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Speaker 1: and we're gonna be doing number ten today, Luca donhit.
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Speaker 1: Under Oops tonight, all right, let's talk some basketball. So
Speaker 1: before we go any further, I want to emphasize, like obviously,
Speaker 1: I took these rankings very seriously. I'm gonna be honest
Speaker 1: with you. Everything after number ten is still up in
Speaker 1: the air. For me. I have stared at it and
Speaker 1: stared at it and stared at it NonStop, and I
Speaker 1: keep changing my mind on stuff. And the main reason
Speaker 1: why is every one of these guys is so close.
Speaker 1: To be clear, the ten guys we have remaining are
Speaker 1: what like Jokicic, Embiid, Luca Tatum, Lebron are small forwards,
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis, Yannis. I think that's all of them.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler, I think, is the tenth guy. So there's
Speaker 1: ten guys there, and in any given playoff series, any
Speaker 1: of those guys could win. In any given playoff series,
Speaker 1: I think there's a clear guy at the top in
Speaker 1: Nikola Jokicic right who deserves that spot, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: get there. Big shock, you guys. Anybody who's been following
Speaker 1: this show knows that Jokic is going to be number
Speaker 1: one on my list. But after that, like it's anybody's
Speaker 1: series I've watched. In a playoff series this year, Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis look like a slightly better player than Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: even though Steph Curry literally won a Finals MVP the
Speaker 1: year before. That doesn't mean that stet the Ad is
Speaker 1: better than Steph. It just means that these guys are
Speaker 1: all super close, and so in any given series, if
Speaker 1: a couple of role players are different one way or another,
Speaker 1: a couple of things go one way or another, any
Speaker 1: one of these guys can win. I have Luka Doncic
Speaker 1: at number ten. The gap between Luka Doncic and the
Speaker 1: guys at the very top of the league is extremely small.
Speaker 1: So again, don't take it super super personally if I
Speaker 1: have your favorite player a little bit lower on this list.
Speaker 1: My favorite player is Lebron James, as you guys know,
Speaker 1: and he's pretty low on this list. That doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that if a playoff series started tomorrow, I wouldn't want
Speaker 1: him on my team. It just means that man, like
Speaker 1: all these other guys, are so good, and he's in
Speaker 1: his twenty first season and eight he's a million years old.
Speaker 1: You get the point. So all I'm saying is like, again,
Speaker 1: I have Luka Doncic at number two, but I view
Speaker 1: him as a bona fide top tier superstar that is
Speaker 1: absolutely capable of being the best player on a championship team.
Speaker 1: This is just the way things broke in this particular season.
Speaker 1: And to make a long story short, the reason why
Speaker 1: I have Luka Doncics at ten is because he missed
Speaker 1: the playoffs. So there's a couple of specific reasons why
Speaker 1: the MAVs missed the playoffs that I think Lucas shares
Speaker 1: some culpability for. So we're going to get into that
Speaker 1: here later on, but let's start with the season recap.
Speaker 1: He averaged thirty two points, nine rebounds, and eight assists,
Speaker 1: yet a career high in points per game, also a
Speaker 1: career high sixty one percent true shooting percentage. I think
Speaker 1: Luka Doncic is the best helio centric shot creator in
Speaker 1: the league. Now, what does helio centric mean in the
Speaker 1: context of basketball? When and I didn't coin this term,
Speaker 1: somebody else did. I couldn't tell you who did. But
Speaker 1: when I think of the helio centric star, I think
Speaker 1: of either getting the defensive rebound of a teammate, getting
Speaker 1: the rebound and immediately passing it to him, or him
Speaker 1: getting the inbounds passed from the baseline and him slowly
Speaker 1: bringing the ball up the floor. And every single possession
Speaker 1: is determined with a live dribble by that player near
Speaker 1: the top of the key, and the only time they
Speaker 1: ever give up the basketball is basically when they're tired.
Speaker 1: And usually heliocentric players, they spend so much energy creating
Speaker 1: shots that they're not very active when they give up
Speaker 1: the basketball. Most of them tend to stand thirty feet
Speaker 1: away from the basket and basically rest and occasionally take
Speaker 1: a catch and shoot jump shot. But for the most part,
Speaker 1: they determine the outcome of every single possession. That's what
Speaker 1: I think of with heliocentric players in the league. Think
Speaker 1: like prime James Harden, although obviously he's had to give
Speaker 1: up the ball a lot more in later versions of
Speaker 1: his career. Trey Young's another guy who who I think
Speaker 1: of in that context. This particular breed of basketball player
Speaker 1: is becoming a little less common, which I think is
Speaker 1: a good thing. But that's what I think of when
Speaker 1: I think of heliocentric I think Luca is the very
Speaker 1: best at it. He was the best high volume pick
Speaker 1: and role player in the entire NBA this year. There
Speaker 1: were fifteen players who had at least a thousand reps.
Speaker 1: This is that high volume pick and roll list I've
Speaker 1: been using throughout our entire player rankings. Luca ranked number
Speaker 1: one on that list, averaging one point one five five
Speaker 1: points per possession. Good combination of deadly shot making and
Speaker 1: the ability to make all of the necessary reads one
Speaker 1: point zero nine points per ISO. If you remember our
Speaker 1: high volume ISO list, there were twenty five players who
Speaker 1: did at least two hundred and fifty possessions of isolation basketball.
Speaker 1: He ranked seventh on that list out of twenty five.
Speaker 1: And then one point one five points per post up.
Speaker 1: There were There were twenty players in the NBA this
Speaker 1: year who ran at least two hundred post ups, and
Speaker 1: Luca ranked fourth out of those twenty players. So one
Speaker 1: of the the very best pick and roll player, one
Speaker 1: of the very best post up players in the league,
Speaker 1: and near the top of the high volume ISO players
Speaker 1: in the league as well. Shot making pretty good, not
Speaker 1: great in catch and shoot situations thirty one percent in
Speaker 1: catch and shoot. But just to give you an idea
Speaker 1: of just how heliocentric Luka Doncic is. Of his seven
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty six jump shots that he took this year,
Speaker 1: according to Synergy, only eighty seven were catch and shoots.
Speaker 1: Think of that again, seven hundred sixty six jump shots.
Speaker 1: All of them were off the dribble except for eighty
Speaker 1: seven and catch and shoot situations. He shot thirty nine
Speaker 1: point four percent on pull up jumpers, though, which is
Speaker 1: very good. And of those pull up jumpers, he made
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty eight from three on thirty four percent,
Speaker 1: which bumps up the effective field goal percentage. So Luca's
Speaker 1: effective field goal percentage on pull up jump shots was
Speaker 1: fifty one percent last year, which is actually really good.
Speaker 1: Anything over fifty percent is really good. Remember, Paul George
Speaker 1: was at like forty nine percent, and he's considered a
Speaker 1: great pull up jump shooter. He shot fifty four percent
Speaker 1: on floaters. He's got one of the best little short
Speaker 1: push shots in the league. Sixty nine percent on hook
Speaker 1: shots and sixty eight percent at the rim, which is
Speaker 1: really good for forward as well. Also, and this is
Speaker 1: the part that's like almost impossible to uh to learn
Speaker 1: as a basketball player. This is just a gift that
Speaker 1: some players have. Luca is one of the very best
Speaker 1: passers in the league. I have him in that very
Speaker 1: top tier. He's a master at manipulating help defenders. When
Speaker 1: he gets in pick and roll, he's just watching the help.
Speaker 1: He's just watching the low man. And if the lowman
Speaker 1: doesn't come, he's gonna keep working his way down. Remember
Speaker 1: lowman is the guy guarding the guy in the weak
Speaker 1: side corner, and his responsibility is to effectively make a
Speaker 1: read as to whether or not he needs to help
Speaker 1: in pick and roll at the rim. And so if
Speaker 1: lucas going over the ball screen, he's got the defender
Speaker 1: trailing him. On the play, the role man is going
Speaker 1: hard towards the rim. He's just working his way downhill,
Speaker 1: and as soon as that screen defender steps up onto Luca,
Speaker 1: the lob is open. But if the lowman steps over,
Speaker 1: he's hitting that skip pass to the corner. Every single
Speaker 1: time low man stays home, he's throwing that lob. Big
Speaker 1: man doesn't step up and stays back on the lob.
Speaker 1: That's where he's taking that little push shot in the lane,
Speaker 1: or getting closer to the basket and pump fake and
Speaker 1: drawing a foul and making the shot with a defender
Speaker 1: draped on his back. He's just an absolute master at
Speaker 1: manipulating the help defenders in pick and roll, which is
Speaker 1: why he was the best high volume pick and roll
Speaker 1: passer in the league this year. Very similar in our
Speaker 1: bestvolume best high volume pick and roll player in the
Speaker 1: league this year. He also similar thing in post up situations.
Speaker 1: If he runs the ball screen and he gets a
Speaker 1: switch and it gets a smaller player, He's going to
Speaker 1: back him down to the post. He's going to just
Speaker 1: work his way into the lane, and if the second
Speaker 1: defender comes, he's making that kickout pass. No defender, He's
Speaker 1: going to shoot one of those little short jumpers or
Speaker 1: push shots in the lane. Luca, I'm gonna be honest
Speaker 1: with you, guys. Luca is a very polarizing player for
Speaker 1: me as a basketball fan, because there are a lot
Speaker 1: of things that I absolutely love about his game. And
Speaker 1: those of you guys who have been following the show
Speaker 1: for a while could probably guess because my favorite like
Speaker 1: he kind of fits the a lot of my favorite
Speaker 1: archetype traits in basketball. But then he also has some
Speaker 1: things that drive me crazy. He's big and strong, which
Speaker 1: helps him to get to his spots in the playoffs. Well,
Speaker 1: you guys know how much I value strength in a
Speaker 1: playoff setting. He's a super versatile shot creator. Like all
Speaker 1: of his possessions look the same, but his shot attempts
Speaker 1: tend to look very different, Like he's gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: take a weird looking push shot or floater or hook
Speaker 1: shot or jumper they're all gonna look different. They're a
Speaker 1: couple that are similar. Like, generally speaking, his step back
Speaker 1: three is always going to his left, So if he's
Speaker 1: in and really any step back jumper, if he's in
Speaker 1: a situation where he's working with a live dribble and
Speaker 1: he wants to go to a step back, he's gonna
Speaker 1: step back going to his left, so hard, right foot forward,
Speaker 1: pushing back and kind of in that like a leaning
Speaker 1: fade away jumper kind of situation. And then in the post,
Speaker 1: if he's gonna take a jumper, he's always going over
Speaker 1: his right shoulder, So he's gonna fade over his right
Speaker 1: shoulder and shoot a jumper. If he goes over his
Speaker 1: left shoulder, it's gonna be a hook shot or a pushot.
Speaker 1: He doesn't take fade aways or off the dribble jumpers
Speaker 1: going to his right. So that's this one thing that
Speaker 1: is somewhat consistent. But other than that, almost every single
Speaker 1: shot attempt he takes look different. Almost every single layup
Speaker 1: he takes has kind of a different release angle or
Speaker 1: release point or things along those lines. He is a
Speaker 1: super versatile shot maker, which is what makes him so
Speaker 1: incredibly difficult to guard. Again, if you like imagine you're
Speaker 1: guarding Luca, you don't have You're not expecting the same
Speaker 1: shot every time you're you can't contest to a specific
Speaker 1: spot because he'll just adjust his release angle a little higher,
Speaker 1: a little lower, He'll pump aking step through. He just
Speaker 1: there's way too many different types of shots that he
Speaker 1: can make, and that that we always I've always talked
Speaker 1: about how that versatile shot making just makes you more
Speaker 1: effective in the playoffs. He's also as an archetype, that
Speaker 1: textbook rim pressuring playmaking forward that I've always gravitated towards.
Speaker 1: As Again, when we did the archetypes of players, it
Speaker 1: was big rim pressuring play making forward, three level scoring forward,
Speaker 1: hyper athletic guard center, and then like superstar center like
Speaker 1: yokicin EMBIID, and then Unicorn was basically the last one
Speaker 1: on that list. My favorite of those five archetypes is
Speaker 1: the big rim pressuring play making forward. So again another
Speaker 1: reason why I should like Luca. Uh. He was top
Speaker 1: ten in points in the paint this here with eight
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty six. I think he finished ninth if
Speaker 1: I remember correctly, consistently makes teams pay for overhelping and doubling,
Speaker 1: like we talked about earlier, he generated twenty two points
Speaker 1: per game just off of his passes. So the Mavericks
Speaker 1: average twenty two points a game directly off of Luka
Speaker 1: Doncich's passes, which ranked sixth in the entire NBA this season.
Speaker 1: And lastly, the last trait that I've always gravitated towards
Speaker 1: with basketball players, Luca is a freaking psychopath man. He
Speaker 1: is a crazy competitor. He absolutely wants to destroy you
Speaker 1: and let you know about it, which is something that
Speaker 1: I always really liked in basketball players, players that really,
Speaker 1: anybody in life that lacks competitiveness. It's something that I
Speaker 1: struggled to relate to. Obviously, I shouldn't say that I
Speaker 1: hate people like that. That's mean, But like I've always
Speaker 1: gravitated towards competitors, there are people that I can relate to.
Speaker 1: I try to find guys like that to play with
Speaker 1: me because I still take basketball very seriously. It's just
Speaker 1: a trait that I've always been very drawn to. But
Speaker 1: Luca has a lot of things that I dislike about
Speaker 1: basketball players, and he's outrageously helio centric. We were talking
Speaker 1: about hello centrism earlier that particular archetype is not an
Speaker 1: archetype that I like. He ran six hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: five ISOs this year, which was most in the league.
Speaker 1: To give you an idea of just how crazy that is,
Speaker 1: Lebron James and Kevin Durant, two of Luca's peers at
Speaker 1: his position, combined for fewer ISOs than Luca ran this season.
Speaker 1: So even though most of his shot attempts have a
Speaker 1: unique variety to them, his possessions all look the same.
Speaker 1: Lucas getting the ball on the back court and he's
Speaker 1: walking it up the floor, which, by the way, is
Speaker 1: why the maps were twenty eighth in pace and why
Speaker 1: I'm really excited about Kyrie being on the team to
Speaker 1: kind of bring more pace to the team. But he's
Speaker 1: gonna walk the ball up the floor, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: do one of two things. He's either going to call
Speaker 1: for a ball screen from the big man and start
Speaker 1: to work that equation. I just talked to you guys
Speaker 1: about trying to get the help defender to come out
Speaker 1: of the corner to help at the rim, to open
Speaker 1: up the skip pass or to open up the lob
Speaker 1: pass if that guy doesn't help, or to take a shot.
Speaker 1: If the big man doesn't help, or if the big
Speaker 1: man switches, he's going to take him out to the
Speaker 1: perimeter and he's probably gonna take a step back three.
Speaker 1: Or if there's a smaller defender somewhere on the floor
Speaker 1: that he really wants to target, say Patrick Beverley against
Speaker 1: the Clippers in the playoffs those years, he's going to
Speaker 1: call him into the ball screen, get the switch, and
Speaker 1: he's going to work him down to the post, and
Speaker 1: he's going to post him up and either make a
Speaker 1: play or look to score over the top, or if
Speaker 1: a team is dumb enough. I think the Clippers at
Speaker 1: a couple points in those series straight up just put
Speaker 1: Pat Bev on Luco, which was incredibly foolish, and Luca
Speaker 1: towards them in those situations by just bringing the ball
Speaker 1: up the floor and attacking. He's looking to get their
Speaker 1: big man in pick and roll to make a decision,
Speaker 1: or to target your worst defender and make a decision.
Speaker 1: He's doing that every single time, which is why he
Speaker 1: ends up with ridiculously high volume pick and roll numbers
Speaker 1: and ridiculously high volume isolation and post up numbers. There's
Speaker 1: value in that. I want to be clear him being
Speaker 1: great r at that is super valuable. It shows in
Speaker 1: the points per possession. It's ironically the most one of
Speaker 1: the most effective forms of playoff offense in short bursts
Speaker 1: in pivotal playoff games. But that's literally all that Luca does.
Speaker 1: There's another stat to kind of demonstrate what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Ninety three catch and shoot jumpers with almost seven hundred ISOs.
Speaker 1: Lebron and KD combined to take four hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: catch and shoot jumpers. Why how did Lebron and KD
Speaker 1: end up average or between the two of them averaging
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty five catch and shoot jumpers a year,
Speaker 1: while Luca only took ninety three. How does that happen?
Speaker 1: It happens because Lebron and Kevin Durant play normal basketball.
Speaker 1: They slide in and function as part of a five
Speaker 1: man unit, a five man flow. Then in a specific situation,
Speaker 1: when all of the circumstances call for it, Lebron or
Speaker 1: KD might start spamming in action. You will see that
Speaker 1: with Lebron, like he'll just flow as part of the
Speaker 1: team and then it's like, oh, it's the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: against Denver in Game one, We've got a chance to
Speaker 1: steal this game. Come here, Jamal Murray. You can't guard
Speaker 1: in the me Austin Reeves gohot screen action and he'll
Speaker 1: run that time and time again. They will spam in
Speaker 1: short bursts in pivotal moments, but that's all they'll do.
Speaker 1: They don't do that from the opening tip of the
Speaker 1: first quarter through the entire game. And how do you
Speaker 1: function as part of a five man flow? You have
Speaker 1: to be willing to do work off the ball. Both Lebron,
Speaker 1: James and Kevin Durant operate a lot off the ball.
Speaker 1: Lebron this year did a ton of ball screening, so
Speaker 1: he'd give the ball to Austin Reeves or Dennis Schroeder
Speaker 1: or D'Angelo Russell or Russell Westbrook, and he set a
Speaker 1: ball screen and rolled to the basket. Lebron also does
Speaker 1: a ton of duck in the post, either through high
Speaker 1: low action or sprinting up the floor in transition. If
Speaker 1: he has a smaller defender on him, he's going to
Speaker 1: try to get a deep seal when the defense isn't
Speaker 1: set and help. He does all of these things to
Speaker 1: be a functional offensive player when he doesn't have the basketball,
Speaker 1: including averaging two hundred and twenty or taking you know,
Speaker 1: him and Katie combining for four hundred and fifty catch
Speaker 1: and shoot threes this year, or catch and shoot jumpers.
Speaker 1: I should say Kevin Durant himself. He runs a ton
Speaker 1: of stuff off of wide pindowns. If you find if
Speaker 1: you go on my Twitter feed and go back about
Speaker 1: two weeks, because I think it was when I was
Speaker 1: in San Francisco, go back about two weeks and I
Speaker 1: posted a video of Kevin Durant and all of the
Speaker 1: off ball work that he does to kind of demonstrate.
Speaker 1: It was from a game last season when he was
Speaker 1: with the Nets. But he'll run off of wide pin downs,
Speaker 1: he'll seal high post position and make spinoffs to the
Speaker 1: rim for lobs, and and he'll like he just does
Speaker 1: a ton of work off the basketball, And so that
Speaker 1: allows them to disappear into the flow of games for
Speaker 1: long stretches and then grab the reins when they need to,
Speaker 1: which saves them fatigue, which saves them the repetitiveness that
Speaker 1: makes them easier to guard. Those are very important traits
Speaker 1: that I think it's better to be helio centric and
Speaker 1: short bursts than it is to be heliocentric in totality.
Speaker 1: Is basically the point. I've never been a fan of
Speaker 1: players that lean entirely into heliocentric basketball. I think it
Speaker 1: inflates per possession numbers for individual players, but it becomes
Speaker 1: easier to guard in large doses, which hurts them, particularly
Speaker 1: at the end of games when they've won. A single
Speaker 1: defense has seen that action fifty times in a single game,
Speaker 1: and at the end of playoff series, when the single
Speaker 1: defense has seen that action for five games, you'll see
Speaker 1: those players start to lose effectiveness towards the end of
Speaker 1: games and series, which is exactly what happened to James Harden.
Speaker 1: Hasn't happened nearly to the same extent with Luca because
Speaker 1: of the variety in his shot selection, but you do
Speaker 1: see Luca fatigue towards the end of playoff games. You
Speaker 1: see Luca's efficiency drop a little bit at the end
Speaker 1: of those games. I think that's something that will go
Speaker 1: that will go better for Luca in the future if
Speaker 1: he finds a way to kind of disappear into the
Speaker 1: flow more often so that when he grabs the reins,
Speaker 1: it's even more effective. The last crazy thing that drives
Speaker 1: the last thing that drives me crazy with Luca is
Speaker 1: he just simply does not care to defend or box out.
Speaker 1: He grabs eight point six rebounds a game, but they
Speaker 1: are mostly uncontested defensive rebounds. I watched a lot of
Speaker 1: Dallas after the Kyrie Irving trade this year, and I
Speaker 1: can't tell you how many times, like in a pivotal
Speaker 1: moment when another team's on a run, or in a
Speaker 1: fourth quarter possession when they're down five and they desperately
Speaker 1: need to stop, or Luca just will miss a box
Speaker 1: out because he just the shot goes up and he
Speaker 1: just turns and looks at the rim and just kind
Speaker 1: of starts walking in towards the rim. He just or
Speaker 1: defensively will just throw a sloppy closed out or or
Speaker 1: fail to help in a low man situation. He just
Speaker 1: I thought this was probably the worst defensive season of
Speaker 1: Luca's career, and just in general with his commitment to
Speaker 1: the dirty work. It was almost like he let go
Speaker 1: of the rope. It was like the Kyrie Irving trade
Speaker 1: went down. He identified pretty quickly early on that they
Speaker 1: weren't very good and I agree. I was the first
Speaker 1: one to tell you, guys, I didn't think the Mavericks
Speaker 1: were going to be good this season. It was going
Speaker 1: to be the following season if they had any chance.
Speaker 1: But Luca was culpable in a lot of ways because
Speaker 1: of his lack of commitment to the dirty work. So
Speaker 1: that's kind of the perfect segue into the reason why
Speaker 1: I had Luca down at ten. Remember that all these
Speaker 1: guys are close. All of these guys from one to
Speaker 1: twelve I think are superstars. I had him above Kawhi
Speaker 1: because Kauhi's lack of availability just completely erases him from
Speaker 1: these equations. I had him over Devin Booker because just
Speaker 1: last season, the season before this previous one, Luca just
Speaker 1: utterly dominated Devin Booker in a playoff series and kind
Speaker 1: of embarrassed him down the stretch of the series. So
Speaker 1: to me, I didn't feel comfortable putting him below Devin Booker.
Speaker 1: Luca has no case to be over any of the
Speaker 1: superstars that are ahead of him at this point in time,
Speaker 1: after the worst defensive season of his career and a
Speaker 1: season one Again, guys, this is a league that allows
Speaker 1: twenty teams out of the thirty into the playoffs twenty
Speaker 1: of the thirty two thirds of the teams. There's no
Speaker 1: excuse for missing the playoffs in these fields, as in
Speaker 1: this field, as a bona fide superstar, unless you've been
Speaker 1: super injured to the point where you miss a ton
Speaker 1: of games. And I think Luca played like sixty five.
Speaker 1: This is not Lebron and Anthony Davis each playing forty games.
Speaker 1: That's not out that. That's not how this season went.
Speaker 1: Missing the playoffs. Missing the play in in a twenty
Speaker 1: out of thirty team in a league that allows twenty
Speaker 1: out of the thirty teams in to me, hurts you
Speaker 1: on this list, which is why I have him down
Speaker 1: at number ten. And again Kyrie Irving. I thought Kyrie
Speaker 1: was awesome after going to Dallas, and the numbers show that,
Speaker 1: the scoreboards showed that it was Luca who declined. Kyrie's
Speaker 1: not as good a player is Luca, But Luca just
Speaker 1: did not play well down the stretch of the season.
Speaker 1: That's it. I am a huge believer in Luka Doncic's ceiling.
Speaker 1: I do think he's gonna work his way back up
Speaker 1: this list very soon. Again, specific things I want to
Speaker 1: see him work on getting better at the dirty work,
Speaker 1: which starts by conditioning his body to get to the
Speaker 1: point where he can devote resources to that end without
Speaker 1: hurting the offensive end, and then two working on going
Speaker 1: extended stretches of basketball games as a cog and a
Speaker 1: five man system rather than always playing the heliocentric style.
Speaker 1: It will help his teammates get into a rhythm, it
Speaker 1: will save energy and reps to make him harder to
Speaker 1: guard at the later portions of games and in series,
Speaker 1: and it will make it more appealing for other stars
Speaker 1: to come play with him, which is the ultimate goal.
Speaker 1: You need to make Kyrie happy so that he doesn't
Speaker 1: ask for a trade. If Kyrie does ask for a trade,
Speaker 1: because he's Kyrie irving, you need to eventually convince somebody
Speaker 1: to say, I want to partner it with Luca on
Speaker 1: this thing. And if all he does is the heliocentric thing,
Speaker 1: the only stars that are going to consider are pick
Speaker 1: and roll guys, Guys like Anthony Davis. And there's like
Speaker 1: one of those who's really really good in the league, right,
Speaker 1: who's an actual star who just screens and rolls all
Speaker 1: the time, Like Jokic ain't going anywhere. I mean embiids,
Speaker 1: embid in Luca would just be a really weird fit,
Speaker 1: you know. So it's just one of those things. If
Speaker 1: he wants to get a legitimate co star to commit
Speaker 1: long term, he's gonna have to demonstrate a willingness to
Speaker 1: play a more share the load type of offensive system.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, that's all I have for today. Like
Speaker 1: I said at the time of me recording this on
Speaker 1: Sunday early morning or a late morning, I should say,
Speaker 1: I don't even know who I'm gonna put it a
Speaker 1: number nine for Tuesday, but I will let you guys know.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna think about it and sleep on it one
Speaker 1: more time, and I will let you guys know on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: As always, I appreciate your support and I'll see you
Speaker 1: next time. The volume