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Speaker 2: Slash baseball All right, oh, good to hoops today here
Speaker 2: at the volume heavy Tuesday, everybody. If all of you
Speaker 2: guys are having a great week so far, we had
Speaker 2: a marathon of Olympic basketball today, four quarterfinal games. We're
Speaker 2: gonna be hitting all four of them, starting with USA Brazil,
Speaker 2: then getting into France, upsetting Canada, Serbia coming back from
Speaker 2: down twenty four to beat the Australian national team, and
Speaker 2: then at the very end, Germany, after falling down by
Speaker 2: five in the mid third quarter, comes back to win
Speaker 2: comfortably against Greece. You guys are the joke before we
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Speaker 2: rest of the summer. Also, yesterday I actually recorded the
Speaker 2: first video in our player ranking series. Now those aren't
Speaker 2: gonna release until I go out of town. I'm leaving
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Speaker 2: to see John Mayer play with three fingers. He slammed
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Speaker 2: wife and I are seeing two shows and then we're
Speaker 2: coming home and then we're turning right back around and
Speaker 2: going out of town to the Pacific Northwest for about
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Speaker 2: We're gonna spend some time at Lake Jolande as well.
Speaker 2: I'm super excited to just get out of this Tucson heat,
Speaker 2: take a little bit of a break, and then come
Speaker 2: back for the grind as we head into the next
Speaker 2: regular season. But while I'm gone, we're gonna be airing
Speaker 2: the beginning part of our Top twenty five Players series,
Speaker 2: and I recorded that first video yesterday, And first of all,
Speaker 2: it's just gonna be so difficult. It's insane how many
Speaker 2: talented players there are in the league. Just try to
Speaker 2: rank a top twenty five. It's not easy. It's a
Speaker 2: super stressful process. But I'm really really excited to get
Speaker 2: into that with you guys starting next week. But this
Speaker 2: week just Olympic basketball quarterfinals today, semi finals on Thursday,
Speaker 2: and then the gold medal game on Saturday for US
Speaker 2: here at Hoops. And it might might try to cram
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Speaker 2: the week two. We'll see, So keep those questions in
Speaker 2: the YouTube comments. So USA Brazil just an ass kicking.
Speaker 2: To be honest, Brazil doesn't have the talent to hang
Speaker 2: with Team USA. Their primary perimeter initiator is Barcelina Wertas,
Speaker 2: who's been around for a very long time, and they
Speaker 2: just ran a super deep drop coverage on him and
Speaker 2: he couldn't get his pull up mid range jump shot
Speaker 2: going with enough efficiency for it to matter. They took
Speaker 2: thirty seven threes to try to win the math game,
Speaker 2: but they only made twelve of them. Temusa forced him
Speaker 2: into fifteen turnovers. They blocked seven of their shots TSA's
Speaker 2: defense has been consistently stifling from the beginning of the
Speaker 2: exhibition games. The offense has been a little bit more
Speaker 2: of an adventure, which we're going to talk about in
Speaker 2: a minute, but they've been really good. They've been averaging
Speaker 2: allowing just zero point eight to one points per half
Speaker 2: court possession so far in the Olympics. That is by
Speaker 2: far the best mark out of any of the Olympic teams.
Speaker 2: The Victor Webbin Yama Rudy Gobert front line for France,
Speaker 2: that team is in second place in half court defense,
Speaker 2: allowing zero point eight to seven points per possession, So
Speaker 2: a pretty substantial gap there between basically like ten percent
Speaker 2: between Team USA and Germany, or excuse me, between TOSA
Speaker 2: and France. So that's how dominant their defense has been.
Speaker 2: And they're allowing to zero point eight three points per
Speaker 2: half court possession even including all five exhibition games, and
Speaker 2: that includes that South Sudan game where they did not
Speaker 2: have a very good defensive night. So like Tosa has
Speaker 2: been consistently great defensively. They're active on the ball, they're
Speaker 2: getting deflections, they're getting good perimeter defense performance even from
Speaker 2: guys like Devin Booker, and Steph Curry, who in their
Speaker 2: careers are not necessarily known as being stifling perimeter guys.
Speaker 2: They're super active on the back line. They're just playing really,
Speaker 2: really hard on that end of the floor and the
Speaker 2: results have been really good. But the exciting part is
Speaker 2: they're starting to get it going on offense. They were
Speaker 2: already playing really well. They were allowing or they were
Speaker 2: scoring zero point nine to six points per half court
Speaker 2: possession in the exhibitions, which is good. It's not bad
Speaker 2: by any stretch of the imagination, but certainly not good
Speaker 2: enough considering the amount of talent that is on this roster.
Speaker 2: They are scoring a ridiculous one point one four points
Speaker 2: per half court possession so far through four games at
Speaker 2: the Olympics, and this is to be expected. There's something
Speaker 2: fundamentally different about playing basketball in this setting. I mean,
Speaker 2: especially when it comes to aggression and confidence. Like take
Speaker 2: Joel and Bif for example. He's been struggling with this
Speaker 2: a lot. But like when you're on your NBA team
Speaker 2: and there's this clear hierarchy and it's like I'm gonna
Speaker 2: get my touches and it's okay if I miss two
Speaker 2: or three shots in the opening min it's like, how
Speaker 2: many times is a Devin Booker Steph Curry or like
Speaker 2: a pull up shooting guard like started the first quarter
Speaker 2: going one for five, and it just doesn't matter because
Speaker 2: they can play themselves into rhythm and start getting going
Speaker 2: there in that second quarter shift when they come back
Speaker 2: in and maybe they're in good rhythm by the end
Speaker 2: of the game and they finish the game, you know,
Speaker 2: you know, nine for twenty or something like that, and
Speaker 2: still have a solid night despite starting poor from the field.
Speaker 2: And it's just a little different in a setting like this.
Speaker 2: You go out and you miss your first one or
Speaker 2: miss your second one, and all of a sudden, you're like, eah,
Speaker 2: like should I even be shooting? Like I'm not really
Speaker 2: feeling it right now, and I've got all these other
Speaker 2: super talented guys on the team. Then you start to
Speaker 2: second guess yourself and the aggression kind of goes away.
Speaker 2: And what ends up happening is, especially in the early phases,
Speaker 2: guys just kind of like don't want to pull on
Speaker 2: the rope too hard because they don't want to kind
Speaker 2: of disrupt the flow of the rest of the team,
Speaker 2: and you're starting to actually see everybody kind of find
Speaker 2: their role. Like Devin Booker, for instance, has been the
Speaker 2: guy who's been really gunning from the three point line
Speaker 2: with that starting group, hit a couple of really tough
Speaker 2: contested threes on the perimeter. And again remember in FEEBA ball,
Speaker 2: because of the defensive three second rule or the lack
Speaker 2: of one there, I should say, because of that, unique
Speaker 2: guys that are confident stepping up and shooting shots from
Speaker 2: the perimeter. And every team is putting their best lock
Speaker 2: and trail guy on Steph and just chasing him around
Speaker 2: like crazy, and STEP's not getting open very much. And
Speaker 2: so Devin Booker's getting better looks and he's capitalizing on it.
Speaker 2: He's leaning into what this team needs him to be,
Speaker 2: which is an aggressive three point shooter. Joel Embiid I
Speaker 2: thought that was kind of an interesting use of him today,
Speaker 2: Like he's still struggling with those like face up jab
Speaker 2: step jumpers from the mid range and large part because
Speaker 2: he's not getting the same calls that he gets in
Speaker 2: the NBA when he kind of sticks those arms out,
Speaker 2: which is good in my opinion, and players are pressing
Speaker 2: up on him more and getting good contests. But you
Speaker 2: know where he is getting great looks from the three
Speaker 2: point line, and he was much more aggressive from the
Speaker 2: three point line today, both in catches at the top
Speaker 2: of the key during their five outsets, but also in
Speaker 2: transition just running his lane and a trailing to play
Speaker 2: and catching at the top of the key. That's a
Speaker 2: value add for him with this team. That's the one
Speaker 2: thing he can do that Joel that at, Anthony Davis
Speaker 2: and bam Adebayo can't do at a high rate, which
Speaker 2: is hit above the break threes, and so he's leaning
Speaker 2: into that, right Like Lebron James early in the tournament
Speaker 2: struggling a little bit with turnovers, right to be expected,
Speaker 2: playing basically point guard for a team of a bunch
Speaker 2: of guys that are coming together for the first time.
Speaker 2: Right Well, only five total turnovers in the last two games,
Speaker 2: so he's cut way back on his turnovers. He had
Speaker 2: nine assists today, So, like you could tell, Lebron is
Speaker 2: starting to kind of figure out how to run that
Speaker 2: starting unit. Anthony Edwards we talked a lot in the
Speaker 2: exhibition games about how I like him coming off the
Speaker 2: bench so he can just be super aggressive and not
Speaker 2: necessarily have to stress about pulling on the rope against
Speaker 2: Stephan Lebron. He can be in that bench unit and
Speaker 2: just look to gun. It's like Bam and Ad switching
Speaker 2: every screen, stifling everything, getting a ton of stops. And
Speaker 2: that is Katie and Aunt being really aggressive with their
Speaker 2: over the top shooting, while Derek White runs around in
Speaker 2: circles and gets offensive rebound put backs and just continues
Speaker 2: to make dirty work plays that help his team win.
Speaker 2: But it's all coming together and they're starting to play
Speaker 2: a really pretty band branded basketball again. Like their offense
Speaker 2: is up substantially from where it was in the exhibitions,
Speaker 2: their defense is even more stifling than it was in
Speaker 2: the exhibitions, even though it was always good, and they're
Speaker 2: just playing at a really high level now. Serbia for
Speaker 2: the semi final game, has consistently played Tosa well, and
Speaker 2: with Yokic on the floor in particular, they've been pretty competitive,
Speaker 2: and so my guess is that they're gonna ramp Yokic's
Speaker 2: minutes up to as close to forty as they feel comfortable.
Speaker 2: They might give him a little bit of a rest
Speaker 2: in the first half, but don't be surprised if he
Speaker 2: plays the entire second half, and that's gonna be a
Speaker 2: challenge for Team USA now Germany too. I think Germany
Speaker 2: is gonna beat France, but that's a close game that
Speaker 2: could go either way, so it's possible THATOSA could have
Speaker 2: a couple of tougher games here in the semi final.
Speaker 2: In the Championship, they'll be heavy favorites. They're seventeen and
Speaker 2: a half point favorites against Serbia on Thursday, but I'll
Speaker 2: be impressed if they dominate both games because I think
Speaker 2: Serbia and Germany are both good. They're gonna play really hard.
Speaker 2: They have some specific things that they can do to
Speaker 2: kind of bog USA down. It'll be an interesting challenge.
Speaker 2: Although I do leave TMOSA we'll get through it. Our
Speaker 2: second quarterfinal game, Canada versus France, France came out with
Speaker 2: just incredibly stifling defense. By the way, I mentioned that
Speaker 2: defense number earlier. In the half court with Team USA,
Speaker 2: France has been the second best half court defense so
Speaker 2: far in FIBA, Germany's been the second best overall defense,
Speaker 2: and France has been the second best half court defense.
Speaker 2: Victor Wembinyamo was playing a high drop coverage and was
Speaker 2: getting a bunch of deflections early. At a certain point,
Speaker 2: Canada just straight up stopped bringing Wemby into ball screens
Speaker 2: because the problems he was causing up at the level
Speaker 2: of the screen. Nick Batum did a really nice job
Speaker 2: on Shake Gildos Alexander. He's got the length to contest
Speaker 2: pull up jump shots, and he was timing Shay's pull
Speaker 2: up really well. Shay, obviously still one of the best
Speaker 2: players in the world, found a way to get his points.
Speaker 2: I think he had like twenty seven or twenty nine
Speaker 2: or something like that, but I thought Batum defended him
Speaker 2: pretty well. Overall. Canada just came out guns blazing on
Speaker 2: the defensive end of the floor and then on the
Speaker 2: offensive end of the floor. They just played through the
Speaker 2: post and Canada was switching screens and like they would
Speaker 2: run action and get Shae Gilders. Alexander switched on to
Speaker 2: Gershawan you busle and just throw it down to him
Speaker 2: on the block and then from there like he would
Speaker 2: just kind of bully his way to the basket. He
Speaker 2: bullied his way right to the front of the rim
Speaker 2: On sche for a layup. They were passing really well
Speaker 2: out of the post. Both Victor wemen Yama and gers
Speaker 2: On you Bussell. The first bucket of the game. Wemby
Speaker 2: on the right on the left block just backing down
Speaker 2: and dragged I want to say Dwight Powell was guarding you.
Speaker 2: Busselet dragged Dwight Powell into the lane and then Ubuslet
Speaker 2: was wide open on the right wing and Wemby just
Speaker 2: hit him with a beautiful pass, knocks down the three
Speaker 2: U busle was I believe it was Shay was bullying Shay.
Speaker 2: Another time drew in a second defender, really nice drop
Speaker 2: off pass to Isaiah Cordinne and uh uh he ended
Speaker 2: up getting a little dunk on the baseline. Then Victor
Speaker 2: wemen Yama did the same thing off the left block,
Speaker 2: catching posting. Isaiah Cardina just cuts really hard off of
Speaker 2: the slot. Wemby hits him, he draws a foul. That
Speaker 2: was like a big part of what's made France's offense
Speaker 2: work despite having limited perimeter initiators is a lot of
Speaker 2: action and through Webben Yama allowing him to function as
Speaker 2: a passer, and then obviously Yabuselet has been able to
Speaker 2: bully some of Canada. Canada's guards as well. Isaiah Cardinier
Speaker 2: was huge early in this game. I talked about him
Speaker 2: cutting off of post ups and getting a dunk and
Speaker 2: then a foul. He also hit two like off the
Speaker 2: dribble transition pull up threes that were massive that put
Speaker 2: France up seventeen to five to start the game, and
Speaker 2: then from there Canada was basically fighting uphill the rest
Speaker 2: of the way, and you know, they kind of lingered
Speaker 2: in that five to seven point range, but down the stretch.
Speaker 2: Evan Fournier, guy who only had one made field goal
Speaker 2: in the first three quarters, hits three shots in the
Speaker 2: final four minutes. Hits a bomb three off the right wing,
Speaker 2: another Victor wemben Yama post up, another double team from
Speaker 2: one pass away, another nice pass from Victor, and forty
Speaker 2: eight hits that bomb. He had a floater. It was
Speaker 2: kind of a weird play. It was an offensive foul,
Speaker 2: but they counted the basket. He had a driving floater
Speaker 2: at one point. It's a huge shot. That was right
Speaker 2: after a big block from Victor Wembenyama. To this play
Speaker 2: where Dylan Brooks was posting up on the like kind
Speaker 2: of left elbow extended area and Victor just straight up
Speaker 2: abandoned his man as Dylan was turning and like straight
Speaker 2: up through a double team at Dylan Brooks and then
Speaker 2: blocked him on a fade away. And that's kind of
Speaker 2: like that thing I talk about a lot on the show,
Speaker 2: like defensive playmaking, which is essentially like outside of the
Speaker 2: game plan but seeing an opportunity and like trying to
Speaker 2: be aggressive. Like it's not like France is on the sideline, Like, hey, Victor,
Speaker 2: if Dylan Brooks takes a fade away, you should double
Speaker 2: team because Dylan Brooks is not that good of a shooter.
Speaker 2: It's a shot. You live with the results. But hey, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: Victor just saw an opportunity. Was like, I don't think
Speaker 2: Dylan sees the floor right now, and I think I
Speaker 2: can block this shot. And he went for it and
Speaker 2: it got a huge stop for them, and then they
Speaker 2: went down and scored. And then vic Evan Fortier hits
Speaker 2: another bomb three, this time on the left wing from
Speaker 2: like thirty five feet and now Franz is advancing to
Speaker 2: play Germany in the semi finals. Really impressed by Victor
Speaker 2: women Yam. I think he only had something like seven points,
Speaker 2: Like he didn't have a high scoring night, but he
Speaker 2: was dominant in the game defensively and dominate as a passer.
Speaker 2: Frances is a team that, especially with the home court
Speaker 2: advantage piece and with how hard they play on defense,
Speaker 2: they can be pretty tough to hang with. And then
Speaker 2: Gobert had a hand injury, like a finger injury, but
Speaker 2: their coach said that they actually went away from Gobert
Speaker 2: and played Wenby at the five specifically for the matchup,
Speaker 2: and I thought that was really smart for the Canada
Speaker 2: matchup in particular, especially with how good Canada is on
Speaker 2: the perimeter defensively, Like, playing two bigs could really gum
Speaker 2: things up for you offensively, and like because you Buslize
Speaker 2: just a little more skilled offensively, can catch and finish
Speaker 2: a lot better, can knock down three point shots. It
Speaker 2: just kind of gave them a more dynamic front court
Speaker 2: with those two guys. I thought that was the right call.
Speaker 2: Last note from this game. Jamal Murray was legitimately awful.
Speaker 2: He had He had seven points on thirteen shots. He
Speaker 2: had one assists and three turnovers. That's not good when
Speaker 2: you have thirteen shot attempts in three turnovers and it
Speaker 2: generates literally what nine points, Like that's just not going
Speaker 2: to get it done. He came out the game, it's
Speaker 2: like right when he checked into the game. He was
Speaker 2: over penetrating and then trying to throw these like cross
Speaker 2: body passes that French dudes were just shooting the gap
Speaker 2: and getting steals and running out in transition the other way.
Speaker 2: He can't get separation. He's not hitting his jump shot.
Speaker 2: He just looks slow and he looks out of shape, which,
Speaker 2: like I've been telling you guys, like some of the
Speaker 2: stuff I hear from the people that I trust, who
Speaker 2: are Denver fans and who cover the Nuggets, Like that's
Speaker 2: kind of the thing on Jamal right now, is he
Speaker 2: kind of shows up to this kind of stuff out
Speaker 2: of shape and tries to play his way into shape,
Speaker 2: and it's really bitting him on the ass in this
Speaker 2: tournament here at the Olympics. So it looks like the
Speaker 2: game is moving too faster. I'm not sure if it's conditioning.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if it's an injury that we're not
Speaker 2: sure about or what's going on. But like i'd be
Speaker 2: a little I'd be just a little bit worried about
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray if I was a Nuggets fan. Hopefully the
Speaker 2: embarrassment from this tournament leads him to really hit the
Speaker 2: gym hard over the course in the next couple of
Speaker 2: months so that he can come into camp ready to
Speaker 2: rock and.
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Speaker 2: Serbia Australia. Australia came a red hot. They were getting
Speaker 2: a ton of jumper, especially from the midrange. Both Patty
Speaker 2: Mills and Josh Kitty had all those like little pick
Speaker 2: and roll shots going like the Giddy's floater. Paddy Mills
Speaker 2: is like little like kind of drifting short mid range
Speaker 2: jump shots, and Australia went up by twenty four points
Speaker 2: in the first half. They for the game got one
Speaker 2: point two to two points per jump shot and Serbia
Speaker 2: only got zero point eighty seven. So that was kind
Speaker 2: of the big swing factor in this particular game is
Speaker 2: just Serbia didn't shoot well and Australia shot super well.
Speaker 2: But Serbia slowly worked their way back into it. They
Speaker 2: really stepped up their defensive pressure on the perimeter. This
Speaker 2: is something I've been impressed with Serbia through this entire
Speaker 2: tournament and even into the exhibitions, Like for a team
Speaker 2: that doesn't have a lot of athleticism on the perimeter,
Speaker 2: they play really hard and they do actually they actually
Speaker 2: can be pretty disruptive just with the level of intensity
Speaker 2: that they bring on the perimeter. Jokic stepped up his
Speaker 2: defensive pressure. He was really active in a high drop coverage.
Speaker 2: Instead of like dropping back and letting Giddy and Paddy
Speaker 2: Mills get into the short range, he was up at
Speaker 2: the level being active with his hands that actually ended
Speaker 2: up leading into switches which became a big deal in
Speaker 2: crunch time, which we'll get to in a minute. The
Speaker 2: other thing that really spearheaded the Serbia comeback was the
Speaker 2: offensive glass. They had ten offensive rebounds on the second
Speaker 2: and third quarters while they were making the comeback. Just
Speaker 2: really really really aggressive to the rim. Guys just making
Speaker 2: extra efforts tap out rebounds, that kind of stuff, just
Speaker 2: buying extra possessions as they tried to generate chaos to
Speaker 2: get to get back in the game. They ended up
Speaker 2: cutting the lead to sixty to fifty nine with a
Speaker 2: couple of threes, and then the game really settled into
Speaker 2: like kind of a classic rock fight from there. It
Speaker 2: was tied at seventy eight after a Josh Gitty left
Speaker 2: corner three, and then Josh Gitty foolishly just hacked down
Speaker 2: on Vascilla Jay Michich on a three point shot towards
Speaker 2: the end of the shot clock that puts Serbia up
Speaker 2: eighty one to seventy eight. Josh Gitty ends up hitting
Speaker 2: this like kind of crazy, one legged, floating rising jump
Speaker 2: shot on the left side of the floor that cuts
Speaker 2: it to eighty one eighty and then it turned into
Speaker 2: classic rock fight basketball where like neither team could get
Speaker 2: a bucket, Butgdanovich missed a mid range shot. Michitch missed
Speaker 2: a mid range shot. On the other end, ge he
Speaker 2: missed one of his floaters that he usually makes. Patty
Speaker 2: Mills missed a pretty tough shot from the mid range,
Speaker 2: so it's kind of just like stuck in the mud.
Speaker 2: And then Nikolejokic made a big play it got a
Speaker 2: guard on a switch and hit him with a spin
Speaker 2: move and that kind of forced Jack Landial to step
Speaker 2: up a little bit, so he threw a really nice
Speaker 2: over the top pass to a baseline cutter who I
Speaker 2: think was Vascilla Jaymestitch. Again, he ended up going one
Speaker 2: for two from the line, so Serbia was up eighty
Speaker 2: two to eighty and then Patty Mills gets Nikole Jokic
Speaker 2: on a switch and hits. Jokis defended it really well,
Speaker 2: like straight up smothered him on like a step back
Speaker 2: eighteen footer from the left, elbow extended and Patty just
Speaker 2: sunk the shot. There was a throwback Patty Mills night.
Speaker 2: You got a tip of the cap to him. He
Speaker 2: had twenty six points in this one that sent the
Speaker 2: game to ot and then Australia came out really hot
Speaker 2: and o Tea we're hitting shots, and they were actually
Speaker 2: up by three with about two and a half minutes
Speaker 2: left after Josh Giddy hit another big step back three
Speaker 2: over yokicch in a switch, and that's where Jokic really
Speaker 2: took over the game from when Australia went up I
Speaker 2: think they went up ninety to eighty seven, and then
Speaker 2: Yokic just completely takes over the game. He gets a
Speaker 2: couple of huge stops on switches, he gets Giddy. Giddy
Speaker 2: had just hit a step back three on him right,
Speaker 2: so this time he like pressed up a little bit
Speaker 2: and kind of shaded his right hand because if he
Speaker 2: forces him to the left, Giddy always likes to get
Speaker 2: back to that right hand to finish because he really
Speaker 2: likes to go to the floater. So he kind of
Speaker 2: like shaded up on Giddy's left hand up high enough
Speaker 2: to contest the step back that forced Giddy to drive,
Speaker 2: made a couple of really nice slides to beat him
Speaker 2: to the spot, and then when Giddy went back to
Speaker 2: his right hand on the right on the left side
Speaker 2: of the rim, Jokicic was able to easily block that
Speaker 2: shot that actually led to a runout the other way
Speaker 2: and a foul so Serbia cut it to ninety to
Speaker 2: eighty nine. So basically like a four point swing on
Speaker 2: Nikole Jokic making a huge play on a switch. Then
Speaker 2: he gets another huge stop. This time he gets Patty
Speaker 2: Mills could switched down on Patty Mills, and this was
Speaker 2: where kind of FEEBA rules took over. Patty actually beat
Speaker 2: Yolkic off the dribble, got all the way the rim
Speaker 2: and had an easy layup and it would have gone in,
Speaker 2: but the layup had some spin on it. It was
Speaker 2: coming around the rim. It was gonna kind of toilet
Speaker 2: bowl its way into the basket. Jokic makes an extra effort,
Speaker 2: comes flying in and swats the ball off the top
Speaker 2: of the rim. It's just kind of an unusual play
Speaker 2: that you're not used to seeing in the NBA, obviously
Speaker 2: with the rules, but huge. Another huge play from Jokic
Speaker 2: to get a stop against Patty Mills, and then Jokic
Speaker 2: actually went down and turned it over. Patty Mills goes down,
Speaker 2: Jokic swipes it from Patty Mills again, So even though
Speaker 2: it was off of a Jokic mistake, three massive defensive
Speaker 2: plays from Nikola Jokic in a row, and then there
Speaker 2: was kind of like a little bit of a chaotic sequence,
Speaker 2: a little two man game on the left wing with
Speaker 2: Jokic that works downhill, hit a baseline cutter. As the
Speaker 2: baseline cutter came around, Jokic relocated right to kind of
Speaker 2: the front of the rim. Baseline cutter dropped it off
Speaker 2: the Yokic he hit his patented little left shoulder hook
Speaker 2: that he hits like seventy five percent of the time,
Speaker 2: and that put Serbia up by one. And then Giddy
Speaker 2: actually ended up getting Yokic on a switch again and
Speaker 2: wanted nothing to do with it as soon as you
Speaker 2: got your because on the switch, he just picked up
Speaker 2: his ribble, passed out of it and McVeigh ended up
Speaker 2: missing a baseline jump shot for Australia, and then Jokich
Speaker 2: just ice is the game on the right block patented
Speaker 2: Nikole Jokic left shoulder one like fadeaway or the Somber
Speaker 2: shuffle as you guys know it, where he kind of
Speaker 2: fades over his left shoulder but then steps back and
Speaker 2: comes off and lifts his left knee up and just
Speaker 2: hits that little drifting jumper on the baseline that puts
Speaker 2: Serbia up three Australia turned it over on the inbounds
Speaker 2: on the other end of the floor, and Australia is
Speaker 2: eliminated and Serbia is advancing to the semi finals. Just
Speaker 2: jokis just classic best player in the world. Stuff there
Speaker 2: down the stretch of that game is really really fun
Speaker 2: to watch as Serbia advances. And then the last game.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna spend too much time on this one
Speaker 2: because I only caught the second half of it, but
Speaker 2: Grease was up by five at one point in the
Speaker 2: mid third third quarter, and Franz Wagner like really really
Speaker 2: looked good down the stretch of this game, super confident
Speaker 2: with his jump shot. All of a sudden in the
Speaker 2: second half. He hasn't shot well in Fiba, but he
Speaker 2: hit a huge step back three, had a really like
Speaker 2: right shoulder fade away like tough shots like he had
Speaker 2: another kind of like spinning left shoulder hook on another
Speaker 2: drive on the left side. These were those like little
Speaker 2: mid range shots that he was missing in the Cavs series.
Speaker 2: And so between that and just how confident he looked
Speaker 2: hunting his jump shot, he got fouled on a step
Speaker 2: back three on the left wing, where like he confidently
Speaker 2: went into it and the defender knew he felt good,
Speaker 2: so he was like really out on it and he
Speaker 2: ended up drawing a foul. I thought that was kind
Speaker 2: of encouraging, even in a very small sample size, just
Speaker 2: because of how poor of a shooting season froanz Wagner
Speaker 2: had last year and how poor he shot the ball
Speaker 2: in Foba up until this particular game. And Germany defended
Speaker 2: Giannis really well. They built the wall, they got back
Speaker 2: on transition, they rotated to shooters, and they've looked really
Speaker 2: good in the tournament. Like I mentioned earlier, they have
Speaker 2: been the second best overall defense in the tournament behind USA.
Speaker 2: My predictions for the semi finals, Germany is a four
Speaker 2: and a half point favored over France. They're the better team,
Speaker 2: especially with their perimeter initiators like franz Wagner and Dennish
Speaker 2: are just a level above what you're gonna get in
Speaker 2: terms of like Evan forty a and Frank Melaquina and
Speaker 2: those guys initiating offense for France. But then again, like
Speaker 2: the home court advantage thing and just how hard France
Speaker 2: plays on defense, I could see that game going either way.
Speaker 2: Germany is a four and a half point favorite. I
Speaker 2: will pick Germany for now, but I could see that
Speaker 2: game going either way. And then, like I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 2: USA is a seventeen and a half point favorite against Serbia.
Speaker 2: Worth mentioning, both of the first two matchups between Serbia
Speaker 2: and the USA were pretty close for the first half,
Speaker 2: and then generally they've played USA really close with Jokic
Speaker 2: on the floor, so look for Jokic to step up
Speaker 2: as minutes. Look for that to be a really physical
Speaker 2: and intense game. But Tisa, I expect to really put
Speaker 2: their foot to the pedal to the metal, and they're
Speaker 2: just playing really good basketball right now, so I think
Speaker 2: they'll end up getting it done, and I think we'll
Speaker 2: end up getting USA Germany in the final. All right, guys,
Speaker 2: that is all I have for today is always to
Speaker 2: sincerely appreciate you guys for supporting the show. We're gonna
Speaker 2: be back on Thursday to cover the semi finals and
Speaker 2: then again on Saturday to cover the final and do
Speaker 2: a mailbag, and then don't forget, we start our player
Speaker 2: ranking stuff next week. I will see you guys.
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