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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give the Nuggets their props for a few

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Speaker 1: all my championship contenders. But here's the thing, Like, they're

427
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Speaker 1: way worse, are way better than their record would lead

428
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Speaker 1: you to believe, because they've been such a bad energy

429
00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,840
Speaker 1: and effort, energy and effort team this year, and so

430
00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:12,600
Speaker 1: when you have the inability to motivate your guys to

431
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:17,360
Speaker 1: bring consistent effort, when you have Darvin consistently playing lesser

432
00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:22,400
Speaker 1: players on his team big minutes over better players, it's

433
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Speaker 1: a concern. I think he's in completely over his head

434
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:27,840
Speaker 1: leaving your third or fourth best player on the bench

435
00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,760
Speaker 1: against the best team in the league while playing Cam Reddish,

436
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:35,320
Speaker 1: who literally his only spot in the NBA SH right

437
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:38,399
Speaker 1: now should be playing garbage time and working with player

438
00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:40,760
Speaker 1: development behind the scenes to see if maybe he can

439
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,560
Speaker 1: turn into a useful player. He is not a player

440
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:45,639
Speaker 1: that should be playing crunch time for any sort of

441
00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:48,399
Speaker 1: serious basketball team. That is the that is on the

442
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:53,919
Speaker 1: coaching staff. That is on the coaching staff. And like again,

443
00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,600
Speaker 1: this Laker team already has an uphill climb, Jared Vanderbilt

444
00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:02,160
Speaker 1: is completely an utterly indispensable to this roster. And that's

445
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,000
Speaker 1: your one tiny little bit of hope. Like, if you're

446
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,840
Speaker 1: a Lakers fan and you're looking to cling to something,

447
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:08,560
Speaker 1: you're clinging to Jared Vanderbilt. Because he didn't play in

448
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 1: any of the Nuggets games this year, and yes, last

449
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 1: year he couldnt play against the Nuggets, but the Lakers

450
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 1: ran a completely different offense last year of four out

451
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,879
Speaker 1: offense where Jared was spotting up. This year they run

452
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Speaker 1: a five out offense with lots of ball in player movement,

453
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Speaker 1: and Jared Vanderbilt has been much more effective in their

454
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Speaker 1: offense this year. That's your tiny little sliver of hope.

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Speaker 1: Do I think Jared Vanderbilt puts the Lakers over the Nuggets? No,

456
00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:29,920
Speaker 1: I do not, But that's your tiny little sliver of hope.

457
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,200
Speaker 1: And that's on the front office. It's on the front

458
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:36,640
Speaker 1: office that This guy is completely indispensable because we knew

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Speaker 1: after the Denver Nuggets series that they needed a high

460
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,000
Speaker 1: level starter that could defend and be a positive offensive player,

461
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Speaker 1: and they failed to do it over the offseason, and

462
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Speaker 1: they failed to do it at the deadline, and so

463
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Speaker 1: as a result, a foot injury to Jared Vanderbilt that

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Speaker 1: cost you six weeks can literally cost you everything. And

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Speaker 1: that's on the front office. But with the group that

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Speaker 1: is there, there is a slim chance, and I just

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00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,679
Speaker 1: don't think Darvin is capable of getting them to that

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Speaker 1: slim chance. All Right, I'm off of my soapbox. I

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Speaker 1: needed to just vent for a little bit. All Right,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get to Boston Dallas. This was one of

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Speaker 1: Boston's best offensive games of the season. They had a

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Speaker 1: one thirty eight offensive rating. That's like completely and utterly insane.

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Speaker 1: They were taking a ton of jumpers, but their jumpers

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Speaker 1: were going. They took fifty three jumpers in this game

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Speaker 1: for seventy two points. They were at one point per

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Speaker 1: pull up jumper. I think twenty one points on twenty

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Speaker 1: one pull up jumpers. But they were staggering one point

478
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Speaker 1: five nine to four points per catch and shoot jumper.

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Speaker 1: In the game against Dallas, they made twenty one threes

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Speaker 1: on forty nine percent shooting, so obviously a great example

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Speaker 1: of Boston's perimeter skill. But they also had a great

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Speaker 1: paint scoring game. And this is something I've been harping

483
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Speaker 1: on a lot on the show, and I wanted to

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Speaker 1: dive a little bit further into their recent successive. They

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Speaker 1: had sixty two points in the paint against Dallas. Six

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Speaker 1: offensive rebound put backs. Mentioned this earlier but in earlier shows,

487
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Speaker 1: but they averaged just two point six offensive rebound put

488
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Speaker 1: backs per game. That ranks twenty first in the NBA,

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Speaker 1: and they had six of them against Dallas, more than

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Speaker 1: double their usual output. It was a big part of

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Speaker 1: their late third quarter run. Jason Tatum was beating his

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Speaker 1: man off the dribble, drawing in Maxicicliba into help, and

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Speaker 1: Al Horford and Porzingis were capitalizing on the back end

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Speaker 1: with offensive rebound putbacks. It was actually how they helped

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Speaker 1: push the lead from seven to thirteen. During that span.

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Speaker 1: They scored on a cut to the basket six times

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Speaker 1: in this game. They averaged just three point six per game,

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Speaker 1: which ranks twentyeighth in the league. Again, these are all

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Speaker 1: areas that they've massively improved on over the course of

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Speaker 1: the last week. For Boston, early on their cutting was

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Speaker 1: in Dallas's two three zone look. Drew Holliday and Jalen

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Speaker 1: Brown both scored on flash cuts to the middle of

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Speaker 1: the floor where they were able to get easy baskets.

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Speaker 1: Al Horford, though, had two buckets out of the dunker

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Speaker 1: spot in possessions where he typically operates out of the

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Speaker 1: three point line. There was a I want to say

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Speaker 1: it was a it was a I can't remember if

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Speaker 1: it was a Jalen Brown or a Jason Tatum pick

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Speaker 1: and roll, but Xavier Tillman slipped to the basket. Dallas

510
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,480
Speaker 1: is putting two on the ball most of the ball screens.

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Speaker 1: Late in the game, they were getting absolutely torched. Boston

512
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: scored one point four to eight points per pick and

513
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Speaker 1: roll including passes in this game, which is like completely insane.

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Speaker 1: So Dallas was putting two on the ball in the

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Speaker 1: second half and Xavier Tillman slipped to the basket, and

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Speaker 1: al Horford, in a lot of these situations, has been

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Speaker 1: just chilling in the right corner waiting for a three,

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Speaker 1: but instead he worked his way along the baseline into

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Speaker 1: the dunker spot and got an easy lay up. Again,

520
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: these are ways to manufacture paint points for a team

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00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,919
Speaker 1: that hasn't been scoring a ton in the paint this season.

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Speaker 1: Xavier Tillman scored on a cut along the baseline where

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Speaker 1: Jaylen Brown hit him by the way. Jaalen Brown had

524
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Speaker 1: an awesome playmaking game in this game. He had five

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Speaker 1: assists with no turnovers. Thought he had a bunch of

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Speaker 1: timely reads, specifically where the defense was loading up on him,

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Speaker 1: and then Jason Tatum's physical aggression that was a big

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Speaker 1: part of their paint output in this game. There was

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Speaker 1: a stretch in the middle of the second quarter where

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Speaker 1: Dallas put Josh Green on him. And one of the

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Speaker 1: specific things I've been talking about with Jason Tatum because

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Speaker 1: I want to say a lot of people get the

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Speaker 1: wrong meaning of what I'm talking about when I talk

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Speaker 1: about scoring in the paint versus pull up jump shots. Like,

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Speaker 1: the pull up jumper is a part of basketball. It's

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Speaker 1: a huge part of basketball. It's a huge part of

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Speaker 1: my game personally, Like you got to be able to

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Speaker 1: make pull up jump shots. I'm just a big believer

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Speaker 1: in like working with pull up jump shots within your

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Speaker 1: physical advantages. So why I've always been such a big

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Speaker 1: Qui fan. Kawi takes a lot of pull up jumpers,

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Speaker 1: but the majority of the ones he takes, he uses

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Speaker 1: his physicality to get close to the rim and takes

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Speaker 1: short range pull up jump shots. Tatum, I was so

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Speaker 1: impressed just literally bullying Josh Screen into that little area

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Speaker 1: right inside the foul line for short range pull up

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Speaker 1: jump shots. He made four pull up jumpers that were

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Speaker 1: inside the paint in this game, and I don't even

549
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Speaker 1: think you had to miss in that range off of

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Speaker 1: a jump shot. The one jumper that he missed inside

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Speaker 1: the three point line was like a right elbow extended

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Speaker 1: one that was like a like a nineteen twenty footer.

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Speaker 1: So like he got to these short range pull up

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Speaker 1: jumpers and he was like, and again, they're tough. Like

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Speaker 1: one of them was like a right shoulder fade, one

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Speaker 1: of them was like a one leg fade away, one

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Speaker 1: of them was kind of like a step through leaner

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Speaker 1: going to his left. They're kind of tough, but they're

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Speaker 1: tough close to the rim, which dramatically improves your accuracy

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Speaker 1: in that range. And I thought all of that was

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Speaker 1: significant in the Boston paint attack in this games. Do

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Speaker 1: you guys remember after the Bulls game, I said that

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Speaker 1: the Celtics were averaging just forty seven points in the

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Speaker 1: paint per game, which ranked twenty seventh in the league.

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Speaker 1: They're averaging sixty one points in the paint per game

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Speaker 1: over their last three games, which ranks fourth in the

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Speaker 1: league over that span. Really really encouraging trends in that approach.

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Speaker 1: All of them stuff that I've been talking about on

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Speaker 1: the show. This game wasn't so much the running in

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Speaker 1: transition for layups and threes, but for layups instead of threes,

571
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Speaker 1: but that was a big one in previous games. Crashing

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Speaker 1: the offensive glass, cutting more instead of spotting up, the

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Speaker 1: physical aggression into the paint in their post up situations.

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Speaker 1: All of has helped turn around their paint attack over

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Speaker 1: the course of the last week. Chris tops Porzingis. We've

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Speaker 1: talked a lot on the show about just how important

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Speaker 1: he is and how he unlocks everything that Boston does

578
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 1: because of his ability to shoot the basketball, to beat switches,

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Speaker 1: and to protect the room credibly. He made eight field

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Speaker 1: goals in this game on his way to twenty four points.

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Speaker 1: He had one but that was outside of those specific

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Speaker 1: play types. It was a kind of like an off

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Speaker 1: screen move on Maxi Kliba where he like he took

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Speaker 1: him downhill, turned his back and then went like with

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00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 1: a really hard sell on a left shoulder fade with

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Speaker 1: like a really hard pump fake Max He went for it.

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Speaker 1: Then he stepped through and dunked it with two hands.

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Speaker 1: But every single other one of his seven shots, or

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Speaker 1: the seven others of his eight shots that he made,

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Speaker 1: all of them were either helped beaters or switch beaters.

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Speaker 1: At the start of the game, Dallas had Derek Lively

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Speaker 1: roaming all over the floor like and it wasn't even

593
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 1: just like you know, sitting back to drop coverage. It

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Speaker 1: was like Jalen Brown catch the ball on the post

595
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 1: and Derek Gliveley would just sprint down to the basket

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00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: and just offer backside help. And it was clearly it

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00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: was clearly schematic because like Derek would run and then

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00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 1: he'd immediately point to other Dallas players to rotate around.

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Speaker 1: So clearly that was part of the game plan coming

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Speaker 1: into this game. But here's the thing. If you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have a game plan where your center is ignoring your

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00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 1: center to go help underneath the basket. You gotta have

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Speaker 1: a guy who can burn him there, and Christops Porzingis

604
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: just burned him time and time again by hitting deep threes.

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Speaker 1: And then one of the biggest stories of this game,

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00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 1: I thought was Boston trying to attack Luca and Kyrie

607
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 1: as much as they possibly could in screening actions and

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Speaker 1: in ice own post up situations. Porzingis was a big

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Speaker 1: part of that. He had multiple baskets attacking both Luca

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Speaker 1: and Kyrie, irving in post up situations, and I just

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00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: thought it was a great example of just how important

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Speaker 1: Porzingis is to kind of growing the margin of error

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Speaker 1: for this team and raising this team's ceiling. I thought

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Speaker 1: he was incredible. And then Jaln Brown, He's just been

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00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: outrageously good in the last couple of weeks. I was

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Speaker 1: super impressed by his playmaking in this game. Like I

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Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, he was one of the guys that kept

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Speaker 1: punishing Lively for helping. Had four assists just in the

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Speaker 1: first half without a single turnover. He was another one

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Speaker 1: of those guys that was attacking Luca and Kyrie and switches.

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Speaker 1: He blew by Luca on a baseline drive and went

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00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: through him for an and one. He like bullied Kyrie

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Speaker 1: into the middle of the floor for a little push

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00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: out in the lane. I thought he was awesome. And

625
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: then he blew the game open in the in the

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00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: early fourth quarter with that run where he beat Luke

627
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: off the dribble and then made the three sixty layup,

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00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: and then he had a step back three against I

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Speaker 1: want to say it was against Daniel Gafford in like

630
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: a drop coverage on the left wing, but he was

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00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: a big part of how they blew the game open.

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00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown's last four games twenty seven points, seven rebounds,

633
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: and four assists, sixty percent from the field, forty three

634
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: percent from three, and has had a plus minus of

635
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: at least plus fifteen in all four of his games.

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00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: And again, the points in the paint stuff is just

637
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 1: super super encouraging. They're starting to figure out that they

638
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 1: need more offensive versatility. I've been really really happy with

639
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 1: what I'm seeing from them on that end of the floor,

640
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: on the Dallas front. I said on the show that

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Speaker 1: they had been defending really well, but that it was

642
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: against a weaker stretch in their schedule. They had a

643
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: couple of tough games in there, against the Thunder and

644
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 1: against the Suns, but for the most part in that

645
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 1: stretch it was bad teams or good teams that were

646
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: severely injury limited. And so this road this road trip

647
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 1: was like a great test for them, an opportunity to

648
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: see if their defense is legitimate or if it was

649
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: some fools gold And like, I know, it's just four games,

650
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: but man, did they fail the test miserably. They end

651
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: up going one to three. They give up at least

652
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty points in every game. They had

653
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: a one twenty six point four defensive rating in the

654
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: four games. And for perspective, just so you guys can

655
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 1: get a feel for what that number means, Washington currently

656
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: holds the worst defensive rating in the league at one

657
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: to nineteen point nine. So like we're talking catastrophically bad

658
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: defense from Dallas now on tape. It mostly comes down

659
00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 1: to poor point of attack defense and over helping talked

660
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: a lot about this in the Boston game as it

661
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: pertained to like leaving Chris tops porzingis, but it's a

662
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: pretty consistent issue where like, even from the guard position,

663
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 1: they're just ignoring corner shooters to come into the lane

664
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 1: to try to tag rollers and things along those lines.

665
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: They gave up seventeen made threes on the road trip

666
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: on forty four percent shooting, both of those dead last

667
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 1: in the league over that four game span. They only

668
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: gave up fifty one points in the paint per game

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00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 1: over that span, which is pretty solid. Actually, like that's

670
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: not bad at all. So, like overhelping was the main

671
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: culprit of their defensive issues. That in transition defense, which

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about it in a little bit, there was

673
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: a big part of Boston's run there where like PJ.

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00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: Washington got red hot from three, he made three threes

675
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: in a row and it was eighty one to seventy

676
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: nine in the middle of the third quarter, and then

677
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: Boston literally just scored in transition time and time again

678
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: right after that as they blew the game open because

679
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: Dallas just wasn't matched up, not talking, not communicating, like

680
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: two guys on the big man running the floor, nobody

681
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 1: brunning out to shooters on the wing. They blew the

682
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 1: game with defensive execution in transition and in overhelp situations.

683
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Speaker 1: You know, I like, and I want to be clear,

684
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: a lot of this I put on Jason Kidd because like,

685
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: I like Derek Lively looked like on tape that he

686
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 1: wasn't just helping freelancing. It looked like he would leave

687
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: his leave porzingis to dive down into the lane and

688
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 1: he'd be directing traffic and telling people to rotate. That

689
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: tells me it's schematic. So like the encouraging side of

690
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: that is like that means that it's fixable. You know,

691
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 1: like this transition defense stuff, they're twenty sixth then transition

692
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: defense according to Cleaning the Glass, it's like points added

693
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: per transition possession or something like that is the name

694
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: of the metric. But it's like they're kind of like

695
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: all inclusive transition metric and they're twenty six They give

696
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: up one point three to three points per transition possession,

697
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 1: which I think ranks twenty seventh in the league. So

698
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 1: like the transition defense thing has been an issue all season,

699
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,320
Speaker 1: that to me is always fixable. That's just run hard

700
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: and communicate. That's literally all it is, Run hard and communicate.

701
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: But that said Dallas fans, I understand that it can

702
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: look really dark right now. I have five silver linings

703
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 1: for you guys. That makes me feel like there's still

704
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 1: light at the end of this tunnel, even after the

705
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: discouraging road trip. First of all, one, many of the

706
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 1: defensive issues they have are fixable, and they have the

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00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 1: personnel to be better than they've showed transition defense, like

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00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: I talked about, just execution, running back and communicating. Overhelping

709
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 1: scheme and execution that's on the coach that can be remedied.

710
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: And then three the personnel. They have good perimeter defenders

711
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,240
Speaker 1: and Derek Lively, Like this is my second silver lining.

712
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 1: Derek Lively is just awesome. Again, the overhelping thing was

713
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: a scheme. I actually thought he had a really nice

714
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: two way game. He has really good instincts and length

715
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,399
Speaker 1: and mobility. He had an awesome game on offense two

716
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 1: running his lane in transition and rolling hard to the

717
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: rim and pick and roll. He had like this nasty

718
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: dunk or he dunked on like three Celtics. He actually

719
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: reminds me a lot of Tyson Chandler, which obviously was

720
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: the anchor of the Dallas championship team. So like, no

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00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,760
Speaker 1: matter what happens this season for Dallas, that's a massive

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00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: silver lining. Just how damn good Derek Lively is. Third

723
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: silver lining as a team. They rebounded really well on

724
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,800
Speaker 1: the road trip. They grabbed seventy three point four percent

725
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 1: of available defensive rebounds on the road, which I think

726
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 1: is a really strong indicator that the deadline moves they

727
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: made helped them four to five. One of their biggest

728
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: weaknesses again, that was a huge issue for the initial

729
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: chunk of the season. They were not a good defensive

730
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:25,400
Speaker 1: rebounding team. Fourth silver lining. PJ Washington got his three

731
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 1: point shot going. Talked about the three to threes in

732
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 1: a row that he hit in the third quarter against

733
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: Boston to get the game close, but he shot thirty

734
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 1: six percent from three on six point three attempts during

735
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: the road trip. That's super encouraging. And then lastly the

736
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 1: fifth silver lining, both Kyrie and Luca were awesome. Luca

737
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: on the road trip thirty six, ten and twelve on

738
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,280
Speaker 1: fifty three percent from the field in thirty nine percent

739
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: from three, Kyrie twenty seven to four and three on

740
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 1: forty seven percent from the field in thirty nine percent

741
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 1: from three. That duo gives you a real chance as

742
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: long as you can sharpen those things up on the

743
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: defensive end. So really discouraging, borderline disastrous road trip, but

744
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 1: some silver linings in there for Dallas. All right, let's

745
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: get to the mailbag. Hey, Jason, I love your show,

746
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: and you've really educated me on the schematics of basketball.

747
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 1: I was wondering, how come when people talk about the

748
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 1: two thousands, they say it was Kobe's era, that he

749
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: was the undeniable best player during the era. I believed

750
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: Tim Duncan was just as good, if not better, and

751
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,240
Speaker 1: deserves more respect as the best player in the two thousands.

752
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: I believe people should look at this era like they

753
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: look at the eighties with Magic and Bird, two all

754
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: time great players who dominated the decade. I would love

755
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: to get your opinion on this, please, and thank you.

756
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: First of all, thank you for sporting the show and

757
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: for the kind words. So I look at it more

758
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: like I look at like two thousand to two thousand

759
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 1: and two as like the Shack dominant stretch, and then

760
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:45,360
Speaker 1: like two thousand and three to two thousand and seven

761
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: as like the Duncan dominant stretch, and then I look

762
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: at eight to twenty ten as like the Kobe dominant stretch.

763
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: But I think all three of them had really dominant

764
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: stretches during that run. But that was definitely a Golden

765
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:57,959
Speaker 1: era of the NBA, just in terms of the top

766
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: end talent that they had in the league. Next question,

767
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: wouldn't Steph winning four championships against the second greatest player

768
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: of all time Lebron make it that much more impressive

769
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,840
Speaker 1: than Jokic winning against a bang up, banged up Tyler

770
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 1: Harrow as eighth seed. So this is a great example

771
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:18,839
Speaker 1: of kind of like shaping the narrative. Steph won two

772
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: of those titles against Lebron with Kevin Durant on his team.

773
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 1: Like that's you're taking the three best players in the league,

774
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: Lebron the best player in my opinion, Stephen Katie the

775
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: second and third best player on the team. They together

776
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: beat Lebron while also having Klay Thompson, who is the

777
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:36,280
Speaker 1: second best shooter of all time, and a excellent perimeter defender,

778
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: Andre Gudala who is the best wing defender in the

779
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,840
Speaker 1: league at that time, and Draymond Green, who is the

780
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:45,400
Speaker 1: best defensive player of his era. Right like that that

781
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: mid twenty ten stretch, he was the best defensive player.

782
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: So like, like, I mean, I'm not all championships are championships,

783
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 1: to be clear, But all you have to do is

784
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,959
Speaker 1: ask an NBA player, and they'll tell you which NBA

785
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 1: championship meant more of them. Lebron will tell you twenty

786
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: sixteen meant more to him, right than maybe twenty twenty did, right. Like,

787
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 1: So that's the thing is like all championships are championships,

788
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,720
Speaker 1: but not all championships are the same. And that doesn't

789
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: discredit Steph. It's just I think it's really like, I

790
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: think it's really unfair framing to just be like Steph

791
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:23,720
Speaker 1: beat Lebron four times in his era. It's like, yeah,

792
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 1: but he had the help of the other guy that

793
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: was on his tier in Kevin Durant, right, and had

794
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 1: the most talented roster in the league, the most talented

795
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: roster in NBA history in the twenty seventeen twenty eighteen era.

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00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 1: That's not a shot at Steph. I just think turning

797
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 1: that against Lebron, I think is particularly unfair. And then

798
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:43,879
Speaker 1: also like just mentioning Tyler harrow Less for the NBA

799
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 1: Finals that's he ripped through Katie and Devin Booker, Lebron,

800
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: James and Anthony Davis and Jimmy and Bam and like

801
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 1: whatever you want to say about the heat, Jimmy and

802
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: bam are literally like the one of the very best

803
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:58,919
Speaker 1: playoff duos in the league. So they took the two,

804
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:03,399
Speaker 1: They took three legitimate dominant duos and just ripped through

805
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:07,240
Speaker 1: them without an issue, And I think undercutting that is silly.

806
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 1: Next question, all of the Bucks players other than Damon

807
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:14,359
Speaker 1: Giannis are in the bottom ten ten to fifteen ish

808
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: percentile or lower in rim attempts, meaning no other no

809
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: one other than them touches the paint much. I think

810
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:22,320
Speaker 1: this makes them easier to guard. And despite them trending

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00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 1: in a good direction, I don't think they can peak.

812
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 1: Their peak can contend with Boston. But I really love

813
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 1: the show and wanted to know your thoughts. So bost

814
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: Milwaukee's been playing a lot better, but they've been playing

815
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:35,399
Speaker 1: a week schedule. Over the course of their last four games,

816
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,439
Speaker 1: they played what they injured sixers, and then they played

817
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: the Hornets twice, and then they played the Bulls. So

818
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 1: they're heading into a really tough part of their schedule

819
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 1: now and we're gonna be covering them very closely. I

820
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 1: want to kind of withhold my take there until I

821
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 1: see them against some of these really good teams in

822
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 1: the next week. In week or two, just so we

823
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: can get a better feel of where their defensive progress is.

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Speaker 1: Next question, This one was funny. I actually enjoyed this.

825
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: I know you cover only the top half of the league.

826
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Speaker 1: That's where covering, But can you provide a quick minute

827
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 1: thought on what Chicago's lineup of Vouch at the four

828
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 1: and Drummond at the five would look like? Kind of

829
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:11,840
Speaker 1: akin to Mini's lineup of Gobert and Towns. Chicago a

830
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,879
Speaker 1: playing team, so technically you're obligated to talk about them

831
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 1: the same way as the Lakers and the Warriors. I

832
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,959
Speaker 1: thought that was funny. I shouldn't say what it looks

833
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 1: like they roll it out against Cleveland or whenever a

834
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: team is a couple of bigs, But why not just

835
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 1: adopt that philosophy entirely to see how it works down

836
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 1: the stretch. Stop playing the opponent and just roll out

837
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: the two towers and work around them. So, first of all,

838
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: I pulled the numbers just for fun. Vusovich and and

839
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: Drummond have played three hundred and ten possessions together. They

840
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 1: have a one to nineteen offensive rating, which is very good,

841
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 1: but they have a one to twenty one defensive rating,

842
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:45,799
Speaker 1: and that to me, is the big difference between the

843
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: Gobert like a drum and Vusovich versus a Gobert Towns lineup.

844
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 1: Like Drummond is a really interesting player in the sense that, like,

845
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 1: if you catch him on the right night, he can

846
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:59,439
Speaker 1: be particularly dominant. I know this just because I covered

847
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 1: him when he was with the Lakers very closely. But

848
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 1: there's a difference in foot speed between those two duos.

849
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert is just so far and away better defensively

850
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 1: than either of those Chicago guys. I think what makes

851
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 1: the two big lineup work there for Minnesota is one

852
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 1: Kat's a great shooter, but so is Vouch, and Rudy

853
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: Gobert is just this like transcendently great defensive player that

854
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:22,360
Speaker 1: can switch and can drop and cover all this ground.

855
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: Like to me, it's just fundamentally different because of Rudy

856
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: Gobert and the lack of foot speed I think has

857
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: been clear in those lineups. Three hundred and ten possessions

858
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:32,439
Speaker 1: is not a non existent sample size, it's a pretty

859
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 1: decent sample size, and they've just gotten run over on

860
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 1: defense in that group. Next question, you said a team

861
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 1: has to have the guy to win the title. Who

862
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: was the guy at San Antonio in twenty fourteen, in

863
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 1: Golden State in twenty fifteen, Golden State in twenty fifteen,

864
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 1: is Steph. Don't let the Finals MVP narrative fool you.

865
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,920
Speaker 1: He was very clearly the Finals MVP in twenty fifteen.

866
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 1: It's one of the biggest travesty's in NBA history. Andre

867
00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: Guidala got to guard Lebron with like seventeen helped defense

868
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 1: behind him because everyone else on that Cavs team was

869
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,280
Speaker 1: severely limited offensively or at least other than j R. Smith,

870
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 1: and so he was able to limit his efficiency. And

871
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: then the Cavs started blitzing Steph Curry late in that series,

872
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: which was leading to Draymond Green short roles, which was

873
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:18,400
Speaker 1: leading to Andre Gudala corner threes and cuts, which is

874
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: where he got all of his scoring from. So like,

875
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: I think the twenty fifteen NBA Finals MVP was a

876
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:25,879
Speaker 1: textbook example of like a good chunk of NBA media

877
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 1: not really knowing what they're watching when they're watching basketball games.

878
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 1: Next question, what is your opinion of the NCS and

879
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 1: tournament given how poorly the Lakers have been doing ever

880
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 1: since winning it? Any improvements. He would recommend a couple things.

881
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 1: Jared Vanderbilt is completely and utterly indispensable to the Lakers.

882
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:48,839
Speaker 1: He's their only starting caliber perimeter defender, so like, without him,

883
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:52,359
Speaker 1: they look like shit. And despite all of that, they've

884
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,240
Speaker 1: still the Lakers have been pretty solid since January seventh,

885
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: you know, So, like I do think the Lakers are

886
00:43:57,560 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: better than their record looks, and I do think their

887
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 1: Nc's Tournament win was legitimate. It's just without without Jared Vanderbilt,

888
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 1: they just can't ever compete defensively the way that they

889
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: did it during that Ncason Tournament stretch. That does not

890
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 1: mean that I think they're a top tier contender or

891
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: anything like that, but I do think they're winning the

892
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 1: tournament was an indicator of them being a really good

893
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 1: team at that time, which was the best version of

894
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 1: this particular Lakers team, like a dominant physical press presidence

895
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 1: of Lebron James and Anthony Davis. But they also were

896
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: a really good defense during that time because of Jared

897
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 1: vanderbilt improvements for the Ncason Tournament. I don't know. It's

898
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: a good question. I have to think more about it.

899
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,839
Speaker 1: I would say that, like I would do, I could

900
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 1: do without the obnoxious red court. I'm not even anti

901
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:44,320
Speaker 1: painted courts, but the red was a little much. Also,

902
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 1: like I think, I think that you could probably push

903
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 1: it to an even bigger field, like maybe play for

904
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 1: seeding and then have sixteen teams, maybe just because the

905
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:55,839
Speaker 1: single elimination format was so much fun. But here's the thing,

906
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: I think they'll tinker with it. I think they'll tinker

907
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,840
Speaker 1: with different times of the season too, But overall, I

908
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: was just I was really happy with it. Next question, dude,

909
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 1: On a separate note, I hate to break it to you,

910
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,439
Speaker 1: but when your body starts to fail you and slow down,

911
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 1: you won't have time to play guitar. At that point

912
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: in your life. You will most likely be spending your

913
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: time as a fan, traveling all over the place watching

914
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 1: your kids sports activities. I loved this comment. For those

915
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 1: of you guys who didn't get the backstory, I did say

916
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: in our last mail bag that when my body finally

917
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: fails me, that's what I'm gonna devote more time to

918
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 1: playing guitar because right now I just only do it

919
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: for a few hours a week. Here's the thing, Yeah,

920
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:34,759
Speaker 1: that's probably what's going to happen. I'm probably gonna end

921
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 1: up just going around to all my kids' sports activities.

922
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:40,319
Speaker 1: But let me just pretend I'm gonna try to still

923
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:42,439
Speaker 1: have hobbies when I get there. Let me at least

924
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 1: just go into it with an optimistic attitude and see

925
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: if maybe I get lucky. You made the argument that

926
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: Yo gets they have a higher peaker, a higher peak

927
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: than Steph, but he has a ton of ground to

928
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 1: gain before before he can be in the same conversation

929
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,320
Speaker 1: as him all time. Wouldn't that be the same argument

930
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,359
Speaker 1: for Lebron and Jordan had the highest peak six chips

931
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: in eight years, but Lebron clearly has had the better

932
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 1: career in totality. Thanks and love the show. Thanks again

933
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 1: for supporting the show. This is what makes the go

934
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:13,359
Speaker 1: argument so silly. Everyone's criteria is different. If you lean

935
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:17,320
Speaker 1: towards dominance, it's obviously mj like, here's the advantage of longevity,

936
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: Like so much of this is outside of your control, right,

937
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: like Lebron getting drafted into a bad franchise like the

938
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavaliers who were poorly run at the time, right.

939
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: Or Dwayne Wade's rapid decline after he went to Miami, Right,

940
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 1: Or like Anthony Davis's injury availability, Kyrie Irving in his

941
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: demanding of a trade in twenty eighteen, hell Kevin Durant

942
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 1: decided to go to the Warriors. All these different things

943
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: are different variables in Lebron's career, right, So like variables

944
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 1: are variables. So the longevity case is, if I get

945
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: twenty one years of all NBA caliber play consecutively in

946
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 1: a vacuum, do I have more chances to win a

947
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:05,879
Speaker 1: title than say Jordan, who did less over less time. Right,

948
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 1: That would be where it gets complicated. My thing is

949
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:13,800
Speaker 1: that's really difficult to quantify, whereas trophies are very easy

950
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:16,839
Speaker 1: to quantify. There's trophies, ones got six, ones got four.

951
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 1: That's not the end of the day or end of

952
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 1: the argument. But that's why I lean slightly more towards

953
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 1: the dominant side than I do the longevity side. I

954
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: still factor in the longevity. I think Lebron's longevity has

955
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 1: made it razor thin, and like, who knows, maybe when

956
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: I look back at this five years from now, I

957
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: might feel differently than I feel now, But right now

958
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 1: I still feel like Jordan, to me is the greatest

959
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 1: basketball player that has ever played, and Lebron is just

960
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 1: a very very close second. That's where I feel right now.

961
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:45,880
Speaker 1: You know, I may look at it differently in the future.

962
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 1: And here's the thing that I'm not one of those

963
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 1: guys that, like Is, will refuse to change his mind.

964
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:54,360
Speaker 1: Like I always am evolving and taking in new information,

965
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: My perspective changes sometimes, like I may just feel differently

966
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 1: about the game in five years. But that's where I

967
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: stand as of right now. Hey, Jason Love the show,

968
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 1: could you explain how much the mechanics of a jump

969
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 1: shot means to your success as a shooter. For example,

970
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,479
Speaker 1: Shot Marion had a very unorthodox shooting form, but still

971
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 1: wasn't a terrible shooter. How much do you think a

972
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 1: quick release helps a player. It's obviously been pivotal for

973
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:16,400
Speaker 1: Curry to have such a quick release. How much do

974
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 1: you think Aunt or Lucas shot could improve if they

975
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:23,320
Speaker 1: had quicker releases lower set points. First of all, the mechanics,

976
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 1: to me, it's way less about your release, in way

977
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 1: more about can you do the exact same thing every

978
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:32,680
Speaker 1: single time. The two primary things that I look at

979
00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: with shooting is one a lack of wasted movement. In

980
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 1: two repeating the same exact form every single time. And

981
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:41,880
Speaker 1: what I mean by lack of wasted movement, they're like hitches,

982
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:43,799
Speaker 1: whether that's a hitch in your lower half, a hitch

983
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:46,360
Speaker 1: in your upper half, whatever it is, where like you

984
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 1: just waste movement on your way up. That's why I

985
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 1: practice a lot on like no dip shooting and like

986
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: a bad pass shooting, where like the ball comes at

987
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 1: a different angle and you go straight into your shooting

988
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:58,839
Speaker 1: pocket from a different angle. I try to start every

989
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 1: shot from up because that allows me to have less

990
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:04,840
Speaker 1: waste movement wasted movement. Also, if I can repeat the

991
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 1: exact same motion every time, it doesn't matter if I

992
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 1: shoot like that, Like, if I can do the exact

993
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 1: same thing every time, it'll go in. And that's kind

994
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:13,400
Speaker 1: of the Sean Marriyon case, right, who was a guy

995
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:16,800
Speaker 1: who could be a good shooter right and had seasons

996
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:19,239
Speaker 1: in his career where he shot the ball really well.

997
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:21,760
Speaker 1: So that that's the mechanics side of it. On the

998
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 1: release side of it, like a quicker release obviously is

999
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: a huge advantage. The thing is is like a lot

1000
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: of the bigger players out there just haven't needed to

1001
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 1: have a quick release, and so they're able to kind

1002
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 1: of have success with a slower release, but like to me,

1003
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: a quicker release is always going to be an advantage

1004
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 1: just because it gives you a you know, the ability

1005
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:40,879
Speaker 1: to get the shot off in shorter windows. Another big

1006
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 1: part of it, too is a guy like Curry lives

1007
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 1: and breathes with his jump shot. You know a lot

1008
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 1: of other guys like you know, like a Lebron for instance,

1009
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: Like that's just kind of more of a counter in

1010
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: his game, right, And so for him, it's not something

1011
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 1: that he probably has devoted nearly as much time to

1012
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:58,879
Speaker 1: well clearly hasn't devoted nearly as much time to five more.

1013
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 1: What can the Pacers do to have a better defense? So,

1014
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: first of all, Tyre's Haliburton and Ben Mathern are both

1015
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 1: really really bad perimeter defenders. I think Aaron Nei Smith

1016
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:10,000
Speaker 1: being out has really hurt them, although he did come

1017
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 1: back in the Pelicans game. Although that Pelicans game they

1018
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 1: just ran into a buzz saw. Here's the thing. When

1019
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:16,839
Speaker 1: you lose Bruce Brown into trade and then you also

1020
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: lose Aeron Neesmith to injury, Andrew Emphard is like your

1021
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:23,040
Speaker 1: best perimeter defender and that's just not going to get

1022
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:25,800
Speaker 1: the job done from there. Constructing it is really simple.

1023
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 1: You have the front line right, you have a good

1024
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 1: rim protector in Myles Turner who's actually pretty solid and

1025
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:32,439
Speaker 1: switches too, and you have Pascal Siakam is that big

1026
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 1: forward that can be your low man help defender and

1027
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 1: a guy who can clean up the defensive glass from there.

1028
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 1: If you have a good point of attack defender in

1029
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 1: there somewhere, if someone like an Aaron Neesmith, or if

1030
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 1: they can upgrade that at some point, or if Ben

1031
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 1: Mathern can become that guy, then it's about your other

1032
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 1: two guys in that back court just being able to

1033
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 1: do their jobs. So for a guy like Tyre's Haliburton,

1034
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 1: for instance, it would be competing in hedging and recover situations,

1035
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:55,279
Speaker 1: so like hedging so that you don't so that the

1036
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:57,200
Speaker 1: guy can't turn the corner, and then sprinting back to

1037
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: chase a shooter, helping, defensive, rebounding, all the different things.

1038
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 1: If you can craft smaller roles for them, with a

1039
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 1: good perimeter defender and with Siakam and Turner anchoring things,

1040
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:08,480
Speaker 1: those guys can do good do a good job, and

1041
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:11,280
Speaker 1: there's smaller defensive roles. That's kind of like the pathway

1042
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: towards constructing a better defense for them. Next question, I

1043
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: wish there was another way to see your video analysis

1044
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 1: because I haven't used Twitter in like ten years. So

1045
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:21,399
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Why don't I always point you guys

1046
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 1: to Twitter. That's where I originally built up my platform.

1047
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:28,880
Speaker 1: So as a result, like I have the majority of

1048
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:31,920
Speaker 1: my followers are there, right, So, like my Instagram account,

1049
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 1: for instance, only has like thirty seven hundred followers, but

1050
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 1: I have I don't even know how much on Twitter,

1051
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 1: but I have a lot more on Twitter, right. So,

1052
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: Like on Twitter, that's where I put out most of

1053
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: my like in between show content, just because that's where

1054
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 1: most of my audiences. That's where I do my film threads.

1055
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 1: But I am aware of the fact that like more

1056
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 1: people want to see more video stuff, So I'm actually

1057
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 1: working on that at the moment. I've a couple of

1058
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 1: different things in mind. We might try to produce it

1059
00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:57,320
Speaker 1: into the YouTube show again, and it just gets a

1060
00:51:57,320 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 1: little tricky with like the with like getting flagged by

1061
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:02,880
Speaker 1: YouTube for using NBA footage, and it's just always like

1062
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 1: a risk because if they flag you a few times,

1063
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you can't monetize anymore, so it

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00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 1: gets a little tricky. But another thing I'm thinking I'm

1065
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 1: gonna try and probably try in the next week is

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00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 1: something called watch playback, or I think it's actually now

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00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: just called playback, but it's an opportunity that allows me

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00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 1: to actually put my Synergy feed on the screen and

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00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:20,759
Speaker 1: then I can literally go through game film on the

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00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: screen in almost like a stream that you guys can

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00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:26,319
Speaker 1: jump on. It kind of has like a little bit

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Speaker 1: of like a twitch vibe. So I'm gonna be trying

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00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:31,239
Speaker 1: that in the next week. I'll shout it out on Twitter, though,

1074
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 1: so like, try to get on Twitter at least for

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00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:37,040
Speaker 1: the announcement portion of it, and then I will point

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00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:38,880
Speaker 1: you guys towards playback and then you guys will be

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00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: able to see film sessions there. Next question Philly Jason.

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Speaker 1: I played basketball myself and also sprain my ankles maybe

1079
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:48,759
Speaker 1: seven or eight times in total. I never want to

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00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 1: watch basketball injuries because I know how painful they are.

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00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:53,400
Speaker 1: The difference being that these people are playing on their

1082
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 1: ankles maybe a week or two later. It took me

1083
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 1: about a month to even walk properly. So I used

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00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 1: to add. When I first got out of call, I

1085
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 1: was pretty I broke my foot my second year in college,

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00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 1: but other than that, I did pretty well with injuries.

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Speaker 1: But when I got out of college, like three consecutive

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00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:11,919
Speaker 1: years in a row, I had like one really bad

1089
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 1: ankle injury, and all three times I was out for

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00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 1: like like three weeks like you're talking about. But what

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00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: actually put me onto this new thing was Connor McGregor's trainer.

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Speaker 1: I saw some video of Connor McGregor's trainer doing these

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00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:28,799
Speaker 1: like gnarly ankle flexibility exercises that made it so that

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00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:31,880
Speaker 1: like he could withstand ankle sprains, And so I started

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00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 1: every single day literally twisting the hell out of my

1096
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:37,839
Speaker 1: ankle in both directions three ways, so like I'd literally

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00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:39,880
Speaker 1: get up on my toe and I'd roll it like

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00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,399
Speaker 1: as hard as I can without being in like severe pain,

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00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:46,919
Speaker 1: three times both ways. And now ever since then, even

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Speaker 1: when I do tweak my ankle, I'm able to usually

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00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: get right back up and play on it. So like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is about that exercise, but

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00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,640
Speaker 1: it just kind of builds like an additional layer of

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00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: like flexibility and pliability and your ankle tendons and makes

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00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:00,319
Speaker 1: it so that when you sprain your ankle, well, it's

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00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 1: not an issue. I haven't missed a significant knock on wood.

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00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 1: I haven't missed a significant chunk of time with an

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Speaker 1: ankle injury. And I'm talking about even a couple of days.

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00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:10,360
Speaker 1: I haven't missed a couple of days with an ankle

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00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:13,319
Speaker 1: injury since I started doing that exercise. Now, hopefully nothing

1111
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 1: bad happens after I just jinxed myself. But that is

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Speaker 1: just a simple exercise that I would recommend to people.

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Speaker 1: Next question, I appreciate you talking about your playing career.

1114
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:24,959
Speaker 1: I felt the underlying tinge of being ass at ball

1115
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,800
Speaker 1: during high school. Lol. Also never knew you were a

1116
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: giant sixty six. Oh nah, But yeah, man, love it

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Speaker 1: and appreciate what you do. Here's my question. You said

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00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:35,240
Speaker 1: you had consistent You said you had a consistent shooting routine.

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Speaker 1: And with me being a young adult, I'm getting more

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00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 1: into basketball, and I wonder if there's a burnout when

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00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:42,360
Speaker 1: it comes to shooting. When I shoot a lot, my

1122
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:44,479
Speaker 1: wrist literally starts to hurt, not in a good way,

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00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:46,879
Speaker 1: more in a I could injure my wrist kind of way.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, there is like a built in limit with

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Speaker 1: the human body when it comes to shooting, or does

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00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 1: pushing through it help in the long run? My bad

1127
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:55,120
Speaker 1: with the essay, long question. No worries at all. I

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00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:57,399
Speaker 1: just appreciate you supporting the show and interacting with us.

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00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:02,719
Speaker 1: So here's the thing. I do an obnoxious amount of shooting. Obviously,

1130
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 1: I had an injury though related to overuse. This was

1131
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:09,760
Speaker 1: actually when I was in Charlotte. This was in twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: The story behind this is crazy. I was playing in

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00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:16,560
Speaker 1: a league there in town. I was. Charlotte had such

1134
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:19,080
Speaker 1: an awesome basketball community. I was playing in like three

1135
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 1: different leagues a week. Every pickup run had like a

1136
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:25,400
Speaker 1: half dozen dudes who played professionally overseas, either in the

1137
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:27,360
Speaker 1: past or currently. Like it was. It was just so

1138
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 1: much fun. And we were in a championship game, and

1139
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:33,840
Speaker 1: I actually, ironically this was a great example of one

1140
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:35,680
Speaker 1: of those ankle sprains. I sprained my ankle in the

1141
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:38,760
Speaker 1: game and was it was in the championship game. Sprained

1142
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 1: my ankle in the game and was able to come

1143
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: back and play just like more or less fine. And

1144
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 1: it was tie game with like five seconds left, and

1145
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:49,759
Speaker 1: I just hit a dribble combination into a pull up

1146
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:52,239
Speaker 1: three and hit it, and we won the championship, and

1147
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:55,120
Speaker 1: I was super stoked and like all like obviously, like

1148
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:56,440
Speaker 1: at this point in time, I was still trying to

1149
00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 1: play professionally overseas too, so like I was like fulfilled

1150
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:01,839
Speaker 1: because I felt like this this like, oh my gosh,

1151
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:04,080
Speaker 1: my hard work is paying off, Like this is so cool.

1152
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 1: I literally woke up the next morning and I couldn't

1153
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 1: extend my right elbow all the way. And it was

1154
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:11,719
Speaker 1: weird because I didn't feel any pain during the game

1155
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:13,879
Speaker 1: the previous day in my elbow. So I'm like, that's weird.

1156
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 1: So I go up to the gym to do my

1157
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:17,799
Speaker 1: usual shooting routine, and I start my shooting routine by

1158
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:19,479
Speaker 1: going around the world. So I start on the block

1159
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 1: and I make a shot at the block, and then

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00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:22,360
Speaker 1: I make a shot at the next block, in the

1161
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 1: next block, in the next block, then the elbow. Then

1162
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:27,760
Speaker 1: I make five free throws. Then I go into my routine.

1163
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:29,359
Speaker 1: That's just how I kind of like warm up. It's

1164
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:33,120
Speaker 1: kind of like form shooting basically. Right, I go to

1165
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 1: do my form shooting and I can't, Like I stand

1166
00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:38,359
Speaker 1: at the block and I go to shoot once and

1167
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 1: it's just this horrible pain and I like can't shoot.

1168
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:45,400
Speaker 1: And so my buddy is a doctor. Those of you

1169
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 1: guys who follow my other podcast, Two Sons podcast, that

1170
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:51,560
Speaker 1: one I the buddy that I recorded with as a doctor.

1171
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 1: So I asked him, I'm like, what's going on. He's like, dude,

1172
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:57,680
Speaker 1: you have tennis elbow. So, like tennis elbow is basically

1173
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:00,960
Speaker 1: like an inflammation of that tendon in your elbow. And

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00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:02,840
Speaker 1: so I ended up having to wear like this gnarly

1175
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: brace and I periodically deal with inflammation in that area

1176
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:08,279
Speaker 1: although I can, I've learned how to deal with it.

1177
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:10,480
Speaker 1: But like that's the one injury I've had that I

1178
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 1: think is effectively burnout when it comes to shooting. But

1179
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:15,879
Speaker 1: with that kind of stuff, it's just ice and ibuprofen

1180
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:18,959
Speaker 1: to treat the inflammation, and like, honestly, it should be fine,

1181
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 1: Like your body should be able to withstand high volume shooting.

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00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 1: Last question Love the show is their TV footage of

1183
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 1: when you played college basketball. So I played at a

1184
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 1: small school, an Naia school in Phoenix that had less

1185
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 1: than a thousand students. Now we were a really good

1186
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:35,160
Speaker 1: basketball team, Like we beat a Division one while I

1187
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: was there, and we like were top five in the

1188
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:41,720
Speaker 1: nation for Naia most of the season. We ended up

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00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:43,880
Speaker 1: actually the team that won the national title that year.

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00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:46,440
Speaker 1: During the regular season, we went to their place and

1191
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:49,760
Speaker 1: beat them soundly, like we were really good Anaia team.

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00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 1: But like obviously we didn't. We weren't on television. So

1193
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:55,120
Speaker 1: like I have if you go to my Twitter feed

1194
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 1: out underscore jsonlt in my pinned tweet, I have like

1195
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 1: a two and a half minute long video that's like

1196
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:06,080
Speaker 1: a compilation of like like footage of me playing in college,

1197
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 1: footage of me playing in Juco, footage of me playing

1198
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 1: in showcases, footage of me playing pickup. You can find

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00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 1: that stuff there that I'll give you just a general

1200
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 1: idea of what I look like as a basketball player.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, As always, I sincerely appreciate you for

1202
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:22,360
Speaker 1: supporting the show. We were planning on going for Celtics

1203
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:24,640
Speaker 1: Warriors tomorrow, but it looks like Steph Curry is gonna sit,

1204
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: so I think we're gonna end up taking that one

1205
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: off and going Monday morning. So be ready for the

1206
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 1: show on Monday for power rankings as well as some

1207
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:36,760
Speaker 1: game breakdowns. I'm planning on hitting like Kings, Wolves, and

1208
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:39,560
Speaker 1: maybe one or two games from the Sunday slate. As always,

1209
00:58:39,560 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys and I'll see you Then. The

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Speaker 1: volume