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Speaker 1: out of this right corner here. Okay, but does de

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Speaker 1: Jontay Murray's going to rotate. But at this point, this

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Speaker 1: is classic Celtics basketball. The Celtics all season long have

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Speaker 1: made the extra pass, the right extra pass when the

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Speaker 1: defense is in rotation to get those wide open threes.

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Speaker 1: So this is a wide open three for Derek White

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Speaker 1: that he makes that Drew Holliday is going to get

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Speaker 1: credit for the assist. For Drew Holliday is essentially the

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Speaker 1: advantage extender by making the IQ to the next guy

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Speaker 1: in the chain. Derek White's our play finisher. But Jalen

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Speaker 1: Brown is the guy that got the defense in rotation there.

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Speaker 1: Here's another example. Against the Knicks, We're going to get

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Speaker 1: a double team of Jalen Brown at the right corner

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Speaker 1: kind of starting in transition. So Jalen Brown is Jalen

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Speaker 1: Brunson on him, He's backing him down. Dante DiVincenzo comes

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Speaker 1: into the double team. Okay, so as the double team comes,

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Speaker 1: this is a rotation that's already happening with Precious Techua.

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Speaker 1: He is rotating to Derek White. But one of the

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Speaker 1: things I talk about a lot on the show are

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Speaker 1: the idea of baked in driving lanes. Because Precious Achuwa

450
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Speaker 1: is closing out hard at Derek White's left shoulder, there

451
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Speaker 1: is an automatic baked in driving lane to Derek White's

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Speaker 1: strong hand, his right hand side. See how he just

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Speaker 1: catches and drives. Precious rotated, but because he's rotating from

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Speaker 1: Derek White's left hand side, there's that automatic read there

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Speaker 1: for him. So now as Derek White gets through, because

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Speaker 1: there was in the rotation, if we go back, look,

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Speaker 1: so originally Josh Hart is on Drew Holliday here in

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Speaker 1: the corner right. But as soon as the double team happens,

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Speaker 1: watch everybody rotate. So Precious goes to Derek White, Isaiah

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Speaker 1: Hartenstein goes to Tatum, Josh Hart goes to chrisops Porzingis.

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Speaker 1: So now Derek White is now making that advantage extending play.

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Speaker 1: He's taking the read, which is the baked in right

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Speaker 1: hand driving lane, and he's immediately identifying that Jalen Brunson,

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Speaker 1: in his rotation out of Jalen Brown, has not covered

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Speaker 1: much ground, and that Josh Hart is engaged with Porzingis,

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Speaker 1: and that Drew Holliday is the wide open shooter on

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Speaker 1: the weak side. Makes the read. Drew Holliday makes the

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Speaker 1: shot once again. Jalen Brown the advantage creator, Derek White

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Speaker 1: the advantage extender, Drew Holliday the play finisher. We got

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Speaker 1: one more and then we'll be out of here for

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Speaker 1: the Celtics. At least this time, we're going to get

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Speaker 1: a post up of of Jalen Brown against Jalen Brunson

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Speaker 1: here on the left block, same sort of thing. We

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Speaker 1: get the double from one pass away, but the Knicks

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Speaker 1: pre rotate, so here comes Josh Hart. But as we

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Speaker 1: can see, boy On mcdonovich is rotating up to Tatum here,

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Speaker 1: and it's the same sort of thing we talked about earlier.

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Speaker 1: Tatum now is one of the best offensive players in

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Speaker 1: the world that's attacking not only a lesser defensive player,

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Speaker 1: but a lesser defensive player that just had to close

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Speaker 1: out from the weak side, and so Tatum basically just

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Speaker 1: hits him with a basic jab step move. Boom, And

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Speaker 1: as soon as he jabs, you can actually see boy

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Speaker 1: On take that hard step to the left. Boom, see

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Speaker 1: that little stutter step to the left, and then Tatum's

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Speaker 1: able to beat him to his left hand side and

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Speaker 1: get all the way to the rim for a layup.

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Speaker 1: Once again, same sort of thing. We have our advantage creator,

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Speaker 1: which is Jalen Brown with the post up double team.

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Speaker 1: Drew Holliday the advantage extender by making the read, and

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Speaker 1: then Jason Tatum the play finisher by beating a close

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Speaker 1: out attack getting all the way to the rim for

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Speaker 1: a layup again once again. Once again. We talked so

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Speaker 1: much about about Jason Tatum, and we talked so much

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Speaker 1: about Derek White and chrisopps Porzingis, and a lot of

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Speaker 1: times Jalen Brown kind of falls into the background, especially

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Speaker 1: after he had a pretty disappointing playoff run last year.

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Speaker 1: But the truth is he's only twenty seven years old

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Speaker 1: and he's still getting better. And you know, one of

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Speaker 1: the things I talk about a lot on the show

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Speaker 1: is you can add talent through the draft. You can

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Speaker 1: add talent through free agency, you can add talent through trades, right,

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Speaker 1: but one of the best ways to add talent is

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Speaker 1: just by improving the guys that you have in house.

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Speaker 1: And Jalen Brown is a better basketball player this year

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Speaker 1: than he was last year. He's playing better defense this

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Speaker 1: year than he did last year, and again he posted

508
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Speaker 1: up less than once per game last year. He's become

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Speaker 1: one of the higher volume post up players in the

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Speaker 1: league and he's very good at it, better than many

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Speaker 1: of his peers at the top of the league. He

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Speaker 1: is getting better. That is made Boston better. It's been

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Speaker 1: a big part of this and this late surge that

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Speaker 1: he's been on. And again we're not talking about like

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Speaker 1: last year where it was mostly Jason Tatum and Jalen

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Speaker 1: Brown doing the scoring. Christaps Porzingis is still averaging over

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Speaker 1: twenty points per game over this post All Star Game stretch.

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown has just stepped his game up to an

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Speaker 1: additional level from there. I think that again, all of

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Speaker 1: this is about margin for air. The Celtics have their weaknesses,

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Speaker 1: just like every other team in the league has weaknesses,

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Speaker 1: but they've dramatically increased their margin for Air this year

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Speaker 1: through the additions of krisps Porzingis and Drew Holliday and

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Speaker 1: also through the improvement of Jalen Brown as a shot creator.

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Speaker 1: All right, now we are going to move on to

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Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors and the and their win against

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Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets. So, as I talked about when we

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Speaker 1: talked about the Rockets the last time, I can't even

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Speaker 1: remember which team we were covering when we were talking

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Speaker 1: about the Rockets. But since since Alpha and Shangun got hurt,

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Speaker 1: they've basically brought a Men Thompson into the starting lineup

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Speaker 1: and started switching everything. That's been their way of dealing

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Speaker 1: with that specific issue. So one of the things that

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Speaker 1: is interesting with the switching defense is it's entirely type

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Speaker 1: of offensive attack, so there are advantages that come with switching. Right.

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Speaker 1: One of the advantages that comes with switching is you

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Speaker 1: can theoretically get ahead of screening actions. Right. So, screening

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Speaker 1: actions are designed when a player is trailing another player

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Speaker 1: in some way, shape or form. If you can make contact,

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Speaker 1: you can generate separation which can allow that player to

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Speaker 1: either get a shot or to get downhill and get

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Speaker 1: into the lane and make something happen. If the guy

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Speaker 1: comes off the screen and there's just another defender waiting

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Speaker 1: for him, it will shut down that action. And then

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the way that you beat that

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Speaker 1: offense or defense becomes very different. Against a traditional man

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Speaker 1: to man defense, where guys are staying glued to their

548
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Speaker 1: individual man and chasing over screens, it's so much more

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Speaker 1: about your execution in your offense. How well are you

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Speaker 1: setting screens, how well are guys taking advantage of the

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Speaker 1: openings that are created by those screening actions, Whereas when

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Speaker 1: we get to a switching attack, it gets very, very different.

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Speaker 1: And so I wanted to get into some of the

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Speaker 1: specific details of how Golden State beat Houston's switching attack

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Speaker 1: in that game last night. Now, I know the Warriors

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Speaker 1: have another game tonight against the Dallas Mavericks. Obviously we're

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Speaker 1: heading into our weekend. Golden State might go into Dallas

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Speaker 1: and get smacked tonight. Dallas will be favored, They're a

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Speaker 1: team that's been playing really good basketball. But I just

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Speaker 1: wanted to kind of even beyond the Warriors, just talk

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Speaker 1: about for any team around the league, specific examples of

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Speaker 1: how to beat a switching defense. So, first, the most

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Speaker 1: rudimentary form of beating a switching defense, which has to

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Speaker 1: do with your ability to beat your individual matchup in

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Speaker 1: one on one basketball. So this first one, we're going

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Speaker 1: to get Steph Curry isolating a men Thompson. So, starting

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Speaker 1: in transition, we're working our way down the floor. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna start with a little bit of foreshadowing here. So

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Speaker 1: Klay Thompson is going to run a ball screen with

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Speaker 1: Chase Jackson, Tray Jackson Davis. A men Thompson is on Clay,

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Speaker 1: Jabari Smith is on Tray Jackson Davis. We're gonna see

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Speaker 1: a little bit of foreshadowing for a concept we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about later having to do is slipping a

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Speaker 1: switching action. So in this case, if they're gonna switch,

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Speaker 1: Amn Thompson is gonna be guarding Tray Jackson Davis and

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Speaker 1: Jabari Smith is gonna be guarding Clay Thompson. Right, But

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Speaker 1: look at where Tray Jackson Davis is in terms of

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Speaker 1: his positioning. He is already before the switch has even

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Speaker 1: finished happening, he has inside position on a men Thompson.

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Speaker 1: Because a men Thompson was guarding Clay on the perimeter,

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Speaker 1: Trace has automatic room to slip, and so he slips

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Speaker 1: into that opening. Now Man is a good athlete, and

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Speaker 1: Dylan brooks off for some help, and so they're able

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Speaker 1: to kind of rotate out of it. But that's an

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Speaker 1: example of slipping out of a switch. We're gonna get

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Speaker 1: to a better example of that later. The ball gets

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Speaker 1: works back around. As you can see, Fred Van Vliet

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Speaker 1: is on Steph Curry, but he sets a little pined

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Speaker 1: down Frandrew Wiggins that gets Jalen Green on him, and

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Speaker 1: then he runs a little handoff type of thing with

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Speaker 1: Tray Jackson Davis here, and then as soon as he

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Speaker 1: comes off Tray Jackson Davis, there's a Men Thompson. So again,

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Speaker 1: all the actions that Houston ran, or that Golden State ran,

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Speaker 1: Houston was able to basically switch, get in front of

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Speaker 1: and shut down the advantage. When this sort of thing

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Speaker 1: happens and you look down and suddenly there's only seven

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Speaker 1: seconds on the shot clock, the only thing you can

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Speaker 1: do is beat your individual matchup. And Steph Curry again,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people talk about him is the greatest

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Speaker 1: shooter of all time, and that is what he is,

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Speaker 1: but that's such a oversimplification of what he does. He

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Speaker 1: is also one of the best drivers and finishers of

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Speaker 1: the basketball. He's an excellent passer, he's one of the

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Speaker 1: best off ball players. All these different things. We can

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Speaker 1: go on and on and on. But he just takes

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Speaker 1: a Men Thompson who's an excellent perimeter defender who slides

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Speaker 1: his feet really well, and just simply toasts him off

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Speaker 1: the dribble with the right to left crossover in a

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Speaker 1: nifty little shot in the lane. That's just beating your

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Speaker 1: individual matchup to beat a switching attack. This next one

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Speaker 1: very similar type of deal. Klay Thompson against a Men Thompson.

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Speaker 1: This is an offensive rebound out of a free throw.

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Speaker 1: Klay Thompson is Dylan Brooks. Dylon Brooks is probably the

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Speaker 1: best perimeter defender on Houston. So he's going to call

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Speaker 1: for a screen from Trace. We're gonna get another switch.

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Speaker 1: Trace is gonna clear. By the way, there was kind

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Speaker 1: of a little bit of a slip opportunity there again,

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Speaker 1: same type of over the top positioning I was talking about,

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Speaker 1: and Klay Thompson is just going to go to work

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Speaker 1: against a Men Thompson and take a little step back

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Speaker 1: jump shot over his right shoulderknock it. Down. Now, you

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Speaker 1: can beat your matchup in more than one way. You

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Speaker 1: don't have to just beat it scoring the basketball. This

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Speaker 1: is an example of Tray Jackson Davis beating his matchup

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Speaker 1: on the offensive glass. So he has Jeff Green on

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Speaker 1: him at this point in the possession. But we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get again a switch between Fred Van Vliet and Jabari Smith.

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Speaker 1: And then in that dribble handoff, Trace Jackson Davis gets

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Speaker 1: Jabari Smith switched on him. You can just tell by

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Speaker 1: looking here. Jabari Smith not as big as Jeff Green is.

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Speaker 1: So now Klay Thompson has Jeff Green on him, He's

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Speaker 1: going to work. Tray Jackson Davis immediately starts backing his

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Speaker 1: way in. Watch what Trace does. I've got this size advantage.

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Speaker 1: I'm working my way into the paint. I'm creating rebound positioning.

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Speaker 1: So now when the ball gets worked back out to

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Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins, Andrew Wiggins ends up taking a late pull

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Speaker 1: up three off the dribble. Here, Tray Jackson Davis once

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00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 1: again working his way in. Jabari Smith's trying to box

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Speaker 1: him out. TRACE's just bigger than him, bigger and stronger,

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Speaker 1: gets the offensive rebound, dunks it once again, winning a

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Speaker 1: match up one on one, just this time on the

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Speaker 1: offensive glass. So one of the core ways to beat

643
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Speaker 1: a switching defense is to beat your individual matchup. Now

644
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Speaker 1: our second way to beat a switching defense. One of

645
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Speaker 1: the things that happens with switching is it kind of

646
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Speaker 1: plays into the laziest tendencies of defenders. So, for instance,

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Speaker 1: let's just take a guy running off of a screen.

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Speaker 1: For instance, if a guy's running off of a screen

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Speaker 1: and he knows he has to chase, he's gonna run

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Speaker 1: like crazy to follow him over the top of the screen.

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Speaker 1: If he's chasing a guy to a screen and they're

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Speaker 1: going to switch it, he might stop running and be like, Okay,

653
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Speaker 1: my teammate's gonna take over. I can go ahead and

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Speaker 1: relax here for a second. And in that split second,

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Speaker 1: when teams start to relax in their switching scheme, you

656
00:32:53,520 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 1: can find openings. Let's look at some examples here. So

657
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Speaker 1: Steph Curry is going to come off in transition, we

658
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: get a cross match here. Jalen Green is guarding Tray

659
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Speaker 1: Jackson Davis on the screen. When Tray sets the screen,

660
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 1: notice Jalen Green jumps way out to the high side.

661
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Speaker 1: He's now way out on Steph Curry's high side. If

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Speaker 1: he was guarding Steph in isolation, he'd be positioned like

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Speaker 1: right here, but instead he's positioned way on Steph's right

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Speaker 1: hand side. So right as Jabari Smith clears out with

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Speaker 1: Tray Jackson Davis, Steph takes advantage of this baked in

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Speaker 1: driving lane to the left and then gets an easy

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Speaker 1: step back jump shot. See, he wouldn't even be able

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Speaker 1: to turn the corner like that as easily if Jalen

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Speaker 1: Green was actually squared up with him, But in the

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Speaker 1: switch he was keyed up on his right hand side.

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Speaker 1: Steph saw a baked in left hand driving lane. Now

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Speaker 1: look at Jalen Green's body positioning. He's taking a massive

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Speaker 1: recovery step towards the basket here, which gives Steph the

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Speaker 1: ability to get separation for the step back. Now, Jalen

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Speaker 1: Green still gets a contest because he's just an obscene athlete,

676
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Speaker 1: but that's a good look that Steph was able to

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Speaker 1: generate by taking advantage of a switch that had a

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Speaker 1: defender automatically out of position on his right hand side.

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Speaker 1: Here's my favorite example from the film session today. Tray

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Speaker 1: Jackson Davis and Dymonngreen. We're getting all kinds of deflections

681
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Speaker 1: defensively in this game too. I love having both of

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Speaker 1: them in the starting lineup. We're going to talk about

683
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Speaker 1: that in our mail bag when we get later on

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Speaker 1: in the show. All right, so this is a really

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Speaker 1: really interesting example of taking advantage of that laziness that

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Speaker 1: I talked about. Klay Thompson is right here, Jabari Smith

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Speaker 1: is guarding him, Jalen Green is guarding Draymond Green. Draymond

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Speaker 1: Green is going to signal for Clay Thompson is going

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Speaker 1: to run all the way through to this right hand

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Speaker 1: corner to look for a three point shot. But watch

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Speaker 1: what happens here. Draymond Green identifies it. Steph has eyes

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Speaker 1: on Clay. He sees him running through. Watch Jabari Smith

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Speaker 1: Junior immediately start pointing. Watch Jabari Smith here, you got him,

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Speaker 1: You got him. I'm done, I've done my job. I'm switching.

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Speaker 1: Where's Jalen Green? Though, Jalen Green is standing with Draymond

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Speaker 1: Green between him and where Clay's running to. So what

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Speaker 1: does Draymond Green do? He just screens his own man.

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Speaker 1: He screens his own man because Jabari Smith quit on

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Speaker 1: the play and so Klay Thompson's able to break wide

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Speaker 1: open in the corner. That's a great example of what

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about with laziness. You're capitalizing on the Again,

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Speaker 1: if Javari Smith was locking and trailing, there's no way

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Speaker 1: he relaxes here. He relaxes here because he's expecting his switch.

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Speaker 1: But the problem is Draymond Green. He's seen all this before.

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Speaker 1: The Warriors have seen all these schemes before. Draymond Green

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Speaker 1: identifies that Jabari Smith is giving up on the play,

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Speaker 1: and he knows his only job here is to screen

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Speaker 1: the guy that's supposed to switch onto Klay Thompson catch

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Speaker 1: him for a wide open three. Here's another very very

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Speaker 1: similar example. So Tray Jackson Davis is being guarded by

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Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks. He's pressuring the basketball bodied up with him

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Speaker 1: on his low side. Steph is backscreening for Draymond, which

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Speaker 1: is going to force Jabari Smith to switch on to

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Speaker 1: Steph Curry and Fred Van Vliet to take Draymond Okay

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Speaker 1: now from here. Once again, he's going to capitalize on

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Speaker 1: Jabari Smith quitting when he thinks the switch is coming.

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Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks is not in position to switch here. He's

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Speaker 1: engaged physically with Tray Jackson Davis. So Steph all he

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Speaker 1: has to do is run off and get the ball.

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Speaker 1: Jabari quits again. He quits because he's like, oh, I'm done.

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Speaker 1: I just have to get Tray Jackson Davis now. But

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Speaker 1: the problem is is Dylan Brooks was engaged with Tray

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Speaker 1: Jackson Davis. This buys Stephan opening for him to get

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Speaker 1: a three point shot. Alrighty, now the two more clips

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Speaker 1: I want to look at first bringing a second defender

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Speaker 1: and using a mismap to get the defense in rotation.

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Speaker 1: So Andrew Wiggans runs like he's gonna set a downscreen

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Speaker 1: on Fred van Vliet. This forces the switch. So now

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Speaker 1: Aman Thompson takes Curry and Wiggins heads Fred van Vliet.

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Speaker 1: Watch Steff immediately point he goes, we got our matchup.

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Speaker 1: We got Wiggins on Fred van Vliet. If you watch

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Speaker 1: it again, you can literally see them quickly identify boom

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Speaker 1: switch point give it to him in the post. They

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Speaker 1: make the post entry. All Wiggins has to do here

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Speaker 1: is back down. He draws Dylan Brooks in rotation. We

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Speaker 1: get a wide open three for Klay Thompson. Now Clay

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Speaker 1: actually misses this shot, but this isn't again getting the

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Speaker 1: defense into rotation. Once they're in rotation, the scheme doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter anymore. Right when the defense is loaded up the

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Speaker 1: switching versus the traditional coverages, that means everything in terms

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Speaker 1: of what you're gonna do next, But as soon as

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Speaker 1: the defense is in rotation, it's just driving kick basketball.

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Speaker 1: So one of the best ways to attack a switching

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Speaker 1: defense is just to find a mismatch and use that

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Speaker 1: to get the defense to lean that way or to

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Speaker 1: send a second defender over, and then just make the

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Speaker 1: appropriate kickout passes and play driving kick basketball from there.

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Speaker 1: And then our last one slipping the switch like we

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Speaker 1: talked about earlier. So Dylan Brooks is gonna miss another

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Speaker 1: three here working down the left side of the floor,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get his Steph Tray Jackson Davis ball screen. Now,

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Speaker 1: like we talked about earlier, Fred's on Steph Jabbari is

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Speaker 1: on Tray Jackson Davis. As soon as the screen is set,

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00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: watch Trace deliberately try to get behind Van vliet Boom,

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Speaker 1: not even trying to set a screen. There's no reason

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00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 1: for him to set a screen because they're gonna switch

757
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 1: it anyway, as soon as he's done this, Jabari is

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00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,839
Speaker 1: now on Steph. Fred van Vliet is now on him.

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00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: And because of that, because Klay Thompson is here on

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Speaker 1: the weak side and there's no room or there's no

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Speaker 1: defender here to help on this over the top pass,

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00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: he can slip into this opening. Steph identifies it immediately

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Speaker 1: throws the pass over the top. Dylan Brooks is guarding

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Speaker 1: Klay Thompson and he has no choice but to step

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Speaker 1: over now he stepped. Trace makes the excellent read to

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Speaker 1: Klay Thompson in the corner and he nails the three.

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Speaker 1: This is a team that's been a good defense most

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Speaker 1: of the year and that has been a pain in

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Speaker 1: the ass for a bunch of different reasons, and Golden

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Speaker 1: State just picked him apart. They had a one thirty

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Speaker 1: four point three offensive rating in that game despite having

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Speaker 1: twenty one turnovers. As a matter of fact, when you

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Speaker 1: actually look at shots that they took in the game,

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Speaker 1: that had a seventy three point one percent true shooting percentage,

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Speaker 1: which is like completely outrageous. It means in possessions where

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Speaker 1: they actually took a shot, their offensive rating was in

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Speaker 1: the high one forties. That's completely outrageous, and for a

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Speaker 1: team that's been struggling offensively for a while now, a

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Speaker 1: big part of it, Steph got going in this particular game.

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Speaker 1: That helps really smart high IQ basketball to beat a

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00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,839
Speaker 1: difficult scheme to beat, and a good example too of

782
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Speaker 1: just of just the ceiling this team is capable of

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00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: getting too off the strength of their IQ and how

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Speaker 1: much of an advantage that is when you get into

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Speaker 1: the postseason. We'll see what ends up happening against Dallas tonight.

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Speaker 1: We will be covering that game in the Monday Show

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Speaker 1: when we get back from the weekend. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: get to our mail bag before we get out of

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Speaker 1: here for the night. So our first question in a second,

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Speaker 1: I'm pulling up something for the mail bag. All right, So,

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Speaker 1: similar to how you did a breakdown on the Spurs,

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Speaker 1: can you maybe touch on the Bulls? Personally, I think

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Speaker 1: it's been time to move on from Zach and Vouch

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Speaker 1: and as much as I love him Dbo too, I

795
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 1: know the whole Lonzo trade slash injury derailed our plans

796
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Speaker 1: as we were the number one seed with everyone healthy,

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00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: and now these past two years have just been ugly. However,

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Speaker 1: there's hope. Ac obviously is a stud that can fit

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Speaker 1: any team. More importantly, though, I think both Kobe and

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Speaker 1: Io have shown that they are capable young backcourt to

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Speaker 1: build around. I went to school with Io, and I

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Speaker 1: just love to see him and Kobe take the reins

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Speaker 1: in a rebuild. I think it's time Chicago takes its

804
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: medicine and tears everything down. Your thoughts one hundred percent agree.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with I own Kobe. Obviously, I love the

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Speaker 1: dynamic because you guys know how I feel about the

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00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 1: ideal kind of configuration of a modern NBA backcourt. I

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00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 1: want a defensive minded guard and I want a skill guard.

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Speaker 1: That's the perfect configuration that I Owe and Kobe fall into. Also,

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Speaker 1: Kobe's having a really good season, and again when you

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Speaker 1: it goes beyond the box score numbers, this is his

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Speaker 1: first opportunity really to get high usage. To give you

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Speaker 1: an example, he only ran three hundred and twenty pick

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Speaker 1: and rolls last year. He's already at almost a thousand

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Speaker 1: this year. I think he's at like nine hundred and

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Speaker 1: ninety seven. So that goes to show you like this

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Speaker 1: is his first real opportunity with the basketball in his

818
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 1: hand shooting over forty percent on pull up jump shots.

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Speaker 1: That's substantial. And then also he's going to hit over

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Speaker 1: a thousand pick and rolls, and among all the players

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Speaker 1: in the league. Remember that's that that thousand pick and

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Speaker 1: roll liss is my high volume pick and roll list.

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Speaker 1: I look at those players at the end of the

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00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: season as a big indicator of shot creation. He's at

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Speaker 1: zero point ninety seven points per possession in like almost

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Speaker 1: one thousand pick and roll reps this year. That's really

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Speaker 1: good for a first time opportunity to do that. There

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Speaker 1: are guys, of course, there are guys that are more

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Speaker 1: efficient than him at that, and obviously you want to

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Speaker 1: see him crack over a point for possession probably by

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Speaker 1: next year, but for his first opportunity to do that,

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Speaker 1: to basically be a one point per possession pick and

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Speaker 1: roll shot creator, especially on a team that can struggle

834
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Speaker 1: with three point shooting from time to time, which is

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00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: an important part of spacing the floor for a pick

836
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Speaker 1: and roll attack, I think that's really impressive. And so

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Speaker 1: I think he has legitimately the potential to be a

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00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: number two on a really good team, but they do

839
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,799
Speaker 1: need a number one. So from there, again, like we

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00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:33,359
Speaker 1: talked about with the Wemby thing. First step, find out

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Speaker 1: who your number one is. Once you have a legitimate

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00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: number one, got to get a number two. Once you

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00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 1: have your number two. That's where I'm not necessarily a

844
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 1: believer in the three star build. Once you have two

845
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 1: legitimate star level players that both that are good enough

846
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 1: to be slotted the way that they're slotted, then you

847
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,919
Speaker 1: start targeting role players that accentuate their gifts. You don't

848
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: want to get out of order there. So, for instance,

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00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:57,839
Speaker 1: I know that the Bulls higher ups are super high

850
00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 1: on Alex Cruso. This is a similar thing that I've

851
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: seen around the league. The Brooklyn Nets are very high

852
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 1: on McHale Bridges. They love him. They view him as

853
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,280
Speaker 1: a culture guy. That's great, you don't have your stars yet,

854
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 1: and Mikal Bridges is not that guy. I don't think

855
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:13,799
Speaker 1: Michale Bridges is good enough to be a number two,

856
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 1: even unless he's alongside like a true top tier type

857
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 1: of superstar. Alex Crusoe one of my favorite players to

858
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 1: root for, such an like he was so underrated in

859
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 1: that Lakers title run. Was devastated when Jeanie Buss let

860
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,240
Speaker 1: him walk for nothing. I'm a huge fan of Alex,

861
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 1: but it doesn't make sense to have Alex Crusoe on

862
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,280
Speaker 1: your roster when he could be flipped for asset return

863
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: when you don't have a legitimate superstar yet. And so

864
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 1: that's where I agree with you. It's time to move

865
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:45,760
Speaker 1: from Zach, move from Bouc, move from Demarto Rosen. Caruso

866
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,720
Speaker 1: can get you a first round draft pick, maybe even two.

867
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 1: So like from that standpoint, you want to bring in

868
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 1: as much asset return as you can so that you

869
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: can use those assets either via through the either via

870
00:43:57,800 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: trade or through the draft to bring in the guy

871
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 1: who can be the Number one that you put next

872
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:05,240
Speaker 1: to Kobe White. So I agree. I actually enjoyed watching

873
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bulls this year. Tomarto Rosen is one of

874
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: my favorite players in the league to watch. He's turned

875
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:14,240
Speaker 1: into like a really savvy vet, an incredible playmaker. Always

876
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 1: kind of viewed him as a better basketball player than

877
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 1: Zach Lavine, but it's just this era has kind of

878
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 1: reached reached its personal ceiling, right, it's individual ceiling that

879
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 1: this era can get to, and so from there it's

880
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: time to rebuild. Love the io, Kobe backcourt. There great

881
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 1: to build around that. Just got to flip everything you

882
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: can for asset return. Again, you ought you either want

883
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 1: to be young and fun. You don't want to be

884
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 1: like old and mediocre. That like you want to be

885
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 1: young and bad as you're progressing towards building assets, or

886
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 1: young and good as you're progressing towards your future. The

887
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 1: worst thing you can be is old and mediocre. And

888
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 1: that's what the Bulls are at this point. It's time

889
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 1: to pivot towards their youth. All right, And next question,

890
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 1: do you think the Warriors should keep Trace Jackson Davis

891
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 1: in the starting lineup with Jonathan Kaminga coming back from

892
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 1: injury as they have seemed to found something defensively, or

893
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:05,759
Speaker 1: do you think Kaminga has to start? First of all,

894
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think who starts matters nearly as much

895
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: as how many minutes you get. I even talked about

896
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 1: this with Jovan Buja this morning. We were talking some

897
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: Lakers on his podcast and having to do with Jared

898
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,879
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt's return, like, oh, should Jared Vanderbilt start? Oh? Shoul

899
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 1: ruy Hatcha Mura start? And to me, none of that

900
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:21,919
Speaker 1: matters as long as all of them are playing really

901
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 1: big minutes, and as long as you close with the

902
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: right guys right and no one's saying necessarily that you're

903
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: going to close with Tray Jackson, Davis and Draymond every

904
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: single game. That's going to depend on the matchup. But

905
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:33,879
Speaker 1: that lineup has been killing everybody. They have forty nine

906
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: minutes under their belt so far, and they're outscoring opponents

907
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 1: by twenty eight point four points per one hundred possessions

908
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: over that span, a one to nineteen point three offensive rating,

909
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 1: which is off the charts good, in a ninety point

910
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 1: nine defensive rating, which is way off the charts good.

911
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 1: So like they're killing everybody with that group. Trace has

912
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: been so good defensively. He's such a good read and

913
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:54,439
Speaker 1: react player when he catches on the rolls. We talked

914
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: to about some of the reads that he made in

915
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets game in our film session earlier today.

916
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: Huge believer in Trace Jackson Davis. I would stick with

917
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: that starting lineup. Steve Kerr actually specifically stated in a

918
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,760
Speaker 1: press conference I want to say yesterday that his historical

919
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 1: preference has been to stick with the group that's working,

920
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 1: So I expect him to but again, as long as

921
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,280
Speaker 1: Jonathan Coming is still playing big minutes, it really doesn't matter.

922
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 1: All righty, our last question before we get out of here,

923
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 1: This actually isn't a question. I just wanted to throw

924
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: a couple of crazy Laker stats at you. So this morning,

925
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 1: prepping for my show with Jovan Buha, I wanted to

926
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Speaker 1: pull up some numbers from Lakers rotation stuff. One of

927
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 1: the things I complained about over the course of the

928
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: season was like, yeah, the Lakers have their issues, but

929
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 1: they're not making things any easier on themselves by playing

930
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 1: guys that aren't their best players. The consistent theme this

931
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,320
Speaker 1: year has been Torrian Prince and Cam Reddish in particular,

932
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 1: are guys that are like way down on their roster

933
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 1: in terms of their talent level compared to their peers,

934
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:53,879
Speaker 1: but they were like consistently towards the top and minutes played,

935
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 1: especially Torrian Prince and Ruy Hachimura, who is definitively one

936
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:00,840
Speaker 1: of their top five or six players, was like barely

937
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:04,760
Speaker 1: playing for much of the season. And I just this morning,

938
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: over some coffee, I ran a basic search on Basketball

939
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:10,840
Speaker 1: Reference and was completely appalled to find the results. So

940
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:12,319
Speaker 1: I wanted to show that to you, guys. So I'm

941
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 1: just going to put it on the screen here for

942
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Speaker 1: a second. So this graphic you guys are looking at here.

943
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 1: These are Ruey Hatcha Mura's eleven lowest point totals this year.

944
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 1: Excuse me, a minute totals this year. So as you

945
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 1: can see, in these eleven games he played fewer than

946
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 1: nineteen minutes. The Lakers went two to nine in those games.

947
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: They are thirty five and seventeen. When he plays more

948
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 1: than nineteen minutes, big shock. Playing your best players helps

949
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:46,760
Speaker 1: you win games. This is Torean Prince in his twenty

950
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:51,160
Speaker 1: six lowest minute outputs this year. What stands out to

951
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: you again, sorded by minute total his twenty six lowest

952
00:47:56,480 --> 00:48:00,920
Speaker 1: minute total games. They literally went twenty two to four,

953
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 1: twenty two and four. This is again he started more

954
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 1: than three times as many games this year. Or excuse me,

955
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 1: he started more games this year than he did in

956
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: the previous three seasons combined. He has been miscast for

957
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: the majority of this season as a high minute starter

958
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:22,399
Speaker 1: for the Lakers, when he's actually been like a two

959
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:25,400
Speaker 1: or three shift bench player everywhere else he's been, and

960
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 1: when he's been used like that the Lakers have been awesome,

961
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:30,560
Speaker 1: but it's been an issue throughout this season. I just

962
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: thought those stats were interesting. One last stat for you guys.

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00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:36,759
Speaker 1: The Lakers are twenty and eight since February first, a

964
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:38,800
Speaker 1: twenty eight game sample size, are roughly a third of

965
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: the season. That's the second best record in basketball over

966
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:46,319
Speaker 1: that span. And the crazy thing is, I'm pretty sure

967
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: they were the nine seed at that point, and here

968
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:50,800
Speaker 1: we are twenty and eight since then, and they're the

969
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 1: nine seed again. There's one reason why I'm bringing that up.

970
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:59,319
Speaker 1: You guys might remember that I said a prerequisite for

971
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 1: the Lakers to be taken seriously as a contender in

972
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:04,319
Speaker 1: my opinion, and I'll view them in the Boston Denver tier,

973
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: but I do view them in that tier right below that.

974
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 1: And the reason why is simple. I said they had

975
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 1: to demonstrate an extended stretch where they kicked everybody's butt

976
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,360
Speaker 1: and had a dominant record. We got that. We have

977
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:21,360
Speaker 1: a twenty to eight stretch since February first, which is

978
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 1: literally the second best record in the league over that span.

979
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 1: Dating further back, going back to January seventh, that is

980
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 1: a forty one game sample size. They're twenty seven to fourteen,

981
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 1: which is the fifth best record in basketball. So we

982
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 1: have extended sample size now of the Lakers being a

983
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 1: very good basketball team. That doesn't mean their personal personal

984
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,640
Speaker 1: limitations don't matter. I still view them in that group

985
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:50,360
Speaker 1: below Boston and Denver. I don't think they've done anything

986
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 1: to rise above that group. They're still firmly just kind

987
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 1: of in the mix there. But before this stretch, when

988
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 1: they were struggling as bad as they were post in

989
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 1: season tournament, I didn't even and view them as someone

990
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 1: that could be even taken seriously in that tier. They

991
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:06,320
Speaker 1: needed to demonstrate that they could play dominant basketball for

992
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:08,759
Speaker 1: an extended stretch, and they have done so, which is

993
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 1: encouraging for the Lakers. All Right, guys, that is all

994
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 1: I have for today. As always, I sincerely appreciate you

995
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 1: guys supporting the show or taking the rest of the

996
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 1: weekend off. We'll be back Monday, breaking down a bunch

997
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,360
Speaker 1: of games and doing our power rankings as usual. I

998
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Speaker 1: will see you guys there. The volume