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Speaker 1: Happy Thursday, everybody, over All of you guys are having
Speaker 1: a great day so far. Going a jam packs show
Speaker 1: for you guys today. We're starting with one of the
Speaker 1: games from the ESPN slate last night, as the New
Speaker 1: York Knicks got up to a really good start against
Speaker 1: the Calves on the road in Cleveland, but the Calves
Speaker 1: regained control there. I want to talk about a little
Speaker 1: bit about the concept of playing with force. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about some of the things that Cleveland does
Speaker 1: on offense to keep their offense moving smoothly in the
Speaker 1: half court, mainly just playing with a lot of pace.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about what that means. After that,
Speaker 1: we had an insane slate on Tuesday night. We had
Speaker 1: a scheduled day off yesterday, so we want to get
Speaker 1: to those games.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: Nicole Jokic goes for sixty one points in a triple
Speaker 1: double against the Timberwolves. I want to talk about Jokic
Speaker 1: and just where I view him all time as it
Speaker 1: pertains to what he does on the offensive end of
Speaker 1: the floor. I want to talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon's shooting, which I think is a very exciting trend,
Speaker 1: and I shouldn't even call it a trend. I think
Speaker 1: it's just a reality at this point. And then a
Speaker 1: little bit about the Russell Westbrooks snafu at the tail
Speaker 1: end of the game. And then right at the end
Speaker 1: of the show, we're going to talk about Steph curry
Speaker 1: Is fifty two point night against the Grizzlies, a little
Speaker 1: bit about the Grizzlies defense and where their defense has
Speaker 1: been going and wrong, and then a little bit on
Speaker 1: the Steph Jimmy Twoman game, which was what devastated the
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Speaker 1: some basketball. So with Knicks Caves, I want to start
Speaker 1: with the concept of force, and I don't mean like
Speaker 1: Star Wars force, I mean like the physical idea of
Speaker 1: playing with force, bringing power to everything that you do
Speaker 1: on the basketball. At court, the Knicks are a big
Speaker 1: and strong team. They have three power players in their
Speaker 1: starting five and josh og Anobi and Karl Anthony Towns,
Speaker 1: and without Jalen Brunson, they've looked a lot more like
Speaker 1: last year's team and that they're trying to win by
Speaker 1: outworking you. Since Jalen Brunson went down, their top ten
Speaker 1: in defense, second points off of turnovers, so a lot
Speaker 1: of defense to transition sequences, top ten in fast break
Speaker 1: points per game, and top ten in offensive rebounding, so
Speaker 1: a lot more in line with what you remember from
Speaker 1: some of the more GrITT and grind type of Knicks
Speaker 1: teams that we saw in the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: So in short, they're trying to make up for Brunson
Speaker 1: being out by outworking teams, and they came out early
Speaker 1: in this one and just outworked the Caves. They were
Speaker 1: the more physical team that was running harder, They were
Speaker 1: keeping the calves out of transition, they were scoring the
Speaker 1: ball with savvy cuts. They had a very good jump
Speaker 1: shooting first half. They were over ten on catch and
Speaker 1: shoot jump shots in the second half, so that's where
Speaker 1: things kind of went south for them. But they shot
Speaker 1: the ball well, they moved the ball well, they outworked
Speaker 1: the calves, and they controlled things Earlier they were playing
Speaker 1: with more force. Now what does that literally mean to me?
Speaker 1: That means just doing everything harder, so in transition, sprinting
Speaker 1: instead of like running hard right, closing out with desperation
Speaker 1: versus just a token close out, crashing the glass harder,
Speaker 1: sliding your feet on defense better, setting more physical screens,
Speaker 1: essentially just bringing the physicality to Cleveland, just winning that
Speaker 1: battle in the trenches. In that third quarter, Cleveland finally
Speaker 1: showed up to the fight and they returned the force
Speaker 1: that allowed their talent advantage to take over. A simple
Speaker 1: stat to demonstrate this as transition points. A huge part
Speaker 1: of what makes the Cavs successful is they play fast.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk a lot about this concept in a
Speaker 1: half court for them later, but here I'm focusing on transition.
Speaker 1: They had just seven transition points in the first half
Speaker 1: of this game. They had twenty transition points in the
Speaker 1: second half. But you gotta get stops to get out
Speaker 1: in transition. Again, all of these things are intricately connected
Speaker 1: to each other. In the first half, they had a
Speaker 1: one to thirty point four defensive rating. You're taking the
Speaker 1: ball out of the net every damn time, it's going
Speaker 1: to be really difficult to get the ball up the
Speaker 1: floor into transition.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: The Cavs had a ninety one point eight defensive rating
Speaker 1: in the second half. Right, so we'll call that roughly
Speaker 1: a thirty three percent decrease. And the offensive success of
Speaker 1: the Knicks is going to lead to more opportunities, more
Speaker 1: longer rebounds, more transition opportunities. They brought the force back
Speaker 1: to the Knicks. They started getting stops, they started getting
Speaker 1: out in transition. They immediately regained control of the game.
Speaker 1: And I'm bringing up this concept of force because I
Speaker 1: think it's an important factor when we get into the postseason.
Speaker 1: As soon as things shift from getting through this game
Speaker 1: to getting through this seven game series, we'll talk about adjustments,
Speaker 1: but often the biggest adjustment that any team can make
Speaker 1: is just play with more force. One of the things
Speaker 1: I've noticed as a math and all of these brilliant
Speaker 1: statistical professionals have been getting into the league is there's
Speaker 1: this like intense.
Speaker 2: Desire to find the solution to the problem.
Speaker 1: That's like, oh, well, we won game two of the
Speaker 1: series because we did this coverage thing, or we did
Speaker 1: this thing differently or that thing differently, and like, don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong, those things do play a role. There's
Speaker 1: a chess match that takes place in the NBA, but
Speaker 1: often it's like, just do the thing that you were
Speaker 1: already doing, but do it better, right. I talk about
Speaker 1: this concept a lot, the idea of like styles making fights,
Speaker 1: but which style wins the fight. If a big fighter
Speaker 1: and a small fighter who's very fast get into the ring,
Speaker 1: there's a version of that where the small guy can
Speaker 1: win using his speed, just like there's a version of
Speaker 1: that where the big guy can win using his size.
Speaker 1: Often it's not about some adjustment, it's just about whatever
Speaker 1: that advantage is, getting leveraged more, getting leverage better to
Speaker 1: control the situation. And so like we'll see those oscillations
Speaker 1: back and forth in playoff series as you know, the
Speaker 1: urgency shifts from one team to the next. This is
Speaker 1: why I always look at Game three as like the
Speaker 1: Buzzsaw game, right, because it's like you go up two
Speaker 1: to oh at home and you go on the road.
Speaker 1: It's really hard to run as hard screen, as hard slide,
Speaker 1: as hard rebound as hard as the team that's at
Speaker 1: home down two oh playing in front of their home crowd,
Speaker 1: bringing so much force.
Speaker 2: To bear in that specific situation.
Speaker 1: And it's specifically important for Cleveland's playoff success because they're
Speaker 1: a little bit vulnerable to size and strength, as we've
Speaker 1: seen at various points over this little slide that they've
Speaker 1: had in the last few weeks, and even in the
Speaker 1: first half of this game. I want to shout out
Speaker 1: a couple of specific guys before we get into that
Speaker 1: concept of pace that I was talking about earlier. Donovan Mitchell.
Speaker 1: It's good to see him get back into his groove.
Speaker 1: He really took over this game in the third quarter
Speaker 1: offensively as the Cavs started to take control. The Cavs
Speaker 1: gave him a day off last week against Portland, and
Speaker 1: he's been great since coming back. He's in this kind
Speaker 1: of brutal shooting slot before then, and you could see
Speaker 1: some of his decision making take a slide as well,
Speaker 1: and since he came back twenty nine points, eight rebound,
Speaker 1: seven assists, sixty three percent true shooting in four games,
Speaker 1: So looks just like the old Donovan Mitchell, better version.
Speaker 1: I mean, the hell that's damn near a thirty point
Speaker 1: triple double. Really high level play out of Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 1: as of late. I thought Evan Mobley was brilliant in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter when Cleveland put the game away. He
Speaker 1: had a big three on the wing and he had
Speaker 1: a nice, driving, little drop off pass to Jared Allen
Speaker 1: underneath the basket. He was super active on the offensive
Speaker 1: Glass was super active on the defensive end. I thought
Speaker 1: he was a big part of that shift in force
Speaker 1: that we talked about. Jared Allen was brilliant all night,
Speaker 1: specifically with the speed of his cuts, both in rolls
Speaker 1: off of ball screens, but also around the rim when
Speaker 1: he's relocating from dunker spot in dunker spot, and I
Speaker 1: was really causing fits for Kat who can be a
Speaker 1: little slow footed from time to time. And this is
Speaker 1: where I want to get into this foundational concept that
Speaker 1: every one on the calves is great at and I'm
Speaker 1: talking about it here in the with respect to Jared Allen,
Speaker 1: but this is the idea.
Speaker 2: Of playing with pace when you're in the half court.
Speaker 1: So obviously you run up the floor and transition, there
Speaker 1: are advantages there. Why because if you bring your speed
Speaker 1: into the equation in the open floor and the other
Speaker 1: team doesn't match that speed, you can get advantages without
Speaker 1: having to slow down in the half court and run action.
Speaker 1: Sometimes that advantage is so dramatic that you just get
Speaker 1: a driving layup or an easy wide open three on
Speaker 1: a kick ahead pass right. But a lot of times
Speaker 1: even just a transition push can start the chain of events.
Speaker 1: As the defense is getting back the ball popping around.
Speaker 1: You have an advantage from the transition push. You can
Speaker 1: play off of that if the defense tries to rotate
Speaker 1: and just play driving kick basketball right. The entire purpose
Speaker 1: when we get into the half court of running action
Speaker 1: is to get an advantage, and so if you can
Speaker 1: get that advantage from the transition push, then you don't
Speaker 1: have to slow down and action. But once you get
Speaker 1: in the half court, there are a lot of teams
Speaker 1: in this league that can struggle against ball pressure and
Speaker 1: denial and so many different things. In large part they
Speaker 1: play into that by playing too slow. This is an
Speaker 1: issue I've seen with the Lakers from time to time
Speaker 1: as a team that I root for, right, and there's
Speaker 1: an upside sometimes to their brutal, brutally slow approach in
Speaker 1: the way that it can disrupt the rhythm of a game.
Speaker 1: And that's an entirely different conversation for another day, and
Speaker 1: we've talked about it before, but one of the things
Speaker 1: that can happen is like, it's a lot easier to
Speaker 1: chase a guy over the top of a screen, both
Speaker 1: on ball and off ball, to chase a relocating shooter,
Speaker 1: to tag a roller, to do any of those things
Speaker 1: when the ball handlers not flying off the screen, when
Speaker 1: the off ball shooter's not flying off the screen, when
Speaker 1: the relocating shooter is slowly relocating versus quickly relocating, when
Speaker 1: the role man is rumbling down the lane instead of
Speaker 1: sprinting down the lane. And I clipped a several examples
Speaker 1: from today's game involving Jared Allen that you guys can
Speaker 1: find on my Twitter feed at underscore jsonlt. But there's
Speaker 1: an action early in the game's first bucket that the
Speaker 1: Cavs get and all it is is, uh, if I
Speaker 1: remember correctly, it was like a Garland. I think it
Speaker 1: might have just been Struce coming off of a ball
Speaker 1: screen with Jared Allen.
Speaker 2: I can't remember.
Speaker 1: I think it might have been like a pistol type
Speaker 1: of action where Garland through a dho first. But the
Speaker 1: two elements that you need to focus on are Watch
Speaker 1: how fast Max Struce sprints up off the screen. That
Speaker 1: automatically puts his defender into a tougher position because now
Speaker 1: he has to sprint just to try to keep up,
Speaker 1: and his job is to apply back pressure to stay
Speaker 1: attached to the ball handler. Is it harder to stay
Speaker 1: attached to a ball handler who is sprinting off of
Speaker 1: an action or a ballhandler that's jogging.
Speaker 2: Off of an action. It's not too hard to figure out. Right.
Speaker 1: Struce sprints into the action with Jared Allen. Now he's
Speaker 1: just going downhill free and clear because his defender's trailing
Speaker 1: the play. Carl Anthony Towns is the guy that's showing there.
Speaker 1: This is where Jared Allen's cut comes into the picture.
Speaker 1: Watch how fast Jared Allen on this clip that I
Speaker 1: posted on my Twitter feed. Watch how fast Jared Allen
Speaker 1: sprints on his roll to the rim. He sprints so
Speaker 1: Kat has no damn chance as he's backpedaling in his
Speaker 1: drop coverage to get there in time, and so Struce
Speaker 1: is able to just easily float it up into the air.
Speaker 1: Easy two handed dunk for Jared Allen, there's another play
Speaker 1: clip did. It's in the exact same thread, So if
Speaker 1: you go to my Twitter feed and you find that clip,
Speaker 1: it's the next one down. Evan Mobley is driving across
Speaker 1: the lane out of the right corner Jared Allen. Typical
Speaker 1: four out one in spacing, when you're occupying the dunker spot,
Speaker 1: you always want to be in the dunker spot opposite
Speaker 1: the basketball. Not too hard to figure out why, because
Speaker 1: if the guy who's helping helps on the strong side,
Speaker 1: it just creates more space between you and the helper
Speaker 1: so that you can create a nice easy passing angle.
Speaker 1: Once the ball crosses the midline, you have a job.
Speaker 1: And this goes way back to high school. They're teaching
Speaker 1: this to Biggs in high school. Right when you cross
Speaker 1: that midline as the ball handler or pass the ball
Speaker 1: across the midline, that guy has to move from the
Speaker 1: weak side dunker spot. Now the d week side has
Speaker 1: shifted to the strong side. He's got to get to
Speaker 1: the opposite side.
Speaker 2: Jared Allen.
Speaker 1: On this play, as Evan Mobley is driving across the lane,
Speaker 1: sprints over to the opposite dunker spot. Karl Anthony Towns helps.
Speaker 1: There is Jared Allen wide open underneath the basket. Everyone
Speaker 1: over reacts. He's able to pump fake and get a
Speaker 1: little easy reverse layup. But it's everybody on the team.
Speaker 1: Max Strus is flying off of cuts. Garland and Mitchell
Speaker 1: are constantly sprinting up the floor in their transition pushes,
Speaker 1: trying to get those early offense opportunities. Evan Mobley's running
Speaker 1: into e everything. Everything they do happens with great pace.
Speaker 1: Sam Marrill in his ghost screen actions that he runs
Speaker 1: with Garland and Mitchell, he's sprinting in and out of
Speaker 1: those cuts. This is a simple concept that makes life
Speaker 1: easier for you on the offensive end of the floor.
Speaker 1: We talked about the idea of like doing things at
Speaker 1: game speed as a shooter. Kevin Durant talks about this
Speaker 1: concept all the time. That has more to do with
Speaker 1: translating to a game environment. Don't practice doing something at
Speaker 1: a slower speed than you're gonna have to do it
Speaker 1: when it actually matters, right, But similarly, when we get
Speaker 1: into these offensive situations, if you jog into everything, you're
Speaker 1: easy to guard. If you sprint into everything, you're infinitely
Speaker 1: harder to guard. That's what it means to play with
Speaker 1: pace in the half court. I think it's one of
Speaker 1: the foundational traits that makes this Cavs offense so great,
Speaker 1: and every time you watch them, that sort of thing
Speaker 1: screams off of the screen. It's an element that Kenny
Speaker 1: Atkinson has brought to this team and it's been a
Speaker 1: big part of their transformation over the course of this season.
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk some Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 1: So Jokics goes for sixty one, ten and ten against
Speaker 1: the Wolves the other night. Just an absolutely wild games,
Speaker 1: dogfight for the most part, and then the Nuggets finally
Speaker 1: pulled away in the fourth quarter. They end up going
Speaker 1: up by ten, but then Anthony Edwards just went absolutely berserk.
Speaker 1: And this has become a kind of a recurring theme
Speaker 1: with it. As a game was unfolding, I was thinking
Speaker 1: to myself, and really hasn't hit kind of a hot
Speaker 1: jump shooting streak yet, And that felt like a factor
Speaker 1: that would come into play at some point down the stretch.
Speaker 1: And it did, and he just started rising like and
Speaker 1: it just has this ability to rise up at a
Speaker 1: spot on the court and he gets such great lift
Speaker 1: on his jump shot that he can really get to
Speaker 1: it whenever he wants, and he's become such a great
Speaker 1: jump shooter that it's kind of just like a let's
Speaker 1: cross our fingers and pray he misses kind of thing.
Speaker 1: And he just wasn't missing down the stretch of that game,
Speaker 1: and it allowed the Wolves to get back into control.
Speaker 1: It felt like the Wolves had the game won at
Speaker 1: multiple points, but Denver just did a good job of
Speaker 1: doubling the ball out of Anthony Edwards's hands. Minnesota looked
Speaker 1: like they'd never seen a double team before, as they
Speaker 1: just pissed down their leg and get a terrible shot
Speaker 1: over and over again in those situations. The Wolves led
Speaker 1: in the final minute of the fourth quarter of overtime
Speaker 1: and double overtime, yet still needed that insane Russell Westbrook
Speaker 1: sequence at the end in order to win table. That
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook thing. We'll talk about that here in a minute,
Speaker 1: but there was another reason in addition to Minnesota's poor execution,
Speaker 1: that Denver was able to consistently come back and almost
Speaker 1: win that game. Jokich in crunch time had fourteen points,
Speaker 1: four assists, and zero turnovers in the clutch a portion
Speaker 1: of this game spanning the end of the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and both overtimes, he was completely indomitable, throwing Gobar around
Speaker 1: and getting an easy floater in the lane. He had
Speaker 1: a nasty turnaround left shoulder fade away over Julius Randall.
Speaker 1: He hit one of his patented above to break threes
Speaker 1: at the top of the key, another nasty left shoulder
Speaker 1: hook over Julius Randall again, all while being doubled and
Speaker 1: hounded and grabbed and scratched and clawed everywhere. He'd often
Speaker 1: take a double team, have to get rid of the ball,
Speaker 1: sprint back up to flash to get the ball back,
Speaker 1: and then quickly turn away from the double to try
Speaker 1: to get a bucket before the double came. It was
Speaker 1: just remarkably high degree of difficulty and he was just
Speaker 1: crushing these dudes. I talked after Jokic's thirty twenty twenty
Speaker 1: game a few weeks back that it probably wasn't even
Speaker 1: a top five performance from him this year. These are
Speaker 1: all now Jokic stat lines from this year. Sixty one,
Speaker 1: ten and ten, fifty six, sixteen and eight, forty eight,
Speaker 1: fourteen and eight forty one, eighteen and nine, this one's crazy,
Speaker 1: thirty seven, eighteen and fifteen, thirty six, twenty two and eleven,
Speaker 1: thirty five, twelve, and fifteen. Here's another crazy one, twenty
Speaker 1: two and seventeen, the thirty one to twenty one to
Speaker 1: twenty two game earlier this year, he had a twenty
Speaker 1: three to twenty and sixteen as well. He's averaging thirty
Speaker 1: thirteen and ten on sixty six percent true shooting for
Speaker 1: the season. This is the greatest offensive basketball player to
Speaker 1: ever touch the court. Conversations get way more complicated when
Speaker 1: you factor in defense, like Jokic is having legitimately a
Speaker 1: really bad defensive season, and I've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: talk about people wanting to vault Yokic up the all
Speaker 1: time list for what's happening in this regular season. I
Speaker 1: think that's a little more complicated because it's been a
Speaker 1: two sided coin with Yokic at times this year. But
Speaker 1: I have never seen a basketball player produce at this volume,
Speaker 1: with this variety, with this level of efficiency, with this
Speaker 1: complete level of unstoppability. You literally cannot stop Jokic from
Speaker 1: either getting a great shot for himself or for someone else.
Speaker 1: You can tilt it towards a lesser teammate to make
Speaker 1: a shot. Denver's margin for air has shrunken a little
Speaker 1: bit over the years as the supporting cast has lost
Speaker 1: a little bit of that firepower. But you just about
Speaker 1: never see Nikola Jokicic look visibly uncomfortable on a basketball court.
Speaker 1: There have been these brief moments here in time, like
Speaker 1: for instance, against Minnesota in the postseason last year, he
Speaker 1: had his moments, but he also had like Game five
Speaker 1: of that series where he just ripped through him like
Speaker 1: tissue paper for one of the greatest playoff performances I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. As good as Steph Curry was offensively, and
Speaker 1: he's up there, he never had the physical imposition that
Speaker 1: Jokicz brings to the table that, oh, you leave me
Speaker 1: in single coverage I'm just gonna get a shot right
Speaker 1: at the rim with zero variants, guaranteed two points like
Speaker 1: Steph never had that. As good as Lebron was offensively
Speaker 1: back in twenty eighteen, like he could get high percentage looks,
Speaker 1: he had Scott high efficiency and volume, but he still
Speaker 1: never had that go to move against any type of
Speaker 1: defender that he could hit sixty plus percent of the time.
Speaker 1: Jokic does. The three point shot was the variable that
Speaker 1: put him over the top for me last year when
Speaker 1: he couldn't shoot. It felt like you could do more
Speaker 1: with double teams and crowding him on pick and roll
Speaker 1: in particular when he was like rolling into that short
Speaker 1: roll area. You can do more of that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff to lessen his impact. You guys might remember the
Speaker 1: tail end of the Timberwolve series where he kept popping
Speaker 1: above the break to avoid that traffic jam on those rolls,
Speaker 1: and he just couldn't hit that shot. He hit six
Speaker 1: of them against Minnesota on Tuesday. That's the thing that
Speaker 1: makes him completely unguardable. I'll just say from personal experience,
Speaker 1: as someone who's actively rooted against this guy in a
Speaker 1: playoff series three times, I can confidently state I've never
Speaker 1: been more scared of an offensive player on that end
Speaker 1: of the floor in any sort of big spot late
Speaker 1: in the game. Then I was scared of Nikola Jokic,
Speaker 1: and I hope to the basketball gods that I don't
Speaker 1: have to do it again this year. I want to
Speaker 1: talk about Westbrook for a minute. I want to set
Speaker 1: aside the reality of Westbrook's fit and how things have
Speaker 1: gone in total with the Nuggets just for a minute.
Speaker 1: I think we can all agree, including Laker fans, that
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook is a much better basketball fit with Denver
Speaker 1: than he was with either of the LA teams. Right,
Speaker 1: So let's just take that piece and set it aside
Speaker 1: for a second. When Russell Westbrook signed with the Nuggets,
Speaker 1: you Nuggets fans will probably remember what I said. I
Speaker 1: said that he undoubtedly has a higher ceiling than Reggie Jackson.
Speaker 1: There's no way that Reggie Jackson could ever do the
Speaker 1: things on a basketball court that Russell Westbrook is capable
Speaker 1: of doing. But I also said that he has a
Speaker 1: much lower floor than Reggie Jackson, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people like interpreted that as like, oh, like he'll have
Speaker 1: games where he doesn't produce. That's not it at all.
Speaker 1: It's strictly mistake making. Russell Westbrook is incredibly prone to mistakes,
Speaker 1: regardless of the surrounding circumstances of the game. Doesn't matter
Speaker 1: if it's the first quarter or the final possession of
Speaker 1: a big game, he is mistake prone.
Speaker 2: He plays with a.
Speaker 1: Lot of energy and a lot of passion, but it's
Speaker 1: not very refined, and I would argue when it comes
Speaker 1: to like game plan discipline, attention to detail, He's one
Speaker 1: of the worst players I've ever seen in those categories,
Speaker 1: and so what ends up happening is Russell Westbrook will
Speaker 1: make all these good plays over the course of a
Speaker 1: game and bring all of this positive impact, but he
Speaker 1: just has a tendency to make these mistakes that undercut
Speaker 1: that success. So like, for instance, everyone's going to focus
Speaker 1: on the final sequence, I want to set that aside
Speaker 1: for second as well, the overtime possession where he makes
Speaker 1: the post entry past to Jokich and then he cuts
Speaker 1: through the lane and then he just throws Nikiel Alexander
Speaker 1: Walker to the ground with a swim move right in
Speaker 1: front of the reth easiest offensive foul call in the league.
Speaker 1: They're going the other way, just turn the ball over
Speaker 1: for no reason in the big spot in overtime. In
Speaker 1: second overtime, Nuggets up by one, he's guarding Anthony Edwards,
Speaker 1: the only guy who's been torching your ass over clutch time.
Speaker 1: He's guarding Anthony Edwards out up at the top of
Speaker 1: the key and he just goes catatonic and he's just
Speaker 1: standing up there like twenty five feet from the basket,
Speaker 1: and ant just backcuts right behind him. Easy pass. I
Speaker 1: think it was from Julius Randolph. I remember correctly easy
Speaker 1: pass on the back cut layup. Now Minnesota has the
Speaker 1: lead again. Forget about like just that split second decision
Speaker 1: making at the end of the game. There were two
Speaker 1: other situations in that same overtime sequence where Russ either
Speaker 1: tricked off an offensive possession or gave up a bucket
Speaker 1: because he's just mistake prone. He just makes mistakes, and
Speaker 1: like a lot of these people were like making Laker
Speaker 1: fans out to be jerks for just pointing out these
Speaker 1: like basic things that we learned from rooting for the guy.
Speaker 1: I still vividly remember in big spots many times fourth quarters,
Speaker 1: two three minutes, left huge possession, Russ forcing it in
Speaker 1: transition when there was nothing there in smoking a layup.
Speaker 1: You guys saw it again last night as they blew
Speaker 1: a game to the Spurs in a big sequence late
Speaker 1: down too, as he smoked this crazy reverse layup and
Speaker 1: it led to another layup going out the other way.
Speaker 1: That happened to me two other Laker fans rooting for
Speaker 1: him many times over the course of the year and
Speaker 1: a half that he was there. I still vividly remember
Speaker 1: a game against the Brooklyn Nets in La Stanley Johnson
Speaker 1: signs with the Lakers, like of does an incredible job
Speaker 1: picking up hard in like full court all game. It's
Speaker 1: this really important game for the Lakers too, as they're
Speaker 1: trying to float in the standings. And one of the
Speaker 1: biggest possessions of the game late in a one possession game,
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook is guarding Patty Mills. What's your job guarding
Speaker 1: Patty Mills? Game playing, discipline, attention to detail. He's the
Speaker 1: best shooter on the court. You gotta track him. He
Speaker 1: was ball watching just like that play I was talking
Speaker 1: about with aunt. Pat Mills relocated to the left corner
Speaker 1: hard and hit him. He hit the dagger, the game
Speaker 1: was over. I've been there, guys. I wasn't trying to
Speaker 1: like talk shit for the sake of talking shit. I
Speaker 1: wasn't trying to be personal. I wasn't trying to be
Speaker 1: a dick. I like, I rooted for the guy for
Speaker 1: a year and a half. It was in my best
Speaker 1: interests as a fan for him to be good, and
Speaker 1: he just repeatedly undercut his successes with that mistake making.
Speaker 1: And then there you go, in a big possession late
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards turns.
Speaker 2: The ball over.
Speaker 1: You're up one with the ball you don't take a
Speaker 1: shot unless you are one hundred percent sure you are
Speaker 1: going to make it, and instead it's another one of
Speaker 1: those reckless transition pushes. Then he compounds the mistake after
Speaker 1: missing the layup by getting back into one of those
Speaker 1: no man's lands kind of floating around situations around the
Speaker 1: right elbow, and next thing you know, there's a skip
Speaker 1: pass and he has to throw a reckless close out
Speaker 1: and he fouls a three point shooter and he literally
Speaker 1: turned a win into a loss. And like, look, Nicole
Speaker 1: Jokic after the game, excellent leadership says, this kind of
Speaker 1: shit happens sometimes, and he's not wrong. I literally just
Speaker 1: watched Lebron do it the other day. I watched Lebron
Speaker 1: the other day lose a shooter in the weekside corner
Speaker 1: and then turn the ball over on the baseline. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing. I've been watching Lebron his entire career. That
Speaker 1: was fucking weird. That was highly unusual from Lebron James.
Speaker 1: I watched Russell Westbrook this entire phase of his career.
Speaker 1: That is something he is absolutely prone to doing in
Speaker 1: these sorts of spots, and so like again, it's there's
Speaker 1: there are some realities, right, like Jamal Murray's healthy, Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook's probably not out there, right. There are ways for
Speaker 1: Mike Malone and the Nuggets to shield against this sort
Speaker 1: of thing by keeping him out of the game in
Speaker 1: those spots. But the problem is is like there is
Speaker 1: some reality to the fact that there is an opportunity,
Speaker 1: There is a there is a potential outcome here where
Speaker 1: the Nuggets are in a big game, four down two
Speaker 1: to one in a series on the road at you know,
Speaker 1: some one of these big Western Conference teams, and it's
Speaker 1: a late third quarter stretch where the Nuggets are up
Speaker 1: by two and Russ could take over the game and
Speaker 1: win it for you, and you could go into the
Speaker 1: mid fourth quarter stretch up by twelve.
Speaker 2: That's the high ceiling.
Speaker 1: But there's also a version of that where he has
Speaker 1: two or three bad turnovers, two or three mislayups, two
Speaker 1: or three bad three point shots, and a couple of
Speaker 1: bad defensive breakdowns and suddenly your two point lead turns
Speaker 1: into a ten point deficit. That is also an available outcome.
Speaker 1: Because of the wild oscillations of that Russell Westbrook experience,
Speaker 1: and the only reason I'm saying any of This is
Speaker 1: because at the start of the year when I pointed
Speaker 1: this out, I wasn't trying to be a dick. I
Speaker 1: was just being honest about my own personal experience rooting
Speaker 1: for the guy, in relaying a message that every Lakers
Speaker 1: fan will tell you. Even Clippers fans will tell you
Speaker 1: that this was a reality. It's not a big deal.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be able to cover fourth. They should be
Speaker 1: able to keep him out of these sort of high
Speaker 1: leverage situations. But keep an eye on it in the
Speaker 1: postseason for a big bench stretch and a big quarter.
Speaker 1: There he's mistake prone and it could be something that
Speaker 1: ends up costing you a game. Last note on the
Speaker 1: Nuggets poor We move on Aaron Gordon. I don't think
Speaker 1: of this Aaron Gordon shooting stretch as some sort of
Speaker 1: anomaly or just random hot streak or anything along those lines.
Speaker 1: I genuinely believe Aaron Gordon is just a great shooter.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I think you can tell just by watching. I don't
Speaker 1: think this is something that takes, you know, any sort
Speaker 1: of expertise to pick up. If you watch him, is
Speaker 1: release is more fluid, There's very little wasted motion. He
Speaker 1: hits excellent energy, transfer. I talk about this all the time.
Speaker 1: That's the flow of energy from your feet all the
Speaker 1: way through the top of the shot. Just watch Aaron
Speaker 1: Gordon when he shoots. It just looks easy, breezy flip
Speaker 1: of the wrist. He's super confident with it. Made two
Speaker 1: more massive ones in that overtime game against Minnesota, was
Speaker 1: stepping into one. Even the ones he missed were like
Speaker 1: barely off. Like the guy is just flat out a
Speaker 1: really good shooter. Now, a couple different things that I
Speaker 1: want to say about it real quick. First of all,
Speaker 1: young players, Aaron Gordon built a jim at his house,
Speaker 1: and again we don't not all of us have.
Speaker 2: That luxury we eron.
Speaker 1: Gordon built a gym in his house and just shot
Speaker 1: thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of
Speaker 1: shots straight up. Said in an interview recently, just a
Speaker 1: reminder that if you're a basketball player who wishes you
Speaker 1: were a better shooter, you're at point A, and if
Speaker 1: point B is you being a great shooter. There's no
Speaker 1: way to get from point A to point B without
Speaker 1: taking thousands and thousands and thousands of shots. There's no
Speaker 1: cutting that corner. And Aaron Gordon paid his dues, paid
Speaker 1: the price to become a great shooter, and he's there now.
Speaker 1: Second piece of it. I think that this Denver Nugget
Speaker 1: season is headed for some sort of like second or
Speaker 1: third round exit. I still view them as a championship contender.
Speaker 1: I would be foolish, all of us would be foolish
Speaker 1: to write off Nikola, jokicch and pretend like they can't
Speaker 1: get the job done. They absolutely can get the job done.
Speaker 1: And if jokicchen the Nuggets were hoisting the trophy in June,
Speaker 1: I would not be shocked. I'd be a little surprised,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't be shocked. That said, I do think
Speaker 1: they probably lose in the second or third round. In
Speaker 1: that we're headed towards some sort of pivot this summer.
Speaker 1: The original contrus diduction of the team involved this idea
Speaker 1: that Yokic inverted the spacing by bringing rim protectors out
Speaker 1: around the elbow above the break area. Just because of
Speaker 1: Yokich's threat as a scorer in those ranges. This creates
Speaker 1: all this space along the baseline right. That is how
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon used to be an effective offensive player for
Speaker 1: the Nuggets. His ability to be a vertical spacer along
Speaker 1: the baseline. Michael Porter Junior was the weak side three
Speaker 1: point shot spacer, close out attacking spacer, second side creator
Speaker 1: type of role. Right, I believe Aaron Gordon's development as
Speaker 1: a jumpshooter allows him to actually fill the Michael Porter
Speaker 1: Junior role of being a weak side spacer who can
Speaker 1: run second side action, who can do those sorts of
Speaker 1: things for this team. Someone in a mail bag a
Speaker 1: while back pitched the idea of a swap between the
Speaker 1: Timberwolves and the Nuggets of Jaden McDaniels from Michael Porter junior.
Speaker 2: And I don't even want to get.
Speaker 1: Into the realistic how realistic that sort of deal was.
Speaker 1: Just I want you to think of it just conceptually
Speaker 1: meaning freaky athlete six nine defensive minded player that can't
Speaker 1: shoot versus six', ten good defensive, rebounder guy who can
Speaker 1: play some help side, defense knockdown, shooter more of a scorer,
Speaker 1: type nowhere near as good. DEFENSIVELY i think you could
Speaker 1: get in if you imagine a swap like. That forget
Speaker 1: About minnesota for a. Second just imagine A jaden McDaniel's
Speaker 1: type of player at the three next To Aaron. Gordon
Speaker 1: they can flip those roles now and they can have
Speaker 1: a defensive minded three who works along the baseline While
Speaker 1: Aaron gordon is now working the weak side as that
Speaker 1: shooter space or second side. Creator there is a certain
Speaker 1: Flexibility denver has this summer in their team construct that
Speaker 1: they literally would not have had if it wasn't For
Speaker 1: Aaron gordon's development as a jump. Shooter AND i just
Speaker 1: think it's a huge development for the potential Of denver
Speaker 1: to keep this, going to keep this era in this
Speaker 1: construct of the team going with a minor pivot as
Speaker 1: opposed to having to do a more dramatic.
Speaker 2: Pivot all get out here, today let's talk a.
Speaker 1: Little Steph curry puts up fifty two points on The.
Speaker 1: Grizzlies The grizzlies have been a truly abysmal defense for
Speaker 1: a while. Now they lean on a lot of weaker defensive.
Speaker 1: Players Zach edie can struggle in. Space he's been dealing
Speaker 1: with a bunch of nightmare matchups in the last. Week
Speaker 1: santi Al dama is bad in his food and gets
Speaker 1: attacked every time down the. Floor John ray has his,
Speaker 1: moments but he's just really small yet a little moment
Speaker 1: where he Guarded Steph curry for a few possessions in that,
Speaker 1: game and like stayed attached to him pretty well because
Speaker 1: he's such a freaky. Athlete but he's just small and
Speaker 1: he has a lot offensive. Responsibility it's a lot to
Speaker 1: ask and to make matters, worse they're just spiraling in
Speaker 1: general as a. Team they're down to the eight seed
Speaker 1: and all things are looking pretty bleak for The. Grizzlies
Speaker 1: but just in the last week The grizzlies at, home
Speaker 1: all at, Home i've given up the most points The
Speaker 1: lakers have scored in a game That, Luca lebron And
Speaker 1: austin have all played, in the most unguarded catch and
Speaker 1: shoot threes that The celtics have generated in a single
Speaker 1: game all, season and fifty two points To Steph, curry
Speaker 1: all in one, week all at. Home point, being if
Speaker 1: you want to get your offense, going go To memphis
Speaker 1: play The. Grizzlies there were two main factors that were
Speaker 1: causing The grizzlies to have so much trouble Guarding. Steph
Speaker 1: he did hit a lot of really tough contested shots
Speaker 1: in this. Game you're not getting to fifty points unless
Speaker 1: you can hit, tough contested, shots And steph has looked.
Speaker 1: Fantastic that's the subplot, here is Like steph is just
Speaker 1: peaking right at the right, time preparing for this playoff.
Speaker 1: Run he's averaging twenty eight points per game on sky
Speaker 1: high sixty six percent true shooting in his last twenty three.
Speaker 1: Games and, again that to me is where you Want
Speaker 1: steph to. Be, like you don't Need steph to be
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, one thirty two points a game like kind
Speaker 1: of lower, efficiency just like trying to create everything. Himself
Speaker 1: this is a version of the team where you want
Speaker 1: him more like the twenty twenty two version Of, steph
Speaker 1: where he's in that high twenties, range super efficient picking his.
Speaker 1: Spots there's a team concept that he's thriving. In. Right
Speaker 1: steph's playing, great but his offense in this game was
Speaker 1: supplemented by two. Things one drop coverage Was. Zachy steph
Speaker 1: got almost a dozen really clean looks in this game
Speaker 1: Because zachi ed was sitting right underneath the basket Ignoring,
Speaker 1: draymond And draymond is just setting these monster screens On
Speaker 1: Jalen wells and so as a, Result steph is able
Speaker 1: to just come free and clear off of these. Screens
Speaker 1: AND i clipped a few examples on My twitter, feed
Speaker 1: by the, Way so go to UNDERSCORE jsnlt and you
Speaker 1: guys see some examples of What i'm talking. About but,
Speaker 1: like this was the coverage The spurs used Against steph
Speaker 1: back in twenty. Thirteen this is the coverage that all
Speaker 1: of us freaked out about back in twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: when The celtics tried to use this coverage in the.
Speaker 1: Finals drop coverage concedes pull up jump. Shots Steph curry
Speaker 1: is the greatest pull up jump shooter in the history of.
Speaker 1: Basketball that is the shot that that coverage. Concedes it
Speaker 1: is suicide Against Steph.
Speaker 2: Curry just.
Speaker 1: Statistically the last time The warriors scored as many points
Speaker 1: from a hick and roll ball handler in a single
Speaker 1: game this year was way back On february tenth Against,
Speaker 1: milwaukee another drop coverage. Team to get up to the,
Speaker 1: level that's what happens when you run this coverage against The.
Speaker 1: Warriors the second piece of this Was memphis doing some
Speaker 1: really sloppy top locking and. Denial The grizzlies gave up
Speaker 1: a million backcuts in this. Game top locking is a
Speaker 1: common strategy that you'll see against The. Warriors, essentially all
Speaker 1: that means is If steph is trying to come off
Speaker 1: of an off ball screen towards the top of the,
Speaker 1: key instead of getting behind him and locking and trailing,
Speaker 1: him you top lock so that he has no choice
Speaker 1: but to back. Cut right denial more or less accomplishes
Speaker 1: the same. Thing If steph is flashing to get the
Speaker 1: ball and you're just a catch and you're just in
Speaker 1: the passing, lane denying it concedes a. Backcut if you're
Speaker 1: going to concede backcuts as part of top locking and,
Speaker 1: denial you need to have backside. Help and there was
Speaker 1: just no backside. Help and so there were just so
Speaker 1: many of these situations where they were giving up these
Speaker 1: backcuts and just getting these super clean. Looks and this
Speaker 1: is WHERE i want to shout Out Draymond green, too
Speaker 1: BECAUSE i talk a lot about this concept on the.
Speaker 1: Show but the idea of your value in a vacuum
Speaker 1: versus your value on your specific, Team Draymond green's offensive
Speaker 1: value in a vacuum is not as high as it
Speaker 1: is specifically on this. Team and one of the main
Speaker 1: reasons why is because they run this motion five out
Speaker 1: offense with all this cutting and, screening And draymond is
Speaker 1: just incredible at reading those plays. Developed if you picked
Speaker 1: Up draymond and put him on like The, lakers where
Speaker 1: it's more of a, spread pick and roll type of, situation,
Speaker 1: yeah you'd have some success as a short roll guy
Speaker 1: off Of luca and, blitzes but he's not going to
Speaker 1: be able to unlock that high post passing part of his.
Speaker 1: Game the high post passing part of his game is
Speaker 1: uniquely valuable in a system like this where there's all
Speaker 1: this off ball cutting and, screening and he just does
Speaker 1: a wonderful job Hitting steph And jimmy and all these
Speaker 1: guys in these, cuts in these slips out of those screening. Actions,
Speaker 1: again his value offensively is uniquely super high on This warriors.
Speaker 1: Team that's really all that. Matters steph got his rhythm
Speaker 1: from all the easy ones he was getting from those defensive,
Speaker 1: breakdowns and then he just porched with the tough ones
Speaker 1: to get up to the fifty. Two the last piece
Speaker 1: THAT i want to talk about is the two man
Speaker 1: game Between jimmy And. Steph they ran it three times
Speaker 1: down the stretch in this game and got great looks
Speaker 1: every single. Time i've put all three of these clips
Speaker 1: in a single tweet On, Twitter so, again go to
Speaker 1: My twitter feed to Underscore Jason. Ltis you guys can see.
Speaker 1: It since we had to wait till today to cover these,
Speaker 1: GAMES i just wanted to get all that stuff out On.
Speaker 1: Twitters you guys can see it. There but there's basically
Speaker 1: three different types of. Actions all that Involves steph And jimmy.
Speaker 1: Together and, again whether it's off ball or on, ball
Speaker 1: the coverage concepts more or less stay the. Same but
Speaker 1: in these, Situations santy did three completely different, things and
Speaker 1: in those three completely different, things The warriors burned them
Speaker 1: every single. Time first, One steph driving right around the
Speaker 1: top of the. Key jimmy sets the ball screen For.
Speaker 1: Steph When jimmy sets the, Screen santy Al dama is
Speaker 1: the screen, defender but instead of showing or helping or
Speaker 1: dropping or, anything he just stays glued up To Jimmy
Speaker 1: butler around the right lane. Line that Allows steph to
Speaker 1: turn the corner because his man is getting, screened And
Speaker 1: steph gets downhill and makes a little right handed scoop
Speaker 1: shot in the lane over the rim. Protector, okay the
Speaker 1: SECOND seq part of the sequence an off ball. Action
Speaker 1: Believe draymond was the. Passer IF i remember, correctly there
Speaker 1: is a off ball screen That Jimmy butler sets For
Speaker 1: Steph curry going towards the left. Corner in this, Situation
Speaker 1: santi Al dama runs kind of like a modified drop. Coverage,
Speaker 1: again this is an off ball, action but the action
Speaker 1: still have similar coverage concepts or principles to what you
Speaker 1: have in an on ball. Situation santy's the screen. Defender
Speaker 1: he's not glued up To. Jimmy he's kind of sitting
Speaker 1: on the other side of the, screen just like ten
Speaker 1: feet back From. Steph that's not gonna. Work santi offers
Speaker 1: a token late, contest but it doesn't Bother steph at.
Speaker 1: All he drills the three out of the left. Corner,
Speaker 1: then on the final play in the, sequence same sort
Speaker 1: of Deal Steph jimmy two man game out by the
Speaker 1: top of the. Key santi's been burned, twice gave up
Speaker 1: the drive To, steph gave up the three to Step
Speaker 1: so what does he?
Speaker 2: Do he.
Speaker 1: Hedges santi throws a hedge out At. Steph when he
Speaker 1: throws that hedge out To, steph that opens up the
Speaker 1: slip For, Jimmy steph hits him right in the.
Speaker 2: Pocket that's the.
Speaker 1: One Where jimmy got what should have been AN a and,
Speaker 1: one but they ended up calling the foul on the
Speaker 1: floor and so he had to go to the line
Speaker 1: to make both free. Throws but that slip there that
Speaker 1: became open was part of that decision making process that
Speaker 1: you make defenses go through because of The Steph jimmy
Speaker 1: two man, game which you don't want to switch because
Speaker 1: they're two very different types of. Players the player is
Speaker 1: fast enough to Track steph around is probably not going
Speaker 1: to be strong enough to deal With jimmy in AN iso.
Speaker 1: Situation and a player is big and strong enough to
Speaker 1: deal With jimmy in AN iso situation probably isn't going
Speaker 1: to be fast enough to deal With steph out on the.
Speaker 1: Perimeter the fundamental concept of any great two man game
Speaker 1: is dictating or by drawing different types of. Defenders. Right
Speaker 1: this is why The Lebron Anthony davis two man game
Speaker 1: never really took off with The. Lakers how are you
Speaker 1: Guarding lebron big strong? Forward how are you Guarding anthony
Speaker 1: big strong? Forward you can switch every once in a,
Speaker 1: while you'd See lebron And ad face a team that had,
Speaker 1: to you, know Guard Anthony davis With, nurkic for, instance
Speaker 1: like The. Suns one of the reasons why The lakers
Speaker 1: always dominated The suns was they could just run ball.
Speaker 1: Screens they had to run drop. Coverage lebron And ad
Speaker 1: would porch him and drop. Coverage But steph And jimmy
Speaker 1: very different archetypes of. Players they're gonna draw very different
Speaker 1: types of. Defenders they're gonna be less susceptible to switching
Speaker 1: in those sorts of, situations, Right and so that that's
Speaker 1: kind of like the core concepts that makes the concept
Speaker 1: that makes that two man game so. Effectively and then
Speaker 1: even when teams do, Switch jimmy's like so damn good
Speaker 1: at inside, seals and in those inside, seals he can
Speaker 1: create that over the top passing. Angle he's so good
Speaker 1: at high pointing the, Ball he's so good at getting
Speaker 1: to the. Line he had another play down the, stretch
Speaker 1: and this one where he pumped faked On Jaron jackson
Speaker 1: and drew a. Foullock that's like one of his superpowers
Speaker 1: that's just so valuable to this particular. Team super excited
Speaker 1: for tonight's showdown against The. Lakers we are going live
Speaker 1: on YouTube after the final buzzer Of Warriors lakers. Tonight
Speaker 1: we're also going to do another one of those kind
Speaker 1: of like chat, mailbags so make sure you guys come hang.
Speaker 1: Out the big matchup for tonight is perimeter speed versus perimeter.
Speaker 1: Size The lakers are susceptible to some perimeter, speed The
Speaker 1: warriors are susceptible to some perimeter. Size it's gonna be
Speaker 1: like That styles Make fights. CONCEPT i talk about will
Speaker 1: The warriors use their speed more effectively than The lakers
Speaker 1: use their. SIZE a couple ski keys to the game
Speaker 1: to pay attention To lebron And luca punishing. SMALLS i
Speaker 1: think that's going to be a huge part of their,
Speaker 1: attack not turning the ball over to avoid The warriors.
Speaker 2: Getting out in.
Speaker 1: Transition luca's shot, MAKING i think is gonna be huge
Speaker 1: in this. Game steph getting the defense into rotation speed
Speaker 1: can be a problem for The. Lakers If steph does
Speaker 1: a good job through his motion of just compromising The
Speaker 1: laker defense and getting them into, rotation that's where their
Speaker 1: lack of foot speed can be an. Issue and then
Speaker 1: The warriors non Shooters Gary, Payton Brandon, Pajemski Draymond, green these,
Speaker 1: GUYS Jj, reddick excuse, ME Jj redick is going to
Speaker 1: concede a million threes to those guys, tonight and so
Speaker 1: those guys are gonna have to be able to knock
Speaker 1: those shots down to keep the defense. Honest super, excited huge,
Speaker 1: game major seating, implications star power all over the. Place
Speaker 1: just one of those like classic regular season. Moments i'm
Speaker 1: super super excited about. It we'll get into it tonight
Speaker 1: after the final. BUZZER i will see you guys. Then as,
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