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Speaker 1: Happy Saturday, everybody. Oh, all of you guys are having
Speaker 1: a great weekend. You might not be getting to this
Speaker 1: till Sunday. I'm actually on my way out to go
Speaker 1: to a Christmas party with my wife, like the seventh
Speaker 1: Christmas party that we have every single season. You guys
Speaker 1: know how it goes. But I know Dennis Schruder pretty
Speaker 1: well from rooting for him when he was with the Lakers,
Speaker 1: So I figured I'd just take ten quick minutes to
Speaker 1: give you guys my thoughts. Also our Monday Show is
Speaker 1: like just jam packed between the in season, tournament semi
Speaker 1: final games as well as power rankings and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: One's going to probably come out a little later in
Speaker 1: the day, so I figured I could give you guys
Speaker 1: my quick ten minute synopsis on the Dennis Schroeder trade.
Speaker 1: So the gist of it is, the Golden State Warriors
Speaker 1: are sending d' anthony Melton's contract, now that d Anthony
Speaker 1: Melton is injured for the season, to the Brooklyn Nets
Speaker 1: in exchange for Dennis Schroeder. The Warriors are also sending
Speaker 1: three second round picks in the deal. Now is my
Speaker 1: first impression on this is don't overthink it, meaning like,
Speaker 1: is Dennis Shreder the piece that's going to lift the
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors to championship contention? No, I don't think
Speaker 1: he is. That said, He's just a simple and obvious
Speaker 1: talent upgrade. It actually reminds me a lot of a
Speaker 1: trade the Lakers made two years ago when they turned
Speaker 1: Kendrick Nunn into ruy Hachramura with three second round picks
Speaker 1: quite a ways before the deadline, a similar type of thing.
Speaker 1: It's like, here's a contract that's useless to us because
Speaker 1: Kendrick Nunn has been injured or bad the entire time
Speaker 1: he's been here. Is Ruy the perfect player? No? Is
Speaker 1: Ruy going to solve all the Lakers problems. No, but
Speaker 1: he's just an obvious talent upgrade at a position of need.
Speaker 1: Let's bring him in and then we'll figure out the
Speaker 1: rest at the deadline. And that's kind of where these
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors are at. Yes, they've been in
Speaker 1: a really tough spot. The offense, especially with the bench unit,
Speaker 1: has really struggled. But even with Steph Curry on the floor,
Speaker 1: the offense has just struggled as of late. Right, So
Speaker 1: it's not that there's a big picture talent issue with
Speaker 1: the Warriors. Had the Warriors done nothing, I think their
Speaker 1: offense would have eventually gotten back up off the ground
Speaker 1: and they would have been fine, and they would have
Speaker 1: been in that five to eight range in the standings
Speaker 1: most of the season. Right. This deal because it's at
Speaker 1: such a specific position of need. As a ball handler
Speaker 1: other than Steph that can run coherent offense, it's just
Speaker 1: an obvious way to help improve your floor and give
Speaker 1: you a better chance of being higher in the standings
Speaker 1: throughout this middle chunk of the season, and then, like
Speaker 1: the Lakers did two years ago with the D'anzelo, Russell,
Speaker 1: Jared Vanderbilt, Malik Beasley, you can do something bigger at
Speaker 1: the deadline. I don't think it'll be that type of deal.
Speaker 1: It'll end up being for a more high powered offensive player.
Speaker 1: But that's the kind of deal that the Warriors can
Speaker 1: make down at the deadline. And again, you'll have more
Speaker 1: information at that point. Potentially Jonathan Kaminga could play himself
Speaker 1: into a position where he seems completely untradeable again, or
Speaker 1: maybe Andrew Wiggins plays himself into a position where he
Speaker 1: looks untradable, but Kaminga looks like he's struggling, and then
Speaker 1: it makes more sense to make a cominga deal right
Speaker 1: like this passes the buck, so to speak, of that
Speaker 1: process to the deadline, while at the same time addressing
Speaker 1: an immediate need, which is your offense sucks and you
Speaker 1: gotta find a way to get that off the ground,
Speaker 1: especially in the units when Steph is off the floor.
Speaker 1: So a little bit about Dennis Schroeder again, like you
Speaker 1: know how it goes, like when you root for a player,
Speaker 1: you watch them more closely, right, like, I watch all
Speaker 1: the NBA teams around the league because it's my job,
Speaker 1: but I obviously watched the Lakers the most because they're
Speaker 1: my favorite team, and so as a basketball fan, even
Speaker 1: when I'm not working, I try to watch them. And
Speaker 1: so I covered Dennis Schroeder extremely closely on two separate
Speaker 1: occasions with the Los Angeles Lakers in the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one season and then in the final season that Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook was there, the twenty twenty three season when they
Speaker 1: made it to the Western Conference Finals. A lot of
Speaker 1: weird stuff happened in there, like the first time, Dennis
Speaker 1: Schroeder like turns down this massive extension, and then the
Speaker 1: Lakers end up deciding not to bring him back after
Speaker 1: bringing in Russell Westbrook, and so they let him walk,
Speaker 1: and then he can't find a deal and he ends
Speaker 1: up signing that mid level exception with the Boston Celtics,
Speaker 1: if you remember. And then even last time, he was
Speaker 1: really good for them through the Western Conference Finals, but
Speaker 1: the Lakers wanted per like, they wanted somebody that was
Speaker 1: a little bit higher level of like an off ball
Speaker 1: score type shooter type, so they end up going for
Speaker 1: Gabe Vincent out of Miami and letting Dennis Schroeder walk,
Speaker 1: which ends up being a complete disaster. So the Lakers
Speaker 1: have fumbled Dennis Schroeder away a couple of times, and
Speaker 1: now they have a bunch of guards who can't defend
Speaker 1: and it's frustrating, and that's why I'm kind of out
Speaker 1: on those guys, as you guys know. But again my
Speaker 1: experience rooting for Dennis Schroeder, he's just an He was
Speaker 1: one of my favorite players that I ever rooted for,
Speaker 1: and I am convinced that Golden State Warriors fans are
Speaker 1: going to love him. The main kind of like genesis
Speaker 1: of that opinion is his competitive spirit. I think it's
Speaker 1: the number one thing that resonates with fans. Like you
Speaker 1: work your ass off all day and you sit on
Speaker 1: the couch and you want to watch a game, and
Speaker 1: when a dude's playing his ass off, I think it
Speaker 1: just immediately resonates with people on another level than the
Speaker 1: guy that It's like on any given night, he might
Speaker 1: look like he's the best player on the floor and
Speaker 1: when he's engaged, and then other times he's just yes
Speaker 1: in his way through things. I think that can really
Speaker 1: be frustrating for fans, and so immediately Warriors fans will
Speaker 1: love him because he is a force of competitive nature.
Speaker 1: He is a guy that is going to compete on
Speaker 1: both ends of the floor almost every single night. He
Speaker 1: is a foxhole guy. He's a guy when, like when
Speaker 1: the shit's getting tough and it's physical and it's there's adversity,
Speaker 1: you want him in your corner. He's just in terms
Speaker 1: of his intangible basketball character, he is a awesome player
Speaker 1: that Warriors fans are going to love. Now on the
Speaker 1: basketball level, let's start on the defensive end. As a
Speaker 1: defensive player, Dennis Schroeder is one of the better guard
Speaker 1: defenders in the league. He can defend the vast majority
Speaker 1: of guards at the point of attack very well. He's
Speaker 1: good with ball pressure, he slides quick laterally, he contains
Speaker 1: the ball well. He's very disruptive swiping at the basketball.
Speaker 1: He navigates screens well, he applies back pressure well. He
Speaker 1: does all of that really, really well. Dennis Schroeder is
Speaker 1: an awesome point of attack defender that will help the
Speaker 1: Warriors right away. He does have some weaknesses with bigger
Speaker 1: power guards, so like, for instance, if he gets caught
Speaker 1: in a switch against a wing that can post up
Speaker 1: a little bit struggles to hold his own there. There
Speaker 1: are also like a half dozen ish scoring guards in
Speaker 1: the league that are big and strong enough to kind
Speaker 1: of withstand his ball pressure, and they can just easily
Speaker 1: shoot over the top of him. Famously, in the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three Western Conference Finals, Jamal Murray just kind of
Speaker 1: cooked him one on one a bunch or in ball
Speaker 1: screens a bunch, because he just his contest wasn't high
Speaker 1: enough long, whatever you want to call it, to bother
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray, and he was just big and strong enough
Speaker 1: to ward off his ball pressure. But again, those are
Speaker 1: smaller problems and the Warriors have other solutions for that.
Speaker 1: The Warriors have other guys in house already that they
Speaker 1: can put on bigger, stronger guards, and so if anything,
Speaker 1: if there's a weakness in the Golden State perimeter defense,
Speaker 1: they've got a lot of guys like Andrew Wiggins, like
Speaker 1: Jonathan Cominga that they can stick on bigger wings. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to super quick laterally guards, it's like
Speaker 1: Gary Payton the second is the only guy you really
Speaker 1: like in those matchups. Everyone else is solid, like Lindy
Speaker 1: Waters is solid. Brandon Pajemski's solid. Those guys can compete
Speaker 1: at the point of attack, some better than others, but
Speaker 1: none of them are like great at handling quick guards
Speaker 1: except for Gary Payton. Dennis Schroeder gives you another option
Speaker 1: in those types of situations on the offensive end of
Speaker 1: the four. I understand that there's going to be some
Speaker 1: initial commentariot. You'll see it around in a lot of
Speaker 1: the basketball media space surrounding the fit, and there's a
Speaker 1: very basic reason behind that. Like Dennis Schroeder is very
Speaker 1: much a pound the air out of the ball, spread,
Speaker 1: pick and roll, pick on mismatches and switches type of guard.
Speaker 1: Like in ball screens, like he likes to reject the screen,
Speaker 1: especially against ice, and kind of shoot little fifteen footers
Speaker 1: along the baseline. He'll work into the mid range, and
Speaker 1: he's got an assortment of like little short mid range
Speaker 1: shots that he can make. He's a decent passer in
Speaker 1: ball screens, he can run them. But then when there's switches,
Speaker 1: he's pretty good at getting bigs out into space and
Speaker 1: beating them off the dribble because he's got a really
Speaker 1: quick first step. So that's kind of like his style
Speaker 1: of play. So in theory in the Warriors five out motion,
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like it would make much sense. But again,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to be that bad within
Speaker 1: the context of Steph on the floor, because one, every
Speaker 1: single motion concept is more or less a ball screen
Speaker 1: in principle. It's just in the concept of ball and
Speaker 1: player movement, like Dennis's traits should still translate reasonably well there.
Speaker 1: And then two, he's not a guy you can leave
Speaker 1: wide open. He's actually a very good shooter. And this
Speaker 1: extended back to the Lakers days, Like if he was
Speaker 1: set and his feet were set and he had time
Speaker 1: to get through his whole release, he felt like it
Speaker 1: was going in. The issue is he's got a really long,
Speaker 1: drawn out release. So like if he's let's say that
Speaker 1: you're trying to get his defender onto Steph, and so
Speaker 1: he's screening for Steph because you're trying to get that
Speaker 1: weaker defender onto Steph Curry so he can attack a
Speaker 1: mismatch and instead of switching the hedge and Dennis has
Speaker 1: to like slip out of it quick and make himself
Speaker 1: available for a jumper. He's not a guy that can
Speaker 1: like shoot on the move. He's not a guy that's
Speaker 1: gonna come flying off of a screen and knock down
Speaker 1: a jump shot. He's a standstill jump shooter who also
Speaker 1: when defenders who tend to duck under picks against him,
Speaker 1: when they duck under screens, he can kind of settle
Speaker 1: behind the screen and find his timing to knock down
Speaker 1: the shot. And then he's got a couple of nifty
Speaker 1: like release angles and stuff for short to mid range stuff.
Speaker 1: But he's not like the most dynamic movement shooter, which
Speaker 1: is a little bit of a clunky fit with the
Speaker 1: Warriors offense. But again, because he's so good defensively, and
Speaker 1: because you can't leave him wide open, and because he
Speaker 1: does have a good amount of offensive skill, he should
Speaker 1: still be workable in the stepf on the floor units
Speaker 1: and then it's all about the units. When STEP's off
Speaker 1: the floor, Well you have to play a different style, yeah, probably,
Speaker 1: But we've seen the Warriors have to go to that
Speaker 1: style even with the steph led units at times, including
Speaker 1: most recently their last playoff run. Right. So like the
Speaker 1: spread pick and roll thing is something that Golden State
Speaker 1: has been willing to go to at times. They and
Speaker 1: they used to do it in the past with Chris
Speaker 1: Paul in the context of bench lineups without Steph on
Speaker 1: the floor. So like, again you really dig down into it,
Speaker 1: the Warriors were hoping that that kind of strength in
Speaker 1: numbers offensive skill coalition would get the job done, and
Speaker 1: it ended up being like Pajemski kind of had a
Speaker 1: bad year, you know, the Anthony Melton gets hurt all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, that just doesn't materialize the way they
Speaker 1: were hoping. Insert Dennis Schroeder. He can help at least
Speaker 1: command those bench units at a better rate then at
Speaker 1: a better rate than what they were getting before. And again,
Speaker 1: like they don't have the sh that in those bench
Speaker 1: groups that Brooklyn has, so like it's not going to
Speaker 1: be the same type of look, but it should be
Speaker 1: a better defensive group than what Brooklyn had, and so
Speaker 1: they should be able to they should be able to
Speaker 1: play a brand of basketball with Dennis on the floor
Speaker 1: and step off that is conducive to winning those minutes.
Speaker 1: So in short, again number one, don't overthink it. You're
Speaker 1: flipping three second round picks in d Anthony Melton's contract
Speaker 1: to Brooklyn, meaning one you didn't waste Jonathan Minga or
Speaker 1: any of the young players that other teams want. Two,
Speaker 1: you didn't waste any of your first round draft compensation. Three,
Speaker 1: even if you liked the d Anthony Meltin fit in
Speaker 1: the context of the future, he's got a player option
Speaker 1: that he can just reject and then go back to
Speaker 1: Golden State next year. So all you're really giving up
Speaker 1: is three second round picks, right, which can be recruited
Speaker 1: in other ways. Right. And then the second piece of
Speaker 1: it is it's an obvious talent upgrade. You're just turning
Speaker 1: a useless contract into a very good NBA player who
Speaker 1: also plays a very specific position of need, which is
Speaker 1: a shot creating guard that can also defend, which should
Speaker 1: in theory, help stabilize those bench groups for Golden State.
Speaker 1: It's not a move that is going to vault the
Speaker 1: Warriors into top tier championship contention, but it is an
Speaker 1: obvious step in that direction that also maintains the flexibility
Speaker 1: to do something bigger as they get closer to the deadline,
Speaker 1: which fingers crossed because I'm hoping to see Steph playing
Speaker 1: some big, high leverage games this year. Hopefully they end
Speaker 1: up doing something a little bit more splashy as they
Speaker 1: get closer to the deadline. All right, guys, that's all
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