I don’t know about you, but this Richmond team gives me the heebie-jeebies. You won’t find this in the advanced metrics, but according to my own scouting, Richmond players shoult “think about spiders!” at the other team on roughly a third of their defensive possessions. When they do that, the other team is paralyzed in horror roughly 12% of the time, and you can imagine the variety of turnovers which may ensue from there.
It’s something that Kevin Keatts can try to simulate in practice, but he can’t really know how his guys are going to respond until they’re out there up against the real thing, and thinking about spiders in the moment, under the lights.