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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk some basketball. So the Spurs jump

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Speaker 1: the Spurs jumped them early. Victor woman Yama has twenty

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Speaker 1: is a Bucks team that came out out the gates

436
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Speaker 1: playing bad basketball. And we're gonna dive into it because

437
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Speaker 1: I like, there are some things that are real personnel

438
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Speaker 1: limitations that they're gonna have to address over the course

439
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Speaker 1: of the season, and then there are other things that

440
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Speaker 1: are like, hey, just do a better job, Like you

441
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Speaker 1: gotta do a better job. And as that stuff happens

442
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Speaker 1: and they play better in those specific roles, like they'll

443
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Speaker 1: defend a little better, right, And when they defend a

444
00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:56,720
Speaker 1: little bit better, they'll get more transition opportunities, they'll have

445
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Speaker 1: more confidence on the offensive end of the four. It's

446
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Speaker 1: kind of like a snowball effect, and you can see

447
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Speaker 1: pretty quickly how it turns things around for a team,

448
00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:04,560
Speaker 1: and it can happen pretty quick. I mean, the Lakers

449
00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:06,760
Speaker 1: played like absolute dogshit for the first four games of

450
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Speaker 1: the season, and then the second four and a half games,

451
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Speaker 1: and then they came out second half against the Clippers

452
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Speaker 1: and some stuff clicked into place and suddenly they looked

453
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Speaker 1: a lot better. And that's what I expect to happen

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Speaker 1: with the Bucks and the big picture. But I want

455
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Speaker 1: to dig into the tape for a little bit. So

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Speaker 1: first of all, when I'm going over this, I have

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Speaker 1: two threads on my Twitter feed, and again my Twitter

458
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Speaker 1: feed is at underscore jsonlt. One of them is on

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Speaker 1: the offensive end of the four. One of them's on

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Speaker 1: the defensive end of the four. Defense is more comprehensive,

461
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Speaker 1: but I pulled clips from both. What I want to

462
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Speaker 1: do here is I want to do. I want to

463
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Speaker 1: just go all in on the defense and talk about

464
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Speaker 1: everything that I noticed that went wrong. You're going to

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Speaker 1: want to look through that thread because there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of really good visual representations of the things that I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about. But this is the best way that we

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Speaker 1: can find out why and how the Bucks defense has

469
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Speaker 1: been as bad as it has been. Now how bad

470
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Speaker 1: has it been? They are twenty ninth in defensive rating

471
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Speaker 1: twenty fourth and half court according to Cleaning the Glass.

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Speaker 1: They are the worst transition defense in the NBA by

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Speaker 1: a mile. They're giving up a transition play on twenty

474
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Speaker 1: two percent of their defensive possessions, which is dead last

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Speaker 1: in the league. And they're giving up one point six

476
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Speaker 1: to two points per transition play, which is dead last

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Speaker 1: in the league. On tape, you could see it, and

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Speaker 1: I pulled several clips of this that you'll see in

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Speaker 1: that thread. But like generally speaking, just guys not running back.

480
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Speaker 1: Dame in particular not picking up the ball in transition.

481
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Speaker 1: That was a big problem with him. With Dennis Schroeder,

482
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Speaker 1: who's good at pushing the pace when they get back

483
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Speaker 1: in transition, a lot of guys are like running back

484
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Speaker 1: to the paint and then just staying there instead of

485
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Speaker 1: spraying out. Transition defense has a very basic principle. You

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Speaker 1: run to the paint first and then you find a man, right,

487
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Speaker 1: That's what you do, and generally speaking, you stay in

488
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Speaker 1: the paint until your rim protector gets there, then you

489
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Speaker 1: fan out, right like when brook Lopez gets back in

490
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Speaker 1: the paint, then you go find your shooter. There was

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Speaker 1: a play where Marjon Beauchamp and crowd or both were

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Speaker 1: just or Bobby Portis, I think it was, we're both

493
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Speaker 1: like standing in the paint and transition as after they

494
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Speaker 1: sprinted back, everyone's in the paint. There's like four bucks

495
00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:11,600
Speaker 1: bodies in the paint and they both just immediately start

496
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Speaker 1: staring at the basketball and stand and watch as the

497
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Speaker 1: ball just gets swung to the top of the key

498
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Speaker 1: to a wide open shooter for three. Like that's just

499
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Speaker 1: bad transition defense. There are transition plays where guys got

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Speaker 1: beat from behind, meaning like literally no one protected the

501
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Speaker 1: rim and a guy just ran the right lane the

502
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Speaker 1: ball got dropped off to Scottie Barnes for an easy

503
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Speaker 1: layup underneath the basket. Like in general, they're just not

504
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Speaker 1: doing a good job and like when it comes to

505
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Speaker 1: transition defense. You're always at a disadvantage. You're not expecting

506
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Speaker 1: to lock teams up in transition, but you have to

507
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Speaker 1: limit frequency and limit the efficiency in those situations by

508
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Speaker 1: just doing a better job. Spread back to the rim

509
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Speaker 1: talk get matched up. It's really that simple, and like

510
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Speaker 1: they're just not doing a good enough job. Like one

511
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Speaker 1: of the things that fans do a lot. And trust me,

512
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Speaker 1: I see this with like when I used to cover

513
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Speaker 1: the Lakers. The stot with Laker fans NonStop, Like is

514
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Speaker 1: Frank Vogel is the worst coach in the world. Oh,

515
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Speaker 1: Vanham's the worst coach in the world. I've been hearing

516
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Speaker 1: this shit for years. It's what everybody does, right, You

517
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Speaker 1: blame the coach.

518
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Speaker 2: Now. Has Adrian Griffin done a perfect job? No? Absolutely not.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of different things that we'll talk about

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Speaker 1: today that I think schematically they need to do differently. However,

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Speaker 1: before we put all of the blame on Adrian Griffin,

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Speaker 1: the players are also not doing their jobs. In order

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Speaker 1: for his scheme to be properly evaluated, it has to

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Speaker 1: be executed properly. I could have the smartest defensive scheme

525
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Speaker 1: in the world for a specific roster. But if the

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Speaker 1: guys don't do their jobs, the scheme will fall apart.

527
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Speaker 1: And so at the end of the days, it's complicated.

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Speaker 1: All these things are complicated. How does a team with

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Speaker 1: Joannison Brook Lopez the best defensive front line, one of

530
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Speaker 1: the best defensive front lines in the league, anchor the

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Speaker 1: twenty ninth ranked defense. A lot of things have to

532
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Speaker 1: go wrong. Brook's not doing as good of a job

533
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Speaker 1: as usually does. Giannis isn't doing as good of a

534
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Speaker 1: job as he usually does. Point of attack defense is

535
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Speaker 1: an issue backside of rebounding help. We're gonna talk about

536
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Speaker 1: all of it, but it's a lot of stuff that

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Speaker 1: goes wrong. There are different schematic things they need to

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Speaker 1: do differently. But again, like fire, you could fire Adrian

539
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Speaker 1: Griffin's but if they don't, if they don't buy into

540
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Speaker 1: whatever the next coach is doing and actually execute whatever

541
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Speaker 1: his scheme is, it's gonna fail anyway. And so again,

542
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Speaker 1: like a lot of times, we get it's easy to

543
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Speaker 1: just point a finger at the coach, but like the

544
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Speaker 1: players are out there playing the games, and they got

545
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Speaker 1: to do their.

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Speaker 2: Job as well.

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Speaker 1: In the half court and again twenty fourth and a

548
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Speaker 1: half court defense. You can't blame it all in the

549
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Speaker 1: transition defense. It's a failure of execution at every level.

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Speaker 1: Damian Lillard, Malik Monk excuse me, Malik Beasley, and Pat

551
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 1: Connitt's in all. Three of those guys are really really

552
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Speaker 1: struggling and they're getting picked on every single time. They

553
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 1: are dying on screens. They're switching screens that they shouldn't switch,

554
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Speaker 1: which is getting them into mismatches. Then when the Bucks

555
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Speaker 1: try to scram them out of mismatches, those guards aren't rotating.

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Speaker 1: There's a play that you'll see on that thread that

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Speaker 1: I put out there, or Damian Lillard switches aside pick

558
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Speaker 1: and roll, probably shouldn't have switched it to begin with.

559
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Speaker 1: Right then he ends up in a post mismatch that

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Speaker 1: Yannis SCRAMs him out of. But when Yannis SCRAMs him

561
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Speaker 1: out of the mismatch, now what does that mean to

562
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Speaker 1: scram somebody out of a mismatch? So like the side

563
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Speaker 1: ball screen, Dame switches it. Now he's on a big

564
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Speaker 1: wing right in that position. What you're trying to do

565
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Speaker 1: is before they make the post entry in that gap,

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Speaker 1: when the post player is asking for the ball, and

567
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Speaker 1: when they make the post entry, you're trying to basically

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Speaker 1: pre rotate out of it. So you want Giannis in

569
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Speaker 1: this case to sprint over and go to Dame's man

570
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Speaker 1: as Dame is running out to the shooter basically allowing

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Speaker 1: you it's it's kind of like a wheel and you

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Speaker 1: quickly rotate out of it. And then now all of

573
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Speaker 1: a sudden, the mismatch isn't there and Giannis is in

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Speaker 1: the post. Well, on this play, Giannis goes to scram

575
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Speaker 1: Dame out of the switch, and Dame just kind of

576
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 1: like floats around in the middle of the floor and

577
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:43,120
Speaker 1: ends up giving up a wide open three in the process.

578
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Speaker 1: Like that's just bad defense, that's just that's that's just

579
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Speaker 1: a guy not doing his job in the scheme. Probably

580
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Speaker 1: shouldn't have switched that screen. That should be all side

581
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Speaker 1: ball screens. You want ice, right because especially against a

582
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Speaker 1: team like the Raptors that aren't good pull up shooters,

583
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:00,520
Speaker 1: if you ice the screen, that means as the guy

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Speaker 1: comes to set the ball screen on the wing, as

585
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 1: the ball handler is trying to come off, you deny

586
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 1: him the screen. You jump high side and force him

587
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 1: to go back towards the baseline, and then your dropping Whoever,

588
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 1: your guy who's guarding the screener sits back in that spot.

589
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 1: The nobody really on the raptors in the raptors forwards

590
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: is a good enough shooter to justify like panic chasing

591
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Speaker 1: him around, You offer a late closeout.

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Speaker 2: That's what you do.

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Speaker 1: So, Like, if he drives to the baseline and throws

594
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Speaker 1: a pocket pass to the elbow, you'll offer a lake

595
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Speaker 1: close out. If the ball handler goes towards the baseline

596
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Speaker 1: it takes a pull up jump shot, you offer a

597
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Speaker 1: lake close out. If it's Dennis Schroeder, you live with

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Speaker 1: that shot.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: But like, so that's an example for Major and Griffin

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Speaker 1: where it's a schematic thing, right, Like, probably shouldn't just

602
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Speaker 1: be switching aside pick and roll and putting Dame or

603
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: Maleik onto a big forward, right, But at the same time, like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not even one hundred percent sure if that is

605
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 1: the scheme. It could very well be that Dame just

606
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 1: died on the screen and said switch. And that's why,

607
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Speaker 1: like it, we don't know what's actually going on now,

608
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 1: it does inevitably in the big picture come back on coaching,

609
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,919
Speaker 1: because this is game four, right, If it's still happening

610
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,119
Speaker 1: in game twelve, and the scheme is you're supposed to

611
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: ice it, but they're switching it instead. Then that's an

612
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 1: accountability issue, and now it falls back on the coach

613
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 1: for the coach not actually making sure that the players

614
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 1: are aware that they're expected to do their jobs and

615
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: that there's some sort of fallout from that. Not that

616
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: you're gonna remove Dame from the game, but you got

617
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: to somehow get in his ear and get him to

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Speaker 1: do his job. If that's the case, but we don't know.

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Speaker 1: It could also just be Adrian Griffin calling for a

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Speaker 1: switch there. So like that sort of thing is an

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Speaker 1: example of a schematic approach that they need to change.

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Speaker 1: But that concept of the guards being incapable of navigating

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Speaker 1: screens is a problem. There was a play where Malik

624
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 1: Beasley in a ball screen with Yaka Purtle and Dennis Schroeder,

625
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: saw the ball screen come in, did a nice job

626
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Speaker 1: sidling over the top of the screen. I actually did

627
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Speaker 1: a good job on this possession, chested it up Dennis

628
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Speaker 1: Schroder and cut him off. But then Dennis Schroeder literally

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Speaker 1: just hit him with a slight hesitation move and Molik

630
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 1: froze and Dennis went right by him downhill. And then

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Speaker 1: on the play, brook Lopez, who's guarding a non shooter

632
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,400
Speaker 1: in Yaka Pearl, was way too high at the level

633
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Speaker 1: of the screen behind the play. And then when he

634
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: tried to get back into the play to block Dennis

635
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: Schroeder at the rim, he had to like sell out

636
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 1: for it, and it was an easy drop off for

637
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 1: Yaka Purl for a dunk going down the lane. And again,

638
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: like execution, you gotta get a better job at the

639
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:30,439
Speaker 1: point of attack from Malik Beasley. There schematics, what is

640
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 1: brook Lopez doing? Why is he not in a deeper drop.

641
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,919
Speaker 1: Yakka Peurl's not gonna hurt you in that situation. I

642
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 1: saw like there was a I think Brooke thought that

643
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 1: Malik cut him off and figured it was gonna flow

644
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 1: into a dribble hand off with Gary Trent Junior coming

645
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: out of the corner, in which case Gary Trent Junior

646
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: is a good pull up shooter and he might have

647
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: to show high. But even then you sit back in

648
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 1: the drop further back to help on the Dennis Schroeder drive.

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Speaker 1: Then if if he gets rid of the basketball, then

650
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Speaker 1: you sprint back up to the level of screen. That's

651
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 1: that yo, yo, We always talk about you got to

652
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: go back to the rim for help up to the

653
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 1: level of the screen when the coverage dictates it. Back

654
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: to the rim for help up to the level of

655
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 1: the screen when the coverage dictates it. So like, in general,

656
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: like that to me, is brook Lopez either being in

657
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: the wrong spot schematically or blowing the coverage. How do

658
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: we know that Adrian Griffin hasn't told him? Hey on,

659
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: Dennis Schroeder, ball screens sit in a deeper drop like

660
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: we don't know. And so again like that's where it's

661
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 1: hard to really identify who the culprit is. The execution

662
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: is poor, but at the same time we don't know

663
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 1: if that's actually what the scheme is calling for. But

664
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: in general, against a team that is not a good

665
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 1: pull up jump shooting team but also your point of

666
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: attack defense this week, you have to sit in more

667
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: conservative ballscreen coverages, meaning your big man has to sit

668
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,239
Speaker 1: further back towards the rim. Way too often they were

669
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: caught up at the level, so when they got b

670
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: there was no help at the rim.

671
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 2: Right.

672
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: There was another play like a horn set where Pat

673
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: Conaton and Jay Crowder ran a switch that came right

674
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 1: out of a dribble handoff. So basically, Pascal Siakam runs

675
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 1: a dribble hand off with I think it was I

676
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 1: want to say it was Schroeder, but I can't remember

677
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: exactly who it was. But Crowder. Yeah, No, Schroeder has

678
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: the ball and Pascal Siakam runs up and gets the

679
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 1: ball and then runs another dribble hand off with Schroeder

680
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 1: right on the play. As Schroeder comes off the dribble

681
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 1: hand off, Jay Crowder jumps out and switches onto Schroeder

682
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: on the left wing. So imagine, in this case you've

683
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 1: got Bobby Portis, who's guarding the screener who is Yaka

684
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: Pertl In this case, he's sitting back at the semi circle. Okay,

685
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: Dennis Schroeder now has the ball up on the left

686
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 1: wing and Crowder has switched out onto him. So in

687
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: this case, because Crowder switched, Pat Conaton, who is guarding Schroeder,

688
00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: now has to switch on to Pascal Siakam, but he doesn't.

689
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: They botched the switch. So as Crowder switches, Conatent stays

690
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 1: home for just a split second. That gives Yaka Pearl

691
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 1: the angle to turn and quickly flip the screen the

692
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: backscreen on content. Had Content been paying attention and they

693
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 1: switched properly, he would have been in position to navigate

694
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 1: the screen better, but he wasn't, so Yaka Pearl just

695
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: lays the wood on him and hits him with a

696
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: good solid screen. And then Schroeder throws the over the

697
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: top pass to Siakam, who then catches and rips down

698
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: the lane to the basket. So we have poor execution

699
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: on the switch. But then there's the poor schematic approach.

700
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: Because Bobby portis guarding a non shooter in Perdle in

701
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: an action with two other non shooters in Siakam and Schroeder,

702
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: he's way up at the foul line. So when Content's

703
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: trailing the play and Siakam rips through the right, he's

704
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 1: got an easy lane down to the rim, Whereas if

705
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: yak whereas if Bobby portis is running that conservative drop

706
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: I'm talking about and sitting back, he can offer help

707
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 1: on the Siakam drive, which then you can rotate out of.

708
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 1: So again, like it's not just the schematics, there's poor

709
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: execution taking place as well. Right now they're getting really

710
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: poor perimeter defense play out of Malik Beasley, out of

711
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard, and out of Pat Conaton in particular. But

712
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: you see it elsewhere on the floor as well. Bobby

713
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: Portis one play, just got absolutely toasted on a straight

714
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: up one on one drive by Scotty Barnes, just literally

715
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: just faced him up. Portis is there sitting in a

716
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 1: stance and he just goes right by him to the

717
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: left and makes a left handed layup off the glass.

718
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: There is another play Chris Middleton guarding Pascal Siakam on

719
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: the right wing. Some of it was bad techniques Pascal

720
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: Siakam's Pascal Siakam has not shot over thirty five percent

721
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: from three since twenty twenty, and Middleton hard closes out

722
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: to his shooting hand and Siakam just rips through the

723
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: base and so like again, Chris Middleton giving up a

724
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 1: straight line drive to a non shooter probably shouldn't happen.

725
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: Right on the same play, Giannis got switched out on

726
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,479
Speaker 1: Dennis Schroeder. Jay Crowder was guarding Yaka Peerl in the post.

727
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: Yakaperle posted up on him not just to call for

728
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 1: the ball, but to clear out the help side Jay

729
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: Crowder instead of fighting around to the front so that

730
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: he could offer help. He just stayed on the backside.

731
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: So when Middleton got beat by Siakam towards the baseline,

732
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: he just went right to the rim and laid it up.

733
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 1: And there was no help because Jay Crowder didn't do

734
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: his job by fronting the post to get into a

735
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: position where he could help on the drive. So again,

736
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 1: like most of this is execution, I would argue, and like,

737
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna see some sort of dramatic

738
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: change in defensive scheme until guys just start doing a

739
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: better job. It's been a consistent problem throughout the start

740
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 1: of the season. There's the help and recover decisions have

741
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: been poor. Like there's another play where Grady Day got

742
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: a wide open three on the right wing because literally

743
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: Malachi Flynn is running a ball screen on the left

744
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 1: wing and he's kind of working downhill, but brook Lopez

745
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,399
Speaker 1: has it under control and Jay Crowder just sinks all

746
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,840
Speaker 1: the way into the elbow and gives up an easy

747
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 1: kickout three to Grady Dick. Grady Dick knocks down the three.

748
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: You literally see Jay Crowder go my bad again. That's

749
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: not a schematic thing. That's just a guy doing a

750
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 1: bad job and then they cannot like for whatever reason,

751
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:33,800
Speaker 1: they just allowed the Toronto big post players to attack

752
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: their small guards in the post without help. There were

753
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: two clips I pulled in the late second quarter. You

754
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: guys can find him in that thread where Pat Connitton

755
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: and Malik Beasley got posted up by Scotty Barnes. And

756
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 1: on both plays you can see guys glued up off

757
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:52,840
Speaker 1: the ball on players like o g nnob in Pascal Siakam.

758
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 1: There is one in particular where Dame is glued up

759
00:34:55,960 --> 00:35:00,399
Speaker 1: on Schroeder. Siakam has Jay Crowder glued up on him,

760
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 1: and Scotty Barnes is posting up Malik Beasley and it

761
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,240
Speaker 1: goes on for like five seconds. And on the play

762
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: it would be so easy just for Crowder to double

763
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: team to get the ball out of Scotty Barnes's hands.

764
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 1: The pass is going to go out to Pascal Siakam,

765
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,800
Speaker 1: Dame rotates over, which is going to lead to a

766
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: swing back to Schroeder, and Malik Beasley closes out to Schroeder,

767
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: who has one of the slowest releases in the league,

768
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:28,280
Speaker 1: and you take all of a sudden mismatch gone Crowder's

769
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 1: now on that post player Siakam's on dame, but you

770
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: can scram out of that one too, Like problem solved. No,

771
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: they just let Malik Beasley on an island try to

772
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: guard a massive Scottie Barnes who shot an easy hook

773
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: shot over the top. And then they did it the

774
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: very next possession against Pat Connaton and did the exact

775
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 1: same thing and left him on an island. So it's

776
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: a failure at all levels. A failure at the point

777
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:53,359
Speaker 1: of attack, a failure in your ball screen coverages from

778
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 1: your screen defenders who are just not doing a good

779
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: job right now, even Brook Lopez just not doing a

780
00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: good job right now, failure of your help and recover,

781
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 1: and the last, but not least, a failure to grab

782
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 1: defensive rebounds. A consistent problem in that Toronto Raptors game

783
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: was just guys standing around and watching well, guys were

784
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 1: crashing from the perimeter to get those rebounds. There is

785
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,240
Speaker 1: a play where Gary Trent Junior grabbed an offensive rebound

786
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 1: from his ass on the ground while multiple Bucks stood

787
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 1: around and watched like and it led to a wide

788
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: open three on the left wing that went in. So like,

789
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 1: it's it's a problem. They're fourteenth and defensive rebounding percentage

790
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: so far this year. They were second last year. Most

791
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 1: of that is just effort, So again, schematically, there are

792
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:35,879
Speaker 1: a couple of things that got to do a better

793
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: job of protecting their small guys in post mismatches and

794
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: so for starters, don't switch if you can avoid it,

795
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: like especially against teams like that that are power teams

796
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 1: that don't have good pull up shooting. Just trail your

797
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: smaller player over the top. Don't switch the screen right

798
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 1: when you do end up in a transition cross match,

799
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: or you have to switch and there's a post mismatch,

800
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: you have to double and rotate out of it. And

801
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 1: the last, but not least, your ball screen coverages have

802
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: to be more conservative because your perimeter defense is not good.

803
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: You're giving up too many straight line drives and guys

804
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: are getting over the top of ball screens too easy,

805
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: so you have to sit further back. Again, you got

806
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 1: to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your defense. Your

807
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,320
Speaker 1: strength is your back line. This is not a team

808
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,839
Speaker 1: I don't think that is capable of becoming a top

809
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: five defense, but they might be able to get into

810
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 1: that ten to fifteen range. If they get elite at

811
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: protecting the rim and elite at grabbing contested rebounds on

812
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 1: the defensive end, what's.

813
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:31,479
Speaker 2: The giveaway there?

814
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to probably give up some three point

815
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: shots on the weak side, and that's gonna stop you

816
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 1: from being a truly elite defense. But at the very least,

817
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: if you get that worked out and then you work

818
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: out your offensive end, you can still be a very

819
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 1: very good playoff team, as we've seen with teams like

820
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:52,800
Speaker 1: Denver right. So, like again, this is not crisis mode.

821
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: It's just everyone in the roster's got to do a

822
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 1: better job and you've got to make some schematic adjustments

823
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 1: for your specific group of personnel on the offensive end.

824
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 2: In the entire first half.

825
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: Against Toronto, when they got their ass kicked, Damiana shared

826
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: the floor for what at least twelve thirteen minutes. I'm

827
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 1: not sure the exact number, but I watched every single

828
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 1: possession they ran. Two Damianis picking rolls in the entire

829
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 1: first half. In the first one because Toronto was not

830
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 1: blitzing the ball screen. In the first one, og Nanobi

831
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:28,959
Speaker 1: was guarding Yannis and I believe Schroeder was on Dame,

832
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: and on the play, Giannis comes up and doesn't set

833
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: a screen. He slips out of it. It was almost

834
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: like Damon Giannis just assumed they were gonna blitz. They

835
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 1: don't blitz. Og stays home, Dennis chases Dame, throws the

836
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 1: pocket pass as if it's a blitz in a slip,

837
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: and it just gets easily stolen. And then they go

838
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: the other way, and then they went back to it

839
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,879
Speaker 1: a few possessions later on the right wing, and Dame

840
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 1: identified that it wasn't gonna be a blitz, and Giannis

841
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: set a better pick, and Dame came out off free

842
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 1: and clear and got a good look at a twenty

843
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: four foot pull up three. He just missed it. Now

844
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: that's gonna be an issue to start the season. Dame

845
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 1: is out of shape, clearly. He's seven for twenty two

846
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: on pull up jump shots, just forty six percent in

847
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 1: effective field goal percentage waited for threes, three for eleven

848
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 1: on catch and shoot jump shots, and all of them

849
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 1: are getting left short. He's leaving consistently pull up jump

850
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:23,359
Speaker 1: shots short on the rim. That one I just told

851
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: you about. That second Yiannis stayin ball screen barely grazed

852
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:29,240
Speaker 1: the front of the rim, so like he's also fifty

853
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 1: three percent at the rim, by the way, So like,

854
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 1: do I think Dame's gonna consistently misshots?

855
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 2: No?

856
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:35,280
Speaker 1: I think that's a problem that's going to be solved

857
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: in the long run just by Dame getting in shape

858
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,839
Speaker 1: and getting his legs underneath him. Right, But make it

859
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 1: easier on yourself. Why is it that the action that

860
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: we were all terrified of, this Giannis Dame pick and

861
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 1: roll that's capable of being so devastating, the one that

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Speaker 1: I charted in a preseason game at like something crazy

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Speaker 1: like a point and a half per possession. Why aren't

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Speaker 1: you running that? Why isn't that a thing? If for

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Speaker 1: no other he's another than to build the continuity and

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Speaker 1: like kind of like experience with that action because they're

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Speaker 1: gonna need to lean on it when you get down the.

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Speaker 2: Road to the playoffs. Right.

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Speaker 1: But like at the end of the day, they're just

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Speaker 1: not playing well enough. The two main guys, like Dame

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Speaker 1: is out of shape, missing shots, Giannis is in this

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Speaker 1: like weird funk right now where he's like in the

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Speaker 1: half court trying to play bully ball too much, and

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Speaker 1: the teams are just sitting on it and like he's

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Speaker 1: missing reads. There were several possessions in the Raptors game

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Speaker 1: where he just barreled down the lane and either turned

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Speaker 1: it over and got an offensive foul or missed a

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Speaker 1: shot while they were open shooters on the wing. And

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Speaker 1: like again, that's where getting him in an advantage situation

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Speaker 1: operating off of Dame's ball screens is a great way

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Speaker 1: to make him a more effective half court player. He's

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Speaker 1: settling for a ton of pull up jump shots. Not

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Speaker 1: so much in the Toronto game, but it's just because

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Speaker 1: they were getting their ass kicked. But in the season

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Speaker 1: so far, he's taken thirteen pull up jump shots already.

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Speaker 1: Like why why is Giannis taking thirteen pull up jump

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Speaker 1: shots already? Like I just shouldn't be the case. So

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Speaker 1: like at the end of the day, like dam and

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Speaker 1: Giannis just got to play better. Like I said before,

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Speaker 1: like sometimes you're just playing shitty basketball, and right now

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Speaker 1: your stars are playing shitty basketball. One thing I saw

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Speaker 1: that was kind of optimistic. There was an action in

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Speaker 1: the first half in the first quarter where Damian Lillard

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Speaker 1: and Chris Middleton ran a pick and roll or picking

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Speaker 1: like a ball screen and the Raptors switched it got

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Speaker 1: Dennis Schroeder onto Chris Middleton, threw the ball to Chris Middleton,

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Speaker 1: and he took an easy left shoulder fade over Dame

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Speaker 1: on the baseline or over a Dennis on the baseline

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Speaker 1: for an easy bucket. Like that's another way to kind

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Speaker 1: of identify an entry point in the defense. Those one

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Speaker 1: to three pick and rolls are almost always switches. It's

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Speaker 1: a great way to get a small defender onto Chris

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Speaker 1: or a bigger defender on the Dame and then you

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Speaker 1: can enter the offense from there. But flatly, the Stars

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Speaker 1: have to play better on the offensive end. The Stars

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Speaker 1: have to play better on the defensive end. Everybody at

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Speaker 1: every level, from the coaching staff down to the point

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Speaker 1: of attack defense, down to the ball screen defense, down

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Speaker 1: to help defense, to the defensive rebounding. Everybody's got to

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Speaker 1: do a better job. Am I worried about the Bucks? No,

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Speaker 1: this was definitely a worse start than I was expecting though,

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Speaker 1: But I did say I said, expect the Bucks to

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Speaker 1: struggle throughout the regular season, just because this is a

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Speaker 1: team that's gonna have to figure out how to win

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Speaker 1: a different way. But make no mistake. If they do

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Speaker 1: figure that out at some point before the end of

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Speaker 1: the season, they're gonna be a very dangerous playoff team.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, that is all I have for today.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be back tonight after the Nuggets Mavericks game

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Speaker 1: in the late night ESPN slates, So I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: exactly which games will be covering tonight, but we'll do

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Speaker 1: two or three instant reactions, then we're gonna take the

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Speaker 1: weekend off, and then we'll get back on Monday with

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Speaker 1: it some instant reactions and some deep dives at that point.

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Speaker 1: As always, I appreciate you guys, and I'll see you

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Speaker 1: later tonight. The volume