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Speaker 1: am on Boston, And as you can tell from my shirt,

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Speaker 1: I have no incentive to be high on Boston. I'm

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Speaker 1: not necessarily a Lakers fan. I've just been covering them

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Speaker 1: for the last couple of years. A lot of the

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Speaker 1: people who follow the show, a lot of the people

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Speaker 1: that follow me on Twitter are Lakers fans. Um, just

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Speaker 1: from the last couple of years. My uh, my adoption

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Speaker 1: so to speak, of this Boston Celtics team has nothing

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Speaker 1: basketball incentive. It's strictly the fact that, as I said

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Speaker 1: last night, and to quote that colonism. I don't care

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Speaker 1: about being right. I just want to get things right.

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Speaker 1: That's my goal for this show is too as an

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Speaker 1: analytical approach in terms of actually looking at evidence, film evidence,

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Speaker 1: statistical evidence. I want to give you guys the best

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Speaker 1: basketball analysts analysis that I can. And over the course

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Speaker 1: of the season, I watched thirty basketball teams play in

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Speaker 1: the NBA. UH. The one on my shirt looked like

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Speaker 1: a horrific basketball team, and the team that wore green

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Speaker 1: and UH called themselves the Boston Celtics, was very clearly

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Speaker 1: better than everybody. And that's why I quote unquote adopted

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Speaker 1: them as my title favorite. It was strictly a basketball take,

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Speaker 1: that's all it is. And what's funny is I'm not

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Speaker 1: as high on Boston as some of the evidence would suggest.

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Speaker 1: Like I talked about at length over the course the

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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks from January on, Boston wasn't just

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Speaker 1: the best team in basketball. They were the best team

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Speaker 1: for a while there towards the end of the regular season,

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Speaker 1: but like I've talked about, a lot of the Boston

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Speaker 1: a playoff environment. They have some very very clear offensive

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Speaker 1: weaknesses as it comes to as it pertains to decision making.

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Speaker 1: So that's why I call them the jackal and hide

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Speaker 1: team of this playoff run. They have some really low lows.

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Speaker 1: Their floor is probably lower than any floor in this

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Speaker 1: Game one was a defensive outlier. We're gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: a very good Miami Heat team that is extremely well coached,

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Speaker 1: attention to the numbers, they're irrefutable, they're undeniable. Boston has

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Speaker 1: The video that I made yesterday or today, I suppose

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Speaker 1: I talked about Boston's defensive scheme and the two different

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Speaker 1: the branding that's his TIMPs tape, and you'll see exactly

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Speaker 1: the problem is is that more often than not, Miami's

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Speaker 1: that that coverages inherently flawed, it's about the matchup. Miami

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Speaker 1: And it appears to me it's like any time Tyson

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Speaker 1: is on the floor, which I don't even think he

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Speaker 1: played tonight, or not much at least anytime Robert Williams

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Speaker 1: is on the floor, because they seem to run it

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Speaker 1: with Robert Williams those in those situations, and but they

435
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Speaker 1: did it with Grant Williams too. And they did. They

436
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Speaker 1: did some switching with Grant Williams and At Horford at

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Speaker 1: the four five to like again. I shared some of

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Speaker 1: these clips on my Twitter feed, like it doesn't. It

439
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Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be much of a rhymer reason too

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Speaker 1: when that the Celtics do that, it seems like when

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Speaker 1: they feel like it or when they don't feel like it.

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Speaker 1: But try to target those situations because that's your best

443
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Speaker 1: opportunity to get looks for Tyler Harrold, Gabe Vincent, Max

444
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,919
Speaker 1: Drew's get their confidence going. Says you're better offensively than

445
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 1: then trust your defense to carry you on the other end.

446
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 1: But there's not a lot of great adjustment options for you.

447
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:30,399
Speaker 1: You did the same aggressive defense, like picking up Tatum

448
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 1: full court, pressing up into Jalen Brown doing You did

449
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 1: all the same things you did in the second half

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Speaker 1: against Boston in Game one. They just didn't combust this time.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, Miami is a really tough team that

452
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Speaker 1: will cause problems for teams that aren't tough. But what

453
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Speaker 1: did I tell you, guys? I said, Boston's tough and

454
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Speaker 1: I expect them to respond and they did. Alright, guys,

455
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 1: we are going to bring on Carson, and we're going

456
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Speaker 1: to get a little bit further into both of these series.

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Speaker 1: Hey Buddy, Hey Jason, we certainly are so obviously you

458
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Speaker 1: broke down all of the keys to the Night's game.

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Speaker 1: But let's broaden the scope a little bit here. We

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Speaker 1: have FanDuel odds on the series overall, which Boston they

461
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 1: have at minus to thirty to win. We don't have

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Speaker 1: a game three spread. But given those odds and just overall,

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Speaker 1: who do you like in game three to go out

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Speaker 1: and win? And who do you like in this series

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Speaker 1: at this point? So for both series, I had Boston

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Speaker 1: in six and Dallas and six, but I expected it

467
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Speaker 1: to take a different path. I figured Boston would steal

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Speaker 1: one in Miami, win games three and four, then possibly

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Speaker 1: lose Game five in Miami, then close out in six.

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Speaker 1: I think Dallas is gonna follow a very similar path

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Speaker 1: to the Phoenix series. I expect them to lose again

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Speaker 1: tomorrow and then I think they'll win games three and

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Speaker 1: four and then and continue along the way that with

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Speaker 1: with Boston, I think that they're gonna win big in

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Speaker 1: Game three. I think that this is going to be

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Speaker 1: the the worst team that they've played in front of

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Speaker 1: their home crowd. Yet in this postseason, Um again, I

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Speaker 1: we don't, guys, go look at the numbers. Look at

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Speaker 1: how successfully Brooklyn scored against this Boston defense. It's kind

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Speaker 1: of wild. Now relative to the regular season, it was great.

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Speaker 1: Like I told you, guys, like Boston basically dropped Katie

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Speaker 1: and Kyrie's regular season offense from about a one three

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Speaker 1: offensive rating to like a one fourteen, so about a

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Speaker 1: nine point drop. And then they dropped the Bucks from

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Speaker 1: about a one oh five offensive rating in the regular

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Speaker 1: season without Chris Middleton to about a nine in that

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Speaker 1: series without Chris Middleton. Right, so about a ten point

488
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: drop in both series. Right. But again, so much clouded

489
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Speaker 1: our judgment about Brooklyn in that series because we just

490
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Speaker 1: wanted to talk shit, right about Katie and Kyrie and

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. So I actually think that Miami going

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Speaker 1: into Boston is gonna be a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: buzz saw. Like even if it, I think they would

494
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 1: have to shoot extremely poorly for that game to be close.

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Speaker 1: So I would be on Boston, my guests, Carson is

496
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Speaker 1: the spread will be like six and a half or

497
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Speaker 1: seven in Game three, and and I would be on

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Speaker 1: Boston there because I think they'd win by fifteen to twenty.

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Speaker 1: What do you think the probability is that Boston wins

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Speaker 1: out from here and makes it a gentleman sweep, very

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Speaker 1: high probability. That's why I like Syrius. I think they

502
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 1: I think they have serious spreads on fan duels so

503
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: you can get like the smart money there would be

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Speaker 1: like if you could get uh Boston minus one and

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Speaker 1: a half games, because then if they win and if

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Speaker 1: they get perfect, if you if you win in five,

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00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: you're clear, and if they win in six, you're clear.

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Speaker 1: That that that would be the way that I would

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Speaker 1: bet it. But it's kind of like the way I

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Speaker 1: look at it is, Game five in Miami would be

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Speaker 1: a coin flip, and Miami very well could win if

512
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: Boston brought their ugly side, and if Boston brought their

513
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: good side, they'd close him out. All right, Well, let's

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Speaker 1: move on from that series now and play a staple

515
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Speaker 1: here at Hoops tonight. It's a game called that's what

516
00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 1: he said. We've got a couple of fun oats tonight.

517
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 1: Both come from Draymond Green and The Draymond Green Show

518
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: here at the volume. The first one, Draymond gave some

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Speaker 1: thoughts on the job that Andrew Wiggins has done guarding

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00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: Luca don chet Or did in Game one, a task

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Speaker 1: that frankly has seemed impossible for a lot of the

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Speaker 1: playoffs in the home stretch of the regular season. Let's

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Speaker 1: take a listen to what Draymond had to say about that.

524
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Speaker 1: I know there's been this thing about oh man, Luca

525
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Speaker 1: had his worst shooting game in his postseason career. Andrew

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00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 1: Wiggins played amazing defense. He picked them up ninet, he

527
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Speaker 1: got into him. He didn't allow him to dictate the

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Speaker 1: terms on his home pace. Jason, what do you think

529
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Speaker 1: about that? What did you think of the job that

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Speaker 1: Wiggy did on Luca in Game one? So I when

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Speaker 1: I watched that video earlier today, which again, all of

532
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Speaker 1: you guys listening, I'm sure all of you are already

533
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Speaker 1: watching Draymond's content, but it's so awesome to get to

534
00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,360
Speaker 1: hear directly from him. Um. So I missed this last

535
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: night watching the game. And this is something that I

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Speaker 1: encourage all of you guys that are listening to have

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Speaker 1: ambitions of working in this business at some point. Rewatch

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Speaker 1: the games. It's just impossible to catch anything on the

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Speaker 1: first watch. Everything on the first watch, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I caught a lot of things live, but one of

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Speaker 1: the things I missed and that I caught almost immediately

542
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Speaker 1: on my rewatch today was the effect, the cumulative effect

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Speaker 1: that Andrew Wiggins had on Luca Um. Again. You know,

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Speaker 1: I talked about before the series that there's nobody on

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Speaker 1: Golden State that can guard Luca, and I think I

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00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 1: think Andrew Wiggins falls into that category as well. But

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Speaker 1: one of the things he did, and Draymond mentioned this,

548
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Speaker 1: is he picked up Luca ninety four feet and with

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Speaker 1: the exception of a handful possessions were in transition, there

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Speaker 1: were cross matches and stuff like that. Like before he

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Speaker 1: even got across half court, he's just riding him all

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Speaker 1: over the floor. And what all that does is it

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Speaker 1: just it just wears you out. Like, don't get me wrong,

554
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: it's gonna wear Andrew Wiggins out too, because lucas big

555
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: and he's gonna bump you all over the place and

556
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: it's tough. But flip side of that is, like Andrew Wiggins,

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Speaker 1: you're not depending on him for nearly as much on

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Speaker 1: the offensive end of the floor, so you're willing to

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00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 1: give that up, right, Andrew Wiggins did a phenomenal job

560
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Speaker 1: in that game of just making life difficult for Luca.

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Speaker 1: And ironically, one of my biggest adjustments that I have

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Speaker 1: for Dallas, and we'll talk a little bit more about

563
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: this in a little bit, is just find a way

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Speaker 1: to not have Luca bring the ball up the floor.

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00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: And that's the advantage of all the ball handling that

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Speaker 1: Dallas has, and I think they will have the ability

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00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: to counter that. But again, like there's always too Lucas point,

568
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: or to Draymond's point, something that I've always agreed with,

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Speaker 1: you know, in any sort of small sample size. Yeah,

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00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 1: shooting plays a role. We're gonna talk about shooting later.

571
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about bad nights and good nights. But

572
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: there's always a reason for why teams don't play well.

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Speaker 1: Like I, I I personally think that a good amount of

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00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 1: why Dallas didn't play well is just unfilm unfamiliarity. You

575
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 1: grow so accustomed to playing against the team you're playing

576
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: against every night for two weeks, and then you completely

577
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: change and go against an entirely different style. It's just different,

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00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: you know, Like Wiggins is not as long in terms

579
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 1: of his wingspan as Michael Bridges, but he is a

580
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: little quicker and he's stronger, and so even though Michael

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Speaker 1: Bridge has applied a lot of ball pressure to Luka

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00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: dan Chich, it's just different ball pressure. It's very different

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Speaker 1: ball pressure, and you could tell that it had an

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Speaker 1: impact on him. But again, like I and we're gonna

585
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Speaker 1: get it further into this in just a second, Like,

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of reasons why things went the

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Speaker 1: way they did, but a huge part of it, I

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00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 1: thought in Game one was Wiggins just chipping away at

589
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Speaker 1: Luca in the form of fatigue, by just ball pressing

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00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: the hell out of him throughout the entire game, and

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00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: and just the cumulative effect that can have on a player. Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, Jason, it looks like you nailed the

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Speaker 1: spread on the head it as it has actually been

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Speaker 1: at at plus six and a half for Game three

595
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Speaker 1: of Celtics Heat. So well done on that. Let's talk

596
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Speaker 1: about Wiggins specifically for a second, because he is such

597
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: an interesting player, and it feels like the discourse with

598
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: him is always so voluable, and he was so slandered

599
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: for so long, and then he was so effusively praised

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Speaker 1: for adjusting and playing winning basketball, and he was an

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00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: All Star starter, mostly because he's a warrior and because

602
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: of some K Pop stands. But nevertheless, and then because

603
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: of that, it swung back the other way and people

604
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 1: were overly critical of him, and he had a little

605
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: bit of a rough stretch offensively, but just overall, how

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Speaker 1: important do you think he is in this series and

607
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 1: how highly do you value him overall as a basketball player.

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Speaker 1: So in this series he's vitally important because he's lucas

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Speaker 1: primary defender. And another huge detail is in Game one.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how consistent this will be in the series,

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00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 1: but in Game one, Andrew Wiggins put a decent amount

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Speaker 1: of pressure on Luca trying to score, and like on

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00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: on rewatching film, like there are possessions where Andrew just

614
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 1: brought the ball up the floor and was like, no

615
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: need to run anything, guys, I'm just going at him

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00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: and scored on Luca and isolation like that. That is

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Speaker 1: audacity was one of my new go to words. I

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00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: tend to repeat words a lot, as you guys know

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Speaker 1: and like, but that's important as terms of valuing him.

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Speaker 1: I value him massively in his current role. Now. The

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Speaker 1: reason why he's been so maligned is like he lacks

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Speaker 1: audacity in a consistent sense, right, Like if he had,

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Speaker 1: if I could take Dylan Brooks's conscience put it into

624
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins's body, the dude be an all star. But

625
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:49,320
Speaker 1: like Andrew goes from one day feeling like he's capable

626
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Speaker 1: of being the best player on the floor to most

627
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: nights walking in and comfortable being a role player, whereas

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Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks will walk into a game being the seventh

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Speaker 1: best player on the floor and think it's my time, shine,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So, like that's the difference

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00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 1: in in the psyche between those two guys. And you know, obviously,

632
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: if Wiggins could channel that more frequently in that series

633
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,280
Speaker 1: would be a huge swing. But he is vitally important

634
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 1: because he's lucas primary defender. And again this is an

635
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 1: important Again, anytime I talk about these concepts, whether it's

636
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 1: drop or switching, there's always complications within that with like

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00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,320
Speaker 1: for instance, Carson and a drop. You know, sometimes you

638
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 1: can drop and go under the screen, sometimes you can

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00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: drop and go over the screen. Sometimes you can run

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00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 1: a version of a drop where the the guy who's

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00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 1: the screen defender is up at the level of the screen,

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00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: or even hedging and recovering or or sitting all the

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00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 1: way back in the paint. Like there's always different variations

644
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: of all these different things. Some teams offer help off

645
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 1: the ball in screen and roll coverage. Some teams don't,

646
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,919
Speaker 1: you know, switching it's the same thing, like you can run,

647
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 1: you know, like the Cavaliers, for instance, towards the end

648
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 1: of the lebron Kyrie era, where what they did a

649
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 1: ton of switching, but they were lazy with it and

650
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: they would just switch everything without even necessarily needing to.

651
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 1: And and one of the things that I liked that

652
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,280
Speaker 1: Wiggins did last night is like if he would surrender

653
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 1: the switch if he had to that he fought like

654
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: hell to not and all it did is just eat

655
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: more shot clock. And one of the things we've consistently

656
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 1: talked about with Dallas is when you work forced them

657
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: to work late into the shot clock, then Luca is

658
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: making those kickouts with only a handful of seconds on

659
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 1: the shot clock, and there's not enough time for people

660
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: to make an additional rotation. And part of the advantage

661
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: of fighting through those switches and ball pressuring Luca all

662
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: the way up the floor is by the time he

663
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 1: gets to where he wants to kind of initiate offense,

664
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 1: there's like twelve seconds on the clock, right, and so

665
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:39,959
Speaker 1: by the time he actually makes a move and gets

666
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: by somebody, there's six or seven seconds left and you're there,

667
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: you're out of time. So like that's a huge value

668
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:46,760
Speaker 1: at and by the way, that's something that doesn't manifest

669
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 1: in the in the box score. It's something that you

670
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 1: have to watch the games to see and and it's

671
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: it's just one of those little details, one of the

672
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:58,359
Speaker 1: many factors that can swing a playoff series. All right,

673
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: we've got another quote from Draymond here. Obviously, it was

674
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: a pretty convincing Game one victory for the Dubs in

675
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: terms of the final score, but Draymond spoke on an

676
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: area in which he thinks the Warriors can do even

677
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 1: better going forward and improve upon. Let's he already had

678
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: to say, I walked away from that game saying there's

679
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,760
Speaker 1: a lot of things that we could do better. No, granted,

680
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that they can do better,

681
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: but I think there are some things that we can

682
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,760
Speaker 1: really do better. And I also don't think we shot

683
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 1: the ball very well either. And when I look at

684
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: those things that that that really bowled well for US. Um,

685
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: you know, Steph Curry didn't have an incredible shoot at night.

686
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson was one for four from three, Like, you know,

687
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:52,359
Speaker 1: we we can shoot a lot better. So, Jason, what

688
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on that when Draymond talks about that

689
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: potential for shooting improvement from the Warriors. So, first of all,

690
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: like I relate a thousand percent with his thought process there.

691
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember when I was playing in college.

692
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 1: All the time, I'd have a monster game and I'd

693
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 1: be on the ride home thinking about all the shots

694
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: I missed, you know, the truth. The truth, like even

695
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 1: even recently, like I I don't I I I mean

696
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: two cent Arizona, I don't have much opportunity to play

697
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,479
Speaker 1: against high level basketball players. There was like a month

698
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 1: ago there was a like a charity game where me

699
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 1: and a bunch of older guys that are pretty out

700
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 1: of shape got to play against the local junior college.

701
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: And I was like, I was like just ready for

702
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:37,959
Speaker 1: that because I was like I finally get to play

703
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 1: like some real basketball. And and it was so funny

704
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,400
Speaker 1: because I played really well. I had like thirty four points.

705
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: We won the game, and and literally, I'm I was

706
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 1: irritated for like three days about a possession towards the

707
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 1: end where I had a chance to ice it, because

708
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 1: we ended up winning an overtime, and there was a

709
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 1: possession at the end of regulation where I made a

710
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 1: misread and didn't thee help defender and turn the ball

711
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:03,839
Speaker 1: over and we ended up having to win the game

712
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: in ot and I was so pissed about that for

713
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: weeks after. But that's completely irrational. I'm thirty years old.

714
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 1: I don't even play basketball for a living anymore. Like,

715
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 1: there's no reason for me to be There's no reason

716
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: for me to feel that way like it just it's

717
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 1: just like as a competitor, it's just the way you're wired.

718
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: Like there's no such thing as good enough. And so

719
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: I relate with Draymond looking at that situation and saying,

720
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,399
Speaker 1: oh man, we could play so much better. Here's the thing,

721
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,320
Speaker 1: you can't play much better then you. Then you played

722
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:30,840
Speaker 1: in that game, of Draymond, I hate to break it

723
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: to you. So I watched the film. You guys kicked

724
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 1: their ass and almost every facet of the game, and

725
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: you actually shot way better than that. And there's metrics

726
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:39,839
Speaker 1: and video to prove that, so I wanted to break

727
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 1: that down really quick. So, uh, Golden State generated fourteen

728
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:48,720
Speaker 1: open threes. That's the defender between four and six ft away.

729
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: They consider that like lightly contested on those, they only

730
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: made three of them. You didn't shoot. Well, here's the thing.

731
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: Dallas also had sixteen open three, so two more than you,

732
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 1: and they only made three as well, So actually shot

733
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 1: a little bit worse than you in open threes. On

734
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: wide open threes, Golden State only generated twelve of them

735
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 1: and they made six, So they got fifty on wide

736
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,839
Speaker 1: open threes last night. Again, that's defender at least six

737
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: ft away, So that's like your butt naked on the

738
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: perimeter all day to think about it. Right, Then, Dallas

739
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 1: generated twenty eight wide open threes defender at least six

740
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: ft away, and they only made eight. So they generated

741
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 1: more than twice as many wide open threes as you

742
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 1: and only made two more. And that was my big

743
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 1: takeaway last night on the Live. If you guys remember Carson,

744
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,799
Speaker 1: I texted you about it during the game, We talked

745
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 1: about it during the show. I was like, dude, it

746
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 1: felt like Dallas was getting wide open shots and they

747
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 1: were they were getting wide open shots, and I shared

748
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 1: out the numbers and I've read them off to you.

749
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: Basically every role player for Dallas in this postseason run

750
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:57,760
Speaker 1: was shooting over a wide open threes except for Reggie Bullock,

751
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:01,360
Speaker 1: who's arguably their best shooter. And so like, it's an

752
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: anomaly for Dallas to not shoot that well. So like

753
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 1: I I think the biggest reason why Dallas has an

754
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 1: opportunity to keep keep things closer and or to turn

755
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,280
Speaker 1: the series around is they did what they were supposed

756
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: to do going into Golden State. They generated high quality shots.

757
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: Now there are a bunch of other things that Dallas

758
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:20,319
Speaker 1: has to do better, and we're gonna get into that.

759
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 1: But like to Draymond's point, and again I totally understand

760
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: why he feels the way he feels. I relate to it.

761
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:30,760
Speaker 1: I understand that's why he's been so damned successful. Nothing

762
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 1: is good enough for him, and that's the way you

763
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: have to be if you really want to be great

764
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,280
Speaker 1: at something. But you shot a lot better than Dallas,

765
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 1: like way better than Dallas. So that's just not a

766
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 1: realistic thing to look forward with. I will say, I

767
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 1: don't know how much Draymond can relate to the thirty

768
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 1: four piece and being upset with yourself. Although we did

769
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 1: have thirty two, fifteen and nine in a Game seven

770
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: of the finals, did you have thirty five in game seven?

771
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 1: I think it's thirty two. I feel I have that stat,

772
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 1: all right. I'll check that as you strike me, as

773
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: you strike me as photographic memory, guys, so I would

774
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:11,839
Speaker 1: I would believe that you're probably right. I can name

775
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: you every Finals MVP ever right now, if you give

776
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: me the year, I do kind of have the photographic memory.

777
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 1: All right, Um, let's talk about what you just mentioned

778
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: a little bit there. What are some of those key

779
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 1: adjustments for the MAVs as they try to bounce back

780
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 1: from that Game one loss? So first and foremost, uh

781
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 1: And I'm not even to get into the weeds on

782
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 1: this because there's too many things to talk about. Dallas

783
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:40,240
Speaker 1: defense was terrible. They we're not staying connected to shooters.

784
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: Their rotations on the back line were awful. Luca pretty

785
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 1: much mailed in the game Defensively, Dallas just put on

786
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: a defensive clinic in Game seven against Phoenix and let

787
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,280
Speaker 1: go like just to let their foot entirely off the gas.

788
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: So Dallas simply has to be way way better defensively.

789
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 1: So that's adjustment number one, and I trust Jason Kidd

790
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: to figure that part out. Um adjustment number two, don't

791
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: play into Golden State strategy of ball pressuring Luca the

792
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 1: length of the floor. Now there's a downside to that,

793
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 1: because one of the advantages of having Luca bring the

794
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: ball up the floor is he is very much a

795
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 1: strangle the pace type of player, and he's so methodical

796
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 1: bringing the ball up the floor deliberately to just suck

797
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 1: the life out of the arena and out of the

798
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 1: other team, and to just and to just make it

799
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: feel like you're stuck playing his game. So if you

800
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: take the ball out of his hands, there's downside there.

801
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 1: But there's no reason why you can't have Jalen Brunson

802
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 1: or Spencer Dinwood he bring the ball up the floor

803
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 1: and not have to stress necessarily about having to deal

804
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:46,759
Speaker 1: with that ball pressure. And you can tell them like, hey,

805
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 1: once you get the ball to Luca here, you know,

806
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: thirty feet from the rim on the right wing, then

807
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 1: you could take your time, right, but you know you might.

808
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins is is physically equipped for ball pressure. We

809
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 1: just talked about how he's quicker, a little bit shorter

810
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:02,479
Speaker 1: than mchael. I don't actually think he's shorter than mchael.

811
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 1: Bridge is just not as long. But he's a better athlete.

812
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 1: He's quicker. You know, he's good at ball pressure. They're

813
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:09,760
Speaker 1: guys on Golden State that are not create at ball pressure.

814
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 1: Like they're like, I, you're not gonna waste steps energy

815
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 1: by having him pick up because you need him for offense.

816
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 1: So whoever, Steph Carding bring the ball up the floor. Hell, Like,

817
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 1: there's no reason why you can't have Kivon Looney's man

818
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: bring the ball up the floor when he's on the floor.

819
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: Just find ways to avoid Luca having to deal with

820
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: that ball pressure. No, that's not least like knocked down

821
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: your open shots, man, Like, the goal of your offense

822
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: is to create those shots, step into them confidently, knocked

823
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:38,239
Speaker 1: them down. Those are my major adjustments for Dallas. Obviously,

824
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: things have gone very well for the MAVs overall to

825
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 1: this point. They are among the last four teams in

826
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 1: the NBA. Is still standing. But when you talk about

827
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: the importance of alleviating that pressure from Luca long term

828
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: as they continue to try to build out a championship

829
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 1: caliber roster as good as Bronson is and as brilliant

830
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,320
Speaker 1: as some of the moments from din Witty are, although

831
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 1: there are equally horrible moments from him. Often do you

832
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: think that that second true perimeter star initiator, a guy

833
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 1: who can alleviate that pressure and really you know, attack

834
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: defenses on his own and playmate for others in command

835
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 1: pressure of the game, is that the biggest need for

836
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:20,719
Speaker 1: the MAVs alongside Luca, Absolutely, and you know guys like

837
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: it's only gonna get harder, Like if there I I

838
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 1: think Dallas has a legitimate chance to win the title.

839
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:29,360
Speaker 1: I expect them if they do get to the finals

840
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 1: to lose to Boston, but it would they would have

841
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 1: fighting chance, right. The The thing is is that specifically

842
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 1: with with the way that the league has become more

843
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:45,320
Speaker 1: talented at the top. So for instance, like Lebron and

844
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis are going to be back in this picture

845
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 1: next year, Kawhile Leonard and Paul George are going to

846
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 1: be back in this picture next year, Like Jamal Murray

847
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:56,320
Speaker 1: and Michael Porter Jr. Are gonna be back and bringing

848
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: the league MVP back to a point where he has

849
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 1: more talent to deal with, you know, even in the

850
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference, Like Philly went out softly this year, and

851
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:05,839
Speaker 1: they're gonna have some stuff figured out. Like chances are

852
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant's gonna have a better basketball team around him

853
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 1: next year than he did this year. Like and the same,

854
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 1: the same thing that don't make the mistake that golden

855
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: that Milwaukee made where you won the title and then

856
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: you thought you were good enough and you let go

857
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Speaker 1: with p J Tucker, and then p J Tucker very

858
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 1: well might have been a swing piece in that Celtics series. Right. So,

859
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 1: like the way I look at it is like, even

860
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 1: even if Dallas won the championship, at a certain point,

861
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: you have to understand that the league, even even though

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00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: it seems so top heavy right now, there are still

863
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: teams that would be in this picture, great players that

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00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 1: would be in this picture that aren't because of things

865
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 1: that didn't go their way. Even the Chris Middleton think

866
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 1: it's an injury. Right. So, Like my point is is

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Speaker 1: like as good as Dallas has looked, even as a

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Speaker 1: bona fide championship contender, even as Luca has ascended into

869
00:46:55,920 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 1: true superstardom, you don't have enough talent, and if you

870
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:04,359
Speaker 1: signed Jalen Brunson to a long term deal, that could

871
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:06,400
Speaker 1: be an issue in the long run. And so I

872
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 1: don't know what the answer there is, Like, I don't

873
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,400
Speaker 1: know if it's make moves on the margins two stockpiled

874
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 1: draft picks so that maybe in the future you can

875
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,720
Speaker 1: flip Brunson and someone else in a bunch of picks

876
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: and stuff for a player, a disgruntled star or what

877
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: the deal is. But eventually, Luca is gonna need a

878
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: real right hand man, a dependent a dependable one, because Brunson,

879
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 1: who's a little bit more dependable than Spencer Dinwood, he

880
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,880
Speaker 1: is still not dependable on this level. And if you

881
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Speaker 1: consistently surround Luca with guys who are kind of, you know, inconsistent,

882
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 1: then it's gonna get him beat as things get tougher,

883
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 1: especially in upcoming seasons. Yeah, I completely agree. And we

884
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Speaker 1: just haven't seen a team win a title in a

885
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Speaker 1: long time with one offensive star caliber player, Like I

886
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 1: think you would have to go back to Dirk And

887
00:47:56,640 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 1: maybe some people would argue the en Raps, but they

888
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,839
Speaker 1: had at least two quasi star offensive caliber guys with

889
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 1: Lowry and Siakum alongside their supernova talent. So it just

890
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,759
Speaker 1: always seems like a really tall task. As incredible of

891
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: a one man offense as Luca is, it just really

892
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 1: is not done very often at all. Let's lip the

893
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: Stile Warriors here. What are the key adjustments that they

894
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 1: need to make? So there's not much because again, contrary

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Speaker 1: to what Draymond said, they played pretty damn good in

896
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Speaker 1: game one, um, you know, and there's always a give

897
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 1: and take with that stuff too. That's the funny thing too,

898
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Speaker 1: Like he was talking about, Oh, Clay Thompson can shoot better,

899
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:39,759
Speaker 1: Steph Curry can shoot better. Yeah, Like, but typically what

900
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: happens is on the nights that they shoot better than

901
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:43,879
Speaker 1: Wiggins won't make as many shots, right, or Jordan Pool

902
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: have an off night. Like it's always That's what's so

903
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: great about Golden States cumulative offensive talent is you can

904
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Speaker 1: afford to have guys having poor shooting nights and other

905
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 1: guys will come have better shooting nights. I thought they

906
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 1: played a damn near perfect defensive game, but there are

907
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 1: two things. So Golden State averaged seventeen wide open threes

908
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 1: allowed through the first two rounds of the playoffs is

909
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:12,840
Speaker 1: way too many. Forty four open to wide open shots

910
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,840
Speaker 1: allowed for Dallas, that's gonna get you beat in this series.

911
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:18,279
Speaker 1: So they need to polish up some of their three

912
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 1: point rotations chasing around shooters off of help. And then

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Speaker 1: this is a big one that I that I actually

914
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Speaker 1: I can't remember who I saw make this suggestion. You

915
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 1: know who might have been was Arali by Vulgaris, but

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Speaker 1: it was I thought it was genius. So Dallas plays

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00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: at an extraordinarily slow pace. They were dead last in

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Speaker 1: pace this season. When they secure a defensive rebound, they

919
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 1: throw the ball to Luca and they slowly worked the

920
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 1: ball up the floor. They very rarely pushed the ball

921
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Speaker 1: in transition. So Golden State has to do, in my opinion,

922
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:57,840
Speaker 1: is another another way for Golden State to add to

923
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Speaker 1: their you know advantages in this series. Do what you

924
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Speaker 1: did to Memphis throughout that entire series. Crash the offensive

925
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Speaker 1: glass like hell. There's a main you know when when

926
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Speaker 1: when teams are setting up transition defense, there's usually a balance.

927
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Speaker 1: We literally call it floor balance. As coaches, right like,

928
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Speaker 1: you want to have you never want to have too

929
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Speaker 1: many players along the baseline because a missed shot will

930
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 1: screw you in transition defense. Right, So typically that's why

931
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Speaker 1: you have like kind of like a wheel. Guys will

932
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Speaker 1: rotate around, and even when guys are replacing in spots,

933
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Speaker 1: you always want to god to guards. That's what that's

934
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Speaker 1: why they used to call them guards. It's literally where

935
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Speaker 1: the name came from. But you want two guys that

936
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Speaker 1: are back so that when the shot goes up you

937
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: can begin your transition defense. And then typically you decide

938
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Speaker 1: how many guys you want to crash. Really good transition

939
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Speaker 1: teams that push the ball in transition to like Golden State,

940
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Speaker 1: for instance, like Dallas, can't waste a ton of effort

941
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Speaker 1: chasing offensive rebounds because if they do, they will compromise

942
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 1: their defense on the back end in transition against a

943
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Speaker 1: really good transition defense or transition team in Golden State.

944
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Speaker 1: But Golden State might be able to get away with

945
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Speaker 1: having their entire front line crash. They might be able

946
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Speaker 1: to have Draymond crash and Auto Port or Junior crash

947
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:10,319
Speaker 1: and keep On Looney crash and Andrew Wiggins crash and

948
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Speaker 1: just have Stephan Claire Jordan whoever is in the backcourt,

949
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Speaker 1: just have them get back on defense because they just

950
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:18,239
Speaker 1: simply have way too many. Uh, they have way too

951
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:22,839
Speaker 1: many opportunities there that they're they're kind of they're too

952
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:24,879
Speaker 1: concerned with their transition defense right now when they don't

953
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Speaker 1: really need to be. And so another little adjustment for

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Speaker 1: Golden State is crashed the hell out of the offensive

955
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Speaker 1: glass with the intention of, um, with understanding that you're

956
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Speaker 1: not going to give up anything in transition on the

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Speaker 1: back end. All right, guys, that is all we have

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Speaker 1: for tonight. As always, I sincerely appreciate your guys support. Again,

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Speaker 1: if you go to my Twitter feed at Underscore, Jason

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Speaker 1: lt It did a video breaking down a lot of

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Speaker 1: the things that I was talking about with the Celtics heat.

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Speaker 1: You can kind of see some visual examples of the

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Speaker 1: things that I'm talking about there. At some point in

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Speaker 1: this series, I'll do something similar for this Warrior's Maverick series.

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Speaker 1: I just typically like to key in on a concept,

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Speaker 1: So wait un till I see a concept that I

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Speaker 1: find to be particularly interesting. As always, UM, remember like

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Speaker 1: this video that goes a long way to helping us.

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Speaker 1: I would sincerely appreciate that subscribe to the Volumes YouTube channel. UH.

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Speaker 1: Starting tomorrow, UM, we will not be live for the

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Speaker 1: next three nights, but I'll still have video breakdowns, still

972
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Speaker 1: will get into the same topics that I've been doing

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Speaker 1: in the live show. Just stay tuned for about a

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Speaker 1: half hour after the final buzzer of the games and

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Speaker 1: come to our YouTube channel there and you will see

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Speaker 1: full length clips in their entirety where you can see

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Speaker 1: this type of breakdown, and then we'll be back to

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Speaker 1: our normal live shows on Money, all right, guys, I

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Speaker 1: will see Smart Night Volume