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Speaker 1: Embiid with the starters, I just think it would be clunky.

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Speaker 1: As far as schematically, like we talked about, I think

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Speaker 1: you will see a lot of switching. I wouldn't hedge

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Speaker 1: and recover with Steph. I would just have him guard

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Speaker 1: and then basically just tell him to press up on

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Speaker 1: jump shots and know that he has backside help behind him,

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Speaker 1: and just ask him to rotate on the offensive end

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Speaker 1: of the floor. I expect them to run five out.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen enough footage from practice to know what

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Speaker 1: they're running yet, but I would have just assumed they're

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Speaker 1: running five out, and with that, it's just lots of

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Speaker 1: ball and player movement. Get the defense and rotation, trust

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Speaker 1: each other. Katie can attack close out, Steph can attack

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Speaker 1: close outs, Tatum can attack close outs, Lebron can attack

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Speaker 1: close outs. Ad is just always going to be there

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Speaker 1: ready to finish all of these other guys. Can slot

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Speaker 1: in and fill that role. Devin Booker can come onto

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Speaker 1: the floor and provide some of what Steph brings to

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Speaker 1: the table and can do the same. Kawhi can do

446
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Speaker 1: the same. That to me, there's gonna be a good

447
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Speaker 1: amount of scheme consistency from group to group, and you're

448
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Speaker 1: gonna be able to put different types of lineups together

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Speaker 1: that compliment each other. And that's the beauty of this

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Speaker 1: roster and that's why I think they're gonna be very dominant.

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Speaker 1: Who can beat this team? Final question starts from the

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Speaker 1: standpoint of what are their weaknesses? And I don't think

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Speaker 1: this team has any offensive weaknesses at all. They have

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Speaker 1: plenty of ways to get the defense into rotation, they

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Speaker 1: have plenty of ways to finish plays. They have guys

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Speaker 1: that can take over the game. They have guys that

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Speaker 1: can bully inside. They have a lead, pull up shooters,

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Speaker 1: they can play driving kick like. I think they're fine

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Speaker 1: on the offensive end of the four. Defensively, the one

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Speaker 1: issue because they have a big center, they have a

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Speaker 1: rim protecting center. They have tons of forwards like, they

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Speaker 1: have tons of length like. The one thing is they

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Speaker 1: just don't have a ton of foot speed on the

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Speaker 1: perimeter in general, and again it's worth mentioning they have

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Speaker 1: more than enough length to make up for it, but

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Speaker 1: they could be vulnerable to some really quick guards. So

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Speaker 1: with that, let's take a look at the Vegas op

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Speaker 1: So these are according to DraftKings, USA is currently favored

469
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Speaker 1: at minus three ninety. It's pretty substantial favor. Not nothing insane,

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Speaker 1: but pretty substantial. Canada is the second favorite at plus

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Speaker 1: nine hundred. But I don't like the matchup because they

472
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Speaker 1: they're two main offensive threats. Shake Gibs Alexander Jamal Murray

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Speaker 1: are pull up shooters, and the US has a ton

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Speaker 1: of length to bother pull up shooters like. They're not

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Speaker 1: overly quick guys. We know Shay can beat people off

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Speaker 1: the dribble, but he's not lightning quick. There's not a

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Speaker 1: ton of lightning quickness on that team. It's a pull

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Speaker 1: up shooting team. Length is the best counter for pull

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Speaker 1: up shooting. They're also undersized on the front line and

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Speaker 1: lack rim protection. That feels like a disaster against a

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Speaker 1: frontline of Lebron James and Anthony Davis, Lebron James and

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Speaker 1: Joel Embiid and and just even just with the inverted

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Speaker 1: spacing that Steph Curry provides, right, So I don't really

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Speaker 1: view that them as a substantial threat. France plus one

485
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Speaker 1: thousand as the third favorite. They have Wemby and Rudy Gobert,

486
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Speaker 1: Nick Batoum at the three. That's a lot of length.

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Speaker 1: Their backcourt is most gonna be Frank Mila Keina and

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Speaker 1: Evan Fournier, right, Like that's they're gonna be a pain

489
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Speaker 1: in the ass to score against in the paint, for sure,

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Speaker 1: But how do you counter a team that has a

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Speaker 1: lot of length under the basket? Perimeter shooting team USA

492
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Speaker 1: just has a ton of it, Like lebron kd Steph

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Speaker 1: and Jason Tatum are all really comfortable shooting, not just shooting,

494
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Speaker 1: but shooting from deep, so like that's not gonna be

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Speaker 1: They're all comfortable above the break, so like that's not

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Speaker 1: an issue. I even think USA could go centerless against

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Speaker 1: them because they're frontline, like go bears a non threat offensively,

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Speaker 1: and Wemby's kind of thin, so you could even supplement

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Speaker 1: that with more shooting and just be like we're not

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Speaker 1: gonna go AD, We're gonna go Lebron at center. You know,

501
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Speaker 1: Tatum at the four, KD at the five, at KD

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Speaker 1: at the three, and we'll go Booker and Steph, and

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Speaker 1: now we just have tons of shooting on the floor.

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Speaker 1: Good luck, Steph, Devin Booker, KD lebron and and Jason Tatum.

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Speaker 1: Just good luck. You know, like no amount of length

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Speaker 1: at the rim is going to cause that to be

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Speaker 1: a problem, right and so like, again, France has some

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Speaker 1: issues that they present, but I I just I think

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Speaker 1: I think the USA team presents more issues to France. Serbia.

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Speaker 1: They have Nicola Jokich. Serbia right now is plus thirteen hundred.

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Speaker 1: They're the fourth favorite to win the win the gold

512
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Speaker 1: medal on DraftKings. They have Jokic, but TOSA has Joel Embiid,

513
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Speaker 1: who is literally the best human in the world at

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Speaker 1: guarding Nikola Jokic. So like that's another thing that USA

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Speaker 1: has a counter for not to mention all the issues

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Speaker 1: that USA that the TMOSA could present for Serbia on

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Speaker 1: the perimeter right now, Again, single elimination is always a variable.

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Speaker 1: Anything could happen when a team goes hot or cold,

519
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Speaker 1: as we know, but I think USA is pretty resilient

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Speaker 1: to that, and I think they're gonna be really hard

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Speaker 1: to beat even in a single elimination a setup. I

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Speaker 1: expect them to win convincingly throughout the tournament, and I

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Speaker 1: think they're gonna win the gold. I would be really

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Speaker 1: really surprised if they didn't. This is not a team

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Speaker 1: that I think presents some of the vulnerabilities that other

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Speaker 1: team usas that haven't brought all their players have presented,

527
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Speaker 1: and most importantly, I think they're gonna be really fun

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Speaker 1: to watch. I am going to be at the scrimmage

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Speaker 1: against Canada Wednesday. I will be live tweeting through the

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Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the WNBA. So we

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Speaker 1: got ourselves a classic Rookie of the Year battle. Both

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Speaker 1: players are just exchanging dominant games. Angel Reese is just

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Speaker 1: like good, consistently for seventeen ish points and fourteen ish

553
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Speaker 1: rebounds every single night. She's put together the longest streak

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Speaker 1: of double doubles by a rookie in WNBA history, breaking

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Speaker 1: the record of Candae Parker right and Kaitlyn Clark's coming

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Speaker 1: right back at her. She goes for the first triple

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Speaker 1: double ever by a WNBA rookie in a really fun

558
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Speaker 1: game against the New York Liberty took over that game

559
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Speaker 1: late too. They were down six with like what three

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Speaker 1: and a half minutes left, and she had a driving

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Speaker 1: and one bank shot on the right side of the

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Speaker 1: floor to bring it to three. Then she had a

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Speaker 1: transition kick ahead pass for a wide open three that

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Speaker 1: tied the game. Like Kaitlyn was just unbelievable in that

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Speaker 1: game is they got a huge win against the New

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Speaker 1: York Liberty. And so now we have this debate, right

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Speaker 1: and there's a lot of people saying Angel reachin Rookie

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Speaker 1: of the Year, a lot of people saying Kaitlyn Clark.

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Speaker 1: But Vegas, or more specifically DraftKings sees it as very

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Speaker 1: much Kitlyn Clark's race to lose. She on DraftKings right

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Speaker 1: now is minus five hundred to win Rookie of the

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Speaker 1: Year and Angel Reese's plus three hundred. It's a pretty

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Speaker 1: massive gap. It's not unclosable. But what that means is

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Speaker 1: if the season ended today, there would be no debate.

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Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark would be Rookie of the Year. And I agree,

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Speaker 1: I think Caitlin Clark is clearly the Rookie of the

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Speaker 1: Year at this point. And this is where we have

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Speaker 1: to get into the difference between roles. And again there's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of talk about counting stats, especially

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Speaker 1: because Angel Reese is putting up some incredibly dominant box

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Speaker 1: score numbers. Right, like Angel Reese is dominating games as

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Speaker 1: an athlete, She's a super disruptive defender, just putting up

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Speaker 1: crazy block steal counts every single game. She's a wrecking

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Speaker 1: ball on the glass on both ends of the floor.

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Speaker 1: Even her rim finishing is trending up, which was one

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Speaker 1: of the biggest rubs on her early on in the year. Right.

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Speaker 1: Like as mentioned earlier, you can just count on her

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Speaker 1: to give you, you know, in the mid teens and

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Speaker 1: points in mid teens and rebounds every single night, right,

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Speaker 1: And there's a ton of value that comes from them.

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Speaker 1: But what Kaitlyn Clark is doing is she's functioning as

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Speaker 1: an offensive engine, which is a very different type of role,

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Speaker 1: and the box score numbers show it. For the record,

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Speaker 1: in their last five games, the Indiana Fever are averaging

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Speaker 1: thirty made field goals per Gamely, Clark is either scoring

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Speaker 1: or assisting sixteen of those thirty made field goals every

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Speaker 1: single game, So either her putting the ball in the

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Speaker 1: basket or passing to the person who put the ball

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Speaker 1: in the basket more than half their offense in the

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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. But that doesn't even come close

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Speaker 1: to capturing the real impact of Caitlin Clark in this

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Speaker 1: offense because her main goal, the main thing she's doing,

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Speaker 1: and the reason why the Indiana offense has turned around

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Speaker 1: and they've started winning. They've won eight of their last

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Speaker 1: thirteen games. The reason this has turned around is she

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Speaker 1: is primarily focusing on getting the defense in rotation. They're

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Speaker 1: using her a lot in off ball movement as a decoy.

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Speaker 1: They're doing a lot of really fun stuff to get

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Speaker 1: help her beat ball pressure, where like teams are picking

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Speaker 1: her up full court and forcing her into some turnovers.

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Speaker 1: Now she's like doing a lot of given gho stuff

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Speaker 1: right around half court, where like she'll make a quick

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Speaker 1: move against the ball pressure and then throw the ball

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Speaker 1: up to like, you know, Aliah Boston at half court,

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Speaker 1: and then she'll quick cut off of it and get

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Speaker 1: a dribble hand off and get downhill and then she'll

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Speaker 1: spin and go right back into a ball screen the

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Speaker 1: other way there. She's putting teams in the blender early on,

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Speaker 1: and it's generating all of these short role opportunities for

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Speaker 1: Leah Boston and Melissa Smith and they're benefiting off of it.

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Speaker 1: Rolling to the rim when teams are tagging them. The

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Speaker 1: Caitlyn's making the kickout passes in general between hockey assists

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Speaker 1: and just getting the defense and rotation then capitalizing on

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Speaker 1: the chaos. The box score has her accounting for more

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Speaker 1: than half of the offense. In reality, it's like two

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Speaker 1: thirds to almost seventy five percent of the offense from

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Speaker 1: Indiana that is being generated off of attention that Caitlyn

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Speaker 1: Clark is drawing. And this is where I want to

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Speaker 1: get back to what I was talking about earlier when

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Speaker 1: we were talking about Joel and beat an Ante Davis.

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Speaker 1: If you're building a basketball team, the hardest thing to

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Speaker 1: replicate is who's the generator of your offense. That is

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Speaker 1: why Joel Embiid is a better basketball player than Anthony Davis.

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Speaker 1: AD is a better fit with USA Basketball because they

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Speaker 1: just need these specific role player things. Ad is the

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Speaker 1: guy that goes out there and puts up you know,

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Speaker 1: twenty six and seventeen all the time, right. But as

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Speaker 1: we're looking at Joel Embiid, he's the guy that can

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Speaker 1: be the fulkrum of a high level offense. Anthony Davis

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Speaker 1: has not demonstrated that with defense. You can address that

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Speaker 1: even with angels finishing around the rim, which is of value.

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Speaker 1: Look at all of the quality rim attempts that Melissa

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Speaker 1: Smith and Aliyah Boston are getting because of Caitlin Clark

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Speaker 1: consistently bringing their defender up to the level of the

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Speaker 1: the stuff that Andel Reese is doing is incredibly valuable

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Speaker 1: what Caitlin Clark is doing for the Indiana Pacers the

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Speaker 1: Indiana Fever, what she is doing as a rookie in

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Speaker 1: THEWNBA is putting an entire offense on her shoulders and

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Speaker 1: consistently generating quality shots and the offen The results have

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Speaker 1: been amazing. They have the sixth best offensive. This is

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Speaker 1: a crazy stat. So in their first nine games they

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Speaker 1: went one in eight. They were the second worst offense

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Speaker 1: in the league, in large part because they were just

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Speaker 1: using Caitlin like a normal player. Right around thirteen games ago,

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Speaker 1: they started actually using Caitlin the way they needed to,

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Speaker 1: which is using her as an offensive engine, using her

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Speaker 1: as Steve Nash crossed with Steph Curry, and as a result,

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Speaker 1: their offense has taken off. Since June first, eight and five,

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Speaker 1: they've climbed all the way up to the seventh seed

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Speaker 1: the league in that span, So they went from the

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Speaker 1: second worst offense in the league to a top half

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Speaker 1: offense in the league. By leaning into Caitlyn Clark as

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Speaker 1: their offensive engine, She's putting teams in the blender. Everyone

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Speaker 1: is benefiting from it. And again that doesn't have anything

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Speaker 1: to do with Angel Rees. It's not that she's not

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Speaker 1: doing enough, so to speak, any other year she'd be

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Speaker 1: worthy of Rookie of the Year. But this is an

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Speaker 1: all time great WNBA prospect in Caitlin Clark, who's playing

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Speaker 1: some special basketball in doing the most important thing that

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Speaker 1: an NBA team or a basketball team can get out

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Speaker 1: of an offensive player, which is just consistently generating quality shots.

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Speaker 1: I think she deserves to win the award. And again

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Speaker 1: it's not over if Angel Rees, you know, continues to

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Speaker 1: put up seventeen and fourteen every night and Kaitlyn Clark

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Speaker 1: tails off hard or gets hurt like yeah, then Angel

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Speaker 1: Reese will jump in and get that. That's why she's

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Speaker 1: at plus three hundred, which is a reasonable number. But

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Speaker 1: Kitlin Clark is the is the favorite for a reason.

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Speaker 1: She is the more valuable basketball player. It is easier

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Speaker 1: to build a good basketball team around her skill set

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Speaker 1: and what she brings to the table. It is the

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Speaker 1: most valuable type of player in the league. That's why

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Speaker 1: when I look at the NBA, who are the two

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Speaker 1: best players right now, Nikole jokicch and Luka Doncic. Why

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Speaker 1: offensive engines all the things that Jason Tatum and Anthony

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Speaker 1: can be replaced by role players in a way that

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Speaker 1: what an offensive engine cannot do. And that's why I

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Speaker 1: have Caitlin Clark as the Rookie of the Year at

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Speaker 1: this point, all right, guys, this all I have for today.

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Speaker 1: We are going to be unless there's some big news.

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Speaker 1: If there's some big news, I'll obviously be reacting, but

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Speaker 1: otherwise at this point, plan on Thursday morning, when when

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Speaker 1: I give you, guys an instant reaction to the Tmusa

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Speaker 1: scrimmage against Canada. I will see you guys, then, the

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