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Speaker 2: Slash baseball All right, welcome to hoops todaight here at
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Speaker 2: As promise, we're gonna hit a bunch of games from
Speaker 2: the Olympic men's basketball tournaments today. We're gonna start with
Speaker 2: tim USA getting a much more convincing victory against South
Speaker 2: Sudan this time around, We're gonna break down the starting
Speaker 2: lineup change as well as some other details from that game.
Speaker 2: After that, I want to hit what I thought was
Speaker 2: the most entertaining game from yesterday as Japan almost upsets
Speaker 2: as France comes back to beat them in overtime on
Speaker 2: the strength of a four point play at the end
Speaker 2: of regulation, and then some big time playmaking from Victor
Speaker 2: Webbin Yama in overtime. And then at the very end
Speaker 2: of the show, we're going to briefly talk about Canada
Speaker 2: versus Australia, some of the shot creation data coming from
Speaker 2: Shay Gildas Alexander and then Josh Giddy having an impressive
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Speaker 2: all right, let's talk some basketball. So starting lineup shift
Speaker 2: as Anthony Dave, as I've been begging for forever, comes
Speaker 2: into the starting lineup for Joel Embiid, and then Jason
Speaker 2: Tatum into the starting lineup for Drew Holliday. They immediately
Speaker 2: got off to a much better defensive start. We're gonna
Speaker 2: talk about the specifics of those substitutions here in just
Speaker 2: a minute. The main story of this game, I thought
Speaker 2: Wassa just brought a much better defensive effort. Sauthsu Dan,
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people just because they don't
Speaker 2: have the reputation in Foba that some of these other
Speaker 2: countries that we've seen over the years have great success,
Speaker 2: like Spain and Argentina. Right, these teams that we've just
Speaker 2: seen over the years give USA bigger fights and stuff
Speaker 2: like that. Like South Sudan may not have the history
Speaker 2: of those teams, but what they do have is probably
Speaker 2: the most athletic roster out of any of the Foba teams.
Speaker 2: They've just got a bunch of guys who are really
Speaker 2: mobile with really long wingspans that can cover ground, that
Speaker 2: can pressure the ball. You see, how to continue even
Speaker 2: in the convincing win for USA to force a lot
Speaker 2: of turnovers and to catch guys not paying attention and
Speaker 2: to close get a just a little bit faster than
Speaker 2: guys are expecting, and just by fielding a team that
Speaker 2: has not just a ton of athleticism, but that team's
Speaker 2: athletic by NBA standards. That's a very very athletic team,
Speaker 2: and that can be a little bit of an issue
Speaker 2: to deal with, especially against USA's typical starting lineup. As
Speaker 2: far as the ad for Joel Embiid substitution. Going above
Speaker 2: and beyond the simple fact that ad has just been
Speaker 2: a better player than Joel Embiid in terms of this
Speaker 2: Team USA context, it's also a really tough matchup for
Speaker 2: Embiid against that type of foot speed. Again, one of
Speaker 2: the big reasons why Sudan had a lot of success
Speaker 2: against Team USA in their matchup in the exhibition games
Speaker 2: is just getting up and down the floor and catching
Speaker 2: guys just not keeping up in that pace. In addition
Speaker 2: to that, Sudan likes to shoot a lot of threes,
Speaker 2: and so it's important to close out and to make
Speaker 2: rotations and all these very important details on defense that
Speaker 2: specifically depend on foot speed and so just going with
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis, even a guy like Jason Tate in for Drew,
Speaker 2: even though Drew's probably a little quicker of foot, Tatum
Speaker 2: just brings more length, meaning more ground coverage. And so
Speaker 2: even though Tatum still had a little bit of a
Speaker 2: struggle offensively in this game, and they're they're, the big
Speaker 2: thing with Tatum is the jump shot is just is
Speaker 2: still just way off the reservation. He got a wide
Speaker 2: open catch and shoot three in the right corner to
Speaker 2: start this game, literally hit the side of the backboard
Speaker 2: and I pulled the numbers. Per Synergy, Tatum is zero
Speaker 2: for eleven on jump shots with Team USA in the
Speaker 2: six games that he's played in, including the exhibition. So
Speaker 2: like he's just in, He's just in a really tough
Speaker 2: space right now in terms of his confidence in his jumper.
Speaker 2: And this is on the heels of a playoff run
Speaker 2: where he took one hundred and eighty eight jump shots
Speaker 2: for only one hundred and fifty one points. That's just
Speaker 2: zero point eight points per shot. So Tatum is just
Speaker 2: in this extended slump for whatever reason. To me, it
Speaker 2: seems to be mostly mechanical. I talk a lot about
Speaker 2: energy transfer like energy transfer is getting that power from
Speaker 2: your feet up through your release. We think of jump
Speaker 2: shooting as like a reach into the cookie jar type
Speaker 2: of thing. In terms of your release, that's just one
Speaker 2: small part of it. It's a It is a process
Speaker 2: that begins with your feet and that extends. There's a
Speaker 2: middle portion if it begins with your feet and it
Speaker 2: ends with your release. In the middle there's the gather,
Speaker 2: and in the gather, tatum has hitches in it, like
Speaker 2: multiple hitches where you like the ball stops moving, which
Speaker 2: you want to see when a player is catching and shooting,
Speaker 2: you want to see the ball just kind of go
Speaker 2: from the catch up to the release in a fluid motion,
Speaker 2: because if that momentum stops, then any sort of so
Speaker 2: for instance, like if you've got good legs on the
Speaker 2: shot and you get your lift in your base, but
Speaker 2: then you have a hitch in the middle, you lose
Speaker 2: that power that you generate from the base and then
Speaker 2: you're trying to make up for it at the end
Speaker 2: by slinging it with your release, and that's just a
Speaker 2: lot more difficult to maintain in terms of muscle memory.
Speaker 2: If you get good footwork into a good base and
Speaker 2: to good lift into a clean gather and have smooth
Speaker 2: transfer of energy. Then by the end your hands are
Speaker 2: basically just guiding the basketball. Any of you guys who
Speaker 2: have shot at a high level, you guys know that
Speaker 2: it's like one of those things where when you get
Speaker 2: your lift, when you get your legs underneath you, the
Speaker 2: SHOT's easy. The shot is the easiest part of it.
Speaker 2: The hardest part is in a movement situation, getting your
Speaker 2: base in an off the dribble situation, getting your base,
Speaker 2: making sure you get a clean gather. That's where the
Speaker 2: work of the shot is done. The release is the
Speaker 2: easy part. And so right now Tatum is just in
Speaker 2: a little bit of a little bit of a working
Speaker 2: He's kind of working on his form and trying to
Speaker 2: figure out what's going on. And the good news is
Speaker 2: is they won the title despite the fact that he
Speaker 2: was having those struggles, and so that should go a
Speaker 2: long way towards some optimism for Celtics fans, because if
Speaker 2: Tatum can get his jump shot back next season, then
Speaker 2: the whole league could be in some serious trouble because
Speaker 2: when Jason Tatum is an elite jump shooter, that's when
Speaker 2: he enters into that like five to six area of
Speaker 2: player rankings. When he's not shooting the ball, that's when
Speaker 2: he dips down into that like eight, nine to ten
Speaker 2: area and player rankings. It's kind of a very important
Speaker 2: part of his game, especially with how often he settles
Speaker 2: for jump shots on a couple of the guys. I
Speaker 2: wanted to shout out, but again I want to just
Speaker 2: point out before we get into individual shoutouts. This was
Speaker 2: just a much better defensive game. They gave up one
Speaker 2: hundred points to South Sudan last time, and one of
Speaker 2: their weaknesses is they don't have a ton of ball handling.
Speaker 2: They've got a lot of guys who can shoot. They
Speaker 2: have a couple of core ball handlers, but their front
Speaker 2: court guys don't handle the ball or see the floor
Speaker 2: super well. And so if you actually defend, you can
Speaker 2: get them to make mistakes, you can get them to
Speaker 2: take tough shots, you can get them to miss. They
Speaker 2: did a much much better job of that tonight. I
Speaker 2: think I think they held them tonight to eighty six
Speaker 2: points if I remember correctly something around that area. Much
Speaker 2: much more impressive defensive effort for USA. Maam in a
Speaker 2: bio eight for ten for eighteen points also had two
Speaker 2: blocks some good switching to onto South Sudan's I thought
Speaker 2: the two corner threes he hit in the first half
Speaker 2: were massively important. Sasudan kind of went down to a
Speaker 2: substantial deficit in the late first quarter against the Tosa
Speaker 2: bench group, and the Tosa bench group was much better
Speaker 2: than the starting group today in spite of this starting
Speaker 2: lineup change, in large part because Steph Curry had a
Speaker 2: really rough game and I thought Lebron, even though his
Speaker 2: box score looked fine, I thought Lebron had one of
Speaker 2: his rougher games with Tosa so far, mainly just in
Speaker 2: the sense that he settled for a couple jump shots
Speaker 2: that he missed, and he also had a lot of
Speaker 2: turnovers that were live ball turnovers that led to fast
Speaker 2: break opportunities for South Sudan. So like the starters between
Speaker 2: Tatum obviously still being in an offensive funk and Lebron
Speaker 2: and Steph just having a rough game, they weren't as impressive,
Speaker 2: but that bench group just they just handled Sausudan today.
Speaker 2: That Bam a KD frontline is as good as BAM
Speaker 2: was Defensively, I want to shout out Kevin Durant as well.
Speaker 2: Some timely shot making from from Anthony Edwards. I thought
Speaker 2: Derek White had a big game. He had three steals
Speaker 2: as well as three made three point shots. Continues to
Speaker 2: just kind of be in the right spot and do
Speaker 2: the right thing, make extra effort plays, really really impressive
Speaker 2: stuff there. The Steph struggles to me, really like when
Speaker 2: we saw this towards the tail end of last season,
Speaker 2: teams that have a lot of speed and length, especially
Speaker 2: on the perimeter, they just close in those gaps that
Speaker 2: Steph is usually accustomed to working with. And again, like,
Speaker 2: this is not just an athletic team. This is an
Speaker 2: athletic team by NBA standards, and so I think that
Speaker 2: kind of that kind of foretells some of the struggles
Speaker 2: that Steph's gonna have in these matchups. We talked about
Speaker 2: it last year at the end of the year. It's
Speaker 2: like they play the Kings, I kind of feel like
Speaker 2: Steph's gonna struggle, they play the Pelicans, I kind of
Speaker 2: feel like Steph's gonna struggle. Teams that have like really
Speaker 2: quick athletic guards with good length that can kind of
Speaker 2: bother him on the perimeter are gonna give him some issues.
Speaker 2: And that's just been the case. As far as the
Speaker 2: Joel and beat thing goes, Like I talked about, it
Speaker 2: was just a matchup. It's hard for him to cover
Speaker 2: ground and transition in rotation against this team played against Serbia.
Speaker 2: My guess is you'll play against Puerto Rico as well,
Speaker 2: dott He handled it as well as you could. Obviously,
Speaker 2: if you're a recent MVP of the NBA, you're gonna
Speaker 2: be a little frustrated to be benched in a game
Speaker 2: like this, but I thought it was the right decision overall.
Speaker 2: So far through two pool play games for USAY really
Speaker 2: impressed by them. Average margin of victory over twenty and
Speaker 2: against these quality of teams, that's super impressive. I know
Speaker 2: people don't think much of South Sudan, but they're very
Speaker 2: good teams. Serbia has the best team or best player
Speaker 2: in the world, and they should continue that dominance against
Speaker 2: Puerto Rico. And like you know, I actually figured there'd
Speaker 2: be more close games to this point, but Team USA
Speaker 2: has held up really strong. The defense has been super impressive.
Speaker 2: Even they're lesser defenders or guys that don't have a
Speaker 2: reputation of being committed to defense have been defending really well.
Speaker 2: Tmusa looking really good so far through two games.
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Speaker 2: Moving on to Japan versus France. So France makes a
Speaker 2: bunch of huge plays late Pan keeps it close, and
Speaker 2: Evan forty a hits a really tough step back three
Speaker 2: at the top of the key got great separation. Arc
Speaker 2: just came perfectly through the net tiede the game, Matthew
Speaker 2: Strasl had a four point play on the left wing.
Speaker 2: It was a call I didn't necessarily agree with because
Speaker 2: the hand was kind of like on the hip. Yuki Kawamura,
Speaker 2: the guard from Japan, did a wonderful job in this
Speaker 2: particular game orchestrating offense, especially after Ruiya Chimura got ejected.
Speaker 2: But I thought he got a tail end of a
Speaker 2: really tough call there on that left wing. Again, by
Speaker 2: the book, technically hand on the hip. It's like by
Speaker 2: the book, it's a foul, but there's a huge difference
Speaker 2: between having the hand on the hip and pushing on
Speaker 2: the hip, and like that's one of those like incidental
Speaker 2: contact things that I think needs to be let go,
Speaker 2: especially in such a big moment. And again, like if
Speaker 2: France beats you because he makes that shot and then
Speaker 2: you foul and he makes one out of two free
Speaker 2: throws and then he goes down to the other end
Speaker 2: and they hit another three and they win. Fine, tip
Speaker 2: the cat, congrats to France, they beat you. That's really
Speaker 2: tough to be at four points like that in that
Speaker 2: situation and to lose on a call like that. Was
Speaker 2: was not a fan, but Victor wembin Yama took over
Speaker 2: in overtime. There's a little post up on the right block.
Speaker 2: I can't remember exactly who was guarding him, but they
Speaker 2: tried to front the post. And when they fronted the post,
Speaker 2: Wemby just immediately spun off of it. Passes perfect to
Speaker 2: the high point. On the catch, he at his back,
Speaker 2: turned the basket, he spun again and went right up
Speaker 2: and laid it up and the foul A super super
Speaker 2: coordinated play, really really impressive stuff, really really impressive stuff
Speaker 2: there from Victor webbin Yama. And then he missed the
Speaker 2: three on the right wing, but an offensive rebound he
Speaker 2: got another clean look from the top of the key
Speaker 2: knocked it down big time, big time play from Victor
Speaker 2: webbin Yama. The guard play from France is really where
Speaker 2: the issue is. It's like when you look at Canada
Speaker 2: and France in particular, Canada has this incredible perimeter core,
Speaker 2: but their front line is just too small to really
Speaker 2: contend with some of the bigger front lines here in FIBA,
Speaker 2: and then you go and you look at France and
Speaker 2: they have this incredible front line. I mean even gersha
Speaker 2: Onbusel had an incredible game in this one hit a
Speaker 2: bunch of tough mid range jump shots. Was competing, was
Speaker 2: flying around, and they have that front court presence, but
Speaker 2: they like Evan forty a and Frank Millikina, it's just
Speaker 2: it's it's not enough in terms of shot creation. Matthew
Speaker 2: Streisill had a little stretch there in the second half
Speaker 2: where he was spamming ball screens with Gobert and coming
Speaker 2: off clean on the right wing and getting some decent looks,
Speaker 2: and he hit a couple of pull up jump shots there.
Speaker 2: But they just struggle in terms of that that guard play.
Speaker 2: Victor women Yama. One of the most impressive things that
Speaker 2: I noticed about France in the two games is they're
Speaker 2: running a lot of like kind of weird, funky like
Speaker 2: big man ball screens. Well where they will have like
Speaker 2: Wemby at the elbow, like imagine like the left elbow,
Speaker 2: so like where the key the court, the free throw
Speaker 2: line extended kind of out to where the edge of
Speaker 2: the key is and and he'll catch there and then
Speaker 2: go Beart will come out of a triple like Wenby'll
Speaker 2: be in a triple threat and go Beart will come
Speaker 2: and set a screen. But what he'll do is he'll
Speaker 2: deliberately screen the backside of the defender. And what they're
Speaker 2: trying to do there is most teams are gonna switch
Speaker 2: a four or five pick and roll. What that means
Speaker 2: is the power forward in the center in a two
Speaker 2: man game together. The reason why they're gonna switch that
Speaker 2: is because likely those two defenders are similar in size,
Speaker 2: and if those two defenders are similar in size, rather
Speaker 2: than allowing Wemby to come off clean as the guys
Speaker 2: in trail position, in which case, now Wenby's just going
Speaker 2: to go right to the rim. If you just switch it,
Speaker 2: it effectively like shuts the action down right. But this
Speaker 2: is where high low basketball comes into play. High low
Speaker 2: basketball is when you have one of your big guys
Speaker 2: operating around the foul line while another one of your
Speaker 2: big guys is underneath the basket trying to obtain good
Speaker 2: post position because that center can throw good over the
Speaker 2: top passes from that foul line area. So what they
Speaker 2: were doing, which I thought was really smart, and they
Speaker 2: did this with Gobert, but they also did it with
Speaker 2: you Bucelet and some of their other bench forwards as well.
Speaker 2: But they would have Wenby start with the ball and
Speaker 2: as Gobert would screen. He would deliberately screen the backside
Speaker 2: of the defender. And the reason why that's important is
Speaker 2: then as Wemby comes off into the switch, when he
Speaker 2: comes off into switch, the screeners defender is now on
Speaker 2: Wemby squared up, but Gobar now has inside position. He
Speaker 2: has inside position because he's screened that backside. Then he
Speaker 2: can quick turn and seal and Wemby can throw that
Speaker 2: over the top pass and there's an automatic angle kind
Speaker 2: of bank kind of baked into the set because of
Speaker 2: the screening angle you take on the backside. There. They
Speaker 2: got a bunch of good stuff out of that. I
Speaker 2: thought Wenby passed out of it extremely well, and so
Speaker 2: far through two Olympic Games, Victor Wemban Yama one point
Speaker 2: one seven points per shot on jump shots, which is
Speaker 2: really impressive, So great start to the Olympics for Wemby.
Speaker 2: On the Japan side of things, really was impressed by
Speaker 2: the overall ball in player movement, some beautiful stuff in
Speaker 2: five out, really smart cutting guys like I cut a
Speaker 2: couple examples in my film session today and put them
Speaker 2: on my Twitter feed at Underscore JSNLT. But remember when
Speaker 2: I talked about in the show on Monday, the concept
Speaker 2: of like off ball cutting specifically out of the wing,
Speaker 2: and how that can when you're running a ball screen
Speaker 2: on one side, how a cut on the weak side
Speaker 2: can cause confusion for off ball defenders that are trying
Speaker 2: to sink into the paint and it's hard to track
Speaker 2: man and ball in those situations. They got good looks
Speaker 2: out of that. Their guards were quick to come off
Speaker 2: of multiple actions. There was ball reversal, the ball was
Speaker 2: popping around. They'd have ruy As like their kind of
Speaker 2: go to like on an Island score when they needed him.
Speaker 2: But everything else was really smart five out ball in
Speaker 2: player movement, and that blender did a lot of damage
Speaker 2: to a French team that's got really good defenders between
Speaker 2: Frank Nilikina and Nick Batoum and Victor Webbin Yama and
Speaker 2: Rudy Gobert, this is a very long and athletic defensive
Speaker 2: team that Japan was getting a lot of really good
Speaker 2: shots against. And it's just a wonderful example of the
Speaker 2: concepts that I talked about a lot on the show,
Speaker 2: in the sense that you can generate offense with ball
Speaker 2: and player movement and good schematic approach to help bolster,
Speaker 2: personnel limitations, Ruby hutsch Mura, really impressive offensive game, the
Speaker 2: face up stuff, the footwork in the post he had.
Speaker 2: He was going right around good defenders and getting into
Speaker 2: the lane and finishing in traffic. The jump shot looks great,
Speaker 2: he's elevating, he's getting great rotation on it, he's knocking
Speaker 2: it down. The one thing and I put a little
Speaker 2: thread of about five clips together you can find on
Speaker 2: my twitter feed. But Ruey is really struggling on defense
Speaker 2: with Japan, specifically off the ball tracking shooters. And remember
Speaker 2: this was the specific issue that he ran into in
Speaker 2: the playoffs against Denver when he was tracking Michael Porter Junior.
Speaker 2: He had a couple of massive mistakes on that and
Speaker 2: including one in Game five that might have cost them
Speaker 2: the game where in a semi transition said he just
Speaker 2: wasn't paying attention and he lost Michael Porter Junior for
Speaker 2: three huge moment. The Lakers had a chance to send
Speaker 2: that thing back to the to LA for Game six,
Speaker 2: and Rui's just attention to detail in those situations just
Speaker 2: has to get better. It's tracking through screens, it's the
Speaker 2: relaxation as as soon as his man gets up gives
Speaker 2: up the ball. He gave up two threes to Evan
Speaker 2: Fournier where he got switched on to Fournier. But then
Speaker 2: as soon when Fournier gave up the basketball, Fournier just
Speaker 2: cut to a different spot on the three point line
Speaker 2: and Ruy wasn't paying attention and Fourtier got clean looks
Speaker 2: from three and so like I like, in order for
Speaker 2: Ruey to be the type of player that the Lakers
Speaker 2: need him to be, those are things that he has
Speaker 2: to sharpen up. Shout out to Ukava Moura the quickness
Speaker 2: and pull up shooting he showed, especially to try to
Speaker 2: close out that game after Ruy Hachimura got eliminated or
Speaker 2: excuse me ejected on that second on sportsman like foul
Speaker 2: and Rudy Gobert. I had so much fun watching him
Speaker 2: in this game. He was an absolute warrior, kept his
Speaker 2: team in it. I think he had like twenty eight
Speaker 2: twenty nine points, super super fun game. And then one
Speaker 2: last guy I wanted to shout out, Hugh want to
Speaker 2: not be I'm assuming related to Utah want Namby, but
Speaker 2: he had two huge blocks, including this one in regulation
Speaker 2: where he came down from the left wing when Rudy
Speaker 2: Gobert had a deep catch and Rudy Gobert loaded up
Speaker 2: for his like two hand slam and he comes flying
Speaker 2: in and just barely gets a piece of it at
Speaker 2: the end. Ends up being a huge play that gave
Speaker 2: Japan a really good chance to win this game. And
Speaker 2: it's such a great example of what I talked about
Speaker 2: after Kevin Durank got dunked on by Anthony Edwards, which is, guys,
Speaker 2: getting dunked on is a sign of being a great defender.
Speaker 2: That's something that you have to that's a commitment that
Speaker 2: you have to make. You have to be willing to
Speaker 2: risk what could happen if you get dunked on in
Speaker 2: order to bring that next level of rimp protection at
Speaker 2: another big week side block in the overtime period as well.
Speaker 2: But alast Victor webbin Yama made the two big plays
Speaker 2: in ot and they got out of there. All right,
Speaker 2: Let's move on to Canada Australia real quick before we
Speaker 2: get out of here. So Shaka as Alexander picked up
Speaker 2: two quick early thousand. There's only five thousand foeba, so
Speaker 2: he had to sit for a little bit. That allowed
Speaker 2: Australia to take a little bit of an early advantage,
Speaker 2: but in the early fourth quarter Canada ends up pulling away.
Speaker 2: Dylan Brooks made a couple of plays, a little triple
Speaker 2: threat ball screen out of the right corner where I
Speaker 2: believe I can't remember who it was, the big man
Speaker 2: for for Canon, I'm blinking on his name now, but
Speaker 2: he slipped the ball screen. Dylan hit him perfect, he
Speaker 2: got a layup, and then he hit a little mid
Speaker 2: range jump shot. And then right after that, Jamal Murray
Speaker 2: made a couple of plays and ICEO will close out
Speaker 2: attack to get RJ. Barrett a wide open three in
Speaker 2: the corner and then kind of like one of those
Speaker 2: classic Jamal Murray ISO pull up jump shots around the
Speaker 2: foul line. All of a sudden, like that, Canada was
Speaker 2: up by eleven and the game was over. I wanted
Speaker 2: to talk a little bit about the shot creation data
Speaker 2: for Shay, Jamal and then Josh Gitty. So, Shay has
Speaker 2: been brilliant so far in Olympics play. He's run twenty
Speaker 2: five ISOs for thirty six points including passes. That's one
Speaker 2: point four to four points per possession. And he's personally
Speaker 2: on his own shot attempts out of ISO shooting seven
Speaker 2: for twelve, So Shay's locked in looks fantastic forty one
Speaker 2: total ISOs, post ups and ball screens in Olympic play
Speaker 2: for fifty six points. That's one point three seven points
Speaker 2: per possession. Really impressive stuff from Shay. Jamal Murray made
Speaker 2: some big plays in this particular game, like we talked
Speaker 2: about earlier, but shooting just two for ten on jump
Speaker 2: shots so far in Olympic play, and I'm wondering if
Speaker 2: he's still a little banged up. I was, I was
Speaker 2: talking to some of my Nuggets guys, and the word
Speaker 2: on him is that he's just not in shape. And
Speaker 2: if that's the thing, if Jamal's just not in shape,
Speaker 2: that's kind of disappointing because that's becoming kind of a
Speaker 2: reputation for him, that he's showing up into season and
Speaker 2: playing his way into shape. And like one of the
Speaker 2: things is like that sort of thing can lead to
Speaker 2: injuries when you're trying to play your way into shape,
Speaker 2: when you're playing with more weight, when you're playing super
Speaker 2: intense games, when your body's not prepared for it. So
Speaker 2: that obviously was a little bit concerning Josh Giddy, though
Speaker 2: really impressive so far for Australia thirty four pick and rolls,
Speaker 2: ISOs and post ups for thirty nine points. That's one
Speaker 2: point one point five points per possession. He's big, he's
Speaker 2: handling the basketball while he's really good at protecting the basketball,
Speaker 2: really good with like behind the back tribbles and then
Speaker 2: using his shoulders to protect. He can make all the
Speaker 2: reads deadly with his floater. He's five for seven so
Speaker 2: far in the Olympics on floaters. That's seventy one percent.
Speaker 2: And then what he'll do a lot of times in
Speaker 2: switches when he sees a small guard in front of him,
Speaker 2: there was a hard dribble move like into their chest
Speaker 2: and then just gather right around ten feet and rise
Speaker 2: up over the top of them and go to his
Speaker 2: little floater. Canada was doing some switching against him in
Speaker 2: this game, and he ended up beating it with a
Speaker 2: step back three as well as a driving floater against
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray. Really impressive shot making from Josh Giddy. I'm
Speaker 2: curious to see how it translates to the NBA level
Speaker 2: in a bigger role with Chicago next year. Last thing
Speaker 2: before we get out of here, is Canada a threat.
Speaker 2: Like I mentioned earlier as good as they are on
Speaker 2: the perimeter, they're just not big enough on the inside.
Speaker 2: One of the specific changes with FIBA that's been a
Speaker 2: challenge for USA is the defensive three second rule and
Speaker 2: the idea that you can park a center underneath the
Speaker 2: basket and kind of gum things up and force them
Speaker 2: to rely on perimeter jump shooting, where USA it can
Speaker 2: go cold sometimes, Although I think Kevin Durant fixes that problem.
Speaker 2: With that being the case, Canada just doesn't have the
Speaker 2: interior size even if they do part guys under the
Speaker 2: basket to bother the bigger American athletes as they're going downhill,
Speaker 2: and so as good as Canada is on the perimeter,
Speaker 2: I just don't think they're big enough underneath the basket
Speaker 2: to make any sort of real problem for USA. All right, guys,
Speaker 2: that is all I have for today. We're going a
Speaker 2: little quick because I'm just about to hop on a
Speaker 2: call with Colin Cowhard and we're going to hit a
Speaker 2: bunch of Team USA topics, So keep an eye on
Speaker 2: the Colin Cowhard podcast feed to see that in the
Speaker 2: coming days. And then we're not going to cover Puerto
Speaker 2: Rico versus USA this weekend, will in all likelihood will
Speaker 2: be doing a mail bag on Friday, in addition to
Speaker 2: probably covering one or two more FEVA games in that show.
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