Hi it's Max, we're currently with G2 Esports for a little debriefing
The grand final hasn't started yet but the video will be published after the Major
How are you Dan (apEX) ?
Better, a bit better
And you Kenny ?
I've had better days but it's alright, I'm well
Let's come back a bit on your match against Cloud9, starting with the veto
Could you tell us why you chose not to play Cache again
Even though you had beat them on it last time during the Legends Stage
For the veto it was simple, first we banned Train because we don't play on it
And they banned Nuke because they don't play on it
Then when we had to pick one, we chose Overpass because they don't play much on this map so they were not supposed to be very good on it
And they picked Mirage. That's how it happened, we were hesitating
between Overpass, Cache and even Inferno, but in the end almost everyone in the team agreed on Overpass
Regarding Cache we didn't want to pick it because we already beat them on it during the tournament
So they were obviously going to get used to our play
We simply didn't want to pick a map we already beat them on, that's a principle that fnatic and even NiP used to have
We all agreed on that
So that's why, we know they can adapt themselves pretty well to our play and we wanted to avoid that
So you started by playing Mirage
Then you had a technical time-out at the very beginning
We all saw that Nathan (NBK) was arguing about something with the admin
And he didn't manage to get into the game, at least not as much as during the Legends Stage
We didn't see the best of him
So could you come back a bit on this technical pause and on Mirage?
Regarding Nathan first, it's not that he couldn't get into the game, it's just that he plays on B on Mirage
And the terrorists usually don't go much towards this bomb side, it's like 80% on A and 20% on B
So he had to back us up many times, and it's not easy
Regarding the technical pause now, it's simple, first we won the pistol
And for the next round there was a kind of bug with the admins, Alex (bodyy) was muted
And actually he was already muted during the pistol round, then during the second round
But let's be honest, it's not because of that that we lost the eco, Kenny and me ate two Deagle headshots
So even if we could communicate with Alex (bodyy) it wouldn't have changed anything
So yeah, it's just...
What happened with Nathan (NBK) was that he thought the admin was ignoring him
Because he was talking to the admin through his headset, and the admin couldn't hear it
So Nathan was actually talking for nothing and he got a bit angry for being ignored like that
But the two of them talked about it afterwards and there was no problem
It's because of the stress at the beginning of a match
So as I said before, it's not that Nathan couldn't get into the match
But it's like on that on every map, one of the bomb site is less used that the other so he had fewer things to do
Do you want to add something Kenny?
It's just that obviously, this is not the best way to get focused on a match, when something like that happens during the second round
We couldn't do anything about that of course
But I think we were all pretty tense
So it quickly got out of control
I think it disadvantaged us more than anything
Maybe some players were more affected by it than the others
Maybe not Nathan himself, but other players around him
So of course the technical pause did not help us get into the game
Also, in order to ask for a time-out in an official match you have to press F1 right?
So Kenny, you ended up buying something because of that
So you asked to restart the round, but the rules didn't allow it
I'll let you talk about it, and I also have a question : can't you disable F1 to avoid the auto-buy?
If you disable F1 you also can't allow a time-out, that's a problem
Actually, it's not that the rules forbid it
It's just that the ELEAGUE wasn't conscious of what happened
They didn't realize that I had bought this gun because of the F1 system
So once they realized it they restarted the round
So yeah, since the beginning there was a bit of a misunderstanding between the staff and us
So the final score on Mirage was 16-8 four Cloud9
You took a few time-outs but you didn't manage to make a comeback
What was it that you lacked on Mirage in order to win?
It's simple, let's start from the beginning
First, France hadn't gotten past the group stage for the last 2 and half years
So our main goal was to get out of the group stage
We actually didn't have any other goal for this lan, we just wanted to gain the Legend status
So we focused a lot on BO1s
So yeah we almost didn't practice on Mirage
But we're actually not angry about that
We're not blaming ourselves, because our main goal was to become Legends, the rest would only be a bonus
So yeah, they won, and it was obvious that we hadn't practiced on it because we made stupid mistakes
Still, we were losing 8-2 and we came back to 8-7, which is correct
But then we lost the pistol
and we had many incomprehensible rounds, it was obvious that we were lost on the map
So when you start a Major's quarterfinals on a map you haven't practiced, well...
It's complicated, even more if the other team is good on it
But as I said we don't regret it, we chose to focus on 5 other maps and we set Mirage aside
So good job to them
Did you feel affected by the crowd because there was no booth?
No, we're used to situations where the crowd is usually against us
So we didn't... well I'm talking for myself, but I think it didn't affect anyone in the team
With or without a crowd, I think the outcome of the match would have been the same
So then you played on Overpass next, you pick
We were expecting you to win the map, and I think you were expecting that too
But it didn't start well for you once again
What were you lacking this time to win the map and reach Cobble, the decider?
We lacked in rigour, and made mistakes we shouldn't have made
We lost some really important clutches, like for example a 3v2 on A site
So of course if affected us
If only we had won this 3v2 and other important rounds, we would have gotten into the match
Unfortunately, we lost them because we didn't play well
And that's it, but you know, Overpass...
To be more precise, we actually practiced a lot on Overpass
And during the prac, we were very good on our T side
But during the lan, we failed twice of this T side
So it's a bit hard to take because we actually practiced a lot on this map
So why did we lose? Because of the many mistakes, and also because our play style...
Wasn't lax enough, or too strict regarding the players we have, I don't know
We're going to talk about that, we still haven't made the real debriefing because we need to cool down before that
But well, overall they were better, they surprised us, they got the kills and won the clutches
Don't you think you might have made too many force-buys instead of letting you take the awp, Kenny?
No, well, I'm not sure
I think we kinda ran out of solutions at some point
Moreover, I think we were all short of our real level
Originally, the goal of this game is to kill the enemies
Cloud9 was playing a lot better than during the group stage
They were better, and if we wanted to beat them we had to show our best level in any case
We didn't show up, and we paid for it immediatly
This tournament lasted almost a month
So I think we also couldn't be as consistent in our training program during the tournament
We also had some issues, I got the flu and couldn't play for three days
We were all a bit sick at some point
So we have some mitigating circumstances, but it won't explain everything
And it doesn't justify that we lacked in rigour and consistency in our training around the end of the tournament
Before that you managed to win 3-0 during the qualifier, and 3-0 during the Legends Stage
So of course the French community started hoping to see you win
Don't you think that because you were not defeated even once before that
You started struggling when Cloud9 started outplaying you, you didn't know how to react?
Maybe you weren't prepared for it, even if you also lose sometimes during practice
I don't really know. We still struggled before, for example we were losing 9-2 against Flash during our first match and we came back
I don't think it's related, I think we just had a bad day
We played badly
As Kenny said, we were a bit sick but that's no excuse
I for example didn't feel sick
So yeah, we played bad and at the same time they played well
So we can also congratulate them because they played two great maps
So as you said Dan, you still end the tournament with the Legend status, which is pretty great
It had been two years and a half since a French team last got it
Of course we're a bit sad that you lost in quarterfinals but let's not forget that overall it's a good performance
You too, do you feel satisfied with what you did? Are you still motivated for the year to come?
Yeah, overall we feel satisfied, as Dan said our main goal was to get hold of the Legend status
Anything else was a bonus, even if, of course, it hurt to lose in quaterfinals and we wish we could have gone further
So yeah, we did what we wanted, we're still disappointed, but if you look at it objectively there were more positive than negative things
Next lan for you will be... the Starladder?
When is it? February?
I think we're leaving on Frebruary 16, so we'll spend three weeks at home
Honestly, we'll start by taking a few days to rest because we've been away for a month now
We'll play by ourselves but take a few days away from team practice
Then two and half a week of intensive training until the Starladder
So for now we've reached our goal
We wanted to get out of the group stage, but now we want to go even further, we're not here to get a top 8
We want to reach finals and even win them
So for the next three weeks we're going to give it our all and train a lot
At the end of December, between the BLAST and Christmas break
things weren't going well, we were a bit unsure
When we came back we did a one-week bootcamp in Tours, and it went very well
We went from a "can't get past the qualifier" level to a "Legend" level
And that's why we shouldn't regret anything here, we reached our goal
Now we're going to set even higher goals
Does the structure also pressure sometimes regarding your goals?
Because sometimes we see Ocelote (G2's co-founder) post things on Twitter, talking about winning a Major and all
We know that they have high expectations for us, which is normal given that they give us a salary
We have the same expectations for ourselves anyway
We're not directly feeling the pressure
If some people feel pressured, it has to be the ones who connect the players with the structure
For us it would be Jérôme (NiaK), our manager, and possibly our coach
But it's alright for us
We obviously know that they're expecting more from us, but we don't feel that pressured
Thanks for the interview guys, once again congrats for the Legend status
Last words are for you, if you want to say anything to the French-speaking community
So, I know you were expecting a lot from us after what we achieved at the qualifier and the group stage
We're sorry for that, but we're still happy after two and a half years without a French team as Legend
Even if some people will say that we only played against weaker teams
Actually two teams out of the three we played against also became Legends, so it's not that bad
We're satisfied, and we're also happy that people supported us all along the way and gave our best for us
So thank you, and we're going to step up
We don't want quarterfinals, we want to go even further so we'll do our best
We give it our all, if things don't work it's a shame, but at least we'll have given it our all
So yeah, well, thank you! For your support
As I often say, we see what you write to us
We only pay attention to the positive things
And this time there were a lot of positive things, so thank you
We could feel that you were as thrilled as us during this Major, and you're as sad as us that it didn't last longer
But the season only started, so thanks for always being there
And thanks VaKarM
Thanks guys, it's been a real pleasure following you for these three weeks in the US
I'd like to end this interview by also giving my thanks to everyone that helped, starting by Miky, behind the camera, who edited all the videos
And who filmed everything
Thanks also to all the staff from VaKarM, for trusting us and sending us to the US
And for helping us from France, thanks to gubbs, MilkaFun, Miles, and many other people
You can see all the people from VaKarM on this page : http://www.vakarm.net/staff
Thanks to our sponsors, HyperX and Avast, who also helped us come all the way to the US
Thanks everyone, that was Max&Miky for VaKarM, see you!
For more infomation >> Major debriefing with apEX and kennyS - ELEAGUE Boston Major 2018 - Duration: 15:25.-------------------------------------------
The Outlet Pass: Why the Boston Celtics Are Struggling to Score - Duration: 12:03.
The Outlet Pass: Why the Boston Celtics Are Struggling to Score
Why is Boston's Offense Suddenly so Bad.
Over the past three years, the Boston Celtics ended each regular season with the third, fifth, and second highest assist percentage in the NBA, respectively.
Ball movement was their soul, and—arguably even more so than a well-connected defense—best reflected how Brad Stevens wanted his teams to operate.
Now 51 games into his fifth season as head coach, Stevens's Celtics rank 14th in assist percentage, and a disturbing 22nd since New Year's Day.
Boston owns the NBA's fourth-worst offense over its last 15 games, with only two teams finishing inside the three-point line on a higher percentage of unassisted baskets.
How they got here, and it that relates to a path towards less selfish tendencies, is a slight Catch-22.
Like most teams, the Celtics are less efficient whenever their most gifted player is on the sideline—according to Cleaning the Glass, Boston's offensive rating is 13.7 points per 100 possessions better with Kyrie Irving than without, which ranks in the 99th percentile (!) compared to every other point guard who qualifies.
But one consistent trend has been how Irving's presence affects their assist rate, which is never higher than when Irving is on the bench.
This is not a criticism.
It's also not a coincidence.
During his magical run to a fifth-place finish on the MVP ballot last year, only 9.1 percent of Isaiah Thomas's possessions were isolations, according to Synergy Sports.
Irving is nearly at 16 percent right now.
The Celtics will sometimes feed their All-Star starter just above the elbow, then move fatalistically, deep down knowing how the play is meant to unfold.
Additionally, 64.2 percent of Irving's field goals are unassisted, while Thomas was only at 56.5 percent.
It's not just Irving, though.
Last year, eight Celtics had at least 60 percent of their two-point baskets come by way of an assist (not including Al Horford and Gerald Green, who were at 59 percent).
This year only Aron Baynes, Semi Ojeleye, and Daniel Theis are above that mark.
Stagnancy affects everything, from where the offense fires away (a higher percentage of Boston's field goal attempts are from the mid-range this season) to how frequently it allows them to get quality shots/draw fouls around the rim.
The Celtics are playing slower, sliding away from the analytics-friendly shot chart they spent the last few years warming up to.
(They ranked sixth in the percentage of their shots that were layups last season. Right now, they're down to 23rd.).
The easy explanation for all this change is a shift in personnel—Kelly Olynyk is way, way, way better suited for how Stevens wants to play than Marcus Morris—and just, like, the fact that they're super young and stretching a ton of inexperienced players in roles they otherwise wouldn't have on a top-ranked team.
In 2018, only Theis, Horford, and Irving are shooting above 39 percent from behind the three-point line.
Rozier and Jaylen Brown were each 13-for-46 heading into Monday night's game against the Denver Nuggets, while Morris, Tatum, and Smart were a combined 30 percent.
When your entire team is stuck in a slump, not only will your offense understandably suffer, but the floor will cramp against defenses that can just switch and help without fear of getting torched from deep.
Compounding the issue is a roster that, outside Irving, only enlists two perimeter-oriented shot creators, in Rozier and Smart.
But that duo is noticeably less stoic than last year, thrilled with the first decent shot they see and content with doing a favor for the opposition, especially if their man goes under a screen or gives them the type of space that suggests a pull-up three is exactly what they want to see.
Some of it might be due to an understandable lack of trust, being that so many Celtics logged zero minutes beside one another (or any other NBA players, for that matter) before this season began.
Even Horford, someone whose general demeanor suggests he's never burned the roof of his mouth on a hot slice of pizza, has rushed some shots this year (his odd pull up in transition from just above the free-throw line at Oracle on Saturday night is in some ways a perfect encapsulation of Boston's problems).
But Smart has proven his worth as an intelligent pick-and-roll playmaker, while Rozier is dynamic enough to slither through the first layer of any defense to open up opportunities for teammates elsewhere on the floor.
The patience seen above is exactly what Boston needs more of when Irving isn't in the game.
Shane Larkin passes up a decent look early in the possession, relocates to the opposite wing, then nails a three.
In the six-pass sequence below, the ball swings from side to side.
Just about everybody on the floor drives and cuts with force and makes Denver guard multiple actions before Theis steps out to knock down the open three.
Tatum will be instant offense in due time—picture him with a post game!—but as a 19-year-old rookie he isn't ready to commandeer a second-unit by himself.
Lately he's drifted into these predictable, archaic one-on-one confrontations that don't suit what his current role should be.
Expanding his game is nice, and encouraging him to attack mismatches is great, but too often he does so without rushing the rim and forcing help.
Irving is an illusionist who can basically take whatever shot he wants and have it be graded on a scale from "that probably should've triggered the sprinkler system" to "please pass me a bible.
" His three-point rate has never been higher and Boston boasts a top-five effective field goal percentage when he's on the floor.
But just because Batman exists doesn't mean every police officer in Gotham can retire.
The Celtics should still make more of an effort to run their motion-based offense, use pick-and-rolls to set up other pick-and-rolls, attack closeouts, and get back to the inside-out tactics they had a decent amount of success with last season.
Their offensive woes aren't a debilitating concern because so much of them go back to poor shotmaking in a small sample size.
Their three-point percentage will regress (Boston remains one of the 10 most accurate shooting teams from deep in the league, and they made 17 threes in their most recent game) and things will naturally open up once Gordon Hayward returns next season, solidifying at least one All-Star on the floor at all-times.
In the meantime, it wouldn't hurt for them to get everyone involved a bit more than they currently are.
Its easier said than done, but ultimately necessary if they want to get back to the conference finals.
Dejounte Murray Hitting the Offensive Glass.
Dejounte Murray's stock will never be lower than it is today.
He's shooting 44 percent from the floor and rarely acknowledges the basket's existence when dribbling behind the three-point line; the San Antonio Spurs struggle to generate quality looks when he's on the floor and they really struggle to score at the rim.
My response to that: Buy all the Murray stock you can afford, then sell your X-Box and buy some more.
It may take some time for the 21-year-old to develop a reliable outside shot, but he has intangible qualities—mostly connected to his wingspan and defensive anticipation (among all players who average at least 15 minutes and have appeared in at least 10 games, nobody has a lower defensive rating this season—that rationalize Gregg Popovich's decision to bump him into the starting lineup.
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CompStat in New York, Boston and Chicago - Duration: 5:32.
Can you tell us about CompStat and what it meant for the City?
>> So, CompStat was invented in NYPD by Bill Bratton and Jack Maple.
And the idea was to use statistics and
the number of crimes committed as the bottom line for policing.
So, in business the bottom line is- >> Profit.
>> Profit and loss.
In policing it's how many crimes have been prevented.
And the only way you can figure that out is by looking at the crimes and
determining strategies to prevent them.
>> Absolutely.
>> A brilliant idea,
saved thousands of lives in New York over the last 20 years and across the country.
>> And CompStat also helped them focus resources, right?
You know that this street corner regularly a bad place and this place is not, so
you can direct more cops to that street corner.
>> Right, right, exactly.
Policing was sort of a shotgun approach as far as assignments.
You would spread the officers out among the community
as widely as you can, so you've got equal enforcement.
But really the officers would gravitate to those
high crime areas where there were more calls.
And what CompStat did was allowed us to identify
exactly where the crime was occurring and use, they call it cops on dots.
Really putting officers in those locations.
>> Right. >> And that's the first step.
The problem in New York seemed to be that there was no recognition that
increasing stop and frisk, or increasing field interrogation cards,
contact with potential criminals was ever a bad thing.
And so after talking to the community I realized that people were
feeling put out by being stopped and talked to over and over and over again.
And when we looked at this statistics we found that
it was this same individuals being stopped over and over and over again.
Some are criminals.
But a large number of them we're necessarily hardcore criminals.
They were kids that were on the street, grew up like I did in Lowell.
>> And but this you know highlights an issue that
some things are easier to measure than other things.
>> Right. >> And
the easy way to manage is to focus on the things that are easy to measure.
And that often lead to go awry in the corporate context and
can go awry in the policing context as well.
It's easy to measure how many people you stop, and
it's harder to measure what you've done in terms of building community trust or
what you've done in terms of creating long term safety.
So I'm gonna ask one question which you may not be comfortable saying.
But it's not Boston, it's Chicago.
It is clear that something is not going on well in Chicago.
That Chicago had like New York and Boston significant decreases in crime.
Currently there is both crime levels appear to be up,
although a lot of that is there's always randomness on the statistics,
but it appears both that there's a significant safety issue.
And the public animosity, at least from some parts of the public toward
the Chicago Police Department appears to be quite large.
Do you have any sense about what Chicago could be doing better?
If you were, and probably you have given advice to Rob Emmanuel on this, but
if you were If you were telling them.
How do you fix a dysfunctional situation like that or
how do you at least move in the right direction?
>> There's changes that need to be made on three different levels.
I worked there for
two years providing advice through the justice department to the city.
And, the way I look at it,
the city needs to institute a community policing program and
use CompStat as the main focus for their strategies.
And they've moved away from CompStat, which I think is a further disaster.
But they also have to build trust with the community.
And it has to be block by block and officer by officer.
And so that's the foundation of it.
But there's also serious dysfunction at the state level, at the Cook County
prosecutor's office, in their coordination with the federal authorities.
And quite frankly, I was extremely disappointed in the federal authorities
who would not look at violent crime in the neighborhoods as a problem.
They were focused on white collar crime and corruption.
And even after intervening and
going through the justice department there was zero response from that agency.
In Boston the feds were an enormous help
in our being able to control violent crime, and putting people away.
And quite frankly, at the state level bad guys don't get put in jail in Cook County.
They just don't, they have multiple shootings, multiple firearms arrests,
and they're still on the street, and the criminal justice system is a joke.
So until that gets coordinated at the state and
at the federal level it's gonna be a serious problem.
>> And the federal level, why is it different in Boston and in Chicago?
What, it's just a different person who is in the DA's office?
>> US Attorney, US Attorney.
Right. >> Fascinating, it reminds us to rise how
important personalities are, and how lucky Boston and Lowell have been to have you.
Thank you.
>> Well thank you very much, and many other people.
>> And many other people, absolutely.
>> It was a great team.
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