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Speaker 2: feels like I just watched a complete repeat mirror image
Speaker 2: of Game two of this series. The Warriors come out
Speaker 2: dominate early, just like the Lakers did early in Game two,
Speaker 2: and then the avalanche comes from the more desperate team.
Speaker 2: Bunch of things I want to dive in here, specifically
Speaker 2: surrounding the way that Anthony Davis slowed down that Warriors offense,
Speaker 2: and just look at some adjustments that I expect moving
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Speaker 2: let's talk some basketball. So series continues to follow a
Speaker 2: familiar trend. The Lakers actually won a little bit more
Speaker 2: convincingly than I thought they would, just like the Warriors
Speaker 2: won a little bit more convincingly than I thought they
Speaker 2: would in Game two. You can tell that both teams
Speaker 2: have a specific way that they can win the series.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: So for the Lakers on the defensive end, it's Anthony
Speaker 2: Davis just being an absolute superhero, and we're going to
Speaker 2: dive into that concept and how he did that tonight
Speaker 2: here in just a minute. On the offensive end, it's
Speaker 2: unbelievably important for them to play with downhill force, and
Speaker 2: that mainly comes down to D'Angelo, Russell, Lebron, James, Anthony Davis,
Speaker 2: in a little bit of Austin Reeves foul grifting, and
Speaker 2: if the four of them can get downhill and get
Speaker 2: to the spots that they like to get aggressively towards
Speaker 2: the basket, they're going to get to the foul line.
Speaker 2: Why because the Lakers are great at drawing fouls and
Speaker 2: the Warriors are a team that has consistently throughout the
Speaker 2: series fouled too much. And we're going to talk about,
Speaker 2: I say, throughout the series, throughout the season, they foiled
Speaker 2: too much. We're gonna talk a little bit about officiating
Speaker 2: here in a few minutes. I don't want to hit
Speaker 2: on that right now, but let's focus on just how
Speaker 2: they're winning. Right So, the Lakers Lebron James, Anthony Davis,
Speaker 2: Dennis Roeder are playing with downhill force, getting to the
Speaker 2: foul line a lot, dominating the points in the paint battle,
Speaker 2: and then Anthony Davis just being an absolute superhero on
Speaker 2: the offensive end of the floor. How are the Warriors
Speaker 2: gonna win this series? Very simple? Steph Curry, best player
Speaker 2: in the world, consistently warping the Lakers defense, spacing them
Speaker 2: out with a ton of shooting, taking advantage of their
Speaker 2: lack of foot speed, their guards being somewhat limited defensively,
Speaker 2: and their struggles in transition. And so you could see
Speaker 2: them defensively when they pack the paint and they bait
Speaker 2: the Lakers into their worst tendencies, which is to settle
Speaker 2: for jump shots and lean too heavily on their guards.
Speaker 2: They push the ball out in transition and they either
Speaker 2: get easy buckets in transition or they space you out
Speaker 2: and Steph draws multiple defenders and then they pick you
Speaker 2: apart with all their offensive skills. So in the game
Speaker 2: that the Warriors win, that's what that's gonna look like.
Speaker 2: In the game that the Lakers win, that's what that's
Speaker 2: gonna look like. And it's a tug of war on
Speaker 2: both sides over the course of the rest of this series.
Speaker 2: And again, like if I talked about before the series,
Speaker 2: if you guys remember when I was with Colin Coward,
Speaker 2: I simply said, like, if Lebron, James and Anthony Davis
Speaker 2: consistently play great, they're going to win the series. Anthony
Speaker 2: Davis was incredible in Game one, and I thought Lebron
Speaker 2: was good. They won, and Steph was only okay. Game two,
Speaker 2: Lebron and Ad were Lebron was pretty good but not great.
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis was atrocious. Steph Curry was incredible. The Warriors
Speaker 2: win move into Game three. Lebron actually had a really
Speaker 2: nice end of the third quarter run there that I
Speaker 2: thought was monumentally important. That Anthony Davis completely dominated the
Speaker 2: game on the defensive end of the floor. Steph Curry good,
Speaker 2: not great. I think he had twenty three points on
Speaker 2: twenty one shots, which is relatively similar to what he
Speaker 2: did in Game one on a points per shot type
Speaker 2: of basis, so as you can see this tug of
Speaker 2: war between the superstars in this sheer force of wins, well,
Speaker 2: it's gonna look different like with Steph it's shot making
Speaker 2: and all the things he does to warp the defense.
Speaker 2: With Anthony Davis, it's everything he does defensively, and Lebron
Speaker 2: James just as a Swiss army knife trying to find
Speaker 2: ways to impact the game. Those two sides are pulling,
Speaker 2: and one side is going to eventually let go of
Speaker 2: the rope, and that's gonna be the team that ends
Speaker 2: up losing the series. And I'm really curious to see
Speaker 2: how that goes. Game four, in particular, I think, just
Speaker 2: like I said after Game two, is the game that
Speaker 2: this this series is entirely gonna come down to. I
Speaker 2: figured I predicted the Lakers would win convincingly tonight. Game four,
Speaker 2: it's going to be a totally different effort from Golden State.
Speaker 2: You're gonna see a little bit more desperation from Golden State,
Speaker 2: a little bit less desperation from the Lakers. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be a really close game, in my opinion, and it's
Speaker 2: gonna come down to that exact same tug of war
Speaker 2: I'm talking about. Can Steph outplay Lebron and ad in
Speaker 2: the Crypto dot com arena? All right, let's get into
Speaker 2: some of the nitty gritty of how this actually went down.
Speaker 2: So the adjustment that Darvinham made to start this game,
Speaker 2: which is something that I really didn't expect and ended
Speaker 2: up not playing as big of a role in the game,
Speaker 2: just simp because of the fact that Draymond Green got
Speaker 2: into foul trouble and ended up spending a lot of
Speaker 2: the game on the bench. But Darbnham did something that
Speaker 2: I didn't necessarily agree with. He put Jared Vanderbilt on
Speaker 2: Draymond Green, and Austin Reeves onto Steph Curry, D'Angelo Russell
Speaker 2: over on to Klay Thompson. Now, the idea there is,
Speaker 2: we are only scared of Draymond Green in the short role.
Speaker 2: We're not scared of Jamichael Green in the short role.
Speaker 2: We're not scared of Kevon Looney in the short role. Right,
Speaker 2: So we put Jared Vanderbuilt on Draymond Green. He can
Speaker 2: just switch the step the Steph Draymond pick and roll.
Speaker 2: Now Austin Reeves is on Draymond. That can be a
Speaker 2: little bit of a sized mismatch, but Draymond's not a
Speaker 2: guy that's gonna beat you in a switch, right, So
Speaker 2: now Jared Vanderbilt is back on Steph Curry, and we're
Speaker 2: kind of where we were before this game, right, So
Speaker 2: that was the big adjustment that they made there, and
Speaker 2: then it allowed Anthony Davis to be more aggressive in
Speaker 2: his hedges on the other players that he was guarding,
Speaker 2: simply because of the fact that Draymond Green is just
Speaker 2: such a better role man. And I'm really curious to
Speaker 2: see how that specific adjustment it plays out in game four,
Speaker 2: because we didn't really get to see much of an
Speaker 2: example of how it would work tonight simply because of
Speaker 2: the foul trouble to Draymond Green. So in game four,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if Darvin Hamlet with a similar
Speaker 2: type of setup, and we'll get to learn a little
Speaker 2: bit more about that coverage and whether or not it works.
Speaker 2: But everything you know there are we talk so much
Speaker 2: about offensive superpowers, right, Like Steph Curry in game two,
Speaker 2: late in the game, comes off of like a dribble
Speaker 2: handoff on the right wing and jumps up and has
Speaker 2: like two dudes run up underneath him and he splays
Speaker 2: his legs out and he falls over and he makes
Speaker 2: the shot, and it's like, you played perfect defense and
Speaker 2: you just lose because he's unbelievable and he can make
Speaker 2: all these ridiculous shots, right, Like, that's what Steph Curry does.
Speaker 2: That's a superpower that overpowers anything that the defense is
Speaker 2: capable of. And we've seen this throughout NBA history. We
Speaker 2: focus so much on the ability of offensive superstars to
Speaker 2: transcend everything we understand about defense and what works right well.
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis has a similar impact on the game from
Speaker 2: the defensive end of the floor. I talked a lot
Speaker 2: about in the last show about how dangerous it is
Speaker 2: to hedge or to come way out above the level
Speaker 2: of the screen. And again, you can call it whatever
Speaker 2: you want. Sometimes it's like a soft trap, it's like
Speaker 2: a hedge. It's it's it's sort of it depends on
Speaker 2: It's kind of like a blitz two of a eighty
Speaker 2: gets really aggressive out on Steph.
Speaker 1: It doesn't.
Speaker 2: I'm not really interested in the semantics. To me, it's
Speaker 2: the yo yo of how high Anthony Davis comes up
Speaker 2: to the level of the screen. And what I was
Speaker 2: talking about was like you can't do that against Steph
Speaker 2: and Draymond because Draymond Green is just gonna kill you
Speaker 2: in the short role. But like the reality is is,
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis is such a freak of nature defensively that
Speaker 2: he just put in a lot more effort into being
Speaker 2: active with his hands when he came up high that
Speaker 2: suddenly it worked. And that's what's crazy, because I genuinely
Speaker 2: believe that's the one coverage you should never use against
Speaker 2: the Warriors that bring your big way out above the
Speaker 2: level of the screen, because that's what gives up all
Speaker 2: those pocket passes where Golden State is at their best.
Speaker 2: I think I usually think you're better off in drop
Speaker 2: coverage asking your guards to chase over the top or
Speaker 2: switching right. But Anthony Davis is so unbelievably good, by
Speaker 2: far the best defensive player in the league in my opinion,
Speaker 2: when he is right, that he is uniquely capable of
Speaker 2: making a super dangerous coverage functional because of how good
Speaker 2: he is with his hands, how high is iq is,
Speaker 2: how good his anticipation is, and how he can bother
Speaker 2: those pocket passes. The Lakers forced a ton of turnovers
Speaker 2: and got out in transition all game long. And it
Speaker 2: was because Anthony Davis just did a better job. Like
Speaker 2: we talk a lot about this on the show. Like
Speaker 2: you can focus on a schematic, you can focus on
Speaker 2: an adjustment. But nine times out of ten, any specific
Speaker 2: strategy can work as long as somebody does well enough.
Speaker 2: A drop coverage can work as long as your guards
Speaker 2: chase over the top really well and your big man
Speaker 2: can stay behind the roll man and mess everything up right.
Speaker 2: A switch can work as long as your guys can
Speaker 2: defend on the perimeter and you're a good help and
Speaker 2: recover team on the back line. And even a hedge
Speaker 2: against Steph Curry can work as long as you've got
Speaker 2: Anthony freakin Davis, who's so incredibly gifted with his hands
Speaker 2: to cause problems at the level of the screen. You know,
Speaker 2: we talk a lot about you, guys have heard those
Speaker 2: of you who listened to the show for a while,
Speaker 2: you've heard me talk about how if you double team
Speaker 2: the post, or if you blitz a pick and roll
Speaker 2: by using active hands, you force the pass to be
Speaker 2: much more difficult. It usually has to be looping, or
Speaker 2: it gets tipped or something along those lines, and that
Speaker 2: little delay will buy you time for your defense. To
Speaker 2: rotate on the back line, Whereas if it's a clean
Speaker 2: pocket pass through the gap and it hits the role
Speaker 2: man in stride, now your defense is completely screwed because
Speaker 2: that roleman is going full steam towards the rim and
Speaker 2: your defense is a step slow to rotate. And so again, like,
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody can do it other than Anthony Davis.
Speaker 2: I think he's uniquely equipped. But like that was a
Speaker 2: kind of an interesting example of a very dangerous coverage
Speaker 2: for the Lakers working because of Anthony Davis's greatness. I thought,
Speaker 2: you know, here's the bottom line, Anthony Davis. I thought,
Speaker 2: because that was a really rough start to that game.
Speaker 2: I think the Lakers gave up forty points in their
Speaker 2: first sixteen minutes of the game, and they were really
Speaker 2: struggling out on the perimeter. They were getting picked apart.
Speaker 2: And then they turned up the intensity and they only
Speaker 2: allowed twenty eight points over the following twenty minutes. And
Speaker 2: that was kind of where the game turned there in
Speaker 2: the end of the second quarter and over the course
Speaker 2: of the third quarter.
Speaker 1: That is what Anthony Davis is capable of.
Speaker 2: I tweeted out a link or jiff of Spider Man
Speaker 2: and him standing in front of the train and the
Speaker 2: trains going full speed and he's just digging his feet
Speaker 2: into the rivets and he holds up the train. That's
Speaker 2: what it reminded me of. That was a runaway, freight
Speaker 2: trained Golden State offense that was continuing the rhythm that
Speaker 2: they had from Game one. At one point or Game
Speaker 2: two at one point, Stephan Clay had made fifteen of
Speaker 2: their last twenty three threes. That's sixty five percent. Do
Speaker 2: you understand how insane that is? This Warriors offense was
Speaker 2: clicking at some of the highest level that they have
Speaker 2: in this particular season, and Anthony Davis stopped it somehow
Speaker 2: an unbelievable defensive performance. The bottom line is he's gonna
Speaker 2: have to do that two more times at a minimum
Speaker 2: to win this series. And like we saw in Game
Speaker 2: one and then Game two, we're gonna find out in
Speaker 2: Game four whether or not Anthony Davis is capable of
Speaker 2: revving up his engine enough to do that in back
Speaker 2: to back games, because again, if you lose that game
Speaker 2: and you go back to Golden State's too too, I
Speaker 2: think Golden State wins the series at that point. I
Speaker 2: think this game is the game the Lakers have to win.
Speaker 2: They have to win Game four. Game five is gonna
Speaker 2: be a tough one. Then you can close out the
Speaker 2: series in game six. So shout out to Anthony Davis.
Speaker 2: This is two out of the three games in this
Speaker 2: series where I thought he was the best player on
Speaker 2: the floor. That's a very very That's the swing factor
Speaker 2: of the series right there. Shout out to Lebron. His
Speaker 2: engagement level is so important to this team. Defensively, there
Speaker 2: was a I thought Lebron had one of his worst
Speaker 2: games of the postseason through two and a half quarters,
Speaker 2: and then there was a bad sequence. Lakers are up
Speaker 2: I think seventeen, and Lebron is just kind of messing
Speaker 2: around on a defensive rebound, and Andrew wig is crashing
Speaker 2: in and instead of boxing out Andrew Wiggins, he just
Speaker 2: stands there, and Andrew Wiggins comes over the top and
Speaker 2: tips the ball out. It goes right to Steph Curry.
Speaker 2: Steph Curry makes the three. Now it's a fourteen point game.
Speaker 2: Then the next possession, I think it was the next possession,
Speaker 2: but Lebron ends up getting a defensive rebound in his
Speaker 2: hands and he just fumbles it out of bounds and
Speaker 2: In the ensuing sequence, Anthony Davis gets another block, but
Speaker 2: the loose ball just kind of lands at Kevon Looney's
Speaker 2: feet under the rim. Kevon Looney lays it up. You
Speaker 2: call time out. You're only you're only up twelve. And
Speaker 2: I remember sitting there thinking like man, like, they need
Speaker 2: to get something out of Lebron James. These leads are
Speaker 2: not safe. And from the from that time out, from
Speaker 2: when the Warriors got it to twelve to the end
Speaker 2: of the third quarter, Lebron James was a freaking freight
Speaker 2: train on both ends of the floor, attacking the basket
Speaker 2: on offense, getting out in transition, and flying around on defense,
Speaker 2: both on the glass and blocking shots. Had a beautiful
Speaker 2: block of Jordan Poole on a baseline cut. He had
Speaker 2: a offensive rebound put back on a on a D'Angelo
Speaker 2: Russell pull up three in transition. Just big play, a big,
Speaker 2: big stretch there from Lebron to help put that game away.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the officiating for a second. So here's
Speaker 2: the thing, Warriors fans, I am certain that you feel
Speaker 2: like you probably got the short end of the stick
Speaker 2: in officiating in this game. And I would argue and
Speaker 2: the spectrum of the way officiating is gonna go over
Speaker 2: the course of the series. There's no question that was
Speaker 2: a great whistle for the Lakers. But here's the thing.
Speaker 2: What happened in Game two. In Game two, then the
Speaker 2: Lakers going to the entire first half without shooting a
Speaker 2: free throw or something crazy like that, Like the Warriors
Speaker 2: were able to be super physically aggressive in Game two,
Speaker 2: fouled a lot, got away with it. They got a
Speaker 2: much better whistle in Game two. That's going to happen.
Speaker 2: And guess what, I promise you guys, because I follow
Speaker 2: like one hundred Laker fans on Twitter, they all felt
Speaker 2: the exact same way that you guys felt tonight. The
Speaker 2: way you felt tonight, that's the way Lakers, Lakers fans
Speaker 2: felt in Game two. You will notice I did not
Speaker 2: talk about officiating in Game two because to me, that's
Speaker 2: just a natural ebb and flow of the series. Well,
Speaker 2: I feel like we've all watched enough NBA playoff series
Speaker 2: over the years to know that the whistle oscillates back
Speaker 2: and forth. And no, it's not the refs trying to
Speaker 2: swing things one way or another. I think it comes
Speaker 2: down to two factors. Okay, First, of all, like we
Speaker 2: talked about in one of the earlier shows today, I
Speaker 2: believe it was. I think it was when we were
Speaker 2: talking Heat Nicks. I can't remember.
Speaker 1: But the team that plays with Forrest gets the whistle.
Speaker 1: End of story.
Speaker 2: If you play super physically aggressive on both ends of
Speaker 2: the floor, you get the whistle. The Warriors were the
Speaker 2: more aggressive team in Game two, they got the whistle.
Speaker 2: The Lakers were the more aggressive team in Game three.
Speaker 2: They got the whistle.
Speaker 1: That's how it works. And then there's like a little
Speaker 1: bit of.
Speaker 2: Like a home court thing where refs always get a
Speaker 2: little swept up in the emotion of the arena. That's
Speaker 2: human nature, right so to me, Like, and the Warriors
Speaker 2: know that, by the way. And I'm not gonna be
Speaker 2: over the critical of the Warriors, because the Lakers also
Speaker 2: lost their cool with the refs in Game two. They
Speaker 2: Lebron and ad were talking to the refs act like
Speaker 2: you could tell they were both voicing their opinion to
Speaker 2: the refs that I thought the game was clearly being
Speaker 2: favorably officiated for the Warriors all game long. Today, the
Speaker 2: Warriors were doing the same thing to the refs, and like, honestly,
Speaker 2: I thought the Warriors let it get into their heads
Speaker 2: a little bit, and like the thing too is like
Speaker 2: a lot of them they're fowls. Like Draymon's fifth foul.
Speaker 2: Didn't like the call. Anthony Davis ripped through to his left.
Speaker 2: Draymond slid, took the contact in his chest and fell over.
Speaker 2: To me, that's a no call, right, you know, cause
Speaker 2: like you're not. Maybe you don't reward Draymond for falling,
Speaker 2: but you don't reward Anthony Davis for running him over. Right,
Speaker 2: that was a bad call. Here's the thing. You're gonna
Speaker 2: get back calls. There's gonna be six or seven bad
Speaker 2: calls in every single game. The two before that, the
Speaker 2: two players were Draymond Green fell over. He was out
Speaker 2: of position. Both of them were rollman possessions, or one
Speaker 2: of them was a rollman possession, the other was a
Speaker 2: rip through on the rollman possession. Draymond was just a
Speaker 2: step slow and he hopped in front of Anthony Davis
Speaker 2: and fell over. You can't you have to be there.
Speaker 2: You can't like Anthony' already be coming and you'd be
Speaker 2: a step slow and then get in front of him
Speaker 2: and fall over. You're gonna get that call every single time,
Speaker 2: they went to the booth and reviewed it and they
Speaker 2: upheld the call. The other one where Anthony Davis ripped
Speaker 2: through and he went towards the towards the middle, that
Speaker 2: was the one I want to say, that was the
Speaker 2: one where Anthony Davis landed on his ribcage. Like Draymond
Speaker 2: was out a position, he got beat to the right,
Speaker 2: and instead of sliding and being super physical where he
Speaker 2: might have gotten away with it, he tried to fall
Speaker 2: down and he didn't get the call. And one of
Speaker 2: the hard things that happens is when you fall, you
Speaker 2: put the onus on the official to blow the whistle.
Speaker 2: And that's the thing, whereas if you just play physical
Speaker 2: NBA playoff defense, there's a chance that they just end
Speaker 2: up holding that whistle right. And there's like Klay Thompson
Speaker 2: was getting like, I'm sorry, but every single level of basketball,
Speaker 2: if you're standing in a triple threat and you have
Speaker 2: your arm on the dude's left arm and he rips
Speaker 2: through to the left, it's an automatic foul. And yeah,
Speaker 2: they don't send you to the foul line anymore unless
Speaker 2: you're in the penalty, but they call that every single time.
Speaker 2: So Guess what, when you're guarding Austin Reeves, you can't
Speaker 2: put your arm out on him. You have to put
Speaker 2: your arm in the shooting pocket. Right the play where
Speaker 2: Austin Reeves took that little turnaround fade away and Clay
Speaker 2: ran into him, Make Austin Reeves make a turnaround fade away.
Speaker 1: Make him make it.
Speaker 2: If I'm a Warriors fan, I love that Austin Reeves
Speaker 2: is taking turnaround fadeaways. Klay Thompson on the pump fake
Speaker 2: entered his airspace. It's a foul.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some nights it won't get called. There will be
Speaker 2: games in the series light Game two where that doesn't
Speaker 2: get called. But there are also gonna be more games
Speaker 2: than this series. Don't be surprised if Game six in
Speaker 2: LA if you see the Lakers get a similar whistle,
Speaker 2: because they're gonna play desperate and with a ton of force,
Speaker 2: and they're gonna get a lot of calls. So part
Speaker 2: of it is just again we talked about this in
Speaker 2: Game one. You're gonna see a free throw disparity in
Speaker 2: almost every game of this series. Why the Lakers are
Speaker 2: the best free throw shooting, a free throw generating team
Speaker 2: in the league. And they're one of the very best
Speaker 2: teams at not fouling, and the Warriors stuck at both.
Speaker 2: So guess what, There's going to be a free throw
Speaker 2: disparity some nights worse than others. You gotta keep you cool,
Speaker 2: you gotta play through it. They picked up a lot
Speaker 2: of techs. They started to get into it with the
Speaker 2: officials instead of saying focus on the game. I think
Speaker 2: that's a big area for improvement in Game four, is
Speaker 2: just letting the officials and also just play with more force.
Speaker 2: If you are the team that plays with more force,
Speaker 2: you will get a better whistle like those flops. I
Speaker 2: genuinely believe if Draymond just holds his ground and literally
Speaker 2: fouls Anthony Davis like hits him and pushes him, it
Speaker 2: probably won't get called because they're letting everything go around
Speaker 2: the rim. Right. It's when you start falling down and
Speaker 2: body start hitting the floor that it starts to get
Speaker 2: a little bit more convoluted. Shout out to the Laker guards.
Speaker 2: I thought they all played better. D'angela Russell was amazing
Speaker 2: in that first quarter. Austin reeves much better defensive performance
Speaker 2: in this game. I think it helped to put him
Speaker 2: on Steph Curry because Klay Thompson had such a huge
Speaker 2: strength advantage on him. And then Dennis Schroeder, I thought,
Speaker 2: had a really good offensive third quarter during that run
Speaker 2: and play some good ball pressure defense on Steph Curry
Speaker 2: as well. So a couple of adjustments that I expect
Speaker 2: moving forward for the Warriors. And you kind of saw
Speaker 2: this where when Steph. When Steph identified that Anthony Davis
Speaker 2: was bothering those sequences in the hedge with his hands,
Speaker 2: you might have noticed that Steph kind of stopped going
Speaker 2: to ball screens with Anthony Davis and he just started
Speaker 2: to hunt isolations. And that I think is going to
Speaker 2: be a really really interesting counter for Steph is to
Speaker 2: start match up hunting away from Anthony Davis. So call
Speaker 2: for guard to guard screens, to pick on, try to
Speaker 2: get someone that you think you can get past, someone
Speaker 2: like D'Angelo Russell or Austin reeves on you. If Austin's
Speaker 2: guarding you full court space the floor, just attack Austin,
Speaker 2: Like Austin can't guard you. You're Steph Curry like, just
Speaker 2: don't worry about bringing Anthony Davis up into the screen.
Speaker 2: Go cook Austin, Go attack D'Angelo Russell. If Ruey Hatchamura
Speaker 2: is on the floor, get a guard to guard screen
Speaker 2: to get Ruey Hatchimura switched on to him. They even
Speaker 2: had some success in like hedge and recover situations getting
Speaker 2: some good looks for guys like Dante DiVincenzo just by
Speaker 2: running a guard to guard screen and drawing multiple defenders.
Speaker 2: So I think that's the next counter for the Warriors
Speaker 2: is straight ISO for Steph against Austin Reeves when he's
Speaker 2: guarding him, and then start to hunt individual Laker defenders
Speaker 2: and guard to guards screens. Next, stay out of out trouble,
Speaker 2: like just be a step be quicker with your reactions,
Speaker 2: stay in position, play.
Speaker 1: With more force. You'll get a better whistle.
Speaker 2: And if you do so, then Draymond Green can stay
Speaker 2: on the floor for longer and have a bigger impact
Speaker 2: on the game. And then the other thing I'd like
Speaker 2: to see. The last thing for the on the Warriors front,
Speaker 2: I want to see Andrew Wiggins look to be more
Speaker 2: aggressive as a score. Lebron James really struggles with his
Speaker 2: foot speed on the perimeter and he beat him off
Speaker 2: the dribble a bunch tonight. Hit some jumpers in his face.
Speaker 2: That's another guy too that you can run some guard
Speaker 2: to guard screens. Lebron is kind of notorious for switching
Speaker 2: screens with no effort, right, So call Austin Reeve, can
Speaker 2: have have Wiggans run a ball screen with Steph setting it,
Speaker 2: and then you'll probably get switched with Wiggins onto Austin Reeves.
Speaker 2: And then Wiggins can go to work on Austin Reeves
Speaker 2: like you're gonna be able to find good matchups there.
Speaker 2: And I think I think the Warriors need to start
Speaker 2: hunting opportunities where Anthony Davis is just on the back
Speaker 2: line and then from there you can drive and kick
Speaker 2: them a couple times and hopefully pull Anthony Davis away
Speaker 2: from the paint. But if Anthony Davis is going to
Speaker 2: be that good defensively on those hedges, I'm just not
Speaker 2: sure they're going to be able to score.
Speaker 1: On the Lakers front.
Speaker 2: I like the hedge and recover as long as Anthony
Speaker 2: Davis plays that active. If he doesn't, it could be
Speaker 2: a problem. So again, that coverage is super dangerous. It
Speaker 2: requires other worldly effort from Anthony Davis. I'd like to
Speaker 2: see Lebron James in the post war they did it
Speaker 2: a little bit tonight, more than they have in previous
Speaker 2: games in the series, but I think they can go
Speaker 2: there even more. Maintain defensive effort. Biggest weakness for this team.
Speaker 2: Will not be surprised if the Warriors kind of got
Speaker 2: up to an early lead and kind of stiff armed
Speaker 2: the Lakers throughout Game four, because they have a tendency
Speaker 2: to be inconsistent with their defensive effort and then keep
Speaker 2: playing with downhill force on offense to try to attack
Speaker 2: the Warriors' bigs and get them in foul trouble again,
Speaker 2: which obviously was a big pathway to their success tonight. Wow,
Speaker 2: what a series this has been so far. I know
Speaker 2: the blowouts can give you a little boring sometimes, but
Speaker 2: you know, for you know, just from a basketball chess
Speaker 2: mats perspective, it's been super interesting and it's been interesting
Speaker 2: to watch the up and down nature of the play
Speaker 2: of the stars. All Right, guys, that is all we
Speaker 2: have for today. I believe we're coming back tomorrow to
Speaker 2: do a chase three point segment. I'll probably just do
Speaker 2: a film study on three of the series, but if not,
Speaker 2: we'll be back on Monday night. I think we're going
Speaker 2: every night basically for the next three weeks, so keep
Speaker 2: an eye on the Twitter feed for show announcements and
Speaker 2: show links and things along those lines. I appreciate you, guys,
Speaker 2: and I'll see you today.
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