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Speaker 1: Lakers post game show that will be also airing on

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Speaker 1: DASH Radio tomorrow morning at seven am. Thank you guys

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Speaker 1: so much for coming to hang out. Roj is still partying.

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Speaker 1: God knows where he is. Barely heard from him, although

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Speaker 1: I did hear from him enough to say that he

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Speaker 1: could not make it tonight. So what I'd like to

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Speaker 1: do is only go for about, you know, fifteen minutes

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Speaker 1: or so on just my quick takeaways from the game,

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Speaker 1: and then I'd like to get as much of you

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Speaker 1: comments and questions, opportunities for you guys to event This

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Speaker 1: game ironically went kind of exactly as I expected it

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Speaker 1: to because I have a lot of respect for Memphis

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Speaker 1: and how good they are, and how good John Morant

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Speaker 1: is and John Morant in particular. It's acts a specific

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Speaker 1: weakness of the Lakers, so it was inevitable that at

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Speaker 1: certain stretches of the game, uh, they would struggle. Lakers

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Speaker 1: played good urgency, but I thought they were undercut by

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Speaker 1: their starting lineup quite a bit. Um. I think this

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Speaker 1: is a game that if the Lakers play small through

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Speaker 1: and through they probably win by fifteen, even with their

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Speaker 1: defensive shortcomings. Um, and we're gonna get to that. But

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Speaker 1: this was kind of the type of game that you

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Speaker 1: could expect. The Lakers weren't just gonna flip the switch

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Speaker 1: and start kicking people's asses, because that's not how you

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Speaker 1: fix bad basketball. It takes weeks of trying to ditch

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Speaker 1: on and so forth. And so this is a good

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Speaker 1: step in that direction. And there's gonna be a slightly

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Speaker 1: less tough game in my opinion going down to sant

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Speaker 1: four straight relatively easy ones. So this is this was

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Speaker 1: the one they had to get, that they had to

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Speaker 1: Like I said, guys, I'm gonna talk for about fifteen

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Speaker 1: minutes and the I'm gonna get callers up, So get

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Speaker 1: your request in now and stick stick around, and we're

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Speaker 1: we can tonight. Um. The main thing that I've wanted

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Speaker 1: time opportunity to watch the Lakers this season considering how

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Speaker 1: bad the things went off the rails against Golden State,

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Speaker 1: and I thought it was interesting that they went with

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Speaker 1: Mellow as that fifth guy next to bays Moore, Lebron Russ,

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Speaker 1: reason being is that when he's with that group, his

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Speaker 1: defensive responsibilities become so small that he can actually succeed

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Speaker 1: in them. You don't need him to hold his own

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Speaker 1: that are going to make his job easier. And ironically,

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Speaker 1: he made one of the biggest plays of the game,

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Speaker 1: which was his uh steel on John Moran. I think

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Speaker 1: Davison got a really good shot out of it. If

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Speaker 1: success with this group. So I didn't think that that

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Speaker 1: was a coincidence at all. Um, let's talk about the starters,

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Speaker 1: because I'm sure that's what a lot of you guys

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Speaker 1: watch this basketball team play with DeAndre Jordan's And again

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Speaker 1: to kind of frame this, when DeAndre Jordan was signed,

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Speaker 1: for whatever reason. Why, because Frank has a defensive scheme,

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Speaker 1: and while his defensive scheme had to change and be

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis wasn't making his jump shots. All of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: which is we're just gonna pack the paint. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: And it did tonight, and that, like I said, if

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Speaker 1: well they played. Um. What was interesting there during the

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Speaker 1: he didn't have the crazy, you know, nonsensical transition pull

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Speaker 1: And that was his passing, you know, with the starters,

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Speaker 1: I also really liked what he did in crunch time

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Speaker 1: Austin Reeves. So, Austin Reeves, i I tweeted yesterday, is

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Speaker 1: But you all you need from that position is just

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Speaker 1: these guys, you know, in the direcs of the regular season,

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Speaker 1: they have great motivation. Alex Caruso was like that for

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Speaker 1: interesting is coming into this season. I talked about three

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Speaker 1: things that I wanted Russ to do in crunch time

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Speaker 1: to counter teams leaving him open, and those three things

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Speaker 1: were crash the offensive glass, which he had a huge

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Speaker 1: rebound on the mellow he actually got stripped by Steven

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Speaker 1: Adams right after, but he had a huge rebound where

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Speaker 1: he crashed in after Mellows little turnaround fadeaway. That's an

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Speaker 1: example of having an impact on the game even though

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Speaker 1: you don't, even though your defender is not guarding you.

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Speaker 1: Another example is I'd like to see him when he

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Speaker 1: does catch the ball and teams are ignoring him, just

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Speaker 1: barreling into the paint, trying to just cause the next

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Speaker 1: driving kick action and hopefully the defense kind of collapses.

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Speaker 1: But the third one, the most obvious one, the one

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Speaker 1: that will probably see you will see the most is

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Speaker 1: using him as a screener. And you brought up which

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Speaker 1: is super interesting is the like sizes right, because of

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Speaker 1: Lebron and d they're just gonna switch that action. But

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Speaker 1: with Russell Westbrook, it's usually gonna be someone like a

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Speaker 1: John Morant or someone small, and it's a lot harder

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Speaker 1: to switch that action. And so what ends up happening

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Speaker 1: is you're going to trap probably because you'd rather have

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Speaker 1: Russ make the decision than have Lebron make the decision, right,

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Speaker 1: So Russ sets the screen rust as a short role.

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Speaker 1: Lebron hits him. This is the play right after the

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Speaker 1: Steven Adams player was talking about too in US just

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Speaker 1: barrels into the paint, big man steps up, drops it

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Speaker 1: off the Anthony Davis dunk, and then the very next

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Speaker 1: possession they actually did the same thing Lebron. Lebron reversed

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Speaker 1: the screen and caught him before they could really get

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Speaker 1: into their um you know, hedge and recover scheme or whatever,

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Speaker 1: and just barreled down the right side. Then both defenders

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Speaker 1: just sprinted back to Lebron. He threw a pocket past

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Speaker 1: to Russell Westbrook, and Russell Westbrook shoveled that little past

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Speaker 1: to Anthony Davis who's cutting down the lane, and Memphis

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Speaker 1: actually broke that play up and forced us into a turnover.

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Speaker 1: But it was another example of like really good offense

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Speaker 1: and crunch time that keeps Russ involved so that the

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Speaker 1: team can't ignore him. And that's what you have to do.

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Speaker 1: You have to do that. Yeah, you have to do that.

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Speaker 1: And I think those three fit on that plane because

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Speaker 1: you can pay your Ross like Draymond. I mean Draymond

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Speaker 1: is not a shooter mhm like Ross, but he can

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Speaker 1: claim me. So I think that was on the offensive side.

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Speaker 1: But another thing that I saw is that I think

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Speaker 1: Mellow fits on the starting line instead of DJ right,

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Speaker 1: because if if it's there for defenders, then Mellow he

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Speaker 1: can guard. I think Mellow can guard the bigs. He

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Speaker 1: can't guard the guards, so I think if it's there too.

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Speaker 1: And as for Austin Weaves, I think Carusa is a

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Speaker 1: better defender and a better point of attack defender and

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Speaker 1: a better athlete. But I think Weaves as an offensive

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Speaker 1: skill set that um that Caruso doesn't have. He can

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Speaker 1: shoot trees at a high clip with confidence, and he

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Speaker 1: knows how to see the floor on the patch. I

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Speaker 1: mean that one that passed white. It's not easy to do,

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Speaker 1: particularly on that setting. They're playing too fast and for

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Speaker 1: a player to see that that the floor that quick.

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Speaker 1: You can teach that too to any I think PhD

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Speaker 1: Reeves is what we want th HD to be on

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Speaker 1: offense right, because PSHCS has this uh how do you

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Speaker 1: call this? This funnel vision that he wants to attack

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Speaker 1: the basket like Ross that to the point that it's

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Speaker 1: becoming reckless. But as for Meeves, he has this i

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Speaker 1: Q to see the floor first, then make the play.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't make reckless decisions, so I think he fits

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Speaker 1: that scheme too. Instead of th HD put In Reeves

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Speaker 1: there so that if you scramble situation, he can still

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Speaker 1: make place. Yeah, I thought you broke that down perfectly.

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Speaker 1: Reeves is the definition of a guy who's never going

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Speaker 1: to force anything. And that's exactly what you want alongside

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Speaker 1: really good players, because this is something that bays Moore

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Speaker 1: struggles with a little bit, right, because like beings Moore,

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Speaker 1: bays Moore has more talent in all of these areas

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Speaker 1: than a guy like Austin Reeves, but he just can't

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Speaker 1: help himself sometimes, right. It's it's no different than it's

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Speaker 1: no different than on the defensive end that play that

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Speaker 1: he had where he fouled John Moran, Like he knows

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Speaker 1: he can't foul there, he knows he's not supposed to,

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Speaker 1: but he just can't help himself. Like when when he's

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Speaker 1: when things are going fast and it's chaotic, he just

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Speaker 1: he just acts without thinking and and and the same

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Speaker 1: team translates to offense. He'll try to do too much

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Speaker 1: on a close out. He'll try to do too much

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Speaker 1: on a drive. He overpenetrates those kinds of things. Austin

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Speaker 1: Reeves is the definition of a player that just takes

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Speaker 1: every read, one read at a time. There was a play.

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Speaker 1: His first NBA basket is the perfect example of this.

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Speaker 1: So his first NBA basket was in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: against the Suns. He's in the right or in the

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Speaker 1: left corner, and uh, I think Lebron ends up kicking

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Speaker 1: it to him. He catches, he catches it, and JaVale

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Speaker 1: McGhee is not javal m. Excuse me, I can't remember

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Speaker 1: who some of the jaale m. He was in the lane,

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Speaker 1: but someone calls someone calls out on him. I can't

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Speaker 1: remember who it was. It might have been Cam Johnson,

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Speaker 1: so uh yeah, or Campaign somebody like that. So he

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Speaker 1: so he's not open on the shop, but he pump fakes,

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Speaker 1: and when he pump fakes, the defender kind of closes

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Speaker 1: out to his right shoulder. And on the play he

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Speaker 1: takes a dribble to the baseline, but instead of being weak,

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Speaker 1: he actually extends his off arm and like chicken wings

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Speaker 1: and like pushes the then're off, which which again you

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Speaker 1: want to do. That means you're playing into the toughness

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Speaker 1: in the physicality of an NBA game in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: that's what you're supposed to do. So he awards the

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Speaker 1: guy off. Then as he's dribbling on the baseline with

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Speaker 1: his left hand, that same defender reaches around and tries

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Speaker 1: to poke the ball out. Austin sees it coming and

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Speaker 1: does like a push dribble with his left hand into

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Speaker 1: the into the lane, gathers and shoots that fade away

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Speaker 1: over the top of Al McGhee and nothing but the bottom.

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Speaker 1: And on that play, I was just like, this is

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Speaker 1: an unbelievably advanced closeout attack that that this kid did

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Speaker 1: for his first NBA basket, which was just it was

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Speaker 1: just incredible and and to your to your point, it's

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Speaker 1: that controlled approach to the role player position that you're

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Speaker 1: begging for from some of these other players on the teams. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it was just a smart smart for him

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Speaker 1: to um to do those things. I mean, read the

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Speaker 1: floor and not just push push yourself to barrel into defenders.

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Speaker 1: M hmm. I think um PA's for the defense. I

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Speaker 1: think it will it Wilcome that will become eventually, because

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Speaker 1: I mean, our reason is a good defenders still and

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Speaker 1: d h D is a much bigger and garden, so

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Speaker 1: I think they still have room for that defensive end.

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Speaker 1: But I think a monk should really take over on

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Speaker 1: those positions. Yeah, I'm a big believer and moreaker definitely agree.

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Speaker 1: Hey Bond, thank you so much for hopping on and

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Speaker 1: come back on Tuesday if you feel like it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Alright, guys, get your request. Let me take

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Speaker 1: a few more here, let's go, Dave Day. Can you

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Speaker 1: hear me? Man? Yeah, Man, I can. I'm here. What's

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Speaker 1: up in? So? I love what you're talking about with

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Speaker 1: the starters. I kind of feel and and don't don't

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Speaker 1: hear me wrong here. I kind of feel like DeAndre

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Speaker 1: Jordan's is taking the flak for all the starters. But

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Speaker 1: to me, you you just broke up a little bit

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Speaker 1: on Camp bays Moore, And to me, we have so

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Speaker 1: many guys on this team that just should not be

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Speaker 1: on the floor together. Like it's not like they're bad players,

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Speaker 1: Like Camp bays Moore is not a bad player, but

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Speaker 1: I feel like with him in DeAndre Jordan's and with

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Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook at the same time, that's just a really

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Speaker 1: crappy combination. Like you just said that you're a big

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Speaker 1: believer in more Monk minutes, it seems like he just

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Speaker 1: fits with with most of the other players. Obviously Lebron

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Speaker 1: and a d are going to fit with whoever, but

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Speaker 1: it seems like man having Russell Westbrook and camp Baysmore

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Speaker 1: in at the same time, it just doesn't feel like

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Speaker 1: a good fit. And obviously DeAndre Jordan nobody really wants

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Speaker 1: him to play any time. But even there at the end, right,

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Jordan is not in the game, but it's still

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Speaker 1: really clunky, And to me, that kind of falls on

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Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook and camp Baysmore not necessarily being that good

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Speaker 1: of a fit. We the whole fourth quarter, we were

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Speaker 1: having great, great lineups, right and Russ was kind of

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Speaker 1: on the bench, which is unfortunate for us. And I

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Speaker 1: know he's not going to be the odd man out

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Speaker 1: right like unless it really comes down to it at

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Speaker 1: the end of the season. But it just seems like

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Speaker 1: some of these other guys, like like A Reeves or

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Speaker 1: a Month or someone like that, it seems like they're

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Speaker 1: they're better fits with some of these guys same with

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Speaker 1: like like uh, you know, Rondo and and Russell Westbrook

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00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: again a really clunky fit. They just shouldn't play together.

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Speaker 1: They can play, you know, you put Rondo out there

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Speaker 1: with a D and three shooters and that's a great lineup,

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Speaker 1: you know. So to me, it's about combinations, and that's

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Speaker 1: really what's making it ugly is that some people just

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Speaker 1: did not fit together. For the record, I thousand percent

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Speaker 1: agree with you there. There's there's a concoction that happens

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Speaker 1: in five on five basketball that all has to work.

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Speaker 1: And now what's interesting is you can see where Frank

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Speaker 1: is coming from with Russ in bays right. Because Russ

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Speaker 1: you have to play. He makes four million dollars. Bay

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Speaker 1: is the reason why he starts. I really don't think

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Speaker 1: it's any more complicated than this. Each game, each team

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Speaker 1: you play, there is this you know, alpha on the

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Speaker 1: other team that somebody has to guard. And it's clear

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Speaker 1: that on the night and night out basis, the three

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Speaker 1: stars don't want that responsibility right after they will do

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Speaker 1: it when they have to. But like Jont Murray on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: Baysmore is gonna guard him. He's gonna guard him. To

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Speaker 1: start the game. And so what ends up happening is

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Speaker 1: inevitably they're going to start bays Moore because he's now

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Speaker 1: the team's you know, de facto primary defensive, isolation scorer

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Speaker 1: type of defender. Now what's tricky is you're right they

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Jordan does get the flak for the whole group

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Speaker 1: not performing. There's a lot of truth to that. That's

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Speaker 1: it to be clear. Like the like the lineup was

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Speaker 1: minus stift team with DeAndre Jordan's tonight, that's not all

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Speaker 1: on DeAndre. There were there there are there's there's some

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Speaker 1: sloppy basketball happening there. However, the flip side of that

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Speaker 1: is like you can kind of draw a clear line

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Speaker 1: between comfort level and quality of basketball. Like I thought

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Speaker 1: it was really interesting that when Russ started playing with

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Speaker 1: no center there and this I think it was in

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Speaker 1: the second quarter where he started getting going, got all

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Speaker 1: the way to the rimper layup, got a couple of

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Speaker 1: easy jump shots, got to the got to the rim,

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Speaker 1: started kicking out the shooters. That comfort level breeds good

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Speaker 1: basketball on both ends of the floor. And what ends

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Speaker 1: up happening with the DeAndre Jordan lineup, even though it's

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Speaker 1: not just DeAndre Jordan's fault, the way he clunks up

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Speaker 1: the pain causes all three of the stars to be

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Speaker 1: indecisive about what they should do, which inevitably leads to

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Speaker 1: them taking jump shots, which when they're going in like

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Speaker 1: they did against Golden State, Lebron and A D have

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Speaker 1: the swagger to them and they're gonna be awesome anyway,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, that lineup is gonna do fine. But when

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Speaker 1: they don't go in like they didn't tonight, all hell

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Speaker 1: breaks loose in terms of just the clumsiness and the

640
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: sloppiness of the basketball, and so that that's the tricky part.

641
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: Like you almost have to have Bays in there because

642
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: he's gonna want the tough job you have to there.

643
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 1: But DJ is the problem I think with Bays though too.

644
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: It's not like he's that good of a defender, you know,

645
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 1: like when it was Crusoe or someone like Legit, it

646
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, he's the he's a great defender, um,

647
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: And it just feels like like he he's probably the

648
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 1: best option we have. But that's like a huge weakness

649
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,760
Speaker 1: for us, Like it doesn't feel like, oh, yeah, well,

650
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,879
Speaker 1: when he's in there for his defense, it feels like, well, yeah,

651
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:42,439
Speaker 1: he's probably the best defender that we have on ball,

652
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 1: but he's still not very good, you know. Like and

653
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 1: again it feels like the whole activity without a production

654
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 1: kind of deal, like he's doing a lot, but he's

655
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 1: not really bothering. And again, who's Franks supposed to go to, like,

656
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: because I don't think Avery Bradley is. I mean, as

657
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,240
Speaker 1: much as people are like, oh yeah, we're so excited

658
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 1: every bad he's back, I'm like, okay, maybe in like

659
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: real spot minutes, but not not like on a regular basis,

660
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: he's your go to guy to shut down like John Rant.

661
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: Like again, John Avery was pretty bad tonight again, and

662
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 1: he was pretty bad against you. He can't He checked

663
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: into the game in his first possession, went like way

664
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: under an off ball accident, lost John Murray. He literally

665
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: lost John Murray on the first possession that he got

666
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,319
Speaker 1: in the game. And I was like, oh, man, like

667
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 1: he was really good there to try to ignite a

668
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:34,280
Speaker 1: run against Golden State and try to stop Jordan Pool,

669
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: but he was pretty bad in his last two games. Yeah, agreed,

670
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: And again Frank kind of gets crap about it too,

671
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: But it's like, who's he supposed to go to like

672
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 1: because again, Malik Monk isn't going to be the guy,

673
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 1: which he's in there great for his offense, and I

674
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,280
Speaker 1: think that's why all of us are looking at Austin

675
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 1: Reeves going well, at least he at least he like

676
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: holds his own and he's giving a ten percent, you know,

677
00:36:57,680 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: like the rest of the guys. It just feels like

678
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 1: we're bleeding. But yeah, I agree with you. It's it's

679
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: a tough predicament that they're in just in general. But

680
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 1: the thing is is, like, you know, when when John

681
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: Morant went on his crazy run, the Lakers immediately coming

682
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: out of the time out started sending you know, multiple

683
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 1: bodies at him, and then and then he immediately started

684
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: kicking the shooters and the next three possessions after that

685
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: ended in threes. But what was funny is the rotations

686
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: were so bad that they were like wide, wide open three.

687
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 1: So the truth of the truth of the matter is

688
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: is like it's I never look at individual matchups necessarily

689
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: as the crippling point of the defense, because truth be told,

690
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 1: if I've got Molik Monk on an island with John

691
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,240
Speaker 1: Moran and I leave him on an island, then I'm

692
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: I'm playing bad defense. But even if even if he

693
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: forces John Morane into a jump shot and he happens

694
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: in this like when you're playing how did teams guard

695
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: Lebron Russ and Anthony Davis. Everything's multiple bodies. There's no

696
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 1: such thing as like, let to let Anthony Davis go

697
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: one on one against our six six small forward. No,

698
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 1: it's like there's dudes in his face. There's there's a

699
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: guy sitting under the rim, there's a guy at the

700
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,399
Speaker 1: top of the keys, like digging down and swiping down

701
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: at the ball. Like every Lebron drive and post up

702
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: ends in multiple bodies. Like you throw multiple bodies that

703
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: good offensive players. So the way you have to defend

704
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 1: is to send multiple bodies and then rotates and recover

705
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:27,800
Speaker 1: and do everything on the back end you needed to

706
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: do to take shots away. So I'd like from that standpoint,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't so concerned necessarily, you know, at the point

708
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 1: of attack with Jaw. It was the fact that when

709
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: they started sending multiple bodies at him, they just didn't

710
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: do a good job kind of like making it a

711
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 1: little bit tougher on the role players. And that's when

712
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:48,359
Speaker 1: like mellow just get really exposed because he will not

713
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: make very many efforts on the defensive end at all,

714
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 1: if exactly exactly No, you're right, hey, Dave, I really

715
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: perceived coming on and if you like, come on back

716
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. All right, let's see who guys, I'm really

717
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: one more and then we'll take a bunch more on Tuesday. Hulio,

718
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 1: can you hear me? You're muted, so you might not

719
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:21,360
Speaker 1: do on mute. Hey man, I'm here. Hey, how's it

720
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: going great? How are you? I'm doing good? So what

721
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 1: do you gotta say events about something? You have any questions? Listen?

722
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: And I think that it was a this same game,

723
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 1: O world. The most important things throughout the game for

724
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 1: me was stopping these huge runs by me by Memphis,

725
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 1: because the last two games against the Words and Suns,

726
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 1: we get on these huge hus runs and from that

727
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: point on the game was mostly lost. Mm hmm. Also,

728
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 1: I think the transition difference was the way whether this game.

729
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was only by the presence

730
00:39:56,520 --> 00:40:03,720
Speaker 1: of job alone, but definitely an provement. Blowest rotations were

731
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 1: bare overalled. Beside your under Jordan, who everybody is taking

732
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: short setting and this I think Frank has put more

733
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 1: consistent and quantity lineups throughout the game, and in certain

734
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: ribs throughout the game, I think he got like three

735
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 1: or four shifts and those were really good. And I

736
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 1: think this this would be his role going forward, and

737
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: just like a reserch, he will eventually win more minutes

738
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 1: just based on confidence by Frank and the starts just

739
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 1: by not making defensive or offensive mistakes. Yeah, it's it's

740
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 1: interesting because Reeves is going to fall out of the

741
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 1: rotation here. It's unfortunate, but it's it's the reality of

742
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 1: the situation. Guys like Kendrick Nullan coming back, you know,

743
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 1: guys like THHD coming back, those other guys that are

744
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 1: to get those minutes unfortunately. Um, which is just kind

745
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,879
Speaker 1: of part of the politics of the way the NBA works, right,

746
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 1: Like you've got Kendrick Nunn on the mid level exception,

747
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: the ownership group, when you count tax, the luxury tax,

748
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,720
Speaker 1: is going to be paying almost you know what, fifteen

749
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 1: million dollars or something to have Kendrick Nunn on the roster.

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00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 1: So there's a certain amount of an expectation that those

751
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 1: guys are gonna play. So Reeves is going to fall

752
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: out of the rotation. But fortunately rob was smart and

753
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:30,760
Speaker 1: signed him, I'm pretty sure to a multi year contract.

754
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 1: The two year contract, I believe before the season when

755
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: they converted him from a two way to UH to

756
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 1: a guaranteed contract, which at the time everyone was confused.

757
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:43,359
Speaker 1: And remember the intel was just like they just said

758
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 1: that he went to Lebron's preseason camp and he was awesome. Um,

759
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: and maybe that's what it was. Maybe it was as

760
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,919
Speaker 1: simple as the camp went well and then Lebron called

761
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: Robin was like, hey, you gotta sign this dude, you know,

762
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: like it could have been one of those kinds of things.

763
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 1: But the unfortunate reality is he's going to fall out

764
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: of the rotation as soon as all these other guys

765
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: get healthy. So everybody who wants to see more Austin

766
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,439
Speaker 1: reeves enjoy it while you can, because it's gonna last

767
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: about a week or two and then Kendrick Nunn is

768
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:10,879
Speaker 1: gonna come back and take all of his minutes. That's

769
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 1: just kind of the way this is going to go down. Um.

770
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:16,320
Speaker 1: But yeah, I thought I thought you brought an interesting

771
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 1: point about the transition defense. Transition defense was horrible against Phoenix,

772
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: and there's a couple of different things about transition defense

773
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: that you have to factor and part of it is

774
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: effort and focus, but a big part of it is

775
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: team speed and when you when you play guys like

776
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 1: Dwight Howard and DeAndre Jordan's sometimes even on their best

777
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: day when they're playing hard, if you catch them in

778
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 1: bad position and you sprint down the floor, you're just

779
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: gonna beat them down the floor because they're slow. And

780
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: we talked about this a lot with vene On on

781
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 1: the Friday Night Pod. But your overall team speed in

782
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 1: the lineup in the modern NBA has to be at

783
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,839
Speaker 1: a certain level to keep up with the way these

784
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: teams are, you know, with with pushing the ball the floor,

785
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:03,800
Speaker 1: especially guys like John Moran and uh in general, I

786
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: thought tonight they did a better job, much better than

787
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 1: they did against Phoenix of just getting back off of

788
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: the shots and trying to take away the super super

789
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: easy stuff. Did you have anything else with you? No,

790
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 1: Let's keep the rolling so everyone can alrighty, thanks man,

791
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 1: thank you man. Al Right, guys, I have one left,

792
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: so let's get one last one up in here. Mandel,

793
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 1: can you hear me? Sorry for miss pronouncing your name, Hello, man, dope,

794
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,320
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna drop me into there, not hearing in.

795
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: I do have one left though, Spencer, Spencer, what's up? Man?

796
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: So I did, Hey, how's it going good? Um, just

797
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: kind of a comment. I thought it was interesting watching

798
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 1: a ton of games. I like, I won't miss a

799
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 1: Lakers game right, probably like everyone Elton here watching a

800
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: ton of games last season. Watching a ton of games

801
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:18,319
Speaker 1: last season, I remember being like shocked because sometimes you

802
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 1: like get lost in the game and the flow and

803
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 1: you won't won't really look at the score a ton.

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00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: I don't know about you guys. And there are times

805
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 1: where like we're missing open three after open three, and

806
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 1: I look at the score and we'd be up ten,

807
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: and I'd be like, what's going on. It's because last

808
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: year and kind of the year before, we relied so

809
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 1: heavily on our defense, just chasing dudes, guys on a string.

810
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: Everyone bought into this game, just like great, right, and

811
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:46,320
Speaker 1: then this year it was just like a total flip side.

812
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: We're hitting every open three and I look and we're

813
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: only up by you know, like a few points. And

814
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 1: it was like last year if we had a game

815
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 1: where we shot fifty from three, we win by thirty,

816
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: right like easy, and so it just like was pretty hopeful.

817
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,720
Speaker 1: Just like with these guys, if they can just get

818
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,919
Speaker 1: that Vogel defensive system down, I know, like personnel lies,

819
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 1: we may not be able to reach last year previous

820
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 1: year's levels, but man, if they can just get it

821
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 1: down and locked in, I think I think it's just

822
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 1: a hopeful nugget. Honestly, So I'm really glad you brought

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00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: that up, because that was something that I had been

824
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,359
Speaker 1: thinking in the middle of the fourth quarter and had

825
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 1: not yet mentioned in the show. But there was a

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00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:31,880
Speaker 1: moment when Mello hit a three in the middle of

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00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter at our early fourth quarter, and I

828
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:36,839
Speaker 1: think it put us up like one oh five, one

829
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 1: oh two or something, but the game was relatively close,

830
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: and I immediately thought to myself, I'm like, this is

831
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,360
Speaker 1: kind of what everyone was talking about over the summer,

832
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: like the fact that we might have to outscore some people.

833
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 1: Right Like, it was this up and down basketball game,

834
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 1: and we were just better at scoring. In the fourth quarter.

835
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: There was like it was like John Morant trying to

836
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: drive and kick the shooters versus Lebron trying to drive

837
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: and kick the shooters and Lebron is just way better.

838
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 1: So we just want we won based on the quality

839
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: of shots we've got in that fourth quarter and people

840
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 1: knocking it down. And it's super interesting because you're absolutely right,

841
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:13,320
Speaker 1: like it's a totally different dilemma, but it's the same

842
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: feeling where you're like, you keep looking now at the

843
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: scoreboard and we're like, we're in we're in the lead,

844
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: but we're just not like pulling away, so to speak. Now,

845
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: as far as the defense goes, I'm a little bit

846
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 1: more optimistic than most people because like with your core five,

847
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 1: you look at the defensive ceiling, You look at, you know,

848
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: on on a handful of possessions, how likely are they

849
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: to get stops? You know, and you're you're so focused

850
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Speaker 1: on the ceiling. Now with this team, I still believe

851
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Speaker 1: in the defensive ceiling because I have Lebron and Anthony

852
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Speaker 1: Davis on the floor. Now, frank Is, that lineup is

853
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 1: probably gonna look like Russ bays Moore aresa Lebron a

854
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Speaker 1: d later in the season, and that lineup is going

855
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Speaker 1: to be every bit as high as a ceiling defensively

856
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Speaker 1: as what we've seen in previous years. Now, the bench

857
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Speaker 1: lineups throughout the game. They're never gonna be able to

858
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Speaker 1: reach the ceiling that the Lakers Lakers had, They're never

859
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Speaker 1: gonna be able to reach that. However, to your point,

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Speaker 1: over the course of the season, you can you know,

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Speaker 1: the way you win with defense in like Game six

862
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Speaker 1: of the NBA Finals is different than the way you

863
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Speaker 1: win with defense in their regular season. And the regular

864
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 1: season it's all about habits and focus and dudes not

865
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Speaker 1: falling asleep and dudes just doing their jobs right. And

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Speaker 1: then in the Game six of the Finals, it's like,

867
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Speaker 1: how big and athletic and strong and in freaky physical

868
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Speaker 1: can you be? Right Like, so the way that I

869
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Speaker 1: look at it, with those bench lineups, they don't need

870
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 1: to be the most freaky physical, crazy athletic lineups in

871
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Speaker 1: the entire world. They just need to have enough guys

872
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Speaker 1: they give a shit about doing their job and give

873
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 1: a shit about doing uh, paying attention to those little details.

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Speaker 1: If they can do that over the course of the season,

875
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Speaker 1: like you said, just kind of buy into what Frank

876
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: is trying to get them to do. Over the course

877
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: of the season, the bench lineups will defend well enough

878
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: to where they can reach the defensive ceiling again at

879
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 1: the end of the game with their core lineups, and

880
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 1: this defense can be really good. I still believe that

881
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Speaker 1: over the course of the season this team will defend

882
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Speaker 1: pretty well. Yeah, I'm gonna be really optimistic when we

883
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Speaker 1: have a game where we're shutting teams down, shutting their

884
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:29,280
Speaker 1: water off. You know, we'd have these back to back

885
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Speaker 1: to back. We'd almost go on defensive runs the past

886
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Speaker 1: couple of years, you know what I'm saying, and man

887
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: to to string one of those together, because that's that's

888
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: what makes a championship team. Right. There's like teams that

889
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:42,800
Speaker 1: are built completely off of defense that are great teams

890
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Speaker 1: to make deep playoff runs. But if you don't have offense,

891
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,319
Speaker 1: like they'll struggle later in the postseason, right or you

892
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: have these all time offenses that struggle on defense, you

893
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,319
Speaker 1: need you really need both. And I know there's been

894
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: some like defensive only teams that have, you know, one

895
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Speaker 1: the finals. Maybe I think of the Pistons way back

896
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Speaker 1: in the two thousand's, but way way back now. But

897
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Speaker 1: but uh yeah, I think I think if this team

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Speaker 1: can like find a good balance there, because it's like

899
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 1: a mental thing too. If you're focused so much on

900
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 1: shooting and scoring, you you fall asleep. You know, you're

901
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 1: absolutely right. Now, You're absolutely right. And they do have

902
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 1: to reach a certain baseline of defense without a doubt.

903
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's plenty of metrics about that, or you know,

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Speaker 1: just kind of his historical you know, a pre you know,

905
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Speaker 1: kind of little landmarks that we can look at that

906
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: show that you have to be at a certain level

907
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Speaker 1: on both ends of the floor. And the bottom line

908
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: is is, like they the way that this group would

909
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:45,879
Speaker 1: defend well would take time. Right Like it was, There's

910
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Speaker 1: no way that you would be able to get Mellow

911
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Speaker 1: and Monk and and Ellington and some of these guys

912
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 1: into this system and they would just immediately pick it up.

913
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Speaker 1: It's going to take time. You're you're overturning bad habits

914
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Speaker 1: like Mellow at this phase in his career, Pick and

915
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: Roll was deph Curry in the fourth quarter. He's not

916
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 1: a focused on the fact that he has to be

917
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Speaker 1: up at the screen, and so he gets beat. But

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Speaker 1: maybe after sixty games with Frank, with film sessions and

919
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Speaker 1: accountability from his peers, he'll be sitting there looking at

920
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Speaker 1: this from the perspective of like I can't make this

921
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: mistake or I won't play. You know, I can't make

922
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Speaker 1: this mistake or it'll cause the entire system to break down,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I do think over

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Speaker 1: time that kind of thing will come around. And thank god,

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Speaker 1: they have a really easy schedule here over the next

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks because they'll they'll be able to win

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Speaker 1: without playing super well. But Spencer, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for coming on. Man, come back and say if you

929
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Speaker 1: feel like it, see man, Alright, everybody, We're going to

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Speaker 1: call it tonight. Ros will be back to make this

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Speaker 1: not a solo show on Tuesday. UM. As always, I

932
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Speaker 1: sincerely appreciate all of you guys and your support. I'm

933
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Speaker 1: going to take the recording of this show and post

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Speaker 1: it onto our podcast feed immediately after the show ends.

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Speaker 1: It will also air on Dash Radio tomorrow morning at

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Speaker 1: seven am. But again, I just want you guys to

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Speaker 1: know how much I appreciate to you guys for supporting

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Speaker 1: ROJ and I as we do this. Three shows down

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Speaker 1: and what's a seventy to go. I'm looking forward to

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Speaker 1: every one of them. Have a good night, guys,