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Speaker 1: he does that to most defensive players that guard him,

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Speaker 1: he's so big and strong that he's just blowing through

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Speaker 1: that player and getting to where he wants to for

433
00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:03,600
Speaker 1: his little right shoulder fade away. Not Og, OG's holding

434
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Speaker 1: his ground. He's having trouble fighting up through there to

435
00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,480
Speaker 1: get a shot. He turns the basketball over, just making

436
00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:11,440
Speaker 1: him uncomfortable. Like that's the thing when we talk about

437
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Speaker 1: shot result, the number one thing you can do to

438
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Speaker 1: make any star or role player shoot below their season

439
00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,160
Speaker 1: averages or below their career averages or whatever you want

440
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Speaker 1: to look at it is to make them uncomfortable. Take

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Speaker 1: the little things that they do in games that come

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Speaker 1: second nature and make them mature. Like, oh, you want

443
00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:31,000
Speaker 1: to catch the ball coming off of like an iverson

444
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Speaker 1: cut off of a screen at the high post. Well,

445
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Speaker 1: I'm going to fight you like hell until you get

446
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Speaker 1: the ball, and by the time you get it, there's

447
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,600
Speaker 1: going to be eleven seconds on the shot clock and

448
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:44,120
Speaker 1: you're going to be exhausted. That's the type of work,

449
00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 1: that's the type of value that comes from having size

450
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,920
Speaker 1: and strength, fighting you off of position, someone that Caid

451
00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,800
Speaker 1: can't dislodge. I thought that was a really smart game

452
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Speaker 1: plan thing from the Knicks. Kat made a couple of

453
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Speaker 1: huge defensive plays late in the game after having some

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Speaker 1: troubles and earlier phases of the game. He had a

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Speaker 1: couple of plays where you know, Caide split him in

456
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Speaker 1: pick and roll, or he just got caught out in

457
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Speaker 1: space and struggled to contain the ball. But he made

458
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Speaker 1: two massive plays during that run. A rotation back to

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Speaker 1: the basket where he forced Jalen Duran into a miss

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Speaker 1: on a catch layup where he was out of position

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Speaker 1: behind the play, sprinted back and had a nice contest.

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Speaker 1: He was the one who forced the turnover on the

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Speaker 1: high post entry just with his uh just physical pressure

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Speaker 1: like a three quarter front kind of thing.

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Speaker 2: He was great.

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Speaker 1: Just again, shout out to the Knicks. They turned what

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Speaker 1: could have been easily a stolen game one into an

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Speaker 1: early series lead, and I thought that that was a

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Speaker 1: encouraging note to that. Brunson found a matchup that he

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Speaker 1: really liked there down the stretch on the Pistons front.

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Speaker 1: I talked all season law or all series excuse excuse me,

472
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Speaker 1: it's been a long day. I've been watching basketball since today.

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Speaker 1: In the season preview, pot I talked about how NBA

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Speaker 1: history tells us that the Detroit Pistons usually lose this

475
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Speaker 1: series because of the fact that they are just unfamiliar

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Speaker 1: with the setting, specifically Kate right, and honestly, that was

477
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Speaker 1: really the big thing that stood out in crunch time.

478
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Speaker 1: Like Caid was badly outplayed during the run. There are

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Speaker 1: some variant stuff right, Like I thought, Malik Beasley and

480
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 1: Tim Hardaway Junior both got fantastic above the break three

481
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Speaker 1: point looks that just didn't go in. During the run,

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Speaker 1: Malik had a movement three going to his right off

483
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,000
Speaker 1: of a screen where he got plenty of separation that

484
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Speaker 1: he happened to miss, Like during missing that shot on

485
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Speaker 1: Kat as a shot we all know he can make.

486
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Speaker 1: Like there were shots that they missed during that run.

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Speaker 1: But the bottom line is is that like a lot

488
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,399
Speaker 1: of that was off of chaos, Like Tim Hardaway Junior's

489
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Speaker 1: three was on an offensive rebound. Malik Beasley's was on

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Speaker 1: an offensive rebound. Like there's the actual shot creation piece.

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Speaker 1: Cad lookes sloppy, he like, why is he trying to

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Speaker 1: post ogn Nanobi down the stretch of the game. Jalen

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00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,440
Speaker 1: Brunson wasn't trying to attack a star Thompson if he

494
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:50,600
Speaker 1: could help it. He's getting a favorable matchup and trying

495
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,480
Speaker 1: to find a place to go to work. Caid attacking

496
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,120
Speaker 1: the best perimeter defender on the team in crunch time,

497
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,879
Speaker 1: that's a decision mistake. He had a very He was

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Speaker 1: the guy who made the really sloppy inbounds pass on

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00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 1: the baseline out of bounds, and that's the difference, right, Like,

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00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 1: as things were kind of rounding into form down the stretch,

501
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,199
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson kind of figured out how he wanted to

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Speaker 1: attack and Cad kind of like was decomposing a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Now. Again that's to be expected. He's young.

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00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:20,120
Speaker 1: This is playoff basketball super hard, right, and like it's

505
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 1: just it's just relevant within the scope of this series.

506
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Speaker 1: In this series, you're going against Jalen Brunson, who for

507
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:29,159
Speaker 1: two years now has led his team through multiple playoff

508
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 1: rounds and is pretty comfortable in this setting. And it's

509
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,080
Speaker 1: just something new that Kate is dealing with. I did

510
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:40,359
Speaker 1: think Isaiah Stewart looked better than Jalen Duran tonight, but

511
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,200
Speaker 1: Duran ended up getting six more minutes, and they were

512
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Speaker 1: closing with Duran during the run and Durn just there's

513
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 1: there's several things he's a little bit late on some

514
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,119
Speaker 1: of his short role reads is finishing can be a

515
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 1: tricky can struggle to guard cat in space. Like Isaiah

516
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Speaker 1: Stewart has his own issues, but I think I would

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Speaker 1: go with him a little bit more than I went

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Speaker 1: with then JB. Bickerstaff went with Duran, and then I

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Speaker 1: did like Dennis Schroeder on Jalen Brunson. I thought that

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Speaker 1: was a matchup that they could look to try to

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Speaker 1: give a little bit more attention to Schroeder played twenty

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Speaker 1: six minutes. It's not so much that you can scale

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Speaker 1: that up so much. But like I even thought just

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Speaker 1: down the stretch when Asar and Dennis were out there,

525
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Speaker 1: they went to Asar on Brunson, and like Dennis just

526
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: kisses him off, Like it's not so much that a

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Speaker 1: star is not a better defender. Of course, the sar

528
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Speaker 1: is Asar is one of the best perimeter defense prospects

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Speaker 1: I've ever watched, But like Dennis just has like a

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Speaker 1: a little bit of like an anticipatory like he knows

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Speaker 1: how to guard Brunson a little bit, and I just

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Speaker 1: I think that I would lean on that a little

533
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Speaker 1: bit more. I'd have every minute that Schroder's on the floor,

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Speaker 1: I'd have him guarding Brunson and just trying to piss

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Speaker 1: him off again. Like I'm going to be doing a

536
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Speaker 1: film breakdown in the mornings throughout this throughout the entire postseason.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into more details on the series as we

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Speaker 1: go along. That was just my initial takeaways from tonight's game.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to Clippers Nuggets. Super interesting game.

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Speaker 1: As we expected this was going to be a super

541
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Speaker 1: interesting series. The Clippers came out and did what basically

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00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 1: every team is done to the Nuggets for the second

543
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 1: half of the season, and that's scored the basketball very easily,

544
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 1: just about every single time down the floor. That's how

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00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 1: it looked in the early part of that game. But

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00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 1: right in the middle of the second quarter, there was

547
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,920
Speaker 1: a timeout, and out of the time out, Jokic just

548
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: like the just applies a ton of ball pressure to

549
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:27,679
Speaker 1: I think it was Zoo catching out on the perimeter,

550
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 1: and like the defensive intensity just skyrocketed for Denver and

551
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,880
Speaker 1: it happened to coincide with the stretch when Kawhi Leonard

552
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,159
Speaker 1: and James Harden were both in some foul trouble and

553
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 1: Denver worked their way right back into the game, and

554
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 1: then it was a dogfight the rest of the way.

555
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,439
Speaker 1: And like one of the big things that stood out

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Speaker 1: to me, like there was a lot of people talking

557
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: and including myself, about how the Clippers were sloppy in

558
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 1: the way that they were capitalizing on some of those

559
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: Denver coverage weaknesses that we've talked about, specifically like Denver

560
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 1: being able to put two on the ball effectively and

561
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 1: rotate out of it, which is a weakness for them

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00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 1: all season, or handling, you know, mismatch attacking and shading

563
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: and sending help and rotating out of it. They've been

564
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:07,959
Speaker 1: bad with that, right, And so there are a lot

565
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 1: of these like sequences where like you can kind of

566
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 1: see it take shape where it's like two on the ball,

567
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 1: hit the short roller guy cutting out of the baseline,

568
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 1: and like everything is just a little stilted. It's like

569
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 1: the short roll guy is hesitating for just a second.

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00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: The guy who cuts along the baseline, the passes a

571
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 1: little off target and he fumbles it a little bit,

572
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: and then he like second guesses himself in pump fakes

573
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 1: or something. They're like there was a lot of like

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00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,880
Speaker 1: sloppiness and hesitance from the Clippers as they were attacking

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00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 1: some of those gaps, and like I want to give

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00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 1: the Nuggets credit, Like I don't think the Clippers are

577
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: a particularly strong playmaking team relative to some of the

578
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: other teams in the field. Like James Harden is a

579
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: good playmaker, Kawhi can struggle with it from times, Norman

580
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 1: Powell can struggle with it from sometimes, like their Chris

581
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 1: Dunn can struggle with it sometimes, Like they they in

582
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: their lineups have two or three guys on the floor

583
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: at any given point that can hesitate when they need

584
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,440
Speaker 1: to make a decision that aren't necessarily the shark read

585
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 1: and react players in the league, and so denver. Upping

586
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 1: the intensity is what causes that, right, Like if you

587
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 1: don't up the intensity, the reads are very easy, the

588
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: runways are very wide. Everything looks easy, breezy as you're

589
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: breaking the defense down. If you up the intensity, you

590
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,639
Speaker 1: make them have to make some tougher decisions. You make

591
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 1: them have to make some decisions quicker than they would

592
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 1: have to make if you weren't upping that intensity, and

593
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: that led to a lot of those mistakes that led

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00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: to a lot of the Clippers. What I'm saying is is,

595
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 1: like the Clippers aren't going to pee down their leg

596
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: on their own. You have to make them pee down

597
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: their leg, and the only way you're going to do

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00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: that is by upping the defensive intensity. Right in crunch time,

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00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 1: that was where you could see that execution gap really

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00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 1: take shape. The Clippers were doing a ton of helping

601
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: off of Christian Brown and what Russell Westbrook, right, you

602
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,719
Speaker 1: have to find a way to make them pay. Christian

603
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 1: Brown hits a massive three in overtime on the left wing.

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00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook not just the open three that he hit

605
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: at the end of regular that put him up too

606
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 1: super active on the offensive glass. As he's getting ignored

607
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: in a lot of those sequences into the Nuggets credit,

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00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 1: they kept trusting him Yo Kitchen particular, just he you know,

609
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 1: I talked a lot about in some other matchups, so

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Speaker 1: specifically after the Lakers game earlier this year, about how

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00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: like Yokich when he's getting swarmed, has to kind of

612
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: force the issue a little bit from time to time,

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00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: be like more willing to be like, yeah, I'm in

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00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 1: a swarm, but I'm just gonna just put my head

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00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: down and try to make something happen.

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Speaker 2: Anyway.

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Speaker 1: I thought he did a really nice job of balancing

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00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 1: that tonight, like forcing the issue sometimes and yeah, it's

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00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: gonna hurt his efficiency. He didn't have the most efficient

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00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,719
Speaker 1: shooting night tonight, but forcing the issue sometimes, but then

621
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 1: also being willing to take what the defense was giving him.

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00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 1: That three that Russell Westbrook hit in the left corner,

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00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 1: for instance, watch the way Jokic threw that pass. He

624
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 1: threw that pass like I want Russ to take this shot.

625
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: He was trusting him in that spot. I thought that

626
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: was a big part of how Denver succeeded an offense

627
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: late in the game, nixing spamming their best two players

628
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: in spots where they can be aggressive, but then trusting

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00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: what the Clipper game plan was giving up to them.

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00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: Westbrook's Like it was kind of like a classic Russell

631
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: Westbrook game in a lot of ways, because, like I thought,

632
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: he was mostly great down the stretch, lots and lots

633
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 1: of huge plays. Famously, at the end of the game,

634
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: two gets that big steal as the Clippers have their

635
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: chance to tie, but there's like bad plays mixed in,

636
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But like everything with Russell

637
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: Westbrook is a scale, and like if it's four good

638
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: plays and five bad plays, it can be pretty damaging

639
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: to the team. But tonight it was more like down

640
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: the stretch, it was like six good plays, three bad plays,

641
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 1: and it was like really impactful for the Nuggets in

642
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: this game. They don't win this game without Russell Westbrook

643
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: and the work he did down the stretch. And I

644
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 1: thought it was a really smart move by Adleman as well,

645
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: with how Michael Porter Junior just looked kind of unready

646
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 1: for that level of intensity to go with Westbrook. It's

647
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 1: a gamble, right, It's a gamble because you could have

648
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 1: that scale flip the other way. But the gamble paid

649
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 1: off tonight. Again, I thought Jokic was fantastic. I thought

650
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: the two man game with Jamal Murray eve though Jamal

651
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: struggled for Good a good portion of the game. I

652
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: talked a lot before the series about how Jamal is

653
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 1: such a rhythm player and how when he comes back

654
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,719
Speaker 1: from injuries sometimes he needs a long runway to kind

655
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: of get his legs underneath them and to get his rhythm,

656
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: and he struggled a.

657
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 2: Little bit, but he made some shots.

658
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 1: He made some place hit a couple of huge threes

659
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: in two man game with Jokic down the stretch that

660
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 1: were important in this game the crunch time. When we

661
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: got down to game within five less than five minutes left,

662
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 1: the Nuggets were up plus fifteen point eight points per

663
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: one hundred possessions, a one twenty six offensive rating and

664
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: a one to eleven defensive rating. That's really the key

665
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: for Denver. If they can get to four minutes left,

666
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 1: we're tied. I absolutely trust jokicch and Murray to out

667
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: execute the Clippers in a close game with a few

668
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: minutes left. As a matter of fact, like if every

669
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: game in this series goes to crunch time, the Nuggets

670
00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: are gonna win. But it's about that competitiveness in avoiding

671
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: the onslaught throughout the game. That's where the intensity cannot

672
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: let up. If you come out in Game two and

673
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: you let things get out of hand the way you

674
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: did to start this game, Kawhi and James Harden might

675
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: not get in foul trouble. You might be in a

676
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 1: situation like the Lakers were with the Wolves tonight. Where

677
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: you're just clawing from behind the whole time and you

678
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: can't ever get over the hump. And so it's about

679
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: bringing the requisite amount of intensity on the defensive end

680
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: at the level in their ball pressure on the backside

681
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: in rotation to keep the game close enough that you

682
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: can stare down Kawhi Leonard and James Harden with three

683
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: four minutes left, and I would execute them the way

684
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 1: they did tonight. I thought Denver did a really really

685
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: nice job playing the long game against the Clippers tonight,

686
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: and really like there's another conversation to be had about

687
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: how after the Clippers got their big lead, they never

688
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 1: really truly looked as comfortable offensively as they did to

689
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: start the game. Kawhi needs to do a much better

690
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 1: job of handling double teams. I thought he did a

691
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: poor job in this game of handling those aggressive double teams.

692
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: He did a much better job against Golden State. Some

693
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: of that spots on the floor to Denver was mixing

694
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: up doubling him more when he got closer to the basket,

695
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, Kawhi would just retreat

696
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: like crazy and dribble out to half court while the

697
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 1: pressure's coming and it just made it really difficult for

698
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: him to make the pass. He missed the flasher a

699
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 1: few times and was just throwing swing passes to the corner,

700
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: which is not going to compromise the defense. You have

701
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 1: to beat the double by making the right pass. That's

702
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: always been Kawi's demon right is his ability to break

703
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: down defenses with the pass. And the game plan was

704
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: pretty clear with Denver Deny. There were a handful of

705
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: ISOs in there, but there was a lot of swarming,

706
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: a lot of digging down on him as he's dribbling

707
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: into traffic. Kawhi is going to have to process in

708
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: the half court and playmake out of it. And then

709
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: in those tic tac toe situations like I talked about

710
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: those four on threes, they have to do a better

711
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: job of quickly processing the situation. You cannot hesitate on

712
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 1: the short roll at making the read. You have to

713
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,479
Speaker 1: go up quick and strong on your baseline cuts. If

714
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: you hesitate for a split second in the playoffs, someone's

715
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: gonna rotate into your space and take that opportunity away.

716
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: I do think this is gonna be a long series.

717
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 1: My guess is that when the Clippers win, it'll be

718
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: more in that, like we don't go to crunch time.

719
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 1: They just control the game throughout and then when things

720
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: get close, I think it's gonna go towards Denver. But like,

721
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,720
Speaker 1: this was a series again that I picked the Clippers,

722
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 1: A lot of people picked the Clippers. The Clippers were

723
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: heavily favored. Denver got the first one tonight, a big

724
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:28,720
Speaker 1: step forward in their process of potentially stealing this series.

725
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: All right, last game before we get out of here

726
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: for the night. The Bucks and the Pacers. I've talked

727
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 1: a lot over the years about how when you see

728
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: these different types of styles face each other, it's not

729
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:43,280
Speaker 1: about which style is inherently better. It's about which style

730
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: wins that particular fight, which group is more capable of

731
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 1: inflicting their strength on their opponent. The Pacers immediately came

732
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: out and dictated the terms of this game, getting stops

733
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: getting out. In transition, they outscored the Bucks seventeen to five.

734
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,240
Speaker 1: I even transitioned just in the first half. Andrew Nemhard

735
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 1: was brilliant in transition to start that game like a

736
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: crazy series of crossover moves to like cut through Ajreen

737
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: and Toorium prints for a layup two plays where he

738
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 1: just drove right at Brook Lopez's chest and like just

739
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,360
Speaker 1: knocked him over and had a little scooping lip. He

740
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 1: had another little drive where he kind of dislodged Giannis

741
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: in the second half. So, like I was certain think

742
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 1: Andrew Nemhard might just be a lot stronger than he

743
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: looks and just has a real low center of gravity,

744
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 1: and he is really good at just dislodging. Like that's

745
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: half the battle on offense is dislodging your defender. If

746
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: you can dislodge your defender by just bumping him off

747
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: of his base, he's not going to be able to

748
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: recover in time for you to do anything. But they

749
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:44,280
Speaker 1: were great in transition. Siakam was finding openings in transition,

750
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:47,239
Speaker 1: both as a spacer and running the lane towards the rim.

751
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,320
Speaker 1: Their speed was on display all over the place, especially

752
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: in their closeouts. Like I thought the Pacers just perimeter

753
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 1: closeouts did such a great job of just rushing and

754
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: catch an unprepared Milwaukee team off guard. There were two

755
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: examples in the first half that I thought kind of

756
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: demonstrated this. A Yana swing pass to Kyle Kuzma on

757
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: the left wing and then a short roll sequence where

758
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: Bobby port Is caught wide open in the right corner

759
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 1: and Bobby Portas didn't even get a shot off, and

760
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 1: Kyle Kuzma ended up taking a heavily contested shot because

761
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: the two of them just like weren't ready to shoot

762
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: under an intense closeout. And like, this is where I

763
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:29,399
Speaker 1: want to read you guys, a stat that I thought

764
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: was the stat of the game for Pacers Bucks game one.

765
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: Milwaukee logged thirteen guarded catch and shoot jump shots tonight,

766
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 1: so like contested, like the computer logs that as if

767
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: the defender's there, right, and Indiana logged twelve, So they

768
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: both took about the same number of guarded ketch and

769
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 1: shoot jump shots. Milwaukee went one for thirteen and Indiana

770
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,400
Speaker 1: went eight for twelve. Now, some of it was shooting variants,

771
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: as we always talked about, that's far down the.

772
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 2: List for me.

773
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: Most of it was the Pacers were closing out and

774
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,439
Speaker 1: they weren't just there, they were disruptive. They were there

775
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: with intensity and disruption. There were so many Bucks closeouts

776
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: in this game where they were literally running up to

777
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: the shooter and just standing there with their arms out

778
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 1: to the side where the guy shot over the top

779
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: of them and made an uncontested shot. Even though it's

780
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 1: gonna log as guarded because they're standing there, they weren't

781
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: bringing the requisite intensity and disruption to the closeout. Pascal

782
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: Siakam hit one I think on Bobby Portos at the

783
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: top of the key. Bobby closed out and then just

784
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 1: stood there while Pascal turned and shot right over the

785
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: top of him.

786
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 2: I thought the best.

787
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 1: Example of it was Andrew Nemhard's first three of the

788
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 1: second half. So Nemhard HiT's two threes in the late

789
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: first half like a It looked like one of Milwaukee's

790
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 1: own possessions where Kuzma came way off of the right

791
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 1: side of the floor and there was a skip to

792
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 1: Nemhart in the corner. He's wide open, knocks it down,

793
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 1: and then he had a switch I think against the

794
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 1: honest if I remember correctly, but he just take took

795
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: a step back three from like twenty six feet and

796
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 1: it hits the three over the top. So Nemhart just

797
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: hit two threes in a row right before the half,

798
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 1: and I would argue at that point, even if it's

799
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 1: in your game plan to close out short, you need

800
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 1: to start closing out harder first three of the second half,

801
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: Andrew Namhart catches in the left corner. Torian rotates and

802
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: stands there, like just runs up to in front of

803
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:23,399
Speaker 1: Adrenamhart and just stands there with no contest while Andre

804
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: Namhart shoots the three over the top, and I'm like,

805
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 1: I'm like, you guys just aren't ready, like the Bucks

806
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 1: and the Lakers today, not ready for playoff basketball and

807
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: ended up getting embarrassed as a result. There is a

808
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 1: level of intensity that this environment brings that you have

809
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: to be ready for, and the Bucks just weren't ready

810
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: for it tonight. They were like those examples that I gave,

811
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 1: like the Torrian Prince one. There were a half dozen

812
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 1: of those in this game where the closeouts just weren't there,

813
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:48,959
Speaker 1: And like when on the other end of the floor,

814
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,399
Speaker 1: Kuzma and Portis are second guessing themselves on the catch

815
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 1: because of the intensity of the closeouts. That's a huge

816
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:58,760
Speaker 1: swing in Indiana's favor. Indie speed was on display everywhere

817
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 1: in transition over and over again, like the Bucks just

818
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 1: not stopping the ball, or like leaving a cutter open.

819
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 1: Milwaukee sharpened that up a little bit in the later

820
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 1: portion of the game, but Indy splitzed them so significantly

821
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: that the game was basically over a couple of their

822
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,800
Speaker 1: shout outs. I wanted to give to Indy. Miles Turner

823
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: badly out playing Brook Lopez. I talked in the series

824
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 1: preview about how pick and pop was going to be

825
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: one of the primary actions for both teams, and you

826
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: know Joannison Brook, they do lots of different variations of it,

827
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 1: or Brook a roll to the basket more, but like

828
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:32,320
Speaker 1: Brook's gonna pop a lot in ball screens, Miles Turner

829
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 1: popping out of Tyree's Haliburton ball screens is one of

830
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 1: the favorite pet actions for the Pacers, and so the

831
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 1: ability of those guys to score in those situations was

832
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: going to dictate the types of coverages that the teams

833
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 1: are allowed to use. Right and Turner out scored him

834
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 1: nineteen to nine actually forced the Bucks into switching some

835
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: of the Turner Haliburton pick and rolls or picking pops

836
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: in the second half, like he was a huge part

837
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: of their success against the zone. Looks like he would

838
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,959
Speaker 1: screen the top man, which all allowed the Pacer player

839
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: to get into the middle of the floor and if

840
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 1: Brooke was hanging back too much. He would pop if

841
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 1: on plays where Brooke would show high out to the

842
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 1: foul line, then Miles would just cut behind him and

843
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 1: get easy opportunities at the basket. I thought he dominated

844
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: that matchup today and it was a huge swing factor

845
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: in Indiana's favor. Shakham was great balance scoring, transition out

846
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: of the post, spacing the floor, off ball, all of

847
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 1: that balance scoring from all of those guys from Namhard,

848
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 1: from TJ McConnell, from Siakam, from Turner that allowed the

849
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: Pacers to survive what was a rough shooting night from

850
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 1: Tyrese Halliburton and like I mean, relatively easily survive a

851
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 1: rough shooting night from Tyre's Halliburton. I want to talk

852
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: a little bit about Yannis Yiannis was a wrecking ball.

853
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 1: Early in the game. He was a lot of Yannis

854
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 1: Brooke ball screens where they were just switching, and so

855
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:53,240
Speaker 1: he got a lot of one on one opportunities against

856
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 1: Myles Turner, and he was doing a lot of work

857
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: getting to the basket and drawing fouls and getting buckets there.

858
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 2: But you could tell that he started to realize.

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Speaker 1: That some of his role players weren't super comfortable, and

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Speaker 1: I thought Janis kind of went full hero ball, and

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Speaker 1: that wasn't the way Yannis was playing over the final

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Speaker 1: few weeks of the regular season. He was much more

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Speaker 1: trusting of the kickout passes early in the game. What

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Speaker 1: I thought was interesting is it looked to me like

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Speaker 1: Yanna started to run out of gas a little bit

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Speaker 1: in the late second quarter because he was just these

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Speaker 1: extreme high degree of difficulty, like just bowling ball type

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Speaker 1: of drives, started to settle for some jump shots, started

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Speaker 1: to turn the basketball over a little bit. I think again,

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Speaker 1: especially as Giannis develops in the future as into more

871
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Speaker 1: of a point forward, this is a big part of it.

872
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Speaker 1: Like it will serve Jianis well to trust the pass

873
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Speaker 1: more early in games.

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Speaker 2: These are long games.

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Speaker 1: He needs to create a lot of shots over forty

876
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: eight minutes, right, and so being more willing to just

877
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 1: take easy reads early in the game will make it

878
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,279
Speaker 1: so that he has more gas in the tank to

879
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Speaker 1: be more physically aggressive as the game progresses. Not to mention,

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Speaker 1: you can loosen up the defense by doing that obvious

881
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 1: adjustments from just like I said, for the Lakers, it's

882
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 1: time to show up for the playoffs. You can't look

883
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Speaker 1: surprised that the other team is playing super hard. You

884
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: need to bring the intensity not just the closeouts, the

885
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Speaker 1: other side of the closeouts. You need to be down

886
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Speaker 1: in a shooting stands the one where Kyle Kuzma ended

887
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Speaker 1: up taking that crazy like spinning three his first three

888
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Speaker 1: off the left wing. Go watch Kyle Kuzma before the shot.

889
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: He's standing completely upright and he's like twenty seven feet

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Speaker 1: from the basket. Instead, be down in a shooter's crouch,

891
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Speaker 1: ready to go, so that on the catch you can

892
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Speaker 1: quickly rise up or quickly rip to the basket one way.

893
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: Be ready to go on the catch. That's part of

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Speaker 1: the intensity. That's part of the mental focus you have

895
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Speaker 1: to bring during the postseason. Stop the ball and transition defense.

896
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:45,799
Speaker 1: You want to know why brook Lopez is picking up

897
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: Andrew demhard at the rim and getting truck sticked because

898
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: no one picked him up before he got to Brook Lopez.

899
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Speaker 1: Siakim had won in transition too, where no one picked

900
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Speaker 1: him up. There's so many examples where the Bucks just

901
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 1: weren't ready for the intensity of the playoffs.

902
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Speaker 2: Tonight.

903
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,840
Speaker 1: They can guard this team. They held the Pacers scoreless

904
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Speaker 1: for more than five straight minutes in the fourth quarter

905
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Speaker 1: during a run where they cut the lead to twelve,

906
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Speaker 1: and in that run, aj Green got a couple of

907
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 1: clean looks, Bobby Porter's got a clean look. They just

908
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 1: didn't go down. The Bucks were out of gas at

909
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 1: that point. There is a pathway though for them to

910
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Speaker 1: be able to guard the Pacers and generate quality shots

911
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Speaker 1: on the other end of the floor. They just have

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Speaker 1: to bring the requisite intensity. Because this game was so

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Speaker 1: early in the day, I was able to get more

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Speaker 1: data out for the other games. I'll bring more data

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Speaker 1: in tomorrow morning's show. But shooting went heavily towards the Pacers.

916
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Speaker 1: The Bucks generated twenty nine catch and shoots, the Pacers

917
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:37,919
Speaker 1: generated twenty five catch and shoots. The Bucks got zero

918
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: point seven to two points per shot. The Pacers got

919
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:42,720
Speaker 1: one point five to six, So they more than double

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00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,839
Speaker 1: them in ketch and shoot efficiency in this game. Again,

921
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Speaker 1: that's including unguarded shots, but like we talked about earlier

922
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Speaker 1: with the guarded shots, there's a level of execution to that.

923
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Speaker 1: In the intensity of the closeouts transition points Indy twenty

924
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 1: six to thirteen. Milwaukee allowed only nine of those twenty

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Speaker 1: six in the second half. Those they did clean that

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Speaker 1: up a little bit, but it's worth mentioning Indiana did

927
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Speaker 1: win the half court battle, just half court efficiency won

928
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Speaker 1: a one to twelve offensive rating for the Pacers, just

929
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Speaker 1: a ninety eight offensive rating for the Bucks. So totally

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00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:17,320
Speaker 1: totally dominant performance from the Pacers in game one of

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Speaker 1: that series. All right, guys, it's all I have for tonight.

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Speaker 1: It's marathon, not a sprint. We're gonna be back tomorrow

933
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Speaker 1: morning with some more film stuff, and then obviously we

934
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Speaker 1: got four more games tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: I will see you guys. Then what's up guys?

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Speaker 1: As always, I appreciate you for listening to and supporting

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Speaker 1: OOPS tonight. It would actually be really helpful for us

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Speaker 1: if you guys would take a second and leave a

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Speaker 1: rating and a review.

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Speaker 2: As always, I appreciate you guys supporting us, But if

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Speaker 2: you could take a minute to do that, I'd really

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Speaker 2: appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: The volume