Joe Ingles is a special type of player. A former EuroLeague and NBL champion, he’s not just a poor man’s Draymond Green, especially not the way that Coach Quin uses him. His versatility helped the Utah Jazz to ascend into an almost elite team in the Western Conference last year (certainly an elite defensive unit). He can run your offense from a multitude of positions, and as you’ll see in this video, he can take Chris Paul and Devin Booker on the perimeter, chase Klay Thompson and JJ Redick through a ton of screens, body up Kevin Durant, deny James Harden, and even switch onto the occasional 7 footer. He’s a smart, savvy defender, and he’s crafty enough to create space between himself and a screen. He shouldn’t be quick enough to stay with the guys he stays with, but he’s got some tricks and gets the job done.
Special thanks to Mid Range, ( / @84dw ) for the excellent work of compiling a breakdown of Ingles’ outstanding postseason defense. Definitely subscribe to that page if you haven’t already.
About 2:50 is one of my favorite things that the Jazz do. I highlight it here by using Joe, but for the most part, the Jazz are in man-to-man, but when you spread yourself out and you don’t really have shooters that can burn them, the Jazz show in sort of soft zone. Ingles is especially good at shoring up around the foul line extended. If you want to go into an elbow iso play (something the likes of Blake Griffin, Harrison Barnes are especially good at) or just want to set up some split action at the high post (or even, dare I say, some pinch post), Ingles is adept at sniffing these out and killing them early. There are times that it is definitely part of the plan, and there are times when he has read the scouting report and knows he can sag off his man, close to one pass away, and not get burned for it.
About 4:40 in begins the denial series. Joe isn’t the fastest or quickest defender, but he moves his feet, and has enough length and smarts to completely DENY a player the ball. You’ll notice in these clips that he blows up a lot of a team’s early action and they retreat into either their backup reads or even just go straight iso. We’re talking NBA Most Valuable Player runner-up James Harden, we’re talking Sixth Man of the Year award winners Eric Gordon and Jamal Crawford. These are no slouches when it comes to getting open.
About 6:57 is when you see the help responsibilities of a weak side defender. You’ll often see Joe either tag the roller so it’s not an easy dump down or lob/entry pass to the player on the roll. At times, it’s his responsibility to 2.9 the paint (2.9 is a concept where obviously if you stay in the paint 3 seconds, it’s a violation, but 2.9 isn’t. So it’s a way to stay in the paint as long as possible and deny a clean look in there for the offense).
I heard some people didn’t think I make good defensive highlights anymore, and while I agree that it’s been more about the easier to get clips (specifically blocks and steals), I still have some know-how about what constitutes good defense. I just don’t always have the time to devote to/have the access to the games necessary to do so. Enjoy!
*The description is from October of 2017 (minus the modified time stamps). What happened was that I had to split up my one video into two parts, but had some clips from the 17/18 season I wanted to incorporate, so this one is more or less a stand alone clip for 2016-17, while the other video (link below) is the other half of this video, plus some clips from the 17-18 season, plus a bunch of good defensive highlights that I doubled up from here.
Link: • Joe Ingles - Lockdown
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