1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:16,759 Speaker 1: The volume. All right, we'll go to him to night. 2 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: You're at the volume, Haby Tuesday, everybody of ballf You 3 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: guys are having a great week so far. Just a 4 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: very quick show. Today. We had a bizarre slate on 5 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 1: Monday night. A lot of upsets around the league. Is 6 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 1: the Utah Jazz ride a second half run to beat 7 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: the Calves in Cleveland. We saw the Indiana Pacers, who 8 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: came into the night with eight wins, get a win 9 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: over the Boston Celtics. And then the Sacramento Kings, one 10 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,160 Speaker 1: of the worst teams in the Western Conference, tie off 11 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 1: an incredible back to back after beating Houston. They then 12 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: beat the Lakers on the very next night, impressively, showing 13 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:50,239 Speaker 1: a lot of elements of their offense that I want 14 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: to dive into. I want to talk big picture too, 15 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: about why this kind of stuff happens in the NBA. 16 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: When you see these nights where just a bunch of 17 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 1: teams that we think are bad or meet go beat 18 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: a bunch of good teams, I think it's actually a 19 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,400 Speaker 1: testament to how deep the talent is in the NBA. 20 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 1: And so I want to dive into that concept a 21 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: little bit as well. You guys know the joke before 22 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:11,759 Speaker 1: we get started. Subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel 23 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: so you don't miss any more of our videos. 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As I was watching these teams play, and 43 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: I'm watching, you know, Utah ride, Keyante George and Lori 44 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 1: Markinen to offensive success in the second half first Cleveland, 45 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 1: as I'm watching DeMar Derozen and Malik Monk just cook 46 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 1: the Lakers over and over and over again. In Iso, 47 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:21,959 Speaker 1: as I'm watching Siakam and Andrew Nemhard run their two 48 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 1: man game at the top of the key to get 49 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: great looks against Boston down the stretch, or Jay Huff 50 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 1: hitting these picking pop threes. I came away thinking, this 51 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: is just kind of like what the league is like 52 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 1: these days if you went back in the day. It's 53 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 1: not that I'm not gonna sit here and pretend like 54 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: there was an offensive talent in the league in the past, 55 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: but the level of shot making that exists off the 56 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 1: dribble in the modern NBA, Like the fact that you 57 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 1: have to chase a guy like Keyantay George over the 58 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 1: top of the screen because he's gonna hit a pull 59 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: up three, or he has all this skill in the 60 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: mid range, or how athletic he is finishing at the rim. 61 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: The difficulty that you have guarding two man game with 62 00:02:57,840 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: and Nemhar because of how teams have grown in the 63 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: way that they space the floor, and how they can 64 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 1: attack matchups when you try to switch, or how you 65 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: can take advantage of natural openings when they don't try 66 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: to switch. All of those things kind of just demonstrate 67 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: how far the game of basketball has come. And I 68 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: was looking through. I just took the NBA standings on 69 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: the ESPN app today and I was just kind of 70 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: looking through, and I was like, how many of these 71 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: teams don't have a player or a couple of players 72 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: that can get super hot because they're super talented and 73 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,119 Speaker 1: can take a close game away from you because they 74 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 1: just can get to their spots and their shots that 75 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: they're capable of making, and maybe they go in and 76 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: maybe you lose. And as you go down the league, 77 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: there might be one or two teams in the entire 78 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: league that don't have that level of offensive talent somewhere 79 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: on their roster. And that just goes to show you 80 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: the growth and skill development and talent that exists in 81 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:58,119 Speaker 1: the NBA. I just thought last night was a great 82 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: example of that. So, like, take, for example, last night, 83 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: the Kings, the Pacers, and the Jazz. They've combined to 84 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: win thirty three games this season, and they beat the Lakers, Celtics, 85 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: and Calves, who have won to combine sixty nine games. Now, 86 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 1: obviously guys were down, like Celtics were without Jalen Brown 87 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,480 Speaker 1: last night, the Lakers were without Austin Reeves and Ruiya Chimura. 88 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,919 Speaker 1: The Calves have been without Max Strus all season. Right, So, 89 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: like these guys are, these teams are still not necessarily 90 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,039 Speaker 1: at full strength, but still more than enough talent to 91 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: go win these particular types of games. So I watch 92 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:33,599 Speaker 1: all three of those games this morning, and I have 93 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 1: to say this was not a case necessarily of like malaise, Like, oh, 94 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: these teams just weren't playing hard. I'm not going to 95 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: sit here and pretend like they were playing desperate or 96 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,840 Speaker 1: anything like that. But I thought these were examples of 97 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: even though these were bottom dwelling teams, I thought these 98 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:54,039 Speaker 1: were examples of these bottom dwelling teams bringing real problems 99 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: to the table that these teams had to deal with. 100 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: Starting with the Jazz, Cante George comes out in the 101 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:03,840 Speaker 1: second half against Cleveland and is super aggressive, hits a 102 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 1: bunch of shots in a row erases Cleveland's lead. All 103 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: of a sudden. It's a back and forth game, and 104 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: Utah's got players and they made more shots the rest 105 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:16,159 Speaker 1: of the game. Conte's been hooping his ass off lately. 106 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: He's straight up becoming an awesome guard in this league. 107 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: I remember I had a mail bag question from a 108 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 1: Jazz fan. It was either over the summer, it was 109 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: like right at the very beginning part of this season. 110 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: But they asked what would it take for Kyante George 111 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: to become a foundational star for the Utah Jazz And 112 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: I had a really simple answer. I was just like, 113 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 1: he needs to become more consistent and more efficient. He 114 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: had some huge games last year. Kiante had eleven twenty 115 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: five point games. He had three thirty point games, but 116 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: he had twenty nine games where he shot thirty five 117 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 1: percent or worse from the field. He was hot or 118 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:56,479 Speaker 1: cold like a lot of young guards, not too uncommon there. 119 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: This year, massive leap from Conte. He's averaging two twenty 120 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: four points and seven assists per game. He's at sixty 121 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 1: one percent true shooting for the entire season, and he's 122 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 1: been exceptionally hot as of late. If you guys remember, 123 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: like if you that the game from the other night 124 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 1: where the Hornets beat the living shit out of the Jazz. 125 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 1: They won by like fifty five. They sat out most 126 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: of their of starting front court, so like Marketing was 127 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: out Yusuf Nurkic was out. Kante George played in that game, 128 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:26,479 Speaker 1: had a rough night if you remove that game, which 129 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 1: kind of stands out like a sore thumb from his 130 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: box scores. In his previous fourteen games, he's averaging twenty 131 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: eight five and seven on sixty five percent true shooting. 132 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 1: Kiante George over like a month's worth of games, twenty 133 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:46,239 Speaker 1: eight five and seven on sixty five percent true shooting. 134 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:51,720 Speaker 1: That is star guard production from Kyante. That is consistent, 135 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 1: that is efficient, and that's the kind of player. The 136 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: guy we've watched for the last month that does look 137 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: like a foundational guard for the Jazz. He's not huge, 138 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:04,359 Speaker 1: but he's big and athletic enough to be able to 139 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: finish at the rim in traffic. He's sixty percent at 140 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 1: the rim as a guard. That to me, like when 141 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: you're a smaller guard, sixty percent is an awesome number. 142 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: When you're a super athletic wing, I want to see 143 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: you up in the high sixties. You know, in that range, 144 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 1: but like when you're a smaller guard, fifty seven to 145 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 1: fifty eight percent is not bad. Kiante's at sixty percent 146 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: at the rim this season. He's getting there almost five 147 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 1: times per game, and then he hitted all the shots 148 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 1: right thirty four percent on pull up threes and pick 149 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 1: and roll. That's over a point per shot. He hits 150 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: right around forty three percent of his short jumpers and 151 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 1: floaters in both of those categories. He's been way more 152 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: hot as of late in the last month, and he 153 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 1: gets to the foul line a ton. He gets seven 154 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 1: attempts per game at the foul line, right where Anthony 155 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 1: Edwards is. For a comparison for you guys, Kante is 156 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: just a really good player and he is absolutely a 157 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 1: foundational guard for them with the way that he's been 158 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: playing this season. Lori Markinen averaging twenty eight on sixty 159 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: two percent true shooting this year. He's feasting in this 160 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: Utah offense, which uses a lot of sophisticated screening action 161 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 1: to get easy looks. I love the way that Will 162 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: Hardy has these guys playing on offense like they will 163 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: have one of their passing folkrum. So think like Nurkicch 164 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 1: or Kevin Love kind of have holding the ball either 165 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: around the elbows or around the top of the key, 166 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: and then they'll run some sort of screening action with 167 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: Lori Markinen in one of their smaller guards somewhere on 168 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: the floor, and Laurie just will at any given moment 169 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: maybe pop to the three point line, maybe slip out 170 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 1: of the screen on a cut to the basket. Maybe 171 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 1: he'll just quick inside seial and create a passing angle. 172 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: He was killing the calves with that in the second 173 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 1: half last night. He had a play where he kind 174 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,679 Speaker 1: of like looked like he was gonna come off of 175 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: a flare at the top of the key. Evan Mobley's 176 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: like fighting through the screen, and Lauri Markin's like he's 177 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: engaged in the screen. I don't even need to go 178 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 1: off this flare. I'm just gonna turn and ask for 179 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 1: the ball. He's standing at the three point line. Easy catch, knockdown, 180 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 1: catch and shoot three. He had a deep seal on 181 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: Sam maryor Ace Bailey's in the right corner, Evan Mobley's 182 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 1: on him. Sam Merril's guarding Laurie mark and In, and 183 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 1: so Laurie like kind of goes down like he's gonna 184 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: set a pick for Ace Bailey out of the right corner, 185 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 1: and when he goes to set that pick, sam Merril 186 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:13,559 Speaker 1: kind of opens up his stance and he kind of 187 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 1: steps off of Laurie a little bit. The reason why 188 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 1: is because if if Ace Bailey tries to curl around 189 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 1: that screen, maybe he's gonna show or maybe Cleveland's gonna 190 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 1: switch that action if that happens, and then Laurie just 191 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: randomly instead of setting the screen, just quick juts in elbows. 192 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 1: Sam Merrill creates a high passing angle points up in 193 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: the air. Kevin Love puts it on a dot. It's 194 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: an easy catch and an easy layup. He gets all 195 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 1: sorts of these easy baskets, easy catching jud threes, easy 196 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 1: deep seal layups, easy inside like slips, like he'll run 197 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: like he's gonna set up backscreen for somebody, and then 198 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: he'll just quick slip out of it towards the front 199 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 1: of the rim when the team looks to switch, because 200 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 1: now the guy's trapped on his high side. He's been 201 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 1: torching teams with that sort of thing all season and 202 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:59,199 Speaker 1: he just did it again to the Calves last night. 203 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 1: Those dudes are really good and they're hard to guard 204 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 1: for everyone. They went for fifty four points against the 205 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 1: Thunder last week, took those dudes to overtime fifty nine 206 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 1: more last night in a win. Isaiah Callier he absolutely 207 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 1: can hit the jets as a guard and get all 208 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 1: the way to the rim. He had a huge driving 209 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 1: reverse layup on Evan Mobley in transition where they were 210 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 1: like step for step on the side of each other, 211 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 1: and Isaiah Callier hit the Jets and he was just gone. 212 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 1: Saphema Kailu' is gonna get hot from three and knock 213 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 1: down shots. That's something he's very capable of doing. Useif 214 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: Nurkic can hit a pick and pop three. If you 215 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 1: show on us there was a player Kiante got into 216 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 1: the lane and missed a little scoop shot off the glass, 217 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 1: but he engaged Jared Allen at the rim. You get 218 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 1: Jared Allen out of the picture. Usef Nurkic is a 219 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 1: load to handle underneath the basket for those smaller guards, 220 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: offensive rebound, put back. These are real personnel problems that 221 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 1: are difficult for everyone in the league to deal with. 222 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 1: For an, they're not as much of a bottom feeder 223 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 1: as Indiana and Sacramento are. Utah has been kind of 224 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 1: feisty all year, but they're a non playoff team. They're 225 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 1: a non playoff team that is a huge pain in 226 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 1: the ass to play on any given night because they 227 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: have passing bigs and a system that facilitates a lot 228 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 1: of guys that can cut and shoot really well. And 229 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: they've got two awesome players and Lori Markenen and Keyante George. 230 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 1: You can go for thirty on any given night, and 231 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 1: that's just what you have to contend with these days 232 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 1: in the random nights of the NBA regular season. Then 233 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 1: on defense last night, they were giving the Cavs all 234 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:39,200 Speaker 1: sorts of problems with their size on the back line. 235 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: And we've seen this periodically, this specific problem pop up 236 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 1: for Cleveland over the years, where you know, you show 237 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:49,560 Speaker 1: high on the guards, so you bring your big up 238 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: and you know, get rid of the basketball or get 239 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:54,959 Speaker 1: make Darius Garland or Donovan Mitchell get rid of the basketball. 240 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: You end up hitting an Evan Mobley or Jared Allen 241 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 1: in the pocket and then you have these four on 242 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: three sequences, right And we saw examples of it with 243 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 1: like Mitchell Robinson in the playoff series from a couple 244 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:08,840 Speaker 1: of years ago, where like, you know, Mitch is just 245 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 1: so big down there that he kind of prey on 246 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 1: the indecisiveness of that short roller, and all of a sudden, 247 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: some of those floaters get contested, some of those cutting 248 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: layups get contested, and they start to miss. Exact same 249 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: thing was happening last night, where it's like the big 250 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 1: showing at the level, but there's two more seven footers 251 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 1: underneath the basket waiting for him, and there's just so 252 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 1: much size down there that it was a problem for 253 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,680 Speaker 1: Cleveland on their finishes. Jared Allen was getting spooked on 254 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: his little floaters. Guys were missing layups on cuts along 255 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,680 Speaker 1: the baseline. They have size. And so the point is 256 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 1: the Jazz have good players, and they played good basketball 257 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:46,959 Speaker 1: last night, and they just beat the Calves. There were 258 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: many times in the second half of that game where 259 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 1: it felt like the Calves were really trying to reassert 260 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: control and they just couldn't. And it's not because the 261 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 1: Calves aren't good. It's because the Jazz have good players 262 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 1: and they played a really good game last night, and 263 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 1: it's tough to beat them when they play like that. 264 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 1: Today's show is brought to you by presenting sponsor hard 265 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 1: Rock Bet, the official sports but partner of the Miami 266 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:11,800 Speaker 1: Heat and the Orlando Magic. Think you Know Ball. 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Concerned about 292 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: gambling in Florida called one eight three three play wise. 293 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 1: In Indiana, if you or someone you know has a 294 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 1: gambling problem and wants help, call one eight hundred nine 295 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 1: with it gambling problem called one eight hundred gambler in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, 296 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, or Virginia. In Indiana. You see 297 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 1: the standings. You see a team that's nine and thirty one, 298 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 1: but they've been ridiculously banged up. They have sixteen different 299 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 1: players who have started games for them this year. The 300 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: starting wings Andrew Namhard, Aaron Nei Smith, Pascal Siakam. When 301 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 1: those three have been on the floida together. This year, 302 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 1: the Pacers actually have a positive net rating as a team. 303 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 1: They've won three games in a row. They're not devoid 304 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: of talent. They were banged up, and the combination of 305 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 1: you know, playing some bad basketball this year, but we 306 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 1: all know what those guys are capable of on both 307 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: ends of the floor. Then you add, like, you know, 308 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 1: an interesting, young, talented big and Jay Huff who comes 309 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 1: in and puts up his third twenty point game of 310 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 1: the season. He hasn't shot the ball super well this year, 311 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: but we all know that he can shoot. He was 312 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: over forty percent from three last year in Memphis. Boston 313 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: was conceding him threes all over the floor in various 314 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 1: different types of actions. So like pick and pop, they're 315 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: kind of leaving him open right, trailing in transition. Nimi 316 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: Cata's running towards the rim in transition and kind of 317 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 1: conceding that trailing three right spacing to the corner. Nimi 318 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: Kida is helping it a lot on drives, and there's 319 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: Jay Huff just standing wide open in the left corner 320 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 1: right he was hitting them last night. That was a 321 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 1: big problem for Boston. Did a bunch of damage as 322 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 1: a roller too soft touch on little bank shots had 323 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: like a nasty three sixty dunk driving a close out 324 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 1: dunker spot catches a couple of dunks down. They're just 325 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,240 Speaker 1: regular catches on drop offs, like Jay Huff was beating 326 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: the Celtics, lazed like good player, talented player, that is. 327 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: I talk about this all the time. The pick and 328 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 1: pop is literally the hardest action to guard when it 329 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 1: comes to traditional ball screen coverages, because any sort of 330 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 1: high drop, low drop, any sort of traditional type of 331 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 1: pick and roll coverage is going to concede a pick 332 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 1: and pop three. Really the only way you can guard 333 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: it is by switching, which a lot of teams don't 334 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 1: want to do because they don't want to put their 335 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: bigs on smalls and vice versa, or to rotate off 336 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: the weak side, which just leaves a different three point 337 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: shooter open. It's a very difficult action to guard. And 338 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: so if you have a pick and pop three that's 339 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 1: hitting pick and pops, that's going to make life for 340 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 1: you really easy on offense relative to what a lot 341 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 1: of teams have to deal with in pick and roll 342 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 1: where their bigs can't shoot right. And then one of 343 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 1: the big bright spots for the Pacers this season. Something 344 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 1: to take forward if you're a Pacers fan is they're 345 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 1: getting just a shit ton of reps for that Andrew 346 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: Mhard Pascal Siakam two man game. And it's kind of 347 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 1: a clastic dynamic, right. Nemhart's gonna draw smaller guard type defenders, 348 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 1: Siakam's gonna draw bigger, stronger wing type defenders, and so 349 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,439 Speaker 1: it makes it really difficult to switch because if you switch, 350 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 1: Nemhart has the ability to beat bigger, slower footed players 351 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,399 Speaker 1: off the dribble, and Siakam can do real damage to 352 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: smalls on switches. He did it all last year in 353 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:22,360 Speaker 1: the postseason, literally won the game with it. Last night, 354 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:24,920 Speaker 1: forced to switch in the two man game with Nemhard 355 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:27,120 Speaker 1: caught the ball at the elbow, spun off of his man, 356 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 1: hit a little bank shot over the top that ended 357 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 1: up winning the game. That's a difficult action to guard 358 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: for anybody in the league. And I think it's very 359 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:38,440 Speaker 1: valuable for Indiana, especially especially as we project forward for them, 360 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 1: that they got lots and lots of reps this season 361 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 1: out of those two guys, because that could be something 362 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 1: that's a foundational thing for non Tyrese Haliburton units in 363 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: the future. They had a similar again, like when you 364 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 1: when you're running those two man games with different types 365 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 1: of defenders too, it makes teams hesitant to switch, and 366 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 1: so guys can linger in hedges or linger in shows. 367 00:17:57,720 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 1: And what ends up happening there is you have these 368 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: brief moments where there's two on the ball, and so 369 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:03,359 Speaker 1: if there's a brief moment where there's two on the ball, 370 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:05,359 Speaker 1: that's where a guy can slip out of it. Andrew 371 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: and Emhard got a wide open three off the catch 372 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: on the right wing slipping out of action with Pascal Siakam. 373 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: That's the kind of thing that makes that action so 374 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 1: hard to guard. Then on defense, I thought they're peel 375 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,720 Speaker 1: switching made life really hard on Boston. We've talked about 376 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 1: this concept with peel switching before, but essentially all peel 377 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 1: switching is is like if you get wiped out on 378 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 1: a screen, you and again it's schematics. Some teams do this, 379 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 1: some teams don't. But if you chase over the top 380 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:31,359 Speaker 1: of the screen and you get wiped out and the 381 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:33,680 Speaker 1: guy's starting to run downhill, at the very least by 382 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 1: chasing him over the top you prevent him from comfortably 383 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,280 Speaker 1: setting and settling into any sort of pull up jump 384 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 1: shot or anything really easy. You force him to drive 385 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 1: at the switch, and then you just kind of basically 386 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:46,200 Speaker 1: hug the screener and try to get back in front 387 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 1: of him and box him out or keep him off 388 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: of the roll something along those lines. Right. But the 389 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: other nice thing with the peel switch is because you're 390 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 1: already chasing, is if they don't make contact, you just 391 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 1: stay home, right, And so one of the things that 392 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 1: was causing problems for Boston is because Indiana wasn't switching 393 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 1: for switching sake, but they were chasing over the top. 394 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:05,719 Speaker 1: As anytime Boston tried to slip out of a screen 395 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 1: or didn't set any sort of actual physical pick like 396 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 1: ghosting like a guard guard pick or something along those lines, 397 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: anytime they did that, they just stayed on the ball. 398 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: And so any sort of on ball rep from Peyton 399 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,199 Speaker 1: Pritchard or Derek White, they were forcing them into a 400 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:23,239 Speaker 1: lot of really tough pull up jump shots because they 401 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 1: were staying attached, and then if they did get wiped 402 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:27,399 Speaker 1: out on the screen, they were at least chasing them 403 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 1: over the top enough to take away the easy pull 404 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 1: up before they peeled off, and so it prevented Boston 405 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,920 Speaker 1: from getting to their clean catch and shoot looks. In fact, again, 406 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:38,480 Speaker 1: this is a Boston teena generates thirty one catch and 407 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:41,159 Speaker 1: shoot jump shots per game on average. They generated just 408 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 1: nine catch and shoot threes in the second half last night. 409 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 1: So like a really really impressive defensive effort from the 410 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:49,119 Speaker 1: Pacers as well. And again they got they had a 411 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: lot of good guard defenders like Andrew nem Hard can defend, 412 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 1: Aaron E. Smith can defend, Ben Sheppard can defend, he 413 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:58,680 Speaker 1: Jim McConnell can defend. They've got talent on the perimeter defensively. 414 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,040 Speaker 1: So again similar to what I said after the Jazz game, 415 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 1: like the Pacers have some really good players and they're 416 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 1: playing good basketball right now. And so they got their 417 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: third straight win, two of which were against playoff teams. 418 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 1: They beat the hell out of Miami. Like that's just 419 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:18,400 Speaker 1: that this is what we look at Indiana as one 420 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: of the very worst teams in the league, and they've 421 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 1: got a lot of dudes who were like playing serious 422 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:26,160 Speaker 1: minutes in the NBA Finals last year. It's been their 423 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:30,359 Speaker 1: injuries that have exacerbated their issues this season when they're healthy, 424 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 1: they present real problems. And then in Sacramento again they 425 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 1: just beat the Rockets and the Lakers back to back, 426 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 1: and it was a lot of the same thing in 427 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 1: both games. Why Because DeMar Dea Rosen is a really 428 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:47,399 Speaker 1: good player who's in a really good groove right now. 429 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,880 Speaker 1: He took in these two games, he took thirty one 430 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 1: non restricted area twos so two point shots that were 431 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 1: not right at the rim. He took thirty one of 432 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,600 Speaker 1: them and made twenty two of them. If I told 433 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: you DeMar Derozen hit a bunch of tough middies and 434 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 1: tough short range shots, would you be surprised. No, we 435 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 1: all know that's something that he's capable of doing. I 436 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 1: thought he made it look super easy versus the Lakers. 437 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 1: At least Houston made it harder, Like DeRozan made a 438 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:21,440 Speaker 1: lot of tough, longer mid rangers in the Houston game. 439 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,159 Speaker 1: In the Lakers game, in particular, he was getting to 440 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:28,159 Speaker 1: these super easy little short turnarounds in short fadeaways. He 441 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,359 Speaker 1: relentlessly targeted Luca to get to these like super easy 442 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: little short range shots. As a team, the Kings were 443 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 1: heavily emphasized attacking heavily, emphasizing attacking Luca so before garbage 444 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 1: time because there were a couple of examples that popped 445 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 1: up towards the towards the very end of the game 446 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:53,879 Speaker 1: in garbage time, but the Kings ran a grand total 447 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 1: before garbage time. I had twelve ISOs against Luca and 448 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 1: fourteen against the rest of the team, so twenty six ISOs, 449 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 1: twelve of which specifically targeted Luca. In the twelve ISOs 450 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 1: against Luca either directly or on the first pass after 451 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:12,919 Speaker 1: the double team or the help on a drive, the 452 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 1: Kings scored sixteen points, so one thirty three offensive rating 453 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 1: on twelve possessions attacking Luca and Iso. Every Laker got 454 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: some work, like DeMar Derozen had his grift game going 455 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: last night. He got both Lebron and Jared Vanderbilt onto 456 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,920 Speaker 1: like a little armhook grift. Malik Monk hit a tough 457 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 1: step back three over Marcus Smart, Zach Lavine went right 458 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 1: through Jared Vanderbilt to the rim for a Layuped Vanderbilt 459 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 1: had a rough game, couldn't do anything on offense, and 460 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: then he was getting attacked one on one two. I 461 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 1: think he gave up five or six points on ISOs 462 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: as well and in his particular opportunities. But they were 463 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:52,120 Speaker 1: very deliberate about going at Luka Doncic. They went at 464 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 1: him more than twice as often as any other Laker 465 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:58,199 Speaker 1: last night, and they just cooked him. They just cooked him, 466 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 1: and it was something that concealed instantly generated quality offense 467 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 1: for them all game long. Malikue Mounk, like he keeps 468 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 1: getting talked about like this bad contract to that someone 469 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,760 Speaker 1: has to take on in a trade with Sacramento to 470 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: get one of their other more talented wain Like I 471 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:16,400 Speaker 1: shouldn't even say more talented, but just different wings, more 472 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 1: defensive minded wings. And I straight up don't get that, 473 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,359 Speaker 1: Like is he a perfect player? Of course not. He 474 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 1: can have issues physically, and he obviously can drift in 475 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 1: his possession to possession defensive focus, and just like any 476 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: other scoring guard, he can have nights where he goes cold. 477 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 1: Like I'm not gonna sit here and pretend like that's 478 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:34,680 Speaker 1: not the case. But this is a guy that has 479 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 1: proven time and time again that he can get super 480 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 1: hot and carry offensive units with his high level shot making, 481 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,440 Speaker 1: and he's got the ability to beat just about anybody 482 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:46,679 Speaker 1: off the dribble. He's been doing that. I mean that 483 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 1: stood out to me in his very first Pope postseason 484 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: series against Golden State, like this dude could beat people 485 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,719 Speaker 1: off the dribble, and then he can also hit over 486 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 1: the top. He's shooting forty two percent on pull up 487 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,639 Speaker 1: off the dribble threes this year, and then if you 488 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:01,680 Speaker 1: play them off the ball, he's an excellent spot up player. 489 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 1: That's how they beat Houston. Tomarta Rosen working out of 490 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,560 Speaker 1: the middle of the floor, and Malik munkit two corner 491 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 1: threes at the end of the game that blew that 492 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:11,880 Speaker 1: game open. One of the other things that I love 493 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 1: about how the Kings have been playing is just their 494 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 1: spacing principles. I'm gonna talk about this more as like 495 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,360 Speaker 1: a roster construction concept in a minute, but like they 496 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 1: have Demarta Rosen work the middle of the floor a 497 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,439 Speaker 1: ton in his ISOs, like right around the elbows, and 498 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 1: the reason for that is he's so good at understanding 499 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 1: what's happening behind him. We've talked about this before. When 500 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 1: you have a player that doesn't see what's happening behind 501 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,000 Speaker 1: him very well, like maybe he just doesn't have enough 502 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,639 Speaker 1: of like that multitasking gene whatever it is to be 503 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 1: able to like read in the middle of the floor. 504 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 1: You want to put him on a clear side so 505 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,120 Speaker 1: they could see everything that's happening in front of him, 506 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 1: and the passing reads are tougher there, but at the 507 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,199 Speaker 1: very least he can see everything that's happening. When you 508 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 1: have a player that's got excellent court awareness that always 509 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,720 Speaker 1: knows everything that's happening around him, you want him working 510 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: at the middle of the floor. The reason why is 511 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: the passing reads are shorter. So, for example, if a 512 00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: guy who's running on a cleared side and you want 513 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 1: to load up, it's relatively easy to make it so 514 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 1: that the only read is the skip. So you leave 515 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 1: the guy in the opposite corner open, you have the 516 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:08,880 Speaker 1: guy that's guarding him come in and tag the dunker spot, 517 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 1: and then you have the guy in the dunker spot's 518 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,439 Speaker 1: strong side zone come over to the opposite side of 519 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:14,439 Speaker 1: the paint, and then you're already matched up on the 520 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: other two. You're set up so that that guy's got 521 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 1: to throw a skip pass all the way to the 522 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,440 Speaker 1: opposite corner, and teams are ready like the guy who's 523 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,479 Speaker 1: tagging the rollers ready to close out and then they 524 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,640 Speaker 1: all rotate, and it's a very difficult pass to make 525 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,120 Speaker 1: on time and on target, often enough to really burn 526 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:29,840 Speaker 1: a defense right. But if you can work out of 527 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 1: the middle of the floor, everything is one pass away, 528 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:36,639 Speaker 1: everything is one small quick swing pass away, and so 529 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:40,160 Speaker 1: wherever you help from it's a difficult rotation to make. 530 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 1: And Demarto Rosen has been killing both the Rockets and 531 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,440 Speaker 1: the Lakers in these two games with his passing reads 532 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 1: right out of the elbows right there, and then little 533 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,159 Speaker 1: things like you saw those little easy floaters that Maxim 534 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,440 Speaker 1: Renaud got off of those Molique Monk drives last night. 535 00:25:55,840 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 1: That's a basic dunker spot spacing principle. Whenever someone's off 536 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 1: of one side of the floor and you're a dunker 537 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: spot guy, you're always in the opposite dunker spot. So 538 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:07,440 Speaker 1: if a guy's driving out of the right wing or 539 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,120 Speaker 1: the right corner, you're on the left block area right 540 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:13,920 Speaker 1: like left short corner, making yourself available. Right. Then if 541 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 1: that guy drives, you have a very simple decision to make. 542 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 1: If he beats him middle and kind of cuts across 543 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 1: the middle of the floor, you rotate underneath the basket 544 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 1: to the opposite dunker spot. So if he's on the 545 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,480 Speaker 1: right wing and he drives through the middle towards the 546 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,199 Speaker 1: left side of the rim, you want to relocate to 547 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 1: the right side of the rim. Why because the BIG's 548 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:34,960 Speaker 1: gonna step up and you want to create a passing window. 549 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:36,720 Speaker 1: And the guy's driving right at you. So you're not 550 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 1: doing any good if you're standing there right. But if 551 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 1: he drives baseline, if he beats his man baseline, instead 552 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: of going opposite dunker spot, you wheel up right in 553 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 1: front of the rim. They call that teeing up. So 554 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: it's like a three spot spacing principle. As a dunker, 555 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 1: you're either left dunker, right dunker teeing up, left dunker 556 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 1: right dunker teeing up. And you could literally see like 557 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: as Malik Bunk is routinely beat up Luka Dancicoh on 558 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: those drives off of the right wing, he's just flashing 559 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,359 Speaker 1: right to the front of the rim. So as Malik 560 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 1: is cutting along the baseline, you know, Jackson Hayes wherever 561 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,439 Speaker 1: it is, steps up and there's a very easy release 562 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 1: valve for a player right in front of the rim. 563 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,639 Speaker 1: And guess what Maxim or Not is hitting over fifty 564 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:17,880 Speaker 1: percent of his floaters and hooks. So if you leave 565 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 1: him there, he's going to hit that shot at a 566 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: high percentage. That is a classic spacing principle and that 567 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 1: that really is the thing that stood out to me 568 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: about the Kings in these two games. And again, I 569 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 1: understand they've been bad most of the year, but this 570 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:35,080 Speaker 1: is a team that foundationally does have some real shooting 571 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:38,200 Speaker 1: in athleticism. Like Russell Westbrook hit a bunch of threes 572 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,120 Speaker 1: last night. Guess what, He's a thirty eight percent unguarded 573 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 1: catch and shoot three point shooter. Now, Like you can't 574 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 1: just leave Russell Westbrook open and hope that he misses 575 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,200 Speaker 1: like he used to. Like he's not a great three 576 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: point shooter there, but he's absolutely going to hit down 577 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,479 Speaker 1: enough of them to hurt you. Zach Levine forty two 578 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 1: percent on spot up threes this year, Kean Ellis thirty 579 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: seven percent on catch and shoot three this year. Moleikue 580 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 1: Monk forty three percent on catching shoot threes this year. 581 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 1: We talked about maxim or not and is spacing out 582 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:11,400 Speaker 1: of the short range positions right. They can do something 583 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,920 Speaker 1: that the Lakers cannot, which is they can successfully space 584 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,680 Speaker 1: the floor for their stars. You know, when I'm watching these, 585 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 1: you know, the Lakers, there's a lot of Laker fans. 586 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 1: I was like, oh man, this poor shooting night. Poor 587 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 1: shooting night. And it's like, yeah, but like like Jake 588 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:30,920 Speaker 1: Laavia has been missing all season, I don't I don't 589 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 1: necessarily look at a wide open Jake loarevia three is 590 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: like a shot that's gonna go in, and I'm like, 591 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 1: I'm usually like, maybe maybe he'll hit one or two 592 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 1: of them tonight. You know, Marcus Smart, maybe Jared Vanderbilt, 593 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 1: he's had a couple of stretches where he's hit some shots, 594 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 1: but probably not gonna hit it right. You know, like 595 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 1: Lebron the last couple of years, I felt like if 596 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:54,840 Speaker 1: you got a good look, it was going in. This 597 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 1: year hasn't felt like that so far. Now, that's usually 598 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,560 Speaker 1: the last thing to come for players, the jump, So 599 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,480 Speaker 1: like you want to you know, it's not necessarily going 600 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 1: to be like that all season, but like it's not 601 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 1: like that this season so far. That's the thing, Like 602 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 1: the Lakers don't have a lot of shooting, they just 603 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: don't the Kings do. The Kings have While DeMar De 604 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: Rozan's working. They've got, you know, Zach Lavine in one corner, 605 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 1: can't leave him open. There's Malik Monk in the other corner. 606 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 1: Can't leave him open if he strong sides on with 607 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 1: Jackson Hayes. Maxim's gonna hit that little floater in the lane. 608 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 1: And there's Russell Westbrook on the wing where he's hitting 609 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 1: them tonight and he's kind of been hitting them all season, 610 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 1: So like they can create space for their stars into 611 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,240 Speaker 1: the way the Lakers can. I'm sitting watching that game 612 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 1: and I'm like, Yeah, the Kings don't have Luka Doncic, 613 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 1: they don't have Lebron James or Austin Reeves. And that's 614 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 1: why they're ten and thirty. They're not twenty three and 615 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 1: fourteen or whatever the Lakers are. But they're way more 616 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 1: athletic than the Lakers. Like the athletes all over the floor, 617 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 1: Zach Levine, Malik Monk, Russell Westbrook, They're getting to the 618 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 1: rim over and over again. They're way faster than the 619 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 1: Lakers perimeter players. And then you got all these big 620 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 1: dudes that they have guarding Luca and Lebron all night. 621 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 1: Prescious to you a big athlete, Nick Cliff or big 622 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 1: athlete Dylan Cardwell, he was causing problems with his size 623 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 1: last night. They're more athletic than the Lakers by a 624 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: considerable margin, and they're better at shooting than the Lakers 625 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 1: by a considerable margin. So if Lebron has a bad 626 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 1: game like he did last night, and DeMar, Derozen, Malik Monk, 627 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 1: and Russell Westbrook have good games, they have the stuff 628 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 1: around them and satellite players to not just win, but 629 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:39,959 Speaker 1: to win comfortably. And again, Luca was awesome on offense, 630 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 1: but he gave up sixteen points on the other end 631 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 1: of the floor guarding an iso. And again it's a 632 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 1: damning revelation for Rob Polinka that like, you have a 633 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,000 Speaker 1: Sacramento Kings team that is a basement of the league 634 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,240 Speaker 1: team that is like substantially better in two of the 635 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 1: keyest the most important areas of roster building, jump shooting 636 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 1: and athleticism. But like, ultimately, similarly to what we talked 637 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 1: about with Utah, similarly to what we talked about with Indiana, 638 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 1: They've got players. DeMar can create shots, Malik Monk can 639 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,240 Speaker 1: create shots. Russell Westbrook and Zach Levine can drive to 640 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,440 Speaker 1: the rim, they can make shots, they can create shots. 641 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 1: And so when the satellite players are playing the way 642 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 1: that they've been playing, all they need to do is 643 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 1: really just go blow for blow as shot creators with 644 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,240 Speaker 1: the Lakers stars, and they just are better. And that's 645 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 1: what they looked like last night. I got There was 646 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 1: a moment in the late first quarter where I watched 647 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 1: that unit. It was when Dylan Cardwell came on and 648 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 1: he started guarding Lebron and I was like, Okay, the 649 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 1: Kings look big and athletic, and you can tell with 650 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:47,479 Speaker 1: the way they're guarding, they're gonna let some of these 651 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 1: lesser role players shoot and those dudes probably aren't gonna 652 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,600 Speaker 1: make shots. And on the other end of the floor, 653 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: I'm seeing Demarta Rosen and Malik Monk get wherever they 654 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: want on the floor whenever they want, and the guys 655 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 1: that they're kicking too are good shooters. I was literally 656 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,720 Speaker 1: sitting on the couch with my wife at the end 657 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,120 Speaker 1: of the first quarter, I'm like, I think the Lakers 658 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 1: are gonna get blown out tonight. Like if it wasn't 659 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 1: for Luca having the offensive night that he did, they 660 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 1: probably do get blown out last night. And so again 661 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:19,600 Speaker 1: I thought the Kings played some really good basketball over 662 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,800 Speaker 1: the last couple of games. The point I'm trying to 663 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,240 Speaker 1: make here today is just that this is why the 664 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 1: middle of the NBA regular season can get so weird sometimes. 665 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,640 Speaker 1: All of these teams, even the ones at the bottom 666 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,800 Speaker 1: of the league, have some guys who can really hoop, 667 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 1: and the NBA tactically has figured out how to create opportunities. 668 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,960 Speaker 1: Whether it's the action that you see Will Hardy's team 669 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,400 Speaker 1: run in Utah, or the spacing principles in their one 670 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 1: on one attack that you see Sacramento work with right, 671 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,080 Speaker 1: or just simple two man game concepts like inverted ball 672 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,360 Speaker 1: screens or regular ball screens, one three pick and roll 673 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 1: for one four pick and roll with Pascal Siakam and 674 00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:00,440 Speaker 1: injur and mhard These are concepts that the league has 675 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,360 Speaker 1: gotten really good at. And so if you have a 676 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 1: good player that's set up to succeed with a spacing 677 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 1: principle or a system that generates advantages for him, they 678 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 1: can be really difficult to guard. And so if you 679 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,080 Speaker 1: have a night where you're not at your best. Lebron 680 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:14,520 Speaker 1: was bad last night. It was his worst game since Christmas. 681 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,960 Speaker 1: Luca had a brilliant offensive game, but gave up sixteen points. 682 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,960 Speaker 1: On the other end of the floor, Jared Allen struggled 683 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:23,520 Speaker 1: with Utah's size again. Garland and Mitchell both way off 684 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,160 Speaker 1: their A game I've got Derek White forced a lot 685 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 1: of bad shots for the Celtics last night, and as 686 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 1: a team there's still kind of in a process funk 687 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,800 Speaker 1: where they're settling and not generating the highest quality shots 688 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,200 Speaker 1: that they can get. If you have nights like that 689 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,560 Speaker 1: in the NBA, you can lose to anyone, and last 690 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 1: night was a perfect example of that. All Right, guys, 691 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:42,560 Speaker 1: That's all I have for today is always a sincerely 692 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,880 Speaker 1: appreciate you guys for supporting us and supporting the show. 693 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,600 Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow with more game reaction. I'll see 694 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:48,120 Speaker 1: you guys. Get