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Speaker 1: so far this season. Just a classic deep dive like

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Speaker 1: you play that game ten times, you'd be lucky if

429
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Speaker 1: one out of those ten times Paul George makes the

430
00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:29,119
Speaker 1: same impossible pull up theirs and we seen him do it.

431
00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,080
Speaker 1: He did it against the Lakers enforced overtime. Like, Paul

432
00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,040
Speaker 1: George can get hot and make shots, but if you're

433
00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:40,119
Speaker 1: banking on you winning games by knocking down difficult, contested

434
00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:43,560
Speaker 1: pull up jump shots, while the other team is banking

435
00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:47,639
Speaker 1: on winning games by force feeding an incredibly high percentage

436
00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:52,520
Speaker 1: play around the basket, Like they scored seven consecutive times.

437
00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,359
Speaker 1: If you do that ten times, they're scoring at least.

438
00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:00,160
Speaker 1: If you play that same game ten times, they're they're

439
00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,639
Speaker 1: scoring at least five out of the seven about every time,

440
00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,480
Speaker 1: about every one of those ten games, Like there's no

441
00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,720
Speaker 1: version of that where like you hold the Nuggets to

442
00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:13,639
Speaker 1: go oh for seven, not with those lineups, not with

443
00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,320
Speaker 1: those personnel mismatches, not with Nikolea Jokic on the floor.

444
00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:18,360
Speaker 1: And so again, like that, that to me is why

445
00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:20,400
Speaker 1: it's so important when you're watching film and when we're

446
00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:24,399
Speaker 1: evaluating these teams to separate process from results, because when

447
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:25,960
Speaker 1: you get into a seven game series, you got to

448
00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,720
Speaker 1: do it four times. You gotta do it four times

449
00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,919
Speaker 1: in two weeks. And so like if we saw a

450
00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,679
Speaker 1: Clippers Nuggets matchup in the playoffs, like if that's the

451
00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,480
Speaker 1: way that that one team is approaching the offensive end

452
00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:40,879
Speaker 1: and then the other team is just getting these easy

453
00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:42,720
Speaker 1: bread and butter plays like they're just gonna win. I

454
00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:44,520
Speaker 1: don't know what else I'll tell you Now. From one

455
00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:46,240
Speaker 1: O nine, one oh four, it got a little weird.

456
00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,360
Speaker 1: Reggie Jackson missed both of his free throws, and then

457
00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,119
Speaker 1: Kawhi got that weird call on the miss dunk, and

458
00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,920
Speaker 1: then Jokic turned it over against the Clippers backcourt pressure,

459
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,200
Speaker 1: and so as a result, Paul George got a chance

460
00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:57,399
Speaker 1: to tie the game with a pull up three, but

461
00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,080
Speaker 1: he ended up shooting it into the side of the

462
00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:00,720
Speaker 1: rim and it got wedged in there between that and

463
00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,800
Speaker 1: the backboard. As the Nuggets got away from the win.

464
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,480
Speaker 1: So got away with the win, I should say, but

465
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,360
Speaker 1: I thought it was really interesting because you know, this

466
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,920
Speaker 1: is a consistent thing that I've seen around the league

467
00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,640
Speaker 1: in general with general managers, you know, and we saw

468
00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:19,159
Speaker 1: this with the Nets, Like we're getting Katie Kyrie and

469
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Speaker 1: James Harden. We got the Sons, We're getting Kevin Durant,

470
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:24,200
Speaker 1: Devin Booker and Bradley Beal. We got the Clippers, We're

471
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Speaker 1: getting Kawhi Leonard, Paul George, and James Harden with Russell

472
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:31,199
Speaker 1: Westbrook right, like this idea of we're just going to

473
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Speaker 1: put together all of these pull up shooters and we're

474
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Speaker 1: just going to be so hard to guard because of

475
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Speaker 1: all of our pull up shooting game that we have.

476
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Speaker 1: And really, pull up shooting, I've always said, is a

477
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:48,400
Speaker 1: ceiling razor. It's a thing that pushes your team over

478
00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:50,920
Speaker 1: the top. It should never be your bread and butter.

479
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Speaker 1: There's one player that I can remember in NBA history

480
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Speaker 1: who like pull up shooting was kind of their bread

481
00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,560
Speaker 1: and butter and was the and it's steph with the Warriors.

482
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 1: But even then it's like, like not really though, because

483
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,880
Speaker 1: he works off ball so much, and like the step

484
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:10,800
Speaker 1: off ball actions produced so much reverse gravity away from

485
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,560
Speaker 1: the rim that like there's all this high percentage stuff

486
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,280
Speaker 1: happening around the rim. And again, like what did I

487
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 1: say were the high percentage plays for the Clippers down

488
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,119
Speaker 1: the stretch? It was the James Harden pick and rolls.

489
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,679
Speaker 1: Now the Clippers did the Nuggets did end up eventually

490
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,480
Speaker 1: slowing that action down by one the switch by getting

491
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 1: Yokics onto James Harden, they could have offered better help

492
00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 1: and gotten away with it in all likelihood. Then there

493
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,000
Speaker 1: was another play. It was actually the same possession before

494
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 1: the Jokic switch, where Reggie Jackson just did an incredible

495
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 1: job navigating the screen as Jokicic was in a deeper

496
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,800
Speaker 1: drop and it actually kept the pocket pass from happening

497
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:46,360
Speaker 1: in they kind of shut the action down, and that's

498
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,240
Speaker 1: when they Terrence Man ended up popping to the three

499
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,879
Speaker 1: point line, which ended up causing the switch as Reggie

500
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 1: Jackson recovered out to Terrence Mann instead of Harden. But again,

501
00:23:56,160 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 1: like in general, like that sort of action, when you're

502
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: just getting the defense into rotation and playing basketball out

503
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:06,880
Speaker 1: of that. Even that is a higher percentage play than

504
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,399
Speaker 1: just consistently taking tough pull up jump shots. It's just

505
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 1: nobody that can make him at a high enough rate. Again,

506
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:13,679
Speaker 1: Steph Can He's about one point two points per pull

507
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 1: up jump shot. He's the one guy that like if

508
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,640
Speaker 1: he you know, we saw him do it against the Celtics, Like, Okay,

509
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:20,399
Speaker 1: you're gonna run your drop coverage. I'm just gonna pick

510
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,359
Speaker 1: you guys apart by hitting these over the top jump shots.

511
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 1: But even then I would argue, it's not their bread

512
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 1: and butter. There's so much more that comes from that offense,

513
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,920
Speaker 1: and so like this is this is the issue. Like you,

514
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 1: it is better to be effective than pretty. You know,

515
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,159
Speaker 1: when Paul George is hitting those crazy pull up jump shots,

516
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:41,240
Speaker 1: it's god damn, it's impressive. Like it. It's like Paul George,

517
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,920
Speaker 1: his fluidity in his jump shooting is just so impressive.

518
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,560
Speaker 1: And that's why so many young basketball players are such

519
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:50,159
Speaker 1: big Paul George fans, including myself. But at the end

520
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,120
Speaker 1: of the day, like those ugly ass Jokic post ups,

521
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 1: at the end of that game that almost always were

522
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: you know, misshot offensive rebound, a little bobbled here, Aaron

523
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,199
Speaker 1: Gordon not quite dunking it, kind of barely getting it

524
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:02,880
Speaker 1: over the front of the rim. Like it doesn't matter.

525
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 1: They scored every possession. I mean, I don't know the

526
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:08,160
Speaker 1: numbers off the top of my head, but I think

527
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,199
Speaker 1: it was fifteen points and seven possessions because it was

528
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: all buckets on all of them, and then the and

529
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Speaker 1: one on the Aaron Gordon play. That's fifteen points and

530
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 1: seven possessions. Like, that's really reliable basketball. Now. A couple

531
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,360
Speaker 1: things on the Clipper side, there was some upside, right,

532
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 1: like the I think you saw some of the potential

533
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 1: of that group offensively. But like I said, one of

534
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,360
Speaker 1: the downsides of the James Harden trade is you sent

535
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 1: out all your forwards, all of them literally, and you

536
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 1: brought back a forward that was shorter than all the

537
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,640
Speaker 1: forwards you sent out, and you sent out your one

538
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 1: really athletic young forward, right, you sent out one of

539
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,679
Speaker 1: your best perimeter defenders and Nick Batoom. So like in

540
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 1: that situation, you've created other physical mismatches elsewhere on the floor.

541
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Speaker 1: I think Daniel Tice will help. He's a perfectly fine

542
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,919
Speaker 1: backup center option. But in order for me to like

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00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 1: truly get behind the Clippers as a potential contender, I

544
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 1: would need to see the offense kind of develop into

545
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,160
Speaker 1: a more consistent version of what we saw last night.

546
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 1: And then I really think they need an upgrade in

547
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,400
Speaker 1: the forward spot, like just another body out there so

548
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: that when they go small, they're bigger than they looked

549
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:18,159
Speaker 1: last night. Like when it's Terrence Man and Norman Powell

550
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: and James Harden all on the floor without a center,

551
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,440
Speaker 1: that's a really small basketball team, and you're gonna have

552
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,200
Speaker 1: a really really hard time winning games, especially in the

553
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 1: later phases of the playoffs with that. On the Nuggets front,

554
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 1: I thought that was because I thought the Nuggets played

555
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 1: like shit in a lot of ways in this game.

556
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 1: They really got baited by the Clippers switching into some

557
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 1: poor isolation decisions a lot of guys, you know, And again,

558
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:47,160
Speaker 1: this is what switching does, right, Like switching negates screening actions.

559
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 1: That's what it does. Like if you run a pick

560
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:50,200
Speaker 1: and roll, you run it so that you can get

561
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 1: downhill because the guy's going to chase over the top

562
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: of the screen. If he doesn't chase over the top

563
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 1: of the screen, it's just a switch. Now we're kind

564
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:57,879
Speaker 1: of back where we started, except for now I have

565
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,200
Speaker 1: to beat a different player off the dribble, right, and

566
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,439
Speaker 1: it can be effective in stagnating teams. And I think

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00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: I think the Nuggets always knew in the back of

568
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: their head they'd be able to do what they did

569
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: down the stretch, which is go to Jokic. But for

570
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: a large portion of the game, it's like, here's Aaron

571
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,679
Speaker 1: Gordon trying to isolate Kawhi Leonard and he gets ripped.

572
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 1: You know, there was a lot of kind of like

573
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,440
Speaker 1: freelance basketball taking place, in large part because the Clippers

574
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,160
Speaker 1: were baiting them into it in a lot of different ways.

575
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: But I put down in my notes, Jokic is the

576
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,120
Speaker 1: best break glass in case of emergency option in the NBA,

577
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 1: which I mean, he's the best player in the NBA,

578
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: so it doesn't really matter what the little individual categories are,

579
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 1: but it just that's what that kind of felt like

580
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,439
Speaker 1: to me. It felt like, ah shit, the Clippers are

581
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 1: up seven on us, Like, let's just go to Jokic

582
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,159
Speaker 1: every time and we'll get a win. Like that. I

583
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 1: also wanted to shout out Reggie Jackson. He's at seventeen

584
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 1: points per game on fifty three percent from the field

585
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,919
Speaker 1: and thirty nine percent from three over his last three games,

586
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 1: twelve assists and three turnovers, doing a really nice job

587
00:27:56,320 --> 00:28:00,080
Speaker 1: filling in for Jamal Murray with his current hamstring issue.

588
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: And again, I think it's an example how easy it

589
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 1: is to play with Nicole Jokich, Like this is a

590
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: good NBA guard. Reggie Jackson's a good player. Is he

591
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 1: good enough to start for a really good team? Probably not,

592
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: But is he good enough to fill in for Jamal

593
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,400
Speaker 1: Murray in a system like this where they need good

594
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,400
Speaker 1: guard play next to Jokic. Absolutely, And I think he's

595
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 1: done a really nice job. I thought he had some

596
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 1: key defensive moments in this game. I mentioned to you

597
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 1: guys the like Harden ran the pick and roll and

598
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 1: got an easy shot out of it. It was like the

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00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 1: one easy shot they got right and then on the

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00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,640
Speaker 1: very next possession, Reggie Jackson just is like not enough

601
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: of this and fought over the top of the screen,

602
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: stay attached and basically shut the action down. And so

603
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: I think that's been a really nice you know, we

604
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: talk a lot about the Nuggets bench not being very good,

605
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: but they do have some individual good players, and the

606
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: bench lineups have really struggled. But as individual bench players

607
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: have stepped in and played core important minutes with the

608
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 1: as they've played core important minutes with Jokic in the starters,

609
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: they've been able to kind of fill in and be

610
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: a reasonable facsimile of what the other guys do, right.

611
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: I also wanted to I saw a kind of a

612
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: similar type of dynamic taking place with Jalen Pickett, where

613
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: and then again he got put into a tough spot

614
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: too with the Clippers switching, where he had to take

615
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: a couple of tough pull up jump shots pull up

616
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: threes off the dribble that he probably otherwise wouldn't take.

617
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: He actually did make one of them. But I actually

618
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 1: thought he did a nice job in general in the

619
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: Yokic actions of like understanding how to catch and move

620
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 1: without the basketball and to throw those post entries when

621
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 1: they're there, and to not get carried away with looking

622
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: for your own shot. I thought he did a decent job.

623
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: And he's a guy that kind of has like a

624
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: stocky low center of gravity who can have some success

625
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: defensively as well. I thought it was an impressive win

626
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: for Nugget for the Nuggets, because again, when you play

627
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: like shit and you win, especially when you've got guys

628
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: out of the lineup, that's always encouraging. All right, let's

629
00:29:54,480 --> 00:30:00,040
Speaker 1: move on to Pacers Sixers. The Tyrese Haliburton show, the

630
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: way the way that he picks part the Sixers defense,

631
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: and this game was super impressive because like, there's three

632
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: layers to the pick and roll attack, right, Like there's

633
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: the on ball layer, there's the roll man layer, and

634
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: then there's the weak side layer, right, and you have

635
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: to be a legitimate threat at all three layers in

636
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: order to make yourself difficult to guard there. And Tyree's

637
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 1: just kind of slowly built this fear in the Sixers

638
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: defense that manifested in a shit show of a defensive

639
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: quarter for the Sixers in the fourth quarter, and I

640
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 1: wanted to kind of break that down. So it started

641
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Speaker 1: with pull up shooting, right, So Tyrese makes like four

642
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: pull up threes in the first half, and by the way,

643
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 1: he's up to twenty five for sixty two on pull

644
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: up threes this season. That's forty point three percent. And

645
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: that essentially put the sixers in the position where now

646
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: they're starting to come consistently come out to the level

647
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: of the screen, and it just in general, they're overreacting

648
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: to Tyrese Haliburton on ball reps. Right then he started

649
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: burning them on the weak side by hitting cutters coming

650
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 1: out of that week side corner. Obi Toppin in perticular,

651
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: I had a bunch of these in this particular game.

652
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about Obi Toppin later, But like, one

653
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 1: of the big things that's made him a seamless fit

654
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 1: with this with this Pacers team is that he just

655
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 1: is a very good cutter and he's been one of

656
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: the best cutters in the NBA to start the season

657
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: this year. So, like, if you're burning a team at

658
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: the point of attack by hitting pull up jump shots,

659
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 1: which is pulling the rollman, the screen defender out, and

660
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: you're also burning the lowman because when the lowman comes

661
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: over to tag the roller, that's where the cutters open. Right.

662
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: If you're consistently burning that with cutting out of the

663
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 1: weak side corner, that can open up some things where

664
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: the rollman has some space, right because if you're taking

665
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: away the on ball guy in the lowman's hesitant to help.

666
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: There's opportunity in there for the lowman. And what was

667
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: interesting is like, like Miles Turner was in foul trouble

668
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 1: all night and had fifteen points in the fourth quarter

669
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: of this game because he was just getting all the

670
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: space in the world to kind of navigate and operate

671
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: in that short roll area. And again, like it was

672
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: such a it was so funny because in the fourth

673
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: quarter it was like a total show because the Sixers

674
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: just had no idea what to do. On the possessions

675
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: where they didn't tag the roller, Miles Turner would get

676
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: a bucket. There was a possession where they tagged the

677
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: roller and Tyres Alliburton just throws a lob and Obie

678
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: Topping comes flying in from the weak side just ah,

679
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: you know, dunk's on Tyre's Maxi's had and screams and yells,

680
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: and then it's like final Embiid kind of runs a

681
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: more traditional drop coverage and and Tyris Halliburton just hits

682
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: like this amazing right handed scoop shot off the glass.

683
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: There was another possession late where Embiid kind of like

684
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: did his quick show but then quickly recovered back to

685
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: Miles Turner. And Halliburton just bam, hits a left hand

686
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: step back dribble onto the left wing and knocks down

687
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: another pull up three point shot. They just had literally

688
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,719
Speaker 1: nothing they could do with him. They he absolutely and

689
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: utterly picked them apart. And again, guys, this is an

690
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: elite defensive team in the Philadelphia seventy six ers. No

691
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: one was safe. Now again we'll talk about I'm not

692
00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: gonna talk too much about the Sixers today because I

693
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: want this to be more of a PACER's focus. But

694
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: like Tyros, Maxy did not have a good defensive game.

695
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: And he's still a young defensive players, super active and

696
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: is always playing hard and has good quickness, but he

697
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 1: just his defensive instincts and anticipation are just a little

698
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: bit off, and he was responsible for a few of

699
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 1: those early tyres Haliburton pull up threes, and obviously at

700
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: at the point of attack, he couldn't hold his own

701
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter and was in trail position too

702
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: frequently and not applying good back pressure. Like obviously Tyris

703
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: Maxy is a weak point there, but the rest of

704
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: the lineup that you have out there is good defensive players,

705
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: and he was just completely picking them apart. Tyre's has

706
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 1: been Tyrese Haliburton, I should say, has been the best

707
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: pick and roll player in the league by a mile.

708
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 1: To start this year, He's run two hundred and eighteen

709
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: pick and rolls that have led to two hundred and

710
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: eighty three points. That's one point three zero points per possession.

711
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: That is preposterous. There are thirty players in the NBA

712
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: to run at least one hundred pick and roll so

713
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: far this year, and Tyrese is comfortably ahead of the field.

714
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: He's at one point three. Luka Doncic is in second

715
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: place at one point one point one. We're not talking

716
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,840
Speaker 1: about a small gap here, that's a seventeen percent gap.

717
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 1: He is seventeen percent better than the second best pick

718
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: and roll ball handler in the league. And so again,

719
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: like we talked about that that dynamic of the three

720
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 1: different levels of pick and roll shot creation, right shot

721
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: making at the point of attack area, the rollman, the

722
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 1: weak side, and obviously passing is the connective tissue that

723
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,280
Speaker 1: puts all those three together. Passing from the ball handler

724
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: to the rollman, er to the weakside corner, passing from

725
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: the rollman to the weak side corner. You know, like

726
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: that that is all connective tissue there, but Tyres in

727
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 1: particular puts it all together because he is great in

728
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: all three areas. So we talked about the pull up shooting. Obviously,

729
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: forty percent on pull up threes for the season, a

730
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,240
Speaker 1: Ty Halliburton pull up jump shot is worth one point

731
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 1: two to two points per possession. That's insane. So that

732
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 1: we talked about like that. We talked about this with

733
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 1: the with the Nuggets, but the idea of what's untenable

734
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: for a defense to allow, Like you want to know

735
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: why the Nuggets were just letting Paul George and Kawhi

736
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 1: work one on one and take tough pull up jump

737
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: shots because they'll probably make half of them and they're

738
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 1: mostly two's, So that's a point per possession. That's a

739
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: totally acceptable, you know, arrangement for a defense. And in

740
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 1: all likelihood they're probably only going to make forty to

741
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:33,879
Speaker 1: forty five percent of them. And now you're down at

742
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 1: you know, nine tenths of a point per possession. Right,

743
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: you have to be able to cause such you know,

744
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 1: destruction to a defense that it's untenable for them to continue.

745
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: And when you're getting one point two to two points

746
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: per pull up jump shot. That is a real easy

747
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 1: way to have opposing coaches like, hey, we got to

748
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:52,839
Speaker 1: show high on this guy, like we can't, we can't,

749
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: we can't give him the shot. If he does, he's

750
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: literally going to kill us. And that's literally what happened

751
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: in the first quarter when he sat there and made

752
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: the shot time and time again. Right then he's got

753
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: this deadly floater in the mid range. He's thirteen for

754
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,240
Speaker 1: twenty three on floaters this year. That's fifty six percent

755
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: or one point one to three points per shot. That's

756
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: really good. And then he's sixty six percent in the

757
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: restricted area on two point three makes per game, which

758
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: is not amazing, but it's solid. It's perfectly fine. I

759
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: would even argue it's a little above average for an

760
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 1: NBA guard. And we talked about that little scoop finish

761
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: that he had over Embiid because, like, Tyreese is not

762
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: an elite athlete, but he's got good size and I

763
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:29,360
Speaker 1: think he has elite start stop quickness. I think he

764
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 1: can get to his spots in large part because of

765
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 1: his ability to go from like those hesitation moves to

766
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 1: good quick, explosive dribbles that first step to get to

767
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: where he wants to go, and then he has all

768
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: the shot making stuff from there, but then you have

769
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: to be able to make the reads and like, you know,

770
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 1: it's funny, I hate you know, there's there's a certain

771
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,319
Speaker 1: amount of play there's like two different kinds of like

772
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: good playmakers in the NBA. In my opinion, there's like

773
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: the Jason Tatum Yannis class where it's like, I'd even

774
00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: throw Kawhi Leonard in there in terms of relative to

775
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: what he used to be, where it's like this guy's

776
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: starting to kind of figure out how to make teams

777
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: pay for throwing the kitchen sink at him, and and he,

778
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,359
Speaker 1: you know, he's averaging six or seven assists a game

779
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 1: or whatever. You know, Like Kawhi like went from a

780
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: guy who just was just a flat out terrible playmaker too,

781
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,280
Speaker 1: like now he's good at it. Like he's not great,

782
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: but he's good. He's fine. He's average, flightly above average

783
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: type of playmaker. Right. There's always like a chasm though

784
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 1: between those guys and like the really good playmakers at

785
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: the top of the league. And I've always thrown in

786
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: Nikole Jokich, Luka, Doncic Lebron James in this group. Chris

787
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 1: Paul is in this group when he was in his

788
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: prime and he could score the ball more. Tyres Max

789
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 1: He's in this group, and this is like, it's almost

790
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 1: just like a natural thing. I'm gonna get I'm gonna

791
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: get really nerdy here for a second. I'm a diehard

792
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: Star Wars fan, But in the Star Wars universe, there

793
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: is this concept of like force sensitivity, Right, So like

794
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: the Jedi would like find all the young kids in

795
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,040
Speaker 1: the galaxy that had a connection to the Force, and

796
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: they bring them to the temple and they train them. Right.

797
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 1: That's kind of like the way I view high high

798
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,840
Speaker 1: level playmaking in the NBA. It's like you either have

799
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: it or you don't. It's not something that can be taught.

800
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: It's not something that even like looks the same for

801
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 1: every player. There are just some guys in the league

802
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 1: that have a natural affinity for making lightning quick decisions

803
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: and that can quickly interpret everything that's happening on the

804
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 1: floor and it comes natural to them. It's not like a, oh,

805
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: you know, I got to the point where I could

806
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 1: kind of make some reads. It's like they relentlessly make

807
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: the reads and it's just it's like hardwired into their system.

808
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: And I think I think we can pretty safely say

809
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: at this point that Tyrese Maxi is one of those guys.

810
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: And like there is a skill element. I want to

811
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 1: be clear. There's a we talk about energy transfer for

812
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:50,280
Speaker 1: jump shooting, right, like transferring energy from the from your

813
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,919
Speaker 1: feet through your handle all the way through the jump shot,

814
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: right or that that like kind of that fluidity, right,

815
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,399
Speaker 1: that fluidity between transferring from your handle into a jump shot.

816
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 1: The same thing applies to passing, Like you need to

817
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 1: be able to make a retreat dribble. But like let's

818
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: just say you make a right handed through the legs

819
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 1: cross over to your left hand in a retreat dribble

820
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,320
Speaker 1: because you see a you know, pressure in your face

821
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: and you need to quickly throw a left handed skip

822
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 1: pass across the court. Like I think young players in

823
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 1: general need to practice this. I saw a video of

824
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: of Jalen hood Chafino for the Lakers, who's trying to

825
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,320
Speaker 1: come back from a of a knee injury, I believe,

826
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 1: and he was doing a drill with the Lakers staff

827
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: where he was working on movement shooting. But what they

828
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: did to kind of get it started, is they had

829
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: him take a retreat dribble and pick and roll and

830
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 1: throw a left handed skip pass. They just made him

831
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,280
Speaker 1: throw a left handed skip pass to start every rep

832
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:44,719
Speaker 1: and then he like ran into the block and then

833
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 1: cut through to the weakside corner and one of the

834
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: coaches hit him for a catch and shoot jump shot

835
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: in the in the in the right corner. What I

836
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: liked about that is, like that's an example of like

837
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: layering stuff in a drill to make sure you get reps,

838
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: because it's hard to just be like, hey, we're gonna

839
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 1: practice left hand passing today, but if you mix it

840
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: in with stuff, it can matter. But again, like there

841
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: is a skill element, like Tyers Maxi is one of

842
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 1: the best left handed passers in the NBA. It's a

843
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,360
Speaker 1: vitally important skill. Again, like specifically that left hand because

844
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 1: most pull up jump shooters that are righties are most

845
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 1: comfortable shooting pull up jump shots when the ball's in

846
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 1: their left hand. They want to drive left, hit that

847
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: high hesitation, and then rise into a jump shot. And

848
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 1: the main reason for that is their left foot is back,

849
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 1: so the right foot's forward. It's natural footwork for a

850
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: right handed player, when you're coming towards your right, as

851
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 1: a right handed player, you have to swing that right

852
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: foot around, which adds like an additional kind of physical

853
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,359
Speaker 1: exertion element to the shot, which just makes it harder. Right.

854
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: You know, we all remember the video that was going

855
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:40,760
Speaker 1: around a while back with Cam Johnson and JJ Reddicks

856
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 1: talking about right handed shooters going to the right, they

857
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 1: have to square up in mid air. It's more challenging. Right.

858
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: So pull up shooting is a vital part of pick

859
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 1: and roll, and most right handed players are better pull

860
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 1: up shooting and going to their left, then the ball is

861
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 1: going to be in your left hand, and if you're

862
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: going to make passing reads out of that, you're probably

863
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 1: going to need to be able to make passes with

864
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 1: your left hand. And so I wish it was a

865
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 1: more a consistent thing that we saw in player development

866
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 1: among the younger, younger players. But like even if we

867
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: assigned that as a skill, which again like Tyres Maxy

868
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: has those Tyre's Halliburton has those skills down. He's got

869
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 1: the handle, he's got the fluidity connecting the handle to

870
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: his passing and to his shooting and all those different

871
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 1: things it's also just a natural ability, like the dude

872
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: just sees every There was a play in the fourth

873
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 1: quarter of this game where he hit I think it

874
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: was Obie Toppin, but I'm not certain, but it was

875
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: on the right wing and it was a broken play

876
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: and he lost control of the the ball and he

877
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 1: was facing away from the basket, and he gained control

878
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 1: and turned and identified a cutter out of the weak

879
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 1: side corner, out of the right corner, all in an instant,

880
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:42,839
Speaker 1: and like through a perfect little leading pass that just

881
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 1: hit the dude in stride as he was going to

882
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:48,360
Speaker 1: the basket. And I'm like, this is just lightning quick

883
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: instincts from this kid. Like it was a broken play.

884
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,359
Speaker 1: It wasn't even like, oh, a textbook pick and roll.

885
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:55,439
Speaker 1: Low Man read like it was a broken play where

886
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: he just saw something break open, and he just doesn't

887
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 1: miss these opportunities. He sees everything before it happens. I've

888
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 1: been so incredibly impressed, and I had a ton of

889
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: fun today diving into the Tyres Haliburton film as I

890
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: keep trying to say Tyre's MAXI thanks to that Sixers game,

891
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: Obi top and he had twenty seven in this game.

892
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: He's averaging a career high eleven points per game and

893
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:19,720
Speaker 1: a career best sixty nine percent through shooting percentage, despite

894
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 1: the fact that he can't really shoot right and still

895
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 1: isn't particularly I think he's at right around thirty percent

896
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,919
Speaker 1: from three this year. So how is he having more

897
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 1: offensive offensive success than he used to have in this

898
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: system than he did in other systems. He's doing two

899
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: things extremely well. The Pacers have done a really nice

900
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: job of just focusing him in focusing him at what

901
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 1: he's good at right, and that's moving without the basketball

902
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: cutting like if you see the low man go over

903
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 1: instead of just waiting for a corner three cut. And

904
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 1: like we've seen this with Aaron Gordon with the Nuggets.

905
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 1: You can be a good spacer as long as you

906
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:53,919
Speaker 1: catch and dunk everything under the basket quickly. And that's

907
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: kind of what It looks a little different because he

908
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 1: doesn't have the matchup attacking piece that Aaron Gordon has,

909
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: But it's similar to Air Gordon in the sense that,

910
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 1: like the with the inverted spacing, with Miles Turner doing

911
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,360
Speaker 1: so much drible handles and drible handoff stuff around the

912
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 1: three point line and popping to the three point line

913
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 1: so much. He's got kind of that whole baseline to

914
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 1: work with, and Tyrese is just super good at finding him.

915
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: He's a big target, similar to Aaron Gordon in the

916
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: sense that it's like, just throw it somewhere up there

917
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:23,880
Speaker 1: and he's gonna get it, like the Donkey had at

918
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:25,800
Speaker 1: the end of the game, that backside lob like it was.

919
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 1: He's so high above the rim. It's just a massive

920
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:31,760
Speaker 1: target that you're throwing. Yet, he has scored seventeen baskets

921
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 1: on cuts this year, that is the seventh most in

922
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 1: the NBA. And then the second piece of it is

923
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:38,399
Speaker 1: just running his lane in transition. This is a team

924
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: that pushes the ball a lot, and they've got guards

925
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,439
Speaker 1: that are willing to push the ball ahead. He's got

926
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: twenty mad transition baskets, which is the twelfth most in

927
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 1: the NBA. Defensively, is still a mixed bag. He's so

928
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:51,399
Speaker 1: top heavy that he's kind of easy to knock off

929
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 1: his center of gravity. You saw Tobias Harris have some

930
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 1: success against him last night doing that. But he's found

931
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 1: a role here he's and he's excelling in it. And

932
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: I'm happy for Robi toppin. Miles Turner. We talked about

933
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 1: the stuff he did on the roll. I won't get

934
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:06,320
Speaker 1: into that again, but just quick hands, quick decisions and

935
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 1: finishing and making free throws. That helped too, because he

936
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:10,839
Speaker 1: drew a couple of fouls down there, but he also

937
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 1: got a couple of key stops on Joel Embiid just

938
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 1: by keeping his body in front. He's one of the

939
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:16,399
Speaker 1: guys too that's like big enough to kind of hold

940
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 1: his own down there a little bit. He had a

941
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 1: playing pick and roll where he beat Embiid to his

942
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: role spot and took a charge. There's another play where

943
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 1: and Be tried to kind of force a quick iso

944
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: on him and he had em Beats so flummixed that

945
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:28,919
Speaker 1: he ended up shooting behind his head and he got

946
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,360
Speaker 1: a miss, and then Embiider was frustrated, and then Embiid

947
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 1: actually did meet him to the middle, and because he's frustrated,

948
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 1: instead of just dunking the basketball, he tried to like

949
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:38,799
Speaker 1: pulverize the rim and ended up missing a dunk. Shout

950
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:40,279
Speaker 1: out to Miles Turner. I thought he had a big game.

951
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,759
Speaker 1: It's so hard to uh, it's so hard to play

952
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: well when you're in foul trouble because it disrupts your

953
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 1: rhythm and when you do get into the game at

954
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 1: the end, it's like you feel like you're not even

955
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,959
Speaker 1: a part of the basketball game at that point. Yet

956
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: he kind of stayed resilient through all that. Bruce Brown,

957
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 1: he's been getting his face just, you know, literally burned

958
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,720
Speaker 1: off by Tyrese Maxey over the course of the weekend.

959
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:03,279
Speaker 1: Right gave him fifty the last time they played, but

960
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: finally got some stops down the stretch of this game,

961
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:10,880
Speaker 1: some big stops on Tyrese Maxi had a big, a

962
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 1: semi transition layup where kind of similar to what he

963
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: did to D'Angelo Russell in the Nuggets series last year.

964
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: Were coming up the left wing. The Bigs are back

965
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 1: in transition, but they're up at the level because they're

966
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: getting ready for whatever Tyre's Halliburton is gonna do. So

967
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:25,879
Speaker 1: there's kind of like this open space on the back

968
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 1: side of the play and he just goes right hard

969
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: to the rim on Tyrese Maxi and gets a layup.

970
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:32,359
Speaker 1: I thought he played really well. I thought he's been

971
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 1: a really nice fit for them. In the big picture.

972
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:37,879
Speaker 1: They're currently seven and four. They have the seventh best

973
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:39,879
Speaker 1: record in the NBA. They finally have some signature wins.

974
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 1: I didn't have them on my power rankings yesterday because

975
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 1: they had just one win against a team that is

976
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:47,359
Speaker 1: currently below five hundred. In fact, their first five wins

977
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,359
Speaker 1: were all against teams that are currently below five hundred.

978
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 1: But since then they beat the Bucks and the Sixers

979
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 1: all be at the Bucks without Dame. They have the

980
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: best offense in the league one hundred and twenty two

981
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: points per one hundred possessions. They are a terrible defense,

982
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 1: so they're twenty eighth in defense. The biggest issue on

983
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: defense right now is they can't protect the paint. They're

984
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:05,399
Speaker 1: the only team in the NBA currently giving up over

985
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:08,439
Speaker 1: sixty points per one hundred possessions in the paint. They're

986
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: also twenty fourth in defensive rebounding, and the rebounding's tough

987
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: because they are a small team and that's just gonna

988
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,400
Speaker 1: be kind of the reality of their predicament. But I

989
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: do think they can be better than they have been Defensively,

990
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: they don't force enough turnovers for being as athletic as

991
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 1: they are, and just in general, I think they're capable

992
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: of being a more aggressive perimeter defense, forcing turnovers and

993
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 1: getting out in transition, and I think that'll be the

994
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 1: obviously the biggest thing that prevents them from being as

995
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: good as they're capable of beating. Then, my biggest question

996
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 1: with this team right now is where does Ben Mathern

997
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: fit into this picture. He only played sixteen minutes all

998
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:44,919
Speaker 1: night last night. They closed with Buddy Heald in his spot.

999
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 1: His scoring efficiency and usage are all down this year,

1000
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 1: and so I'm just I'm really interested to see whether

1001
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:56,240
Speaker 1: or not he's going to get enough opportunity to continue

1002
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 1: his development here if he's gonna end up getting squeezed

1003
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: as a result of that Ben, as a result of

1004
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 1: that Bruce Brown signing. All right, let's move on to

1005
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: fake questions, real answers. Jason, are the Golden State Warriors

1006
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:14,800
Speaker 1: in trouble? No? What did I tell you guys when

1007
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: the Lakers got off to a bad start, I said,

1008
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,919
Speaker 1: when it comes to good teams, you know, you don't

1009
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 1: just rip off wins against good teams like it doesn't happen,

1010
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 1: like it's You're not going to see a team go

1011
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:30,720
Speaker 1: on an eight game winning streak where they beat eight

1012
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 1: playoff teams like that doesn't happen in the NBA. The

1013
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:37,280
Speaker 1: tea the league is too deep, Like the Boston Celtics

1014
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: have been incredible and have been so dominant, and they

1015
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:46,640
Speaker 1: went to Minnesota and lost, and they went to Philly

1016
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 1: and lost, because sometimes when you play great teams, you lose.

1017
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:52,359
Speaker 1: And by the way, the Celtics have I think last

1018
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 1: time I checked, they've won seven games against teams that

1019
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 1: are above five hundred. So the Celtics have beaten a

1020
00:47:57,640 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 1: lot of good teams. But you don't beat the good

1021
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 1: teams every time. You're gonna drop some games against good teams, right, So,

1022
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: generally speaking, the good times in the NBA regular season

1023
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:08,840
Speaker 1: for good teams where they rack up wins are usually

1024
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:12,800
Speaker 1: you're healthy and you're playing a weaker stretch of your schedule.

1025
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:15,399
Speaker 1: Like the Lakers, they've won three in a row. Now

1026
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:20,800
Speaker 1: they're six and five and things are just kind of better. Right, Well,

1027
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 1: they're healthy now, Ads back from his injury, Ruby Hachimuraz

1028
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 1: back from his injury, and they played three opponents and

1029
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: the Suns, the Blazers and the sons of Blazers and

1030
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies that are combined nine and twenty two. So

1031
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 1: again like that that's when they will go on a

1032
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 1: win streak, right, And that's the thing with the NBA

1033
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 1: is like then you're gonna have these downstretches where it's

1034
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: like we're playing some tough opponents and guys are hurt,

1035
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:51,839
Speaker 1: and like all of a sudden, it's like, oh shit,

1036
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 1: we lost two or three games in a row, or

1037
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,840
Speaker 1: we lost four games in five tries. That's what happened

1038
00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 1: to the Warriors. Like Steph is hurt, Steph got hurt,

1039
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 1: and you're playing a really tough stretcher your schedule and

1040
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 1: now you're dropping games, right, Like you had a bad matchups,

1041
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: Like we talked about the Warriors' toughest matchup for them

1042
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: is elite rim protection teams that have good perimeter defenders

1043
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 1: that can UH, that can kind of pressure the ball

1044
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,359
Speaker 1: and force them to back cut into their UH into

1045
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 1: their rim protection. Right, that's the type of team that

1046
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 1: causes the Warriors problems. They lost to two of them

1047
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 1: over the weekend, and then they dropped a game where

1048
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 1: their best player was out, So like, does that to

1049
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:34,359
Speaker 1: me reflect the big picture of Golden State? No, Like

1050
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 1: we talked about, if they're gonna beat those sorts of teams,

1051
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: they need more scoring punch, right, Like they're gonna need

1052
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:43,799
Speaker 1: Clay and Chris and Andrew Wiggins to get back to form. Right.

1053
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, Andrew Wiggins is

1054
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 1: playing really poorly. I don't think that's gonna continue throughout

1055
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 1: the season. Like there's they have they have ways to

1056
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 1: fix that within the within this locker room, within the

1057
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: scope of this current regular season. Right. But this is

1058
00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 1: what the bad times look like. Injuries, tough schedule, they

1059
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 1: lost some games. It happens. What did I expect from

1060
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 1: the Warriors this season? If you guys remember in the

1061
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:07,919
Speaker 1: season preview what I said I viewed the Chris Paul

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Speaker 1: trade as a playoff ceiling razer, but that within the

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Speaker 1: scope of the regular season, I still thought they would

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Speaker 1: struggle some and that they'd be kind of in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the pack. Kind of seems like where we're headed.

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Speaker 1: But like, I'm not ready to write off the Warriors

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Speaker 1: over the streak. They're one of only six teams in

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Speaker 1: the NBA right now with a winning record over five

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Speaker 1: hundred of better teams. They've won four games like that

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Speaker 1: this year against five hundred of better teams. They have

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Speaker 1: quality wins. The Steph injury is not serious. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: be back. Talk about Draymond in a minute. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: be suspended probably, but he's gonna be back. Like the

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Speaker 1: Warriors are not done. This is just what the downtimes

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Speaker 1: look like. And just in general, as an NBA you know,

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Speaker 1: fan base, we all need to do a better job

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Speaker 1: of like kind of understanding that within the eighty two

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Speaker 1: there are gonna be highs and lows. There's no steady

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Speaker 1: ascent into greatness. Like even let's look back at the

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Speaker 1: year that they won the title. They start fIF teen

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Speaker 1: in one in large part because they're healthy and there

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Speaker 1: was some easy games on the schedule, right, They get

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Speaker 1: off to a great start for the first what two

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Speaker 1: thirds of the season, and Steph gets hurt, and then

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Speaker 1: they starts dropping games and it's like the sky is falling,

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Speaker 1: and then everyone gets healthy in time for the playoffs

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Speaker 1: and they win the title. So again, like just in general,

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Speaker 1: we need to these little three, four, five game windows

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Speaker 1: where teams don't play well. We need to do a

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Speaker 1: better job of compartmentalizing and not overreacting to these ten

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Speaker 1: to fifteen game stretches where a team looks somewhat mediocre,

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Speaker 1: but key players are out of the lineup. Like all

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Speaker 1: that tells me is, yeah, if that key player misses

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, then yeah, they might not be able to

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Speaker 1: win a series, you know what I mean. But I

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Speaker 1: just I think that's so interesting because like my next

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Speaker 1: question is, Jason, have the Lakers finally figured things out?

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Speaker 1: And I mean, this is what the good times look like.

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Speaker 1: Easy schedule, guys, healthy, You're gonna rack up some wins

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Speaker 1: if you're a good team, right, And there are some

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Speaker 1: encouraging signs right there. Shooters are making shots finally, Like

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Speaker 1: I talked a lot going into the going into the

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Speaker 1: winning streak about how what's so bizarre about this Laker

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Speaker 1: team is Dangel Russell historically good shooter, not making shots,

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Speaker 1: Austin Reeves historically good shooter, not making shots. Gabe Vincent

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Speaker 1: historically good shooter, not making shots. Torrian Prince historically good shooter,

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Speaker 1: not making shots. Like all those guys were shooting horribly

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Speaker 1: compared to their career averages, right, And like what you've

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Speaker 1: seen over this recent winning streak is those guys have

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Speaker 1: started to make shots. And that's good, that's positive regression,

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Speaker 1: that's a good sign right a lot of better offensive

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Speaker 1: process as well. I think that has led to that,

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Speaker 1: but we're not going to get into that today. Anthony

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Speaker 1: Davis appears to be over his hip issue, like he

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Speaker 1: was moving great last night. That's good. Help is on

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Speaker 1: the way. Jared Vanderbilt is gonna come and help it

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Speaker 1: with a lot of their perimeter defense issues. And then

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Speaker 1: I want to shout out D'Angel russelly a big game.

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Speaker 1: I think he hit six threes last night. I think

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Speaker 1: he's in a tough spot in a lot of ways.

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Speaker 1: Because I've said this on the show, some Laker fans

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Speaker 1: disagree with me, but I think that D'Angelo Russell getting

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Speaker 1: traded is one of the safest bets of this NBA season.

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Speaker 1: He like plays the exact same position as Austin Reeves

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Speaker 1: and does all the exact same things for all for like,

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Speaker 1: you know, their delos a little bit better as a passer.

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Speaker 1: Austin's a little bit better as a scorer in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: especially within the playoff context. But like they're more or

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Speaker 1: less the same player, and they're both limited athletes, so

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Speaker 1: they can't play together, and that just kind of inherently

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Speaker 1: makes it so that if you have. If you're serious

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Speaker 1: about winning a title this year, you're gonna just in

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Speaker 1: terms of resource allocation, you're better off turning de Los

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Speaker 1: salary into a great perimeter defender that could play next

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Speaker 1: to Austin, right. I think you've seen that in crunch time.

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Speaker 1: They've consistently gone down with Austin in crunch time instead

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Speaker 1: of De Lo. But despite that, he's just been such

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Speaker 1: a professional. He's been a leader to the young players

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Speaker 1: on the team. He's had a really good attitude when

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Speaker 1: he's been benched, He's cheered the team on, even did

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Speaker 1: that during the Nuggets series last year. He just has

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Speaker 1: been a force of positive energy. And like he's in

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Speaker 1: a situation where like he might play amazing the rest

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Speaker 1: of the year and he might stay with the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna happen, but that's certainly an

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Speaker 1: outcome that's on the table. But like, that's what's crazy,

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Speaker 1: is like he's in a situation where he could play

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Speaker 1: amazing until February and they still trade him. Like that's

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Speaker 1: the predicament that he's in, and he's just handling it

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Speaker 1: like a professional. And that's the thing. Like, I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of times we talk about guys as basketball

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Speaker 1: players and we forget to talk about them as humans,

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Speaker 1: and like, to me, Dangel Russell has some limitations as

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Speaker 1: a playoff player. It might end up causing him, in

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Speaker 1: my opinion, will end up causing him to be in

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Speaker 1: a different jersey come February. But the dude is just

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Speaker 1: a professional, and he is a great dude and is

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Speaker 1: doing a great job maintaining the chemistry situation within that

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Speaker 1: Lakers locker room in a way that he could have

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Speaker 1: gone a different direction if you wanted to write. All right,

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Speaker 1: Last question, Jason, you've consistently defended Draymond as different than

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Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks because he doesn't cross the line into trying

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Speaker 1: to hurt people. What do you have to say after

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Speaker 1: the choking incident last night? Like I said, I thought

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Speaker 1: this was legitimately hilarious because I just it was just

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Speaker 1: funny that I went out on a limb and then

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Speaker 1: this happened. Do I think it's the same as, you know,

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Speaker 1: trying to close line a guy who's going up for

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Speaker 1: a dunk and breaking his elbow. No? Do I think

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Speaker 1: is it's the same as deliberately rolling up on someone's

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Speaker 1: knees and trying to break their ankle or whatever the

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Speaker 1: hell Dylan Brooks was doing. No, it's not the same

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Speaker 1: as that, but it was bad. I can defend him

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Speaker 1: for taking go bet off of Clay, but like it's

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Speaker 1: one of those things where like if you were watching

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Speaker 1: the clip, you can kind of it's like I can

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Speaker 1: defend this, I can defend Oh, Okay, now I definitely

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Speaker 1: can't defend this, because it was like he didn't just

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Speaker 1: put him in a headlock. He locked it in and

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Speaker 1: then held on for a long time, and like then

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Speaker 1: after that held on for longer. And so here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: It was clearly out of line. I think he's probably

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Speaker 1: gonna get a pretty significant suspension and he's gonna deserve it.

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Speaker 1: And unfortunately doing like making that decision and putting your

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Speaker 1: team in a predicament where they're in a losing streak

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Speaker 1: and they need their players available. I think it was

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Speaker 1: a mistake. But at the same time, like, obviously I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's the same as that's classic Draymond doing

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Speaker 1: too much, but it's not the same as it's not

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Speaker 1: the same as as like actually trying to hurt people.

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Speaker 1: Unless you think Draymond was trying to kill Gobert, which

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Speaker 1: obviously is just super dramatic. Rudy made some comments after

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Speaker 1: the game that were dramatic in that regard. Obviously, Draymond's

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Speaker 1: not trying to hurt anybody, he just was. He just

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Speaker 1: crossed the line and did something that's going to get

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Speaker 1: him into a suspension situation. And like I said, when

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Speaker 1: it happens, I will agree with the suspension because I mean,

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Speaker 1: here's the thing. Clay and Jada McDaniel started to fight,

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Speaker 1: and Rudy Gobert pulled Clay off, and like, what was

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Speaker 1: interesting about it was Rudy kind of had a similar

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Speaker 1: type of thing going on, but then he didn't lock in,

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Speaker 1: Like he pulled Clay off and his hands were near

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Speaker 1: the neck, but he didn't lock in. Draymond like did

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Speaker 1: the same thing to start, and then he locked in,

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Speaker 1: and like from there, it's like that's just completely indefensible.

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Speaker 1: So whatever happens, will it will. We'll be deserved at

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Speaker 1: that point. All right, guys, that is all I have

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Speaker 1: for today. Is always I sincerely appreciate you guys for

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Speaker 1: supporting the show. We will be back with more instant

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Speaker 1: reactions and deep dives tomorrow the volume