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Speaker 1: having a great week so far packed show. Today we're

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Speaker 1: Hoops tonight. All right, let's get started. So Joe sigh,

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Speaker 1: The pressure is on now because if Kawai gets hurt

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Speaker 1: again or Paul George gets hurt again, it's no longer

432
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Speaker 1: a question of bad luck. It's a question of the

433
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Speaker 1: reality of their bodies and the way that they hold

434
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Speaker 1: up under the grind of the NBA season. Because Paul

435
00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,280
Speaker 1: George is a consistent injury history, and so does Kawhi Leonard.

436
00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,959
Speaker 1: You have a roster completely stacked full of talent. You

437
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Speaker 1: absolutely are a top tier championship contender when you are healthy.

438
00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:51,920
Speaker 1: You had three shots, three shots, and nothing has come

439
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Speaker 1: from it. This is the year Kawhi Leonard and Paul

440
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Speaker 1: George have to get this done. If they get hurt again,

441
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Speaker 1: it'll be time for the Clippers to consider the real

442
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Speaker 1: lality of the fact that those guys can't hold up

443
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Speaker 1: and if they get if they don't get the trophy

444
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Speaker 1: when healthy, then that brings up an entirely different list

445
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Speaker 1: of concerns. So the Clippers are absolutely under a lot

446
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Speaker 1: of pressure to get it done this year. Number nine

447
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler in this regular season six and six on

448
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Speaker 1: fifty nine percent shooting and in this playoff run and

449
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Speaker 1: classic Jimmy fashion seven seven and five on six true shooting,

450
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Speaker 1: four point seven restricted area makes on seventy one percent shooting.

451
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Speaker 1: That's fantastic in this postseason run. One point six mid

452
00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:43,119
Speaker 1: range makes ont uh in the mid range, that's pretty

453
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Speaker 1: damn good as well. Takes care of the basketball exceptionally well.

454
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Speaker 1: He's never had a single post season where he's averaged

455
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Speaker 1: over three turnovers per game. There's nothing exceptional in the averages.

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Speaker 1: Let me look at Jimmy Butler's numbers throughout his even

457
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Speaker 1: in playoff run, the one that he went to the

458
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Speaker 1: finals and came within two wins of the title. There's

459
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Speaker 1: nothing exceptional going on there in the averages. What happens

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Speaker 1: with Jimmy Butler is one of the strangest things that

461
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Speaker 1: I've seen in the game of basketball. On any given night,

462
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Speaker 1: and it's unlikely it's about a one out of every

463
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Speaker 1: four chance, but on any given postseason night, he is

464
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Speaker 1: capable of elevating his game to a level that is

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Speaker 1: rivaled only by the all time grades. He is a

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Speaker 1: guy that on the vast majority of nights plays like

467
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Speaker 1: a top twenty NBA player, but on any one out

468
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Speaker 1: of every three, one out of every four playoff games,

469
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Speaker 1: he plays like a top five NBA NB NBA player.

470
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Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like it. It doesn't make any sense.

471
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Speaker 1: In this playoff run, he scored forty plus four times.

472
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Speaker 1: He also scored fifteen or less four times. Ins he

473
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Speaker 1: scored forty twice. He scored forty in Game five to

474
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Speaker 1: extend the series, and then scored twelve in the elimination game.

475
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Speaker 1: That's is kind of the way it is. He saw

476
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:03,480
Speaker 1: it in this Boston Celtics series. It was like damn

477
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 1: good at the beginning of the series, horrifically bad in

478
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Speaker 1: the middle of the series, and then other worldly good

479
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:11,200
Speaker 1: at the end of the series. It's a magic power.

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Speaker 1: I have absolutely no way to describe it or explain

481
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Speaker 1: it to you. It's just playoff Jimmy Butler. It's a

482
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,919
Speaker 1: phenomenon that I cannot possibly explain to you. He doesn't

483
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 1: shoot the ball well enough consistently. He has legitimate weaknesses

484
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Speaker 1: in his game that are the reason why he's a

485
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Speaker 1: top twenty player, not a top five player. But those

486
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:36,160
Speaker 1: weaknesses just disappear and he becomes mini Lebron in these

487
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Speaker 1: massive playoff games on occasion. It is it is it.

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Speaker 1: I guess if I had to if I had to

489
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Speaker 1: try to explain it to you, I would say it's

490
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Speaker 1: a couple of those specific playoff things that I've always valued, right,

491
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Speaker 1: Like strength. He's strong, so he succeeds in the physicality

492
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Speaker 1: of the playoffs. He's a good playmaker in the right setting,

493
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Speaker 1: although it does again nothing exceptional playmaking in the averages.

494
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Speaker 1: But then he turns into a guy who can get

495
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Speaker 1: you twelve assists a game in the right setting. Right,

496
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,119
Speaker 1: he's clutch shot making, he's he's he can make plays

497
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 1: at the end of games as a huge deal in

498
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Speaker 1: the finals. Obviously, he's an impact defensive player. He's turned

499
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,880
Speaker 1: into in the Miami heat like ball pressure system, he's

500
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Speaker 1: turned into a menace. And then just the power of

501
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:24,680
Speaker 1: supreme irrational confidence. When Jimmy Butler gets in the arena

502
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 1: with Lebron James, he thinks up here that he's every

503
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,919
Speaker 1: bit as good as Lebron James. That's obviously insane, but

504
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 1: that's what he thinks. I mean, you couple that with

505
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Speaker 1: all those things that I just laid out, you get

506
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Speaker 1: a playoff Jimmy performance. You know, if he could figure

507
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Speaker 1: out how to keep his body healthy and to shoot

508
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,359
Speaker 1: the ball consistently, well, I do believe he would be

509
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Speaker 1: a consistent top six or seven player in the NBA,

510
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 1: a full blown superstar. But those are the things that

511
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 1: end up being inconsistent from his body pretty consistently breaks

512
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 1: down as the season progresses, and his jump shot leaves

513
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Speaker 1: him in a lot of important moments. But I have

514
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Speaker 1: a ton of respect for Jimmy Butler. You know again,

515
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 1: that supreme confidence is everything. Like you've You've seen Damar

516
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 1: de Rosen be a better regular season player than Jimmy

517
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,439
Speaker 1: pretty consistently throughout his career. But then he'll get in

518
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,439
Speaker 1: the arena with Lebron James and he'll immediately kind of

519
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 1: shrink and and fall apart mentally. And then you'll see

520
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler be Liken, screw that, I'm better than this guy.

521
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Speaker 1: You know. It's it is. It is Heat culture personified.

522
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: Everything about the Miami Heat franchise and what they've tried

523
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: to do with pat Riley and Erik Spoelstra. Jimmy Butler

524
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 1: is the embodiment of that, and he's kind of the

525
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 1: perfect guy to lead their charge. As far as the

526
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Speaker 1: Heat go. They need more offense. I mean that was

527
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Speaker 1: what ended up ultimately holding them back. I think they

528
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Speaker 1: would have absolutely made the finals if they had one

529
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Speaker 1: other guy who could create his own shot. Like I

530
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Speaker 1: said yesterday, I don't really see the realistic path to

531
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Speaker 1: them getting Kevin Durant, Yet their name there the Heat,

532
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:59,119
Speaker 1: keep getting mentioned in that conversation. God knows why I

533
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,879
Speaker 1: would be targeting Donovan Mitchell if I was the Miami Heat,

534
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,239
Speaker 1: because I think that's actually an achievable player that they

535
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 1: can get with the current assets that they have, and

536
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 1: that's a much more interesting player to put in the

537
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 1: backcourt alongside Jimmy Butler as a real scoring threat. I

538
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: also think that Eric Spoelscher and pat Riley would get

539
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,360
Speaker 1: him to commit again to the defensive end of the floor.

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Speaker 1: Number eight, Joel Embiat, This is gonna get me in

541
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 1: trouble some people, but this is what it is. That's

542
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 1: how this works. UH. In this regular season thirty one

543
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 1: twelve and four on six true shooting. UH in the

544
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Speaker 1: playoffs twenty four eleven and two on fifty nine percent

545
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: true shooting, albeit he did have an orbital bone fracture. UM.

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Speaker 1: Before I get any further into this, because Yokich is

547
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:46,439
Speaker 1: coming up soon as well, I've talked about this before. UM.

548
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 1: On this show, but I wanted to lay it out

549
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: here for the sake of this list. I value perimmeter

550
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 1: players more than bis. Like we're gonna get to it

551
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 1: here in a second, but like I have Jayson Tatum

552
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 1: ahead of and beating Yogis. The reason for that is

553
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 1: is I value you the role of what Jayson Tatum

554
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: does for a basketball team more than the role that

555
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 1: Joel e Beat or Nikola Yokich fulfills, even though they

556
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 1: are the best centers that we've seen in recent NBA history.

557
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 1: First of all, foot speeds. As the game has evolved

558
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 1: and has become more five out, meaning more perimeter players

559
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,439
Speaker 1: and less interior players, and faster pace meaning more pushing

560
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: the ball in transition, foot speed has become immensely important

561
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 1: in those situations, slow plotting bigs like Joel Embat and

562
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:34,159
Speaker 1: Nikola Yokich can be exposed. Also, with the way that

563
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 1: floor spacing works, it's a lot easier to deny biggs

564
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 1: the basketball than it is to deny a perimeter player

565
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Speaker 1: the basketball. The ability to dribble the basketball up the

566
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Speaker 1: court against ball pressure allows you to as a perimeter player,

567
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: to to control your own outcome as you initiate the offense.

568
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 1: As a big man, you have to fight for position

569
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 1: someplace on the floor and get a post century. Obviously,

570
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: Nikkola Yokich can bring the ball up the floor if

571
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Speaker 1: he has to, but if you put some pressure on him,

572
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 1: he can struggle with that as well. Big Just in general,

573
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Speaker 1: it's a different dynamic on the basketball court. This is

574
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Speaker 1: why when I do all time rankings, I keep bigs

575
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Speaker 1: in a separate list from perimeter players. They play an

576
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 1: entirely different position, and for me, I value what a

577
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 1: perimeter player does more um perimeter shooting the like. Both

578
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: Yogi Chen and Beat are really inconsistent putting the ball

579
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Speaker 1: in the basket from the perimeter. We'll talk about this

580
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 1: a little bit more with Yogi in a little bit,

581
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 1: but that becomes an issue when it comes to floor

582
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Speaker 1: spacing and the way teams that can guard you. Also

583
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Speaker 1: contact that is allowed in the low post. With the

584
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 1: way that the game is evolved, perimeter players are officiated

585
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: in a very tiki tack way. You can't touch them,

586
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 1: you can't get up underneath them, you can't do that

587
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: kind of stuff post players. It's anything goes. And so

588
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 1: just with the way that the rules are it's disadvantageous

589
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: to be a big man who's operating around the basket.

590
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 1: So those are and you know, just in general, when

591
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: when it comes to a a confined half court environment,

592
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: a big perimeter player that can dissect the the defense

593
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: from all three levels, I think that's a level of

594
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: a value in the game of basketball that a big

595
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: man cannot replicate. For the record, that's just my philosophy.

596
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 1: This is just the way I see the game. So

597
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: if you guys are at home and you're like Jason,

598
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: that's stupid. Yoki is the best player in the world,

599
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: or and Be's the best player in the world. Big

600
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 1: men are going to run the league. You're crazy. That's

601
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: fine as a matter of fact, right it out in

602
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 1: the comments. I want to see you guys tell me

603
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: why you feel that way. I'm I'm not mr. I

604
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 1: have everything in the game of basketball figured out. I

605
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: have my belief systems, you guys have yours. I try

606
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: to listen to as many smart basketball minds as I

607
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 1: can to try to learn. You guys know, I'm not

608
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Speaker 1: married to any sort of ideas. So I want to

609
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 1: hear why you guys think I'm wrong. If that's the case.

610
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Speaker 1: But just so you know, as an explanation moving forward,

611
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Speaker 1: I value permitter players more so. And bead Uh was

612
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 1: on four point two restricted area makes in the playoffs.

613
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Speaker 1: That's excellent. He continues to be completely unguardable in single coverage.

614
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: There are may be three guys that had like their

615
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 1: chances in that situation, Anthony Davis, Janice Antenna Cumbo and

616
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Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert. But even with them, yeah, Joel Embiad's gonna

617
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: have some wins in those situations. The revelation since the

618
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: James Harden trade has been how good Joel Embiid is

619
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Speaker 1: in short roll situations. James Harden, because of his ability

620
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 1: to shoot off the dribble, forces guards to chase him

621
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Speaker 1: over the top, and even though he struggled to get

622
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: downhill penetration the way he used to, teams are forced

623
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Speaker 1: to bracket him because as he's coming off of that

624
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:27,239
Speaker 1: ball screen the defenders caught in behind him and so

625
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 1: the roll man, excuse me, the screen defender, the big

626
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 1: has to come up to contain James Harden, and so

627
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 1: Joel Embiads getting all of these opportunities in the short role,

628
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: catching the ball on short lobs or bounce passes righted

629
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Speaker 1: around the semi circle, and he has been absolutely unstoppable

630
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 1: in that position, getting fouls and finishes at the rim,

631
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: even making some reads out of that situation. Albeit that's

632
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: a specific weakness of his, but that was the revelation

633
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 1: of this playoff running of this season, the James Harden

634
00:31:55,120 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 1: pairing has unlocked Joel Embiid as a short roller. He's

635
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: another guy that has supreme confidence, genuinely believes he's the

636
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: best player in the world that shows up in clutch

637
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: shooting despite him being pretty bad putting the ball in

638
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 1: the basket away from the basket. Uh as he gets

639
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: further away from the rim, he's pent of believer in

640
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: his ability to make those shots. And you see that

641
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: in big situations, just like it was at the end

642
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: of that Toronto Raptors game that he stole um up

643
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: there in Toronto. And then he's a very good defensive

644
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: anchor as long as he's allowed to stay at the rim.

645
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Speaker 1: But that again brings up the shortcoming that I was

646
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: talking about with Bigs. Any scheme can force any smart

647
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: team that has the personnel can go out there and

648
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: force Joel and Bad to cover on the perimeter pull

649
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: him away from the rim, and that limits his impact.

650
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:42,959
Speaker 1: Now obviously have Joel e Bead way down at eight.

651
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: So there are some weaknesses that I'm gonna point out here.

652
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: In this playoff run, Joel and Bead shot just thirty

653
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 1: on all attempts outside of the restricted area. So again

654
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 1: that's not paint, that's not short range, that's restricted area.

655
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: So if he's not right under the basket, he's missing

656
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 1: two out of every three shots. That was just in

657
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: this playoff rum. But it's been an issue for him

658
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: throughout his career. And this is what I keep saying

659
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: this on the show, and every time I get people

660
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: that get upset, Joel Embiad is actually not that good

661
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: at putting the ball in the basket. As he gets

662
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: further away, he relies on finishing at the rim and

663
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: drawing fouls. That's where the vast majority of his offense comes.

664
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: He has these highlight players, a dream shake for a

665
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: fadeaway jump shot, a nasty pull up three over the

666
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: top of nicola like nicolayotkitch off of a dribble combo.

667
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 1: That all looks great, but in the percentages it's not

668
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: actually manifesting in results. That is a specific weakness of his.

669
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: He relies heavily on the whistle. He's a very poor

670
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: playmaker average just to assist per game in this playoff run.

671
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: This is something that I've talked about going into the

672
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: season coming out of the season. It's just a reality

673
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: if you double team Joel Embiad, he's not good at

674
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: making reads. Out of that not a hyper criticism of

675
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 1: him in general, because almost every big is like that,

676
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 1: even your kitchen. This postseason, on average, six assists with

677
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 1: five turnovers. So he's considered the best playmaking big in

678
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 1: the world, and he had a pretty rough postseason as

679
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: a playmaker. Anthony Davis can't readouble teams, Carl Anthony Towns

680
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 1: can't readouble teams, so and Beads not. It is not

681
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 1: like uniquely weak at that. It's just the reality of

682
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: the way bigs are. And it also has a lot

683
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: to do with the way floor spacing works in post

684
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: up situations. It's just it's just it's just tough to

685
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: succeed there. He's always gonna put up monster numbers, but

686
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 1: his impact can be limited in a playoff series due

687
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:37,839
Speaker 1: to scoutable weaknesses. If you run the floor on him,

688
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 1: he's gonna struggle. If you double him in the post,

689
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: he's gonna struggle. If you make him guard in space,

690
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: he's gonna struggle. If you defend without fouling away from

691
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 1: the basket, he's gonna miss shots. So in a playoff setting,

692
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: when when a coach has a chance to scout and

693
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: try out different things with personnel to see what works best,

694
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 1: you can vast lee limit Joel Embiad's impact. That's why

695
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 1: he's at number eight despite being potentially the best regular

696
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: season player in the entire game and last but not least.

697
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 1: And this is this is just a really I have

698
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: to reveal my biases. I'm not a huge fan of

699
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: Joel Embiad in general, and the main reason has to

700
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: do with his foul bating approach. Um, I'm not gonna

701
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: lie to you guys about that and act like I'm

702
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 1: being a percent you know, unbiased. I'm not a huge

703
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: fan of Joel Embiad the way he approaches the game

704
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: that you know, I've I've tweeted out dozens of clips

705
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 1: over the years of him like being wide open, you know,

706
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 1: four ft from the basket and like jumping into a

707
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,799
Speaker 1: guy's chest and kicking his legs and falling over and

708
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 1: me being like, dude, what are you doing? Man? And

709
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: then you watch him in interviews and he genuinely thinks

710
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 1: he's getting fouled all the time, which, guess what, he

711
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 1: does get fouled a lot, just like every NBA superstar.

712
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: The difference is is he makes a clown show out

713
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: of himself trying to draw free throws in those situations. Now,

714
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: I would never accuse him of doing this on purpose.

715
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: He absolutely did not do this on purpose. But on

716
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:58,839
Speaker 1: the play where Joel embiad fell over and ran into

717
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: Danny Green, he is flopping, and he flopped and fell

718
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: with his giant frame on the floor and slid into

719
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: his own teammate and ripped up his knee. Now, in general,

720
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: when we are when when we all go up to

721
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 1: l a fitness and we play, or you're playing in

722
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:16,840
Speaker 1: your men's league, or hell, if you're playing a different sport,

723
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 1: it's generally considered reckless to throw your body on the

724
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 1: floor around knees and ankles. But to Joel Embid it's

725
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: all about getting those two free throws. And I have

726
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 1: a I genuinely have a problem with that as a

727
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,959
Speaker 1: basketball fan, so that that I just feel I feel

728
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:35,919
Speaker 1: like it's important for me to point that out because

729
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: that absolutely is going to color my analysis of him.

730
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: I'm human, just like all of you guys. I'm not

731
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 1: immune to biases. I have a problem with his fal

732
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: bating approach. I thought he played a role in Danny

733
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,879
Speaker 1: Green's injury, even though it wasn't on purpose. And it's

734
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 1: just it's just he's just he's just not my favorite

735
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:56,399
Speaker 1: NBA player, all right. Number seven Nicola yokichen and eight

736
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: on sixty sent try shooting in the regular season, that's insane.

737
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: Thirty one thirteen and six on sixty four percent true

738
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: shooting in that playoff series against against Golden State Warriors,

739
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: really damn good. Four point seven made restricted area attempts

740
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 1: one three point four other paint makes on sixty that's great.

741
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: Um more methodical and under control than him, beat uh

742
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: like more, he is more of like a view of

743
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: the full scope of the game. He's I talked about

744
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: flow of the game all the time, but understanding the

745
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 1: value of sixty possessions over the value of six possessions.

746
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: The best example that I can think of to demonstrate

747
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: this to you, guys. Was their regular season matchup this

748
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 1: year in Philly, which Denver won by the way. But

749
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,360
Speaker 1: early in the game uh and Bead was having his

750
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: way with yo kich on a handful of isolation possessions.

751
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,760
Speaker 1: There were he was hitting crazy, wild crossover jump shots

752
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: and drawing fouls and just having his way with Yokich

753
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 1: on a handful of possessions. Then on the other end

754
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 1: of the floor there are a couple of players where

755
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: Yoki tried to score over and beat and struggled against

756
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: his size and length. If you look at that as

757
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,880
Speaker 1: the one on one matchup for a small handful of possessions,

758
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: you might think, oh, Joel embids the better player. But

759
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: each player impacts the game beyond those moments, because there

760
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 1: are sixty seventy eighty possessions in a game, depending on

761
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 1: the pace right, and it's actually about what happens with

762
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 1: your team in the totality of those possessions, not in

763
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: the small handful. I did a video on this, You'd

764
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: have to dig way back into my Twitter mentions to

765
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: find it. But in the regular season, towards the end,

766
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: after uh Phley lost at home to Denver, I did

767
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 1: a video breakdown of exactly what I'm talking about, so

768
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 1: you can see some representations of this. But in that game,

769
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: Yokich won it in the second half with little things

770
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: that didn't show up in the box score. He would

771
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 1: consistently get the rebound after getting stopped and make a

772
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 1: quick outlet pass to a shrieking Denver nugget who would

773
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:49,959
Speaker 1: run a quick two on three, two on one break

774
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: or three on two break and get a layout. And

775
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 1: on most of those plays he did not get an

776
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 1: assist because there'd be an additional pass after. But Yokich

777
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 1: one of his best strengths is kick starting a break

778
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: with with quick rebounds and outlet passes. It's a unique

779
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: skill that not many bigs in the league have. It

780
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: used to be Kevin Love one of Kevin Love's greatest

781
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 1: skills back in the day. But that he won that

782
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 1: game by kickstarting their fast break, which got bones Highland going,

783
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,800
Speaker 1: and then bones Hiland made a couple of massive threes

784
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: at the end, and then the same way that Embiad

785
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: has always struggled, Denver crowded him and got the ball

786
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: out of his hands at the end of the game

787
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 1: and he couldn't score, and they lost, so again, like there,

788
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Speaker 1: I've always believed that basketball is a very intricately complicated game,

789
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: that there's a hundred different moving parts and it can

790
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: never be simplified down to one thing like a one

791
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: on one possession. And I say that, I like I'm

792
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: a score. I build my game around things like what

793
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: embid does. I love the footwork and and the fluidity

794
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: that Joel Embiid has. That that to me, I have

795
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 1: a great deal of respect for the amount of work

796
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: he put in to do those things. I'm just saying

797
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 1: that's one small part of the larger organ him that

798
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 1: is the game of basketball, and Nicola Yokich is so

799
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: much better at things surrounding that that he's actually a

800
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,760
Speaker 1: better basketball player. You know. I talked about this earlier,

801
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 1: but most big struggle with playmaking. Yogis had a pretty

802
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: rough postseason. I'll be missing a bunch of his personnel.

803
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,479
Speaker 1: Only had six assists on with five turnovers per game.

804
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 1: But he is the best playmaking big that we have

805
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: in the league, and there's a great deal of value

806
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,720
Speaker 1: when it comes to playmaking out of the high posts.

807
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 1: Denver's offense is primarily predicated on Yoki catching the ball

808
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:34,240
Speaker 1: at the elbow extended up okay and having running dribble

809
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 1: handoff actions or screening role actions with guys like Michael

810
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: Porter Jr. Guys like Jomal Murray who are both were

811
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 1: hurt and in this past season lesser guards right. But

812
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: in that situation, the threat of his ability to turn

813
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:49,800
Speaker 1: and shoot and his the threat of his passing ability

814
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 1: makes it extremely difficult to guard because most of the

815
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:54,800
Speaker 1: guards that they play could shoot. So he'd run that

816
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 1: dribble handoff and the guard would have to chase them

817
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:58,959
Speaker 1: over the top, and the guards either gonna get ahead

818
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,799
Speaker 1: his team as the role as the Yokis defender has

819
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: to step over to contain, or he's got to stay

820
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,839
Speaker 1: with Yokis, in which case the guard gets easy stuff there.

821
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: The reason why his playmaking is so valuable there is

822
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 1: the middle of the floor is known in the game

823
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: of basketball is the hardest place to double team. If

824
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 1: you double team in the low block, there's it's easy

825
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: to kind of set up your spacing in a way

826
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 1: that you can help out of the week side corner,

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00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 1: but make them throw a looping skip pass. It's really difficult. Uh,

828
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 1: It's really difficult to make them pay for double teaming

829
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: there if you double you know, on the perimeter right,

830
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,799
Speaker 1: like if you double uh, you know, on the left

831
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 1: wing or on the right wing. It there's there's a

832
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 1: lot of ground to cover on the other side of

833
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 1: the floor that allows you to rotate right. The ball

834
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 1: has to be thrown in a looping manner across the floor.

835
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 1: But if I'm dead center of the floor, if I'm

836
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: at the elbow, if they double team me there, it's

837
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,319
Speaker 1: a quick pass to the open man. And that specifically

838
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: is what makes Yoki such an effective playmaker out of

839
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:58,839
Speaker 1: the high post. It's the location on the floor, the

840
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 1: way that it makes teams, it makes difficent, makes it

841
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: difficult for teams to double in the way that it

842
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 1: frees things up for his guards. The one thing that

843
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: that that is a massive red flag for Nikel Yogis

844
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: right now is the deterioration of his perimeter shooting. And

845
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 1: I was on this a little bit towards the end

846
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 1: of the regular season, and I thought it was a

847
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 1: big part of what made him struggle so much towards

848
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 1: the end of the season, opening the door for other

849
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 1: m VP candidates, and also what ended up hurting him

850
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 1: in the Golden State Warrior Series. Not that I thought

851
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: he had a realistic chance to win that series, but um,

852
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 1: he's a career forty one percent three point shooter in

853
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 1: the postseason before this year on two hundred and seven attempts,

854
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: So Yokich used to be a deadly three point shooter.

855
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 1: Something happened, Not sure what it is. He was nineteen

856
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,840
Speaker 1: percent from three over his last twenty one regular season games,

857
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:53,360
Speaker 1: and he was five for eighteen from three in the playoffs. Overall,

858
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 1: in this playoff run, I think he was thirty eight

859
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: percent when he got away from the restricted area if

860
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,359
Speaker 1: I remember correctly. Uh, don't quote me on that because

861
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,799
Speaker 1: I didn't put that stat down in my notes, But

862
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: he struggled to shoot as he got further away from

863
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 1: the basket. What that causes now, that same dynamic I

864
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: was talking about earlier with those dribble handoffs with Yoki.

865
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 1: Obviously the guard has to chase over the top right

866
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:18,359
Speaker 1: because of the shooting ability of the guard right. So

867
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 1: in that situation, the fear is I have to leave

868
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:26,720
Speaker 1: Yokich as the big man defender in order to help

869
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 1: my guard get back into the play. On that dribble handoff,

870
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:35,240
Speaker 1: that's terrifying if Yoki can shoot, But if he becomes

871
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: a non shooting threat, which he was over the course

872
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 1: of the end of this season, the last quarter of

873
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 1: the season and in the playoffs, if he's a non

874
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:46,759
Speaker 1: shooting threat, there's way more freedom for the big man

875
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 1: who's guarding Yokich to drop back off of Yokitchen help

876
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 1: in those dribble handoff actions. That is something he's going

877
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: to have to fix in time for this next season

878
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: for Denver to reach their ultimate ceiling. And then last

879
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: se there's some major defensive limitations. He's turned himself into

880
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 1: a solid drop coverage big against teams that drive right

881
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: into him. But I did another video on this that

882
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,399
Speaker 1: you can find in my Twitter feed if you're willing

883
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: to scroll back far enough, from a game that the

884
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,800
Speaker 1: Boston Celtics beat the Denver Nuggets, and in that game,

885
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 1: Boston was routinely barbecuing Yoki in a drop coverage because

886
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 1: he was sitting too far back. He lacks foot speed,

887
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 1: so the only way to utilize him as a defensive

888
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,359
Speaker 1: player is to have him drop back and have him

889
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 1: hover around the rim so that he doesn't have to

890
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: cover out on the perimeter. You saw this in further

891
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,959
Speaker 1: detail in the Golden State series when they when Steph

892
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:40,400
Speaker 1: Curry kept attacking him and drop coverage and was just

893
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: going right around him to get to the rim whenever

894
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 1: he wants. That's not necessarily a Yokich weakness. That's more

895
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: of just a big slow center weakness. It's one of

896
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:51,880
Speaker 1: the many reasons why I'm kind of anti big slow

897
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: center in general. Um, But that makes him a functional

898
00:44:56,440 --> 00:45:00,120
Speaker 1: regular season defensive big, but a defensive big the has

899
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:02,359
Speaker 1: some limitations in the playoffs. That's one of the many

900
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 1: reasons that I have him lower on this list. It's

901
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:09,399
Speaker 1: time for Nikola Yokes to have his guys, to get

902
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray back, to get Michael Porter Jr. Back, because

903
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 1: I'm ready to see him play with some stakes again.

904
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:18,280
Speaker 1: The last time we saw Yo play with real steaks

905
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:21,320
Speaker 1: and with a real team, he straight up out played

906
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:25,319
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard in a playoff series. Now, the unique thing there,

907
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 1: I'm saying that for a specific reason, I was really

908
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 1: hard on Anthony Davis when I think I had him

909
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,920
Speaker 1: back at like eight team in this list. That's a

910
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 1: reminder of just how damn good Anthony Davis was in

911
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: the bubble because in the same way that Yokich outplayed

912
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: Kauai in that first round of second round series, Anthony

913
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: Davis outplayed Nikola Yokich in the conference finals. So it's

914
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 1: just a it's it's a reminder of just how damn

915
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 1: good Anthony Davis can be when his head is right,

916
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:54,799
Speaker 1: when he's healthy, when he has his body weight down,

917
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 1: and when he can actually knock down perimeter jump shots.

918
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 1: But I'm ready to see Nikola Yokich uh um play

919
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: with some stakes again so we can see what he's got.

920
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,839
Speaker 1: And last note there, my guy Carson thinks that Nicol

921
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 1: Yokes might be the best player in the league, So

922
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 1: sincere apologies to Carson for ranking him solo. I'm sure

923
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:14,320
Speaker 1: I'll be hearing about that soon enough. Um number six

924
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum and four in the regular season on fifty

925
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: percentury shooting six seven and six on fifty six per

926
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:28,400
Speaker 1: century shooting in the postseason. A lot of that was

927
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 1: taken away by a bad finals performance. He average seven

928
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 1: and seven on thirty seven percent from the field from

929
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: three and sixty six percent from the free throw line

930
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 1: in the finals. That bad series against Golden State kind

931
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 1: of took away and kind of took the shine off

932
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 1: the apple from what was an incredibly dominant regular season

933
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 1: in postseason run, and then that's why I have him

934
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: as high as I do. He's kind of like the

935
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 1: reverse Dmarda Rosen or Brandon Ingram. I talked to a

936
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 1: lot about those guys being like three level scores that

937
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: are primarily him in mid range oriented that struggle as

938
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 1: they get out to, especially above the break. Tatum. Tatum

939
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:09,839
Speaker 1: is like the opposite of that. He only shoots six.

940
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 1: He only shot sixty percent in the restricted area in

941
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 1: this postseason run. That's bad for a player of his

942
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,839
Speaker 1: size and athleticism and strength. Like I always say for

943
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 1: big wings, I want that number at least in the

944
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 1: paint non restricted area only that's bad. Uh, mid range scent,

945
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 1: that's not great. But he was fort on seven above

946
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:38,800
Speaker 1: the break threes per game. That's outrageous efficiency for overall

947
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,759
Speaker 1: from three in that postseason run. So that's a great

948
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 1: example for how shot value can overcome shot conversion rate.

949
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 1: Because those numbers that I threw out, you know, the

950
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 1: restricted area, in the paint, non restricted area seven percent

951
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 1: from the mid range. That should not amount to a

952
00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 1: fifty percent shooting percentage. The reason why it does is

953
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: because three pointers are worth fifty more than any other

954
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 1: shot on the floor, and if you make those ones,

955
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 1: it will offset a lot of your inefficiencies elsewhere on

956
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:11,880
Speaker 1: the floor. But that's a great area of opportunity for

957
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 1: Jayson Tatum because what I would tell Jayson Tatum as

958
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 1: it be like, hey man, you shot from three in

959
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 1: the postseason, you shot forty one above the break. You're

960
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 1: probably not going to get much better there. You have

961
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: just about maxed out that ability. If you can polish

962
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: up these other areas of the game, you can be

963
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: the type of offensive engine that a you know, Lebron

964
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: James or Kevin Durantis. That's the next step for him

965
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,280
Speaker 1: in terms of his of his of his three level scoring,

966
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 1: he had eight plus assists seven times in this postseason run.

967
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:48,520
Speaker 1: And in those games the Celtics went seven and oh.

968
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: Tatum is an interesting player in the sense that if

969
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 1: you catch him on the right night, he looks like

970
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 1: a legitimately great playmaker. But if you catch him on

971
00:48:56,719 --> 00:48:59,240
Speaker 1: the wrong night, he looks like a tunnel vision player

972
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: that doesn't understand and how to run a team. Some

973
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:03,319
Speaker 1: of that's youth. Some of that is this is still

974
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,760
Speaker 1: really only like his like two and a half seasons

975
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 1: of him being a primary ball handler, so he just

976
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:10,800
Speaker 1: needs a lot more reps um. But make no mistake,

977
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 1: he's got that high endplaymaking potential. Eight plus assists seven

978
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,320
Speaker 1: times in a postseason is a very very good marker,

979
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 1: and a seven oh record is a demonstration of the

980
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: way that impacts the team. That's why I was pleading

981
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:24,440
Speaker 1: all postseason long, past the ball of Tatum. Past the ball, Jason,

982
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 1: That's how you're winning games, you know. Um. I tweeted

983
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:29,880
Speaker 1: this out earlier today and people were actually pretty receptive

984
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: to it, which I was surprised. Uh. In all of

985
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:34,840
Speaker 1: my evaluations over the course of this last season, postseason,

986
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:39,240
Speaker 1: and this summer, I'm not sure that I saw a

987
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:43,840
Speaker 1: perimeter defensive player better than Jayson Tatum. If you watch

988
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:47,879
Speaker 1: the tape of the first round against Brooklyn. Yes, there

989
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 1: was a team defense that was backing him up, an

990
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: outstanding team defense, but the job that Jayson Tatum did

991
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: on Kevin Durant was extraordinary. He was kind of this

992
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 1: unique capability of a lying pressure like getting up and

993
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:05,120
Speaker 1: being disruptive with Durant while at the same time having

994
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: the lateral quickness to contain his dribble drives. I was

995
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 1: talking about the difference between positional and aggressive defense. He

996
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:14,400
Speaker 1: can do both, which is what makes him so damn

997
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 1: impactful on that end of the floor. Again, he's not

998
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: the best defensive player in the league. I think that's you, honest.

999
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 1: The best defensive player in the league has to be

1000
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 1: able to succeed as a back line defender, as a

1001
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:25,920
Speaker 1: screening role defender, and as a perimeter defender. He has

1002
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:29,760
Speaker 1: to be able to guard guards, wings and biggs. Janice

1003
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 1: is the only player in the world. Really they can

1004
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:33,439
Speaker 1: do that, really, really well. They're handful of players also

1005
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:36,319
Speaker 1: can Anthony Davis, Rudy Gobert. Right, He's not the only one,

1006
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:38,880
Speaker 1: but I think I think Janice is the best. But

1007
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:42,360
Speaker 1: strictly when it comes to like I need someone to

1008
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:46,720
Speaker 1: guard a superstar wing or guard for a playoff series,

1009
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: I think Tatum is the best guy you could have

1010
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 1: for that role. It's a testament to the muscle that

1011
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:55,080
Speaker 1: he's put on to become more stout and difficult to

1012
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:57,840
Speaker 1: bully two spots on the floor. It's a testament to

1013
00:50:57,880 --> 00:50:59,759
Speaker 1: the length of his arms. It's a testament to his

1014
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 1: a leticism. It's a testament to his basketball i Q

1015
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 1: and his ability to anticipate the moves that people are making.

1016
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 1: And lastly, it's a testament to his effort and focus

1017
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:11,760
Speaker 1: and him devoting resources to being a dominant defensive player.

1018
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:14,279
Speaker 1: The biggest weakness for Tatum right now, and it's the

1019
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 1: reason why he lost in the NBA Finals his offensive process.

1020
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:22,840
Speaker 1: Like I said, he had eight plus assists um seven

1021
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 1: times and when seven and oh in this playoff run.

1022
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 1: He also had four or fewer assists seven times in

1023
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: this postseason run and went one and six in those games.

1024
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 1: He had six plus turnovers seven times. Celtics went three

1025
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: and four in those games. So him, his focus, you know,

1026
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:45,319
Speaker 1: and this isn't entirely his fault. He grew up a

1027
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 1: classic wing score and he is being he's been grooming

1028
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 1: himself to become a traditional point forward ala Lebron James,

1029
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: the player that starts from the top of the key,

1030
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:00,319
Speaker 1: runs you know, forty fifty actions a game and is

1031
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:03,359
Speaker 1: responsible for creating shots first teammates. That's a different role

1032
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 1: than more of like an unlocked perimeter score. That is

1033
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 1: more like the tip of a spear. He's going from

1034
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:11,880
Speaker 1: being the tip of the spear to being the actual

1035
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:15,239
Speaker 1: total total spear. It's a totally different role. So that's

1036
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:17,960
Speaker 1: why he's undergoing kind of like an identity crisis. On

1037
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 1: any given night. Catch him on the right night, he's

1038
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:22,839
Speaker 1: bought into that role. He's passing the ball, the team

1039
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:24,879
Speaker 1: looks great. But if you catch him on the wrong night,

1040
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:27,279
Speaker 1: it's more like the old Jason Tatum. It's really bad

1041
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 1: shot selection, it's all of those things and the team struggles.

1042
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 1: I think he'll get better that with that as things

1043
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 1: as time goes on in his career. His rim finishing

1044
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 1: is another huge weakness. Like I said, like I've always said,

1045
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:41,439
Speaker 1: for big, strong, rim pressuring wings, I want at least

1046
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 1: seventy in the restricted area. He was down to sixty

1047
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: percent in this playoff run. Huge part of the problem

1048
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:49,080
Speaker 1: there is him seeking fouls. He does that James Harden

1049
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 1: thing where he constantly like extends his elbows out and

1050
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,919
Speaker 1: tries to go up through people to draw fouls. That's

1051
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:56,440
Speaker 1: great when it works and you draw a foul, but

1052
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 1: what ends up mostly happening, especially as you get deeper

1053
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, is they let that stuff go. And

1054
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: now what you did is you extended the ball out

1055
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:06,080
Speaker 1: and made it a lot easier for guys to knock

1056
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:08,879
Speaker 1: the ball out of your hands. And so that leads

1057
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:12,760
Speaker 1: to him missing layups, falling into camera row, and complaining

1058
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:14,320
Speaker 1: at the refs while the team is running down the

1059
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: other way to get a layoup. And so that's where

1060
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:18,440
Speaker 1: I've talked about this before. But he needs to adopt

1061
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:21,400
Speaker 1: that Lebron James approach. Tuck the basketball like a football

1062
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 1: player as you pick up your dribble ripped through the traffic,

1063
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:28,120
Speaker 1: and then extend with both hands and finish at the rim.

1064
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:30,400
Speaker 1: That's the that will be the difference between him finishing

1065
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 1: in the restricted area and getting back up into the

1066
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 1: seventies where he belongs. And then, like I said earlier,

1067
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 1: paint non restricted area seven percent for mid range. That's

1068
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:43,680
Speaker 1: not good enough either. You want you want to be

1069
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:46,439
Speaker 1: as versatile and and you want to be like Kawhi Leonard.

1070
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 1: You wanna be you want to be like Paul George.

1071
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:49,319
Speaker 1: You want to be like these guys where they don't

1072
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 1: really have a weak spot on the floor. You want

1073
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:53,440
Speaker 1: to be comfortable everywhere on the floor. The only way

1074
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:55,640
Speaker 1: to do that is to polish up those short range

1075
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:58,400
Speaker 1: jump shots in the paint and getting more proficient with

1076
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:01,480
Speaker 1: his mid range jump shooting. Um. The last thing I

1077
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: wanted to say about Jayson Tatum is it's easy to

1078
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: get really down about what happened in that in that

1079
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 1: NBA Finals. It's easy to look at that as a

1080
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 1: huge negative, like, Oh, he's not that guy, or he's

1081
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 1: not ready, or whatever it is that you want to say.

1082
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 1: I view great value in the failure in playing poorly,

1083
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:22,719
Speaker 1: particularly on a big stage. I've talked about this with

1084
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 1: Lebron a lot over the years, but I think the

1085
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: best thing that happened to Lebron James and his career

1086
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 1: was losing the two thousand eleven finals. I think he

1087
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:33,200
Speaker 1: was accustomed to a certain level of work and then

1088
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:37,920
Speaker 1: he got humiliated, and then the dominance that followed that

1089
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:41,920
Speaker 1: was directly results to a directly a result of the

1090
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 1: lesson that he learned in two thousand eleven. The Lebron

1091
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 1: post two thousand eleven doesn't even resemble the Lebron pre

1092
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven in demeanor, in professionalism, in work ethic,

1093
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 1: and it showed in the diversity of his offensive attack

1094
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 1: That's what caused him to put in the work to

1095
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:01,440
Speaker 1: become a reliable jump shooter. That's what allowed unlocked his

1096
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 1: low post game, which has become a huge part of

1097
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 1: his career as he's gotten older. That two thousand and

1098
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: eleven is viewed as a black mark by most people.

1099
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 1: I don't really think that's the right way to look

1100
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 1: at it. If he had a black mark like that

1101
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:13,400
Speaker 1: and it became like James Harden, what was like that

1102
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 1: year in and year out, that's a different story. But

1103
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:18,719
Speaker 1: he responded to that black mark by putting on a

1104
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 1: stretch of and remarkably dominant NBA basketball. Four championships in

1105
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:24,960
Speaker 1: eight years or whatever it was. I can't remember off

1106
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 1: the top of my head. But the point is is

1107
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:30,360
Speaker 1: that failure could be the catalyst to the next phase

1108
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:32,400
Speaker 1: of his career. Right, that's the way you look at

1109
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 1: it with Jayson Tatum. He got this close to an

1110
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: NBA championship. In fact, he should have one. As I

1111
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: said after Game three of the Finals, the Celtics were

1112
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 1: the more talented team, not the better team, but they

1113
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 1: were the more talented team. The reason why they lost

1114
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 1: was in large part due to tatum struggles. So he

1115
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:53,840
Speaker 1: there was an Hilarry O'Brian trophy right there for the taking.

1116
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 1: He was this close, and his weakness has led to

1117
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:00,319
Speaker 1: him losing that trophy. He slipped out of his ers.

1118
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,359
Speaker 1: I expect him to view that as the cataly as

1119
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:06,360
Speaker 1: a catalyst moment in his career, and I think moving forward,

1120
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,920
Speaker 1: he will understand the fact that him being the point

1121
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: forward versus the scoring forward was the reason why he

1122
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:15,319
Speaker 1: had so much success in that run. I believe you

1123
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:17,600
Speaker 1: will replicate that, and I think Jayson Tatum is gonna

1124
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:20,120
Speaker 1: have a really dominant stretch of basketball over the course

1125
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:22,279
Speaker 1: of the next few years. All Right, So we are

1126
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:24,520
Speaker 1: going to be doing the top five over the course

1127
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:26,759
Speaker 1: of the next week or so. Again, I'm gonna do

1128
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:28,880
Speaker 1: one player at a time. There. I'm also going to

1129
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 1: be doing some not revisionist history, but kind of reviewing

1130
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:35,399
Speaker 1: their history, talking about their major moments and their career,

1131
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: their major achievements, uh their their development over the course

1132
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:40,920
Speaker 1: of their career, intricate details of their skill set. I

1133
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,320
Speaker 1: want to take my sweet time getting into those players.

1134
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: I'll be reading the comments section later tonight. I want

1135
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Speaker 1: you guys to drop any suggestions for things that you

1136
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:50,360
Speaker 1: guys would like to see in those videos um, so

1137
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:51,799
Speaker 1: that I can cater them to you guys a little

1138
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 1: bit better. As always, I sincerely appreciate your support and

1139
00:56:54,239 --> 00:57:45,920
Speaker 1: I'll see you guys in a couple of days. The

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Speaker 1: volume