In a game where the Boston Celtics went away from a lot of the stuff that provided them success in games 1 & 2 against the Atlanta Hawks, Joe Mazzulla took a leaf out of the Ime Udoka playbook.
During the Celtics' run to the 2022 NBA Finals, Udoka tasked his guards with additional screening responsibilities as he looked to take advantage of Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown’s size and ability to attack off the dribble. On multiple occasions per game, we would see Payton Pritchard, Derrick White, and Marcus Smart screen for a bigger player, with those screens being known as ‘inverted screens.