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Speaker 2: USA at a very entertaining first game of pool play

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Speaker 2: in the Olympics against Serbia as they win by twenty

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Speaker 2: and that debate. Kevin Durant in his return, once again

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Speaker 2: just shows this uncanny ability to just step back out

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Speaker 2: minus eight in the game his team wins by twenty six.

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Speaker 2: The obvious sore thumbs sticking out on this Team USA roster.

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Speaker 2: a bunch Team USA stuff today. You guys know the

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Speaker 2: that strictly evaluates the basketball players and how they contribute

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Speaker 2: it's really hard to after your jumping, passing lanes, picking

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Speaker 2: So that ended up being the issue. Servey ended up

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Speaker 2: Katie gets too clean looks and catch chose situations to

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Speaker 2: start right the one on the right wing on the

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Speaker 2: extra pass, the one off the set play. Then from

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Speaker 2: there that's when he started to flow into the tougher shots.

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Speaker 2: Took a wonderbble pull up going to his left in

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Speaker 2: the middle of the lane, knocked it down. Took that

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Speaker 2: pull up three in ISO against the backup center at

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Speaker 2: the top of the key, knocked it down. He had

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00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:03,680
Speaker 2: a contested catch and shoot three against Jokich in the

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Speaker 2: left corner. He had a one legged fade away on

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Speaker 2: the right elbow area, the two for one right before

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Speaker 2: the half. Takes the pull up, or it might have

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Speaker 2: been right before the end of the first quarter. I

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Speaker 2: can't remember exactly, but takes the pull up three with

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Speaker 2: like thirty two seconds left, and I think it was

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Speaker 2: before the half, and then he had that crazy shot

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Speaker 2: as he cut along the baseline and he like caught

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Speaker 2: and turned into like a right shoulder fade right before

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Speaker 2: the half. It's a beautiful example of like you want

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Speaker 2: to build your rhythm through easy shots and then you

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Speaker 2: want to go into the tougher stuff, right and like,

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Speaker 2: this is something that Kde has always had a really

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Speaker 2: good grasp on. Kde doesn't come out and just start

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Speaker 2: taking super tough jump shots. He works his way into

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Speaker 2: the flow until he finds his rhythm. Then he starts

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Speaker 2: to see how far his rhythm can carry him with

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Speaker 2: the higher level shot making that he is capable of.

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Speaker 2: Having him out there and I think he's gonna end

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Speaker 2: up starting before too long, if not literally on Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: but having him out there just fundamentally alls it, like

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Speaker 2: fundamentally alters the spacing of the unit because he's like

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Speaker 2: on this team, he's like a super juiced up version

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Speaker 2: of Michael Porter junior. He's doing a lot of work

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Speaker 2: off the ball, but we're talking about one of the

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Speaker 2: most deadly spot up guys literally in the history of

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Speaker 2: basketball doing his thing over there, like twenty three points

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Speaker 2: on nine shots. I'm always amazed specifically with Kevin Durant.

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Speaker 2: I'm always amazed by his ability to step on the

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Speaker 2: floor and immediately be in rhythm. So any of you

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Speaker 2: guys who have played college basketball or high school basketball

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Speaker 2: and they've had an injury know exactly what this is like.

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Speaker 2: This is something I see with like the vast majority

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Speaker 2: of NBA players. Think about your favorite NBA team and

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00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 2: then you hear like Lakers fans like, hey, Ruy Hachimura

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Speaker 2: has been out for two weeks with this injury. He's

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Speaker 2: coming back tonight. What do you expect from Ruey hat

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Speaker 2: Chimura in that situation. You expect him to look like

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Speaker 2: rueyat Chimura, meaning physically he's gonna look like Grewyachimura on

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Speaker 2: the court, but he's probably going to be rusty, right.

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Speaker 2: You expect him to probably go one for four from three,

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Speaker 2: not three for four from three. You expect him to

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Speaker 2: look a little tired sometimes. You expect him to make

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Speaker 2: a few defensive mistakes. You expect him to miss a

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Speaker 2: couple reads because he's adjusting back to the speed of

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Speaker 2: the game. Again, you expect that with everybody. Well, bron

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Speaker 2: Like forever I remember, it'd be like he'd take a

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00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,679
Speaker 2: day off, or he'd take a couple of weeks off

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Speaker 2: to nurse and injury, and he'd come back and it's

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Speaker 2: like it's like he's mishandling the basketball. The jumper's not

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Speaker 2: quite there. Like that's a super typical thing. I had

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Speaker 2: a foot injury before my second year playing in college.

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Speaker 2: I was terrible in the first semester. I was way

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Speaker 2: better in the second semester, because it's just really hard

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Speaker 2: to go from being hurt to getting back to like

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00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 2: the full idealized version of yourself. Katie has has this

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00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 2: bizarre superpower, and I mean, the best example of it

505
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Speaker 2: was the twenty nineteen Finals. The dude misses a month

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Speaker 2: of basketball and then step onto the floor in the

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Speaker 2: NBA Finals in a must win game against one of

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Speaker 2: the best defenses in the league and just smooth just

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Speaker 2: comes out, starts hitting shots and has eleven points like

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Speaker 2: that before he ends up having the Achilles injury like

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Speaker 2: he It is remarkable his ability to just walk into incredible,

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Speaker 2: high stakes, high pressure basketball and just look like Kevin Durant.

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Speaker 2: It's one of the craziest things I've ever seen. I

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Speaker 2: literally don't know what to make of it. And it

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Speaker 2: was super fun to watch him out there yesterday alongside

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Speaker 2: the rest of Team USA. Lebron again was amazing. The

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Speaker 2: transition pushes are the main one that are standing out

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Speaker 2: to me, Like he literally looks like old freight train

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Speaker 2: Lebron with his ability to just get that head of

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Speaker 2: steam and drop that shoulder, get those little angles and

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Speaker 2: then power through people for left handed finishes and right

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Speaker 2: handed finishes. He's still operating as the hub at the

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Speaker 2: top of the key and hitting cutters. A big one

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Speaker 2: that you'll see is like again, just like an off

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00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 2: ball screen where you have a shooter come off and

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Speaker 2: then the screen will slip and like he hit Ant

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Speaker 2: for a foul on one of those, he hit Drew

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Speaker 2: Holiday for a wide open layup on a great example

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Speaker 2: of what I'm talking about in terms of off ball

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Speaker 2: player movement and trying to bait defenses into making mistakes.

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Speaker 2: This was the second clip that I pulled and put

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Speaker 2: on my Twitter feed. Basic action Lebron at the top

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Speaker 2: of the key, Drew Holiday goes and sets a pin

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Speaker 2: down for Steph Curry. Steph Curry's trying to come off

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Speaker 2: for a three. Both defenders miscommunicate the switch. They both

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Speaker 2: run out with Steph drew holiday slips, he's wide open,

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00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,640
Speaker 2: Lebron hits him wide open layup, and that you gotta

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Speaker 2: have a guy that can like kind of make those

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Speaker 2: reads and can see over the top of the defense

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Speaker 2: and actually get to pass on time and on target.

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Speaker 2: Lebron's done an amazing job with that. In the second half,

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Speaker 2: he really started to get that pick and roll chemistry

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Speaker 2: with Anthony Davis going. He had one on the right

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Speaker 2: wing where he hit Anthony Davis, he got a left

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Speaker 2: handed layup, he hit Anthony Davis for an and one

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Speaker 2: for a lob dunk at one point. Lebron is just

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Speaker 2: continuing to do a masterful job of just orchestrating this

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Speaker 2: team USA offense. Twenty one points, seven rebounds, and nine assists,

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Speaker 2: another monster stat line for him, just thirteen shots. Devin Booker,

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Speaker 2: I thought, hit a couple of huge threes early in

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Speaker 2: the game and help situations that kind of loosen things

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00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 2: up when the USA team got off to a slow start.

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Speaker 2: Steph's gravity, just him running around has been a huge help.

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Speaker 2: I talked about the play again, like the reason why

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00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 2: those two defenders make that mistake of running out with

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Speaker 2: Steph so that Drew gets open. Is because as a defender,

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Speaker 2: you're terrified of Steph getting open, and you're gonna default,

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00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,120
Speaker 2: or if you're gonna make a mistake, you're gonna you're

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00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 2: gonna accidentally leave the other guy open. You're never gonna

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00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:35,120
Speaker 2: accidentally leave Steph open. And so that's gravity, that's that's

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00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 2: just the inherent fear of Steph's shooting ability that creates

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00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 2: opening else openings elsewhere on the floor and just in general.

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Speaker 2: He's running around like absolutely crazy throughout the game, and

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00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 2: it's just creating openings. There was a dribble hand off

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00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 2: with Lebron where his man is top locking him. It's

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00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,440
Speaker 2: on the left wing, his man's top locking him, making

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00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 2: it really hard for him to fight over. He curls

568
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 2: around Lebron. Lebron does a nice job of like pivoting

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Speaker 2: into the DHO to get some more contact on Steph's man.

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Speaker 2: Hits Steph with the bounce pass as he's going towards

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00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 2: the rim that draws embiids man over. He drops it

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00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 2: off to Embid easy little short five foot jump shot

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00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 2: generated by just Steph being willing to run and run

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Speaker 2: and run and run, and it's just helping to keep

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Speaker 2: things open. Drew Holliday hitting open threes. He had fifteen points.

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Speaker 2: His cutting one of the things that I've talked about

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Speaker 2: a lot with Drew Holliday with the Celtics, and they

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00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 2: do this with Derek White too, but Drew Holidays as

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Speaker 2: a really a really good grasp of openings to cut

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Speaker 2: and not be lazy and go to the three point line.

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Speaker 2: Generally speaking, you feel like you're doing your job by

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Speaker 2: staying at the three point line because you're giving three

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Speaker 2: point spacing. But as I've always said, three point shooting,

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Speaker 2: while it is the most efficient shot outside of the rim,

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Speaker 2: it is not as efficient as shots at the rim.

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Speaker 2: Those continue to be by far the most efficient shots

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Speaker 2: in basketball. There was a play steph ended up missing

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00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 2: to three on this sequence, but Drew Holliday's running up

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Speaker 2: the right side of the floor. His man's playing a

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00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 2: little on the high side. There's nobody under the basket,

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00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 2: and there's nobody in the corner, and Drew sees an opportunity.

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00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 2: He could run to the corner or just stay on

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Speaker 2: the wing. And he's still spotting up and creating spacing right,

594
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 2: but his man was playing on the high side and

595
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 2: staring at the ball, and so Drew's like, screw it.

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00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna cut to the basket, cuts to the basket,

597
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 2: catches underneath all the Serbia dudes just close in on him.

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00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 2: He ends up throwing it out to Steph. Steph gets

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00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 2: a wide open three. He just happened to miss it.

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00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 2: But like Drew has just been a really nice connective

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Speaker 2: piece on this team because of his ability to cut,

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00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 2: because of his ability to make those extra passes. There

603
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 2: is a play where one of Joel Embid's good plays

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00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 2: in this game, Joel and bad cuts in the middle

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00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 2: of four. Drew Holiday cuts back door and be beautiful

606
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 2: pass to Drew on the cut that draws Lebron's man

607
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 2: and help Lebron cuts and Drew drops it off. Lebron

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00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 2: gets it dunk again. You'd think and be posting, what

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00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 2: if Drew and Lebron just stayed on the wing in

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00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 2: the corner. Yeah, that's technically creating space, But what do

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00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 2: I say? Off ball, cut, relocate screen. Those three things

612
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 2: make it a lot harder for the off ball defender.

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00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 2: Drew cut, his defender got lost as a result, that

614
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 2: forced Lebron's man to step up Lebron could have been like,

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00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,479
Speaker 2: I'll take a corner three. No, why would I take

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Speaker 2: a corner three when I can get a dunk that's

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00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 2: worth that's worth two points every single time he cuts

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00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 2: back door. That's two cuts instead of two spot ups

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00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 2: that leads to a dunk instead of a three. That

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00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 2: might be worth one point four points per shot for

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00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 2: a good shooter. Right, So, like the these are the

622
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 2: kinds of things that I think are vitally important, And

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Speaker 2: like Steph is doing that all the time. He's just

624
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 2: running and sprinting and running and sprinting. Drew's doing that,

625
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 2: he's cutting, Lebron's cutting. That's what I like about that

626
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:44,479
Speaker 2: starting unit. Like Drew, Steph and Lebron, they're like professional cutters,

627
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 2: that's what they do. And that that sort of thing

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00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 2: has just kind of helped loosen things up for that

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Speaker 2: offensive unit on the Serbia front. Like I talked about,

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Speaker 2: same thing that happened last time. They just got really

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00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 2: really Oh one last note on Drew Holiday. Drew Halliday's

632
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 2: defensive pressure continues to be really impressive. He had two

633
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 2: steals that both led to pick sixes. He ripped Jokic

634
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 2: on a post up right around the foul line that

635
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 2: led to Lebron getting it dunk and then he jumped

636
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 2: a passing lane and got a left handed layup out

637
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 2: of it. I think Drew has been amazing, Like it's

638
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 2: interesting on a team like this that he just seems

639
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 2: like he has to start, but he just does like

640
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 2: I think Drew. I think Drew just has to start

641
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:21,239
Speaker 2: on this team Serbia. The cold shooting again, same thing

642
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 2: that happened last time. The swarming of Jokic again. Tmusa

643
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 2: is just constantly throwing three of the best possible dudes

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00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 2: in the world that you can throw at Jokic. I

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00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 2: think embiads a little overrated defensively, and I think that's

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00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 2: been on display in this in this Team USA situation.

647
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Speaker 2: But he's one of the few big bodies that can

648
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 2: kind of make things tougher for Jokic in the post.

649
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 2: And he still had twenty points in eight assists. Serbia

650
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 2: played Team USA even in Nikole Jokic's minutes. He played

651
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 2: thirty one minutes they were even. They got outscored by

652
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 2: twenty six in the other nine minutes, which is insane.

653
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 2: He had nine post ups for fourteen points, including passes

654
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 2: that equals one point five six points per possession. Just

655
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 2: Jokic continues to be incredibly impressive. The one thing that

656
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 2: continues to concern me with him though, one for seven

657
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 2: on jump shots against Team USA, struggle to knock down

658
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 2: jump shots in the exhibition game as well. That's the

659
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Speaker 2: one thing with Jokic that I can't figure out, Like

660
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 2: he just has not shot the basketball well since he

661
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,239
Speaker 2: won the title in twenty twenty three, and I think

662
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 2: he's going to have to fix that, especially in light

663
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 2: of some of the personnel downgrades that Denver's dealing with

664
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Speaker 2: going into next season.

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Speaker 1: The NFL seasons right around the corner. Will be breaking

666
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Speaker 1: down all the off season storylines on the Colin Cowherd

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Speaker 1: podcast My Best Takes guests like my buddy Nick Wright.

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Speaker 1: Check out the Colin Coward podcast, part of the Volume network,

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Speaker 1: available on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 2: All right, two topics that I want to hit for

671
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 2: you out here, Jason Tatum and Joelen So. Jason Tatum

672
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 2: gets a DNP coach's decision and this was a big

673
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 2: surprise to me. Now, before I get into my kind

674
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 2: of rationale on it, I just kind of tried to

675
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 2: dig around and see what people were saying in terms

676
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 2: of what the rationale behind what Steve Kerr's decision was.

677
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 2: And the main case that I saw floating around was

678
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 2: like Katie wasn't ready to start, so Katie would typically start,

679
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 2: but he wasn't, so Katie was kind of in that

680
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 2: bench forward role that Tatum would typically be in. And

681
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 2: then Devin Booker they considered to be like a better

682
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 2: ball mover, a guy who's like a really quick decision

683
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 2: maker in five out, and again that's really what I

684
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 2: think drives most of this for Steve Kerr. There's a

685
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 2: lot of like Celtics fans that are making it like, oh,

686
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 2: the Warriors are just mad because the Celtics are kicked

687
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 2: our butt last year. This is a jealousy thing. It's

688
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 2: I don't think that's the case. Guys like the Warriors

689
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 2: beat the Celtics in the finals two years ago. There's

690
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 2: no reason for them to be insecure about this matchup.

691
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 2: They beat the Celtics on the biggest possible stage to

692
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 2: win the title. They're just old now, that's why they're

693
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 2: bad that that's that's not an issue. So I don't

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00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 2: think it has anything to do with that. I don't

695
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:16,280
Speaker 2: think Kerr has some sort of personal vendetta against Jason Tatum.

696
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,359
Speaker 2: I think this is about basketball worldview. This is something

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00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 2: I talk about all the time, Like I have a

698
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,840
Speaker 2: basketball worldview. I have a specific way that I like

699
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 2: to play, that I think teams should play, but like,

700
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,879
Speaker 2: that's not the only way that teams think, and that

701
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 2: team strategize, and that teams want to play, that coaches strategize,

702
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 2: and that coaches want to play. Everyone's got different strategies here,

703
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 2: and I like and I think I think in retrospect,

704
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 2: we can look at the way that team, that the

705
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 2: Golden State Warriors have played and look at it and

706
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 2: go like wow. Like often Steve Kerr would leave two

707
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 2: of his forwards on the bench. He'd go with like

708
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 2: he'd have you know, Moody and Kaminga on the bench,

709
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 2: and then he would have Brandon Pizemski, Steph Curry, and

710
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 2: Klay Thompson all out there at the same time, and

711
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 2: you're like, wow, they're way too small and not athletic enough.

712
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 2: But what Steve Kerr is thinking there is Steph Lightning,

713
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 2: quick decision maker, lightning, quick read and react guy in

714
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 2: five out, same for Clay, same for Pozamski. That's what

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00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 2: he's thinking. I think that that Jason Tatum as a

716
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 2: guy that has a little bit of a tendency to

717
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 2: catch and hold. I think that Steve Kerr just kind

718
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,840
Speaker 2: of like doesn't like his his play style as a

719
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 2: fit within Team USA. I don't buy that, though. I

720
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 2: don't think that's nearly enough of an excuse to leave

721
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 2: a guy who is at Here's the thing do think.

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Speaker 2: Do I think Tatum is a top five player in

723
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 2: the world. No, he got First Team All NBA because

724
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 2: his team has five thirty million dollar players and they

725
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 2: won sixty four games. I do not think Jason Tatum

726
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 2: is one of the five best basketball players in the world.

727
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:56,279
Speaker 2: But like in this setting, he's still a guy that

728
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 2: absolutely has to be in this rotation. He's at least

729
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 2: he's a top ten player. He's in that six seven,

730
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 2: eight nine range. He belongs in this rotation. He specifically

731
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 2: plays a need. You can't justify starting three guards on

732
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:17,760
Speaker 2: a team that has Tatum, Lebron, Katie, Anthony Davis, and Bam,

733
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 2: all guys that can play the like Bam and AD

734
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 2: can play the four, Lebron can play the four. There

735
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 2: are lots of minutes at the three available that needs.

736
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 2: That is a misallocation of resources to have a top

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00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 2: ten player that plays a specific position of need. You're

738
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Speaker 2: starting three guards, Steve Kerr, You're starting three guards, and yeah,

739
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,800
Speaker 2: Like Tatum is a bit of a slower decision maker

740
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 2: than most, but I still think he's above average at

741
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 2: reading the floor. I know he hasn't played as well

742
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 2: with Team USA as he's capable of. He's still in

743
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 2: this nightmare shooting slump. His form is all jacked up.

744
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 2: He's got a hitch in there, He's got multiple hitches

745
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 2: in there. His form looks crazy. He's got bad misses,

746
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 2: jumpers off the reservation. But he still brings so much

747
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,439
Speaker 2: to the table. We're gonna talk about EMBID in a minute.

748
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 2: The EMBIID thing is so much more complicated because he's

749
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 2: struggling on both ends of the floor. He's jankin things

750
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 2: up for them on offense, and he's not doing enough

751
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 2: on the defensive end of the flour. Tatum is an

752
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 2: elite defensive rebounder and an elite front court defender, So like,

753
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 2: there's literally no excuse that lack of like quick decision

754
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 2: making is not nearly enough of an excuse, in my opinion,

755
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 2: to leave a player of this caliber on the bench.

756
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 2: You can't DNP Tatum and start three guards. That is

757
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 2: a decision that I can't get behind. And so again

758
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:43,360
Speaker 2: what I would do. I think you start Kevin Durant

759
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:45,839
Speaker 2: and Devin Booker spot. I think that's very simple. Shoe

760
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 2: and fit there. Now you don't have three guard lineup.

761
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 2: Katie makes sense with the starters. Then you put Tatum

762
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 2: in Kd's slot with the bench guys. And again, this

763
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 2: is not about the Celtics, Like I saw Bill Simmons

764
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,800
Speaker 2: saying that, like Jason Tatum should be in Lebron's spot

765
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 2: running the show because Tatum won a lot more games.

766
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 2: That's stupid, Like you swap Lebron and Tatum this year,

767
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,919
Speaker 2: the Celtics still win the title. They have five thirty

768
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 2: million dollar players. We don't need to overthink this, Like,

769
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 2: it's not about what Tatum deserves in terms of what

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00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 2: he accomplished in the NBA. It's about the fact that

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00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 2: Tatum is too fucking good to leave him sitting when

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00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 2: you're starting a three guard lineup that is getting rolled

773
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 2: at the start of every single game. Slide Katie into

774
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 2: the starting lineup, put Tatum in with that bench group,

775
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 2: make sure he gets his opportunities. He's too good of

776
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 2: a player to not take advantage of what he brings

777
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 2: to the table. But I think this is all about

778
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 2: Steve Kerr's offensive philosophy. He's obsessed with lightning quick decision

779
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 2: making and his blender of an offense and Tatum is

780
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 2: a little too deliberate, and I think as a result

781
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,879
Speaker 2: of that, Kerr has favored his guards. That's why he's

782
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 2: playing Devin Booker, That's why he's playing Derek White, that's

783
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 2: why he's playing Drew Holliday. Guards from birth are trained

784
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 2: to be lightening quick decision makers. That's what guards do

785
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 2: at every level. And so I think that's why Steve

786
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 2: Kerr just kind of gravitates to those sorts of guys.

787
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 2: I actually think, like I said, I think it's hilarious

788
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 2: in retrospect watching the way that he was coaching that

789
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 2: Golden State Warriors rotation. And again, this is the thing,

790
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 2: there are different basketball philosophies guys like I talked about earlier,

791
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 2: like there's a trade off. Steve Kerr knows the tradeoff

792
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 2: Steve Kerr knows that when he decides to play three guards,

793
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:30,720
Speaker 2: whether it be with the Warriors or with Team USA,

794
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 2: he knows he's making gains in offensive decision making and quickness,

795
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 2: he's making gains in ball handling, and he's losing ground

796
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 2: in physicality, defensive, rebounding, transition athleticism. Like he's making a

797
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:49,720
Speaker 2: trade off, right, and we, by the way, we've seen

798
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 2: the opposite version of that. The twenty twenty Lakers were

799
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:56,760
Speaker 2: the exact opposite version of that. They sacrifice ball handling

800
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 2: and quick decision making and had some moments where they

801
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 2: struggled in half court offense, but they had Alex Crusoe

802
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 2: and KCP and Danny Green, Lebron and Anthony Davis out there.

803
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 2: They were so damn big and sodamn athletic. They were

804
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 2: a monster defensive rebounding team. They were a monster defensive team.

805
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 2: They were a monster transition team. That was a trade

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00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:19,319
Speaker 2: off that Frank Vogel took. Frank Vogel said, I want

807
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 2: to lean into my team's strength, which is size and

808
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 2: size and mobility on the perimeter, size and mobility underneath

809
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:29,959
Speaker 2: the basket. We're just gonna be a wrecking ball, physical team, right,

810
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 2: And that's the thing. Like Steve Kerr has looked at

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00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 2: a very similar roster. Steve Kirk could do that with

812
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 2: this group. Steve Kerr could look at this group and

813
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:41,720
Speaker 2: he could go, I'm gonna go Steph Tatum, Kadi, Lebron

814
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Speaker 2: ad We're just gonna be huge. We're gonna switch everything,

815
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 2: We're gonna lean into that. He could go super athletic.

816
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 2: He could bench KD and he could go we're gonna

817
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 2: go eighty bam, Lebron, Tatum and Anthony Edwards at the

818
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 2: point and be like offense can be a little JANKI,

819
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 2: but we're gonna beat the shit out of people because

820
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 2: we're bigger and stronger and faster at every single position.

821
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,399
Speaker 2: Like he has different angles he can go and it's

822
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 2: very clear to me. Again, I don't think this has

823
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 2: anything to do with Kerr having hang ups about the

824
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 2: Celtics or about Tatum. I don't think this has anything

825
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 2: to do with what Tatum accomplished with the Celtics. I

826
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 2: think this is strictly just a basketball philosophy that Steve

827
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,800
Speaker 2: Kerr has. He prioritizes quick decision making on the perimeter. Therefore,

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00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 2: he has gone with more of his guards instead of

829
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 2: his forwards. But there's no justification. Look at the course.

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00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 2: Look at the course. The guard corps on this team

831
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 2: is Steph Ant, Derek White, Drew Holliday, Devin Booker. The

832
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 2: ford core on this team is Lebron James, Kevin Durant,

833
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,439
Speaker 2: Jason Tatum, Anthony Davis, bam at A Bayo. I would

834
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:48,240
Speaker 2: argue that's the strength of the roster. Lean into size,

835
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:52,280
Speaker 2: Lean into your forwards. So there's no excuse for having

836
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 2: Tatum outside of the ten man rotation. Has nothing to

837
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,319
Speaker 2: do with him winning the title, has nothing to do

838
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 2: with winning sixty four games, has nothing to do with

839
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,360
Speaker 2: making first team All NBA. It had has everything to

840
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,879
Speaker 2: do with the fact that he's too good at basketball

841
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 2: to leave what he brings to the table on the bench.

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00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk to Joel Embid, then we'll get

843
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 2: out of here. So he got off to slow start again,

844
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 2: missed a little short jumper on a catch and pick

845
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 2: and roll. He missed a couple of free throws after

846
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:19,399
Speaker 2: getting fouled underneath the basket by Jokic. He got beat

847
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,320
Speaker 2: to the rim by a small guard and drop coverage

848
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,760
Speaker 2: like he's in drop coverage, but he's standing really upright.

849
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 2: And then this little unathletic guard just went right around

850
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 2: Embiid and made a layup off the glass. I'm like, dude,

851
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 2: what are you doing? Like this is the bare minimum

852
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 2: of what they have to get out of you in

853
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 2: this role. He immediately on the same play, gives up

854
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 2: the layup, takes the inbound pass and just throws it

855
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 2: right to the other team and they get another They

856
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 2: were down ten two like this, like it. It was

857
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 2: a complete disaster. He was minus eight in a game

858
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 2: that Team USA won by twenty six points. That's that's

859
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:55,320
Speaker 2: legitimately hard to do. And again, like guys like Embiid

860
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 2: has had high moments with this team, He's had good moments.

861
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 2: I had good moments in this game. The back door

862
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,359
Speaker 2: cut pass to Drew Holliday that led to the dunk

863
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 2: for Lebron. He had an and one little right shoulder

864
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:09,280
Speaker 2: fade against Jokich, hit a little pocket pass or drop

865
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 2: off pass, short jump shot off a pass from Stapf

866
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 2: like he made. He had a big block on a

867
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 2: play where a guy got behind him and he swatted

868
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 2: him off the glass out of bounds. In the second half,

869
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 2: like Embiid had his moments, but it's these disastrous stretches

870
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 2: of mistakes like he had at the start of the game.

871
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 2: You can't afford to go down ten to two in

872
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 2: single elimination basketball like that could get you beat, that

873
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 2: could cost you a gold medal. And so this is

874
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 2: like a legitimate concern that I have for this team.

875
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:38,319
Speaker 2: And like, and here's the thing, I don't think it's

876
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 2: that complicated. I still think that Joel Embiid is a

877
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 2: better franchise cornerstone, a better best player on the team

878
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 2: than Ad and Bam by a pretty sizable margin. But

879
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 2: the reality is there are different ways to play the

880
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 2: game of basketball. And what Joel Embiid plays with the Sixers,

881
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 2: that style of basketball is it's very different than the

882
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 2: style of basketball the team USA is playing, for instance,

883
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 2: it's very similar. Let's just take it like this put

884
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 2: embad on the seventy six ers. It's a brute force

885
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 2: attack right, much less ball in player movement. The seventy

886
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:17,919
Speaker 2: six Ers had the fourth fewest assists in the entire

887
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 2: league last year by total assists. They're not a team

888
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 2: that it's just flowing from side to side, and there's

889
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 2: a ton of ball in player movement. That's not what

890
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 2: they do. Embiid can catch, he can hold, he can cook,

891
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 2: he can throw two or three jab steps. He can

892
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 2: hit dribble combinations if he wants. Why Because the Sixers

893
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:37,720
Speaker 2: need thirty five points and six assists out of him

894
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 2: every single night. So it's a great fit for Embiid there.

895
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 2: If you took Bam and Ad and put them on

896
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 2: the Sixers, they're immediately a way worse team because they

897
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,480
Speaker 2: don't they're not equipped for that style of basketball. That's

898
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 2: not what they do. But if you put Embad on

899
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 2: Team USA, they need him to set ball screens. They

900
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 2: need him to roll quickly into openings in the middle

901
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:00,879
Speaker 2: of the floor. They need him to make decisions when

902
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,839
Speaker 2: he catches, their quick decisions off the catch. They need

903
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 2: him when another guard drives to quickly catch outlet passes

904
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 2: and to quickly flow into the next action on the

905
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,320
Speaker 2: other end of the floor. They need him to sprint

906
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 2: up and down the floor and transition. They need him

907
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 2: to defend at a high level. They need him to

908
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,479
Speaker 2: rebound at a high level. Bam and Ad, that's where

909
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 2: they are in their money. They are professionals at that

910
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 2: kind of thing. That's why those two guys look excellent

911
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,840
Speaker 2: in this format, playing this style of basketball, and Embededd struggles.

912
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 2: And this is different from the Tatum thing because it's

913
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 2: similar to the Tatum issue, right, Like Tatum on the

914
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 2: Celtics where they need him to be more of an

915
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 2: advantage crater and more of a screener. It like he's

916
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 2: involved more frequently with the action. It makes sense for Boston, right.

917
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 2: But there's two huge differences between the Tatum thing and

918
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:50,399
Speaker 2: the Embid thing. One, a ball stopper, specifically at the

919
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 2: center position is the worst place for one in five

920
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 2: out offense. That is the bridge guy, that is the

921
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 2: guy that bridges the action from one side to the

922
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:03,360
Speaker 2: next to ball mover at that position. And Secondly, Jason

923
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:07,359
Speaker 2: Tatum is an excellent athlete who's very durable and in

924
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,800
Speaker 2: great shape, and he sells at the dirty work stuff.

925
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 2: Embiid doesn't. He looks out of shape and he's struggling.

926
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 2: So like with Tatum, it's like, you're willing to live

927
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 2: with some of this because he's gonna bring so much

928
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:22,360
Speaker 2: other good to the table. Embiid's been a borderline disaster

929
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 2: on both ends of the floor. And like, and we're

930
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 2: getting to the point now, guys, like the sample size

931
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:32,320
Speaker 2: is too small to just hope that Embiid figures it out.

932
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 2: Like they play Sousedan on Wednesday, Puerto Rico on Saturday,

933
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 2: quarterfinals on Tuesday, semi finals on Thursday, next week, finals

934
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:42,360
Speaker 2: on Saturday. That's five games, guys, we have five games

935
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:45,319
Speaker 2: left with this group, Like, there's not enough time, Like

936
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:50,280
Speaker 2: Embiid is miles and miles and miles away from figuring

937
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 2: out how to play this style of basketball, and so

938
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 2: he's not going to figure it out before the end

939
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:58,319
Speaker 2: of the gold medal game. And again, if you keep

940
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 2: starting him and you keep dropping down ten two to

941
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,400
Speaker 2: every single team, that could be something that's very dangerous.

942
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 2: When you get to the elimination round, you could make

943
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:10,319
Speaker 2: the case that Embid should benched entirely. Both Bam and

944
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:13,359
Speaker 2: AD are better players in this setting, and you need

945
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 2: to find minutes for Tatum. And an easy way to

946
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:19,919
Speaker 2: do that is stop playing three centers. If you play

947
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,319
Speaker 2: a D with the starters and BAM with the bench,

948
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 2: guys Tatum, all of a sudden, all these minutes open

949
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:27,399
Speaker 2: up for Tatum and then Steve Kirk and keep playing

950
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 2: all the guards that he loves to play. Right, you

951
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:32,839
Speaker 2: could argue it should be a Lebron ad front court

952
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:35,799
Speaker 2: and then a Tatum Bam front court for the bench unit.

953
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 2: You could argue that's the way it should be. But

954
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 2: I don't think they're going to bench Embiid entirely for

955
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:41,759
Speaker 2: all the obvious political kind of backlash that would come

956
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 2: from that. Right, But you also can't keep starting him.

957
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:47,360
Speaker 2: If you keep digging a hole like that every game,

958
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 2: that could be really dangerous when you get to the

959
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 2: elimination round. So what I would do is just put

960
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:55,359
Speaker 2: m b with the bench group. At least there you're

961
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 2: surrounding him with more size and athleticism to cover for

962
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 2: his defensive deficiencies. You can't play Embiid alongside thirty seven

963
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 2: year olds about to be thirty seven year old Steph

964
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 2: and about to be forty year old Lebron, especially if

965
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 2: you move Kde and the lineup. He's getting old too.

966
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:11,839
Speaker 2: You can't just play Embiid, the out of shape guy

967
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:14,760
Speaker 2: who sucks at the dirty work stuff, alongside the old guys.

968
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:17,320
Speaker 2: Put him on the bench with Ant and Tatum and

969
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,480
Speaker 2: Bam and these freaky athletes. Put him out there with them.

970
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:23,799
Speaker 2: They'll cover for his shortcomings in the dirty work, and

971
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 2: that unit needs help on offense. He can bring that there.

972
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 2: It's just less of a big deal if he co

973
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:32,480
Speaker 2: ops possessions there. But again, like this is not an

974
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:36,280
Speaker 2: indictment of Himbiid as a basketball player. He's one dimensional

975
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 2: in terms of his play style right now. He needs

976
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 2: to play the style he plays with the Sixers, but

977
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:44,880
Speaker 2: he is a world beater at that style. It's unrealistic

978
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 2: to expect him to slot into a five out read

979
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:50,399
Speaker 2: and react, trust your teammates, keep the ball moving type

980
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,239
Speaker 2: of offense in a few weeks when he's never done

981
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 2: that in his career. It's just hard to do. And

982
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 2: so I'm not surprised that he's struggling, and I just

983
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 2: hope that Steve Kerr makes the adjustment before it turns

984
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 2: into an issue in the elimination round. All right, guys,

985
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:04,319
Speaker 2: that is all I have for today. Like I said,

986
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 2: TOMORROWM gonna start peeking at player rankings. I'm also going

987
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:08,799
Speaker 2: to start taking a look at some of the other

988
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:12,720
Speaker 2: Olympic games see if there's anything worth hitting on that front.

989
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:14,879
Speaker 2: As always, I appreciate you guys for supporting the show

990
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:16,799
Speaker 2: the game plan for the rest of the week on Wednesday,

991
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 2: south to day in game. I think I'm going with

992
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:21,880
Speaker 2: Colin Coward after the game, so it's very possible that

993
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:23,839
Speaker 2: we won't have a show until Thursday morning because I'll

994
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 2: be going with Colin that day, and then I plan

995
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 2: on doing a mail bag late in the week. I

996
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,799
Speaker 2: don't think we'll cover Puerto Rico because it's just not

997
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 2: an interesting enough matchup, and then we're going to head

998
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 2: it in next week and it's pretty quickly going to

999
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 2: be the Metal the elimination round, so it should be

1000
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 2: fun from there. Again, I appreciate you guys for rocking

1001
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 2: with me. I will see you on Wednesday.

1002
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: The volume well, so, guys.

1003
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 2: As always, I appreciate you for listening to and supporting

1004
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 2: OOPS tonight. It would actually be really helpful for us

1005
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Speaker 2: if you guys would take a second and leave a

1006
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Speaker 2: rating and a review. As always, I appreciate you guys

1007
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Speaker 2: supporting us, but if you could take a minute to

1008
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Speaker 2: do that, I'd really appreciate it.