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Speaker 1: the hedge and recover properly every time. And if you do,

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Speaker 1: they should be able to prevent Luca from giving up

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Speaker 1: those drives. If they can slow down the Clippers dribble

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Speaker 1: penetration and shoot better, that Dynamic's gonna flip and Dallas

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Speaker 1: has a good chance to win Game two. I believe

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Speaker 1: Dallas will win Game two. We'll see when we get there.

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Speaker 1: Moving on to Heat Celtics. So We're not gonna spend

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Speaker 1: too much time on the series. This is by far

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Speaker 1: the worst series in the first round. To give you

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Speaker 1: an idea, the odds in this series coming in where

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Speaker 1: the Celtics minus three thousand according to DraftKings. That was

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Speaker 1: the only four digit odds that we had in the

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Speaker 1: first round, and six of the eight series were minus

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Speaker 1: three to ten or closer. So basically, the Celtics are

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Speaker 1: ten times the favorite to beat Miami than six of

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Speaker 1: the eight first round favorites are. So this series is

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Speaker 1: more or less just it doesn't matter what schematic things happen.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter what anybody does. Boston's just gonna

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Speaker 1: win because they're a lot better. So Boston could have

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Speaker 1: two of their stars sit out the rest of the

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Speaker 1: series and they would probably win this series convincingly. It's

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Speaker 1: just too much of a talent mismatch. The Celtics came

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Speaker 1: out dead, series jumped up fourteen to zero. I talked

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Speaker 1: about in our series preview how I really want Boston

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Speaker 1: to handle the kind of like a gimmicky stuff that

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Speaker 1: Eric Spolser does well, and so Eric Spolsher went to

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Speaker 1: a bunch of zone in the first half. He ran

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Speaker 1: eight possessions of it the first half, and they scored

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Speaker 1: total in the game fourteen points on nine zone possessions,

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Speaker 1: and a big part of that was they were just

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Speaker 1: attacking it in really smart ways. Immediately as soon as

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Speaker 1: Miami went zone, Boston looked like they knew what to do.

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Speaker 1: They started by screening the top man, so they just

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Speaker 1: have Tatum dribble on the left wing. Al Horford would

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Speaker 1: come and set a screen and he would just basically

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Speaker 1: drive off of it, engage the next top guy in

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Speaker 1: the zone and swing it over. Peyton Pritchard hit a

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Speaker 1: three like that in the first possession that they ran it.

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Speaker 1: Another thing they did that I thought was really smart

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Speaker 1: is they started having Tatum post up the corner man.

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Speaker 1: So think of a two to three, there's two guys

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Speaker 1: in the corner, two guys in the top, one guy

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Speaker 1: underneath the basket right, and generally speaking, you're trying to

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Speaker 1: get the defense to lean one way or another so

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Speaker 1: that you can find openings either cutting along the baseline

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Speaker 1: or in the middle of the floor on the week

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Speaker 1: set right. So one of the things they were doing

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Speaker 1: is they were just throwing the ball to Tatum in

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Speaker 1: the left corner and having him post up the corner

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Speaker 1: man and he would back down and back down and

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Speaker 1: back down until he brought the bottom man in and

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Speaker 1: the top man in, so like the top man would

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Speaker 1: like come down and double and then the bottom man

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Speaker 1: would kind of slide into that backside help position right

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Speaker 1: behind there, and then they were able to get the

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Speaker 1: ball easily across the floor for wide open threes. And

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Speaker 1: this is where Sam Houser got going. He had three

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Speaker 1: of his threes on skip passes out of Boston's zone offense.

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Speaker 1: They lit it on fire and then Miami only tried

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Speaker 1: it once in the second half. So I thought that

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Speaker 1: was a really strong indicator of just Boston being prepared

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Speaker 1: and serious and being prepared for those gimmicky things. Like

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Speaker 1: I talked about before the series. Tatum was great. He

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Speaker 1: had tennis cists. I thought he just took his responsibility

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Speaker 1: of initiating the offense very seriously and did a great job.

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Speaker 1: He's making post entries. We talked about the skip passes

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Speaker 1: against the zone. Also late in the game, when they

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Speaker 1: put Baman a bio on him, he just started using

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Speaker 1: physically aggressive moves to draw second defenders and making kickout passes.

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Speaker 1: There's a really good game management type of game from Tatum,

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Speaker 1: even though he didn't shoot particularly well. Boston had six

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Speaker 1: players in double figures. They led by as many as

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Speaker 1: thirty four points. Again, Miami's just not going to be

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Speaker 1: able to hang with Boston from a talent perspective. In

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Speaker 1: this series I talked about on the Miami front, I

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Speaker 1: talked about just like kind of keeping an eye in

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Speaker 1: talent evaluation on some of these guys. I thought Bam

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Speaker 1: was really good. He had twenty four points, hit a

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Speaker 1: bunch of jump shots, not just like easy short jump

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Speaker 1: shots in the short role, but he also like hit

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Speaker 1: a couple of tough turnaround fadeaways over Chris tops Porzingis.

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Speaker 1: I thought those were strong indicators of BAM's skill development.

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Speaker 1: And then Jaimeijakez had sixteen points, was doing a really

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Speaker 1: good job attacking the smaller Boston guards in the post.

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Speaker 1: Then did some work and pick and roll, like did

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Speaker 1: a good job getting downhill and then setting up his

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Speaker 1: turnaround fadeaway when he's already got that downhill kind of

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Speaker 1: momentum going just really really good first playoff game for

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Speaker 1: him for him. And then Tyler Harrow really struggled. It's

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Speaker 1: just he got a tough matchup in this series. You're

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Speaker 1: getting too outstanding perimeter defenders and Drew Holliday and Derek White,

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Speaker 1: and they he just struggled to break for He got

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00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,440
Speaker 1: blocked twice, once by Jalen Brown, once by Derek White

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Speaker 1: on like a straight iso kind of thing. And then

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Speaker 1: even when he was getting open, he wasn't hitting the

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Speaker 1: open looks until basically garbage time. But so we're not

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Speaker 1: gonna spend a ton of time on this series for

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Speaker 1: obvious reasons. There's just not a whole lot to learn.

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Speaker 1: I don't, unfortunately, think we're gonna learn too much about

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Speaker 1: Boston until we get to the conference finals. But really

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Speaker 1: good win, and for what you can stand to learn

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Speaker 1: from Boston in this type of environment, it was a

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Speaker 1: good first appearance in the postseason this year. All right,

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Speaker 1: before we get out here today, we're gonna talk a

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Speaker 1: little bit about the Lakers Nuggets series. So one of

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Speaker 1: the things I talked about last night, if you guys remember,

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Speaker 1: is the fact that the Lakers have some bad habits

534
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Speaker 1: that have been around all season long, and they reared

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Speaker 1: their ugly head in a big game, and one of

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Speaker 1: the things I talked about last night is believe teams

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Speaker 1: when they tell you who they are. What I mean

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Speaker 1: when I say that is your habits are what carry

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Speaker 1: you when the shit hits the fan late in the season. Right.

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Speaker 1: That's something I talk about all the time. But that

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Speaker 1: doesn't just go for good habits. That goes for bad habits.

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Speaker 1: If you have a bad habit of losing sight of

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Speaker 1: execution details when another team is on a run, then

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Speaker 1: you're gonna run into a good team in a playoff series.

545
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Speaker 1: They're gonna go on a run, Your execution will tail

546
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Speaker 1: off in the run will be catastrophic. That was an

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Speaker 1: issue all season long for the Lakers, these brief, little

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Speaker 1: two or three minute stretches where they'd let go of

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Speaker 1: the rope and get blitzed and either leads would disappear,

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Speaker 1: or they'd have a be in a game where it's

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Speaker 1: tied and suddenly they'd be down double figures. This was

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Speaker 1: an issue all year long, and it was a big

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Speaker 1: part of Game one against Denver. As a matter of fact,

554
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Speaker 1: the Lakers blew this game. They were super competitive with

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Speaker 1: Denver throughout except for two stretches. There was a ten

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Speaker 1: to oh run in less than two minutes in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the second quarter, and a thirteen oh run

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Speaker 1: in three and a half minutes in the middle of

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Speaker 1: the third quarter. So I wanted to go into the

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Speaker 1: film just to show you guys exactly how bad the

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Speaker 1: Lakers offensive execution and defensive execution was when they were

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Speaker 1: in this stretch. And one of the things I want

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Speaker 1: you to keep in mind. Lebron actually talked about this

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Speaker 1: after the game and his presser. He said, every championship

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Speaker 1: team he's been on has had attention to detail, and

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Speaker 1: you know, like I want to be clear because Lebron

567
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Speaker 1: has some guilt here. You're gonna see when I went

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Speaker 1: back to look at the film, I actually think Lebron

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Speaker 1: was the primary driving force for both of these ugly stretches.

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Speaker 1: And Lebron has a tendency to kind of get fatigued

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Speaker 1: after he kind of goes on a crazy run where

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Speaker 1: he plays really hard, and he did, like literally for

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Speaker 1: a quarter and a half, Lebron was guns blazing, and

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Speaker 1: then he got tired and it was really bad for

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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes, just literally two minutes, and it

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Speaker 1: was a ten to zero run. And then in the

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Speaker 1: second half, same sort of thing and so like the Ironically,

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Speaker 1: Lebron's right in the sense that the lakers lack of

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Speaker 1: attention to detail is a the opposite of a hallmark

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Speaker 1: of a champion, right, But he also shares some blame

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Speaker 1: for that predicament with the Lakers. So let's get into

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Speaker 1: the film here again. So out of a this is

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Speaker 1: out of a time out, if I remember correctly, the

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Speaker 1: Lakers are up by twelve, right, So this is the

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Speaker 1: position in the game where the Lakers have been playing

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Speaker 1: really well, and they've been playing really well, but one

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Speaker 1: of two things can happen here. You can either keep

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Speaker 1: your foot on the gas and try to maintain the

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Speaker 1: lead slash, build the lead slash, whatever it is you're

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Speaker 1: gonna do to get out of here with the win.

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Speaker 1: Or you can immediately relax, and as soon as the

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Speaker 1: Lakers get it to twelve, we're gonna get a relax

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Speaker 1: right away. Watch Lebron here in the weekside corner against

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Speaker 1: Michael Porter Junior. Watch Michael Porter Junior cut up to

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Speaker 1: the top of the key and watch Lebron relax. So

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00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 1: Lebron look falling asleep on his heels. Michael Porter Junior

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Speaker 1: runs up and gets a good look at a catch

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Speaker 1: and shoot three because Lebron's not paying attention. Watch the

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Speaker 1: first step. It's literally the first step that does him

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Speaker 1: in here. He's not engaged, he's not paying attention. Michael

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Speaker 1: gets just a little bit of a running start on him,

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Speaker 1: and then and then Lebron's completely out of position. See

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00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: see how that that just that little bit of a delay.

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Speaker 1: But before Lebron actually takes a step, Michael's already going

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Speaker 1: He's that gap can't happen. When we talk about lock

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Speaker 1: and trail defense, it literally means lock and trail. It

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00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: means you are locked on the backside of the offensive

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Speaker 1: player in trailing them over the screen. This is bad

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Speaker 1: lock and trail defense, and all it was is once

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Speaker 1: again Lebron relaxed for a split second, got up to twelve,

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Speaker 1: and instead of taking that as an opportunity to get

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Speaker 1: more serious, he got more relaxed. This is the very

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Speaker 1: next possession. This was just a bad call. I didn't

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Speaker 1: like this call. So Lebron goes and sets a screen,

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Speaker 1: a backscreen on KCP and then slips out of it.

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Speaker 1: Lebron doesn't even actually hit CACP, just slips out of

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Speaker 1: the screen, but right as he's slipping, KCP takes like

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Speaker 1: a really aggressive backward steps and runs into Lebron. That's

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Speaker 1: incidental contact that shouldn't have been a foul. Is a

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Speaker 1: bad call, but bad calls happen in NBA games. It

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Speaker 1: just it is what it is. But the turnovers became

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Speaker 1: a problem for the Lakers. So Reggie Jackson's going to

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Speaker 1: miss a little floater over Spencer Dinwoodie here, they're going

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Speaker 1: to push out the other way. And you know, one

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Speaker 1: of the things we're going to talk about at the

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Speaker 1: end of the show here, I'm going to talk with

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Speaker 1: you guys about the Lakers kind of free throw discrepancy thing.

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Speaker 1: And I did some digging into some numbers to essentially

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Speaker 1: prove that it's completely unremarkable that the Lakers are a

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Speaker 1: good free throw disparity team, which we'll get to in

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Speaker 1: a minute. But I've talked about often on the show

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Speaker 1: that it's actually a net negative for the Lakers in

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Speaker 1: some ways. Anthony Davis is a grifter, Austin Reeves is

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Speaker 1: a grifter, So they're constantly trying to hunt the whistle,

635
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Speaker 1: and they will take unusual shots that are not normal

636
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Speaker 1: basketball shots to try to draw fouls, and what will

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Speaker 1: happen is they'll miss the shot, not get the call,

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00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 1: and then they'll get barbecued in transition the other way,

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Speaker 1: here's a good example. So adis got Michael Porter Junior

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Speaker 1: on him, and instead of making a physically aggressive move

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Speaker 1: to the rim, he's going to flop and try to

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00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: draw a foul, and then there's no call, and then

643
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: he starts jogging and kind of yelling at the raft

644
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: a little bit, worrying about his elbow. And then watch

645
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 1: as we go the other way, we're gonna get a

646
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: transition cross match. So again, Ady is supposed to be

647
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 1: on Gordon, Lebron is supposed to be on MPG and

648
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: actually in this in this configuration, not Ru's here, So

649
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 1: Ruey is supposed to be on Jokis right. So as

650
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: a result of this, everyone's in a cross match now.

651
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis is on Michael Porter Junior, Lebron, James is

652
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: on Aaron Gordon, Austin Reeves is on Jokic, and because

653
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: of that, they have no choice but to kind of

654
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: load up to deal with Joki John Reeves, which opens

655
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 1: up an easy skid pass for Aaron Gordon to the

656
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: weak side corner to Reggie Jackson. So again flop, no call, transition,

657
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: easy bucket. So for every time Adie falls and he

658
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,239
Speaker 1: gets foul shots, this has to be factored in as

659
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: well as part of that equation and what comes out

660
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: of it. Here's the very next offensive possession for the Lakers.

661
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: What stands out to you here? Again, Lebron's tired, we're

662
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 1: down to six here. And by the way, I want

663
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: to be clear, runs happen in basketball games. I'm not

664
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 1: sitting here pretending like you're just gonna dominate the entire game.

665
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: There's never gonna be a stretch that the other team

666
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: is gonna be able to put some points together, especially

667
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: a championship team in Denver who's better than you, like

668
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: they're gonna go on runs. The difference is you have

669
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: to find a way to make that ten to oh

670
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: run into a seven to two run, or a thirteen

671
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: to oh run into a ten to six run. You

672
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: have to find a way to mitigate that as best

673
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 1: as you can. It can't be a complete and total

674
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: collapse on both ends of the floor. Here we go.

675
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 1: The Nuggets just got back to back buckets, right, A

676
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: three for Reggie Jackson and a three for Michael Porter Junior.

677
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: We had an Ad turnover and we had a Lebron turnover.

678
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: Even though it was bad call and you could make

679
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: a case Ad got fouled, but he was kind of

680
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: grifting a little bit. So this is where you have

681
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: to execute, and instead Lebron throws this lazy ass pocket pass.

682
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: And again, when you throw the pocket pass, you have

683
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: to get over the screen and engage the rim protector.

684
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: Lebron does neither and just throws it. Both Aaron Gordon

685
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: and both Aaron Gordon and Yokich have their hands down

686
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: in the shooting pocket and so when this pass goes,

687
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 1: it has no chance of going through. Now it's a

688
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 1: pick six the other way for Aaron Gordon in an

689
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: easy dunk. So again, like this, that possession is the

690
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: possession where you have to execute and get a good shot.

691
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: And Lebron James, your best player, just threw a stupid

692
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: pocket pass that had no chance of going through and

693
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: ends up being a turnover and a pick six the

694
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: other way. That's a gap in execution. That's attention to

695
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: detail that falls on Lebron's plate. In this case, we're

696
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 1: gonna get a similar kind of lack of aggression here

697
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: from Lebron on Jamal Murray. So Lebron's gonna get the

698
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 1: switch with the Austin Reeves two man game. He's got

699
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: Jamal on him. He needs to make a physically aggressive move,

700
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: and instead he takes this turnaround right shoulder fade, which,

701
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: by the way, he's been missing. I went over this

702
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 1: on the show the other day. But right shoulder fades

703
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: on the left side of the floor out of the

704
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,280
Speaker 1: post for Lebron, He's been making it twenty six percent

705
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 1: this season. This is not a good shot. Jamal Murray

706
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: literally blocks him. Okay, block happens. Now watch the transition

707
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: possession for the Nuggets. I want you to watch Lebron

708
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: and Ad and watch these five guys. Watch the difference

709
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: in their initial sprint at the transition opportunity. This is

710
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: gonna be jarring. Watch this. See that, Oh, massive gap

711
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,879
Speaker 1: forms here. Why is that? Because these two guys are

712
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: not taking their transition defense responsibilities seriously. And those two

713
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,880
Speaker 1: guys in particular, because they deal with Gordon and Jokic,

714
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,399
Speaker 1: it is abundantly important for them to get back. They're

715
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 1: actually very fortunate that Michael Porter Junior We'll see it

716
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: again here. Look at that gap that immediately forms. That's

717
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 1: a lack of urgency Lebron and ad shot goes up.

718
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,800
Speaker 1: They take a second to just kind of chill while

719
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,800
Speaker 1: every Nugget knows as soon as the Lakers miss a layup,

720
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: we are running a running every time. That is our

721
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: chance to get an advantage. Michael Porter Junior gets a

722
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: really good look at a three on the left wing,

723
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: he just happens to miss it. And what's crazy, too,

724
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: is Lebron makes this crazy effort to sprint back into

725
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 1: the play after the fact that effort, that effort is

726
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: not even a problem if you don't make that mistake

727
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:19,720
Speaker 1: to begin with at the start of the transition. Defense

728
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: possession again. So now the Nuggets are on a run, right,

729
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: This lead is back to four, Your twelve point lead

730
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: is almost gone. Time to execute, right, No, we're gonna

731
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 1: get a break rhythm pump, fake pull up three from

732
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 1: Dangel Russell that he airballs. See that again, Like the

733
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,319
Speaker 1: Lakers are at their best offensively, and we're gonna see

734
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 1: an example here in a few minutes. They're at their

735
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:47,239
Speaker 1: best offensively when they settle down, run their sets, get

736
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 1: into an advantage situation and play with their aggregate offensive talent,

737
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,840
Speaker 1: and they just have not done that yet in this sequence.

738
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 1: They haven't had a single good offensive play possession in

739
00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: this entire sequence. And then this last possession for the

740
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 1: Nuggets is the end of the ten ozer run, so

741
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 1: they're on an eight to zero run. At this point,

742
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 1: we're gonna get a Rui is on Jamal in a

743
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,800
Speaker 1: transition cross match, in AD's on Joki, so they're just

744
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 1: gonna switch it, which is fine. But one of the

745
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,240
Speaker 1: things that Ruey does on the switch is he decides

746
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: to front the post. Now, as soon as you decide

747
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: to front the post, what's the other half of that coverage.

748
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: This is something I've talked with you guys a lot

749
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: about with the Miami Heat, because they did a really

750
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: good job of doing this in the NBA Finals last year.

751
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 1: From here, Aaron Gordon's underneath the basket. Lebron James is

752
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: the guy who has to be up here so that

753
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: when Jamal throws this over the top pass, Lebron James

754
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: can be there either on the catch to prevent a

755
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 1: deep catch or to force a turnover here, and then

756
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:43,479
Speaker 1: it's on d Lo and Austin to navigate these three guys,

757
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 1: and they're not very well spaced. Dlo can drop here

758
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: and box out Aaron Gordon Austin can easily rotate to

759
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,359
Speaker 1: these two guys. So literally, Lebron just has to do

760
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: his job in the game plan. Here, Rui's fronting, I

761
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: have to bracket from behind instead. Lebron is slow. Notice

762
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 1: he doesn't start moving until after the pass. So Jokic

763
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,240
Speaker 1: catches deep and he easily hits that little shot underneath

764
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: the basket. So again they went up twelve opportunity to

765
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: try to maintain control of the game, and in two minutes,

766
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,720
Speaker 1: less than two minutes, they barbecue ten of those twelve

767
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: points away with repeated bad offensive possessions in poor defensive

768
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: execution that Denver just keeps playing and just keeps executing.

769
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 1: You let go of the rope for a couple of

770
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 1: minutes in disaster strikes, and it's been a consistent theme

771
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: for the Lakers all season long. Let's fast forward to

772
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:40,840
Speaker 1: the second half. Okay, so now we're looking at the

773
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: Lebron's going to miss this free thrown. It's a one

774
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 1: point game here, Okay, Denver's first offensive possession, This is

775
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,399
Speaker 1: just really really good offensive execution. You're going to see

776
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,720
Speaker 1: an example of what's called a pin in flair. Okay,

777
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: So we got yokicch in the post, we have Spencer

778
00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 1: Dinwoodie guarding nikolea Jokic, we have Yokic catching the post,

779
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: and we're gonna get a pat a double team from

780
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 1: Spencer Dinwoody. One pass away, right, So this is our

781
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 1: three on two on the week side, this little triangle here, right,

782
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 1: So we have Ad is effectively the low man. He's

783
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: underneath the basket. Austin's got your two on one here, right,

784
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: but Michael Porter Jr. Is sliding up this way, and

785
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:21,319
Speaker 1: so Austin has to close out. Aaron Gordon is going

786
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: to set what's called a pin in flair here, So

787
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 1: his one job is to set a backscreen on Ad

788
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: so that he can't close out to KCP. Now, when

789
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: Yokic throws the pass, watch eighty turns and he's trying

790
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: to close out on KCP. Watch Aaron Gordon screen him Boom,

791
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 1: wide open three for KCP. So really really good offensive

792
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 1: execution from Denver on that one. So Denver makes a three.

793
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 1: They have a four point lead. What are you doing here?

794
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,320
Speaker 1: If you're the Lakers, this is where you need to

795
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 1: settle down and get a really good offensive possession and

796
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 1: execute to get a good look. AD's tired, Lebron's tired.

797
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: They've been working hard all game. Right, Ad is going

798
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: to start floating around the three point line. Spencer drives,

799
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: kicks to Austin, Ad backs out to the three point line.

800
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,799
Speaker 1: They run a little Austin Lebron two man game. They

801
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,240
Speaker 1: actually switched this look at Aaron Gordon. Aaron Gordon drops

802
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 1: down with Austin reeves. There's thirteen on the shot clock.

803
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: As soon as that switch happens, Jamal is wanting to

804
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,840
Speaker 1: hedge and recover. But because Aaron Gordon goes with the slip,

805
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: the matchup is there. Now Lebron has the match up.

806
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 1: All he needs to do is reet it, get his

807
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: dribble back right. And in order to get his dribble back,

808
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 1: all he needs to do is basically just throw a

809
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 1: pass the Spencer Dinwoody and get the ball back. Instead,

810
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 1: he swings it across the court to Anthony Davis, who

811
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 1: is a bad three point shooter who for whatever reason,

812
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 1: is floating around the three point shot and is going

813
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:49,919
Speaker 1: to take a shot that he's probably going to miss

814
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: the vast majority of the time. Now, if you remember,

815
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: they just got burned with Ruby and single coverage off

816
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 1: of a double team. Excuse me, not single coverage off

817
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 1: of a double team. Now they're gonna leave Rui in

818
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 1: single coverage. Yoka is gonna easily score. Okay, some of

819
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 1: this is just Denver. Denver's gonna do this. They're a

820
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: better team than the Lakers. They're gonna have runs like

821
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 1: this where they get baskets. That is why the offensive

822
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: execution is so important for the Lakers. On the other

823
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: end of the floor. We go right back down now, Okay,

824
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 1: now Denver's up six. All right, Lakers, let's see if

825
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: we can execute and get a really good shot. This

826
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 1: is what happens. We get a Ruie screen that leads

827
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: to the Michael Porter junior switch. Lebron just kind of

828
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 1: dribbles around on the perimeter. Nothing's going on. He picks

829
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 1: up his dribble for whatever reason. Ad is right here

830
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: sitting at the elbow as an easy outlet that passes there,

831
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,800
Speaker 1: and Lebron literally just throws the ball out of bounce again.

832
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 1: Like you're starting to see that, you know, Lebron is

833
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: really good outside of these two runs, like really really

834
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: good on both ends. He's great defensively, he was excellent

835
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:58,760
Speaker 1: offensively outside of the stretch. These two stretches where Lebron

836
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 1: got tired and played basketball literally costs his team the game.

837
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 1: They have to find a way to avoid these stretches.

838
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:15,240
Speaker 1: All right, Our next one here is a Aaron Gordon

839
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 1: misses the three in the corner. Lakers go down. So

840
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: you get gifted another chance off of Aaron Gordon missing

841
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: a three. You get gifted another chance here to try

842
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 1: to have a good offensive possession. And we're gonna get

843
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 1: a battery from Torrian Prince in the Lakers five out here,

844
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,800
Speaker 1: so we get a eight screen and slip that brings

845
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: this tag over right. This is an example of what

846
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 1: I was talking about earlier. Run your horn sets, run

847
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: your five out sets, get the defense in rotation. They

848
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 1: do that here, but Torrian Prince makes a mistake, so

849
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: Lebron comes off the screen. Yokich is at the level

850
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 1: that forces KCP to tag. Now we have a two

851
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 1: on one on the weak side here, swing past the

852
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: Toryan Prince boom extra pass. That's the read extra pass

853
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: to d low and we're gonna get a wide open

854
00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: catch and shoot three. Okay. Instead Torrian drives it into

855
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: the lane, into a bunch of bodies and gets blocked.

856
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 1: That's bad execution. That's a mistake that Denver doesn't make.

857
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 1: Generally speaking, they're gonna make that extrapacity open shooter. Generally speaking,

858
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: they're not going to overpenetrate and drive into all that traffic.

859
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 1: That is a lack of execution. All right, This next

860
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 1: one here, that bad read from torriing Prince leads to

861
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 1: the transition three from KCP. Right, So off of that block,

862
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: Denver running once again, five on three break and just

863
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 1: watch again the way they run. Man, look at how

864
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: Denver takes off as soon as the block happens. It's

865
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 1: back up a little bit. Watch the difference in the

866
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: Lakers sprinting versus the Nugget sprinting. Do you see that?

867
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:49,359
Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy? It's like this is like the it's

868
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 1: it's hard to believe that the defending champ in this

869
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: particular case is outworking the team that is like desperate

870
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 1: to not get embarrassed. It's it's it's legitimately hard to

871
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: watch unfilmed all right, So we're finally gonna get a

872
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 1: good offensive possession from the Lakers here. Now they did

873
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: it two possessions in a row. They're running their sets.

874
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 1: Now the last possession they ran their set, Torrian just

875
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: botches the read. Right here, we're gonna get a screen

876
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,320
Speaker 1: into a dribble handoff. So Delo's gonna come off in screen,

877
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon and Lebron's gonna come off of it this way. Okay,

878
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 1: So screen generates a little bit of separation for Lebron. Okay.

879
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: Jokiic comes in the high drop. We get the tag

880
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 1: from Christian Brown. That excuse me, the tag from Reggie

881
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,880
Speaker 1: Jackson and Christian Brown. But if Reggie Jackson tags harder.

882
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: Lebron makes the read as Christian Brown is recovering out

883
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 1: to de Lo. He makes the read to Spencer Dinwiddie

884
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 1: throws the skip, Brown closes out. They get a wide

885
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 1: open three. Okay. So again we've gone through probably I

886
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:49,359
Speaker 1: don't know what thirteen twelve thirteen Laker offensive possessions over

887
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:51,280
Speaker 1: the course of these two runs that we've been covering.

888
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:53,400
Speaker 1: This is the first one. They got a great shot.

889
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:57,239
Speaker 1: This is the first one. How often do you see

890
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: the Nuggets go a dozen possessions where they get one shot.

891
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 1: That Again, the Lakers have the talent to be more

892
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 1: competitive in this series. They just simply have to execute,

893
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: and it's just a weakness of theirs. We're gonna get

894
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 1: another example here of KCP misses this three, and actually

895
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of hesitation from Tory Prince. Watch

896
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,479
Speaker 1: Torn Prince here as he SAgs off kcp's red hot

897
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 1: and has hit a bunch of threes, and he almost

898
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 1: gives up another one here. Very fortunate that that one missed.

899
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 1: Going out the other way. Once again, we're gonna see

900
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis lingering around the three point line. So if

901
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: Ad literally in this action just simply screens and rolls

902
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 1: into that space. If Lebron comes downhill and engages Jokic

903
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: and Ad rolls, that's gonna pull Gordon in in all

904
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 1: likelihood or Reggie, and you're gonna get that exact same

905
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: week side two on one that you just got, and

906
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna get another wide open look for d Lo. Instead,

907
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis pops to the three point line, so nobody

908
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 1: has to come in here. Lebron is now surrounded by

909
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: four blue jerseys. An ad is gonna take another three

910
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:09,720
Speaker 1: that he's not going to make because he's a below

911
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 1: thirty percent three point shooter. That's poor execution. How like

912
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 1: you're you're just running offense to get bad shots. Go

913
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 1: right down to the other end. Dlo's on KCP. As

914
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 1: we talked about earlier, KCP is on fire at this point,

915
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:28,399
Speaker 1: it said a bunch of threes. This is a lock

916
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: and trail possession. Watch him. He's gonna fall asleep and

917
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 1: KCP is gonna shoot up. Look, just that little hesitation,

918
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:36,800
Speaker 1: just like what happened to Lebron. It's just that little

919
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: hesitation being slow, and KCP gets all the way off

920
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 1: of him and gets another catch and shoot three and

921
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 1: makes it again. That is a lock and trail responsibility.

922
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: You literally have to know that his next move is

923
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: some sort of aggressive cut to get a shot, and

924
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:52,799
Speaker 1: you have to be locked up onto him the entire time.

925
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: We're gonna go to the other end of the floor.

926
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: Lebron's going to force a really difficult pass here to

927
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: ruin in traffic. It's gonna get turned over the other

928
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:06,360
Speaker 1: way and we're gonna get I think this is another

929
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:09,919
Speaker 1: cross match. If I remember correctly. I actually no, it's

930
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 1: just a post up of Lebron. So Lebron ends up

931
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 1: on Yoga Chi Jokic scores over him. And again this

932
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:16,399
Speaker 1: one is not on the defense, but over the course

933
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: of this run, it's primarily offensive execution that's been the issue.

934
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 1: But here you go. That's a thirteen oh run. This

935
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 1: was a one point game at the start of that possession,

936
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: At the start of that sequence, it was a one

937
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,720
Speaker 1: point game. And now you're looking at a fourteen point

938
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:33,799
Speaker 1: game in three and a half minutes because you let

939
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 1: go of the rope in terms of execution for a

940
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: short bit one, two, three, four, five six. I have

941
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: six more clips that I want to show you, guys,

942
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 1: just other notes of film from this game. This was

943
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,800
Speaker 1: the very next shot that the Lakers got, So thirteen

944
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 1: oh run, this is the shot that Lebron gets. So

945
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: we have del screen to get Reggie switched on to

946
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:56,919
Speaker 1: Spencer Dinwiddie Dinwoody's gonna set a screen on Aaron Gordon.

947
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 1: We're gonna get another switch. Lebron's got Reggie. Lebron is

948
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:01,880
Speaker 1: Reggie jack on him with eleven seconds left, and this

949
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:04,920
Speaker 1: is the shot Lebron gets by the way. There's nobody

950
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 1: digging down on the right hand side. He could make

951
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:09,800
Speaker 1: an aggressive move here, most likely pull in Reggie Jackson

952
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:12,160
Speaker 1: or open up a rouey on the weak side. He

953
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: can generate a corner three with just a little bit

954
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 1: of dribble penetration, and instead he takes this barely gets

955
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 1: the front of the rim. Here's another kind of bad

956
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 1: read from D'Angelo Russell and pick and roll gets downhill.

957
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 1: Everyone's packed in the paint, gave Vincent's wide open on

958
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 1: the weak side. He tries to shoot a shot on

959
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 1: DeAndre Jordan, gets blocked. Then Ad throws this gamble in

960
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 1: the back court. Look at this gamble from Ad here.

961
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:42,760
Speaker 1: So again, what have we talked about with the Nuggets.

962
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 1: They're looking to run in transition. Transition defense is key

963
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:48,719
Speaker 1: for the Lakers. Ad gambles in the backcourt. Now we

964
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:52,319
Speaker 1: have an advantage situation. As a result, we're gonna get

965
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:55,280
Speaker 1: another cross match. So Ad was originally on DeAndre Jordan,

966
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: that's his matchup. If Ad is on DeAndre Jordan, he

967
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 1: can be sitting right down here, sitting in help dealing

968
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:04,759
Speaker 1: with whatever aggressive move Jamal Murray mix. Jamal has been

969
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 1: hitting this like hard spin move towards the baseline off

970
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 1: of the left block all year long. It's one of

971
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: my favorite post moves that he does. But typically if

972
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 1: there's backside help, this will be a fade away and

973
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 1: it turns into a shot he's gonna make a little

974
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 1: less than half the time. But instead there's no help

975
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: there because Anthony Davis is glued up on Michael Porter

976
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 1: Junior on the week side, so he's able to make

977
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:27,719
Speaker 1: that aggressive move all the way to the basket. Now

978
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: it's a layups instead of an Anthony Davis block or

979
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 1: a tough turnaround jump shot. Here's another really bad offensive

980
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:38,400
Speaker 1: possession off the Peyton Watson miss. Again, this is just

981
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:40,839
Speaker 1: really bad execution. Thirteen point game with nine minutes love,

982
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 1: this is still a game. We're gonna get a little

983
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: flare screen from Torrian Prince on Christian Brown. Austin's gonna

984
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: kind of catch around the logo. There's seventeen seconds left,

985
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 1: run some offense. Nope, we're gonna jack up a thirty

986
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 1: footer that is way short. And then once again watch

987
00:48:56,760 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 1: the transition defense here gambles walking again. This is not over.

988
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:04,839
Speaker 1: You would think the game is over with the body

989
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:07,880
Speaker 1: language from the Lakers. Here, they came down from twenty

990
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: to be came from down twenty to beat the Clippers

991
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 1: once this year in the fourth quarter. Now we're jogging. Now,

992
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 1: we're jogging. Now. This is if you're a Nuggets fan

993
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:20,360
Speaker 1: from last year and you imagine Bruce Brown in this spot.

994
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 1: This is where Bruce Brown killed d Lo last year,

995
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:27,880
Speaker 1: jogging back in transition defense slot drives in transition, Brown

996
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:30,360
Speaker 1: just bullies in, loses control of the basketball and easily

997
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 1: gets it back and puts it in. This is gonna

998
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:37,919
Speaker 1: be a good Laker defensive possession where they get killed

999
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 1: on the offensive glass. So screen, Austin fights, Austin fights,

1000
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: Austin gets a gets back on Jamal. There's no advantage.

1001
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: We're gonna get another screen here with Michael Porter Jr.

1002
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: We get a little bit of a it was It

1003
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 1: looked like it was probably gonna be a hedge and recover,

1004
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: but it turns into a switch. Austin gets back, We

1005
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: get a stunt from d Lo and Austin and gets

1006
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:02,879
Speaker 1: a contest. Still a decent look for Denver. But here

1007
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 1: we got this matchup underneath the basket. Here watch our

1008
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:08,880
Speaker 1: matchup as the shot goes up. Lebron right on the

1009
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:11,360
Speaker 1: left block, ready for a rebound. Ad right on the

1010
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 1: right block, ready for a rebound again. Thirteen point game,

1011
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:16,800
Speaker 1: eight minutes left. This is there for the taking. Watch

1012
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 1: Christian Brown and DeAndre Jordan just flat out out hustle

1013
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:24,360
Speaker 1: Lebron and Ad. Christian Brown comes in somehow beats Lebron

1014
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 1: to the basketball, tips it up, and then DeAndre Jordan

1015
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:30,840
Speaker 1: beats Ad to it and taps it out. Now, this

1016
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:33,359
Speaker 1: ends up being a turnover anyway, But that's just an

1017
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 1: example of like that can't happen. That literally can't happen.

1018
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 1: Like you're not good enough to beat Denver making that

1019
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 1: many mistakes. Well, a little misread for the Lakers here

1020
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:52,720
Speaker 1: and pick and roll from Anthony Davis. So Peyton Watson's

1021
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:54,840
Speaker 1: on Lebron, We're gonna get the ball screen to attack

1022
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 1: DeAndre Jordan. DeAndre Jordan's in a bit of a high drop.

1023
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:00,919
Speaker 1: AD is gonna catch boom. This is an easy read.

1024
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:04,920
Speaker 1: Austin's open, Jamal's tagging the roller. Austin's open. Make that

1025
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 1: kickout pass. That's a good look. Instead, Ady challenges everybody

1026
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 1: underneath the basket, misses so to kind of put a

1027
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:21,440
Speaker 1: bow on it. Like again, when it comes down to

1028
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:23,439
Speaker 1: the Lakers and their chances to win this series, they're

1029
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:27,840
Speaker 1: slim to be in with and the only pathway forward

1030
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 1: for the Lakers is they have to go toe to

1031
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 1: toe with the Denver as an execution team. If they do,

1032
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:38,280
Speaker 1: some variants can come into play. What if ad does

1033
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:40,400
Speaker 1: score over Yokich as easily did at the end of

1034
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 1: the game. What if Lebron does outplay Jamal Murray. What

1035
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: if Jamal Murray has more poor shooting nights like he

1036
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 1: did last night. What if you do get better shooting

1037
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:51,240
Speaker 1: out of Austin and d Lo, all of a sudden

1038
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:54,239
Speaker 1: a pathway starts to form. But it's a very, very

1039
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: The way I presented it in the regular season is

1040
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: like there's a tiny crack in the door and there's

1041
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:01,719
Speaker 1: somebody on the other pushing it. They have the advantage.

1042
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: If you're gonna blow through that crack, you literally have

1043
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:07,759
Speaker 1: to be perfect, especially in terms of their execution. And

1044
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 1: I just when I went back and looked at the

1045
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 1: film this morning, I'm like, like, there are these brief

1046
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 1: stretches where their execution gets so abysmally bad that they

1047
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 1: deliver these like Haymakers to their chances to have any

1048
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:22,319
Speaker 1: chance to contend in the game, and like it's been

1049
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 1: a big problem for them all season. They've tried to

1050
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:27,160
Speaker 1: tell us who they are. It was a frustrating film

1051
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 1: session to watch, all right, the last thing I wanted

1052
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 1: to hit today before we get out of here. So

1053
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 1: there's this prevailing narrative that's been flying around. And like,

1054
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:41,359
Speaker 1: literally last night, I think the Lakers had nineteen free throws,

1055
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:43,799
Speaker 1: which by the way, is below their season average by

1056
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:46,919
Speaker 1: a lot, But the Nuggets happened to have six free

1057
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 1: throws in this very physical basketball game, right, and so

1058
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 1: it became a thing again, Right, Like the Los Angeles Lakers,

1059
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:56,440
Speaker 1: they have this massive free throw differential. They are clearly

1060
00:52:56,520 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 1: benefiting from some sort of league wide conspiracy to get

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Speaker 1: the Lakers into position to win basketball games, even though

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Speaker 1: they're bad at winning basketball games compared to some of

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Speaker 1: their peers at the top of the league. So even

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Speaker 1: if the Lakers, or even if the league is trying

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Speaker 1: to rig the Lakers into winning, that's just not happening

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Speaker 1: for whatever reason. But you know, this has been one

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Speaker 1: of the dumbest things that I can ever remember seeing

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Speaker 1: in my time covering the NBA. You guys know, I

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00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 1: am like, never complain about officiating, guy, except in a

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Speaker 1: league wide context as it pertains to the way the

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00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: game is officiated. But I think blaming the refs for

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Speaker 1: anything involving your team outcome is a loser mentality and

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00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 1: generally speaking, it's not gonna help you in any way,

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00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 1: and almost always it's wishful thinking and not based on

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00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:44,400
Speaker 1: any evidence. Right. So one of the things that I

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00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:47,279
Speaker 1: think it's lost in this the Lakers do have a

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Speaker 1: massive free throw differential, larger than anyone else in the

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Speaker 1: rest of the league by a wide margin. That's a fact, right.

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Speaker 1: Here's what's also a fact. The Lakers are top three

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00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:02,720
Speaker 1: in both free throw attempts drawn and defending without failing. Okay,

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00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 1: there are teams that get a better whistle than the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: Did you know that the Orlando Magic get a better

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00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 1: whistle than the Los Angeles Lakers? They get to the

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Speaker 1: foul line more frequently. The problem is they can't defend

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Speaker 1: without fouling, so they don't have as much of a disparity.

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Speaker 1: You know who's the best team in the league at

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00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 1: defending without fouling? The Boston Celtics. As a matter of fact,

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00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 1: they are second place in free throw differential. You want

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00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:29,440
Speaker 1: to know why there's a big gap, because while the

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00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 1: Lakers are top three in both, the Celtics are number

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00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 1: one in defending without fouling, but they are twenty fourth

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00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:40,040
Speaker 1: in getting to the foul line because they're a team

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00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 1: that takes a ton of jump shots and doesn't put

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00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on the rim and don't do

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00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 1: a great job kind of grifting their way to the line.

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Speaker 1: And so as a result, Lakers have this big margin,

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Speaker 1: and the margin for the next team, the Boston Celtics,

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00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:54,880
Speaker 1: the second place team, is not as big. But everyone

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00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:56,840
Speaker 1: wants to act like this is some sort of highly

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00:54:56,920 --> 00:55:00,400
Speaker 1: unusual thing. I want to show you, guys, agre to

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Speaker 1: demonstrate this point. Do you guys see this mark right here.

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Speaker 1: That's the free throw differential of the twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers. Do you see this mark right here?

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Speaker 1: This is the free throw differential for the twenty eighteen

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Speaker 1: Charlotte Hornets. Do you think it was a big scheme

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Speaker 1: of the NBA to give the Charlotte Hornets a better

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00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:26,800
Speaker 1: chance to win NBA games? Did you know that neither

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00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three or the twenty twenty four Lakers

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00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:34,759
Speaker 1: are even in the top forty for free throw differential

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00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:41,120
Speaker 1: since the merger. It is there is absolutely nothing remarkable

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00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:44,839
Speaker 1: about the Lakers' free throw differential except for the fact

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Speaker 1: that it's the Los Angeles Lakers. That's the only remarkable

1113
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:51,799
Speaker 1: thing about it. These see this chart, guys. Every one

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Speaker 1: of these pieces of data represents the team that led

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00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 1: the league in free throw differential that year. There's nothing

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00:55:56,560 --> 00:56:00,279
Speaker 1: remarkable about these two Lakers teams. Nothing about it is remarkable.

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00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:04,720
Speaker 1: It's literally one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: The only reason they have a massive disparity is the

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Speaker 1: majority of the teams in the league are either good

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Speaker 1: at defending without fouling or good at getting to the line,

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Speaker 1: but not both, and the Lakers are top three in both.

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Speaker 1: That is the only thing that is driving that disparity.

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Speaker 1: I swear this Laker free throw conspiracy. It reminds me

1124
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:30,719
Speaker 1: of election deniers in the sense that the only piece

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00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 1: of evidence they have is they don't like the outcome.

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Speaker 1: If this was literally the Denver Nuggets, which, by the way,

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00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:39,600
Speaker 1: the reason the Denver Nuggets aren't on this list as

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00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 1: high is because they're bad at defending without fouling. They

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Speaker 1: commit a lot of fouls, so they don't have a

1130
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:48,120
Speaker 1: free throw disparity. That's why. But if it was the

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00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets, who is top three in both categories and

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Speaker 1: leading the league in free throw differential, the conversation would

1133
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Speaker 1: be The actual conversation would just be, Mike Malone's an

1134
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:02,800
Speaker 1: amazing code coaching this defense that doesn't foul, and my goodness,

1135
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Speaker 1: can Jamal Murray and Nikole Jokic get the defense out

1136
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Speaker 1: of position and get to the line. The only thing

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Speaker 1: remarkable about it is that it's the Lakers. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I had a mailbag question from somebody today that was like,

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Speaker 1: if you dig into the data, you'll see this is

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Speaker 1: the data, guys, this is the data. This is the

1141
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:24,080
Speaker 1: reality of free throw differential around the league. The twenty

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00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 1: eighteen Charlotte Hornets really good at defending without fouling, really

1143
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:29,840
Speaker 1: good at getting to the foul line, substantially more so

1144
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 1: than the Lakers, literally fifty percent more effective as a

1145
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:37,920
Speaker 1: differential team than this Lakers team. You probably have no

1146
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:40,680
Speaker 1: you probably couldn't even name who was on the twenty

1147
00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 1: eighteen Hornets roster. But because it's the Lakers, it's this

1148
00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 1: big story. So hopefully that'll put that to rest. And

1149
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Speaker 1: guess what, I think the Lakers are going to lose

1150
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:51,160
Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets, and the reason why they're going to

1151
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 1: lose is because they're not as good at basketball. It's

1152
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 1: not going to be because the rest didn't do a

1153
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 1: good enough job rigging the games in their favor. Stop

1154
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 1: it with that loser mentality. No one's getting any smarter

1155
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 1: because of it. Everyone's getting dumber, and it's honestly just

1156
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 1: not based in any sort of evidential fact. All Right,

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Speaker 1: I'm off of my soapbox for today again. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: be back tonight with Colin Coward after the Pacers Bucks game.

1159
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Speaker 1: We're gonna break that game down, as well as a

1160
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 1: bunch of other stuff from this weekend. The thunder Verse

1161
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:24,600
Speaker 1: Pelicans game I'm gonna break down on Monday morning with

1162
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:26,920
Speaker 1: some film sessions for some other teams around the league.

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Speaker 1: As always, I sincerely appreciate you guys for supporting the show.

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Speaker 1: I'll see you later tonight with Colin. The Volume