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Speaker 1: were anyone's fault twenty two point game. Luke Cornette's guarding him.

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Speaker 1: Big guys in general have a tendency with shooters to

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Speaker 1: not be as desperate to chase them off the line.

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Speaker 1: It's just kind of not naturally in their defensive kind

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Speaker 1: of instincts. Right, and then you're down twenty, Like you're

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Speaker 1: not really like playing the hardest defense you've ever played

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Speaker 1: in your life. Right, So the first two threes Dan

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Speaker 1: Wade hit, we're on Luke Cornette on short closeouts where

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Speaker 1: Cornette's there, but he's more just taken away the drive

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Speaker 1: and like, and Dean Wade had missed a bunch of

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Speaker 1: threes earlier in the game, and so he's just trying

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Speaker 1: to see if he'll make it right. So he makes

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Speaker 1: a couple of threes from there though. Now Dean Wade's

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Speaker 1: hot a lot of ball watching like they're like like

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Speaker 1: you you would see, like they're a critical possession late

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Speaker 1: in the game, the game that the shot that put

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Speaker 1: him up one h two ninety nine, Jalen Brown is

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Speaker 1: on Dean Wade on the right wing and he's just

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Speaker 1: completely back turned to Dean Wade staring in the lane

448
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Speaker 1: while Darius Garland and Jared Allen are running a two

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Speaker 1: man game. Porzingis and I think I think it was

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Speaker 1: Porzingis and Derek White have it like completely under control.

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Speaker 1: They have the possession completely defended, there's no advantage there,

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Speaker 1: and Jalen Brown is just standing staring at the play.

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Speaker 1: Jared Allen gets the ball and ends up throwing the

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Speaker 1: swing pass out to Dean Wade and he knocks down

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Speaker 1: the three. Another big one. And we're gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: their offense in a minute, But some bad offensive possessions

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Speaker 1: led to transition runouts, and they weren't getting matched up

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Speaker 1: in transition. Georgia Kneeing hit a left corner three, not

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Speaker 1: matched up in transition, Dean Wade hit a transition three

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Speaker 1: trailing the play on a dribble handoff from Darius Garland.

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Speaker 1: Christops Porzingis was sprinting back in transition, got below the

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Speaker 1: three point line, didn't realize he was matched up with

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Speaker 1: the best shooter on the floor and lost him, you know,

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Speaker 1: like Drew Holliday lost Dean Wade on a key three

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Speaker 1: at the top of the key when he wasn't paying

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Speaker 1: attention in transition. So like, it was a lot of

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Speaker 1: ball watching, a lot of just like like I talk

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Speaker 1: about like help and stay home decisions a lot on

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Speaker 1: this show. When you are driving into the lane and

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Speaker 1: you're on ball defender is in position to force them

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Speaker 1: into a tough shot, and there's another help defender that's

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Speaker 1: in a better position to do something, and you leave

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Speaker 1: a shooter from a different spot, you're not helping anybody.

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Speaker 1: You're not actually causing that shot to be lower percentage.

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Speaker 1: All you're doing is giving an outlet. That's how you

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Speaker 1: force teams into turnovers. You force teams into turnovers by

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Speaker 1: defending actions one on one and two on two and

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Speaker 1: staying home off the ball at least to at least

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Speaker 1: close enough to the shooter that you're always back in

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Speaker 1: that position, and you want to play the passing lane

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Speaker 1: because then what happens is when you shut the action

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Speaker 1: down one on one or two on two, whoever has

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Speaker 1: the ball has to get rid of it somehow, and

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Speaker 1: usually they're looking to get it back out to the perimeter,

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Speaker 1: and when you get them into tough spots where they're rushing,

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Speaker 1: they'll force a pass out there, and if you're in

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Speaker 1: the passing lane, you can force the turnover. When you're

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Speaker 1: ball watching, all you're doing is watching your guys do

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Speaker 1: a good job defensively on the ball while conceding an

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Speaker 1: easy kickout opportunity. And it's just it's one of those

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Speaker 1: things where the offensive approach we're gonna talk about in

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Speaker 1: a second, that's an important part of Boston's issues that

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Speaker 1: they have to directify, but none of it matters if

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Speaker 1: they defend so damn well that there's just a massive

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Speaker 1: margin for air. And like, again we've talked about that

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Speaker 1: a lot on this show, but like Boston's defense is

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Speaker 1: so much more under their control than their offense, and

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Speaker 1: they just got really, really sloppy off the ball. Down

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Speaker 1: the stretch on the offensive end of the floor. One

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Speaker 1: of the things I've talked about, and I've been harping

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Speaker 1: on NonStop over the course of the last month, is

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Speaker 1: Boston needing to find a way to generate offense on

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Speaker 1: the interior when their jump shots stop falling. From the

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Speaker 1: nine minute mark, when Boston was up by twenty two,

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Speaker 1: they missed every single jump shot they took down the stretch.

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Speaker 1: By the way, that can happen. That is a thing

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Speaker 1: that happens in basketball games. That is a thing that

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Speaker 1: has happened to Boston a bunch of times this season.

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Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter over the eighty two. If you're

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Speaker 1: the best three point shooting team in the league, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter over the eighty two if you have the

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Speaker 1: most volume of three point shots. It doesn't matter if

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Speaker 1: in that individual game you have gone cold. The Celtics

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Speaker 1: made five shots during that run. Those five shots were

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Speaker 1: all physically aggressive moves towards the rim. What are the

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Speaker 1: four ways that I talked about for Boston to generate

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Speaker 1: points in the paint, Posting up with aggression towards the rim, right,

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Speaker 1: crashing the offensive glass, running in transition for layups, and

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Speaker 1: dunks and then cutting off of the three point line

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Speaker 1: instead of constantly spotting up. They're five made baskets. During

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Speaker 1: the twenty two point blown lead was a Luke Cornett

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Speaker 1: offensive rebound put back, Al Horford making an aggressive move

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Speaker 1: in the post to a hook with his right hand,

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Speaker 1: christopsport making aggressive move in the post to a hook

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Speaker 1: with his right hand, Drew Holliday cutting off of the

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Speaker 1: weak side wing instead of spotting up and getting a layup,

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Speaker 1: and christops porzingis running his layout his lane in transition

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Speaker 1: for a layup. So that is why I harp on

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Speaker 1: that concept. When this happens, when the defense is ratchet up,

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Speaker 1: the intensity gets crazy, maybe your team loses some confidence

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Speaker 1: from the three point line and the shots aren't falling.

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Speaker 1: That has resiliency. Attacking the paint has resiliency. In that environment,

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Speaker 1: you're jump shooting. You might make them, but you might not.

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Speaker 1: And when it gets in the team's head and the

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Speaker 1: palms get sweaty, you're probably not going to make them.

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Speaker 1: You missed every single jumper you took during that run.

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Speaker 1: The biggest problem with it too, they were running actions

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Speaker 1: that are actually designed to generate above the break three

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Speaker 1: point shots. For example, Porzingis pick and pop. They ran

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Speaker 1: a couple of others. They ran I think two Porzingis

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Speaker 1: pick and pops down the stretch of this game, two

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Speaker 1: or three of them, but two of them led to

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Speaker 1: three point shots and on them, like it is exactly

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Speaker 1: what you expect, Like ball screen. You know, George's kneeing

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Speaker 1: helps recovers back out. Christops Worthings catches and shoots like

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Speaker 1: a twenty six footer. Here's the thing. Krisops Worthinga shoots

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Speaker 1: thirty nine percent on above the break threes, but that

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Speaker 1: means he misses him sixty one percent of the time.

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Speaker 1: And in a game like that, when it's super physical

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Speaker 1: and when there's nerves and there's sweaty palms and all

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Speaker 1: that stuff, it's actually even more likely that he'll miss.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what the shot value is over the

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Speaker 1: five hundred of them he might take in a season

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Speaker 1: or whatever it is. All that really matters is that

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Speaker 1: specific possession, in that specific game, can you get a

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Speaker 1: high percentage shot? And like that is that action is

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Speaker 1: going to lead to a shot that Porzingis is gonna

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Speaker 1: miss probably two thirds of the time in a big

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Speaker 1: sample size, But in that sample size, it's far more

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Speaker 1: likely that he's going to miss, just because that's the

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Speaker 1: way the game is going. Also, they were picking on

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Speaker 1: Darius Garland, and the idea behind it is set a

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Speaker 1: ball screen, let me get Darius Garland switched on to me.

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Speaker 1: By get Darius Garland switched onto me, then I can

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Speaker 1: be aggressive. But they couldn't identify that Cleveland was hedging

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Speaker 1: and recovering. So if Darius Garland is hedging and recovering

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Speaker 1: and you're sitting guard guard screens, they are going to

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Speaker 1: result in above the break threes because you're going to

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Speaker 1: come off that ball screen. Garland's gonna hedge, You're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to pull back. As you pull back, the shooter

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Speaker 1: is slipping to the three point line. You're gonna throw

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Speaker 1: it to him and you're gonna get a three point

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Speaker 1: shot off of it. Right, Jason Tatum missed in above

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Speaker 1: the break three off of a pick and pop. Drew

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Speaker 1: Holliday missed in above the break three off of a

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Speaker 1: pick and pop. They were running actions that were leading

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Speaker 1: to that specific type of shot. Why it's concerning is

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Speaker 1: they were actually able to get better matchups and get

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Speaker 1: opportunities to attack the rim. But even when they did that,

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Speaker 1: they either couldn't sustain it or they rushed the situation

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Speaker 1: first not sustaining it. There was there at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of the run where Drew Holliday and Al Horford were

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Speaker 1: running pick and roll. They were trying to pick on

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Speaker 1: Sam Merril. This was before the starters came back into

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Speaker 1: the game. They run a ball screen. Al Horford gets

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Speaker 1: sam Meryl switched on to him. He immediately backs him

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Speaker 1: down in the post and gets an easy right handed

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Speaker 1: hook over his left shoulder and he banks it. In

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Speaker 1: very next possession, they get the same switch. They get

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Speaker 1: the same post touch on the left elbow. This time

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Speaker 1: Horford doesn't even look at the basket. He turns and

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Speaker 1: runs a dribble hand off with Jason Tatum just immediately

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Speaker 1: bails on it. They just got it to work, and

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Speaker 1: they immediately bailed on it. That's one of those things

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Speaker 1: where the really smart teams in the league will go,

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Speaker 1: this is our advantage, let's keep going to it. And

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Speaker 1: then the second one is when they got advantages rushing

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Speaker 1: the situation. I talked about Darius Garland stopping Derek White

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Speaker 1: on a drive. Derek White comes off the ball screen

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Speaker 1: who's out of a horn set Darius Garland. There's a

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Speaker 1: really nice job beating him back down the floor. Cleveland

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00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 1: goes home. Everyone stays home. George Niang had rotated, but

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Speaker 1: he sprinted back out to the perimeter. He is on

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Speaker 1: an island with just Garland, I'm not a defender within

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Speaker 1: eight feet of him. And instead of slowing down turning

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Speaker 1: his basket and taking his time bullying Darius Garland into

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Speaker 1: the basket, he rushes a spinning shot and he loses

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Speaker 1: his balance and falls over and misses the shot. And

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Speaker 1: then that actually led to a transition run out for

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Speaker 1: another bucket. Then there's another one big possession late in

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Speaker 1: the game. They run a ball screen, they get a switch.

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Speaker 1: It's Georgi's kneeing on Tatum, Jared Allen on Christops porzingis

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Speaker 1: Jared Allen. They just run the switch. Jared Allen is

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Speaker 1: still right next to Tatum with George's kneeing. Tatum has

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Speaker 1: the switch he wants. Instead of pulling it out, there's

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Speaker 1: tons of time on the chalk clock. There's like fourteen

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Speaker 1: seconds on the shot clock. Instead of pulling it out

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Speaker 1: and going further to the side to create some space,

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Speaker 1: maybe even clearing the corner and working on the empty

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Speaker 1: side and trying to beat him off the dribble and

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Speaker 1: get to the basket to the layup. Tatum spazes out

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Speaker 1: like just spaz Is and immediately starts trying to drive

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Speaker 1: on George's kneeing. Jared Allen's right there, and so guess

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Speaker 1: what happens Porzingis because he didn't move over far enough.

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Speaker 1: Jared Allen's in this position where he can help and

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Speaker 1: then get a good clothes out on Porzingis. So Tatum

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Speaker 1: drives into Jared Allen, throws the ball back out to Porzingis,

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Speaker 1: and we get another contested above the break three. If

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Speaker 1: he literally just would have chilled for a second and

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Speaker 1: took it two or three steps off to the right. Now,

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Speaker 1: if he drives and gets Jared Allen to help, it's

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Speaker 1: a wide open three for Chrisaps. Porzingis not in a

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Speaker 1: movement situation where he's sliding out of a ball screen,

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Speaker 1: but he's standing squared up to the basket. Or maybe

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Speaker 1: you can turn the corner and Jared Allen doesn't help

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Speaker 1: enough and it stays home on Porzingis and you get

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Speaker 1: some kind of layup. But it's like there's no patience,

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Speaker 1: there's no diligence, there's no like, let's be super particular

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Speaker 1: about getting the right shot in this situation. It's the

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Speaker 1: same kind of free flowing offense that you see in

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Speaker 1: the meat and potatoes of the game. And again, they'll

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Speaker 1: have cold stretches like that and the meat and potatoes

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00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 1: of the game too, but it usually doesn't matter because

644
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: they'll get hot at a different time, make a bunch

645
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: of shots and win. But in these late game situations,

646
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Speaker 1: when the shots aren't falling, they have to do a

647
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 1: better job of identifying where their advantages are and being

648
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 1: super diligent about getting the ball to the right spots

649
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: for the right shots. And again, it's just a bad night.

650
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: Bad nights happen. They've been kicking everyone's ass. They've been

651
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Speaker 1: the best regular season team in the league this year.

652
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: But we know this is what it looks like when

653
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: Boston loses. They have to identify these things and fix

654
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:30,239
Speaker 1: these problems before they get to the postseason, all right,

655
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: really quickly, before get before we get out of here,

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Speaker 1: let's get to the mailbag. First question, Has Peyton Watson

657
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: shown enough this season for you to think he could

658
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 1: be a sixth Man Starter Slash starter for Nuggets Dynasty

659
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: love the show, have been watching for a while. Thanks

660
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: for supporting the show. I think he's incredible on the

661
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: defensive end of the floor. You saw a little bit

662
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: of his issues with the jump shot last night, especially

663
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: in that second half where it just guys are leaving

664
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 1: him open, and that can be a little bit of

665
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: an issue in the long run. I think he can

666
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: get better at that. Also, like cutting more like Aaron

667
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: Gordon does, is a big that Peyton Watson has had

668
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: a lot of stretches this year where he is super

669
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 1: active as a cutter. I think that's a big way

670
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 1: that he can kind of mitigate some of the issues

671
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: with his jumpshot similar to what Aaron Gordon does. But

672
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: he's so damn good defensively. That one legged block that

673
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: he had on Bradley Beal and Radley bil tried to

674
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: bury him under the basket was such an impressive defensive

675
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: play at a bunch of blocks against the Lakers in

676
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: the Laker game too. Like Peyton Watson is just insane.

677
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in him. I absolutely think he

678
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: is capable of being not just not just a sixth

679
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: man but like, he's one of those guys where if

680
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: there's a version of this two three years from now

681
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 1: where you lose Aaron Gordon and Peyton, Watson has to

682
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 1: slide into that four spot with a few more years

683
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: of player development. I absolutely think he could slot into

684
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: that role. Next question, how do you think about the

685
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Speaker 1: defensive impact when ranking top players in the league, For example, Jokis, Persianis,

686
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: Luca versus Sga and Tatum. So here's the thing. I

687
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 1: do think defensive impact matters. I think it's more important

688
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: to a call out guys who are bad defensive players,

689
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: Guys like Jokic and Steph Curry for instance, Guys who

690
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: have worked hard enough on the defensive details to at

691
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 1: least not hurt your defense. Those guys, while also being

692
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Speaker 1: top tier offensive talents, are guys that I'm always gonna

693
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Speaker 1: gravitate towards. By the way, this is what makes Lebron

694
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Speaker 1: the second greatest player of all time is like, when

695
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 1: he was at his peak, he was probably the best

696
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Speaker 1: defensive player in the world and the best offensive player

697
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: in the world. And that's kind of like the thing

698
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: that kind of sets him apart. But when it comes

699
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Speaker 1: to guys that have some offensive limitations. So guys like

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Speaker 1: Yannis who can struggle a little bit in the half

701
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 1: court offensively, guys like Jason Tatum who can struggle a

702
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 1: little bit in the half court offensively with late game execution,

703
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: them being awesome at defense to me isn't enough to

704
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Speaker 1: make up for their offensive limitations. For me, like ideally,

705
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Speaker 1: I always am going to weigh offense a little bit

706
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Speaker 1: more and I'm always gonna be more willing to overlook

707
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Speaker 1: a defensive issue as long as those guys work hard

708
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Speaker 1: enough to not hurt their defense, because at least you

709
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: can construct a good defense around him. Seen the Warriors

710
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Speaker 1: and Nuggets construct championship defenses around Nikole Jokic, in around

711
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Speaker 1: Steph Curry. That's the question. Can you build a championship

712
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Speaker 1: defense around a guy like Luka Doncic. That's what we're

713
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Speaker 1: going to find out in the long run. Next question,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned the variants of the Celtics offense as it's

715
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Speaker 1: reliant on a lot of jump shooting in the past.

716
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Speaker 1: I feel this is way more easily reflected last season

717
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Speaker 1: with many bad losses, whereas this year only one in

718
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Speaker 1: any game against someone under five hundred. Can it be

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00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,919
Speaker 1: the variance is lessons do the added pieces in KP

720
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Speaker 1: and drew as well as long as well as long

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Speaker 1: as Marcus Smart's inconsistent offense, or is that attributed to

722
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,799
Speaker 1: a much larger margin for air than last year? Them

723
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: beating bad teams is all about the margin for air.

724
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: They're so damn talented that they're just not going to

725
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: lose to bad teams the vast majority of the time.

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Speaker 1: Right The variance to me is it's not so much

727
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Speaker 1: in them relying on jump shooting, like I think they

728
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 1: should be a team that takes a lot of jump shots.

729
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: That's they have a lot of really good jump shooters.

730
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 1: It's just they've gone comically so far in that direction

731
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Speaker 1: up until late. As of late, they've been much more

732
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Speaker 1: active in the paint, but they've gone comically so far

733
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Speaker 1: in that direction that they've added variants to a larger

734
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: extent than it needs to be. That's really all I'm

735
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Speaker 1: asking for. I'm just asking for balance. I'm just asking

736
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Speaker 1: for a little bit more balance and then more like

737
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:14,760
Speaker 1: a read the room kind of thing. The best teams

738
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Speaker 1: in the league, like Nikola Jokic, Let's look at let's

739
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 1: take jokicch or Lebron, for instance. Lebron knows when it's

740
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:22,720
Speaker 1: the kind of game where he needs to be a passer,

741
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:24,399
Speaker 1: and Lebron knows where it's the kind of game where

742
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,240
Speaker 1: he needs to be more aggressive as a score. Nikole

743
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 1: Jokicic last night, notwithstanding, is one of those kinds of

744
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 1: guys too. Those offenses and the best offenses of the

745
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: league in general, they know what their advantage is on

746
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,399
Speaker 1: that given night and they lean into it. Boston needs

747
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: to kind of be better at that Specifically, Hey, tonight,

748
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: the jumpers aren't falling. We need to adjust into more

749
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: of this play style. Or hey, our jumpers are falling.

750
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: Everyone's confident. Let's keep hunting these things. Let's get fifty

751
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 1: of them up in this game, because we're going to

752
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 1: make twenty five of them, right, Like, those are the

753
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: kinds of kind of adjustments that Boston needs to get

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00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: better at. Next question, Big fan of the show, in

755
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: your breakdowns, you say before that your big playmaking forward

756
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Speaker 1: like Lebron or Luca is your favorite archetype of player.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that this type of player inherently has

758
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 1: more value than the big two way forward like Katie Tatum,

759
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: Lebron at his peak was obviously an elite defender too.

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Speaker 1: But if you had to compare peak Luca or Harden

761
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Speaker 1: guard but big and control pace, for example, to peak

762
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Speaker 1: Katie Kawhi Tatum, which has more value to build a

763
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 1: perfect roster round in your opinion, here's the tough one.

764
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 1: Luca and Harden are are They are like Luca's a big,

765
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: play making forward, but him and Harden, they both play

766
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: such a helio centric style that there's another conversation to

767
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: have about like their heliocentrism. So for instance, not this

768
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,359
Speaker 1: last PACER's game, but two Pacers games ago. By the way,

769
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 1: Dallas is falling apart there they can't get a stop

770
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Speaker 1: on anybody. But two Indiana Pacers games ago, Tatum had

771
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Speaker 1: Ben Mathern on him and he straight I sowed him

772
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,879
Speaker 1: five consecutive times to start the game. Kyrie didn't even

773
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,320
Speaker 1: touch the ball for like three minutes. And I remember

774
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 1: watching that and I'm like, this is weird basketball. And

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Speaker 1: I love Luca. Like Luca, I think is an incredible

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Speaker 1: basketball player and I'm a huge believer in his ability.

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00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: And for both Luca and Harden, I find things as

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Speaker 1: a basketball fan that I'm drawn to specifically footwork stuff.

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00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,240
Speaker 1: Harden I have stolen most of his step back footwork

780
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 1: stuff that I use myself. Luka Doncic, like I use

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00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 1: him as an example when I'm training the high school

782
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 1: kids about the advantages of selling every move with every

783
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,240
Speaker 1: part of your body and how it's less about whipping

784
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 1: the basketball around and more about selling things with your

785
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Speaker 1: body language. There's a lot to learn from those two guys.

786
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Speaker 1: But their play styles to me, are very different from

787
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 1: the Lebron because, like I would when I think like

788
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 1: big playmaking forward, I actually think more like Jokic and

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Speaker 1: Lebron as in, like they're guys that have like a

790
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: ton of offensive versatility. They always keep all their teammates involved,

791
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 1: not just with catch and shoot threes and dunks, but

792
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,800
Speaker 1: with actual actions, and they operate as screeners and rollers,

793
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: and like, to me, the Lebron Jokic archetype is the

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Speaker 1: one that I'd take over, the Kawhi kde Tatum, the

795
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: Luca Harden archetype. You know, I I think Luca is

796
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: going to make the adjustments in the long run and

797
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 1: get better at this. But I think they're a little

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00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 1: bit different, and they're kind of a new archetype that

799
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Speaker 1: we're still learning about. And for the record, we have

800
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Speaker 1: not seen yet a heliocentric player like Luca r. Harden

801
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: win a championship or even make the finals for that matter.

802
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: Next question, three more quick ones just the two guys

803
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Speaker 1: I've been waiting for. Can I get a segment on

804
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: five reasons why you guys were wrong about trading Dlo?

805
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:28,840
Speaker 1: I remember what you said. This was a comment in

806
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: the Laker video. I had to hit this one because

807
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 1: this is one of my biggest pet peeves. Like sometimes

808
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 1: new information comes to the table and then I changed

809
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: my mind. That's all this was. I didn't switch up

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Speaker 1: on de Lo. I didn't I wasn't wrong about Dlo

811
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,760
Speaker 1: before and then wrong again about him now or whatever

812
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:52,319
Speaker 1: it is. What happened was is since Delo rejoined the

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00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 1: starting lineup in the last twenty three games, he's averaging

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Speaker 1: twenty three points and seven assists on forty seven percent

815
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Speaker 1: from the field forty four percent from three on massive volume.

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00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 1: Before that, in thirty five games, he averaged fifteen points

817
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 1: and six assists on forty six percent from the field

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00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:12,240
Speaker 1: in thirty nine percent from three. He is a much

819
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: better basketball player now than he was before this stretch,

820
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: he's playing the very best basketball of his career. I

821
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: wasn't wrong about D'Angelo Russell. I'm just not a stubborn

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Speaker 1: idiot who won't change my mind when new information comes

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Speaker 1: to the table. I don't have an invested interest in

824
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 1: being disrespectful or mean to D'Angelo Russell. That's not the case.

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Speaker 1: I talked about the basketball player he was when he

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Speaker 1: was averaging fifteen and six, and I talked about how

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Speaker 1: they should trade him because he wasn't good enough in

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Speaker 1: addition to being a redundancy with Austin Reeves to not

829
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Speaker 1: justify using his contract to improve the roster. Now he's

830
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 1: playing way better, and it's a completely different conversation. Like

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Speaker 1: this kind of thing, it drives me crazy because like

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Speaker 1: all the time we're getting new information. The Bucks sucked

833
00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: at defense the entire year. Now they're awesome. I'm excited

834
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Speaker 1: to watch him against Golden State tonight. Let's let's find

835
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Speaker 1: out what the new stuff is and let's learn from it.

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Speaker 1: And then and and by the way, if you said,

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Speaker 1: if if you said the Bucks defense sucked and then

838
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,720
Speaker 1: suddenly the Bucks defense gets great and they win the title,

839
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Speaker 1: you're not wrong for saying Boston or Milwaukee's defense sucked.

840
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 1: Yes it did, and then they changed like that. That

841
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,319
Speaker 1: that kind of thing happens. D Lo is averaging eight

842
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,919
Speaker 1: more points, significantly more efficiently, and another assist per game

843
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: compared to the way he started the season, and he's

844
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Speaker 1: defending better like just like he's just playing way better.

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Speaker 1: That That is why I feel differently about D'Angelo Russell.

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Speaker 1: I am not married to any opinion. I will always

847
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Speaker 1: respond to new information. Next question, what is Derek g

848
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: Liively's ceiling? What does he need to improve to get there?

849
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Speaker 1: I look at Derek Derek Glively as like a Tyson

850
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:52,959
Speaker 1: Chandler type of a type of archetype. I think he's

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Speaker 1: three things that I think he could get better at.

852
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,839
Speaker 1: One help and stay home decisions, So just being better

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00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 1: at identifying kind of like we were talking about the

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Speaker 1: Celtics game. When you're on ball, guy has things under control,

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Speaker 1: and you're more important to stay home and get the

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Speaker 1: defensive rebound versus one of Guy's compromise, and he needs

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Speaker 1: to help becoming a master of the role, not just

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Speaker 1: the vertical spacing, but also the short role passing out

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Speaker 1: of it, and then Lastly, against teams that switch would

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Speaker 1: be really nice if you could add a little left shoulder,

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Speaker 1: right handed hook to just quickly hit a shot over

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Speaker 1: the top when teams try to switch on him. Last

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Speaker 1: question before we get out of here, why isn't anyone

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Speaker 1: talking about the absurd season Giannis is having, averaging thirty one,

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Speaker 1: eleven and six with two point three stocks on an

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Speaker 1: insane sixty two percent field goals. Only Kareem has averaged

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Speaker 1: thirty ten and five on fifty percent field goals. Giannis

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Speaker 1: did so last year on fifty five and is now

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Speaker 1: on pace to be the only player in history to

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Speaker 1: average thirty points on sixty percent field goals. Now, people

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Speaker 1: may say that he only dunks, but they only but

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Speaker 1: they forget that not even Shack did this. I think

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Speaker 1: in some years, in some years to come, we will

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Speaker 1: look back and realize that they that this may have

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Speaker 1: been the most underrated individual season of all time. So

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Speaker 1: I said this on the show a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: I nicol Jokic is going to win MVP. Nicoli has

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Speaker 1: a huge fan base among the media, and so that's

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Speaker 1: a big part of why he's going to control MVP voting.

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Speaker 1: For a while. I think it's very possible that he

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Speaker 1: racks up a bunch of them. But I actually, even

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Speaker 1: though I think Jokic is the best player in the world,

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Speaker 1: and I think Jokic is better at basketball than yannest,

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Speaker 1: I think Giannis has had the most impressive regular season

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Speaker 1: this year. Set it on the show a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: I would give the MVPD Yannis, Like I think, on

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Speaker 1: a team that has had some significant personnel limitations in

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Speaker 1: the back court, Janis has just been a wrecking ball

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Speaker 1: trying to overcome those issues, and I think he's mostly

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Speaker 1: been awesome this year. I think people that say that

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Speaker 1: Yanis just dunks the ball are silly. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: reason why I think Giannis is not the same level

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Speaker 1: as a guy like NIKOLEA. Jokic is just in that

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Speaker 1: half court, slow down environment, Yannis still struggles to when

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Speaker 1: he has to kind of do everything as the offensive initiator.

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Speaker 1: We saw that again against Miami last year. Although he

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Speaker 1: was injured, he did not play well in that environment.

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Speaker 1: He still hasn't developed a go to over the top shot.

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Speaker 1: So like, these are limitations that I think of in

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Speaker 1: the big pick or player rankings, But I one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent agree with you. I think Giannis is having a

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Speaker 1: massively underrated season and I personally would give him the MVP.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, that is all I have for today.

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Speaker 1: As always, as sincerely appreciate you guys for supporting the show.

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Speaker 1: I will see you guys tonight live on YouTube. After

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Speaker 1: the final buzzer of Warriors Bucks, the volume