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Speaker 1: Why natural basketball fit. They needed somebody to operate with

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Speaker 1: guys might remember that one. But then he had another

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Speaker 1: dunk shortly after there where he ripped through the baseline

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Speaker 1: and rose up and went up of one off of

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Speaker 1: one foot and dunked it with two hands. He's kind

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Speaker 1: of starting to come to terms with the fact that

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Speaker 1: when he elevates, nobody is actually capable of jumping with him,

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Speaker 1: and it can get pretty scary once you mentally accept that,

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Speaker 1: because then you're just gonna aren't jumping, you know, even

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Speaker 1: when like you're gonna be way less timid around the rim,

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Speaker 1: which I think is gonna open things up. But he

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Speaker 1: had a really he had a really, really nice play

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Speaker 1: in the late fourth quarter that I wanted to highlight

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Speaker 1: real quick. There was like something like two minutes left

444
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Speaker 1: and it was garbage time. The game's basically over. But

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Speaker 1: this is just a demonstration of the basketball IQ that

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Kiming is gaining, specifically kind of operating as a

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Speaker 1: big man on the offensive end of the floor. So

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Speaker 1: Golden State runs a set and involves a cross screen

449
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Speaker 1: out of the post. Essentially like imagine two post players

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Speaker 1: on the block. One post player sets across screen that

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Speaker 1: allows the other post player to come across the floor.

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Speaker 1: One of the main reasons why you do that is

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Speaker 1: because a lot of times people will fight post mismatches

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Speaker 1: by fronting the post. But if I have to trail

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Speaker 1: you through a screening action, it's impossible for me to

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Speaker 1: front the post. I've now just given you lock and

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Speaker 1: trail position, which is going to give you the ability

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Speaker 1: to seal me. Right, So Jonathan goes out there and

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Speaker 1: he gets a seal, but Moses Moody doesn't make the

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Speaker 1: post entry pass, and so the Blazers defender I can't

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Speaker 1: remember who it was. I think it might have been Reddish,

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Speaker 1: but I can't remember. But he fights around coming and

463
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Speaker 1: actually fronts him and in that position, like a lot

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Speaker 1: of players would just quit on that play. No, Jonathan

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Speaker 1: cominga like, turned and switched his leverage back towards the rim,

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Speaker 1: and then Anthony Lamb flashed to the high posed Moody

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Speaker 1: hit him, and now that high low action is open.

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Speaker 1: You flipped the angle, the ball reversed. Now that guy

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Speaker 1: who's fronting you is suddenly on your backside. They dropped

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Speaker 1: it off to him and he got another dunk. I

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Speaker 1: think it's really interesting how Golden State has converted Jonathan

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Speaker 1: Cominga into basically a center or a big man on

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Speaker 1: the offensive end of the floor while deploying him as

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Speaker 1: a wing defensively. It's allowed them to turn a player

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Speaker 1: that might be several years away from being an impactful

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Speaker 1: offensive wing to being someone they could use right away

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Speaker 1: in specific matchups as an offensive big. The Warriors are

478
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Speaker 1: in great shape. He could not have asked to be

479
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Speaker 1: in better position, and was Steph returning. They've got this

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Speaker 1: tough game against the Clippers tomorrow. They're gonna be hungry

481
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Speaker 1: for a win. It's gonna be a really hard one

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Speaker 1: for them to win. I'd give them a very small chance,

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Speaker 1: but Steph is supposed to return in the upcoming road trip,

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Speaker 1: so things are starting to look up for the Warriors,

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Speaker 1: and I just wanted to take this chance to make

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Speaker 1: a little tip of the cap to Clay Thompson, to

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Speaker 1: Jordan Pool, to Draymond Green and Cavon Looney and the

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Speaker 1: this stretch of the season, these two stretches of the

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Speaker 1: season where they've been down their guys in floating the

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Speaker 1: ship and giving them a real chance to go on

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Speaker 1: a stretch run. Lineups this year that have had Draymond Green,

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Speaker 1: Cavan Looney, Clay Thompson, Jordan Pool with no Steph Curry

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Speaker 1: and no Andrew Wiggins are plus zero point three points

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Speaker 1: of the NBA. All right, let's move on to the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: So just gonna talk about them for just a minute. They.

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Speaker 1: I was genuinely confused when I saw that Anthony Davis

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Speaker 1: was out tonight. All the reports said that he was painfree.

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Speaker 1: Apparently this was planned rest, which I understand, but at

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Speaker 1: the same time, like this is a must win game

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Speaker 1: and a game that they very well could have lost

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Speaker 1: without Anthony Davis. They trailed by I believe eight points

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Speaker 1: or seven points in the third quarter of this game

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Speaker 1: on the road. It could have gone south for them quickly.

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Speaker 1: So I was confused by this strategy of resting a

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Speaker 1: d But that gamble paid off for the Lakers. A

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Speaker 1: bunch of guys made big plays. Ruey Hatchamura had a

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Speaker 1: great game, one of those games that you don't really

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Speaker 1: look at the box score four because he was really

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Speaker 1: impactful defensively and on the glass, and just a handful

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Speaker 1: of really smart, savvy offensive plays. Austin Reeves and Dennis

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Speaker 1: Schroeder took over ball handling responsibilities in an excellent way.

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Speaker 1: I thought that when you in Gabriel had a great game,

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Speaker 1: just dirty work as the backup center. They grinded out

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Speaker 1: a win against Okay City, Oklahoma City, which was a

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Speaker 1: big time and it helps him a lot in the

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Speaker 1: standing to specially considering you just bought Anthony Davis two

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Speaker 1: days of rest before a game in Minnesota where they're

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Speaker 1: going to need him to be fantastic. But what I

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Speaker 1: wanted to briefly touch on in this particular segment was

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Speaker 1: the Grizzlies game. You know, I talked to Colin Coward

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Speaker 1: last night. For those of you guys who haven't seen

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Speaker 1: it yet, Colin and I went for about forty five

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Speaker 1: minutes and talked just a shit ton of NBA around

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Speaker 1: the league. Check that out if you haven't done so yet.

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Speaker 1: It's on the Volumes YouTube channel. But in that conversation,

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Speaker 1: we talked a lot about the Memphis Grizzlies, or excuse me,

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Speaker 1: about the Los Angeles Lakers. And one of the things

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Speaker 1: I said to Colin was like, all is not lost. Now.

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Speaker 1: The D'Angelo Russell injury was unfortunate. We're gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: that here in just a second, but he's coming back

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Speaker 1: on Friday. This team is a good basketball team without

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Speaker 1: Lebron James. Now, that is one of the advantages of

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Speaker 1: the job that Rob Polinka did at the deadline. Nick.

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Speaker 1: We've talked about it. They paid a dear price for that.

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Speaker 1: Lebron All reporting says that he suffered this exact injury

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Speaker 1: in January opted to play on it rather than resting it.

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Speaker 1: As a result of the predicament the team was in

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Speaker 1: in the standings, and he literally floated the ship during

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Speaker 1: that stretch. The only reason the Lakers have a chance

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Speaker 1: is because of what Lebron James did during that stretch

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Speaker 1: in late December, January, early February without Anthony Davis. So

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Speaker 1: he deserves a boatload of credit for that. But one

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Speaker 1: of the advantages of net gamble is they've now built

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Speaker 1: a talented roster that is capable of winning games without

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Speaker 1: Lebron James. The problem is is they will not be

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Speaker 1: able to beat good teams unless the Angelo Russell is available.

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Speaker 1: And you saw that in that Grizzlies game. I tweeted

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Speaker 1: after the game that I thought the Lakers had really

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Speaker 1: good half court defense in that game, and I thought

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Speaker 1: they lost it in transition. But I didn't get a

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Speaker 1: chance to see the data until today, and it was

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Speaker 1: exactly what happened. They held the Grizzlies to a ninety

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Speaker 1: two point two offensive rating in the half court, which

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Speaker 1: is great for perspective. The Charlotte Hornets have a ninety

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Speaker 1: two point two offensive rating in the half court all season,

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Speaker 1: which ranks twenty ninth in the NBA. So the Lakers

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Speaker 1: did their job in the half court. But without D'Angelo

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Speaker 1: Russell and without Lebron James, all the ball handling responsibilities fell.

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Speaker 1: They got slotted improperly. Now Schroeder is a primary ball

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Speaker 1: handler right now, Austin Reeves is a secondary ball handler.

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Speaker 1: You know. Now Lonnie Walker is getting a lot of

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Speaker 1: ball handling responsibilities. And they just couldn't take care of

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Speaker 1: the basketball. They had twenty six turnovers, gave up forty

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Speaker 1: one points off of those turnovers. According to Synergy, they

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Speaker 1: had thirty six points in this game just in transition,

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Speaker 1: which is the story of the Memphis Grizzlies all season.

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Speaker 1: Keep him in the half court, you can stop them.

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Speaker 1: Let him get out in transition and they'll kill you.

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Speaker 1: And that's what happened in this game. But De'angelo Russell

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Speaker 1: is supposed to return Friday. That should slot everybody properly. Now,

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Speaker 1: De'angelo Russell's a primary ball handler, which he's capable of being.

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Speaker 1: Not for a great team, but he can be that

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Speaker 1: for a good team, which is all the Lakers need.

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Speaker 1: While Lebron James is out of the lineup, that puts

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Speaker 1: Dennis Shrewder in a secondary ball handler role. That puts

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Speaker 1: Austin Reeves in a tertiary ball handling role that puts

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Speaker 1: Lonnie Walker in a position where you hopefully don't have

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Speaker 1: to start any possessions with him, which which were rough

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Speaker 1: in this particular game. So it should slot everybody properly

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Speaker 1: and give them a much better chance to fight through

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Speaker 1: this next stretch of their schedule. All right, let's move

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Speaker 1: on to the Clippers. So they're owing three without Westbrook.

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Speaker 1: But I think Russ has been good in all three games.

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Speaker 1: This isn't like what it was with the Lakers, where

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Speaker 1: the fit was clunky. You know Lebron James as an

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Speaker 1: on ball shot creator. He can work off the ball,

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Speaker 1: but his best impact is on the ball. That's the

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Speaker 1: opposite of what the idea is with the Clippers. Kawhi

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Speaker 1: Leonard can work on the ball, but he's best if

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Speaker 1: he fights for position down in the post and someone

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Speaker 1: makes a post entry and he can finish plays as

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Speaker 1: a score in specific matchups and specific spots on the

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Speaker 1: floor with specific spacing. That's when Kawhi is at his best.

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Speaker 1: That flipped dynamic makes a much more natural fit for

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Speaker 1: Russ as a point guard. Right, you saw the opposite

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Speaker 1: of that effect with the Lakers, he was operating much

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Speaker 1: more off the basketball, so his weaknesses were highlighted, whereas

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Speaker 1: with the Clippers, his strengths have been high lighted, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's a big part of why that fit

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Speaker 1: has been so good so far. He is not responsible

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Speaker 1: for why the Clippers have lost these three games in

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Speaker 1: a way that he was responsible for a lot of

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Speaker 1: not directly responsible, but he did have a lot of

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Speaker 1: bad games with the Lakers that helped contribute to losses.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's had a bad game yet with

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Speaker 1: the Clippers. We'll see what happens in the long run,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's been a good start so far.

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Speaker 1: My only gripe with the Westbrook thing is Tyler's closed

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Speaker 1: with him twice and we've seen what happened. We saw

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Speaker 1: what happened against the Kings last night. He took a

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Speaker 1: bad shot late in the game in an isolation against

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Speaker 1: Mike Conley, just went rogue and took a wonderable fade

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Speaker 1: away one like fade away over Conley and just barely

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Speaker 1: graze the left side of the rim. Like those are

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Speaker 1: the things that they're going to have to sort out.

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Speaker 1: But I don't blame Russ for that. I blame Tylu.

646
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 1: The book is out on Russell Westbrook as a closing player.

647
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: They have to figure that out. That's on the coaching staff.

648
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 1: The reason why I want to talk about the Clippers

649
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 1: tonight is Paul George. He had a super insightful interview

650
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,479
Speaker 1: with JJ Reddick that gets released on all platforms tomorrow,

651
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: I believe if I was reading the social media correctly,

652
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 1: but they released a little clip and it was a

653
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: really insightful, you know, four or five minute bit with

654
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 1: JJ and Paul talking about the transition from him being

655
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: a basically the guy in Indiana to playing alongside a

656
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: star and Russell Westbrook with the Thunder, to playing alongside

657
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 1: a star in Kawhile Leonard with the Clippers, and now

658
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: two stars technically with Russell Westbrook and Kawhi Leonard, and

659
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: just what that transition has been like. He talked a

660
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 1: lot about how, you know, how good the game of

661
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 1: basketball has been to him, and how he's made tons

662
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:32,719
Speaker 1: of money and now he just wants to win, and

663
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: how he doesn't have an ego and he likes being

664
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: in that secondary role and I appreciate the sentiment. I do.

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00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: And there's some truth to that idea, particularly at the

666
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: end of games. But the basketball has changed so much

667
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: that there's no such thing as like who's the one

668
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: and who's the two. How many times over the course

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00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: the last few, you know, five six years, have you

670
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: heard like, oh, man, Chris Paul is gonna go play

671
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 1: with James Harden. There's only one basketball. How's that going

672
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: to work? It worked great? You know, Oh, Kevin Durant's

673
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: going to the Suns. It's him, Chris Paul and Devin Booker.

674
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: There's one basketball. They looked awesome on offense tonight, right Like,

675
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: So it's just one of those things where as the

676
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: game of basketball has changed and it's become so much

677
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: more about like advantage creation and you need multiple ball

678
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: handlers on the floor. It's no longer about we have

679
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: one basketball that collective talent only it's like a rising

680
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: tide that floats all boats. And and so I never

681
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: really have bought into that specific concept. And right now,

682
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: regardless of what Paul George views as the psychological dynamic

683
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 1: of the team, they need more out of him. The

684
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 1: Clippers are two and five in their last seven games,

685
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 1: and Paul George is averaging just twenty four points per

686
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: game on below forty five percent shooting. That's just not

687
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: good enough for the level of talent that Paul George is,

688
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: and on film it stands out in a couple of

689
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: specific ways. In my opinion, it's all about his approach

690
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: and his mentality on the ball. He went up a

691
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 1: level in the twenty twenty one postseason. Some of you

692
00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: guys remember that that was when he pulled out that

693
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: Utah Jazz series without Kawhi Leonard and then took the

694
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: Suns to six without Kawhi Leonard. And a big part

695
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: of that specific playoff run was Paul George was bought

696
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: into the physicality, like imposing your will physically on the

697
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: offensive end of the floor. He was attacking the rim

698
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: like crazy. In that playoff run, he actually averaged three

699
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: point one restricted area makes per game, which is a

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00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 1: higher mark than I think he's ever hit during a

701
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: regular season, at least in recent in his recent career history.

702
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 1: So he just had a very clear approach, which was

703
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: I am going to get to the basket and build

704
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: everything else on my game off of that. I think

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00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 1: that that's gone the opposite direction in this particular season

706
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: when I'm watching Paul George now he's taking a lot

707
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: of really tough shots when he doesn't need to. Now,

708
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 1: there's a time in a place for tough shot making,

709
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: right Like if you're in a groove, like you've made

710
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: a couple in a row and you're in a rhythm,

711
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, man, go to work that. Take your step backs,

712
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: take your tough fall away twos, and and you're difficult

713
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: off the dribble threes. If you're in a position where

714
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: you have to rescue a possession, yeah, there's no choice,

715
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: nobody's open, there's two seconds on the shot clock. Yeah,

716
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: uncork one of those really difficult shots that you work on.

717
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 1: But for Paul George right now, those shots are just

718
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: a regular part of his shot diet, and I think

719
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 1: that's partially why he's struggling to really get into a rhythm.

720
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 1: And the problem is is those shots, even for the

721
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: best players in the world, those really difficult like two

722
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: three dribble combination into a step back contested to No

723
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: matter how good you are at those, it's like thirty

724
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: seven percent shot thirty six percent shots, So you're gonna

725
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 1: miss a lot of them. And that thing can that

726
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 1: can compile with your and your confidence in your rhythm

727
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: and lead to a bad shooting night. I'll give you

728
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 1: guys an example. So in that game against Denver the

729
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 1: other night, Kawai is going off in regulation down the

730
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 1: stretch and Paul George isn't really involved. He he took

731
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: one late pull up jump shot that he missed. But

732
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,760
Speaker 1: we get into ot, he just like takes some early

733
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 1: clock behind the back dribble contested three, like a really

734
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 1: difficult shot that he missed and led to a runout

735
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: for Denver where Jamal Murray hit a three because they

736
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: didn't get matched up in transition, and then he had

737
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 1: a turnover on the following possession. But like that shot

738
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 1: is a great example of the approach that I'm talking about.

739
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 1: I want to say, there was like twelve or thirteen

740
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: seconds on the shot clock. There was no immediate need

741
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: for him to take that shot. He wasn't in rhythm

742
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 1: offensively at that point. It was just I'm gonna put

743
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: this up and live with the result. And chances are

744
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 1: statistically that you're going to miss that shot. If he's

745
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 1: made a couple in a row, now all of a sudden,

746
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 1: he's in a groove that ticks up into a fifty

747
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: percent shot because he's confident and he's feeling good about

748
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: himself and that sort of thing. I've always believed that

749
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: sort of thing really matters with shot result in the NBA.

750
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 1: I know all the nerds don't believe in in the

751
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,879
Speaker 1: hot hand theory, but I very much do. And so

752
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: I think that that's a specific thing with his approach

753
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 1: that he needs to address. When he's attacking the rim

754
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: primarily and using his tough shot, making his a counter

755
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 1: to that, he's a bona fide two way superstar, but

756
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 1: when he's not, he's much much less than that, and

757
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,759
Speaker 1: he gets away from that way too frequently. I understand it,

758
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,879
Speaker 1: you know, like you, I've worked really hard on those

759
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 1: shots over the course of the last four or five

760
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 1: years in my life, and I use them a lot

761
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: when I play. And there's a tendency when you've worked

762
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: on that kind of thing because it's easier, not in

763
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 1: shot result, but it's easier to just take a contested

764
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: shot than it is to physically impose your way to

765
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,760
Speaker 1: the rim. So I get it where it's like sometimes

766
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,319
Speaker 1: it's almost like a curse of your own skill that

767
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 1: you'll as of almost like a laziness take the tougher shot.

768
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 1: I understand it, but the bottom line is that's not

769
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: going to be his best chance to win a championship, which,

770
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 1: according to his interview with Paul with JJ Reddick, is

771
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: this primary concern. So I really want to look over

772
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: the course of the home stretch of the season at

773
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 1: Paul George being more physically aggressive to the rim. I

774
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: think that would turn things around for him, all right,

775
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 1: really quickly. Before we get out of here tonight, we're

776
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 1: gonna talk a little bit about the Sixers in the

777
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: Heat and their little home and home. So the Sixers

778
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 1: went into Miami tonight without Joel Embiid and got revenge

779
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: for their close loss. Harden and Maxie combined for fifty points.

780
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 1: They put together excellent defensive effort and they won comfortably.

781
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: But I don't want to talk about that particular game.

782
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: I want to talk about this game the other night,

783
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 1: just an absolute rock fight of a game that the

784
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: Heat won in Philly one o one to ninety nine.

785
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 1: And the reason why I want to talk about it

786
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: is this, to me, is a great example of what

787
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 1: a rock fight looks like. And you see a lot

788
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: of rock fights in the playoffs, and I think it's

789
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,439
Speaker 1: very interesting how teams win those games. So I wanted

790
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:33,879
Speaker 1: to kind of break it down a little bit. So

791
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: Philly was down big in the middle of the fourth,

792
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 1: I think they were down eleven. Both teams are running

793
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: a ton of zone. Philly got really hot for just

794
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: a second. Tyrese Maxie hit a three, He had a

795
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 1: couple of transition runouts. They got it back to a

796
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: close game, and then there was a lid on the

797
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 1: rim for both teams and down the stretch. I think

798
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: the last like four or five minutes of the game,

799
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,279
Speaker 1: neither team could make a shot and no one was

800
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 1: feeling comfortable. And to me, that is the foundational aspect

801
00:37:57,920 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: of what a rock fight is. And those of you

802
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 1: who have played basketball at any level, we'll know what

803
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:04,879
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. There is a type of basketball game.

804
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: It's usually extremely physical, but it's the type of game

805
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 1: where no offensive player on the floor feels good about

806
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 1: their perimeter game. Right. So like the pull up shooters

807
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 1: don't feel comfortable going into their pull up shots. The

808
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,240
Speaker 1: you know, catch and shoot guys all have sweaty palms

809
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: and they don't feel comfortable going into their shots. No

810
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 1: one's feeling confident, nothing feels good, and it kind of

811
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: gets stagnant and nobody knows what to do. In those environments,

812
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,879
Speaker 1: it becomes a rock fight, and in that environment, it's

813
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,760
Speaker 1: so much about just forcing the ball into the basket

814
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 1: by any means necessary around the rim, and I thought

815
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,280
Speaker 1: it was really interesting. It came down to a final possession.

816
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 1: It was I believe ninety eight and Jimmy Butler had

817
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 1: the ball with just over a minute left and the

818
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: Sixers were in their two three zone, but Jimmy Butler

819
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 1: got it on the right wing and it kind of

820
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 1: functionally turned into like an ice coverage because PJ. Tucker

821
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,800
Speaker 1: basically sat back like he was a pick and roll big.

822
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: And I believe it was d' Anthony Melton, who was

823
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: the top guy in the zone, who was kind of

824
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 1: sitting on Jimmy's high side, and he calls Caleb Martin

825
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: to come over and set a screen. But Caleb Martin

826
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: can't set the screen because he's effectively icing it, which

827
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 1: means you're denying the ball handler the ball screen, right,

828
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: You're forcing him towards his help on the baseline, So

829
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: he's in this awkward position where he can't drive to

830
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 1: the left around the screen because d' anthony Melton is

831
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: just literally waiting there for him. PJ. Tucker's waiting under

832
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: the like like four or five feet off of him

833
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: in the short corner, none of the like. Yeah, there's

834
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 1: some shooters open on skip passes, but nobody feels good

835
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 1: about their catching shoot shot. We just talked about that

836
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: it's a rock fight, those shots probably aren't going in.

837
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: And Joel Empads waiting directly under the rim, so you

838
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: would think, like driving to the rim is an extremely

839
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 1: low percented shot, but this is rock fight basketball, and

840
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler just does a heart dribble to his left,

841
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,320
Speaker 1: does a hard spin move like steps on PJ. Tucker's foot,

842
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,879
Speaker 1: almost sprains his ankle like like in the spin move,

843
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 1: loses control of the basketball a little bit and beads there.

844
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: He goes up in under he literally as he's trying

845
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 1: to finish on the other side of the rim, the

846
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,800
Speaker 1: ball is disconnected from his hand temporarily and he somehow

847
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 1: manages to regain control and just flip it up into

848
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 1: the basket and it's the lead changing shot. The other

849
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 1: end of the flour, James Harden tries to bully his

850
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: way to the rim, leaves it short on the front rim,

851
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 1: they get a stop, they go down the other end.

852
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 1: Joel Embiad tries to take bam At a Bio off

853
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 1: the dribble and bam At a Bio just smothers him

854
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 1: and blocks him along the baseline. Then on the final possession,

855
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:34,240
Speaker 1: Jimmy Joel Embiad actually did a really nice job navigating

856
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: a double team and hit James Harden at the top

857
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:37,840
Speaker 1: of the key and he had a wide open three.

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Speaker 1: I shouldn't say wide open. It was kind of a

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Speaker 1: chase contest and he had a pretty decent look. But

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Speaker 1: he had a decent look and he missed it. But

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Speaker 1: like I said, in those environments, those types of shots

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Speaker 1: just don't go in. And that's why I wanted to

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Speaker 1: talk about this particular game because it's not again. The

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Speaker 1: Sixers got revenge tonight. They went in and kicked the

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Speaker 1: Heat's ass without joe El Embiid. And you guys know me,

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Speaker 1: I'm way higher on the Sixers than most people. I

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Speaker 1: think they have a real chance to win the Eastern

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Speaker 1: Conference if James Harden and Joel and Bed both play well.

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Speaker 1: But I just I wanted to talk about that particular

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Speaker 1: game and what happened down the stretch, just because that,

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Speaker 1: to me, is such a great example of what a

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Speaker 1: rock fight is. And I often talk about how you

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Speaker 1: have to win in different ways in the postseason. Different

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Speaker 1: games take on different feels. Sometimes the final scores ninety

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Speaker 1: three to eighty seven, sometimes the final scores one seventeen

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Speaker 1: to one thirteen. There's different stuff, like, there's different styles,

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Speaker 1: and so much of it just depends on how people

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Speaker 1: feel on any given night. Does your pull up jump

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Speaker 1: shot feel good? Do your skill players feel comfortable? Or

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Speaker 1: is everyone off? And now it's a fist fight. And

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Speaker 1: the teams that can win both of those ways have

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Speaker 1: the best chance to make it far in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: And say what you want about the Miami Heat, and

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Speaker 1: they've got a boatload of personnel shortcomings, way too many

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Speaker 1: undrafted guys and buy out guys and guys that people

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Speaker 1: around the league didn't want. But they've got amount a

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Speaker 1: bio and they've got Jimmy Butler, and the two of

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Speaker 1: those guys are two of the best rock fight basketball

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Speaker 1: players that we have in the NBA. And their ability

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Speaker 1: to win that type of game will always keep them

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Speaker 1: a threat no matter what their regular season record is,

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Speaker 1: no matter who their postseason matchup is. I didn't give

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Speaker 1: them any chance to beat the Celtics last year, and

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Speaker 1: Jimmy was one shot away from getting them to the

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Speaker 1: NBA Finals. And that's why I just can never get

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Speaker 1: off to Miami Heat bandwagon. Alright, guys, that is all

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Speaker 1: I have for today. Gosh, that was a lot of

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Speaker 1: basketball to get into. We are taking tomorrow off and

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Speaker 1: then on Friday, we're gonna be doing five Big Questions

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Speaker 1: with Carson. You guys seem to like that show last week,

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Speaker 1: so we're gonna do that again, and then we'll get

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Speaker 1: back into our instant reaction stuff this weekend. As always,

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Speaker 1: I sincerely appreciate your support. We'll see you guys next time.