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Speaker 1: or hoops tonight, So the Knicks, the New York Knicks

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Speaker 1: have won eight games in a row. Now, I don't

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Speaker 1: there it is against a weaker stretch of their schedule.

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Speaker 1: so that's a solid win. Then they beat the Charlotte

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Speaker 1: Hornets and the Sacramento Kings. They beat a terrible Bulls

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Speaker 1: team twice, and then they had a solid, solid road

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Speaker 1: without steph Now, to be clear, winning streaks are almost

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Speaker 1: always against weaker stretches of your schedule, to be honest.

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Speaker 1: With how talented the league is now, it's nearly impossible

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Speaker 1: Just go to ESPN dot com and go to standings,

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Speaker 1: breakdown of you know, versus teams that are five hundred

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Speaker 1: That's not against the top ten teams in the league.

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Speaker 1: they run their action and they you know, end up

432
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Speaker 1: kicking out to some dude for three most of the time,

433
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Speaker 1: but they usually only can get one action in, and

434
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Speaker 1: you really limit their ability to attack a close out

435
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Speaker 1: when you pressure them, because now they're not getting into

436
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,760
Speaker 1: their offense until like ten twelve seconds on the shot clock. Luca,

437
00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,719
Speaker 1: you know, gets his matchup, gets to work off the dribble,

438
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Speaker 1: gets to his spot, draws that double team, makes that

439
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Speaker 1: kickout pass and there's only like four seconds on the

440
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Speaker 1: shot clock. So if you catch it and they make

441
00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:40,160
Speaker 1: one solid defensive rotation, all of a sudden, a limited

442
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Speaker 1: offensive player someone like Dorian Phinney Smith who can knock

443
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Speaker 1: down and catch and shoot three but isn't an outstanding

444
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Speaker 1: closeout attacker, that dude now has to make a play

445
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,639
Speaker 1: and man, Dallas's offense just completely felt the pieces in

446
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Speaker 1: that second quarter run just because they were Minnesota was

447
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:58,000
Speaker 1: doing a good job of pressuring them while they were

448
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Speaker 1: trying to walk the ball up which was slowing them down,

449
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,840
Speaker 1: getting them into their offense. And then on the offensive

450
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Speaker 1: end of the floor, that true five out spacing with

451
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,440
Speaker 1: nas Re picking and popping to the three point line

452
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 1: as opposed to rolling to the basket opened up everything

453
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Speaker 1: for people driving to the basket. So they Kemba Walker

454
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Speaker 1: on the floor during the nevericks at Kemba Walker on

455
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Speaker 1: the floor during the stretch, they straight up just attacked

456
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Speaker 1: him with Austin rivers twice. He had a driving layup

457
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Speaker 1: and one along the baseline and a driving floating and

458
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Speaker 1: one out of pick and roll off of the left wing.

459
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Speaker 1: Because Kemba Walker's a limited defensive player and it's really

460
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Speaker 1: hard to offer help when you've got a big guy

461
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Speaker 1: who's camping out of the three point line that can

462
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Speaker 1: beat you with catching shoot threes. Jalen Noel and Anthony

463
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 1: Edwards both had driving layups in the second quarter run.

464
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Speaker 1: Nas Read had a catch pump fake attack close out

465
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Speaker 1: good all the way the rim for a layup. They

466
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Speaker 1: got to the rim at will in that group against

467
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Speaker 1: the good defensive team in Dallas because they had space.

468
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Speaker 1: And this, you know, this just goes to show you,

469
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Speaker 1: guys what we were talking about with the that last game,

470
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Speaker 1: with that between the Bucks and the Pelicans, and then

471
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Speaker 1: with this one the importance of five out spacing, because

472
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Speaker 1: let me just give you guys some numbers to demonstrate this.

473
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Speaker 1: When nas Read is on the floor, is the only

474
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Speaker 1: center for the Timberwolves, they have a one nineteen offensive

475
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Speaker 1: rating and they are plus nine per one possessions in

476
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Speaker 1: five and sixty three possessions. With Carl Town's another stretch,

477
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Speaker 1: Big as the only center on the floor a hundred

478
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Speaker 1: and twenty four offensive rating, Big Shock, He's a better

479
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Speaker 1: version of nas Read plus five per one hundred possessions

480
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Speaker 1: and five fifty four possessions anything that ever involves Rudy

481
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Speaker 1: Gobert one oh eight offensive rating minus two net in

482
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Speaker 1: one thousand, six d eighty five possessions. So when you

483
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Speaker 1: guys hear me talk about the difference between vertical spacing

484
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Speaker 1: in five out spacing, because vertical spacing is a fancy

485
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Speaker 1: word that like you literally hear all the time, particularly

486
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Speaker 1: against with Rudy Gobert, Like a lot of Rudy Gobert supporters,

487
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Speaker 1: you always will hear screen assists in vertical spacing, because

488
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Speaker 1: those are two basketball concepts which are real, but they

489
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Speaker 1: are miniscule and value relative to what any average player

490
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Speaker 1: in the NBA can do, which is finished out of

491
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Speaker 1: the dunker spot. There is value there. There is value

492
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Speaker 1: in screening. There is value and being in the dunker spot,

493
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Speaker 1: but that is a much more replaceable value on the

494
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Speaker 1: offensive end compared to what five out spacing does. Five

495
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Speaker 1: out spacing is about making much longer defensive rotations. It's

496
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Speaker 1: very simple. If I'm on the right wing and I

497
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Speaker 1: beat my man off the dribble, and I have my

498
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Speaker 1: big man is guarding somebody in the dunker spot. He's

499
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Speaker 1: already there because he's arms distance away from the guy

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Speaker 1: in the dunker spot. He's already under the rim. It's

501
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Speaker 1: an easy rotation to make, and typically there's already a

502
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Speaker 1: shooter in the corner. That defender can then crack down

503
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Speaker 1: on the big man in the dunker spot. Right, it's

504
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Speaker 1: an easy rotation to make. If I am guarding the

505
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Speaker 1: man in the corner and there is nobody in the

506
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Speaker 1: dunker spot, I have to cover significantly more ground to

507
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Speaker 1: get over there, and chances are, especially when you're dealing

508
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Speaker 1: with guys that are working on the perimeter, you have

509
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Speaker 1: to have quicker defensive players out there, which are usually smaller.

510
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Speaker 1: So the lack of rim protection makes it so much

511
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Speaker 1: easier for you to get to the rim. And the

512
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Speaker 1: thing that's so frustrating about it is, how is it

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Speaker 1: that the general manager, how is it that the front

514
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Speaker 1: office for the Minnesota Timberwolves didn't look at the roster

515
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Speaker 1: see who your star is. Your star is Anthony Edwards

516
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Speaker 1: literally guard Lebron. That's what he reminds me of, because

517
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Speaker 1: he's a downhill power guard getting to the rim. He

518
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Speaker 1: needs space to get to the rim. The best version

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Speaker 1: of this team was always going to be spacing, just

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Speaker 1: like Lebron needed Chris Bosh, just like Lebron needed Kevin Love,

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Speaker 1: just like Lebron needed Anthony Davis. You, when you are

522
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Speaker 1: a downhill power player, you were always going to be

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Speaker 1: at your best and when you have space to operate.

524
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Speaker 1: And that I that concept I think has been overlooked

525
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Speaker 1: way too frequently in the NBA these days because teams

526
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Speaker 1: are obsessed with navigating the NBA regular season with a

527
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Speaker 1: good drop coverage, And I'm not undercutting the value of that.

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Speaker 1: It is value, but it's a given a take. You're

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Speaker 1: giving rim protection at the expense of easy offense. When

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Speaker 1: offense is clunky, it gets discouraging. When guys are struggling

531
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Speaker 1: on the offensive end, they're less willing to work hard

532
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Speaker 1: on defense because they're not feeling good and confident about themselves.

533
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Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards, if he's feeling good about himself getting to

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Speaker 1: the rim, he's gonna be more willing to sit in

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Speaker 1: a stance and contain a ball handler. If you contain

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Speaker 1: a ball handler, you don't need a rim protector. The

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Speaker 1: best former rim protection in basketball is perimeter defense. And

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Speaker 1: so I think that I think that the Minnesota timber

539
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Speaker 1: Wils have been a great like case study and how

540
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Speaker 1: team building in an old style persuaded a team to

541
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Speaker 1: waste a bunch of assets on a player that kind

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Speaker 1: of caps there the success of this particular team. They

543
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 1: are six and four since the Carl Town's injury, they've

544
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Speaker 1: won three straight. Anthony Edwards on the floor with nas

545
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Speaker 1: Read and no Gobart or Carl Towns this season is

546
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Speaker 1: plus thirteen per one possessions in fourty possessions could not

547
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Speaker 1: be more clear the direction this team needs to go.

548
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Speaker 1: And the problem is is they overpaid for what is

549
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Speaker 1: a really bad contract and Rudy Gobert, and there's no

550
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Speaker 1: chance in hell that they're ever going to recoup those assets,

551
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Speaker 1: So they're probably gonna end up camping on him as

552
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,399
Speaker 1: a as a matter of pride at this point, especially

553
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Speaker 1: for a newly higher gm UM. The last thing I

554
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Speaker 1: wanted to hit on in this game was just Dallas's offense.

555
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,880
Speaker 1: They're really prone to these cold spells because they become

556
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Speaker 1: super predictable bringing the ball at the floor slow. We

557
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 1: just talked about this. If you bring the ball up

558
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: slow and you don't get into your action until you

559
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Speaker 1: get the right matchup, then you might not actually start

560
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 1: beating someone off the dribble till ten seconds or left,

561
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: which means you're not making that kickout past so there's

562
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: only a handful of seconds left, which means you limit

563
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Speaker 1: your ability to have multiple attacks or to give people

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Speaker 1: the chance to drive and kick a little bit. So

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Speaker 1: what I'd like to see is more of a change

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Speaker 1: up from Luca. Now it's more like a fastball to

567
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Speaker 1: everything he throws. As a change up, but at the

568
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Speaker 1: end of the day, Luca needs to change the pace

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Speaker 1: a little bit when they get super stat I'd like

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Speaker 1: to see him try to bring the ball up with pace,

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Speaker 1: specifically as a mix up when they're getting a little

572
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Speaker 1: bit too stagnant on the offensive end. Alright, Portland, okay, see,

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Speaker 1: this was a really fun duel. The next two games.

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Speaker 1: We're just gonna talk about the very end of the games.

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Speaker 1: UM Portland O Okay see. It was a fundled between

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Speaker 1: Shae Gilds, Just Alexander and Damian Lillard and Anthony Simon's um.

577
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Speaker 1: It was really close about middle of the fourth quarter.

578
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 1: The Anthony sign assignmon sits back to back pull up

579
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Speaker 1: three's get a bunch of pull up jumpers down the

580
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Speaker 1: stretch of this game. A couple of them that were

581
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 1: right in shake gild just Alexander's face, and then on

582
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Speaker 1: the other end of the floor shake Gils Just Alexander

583
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Speaker 1: was just completely bullying Anthony Simon's getting to his spot,

584
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Speaker 1: literally just hitting the same move over and over again.

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00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: Spread is so top of the key. Couple hard ribbles

586
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Speaker 1: to the left, get to ten ft pound dribble, step

587
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Speaker 1: back and just rise up from like ten to twelve

588
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Speaker 1: ft for that little short jump shot. You know, one

589
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Speaker 1: of the things I love about s g As he's

590
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 1: got a super versatile scoring skill set, almost no two

591
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Speaker 1: shots alike, because he's got so many different spots on

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Speaker 1: the floor that he can rise up and shoot. It's

593
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Speaker 1: kind of like the opposite of what you've seen from

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Speaker 1: James Harden over the years. Um But then down the stretch,

595
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Speaker 1: Damian Lillard makes two massive reverse layups to tie the game,

596
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Speaker 1: but with three seconds like s g A, guarded by

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Speaker 1: Justice Winslow, kind of cuts down to the block and

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Speaker 1: on the catch just quick spins to the baseline, which

599
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Speaker 1: forces Justice Winslow to take a couple of hard defensive

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Speaker 1: slides and does another pound dribble step back, gets plenty

601
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Speaker 1: of separation, rises up and squishes a little fifteen foot

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Speaker 1: or on the baseline at the buzzer for his second

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Speaker 1: buzzer beating game winner of the season. Check this out.

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Speaker 1: S g A leads the entire NBA with seventy nine

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Speaker 1: points and clutch situations this year on just fifty shot attempts.

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Speaker 1: That's insane. He's playing like an m v P this year.

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Speaker 1: He's just on a terrible team. He's got the the

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Speaker 1: When he's on the floor, they're about dead even with teams,

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Speaker 1: which is doesn't sound impressive, but when you look at

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Speaker 1: the roster, it absolutely he is, and they get outscored

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Speaker 1: by eight points per one hun possessions when he's off.

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Speaker 1: That's that's an on off split that replicates what most

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Speaker 1: m vps do. It's just a combination of outstanding pull

614
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Speaker 1: up jump shooting and downhill scoring at the rim. He

615
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: is sixth in field goal percentage among pull up shooters

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Speaker 1: who are taking at least eight per game at which

617
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Speaker 1: is outstanding. And John Morant is the only guard in

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Speaker 1: the league who scores more in the restricted area per game.

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Speaker 1: All right, Orlando Atlanta. So Orlando comes in on a

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Speaker 1: six game winning streak. Atlanta actually led this game one

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Speaker 1: twelve with three minutes left, Trey Young had a pull

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Speaker 1: up three because More Wagner was just a little bit

623
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Speaker 1: slow getting up. Trey of course, gets right in Mobile

624
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 1: Wagner's face, starts talking ship, you know, because the Hawks

625
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: just talk tons of ship for being a pretty average

626
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Speaker 1: basketball team. Um, and then the wheels just completely came off.

627
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: Jont and Trey started turning the basketball over Trey kept

628
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Speaker 1: the Magic played Cavan Harris down the stretch of this game,

629
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Speaker 1: and he did a really nice job defending Trey Young,

630
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 1: just walling him up, cutting him off from the rim

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Speaker 1: and forcing him to shoot over the top. He kept

632
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Speaker 1: trying this like Jankie floating bank shot. I want to

633
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Speaker 1: be cleared. Trey had a great game, but he really

634
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 1: struggled down the stretch of this game. But he kept

635
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: trying this like jan Kie floating bank shot that he

636
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 1: kept missing. And then Marquelle Folds. You know, we talked

637
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: a lot about how his hustle plays on the glass

638
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: helped the Magic beat the Celtics in that second road

639
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 1: matchup the other day. Well he did it as a

640
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: score in this particular game. Got Downhill twice in the

641
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 1: final minutes, including a reverse layup with three seconds left

642
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: that put the Magic up by one. And then out

643
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Speaker 1: of a time out, the Magic or the Hawks run

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Speaker 1: like an action the screening action to get to Jant

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Speaker 1: Murray on the left baseline and he shoots a pull

646
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Speaker 1: up jump shot, a tough, fading, drifting pull up jump

647
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: shot that he misses, but Pala Bancho gets up into

648
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:47,959
Speaker 1: his landing area. Easy call. This wasn't one of those like,

649
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 1: oh he jumped way forward like they did. He legitimately

650
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: fouled him and Jon Dmry goes the line, makes two

651
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 1: free throws in the game is over and it's you

652
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: know you, you really have to be conscious fouling jump

653
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: shooters at the end of games, because you'd much rather

654
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: lose on a guy making a tough shot, like a tough,

655
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: drifting jump shot, than to watch him win the game

656
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: standing by himself fifteen feet away from the basket at

657
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 1: the free throw line, right. But it's just a good

658
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: lesson for a young player on a young team in

659
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: UH and it sucks, but this is the year where

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00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: they can afford to make mistakes because they don't have

661
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: any real ambitions. But this could have been their seventh

662
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: consecutive win had they not made that mistake. So it's

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Speaker 1: a good lesson for Paladon Care to learn. So I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about Marco Folks for just a second. Um.

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Speaker 1: We talked about his hustle plays, but I want to

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Speaker 1: talk about his overall production. So on the season, he's

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Speaker 1: averaging twelve four and five in twenty seven minutes per game,

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Speaker 1: with one point seven blocks and steals combined in just

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Speaker 1: twenty seven minutes. So if you extrapolate that out to

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Speaker 1: per thirty six, which is a normal high volume player,

671
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Speaker 1: that's sixteen five and seven with two point two stocks.

672
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 1: That was this season I twenty four against Atlanta, And

673
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: if you look at his production, he has a seventeen

674
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Speaker 1: points on a hundred and eighteen pick and rolls counting passes,

675
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Speaker 1: which is above average. That's fifty eight percentile, twenty six

676
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Speaker 1: points on twenty ISOs, which is excellent. That's in the

677
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Speaker 1: ninety three percentile, and eighty seven points if you if

678
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Speaker 1: you just look at him as a passer so plays

679
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Speaker 1: where he passed out of isso or passed out of

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Speaker 1: pick and roll, They've scored eighty seven points on eighty

681
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Speaker 1: two possessions, which is very good. He's also twenty three

682
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Speaker 1: for fifty two on jumpers, which is which is great,

683
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 1: seven for fifteen on threes, which is outstanding, sixteen forty

684
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Speaker 1: one off the dribble, which is thirty nine percent, which

685
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Speaker 1: is not good, but it's respectable. You know, good, is

686
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: right around forty great, it's right around forty five. He

687
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 1: is over four on pull up threes though, uh the

688
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: the only real weak spot right here, right now for

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Speaker 1: him is at the rim. He's about on the rim.

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Speaker 1: But he's just forty. He's just twenty four years old.

691
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 1: You know, we've he's been through such a weird journey

692
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 1: since he came into the league. But he's still is

693
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: a very exciting young guard who just has not been

694
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Speaker 1: able to stay healthy and available on the court. But

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00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: there's a lot of really interesting stuff coming from him

696
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: to start of this season. Um, the Hawks, even with

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00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 1: their fortunate free throw in against Orlando, are just five

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00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: and eight in their last thirteen games. They have the

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Speaker 1: ninth word, the ninth worst record in the league. Over

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00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:13,240
Speaker 1: that span, their seventeenth and offense and twenty in defense

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00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: and rebounding. Trey Young is shooting just from the field

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00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,479
Speaker 1: and from three, with four and a half turnovers per game.

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Speaker 1: The reality is is that just like we've always talked

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Speaker 1: about with Lebron and a D, with Kawai and Paul George,

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00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 1: with any of the other star pairings around the league,

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Speaker 1: you had better be a super duperstar or be really

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Speaker 1: good in the details of the game. And if you're

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Speaker 1: gonna be twenty seven and rebounding and twenty second in defense,

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Speaker 1: You're going to have to have your stars produced better,

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Speaker 1: and Trey Young and Dijon ty Murray just simply have

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00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 1: not been good enough. And I don't really like the

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Speaker 1: energy around this team. They talk a lot of ship,

713
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Speaker 1: like I said, for being a pretty average basketball team,

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Speaker 1: and they don't really look like they're having a ton

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Speaker 1: of fun on a night to night basis. Plus there's

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Speaker 1: all that stuff going on with Trey and the coach

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Speaker 1: as well. It's just really disappointing season for the Atlanta Hawks. Overall,

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00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: Raptors sixers. So this is the Tobias Harris corner three game.

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Speaker 1: So the Raptors looked like they were gonna run away

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Speaker 1: with this one. In regulation. They were up by seven

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Speaker 1: with four minutes left, and Tobias Harris we talked a

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Speaker 1: lot about rescuing possessions with shot making catches in the corner,

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Speaker 1: late clock situation guarded and just rises up over a contest,

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Speaker 1: probably got foul, he didn't get called and knocks down

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Speaker 1: a three, which kind of changed the dynamic to the game.

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00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 1: Then Ebi draws a double team swing swing the Anthony

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Speaker 1: Melton the same corner, knocked down three. Now it's a

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00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: one point game and b draws another foul, goes to

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Speaker 1: make two free throws. Now they're up one. Then James

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Speaker 1: Harden gets to driving, layup and transition. Now they're up

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Speaker 1: by three. They flipped the script on the Raptors pretty

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Speaker 1: quick down the stretch. But then Pascal Siackem transition drive,

733
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Speaker 1: draws a foul, makes a free throw, then he makes

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Speaker 1: like a really high difficulty scoop shot to send the

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Speaker 1: game to ot. Pascal Siackem was great tonight or last

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Speaker 1: night thirty fifteen and six, but in overtime it was

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Speaker 1: locked at one oh one forever before Tobias Harris, once

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Speaker 1: again on a corner kick out, hits the three to

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Speaker 1: break the tie. He actually hit another three on a

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Speaker 1: pass from the Anthony Melton that put the lead up

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Speaker 1: to six, but it got wiped away by an illegal

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Speaker 1: scream by p J. Tucker on review um. And then

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Speaker 1: in the final minute, Pascal Siakam missed to pull up

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00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 1: threes and the Raptors loose. They've now lost nine of

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Speaker 1: their last eleven games. Fred VanVleet is gonna have nightmares

746
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:22,359
Speaker 1: about that game. He missed several wide open threes down

747
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Speaker 1: the stretch and finish just three for fifteen from the field.

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Speaker 1: But you guys can probably guess where I'm going here.

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Speaker 1: The story of this game, once again was Toronto in

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Speaker 1: transition through the first third. These numbers are absolutely wild.

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00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,720
Speaker 1: Through the first thirty eight minutes of the game, Toronto

752
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: had twenty one transition possessions, leading to twenty seven points.

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00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: They averaged twenty four transition points a game, like we

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00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: talked about in the Golden State game when gold State

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00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: held into twelve over the last ten minutes of regulation

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00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: in ot they managed just one single transition possession that

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00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 1: Sam drive where he drew the free throw right before

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Speaker 1: or his scoop shot, which then be blocked and they

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Speaker 1: called a foul on p. J. Tucker and he made

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00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: one free throw. So all but one of their possessions

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Speaker 1: down the stretch over the last fifteen minutes of action

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Speaker 1: was in the half court and they are one of

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Speaker 1: the very worst half court offenses in the league. Philly

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Speaker 1: is the second best half court defense in the league,

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Speaker 1: and they managed just twenty one total points in the

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Speaker 1: final fifteen minutes of that game. That's the story of

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Speaker 1: the season for the Raptors. A complete lack of offensive

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Speaker 1: skill that makes it so that they cannot win unless

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Speaker 1: the game is fast and loose up and down the court.

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Speaker 1: As soon as you strangle the pace on them and

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Speaker 1: trapped them in the half court, you can beat this team.

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Speaker 1: And that's precisely why I was pitching that O G

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Speaker 1: and a Nobi for Darius Garland trade as something that

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Speaker 1: would just influx some offensive talent into this team. Um

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00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: Zach Low had a report that O G Andnobe has

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00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:52,840
Speaker 1: sky high trade value and that a lot of teams

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Speaker 1: are interested. I mentioned O G and Aobe is a

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00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: potential trade target if the Lakers wanted to go win

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00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 1: now with Anthony Davis. But the bottom line is they

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00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,399
Speaker 1: got to do something because fundamentally, this team is not

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00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: capable of scoring in the half court, and you have

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Speaker 1: to be able to score in the half court to

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Speaker 1: win in the NBA playoffs. It's just it's just a reality.

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Speaker 1: Unless you are a all world defensive team the way

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Speaker 1: the Lakers were in the Toronto raptor the Toronto Raptors

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00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 1: are not an all world defensive team. That's just a

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00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 1: fact um, you know. And then for Philly that's always

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00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 1: going to be their best indicator of success. Can they

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Speaker 1: control the pace when they split back in transition, and

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00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: they keep teams in the half court, they get stops.

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00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: They have the second best half court defense in the league.

792
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: They're up to eleventh and transition defense after their nightmare start.

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Speaker 1: You guys probably remember us talking a lot about that

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Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season. You know, after the

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Speaker 1: Lakers game, I told you guys that I thought the

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Speaker 1: Sixers were primed to go on a run to start

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Speaker 1: the year. Why because they fixed their transition defense and

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00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: they were starting to get healthy final and they've won

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Speaker 1: five in a row. Now, I was saying that would

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Speaker 1: probably start next year when Tyrese Maxie came back. They're

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00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:00,359
Speaker 1: already starting without him. So this isn't it's It's an

802
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,479
Speaker 1: exciting team, and it all begins with them playing lights

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Speaker 1: out on the defensive end of the floor. You know,

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Speaker 1: I also said before the year that if you guys remember,

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Speaker 1: in our power rankings, I had my top four, you know,

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Speaker 1: Golden State, Boston, Milwaukee, and the Clippers. I think I

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00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: had Milwaukee and second in Boston and third. But if

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Speaker 1: you remember five and six, I had Philly in Brooklyn

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Speaker 1: because of how much talent they had. I just had

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Speaker 1: them as if things go right contenders because they had

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Speaker 1: so many question marks. You know, James Harden's health, Joel

812
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: and Beats health, doc rivers, you know, everything going on

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Speaker 1: in Brooklyn. We talked about those things. Well, they got

814
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: off to rough starts, but both of those teams are

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Speaker 1: hot now and they are now fourth and fifth in

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Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference. Al Right, guys, that is all I

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Speaker 1: have for tonight. Remember our plan for the rest of

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Speaker 1: the week. We are taking Tomorrow off, but keep an

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Speaker 1: eye on the feeds. For Thursday, we are going to

820
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:50,920
Speaker 1: have a full breakdown of the New York mix and

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Speaker 1: the recent success. Then we're gonna take a couple of

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Speaker 1: days off for the holidays. We'll take uh Friday, Saturday off,

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Speaker 1: and then Sunday for Christmas Day, we plan on doing

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Speaker 1: three different instant reaction videos. So keep an eye on

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Speaker 1: the feeds and I will see you guys on Thursday

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Speaker 1: and then again on Sunday. The volume