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Speaker 1: gifts that he has, the dude's just going to be

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Speaker 1: a star. And last night was just another little sneak

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Speaker 1: peak of what it's going to be like nightly when

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Speaker 1: we get a couple of years further in his career.

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Speaker 1: Josh Giddy, the Dallas was really ignoring him all night

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Speaker 1: on the three point line of coverage he's seen a

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Speaker 1: lot this season, but he did hit two huge ones

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Speaker 1: in the second half when he finally found a stroke.

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Speaker 1: Shay Gibs Alexander put in an a fish in thirty

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Speaker 1: one like clockwork, like he always does. But I want

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Speaker 1: to focus on Oklahoma City's defense. They forced Dallas in

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Speaker 1: nineteen turnovers. They scored thirty four points on those turnovers.

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Speaker 1: They leave the league in turnover turnovers. And this concept

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Speaker 1: we've talked about a lot this year. But like they

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Speaker 1: ball pressure and then they have a ton of perimeter speed,

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Speaker 1: so they're really aggressive in passing lanes. Now there's a

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Speaker 1: downside to that. When you get aggressive in passing lanes

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Speaker 1: and you miss the basketball, you can leave openings and

446
00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:51,680
Speaker 1: they do give up a lot of three point shots

447
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Speaker 1: as a result. They give up nineteen wide open threes

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Speaker 1: per gaming the defenders at least six feet away. That's

449
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Speaker 1: the eleventh most in the NBA. They give up thirty

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Speaker 1: six three point attempts to which is eighth most in

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Speaker 1: the NBA. But the flip side of that is because

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Speaker 1: they're playing the passing lanes and they're so aggressive in

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Speaker 1: their coverages, they just force so many turnovers and they

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Speaker 1: get out and transition so much that more often than not,

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Speaker 1: that transition, that tradeoff works in their favor. Like even

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Speaker 1: in k Kyrie had a great game right twelve assists,

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Speaker 1: but he had four turnovers, and there were a couple

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Speaker 1: ones that he had there in the second half that

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Speaker 1: were just pick sixes, where like, here comes the blitz

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Speaker 1: and he just throws some looping pass over the top

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Speaker 1: that has no chance. Somebody shoots in underneath that sends

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Speaker 1: it out the other way, and they're running right like

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Speaker 1: they just they they play that trade off game. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna give up some offensive rebounds, they're gonna give up

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Speaker 1: some wide open threes because of their aggression. But the

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Speaker 1: flip side is they just get out in transition. That's

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Speaker 1: thirty six points off of tur or thirty four points

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Speaker 1: off of turnovers. That's a significant swing in this particular game.

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Speaker 1: Really smart adjustment to In the fourth quarter from Mark Dageneld,

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Speaker 1: there was a moment where Jaydon Hardy started going and

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Speaker 1: pick and roll was really getting downhill and getting to

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Speaker 1: the rim and finishing. There's actually kind of a fun

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Speaker 1: back and forth between j dub and and I've lost

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Speaker 1: my train of thought for there for so Jaden Hardy, sorry,

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Speaker 1: there was a fun little back and forth between Jaydeen

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Speaker 1: Hardy and Jalen Williams in that early fourth quarter stretch

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Speaker 1: Dagenald made an adjustment though, Like again, when you're running

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Speaker 1: pick and roll, it's a main and man type of action,

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Speaker 1: and he was getting downhill in it just baked in

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Speaker 1: with the way the coverage was set up. So by

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Speaker 1: going zone and they run like this like kind of

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Speaker 1: one two two matchup zone kind of thing. Matchup zone

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Speaker 1: meaning like you're in charge of an area, but when

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Speaker 1: a guy comes into your area, you guard him like

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Speaker 1: he's man to man. Then when he leaves your area

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Speaker 1: you pass him off basically right. But by doing that

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Speaker 1: it essentially shut down that pick and roll action and

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Speaker 1: cooled Jayden Hardy off and they were able to kind

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Speaker 1: of regain control of the game. Just a really good

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Speaker 1: win broke Glahoma City against the team again like a

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving with all those guys out, it'd be one

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Speaker 1: thing to take them lightly and to go light into

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Speaker 1: that game, but Hirie threw a great punch. Uh. There

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Speaker 1: was a lot of good for Dallas in this game,

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Speaker 1: which we're gonna get to in a minute, and they

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Speaker 1: overcame it. They got a big win on the mass front.

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Speaker 1: Not too much to take away other than it just

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Speaker 1: feels like injuries are stacking up again, which is really unfortunate. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Luca's hamstring, Josh Green turned his ankle, Dante Exam took

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Speaker 1: a shot in the second half. Always going to be

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Speaker 1: hard to win a road game against a really good

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Speaker 1: team when you're down that many guys. But there are

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Speaker 1: four silver linings that I want to hit for Dallas.

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Speaker 1: One Kyrie erving is just incredible. This has been a

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Speaker 1: reminder of why you make this trade last year, and

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Speaker 1: it's why I looked at it so much as this

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Speaker 1: year being the year for Dallas to be a threat

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Speaker 1: because they actually had the time to surround them with

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Speaker 1: the necessary pieces that they need. But Kyrie's just demonstrating that,

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Speaker 1: like when it comes to that skill guard role, the

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Speaker 1: ability to score and the ability to play make out

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Speaker 1: of ball screens and to just run an offense. He's

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Speaker 1: still one of the top fifteen to twenty guys in

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Speaker 1: the league that can do that, and it's just a

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Speaker 1: rare asset to have on your team. Tim Hardaway Junior,

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Speaker 1: he had been in a shooting slump. He got his

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Speaker 1: three point shot going. That's encouraging. Talked about Jaydon Hardy's

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Speaker 1: rim pressure in the fourth quarter. I thought that was

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Speaker 1: a really nice mix up for them and something that

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Speaker 1: I think is encouraging in the big picture because obviously,

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Speaker 1: like that downhill speed is something that Luca and Kyrie

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Speaker 1: don't bring a ton and so jaydon Hardy I thought

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Speaker 1: that was an impressive strike from him. And then lastly,

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Speaker 1: Derek Glively. There's a play, so you guys might remember.

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Speaker 1: It was kind of a broken play transition play for

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma City. I think Shay or somebody tried to throw

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Speaker 1: a skip ahead pass and maxic Leebould jumped up and

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Speaker 1: knocked it with his hand, so it's kind of like

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Speaker 1: a transition chaos possession. And on the play, Derek Lively

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Speaker 1: ended up kiss On Wallace on him, so they were

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Speaker 1: on a quick ball screen with Kyrie and Kasson Wallace

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Speaker 1: like shows high and Chet's or excuse me, Derek Lively slips,

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Speaker 1: and when Derek Glives slips, Kyrie hits him over the top.

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Speaker 1: But Chet is the low man in this possession and

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Speaker 1: he comes over and he meets Derek Lively right. So

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Speaker 1: Lively's got the ball deep post position, but he's got

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Speaker 1: a player right behind him, and he just patiently worked

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Speaker 1: into a drop step, a drop step hook over his

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Speaker 1: left shoulder with his right hand and he knocked it

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Speaker 1: down and I was like a member. If you guys,

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Speaker 1: remember I was talking about how I think Derek Lively

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Speaker 1: has the potential to be kind of like a Tyson Chandler,

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Speaker 1: and like one of the things that I think can

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Speaker 1: help him really raise his impact overall at the center

545
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Speaker 1: position is just being able to make a quick left shoulder,

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Speaker 1: right handed hook over a switch, let alone against another

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Speaker 1: center when you have that deep a position. He's up

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Speaker 1: to sixteen for thirty on hook shots this year. That's

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Speaker 1: fifty three percent for a rookie. That's pretty impressive, albeit

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Speaker 1: low volume. And he does have the touch in the

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Speaker 1: patience there, which I think is super encouraging. So again,

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Speaker 1: tough one for the MAVs. Not too much to take

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Speaker 1: away from it considering the circumstances, but some silver linings

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Speaker 1: there for you guys. All right, let's move on to

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Speaker 1: our mailbag. We have four questions today, have them on

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Speaker 1: my phone today. First one offensively, what does Jonathan Kminga

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Speaker 1: need to work on in the off season besides ball

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Speaker 1: handling and three point shooting to become a legit number

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Speaker 1: two option. So again to become a legit number two option. Offensively,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot more complicated than just one specific skill, right,

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Speaker 1: Like ball handling and shooting are vague concepts too, Like

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Speaker 1: shooting could mean just catching shoot shooting. Shooting could mean movement, shooting.

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Speaker 1: Shooting can mean off the dribble shooting right. Ball handling

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Speaker 1: that could mean attacking closeouts, that could mean working in

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Speaker 1: ISO and post up situations. That could also mean running

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Speaker 1: ball screens. Right. A big one too for Golden State,

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Speaker 1: which is an important part of this discussion. We got

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Speaker 1: into this in the mail bag yesterday, But just the

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Speaker 1: difference in the different kinds of offenses, right, So like

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Speaker 1: the kinds of skills you need in a four out

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Speaker 1: one in offense versus from a role player versus the

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Speaker 1: kinds of skills you need in a five out offense, right,

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Speaker 1: and just all the players on the perimeter. So in

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Speaker 1: the I out offense specifically, the way Golden State plays

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Speaker 1: read and react is a huge part of the skill development.

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Speaker 1: What that means is like the ability to quickly interpret

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Speaker 1: what's happening in front of you and make these decisions.

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Speaker 1: So it's kind of like option routes in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: So like if you remember in the NFL, like you

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Speaker 1: might have a guy that reads the linebacker out of

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Speaker 1: the tight end spot, and if the linebackers here, he

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Speaker 1: quick turns for a hitch. If the linebacker's there, he

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Speaker 1: might run a five yard out instead, right, Like, these

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Speaker 1: these are read and react plays for the tight end

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Speaker 1: where he's coming off the line, reading what the linebacker's

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Speaker 1: doing and then making a decision. It's the same kind

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Speaker 1: of thing five out basketball, Like you're setting up for

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Speaker 1: this screening action, but it's very read and react in

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Speaker 1: the sense that like if your guys top locking, you

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00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 1: you backdoor. If your guys trailing, you want to curl, right,

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00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 1: Like if your guys ducking under the pick, you want

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00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 1: to flare. Like there's all these different things that you're reading,

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Speaker 1: and especially in three man actions, you might, you know,

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00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,439
Speaker 1: change your mind on who's coming out of the screen right,

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00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,159
Speaker 1: or you might slip out of it entirely. There's so

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Speaker 1: many different things that you do read and react basketball

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Speaker 1: in five out basketball, and so some of that is

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Speaker 1: not even skill development, it's just reps. And like Jonathan

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00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 1: Kminga just needs lots and lots of reps playing alongside

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Speaker 1: Steph in this five out system to just kind of

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00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: learn how to be better at reading and reacting. But

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Speaker 1: like if I had to put it simply to be

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Speaker 1: a legitimate second side creator, or I should say, a

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Speaker 1: second option on a championship team, you have to be

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Speaker 1: truly transcendently great at something. Now. To me, for Jonathan Minga,

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00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 1: that's gonna be an isopost thing. His best skill right

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00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,360
Speaker 1: now is he is so freaky athletic at his size

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Speaker 1: that most of the players that are big enough to

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Speaker 1: handle him too slow and that are fast enough to

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Speaker 1: handle him or too small right, and so he can

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00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: get defenders out of position, he can draw fouls, he

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00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 1: can get baskets. He's a good on an island score.

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Speaker 1: There's real value there now. To push it to the

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Speaker 1: elite level where he needs to get, he needs to

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00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,199
Speaker 1: be a great playmaker in those situations. So again, the

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Speaker 1: ability to read the floor identify where the help is

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Speaker 1: coming from. A lot of teams bring late help on

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Speaker 1: Kaminga after he puts the ball on the floor. But

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Speaker 1: once he can read those things, he can be a

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Speaker 1: truly elite isolation and post up player because you can

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Speaker 1: run that action ten to fifteen or like you know,

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00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 1: five ten times a game, and in those five ten possessions,

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Speaker 1: you're going to get consistent, great production regardless of the

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Speaker 1: coverage that he faces. Right, But in addition to that,

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00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 1: he also has to be able to play in the

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Speaker 1: flow of the offense. That's one of the big things

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Speaker 1: for cominga right now is he's good on an island,

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Speaker 1: not so great in the flow, and so that's going

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Speaker 1: to be where his areas of improvement are from there,

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Speaker 1: It's going to be about like ball handling, specifically ball

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Speaker 1: handling in traffic, ball handling in ball screens. So being

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Speaker 1: able to what that means is like, let's say he

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00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: brings his man up the floor, but he's got a

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Speaker 1: good perimeter defender on it. As before he comes off

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00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: a ball screen, he needs to set him up, meaning

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00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: like he needs to make a move to one side

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Speaker 1: of the screen and then do a retreat dribble to

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Speaker 1: get the defender into a trailing position on that side

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Speaker 1: before he goes and uses the ball screen. That's an

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Speaker 1: intricate part of ball handling that I'll have to figure out.

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Speaker 1: Right Then, once he's coming off the screen, making those reads, Okay,

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Speaker 1: the defender's in a deep drop. I want to get

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Speaker 1: a head of steam going to the basket. Okay, Oh,

644
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Speaker 1: the defender's a little bit higher and the on ball

645
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Speaker 1: guy is trailing behind me. I need to use my

646
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 1: size to put the defender in jail, keep him trapped

647
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 1: behind me. Start working slowly down the floor until something

648
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: develops in front of me and the developing part that's

649
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: making the reads reading the low man. Okay, I brought

650
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Speaker 1: the screen defender up, which means the guy in the

651
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: dunker spots open hit him, or I brought the screen

652
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 1: defender up and they rotated out of the corner. I

653
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: got to make this skip pass. Right. All these reads

654
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 1: that he has to get used to making, those are

655
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: reads that if he wants to be in the five

656
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Speaker 1: out coming off of those dhos and coming up off

657
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: of those impromptu ball screens, that he's going to have

658
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: to get better at. Right, But again, to me, to

659
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Speaker 1: be the legit number two, he needs to be the

660
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 1: best possible version of the isopost up player that he is,

661
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: which primarily is a play a playmaking thing at this point,

662
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: and then to be able to function normally in their

663
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Speaker 1: five out offense so that he can maintain his impact

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Speaker 1: when he's not being super aggressive on the ball, and

665
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Speaker 1: then from there just you know, making the defensive improvements

666
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Speaker 1: that we know he needs to write like, he's a

667
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: good on ball guy right now, but he can be

668
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: a little unfocused off ball. So like, there's lots of

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Speaker 1: areas of improvement for a player this young, but to

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Speaker 1: become a legit number two, that's just kind of a

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00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 1: little breakdown of what he needs to do offensively, all right,

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Speaker 1: Next question Cavs fan here. I obviously know there's a

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Speaker 1: defined second round seiling with them, assuming this happens, what

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Speaker 1: do you think they should do this offseason? Personally, I

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Speaker 1: think making mobilely bulk up and move to the five

676
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Speaker 1: and replacing Allen with the wing who can shoot and

677
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: move his feet is a good start. So one of

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Speaker 1: the things I really find this interesting because it actually

679
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 1: falls very similarly to some of the issues that I've

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Speaker 1: been dealing with as a Laker. Right So, Evan Mobley

681
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: is in this awkward position right now, where like, to

682
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:12,959
Speaker 1: play the four, he needs to make a significant improvement offensively,

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00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: right just in terms of his skill, ball handling, shooting,

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00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 1: all that stuff. But to play the five, he might

685
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: have some issues in terms of his overall physical bulk. Right,

686
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: even if he puts on muscle, he might run into

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00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: similar issues to Anthony Davis. Now, Anthony Davis, when he

688
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 1: was at the four and had some success with the

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00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: Lakers in the twenty twenty and twenty twenty one seasons,

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00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: he was a much better offensive skill player, right, a

691
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 1: guy you could throw the ball to on the block

692
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Speaker 1: and he was gonna iso score and hit a bunch

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Speaker 1: of jump shots and all this kind of stuff. Right then,

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Speaker 1: what happened was is he had an offensive decline. And

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Speaker 1: as that offensive decline happened in twenty twenty one twenty

696
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Speaker 1: twenty two, all of a sudden it became untenable to

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Speaker 1: run Anthony Davis next to a five, because if you

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Speaker 1: ran him next to a five, you were physically imposing,

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00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: but you did and have the skill you needed at

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Speaker 1: the four spot to make it work, right, that was

701
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: the issue they'd have because you'd have like a d

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00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: who can't shoot next to some other shooter center who

703
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: couldn't shoot right. And like, even when they did have

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Speaker 1: a center who cold shoot, a guy like a you know,

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Speaker 1: guys like Thomas Bryant. Briefly there with the Russell Westbrook

706
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: team or like a Marcus Sool. They weren't teams that

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Speaker 1: like there weren't guys that teams were like really guarding

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Speaker 1: out there, right, And so the issue is, if you're

709
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Speaker 1: gonna play Evan Mobley at the four, you're gonna deal

710
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: much better physically with teams because mobile at the four,

711
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: next to a legitimate center like Jared Allen, you're gonna

712
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: be really physically imposing at times. Although they did get

713
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: a little bit overwhelmed by the Knicks last year, but

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Speaker 1: that only works if Evan Mobley makes the strides offensively.

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Speaker 1: And what ended up killing them wasn't just the physical

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00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: stuff that they dealt with Mitchell Robinson, but their inability

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00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: to score and pick and roll because of Jared Allen

718
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: and Evan Mobley operating in the short role and out

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Speaker 1: of the dunker spot. They just couldn't score effectively out

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Speaker 1: of there. I want to say, Evan Mobley was like

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00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: zero for ten shooting out of the role last year

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Speaker 1: in that series. Right, So, like offensive skill is a

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00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 1: prerequisite to play the four now, but if you play

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Speaker 1: the five, you're gonna run into a lot of issues

725
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,479
Speaker 1: in terms of his overall physical books bulk, Right, So

726
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 1: that's really the turning point for the Calves is like,

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Speaker 1: is Evan Mobley gonna develop offensively or is he the

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Speaker 1: next to Anthony Davis, the guy that like has offensive

729
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 1: moments but for whatever reason just never develops in terms

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Speaker 1: of his skill set the way that he needs to.

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Speaker 1: And that's up to Evan for the record, Like I mean,

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Speaker 1: I even feel like with Anthony Davis, like from what

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Speaker 1: I've heard behind the scenes, like the dude just out

734
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: of the season just takes like two straight months off,

735
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: and like that's one of those things where like skill

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Speaker 1: development in particular is literally a lifestyle. Skill development is

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Speaker 1: a twelve month thing, and so like it is a

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Speaker 1: like it is something that like Evan Mobley would have

739
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Speaker 1: to commit to and really spend the time to make

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Speaker 1: those improvements to be good enough from from an offensive

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Speaker 1: standpoint at the four. If not, if you slide him

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Speaker 1: to the five, then your four has to be super

743
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Speaker 1: physically posing. You're gonna need somebody of Aaron Gordon's ilk

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00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: at the four to put next to Evan Mobley because

745
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 1: of his size limitations. Right, That's what makes the lebron

746
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: ad frontline still functional defensively, against most matchups. Albeit he's

747
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: had his issues against those big bodied centers like we've

748
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,439
Speaker 1: talked about, but it's Lebron James. He's a really big center,

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Speaker 1: and so when Lebron is really engaged defensively, the two

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Speaker 1: of them make for really physically imposing four to five. So, like,

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00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: that's the way I look at it. The crossroads is

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00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,800
Speaker 1: Evan Mobley's offensive development. If he becomes a gifted offensive player,

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00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: you keep him at the four. If he doesn't, you

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00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: have to put him at the five, and you have

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00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,399
Speaker 1: to put some sort of big bodied four next to him.

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Speaker 1: All right, next more, we have two questions and then

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00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: we're done. Now, Jason, we need you to address Zeke

758
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: disrespecting Steph Curry on Draymond's pod. Love the Show, by

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00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:48,919
Speaker 1: the way, thank you for supporting the show. So there's

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Speaker 1: two things that I wanted to hit from the Draymond

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Speaker 1: Green Isaiah Thomas interview. First, the idea that like Kevin

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Speaker 1: Durant saved them when he went in twenty seventeen. Here's

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Speaker 1: the thing, I think if Kevin Durant did not sign

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Speaker 1: with the Warriors in the summer of twenty seventeen, that

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Speaker 1: the that the Warriors still repeat and go and win

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Speaker 1: back to back titles in twenty seventeen twenty eighteen. No,

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Speaker 1: I don't think they repeat, but they were still one

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Speaker 1: of the very best teams in the league. They would

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Speaker 1: have been every They would have been every bit as

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Speaker 1: likely to win the title as the Cavs in twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: Like I, my best guess is that if you play

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Speaker 1: that same set up again without Kevin Durant going to

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Speaker 1: the Warriors, the Cavs split it. They probably get one

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Speaker 1: more and the Warriors probably get one more in the

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen twenty eighteen stretch. So like, yeah, Kevin Durant

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00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: put them over the top to being completely unbeatable and

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00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: they won two titles, But that doesn't mean that that

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00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 1: Warriors team wasn't good. That's ridiculous. They won seventy three

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00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: games the year before. It required absolute heroic basketball from

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving and Lebron James to barely squeak out a

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Speaker 1: seven game win in Golden State in twenty sixteen. So

782
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: like pretending as though they weren't a championship contender without KD,

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00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: that's just something I completely disagree with. Like Kaiti doesn't

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00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: sign with Golden State, goes somewhere else. The Warriors win

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Speaker 1: one of those two titles in twenty seventeen or twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 1: In my opinion, that's just how good they were. So like,

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Speaker 1: I don't really buy into that revisionist history. Like even

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00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: when we evaluate Steph like no KD, I still think

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Speaker 1: we look at him as a three time champion and

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Speaker 1: probably a two times finals MVP and should have been

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Speaker 1: a three time finals MVP. So like, I don't really

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Speaker 1: buy into that line of thinking. On the point guard front,

793
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: this is something that I find incredibly silly because everyone

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Speaker 1: wants to associate point guard with one specific style of play,

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00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: which is like the guy who brings the ball up

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00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: the floor and makes all the decisions. But like that

797
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,720
Speaker 1: is really a dying breed these days, you don't really

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00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 1: see that very much in the NBA in general. As

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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, the guys who bring the ball

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00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: up the floor and make all the decisions now are

801
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: the James Hard James Harden in twenty twenty, twenty twenty

802
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: one kind of y eighteen twenty nineteen, I mean, kind

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00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 1: of stretch. And then it's like Luka Doncic and like

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00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: Trey Young, And it's like that's not even like a

805
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: positional thing, that's like a heliocentric play style kind of thing.

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00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: The truth of the matter is is like the positions

807
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: in the NBA more have to do with who you

808
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:22,799
Speaker 1: can guard, right Like can you guard a guard? Can

809
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: you guard a six ' five two guard? Can you

810
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: guard a lanky wing who scores on the perimeter like

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Speaker 1: a Paul George. Can you guard a power wing like

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Speaker 1: an Aaron Gordon or Lebron James or Ruy Hatchamur or whatever.

813
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 1: In the front court? Can you guard a big bodied center?

814
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 1: Can you guard a skinny skilled center? Those are the positions.

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Speaker 1: But like saying Steph Curry's not a point guard is

816
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: not fair because there's like not that many point guards

817
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 1: in the NBA by the traditional mold, like what Isaiah

818
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: Thomas was anyway, And by the way, just go back

819
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: and look at why that position archetype was a thing.

820
00:37:55,760 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 1: Back then, the vast majority forwards couldn't dribble in most

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00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:08,359
Speaker 1: hubs or centers and forwards, so you needed a ball

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Speaker 1: handling point guard that could bring the ball up against

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Speaker 1: pressure and make a post entry pass or if it's

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00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,839
Speaker 1: a wing scorer if they run an action to get

825
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 1: that wingscore position somewhere on the floor, you needed the

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Speaker 1: point guard to get the ball to him. Nowadays, the

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Speaker 1: level of ball handling that we get down the roster,

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Speaker 1: including at the forward position, is so insane that you

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00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,879
Speaker 1: no longer need a point guard to make a post

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00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 1: entry pass. And so as a result of that, like

831
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 1: that point guard position is actually better to have, like

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00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 1: a guy who can run pick and roll and score

833
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: right or do more high level playmaking. But like the

834
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Speaker 1: high level playmaking at a pick and roll piece, we

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00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: literally see every position do that, including centers. Now we

836
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: see Giannis and Nikole Yoki's running inverted pick and roll

837
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 1: all the time now, so like to me, that conversation

838
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: is completely pointless. The bottom line is at it's Steph's archetype,

839
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 1: which is like your prime Marry offensive hub guard, which

840
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: is more or less what the point guard is now

841
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 1: in the modern NBA. He's been the best at it

842
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: in this era. No one's done it better at the

843
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: guard position. So like the fact that he's off ball

844
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 1: more than most players is irrelevant to me. And by

845
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 1: the way, if you ran a spread pick and roll

846
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: four out one end system and you just spammed ball

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00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,360
Speaker 1: screens with Steph like Trey Young, he would just be

848
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: a better version of Trey Young. Steph can do that too.

849
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:35,760
Speaker 1: If you let Steph play the way that Tray Young plays,

850
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 1: he'd average thirty five and twelve, but the Warriors wouldn't

851
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 1: be as good. Steph embraces five out off ball basketball

852
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 1: the way he does because it makes the Warriors a

853
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:49,360
Speaker 1: better team, it makes them more versatile. And then what

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00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: ends up happening is when push comes to shove, what

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00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 1: does he do? He runs pick and roll? When they

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Speaker 1: when the Warriors pushed the Lakers to six games last year,

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Speaker 1: they were the lesser team and a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: who weren't playing as well as they did last year,

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Speaker 1: and so everything fell on Steph. Lakers were playing the

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Speaker 1: best basketball they played since they won in the Bubble,

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Speaker 1: and they were playing incredible defensive basketball, and the only

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Speaker 1: reason the Warriors had any chance to win that series

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Speaker 1: was Steph with the ball in his hands, barbecuing them

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Speaker 1: in pick and roll. I rewatched every game in that

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Speaker 1: series over the summer, and like it was appalling going back,

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Speaker 1: just how helpless the Lakers were dealing with him in

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Speaker 1: pick and roll. That's all point guard, bring the ball

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Speaker 1: up the floor and make decision stuff. He can do that.

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Speaker 1: He chooses to play in this five out system off

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Speaker 1: ball because it makes the Warriors more versatile. If they

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Speaker 1: can run that thirty minutes in a playoff game and

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Speaker 1: he only has to spam ball screens for the other

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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, it gives him a better chance of holding

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Speaker 1: up physically, It gives him a better chance of not

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Speaker 1: being repetitive and easy to guard. So like, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: disagree vehemently with both of those opinions from Isaiah Thomas

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Speaker 1: from that interview. Last question in your opinion, and how

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Speaker 1: do you think teams adjusting the playoff pressure will affect

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Speaker 1: their play and what major teams do you think will

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Speaker 1: be playoff risers or chokers, whether due to game plan

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Speaker 1: or roster assembly. Do you think of any playoff chokers

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Speaker 1: that can overcome their weaknesses in an extended series. So

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get into specific teams and players in

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Speaker 1: this particular part just because it's a mailbag. We will

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Speaker 1: get into that when we get into our playoff previews

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Speaker 1: in early April. But the main kind of theme behind

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Speaker 1: it is in my opinion, experience tends to be more

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Speaker 1: resilient in the playoffs. Strength and the ability to hold

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Speaker 1: up under physicality tends to be more resilient in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Teams that score a lot in the paint that's resilient

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. And then a diversity of shot creation.

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Speaker 1: What that means is if your team that relies solely

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Speaker 1: on ball screens to run your offense, you're going to

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Speaker 1: run into issues. Look at the Cavs last year. The

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Speaker 1: only way they could score was their Darius Garland and

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Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell ball screens. And when they had issues scoring

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Speaker 1: out of the role, their entire offense fell apart. Right,

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Speaker 1: But when you have versatility, right, Like, that's the thing.

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Speaker 1: Like the Knicks, like Jalen Brunson just is an incredible

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Speaker 1: mismatch attacking switch iso guy, right, Julius Randall in theory

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Speaker 1: when he's healthy, can do that kind of thing, right. So, Like,

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Speaker 1: if you have a versatility in your shot creation, if

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Speaker 1: you have the ability to be like, hey, this isn't working,

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Speaker 1: let's try this instead, that to me is something that

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Speaker 1: makes a team more resilient when we get into postseason.

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Speaker 1: We will when we get to our playoff previews, talk

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Speaker 1: about which teams and players I expect to play better

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Speaker 1: and worse when we get to that Pointge didn't want

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Speaker 1: to hit it in today's mail bag. All right, guys,

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Speaker 1: that's all we have for today. As always, a sincerely

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys supporting the show. I have a scheduling conflicts,

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Speaker 1: and we're no no longer going live after Lakers Warriors

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Speaker 1: tomorrow night, but I will be breaking that game down

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Speaker 1: on Sunday morning. Uh. Probably gonna hit Nix Kings as

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Speaker 1: well on Sunday morning, so keep an eye on the feeds.

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Speaker 1: I will see you guys. Then the volume