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Speaker 1: the Volume. Happy Wednesday, everybody. I hope all of you

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Speaker 1: We are continuing our player rankings today. We are down

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Speaker 1: to the top three. Today we'll be covering number three,

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Speaker 1: Yannis Suntanakoopo. You guys know the drill. Before we get started,

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Speaker 1: Rated PG. Thirteen. All right, let's talk some basketball. So

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Speaker 1: this top three here is the beginning of my top

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Speaker 1: tier of superstars. Like I said before, I've viewed one

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Speaker 1: after the beginning of this kind of superstar tier, I

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Speaker 1: talked a lot about the concept of theoretical basketball, right,

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Speaker 1: way that they do their lists. Right Again, if I

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Speaker 1: also just the different things that we value in basketball players. Right,

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Speaker 1: And I talked a lot about how much winning matters

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Speaker 1: But the larger concern with me personally surrounding this year's

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Speaker 1: All of this, in my opinion, makes Giannis the very

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Speaker 1: hook shot that I thought was Giannis's biggest problem in

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Speaker 1: the Miami series. He was two for seven on hook

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Speaker 1: shots in the Miami Series. And by the way, I

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Speaker 1: did a tweet out a video that has all seven

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Speaker 1: of those hook shots, so you can see specific examples

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Speaker 1: reason why I want you guys to watch that video

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Speaker 1: is I'm going to talk a little bit about the

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Speaker 1: specific footwork that it takes, because before you think this

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Speaker 1: was injury related, Giannis was thirteen for thirty seven on

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Speaker 1: hook shots this year, which is like thirty five percent.

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Speaker 1: Here's why the hook is important. He's not close to

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Speaker 1: having a dependable jump shot like miles and miles away.

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Speaker 1: He's not one off season of work away from being

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Speaker 1: a good jump shooter. He's not two off seasons of

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Speaker 1: work away from being a good jump shooter. He'll be

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Speaker 1: lucky to have a dependable jump shot. When he's thirty

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Speaker 1: five years old, he just has two. There's too much

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Speaker 1: ground to make up. He's not streaky, he's not anything.

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Speaker 1: He's just not good at making those shots. But he

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Speaker 1: can in one summer become a player who has a

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Speaker 1: dependable hook shot. He's capable of that. Why because it's

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Speaker 1: an easy shot for him to get. It's a ton

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Speaker 1: of separation with how big and strong he is and

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Speaker 1: how tall and athletic he is. The footwork is easy.

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Speaker 1: It's just try to bulldoze your way to the rim.

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Speaker 1: If you get cut off, quick pivot and spin to

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Speaker 1: your back to the basket and take a right handed

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Speaker 1: hook shot over your left shoulder. And you'll see the

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Speaker 1: specific footwork I'm talking about. If you guys watch the

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Speaker 1: video I put up. There was the one in game.

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Speaker 1: There was two that he took at the end of games.

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Speaker 1: One at the end of game four and one at

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Speaker 1: the end of game five, and they're both in the video,

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Speaker 1: and in both of them, he's starting up top, he's

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Speaker 1: bringing the head of team down, Bam cuts him off.

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Speaker 1: He pivots over that left shoulder and gets a great look,

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Speaker 1: and he just can't make it. But the interesting part

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Speaker 1: of those clips is if I saw Giannis dribble down

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Speaker 1: and take a pull up eighteen foot or and he

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Speaker 1: missed it, you go, okay, Miami wants him to take

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Speaker 1: that shot, like he's never gonna make that shot, right.

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Speaker 1: But the hook shots, a good shot like that is

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Speaker 1: a locked in Miami defense defending like their lives are

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Speaker 1: on the line to win a series. And Giannis is

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Speaker 1: so damn big and strong and has such good control

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Speaker 1: over the basketball that he gets an easy, little seven

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Speaker 1: eight foot pop shot in the lane. He's got everything

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Speaker 1: there except for the finish. That to me, is way

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Speaker 1: more dependable than anything involving the jumper for him, not

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Speaker 1: to mention, he can get to it from anywhere, post

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Speaker 1: up situations. Just there's a couple of them in there

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Speaker 1: that you'll see that he made where he just had

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Speaker 1: the ball on the right left block, dribble, dribble, get

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Speaker 1: into the lane, easy hook shot, and he makes it.

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Speaker 1: He can get to it and pick and roll. He

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Speaker 1: can get to it in ISO. Those are more like

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Speaker 1: he gets down, he'll get cut off, pivots into a

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Speaker 1: spin move and just takes the hook shot out of

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Speaker 1: the spin move right especially when he's driving towards his left.

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Speaker 1: But even when he drives towards his right, he could

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Speaker 1: pivot back and then back over his left shoulder. That's

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Speaker 1: the shot he has to add. In my opinion, If

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Speaker 1: he adds that, that will make him a much more

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Speaker 1: dependable half court scorer in the playoffs. Here's why I'm

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Speaker 1: harping so hard on this stuff with Giannis. A championship

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Speaker 1: is a championship Giannis has stamped forever in my book.

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Speaker 1: But let's be honest, Giannis's next championship will probably be harder.

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Speaker 1: Why because you'll probably have to go through more talent

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Speaker 1: to get there. Why because the league is just more stacked.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm not again. You guys know how I feel

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Speaker 1: about undercutting championships. A championship is a championship is a championship.

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Speaker 1: That said, we can look at twenty twenty one and

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Speaker 1: acknowledge that a Paul George led Clippers team probably won't

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Speaker 1: be a conference finalist next year. Trey Young led Hawks

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Speaker 1: team probably won't be a conference finalist next year. A

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Speaker 1: Devin Booker led with Chris Paul behind Sun's team probably

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Speaker 1: won't be a conference finalist next year. In the Eastern Conference,

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Speaker 1: You're most likely going to see Damian Lillard, Jimmy Butler

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Speaker 1: and bam Adebayo, or something like Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown

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Speaker 1: and Chris tops Porzingis. Those are much more talented teams

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Speaker 1: in that Atlanta Hawks team. Right when you get to

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Speaker 1: the finals, you're most likely going to see like Devin

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Speaker 1: Booker flanked by Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal, or Lebron

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Speaker 1: James and Anthony Davis and Austin Reeves, or Nikola Jokic,

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Speaker 1: who has all of the same power in his game

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Speaker 1: that Giannis does, manifest it in a different way, more methodical,

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Speaker 1: but the same type of relentless, unstoppable power, except for

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Speaker 1: he makes all of his shots away from the rim,

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Speaker 1: and he's a better playmaker than you. So the point

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Speaker 1: is is it's not what he is a has accomplished.

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Speaker 1: Giannis is stamped forever. But let's be real about what

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Speaker 1: the future is going to look like. As of right now,

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Speaker 1: Yannis has to get better in order to have a

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Speaker 1: better chance of competing over the course of the next

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Speaker 1: five to ten years. I believe he will. For the record,

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Speaker 1: I think you saw I think it was somewhat evidenced

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Speaker 1: in his social media behavior. But I think Jannis is

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Speaker 1: aware of the fact that he knows that he's got

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Speaker 1: to go up a level. And this is a guy

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Speaker 1: who plays too hard, who works too hard, who cares

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Speaker 1: too much. So I expect Giannis to make that improvement.

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Speaker 1: But he's got to start making his free throws again.

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Speaker 1: Can't regress in that sense, and he's got to figure

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Speaker 1: out some sort of shot he can make over the

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Speaker 1: top of the defense. If you can figure that out

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Speaker 1: and he's healthy, I think he's got a chance to

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Speaker 1: go blow for blow with Nicole Jokic over the course

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Speaker 1: of the next half decade. All right, guys, that is

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Speaker 1: all I have for today. Is always I sincerely appreciate

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Speaker 1: your support and I will see you next time. The

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Speaker 1: volume