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Speaker 1: to Lakers Tonight, presented by Fan duel Here on the volume,

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Speaker 1: I am Jason Timp Happy Thursday, everybody. I hope all

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Speaker 1: of you are having a good start to your week.

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Speaker 1: I should say a good end to your week. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. I took some notes from the

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Speaker 1: game tonight, you know, talked about how Dwight had a

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Speaker 1: notes and I decided that they don't deserve it. They don't.

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Speaker 1: They don't deserve for me to dive into the weeds,

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Speaker 1: the basketball weeds of this team. When this team doesn't

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Speaker 1: care enough about their own fate and their own situation

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Speaker 1: to fight, and when they fight, when they do, they

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Speaker 1: but the basketball is are relevant if this team is

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Speaker 1: this team is gonna fight to get back within three

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Speaker 1: and then completely roll over in the third quarter, which

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Speaker 1: represents two entirely differ aren't personas and that mix doesn't

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Speaker 1: make any sense. You know, it's funny. I have this

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Speaker 1: longstanding theory with the way that I value at basketball teams.

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Speaker 1: I look at their defensive rating not just because of

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Speaker 1: as a general indicator of effort and more often, like

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Speaker 1: the Lakers, who were the number one defense in the

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Speaker 1: and more often than not, they were engaged and they cared,

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Speaker 1: and they were extremely difficult to score on. And it

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Speaker 1: So you have to find a way to recreate that

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Speaker 1: I was just talking about how frustrated I am with

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Speaker 1: I think it's a credit to Tyler for adapting. That

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get to him in a second. Desmond Bayane,

432
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Speaker 1: who's their backcourt partner there for jaw, he is a

433
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:43,680
Speaker 1: a really good shooter and he's a really good slasher,

434
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,200
Speaker 1: meaning if he's attacking a close out so someone chases

435
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 1: him off the line, he can rip through and he

436
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 1: can get to the room and he can finish. He's

437
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,280
Speaker 1: big and strong and athletic. What Desmond Bane is not

438
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,440
Speaker 1: is a score. And so one of the things you

439
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:58,680
Speaker 1: saw tonight before garbage time, he made I think four

440
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 1: shots and garbage time tonight. But you saw Desmond Bane

441
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 1: really struggle tonight because in the Clippers switching scheme, you

442
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 1: needed him to be able to create his own shot,

443
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 1: and that's not a strength of his Jaren Jackson Jr.

444
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,119
Speaker 1: Who I think I've always called him like a D LIGHTD.

445
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,360
Speaker 1: He's a very similar to a D as a defensive

446
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 1: player in terms of his versatility, but on the offensive end,

447
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,359
Speaker 1: he's actually a much better shooter than Anthony Davis is.

448
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,440
Speaker 1: But he can be such a bull in a china

449
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 1: shop going to the basket. He's very much a tunnel vision.

450
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: I'm putting my head down, I'm going through your chest,

451
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get to the basket. And that thing

452
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 1: just doesn't work against the best defenses unless you're an

453
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,879
Speaker 1: all world athlete. We're talking to Lebron's the jannice Is

454
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Speaker 1: of the world, and Jared Jackson Jr. Is very much

455
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 1: not that. So again, in a setting like this, he's

456
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:49,239
Speaker 1: less valuable because in a packed paint setting, in a

457
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 1: switching defense setting where you need him to isolate, it's

458
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 1: just not as good of an option. And so it

459
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 1: came down to jaw and Jos started the game one

460
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 1: for eight from three again, because what all these teams

461
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 1: are gonna do, especially when they get to the postseason,

462
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 1: is play way off of him and force him to

463
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: make shots. Is he ready to do that right now? No?

464
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 1: I don't think so, but I think he will be.

465
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,360
Speaker 1: My boss. Colin Cowhard had did a whole a bit

466
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: the other day talking about John Murray and comparing him

467
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 1: to Derrick Rose and Russell Westbrook and too John Wall,

468
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Speaker 1: and for the record, I totally see what he's getting at,

469
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Speaker 1: and there's a lot of truth to it that we

470
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:34,159
Speaker 1: have absolutely seen the super athletic point guard that's not

471
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,679
Speaker 1: a great shooter come through the league several times. And

472
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 1: he's also right that there there is no success story

473
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,360
Speaker 1: on that front. All of them have flailed flamed out

474
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 1: for various reasons. The biggest difference, though, I think, is

475
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 1: all of those players had a fatal flaw. Okay, John

476
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 1: Wall could not shoot, Derrick Rose could not shoot, Russell

477
00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 1: Westbrook complete spas John Murray. It isn't a great shooter yet,

478
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,679
Speaker 1: But if you look at his form, and if you

479
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: look at how well he shoots at the free throw line,

480
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: and you look at the stretches where he shoots, well,

481
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 1: he's going to be a good shooter. And he has

482
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 1: all of the other boxes checked. He's a freak athlete

483
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 1: that can get by anybody off the dribble, he can

484
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,360
Speaker 1: finish at the rim, but he has a floater package.

485
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 1: John Russell Westbrook has been in the league for over

486
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,680
Speaker 1: a decade, has never added a floater package to his game.

487
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,360
Speaker 1: It's been a massive thing that has held him back.

488
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 1: John Morant has that stuff. He has the midrange game,

489
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 1: he has the floater stuff. He's got a great feel

490
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 1: for the game as a passer, which will only improve

491
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: as he gets older. His form on his jump shot

492
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: looks great. If you looked at Derrick Rose when he

493
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: was young, it was broke. If you look at John

494
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 1: Wall when it was young. When he was young, it

495
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 1: was broke. John Wall still to this day shoots like

496
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,880
Speaker 1: a set shot, like he's Jason Kidd. So like John

497
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: Morant has a much much more you know, he has.

498
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: He has a foundation on his shot that's going to

499
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 1: work really well. So is it possible that he ends

500
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 1: up being the new one of those guys. Yeah, but

501
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: I don't think it's super likely because I think he's

502
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 1: clearly better than all of them, and so that will

503
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 1: be the the The bell Weather moving forward is if

504
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: jaw can add that shooting, which I believe he will.

505
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: He instantly becomes a way better player than any of

506
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: those guys ever were, and in a playoff setting that

507
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 1: that that will be the big indicator for him this year.

508
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 1: If they do end up going on a run, making

509
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 1: it to the Western Conference Finals, winning a championship, it'll

510
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 1: be because John makes shots. But yeah, if Jaw goes

511
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: one for eight, you know every other night in the postseason,

512
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 1: they might lose in the first round. That's how vulnerable

513
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 1: they are in a postseason setting because they don't have

514
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: that second shot creator. But again, this was I told

515
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: you guys earlier in the season. The Grizzlies were very

516
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: cocky and confident. They were talking a lot of trash

517
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: to people. This is the hard part. This is where

518
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: it gets hard. This is where you have to put

519
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: your money where your mouth is. It wasn't good enough

520
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: against the Celtics tonight. You're gonna have other opportunities, but

521
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 1: it's really gonna come down to John making shots, and

522
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to get something offensively out of Baine

523
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: and out of Jackson. All right, moving on to the

524
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: heat and the nets. So Kevin Durant returns tonight. I

525
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: I am always completely and utterly blown away by how

526
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 1: easily Kevin Durant can step back out onto a basketball court.

527
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: I had a buddy growing up who was so natural

528
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 1: as a score in basketball that he could go six

529
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 1: months without touching a basketball and walk into the gym

530
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 1: and shoot amazingly well. And then for me still to

531
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: this day, even though I literally trained like I'm a

532
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: professional athlete, I I can go on a four day

533
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: ski trip and come back and completely forgett how to

534
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: dribble because I'm very based on my rhythm I have.

535
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: I need lots of reps to get it going. And

536
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: it's so funny because I see a similar dynamic between

537
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: Lebron and Kevin Durant, like when Lebron takes time off,

538
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: when Lebron has an injury. When Lebron gets out of

539
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: basketball for a little bit and comes back, he looks

540
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 1: super sloppy, can't handle the ball, his shot goes to heck,

541
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 1: he struggles a lot seeing the floor. You see that

542
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 1: a lot in playoff series. Early in playoff series, especially

543
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: when he was in Cleveland, they'd get a sweep, they'd

544
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: win four games in a row, and then like they'd

545
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: have six days off and then he'd come back and

546
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: look like crap in the next in the next game

547
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 1: because he was just rusty. Kevin Durant is like my buddy,

548
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 1: He's just this incredible natural basketball player. I don't I'm not.

549
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: I want to be clear. He works his tail off.

550
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 1: This guy doesn't go six this guy doesn't go days

551
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: without touching a basketball. But it's also amazing to me

552
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: how he's always in rhythm, and it makes him such

553
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 1: a devastating weapon because you don't have to plan for

554
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: him in your offense. This is what made him so good.

555
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 1: In Golden State. You could play steph ball for six

556
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 1: minutes and k D could go without touching the ball

557
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: and just be running up and down the floor playing defense.

558
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: But then suddenly you could go to him in an

559
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: isolation possession and he'll score, Whereas if you did that

560
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: with just about any other scorer in the league, they

561
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: would miss on their first attempt and maybe their second

562
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: attempt because they have to regain their rhythm when they're

563
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: not involved in the offense. It's always been one of

564
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: the most impressive things to me about Kevin Durant. Another

565
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 1: thing that I thought was super interesting tonight, k D

566
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: obviously is getting up there in years, and one of

567
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: the things that he does to prevent himself from taking

568
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 1: bumps and bruises around the basket to protect his body,

569
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 1: he will drive two three to five feet from the

570
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: basket and shooter jump shot, which in retrospect is kind

571
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 1: of genius because what he's doing is he's saving himself

572
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 1: wear and tear. Instead of flying into a shot blocker,

573
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: taking a bunch of contact, trying to draw foul falling

574
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 1: to the ground, he just raises up for that five

575
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: foot or because that five footer for him might as

576
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: well be a layup. He's remarkably proficient at it. Just

577
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: little details in his game that I've loved. You know,

578
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: I thought Kevin Durant should have one m v P

579
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: this year if he didn't get hurt. We massively underrated,

580
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: underrated how his effort early in the season floated that

581
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: team when they were really struggling. And on the next

582
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: team that had Joe Harris hurt, that had Kyrie Irving

583
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: not able to play, James Harden out of shape and

584
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: actively looking at other situations, he just I think when

585
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 1: he got hurt, they were the one or the two

586
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: seats he just carried them to that point, and unfortunately

587
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: is he got hurt and it derailed him. This poor

588
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: guy has had an unbelievably poor set of injury luck

589
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: over the course of the last half decade, and I'm

590
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: hopeful that he'll get a chance to show us what

591
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: he's capable of, because I think he very much is

592
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: in the conversation for the best player in the league

593
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 1: this season with Kevin Durant on the floor. Coming into tonight,

594
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: they were plus one oh nine with Katie on the floor,

595
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: minus one sixty six with him off. That's how much

596
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 1: of a difference he's made for that completely talent void roster,

597
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: at least for what he was dealing with earlier in

598
00:32:58,320 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: the season. I actually do think they have a decent

599
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 1: amoun talent after the trade. You know, people don't understand

600
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: what he does and how much how hard he works

601
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 1: to do what he does, and I just hope that

602
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 1: people realize that, you know, the heat we're interesting in

603
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: a lot of ways to bam ade Bio is getting

604
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: a ton of attention right now. He's on a twelve

605
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 1: game stretch, I believe, where he's averaging twenty two and

606
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: eleven shooting he's doing. He's doing a lot of the

607
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 1: stuff that Anthony Davis does, you know, without the jump

608
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: shot obviously, although Anthony Davis can't shoot either. He's the

609
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: the cornerstone of their defense and everything that they do

610
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: he gives. His ability to set screens and roll to

611
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: the rim is very similar to what Anthony Davis can do.

612
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: The huge thing that he can do, though, is pass

613
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 1: out of the high post. And with how many guys

614
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: that Miami has that can cut and shoot off of

615
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: dribble handoffs and that are smart and can read defenses

616
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: and make simple like you know, curls and cuts and

617
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 1: reads and screens and things like that, he's a really

618
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: dynamic player to have with the ball in his hands

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00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: at the top of the key because of all the

620
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: things he can do there. The one thing that concerns

621
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: me with Bam, and this is the reason why I

622
00:33:58,040 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: don't believe in the Miami Heat the way that other

623
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: people do, is because it's it's because of something that

624
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: I saw in the finals. When you have Bamata Baio

625
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,399
Speaker 1: on the court and you're playing against a really good

626
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 1: defensive center, that defensive center can ignore Bam. Bam is

627
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,959
Speaker 1: basically not taking threes anymore. He's only shooting thirty seven

628
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: point four from ten to sixteen feet. He's only shooting

629
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: thirty four point seven percent from sixteen ft to the

630
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 1: three point line, So he's basically a nonshooting threat. And

631
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: in Game six of the Finals, which was one of

632
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: the best defensive performances I've ever seen from a basketball team,

633
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 1: the reason, the main reason why they were able to

634
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: make that work, in addition to all of the guards

635
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: doing their job, was Anthony Davis ignored Bam and just

636
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,800
Speaker 1: camped around the basket all game long and shut everything

637
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: down that Miami tried to do. That will continue to happen,

638
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 1: especially in specific matchups that team has to go through Janice,

639
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,240
Speaker 1: that team has to go through Joel and beat Joel

640
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: em Beat will ignore Bamata Bio and hang out around

641
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 1: the basket. Now is there downside to that? Yeah? Of course,

642
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,399
Speaker 1: Bam as a screener can help get guys open jump

643
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 1: shots and things along those lines. But teams like Philly

644
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: have so much length on the perimeter, that's gonna be

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Speaker 1: Tobias Harris chasing you over top. That's gonna be Tyrese

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Speaker 1: Maxi chasing you over the top. Those aren't gonna be

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Speaker 1: easy shots, and you're gonna be driving right into Joel

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Speaker 1: m beat who's one of the best defensive players in

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Speaker 1: the league. So the bam at a bio thing I

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Speaker 1: just don't think works right now for the championship level

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Speaker 1: some point in the future, if he becomes a shooter,

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Speaker 1: that he can alleviate some of that, but it's definitely

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Speaker 1: a concern of mine right now. And then lastly, ty

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Speaker 1: Tyler Harrow's uh. I think he's on five straight games

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Speaker 1: scoring over twenty points off the bench. He's having an

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Speaker 1: amazing season after having kind of a slump last year.

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Speaker 1: And the most fascinating thing to me about his game,

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Speaker 1: just for all of you young basketball players out there,

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Speaker 1: is how high he elevates on his jump shot. I

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Speaker 1: always say you have to have one of two things

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Speaker 1: a high release point. And if you're gonna do both,

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Speaker 1: it needs to be adjusted. So like if you're standing

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Speaker 1: still in the corner and you're shooting needs to be quick.

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Speaker 1: But if you're attacking off the dribble and you're shooting

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Speaker 1: Tyler Harrow's six ft seven is a freak athlete, and

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Speaker 1: he comes flying off these screens, or he runs down

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Speaker 1: the floor and transition and he elevates and his release

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Speaker 1: point is damn near above the rim, and so as

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Speaker 1: a result of that, he always gets super clean looks.

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Speaker 1: So if you can attach that to shooting proficiency, which

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Speaker 1: he absolutely has, he's a great three point shooter. It

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Speaker 1: becomes a devastating offensive weapon because there's not a whole

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Speaker 1: lot you can do when a six seven athlete is

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Speaker 1: flying off a screen and turning and rising and fire,

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Speaker 1: rising and firing at a release point higher than ten feet,

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Speaker 1: it's just really difficult to guard, and it gives them

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Speaker 1: an interesting weapon. Again, I don't believe in Miami this year.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Jimmy and Kyle Lowry can generate the

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Speaker 1: quality offense to beat the teams in the East that

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Speaker 1: have just way better offensive players, But they do have

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Speaker 1: some exciting pieces. Tyler Harrow is absolutely someone that I've

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Speaker 1: really enjoyed watching this year. Al Right, guys, that is

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Speaker 1: all I have for tonight. I apologize for the Lakers

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Speaker 1: providing us with very little interesting basketball to talk about.

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Speaker 1: On that front, we will be back for Saturday night

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Speaker 1: against Golden State. I would hope that at that point

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Speaker 1: Frank Vogel is gone. I mean, even if he is gone,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure anything is going to stop the Lakers

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Speaker 1: from rolling over and letting Golden State beat them by thirty.

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Speaker 1: But either way, I will be here right after the

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Speaker 1: final buzzer for the show like usual as always. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate your guys support, and I'll see you in a

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