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Speaker 1: volume Happy Tuesday, everybody. I hope all of you guys

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Speaker 1: had an incredible weekend. I got out of town to

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Speaker 1: just rip through to the right, and like j t

431
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Speaker 1: A and Max Chrissy are sliding with them and they

432
00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:51,840
Speaker 1: got their hands on him, and they're trying to be

433
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Speaker 1: physical and they're trying to hold their ground. But like

434
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Speaker 1: Wiggins is a vet now, Like he's not the skinny

435
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Speaker 1: wing that he was when he was coming up through

436
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,200
Speaker 1: high school. He's a big, strong wing now and he's

437
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Speaker 1: realizing that, like when he just goes that people can't

438
00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:10,200
Speaker 1: stop him. And man, he was just ripping through them

439
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,280
Speaker 1: on closeouts and getting all the way to the rim.

440
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:16,400
Speaker 1: Really interesting and exciting performance from Andrew Wiggins. I thought

441
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,720
Speaker 1: Dante DiVincenzo did a good job with the basketball in

442
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Speaker 1: his hands. He was only one for five from the field,

443
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,440
Speaker 1: but a lot of that's his legs and he's he's

444
00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,040
Speaker 1: got he's getting a double on that side because it's

445
00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:28,240
Speaker 1: not just he's getting his legs from preseason. He also

446
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:30,160
Speaker 1: is coming back from an injury, so there's some mental

447
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:31,960
Speaker 1: stuff he's getting over, so he's not getting the amount

448
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,040
Speaker 1: of lift that he usually does but he's passing the

449
00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:40,040
Speaker 1: ball really well, and most importantly, he's intent on getting downhill.

450
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,600
Speaker 1: A lot of the Warriors guards, Stephen and Clay in particular,

451
00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:45,640
Speaker 1: a little bit of Jordan Pool, although Jordan's pretty good

452
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Speaker 1: getting downhill too. They are kind of coming off of

453
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Speaker 1: those ball screens looking more to shoot, or coming off

454
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,439
Speaker 1: of those griple handoffs looking more to shoot. And Dante

455
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:58,200
Speaker 1: is going downhill. And he's an underrated athlete in underrated

456
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Speaker 1: size wise for a lot of the you know what

457
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,679
Speaker 1: we consider two guards around the league. He already has

458
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,879
Speaker 1: a really nice natural passing give and take with James

459
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,959
Speaker 1: Wiseman kind of hunts him everywhere on the floor, especially

460
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,880
Speaker 1: as drop off passes. They connected on several of those

461
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Speaker 1: on Sunday night. Um. I like I like his fit.

462
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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna do a really nice job filling

463
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Speaker 1: in the auto porter junior role. UM and I thought

464
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Speaker 1: it was a really smart signing from the Warriors brass

465
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 1: this summer, Kevin Looney did a really nice job guarding

466
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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis again had some success against James Wiseman,

467
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Speaker 1: but Looney really forced him into being a jump shooter.

468
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Speaker 1: I've always been critical of Anthony Davis of not you know,

469
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Speaker 1: he's too heavy, so he doesn't really have the foot

470
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Speaker 1: speed that he had when he was younger, and so

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Speaker 1: he struggles to beat people off the dribble. Well, Kevan

472
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 1: was playing really uh solid discipline defense, positioning himself directly

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Speaker 1: between a d and the rim and just moving his

474
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Speaker 1: feet and baiting Anthony Davis into taking really difficult jump shots.

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Speaker 1: And if I remember correctly in the footage that I watched,

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Speaker 1: he made a tough one a jab step at the

477
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Speaker 1: at the left elbow, but he missed a lot of

478
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:05,680
Speaker 1: jumpers over the top of Loony Luoni smothered him under

479
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,360
Speaker 1: the basket once and got to stop it. He got

480
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 1: bailed out by a whistle. But it wasn't one that

481
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,280
Speaker 1: I agreed with. Um Luny Kevin Kevin lunis just flat

482
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 1: out good. It's honestly one of the weirdest dynamics with

483
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:19,679
Speaker 1: this Warrior's team because Looney's good and Draymond's good, and

484
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 1: that's really all they need in the front court with

485
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Speaker 1: the style that they like to play. So it'll be

486
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Speaker 1: really interesting to see how they kind of shoehorned Wiseman

487
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Speaker 1: minutes in there as a result. And then last Moses Moody.

488
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Speaker 1: He struggled early in the game, especially on Kendrick Nunn

489
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Speaker 1: ducking under picks, but he must have got yelled at

490
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Speaker 1: by coach or something, because man, in the second quarter

491
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:39,879
Speaker 1: he had a really good shift where he was chasing

492
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Speaker 1: over the top of screens and actually forcing Kendrick Nunn

493
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Speaker 1: to ISO him rather than get his normal stuff out

494
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Speaker 1: of pick and roll. I think Moses Moody is the

495
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 1: clear pick as that guy that's going to fit in

496
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Speaker 1: as that kind of like that Gary Payton second roll

497
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:54,600
Speaker 1: UM as one of the wings off the bench that

498
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Speaker 1: takes a significant defensive assignment. Uh. Moving out of the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: So again, when we talked about Um preseason earlier on,

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Speaker 1: I told you guys how I'm not I'm not interested

501
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Speaker 1: in the outcomes of games. I mean, how the Lakers

502
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 1: were one in three. I also, you know, got in

503
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:15,879
Speaker 1: trouble with some of you guys last week because I

504
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 1: missed the result of a Warrior's game because I misread

505
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,119
Speaker 1: a box score. I don't care who wins preseason games.

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Speaker 1: What I care about is the the core lineups and

507
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 1: uh and and like how they stack up against other

508
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,880
Speaker 1: core lineups from some of the other teams, and then

509
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 1: you can you can kind of dive a little deeper

510
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 1: into specific role players and and how they might fit

511
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 1: when everyone is available. But at the end of the day,

512
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:43,120
Speaker 1: you're looking for habits. You're looking at are they playing hard?

513
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:45,720
Speaker 1: Do they have good defensive habits in terms of boxing

514
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 1: out or defensive rotations and things along that lines, those lines,

515
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,400
Speaker 1: running the floor and transition defense. You know, do are

516
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,199
Speaker 1: they establishing an identity as a team that does all

517
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 1: the little things and does it well, you know, beyond

518
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Speaker 1: the fact that the Lakers went winless last year. They

519
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: were winless and not playing good basketball. And what's interesting

520
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 1: is that if in the four games the Lakers have played,

521
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Speaker 1: in three of them they played at least one of

522
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: their stars, they played a d this last game, they

523
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Speaker 1: played Russ and Lebron in the second one, that they

524
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Speaker 1: played all three of them in the first one. And

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Speaker 1: in those games they played the Warriors, the Kings, and

526
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Speaker 1: the Sons, and they won their minutes in all three

527
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Speaker 1: of those games. Now, does that mean the Lakers are gonna,

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Speaker 1: you know, have an amazing regular season, No, not necessarily,

529
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Speaker 1: But what it does tell me is that they're competent

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Speaker 1: enough and discipline enough, or at least attempting to build

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Speaker 1: that type of identity which will allow Lebron James and

532
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis to control the outcomes of games. They need

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Speaker 1: to be disciplined and they need to be sharp in

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Speaker 1: the details, so that if Lebron and A d play

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Speaker 1: like two of the top seven players in the world,

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Speaker 1: they can contend with the best teams in the league.

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Speaker 1: And that's what That's the way I feel about the

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Speaker 1: Lakers so far through four preseason games. I think they

539
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Speaker 1: are good enough on the details and good enough their

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00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: personnel that if Lebron James and Anthony Davis are available

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Speaker 1: consistently and play like top ten players, they absolutely will

542
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Speaker 1: contend out West. That that that to me is almost

543
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 1: a sure thing as long as Lebron and AD are

544
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Speaker 1: healthy and play like top ten players. Obviously, if Anthony

545
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,399
Speaker 1: Davis doesn't play well, that will hurt things. Obviously, if

546
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,880
Speaker 1: injuries creep into the equation, obviously that will hurt things.

547
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 1: But I've seen enough so far in preseason to know

548
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Speaker 1: that they will contend out West if they are healthy.

549
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 1: That is how good Lebron James and Anthony Davis are

550
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Speaker 1: And that's how good of a job Darvin Hamm has

551
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 1: done breeding some more competence into this roster. You can

552
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: really see it on the defensive end of the floor.

553
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: They're competing in the physicality areas of the game. They're

554
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,679
Speaker 1: fighting over ball screens and applying back pressure. They're making

555
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 1: the tough rotations. I put a clip on on on

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00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 1: Twitter today that you can see where there's there's a

557
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,360
Speaker 1: play where Jonathan Cominga like slips the screen with Jordan's

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00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:00,040
Speaker 1: pool and JANCEASCTO Anderson gets caught on it and and

559
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 1: j K is open on the right block like just

560
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: just completely unguarded. But on the play, Anthony Davis rotates

561
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 1: over off of Kevan Luney to stop j K from shooting,

562
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,439
Speaker 1: and then Max Christie out of the weak side corner

563
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 1: dives in like just this is hard work, gets into

564
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 1: defensive stance and does a swim move, gets around Cavan Luney,

565
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 1: gets down in a squat and boxes Kevan Luney out

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00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 1: of the lane. Then when j t A comes down,

567
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 1: they all rotate back to their spot and that play

568
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 1: ended up working around and they actually ended up botching

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00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 1: a switch where uh, I believe Steph Curry slipped wide

570
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: open to the rim, but Quantascono Anderson snuffed it out

571
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 1: on the backside and got his steel. That the the

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Speaker 1: the level of the attention to detail on the defensive rotations,

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Speaker 1: the fighting for position, the getting over the top of screens,

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Speaker 1: the boxing out. That's all miles ahead of where it

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Speaker 1: was last year. Now it's not all Darvin Ham. It

576
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: is partially Darvin hamd. But I want to I wanna

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Speaker 1: make make a leer here. That the idea of what

578
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: happened with Frank Vogel, which is a team buying out

579
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,959
Speaker 1: or tuning out a coach. That happens a lot. Demanding

580
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: coaches a lot of times they have to have player

581
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,479
Speaker 1: turnover or they need to be they need to be

582
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: relieved of duty and send somewhere else because they just

583
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 1: burn you out with how much they ask. We've seen

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00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 1: this happen with Tom Tabodeaux. Hell, you see this happen

585
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: with Bill Belichick. But what happened was is Frank Vogel

586
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: lost the locker room last year and they weren't playing

587
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 1: hard for him. So there's two things that are contributing

588
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 1: to this. Darvin Hamm's competence, but also just a new

589
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: face in there and somebody that the team is actually

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00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 1: willing to listen to. Um uh, they blocked five more

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00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: shots in this game. Again, some of this is chasing

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00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 1: over ball screens and blocking guys when they go for

593
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 1: pull ups, but it's a more activity around the rim.

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Speaker 1: I think. I think the Lakers are gonna end up

595
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: being one of the better rim protection teams in the

596
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: league this year. Um Kendrick Nunne I did a whole bit,

597
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 1: like two minute video on this that you can find

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00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,719
Speaker 1: on my Twitter feed. His ability to shoot the basketball

599
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: coming over ball screens has opened up so many things

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00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: for the Lakers on the offensive end of the floor already.

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00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: And we've talked about this concept before. If the defender

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00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: can go under the ball screen, it takes away the drive.

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00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: If it takes away the drive, then you can't get downhill.

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00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 1: If you can't get downhill, the defense doesn't collapse. If

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00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: the decent defense doesn't collapse, you don't have the ability

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00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 1: to make reads to open players that can start your

607
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: driving kick. That's just the reality of being a guard

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Speaker 1: that can't shoot, and that's been the big problem with

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00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook and one of the big reasons why he's

610
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: been so inefficient as a ball creator in this league

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00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years. But Kendrick Nunn, because

612
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 1: he can shoot off the dribble, forces you to chase

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00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 1: over the top. Helps you in two ways because Lebron

614
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: can shoot off the dribble, but the Lebron's being guarded

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Speaker 1: by big forward and Anthony Davis is being guarded by

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Speaker 1: big ford, so they're just gonna switch that. You can't

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Speaker 1: switch that with Kendrick Nunn because he's being guarded by

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Speaker 1: a small in this case Steph Curry. In the video

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Speaker 1: breakdown that I did, I showed kind of the progression.

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Speaker 1: You saw the Warriors try to switch. Steph ended up

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Speaker 1: on a Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis just literally ran to

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00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,239
Speaker 1: the front of the rim. Kendrick Gunn threw it up

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Speaker 1: to him. Two free throws right easy, breezy you Uh.

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00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: Moses Moody ducked under a ball screen and Kendrick Nunn

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00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: just rose up and knocked down a twenty six ft

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00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: off the dribble. Three. Then as they started to chase

627
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: him over the top of the screen, he started to

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00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: get downhill. He made floaters, he made pull up jump shots,

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Speaker 1: he was making reads to his teammates, thrown throwing passes

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00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: to the weak side. It's just it's just a dynamic

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Speaker 1: that the Lakers have not had. They've had guys who

632
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 1: could shoot like Malik Monk, but navigating pick and rolls

633
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: is a really delicate balance of being patient and willing

634
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: to make reads, and Malik is more of a gunner,

635
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: more of his score. So Kendrick Nunn just has been

636
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 1: so much better in that role already in this preseason

637
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: and it's opened up a lot of stuff for their offense.

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00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 1: Um I did want to briefly shout out Anthony Davis's

639
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 1: jump shot looks good here. Early made two additional threes

640
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 1: in this game, both of them trailing the floor and

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00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 1: transition trailing bigs for threes. That's one of the best

642
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: ways to get open shots and transition because most bigs

643
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: have a tendency in transition defense just to run to

644
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: the front of the rim because that's what they've been

645
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,719
Speaker 1: told to do their entire basketball career. And so when

646
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: you have a big trail to play, it's just a

647
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: great opportunity to catch the big sleeping or too far

648
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,240
Speaker 1: back and to get open threes. There a d made

649
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: two three's I believe in the second quarter in this game. Also,

650
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: his elbow face up game looks pretty sharp here early on,

651
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: and that's that just was a staple of Anthony Davis

652
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: in the bubble. So when you see that, that's absolutely encouraging. UM.

653
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: I thought Lonnie Walker had kind of an up and

654
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: down game. A lot of Lakers fans are high on

655
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,239
Speaker 1: his defense in the preseason. I'm not really seeing it

656
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 1: on tape. He's competing, but his form trying to get

657
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 1: over ball screens is just not good. He dies on

658
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: ball screens too easily goes under him sometimes when he

659
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: gets lazy. He one of the things that I'm noticing

660
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 1: on tape. You'll see good ball screen defending guards. You'll

661
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: see them when when when the guard is preparing to

662
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: go over the screen, they get up in to the

663
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: ball handler and try to almost split the difference like

664
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 1: in between the screener and the guard as he's going

665
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: over the top. It's very physical play. They get physical

666
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 1: up into the guard to get over the screen, and

667
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: Lonnie gives space and then just kind of turns and

668
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: runs directly into the screen. And he was getting screened

669
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: way too easily. So there's some stuff there that they

670
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: got to figure out. But his athleticism does pop, and

671
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: you see that in defensive rotations. You see that crashing

672
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: the defensive glass. You see the athleticism there. But in

673
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: order for it to translate to success on the defensive

674
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 1: end of the floor, he's gonna have to figure out

675
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: a way in Darvin Hamm system to be better at

676
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: chasing over the top of ball screens. He did shoot

677
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: the ball well, um. I think he made three threes

678
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: in this game. He made a couple of pull up

679
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: mid range shots as well. But his like Kendrick Nunn,

680
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: is very under control. When he's navigating pick and roll,

681
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: you can tell he's not rushed. You can tell he's

682
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: taking what the defense gives him. With Lonnie Walker, it's

683
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: a little more more wild. It's a little more like

684
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 1: what do I feel like doing on this possession kind

685
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: of thing, you know. And so I'm not as high

686
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: on him as other Lakers fans are right now, but

687
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: I don't think they necessarily need him to be good

688
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 1: given some of the other players they have on the roster,

689
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: So it's not exactly a high pressure situation for him.

690
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: But I do think if he's gonna find minutes in

691
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,880
Speaker 1: Darvin Ham's system, he's just gonna have to be better defensively.

692
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: That if he can channel his athleticism to being good

693
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: chasing over the ball, screens containing dribble drives in isolation situations,

694
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 1: making rotations, and then if he can be consistent as

695
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: a jump shooter, he absolutely will have success in this rotation.

696
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: But he's gotta he's got to get those two, those

697
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:42,439
Speaker 1: two areas tightened down. Matt Ryan knocks down seven threes

698
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,280
Speaker 1: in this game. I need to see more defensive tape

699
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 1: before I can tell you whether or not he can

700
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: fit in the rotation. He did all the right things

701
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 1: and was competing. What you can tell, he's a little

702
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 1: slow footed, which is to be expected. He's a bigger

703
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,879
Speaker 1: wing right um, and he's not a fantastic athlete. Um.

704
00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: But here's the reality. The Lakers don't have a lot

705
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 1: of on the roster, and so just by virtue of

706
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: a hole in the roster, he might get an opportunity.

707
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: And again, just like I said with Lonnie, if he

708
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,919
Speaker 1: can defend well enough, if he can defend just well

709
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 1: enough to fit in this Lakers scheme, his shooting is

710
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: going to be enough to keep him on the floor. Um. Again,

711
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: that that's all I had on this particular Lakers Warriors game.

712
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 1: But we're gonna get to a bunch of the other

713
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 1: teams later on in this week. So moving on to

714
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 1: Rob Polinka. Um. So, it was reported that he signed

715
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: this extension before the Darvin Ham acquisition, largely so that

716
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: they can tie those two together, so that they can

717
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: kind of have some confidence that this is where the

718
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: basketball vision is. It's Darvin Ham leading the team, you know,

719
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: Rob Polinka building the team. I I didn't think he

720
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: deserved it based on the decisions that he made. But

721
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: I'm also not surprised. I mean, Genie Buss is very

722
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: much a family She runs the Lakers like a mom

723
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 1: and pop shop, not like a multibillion dollar organization, and

724
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: so she's gonna prioritize things like personal connections over competency.

725
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 1: She loved Kobe, she was close with Kobe. This is

726
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: Kobe's former agent. Not surprised at all that she went

727
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 1: this route. But again I didn't think. I didn't think

728
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,359
Speaker 1: he deserved it. I think the reality as we zoom

729
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:16,359
Speaker 1: out from the Lakers situation, Lebron James and the way

730
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: he weaponized his cache to bring in Anthony Davis, and

731
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: then the scouting department, Joey and Jesse Buss in the

732
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 1: consistent train of good young basketball players they've brought in.

733
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 1: And I like Matt Max Christie by the way. He's

734
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 1: got a long way to go as a shooter, but

735
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 1: he's already pretty good defensively, dribbles the ball a lot

736
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: better than I expected, and is quicker with his feet

737
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 1: than I expect. There was a play in this game

738
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 1: he actually airballed, I think, or missed it short, but

739
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: he kind of like snaked a pick and roll and

740
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: took an escape dribble far to the right and elevated

741
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,240
Speaker 1: into like a pull up fifteen footer on the baseline,

742
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: and he missed it. But I remember sitting there thinking, like, man,

743
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: like he can get to the point where you can

744
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: knocked that shot down. Like he's dribbling the ball well enough,

745
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:57,320
Speaker 1: and he's at he's athletic enough that he's gonna be

746
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: able to get to that shot whenever he wants, And

747
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: so there's potential there for a dynamic two way player.

748
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:04,760
Speaker 1: Another guy that I think is a really interesting find

749
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 1: from the Lakers scouting department. But that scouting department and

750
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 1: Lebron James has kind of carried this roster over the

751
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: course of the last half decade, and I don't think

752
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: Rob has done a good job and so and so,

753
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,879
Speaker 1: I'm I don't think it's a good idea to extend

754
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 1: him the way that he did. But like I said,

755
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised. The reality is the Lakers will not

756
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 1: have consistent success in the NBA, especially after Lebron is gone,

757
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 1: until they have somebody running the basketball operations department that

758
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: is a basketball nut job, someone that is willing to

759
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 1: do the work to understand what type of basketball players

760
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: succeed in the modern NBA, the same way that Joey

761
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: and Jesse bust two. I know Rob Polinka used to

762
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: play in college. I know he has a basketball background,

763
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 1: but the reality is is right now, he's he's agent guy,

764
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: he's sales e, he's a personality manager. He's kind of

765
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: more of like a figure head than he is a grinder.

766
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: I don't think that Rob Boblinka watches forty basketball games

767
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 1: a week to keep up to date with what's working

768
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,399
Speaker 1: in the modern NBA. I don't think so. Now, maybe

769
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 1: I'm wrong about that, but you guys tell me if

770
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: you guys think that Rob Polinka is as a tuned

771
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: to what's working in the modern n b A. If

772
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 1: he was, he wouldn't constantly be building rosters with traditional

773
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: bigs and tiny guards. He wouldn't be targeting players like

774
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: Lonnie Walker with the mid level exception. This roster would

775
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 1: have more wings somewhere between six seven and six nine

776
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 1: that can defend multiple positions, and can attack close outs,

777
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,240
Speaker 1: and can shoot the basketball and do all of that stuff.

778
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 1: You know how, you know, because that's what all the

779
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 1: other good teams are doing. That's what the Warriors are doing,

780
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: That's what the Toronto Raptors are doing. You know, all

781
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 1: of the all of the front offices that we consider

782
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 1: to be competent are all heading in the same direction,

783
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: and we're all seeing that lead to succes s, and

784
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 1: then we're seeing Rob do different stuff. I don't believe

785
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: that he's the right guy for this position, and as

786
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: long as he's there, I think that the team is handcuffed.

787
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 1: I think that's just the reality of having a guy

788
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: that's not a real basketball grinder, A guy that can watch,

789
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 1: you know, every single meaningful basketball game in the NBA

790
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 1: for a week and pay attention to what's working for

791
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 1: certain teams and find little opportunities to add value here

792
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 1: and there the way that the scouting department does. I

793
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:32,320
Speaker 1: just don't think Rob's the right guy for that. Uh.

794
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: One last note on the rob Berlinka thing. I think

795
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: he botched the Rust thing. I think he should have

796
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:38,720
Speaker 1: moved him. I think he should have got Myles Turner

797
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,959
Speaker 1: and Buddy Yield or this Utah Jazz package, mainly because

798
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 1: they needed training camp to establish good habits and to

799
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: get those guys up to speed with some continuity to

800
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 1: get ready for the season. I think even if they

801
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: do get something tenent better, it's the loss of training

802
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: camp and in the continuity from it that I think

803
00:39:56,080 --> 00:40:00,919
Speaker 1: is problematic there. But this Victor Wemman Yama thing might

804
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 1: just have given him another chance. He's so incredibly good

805
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,879
Speaker 1: that there will be a good amount of tanking, and

806
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 1: some of these teams that are concerned about potentially ditching

807
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,800
Speaker 1: some of their high quality role players that aren't contending

808
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 1: will be more willing to do so because of this

809
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: Victor woman Yama situation. So Rob Polinka just might end

810
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: up falling asked backwards into a good trade here. If

811
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: things pan out properly, He's got another chance here, but

812
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: I think he needs to do so. I have not

813
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 1: seen enough from Russ yet in preseason to tell me

814
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 1: that he's changed and he's just gonna suddenly be a

815
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 1: productive player on this team. So I'm still pro trading him,

816
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,319
Speaker 1: and Rob's gonna get his chance, I think as a

817
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: result of this Victor women Yama thing. The last thing

818
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 1: that I wanted to touch on today was Ben simmons.

819
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: Um obviously hasn't looked great offensively here in the preseason.

820
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: There's a pretty nasty video of him playing at a

821
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: park and air bawling what looks like a twelve foot

822
00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: jump shot to the left. Um. I I disagree with

823
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 1: a lot of people as it pertains to like, oh,

824
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,320
Speaker 1: he's right handed. He's not left handed like your dominant

825
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 1: hands are dominant hand. I don't know what to tell you.

826
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: It's a form issue. He cross fires. He holds the

827
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 1: ball kind of like almost like this on the side

828
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: of his head and then flings it almost to the side,

829
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,879
Speaker 1: and so when he lines it up right, it can

830
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: it can be a decent shot, but it's just too

831
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 1: easy for the shot to go off the rails in

832
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 1: terms of form. And you saw a perfect example of

833
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: it in that video that's going around. When you're when

834
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: you cross fire, you're gonna have a lot of left

835
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: to right misses, and he had a really bad left

836
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 1: miss on that particular play. Do I think Ben Simmons

837
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: needs to make threes to be a productive NBA player? No.

838
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 1: What I do think, just like with Joannice, is you

839
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:43,320
Speaker 1: have to show a combination of a willingness to score

840
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:47,280
Speaker 1: the basketball either at the rim or before the rim,

841
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 1: and you need to show a willingness to pass. He

842
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: has the willingness to pass, and he can score at

843
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:55,399
Speaker 1: the rim. What he does not have is any sort

844
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:59,439
Speaker 1: of confidence to score somewhere between the perimeter and the rim.

845
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: Doesn't have to be a three, doesn't have to be

846
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,720
Speaker 1: a pull up fifteen footer. It can be hook shots,

847
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 1: it can be floaters, it can be short jump shots

848
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:09,880
Speaker 1: in the lane, but it has to be something. He's

849
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 1: got to find something there that is a a coherent,

850
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 1: reliable shot that will make teams guard him honestly, because

851
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: if they don't guard him, honestly, then those passing opportunities

852
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 1: aren't there for him, and now he becomes a defensive

853
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 1: player that is an offensive liability, especially when you get

854
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 1: into late rounds of the playoffs. And so again, like

855
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 1: I think some of the focus on his jump shot

856
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 1: is too much, but he I think. I think the

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Speaker 1: easy answer is short jump shots like ten to fifteen

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Speaker 1: to me, it's that cross firing that he's got to

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Speaker 1: get rid of. Al Right, guys, that is all I

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Speaker 1: have for today. Like I said, we're gonna get into

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Speaker 1: a ton of the other teams later on in this week.

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Speaker 1: As always, I sincerely appreciate your support and I will

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Speaker 1: see you next time. And the volume