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Speaker 1: number eleven, the beginning of a segment of this list
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Speaker 1: remainder of this list. All right, let's talk some basketball,
Speaker 1: all right, So this was by far the hardest section
Speaker 1: of this list for me to rank. Kawhi Leonard and
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid are very clearly at the bottom. Right, Like,
Speaker 1: we all know that Kawhi can outplay the top players
Speaker 1: in the league. We saw him do it against Jokichen
Speaker 1: in Game two, if I remember correctly, in that first
Speaker 1: round series, he's capable of reaching that level. We know
Speaker 1: Joelmbi when he's healthy, could very well be one of
Speaker 1: the top two or three players in the entire NBA, right,
Speaker 1: But they both obviously have this injury history that pushes
Speaker 1: them towards the bottom, and Kawi is obviously in better
Speaker 1: shape now as someone who was able to finish his
Speaker 1: last playoff run, so he got the nod for number thirteen.
Speaker 1: Joel was at number fourteen. That was pretty straightforward, right,
Speaker 1: But there is an incredibly minuscule gap between number twelve
Speaker 1: on this list and number five. For example, I'll just
Speaker 1: go ahead and spoil today's rankings. I have Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 1: at number twelve and Kevin Durant at number eleven. We'll
Speaker 1: obviously do deep dives into both of those players today.
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell was just the best player on the second
Speaker 1: best team in the league this year. He averaged thirty
Speaker 1: points per game on fifty seven percent true shooting in
Speaker 1: this year's playoff run. He made first team All NBA
Speaker 1: and he finished fifth and MVP voting. He had a
Speaker 1: forty eight point playoff game, Andy forty three point playoff
Speaker 1: game just in this last playoff front and there isn'take
Speaker 1: case for him to be above of anybody that I
Speaker 1: have ahead of him on this list. For me, at
Speaker 1: least personally, I think you could argue him to be higher.
Speaker 1: But for me, I couldn't find a case to move
Speaker 1: him up from twelve, top five in MVP voting, first
Speaker 1: Team All NBA, and I struggle to put him higher
Speaker 1: than twelve. That's the nature of this part of the list.
Speaker 1: And Kevin Durant is Kevin Durant. KD catches a ton
Speaker 1: of crap online and I disagree with most of it.
Speaker 1: I don't blame him for what went wrong in Phoenix.
Speaker 1: He was getting crap online for not leading his team
Speaker 1: in shot attempts since twenty eighteen. I don't view that
Speaker 1: as a negative for KD. Of you, that is a positive.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that today. I think he's
Speaker 1: going to massively improve Houston's ability to compete for a championship,
Speaker 1: and I think he firmly meets the criteria of this tier,
Speaker 1: which again this tier, the criteria is a player who
Speaker 1: on any given night can outplay the very best players
Speaker 1: in the world. They just struggle to consistently get to
Speaker 1: that level. Kdi very much is in that tier, and
Speaker 1: like I don't have him in my top ten. It's
Speaker 1: just a testament to how deep this league is. The
Speaker 1: top twelve is completely insane. I moved the names around
Speaker 1: a half dozen times. Multiple guys went up and down
Speaker 1: several spots in different versions of this list before I
Speaker 1: landed where I landed. The point is, we are very
Speaker 1: much splitting hairs at this point, and if you disagree
Speaker 1: with me and you go, Jason, I have KD at five, Jason,
Speaker 1: I have Donovan Mitchell at five. I know I'm going
Speaker 1: to argue against it, but I'm not. There's such a
Speaker 1: small gap there that I think it's at least defensible.
Speaker 1: The guys that I have above these guys at this
Speaker 1: point in the list, I just viewed having a more
Speaker 1: liable night tonight trade. So maybe an apex athlete who
Speaker 1: brings insane motor every night, or an offensive engine. You
Speaker 1: guys know how I feel about offensive engines. I don't
Speaker 1: think Durant or Mitchell kind of fall into that specific category.
Speaker 1: Guys who make offense easier for everyone on the roster
Speaker 1: every single night. Or a defensive monster, like a guy
Speaker 1: who's just an absolute pain in the ass athlete with
Speaker 1: super long arms that no one can deal with on
Speaker 1: the defensive end of the floor. That just sets a
Speaker 1: super high floor for everybody. Those are the kinds of
Speaker 1: guys that I ended up favoring over Donovan Mitchell and
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. But these gaps are incredibly close. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to emphasize that from five to twelve, I mean,
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Speaker 1: year in review for Donna, and he played in seventy
Speaker 1: one games. That was his healthiest season since twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: which was his second year in the league. He averaged
Speaker 1: twenty four points, five rebounds, and five assists, one point
Speaker 1: five stocks, forty four percent from the field, thirty seven
Speaker 1: percent from three to eighty two percent from the line
Speaker 1: fifty three percent, and effective field goal percentage that's just
Speaker 1: field goal percentage waited for threes in fifty eight percent
Speaker 1: in true shooting. Really stacked up the accolades this year.
Speaker 1: He finished his sixth consecutive All Star appearance, first Team
Speaker 1: All NBA in fifth, and MVP voting for me like
Speaker 1: a classic example of why box score watching is so silly, Donovan,
Speaker 1: his numbers were down across the board year over year.
Speaker 1: Points per game down, rebounds per game down. It's this
Speaker 1: per game down, field goal percentage down, block steals down,
Speaker 1: three point percentage down, free throw percentage down. Everything was
Speaker 1: down year over year, and he was flat out better
Speaker 1: this year than he was the previous year. Keep that
Speaker 1: in mind when we get to KD and we start
Speaker 1: talking about his field goal numbers, because it's the same
Speaker 1: kind of idea that I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: get hung up on now. To be clear, yes, box
Speaker 1: score production is an important manifestation of how you're producing
Speaker 1: for a basketball team, but it is not the only
Speaker 1: manifestation of how well a basketball player is playing. The
Speaker 1: evidence is in the play type data. Even though Donovan
Speaker 1: Mitchell's individual statistics weren't as impressive as the previous season,
Speaker 1: when Donovan did more with the basketball and when Donovan
Speaker 1: had you know, he's running a lot more pick and
Speaker 1: roll every game. He's just he was just more on
Speaker 1: the right. Even though his numbers came down, even though
Speaker 1: his individual statistics weren't as impressive, Donovan did things that
Speaker 1: helped the Cleveland Cavaliers as a team score more points
Speaker 1: just shot creation data. In twenty twenty four, Donovan ran
Speaker 1: one thousand and sixty two pick and rolls, ISOs and
Speaker 1: post ups including passes, got one thousand and eighty three points.
Speaker 1: That's one point zero two points per possession, which is
Speaker 1: decent FIR star guard, but it's nothing to write home about.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five, he ran one thousand, three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixteen pick and rolls, ISOs and post ups, obviously
Speaker 1: higher volume with him being healthier, but fourteen hundred and
Speaker 1: five points. That's one point zero seven points per possession.
Speaker 1: That's five points better per one hundred possessions than he
Speaker 1: was the previous year. That puts him into an elite
Speaker 1: tier as a high volume shot creator. The Cleveland Cavaliers
Speaker 1: functioned better as an offense with Donovan Mitchell this year
Speaker 1: than they did last year, even though his individual scoring
Speaker 1: volume in percentages went down. So the question is how
Speaker 1: how did Donovan Mitchell help the Calves this year compared
Speaker 1: to last year? And the short answer is he bought
Speaker 1: him to what Kenny Atkinson was trying to do with
Speaker 1: that Calves offense, getting them to play more fast paced,
Speaker 1: more in transition, more ball in player movement. It required
Speaker 1: quicker decision making, and most importantly, it required Donovan to
Speaker 1: give up the basketball more and to play more in
Speaker 1: the flow of the offense, and he did just that.
Speaker 1: Here's a simple stat to demonstrate how much Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 1: gave up the basketball last year premba dot COM's tracking
Speaker 1: data in twenty twenty four, Donovan Mitchell averaged six point
Speaker 1: three minutes of possession time per game. In twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: That dropped from six point three to four point nine.
Speaker 1: Another way to put it is, Donovan's time of possession
Speaker 1: dropped by twenty two point three per year over year.
Speaker 1: That's a significant a decrease there. And yet despite a
Speaker 1: twenty two point three percent decrease in his time of possession,
Speaker 1: his scoring volume only dropped by less than ten percent,
Speaker 1: a little over nine percent, from twenty six point six
Speaker 1: points per game to twenty four points per game. He
Speaker 1: basically refined his role to fit exactly what the team needed.
Speaker 1: He took a step back and allowed the finally healthy
Speaker 1: version of Darius Garland to do more of what Darius
Speaker 1: does best, which is initiate the offense with his drivele penetration,
Speaker 1: and that advantaged creation just greased the wheels in so
Speaker 1: many different ways for the Cavs as we know. And
Speaker 1: then in shorter bursts when the situation called for it,
Speaker 1: Donovan stepped in and was super aggressive. He actually shot
Speaker 1: the ball, or I should say, passed the ball less
Speaker 1: per touch last year than the year before, So he
Speaker 1: actually passed the ball less when he had it. But
Speaker 1: that was what the team needed. The team needed him
Speaker 1: to seed control of a large portion of the offense
Speaker 1: to Darius in a larger extent than he did in
Speaker 1: previous years, and for him to win, he had the
Speaker 1: ball do what Donovan Mitchell does best, score the damn basketball.
Speaker 1: The team needed him to be a score, and so
Speaker 1: he took back some of his touches and refined and
Speaker 1: simplified his approach to being more of a score. In short,
Speaker 1: he cut down on his touches but focused on what
Speaker 1: he does best and that led to a explosive scoring
Speaker 1: season for the Cavs offense. Donovan was lethally efficient in
Speaker 1: pick and roll this year. He's actually more efficient as
Speaker 1: a scorer in pick and roll this year than he
Speaker 1: was the year before, despite his shooting percentages being down
Speaker 1: across the board. Overall, he was one of only six
Speaker 1: players in the entire NBA last year to attempt at
Speaker 1: least five hundred shots in pick and roll and to
Speaker 1: get over a point per shot. He did this by
Speaker 1: shooting fifty percent on twos. Again, that's a big part
Speaker 1: of that shot making and pick and roll right fueled
Speaker 1: by a deadly floater. He shot fifty two percent on
Speaker 1: over one hundred and fifty floaters this year. Donovan was
Speaker 1: one of only eight players in the NBA to attempt
Speaker 1: at least one hundred and fifty floaters and make more
Speaker 1: than half of them. We're gonna talk about it more
Speaker 1: and when we get to here in just a second.
Speaker 1: But he had a really useful set of counter moves
Speaker 1: in the mid range, and he's always had these, but
Speaker 1: he's really refined it into a super efficient part of
Speaker 1: his game. We'll get to that in a second. Then
Speaker 1: he shot thirty six point four percent on pull up threes,
Speaker 1: and that's a very good number because of the efficiency
Speaker 1: boost that you get from that three point shot. That
Speaker 1: was one point zero nine points per pull up three
Speaker 1: in pick and roll. That's very good. Classic for Donovan
Speaker 1: Mitchell is a combination of what we've talked about with
Speaker 1: a lot of the athletic guards in the league. The
Speaker 1: combination of that downhill burst mixed with the pull up
Speaker 1: jumper that can get defenders either on their heels or
Speaker 1: he can easily pull up or up on their toes,
Speaker 1: or he can ease the league go past them. And
Speaker 1: again this is where the mid range counters come in.
Speaker 1: Donovan had this ridiculous over the top gather, I should
Speaker 1: say has. He's had it for years. This ridiculous over
Speaker 1: the top gather that he would pull over a defender
Speaker 1: that would step underneath him, and he'd step into a
Speaker 1: floater out of that, and then he was really nasty
Speaker 1: with that eurostep. Those little moves in the mid range
Speaker 1: allowed him to quickly get separation, almost like John Morant esque,
Speaker 1: with his ability to quickly get separation in that short range,
Speaker 1: that five to ten foot range where he could get
Speaker 1: to an easy shot that he could make over fifty
Speaker 1: percent from of the time, which removed some of that
Speaker 1: variants and gave him a reliable piece of shot making
Speaker 1: that gave him the ability to be one of only
Speaker 1: six players in the NBA a shot over fifty percent
Speaker 1: pick and roll on a massive volume with that or
Speaker 1: over a point per possession, I should say on that
Speaker 1: massive volume of over five hundred attempts in pick and roll.
Speaker 1: He also scored really efficiently off the ball. Donovan got
Speaker 1: one point one one points per possession and spot up
Speaker 1: situations fueled by him shooting a crazy forty seven percent
Speaker 1: on unguarded catch and shoot threes and then some really
Speaker 1: good close out attacking when guys would chase him off
Speaker 1: the line. The biggest boost for Donovan Mitchell on this list.
Speaker 1: The reason why he is higher than many of the
Speaker 1: guys who scored more points per game than him this
Speaker 1: year is the simple fact that Donovan is one of
Speaker 1: the best playoff risers in the NBA. Darius Garland, who
Speaker 1: did not make my list this year, he hits many
Speaker 1: of the similar markers that Donovan hits that we've talked
Speaker 1: about in this segment. Darius was excellent shooting in pick
Speaker 1: and roll, had an excellent floater. He shot like forty
Speaker 1: three percent unpull up threes in pick and roll. Darius,
Speaker 1: I would actually argue, in terms of just the regular season,
Speaker 1: is a better offensive engine than Donovan Mitchell because of
Speaker 1: his ability to consistently cut teams to pieces with his
Speaker 1: dribble penetration in pass effectively out of it. It really
Speaker 1: greased the wheels for this Caps team. Their offense was
Speaker 1: actually four points better per one hundre possessions this year
Speaker 1: when Darius was on versus off, but consistently every single year,
Speaker 1: whether it be because of health or him struggling in
Speaker 1: that environment, or a combination of both, Darius just kind
Speaker 1: of falls apart in the postseason relative to his regular
Speaker 1: season impact. Meanwhile, Donovan Mitchell is like straight up one
Speaker 1: of the very best playoff scorers of this era. Once
Speaker 1: again last year, thirty points per game in the postseason
Speaker 1: on fifty seven percent true shooting. For six consecutive playoff
Speaker 1: runs spanning forty seven games, Donovan Mitchell is good for
Speaker 1: thirty five and five on fifty nine percent truugh shooting
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. To put it very simply, he is
Speaker 1: one of the very best playoff scorers in the entire NBA,
Speaker 1: and that puts him in this special tier of players
Speaker 1: who is capable of out playing any top tier superstar
Speaker 1: on any given night, which is what put him in
Speaker 1: this grouping now, defense has always been a bit complicated
Speaker 1: for Donovan, But I actually think Donovan's made real strides
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years. He's ever been good
Speaker 1: on the ball. He competes there better than he used to.
Speaker 1: You guys remember how bad it was in Utah. Was
Speaker 1: just a disaster on the ball there. But nowadays he
Speaker 1: still struggles a little bit, even though he competes better
Speaker 1: because he can get too handsy. He commits a lot
Speaker 1: of fouls. He's just overly physical on the ball. As
Speaker 1: a defender, but he's made major strides over the last
Speaker 1: couple of years as an off ball defender. The main
Speaker 1: thing is is it's an excellent opportunity for him to
Speaker 1: weaponize that trait that he loves to be physically aggressive
Speaker 1: and go after the basketball well on the ball that
Speaker 1: can give up drill penetration too easily. Off the ball,
Speaker 1: it actually is useful for him digging down on driving
Speaker 1: lanes or digging down on cutters, and so Donovan has
Speaker 1: gotten really good at like digging down into the lane
Speaker 1: attacking the back basketball, but having the foot speed and
Speaker 1: the fundamentals in terms of his closeouts to get back
Speaker 1: out to the perimeter to a shooter, and that's made
Speaker 1: him a very good help and recover player. So as
Speaker 1: a result, like the Cavs defense was actually better this
Speaker 1: year with Donovan Mitchell on the ball versus off and
Speaker 1: it's given him the ability to meet that mandatory minimum
Speaker 1: which we always talk about, like in order to be
Speaker 1: one of these guys in this tier, you have to
Speaker 1: be able to at least fill a role on a
Speaker 1: team as a useful defender. You have to be able
Speaker 1: to do something that helps your team on that end
Speaker 1: of the floor, and Donovan has found that role off
Speaker 1: the ball. He can dig down into the lane, attack
Speaker 1: the basketball, and he can recover out to the perimeter
Speaker 1: with really quality closeouts for a star player at that position.
Speaker 1: You look at Darius Garland and we talked about it.
Speaker 1: Like Darius Garland, He's not a better score than Donovan Mitchell.
Speaker 1: I don't even think he's a better playoff offensive player
Speaker 1: overall than Donovan Mitchell. But in the regular season, Darius
Speaker 1: Garland is a better offensive engine than Donovan Mitchell. But
Speaker 1: even in that context, the Cavs defense was five points
Speaker 1: worse per one hundred possessions with Darius on versus off,
Speaker 1: and it undercut a lot of his success. It's a
Speaker 1: big part of why he didn't make this list this year.
Speaker 1: In addition to the playoff struggles that we talked about,
Speaker 1: Donovan has become a useful defender for a good defense.
Speaker 1: That was the mandatory minimum that he needed to reach
Speaker 1: as a small guard and he got there. So now,
Speaker 1: why isn't Donovan Mitchell higher on this list? Jason, He's
Speaker 1: fifth in MVP voting, he made First Team All NBA.
Speaker 1: Why is he all the way down at twelve? The
Speaker 1: big thing for Donovan is I just don't think he
Speaker 1: has enough of that like game management, flow of the
Speaker 1: game piece, that offensive engine piece that you need to
Speaker 1: compete with the elite offensive players that are above him
Speaker 1: on this list. So let's look at last year. In
Speaker 1: the playoffs, the injuries start to stack up. Darius Garland's
Speaker 1: got the bad toe. He's not moving as well as
Speaker 1: he used to, He's not cutting the defense up the
Speaker 1: way he used to. He's sitting out for entire games.
Speaker 1: A lot of their shooters go cold in large part
Speaker 1: because of that lack of advantage creation. And so Donovan
Speaker 1: Mitchell like kind of flashed a lot of the old
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell right, really taking control of the offense and
Speaker 1: more to a heliocentric manner in the excuse me. In
Speaker 1: the regular season, his usage rate was below thirty one percent.
Speaker 1: In the postseason it was over thirty seven percent. So
Speaker 1: he kind of like reverted back to that hyper aggressive
Speaker 1: on ball, heliocentric, kind of ball hoggy type of player, right.
Speaker 1: And for the record, I don't blame him for that.
Speaker 1: It was the right thing for him to do in
Speaker 1: that situation. Darius didn't have it. He needed to be
Speaker 1: more in control of things. I do not blame Donovan
Speaker 1: for that. It was the best chance that Cleveland had
Speaker 1: to survive their set of circumstances. But when Donovan goes
Speaker 1: that route, he this is a lot of the easy
Speaker 1: reads that are available to him, and it can be
Speaker 1: a lot of make or miss, feast or famine type
Speaker 1: of stuff, and it can lead to him not having
Speaker 1: the same level of offensive impact as the guys that
Speaker 1: are above him on this list. For example, in this
Speaker 1: postseason run, when Donovan Mitchell was on the floor, the
Speaker 1: Caves managed one hundred and seventeen points six points per
Speaker 1: one hundred possessions, which is fine, but it's well below
Speaker 1: what the Cavs are producing in the regular season, and
Speaker 1: it's well below what they did when Darius Garland was
Speaker 1: in control, especially in the regular season. Right. So, like,
Speaker 1: I just don't see Donovan as that overall offensive engine
Speaker 1: that you get from the offensive players that have above
Speaker 1: him on this list. I have a couple of guys
Speaker 1: on the list above him that are more defensive minded players,
Speaker 1: but are defensive weapons, I should say, But among the
Speaker 1: offensive players in this tier, Donovan's lack of that high
Speaker 1: level playmaking talent is what kept him kept him below.
Speaker 1: The next step for Donovan if he wants to move
Speaker 1: up this list and get into the top seven top eight,
Speaker 1: for me, is that game management piece becoming the type
Speaker 1: of guy who you can give control of the offense
Speaker 1: to and he's gonna average eight nine assists per game
Speaker 1: like the Damian Lillards of the world, right, because he
Speaker 1: weaponizes that downhill force to generate advantages early in possession.
Speaker 1: That greased the wheels for his offense. That's the next step.
Speaker 1: But for right now, I have Donovan as the twelfth
Speaker 1: best player in the NBA. Number eleven Kevin Durant. This
Speaker 1: was an impossible one for me. I'm just such a
Speaker 1: huge fan of Kevin Durant and his game, and I
Speaker 1: really do believe he's gonna be amazing for Houston this year.
Speaker 1: But again, every time I looked at a guy above him,
Speaker 1: I just personally couldn't unseat one of those guys. But again,
Speaker 1: if you argued KDE as high as five, I could
Speaker 1: at least respect the case there. Same goes for Donovan.
Speaker 1: Is this more again a testament to how talented the
Speaker 1: rest of the NBA is. Our top twelve is insane, right, now,
Speaker 1: as you guys will see as we continue to work
Speaker 1: through this list. Last season in review, for KD sixty
Speaker 1: two games played, he averaged twenty seven point six rebounds
Speaker 1: and four assists two stocks per game. Fifty three percent
Speaker 1: from the field, fifty seven percent on two is just
Speaker 1: outrageous from two. We're gonna talk more about that in
Speaker 1: a minute, because that's considering almost no rim attempts relative
Speaker 1: to his peers. Forty three percent from three, eighty four
Speaker 1: percent from the line for a sixty percent effective field
Speaker 1: goal percentage, and sixty four percent in true shooting. The
Speaker 1: shot making from KD is just completely outrageous. Like, just
Speaker 1: just listen to these numbers. KD was the best jump
Speaker 1: shooter in the entire NBA last year. He shot over
Speaker 1: fifty percent on all jump shots, even if you wait
Speaker 1: it for threes. He got one point two to one
Speaker 1: points per attempt. That ranked number one out of the
Speaker 1: fifty eight players to attempt at least five hundred jump shots.
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant best jump shooter in the NBA last year.
Speaker 1: End of story, forty eight percent off the catch, fifty
Speaker 1: one percent one unguarded, fifty two percent on off the
Speaker 1: dribble jump shots. He had a rough year and pull
Speaker 1: up three he didn't take very many. He took seventy three.
Speaker 1: All years shot just below thirty three percent. But Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant shot fifty six percent on pull up mid range
Speaker 1: jump shots. In short range when he got inside of
Speaker 1: seventeen feet he hit fifty eight percent. That's that's one
Speaker 1: of the most reliable shots in the NBA right now.
Speaker 1: It's encroaching on that Yokich territory of like mid sixties,
Speaker 1: high sixties, of like unbelievable reliability and immunity to variant.
Speaker 1: Kd's become so incredibly deadly on those short range jump shots.
Speaker 1: That shot making led to insanely efficient isolation numbers. KD
Speaker 1: was the best ISO player in the NBA last year
Speaker 1: by a mile. There were twenty two players that shot
Speaker 1: out of ISO at least two hundred times. Kd's one
Speaker 1: point one six points per possession was far and away
Speaker 1: number one. Give you an idea. Shay was in second place,
Speaker 1: and he was a full six points per one hundred
Speaker 1: possessions less efficient shooting out of ISO than KD was
Speaker 1: on twos In ISO. Last year, KD shot fifty nine
Speaker 1: percent one hundred and nine for one eighty six. He's
Speaker 1: just the best to ever do it. When you need
Speaker 1: a bucket, There's never been a better guy to give
Speaker 1: the ball to. I've seeing the clips going around on
Speaker 1: social media the other day while I was gone of
Speaker 1: that Serbia USA game, and that still to this day
Speaker 1: is my very favorite basketball memory that I can think of.
Speaker 1: Just the intensity, the stakes, the fear, the legitimate fear
Speaker 1: that they were going to lose, and then seeing everyone
Speaker 1: step up and specifically Katie, Steph and Lebron run the
Speaker 1: show down the stretch, and each one of those three
Speaker 1: guys show their greatness and unique ways, from like Steph
Speaker 1: keeping the team afloat early in the game with his
Speaker 1: shooting and then late in the game hitting that three
Speaker 1: coming off the left wing that was the lead changing shot.
Speaker 1: He had the transition layup as well. Lebron James showcasing
Speaker 1: his versatility. He's guarding Yolkic on one end of the floor,
Speaker 1: having those two somehow having the leg strength to get
Speaker 1: those two crazy transition finishes in crunch time, and then
Speaker 1: in the final minutes I think they were up to
Speaker 1: at the time super important possession. I think it was
Speaker 1: under a minute. If I remember quickly, they desperately need
Speaker 1: a bucket, and Steph Lebron, all those dudes they turn
Speaker 1: to Kevin Durant and they say, get us a bucket.
Speaker 1: I'm staying off my couch screaming at the TV, like,
Speaker 1: get a bucket, KD, we need a bucket. And he
Speaker 1: hits that left to right crossover and hits that pull
Speaker 1: up jumper and knocks that shit down to send him
Speaker 1: to the gold medal game. It wasn't a fluke. He's
Speaker 1: literally the very best player in the NBA still at
Speaker 1: it today, and he's been the very best player at
Speaker 1: it that I've ever seen. This is where I want
Speaker 1: to touch on that shot attempts thing. So KD has
Speaker 1: been very active on social media in the last couple
Speaker 1: of days regarding several things, but the big one was
Speaker 1: this idea that KD hasn't led a team in shot
Speaker 1: attempts since twenty eighteen. As if it's a bad thing.
Speaker 1: I think this is one of Kadi's strengths. This is
Speaker 1: where we have to get away from box score watching. Look,
Speaker 1: scoring the basketball is a very important basketball trade, and
Speaker 1: I'm not going to roll my eyes a guys, who
Speaker 1: are putting up big points per game numbers. It's too
Speaker 1: hard to score in the NBA to just gloss over that,
Speaker 1: But we had twenty five players in the NBA last
Speaker 1: year average at least twenty four points per game. Not
Speaker 1: all points per game totals are the same. The goal
Speaker 1: of an NBA offense is for the team to score points,
Speaker 1: not for an individual player to score points. And there
Speaker 1: are a lot of guys in the NBA that can
Speaker 1: score the basketball, but at the expense of the rhythm
Speaker 1: and flow of their teammates and of the offense overall.
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant is the best I've ever seen at scoring
Speaker 1: the basketball in the flow of an offense, meaning doing
Speaker 1: so without disrupting the rhythm of his teammates, without stopping
Speaker 1: ball in player movement. This is what makes him so
Speaker 1: easy to fit in any basketball situation. Every time he
Speaker 1: changes teams, it just looks like such a natural fit
Speaker 1: on the offensive end of the floor. This is why
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna fit so great for him in Houston.
Speaker 1: I think it comes down to how comes down to
Speaker 1: two things. First of all, Katie is excellent at scoring
Speaker 1: off the ball, both in spot up situations, and attacking
Speaker 1: in the action that NBA offense runs. So like driving closeouts.
Speaker 1: Kd when he drove closeouts shot sixty four percent on
Speaker 1: twos last year. That's insane. That was on eighty one attempts,
Speaker 1: so once a game, more than once a game, he'd
Speaker 1: put the ball on the floor against the closeout and
Speaker 1: shoot and make almost two thirds of them. Like that
Speaker 1: goes in hand in hand with him shooting over fifty
Speaker 1: percent on unguarded catch and shoot jump shots. So you
Speaker 1: just an incredibly useful spot up player if you can
Speaker 1: create an advantage for him. But then he also could
Speaker 1: score out of action. He shot sixty percent out of
Speaker 1: dribble handoffs. He shot forty eight percent coming off of
Speaker 1: off ball screens. He's excellent at scoring in the flow
Speaker 1: of NBA offense, and then when he's on the ball,
Speaker 1: he's always super decisive and super efficient with his dribbles.
Speaker 1: Kadi averaged just three point three seconds per touch last
Speaker 1: year and just two dribbles per touch. That's per NBA
Speaker 1: dot COM's tracking data. Now compare that to a guy
Speaker 1: like Luka Doncic, who averaged seven seconds per touch and
Speaker 1: four dribbles per touch. Now, Luca is a better player
Speaker 1: than KD. But I'm trying to show the difference in
Speaker 1: just the quickness, how quickly and how efficiently Katie attacks
Speaker 1: when he has the ball. And even though I do
Speaker 1: believe in Luca and his supreme ability, I have talked
Speaker 1: about how him dribbling the air out of the basketball
Speaker 1: can disrupt the rhythm and flow for other players. It's
Speaker 1: been part of the reason why I've talked so much
Speaker 1: about Lebron and Austin and how they have to become
Speaker 1: better catch and shoot players, because a lot of Lebron
Speaker 1: and Austin's on ball ability can get a little bit
Speaker 1: of a diminishing return in the context of a Luca
Speaker 1: led offense because he can dribble the air out of
Speaker 1: the basketball Kadi. Him being hyper efficient, him taking less
Speaker 1: than half as much time per touch and less than
Speaker 1: half as many dribbles per touch as a Luka Doncic
Speaker 1: is what makes him super easy to play with. You
Speaker 1: know what he's gonna do. He's predictable in a good
Speaker 1: way to play an offense alongside of you know when
Speaker 1: to cut, when to relocate, when to screen because he's
Speaker 1: not pausing. He's super decisive. We've all played with guys
Speaker 1: like that before that dribble the air out of the
Speaker 1: basketball and you don't know what to do. You don't
Speaker 1: know if you're gonna cut a relocate. You don't even
Speaker 1: know if he's looking at you. You don't know if
Speaker 1: he's trying to set something else up. That unpredictability can
Speaker 1: be difficult to play off of. If you're playing basketball
Speaker 1: with Kevin Durrant and you pass him the ball and
Speaker 1: he has an advantage he likes with some good spacing,
Speaker 1: you can count on him to quickly put the ball
Speaker 1: down or throw a jab stet and do something super efficient.
Speaker 1: One or two dribbles, rise and fire within a like
Speaker 1: two or three seconds max. He's not gonna stop and stare.
Speaker 1: He's gonna attack quickly. And that makes him super easy
Speaker 1: to play with. And it's not like, you know, I
Speaker 1: saw some of the criticisms because KD doesn't want all
Speaker 1: that response bullshit. Yeah, Like, every time the game's on
Speaker 1: the line, KDI wants the ball. He's always been that guy.
Speaker 1: He's literally one of the best clutch players ever. I
Speaker 1: mean he literally the whole beef he had with Draymond
Speaker 1: literally stemmed from him wanting the basketball at the end
Speaker 1: of a game. It's it is this hyper efficient, quick,
Speaker 1: decisive scoring that fits extremely well in the team context.
Speaker 1: We've talked a lot about this idea, the scoring player
Speaker 1: versus the offensive engine, and how scorers can be susceptible
Speaker 1: to variance and scorers can disrupt the flow. A bad
Speaker 1: game for a score is way worse than a bad
Speaker 1: game for an advantage creator. Not as much so for
Speaker 1: a guy like Kevin Durant, who shoots well over fifty
Speaker 1: percent from two and on his pull up jump shots
Speaker 1: he makes over half of his jump shots, so he's
Speaker 1: less susceptible to variance, and he's so quick and so
Speaker 1: decisive that he's just super easy to play with and
Speaker 1: he's never going to disrupt the flow of your offense. Now,
Speaker 1: why did I leave Katie down at eleven? It has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with defense. Do I wish Katie would
Speaker 1: have devoted more energy and focus to defense over his career? Sure,
Speaker 1: but even in that context, he's still an excellent defender
Speaker 1: even today. His tools are just insane, and he can move.
Speaker 1: He's got good anticipation, He's good both on the ball
Speaker 1: and off the ball. He's been well over a block
Speaker 1: per game for years. That's that off ball anticipation and
Speaker 1: his ability to use his length at the rim. And
Speaker 1: he is a nasty ISO defender because he has that
Speaker 1: length and mobility to give ground to keep the ball
Speaker 1: in front, but also close that gap and get great contests.
Speaker 1: Guys shot just twelve for forty five from the field
Speaker 1: against KD and ISO last year out of one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty one players to guard at least fifty ISOs
Speaker 1: last year. Is zero point seven to six point per possession,
Speaker 1: ranked sixteenth sixteenth out of one hundred and fifty one.
Speaker 1: He's literally one of the best isolation defenders in the NBA.
Speaker 1: KD being being outside of the top ten came down
Speaker 1: to three things for me. One, he's declined as a
Speaker 1: defensive rebounder. He posted his lowest rebounds per game total
Speaker 1: since rebounds per game number since his rookie season two.
Speaker 1: He straight up does not pressure the rim. He averaged
Speaker 1: just two point eight shot attempts per game at the
Speaker 1: rim last year. That ranked two hundred and twenty eighth
Speaker 1: in the NBA. Guys like Kevin Herder and Corey Kisspert
Speaker 1: attempted more shots at the rim per game last year
Speaker 1: than KD. A lot of it has to do with
Speaker 1: the Achilles injury. He's stopping short a lot of the time,
Speaker 1: but him not threatening the rim prevents him from generating
Speaker 1: some of the advantages kickout opportunities that his peers generate.
Speaker 1: And then lastly, he's just not the same level of
Speaker 1: playmaker as his peers at the top of the league.
Speaker 1: Now I'm hoping KD proves me wrong on this particular point.
Speaker 1: I saw KD reach crazy heights as a pick and
Speaker 1: roll passer in Brooklyn, and he's kind of just gone
Speaker 1: away from that that role of the high volume pick
Speaker 1: and roll weapon, and I actually think Houston could really
Speaker 1: benefit from it. So I'm hoping they dig that back
Speaker 1: out of KD. And I hope that we get to
Speaker 1: see a higher level playmaker this year. But in the
Speaker 1: last several years he has not been the same level
Speaker 1: of advantage creator, the guy who generates easy opportunities for
Speaker 1: his teammates as his peers that are above him. On
Speaker 1: this list overall, this was one of the hardest rankings
Speaker 1: for me to make. You could easily argue KD as
Speaker 1: high as number five on this list, but for right now,
Speaker 1: I haven't met number eleven. All right, before we get
Speaker 1: out here, guys, I'll tell you a little bit about Alaska.
Speaker 1: So we had gone on an Alaskan cruise when my
Speaker 1: wife I was working for this company. She got an
Speaker 1: incentive trip a while back where we got to go
Speaker 1: with a bunch of the people that were in her industry,
Speaker 1: and it was like a loop that went out of Seattle.
Speaker 1: And the loop was kind of a bummer in a
Speaker 1: couple of different ways because one, you just didn't get
Speaker 1: to see all the same ports. When you're doing a
Speaker 1: seven day loop, you've got to account for a return trip,
Speaker 1: so there's like three of the seven days you're just
Speaker 1: on the ocean, and so you just don't get to
Speaker 1: spend as much time. Each port call is like five
Speaker 1: hours four hours, so you're just like really not having
Speaker 1: the time to explore all of the different areas that
Speaker 1: you're going. And then secondly, because you're going in a loop,
Speaker 1: you don't get to go as far up into Alaska,
Speaker 1: which is like the further you get up, the cooler
Speaker 1: it is. Right for those of you guys have been
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. And so we really
Speaker 1: wanted to go back for two reasons. We wanted to
Speaker 1: go outside of a work context. We wanted to be
Speaker 1: able to enjoy it more, just like without the all
Speaker 1: of the constraints that came from my wife's job at
Speaker 1: the time. And then two, we wanted to do the
Speaker 1: one way. We wanted to do a one way cruise
Speaker 1: so that you could actually spend a lot of time
Speaker 1: at each port. Now I'm not much of a cruise guy,
Speaker 1: but you kind of need to do a cruise to
Speaker 1: experience the majority of Alaska, just because a lot of
Speaker 1: these places are not accessible by road, and you get
Speaker 1: to see a lot of really cool things that you
Speaker 1: only get to see on a boat in that sort
Speaker 1: of instance. So like, for instance, we got to see
Speaker 1: the Hubbard Glacier on this particular trip. That is the
Speaker 1: largest title a title glacier in the entire world. So
Speaker 1: you're not going to see that unless you take a
Speaker 1: cruise ship into that bay, right. So I'm not much
Speaker 1: of a cruise guy, but it's kind of the way
Speaker 1: you have to do it. And so we traveled with
Speaker 1: my parents, which is a lot of fun. I haven't
Speaker 1: traveled with my parents since I was a kid, since
Speaker 1: I was a teenager. Basically and so my dad was
Speaker 1: always big into outdoorsy stuff, and so it kind of
Speaker 1: just worked out with our schedules, and my dad and
Speaker 1: mom are both finally retired, and so we were able
Speaker 1: to do it, and we did a whole We did
Speaker 1: a little trip to Victoria beforehand, so we went up
Speaker 1: to Vancouver and we got an airbnb in Victoria. The
Speaker 1: weather was amazing. In Victoria, we went to like Bouchart Gardens,
Speaker 1: which is a really cool like basically like a botanical
Speaker 1: garden that's up there where you can get to see
Speaker 1: some incredible stuff and you know, hung out in that
Speaker 1: area we had. The weather was just so great. I
Speaker 1: got like great views of like Mount Olympus and you
Speaker 1: could literally see Blue Glacier from inside Victoria. You like
Speaker 1: got to see seaplanes landing and all this good food.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a fun little trip before we went
Speaker 1: on the cruise and got to take the ferry to
Speaker 1: and from Victoria from Vancouver, which was beautiful as you
Speaker 1: kind of get into all those islands that surround Vancouver Island.
Speaker 1: And then we left out of Vancouver. And if you've
Speaker 1: been on the Alaskan cruise before, you know that the
Speaker 1: ports that are on the southern end are not super
Speaker 1: interesting like ketch a can. It's not my favorite place.
Speaker 1: It's just super rainy there all the time. The one
Speaker 1: thing that was cool is when we went three years ago,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, there just wasn't a lot of same
Speaker 1: in activity. I think we just got there a little
Speaker 1: too early. But we got there at like the peak
Speaker 1: of the salmon returning. It says, you know, the salmon
Speaker 1: they like go out to ocean and then when they're
Speaker 1: ready to reproduce, they go back up into fresh water,
Speaker 1: like by jumping up these like like creeks and rivers
Speaker 1: and stuff, and then they spawn and then they die,
Speaker 1: right and so like you see them out in the
Speaker 1: ocean up against these like uh, you know whatever you
Speaker 1: call it the deltas, where like the rivers in the
Speaker 1: in the ocean meet where it's like a mix of
Speaker 1: fresh and ocean water, and they like practice jumping and
Speaker 1: you just see them jumping. Just you literally look off
Speaker 1: the shore and you just see hundreds of salmon just
Speaker 1: jumping in and out of the water. And then like
Speaker 1: you'd see them jumping up the creeks, you'd see them
Speaker 1: climbing the salmon ladders. It's basically like a structure that
Speaker 1: the locals build to help the salmon get upstream. So
Speaker 1: that was kind of cool, but it's just so rainy,
Speaker 1: up and catch a can And then we went to
Speaker 1: Juneo and the weather was amazing and Juno we got
Speaker 1: super lucky there again. But like we went to go
Speaker 1: see Mendenhall Glacier and we like canoe up to super cool,
Speaker 1: but it's retreated so far back that it's literally out
Speaker 1: of the water now, Like when I went there three
Speaker 1: years ago, it was in the wa and now Mendenhall
Speaker 1: Glacier is like completely out of the water. And when
Speaker 1: you're canoeing to it, they have all these like orange
Speaker 1: signs that like demonstrate different times in the history where
Speaker 1: the glacier was further out. I can't remember the exact number,
Speaker 1: but like it retreats at some crazy pace. It was
Speaker 1: like two hundred feet per year or something like that,
Speaker 1: so that one's like really retreating back in there. And
Speaker 1: thankfully we did all that stuff first, because each subsequent
Speaker 1: port that we went to that was further to the
Speaker 1: north was crazier and crazier that we got to see,
Speaker 1: and like the Hudderd Glacier was absolutely unbelievable that we
Speaker 1: just got perfectly clear weather. So as you're like pulling in,
Speaker 1: you see this massive glacier, but out in the distance
Speaker 1: just all these like fifteen thousand foot peaks. I have
Speaker 1: always had a thing for super tall mountains, particularly volcanoes,
Speaker 1: but I've also had a thing for super tall mountains,
Speaker 1: and you get to see We got to see Mount
Speaker 1: Saint Elias, which is over eighteen thousand feet. That's now
Speaker 1: the tallest mountain that I've ever laid eyes on, So
Speaker 1: that was super cool. We got to see it on
Speaker 1: a very clear day. I got to see another big
Speaker 1: volcano up there. I can't remember I think it was
Speaker 1: I can't remember what it was called, but it's the
Speaker 1: volcano right outside of Sidco. We got a crazy view
Speaker 1: of it as we were going around on the cruise ship.
Speaker 1: But then, you know, my mom and my wife were
Speaker 1: shopping in Juno and I was looking at our itinerary
Speaker 1: and we had we had like six hours to kill
Speaker 1: in Seward and Seward was the final port, and we
Speaker 1: never even thought of it as a place to do
Speaker 1: an excursion because we're like, oh, we're just leaving, like
Speaker 1: that's when we get off the boat and that's when
Speaker 1: we'll go home, right, And then I looked at it,
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, we're getting off the boat at
Speaker 1: seven point thirty and we're not getting on the train
Speaker 1: until six pm. So we got all this time to do.
Speaker 1: And so I did some research and then I heard
Speaker 1: about this like keen I Fjords National Park, this big
Speaker 1: national park that's like right by seward, but you can't
Speaker 1: get there unless you go by boat or like helicopter, right,
Speaker 1: And so I found an excursion like a boating company
Speaker 1: that would take all four of us out into those fjords.
Speaker 1: And that ended up being like by far the coolest
Speaker 1: part of the trip, even though we had amazing weather
Speaker 1: everywhere else. It was like super But even though the
Speaker 1: rain had some downsides, what was cool about it was
Speaker 1: the rain actually essentially like lubricates the glaciers and causes
Speaker 1: them to move a little faster into calve a little
Speaker 1: bit more calving for a glacier. All it means is
Speaker 1: as the glacier kind of flows downhill, these big pieces
Speaker 1: of ice like fall off into the ocean, and by
Speaker 1: like sheer luck, I happened to have my iPhone out
Speaker 1: like zoomed in on a spot where this massive piece
Speaker 1: of ice fell off of the Iliic Glacier, which was
Speaker 1: one of the two glaciers that we went to go see,
Speaker 1: and it was the guy who was on the boat
Speaker 1: said it was literally the biggest calving they had seen
Speaker 1: in the entire season. It launched like this massive wave,
Speaker 1: like this thirty foot wave that was like coming towards
Speaker 1: us from the from the glacier. So we had to
Speaker 1: like turn the boat away from it and like go
Speaker 1: further away so that we could like wait for the
Speaker 1: wave to spread out and like hit us at a
Speaker 1: at a lower at a lower level. But I have
Speaker 1: a video of this, you guys can find. It's on
Speaker 1: my Instagram and it's on my Twitter at underscore jsonlt.
Speaker 1: But it was like literally one of the coolest things
Speaker 1: I've ever seen, just watching that piece of that glacier
Speaker 1: fall off. And like one of the things that's cool
Speaker 1: with glaciers too, is when it's super sunny, they appear white,
Speaker 1: but when it's super cloudy, they appear like almost like
Speaker 1: a radioactive shade of blue because of just the lesser
Speaker 1: amount of light that they're absorbing. And so it just
Speaker 1: was like this eerie, creepy, like cloudy, rainy day with
Speaker 1: these beautiful glaciers that were just like having like crazy
Speaker 1: in front of us because of the rain, and it
Speaker 1: was just an incredible experience. And then, like I kept
Speaker 1: waiting for things to get more difficult, but it's like
Speaker 1: then we get on this train, this Alaska Railroad train,
Speaker 1: and it goes from Seward up to Anchorage, and it's
Speaker 1: just four hours of incredibly beautiful scenery outside of a train.
Speaker 1: I saw three additional glaciers, beautiful mountains. The bay that
Speaker 1: goes thereby I can't remember what it's called. The bay
Speaker 1: that goes there right by Anchorage is super pretty. This
Speaker 1: was like one thing after another of incredible sight seeing
Speaker 1: and I just felt so lucky. I felt so lucky
Speaker 1: that the weather was the way that it was. I
Speaker 1: felt so lucky that we got to see the things
Speaker 1: that we got to see. It was obviously super cool
Speaker 1: to get to spend some time with my mom and dad,
Speaker 1: which I who haven't traveled with in years, and it
Speaker 1: just was a really special trip. I think it might
Speaker 1: be my favorite trip that I've ever gone on. A
Speaker 1: couple of things. If you're if you're ever gonna go
Speaker 1: to Alaska. There's several cruise ships that do it, several
Speaker 1: companies that do it. We use Celebrity. I've been pleased
Speaker 1: with them. They give a very good experience. I actually
Speaker 1: think they're relatively affordable too. Uh. They have really good food,
Speaker 1: which is something that my wife and I are you know,
Speaker 1: pretty picky on there were foodies. We just really like
Speaker 1: to have good food. But a couple things to be
Speaker 1: prepared for. Do the one way, don't do the loop,
Speaker 1: because you actually get to spend so much more time
Speaker 1: in each of your ports and less time at sea. Also,
Speaker 1: the one way takes you further north in Alaska, Like
Speaker 1: you'd get to see Hubbard Glacier. You don't get to
Speaker 1: see that on the loop. You get to go up
Speaker 1: into Seward, which you don't get to see if you're
Speaker 1: on the loop, So you get to see the better
Speaker 1: stuff that's further north Alaska. A couple things though, if
Speaker 1: if you do the cruise, when you leave the last
Speaker 1: port and you go into the Gulf of Alaska, it's
Speaker 1: a famously rough ocean, and so like come prepared for
Speaker 1: you know, seasickness by having you know, dramamine or you know,
Speaker 1: weed or whatever it is you use to survive seasickness,
Speaker 1: make sure you're prepared for that. And then if you
Speaker 1: want to do Alaska without doing a cruise, Seward kind
Speaker 1: of captures a lot of the same vibe as some
Speaker 1: of the other ports, and so just fly to Anchorage
Speaker 1: and then take the Alaska Railroad down to Seward, buying
Speaker 1: an airbnb or a hotel somewhere there, and then just
Speaker 1: make sure you do the ken I Fjords tour because
Speaker 1: it's just super cool and it's an awesome way to
Speaker 1: get to experience like the glaciers and a lot of
Speaker 1: like that kind of stuff that you get to experience
Speaker 1: in Alaska. But it was just a ton of fun.
Speaker 1: And I Uh, it's kind of crazy because I'm we're
Speaker 1: preparing for our phase two of our move to Denver
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, so it's kind of hectic and obviously there's
Speaker 1: works around, but like, it just felt really nice to
Speaker 1: disconnect for him a little bit. There's like almost no
Speaker 1: cell service out there and Wi Fi on cruise ships
Speaker 1: is terrible, so it was like an opportunity for me
Speaker 1: to disconnect from work a little bit. And I just
Speaker 1: had a great time and I just I just highly
Speaker 1: recommend if you ever have a chance to go check
Speaker 1: out Alaska, go check it out. And if you want
Speaker 1: to see some pictures, I've shared quite a few on
Speaker 1: my twitter feed. You guys can see them there. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: it's all I have for today. It's always a sincerely
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys for supporting me and supporting the show.
Speaker 1: I'll see you guys on Friday. Four Hour Mailbag