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Speaker 1: You're at the volume. Happy Wednesday, everybody. If all of
Speaker 1: you guys are having a great week so far, just
Speaker 1: got to do an instant reaction to the Golden State
Speaker 1: Warriors bouncing back from a humiliating loss to the Boston
Speaker 1: Celtics by beating the shit out of the Milwaukee Bucks.
Speaker 1: What a great way to kind of cleanse the palate
Speaker 1: and kind of reset things as they get back on track.
Speaker 1: I was really impressed in general, with just the Warriors'
Speaker 1: attitude coming out of that game to just kind of
Speaker 1: flush it and move on. That's what a team that's
Speaker 1: got good leadership will do. And they rode a really
Speaker 1: strong defensive effort to win over the Bucks. We're gonna
Speaker 1: break that game down from the perspective of both teams.
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Speaker 1: let's talk some basketball. So really interesting matchups. To start
Speaker 1: this game, they go with the Warriors go with Draymond
Speaker 1: Green on Giannison ten and Kumpo, and they did a
Speaker 1: lot of switching when they could when it made sense.
Speaker 1: I clipped a few examples. I cliped a bunch of
Speaker 1: examples from this game in the strong defensive effort from
Speaker 1: Golden State, and when I'm referencing some of these plays,
Speaker 1: go to my Twitter feed at underscore Jason LT you'll
Speaker 1: get to see some examples. But the switching did a
Speaker 1: lot to stagnate some of the bucks off ball and
Speaker 1: on ball screening actions. They put Jonathan Minga on brook Lopez,
Speaker 1: and then whenever they said a ball screen with brook
Speaker 1: Lopez on Dame, they were blitzing him. And so since
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins was on Dame to start the game, you're
Speaker 1: getting like a blitz with two of the not just
Speaker 1: best athletes on the Warriors, but two of the best
Speaker 1: athletes in the league. And Andrew Wiggins and Jonathan Cominga
Speaker 1: just a ton of length on the basketball. They were
Speaker 1: rotating extremely well. One of the most important parts of
Speaker 1: rotating out of a blitz is as soon as the
Speaker 1: guy picks up his dribble there you know there's not
Speaker 1: a whole lot you can gain at that point, and
Speaker 1: so rotating out of that quickly is the best way
Speaker 1: to turn that four on three on the weak side
Speaker 1: back into a four on four and so they would
Speaker 1: blitz and then as soon as he'd pick up his dribble,
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins would bail out of there and they'd be
Speaker 1: able to get back into rotation. They force some turnovers
Speaker 1: out of that sort of thing. Just using their length
Speaker 1: on ball defense was the story of this particular game, though,
Speaker 1: both on Patrick Beverley and on and on Damian Lillard.
Speaker 1: Just chasing over the top of screens, applying that back pressure.
Speaker 1: You get done with Andrew Wiggins, here comes Gary Payton.
Speaker 1: Gary Payton just had some ridiculous defensive possessions on this
Speaker 1: in this game, just flying around screens, chasing Dame around.
Speaker 1: I cliped a few examples of those. You can find
Speaker 1: on my Twitter feed as well. And just the big
Speaker 1: thing with Dame is you just have to stay attached
Speaker 1: because that guy doesn't need too much space. It's similar
Speaker 1: to Steph and and you know, in this particular game,
Speaker 1: Dame was doing a lot of moving without the basketball
Speaker 1: to try to break open and all that pressure, especially
Speaker 1: in the situation that they were trying to get the
Speaker 1: basketball out of his hands. And I thought, really the
Speaker 1: theme of this game for Golden State was the matchup
Speaker 1: advantage they which is their overall speed. They are a
Speaker 1: young and athletic team relative to the talent that Milwaukee
Speaker 1: brings to the table, and they were able to weaponize
Speaker 1: that in every phase of the game. We talked about
Speaker 1: on the ball, we talked about blitzing, rotating like Even
Speaker 1: still to this day at his age, Draymond Green is
Speaker 1: one of the very best players in the league at
Speaker 1: sinking down into the lane to help on a drive
Speaker 1: and then sprint back out to the perimeter and get
Speaker 1: a late contest. He had several great contests of three
Speaker 1: point shots when he started before the pass with his
Speaker 1: foot in the paint. There was one that he actually
Speaker 1: blocked of Bobby Portis on the weak side, swarming on
Speaker 1: the glass, running down the floor in transition slipping out
Speaker 1: of ball screens. That was a big one in this
Speaker 1: particular game. Like the Milwaukee's preferred defensive setup and one
Speaker 1: of the main reasons why they've had a lot of
Speaker 1: success as of late. So they want to sit in
Speaker 1: a deep drop coverage right, so they want to keep
Speaker 1: Brooke as far back towards the basket as possible. That
Speaker 1: allows them to chase over the top and defend these actions.
Speaker 1: Two on two and then stay home off the ball.
Speaker 1: But Golden State blows that up in two different ways.
Speaker 1: First of all, they pull you up to the level
Speaker 1: of the screen. With guys the likes of Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: Klay Thompson, even Chris Paul Now is shooting the ball
Speaker 1: so much better than he did to start the season,
Speaker 1: and that pulls him. It pulls his defender, the screen defender,
Speaker 1: up to the level of the screen as that big guy.
Speaker 1: This is like a simple push and pull that takes
Speaker 1: place in basketball games. It's kind there's these little battles
Speaker 1: that are taking place all over the floor, whether it's
Speaker 1: rebounding at the point of attack. One of the big
Speaker 1: ones in a basketball game is how far are you
Speaker 1: pulling out the screen defender in your screening actions. If
Speaker 1: he's allowed to sit all the way back, then credibly
Speaker 1: your defender can chase over the top on the ball,
Speaker 1: and then as the rollman is coming towards you, you
Speaker 1: can credibly defend both right and as long as the
Speaker 1: on ball guy's not skilled enough to just torch you
Speaker 1: with pull up shots and floaters and stuff in the
Speaker 1: mid range, you can live with that type of coverage, right,
Speaker 1: But as soon as I have to come up to
Speaker 1: the level of the screen, all of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: rollman is wide open. It's a simple can get. You
Speaker 1: can envision it. Imagine Steph dribbling the basketball. The on
Speaker 1: ball defender is chasing him over the top of the screen.
Speaker 1: Brook or whoever it is, is up at the level.
Speaker 1: Bobby Port has got torched a ton in this game
Speaker 1: from showing out on the perimeter on shooters. As soon
Speaker 1: as that guy comes out, there's effectively a one on
Speaker 1: zero on the backside. As long as you can get
Speaker 1: that pass through, whether it's through a pocket pass or
Speaker 1: a looping pass over the top, or even sometimes you'll
Speaker 1: beat that with just a quick swing and then a
Speaker 1: pass to the role mans he's going towards the rim.
Speaker 1: The Warriors absolutely torched the Bucks on the role in
Speaker 1: this game, taking advantage of the Bucks screen defenders having
Speaker 1: to come up to the level. That's a great example
Speaker 1: of like how matchups play a role in basketball games
Speaker 1: you play against the Minnesota Timberwolves. The Minnesota Timberolves has
Speaker 1: been a better basketball team than the Warriors all year long,
Speaker 1: but just strictly from the same point of matchups, Milwaukee
Speaker 1: can get away with running a deep drop coverage against
Speaker 1: them because they don't have the guards that can punish
Speaker 1: them enough in those coverages. And then the second big
Speaker 1: piece of it is the off ball actions, right, So
Speaker 1: like staying glued up off the ball and defending actions
Speaker 1: one on one and two on two is a great
Speaker 1: way to force turnovers because as soon as that action
Speaker 1: starts to fail, that guy has to make a kickout pass.
Speaker 1: And as long as guys aren't helping, they're glued up
Speaker 1: and they're in passing lanes, you can force turnovers. One
Speaker 1: of the things that Golden State does is they're constantly
Speaker 1: moving without the basketball. There are not a lot of
Speaker 1: spot up possessions for the Warriors. In fact, they get
Speaker 1: the fourth fewest spot up possessions in the league. That's
Speaker 1: not a shot. You know, a drive and kick to
Speaker 1: a wide open shooter or driving kick to a close
Speaker 1: out opportunity is not exactly a commonplace thing that you'll
Speaker 1: see in the Golden State offense. They are a blender.
Speaker 1: They are constantly all five players moving, screening, passing, driving,
Speaker 1: it's a It is a blender. And so just because
Speaker 1: of having it, because of Milwaukee having to come up
Speaker 1: to the level of the screen, and because of Golden
Speaker 1: State's off ball action and player ball and player movement,
Speaker 1: it just caught Milwaukee into into a situation where they're
Speaker 1: speed just what I cloked a few examples that I
Speaker 1: think they're the last two plays on my on my
Speaker 1: thread that I made tonight of plays from this game,
Speaker 1: plays where you just saw Milwaukee literally look exhausted and slow.
Speaker 1: There was a play where Steph Curry split a pick
Speaker 1: and roll against Brook Lopez right before halftime, where Brooke
Speaker 1: literally looked like he was running in a sandball a
Speaker 1: volleyball court. Like you could just tell he was wiped out.
Speaker 1: He was exhausted, He just not used to moving around
Speaker 1: that much. And so that Golden State matchup is just
Speaker 1: a really tough one for Milwaukee, and it turned into
Speaker 1: an ass kicking pretty quickly there at the end of
Speaker 1: the first half. It was funny, I was I immediately
Speaker 1: sent out a tweet because I was blown away when
Speaker 1: I was watching the game live. And after the first quarter,
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers gets on the screen and goes like, Oh,
Speaker 1: they've had one hundred days off, and I'm like, they
Speaker 1: just came out of a pretty brutal stretch of their
Speaker 1: schedule and they just played on Sunday and had to
Speaker 1: fly all the way across the country to get back
Speaker 1: from that game. I'm like, I don't think, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think that fatigue is the reason why
Speaker 1: Golden State is playing harder than Milwaukee. In this game,
Speaker 1: I thought it was just a complete and total mis match.
Speaker 1: And by the way, this is going to be kind
Speaker 1: of like a theme around the league once you get
Speaker 1: off the top. Like the top teams in the league,
Speaker 1: teams like Boston and teams like Denver, they are so
Speaker 1: deep at various position groups that they hold up in
Speaker 1: various different types of matchups. Right, Like the Nuggets have
Speaker 1: the perimeter defenders to throw at the likes of a
Speaker 1: big forward like KD Kawhi Lebron, And they have the
Speaker 1: perimeter defenders to throw at guys like guys like Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: guys like KCP that can guard on the perimeter. Right Like,
Speaker 1: They've got interior size, they have shooting, they have shot creation,
Speaker 1: they have guys who can beat mismatches in the post.
Speaker 1: They have all these different types of players. Same thing
Speaker 1: goes for Boston, So they have like a lot of
Speaker 1: match up resiliency. So they play really fast team, they
Speaker 1: can handle it. They play a really big team, they
Speaker 1: can handle it. They play a power team, they can
Speaker 1: handle they play skill team, they can handle it. Once
Speaker 1: you get past that point, it's a lot of matchup
Speaker 1: related stuff right like a thunder or they're too small
Speaker 1: to guard the Lakers, right and they just continue to
Speaker 1: get pulverized on the interior every time in that match. Phoenix,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, like really struggles with the scrappy
Speaker 1: perimeter defense and speed that OKC brings and all of
Speaker 1: their ball pressure. They're a team that struggles to handle
Speaker 1: double teams and struggles to beat aggressive defensive coverages, and
Speaker 1: so they can cause damage there. And you're literally seeing
Speaker 1: that in this particular game, right, Like Milwaukee runs into
Speaker 1: a team like Minnesota, it's a bad matchup. They do
Speaker 1: like cause all sorts of problems and it ends up
Speaker 1: being an issue. At Golden State, for instance, like can
Speaker 1: thrive in matchups like this, But teams that have a
Speaker 1: lot of really good guard defenders that they can really
Speaker 1: fatigue Steph and challenge the shot creation and the rest
Speaker 1: of the roster, they can run into issues where their
Speaker 1: offense stalls out and they have some problems. So like,
Speaker 1: this is kind of the reality of this middle tier
Speaker 1: of the league once you get past Boston and Denver,
Speaker 1: all of these teams are like they're good at some things,
Speaker 1: they're bad at some things, and these are the areas
Speaker 1: for improvement, and these are the things they have to
Speaker 1: get better at if they want to have a chance
Speaker 1: in the postseason. And that's gonna be a big one
Speaker 1: for Milwaukee. It's like, are they going to be able
Speaker 1: to handle a team that can really spread them out
Speaker 1: and pull brook Lopez out onto the perimeter where his
Speaker 1: lack of foot speed and the overall lack of foot
Speaker 1: speed on the roster can become an issue. I had
Speaker 1: a couple other big guys I wanted to shout out
Speaker 1: for for Golden State when when Milwaukee went on their
Speaker 1: run there to start the third quarter, Tray Jackson Davis
Speaker 1: came in and just completely retook control of the game.
Speaker 1: And he's such a great example to me of the
Speaker 1: advantage of a high motor athlete in the over the
Speaker 1: course of a regular season. Like when you have a
Speaker 1: guy who will just run the damn floor as hard
Speaker 1: as he possibly can on both ends, and that on
Speaker 1: the defensive end is going to make extra efforts and
Speaker 1: jump out of his shoes to try to make out
Speaker 1: of area defensive plays and things and Moses or excuse me,
Speaker 1: Trey Jackson. Davis can get himself into a little bit
Speaker 1: of trouble there with overhelping. There was a play in
Speaker 1: the first half of this game where there was a
Speaker 1: baseline drive I want to say it was Pat Connaton
Speaker 1: driving along the right side and Brandon Pitzemski kind of
Speaker 1: had him on his hip and he just like hard
Speaker 1: helped and then a content made a drop off pass
Speaker 1: to Bobby Ports who it dunked it, and like, those
Speaker 1: are some of the downsides of that type of overwhelming
Speaker 1: athletic activity, right, but like for the most part, the
Speaker 1: good will outweigh the bad many times over. And like
Speaker 1: he was blocking shots and then he'd run down the
Speaker 1: other end. A key element in that when the screener
Speaker 1: a screen defender is coming up to the level of screen,
Speaker 1: you gotta roll quickly. If you don't like, get out
Speaker 1: as soon as you see your screen defender start to
Speaker 1: show you've done your job. You've brought the second defender
Speaker 1: into play. Nothing else matters at that point. You need
Speaker 1: to get behind the play as fast as possible. You
Speaker 1: need to turn have your head in your hands ready,
Speaker 1: and Trace just does a really good job of bailing
Speaker 1: out of those screens early and making himself available at
Speaker 1: the rim. He's got great hands, he finishes really well.
Speaker 1: He's already starting to build like some real chemistry with
Speaker 1: Chris Paul, and he just knows to keep his head
Speaker 1: on a swivel and be ready for those passes because
Speaker 1: sometimes he's beating him on a slip, some times he's
Speaker 1: beating him on a roll. Sometimes he's getting in with
Speaker 1: the bounce pass, sometimes he's getting in with the over
Speaker 1: the top pass. And he's just starting to figure out
Speaker 1: where he's supposed to be in all those situations. And
Speaker 1: from there, Moses Moody and Jonathan Kaminga came in to
Speaker 1: start the fourth quarter or we're on the floor to
Speaker 1: start that fourth quarter and just did a ton of
Speaker 1: damage with their ball pressure on the perimeter, getting deflections,
Speaker 1: getting out in transition. They like you could just see
Speaker 1: it in the in the in the big picture stats
Speaker 1: throughout the game of the Warriors outscored the Bucks nineteen
Speaker 1: to ten. In transition, they won the points in the
Speaker 1: and that's fast break points. By the way, they're just
Speaker 1: runouts of have to check Synergy tomorrow to see what
Speaker 1: the actual transition numbers points in the paint. Fifty four
Speaker 1: to thirty six. That is a classic example of the
Speaker 1: type of damage that Golden State can do to teams
Speaker 1: in the paint when they struggle to guard on the perimeter,
Speaker 1: because like that's the thing. You can sag back all
Speaker 1: you want, but you're just gonna get absolutely you know,
Speaker 1: Flambay by the likes of Klay Thompson and Steph Curry
Speaker 1: and Chris Paul, those guys are professional drop cover destroyers, right,
Speaker 1: and so like that's the game you play. And they
Speaker 1: just they pulled Milwaukee's slower foot speed guys out to
Speaker 1: the perimeter, torched him on the back line, torched him
Speaker 1: in transition, and then again that just scrappy, energetic defensive
Speaker 1: effort on the other end of the floor at all
Speaker 1: three levels of the defense to put the game away.
Speaker 1: One last note on the Warriors side of things. Chris
Speaker 1: Paul is a floor general, but now adding the reliable
Speaker 1: three point shot right, Like Chris Paul was already doing
Speaker 1: such a good job of running bench unit's to start
Speaker 1: the season, just because he's so good at organizing players
Speaker 1: and he's just going to find the low hanging fruit
Speaker 1: that exists in games now when you get into a
Speaker 1: tight game at the end and it's all the starters
Speaker 1: on the floor. Now, with Chris's age limitations, he might
Speaker 1: not be as effective as he was in the prime
Speaker 1: of his career right, but at this phase in his
Speaker 1: career he can still be super effective just as a
Speaker 1: game manager in the middle portions of games. But that
Speaker 1: was without him having the ability to make teams pay
Speaker 1: consistently by hitting the three point and he's come out
Speaker 1: guns blazing since he's come back from his injury. Hit
Speaker 1: a couple of massive threes in the first half of
Speaker 1: this game to help build out the lead. A lot
Speaker 1: of encouraging stuff on that front. I said after the
Speaker 1: Celtics game, like, you gotta the Celtics and the Nuggets
Speaker 1: are a problem for another day. If you're gonna beat
Speaker 1: the Celtics and the Nuggets, you have to get so
Speaker 1: much better at so many little things, and you have
Speaker 1: some time to do that. You've got a month and
Speaker 1: change potentially depending on how the matchups break out before
Speaker 1: you have to do that right now, I think Golden
Speaker 1: State is good enough to beat anybody else in the
Speaker 1: league as long as they you know, as long as
Speaker 1: they get a bunch of as long as they get
Speaker 1: reliable play from the guys that are currently in their rotation,
Speaker 1: and Steph plays up to the level that we all
Speaker 1: know he's capable of playing, and with their experience, with
Speaker 1: their athleticism, as long as they don't you know, like
Speaker 1: self combust, they've got a chance to be anybody else
Speaker 1: in the league. So those the Denver and Boston problem
Speaker 1: is a problem for another day. You just got to
Speaker 1: focus on getting through each game, one game at a time.
Speaker 1: You got your ass kicked by Boston. Boston, by the way,
Speaker 1: like there's such a high power three point shooting team
Speaker 1: or just jump shooting team in general. It's crazy. Like
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many times as of late,
Speaker 1: I'll like scout a Celtics game and as I'm looking
Speaker 1: through the tape, you know, I do both, Like I
Speaker 1: pore over the tape, then I go into the numbers
Speaker 1: and I'll look in the numbers and I'll be like,
Speaker 1: holy shit, they took fifty something jump shots and got
Speaker 1: like one point four eight points per jump shot. Like,
Speaker 1: that's the thing. Boston is capable of going super cold.
Speaker 1: We just saw them do it against Cleveland during that
Speaker 1: collapse from nine minutes left when they were up twenty two,
Speaker 1: they missed every single jump shot they took the rest
Speaker 1: of the game, every single one of them. So, like
Speaker 1: we all know that that's something that can happen to Boston,
Speaker 1: but they also are capable of just making everything and
Speaker 1: whipping your ass. And Golden State's not the first team
Speaker 1: to run into that particular problem. And when you combine
Speaker 1: that with like the issue with Steph just kind of
Speaker 1: getting off two cold start, things just got off the
Speaker 1: rails quickly. But a really nice job from the leaders
Speaker 1: in that locker room of flushing that down and just
Speaker 1: going home against another really good opponent that's riding a
Speaker 1: high streak and getting a dominant win at home on
Speaker 1: the Bucks front. I want to give them some credit
Speaker 1: for their huge win against the Clippers. I actually watched
Speaker 1: this one. I was having dinner. My wife was out
Speaker 1: of town this last week for work, and went to
Speaker 1: dinner with my father in law. Caught the Clippers Bucks
Speaker 1: game on what would have that been Monday night, and
Speaker 1: I was really really impressed by their fight in that
Speaker 1: particular game. Clippers brought it. They were up the majority
Speaker 1: of the night, and then in that second half big run.
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard was incredible in that game. And one of
Speaker 1: the things I talked about a lot in the early
Speaker 1: part of the season is like Dame's role fundamentally on
Speaker 1: this team is different than what it was in Portland,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of guys that look to shoot
Speaker 1: on this team, Like Brooke has a little bit of
Speaker 1: a green light, you know, Chris Milton obviously is a
Speaker 1: guy who looks to get his touches and his opportunities.
Speaker 1: You know. Jannis obviously is you know, the second or
Speaker 1: third best player in the league, and he's got a
Speaker 1: lot of you know, offensive usage coming his way. And
Speaker 1: so I think that combined with just the different floor setup,
Speaker 1: just playing with two giant players that teams have a
Speaker 1: tendency to help off of versus what it was like
Speaker 1: when he was in Portland, Like there's just been a
Speaker 1: lot of adjustment. And I really do think that that
Speaker 1: game against the Clippers, like Yannis off the floor, no pressure,
Speaker 1: You're expected to lose this game, Like just go out
Speaker 1: and play and see what happens. I think that went
Speaker 1: a long way to helping Dame kind of get his rhythm.
Speaker 1: And he followed that up tonight with a game where
Speaker 1: he went five for ten from three and hit a
Speaker 1: bunch of his like difficult like off the dribble, step
Speaker 1: back type of shots, those Dame shots that were accustomed
Speaker 1: to seeing him make. And I thought that that last
Speaker 1: two games in general is a good step forward for Dame.
Speaker 1: Again on the defensive end, I really just think is
Speaker 1: a bad matchup from Milwaukee Brook in particular, Like he's
Speaker 1: like Brook is one of those guys where like they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to be really careful about what matchups look
Speaker 1: like when they get to the postseason. Now, thankfully in
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference, there isn't really a team that brings
Speaker 1: maybe Miami, but their shooters aren't as good. But like
Speaker 1: Miami's the one team you think of that might put
Speaker 1: them in that type of blender where Brook could become
Speaker 1: a problem. But yeah, it's just like that's one of
Speaker 1: those things, like certain teams that can bring Broke out
Speaker 1: to the perimeter at this phase of his career is
Speaker 1: just a little too slow to hang out there. But overall,
Speaker 1: I mean this kind of like if you're a Bucks fan,
Speaker 1: like you didn't expect to beat the Clippers and you did,
Speaker 1: and then you ran into a challenge on the road.
Speaker 1: And Golden State is always a tough team because they
Speaker 1: play so different from everybody else in the league, and
Speaker 1: so they really are a buzzsaw if you're not prepared
Speaker 1: for them, especially when you factor in the bad matchup
Speaker 1: element of it. So really big win for Golden State.
Speaker 1: Lots of challenges on the horizon in the next week
Speaker 1: or two for the Bucks. We're going to be covering
Speaker 1: some of those. I think they playing the Lakers on
Speaker 1: Friday night, and we'll be covering that game at some point.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure we're covering it that night, but we'll
Speaker 1: be covering it either over the weekend or on Monday.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, that is all I have for tonight.
Speaker 1: As always, I sincerely appreciate you guys for supporting this show.
Speaker 1: I am back tomorrow night actually for NBA Finals preview
Speaker 1: potentially between the Denver Nuggets and the Boston Celtics, both
Speaker 1: teams coming off of a disappointing loss, so it should
Speaker 1: be a really fun one. I think both teams are
Speaker 1: really going to go for it. That's going to be
Speaker 1: an all timer. I will be there on YouTube after
Speaker 1: the final buzzer. I hope I'll see you guys there too.
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