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Speaker 1: So first quarter looked more or less like a lot

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Speaker 1: perimeter defense from Pezenski, Pazzemski and Wiggins, And like I

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Speaker 1: and you absolutely have to beat the Warriors. I'm not

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Speaker 1: even sure if that will help them get the There's

432
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Speaker 1: a matchup with the Warriors in April. I'm not even

433
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Speaker 1: sure if that would be enough for them to get

434
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Speaker 1: the tiebreaker because I'm not sure what the other details

435
00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:53,000
Speaker 1: of the tiebreaker are. But you're now down to one

436
00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,280
Speaker 1: and two against the Warriors, which could end up hurting

437
00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,320
Speaker 1: you in the tiebreaker situation. If you win this game

438
00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:59,480
Speaker 1: and you win in April, you win the tiebreaker. Right,

439
00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:03,040
Speaker 1: you've removed that from the equation. It's a huge like,

440
00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:06,040
Speaker 1: it's a huge catastrophe for the Lakers, the situation that

441
00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,879
Speaker 1: they're in. Whereas, let's just take a look at a

442
00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:10,520
Speaker 1: couple of games on their schedule if they would have

443
00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,199
Speaker 1: gone differently, how different it would have looked. Like, I

444
00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:15,080
Speaker 1: think they've lost at least a half dozen games this

445
00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,359
Speaker 1: year that they had no business losing. But let's just

446
00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:19,720
Speaker 1: look at a couple of specifics. They lost to the

447
00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:24,000
Speaker 1: Spurs the week after winning the Ncason Tournament. The Spurs

448
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,119
Speaker 1: were on an eighteen game losing streak. Guys, they had

449
00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,240
Speaker 1: lost eighteen games in a row, and they beat the

450
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Speaker 1: Lakers literally a week after they beat less than a

451
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Speaker 1: week after they beat the Pacers to win the ncas

452
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Speaker 1: And Tournament. After kicking the shit out of the Pelicans

453
00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,720
Speaker 1: and beating the Suns, they were playing excellent basketball, and

454
00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,159
Speaker 1: then they just relaxed. They lost to a Dallas Mavericks

455
00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 1: team that was completely injury riddled. I'll accept that one,

456
00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,760
Speaker 1: but the one to the Spurs, like that's completely unacceptable.

457
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,000
Speaker 1: They lost to the Miami Heat at home without Jimmy

458
00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:56,399
Speaker 1: Butler in a game that the Lakers came completely lifeless

459
00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:58,600
Speaker 1: out of the locker room. And then they lost to

460
00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,120
Speaker 1: that terrible Grizzlies team that was eleven and twenty three

461
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,960
Speaker 1: going into the game. Flip just those three games. Forget

462
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 1: about everything else. Flip just those three games. And now

463
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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis gets a corneil abrasion and misses the rest

464
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,320
Speaker 1: of the game, and you drop a game and you're

465
00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 1: still thirty nine and twenty nine and a half game

466
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Speaker 1: out of the sixth seed. That's your situation. If you

467
00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:21,680
Speaker 1: just don't trick off those games in the middle of

468
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Speaker 1: the year. Add a couple more now, they lost at

469
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Speaker 1: home to the Brooklyn Nets and a game that they

470
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,480
Speaker 1: jumped them early and then just quit in the second half.

471
00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:36,560
Speaker 1: Lost to the Brooklyn Nets, inexcusable at home. Then they

472
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:38,560
Speaker 1: got their ass kicked, and back to back games against

473
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Speaker 1: the Rockets and Hawks in games they didn't play hard.

474
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Speaker 1: They gave up two hundred and seventy three points in

475
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Speaker 1: the two games. Those are the games right before they

476
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,760
Speaker 1: went in and beat Boston without Lebron James and Anthony

477
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Speaker 1: Davis in a game they did bring holacious effort from

478
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Speaker 1: start to finish. So just take those three games. Win

479
00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,520
Speaker 1: those three. Then if ad gets poked in the eye

480
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 1: and you drop a game to Golden State, you're still

481
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 1: the five seed. You're the five seed. That's what this is.

482
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Speaker 1: That's what this has meant like, cause here's the thing, Like,

483
00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:16,120
Speaker 1: the Lakers are not a top tier championship contender. They

484
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Speaker 1: did not address their biggest weakness at the deadline or

485
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Speaker 1: over the summer, and so they do not have the

486
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Speaker 1: matchup versatility they need to win four playoff rounds. Like

487
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Speaker 1: I don't think they're in that tier they can. It's

488
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,800
Speaker 1: just like such an incredible long shot, right, And it's

489
00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:33,920
Speaker 1: because they didn't address their biggest weakness. But they are

490
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Speaker 1: a good NBA team, But because for extended stretches of

491
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,920
Speaker 1: the season they just came out and played bad basketball

492
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:47,320
Speaker 1: against teams they had no business losing to, they are

493
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 1: in a horrible predicament in the play in Tournament when

494
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Speaker 1: they should be. What this team actually is is a

495
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 1: middle of the West type of team. They should be

496
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Speaker 1: in that four to five range. That's how good they are.

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Speaker 1: When you look at the talent on their roster, they

498
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 1: should be in that four to five range. That's the

499
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 1: quality of that basketball team. But they are instead down

500
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Speaker 1: in the play in Tournament at thirty six and thirty

501
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Speaker 1: two and will likely have to win two road games

502
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Speaker 1: to even get a chance to play a team for

503
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Speaker 1: a best of seven. One last stat to drive this

504
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 1: point home. I saw this two days ago from Alex Regla,

505
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 1: a guy does an amazing job covering the Lakers Frespian Nation.

506
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:29,119
Speaker 1: I highly recommend you guys check him out. He tweeted

507
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Speaker 1: this out the other day and I thought it was

508
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:34,160
Speaker 1: super interesting. The Lakers are sixteen and twelve against teams

509
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Speaker 1: that are in the top ten in point differential. In

510
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Speaker 1: those games, they have the sixth best net rating in

511
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Speaker 1: the league. So when it comes to the Lakers playing

512
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Speaker 1: against really good teams, they are one of the very

513
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Speaker 1: best teams in the league. Sixteen wins, comfortably above five

514
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 1: hundred six best net rating in the league. And that's

515
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Speaker 1: despite their personal limitations. That's despite the fact that they

516
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:01,639
Speaker 1: don't have a guard or wing that is a starting

517
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 1: caliber player, that is a plus offensive player and a

518
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,639
Speaker 1: plus defensive player. They do not have one on the roster,

519
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:10,119
Speaker 1: and they're still sixteen and twelve against the top ten

520
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,439
Speaker 1: teams in the league by point differential, against the middle

521
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 1: ten teams, against teams eleven through twenty in point differential,

522
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 1: they are five and fifteen after last night's lost to

523
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,920
Speaker 1: the Warriors, five and fifteen, and they have the sixth

524
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 1: worst net rating out of that group. What does that

525
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 1: tell you? That's what I've been preaching all year with

526
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 1: this team, like, are they Boston or Denver? No, they

527
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 1: needed a trade and they needed a lot of things

528
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 1: to go right this year to ever get into that tier.

529
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 1: They were unable to crack into that tier. But are

530
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: they the ten seed in the West. Are they that bad?

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Speaker 1: They shouldn't be. And it all comes down to three things.

532
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 1: Those personnel limitations I talked about, two complete coaching incompetence

533
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,879
Speaker 1: from Darbnham, and then three a consistent lack of effort

534
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 1: and focus. I talk all about the time about basketball character,

535
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: the willingness to do the things that you have to

536
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 1: do to get to the trophy. It is from day

537
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:12,880
Speaker 1: one of training camp, throughout all of preseason, to every

538
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 1: stretch of the season, from the slow points in January

539
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 1: to the busy points around the deadline or right after

540
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,440
Speaker 1: the start of the season in October, to the race

541
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Speaker 1: at the end of the season to jockey around for

542
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,480
Speaker 1: position in the standings. You have to hit these checkpoints

543
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 1: in terms of effort and focus and energy in the

544
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,680
Speaker 1: paying your dues. You have to pay in blood, sweat

545
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 1: and tears to get to the Larry O'Brien Trophy. It

546
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,639
Speaker 1: is not easy. You don't get to chill. It's a

547
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 1: big part of why I'm starting to get off the

548
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,920
Speaker 1: Clippers set. The Clippers went from being a team that

549
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 1: would looked like a dominant two way basketball team. Now

550
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: they haven't played defense in several months, and now they

551
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:55,160
Speaker 1: look pretty mediocre. That's a big one for me. They're

552
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:59,240
Speaker 1: skipping a checkpoint. That checkpoint is you have to keep

553
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 1: your foot on the gap. Yes, and when there are

554
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 1: tiny points in the season when you start to lose

555
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: your focus and a couple things don't go your way.

556
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: The good teams, the teams that hoist hilario'brian, those teams

557
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 1: end up quickly digging out of those holes. I remember

558
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 1: even the twenty twenty Lakers because obviously they covered that

559
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 1: team very closely. They lost four games in a row

560
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,879
Speaker 1: around Christmas. They started, I want to say, they started

561
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,640
Speaker 1: twenty four and three, so they started like crazy good, right,

562
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: they lost four games in a row. Like I'm not

563
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: trying to sit here and pretend like bad stretches don't happen.

564
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,440
Speaker 1: Of course they do. But for the really good teams,

565
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 1: you don't have extended bad stretches. You don't have a

566
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 1: three and ten stretch. You can't get away with it.

567
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: And again to pointing back to basketball character, a team

568
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 1: with good basketball character doesn't do that. A team with

569
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 1: good basketball character doesn't have you know, forty percent of

570
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 1: the nights over the course of the eighty two game

571
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:56,159
Speaker 1: regular season where they just come out lifeless. That to

572
00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: me is showing an unwillingness to do the work, because

573
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 1: there is work from day one of training camp to

574
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 1: the point where you hoist that trophy. It sucks like

575
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: that there. I'm a huge believer that that that is

576
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 1: a prerequisite to getting to the trophy. You have to

577
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 1: attack the regular season from start to finish. All right,

578
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 1: I'm done venting about the Lakers, moving on to Nick

579
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 1: Kings super fun physical game. A lot of guys had

580
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 1: nightmare shooting nights. And this is super typical. This is

581
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: something I talk about a lot on the show Rock Fight.

582
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,880
Speaker 1: Basketball games like a lot of times like that can

583
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 1: cause teams to fall apart in their skill areas of

584
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 1: their game. And mainly the idea behind that is is

585
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: like you become accustomed in your shooting workouts and everything

586
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 1: to a certain muscle memory that that you go to

587
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: when you're going into your skill skill shots and skill

588
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: footwork and dribble combinations and all that kind of stuff. Right,

589
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: So what happens is is like in a really physical game,

590
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 1: there's a level of fatigue and like a kind of

591
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: like a pain, like a like you kind of get

592
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 1: beat up a little bit, like everything hurts from like

593
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 1: you bumping shoulders and knees and hips and every like that,

594
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you've got like sixteen bruises

595
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 1: and bumps and stuff from the game. But all of

596
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: that takes place, and then all of a sudden, you

597
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 1: find yourself in a catch and shoot situation or a

598
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 1: pull up jump shot situation, and it just doesn't feel

599
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 1: the same physically because you're exhausted, because you're fatigued, because

600
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 1: you're beat up. Right, And so Josh Hart goes two

601
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: for seven in this game. Oh Jannobi goes one for eight,

602
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 1: Dante Devencenzo goes one for sixteen, Dearon Fox goes five

603
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: for nineteen, Keegan Murray goes three for twelve. Aarizon Bars

604
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 1: goes five for thirteen. The nick shot forty three percent

605
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,719
Speaker 1: from the field, and one the Kings shot just thirty

606
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: five percent from the field. Now, first of all, before

607
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Speaker 1: we go any further, I love this new brand of

608
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: officiating we're seeing from the NBA for three primary reasons. One,

609
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 1: it gives the defense as a fighting chance. NBA offenses

610
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 1: had literally become too hard to guard without allowing some

611
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: sort of physicality. When you give them the amount of

612
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: skill and athleticism that NBA teams have and give them

613
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 1: so much freedom of movement, it's a lost cause and

614
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 1: no one's gonna be able to get stopped. So it

615
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: just gives the defensive fighting chance. Second of all, it

616
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: will really help us with evaluating playoff teams because this

617
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: looks more like playoff basketball, and so it'll just help

618
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: us to sort through the nonsense. Again, I love playoff officiating.

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Speaker 1: We all do. That's what we want it to be. Like,

620
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Speaker 1: why are we ever allowing a regular season to just

621
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 1: be different basketball? That should just never be the case.

622
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: And every single year it was freedom of movement and

623
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Speaker 1: tons of scoring and free throws, and then we get

624
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: to the postseason and the game fundamentally changes and that

625
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. It makes more sense for it

626
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 1: to be the same throughout. So to me, it'll help

627
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: us evaluate, but in general, it's just better for the

628
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 1: league to have a consistency of play style. And then

629
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 1: three deep down, this is what the players want. It's funny.

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Speaker 1: I've been in in like probably a few dozen different

631
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: like men's league things that I've played in in my life,

632
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 1: since I got done playing in college, and no matter

633
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: where I have been, whether I was in Charlotte, whether

634
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 1: I was in Phoenix, whether I was in Tucson, I

635
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: remember several times where like multiple players have gone up

636
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: to the officials at certain points in the game or

637
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 1: before the game had been like hey, like we'd prefer

638
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: it if you guys don't call that much and just

639
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: let us play. Like that's what players want. Basketball players

640
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: want freedom, like freedom to play without the whistle. That's

641
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: what they want. If they had to choose, if players

642
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,959
Speaker 1: had to choose between everything's a foul by the book

643
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: or like discretion and if it's blatant, call it, but

644
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: like keep the flow of the game, every single basketball

645
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 1: player will choose the latter. That's what they want. It's

646
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: it's a better television product, it's more fun. There's gonna

647
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: be some complaining, Like I've seen a lot of guys

648
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks like driving and missing

649
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: layups and complaining that that's a natural part of it.

650
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: And as a competitor, you want points, so like I

651
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: get it for your team because that's your job, right,

652
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 1: But like, deep down, this is what the players want.

653
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: It'll help us evaluate the teams better. And it's just

654
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: it gives the defense as a fighting chance more balanced

655
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 1: to the equation. That's it. The Knicks are just better

656
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: at rockfight basketball than Sacramento is, even without Julius Randall

657
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 1: and Mitchell Robinson. Their guards are stocky in physical whereas

658
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: the King's guards are more speed oriented. Right, and there

659
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: was not much available at the rim in this game

660
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: because both teams were aggressively helping and digging down and

661
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: just packing the paint. There were one hundred and seventy

662
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 1: one field goal attempts in this game. Only thirty three

663
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 1: of them were in the restricted area, and only nineteen

664
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: of those thirty three went in. We had fourteen misses

665
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: in the restricted area. In this game, it became about

666
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: jump shooting, but specifically jump shooting while being tired and

667
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: beat up, which again is a fundamentally different type of

668
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: jump shooting type of game, and the Knicks are just

669
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: better built for that sort of thing. The Knicks took

670
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: fifty five jump shots and got zero point eighty six

671
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: points per shot. The Kings took fifty and they got

672
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: zero point seven to six points per shot. That really

673
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 1: was the difference of the game. Saw that in the

674
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: pull up shooting two like the two main creators, right,

675
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson eight for fifteen on pull up jump shots,

676
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: four for seven on pull up threes. Darren Fox two

677
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: for twelve on pull up jump shots, one for six

678
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,239
Speaker 1: on pull up threes. Huge difference in this game. By

679
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: the way, that's a season long trin. Jalen Brunson's a

680
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: better pull up shooter than Daron Fox has been forever,

681
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: and Darren Fox has taken a leap this year. Best

682
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: pull up shooting a season of his career. Not as

683
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 1: good as Jalen Brunson, right, Like, that's what you kind

684
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: of expect in that situation. Oh, Jannobi brings a certain physicality.

685
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: Isaiah Hartenstein is a big guy that I wanted to

686
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: spend some time on today. Only had seven points in

687
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 1: this game, but he had four blocks in his steal,

688
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,239
Speaker 1: fourteen rebounds, including four offensive rebounds, and I thought he

689
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: was a substantially better defensive player in this game than Sabonis.

690
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: It's one of those weird games where like, if you

691
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: look at the box score, Sabonis gets his twenty point

692
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: double double and obviously like it looks like Sibonis was

693
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: the better player. I thought Isaiah Hartenstein like flat out

694
00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: outplayed Sabonis in this game. First of all, held Sabonis two,

695
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 1: just one for five from the field with four turnovers

696
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: in the second half. Had some huge offensive plays at

697
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,760
Speaker 1: the end of the game that curl to that curl

698
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,320
Speaker 1: to Jalen Brunson where he got the and one. I

699
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: put that clip on Twitter, and then he just there's

700
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 1: big play late where Kings got it to four and

701
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: Hartenstein just drove right through Sabonis's chest and got all

702
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 1: the way to the rim and made an and one

703
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 1: layup to put the Knicks back up seven. Like thought,

704
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: I thought he was awesome in this particular game. Held

705
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: up much better defensively in pick and roll too, and

706
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: that's the key, because the Knicks on the other end

707
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: were really torching Sabonis. They got one point three points

708
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,240
Speaker 1: per pick and roll for the entire game, including passes

709
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: that's like off the charts good, that's a one to

710
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,919
Speaker 1: thirty offensive rating, and ball screens. They were torching Sabonis,

711
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 1: hitting pull ups against him and drop coverage. Obviously Brunson,

712
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: who we've talked a lot about, but even Alec Burks

713
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: got him twice in the fourth quarter, once with a

714
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 1: floater and once with a pull up jumper, where Sabonis

715
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:56,399
Speaker 1: was just hanging too far back and not doing enough

716
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 1: to bother the ball handler. On the other end, Hart

717
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: and segn was just better, had some huge defensive plays

718
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: down the stretch. Held the Knicks as a team held

719
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: Sacramento to zero point nine to six points per ball

720
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 1: screen and zero point four points per handoff, which is

721
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 1: obviously a huge part of the King's offense. So like,

722
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 1: they just did a much better job guarding screening actions

723
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 1: than the Knicks did. And I want to before we

724
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: put all of it on Sabonis. In Hertenstein, it was

725
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 1: more diligent work from the guards too. Like, this was

726
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 1: a good defensive performance from both teams. To be clear,

727
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 1: all you have to do is look at the box score.

728
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,919
Speaker 1: But the Knicks did make fewer mistakes. There were some

729
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: big late game mistakes from the King's guards defensively. There's

730
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,839
Speaker 1: a big one late where the Kings were up by

731
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:39,319
Speaker 1: four in the fourth quarter and Boy and Bogdanovitch came

732
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,879
Speaker 1: off of like a pin down and knocked down a three,

733
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: and it was just bad defense from Dearreon Fox. Darren

734
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: Fox was guarding Miles McBride and Malik Monk was guarding

735
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: boy and Bogdanovich, and literally McBride just goes and sets

736
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: a basic little pin screen for Bogdanovich. Bogdanovic comes off

737
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: to the top of the key, Darren Fox is literally

738
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: just standing just standing like right around the foul line,

739
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: not even in a defensive stance. And so when McBride's

740
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,360
Speaker 1: in trail position and kind of gets hit on the

741
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:13,479
Speaker 1: screen a little bit, the uh, excuse me, When Malik

742
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: Monk is in trail position and kind of gets hit

743
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: on the screen a little bit, boy and mcgdanovitch just

744
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 1: breaks wide open and knocks down the shot, and it's

745
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 1: like that's a key mistake in the game. Like that

746
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 1: the like like cause again in that group, with that

747
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 1: bench group, especially when it's got Alec Berkson and Boyd mcgdanovic,

748
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: and to Alec Burks and Boyn mcdonovitch's credit, they made

749
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: some plays in that fourth quarter stretch that each had

750
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 1: a little scoring burst that they went on that helped

751
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: kind of keep things afloat, But like they a lot

752
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: of it was defensive breakdowns. So bonus and drop like

753
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 1: sitting too far low on that guard guard screening action

754
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: by Darren Fox. Then the late game possession, so there

755
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: was a sequence late where the Kings played really good

756
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 1: defense on a series of scoring So this was after

757
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: the Knicks one up seven, they got a bunch of

758
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,280
Speaker 1: stops in a row against Jalen Brunson. They were running

759
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,760
Speaker 1: guard guard screens to try to get Kean Ellis, switched

760
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:01,879
Speaker 1: off of Jalen Brunson to try to get Malik Monk,

761
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: and then occasionally they'd bring Hartenstein in to try to

762
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: get him to go out some bonus where they'd run

763
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: more of a drop. But basically Brunson was operating at

764
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: the top of the key and they were running these

765
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 1: screening actions. They defended all of them really well, except

766
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: for one, the one where Kean Ellis was going like

767
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: this looking around and Jalen Brunson just waited for him

768
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 1: to turn his head and then he went off the

769
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 1: dribble and like I get it, Like Kean Ellis, they

770
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: had been screening him from both sides and so he's

771
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,359
Speaker 1: really just trying to get ahead of whatever that action

772
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 1: is coming from. But like the ball is the number

773
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: one priority in that situation. So it's like you do

774
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 1: a really good job most of the game, but just

775
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: some critical mistakes defensively, And like that, by the way,

776
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: is kind of a theme for the Kinks this year.

777
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,240
Speaker 1: They're a team that, as I've talked about all season,

778
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 1: they're a team that is capable of being very good defensively,

779
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 1: but it's not their habit, it's not their identity, and

780
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: so too often they slip back into their worst tendencies.

781
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: Biggest sequence of the game it was actually before this play.

782
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 1: It was eighty four to eighty two, and Nick's got

783
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 1: the ball and Jalen Brunson curls off of an Isaiah

784
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 1: Hartenstein dribble handoff and fakes the handoff, and then on

785
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: the back cut there's a tiny, tiny window and Hartenstein

786
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: throws this beautiful bounce pass that hits Brunton instride. He

787
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: gets an and one. They go down to the other

788
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: end and there's a ball screen action for Harrison Barnes

789
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,280
Speaker 1: and Hartenstein blocks him at the rim. So two massive

790
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: plays from Hartenstein. They go down to the other end.

791
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,800
Speaker 1: The Kings play good defense, switch a guard guard screen,

792
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: they get a great contest on a Brunson pull up

793
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: three and he misses it. But right after that Demonas

794
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: Sabonis gets the rebound and throws the ball way too

795
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: far up the floor to Keon. Allison turns it over,

796
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: Nicks bring the ball in bounds. And this is the

797
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,760
Speaker 1: really weird play. Most of the second half on Brunson

798
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: ball screens, they'd been blitzing with Sabonis and it was working.

799
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: Sabonis was applying good ball pressure with his hands, Brunson

800
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 1: wasn't able to get the ball to the pocket. So

801
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: who's having to throw swing passes. I was actually talking

802
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,320
Speaker 1: about this earlier, like when you apply really good pressure

803
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 1: and blitzes, the pocket pass isn't open because that they

804
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: just can't get to pass through. And so they were

805
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: forcing Brunson to make swing passes and they were rotating

806
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: out of it pretty well. The blitz was working, and

807
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: then randomly, on this play, Sabonis just sits way back

808
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 1: in a drop coverage and Brunson just walks right into

809
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: a pull up three and knocks it down. Huge sequence

810
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 1: in the game, it's a two point game. Hartenstein makes

811
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:21,280
Speaker 1: a couple of big plays on both ends of the floor.

812
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: Sabonis makes a couple of critical mistakes and suddenly it's

813
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 1: a seven point game. Also another example of how I

814
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: thought Hartenstein out played Sabonus despite the box score numbers,

815
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 1: Like just when it came to the big moments of

816
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,879
Speaker 1: the game, the big swing possessions, it was Hartenstein making

817
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,479
Speaker 1: plays and Sabonis making mistakes. That's why I was calling

818
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: that specifically out. Anyway, that run put the Knicks up seven,

819
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: and then they were able to with stand a handful

820
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: of additional shots like Malik Monket a big three in

821
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: the corner that kind of got it close. Biggest takeaways

822
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 1: from the game, though, shot making and these kinds of

823
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 1: games is just different. And Darren Fox has become a

824
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,360
Speaker 1: good shot maker, but his advantage is speed, and I

825
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: thought he got a little bit carried away with trying

826
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: to match Jalen Brunson with pull up shooting when Brunson's

827
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 1: just better than him at that. And so that takes

828
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: me to my second biggest takeaway, which was Fox's shot selection,

829
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 1: Like he took some really tough pull up twos early

830
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: in the clock when he clearly didn't have that shot

831
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 1: working for him in this particular game, Like again he

832
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 1: was two for twelve. I pull up jumpers in this game,

833
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: So like early clock pull up twos that are heavily contested,

834
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:29,240
Speaker 1: they just don't make sense unless you already are in rhythm,

835
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,319
Speaker 1: which he was not at this point. So the two

836
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,359
Speaker 1: in particular that I wanted to highlight there was a

837
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:36,839
Speaker 1: spinning jumper on Alec Burks. He had a clear side

838
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: io on the right side of the floor, but tons

839
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: of time, and he just goes into this wild spinning

840
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 1: jump shot that Alec Burks defends perfectly. And I'm looking

841
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: down and there's fourteen seconds on the shot clock, and

842
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: it's like, why are you taking such a difficult, low

843
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:52,839
Speaker 1: value pull up two when you haven't been making it

844
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 1: tonight with fourteen on the shot clock, Like, work for

845
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 1: something easier first, and then take that if it gets

846
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 1: into a late clock situation. Later on in the game,

847
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:05,400
Speaker 1: he takes a step back twenty foot jump shot against

848
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson with eighteen seconds on the shot clock, once

849
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,839
Speaker 1: again not in rhythm. Haven't made any attempts to try

850
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 1: to find something easier already a really tough shot off

851
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 1: of a dribble combination and some tough footwork. Brunson's right

852
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 1: there wasn't even great separation and literally you just you

853
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 1: just took the ball six seconds earlier. And so some

854
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: of that is like it's hard to win games when

855
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 1: your best player is getting so soundly out executed by

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Speaker 1: his counterpart in Jalen Brunson. And that was something that

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Speaker 1: really stood up, stood out off the screen yesterday. There

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Speaker 1: was a play early in the fourth quarter too, where

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Speaker 1: the Kings had no numbers in transition. It was a

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Speaker 1: three on five break and Darren Fox drove right into

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Speaker 1: boy On mcdonovitch at the rim and just threw up

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Speaker 1: a left handed layup that literally missed by several feet.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't even close, and it's like it was just

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Speaker 1: a tough decision making game from Darren Fox. And honestly, like,

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Speaker 1: when I look at Darren Fox this season, and there's

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Speaker 1: so much good in terms of his improvement as a

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Speaker 1: jump shooter and his confidence in his jump shot, But

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Speaker 1: that next step for him is like really identifying what

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Speaker 1: the low hanging fruit is for him and capitalizing on

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Speaker 1: that stuff to increase his efficiency in treating more of

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Speaker 1: this tough shot making thing as a counter rescue possessions.

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Speaker 1: When I'm in rhythm kind of thing rather than just

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Speaker 1: like a regular part of his shot diet, if that

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Speaker 1: makes sense. And then two last two final takeaways, Isaiah

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Speaker 1: Hartenstein is just a really good basketball player. And like,

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Speaker 1: obviously you want Mitchell Robinson back, but even if they

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Speaker 1: just get Julius Randall back and Mitchell Robinson's not able

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00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: to come back, like that is still a deeply talented

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Speaker 1: and deeply physically imposing frontline. And I'm really excited to

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Speaker 1: see what the Knicks can do in a postseason series.

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Speaker 1: And then lastly, like I mentioned earlier, the Kings being

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Speaker 1: capable of defending, but it not being their habit. One

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Speaker 1: of the reasons why I harp on habits is like

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Speaker 1: when games get close late and when the shit hits

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Speaker 1: the fan, like when things start to not go right

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Speaker 1: for you, you tend to fall back on your habits. Your

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Speaker 1: habits are what carry you in those situations. Right. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of like if you're if you run into a

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Speaker 1: stretch in your personal life, where like you just have

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Speaker 1: a ton of stuff going on, like busy calendar with work,

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Speaker 1: busy social calendar, and maybe one or two outside circumstances

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Speaker 1: that have thrown a ranch into everything. If you are,

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Speaker 1: in your daily habits a very efficient time manager. You

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Speaker 1: will get through it because you just have these habits

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Speaker 1: where it's like, Okay, the shit's hitting the fanel around me,

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Speaker 1: but I'm just gonna put my head down and I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna work and I'm going to come out on the

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Speaker 1: other side of this. Right. But if all that shit

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Speaker 1: happens and you have bad time management and efficiency habits,

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Speaker 1: that could be what breaks you in a lot of ways, right,

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Speaker 1: And like that's kind of the way I feel about

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Speaker 1: basketball too. Like when you are the kind of person

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Speaker 1: where it is your habit to do these little things well,

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Speaker 1: then in a big possession late or in a situation

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Speaker 1: where a couple things have gone wrong, your habit will

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Speaker 1: be to continue to do those things and it will

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Speaker 1: help you regain control of the situation. It is not

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Speaker 1: a habit for deer and Fox to be in all

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Speaker 1: dee defensive minded player. It is something he can do.

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Speaker 1: If I trimmed a dozen clips, I could show you

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Speaker 1: a highlight film that shows that Dearon Fox is an

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Speaker 1: all defense caliber defender, but in a critical fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: possession he can fall asleep. And like that, that, to

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Speaker 1: me is is not just a Fox problem. It's a

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Speaker 1: down the roster problem for the Kings. They are capable

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Speaker 1: of it, but it is not in their identity. It

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Speaker 1: is not a habit for them, and so they have

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Speaker 1: a tendency to slip back into some of their worst

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Speaker 1: tendencies when the shit hits the fan, and I thought

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Speaker 1: that game against the Knicks was a big example of that.

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

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Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow. We've got a jam packed Sunday slate,

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Speaker 1: so we got a lot of fun games to break

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Speaker 1: down tomorrow as well as power rankings. I will see

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Speaker 1: you guys then the volume