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Speaker 1: All right, welcome to Hoops tonight. You're at the ball.
Speaker 1: You have you one everybody. Oh, while you guys are
Speaker 1: having a great week. On a quick show for you
Speaker 1: guys tonight, we're gonna briefly touch on all three games.
Speaker 1: I want to do a little bit more of like
Speaker 1: a mail bag forward type of show tonight, since these
Speaker 1: results tonight were somewhat expected in terms of what we
Speaker 1: saw with Boston and Cleveland taking two zero leads and
Speaker 1: then just a really bizarre night in Houston as the
Speaker 1: Warriors have very much a Murphy's Law kind of game
Speaker 1: as everything goes wrong for them and the Rockets get
Speaker 1: themselves a big win. So if you're in the chat,
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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk some basketball. So, as I mentioned
Speaker 1: off the top, kind of a Murphy's Law kind of
Speaker 1: game for the Warriors, Brandon Pajemski gets food poisoning. Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler gets undercut by a men. Thompson on this really
Speaker 1: weird play where a man in Draymond kind of got
Speaker 1: their legs tangled up and a man just fell forward
Speaker 1: at literally the worst possible time as drama. As Jimmy
Speaker 1: was in the air underneath the basket, he gets a
Speaker 1: tailbone contusion that keeps him out for the rest of
Speaker 1: the night. He's also getting an MRI tomorrow, so fingers
Speaker 1: crossed well wishes for Jimmy Butler that he ends up
Speaker 1: getting a positive result there. I'm sure everybody would rather
Speaker 1: see Rockets Warriors determined with both teams at full strength,
Speaker 1: but as a result we got a really weird game
Speaker 1: with some bizarre minute totals. Basic stat to demonstrate this
Speaker 1: quldn't post Jonathan Kaminga and Pat Spencer played a combined
Speaker 1: twelve minutes in Game one. They played sixty three minutes tonight.
Speaker 1: Those three guys, so fifty one minutes that would typically
Speaker 1: go to starters on the Warriors in a star for
Speaker 1: the Warriors, Jimmy Butler and Brandon Pajemski ended up going
Speaker 1: to guys that were mostly out of the rotation or
Speaker 1: in very small roles in Game one, So not a
Speaker 1: whole lot to take away from that. I also thought
Speaker 1: in general, the Warriors defensive energy pulled way back after
Speaker 1: Jimmy left the game. That's to be expected as you
Speaker 1: start to feel like there's a little less belief in
Speaker 1: their ability to win. But the story of the game
Speaker 1: by far was Jalen Green. I talked before the series
Speaker 1: about Jalen Green scoring this season. He's obviously had a
Speaker 1: lot of great knights and a lot of bad nights.
Speaker 1: It's been very inconsistent. But when he scores at least
Speaker 1: thirty points, the Rockets are thirteen and one this year.
Speaker 1: And as I mentioned in the series preview, it happened
Speaker 1: to great teams. It wasn't like a he lit up
Speaker 1: the bad teams and they won those games. He did
Speaker 1: it to Minnesota, he did it to Denver. He did
Speaker 1: it to Oklahoma City, he did it to the Lakers.
Speaker 1: He did it to the Clippers, and now tonight to
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors. He goes for thirty eight points.
Speaker 1: He hits eight threes. It was the nineteenth time this
Speaker 1: season that he's hit at least five threes in a game.
Speaker 1: That's been the biggest jump in Jalen in terms of
Speaker 1: his skill this season. He's a lot better at shooting
Speaker 1: threes off the dribble, and he's a lot better at
Speaker 1: shooting threes off the move, particularly going towards his left,
Speaker 1: and he's just turned into much better, a much better,
Speaker 1: high volume three point shooter this year. Now, again, it's inconsistent,
Speaker 1: and he can be off sometimes and his misses have
Speaker 1: a tendency to be way off. But like when he's
Speaker 1: in that groove, it's kind of a shot you have
Speaker 1: to concede to him because of his downhill athleticism, and
Speaker 1: so with the ability to hit him off the dribble,
Speaker 1: off a variety of stepbacks, with the ability to hit
Speaker 1: him off the move and while bringing that real downhill force,
Speaker 1: you know, when he gets that shot going, you kind
Speaker 1: of have to live with it. And if you're living
Speaker 1: with it, you could lose if he's making it. Just
Speaker 1: like what happened to all those great teams earlier this season,
Speaker 1: and so honestly like that. There's a specific reason why
Speaker 1: the Rockets are so tough to beat when Jalen plays
Speaker 1: that well, and it's because the strength of this team
Speaker 1: again is what they do defensively, is what they do
Speaker 1: in transition, is what they do on the offensive glass,
Speaker 1: and the ceiling raising piece is if Fred or Jalen
Speaker 1: get it going in some real way. And Fred hasn't
Speaker 1: been able to get anything going through two games, but
Speaker 1: Jalen really started to break free tonight. And again, you know,
Speaker 1: he's inconsistent. He could just go into another type of
Speaker 1: kind of confusing, poor decision making, poor shot making type
Speaker 1: of night in game three. But if he builds some
Speaker 1: real momentum here and he gets another, you know, couple
Speaker 1: of thirty point games in the series, it fundamentally alters
Speaker 1: the trajectory of the series just because of how difficult
Speaker 1: it is to beat the Rockets when Jalen's playing that well.
Speaker 1: Houston's athletes really dominated the entire game. I thought a
Speaker 1: men Thompson, even though he only had eleven points, I
Speaker 1: thought his connective playmaking in the middle of the floor
Speaker 1: really helped grease the wheels for Houston's offense. Connective playmaking
Speaker 1: to me is you know that piece of playmaking that
Speaker 1: comes after you've already gotten a pass from the primary
Speaker 1: shader of the offense. So like that could be play
Speaker 1: making out of closeouts, play making out of short roles,
Speaker 1: playmaking out of baseline cuts, that sort of thing. Amen
Speaker 1: Thompson is so good at like making these one timer
Speaker 1: hockey esque passes where he's reading the action that's taking
Speaker 1: place around him while the ball is still on its
Speaker 1: way to him, and then he'll just catch it and
Speaker 1: immediately funnel it to the next guy in the red
Speaker 1: and it really creates a lot of quality opportunities for
Speaker 1: the Houston offense. Tari Easton was great. He hasn't shot
Speaker 1: the ball super well as of late, but he had
Speaker 1: two of them tonight. Provided a ton of rim pressure.
Speaker 1: I had a couple transition moves that were unbelievable, kind
Speaker 1: of zooming out from the series. This series feels a
Speaker 1: lot more to me like the Lakers Wolves series, a
Speaker 1: more dramatic version of it, because there's a larger skill
Speaker 1: gap between the two teams. Obviously, Anthony Edwards and Julius
Speaker 1: randall are substantially better primary shot creators than what Houston's
Speaker 1: working with, which is why Houston was bottom ten half
Speaker 1: court offense this year. In Minnesota obviously was a great
Speaker 1: offense overall this year. But it's a similar dynamic in
Speaker 1: the sense that, as I talked about with the Lakers
Speaker 1: last night, the Lakers can hang onto the rope and
Speaker 1: hold up physically, their skill should be able to lift
Speaker 1: them over the top, but when they let go of
Speaker 1: the rope, the athleticism will overwhelm them and they'll struggle.
Speaker 1: Similar type of vibe with Houston and Golden State, but
Speaker 1: Game one of that series looked very similar to me
Speaker 1: to Game two of the Lakers Wolves series from last night,
Speaker 1: in the sense that even though there was this kind
Speaker 1: of end of the game run that both teams went on,
Speaker 1: as it seemed like Golden State fatigued a little, as
Speaker 1: it seemed like the Lakers fatigued a little, they were
Speaker 1: able to stiff arm the Lake game runs, and it
Speaker 1: just felt like those teams were able to hang onto
Speaker 1: the rope well enough that their overall skill and basketball
Speaker 1: IQ gap was able to carry them over the top.
Speaker 1: Now again, I think the skill gap is substantial, which
Speaker 1: is obviously obviously why Golden State is a much more
Speaker 1: substantial favorite than the Lakers are over the Wolves. I
Speaker 1: view the Lakers Wolve series is more of a coin flip.
Speaker 1: I would be genuinely surprised if Houston beat Golden State
Speaker 1: in this series. I think Golden State is going to
Speaker 1: go home and get both of those games in Game three,
Speaker 1: in Game four, and I think they'll go back to
Speaker 1: Houston with a chance to close the series out. My
Speaker 1: guess is that ends up being a game that Houston
Speaker 1: ends up getting and then Golden State closes this one
Speaker 1: out in six. But it's a similar dynamic, just with
Speaker 1: the more dramatic skill gap between the two teams. But
Speaker 1: again kind of like just anything that can go wrong
Speaker 1: will go wrong. Type of night for the Warriors, big
Speaker 1: time night for Jalen Green Houston evens up the series.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll see a full strength Warriors team versus the
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Speaker 1: This week, we're highlighting Donovan Mitchell's second consecutive thirty point
Speaker 1: night in this playoff run in the way his late
Speaker 1: game shot making helped the Calves take you two to
Speaker 1: zero lead over the Miami Heat. The Calves controlled the
Speaker 1: game for the most part against Miami tonight, but as
Speaker 1: we all know, the Miami Heat never give up. They
Speaker 1: did a nice job in the fourth quarter of containing
Speaker 1: Darius carlind drumal penetration. They used better just overall pinching
Speaker 1: in late doubles to contain Tydrome a little bit better.
Speaker 1: They got hot from they got hot from three. Suddenly
Speaker 1: they cut the lead down to just two points with
Speaker 1: a few minutes left in the fourth quarter. Miami had
Speaker 1: all the momentum. Cleveland was in serious danger of dropping
Speaker 1: home court advantage on a late game run from the Heat.
Speaker 1: But that was when Donovan Mitchell restored order with four
Speaker 1: incredibly tough buckets. Every single one of these was a
Speaker 1: high degree of difficulty bit of shot making. He attacked
Speaker 1: Haywood high Smith curling around his screen. It was a
Speaker 1: screen that the Miami Heat switched. I've talked about this
Speaker 1: concept a lot, but attacking quickly against switches is a
Speaker 1: really easy way to get separation because often if you
Speaker 1: imagine two players, two guards running towards each other for
Speaker 1: a screen interchange, their defenders are running that way too.
Speaker 1: So as you can imagine Donovan Mitchell's eventual defender in
Speaker 1: this case, Heywood high Smith is moving this way as
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell is moving this way, the momentum is going
Speaker 1: in opposite directions, and so if you catch and just
Speaker 1: immediately try to turn the corner, you can get some
Speaker 1: advantages there. He turned the corner on Heywoo high Smith.
Speaker 1: Haywood did a really nice job using his recovery athleticism
Speaker 1: to get back in front, but Donovan just popped down
Speaker 1: off of two feet and drifting to his left hit
Speaker 1: like a ten foot floater. With his right hand. Just
Speaker 1: an incredible piece of shot making. He hit a drifting
Speaker 1: left shoulder fade over Tyler Harrow. Tyler Harrold defended it
Speaker 1: extremely well. Donovan just shot it higher with more arc,
Speaker 1: got it over the top and knocked it down. He
Speaker 1: hit like this gross pullback dribble move against Nikola Yovich.
Speaker 1: This is a move that we see Luka Dancics do
Speaker 1: a lot too, where he'll get the ball high in
Speaker 1: his right hand and get up like he's gonna go downhill,
Speaker 1: have that right leg forward, and then right when he's
Speaker 1: about to typically pound the ball for that aggressive forward move,
Speaker 1: he'll just pull the dribble back and he'll get quick
Speaker 1: separation for a pull up three. Did that against Nikole
Speaker 1: Yovich and knocked it down. He had a deep twenty
Speaker 1: eight footer against the hedge and recover sequence. Tyler Harrow hedged.
Speaker 1: But as Tyler Harrow was hedging and recovering, as Davion
Speaker 1: Mitchell was coming back up after Davion got through the screen,
Speaker 1: in that gap between the hedge leaving and Daveon coming up,
Speaker 1: Donovan found a little bit of space to pull up
Speaker 1: a deep three and just knocked it down. Four incredibly
Speaker 1: tough shots that ended up putting the distance between them
Speaker 1: and the heat after things got a little precarious there
Speaker 1: and again that is what Donovan Mitchell brings to this team.
Speaker 1: All these guys on this team have a lot of
Speaker 1: value that they right. DeAndre Hunter textbook week side scoring forward,
Speaker 1: Evan Mobley Defensive Player of the Year candidate. Evan Mobley
Speaker 1: a guy that can run inverted ball screens, a guy
Speaker 1: that can do a lot more on the role and
Speaker 1: as a cutter than he used to in this league.
Speaker 1: Jared Allen has become one of the top six or
Speaker 1: seven centers in the NBA as he's polished up his
Speaker 1: ability to score on the role and his ability to
Speaker 1: defend and switches. Darius Garland's ability to get anywhere he
Speaker 1: wants on the floor with his speed and his ball
Speaker 1: handling and his playmaking and his ability to set defenders
Speaker 1: up for screens and all these different things that they do.
Speaker 1: Ty Jerome as a bench shot creator, one of the
Speaker 1: better drop covered shot makers in this league, and a
Speaker 1: guy that demonstrated some great switch beating in Game one
Speaker 1: versus Tyler Harrow. All that's great. None of them are
Speaker 1: elite over the top shot makers. That is the one
Speaker 1: thing that Donovan Mitchell does on that team at an
Speaker 1: elite level, or I should say that's the only guy
Speaker 1: on that team, Donovan Mitchell is that does that bit
Speaker 1: of elite over the top shot making really really well.
Speaker 1: And it's exactly what you need it. I mean a
Speaker 1: lot of times that's what happens, especially against really smart,
Speaker 1: physical teams like the Miami Heat. They're going to start
Speaker 1: doing their jobs really well and sticking to the game
Speaker 1: plan really well, and you need somebody that can hit
Speaker 1: the shots that work even against elite perfectly executed defense.
Speaker 1: And that's what Donovan Mitchell did tonight. He did a
Speaker 1: ton of damage. He hit seven threes every which way,
Speaker 1: spotting up, hit another one of those hedge and recover
Speaker 1: threes versus Duncan Robinson. He hit tough pull up threes
Speaker 1: right in the face of Duncan Robinson and heywoo high Smith.
Speaker 1: He has brought the consistent scoring upside that this team
Speaker 1: needs to be at their best thirty points per game
Speaker 1: on sixty seven percent true shooting through the first two
Speaker 1: games of the playoffs. A Player of the Week. That
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Speaker 1: want to briefly talk about Jaylen Brown and the job
Speaker 1: that he did against the Magic and then we're going
Speaker 1: to do the mailbag, so make sure you guys start
Speaker 1: dropping questions in the chat. Jason Tatum being out with
Speaker 1: the risk injury was obviously going to put a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure on Jalen Brown to create shots tonight, and
Speaker 1: I thought Jalen was just absolutely brilliant in a high
Speaker 1: volume creation role. It really helped that he had his
Speaker 1: three point shot going. That's been a little bit of
Speaker 1: an adventure for him this year, but specifically the pull
Speaker 1: up three. Having the pull up three off the dribble
Speaker 1: going the way he had tonight is super important for
Speaker 1: managing the flow of the game. These high volume perimeter
Speaker 1: shot creators around the league. The reason why the pull
Speaker 1: up jump shot is so important is it's a less
Speaker 1: labor intense way to generate points. The three point shots
Speaker 1: worth extra right. So if you can hit pull up
Speaker 1: threes at about thirty five percent, that's one point zero
Speaker 1: five points per shot. That's a really efficient shot in
Speaker 1: the half court of NBA playoff games. And so when
Speaker 1: you can buy yourself five six, seven persons a game
Speaker 1: where you take that type of shot when you're tired
Speaker 1: and it's a shot that you can still get high
Speaker 1: value per possession out of it while not putting the
Speaker 1: wear and tear on your legs, that's an important part
Speaker 1: of filling that type of high volume shot creation role.
Speaker 1: And I just thought it was really important that Jalen
Speaker 1: Brown had that going. He misses his first couple, misses
Speaker 1: them badly, could be a completely different type of game.
Speaker 1: The two things that you gotta do as a primary
Speaker 1: shot creator in order to be able to hold up
Speaker 1: over a forty eight minute game. You've got to be
Speaker 1: able to hit shots over the top, and you've got
Speaker 1: to be able to take easy reads that are available
Speaker 1: to you. Oh, you're posting up and Al Horford has
Speaker 1: a close out opportunity on the right wing, you got
Speaker 1: to make that pass. Because even if you can hit
Speaker 1: a right shoulder fade over a double team. It's just
Speaker 1: a lot of work on your legs. If you've got
Speaker 1: an opening to al Horford, you got to throw that pass.
Speaker 1: It's an easy read that will just help you get
Speaker 1: through another possession at decent value. They had a low
Speaker 1: man tag possession where Jalen just pitched it back to
Speaker 1: Peyton Pritchard on the left wing. He knocked down the three.
Speaker 1: That's an easy read. That's just easy basketball. An extra
Speaker 1: pass in the left corner to Derek White on a
Speaker 1: sequence where Derek White's cutting through along the baseline. Just
Speaker 1: I thought Jalen just played a very well measured and
Speaker 1: versatile game and showed a lot of downhill pop. Any
Speaker 1: concerns about his knees should be mostly alleviated tonight that
Speaker 1: Dunky had in transition after the steal, he had this
Speaker 1: scoop on an ISO attack at Goga Patadse. He did
Speaker 1: a lot of attacking Orlando's bigs tonight. A lot of
Speaker 1: work against Wendell Carter Junior, a lot of work against Gogabatadz,
Speaker 1: some big like driving finishes through contact against Pallabanco on
Speaker 1: an Island. I just thought he looked great, You looked
Speaker 1: physically strong and in control of his body. I just
Speaker 1: thought it was a really encouraging night for Jalen Brown
Speaker 1: and just a casual reminder of how great Jalen Brown
Speaker 1: is and that he's very capable of scaling up his
Speaker 1: production if that's what the team needs. What a luxury
Speaker 1: that the Celtics were able to sit there superstar in
Speaker 1: a play off game and still get the type of
Speaker 1: shot creation they did tonight. Lots of contributions down the line,
Speaker 1: bunch of threes from Derek White and Peyton Pritchard. Chrisops
Speaker 1: Porzingis did a really nice job in two man game,
Speaker 1: getting slips, short rolls, posting mismatches, things along those lines.
Speaker 1: Really impressive win for the Celtics. Down Jason Tatum, all right,
Speaker 1: let's get into some mailbag questions for about twenty minutes
Speaker 1: and then we'll get out of here for the night.
Speaker 1: Sound good.
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
Speaker 3: Everybody ask your questions in the YouTube chat and we
Speaker 3: will get to as many them as possible. We're gonna
Speaker 3: start out with one that was not specifically asked, but
Speaker 3: is the topic of all of the conversation of the
Speaker 3: chat right now, which is was the Amen Thompson.
Speaker 2: Play where Jimmy Butler got hurt a.
Speaker 3: Dirty play, a reckless play, or a normal basketball play.
Speaker 1: It looked to me on replay that Amen Thompson just
Speaker 1: tripped over Draymond Green simultaneously with Jimmy Butler jumping. I
Speaker 1: thought it was just really just an unfortunate set of circumstances.
Speaker 1: I didn't think there was anything nefarious there. I I
Speaker 1: have seen every single fan base. I shouldn't say every
Speaker 1: single because not every series has that vibe. There are
Speaker 1: some very comfortable series, but there have been like four
Speaker 1: or five different fan bases that I've seen that have
Speaker 1: bitched and moaned about the physicality NonStop. Tom Averstrow had
Speaker 1: a little chart that he released today. Actually it's a
Speaker 1: if you look at my Twitter replies, someone sent it
Speaker 1: to me today so you'll see it there. But that
Speaker 1: chart demonstrates that fouls are getting called in this postseason
Speaker 1: run at a historically low level, like a historically low level.
Speaker 1: So it's like this for everybody. The Pistons Knicks series
Speaker 1: is like this, The Lakers Wolves series is like this,
Speaker 1: The Warriors Rockets series is like this. Have you guys
Speaker 1: watched any of Celtic's magic. That series is a bloodbath,
Speaker 1: Like all of these series are bloodbaths. This is just
Speaker 1: the way the game is being officiated these days. And
Speaker 1: even though that what happened to Jimmy is super unfortunate,
Speaker 1: Like I haven't seen anything particular in particular in the
Speaker 1: Rockets warri series that I'm not seeing another series. And
Speaker 1: the reality is is, like I'll just share a quote
Speaker 1: that Lebron had after the Minnesota game, after the winning
Speaker 1: gets Minnesota last night, he said, this is what it's
Speaker 1: going to be like the rest of the series. Like
Speaker 1: if you're expecting it to suddenly loosen up, if you're
Speaker 1: expecting the directive to come down from Adam Silver to say,
Speaker 1: hey guys, let's let him play, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a blood bath. Everyone's got to learn
Speaker 1: how to play in that circumstance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, I think, And the point that I've
Speaker 3: seen some people make, and that people are making the
Speaker 3: chat as well, is that it's a reckless play because
Speaker 3: of the general sort of over the top aggressive vibe
Speaker 3: that the Rockets have as well as the refereeing would
Speaker 3: just sort of let it, which is true across the board, absolutely,
Speaker 3: but it's certainly letting a lot of physicality go. And
Speaker 3: those things might be true. I think it's those things
Speaker 3: are probably true. That type of play doesn't happen if
Speaker 3: Aman Thompson isn't told crash the glass as hard as
Speaker 3: he possibly can, as much as he possibly can. Right,
Speaker 3: But it also doesn't mean that it's a reckless or
Speaker 3: a dirty play exactly.
Speaker 1: No. You put it very well, like it's it's not
Speaker 1: too difficult to have this sort of thing happen. This
Speaker 1: was an especially bad one because of the timing. Jimmy
Speaker 1: was at the peak of his jump and the men
Speaker 1: fell into his legs, which basically inverted him into a
Speaker 1: horizontal state, like six feet above the ground. Like it
Speaker 1: was horrible luck. But all it really was was two
Speaker 1: guys crashing. That's all it was. It just one guy
Speaker 1: crashed a little later and landed a little lower, and
Speaker 1: and it's it's super unfortunate. Again, I'm hopeful that Jimmy's
Speaker 1: ready to go. My guess is that he's gonna be
Speaker 1: kind of in a staff type situation where he's wearing
Speaker 1: some kind of pad back there and just doing the
Speaker 1: best he can. But I mean, like, that's how it is.
Speaker 1: Like Ruya Chimura had his his face messed up yesterday.
Speaker 1: He might be playing in a mask the rest of
Speaker 1: the series. Like Chris tops porzingis messed up his face today,
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum's got a messed up wrist, Like everyone's beat
Speaker 1: the shit. This is a war of attrition, guys. That's
Speaker 1: how this stuff goes.
Speaker 3: Another question about this game and the officiating, why doesn't
Speaker 3: Steph Curry get any calls?
Speaker 1: So the the I think Steph gets a poor whistle,
Speaker 1: I would agree on that. I think that Warriors fans
Speaker 1: are onto something there. I think that it's a little
Speaker 1: complicated in the sense that the Warriors play an extremely
Speaker 1: physical brand of basketball with their off ball movement and
Speaker 1: cutting and screening, and so for instance, like I think
Speaker 1: where where the ones that to me are egregious are
Speaker 1: like Steph's shooting a three and Fred van Vliet's pulling
Speaker 1: on his shorts, Like that's a fucking foul. Blow the whistle,
Speaker 1: Like what are we doing, guys? Like, uh, there was
Speaker 1: one in the Rockets game right before the end of
Speaker 1: the regular season where Dylan Brooks like straight up tackled
Speaker 1: Steph on a three and it didn't get called. Like
Speaker 1: there's that. Those are the ones that I think are
Speaker 1: egregious that need to be addressed. The off ball grabbing
Speaker 1: and holding stuff that is literally that is literally a
Speaker 1: style of play that benefits the Warriors. Steph gets grabbed
Speaker 1: and held a lot, and the war You're set twenty
Speaker 1: five illegal screens a game. So that, like the reality
Speaker 1: is is that physical dynamic of the cutting and screening
Speaker 1: and moving actually favors the Warriors throughout those games. Steph
Speaker 1: just takes a beating, but he's addressed to that by
Speaker 1: dramatically improving his physical strength. He's already one of the
Speaker 1: most conditioned athletes in the league. He wins that battle
Speaker 1: more often than not. That said, I think Steph should
Speaker 1: probably start kicking and flailing and flopping a little bit
Speaker 1: more in his threes because it's getting pretty outrageous some
Speaker 1: of these calls that are going uncalled against him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I also think that.
Speaker 3: Right or wrong, probably wrong, but right or wrong, there's
Speaker 3: a sort of there's a difference in the whistle on
Speaker 3: a play where you are driving to the rim with
Speaker 3: the ball trying to score, and when you're cutting off
Speaker 3: the ball, there's just like the Lakers get a lot
Speaker 3: of calls because Lebron James is putting his head at
Speaker 3: the rim as often as possible, right, Like, that's why
Speaker 3: they get a lot of shooting foul specifically because they
Speaker 3: are downhill attackers. This team, the way their offense runs
Speaker 3: is much more movement bas as we've all talked about
Speaker 3: a million times, And the whistle is going to be
Speaker 3: different on an off ball cut than when you're at
Speaker 3: the rim with the ball.
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 3: I don't know, I mean, maybe not, but that's true
Speaker 3: of I think that is true of every team. Just
Speaker 3: the Warriors run the most type of this offensive any team.
Speaker 2: In the league.
Speaker 1: I actually disagree in terms of the concept of driving,
Speaker 1: because the Lakers are actually a team that doesn't drive
Speaker 1: to the basket much, or at least they used to
Speaker 1: before Luca. They didn't used to drive too much. This
Speaker 1: is literally it, guys. Foul disparity comes down to two things.
Speaker 1: How good are you at defending without fouling and how
Speaker 1: good are you at grifting the other team into fouling? Like,
Speaker 1: you want to know why the Lakers shoot a ton
Speaker 1: of free throws because before the trade, it was Anthony Davis,
Speaker 1: who flops and flails every single time he catches anything
Speaker 1: on the roll. And by the way, it's not from driving.
Speaker 1: Anthony draws his fouls through post ups and rolls, like
Speaker 1: it's all like catches near the basket that result in
Speaker 1: those fouls. And then Austin ree Eves, who's like incredibly
Speaker 1: quick and shifty, and what he'll do is like what
Speaker 1: Austin will do is like he'll drive to a spot
Speaker 1: and shoot like right as the defenders just running into him.
Speaker 1: And basically he's just very good at getting defenders out
Speaker 1: of position and drawing fouls in the mid range. And
Speaker 1: so then what you did is you swapped Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: for Luca, and Luca is one of the most gifted
Speaker 1: foul grifters in the league. And so as a result
Speaker 1: of that, Luca ends up Luca ends up bolstering the
Speaker 1: free throw totals. But what's interesting is the Laker free
Speaker 1: throw disparity hasn't been nearly as good since Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: left the team. You want to know why, because they
Speaker 1: can't defend without fouling anymore. Because most of their ability
Speaker 1: to defend without fouling was predicated on Anthony Davis's rim protection. Like, guys,
Speaker 1: let's make it perfectly clear. Free throws are not handed
Speaker 1: out on a fair basis, like before the game, like,
Speaker 1: all right, here's your twenty and here's your twenty. You
Speaker 1: are going to receive free throws based on the kind
Speaker 1: of basketball you play on both ends of the floor.
Speaker 1: That is the only thing that is going to lead
Speaker 1: to some sort of difference in the in your free
Speaker 1: throw shooting. And by the way, guess what happened with
Speaker 1: Golden State. They made a trade for a player who
Speaker 1: is a notoriously good foul grifter in Jimmy Butler does
Speaker 1: it in a different way. He does it with a
Speaker 1: lot of pump fakes, and he does it with a
Speaker 1: lot of weird driving angles and finishing angles. Guess who's
Speaker 1: been third in free throw attempts post All Star Break
Speaker 1: The Golden State Warriors, even higher than the Los Angeles Lakers.
Speaker 1: So literally, you got more free throws, not because Adam
Speaker 1: Silver made a phone call, but because you have a
Speaker 1: player on your team who's very good at drawing fouls.
Speaker 1: That like, that is what it is. It's about the
Speaker 1: skill of drawing fouls and the skill of defending without fouling.
Speaker 1: That is what leads to free throw differential, nothing else. Guys, like,
Speaker 1: that's just how it works.
Speaker 3: Let's see one more question from this game, or maybe
Speaker 3: there's a couple. Actually, Uh, if Jimmy is out for
Speaker 3: Game three on a rest basis, he's you know, paying management,
Speaker 3: he's let's say he's not out for the whole series,
Speaker 3: but he's out for game three.
Speaker 2: Would you slot Kaminga and his spot?
Speaker 3: When you try something radically different like Draymond at the four,
Speaker 3: I potentially post at the five or what's the what's
Speaker 3: the lineup chains that you're making of Jimmy.
Speaker 1: I'm almost certain he'll just start Post.
Speaker 2: I would that's I gotta assume.
Speaker 1: Especially after how well he shot the ball Tonight Post battled.
Speaker 1: You know, it's so funny. I Quentin Post. I think
Speaker 1: he's a good player. That poor kid has no bounce.
Speaker 1: It's the craziest get when he gets around the basket,
Speaker 1: like he goes to jump and he doesn't get over
Speaker 1: a phone book. It's so funny. He's had a couple
Speaker 1: of rim attacks in the last couple of games that
Speaker 1: have been hilarious. But I think Quentin Post shooting is
Speaker 1: just an easy solution there to put him in at
Speaker 1: the five. I do think we'll see a heavy dose
Speaker 1: of kaminga of Jimmy Butler doesn't play, But my guess
Speaker 1: is that it'll be Quintin post that starts.
Speaker 2: I agree, and I I think that.
Speaker 3: I mean, Draymond is obviously the best individual defender option
Speaker 3: on alprin Shngoon, but Draymond has so much value as
Speaker 3: a roaming defensive player also and being able to stick
Speaker 3: him on Amen Thompson. It's not the same sort of
Speaker 3: solution you're looking for when you just guard him one
Speaker 3: on one with on Chinkin, but it's gonna create some
Speaker 3: more different kinds of challenges for the Rockets offense out.
Speaker 1: I guess I do think that Golden State can beat
Speaker 1: Houston at home without Jimmy. I think I flat out
Speaker 1: think they could. I think they can win both games
Speaker 1: without Jimmy if they needed to. Like, they're a real rested,
Speaker 1: intense Golden State defensive effort at home can beat anybody
Speaker 1: even without Jimmy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the game was ugly tonight, but it's a
Speaker 3: weird game when a player goes at mid game. And
Speaker 3: also they're without Brandon Pajemski. Losing your second and fourth
Speaker 3: best player in the first quarter is gonna throw your
Speaker 3: whole game plan completely out the window.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And like we were talking about connective playmaking with
Speaker 1: Aman Thompson, that's literally, that's literally Brandon Pajemski's role with
Speaker 1: this team. Both of them, yeah, oh, exactly, exactly, both
Speaker 1: of them are the guys that grease the wheels for
Speaker 1: this offense.
Speaker 2: One more Rockets related question.
Speaker 3: This is a you know, I think a good self
Speaker 3: aware Rockets fan who doesn't have a collusions of grander
Speaker 3: how many years away are the Rockets from being.
Speaker 2: Legitimate title contenders. It's a very reasonable question.
Speaker 1: I think shanegun is so good and I think that
Speaker 1: their defense is so good that they are one legitimate,
Speaker 1: reliable shot creator from being a legitimate top tier contender.
Speaker 1: The Rockets ripped off what I think was probably I'm
Speaker 1: actually gonna pull this up because I want to read
Speaker 1: it because it's so impressive to me. But the Rockets
Speaker 1: pulled off probably the most impressive stretch of regular season
Speaker 1: basketball I've seen in the last few years. Earlier this year,
Speaker 1: in a stretch of wins they beat they literally beat
Speaker 1: they beat Minnesota this isn't starting back in November. They
Speaker 1: beat Minnesota, they beat the Thunder, they beat the Clippers,
Speaker 1: they beat the Warriors, they beat the Lakers, they beat
Speaker 1: the Calves twice. Then the Celtics, like they were just
Speaker 1: ripping through a good team after good team and the
Speaker 1: only thing that was really missing as I watched them
Speaker 1: this year. Just to take it a step further, like like,
Speaker 1: what were the Warriors without Jimmy? The Warriors without Jimmy
Speaker 1: this season were a mediocre five hundred ish team that
Speaker 1: would have been closer to the Sacramento Dallas here right,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler vaulted them into contention. Why because if you
Speaker 1: looked at their roster, they were extremely deep in all
Speaker 1: these specific areas. They had the top tier superstar to
Speaker 1: hold it all together. By the way, Steph continues to
Speaker 1: look fantastic. That's shooting run he had there in the
Speaker 1: late first half is really fun to watch. But what
Speaker 1: do we have as this gaping hole the secondary shot creator.
Speaker 1: You address that with Jimmy Butler, and you turn a
Speaker 1: mediocre five hundred dish bottom of the play in type
Speaker 1: of team into a team that I believe is a
Speaker 1: legitimate championship contender, and if you go on DraftKings right now,
Speaker 1: they're the fourth championship favorite. It's literally the four, it's
Speaker 1: the three teams at the top, and it's Golden State.
Speaker 1: So that is what happens when you fill a specific hole.
Speaker 1: Going back to the Rockets specifically, I like Shangun as
Speaker 1: a screen partner, as a like a high playmaker, a
Speaker 1: guy that can attack from the post and just do
Speaker 1: a ton of damage in the middle of the floor.
Speaker 1: They are just missing a primary ball handler that can
Speaker 1: consistently set them up with advantages in the half court.
Speaker 1: If they got Kevin Durant, like I think, they would
Speaker 1: literally immediately be one of the top tier contenders in
Speaker 1: this league, as long as they didn't have to offload
Speaker 1: any of their specific, you know, foundational defensive talent. But
Speaker 1: they got the draft. They have the draft picks to
Speaker 1: do it, to be able to pull that sort of
Speaker 1: thing off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, I think Kevin Durant. I mean, the
Speaker 3: West is pretty pretty strong already after the Thunder. I
Speaker 3: don't know if that automatically puts them on the same
Speaker 3: level as the Thunder, but I would not be unhappy
Speaker 3: if someone said that the second best team in the
Speaker 3: West with Kevin Durant, Like they're already. I mean, they
Speaker 3: have the record. The regular season, they were the second
Speaker 3: best team in the West. But I think collectively we
Speaker 3: can all agree they're not the second strongest title contender
Speaker 3: in the West. I think there's an argument to be
Speaker 3: made if you add Kevin Durant to this team, you know,
Speaker 3: maybe they got to take unload a few guys, but
Speaker 3: keeping Shanoon Amen Thompson particulably Fred Van Vliet as well,
Speaker 3: then I might that's that's a legitimate title comer without question.
Speaker 1: No, I agree, And like there's certain things that are
Speaker 1: up in the air in the sense that like we
Speaker 1: don't know what Golden State's gonna get this summer. We
Speaker 1: don't know what the Lakers are gonna get this summer.
Speaker 1: Both both of those teams will be legitimate, like veteran
Speaker 1: minimum destinations. I think they'll, like it's funny you go
Speaker 1: back last year they were like poor destinations for that
Speaker 1: sort of thing, and then now you go this year
Speaker 1: and they're like legitimately good destinations for that sort of thing. Obviously,
Speaker 1: who knows what's gonna happen with the Spurs there are
Speaker 1: several teams that can move up or move down, but
Speaker 1: like Houston. I mean, I'd have a hard time not
Speaker 1: putting Houston second without not knowing what the Lakers and
Speaker 1: Warriors are gonna do. I'd have a hard time not
Speaker 1: putting the Rockets second if they got KD for sure.
Speaker 3: All right, let's do a couple more here. Many Knicks
Speaker 3: fans think TIBB is holding the team back schematically. Do
Speaker 3: you do you think this is true? Or are we
Speaker 3: overreacting now? I will say they would know. There was
Speaker 3: no specific about what schematic thing there's accusing TIBs of,
Speaker 3: but question stands.
Speaker 1: So, first of all, specifically, I just want to quickly
Speaker 1: go back to really quick follow up on the Rockets
Speaker 1: KD thing. One of the things that's missing from the
Speaker 1: Houston roster's rim protection, like old school super tall rim protection,
Speaker 1: and KD would also be a force multiplier for their
Speaker 1: defense in that way that like you can imagine the
Speaker 1: ability to deploy Shangoun at the level better because of
Speaker 1: KD on the back line as a guy at the rim,
Speaker 1: just a little extra shot there. But on the on
Speaker 1: the Knicks Pistons front. When I'm watching the film there's
Speaker 1: just it really is just they're getting good looks and
Speaker 1: guys are knocking him down. I did think that they
Speaker 1: misused Cat in game two, the putting Tobias Harris on
Speaker 1: him and the way they were guarding him. They just
Speaker 1: it caused them to go away from Cat entirely instead
Speaker 1: of like, like the basic stat that I showed after
Speaker 1: our film session was they ran seven ISOs for Cat
Speaker 1: in game one, and then they ran zero ISOs for
Speaker 1: Cat in game two. But like, it's really difficult for
Speaker 1: me to get hyper focused on specific tax things when
Speaker 1: like a couple more guys knock down wide open catch
Speaker 1: and shoot threes that have been hitting them all season,
Speaker 1: and you're in a really good position to win. And
Speaker 1: like I've heard people criticize the minute totals. Who's the
Speaker 1: guy on that bench that you like really trust to
Speaker 1: like play big minutes. Like this isn't Minnesota's bench. You
Speaker 1: don't have Naseried and Dante DiVincenzo coming off the bench.
Speaker 1: You've got some flawed players in there. Like I'm watching
Speaker 1: Jericho Sims. It's a little touch and go when Jericho
Speaker 1: Sims is out there, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: it's It's not exactly a situation where Tibbs has a
Speaker 1: lot of options to go to there in terms of
Speaker 1: lineup structure, the I do think that I would lean
Speaker 1: a little bit more into Kat and Og on the ball,
Speaker 1: just simply because even though Brunson's been fantastic and he's
Speaker 1: come on strong at the end of games, I think
Speaker 1: there is something to be said about being too heliocentric
Speaker 1: and at disrupting rhythm. That's become a little bit of
Speaker 1: a talking point in Lakers Twitter now, centering around Luca
Speaker 1: and his shot selections, specifically early in games, which was
Speaker 1: something that they adjusted in Game two. You just have
Speaker 1: a better opportunity to get you, like, just put it simply,
Speaker 1: your pathway to victory is not having Caid and Brunson
Speaker 1: have a one on one you and I talked about
Speaker 1: this after Game two. Caid's out playing him to this point,
Speaker 1: so like like Brunson's putting up giant numbers, but Kate
Speaker 1: has been controlling the flow of these games. So like,
Speaker 1: your pathway is that you have the aggregate talent, you
Speaker 1: have the other guys that you can go to, and
Speaker 1: so it is on the coaching staff to make sure
Speaker 1: that they get cat some of those face up opportunities,
Speaker 1: Like he's so much bigger and stronger than Tobias Harris,
Speaker 1: he should be able to do more damage.
Speaker 3: There fully agree, Lakers question, what are your thoughts on
Speaker 3: how on how the Lakers are managing Lebron's minutes? Do
Speaker 3: you think you're going to get diminishing returns with him
Speaker 3: at you know, he's playing forty minutes a game, he's
Speaker 3: having to fly around on defense. Are are we worried
Speaker 3: about the minutes logged for Lebron jams as the assuming
Speaker 3: the Lakers keep going.
Speaker 2: In the playoffs.
Speaker 1: No, it's the it's the playoffs. It's the Western Conference.
Speaker 1: You don't get to play Miami in the first round,
Speaker 1: like you don't get to play Orlando in the first round.
Speaker 1: You have to play these like there's literally seven championship
Speaker 1: contenders in the Western Conference. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I mean, if we don't include Houston, call it six
Speaker 1: like you, it's just really really difficult to pull back
Speaker 1: on Lebron's minutes when he's the defensive anchor, like he's
Speaker 1: the Draymond, he's the communicator, he's the guy that's putting
Speaker 1: everybody in their spots. He's the guy that's flying around.
Speaker 1: He's their best defensive rebounder. I don't really see universe
Speaker 1: where you can pinch Lebron's minutes down, And frankly like,
Speaker 1: I don't think Lebron wants to. I think Lebron wants
Speaker 1: to scale it up the way that he has to.
Speaker 1: And honestly, like for both of these teams, Golden State
Speaker 1: and the Lakers, like, you survive Houston, you survive Minnesota,
Speaker 1: You're probably not going to run into a more physical
Speaker 1: team at any other point in the postseason.
Speaker 2: The Grizzlies had a had tough end of their season.
Speaker 3: If they decide and or Jaw decides to move on
Speaker 3: and part ways, what would be a good destination for Jaw?
Speaker 1: That's a good question. Let's take a look at the
Speaker 1: standings here. What about Houston's could use him?
Speaker 2: I mean, personality wise, he fits I feel like.
Speaker 1: So okay, So he doesn't need a guard. Clevend doesn't
Speaker 1: need a guard, Boston doesn't need a guard. The Knicks
Speaker 1: don't need a guard. The Lakers don't need a guard.
Speaker 1: Uh Denver does a terrible fit, Indiana terrible fit. Clippers
Speaker 1: don't need a guard. Minnesota doesn't need a guard. Milwaukee
Speaker 1: is there like an insane job that they don't have
Speaker 1: the assets to pull that off. Orlando would be an
Speaker 1: interesting one if Orlando looked at it and they were like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this Frondzen Paula thing. It just they neither of them
Speaker 1: can shoot the ball well enough. But I mean John
Speaker 1: Morant has similar problems. What about like a Trey Young
Speaker 1: Atlanta type of conversation that would be an interesting one.
Speaker 1: Sacramento seems like the kind of team that would throw
Speaker 1: a bunch of assets for John Morant.
Speaker 3: I don't see Sacramento playing point guard point guard Spinde exactly.
Speaker 1: We already got Wembia guard with the Aaron Fox Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: What about Brooklyn.
Speaker 3: Brooklyn's fun I mean, Brooklyn's being going to be linked
Speaker 3: to everybody this summer. They're the honest reports are already swirling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Brooklyn. I think is is one that makes some
Speaker 1: sense all these all these other teams, I just don't see.
Speaker 1: I don't even see why they would make some sort
Speaker 1: of move for jobs. So like, if you're making a
Speaker 1: move for John, you got to feel like you're close
Speaker 1: enough that a move like that pushes you over the top.
Speaker 1: So like, if you're Brooklyn, you can look at it
Speaker 1: like we have a better rim protector in Nick Claxton. Sorry,
Speaker 1: Jared Jackson, you foul too much and you're a terrible rebounder,
Speaker 1: but you have rim protection with Nick Claxton. You've got
Speaker 1: spot up shooting. There's a lot of youthful exuberance and
Speaker 1: athleticism there Brooklyn. I think Brooklyn is the team that's
Speaker 1: standing out to me from the standings.
Speaker 3: What you think, Yeah, I like Brooklyn. I think that's
Speaker 3: a good one. I had this this thought and now
Speaker 3: I'm kind of a galaxy brain take that. I actually
Speaker 3: don't know if it works. But I was wondering if
Speaker 3: there's a world where there's a Phoenix, suns move in there,
Speaker 3: if there's a Brat because the sun they're making moves.
Speaker 3: I'm wondering if there's a KD trade or a Bradley
Speaker 3: Beal trade. But ultimately, I don't think you're trained for
Speaker 3: Bradley Beale. What do you have Desmond Bay? So probably
Speaker 3: doesn't quite work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, it looks bleak from emphisis from memphasis because
Speaker 1: it's like Jaws, the one guy. As I've talked so
Speaker 1: much this season. He's the one guy that has legitimate
Speaker 1: superstar upside, but he hasn't gotten any better in three
Speaker 1: four years. Desmond Bayin is like perfectly fine, Like I
Speaker 1: actually like Desmond Bain's game every time I watch him.
Speaker 1: I like he's a He's an intense competitor. He can
Speaker 1: he defends a lot better than people give him credit for.
Speaker 1: He is like a awesome off screen player, but he
Speaker 1: just has a certain limitation as things get a little tougher.
Speaker 1: And then Jared Jackson is like I've watched Jaron Jackson
Speaker 1: play games where I'm like, oh my god, no one
Speaker 1: can handle this guy. Like I remember the game in
Speaker 1: Boston earlier this year when he was just hitting hook
Speaker 1: after hook after hook, and it's like he is just
Speaker 1: eating these dudes a lot. But he just he's he
Speaker 1: in certain games, just doesn't see the floor well and
Speaker 1: can completely disappear. Offensively, He's super foul prone. He's nowhere
Speaker 1: near a good defensively, as his reputation will lead you
Speaker 1: to believe, there's just no And then like Jalen Wells
Speaker 1: is a good like Memphis gets a lot of good,
Speaker 1: useful young players like that, but he's not the three
Speaker 1: and D guy that Dylan Brooks was, or D and
Speaker 1: three guy that Dylan Brooks was, I should say, you know,
Speaker 1: Brandon Clark, Obviously, that injury forces you to lean on
Speaker 1: Santi al Dama a lot more. But like even when
Speaker 1: they were fully healthy this year, they were consistently bad
Speaker 1: against the top teams in the league. So it's like
Speaker 1: I think it's I think. I think you go into
Speaker 1: the summer if you're Memphis, and you quietly shop everybody,
Speaker 1: and you just start looking for the best possible deals
Speaker 1: and just kind of blow this thing up incrementally as
Speaker 1: the deals come around. There's gonna be a team out
Speaker 1: there that could use Esmon Bank.
Speaker 2: Oh great, I think Houston is.
Speaker 3: That's a fun one if they strike out, if they
Speaker 3: somehow don't get Kevin Durant, which it seems all signs
Speaker 3: are pointing to them getting Kevin Durant. But if they
Speaker 3: don't get Kevin Durant, I think taking a swing atch
Speaker 3: that would be awesome.
Speaker 1: He's better than Jalen Green. Jalen Green is like your textbook.
Speaker 1: If the pull up shut jump shots going, he's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: But if it's not going, then it's a complete adventure.
Speaker 1: John Moran brings some real like rim pressure playmaking ability
Speaker 1: that that Jalen just doesn't bring.
Speaker 3: And he know he has his deficiencies as a player too,
Speaker 3: but he is a legitimately special last possession ISO score.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Yeah, he is so good at that, dude.
Speaker 1: If they that's what makes like the Memphis thing so tantalizing,
Speaker 1: is if they could figure everything else out like that,
Speaker 1: that ability to get into a close game where Jaw
Speaker 1: is just gonna beat someone off the dribble to his
Speaker 1: left hand and then just pop up off the floor
Speaker 1: from eight feet and knock down that float or that
Speaker 1: nobody can guard like it. It's like that upside is there,
Speaker 1: just it. He hasn't become well rounded enough to be
Speaker 1: a good floor raiser the way that he used to be,
Speaker 1: and the team itself is not talented enough in terms
Speaker 1: of two way talent.
Speaker 3: All right, let's do one more question. We got a
Speaker 3: couple questions about this, Jason, what is your hair care?
Speaker 1: I have no idea because I this is my first
Speaker 1: time in my life having long hair. I I my
Speaker 1: wife gets me like a real basic like curl cream
Speaker 1: thing that I use that she's in charge of My
Speaker 1: wife also has hair of similar length, so we've been
Speaker 1: joking around that we have the same hair these days.
Speaker 1: But frankly, I'm still learning how to do it. Like
Speaker 1: I finally started using these headbands because it was getting
Speaker 1: out of control. I got sick and tired of of
Speaker 1: having it flop around while I was trying to do
Speaker 1: the show. And then the other thing that's been driving
Speaker 1: me crazy, Jackson, is I wear this like headband when
Speaker 1: I'm playing now, like a big headband, and like I
Speaker 1: like will come off of a screen and like elevate
Speaker 1: into a jump shot and a little piece of hair
Speaker 1: will come over and like hit me in the eye,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, all right, it's time to get a haircut.
Speaker 1: Like this is driving me crazy. It's not worth it
Speaker 1: if it's offering additional contests on the pull up jump shot.
Speaker 3: You know, That's how I know my hair when I
Speaker 3: That's how I know I need a haircut. Is when
Speaker 3: my haircut, I'm like, damn, I just got hit. I
Speaker 3: hit myself in the eye somehow.
Speaker 1: Yes exactly. I get like viscerally upset about it. But
Speaker 1: it's like you can't, like I can't. It's not long
Speaker 1: enough to like put in a ponytail, and I don't
Speaker 1: let it get that long, so like it's not one
Speaker 1: of those things where I can just strap it all back.
Speaker 1: I kind of just have to keep it under control.
Speaker 1: But good question. That's all we have for tonight, guys.
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Speaker 1: appreciate you for listening to and supporting OOPS tonight. They
Speaker 1: would actually be really helpful for us if you guys
Speaker 1: would take a second and leave a rating and a review.
Speaker 1: As always, I appreciate you guys supporting us, but if
Speaker 1: you could take a minute to do that, I really
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