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Speaker 1: that note, let's talk about this potential Lakers deal. So

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Speaker 1: that can get a little tricky with Devin Booker is

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Speaker 1: he does rely heavily on pull up jump shooting. A

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Speaker 1: good percentage of those shots regard ordless of where they

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Speaker 1: are on the floor involved him getting to his spot

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Speaker 1: and elevating over the top of a defender to knockdown

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Speaker 1: shots even in the short to midrange that you've probably

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Speaker 1: seen it before, but Devin Booker will work you down

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Speaker 1: to seven or eight feet, pump fake, pump fake, and

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Speaker 1: then rise up over the top and take a jump shot.

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Speaker 1: A good percentage of his offense comes from pull up

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Speaker 1: jump shooting. The tricky thing with that is, even on

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Speaker 1: your best day, you're gonna miss some pull up jump shots,

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Speaker 1: right like you know, any one of you guys out

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Speaker 1: there who has any sort of pull up jump shooting

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Speaker 1: in your game, even if you're good at it, even

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Speaker 1: if you work extremely hard, you're gonna miss more than

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Speaker 1: half of them. And what that means is you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have hot streaks where you're you know, where you can

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Speaker 1: go seven out of ten or make a bunch in

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Speaker 1: a row, But then you're also gonna have cold streaks.

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Speaker 1: In game six, in game seven versus Dallas, he was

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Speaker 1: three for sixteen on pull up jump shots, and when

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Speaker 1: that failed him, he didn't have a backup option to

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Speaker 1: go to. When you rely on pull up jump shooting

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Speaker 1: and the pull up jump shot fails you unless you're

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Speaker 1: a great playmaker, or you can live at the rim.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna have a back, a backup punch to

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Speaker 1: go to. And Devin Booker has some balance to score

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Speaker 1: at the rim, but he is not a guy who

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Speaker 1: can live at the rim. And he's an okay playmaker,

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Speaker 1: but he is not a good playmaker. And so that's

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Speaker 1: why I've always prioritized his scores. Bigger wings, like the bigger, stronger,

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Speaker 1: rim pressuring wings, because when their jump shot starts to

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Speaker 1: fail them, they can at least put their head down

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Speaker 1: and go to the rim and have some impact collapsing

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Speaker 1: the defense. And then that's where the playmakers in particular

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Speaker 1: can bring great value. That's that's the story of Lebron

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Speaker 1: James's career. When he's making his jump shot, there's absolutely

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Speaker 1: nothing you can do with him. He's the best player

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Speaker 1: in the world. But even when he's missing his jump shot,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna go eight for twenty two, which is solid.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna score twenty eight points, he's gonna get to

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Speaker 1: the foul line eight times, and he's gonna have eleven assists.

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Speaker 1: Like That's that's the dynamic of the big rim pressuring forward.

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Speaker 1: That's so interesting is they have the ability to impact

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Speaker 1: the game in so many different ways beyond that of

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Speaker 1: a pull up jump shooter. UH. Devin Booker, to his credit,

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Speaker 1: has turned himself into a pretty solid on ball defender.

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Speaker 1: He's scrappy, he's physical, he uses his hands. While he's

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Speaker 1: kind of a disruptive defender, he's only okay and help

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Speaker 1: side defense. That's a little area of opportunity for him.

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Speaker 1: And then, just like every other guard in the league,

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Speaker 1: he's susceptible to bigger wings and mismatch situations. You saw

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Speaker 1: that a lot against Dallas Luca, punishing him under the

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Speaker 1: basket for layups and and ones and things along those lines.

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Speaker 1: So the question here is can Devin Booker be the

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Speaker 1: best player on a championship team. I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a number two. I don't think that's

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Speaker 1: a hot take. I think most of you would probably agree.

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Speaker 1: I think you either need to be a great playmaker

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Speaker 1: or be a much much bigger, stronger rim protector in

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Speaker 1: order to be UH to be a top tier UH

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Speaker 1: the best player on a championship team as a score

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Speaker 1: in the NBA. That's where I'm gonna lean more towards

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Speaker 1: the Kauais and the Jason Tatums of the and the

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durance of the world as big scoring wings than

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Speaker 1: the smaller guys like Devin Booker, who basically have the

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Speaker 1: same type of shot profile as those guys without the

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Speaker 1: physicality to get easier shots around the rim and without

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Speaker 1: the playmaking ability to make up for their lack of size. Alright.

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Speaker 1: Number fourteen Damian Lillard now Dame, is a top ten

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Speaker 1: player when he's healthy, but obviously he's dropping here because

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Speaker 1: health concerns. He's been saying things about how is abdominal

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Speaker 1: muscles has kind of healed itself. He shared some pretty

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Speaker 1: crazy stories about having a big lump that he would

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Speaker 1: see like in his stomach after games and stuff that's freaky.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully that's healed. Hopefully he'll be back on the horse now.

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Speaker 1: The two previous seasons combined, he averaged twenty nine points,

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Speaker 1: four rebounds, eight assists on sixty three percent true shooting.

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Speaker 1: That is ridiculously good on three or excuse me, on

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Speaker 1: ten three point attempts per game. In the postseason, he

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Speaker 1: averaged thirty four and eight on sixty five percent true shooting.

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Speaker 1: He's also arguably the best pull up jump shooter in

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Speaker 1: the game of basketball. Over the course of those two seasons,

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Speaker 1: he averaged over ten pull up jumpers per game and

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Speaker 1: shot on them. Now, there's a huge difference between pull

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Speaker 1: up shooting and spot up shooting. I wanted to break

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Speaker 1: this down because we're gonna get into it a little

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Speaker 1: bit deeper with Paul George, and I've actually been directly

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Speaker 1: working on this with one of the college players that

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Speaker 1: have been working out with over the course of the

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Speaker 1: summer who's going from an off ball roll into an

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Speaker 1: on ball roll this season, and so we're working on

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Speaker 1: changing the shooting mechanics into the field of shooting off

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Speaker 1: the dribble versus shooting and spot up situations. And it's

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Speaker 1: super interesting to me because in spot up shooting it's

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Speaker 1: very mechanical. You want muscle memory, you want as few

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Speaker 1: moving parts as possible, and you want it to be

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Speaker 1: as replicable as possible, because at that point it's you're

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Speaker 1: you're standing still waiting for the basketball, I mean, the

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Speaker 1: basketball comes to you. You want to be able to

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Speaker 1: unleash something that is a muscle memory, thing that you've

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Speaker 1: done thousands and thousands of times, that is more reliable

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Speaker 1: pull up shooting is completely different. There's a fluidity to

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Speaker 1: it as opposed to a mechanical field to it. The

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Speaker 1: reason why is the ball is always in a different

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Speaker 1: spot depending on what you're what work is, and what

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Speaker 1: your dribble combination is. In a spot up shooting situation,

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Speaker 1: you might catch it wherever you catch it, you're bringing

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Speaker 1: it to your shooting pocket and then you're starting your

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00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,479
Speaker 1: routine right. But in off the dribble situation, I might

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Speaker 1: be doing it behind the back, dribble to my left

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Speaker 1: hand and have the ball out here and have to

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Speaker 1: flow right up into a shot, or if I have

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Speaker 1: it out here, flow right up into a shot from

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Speaker 1: the right side. It's a completely different type of field.

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Speaker 1: You can't be mechanical and pull up shooting because if

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Speaker 1: you are, if you take time to get set into

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Speaker 1: your shot after every single dribble combination, you're never gonna

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Speaker 1: have enough time to get the shot off. And so

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Speaker 1: what impresses me the most about Damian Lillard and Paul George,

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Speaker 1: who we're gonna get into here in a little bit,

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Speaker 1: is they have remarkable fluidity into their pull up jump shooting.

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Speaker 1: Dame's go to move and pull up jump shooting situations.

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Speaker 1: Is he kind of ULLs you to sleep with the

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Speaker 1: dribble in his right hand, and he does a hard

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Speaker 1: pound dribble with his right hand and steps back to

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Speaker 1: his right, kicks his right foot out to help square

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Speaker 1: up in mid air, and he knocks it down. There's

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Speaker 1: a I always have. I'm a nerd when it comes

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Speaker 1: to the little d tales of skill development, just because

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Speaker 1: I personally my archetype was always a scorer, So I'm

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Speaker 1: always looking to add a little like scoring moves and

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Speaker 1: things to my game. And Dame's pound dribble step back

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Speaker 1: to the right is one that I think every score

564
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,159
Speaker 1: should have in their game, and have always been very,

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Speaker 1: very impressed by the fluidity in his jump shooting ability.

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Speaker 1: Dame is every bit as good as Steph on the ball.

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Speaker 1: The numbers are unassailable. Last two playoff runs, thirty points

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Speaker 1: per game on sixty true shooting, eight assists per game,

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Speaker 1: a knockdown, pull up jump shooter. He's every bit as

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Speaker 1: good as step on the ball. But why is he

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Speaker 1: usually hovering around the tenth best player in the league

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Speaker 1: while Steph is in the conversation for the best player

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Speaker 1: in the league. Well, that's the best example of the

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Speaker 1: differences between focusing on the aesthetically appealing things in basketball

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Speaker 1: and the things that actually impact winning. You guys probably

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Speaker 1: remember the Mike James quote that came out the other

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Speaker 1: day saying that Steph was one dimensional. A couple of

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00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 1: different interesting things they're one That's the best example I

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Speaker 1: can give you that playing the game of basketball has

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Speaker 1: nothing to do with your understanding of the game. Mike

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Speaker 1: James is a very successful basketball player who has played

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Speaker 1: in the NBA before. If you think Steph is one dimensional,

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00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: you do not understand what you are seeing. Okay. That's

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Speaker 1: why I I give a great deal of respect to

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Speaker 1: the people out there who have not played the game,

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Speaker 1: but that have taken the time to try to learn

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00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: the game. So because it's just it's it's a lot

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00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 1: easier said than done, and it does take a lot

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Speaker 1: of work to understand what you're seeing on the basketball court.

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Speaker 1: But even in that specific case, uh, Steph is an

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Speaker 1: excellent score and we just talked about that with Dame

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Speaker 1: on the same level as step and Steph demonstrated that

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Speaker 1: in this playoff run, particularly in the NBA Finals against

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Speaker 1: Boston's drop coverage just routinely barbecuing them for going underneath

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00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: screening actions and things along those lines. But Steph has

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00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: always been massively underrated with this winning characteristics, the little

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00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: things he does to impact winning. And that's not just

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Speaker 1: his leadership, even though he's one of the best leaders

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Speaker 1: in the game of basketball. It's not just his mentality

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Speaker 1: and his competitive of nature and any of those things,

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Speaker 1: even though that's as good as you'll find in the

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Speaker 1: game of basketball. It's actual on the court work. First

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00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 1: of all, step is considerably bigger than Dame. He's six

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00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: ft three and pretty well built. He's also very committed

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00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: to the defensive end of the floor. That has turned

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Speaker 1: step into an above average defensive guard in this league.

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Speaker 1: Dame is in the bottom tier of defensive guards in

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Speaker 1: the league. He's a good athlete, but he's pretty undersized.

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00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: He's much smaller than Staff. That makes it tougher for

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Speaker 1: him to hold his own and positional defensive situations. Guys

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00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 1: can go through and around him pretty easily. And then, lastly,

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Speaker 1: the moving without the basketball. Steph Curry is the best

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Speaker 1: off ball guard in the league, and Dame Lillard seems

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Speaker 1: pretty uninterested in doing that. Moving without the basketball is

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Speaker 1: super important for a bunch of different reasons. First of all,

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Speaker 1: it helps create quality shots for yourself. Pull up jumping,

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00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: like we talked about earlier, is hard. The shot profile

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00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: is hard. It's not reliable. Sometimes they'll go in, sometimes

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Speaker 1: they won't, So you need to supplement your offense with

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Speaker 1: easy He looks for bigger rim pressuring forwards. That's living

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Speaker 1: at the rim, that's putting your head down and going

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Speaker 1: through people to try to get layups. For a guy

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Speaker 1: like Steph, he does it by moving without the basketball.

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00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: He's gonna get himself three or four wide open. Three's

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00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: a game just by constantly staying in motion and capitalizing

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Speaker 1: on defenders having brief lapses in attention. And when they

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00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 1: had that brief those brief lapses and attention, he sparks

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Speaker 1: open for a second. Draymond or someone else hits him,

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Speaker 1: he knocks down to three. That's how you supplement the

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Speaker 1: more difficult areas of your offensive attack with easy shots.

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Speaker 1: And then secondly, it's the decoy effect. We've all seen

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00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: this with Steph a million times. But he'll come running

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Speaker 1: off the screen and the guy who's setting the screen,

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Speaker 1: his man will go out with step and then steps

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Speaker 1: Man will go out with Steph and then all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, whoever set in the screen, and maybe it's

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Speaker 1: Kevin Looney or Draymond Green or somebody. They just flashed

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00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: to the basket and they're wide open for a dunk.

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00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: That decoy, the decoy attention that Steph draws moving without

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00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: the basketball creates shots first teammates, and then he also

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00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: creates open shots for himself to help supplement his offense.

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00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: Dame Lillard has everything he needs to do that. He's

643
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: such a deadly shooter that if he embraced that off

644
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 1: ball movement, he would generate himself easier shots throughout the game,

645
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: and he would get his teammates open looks. But for

646
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 1: whatever reason, he's been pretty uninterested in doing that. And

647
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: so that's that's the biggest area of opportunity for Damon.

648
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if he'll ever take advantage of that,

649
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Speaker 1: but if he does, I don't think he could ever

650
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Speaker 1: be in the same conversation as Steff because of his

651
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: defensive limitations, but he could get up into that six

652
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: or seventh best player in the league if he started

653
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: doing those things. You've seen what Steff is capable of offensively,

654
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 1: He's arguably, I would say he is the best offensive

655
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: engine in basketball right now. Dame could be a nearly

656
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: as impactful offensive engine if he embraced those winning things

657
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 1: that Steff does without the basketball. So what can the

658
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: Blazers accomplish this year? They're actually putting together They they

659
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 1: actually have put together a pretty interesting roster. I really

660
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: really like the Jeremy Grant trade. I think he's a

661
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 1: perfect number two to have alongside Dame. He's he had

662
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: a rough year last year because of the the injuries, but

663
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Speaker 1: the previous year he demonstrated that he can be a

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Speaker 1: relatively efficient volume score. So you put him alongside Dame

665
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Speaker 1: Jeremy Granton. Dame Anthony Simmons has blossomed into a pretty

666
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: decent scoring guard in the NBA, so you've got three

667
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 1: pretty good scoring options. Jeremy Grant is a capable defensive player,

668
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: and they added some really important role players over the

669
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: course of the last couple of years. The Josh Hart

670
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 1: acquisition I really appreciated. I think that's gonna help them

671
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: a lot. Josh Hard is a solid three and D

672
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: wing in this league, and Gary Payton the second. This

673
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: is a player that I wanted the Warriors to keep

674
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 1: I was really disappointed in them for letting him go.

675
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: I pointed out the numbers to you guys, but the

676
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: difference between the way the Warriors played in this postseason

677
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 1: run with Gary Payton on the floor versus Gary Payton

678
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: off the floor was jarring. He's an impact playoff player

679
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: in the NBA right now, a perfect guy to put

680
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: alongside Dame on the wing or in the backcourt to

681
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: help him with all of the dirty work responsibilities on

682
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: the floor and then use off. Nurkic is a fine

683
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: role players center in this league. Shade and sharp he got,

684
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: he ended up getting hurt. I believe he had like

685
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: a shoulder injury or something along those lines in summer league.

686
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: But he's a really intriguing young player, very high ceiling,

687
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: low floor type of guy. He could be like a

688
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: more athletic version of Devin Booker as a guy who

689
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: creates shots off the dribble, who has a ton of

690
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 1: fluidity with the basketball and is a fantastic athlete. But

691
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 1: there's also a version of his story where he becomes

692
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Speaker 1: Kevin Porter Jr. So it's because maybe he just doesn't

693
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Speaker 1: pick up on the maturity necessary to become a winning

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Speaker 1: basketball player. So it's an interesting prospect there to kind

695
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Speaker 1: of potentially extend their window. If he pans out into

696
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 1: a decent player, what does that make them? If Dame

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Speaker 1: can recapture what he was before he was hurt, and

698
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Speaker 1: Jeremy Grants the player from two years ago, and Anthony

699
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: Simons is the type of score that he was this

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Speaker 1: last year, and if Gary Payton and Josh Hart stay

701
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: healthy on the wing and they do their job defending,

702
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Speaker 1: they're absolutely in the mix as a middle tier UH

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Speaker 1: playoff team in the West. I wouldn't put them near

704
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Speaker 1: the Clippers or the Warriors, but they're absolutely UH in

705
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Speaker 1: that tier with like Denver and maybe the Lakers if

706
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Speaker 1: they if they make decent trade this offseason. That's how

707
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Speaker 1: much I respect Dame Lillard and what he can do

708
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Speaker 1: with the basketball alright. Number thirteen John Moran this regular

709
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,240
Speaker 1: season twenty seven six and seven on fifty eight percent

710
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Speaker 1: true shooting. This playoff run twe eight and ten on

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00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: fifty five percent true shooting, shot thirty four percent from

712
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Speaker 1: three in the regular season and in the playoffs, and

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Speaker 1: he went up in volume a little bit in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: That's good in bad. It's good in the sense that

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Speaker 1: his stroke translates to the playoffs in terms of his confidence,

716
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Speaker 1: like it's not like a sharp it's not like a

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00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: shot fell apart when he got to the playoffs. The

718
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 1: bad there is thirty four percent is not good enough,

719
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 1: so he will eventually need to get that up to

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Speaker 1: about thirty seven thirty eight percent to get teams to

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Speaker 1: really respect him and guard him more intentionally out there.

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Speaker 1: Um I I told you guys about how I thought

723
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Speaker 1: a really interesting element of John Moran's potential development is

724
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: the fact that he's impossible to officiate because he's so skinny,

725
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:55,399
Speaker 1: and he goes flying through the lane and can fall

726
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: down a lot, and the refs just don't know what

727
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Speaker 1: to do. I compared him to Dwyane Wade in that respect. Now,

728
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: it didn't materialize in a finals run the way it

729
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: did for a championship round, the way it did for

730
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Speaker 1: Dwyane Wade, but he did go up to ten free

731
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,240
Speaker 1: throw attempts per game in the postseason. That's an excellent

732
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: sign of a replicable, dependable offense uh for the Grizzlies,

733
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 1: and later attempts to to make deeper runs into the playoffs,

734
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Speaker 1: He's just he's just impossible to contain with a live

735
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: dribble at the top of the key. If he gets

736
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: a live dribble and the floors space and he's working

737
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,840
Speaker 1: against any defender in the league, he's getting into the

738
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,760
Speaker 1: paint and he's getting grible penetration. He's gonna make something happen.

739
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 1: Couple that with his athleticism and the way he flies

740
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: through the lane, He's gonna draw a ton of house.

741
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: He's your classic hyper athletic slashing guard, right in the

742
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,720
Speaker 1: mold of Derrick Rose and John Wall and Russell Westbrook.

743
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Speaker 1: Obviously there's a little differences between those guys and jaw

744
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: Like Wall and Westbrook were more big and strong, Rose

745
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,800
Speaker 1: was a little bit was skinnier, kind of like jaw um.

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Speaker 1: John I think is the best passer out of any

747
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 1: of them, except for maybe Westbrook, although I can be

748
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 1: critical of Westbrook's passing sometimes because I think it's a

749
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: little reactionary. It's a it's a little bit like, uh

750
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 1: reactive as the people in the in the comments try

751
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 1: to tell me last show, Uh, He's he's a little

752
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: bit of like a hill pass when he has to

753
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 1: kind of guy I find John Moran to be a

754
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: little bit more willing of a passer, and so with

755
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,919
Speaker 1: his ability to collapse the defense by getting into the paint,

756
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: that can be really impactful. And then his room for

757
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: his room, finishing his room, finishing his outstanding. He was uh.

758
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: He was finishing five point three layups in the restricted

759
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: area per game in the regular season, and that only

760
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 1: dropped to four point three in the playoffs. Now, in

761
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,760
Speaker 1: the playoffs, typically the teams scout more and they packed

762
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,360
Speaker 1: the paint more. That's why you're gonna see that a

763
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:40,839
Speaker 1: little bit of a drop off, but that's not much

764
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 1: of a drop off. He was getting into the basket. Now,

765
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: his percentages dropped. He shot sixty seven percent in the

766
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Speaker 1: restricted area in the regular season. That dropped up fifty

767
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: two in the postseason. But that's offset a bit by

768
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 1: the free throws. Like a lot of those drives are

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00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 1: ending in him getting foul and going to the foul

770
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Speaker 1: line and that specific free throw in that specific postseason.

771
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 1: So you'd like to see that a little higher, but

772
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 1: him getting into the line, him making four point three

773
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: layups per game and getting to the line ten times

774
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,919
Speaker 1: per game, there's no way I can twist that into

775
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: anything but a massive positive for him as one of

776
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: the most dynamic rim attackers that we have in the league. Now,

777
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: this is a crazy stat. So in the clutch in

778
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: this postseason run per thirty six minutes. So if I

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Speaker 1: took just his clutch minutes and extrapolated them out to

780
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,280
Speaker 1: what he would typically play in a game, so thirty

781
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: six minutes. His per thirty six minutes in the clutch

782
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: this year in the postseason or fifty five points, thirteen rebounds,

783
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: and seven assists. So his production in his clutch minutes

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00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: mimics that of a player who in the thirty six

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00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: minute game would average fifty five points per game and

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00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: thirteen rebounds and seven assists. In clutch situations in this postseason,

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00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: he shot fifty two percent from the field and fifty

788
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: from three. That's ridiculous. So that's another huge thing if

789
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 1: you're a Memphis Grizzlies, Memphis cruizes, he's fan to cling to.

790
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:05,240
Speaker 1: Jaw looks like a comfortable and confident clutch basketball player

791
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: in the NBA playoffs. But the big negative with Jaw,

792
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 1: and this is something he's gonna eventually have to figure out.

793
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:12,919
Speaker 1: He's a little too skinny right now that that's gonna

794
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 1: be a big part, and then a commitment from him

795
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 1: in terms of of his the way he allocates his

796
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: resources and his energy. He's just flat out bad defensive

797
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:22,840
Speaker 1: player right now. He's bad at the point of attack,

798
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 1: he's bad in help. He has some highlight shot blocks

799
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: from time to time, but he's not a like a

800
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Speaker 1: volume miss shot blocker. He in this in this playoff

801
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 1: series against Minnesota this year, Patrick Beverley was straight up

802
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 1: looking him in the eye and dog walking him down

803
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 1: to the rim and scoring like just he couldn't do

804
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 1: anything to contain Patrick Beverley. That's a problem. Patrick Beverley

805
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: is a below average offensive guard in this league, so

806
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 1: he's absolutely gonna have to figure out that defensive piece

807
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 1: to reach his ultimate ceiling. So I compared him to

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00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 1: Derrick Rose, Russell Westbrook, and John wall I think he

809
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 1: has the potential to be better than any of those guys.

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00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: He already has better shooting form, which I think will

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00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,959
Speaker 1: translate to him being a knockdown three point shooter later

812
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: on in his career. And he's better in the short

813
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: range than any of them, stopping short and getting too

814
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 1: little floaters and push shots in the lane. He's already

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00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 1: better than any of those guys were, especially at his age,

816
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,280
Speaker 1: at that specific skill. Right now, he's a better passer

817
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: than Rose and Russ Rose and Wall where I think

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00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 1: he will be a better passer than Russ in the

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Speaker 1: long run. If he can figure out the defensive peace

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00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 1: and get his jump shot to where I believe he

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Speaker 1: can get, he has the potential to win multiple m

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Speaker 1: vps and be a better player than any of those

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Speaker 1: guys were at any of their peaks. Number twelve. This

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Speaker 1: one's gonna be a little controversial for some of you guys,

825
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 1: but I've always valued this player, particularly Brandon Ingram. So

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Speaker 1: in this regular season he averaged twenty three six and

827
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: six one shooting somewhat underwhelming right um, But his breakout

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00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: came in this postseason run. He was there a handful

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00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: of break out players in this post season around Anthony Edwards,

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown, you know John Muran obviously in his first

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Speaker 1: postseason run, their second postseason run. But Brandon Ingram was

832
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: magnificent in this playoff run, seven six and six on

833
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: fifty percent true shooting against the third ranked defense in

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Speaker 1: the NBA, and his primary defender finished second and Defensive

835
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: Player of the Year voting. That's Michael Bridges, as was

836
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Speaker 1: his coming out party, really really versatile scoring. You average

837
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Speaker 1: two point five made restricted area field goal attempts made

838
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Speaker 1: restricted area field goals per game at eighty three percent.

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Speaker 1: That's unbelievably good. He averaged three point seven made mid

840
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:43,240
Speaker 1: range shots per game at fifty percent. That's unbelievably good.

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Speaker 1: And then the thing that stood out to me the most,

842
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Speaker 1: and you guys will remember me talking about this during

843
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 1: um during the first round when we were doing our

844
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: post game shows, he flashed high end playmaking. We have

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Speaker 1: a lot of wings in this league, guys like Paul George,

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Speaker 1: guys like Kawhile Leonard, guys like Kevin Rank, guys like

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00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: Jayson Tatum that can pass, but they're clearly like reactive

848
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 1: passers that are just making reads right, just the basic

849
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 1: reads that come from the way that defense has collapse

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00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 1: on them. Brandon Ingram is flashing higher level playmaking than

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00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: even that. Now, what makes it interesting to me is

852
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: his age. Like I've seen Kevin Durant in the late

853
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 1: stage of his career start to flash this higher level playmaking.

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Speaker 1: But for Brandon Ingram at his age to start to

855
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Speaker 1: show this is super impressive. And again it's like Luca

856
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: don chech Lebron James esque high pick and roll reads.

857
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: He's getting the ball screen, he's working it down to

858
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 1: the elbow. He's being patient, he's putting the defender and

859
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,879
Speaker 1: jail on his backside. He's waiting to bait the rim

860
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: protector into stepping up and waiting for the week side

861
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 1: corner guy to star to step in to help against

862
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: the lob threat. And he's throwing like a big, looping

863
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: across court pass that hits the shooter in the pocket

864
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,880
Speaker 1: in the week side corner. These are high level reads

865
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 1: from the best playmakers in the league that I was

866
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: seeing from Brandon Ingram in that playoff series against the Suns.

867
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 1: That's what excites me the most. To be that good

868
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:10,400
Speaker 1: around the rim. Two point five makes at to be

869
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 1: a knockdown mid range jump shooter at three point seven,

870
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:16,239
Speaker 1: made attempts are made shots at fifty and to be

871
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: flashing that type of high level playmaking, that's like, that's

872
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: top tier superstar stuff. And he's not a top tier

873
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 1: SuPAR superstar yet he has to be consistent in that regard.

874
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: But that's why I have him all the way up

875
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: here at number twelve. He showed something in that playoff

876
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 1: run that demonstrated to me that he's poised to take

877
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 1: a big leap this season, and I believe he will.

878
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,880
Speaker 1: He was an impact defensive player against the Suns in

879
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 1: that playoff series, albeit as a weakness, he's a little

880
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,479
Speaker 1: bit inconsistent on the defensive end ever since he left

881
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: the Lakers in two thousand nineteen. He had a great

882
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: defensive season and he kind of let go of the

883
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 1: rope there for a little while, but he flashed that

884
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: potential again against the Sun, So that'll be a huge

885
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,839
Speaker 1: thing for him, his defensive consistency. The one other UH

886
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,320
Speaker 1: weakness that I wanted to point out. He was thirty

887
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 1: on above the break three's in both the regular season

888
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. He's knocked down three point shooter from

889
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,840
Speaker 1: the corner, and he's a knockdown mid rain shooter, but

890
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 1: he struggles above the break. Who does that? Reminds you

891
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 1: of Mr Dmarda Rosen And if you watch them, they

892
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: both have similar jump shot for him in the sense

893
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: that they shoot high above their head and they catapult forward.

894
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: It's lower arc now, lower arc actually is less of

895
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: an issue the closer you are to the basket because

896
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: you have more margin for error in there. But when

897
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: you get further away from the rim, you need more

898
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:33,280
Speaker 1: arc on the basketball. That's gonna be something that Brandon's

899
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 1: gonna have to figure out because, as we pointed out

900
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: with DeMar de Rosen earlier, that inability to score from

901
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: the above the break as a three point shooter, particularly

902
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: off the dribble, will really hurt your ability to get downhill.

903
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: I don't want Brandon Ingram to become the next to

904
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: Mar de Rosen. I want him to show more of

905
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:52,399
Speaker 1: that Paul George fluidity scoring from the three point line

906
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 1: above the break. So getting that above the break three

907
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: point shot figured out and getting the getting more consistent defense,

908
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 1: Civilly showing what he did in that postseason run consistently

909
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: for eighty two games. That's the difference between where he

910
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: is and getting into the top ten. Also his rim finishing.

911
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 1: He shot extremely well in that playoff series, but he

912
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: was only sixty seven percent in the regular season, And

913
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: as you guys know, when it comes to guy's six

914
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: eight and above, big rim attacking forwards, I like to

915
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 1: see that number higher than seventy. But he's just a

916
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 1: little He's a little thin, so that's gonna hurt him

917
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 1: a little bit. But I'd like to see him getting

918
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: a little bit better at finishing around the rim. So

919
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 1: I'm super high on Brandon Ingram. Obviously. This is why

920
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:34,400
Speaker 1: I thought the Pelicans should trade Zion Williamson for Kevin Durant.

921
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,240
Speaker 1: I'm worried about Zion's health. I'm worried about Zion's ability

922
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 1: to eventually become an impact defensive player. I'm worried about

923
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: how long it'll be before he can really really really

924
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:45,399
Speaker 1: help them on a championship level. And they've got such

925
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 1: a good roster around that was c J. Mccollin, and

926
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 1: with Herb Jones and with Trey Murphy. I love the

927
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: way that roster is put together. So I like the

928
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: idea of pairing Brandon Ingram with Kevin Durant. And you

929
00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: can do that by trading Zion and and and and

930
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,279
Speaker 1: getting Kevin Durant back. It's a super uh It's a

931
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 1: super interesting potential dynamic there with the two of them.

932
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 1: They I'm not sure how it would work with salary

933
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,919
Speaker 1: filler if they'd have to include c J or something

934
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:12,800
Speaker 1: along those lines. But I'm super high on Brandon Ingram.

935
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: The idea of pairing him with Kevin Durant and two

936
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 1: really good three and D players sounds like a championship

937
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 1: level roster to me. Um But it seems to me

938
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 1: like if the Pelicans make the deal, they'd include Brandon,

939
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 1: which I think would be a mistake, but it is

940
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 1: what it is alright. Number eleven, our last player that

941
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 1: did not make the top ten Paul George seven and

942
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: six percent shooting this regular season. In his defense, it

943
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 1: was completely injury riddled. He only played thirty one games,

944
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 1: but in one playoffs, so the playoff series before this

945
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: season he averaged twenty seven ten and five on fifty

946
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: eight percent try shooting, which is excellent. He had a

947
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:55,279
Speaker 1: bad playoff reputation leading into that playoff run. I think

948
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 1: he had lost five consecutive playoffs series going into that

949
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:03,280
Speaker 1: playoff run if remember correctly, or going into the Bubble

950
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: when they made it to the second round to lose

951
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: the Denver they had lost five consecutive playoff series, so

952
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 1: call that six out of his previous seven playoff series

953
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: he had lost. He had struggled in a lot of

954
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 1: those situations. He got locked up by Joe Ingles in

955
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 1: a series against the Utah Jazz. It was all bad

956
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: and he had a bad reputation, and in one playoff run,

957
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: he demonstrated that he was no longer that guy. He

958
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: demonstrated that he was capable of being that best guy

959
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 1: on a championship team level player when he took the

960
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: Clippers within two wins of the NBA Finals without Kawhi Leonard.

961
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 1: I thought the big change for him that allowed him

962
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:39,800
Speaker 1: to change that perception of himself was making a concerted

963
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 1: effort to get to the rent. He averaged one point

964
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 1: eight made shots in the restricted area in the season,

965
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 1: he averaged two point nine. That's literally a hundred and

966
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 1: fifty percent of what he did the previous season. That's

967
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: a significant increase. Why does that matter, Because do you

968
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 1: guys remember when I was talking about the give and

969
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: take with Pascal se at him and with James Harden,

970
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:04,840
Speaker 1: the need to have a threat to counter your primary

971
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 1: strength so that players can't sit on your primary strength.

972
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about it in a minute. Paul George

973
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 1: is one of the best pull up jump shooters that

974
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 1: I've seen and He's as fluid as it gets at

975
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 1: getting to his jump shot off the dribble. So if

976
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 1: players are not scared of him going to the basket,

977
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,359
Speaker 1: they can press up into his jump shot. More that

978
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 1: get makes it harder for him to get separation, It

979
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:26,919
Speaker 1: makes it harder for him to knock down shots. Him

980
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: making that concerted effort in to get to the rim

981
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 1: completely changed the type of basketball player that he was

982
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 1: and turned him from an inconsistent, unreliable playoff player into

983
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: a dominant playoff basketball player. Two point nine made shots

984
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:44,320
Speaker 1: in the restricted area per game in the playoffs is outstanding.

985
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:48,840
Speaker 1: And so that move counter move concept, adding the threat

986
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 1: of consistently going to the rim transformed Paul George. Now,

987
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:56,280
Speaker 1: like I talked about earlier, that fluidity in the handle

988
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: and jump shooting compared to spot up shooting, I think

989
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 1: the best guy to uh to replicate in this specific

990
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: skill as Paul George. Like I told you guys, obviously

991
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 1: I'm not an NBA player, but the player that I

992
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 1: think I play closest to when I'm playing pickup is

993
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: Paul George, and that specific concept of fluidity into his

994
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 1: jump shot is what I try to build in my game.

995
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 1: The advantage of being able to pull up out of

996
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: any footwork and any dribble combination is it makes it

997
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 1: so that you can be reactive as an offensive player

998
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:27,279
Speaker 1: because when you hit a dribble combination, you don't know

999
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 1: where the defender is gonna buckle. So, for instance, if

1000
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 1: I do in and out through the legs to the

1001
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 1: left and behind my back to the right, he might

1002
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 1: lunge at the in and out. He might lunge at

1003
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 1: the cross, he might lunge at the behind the back.

1004
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:41,360
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but wherever he is, I need to

1005
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:44,279
Speaker 1: be able to transfer energy from that specific spot to

1006
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,759
Speaker 1: either advance the basketball or to go up into a

1007
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 1: jump shot. That's where that fluidity comes in. I need

1008
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 1: to always be a threat at any point in time

1009
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: with the basketball to either advance to the basket or

1010
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 1: to go up into a jump shot. And Paul George,

1011
00:48:57,920 --> 00:48:59,399
Speaker 1: I think is one of the best in the league

1012
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:02,920
Speaker 1: at this picularly at the wing position, and that fluid

1013
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 1: it he just makes him so much fun to watch

1014
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: his dribble combination jumpers. I could watch a highlight film

1015
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: of that with Paul George all day long. He's a

1016
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:15,799
Speaker 1: deeply impactful defensive wing. I I'll never forget watching him

1017
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma City, just completely locked down. James Harden at

1018
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:20,919
Speaker 1: the peak of his powers, like it just a joy

1019
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 1: to watch him. Defensively, He's somewhat limited as a playmaker,

1020
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 1: but like we talked about earlier, almost every scoring wing

1021
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,359
Speaker 1: in the league is like that. We just talked about

1022
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 1: Brandoning where I'm showing flashes of being kind of better

1023
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 1: and Kevin Durant being better in the late portion of

1024
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 1: his career, but just for most big scoring wings, it's

1025
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 1: just not something that's a strength for them. He's a

1026
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:43,319
Speaker 1: damn good basketball player, and him being outside of the

1027
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: top ten is everything you need to know about how

1028
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,280
Speaker 1: talented the league is right now. So the big question

1029
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 1: is this the year the Clippers can win the title.

1030
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 1: So You've got Kawhi Leonard, Reggie Jackson and Paul George

1031
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: excellent trio there at the top of the at the

1032
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 1: top of the rosters, offensive creators, and then they have

1033
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 1: as deep a repertoire of three and D wings that

1034
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 1: you'll find in the league. Robert Covington's, Norman Powell, Nick Betune,

1035
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 1: Terrence Man, Marcus Morris, Luke Kennard, and then Zoombaka I

1036
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:15,359
Speaker 1: really like as a center in this league. So they

1037
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 1: can play big and play drop covers with zoo Bach,

1038
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 1: or they can go five out, you know, classic Tyler basketball,

1039
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:23,840
Speaker 1: switch everything and and mismatch attack on the other end

1040
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: of the floor. They have one of my favorite roster

1041
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:31,360
Speaker 1: constructions in the league. It captures my specific basketball philosophy

1042
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:33,439
Speaker 1: that I believe in so much. I've said it before,

1043
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: but I think the Clippers are the biggest threat in

1044
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 1: the Western Conference to beat the Warriors, and I absolutely

1045
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: view them as a top tier contender. And Tyler, as

1046
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, is one of my favorite young coaches

1047
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: in the league. I think he's got a very modern approach,

1048
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 1: very uniquely equipped to handle modern basketball, and his roster

1049
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: is perfectly catered to the way he likes to coach

1050
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:55,319
Speaker 1: the game. I'm very, very high on the Clippers, and

1051
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:58,439
Speaker 1: Paula George is as good a number eleven that you'll

1052
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:01,239
Speaker 1: find in NBA his tree. Al Right, guys, that is

1053
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 1: all I have for today. Next week we'll be doing

1054
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 1: the top ten. We're gonna be spending a lot more

1055
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:06,840
Speaker 1: time on those guys, especially when we get to the

1056
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 1: top five. I have some special plans. As always, I

1057
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 1: appreciate your guys of support. We'll see in a couple

1058
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:44,240
Speaker 1: of days. The volume