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Speaker 1: So Celtics Pacers is where we're gonna start. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: That's like steph territory that we're seeing out of Tyres

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Speaker 1: piece is for the Pacers and a team that struggled

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Speaker 1: defensively and has struggled on the glass throughout this season,

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Speaker 1: having like, if you could slot Aaron Nesmith properly as

431
00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,600
Speaker 1: an off the bench wing, that could even push you

432
00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,679
Speaker 1: guys to a higher level at that point. In general,

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00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:46,040
Speaker 1: I was really impressed by the Pacers defense down the

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Speaker 1: stretch of this game, and I think it's a strong

435
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Speaker 1: indicator of what I said during the Pacers deep dive

436
00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:56,080
Speaker 1: last week. They are an awful defensive team and an

437
00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,280
Speaker 1: awful rebounding team, and some of it is personnel, right.

438
00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:01,960
Speaker 1: Tyree Salliburton is a really weak point of attack defender,

439
00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,560
Speaker 1: Buddy Healed is a really weak point of attack defender.

440
00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,040
Speaker 1: Bruce Brown is good, but he's not having a great season.

441
00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:10,120
Speaker 1: And then on the back line, Obi Toppin and Miles

442
00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,080
Speaker 1: turn Of Miles Turner is just running around trying to

443
00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:14,040
Speaker 1: clean up messes all game long, and Obie Toppin is

444
00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:16,080
Speaker 1: not the best low man in the world, right, So,

445
00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,840
Speaker 1: like there's some personnel limitations there, but the Pacers have

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Speaker 1: a lot of speed. They're capable of rotating better, They're

447
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Speaker 1: capable of defending at the point of attack better. They

448
00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,160
Speaker 1: are capable of doing a better job. And so that's

449
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Speaker 1: the thing. Do you want to be the Sacramento Kings

450
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Speaker 1: or do you want to be a serious team? And

451
00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:35,680
Speaker 1: if they play and compete in the dirty work details

452
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Speaker 1: of the game the way they did down the stretch

453
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Speaker 1: against Boston, they do have a chance to make noise

454
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Why because Tyre's Halliburton is playing like

455
00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:45,879
Speaker 1: a top ten player in the league. That's just the

456
00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:49,440
Speaker 1: level he's at right now. His pull up shooting is real.

457
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Speaker 1: I was on with the Watch playback guys last night

458
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,760
Speaker 1: and we were breaking down the game and somebody in

459
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Speaker 1: the comments asked like, Hey, is there any parallel between

460
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Speaker 1: Tyres Haliburt and Steph Curry in twenty fifteen? And the

461
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,359
Speaker 1: answer is yes on the offensive end of the floor.

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Speaker 1: But the thing is is Steph Curry and Klay Thompson

463
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Speaker 1: were coming off of that twenty fourteen Feebo World Cup

464
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Speaker 1: where they both engaged on the defensive end of the floor,

465
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Speaker 1: and that Warriors team was the best defense in the

466
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Speaker 1: league and Stephan Clay did their part to contribute to that,

467
00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 1: and so that's the next step is like Tyree's has

468
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Speaker 1: Steph Curry twenty fifteen type potential as an offensive creator.

469
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Speaker 1: He's faster, he's taller, He's showing some similar shooting capability.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't put him in the same conversation as Steph.

471
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Speaker 1: I think that's blasphemy. But he's kind of trending in

472
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Speaker 1: that direction, you know, like in a lot of ways,

473
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Speaker 1: and he's such a gifted on ball passer, Like he

474
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Speaker 1: has the potential to kind of lead to that type

475
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Speaker 1: of renaissance in Indy. But from the top down, there

476
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Speaker 1: needs to be a commitment to the defensive end, like

477
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Speaker 1: what you saw in that Celtics game. They can't do it.

478
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Speaker 1: They don't have to be the best defense in the league,

479
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Speaker 1: but they need to be closer to that fifteen mark,

480
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Speaker 1: right and it's something that they have to personnel to do.

481
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Speaker 1: In my opinion. In sports, the scoreboard doesn't tell the

482
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Speaker 1: full story, but Netflix does stories about dads who happen

483
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Speaker 1: to be world class quarterbacks, untold tales of athletes you

484
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Speaker 1: thought you knew, the heart racing pressure for the heart,

485
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Speaker 1: soul and survival of the multi billion dollar business of

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Speaker 1: F one, stories about college kids who were given a

487
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Speaker 1: last chance at redemption, David Beckham's meteoric rise to not

488
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Speaker 1: only becoming a global soccer phenomenon, but also becoming one

489
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Speaker 1: of the biggest celebrity couples in pop culture. From upsets

490
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Speaker 1: to injuries, from comebacks to victories, we get to see

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Speaker 1: it all with Netflix Sports. These are the stories that

492
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Speaker 1: turn us all into fans and give everyone something to

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Speaker 1: cheer for, to feel for, to hold your breath for,

494
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Speaker 1: and to get up out of your seat for. Whether

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Speaker 1: you're a diehard fan or you're brand new which shows

496
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Speaker 1: like F One, Drive to Survive, Quarterback, Full Swing, Untold Beckham,

497
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Speaker 1: and so many more, Netflix has the stories for every

498
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Speaker 1: type of fan. Netflix turns us all into fans. On

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Speaker 1: the celt front, I have been saying forever, even including

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Speaker 1: this season, that the Celtics could win forty games in

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Speaker 1: a row and I would still be skeptical of their

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Speaker 1: ability to win on the biggest stages at the highest

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Speaker 1: level of the NBA Playoffs. You'll notice the Celtics are

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Speaker 1: number one or work number one in my power rankings yesterday,

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Speaker 1: but in my contender list. I've consistently had them behind Denver,

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Speaker 1: regardless of the fact that they've looked better this season,

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Speaker 1: and it's just because time and time again, specifically, when

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Speaker 1: they get alpha dogged by a star, they fail to

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Speaker 1: regain control of a basketball game, specifically with offensive execution. Right. Yeah,

510
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Speaker 1: they can beat the Sixers. Why because Joel Embiid specifically

511
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Speaker 1: really struggles in the playoff setting and James Harden specifically

512
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,560
Speaker 1: really struggles in the playoff setting. Yeah, you beat Jimmy

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Speaker 1: Butler once. You beat Jimmy Butler once, and he still

514
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 1: came this close to beating you a pull up three

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00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:56,920
Speaker 1: in Game seven that literally would have sent you home.

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Speaker 1: And then the next year he did send you home.

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Speaker 1: And then when you ran into Steph Curry in twenty

518
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Speaker 1: twenty two, he alpha dogged you, guys, and he sent

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Speaker 1: you home. This is a consistent problem with this team.

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Speaker 1: Down the stretch of that game, I had Tyres Halliburton

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Speaker 1: consistently generating great offensive opportunities for lesser offensive players, and

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Speaker 1: then on the other end of the floor, Jason Tatum

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Speaker 1: could not generate quality shots. He made a couple, he

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Speaker 1: made a step back mid range jump shot over Aaron E.

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Speaker 1: Smith on a clear side post up on the right

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Speaker 1: side of the floor. He made like a jab step

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Speaker 1: jumper against Aaron Smith about a twenty one footer up

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Speaker 1: on the kind of right elbow extended out right. He

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Speaker 1: made a couple of tough shots. But where was the

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Speaker 1: Where was the easy shot? Where was the I'm going

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Speaker 1: to back Aaron Nee Smith down, draw a second defender

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Speaker 1: and make a kickout pass to a high quality three

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Speaker 1: point shot. Where was he? He had Tyre's Halliburton twice

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Speaker 1: on switches, once with a cleared side and ten seconds

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Speaker 1: on the shot clock, and he literally stood there and

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Speaker 1: waited for the shot clock to run down and jacked

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Speaker 1: up a jumper and he missed it. There was another

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Speaker 1: one Tyres Halliburton switch left wing, this time like twelve

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Speaker 1: seconds on the shot clock. Now I would have had

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown clear out the side, but it would have

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Speaker 1: been easy enough to have Jalen Brown just run through

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Speaker 1: to the other side, and then Tatum just ripped through

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Speaker 1: to the left, turn his back post up, back down,

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Speaker 1: draw the second defender, make the kick got pass, get

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Speaker 1: a wide up in three. Nope, he stood there, dribbled

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Speaker 1: until the shot clock ran out and took a pull

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Speaker 1: up three and he missed it. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: like this is the concern with Jason Tatum. One of

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Speaker 1: the things I said before the season is like the positive,

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Speaker 1: you know spin of this situation is Tatum keeps getting better. Right,

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Speaker 1: And Tatum made some steps at the end of the

552
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Speaker 1: Heat series last year, clearing the side, working out of

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Speaker 1: the post. But to start this season he was posting

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Speaker 1: up more and he was making the threes. But his

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Speaker 1: post up attempts per game has been trending downwards, and

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Speaker 1: now his pull up jump shots falling apart. You remember

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Speaker 1: at the beginning part of the season when he was

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Speaker 1: making all his pull up jump shots. He's now back

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Speaker 1: down to zero point eighty seven points per pull up

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Speaker 1: jump shot. So a Tatum pull up jump shot is

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Speaker 1: objectively a bad shot for this team. It was a

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Speaker 1: bad shot in this regular season so far. It was

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Speaker 1: a bad shot last year in the regular season. He

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Speaker 1: cannot even get more than one point per pull up jumper,

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Speaker 1: yet is a consistent part of his shot diet. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: he's had success backing down in the post, drawing fouls,

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Speaker 1: getting closer to the rim. And what I need to

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Speaker 1: see is in a big game like last night, when

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Speaker 1: he's getting alpha dogged by Tyrese Slliburton, when he needs

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Speaker 1: to arrest control of the situation, he can't go generate

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Speaker 1: a quality shot. And that's what's discouraging to me, because

572
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 1: he holds the keys. I've said this to Celtics fans

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Speaker 1: NonStop over the years. It's not about a trade. It's

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Speaker 1: not about bringing another guard in. It's not about you know,

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Speaker 1: I miss miss a diagon the situation after the the

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Speaker 1: the after the Warriors series, that it wasn't about aggregate

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Speaker 1: ball handling. I was like, Oh, they just need to

578
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Speaker 1: go get another guard. They got Malcolm Broggett. No, that's

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Speaker 1: not the trick. What dawned on me last year is like,

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Speaker 1: it just doesn't matter because the ball ends up in

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Speaker 1: Jason Tatum's hands at the end of the day. That's

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Speaker 1: where it ends up. And so it really is up

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Speaker 1: to him. And this was again He's gonna have a

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Speaker 1: lot more chances, especially as we get close, as we

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Speaker 1: get into the postseason. Right, But this was a high

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Speaker 1: leverage game, single elimination, first n season tournament on the road,

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Speaker 1: tough crowd, top ten player in the league, at least

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Speaker 1: in terms of the level of play he's playing at

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00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: right now, and Tyre Saliburton is taking it to him

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00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: and like he can't regain control of the game on

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Speaker 1: the other end of the floor. And again, I'm a

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Speaker 1: big process over a results guy. This wasn't it. This

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00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 1: wasn't Oh the Celtics just missed their open threes. No,

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Speaker 1: that's not what happened. The jumpers that got down the

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00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: stretch were tough jumpers. Jaln Brown tough mid range pull

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00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 1: up over Bruce Brown missed it. Jaln Brown tough step

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00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: back three out of the left side corner overl over

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00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: Miles Turner missed it. Jason Tatum tough fadeaway right shoulder

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00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: fade that over Aaron Neith Smith that he got bailed

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Speaker 1: out on and drew a foul. Another tough fadeaway over

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Speaker 1: Aaron Smith on the left side that he missed. He

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Speaker 1: made a tough one legged fade away out of the

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Speaker 1: right block. He made a tough jab step pull up

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Speaker 1: jump shot he may he missed another tough pull up

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Speaker 1: three point shot over Tyre's Halliburton. It's not like I

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Speaker 1: can point to, oh, they did this process thing correctly

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00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 1: and generated high quality shots, and they just missed him. No.

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Speaker 1: Down the stretch of that game, Tyris Haliburton generated significantly

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Speaker 1: higher shot quality than Jason Tatum over a large sample

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Speaker 1: of like fifteen twenty possessions to determine a single elimination game,

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Speaker 1: and so the Pacers won comfortably. It's literally that simple. Like,

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Speaker 1: and here's the thing, Jason, Tyris Haliburton took two pull

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Speaker 1: up threes. Why don't you get mad at him? A

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Speaker 1: couple things. Tyre's Halliburton's just way better at pull up threes.

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Speaker 1: A Tyre's Haliburton jump, pull up three or pull up

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Speaker 1: jump shot is worth about forty percent more than a

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Speaker 1: Jason Tatum pull up jump shot. So just from the

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Speaker 1: simple standpoint of shot value, it's much better. And then secondly,

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Speaker 1: he only took two of them. What did he do

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Speaker 1: the rest of the time running his pet actions, whether

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Speaker 1: it was ball screens like traditional ball screens or ghost

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Speaker 1: screens with Buddy Yield, getting downhill, making kickout passes to

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Speaker 1: guys who had an advantage. It empowers the whole system.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's in a flow, they get better shots, they make them.

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Speaker 1: It's that simple. Now, one thing can Chris tops Porzingis

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Speaker 1: help the Celtics issues in lit game situations because obviously

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Speaker 1: he didn't play last night. Yes, but only if they

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Speaker 1: execute properly. So, for instance, like I was at last

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Speaker 1: night on the broadcast, what do you think is the

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Speaker 1: Celtics pet action like the thing they're gonna run if

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Speaker 1: they need a bucket? And what I said was Tatum

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Speaker 1: Derek White ghost screen, which ended up being primarily what

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Speaker 1: they ran at the end of the game, which was

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Speaker 1: how they got Haliburton switched on to him a few times.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Nesmith in general did a good job of avoiding

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00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: those switches, but that was the primary action they ran

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Speaker 1: down the stretch of that game, and they actually did

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Speaker 1: get into some good matchups, even in the Aaron Neismith stuff,

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Speaker 1: Like Aaron Neismith is a lesser perimeter defender, a lesser

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Speaker 1: wing defender than the vast majority of the guys that

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00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: are going to be guarding Tatum in late game situations

642
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: in the postseason. And so what I like about the

643
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: Porzingis piece is he's gonna draw a big in all likelihood,

644
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,479
Speaker 1: which means they're not going to switch. They're gonna run

645
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: probably a traditional drop coverage, which is going to allow

646
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: him to make kickout passes to Porzingis wide open at

647
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: the top of the key. And that's good question, is it.

648
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: Let's say that Tatum identifies that as his advantage. Let's

649
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 1: say they're playing the Calves in a playoff series, and

650
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: it's like it's a there. He knows Jared Allen is

651
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: going to in all likelihood run a drop and you

652
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: know it's Knax Strews on the ball and he's chasing

653
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: over the top, and he knows he can consistently get

654
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: the defense in rotation by just hitting Porzingis at the

655
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 1: top of the key into pick and pop. Will he

656
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 1: do it? Will he spam it? Will he go down

657
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: the floor five times in a row and just draw

658
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: the second defender and kick make the drop off pass

659
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: to Porzingis so that he can extend the advantage or

660
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 1: knock down the shot or whatever it is. Will he

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00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: do that? Because like I watched him have Haliburton cleared

662
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: side plenty of time on the shot clock and just

663
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: stand there and do nothing. And so that's the concerning

664
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 1: thing to me is it's like something has to click

665
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,719
Speaker 1: there with Tatum to where because we've all seen him

666
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 1: do it for bursts. We saw him just pick on

667
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: the sixers down the stretch of Game seven. We saw

668
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: him in Game five and six of the Celtics Heat

669
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 1: series last year clear the side work methodically generate quality shots.

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00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:05,239
Speaker 1: We know he can do it, but will he do

671
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: it and do it consistently. That's the thing that we

672
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: have to keep an eye on moving forward. And the

673
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 1: last note on the Celtics. I was really confused in

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00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: general by their defensive process in this game. They were

675
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: really sloppy on their switches and they blew a bunch

676
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: of them they got. Obviously, Buddy Yield's final three point

677
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: shot that he made was on a blown switch. They

678
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: had this weird play where aaron Ne Smith got an

679
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: easy bucket on a baseline out of bounds because Al

680
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: Horford like did this wildly aggressive show on a Buddy

681
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: Heald screen when Buddy Hill was running like thirty feet

682
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 1: away from the basket and aaron Ne Smith just slipped

683
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: it and got a wide open layup. All of those

684
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: actions where where Tyres Haliburton was getting Downhill, a lot

685
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: of those were coming out of actions the Celtics should

686
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 1: have been switching, especially the guard to guard actions. Now,

687
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: I get it, like even in switching guard to guard actions,

688
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: it is difficult, but I think it's an easier goal

689
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: than asking Drew Holliday to stay in front of Tyres Haliburton.

690
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: Somehow he's getting ghost screened, right, And you know, again

691
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: with the ghost screen action, more often than not, it

692
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: just forces the defensive player to open up a little

693
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 1: bit as he kind of works his way around, and

694
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: just that little bit of advantage is all a speed

695
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,280
Speaker 1: guard like Tyrese Haliburton needs to beat him off the dribble.

696
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 1: And so in general, I didn't think it was their

697
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 1: best defensive effort, but like with the offensive quality of

698
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: a shot they were getting, it didn't matter. They weren't

699
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: gonna win that game, and that to me is the

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00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:32,839
Speaker 1: more concerning part. Moving on to Pelicans Kings. The Kings

701
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: are nine and four in their last thirteen games, and

702
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:37,839
Speaker 1: they've beat a bunch of good teams in that span.

703
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: They beat the Thunder, they beat the Cavs, They went

704
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 1: into LA and beat the Lakers, blew them, ount went

705
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: into Dallas and blew out the MAVs, went into Minnesota

706
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 1: and blew out the Timberwolves. Then they had that wild

707
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 1: twenty plus point comeback against Golden State to win on

708
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,240
Speaker 1: the Molik Monk game winner. They even beat the Nuggets.

709
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 1: That was as impressive a nine wins in thirteen span

710
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: as you can find around the lead right now. But

711
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: the four losses they lost to the Clippers on a

712
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,720
Speaker 1: back to back after the Warriors game, and then three

713
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:11,240
Speaker 1: losses to the Pelicans. And it's interesting to me because

714
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: after last night obviously the third loss. And it's interesting

715
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 1: to me because it's an interesting example of basketball matchups

716
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: because the Pelicans have been pretty mediocre team, just lost

717
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: to the Bulls last they just lost two games in Utah.

718
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 1: They have been pretty mediocre right twelve and ten this year.

719
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: They've had to Cejim McCollum injury, but there's a case

720
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: to be made that they've been better without him just

721
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 1: in terms of overall point of attack defense with Dyson

722
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 1: Daniels in the starting lineup right. And what's interesting to

723
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: me is like that is, how does a team that's

724
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:45,439
Speaker 1: that mediocre have the number of a Kings team that's

725
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 1: dominated most of the good teams in the league. And

726
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 1: to me, that's where it's This is why I always

727
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: talk about basketball being more art than science. This is

728
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 1: why you could never just assign a single catch all

729
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 1: metric to quantify the abilities of a basketball player. Matchups matter.

730
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:05,760
Speaker 1: The specific reason why the King struggle so much against

731
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: the Pelicans is they have this specific type of defensive

732
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: personnel to bother them at all three levels of their offense.

733
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: So like it starts with the point of attack guys,

734
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 1: whether it's Herb Jones or it's Dyson Daniels, or it's

735
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: Naji Marshall or it's Jose Alvaredo, it is just a

736
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 1: steady diet of outstanding point of attack defenders on Malik

737
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:33,240
Speaker 1: Monk and Darren Fox. Then even if you do get switches,

738
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,760
Speaker 1: guys like Brandon Ingram and Trey Murphy are not slouches

739
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: in that area. They've got the lankedin athleticism to at

740
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,760
Speaker 1: least do a decent job. I even thought CJ. McCollum

741
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: did a really good job on the ball in this game,

742
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:47,399
Speaker 1: had several deflections he was locked in, and with how

743
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 1: high they bring Yonis Malachunus up in their drop, it's

744
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: a doable job. And again this is where this is

745
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:55,800
Speaker 1: what I meant by when I'm talking about all three levels,

746
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 1: because then you end up with this backside situation where

747
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: it's brandon Ingram or Zion Williamson or Trey Murphy usually

748
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: two of those three guys at any given possession. So

749
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: I've got six ' nine athlete with long arms, I've

750
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 1: got Zion Williamson, one of the most freaky athletes in

751
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 1: the NBA right now, and I've got try Murphy Trey Murphy,

752
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: a six eight sixty nine long armed freak athlete that

753
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: are on the backside. And so those guys are just

754
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 1: blowing plays up. Zion Williamson once again two possessions that

755
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: he blew up as a lowman. He reached in and

756
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,919
Speaker 1: ripped Keegan murray on on a on a play where

757
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:31,760
Speaker 1: he was coming out of the the low man spot

758
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: there in the out of the left corner. He had

759
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 1: that play where I think it was I'm trying to

760
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 1: remember who's fronting, but they uh. There was that play

761
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: where you saw uh uh Sabonus get the deep seal

762
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: in transition, and I want to say it was somebody.

763
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: It was one of the one of the Pelicans guards.

764
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: I think that was fronting the post and Zion's way

765
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: up on the left wing, and Fox or Monk, whoever

766
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: it is, throws the over the top pass to Sabonas

767
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: and it looks like the sides cleared behind him. Zion

768
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 1: just comes flying in from the wing and just snatches

769
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: the basketball out from over the top, and like that,

770
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 1: to me is what makes that defense so exciting. Is

771
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 1: it's like like Zion has that kind of potential. He's

772
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: got the anticipation, he's got the instincts, he's got the athleticism.

773
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: Brandon Ingram and Trey Murphy bring that same type of disruption,

774
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: and so when you've got that athleticism on the weak

775
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: side and you've got that sort of point of attack personnel,

776
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: you can afford to bring yonus up in ball screens.

777
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 1: This is the Denver Nuggets thing. Everybody's wondering, how is

778
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,839
Speaker 1: it the Denver Nuggets are getting stops when they have

779
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 1: a weak grim protector. And it's literally because they can

780
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,839
Speaker 1: do whatever they want with Jokic. They can drop him deep,

781
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:48,760
Speaker 1: they can drop him up at the level of the screen.

782
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter because Contavious Callbo Pope is getting over

783
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,240
Speaker 1: the top of that screen and he's applying back pressure.

784
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: Christian Brown is getting over the top of that screen

785
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: and he's applying back pressure right and then on the

786
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: weak side at leets like Michael Porter Junior and Aaron

787
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: Gordon are blowing actions up by anticipating and using their

788
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: length and athleticism, and it has allowed them to not

789
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,839
Speaker 1: need Jonas Valentinas to clean up all the messes. It's

790
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: allowed the Nuggets to not need Nicole Jochic to clean

791
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: up all the messes. And that's what's kind of interesting

792
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: to me about modern defense is like you kind of

793
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,840
Speaker 1: have to be strong in two of your cores, right.

794
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 1: One of the things, like the Lakers have been one

795
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: of the best defenses in the league over the last

796
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:32,439
Speaker 1: month or so, they've been top five, and a big

797
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: part of that is they have outstanding rim protection and

798
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: their help defense has been good. They've been they like

799
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: the point of attack has been a little bit of

800
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: a mess. Austin's a little rough, Delos a little rough.

801
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 1: You've been getting stretches out of maxim cam. But it's

802
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: been a little rough, right, But the weak side, the

803
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 1: Ruy Hatcher, Mura, the Lebron James, the Christian Wood, the

804
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: weak side help and the and the rim protection of

805
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis has allowed them to be a great defense

806
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: despite having below average point of attack personnel. And that's

807
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: what's exciting about Jared Vanderbilt coming back, is they could

808
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 1: potentially then take a leap up to the next level

809
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 1: from there. But I think it's an interesting example of that.

810
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 1: Like if you if you have strong point of attack

811
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: personnel and strong help personnel, you can get away with

812
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 1: the weak rim protector if you have you know, like

813
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,839
Speaker 1: if you're excellent at the point of attack and you're

814
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: excellent in rim protection, you don't even need to send

815
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: a third defender into ball screens and so now your

816
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:30,320
Speaker 1: weak side defense isn't as important. You guys kind of

817
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 1: get the point. I think it's an interesting example of that.

818
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: But this defense is given the Kings in particular a

819
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 1: lot of issues. To give you an idea in the

820
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: three games against the Pelicans, Darren Fox, but by the way,

821
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 1: he's been playing like an MVP against everyone else. Twenty

822
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: three points per game, forty percent from the field, nineteen

823
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: percent from three and more turnovers than assists in three games.

824
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 1: Malik Monk three games versus the Pels thirteen points per game,

825
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: thirty six percent from the field, thirty eight percent from three.

826
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: They've consistently given this team issues. And then on the

827
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,319
Speaker 1: other end, I mean, I thought the Kings did a

828
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 1: better job swaring, swarming Zion Williamson in this game, keeping

829
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 1: him under control. And the first two losses, Zion Wimpson

830
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:13,760
Speaker 1: just sliced and diced him. But this time Brandon Ingram

831
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: just completely picked them apart thirty points, six assists, Kings

832
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: got within five, and then Brandon just took the game over.

833
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: He hit like this really nice jab step pull up

834
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 1: jumper going left over Keegan Murray. Then he had this

835
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: ball screen where he drew a second defender, so bonus

836
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:29,280
Speaker 1: up to the level of the screen, and it's actually

837
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 1: this really cool possession where Jonas rolls and Harrison Barnes

838
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 1: comes over and stands right under the basket and basically

839
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: like takes away that easy roll pass and Brandon, like Jonas,

840
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 1: gives him a window that's kind of out to the side,

841
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: and Brandon throws a beautiful pass that hits Jonas in

842
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: that side so that he could just quick turn and

843
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: shoot the hook shot over Harrison Barnes, who has no

844
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,360
Speaker 1: chance of blocking the hook shot. He catches it and

845
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 1: makes it. I thought it was a really nice play

846
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 1: from Brandon Ingram to get a high quality shot out

847
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:59,840
Speaker 1: of a good defensive possession from Zacramento. And then it

848
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,880
Speaker 1: ended with a just a simple double team. Brandon Iso

849
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: out of the right wing, gets downhill, gets down to

850
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 1: kind of like the dunker spot area draws, the second

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Speaker 1: defender makes a kickout pass. Hockey assist Trey Murphy on

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Speaker 1: the left wing knocks down the three, and the game

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Speaker 1: is over. But like it was just methodical, beautiful shot

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Speaker 1: creation from Brandon Ingram with excellent defense on the other

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Speaker 1: end of the floor closing things out. A couple of guys,

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Speaker 1: I want to shout out herb Jones he had. Herb Jones,

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Speaker 1: I should say, had I'm trying to work on pronouncing

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Speaker 1: names correctly, so please keep correcting me when I when

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Speaker 1: I mess that up. Herb Jones had twenty three points.

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Speaker 1: Had a huge offensive rebound. After the Kings Malik Mont

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Speaker 1: goes down, he hiss a pull up three. He gets

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Speaker 1: it to five, and then the Kings have a great

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Speaker 1: defensive possession and for CJ. McCollum into a tough step

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Speaker 1: back jump shot that he misses. But herb Jones is

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Speaker 1: just a completely unboxed out underneath the basket, gets an

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Speaker 1: offensive rebound put back, which is a lot of that's

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Speaker 1: on the kings, which we'll talk about in a minute.

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Speaker 1: And then he's we talked about this when we covered

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Speaker 1: a Pelicans game a week or two ago, but he's

870
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: doing a lot of work putting the ball on the floor.

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00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: He had a couple of huge possessions putting the ball

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Speaker 1: on the floor in this game. He converted nine spotted

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Speaker 1: possessions in this game into thirteen points. And I think

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Speaker 1: that that's just again with it. When you have that

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Speaker 1: specific skill set that he has, which is he's an

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Speaker 1: outstanding perimeter defender. Right when you have that, if you

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Speaker 1: can be a not just a guy you can knock

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Speaker 1: down a three, but also be a dribble shooting pass guy,

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Speaker 1: if you can actually be a connective piece in a

880
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: driving kick system, that just pushes your value that much higher,

881
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Speaker 1: and that you know, that's the different like Herb Jones.

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Speaker 1: If he can get on that Jaden McDaniels track where

883
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 1: he's got a little bit more of that off the

884
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Speaker 1: dribble pop, it can just push him up to that

885
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Speaker 1: next level. Un raised the ceiling of this team. And

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Speaker 1: then last thing, I wanted to shout out Trey Murphy.

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Speaker 1: I've been shouting out this type of guy around the

888
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Speaker 1: league a lot lately. It's this, you know, whether it's

889
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 1: Sam Houser, it's Duncan Robinson, or it's Michael Porter Junior.

890
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Speaker 1: But like the taller, spot up guy on the weak

891
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 1: side has a has a little bit off the dribble

892
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: pop in his hyper aggressive and catch and shoot situations

893
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Speaker 1: even when he's not really open. I think that brings

894
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Speaker 1: a ton of value. Trey Murphy the season's five for

895
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Speaker 1: eleven on guarded catch and shoot threes, which is a

896
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Speaker 1: huge asset. Like he hit a couple of them in

897
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 1: this game where it's like the guy's there and it

898
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,760
Speaker 1: just doesn't matter. And I think that having Trey Murphy

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Speaker 1: back has been a lot this team. This team has

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Speaker 1: potential to be really, really great with the defensive personnel

901
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Speaker 1: that they have if they can continue to get high

902
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Speaker 1: level shot creation at of Brandon Ingram and Zion Williamson

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Speaker 1: on the King's front. I don't want to, like, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to overdo it because I think some of

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Speaker 1: this is in their head, Like there were some good

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00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 1: looks down the stretch of that game that they missed

907
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 1: some good catch and shoot threes that they missed, so

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Speaker 1: Bonus like smoked a lefty hook right at the rim

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Speaker 1: that he shot way long off the back of the

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Speaker 1: rim that would have cut it to like four, I

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Speaker 1: think down the stretch. So I think some of it's

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Speaker 1: in their head. They were sloppy on the glass, Like

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Speaker 1: the Kings have been the best defensive rebounding team in

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Speaker 1: the league over the last month, and they just had

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Speaker 1: a bunch of mistakes on the glass in this game

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Speaker 1: thirteen offensive rebounds. So, like, I don't want to overthink it,

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Speaker 1: but I think one of the things you'll see happen

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Speaker 1: in basketball is especially with the bad matchup, a team

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Speaker 1: will struggle with some of the mental elements of it,

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00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: and you almost just kind of like need to get

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Speaker 1: the monkey off your back, right, You need to get

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00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:15,840
Speaker 1: a big win against this team just to kind of

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Speaker 1: reset your confidence. And I'm not now that they've played

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Speaker 1: three times, I would assume. I would assume, because they're

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Speaker 1: both in the West, will play at least one more

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Speaker 1: time this year. But I think, especially because you don't

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Speaker 1: want to run into a playoff series, with that problem

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Speaker 1: if they were to catch each other in a matchup.

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Speaker 1: And so I think it's important for the Kings to

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Speaker 1: nach a win against the Pelicans at some point this season.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, that's all I have for this part

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Speaker 1: of today. We're gonna be back later tonight for a

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Speaker 1: breakdown of the Knicks, Bucks, as well as the Suns

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Speaker 1: and the Lakers. I will see you guys. Then the

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Speaker 1: volume