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Speaker 1: at the volume heavy Saturday, everybody. Hope all of you
Speaker 1: guys are having a great weekend so far. Well, that
Speaker 1: was absolute cinema tonight as we got to see Victor
Speaker 1: women Yama return against the San Antonio Spurs and what
Speaker 1: ended up being a game that lived up to the billing,
Speaker 1: one of the more entertaining games we've caught so far
Speaker 1: in this regular season. I cannot wait to dive into
Speaker 1: all the different aspects of that game. And then also
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Speaker 1: I was super super excited. As I had been watching
Speaker 1: the Spurs over the course of the last couple of
Speaker 1: like really about a month now. I was really excited
Speaker 1: in the big picture about seeing the combination of what
Speaker 1: was a very successful offense. I talked about this after
Speaker 1: the Spurs beat the Lakers, that everything they did to
Speaker 1: the Lakers was what they had been doing to everybody
Speaker 1: for a month. I didn't want to make it like oh,
Speaker 1: about the Lakers and their weaknesses and whether or not
Speaker 1: they showed up for a big game. I wanted to
Speaker 1: call attention to the fact that, like, yeah, like Steph
Speaker 1: Castle and deren Fox have been beating people off the
Speaker 1: dribble like the all season, you know, and especially since
Speaker 1: Darreon Fox came back. They've been shooting the three ball
Speaker 1: extremely well. Over the course of this stretch. They'd built
Speaker 1: out this offense built on dribble pay penetration and kickouts
Speaker 1: getting out in transition that was super successful. Keldon Johnson
Speaker 1: is a dominant rebounder and driving the basketball as a
Speaker 1: bullyball guy, and all these different trends that they had
Speaker 1: started to show with their offense that were consistent. Opponent
Speaker 1: two opponent good team bad team. They were doing it
Speaker 1: to everybody, and I really wanted to see the combination
Speaker 1: of both the offensive level that they had reached with
Speaker 1: dearon Fox, as well as just all that scrappy athleticism
Speaker 1: on the perimeter. All those guards are big and fast
Speaker 1: and strong, and they compete and they play hard on defense,
Speaker 1: and I just wanted to see those dudes combined with
Speaker 1: what I believe is the greatest game breaking defensive talent
Speaker 1: the game of basketball has ever seen. And so I
Speaker 1: wanted to see that in the big picture. And I
Speaker 1: had already kind of bought into San Antonio I talked
Speaker 1: about after the Lakers game. I viewed them firmly in
Speaker 1: that same grouping there with the Lakers in Minnesota. Jackson
Speaker 1: and I were talking about it through text during the game.
Speaker 1: I don't see any case for either of those teams
Speaker 1: over San Antonio. At this point, you could argue there
Speaker 1: right now the third or fourth best contender in the
Speaker 1: entire NBA. I've been buying all this spurstock over the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, and then you look at this
Speaker 1: matchup with Oklahoma City and it's like, you know, Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City had been so dominant and so successful over the
Speaker 1: course of this season. You're almost just hoping they compete, right, Like,
Speaker 1: for me, I was mainly looking at it like man
Speaker 1: reincorporating Wemby's gonna be kind of funky for the offense,
Speaker 1: like it can be a rhythm disruptor. I wonder if
Speaker 1: it's more just I want to see what they look
Speaker 1: like on defense in this game. Screw all that they won.
Speaker 1: They went out there and they beat the thunder tonight.
Speaker 1: And you know, one of the things I want to
Speaker 1: call attention to before we start digging into some of
Speaker 1: the details, one of the most underrated elements behind a
Speaker 1: true superstar talent in the NBA is the ability to
Speaker 1: elevate your teammates, right, And there's a lot of different
Speaker 1: ways that that can manifest. And you know, so for instance,
Speaker 1: on offense, that can be by creating advantages, right like
Speaker 1: Jokic and Lebron and Luca and Chris Paul and all
Speaker 1: the great passers in NBA history have elevated their teammates
Speaker 1: through creating advantages by making easier offensive opportunities, you know,
Speaker 1: or like Tim Duncan and some of the greatest defensive
Speaker 1: anchors in NBA history, they can elevate their teammates by
Speaker 1: making their defensive jobs easier, right, But one of the
Speaker 1: underrated elements for all of those guys is instilling confidence.
Speaker 1: The Spurs went out there and they didn't use one
Speaker 1: b in the first quarter, and a lot of things
Speaker 1: went wrong for them. You know, there's an adjustment period.
Speaker 1: It's such a talk about going from one of the
Speaker 1: basement defenses in the NBA, the Lakers, to like maybe
Speaker 1: the best defense in the history of the NBA in
Speaker 1: the thunder tonight. It was clearly an adjustment for them.
Speaker 1: Harrison Barnes a little rushed on those three pointers. I
Speaker 1: think give missed six of them in his first shift.
Speaker 1: You know, like that's a pretty rough start, right. Steph
Speaker 1: Castle had some really bad turnovers. Darreon Fox was taking
Speaker 1: some bad shots, like the cross court passes that you
Speaker 1: can get away with against other teams, you can't get
Speaker 1: away with against Oklahoma City, and they got killed. They
Speaker 1: remindus twenty three in the first half with Victor wem
Speaker 1: Minyama off the floor. But what happened was is Victor
Speaker 1: comes in to start the first or the second quarter,
Speaker 1: goes on a massive run, gets them back in the game.
Speaker 1: Checks out, they fall apart again in the middle of
Speaker 1: that second quarter. Wenby comes in to end the first
Speaker 1: half and takes them on another run to get them
Speaker 1: back within three. And so what happens all those dudes.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, It's like, hey, all that trashketball
Speaker 1: you were playing to start the game, none of it
Speaker 1: matters anymore. It's forty nine to forty six, check ball.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of basketball left. And the starting
Speaker 1: group came out to start that second half with a
Speaker 1: completely different set of energy and intensity, and they were
Speaker 1: ready in a way that they weren't to start that game.
Speaker 1: That is confidence in belief that was in instilled in
Speaker 1: them by their star Darren Fox. Came out immediately started
Speaker 1: making plays in pick and roll and driving the basket
Speaker 1: to start the second half. The defense, the level of
Speaker 1: intensity and the scrappiness and the flying around in rotation
Speaker 1: and the digging down on drives and all that stuff
Speaker 1: from the Spurs defense shot up like a rocket in
Speaker 1: that second half, and they were able to stay in
Speaker 1: the game. They obviously weren't going to continue to outscore
Speaker 1: the Thunder by twenty points per seven minutes when they
Speaker 1: got into the second half, they were gonna need their
Speaker 1: other lineups to find a way to succeed, and they did.
Speaker 1: And I give Wemby a ton of credit for that,
Speaker 1: just in the sense that like he instilled them, he
Speaker 1: erased all their mistakes and instilled in them a sense
Speaker 1: of belief and confidence. And those dudes came out and
Speaker 1: played an awesome half there in that second half. And
Speaker 1: you know, again, fundamentally, what makes this whole thing interesting
Speaker 1: is that Wenby is a game breaking defensive talent. What
Speaker 1: that means is he is so transcendently great at what
Speaker 1: he does being rangy and protecting the rim that it
Speaker 1: breaks what opponents do. So I've talked about this a
Speaker 1: lot this season. There have been three offenses that have
Speaker 1: separated from the pack in the league. In the half court, okay,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of margin. You can you can do
Speaker 1: damage on the offensive glass, you can do damage in transition.
Speaker 1: But when you look at the strict job of like
Speaker 1: your five dudes are back on defense, my five dudes
Speaker 1: are up on offense. We have a you know, seventeen
Speaker 1: seconds left on the shot clock. We got to find
Speaker 1: a way to score against you. When you're set and
Speaker 1: in front of us there's three teams that have separated
Speaker 1: themselves from the pack, and it's the Denver Nuggets, the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers, and the Oklahoma City Thunder. Interesting because
Speaker 1: this is not the Thunder team from years past that
Speaker 1: didn't have that same level of like confidence and you know,
Speaker 1: separation from the rest of the league in terms of
Speaker 1: their half court offense. They've been killing teams in those
Speaker 1: slow down half court situations this year, even though they
Speaker 1: also obviously have this devastating defense to transition attack right
Speaker 1: getting points off of turnovers. But we got to see
Speaker 1: an offense that has been slicing and dicing everybody this season.
Speaker 1: The relentless drives of AJ Mitchell, the relentless drives of
Speaker 1: Shake Kills with Alexander, the relentless drives of Jalen Williams
Speaker 1: since he come back. Jalen Williams drives per game or
Speaker 1: like twenty percent up year over year, or his shot
Speaker 1: attempts in the restricted area per game, like he's been
Speaker 1: getting to the basket like a madman since he came back.
Speaker 1: That's the fundamental entry point that they take advantage of
Speaker 1: every time they're attacking on offense. And then from there
Speaker 1: they've been one of the top five unguarded catch and
Speaker 1: shoot three point shooting teams in the league. And they
Speaker 1: move them all extremely well. They're extremely connected. They're great
Speaker 1: at using their vertical spacers, and so it's all dribble
Speaker 1: drive and kick or dribble drive and lob and they
Speaker 1: use really good relocations and cuts to get really high
Speaker 1: quality looks out of their drives. Right well, Victor breaks
Speaker 1: that because he shuts off the damn rint. I need
Speaker 1: to go back and look at the film to make
Speaker 1: one hundred percent sure, but if my count is correct,
Speaker 1: I had them at three shot attempts at the rim
Speaker 1: in the entire time that Victor wemen Yama was on
Speaker 1: the court tonight. There was a shay layup in the
Speaker 1: early second half where like mid third quarter, where he
Speaker 1: toasted it, then out the dribble got to a right
Speaker 1: handed layup and Wemby was right there. He barely missed
Speaker 1: it as he came across just to it came across
Speaker 1: the lane just to split second late. There was one.
Speaker 1: Because I want to dig into this a little bit,
Speaker 1: there were some different ways that the thunder tried to
Speaker 1: attack the Wemby problem, but one of the ways that
Speaker 1: they had some success is they put Chet in the
Speaker 1: strong side corner and there's some basic defensive principles that
Speaker 1: make it hard to help in that situation. So JDub
Speaker 1: was at the left wing and JDub was looking to drive,
Speaker 1: and Chet was in the strong side corner and Wemby
Speaker 1: was there, and it was just a position where Wemby
Speaker 1: was unwilling to help from Jadub was able to get
Speaker 1: all the way to the basket for a layup on
Speaker 1: that one. And then the playing crunch time where Shay
Speaker 1: hit like six counter moves to get past his man
Speaker 1: and then Wenby came flying over and he dropped it
Speaker 1: off to Chet and Chet drew the foul. Other than that,
Speaker 1: they didn't even want to go in there for obvious reasons.
Speaker 1: That's a game breaking defensive talent. When you take one
Speaker 1: of the prolific driving the basketball teams in the league
Speaker 1: and turn them into almost purely an off the dribble
Speaker 1: jump shooting team in crunch time. That's the type of
Speaker 1: game breaking defensive talent that Wenby was. So then we
Speaker 1: look at how Ocase tries to attack it. It's like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: what if we try to bring Wenby up into the action.
Speaker 1: If we bring him up into the action, maybe we
Speaker 1: can get him away from the rim. And they do,
Speaker 1: and it's like a chet ball screen up top, and
Speaker 1: they try rescreening a few times, and what happens. Wemby
Speaker 1: ends up switching out onto Shay. Shake gets a decent
Speaker 1: look at a catch and shoot three, but Wemby's close
Speaker 1: out is so ridiculous because of his arms that Shay
Speaker 1: has to shoot a moon ball that goes like six
Speaker 1: or seven feet higher at the top of its arc
Speaker 1: than any of his other three point shots and he
Speaker 1: misses it. And it's like then from that point on,
Speaker 1: they didn't break one be into the action anymore because
Speaker 1: no one wants to shoot over him from the perimeter.
Speaker 1: So they're like, okay, well what if we work from
Speaker 1: the mid range, And they were able to score a
Speaker 1: few times from there, right like Shae hit a little
Speaker 1: step back jumper over steph Castle in the left baseline.
Speaker 1: There was another one where I think it was Devin
Speaker 1: Vessel came over and doubled where Shay was working right
Speaker 1: around the foul line and Wenby was underneath the basket.
Speaker 1: So they weren't looking to drive, but they sent a
Speaker 1: help from the right wing off of j Dub, and
Speaker 1: Shay pitched it back and JDub ended up hitting a
Speaker 1: catch and shoot three off of the right wing, And
Speaker 1: so that was the gist of their offense down the
Speaker 1: stretch was like Shay working in the mid range taking
Speaker 1: really tough, contested jump shots because they didn't want to
Speaker 1: drive because Wemby was down there, and they didn't want
Speaker 1: to bring Wemby into the action because he's too difficult
Speaker 1: to shoot over if he's in the action. That's game
Speaker 1: breaking defensive talent. And this is where we have to
Speaker 1: start looking at the other parts of this Spurs roster,
Speaker 1: because this is what makes them so unique. And like,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Do I think the Spurs are gonna
Speaker 1: go beat Oklahoma City in a seven game series this year?
Speaker 1: It's way too early to say that Oklahoma City has
Speaker 1: clearly demonstrated themselves to be a better basketball team this year.
Speaker 1: Them losing tonight is not a referendum on everything they've
Speaker 1: accomplished this season. They still are the runaway championship favorites.
Speaker 1: I personally would be surprised if they're not hoisting the
Speaker 1: trophy when we get to mid June. But looking at
Speaker 1: this matchup both as an upset threat this season and
Speaker 1: most importantly as the only hope for the rest of
Speaker 1: the NBA when we talk about teams that could compete
Speaker 1: with the Thunder in this era, as they are staring
Speaker 1: down the barrel of potentially like three more first round
Speaker 1: picks this season, as they continue to load up, as
Speaker 1: Chet continues to get better, as jadeb continues to get better,
Speaker 1: this team is not going anywhere, and the league, in
Speaker 1: terms of intrigue, needs a team that can go toe
Speaker 1: to toe with these guys. And one of the specific
Speaker 1: things about the Spurs and the way they're constructed that
Speaker 1: has me looking at them as a real threat against
Speaker 1: the Thunder over the course of the next you know,
Speaker 1: three to five years is it's the combination of Wemby
Speaker 1: as this game breaking, paint, shutting down defensive weapon, but
Speaker 1: also the lanky, athletic guards that have the strength to
Speaker 1: hold up on the ball and that can get great
Speaker 1: contests on those shots. There were a lot of missed
Speaker 1: pull up jumpers in this game. Shay was one for
Speaker 1: seven from three. You know, this is the thing Shay's
Speaker 1: been shooting, you know, over forty percent from three. This season,
Speaker 1: he's been deadly on his step back three. He's been
Speaker 1: shooting over fifty five percent on pull up twos inside
Speaker 1: of seventeen feet. Right. Here's the thing, though, You get
Speaker 1: a longer, better athlete on the ball, and you give
Speaker 1: that guy the leeway to know, like, hey, dude, if
Speaker 1: you get beat off the dribble, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: It's Victor webin Yama back there. Right. That allows that
Speaker 1: defender to be a little less on their heels, a
Speaker 1: little bit more on their toes. They're a little bit
Speaker 1: more on their toes, and they're a better athlete than
Speaker 1: some of these other guards that the under had been
Speaker 1: going against. That's a substantially better contest. The whole point
Speaker 1: is that math game can tilt in your favor. If
Speaker 1: those short twos go from fifty five percent to forty percent,
Speaker 1: and if those threes go from forty five percent to
Speaker 1: one for seven, or you know, in a larger sample
Speaker 1: something closer to thirty thirty five percent, that's when the
Speaker 1: math can start to tilt heavy in your favor. And
Speaker 1: that's what makes this particular team construct such an interesting
Speaker 1: build to compete against the San Antonios or to compete
Speaker 1: against the Oklahoma City Thunder. It's that combination of that
Speaker 1: game breaking defensive talent on the back line and you've
Speaker 1: just got all of these guards that are like legitimately
Speaker 1: athletic matchups for this team. Steph Cassell got to the
Speaker 1: basket at will in this game, twenty two points on
Speaker 1: nine for sixteen shooting. He had some struggles with turnovers specifically.
Speaker 1: I thought him and Dylan Harper were both a little
Speaker 1: sloppy with their handle out on the perimeter. They were
Speaker 1: losing control the handle getting picked. Dylan Harper in particular,
Speaker 1: were struggling with Ja dub in terms of just how
Speaker 1: long his arms were when he was trying to make
Speaker 1: moves to go around him. Uh. But it was also
Speaker 1: the cross court passes specifically Steph Castle, I think he had.
Speaker 1: I think he might have had three turnovers in this
Speaker 1: game on uh on cross court passes. And a big
Speaker 1: part of that is just you know, uh, him learning
Speaker 1: the lesson. Right. He's a young basketball player. He's going
Speaker 1: to continue to get better. But when you look at
Speaker 1: the baseline physical traits there, the dudes built like a
Speaker 1: truck and he's like six six sixty seven and No.
Speaker 1: One can keep him in front, always plays off two feet,
Speaker 1: so he's always winning the leverage battle on the ground.
Speaker 1: And the dude is just a really good finisher in
Speaker 1: that short in that short range and at the basket.
Speaker 1: That's like a real physical problem. Devin Vessel, I thought,
Speaker 1: had some really nice one on one reps against Shay.
Speaker 1: He's got long arms. I've seen this over the years
Speaker 1: with these kinds of guys, whether it's Nikhil Alexander Walker,
Speaker 1: it's like uh Karius Lavertz another one of those guys.
Speaker 1: Devin Vessel is one of those guys. Those guys that
Speaker 1: are like six' five six,' six pretty lanky and. Very,
Speaker 1: quick laterally those are the dudes that do the very Best.
Speaker 1: On shay they're the guys that can actually beat him
Speaker 1: to spots a. Little, Bit again, shay's literally in, my
Speaker 1: opinion the second best player in the world. Right now
Speaker 1: not trying to say that this, dude's guardable but the,
Speaker 1: point is the kinds of dudes that can make him
Speaker 1: work harder are the dudes in that kind of. Physical
Speaker 1: build And the spurs just have a bunch of. Those
Speaker 1: dudes and you Look At dylan harper and it's another big,
Speaker 1: athletic guard and you look At deeron fox and it's
Speaker 1: another super fast guard with some, good length and it's
Speaker 1: like they just have everything you need to Compliment what
Speaker 1: Victor wiman. Yama DOES and i thought there was some
Speaker 1: really impressive offensive stuff all. Night long Deer and fox
Speaker 1: continued to get, dribble penetration took care of the basketball,
Speaker 1: all night hit plenty of jump shots that felt like
Speaker 1: huge breaths of fresh air For The san. Antonio offense
Speaker 1: he only had one. Turnover Tonight devin vessel huge shots
Speaker 1: in that, second half massive momentum shots that play where
Speaker 1: the blob got blown UP to j dub and they
Speaker 1: move it down the Floor And devin vasseil hits that
Speaker 1: three on the. Right wing that was, a massive massive
Speaker 1: shot in. This GAME and i think it's, You know
Speaker 1: JACKSON and i were talking a little bit about this
Speaker 1: before we went on, the, air like, you know with
Speaker 1: How Good steph castle looks and with how this team,
Speaker 1: is progressing maybe they're not the, honest team, you know
Speaker 1: like maybe they're not the team that needs to be
Speaker 1: looking to make that aggressive of, a move but maybe
Speaker 1: they are the team that needs to make some sort
Speaker 1: of aggressive move this season to bring in something to
Speaker 1: try to make a better attempt to win. RIGHT now
Speaker 1: i don't know if that's like the if they're Like
Speaker 1: The Michael porter. Junior team are they the team, that,
Speaker 1: goes hey We Upgrade harrison Barnes To Michael. PORTER junior
Speaker 1: a better, defensive rebounder a better secondary, rim protector a
Speaker 1: guy who's been in a lot of big games over
Speaker 1: the last, three seasons a guy who like legitimately is
Speaker 1: a microwave scorer and a like dead eye awesome spot.
Speaker 1: Up SHOOTER like i don't know if that's the direction
Speaker 1: they look, to go is to try to bolster things
Speaker 1: with some sort of move to, Win now because all of,
Speaker 1: a sudden you're the third, or best third or fourth
Speaker 1: best team in. The league you're you're staring down the
Speaker 1: barrel of like a true real opportunity here to try
Speaker 1: to make a run IN this nba, Playoff run, and
Speaker 1: man what A huge there are these moments that happen
Speaker 1: IN an nba history where you can feel like something's
Speaker 1: like a real shift, is occurring and there's been a
Speaker 1: couple of those With the spurs, this season and like,
Speaker 1: You Know bill simmons always has talked. About this he's
Speaker 1: always talked about, you know when you talk about, young
Speaker 1: teams they always end up somehow, being ready like a
Speaker 1: year before you think they're going to be Able TO
Speaker 1: and i made that mistake. THIS season i, was, like yeah,
Speaker 1: you KNOW like i believe In the, spurs ROSTER but
Speaker 1: i don't think it's. THIS year i think it's like
Speaker 1: next year or the. Year after and, it's like here,
Speaker 1: They are they're ready. Right now and, You know wenby
Speaker 1: goes on and goes out an opening night and just
Speaker 1: like Completely Humiliates anthony davis for the world. To see
Speaker 1: they show Up In los Angeles against lakers In The
Speaker 1: Cup corner finals and beat the shit out. Of them
Speaker 1: and then they Go to vegas and they go toe
Speaker 1: to toe WITH what i think is one of the
Speaker 1: greatest teams ever assembled in the history OF, the nba
Speaker 1: and they beat them in a. Big game in, This
Speaker 1: spot victor is the game breaking talent that makes the whole. Thing,
Speaker 1: happen literally they, were. Dead guys they were dead on
Speaker 1: arrival forty nine to. Thirty three after They get wemby
Speaker 1: comes in to start the, second quarter goes on a
Speaker 1: nine to. Two run he checks Out the thunder immediately
Speaker 1: going a fourteen to. Two run they. Were dead wemby
Speaker 1: just GAVE, him cpr brought him right back, to life
Speaker 1: and then they came out and played an awesome half
Speaker 1: there in the. Second half so we kind of fun
Speaker 1: stuff down the, stretch too before we. Move on the
Speaker 1: guys on the broadcast did a really nice job calling,
Speaker 1: this OUT and i think in General The Amazon prime
Speaker 1: prime broadcast has, been fantastic both the studio stuff and
Speaker 1: the stuff on. The court they just they just do
Speaker 1: an awesome job breaking the. Game down but there were
Speaker 1: several things the broadcast was. Calling out wemby on the
Speaker 1: ball on, the inbounder which was a really. Important piece
Speaker 1: they actually Forced the thunder to burn a time out
Speaker 1: in that sequence down, the stretch which stem prevented okay
Speaker 1: see from really setting up an offensive set when they
Speaker 1: were trying to tie the. Game late i'd also argue
Speaker 1: one of the big kind of like cheat codes there
Speaker 1: down the Stretch was wemby's Seals against chet on. The
Speaker 1: inbounds the one player Where the spurs almost blew it
Speaker 1: was a Player where wemby made. A mistake he grabbed
Speaker 1: the ball as it went through the net and made the,
Speaker 1: inbounds pass which removed him as this easy solution for
Speaker 1: the inbounds and that almost led to, a turnover but
Speaker 1: it was kind of a cheat code, That like okay
Speaker 1: sees this scrappy team full of all these guards that
Speaker 1: can they can cause all this problem flying around with physicality,
Speaker 1: and rotation and, it's, Like well wemby's just ceiling chet
Speaker 1: there and he's got his arm up and it's, you
Speaker 1: know ten feet off the ground when he's, Not jumping
Speaker 1: so all you have to do is just throw it
Speaker 1: up to him and he's going to catch it and
Speaker 1: be able to. Draw foul like it's amazing how much
Speaker 1: he did in this game that just like broke Everything
Speaker 1: That oklahoma city likes. To do, and again like to
Speaker 1: wrap it up before we move On to, nick's magic
Speaker 1: and again we've done nothing but celebrate the thunder like
Speaker 1: two or three times a week for the last couple.
Speaker 1: Of weeks i'm not gonna spend too much time on. THEM
Speaker 1: tonight i still think they're the. CHAMPIONSHIP favorite i don't
Speaker 1: Think the spurs are anything more than just an upset
Speaker 1: Threat Against oklahoma city at this point in. The postseason,
Speaker 1: but like it. Just was it just was an unbelievable
Speaker 1: Performance From Victor wembin yam And, the Spurs and i'm
Speaker 1: buying all the stock. RIGHT now i think they're one
Speaker 1: of the very best teams in. THE league i don't
Speaker 1: think this. Is fluky they are still going To incorporate
Speaker 1: wenby more and more into. The offense and we didn't
Speaker 1: see very Much Of fox wemby pick and roll in
Speaker 1: this game because of obviously the way That the thunder
Speaker 1: Re guarding wenby by constantly having j Dub Or alex caruso.
Speaker 1: On him so you're not gonna see a lot of
Speaker 1: pick and roll there because they're just gonna, switch. It right,
Speaker 1: but like as this team gets more and, more reps
Speaker 1: we're gonna See More fox wemby pick. And roll we're
Speaker 1: gonna see this team continue to build on the defensive
Speaker 1: Foundation that wenby brings to. The table i'm really excited
Speaker 1: to see where this. Is going, and again if You're a,
Speaker 1: thunder fan you saw the ways they tried to, attack
Speaker 1: it trying to work more from the, mid range trying
Speaker 1: to get the defense and rotate out of Doubles of
Speaker 1: shay there at the mid Range. Situating chet that was the.
Speaker 1: Big key they got a Couple of shay got a
Speaker 1: dunk on a big drive late on a Play where
Speaker 1: chet was also situated on the right Wing and wemby
Speaker 1: was kind of glued up, to him And Then jay
Speaker 1: dubb got that one Layup when chet was in the.
Speaker 1: Left CORNER so i think that's a big part, of
Speaker 1: it Like keeping wemby out of that low man position
Speaker 1: as much. As possible but that's the, Chess match Like to,
Speaker 1: WEMBY'S credit i don't know if you guys. Saw it
Speaker 1: did you guys see How much wemby was calling out
Speaker 1: pre switches throughout, That game like he would sit there
Speaker 1: on the baseline and whenever his man would run up
Speaker 1: to the top of, the key he'd point at whoever
Speaker 1: was there on that side of the floor with him and,
Speaker 1: be like you. Got him i'm staying on this corner no.
Speaker 1: Matter what and that's, The, thing, like ultimately there's only
Speaker 1: So Much oklahoma city can do to keep To keep
Speaker 1: wemby away from, the paint and if they can't keep
Speaker 1: him away from, the paint it just turns him into
Speaker 1: a pull up jump, shooting team and thankfully for a,
Speaker 1: thunder fans they happened to be one of the great
Speaker 1: pull up jump shooting teams in. The league but just,
Speaker 1: absolute cinema super. ENTERTAINING game i can't wait to dig more.
Speaker 1: INTO it i just that was just a really fun
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Speaker 1: really impressive performance From the knicks offense in every, conceivable
Speaker 1: way started with their defense to. Transition attack it was
Speaker 1: one of their better transition games of, the season constantly
Speaker 1: running their lanes and throwing kick aheads and Beating the
Speaker 1: magic down. The floor they had thirty two transition points in,
Speaker 1: this game and that's always been When the knicks are at.
Speaker 1: Their best we talked about this last, year too like
Speaker 1: they were relatively low volume, last year but they were
Speaker 1: the second most efficient transition offense in the league last
Speaker 1: year According to synergy when they did run. The floor
Speaker 1: so just ticking up the volume this year, has helped
Speaker 1: and this season their ninth in transition points. Per game
Speaker 1: and then in the, Half, Court Honestly jalen brunson just
Speaker 1: cooked them every single. Which way he did some damage
Speaker 1: and drop, coverage against like like getting downhill and hitting,
Speaker 1: little floaters Or Like Wendell carter junior when he would
Speaker 1: switch out on. To him he got him a couple,
Speaker 1: of times but he was like Torching the magic guards
Speaker 1: all over. The floor one of the big things he
Speaker 1: was doing that was Killing Both Jalen sug's Anthony And
Speaker 1: anthony black was. Rejecting screens this is a, little basic
Speaker 1: like fundamental. Basketball thing if you're a ball handler at,
Speaker 1: any level this is a good lesson for you. To
Speaker 1: learn when guards are chasing over the top, of screens
Speaker 1: there's a basic footwork that, they. Use right so like
Speaker 1: They if i'm like dribbling out, ball screen and let's
Speaker 1: say the ball screen is on my right hand Side
Speaker 1: and i'm in a, high Hesitation like i'm going to
Speaker 1: the Right and i'm getting close to, the screen the
Speaker 1: on ball defender is going to begin a series of
Speaker 1: like footwork to deal with, the screen and a lot
Speaker 1: of cases that's going to be getting that, top foot
Speaker 1: your left foot in, this case for chasing a right
Speaker 1: handed player over a screen going to, the right you're
Speaker 1: gonna get that left foot over the top of the
Speaker 1: top foot of the screener so that you can sidle,
Speaker 1: up along keep chesting up the guard and try to
Speaker 1: beat him over the top of the, screen right or
Speaker 1: at the very least to chase him over the top
Speaker 1: right so that you can stay attached and apply that,
Speaker 1: back pressure which is such a fundamental part of drop. Coverage.
Speaker 1: Defense right but a lot of times what you can
Speaker 1: do in that situation is catch them as they're starting
Speaker 1: to prep to go over the screen by snatching back across.
Speaker 1: Your Body And, JAYLEN brunson, i Think got black with
Speaker 1: this twice and He Got jalen suggs with. It once
Speaker 1: but he just sits with that hand up in, the
Speaker 1: ball up in that right, handed hesitation and then as
Speaker 1: soon as that defender starts to kind of bail on
Speaker 1: him to prep for, the screen he just snatched across,
Speaker 1: his back across his body to his. Left hand and
Speaker 1: then it's like a, double wayman because not only do
Speaker 1: you shed the on, ball defender but the. Screen defender
Speaker 1: the guy who's defending, the screener he's coming up to,
Speaker 1: the level or at least up into, like somewhere preparing
Speaker 1: for a drop coverage on the opposite side of. The
Speaker 1: screen so when you get downhill on, that side you
Speaker 1: can find some real. Driving Lanes and jalen was getting
Speaker 1: to the basket easy with that kind. Of stuff did
Speaker 1: a ton of Damage To. ANTHONY black i Didn't Think.
Speaker 1: Anthony black as Much as i'm A Big anthony, BLACK
Speaker 1: believer i just didn't think he had a particularly good
Speaker 1: defensive Game. Against brunson he kept getting up out of
Speaker 1: his stance and like kind of giving natural Angles and
Speaker 1: brunson was just absolutely killing him in. This one and
Speaker 1: then if he Ever got Tristan to Silver Or, desmond
Speaker 1: bayne his eyes, lit up Or The tyas jones was
Speaker 1: the other guy that he. Was getting anytime he got
Speaker 1: any of, those guys his eyes just lit up and
Speaker 1: he just killed those GUYS in. Iso quickly but he
Speaker 1: did a lot of Damage to Suggs And anthony black in.
Speaker 1: This one forty points on sixteen for twenty. Seven shooting
Speaker 1: just a remarkable Season from jaylen runs and actually his
Speaker 1: highest permanent scoring rate of. His career if you take
Speaker 1: a scoring rate at per thirty, six minutes it's the
Speaker 1: highest mark of his entire career and he's doing it
Speaker 1: on over sixty percent. Trough shooting really impressive. Stuff There
Speaker 1: Carl anthony towns Just Torched Wendell carter junior kind of
Speaker 1: that combination of like the jump shot and his face.
Speaker 1: At footwork he was just getting easy Drives on wendell all.
Speaker 1: Night long he just kind of turn and face and
Speaker 1: you just look at the rim with the ball in,
Speaker 1: the pocket and that would Get we wendell to step. Up.
Speaker 1: Too much he got him with a jab step out
Speaker 1: of the left corner and got a. Big dunk he
Speaker 1: had two big drives on him in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: where he just ripped through to. His right the cat
Speaker 1: just puts your bigs in those weird positions where they
Speaker 1: have to guard. In Space and kat is just such
Speaker 1: a gifted driver of the basketball when his shot is
Speaker 1: like causing that sort of of, you know kind of
Speaker 1: antsy defense from those bigger centers that don't know how
Speaker 1: to guard out on. The perimeter he Absolutely Torched Wendell
Speaker 1: carter junior in. This game so many little wrinkles In
Speaker 1: the knicks, offense tonight Like The Karl Anthony McHale bridge's
Speaker 1: two man game was. Killing it kat had one where
Speaker 1: he threw this beautiful wrap around pass as mkale was
Speaker 1: cutting off of him off of the. Right elbow early in,
Speaker 1: the game they ran a ball Screen where bridges through
Speaker 1: a beautiful little lob Pass to kat right there in.
Speaker 1: The lane we saw a lot of ball Screens Between
Speaker 1: josh Hart And mitchell robinson that were getting some good.
Speaker 1: Looks too kind of a random little wrinkle in their.
Speaker 1: Bench units they have so many little bits of off
Speaker 1: ball movement that helped make things easier. For them like
Speaker 1: there was a play where Og and andob got a
Speaker 1: wide open three in the, right corner where at the
Speaker 1: beginning of, The possession OG's in the. Left corner McHale's
Speaker 1: in the. Right corner they're running action, out top and
Speaker 1: the two guys just decided. To swap they're, just like you,
Speaker 1: know what rather than just, stand still why don't we
Speaker 1: just cross along. The baseline and so the two of
Speaker 1: them just xed along the baseline and The two magic
Speaker 1: defenders were caught ball Watching And og andnobi runs out
Speaker 1: to the. Right corner he's. Wide open he ends up hitting,
Speaker 1: A three and just all of that extra, ball movement
Speaker 1: all of that extra those transition pushes the little bit
Speaker 1: of like, you know motion and variety they've added to.
Speaker 1: Their offense and, THEN honestly i think they're starting to
Speaker 1: benefit from the continuity, as well just from how long
Speaker 1: those guys have all been. Playing together they're just playing
Speaker 1: at a really really. High level five straight wins For,
Speaker 1: the knicks now sole possession of the second seed In,
Speaker 1: the east and an offensive rating of one, twenty two
Speaker 1: which is now the second and best offensive rating in THE,
Speaker 1: entire nba just Behind The denver nuggets and now a
Speaker 1: date With The San antonio Spurs on, tuesday night which
Speaker 1: should be a. Fun ONE and i would imagine at
Speaker 1: That point Victor women yama will be in a little
Speaker 1: bit higher minutes total on the magic front real quickly
Speaker 1: before we get out. Of here they looked really Good
Speaker 1: When jalen suggs was moving well and scoring the. Ball
Speaker 1: well that combo of Him And desmond bane together was
Speaker 1: really causing problems for the, next defense just because they
Speaker 1: were both getting some pretty good like pick and roll
Speaker 1: looks against like traditional kind of drop coverage type. Of
Speaker 1: looks but Then When jalen suggs started to like favor
Speaker 1: that groin injury and he started losing the ability, to
Speaker 1: move That's where palo being so out of rhythm became
Speaker 1: a problem because it was just Like Only desmond bane
Speaker 1: that really could, create anything and it kind of looked
Speaker 1: like a void of offensive talent at. That Point and
Speaker 1: palo's just really far from the best version of himself,
Speaker 1: right now like he's very out, of shape looks out.
Speaker 1: A rhythm every jumper was short off the front of,
Speaker 1: the rim even some of his closer ones to, the
Speaker 1: basket and they just got so many open looks. From
Speaker 1: three it kind of reminded me of some Of those
Speaker 1: magic playoff runs where they just were getting good looks
Speaker 1: from three and couldn't knock. Him down and, You Know
Speaker 1: anthony black is the main guy looking at There like
Speaker 1: i'm A Big anthony, black believer but he's the biggest
Speaker 1: thing standing between him being just like an exciting young
Speaker 1: player and like a foundational piece for this team is
Speaker 1: the stuff that You Know jalen suggs does when he's at,
Speaker 1: his best which is just being a more reliable catch and,
Speaker 1: shoot shooter but good showing overall From the magic in.
Speaker 1: This tournament they just have to figure out a way to.
Speaker 1: Stay healthy one of the problems is all these guys
Speaker 1: that are hurt for them are guys that have a
Speaker 1: history of. Getting hurt franz has been, Hurt before palol
Speaker 1: has been. Hurt Before jalen suggs seems to break down
Speaker 1: every time he starts playing, good basketball and he's had
Speaker 1: a couple of good games in, a row and here
Speaker 1: goes another, groin, injury right and so kind of a
Speaker 1: depressing end to it in, that SENSE but i am
Speaker 1: still a believer in this magic team is you need
Speaker 1: to get healthy and they need a couple of guys
Speaker 1: to pop, as shooters and this thing can come together
Speaker 1: and they can be a. Dangerous team but really Excited
Speaker 1: For nick Spurs on. Tuesday night i'm not one hundred
Speaker 1: percent sure what our schedule is, right NOW but i
Speaker 1: would assume we're going live. That night so for, RIGHT
Speaker 1: now i just planning us going live on YouTube after
Speaker 1: the final buzzer of that Game on. Tuesday night THAT'S
Speaker 1: all i have, for. Tonight guys is always as sincerely
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys for supporting us and supporting. The show
Speaker 1: what a fun night. At basketball that was one of
Speaker 1: those cool moments FOR us nba fans where you can
Speaker 1: feel like the beginning of something special there with the
Speaker 1: rivalry Between the thunder And. The spurs it's going to
Speaker 1: be a, fun. One everybody Enjoy. Your sunday we'll be
Speaker 1: Back on monday morning with our typical. Power rankings episode
Speaker 1: should see a couple of teams. Moving around there should.
Speaker 1: BE fun i will see you, guys then