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Speaker 1: to the weekend. Today we're gonna be shouting out Mr
Speaker 1: Lebron James. You're on his thirty eight birthday, put up
Speaker 1: a forty seven, ten and nine in his twenty season
Speaker 1: to win a game on the road against the Atlanta Hawks.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be do two videos today, this one and
Speaker 1: then we're also gonna do a video breaking down the
Speaker 1: Warriors winning their fourth consecutive game without Steph. We were
Speaker 1: supposed to have today off and then Monday. We got
Speaker 1: big plans. We're gonna be covering Lakers, excuse me, Clipper Celtics.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be covering uh Celtics Nuggets, that m v
Speaker 1: P matchup between Tatum and Yokich, a bunch of other
Speaker 1: big games from this weekend. We're gonna be getting all
Speaker 1: that on Monday. Like I said, we're supposed to have
Speaker 1: today off, but Lakers and Warriors are two biggest fan
Speaker 1: bases and they're both riding high off of a couple
Speaker 1: of big wins, so we wanted to touch on them today.
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Speaker 1: your podcasts. Under hoops tonight. All right, So Lebron forty seven,
Speaker 1: ten and nine on the road to beat the Hawks
Speaker 1: eighteen for twenty seven shooting once again, they were plus
Speaker 1: twelve with him on the floor, minus three with him off.
Speaker 1: Since returning from the groin injury in eighteen games, Lebron
Speaker 1: is averaging thirty one, eight and seven and the Lakers
Speaker 1: are plus eighty one when he's on the floor minus
Speaker 1: eighty six when he's off. That is m v P
Speaker 1: level on off production. In the nine games since Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis went down, counting the Nuggets game, which he missed
Speaker 1: the majority of they are four and five. Think about
Speaker 1: all of the roster limitations of this Lakers roster. There
Speaker 1: literally is not a guy on the team that can
Speaker 1: dribble with his head up that's at least six ft
Speaker 1: six not named Lebron James. That's the type of roster
Speaker 1: limitations they're dealing with. And they are newly five hundred
Speaker 1: since Anthony Davis went down. In that nine game span,
Speaker 1: the Lakers are plus forty four with Lebron on the
Speaker 1: floor and minus sixty three with him off. In that
Speaker 1: nine game span, he's averaging thirty four points per game
Speaker 1: on fifty eight percent shooting. This is all time great,
Speaker 1: special stuff that we're seeing from an all time great player,
Speaker 1: and the degree of difficulty is completely off the charts.
Speaker 1: Teams are not guarding the spot up shooters, they're packing
Speaker 1: the paints, sending multiple bodies at him. Go look up
Speaker 1: the highlights from that Atlanta Hawks game and look at
Speaker 1: his shot profile in that fourth quarter. It's long threes
Speaker 1: off the dribble that are contested, it's dunking in traffic,
Speaker 1: it's and one layups around the rim when he's surrounded
Speaker 1: by three defensive players. He hit multiple difficult drifting fade
Speaker 1: aways along the baseline. Everything is an extremely high degree
Speaker 1: of difficult alt right now. You know, forget about the
Speaker 1: highlights for a second. Just winning his minutes. The way
Speaker 1: he has been with this roster has been incredible. Like
Speaker 1: I said, not a single player on the rosters over
Speaker 1: six five that can dribble that's not named Lebron because
Speaker 1: of the Anthony Davis injury. This is truly special stuff
Speaker 1: we're seeing. At a minimum, Lebron is the second best
Speaker 1: player of all time. Some people think he's first. I
Speaker 1: don't have him second. He's very clearly still near the
Speaker 1: peak of his powers. If he's not completely there, he's
Speaker 1: lost some stuff, but he's still contributing to winning at
Speaker 1: a very high level, and he's pouring his heart and
Speaker 1: soul every single night in the stretch without a d
Speaker 1: to try to win these basketball games. Meanwhile, his front
Speaker 1: office in his ownership group are sitting on their damn
Speaker 1: hands despite having the tools to give him a better chance.
Speaker 1: They've had those tools since the offseason and they've neglected
Speaker 1: to use them, with the excuse that it's not worth it.
Speaker 1: They don't think this guy who's literally the second best
Speaker 1: player of all time, who's playing at a top five
Speaker 1: m v P level right now, they don't think he's
Speaker 1: worth it. I tweeted out the other day that like
Speaker 1: it's getting sad because every single night Lebron comes out
Speaker 1: and plays well, and every single night it gets more
Speaker 1: and more depressing to watch him flounder with the team
Speaker 1: that doesn't really have a real opportunity to compete. You know,
Speaker 1: it's shameful because you know what Rob Polinka and Jennie
Speaker 1: Buss have done shepherding this final phase of Lebron James
Speaker 1: career is really a dark chapter in NBA history. And
Speaker 1: I know Lebron has made some bad suggestions to the
Speaker 1: front office during that time, But what is the front
Speaker 1: office is job? It is their job to be completely
Speaker 1: up to speed on what works in the modern NBA.
Speaker 1: Those of you who follow this show, you know how
Speaker 1: much film I watch you. All of you guys as
Speaker 1: fans watch a great deal of NBA basketball games. Do you,
Speaker 1: guys feel like you have a pretty solid idea of
Speaker 1: what works and the modern NBA? What are the things
Speaker 1: we've seen we talked about five out spacing, right, we
Speaker 1: talked about the value of switching defenses versus drop coverage,
Speaker 1: and we talk about the value of players between six
Speaker 1: six and six nine that can dribble, shoot and pass
Speaker 1: and defend a little bit. And everyone in the league
Speaker 1: seems to see the value there and to be targeting
Speaker 1: those players. And Rob Polinka, now two seasons in a row,
Speaker 1: has completely neglected that position. It's gross levels of incompetence.
Speaker 1: And I don't care what Lebron suggests. The NBA g
Speaker 1: MS responsibility is to take in those bits of input
Speaker 1: and to make educated decisions based on his expertise with
Speaker 1: NBA personnel, and Rob Polinka has proven time and time
Speaker 1: again to be completely incompetent evaluating NBA personnel in building
Speaker 1: NBA rosters. Between that and Genie Buss's inability or unwillingness,
Speaker 1: depending on whether it's the fact that she's poor compared
Speaker 1: to the other owners or just unwilling to invest in
Speaker 1: this group has left financial opportunities on the table, like
Speaker 1: letting Alex Cruz so Go, refusing to make trades because
Speaker 1: of long term money coming back, the fact that she
Speaker 1: might have to pay a luxury tax in the future. Again.
Speaker 1: It's a dark chapter in NBA history because this again
Speaker 1: is the second best player in NBA history, pouring his
Speaker 1: heart and soul out to try to carry this team
Speaker 1: while his leaders are not doing the same. He's doing
Speaker 1: everything he can to make it work and they are
Speaker 1: not doing everything they can. It's just said. And so
Speaker 1: I hope he gets another chance before the end of
Speaker 1: his career to play for a good basketball team again.
Speaker 1: And honestly, if Rob and Genie do leave him hanging
Speaker 1: again this year, I hope Lebron makes them suffer the
Speaker 1: humiliation of him requesting a trade, and I hope and
Speaker 1: any Davis joins him. And for Lakers fans out there,
Speaker 1: and I know that's really kind of depressing to think about,
Speaker 1: but you're not going anywhere as long as these two
Speaker 1: are in control. And the only way things will change
Speaker 1: is if they get bad enough for even the yes
Speaker 1: men that are surrounding them to not have a leg
Speaker 1: to stand on. And and I don't think Jennie bust
Speaker 1: will ever sell the team, and that will always handicap
Speaker 1: this franchise to some extent, but at the very least,
Speaker 1: there needs to be a change in the in the
Speaker 1: basketball operations department to find somebody that is that actually
Speaker 1: cares about getting to know what works in the modern NBA.
Speaker 1: I feel like Rob Polinka looks at roster building from
Speaker 1: the standpoint of personality management. He's been more interested in
Speaker 1: catering to Clutch Sports and this partnership with Clutch Sports,
Speaker 1: then finding basketball players that contribute to winning in the
Speaker 1: modern n b A and and that, and that's that,
Speaker 1: that's the that's the reality of that situation is that
Speaker 1: there needs to their need to be an absolute catastrophe,
Speaker 1: like Lebron James requesting the first trade of his career
Speaker 1: out of the Los Angeles Lakers. It might take that
Speaker 1: to see the change is necessary for the Lakers to
Speaker 1: have consistent success in the future, because they will not
Speaker 1: have consistent success in the future until they figure this out.
Speaker 1: And right now, Rob Lincoln Genie Buss are fumbling an
Speaker 1: era with one of the greatest athletes of all time
Speaker 1: for one of the greatest franchises of all time. It
Speaker 1: is an all time fumbling of the bag. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm off my soapbox. Obviously, we're not going to dive
Speaker 1: too much into the Lakers from a team perspective, because
Speaker 1: there's just not a lot to get into until Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis comes back or they make significant roster changes. But
Speaker 1: I tipped the Capital Lebron for at least trying to
Speaker 1: keep them afloat in the standings. In the meantime, the
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors won again for the fourth consecutive time
Speaker 1: over a good Portland team at full strength behind Jordan's
Speaker 1: Pool's big nights. So we're gonna be breaking that down
Speaker 1: in this video, and then we have one other video
Speaker 1: coming out today, just a quick little shout out to
Speaker 1: Lebron James, who had what seven, ten and nine on
Speaker 1: his birthday in his twentieth season, is thirty eight birthday,
Speaker 1: so obviously a couple of our larger fan base has
Speaker 1: had some big moments. So we're gonna do some quick
Speaker 1: videos today. Uh, Clippers Celtics was another big game that
Speaker 1: I wanted to get to, but we're gonna do Celtics
Speaker 1: because they played Denver tomorrow night, so we're gonna do
Speaker 1: that on Monday, so I'm just gonna push that until Monday.
Speaker 1: So Monday we're gonna cover Clippers Celtics, Nuggets Celtics, and
Speaker 1: a bunch of the other teams around the league, as
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Speaker 1: So the Golden State Warriors beat Portland's one eighteen to
Speaker 1: one twelve at home. They jumped out to a huge
Speaker 1: lead in this game and then portantly kind of methodically
Speaker 1: worked their way back into the game and actually kind
Speaker 1: of took control. They were up one ten to one
Speaker 1: out two with less than five minutes left, but a
Speaker 1: bunch of Warriors made big plays down the stretch. That
Speaker 1: one of the biggest plays was the one that started
Speaker 1: that run. At one ten to one out two, Anthony
Speaker 1: Simmons came over his screen and shot a pull up
Speaker 1: jump shot and Jordan Pool stripped him on the way up,
Speaker 1: which led to a turnover, a little semi transition break,
Speaker 1: and then Jordan Pool hit the rondo fake that fake
Speaker 1: behind the back to go up and make a layup
Speaker 1: that got it to one ten, one oh four. Johnathan
Speaker 1: Cominga then got a dunk on a backdoor cut to
Speaker 1: get it down to four point lead um and then
Speaker 1: you know, some high level shot making, which is gonna
Speaker 1: be something we're gonna talk about a lot here, because
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk a lot about Jordan Pool today. But
Speaker 1: Jordan gets Dante DiVincenzo and kind of like a triple
Speaker 1: that a triple threat situation on the right wing with
Speaker 1: his right foot of it as his pivot, kind of
Speaker 1: does a little jab step to the left and then
Speaker 1: rises up and knocks down three to get it back
Speaker 1: to one. But there's an angle if you guys saw
Speaker 1: on the broadcast the camera behind Jordan Pool, and it's
Speaker 1: kind of an interesting little, uh skill set thing for
Speaker 1: young players to pay attention to as well. When defenders
Speaker 1: have to prepare to chase somebody over a screen there's
Speaker 1: a lot of prep work there. You need to have
Speaker 1: good awareness of what's happening around you, where the screens
Speaker 1: are coming from. Obviously, when the screen is coming you
Speaker 1: need to be prepared to have your hands ready to
Speaker 1: fight through the contact. There's a footwork, a big long
Speaker 1: step you have to take over the top of the screen.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of prep work to fight over the
Speaker 1: top of screens, and so on this play, I can't
Speaker 1: remember who it was, it was either Draymond or Looney,
Speaker 1: but a warrior was coming up to set a screen
Speaker 1: on either side of Jordan Pool and Josh Hart is
Speaker 1: looking around like this, trying to identify where the screen
Speaker 1: is coming from, right as Jordan Pool is rising up.
Speaker 1: And so that's that's why rejecting screens works really well,
Speaker 1: because that guard is getting ready to fight over the
Speaker 1: top of that screen, and that's a great time for
Speaker 1: to catch him off balance or in general, and in
Speaker 1: a situation like that rising up to shoot, when the
Speaker 1: defenders getting ready to chase over the top of the screen,
Speaker 1: those are great ways to find little opportunities to either
Speaker 1: drive to the basket or to take pull up jump shots.
Speaker 1: Johnny Comico gets another runout transition dunk to make it
Speaker 1: one eleven to one ten and then Clay Thompson flying
Speaker 1: off of a dribble handoff on the right wing, just
Speaker 1: just just a high audacity pull up three to put
Speaker 1: them up one fourteen to one ten um. And then
Speaker 1: the final play of the game was a little ghost
Speaker 1: screen action with Jordan Pool and Dante DiVincenzo. He comes
Speaker 1: up fake setting the screen slips out to the three
Speaker 1: point line. Damian Lillard, not a great defensive player, doesn't
Speaker 1: stay attached to Dante DiVincenzo easy swing pass knocks down
Speaker 1: the three and from there the game is basically over.
Speaker 1: But there was lot of defensive plays in that sequence.
Speaker 1: To I talked about the Jordan Pool strip that triggered
Speaker 1: the beginning of the run um. There was a play
Speaker 1: where Dante DiVincenzo was applying back pressure on Damian Lillard
Speaker 1: and pick and roll worked him across the floor and
Speaker 1: Dame had to take a really difficult fade away kind
Speaker 1: of near the left elbow that he ended up leaving short.
Speaker 1: Really good defense from Dante DiVincenzo. We had another one
Speaker 1: of those Draymond Green. Those of you guys who remember
Speaker 1: when we were talking about the Utah Jazz game, Draymond
Speaker 1: Green blowing up two on one pick and roll situations,
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard coming downhill, there's guy cutting out of the
Speaker 1: I think it was you Banks cutting out of the
Speaker 1: dunker spot there for a lob. Draymond just attacks the
Speaker 1: basketball forward up on Dame and blocks his lot pass.
Speaker 1: The third time in the last two games where Draymond
Speaker 1: Green just blows up a like clear layup or dunk
Speaker 1: opportunity in a two on one situation with an outrageous
Speaker 1: defensive play. And then there at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: right before the Dante Devincenzo go screen, Damian Liller trying
Speaker 1: to protect the bat basketball exposes it for just a
Speaker 1: second and a triple threat Dante DiVincenzo just reaches over
Speaker 1: the top and pokes the ball away for a steal.
Speaker 1: You know, when when Stephen went down, it was obvious
Speaker 1: that they were gonna need to defend at a really
Speaker 1: high level. And for the record, during this four game
Speaker 1: winning streak, during the win streak meaning literally have not
Speaker 1: lost in four games, they are twenty seventh in offense.
Speaker 1: Think about that, winning every single one of those games
Speaker 1: while scoring at a rate that is at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the league, and that's to be expected. Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: I've called him on the show many times one of
Speaker 1: the best offensive engines in any an NBA history, if
Speaker 1: not the best offensive engine in NBA history. You can't
Speaker 1: replace that. That's out of your control. But if you're
Speaker 1: gonna try to manufacture wins without Steph, there's gotta be
Speaker 1: something you can control. And the defensive end is a
Speaker 1: huge part of that. They are seven in offense during
Speaker 1: this four game winning streak, but they are for in defense.
Speaker 1: No one is allowing fewer points over their last four
Speaker 1: games than the Golden State Warriors. It's a lot of
Speaker 1: Draymond Green. We talked about him a lot, Jonathan Comingo,
Speaker 1: who has been a great wing defender. They're bunch of
Speaker 1: guys are contributing as well. The other one I wanted
Speaker 1: to shout out those Dante DiVincenzo like to be able
Speaker 1: to throw him on Damian Lillard, one of the best
Speaker 1: offensive guards in the league, and have him do a
Speaker 1: really good job as a bench player filling in for
Speaker 1: an injured team. Super super impressive stuff. But the guy
Speaker 1: we gotta shout out tonight or today, I should say
Speaker 1: is Jordan Pool is in eight games since Steph's injury,
Speaker 1: He's now averaging twenty nine points per game from the
Speaker 1: field from three percent from the line on eight point
Speaker 1: one attempts per game. That's a sixty percent true shooting percentage.
Speaker 1: So this is an efficient twenty nine point per game scoring.
Speaker 1: And then again that eight point one free throw attempts
Speaker 1: for game is super impressive. I talked about this a
Speaker 1: little bit the other night, like those are those Those
Speaker 1: free throws are such a great way to kind of
Speaker 1: give your defense an opportunity to get set. You're far
Speaker 1: more likely to get a stop out of a out
Speaker 1: of a static free throw situation than you are in
Speaker 1: an open floor situation. He's playing some really, really good basketball,
Speaker 1: and for the season now and pick and roll he's
Speaker 1: only averaging zero point nine seven points per possession on
Speaker 1: three pick and rolls, which is only slightly above average.
Speaker 1: But he's having an outstanding is so season. When Jordan's
Speaker 1: Pool shoots or passes out of ice so this year,
Speaker 1: the Warriors are averaging one point one three points per possession,
Speaker 1: which is ninth in the entire league among players who
Speaker 1: have run at least fifty of them. That's super impressive stuff.
Speaker 1: And the driving force behind this is that Jordan's is fast,
Speaker 1: extremely fast, and that's what kind of makes him different
Speaker 1: and unique compared to Stephan Clay, because Clay's obviously second
Speaker 1: gradest shooter ever, not really much of a downhill threat um,
Speaker 1: but has a good mid range game, he does a
Speaker 1: bunch of other things, and I'll be so we we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about him in a minute, because he also
Speaker 1: had a great game tonight. But Steph Curry gets to
Speaker 1: the rim a lot. But Steph Curry's rim presence is
Speaker 1: primarily a factor of the threat of his thought a shot,
Speaker 1: excuse me, the threat of his shot, the uh, his quickness.
Speaker 1: He's got very quick feet and he's can handle the
Speaker 1: basketball extremely well. He weaponizes those things to get to
Speaker 1: the rim. But what step is not is a lightning
Speaker 1: quick athlete in terms of straight line speed. Steph is
Speaker 1: getting to the rim, but he's not. It's not like
Speaker 1: he's blazing past people in a hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 1: That's where Jordan Pool brings a super unique um, like
Speaker 1: a dynamic to this offense. He gets a ton of
Speaker 1: straight line drives just by beating people off the dribble
Speaker 1: that engages help defenders, which makes high quality kickout opportunities
Speaker 1: for shooting for shooters when Jordan Pool passes out of ice.
Speaker 1: So the Golden State Warriors average one point three three
Speaker 1: points per possession, which is second in the league among
Speaker 1: players who've done it at least twenty times this year,
Speaker 1: behind Joe l em Beat. That's a huge part of
Speaker 1: that one point one three points possession and ISOs in totality.
Speaker 1: And again that that quickness, that speed, that that downhill
Speaker 1: linear speed just brings a dynamic to this offense that
Speaker 1: the Warriors really haven't had. I mean, even the answer
Speaker 1: Barboza not so much. You gotta go back to because
Speaker 1: there Barboso was older when he was playing for the Warriors.
Speaker 1: You really got to go back to like Monte Monte
Speaker 1: Ellis to find a player that was as fast downhill
Speaker 1: as Jordan Pool has been. And then lastly on Jordan Pool,
Speaker 1: he's got that classic audacity. You know, you guys probably
Speaker 1: remember a playing crunch time of this game where um,
Speaker 1: there was a play and I think it was in
Speaker 1: the Charlotte game where he tried like this nasty like
Speaker 1: fake spin behind the back dribble. Uh that got all
Speaker 1: the way to the rim and and I think it
Speaker 1: was Mason Plumbly that was guarding him and he just
Speaker 1: completely buckled him. And he tried that exact same move
Speaker 1: and crunch time again. At it was with less than
Speaker 1: a minute left in a two point game, and dribbled
Speaker 1: it out of bounce. It was big mistake, and obviously
Speaker 1: that's a big mistake. Probably reminds you a lot of
Speaker 1: Stephen Curry trying behind the back pass to Clay Thompson
Speaker 1: in Game seven of the two thousand and sixteen Finals.
Speaker 1: But only a psychopath would try something like that in
Speaker 1: a moment like that. And obviously you saw the downside
Speaker 1: the turnovers from Stephen with Jordan's, But there's a ton
Speaker 1: of upside to having that level of audacity, to having
Speaker 1: the confidence to try things like that in those big situations,
Speaker 1: because when things really slow down at the end of
Speaker 1: basketball games and defenses locked in and they get in
Speaker 1: front of your actions and all the open stuff isn't
Speaker 1: there anymore. You need a guy who's crazy enough and
Speaker 1: confident enough and skilled enough to rise up and knock
Speaker 1: down tough shots like that jab step three against Josh Hart,
Speaker 1: the one that we talked about earlier, where he was
Speaker 1: looking to navigate the screens. That shot is a difficult
Speaker 1: shot in a late game situation against a locked in
Speaker 1: half court defense. To win at the highest levels, you
Speaker 1: need guys who are confident enough to take it and
Speaker 1: skilled enough to knock it down, and Jordan Pool is
Speaker 1: one of those guys. He's still young, you guys know,
Speaker 1: I've been critical of him sometimes this year for being
Speaker 1: a little two tunnel vision and defensively he's still a
Speaker 1: real mixed bag. But with Steph out, the only the
Speaker 1: only hope the Warriors had was if Draymond Green and
Speaker 1: Jordan Pool played like all stars in Both of them
Speaker 1: have done exactly that, and as a result, they've been
Speaker 1: what two games above five hundred since the staff injury.
Speaker 1: That's really impressive, now, elastic. Clay Thompson thirty one of
Speaker 1: his own points, um that huge shot on the dribble
Speaker 1: handoff to put the Warriors up for defended. Really great. Great.
Speaker 1: There was a big play at the end of the
Speaker 1: game where Jeremy Grant tried to take him off the
Speaker 1: dribble towards the baseline, and and and uh. Clay Thompson
Speaker 1: just kind of pushed him and and funneled him below
Speaker 1: the behind the backboards where he couldn't do anything. Uh.
Speaker 1: That's kind of becoming a theme too with Clay Thompson
Speaker 1: is he's not quite the defensive player he was when
Speaker 1: he was younger, but he's still really good, particularly against
Speaker 1: big power wings. He's very good at anticipating which direction
Speaker 1: that they're gonna drive, beating them to spots, riding their hips,
Speaker 1: and then he's deceptively strong and really difficult to push
Speaker 1: off of his spots defensively, and more often than not
Speaker 1: he's cutting people off or moving them off of their
Speaker 1: driving lanes. Some really really high level basketball from Clay
Speaker 1: since December two, twenty three points per game on true shooting,
Speaker 1: last three games, eight points per game on from three
Speaker 1: on thirteen attempts per game. So really like it's it's
Speaker 1: got to be really encouraging for Warriors fans after everything
Speaker 1: that happened to start the season for them to be
Speaker 1: finding their identity as a team that's really grinding out
Speaker 1: games on the defensive end of the floor without Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: and when Steph comes back and that offense takes off
Speaker 1: from there, they're they're they're going to go on a run. Alright, guys, alright, guys.
Speaker 1: Like I said, we're taking the rest of this weekend
Speaker 1: off and we will be back to our normal cadence
Speaker 1: on Monday. All of you guys who were sticking of
Speaker 1: the Lakers Warrior stuff, don't worry. We're going to get
Speaker 1: back into the rest of the league on Monday. As always,
Speaker 1: I sincerely appreciate your support and I'll see you guys.
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