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Speaker 1: Jared Vanderbilt, Lebron and Anthony Davis. And so there's two

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Speaker 1: guys that I want to hit on there because they've

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Speaker 1: been going with Dill, Lebron and A d as the

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Speaker 1: foundational kind of piece ever since the trade. Obviously, with

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Speaker 1: Lebron being out it was a little weird, but Malik

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Speaker 1: and Jared are the two changes, and I wanted to

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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about how that adds synergy to

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Speaker 1: those lineups. So, first of all, Millie Beasley is a

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Speaker 1: great spot up player, even though he's been missing his

439
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Speaker 1: wide open three since he came to the Lakers. But

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Speaker 1: he's also a guy that you can run dribble, handoff

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Speaker 1: stuff for and off screen stuff like wide pinned down

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Speaker 1: stuff for, so like um, when you combine that with

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Speaker 1: D'Angelo Russell, who can also do all of that stuff.

444
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Speaker 1: Delo has always been underappreciated as an off ball player.

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Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons why I actually don't hate

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Speaker 1: that trade. You know, if you have Delo as a

447
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Speaker 1: primary offensive folkrum, you're gonna be disappointed sometimes. But in

448
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Speaker 1: a situation like this where they don't need him to

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Speaker 1: be that um, all of a sudden, his skill set

450
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Speaker 1: becomes super valuable. But with Delo and Malik Beasley when

451
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Speaker 1: and one of the weird things that happened in this

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Speaker 1: particular game, and I'm not sure if you guys noticed this,

453
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Speaker 1: but the Lakers ran a lot more in terms of

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Speaker 1: offensive organization. They were coming down and running multiple interchanges

455
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Speaker 1: on almost every single possession. Like and now they talked

456
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Speaker 1: after the game. It wasn't necessarily by design. It was

457
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Speaker 1: just basketball players playing basketball. They were, you know, flowing

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Speaker 1: into stuff. Here's a quick dribble handoff flowing into a

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Speaker 1: ball screen. Or here's a wide pinned down with Malik

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Speaker 1: chasing off the screen that a d then turns and catches,

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Speaker 1: which then flows into a dribble hand off with Lebron James.

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Speaker 1: They were just running interchanges. And one of the big

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Speaker 1: reasons why they weren't running those interchanges before the trade

464
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Speaker 1: line is you weren't gaining any advantage there. You run

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Speaker 1: sets to gain an advantage. And when all of your

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Speaker 1: off ball players are guys that you can literally run

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Speaker 1: an off ball drop coveragehn meaning have a d S

468
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Speaker 1: man sag all the way back and just have whoever

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Speaker 1: the guard defender is just go underneath the screen. It's

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Speaker 1: it's easy to just shut those actions off. But when

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Speaker 1: you have to chase those guys over the top of

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Speaker 1: the screens, now all of a sudden, you're running those

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Speaker 1: dribble handoffs, and you're running those wide pin downs, and

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Speaker 1: you're getting separation for guys, and you're creating openings which

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Speaker 1: are allowing good basketball players to extend that advantage and

476
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Speaker 1: then get great shots. Having all that real offensive skill

477
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Speaker 1: around Lebron and a d led to immediate results and

478
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Speaker 1: twenty five possessions with that starting lineup last night, the

479
00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:51,680
Speaker 1: Lakers posted a one forty offensive rating, and just in general,

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Speaker 1: like uh like, because they looked really good too when

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Speaker 1: they went to their bench and you had guys like

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Speaker 1: you know, Austin Reaves come in and make plays, and

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Speaker 1: Marie hud To Murder to come in and make plays,

484
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Speaker 1: and just you know, when you I play a lot

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Speaker 1: of pick up basketball these days. Obviously, I'm a former

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Speaker 1: college player who just has that stupid, unrelenting itch to

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Speaker 1: play the game right. And I know there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of you guys who love to play as well.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I'm sure that when you go play

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Speaker 1: pick up. There are days where you're playing with guys

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Speaker 1: that don't really know how to play, and it can

492
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Speaker 1: get discouraging because like something will open up and you'll

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Speaker 1: cut back door and the guy who has the ball

494
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Speaker 1: like won't know what to do so he'll miss you,

495
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Speaker 1: or like you run up the floor. No one knows

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Speaker 1: how to move without the basketball, or no one knows

497
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Speaker 1: how to pass and screen away or any of those things,

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Speaker 1: and so your pick up basketball game just gets really

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Speaker 1: ugly and it's not fun. And I have days where

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Speaker 1: I leave the gym where I'm just super discouraged because

501
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Speaker 1: I'm like, man, I just miss playing real basketball, you

502
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. But then there are these days

503
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Speaker 1: where you play and like today I met up with

504
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Speaker 1: a couple of my buddies who both played in college,

505
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Speaker 1: and we played together, and like we know how to

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Speaker 1: play basketball. So the ball is moving and popping around,

507
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Speaker 1: and guys were moving and screening and doing all those

508
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Speaker 1: different things, and like there's almost like this it's almost

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Speaker 1: like a flow that takes place when guys know when

510
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Speaker 1: to do what they're supposed to do, when to cut

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Speaker 1: versus one to stand still, when to look for their

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Speaker 1: own shot versus when to keep the ball moving, when

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Speaker 1: to uh, you know, how to angle a ball screen

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Speaker 1: and when, like if you're gonna pop to the three

515
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Speaker 1: point line or to roll to the basket, based on

516
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Speaker 1: where there's openings on the floor. Like, having that type

517
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Speaker 1: of offensive i Q and offensive skill just makes offense

518
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Speaker 1: flow in a certain way. Now imagine at the NBA,

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Speaker 1: it's that same effect times a hundred, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, Like these are you're going against really good defenses, right,

521
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Speaker 1: So playing bad offensive basketball or having a lack of

522
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Speaker 1: offensive skill on the floor can be massively detrimental because

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Speaker 1: you're not playing pick up basketball bench against a bunch

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Speaker 1: of guys that don't know how to play defense. Right,

525
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Speaker 1: It's it's even more magnified at that level. So then

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Speaker 1: when you get line ups where you've got a bunch

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Speaker 1: of guys who know how to play together, there's just

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Speaker 1: a rhythm and flow to the offense. Like Lebron. Lebron

529
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Speaker 1: came into that game last night. All season long, when

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Speaker 1: he's taking days off and he's come back, he's had

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Speaker 1: to be aggressive because of the lack of offensive skill

532
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 1: in his lack of rhythm really shows up there he'll

533
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Speaker 1: fumble the basketball around, He'll have a bunch of turnovers,

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Speaker 1: He'll miss a bunch of jump shots, like last night

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Speaker 1: he went over five from three, But like he played

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Speaker 1: a great game because like he wasn't taking bad shots.

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Speaker 1: Everything was in the flow of the game. You took

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Speaker 1: a bunch of workload off of Lebron, so he can

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Speaker 1: ease his way back until he's in rhythm. There's so

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Speaker 1: many advantages that come from having competent basketball players around

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Speaker 1: Lebron James and Anthony Davis. It's something I've been preaching

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Speaker 1: about for literally years at this point, and it was

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Speaker 1: just super refreshing to see last night. Um, Jared Vanderbilt.

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Speaker 1: You know, so when when they made the Ruey had

545
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Speaker 1: to merge, right, he talked a lot about using Ruey

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Speaker 1: to guard the other teams hast forward, and I still

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Speaker 1: think they've they've uh done that a handful of times

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Speaker 1: this year. But Ruy's not nearly the defensive player that

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Speaker 1: Jared Vanderbilt is, and so putting Jared Vanderbilt in that

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Speaker 1: specific position it helps you in a bunch of different ways.

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Speaker 1: First of all, for a match up like Brandon Ingram

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Speaker 1: and Brandon Ingram, was awesome last night, Like he made

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Speaker 1: some tough shots that were heavily contested, perfectly defended, but

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Speaker 1: like he shot below for the first time in the

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Speaker 1: month of February last night, And I think a big

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Speaker 1: part of that is is, like, you know, two or

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Speaker 1: three of those ones that he might make end up

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Speaker 1: being misses because Jared Vanderbilt is six ft nine and

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Speaker 1: has a long wingspan and can actually bother brandon Ingram

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Speaker 1: in a way that Patrick Beverley can't when he rises

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Speaker 1: up over the top to shoot. You know, he's a

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Speaker 1: little bit thinner and a little bit more wiry, much

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Speaker 1: more laterally quick than Ruey hat to morrow. So he

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Speaker 1: navigates the ball screens and in off ball screens and

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Speaker 1: things like that much better, and you know, you you

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Speaker 1: live with those tough shots. Like there's a version of

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Speaker 1: that night where b I is not that locked in

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Speaker 1: and instead of going ten for twenty one, he goes

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Speaker 1: five for twenty one and the Lakers win by thirty

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Speaker 1: five points, you know what I mean. Like, it was

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Speaker 1: a really impressive defensive job from Jared Vanderbilt making it

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Speaker 1: hard on Brandon Ingram, and I thought it just was

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Speaker 1: a much more natural fit with that starting lineup. Um,

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Speaker 1: But again, just in general, the the the aggregate offensive

575
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 1: skill really popped off the screen. I wanted, I wanted

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Speaker 1: to read one more statu to you and make one

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Speaker 1: more point. So Um. Coming into last night, the Lakers

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00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 1: average twenty five assists on forty three made field goals

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Speaker 1: per game. That's fifty eight percent of their mad field goals.

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Speaker 1: Last night they had thirty two assists on forty four

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Speaker 1: made field goals, which is sevent of their made field goals.

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Speaker 1: So again, it just puts them in a situation where

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Speaker 1: they have to take tough shots less often when they

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Speaker 1: can play basketball with real rhythm and flow and get

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Speaker 1: easier shots within the flow of the offense. The last

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Speaker 1: guy I wanted to shout out there was Austin Reeves.

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00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: He's not a very gifted athlete. Um, he's been undersized

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Speaker 1: for his position right, not a lights out shooter like

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Speaker 1: he's shooting thirty seven percent this year from three out

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Speaker 1: pretty high shot quality. But the guy is just an

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Speaker 1: incredible connective piece for any offense. All those things I

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Speaker 1: just talked about about how to fit with a basketball team,

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Speaker 1: those that's his speciality, that's what he does better than

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Speaker 1: anybody else in the league. He's he's like a great

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Speaker 1: a closeout attacker. He's great at making reads. They can

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Speaker 1: even run some primary ball handler actress. One play in

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Speaker 1: particular in this game is like early fourth quarter, um

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Speaker 1: C Jim McCollum and Jonas Valanciunas are guarding. I believe

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Speaker 1: it might not have been Jonas, but one of the

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Speaker 1: Pelicans centers was guarding Lebron and they set a ball screen.

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00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 1: Lebron setting the screen, Austin's coming off and the Pelicans

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00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: just switch it. And so when they switch it, Austin

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00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: comes off, and he's around the free throw line, and

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Speaker 1: you know, Lonnie Walker might just rise up and take

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Speaker 1: a fifteen footer or there. But Austin not really hunting

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Speaker 1: his shot all that often. He only took two shots

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Speaker 1: in the game in like twenty two minutes. There's a

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Speaker 1: quick Rich treat dribble kinda gathers himself and Lebron what

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00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 1: does what a lot of teams do when things get stagnant,

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Speaker 1: He just cuts to the rim. So just backcuts on C. J.

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Speaker 1: McCollum and dust him and Austin because he kept his

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Speaker 1: dribble alive and was paying attention to what was happening

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Speaker 1: around him, was able to hit Lebron in stride with

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Speaker 1: a bounce pass, and he ends up going up to

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Speaker 1: the basket and getting an and one. This idea, this

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Speaker 1: whole concept I've been talking about tonight. You guys have

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Speaker 1: probably heard me talk about this before. In the past,

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Speaker 1: I referred to it as aggregate offensive skill. But when

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Speaker 1: your aggregate offensive skill rises to a certain level, the

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00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: game just becomes easier for everyone else. This season, through

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Speaker 1: all the crap, through all the RUSS stuff, through all

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Speaker 1: the in and out of the lineup stuff, through all

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Speaker 1: of the roster imbalances, if you just put Lebron, Anthony Davis,

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Speaker 1: and Austin Reeves on the floor together, they've played four

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Speaker 1: and eight three possessions and our outscoring teams by nine

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Speaker 1: points per one hundred possessions. Excellent on both ends of

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Speaker 1: the floor. Just a great connective piece. Um. I think

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Speaker 1: he's just as good as candidate for that starting who

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Speaker 1: spot is anybody else, especially if Malik can't get his

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Speaker 1: three point shot going. It's something to keep an eye on.

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Speaker 1: But it's a good win. I mean, I thought the

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00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: Pelicans through a great punch they played a great game.

633
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: They made a lot of tough shots, and the Lakers

634
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 1: really whooped their ass and it could have been worse.

635
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 1: Like Malik Beasley missed a bunch of wide open shots

636
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Speaker 1: and he gives two for seven from three in the game.

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00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: Mo Bamba got a bunch of of wide open above

638
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 1: the break threes and he's shooting almost on above the

639
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 1: break threes this year, and he went over five, you know,

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Speaker 1: so like he, Uh, there's a version of this that

641
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: they can even go up to another level. I think

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Speaker 1: as a team that shot in the high twenties from

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Speaker 1: three this game. Um so. But even despite all of that,

644
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: they completely dominated the game, put up a one defensive rating,

645
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: which is excellent. Um and you didn't have to wear

646
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: anybody out. Anthony Davis played the most minutes out of

647
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 1: any starter, and he only played thirty minutes and ten seconds.

648
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: You know. So, for our first look of the fully

649
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: healthy Lakers with all their new pieces, I thought it

650
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 1: went pretty damn well. Um Obviously, just one game and

651
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 1: now heading into the All Star breaks, so they're gonna

652
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: have some time to practice and they have a really

653
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: tough stretch of games right after that. I think they

654
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: play Golden State right away after. Um, there's some tough

655
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: games coming up and and you're gonna we're gonna learn

656
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 1: a lot more. Uh pretty quickly here about the Lakers. Uh,

657
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 1: one last note of the Lakers before we move on.

658
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 1: I had I caught a little bit of flak yesterday,

659
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: And this is kind of a natural part of the business.

660
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: Like I did a thirty minute show with Colin Coward,

661
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: but then a social media clip that's you know, fifty

662
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: seconds long, goes out and it's completely out of context,

663
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: and then and then everybody freaks out. But one of

664
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Speaker 1: the things I said, we talked a lot about Anthony

665
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: Davis with Colin Coward, and basically the topic was like, hey,

666
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: like what if he breaks down again, you know, because

667
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: he hasn't looked great since he came back from the injury.

668
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: There's intel that he might need foot surgery in the offseason. Anyway, Uh,

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00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: there was another piece of intel that came out a

670
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: while back that stated that, uh, Anthony Davis, his particular

671
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: injury is one that many teams would have shut him

672
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: down for the season for, which is why he needed

673
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: to get a second opinion when his first UH doctor

674
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: visit was over like there's a lot of red. There's

675
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: a lot like Anthony Davis looked fantastic last night. Um,

676
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: you guys know me, I'm I'm borderline, like I'm like

677
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: a hopeless romantic. When it comes to the to the

678
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: Lakers in the Lebron and Anthony Davis ceiling, all you

679
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: have to do is listen to the show and hear

680
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 1: me talking about how I think they can win a

681
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: championship despite being twenty seven and thirty two. You guys

682
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 1: know how much I believe in Anthony Davis when he's right.

683
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,479
Speaker 1: But what I said with Colin was I said, like, hey,

684
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: like if it goes south again this year, then they

685
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: might have to consider trading him, and his value might

686
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: be really low, so they might have to consider using

687
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 1: him potentially as a vehicle for the Kyrie Irving trade.

688
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: Didn't say I want to trade Anthony Davis, didn't say

689
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: I wanted to trade him for Kyrie. Just simply said

690
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: they might have to consider it if he breaks down

691
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: again and again, Like Laker fans have this idea like, oh,

692
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: we're gonna be able to flip Anthony Davis for a star. No,

693
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 1: you won't, not if he ends the season broken down again.

694
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: That would be three consecutive seasons where he failed to

695
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: finish the season at an m v P level. What

696
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: team is going to give away a really good young

697
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: player or a star and high end draft compensation If

698
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis is three for three and not being available

699
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 1: to play at a high level in the playoffs over

700
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: the last few years, Like I mean, he hit the

701
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: Jets and really like messed up the Phoenix Suns twice

702
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: in a row in the first round of playoffs and

703
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: then broke down. I'm a huge believer in Anthony Davis

704
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: is ceiling. But if he can't be there for the

705
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: next four months, what's the point. It's like with Zion Williamson,

706
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: Like there's intel that he reaggravated his hamstring injury and

707
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: he's gonna be out, you know, probably another month or

708
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: so or more. Like if he can't return and be

709
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,479
Speaker 1: in peak shape for the playoffs and then it happens

710
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: again next year, at what point do you go, Okay,

711
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,799
Speaker 1: that's three seasons in a row where he's just not

712
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 1: available and he's young, like he should be ready. Anthony

713
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,720
Speaker 1: Davis is twenty nine, Like this is when he should

714
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 1: be It's not gonna like suddenly get better when he's

715
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: in his early thirties. Not to be clear, I'm rooting

716
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,879
Speaker 1: for Anthony Davis to get back to form, and last

717
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:33,280
Speaker 1: night he was amazing, arguably the best player on the floor.

718
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: But if they need him to be that all the

719
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: way through June and and if he breaks down or

720
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: can't play at that level, then guess what, he doesn't

721
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 1: have a lot of value around the league. And again

722
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 1: I'm not upset about it because it's just kind of

723
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: this is one of the things you'll learn about this business.

724
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 1: Does people take stuff out of context all the time.

725
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: It's kind of just part of the deal. But it

726
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: comes to Anthony Davis. I want him to stay a Laker.

727
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: I want him to play like a superstar. If he does,

728
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: hell no, you're not trading him this summer. You're keeping

729
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: him and you're running it back with this group next year.

730
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: That's what I want. I don't want to trade a

731
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 1: d But if he breaks down again, then at a

732
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: certain point, like you've got to like, how can you

733
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:26,720
Speaker 1: plan for the future of your franchise if Anthony Davis

734
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:31,800
Speaker 1: is unavailable for you? I pointed out this that yesterday

735
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: and it's it blows my mind. Jayson Tatum played in

736
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 1: a hundred NBA games last year. Since the bubble, Anthony

737
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: Davis has played in a hundred and sixteen. That's over

738
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: three seasons, and they're fifty eight and fifty eight. Because

739
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: for a lot of those hundred and sixteen games, he

740
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: hasn't looked like Anthony Davis. There's kind of a recurring theme.

741
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 1: It's like he gets hurt, then when he comes back,

742
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: there's like another month where he's not great, and then

743
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: maybe if if he can stay on the floor long enough,

744
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: he'll click in the rhythm and then you'll get that ceiling.

745
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 1: And then you're just hanging on for dear life, hoping

746
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 1: he doesn't get hurt again. I'm as big a fan

747
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: and a believer in the Lebron and Anthony Davis ceiling

748
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: as you'll find. But the unfortunate reality is last night

749
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 1: has been an exception, not the reality of the Anthony

750
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: Davis experience over the last three years. And when you

751
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,400
Speaker 1: set those emotions aside and you look at the situation,

752
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,399
Speaker 1: you might have to make that move if he does

753
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: get hurt, you take a look at the landscape, you

754
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: start making calls if you can get something great, then great.

755
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 1: But if you can't get something great, if teams are

756
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: like two first round picks and you know, maybe a

757
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 1: rotation player or two, at what point do you just say, like, Okay,

758
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 1: I'd rather have Kyrie Irvitt. You know That's what I meant.

759
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 1: And when it comes to Anthony Davis, I do think

760
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: there's a disconnect for Laker fans between what his actual

761
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:07,800
Speaker 1: value is around the league as an injury prone player

762
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: versus what Lakers fans value him as when it goes

763
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 1: to his ceiling, which again we all, we all are

764
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: fans of Anthony Davis when he's out his ceiling. All right,

765
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: before we get out of here, let's talk some Bucks Celtics.

766
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: So they play on Thursday night. I didn't cover the

767
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: game because four Celtics starters were missing. You got you

768
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: guys know me like I'm I, I'm really looking through

769
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,760
Speaker 1: everything through the playoff lens um. I think that playoff

770
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 1: basketball is so different from regular season basketball, And even

771
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: when I'm watching regular season games, I'm kind of just

772
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 1: trying to pick up little things that I think will

773
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: translate to the playoffs so that I can help you

774
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: know that, So that it can help almost covering the

775
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 1: teams in the playoffs. Um, but I did watch some

776
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: of the game. I watched most of the end of it.

777
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: The Celtics played really well. They're deep team, they have

778
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: a lot of talent when you get past those four

779
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 1: guys who were out, and so the Bucks had to

780
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 1: really grind out a overtime win, largely on the strength

781
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 1: of Holiday making a lot of threes at the end

782
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 1: of the game. Um, but what I'd rather do today

783
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: is I'd rather, uh like back out a little bit

784
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: and just talk about both of these teams in the

785
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 1: big picture and talk a little bit about what their

786
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:14,839
Speaker 1: matchup will look like in the Fine Eastern Conference Finals

787
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 1: if they get there. So, first of all, with the Celtics,

788
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: I think they have the higher ceiling, no question, I

789
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 1: think they I think they had the most talented roster

790
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: in the league last year, and both Jayson Tatum and

791
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown have both gotten a little bit better. Um.

792
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 1: The Malcolm Brogden trade was literally the perfect piece to

793
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: improve their ball handling situation. Derek White is playing some

794
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: of the best basketball of his career. Over the last

795
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 1: eleven games, He's averaging twenty points per game um, averaging

796
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: over seven three point attempts per games, shooting on those.

797
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: He torched the Memphis Grizzlies the other night just by

798
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 1: beating people off the dribble. You know they're they're, they're

799
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 1: This team is freaking insanely good. Robert Williams will be

800
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 1: much healthier in this playoff run. He was on a boky,

801
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 1: a balky knee last year. Looking at the Bucks, they're

802
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 1: also really good. One eleven in a row. Janice is

803
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: averaging six in that span. I saw the Tim Bontemps

804
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: straw pole come out today and yo Ki looks like

805
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: he's running away with m v P. Now this is

806
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 1: not a Yoki take, because I think Yoki is a

807
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:17,400
Speaker 1: deserving m VP candidate, but like Janice has clearly reached

808
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:21,879
Speaker 1: the point that Lebron point where people are just numb

809
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: to his winning impact like this is. This is Janice's

810
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: MVP case. The Bucks have a higher winning percentage than

811
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: Denver this year despite having a lesser roster in my opinion,

812
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:36,320
Speaker 1: especially with Chris Middleton being mostly unavailable and Drew Holiday

813
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,240
Speaker 1: being in and out of the lineup for the season.

814
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: He's averaging thirty three twelve and six, and he's a

815
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: much much better defensive player than Nikolayokich. I think he's

816
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:50,359
Speaker 1: by far the best player in the world. So in

817
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: my opinion, if you're doing an m VP breakdown like

818
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: it's Johannese and Yokis together and embeat, it's pretty damn

819
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 1: close to the idea that Yokis is just heading shoulders

820
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:04,959
Speaker 1: above these guys, which again, that train is full speed

821
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,959
Speaker 1: ahead and there's nowhere near enough time left to knock

822
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 1: that train off the tracks. Like Nicola, Yoki is going

823
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 1: to win m v P. He's a heavy favorite on

824
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 1: fan duel and Tim Bond taps his uh straw pool

825
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: poll is like gospel when it comes to the m

826
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 1: v P pick um. But I just don't I I

827
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 1: don't necessarily think it's fair, and I think a big

828
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 1: part of it is a good chunk of m VP

829
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: voters lean heavily on catch all metrics, which is something

830
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: that I passionately disagree with um, and those kinds of

831
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 1: things are just not gonna favor a guy like Joel

832
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 1: Embide nearly as much, and they haven't favored, be honest

833
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 1: in this particular season in a large part, and because

834
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 1: I think the Eastern Conference is a little bit tougher,

835
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,280
Speaker 1: and his percentages have gone down because of the fact

836
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,359
Speaker 1: that he's been down all of his spot up guys

837
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 1: all season. So I don't think ya should win, but

838
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 1: I think you should absolutely have a chance. And I

839
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:57,320
Speaker 1: have to be honest with you, if the Bucks finished

840
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 1: with the Beckard better record, I would give the awardy

841
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: on this um. A couple of other notes on the Bucks.

842
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,720
Speaker 1: The trio of Janice with Drew Holiday and Joe Ingles

843
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 1: is plus thirteen net in three d and seven possessions

844
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: so far this year, throwing Chris Middleton and their plus

845
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: seventeen nets and fifty four possessions. So that's a great

846
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 1: example of what I've been talking about, which is get

847
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 1: real spot up talent, real offensive skill around Janice, and

848
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: that makes them completely unstoppable on offense. As for the

849
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 1: matchup between the Bucks and the Celtics UM potentially in

850
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: the conference finals, what I'd like We we know a

851
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 1: lot of things from last year. For instance, we know

852
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 1: Janice is gonna go super saying and just try to

853
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 1: bully his way to the basket every time down. That's

854
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 1: literally what he did last year. We also know that

855
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,720
Speaker 1: Boston is probably going to guard him with a steady

856
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Speaker 1: diet of Al Horford and Grant Williams, and those guys

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Speaker 1: did it, did a pretty decent job on him last year.

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Speaker 1: Then on the other end of the floor, the Bucks

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Speaker 1: are gonna keep brook Lopez right under the rim and

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Speaker 1: concede open threes, probably too h al for or leave

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Speaker 1: um Robert Williams unguarded in the dunker spot, and they're

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Speaker 1: going to try to force Boston to make good reads

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Speaker 1: and driving kick. And if Boston drives in and tries

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Speaker 1: to finish over brook Lopez all the time, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: miss a lot of shots. They're gonna fall down and

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Speaker 1: complain at the refs, and the Bucks are gonna beat

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Speaker 1: them down the floor and transition all game long. But

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Speaker 1: if they drive and kick, they're gonna get a boatload

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Speaker 1: of really good threes and they're probably going to win.

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Speaker 1: So this game is, this particular series will come heavily

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Speaker 1: down to execution. You know, Boston has to take care

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Speaker 1: of the basketball and get good shots or Janice is

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Speaker 1: gonna get out in transition and just murder them. Um.

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Speaker 1: I remember last year during that series, if you looked

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Speaker 1: at the Dynamics. Like Boston was a much better half

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Speaker 1: court offense than Milwaukee was, but Milwaukee just destroyed Boston

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Speaker 1: in transition and that's how they pushed that series to

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Speaker 1: seven games. Um, we also have to factor in the

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Speaker 1: Chris Middleton shot making element that wasn't or last year,

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Speaker 1: in his ability to hit the shots over smaller defensive players.

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Speaker 1: We have to factor in Joe Ingles as a real

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Speaker 1: second side creator in a better spot up threat. Like,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun, and again it's not guaranteed. I

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Speaker 1: think that I think that Philly has a decent chance

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Speaker 1: to beat one of these teams in the second round. Um,

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Speaker 1: fighting for that one seed suddenly becomes super important because

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Speaker 1: you'd much rather face Cleveland in the second round than

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Speaker 1: you would face Philly. So look for a real race

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Speaker 1: between Boston and Milwaukee here down the stretch to face

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Speaker 1: for that one seed. But I'm hoping that we get

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Speaker 1: that in the conference finals, because that is just gonna

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Speaker 1: be a super interesting matchup between two very different styles,

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Speaker 1: two really really good teams. Um. But at this particular

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Speaker 1: moment in time, after everything I've seen this season, I

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Speaker 1: still lean ever so slightly towards Milwaukee. Mainly just because

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Speaker 1: I don't trust Boston still on the biggest stages to

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Speaker 1: execute properly. UM in their big games this year, I've

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Speaker 1: still seen them struggle just a little bit it and

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Speaker 1: then obviously that was a huge problem for them in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs last year. Al Right, guys, that is all

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Speaker 1: I have for today and all I have for the

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Speaker 1: rest of this weekend. We might have one bonus video

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Speaker 1: coming out on the Lebron passing Kareem uh in the

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Speaker 1: all time scoring record. We might have a video coming

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Speaker 1: out about that tomorrow. I'm not a percent sure if

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Speaker 1: that's still on target, but we'll probably have something on

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Speaker 1: Monday morning breaking down a little bit of the All

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Speaker 1: Star weekend, and then we're gonna do one last like

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Speaker 1: kind of like zoom out Contender Tears thing, and then

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have a video with Carson when we break

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Speaker 1: down the top tier draft prospects in this year's NBA draft. UM,

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Speaker 1: But looking forward to taking a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: break here. It's been one hell of a sprint over

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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. I'm going to enjoy this

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Speaker 1: time off. As always, I sincerely appreciate your guys support

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Speaker 1: and I'll see you on Monday. The Volume two