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Speaker 2: You're at the volume. Happy Friday, everybody hopeful of you
Speaker 2: guys are having a great week. We got a quick
Speaker 2: show for you guys tonight. Obviously only one game as
Speaker 2: the first round is winding down. And there was one
Speaker 2: dynamic that I talked about as we left for Game
Speaker 2: five as Houston blew out the Golden State Warriors. That
Speaker 2: was Houston's pathway to make this a series, and it
Speaker 2: was Fred van Vliet now brin Shangoon and then being
Speaker 2: able to go blow for blow as score with the
Speaker 2: Warrior Stars. And they did it again tonight, fifty points
Speaker 2: from those two as the Rockets win one fifteen to
Speaker 2: one oh seven, extend this series to seven. Heading back
Speaker 2: to Houston and what has been just a wild series
Speaker 2: with all sorts of twists and turns and different vibes
Speaker 2: and different trash talk and different dynamics at play. We're
Speaker 2: gonna be breaking that game down from the perspective of
Speaker 2: both teams. After that, we're gonna take a couple questions
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Speaker 2: the postseason. So Fred van Vliet, as I mentioned, over
Speaker 2: the course of this season, a jump shot for Fred
Speaker 2: van Vliet was worth less than a point. It was
Speaker 2: worth zero point nine to nine points per possession, points
Speaker 2: per shot, and through the first three games of the
Speaker 2: series it was a lot of the same kind of
Speaker 2: thing I've seen from Fred a lot this season, which
Speaker 2: is he's kind of an important, you know, decision maker
Speaker 2: for the Rockets in the half court, just kind of
Speaker 2: getting the ball into the pocket to Shanggoon and just
Speaker 2: kind of keeping the ball moving from side to side.
Speaker 2: He's kind of like the guy who greases the wheels
Speaker 2: for them on offense at the guard spot and as
Speaker 2: you know, kind of in concert with what Alburn Shangoon
Speaker 2: does in the middle of the floor. In the last
Speaker 2: three games, though, Fred van Vliet is eighteen for twenty
Speaker 2: seven from three, which is just unbelievable six for nine
Speaker 2: again tonight, that's literally the difference in the game he goes.
Speaker 2: He goes three for nine, which is like in line
Speaker 2: with the season averages. This is a game Golden State wins.
Speaker 2: And you know, I talked after Game five that if
Speaker 2: there was one little like kind of playing with fire
Speaker 2: that Golden State did over the tail end of the
Speaker 2: series was that they lost control of Fred van Vliet,
Speaker 2: and specifically in Game four, he got a bunch of
Speaker 2: wide open looks, really really good looks. If you guys
Speaker 2: remember down the stretch of that game, that was when
Speaker 2: we saw a heavy dose because of foul trouble. We
Speaker 2: saw a heavy dose of like trace Jackson Davis and
Speaker 2: Quinton Post trying to guard Alburn Shangoon and the Rockets
Speaker 2: were setting up Fred van Vliet one pass away and
Speaker 2: he was, you know, posting up and drawing that second
Speaker 2: defender and pitching it out to Fred. Fred was getting
Speaker 2: clean looks that way. Fred was getting clean looks on
Speaker 2: offensive rebounds. Fred was getting clean looks on inverted ball
Speaker 2: screens with Alburn shangu And you know, the Warriors have
Speaker 2: kind of lost control of him, and they've lost control
Speaker 2: of Shangoon, and now it's in a situation where you know,
Speaker 2: ultimately what's gonna happen in Game seven is going to
Speaker 2: come down to the play of the stars. I you know,
Speaker 2: I try to be consistent as much as I can
Speaker 2: on this show, and you guys know that I'll be
Speaker 2: critical of stars first and foremost more than coaches, more
Speaker 2: than role players. And one of the main reasons why
Speaker 2: is because the stars are the guys with the superpowers.
Speaker 2: The coaches can only do so much to set you
Speaker 2: up for success before it ultimately becomes about the best
Speaker 2: guys on one team creating advantages versus the best guys
Speaker 2: on the other team creating advantages. I talked about it
Speaker 2: in the Pistons Knicks series about how every series or
Speaker 2: every game came down the stretch to a gap in
Speaker 2: decision making and shot making between Jalen Brunson and Kid Cunningham.
Speaker 2: I talked about how in the Lakers Timberwolve series, it's
Speaker 2: come down to whether or not Luka Doncic could beat
Speaker 2: his one on one defender effectively enough to get the
Speaker 2: defense in rotation so the Lakers could play advantage basketball.
Speaker 2: Because Lebron at age forty in Austin Reeves as a
Speaker 2: lesser athlete needs advantages to succeed. Looking at the Nuggets
Speaker 2: Clippers series, I've talked about how James Harden and him
Speaker 2: consistently getting downhill and breaking the defense, of breaking the
Speaker 2: defense down is what's necessary for the Clippers to succeed.
Speaker 2: These are what did I talk about in Game six
Speaker 2: when the Clippers won. I talked about Nikola Jokic in
Speaker 2: the third quarter not doing the job offensively. And this
Speaker 2: has been the case in this series with the Warriors,
Speaker 2: when Steph has gone unreal offensively as a shot maker,
Speaker 2: the Warriors have won thirty one points in Game one
Speaker 2: on nineteen shots, he gets the win, thirty six points
Speaker 2: in Game three, he gets the win. They managed to
Speaker 2: win a game in Game four with him not playing
Speaker 2: particularly well, getting a bunch of contributions down the roster.
Speaker 2: But in the games where Steph has struggled to generate
Speaker 2: great offense, the team has struggled to win. He goes
Speaker 2: six for fifteen for twenty points. In Game two, they lose.
Speaker 2: He goes six for thirteen or excuse me, four for
Speaker 2: twelve in Game five for thirteen points, and they lose. Tonight,
Speaker 2: when he was hitting shots through the first three quarters,
Speaker 2: they were attached. What happened in the fourth quarter when
Speaker 2: Steph went ice cold, the Rockets pulled away. And again,
Speaker 2: there are lots of other factors at play. The Warriors
Speaker 2: missed a lot of clean looks tonight. They struggled a
Speaker 2: ton on the offensive glass, They struggled with several basic
Speaker 2: pieces of action that they couldn't defend tonight. There are
Speaker 2: a lot of things that the Warrior struggled with. But ultimately,
Speaker 2: the one guy in these situations that has the ability
Speaker 2: to overcome the circumstances and carry his team to where
Speaker 2: he needs to go is the guy who is initiating
Speaker 2: offense for you, the guy that is starting everything. And
Speaker 2: in this game, while Steph did still generate a bunch
Speaker 2: of advantages, he wasn't able to match it with the
Speaker 2: shot make in that fourth quarter when his team needed
Speaker 2: to make a run. It was right there. It's a
Speaker 2: two point game, it was right there for the taking,
Speaker 2: and they immediately lost control to start that fourth quarter
Speaker 2: and they were never able to get back in control
Speaker 2: of it. And like, I don't think it's a coincidence
Speaker 2: that when Fred and Shangoon straight up out play their counterparts,
Speaker 2: that the Rockets look like the better team, and that's
Speaker 2: going to be I mean, if you ask me what's
Speaker 2: going to happen in Game seven, you can talk about
Speaker 2: Pods making shots, you can talk about Draymond being more
Speaker 2: impactful offensively, But I really think it's this simple. If
Speaker 2: you guys can do a better job guarding Fred and
Speaker 2: you can get Steph back to where he was offensively
Speaker 2: earlier in the series, you're going to win. It is
Speaker 2: that simple. In my opinion, I've always kind of focused
Speaker 2: more on the stars than other elements that are just
Speaker 2: that come with variability. Coach can only do so much.
Speaker 2: Role Players are by design inconsistent. That's why they're role players.
Speaker 2: If they were consistently great all those things, they'd make
Speaker 2: thirty million dollars. I've heard a lot of talk about
Speaker 2: the roster, the roster the Warriors. The Warriors roster was
Speaker 2: number one in defense after the All Star break. If
Speaker 2: those dudes were all also awesome offensive players, you'd have
Speaker 2: a four hundred million dollar payroll. Like, the construct of
Speaker 2: this team is, we have Draymond Green, we have all
Speaker 2: these ass kicking athletes that play super hard and play
Speaker 2: super smart. On defense, we get a ton of stops
Speaker 2: and Steph lifts us over the top on offense. That
Speaker 2: is the formula, and this series has absolutely swung on
Speaker 2: Steph's production starting to tail off in Fred van Vliet's
Speaker 2: starting to rise to the surface. So like we can talk,
Speaker 2: I've talked about this a lot last night when we
Speaker 2: were talking Nuggets Clippers. When you get to this point
Speaker 2: in the series, there's there's nothing really fancy about it,
Speaker 2: you know, like the there's no schematic adjustment, there's no
Speaker 2: thing that Steve Kerr can do. It's your guys versus
Speaker 2: their guys. At this point, no one's surprising anybody. You
Speaker 2: know what the shangun Fred van Vliet two man game
Speaker 2: is gonna look like. You know, you're gonna see some
Speaker 2: zone and guess what, Steph's gonna have to get those
Speaker 2: screens from the top man in the zone and he's
Speaker 2: gonna have to get downhill and make something happen. And
Speaker 2: we know he can do it because he's done it
Speaker 2: out of other points in this series. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of different elements tonight that went Houston's way. I thought
Speaker 2: Steven Adams was just absolutely unbelievable. He was plus fifteen
Speaker 2: and thirty one minutes. Did pretty well at the free
Speaker 2: throw line, which I think was important with the way
Speaker 2: that Steve Kerr was deliberately sending him there. He was
Speaker 2: nine for sixteen at the foul line, made enough of
Speaker 2: them to kind of stiff arm the Warriors when they
Speaker 2: were trying to use the hack of Adams strategy. The
Speaker 2: offensive rebounding from him was huge. Shanggun just brought enough
Speaker 2: of that tough shot making in the short to mid range.
Speaker 2: The defensive work that every Rockets player did on the perimeter,
Speaker 2: rushing the Warriors offensive players and forcing them into turnovers.
Speaker 2: You know, it's the Rockets are playing. They're playing Rockets basketball,
Speaker 2: and the only way you're going to flip this dynamic
Speaker 2: is if you can get them to start missing some
Speaker 2: shots through the strength of your defense. And then on
Speaker 2: the other end of the floor, if you can get
Speaker 2: more out of Steph, get more out of Jimmy than
Speaker 2: what you've been getting at this point in the series.
Speaker 2: Stephan Jimmy seven for twenty two from three tonight. A
Speaker 2: lot of shots were going up, not as many were
Speaker 2: going in as we know that they're capable of. I
Speaker 2: want to open it up to the floor here I
Speaker 2: want to I'm gonna bring Jackson on. We're gonna take
Speaker 2: some questions. We'll stay here for Jackson. We'll say here
Speaker 2: for about ten minutes before we head over to playback.
Speaker 2: But again, we're gonna take some questions here for a
Speaker 2: little bit, and then we'll move the show over to playback.
Speaker 3: Let's do it. Let's do it. First, question about Steven Adams.
Speaker 3: He's obviously presented a ton of problems for the Warriors.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's a coincidence that the Rockets have
Speaker 3: won two games when he's playing a lot more minutes.
Speaker 3: Do you think the Warriors counter should be to stay
Speaker 3: with the smaller lineup? You know what generally is more
Speaker 3: effective for them as a as a team, or play bigger.
Speaker 3: Let a big try to box to Adams while Draymond
Speaker 3: gets to guard Shanghu.
Speaker 2: It's a tough question. I actually think the answer to
Speaker 2: dealing with Steven Adams Moore has to do with the
Speaker 2: offensive end of the floor. By the way, as we
Speaker 2: look at the numbers, Quinton post in eighteen minutes tonight
Speaker 2: was minus nine, So having that second big on the
Speaker 2: floor wasn't exactly doing a ton of positive work in
Speaker 2: this specific case, I look at it like this. There
Speaker 2: was a stretch in the third quarter there where Steph
Speaker 2: was actually doing quite a bit of damage to Steven
Speaker 2: Adams in space, and that really is the key. If
Speaker 2: you guys remember, dating back to earlier in the series,
Speaker 2: one of the ways that Steph was having a lot
Speaker 2: of success was he was attacking up the floor with
Speaker 2: pace and getting on too Steven Adams and screening action
Speaker 2: and then immediately attacking and drawing that initial dribble penetration.
Speaker 2: When they have Steven Adams and Albern Shangun on the floor,
Speaker 2: they've got to get those guys in the blender and
Speaker 2: they got to make them cover ground on the perimeter
Speaker 2: more and more. I did think that there were several
Speaker 2: examples tonight, specifically Moses Moody and Brandon Pajemski, which is
Speaker 2: ironic because the two of them were kind of the
Speaker 2: more reliable younger players throughout this season. I thought both
Speaker 2: of them took a few too many shots tonight that
Speaker 2: were in that like eight nine seconds on the shot
Speaker 2: clock where we can at least work to try to
Speaker 2: get it back to Steph because at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, like those guys just aren't gonna hit enough
Speaker 2: of them for it to be that impactful. And I do,
Speaker 2: I do think there's something to be said about like Steph,
Speaker 2: putting a shot up is your best chance to generate
Speaker 2: points and you need to get it like empty the clip.
Speaker 2: Steph needs to be taken like a lot more shots
Speaker 2: than even than he even has been taking in situations
Speaker 2: like this when they're not going down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I agree. There's We've gotten a lot of
Speaker 3: questions about the rotation. Is Jonathan kaminga the guy? There's
Speaker 3: a lot of potentially misplaced Maybe Pat Spencer should get
Speaker 3: some run talk in the chat right now, I'm not
Speaker 3: sure I would quite go that far. It's obviously comes
Speaker 3: down to the stars. Like you're saying, if you were
Speaker 3: going to make any sort of rotation adjustments for the Warriors,
Speaker 3: is it more Moses Moody, more, Buddy Healed, more, Gary Payton,
Speaker 3: more quintin post trace Jackson Davis? What what would your
Speaker 3: sort of chess move be?
Speaker 2: I was surprised at how quickly Steve Kerr bailed on
Speaker 2: Buddy Heild. I know he was in some foul trouble,
Speaker 2: but like Buddy when he's been on the floor in
Speaker 2: this series as like a counterpart to Steph's spacing, has
Speaker 2: actually generated a lot of openings for Steph, mainly meaning
Speaker 2: like when Buddy's on the weak side, he's at least
Speaker 2: being accounted for, And like I just I thought he
Speaker 2: had just a little bit of too quick of a
Speaker 2: hook tonight, especially considering the fact that it wasn't like
Speaker 2: Brandon Pajemski was hitting everything he was taken and having
Speaker 2: some sort of profound defensive impact. Again, like, I understand
Speaker 2: the desire to start looking down the roster and being like,
Speaker 2: wh what if we get more out of this guy?
Speaker 2: What if we get more out of that guy? But
Speaker 2: this is just my personal philosophy, and I know that
Speaker 2: there are a lot of Warriors fans that disagree with me.
Speaker 2: I was arguing with a couple of Warriors fans before
Speaker 2: the show, like, there are Warriors fans that are like,
Speaker 2: Steph's doing his job, it's on everyone else. And I
Speaker 2: don't disagree that there are obviously some elements down the
Speaker 2: roster that need to perform better than they've been performing.
Speaker 2: But I am a firm believer that the superstar is
Speaker 2: the superpower and they're the ones that can overcome. And
Speaker 2: so yeah, you can lean a little bit more into
Speaker 2: Buddy Heeld than I would. I would lean into Buddy
Speaker 2: Heeld specifically for that counter spacing, having less congestion when
Speaker 2: Steph is looking to attack into the middle of the floor.
Speaker 2: One of the things that was missing Intonight's game is
Speaker 2: it was a lot of threes from Steph. Sixteen of
Speaker 2: his twenty three attempts from three. If you remember, in
Speaker 2: earlier games in the series, he was really aggressive in
Speaker 2: the short to mid range curling around action, taking stuff
Speaker 2: that was closer to the basket, and I think counter
Speaker 2: spacing was Steph playing Buddy alongside him more. I think
Speaker 2: would be helpful. While you're asking the next question, I'm
Speaker 2: actually going to go up to cleaning the glass and
Speaker 2: see what Buddies on off numbers are in this series,
Speaker 2: because I think they're pretty strong for sure.
Speaker 3: And I think that's one thing that I mean, the
Speaker 3: zone has obviously, the Rocket Zone has obviously thrown the
Speaker 3: Warriors offense off in a lot of ways, and I
Speaker 3: think the biggest, I mean, the reason why they deploy
Speaker 3: one of the reasons why they deployed is working it's
Speaker 3: keeping Steven Adams close to the basket, and it really
Speaker 3: makes it never mind get the ball even inside the paint,
Speaker 3: which they struggle to do. But Steph Curry is not
Speaker 3: getting any remotely easy looks the inside the arc when
Speaker 3: they're playing zone. It is very It has definitely been very,
Speaker 3: very effective at its goal, which is to muck it
Speaker 3: up and then keep the Warriors out of the paint.
Speaker 2: Another question, really quickly, just so that you guys have
Speaker 2: the numbers, Buddy Healed, has the best plus minus of
Speaker 2: any role player in the series. The Warriors are ten
Speaker 2: point two points better per one hundred possessions with Buddy
Speaker 2: on versus off. Moving Gary Payton into the starting lineup
Speaker 2: Gary Payton in this series, and you and Jackson and
Speaker 2: I are both big Bro, but he is the Warriors
Speaker 2: at thirteen point two points worst per one hundred possessions
Speaker 2: in the series. When he's on the floor, I just
Speaker 2: what I'm seeing with my eyes is the counterspacing like
Speaker 2: they're Steph and Buddy are consistently on opposite sides of
Speaker 2: the floor and pulling help defenders away from each other
Speaker 2: and making life easy for each other. I know he
Speaker 2: was in foul trouble tonight, but I did think that
Speaker 2: he was capable of providing more than he did.
Speaker 3: Next question, this is not necessarily directed at you because
Speaker 3: you are critical of stuff today, But why does it
Speaker 3: feel like Steph gets less criticism than other stars?
Speaker 2: I I think I think all of this really comes
Speaker 2: down to stand behavior. Like I like, I try to
Speaker 2: be consistent. I openly came on the show after the
Speaker 2: Lakers game. It was like Lebron was shitty on the
Speaker 2: defensive glass tonight and it was a huge part of
Speaker 2: why they lost the game. Like, I am a big
Speaker 2: Lebron fan, but like, I believe in trying to be
Speaker 2: consistent with that kind of stuff. I also know that
Speaker 2: when I'm dealing with the general public, like every Steph
Speaker 2: fan is gonna say he's never done anything wrong, He's
Speaker 2: the goat, you know, you know, like, and then every
Speaker 2: Lebron fan is gonna be like, why are we never
Speaker 2: critical of Steph? And it's like most of the people
Speaker 2: that I watched that cover the league do a pretty
Speaker 2: good job of trying to be honest as and fair
Speaker 2: as best as they can. And so I think, like
Speaker 2: I think, honestly, it's it's just about like the echo
Speaker 2: chambers online, Like, yeah, if you if you go online
Speaker 2: and you are scrolling through Twitter and you're watching a
Speaker 2: bunch of Warriors fans, they're probably not gonna be blaming
Speaker 2: Steph for what happened tonight. And for the record, I
Speaker 2: don't think Steph's at fault for what's happening tonight or
Speaker 2: what's happening in this series. It's I always, it's it's
Speaker 2: this simple to me. He's the one guy who can
Speaker 2: save them. He's the one guy who can save them. Jackson.
Speaker 2: Who was the one guy who could have saved the
Speaker 2: Lakers in the first round.
Speaker 3: I mean it probably would have been Luka Doncic.
Speaker 2: It was Luca. Luca was the one guy who was
Speaker 2: capable of saving them by being so good on an
Speaker 2: island one on one that everything else trickled down from that.
Speaker 2: Like that that I'm a big believer in. Like looking
Speaker 2: at Moses Moody and being like, why can't you do more?
Speaker 2: Is like you're you're asking You're asking someone who's not
Speaker 2: capable of it.
Speaker 3: It's like you're playing like meme basketball, like why can't
Speaker 3: this other guy do it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Exactly, and like and and that's the thing it's we're not. Yeah,
Speaker 2: when we're discussing Steph with respect to Damian Lillard, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna start saying stuff like Steph's a way better defender,
Speaker 2: he's way better off ball, he's way better at this this,
Speaker 2: this net. But when I'm comparing Steph to Shay Gilders,
Speaker 2: Alexander and Nikola Jokic and the guys at the top
Speaker 2: of the league, like they Steph to me was playing
Speaker 2: at a top five level coming into this series. That
Speaker 2: was the level he was at. I thought he was
Speaker 2: better than Luka Dancic coming into this playoff run, and
Speaker 2: like he is again the one guy who can save them.
Speaker 2: And it really is that simple to me, really quickly
Speaker 2: before you ask the next question. Thirty four possessions of
Speaker 2: zone for Houston tonight zero point eight two four points
Speaker 2: per possession. I'm pulling. I thought it was particularly bad
Speaker 2: in the Yeah, it was all in the fourth quarter
Speaker 2: where they fell apart. In the first three quarters, in
Speaker 2: sixteen possessions, the Warriors got one point three eight Jesus
Speaker 2: point points per possession against zone in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: In the fourth quarter against zone eighteen possessions, only six
Speaker 2: points so yeah, when we head over to playback here
Speaker 2: in a little bit, guys, we will all we will
Speaker 2: watch all eighteen of those possessions and we'll see if
Speaker 2: there's something obvious that they can get away from. But yeah,
Speaker 2: the zone definitely picked them to part picked them to pieces.
Speaker 2: In that fourth quarter. I thought Steph was obviously fatigued too.
Speaker 2: Like I thought Steph got some good looks. I thought
Speaker 2: Steph got three or four very makeable Steph Curry shots
Speaker 2: in that fourth quarter that he just didn't make. And
Speaker 2: I think, like I think there's a wear and tear factor.
Speaker 2: I think there's, you know, some of the reality of
Speaker 2: the variants that comes with really difficult shot making. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean that's some crazy numbers coming out of the
Speaker 2: zone defense there.
Speaker 3: That is crazy. Let's see one more question and then
Speaker 3: we'll head over to playback. You talked a lot about
Speaker 3: the formula for the Warriors in game seven. Is one
Speaker 3: thing on each end? Can they defend the Fred van
Speaker 3: Vliet Shanhun two men action better, dramatically better on the
Speaker 3: defensive end, and Ken Steph Curry, you know, lift them
Speaker 3: up with shot making the other on the offensive end.
Speaker 3: If you were watching the Warriors, and you had to
Speaker 3: pick one of those two things that're going into game seven.
Speaker 3: You were like, they're doing this, check it off, they
Speaker 3: are doing one of those two things when you pick
Speaker 3: what would give them the better chance to win being
Speaker 3: much much better defensively against that two man game or
Speaker 3: Steph Curry. I'm not gonna say Steph Curry going godmude,
Speaker 3: because that's the obvious. You know, if he gets fifty,
Speaker 3: they're gonna win. But if he is a better shot
Speaker 3: maker than he was tonight, I.
Speaker 2: Think I think the controllable is defense. I think there's
Speaker 2: only so much you can cross your fingers in hope
Speaker 2: in terms of Steph's shot making, like and if he's
Speaker 2: if it's there, they're gonna win. But this is the thing,
Speaker 2: like they they won, and like there is a way
Speaker 2: to win on Sunday in Game seven without Steph Curry
Speaker 2: having to score thirty points, and it's you get Shangun
Speaker 2: and Fred van Vliet under control. I think there's a
Speaker 2: certain amount of like those. There's certain guys that you
Speaker 2: don't want shooting, and there are certain guys that you're
Speaker 2: more comfortable with shooting, like Jabari Smith, Junior gott To
Speaker 2: chase him off the line, Dylan Brooks over three, A
Speaker 2: Men Thompson over one from three, Alprin Shangun over two
Speaker 2: from three, Jalen Green one for six from three, Like
Speaker 2: they they need to be pinching and making sure that
Speaker 2: specifically Fred is not getting looks, specifically Jabbari Smith is
Speaker 2: not getting looks the other guys who cares, Like Tar
Speaker 2: Easton made two threes tonight. If Tar Easton gets a
Speaker 2: bunch of open looks in game seven, I don't think
Speaker 2: they're going to go in at a super high clay,
Speaker 2: but like they need to do a better job of
Speaker 2: shrinking the floor. I would switch. That was I would
Speaker 2: switch without switching, without conceding switches. What that means is
Speaker 2: like like, try to do what you did on the
Speaker 2: final possession of game four, bust through the switch as
Speaker 2: best you can, but ultimately don't give Fred van Vliet
Speaker 2: clean looks that come out of him slipping out of
Speaker 2: action because you put two on the ball. And I mean,
Speaker 2: there is something to be said about leaning into size,
Speaker 2: Like you know, I'm not even necessarily talking about Quentin
Speaker 2: Post necessarily, but just playing your bigger, better athletes as
Speaker 2: much as possible in the game for the purpose of
Speaker 2: trying to get more stops and get out in transition.
Speaker 2: Because transition is another way that can get going. I
Speaker 2: would lean into it in different ways like I think
Speaker 2: they're I think with the starting group, I still really
Speaker 2: like having Buddy Healed out there next to step, but
Speaker 2: I think you need to have lineups set, especially when
Speaker 2: Steven Adams is on the floor, where you're built more
Speaker 2: around the athleticism piece and try to get out and
Speaker 2: transition more. All right, guys, So, as we mentioned, there's
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