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Speaker 2: let's talk some basketball. So the story of the game

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Speaker 2: early on was, I guess Michael Malone just got sick

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Speaker 1: But what I want to focus on is on his footwork.

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Speaker 2: So what I thought was really fascinating about that quote

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Speaker 2: And really, the big thing that stood out to me

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Speaker 2: Right we look at Kyrie, we talked about this crazy

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Speaker 1: But usually the.

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Speaker 2: by possession basis Jokic the primary driving force of what

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Speaker 2: Footwork is what allows you to weaponize your physical tools.

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Speaker 1: Footwork is the chain that connects.

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Speaker 2: Your natural gifts with the ability to actually get to

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Speaker 2: I know this from my personal experience. When I played

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Speaker 2: that you can't do that with Jokic. His base is

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Speaker 2: That really is the core of all of it his

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Speaker 2: You're constantly playing off two feet right, Your feet are

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Speaker 2: And so when you got a guy like Rudy Gobert,

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Speaker 2: That is such a boring thing that doesn't make highlight reels,

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Speaker 2: That is what allows you if you're a young basketball

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Speaker 2: And this is why I love when there's true parody

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Speaker 2: that Jada McDaniel's quote about Jamal Murray talking about how

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Speaker 2: textbook example of that kind of game from KCP only

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Speaker 1: Every shot he hit was loud.

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Speaker 2: Hit a huge three above that of the above the break

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Speaker 2: going to be growing pains along the way. Is he

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00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,400
Speaker 2: gonna need to figure out how to be more effective

437
00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:25,119
Speaker 2: in games when he gets double teamed like this?

438
00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:27,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're absolutely right.

439
00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:30,679
Speaker 2: Like, I actually think that Mike Michael Malone looked at

440
00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,960
Speaker 2: the situation and goes, oh, Mike Conley's not playing. Well,

441
00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:36,760
Speaker 2: if Mike Conley's not playing, there's not a like a

442
00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:40,520
Speaker 2: really really high IQ offensive player on the floor other

443
00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:42,960
Speaker 2: than Anthony Edwards, So like we might as well just

444
00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:44,480
Speaker 2: get the ball out of his hands and make these

445
00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:46,200
Speaker 2: guys play off of him. I really think that that

446
00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:48,919
Speaker 2: was the read that Michael Malone played. It's very possible

447
00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,719
Speaker 2: we see a different coverage if Mike Conley's out there,

448
00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:53,679
Speaker 2: especially given the fact that even though Ant was so

449
00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,320
Speaker 2: effective in Game three, in Game four, the rest of

450
00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,560
Speaker 2: the offense for Minnesota was so dead on arrival. Again,

451
00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:03,520
Speaker 2: I was talking about and comparing him to Jason Tatum

452
00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:08,000
Speaker 2: as it pertains to the future of American basketball basketball players.

453
00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:11,280
Speaker 2: I like Jayson Tatum a lot. I have no issues

454
00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,920
Speaker 2: with him at all whatsoever. I think he's probably somewhere

455
00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,720
Speaker 2: around the seventh, eighth, ninth best player in the league.

456
00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,480
Speaker 2: I actually think that he's good enough to win a

457
00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:22,160
Speaker 2: title with this Boston Celtics team, considering how much talent

458
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,920
Speaker 2: he's surrounded with. All I said is he's not capable

459
00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,720
Speaker 2: of being better than Nikola Jokic. Anthony Edwards, at age

460
00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,960
Speaker 2: twenty two, at least has that potential. Anthony Edwards has

461
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,480
Speaker 2: more upside, and at this point in his career, I'm

462
00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:38,200
Speaker 2: really enjoying watching his development. I'm really enjoying watching his rise.

463
00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:42,240
Speaker 2: He's probably my favorite player in the league right now

464
00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:45,199
Speaker 2: to watch and cover. I just think I love his personality.

465
00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:46,880
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be so good for our game

466
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Speaker 2: for a really long time. I think I think America

467
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,760
Speaker 2: desperately needed somebody to kind of take the reins from

468
00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:57,640
Speaker 2: that Lebron Steph KD group. And again, like as good

469
00:21:57,680 --> 00:21:59,480
Speaker 2: as Jason Tatum is, I just don't think he had

470
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Speaker 2: that upside. I don't think that he has that personality either.

471
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 2: And that's all it was. It was more of a

472
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:07,560
Speaker 2: pro ampt thing than an anti Jason Tatum thing. But

473
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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, like he had a

474
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Speaker 2: rough game, he had a rough game against the defense.

475
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Speaker 2: Did you guys hear that interview at the start of

476
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Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, Michael Malone straight up came out and said,

477
00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:18,760
Speaker 2: our entire defensive game plan is to stop and he

478
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:22,800
Speaker 2: straight up said that he's We're throwing different looks at him,

479
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,159
Speaker 2: We're throwing second defenders at it. Like, straight up said that,

480
00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,359
Speaker 2: what does that tell you? Michael Malone took a gamble tonight.

481
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Speaker 2: We're gonna get the ball out of Anthony Everard's hands

482
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Speaker 2: and just try to make someone else beat us, and

483
00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:37,080
Speaker 2: someone else did and it was fifty five to fifty

484
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Speaker 2: three in the second half, when in the two games

485
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:43,160
Speaker 2: in Minnesota they weren't even competitive. So again, Anthony Edwards's

486
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:48,480
Speaker 2: Gigantic Gravitational presence on the court as this unguardable two

487
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:51,840
Speaker 2: guard caused Michael Malone to compromise his own defense, and

488
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,800
Speaker 2: it actually allowed Minnesota to be more competitive than they

489
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Speaker 2: had been in the previous two games. And yeah, you're right,

490
00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,000
Speaker 2: I do think he can handle it better, and I

491
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:01,879
Speaker 2: do think he's capable of taking more and more leaps

492
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,639
Speaker 2: as a playmaker, more and more leaps. It's kind of

493
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,960
Speaker 2: a half court surgeon, like I talked about, right, But

494
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,960
Speaker 2: like again, here's what I think is lame jumping on

495
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,439
Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards's case and trying to rewrite the rise of

496
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 2: this phase of his career when he averaged thirty two

497
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 2: to seven and six against an entirely different class of

498
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Speaker 2: opponent than what Boston has been playing in the first

499
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,119
Speaker 2: two rounds out in the Eastern Conference, and on sixty

500
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:28,160
Speaker 2: seven percent true shooting. By the way, Jason Tatum again

501
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,720
Speaker 2: last night shot below forty five percent from the field.

502
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Speaker 2: He's done it in every single playoff game this year

503
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,400
Speaker 2: except for one. So like again, like I don't, it's

504
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 2: not I think it's it's completely ridiculous to just flip

505
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Speaker 2: the script and turn on Anthony Edwards in a bad

506
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Speaker 2: game that mostly had to do with the game plan.

507
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Speaker 2: The reality is, in my opinion, as we look forward

508
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 2: in this series at three two Denver, Minnesota can't score

509
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 2: against Denver's defense when they're really locked in and engaged.

510
00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,720
Speaker 2: I don't know how they solve that problem. I think

511
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Speaker 2: it's really hard to beat a team four times in

512
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Speaker 2: a row. So I wouldn't be surprised if Minnesota won

513
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Speaker 2: Game six.

514
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Speaker 1: But it's hard for.

515
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Speaker 2: Me to imagine Minnesota winning two in a row at

516
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Speaker 2: this point. Win for three consecutive games, Denver has basically

517
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 2: rendered their offense useless. I don't know how they go

518
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 2: from there, but I can't count them out obviously, just

519
00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:19,720
Speaker 2: really difficult to beat a team four times in a row.

520
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,640
Speaker 2: Obviously we're likely to get a bounced back game from

521
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Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards. It's going to be a ROCKUS crowd. Elimination

522
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Speaker 2: games in general are tough. Denver's been playing with all

523
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Speaker 2: the urgency and intensity that is now going to shift

524
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 2: back towards Minnesota at this point. So I do think

525
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 2: it's going to be a tough game, but I'm going

526
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Speaker 2: to go with Denver and six. I saw someone on

527
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Speaker 2: Twitter refer to it as the Gangster sweep. It's interesting

528
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 2: because it's the sweep, the gentleman sweep, which is when

529
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Speaker 2: you win four to one, and I guess the definition

530
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 2: of the gangster sweep is you lose your first two

531
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Speaker 2: at home and then you win four straight with three

532
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,919
Speaker 2: being on the road. Obviously, they still need to do it,

533
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Speaker 2: but that would be pretty epic because I think think

534
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,680
Speaker 2: all games have been by double digits. Yeah, they won

535
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,679
Speaker 2: by fifteen tonight, and I'm pretty sure Game three and

536
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 2: four were by double digits, So that would be that

537
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,159
Speaker 2: would whoever whoever coined that term, I should have I

538
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 2: should have quoted whoever that was, But that I did

539
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 2: think was funny. But hopefully I will see if Denver

540
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 2: can pull off the gangster sweep here in a couple

541
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Speaker 2: of days. I don't want to get too far into

542
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 2: the nitty gritty in this game, really, because the last

543
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 2: couple of games, Game four in Indiana and Game five

544
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 2: in New York, were mostly just about effort. In Game four,

545
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 2: the Knicks looked exhausted and the Pacers ran them out

546
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,680
Speaker 2: of the gym, and they played limited minutes and came home.

547
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 2: And that was also a much earlier start in the

548
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Speaker 2: day On Sunday, if you guys remember, So they got

549
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 2: like a substantially larger amount of rest compared to what

550
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 2: they got between Game three and Game four. They're also

551
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,399
Speaker 2: coming home also having lost two in a row. The

552
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 2: desperation shifts heavily towards the Knicks. The Pacers have a

553
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,360
Speaker 2: little bit of come knowing that it's two to two

554
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 2: and you've got another game at home, right, and the

555
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 2: Knick's just kind of capitalized on that. You know, there

556
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 2: was a quote that I saw from the pregame presser

557
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 2: from Mike Malone tonight, Michael Malone, head coach of the

558
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Speaker 2: Denver Nuggets, and he said, quote, yeah, you make adjustments.

559
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,640
Speaker 2: Sometimes I think too much is made of the adjustments.

560
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,400
Speaker 2: It's not really what you're doing, it's how you do it.

561
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 2: And to me, you look at us in games one

562
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 2: and two, and compared to games three and four, our

563
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 2: players had a completely different disposition about themselves. So, yes,

564
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:36,359
Speaker 2: maybe we did some things, some different things offensively and defensively,

565
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 2: but give our players credit because they realized what we

566
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 2: were doing and how we were doing it wasn't the answer.

567
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,360
Speaker 2: And I thought that was really fascinating because I said

568
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 2: the same thing after Game two of that series, the

569
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Speaker 2: one really about basketball, Denver just had not really joined

570
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 2: the series physically, And like we're going to talk about

571
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 2: some specific x's and those things that took place in

572
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Speaker 2: today's game, like Duce McBride joining the starting lineup, how

573
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Speaker 2: that allowed the the Knicks to attack Tyres Halliburton, you know,

574
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson kind of getting that early fallon Aaroni Smith,

575
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,680
Speaker 2: leading him to Rick Carlisle to shift to Andrew and

576
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 2: Embard on the ball, and some stuff about Tyres Haliburton

577
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 2: being kind of passive. We're going to get into some

578
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:18,160
Speaker 2: of the basketball stuff, but none of that played nearly

579
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,399
Speaker 2: as big of a role as just the Knicks brought

580
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 2: a hell of a lot more force tonight. They just

581
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 2: played better basketball, and the Pacers did the same thing

582
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 2: in Game four. We have a tendency and I've noticed

583
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:34,400
Speaker 2: this for a long time in the realm of basketball analysis,

584
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:38,679
Speaker 2: and like, tactics are an important part of basketball analysis,

585
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,119
Speaker 2: but I agree with Michael Malone. I think it's leaned

586
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:45,120
Speaker 2: on a lot a lot more than it probably actually

587
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 2: relates to the outcomes of a lot of these games. Say,

588
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,200
Speaker 2: for instance, the story of this game is going to

589
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 2: be duce McBride joining the starting lineup, and everything he

590
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:57,679
Speaker 2: did tonight guarding Tyres Halliburton, the attacking Haliburton when he

591
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 2: was hedging and blitzing and deuced me Bride like quickly

592
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 2: kind of like slipping out of those actions. Right, But

593
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,439
Speaker 2: here's the thing. They got off to a twenty to

594
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 2: fourteen start. The Pacers were up twenty to fourteen in

595
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 2: this game. So like like in duce McBride still was

596
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 2: playing a lot. We said after I think it was

597
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 2: in game three, I said, now that Ojan and Obi's out,

598
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 2: the best five man group that the Knicks have is

599
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:25,880
Speaker 2: Duce McBride, Dante DiVincenzo, Josh hart Jalen Bronson, and Isaiah Hartenstein.

600
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 2: Like we've already known that was the five best guys.

601
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 2: Like you know, honestly, the Knicks energy didn't even really

602
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 2: start to take over in this game until the middle

603
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:37,400
Speaker 2: to late first quarter. And so again, like it's important

604
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 2: for us to talk about the tactics. I think it's

605
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 2: a really good thing for us all to learn more

606
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 2: about so that we can have a better understanding of

607
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 2: what's taking place on the court. But make no mistake,

608
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 2: generally speaking, the team that wins it has more to

609
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 2: do with who's playing the best basketball and all these

610
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 2: little fundamental areas, who's cutting harder, who's running in transition harder,

611
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 2: who's sliding their feet better on the ball, who's setting

612
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 2: better screens, who's being sharper when they're with their decision making,

613
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 2: who's doing a better job attacking closeouts and making reads

614
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 2: like those are usually the things that determine who wins

615
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 2: the game more so than any sort of tactic, right.

616
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 2: You know, like I literally thought that the Nuggets turned

617
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 2: the Minnesota series around literally just by setting way better

618
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 2: screens and handling ball pressure better. I thought those were

619
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 2: the two things that helped Jamal Murray break free more often,

620
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 2: which allowed Denver's offense to function in a way it

621
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 2: wasn't functioning in the first two games of the series.

622
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 2: And so again I think like these last two games

623
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 2: have been a good example of that. Do you think

624
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 2: Indiana had a magic adjustment in Game four? Do you

625
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 2: think the Knicks had a magic adjustment here in Game five? No,

626
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 2: they just the Pacers played better basketball in Game four

627
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 2: and the Knicks played better basketball in Game five. On

628
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 2: that note, let's talk a little bit about some of

629
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 2: the specific basketball dynamics that took place.

630
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 1: In this game.

631
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 2: So Deuce McBride did an amazing job defending Tyris Halliburn

632
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 2: and played him into some of his worst tendencies, which

633
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 2: have to do being passive and not looking to score enough.

634
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 2: We'll talk a little bit more about that in a

635
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 2: little bit when we get to the Pacers. The big

636
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 2: thing that duce McBride was helping with was he was

637
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 2: being guarded by Tyre's Halliburton. And there's two things that

638
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 2: you absolutely have to be able to do when you're

639
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 2: being guarded by a player who that specific player's team

640
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 2: is going to ask him to hedge and recover or

641
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 2: to blitz. Basically meaning when that player comes off the screen,

642
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 2: Tyre's Halliburton is either going to jump out to cut

643
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 2: off the driving lane or jump out to blitz, meaning

644
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 2: leaving duce McBride. You have to be able to hit

645
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 2: threes quickly while sliding your feet out of the screen

646
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 2: and quickly getting set up at the three point line.

647
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 2: And two, you have to be able to make quick

648
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 2: decisions when the defense reacts to you. And duce McBride

649
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Speaker 2: just did an amazing job of that in this game,

650
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 2: hitting those threes on the pick and pop out of

651
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 2: the hedge and recover in the blitz, and then also

652
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 2: when the rotation would come to him making that next

653
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 2: pass in the line to the next shooter that might

654
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Speaker 2: be open. He just did an incredible job and it

655
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Speaker 2: gave Jalen Brunson an action that he could spam to

656
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 2: consistently generate quality shots for the nixt Tonight, Jalen Brunson

657
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 2: was amazing again, another forty plus point night. Was just

658
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 2: cooking in Iso all night long. You could tell that

659
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 2: additional rest really helped him. He just had more lift

660
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 2: than he did in Game four. He got Brick Carlisle

661
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 2: to bail on Aaron Nesmith with about eight minutes and

662
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 2: thirty seconds left in the first quarter after he picked

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00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 2: up a foul on him on an and one. The

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Speaker 2: Pacers were up twelve to nine at that point and

665
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 2: Brunson had only made one field goal. But I guess

666
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 2: that Rick Carlile was mainly just thinking, let's try to

667
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 2: avoid getting let's try to avoid picking up that second foul,

668
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 2: and we just know Jalen Brunson's really comfortable against Andrew

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Speaker 2: Nemhard He had an in.

670
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: And out dribble on him where he literally like in.

671
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 2: And outed Hardy nevvrd W was flying off the screen

672
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 2: to the right, and Brunson just had like a wide

673
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 2: open layup, like he's just really comfortable in that matchup.

674
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 2: He got going then even when Niesmith came back on him,

675
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 2: he kind of was a little bit more comfortable and

676
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 2: in rhythm. Like I talked about before, he was really

677
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 2: picking on Tyre's house Burton screens. By the way, I

678
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 2: have four clips of film I'm going to show you

679
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 2: guys at the end of the show to kind of

680
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 2: demonstrate some of the specifics with Duce McBride, you know,

681
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 2: kind of making Tyres Saliburton pay for his hedges and

682
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 2: his blitzes. Tyr's Saliburton's pasivity. So every archetype of basketball player,

683
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 2: in my opinion, has a weakness. Right, There's like pros

684
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 2: and cons that come to every personality type. It's no

685
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 2: different with like than like, I'm a pretty OCD guy, right,

686
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 2: But at the same time, like my obsessive focus on

687
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 2: stuff makes it so that I can be sometimes oblivious

688
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 2: to things that are happening around me. Right, You know

689
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 2: I I have a certain way that I organize a

690
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 2: simple thing. My wife had to borrow my truck to

691
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 2: go to Low's the other day, and I took my

692
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 2: basketball bag out of that truck to take it take

693
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 2: her car instead. Then when I went back into my truck,

694
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 2: I didn't take my basketball bag with me. So the

695
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 2: last two times I went to the gym early, because

696
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 2: I always go to the gym early to do my

697
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 2: shooting workout before I play, I didn't have my basketball bag.

698
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 2: I was like super frustrated. But it's because I'm such

699
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 2: a creature of habit that anytime anything kind of disrupts

700
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 2: my rhythm, my whole life tends to fall apart, you

701
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 2: know what I mean. Like it's a downside of my personality.

702
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 2: But the upside is my OCD leads to me getting

703
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 2: into really good rhythms, and so I'm really good at

704
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 2: like kind of keeping a daily routine which helps me

705
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 2: be a better basketball player. It helps me run a

706
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 2: better show. Like there's upsides and there's downsides, right, same

707
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 2: thing goes with basketball players, Like if you're a high

708
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 2: motor player, usually that helps you bring energy when your

709
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 2: team needs it, and it can you know, invigorate your team.

710
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 2: But at the same time, those guys tend to gamble

711
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 2: a lot, they tend to make mistakes, they tend to

712
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 2: foul too much. That's those are all characteristics of high

713
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 2: motor players because they're always going one hundred miles an hour.

714
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 2: Super emotional guys like they can They can get their

715
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 2: team to kind of meet them at a level emotionally,

716
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 2: which can be a good thing. They can also get

717
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 2: the other team to overreact to things and get caught

718
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 2: up in some of the emotional elements, but as we know,

719
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 2: that can lead to technicals overly physical play getting themselves

720
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 2: ejected or suspended. Right, that's a down side of the

721
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 2: super emotional players. Right assassin minded scorers that are always

722
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 2: looking for their own shot. They can get hot and

723
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 2: they can carry you home, but they can also miss

724
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 2: easy reads and play their teammates out of rhythm. Right

725
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 2: pass first offensive engines like a Tyrese Halliburton, other players

726
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,919
Speaker 2: like Nikole jokicch Lebron James when he was in his prime.

727
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 2: Those pass first guys, they can keep everyone in rhythm

728
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 2: and control the offense, and they're usually like offensive engines

729
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,720
Speaker 2: that can really lead an offense to a high level,

730
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 2: almost individually, but they sometimes can be too passive. There

731
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Speaker 2: were moments in Lebron's career where he needed to look

732
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 2: to shoot, but instead he would make the right play right.

733
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Speaker 2: There were times where early in the Timberwolf series where

734
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,280
Speaker 2: you're like, why is Nikola Jokic passing out a single

735
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 2: coverage and he's like, but you even hear him after

736
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,359
Speaker 2: the game, it's like, maybe we should trust the pass more.

737
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 2: It's like it's programmed into their basketball identity, right. And

738
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 2: with Tyre's Halliburton, he takes nine shots tonight, and take

739
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,359
Speaker 2: nine shots on the road in a two to two

740
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 2: game when you're offense is struggling to score. That's part

741
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,360
Speaker 2: of your job as the offensive engine. He's been taking

742
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 2: eleven threes a game over the last few weeks and

743
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 2: hitting over forty percent of them, and he only took

744
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 2: four of them tonight. Now, some of that is a

745
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 2: credit to Douce McBride, but again there's a certain part

746
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 2: of that where like tyrese just like Lebron did over

747
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 2: the course of his career, just like Jokic did in

748
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 2: this series, and we know that he's capable of Tyree's

749
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 2: part of his development is going to be understanding that

750
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 2: there are times when he has to be aggressive and

751
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:30,840
Speaker 2: there are going to be times when he has to

752
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 2: look to score. And he's been a little inconsistent, especially

753
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 2: on the road in this playoff run. In that regard

754
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 2: first playoff run really as the leader of his team,

755
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 2: obviously there's going to be some growing pains along the way.

756
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,880
Speaker 2: I thought tonight was an example of him being overly passive.

757
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,760
Speaker 2: I think the Pacers will probably extend this series to seven,

758
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 2: just because it's a shorthanded mixed team and they're really undersized,

759
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 2: and it's difficult to win on the road when you

760
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 2: have physical disadvantages. Can't count the Knicks out, though they

761
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 2: certainly can win Game six, but I am sticking with

762
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 2: my pick pick for the Knicks to win the series.

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00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 2: I just think they'll probably do it in seven. The

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Speaker 2: volume