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But the rest of the list, 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.160 we have like five additional mail bags that will be 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.320 recording over the course of the list, where you guys 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.440 will have plenty of opportunity to argue about what you 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.000 disagree with, so make sure you guys get those into 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.480 the comments. So, without any further ado, let's talk some basketball. 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:23.200 Number twenty three Bam out of Baio, a guy who 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.680 was dropped from where he was last year in the 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.560 top twenty for me. His season in review, he played 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:32.480 in seventy eight games, averaged eighteen point one points per game. 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.440 That was his lowest since twenty twenty nine. Point six 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.680 rebounds per game, four point three assists per game is 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.880 highest since twenty twenty one, two point zero stocks per 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.280 game is one point three steals per game last year 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.200 was the second highest total of his career. Now his 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.359 efficiency is where things are going to get pretty interesting, 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:51.600 and I have a lot of different stuff I want 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.680 to get into with Bam here. So he was just 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.200 forty nine percent from the field last year. That was 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.320 the lowest mark of his career to this point now. 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.560 Part of it was the increase in his three point volume. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.040 People are going to shoot lower percentages on threes. That's 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.239 going to affect your field goal percentage. He had never 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:10.840 taken more than one three point attempts per game in 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.840 the first several seasons of his career. Last year was 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:15.840 the first year that he attempted over one. He attempted 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.880 almost three threes per game, so that obviously plays a 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.560 certain role in the drop in his field goal percentage, 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:25.000 But he also shot poorly on twos. He shot fifty 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.360 two percent on twos, which is his lowest mark since 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:32.520 his rookie season. He's had three straight years from twenty 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.720 twenty to twenty twenty two in the past where he 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.560 averaged the same points per game eighteen points per game, 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:42.480 but shot fifty seven percent on twos over the course 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:46.400 of those three seasons, so substantially lower this year than 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:51.240 levels he's reached previously in his career. He's flat out 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:55.680 regressing as a shot maker inside the arc. He shot 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:59.920 below forty percent on floaters and hooks last year, which 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.320 is brutal for his position at the center position when 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.840 you do so much work rolling out of ball screens, 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.520 your ability to short range shot make, either beating switches 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.360 with quick quick hook shots or catching on the roll 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.440 and spinning into a quick hook, or making floaters on 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:19.440 the role. Those are vitally important parts of shot making 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.880 at the center position, and he was below forty percent 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.640 on them last year. He used to just be better 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.080 at it. He's fifty two percent on floaters and hooks 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.720 in twenty twenty one, fifty five percent on floaters and 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.880 hooks in twenty twenty two. So, for whatever reason, and 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:39.160 I really don't have an explanation for it, he just 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.960 hasn't been able to recreate what he did in years 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:46.680 past and elevate from there to that next level. It 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:48.720 kind of came to the surface, if you guys remember 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.600 as an issue for Bam during the twenty twenty three 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:55.839 finals in the series against Denver, he was consistently getting 0:04:56.400 --> 0:05:00.360 quality short range looks, layups a little bit further away 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:05.080 from the rim, short hooks, floaters, little bank shots. He 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.200 was getting all of these looks and he just wasn't 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.880 making them against Denver, and he was becoming a problem 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.000 because they were the kind of shots that were open 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:16.240 in their offense. Often his touch it's not just on 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.120 hooks and floaters. Either on layups, it's been an issue. 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:24.960 He shot just fifty percent last year on layups. That's 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.039 way below where his peers are at the center position 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:34.680 again Bam fifty percent, Anthony Davis sixty percent, Carl Anthony 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:38.760 Towns fifty eight percent, if he eats the Zubats fifty 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:42.240 seven percent, nikolea Jokic sixty seven percent. You guys get 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:46.440 the point. Compared to his peers, he really struggles on 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:51.520 short range shot making layups, hooks, floaters, that sort of thing, 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:53.560 and that has ended up being an issue for him 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.359 as he's failed to kind of take that next step 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.000 as an offensive player. There was kind of like this 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:02.240 inflection point for Bam in right around that twenty twenty 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.600 two to twenty twenty three phase when the Heat made 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:06.680 those back to back conference finals runs in their NBA 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:08.960 Finals run, where it kind of felt like he was 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.520 either going to improve as a finisher and become like 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.919 one of those legit second tier stars like Anthony Davis, 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:20.200 or he was gonna plateau, and instead he's kind of regressed. 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.479 This is actually crazy, even with the influx of his 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.560 three point shooting, which is legitimate, like he had never 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.000 attempted more than one three per game. He attempted almost 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.960 three three three pointers per game this year, and he 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.440 made thirty six percent of him, which is very respectable 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:39.240 as a three point shooter. But even with that influx 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.359 of like a more efficient shot profile, he posted a 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:46.160 true shooting percentage of just fifty six percent last year, 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.400 which was the lowest mark of his entire career. This 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:51.960 is a big part of how he slipped out of 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:55.400 the top twenty for me, despite the fact that Tyrese 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.600 Haliburt and Damian Lillard Jason Tatum have dropped out of 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:02.000 the list entirely, which should have bolstered him against that. 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.960 But I dropped him because he's just regressing as an 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:09.080 offensive player and it's preventing the Heat from getting to 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:13.119 their ultimate goals in the postseason. The lack of shot 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:17.400 making for Bam is especially frustrating because of how amazing 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.680 he is at everything else, including passing out of the 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.760 center position. When it comes to that part of offense, 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.240 being that five out dribble handoff folkrum, going side to side, 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.480 making reeds at a two million game, being the guy 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:33.760 that ties everything together for that offense, he's actually great 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.800 at that there are only four centers in the entire 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:42.080 NBA who meet the following criteria at least twenty five 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:43.720 minutes per game, so a guy who plays a lot, 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:46.880 a usage rate of at least twenty percent, so guy 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.480 who has the ball a lot, and an assistant turnover 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.360 ratio of at least two to one. There's four guys 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.280 in the entire NBA at the center position that meet 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.440 those criteria, and the other three guys are not very 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:05.120 athletic Demonisibonis, Nicola Vucevich. Those guys are right around two 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.120 to one, and then Yokich, who's better than three to one, 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.360 who obviously is kind of the anomaly, but those are 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:14.040 like skill focused centers who are great playmakers. And then 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.320 it's Bam. Bam is the fourth guy on that list. 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.320 Another way to put it is like this, Bam is 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:23.960 the only truly athletic center in the NBA who can 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.800 playmake at that elite like at that elite level of 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.080 efficiency and volume or he's not turning the ball over. 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.520 He's top five and assists per game among centers. He's 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.679 the only guy who brings that athleticism in that like 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:43.360 refined playmaking at that center position in the entire league. 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.679 You combine that with his unbelievable defensive versatility, which we're 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:49.679 about to get more into in a minute, and you 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:53.000 have a player that had a truly sky high potential, 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:57.120 like top tier superstar potential, if he could have just 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:01.000 added reliable shot making. That's why I've been so keyed 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:02.640 in on that piece of his game over the last 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.120 few years, and it just kind of feels like a 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.120 missed opportunity. He's regressing when it should be something that 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.520 he's improving on. But again, he's an excellent playmaker. He's 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.200 fifth and assists per game among centers overall. We talked 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:16.120 about that modern dribble handoff fulkrum in the NBA, like 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:17.880 when you have guys that can score and pass out 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.800 of action guards having a big who can flow from 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.199 side to side, meaning like run that first action. Oh 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.280 it doesn't work. Quick, make yourself available at the top 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:27.679 of the key, catch turn, and go to the other 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.440 side of the floor dribble handoff while always being able 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.120 to make the reads out of it, like, oh, they're 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.240 overplaying me. I'm gonna fake the dribble handoff and go 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.680 to the rim or setting the good screens that free 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.640 the guys up passing to guards as they backcut or 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:41.600 if they get top locked and are forced to backcut. 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:43.760 The playmaking that you do out of that. There's all 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:47.440 of this stuff that in terms of decision making and 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.599 playmaking you need from the center position in order to 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.760 run five out offense in the modern NBA, and offense 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.679 that the Heat run more than many teams in the NBA. 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:01.080 BAM's great at that. And then again the defensive end 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:05.840 of the floors where Bam really separates himself. Bam didn't 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:09.040 have his best defensive season last year. Zero point seven 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.920 blocks per game were the lowest since his rookie since 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.480 his rookie year in the NBA. Now context there, he's 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.160 playing with more two big looks. That's going to put 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.520 him in some different situations playing alongside Killo where and 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.080 I generally think it was the least motivated he's been 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:24.760 as a defender since he came into the league. As 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.480 the Heat were just so far away from achieving their 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:31.079 postseason goals, he finished outside of the top five and 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.120 Defensive Player of the Year voting for the first time 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:34.360 since twenty nineteen. 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:35.080 Last year. 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.360 I do still believe in Bam as an apex defender 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:44.160 in this league. I think that he will continue to 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.760 operate closer to that top five defensive player of the 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:50.600 year type of caliber player looking forward in his career, 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.360 I look at last year as more of like an outlier. 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.079 The big differentiator for. 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:58.840 Bam is that he's essentially a hybrid between a traditional 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:02.360 rim protecting bit and kind of like a legitimate wing 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:04.560 in terms of his ability to move his feet on 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:09.520 the perimeter. He brings the best scheme versatility defensively out 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.360 of any center in the league, aside from maybe Victor Wembanyama. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:17.880 I think he's the best switching center in the league, Bam. 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:19.760 There was a time when I thought it was Anthony Davis, 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:21.880 and you could argue Ad is still maybe a better 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:23.679 defender all around because of how good he is at 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:25.720 the rim. But Ad put on a bunch of weight 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.000 and hasn't been able to move his feet on the 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.199 perimeter as well. It hasn't been as good defending switches. 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:33.839 Bam is legitimately awesome switching out onto the perimeter. One 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:35.600 of the unique things he does that many other big 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:37.240 struggle with. We're gonna talk about this when we get 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.200 to Evan Mobley. But one of the things that like 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.959 Evan Mobley struggles with is when he gets switched onto 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.920 quicker guards, he gives too much space and those guys 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.559 get really comfortable with their pull up three point shooting. 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.440 Evan got lit on fire on pull up threes in 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.640 ISOs this year, kind of prevented him from being as 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.360 good of an ISO big as as he could have been, 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.160 as good of a switching big as he could have been. Bam, 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.600 You'll see him like two feet out outside the three 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.720 point line picking up pull up shooters way out on 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.440 the perimeter. He's way more active with his hands to 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.880 disrupt the rhythm and flow of pull up shooters so 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.640 they can't comfortably settle into pull up jump shots, while 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:16.040 also having the speed laterally and the recovery athleticism to 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:21.160 deal with quickness getting past him. He's unbelievable defending on switches. 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.360 Even last year and what everyone considers to be a 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:28.679 down year, he was still amazing on the perimeter and switches. Statistically, 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:31.760 there were one hundred and fifty one players in the 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:36.480 NBA last year who defended at least fifty ISOs. Bam 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.320 Allouja zero point six to two points per possession in 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:43.240 ISO that ranked third on that list, third out of 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:48.400 one hundred and fifty one players. He does this while 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:52.320 also being very good in traditional coverages. He gets up 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.400 to the level of screens quickly and at the level 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.120 coverages and can disrupt pull up shooters. He can contest 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.120 in the mid range. He can protect the rim. He 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.200 obviously is in his protecting the rim as some of 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.080 the taller, longer centers in the NBA, but he's good 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.360 enough at it in conjunction with. 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.720 Being one of those truly elite. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.880 Top tier switching defenders that he makes life very easy 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:16.680 for Eric Spolsterras schematically because they can build out any 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:20.040 defensive scheme that they want. Bam can do literally anything 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:23.000 you ask him to do. One of the most versatile 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:27.440 defensive foundations in the game. Bam can be a frustrating player, 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.320 and his lack of developing upside has certainly prevented Miami 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:34.520 from reaching their ultimate goals, and his regression there is, 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.400 like like I said, downright frustrating, especially if you're a 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.400 fan of Bam in the heat. But you can't do 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:42.320 a whole lot better in the modern NBA than a 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:46.480 big man who can legitimately anchor any defensive coverage at 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.320 a Defensive Player of the Year level, giving you an 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:53.040 enormous amount of flexibility from opponent to ponent, both in 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:56.760 the regular season and in the playoffs, while also being 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:00.240 a legitimately good dribble handoff fokram on offense that can 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.920 kind of get guys set up in the right spot. Now, 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:07.560 his lack of touch, especially around the rim, prevents him 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.280 from reaching that second tier of superstars in the NBA, 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.559 but his overall value is still enough to put him 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:17.880 at twenty three on this year's list. All right, number 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:23.760 twenty two Evan Mobley. 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His efficiency used fifty 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.480 six percent from the field, sixty two percent on twos. 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:36.000 He doesn't have amazing touch on short twos, like forty 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.280 percent on floaters and hooks fifty three percent on layups. 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:42.360 Those marks are only slightly ahead of where bam Adebayo was, 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.440 but he had one hundred and ninety four dunks last year. 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.320 Bam only had one hundred and forty. Now, some of 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.920 that is that Evan Mobley played with better ball handlers, 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.440 but some of it is also that Evan Mobley is 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.800 a better vertical spacer and that was something that allowed 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:59.120 him to be way more efficient on twos than bam 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.880 Adebio was last year. He also shot thirty seven percent 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:06.000 from three on three point two attempts per game last 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.600 year in the regular season, more than double the attempts 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:11.680 of any previous season in his career, and he shot 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.600 well in the postseason. He shot forty five percent from 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:16.920 three in the postseason on four attempts per game, so 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:20.360 the jump shot feels real. He's legitimately a substantially better 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:24.600 jump shooter than bam Ade Bio. He was sixty percent 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:28.080 in effective field goal percentage and a career high sixty 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:32.919 three percent in true shooting, seven percentage points ahead of 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:36.840 where bam Adebayo was last year. Evan Mobley, in my opinion, 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:40.600 has become flatly a better offensive player than bam was 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:44.920 or is. The perimeter jump shot is more reliable. He's 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.080 added some of the ability to run action. I do 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.080 think bam is a better like five out dribble handoff fulkrum, 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.600 but Evan Mobley has closed the gap in terms of 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:55.880 offensive initiation with some of his ability to run offense, 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:59.440 to run inverted action, and his superior jump shooting and 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:01.960 his vertical spacing, like we talked about earlier, it made 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:06.880 Evan Mobley a very dynamic roleman. Evan Mobley scored one 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:10.199 point one seven points per roleman possession last year compared 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.920 to just zero point nine seven for bam Ata Bio, 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.439 so twenty points better per one hundred roll man possessions. 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:18.880 And again, some of that is the gap in ball handling, 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.119 but most of it is just that Mobley has become 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:25.479 a better offensive player. Evan Mobley shot thirty eight percent 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:28.600 on pick and pop three's last year. Bam shot twenty 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.359 three percent on pick and pop three, So three is 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:33.680 when he was slipping out of ball screens. Those are 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.560 generally wide open regardless of who the ball handler is. 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.720 So like that, again, there is an obvious ball handling 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.239 gap between those two teams, but I think there's an 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:47.320 obvious gap in offensive refinement between Evan Mobley and Bamadabayo 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.600 as well. Here's some play type data for Evan Mobley. 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.840 He's a hyper efficient play finisher. One point one to 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.760 seven points per roleman possession. That's sixty six percentiles of 0:18:57.800 --> 0:18:59.600 pretty far above average. 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:00.159 One point five. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.320 Five to nine points possession on cuts that's in the 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:05.199 ninety second percentile. That's that awesome vertical spacing and his 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.640 good hands around the basket, very good in transition, very 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:10.480 good in offensive rebound situations. 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:11.840 In action. 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.000 If you go back two years to twenty twenty four, 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:17.680 Evan Mobley ran just one hundred and fifty three pick 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.880 and rolls, ISOs and post ups including passes. Last year 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:24.400 that skyrocketed up to three hundred and thirty nine, more 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:28.320 than double Now. The efficiency was only okay, zero point 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.800 nine to one points possession including passes on all three 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.399 play types combined. Again not excellent, but it was his 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:36.280 first season as like a high volume creator, and that's 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:40.640 really not bad. He was specifically successful in inverted ball 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:43.439 screen situations, meaning when he was handling the ball in 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:46.040 either Donovan Mitchell or Darius Garland or one of the 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.720 shooters like Sam Merrill or Max Strew's would come up 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:50.760 screen for him and then slip out to the three 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:52.960 point line. It kind of created some very simple reads 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:56.959 for him, like if the guards screened and the guard's 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:58.879 man didn't help, he would just turn the corner and 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:00.399 go downhill and he'd either get all the way to 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:02.479 the rim or he'd make a kick if someone stepped 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:04.399 over to help. It was a pretty simple set of reads. 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:08.119 If the guard lingered in a hedge, then the shooter 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:09.919 would slip out free and he would just pitch it 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:11.400 back to the shooter as he got to the three 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:13.640 point line. It was a very simple kind of order 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:16.800 of operations for Evan Mobley that allowed him to be 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:19.280 effective and one of the hardest actions to guard in 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:21.840 the NBA. That kind of like ghost screen action with 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:26.720 a bigger ball handler involved. When he passed out of 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:30.560 inverted ball screens. The Calves got one point zero six 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:34.240 points per possession last year, which is very good. I 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:36.920 also thought Mobley played well in the playoffs. His jump 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:39.680 shot was going in at a higher clip than the 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:43.520 regular season. He was making his hook shot, his shot 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:46.400