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Speaker 1: passing lanes, you can turn Phoenix over and you can

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Speaker 1: get out in transition. That's a huge part of like

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Speaker 1: some of the issues that Phoenix has had in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter this season. Right, So, like I would honestly

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Speaker 1: like I would be looking to any any time that

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Speaker 1: there's a situation where Phoenix kind of has control of

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Speaker 1: the game, they're up ten to twelve points, throw wrench

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Speaker 1: in there, just blitz do something to try to disrupt

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Speaker 1: Phoenix's flow. That's where they can get into some really

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Speaker 1: bad stretches. So when they start turning the basketball over

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Speaker 1: and giving up shots out the other way in transition.

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Speaker 1: But no matter what, they got to find a way

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Speaker 1: to flip the shot quality dynamic. Because here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: Phoenix is shot better than Minnesota, but they've gotten better

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Speaker 1: shots than Minnesota in all three games. That the straight

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Speaker 1: up half court shot creation battle skews heavily towards Phoenix

447
00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:16,800
Speaker 1: in this game, even factoring in the in this matchup,

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Speaker 1: even factoring in the defensive end of the floor, and

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Speaker 1: so that's something that Minnesota has to try to find

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Speaker 1: a way to flip. By prediction, I'm gonna go suns

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Speaker 1: and six. I think this is a really bad matchup

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Speaker 1: for Minnesota. They're one of the best teams in the

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Speaker 1: league in terms of being equipped to really spread them

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Speaker 1: out and neutralize the strengths of Minnesota's defense. And on

455
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Speaker 1: the other end of the floor, Frank Vogel is just

456
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Speaker 1: really good at defensive scheming and he knows how to

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Speaker 1: play Minnesota into their worst weaknesses. As long as they

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Speaker 1: show game plan discipline, they're gonna be able to get

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Speaker 1: stops against Minnesota. Active hands from Durant and Nurkic are

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Speaker 1: big in terms of getting those deflections and playing Ants

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Speaker 1: into the type of turnovers that he was having last night.

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Speaker 1: My guess is that Minnesota wins Game one in Game five,

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Speaker 1: and that Phoenix wins two, three, four, and six. So

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Speaker 1: I'm picking Phoenix in six to eliminate our three seed,

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Timberwolves. On that note, let's head over to

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Speaker 1: the film. Okay, so we're gonna start by looking at

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Speaker 1: this is a play that kind of demonstrates the base

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Speaker 1: coverages for Phoenix in this game. So what you can

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Speaker 1: see here is we're gonna start with a Conley ballscreen.

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Speaker 1: So it comes out of a horn set, but because

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Speaker 1: he just ribbles off of the first screen, it's more

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Speaker 1: or less a ball screen. So as Gobert sets the pick,

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Speaker 1: notice Nurkic is dropping. He's not coming up high, he's

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Speaker 1: dropping back. He's worried about keeping go Bear in front.

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Speaker 1: Grayson's chasing from behind. They're letting Mike Conley feel comfortable

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Speaker 1: here in the middle of the floor. Now it's gonna

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Speaker 1: get swung around and it's gonna go to Ant. Now

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Speaker 1: watch the difference in Nurkic's approach. When Ant has the ball.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna literally see Nurkics go, oh, we're going ball

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Speaker 1: screen is gonna run up to the level, And as

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Speaker 1: soon as he sets, he's up to the level and

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Speaker 1: he's trying to cut an off and they're digging way

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Speaker 1: down off of Kat with Kevin Durant. And in this

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Speaker 1: case KD is able to close out because he has

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Speaker 1: the length to actually dig down and get back to

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Speaker 1: Carl Towns. And this is gonna end up being a

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Speaker 1: turnover on a sloppy behind the backpass. So it gives

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Speaker 1: you an idea of the base coverages again, deep drop

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Speaker 1: on Conley up at the level with Nurkic. And one

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Speaker 1: other thing you'll notice with Nurkic when he gets up

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Speaker 1: to the level and Go Bear gets behind, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: see Bradley Beal sink way in to help contain that

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Speaker 1: Go Bear role. They're gonna tag on that backside, all right.

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Speaker 1: This next one is gonna show you what they're gonna

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Speaker 1: do when Carl Town sets a ball screen Carl Town

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Speaker 1: sets a screen or getting a switch. KD is on

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Speaker 1: Conley now, Grayson Allen is on Carl Towns. Ball is

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Speaker 1: gonna get swung around. Grayson Allen's gona immediately try to

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Speaker 1: front the post. Front the post. Nurkic is bracketing from behind.

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Speaker 1: Here's our double team. Now, if you actually could see

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Speaker 1: the whole floor, might Conley be wide open? In this

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Speaker 1: corner right. So again with Phoenix's coverages, there's pretty typically

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Speaker 1: a wide open man. But Carltowns and Anthony Edwards are

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00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:18,080
Speaker 1: going to struggle throughout this game at actually making this

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Speaker 1: kill pass to actually beat the double team. This is

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Speaker 1: gonna be passed out and you're gonna get a windshield

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Speaker 1: wiper rotation from Kevin Durant and they're gonna take away

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Speaker 1: the opening their notice also, so because Carl Towns can't

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Speaker 1: see anything, he makes this kickout pass to Ant. As

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Speaker 1: soon as the kickout pass is made, Notice Devin Booker,

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Speaker 1: Ant's got the ball. We're not gonna just let him

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Speaker 1: drive on Bradley Beal with like giant space on both ends.

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Speaker 1: Watch both guys. Devin Booker's digging way down into this

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Speaker 1: driving link. Grayson Allen's here, they're loaded up. Ant's driving

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Speaker 1: into four bodies. There's not going to be easy openings

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Speaker 1: and driving lanes. Now to ants Kredit, he makes the

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Speaker 1: right read here. He makes a kickout pass to Conley

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Speaker 1: all the way in the corner and he knocks this down.

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Speaker 1: This is how you beat This is how you beat

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Speaker 1: this type of defense. But notice, as we keep going

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Speaker 1: through the clips, clips like that where Aunt makes the read,

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be few and far between. And Ant did

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Speaker 1: have more turnovers than assists in this game. I think

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Speaker 1: he had four assists and five turnovers. Here's an example

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Speaker 1: of a deep drop that Go Bear runs. I actually

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Speaker 1: like this shot for Booker, and I also like this

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Speaker 1: defense from Jade McDaniels. It's gonna get kicked out. So

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Speaker 1: we're cleared side here. These guys are all staying home.

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Speaker 1: Booker's there, Go Bear's kind of up at the level,

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Speaker 1: but he's not going too crazy right. McDaniels is chasing

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Speaker 1: over the top. But this is a good clean look

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Speaker 1: for Devin Booker. That said, we do get a late

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Speaker 1: contest from Jayden McDaniels. And again, if we look at

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Speaker 1: the numbers, Phoenix got less than a point per shot

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Speaker 1: on pull up jump shots. In this game, they got

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Speaker 1: almost two points per shot on catch and shoot jumpers.

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Speaker 1: So you have to just if you're Jaden McDaniels, the

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Speaker 1: answer here isn't oh, Gobar has to be higher, or

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Speaker 1: oh we need to dig down with Carl Towns. No, no, no, Jayden,

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00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 1: just do a little bit better job staying attached. Live

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Speaker 1: with the results of this shot over the course of

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00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: the series. But for Devin Booker, I really like this read.

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Speaker 1: That's the kind of shot for him with that kind

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Speaker 1: of separation that I like. Here's an example of the

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Speaker 1: advantage that Phoenix Sun's having three stars brings to the equation.

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00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,440
Speaker 1: Bradley Beal's being guarded by Mike Conley, and Mike Conley's

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00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: just too small for him, and so you're gonna see

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00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,479
Speaker 1: Nurkic cut through to try to drag go Bear as

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00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 1: far away as possible. There's gonna be a little opening

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00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:41,119
Speaker 1: here in the middle of the floor. We're gonna get

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Speaker 1: a little right shoulder fade from Bradley Beal. Here's an

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Speaker 1: example of a three man action from Phoenix to try

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00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:55,400
Speaker 1: to cause some issues for Minnesota defending these actions three

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00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: on two or two on two, excuse me. So Grayson

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00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:00,919
Speaker 1: Allen comes up and sets one of those brush screens

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00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 1: that I was talking about. Jaden gets caught on it,

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00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: so as a result, they end up just Gobert basically

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00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: has to switch, but nurkicch ends up getting behind because

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00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: Carl Towns is worried about his matchup Grayson Allen. Jade

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00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,199
Speaker 1: McDaniels is chasing, but because of this separation, because of

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Speaker 1: this solid screen from Grayson Allen, there's lots of separation.

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Speaker 1: Because Jade McDaniels is way back here, Gobert has no

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Speaker 1: choice but to come out high and then Carl Town's Obviously,

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Speaker 1: if Carl Towns works his way down with Nurkic, Carl

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00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,400
Speaker 1: Towns isn't a buy. Now He's got to either worry

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Speaker 1: about Grayson or he's gotta worry about Nurkic. Carl Towns

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00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: is thinking, I've got Conley getting ready to tag the

568
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: roller here, I'll just stay home. Conley's late, Nurkitch ends

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Speaker 1: up getting a lay up. So that's an example. Again

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Speaker 1: we saw in the earlier action. Minnesota wants to defend

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Speaker 1: these actions three on two, but Phoenix is using set

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Speaker 1: plays involving three players to get Minnesota in rotation. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: here's an example of a dig down that does not

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Speaker 1: work in Minnesota's favor. So we're gonna get a Grayson

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00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: Allen ballscreen on Jaden McDaniels. This is gonna end in

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Speaker 1: a switch, So they switched. Carl Towns is on Devin Booker.

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Speaker 1: Now what I'm advocating for here is trust Carl Towns

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00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: to force Devin Booker into a lower percentage pull up

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Speaker 1: jump shot. Instead, Jaden McDaniels digs way down to the

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00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: nail off of one of the best shooters and closed

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Speaker 1: out attackers in the league. As a result, Grayson Allen

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00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 1: has that baked in driving lane, ripping to his left

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Speaker 1: because Jade McDaniels is closing out on his right hand side,

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00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: and when he gets into lane here he forces Gobert

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Speaker 1: to step into the lane. This creates an easy little

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00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 1: pop shot for Nurkic right at the rim. So again,

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Speaker 1: I'd rather have I'd rather have Devin Booker take a

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00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: contested jump shot over the top of Carl Towns than

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00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: have Nurkic shooting a little pop shot in the lane

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00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 1: that he's gonna make seventy five percent of the time.

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00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 1: Here's an example of Anthony the Edwards kind of just

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00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 1: driving right through Bradley Beal on his heels. Phoenix was

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Speaker 1: not set in this position because this is kind of

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00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 1: like semi transition, so that everyone's still jogging up the floor.

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00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant's kind of like waving his hands. Everyone's talking.

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00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: They're not set, they're not ready, Anthony Verwards is able

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Speaker 1: to capitalize on it. Kind of moral of the story

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00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: here is like transition opportunities for Minnesota are going to

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00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 1: be to their advantage when they can get turnovers or

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00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: push in semi transition. Try to get there before Phoenix

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Speaker 1: can set up their defense where they're loading up on

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00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 1: Ant and forcing him to get rid of the basketball. Again,

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00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: you saw it make that shot. He only took seven

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00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:39,479
Speaker 1: shots in this game. Another kind of example too, of

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00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: like for Ant as an adjustment, if you're struggling with

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00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:44,239
Speaker 1: the pick and roll coverage, just beat your man off

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00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: the dribble, because, as I've always said, it's harder to

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Speaker 1: deal with the double team in the open court as

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Speaker 1: a defense than it is to deal with the double

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Speaker 1: team on a ball screen. Here's another good double team

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Speaker 1: in rotation on a Carl Town's post up. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: get a double. Watch the rotation, so Royce O'Neil Winshield

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00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: wiper rotation to Mike Conley. This forces Devin Booker to

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00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 1: close out to Ant throws the close out. Nurkic gets

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00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: a late hand up on Jaden McDaniel's good contest forces

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00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: the miss and then Katie draws an offensive foul on

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00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 1: the pivot move there from kat here's a little bit

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00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: of two man game between Nurkic and KD. Now, because

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Speaker 1: Go bears on nurkicchen nos Reed is on KD. The

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00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: Wolves are just gonna switch this action, which is to

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00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: be expected. They know this, so they have Grayson Allen

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00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: cut through. You can see him both point for them

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Speaker 1: to cut through. Nurkic is gonna look for an interior

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00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: seal on the switch. So again, because Nurkic is screening

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00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 1: nas Reed, he has the advantage to get inside position.

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00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: So look, he's got him kind of sealed on the

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00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: inside position, right, So Nurkic is gonna leverage this to

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00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: swing around and get in front of nas Reed. There

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Speaker 1: he is. Now he's got the seal. KD knows this.

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00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: They discussed this as they were running up the floor.

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00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: KD catches throws a little over the top pass. Durkis

632
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 1: creates a passing angle. This forces Nikhil Alexander Walker to

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00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: come over and tag, which leaves Grayson Allen open in

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00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: the corner. Really really smart advantage basketball there from Phoenix.

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00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: Anthey Evers is gonna make a lay up here. But

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00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: I want you guys to look at how difficult this is.

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00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: So Ant's gott roy Sonil. Look at the digs. So

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00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: Grace watched Devin Booker. He's like, oh, we're switching, okay, cool.

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00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: Look at he's right in this driving lane. Kd's right

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Speaker 1: in this driving lane, and AT's gonna snake through all

641
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: of this and get a layup. But look at how

642
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 1: difficult this is. Pull back dribble, let me shoot through

643
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: this gap here next to KD. Like what a finish.

644
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: But he had to literally make multiple moves to get

645
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: past roy O'Neil, somehow split Kad without turning the basketball

646
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: and go through contact with Nurkic at the rim. That's

647
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: just a lot to deal with. And notice, like the

648
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 1: way to beat this eventually, these guys are gonna have

649
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 1: to get shots like this is a wide open to

650
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: Keiele Alexander Walker and a wide open Jaden McDaniels. If

651
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 1: you allow Phoenix to do that all series, if you

652
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: allow them to just put five guys in the paint

653
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: to defend Ant and you don't beat them with the pass.

654
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: To put it simply, Ant is not going to make

655
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: enough of these Ford to matter. Here's a really good

656
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: piece of defense from Devin Booker in a switch against

657
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 1: NOAs Reed. So here we've got the switch, slides his feet,

658
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: comes over and cuts him off, forces him to make

659
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: a crossover dribble go the other way. Now he's kind

660
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: of out a position. Watch Devin Booker beat Naz Reed

661
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: to the spot going the other way. Look, he's completely

662
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 1: out of position and he's going to beat him to

663
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: a spot over here and force a turnover. Really good

664
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: defense there from Devin Booker. Here's an example too of

665
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 1: the superpower that Bradley Beal has to be able to

666
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: dig down into driving lanes and make a rotation. So

667
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: here we go another aunt iso right now, Look at

668
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: the game plan. Here. Ant's on the ball. It's Kevin

669
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: freaking Durant on the ball with all the length that

670
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: he has. Defensively, I've got u Banks digging down in

671
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 1: his left hand driving lane. I've got Booker digging down

672
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 1: in his right hand driving lane, and Bradley Beal is

673
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: going to sit right here on this high side and

674
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: they're all just corralled around in So Ant's actually gonna

675
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:21,399
Speaker 1: make a nice pass here. We're gonna get a little

676
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: this is called a pin in flair from Kyle Anderson.

677
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 1: He sets like a little flare screen there. The pass

678
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 1: gets made. Watch Bradley Beal recover and block this three

679
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: point shot, and so like that's part of the thing too,

680
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:38,720
Speaker 1: is like if it's Booker on the ball and Kd's

681
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 1: in the driving lane, that's a lot to deal with

682
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: as a defender digging down. Bradley Beal's the kind of

683
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: athlete that can dig down and recover. And so, honestly,

684
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: like Minnesota is in a little bit of a buying

685
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,280
Speaker 1: here in terms of their ability to beat this specific

686
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: type of coverage that Frank Vogel's put together for Ant.

687
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: Here's a really nice piece of pull up jump shooting

688
00:34:56,719 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 1: from Bradley Beal. Little ball screen. Kyle Anderson tries to

689
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 1: duck underneath the pick. Bradley Beal just confidently rises into

690
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: that jump shot knocks it down. Bradley Beal is just

691
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: playing at a super super high level right now. He

692
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 1: was amazing in this game. Once again, we're gonna get

693
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 1: another Carl Town's double team out of a switch, so

694
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,360
Speaker 1: we get the ball screen switch. Kat goes down on

695
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 1: Bradley Beal. Here comes the double windshield wipeer rotation. Nasriy

696
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 1: cuts through the middle, nas misses the cut or throws

697
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,280
Speaker 1: it a little too slow, a little too late, runs

698
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: into traffic, gets worked out to Nikkeil Alexander Walker. But

699
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:38,320
Speaker 1: Nikhil Alexander Walker, nice clothes out from Drew you Banks,

700
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,879
Speaker 1: has to take this like more difficult side step three.

701
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 1: That's a really difficult shot. So and Anton's ends up

702
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,879
Speaker 1: smoking the offensive rebound. But there's again that is let's

703
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,359
Speaker 1: take a look at it right when the double team

704
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: happens here again, okay, double right there, right there. At

705
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: this point, Nikkeil Alexander Walker is the wide open guy.

706
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: Kyle Anderson is basically looking in position to set a

707
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,439
Speaker 1: pin in flare, right, So we'll talk about this. There's

708
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: a better example of a pin in flare that I'll

709
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: show you guys later, But a pin in flare basically

710
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 1: is like if you're in the dunker spot and you

711
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:15,879
Speaker 1: have a shooter on the week side corner and your

712
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 1: and the shooter's defender is sagging way in the lane.

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00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 1: Your job, as this guy is to screen whichever one

714
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: of these guys tries to close out at Alexander Walker

715
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,439
Speaker 1: so if you set that screen that's called a pin

716
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: in flare, then if Carltowns throws the skip pass, and

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00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: let's say, let's say on the skip pass. Let's say

718
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: on the skip pass, let's say on the skip pass

719
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: that U Banks tries to close out Kyle Anderson with

720
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: its screen, you Banks and the Niki Alexander Walker's open,

721
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 1: but instead they throw it to this cutter here who's

722
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: cutting into three people. And by the time Nazreit actually

723
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: locates the open man, U Banks is able to make

724
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: the rotation. And so again like you, that's kind of

725
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 1: the theme is like where the actual kill pass is

726
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: Minnesota's fail to make that kill pass. Here's an easy

727
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: bucket for the suns out of a horn set. You're

728
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:13,399
Speaker 1: gonna watch after he makes the post entry, Bradley Beal

729
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: is gonna come off of a backscreen here from Nurkic

730
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 1: right and on the backscreen that kind of forces Gobert

731
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: to show temporarily. Then Go Bear after he shows temporarily

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00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 1: is recovering to come up to Nurkic, which is gonna

733
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 1: create an opening. Because Go Bear comes up to Nurkic,

734
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: Bradley Beal is gonna set a little backscreen here on

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00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: Kyle Anderson. The Wolves don't talk it easy dunk for

736
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: Bowl Bowl. On the backside there, here's Bradley Beal working

737
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: against Nikil Alexander Walker, so you can guys can get

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00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: a feel for that specific matchup. He's got a Nikila

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00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: on him. They're just gonna go ISO and he's just

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00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 1: gonna work him down. They said a little ghost screen here,

741
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:57,399
Speaker 1: but it ends up in an ISO. Notice he can

742
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: just kind of body him and get good separation closer

743
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 1: to the basket. That's a really high percentage shot and

744
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: a good example too of what I always talk about

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00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:05,840
Speaker 1: with pull up jump shooting, Like that's a pull up

746
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 1: jump shot that's probably worth like one point five points

747
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: per shot because it's so close to the rim and

748
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: it's in a great matchup. Compare that to a heavily

749
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 1: contested one and a bad matchup. All of a sudden,

750
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: it's nowhere near as high value of a shot. Here's

751
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 1: a specific area of the game where I think Minnesota

752
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: might be able to have some advantages. So they go

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00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 1: to a look with basically Bull Bull at center, but

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00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: Thad Young is the guy who's basically playing center in

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00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,359
Speaker 1: this group. Now, my kind of thought process is when

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00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,360
Speaker 1: I'm playing a small lineup that doesn't have a drop

757
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: coverage type of big what I want to do is

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00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: I want to switch everything, kind of like what Denver

759
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 1: does when they go to their bench without Jokic. So

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00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: I would be switching with that Young. That's not what

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00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 1: Frank Vogel's doing. He's dropping with that Young in Minnesota

762
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: got great shots against Phoenix in this stretch of the

763
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: game because of that. So when we get to this

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00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: portion of the game, Thad Young at center or effectively

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00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 1: playing center, bring him into ball screens and you're gonna

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00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: get great looks out of it. He's just not tall

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00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 1: enough to really run drop. So again he's kind of

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00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 1: hedging and recovering right, but he's gonna he's gonna drop

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00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,839
Speaker 1: on this one. So Go Bear is going to set

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00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,799
Speaker 1: the screen that Young is dropping, so he's not coming

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00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 1: up and switching. Royce O'Neil's chasing over the top and

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00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,279
Speaker 1: Kyle Anderson can just throw this pass easily over the

773
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 1: top of that Young because he's too small. So again,

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00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: especially on those go Bear ball screens in particular, he's dropping.

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00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 1: That's where the opening is all right, here is an

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00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,359
Speaker 1: easy bucket that the horn that the Wolves get out

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00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: of a horn set they start with. It's kind of

778
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: like horns, but the guys are extended a little bit

779
00:39:56,080 --> 00:40:00,040
Speaker 1: further out to the perimeter. Conley's gonna run through and

780
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: he's gonna fake like he's setting a backscreen on Bull Bull,

781
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 1: and then he's gonna slip out. And because he slips

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00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: out that young Grayson Allen thinks it's a switch, but

783
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 1: Bull Bull doesn't. So Grayson Allen runs with Jordan McLaughlin

784
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 1: and Mike Conley slips out of it and gets a three. Again,

785
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 1: a great way to attack switching, and it can work

786
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,840
Speaker 1: off ball or on the ball, but just slip slip

787
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: the screen you might be able to capitalize on a

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00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: guy not doing his job. Here's another example of the

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00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 1: Sons running a three man action to get the defense

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00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:33,240
Speaker 1: in rotation. So here as they go to sit basically

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00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 1: a double wide pin down. Right, So like these two

792
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 1: guys are both coming to set a couple of pin

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00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,359
Speaker 1: downs there for Kad to come through, but Kat makes

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00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: a read. KD ends up actually jumping the first screen

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00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,280
Speaker 1: and curling around it. So instead of coming off Fad

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00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 1: he just cuts through and he ends up dragging Mike

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00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 1: Conley with him. Watch him run into Mike Conley. So

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00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 1: even though Jaden McDaniels is chasing, he's effectively setting like

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00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: kind of like a moving pick. That's legal since he's cutting,

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00:40:57,520 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: and as a result, Grayson Allen is able to just

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00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: come right out free to the perimeter. Mike Conley has

802
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 1: to close out. That gives a close out opportunity for Grayson,

803
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 1: who's just been deadly in close out situations all year long.

804
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: Here's another example of attacking Thattius Young and drop. So

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00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:20,919
Speaker 1: again we're gonna get it worked around here. That Young

806
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:24,720
Speaker 1: go bear screen. That Young's not switching. He should switch.

807
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:26,919
Speaker 1: This should just be a switch. But instead that Young

808
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 1: is kind of in like a drop. It's a high drop,

809
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 1: but he's in a drop. And then basically Conley's able

810
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: to just go right through him at the rim because

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00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: he's not a rim protector. I do not understand the

812
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: purpose of doing that with when he's not a rim protector. So,

813
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,839
Speaker 1: like if I was the Suns, the easy counter there

814
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 1: is just start switching with that Young. But especially early

815
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 1: in the series before Frank Vogel kind of figures that

816
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 1: out and adjusts. I would I would just look to

817
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: spam ball screens against Thattius Young when he's in the game,

818
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: kind of effectively playing that center position. Also a good

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00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 1: example of how desperately important it is from Minnesota that

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00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:10,319
Speaker 1: Mike Conley looks to score the basketball. Alrighty, So in

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00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 1: this case, we get a ball screen and on the

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00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 1: ball screen ants hedging and recovering. So Mike Conley's chasing

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00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: Grayson over the top. As Grayson gets downhill, he engages

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00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:24,879
Speaker 1: Carl Towns in help. Because he engages Carl Towns in help,

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00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: this allows you Banks to flow into a dribble hand

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00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 1: off with Devin Booker. But Carl Towns is out of position.

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Speaker 1: Because Carl Towns is out of position because he had

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00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 1: to help on Grayson. This forces nas Reed to be

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00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: the guy that kind of shows high. As soon as

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00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 1: he steps up, Bull Bull makes a reed. There's a

831
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: really smart read from Bull Bull. Nobody's on this back

832
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: line here. Nas Reed just had to show on a

833
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: Devin Booker pull up, I'm just gonna slip behind. Devin

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00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 1: Booker hits him, they get an easy dunk. So one

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00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 1: other thing that's just kind of like an overarching basketball concept.

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Speaker 1: This is why it's important to reverse the basketball. That means,

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00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 1: this is why it's important to get to the second

838
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: side of the floor and run second side action first action.

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00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: They're loaded up right. So even though Grayson Allen actually

840
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: gets makes a nice job, does an ice job setting

841
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 1: up Mike Conley for the screen that aggressive downhill move.

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00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,839
Speaker 1: Notice he can't come off the ball screen yet He's

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00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: got and Mike Conley is actually trying to funnel him

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00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:20,680
Speaker 1: towards the baseline side. So he makes a hard aggressive

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00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: move down here and pull in a pullback dribble that

846
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: creates the angle for KD to set the screen. Katie

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00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: sets the screen hedges and recovers. That hedge forces Grayson

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00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:33,439
Speaker 1: to come out a little bit further, but he's still

849
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: able to get downhill. But the defense is loaded up right.

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00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:40,839
Speaker 1: So that primary side action was not It did not

851
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 1: serve the purpose of generating a shot. But what it

852
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:46,919
Speaker 1: did do is it got them slightly in rotation by

853
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,720
Speaker 1: pulling kat into help here. Then the second side action

854
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 1: is Devin Booker u banks, but Carl Town's is out

855
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 1: of position, which forces Nasried to abandon his man, which

856
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: creates the opening. So again, that's why it's so important

857
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,359
Speaker 1: to have second side shot creation and to make sure

858
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:06,280
Speaker 1: you reverse the basketball and get it into a position

859
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: where you're running against a defense that isn't set. That

860
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: is the specific issue that Minnesota's having. They're not getting

861
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: the ball to the second side. They're not attacking a

862
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: defense in rotation. They're constantly attacking Phoenix's set defense, and

863
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: they're not having any success as a result. Here's another

864
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:33,760
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards turnover against crazy overhelp from Phoenix. So again

865
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 1: it catches. This is a quick swing, so so Phoenix

866
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 1: isn't really set right quick swing. But note, like just

867
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 1: watch all of these sons just immediately move in on Ant.

868
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:47,359
Speaker 1: As soon as he makes his move, boom, everyone's in there.

869
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: Now he's driving into all these bodies. This is not there,

870
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: there's nothing open. Nasried is setting a pin and flare.

871
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 1: Jaden McDaniels is wide open. Actually he's not setting a

872
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: pin and flair. It could have, but he didn't need

873
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: to because Jaden McDaniels is so open. But instead Ant

874
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 1: tries to shoot through everybody and ends up turning it over.

875
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 1: But like watch again, everyone's collapsing that's the read. That's

876
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: how you beat the coverage. That's the pass he has

877
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 1: to make to eventually get Phoenix to soften up their

878
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 1: defensive attack, and he's just not making that pass. Here's

879
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 1: another matchup that I think Minnesota can take advantage of

880
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: over the course of the series. U Banks is struggling

881
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 1: to guard both naz Red and Carl Towns. Carl Towns

882
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 1: had an easy little rip through layup against him earlier

883
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:34,959
Speaker 1: in the game. I just didn't pull that clip. Here's

884
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 1: naz Red scoring against U Banks in the post. By

885
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:40,799
Speaker 1: the way, really quick, notice that we're going to see

886
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 1: a couple of U Bank's hedges here in a second

887
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:46,280
Speaker 1: two clips from now is the next U Bank's hedge.

888
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 1: Watch the difference in this U Bank's hedge on Ant

889
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: versus the one we're gonna see with Conley. Here's the

890
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 1: hedge on Ant. Oh Ant has the ball. I'm getting

891
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,760
Speaker 1: way out there. Look at that he's coming way out

892
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 1: for the Ant hedge. But with Conley, we're gonna see

893
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: something fundamentally different. You'll see that in a second. U

894
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: Bank's recovers. But watch nas Red easily go to work

895
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: against U Banks and get a baseline bucket off the glass.

896
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 1: So again, those are matchups that I think Minnesota can

897
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 1: attack more. Too, is just looking to get at U

898
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 1: Banks when he's in the game. Here's another example of

899
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 1: those early guard screens I was talking about. So Grayson

900
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 1: Allen sets that early brush screen that gets Jade McDaniels

901
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:27,399
Speaker 1: into trail position, that forces Gobert to come further out.

902
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:29,879
Speaker 1: That leaves you Banks wide open on the roll, which

903
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:34,759
Speaker 1: forces Ant to kind of tag. Ant does recover and

904
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: go Bear recovers, but in this deep post catch, it

905
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:42,360
Speaker 1: naturally just tricks Kat into thinking he's in trouble, so

906
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: he turns his head and kind of takes a step in,

907
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:48,720
Speaker 1: which allows Grayson Allen to break open for three. So again,

908
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:52,919
Speaker 1: like that's actually a really solid rotation and a good

909
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 1: job here by the Wolves to shut this down with

910
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:58,240
Speaker 1: that little tag and recover. But because of the deep

911
00:46:58,280 --> 00:46:59,840
Speaker 1: catch and by the way, you Banks probably could have

912
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:03,800
Speaker 1: shot that. But because of the deep catch, Carl Towns

913
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: gets pulled in and we get a Grayson Allen ketch

914
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 1: and shoot three. Best shooter in the league. So again,

915
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:12,919
Speaker 1: just consistently getting Minnesota in rotation and finding openings there.

916
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: Here's the example of the the U Banks hedge that's

917
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 1: not as severe when we go with Carl with Mike Conley. Here, okay,

918
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 1: notice ball screen Conley coming off, We're not gonna get

919
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,360
Speaker 1: that super aggressive hedge. U Banks is gonna kind of

920
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: stunt at him. Look see it's like a little it's

921
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: like a little fake hedge. And then he gets back

922
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: and his main priority is to stay on go bear.

923
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 1: Now Conley ends up hitting that shot, but that's kind

924
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 1: of the point. They're trying to bait Conley into making

925
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 1: a bunch of those, and he's just not gonna take

926
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 1: that many. He only took seven in the game, but

927
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 1: he'll make him mutch. We're gonna see a bunch of examples.

928
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:48,439
Speaker 1: I think there's two more in the second half. He's

929
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 1: coming off and like Conley can make the shot, they

930
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: just need him to take a lot more of them.

931
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: And I love the idea of the coverage as a

932
00:47:58,120 --> 00:47:59,799
Speaker 1: as a means with which to kind of bait him

933
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 1: into that. And it's gonna miss a three here again,

934
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 1: they stay home, they defend the action two on two.

935
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,800
Speaker 1: Book misses the shot and Minnesota gets out in transition.

936
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:13,840
Speaker 1: Notice Phoenix can't set their defense an it's like a

937
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 1: freight train, nice little eurostep bucket and one that is

938
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: the best pathway to victory for Minnesota in the series.

939
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 1: Defend force turnovers, get out in transition. But the only

940
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:25,400
Speaker 1: way you're gonna defend well enough is if you defend

941
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: the actions one on one and two on two. Handle

942
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: those three on three actions without getting in rotation. Force

943
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,239
Speaker 1: those tough pull up jump shots. Force Phoenix to turn

944
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:41,320
Speaker 1: the basketball over get out in transition. Here's an example

945
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 1: of flipping the angle of a screen to get an advantage.

946
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: So Grayson Allen's gonna change his screening angle. He's gonna

947
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:52,239
Speaker 1: run up on that. See how he ran up like

948
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 1: he was coming on the left side, but then switch

949
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 1: to the right side. So as he's running up, look,

950
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 1: Carl Towns is situated to help on this side of

951
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:03,880
Speaker 1: the screen where he is. We're getting Carl town situated

952
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 1: to help on this side of the screen, but Grayson

953
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 1: Allen just flips and goes around the other side. That

954
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 1: allows Devin Booker to actually get downhill and really engage

955
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: Kat who's trying to hedge and recover. Then, as the

956
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:20,280
Speaker 1: Keith Alexander or Jade McDaniels recovers that creates the opening

957
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,919
Speaker 1: for Grayson Allen on the slip drive to close out.

958
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 1: Once you beat Go Bear, there's nobody at the rim.

959
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:28,760
Speaker 1: So again, you guys can kind of see the purpose

960
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 1: of what I'm talking about here. They're trying to defend

961
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 1: the action two on two, trying to prevent getting in rotation.

962
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 1: But a really smart little reversal of the screen angle

963
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 1: from Grayson engages Cat really hard, which allows Grayson to slip.

964
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 1: And again, what did I say in the actual the

965
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: actual series preview that was the audio part. Make Go

966
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: Bear close out on a three point shooter, there won't

967
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 1: be anybody on the back line. Here's a really nice

968
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 1: defensive possession start the third quarter from Nurkic, an example

969
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: of how good he can be with active hands. So

970
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 1: Katie gets beat on this post up by kat Nurkic

971
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 1: is gonna deflect that pass and then deflect Go Bear

972
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:17,400
Speaker 1: on the rise up. By the way, just so that

973
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 1: everyone knows Yusuf Nurkic averages two point two deflections per game.

974
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 1: That is the same as bam Adebayo and Evan Mobley,

975
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 1: for example. So like he's a guy that like I

976
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 1: think doesn't get enough credit defensively for what he can do.

977
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: He's a little bit vulnerable to certain matchups, but overall,

978
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: I think he's a useful defensive player. Here's another example

979
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 1: of Conley shooting in ball screens. Watch Nirk on the coverage.

980
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:47,279
Speaker 1: See how he's back. He's not coming out as high

981
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 1: as he did against An. They're trying to bait him

982
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 1: into that shot. But Conley makes it again. He can,

983
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:55,959
Speaker 1: that's the crazy part. He makes it, he just doesn't

984
00:50:56,000 --> 00:51:02,280
Speaker 1: take it often enough. Here's an example of a bad

985
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 1: early clock shot from Kevin Durant that the Sons have

986
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:08,200
Speaker 1: to try to avoid. So kd comes off this dribble handoff,

987
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 1: there's fifteen seconds on the shot. Clock Ant is right there.

988
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:14,719
Speaker 1: This is heavily contested, and he takes that shot. That's

989
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 1: the shot that's like late clock. Fine, Aunt dies on

990
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:21,279
Speaker 1: the screen. Fine, Ant's playing off of you. Fine, but

991
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: like that type of shot, all that's gonna do is

992
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: gift Minnesota transition opportunities and put them into some trouble. Alrighty,

993
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 1: So this is an example of how I think Minnesota

994
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,840
Speaker 1: should cover this. The Sun's notice, they're all glued up

995
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:43,840
Speaker 1: off the ball, Mike Conley's not helping, Carl Towns is

996
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:46,719
Speaker 1: on Grayson allen Ant's on a KD. They're letting this

997
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:50,240
Speaker 1: action get defended two on two, right, But in this case,

998
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 1: great Jade mctails is good job, he fights over the top,

999
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 1: he gets back in front of KD, and Devin Booker

1000
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:58,319
Speaker 1: just happens to score. I do not think that should

1001
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:00,120
Speaker 1: have been a foul. I thought I thought Jayden at

1002
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 1: him squared up, and I thought he had his hands up,

1003
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,399
Speaker 1: and I thought he just absorbed the contact with the chest.

1004
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:06,839
Speaker 1: That should have been a no call. But really nice

1005
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 1: move from Devin Booker. But here's the thing. That's a

1006
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:12,760
Speaker 1: really difficult play. That's a really difficult play, a highly

1007
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 1: difficult shot that he's going to miss a lot of

1008
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:16,839
Speaker 1: the time, a bad call that he's not gonna get

1009
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 1: most of the time. That is the type of play

1010
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:21,360
Speaker 1: if you're gonna lose, if you're gonna lose to Phoenix,

1011
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:22,960
Speaker 1: that's how you want to lose. You want to lose

1012
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 1: with Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal making these

1013
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:31,239
Speaker 1: super tough shots. This one I just clipped because it

1014
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:34,319
Speaker 1: was an absolutely disgusting move from Bradley Beal literally put

1015
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:38,840
Speaker 1: Gobert running. Gobart was literally moving in circles. So we

1016
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: have a little reversal of the ball screen here. Look

1017
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 1: at this little that gosh, watch that little hesitation into

1018
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 1: the step back go Beart's lost, easy little pull up jumper.

1019
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 1: That was nasty. Here's Carl Town's taking a bad shot.

1020
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 1: And then on the other end, so Carl Town's right here,

1021
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 1: Bradley Beal, Bradley Beil really smart defense. He knows Kevin

1022
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: Durant's digging, and so he's sitting up on that right handed,

1023
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:09,359
Speaker 1: right handed side of Kat to kind of force him.

1024
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:12,319
Speaker 1: But Kat ends up taking this early clock jab step

1025
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:14,840
Speaker 1: jumper and misses it. Sons go the other way. They

1026
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:24,720
Speaker 1: play advantage basketball. Good reversal of the screening angle forces

1027
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 1: Gobert to come up to the level again. This is

1028
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:29,360
Speaker 1: the base coverage for Minnesota. They're at the level with

1029
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: the tag. That's gonna leave Grayson Allen open. He's gonna

1030
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:35,680
Speaker 1: drive the close out gets into the lane. At this point,

1031
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:38,840
Speaker 1: they're all janked up in in rotation and as a result,

1032
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:41,000
Speaker 1: look at on this little pass. All it takes is

1033
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 1: the catch for Nurkic. It has his back turned to KD.

1034
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: Now Kevin Durant is getting a wide open catch and

1035
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 1: shoot jump shot. Consistent theme you guys are gonna see.

1036
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:57,239
Speaker 1: Bradley Beal has no problem scoring over Gobart at the rim.

1037
00:53:57,560 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 1: So you just saw that little pol jumper hit earlier.

1038
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 1: Here go Beart is waiting on him. Watch him get

1039
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:03,960
Speaker 1: into his body and then shoot that left hand over

1040
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 1: the top. Really nice finish from Bradley Beal. Here's another

1041
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 1: hard hedge on Anthony Edwards. Gotta beat it with reads right.

1042
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: Let's see if he makes the read this time. I

1043
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 1: think he does on this one if I remember correctly.

1044
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:24,920
Speaker 1: So here we go and comes off hard hedge. One

1045
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:26,840
Speaker 1: of the things that this is, this is a perfectly

1046
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:28,840
Speaker 1: acceptable move. Get rid of the ball quickly and have

1047
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:32,600
Speaker 1: Cat make the read. Get rid of the ball. Cat hits,

1048
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 1: Go Bear, Go Bear makes because go Beart catches. He

1049
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 1: pulls Booker in from the corner again. As as soon

1050
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:41,160
Speaker 1: as you Banks is up high. If you can get

1051
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:44,359
Speaker 1: the ball behind everybody quickly, there's a four on three there.

1052
00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 1: They get the ball to go Bear. Booker tags easy

1053
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 1: shot for Jaden McDaniels. Also go Bear has a rebounding

1054
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:52,840
Speaker 1: mismatch because you Banks was so far out on his

1055
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 1: hedge and gets an easy put back. So again, use

1056
00:54:56,600 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 1: the Sun's coverage against them, beat it with the pass.

1057
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:07,320
Speaker 1: Here's an example of the blitzing that I was talking about.

1058
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 1: So watch KD just come off of the blitz and

1059
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 1: get completely blindsided by Gobert aggressively coming up to the screen.

1060
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 1: So here we go. Kd's coming off this dribble handoff.

1061
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:23,840
Speaker 1: Watch Gobert immediately get up and force a turnover. Boom.

1062
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: That's gonna be the wrinkle that I want to see

1063
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:28,359
Speaker 1: Minnesota go to to try to disrupt Phoenix when they're

1064
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 1: in a flow is to bring that blitz out. Here's

1065
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:37,319
Speaker 1: an example of how they use cat to switch three

1066
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:42,200
Speaker 1: man actions. So again ball screen, cat switches out. Now

1067
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 1: we have our advantage, right, so just pull it out now.

1068
00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 1: Bradley Beal all Bradley Beal has to do. He has

1069
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:49,239
Speaker 1: to understand his job. His job here is not to

1070
00:55:49,239 --> 00:55:51,920
Speaker 1: get a bucket. His job here is just to generate

1071
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 1: the next advantage. He's got a great mismatch. He can

1072
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 1: beat him off the dribble. He's gonna beat him off

1073
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:58,319
Speaker 1: a dribble. This is our pinon flare that I was

1074
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 1: looking for in this particular situation. Excuse me. U Banks

1075
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 1: is in the dunker spot right, and Devin Booker is

1076
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:17,200
Speaker 1: in the Sorry, I have no idea what just happened.

1077
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 1: So because U Banks is in the dunker spot and

1078
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 1: Devin Booker is in the weekside corner, U Banks isn't

1079
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:28,440
Speaker 1: offering a ton of spacing. So the one of the

1080
00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:30,840
Speaker 1: ways he can counter that is to set a screen

1081
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:33,960
Speaker 1: to help Devin Booker get open. Should Bradley Beal beat

1082
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 1: his man off the dribble and engage go Bear, So

1083
00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:40,120
Speaker 1: Bradley bal beats him, Gobar comes over. Watch you Banks

1084
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:43,080
Speaker 1: screen on the backside of Jada McDaniels to create the

1085
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:45,879
Speaker 1: passing angle for bild. You see that now he kind

1086
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:47,520
Speaker 1: of just moved into his way, but he was more

1087
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:49,800
Speaker 1: or less is trying to set a screen that generates

1088
00:56:49,840 --> 00:57:00,319
Speaker 1: the opening for Devin Booker to knock down the three right.

1089
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 1: Here's an example of a pull up jumper that I

1090
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 1: like for Phoenix. I talked about this one in the opening.

1091
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 1: Kd's got Cat on him. Watch the way Cat's defending.

1092
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 1: He's on his heels he's playing back. He's basically baiting

1093
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 1: KD into the pull up jumper. That's a great look

1094
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 1: for Phoenix. He just missed it. You can actually see

1095
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 1: KD on the pullback dribble. He kind of miss mishandles

1096
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 1: it and pins it on his hip a little bit.

1097
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 1: And that's basically the one thing that disrupted that shot.

1098
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 1: Here's an example of how for Phoenix or for Minnesota,

1099
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even offer help even in mismatches. So this

1100
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 1: is like a disaster, right. You're like, oh, no, we

1101
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:37,280
Speaker 1: have Conley on Devin Booker. This is a problem. What

1102
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:40,880
Speaker 1: are we gonna do? No, just make him score. He

1103
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 1: takes a tough turnaround. Look, that's a good look for

1104
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:46,200
Speaker 1: Devin Booker. He's gonna make that sometimes. But that is

1105
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 1: a much lower value shot on a per possession basis

1106
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 1: than some of the looks that Phoenix has been getting

1107
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:55,240
Speaker 1: in rotation. Guard it one on one, make these guys score.

1108
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:05,320
Speaker 1: Here's an example of how they need Carl Towns to

1109
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:07,840
Speaker 1: capitalize on some of these smaller Phoenix cards when they

1110
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 1: get those matchups. So we have Katie on Towns and

1111
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 1: it's gonna set a little pin down. It's gonna afford

1112
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 1: to get a switch. So now Booker is gonna be

1113
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 1: on cat Gobart cuts through. Now go Beart has to

1114
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:23,959
Speaker 1: beat him off the dribble, so he does, just makes

1115
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:26,800
Speaker 1: a good physically aggressive move, gets into the basket. He

1116
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:30,400
Speaker 1: actually misses, but because he drives, he's able to engage

1117
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 1: you Banks. As soon as he engages you Banks, it's

1118
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:34,880
Speaker 1: go bear on the backside against Grayson Allen, and that's

1119
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:37,560
Speaker 1: just a battle he's gonna lose every single time. Grayson

1120
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:41,680
Speaker 1: Allen's gonna lose. I mean, a really bad offensive possession

1121
00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: from Minnesota where they don't even get the ball inside

1122
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:50,040
Speaker 1: the three point arc, come off swing swing swing three.

1123
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:52,840
Speaker 1: That's just a really bad offensive possession. Got to do

1124
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 1: something to try to get the defense in rotation. Here's

1125
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 1: another example of Bradley Beal easily scoring against Rudy Gobert

1126
00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 1: at the m. You can actually see you can actually

1127
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:10,600
Speaker 1: see Gobert say it, telling everybody, stay home, stay home.

1128
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:13,040
Speaker 1: See that that's gonna be the key. Gobert needs to

1129
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 1: be screaming that every possession, everybody stay home. Do not help.

1130
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 1: But that said, it's gonna be a problem if Bill

1131
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:21,440
Speaker 1: keeps scoring over him. Like this. So here comes the

1132
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 1: ball screen fight over the top, and Beal just easily

1133
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:30,800
Speaker 1: gets in and finishes. So again, that's a lot of

1134
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:33,720
Speaker 1: evidence in this particular game that Beale's not too dissuaded

1135
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:37,280
Speaker 1: by Rudy Gobert at the rim. Here's an example of

1136
00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:39,400
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards still trying to beat double teams with the

1137
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:41,959
Speaker 1: dribble instead of with the pass. So here we're gonna

1138
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:43,560
Speaker 1: get that little I mean, I guess you can call

1139
00:59:43,560 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 1: that a brush screen. Phoenix ends up basically putting two

1140
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:48,040
Speaker 1: on the ball and it's got two guys on him.

1141
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:51,520
Speaker 1: Kyle Anderson's open. Kyle Anderson's still open. Kyle Anderson is

1142
00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:53,880
Speaker 1: wide open underneath the basket. All it has to do

1143
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:55,800
Speaker 1: is throw it up to Kyle Anderson. He's probably gonna

1144
00:59:55,800 --> 00:59:58,440
Speaker 1: score over Devin Booker. Instead, he's like I got this,

1145
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:00,960
Speaker 1: drives through everybody and tries to finish, ends up drawing

1146
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:03,960
Speaker 1: a foul. But once again, just not the right approach

1147
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:08,200
Speaker 1: for beating this defensive coverage. Juxtapose it with going the

1148
01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 1: other way. Here, the Suns play more advantage basketball. We

1149
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 1: get a blitz on Devin Booker here because remember the

1150
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:15,800
Speaker 1: Wolves have gone to blitzing at this portion in the game,

1151
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:17,480
Speaker 1: which again I like as a mix up, but you've

1152
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:21,560
Speaker 1: got to force turnovers for it to work. Uh. Grayson

1153
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:25,800
Speaker 1: Allen comes off the blitz, makes the swing to Nurkic

1154
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 1: Gobert is dropped down to deal with KD if he

1155
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 1: slips out of that blitz. Now we're on the second side, right,

1156
01:00:33,840 --> 01:00:36,800
Speaker 1: and because we're in the second side, we've got Bradley

1157
01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:39,440
Speaker 1: Beal with I think that's Nikhil Alexander Walker. No, it's

1158
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:43,160
Speaker 1: Mike Conley. Mike Conley's trailing the play because Mike Conley

1159
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:45,280
Speaker 1: turned his head. Notice this, this is again an example

1160
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:49,040
Speaker 1: of why you reverse the floor after after Grayson gets

1161
01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:51,000
Speaker 1: it out of the blitz. Watch watch Mike Conley turn

1162
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:53,439
Speaker 1: his head because now he's a weak side defender. As

1163
01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 1: Bradley Beal's coming through, he's officially a weak side defender.

1164
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:58,680
Speaker 1: Now he's in help right, so he's there. Now he's

1165
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 1: out of position to chase Spiel because Booker gets Grayson

1166
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:05,040
Speaker 1: Allen gets it out. Now they're running to the second side,

1167
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:07,880
Speaker 1: and now Mike Conley's trailing to play too much, so

1168
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:10,240
Speaker 1: that puts everybody in a buy. And now Bradley feels

1169
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:12,880
Speaker 1: super comfortable coming off this dribble handoff, easily gets down

1170
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:16,800
Speaker 1: into the lane and makes the floater. That's just that's

1171
01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:20,600
Speaker 1: that's the right way to attack the defense that Minnesotas

1172
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:24,800
Speaker 1: bring into the equation. Here, here's another example of advantage

1173
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:26,800
Speaker 1: basketball for the Suns. Last one and then we're done

1174
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:30,560
Speaker 1: for the day. So again chasing over the top, Nurkis rolls,

1175
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:33,160
Speaker 1: McLaughlin has to offer kind of a token tag on

1176
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:37,840
Speaker 1: Nurkic Grayson Allen beats the clothes out. Okay, so you

1177
01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:40,600
Speaker 1: guys can kind of get the gist of the situation

1178
01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:44,600
Speaker 1: from the film, like Phoenix is going to put everybody

1179
01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:47,560
Speaker 1: on ant and basically try to make them pass, and

1180
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:50,040
Speaker 1: they're gonna sag way off on Mike Conley and try

1181
01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:51,840
Speaker 1: to make them score. They got to find a foot

1182
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:54,400
Speaker 1: way to flip that dynamic and has to make the reads,

1183
01:01:54,560 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 1: and they've got to try to avoid Phoenix's half court

1184
01:01:57,000 --> 01:01:59,440
Speaker 1: a defense as much as possible. Again, also kind of

1185
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 1: like what I was showing you there with Phoenix, get

1186
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 1: the ball to the second side. If you get to

1187
01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:05,280
Speaker 1: the second side, it won't be as loaded up on you.

1188
01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:07,800
Speaker 1: So maybe start with Conley on the ball, Havent on

1189
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:10,040
Speaker 1: that second side, try to get them into rotation a

1190
01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:13,280
Speaker 1: little bit at least by by putting some pressure on

1191
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:14,880
Speaker 1: the rim or something, do something to get the ball

1192
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 1: to the other end of the floor where they're not

1193
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:18,720
Speaker 1: as loaded up. And then for the Suns on the

1194
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:22,320
Speaker 1: other end, it's really this simple. They have to try

1195
01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:24,640
Speaker 1: to find a way to stay in rotation. Minnesota has

1196
01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:26,520
Speaker 1: to try to find a way to stay out of rotation.

1197
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:29,200
Speaker 1: And that's all gonna be about shot selection for Phoenix,

1198
01:02:29,240 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 1: in discipline, in the game plan for Minnesota. But I mean,

1199
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:35,440
Speaker 1: you can, guys can see the other games have gone

1200
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:38,080
Speaker 1: more or less similar to this as well. Bad matchup

1201
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:40,080
Speaker 1: for Minnesota. It's a big part of why I'm picking

1202
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:42,480
Speaker 1: Phoenix in this series. All right, let's move on to

1203
01:02:42,600 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 1: Orlando Cleveland. I'm not gonna go nearly as long on

1204
01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:45,920
Speaker 1: this one. Like I said, I don't view either of

1205
01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:48,760
Speaker 1: these teams as legitimate championship contenders. But I'll give you

1206
01:02:48,760 --> 01:02:51,200
Speaker 1: guys my thoughts on my research from this morning. So

1207
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 1: the season series is tied at two. The Magic won

1208
01:02:54,240 --> 01:02:58,240
Speaker 1: most recently on February twenty second, but Darius Garland and

1209
01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:01,800
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell have not played together in this particular matchup

1210
01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:04,080
Speaker 1: since way back in like December, which was like four

1211
01:03:04,120 --> 01:03:06,960
Speaker 1: months ago. They're one and one in the games that

1212
01:03:07,080 --> 01:03:11,520
Speaker 1: Darius Garland, Donovan Mitchell, Franz Wagner, and Palawan Caro all

1213
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:13,800
Speaker 1: four of them play, They're one in one in those matchups.

1214
01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:16,920
Speaker 1: For the season series all four games, Cleveland has a

1215
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:20,680
Speaker 1: one to nineteen offensive rating. Orlando has a one thirteen

1216
01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:23,720
Speaker 1: offensive ratings, so Cleveland has been the more effective offense.

1217
01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:26,720
Speaker 1: Both teams have struggled to clean up the defensive glass

1218
01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:30,560
Speaker 1: in this matchup. I'm gambling on the gambling front on

1219
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:32,960
Speaker 1: DraftKings right now, the Cavs are a minus one ninety

1220
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:36,200
Speaker 1: five favorite some of the stuff I've seen on film.

1221
01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:39,640
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell and Darius Garland have not played together since

1222
01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:42,200
Speaker 1: December eleventh, which means like there's not a whole lot

1223
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:45,560
Speaker 1: we can get from this in terms of like actually

1224
01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:49,000
Speaker 1: seeing what this series is gonna look like, because not

1225
01:03:49,080 --> 01:03:51,400
Speaker 1: just injuries to the stars, but injuries to the role players.

1226
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:54,880
Speaker 1: Both teams have had really different starting lineups throughout the

1227
01:03:54,920 --> 01:03:58,440
Speaker 1: season as the key important front court players have been

1228
01:03:58,440 --> 01:04:01,120
Speaker 1: out with injuries or backcourt players for Orlando have been

1229
01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:03,200
Speaker 1: out with injuries and so not a whole lot to

1230
01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 1: see on film, but you can see some stuff in

1231
01:04:06,560 --> 01:04:09,320
Speaker 1: the individual numbers. Donovan Mitchell in three games in this

1232
01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:12,200
Speaker 1: matchup is averaging twenty seven to four and seven, forty

1233
01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:14,760
Speaker 1: four percent from the field thirty six percent from three.

1234
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:16,840
Speaker 1: I watched some film this morning. I think he looks

1235
01:04:16,880 --> 01:04:20,360
Speaker 1: pretty solid against Jalen Suggs, like he's got the quickness

1236
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:22,560
Speaker 1: to kind of get away from his ball pressure. So

1237
01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:24,880
Speaker 1: I think that matchup is actually something that Donovan Mitchell

1238
01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:27,360
Speaker 1: can do pretty well in Darius Garland in three games

1239
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:30,800
Speaker 1: twenty seven points, four rebounds, eight assists per game, fifty

1240
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:33,120
Speaker 1: one percent from the field in thirty nine percent from three,

1241
01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:36,240
Speaker 1: So Garland's been great in this particular matchup. Paalo and

1242
01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:39,080
Speaker 1: Franz have played in all four games. Pallo twenty three,

1243
01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 1: six and four on forty six percent from the field

1244
01:04:41,640 --> 01:04:44,600
Speaker 1: in twenty five percent from three. Franz Wagner sixteen five

1245
01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:46,760
Speaker 1: and five on thirty nine percent from the field and

1246
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:50,680
Speaker 1: sixteen percent from three. Dean Wade was available though and

1247
01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:52,800
Speaker 1: guarded him for the most part in those games, and

1248
01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:55,400
Speaker 1: he's out of the lineup now, so I do think

1249
01:04:55,440 --> 01:04:58,200
Speaker 1: Franz will have more of a size advantage in this

1250
01:04:58,240 --> 01:05:00,680
Speaker 1: particular series than he did over the course of regular season.

1251
01:05:00,680 --> 01:05:03,840
Speaker 1: For the Cavs. On offense, Calves are a heavy pick

1252
01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:05,919
Speaker 1: and roll attack. They run thirty seven of them a game,

1253
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:09,160
Speaker 1: which is the ninth most in the NBA. The Magic

1254
01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:11,840
Speaker 1: are solid pick and roll defense, though they're the eleventh

1255
01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:14,440
Speaker 1: best pick and roll defense in the league. Including passes,

1256
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:17,680
Speaker 1: they allowed just zero point nine to eight three points

1257
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:19,760
Speaker 1: per possession. Most of this is going to come down

1258
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:21,640
Speaker 1: to Jalen Suggs and Gary Harris and just the job

1259
01:05:21,680 --> 01:05:23,840
Speaker 1: they do on Donovan Mitchell and Darius Carlin. Got to

1260
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:25,840
Speaker 1: find a way to make those guys feel uncomfortable and

1261
01:05:25,880 --> 01:05:28,800
Speaker 1: apply back pressure. I would go with a similar strategy

1262
01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:31,640
Speaker 1: that I talked about with Phoenix and Minnesota. With Garland,

1263
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:33,680
Speaker 1: I would come with a lower drop and try to

1264
01:05:33,720 --> 01:05:36,040
Speaker 1: bait him as a score and with Mitchell, I'd bring

1265
01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:38,880
Speaker 1: extra defenders and try to play into his biggest weakness,

1266
01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:41,000
Speaker 1: which is he can be a little score first from

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01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:43,080
Speaker 1: time to time, although Mitchell's taken great strides as a

1268
01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:45,280
Speaker 1: playmaker over the last couple of years. But those are

1269
01:05:45,320 --> 01:05:47,720
Speaker 1: the schemes that I would use in these particular matchups

1270
01:05:47,960 --> 01:05:51,439
Speaker 1: they got. Cleveland has to avoid the problem from last year,

1271
01:05:51,640 --> 01:05:54,000
Speaker 1: which is last year against New York they were able

1272
01:05:54,040 --> 01:05:56,040
Speaker 1: to basically just play three on two against pick and

1273
01:05:56,120 --> 01:05:58,400
Speaker 1: roll because Evan Mobley could not score on the role.

1274
01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:00,920
Speaker 1: He was zero for tenhooting out of the role last

1275
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:05,000
Speaker 1: year against the Knicks in that first round series. This season,

1276
01:06:05,240 --> 01:06:08,320
Speaker 1: shooting just fifty three percent on the role in is

1277
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:11,400
Speaker 1: a thirty sixth percentile score as a roleman, so that's

1278
01:06:11,400 --> 01:06:14,360
Speaker 1: still kind of an issue. Look for the Magic to

1279
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:17,280
Speaker 1: have Window Carter Junior just kind of guard Jared Allen

1280
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:20,240
Speaker 1: and sit underneath the basket and kind of defend both

1281
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:23,280
Speaker 1: of them and have them use like Palo Banco to

1282
01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:25,840
Speaker 1: come up to the level and basically force Evan Mobley

1283
01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:28,000
Speaker 1: to score in the mid range in the pick and roll.

1284
01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:31,800
Speaker 1: That's what I'm expecting them to do schematically. Orlando on offense,

1285
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:34,000
Speaker 1: they're also a high volume pick and roll team, believe

1286
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:35,560
Speaker 1: it or not. They run more pick and roll in Cleveland,

1287
01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:37,880
Speaker 1: but they only get zero point nine to five points

1288
01:06:37,880 --> 01:06:40,240
Speaker 1: per possession in pick and roll. This is just twenty

1289
01:06:40,280 --> 01:06:41,960
Speaker 1: third in the NBA, so they're not a very good

1290
01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:43,560
Speaker 1: pick and roll team, even though they do it a lot.

1291
01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:45,680
Speaker 1: Main issue there is they can't shoot. They're dead last

1292
01:06:45,680 --> 01:06:49,560
Speaker 1: and three pointers made per game twenty fourth in three

1293
01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 1: point percentage, so teams can just load up on them

1294
01:06:52,240 --> 01:06:55,560
Speaker 1: in ball screens. Also, both of their main shot creators,

1295
01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:57,560
Speaker 1: Franz and Polo, are guys that you can kind of

1296
01:06:57,600 --> 01:06:59,960
Speaker 1: back off of. Franz is just a bad jump shoe

1297
01:07:00,800 --> 01:07:02,320
Speaker 1: at this point in his career, although I think he

1298
01:07:02,360 --> 01:07:04,440
Speaker 1: will be a better one in the long run. Pallow

1299
01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:07,440
Speaker 1: is solid, especially in the short to mid range, but

1300
01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:09,440
Speaker 1: for the most part, teams are going to be comfortable

1301
01:07:09,480 --> 01:07:12,080
Speaker 1: playing off of him and daring him to shoot. I

1302
01:07:12,120 --> 01:07:15,520
Speaker 1: think Cleveland's gonna do that basically to both guys. Franz

1303
01:07:15,560 --> 01:07:17,520
Speaker 1: and Polo are at their best when they get switches

1304
01:07:17,520 --> 01:07:19,880
Speaker 1: onto smaller guards and try to play bully ball. It's

1305
01:07:19,920 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 1: made of one of the best ISO teams in the league.

1306
01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:24,080
Speaker 1: They get one point zero three points per ISO that

1307
01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:26,960
Speaker 1: ranks fourth in the NBA. They will have some size

1308
01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 1: advantages in this series. The big thing for Cleveland is

1309
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:30,840
Speaker 1: they're going to have to find a way to avoid

1310
01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:33,920
Speaker 1: those switches, so hedging and recovering with Donovan Mitchell and

1311
01:07:33,960 --> 01:07:35,880
Speaker 1: Darius Garland to make sure that they don't get up

1312
01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:38,560
Speaker 1: on Franz and Paolo that could be a problem. A

1313
01:07:38,560 --> 01:07:41,280
Speaker 1: couple other keys for Cleveland. They really need to pack

1314
01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:43,960
Speaker 1: the paint on defense and force Orlando to make jump shots,

1315
01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:47,720
Speaker 1: load up on their pick and rolls, dig down on ISOs,

1316
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:50,240
Speaker 1: bait them into their worst tendencies, which is like they

1317
01:07:50,240 --> 01:07:53,240
Speaker 1: can just go really cold from the perimeter right. And then,

1318
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:56,600
Speaker 1: like I said, avoiding those switches on offense, they need

1319
01:07:56,640 --> 01:07:59,080
Speaker 1: Garland and Mitchell to take care of the basketball. This

1320
01:07:59,120 --> 01:08:01,960
Speaker 1: is a turnover forcing team from Orlando. This is what

1321
01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:05,160
Speaker 1: they do best. They're the second best turnover forcing team

1322
01:08:05,160 --> 01:08:07,440
Speaker 1: in the league. They're the second best team in scoring

1323
01:08:07,560 --> 01:08:11,000
Speaker 1: off of turnovers, and so decision making and ball security

1324
01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:12,960
Speaker 1: for Garland and Mitchell are going to be huge. And

1325
01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:15,520
Speaker 1: then Evan Mobley has to score on the role, or

1326
01:08:15,600 --> 01:08:17,360
Speaker 1: if he's struggling to score on the role, they need

1327
01:08:17,400 --> 01:08:19,599
Speaker 1: to flip their ball screen dynamic and have Jared Allen

1328
01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:22,280
Speaker 1: set the screens and Evan Mobley sit in the short role.

1329
01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:24,479
Speaker 1: Don't go down the same way, or excuse me, have

1330
01:08:24,479 --> 01:08:26,519
Speaker 1: Evan Mobley sit in the dunker spot. Don't go down

1331
01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:29,000
Speaker 1: the same way you did in the first round last year.

1332
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:32,160
Speaker 1: On the Orlando front, Do not fall into the jump

1333
01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:35,320
Speaker 1: shot trap when they're playing off. Don't fall into that

1334
01:08:35,360 --> 01:08:38,360
Speaker 1: by just taking jumpers. Go into ball in player movement

1335
01:08:38,400 --> 01:08:40,200
Speaker 1: to try to fight that as much as possible, at

1336
01:08:40,280 --> 01:08:42,160
Speaker 1: least for the twenty four seconds of the shot clock.

1337
01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:44,240
Speaker 1: Do everything you can with the ball and player movement

1338
01:08:44,280 --> 01:08:46,840
Speaker 1: to avoid settling for those types of shots. And then

1339
01:08:46,880 --> 01:08:49,519
Speaker 1: they need to ride the defense to transition train as

1340
01:08:49,600 --> 01:08:52,639
Speaker 1: much as possible. They've got to get into Darius Garland,

1341
01:08:52,680 --> 01:08:56,599
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell forced turnovers and run, run, run, as much

1342
01:08:56,640 --> 01:08:59,240
Speaker 1: as they can. Muck the game up, game up, drag

1343
01:08:59,280 --> 01:09:01,639
Speaker 1: it down into the mudd. You are the bigger, stronger team.

1344
01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:04,160
Speaker 1: You have an advantage there if you can win in

1345
01:09:04,160 --> 01:09:07,200
Speaker 1: the physicality my prediction. I view both of these teams

1346
01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:09,960
Speaker 1: on a pretty similar level, but I lean Cleveland for

1347
01:09:10,040 --> 01:09:13,639
Speaker 1: three reasons. One, I trust Donovan Mitchell and Darius Garland

1348
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:17,280
Speaker 1: more as decision makers in a seven game series than

1349
01:09:17,320 --> 01:09:20,360
Speaker 1: Palo in France. They're more experienced, and they are better

1350
01:09:20,439 --> 01:09:22,320
Speaker 1: jump shooters. It's actually kind of similar to why I

1351
01:09:22,360 --> 01:09:26,160
Speaker 1: picked against Cleveland last year. I trusted Jalen Brunson more

1352
01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:28,960
Speaker 1: than I trusted Donovan Mitchell. I trust Donovan Mitchell and

1353
01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:31,320
Speaker 1: Garland more than I trust Franz and Palo. That's a

1354
01:09:31,320 --> 01:09:34,479
Speaker 1: big part of why I'm picking them. I also think

1355
01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:37,280
Speaker 1: Orlando is really going to struggle to score in the

1356
01:09:37,320 --> 01:09:40,200
Speaker 1: half court. Cleveland will two, I just think to a

1357
01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:43,200
Speaker 1: lesser extent. Secondly, Cleveland got their ass kicked in the

1358
01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:45,280
Speaker 1: playoffs last year, and so they have a pretty good

1359
01:09:45,320 --> 01:09:48,479
Speaker 1: idea of what to expect in this first round series

1360
01:09:48,479 --> 01:09:50,960
Speaker 1: in terms of the level of physicality, the adversity they're

1361
01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:53,800
Speaker 1: going to face, the pressure. The Magic are really young

1362
01:09:53,880 --> 01:09:55,680
Speaker 1: and have no experience in this type of setting. I

1363
01:09:55,680 --> 01:09:57,920
Speaker 1: think that's a big advantage to Cleveland. And then lastly,

1364
01:09:57,960 --> 01:10:00,360
Speaker 1: Cleveland as home court, which I think, especially for young,

1365
01:10:00,479 --> 01:10:03,679
Speaker 1: defensive minded teams, is a big deal. So I'm gonna

1366
01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:06,519
Speaker 1: be picking the Cleveland Cavaliers to win this series in

1367
01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:11,559
Speaker 1: six games. All right, moving on to our mail bag. So,

1368
01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:14,800
Speaker 1: first question, genuine question, if you were the Lakers as

1369
01:10:14,840 --> 01:10:18,200
Speaker 1: bad as this is, would you tank the Pelicans game

1370
01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:20,439
Speaker 1: just for a chance to play Oklahoma City and be

1371
01:10:20,520 --> 01:10:23,160
Speaker 1: on the other side of the bracket from Denver. So

1372
01:10:23,240 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 1: here's the thing, I've actually, by the way, not only

1373
01:10:26,040 --> 01:10:27,920
Speaker 1: did I get a bunch of mailbag questions about this,

1374
01:10:28,000 --> 01:10:31,400
Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of reputed sports media professionals going

1375
01:10:31,400 --> 01:10:33,320
Speaker 1: out on their shows today and saying the Lakers should

1376
01:10:33,320 --> 01:10:36,040
Speaker 1: do this. I think that's insane. To put it simply,

1377
01:10:37,479 --> 01:10:41,559
Speaker 1: there has never been a winner who has approached things

1378
01:10:41,680 --> 01:10:44,920
Speaker 1: like that. The idea of lose intentionally is not in

1379
01:10:44,960 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 1: a winner's vocabulary. You handle your business against the Pelicans,

1380
01:10:49,360 --> 01:10:51,439
Speaker 1: and then you go up against Denver and you either

1381
01:10:51,479 --> 01:10:54,040
Speaker 1: slay the dragon or you die trying. That is the

1382
01:10:54,080 --> 01:10:58,360
Speaker 1: appropriate response to this situation. Obviously, if you happen to

1383
01:10:58,400 --> 01:11:01,160
Speaker 1: be the eighth seed, you like chances of making a

1384
01:11:01,280 --> 01:11:04,439
Speaker 1: deeper run if you can play Oklahoma City first and

1385
01:11:04,479 --> 01:11:08,800
Speaker 1: then the winner of MAVs Clippers in the second round. Obviously,

1386
01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City is a really good matchup for the Lakers.

1387
01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:13,760
Speaker 1: If the Lakers played the Thunder in the first round,

1388
01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:16,559
Speaker 1: I would pick the Lakers to win that series, whereas

1389
01:11:16,560 --> 01:11:20,000
Speaker 1: with Denver, I'm picking Denver. So I understand the situation.

1390
01:11:20,439 --> 01:11:22,280
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is two things. First of all,

1391
01:11:22,360 --> 01:11:25,040
Speaker 1: it's a loser mentality to ever run away from a

1392
01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:29,479
Speaker 1: challenge or to purposefully lose anything, and then two, let's

1393
01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:31,439
Speaker 1: say you do lose on Tuesday, which, by the way,

1394
01:11:31,479 --> 01:11:33,679
Speaker 1: they might lose. I don't know. If you guys notice

1395
01:11:33,760 --> 01:11:37,160
Speaker 1: the Pelicans are favored. They're a one point favorite against

1396
01:11:37,160 --> 01:11:39,679
Speaker 1: the Lakers tomorrow. I think the Lakers are gonna win tomorrow,

1397
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:42,400
Speaker 1: but I do think the Pelicans have a chance. They

1398
01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:45,800
Speaker 1: just got humiliated. The Lakers will come out more relaxed

1399
01:11:46,120 --> 01:11:48,120
Speaker 1: than they did in the Sunday game. The Pelicans will

1400
01:11:48,160 --> 01:11:50,280
Speaker 1: come out more desperate than they did in the Sunday game.

1401
01:11:50,479 --> 01:11:52,280
Speaker 1: All they have to do is linger around for two

1402
01:11:52,280 --> 01:11:54,360
Speaker 1: and a half quarters and then it becomes about shot

1403
01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 1: making and maybe the Pelicans make enough shots and they win.

1404
01:11:57,080 --> 01:11:59,560
Speaker 1: If that happens and the Lakers try to be the

1405
01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:03,479
Speaker 1: Pelicans and they happen to lose, yeah, then then it's

1406
01:12:03,840 --> 01:12:06,200
Speaker 1: after the game, when you're in the locker room, you're like, man,

1407
01:12:06,280 --> 01:12:08,920
Speaker 1: this sucks. We really tried to win. We lost, but hey,

1408
01:12:09,520 --> 01:12:12,320
Speaker 1: all we gotta do is beat the winner of this

1409
01:12:12,800 --> 01:12:15,120
Speaker 1: King's Warriors game and then we get a really good

1410
01:12:15,160 --> 01:12:17,400
Speaker 1: first round matchup. So yeah, you can kind of think

1411
01:12:17,479 --> 01:12:20,439
Speaker 1: that way if you happen to lose, But no doubt

1412
01:12:20,520 --> 01:12:23,719
Speaker 1: you go into that Tuesday game, trying like crazy to win,

1413
01:12:24,000 --> 01:12:26,360
Speaker 1: and most importantly, you never want to be in a

1414
01:12:26,400 --> 01:12:29,720
Speaker 1: single elimination game, especially when you can't guard Deer and

1415
01:12:29,800 --> 01:12:33,080
Speaker 1: Fox and you can't guard Steph Curry. That is completely

1416
01:12:33,560 --> 01:12:37,599
Speaker 1: a completely unacceptable risk. In this particular type of situation,

1417
01:12:37,720 --> 01:12:39,439
Speaker 1: you take the win against the Pelicans if you can

1418
01:12:39,479 --> 01:12:42,559
Speaker 1: get it, and then you roll the dice against Denver.

1419
01:12:42,880 --> 01:12:46,040
Speaker 1: They are too to This Lakers team and last year's

1420
01:12:46,080 --> 01:12:49,080
Speaker 1: Lakers team are very very different. I would pick Denver,

1421
01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:51,559
Speaker 1: but I do think this Lakers team is a little

1422
01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:53,360
Speaker 1: better than last year's Lakers team, and I do think

1423
01:12:53,400 --> 01:12:55,519
Speaker 1: that they have a chance to it. They have some

1424
01:12:55,640 --> 01:12:58,559
Speaker 1: small chance to win that series. It's the same chance

1425
01:12:58,560 --> 01:13:00,719
Speaker 1: that they're gonna have to deal with in a later Personally,

1426
01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:04,000
Speaker 1: as a Lakers fan, I'd rather go into that series

1427
01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:07,600
Speaker 1: with a healthy Jared Vanderbilt and a little bit more defensive,

1428
01:13:08,160 --> 01:13:11,000
Speaker 1: kind of like polishing over a couple weeks of playoff games.

1429
01:13:11,280 --> 01:13:13,760
Speaker 1: But that's not the situation. This is the situation. You

1430
01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:16,160
Speaker 1: don't lose on purpose. You go beat the Pelicans, let

1431
01:13:16,160 --> 01:13:19,400
Speaker 1: the Chips follow where where they may against Denver. Hey

1432
01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:21,760
Speaker 1: Jason looking forward to the draft, which is deemed to

1433
01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:24,000
Speaker 1: be weak. What do you think the Spurs should be

1434
01:13:24,040 --> 01:13:26,800
Speaker 1: looking at? What do you think? Who do you think

1435
01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:28,840
Speaker 1: the Spurs should be looking at taking with their high pick.

1436
01:13:29,200 --> 01:13:31,439
Speaker 1: I think Madus Bozellis is the best option for them

1437
01:13:31,439 --> 01:13:33,600
Speaker 1: to find a genuine running mate to Victor. What do

1438
01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:35,680
Speaker 1: you think? Thanks for the amazing content. I hope you

1439
01:13:35,720 --> 01:13:37,680
Speaker 1: have a big coffee supply for the playoffs. Love your

1440
01:13:37,720 --> 01:13:39,760
Speaker 1: playoff content. Thank you for supporting the show. And yeah,

1441
01:13:39,760 --> 01:13:42,439
Speaker 1: it's it's always a grind, but it's also fun. I

1442
01:13:42,439 --> 01:13:44,880
Speaker 1: was actually talking about that yesterday. The playoffs are a

1443
01:13:44,880 --> 01:13:47,040
Speaker 1: ton of work, but they are also just a ton

1444
01:13:47,080 --> 01:13:50,080
Speaker 1: of fun because it's incredible basketball every single night, high

1445
01:13:50,080 --> 01:13:53,360
Speaker 1: stakes basketball every single night. Can't beat that. Here's the thing,

1446
01:13:54,320 --> 01:13:55,960
Speaker 1: I have not covered the draft yet, so I'm not

1447
01:13:56,000 --> 01:13:57,479
Speaker 1: going to give you guys a take on who I

1448
01:13:57,479 --> 01:14:00,439
Speaker 1: think the Spurs should draft. Also, there are that cover

1449
01:14:00,520 --> 01:14:02,559
Speaker 1: the draft year round. I do it for like a

1450
01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:05,519
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, so like, I'm not really the that's

1451
01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:07,759
Speaker 1: I don't claim to be some sort of draft expert.

1452
01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:10,200
Speaker 1: That said, I will do a bunch of draft work

1453
01:14:10,600 --> 01:14:12,639
Speaker 1: once we get outside of the NBA Finals, and I'll

1454
01:14:12,640 --> 01:14:14,639
Speaker 1: give you, guys, my take when we get there. As

1455
01:14:14,680 --> 01:14:17,800
Speaker 1: far as the Spurs go, though, like I would be

1456
01:14:17,920 --> 01:14:19,600
Speaker 1: using that first round draft pick to bring in a

1457
01:14:19,680 --> 01:14:22,280
Speaker 1: veteran shot creator. That's what I would do, especially in

1458
01:14:22,320 --> 01:14:24,760
Speaker 1: a draft this particularly week. But it depends on which

1459
01:14:24,760 --> 01:14:26,560
Speaker 1: player is available, if they find a good player, And

1460
01:14:26,600 --> 01:14:28,360
Speaker 1: again I have to scout the players to really give

1461
01:14:28,360 --> 01:14:31,400
Speaker 1: you an informed opinion on that. But I think Victor

1462
01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:34,439
Speaker 1: is going to be a like, let me, let me

1463
01:14:34,479 --> 01:14:36,759
Speaker 1: pull these stats up because I've ran into these stats

1464
01:14:37,320 --> 01:14:39,320
Speaker 1: after Victor sat out Game eighty two. I wanted to

1465
01:14:39,360 --> 01:14:42,320
Speaker 1: kind of pull up his numbers. But Victor, Victor has

1466
01:14:42,360 --> 01:14:46,120
Speaker 1: been preposterously good to give you, To give you guys

1467
01:14:46,120 --> 01:14:49,800
Speaker 1: an idea, last forty five games this season, Victor Wemenyama

1468
01:14:49,840 --> 01:14:53,120
Speaker 1: twenty three points, eleven rebounds and four four assists per game,

1469
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:56,840
Speaker 1: five point one steals plus blocks, fifty nine percent true

1470
01:14:56,840 --> 01:14:59,639
Speaker 1: shooting percentage, and in those forty five games, the Spurs

1471
01:14:59,680 --> 01:15:02,280
Speaker 1: were p us twenty eight with Victor on the floor,

1472
01:15:02,560 --> 01:15:06,360
Speaker 1: minus two hundred and thirty with him off the floor.

1473
01:15:06,439 --> 01:15:09,360
Speaker 1: So to put it simply, I think that I think

1474
01:15:09,439 --> 01:15:12,320
Speaker 1: Victor women Yama is right around the corner from being

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01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:14,519
Speaker 1: a top ten, top five player in this league. Your

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01:15:14,560 --> 01:15:17,559
Speaker 1: timeline is different, so you don't have time to bring

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01:15:17,560 --> 01:15:19,719
Speaker 1: in some rookie that's going to take six seven years

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01:15:19,760 --> 01:15:23,120
Speaker 1: to turn into a good basketball player. Your timeline is now,

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01:15:23,640 --> 01:15:25,720
Speaker 1: and so because of that, I would be looking to

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01:15:25,720 --> 01:15:28,160
Speaker 1: bring in higher level talent. There are ways to do

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01:15:28,200 --> 01:15:30,799
Speaker 1: that in terms of the timeline, Like you can go target.

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01:15:31,680 --> 01:15:34,320
Speaker 1: You can go target lottery picks that flamed out at

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01:15:34,400 --> 01:15:36,639
Speaker 1: other teams, and that's kind of how the Lakers got

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01:15:36,640 --> 01:15:40,400
Speaker 1: like Ruey Hatchamura or Malik Monk or Lonnie Walker over

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01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:42,360
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. Right, Like you can find

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01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:45,400
Speaker 1: those guys around the league. You can find talented young

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01:15:45,439 --> 01:15:48,200
Speaker 1: players to kind of maintain some of your flexibility. But

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, like I want to

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Speaker 1: see Victor alongside a veteran shock creator. He's the top

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01:15:52,160 --> 01:15:54,080
Speaker 1: ten player in the league next year in all likelihood,

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Speaker 1: I want to see what that looks like. I want

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01:15:55,760 --> 01:15:58,559
Speaker 1: to give him a real fighting chance. Obviously, it's all

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01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:02,800
Speaker 1: about like proper decision making and spending, so like you

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01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:06,320
Speaker 1: don't want to overpay, But in terms of like where

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01:16:06,479 --> 01:16:09,080
Speaker 1: where you're looking, I would be looking for that type

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01:16:09,080 --> 01:16:12,120
Speaker 1: of trade upgrade first. If nothing like that is there,

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01:16:12,240 --> 01:16:13,760
Speaker 1: then you look at the draft and you look for

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01:16:13,800 --> 01:16:16,000
Speaker 1: what kind of player is available. And again we'll give

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01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:17,599
Speaker 1: you guys some more picks when we get further down

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Speaker 1: the line. Next picture A next question, I should say,

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01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:25,400
Speaker 1: would you entertain the idea of doing interviews with NBA players?

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01:16:25,439 --> 01:16:27,240
Speaker 1: If so, who would you be interested in having on

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01:16:27,280 --> 01:16:29,719
Speaker 1: the show. Here's the thing, we haven't done it before.

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01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:33,519
Speaker 1: We'll probably do it eventually. My thing with interviews of

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01:16:33,640 --> 01:16:36,639
Speaker 1: NBA players is like, I really only find them interesting

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01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:38,280
Speaker 1: when they talk about basketball, and a lot of the

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01:16:38,280 --> 01:16:40,200
Speaker 1: guys they don't really want to talk about basketball when

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01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:43,640
Speaker 1: they do interviews, or or they're more they serve a

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01:16:43,640 --> 01:16:47,320
Speaker 1: different purpose than an actual, just authentic basketball conversation. So

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01:16:47,600 --> 01:16:49,960
Speaker 1: in terms of like talking with a player, I won't

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01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:52,960
Speaker 1: throw a specific player out. I'll just say this, players

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01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:54,439
Speaker 1: that actually want to sit down and get in the

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01:16:54,479 --> 01:16:56,880
Speaker 1: weeds of basketball, I'm always down to talk with. I

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01:16:56,880 --> 01:16:59,280
Speaker 1: think that'd be a lot of fun. It's not really

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01:16:59,360 --> 01:17:01,519
Speaker 1: the This is not an interview show. It's not really

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01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:03,880
Speaker 1: what we do, right Like this is kind of just

1517
01:17:03,920 --> 01:17:06,760
Speaker 1: a film study show and a basketball analysis show. But

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01:17:07,200 --> 01:17:09,360
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say it'll never happen, and it probably

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01:17:09,360 --> 01:17:11,240
Speaker 1: will happen at some point in the future. I just

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01:17:11,320 --> 01:17:14,160
Speaker 1: personally would like to do it on a basketball level

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01:17:14,160 --> 01:17:18,400
Speaker 1: and not so much a superficial level. Last question, Hey, Jason,

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01:17:18,400 --> 01:17:20,280
Speaker 1: great podcast. Love it. I was just wondering, do you

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01:17:20,280 --> 01:17:22,400
Speaker 1: play all those guitars behind you? Because there are some

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01:17:22,439 --> 01:17:26,400
Speaker 1: lovely prss there on the wall every time. So, yeah,

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01:17:26,439 --> 01:17:29,280
Speaker 1: I do play. I'm not particularly good at it. Like,

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01:17:29,680 --> 01:17:32,040
Speaker 1: I will freely admit that I think I'm a good

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Speaker 1: basketball player. I know that because I've put in the

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01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:36,160
Speaker 1: work to be a good basketball player. I'm a hell

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01:17:36,200 --> 01:17:37,479
Speaker 1: of a lot better than I was when I was

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01:17:37,520 --> 01:17:39,320
Speaker 1: in college. And when I was in college, I was

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01:17:39,320 --> 01:17:40,960
Speaker 1: a pretty limited player, but I was good enough to

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01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:43,640
Speaker 1: get my school paid for, right, And I feel confident

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Speaker 1: saying that I'm a good basketball player because I've paid

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01:17:45,800 --> 01:17:48,559
Speaker 1: the dues, right. I would never say that about guitar,

1535
01:17:48,760 --> 01:17:52,040
Speaker 1: Like it's my second hobby. I do devote a good

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Speaker 1: amount of time to it, probably like five hours a week,

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01:17:54,360 --> 01:17:57,040
Speaker 1: and so I love it. I have fun with it,

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01:17:57,080 --> 01:18:00,240
Speaker 1: but like I'll probably dive more full into it when

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01:18:00,320 --> 01:18:03,360
Speaker 1: I when I'm done playing basketball. I'm thirty two. I

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01:18:03,439 --> 01:18:06,240
Speaker 1: turned thirty three in August. Got probably a solid five

1541
01:18:06,320 --> 01:18:08,680
Speaker 1: years left of playing basketball at a high level. I'm

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01:18:08,680 --> 01:18:10,320
Speaker 1: going to ride that out as long as I can,

1543
01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:13,360
Speaker 1: and when the knees and ankles or whatever goes for me,

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01:18:13,520 --> 01:18:17,519
Speaker 1: then I'll probably devote more energy to guitar. My guitars

1545
01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:20,840
Speaker 1: are basically the only thing I collect. It's funny. I'm

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01:18:20,840 --> 01:18:23,280
Speaker 1: like cheap with everything else. I'm cheap with basketball shoes,

1547
01:18:23,320 --> 01:18:27,720
Speaker 1: I'm cheap. I'm generally a cheap guy. But guitars I

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01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:31,320
Speaker 1: splurge on. Paul Reed Smith is my favorite brand. I've

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01:18:31,320 --> 01:18:36,679
Speaker 1: got three of them. This one here is the PRS.

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01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:38,720
Speaker 1: Fans will recognize this as a Silver Sky. It's the

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01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:43,040
Speaker 1: John Mayer signature model, basically a Stratocaster. Absolutely absolutely love

1552
01:18:43,080 --> 01:18:45,800
Speaker 1: this guitar. That's my favorite guitar I've ever had. Super,

1553
01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:48,760
Speaker 1: super easy to play. This is an old school Fender

1554
01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:53,479
Speaker 1: strat I love the color on that one. This was

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01:18:53,520 --> 01:18:56,000
Speaker 1: the first PRS I got. This is a CE twenty four,

1556
01:18:56,160 --> 01:18:59,479
Speaker 1: so it's like they're Classic Electric. It's an American made one,

1557
01:18:59,479 --> 01:19:02,280
Speaker 1: but it's their lower quality would and then they have

1558
01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:05,479
Speaker 1: like bolt on necks and steel trim on it. This

1559
01:19:05,520 --> 01:19:07,920
Speaker 1: one's really fun to play, really easy to play. And

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01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:13,920
Speaker 1: last but not least long reach for that one. This

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01:19:14,040 --> 01:19:16,639
Speaker 1: is my favorite. Oh, this is probably my nicest guitar,

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01:19:16,680 --> 01:19:18,720
Speaker 1: I should say I do. I do prefer playing this

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01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:22,200
Speaker 1: Olver Sky, but this is a This is a Hollibody

1564
01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:25,679
Speaker 1: two Paso. The pizzo is basically a fancy pickup that's

1565
01:19:25,760 --> 01:19:30,840
Speaker 1: in the bridge that makes acoustic sounds. But actually, ironically

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01:19:30,880 --> 01:19:32,800
Speaker 1: I bought this because I was excited about some of

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01:19:32,840 --> 01:19:35,639
Speaker 1: the acoustics stuff that you can do. But these are

1568
01:19:35,680 --> 01:19:38,960
Speaker 1: the vintage fifty eight to fifteen pickups from PRS and

1569
01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:43,120
Speaker 1: they are absolutely beautiful sounding, and because it's completely hollow,

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01:19:43,600 --> 01:19:46,720
Speaker 1: it gets like really good resonance throughout the guitar. This

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01:19:46,760 --> 01:19:49,479
Speaker 1: one is just beautiful. This one's like literally like probably

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01:19:49,479 --> 01:19:52,280
Speaker 1: the nicest piece of art that I own. I absolutely

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01:19:52,320 --> 01:19:55,360
Speaker 1: love this guitar. As you can see, it's got like

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01:19:55,400 --> 01:19:56,760
Speaker 1: two inputs in it so that you can do the

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01:19:56,760 --> 01:20:05,000
Speaker 1: acoustic and the electric stuff. But anyway, I uh, like

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01:20:05,040 --> 01:20:07,400
Speaker 1: I said, you're not gonna you're not gonna see any videos,

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01:20:07,439 --> 01:20:09,559
Speaker 1: gonna be playing for a while. But but I do

1578
01:20:09,680 --> 01:20:12,080
Speaker 1: love playing guitar. It's like kind of like my side hobby,

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01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:14,439
Speaker 1: and I do plan on diving into it more when

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01:20:14,479 --> 01:20:17,320
Speaker 1: the basketball days are over. Uh that's all I got

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01:20:17,320 --> 01:20:20,120
Speaker 1: for today, guys. As always, I sincerely appreciate you guys

1582
01:20:20,160 --> 01:20:23,040
Speaker 1: for supporting the show again. We're gonna be back tomorrow

1583
01:20:23,120 --> 01:20:25,519
Speaker 1: morning with the preview of Pacers Bucks, and then after

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01:20:25,560 --> 01:20:31,040
Speaker 1: that we're gonna get into our uh insert reaction shows

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01:20:31,080 --> 01:20:33,280
Speaker 1: for the playing games tomorrow. I will see you guys.

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Speaker 1: Then the volume