvantage for Heat is because Jokic can be playing as either a shooter or a playmaker plus 3pt shots.

Proper footwork and a high release means a player your size can't effect your shot. They have to guard Butler with someone longer.

HEAT NATION🔥🔥🔥💪🏿💪🏿🏆🏆🏆

Bam's versatility is not "unparalleled" - it's Draymond Green's MO from most of his career. Bam has standing reach of 9 feet, DG 8' 9". 03:19

gonna be a great finals

1:03 TRAVVVEEEELLLLLLL

Hard to score one the zone defense in the 4th so much pressure

Stops and shots that's it. They hoop!

how do you think herro will fit into this offense if he comes back this postseason?

Big respect to Bam Adebayo Miami Heat

Celtics got no playmaker with vision. Brown and Tatum decision making have always been questionable. They piling turnovers, and killed aceltics offense. Heat forced them to make a decision, which they failed miserably

Miami Love the Zone ❤❤💘

Epic defense but using Murray as the screener for Joker is unguardable

The Celtics just stand around. The Heat players play a zone that cuts all the passing lanes. If the Celtics players do not move and if the ball handler is not assessing the movement to find the open man then its over. Go to 4:53, Tatum has the ball and is looking for who to pass. Smart is all the way at the corner STANDING. What wouldve happened if he cuts to the basket at full speed. Tatum gets him on a clean look. If they swarm Smart he could kick it back out to Brogdon for a wide open 3. 5:25, Smart takes too long to pass it to Horford and instead passes it to Robinson because that pass didnt seem targeted at Brodgon. It literally feels as if they are getting paid to lose. Ive seen too much basketball and HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS.

it's called the zone defense. US teams do not seem to know how to play against it

Thats the coaching advantage

Ball movement and guys moving and not standing around and watching the guy with the ball is key to defeating Heats defense. Too much iso for Boston and previous teams that losts.

The way to beat this - get a playmaker between the 2 lines of the zone

The BBL is looking good

Let's go miami

do you know the harsh bitter truth? the Celtics doesn't know how to attack a zone, you clearly see it when they always start to attack it with a dribble, while you should only move the ball fast with proper passes

and mazzula is playing football checkers. fire this man

I think Jokic is gunna eat that Zone alive. I feel like Butler is just as good as Jokic right now but how do you coach against Jokic’s size? some things you just cant prepare for

You’re going to jinx it.

Mike Miller would fit very well on this team 🔥

Man i hate the media saying Jimmy Butler isnt athletic like wtf theyre watching.

it looks like the knicks are better than the celtics?

All this analysis.... and you didn't even mention how Udonis Haslem keeps the locker room in check 😛😋

So smart 3/2 zone man let’s go heat 3-0

I'm always a little shock they didn't attack Duncan Robinson more.

When you break it down like this, it's easy to see why these paper tigers keep collapsing.

3-0 now. 4-0 after tonight.

their playing a box and 1 defense against the celetics lmao

Now they are Juan 👆🏽win away

If I was a nba player in the finals, I’d stay on RU-vid to know all the loopholes videos like this present

As a heat fan.. i see us ending this series tonight yk we rolling on all wheels when we duncan freelancing and dribbling the ball around comfortably

Give Miami credit but the Celtics made it so easy . They have 34 year old rookie coach and he is out of his depth . Not sure if Miami will beat Denver but they earned a spot in the finals

OR boston is playing iso ball and not moving the ball

Nuggets in 6 but I hope I'm wrong

I'm concerned for how the Heat defend Denver, I think Nikola Jokic and their constant movement is going to be the kryptonite to Miami's organized chaos on defense

If they win there first okay in game JT is out if the first round Damn

Solid defense unlike GSW and PHX.

Boston players don't move at all without a basketball...it leads to trees on the court that makes them easy tk defend. GSW dominated the league with their hard cuts off the ball and off ball screens

they call it genius, but it's actually how hockey defenses work.

Were they too focused on chess that they forgot about playing basketball

76rs shouldn't NEVER hired glenn river's just look at Heat young players play against the Celtics Paul Reed and McDaniels and other young players cudda played similar to Miami system get a right coaching for that team.

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I like your video but most of the clip doesn't show chess plays, it shows an NBA team doesn't know how to beat a zone defense and players that doesn't make the right read and driving into traffic all the times and getting strip. If that is chess then I guess Miami is playing chess. Don't get me wrong, they are a great defensive team, but no where near the talent Boston have, if Boston is not beating Boston the Heat are not beating Boston. First two games Celtics beat themselves, game 3 was a Celtics team that was partying the night before and came back uninterested. Great video though, keep up the good work.

All i see is that the Celtics don’t have elite/great playmakers lol

When i started playing basketball i focused so much and scoring that my defense was so bad that i didn't get into any club but the older i got the less i started lookin at people like kyrie or steph curry and more to 08 09 chris paul can shoot all 3 levels pass and okay defense

Lowry is really clicking in Miami right now. Love to see him get another ring with this squad.