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Speaker 1: he had thirty last night, but he took like twenty

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Speaker 1: six shots or something like that, or it was like

433
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Speaker 1: twenty eight points on twenty six shots or something like

434
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Speaker 1: That was the most efficient game that Anthony Edwards has

435
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Speaker 1: ever had, And that obviously is something that's gonna be

436
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Speaker 1: kind of part of his story at this phase of

437
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Speaker 1: his career. But he will reach a point where he's

438
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Speaker 1: passed the young, exciting, just trying stuff phase and he's

439
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Speaker 1: going to enter into like a what am I grade at?

440
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Speaker 1: What do I need to work on? How do I

441
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Speaker 1: up my efficiency? And then that's when he's going to

442
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Speaker 1: leap to an entirely different level. I saw a clip

443
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Speaker 1: on Twitter this morning of him doing an interview with

444
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Speaker 1: Taylor Rooks and she asked him, on a scale of

445
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Speaker 1: one to ten, where he was in his potential and

446
00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,240
Speaker 1: he said five out of ten, and then he started

447
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Speaker 1: talking about Kevin Durant, how he's his favorite player, how

448
00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:20,679
Speaker 1: he really wants to get to the point where KD is,

449
00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:23,640
Speaker 1: where every single shot looks the same. And I've talked

450
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Speaker 1: a lot on this this concept on the show, but

451
00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:27,800
Speaker 1: like a jump shot is like muscle memory, even in

452
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Speaker 1: off the drib dribble combination types of stuff. You really

453
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Speaker 1: want to just tweak the things that come before the shot.

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Speaker 1: But when you elevate, you want it to look more

455
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Speaker 1: or less like you're catching shoot jump shot. That's where

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Speaker 1: you can reach real consistency as a jump shooter. And

457
00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 1: when essentially it's about triggering a muscle memory that you've

458
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Speaker 1: done so many thousands of times that you get more

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Speaker 1: consistency out of it, right, And that to me is

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Speaker 1: where I get really excited about and it's potential in

461
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Speaker 1: the long run, is like he's got all of this

462
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Speaker 1: ability now, but he hasn't even really figured out how

463
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Speaker 1: to make it into something that's consistent and efficient yet.

464
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Speaker 1: And when he figures that out, it's just it's just

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Speaker 1: it's it just watch out, man. And that's that's why

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Speaker 1: I look at him as the one guy, the one

467
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Speaker 1: American player who can enter into that conversation with Giannis

468
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Speaker 1: and Embiid and yokicch And and Luca and those guys.

469
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Speaker 1: Last last hit on the Timberwolves, Jade McDaniels, he had

470
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Speaker 1: twenty six points on fifteen shots. Was trying to dunk

471
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Speaker 1: everything in this game kind of reminds me of what

472
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Speaker 1: happens when an athlete discovers his athletic advantage and and

473
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Speaker 1: how like that kind of unlocks a level of aggressiveness.

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Speaker 1: And the dead giveaway to me was in the fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter there was a play where I can't remember if

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Speaker 1: it was on a cut or on a closeout, but

477
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Speaker 1: he was driving along I think it was on a

478
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Speaker 1: pocket pass. But when he caught the ball, he was

479
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Speaker 1: rolling and Jokic was waiting for him at the rim,

480
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Speaker 1: and he caught the ball kind of in the like

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Speaker 1: right block, kind of extended out a little bit, and

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Speaker 1: if you freeze frame it right when he catches it,

483
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Speaker 1: Jokic is kind of in his way. And I remember,

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Speaker 1: as I was watching it live, I'm like, I'm like,

485
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Speaker 1: I'd never even conceived that he might dunk it, and

486
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Speaker 1: he just literally rose up over Yokic, and Jokic even

487
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Speaker 1: was surprised. Bat he was like, oh shit, like he

488
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Speaker 1: kind of pulled back at the last second, and Jaden

489
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Speaker 1: just threw down this like jackhammer right right handed dunk,

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Speaker 1: and like, to me, it's like that's where Jaden has

491
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Speaker 1: started to realize, like like no one can actually kind

492
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Speaker 1: of contend with him above the rim. Or not many

493
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Speaker 1: people can contend with him above the rim, and that

494
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Speaker 1: to me is like cause he's shown he's shown high

495
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Speaker 1: level shot making, right, he's got that little drifting jumper

496
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Speaker 1: that he hits. He can knock down a three point

497
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Speaker 1: shot at a big and one late in this game.

498
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Speaker 1: But like, really where he has his supreme advantage is

499
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Speaker 1: in his length and athleticism and like that that was

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Speaker 1: what was crazy about that twenty six points on fifteen shots,

501
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,480
Speaker 1: getting to the foul line a lot just by going

502
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Speaker 1: aggressively to the rim and just getting hit right across

503
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,359
Speaker 1: the arms and stuff like that, people are gonna hit

504
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,080
Speaker 1: hit the arm instead of the ball just because of

505
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Speaker 1: his athleticism. So again, not too much to take away

506
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Speaker 1: from this game for the Timberwolves, just simply because of

507
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Speaker 1: the fact that so many guys were out. But they

508
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Speaker 1: had won three in a row before that, so they're

509
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Speaker 1: playing some good basketball. Then the Nuggets are just gonna

510
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:01,720
Speaker 1: tough to beat in that situation when you're giving up

511
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Speaker 1: those kinds of advantages. For our next topic, Lebron James

512
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Speaker 1: and JJ Reddick did a podcast yesterday something they recorded

513
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Speaker 1: it seemed about a month ago when the Lakers beat

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Speaker 1: the Clippers in that game where Lebron single handedly outscored them.

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Speaker 1: At least that's kind of the way it was framed

516
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Speaker 1: at the beginning of the show. My initial takeaway on

517
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Speaker 1: the show in general was just it was something that

518
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Speaker 1: I think is important for the overall scale and scope

519
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Speaker 1: of basketball coverage because JJ Reddick, in my opinion, is

520
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Speaker 1: the very best in the world at what I do

521
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Speaker 1: for a living, meaning like covering the NBA on a

522
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Speaker 1: national level. I think JJ's the best at it. He

523
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Speaker 1: obviously does more than what I do as well, because

524
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Speaker 1: he does color commentary and additional stuff like that and

525
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Speaker 1: debate shows and things like that. But specifically within the

526
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Speaker 1: realm of basketball analysis, I don't think anybody does it

527
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Speaker 1: better than JJ. And then Lebron James is arguably the

528
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Speaker 1: most famous basketball player in the world, at least active

529
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Speaker 1: basketball player, and he brings an incredible amount of IQ

530
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Speaker 1: to the table, an incredible amount of CACHE to the table. Specifically,

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Speaker 1: what stands out to me is they put up a

532
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Speaker 1: ridiculous number on YouTube in that in that show, and

533
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Speaker 1: it wasn't about anything urgent, Like it wasn't like we're

534
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Speaker 1: gonna break down what happened in last night's game. It

535
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Speaker 1: wasn't like we're gonna break down this team or that team.

536
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Speaker 1: It was just generic, in a vacuum basketball conversation. And

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Speaker 1: I think like getting that kind of viewership for that

538
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Speaker 1: sort of of like non urgent topic is just a

539
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Speaker 1: testament to the power, the star power that those two

540
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Speaker 1: guys bring to the table. And obviously namely Lebron, but JJ,

541
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Speaker 1: JJ has reached a certain level of notoriety in his

542
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Speaker 1: field as well, and so I really enjoyed it. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of really good conversation. I'll be honest with you,

544
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Speaker 1: I'm I A part of me wishes that this was

545
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Speaker 1: something that was more consistent and more focused on the

546
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Speaker 1: actual day to day NBA because I think it could

547
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Speaker 1: be incredible. But it's early, so we'll see. We'll see

548
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Speaker 1: what ends up happening over time. I wanted to hit

549
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Speaker 1: on a couple of specific things that they talked about

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Speaker 1: talked about those so at the beginning there were is

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Speaker 1: a conversation about the three things that make a good

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Speaker 1: basketball player, and there was a specific point that JJ

553
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Speaker 1: made about something called that he calls competitive stamina. And

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Speaker 1: I think this was really interesting to me because this

555
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Speaker 1: is a very specific reason why I harp on something

556
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 1: called habits, right, there's a reason why I've talked about

557
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Speaker 1: it with the Sons and the Kings a lot souns

558
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Speaker 1: Kings and MAVs a lot as of late. And what

559
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 1: I mean by habits is like a habit is something

560
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 1: you do unconsciously. A habit is something that is so

561
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 1: baked into your routine that you just it's it's almost

562
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Speaker 1: easy to do because you're just accustomed to doing it.

563
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Speaker 1: And the reason why I think habits matter so much

564
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Speaker 1: is when you get into any sort of situation with adversity,

565
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Speaker 1: whether it's like a game that's slipping away from you

566
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Speaker 1: or some sort of emotional adversity or whatever it is

567
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,680
Speaker 1: that's going on, your habits will carry you through those

568
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 1: moments because, like like anything that you're not consistent in,

569
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Speaker 1: when adversity hits, those will be the first things that

570
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: you stop doing right and then like your true core

571
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 1: nature will reveal itself in those situations, And so you

572
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: need to take your day to day routine and make

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Speaker 1: it into a habit so that that is what you

574
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,439
Speaker 1: lean back on when the shit hits the fan. For

575
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,399
Speaker 1: lack of a better term, right, and so that like

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Speaker 1: when when JJ talks about competitive stamina, that's literally that's

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Speaker 1: literally what I think of think of when I talk

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Speaker 1: about habits, so specifically, for instance, like for me, I

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Speaker 1: remember shooting workouts. I used to do them relatively casually

580
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,880
Speaker 1: when I was in my early twenties, and then I

581
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: heard a lot from younger KD talking about doing your

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Speaker 1: practice reps at game speed, and that was something that

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00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 1: like when I first started doing was hard because like

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00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: you're in an empty gym, and like, I have this

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00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,159
Speaker 1: shooting workout that I do that's like a combination of

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Speaker 1: like four or five drills, and like I'll like I'll

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Speaker 1: be I'll give you an example, like a rip through

588
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 1: one dribble pull up drill that I that I do

589
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,479
Speaker 1: every single day. And like, so I pitched the ball

590
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 1: out to myself at the top of the key, facing

591
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 1: away from the basket, and then I reverse pivot and

592
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:11,479
Speaker 1: I rip through as hard as I can, and then

593
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:12,959
Speaker 1: I do a left right take off into a pull

594
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:14,239
Speaker 1: up jump shot, and then I do the same thing

595
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: going left until I make five going both ways. Then

596
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 1: I move it back with a counter move, so I

597
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:20,239
Speaker 1: rip through and then do a counter move and then

598
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 1: take off going left and vice versa right and that drill.

599
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Speaker 1: Like when I was doing it casually, it was easy

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Speaker 1: because you know, I have just reverse pivot and push

601
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Speaker 1: the ball out in front and I elevate and it's

602
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: just kind of almost like treated it almost like a

603
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Speaker 1: warm up, And like all of a sudden, you realize

604
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Speaker 1: you're practicing a shot that you'll never take in a game,

605
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: because guess what, Never in a basketball game do you

606
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 1: get to casually rise up into a jump shot, Like

607
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: if you're gonna take a wonderable pull up, if you're

608
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Speaker 1: gonna shoot any sort off the dribble jump shot against

609
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: real basketball players, you gotta be moving. You gotta be

610
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: moving with real pace and speed. And like even for

611
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Speaker 1: a guy who's as big and athletic as I am,

612
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Speaker 1: like you still have to have a certain amount of

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Speaker 1: pace that you bring to those shots to get him

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Speaker 1: off against good defensive players. Because again, that's the thing,

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Speaker 1: like six six and six ' ten wingspan, like like

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Speaker 1: I have that's tall compared to like the average pickup game. Maybe,

617
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: but like if you go play against you know, go

618
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Speaker 1: play at an open gym at a at a college somewhere,

619
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Speaker 1: go play against real college athletes when they come back

620
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: to town, or overseas athletes when they come back to town,

621
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, there's a lot of wings

622
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Speaker 1: that are six six and six seven and sixty eight,

623
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Speaker 1: and suddenly you need to have a certain level of

624
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: verve that you bring to the table to be able

625
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: to get your shot off right. So when you try

626
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: the drill with like real game speed and I'm reverse

627
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 1: pivoting and I'm ripping through as hard as I can,

628
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Speaker 1: I'm covering a ton of ground and I'm elevating, it's hard.

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Speaker 1: It hurts your body when you're in your mid thirties,

630
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: like it. It takes a certain amount of like of

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Speaker 1: like of exertion that's hard to do at the beginning

632
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: of a workout. And when I first started doing it,

633
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Speaker 1: it was really challenging, but over the course of the

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Speaker 1: weeks it became a habit for me, and now, like,

635
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Speaker 1: I literally don't know how to do it any other way.

636
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Speaker 1: And now when I go up to the gym and

637
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: I go to do those those drills, like I ring

638
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Speaker 1: a certain level of intensity to it just because that's

639
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: the only way I know how to do it. It

640
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: has become a habit for me. And so as a

641
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Speaker 1: result of that, like I have this like routine that

642
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Speaker 1: I stick to every single day, and like even when

643
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Speaker 1: I don't do it, it feels weird. Like if I

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Speaker 1: happen to skip a shooting work out on one day

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Speaker 1: because of whatever, I'm busy with work, or my wife

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Speaker 1: and I are are have some sort of function, or

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Speaker 1: we're out of town or whatever, it is, like it

648
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Speaker 1: just feels weird, right, And like to me, like that,

649
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Speaker 1: when JJ talks about competitive stamina, that's what I think about.

650
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 1: I think about establishing habits and making it so that

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Speaker 1: specific behaviors of yours become habitual, even something simply like breakfast.

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Speaker 1: I used to never have breakfast, and it was such

653
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 1: a stupid thing because I'd deal with these crazy energy

654
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Speaker 1: swings throughout the day. And now I have a five

655
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Speaker 1: part breakfast every single morning, three over medium eggs. I

656
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Speaker 1: take oatmeal, a banana, a yogurt, and an athletic greens

657
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Speaker 1: every single day in the morning, first thing in the

658
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Speaker 1: morning when I wake up really hard at first. Now

659
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Speaker 1: it's a habit. So now like every morning I wake up,

660
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Speaker 1: that's just what I do, and that's helped me so

661
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Speaker 1: much with energy levels throughout the day because I just

662
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Speaker 1: get this really big, you know, kind of versatile breakfast

663
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Speaker 1: every morning that kind of checks all of those boxes, right.

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Speaker 1: And so the second part of it is what fuels

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Speaker 1: a person to build those kinds of habits, Like what

666
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Speaker 1: is it that allows a person to get to that point?

667
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: And a couple of things. Love of the game. Both

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00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: Lebron James and JJ Reddick talked about love of the game.

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Speaker 1: I think that is a key element because obviously, like

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Speaker 1: it's easy to work on shooting drills, it's easy to

671
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Speaker 1: get in the gym and work on your game when

672
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Speaker 1: you love basketball, because like even something still like the

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Speaker 1: only example the counter that I give is like when

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Speaker 1: I was a kid, and I when I was in

675
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Speaker 1: high school, when I was playing high school football my

676
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: freshman and sophomore year, I hated practice. So every day

677
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Speaker 1: when you went to practice, you're just in survival mode. Now,

678
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: my gew I was in Arizona, so it's hotter than

679
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 1: well and uh and you're outside at the sun and

680
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Speaker 1: it's and you know, every everybody who's played football knows

681
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: exactly what I'm talking about. But like practice sucked, so

682
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Speaker 1: it was hard to kind of get up to do

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00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 1: it right. And like, but basketball, It's like when I

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Speaker 1: today today, because I'm covering Celtics Bucks, I am not

685
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: gonna go to the normal pickup run that I go.

686
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: So this afternoon, I'm gonna go do a shooting workout

687
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: and like, that's gonna be fun for me. You're gonna

688
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: put my headphones in, I'll listen to a podcast or

689
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: listen to some music, and like for thirty to forty

690
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: five minutes, it's gonna be enjoyable for me to do

691
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Speaker 1: a workout because I love basketball, and so like that's

692
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: that is a that is a foundational concept. Secondly, competitiveness.

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Speaker 1: To me, this is I talk about this on the

694
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Speaker 1: show a lot, but separating love of the game from

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Speaker 1: a hatred of losing, because I do think those are

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Speaker 1: two very different things. I think there are people in

697
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Speaker 1: the NBA who love basketball but don't hate losing enough

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Speaker 1: to kind of push themselves to that next level, and

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Speaker 1: so I think that that is an important element of it.

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Speaker 1: I think the greatest basketball players of all time are

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Speaker 1: all people who both love the game but also hate losing.

702
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: And then finally, a general lifestyle of excellence. And so

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Speaker 1: what I mean by this, I wanted to use this

704
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Speaker 1: as an opportunity to shout out a friend of mine,

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Speaker 1: Sam Beskin. He came out a Tucson playing at Catelena

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Speaker 1: Foot Hills at the school that I coached. He was coaching,

707
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: or he played there before I started coaching there, though,

708
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: but I met him through the program and he went

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Speaker 1: on to play at Stanford, and then he transferred from

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Speaker 1: Stamford to play at Colorado School of Mines and he's

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Speaker 1: been there this year and this year is his final

712
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: season there. But I worked out with him over the

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Speaker 1: course of the last three summers and got to know

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Speaker 1: him personally. And I've never met a human being that

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Speaker 1: approaches every single task in his life with the same

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Speaker 1: level of intensity and discipline and focus and competitiveness. And

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Speaker 1: because I'm the exact opposite, I'm like anything involving my

718
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: job which has to do with basketball, I'm locked in.

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00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: I'm giving it everything I got. Anything having to do

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Speaker 1: with basketball as a player or as coach, I'm handling

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Speaker 1: it with like one hundred percent of everything that I have.

722
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: But like, if I wanted to go, if my wife

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Speaker 1: was like, you want to go, run a couple of

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Speaker 1: miles with me today, I'd have a really hard time

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Speaker 1: pushing myself through that run. If I went on a hike,

726
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Speaker 1: I'd have a hard time like pushing myself through that

727
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 1: hike because like I'd be I'd get through it. But

728
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Speaker 1: I just I have a hard time personally, like being

729
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Speaker 1: really engaged in things that I'm not passionate about. And

730
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Speaker 1: like the sam My buddy Sam, like he just no

731
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Speaker 1: matter what it is, whether it's his diet, whether it's school.

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Speaker 1: He was a scholar athlete selection in the Pac twelve

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Speaker 1: when he was at Stanford. Uh, I like even like

734
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 1: he told me a story about how he was in

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00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: a run on campus with a with a guy who

736
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Speaker 1: was a marathon or at Stanford, and like and like

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Speaker 1: he got his butt kicked in the first lap and

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Speaker 1: so he like pushed himself on the second lap and

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Speaker 1: like actually managed to keep up with the guy and like,

740
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Speaker 1: and I'm just I'm so impressed by just his overall

741
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Speaker 1: like ability to get his mind and body to peak

742
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Speaker 1: efficiency and output regardless of what he's doing. And I

743
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Speaker 1: think I think all of the best basketball players and

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Speaker 1: best whatever it is that they do and whatever their

745
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Speaker 1: profession in the world. Those people, it's not just that

746
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: they love their profession, it's not just that they're competitive.

747
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: They have a general lifestyle of excellence and like that

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00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: that sort of thing, to me is is something that

749
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 1: kind of goes under the table or that gets kind

750
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 1: of like not given the appropriate level of regard when

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00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: we talk about these guys. Next, can basketball i Q

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Speaker 1: be learned? This was the third thing that that JJ

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Speaker 1: Redick put on his list of things that make a

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Speaker 1: good basketball player. And Lebron and JJ had kind of

755
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 1: a back and forth about it, and Lebron talked about

756
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Speaker 1: some of it being kind of like you're born with

757
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: and and and JJ talked about some of it that

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00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 1: you can be that can learn. I tend to agree

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00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 1: that it can be learned. Separate basketball IQ from the

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Speaker 1: natural gift, which is the ability to process information quickly

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Speaker 1: in the heat of the moment. That to me is

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Speaker 1: the the like the natural part of it. Right, So,

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Speaker 1: like when I talk about guys like Lebron, nikolea Jokic, Luka, Doncicic,

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Speaker 1: you know, Chris Paul h you know Trey Young, like

765
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 1: all of the really really high level passers in the league,

766
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: it's a couple of different things. It's not just basketball

767
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 1: IQ having to do with understanding reads. We'll talk about

768
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: that in a minute. A lot of it is a

769
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 1: human superpower in that in the heat of action, when

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00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 1: lots of shit is going on around them, they can

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00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 1: quickly interpret information and make decisions on the fly. That

772
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Speaker 1: is the that to me is the natural gift that

773
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: pushes them over the top. That is not learnable. That

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00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,240
Speaker 1: is something that you're born with, right But the basketball

775
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,840
Speaker 1: i Q piece is learned in my opinion, meaning like

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00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,879
Speaker 1: the actual nature of the reads. So for instance, let's

777
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 1: just talk about pick and roll. So like if I'm

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Speaker 1: running a ball screen on the left side of the floor,

779
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: I have and we'll talk about this not in the

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Speaker 1: concept of five out, but rather in four. So I've

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Speaker 1: got a guy standing in the left corner as a shooter,

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Speaker 1: standing in the right corner as a shooter, standing on

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Speaker 1: the right wing as the shooter, and I've got the

784
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Speaker 1: guy coming up to set an all screen so i

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00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 1: can get to my right hand downhill. In that situation,

786
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 1: you can learn what the reads are. So for instance,

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Speaker 1: defender's icing the screen, meaning he is denying me access

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00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: to the screen and forcing me towards the baseline side.

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00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: I can do a couple of different things there as

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Speaker 1: a read. I can either just take that baked in

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00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: driving lane, draw the help defender and make a read

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00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 1: from there. Or I can use it as an opportunity

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00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: to set him up for the screen. So hard dribble

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00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,839
Speaker 1: to the left, then a counter dribble, and then try

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Speaker 1: to use the screen, basically trying to get him onto

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Speaker 1: the opposite side of you so that you can use

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Speaker 1: the screen. If he's in a trail position by come

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Speaker 1: off of the screen and the guy is not digging

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Speaker 1: down off the shooter on the right wing, and the

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Speaker 1: big man is far back, and I can get some

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00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: separation from the guy off the screen, I'm taking the three.

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00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 1: If the big is back and they're not digging down

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00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 1: off the wing and the guard is chasing over the

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Speaker 1: top and he's doing a good job staying attack, I

805
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:04,240
Speaker 1: need to continue to work downhill and if nobody else comes,

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00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: I need to get a floater off before I get

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00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 1: to the big man. If the big Man steps up,

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00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 1: that's where the pocket pass is there. If the big

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Speaker 1: Man stays back but there's nail help meaning the guy

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00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 1: coming from the wing all I need to do is

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Speaker 1: make the swing pass to the wing. If the big

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00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: man comes up and the pocket pass is not open

813
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: because they're tagging from the weak side off of the

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00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: guy in the corner, it's the skip pass to the

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Speaker 1: corner and to hit that shooter or if he cuts

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00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: along the baseline. You can learn those reads through a

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00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 1: film study and just understanding the game, and literally anybody,

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00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 1: even someone who's never played basketball in their life, can

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00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 1: learn basketball reads. But in the game, what applies those

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Speaker 1: things is a combination of skill, meaning like the ability

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Speaker 1: to dribble and pass and like actually handle a basketball right.

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Speaker 1: But the second part of it is to be able

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Speaker 1: to quickly process those things. There are lots of guys

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Speaker 1: in the league who understand the reads but can't pick

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00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: them up quickly. When you see one of your favorite

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Speaker 1: players in the league go go into a ball screen

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Speaker 1: and miss a skip pass or miss an easy read,

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Speaker 1: it's not because he doesn't know that read exists. He

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Speaker 1: knows it's there, he just hasn't processed it in the

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Speaker 1: heat of the moment. He struggled to see it all right.

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Speaker 1: And there's no shame in that, because literally, it's like

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Speaker 1: only a handful of guys at the top of the

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00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: league that are that gifted at processing those things on

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Speaker 1: the ball that quickly. Right now, there's a middle tier

835
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Speaker 1: there in terms of processing speed in IQ, and this

836
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:31,280
Speaker 1: is where we get all the high IQ role players

837
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 1: and things along those lines. Those guys they can make

838
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 1: reads relatively quickly in their specific role, and there's a

839
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:38,879
Speaker 1: ton of value there as well. But when I'm talking

840
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Speaker 1: about the stars at the top of the league, it

841
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 1: is kind of rare to have a guy that can

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00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,919
Speaker 1: quickly process those things super quickly every single time, get

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00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:50,439
Speaker 1: the ball in the right spots every single time. Two

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Speaker 1: other quick ones before we move on Lebron's point about

845
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Speaker 1: centers naturally wanting to drop towards the rim on help

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00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: on drives even if they're guarding shooters. This is fine.

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00:39:58,080 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 1: I just thought this was funny because this is something

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00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 1: we talked about the show over the last few weeks. Specifically,

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Speaker 1: I think it was when we were talking about the

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Speaker 1: Cavs game when Cave Celtics, when Porzingis kept leaving Dean

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Speaker 1: Wade open on the perimeter. I talked about the natural

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Speaker 1: inclinations of centers and their tendency to want to drop

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Speaker 1: back towards the rim and to be in a position

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Speaker 1: to help. And like how sometimes a player's natural tendencies

855
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: will go against whatever the game plan discipline is. And

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Speaker 1: so Lebron made a point about how like when he

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Speaker 1: sees when he sees in a switch situation, a center

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Speaker 1: guarding the shooter in the strong side corner and he's

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Speaker 1: on the strong side wing, Lebron will just drive really

860
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 1: hard towards that right hand side because he knows, even

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Speaker 1: though the center is not supposed to help out the

862
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: strong side wing or strong side corner, he knows he

863
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: wants to because it's his natural inclination. And I thought

864
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 1: that was really really fascinating because like again, like there

865
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 1: are these like little tendencies that you can capitalize on,

866
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 1: and that's a great example of one. It's just like

867
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: centers have a tendency to want to help, so if

868
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,399
Speaker 1: you drive in their general direction, you might be able

869
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 1: to get an open three, just simply baked based on

870
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: that center's specific tendencies. And then finally, Lebron and JJ

871
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 1: had a long conversation about the Warriors beating the Celtics

872
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty two finals because of IQ and

873
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: not talent. I just thought that was interesting because it's

874
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: Lebron James saying it, and that's something that me and

875
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 1: Colin talked about a ton heading into that series and

876
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 1: after that series. We both said before that series we

877
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 1: thought the Celtics were the more talented team, but that

878
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 1: we expected the Warriors to win on the strength of

879
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 1: their experience and on Steph Curry being the best player

880
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,479
Speaker 1: in the series. And I one hundred percent agree. Lebron

881
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 1: went on this rant about how the top four teams

882
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: in the league when you get to the conference finals,

883
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: those teams are all generally very good and all have

884
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 1: lots of talent, and what separates from those four is IQ.

885
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 1: And I thought that was really fascinating because again, like

886
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 1: margins get really tight at that point, and what swings

887
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: margins are little tiny details, and teams that have high

888
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: IQ don't make as many mistakes in the details. All right,

889
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: quick mail bag, and then we're out of here. I

890
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,839
Speaker 1: heard you speak on why Kelly Ubre has been a

891
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 1: very smart has been very smart with his reads on

892
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: screen and rolls and getting open dunks on his tags

893
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: and his tags. I'm sorry, guys, I'm gonna just start

894
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: that one over. I heard you speak on why Kelly

895
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: Ubre has been very smart with his reads on screen

896
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:36,359
Speaker 1: and rolls and getting open dunks when it says in

897
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 1: his tags the roller, but I'm assuming he means when

898
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: the roller is tagged. If this is the case, why

899
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: was he just not a good fit in Golden State?

900
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 1: My impression was that he was is that he just

901
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,240
Speaker 1: wasn't good enough at the free flowing read and react

902
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,799
Speaker 1: type of offense and couldn't figure out how to get

903
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 1: how to gel well enough with Steph Curry. So I agree,

904
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 1: But this this is a classic example of the difference

905
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 1: between a four out offense and a five out offense. So,

906
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 1: for instance, if you are in a situation where you

907
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 1: are spotting up in the corner and they're running two

908
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 1: man game and you are watching your lowman, right, so

909
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: the guy who's guarding you is now the lowman. So

910
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 1: if I'm in the corner ball screens on the opposite wing,

911
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: the guy who's guarding me, his job is if there's

912
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: anything that happens to where the pick and roll gets compromised,

913
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,319
Speaker 1: meaning like the roman gets behind the screen defender, maybe

914
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: the guard starts to get downhill or maybe it's a

915
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: blitz and the ball gets to the short roll guy,

916
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 1: he has to step up and basically be the guy

917
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 1: who defends whoever it is that's coming down the lane.

918
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 1: And so you are now making a very simple read

919
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:42,240
Speaker 1: as the guy in the corner. Right, If he doesn't

920
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:44,400
Speaker 1: go very far, you want to stay in the corner

921
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 1: to space. But if he steps up and leaves a

922
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: vacancy like kind of a runway for you, that's when

923
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 1: you want to cut along the baseline. That's a simple

924
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 1: read that is not as complicated as some of the

925
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 1: more complicated reads that Kelly Yubrad had to make in

926
00:43:56,440 --> 00:44:00,360
Speaker 1: Golden State's five out offense, and specifically for Golden State,

927
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 1: they were a big believer in like even when you're open,

928
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 1: you don't shoot, you turn and run a DHO for

929
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 1: one of their shooters, right, Like Gary Payton's a great

930
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: example of this. Like the dude will take if he's

931
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: just standing wide open, he'll take a shot. But if

932
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:14,320
Speaker 1: he catches and he's not in a great position to shoot,

933
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 1: and I mean a great position to shoot, he's turning

934
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 1: and flowing into a DHO, right, And like so much

935
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 1: of that, there's more high level cutting in the Golden

936
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 1: State offense from different spots on the floor and so

937
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 1: againt like those are examples of him improving making reads

938
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 1: within that specific role operating out of the corner as

939
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 1: a spacer. But it's not the same as some of

940
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 1: the more like because no team in the league runs

941
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 1: more action and I mean literally run sets out of

942
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:44,320
Speaker 1: five out than Golden State does. They are as structured

943
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:47,760
Speaker 1: an offense as you'll find in the league. Next question,

944
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on BAM's recent three point attempt streak?

945
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:52,920
Speaker 1: Is it sustainable? Why has it taken so long? So

946
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: in the last four games, Bam and Toebayo's five for

947
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,720
Speaker 1: five from three, including a game winner against the Detroit

948
00:44:57,719 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 1: Pistons a bomb from about twenty five feet at the

949
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: top the key. Here's the thing. I don't think Bam

950
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 1: needs a three point shot, and obviously if you can

951
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: make it at a high percentage, you want to take

952
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 1: it just from the same point of shot value. But

953
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: for me, Bam is in a very similar situation to Yannis.

954
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 1: He primarily functions with his athleticism as a cog in

955
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 1: their offense. It's different than yanis because down Jannis operates more,

956
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:20,760
Speaker 1: you know, kind of on an island, trying to attack

957
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:22,759
Speaker 1: and score. But what I mean by that is, like

958
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: I don't think Yannis needs a three point shot. I

959
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: think he needs to be able to make shots over

960
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 1: contests around the rim, and I mean like before the rim,

961
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:35,760
Speaker 1: so like little push shots, floaters, half hooks, short jump shots,

962
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 1: things like that matter more to Yannis. That's how I

963
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:41,400
Speaker 1: feel about Bam. Great that he made five threes, but

964
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: he misses like half of his shot attempts that aren't

965
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:46,759
Speaker 1: dunks within eight feet of the rim. So like that's

966
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: the real problem. Like it's more can you make the floater,

967
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: can you make the pop shot in the lane? Can

968
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:54,759
Speaker 1: you make the short jump shot or the little hook

969
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 1: shot over the defense? Obviously the three point shot going

970
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 1: in over the last four games is it's not like

971
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 1: it's a bad thing. But like, that's not the difference

972
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: between Bam reaching where he is now and reaching his

973
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 1: ultimate potential. To me, he's got to become a guy

974
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 1: who can hit sixty sixty five percent of his non

975
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 1: dunks around the rim, and he's just not there right now,

976
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: and that's where he's holding himself back. Offensively. I've never

977
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: heard of a tense seed, a tense seeded team getting exposed.

978
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 1: We knew they sucked. This was after the Warriors lost

979
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 1: to the Knicks. Just going to take another example opportunity

980
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 1: to talk really quickly about how the Warriors and Lakers

981
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 1: are better than their record. Warriors are twenty three and

982
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: sixteen when both Draymond Green and Steph Curry play. That's

983
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: a win percentage that if for the whole year they

984
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 1: stayed at that level, they would pass the Lakers in

985
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: the standings, they passed the Suns in the standings, they

986
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 1: passed the Mavericks, and the standings, they passed the Kings

987
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,360
Speaker 1: in the standings, they'd be out of the play and

988
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:52,839
Speaker 1: they'd be at the sixth seed right now. That's even

989
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: with everything that's gone wrong this year, if they just

990
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 1: had the winning percentage when Steph and Draymond are on

991
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 1: the floor together and the Warriors are not on the

992
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 1: upper tier, they are not as good as Denver, They're

993
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:07,319
Speaker 1: not as good as Boston. I don't even think they're

994
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:12,319
Speaker 1: as good as a healthy Minnesota team. Necessarily, it's I

995
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:16,839
Speaker 1: would be tempted to pick teams like the Bucks and

996
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: the Clippers over them, but everyone else, every other team

997
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 1: in that group, whether it's the Knicks, whether it's the

998
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:28,240
Speaker 1: Sixers when they're healthy, whether it's the Suns or the Kings,

999
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 1: or the Pelicans or the thunder like all those teams.

1000
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: I think the Warriors and the Lakers are just as

1001
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: good as them. It's all those teams. It's about matchups, right,

1002
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 1: Like the Kings just did a number on the Bucks

1003
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: and Lakers and and then lost at home the other night.

1004
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: I'm blanking on who they actually lost to in that game.

1005
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 1: But everybody can lose to anybody on any given night.

1006
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 1: That's not a I think it was it was it

1007
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: the Knicks. I think it was the Knicks, But that

1008
00:47:56,280 --> 00:48:00,720
Speaker 1: that that group is very notchup oriented. Anybody can beat anybody.

1009
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,320
Speaker 1: It's just a depend Like if your weakness aligns with

1010
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 1: another team's strength, you'll lose in that matchup. But that

1011
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're necessarily a worst team, because that team's

1012
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:11,840
Speaker 1: strength might match up differently with another team strength and

1013
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:14,720
Speaker 1: weakness and they might lose that matchup. Right, The Lakers

1014
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 1: and the Warriors are way down in the standings. The

1015
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 1: Warriors because Draymond Green missed a significant chunk of the

1016
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 1: season and the Lakers because they went three to ten

1017
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 1: after winning the N Season Tournament, which dug them a

1018
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:28,840
Speaker 1: massive hole in the standings. Outside of the times that

1019
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 1: Draymond missed, the Warriors have been really good outside of

1020
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: that three and ten stretch after the N Season Tournament.

1021
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: The Lakers have been really good. They are better than

1022
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: their records. They are not top tier contenders, they're not

1023
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 1: even second tier contenders, but they're every bit as good

1024
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:45,440
Speaker 1: as those other teams in those tiers. And if you

1025
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 1: think just because they're a nine seed or a ten seed,

1026
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 1: that's an accurate representation of how much talent they have

1027
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:52,319
Speaker 1: on the roster, I think I would disagree with you

1028
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: at that point. Last question this was in response to

1029
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: the Lebron Jay topic we had at the end of

1030
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: the show yesterday. A hair over Lebron, I said MJ

1031
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: was a hair over Lebron. If you check the criteria

1032
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 1: for the goat of any sport, it's all about dominating

1033
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: the sport for a long enough period of time while

1034
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 1: winning championships in a dominating fashion. Any case for Lebron

1035
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: James has to do with his longevity in dominating a

1036
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 1: conference and not the league. His underwhelming finals record speaks

1037
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:26,720
Speaker 1: to that playing longer does it make you better unless

1038
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:29,920
Speaker 1: we are just speaking to the best athlete. A couple things.

1039
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 1: I technically lean more towards dominating over longevity personally as well.

1040
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:38,959
Speaker 1: That's why I have MJ Hairover Lebron. But a couple

1041
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:44,320
Speaker 1: of things. First of all, Lebron James dominating the Eastern Conference.

1042
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 1: I agree with you, it's an overrated kind of thing

1043
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,759
Speaker 1: to talk about, right, Like he has ten conference championships,

1044
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: nine of which took place in the Eastern Conference. That's

1045
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 1: certainly impressive. But yeah, the Eastern Conference was weak more

1046
00:49:57,920 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 1: at the time, like it's The Eastern Conference is weak

1047
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 1: now in a different way than it is back in

1048
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: Lebron's era. Like now the East is weak at the bottom,

1049
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 1: but there are still really good teams at the top

1050
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 1: every single year, usually two or three, like really good

1051
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:14,959
Speaker 1: teams in Lebron's East. There just never was a team

1052
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: remotely as good as them, and so they kicked everyone's

1053
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:20,319
Speaker 1: ass in the postseason every single year because the best

1054
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:22,479
Speaker 1: team they'd face would be a Pacers team with Paul

1055
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 1: George or a you know, a Raptors team with De

1056
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 1: Mardiros in Kyle Lowry. But every time we have this conversation,

1057
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,919
Speaker 1: we gloss over a simple fact. Lebron James has won

1058
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 1: four NBA championships. So forget about the damn conference titles

1059
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 1: all you want. He has four damn championships since he

1060
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 1: came in the league. No player or franchise has won

1061
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:51,359
Speaker 1: more championships than Lebron. That is a certain level of

1062
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:54,360
Speaker 1: dominance in its own way. And so like again, like,

1063
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:58,279
Speaker 1: you're right, the conference championship thing is a little bit overblown. Yes,

1064
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 1: Lebron played in the East, and then he still ill

1065
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:04,360
Speaker 1: hoisted the Dan Larry O'Brien Trophy four times, despite a

1066
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 1: lot of things that worked against him over that span,

1067
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 1: like the Cavs originally never putting a championship level roster

1068
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: around him in his first stretch there in Cleveland, Like

1069
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 1: the Kyrie fiasco in twenty eighteen, Like Anthony Davis's injury

1070
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 1: history and immediate decline after the twenty twenty playoff run.

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Speaker 1: Like if I told you after Lebron convinced Ad to

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Speaker 1: come over in the summer of twenty nineteen, if I

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Speaker 1: told you, hey, Lebron's going to be really good for

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Speaker 1: all five of the next five years, you'd be like, Okay,

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00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:38,400
Speaker 1: they're winning multiple titles, but no ad had a significant

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Speaker 1: injury stretch and declined as significantly as a player. Went

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Speaker 1: from being a guy who's in contention for the best

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Speaker 1: player in the world to a guy who's a fringe

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Speaker 1: top ten guy now right, And like that is the

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Speaker 1: Despite all of that, he still hoisted the trophy four times.

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Speaker 1: And so again, when we're talking about Lebron's dominance, he's

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00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:59,880
Speaker 1: not as dominant as MJ, but he's still pretty damn dominant.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even talk about in that stretch, Like literally,

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Speaker 1: after Lebron won his third title, the two best players

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00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:10,960
Speaker 1: beneath him in the league teamed up. He's the best

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00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 1: player in the league. He won his third title, just

1087
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:17,359
Speaker 1: beat a seventy three win team, had back to back

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Speaker 1: forty plus point games in the in the finals, had

1089
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Speaker 1: a stranglehold on the best player in the world title.

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Speaker 1: And then Kevin Durant and Steph Curry teamed up on

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Speaker 1: a team that already had one of the best coaches

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Speaker 1: in the league, the best defender in the league in

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00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: Draymond Green, the best wing defender in the league, and

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00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:36,279
Speaker 1: Andre Udala, the second best shooter in the league who's

1095
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 1: also an excellent perimeter defender in Klay Thompson. All of that,

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00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:41,279
Speaker 1: plus the two players in the league that were right

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Speaker 1: behind Lebron like like any still hoisted the trophy four times.

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Speaker 1: So like again, I think when we're I think when

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Speaker 1: we're talking about Lebron James dominance, it's it's important to

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Speaker 1: view it as different than MJ. But it's not a

1101
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Speaker 1: lack of accomplishment. Like think about the way Larry Bird

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Speaker 1: is revered. He only has three of them, right, Like,

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Speaker 1: it's it's not I think that the Lebron's dominance has

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Speaker 1: actually become a little underrated in that regard. Lastly, his

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Speaker 1: a playing longer doesn't make you better unless we are

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Speaker 1: just speaking to the best athlete. This I just fundamentally

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Speaker 1: disagree with. Obviously, dominance is the larger factor as I

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Speaker 1: talked about, but I do think longevity really matters, and

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Speaker 1: the reason why is simple. If I was talking about

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Speaker 1: who the best basketball player ever was, I look at

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00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 1: it from the perspective of if I was a if

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Speaker 1: I owned a franchise and I had to start from scratch,

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00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,320
Speaker 1: and I could only pick one player in NBA history

1114
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:42,240
Speaker 1: to start with, and I could have their entire career,

1115
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: which player gives me the most opportunity to win the

1116
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:51,719
Speaker 1: most championships in a vacuum. And if I get twenty

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00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:56,560
Speaker 1: years of Lebron James playing at a top ten level,

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Speaker 1: during which a hefty I go like nine years from

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00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 1: twenty twelve to twenty twenty, I thought he was clearly

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Speaker 1: the best player in the world. So for a nine

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Speaker 1: year stretch there he was literally number one. So I'm

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Speaker 1: getting nine years of number one in an additional eleven

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Speaker 1: years of top ten and then that first year, but

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Speaker 1: Lebron is still top twenty. So like with that being

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Speaker 1: my kind of foundation for bringing in a star player

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Speaker 1: to start my franchise, I have a really good chance

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Speaker 1: to win. And so that's why I look at longevity

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Speaker 1: as also a significant part of the case, because you

1129
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:35,799
Speaker 1: want to see what ceiling the guy can reach, but

1130
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Speaker 1: how long he stays there is a big indicator. Because

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00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:41,359
Speaker 1: again in the NBA, like a lot of shit can

1132
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:44,239
Speaker 1: go down, matchups can be weird, injuries can happen. Sometimes,

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Speaker 1: you sometimes even though you are in a good position

1134
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 1: to win the title, just bad things happen and you

1135
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 1: don't twenty fifteen, but another title, Lebron probably wins if

1136
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Speaker 1: his team is healthy. I believe a healthy Kyrie and

1137
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:01,720
Speaker 1: Kevin Love with Lebron James be the Warriors in twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 1: That's trophy number five. Like that, Like again, anything can happen.

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Speaker 1: And so that's why getting more cracks at the table,

1140
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Speaker 1: more you know, pulls at the slot machine, so to speak,

1141
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Speaker 1: give you more opportunities to win. And that's why longevity matters.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, that's all I have for today is

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Speaker 1: always sincerely appreciate you guys for supporting the show. I

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Speaker 1: shouldn't say that's all we have for today. That's all

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Speaker 1: we have for this morning. We will be back tonight

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Speaker 1: right around about let's see, the game starts at seven

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Speaker 1: thirty eastern, so right around like what's that going to

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Speaker 1: be a right around like ten o'clock eastern. We'll be

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Speaker 1: recording live on YouTube. After the final buzzer of Buck Celtics,

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Speaker 1: I will see you guys that the volume