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Speaker 1: or hoops tonight, So the Knicks, the New York Knicks
Speaker 1: have won eight games in a row. Now, I don't
Speaker 1: want to rain on the parade too much here, but
Speaker 1: there it is against a weaker stretch of their schedule.
Speaker 1: They beat the Calves without Jared Allen, They beat the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks at home with most of their guys playing,
Speaker 1: so that's a solid win. Then they beat the Charlotte
Speaker 1: Hornets and the Sacramento Kings. They beat a terrible Bulls
Speaker 1: team twice, and then they had a solid, solid road
Speaker 1: win in Indiana UM and then tonight against Golden State
Speaker 1: without steph Now, to be clear, winning streaks are almost
Speaker 1: always against weaker stretches of your schedule, to be honest.
Speaker 1: With how talented the league is now, it's nearly impossible
Speaker 1: to rip off a wind streak against really good teams.
Speaker 1: Just go to ESPN dot com and go to standings,
Speaker 1: and if you click on expanded standings, they show the
Speaker 1: breakdown of you know, versus teams that are five hundred
Speaker 1: or better versus teams that are below five hundred. And
Speaker 1: even the best teams in the league are only winning,
Speaker 1: like the Bucks and Celtics are only winning three out
Speaker 1: of every four games against teams that are above five hundred.
Speaker 1: That's not against the top ten teams in the league.
Speaker 1: That's not against the top five teams in the league.
Speaker 1: That's literally against anybody who wins more than they lose,
Speaker 1: you're gonna usually drop one out of four of them,
Speaker 1: even if you're one of the best teams in the league,
Speaker 1: and most of the good teams are hovering around five
Speaker 1: hundred there, So I want to be clear, it's typical
Speaker 1: for win streaks to happen against weaker stretches of their schedule. Um,
Speaker 1: if you zoom in on it a little bit, you've
Speaker 1: got three Knicks averaging double figures over this span. Coming
Speaker 1: into tonight, Julius Randall was averaging eleven and four over
Speaker 1: the seven game streak. On true shooting got his pull
Speaker 1: up jump shot going final leaves, shooting on six attempts
Speaker 1: per game. That was something that was he was struggling
Speaker 1: with a lot last year and at the beginning of
Speaker 1: this year. R J. Barrett twenty two points and six
Speaker 1: rebounds on fifty percent true shooting. He's hitting his catch
Speaker 1: and shoot threes about thirty eight percent on five attempts
Speaker 1: per game during the streak. And Jalen Brunson twenty points
Speaker 1: and six assists on fifty i percent true shooting on
Speaker 1: eight pull up jumpers per game, which is great on
Speaker 1: pull up threes, which is outstanding. And I really like
Speaker 1: Quentin Grimes. He's pitching in about twelve a game during
Speaker 1: the streak on from three. I love his aggressive spot
Speaker 1: up shooting gets really good lift. When you get really
Speaker 1: good lift in shooting situations, it limits the muscle memory
Speaker 1: part at the top of the shot. It makes it
Speaker 1: easier for you to replicate your shot so that it's,
Speaker 1: you know, easier to be more consistent as a shooter.
Speaker 1: There's lots of good stuff going on offensively for the
Speaker 1: New York Knicks, but the truth of the matter is
Speaker 1: is they're winning because they're just absolutely dominating teams physically. Um,
Speaker 1: this is one of the most commonly forgotten things about
Speaker 1: the game of basketball, and I think highlights and just
Speaker 1: the way that the game is consumed by the younger generation. Uh,
Speaker 1: no disrespect, It's been like that forever and that's just
Speaker 1: part of what makes the game marketable. But everything focuses
Speaker 1: on the scoring and on the ball handling and the
Speaker 1: nifty passes and all of the highlight type of plays
Speaker 1: around the game of basketball. But at its core, basketball
Speaker 1: is a contact sport. This is something I hammer home
Speaker 1: all the time with the high school kids that I coached, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: all of this is cool, and I want you guys
Speaker 1: to get better at this stuff, and we're gonna practice
Speaker 1: this stuff. But at the end of the day, we
Speaker 1: have to win the in the trenches. We have to
Speaker 1: win in all of the physical confrontations to have any
Speaker 1: chance to win basketball games. A huge chunk of what
Speaker 1: the sides basketball games is physicality. So coming into tonight,
Speaker 1: obviously the numbers have an updated yet, but in the
Speaker 1: last seven games, the Knicks have an are only giving
Speaker 1: up per one hundre possessions. They're the only team in
Speaker 1: the league giving up under a hundred points per one
Speaker 1: hundred possessions in their last seven games, so their number
Speaker 1: one in defense, and this is crazy. They're grabbing fifty
Speaker 1: six point three of available rebounds, which is first in
Speaker 1: the league. Bio. Tonight against Golden State, they outrebounded them
Speaker 1: forty seven to twenty nine, fourteen offensive rebounds to just
Speaker 1: four for Golden State, fifty to thirty eight in points
Speaker 1: in the paint, thirty six points off of turnovers, just
Speaker 1: running it down their throat every time they get every
Speaker 1: time they forced a turnover, sixteen to six in second
Speaker 1: chance points. And it's funny because if you look at
Speaker 1: it up close, you know, I was I kept checking
Speaker 1: the box score through the game because I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, when they're in the half court, Golden States
Speaker 1: actually playing pretty well. You know, Jordan Pool is making shots,
Speaker 1: you get guys contributing. You know, on the other end,
Speaker 1: they're doing an okay job in the half court on
Speaker 1: defense against against the Knicks, getting stops. And you looked
Speaker 1: at the box score and Golden State through almost three
Speaker 1: quarters of the game was out shooting the Knicks. They
Speaker 1: were shooting about fifty three. The Knicks were shooting about
Speaker 1: through a good two thirds almost three fourths of the
Speaker 1: game they were executing better when they were in those
Speaker 1: half court settings. But after the game, the New York
Speaker 1: Knicks shot thirteen more shots then the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 1: By by securing offensive rebounds, by forcing turnovers in the
Speaker 1: physicality of the game, they give themselves more shots on goal.
Speaker 1: You guys hear me talk a lot about half court
Speaker 1: offense half court defense when we uh when we're evaluating teams,
Speaker 1: and a huge reason for that is because that's the
Speaker 1: static basket. That's the static basketball environment, and when you
Speaker 1: get into the deep stretches of the playoffs, the static
Speaker 1: half court environment is a good way to evaluate teams
Speaker 1: because teams are usually a little more coached at that phase.
Speaker 1: There's a lot more scouting, you're in front of all
Speaker 1: your the other team sets. Usually you're gonna take away
Speaker 1: the easy stuff and forced teams to beat you in
Speaker 1: the half court. That's why we look at them. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, who cares if I'm
Speaker 1: getting one point one seven points per possession and you're
Speaker 1: getting one point one four points per possession if I
Speaker 1: get thirteen more shots than you, Because if I get
Speaker 1: thirteen more shots than you, that's more than thirteen additional
Speaker 1: points that I'm pitching into the pile there just by
Speaker 1: beating you in all of the physicality areas of the game.
Speaker 1: And you know we're gonna do uh, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say too long in the Nicks tonight because we want
Speaker 1: to do a deep dive on them. So we're we're
Speaker 1: going on doing these deep dives with adding film. As
Speaker 1: some of you guys noticed last week, we did like
Speaker 1: a twenty five minute breakdown on the Memphis Grizzlies, really
Speaker 1: diving into what they do on both ends of the
Speaker 1: floor with a lot of footage. We are going to
Speaker 1: do that with the New York Knicks. That is going
Speaker 1: to air on Thursday, So keep an eye on the feeds.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do a deep dive into the Knicks on Thursday.
Speaker 1: But make no mistake, we're gonna talk a lot about
Speaker 1: individual players. We're gonna talk a lot about individual skill sets.
Speaker 1: But the New York Knicks are winning because they are
Speaker 1: bigger and stronger than you. They're playing harder than you
Speaker 1: and there and Tom Thibodeau has them committed to all
Speaker 1: of the details of the game of basketball. Um the
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors continue to struggle with physicality, specifically on
Speaker 1: the road. They are now a not counting tonight stats obviously,
Speaker 1: they're twenty nine in road defense, in road rebounding, and
Speaker 1: they have the personnel to be better with Kevon Looney
Speaker 1: and Draymond Green. They have enough front court personnel to
Speaker 1: to thrive in those environments. They have athletic wings like
Speaker 1: Jonathan Cominga and Andrew Wiggins who can crack down and
Speaker 1: grab defensive rebounds. They have guards and Steph Curry and
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson that have a history of competing in those settings.
Speaker 1: They are capable of being better. A big way to
Speaker 1: tell is just look at how they play at home.
Speaker 1: Their third in defense at home, in rebounding at home,
Speaker 1: which is not great, But I have have a lot
Speaker 1: better than they do on the road. Now, Yes, Andrew
Speaker 1: Wiggins being out absolutely hurts there, but this has been
Speaker 1: an issue throughout the season, even when Andrew Wiggins has
Speaker 1: been available. At some point, the urgency on the road
Speaker 1: is going to have to kick in. And I think
Speaker 1: a big part of this is just how many young
Speaker 1: guys they rely on in their rotation. We talked about
Speaker 1: this a lot. I think it was about a week ago. Um.
Speaker 1: But when you're a young basketball player, you're usually more emotional.
Speaker 1: You struggle to replicate success, you struggle to avoid failure
Speaker 1: because you just haven't learned the lesson enough times and
Speaker 1: you don't really have good habits when you're a young player.
Speaker 1: It's no different than just being an adult. Like, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a lot better at taking care of my adult
Speaker 1: life now in my thirties than I was in my twenties.
Speaker 1: I was a lot more sloppy with my habits and
Speaker 1: details throughout my daily schedule. Right, you know, you just
Speaker 1: learned to be an adult. And that extends to the
Speaker 1: game of basketball, with competing the same way every single night,
Speaker 1: not just feeding on the energy of the home crowd
Speaker 1: or getting discouraged when the road crowd gets energetic as
Speaker 1: your team is starting to struggle. I think that's a
Speaker 1: big part of it. Young players have always struggled with
Speaker 1: that home road dynamic. But we're gonna find out they
Speaker 1: got Brooklyn tomorrow night. We're gonna find out if they
Speaker 1: can bring a better effort on the road against a
Speaker 1: team in Brooklyn that's a very good defensive team, but
Speaker 1: that is not very physically imposing, So they should be
Speaker 1: able to hang hang around a little bit better. There.
Speaker 1: The one last thing I want to talk about with
Speaker 1: Golden State. With Jordan Pool, um, you know, this is
Speaker 1: becoming kind of a recurring theme. Yet twenty six points
Speaker 1: tonight on eighteen shots, he had several highlight plays, but
Speaker 1: there was a euro step there in the early second
Speaker 1: half that was just ridiculous, and I just remember thinking,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how many athletes in the NBA can
Speaker 1: make that kind of euro step on moving at the
Speaker 1: sheer straight line speed that he was moving at on
Speaker 1: that play. But he only had one assist. And this
Speaker 1: is becoming a thing with Jordan Pool, particularly when Steph
Speaker 1: is out of the lineup. He When Steph is there
Speaker 1: and the team is kind of functioning the way it
Speaker 1: normally does, Jordan Pool embraces a role which is shot creator,
Speaker 1: you know, tertiary shot creator if you want to call
Speaker 1: it that, behind Steph and Clay, right, But when Steph
Speaker 1: is out, he almost like it, almost like he gets
Speaker 1: in his own head to the point where he thinks,
Speaker 1: I have to shoot my way into replacing what step
Speaker 1: rings to the table, And more often than not, what
Speaker 1: ends up happening is you'll see games like that where
Speaker 1: you'll have twenty six points, but the team doesn't really
Speaker 1: jive on the offensive end of the floor. And he
Speaker 1: was a minus twenty seven tonight, And so I'd like
Speaker 1: to see, you know, and this is gonna gonna be
Speaker 1: a good little extended stretch here. Steph did a little
Speaker 1: interview on the sideline during the game where he basically said,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing anything right now, not even touching a basketball.
Speaker 1: Probably won't touch a basketball till January one. So STEP's
Speaker 1: gonna be out a little while here. You know, we
Speaker 1: we heard about that when that original report came out.
Speaker 1: Adriano Zanowski said a few weeks, Sham's like probably more
Speaker 1: than a month, and Steph all but confirmed that tonight.
Speaker 1: So what that means is Jordan Pool is going to
Speaker 1: have a long stretch of basketball here, and I hope
Speaker 1: that he understands that the best chance he has of
Speaker 1: doing his part to help the team win is two more.
Speaker 1: Embrace shot creation rather than shot making, and shot creation
Speaker 1: is all of the above. Shot creation is about making reads.
Speaker 1: Sometimes that means you're shooting, Sometimes that means you're creating
Speaker 1: shots for your teammates. But no matter what your best
Speaker 1: chance to win as if the whole team is vibing offensively.
Speaker 1: So I'd like to see him tweak his approach just
Speaker 1: a little bit. But dude, the talent is insane, and
Speaker 1: a lot of times we forget because Jordan Pool has
Speaker 1: been around a long time, Like Jordan Pool has been
Speaker 1: playing it like he was playing in that playing game
Speaker 1: against the Lakers, making big plays in his early twenties,
Speaker 1: like he is still very young, and just because he's
Speaker 1: been around a while, we kind of separating him from
Speaker 1: Jonathan Comingut and Moses Moody and James Wiseman. But he's
Speaker 1: a hell of a lot closer to those guys in
Speaker 1: terms of experience than he is to the older players.
Speaker 1: All Right, So we are going to rip through five
Speaker 1: games from last night, which was just a jam packed
Speaker 1: NBA slate, tons of good basketball to get to. We're
Speaker 1: gonna hit on ten teams in total, starting with the
Speaker 1: Bucks and the Pelicans. So the Bucks beat the Pelicans
Speaker 1: on the road one nineteen. Chris Middleton and Brandon Ingram
Speaker 1: were both out for this game. It was supposed to
Speaker 1: be kind of like a Janice verse Zion type of battle.
Speaker 1: That was the way it was billed, but a Zion
Speaker 1: had an absolute nightmare of a time dealing with Milwaukee's defense.
Speaker 1: They just pressured him on the ball with Drew Holiday
Speaker 1: attacking his handle, and knowing that Drew Holiday was he
Speaker 1: had the freedom to get beat off the dribble because
Speaker 1: he had brook Lopez and Janice helping on the back line.
Speaker 1: He finished just seven for sixteen in the painted area
Speaker 1: in that game. He did have seven assists, but he
Speaker 1: also had six turnovers um. And then you know, as
Speaker 1: far as the battle with Joannis goes, Joannas poured in
Speaker 1: forty two and ten on only seventeen shots, so not
Speaker 1: much of a battle there. But what was really interesting
Speaker 1: to me about this particular game was it was kind
Speaker 1: of like a great explanation of the importance of stretch pigs,
Speaker 1: which this is gonna be a theme throughout the rest
Speaker 1: of this show tonight, because we're gonna talk about it
Speaker 1: a little bit with another team that's playing really well lately,
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Timberwolves, who have been leaning on Nas read
Speaker 1: a stretch big which is really opening things for them
Speaker 1: on the offensive end of the floor. And what's the
Speaker 1: counter to having Brook Lopez hawk the paint all night
Speaker 1: to contain Zion Well. Jonas Valanciunas is not a not
Speaker 1: not typically a super aggressive three point shooter, but he
Speaker 1: is a capable three point shooter, and he made six
Speaker 1: threes in that first half, making brook Lopez pay for
Speaker 1: hawking the paint, and he had twenty eight points in
Speaker 1: the first half. But flip that dynamic a little bit.
Speaker 1: How does Jonas Valanciunas like to play defense, same type
Speaker 1: of thing, a super deep drop coverage, lingering around the paint,
Speaker 1: helping on every drive, just like brook Lopez does. And
Speaker 1: brook Lopez is arguably the best rim protector three point
Speaker 1: shooter big that we have in the league. In the
Speaker 1: third quarter, brook Lopez had thirteen points on five jump shots,
Speaker 1: a couple of big corner threes when Jonas was helping
Speaker 1: over on on drives, you know, picking pop three above
Speaker 1: the break. He had like an Iso face up jump
Speaker 1: shot and in their short corner on the right side
Speaker 1: against Ian Williamson um and that same dynamic lipped on
Speaker 1: New Orleans for them over helping with their rim protecting center.
Speaker 1: The Bucks really dominated the second half. They led by
Speaker 1: as many as eighteen. The Pelicans did go on a
Speaker 1: late run and got it within three before Drew Holiday.
Speaker 1: Um they ran, they got it within three. They come
Speaker 1: down the floor, Brook Lopez comes and sets the ball screen.
Speaker 1: C J. C J. McCollum, who has had a nightmare
Speaker 1: defending and pick and roll the last week or two,
Speaker 1: goes under the screen, and Drew Holiday, who's a professional
Speaker 1: pull up shooter, just rises up and knocks down what
Speaker 1: effectively amounts to the dagger Um. The Milwaukee Bucks are
Speaker 1: now in sole possession of the best record in basketball,
Speaker 1: and it's been kind of funny because it's been a
Speaker 1: really uneven stretch from them, because they won four straight
Speaker 1: after losing to the Lakers, and then they blew a
Speaker 1: game on the road in Houston with all of their
Speaker 1: stars playing. Then they absolutely dominated the Warriors, and then
Speaker 1: they got fifty pieced by the Memphis Grizzlies. They were
Speaker 1: down by fifty points in the fourth quarter, and then
Speaker 1: they you know, finished that streak off by handling the
Speaker 1: Utah Jazz in New Orleans. Pelicans, it's been kind of uneven,
Speaker 1: but the bottom is completely falling out for the Boston Celtics,
Speaker 1: and next thing you know, now they are twenty two
Speaker 1: and eight in first place overall in the NBA. It's
Speaker 1: kind of unusual to see a twenty two and eight
Speaker 1: team as the best record in the league. But that
Speaker 1: just goes to show you how much parody there is
Speaker 1: in the NBA right now. Um, the Pelicans have now
Speaker 1: lost four games in a row and it's their defense
Speaker 1: that's mainly followed apart. They have a one defensive rating
Speaker 1: in their last four games against some good offenses too
Speaker 1: in Utah, Phoenix and Milwaukee and I. This is something
Speaker 1: that you know, this is something that you're gonna see
Speaker 1: kind of be a recurring theme for these heavy drop
Speaker 1: coverage teams that that kind of have some limited defensive
Speaker 1: players playing right because c Jim McCollum not a great
Speaker 1: defensive player. Trey Murphy will one day to be a
Speaker 1: good defensive player. Right now not a great defensive player.
Speaker 1: Zion Williamson shows some flashes, had a big corner three
Speaker 1: block the other night, you know, looking like he was
Speaker 1: at Duke. He's making more plays than he used to make,
Speaker 1: but he still is getting hunted a lot in specific situations,
Speaker 1: particularly at the end of games. The Utah Jazz in
Speaker 1: their second match up, hunted him a lot in that
Speaker 1: overtime game. So like they've got some limited offensive players,
Speaker 1: and so against bad teams that don't have great pull
Speaker 1: up jump shooting and aren't graded executing in the half court,
Speaker 1: they can funnel Jonas Valancunis and they can replicate a
Speaker 1: good defense, and they are sixth and defense overall this season. Right.
Speaker 1: That seems good on the surface, but the truth of
Speaker 1: the matter is, according to Cleaning the Glass, when they
Speaker 1: are playing against top ten teams by point differential, the
Speaker 1: Pelicans are allowing a hundred and six team point two
Speaker 1: points per one hundred possessions, which ranks twenty in the
Speaker 1: league against that particular set of teams. As a result,
Speaker 1: they are six and ten against teams that are five
Speaker 1: hundred or better and twelve and two against below five
Speaker 1: hundred teams. So there's some fools gold stuff going on
Speaker 1: with the Pelicans where they're kind of main handling bad
Speaker 1: teams on the strength of their drop coverage and playing
Speaker 1: better defense against those teams, and they're really struggling against
Speaker 1: the best teams. Now, brandon Ingram when he's engaged as
Speaker 1: a very good defensive that solves a lot of problems, right,
Speaker 1: And when they get into the playoffs. I don't think
Speaker 1: they're gonna play Jonas as much. I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: go small a lot. It's gonna be a lot more
Speaker 1: Larry Nan. So I'm not down on them overall, but
Speaker 1: I do think that, you know, when they were at
Speaker 1: the top of the West, maybe that's not a realistic
Speaker 1: idea of where they are. They're probably a little bit
Speaker 1: more middle of the pact type of team in the
Speaker 1: Western Conference. Alright, moving on to Mavericks Timberwolves. So the
Speaker 1: Timberwols were missing Carl Towns and Rudy Gobert in this
Speaker 1: game and won sixteen to one oh six. Minnesota was
Speaker 1: actually trailing thirty seven to twenty nine and second quarter
Speaker 1: and finished second quarter on a seven run to take
Speaker 1: a thirteen point lead and really never looked back at
Speaker 1: that point. It was a really interesting lineup that they
Speaker 1: won that particular game with, if you remember when they
Speaker 1: made the trade. I didn't fundamentally like the way that
Speaker 1: they had changed their identity because they were kind of
Speaker 1: like a five out basketball team. You know, they would
Speaker 1: have uh, they would have Carl Town's at the center
Speaker 1: and they would play you know, Patrick really was a
Speaker 1: good perimeter defender. You know, Jada McDaniels would be out
Speaker 1: there a lot as a as a perimeter defender. You know,
Speaker 1: they had a lot of good perimeter defense players that
Speaker 1: they shipped out in the deal, and as a result,
Speaker 1: they were playing a lot of Dangel Russell and Carl
Speaker 1: Town's at the four having to guard perimeter players, and
Speaker 1: the whole fundamental identity of the team shifted, and now
Speaker 1: you've got Rudy Gobert clogging things up in the paint
Speaker 1: all the time. Well, the lineup that they ran to
Speaker 1: get this advantage against Dallas in the second quarter was
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards. It was a very good on ball defender. Obviously,
Speaker 1: he still has some ways to go in terms of
Speaker 1: team defense, but he's a very good on ball defender.
Speaker 1: Jalen Knewell, who's young and a very good athlete, is
Speaker 1: capable of good on ball defense. Austin Rivers, who literally
Speaker 1: gets an NBA paycheck because he's a good on ball defender,
Speaker 1: Jada McDaniels, who literally gets an NBA paycheck because he's
Speaker 1: a good defensive wing, and nasri and so as a result,
Speaker 1: they will able to play five out basketball on the
Speaker 1: offensive end of the four and on the perimeter they
Speaker 1: will be able to contain, which makes it so that
Speaker 1: their defense is more functional even without you go bear
Speaker 1: on the floor. And I thought they did a really
Speaker 1: nice job in that second quarter run of just like
Speaker 1: pressing up on Dallas, because Dallas can be really slow
Speaker 1: and they walk the ball up the floor and then
Speaker 1: they run their action and they you know, end up
Speaker 1: kicking out to some dude for three most of the time,
Speaker 1: but they usually only can get one action in, and
Speaker 1: you really limit their ability to attack a close out
Speaker 1: when you pressure them, because now they're not getting into
Speaker 1: their offense until like ten twelve seconds on the shot clock. Luca,
Speaker 1: you know, gets his matchup, gets to work off the dribble,
Speaker 1: gets to his spot, draws that double team, makes that
Speaker 1: kickout pass and there's only like four seconds on the
Speaker 1: shot clock. So if you catch it and they make
Speaker 1: one solid defensive rotation, all of a sudden, a limited
Speaker 1: offensive player someone like Dorian Phinney Smith who can knock
Speaker 1: down and catch and shoot three but isn't an outstanding
Speaker 1: closeout attacker, that dude now has to make a play
Speaker 1: and man, Dallas's offense just completely felt the pieces in
Speaker 1: that second quarter run just because they were Minnesota was
Speaker 1: doing a good job of pressuring them while they were
Speaker 1: trying to walk the ball up which was slowing them down,
Speaker 1: getting them into their offense. And then on the offensive
Speaker 1: end of the floor, that true five out spacing with
Speaker 1: nas Re picking and popping to the three point line
Speaker 1: as opposed to rolling to the basket opened up everything
Speaker 1: for people driving to the basket. So they Kemba Walker
Speaker 1: on the floor during the nevericks at Kemba Walker on
Speaker 1: the floor during the stretch, they straight up just attacked
Speaker 1: him with Austin rivers twice. He had a driving layup
Speaker 1: and one along the baseline and a driving floating and
Speaker 1: one out of pick and roll off of the left wing.
Speaker 1: Because Kemba Walker's a limited defensive player and it's really
Speaker 1: hard to offer help when you've got a big guy
Speaker 1: who's camping out of the three point line that can
Speaker 1: beat you with catching shoot threes. Jalen Noel and Anthony
Speaker 1: Edwards both had driving layups in the second quarter run.
Speaker 1: Nas Read had a catch pump fake attack close out
Speaker 1: good all the way the rim for a layup. They
Speaker 1: got to the rim at will in that group against
Speaker 1: the good defensive team in Dallas because they had space.
Speaker 1: And this, you know, this just goes to show you,
Speaker 1: guys what we were talking about with the that last game,
Speaker 1: with that between the Bucks and the Pelicans, and then
Speaker 1: with this one the importance of five out spacing, because
Speaker 1: let me just give you guys some numbers to demonstrate this.
Speaker 1: When nas Read is on the floor, is the only
Speaker 1: center for the Timberwolves, they have a one nineteen offensive
Speaker 1: rating and they are plus nine per one possessions in
Speaker 1: five and sixty three possessions. With Carl Town's another stretch,
Speaker 1: Big as the only center on the floor a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty four offensive rating, Big Shock, He's a better
Speaker 1: version of nas Read plus five per one hundred possessions
Speaker 1: and five fifty four possessions anything that ever involves Rudy
Speaker 1: Gobert one oh eight offensive rating minus two net in
Speaker 1: one thousand, six d eighty five possessions. So when you
Speaker 1: guys hear me talk about the difference between vertical spacing
Speaker 1: in five out spacing, because vertical spacing is a fancy
Speaker 1: word that like you literally hear all the time, particularly
Speaker 1: against with Rudy Gobert, Like a lot of Rudy Gobert supporters,
Speaker 1: you always will hear screen assists in vertical spacing, because
Speaker 1: those are two basketball concepts which are real, but they
Speaker 1: are miniscule and value relative to what any average player
Speaker 1: in the NBA can do, which is finished out of
Speaker 1: the dunker spot. There is value there. There is value
Speaker 1: in screening. There is value and being in the dunker spot,
Speaker 1: but that is a much more replaceable value on the
Speaker 1: offensive end compared to what five out spacing does. Five
Speaker 1: out spacing is about making much longer defensive rotations. It's
Speaker 1: very simple. If I'm on the right wing and I
Speaker 1: beat my man off the dribble, and I have my
Speaker 1: big man is guarding somebody in the dunker spot. He's
Speaker 1: already there because he's arms distance away from the guy
Speaker 1: in the dunker spot. He's already under the rim. It's
Speaker 1: an easy rotation to make, and typically there's already a
Speaker 1: shooter in the corner. That defender can then crack down
Speaker 1: on the big man in the dunker spot. Right, it's
Speaker 1: an easy rotation to make. If I am guarding the
Speaker 1: man in the corner and there is nobody in the
Speaker 1: dunker spot, I have to cover significantly more ground to
Speaker 1: get over there, and chances are, especially when you're dealing
Speaker 1: with guys that are working on the perimeter, you have
Speaker 1: to have quicker defensive players out there, which are usually smaller.
Speaker 1: So the lack of rim protection makes it so much
Speaker 1: easier for you to get to the rim. And the
Speaker 1: thing that's so frustrating about it is, how is it
Speaker 1: that the general manager, how is it that the front
Speaker 1: office for the Minnesota Timberwolves didn't look at the roster
Speaker 1: see who your star is. Your star is Anthony Edwards
Speaker 1: literally guard Lebron. That's what he reminds me of, because
Speaker 1: he's a downhill power guard getting to the rim. He
Speaker 1: needs space to get to the rim. The best version
Speaker 1: of this team was always going to be spacing, just
Speaker 1: like Lebron needed Chris Bosh, just like Lebron needed Kevin Love,
Speaker 1: just like Lebron needed Anthony Davis. You, when you are
Speaker 1: a downhill power player, you were always going to be
Speaker 1: at your best and when you have space to operate.
Speaker 1: And that I that concept I think has been overlooked
Speaker 1: way too frequently in the NBA these days because teams
Speaker 1: are obsessed with navigating the NBA regular season with a
Speaker 1: good drop coverage, And I'm not undercutting the value of that.
Speaker 1: It is value, but it's a given a take. You're
Speaker 1: giving rim protection at the expense of easy offense. When
Speaker 1: offense is clunky, it gets discouraging. When guys are struggling
Speaker 1: on the offensive end, they're less willing to work hard
Speaker 1: on defense because they're not feeling good and confident about themselves.
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards, if he's feeling good about himself getting to
Speaker 1: the rim, he's gonna be more willing to sit in
Speaker 1: a stance and contain a ball handler. If you contain
Speaker 1: a ball handler, you don't need a rim protector. The
Speaker 1: best former rim protection in basketball is perimeter defense. And
Speaker 1: so I think that I think that the Minnesota timber
Speaker 1: Wils have been a great like case study and how
Speaker 1: team building in an old style persuaded a team to
Speaker 1: waste a bunch of assets on a player that kind
Speaker 1: of caps there the success of this particular team. They
Speaker 1: are six and four since the Carl Town's injury, they've
Speaker 1: won three straight. Anthony Edwards on the floor with nas
Speaker 1: Read and no Gobart or Carl Towns this season is
Speaker 1: plus thirteen per one possessions in fourty possessions could not
Speaker 1: be more clear the direction this team needs to go.
Speaker 1: And the problem is is they overpaid for what is
Speaker 1: a really bad contract and Rudy Gobert, and there's no
Speaker 1: chance in hell that they're ever going to recoup those assets,
Speaker 1: So they're probably gonna end up camping on him as
Speaker 1: a as a matter of pride at this point, especially
Speaker 1: for a newly higher gm UM. The last thing I
Speaker 1: wanted to hit on in this game was just Dallas's offense.
Speaker 1: They're really prone to these cold spells because they become
Speaker 1: super predictable bringing the ball at the floor slow. We
Speaker 1: just talked about this. If you bring the ball up
Speaker 1: slow and you don't get into your action until you
Speaker 1: get the right matchup, then you might not actually start
Speaker 1: beating someone off the dribble till ten seconds or left,
Speaker 1: which means you're not making that kickout past so there's
Speaker 1: only a handful of seconds left, which means you limit
Speaker 1: your ability to have multiple attacks or to give people
Speaker 1: the chance to drive and kick a little bit. So
Speaker 1: what I'd like to see is more of a change
Speaker 1: up from Luca. Now it's more like a fastball to
Speaker 1: everything he throws. As a change up, but at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, Luca needs to change the pace
Speaker 1: a little bit when they get super stat I'd like
Speaker 1: to see him try to bring the ball up with pace,
Speaker 1: specifically as a mix up when they're getting a little
Speaker 1: bit too stagnant on the offensive end. Alright, Portland, okay, see,
Speaker 1: this was a really fun duel. The next two games.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna talk about the very end of the games.
Speaker 1: UM Portland O Okay see. It was a fundled between
Speaker 1: Shae Gilds, Just Alexander and Damian Lillard and Anthony Simon's um.
Speaker 1: It was really close about middle of the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: The Anthony sign assignmon sits back to back pull up
Speaker 1: three's get a bunch of pull up jumpers down the
Speaker 1: stretch of this game. A couple of them that were
Speaker 1: right in shake gild just Alexander's face, and then on
Speaker 1: the other end of the floor shake Gils Just Alexander
Speaker 1: was just completely bullying Anthony Simon's getting to his spot,
Speaker 1: literally just hitting the same move over and over again.
Speaker 1: Spread is so top of the key. Couple hard ribbles
Speaker 1: to the left, get to ten ft pound dribble, step
Speaker 1: back and just rise up from like ten to twelve
Speaker 1: ft for that little short jump shot. You know, one
Speaker 1: of the things I love about s g As he's
Speaker 1: got a super versatile scoring skill set, almost no two
Speaker 1: shots alike, because he's got so many different spots on
Speaker 1: the floor that he can rise up and shoot. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like the opposite of what you've seen from
Speaker 1: James Harden over the years. Um But then down the stretch,
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard makes two massive reverse layups to tie the game,
Speaker 1: but with three seconds like s g A, guarded by
Speaker 1: Justice Winslow, kind of cuts down to the block and
Speaker 1: on the catch just quick spins to the baseline, which
Speaker 1: forces Justice Winslow to take a couple of hard defensive
Speaker 1: slides and does another pound dribble step back, gets plenty
Speaker 1: of separation, rises up and squishes a little fifteen foot
Speaker 1: or on the baseline at the buzzer for his second
Speaker 1: buzzer beating game winner of the season. Check this out.
Speaker 1: S g A leads the entire NBA with seventy nine
Speaker 1: points and clutch situations this year on just fifty shot attempts.
Speaker 1: That's insane. He's playing like an m v P this year.
Speaker 1: He's just on a terrible team. He's got the the
Speaker 1: When he's on the floor, they're about dead even with teams,
Speaker 1: which is doesn't sound impressive, but when you look at
Speaker 1: the roster, it absolutely he is, and they get outscored
Speaker 1: by eight points per one hun possessions when he's off.
Speaker 1: That's that's an on off split that replicates what most
Speaker 1: m vps do. It's just a combination of outstanding pull
Speaker 1: up jump shooting and downhill scoring at the rim. He
Speaker 1: is sixth in field goal percentage among pull up shooters
Speaker 1: who are taking at least eight per game at which
Speaker 1: is outstanding. And John Morant is the only guard in
Speaker 1: the league who scores more in the restricted area per game.
Speaker 1: All right, Orlando Atlanta. So Orlando comes in on a
Speaker 1: six game winning streak. Atlanta actually led this game one
Speaker 1: twelve with three minutes left, Trey Young had a pull
Speaker 1: up three because More Wagner was just a little bit
Speaker 1: slow getting up. Trey of course, gets right in Mobile
Speaker 1: Wagner's face, starts talking ship, you know, because the Hawks
Speaker 1: just talk tons of ship for being a pretty average
Speaker 1: basketball team. Um, and then the wheels just completely came off.
Speaker 1: Jont and Trey started turning the basketball over Trey kept
Speaker 1: the Magic played Cavan Harris down the stretch of this game,
Speaker 1: and he did a really nice job defending Trey Young,
Speaker 1: just walling him up, cutting him off from the rim
Speaker 1: and forcing him to shoot over the top. He kept
Speaker 1: trying this like Jankie floating bank shot. I want to
Speaker 1: be cleared. Trey had a great game, but he really
Speaker 1: struggled down the stretch of this game. But he kept
Speaker 1: trying this like jan Kie floating bank shot that he
Speaker 1: kept missing. And then Marquelle Folds. You know, we talked
Speaker 1: a lot about how his hustle plays on the glass
Speaker 1: helped the Magic beat the Celtics in that second road
Speaker 1: matchup the other day. Well he did it as a
Speaker 1: score in this particular game. Got Downhill twice in the
Speaker 1: final minutes, including a reverse layup with three seconds left
Speaker 1: that put the Magic up by one. And then out
Speaker 1: of a time out, the Magic or the Hawks run
Speaker 1: like an action the screening action to get to Jant
Speaker 1: Murray on the left baseline and he shoots a pull
Speaker 1: up jump shot, a tough, fading, drifting pull up jump
Speaker 1: shot that he misses, but Pala Bancho gets up into
Speaker 1: his landing area. Easy call. This wasn't one of those like,
Speaker 1: oh he jumped way forward like they did. He legitimately
Speaker 1: fouled him and Jon Dmry goes the line, makes two
Speaker 1: free throws in the game is over and it's you
Speaker 1: know you, you really have to be conscious fouling jump
Speaker 1: shooters at the end of games, because you'd much rather
Speaker 1: lose on a guy making a tough shot, like a tough,
Speaker 1: drifting jump shot, than to watch him win the game
Speaker 1: standing by himself fifteen feet away from the basket at
Speaker 1: the free throw line, right. But it's just a good
Speaker 1: lesson for a young player on a young team in
Speaker 1: UH and it sucks, but this is the year where
Speaker 1: they can afford to make mistakes because they don't have
Speaker 1: any real ambitions. But this could have been their seventh
Speaker 1: consecutive win had they not made that mistake. So it's
Speaker 1: a good lesson for Paladon Care to learn. So I
Speaker 1: want to talk about Marco Folks for just a second. Um.
Speaker 1: We talked about his hustle plays, but I want to
Speaker 1: talk about his overall production. So on the season, he's
Speaker 1: averaging twelve four and five in twenty seven minutes per game,
Speaker 1: with one point seven blocks and steals combined in just
Speaker 1: twenty seven minutes. So if you extrapolate that out to
Speaker 1: per thirty six, which is a normal high volume player,
Speaker 1: that's sixteen five and seven with two point two stocks.
Speaker 1: That was this season I twenty four against Atlanta, And
Speaker 1: if you look at his production, he has a seventeen
Speaker 1: points on a hundred and eighteen pick and rolls counting passes,
Speaker 1: which is above average. That's fifty eight percentile, twenty six
Speaker 1: points on twenty ISOs, which is excellent. That's in the
Speaker 1: ninety three percentile, and eighty seven points if you if
Speaker 1: you just look at him as a passer so plays
Speaker 1: where he passed out of isso or passed out of
Speaker 1: pick and roll, They've scored eighty seven points on eighty
Speaker 1: two possessions, which is very good. He's also twenty three
Speaker 1: for fifty two on jumpers, which is which is great,
Speaker 1: seven for fifteen on threes, which is outstanding, sixteen forty
Speaker 1: one off the dribble, which is thirty nine percent, which
Speaker 1: is not good, but it's respectable. You know, good, is
Speaker 1: right around forty great, it's right around forty five. He
Speaker 1: is over four on pull up threes though, uh the
Speaker 1: the only real weak spot right here, right now for
Speaker 1: him is at the rim. He's about on the rim.
Speaker 1: But he's just forty. He's just twenty four years old.
Speaker 1: You know, we've he's been through such a weird journey
Speaker 1: since he came into the league. But he's still is
Speaker 1: a very exciting young guard who just has not been
Speaker 1: able to stay healthy and available on the court. But
Speaker 1: there's a lot of really interesting stuff coming from him
Speaker 1: to start of this season. Um, the Hawks, even with
Speaker 1: their fortunate free throw in against Orlando, are just five
Speaker 1: and eight in their last thirteen games. They have the
Speaker 1: ninth word, the ninth worst record in the league. Over
Speaker 1: that span, their seventeenth and offense and twenty in defense
Speaker 1: and rebounding. Trey Young is shooting just from the field
Speaker 1: and from three, with four and a half turnovers per game.
Speaker 1: The reality is is that just like we've always talked
Speaker 1: about with Lebron and a D, with Kawai and Paul George,
Speaker 1: with any of the other star pairings around the league,
Speaker 1: you had better be a super duperstar or be really
Speaker 1: good in the details of the game. And if you're
Speaker 1: gonna be twenty seven and rebounding and twenty second in defense,
Speaker 1: You're going to have to have your stars produced better,
Speaker 1: and Trey Young and Dijon ty Murray just simply have
Speaker 1: not been good enough. And I don't really like the
Speaker 1: energy around this team. They talk a lot of ship,
Speaker 1: like I said, for being a pretty average basketball team,
Speaker 1: and they don't really look like they're having a ton
Speaker 1: of fun on a night to night basis. Plus there's
Speaker 1: all that stuff going on with Trey and the coach
Speaker 1: as well. It's just really disappointing season for the Atlanta Hawks. Overall,
Speaker 1: Raptors sixers. So this is the Tobias Harris corner three game.
Speaker 1: So the Raptors looked like they were gonna run away
Speaker 1: with this one. In regulation. They were up by seven
Speaker 1: with four minutes left, and Tobias Harris we talked a
Speaker 1: lot about rescuing possessions with shot making catches in the corner,
Speaker 1: late clock situation guarded and just rises up over a contest,
Speaker 1: probably got foul, he didn't get called and knocks down
Speaker 1: a three, which kind of changed the dynamic to the game.
Speaker 1: Then Ebi draws a double team swing swing the Anthony
Speaker 1: Melton the same corner, knocked down three. Now it's a
Speaker 1: one point game and b draws another foul, goes to
Speaker 1: make two free throws. Now they're up one. Then James
Speaker 1: Harden gets to driving, layup and transition. Now they're up
Speaker 1: by three. They flipped the script on the Raptors pretty
Speaker 1: quick down the stretch. But then Pascal Siackem transition drive,
Speaker 1: draws a foul, makes a free throw, then he makes
Speaker 1: like a really high difficulty scoop shot to send the
Speaker 1: game to ot. Pascal Siackem was great tonight or last
Speaker 1: night thirty fifteen and six, but in overtime it was
Speaker 1: locked at one oh one forever before Tobias Harris, once
Speaker 1: again on a corner kick out, hits the three to
Speaker 1: break the tie. He actually hit another three on a
Speaker 1: pass from the Anthony Melton that put the lead up
Speaker 1: to six, but it got wiped away by an illegal
Speaker 1: scream by p J. Tucker on review um. And then
Speaker 1: in the final minute, Pascal Siakam missed to pull up
Speaker 1: threes and the Raptors loose. They've now lost nine of
Speaker 1: their last eleven games. Fred VanVleet is gonna have nightmares
Speaker 1: about that game. He missed several wide open threes down
Speaker 1: the stretch and finish just three for fifteen from the field.
Speaker 1: But you guys can probably guess where I'm going here.
Speaker 1: The story of this game, once again was Toronto in
Speaker 1: transition through the first third. These numbers are absolutely wild.
Speaker 1: Through the first thirty eight minutes of the game, Toronto
Speaker 1: had twenty one transition possessions, leading to twenty seven points.
Speaker 1: They averaged twenty four transition points a game, like we
Speaker 1: talked about in the Golden State game when gold State
Speaker 1: held into twelve over the last ten minutes of regulation
Speaker 1: in ot they managed just one single transition possession that
Speaker 1: Sam drive where he drew the free throw right before
Speaker 1: or his scoop shot, which then be blocked and they
Speaker 1: called a foul on p. J. Tucker and he made
Speaker 1: one free throw. So all but one of their possessions
Speaker 1: down the stretch over the last fifteen minutes of action
Speaker 1: was in the half court and they are one of
Speaker 1: the very worst half court offenses in the league. Philly
Speaker 1: is the second best half court defense in the league,
Speaker 1: and they managed just twenty one total points in the
Speaker 1: final fifteen minutes of that game. That's the story of
Speaker 1: the season for the Raptors. A complete lack of offensive
Speaker 1: skill that makes it so that they cannot win unless
Speaker 1: the game is fast and loose up and down the court.
Speaker 1: As soon as you strangle the pace on them and
Speaker 1: trapped them in the half court, you can beat this team.
Speaker 1: And that's precisely why I was pitching that O G
Speaker 1: and a Nobi for Darius Garland trade as something that
Speaker 1: would just influx some offensive talent into this team. Um
Speaker 1: Zach Low had a report that O G Andnobe has
Speaker 1: sky high trade value and that a lot of teams
Speaker 1: are interested. I mentioned O G and Aobe is a
Speaker 1: potential trade target if the Lakers wanted to go win
Speaker 1: now with Anthony Davis. But the bottom line is they
Speaker 1: got to do something because fundamentally, this team is not
Speaker 1: capable of scoring in the half court, and you have
Speaker 1: to be able to score in the half court to
Speaker 1: win in the NBA playoffs. It's just it's just a reality.
Speaker 1: Unless you are a all world defensive team the way
Speaker 1: the Lakers were in the Toronto raptor the Toronto Raptors
Speaker 1: are not an all world defensive team. That's just a
Speaker 1: fact um, you know. And then for Philly that's always
Speaker 1: going to be their best indicator of success. Can they
Speaker 1: control the pace when they split back in transition, and
Speaker 1: they keep teams in the half court, they get stops.
Speaker 1: They have the second best half court defense in the league.
Speaker 1: They're up to eleventh and transition defense after their nightmare start.
Speaker 1: You guys probably remember us talking a lot about that
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season. You know, after the
Speaker 1: Lakers game, I told you guys that I thought the
Speaker 1: Sixers were primed to go on a run to start
Speaker 1: the year. Why because they fixed their transition defense and
Speaker 1: they were starting to get healthy final and they've won
Speaker 1: five in a row. Now, I was saying that would
Speaker 1: probably start next year when Tyrese Maxie came back. They're
Speaker 1: already starting without him. So this isn't it's It's an
Speaker 1: exciting team, and it all begins with them playing lights
Speaker 1: out on the defensive end of the floor. You know,
Speaker 1: I also said before the year that if you guys remember,
Speaker 1: in our power rankings, I had my top four, you know,
Speaker 1: Golden State, Boston, Milwaukee, and the Clippers. I think I
Speaker 1: had Milwaukee and second in Boston and third. But if
Speaker 1: you remember five and six, I had Philly in Brooklyn
Speaker 1: because of how much talent they had. I just had
Speaker 1: them as if things go right contenders because they had
Speaker 1: so many question marks. You know, James Harden's health, Joel
Speaker 1: and Beats health, doc rivers, you know, everything going on
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn. We talked about those things. Well, they got
Speaker 1: off to rough starts, but both of those teams are
Speaker 1: hot now and they are now fourth and fifth in
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference. Al Right, guys, that is all I
Speaker 1: have for tonight. Remember our plan for the rest of
Speaker 1: the week. We are taking Tomorrow off, but keep an
Speaker 1: eye on the feeds. For Thursday, we are going to
Speaker 1: have a full breakdown of the New York mix and
Speaker 1: the recent success. Then we're gonna take a couple of
Speaker 1: days off for the holidays. We'll take uh Friday, Saturday off,
Speaker 1: and then Sunday for Christmas Day, we plan on doing
Speaker 1: three different instant reaction videos. So keep an eye on
Speaker 1: the feeds and I will see you guys on Thursday
Speaker 1: and then again on Sunday. The volume