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Speaker 1: are having an incredible week so far. Got a quick

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Speaker 1: with James Harden involved, as the Cavs kind of controlled

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Speaker 1: that one throughout and responded to every Pistons run and

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Speaker 1: I want to kind of start spending some time, especially

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Speaker 1: has changed, as defenses have become more sophisticated and better

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Speaker 1: the game has become more of a possession battles, it's

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Speaker 1: turnovers and offensive rebound and various things that you can

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Speaker 1: do to increase margin. Having good role players that can

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Speaker 1: drive success in those areas is a major driver of

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Speaker 1: their championship goals. So I have four role players that

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Speaker 1: the last segment of the show. You guys, before we

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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk some basketball. So I want to

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Speaker 1: start with the defensive game plan and specifically the job

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Speaker 1: that Jalen Tyson did on Kate Cunningham. I thought that

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk a lot about Jalen Tyson when

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Speaker 1: with his size, which was forcing him to rush and

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Speaker 1: to drive into traffic. And then while those drives were occurring,

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Speaker 1: staying attached, continuing to pressure. When you look at it,

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Speaker 1: It dictates when he drives, because when you pressure, the

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Speaker 1: from there, the Cavs just did a great job of

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Speaker 1: good vertical presences, which we've seen cause some problems for

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Speaker 1: of his career, in that phase of Detroit's development, that

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Speaker 1: the Pistons found ways to score. Jalen Durn and Nasar

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Speaker 1: several easy baskets cutting along the baseline. Offensive rebound putbacks

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Speaker 1: James harding at James Harden too, making those step backs

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Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell, You're getting the best perimeter defenders on one

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Speaker 1: aggressive coverages, but he just found ways to manufacture points.

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Speaker 1: a couple of threes. He talked about the transition step back,

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Speaker 1: grift in crunch time that was a big one. Created

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Speaker 1: Again in the game where he's struggling to hit shots,

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Speaker 1: he's five for seventeen, but he did get a big

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Speaker 1: one late, a driving bank shot off of a pretty

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Speaker 1: nasty hesitation move. Kind of started to drive, pulled back

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Speaker 1: two consistently spacing the floor. He hit five threes, some

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Speaker 1: such a good Detroit defense, Sam Merrill hit one of

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Speaker 1: transition defense. Right, So, like, there's a there is a

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Speaker 1: lot of a lot of like information that has come

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Speaker 1: out in recent years that has shown us that like,

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Speaker 1: actually it makes more sense to crash than it does

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Speaker 1: to just get back. Similarly with the turnover battle, like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you get up into the basketball, you're gonna commit fouls.

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Speaker 1: If you get up into the basketball, you're gonna give

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Speaker 1: up dribble penetration. If you swarm rolls and cuts and drives,

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Speaker 1: you might give up open threes. But the counter to

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Speaker 1: that is you make the opposing ball handler uncomfortable. You

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Speaker 1: can force turnovers, and that sparks more transition opportunities. And

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Speaker 1: when you spark transition opportunities, you're way more efficient than

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Speaker 1: you are in the half court. So all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: the positions battle has risen to the surface as one

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Speaker 1: of the most important parts of modern NBA basketball, and

446
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Speaker 1: so the importance of having quality role players that can

447
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Speaker 1: help you control the possession battle has become greater than

448
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Speaker 1: it was in years past. Having guards and wings who

449
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Speaker 1: can rebound really effectively, especially on corner crashes. We're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about that with guys like Jalen Tyson and

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Speaker 1: Julian Champenni, Guys that can fuel chaos by forcing turnovers

452
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Speaker 1: or getting the dribble penetration that compromises the defense and

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Speaker 1: creates openings. There's all these little things that can help

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Speaker 1: you win games aside from your stars. That's why I

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Speaker 1: want to take some time to shout these guys out.

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Speaker 1: So starting with Jalen Tyson, the rebounding is the big

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Speaker 1: one for me. This is a guy who in his

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Speaker 1: career so far is averaging well over seven rebounds per

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Speaker 1: thirty six minutes, as you know, as essentially just like

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Speaker 1: a weird guard forward hybrid, right, and he's great at

461
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Speaker 1: both ends. This is a guy that's averaging almost three

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Speaker 1: offensive rebounds offensive rebounds per thirty six So, like the

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Speaker 1: corner crashing is super super impressive with him, and like

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Speaker 1: you it was a big part of the win against Detroit.

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Speaker 1: You just watch him come skying in and he looks

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Speaker 1: big and physical and strong and he's just playing super hard.

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Speaker 1: But he does it on the defensive end as well.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of these contested rebounds defensively that

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Speaker 1: Jalen Ticon comes away with because he's willing to crash,

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Speaker 1: because he's willing to scrap in those situations. Then there's

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Speaker 1: the shooting. This is one of the best wide open

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Speaker 1: three point shooters in the league. He's got great balance.

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Speaker 1: He's very good at taking the ball from different catching pockets,

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Speaker 1: like if the pass is a little off target, and

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Speaker 1: just going right up into his form. So even though

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Speaker 1: his release looks a little slow and it's a little

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Speaker 1: bit of like it's not a complete set shot, but

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Speaker 1: it's a little set. Even though it's set and slow,

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Speaker 1: he can get it off because he goes quick from

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Speaker 1: wherever the catches immediately into his shooting pocket. There's not

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Speaker 1: a lot of wasted motion. There's not an exaggerated dip

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Speaker 1: or an exaggerated gatherer on his shot, so he can

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Speaker 1: get it off whenever he needs to, and he takes

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Speaker 1: quite a few of the guarded ones, and he shoots

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Speaker 1: pretty well on I'm thirty seven percent on guarded catch

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Speaker 1: and shoot threes. He's taken about two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: catch and shoot threes this season, at about one hundred

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Speaker 1: of them have been guarded. I we're gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: this with Julian Champagne. I like it when it's like

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Speaker 1: pretty much fifty to fifty, But there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of guys around the league that like two thirds seventy

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Speaker 1: percent of the catch and shoot threes they take are

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Speaker 1: unguarded because they're trying to drive percentages and they don't

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Speaker 1: feel comfortable with confident shooting contested threes, and that actually

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Speaker 1: comes with a lot less value than a guy who's

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Speaker 1: aggressive looking to shoot there. Jalen Tyson's willing to take those.

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Speaker 1: Very good at driving closeouts. He's twenty three percent on

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Speaker 1: twoes this year out of spot ups, and it really

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Speaker 1: comes down to, like he's good at getting all the

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Speaker 1: way to the rim. But I want to actually emphasize

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Speaker 1: the floater here because there is an element to him

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Speaker 1: as a screener that brings a lot of value in

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Speaker 1: a lot of specific situations because of his ability to

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Speaker 1: work in the middle of the floor with that soft

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Speaker 1: touch on that floater. So like driving a close out,

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Speaker 1: gets in the middle four, he can make floaters. Right.

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Speaker 1: He's shooting fifty eight percent on twos driving closeouts this year.

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Speaker 1: That's an absolutely insane number, right, But it's also the

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Speaker 1: screening for the guards and slipping out anytime they face

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Speaker 1: his zone. Look, he can play in the middle of

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Speaker 1: the floor, it is. And it's not just the floaters too,

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Speaker 1: Like he can pop out of those ghost screens and

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Speaker 1: hit threes. He's over fifty percent on ghost screen threes

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Speaker 1: this season. I think he's seven for thirteen, but he's

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Speaker 1: hit forty floaters this year on fifty percent. As a

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Speaker 1: result of that, in the ghost screens, he has seventy

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Speaker 1: seven points this year slipping out of screens. That's insane

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Speaker 1: for a guard, and again most of those are twos,

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Speaker 1: just him going. It's very simple. He goes up to

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Speaker 1: the top for one of the guards, whether it's one

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Speaker 1: of their shooters or it's Mitchell or Harden. He'll set

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Speaker 1: the screen, his man will step out to switch. The

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Speaker 1: guy who's guarding Harden or guarding Mitchell or guarding Merrill

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Speaker 1: will stay on the ball for just a second. So

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Speaker 1: when Tyson goes up and sets the screen, he can

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Speaker 1: then immediately slip to the foul line and both guys

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Speaker 1: li on the ball for just a second, easy, a

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Speaker 1: little over the top pass he turns. The bigs are

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Speaker 1: a little hesitant to step up because you got your

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Speaker 1: vertical spacing threats and Mobiley and Allen. He just turns

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Speaker 1: and shoots that little floater in the lane and again

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Speaker 1: he can hit it at fifty percent. He's a strong

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Speaker 1: on ball defender, he's a strong off ball defender. He

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Speaker 1: makes all sorts of these little plays that helps his

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Speaker 1: team win games. Like there's a crazy play last night

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Speaker 1: where James Harden's trying to iso Kate Cunningham off of

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Speaker 1: the left wing and he just gets beat to the

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Speaker 1: spot and so the play falls apart. And so all

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Speaker 1: he does Jalen Tyson is he flashes towards the strong side.

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Speaker 1: And when he flashes towards the strong side, it's kind

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Speaker 1: of like short corner extended up a little bit, up

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Speaker 1: up the lane line a little bit, but he just

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Speaker 1: quick catches with his back turn to the basket. James

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Speaker 1: Harden throws him the ball and Asar Thompson on him

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Speaker 1: right Star Thompson, one of the best perimeter defenders in

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Speaker 1: the league. All Jalen Tyson does is immediately on the catch,

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Speaker 1: spins over his left shoulder, and when he spins over

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Speaker 1: his left shoulder, just absolutely fries asar Thompson just goes

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Speaker 1: right around him. Entire depen collapses. He skips it to

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Speaker 1: the corner. Swing swing, wide open three on the left wing,

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Speaker 1: and it goes in. And I'm like, this is a

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Speaker 1: broken play that turned into a wide open three because

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Speaker 1: Jalen Tyson was active and aware of what was happening,

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Speaker 1: flashed to the basketball, beat his man off the dribble

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Speaker 1: with a quick move, and made a very simple decision

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Speaker 1: that led to the defense breaking down and creating an

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Speaker 1: open three. He actually had a similar play to win

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Speaker 1: a game earlier this year. I didn't have a chance

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Speaker 1: this morning to look it up. Those of you guys

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Speaker 1: in the comments, maybe you can remind me, but there

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Speaker 1: was a very similar play that won a game earlier

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Speaker 1: this year where they were trying to run a sideline

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Speaker 1: out of bounds play on a final possession. I think

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Speaker 1: they were down one if I remember correctly, and it

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Speaker 1: kind of looked like it broke down and Jalen Tyson

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Speaker 1: just flashed to the ball, caught it on the left corner,

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Speaker 1: extended and spun over his right shoulder, beat his man baseline,

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Speaker 1: and dropped it off to I think it was Jared

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Speaker 1: Allen right in front of the rim, and it ended

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Speaker 1: up being like the game winner, literally one of the

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Speaker 1: I think it was in that game that he had

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Speaker 1: forty earlier this year. I can't remember exactly who they

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Speaker 1: were playing, but like very similar type of play last

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Speaker 1: night against the Pistons. Just so many little things that

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Speaker 1: helps team win games. I will be very curious to

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Speaker 1: see if they stick with Dean Wade in the starting

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Speaker 1: lineup when they're fully healthy, or if they stick with

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Speaker 1: Sam Merrill or what they go with. I personally think

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Speaker 1: Jalen Tyson is the guy. I think Jalen Tyson is

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Speaker 1: the guy that does the most things well enough to

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Speaker 1: be the fifth guy even if Max Struz is healthy,

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Speaker 1: even if Sam Merril's healthy, even if Dean Wade is healthy,

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Speaker 1: Jalen Tyson is the guy that I would play there.

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Speaker 1: And lastly, this is why it's so important when you're

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Speaker 1: in these contending windows to hit on your draft picks.

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Speaker 1: When you smoke all your draft picks off on you know,

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Speaker 1: a bus or or maybe on a different position group

588
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Speaker 1: than what you need. It can be debilitating to a franchise.

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Speaker 1: Like just take the Lakers, for example, you botch the

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Speaker 1: Dalton Connect pick, You'd botch the Jalen Hoodschafino pick. Imagine

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Speaker 1: if they had in the mid first round, got a

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Speaker 1: guy like Jalen Tyson who just was there starting three,

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Speaker 1: and it would just all have so many problems for them.

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Speaker 1: And like here for Cleveland, like if if you don't

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Speaker 1: hit on the Jalen Tyson pick, obviously you have Sam

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Speaker 1: Marril Dean Wayge, you have options. But like suddenly the

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Speaker 1: Max s truce injury becomes a much bigger problem. Whereas

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Speaker 1: now it's like, you know, and Max Trew's apparently is

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Speaker 1: just now starting to ramp up, so we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: to see more of him, hopefully before the end of

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Speaker 1: the season. I think it just came out yesterday that

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Speaker 1: he had a positive scan and he's gonna be starting

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Speaker 1: some on court work, so we might get to see

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Speaker 1: Max Strews soon enough. But like Jalen Tyson has given

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Speaker 1: them the luxury of being like, yeah, if we get

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Speaker 1: Max great, but like I don't view Max Struce as

607
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Speaker 1: like some major swing piece for the team this year

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Speaker 1: the way I would have before the development of Jalen Tyson.

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Speaker 1: Next guy Jose Alvarado of the New York Knicks, the

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Speaker 1: guy that originally looked like he might have just been

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Speaker 1: a duce McBride kind of like fill in until he

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Speaker 1: recovered from his abdominal injury. But he's played so well

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that if the Knicks run with a

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Speaker 1: shortened rotation that Duce McBride will even get spot back

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Speaker 1: if he gets healthy in time for the postseason. That's

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Speaker 1: how good Jose Alvarado has been, and Jose Alvarado is

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Speaker 1: the definition of a chaos agent. The Knicks this season

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Speaker 1: our outscoring opponents so far by twenty four points per

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Speaker 1: one hundred possessions when Jose Alvarado is on the floor

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Speaker 1: a one to twenty five offensive rating and a one

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Speaker 1: to oh one defensive rating. The chaos agent comes on

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Speaker 1: both ends of the floor. It comes as a product

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Speaker 1: of his ability to be a defensive playmaker while also

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Speaker 1: having the ability on the other end of the floor

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Speaker 1: to consistently penetrate the defense. We were talking about this.

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Speaker 1: If you guys remember with Dennis Schroeder earlier in the show,

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Speaker 1: that's a very simple, very useful skill in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: Can you guard the ball and be the defensive playmaker

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Speaker 1: on one end of the floor, and can you generate

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Speaker 1: dribble penetration on the other end of the floor. If

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Speaker 1: you can do those two things, you have a ton

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Speaker 1: of utility in the modern NBA, especially as a backup

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Speaker 1: guard where you're not as necessarily important against the best

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Speaker 1: lineups and the biggest spots where maybe your size can

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Speaker 1: get exploited, or some other weakness like Jose has been

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Speaker 1: weak on off the dribble threes this year, or heavily

637
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: contested catch and shoot threes this year, like those are

638
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Speaker 1: marginal weaknesses that you don't necessarily have to contend with

639
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: in big spots and big games in your best lineups,

640
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: in these bench groups, if you can just have two

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Speaker 1: or three things that you're really good at, it can

642
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Speaker 1: be enough to drive success. He's averaging three point three

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Speaker 1: stocks per thirty six minutes since coming over to the Knicks.

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Speaker 1: That's the defense of chaos element, getting up into the ball,

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Speaker 1: forcing turnovers, sparking those transition opportunities, and then on the

646
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: other end of the floor, he's such a good like

647
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 1: dribble prober kind of guy, whether it's in ball screens

648
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 1: or ISOs transitions a big one as well. When he

649
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 1: gets into the middle of the floor, he's an exceptionally

650
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: gifted passers to cutters and vertical spacers like lob passes,

651
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: pocket passes, things along them. Those lines. He has forty

652
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 1: assists to just nine turnovers so far to the Knicks.

653
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: It's a big part that's driving some of his on

654
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: ball success. So he's been over a point per possession

655
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: on seventy two on ball action so far as a

656
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: Nick pick and rolls in ISOs primarily, but a big

657
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: part of that is when he gets into the middle

658
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: of the floor, his timing and his accuracy on bounce

659
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 1: passes and lob passes is just super dialed in. It's

660
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: something he's very very good at. And then he's knocking

661
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: down his open unguarded catch and shoot threes. He's forty

662
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: eight percent this season on those open unguarded catch and

663
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: shoot looks. And one of the things we talked about

664
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: with the Knicks last year, they were firmly in the

665
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: middle of the pack as a team that generates spot

666
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: up opportunities. This season, they're literally the second best team

667
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: in the league at generating spot up opportunities. So having

668
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: guys that can knock down those open, unguarded catch and

669
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: shoot threes, that's a huge part of what drives success

670
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: for this team. But again, the chaos is what drives

671
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: all those possession things we talked about, right, transition opportunities,

672
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: you're more efficient. I've talked about how the most efficient

673
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 1: play type in the half court that's not at the

674
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: rim is a spot up opportunity, right, So like if

675
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 1: you have dribble opportunity, a dribble drive guy who can

676
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: consistently create shots at the rim through lobs and bounce

677
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: passes to cutters, but that can also generate spot up opportunities.

678
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: You're driving the half court version of the most successful,

679
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: most efficient offense that you can drive in that specific situation.

680
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: And Jose just on both ends of the floor through

681
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: the CHAOSI generates on defense and the dribble penetration he

682
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: generates on offense just drives tons of success in that chaos.

683
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: For the Knicks, again, they are twenty four points positive

684
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: per one hundred possessions when he's on the floor this season,

685
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: and the on off net rating is something like plus

686
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 1: twenty six, which is just absolutely insane, just really really

687
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: impressive start to his next tenure for Jose Alvarado. Third

688
00:32:56,040 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: guy today, Julian Champenni plus fourteen per one hundred possessions

689
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: with him on the floor versus off for the San

690
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs. He was plus thirty nine last night in

691
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 1: Philly in twenty two minutes. The Spurs were just plus

692
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 1: one the rest of the game. Has consistently been one

693
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 1: of their best plus minus guys all season. Really comes

694
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 1: down to two things. One deadly aggressive catch and shoot shooting.

695
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: This is a guy that's shooting thirty nine percent on

696
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: catch and shoot threes, which sounds a mediocre, right, but

697
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: he's forty seven percent when he's unguarded. When he's open,

698
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 1: He's knocking that thing down at one of the highest

699
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 1: clips in the league. He's taken two hundred guarded catch

700
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 1: and shoot threes this season, only shooting thirty two percent

701
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,719
Speaker 1: on them. But what that's done is it's created a

702
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: reputation for him around the league. That's like, if you

703
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 1: leave Jalen Julian Champe champagnee at all. He's putting that

704
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: thing up and as a result in the large sample,

705
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: not only is he shooting thirty nine percent on catch

706
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: and shoot threes, which is super efficient in a massive sample,

707
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 1: but there is a spacing element to him with the

708
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: way that he's guarded that brings a ton of utility

709
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: compared to guys that Like, when you're guarding a dude

710
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 1: who only wants to shoot when he's got all day,

711
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: that gives me, the defensive player, the luxury to be like,

712
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: I can sink in further because all I have to

713
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:15,800
Speaker 1: do is throw a hard close out and this dude's

714
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,399
Speaker 1: not going to shoot it. Right. So having a dude

715
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: who is a very aggressive spot up shooter in those

716
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,359
Speaker 1: situations just brings a ton of value, especially for a

717
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,720
Speaker 1: Spurs team that came into the season in desperate need

718
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 1: of jump shooting talent. Right, I would argue one of

719
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: the biggest swing factors. There's a lot of things that

720
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 1: have gone right for the Spurs this year that have

721
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: driven their success. Right, Victor women Yama. I was looking

722
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:41,319
Speaker 1: at a stat yesterday. This is crazy. Someone posted I

723
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 1: think it was Underdog posted something that was just like

724
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 1: a list of all the top net ratings in the

725
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 1: league by player, and it was like, I think the

726
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: post said, you know, Sam Preste and Brad Stevens deserve

727
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 1: all the flowers this season. And it's because as you

728
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,320
Speaker 1: look through the list, it's like Oka, see Boston, Okay,

729
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: see Boston. Okay, see Boston. Just every one of their

730
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,839
Speaker 1: primary role players are like the best net rating guys

731
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 1: in the league this season. There's another name that was

732
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 1: in that mix. There's Victor Wemenyama. There's a bunch of

733
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: Celtics and Thunder players and then there's Victor wemen Yama,

734
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: and I'm literally looking at it and I'm like, I'm like,

735
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: is Victory the best player in the world already? Like

736
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: are we overthinking like all the different elements that we

737
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: look at with superstars and just forgetting the simple fact

738
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: that Victor Womenyama is like a game breaking defensive talent

739
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 1: that has such a profound impact on the game that

740
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: he is allowed He's literally sticks out like a sore

741
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: thumb on the net rating list at the top of

742
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: the league. That's a conversation for another day, But like

743
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,959
Speaker 1: Victor women Yama is a huge part of the Spurs

744
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 1: successes here the rise of Steph Castle, right, like the

745
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,319
Speaker 1: fit that Luke Cornett has has brought a ton of

746
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: positive value as a backup center, as a fill in

747
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 1: for Victor women Yama, two big looks, all the different

748
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 1: things that he's done well. Keldon Johnson has just had

749
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 1: this like renaissance, as like this boldie ball player that

750
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 1: gets to the basket a ton and is an excellent rebounder.

751
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 1: But I'd argue Julian Champennie and Devin Vessel and their

752
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 1: spot up shooting has been massive for the offensive success

753
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 1: for the Spurs team because of how aggressive they are

754
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,240
Speaker 1: off the catch. And then the last thing with Julian

755
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: the excellent rebounding eight rebounds per thirty six minutes. Again,

756
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 1: this is on a team that's already pretty big an athletic.

757
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: They've got scrappy guards, they've got excellent centers, Like, you

758
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: know how hard it is to get eight rebounds just

759
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: against your teammates in that situation, let alone against the defense,

760
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 1: Like it's just a super super impressive rebound. Him and

761
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,879
Speaker 1: his brother two of my favorite role players in the league.

762
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:36,879
Speaker 1: I've been begging for the Lakers to make a move

763
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,359
Speaker 1: on Justin CHAMPENNI for years because I just think he's

764
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 1: a guy that he's not as good as a shooter,

765
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 1: not close to as good of a shooter as Julian is,

766
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: but the same kind of like versatile athlete that can

767
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:49,839
Speaker 1: guard multiple positions and is an excellent rebounder on both

768
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: ends of the floor. But Julian just being a scrapper

769
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,359
Speaker 1: that can rebound, that can guard multiple positions, and a

770
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,840
Speaker 1: deadly aggressive spot up shooter has made him literally one

771
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:01,760
Speaker 1: of the most important role plays in the entire NBA.

772
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: And lastly, today before we get out of here, I

773
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 1: got to shout out Luke Canart. You know, not a

774
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: lot of Laker optimism to have in this particular season.

775
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: But one of the things I talked about before the

776
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: Luke Canard trade or when Luke Canard trade happened, because

777
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 1: I was looking at the situation and I'm like, okay, done,

778
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,479
Speaker 1: makes sense for them to make move a first round

779
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: pick for like an Andrew Wiggins, some guy who's in

780
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: his thirties that doesn't really fit the timeline. Herb Jones

781
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 1: was unavailable, you know, Walker Kessler was unavailable. Like I

782
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 1: could see why they were. You know, making a move

783
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 1: for a guy like Nick Claxton wouldn't have like completely

784
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:38,319
Speaker 1: changed their fortunes for this season. So I could see

785
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 1: them waiting to the offseason see if they can get

786
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: a discount, you know, all the different like big moves

787
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: for the Lakers. I felt it was defensible for them

788
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: to pass on because this team isn't good enough. But

789
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 1: if you had to do something on the margins, I

790
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: talked about how I loved this move literally because it's

791
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 1: doubling down on your strengths. This team is never going

792
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: to be a good defensive team, not in a large sample.

793
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: They have different lineups that have done well. Sneaky, the Lebron,

794
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: Austin Luca group has like a strong defensive rating this season,

795
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:08,280
Speaker 1: just something to keep an eye on. They've been especially

796
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 1: as of late, that group has started to pick up

797
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: some synergy, a lot of positive lineup data from the

798
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: Lebron Luca, Austin Marcus Smart grouping. Those four guys have

799
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: been really, really good over the course of the last

800
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 1: several weeks. But this team is never going to be

801
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: an elite defensive team. They don't have the personnel for

802
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 1: It's just they don't have their centers aren't good enough,

803
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: their perimeter defenders aren't good enough, their forwards aren't good enough.

804
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: Just not gonna happen, right, But they have been an

805
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 1: underwhelming offensive team that should, in theory, be able to

806
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 1: be an awesome offensive team. So what I liked about

807
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 1: the Luke Canard move is on a team that had

808
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: no spot up talent, that had no very little connective

809
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,760
Speaker 1: playmaking talent off the ball, just not enough offensive skill

810
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: off of their stars to actually drive success off of

811
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,919
Speaker 1: the advantages their stars create. I like doubling down on that. Like, yeah,

812
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: Luke's not a good defensive player. They've been giving up

813
00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 1: like something like one to eighteen point five points per

814
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 1: one hundred possession when he's on the floor. So it's

815
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,360
Speaker 1: not like the Lakers are defending well with Luke Canard.

816
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: But what he is doing is he's driving an insane

817
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: amount of offensive success, and so the Lakers are kicking

818
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 1: ass when Luke Canard's on the floor. So I liked

819
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: the idea of doubling down on that offensive strength with

820
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 1: this team. So one of the things we talked about

821
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: after Atlanta is I was concerned about his movement threes.

822
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: There was some talk about him being a movement shooter

823
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: for the Lakers. I just don't think he's a good

824
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 1: enough athlete for that. And his release is just a

825
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 1: little too far down in front of his face. So

826
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 1: I never really looked at him as a movement shooter,

827
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:33,240
Speaker 1: and that's shown so far. He wasn't a good movement

828
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:36,720
Speaker 1: shooter in Atlanta this season off of handoffs, off screen actions,

829
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: transition threes, slipping out of ball screens. Just four for

830
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,439
Speaker 1: fifteen on those threes. So that's not a strength for him.

831
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: But this guy is a completely ridiculous spot up player.

832
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: He's twelve for sixteen on spot up threes, right, so

833
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: just seventy five percent, just absolutely down. He's gonna shoot

834
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: seventy five percent on them all season. No, but like

835
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: he's going to be well over fifty percent on his

836
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 1: spot up, catch and shoot threes. That is where he's

837
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 1: arguably the very best shooter in the league at that

838
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 1: very specific thing. You leave him open, he's gonna hit

839
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:08,920
Speaker 1: the shot. That's why he's been leading the league in

840
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 1: three point percentage this year. But I actually want to

841
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 1: emphasize his ability to capitalize on closeouts and in general,

842
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 1: on the advantage that his stars create in the inside

843
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 1: a three point line area, whether it's driving closeouts and

844
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: getting all the way to the rim, back cutting over

845
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: plays and getting all the way to the rim, driving

846
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 1: closeouts and hitting little mid range jump shots, driving closeouts

847
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 1: and making the next read in that chain. And there's

848
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 1: just an insane set of numbers that have come out

849
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: of this because of his ability to do that from

850
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,319
Speaker 1: two point range. So before we go any further, I

851
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: have to hit the stat when Luke Kenard is on

852
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: the floor, the Lakers are outscoring opponents by seven points

853
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: per one hundred possessions. He's immediately come in and just

854
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 1: whenever he's on the floor, they're just better. And it's

855
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: literally because they're scoring when he's on the floor one

856
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five points per one hundred possessions and

857
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 1: almost five hundred possession sample so far. That's doubling down

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Speaker 1: on your strengths, becoming an elite offense, right. But Luke,

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Speaker 1: when he drives those closeouts, when he creates it, when

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Speaker 1: he capitalizes on the advantage inside the three point line,

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Speaker 1: here are some insane stats for you. Gabe Vincent all

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Speaker 1: season in twenty nine games, made just three shots at

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Speaker 1: the rim. This is the guy you traded for. Luke

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Speaker 1: Canard just three shots at the rim in twenty nine

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Speaker 1: games that he made. Luke Canard is sixteen already. How

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Speaker 1: insane is that sixteen made shots at the rim on

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Speaker 1: seventy six percent shooting in just eleven games compared to

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Speaker 1: three for Gabe Vincent. He's nine for fourteen on jump

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Speaker 1: shots inside the three point line. He's he has three

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Speaker 1: times as many made twos inside the three point line

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Speaker 1: then Gave Vincent had made layups this season. If you

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Speaker 1: connect connect all of them together, Gabe Vincent all season

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Speaker 1: in twenty nine games had just seven made two pointers,

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Speaker 1: four mid range jump shots slash floaters in three shots

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Speaker 1: at the rim. Luke has twenty five made twos already

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Speaker 1: in eleven games. Then there's the connective playmaking piece, Like

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Speaker 1: every single time Luke gets into the middle of the

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Speaker 1: flour and the defense reacts to him, he just makes

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Speaker 1: the right rate help off the wing. There's a swing

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Speaker 1: pass out to the wing, another close out opportunity for

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Speaker 1: someone to attack, like, oh, you step up with your

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Speaker 1: big He's actually like sneaky good at like lob passes

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Speaker 1: and drop off passes. So he can like set up

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Speaker 1: dunks and has set up like Jackson Hayes for dunks

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Speaker 1: and different little like easy twos at the rim where

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00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: you can just make simple decisions there. He in once

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Speaker 1: again just eleven games, has twenty two assists. Gabe Vincent

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Speaker 1: thirty seven assists in twenty nine total games, so almost

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Speaker 1: double the assist rate for Luke Canard in his short sample.

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Speaker 1: It's a big part of why he's already become one

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Speaker 1: of the Lakers' best plus minus guys. They were plus

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Speaker 1: sixteen last night in twenty one minutes with Lukenard on

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Speaker 1: the floor minus Evan with him off the floor. Are

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Speaker 1: the Lakers going anywhere? No. But one of the things

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Speaker 1: that I think has been a bright spot in the

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Speaker 1: season is a very small little move on the margins

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Speaker 1: for an offensive strength on a team that should have

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Speaker 1: been so much better offensively than they were. It's paying dividends,

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Speaker 1: and it's just a casual reminder that your value is

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Speaker 1: useless in a vacuum. Your value is what you bring

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Speaker 1: to your basketball team. And Luke Canard brings things to

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Speaker 1: this basketball team that they don't have, and it's allowing

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Speaker 1: them to reach a level on offense that they really

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Speaker 1: haven't reached at any point this season. All right, guys,

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Speaker 1: It's all I have for today is always to sincerely

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys for supporting us and supporting the show.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow with the breakdown of that incredible

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Speaker 1: Nicks Thunder matchup that we have on the Slate tonight.

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Speaker 1: I will see you guys then,