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Speaker 1: the Volume, Happy Thursday, everybody. Well, the Golden State Warriors

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Speaker 1: is traded for Chris Paul and suddenly we're going three

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Speaker 1: times today. So I'm gonna be breaking down this trade

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Speaker 1: but not least, don't forget. Earlier today, we did a

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Speaker 1: breakdown of the Celtics trade that brought in Chris hops

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Speaker 1: little bit on the job rates suspension, and then later tonight,

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Speaker 1: Session and Colin Coward to break down the NBA Draft.

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Speaker 1: So the deal, the machinations of the deal send Jordan

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Speaker 1: Poole to the Washington Wizards, as well as a heavily

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Speaker 1: round pick as well. Reports show that the Warriors intend

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Speaker 1: to keep Chris Paul and use him on their basketball team.

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Speaker 1: No intend to waive him, at least at this point.

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Speaker 1: I thought this was a truly bizarre trait from the

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Speaker 1: standpoint of the Warriors. These are two big time conflicting

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Speaker 1: basketball identities that are going to have to fix fit together.

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Speaker 1: So let's start there and kind of branch out. So

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Speaker 1: Chris Paul is a very high volume pick and roll

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Speaker 1: ball handler. He only played fifty nine games this year

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Speaker 1: and still amounted thirty four pick and rolls, and he's

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Speaker 1: So Chris Paul is a extremely high volume ball handler

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Speaker 1: who is still very good at it. The problem is

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Speaker 1: is only the Nuggets and Kings run fewer pick and

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Speaker 1: motion offense? What does that mean? So instead of dribbling

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Speaker 1: he screened down for the screener or some sort of

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Speaker 1: off ball action, the most teams in the NBA run that.

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Speaker 1: They just bring the ball to the floor, they space,

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Speaker 1: They might run something that flows into their pick and roll,

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Speaker 1: but they're mostly running pick and roll right. What makes

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Speaker 1: the teams like the Warriors, Kings, and Nuggets very unique

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Speaker 1: is they usually enter their offense in different ways. So

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Speaker 1: things like that. Right, Well, the Warriors same sort of thing.

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Speaker 1: full blown plays. They will run down and run sets

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Speaker 1: They run eleven point seven per game, and no one

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Speaker 1: My guess is they'll meet in the middle. First of all,

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Speaker 1: chances are they'll probably just cut his minutes way down.

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Speaker 1: But he's a very good spot up player. Chris was

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Speaker 1: Steph is obviously the best shooter of all time and

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Speaker 1: a direction the Warriors have needed to go for a while.

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Speaker 1: I think they've leaned too heavily on their motion offense

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Speaker 1: at times. Running more pick and roll over the course

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Speaker 1: of the season, even with Steph, will help them be

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Speaker 1: better prepared when they have to lean heavily on pick

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Speaker 1: which may end up being a good thing simply because

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Speaker 1: like a let's push in transition. If we don't get anything,

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Speaker 1: we're going into our motion. And every one of those

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Speaker 1: There's constantly running off the screens and running and running

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Speaker 1: Like I mentioned before, the Warriors almost always have to

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Speaker 1: And so if you look at the Jordan Poole role,

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Speaker 1: Chris Paul's probably a more consistent veteran presence. Young players

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Speaker 1: is I thought Jordan Poole was a better fit in

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Speaker 1: get downhill really easily. And Chris Paul's just different. And

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Speaker 1: Jordan Poole in particular, was the only Warrior who could

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Speaker 1: so I would have rather personally used the Jordan Poole

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Speaker 1: so intummation it can work, and Chris Paul is a

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Speaker 1: super smart player who can figure out how to fit in.

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Speaker 1: My concerns are can he stay healthy? How will they

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Speaker 1: fit with their different play styles, which we went over,

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Speaker 1: Jordan Poole plays well on a championship run, right, and

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Speaker 1: better than it looked. I think they'll re up on

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Speaker 1: Kyle Kuzma and you just run the team through Kuzman

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Speaker 1: pool for a few years, and which one of those

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Speaker 1: that's all I have for right now. I'll see you

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Speaker 1: later tonight for Live Draft Dispecial. The volume