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Speaker 1: So we are starting out west with you know, we

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Speaker 1: pop problem that is presented to any drop coverage. The

433
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Speaker 1: Pacers go down the floor. They run two man game

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Speaker 1: with Haliburton and Siakam. Siakam pops and remember when you're

435
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Speaker 1: in a drop coverage that pop is always wide open.

436
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Speaker 1: Tyrese Probes makes the kick back to Siakam. They have

437
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Speaker 1: to rotate from the weak side. When they rotate from

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Speaker 1: the weak side, because man, you can do it one

439
00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:17,080
Speaker 1: of two ways. You can have the big man who's

440
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Speaker 1: in drop coverage close out, in which case you could

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Speaker 1: give up a drive and to Sam that could be

442
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Speaker 1: a huge problem. Or you can rotate from the weak side,

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Speaker 1: in which case the swing passes open. They rotate from

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Speaker 1: the weak side. Haliburton swings to Siakam, Siakam swings to

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Speaker 1: Ben Matherin and biggest shot of the game, wide open

446
00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:36,760
Speaker 1: right wing three out of the pick and pop, Mathurine

447
00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,439
Speaker 1: knocks it down, puts them up by four. They go

448
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Speaker 1: down to the other end. Jad and Ivy misses a

449
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Speaker 1: tough look from the mid range around the right elbow,

450
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Speaker 1: and then Pascal Siakam outruns everyone down the floor, including

451
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Speaker 1: Jalen Duran. He was sprinting and ends up getting a

452
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Speaker 1: dunk and the game is over. So just bang bang bang,

453
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Speaker 1: a kind of like a four possession sequence where the

454
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Speaker 1: Pacers had a couple of really good plays on both

455
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Speaker 1: ends of the floor, all of a sudden the game

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Speaker 1: is over, So good win for the Pacers. To start

457
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Speaker 1: the season. They defended really well in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: They had a seventy nine defensive rating in that fourth

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Speaker 1: period after being pretty bad defensively through the first three quarters.

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Speaker 1: They rebounded better too. They got beat up on the

461
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Speaker 1: glass in the first three quarters. Jalen Dern was doing

462
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Speaker 1: a bunch of damage to Miles Turner's kind of an

463
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Speaker 1: impressive Jalen Dern, just physical game with just how imposing

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Speaker 1: he is. Like you could actually see Miles Turner when

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Speaker 1: he checked out after his first shift, like being visibly

466
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Speaker 1: frustrated with himself for not holding up better in that

467
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Speaker 1: particular matchup. They were attacking Tyres Halliburton with off ball

468
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Speaker 1: action with Tim Hardaway Junior to start the game, just

469
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Speaker 1: running him through a bunch of screens and having success there.

470
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Speaker 1: Like they were physically kind of bullying Indiana through the

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Speaker 1: first three quarters, but they held up way better at

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Speaker 1: the end. The Pistons rebounded thirty nine percent of their

473
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Speaker 1: own misses in the first half that dropped to twenty

474
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Speaker 1: six percent in the second half, came together, did what

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Speaker 1: they needed to do to hold up physically, ended up

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Speaker 1: getting a win. Ben Matherin looked really solid, nineteen points,

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Speaker 1: several big shots. I thought he was fining defensively from

478
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Speaker 1: the play where he tripped on that Jad and Ivy

479
00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,080
Speaker 1: like was just playing trying to set him up for

480
00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:07,119
Speaker 1: a screen and he kind of overreacted to it and

481
00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,480
Speaker 1: fell over. But otherwise I thought he held up well.

482
00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:11,600
Speaker 1: Kind of an interesting option for them. Think of him

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Speaker 1: as like a sixth starter in the sense that, like

484
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Speaker 1: when they need more offense, they can go to him

485
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Speaker 1: instead of nee Smith. But when they need someone who's

486
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Speaker 1: a little bit bigger of a wing defender than Andrew Nemhard,

487
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Speaker 1: they can go with Knees Smith. Right, But like Matherin

488
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Speaker 1: just has more off the dribble pop. He's he's just

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Speaker 1: a better offensive player.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: Even in the fourth quarter he had this play where

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Speaker 1: he like had a step back jump shot where he

493
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Speaker 1: made a dude completely fall over and kind of around

494
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Speaker 1: the top of the key. Just whenever they need a

495
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Speaker 1: little bit more offensive juice, that's an option. And then

496
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Speaker 1: Pascal Siakam just gives them the athletic shot creator upside

497
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Speaker 1: that they desperately needed, and kind of like what was

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Speaker 1: happening in the middle of the fourth quarter there where

499
00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:47,480
Speaker 1: it's one a, one, one hundred, no one can score,

500
00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,440
Speaker 1: both defenses are locked in. It's really difficult to get separation.

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Speaker 1: Having a six ' nine athlete that can hit a

502
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Speaker 1: step back move to get separation from an elite defender

503
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Speaker 1: and knock down a jump shot like that is that

504
00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:02,080
Speaker 1: is an upset that comes from Siakam that you can't

505
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Speaker 1: get out of skill guards, like a lot of times

506
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Speaker 1: skill guards like Tyree Saliburn. I mean, we're talking about

507
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Speaker 1: this with James Harden earlier. You get to the end

508
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Speaker 1: of the game, gets really physical and intense, and those

509
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Speaker 1: guys can struggle to get separations. Sometimes a great counter

510
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Speaker 1: there is to have a bigger athlete foward that can

511
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Speaker 1: hunt matchups to create shots in those situations. It's two

512
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Speaker 1: big plays in this one, the step back over Tobias

513
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Speaker 1: and then I talked earlier after the Jad and Ivy

514
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Speaker 1: miss jump shot, that transition runout where he beats everybody

515
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Speaker 1: up the floor and gets the dunk. That's athletic upside

516
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Speaker 1: to raise the ceiling of this team. Tyree's had a

517
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Speaker 1: rough shooting night, but he was his typical efficient shot

518
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Speaker 1: creating self. He ran twenty pick and rolls in ISOs,

519
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Speaker 1: including passes that led to twenty two points. That's one

520
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Speaker 1: point one points per possession. Pretty solid for a night

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Speaker 1: where he basically couldn't make a jump shot to save

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Speaker 1: his life. So still pretty solid floor for Tyree's. Good

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Speaker 1: start for the Pacers.

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Speaker 2: Again.

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Speaker 1: The Pistons I think are going to be a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a tougher out this year. They demonstrated that

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Speaker 1: last night. Pistons story of the offseason was them adding

528
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Speaker 1: some veteran role players, right, guys that can do more offensively,

529
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Speaker 1: the idea being there that they can create more space

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Speaker 1: and more play finishing options for Cad. But I actually

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Speaker 1: thought the story of the game was the Pistons defense.

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Speaker 1: They were really competing, they were bringing physicality, they were

533
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Speaker 1: containing the ball. That was the big thing that stood

534
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Speaker 1: out to me in the first quarter, like the Pacers

535
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Speaker 1: are a team that can really get you in rotation

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Speaker 1: and driving kick you to death. I thought they did

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Speaker 1: a great job containing the basketball and staying out of rotation.

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Speaker 1: That's a testament to their perimeter defensive talent. And then,

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Speaker 1: like we mentioned earlier, they kind of kicked Indiana's ass

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Speaker 1: in the physical areas of the game for the first

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Speaker 1: three quarters. Their offense just really fell apart at the

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Speaker 1: end of the game. Cad had a big box score game.

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Speaker 1: He had twenty eight to eight, crazy high volume, like

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Speaker 1: he ran thirty three pick and rolls in ISOs and

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Speaker 1: he got thirty seven points out of it, which is

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Speaker 1: a good efficiency number for shot creation in the half court.

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the game he wasn't really

548
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Speaker 1: creating quality shots. He had one really nice spin move

549
00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 1: on Pascal Siakam out of the left corner in like

550
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Speaker 1: a straight ISO situation that was nice, but just wasn't

551
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Speaker 1: really generating quality offense down the stretch of the game.

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Speaker 1: It's early, there's a bunch of new guys, but I'm

553
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Speaker 1: hoping to see more potent offense out of the Pistons

554
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Speaker 1: before too long. To justify the direction that they went

555
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Speaker 1: in the offseason Warriors Blazers. The Warriors start huge. They

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Speaker 1: go Wiggans at the two, Trey Sjackson Davis at the five.

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Speaker 1: Kind of an interesting look, right that lineup really struggled

558
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Speaker 1: to score. They basically had Draymond run the point guard.

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Speaker 1: They got just eighty eight point five points per one

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Speaker 1: hundred possessions in eleven minutes, So not a good offensive

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Speaker 1: stretch for that group. But they dominated the game physically.

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Speaker 1: With that group, they grabbed sixty four percent of all

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Speaker 1: available rebounds. That's completely outrageous. They had a ninety six

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Speaker 1: defensive rating, which is obviously very good. The Warriors bench

565
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 1: came in and then just immediately kind of turned the

566
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Speaker 1: game around by forcing turnovers and getting out in transition.

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Speaker 1: Gary Payton had two quick steals. That unit is kind

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Speaker 1: of it was like an interesting unit. It was anchored

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Speaker 1: by like Gary Payton, Brandon Pizemski and Buddy Healed, and

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Speaker 1: that unit was actually really good. They were plus ten

571
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Speaker 1: and five minutes a lot of again just forcing turnovers,

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Speaker 1: getting out of transit, getting out in transition. That's the

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Speaker 1: true identity of this Warriors team beyond Steph Curry. Like

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Speaker 1: the identity of the team is Kerr Curry, Draymond and

575
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Speaker 1: everything that they've been doing for over a decade, right,

576
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Speaker 1: But the identity of the team beyond Steph Curry, the

577
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Speaker 1: identity of the roster in terms of the supporting cast

578
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Speaker 1: around those guys is they are fastest shit on the perimeter,

579
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Speaker 1: and they bring waves and waves of these guys in

580
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Speaker 1: off the bench that can wreck havoc. On the defensive

581
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Speaker 1: end of the floor, the Warriors posted a ninety six

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Speaker 1: defensive rating last night that was the best out of

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Speaker 1: any NBA team in their first game, only held their

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Speaker 1: They were the only team that held their opponent below

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Speaker 1: one hundred points per one hundred possessions. They dominated the glass.

586
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Speaker 1: They grabbed thirty nine percent of their own misses. That's crazy, right,

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Speaker 1: You're getting yourself all sorts of additional opportunities that way.

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Speaker 2: Corner crashes.

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Speaker 1: Again, We've been talking a lot about this concept on

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Speaker 1: the show over the last few months, But when you

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Speaker 1: have those athletes, that's a great way to just supplement

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Speaker 1: your offense, to just have those athletes crash for the

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Speaker 1: corner and get offensive rebounds. But the Warriors get a

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Speaker 1: lot offensive rebounds from their bigs for different reasons. Like

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Speaker 1: you know, a lot of teams will get offensive rebounds

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Speaker 1: from their bigs just because they're bigger. Right, They're just

597
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 1: big and they're taking up space. Underneath the basket. But

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Speaker 1: for the Warriors a lot of times it's because screen

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Speaker 1: defenders have to show. So like if I'm Looney or

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Speaker 1: if I'm Draymond or if I'm Trace Jackson Davis, all

601
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Speaker 1: guys who had monster offensive rebounding games last night, You

602
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: set a screen and there's a shooter coming off. So

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Speaker 1: my defender, as the screener, is going to have to show.

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Speaker 1: And so as I roll, I'm not just rolling as

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Speaker 1: an offensive threat on the role, I'm also rolling as

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Speaker 1: a rebounding threat. And so you get a lot offensive

607
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Speaker 1: rebounds out of those situations because the big guys who

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Speaker 1: are showing now have outside position and the rollers that

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Speaker 1: have inside position in rebounding situations and they do some

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Speaker 1: damage that way. They forced eighteen turnovers as a team

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Speaker 1: that led to twenty two points. As I mentioned earlier,

612
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Speaker 1: the Healed Pazemski Payton guard look three guard look was

613
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Speaker 1: plus ten and five minutes. Healed has just been such

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Speaker 1: a seamless fit for the Warriors offense all prese and

615
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,160
Speaker 1: again last night he had twenty two points. It's five

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00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,360
Speaker 1: or eight on jump shots. He got to the rim

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00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 1: three times for layups. He hit his only off screen

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00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: attempt he had to pull up three out of pick

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Speaker 1: and roll. One of the big things, you know. I

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Speaker 1: was actually texting with my buddy Samas Fontiri about this morning,

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Speaker 1: Like he pointed out, like, hey, like Steve Kerr is

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Speaker 1: basically the only guy that's been able to produce this

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Speaker 1: kind of production out of Buddy Heeld. Now it's early,

624
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Speaker 1: but throughout preseason and the first game of the regular season,

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Speaker 1: Buddy Heield has been really.

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Speaker 2: Really good, like really really good.

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Speaker 1: And he's generally in his career been a very inconsistent

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Speaker 1: offensive player, So we'll see if it lasts in the

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Speaker 1: long term. But he was pointing out that, like Steve

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Speaker 1: Kerr system is just so perfectly catered to what he

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Speaker 1: does and how he's kind of maximizing Buddy heel. And

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Speaker 1: one of the things I was talking with same about

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Speaker 1: that I think that stood out to me on tape

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00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 1: is Kevon Looney is just such a great screener. And

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Speaker 1: on both of those two plays that I talked about

636
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Speaker 1: him coming off of the wide pin down out of

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Speaker 1: the right corner and then the ball screen with Looney

638
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 1: on the left wing, Kevin Looney set monster screens on

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00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: both of those plays and got so much separation for

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Speaker 1: Buddy again. One of the most underrated details of the

641
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 1: Warriors offensive success since the beginning of this era is

642
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 1: excellent screening. Excellent screening from Andrew Boget, excellent screening from

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00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: Draymond Green, excellent screening from Andre Gadala, from Kevon Looney,

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00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,160
Speaker 1: all of those guys just being really, really good screeners

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00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,159
Speaker 1: is a huge part of what makes Golden State's offense function.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to show you guys some examples of that

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Speaker 1: in the TIMPs tape segment, so you guys will see.

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Speaker 2: That later on today.

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Speaker 1: Steph really struggled to hit shots early, but they were

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Speaker 1: like literally wide open looks, like the first two threes

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Speaker 1: he missed were legitimately unguarded. There was one in the

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Speaker 1: right corner and then one at the top of the

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Speaker 1: key that he just happened to miss. He missed like

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Speaker 1: a scoop shot that he normally makes. But then he

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Speaker 1: settled down, finished with seventeen points and ten assists on

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Speaker 1: only ten shot attempts. A lot of that classic kind

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Speaker 1: of Warriors tic tac toe action where they end up

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Speaker 1: getting easy dunks and layups out of Steph coming off

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Speaker 1: of screening actions.

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Speaker 2: Only two overs.

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Speaker 1: He ran eight pick and rolls, including passes that led

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Speaker 1: to fourteen points. That's a really really efficient shot creating night.

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Speaker 1: Steph was plus twenty three in twenty five minutes. Overall,

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Speaker 1: a really solid night for him, even if he didn't

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Speaker 1: necessarily fill up the box score a couple other guys.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to shout out Andrew Wiggins, good night for him,

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Speaker 1: just kind of classic Andrew Wiggins on a good night,

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Speaker 1: Like that's what a good Andrew Wiggins knight looks like.

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Speaker 1: Like good perimeter defense, nice transition attacks, just using his

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Speaker 1: athleticism when he sees kind of a gap to hit

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Speaker 1: in transition, hitting threes at the end of possessions. He

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Speaker 1: had a pull up three out of a ball screen

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Speaker 1: at the top of the key. That was a really

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Speaker 1: nice shot. Just kind of a classic good Andrew Wiggins game.

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Speaker 1: And then a really nice first showing for Moses Moody

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Speaker 1: in his first night of the season, plus ten and

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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. He had fifteen points, two rebounds, and two assists.

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Speaker 1: He had a driving layup out of the right corner

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Speaker 1: where he showed some real athletic pop and he kind

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Speaker 1: of got into the rim protector's chest and shielded him

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Speaker 1: with his left shoulder and banked it in with his

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Speaker 1: right hand off the glass. This is going to be

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Speaker 1: a fun Warriors team. You know. I kind of look

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Speaker 1: at them as a better version of the Clippers right

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Speaker 1: now in the sense that, like the like, Steph is

686
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Speaker 1: just a much much better player than James Harden. But

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Speaker 1: they're similar to the Clippers in the sense that they

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Speaker 1: just have all of these waves of athleticism on the

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Speaker 1: perimeter that you're dealing with right just like it's just

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Speaker 1: there's five or six guys that you're seeing on any

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Speaker 1: given night that are just super scrappy. Andrew Wick and scrappy.

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Speaker 1: Moses movie is scrappy, granted, Brandon pazemskis scrappy, Gary Payton

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Speaker 1: the second scrappy, the Anthony Melton scrappy. Jonathan Kaminga. You know,

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Speaker 1: he still had kind of an iffy off ball defensive night.

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Speaker 1: I saw a couple possessions of him just kind of

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Speaker 1: getting caught in limbo off ball, but he had a

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Speaker 1: couple of really good on ball possessions defensively. I still

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Speaker 1: think that's when he's at his best is when he's

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Speaker 1: just focused on somebody on the ball, so he gets

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Speaker 1: a singular focus instead of like trying to track multiple

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Speaker 1: things at the same time. But they're gonna be a

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Speaker 1: really fun team. And like the other big difference between

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Speaker 1: them and the Clippers is Draymond Green is just not

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Speaker 1: only just a better player than Zubats, but a better

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Speaker 1: a much much better defensive anchor at that center position.

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Speaker 1: So gonna be a fun team. Obviously, you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: be playing the Blazers every single night, but that's about

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Speaker 1: as impressive a first night of the season as you

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Speaker 1: can see. The Warriors have been super sharp from the

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Speaker 1: start of training camp. They might not have as much

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Speaker 1: talent as some of the top teams in the league,

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Speaker 1: but they are in terms of just the quality of

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Speaker 1: basketball they're playing. They're playing some of the best basketball

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Speaker 1: in the NBA right now. Buck Sixer is not gonna

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Speaker 1: spend too much time here. Joel Embiid and Paul George

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Speaker 1: did not play a big talent mismatch as a result,

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Speaker 1: but Dame just continues to look super super sharp, which

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Speaker 1: is encouraging. He was thirty points, nine rebounds, and six

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Speaker 1: assists on just nineteen shot attempts. Ran twenty eight ball

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Speaker 1: screens including passes, generated thirty seven points one point three

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Speaker 1: to two points per possession. That's incredible. Legit just looks

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Speaker 1: like he has more burst than he did last year,

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Speaker 1: getting more separation on those step back moves, getting more

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Speaker 1: lyft on his movement jump shots, more downhill verve as

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Speaker 1: he's trying to attack out of ball screens. Had some

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Speaker 1: nice kickout passes at Toryan Prince. Really nice first game

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Speaker 1: for Toryan Prince. He's four for five from three, but

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Speaker 1: it gives him a really nice kind of outlt on

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00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: those kickout passes when he's operating and pick and roll.

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Speaker 1: Dame was six for twelve on off the dribble jump shots,

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Speaker 1: including five pull up three, so he's at one point

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Speaker 1: four to two points per pull up jump shot. Just

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Speaker 1: really really nice first game from Dame. And then Yiannis

734
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: was just a complete monster. He ran thirteen ISOs in

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Speaker 1: post ups for twenty two points, including passes one point

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Speaker 1: six to nine points per possession. I talked a lot

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Speaker 1: in preseason about variations for the dam Giannis two man

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Speaker 1: game involving more dribble handoffs, and I have a couple

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Speaker 1: of clips in the TIMPs tape segment that I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: show you guys to kind of demonstrate this, But they

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Speaker 1: ran a lot of like interesting drible handoff stuff. There

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Speaker 1: was kind of like a two man game that they

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Speaker 1: ran at the top of the key where they the

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00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: Sixers were aggressively switching and Jannis like threw of like

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Speaker 1: went like he was gonna do a dribble hand off

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Speaker 1: with Dame and then did a keeper and then I

747
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: think Caleb Martin was the guy that showed hard on him,

748
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: but he showed so hard that Giannis was able to

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Speaker 1: quickly just turn the corner on him going to his

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Speaker 1: right hand, got all the way to the rim for

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Speaker 1: a layup. And it's like aggressive switches are basically like closeouts,

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Speaker 1: so if you attack them quickly, you can get dribble penetration,

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Speaker 1: and you're only going to get those through a You're

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00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: only going to get an opportunity like that through the

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00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 1: size mismatch that comes from a damianis two man game

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Speaker 1: because they're guarded by such different defenders. And then you

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Speaker 1: know I talked about in preseason the cleared side dribble

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Speaker 1: handoff right ran one of those I'll show you guys,

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Speaker 1: in the film session, Drible handoff to Dame Dame gets

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Speaker 1: the ball off the handoff, both defenders go with Dame

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Speaker 1: Dame floats it over the top to Giannis Jannis ends

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Speaker 1: up getting an easy finish on the roll. That's the

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Speaker 1: kind of stuff that I'm really excited about in terms

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Speaker 1: of the ceiling for this team offensively when they get

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Speaker 1: into slow down half court environments, if they can perfect

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Speaker 1: that Damianis two man game, that's that's what gives them

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Speaker 1: that championship potential. Right, so good first showing for the Bucks.

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Speaker 1: Let's get into our film. If you're listening on the

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Speaker 1: podcast Feen, you're going to want to head over to

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Speaker 1: YouTube to see that part to actually get the visual

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Speaker 1: representations of what we're talking about. All right, first clip,

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Speaker 1: Remember yesterday when I was talking with the Lakers about

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Speaker 1: the Finland action that JJ Redick and Lebron James were

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Speaker 1: talking about in the Mind the Game podcast, and all

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Speaker 1: that is is a backscreen for a rim runner that

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00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: flows into a shooter coming off of a screen. This

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Speaker 1: was one of the ways that the Pistons were attacking

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Speaker 1: Tyrese Haliburton in off ball screening actions. So I want

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Speaker 1: to show it in full speed first, and then I'll

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Speaker 1: talk about what I was talking about. So Hardaway backscreens

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00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: for Tobias and then comes off of Jalen Durn and

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Speaker 1: gets a three. Now what makes this action work? The

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Speaker 1: backscreen always causes a reaction from the shooters defender. So

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Speaker 1: watch as Tim Hardaway Junior comes to set the first backscreen.

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Speaker 1: So as he goes to set the backscreen, watch Haliburton pause,

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Speaker 1: so Hardaway backscreen, Seacam, look at Halliburton. Now Halliburton had

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Speaker 1: as his weight shifted backwards because he's helping on the

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00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: lob to Tobias. If Tyree stays glued up, then Cade's

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00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: read changes. Notice we have a cleared corner here, so

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Speaker 1: there's no helper that can come from that side. If

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Speaker 1: tyree'see doesn't hang back, Tobias can come off with the

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Speaker 1: screen and Cade just has to float anything up in

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00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: this general vicinity and Tobias is getting a layup. But

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00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 1: instead Tyres Aliburton hangs because he hangs back. Now he's

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00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 1: completely out of position for this action. Right, Hardaway can

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00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: come curl off of his screen, and Duran has plenty

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Speaker 1: of space to lay a screen on Halliburton and Hardaway

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00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 1: comes right off and knocks it down. So that's an

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Speaker 1: example of what makes that action so difficult to guard

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Speaker 1: for a shooter anybody that can hit a movement jump shot,

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00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: and also an example of how the Pistons were looking

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Speaker 1: to attack Tyrese Haliburton. Here's an example of a slot

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Speaker 1: cut from Ben Mathern that I talked about with TJ

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Speaker 1: McConnell that I thought was really smart. So the key

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00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,319
Speaker 1: here is you've got weak side spacing, right, So Ben

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00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: Shepherd's trying to clear out to this corner because he

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Speaker 1: knows the spacing is messed up, and Ben Matherin is here.

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Speaker 1: But one of the things that is really smart about

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Speaker 1: this cut, Ben Matherin is going to cut here. And

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Speaker 1: one of the main reasons why is if you watch,

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Speaker 1: TJ doesn't really have a passing angle. He's getting smothered

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Speaker 1: on this like kind of three quarter side here, and

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Speaker 1: then Malik Beasley is on his front side. It'd be

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Speaker 1: extremely difficult for TJ to even make this kickout pass.

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Speaker 1: So Ben Mathern is making himself available by cutting. TJ

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Speaker 1: can reverse pivot out of it and ends up hitting

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Speaker 1: the cut. And then also notice is that Ron Holland

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Speaker 1: or is that Sasser? I think I can't tell him

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Speaker 1: this one. I think that's I think that's Holland. But

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Speaker 1: so notice Holland too, like as he's reverse pivoting out

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Speaker 1: his first shot, his first thought is to close back

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Speaker 1: out to the wing because that's where he thinks Matherin

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Speaker 1: is a Mathern ends up capitalizing it on the cut.

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Speaker 1: A really nice example of like a lot of times

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00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 1: we think of spacing as like just standing out by

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Speaker 1: the three point line. That's not spacing at all. It's

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Speaker 1: just being a threat. It has nothing to do with shooting.

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00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,839
Speaker 1: It's a threat. It could be shooting, it could be cutting,

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Speaker 1: it could be vertical spacing. There's so many different things

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00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: you can do off ball. Screening is a way to

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Speaker 1: create spacing. That's an example of creating spacing as a cutter.

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Speaker 1: All right, Here is that spin move that I talked

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00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 1: about with Kate Cunningham against Pascal Siakam. So we got

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Speaker 1: a cleared side ISO again, kind of a rough shot

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Speaker 1: creating fourth quarter for Kate. But I thought this was

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00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 1: a superstar move that he hit on Siacam. Really nice

837
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: right to left crossover into the spin. Good contests from

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00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 1: Siakam still hits the shot. Here's that pick and pop.

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Speaker 1: That ice is a game. This is the big shot,

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00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: biggest shot of the game in the Pacers game. Classic

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00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 1: example of how difficult it is to guard picking pop. Okay,

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00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: so we're going to reset the ball screen. We're gonna

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00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: go to Halliburton. Okay, so we have Tobias Harris. They're

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Speaker 1: not switching right, They're chasing. So because they're chasing and

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Speaker 1: not switching, we have two on the ball. Pascal Siakam pops.

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Speaker 1: This forces the weak side rotation, extra pass to Ben

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00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: matth That's what makes the pick and pop so hard

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Speaker 1: to guard. If you ask Tobias Harris to close out,

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00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:09,280
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris closes out here, Siakam has an opportunity to drive.

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00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 1: But because you rotate from the weak side, you create

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00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: this two on one here and Ben Mathern gets an

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00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: easy look. That was the ballgame for you. Here's just

853
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: an example of how fast the Los Angeles Clippers defense is.

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00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: So let's watch as they're running. We have Kai Jones

855
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:25,800
Speaker 1: come up to the level of the screen. He switches

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00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: out onto Tyas Jones. Terrence Man is on the ball,

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00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:32,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna get a double drag here with Tias and Plumbley.

858
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 1: Just switch aggressive switch from Harden Terrence Man lingers for

859
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 1: a second. We have a little bit of a week

860
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: side opportunity for Tys Jones. Look at the close out

861
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: from Kai Jones. He's there on the catch. Derek Jones

862
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: is up on KD, swipes it off of Kd's leg.

863
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 1: I stopped at a bunch of times. I'm gonna run

864
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 1: it in full speed. But just watch how fast the

865
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: Clippers perimeter defenders are and Kai Jones just I have

866
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: bringing that mobility to that front court spot too. They're

867
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: just gonna be They're gonna be scrappy, they're gonna be fast.

868
00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 1: Ball this ball pressure from Terrence Man too. Now we've

869
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: got Eleven's actions left him. We're way out forty feet

870
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: from the basket. Really nice defensive possession from the Clippers.

871
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: Here's an example of the Phoenix Suns at their best

872
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,800
Speaker 1: when they play advantage basketball. So we have Katie driving

873
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 1: at the top of the key. It's going to be

874
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: a ball screen with Plumblee, We're going to get two

875
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 1: on the ball. So again, this stems from the threat

876
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:21,800
Speaker 1: of Katie being able to hit the pull up jump shot.

877
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: Because of the threat of Katie being able to pull

878
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,439
Speaker 1: a bump pull it up, hit a pull up jump shot.

879
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,439
Speaker 1: Kai Jones has to show high. Kai Jones shows high,

880
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: we get Plumbly on the switch. That's where we get

881
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 1: our week side two on one. I've been talking about

882
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 1: this concept a lot in preseason. These week side two

883
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 1: on ones are where you generate high quality three point shots.

884
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 1: Plumbley then makes the swing to Booker. Derek Jones closes

885
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 1: to Booker, we get Bradley be a wide open in

886
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 1: the corner. That's the beauty of the Suns when they're

887
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,760
Speaker 1: playing at their best. It's a guy on the ball

888
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 1: that is going to bring two defenders because of his

889
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: pull up jump shot. And you're running week side two

890
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: and ones with two of the best offensive players in

891
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: the league, and Bradley Beal and Devin Booker, thats just

892
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: extremely difficult to guard. There's a really cool set from

893
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: the Clippers that I liked, and it's about triggering switches.

894
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 1: So when you're targeting teams that do a lot of

895
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 1: switching a lot of times, you can catch them in

896
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,959
Speaker 1: between switches where they make mistakes. So this whole play

897
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 1: is designed to get Derek Jones junior lob on the

898
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: weak side. Here's what we're gonna get off of Harden.

899
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 1: Here we're clearing out here to the right side corner.

900
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,319
Speaker 1: And then Kai Jones is gonna set a backscreen for

901
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,839
Speaker 1: Norm Powell, backscreen for Norm Powell. But the main thing

902
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: Norm Powell is trying to do here is set a

903
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: screen on Royce O'Neil, not to get Derek Jones open,

904
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: but to get these guys to think about a switch.

905
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,879
Speaker 1: So he goes and hits Royce O'Neil. After he hits

906
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:45,320
Speaker 1: Royce O'Neil, he just runs back. And now Royce O'Neill

907
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,319
Speaker 1: is thinking, wait, am I supposed to follow him? Or

908
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 1: is Booker following him? They don't know. There's a hesitation,

909
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: there's a miscommunication. And look at Dereck Jones once again.

910
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,240
Speaker 1: Watch Derek Jones go right as Royce O'Neil gets triggered

911
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: into the switch. Royce O'Neil thinks, oh, I'm switching. I'm

912
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,359
Speaker 1: going out. Then Devin Booker's like, no, no, no, actually I

913
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 1: got him, but it's too late. Derek Jones is getting

914
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: full head of steam. Perfect lob pass from James Harden.

915
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 1: We got ourselves a dunk. I'm gonna run it in

916
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: full speed. I want you guys to watch how quickly

917
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: this develops off of that fake backscreen. All a decoy

918
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:21,840
Speaker 1: backscreen makes you think you're going to pal runs into O'Neil,

919
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 1: and then comes back These two bots the switch. Now

920
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: we get a dunk, another really nice Phoenix Suns possession.

921
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: This is going to be a clear side two man

922
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,439
Speaker 1: game between use of Nurkic and Bradley Beal. Let's fast

923
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: forward a little bit, all right, So here's our clear

924
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 1: side two man game, right. Pick and pop. I talk

925
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,240
Speaker 1: all the time about how the pick and pop is

926
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,360
Speaker 1: the best. Is one of the best counters for any

927
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 1: sort of ball screen coverage that involves a drop because

928
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: it actually forces it makes it so that the big

929
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,720
Speaker 1: man can't guard put both people at once. If he rolls,

930
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:52,799
Speaker 1: then he can kind of keep the roleman and the

931
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 1: ball handler in front. But Nurkic pops. Now we have

932
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 1: two on the ball. This is again the beginning of

933
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: everything great that happens for the Suns starts with two

934
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:05,360
Speaker 1: on the ball. This forces James Harden. Watch the rotation

935
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: here James Harden's guarding Tias Jones, but when the two

936
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: go to the ball, Harden rotates to the popper, same

937
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 1: sort of weak side rotation we were just talking about

938
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: the Pistons game. This triggers a cut from Tias Jones.

939
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: When Tias Jones cuts, that occupies Chris Dunn. So Chris

940
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 1: Dunn sees Tias and goes to the cutter right, So boom.

941
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 1: Now essentially bringing two to the ball forces Done and

942
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: Harden to rotate instead of being on Tias and Royce

943
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 1: O'Neil to being on Nurkicchen Tias. We get our skip

944
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 1: pass that goes to Royce O'Neil that forces a mere

945
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 1: Coffee to rotate. He makes the extra pass. Now we're

946
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 1: getting a wide open three for Kevin Dury. Katie actually

947
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 1: misses this shot, but that's really really good offense that

948
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: once again starts from the simple concept of getting two

949
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 1: on the basketball. Love cleared side action. Have always been

950
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: a big fan of it. One more example of a

951
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: really nice advantage basketball possess for the Suns. We get

952
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: a switch as Booker snakes the ball screen right, so

953
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: now he's got Zobach on him. Now a lot of

954
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 1: times you'll see teams in this situation think I have

955
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 1: a favorable matchup. Let me just iso this dude and

956
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: try to take a contested jump shot over the top

957
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 1: of him. That's not what Booker thinks. Booker thinks, Actually,

958
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna beat him off the dribble to get

959
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 1: the defense in rotation. He just drives, gets into the lane.

960
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: Defense collapses. We have our week side two on one.

961
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 1: Booker makes the kickout pass swing, swing, easy jump shot

962
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: for Royce O'Neil. And one of the things too, is

963
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:37,280
Speaker 1: like washing out Norman Powell on the drive too. Essentially

964
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 1: just tries to double team again. Devin Booker's done his job.

965
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:43,760
Speaker 1: At that point, You've collapsed the defense. Just play advantage

966
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 1: basketball on the weak side. End up getting a wide

967
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: up and shot for a good shooter. Here's that possession

968
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,760
Speaker 1: of bad Clippers transition defense. So James Harden tired settles

969
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: for like a thirty five footer. But this is limbo.

970
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: Shot is up. These two guys are your two guys back.

971
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,359
Speaker 1: These guys can crash out of the corner. Fine, these

972
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 1: two guys have to sprint. Watch both of them just

973
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 1: slowly backpedal. That's limbo. None of them are in position

974
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 1: now they're able to throw an easy kick add pass

975
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 1: to KD. KD ends up getting a layup. That's bad

976
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 1: transition defense. Here's that play that reminded me in the

977
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight NBA Finals where Tyas Jones like cuts

978
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 1: a mere Coffee cuts through on the post entry right,

979
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:23,360
Speaker 1: So mere Coffee cuts through. Watch Tyas Jones fake like

980
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,280
Speaker 1: he's gonna follow him and then be like nope, never mind,

981
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: and then come right back and steal the post entry pass.

982
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 1: Beautiful work from Tyas Jones, end of getting another transition layoup.

983
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:34,919
Speaker 1: Here's that mid range jump shot I was talking about

984
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 1: James Harden again, Like instead of attacking the mismatch and

985
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: trying to hit a really tough twenty five foot step back.

986
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: It's one and a half minutes left, there's only a

987
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:46,360
Speaker 1: handful of possessions. Field goal percentage matters more. James Harden

988
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 1: works him into the foul line and gets a nice

989
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: little look from mid range, knocks it down. Here's that

990
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:54,479
Speaker 1: ridiculous Kevin Durant fade away to tie the game. Nice

991
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: little like impromptu double team from James Harden. Notice He

992
00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 1: waits until after Kevin Durant turns his back, so he's

993
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 1: kind of in help. He's in help, in help. Katie

994
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 1: turns his back, and then James Goes gets a great contest,

995
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: but kt is just one of the best scorers of

996
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 1: all time. Knocks down the jump shot all right. Moving

997
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:16,320
Speaker 1: on to the Warriors and the Blazers, here's an example

998
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 1: of just how I prefer. This is one of the

999
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 1: two wide open threes that Steph Curry missed at the

1000
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: beginning of the game. I prefer Jonathan Kaminga on the

1001
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: ball because he actually has great tools in these situations,

1002
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 1: and it's a better situation for him because it doesn't

1003
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 1: divide his focus. Nice job sliding his feet, not fouling,

1004
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: absorbing contact, and then beating Denny to the offensive rebound.

1005
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 2: Here's a little.

1006
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:39,479
Speaker 1: Classic Warriors basketball as Steph comes off of a hand

1007
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 1: off at the top of the key, because I think

1008
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: he was a handoff. Let's see, okay, so ball screen

1009
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: two on the ball. What are we going to do

1010
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 1: in our two on the ball situation? Looney's rolling. Here's

1011
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: our low man, right, Looney catches Gary Payton smartly. He's like,

1012
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 1: I don't have to turn this into a three. I'll

1013
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: just cut along the baseline dunk or not a dunk

1014
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: but a layup. Very nice finish from Gary Payton. Here

1015
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 1: are the two off screen actions that Buddy Heald hit shots.

1016
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: I want you guys to pay attention to Looney screens.

1017
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 1: So this first one is the wide pin down I

1018
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 1: believe if I remember correctly, Yeah, okay, oh no, this

1019
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: is the ball screen. Okay, so we're coming off to

1020
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:23,840
Speaker 1: Healed here wash the screens from Looney Boom just squares

1021
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:26,879
Speaker 1: him up and basically forces him to go under. Look

1022
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:28,879
Speaker 1: at the screening angle. Look at how he angles it

1023
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: so that he basically can't chase over the top, has

1024
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 1: to go under. And remember with these shooters, now his

1025
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: rhythm is clean. I talk about this all the time

1026
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 1: with my young players like you. Once the hand like

1027
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 1: a good shooter doesn't see your hand. The hand doesn't

1028
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: bother a good shooter. The only way you're bothering a

1029
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: good shooter is if you bother the base or the gatherer.

1030
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:47,400
Speaker 1: And the only way you're gonna do that is if

1031
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: you effectively stay attached over the top of screens. Great

1032
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: screen from Looney forces him to go under Buddy hits

1033
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 1: the shot, and the same sort of thing here on

1034
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 1: the right side. Look at this monster screen from Looney Wash.

1035
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 1: The screen from Looney Boom creates plenty of separation and

1036
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,720
Speaker 1: Buddy's able to come off and hit again. Most underrated

1037
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: part of the Warriors offensive success over the last several

1038
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:09,800
Speaker 1: years over the last decade is the screening from Looney

1039
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 1: All right, a couple of quick two man game possessions

1040
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: from the Bucks and then we'll be out of here

1041
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 1: for the day. So this one is a dribble handoff

1042
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 1: with Dame and Jannis. Notice how will we get an

1043
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:21,439
Speaker 1: aggressive switch? So this is again very classic Nick Nurse.

1044
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 1: They're not just switching, their aggressively switching. Watch as both

1045
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:28,360
Speaker 1: Ubre Ubra shoots out on Dame and then Caleb comes

1046
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:31,240
Speaker 1: way out on Giannis, and that's just not good defense

1047
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:33,799
Speaker 1: on Giannis because he's so big and strong. Jannis now

1048
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 1: at this point has you dead to rights because he's

1049
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:37,280
Speaker 1: just going to go right through you to the basket.

1050
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:39,320
Speaker 1: So I like that as a way of basically using

1051
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 1: Dame's defender in a quick switch situation to get Jannis downhill.

1052
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:46,760
Speaker 1: Love those dribble handoffs. Here's that classic cleared side dribble

1053
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:49,439
Speaker 1: handoff that we saw a bunch of in preseason, same

1054
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:52,280
Speaker 1: sort of thing, Yannis flashing. Sometimes we'll have Yanni's backscreen

1055
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 1: for Torrian Prince first and then they'll run it. But

1056
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 1: in this case it's just a basic post entry cleared

1057
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: side Dame comes off the dho, we bring two to

1058
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 1: the ball. Now we have Giannis rolling, and notice who's

1059
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 1: on the back line guards. Giannis is going to go

1060
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: right through those guys every single time. Another smart spacing

1061
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 1: concept too. This is something the Celtics do a really

1062
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 1: nice job of. They'll put their centers above the break

1063
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 1: instead of in the corner. Because see how Caleb Martin

1064
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 1: is your low man. If that's Yabusele Yabuseli in the

1065
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 1: low man spot, he's bigger and stronger and is going

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Speaker 1: to present a bigger challenge for Yannis there. But instead

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Speaker 1: it's Caleb Martin. He's able to just power right through it.

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

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Speaker 1: As always, I sincerely appreciate you guys for supporting me

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Speaker 1: and supporting the show. We are back tonight after the

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Speaker 1: final buzzer of Nuggets Thunder. I'm also going to be

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Speaker 1: doing a mailbag at the tail end of that show,

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Speaker 1: so make sure you guys come hang out, bring your questions.

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Speaker 2: Oh see you guys, then.

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Speaker 1: The volume.

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Speaker 2: What's up guys.

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Speaker 1: As always, I appreciate you for listening to and supporting

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Speaker 1: OOPS tonight. It would actually be really helpful for us

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Speaker 1: if you guys would take a second and leave a

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Speaker 1: rating and a review. As always, I appreciate you guys

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Speaker 1: supporting us, but if you could take a minute to

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Speaker 1: do that, I'd really appreciate it.