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Speaker 1: So Nick Raptors actually started as like a really fun

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Speaker 1: That trio has been fantastic all season as a matter

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Speaker 1: a gambling problem and wants help, call one eight hundred

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Speaker 1: and nine with it. Gambling problem called one eight hundred

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Speaker 1: gambler in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: or Virginia. All right, moving on to Miami, Orlando. So

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Speaker 1: the Magic beat the Heat for the third time in

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Speaker 1: three tries this season. The Heater are now spiraling, they've

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Speaker 1: lost five out of six. Will zoom in on them

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Speaker 1: in a minute. Desmond Baying goes for thirty seven, six

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Speaker 1: and five in this one, And it was a drop

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Speaker 1: coverage busting clinic. To be clear, it wasn't all pick

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Speaker 1: and roll, He had a couple transition buckets. There was

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Speaker 1: a zone look that the Heat went to that Desmond

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Speaker 1: Bane busted in the second half with a couple of

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Speaker 1: threes off the right wing. He attacked Tyler Harrow off

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Speaker 1: the dribble one on one a couple of times, just

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Speaker 1: because he doesn't need a screen to score on Tyler Harrow.

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Speaker 1: But literally everything else came out of attacking bam Adebaio

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Speaker 1: and kell Aware in screening action and he literally did

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Speaker 1: it every which way, hitting pull up threes when dudes

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Speaker 1: would get caught on screens, he rejected screens which allowed

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Speaker 1: him to get past the screen defender and get all

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Speaker 1: the way to the basket. He hit midi's and floaters

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Speaker 1: against the drop. He straight up toasted the bigs a

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Speaker 1: couple times when they would come up to the level

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Speaker 1: and he would just turn the corner on that ball

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Speaker 1: screen get past the big. He got bamed with one

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Speaker 1: in the second half where he just dusted him off

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Speaker 1: the dribble for an easy little left handed layup. And

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Speaker 1: so desmon Bain just absolutely fried the base pick and

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Speaker 1: roll coverage for the Miami Heat last night, just spamming

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Speaker 1: two man game and just doing a ton of damage there,

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Speaker 1: and like we talked about with Bain when the trade

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Speaker 1: first went down, this is the first time in this era,

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Speaker 1: in this construct of the team that they've had a

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Speaker 1: real guard, like a real two guard that can punish

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Speaker 1: drop coverage to the type of extent you need to,

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Speaker 1: that unlocks those pocket passes, that unlocks those four on

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Speaker 1: three sequences where you can really start breaking a defensive

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Speaker 1: part because you have a ball handler scoring in pick

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Speaker 1: and roll too much. And as a result, he was

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Speaker 1: able to set Wendell Carter Junior in crunch time up

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Speaker 1: with one of the easiest buckets he's had all season,

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Speaker 1: actually got fouled on it, but Bam came up to

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Speaker 1: the level. Quick pocket pass was a cleared side pick

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Speaker 1: and roll on the right side. Wendell Carter in stride

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Speaker 1: one up with two hands, probably got fouled and laid

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Speaker 1: it in. He had another play where he hit Wendell

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Speaker 1: in the pocket in the first half, and those are

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Speaker 1: those types of sequences that we just didn't see for

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Speaker 1: Orlando a lot early in this era for them because

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Speaker 1: they didn't have that type of legitimate two guard or

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Speaker 1: point guard that could do enough damage in pick and

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Speaker 1: roll against drop coverage to actually dictate two on the

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Speaker 1: ball sequences that can lead to those four on threes.

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Speaker 1: And I talk about all the time, like your value

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Speaker 1: as a basketball player is unique to your team. How

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Speaker 1: does your individual skill set complement the team you're playing on.

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Speaker 1: Is Desmond Baying the best two guard in the NBA?

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Speaker 1: Hell no, but he's really damn good at all the

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Speaker 1: two guard stuff. Like he's a deadly shooter, he's three

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Speaker 1: levels score. You can make the reads that naturally come

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Speaker 1: out of action when you're scoring the ball effectively. And

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Speaker 1: it was something that this Magic team was missing, and

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Speaker 1: so Desmond Baine specifically has slotted into that void and

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Speaker 1: he's been a godsend for them. He's been one of

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Speaker 1: the best on off guys this season. Obviously there's Jalen Suggs,

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Speaker 1: who's been insane. It's like something crazy like twelve points

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Speaker 1: better per one Hunter posessions when Jalen Suggs is on

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Speaker 1: the floor, But their second best on off guy is

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Speaker 1: Desmond bay. Orlando is five points better per one Hunter

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Speaker 1: possessions when Desmond bain is on the floor versus off.

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Speaker 1: Also another thirty sister game for the Magic because they've again,

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Speaker 1: one of the big stories of their offensive improvement during

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Speaker 1: this recent run has been their ball movement. They're just

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Speaker 1: moving the ball way more than they have in the

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Speaker 1: last couple of seasons. But I want to zoom in

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Speaker 1: on their defense for a minute, specifically how it counters

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Speaker 1: what Miami likes to do. Because Miami got off to

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Speaker 1: a great start in this game. They were up fifteen

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Speaker 1: to oho some impressive jump shooting from Norm pal and

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Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins in that stretch. They lost Tyler Harrow in

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Speaker 1: transition a few times, but again and Miami's offense is

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Speaker 1: built around the pace they play with. Right, they get

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Speaker 1: the ball up the floor quickly, they seek early drives.

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Speaker 1: When the defense isn't fully set, they get you to

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Speaker 1: react and they start driving kick sequences. But when they

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Speaker 1: get stopped in transition, they continue to try to probe

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Speaker 1: your defense with drives. They're not looking to run a

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Speaker 1: lot of pick and roll. And this is where this

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Speaker 1: particular matchup is fascinating. And again Orlando's three to zero

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Speaker 1: against Miami this year. Orlando's not giving up much in

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Speaker 1: the way of like physical mismatches against Miami. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I'd argue they're bigger stronger and faster at most of

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Speaker 1: their position groups. It's really only the bam kelll Kell

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Speaker 1: aware like center rotation, where you'd be like, yeah, like

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Speaker 1: they're probably a little faster, a little more athletic in

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Speaker 1: that group. But on the perimeter, the Magic are just bigger, faster, stronger.

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Speaker 1: So as long as Orlando gets back in transition and

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Speaker 1: they make a good effort to keep the ball in front,

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Speaker 1: they can stifle Miami's offense and really quickly. To Miami's credit,

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Speaker 1: they've had success in this matchup on offense four stretches,

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Speaker 1: but consistently over the course of games, the Magic have

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Speaker 1: been able to tighten the screws and really shut down

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Speaker 1: this Miami offense. And in fact, they have allowed just

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Speaker 1: a ninety nine offensive rating against Miami in all three

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Speaker 1: of their second halves in this matchup this season. Like

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Speaker 1: Anthony Black just had Tyler Harrow in jail last night,

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Speaker 1: like Tyler Harrow was really only getting free in transition

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Speaker 1: or chaos generated by others, Anthony Black had him completely

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Speaker 1: under control. One on one. Davion Mitchell wasn't able to

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Speaker 1: get much drible penetration. Andrew Wiggins and Jim Hawkes were

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Speaker 1: really the only two guys that were able to get

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Speaker 1: some separation against their defender. And Andrew was pretty damn

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Speaker 1: good last night, but Jime missed a bunch of a looks,

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Speaker 1: and I thought Jim missed some looks that he could

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Speaker 1: easily make. He had a spin move for a lefty

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Speaker 1: layup that he just fed too long off the back rim.

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Speaker 1: He had a little short jumper around the kind of

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Speaker 1: left block area that he missed. Those those are makeable

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Speaker 1: shots for Hime. But for the most part, in this

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Speaker 1: style of attack where my aimy's just trying to drive

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Speaker 1: the ball, I thought it played right into Orlando's hands

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Speaker 1: because they're just the physically and athletically superior team. So

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Speaker 1: really impressive win for the Magic and this game with

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Speaker 1: the Knicks on Saturday should be a really fun one.

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Speaker 1: We're going to be live on YouTube on Saturday night,

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Speaker 1: so make sure you guys come hang out to watch

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Speaker 1: our reaction to that game when we get to that point.

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Speaker 1: Some thoughts on the Heat. So the Heat are also spiraling.

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Speaker 1: They've lost five of their last six games. Some of

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Speaker 1: the similar type of stuff we talked about with the Raptors,

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Speaker 1: where their offense is faltering which is starting to bleed

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Speaker 1: into every other facet of the game. Their defense hasn't

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Speaker 1: been as good as it was to start the season.

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Speaker 1: They're rebounding poorly. They're twenty second rebounding in this stretch.

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Speaker 1: They're getting beat in transition because their offense is faltering.

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Speaker 1: There's definitely some slippage across the board from Miami, but

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Speaker 1: I want to zoom it on the offense for a second, because,

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Speaker 1: similar to Toronto, I do think that's the genesis of it,

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Speaker 1: their offense kind of faltering. We did see a bit

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Speaker 1: more ball screen action from the Heat in the second

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Speaker 1: half last night, and just again, what I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: there is just attacking Orlando's bit in action, whether it's

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Speaker 1: a pick and roll or it's some sort of off

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Speaker 1: ball action, something to get Orlando's bigs involved in the screen.

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Speaker 1: And I actually thought they got good looks out of

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Speaker 1: those sequences, but they just didn't run it nearly enough.

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Speaker 1: They ran only eleven pick and rolls in the entire

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Speaker 1: game last night. I want to zoom in on Desmond

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Speaker 1: Bain as a counter example to this, because Hero and

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Speaker 1: Bain are very similar players on offense. At their core,

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Speaker 1: they're mediocre athletes at the two guard position. Right, Bain's

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Speaker 1: a little stronger than hero Is. Heroes a little taller,

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Speaker 1: but neither guy is Anthony Edwards or Shay Gildes Alexander

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Speaker 1: like a supremely gifted athlete at the position. These are

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Speaker 1: skilled players that are very good at making the types

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Speaker 1: of shots that are naturally generated in typical NBA offense

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Speaker 1: and the reids that come out of it. So screening

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Speaker 1: action is what allows them to gain advantage by allowing

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Speaker 1: them to shed their on ball defender and to work

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Speaker 1: downhill against a backpacking big Bain got those opportunities last night,

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Speaker 1: ran a ton of ball screens. As a result, he

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Speaker 1: caught a real rhythm and he torched the heat. Hero

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Speaker 1: got a handful, generated some decent shots out of him,

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Speaker 1: came right out the gates to start the second half

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Speaker 1: a little ball screen with Bam rejected the screen, got

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Speaker 1: a wide open pull up three on the left wing.

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Speaker 1: He was able to generate some stuff in the pocket

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Speaker 1: during that game. In pick and roll he got some

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Speaker 1: good looks, but there wasn't nearly enough and so as

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Speaker 1: a result he had to work one on one a

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Speaker 1: lot and outside of like some transition chaos. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he got a couple of buckets in certain situations, some transition,

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Speaker 1: some off ball sequences, but he was unable to gain

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Speaker 1: advantage against Anthony Black. He was unable to break Orlando's

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Speaker 1: defense down as a one on one player in the

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Speaker 1: half court. Desmond Bain had a couple of one on

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Speaker 1: ones favorable matchups against Tyler Harrow where he just drove

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Speaker 1: by him for little right handed layups. But for the

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Speaker 1: most part, Bain was gaining advantage or breaking down Miami's

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Speaker 1: defense through attacking their bigs in ball screens. Orlando had

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Speaker 1: those same entry points Wendell Carter, Junior, Goga Bitadze. They

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Speaker 1: had the same vehicle with which to enter that defense,

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Speaker 1: and they just weren't going to it enough. I want

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Speaker 1: to see because we've seen this problem arise before with Harrow.

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Speaker 1: Like Harrow, for the record, overall, has been really good

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Speaker 1: in this system in the large sample. His scoring volume

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Speaker 1: has been great, his efficiency has been better than ever.

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Speaker 1: The pure numbers in the large sample are still really

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Speaker 1: good for Tyler Harrow. But I've seen a couple of things. One,

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Speaker 1: his playmaking has fallen off of a cliff. Look at

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Speaker 1: his assist average, year over here, it's like less than

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Speaker 1: half what it was last year, So he's not getting

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Speaker 1: as many playmaking opportunities that he was getting in his

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Speaker 1: pick and roll sequences. And then two, we've seen specific

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Speaker 1: individual circumstances. Individual matchups were hair really struggle. The two

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Speaker 1: games that I look at are last night's Heat game

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Speaker 1: as an example against Anthony Black, but also the Dallas

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Speaker 1: Mavericks game, especially down the stretch against Najie Marshall. He

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Speaker 1: didn't look comfortable attacking Najie Marshall, and it kind of

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Speaker 1: removed Tyler Harrow offensively from the equation down the stretch.

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Speaker 1: So I want to see Eric Spols to show more

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Speaker 1: flexibility with allowing Tyler Harrow to work a higher volume

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Speaker 1: of ball screens when things do get stuck in the

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Speaker 1: half court. And that's like, if you asked me my

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Speaker 1: first impression of this Heat offense. We're about a quarter

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Speaker 1: of the way through the season, right, so we've seen

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Speaker 1: a decent sample size of it. That's my first impression. Like,

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Speaker 1: I love the transition attack, love that idea. It's a

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Speaker 1: great margin to try to hunt in the NBA. I

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Speaker 1: love the early I love the idea of the driving

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Speaker 1: kick play as an early offense concept. What you're doing

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Speaker 1: in the first seven or eight seconds of the shot clock,

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Speaker 1: get the ball to the floor quickly, try to attack

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Speaker 1: a drive when you have favorable matchups. I like attacking

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Speaker 1: those matchups one on one with drives. But once the

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Speaker 1: early offense is shut down, So once they stop the

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Speaker 1: transition attack and there isn't an obvious matchup to attack,

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Speaker 1: Let's get the ball to hit Tyler Harrow in a

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Speaker 1: high ball screen. It unlocks his playmaking more, it unlocks

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Speaker 1: some of the natural skill set that he has as

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Speaker 1: an off screen player. Again, I'm not saying bail on

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Speaker 1: the offense. I'm just saying, when you get into the

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Speaker 1: last ten seconds of the shot clock and you don't

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Speaker 1: have the obvious this guy can't guard this guy one

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Speaker 1: on one type of matchup to attack, treat your base

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Speaker 1: offensive concept as more of a like an early offense

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Speaker 1: type of concept, and lean more on that Tyler Harrow

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Speaker 1: ball screen as your later clock. This is our best

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Speaker 1: vehicle with which to break down the defense when our

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Speaker 1: early offense stuff doesn't work. I just want to see

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Speaker 1: some more flexibility from Spolsure. There. For the record, we

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Speaker 1: did see a little bit more of it in the

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Speaker 1: second half, feels like it's trending a little bit more

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Speaker 1: in that direction. I just think it's inevitable. This inevitably

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Speaker 1: is gonna have to be a team that runs more

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Speaker 1: like twenty twenty five pick and rolls, a game where

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Speaker 1: you're using Tyler Harrow as the last ten seconds of

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Speaker 1: the shot clock primary shot creator with bam Adebayo, just

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Speaker 1: to give you another vehicle with which to break down

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Speaker 1: the defense. And more importantly, you gotta get those reps

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Speaker 1: in because inevitably that's gonna be something you're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to do in the postseason. I want to just see

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Speaker 1: them get the reps in over the course of the season.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, That's all I have for today is

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Speaker 1: always to sincerely appreciate you guys for supporting us and

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Speaker 1: supporting the show. We will be back tonight live on

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Speaker 1: YouTube after the final buzzer of Spurs Lakers. We've breaking

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Speaker 1: down both games from tonight's in season tournament slate. I

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Speaker 1: will see you guys then,