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Speaker 1: That's why they averaged over a hundred and nineteen points

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Speaker 1: per one possessions in playoffs, or a bunch of those

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Speaker 1: games didn't even have Kawhi Leonard involved. It is the

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Speaker 1: strength of modern offense and how hard it is to guard,

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Speaker 1: especially in a playoffs setting. Um. The downsides there's you

435
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Speaker 1: have to have the right personnel. So, like I said,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be able to run that with a team

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Speaker 1: like the Lakers, and it requires buy and you've got

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Speaker 1: to have guys willing to make the extra pass. Your

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Speaker 1: initial creators have to understand that it's not just them

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Speaker 1: driving into the basket and scoring a lot of the possessions.

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Speaker 1: It's just their job to draw the help defender and

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Speaker 1: get the get the train move in where they're attacking

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Speaker 1: the closeouts, so moving on to the defensive end of

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Speaker 1: the floor. Um, So they switch everything except for when

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Speaker 1: ZoomBox is on the floor are and they always went

446
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Speaker 1: small when the chips were down. So we're gonna kind

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Speaker 1: of focus on switching, and we talked drop coverage at

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Speaker 1: length in the other videos in this series. There are

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Speaker 1: a bunch of specific values that come with switching. First

450
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Speaker 1: of all, stagnation. It throws everybody out of rhythm and

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Speaker 1: it stops other teams sets because it doesn't matter what

452
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Speaker 1: kind of screening action you're running. If a good switching

453
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Speaker 1: team is communicating switches and getting out in front of it,

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Speaker 1: nothing will be open. That will turn you into an

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Speaker 1: isolation team that stagnates a lot of teams around the league,

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Speaker 1: even great teams. The Golden State Warriors in two thousand

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Speaker 1: eighteen were stagnated by the Houston Rockets, and it required

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Speaker 1: excellent isolation play from Steph Curry and Kevin Durant to

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Speaker 1: overcome it. That's the value of a really good switching defense.

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Speaker 1: It lessons physical wear and tear of navigating screens. It's

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Speaker 1: hard physically to just force your way through all these huge,

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Speaker 1: strong forwards who are setting screens all over the floor.

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Speaker 1: If you're switching those screens, it offsets that physical wear

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Speaker 1: and tear into ment old focus, and as long as

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Speaker 1: you pay attention, you communicate well, and you're practiced enough

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Speaker 1: to where you know when to switch and what to do,

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Speaker 1: you can get in front of that stuff without having

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Speaker 1: to hurt yourself physically. Um with a team like the Clippers,

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Speaker 1: when you when you get them to devolve into an

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Speaker 1: isolation attack, they just don't have any good options to attack.

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Speaker 1: So like, let's say you're in a fourth quarter Eastern

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Speaker 1: Conference excuse me, Western Conference semifinals, game six, and there's

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Speaker 1: six minutes left and they're switching everything, and they've got

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Speaker 1: Marcus Morris, you know, Reggie Jackson, Nick patun Kawhi Leonard

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Speaker 1: or Paul George or let's say they put in Norman

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Speaker 1: Powell for Marcus Morris or I think they need to

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Speaker 1: keep more Morris out there for size, But say they

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Speaker 1: put him in there for Nick Patum. Okay, who are

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Speaker 1: you gonna attack? Where's the good match up? Like I've

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Speaker 1: watched lots of footage of the Utah Jazz and the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks attacking Reggie jacks and in post ups, and

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Speaker 1: it's not like they were just barbecuing him. Yeah, they

483
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Speaker 1: got some good stuff sometimes. Yeah, he's small and he's

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Speaker 1: gonna give some ground, but Reggie fights. He's he's a

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Speaker 1: good switch defender. Marcus Morris. Yeah, he's a little bit

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Speaker 1: slow footed. You can beat him off the dribble sometimes,

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Speaker 1: but it's not it's not easy. And and if you

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Speaker 1: have to isolate Marcus Morrison Reggie Jackson for six minutes straight,

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Speaker 1: I like my chances on the other end of the

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Speaker 1: floor going to work with Kawhi Leonard and Paul George,

491
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Speaker 1: probably getting better matchups than you're getting now getting there

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Speaker 1: are downsides. You need to have the right personnel. A

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Speaker 1: lot of teams don't have the personnel to switch. It

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Speaker 1: requires a lot of practice and focus. There are bad

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Speaker 1: switching teams out there that botch switches all the time.

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Speaker 1: The Brooklyn Nets are not a good switching team, for instance.

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Speaker 1: But if you have the right personnel like the Clippers do,

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Speaker 1: and you're bought in and you do it right, it

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Speaker 1: can be a damn effective defense. Their metrics in and

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Speaker 1: they were eighth in defensive rating, which is a little

501
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Speaker 1: bit below their potential. They defended better in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: and they will be a better defensive team. I believe

503
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Speaker 1: this year they're deeper and they're more athletic. They were

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Speaker 1: ninth in defending the three. They were fifth in defensive rebounding.

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Speaker 1: Now this is this is the key difference. Uh, this

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Speaker 1: is the key thing I wanted to talk about as

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Speaker 1: it pertains the switching defenses. So many coaches are reticent

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Speaker 1: to use the switching defense because they're terrified of giving

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Speaker 1: up rebounding mismatches or post mismatches, but mainly rebounding mismatches. Like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you switch your biggest out on the guard on the perimeter.

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Speaker 1: He forced him into a tough step back jumper and

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Speaker 1: he misses. Okay, good, your defense did a job. But

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Speaker 1: their center now has your point guard pinned under the

514
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Speaker 1: basket gets an offensive rebound put back. I get why

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Speaker 1: that's frustrating, but this team was fifth in defensive rebounding

516
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Speaker 1: because size doesn't matter as much as you think. First

517
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Speaker 1: of all, there are more long rebounds than ever before

518
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Speaker 1: because of all the long jump shots. So the big

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Speaker 1: guys around the rebound around the basket are getting few

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Speaker 1: of rebounds, and it's become more important than ever to

521
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Speaker 1: have your guards and your wings crashing the glass. And

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Speaker 1: most importantly, Tyler has them coached up. Well, they're boxing out,

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Speaker 1: they're crashing the glass. That is allowing them to get

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Speaker 1: those to secure those rebounds despite their size. Mismatches a

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Speaker 1: couple of areas. So again, the strength of their the

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Speaker 1: strength of their defense is the defensive rebound extremely well,

527
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Speaker 1: meaning they end possessions. They defend the three point line

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Speaker 1: very well, meaning they take away the second most efficient

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Speaker 1: shot in basketball. They're also seventh in opponents assists, means

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Speaker 1: they stagnate teams and that disrupts the rhythm of the opponent.

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Speaker 1: A couple of areas of opportunity. They were seventeenth and

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Speaker 1: transition defense according to cleaning the glass. That should be

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Speaker 1: better given the amount of athletes that they have. They're

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Speaker 1: also nineteenth enforcing turnovers. That should be better considering the

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Speaker 1: types of defensive talent that they have on the floor. Um,

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Speaker 1: but they do all those other things really well. They

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Speaker 1: also don't fail too much. They were leventh and free

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Speaker 1: throw attempts allowed. So a couple of areas of opportunity.

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Speaker 1: This is a very good defense. All right, what's the

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Speaker 1: best case scenario. The best case scenarios they win the title.

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Speaker 1: I think this is the biggest threat to the Warriors.

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Speaker 1: They can take them out of their sets by switching

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Speaker 1: everything kind of similar to the two thousand eight team

544
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Speaker 1: Rockets did and run turn them into a isolation team.

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Speaker 1: They won't run that stupid drop coverage the way that

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Speaker 1: Boston did that got Steph Curry all those open jump

547
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Speaker 1: shots at the top of the key. They won't play

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Speaker 1: bigs that Steph can attack in iso. Steph was one

549
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Speaker 1: of the most efficient isolation players in basketball this year,

550
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Speaker 1: averaging one point two points per isolation possession, but his

551
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Speaker 1: volume was extraordinarily low because he's very picky. He only

552
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Speaker 1: did it about once per game in the regular season,

553
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Speaker 1: and the main reason why there is he's very picky.

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Speaker 1: He typically will only attack in isolation when he gets

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Speaker 1: biggs on switches. That doesn't mean he's not capable of

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Speaker 1: attacking other players. He can. He's just less efficient when

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Speaker 1: he's attacking great defensive players in isolation, so is everyone

558
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Speaker 1: else in the league. Kawhi Leonard was in like in

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Speaker 1: the nineties for offensive writing and isolations in kwhilelands a

560
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Speaker 1: great isolation player, he's just attacking better defensive players more

561
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Speaker 1: frequently in isolation. But they don't have bigs for Steff

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Speaker 1: to attack except for in small pockets of the game

563
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Speaker 1: when Zoobok is out there, so it will force Steff

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Speaker 1: to run isolation against better defensive players they are, They're

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Speaker 1: very difficult matchup for them. They have the on the

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Speaker 1: other end of the floor, they have the ability to

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Speaker 1: punish the Warriors back court with better versions of Tatum

568
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Speaker 1: and Brown. All those offensive frustrations we had with Tatum

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Speaker 1: and Brown, with their inability to pass the basketball, with

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Speaker 1: their inability to handle the basketball without turning it over,

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Speaker 1: their unwillingness to make that extra pass. That's not gonna

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Speaker 1: happen with Paul George and Kawhi Leonard. We talked about

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Speaker 1: that earlier. That's the strength of this team. They move

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Speaker 1: the basketball. They generate better spot up opportunities than anybody

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Speaker 1: in the league. This is a smarter team with more

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Speaker 1: ball handling than the Boston Celtics that will run a

577
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Speaker 1: better defensive scheme. Their defensive personnel is not as good

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Speaker 1: as Boston's, but they are smarter on the defensive vent

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Speaker 1: in my opinion. Now, to be clear, I would pick

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Speaker 1: the Warriors in that series, but I'm saying the Clippers

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Speaker 1: are their biggest threat and I'm explaining why they're gonna

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Speaker 1: switch everything. They're gonna stagnate the game. They're gonna attack

583
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Speaker 1: your weakest defensive links relentlessly, and if they stay healthy,

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Speaker 1: they absolutely are a threat to win the title. Their

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Speaker 1: worst case scenario pretty basic, Paul George and Kwhilander get hurt,

586
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Speaker 1: in which case they will lose in the first round

587
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Speaker 1: or in the playing tournament. The biggest X factor for

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Speaker 1: this team is John wall So John Wallen is prime.

589
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Speaker 1: Before the injury, was an outstanding driving kick player, almost

590
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Speaker 1: impossible to stop from getting to the rim and grade

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Speaker 1: spraying out to three point shooters. That makes him, excuse me,

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Speaker 1: that makes him a very organic and natural fit with

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Speaker 1: his Clippers team. If he is capable still excuse me

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Speaker 1: of doing of what he did before his injury, He's

595
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Speaker 1: gonna be a devastating weapon in his Clippers system. He

596
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: also caught and shot the ball pretty well in Houston

597
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Speaker 1: last year or the year before last, when he was

598
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Speaker 1: actually playing, he was thirty eight on catching shoot threes

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Speaker 1: and then on the defensive end of the floor. He's

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Speaker 1: a short, stout athlete. Not short, you know, um relative

601
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Speaker 1: to guards, but short relative to the wings around the league.

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Speaker 1: But he's strong as a low center of gravity, can

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Speaker 1: slide his feet well. He should hold up well in

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Speaker 1: their switching scheme, and he's got a big swing between

605
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: him potentially being useless or him potentially being a real

606
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: weapon for this team. That's what makes him the X

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Speaker 1: factor in my opinion. If John Wall gives you eight

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Speaker 1: percent of what he was before the injury, this suddenly

609
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Speaker 1: becomes possibly the most talented team in the league. So

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Speaker 1: kind of wrap all this up, This is one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite teams to watch. They have at least almost

612
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Speaker 1: as much talent as the top teams in the league,

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Speaker 1: if not as much, and if John wallpans out, they

614
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Speaker 1: could have more talent than the rest of the teams

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Speaker 1: in the league. They are extremely modern in their approach

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Speaker 1: on both ends of the floor, and they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: a huge pain in the ask to knock out of

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. That absolutely makes them a top tier contender.

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Speaker 1: I think they're the biggest threat to the Warriors out West,

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Speaker 1: and they're absolutely capable of winning the title. Right now,

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Speaker 1: I think they are the fourth most capable team at

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Speaker 1: this point in the season. All right, guys, that is

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Speaker 1: all I have for today. As always, I sincerely appreciate

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Speaker 1: your support and I will see you next time. The

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Speaker 1: volume