Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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What changes from the regular season to the playoffs in the NBA? In this segment of the Thinking Basketball podcast, Coach Gibson Pyper of HalfCourtHoops discusses switch hunting (or mismatch hunting) by forcing certain defenders into screening actions to attack weaknesses in defenses, and how this trend has become popular in recent years of the Pace and Space era.

Full episode on Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/114-what-changes-in-the-playoffs-gibson-pyper-half/id1428290303?i=1000559022478
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/34RymU0ZKjGxMtsezUWiIG

Gibson Pyper's HalfCourtHoops channel: youtube.com/c/HalfCourtHoops

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