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N everyone will 40 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: cover in that Laker Celtics game and hit a bunch 41 00:01:58,480 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: of other games in that show as well. You got 42 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: the Joe before you started to subscribe to the Hoops 43 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: to that YouTube channel. So you don't miss any more 44 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: of our videos. Follow me on Twitter at undercore jcnlts. 45 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 1: You guys, don't miss showing out'spin. Don't forget about a 46 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 1: podcast feed wherever you get your podcast und Hoops Tonight. 47 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: It's also super helpful if you leave a rating and 48 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 1: interview on that front, and the last at least keep 49 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 1: dropping mailbag questions in the YouTube comments so that we 50 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: can get it to him on our Fridays throughout the 51 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: remainder of the season. So this was a really interesting 52 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 1: game to me because it was the first serious team 53 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 1: to really punch the Lakers in the mouth. The Charlotte 54 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 1: and Utah games are hilarious. It's actually crazy if you 55 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: look back at the Lakers since January fifteenth, they've beat 56 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: the good teams every single time. It's been Charlotte, it's 57 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: been Utah, it's been Philly, it's been these like random 58 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,080 Speaker 1: games that they've toasted off against some really limited teams. 59 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: They've been locked in against the good teams and basically 60 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: undefeated for a long time, and this was the first 61 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 1: team that since the Luka Doncics deal. When all these 62 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:58,959 Speaker 1: dudes are on the floor and they're out there and 63 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 1: they're competing, that actually presented a bunch of real problems 64 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: for them, and I think there's a lot that can 65 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 1: be learned from that as we dig a little bit 66 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: further into this one. A bunch of things went against 67 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:11,639 Speaker 1: him early. The defensive game plan JJ Redick had for 68 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson really backfired, at least with respect to Brunston. 69 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: We're going to talk about it because it gets a 70 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: little bit more complicated at the end of the game 71 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: when no one else can create a shot except for Brunson. 72 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: That's where it can become problematic. But one of the 73 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: things that JJ was doing in this game was he 74 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: was in ball screens that in Bald Jackson's man he 75 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:32,959 Speaker 1: was icing, meaning he was having the on ball defender 76 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 1: guarding Jalen Brunston funnel him towards the sideline. Then he 77 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: would have Jackson basically just sit on the opposite side 78 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:42,119 Speaker 1: of the paint, or on the strong side of the paint, 79 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: I should say, waiting for Brunston to drive into him, 80 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: and then anytime Brunston wanted to iso anybody, that guy 81 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: was opening up his stance effectively funneling towards the sideline anyway, 82 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: and Jackson Hayes was zoning up like strong side zoning 83 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: of like just sitting in help waiting for and send 84 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: to drive into him. One of the things that Brunson 85 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: was doing really well in this game was he was like, Okay, 86 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: you're gonna gift me a drive. It's just gonna be 87 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: towards the sideline. Okay, fine, I'm just going to repetitively 88 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 1: attack from the left slot so that I'm going to 89 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: my left hand and you're allowing me to just get 90 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: downhill without even having to make a move. And he 91 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: would just like put a tiny hesitation like peek at 92 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: the rim for a second and then fire downhill. And 93 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: he was getting floaters, he was getting to the rim. 94 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: He was drawing defenders out of position and drawing fouls. 95 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:34,840 Speaker 1: Just a brilliant foul drifting game from Jala Brunson. When 96 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: they got into ot there that was like the only 97 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,159 Speaker 1: offense for the Knicks was Jalen Brunson throw his body 98 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: into somebody and get to the foul line, and it 99 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: worked over and over again. There were times where he 100 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: would draw super hard help and it'd be easy swing 101 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: passes to the opposite side for o j Nnobi, who 102 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,479 Speaker 1: consistently has been torching teams for loading up the strong side. 103 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:57,599 Speaker 1: It's kind of interesting to see every team kind of 104 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 1: has this guy right. It's like the weak side score forward, 105 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,159 Speaker 1: the guy that is catching the ball on that skip 106 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: pass and is getting a lot of advantages, and og 107 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,599 Speaker 1: has just been feasting on that. They I thought that 108 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: og on Nobi also just did an unbelievable job on 109 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 1: Luka Doncic. He has like a size and strength advantage 110 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: that a lot of perimeter defenders lack. It's like a 111 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 1: lot of the top tier perimeter defenders you've seen in 112 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 1: the league, the you know, the Herb Jones types, the 113 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: Jaden McDaniels types, the Dyson Daniels types. Luca just throws 114 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,600 Speaker 1: those guys around like rag dolls. Who are the guys 115 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,719 Speaker 1: that he struggles with. It's the og Nnobe types, It's 116 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: the Leu Dort types. It's the really big and strong 117 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:43,039 Speaker 1: players that can absorb contact from him. Andrew Wiggins famously 118 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: did a really good job on him in the Western 119 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 1: Conference Finals series in twenty twenty two, right, And it's 120 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 1: because he's a bigger, stronger type of athlete. One of 121 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: the things that Og and Obi was doing a great 122 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: job of all game until overtime, and we'll get to 123 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 1: that in a minute, was he was avoiding switches. So 124 00:05:58,000 --> 00:05:59,840 Speaker 1: one of the things that Luca will do is he's 125 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: going to try to bring a defender that he likes 126 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 1: into the action as a favorable perimeter matchup, and he's 127 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: going to then try to get that guy into a 128 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: ball scream in this case, trying to attack cat Og 129 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 1: all night long. Just it's such a great job of 130 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 1: refusing to allow those switches and just getting back to Luca. 131 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: And as he was getting back to Luca, he had 132 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 1: no choice but to try to attack and pick and 133 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: roll against Cat with Og and Obi applying that back pressure, 134 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 1: and like he just was staying attached, attacking the pocket 135 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:32,840 Speaker 1: from behind, attacking the basketball. They forced a bunch of turnovers. 136 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: I want to give Kat some credit here too, because 137 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 1: anytime we talk about ball screen coverages, it's a bracket. Right. 138 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 1: There's two ends to it. There's the guy chasing over 139 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: the top, and there's the guy that's coming up to 140 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 1: the level. And Og and Kat just had Luca playing 141 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: in a crowd all night, and he was like struggling 142 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:50,839 Speaker 1: to find some of those better pick and roll reads. 143 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 1: Like one of the things that Luca does a great 144 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: job of is he'll get into a crowd, which is 145 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: normally a bad thing for any offensive player. We call 146 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 1: it over penetration. Right, if you drive too far into 147 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: the paint and you get surrounded by bodies, it doesn't 148 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 1: matter how much help you draw if you can't get 149 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 1: the damn ball out. Well, one of the things that 150 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: Luca's best at compared to most perimeter guys is like 151 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: he'll get the ball out from those situations. He'll be 152 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: in a crowd, underneath the basket or deep in the paint, 153 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: and he just finds a way to get the basketball 154 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: out to an advantage, right. And the Knicks just swarmed 155 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: him tonight and just did a really good job of 156 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: preventing some of those kickout passes. And there for what 157 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 1: two and a half quarters, they just kept the Lakers 158 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: at arms distance as Brunston just repeatedly torched their defensive 159 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 1: game plan. As Og and Obi and Kat just did 160 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 1: a great job on Luca. Like the Lakers in general, 161 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: I thought were just getting out hustled. I thought the 162 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 1: Knicks were the first team to really punch him in 163 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: the mouth physically. Josh Hart did a bunch of damage. 164 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: Mitchell Robinson did a bunch of damage. Austin Reeves looked 165 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 1: immediately like he was way out of rhythm and looked 166 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: like he was like just didn't have a step, like 167 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 1: that peak step that you expect from Austin, missing some 168 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 1: of his finishes around the rim, leaving a lot of 169 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: jumpers short. Shout out to Austin. He had a huge three. 170 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 1: I think it was in ot if I remember correctly, 171 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 1: as the Knicks kind of kind of held the Lakers 172 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 1: at arms length for the first two and a half quarters. 173 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 1: Brunson's torch and the game plan, OJ Andnobi scoring on 174 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: skip pass. There's Austin's having a rough game, Lebron's leaving 175 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: jumpers short. I thought Lebron early looked like you're starting 176 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: to wear some of that fatigue from the defensive job 177 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: that he's had to carry over the course of the 178 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: last few weeks and doesn't look good right. And a 179 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: first example of some real adversity for the Lakers to 180 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: deal with, but they slowly managed to work their way 181 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: into the game. The first thing that stood out to 182 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 1: me was taking away those baked in driving lanes to Brunson. Again, like, 183 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with offering help. You want to offer 184 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 1: help when you're dealing with mismatches. But like, if you 185 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: square up on a defender more, and by the way, 186 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: you still shade aside. You still want to shade to 187 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: the sideline because you want to have plan a plan 188 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: in place for how to deal with dribble penetration. But 189 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: at the very least, if you square up the guy 190 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: a little bit more, he'll have to make a move, 191 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: as opposed to just going right down hill into the 192 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 1: teeth of your defense where he's breaking you down over 193 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,719 Speaker 1: and over and over again. And so I thought, specifically, 194 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 1: Luca was the guy that really did a good job 195 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 1: on Brunson in that stretch. Squaring him up and actually 196 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 1: forcing him to make a few moves gave Vincent to 197 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 1: some much better reps. They started to get some stops. 198 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: One of the upsides to JJ Redick's game plan was 199 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: they did an amazing job double teaming Karl Anthony Towns 200 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:31,319 Speaker 1: and forcing the ball out of his hands, and in 201 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: general they did a great job on McHale bridges and 202 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: so as a result, as Bunsen started to cool off 203 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:39,599 Speaker 1: just a little bit there in that tail end of 204 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 1: the third heading into the fourth quarter, there wasn't really 205 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: anywhere else for the Knicks to go, and their offense 206 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 1: grinded to a complete halt. They were at like seventy 207 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 1: five points early in the third quarter and they what, 208 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 1: they didn't even get to one hundred by the end 209 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: of regulation, and so the onslaught just keeps coming. Lucas 210 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 1: starts to finally make some reads in ball screens. One 211 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 1: of the things they did to help Luca he gets 212 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 1: some separation from Ojan Andobi as they started running more 213 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 1: three man action, so they had another guy involved in 214 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 1: the screen, whether it's a double drag effectively a guard 215 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:12,320 Speaker 1: screen before the big man sets the screen. They ran 216 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: a lot of stack in this game to try that's 217 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: where you have a guy backscreen for the role man 218 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,319 Speaker 1: in pick and roll. They're doing that to try to 219 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 1: get Brunson into the action. They did a little bit 220 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 1: more of that to get Luca more separation from Ojan, Andobi. 221 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: Then he was able to finally make some of his 222 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: classic pick and roll reads. Gets a lob to Jackson 223 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:31,839 Speaker 1: Hayes going down the lane, a skip to the left 224 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: corner to gave Vincent, a skip to the left corner 225 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: to Lebron James. Suddenly some of those like traditional what 226 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: you expect Luka Doncics type of pick and roll sequences 227 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: start to take shape. Lebron starts to get going. His 228 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 1: shot making was huge there down the stretch of the game. 229 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:47,439 Speaker 1: I've got a huge play in the game too, is 230 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: when he got that rebound and pushed actually Luca got 231 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:53,719 Speaker 1: the rebound, pushed it to Lebron, kicks it up the 232 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: floor to Gabe Vincent in the right corner and transition 233 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: he knocks down the three. They go ninety nine to 234 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,839 Speaker 1: ninety six. And then on the last possession there in 235 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,319 Speaker 1: the final minute. Again, as I talked about, one of 236 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 1: the big things that I thought helped the Lakers game 237 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: control of Brunson briefly was squaring him up and Gabe 238 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: opens up the drive on the left side with Jackson, 239 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 1: So Jackson's there strong side, zoning all the way over 240 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: on the right block, and Gabe just has his body 241 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 1: opened up for Brunson to drive, and so what does 242 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 1: he do. He just does a quick driple move and 243 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: does that low gather move on Jackson. Hayes picks up 244 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 1: the foul and banks it in. So like they go 245 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 1: right back to the game plan thing that wasn't working, 246 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: that specific concept of funneling towards the sideline and strong 247 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 1: side zoning. They've been doing a lot of that over 248 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 1: the course of the last couple of weeks on some 249 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 1: of the better guards that they've been playing, and it's 250 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:48,679 Speaker 1: worked pretty well. Brunson was the first guy to like 251 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: really eviscerate that coverage, which I thought was interesting. But 252 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: when they get into overtime, one of the things that 253 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: stood out to me. Luka Doncic we talked about was 254 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: struggling to get separation from OJ and Anobi in switches. 255 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,680 Speaker 1: He kept having to deal with OG and really for 256 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: the rest of overtime he did a great job, but 257 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: for two straight possessions at the start of overtime, they 258 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: give up the switch and once in a transition cross match, 259 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 1: and all a transition cross match means is you didn't 260 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 1: get back in transition, and so everybody had to grab 261 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: the nearest man. Instead of grabbing their actual assignment, you 262 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: just gifted them an advantage. In the transition cross match, 263 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 1: he had Carl Town's on the right wing, Is stows 264 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 1: him into the middle of the floor and hits that 265 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: little turnaround over his right shoulder right and then on 266 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 1: the very next possession ball screen, the same type of 267 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 1: ballscreen og had been fighting through all night long. He 268 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: concedes the switch and Luca gets a cat kind of 269 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:48,680 Speaker 1: on his heels along the left wing. He hits that 270 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: big three. He puts him up five bruns and grifting 271 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 1: continues to score in that overtime period and keep the 272 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 1: game close. But a big, big adjustment from Tibbs there. 273 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 1: He blits his Luca on the blitz, hits Jackson Hayes. 274 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 1: Jackson Haes makes a really nice skip pass and pick 275 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:06,839 Speaker 1: and roll to Austin Reefs in the left corner, who 276 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: had struggled to make shots all night. Hits a big one, 277 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:11,559 Speaker 1: and Jalen Brunson, by the way, just kept coming down 278 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 1: the floor and kept getting to the foul line. He 279 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 1: got Lebron on his step through. He got Jackson on 280 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:19,200 Speaker 1: a play where he just kind of punched him in 281 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: the face. I was talking with Jackson, our producer, before 282 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:23,559 Speaker 1: the show, like officiating is going to be a big 283 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 1: story in this one. I want to talk about it 284 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 1: in a minute. I am so excited. We are less 285 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,440 Speaker 1: than a month away from going to the Sphere to 286 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 1: see Dead End Company. I'm actually seeing three shows in 287 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 1: a row. If you haven't seen him yet, even if 288 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 1: it's not the Dead the Spear is like an incredible 289 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:42,200 Speaker 1: concert venue experience. You guys gotta get over there and 290 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 1: check it out. 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So 318 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 1: for instant like if if if Brunson drives past Vando 319 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: and then rises up with a straight up and down 320 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: fifteen foot at the elbow and and Fando runs into him, 321 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 1: then yeah, he got the defender out of position. That 322 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: to me is foul drifting. That I'm okay with. Being 323 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: in the NBA when you're driving to the left and 324 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: a guy's like just like riding you, trying to get 325 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: back in front, and you just stop on a dime 326 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 1: and literally just throw your elbows into the guy's face 327 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: and shooting a jump shot like that, Like, go do 328 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: that in your pickup game. You're gonna end up in 329 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 1: a fistfight on the before you get another shot up. 330 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 1: Like it's not You're not that's it's not basketball. Like 331 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 1: that's the kind of thing that I'd like to see 332 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: cut out. And I think there's a lot of that 333 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 1: from from both teams tonight, with Luca and Austin being 334 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 1: two of the biggest culprits in the league. We'll talk 335 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 1: about that in a minute. But Brunson actually manages to 336 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 1: grift his way back into the game. It's a nice 337 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: transition foul call on Austin Reeves but lands on his 338 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: foot on the way down and ends up having to 339 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 1: leave the game, and just a simple hard drive from 340 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 1: Lebron James draws two drops it off to Jackson, Hayes 341 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 1: gets a foul, Knox down two free throws. They get 342 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: a big stop because it's harder to create a shot 343 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 1: when you don't have Jalen Brunson out there, and the 344 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: Lakers end up getting out of there with the win. 345 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: And I thought, honestly, it was just a really excellent 346 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: example of a resilient basketball team. You know, this is 347 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 1: a team that's been winning for a long time. This 348 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 1: is a team that is starting to take a very 349 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 1: comfortable position in the standings, like they're not going to 350 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 1: end up in the plan. There's not really that much 351 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 1: of an advantage in the two three four spot in 352 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: the standings. It would have been so easy for them 353 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 1: to just be like Brunson's got it tonight, Austin doesn't 354 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 1: have it, where the calls aren't going our way, whatever 355 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 1: it is, like, let's just pack it in. We don't 356 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 1: have it. I know they were like, screw this, We're 357 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 1: beating the Knicks tonight. And they got all the stops 358 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:06,359 Speaker 1: they needed to get, and I thought Luca and Lebron 359 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:08,119 Speaker 1: made as many big plays as they needed to gave. 360 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 1: Vincent hit all those huge threes that they needed. I 361 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 1: did think it was an indicator of how you can 362 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 1: expect this team to struggle against an elite playoff matchup. 363 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: An example that I would give would be like okay See. So, 364 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 1: for instance, like the odds of the Lakers facing the 365 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 1: Knick are low because the Knicks haven't performed well against 366 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 1: the top teams in the Eastern Conference, and so it's 367 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:32,879 Speaker 1: unlikely that they end up winning the Eastern Conference. But 368 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,159 Speaker 1: one of the things that they will run into is 369 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:37,640 Speaker 1: a guy like Lou Dort who can do a really 370 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:41,120 Speaker 1: good job on Luca and who can make him uncomfortable. 371 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 1: And they also are a team similar to what Og 372 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 1: and Kat did, that can really pressure the ball in 373 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:51,720 Speaker 1: like force deflections and difficult cross court passes and a 374 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,160 Speaker 1: lot of the stuff that the Knicks were causing problems 375 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: for tonight and getting out in transition. Like Charles Barkley 376 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:00,680 Speaker 1: and at halftime was talking about how the Knicks don't run, 377 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 1: and he's not wrong in terms of their frequency. They're 378 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: not a team that runs a lot, but they do 379 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:08,480 Speaker 1: run off of turnovers and they're actually one of the 380 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:11,160 Speaker 1: most efficient transition offenses in the NBA. And they got 381 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 1: out and they got easy dunks, they got easy threes 382 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: just running out on turnovers that they forced. And that's 383 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: what Okaysee does. And that's absolutely a type of issue 384 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 1: that you'll see the Lakers run into and look, you 385 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 1: can kind of see the dynamic, right, Like Lucas starts 386 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 1: to fatigue struggle with ball pressure, there's some turnovers, Austin 387 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: Reeves gets overwhelmed athletically, Lebron is forty, maybe he can't 388 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 1: leverage himself as much as he used to. Those are 389 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 1: the kinds of scenarios where I think we'll see these 390 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:42,360 Speaker 1: Lakers struggle is against these big, physical ball pressure teams 391 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:46,400 Speaker 1: that can really really wear down the Laker offensive guys 392 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:48,480 Speaker 1: at the point of attack, and then they're just bigger 393 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:50,679 Speaker 1: and more athletic. They can cause some problems. Right, So 394 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 1: I didn't think it was important to pay attention to 395 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 1: some of those things. And guards, these quick guards are 396 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 1: going to cause some problems. The Lakers do not have 397 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 1: a player on the team and Gabe Vincent who I 398 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: would consider to be a good guard defender, and so 399 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of game plans stuff. There's 400 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of like tightness and rotations. There's 401 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:12,879 Speaker 1: a lot of missed rotations on the backside tonight on 402 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 1: plays where Og and IOB got good looks, and so 403 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:17,239 Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of room for improvement here. 404 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 1: But that's the exciting thing. Like, this was a game 405 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: where I thought the Lakers played really poorly for large 406 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 1: portions of it. It was a game where they're game 407 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:28,360 Speaker 1: plan backfired. It was a game where this opposing superstar 408 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:31,359 Speaker 1: was having one of those special nights, and they pulled 409 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 1: it out and they got to win. And I don't 410 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: think there's any way to look at that other than 411 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: as a positive. And then last thing before we get 412 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 1: out of here today again, I'm not gonna go too 413 00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:40,919 Speaker 1: crazy tonight. We'll get back into our groove when we 414 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,159 Speaker 1: get back into to our home base, our home studio, 415 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:47,360 Speaker 1: where the cameras work and the streams stay smooth through 416 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 1: to the finish line. I am so against all of 417 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:56,120 Speaker 1: the bitching and moaning about the NBA. It drives me crazy. 418 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 1: I think we're in such a golden age of NBA 419 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 1: ten talent, and I wish people would just watch it 420 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 1: and enjoy it a little bit more than they do. 421 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 1: But if there's one thing that I've consistently said is 422 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:13,360 Speaker 1: broken in today's game that needs to change, it's officiating 423 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 1: and specifically the concept of grifting. The problem with grifting 424 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:24,400 Speaker 1: is it rewards non basketball plays, and when non basketball 425 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 1: plays start to get rewarded, competitors start to seek it 426 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:34,360 Speaker 1: as an advantage, especially competitors that don't have amazing athletic advantages. 427 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: It's usually the guys like Jalen Brunson. It's usually the 428 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 1: guys like Austin Reeves who are like, I'm going to 429 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:42,920 Speaker 1: find a way to get an extra five to six 430 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 1: points a game just by doing this JANKI shit, and 431 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 1: as long as it keeps working, they're going to keep 432 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:51,960 Speaker 1: doing it. And this is why I do actually blame 433 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 1: the officials, because when push comes to shove, if they 434 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:58,479 Speaker 1: don't blow the whistle, the guys will stop doing it. 435 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 1: And by the way, happens like every year in the postseason, 436 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 1: they kind of cut this shit out, and you see 437 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,600 Speaker 1: every team adjusts and they start to play more bullyball. 438 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: They start to they stop grifting and start trying to 439 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 1: initiate contact to get separation rather than initiating contact to 440 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 1: get to the foul line, and the game changes and 441 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 1: shifts in that way. And so like my thing is 442 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 1: like I would just like to see discretion given to 443 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:29,679 Speaker 1: the officials to decide whether or not something it's a 444 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:33,400 Speaker 1: basketball play, and if it's not a basketball play. Get 445 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: it out of the game by not rewarding it. Have 446 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,360 Speaker 1: these dudes like, for instance, if Austin Reeves drives right 447 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 1: into McHale Bridges' his chest and shoots the ball into 448 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 1: his face, he probably shouldn't get two free throws for it. 449 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 1: If Jalen Brunson drives on Jackson Hayes to the foul 450 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 1: line and Jackson is sliding with him and Jalen Brunson 451 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: just throws the ball in his arms into his face, 452 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,879 Speaker 1: that's not basketball. If you come off of a screen, 453 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 1: you pump fake and the dude jumps out of his shoes, 454 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:04,879 Speaker 1: by all means, jump and shoot your jump shot and 455 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 1: get two foul shots out of it. I just want 456 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 1: to see a little bit more emphasis on rewarding good basketball, 457 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 1: because if you don't reward good basketball, and you reward 458 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 1: bad or ugly basketball or fake basketball, then we're gonna 459 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 1: have these national television broadcasts where we have Austin Reeves, 460 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 1: Lukadancis and Jalen Brunson having a contest to see who 461 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 1: can get to the foul line first. And not only that, 462 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 1: the officials were so maddeningly inconsistent in this game that 463 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:33,360 Speaker 1: everyone's pissed off, Like the Lakers are pissed off Bronston's 464 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 1: grifting his way to line every single time down the floor. 465 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 1: The Knicks are pissed off because they're getting all these 466 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 1: loose ball foul calls and all these other janky ass 467 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 1: calls at the end of the game. And it's because 468 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 1: no one knows what a foul is. No one knows, 469 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 1: so no one knows how to play defense. Everyone's frustrated. 470 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 1: I don't the officials just completely lost control of that game. 471 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:52,919 Speaker 1: And I didn't think they did their jobs tonight. The 472 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:57,679 Speaker 1: job of the NBA officials is to facilitate NBA basketball 473 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:01,719 Speaker 1: games that look like NBA basketsketball. If they don't do that, 474 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,159 Speaker 1: they're not doing their jobs. And I thought they botched 475 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 1: that tonight and put a little bit of a black 476 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,160 Speaker 1: mark on an otherwise entertaining game. But yeah, we're gonna 477 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 1: get way deeper into all this stuff when I get 478 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 1: back in town again. We're gonna take tomorrow off from traveling, 479 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 1: but on Saturday night, we're gonna hit after Lakers Celtics, 480 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:18,679 Speaker 1: and I plan on hitting a few other games and 481 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: a few other teams in that show as well. Again, 482 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,440 Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys for supporting these and I'll see 483 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 1: you on Saturday night the volume What's Up guys. As always, 484 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,919 Speaker 1: I appreciate you for listening to and supporting OOPS tonight. 485 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,000 Speaker 1: They would actually be really helpful for us if you 486 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 1: guys would take a second and leave a rating and 487 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:39,919 Speaker 1: a review. 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