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Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday, everybody help all of you guys are having
Speaker 1: a great week. Just a quick show for you guys today.
Speaker 1: We're doing two instant reactions from last night's games. Stop
Speaker 1: me if you've heard this one before. The Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Lakers controlled a game for two and a half quarters,
Speaker 1: had a ten point second half lead, and completely fell apart,
Speaker 1: lost by twenty four to the San Antonio Spurs, a
Speaker 1: Spurs team that has been reeling, that had lost six
Speaker 1: out of nine games coming in. We're going to talk
Speaker 1: about that one. And then in the second half of
Speaker 1: the show, the Detroit Pistons, who've been playing great basketball
Speaker 1: as of late, continue that, winning their ninth time in
Speaker 1: eleven games, this time on the road against the New
Speaker 1: York Knicks, and a very interesting chess match type of
Speaker 1: game that we'll be breaking down from the perspective of
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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk some basketball. So again, Lakers really
Speaker 1: control things for the first two and a half quarters,
Speaker 1: and a run started, and as has typically been the
Speaker 1: case for the Lakers this year, when the run started,
Speaker 1: they legitimate They let go of the rope and got
Speaker 1: Ryan out of the damn gym, and it started with
Speaker 1: defense for the Spurs. They started forcing turnovers and getting
Speaker 1: out in transition again. They were up by ten and
Speaker 1: Trey Jones stonewalls Austin Reeves on a drive, forces a turnover.
Speaker 1: The Spurs run out and they score. Wemby jumps a
Speaker 1: lazy swing pass out by half court from Gave Vincent
Speaker 1: to Anthony Davis, he runs out, gets a dunk, Keldon
Speaker 1: Johnson strips Lebron James. There's a bunch of turnovers that
Speaker 1: were leading to run out opportunities for the Spurs, and
Speaker 1: then also out They just kind of invigorated them and
Speaker 1: they just started outworking the Lakers. They started beating them
Speaker 1: to every single loose ball. The Lakers were having a
Speaker 1: ton of issues on the offensive glass with the back
Speaker 1: end of their switching scheme. Essentially, like as they would switch,
Speaker 1: there'd be all of a sudden, a big on a
Speaker 1: little underneath the basket, and they just get an offensive rebound,
Speaker 1: they get an offensive rebound that leads to a Keldon
Speaker 1: Johnson wing three that ties the game going into the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. And then in the fourth quarter it was
Speaker 1: entirely about the Spurs torching the Lakers switching scheme. So
Speaker 1: Devin Vassell ending up with Anthony Davis on him a bunch.
Speaker 1: He had that crazy dunk in the end of the
Speaker 1: third quarter stretch where he just drove right past Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis and dunked on his head. Harrison Barnes picking on
Speaker 1: the smaller Laker perimeter players, guys like Austin Reeves, guys
Speaker 1: like Max Christy who's decent against guards but can struggle
Speaker 1: against bigger body guys that can kind of bully him
Speaker 1: to space. And again, a huge part of beating any
Speaker 1: switching scheme you can imagine, we always think about, like,
Speaker 1: you know, a guard in a pick and roll, getting
Speaker 1: a big on a switch and then him isoating that guy. Right,
Speaker 1: that's a lot we've seen a lot of that. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talking about that later in today's show, with like
Speaker 1: the stuff that Jalen Brunson was trying to do to
Speaker 1: Jalen Duran and Isaiah Stewart, right, like in this case
Speaker 1: Devian Vessel against a guy like Anthony Davis. But there's
Speaker 1: a flip side to that, which is you're getting guys
Speaker 1: that are inside position against smaller guards. Charles Bassi had
Speaker 1: three offensive rebounds in this game. Every single one of
Speaker 1: them was on the second half of a switch on
Speaker 1: that when he was being guarded by a smaller player
Speaker 1: because of a switch. And the Spurs just methodically walked
Speaker 1: the Lakers out of their own gym in that fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: They forced more turnovers. Lebron was just so incredibly sloppy
Speaker 1: in this one. They think he had seven or eight turnovers.
Speaker 1: They were getting stops, they were getting great shots every
Speaker 1: single time down the floor. Chris Paul hit a couple
Speaker 1: of big ones. Just a really really bad loss for
Speaker 1: a Lakers team against the Spurs team, and that again
Speaker 1: had lost six times in their last nine games coming
Speaker 1: into the game. The Spurs had an offensive rating of
Speaker 1: just one oh eight point three in their six losses.
Speaker 1: They posted a one forty eight offensive rating in that
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. And so these are the things that stood
Speaker 1: out to me on the Lakers front. First and foremost,
Speaker 1: this is a message to JJ Reddick. You have to
Speaker 1: give up on this damn switch everything scheme that you're
Speaker 1: using in the regular season. For the record, I get
Speaker 1: why you're using it. You theoretically have a roster with
Speaker 1: Lebron James and Anthony Davis and Dorian Finney Smith and
Speaker 1: Ruwiy Hatch Merger Vanderbilt when he comes back, Max Chrissy
Speaker 1: cam Reddish. You've got all these big athletes that theoretically
Speaker 1: should be able to guard different types of position groups.
Speaker 1: So why don't we try switching? And I do like
Speaker 1: switching as a defensive scheme in principle because it shuts
Speaker 1: down screening actions. Right, Like if they run a pick
Speaker 1: and roll, or they run some sort of wide off
Speaker 1: ball screen for a shooter and you can just switch it,
Speaker 1: the guy with the ball or the guy who's looking
Speaker 1: to shoot coming off the screen is not going to
Speaker 1: be able to come off free and clearer with the
Speaker 1: defender trailing him. He's gonna have someone waiting for him there, right,
Speaker 1: That's what shuts down the screening actions. That's what eventually
Speaker 1: baits teams into playing ISO and post up ball. Right.
Speaker 1: Stop moving the ball around, stop trusting your teammates. Just
Speaker 1: go try to play one on one against us. That's
Speaker 1: why I like switching. I believe in switching as a scheme.
Speaker 1: There are teams in this league who do it really well.
Speaker 1: But the truth of the matter is you don't actually
Speaker 1: have the right dudes to run this scheme. Why. Because
Speaker 1: you need high motor athletes that fly around in order
Speaker 1: for switching to work. Why you need them to fight
Speaker 1: hard to not concede bad switches. Don't just switch for
Speaker 1: the sake of switching. Switch when you have to, especially
Speaker 1: when it involves an inferior defensive player in a precarious
Speaker 1: situation and who would be switching onto two. You need
Speaker 1: them to fly around and help and recover situations when
Speaker 1: you're switching. It doesn't mean everyone goes and sits down
Speaker 1: and you just play one on one. You load up,
Speaker 1: you gap, you get into the nail, help, you get
Speaker 1: into driving lanes, you help on the backside. You clog
Speaker 1: things up, and you rotate out of it so that
Speaker 1: those ISOs aren't just ISOs, but they're bad ISOs. That's
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do. And then last you need
Speaker 1: all of them to crash the glass hard. Inherently with switching,
Speaker 1: you give up size mismatches on the offensive glass. You
Speaker 1: have to compensate for that with a five man rebounding effort.
Speaker 1: So in order for a switching scheme to work, you
Speaker 1: have to have a certain type of athlete all over
Speaker 1: the floor, a hard working, natural motor athlete that is
Speaker 1: willing to fight through some screens when it avoids a
Speaker 1: bad switch, that is willing to fly around and help
Speaker 1: and recover situations, that is willing to get there, get
Speaker 1: to get dirty fighting for rebounds. And Lebron and Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis are just not those guys anymore. They're not interested
Speaker 1: in working that hard. Lebron more so than Ad. But
Speaker 1: Lebron last night was just like straight up unwilling to
Speaker 1: help at the rim. He was unwilling to fight for
Speaker 1: contested rebounds. I can't tell you how many times he's
Speaker 1: just ground band standing around, has his arms out, kind
Speaker 1: of looking up as a younger athlete just comes flying
Speaker 1: in and grabs the rebound over the top of everybody
Speaker 1: not being willing to. There was a simple ball screen
Speaker 1: with a drop off er dunk to Charles Bassi and
Speaker 1: fourth quarter where Lebron was just like, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: make the low man rotation just didn't feel like it.
Speaker 1: It was a really bad Lebron game. He was generally unfocused,
Speaker 1: slop you with the basketball, not rebounding, not defending. It
Speaker 1: just it just won't a good Lebron game. But it's
Speaker 1: actually an issue in the big picture with Lebron AD
Speaker 1: in the regular season and something I've been talking about consistently.
Speaker 1: These guys are not going to come into the gym
Speaker 1: every night and be like, I'm here to work. They're
Speaker 1: coasting most of the time, specifically Lebron. So like when
Speaker 1: it comes to the switching scheme, like it might be
Speaker 1: a useful look for you in the postseason, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying abandon it entirely. When Lebron and AD are playing
Speaker 1: with more desperation and you have DFS and Ruie and
Speaker 1: vandel on the floor or in the rotation with them,
Speaker 1: I think it can work a little bit more. But
Speaker 1: in the regular season you are signing yourself up for
Speaker 1: failure by doing this, because you're just going to concede
Speaker 1: bad switches. Stand around, watch a guy work one on one,
Speaker 1: probably score, get an end one, and if he doesn't,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be an offensive rebound. You give up a
Speaker 1: one forty eight offensive rating. In that fourth quarter to
Speaker 1: a team that couldn't score for the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: It just was frustrating to watch because, like weirdly enough,
Speaker 1: when things turned around, they didn't switch as much. They
Speaker 1: did a ton to start the year. They started running
Speaker 1: more drop coverage with they're not drop coverage but more
Speaker 1: ball screen covered traditional ball screen coverage with ad where
Speaker 1: he's up at the level and you have a guy
Speaker 1: chasing over the top there. They were running more of that,
Speaker 1: and then they just decided to stop. There's been there's
Speaker 1: been quite a bit of it in the Dallas game
Speaker 1: and in this game, and it's killing the Lakers defense.
Speaker 1: These guys are too damn lazy to run that scheme.
Speaker 1: So even though what you're thinking as a basketball mind, JJ,
Speaker 1: which is correct, these guys should be able to do this,
Speaker 1: and this scheme actually has proven to work when it's
Speaker 1: run right, you are correct, JJ. These guys can't do it.
Speaker 1: These guys can't do it. The other thing that stood
Speaker 1: out to me all I, Max Christy and camrat Is
Speaker 1: the two guard rotation for the Lakers, gave Vincent as
Speaker 1: well sloppy turnovers. Max and Cam were five for thirteen
Speaker 1: from the field, some really really really really ugly I
Speaker 1: think it was actually five or eighteen from the go
Speaker 1: is bad, some really ugly misses on threes. That's a
Speaker 1: position group that is just not good enough to win
Speaker 1: an NBA championship. As I've told you guys, with Max Christy,
Speaker 1: it's not about the ceiling, it's about the floor. We
Speaker 1: all know what Max is capable of, but young players
Speaker 1: struggle to replicate it, and he wasn't good. And that's
Speaker 1: just a position group that if this team has any
Speaker 1: intention of getting to where they want to go, that
Speaker 1: has to be improved. And then lastly, like this thing
Speaker 1: where they just quit every time things get tough. I
Speaker 1: took a little screenshot of the Synergy game chart, which
Speaker 1: just tracks the differential in points, and if you look
Speaker 1: at it, the Lakers were in control and control and control,
Speaker 1: and then it's just a straight line up to twenty
Speaker 1: four points the victory, twenty four points, spurs lead at
Speaker 1: the end of the game, straight line, no fight. Most
Speaker 1: games kind of go like this as teams fight, like, oh,
Speaker 1: team went on a run, well we're going to go
Speaker 1: on a run. Well you went on a run, Well
Speaker 1: we're going to go on a run. The Lakers. No,
Speaker 1: they have no interest in fighting. They have no interest
Speaker 1: in being like, hey, things are getting tough, let's lock in,
Speaker 1: let's get this done. They're not those guys. And that's
Speaker 1: why I continue to think this team just isn't made
Speaker 1: of the right stuff to win a playoff series against
Speaker 1: a great team. Remember how I talked about how even
Speaker 1: after the Houston and Dallas losses, it felt like the
Speaker 1: Lakers were still kind of hanging on to the rope.
Speaker 1: You just had a bunch of time off, and you
Speaker 1: needed this win on a two game losing streak. That's
Speaker 1: what a team that doesn't feel like hanging onto the
Speaker 1: rope looks like. Really really disappointing loss for the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Let's move on to Pistons Knicks more serious basketball. A
Speaker 1: couple of methodical matchup attacking teams. The Pistons, they're attacking
Speaker 1: matchups specifically with Cat and Brunson, right like Steady died
Speaker 1: of attacking Cat and pick and roll, attacking Brunson and
Speaker 1: guarde screens, that was how they ended the game. On
Speaker 1: the Knicks front, it's attacking the bigs and ball screen,
Speaker 1: either in switch switch ISOs or pick and pop. So
Speaker 1: like bruntson attacking Isaiah Stewart, are attacking Jalen duran or
Speaker 1: like cat pick and popping, especially against Jalen Durna because
Speaker 1: he struggles with that coverage. Some attacking Malie Beasley and
Speaker 1: Tomatowa Junior and guard screens. They did that late. That's
Speaker 1: how they got the big three for McHale Bridges. But
Speaker 1: the Pistons just did a better job of it in
Speaker 1: this game. The Knicks made their runs and Brunson kept
Speaker 1: things close late with some big layups at the rim,
Speaker 1: but the Pistons felt in control of that game for
Speaker 1: the most part. The problem is Kate and he presents
Speaker 1: some significant problems to teams around the league. The Pistons
Speaker 1: ran a steady diet of three man action most of
Speaker 1: the game, a lot of wedge pick and roll in
Speaker 1: the first quarter. Wedge pick and roll is kind of
Speaker 1: like a ram screen pick and roll. Basically, all it
Speaker 1: is is you have your big start at the elbow
Speaker 1: or the man you're gonna have set, the ball screen
Speaker 1: set at the sitting at the elbow, ball handler on
Speaker 1: the wing, and you have a guard who's off ball
Speaker 1: comes screen for the screener so that he can run
Speaker 1: up into the ball screen with separation between him and
Speaker 1: his defender before he comes off the ball screen. That's
Speaker 1: wedge pick and roll. They ran a lot of that
Speaker 1: in the first quarter. Stack pick and roll. We've talked
Speaker 1: about it before. All it is a ball screen with
Speaker 1: someone backscreening for the role man as he's going to
Speaker 1: the basket. They ran a lot of that in the
Speaker 1: second half. And then double drag they also ran a
Speaker 1: lot of that in the second Half's where you just
Speaker 1: have two guys set two staggered ball screens for your
Speaker 1: ball handler. One guy rolls, one guy pops. Like lots
Speaker 1: of three man action from the Pistons in this game,
Speaker 1: Kate just puts you in a tough spot. In those
Speaker 1: three man actions. If you have Mikhale bridges chase Kate
Speaker 1: over the top, and you have Cat sit back into
Speaker 1: drop coverage, you're a solid screen, like a really good
Speaker 1: screen from Kad just walking into a pull up jumper,
Speaker 1: and he hit several of those in this game. Isaiah
Speaker 1: Stewart in particular was setting really good on ball screens
Speaker 1: for Kate. If Mikhale does a good job and fights
Speaker 1: over the screen and he stays attached, now he's in
Speaker 1: trail position, and when he's in trail position, that's when
Speaker 1: Caid can methodically work his way downhill into the short
Speaker 1: range with that like kind of reverse post up that
Speaker 1: I always talk about with Luka Doncics, where you get
Speaker 1: the defender in jail on your backside and you kind
Speaker 1: of methodically work yourself inside. Did some damage that way,
Speaker 1: was pivoting out of it into in to turn around
Speaker 1: jump turn around jump shots, things along those lines, right,
Speaker 1: But the main reason that the Pistons run three man
Speaker 1: action is to force unfavorable switches or hedges. Unfavorable switches
Speaker 1: are the types of smaller defenders that guys like Kate
Speaker 1: cunning him and Tobias Harris will kill if they get
Speaker 1: him in any sort of space to work one on
Speaker 1: one right, and those those guys have been feasting on
Speaker 1: that all season. The hedges they bring two to the ball.
Speaker 1: When you bring two to the ball in a hedge,
Speaker 1: that's where you get the four on threes. Those are
Speaker 1: what end up leading to those open, open three point
Speaker 1: shots for guys like Malik Beasley and Tim Hardaway Junior,
Speaker 1: which they've been feasting on all season. So essentially those
Speaker 1: three man actions this is why the Pistons have been
Speaker 1: the sixth best offense in the league over this eleven
Speaker 1: game span. They run this action and Kate has an
Speaker 1: answer for all of it. Die on the screen and
Speaker 1: a drop kid's shooting a pull up three. Stay attached.
Speaker 1: Cade's methodically working you into the short range. Right, start switching.
Speaker 1: We're attacking matchups, start hedging. We're gonna play on the
Speaker 1: four on three out of it. And they've just been
Speaker 1: torching teams like that, and then they can go even
Speaker 1: simpler than that in late game situations just by attacking
Speaker 1: guards and guard screens. This is how they won the game. Right,
Speaker 1: Tim Hardaway Junior had Jalen Brunston on him. They run
Speaker 1: the first one, it's a hedge and recover again. This
Speaker 1: is what you're always gonna do with the defender like Brunson.
Speaker 1: You don't want Brunson to end up on cad on
Speaker 1: a switch, so you have him hedge, meaning you have
Speaker 1: him run out and stop the drive at least forcing
Speaker 1: Kaid to take a retreat dribble further away from the basket,
Speaker 1: and then you sprint back to the shooter who's slipping
Speaker 1: out of the action. In this case, Tim Hardaway Junior.
Speaker 1: First time they run it, Jalen Brunson's hedges Jalen Brunson
Speaker 1: Hedges sprints back to Tim Hardaway Junior. But for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: the Knick's hard help with Josh Hart off the weak
Speaker 1: side corner. He comes flying up to Tim Hardaway Jr.
Speaker 1: Simple extra pass to Malik Beasley, knocks down to three
Speaker 1: again four on three generated by bringing two to the ball,
Speaker 1: which is the hedge that Brunson brings. Quick passes out
Speaker 1: of it, wide open three for Malik Beasley. And then
Speaker 1: the second time they just go full blitz brunts and
Speaker 1: attacks Cad Bridges follows him. They both attack Caid. It
Speaker 1: ends up being the same exact sequence. Swing over to
Speaker 1: Tim Hardaway Junior. Josh Hart rotates extra pass to Malik
Speaker 1: Beasley in the corner. That's your ballgame, right, But again
Speaker 1: that's an even simpler action that they can go to
Speaker 1: in those situations and get great stuff because of Kaide's
Speaker 1: ability to attack mismatches to pass out of everything. Again
Speaker 1: sixth best offense in the league over this eleven game span.
Speaker 1: And then the Pissons just had several guys give them
Speaker 1: bonus offense. Marcus Sasser. He only had seven points in
Speaker 1: four assists, but all of them were big and self created.
Speaker 1: He was just giving straight work to Jalen Brunson one
Speaker 1: on one. He did the same thing to Campaign on
Speaker 1: a possession in the fourth quarter where he dropped it
Speaker 1: off for a dunk. He was awesome. Ron Holland had
Speaker 1: a big lefty right left to right crossover against og
Speaker 1: Andnobi where he broke him off and got a big
Speaker 1: floater there in the fourth quarter. Malik Beasley in the
Speaker 1: I think it was in the second quarter or late
Speaker 1: first quarter, I can't remember exactly what it was, but
Speaker 1: he went on a crazy shooting run in the first
Speaker 1: half where he really did a bunch of damage on
Speaker 1: some self created stuff too, like flying off of screens
Speaker 1: or they had a like a thirty five foot or
Speaker 1: at the top of the key for his four to
Speaker 1: three in this game. But like a lot of guys
Speaker 1: just pitching in with extra offense and that's why they've
Speaker 1: been so good offensively. And then just lots of defensive contributions. Specifically,
Speaker 1: I thought the Biggs did a good job on switches
Speaker 1: against Brunson most of the night. Brunson got Stewart a
Speaker 1: couple times late with layups, but for the most part
Speaker 1: he did a good job. Jalen durn did a good
Speaker 1: job on Brunson on switches, really good on ball reps
Speaker 1: all over the flora. Sar Thompson and Marcus Sasser both
Speaker 1: did a good job on Brunson. They did some offense
Speaker 1: defense subs late where they'd bring in Usar Thompson or
Speaker 1: they'd bring in one of Beasley, Tim Hardaway Junior and
Speaker 1: kind of go back and forth. I thought Isaiah Stewart
Speaker 1: did a great job on Karl Anthony Towns, kind of
Speaker 1: like flattening out some of his drives, staying attached to
Speaker 1: him on his pop situations. He just did a much
Speaker 1: better job than Jalen Duran, which is, by the way,
Speaker 1: why Stewart played twenty eight minutes and Jalen durn only
Speaker 1: played twenty minutes. And Jalen Durns is like a really
Speaker 1: good drop coverage, paint protecting type of big, but he
Speaker 1: can struggle tracking shooters and defending in those sorts of situations.
Speaker 1: He lost Carl Anthony Towns on pops. Earlier in the game,
Speaker 1: had a possession where he was terrified of the pops
Speaker 1: or he just didn't help on the drive at all whatsoever,
Speaker 1: which gave up a layup like that. It just is
Speaker 1: not a great matchup for him when it comes to
Speaker 1: shooting bigs. But for the most part, of a bunch
Speaker 1: of good defensive contributions for a Pistons team that is
Speaker 1: playing really good basketball right now. On the Knicks front,
Speaker 1: offense wasn't the issue. They actually shot better than the
Speaker 1: Pistons on jump shots in that game. They got fifty
Speaker 1: one attempts for one point two zero points per jump shot.
Speaker 1: The Pistons took forty nine jump shots and got one
Speaker 1: point one zero, So the Knicks shot better. They actually
Speaker 1: had a one to nineteen offensive rating in this game.
Speaker 1: The problem was is they had a one twenty four
Speaker 1: defensive right and they couldn't get any stops. And it's
Speaker 1: the same I don't need to go any further into it,
Speaker 1: because it's the same stuff they've been struggling with all season.
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns being really bad in ball screens. One possession,
Speaker 1: he's too far back, Kate's hitting a pull up three.
Speaker 1: The next possession, he's too far up. Kate just crosses
Speaker 1: right past him, gets into the lane. For an easy
Speaker 1: shot at the rim against Duce McBride and help right
Speaker 1: like Kat's really bad all over the place, and pick
Speaker 1: and roll Brunson like so many bad hedges in this game,
Speaker 1: where sometimes he's hedging but he's not really hedging, meaning
Speaker 1: like he's there, but he's not really disrupting the ball.
Speaker 1: All he's doing is putting two on the ball without
Speaker 1: actually pressuring anybody, or like some of his hedges, he
Speaker 1: didn't even contain the ball. He had a hedge where
Speaker 1: he just basically screened McHale bridges and Ky just went
Speaker 1: right downhill and got it and created another wide open shot.
Speaker 1: I think that was the one that led to the
Speaker 1: USAR Thompson corner three that he claimed. But like that,
Speaker 1: and then again, the most important part of the hedge
Speaker 1: is you got to recover. There was a there's a
Speaker 1: really good campaign hedge and recover rep in the second
Speaker 1: quarter or yeah, no it his fourth court. It was
Speaker 1: in the second half campaign had a really good hedge
Speaker 1: and recover rep where he jumps out on Kid, pressures
Speaker 1: the hell out of the ball, forces Kaid to pick
Speaker 1: up his dribble and then sprints back to I think
Speaker 1: it was uh I think it was someone Fontechio that
Speaker 1: was slipping out of it, and in the process k
Speaker 1: threw a bad pass because he saw Campaign in the
Speaker 1: passing lane and it went out of bounce. Again, there's
Speaker 1: you have to stop the drive, pressure the ball enough
Speaker 1: to at least like make them take a retreat dribble
Speaker 1: or to pick up their dribble, and then you need
Speaker 1: to sprint like hell to get back to the shooter.
Speaker 1: That's the bear minimum of what they're asking you to do,
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson, because again the idea there is we're not
Speaker 1: letting you play defense on that guy if we can
Speaker 1: afford it. We're not gonna put you on an island there.
Speaker 1: We just need you to hedge and recover. And Brunson's
Speaker 1: hedges and recovers have been really inconsistent all year. And
Speaker 1: then the same stuff that's been messing with the Knicks
Speaker 1: all year with their good defenders, where it's like one
Speaker 1: of the first buckets of the game ognnob and Michale
Speaker 1: Bridge is a simple action between Tobias Harrison k Cunningham
Speaker 1: that should be a switch Nope, two on the ball,
Speaker 1: Tobias slips and gets another drop off for an easy
Speaker 1: bucket or I think you've missed, and then an offensive
Speaker 1: rebound put back by one of the bigs. What are
Speaker 1: you doing your Ognoban mcal Bridges. You should be able
Speaker 1: to switch any action that involves the two of you,
Speaker 1: like there's just so much sloppiness. And then these two
Speaker 1: big entry points in two guys in Kat and Jalen
Speaker 1: Brunson that just haven't been good enough this year on
Speaker 1: the details in order to anchor a good defense. And again,
Speaker 1: things aren't going to turn around for the Knicks until
Speaker 1: those guys embrace that responsibility and everything that comes with
Speaker 1: it at a championship level. All right, guys, that's all
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