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Speaker 1: I so the way I broke it down this morning,

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Speaker 1: I have two tiers that I'm gonna break our power

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Speaker 1: So that leaves us as nineteen. And then I think

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Speaker 1: stars zach Lavine, Demarti Rosen, and Nicole Vucevic all played

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Speaker 1: over seventy four games last year and they still were

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Speaker 1: The Toronto Rafters are gonna have one of the worst

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Speaker 1: kind of down at the nail and help caseyp will

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Speaker 1: cut back door and Yokics will hit him on the

430
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Speaker 1: cut or that weak side corner cut or the dunker

431
00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:41,680
Speaker 1: spot cut. Right, So like we're talking Aaron Gordon, Aaron

432
00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,359
Speaker 1: Gordon either in the weak side corner or out of

433
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Speaker 1: the dunker spot. If Jokic turns and faces in Aaron

434
00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,240
Speaker 1: Gordon's man as the low man comes over to help

435
00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,800
Speaker 1: on the spurs cut or some other cut, Aaron Gordon

436
00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,920
Speaker 1: is open and Nicole Jokicic can hit that there. Why

437
00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:01,399
Speaker 1: does that work? Because the rimp detector is guarding Nikola

438
00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,160
Speaker 1: Jokic and not at the rim to help in these

439
00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:08,120
Speaker 1: backcut situations. And so as the ball makes its way

440
00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:11,320
Speaker 1: to Victor Wenbinyama at the high post or the low

441
00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:14,840
Speaker 1: post because the rim protector is occupied. It opens up

442
00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:18,040
Speaker 1: everything for cutters on the backside. But it only works

443
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,000
Speaker 1: if you have a guy that's a threat there. He

444
00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:22,320
Speaker 1: has to be a threat to shoot, so that the

445
00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:25,159
Speaker 1: defensive player has to be there on the catch, and

446
00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:26,760
Speaker 1: he has to be a player that you can trust

447
00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:29,360
Speaker 1: to make the right play to make to read the defense,

448
00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,359
Speaker 1: identify where the opening is and make that pass to

449
00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,800
Speaker 1: the cutter or the shooter as they are open. And

450
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:38,199
Speaker 1: you know, I actually think that this is something that

451
00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:40,480
Speaker 1: Victor Wenbinyama can be really good at in the long

452
00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:42,960
Speaker 1: run because he's so damn tall that when he pivots

453
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:44,520
Speaker 1: and looks over the top of the defense, he can

454
00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:47,840
Speaker 1: see everything and make those passes. But I do think

455
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Speaker 1: there's going to be a learning curve as he kind

456
00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,600
Speaker 1: of figures out how to read the defense. Also look

457
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,480
Speaker 1: for a lot of NBA forwards and centers to ball

458
00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:57,640
Speaker 1: pressure the hell out of him and to make him

459
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Speaker 1: feel uncomfortable in that spot. Also, Jeremy so as a

460
00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,080
Speaker 1: non shooter right now, kind of leaves you an opening

461
00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:04,760
Speaker 1: there for somebody that you don't have to guard, So

462
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,360
Speaker 1: it'll be important for Jimmy Soshan to kind of develop

463
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 1: that Aaron Gordon esque cutting and finishing ability, or the

464
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 1: ability to consistently knock down a corner three, which he's

465
00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,199
Speaker 1: not capable of right now. But I really like the

466
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Speaker 1: idea of the Spurs running a lot of more offense

467
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Speaker 1: out of Victor wembin Yama in the long run, out

468
00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,480
Speaker 1: of the high post and low post because of their

469
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:27,119
Speaker 1: ability to open up things on the backside. As a result,

470
00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,040
Speaker 1: most teams have an excellent set defense. If you allow

471
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Speaker 1: them to run their traditional drop coverage, if you allow

472
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 1: them to load up the paint and shell drill, you're

473
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Speaker 1: going to struggle to score in a lot of situations.

474
00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:41,720
Speaker 1: But if you invert things by pulling their rim protector

475
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Speaker 1: away and actually forcing their ability to contain on the

476
00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:47,280
Speaker 1: perimeter to matter, because if they get beat, they'll actually

477
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,520
Speaker 1: give up a lay up. Right Like if KCP backcuts

478
00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:52,920
Speaker 1: you and Anthony Davis is just waiting under the rim

479
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:56,560
Speaker 1: because he doesn't have to worry about Nick Claxton esque

480
00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,479
Speaker 1: type of non skilled big on the perimeter, He's going

481
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Speaker 1: to be able to that stuff up. But the if

482
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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis is glued up to Victor Wenbinyama, and you

483
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,360
Speaker 1: know your two guard cuts back door in this case

484
00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:12,600
Speaker 1: Devin Vessel, that's where you have those openings at the rim.

485
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Speaker 1: So before we go any further, I want to talk

486
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Speaker 1: before we go to the defensive n I want to

487
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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about their ball handlers. So obviously

488
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Speaker 1: the three we're talking about Victor Wembinyama as a fulcrum

489
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 1: in pick and pop and also out of the high post.

490
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Speaker 1: But I want to talk about I want to talk

491
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Speaker 1: about their ball handling because they've got three guys that

492
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:30,399
Speaker 1: are gonna get a lot of pick and roll reps

493
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,520
Speaker 1: this year, Trey Jones, Devin Vessel and Keldon Johnson. Again,

494
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Speaker 1: like I expect them to mix in a lot of

495
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Speaker 1: high post stuff. With Victor, I expect him to turn

496
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Speaker 1: and face and look to score when the cutters aren't open.

497
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Speaker 1: But that's not gonna be a thing. They're gonna be

498
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Speaker 1: able to do all the time. They're gonna run a

499
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Speaker 1: ton of pick and roll and they're gonna identify which

500
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Speaker 1: one of these guards, which one of these perimeter players

501
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:52,639
Speaker 1: is capable of being a co star. So to speak,

502
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Speaker 1: with Victor Wenbinyama, in the long run, So we're gonna

503
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Speaker 1: talk about all three of them for just a few minutes.

504
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Speaker 1: So Trey Jones, I love his overall fit with Victor

505
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,719
Speaker 1: women Yama because he's an excellent passer and he's a

506
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 1: very very good point of attack defender, which always compliments

507
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,360
Speaker 1: drop coverage bigs Well. We talked about this all the time,

508
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 1: but drop coverage has a gaping flaw, and that's if

509
00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:12,120
Speaker 1: you are a good pull up shooter and you can

510
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 1: get to those shots. It pull the big dropping to

511
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,200
Speaker 1: the basket doesn't do you any good because they're just

512
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 1: gonna knock down fifteen footers and floaters all game long.

513
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:24,880
Speaker 1: But drop coverage actually is impervious to everything when executed properly.

514
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Speaker 1: If the guard does his job and chases over the

515
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,080
Speaker 1: top of the screen and takes away the pull up

516
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:34,360
Speaker 1: jump shot and takes away the floater, he will funnel

517
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Speaker 1: the guard into your rim protection. So that's where Trey

518
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 1: Jones being a very good point of attack defender compliments

519
00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,720
Speaker 1: Victor wemben Yama very well. He's very good at navigating screens.

520
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,159
Speaker 1: If he can get over the top of the screen

521
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,639
Speaker 1: and dissuade that pull up jump shot and forced guys

522
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,920
Speaker 1: to drive downhill. They're going to struggle to finish over

523
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Speaker 1: Victor wenbin Yama throughout the season. The biggest question for

524
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Speaker 1: Trey Jones will be will he be able to be

525
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,479
Speaker 1: enough of a threat to score in pick and roll.

526
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Speaker 1: It's pretty good getting downhill. He's a good athlete for

527
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 1: forty five percent on runners, which is solid. Two point

528
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,359
Speaker 1: three makes per game in the restricted area on sixty

529
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Speaker 1: two percent, which is solid. So when he gets closer

530
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Speaker 1: to the rim, he's good, But only thirty eight percent

531
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Speaker 1: in effective field goal percentage on pull up jump shots.

532
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Speaker 1: Not a very good pull up jump shooter. And that's

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Speaker 1: important for two reasons. Like we talked about, that's what

534
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 1: forces the guard to chase over the top right defensively,

535
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 1: otherwise they can duck underpicks, which can cause all sorts

536
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 1: of problems. But the second part of it is pulling

537
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,439
Speaker 1: the rim protector out. So against teams that don't have

538
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,960
Speaker 1: great point of attack defense, he's gonna get separation as

539
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,920
Speaker 1: he comes off of screens. If he can't reliably knock

540
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 1: down that mid range jump shot, the big man won't

541
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 1: have to come out. If the big man doesn't have

542
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,119
Speaker 1: to come out and show on those pull up jump shots.

543
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Speaker 1: Then you're not gonna have the openings on the backside

544
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Speaker 1: as the passer for Victor wembin Yama to roll to

545
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 1: the rim. So it's very very important for Trey Jones

546
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,680
Speaker 1: to improve as a pull up jump shooter this season.

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Speaker 1: Devin Vessell, it's a totally different type of vibe. Very

548
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,640
Speaker 1: very good pull up jump shooter. Only played in thirty

549
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,160
Speaker 1: eight games last year, but he did take a big

550
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: leap nineteen points per game on fifty five percent for shooting.

551
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:02,119
Speaker 1: Very good pick and roll ball handler. I'll be it

552
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: in low volume, three hundred and forty six pick and

553
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,200
Speaker 1: rolls leading to three hundred and seventy seven points. That's

554
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: one point zero nine points per possession, which is in

555
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,160
Speaker 1: the eighty sixth percentile, driven by two things. Very very

556
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 1: good at knocking down shots and pick and roll. He

557
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,160
Speaker 1: shot fifty five percent in effective field goal percentage overall

558
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Speaker 1: on shots and pick and roll, and he also made

559
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,640
Speaker 1: one hundred and six pull up jumpers last season at

560
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Speaker 1: a forty five percent effective field goal percentage, which is

561
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Speaker 1: really good, especially for a young player. Obviously, when he's

562
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Speaker 1: in his prime, you hope he's closer to forty eight

563
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Speaker 1: fifty percent, but for a young guard, forty five percent

564
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Speaker 1: is outstanding. Very good passer and pick and roll as well.

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Speaker 1: I was really impressed this morning watching Devin Vessel. He's

566
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Speaker 1: got good size, and he's got this bad habit of

567
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Speaker 1: leaving his feet in pick and roll to pass, but

568
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,400
Speaker 1: he's got a really good overhand two hand overhead two

569
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Speaker 1: hand pass that he can get across the court to

570
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: the weak side corner, and that he can turn in

571
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:52,880
Speaker 1: kind of like Pierre wet In mid air and get

572
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 1: back to the pick and pop big, which will be

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Speaker 1: important obviously with Victor Weibin. Yeah, we did a lot

574
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Speaker 1: of that with like Zach Collins last year. So his

575
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,679
Speaker 1: ability to make those strong two handed overhead passes, that

576
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 1: is what reverses the defense and generates close out situations.

577
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: So the Spurs scored really well when Devin Fassel passed

578
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,640
Speaker 1: had a pick and roll last year. And again that

579
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 1: the height is the big thing there. Just being a

580
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,359
Speaker 1: good athlete and being tall helps a lot. Keldon Johnson

581
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 1: career high twenty two points per game last year, his

582
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 1: efficiency did dip a little bit. He at a career

583
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 1: low fifty five percent for shooting. But again, you gotta

584
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 1: remember bad team. This was the highest usage guy on

585
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 1: a bad team, so he's the guy who has to

586
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 1: take the bad shots at the end of the shot

587
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 1: clock every time. So I want to cut him a

588
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 1: little bit of slack there. Big thing that hurt him

589
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 1: overall in efficiency last year was his jump shot. He

590
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 1: was just thirty three percent overall on jump shots, just

591
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 1: twenty nine percent on pull up jump shots. Shot pretty

592
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: well over fifty percent effective figal percentage in unguarded catch

593
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 1: and shoot situations, but not very good in any sort

594
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,400
Speaker 1: of you know, rushed situation or off the dribble situation.

595
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,120
Speaker 1: He does get to the rim a ton and finishes

596
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: well there, zero point nine to two points per possession

597
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,120
Speaker 1: on four hundred and seventy nine pick and rolls, which

598
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 1: is below average. Big thing I saw on tape a

599
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 1: little bit of tunnel vision tends to force things a

600
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 1: little bit. And then not a very good jump shooter.

601
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 1: But again I want to clarify, he was the high

602
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: volume guy on a bad team, and that's always going

603
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,399
Speaker 1: to lead to efficiency issues. But Victor wenbin Yama, for

604
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 1: all three of those guys, should make things easier because

605
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 1: he just has to be a tent, like the defense

606
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,640
Speaker 1: has to devote so much more attention to him than

607
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:30,159
Speaker 1: they would to a Zat Collins or even Yaka Perle

608
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,879
Speaker 1: in a pop situation, right, and so having like a

609
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 1: legitimate perimeter threat that can put the ball on the

610
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: floor and is capable of getting red hot, that's just

611
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 1: gonna change the way teams are gonna have to guard

612
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,719
Speaker 1: and pick and roll, which'll make things easier on all

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00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: three of those guys on defense. I expect the Spurs

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00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 1: to be pretty good right away. We talked about Victor

615
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 1: and drop coverage. Jeremy Sosham. We haven't talked a ton

616
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: about him today, but he's one of the most exciting

617
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: young defensive forwards in the league. So I love the

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00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 1: idea of having him next to Victor. Next to Victor Wenbinyama,

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Speaker 1: Trey jonesbviously outstanding point of attack defender, like we talked

620
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: Reggie Bullock in spot situations when they use him because

621
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: of his abilities as a lock and trail defender, I

622
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 1: think he makes a lot of sense after next to Victor.

623
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: The big question is going to be can they get

624
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,239
Speaker 1: Devin Vessel and Kelden Johnson to really commit on that

625
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 1: end to a way that they haven't in the past,

626
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: and if they do, I think they can be really

627
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: good right away. Now what does that mean. I expect

628
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: the Spurs to finish around fifteenth fifteenth and defensive rating,

629
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 1: and if Victor Wembinyama stay's healthy, I think it could

630
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: be potentially closer to ten. But I expect him, probably

631
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: like most big guys, to miss twenty twenty five games,

632
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: So I'm sitting around Spurs finishing fifteenth in defensive rating.

633
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 1: Overall predictions for the season, I put him about twenty

634
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: fifth Offensively in that range, I think they'll be a

635
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: team that when they look good, looks great. But just

636
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: like any other young team, they're going to be inconsistent

637
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: with their decision making and shot making and struggle a

638
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 1: little bit compared to other NBA offenses. But if you're

639
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 1: about the fifteenth best offense or defense and about the

640
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 1: twenty fifth best offense, you can be close to five hundred.

641
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 1: I expect the Spurs to win about thirty five games

642
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: this year if Victor can play over seventy games, and

643
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: around thirty games. If he plays around sixty games, that's

644
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Speaker 1: where I expect the Spurs to finish. That gives him

645
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 1: an outside chance to make the play in tournament if

646
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 1: things go really well. So again, not the twentieth best

647
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 1: team in the league, probably closer to the twenty fourth

648
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, but really really interesting in a team that

649
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to covering this year, and a

650
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: team that's going to be really fun to watch on

651
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Speaker 1: NBA League Pass. All right, two mail back questions before

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Speaker 1: we get out of here. First from Tamas, what was

653
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: the hardest skill as a basketball player for you to learn?

654
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 1: So this was a really good question. He provided a

655
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 1: couple examples. He said, shooting off the dribble, with certain

656
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: ball handles, defensive IQ, et cetera. So I think, by

657
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 1: far the hardest thing for me to learn in my

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00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: skill development was pull up shooting. And so essentially, like

659
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: ball handling is an incremental process, you work really, really

660
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: really hard to make small improvements. You know, overall, jump

661
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: shooting is really hard to develop because again you have

662
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: to make thousands and thousands and thousands of shots to

663
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: see small bits of improvement. But the reason why pull

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Speaker 1: up shooting I think is the hardest is it's literally

665
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: both combined. So there is an energy transfer that takes

666
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: place from the dribble combination into the footwork, into your

667
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 1: gather up into the shot, and there's just so many

668
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: places for it to go wrong. If your feet get

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00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: messed up, energy transfer gets messed up. If you mishandle

670
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: the basketball a little bit, everything gets messed up. If

671
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: you put the ball in your shooting pocket and instead

672
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: of your hands being like this, they're like a tiny

673
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 1: bit off center, Like your left hand is a little

674
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: too wrapped around the back of the ball or a

675
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 1: little too wrapped around the front of the ball, or

676
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: your fingers don't get quite perfect. Out of the dribble combination,

677
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the jump shot gets messed up. Right,

678
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 1: So there's a bunch of stuff that has to fall

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00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: in line for a pull up jump shot to look

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00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: and feel good and to have a chance to go in.

681
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: And like, I have worked relentlessly over the last like

682
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: ten years to build out a pull up jump shot,

683
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: and I feel good about where I'm pull up jumpsout

684
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: is now, But it definitely was the slowest progress out

685
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: of any specific skill thing I worked on strictly because

686
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: of all the moving parts involved and specific drills i'd

687
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: use for pull up jump shooting. So I actually I

688
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 1: had another mail back question a few days ago that

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Speaker 1: I didn't actually go over on the show, but it

690
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: was asking just basic drills to work on to improve

691
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Speaker 1: in some of your baseline basketball skill set. And I

692
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 1: actually have a set of drills that I do every

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Speaker 1: single day. I literally do it as a warm up

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Speaker 1: before I play pickup, and then I play pickup probably

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00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: four days a week, and then I'll have the other

696
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: three days I'll go to the gym and do my

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00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 1: shooting workout. I try to play seven days a week

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00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: if I can, and then have one or two days

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Speaker 1: which are lighter. But every once in a while I

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Speaker 1: have a social event or something that comes up that

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00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: forces me to take a day off. But I tend

702
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 1: to think that a day off should just be a

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00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: very light day. That's kind of the way that I

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00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: look at it. But the shooting drill that I do

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00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: almost every single day, drills that I do almost every

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00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 1: single day. I start with the ball handling warm up drill,

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Speaker 1: which essentially as I start on the right side at

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Speaker 1: half court and I dribble down and I do a

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00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: hard game speed in and out crossover to my left hand,

710
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 1: then in and out crossover back to my right hand,

711
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: then back and forth again, so there's four total in

712
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Speaker 1: and out crossovers. I finish in my right hand and

713
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: I explode to the basket and I finish. Then on

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Speaker 1: the right left side of the floor, I go to

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Speaker 1: the left side at half court, do the exact same thing,

716
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Speaker 1: hard in and out dribble, starting with my left hand

717
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: four times. Ball finishes in my left hand, hard drive,

718
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Speaker 1: and finish with my left hand. Then I go back

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Speaker 1: to the right side. Same thing. Four in and out crossovers,

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Speaker 1: except for on the fourth one, when the ball finishes

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Speaker 1: in my right hand, I'm taking a pull up jump

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Speaker 1: shot off of that crossover out of my right hand,

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Speaker 1: shooting pocket right. Then I go to the left side,

724
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Speaker 1: pull up jump shot on the left side, so in

725
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Speaker 1: and out crossovers, lay up, lay up, pull up, pull

726
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Speaker 1: up right. Then I go to in and out between

727
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: the legs, same thing, lay up, lay up, pull up,

728
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Speaker 1: pull up. Then I go to in and out behind

729
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: the back, same thing, lay up, lay up, pull up,

730
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Speaker 1: pull up, every time doing the move four times before

731
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Speaker 1: I go into that shot. So that's my ball handling

732
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: warm up then I go into a pull up shooting drill.

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Speaker 1: And so what I do is I roll the ball

734
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,800
Speaker 1: out to myself about thirty five feet from the basket,

735
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,399
Speaker 1: and I catch in a hop step facing away from

736
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Speaker 1: the basket. Then I reverse pivot and I rip through

737
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: to the right with my left foot is my pivot foot.

738
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Speaker 1: When I get there, I make a counter move off

739
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: the bounce, usually like an in and out behind the

740
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 1: back in and out crossover spin move something along those lines.

741
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Speaker 1: Counter move back towards the top of the key, and

742
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: I'm taking a left handed gather pull up jump shot

743
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: out of that move. Then I flip the ball back

744
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:41,799
Speaker 1: out to myself, reverse pivot to the left, rip to

745
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,240
Speaker 1: the left, counter move back to the right, right handed

746
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: shooting pocket pull up jump shot. I'm gonna do that

747
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 1: until i make five going both ways, So right and counter,

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00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna keep going until I make it. Then

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00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go left to keep going to I make it. Hopefully,

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00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: if I'm in good rhythm, I'm making more than i'm missing.

751
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 1: But I'm going to get through that until I've made

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00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: five going both ways. Then I'm going to do a

753
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,959
Speaker 1: deeper pull up three. So same thing reverse pivot rip through,

754
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: except for instead of a counter move, I'm just gonna

755
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 1: do a hard one two into a pull up from

756
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: twenty five feet or so. So that's gonna be. If

757
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 1: I rip through to the right, i want to plant

758
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: my left foot first, then my right foot and elevate.

759
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: If I'm ripping through to the left, I'm planning my

760
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: right foot first, then my left foot and I elevate.

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00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,439
Speaker 1: Same thing. Do it until I make five going both ways.

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00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 1: Then the final shooting drill I'll do before I uh,

763
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 1: before I start playing usually is just movement shooting. So

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00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: I'll start on like let's say, thirty feet away from

765
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 1: the basket on the left side, and I'll roll the

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Speaker 1: ball out or like like throw it with spin towards

767
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 1: the top of the key, and I'm going to run

768
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: at full speed to the ball, catch left, right, rise

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00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: up and shoot. Then I'm gonna go to the right side,

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00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: roll it out right left, shoot just on the catch.

771
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: So all I'm doing is catching and turning and pivoting

772
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 1: and rising up and shooting. That's the kind of footwork

773
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: you need to shoot when you come lying off of

774
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: a screen or in any sort of movement situation. And

775
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: the key with any of that is you get out

776
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: what you put into it. If you go to the

777
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 1: gym and you're messing around and you're doing your in

778
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: and out crossovers, it's never gonna accomplish anything. I have

779
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 1: to tell this to my young players all the time, because,

780
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,280
Speaker 1: like they'll shoot in these drills and they'll be messing around,

781
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: and then we'll start playing five on five and all

782
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: of them can't make a shot or can't finish at

783
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: the rim, And I tell them it's like it's because

784
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: you're practicing at some slow speed, and then you get

785
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 1: into a game and the intensity raises and the physicality raises,

786
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: and suddenly you start missing shots. You've got to practice

787
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 1: as close to game speed as possible. That makes it

788
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,399
Speaker 1: so there's less of a transition as you go into

789
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 1: a live situation, which gives you a better chance of succeeding. Now,

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00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,280
Speaker 1: there's a lot more that I do in terms of drills,

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00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: especially on specific days when I'm not playing and I'm

792
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 1: a rounding out skill set. I have a lot of

793
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: specific stuff I do out of the post or out

794
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: of pick and roll. But as a warm up, if

795
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: you do those three drills, which is that ball handling shooting,

796
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 1: the pull up shooting, and the movement shooting. If you

797
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: or the ball handling warm up, then your pull up shooting,

798
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 1: and then your movement shooting. If you do those three

799
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: every single day, you will work on your standstill shot

800
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: a shooting situation. You will look at work on your

801
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 1: ball handling, your ability to gather from your ball handle

802
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 1: into a shot, and your footwork going into every single

803
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 1: move because they're mirror images. Right. Notice with the way

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00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 1: I broke that drill down, the left footwork is the

805
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: mirror image of the right footwork. Why is that important?

806
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: Because you need to polish up all of the footwork

807
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: so that you never find yourself in a situation where

808
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: the shot calls for a specific footwork but you're uncomfortable

809
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 1: with it. Whenever you're navigating a live basketball situation, you

810
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: don't know where your openings are going to come and

811
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: when they come, you need to have a footwork for

812
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: that specific situation that you have practiced. So, for instance,

813
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: if you're a pull up shooter that's only comfortable shooting

814
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,280
Speaker 1: off of right left out of your left hand hesitation,

815
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: then you run into the problem where guys know if

816
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: I send him right, he's gonna drive to the basket.

817
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: If I send him left, he's gonna take a jumper.

818
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna send him left and I'm gonna get

819
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 1: a late contest right. Or if I have a really

820
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: good rim protector, I'm gonna sit on his left hand

821
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: and try to funnel him towards the rim right. But

822
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 1: if you have it so that you know how to

823
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: shoot right left left hand gather or left right right

824
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 1: hand gather, if you have those both equally, Now, if

825
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:25,839
Speaker 1: I drive right, I'm just as much of a threat

826
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 1: to shoot going right as I am to shoot to

827
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 1: go shooting left. That mirror image approach is absolutely imperative.

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Speaker 1: We talked about this a lot with Kobe Bryant out

829
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 1: of the Post. Like if you're on a fade away,

830
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 1: if you're trying to look for a fade away out

831
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: of the post, and the defender doesn't have to worry

832
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: about a left shoulder fade because you can't make it

833
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: or you don't have the footwork for it, then he

834
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 1: could sit on your right shoulder fade. And now your

835
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: right shoulder fade, which you probably are good at, is

836
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 1: something you're not going to make a lot because he

837
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: can overly pressure that size. The mirror image is everything.

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00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,400
Speaker 1: Last mail back question from Wesley. I think you're a

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Speaker 1: Star Wars fan. I see a Star Destroyer in the background.

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00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,399
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on the new Ahsoka show if

841
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 1: you've watched it? So I am a diehard Star Wars fan.

842
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:09,800
Speaker 1: I very very much have enjoyed Ahsoka so far. Rebels

843
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: was incredible. Everything surrounding Grand Admiral Thron and the Ezra

844
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 1: storyline and like that, the whole four seasons and the

845
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 1: Soca and the Darth Vader with Thehsoka stuff at the

846
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: end of season two, all of it was amazing, and

847
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: this just kind of feels like a continuation of that.

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00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,839
Speaker 1: I think Grand Admiral Thron is one of the most

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00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 1: interesting Star Wars characters ever. He's kind of like Sherlock Holmes,

850
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 1: but for Star Wars right, Like he's that epic genius

851
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: that can always stays one level ahead of his opponents.

852
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 1: But he's a good guy in the books, and so

853
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 1: I'm really really interested to see what they do with

854
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 1: him in this particular show because he kind of was

855
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 1: a malevolent yet respectful antagonist and Rebels and I'm really

856
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 1: curious to see if they kind of build on that

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Speaker 1: concept or if they continue what happened in the books,

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Speaker 1: which is where he's more of a benevolent character. Right. Also,

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Speaker 1: only goal is to protect the Chess ascendency, and so

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Speaker 1: it doesn't make a ton of sense to me that

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Speaker 1: unless he has some sort of means by which to

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Speaker 1: use that to protect the Chess ascendency. So I trust

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Speaker 1: a Filoni. I know he's going to figure it out.

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Speaker 1: I'm just really curious to see what they end up

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Speaker 1: doing with Grand Admiral Thron. I do have a Star

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Speaker 1: all I have for today. I will be back tomorrow

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Speaker 1: with number nineteen. As always, I appreciate you guys, and

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Speaker 1: I will see you then. The volume