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Speaker 2: All right, well, good hoopson, I here at the volume.

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Speaker 2: Happy Tuesday, everybody. Hope all of you guys are having

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Speaker 2: a great early part of your week. Out A Jampack

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Speaker 2: show for you guys. Today, we're going to be reacting

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Speaker 2: to Memphis versus Golden State from last night. Got some

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Speaker 2: Grizzlies this year. After that, these Sixers end up beating

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Speaker 2: the Magic to continue their undefeated start to the season.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about Philly's number one offense in

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Speaker 2: the Orlando Magic. I know they're one in three, twenty

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Speaker 2: fifth in offense to start the season, but I actually

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Speaker 2: came away from that game a little bit more bullish

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Speaker 2: about them in the big picture than I had been

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Speaker 2: in the early part of the season. So we'll talk

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Speaker 2: a little bit about their offense, and then at the

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Speaker 2: thoughts on Jamal Murray, who had a forty three point

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Speaker 2: outburst last night against the shorthanded Minnesota Timberwolves, and talk

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Speaker 2: about some of the strong indicators we're seeing from him

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Speaker 2: to start the season and what it means for this

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Speaker 2: throughout the remainder of the season. All right, let's talk

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Speaker 2: some basketball. So a fantastic game for the Warriors role

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Speaker 2: players sixty eight combined points from Jonathan Kaminga, Brandon Pajemski,

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Speaker 2: a passive role throughout the game as a scorer. Still

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Speaker 2: hunted his opportunities when he can hit a couple of

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Speaker 2: He's gonna mix that sort of thing in, but didn't

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Speaker 2: and that sort of thing is super valuable over the

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Speaker 2: course of an eighty two game regular season. I talked

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Speaker 2: a lot about before the season, if you guys remember,

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Speaker 2: I talked about how I expected Steph to come out

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Speaker 2: was pretty pessimistic about the Warriors' overall offensive talent, and

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Speaker 2: so I thought Steph was gonna need to score a ton.

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Speaker 2: And I just am a huge believer in these APEX

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Speaker 2: So I was expecting really good things out of Stephan.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, I think Steph's looked fantastic to

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Speaker 2: That is actually better for the Warriors in the big

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Speaker 2: picture because it makes it more likely that Steph and

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Speaker 2: the season intact. So nights like last night where you

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Speaker 2: let's actually start with Brandon Pajemski here. He started the

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Speaker 2: game with John Murran guarding him, and he burned him

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Speaker 2: a bunch of times by hitting threes. He actually ran

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Speaker 2: coming off of a little flare screen from Steph Curry.

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Speaker 2: John Moran ran into the pick wide open look for

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Speaker 2: There's some big shots late in that quarter, including a

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Speaker 2: like that's the kind of sequence that you typically only

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Speaker 2: they call this teeing up. So like, essentially, when you're

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Speaker 2: But again, if a guy is driving towards the baseline,

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Speaker 2: So like if Jimmy slashes across the middle from the

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Speaker 2: But if Jimmy drives more towards the left side of

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Speaker 2: meaning he's going to want to locate right in front

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Speaker 2: nice tee up cut off of Jimmy Butler another easy

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Speaker 2: line eight times with this physicality attacking the basket. Johnathan

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Speaker 2: I was incredibly underwhelmed. Their spacing is really poor. Like

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Speaker 2: guys would kind of slip along the baseline, similar concept

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Speaker 2: from dunker spot to dunker spot, and he kept hitting

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Speaker 2: insanely good short range finisher. He hit a bunch of

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Speaker 2: like downhill force, quality playmaking, and the ability to stop

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Speaker 2: catch and shoot efficiency, and what it's causing is a

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Speaker 2: but to settle for jump shots, and that just highlights

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Speaker 2: Jaw's biggest weaknesses. Of his biggest weakness, which is that

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Speaker 2: he can't shoot the basketball. Was five for fourteen on

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Speaker 2: or Virginia. All right, Orlando Philly. Yesterday I mentioned how

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Speaker 2: one of my favorite teams to watch early. Philly wins

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Speaker 2: this one one thirty six to one twenty four, and

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Speaker 2: even Kelly Oubray just cutting through Orlando's perimeter defense and

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Speaker 2: Philly scored twenty five points on isolation possessions in this game,

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Speaker 2: outrageously good. And there's just a lot of variety, Like

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Speaker 2: looking like some sort of freaky, lightning fast version of

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Speaker 2: Steph Curry. To start the year, he's averaging thirty seven

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Speaker 2: shooting forty six percent off the catch. He's shooting forty

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Speaker 2: Mem that was a kind of a connection that he

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Speaker 2: He's shooting well on the move. He's just looked like

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Speaker 2: how he can score in action. When he comes curling

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Speaker 2: he's hitting thirty nine percent of his catch and shoot

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Speaker 2: He's averaging twenty five points per game to start the

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Speaker 2: Philly has the best offense in the NBA here in

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Speaker 1: That was a big shot.

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Speaker 2: We got a first Eric Gordon appearance and came in

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Speaker 2: Three and zero start for the Philadelphia seventy six ers.

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Speaker 2: I've just been super impressed by them. And again they're

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Speaker 2: some tough matchups in there, like Philly puts you in

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Speaker 2: the bigs in the league. But I thought their bigs

433
00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:40,960
Speaker 2: did a really poor job of showing up to the

434
00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:45,720
Speaker 2: perimeter against Philly's off screen players in last night's game,

435
00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:47,960
Speaker 2: and in general, I thought they struggled defending in space.

436
00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,280
Speaker 2: But I want to focus on offense because I'm not

437
00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:53,000
Speaker 2: worried about Orlando's defense. Orlando is one of the very

438
00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:55,160
Speaker 2: best defenses in the league over the last couple of years.

439
00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:58,320
Speaker 2: I expect Orlando to be good on defense. The problem

440
00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:00,600
Speaker 2: is they're twenty fifth in offense. That's been a big

441
00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:03,040
Speaker 2: part of why they've struggled, And I did think last

442
00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:07,199
Speaker 2: night was a significant step forward for the Magic on

443
00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:11,480
Speaker 2: the offensive end of the floor. Like in large part

444
00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:13,359
Speaker 2: part of what they've struggled with here in the early

445
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,159
Speaker 2: going is Palo hasn't been good, and they finally got

446
00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,600
Speaker 2: Paalo going last night. He had his best offensive game

447
00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,000
Speaker 2: of the season in my opinion. But a big part

448
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,480
Speaker 2: of that is I thought they were running some really

449
00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:26,879
Speaker 2: rudimentary offense and making life harder for Paalo. So the

450
00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:28,520
Speaker 2: easiest way I can describe this is like when I

451
00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:32,080
Speaker 2: watch Fronz and Pallo and their dynamic, Like, Franz is

452
00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:35,280
Speaker 2: a much more deliberate offensive player, and what I mean

453
00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:38,439
Speaker 2: by that is he's like really picky and choosy about

454
00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,200
Speaker 2: how he attacks, so like he's going to try to

455
00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,800
Speaker 2: get into his ball screens where he can make his

456
00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:47,320
Speaker 2: reads right like you ran a lot of stack last night.

457
00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:49,760
Speaker 2: He's going to get into sequences where he can get

458
00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:53,160
Speaker 2: the defender trapped on his backside, get downhill into the lane,

459
00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,440
Speaker 2: and either get to his float or have the passing

460
00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,080
Speaker 2: reads that are available to him. He's kind of like

461
00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:00,480
Speaker 2: your traditional methodical pick and role player, and he like

462
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,280
Speaker 2: even with his post up type of stuff, like he'll

463
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,760
Speaker 2: be picky about getting a guard on a switch before

464
00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:09,679
Speaker 2: clearing aside and like getting to the left block so

465
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:11,960
Speaker 2: he can kind of work with his right hand towards

466
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,399
Speaker 2: the middle and once again get to his left shoulder

467
00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,919
Speaker 2: hook or be able to spray out to the passing

468
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:20,119
Speaker 2: reads that become available in those situations. Like Fronds, to me,

469
00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:24,040
Speaker 2: is a guy that doesn't need as much like tactical

470
00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 2: support offensively he's not as naturally gifted as Polo for

471
00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:32,600
Speaker 2: obvious reasons. Paulo is a bigger, better athlete, but like

472
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:36,360
Speaker 2: with Franz, he's just a a He's a more methodical

473
00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 2: offensive player and things come a little easier for him there.

474
00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:42,840
Speaker 2: Paalo can be his own worst enemies sometimes, like he'll

475
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 2: just attack one on one without much intentionality, without much

476
00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,280
Speaker 2: thought as to who he's attacking. And it's made harder

477
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:52,280
Speaker 2: by the fact that because he's so damn big, a

478
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,680
Speaker 2: lot of teams are happy to switch big, big actions

479
00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:56,160
Speaker 2: with him.

480
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,520
Speaker 1: And then back in the past.

481
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:00,840
Speaker 2: When they would screen for him with guard, it would

482
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:02,640
Speaker 2: just be okay with those guys shooting out of hedges

483
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:04,680
Speaker 2: because they weren't great shooters and so there wasn't much

484
00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,880
Speaker 2: consequence there, and it was just difficult for Palo right

485
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 2: And despite that, because of how freaky talented he is,

486
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 2: he obviously still had a lot of moments over the years.

487
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:17,160
Speaker 2: But I was particularly hoping that Desmond Bain could help

488
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,040
Speaker 2: with that issue by allowing Palo to play with an

489
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 2: advantage more, allowing him to get more easy opportunities to

490
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 2: bolster what he does with his tougher shot making.

491
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:29,120
Speaker 1: Because of his supreme gifts right.

492
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:30,879
Speaker 2: So one of the actions that I've been talking a

493
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:32,879
Speaker 2: lot about over the course of the summer ever since

494
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 2: Desmond Bank got traded to Orlando is the idea of

495
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,120
Speaker 2: using Desmond Bain as a screener for Palo. The reason

496
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 2: why I've been keyed in on this is I've just

497
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:42,880
Speaker 2: seen so many examples of it elsewhere in the league

498
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 2: that have worked extremely well. We see when you have

499
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 2: a real shooter, like when you have a real shooter

500
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,640
Speaker 2: screening for a bigger athlete, you can have a lot

501
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 2: of success over the years. In Golden State before the

502
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:56,479
Speaker 2: Andrew Wiggins trade, it was one of their pet actions

503
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 2: they have Andrew Wiggins dribble with Steph screening for him,

504
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 2: and then Wiggins would be able to get downhill. Yiannis

505
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 2: a ton of this kind of thing. Yiannis with like

506
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,399
Speaker 2: AJ Green or Gary Trent Junior screening for him, he

507
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 2: has the ability to get downhill. Lebron in Los Angeles

508
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 2: has run a ton of inverted ball screens with Austin Reeves.

509
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,400
Speaker 2: What ends up happening with these types of situations when

510
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 2: you have a really good offensive player that like a

511
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,520
Speaker 2: really good skill guard, a guard that has like a

512
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:27,639
Speaker 2: lot of gravity, so to speak, because he's a great shooter.

513
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 2: It puts the defense in a really difficult position when

514
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 2: they're guarding that action.

515
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:35,560
Speaker 1: You have a big bodied.

516
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:39,119
Speaker 2: Athlete guarding your ball handler, your Paolo, You're Yannis, your

517
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:41,639
Speaker 2: Andrew Wiggins, your Lebron for the four examples that I

518
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,399
Speaker 2: gave right, and then you've got a smaller, quicker guard

519
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 2: guarding the guard. Right and in these sequences, they don't

520
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 2: want to switch because then all of a sudden, you've

521
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 2: got a little guy that is guarding your big forward

522
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 2: who can immediately take him down to the block. Or

523
00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 2: you have a bigger, slower player that's got a guard,

524
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,360
Speaker 2: your freaky skilled guard in this type of action, right,

525
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,440
Speaker 2: And so often what will end up happening is they

526
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,360
Speaker 2: won't switch, in which case the bit your bigger ball

527
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,400
Speaker 2: handler can just cruise downhill. Giannis will get all sorts

528
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,400
Speaker 2: of dunks and easy opportunities out of at the rim,

529
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,080
Speaker 2: out of this kind of stuff. Wiggins would get all

530
00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 2: sorts of layups and shit coming off of those inverted

531
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:24,119
Speaker 2: screens with Steph or they hedge, and if they hedge,

532
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden you've got Steph Curry wide open.

533
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,199
Speaker 2: You've got Austin Reeves wide open. You've got you know,

534
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 2: a really good offensive player slipping out of the action

535
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,879
Speaker 2: into space where he's gonna hit shots. AJ Green was

536
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,359
Speaker 2: gonna hit shots if you hedged on Giannis, and then

537
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 2: if you switch, you generate these quality advantages on both

538
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 2: sides of the action. It's just a very difficult action

539
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,440
Speaker 2: to guard relative to traditional pick and roll where your

540
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,679
Speaker 2: center is involved, where they can run no roller behind coverage,

541
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 2: simply because the big man is not as dynamic offensively

542
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 2: as the screeners that you're using in these inverted actions.

543
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,360
Speaker 2: And so I really really wanted to see a lot

544
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,160
Speaker 2: of Polo dribbling on the perimeter with a band coming

545
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 2: up to screen for him and then him slipping out

546
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 2: of the action so that Powlow could attack or have

547
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,159
Speaker 2: an easy read that becomes available to him based on

548
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 2: how they're guarding it. And early in the season they

549
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 2: just weren't running it that much. It was driving me

550
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,400
Speaker 2: crazy to watch them because they they would just kind

551
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 2: of play your turn, my turn basketball.

552
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:21,640
Speaker 1: Well.

553
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 2: I charted every single possession that they ran it against Philly.

554
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,919
Speaker 2: They ran it seven times in this game. Most of

555
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:31,719
Speaker 2: the time off of the left wing, although they ran

556
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 2: it in the middle of the floor once, but out

557
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,920
Speaker 2: of the seven times they ran it, they got a

558
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 2: great shot every single time, and they scored on six

559
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 2: of them. And what's especially frustrating about this is like

560
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,639
Speaker 2: that was a huge step forward, and I still felt

561
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,480
Speaker 2: like they left a ton of meat on the bone

562
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 2: because they don't spam it the way that they should.

563
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:53,640
Speaker 2: They go away from it. They'll run it a couple

564
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 2: times and then they'll do something else. So like they

565
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 2: run it twice in the middle of the first quarter

566
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 2: in that action, so they don't run it to start

567
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 2: the game. But then in the middle of the fourth

568
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,439
Speaker 2: quarter first quarter, they run it two times in a

569
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 2: row off the left wing. The first time they hedge,

570
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 2: so when Bain slips out of it, Paalo throws an

571
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 2: easy behind the back pass. Bain is wide open, the

572
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 2: guy closes out on his right shoulder, he rips the

573
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 2: close out gets all the way the basket for an

574
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 2: easy layup. Then they run it again. On the very

575
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 2: next possession, they switch it. Pallo posts up. When he

576
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 2: posts up on Bain's defender, because he's a small he

577
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:33,640
Speaker 2: immediately draws a double team, kicks out to Bain, they

578
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 2: close out, he drives that close out. Both defenders go

579
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 2: with Bain. Polllow gets a wide open three off of

580
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 2: the left wing and he knocks it down. So they

581
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 2: run it two times in a row, get a layup

582
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 2: in a wide open three, make them both and then

583
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,879
Speaker 2: they went away from it. They didn't run it the

584
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 2: next few minutes while they were on the floor together.

585
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 2: They come back to it eight minutes and forty seconds

586
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 2: left in the second quarter, they get a switch. They

587
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 2: don't double this time. Palllo gets an easy little short

588
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 2: jumper over at Quinton Grimes and he knocks it down. Now,

589
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,439
Speaker 2: remember with Paalo, it's getting inside of seventeen feet. When

590
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 2: he gets inside of seventeen feet, he's a very efficient score.

591
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 2: When he's outside of seventeen feet off the dribble, when

592
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 2: he's taken like eighteen nineteen foot off the dribble jump shots,

593
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 2: he's short almost all the time, and he becomes very

594
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 2: inefficient on that shot. And so getting the switch for

595
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 2: a favorable matchup with better spacing, because Bain just burned

596
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 2: them on a hedge and they burned him on a

597
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 2: double team by getting a wide open shot for Polo.

598
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 2: So Polo gets a good one on one, gets to

599
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,680
Speaker 2: his right shoulder, fade right at like fourteen to fifteen

600
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 2: feet and knocks it down. Didn't go back to it

601
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 2: until three minutes left in the second quarter. So again

602
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 2: they're three for three, three great shots, all of them

603
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 2: went in three minutes in the second quarter. Pallo rips spaceline,

604
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 2: gets the defense in rotation, Bain gets a wide open

605
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 2: catch on the perimeter, He drives the close out and

606
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 2: hits a floater. So now they've run it four times

607
00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 2: and gotten four great shots and didn't we go back

608
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 2: to it the rest.

609
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: Of the half.

610
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 2: Like right after running that action and getting Bain an

611
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 2: easy close out for a floater, they just go to

612
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 2: Jalen Suggs for a few possessions in a row. Like

613
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 2: there's not they're still lacking some of the intentionality that

614
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 2: they can get to there. They ran it with five

615
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 2: minutes left in the third quarter. That was the next

616
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 2: time they ran it, so they didn't run it for

617
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 2: most of the first stretch of that Like the first

618
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 2: seven minutes of the third quarter, they don't run it.

619
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 2: They run it with five minutes left in the third quarter.

620
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 2: Bain gets Tyrese Maxi excuse me. Palo gets Tyrese Maxey

621
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 2: on a switch. They run the action, they switch it,

622
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 2: Pallo gets Tyrese Maxey draw double team. Bain ends up

623
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 2: catching wide open, drives the close out again, kicks back

624
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 2: to Pallo. He is butt naked on the right wing

625
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 2: for three airballs. It but a great look again, So

626
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 2: you've run it five times and you've gotten five great looks.

627
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 2: He finally misses one. Whatever. They go back to it

628
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 2: in the mid fourth quarter. Four minutes and forty five

629
00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:00,120
Speaker 2: seconds left in the fourth quarter, Kelly Ubre dumps way

630
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 2: on the high side, so like Quentin Grimes is guarding Baine,

631
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 2: Bain goes to set the screen. Quentin Grimes is hugged

632
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 2: up on Bain and Kelly Ubray jumps way on the

633
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 2: high side off of the left wing, and Palo just

634
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 2: rips through and gets like the easiest little short driving

635
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 2: floater that he's gotten all night, because Kelly gave him

636
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 2: a driving lane, because Quintin Grimes wouldn't leave his man,

637
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 2: and because Kelly Ubray was trying to get ready for

638
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 2: a screen from Desmond Baine. Like super easy offense. They've

639
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 2: run it now six times, they've gotten a great look

640
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 2: every single time, and they've made five of them. They

641
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 2: go back to it a minute later, about three and

642
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 2: a half minutes left in the fourth quarter, Paalo gets

643
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 2: the switch. Desmond Bain sets the screen, they switch VJ

644
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 2: Edgecomb is now on Palo. Pallo backs him down to

645
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 2: the elbow. They double team off of Bain and Baine

646
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 2: throws an easy little kick or Palo throws an easy

647
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 2: little kickout to Desmond Baine in the left corner. He's

648
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Speaker 2: wide open and he knocks down the three. So they

649
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,120
Speaker 2: ran it seven times in the game, and then they

650
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 2: got six makes, and I thought all seven shots that

651
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 2: they got were great. The toughest shot that they got,

652
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 2: the only really tough shot in that seven possessions, was

653
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 2: a great matchup for Paalo one on one left elbow

654
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 2: against a small guard and he got to a short

655
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 2: jump shot over his right shoulder and he knocked it down.

656
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Speaker 1: Like they're they just.

657
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 2: Are there is an easier way to do things than

658
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 2: they've been doing it. Like what's crazy is they ran

659
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 2: that with three and a half minutes left for the

660
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 2: seventh time, got great stuff on it every single time.

661
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 2: Right then all of a sudden, there's like a random

662
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 2: Jalen Suggs Wendell Carter junior pick and roll and Jalen

663
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 2: Suggs throws the lob out of bounds, and so this

664
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 2: is the crazy thing. Like you, Franz is obviously methodical,

665
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 2: doesn't need as much support. It looks smooth when he's

666
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 2: out there right then you get these easier opportunities for Paolo.

667
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 2: He ends up having his best game of the season,

668
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 2: and it still feels like they didn't intentionally go.

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Speaker 1: To it as much as they should.

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Speaker 2: Like when I was watching that game, it felt to

671
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 2: me like an action they should have run fifteen times.

672
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 2: It felt to me like something they should have worn

673
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 2: out because they weren't getting again out of those actions.

674
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Speaker 2: Only one time did they have to take a tough

675
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 2: isolation jump shot because they were getting wide open threes,

676
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 2: layups and easy close out attacks for short jump shots

677
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 2: that were like wide open or short floaters that were

678
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 2: wide open that were great looks. Again, it's about making

679
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 2: life easier for Paolo, offering him tactical support. That's the

680
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,959
Speaker 2: wonderful thing about having Desmond Bane that you didn't have

681
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 2: in the past. A guy that has to be guarded

682
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 2: by a very different type of defender, but that can

683
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 2: consistently make teams pay when he gets left open.

684
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Speaker 1: And so it just again, it was.

685
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 2: A good step forward last night, but I still feel

686
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 2: like there's a lot of room for improvement there, and

687
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 2: I really really want to see them continue.

688
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: To wear out that action.

689
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 2: Hugely encouraging that we see, you know, six of them

690
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 2: off the left wing, off the same spot with a

691
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 2: clear left corner, which is like a clear sign that

692
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 2: they're making some efforts to start running this action. I

693
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 2: just want to see it more. I want to see

694
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 2: it more. These inverted ball screens with the big ball

695
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,959
Speaker 2: handlers are a big market inefficiency in the NBA right now.

696
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 2: I want to see more and more of that from

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Speaker 2: Pallo and Bain. All right, last note before we get

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Speaker 2: out of here for today. Jamal Murray drops forty three

699
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 2: points last night against an undermanned Minnesota Timberwolves team. I

700
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 2: said before the season, if you guys remember, I ended

701
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Speaker 2: up ranking Jamal Murray twenty fifth in my player rankings.

702
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 2: I had him ahead of guys like Karl Anthony Towns

703
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 2: and James Harden. I ended up catching a lot of

704
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 2: shit for that and I'm not here to take a

705
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 2: victory lap because it's only been three games. I'm not

706
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 2: you know, I'm not into like overreacting to early seasons

707
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 2: stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: But that said, I.

709
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 2: Do think Jamal looks great to start the year, and

710
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 2: I think that that's a strong indicator for the Nuggets

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Speaker 2: in their future. First of all, the reason why I

712
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 2: put him at twenty fifth is because I am projecting forward.

713
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 2: The entire purpose of our player rankings as I'm looking

714
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 2: for this October through this June, not as necessarily what

715
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 2: happens in the past. We're using that to inform, but

716
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 2: it's not necessarily the end all be all for the

717
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 2: way I'm looking forward. So like, for instance, with Luca,

718
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 2: I had Luke at number two because I'm like, yeah,

719
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 2: he looked bad and fat last year, but I just

720
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 2: expected him, after the most humiliating moment of his career,

721
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 2: to come back in great shape. And guess what, Luca

722
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 2: came back and he looks fucking incredible, right, So, like

723
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 2: I've you know, was projecting what I expected to see

724
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Speaker 2: from Luca, similar from Jamal. I want to say, what

725
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 2: I was talking about was Steph Curry earlier, Like I

726
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 2: like these APEX competitors when they sense a real opportunity

727
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,399
Speaker 2: to get the trophy. Jamal has caught some shit over

728
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,280
Speaker 2: the years for showing up to camp out of shape

729
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 2: and not being at his best when his team needs

730
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 2: him to be. I looked at this year as like,

731
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 2: this roster is the best version of the Nuggets roster

732
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 2: since Nicole Yogis joined the team. You have this obvious

733
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,839
Speaker 2: opportunity in front of you. I expected Jamal Murray as

734
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 2: a competitor to show to camp in shape and be

735
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 2: ready to attack the season. And he looked amazing last night.

736
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,919
Speaker 2: He was hitting flow against drop coverage to start the game,

737
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 2: really got his three point shot going. And again, like

738
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 2: I know it doesn't seem like this, it seems kind

739
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 2: of counterintuitive, but that's a strong indicator of your legs

740
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,240
Speaker 2: and your base. Like that's a deep shot. You're playing

741
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 2: physical basketball games. If you're getting your legs up into

742
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,399
Speaker 2: your shot, that's a strong indicator of where your body's at.

743
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 2: So the fact that he's shooting the three ball so well,

744
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 2: I think is a really strong indicator. And then in

745
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 2: crunch time he started hitting like tough mid range shots,

746
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,359
Speaker 2: like step backs, going to his right and turn around

747
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 2: right shoulder fades when he'd get a small Minnesota guard

748
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 2: on a switch like really impressive shot making. Is Denver

749
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,720
Speaker 2: spammed the two man game down the stretch and Jamal

750
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 2: just looks amazing. He's averaging thirty points, five rebounds, and

751
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 2: six assists to start the season on sixty three percent

752
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 2: for shooting and lots of strong individual indicators. So, for instance,

753
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 2: he's shooting fifty two percent on off the dribble jump

754
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 2: shots to start the year, seven for fourteen on pull

755
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 2: up twos, and nine for seventeen on pull up threes,

756
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 2: and again, those are great signs of where his body's

757
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 2: at because he's got to hit a move to get separation.

758
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 2: He's hitting a dribble combination and covering ground and planting

759
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 2: his feet and then getting lift over a great defender

760
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 2: to knock a shotdown, especially on like those tough mid

761
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,879
Speaker 2: range fadeaways and some of the longer jump shots further

762
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 2: away from basket. I think that's a great sign of

763
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,439
Speaker 2: where his body's at. And then he's fifty eight percent

764
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,720
Speaker 2: at the rim, which is really solid for a guard

765
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 2: his size who isn't an elite athlete. The floaters deadly

766
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 2: to start theory, he's killing it with that last night.

767
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:26,760
Speaker 2: He's been one of the best pick and role players

768
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 2: in the entire league to start the year. This year,

769
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 2: he's run sixty three pick and rolls that have led

770
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 2: to eighty three points. Eleven NBA players to this point

771
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:37,800
Speaker 2: in the season have run at least fifty pick and rolls.

772
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 2: Only Luka Doncic has has been more efficient including passes

773
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 2: than Jamal Murray has been to start the season. Obviously,

774
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 2: Nikola Jokic is a factor. There don'tant to like completely

775
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 2: gloss over that. But the point is Jamal looks great,

776
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 2: and I would argue of all the swing factors, and

777
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 2: there's a lot of swing factors, Like everyone's got to

778
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,840
Speaker 2: stay healthy. Is Aaron Gordon gonna stay healthy? Different bench

779
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 2: guys got a pop. Camjjohnson hasn't been super involved in

780
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 2: the offense to start the season. Like they're gonna need

781
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 2: to get more out of Cam Johnson to get where

782
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 2: they want to go. Different bench groups and lineups have

783
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 2: to succeed a certain way. Different young players have to pop.

784
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 2: But I'd argue Jamal Murray being that legit number two

785
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 2: All Star type of option is the biggest and most

786
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 2: important swing factor for this team. I mean, when this

787
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 2: team won the title in twenty twenty three, this guy

788
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 2: averaged twenty six points per game on fifty nine percent

789
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 2: true shooting. He had eight thirty point games in that

790
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 2: playoff run for Denver. So again, like that, to me,

791
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 2: is gonna be the key indicator for them getting to

792
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 2: where they want to go. And like, he's still hit

793
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 2: shots in the playoffs, He's at clutch shots. He's had

794
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 2: big games. He had a monster game against Oklahoma City

795
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 2: last year. He had the game winners against the Lakers

796
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,760
Speaker 2: two years ago. But there's been like an inconsistency, largely

797
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 2: fueled by the fact that his body hasn't been where

798
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:00,719
Speaker 2: he's needed it to be. He come into camp out

799
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 2: of shape. Then as he's playing his way into shape,

800
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,840
Speaker 2: he inevitably gets banged up because his body's not prepared

801
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 2: for NBA action. Then he's in and out of the

802
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 2: lineup throughout the year, and by the time he gets

803
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 2: to the postseason, he's not like really put together physically

804
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,839
Speaker 2: the way that he needs to be. This season, he

805
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 2: looks like he's ready for the grind. He looks like

806
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 2: his body is ready which should make him more able

807
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 2: to avoid the like nitpicky injuries, the nagging injuries that

808
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,839
Speaker 2: can happen over the course of the season. The team

809
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 2: is deeper, so they should be able to lighten his workload.

810
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 2: This is setting up. Like again, it's early, but these

811
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 2: are good check marks. These are good checkpoints for the

812
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 2: Nuggets in their championship pursuit that Jamal looks the way

813
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:41,720
Speaker 2: that he looks here in the early part of the season.

814
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 2: All right, guys, that's all I have for today is

815
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 2: always to sincerely appreciate you guys for supporting us and

816
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 2: supporting the show. We would be back tomorrow morning with

817
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 2: another reaction to the Tuesday night slate.

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Speaker 1: I'll see you guys then