WEBVTT - Spurs/Lakers Postgame Spaces 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:18.120 Mmmmm, welcome to the state of the Lakers. First came 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:19.520 to tell and Dad's ready. I thank you guys so 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.000 much for coming to hang out with us on a Sunday. 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:24.680 We're not gonna go too long today. UM. I actually 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:26.960 have a dinner I gotta get to and you guys 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:29.520 have some football to watch, and god knows what else 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:31.000 you guys are up to on a Sunday. But we're 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.680 only gonna go for about thirty thirty minutes tonight. Um. 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:37.840 But an interesting game to say the least. But taking 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.960 care of business, beating a team they were supposed to be. Um. 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:42.520 You know, I thought this was one of those games 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.080 too where if you really kind of bottled up the 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.920 moments in the game where they were you know, focused 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.760 and not. Um, you know, screw it off. They played 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.800 well enough to beat the team by thirty. UM. But 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:56.320 you know this team has a tendency to let their 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:58.000 foot off the gas every time they get a fifteen 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.400 point lead. Um. They've done all year long with every 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:05.240 bad team they played. So it wasn't entirely unpredictable that 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:07.720 San Antonio would make a run, and they did. But 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:09.440 after the time out, they came out and closed the 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:14.360 deal and actually Ransom good offense. Um. You know, I 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:16.440 was really hard on a D on Twitter for not 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:18.680 handling double team as well, but then he did a 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.120 really good job of handling a double team in that 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:24.080 sequence to kick out to Mellow for a three on 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.040 the wing that was wide open. And you know, it's easy. 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.199 It's really that easy when you have players as good 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.360 as a D and Russ. It's just about class in 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.440 the defense and not turning the ball over. Just get 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:37.520 get the ball to somebody. You've got all these people 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.680 on the floor that can shoot, all these people on 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:41.759 the floor that can make plays off of your attention. 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.640 You just have to value the possession of the ball 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.440 and not panic when the double team comes. Just handle it, 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:50.680 you know what I mean. And so it was good 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:52.640 to see that kind of come together and that last 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.040 little string of possessions as they put san Antonio away. 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:58.080 What was your initial takeaway, rug, Well, I think this 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:00.400 is the THHD game, right, Like that has to be 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.680 where we start with It is definitely where we should 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.480 start with this. I kept saying, like putting all your 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:10.240 prayers into a twenty year old is probably misplaced. But 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:12.440 I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe THC is just 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.120 this good. His three wasn't even going tonight. I think 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.400 he was like one for five from three, but just 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.640 having another shot creator next to Rus, next to a D. 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.840 A guy when the ball swings knows exactly what he 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:25.800 wants to do with it, and he's another guy that 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:29.040 really seeks the rim. I thought he was just fantastic. 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.360 His game looks like it's matured. And it's kind of 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.160 crazy because he's in year three at twenty, which doesn't 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.800 really happen, but just because of the COVID seasons. But 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.960 his game definitely looks more mature. He looks like he's 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:45.360 manipulating defenses more than just reading them uh and his 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:49.000 drives to kick out passes, his uh skip passes were 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.440 great pocket passes. Finding a D on Lobs late in 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:54.600 the game. There they gave the ball to him. They 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.520 were like, here, you run our late game offense, and 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.200 he did a pretty nice job. Found the a D 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.079 on the lab. Like that's I guess we're gonna start 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.000 with this. We'll go to his defense later. But what 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:04.600 did you see fro him? Because I thought his offense 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.640 was just something they desperately needed and we knew that 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:09.640 it was missed, it's just when you see it on 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.359 the floor, like like comparing him like League Monk is 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.400 a score like a pier score, but he's not the 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.280 level I guess like shock creator type that th HD is. 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.080 Like t HC. Just looks way more comfortable with the 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.680 basketball in his hands, and that was just really awesome 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.040 to see him not even looked like he missed a 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.120 beat the first game of the season, I believe, but 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.640 first regular season game, they start him right away. It 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.680 looks comfortable. What did you see from him to name? 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:35.760 He looks super comfortable. That was actually the first thing 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.720 that stood out to me, which is interesting because if 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:41.320 you really think about it, he basically hasn't played NBA basketball, 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:45.280 real real NBA basketball since the Phoenix series, which was 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.040 one way back in early June. So it's been a 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.440 very long time since th HD has played this level 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.160 of NBA basketball. So you almost expect Jetters, You almost 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.200 expect him to kind of, especially at his age, to 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:58.880 run around like a chicken with his head cut off. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.160 But you looked very cold home and kind of was 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.080 taking the game and stride at his speed instead of 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.680 getting rushed and getting out of control. He looked really 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:08.240 good in that regard. You're right, they went to him 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:09.760 down the stretch. He was the one who scored out 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.680 of the time out found a d he um kind 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.800 of turned into a better option there, Um, you know, 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.400 just because Russ again Russ's decision making, which is a 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.280 separate thing we're gonna get to. It's just it's it's 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.680 a little bit uh, you know, feast or famine, and 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:25.480 at least with th HT, they were getting something a 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:29.520 little bit um, you know, a little bit more under control. Um, 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.200 you know. He I'm really curious to see how he 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.760 shoots in spot up situations. He didn't get a ton 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.320 of spot up situations today. He had a few, um 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.440 I think a couple of the threes that he made, Um, 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:42.479 I think he actually only made one three. But he 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.240 the three that he made early in the game was 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.080 off the dribble. And that's cool and you'd like to 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.719 see that. But I'm interested to see, especially when Lebron 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:51.880 comes back, which you and I both suspect he'll come 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.600 back tomorrow, which remains to be seen. Um, but Rag 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:56.799 and I have a theory that Lebron's coming back tomorrow. 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.560 We're going to see him more in a situation where 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:03.320 he's attacking an already compromise defense, which is something that 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.680 I'm excited to see. But you're right. I mean, a 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.359 lot of people pointed this out on Twitter, and it 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:12.560 was smart. This idea that having a second dribble drive 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:17.800 creator next to us is so important because it allows 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.120 Russ to not feel the burden of having to create 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:25.000 everything from the perimeter. Now today it happened to not 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:26.920 help us take care of the ball, which we're gonna 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.200 talk about, but the idea is put Russ in a 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.479 position where he knows, if he doesn't have a matchup 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.599 or if he doesn't have you know, the rhythm that 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.200 he needs to do whatever he's doing, he can swing 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.719 the ball around and it'll find its way to Lebron 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:42.880 and he'll do it, you know. Or in this case, 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:46.080 in this case today it was HT having that second option, 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.839 that second excuse me, that second dribble drive creator next 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:52.000 to us is so important for that just making it 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.240 so that that burden doesn't solely fall on us, I 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.720 think that's so important. But again, it's more of what 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.760 we've always seen with th HD that's so impressive. It's 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:05.200 like when he scores, it's almost in like the in 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.000 terms of the eye tests, in terms of what you're 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.400 visually seeing, it looks like an All Star. It's one 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.640 like fade Away. It's it's super dynamic finishing around the rim. 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.160 It's that that one that led to the time out 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.000 where he comes along the right side in the second 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.040 half and goes into two bodies and just elevates over 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.120 the top and shoots a float or high off the glasses. 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.599 Puts it in like you see, that high end scoring potential. 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:30.039 That is exactly what has liquor fans so excited about him, 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:31.800 you know, because if he can find a way to 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.800 manufacture easy stuff as well, which he will as he 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.960 gets smarter, there's gonna be this whole other phase of 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.800 th HD's career where he can be a high usage, 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.120 twenty plus point per game type of score to play 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.680 alongside a D when e d s in his early thirties. 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.880 That what we were always looking for in that regard 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:54.720 is that high end potential, and he continues to flash 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:58.200 that every single game he plays. We got talked about 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.400 that a lot last year. It's like every game with HD, 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:04.400 there's one or two moments where there's this standout play 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:06.400 that was that just has you sit back and think 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.680 about what he could be. And again it's just one game, 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:11.760 and we're going to talk about his defense in a 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.680 minute here too, But like it's if he keeps incrementally 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:18.720 improving at this rate, there's a lot to be excited about. Yeah. So, 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:20.760 like I think in the second quarter, something I wrote 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:22.840 down the game, it's it's a cliche, but you see 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:24.880 it with a lot of young players that start to 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.160 take somewhat of a leap, and I think, you know, 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.280 him taking a leap changes a lot of things for 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.920 the season, including the players we've lost. Like I think 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.560 THHD making that jump is huge. But I said, the 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.200 game has really slowed down for him, like even last year, 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.440 even at his high points, there's a lot of reckless drives. There, 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.760 a lot of like driving into three people and then 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.080 trying to decide where to go. Like I said before, 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.840 it seems like more of like him manipulating the defense 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.520 knowing exactly what's going on. I thought he was probably 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.720 our best like driving kid guy today just in terms 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.080 of finding shooters. He only had one assist tonight, but 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.000 I thought, you know, players missed a lot of shots 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.080 that that he passed to. But but you're right, and 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.480 he just looks comfortable and his jumper. He's definitely more 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.040 comfortable shooting off the dribble, which makes sense for a 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.720 guy that's had the ball I feel like all his life. Um, 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:10.559 he's still trying to get used to being a spot 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.920 up guy. Hopefully that comes when you know he plays 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.440 more next to us and more next to Lebron. But 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:18.680 you talked about him attacking a compromise defense, like I'm 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.119 really excited to see him playing next to Bron and Russ, 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.000 just you know, him being the third guy that tries 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.840 to break down your defense after the rotations already hit. 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:27.760 But we can kind of move on to his defense 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.800 man that that Lanth is definitely a factor. His on 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.480 ball defense I thought on Deonta Murray was huge, Like, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.720 especially down the stretch, he shut him down a few 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.360 times players think they can get shots over him and 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.480 he's able to just contest it. And his team defense 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.640 as well, it was a lot better. He fits like 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:45.680 the Vogel scheme. We always said that, you know when 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.440 when guards trying to have to fight over those ball screens, 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:50.079 and he did a really nice job of that giving 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.880 back pressure, giving eighty enough time to play both. What 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:54.360 do you see kind of from his defense? So I 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.240 thought he was he was huge. He actually led the 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.800 team at night. He was a plus four team that 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.200 was the best on the night took with his seventeen points. 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.320 But defensively, we talked about how much of an impact 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.240 that would have just not playing negative defenders. And I'm 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.320 really interested in this, like th HT in Monk Combo, 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.800 because THHD gives enough defense as a wing to let 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.120 Monk play that one or two guard. What do you 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:19.040 see from him defensively? He looks great. I mean, you know, 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.559 there there's different archetypes of defenders, right, Like there's position 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.720 of positional defenders, guys that do a really good job 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:28.320 of moving their feet making up for their um you know, 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:32.240 physical disadvantages by just anticipating moves well and just trying 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.400 to position their body in the way so the guys 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:36.679 have to shoot over the top. Well, th HD is 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:40.160 more of like a disruptive defender. He's all about. He's 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.520 all about like kind of sacrificing a little bit of 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:46.080 position for the sake of making the ball handler feel discomfort. 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:48.559 That's naturally naturally gonna lead to him giving up some 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.040 dribble drives, and he did tonight, especially in the first half. 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.840 There were a handful of place where he gave up 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.840 straight line drives. And you live with that because that's 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.160 kind of, like you said, part of the scheme with 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.280 Frank or you know, you can. You don't want to 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:05.600 have too many positional defenders on the floor, guys that 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:09.280 can't disrupt ball handlers, because if everybody is just feeling 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.120 super comfortable on the perimeter all game, they're just gonna 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.520 shoot your eyes out. Especially in the modern NBA, you 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.000 can only have so much of that. So having having 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.160 that's what I like about the complementary type of pieces 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:23.600 with Ellington out there alongside those guys. You know, like 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.040 if you put Ellington out there with Avery Bradley and 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.240 with th HT like they did with the starters, you 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.640 can ask th h T and Avery Bradley to guard 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.600 the more you know, dribble intensive guards, and then you 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.320 can ask Wayne Ellington to chase guys off the screens, 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.480 you know. And obviously that gets more complicated when teams 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.080 end up having to switch because they get lost in 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:47.720 transition or because the team's attacking somebody in particular, they 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:51.200 can get more complicated. But this is just another guy 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.200 to have in the rotation that fits that Avery Bradley 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.880 type of archetype of defender, a disruptive defender that's gonna 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.480 give up some straight line drives, but in a way 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.280 that kind of works with this defensive scheme because of 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.240 Anthony Davis on the back end. Um, So yeah, he 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:08.400 he looks rate in that regard and he's gonna look better, 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.840 I think. I think here's the thing that Spurs didn't have. 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.160 They shot the ball well tonight, especially in the second half. 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.120 But the truth of the matter is they're gonna play 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.920 pretty much starting tomorrow. Um, you know with a Lonzo 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.600 who has been a really high, high volume, high efficiency 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.240 three point shooters Zac Lavine, really good three point shooter, 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.320 you're there. They're heading into a situation tomorrow where you 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.400 know he's gonna be tested more off the ball, and 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:33.679 that'll be the thing to watch with him. That was 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.240 always his weakness, Like from pretty much from day one, 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:40.520 TSD was fantastic on the perimeter as a point of 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:45.240 attack defenders relative to what you'd expect for for a 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.640 player that young, but his weakness has always been, you know, 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:53.000 struggling off the ball, paying attention to shooters, and so 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.760 he's gonna get tested a lot. And uh, it's particularly 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.040 on Monday. And then I can't remember if it's the 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:00.720 Wines there in the Friday game, but the milk the 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.440 Milkwaukee game, there's another one where a lot of eyes 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.760 are gonna be on the honest and it's gonna be 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:09.320 a lot of attention paid to one guy, which is 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.720 going to test the focus of off ball defenders. So 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.000 we'll see, you know, obviously it's early. It's too early 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.400 to say, you know, whether or not this projects well 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:18.880 to him being a guy who can be in the 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.200 starting lineup in the playoffs, a guy who can play 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.520 five minutes of game in the playoffs. That remains to 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.000 be seen. But it was definitely a really good first 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:30.480 step today. Yeah for sure, And like I thought, just 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.520 watching the game after we watch it, but he seemed 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.080 like a lot more focused on the defensive end, just 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.480 as a team defender, and they're gonna need him, Like 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.320 like League Moong, all those dudes, like they can try 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.240 their best, but they're just really small. They don't have 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.040 the length and thhu with his seven one winkspan, like 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.960 that just made a difference tonight. Him fighting inside. We 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.840 do a lot of these four guard lineups where he's 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.280 kind of like the power forward, sometimes even next to 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.280 a D and they're gonna need him to be really active, 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.680 and I thought he was tonight. And again on Deante Murray, 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.720 I thought he was great. And just having guy like 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:01.760 Ellen team that can chase off like I like these 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:03.720 bench units that we can kind of build off of, 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.240 and like you said, where Lebron is gonna be hopefully 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.480 coming back tomorrow. If it's not tomorrow, he'll come back 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.120 hopefully this week. Just start to get the team healthy here. 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.200 But yeah, t HD, that was a huge boost. And 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.680 if none can give them a boost like this as well, 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:18.920 maybe not at this type of level. And again THD 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.280 doesn't have to score seventeen points every single night, But 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:25.000 like we said, just his shock creation kind of puts 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.880 guys in the correct roles, right, Like Malik Monk didn't 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.640 have to be the full time secondary or backup point guard. 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.120 He could just be the score and you saw him 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.120 get to be able to get in his bag in 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.360 that way. I still think it's a lot of Rondo 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.360 minutes that are unnecessary. But again, Rondo also allows other 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:44.400 guys to kind of do what they do in a sense. Yeah, 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.760 I thought, I thought, Taylor, this was a big boost 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.120 of the team. And hopefully we when we get healthy 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.520 here with Lebron back, we'll get to see more of 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.080 these kind of different five man lineups, more of these, 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:58.600 just not as many below average defenders on the floor here. Um, 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:03.000 did you want to go into a d next from Taylor? Yeah, yeah, 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.240 so first of all, just kind of to put a 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:06.800 bow on the t h D. Think we're gonna see 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:10.000 a lot of him, I think personally in this next 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:14.360 couple of weeks, just by virtue of the Aresa injury, 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.440 the Lakers just need to have another real physical presence 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.040 on the floor, a guy who can guard up a position. 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:23.520 There was a play today where he was defending t 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.920 He was defending um daddy is young on the low 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.560 block and enforced him into a missed jump hook and 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:34.280 that kind of thing. That same type of matchup attacking 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.840 against an Ellington or a Monk or Rondo just is 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:39.400 going to end in a basket every time. Um, So, 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.440 getting that level of you know, defending up a position 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:44.440 from th h D is going to make him, you know, 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.920 hugely valuable in the next couple of weeks, and so 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:49.160 I expect to see a lot of him and we're 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.880 gonna we're gonna learn a lot about what th HD 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.160 can do with this team in the next couple of 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.400 weeks moving on to a D. So I want this 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:01.760 to be mostly good, to be clear, because at the 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.960 end of the day, you know, I think, especially with 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:08.359 the nature of of the injuries and this team struggles 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.600 early on, we're almost a little too nitpicky with a D. 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.320 But the truth of the matter is, like he he 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.600 still is the most ridiculous matchup advantage in all of 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:21.920 basketball um and early in that game, there was just 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:25.000 nothing that Spurs could do with him. U there was 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.160 a there was a random game I watched ages ago. 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.520 I can't remember who this is, back when he was 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.800 in New Orleans. I think they were playing Portland, I'm 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.000 not sure, but I was watching him and he ended 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.040 up with like forty something in the mid forties and 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:41.360 won an overtime game, and it was like a cheet code. 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.000 It was like every time they threw to him, there 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.720 was just even even in the crunch time, even in 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.160 the serious moments of the game. There was just nothing 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.880 anybody could do with him unless you have a specific 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.520 archetype of player like that. Young did an okay job 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:57.280 today in a post mismatch and poached post matchups and 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.760 forcing him to be a jump shooter. But like anybody 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:01.280 else on the roster, if he got it, it was 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.200 a bucket or a foul every single time. And and 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:05.800 that that to me is something I think like your 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.160 fans take for granted from time to time, including myself, 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.600 But it's just such a huge, you know, advantage to 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:14.760 have because the truth is is with all the injuries 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.840 and with Rush struggling so much taking care of the basketball, 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:20.960 this team doesn't have a ton of talent right now, 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.280 you know, relative to a lot of the teams they're playing. 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.720 But a D just levels that playing field. You can 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.560 go into these games, like a game against the Spurs today, 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.080 and it's like, hey, like we can just dump the 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.760 ball into a D a lot and good stuff is 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.400 gonna happen and we're gonna win, you know, And and 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:39.400 it's kind of a it's it's kind of like I said, 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.600 a luxury that that that doesn't need that we need 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.520 to do a better job of acknowledging, and obviously there 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:47.320 was a little stretch there in the third quarter where 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.200 he struggled with double teams. And you know, it's fascinating 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.800 because he tends to when he catches the ball on 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.640 the block and he turns and faces and the double 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:59.920 team comes, he has a tendency to lean back away 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.480 from the pressure. And when he leans back away from 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.520 the pressure, he immediately looks behind him and tries to 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.720 find somebody really close on the three point line to 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:10.960 just get out of his hands, because at that point 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:12.560 he's just trying to not turn it over. This is 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.320 something you and I've talked about forever. But the play, 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.440 the biggest play of the game, in my opinion, was 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.520 I think there were a four in the fourth quarter 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.000 and he was posting up on the left block, and 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:23.919 what they do, what they've been doing with the das 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.399 doing late doubles, that was the one thing they mixed 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.560 up instead of just out outright doubling him as as 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:31.280 soon as he puts the ball on the floor, they 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:34.359 would send the double and kind of like testing his 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:36.919 handle and testing his ability to make quick decisions. And 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.800 they're on that pivotal play of the game. Instead of 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.720 leaning backwards from the ball pressure and kind of fading 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.640 from the ball pressure, he just continued to go into 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:50.400 the lane and split the double, like just kind of 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.480 steps through the double and kicked too mellow for a 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:56.600 wide open three. And that's and and that's something I've 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.880 been begging for him to do for years because doubling 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.640 is a good thing. Like Lebron loves when you double 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:05.240 team him. He knows that's you giving up an advantage, 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.320 and he knows that that's you somewhere on the floor. 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:10.200 You have an opportunity to make the other team pay. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.520 You just have to execute and not fear. And and 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:15.959 it's funny because it's something that people struggle with at 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:18.720 all levels of basketball. It's amazing how much the high 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:21.760 schoolers that I coach struggle with ball pressure like they have. 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:25.280 Everybody has a tendency with ball pressure to try to 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.240 protect the ball, so they lean back, like I was saying, 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:30.000 But the truth is is if you're strong with the 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.720 ball and you stay low and you actually advanced positions, 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.800 step into the defender and clear out space, you have 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.640 a much better chance of seeing the floor, finding where 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:42.040 the opening is in making teams pay, and so obviously 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.199