WEBVTT - NBA Cup Semis Reaction: Wemby returns as Spurs beat SGA's Thunder + Brunson's Knicks beat Magic 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:17.120 The volume. All right, Well, goome to hoops tonight here 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.360 at the volume heavy Saturday, everybody. Hope all of you 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:23.560 guys are having a great weekend so far. Well, that 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:27.040 was absolute cinema tonight as we got to see Victor 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:31.240 women Yama return against the San Antonio Spurs and what 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.200 ended up being a game that lived up to the billing, 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:36.320 one of the more entertaining games we've caught so far 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.960 in this regular season. I cannot wait to dive into 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:42.680 all the different aspects of that game. And then also 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.360 we had another game tonight is the Knicks, fueled by 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:49.000 yet another amazing performance from Jalen Brunson forty points on 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:52.800 sixteen for twenty seven shooting, as the Knicks advance to 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.920 the Cup Championship on Tuesday night. We're gonna be breaking 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:58.520 down both games tonight. You guys are the jop Before 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.080 we get started, subscribe to this channel so you don't 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.040 miss any more of our videos. Don't forget to like 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.280 this video as well. That helps us a lot. And 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:08.480 then lastly, if you want to get mail back questions 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:10.640 in for our weekly mail bags, drop them into our 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.800 YouTube comments. All right, let's dig into the basketball here. 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.720 I was super super excited. As I had been watching 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.280 the Spurs over the course of the last couple of 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.880 like really about a month now. I was really excited 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:28.240 in the big picture about seeing the combination of what 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.880 was a very successful offense. I talked about this after 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.720 the Spurs beat the Lakers, that everything they did to 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.640 the Lakers was what they had been doing to everybody 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:39.920 for a month. I didn't want to make it like oh, 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.760 about the Lakers and their weaknesses and whether or not 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:44.680 they showed up for a big game. I wanted to 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.920 call attention to the fact that, like, yeah, like Steph 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.080 Castle and deren Fox have been beating people off the 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.120 dribble like the all season, you know, and especially since 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.640 Darreon Fox came back. They've been shooting the three ball 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.400 extremely well. Over the course of this stretch. They'd built 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.640 out this offense built on dribble pay penetration and kickouts 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:06.640 getting out in transition that was super successful. Keldon Johnson 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.840 is a dominant rebounder and driving the basketball as a 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.880 bullyball guy, and all these different trends that they had 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:17.600 started to show with their offense that were consistent. Opponent 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.000 two opponent good team bad team. They were doing it 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:23.160 to everybody, and I really wanted to see the combination 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.280 of both the offensive level that they had reached with 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:31.560 dearon Fox, as well as just all that scrappy athleticism 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.600 on the perimeter. All those guards are big and fast 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.360 and strong, and they compete and they play hard on defense, 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.480 and I just wanted to see those dudes combined with 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:45.360 what I believe is the greatest game breaking defensive talent 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.640 the game of basketball has ever seen. And so I 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:50.840 wanted to see that in the big picture. And I 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:54.040 had already kind of bought into San Antonio I talked 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.240 about after the Lakers game. I viewed them firmly in 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.560 that same grouping there with the Lakers in Minnesota. Jackson 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.360 and I were talking about it through text during the game. 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.640 I don't see any case for either of those teams 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:06.919 over San Antonio. At this point, you could argue there 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.520 right now the third or fourth best contender in the 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:13.239 entire NBA. I've been buying all this spurstock over the 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.880 last couple of weeks, and then you look at this 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:20.120 matchup with Oklahoma City and it's like, you know, Oklahoma 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.240 City had been so dominant and so successful over the 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.680 course of this season. You're almost just hoping they compete, right, Like, 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.000 for me, I was mainly looking at it like man 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.639 reincorporating Wemby's gonna be kind of funky for the offense, 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.520 like it can be a rhythm disruptor. I wonder if 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.480 it's more just I want to see what they look 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.760 like on defense in this game. Screw all that they won. 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:44.200 They went out there and they beat the thunder tonight. 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:45.800 And you know, one of the things I want to 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:47.680 call attention to before we start digging into some of 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:52.480 the details, one of the most underrated elements behind a 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:56.160 true superstar talent in the NBA is the ability to 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.000 elevate your teammates, right, And there's a lot of different 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.000 ways that that can manifest. And you know, so for instance, 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:06.160 on offense, that can be by creating advantages, right like 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.040 Jokic and Lebron and Luca and Chris Paul and all 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:12.680 the great passers in NBA history have elevated their teammates 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:17.599 through creating advantages by making easier offensive opportunities, you know, 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.599 or like Tim Duncan and some of the greatest defensive 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.560 anchors in NBA history, they can elevate their teammates by 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.080 making their defensive jobs easier, right, But one of the 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.799 underrated elements for all of those guys is instilling confidence. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.560 The Spurs went out there and they didn't use one 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.080 b in the first quarter, and a lot of things 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.720 went wrong for them. You know, there's an adjustment period. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.080 It's such a talk about going from one of the 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:46.360 basement defenses in the NBA, the Lakers, to like maybe 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.320 the best defense in the history of the NBA in 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.200 the thunder tonight. It was clearly an adjustment for them. 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.120 Harrison Barnes a little rushed on those three pointers. I 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.200 think give missed six of them in his first shift. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.400 You know, like that's a pretty rough start, right. Steph 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.599 Castle had some really bad turnovers. Darreon Fox was taking 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.279 some bad shots, like the cross court passes that you 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.960 can get away with against other teams, you can't get 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.880 away with against Oklahoma City, and they got killed. They 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.839 remindus twenty three in the first half with Victor wem 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:19.120 Minyama off the floor. But what happened was is Victor 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.359 comes in to start the first or the second quarter, 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.400 goes on a massive run, gets them back in the game. 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.159 Checks out, they fall apart again in the middle of 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.760 that second quarter. Wenby comes in to end the first 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.280 half and takes them on another run to get them 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.880 back within three. And so what happens all those dudes. 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.080 All of a sudden, It's like, hey, all that trashketball 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.480 you were playing to start the game, none of it 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:44.120 matters anymore. It's forty nine to forty six, check ball. 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.640 We got a lot of basketball left. And the starting 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.520 group came out to start that second half with a 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.240 completely different set of energy and intensity, and they were 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.599 ready in a way that they weren't to start that game. 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:00.719 That is confidence in belief that was in instilled in 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:04.640 them by their star Darren Fox. Came out immediately started 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.480 making plays in pick and roll and driving the basket 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.400 to start the second half. The defense, the level of 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.280 intensity and the scrappiness and the flying around in rotation 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:15.839 and the digging down on drives and all that stuff 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.880 from the Spurs defense shot up like a rocket in 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.880 that second half, and they were able to stay in 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:25.400 the game. They obviously weren't going to continue to outscore 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:28.320 the Thunder by twenty points per seven minutes when they 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:31.360 got into the second half, they were gonna need their 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.880 other lineups to find a way to succeed, and they did. 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.039 And I give Wemby a ton of credit for that, 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.880 just in the sense that like he instilled them, he 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.640 erased all their mistakes and instilled in them a sense 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.240 of belief and confidence. And those dudes came out and 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.120 played an awesome half there in that second half. And 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:53.160 you know, again, fundamentally, what makes this whole thing interesting 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.080 is that Wenby is a game breaking defensive talent. What 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:01.480 that means is he is so transcendently great at what 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:05.440 he does being rangy and protecting the rim that it 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.520 breaks what opponents do. So I've talked about this a 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.480 lot this season. There have been three offenses that have 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.840 separated from the pack in the league. In the half court, okay, 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:16.640 there's a lot of margin. You can you can do 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.160 damage on the offensive glass, you can do damage in transition. 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.400 But when you look at the strict job of like 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.800 your five dudes are back on defense, my five dudes 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.680 are up on offense. We have a you know, seventeen 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:29.720 seconds left on the shot clock. We got to find 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.880 a way to score against you. When you're set and 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.080 in front of us there's three teams that have separated 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:37.160 themselves from the pack, and it's the Denver Nuggets, the 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.840 Los Angeles Lakers, and the Oklahoma City Thunder. Interesting because 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.080 this is not the Thunder team from years past that 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:47.160 didn't have that same level of like confidence and you know, 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.000 separation from the rest of the league in terms of 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:54.440 their half court offense. They've been killing teams in those 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.880 slow down half court situations this year, even though they 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:02.600 also obviously have this devastating defense to transition attack right 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.200 getting points off of turnovers. But we got to see 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.600 an offense that has been slicing and dicing everybody this season. 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.320 The relentless drives of AJ Mitchell, the relentless drives of 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.840 Shake Kills with Alexander, the relentless drives of Jalen Williams 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.880 since he come back. Jalen Williams drives per game or 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:23.280 like twenty percent up year over year, or his shot 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.640 attempts in the restricted area per game, like he's been 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:28.640 getting to the basket like a madman since he came back. 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:34.280 That's the fundamental entry point that they take advantage of 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.200 every time they're attacking on offense. And then from there 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.800 they've been one of the top five unguarded catch and 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.079 shoot three point shooting teams in the league. And they 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.400 move them all extremely well. They're extremely connected. They're great 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.320 at using their vertical spacers, and so it's all dribble 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.480 drive and kick or dribble drive and lob and they 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.040 use really good relocations and cuts to get really high 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.559 quality looks out of their drives. Right well, Victor breaks 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.360 that because he shuts off the damn rint. I need 0:08:58.400 --> 0:08:59.600 to go back and look at the film to make 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.360 one hundred percent sure, but if my count is correct, 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:04.880 I had them at three shot attempts at the rim 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.320 in the entire time that Victor wemen Yama was on 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.920 the court tonight. There was a shay layup in the 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.960 early second half where like mid third quarter, where he 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:15.719 toasted it, then out the dribble got to a right 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.400 handed layup and Wemby was right there. He barely missed 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.760 it as he came across just to it came across 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.360 the lane just to split second late. There was one. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.320 Because I want to dig into this a little bit, 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.760 there were some different ways that the thunder tried to 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.320 attack the Wemby problem, but one of the ways that 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.679 they had some success is they put Chet in the 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:36.000 strong side corner and there's some basic defensive principles that 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.560 make it hard to help in that situation. So JDub 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:42.280 was at the left wing and JDub was looking to drive, 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.760 and Chet was in the strong side corner and Wemby 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.160 was there, and it was just a position where Wemby 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.719 was unwilling to help from Jadub was able to get 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.560 all the way to the basket for a layup on 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.720 that one. And then the playing crunch time where Shay 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.160 hit like six counter moves to get past his man 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.520 and then Wenby came flying over and he dropped it 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.400 off to Chet and Chet drew the foul. Other than that, 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.200 they didn't even want to go in there for obvious reasons. 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:12.160 That's a game breaking defensive talent. When you take one 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:16.360 of the prolific driving the basketball teams in the league 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.920 and turn them into almost purely an off the dribble 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.600 jump shooting team in crunch time. That's the type of 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:26.120 game breaking defensive talent that Wenby was. So then we 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.040 look at how Ocase tries to attack it. It's like, okay, well, 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.960 what if we try to bring Wenby up into the action. 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.280 If we bring him up into the action, maybe we 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:36.160 can get him away from the rim. And they do, 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.520 and it's like a chet ball screen up top, and 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.679 they try rescreening a few times, and what happens. Wemby 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.200 ends up switching out onto Shay. Shake gets a decent 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.600 look at a catch and shoot three, but Wemby's close 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.800 out is so ridiculous because of his arms that Shay 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.560 has to shoot a moon ball that goes like six 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:54.800 or seven feet higher at the top of its arc 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.000 than any of his other three point shots and he 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.280 misses it. And it's like then from that point on, 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.640 they didn't break one be into the action anymore because 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.559 no one wants to shoot over him from the perimeter. 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.120 So they're like, okay, well what if we work from 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.120 the mid range, And they were able to score a 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.400 few times from there, right like Shae hit a little 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.400 step back jumper over steph Castle in the left baseline. 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:18.120 There was another one where I think it was Devin 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.920 Vessel came over and doubled where Shay was working right 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.839 around the foul line and Wenby was underneath the basket. 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.280 So they weren't looking to drive, but they sent a 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.560 help from the right wing off of j Dub, and 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.160 Shay pitched it back and JDub ended up hitting a 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.160 catch and shoot three off of the right wing, And 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.160 so that was the gist of their offense down the 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.880 stretch was like Shay working in the mid range taking 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:45.040 really tough, contested jump shots because they didn't want to 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.199 drive because Wemby was down there, and they didn't want 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.120 to bring Wemby into the action because he's too difficult 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.880 to shoot over if he's in the action. That's game 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.559 breaking defensive talent. And this is where we have to 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.240 start looking at the other parts of this Spurs roster, 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.480 because this is what makes them so unique. And like, 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.480 here's the thing. Do I think the Spurs are gonna 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.000 go beat Oklahoma City in a seven game series this year? 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.520 It's way too early to say that Oklahoma City has 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.360 clearly demonstrated themselves to be a better basketball team this year. 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.040 Them losing tonight is not a referendum on everything they've 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:17.559 accomplished this season. They still are the runaway championship favorites. 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:19.880 I personally would be surprised if they're not hoisting the 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.440 trophy when we get to mid June. But looking at 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.560 this matchup both as an upset threat this season and 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.480 most importantly as the only hope for the rest of 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.000 the NBA when we talk about teams that could compete 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:33.640 with the Thunder in this era, as they are staring 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.080 down the barrel of potentially like three more first round 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.839 picks this season, as they continue to load up, as 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.000 Chet continues to get better, as jadeb continues to get better, 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:47.400 this team is not going anywhere, and the league, in 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.960 terms of intrigue, needs a team that can go toe 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.199 to toe with these guys. And one of the specific 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.120 things about the Spurs and the way they're constructed that 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.640 has me looking at them as a real threat against 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:00.360 the Thunder over the course of the next you know, 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.960 three to five years is it's the combination of Wemby 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:09.080 as this game breaking, paint, shutting down defensive weapon, but 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:13.480 also the lanky, athletic guards that have the strength to 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.000 hold up on the ball and that can get great 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.120 contests on those shots. There were a lot of missed 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:22.400 pull up jumpers in this game. Shay was one for 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:25.280 seven from three. You know, this is the thing Shay's 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.600 been shooting, you know, over forty percent from three. This season, 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.960 he's been deadly on his step back three. He's been 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:34.120 shooting over fifty five percent on pull up twos inside 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.040 of seventeen feet. Right. Here's the thing, though, You get 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:41.200 a longer, better athlete on the ball, and you give 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.480 that guy the leeway to know, like, hey, dude, if 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.080 you get beat off the dribble, don't worry about it. 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:49.600 It's Victor webin Yama back there. Right. That allows that 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.360 defender to be a little less on their heels, a 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.800 little bit more on their toes. They're a little bit 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:58.040 more on their toes, and they're a better athlete than 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.520 some of these other guards that the under had been 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:04.840 going against. That's a substantially better contest. The whole point 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.959 is that math game can tilt in your favor. If 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:11.440 those short twos go from fifty five percent to forty percent, 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.360 and if those threes go from forty five percent to 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.360 one for seven, or you know, in a larger sample 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:21.000 something closer to thirty thirty five percent, that's when the 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.520 math can start to tilt heavy in your favor. And 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.520 that's what makes this particular team construct such an interesting 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:31.320 build to compete against the San Antonios or to compete 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.960 against the Oklahoma City Thunder. It's that combination of that 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.000 game breaking defensive talent on the back line and you've 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.400 just got all of these guards that are like legitimately 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.920 athletic matchups for this team. Steph Cassell got to the 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.400 basket at will in this game, twenty two points on 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:50.960 nine for sixteen shooting. He had some struggles with turnovers specifically. 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.480 I thought him and Dylan Harper were both a little 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:55.960 sloppy with their handle out on the perimeter. They were 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.040 losing control the handle getting picked. Dylan Harper in particular, 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.440 were struggling with Ja dub in terms of just how 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:03.000 long his arms were when he was trying to make 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:05.400 moves to go around him. Uh. But it was also 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.200 the cross court passes specifically Steph Castle, I think he had. 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:10.320 I think he might have had three turnovers in this 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.880 game on uh on cross court passes. And a big 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:17.600 part of that is just you know, uh, him learning 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.080 the lesson. Right. He's a young basketball player. He's going 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.040 to continue to get better. But when you look at 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.400 the baseline physical traits there, the dudes built like a 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.080 truck and he's like six six sixty seven and No. 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.840 One can keep him in front, always plays off two feet, 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.480 so he's always winning the leverage battle on the ground. 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.240 And the dude is just a really good finisher in 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.880 that short in that short range and at the basket. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.480 That's like a real physical problem. Devin Vessel, I thought, 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.920 had some really nice one on one reps against Shay. 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.600 He's got long arms. I've seen this over the years 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.120 with these kinds of guys, whether it's Nikhil Alexander Walker, 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.800 it's like uh Karius Lavertz another one of those guys. 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:54.760 Devin Vessel is one of those guys. Those guys that 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:59.040 are like six' five six,' six pretty lanky and. Very, 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.560 quick laterally those are the dudes that do the very Best. 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:06.000 On shay they're the guys that can actually beat him 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.120 to spots a. Little, Bit again, shay's literally in, my 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:10.880 opinion the second best player in the world. Right now 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.200 not trying to say that this, dude's guardable but the, 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.960 point is the kinds of dudes that can make him 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.960 work harder are the dudes in that kind of. Physical 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.320 build And the spurs just have a bunch of. Those 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.240 dudes and you Look At dylan harper and it's another big, 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.480 athletic guard and you look At deeron fox and it's 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.720 another super fast guard with some, good length and it's 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:33.880 like they just have everything you need to Compliment what 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:35.760 Victor wiman. Yama DOES and i thought there was some 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:39.040 really impressive offensive stuff all. Night long Deer and fox 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.560 continued to get, dribble penetration took care of the basketball, 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.440 all night hit plenty of jump shots that felt like 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.120 huge breaths of fresh air For The san. Antonio offense 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:51.760 he only had one. Turnover Tonight devin vessel huge shots 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:55.120 in that, second half massive momentum shots that play where 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.440 the blob got blown UP to j dub and they 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.520 move it down the Floor And devin vasseil hits that 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.360 three on the. Right wing that was, a massive massive 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.199 shot in. This GAME and i think it's, You know 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:07.320 JACKSON and i were talking a little bit about this 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:11.679 before we went on, the, air like, you know with 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.320 How Good steph castle looks and with how this team, 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.800 is progressing maybe they're not the, honest team, you know 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:20.359 like maybe they're not the team that needs to be 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.280 looking to make that aggressive of, a move but maybe 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.320 they are the team that needs to make some sort 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.280 of aggressive move this season to bring in something to 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:31.560 try to make a better attempt to win. RIGHT now 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:33.679 i don't know if that's like the if they're Like 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:35.679 The Michael porter. Junior team are they the team, that, 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:39.560 goes hey We Upgrade harrison Barnes To Michael. PORTER junior 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.600 a better, defensive rebounder a better secondary, rim protector a 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.440 guy who's been in a lot of big games over 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:48.440 the last, three seasons a guy who like legitimately is 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:52.760 a microwave scorer and a like dead eye awesome spot. 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:54.800 Up SHOOTER like i don't know if that's the direction 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:56.920 they look, to go is to try to bolster things 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:58.920 with some sort of move to, Win now because all of, 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:00.800 a sudden you're the third, or best third or fourth 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.080 best team in. The league you're you're staring down the 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:07.640 barrel of like a true real opportunity here to try 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:09.560 to make a run IN this nba, Playoff run, and 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:13.480 man what A huge there are these moments that happen 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.720 IN an nba history where you can feel like something's 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:21.080 like a real shift, is occurring and there's been a 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.440 couple of those With the spurs, this season and like, 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:25.760 You Know bill simmons always has talked. About this he's 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:27.480 always talked about, you know when you talk about, young 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:30.280 teams they always end up somehow, being ready like a 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:32.639 year before you think they're going to be Able TO 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.200 and i made that mistake. THIS season i, was, like yeah, 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.000 you KNOW like i believe In the, spurs ROSTER but 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:38.520 i don't think it's. THIS year i think it's like 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:40.640 next year or the. Year after and, it's like here, 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:44.560 They are they're ready. Right now and, You know wenby 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:46.959 goes on and goes out an opening night and just 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:50.280 like Completely Humiliates anthony davis for the world. To see 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.200 they show Up In los Angeles against lakers In The 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:55.520 Cup corner finals and beat the shit out. Of them 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:57.640 and then they Go to vegas and they go toe 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.000 to toe WITH what i think is one of the 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.680 greatest teams ever assembled in the history OF, the nba 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.239 and they beat them in a. Big game in, This 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:08.600 spot victor is the game breaking talent that makes the whole. Thing, 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:11.960 happen literally they, were. Dead guys they were dead on 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:15.760 arrival forty nine to. Thirty three after They get wemby 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:17.480 comes in to start the, second quarter goes on a 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:20.000 nine to. Two run he checks Out the thunder immediately 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:22.719 going a fourteen to. Two run they. Were dead wemby 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.800 just GAVE, him cpr brought him right back, to life 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:27.960 and then they came out and played an awesome half 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:29.680 there in the. Second half so we kind of fun 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:33.600 stuff down the, stretch too before we. Move on the 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.760 guys on the broadcast did a really nice job calling, 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:39.840 this OUT and i think in General The Amazon prime 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:43.399 prime broadcast has, been fantastic both the studio stuff and 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:44.879 the stuff on. The court they just they just do 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:47.479 an awesome job breaking the. Game down but there were 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:51.080 several things the broadcast was. Calling out wemby on the 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.399 ball on, the inbounder which was a really. Important piece 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:57.120 they actually Forced the thunder to burn a time out 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:00.880