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Speaker 1: You might notice that I have a different haircut than

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Speaker 1: I did for my last Friday show. That's because I

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Speaker 1: my phone for a couple of hours and next thing

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Speaker 1: you know, there's a new Los Angeles laker coming hand

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Speaker 1: in hand with report from Jovon Buha. That's strongly hints

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Speaker 1: that Russell Westbrook will still be a laker going into

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Speaker 1: training camp next week. Not just a Laker but the

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Speaker 1: Super Interesting. I am not gonna go for very long today,

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Speaker 1: in the semi finals of Eurobasket. I talked about how

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Speaker 1: I thought Dennis Shrewder was an excellent fit for the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks and some specific needs that they had on

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Speaker 1: watch that Dallas Mavericks Video, but they are a isolation

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson, Spencer Dinwoodie and Luca Don Chech. They lost

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Speaker 1: jalen Brunson didn't replace him. I thought Dennis shooter was

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Speaker 1: That automatically makes him a great signing for the Lakers because,

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Speaker 1: don't have enough good basketball players to do anything else. Now,

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Speaker 1: he's got some pretty big weaknesses. Right, he can get

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Speaker 1: pressure is an immensely important aspect of basketball. There are

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Speaker 1: that's your bread and butter. In addition to that, rim pressure,

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Speaker 1: for instance, the Lakers will probably play big most of

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Speaker 1: the season. That means you're gonna see a lot of

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Speaker 1: Damien Jones and Anthony Davis, a lot of Damien Jones

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Speaker 1: If Dennis shooter gets by his man and gets to

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Speaker 1: Dennis shooter is an excellent point of attack defender. He's aggressive,

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Speaker 1: he applies ball pressure, he makes people feel uncomfortable. He's

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Speaker 1: the type of decision making process taking place with Lakers

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Speaker 1: brass right now. It's something I vehemently disagree with. And Look,

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Speaker 1: it might all pay off. Maybe Russ goes to camp

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Speaker 1: rankings today with number nine, the Dallas Mavericks, very interesting

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Speaker 1: team that had a very successful season last year and

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Speaker 1: So let's talk some basketball. The Dallas Mavericks last year

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Speaker 1: went fifty two and thirty. They lost in five kind

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Speaker 1: of ugly, disappointing fashion in the Western Conference finals to

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Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors. Andrew Wiggins gave Luca a nightmare

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Speaker 1: playoff series, the worst playoff series that he's had since

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Speaker 1: he came into this league. UH WE'RE gonna talk a

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Speaker 1: lot about some of the details of that series later

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Speaker 1: on in the show. Um in the regular season there

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Speaker 1: were fourteen and offense and seventh in defense. In this

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Speaker 1: off season the biggest, the two biggest changes from last

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Speaker 1: year's rosters. Obviously they lost jalen Brunson Um to the

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Speaker 1: New York Knicks. Now that that makes this a little

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Speaker 1: bit tough to project moving forward, because the Dallas Mavericks

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Speaker 1: Offensive System is designed on three ball handlers and there's

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Speaker 1: always two on the floor at any given moment and

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Speaker 1: then they might close with all three, but the ideas

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Speaker 1: is they're constantly spelling each other in the rotation and

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Speaker 1: so losing jalen Brunson is a pretty significant loss. Now

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Speaker 1: over in Europe, Dennis Shrewder is playing some of the

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Speaker 1: best basketball of his career for Germany so and there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of Intel out there that he will be

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Speaker 1: picked up by an NBA roster pretty quickly after this

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Speaker 1: tournament over there. So My expectation is that there's a

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Speaker 1: great fit here for both sides between the Dallas Mavericks

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Speaker 1: and Dennis Schroder. First of all, Dallas desperately needs that

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Speaker 1: third ball handler and, second of all, Dennis Schroder in

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Speaker 1: terms of what he could do while he's in Dallas.

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Speaker 1: This is an excellent place to go, especially in a

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Speaker 1: contract year, which obviously is a player who will be

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Speaker 1: signing some form of short, short term deal and needs

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Speaker 1: to prove himself. This is a great place to go

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Speaker 1: to put up numbers because with the way that Dallas's

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Speaker 1: offense is set up, and we're gonna get a lot

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Speaker 1: deeper into that, Dennis is going to be set up

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Speaker 1: to succeed. He's gonna be operating in a lot of

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Speaker 1: and he's going to be asked to run a lot

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Speaker 1: I think there's a really natural fit there and I

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Speaker 1: to an agreement. So I expect someone like Dennis Schroeder

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Speaker 1: But for this exact moment in time they're down to

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Speaker 1: just the two ball handlers with the loss of Jalen Brunson,

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Speaker 1: but they did trade for Christian Wood, losing only players

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Speaker 1: who were not in their rotation during the playoffs and

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Speaker 1: now Christian would. It's tough because he's a super talented

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Speaker 1: forward that can dribble and shoot better than the vast

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Speaker 1: majority of big men that we have in this league

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Speaker 1: and has a great deal of Athleticism, but he's been

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Speaker 1: playing in the losing environments his entire career, and we

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Speaker 1: kind of briefly touched on this topic a lot during

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Speaker 1: this show. But the concept of winning basketball and it's very,

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Speaker 1: very different from just running up and down the floor

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Speaker 1: and scoring. I tell this story all the time, but

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Speaker 1: when I was a freshman in college I was on

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Speaker 1: a really bad team and I averaged sixteen points a game,

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Speaker 1: had a bunch of big scoring nights, but I wasn't

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Speaker 1: a good basketball player. I was just putting up numbers

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Speaker 1: on a bad team. And then my worst statistical season

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Speaker 1: was on the best team I played for, and on

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Speaker 1: that particular team I had to learn how to contribute defensively,

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Speaker 1: learn how to contribute in a spot up role, learn

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Speaker 1: how to contribute by running plays correctly and guarding the

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Speaker 1: other team's best player. It was a completely different type

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Speaker 1: in Duco, even though I was more skilled, even though

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Speaker 1: I was older, even though it was more physically developed

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Speaker 1: at that point. It's just different doing it in a

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Speaker 1: over the course of the show, when we get to

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Speaker 1: best I can to guess how Christian would will impact

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Speaker 1: winning within this winning concept, because it probably won't look

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Speaker 1: to my buddy rush Um, who covers the rockets, earlier

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Speaker 1: today and he works for ball his life as well,

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Speaker 1: and he was telling me like like the kinds of

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Speaker 1: shots he was taken. They were using him like Kevin Durant,

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Speaker 1: like flying off the screens or bringing the ball up

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Speaker 1: the floor, taking step back threes. UH, he actually shot

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Speaker 1: thirty eight percent on step back three or on off

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Speaker 1: the dribble threes last year, on over one attempt per game.

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Speaker 1: Chances are he's not gonna be taking a lot of

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Speaker 1: those types of shots with Dallas. So that those are

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Speaker 1: will get into that further in the show. Um, they

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Speaker 1: be much of a factor this season. Don't know a

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Speaker 1: if he does get playing time, I'll update I'll update

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Speaker 1: you guys on that. And then they signed Javale mcghee.

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Speaker 1: Um again. I covered Javale McGee when he was with

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Speaker 1: different in the sense that he's very up and down.

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Speaker 1: Javale McGee's highs are incredibly high, like incredible dunks. Um

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Speaker 1: a really gifted rollman and who has good hands, surprisingly

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Speaker 1: he can be a real problem for people underneath the

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Speaker 1: in the China shop. It's not the right word. He's

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Speaker 1: kind of just like all over the place, like it's

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Speaker 1: get himself out of position. Offensively, he'll freelance every once

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Speaker 1: the Javal McGee experience. But the bottom line is he's

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Speaker 1: rim on the other. Totally fine and serviceable in a

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Speaker 1: backup center role. The big thing that I like specifically

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Speaker 1: there for this defense is last year Dallas's defense didn't

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Speaker 1: really have a traditional rim protector and they had a

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Speaker 1: top ten defense in spite of that. Now there are

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Speaker 1: some other factors at play. That will be interesting to

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Speaker 1: see how their defense looks this year. But Javale McGee

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Speaker 1: at least gives Jason Kidd an option as a rim

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Speaker 1: protecting center that he did not have in previous years.

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Speaker 1: And then, like I said, Dennis Roder is the guy

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Speaker 1: we get closer to camp. So their depth chart right now,

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Speaker 1: as it looks at the guard, Luca, I guess you

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Speaker 1: are who you can guard, but Luca can't really guard

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Speaker 1: players in the post, but that's about it. Uh, Luca,

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Speaker 1: Don Che, Spencer, dinwoodie Reggie Bullock and Frank nickelle Ni Kina, Nilakina,

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Speaker 1: I think I pronounced that correctly. Uh. He played a

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Speaker 1: his inability to knock down jump shots has always been

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Speaker 1: Um on the wings, Tim Hardaway Jr should theoretically be

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Speaker 1: back from injury this year. Dorian Finney Smith, who's turned

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Speaker 1: then Davis Paritans, who is an incredibly streaky three point

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Speaker 1: use him a little bit as a wing this year.

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Speaker 1: Javale McGee, Dwight Powell and Maxi Kleiba. So on offense,

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Speaker 1: this is an extremely modern pick and roll and matchup

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Speaker 1: attacking offense. I talked about this yesterday with the Miami Heat.

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Speaker 1: But Um, you know, your offensive process and your defensive

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Speaker 1: of trouble when you try to inflict your ideologies on

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00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: a team if that's not their individual strengths. Right Um,

644
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 1: but in terms in a vacuum, if I could pick

645
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 1: my personnel, the two systems that I believe the most

646
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: in in terms of what translates best to the postseason are,

647
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: on defense, switching everything, which we talked about yesterday with Miami,

648
00:33:55,520 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 1: and on offense, five out, driving kick and the more principle. There, though,

649
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 1: is advantage creation with a live dribble. Uh. The main

650
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: reason why I believe so much in that is that

651
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,879
Speaker 1: when you get into the postseason, and we've talked about

652
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: this a ton on the show, but your your sets

653
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: don't seem to function as well as they do in

654
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: the regular season. Not a big shock. There's a whole

655
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 1: lot of scouting, you become deeply familiar with your opponent

656
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 1: over the course of the two weeks of the playoffs

657
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: series and Um, teams will find a way to get

658
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: in front of your sets. Also, teams tend to switch

659
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: more in the postseason, which allows them to get in

660
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 1: front of screening actions. So generally speaking, in the playoffs

661
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: it does become about live dribble advantage creation. That's why

662
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:42,280
Speaker 1: a team like Dallas, who, like was fourteenth and offense

663
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: in the regular season because they didn't get as many

664
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,760
Speaker 1: easy shots from running sets and things along those lines,

665
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:53,320
Speaker 1: that offense translated better to the postseason and that's a

666
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,399
Speaker 1: huge part of why they were as successful as they

667
00:34:55,400 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: were and at times looked unguardable, especially against Phoenix Um

668
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: and against Utah. So they they don't like when we

669
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: look at their numbers there, and off screen actions in

670
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,359
Speaker 1: terms of total frequency, eighteenth and dribble handoffs twenty four

671
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 1: and cutting. They're not running the offenses that you see

672
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 1: from Golden State in Miami with a ton of motion

673
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 1: and a ton of screens and a ton of dribble handoffs.

674
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 1: That's just not what you're gonna get from the Dallas Mavericks.

675
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 1: They were a brute force, spread you out, high, peak

676
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 1: and roll at isolation offense and they run it with

677
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: three creators. They it's your turn, my turn. One Guy

678
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: subs out, another guy comes in and it's just more

679
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 1: and more of the same, and it is a proven

680
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: playoff offense. I've kind of joked that this team reminds

681
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 1: me a lot of the two thousand eighteen rockets. They

682
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 1: don't switch as much on defense as the rockets did,

683
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 1: but that's kind of like their approach. It's supermodern, can

684
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 1: get ugly at times. It's not the most systhetically appealing basketball,

685
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: especially to basketball purists who like to see passing in

686
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 1: ball movement, but you can't deny its effect of nous.

687
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: Um I mentioned how they work with the three shot

688
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: creators and kind of rotate them in and out. Off

689
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,719
Speaker 1: of that, it's all play finishers. They either have shooters

690
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:11,800
Speaker 1: or roll men, you know with Dorian Phinney Smith and

691
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 1: Reggie Bullock, baxically, but you know Davis Bare Time's they're

692
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: all spotting up looking to shoot, but then they've got,

693
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,839
Speaker 1: you know, Dwight Powell rolling hard to the rim. They've

694
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: added two additional role men this year, um in Javale

695
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: McGee and Christian would, and when we get to the

696
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 1: numbers you'll see they weren't as good a pick and

697
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,319
Speaker 1: roll team as they were an isolation team. Improving with

698
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 1: their role men, I think, will open some things up

699
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:34,879
Speaker 1: for them and pick and roll make them a little

700
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 1: bit more versatile on that front. Um the the advantages

701
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 1: that this type of offense creates, like there's there's a

702
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,360
Speaker 1: reason why it translates well to the postseason. You know,

703
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 1: I can any coach can coach their way ahead of

704
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,800
Speaker 1: an offense. Right, like if you drill things enough, especially

705
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: in a playoff series, and you really get good at

706
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 1: covering the specific type of sets and concepts that a

707
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 1: team likes to run, you can get in front. But

708
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 1: if it's just pick and roll or just isolation, it

709
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,240
Speaker 1: becomes a simple question of picking your poison. As a defense,

710
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 1: you can either opt to send extra defensive attention to

711
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 1: the ball handler and make him beat you with the pass,

712
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: or if you play off and stay home, it's about

713
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: that person in their ability to make shots. In that

714
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 1: isolation or in that pick and roll. It becomes less

715
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: about scheme and more about personnel, and that's a big

716
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: part of why it translates to the postseason. It is.

717
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 1: There is no magic fix for isolation with Luca Don chees.

718
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 1: If he's going to pick on your weakest defender, it's

719
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: not like you can coach up that defender to do

720
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 1: better and better. I mean you might be able to

721
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: get him to do a little bit better over repetition

722
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 1: in the series. But the truth of the matter is,

723
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 1: if it's he's too small to guard Luca, he's too

724
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: small to guard Luca and there's no coaching around that

725
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: beyond throwing extra defender is and Luca happens to be

726
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 1: one of the best passers in basketball. So again, like

727
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: I I appreciate esthetically appealing basketball. I appreciate, you know,

728
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:14,280
Speaker 1: ball movement and passing and and and that team game

729
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:17,359
Speaker 1: that everyone, that a lot of old fashioned basketball fans love.

730
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day this works and

731
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: you have to acknowledge it and find the beauty in

732
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 1: the process. Like I talk a lot about skill on

733
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 1: this show, specifically like little tips and tricks within ball

734
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,839
Speaker 1: handling and post ups in terms of, you know, how

735
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,439
Speaker 1: to sell each move or body positioning and things like that.

736
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 1: Find beauty in that from their offense and you'll learn

737
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: to enjoy that a lot more. The manner in which Spencer,

738
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 1: Dinwittie and Luca done do what they do in terms

739
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:49,839
Speaker 1: of their offensive skill set, to me is very fascinating.

740
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 1: One of the downsides to their specific style of offense.

741
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: There you know, kind of heliocentric. Uh advantage creation offense

742
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 1: is their role players can lose confidence from time to time.

743
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: They're very they're specialists, you know. Um, they don't have

744
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,760
Speaker 1: a ton of guys on their team that can dribble,

745
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: pass and shoot. Um, there's just a lot of guys

746
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: that can either shoot or roll hard to the rim.

747
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: But they're not they don't get a lot of the

748
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: multiple driving kicks system type stuff that can get a

749
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: team in rotation a lot. And more often than not

750
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 1: they walk the ball up the floor, Cross half court

751
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 1: at Sixteen seconds, take another four or five seconds to

752
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: get into their pick and roll or to get into

753
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,760
Speaker 1: their isolation, and by the time Luca or Spencer, whoever

754
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 1: it is, makes the pass, there's only like four seconds

755
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: on the shot clock and it's like you're either shooting

756
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,839
Speaker 1: that three or you're taking a one dribble pull up,

757
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 1: or maybe you can kick one more pass to another shooter.

758
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: But they don't. They don't get the multiple driving kick

759
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: possessions that can really get a defense in rotation. That's

760
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 1: one of their weaknesses and as a result, and it's

761
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: a personnel thing, they don't really have the personnel to

762
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 1: do that. But as a result, like you know, look

763
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 1: at the warrior series, Maxie Clee, but his shot stops falling.

764
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: Doesn't have other ways to score, other ways to impact

765
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: the game, so he loses his confidence and the offense

766
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,320
Speaker 1: suffers for it. Like that tends to be the case

767
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: with this type of offense. Is when the role players

768
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 1: are feeling good and knocking down shots, everything's great, but

769
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,839
Speaker 1: when they start missing, it can kind of snowball from there.

770
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: And if you look at that Golden State series, man

771
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: did thinks snowball, especially from the role players. They had

772
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: some really cold shooting stretches that killed them, not the

773
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:31,919
Speaker 1: least of which was that second half of game too,

774
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 1: that they blew Um. So, like I said, twenty seven

775
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 1: off screen actions, eighteenth and dribble handoffs and twenty four

776
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: and cutting in terms of frequencies. So you're not getting

777
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: any of that. It's all io and pick and roll.

778
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: They were fifth in ISO frequency, second in ISO efficiency.

779
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 1: Luca ran six point three isolations per game, which was

780
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:54,280
Speaker 1: second in the League in terms of volume. He also

781
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: had one point one one points per possession, which is amazing.

782
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,879
Speaker 1: There were only two players in the league last year

783
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,879
Speaker 1: that ran at least five ISOS and scored at least

784
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 1: one point one point per possession on them. Take a guess.

785
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: Luca and Kevin Durant. Spencer Dinwoodie also runs about three

786
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: isolations per game and was even more efficient than Luca,

787
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:20,279
Speaker 1: at one point one five points per possession. He's gonna

788
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:22,879
Speaker 1: be slotting up into that secondary creator probably will start

789
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 1: for them this year. There were eight in pick and

790
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: roll frequency in fifth and pick and roll efficiency. Uh

791
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: again that I think that will go up in terms

792
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:36,240
Speaker 1: of volume with the addition of Christian Wooden Javaial McGee,

793
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: because now they just have real role threats. Luca ran

794
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 1: thirteen pick and rolls per game last year, which was

795
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 1: second most in the NBA. He scored zero point nine

796
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,280
Speaker 1: three points per possession, which is only slightly above average.

797
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,799
Speaker 1: Again not having a legitimate role man kind of Dwight

798
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: Pal's an okay Rollman, but not as good as the

799
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 1: two guys they're bringing in. That I think that I

800
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:58,440
Speaker 1: think will open things up for him a little bit

801
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 1: more in that regard. Spe or Din what? He was

802
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: also only slightly above average in pick and roll. Jalen

803
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 1: Brunson really carried them in pick and roll last year

804
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 1: he was in the ninety one percentile and points per possession.

805
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: So with him coming out, obviously you need someone else

806
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:15,800
Speaker 1: in there, hopefully Schroeder, but also the addition of better

807
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: roll men should kind of make up for some of

808
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 1: that loss. They used to post up a lot when

809
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 1: they had Chris Christaps Porzingis on the roster, but they

810
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: ditched that almost entirely after christops left. Luca is really

811
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:28,400
Speaker 1: the only player on the team that will post up

812
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: at this point. He did it about three times per

813
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: game last year and was relatively efficient. Nothing exceptional, but

814
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 1: a little bit above average. Um, Christian wood ransom post

815
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 1: ups with Houston last year. It was slightly above average,

816
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 1: I think, on about two attempts per games. So I'll

817
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 1: be interested to see if they dump it down to

818
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 1: him in the post a little bit. But I I

819
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: doubt it because the League seems to be going away

820
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: from that in general and there's only handful of guys

821
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 1: in the league that could do it really well. Um.

822
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 1: So I think they'll probably use him more in a

823
00:42:55,440 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: perimeter oriented role or as a role man. The efforts

824
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:03,919
Speaker 1: ran in transition less than any team in the entire league.

825
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 1: There the fewest transition possessions. This is about Luca strangling

826
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:13,840
Speaker 1: the pace of the game. Now there's downsides there, because

827
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: when you don't run in transition, you don't get easy

828
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: opportunities that supplement the rest of your offense and, like

829
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 1: we talked about with the Miami Heat, especially when you're

830
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 1: a team that can struggle to score a little bit

831
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: in a half court having, you know, handfuls of possessions

832
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,919
Speaker 1: each quarter where you run out for layups can help

833
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 1: a lot. Now it's about strangling the pace, which is

834
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 1: which disrupts the rhythm of the other team. You know

835
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: you miss a shot, Luca slowly brings the ball up

836
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: the floor and methodically works the clock down and gets

837
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: a good look and it hits something, or one of

838
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:49,839
Speaker 1: his teammates makes a shot. Then you bring it back

839
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: up the floor. It's been so long since you had

840
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: the basketball. The game just feels like it's stuck in

841
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 1: the mud. It makes it hard for offensive players to

842
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: feel comfortable. So that's the upside, but I wouldn't I

843
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:04,280
Speaker 1: wouldn't hate to see, especially with how gifted of passer

844
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 1: Luca is and how gifted a rebounder he is, I

845
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: wouldn't hate to see him do a little bit more

846
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 1: of what Nicola Yoke does, and that's look up the

847
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: floor after the rebounds. Luca can strangle the pace with

848
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: his dribble. That doesn't mean the role players necessarily have

849
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 1: to walk up the court too. I'd like to see

850
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:24,360
Speaker 1: a little bit more of like Dorian Finnie Smith and

851
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: Reggie Bullock sprinting like crazy up the floor, even a

852
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,399
Speaker 1: little Javale McGee. He did this a little bit when

853
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 1: he was with the Lakers, with Lebron throwing passes up

854
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 1: the floor. They're trying to squeeze out a little bit

855
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: more offense and transition. I think would be a good idea.

856
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 1: So let's talk about Christian Wood and how he fits

857
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: in here. So again, in in the in this particular

858
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 1: type of role with Um, with him being on a

859
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 1: winning team, he's not gonna have the ball in his

860
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: hands as in as an initiator nearly as much as

861
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: he did in Houston. So that puts him into that

862
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 1: play finisher role right. Well, let's take a look at

863
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 1: what he did last year and terms of specific shot profile.

864
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:07,280
Speaker 1: So he was on wide open threes. That's really good.

865
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 1: He was on catch and shoot threes, so bad before

866
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 1: we go any further. He's already gonna fit in this

867
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: system as a spot up threat. He was thirty eight

868
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: percent on pull up threes, one point three attempts per game.

869
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: Interesting in the sense that I don't think he you're

870
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,840
Speaker 1: gonna want him taking pull up threes early in the offense.

871
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: But what that does amount to to me is like

872
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 1: a late clock threat. You know, Luca goes to a

873
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,399
Speaker 1: step back with five on the shot clock, doesn't get

874
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 1: enough separation, kind of pump fakes. He can swing it

875
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 1: to Christian would and Christian would can hit a step back,

876
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like it's kind of like

877
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 1: a rescue possession type of thing. He was in the

878
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 1: sixty seven percentile as a rollman. When I was talking

879
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 1: to my buddy Rouche, who covered the rockets last year,

880
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 1: again it was a waste of my time because of

881
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: how how much I had to cover the top teams

882
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 1: in the League. It was a waste of my time

883
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 1: to watch that much of Christian would. I only watched

884
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 1: him a handful of times, so I rely a lot

885
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,399
Speaker 1: on on on the tape that I've seen, as well

886
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 1: as UM people who watched him every single day, like

887
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 1: my buddy rouge, and then the data we have on

888
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:14,359
Speaker 1: the on the NBA dot com website. But he said

889
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 1: that they were actually pretty damn good with Um. With

890
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: Christen Wood is a roll man, but that he was

891
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,800
Speaker 1: hesitant to do so. That translates to the number sixty

892
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 1: seven percentile. But his volume was pretty low. I want

893
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 1: to say. He was only registering about two rollman possessions

894
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 1: per game. So theoretically in this system that translates to

895
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:36,360
Speaker 1: something he'll do more frequently. He was also a slightly

896
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 1: above average isolation player and a slightly above average post

897
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 1: player in terms of points per possession. So what of

898
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:46,360
Speaker 1: that contributes to winning environment? Obviously the spot up stuff,

899
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: obviously attacking closeouts. Um, his ability to dribble the basketball

900
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 1: and his athleticism going to the rim might be able

901
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 1: to open some things up in UH in driving kick

902
00:46:56,640 --> 00:47:01,840
Speaker 1: types of situations. And then also Um, if the post

903
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 1: up in isolation stuff translates in terms of the winning environment,

904
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: it would be interesting to see him as just another

905
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 1: option for advantage creation when he has a great matchup. So,

906
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 1: for instance, if Christian would ends up in a pick

907
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 1: and roll, getting a switch onto Luca's man and Luca

908
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:21,840
Speaker 1: can pull the ball away and throw it down to

909
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: him in the post or if he you know, even

910
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 1: just in transition running the floor, if he gets the

911
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: right matchup, it might be interesting to throw to him

912
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: as a primary initiator. I think you'll find out pretty

913
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 1: quickly in the first ten or so games of the

914
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 1: season whether or not that's something Christian Wood is capable

915
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:42,320
Speaker 1: of doing in a winning concept or winning context. I

916
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 1: should say. Um, he's a player that the Dallas Mavericks

917
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 1: have never had before, a type of player that the

918
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks have never had before. So I'm just really

919
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: interested to see how they end up using him. Defense

920
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: was where the Dallas Mavericks were most interesting last year. Again,

921
00:47:56,160 --> 00:48:00,120
Speaker 1: they were seventh and defensive writing. But their personnel it

922
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:03,439
Speaker 1: wasn't very good. Right, like, outside of Reggie Bullock, Dorian

923
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:07,720
Speaker 1: Phinney Smith and Dwight Powell, they didn't really have players

924
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:12,439
Speaker 1: that were, you know, their reputations weren't that of great

925
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:16,240
Speaker 1: defensive players. Most of them below average. You know, Jalen Brunston,

926
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,800
Speaker 1: Spencer didn't. What do you look at? Donchech, Maxi, Cleba,

927
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:22,239
Speaker 1: all these guys were, you know, Dobvi sparit tens. These

928
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: were all below average defensive players before, before this particular season. UH,

929
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:29,800
Speaker 1: they were. As a team last year they were twenty

930
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: nine and steals the blocks. So they weren't disrupting anything.

931
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:37,760
Speaker 1: They didn't have an interior defensive presence. Like Dwight Powell

932
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:40,359
Speaker 1: is a good defensive four, but he's not like he's

933
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 1: a rim protector right. Neither was Maxi CLEBA. All of

934
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:47,319
Speaker 1: that stuff was true, but they had the seventh best

935
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 1: defense in basketball. How do you do that, you know,

936
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 1: and the answer to me is pretty simple. Do you

937
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:56,800
Speaker 1: guys remember yesterday when I was talking about the Miami

938
00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: Heat Um? I was talking about how, on offense, they

939
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: squeeze things out on the margin to improve their offense

940
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 1: despite being a weak half court offense. The same goes

941
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 1: for for the defensive end of the floor. I talked

942
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: about I compared it to football and baseball in terms

943
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:17,880
Speaker 1: of like special teams or like manufacturing runs with like, uh,

944
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:19,840
Speaker 1: you know, bunting to get a base runner on or

945
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:23,680
Speaker 1: stealing bases, sacrifice flies, things along those lines. There's like

946
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: the core concept of basketball, you know, which is scoring

947
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 1: in a half court, five on five environment. But then

948
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:33,280
Speaker 1: there's all these ancillary things, defensive, rebounding, offensive rebounding, transition defense,

949
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 1: transition offense, right like Um we we talked. I went

950
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: over all the different things yesterday. But there are this

951
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:45,840
Speaker 1: particular team, this this Um Um, this Dallas Mavericks Defense,

952
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 1: despite not having the right personnel, was able to squeeze

953
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 1: out and above average defense by all of the little things. So,

954
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 1: for instance, they defended the three point line really well,

955
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:00,400
Speaker 1: which is just scheming. That's smart. It's math. That's the

956
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 1: most valuable shot if you that in layup, so the

957
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: most valuable shot. Now, they were a pretty average paint defense,

958
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,439
Speaker 1: to be expected, but if you guard the three point

959
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: line and you guard the paint really well, you'll force

960
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: teams to operate in the mid range and even the

961
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:16,279
Speaker 1: in no player in the League really, except for the

962
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 1: top handful, is efficient enough in that range to make

963
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: you pay. So they only allowed ten point nine made

964
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 1: threes per game, which led the League. They were eight

965
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 1: and free free throw attempts allowed. So they don't foul. Again,

966
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 1: that's coaching. Uh. They were an above average transition defense.

967
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:35,279
Speaker 1: Getting back in transition, communicating with each other who's got

968
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:38,840
Speaker 1: the paint, spreading out to your shooters after that and

969
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:41,400
Speaker 1: they were top ten defensive rebounding team. They secured seventy

970
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:46,319
Speaker 1: three of available rebound, available defensive rebounds. So again, like

971
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:50,239
Speaker 1: even though they weren't great defensively in the core principles

972
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:53,319
Speaker 1: of defense, they were excellent and all these ancillary things.

973
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:55,680
Speaker 1: They had a smart scheme. You know, they guarded the

974
00:50:55,680 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 1: three point line well. They double every uh mismatch. They

975
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:03,280
Speaker 1: double their players out of mismatches when that becomes a problem.

976
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 1: They rotate really well when things break down by if

977
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:08,879
Speaker 1: they don't foul, they get back in transition. By doing

978
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 1: those things they were able to squeeze out and grind

979
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: out a the number seven defense in the league. It's

980
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 1: about controlling what you can control. You can't control your personnel,

981
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:21,879
Speaker 1: but you control being well coached. You can control boxing out,

982
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 1: you can control sprinting back and on defense and transition.

983
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 1: You can control coming up with a smart scheme by

984
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: paying attention to what's going on around you in the League. Um,

985
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 1: the unfortunate reality was, and and this is what I

986
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,879
Speaker 1: said all last season. You Mavericks Fans who listened last

987
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 1: year we'll remember, as their defense was progressing towards the

988
00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 1: tail end of the season I kept pointing out the

989
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:45,760
Speaker 1: fact that the personnel might end up being a problem

990
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 1: in a playoff series against a team that can expose them. Well,

991
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 1: golden state just completely put them in the blender. I

992
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:53,439
Speaker 1: want to say their defensive rating in the regular season

993
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:56,360
Speaker 1: was about a hundred nine points per one hund possessions allowed.

994
00:51:56,840 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: Golden States scored a hundred and twenty point three point

995
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 1: points per one possessions. So they're disciplined. All of those

996
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:05,839
Speaker 1: things that we talked about just didn't hold up under

997
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:09,840
Speaker 1: Golden States motion heavy offense. They fell apart on that front.

998
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 1: Now some of this is golden state. Golden States are

999
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 1: really unique team. They do things very differently. It's differently

1000
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 1: than anybody else in the league. So there's not really

1001
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:23,319
Speaker 1: a whole lot you can do to prepare for them.

1002
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: And I've talked about this a lot on the show,

1003
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 1: but Golden State tends to have an advantage early in

1004
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 1: playoff series because of the fact that what they do

1005
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: is so different and it's not incredibly uncommon to fall

1006
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 1: down two oh to them. That's what happened and they

1007
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: weren't able to dig out. Let's look at Christian would

1008
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 1: on the defensive end of the floor for just a second.

1009
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:47,799
Speaker 1: He was a horrible defensive player in Houston, but it

1010
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:50,759
Speaker 1: was for a very bad team. He does have the

1011
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 1: athletic tools. He's tall, he's got long arms, he can

1012
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 1: move his feet. The problem is is that defensive habits

1013
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 1: and you know defensive I Q, takes time to build.

1014
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:02,799
Speaker 1: So it's just gonna be a really interesting challenge for

1015
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: Jason Kidd and for Christian Wood himself to make that

1016
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 1: transition quickly, because it's either gonna but Christian woods a

1017
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 1: good basketball player. He's gonna be in this league for

1018
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:14,799
Speaker 1: a long time. My guess is he'll be a very,

1019
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 1: very good role player at a minimum five ten years,

1020
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 1: or like not ten years, but five years from now,

1021
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:22,759
Speaker 1: right like when he's in his early thirties. But the

1022
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:24,919
Speaker 1: question is, is is it going to take him until then

1023
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: to learn how to be a productive defensive player or

1024
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 1: is it something that he can figure out in one

1025
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 1: training camp with Jason Kidd? That's a huge swing factor

1026
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 1: for this particular season. I'm really curious to see what happens.

1027
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:39,720
Speaker 1: The best case scenario for this team is basically everything

1028
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 1: that happened in the first two rounds of the playoffs.

1029
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 1: It's modern basketball personified, you know, maximizing things on the margins,

1030
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:49,360
Speaker 1: slowing the pace down, strangling the game down into a

1031
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:54,479
Speaker 1: isolation contest where it's like you're trying to go punch

1032
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 1: for punch with Luka Don Chich in this slow game

1033
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:01,239
Speaker 1: that's just stuck in the mud. and Luca, Luca is

1034
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:03,000
Speaker 1: one of the best isolation players in the League and

1035
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 1: one of the best pick and role players in the league.

1036
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 1: So he's going to beat you a lot of the

1037
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 1: time in that and that's what he did to Utah

1038
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 1: and that's what he did to Phoenix. But Luca fell

1039
00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:14,160
Speaker 1: apart against golden state. He only shot forty one five

1040
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 1: percent in that series. A lot of credit to Andrew

1041
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:19,239
Speaker 1: Wiggins and the job that he did on him. But

1042
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:21,800
Speaker 1: in order for them to heat hit their ultimate ceiling,

1043
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 1: which is holding the Lario de Lario Brian Trophy, and

1044
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:28,439
Speaker 1: I absolutely think the Mavericks had that capability, Luca would

1045
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 1: have to remain hot for four series, for sixteen wins.

1046
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:35,000
Speaker 1: Definitely something he's capable of. He eventually ran out of

1047
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:38,959
Speaker 1: gas in the conference finals last year. Um in order

1048
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,840
Speaker 1: to reach this ceiling, I think they absolutely have to

1049
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,880
Speaker 1: sign somebody to replace Brunson. I think Dennis Schroeder is

1050
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:49,120
Speaker 1: the obvious choice. I don't think they're a contender unless

1051
00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:52,239
Speaker 1: they get that third creator. But I am calling them

1052
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 1: a contender because I sincerely believe they will get that guy,

1053
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:59,840
Speaker 1: even if it's not Dennis Schroeder Um Christian. What if

1054
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 1: ashing wood brings a huge scoring punch and finds a

1055
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 1: way to fit in defensively? That's a big swing factor

1056
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:08,400
Speaker 1: because he's a fringe all star level talent. He's not

1057
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:10,520
Speaker 1: a fringe all star, he's a fringe all star level

1058
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:12,600
Speaker 1: talent in terms of what he brings to the table

1059
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 1: as a basketball player. If all of that comes together,

1060
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:17,799
Speaker 1: they can win the title. But make no mistake, it's

1061
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:21,880
Speaker 1: all on Luca. I've described this tear as the the

1062
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:26,280
Speaker 1: puncher's chance tear, and the puncher in this case is Luca,

1063
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:29,319
Speaker 1: and if he's not at his absolute best for all

1064
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 1: four rounds, they can't get it done. He's the the

1065
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Speaker 1: the guy who holds all the pressure in that regard.

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Speaker 1: Worst case scenarios they failed to find that their creator

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00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 1: and they go to it with Spencer, dinwoody and Luca

1068
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:42,120
Speaker 1: and they lack shot creation all season, their defense takes

1069
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:43,880
Speaker 1: a step back, just like it did in the Golden

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00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:47,000
Speaker 1: State series. Their lack of an interior presence gets them

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00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:49,760
Speaker 1: killed on the glass. Golden State pulled in fifty seven

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Speaker 1: percent of available rebounds in that particular series, although I

1073
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Speaker 1: do think Javale McGee will help on that a lot.

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Speaker 1: If those sorts of things happen, they're certainly at risk

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Speaker 1: to lose in the second round as well, or, excuse me,

1076
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 1: the first round. Just about every team the rest of

1077
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:05,400
Speaker 1: the way, their low side is to lose in the

1078
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 1: first round. There is no world beating roster out there,

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Speaker 1: and there there, I would say, only four teams, like clippers, Celtics,

1080
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:16,839
Speaker 1: warriors and Um Bucks, would be like guarantees to win

1081
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:19,719
Speaker 1: their first round series. But even then injuries could take

1082
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:21,800
Speaker 1: them out. And when we're talking about worst case scenario,

1083
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:24,840
Speaker 1: we have to factor in injuries. Just ask the Milwaukee

1084
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 1: Bucks with what happened with Chris Middleton last year. So

1085
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:31,799
Speaker 1: for the x factor, what's been the theme for x

1086
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:34,279
Speaker 1: factors throughout this whole series? What kind of player have

1087
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:37,560
Speaker 1: I typically been picking? It's typically been a young player

1088
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 1: who has a ton of talent, but hasn't quite reached

1089
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:45,880
Speaker 1: his ultimate ceiling, thus providing a ton of variants in

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00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: what could happen this season. Well, I'M gonna go with

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00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:51,760
Speaker 1: Christian would then, because that makes a ton of sense

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00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 1: for that theme right to be consistent. He's skilled in

1093
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:58,239
Speaker 1: athletic enough to be an all star, but he has

1094
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 1: to learn how to impact winning, and those are two

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00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,719
Speaker 1: completely separate things. I deal with this a lot with

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00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:05,080
Speaker 1: young players here in town, especially with the high school

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Speaker 1: kids that I coach. Like it's there's a bridge that

1098
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:10,239
Speaker 1: goes between being a talented basketball player and a winning

1099
00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 1: basketball player. Um, my friend to Lee booked, I was

1100
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 1: an all American when I was at uh at Arizona

1101
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 1: Christian University. He taught me how to win little by

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Speaker 1: a little over the course of my last season in college.

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00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 1: He Uh would take me to these like late night

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Speaker 1: three on three runs at the school and and put

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00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:34,440
Speaker 1: me on his team and just just coached me really

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00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:37,040
Speaker 1: hard and not on the I was all I was

1107
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 1: always a very talented basketball player. Six, six, six, ten, winks, Ban,

1108
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:42,560
Speaker 1: could jump out of the gym, could dribble, shoot all

1109
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 1: those things, but I was so raw because I started

1110
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:48,720
Speaker 1: really late and so I'd like hit a tough step

1111
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 1: back jump shot or make a really nice driving dunk

1112
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:53,680
Speaker 1: or something along those lines, and and he would never

1113
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 1: say anything about that because he didn't care. He already

1114
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:58,480
Speaker 1: knew I could do that stuff. But like, every time

1115
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 1: that like I'd rolled to the basket on a screen

1116
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 1: and roll and get a dunk, but then on the

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00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 1: next possession I'd screen and pop. He'd like scream at

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00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 1: me and be like, what are you doing? What you

1119
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:13,160
Speaker 1: just did worked, why would you not do it again?

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Speaker 1: And and over time I would learn like like we

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00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 1: would relentlessly go to the same action until they figured

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00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:22,800
Speaker 1: out how to stop it. Every time I I made missed,

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00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 1: the defensive box out screaming at me defensive rebounds. How

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00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 1: you win games, Jason, you have to get every single

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Speaker 1: defensive rebound, a bad close out, bad defensive possession, whatever

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Speaker 1: it was. Over the course of that uh, that year,

1127
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: in those nighttime runs, he slowly chipped away at me

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Speaker 1: and taught me about the things that make a winning

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Speaker 1: basketball player. and Um and like I'll never forget that

1130
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Speaker 1: particular year because that was the year that I learned

1131
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 1: how to be a winner on so many different levels,

1132
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Speaker 1: going from being a score at the Juco level to

1133
00:58:55,560 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 1: being a role player at at a alongside to all

1134
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:03,400
Speaker 1: American guards. I'm one of the best uh and ai

1135
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 1: a teams in the country like that was where I

1136
00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:09,280
Speaker 1: learned all of that stuff and unfortunately I was able

1137
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Speaker 1: to pick it up pretty quickly. But that's gonna be

1138
00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 1: the challenge for Christian Wood is how quickly can he

1139
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 1: pick up on those things, because right now, as any

1140
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 1: rockets fan will tell you, he's not good at those things.

1141
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 1: Rockets fans would joke, according to my friend rouge, that

1142
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Speaker 1: every time they'd play a big man he'd have his

1143
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:31,000
Speaker 1: career year because Christian would a career game. Excuse me,

1144
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 1: because Christian Wood was guarding him. He he's lacking in

1145
00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:37,080
Speaker 1: those areas and so it'll be interesting to see how

1146
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 1: quickly he can pick those up, how quickly can he

1147
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 1: become a serviceable defender and how quickly can he understand

1148
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:47,720
Speaker 1: his role within the Mavericks Offense? The closer he gets

1149
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:50,880
Speaker 1: to that all star level, which obviously he's not that guy,

1150
00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 1: but he's going to be somewhere between where he is

1151
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:57,000
Speaker 1: now and that level. The closer he is to that level,

1152
00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 1: the Higher Dallas the ceiling is and that's why he's

1153
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 1: such a big ex actor. All right, guys, that is

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Speaker 1: all I have on the Dallas Mavericks. That's all we

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Speaker 1: have for this week. We will be back on Monday

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Speaker 1: with number eight. As always, I sincerely appreciate your guys

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Speaker 1: support and I'll see you guys next week. The Volume