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Speaker 1: The Boston Celtics had a dress rehearsal of sorts last
Speaker 1: night against the New York Knicks, where their offense looks
Speaker 1: devastating in the first half. We're gonna break that game down.
Speaker 1: The Clippers had a similarly impressive dress rehearsal against the
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets. In the last, but not least, Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: Thunder had an impressive performance against the Milwaukee Bucks led
Speaker 1: by Damian Lillard and Yannis, who look a little rusty
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Speaker 1: the dress Russal for the Celtics, they started their five
Speaker 1: best players like I've been begging for them to do
Speaker 1: all preseasons. They started Derek White and Drew Holliday alongside
Speaker 1: Jason and Jalen and Chris tops Porzingis. All five guys
Speaker 1: played at least twenty four minutes stretching into the third quarter.
Speaker 1: They scored seventy eight points in the first half, and
Speaker 1: that was with a little dead stretch there. At the
Speaker 1: end of the second quarter, they were scoring at will,
Speaker 1: and it was classic pace in space basketball. Everybody was involved.
Speaker 1: The ball wasn't sticking anywhere. People were making quick decisions,
Speaker 1: and because everybody can dribble, shoot, and pass, it's borderline
Speaker 1: impossible to guard all of these. Kristops. Porzingis picking Pops,
Speaker 1: he's just standing at the top of the key, wide
Speaker 1: open on these. They're gonna be able to get good
Speaker 1: looks out of there all the time they can. It
Speaker 1: was really like this simple. They dribble the ball up
Speaker 1: the floor, and if it wasn't Kristops, it'd be someone else,
Speaker 1: like a guard setting like a ghost screen or something.
Speaker 1: But they get a closeout opportunity like this. The defense
Speaker 1: is in rotation and then that guy, let's just say
Speaker 1: Drew Holliday, comes and sets a ghost screen for Derek
Speaker 1: White and then pops the three point line. They throw
Speaker 1: the ball to Drew and Drew's got a guy closing
Speaker 1: out of him. It's like a pump fake and then
Speaker 1: like one dribble and then it's a wide open three
Speaker 1: every single time. And like I think they made like
Speaker 1: sixteen or seventeen threes just in the first half and like,
Speaker 1: if you really zoom in on him from the standpoint
Speaker 1: of shot quality, these are good looks. Like these are
Speaker 1: really really good looks. This is replicable offense. It's just
Speaker 1: a combination of Like it's funny because every team needs
Speaker 1: to have an offensive identity based on their talent, and
Speaker 1: the Celtics have a great combination of ball handling and
Speaker 1: shooting down the roster, right, Like, their core five guys
Speaker 1: are all extremely gifted offensive players, and so does it
Speaker 1: make sense to run heliocentric style offense with this group.
Speaker 1: You don't want to go down and just have Derek
Speaker 1: White and Jalen Brown stand in the corners and Drew
Speaker 1: Holliday stand on the wing and just have chrisops Porzingis
Speaker 1: come run pick and rolls. That's not the right way
Speaker 1: to run this type of team. Whereas if you've got
Speaker 1: Brook Lopez and Malik Beasley and Chris Middleton, it might
Speaker 1: be a little different, right, Like in that case, you
Speaker 1: might want to space more and run more of the
Speaker 1: same actions over and over again again. Like I talk
Speaker 1: about this with coaches all the time. You never want
Speaker 1: to gear your you never want to force your players
Speaker 1: to play your system. You want to gear your system
Speaker 1: to your players, and this is a pace in space,
Speaker 1: drive and kick team, and they can be really formidable
Speaker 1: offensively when they play like this. It's a big part
Speaker 1: of the reason why I feel like Boston's gonna run
Speaker 1: away with the conference. It's one of my biggest ta
Speaker 1: for this year. I think the Celtics will be at
Speaker 1: least five games above everyone else in the league, let
Speaker 1: alone the rest of the conference in the regular season.
Speaker 1: Now we could talk about the playoffs obviously, Like the
Speaker 1: Knicks were able to stagnate them a little bit there
Speaker 1: in the late second early first quarter, there are going
Speaker 1: to be stretches where rhythm becomes an issue. Like you
Speaker 1: can kind of see like because everybody can play, certain
Speaker 1: guys get squeezed a little bit, like Jaylen Brown in particular,
Speaker 1: kind of seemed out of rhythm in that first half.
Speaker 1: Started to get going in the second half, but like
Speaker 1: they were kind of force feeding him the basketball a
Speaker 1: little bit. So like they're gonna have moments where they
Speaker 1: don't look great in the postseason, it's still gonna come
Speaker 1: down to half court shot creation from guys like Jason
Speaker 1: Tatum and somebody else out of that group. That's gonna
Speaker 1: have to rise to the occasion. But over the course
Speaker 1: of the regular season, they're gonna kick the shit out
Speaker 1: of a lot of people, because in a night in,
Speaker 1: night out, less scouting, more depth oriented basketball, they are
Speaker 1: going to thrive in that setting. Jason Tatum looks awesome.
Speaker 1: He had twenty eight points on fifteen shots. A lot
Speaker 1: of the usual stuff we're accustomed to seeing from Jayson Tatum,
Speaker 1: but I liked the aggressiveness I saw out of him
Speaker 1: in the post, like you'd see him get you know,
Speaker 1: like you'd see him get Quentin Grimes on the left
Speaker 1: block and just immediately his eyes would light up and
Speaker 1: back him down and just bully his way to the basket.
Speaker 1: Did it to Evan Fournier in the second quarter. He
Speaker 1: did it to Taikwon Jeffery's in the second quarter. You know,
Speaker 1: it's funny because we think of Jason Tatum as like
Speaker 1: a scoring wing, but the dude's gotten huge over the years.
Speaker 1: He's legitimately a very big and strong basketball player. And
Speaker 1: I've been begging over the course of the last year
Speaker 1: for Tatum to maintain his shot variety, not just everything
Speaker 1: out of a face up or live dribble from the
Speaker 1: three point line into a step back three or driving
Speaker 1: into the paint. When you limit yourself, if you shut
Speaker 1: off the middle of the floor, you make it so
Speaker 1: that the defense is not even worried about eighty percent
Speaker 1: of the shots that normal players could take. Right they
Speaker 1: know they can press up on you in the three
Speaker 1: point line and offer help at the rim and slow
Speaker 1: you down. You need to show a willingness to work
Speaker 1: in the middle of the floor. And again, it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be a bunch of step back nineteen footers
Speaker 1: and really tough turnaround jump shots. Sometimes it's as simple
Speaker 1: as just turn your back and bully your way to
Speaker 1: the basket and maybe take like a short fade away
Speaker 1: that's closer to the rim, or go all the way
Speaker 1: to try to draw a foul. He's looked really good
Speaker 1: in the post so far in preseason. He's run eight
Speaker 1: post ups that have led to fifteen points. It's one
Speaker 1: point eight eight points per possession. An exciting start for
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum in the post this preseason. Boston's defense, so
Speaker 1: the Knicks shot really really well in this game. They
Speaker 1: made nineteen threes themselves. They came out guns blazing and
Speaker 1: Dante de Vincenzo hit a long three at the start,
Speaker 1: Quinton Grime hit a bunch of threes right at the start.
Speaker 1: They shot the ball well, but they also played extremely
Speaker 1: hard and they're very athletic, so they kept it close throughout.
Speaker 1: It was actually really impressed by the Knicks and just
Speaker 1: their overall, you know, competitiveness in this particular game. But
Speaker 1: the Celtics did have some stretches of frightening defense. Joe
Speaker 1: Miszula had them running this like two two one press
Speaker 1: off of made baskets in the first half, where like
Speaker 1: occasionally they catch the Knicks off guard and they wouldn't
Speaker 1: set up a press break and it would just be
Speaker 1: like Duce McBride in the backcourt just getting trapped and
Speaker 1: the Knicks through some kick ahead passes to try to
Speaker 1: beat the press, where like Al Horford was playing center
Speaker 1: field and was able to make a play. Like they
Speaker 1: actually kind of caused some issues for the Knicks in
Speaker 1: their press press defense. But I like it for a
Speaker 1: couple of different reasons. It really just establishes the defensive
Speaker 1: end as something they're schematically trying to do, which will
Speaker 1: keep a mental focus down the roster. That will help
Speaker 1: them to be more focused on the defensive end of
Speaker 1: the floor. Right. And then again, to me, it's an
Speaker 1: aggressive mentality as well. This is not a team that
Speaker 1: has a dominant defensive front line, right like christ Tops
Speaker 1: Porzingis is a good rim protector, but he's not a
Speaker 1: great rim protector. Al Horford and is you know, a
Speaker 1: good defensive player on the back line, but he's certainly
Speaker 1: not a great defensive player on the back line. They're
Speaker 1: not a team like you know, Jannis and Brook Lopez,
Speaker 1: where it's actually better for them to kind of sit
Speaker 1: back in the paint and try to funnel guys into them.
Speaker 1: This is a Celtics team that needs to play aggressive defense.
Speaker 1: This is a team that has defense down the roster.
Speaker 1: They're a perimeter defense team. They have a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that can play passing lanes and get aggressive in
Speaker 1: ball pressure, and like's the that's the defensive identity that
Speaker 1: this particular team needs to have. So I like the
Speaker 1: overall attitude that I've seen from the Celtics so far
Speaker 1: in preseason looks a lot more close to that twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one to twenty twenty two season rather than last
Speaker 1: year where I thought they went down a level defensively,
Speaker 1: and again like this, if you're a playmaking defense, that
Speaker 1: means you're up in passing lanes and you're applying ball pressure.
Speaker 1: That's what ignites you going the other way. In transition,
Speaker 1: on the Knicks front, a bunch of key guys sat out,
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna spend too much time on the Knicks,
Speaker 1: but a couple of guys that I want to shout out.
Speaker 1: Duce mcbridey didn't shoot particularly well, But it's always funny
Speaker 1: to me in these games when the stars are out,
Speaker 1: because you find out pretty quickly which one of your
Speaker 1: role players actually is comfortable getting to his spots. And again,
Speaker 1: duson and shoot particularly well, but he was like the
Speaker 1: one Nick that seemed like he was comfortable kind of
Speaker 1: like getting over the top of ball screens, getting the
Speaker 1: defender and jail on his backside and getting to his
Speaker 1: spots where he could get a quality look like you
Speaker 1: saw Dante Devincenzo for instance, kind of struggle with that
Speaker 1: in this particular game, which is not a big thing
Speaker 1: because obviously Dante de Vincenzo's more of a role player
Speaker 1: and not a guy that you're gonna have on the
Speaker 1: ball a ton, but I think Duce McBride kind of
Speaker 1: flashed a little bit of his on ball, you know,
Speaker 1: comfortable miss or comfort or whatever you wanna call it
Speaker 1: against that Boston defense. Quinn Grimes came out guns blazing
Speaker 1: from three, made a couple of nice driving kick passes
Speaker 1: attacking closeouts as well. Dante de Vincenzo, like I said,
Speaker 1: struggled on offense, but I thought you saw a lot
Speaker 1: of his defensive upside, particularly in the late second quarter
Speaker 1: and then in the early third quarter with what he
Speaker 1: can do on the perimeter disrupting ball handlers. And then,
Speaker 1: last but not least, Jericho Simms ten rebounds in three
Speaker 1: blocks in thirty two minutes, had some nice isolation defense
Speaker 1: possessions against Jalen Brown where you could see his athleticism
Speaker 1: be a problem. Again, he's only twenty four years old.
Speaker 1: It's pretty exciting what Jericho Sims could be in the
Speaker 1: big picture as well. I'd like to give you guys
Speaker 1: an update kind of big picture on the Knicks in
Speaker 1: the preseason, but Jalen Brunson and Julius Randall have barely played.
Speaker 1: I think they've combined to play twenty eight minutes total
Speaker 1: combined in this entire preseason. So it's hard to say
Speaker 1: at this point, but the Knicks are gonna be one
Speaker 1: of the teams that we cover very closely during the
Speaker 1: regular season. All right, moving on to the Clippers and
Speaker 1: the Nuggets. So Paul George twenty three points in the
Speaker 1: first half on nine of thirteen shooting, did a really
Speaker 1: nice job attacking and getting downhill. Again, that's a huge
Speaker 1: thing for Paul George. He can be one of those
Speaker 1: guys that like it's funny because he's renowned around the
Speaker 1: league as one of the better, you know, skill guys
Speaker 1: in the league. But this is a guy that was
Speaker 1: below fifty percent in effective field goal percentage on pull
Speaker 1: up jump shots last year. And a big part of
Speaker 1: it is he has a tendency to just take extremely
Speaker 1: difficult pull up jump shots. And so I like Paul
Speaker 1: George when he's more aggressive getting closer to the rim.
Speaker 1: And he made five shots in the pint in this game,
Speaker 1: including three shots at the rim. But he's getting closer shots.
Speaker 1: If you look at Paul George's shot chart, it's not
Speaker 1: a bunch of nineteen plus foot jump shots. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff closer to the rim, which I think
Speaker 1: is a direct indicator of his ability to be efficient
Speaker 1: the way that he was. But he looks healthy and
Speaker 1: he looks locked in in a good spot coming into
Speaker 1: the season. Twenty five pick and rolls, ISOs and post
Speaker 1: ups so far in preseason leading to thirty two points.
Speaker 1: It's one point two to eight points per possession, which
Speaker 1: is awesome. I want to spend a minute talking about
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook, who had another great game in a Clipper
Speaker 1: jersey last night. I just love his fit with the Clippers,
Speaker 1: and again, fit is everything. I talk about this concept
Speaker 1: all the time on the show. But the list of
Speaker 1: responsibilities on a basketball court, and your stars are good
Speaker 1: at taking big chunks of those responsibilities away. But if
Speaker 1: you have guys that feel the same chunks of responsibilities,
Speaker 1: so for instance, like rim pressure playmaking, like well, Lebron's
Speaker 1: two best qualities are rim pressure and playmaking. So if
Speaker 1: you put him on the same team as Lebron, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, like he's kind of trying to do
Speaker 1: the same things that Lebron is doing. But like Lebron's
Speaker 1: weaknesses at this phase in his careers, he hasn't been
Speaker 1: as good of a perimeter shooter, right, and like, like
Speaker 1: obviously he's trying to conserve energy over the course of games,
Speaker 1: like on the defensive end of the floor and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. And like Russell Westbrook at this point, he
Speaker 1: can't shoot, and he struggles with some of the off
Speaker 1: ball stuff, at least he did with the Clippers, which
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about today. So again, it's not a
Speaker 1: big shock that he struggled to impact winning within the
Speaker 1: Lakers system when the things that he was great at
Speaker 1: were things that they didn't need from him, right. And
Speaker 1: then we look at the the Clippers in their situation
Speaker 1: and they the two biggest weaknesses in their offense are
Speaker 1: rim pressure and playmaking. So you absolutely need the things
Speaker 1: that he's great at. And you know, he's been better
Speaker 1: in a lot of the things on the periphery, which
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about here in a minute. But like,
Speaker 1: I also think that kind of stuff is connected. If
Speaker 1: he's able to impact winning within the two things that
Speaker 1: he's best at, that's going to naturally make him feel
Speaker 1: more confident, more bought into the system, just generally happier,
Speaker 1: and it's easier to be good at your job when
Speaker 1: you're happy. How often do you go into a relationship,
Speaker 1: and if you're in a bad mood, it's harder to
Speaker 1: be nice, it's harder to keep a good attitude about
Speaker 1: stuff if you're upset because you're hungry, tired, fatigued, annoid,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. And the same thing stretches into every
Speaker 1: single relationship, every single job you have. Right, Russell Westbrook
Speaker 1: was deeply unhappy in a Lakers jersey, and so I'm
Speaker 1: not surprised that he was less committed to make better decisions,
Speaker 1: cut back on pull up jump shots, be more committed
Speaker 1: on the defensive end of the four. Now he's happy
Speaker 1: with the Clippers and he's more willing to do that stuff.
Speaker 1: And again, I don't think anybody's blame free from the
Speaker 1: Lakers situation. It's all of their faults. Russ is to
Speaker 1: blame Lebron and a dear to blame, the Laker fan
Speaker 1: bases to blame, the coaches, are everybody's to blame for
Speaker 1: that situation going south. But at the same time, it
Speaker 1: was doomed on arrival. So I don't really hold it
Speaker 1: against anybody involved, including Russ, including the Lakers themselves, And
Speaker 1: so I'm just happy to see him in a role
Speaker 1: that makes a lot more sense with the Clippers to
Speaker 1: talk about a couple of specific ways that he's really
Speaker 1: helping this team. First of all, in transition. The Clippers
Speaker 1: made just six hundred and fifteen field goals in transition
Speaker 1: last year. That was bottom ten in the league. And remember,
Speaker 1: transition possessions are again you want to talk about your personnel.
Speaker 1: We talked about this earlier when we were talking Celtics Knicks,
Speaker 1: but like it's all about your personnel. Like, if you
Speaker 1: don't have transition personnel, then it's unrealistic to make them
Speaker 1: run if they're not gonna be good at it. You
Speaker 1: need athletes, guys that like to run, high motor guys,
Speaker 1: guys that are more like read and reacting quick as
Speaker 1: opposed to like slow down in methodical right. PG and
Speaker 1: CHOI are a little more slow down and methodical, right.
Speaker 1: But the beautiful thing is is you can do it
Speaker 1: even when those guys are trailing the play, Like Russ
Speaker 1: can grab an offensive or grab a defensive rebound, or
Speaker 1: grab an inbound pass and sprint up the floor, and
Speaker 1: Kawhi and Paul George can kind of work up at
Speaker 1: their own pace and as long as Russ makes good decisions,
Speaker 1: it'll work out right. Like if he goes piling into
Speaker 1: three three dudes in the paint and turns it over
Speaker 1: or misses a layup, obviously that's bad. But if he
Speaker 1: dribbles up the floor and backs down into a quick
Speaker 1: post up and then identifies that nothing's open and then
Speaker 1: dribbles it out and they run offense, it can work right.
Speaker 1: And again, like there were some specific possessions that I
Speaker 1: saw where where he's just generating really high quality opportunities
Speaker 1: for guys like Kawhi and Paul George. In transition, there
Speaker 1: was a play where Russ pushed the ball in transition,
Speaker 1: turns his back at the right block and starts backing
Speaker 1: down and Zeke Naji he's guarding Kawhi, who's trailing to
Speaker 1: play again because Kawhi is not a guy who likes
Speaker 1: to play with a ton of pace. He's kind of
Speaker 1: jogging up the left sideline. He gets to the left
Speaker 1: wing right, Russ is backing down and Zeke Naji sinks
Speaker 1: down below the foul line. Russ throws it to Kawhi.
Speaker 1: Naji closes out to Kawhi but closes out short and
Speaker 1: Kawai just shoots like a standstill, pretty damn open three
Speaker 1: that he makes, Like that's a really easy shot for
Speaker 1: a guy who went healthy is a top five player
Speaker 1: in the entire world. And you can generate those types
Speaker 1: of open shots through rim pressure, through transition pushes, which
Speaker 1: were things they were not getting until Russell Westbrook was
Speaker 1: in the system. There was another Kawhi Leonard transition three
Speaker 1: in the corner, same type of thing is off a
Speaker 1: made basket. Julian Strawther hits a pull up three against
Speaker 1: a bad pick and roll coverage from the Clippers. Russ
Speaker 1: gets the inbound pass on a make and just runs
Speaker 1: like crazy down the floor, does like a over the
Speaker 1: head rip through like that Dwayne Wade over the head
Speaker 1: pullover dribble against Reggie Jackson, gets all the way to
Speaker 1: the rim, pulls in a health defender and throws a
Speaker 1: kick pass to Kawhi Leonard, another completely uncontested three. There's
Speaker 1: a little a point where you pause right as Russ
Speaker 1: is throwing the pass to the corner. All five Denver
Speaker 1: nuggets were in the paint. This is the value of
Speaker 1: rim pressure, which you can generate in transition as well
Speaker 1: as you can in the half court shot in the
Speaker 1: half court as well, like Russ can like really cause
Speaker 1: problems for smaller guards in the post. Aalen Pickett is
Speaker 1: a big, strong guard who just got drafted for the Nuggets.
Speaker 1: Russ like just buried him in the post, and as
Speaker 1: a result, DeAndre Jordan had to come over and help
Speaker 1: at the front of the rim. As a result, Justin
Speaker 1: Holiday had to kind of sink down to help on
Speaker 1: Zubac and he just throws the kickout pass to Paul
Speaker 1: George on the right wing. Now, Paul George one of
Speaker 1: the fifteen best player twenty best players in the world.
Speaker 1: Pump fake, you know, I can't remember who was I
Speaker 1: think it was Justin Holliday runs by him on the
Speaker 1: pump fake, just one easy dribble into about nineteen feet
Speaker 1: and rising up for basically a practice jump shot for
Speaker 1: one of the best players in the world. And again,
Speaker 1: these are things that they absolutely weren't getting before he
Speaker 1: was in town. And that's I shouldn't say in town
Speaker 1: because they stayed in the same town, but in a
Speaker 1: Clippers jersey. I think there are very specific ways that
Speaker 1: Russ compliments this specific roster. And again, like I've talked
Speaker 1: about this all the time. One of the most valuable
Speaker 1: elements of NBA offense is rim pressure. That is what
Speaker 1: compresses the defense. It is what generates offensive rebound opportunity
Speaker 1: and close out opportunities when the defense is in rotation
Speaker 1: or then your aggregate ball handling and guys attacking closeouts
Speaker 1: and things like that can get great shots. He fills
Speaker 1: a need. Now. The key to Russ making a winning
Speaker 1: impact even in this role comes down to three things
Speaker 1: in my opinion, the fit, which we just talked about,
Speaker 1: but defensive commitment. We saw him play defense of one
Speaker 1: of the highest levels of his career in the first
Speaker 1: two games of that Phoenix Sun series. If he continues
Speaker 1: to do that, that's something that can push the ceiling
Speaker 1: of this Clippers team even higher. And again that kind
Speaker 1: of brings me back to the happiness element element. I
Speaker 1: think he could be more committed on those details simply
Speaker 1: because he's happier in a Clippers jersey than he was
Speaker 1: in a Lakers jersey. And then, last but not least,
Speaker 1: limiting mistakes taking away bad shots, Like here's the stat
Speaker 1: for you, Russell Westbrook has not attempted a single pull
Speaker 1: up jump shot this entire preseason in like thirty something
Speaker 1: in like thirty seven to thirty eight minutes. That's a
Speaker 1: significant stat. Last year in the preseason for the Lakers,
Speaker 1: Russ took six pl jumpers. It was still something that
Speaker 1: was in his diet back then. Here's some crazy stats
Speaker 1: for you. A pull up jump shot from Russell Westbrook
Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty two season. His full season with
Speaker 1: the Lakers was worth zero point eight points. Last year
Speaker 1: with the Lakers, it was worth zero points seven to
Speaker 1: seven points last year with the Clippers, and the regular
Speaker 1: season in the playoffs it was worth zero point eighty
Speaker 1: three points. So it's just been a bad shot for
Speaker 1: years now for the Clippers, and it appears that he
Speaker 1: might finally have made the adjustment just to take it
Speaker 1: out of his game entirely. Again, he's taken zero of them,
Speaker 1: and this is a guy who loves to take those
Speaker 1: jump shots. That's a significant move towards limiting his mistakes,
Speaker 1: limiting turnovers. That's something he's gonna have to get a
Speaker 1: little better at. He's been turning it over at a
Speaker 1: pretty high rate in the Clippers jersey. He's over five
Speaker 1: turnovers per one hundred possessions, and last year's regular season,
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and in this year's preseason, So he'll
Speaker 1: need to kind of tone back that a little bit.
Speaker 1: And then last but not least the or lastly the
Speaker 1: off ball mistake, so like losing a shooter off the
Speaker 1: ball or missing box. But if he can limit mistakes
Speaker 1: and commit on the defensive end, he I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about he can be. He can impact winning. He can
Speaker 1: impact winning at a top thirty level in the NBA,
Speaker 1: like legitimately at a fringe star level if he does,
Speaker 1: if he checks those boxes on the defensive end and
Speaker 1: in terms of limiting mistakes, that's how valuable he is
Speaker 1: pressuring the rim and as a playmaker within this type
Speaker 1: of system, within this roster where they need what he
Speaker 1: brings to the table. That's how strong his strengths are.
Speaker 1: And again, like there's been a lot of like misconceptions
Speaker 1: surrounding Russ over the last couple of years. Like I
Speaker 1: saw another I can't remember who it was. It might
Speaker 1: have been, Was it Gilbert Arenas? I think it might
Speaker 1: have been Gilbert, but somebody was Like I can't believe
Speaker 1: Russ is ranked eighty nine in the play ESPN player rankings,
Speaker 1: Like how in the world is Russ this low, And
Speaker 1: it's like there is a huge kind of like disparity
Speaker 1: between what most people think about Russ and like a
Speaker 1: lot of like specific player like full players and fans
Speaker 1: think of him right, And Russ does have a very
Speaker 1: loyal fan base of people that are extremely defensive of him.
Speaker 1: And the reason why that big chasm of opinion exists
Speaker 1: is because of the highs and the lows. Russ's highs
Speaker 1: are not quite at the level it was when he
Speaker 1: was an MVP, but they're pretty close. Like he can
Speaker 1: still be like downright destructive to the opponent and for
Speaker 1: stretches of basketball games because of how gifted he is
Speaker 1: athletically at his position still, but it's an up and
Speaker 1: down experience with Russ because he can be very mistake
Speaker 1: prone and in the past the highs outweighed that, but
Speaker 1: it became a more convoluted story in recent seasons, and
Speaker 1: that's where that kind of gap in opinion exists. But
Speaker 1: to be clear, the high end of that opinion, all
Speaker 1: of Russ's fans, the former players that defend him so staunchly,
Speaker 1: that stems from how high his highs are and they
Speaker 1: have still been there over the years and he is
Speaker 1: still capable of reaching those highs. But overall, just say
Speaker 1: is a basketball I have very, very much enjoyed watching
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook in a Clippers jersey in a way that
Speaker 1: I haven't in recent years. One last note on the
Speaker 1: Clippers before we move on. The Clippers went to a
Speaker 1: an all wings like switching lineup at the end of
Speaker 1: the second quarter. It was Paul George Kawhi Leonard with
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook, Kenyan Martin Junior, and Nick Patoom and they
Speaker 1: went on a run. They were switching everything. There were
Speaker 1: multiple possession where the Nuggets literally didn't even get the
Speaker 1: ball inside the three point line. Again, like, switching is
Speaker 1: a great way to shut off two man game and
Speaker 1: three man game situations when you communicate well, right, Because
Speaker 1: like if a guy comes off a dribble handoff or
Speaker 1: off of a ball screen and he just runs into
Speaker 1: a new defender and then his defender has switched onto
Speaker 1: the screener, that action has been shut down. There's no opening, right,
Speaker 1: And that's a great way to like stagnate your opponent.
Speaker 1: And they had a lot of success there and they
Speaker 1: went on a little run. There were some downsides, like
Speaker 1: they gave up an offensive rebound as Ignagy, where Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook was a little overmatched from a size standpoint underneath
Speaker 1: the basket. There are always downsides to switching, but again
Speaker 1: it's about the give and take, and as long as
Speaker 1: you take more than you give back, it can be
Speaker 1: a big positive. And you know, they've they've played a
Speaker 1: lot of switching groups in the past, but they didn't
Speaker 1: have guys like Russ or Kenyon Martin or even this
Speaker 1: version of Terrence Man who are like guards but that
Speaker 1: can guard like Fords but also have like real speed
Speaker 1: and quickness. Like a lot of their old switching groups
Speaker 1: would be like Marcus Morris with Robert Covington and Nick Batom,
Speaker 1: and it's like, Okay, it's a lot of tall, thin guys,
Speaker 1: a lot of guys that aren't super super mobile, right,
Speaker 1: Whereas like now I've got a switching line up here
Speaker 1: with Kawhi Leonard or excuse me, with Russell Westbrook and
Speaker 1: Kenyon Martin Jr. Who are two freaky athletes that are
Speaker 1: just super fast on the perimeter. Like there's a version
Speaker 1: of that where you take Nick Patuma out for Terrence
Speaker 1: May and then they could be even faster right, and
Speaker 1: then when you combine that with the Russell Westbrook like
Speaker 1: or the Russell Westbrook like rim pressure element, because that
Speaker 1: was the other thing is on the other end of
Speaker 1: the floor, they weren't as effective offensively as they could
Speaker 1: have been in those situations. That's where you get the
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook rim pressure element too. I think the small
Speaker 1: ball lineups for the Clippers could actually be more devastating
Speaker 1: this year than they have in recent seasons of this era.
Speaker 1: On the Nuggets front, I liked what I saw it
Speaker 1: from Julian Strather. Again, he only went three for eleven,
Speaker 1: but there was some pops of high level stuff, especially
Speaker 1: in his first shift because he was getting guarded by
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard and still kind of getting to his spots.
Speaker 1: A lot of the shots he missed in this game
Speaker 1: were kind of on rotations, like catch and shoot situations
Speaker 1: and good looks that I expect him to make in
Speaker 1: the long run. He made another tough floater on a
Speaker 1: back cut against Nick Patum that where he was being
Speaker 1: smothered from behind and he still made the floater. He
Speaker 1: got fouled on another floater by Kawhi Leonard. He was
Speaker 1: five of six on floaters before this game in preseason,
Speaker 1: so that's turned into a devastating weapon for him. And
Speaker 1: then he had some really nice feeds on rolls to
Speaker 1: the rim for DeAndre Jordan where he come off with
Speaker 1: ball screen, get two defenders, pump fake high, pull that
Speaker 1: arm way out to the right, and throw that swing
Speaker 1: bounce pass into the post. He's up to nineteen points
Speaker 1: on nine pick and rolls in preseason. That's over two
Speaker 1: points per possession, which is unbelievable. And then Peyton Watson.
Speaker 1: I have two other guys two o the Nuggets. I
Speaker 1: want to shout out. Peyton Watson. Still can't make a
Speaker 1: jump shot and is still missing way too many shots
Speaker 1: at the rim, but his athletic pop off the dribble
Speaker 1: is something that really popped off the screen for me.
Speaker 1: In this game, I talked about that switching lineup for
Speaker 1: the Clippers again. What happens when a team switches. They
Speaker 1: shut down your actions from there. You have to find
Speaker 1: a way to get them in rotation in a one
Speaker 1: on one matchup right, and two of their good offensive
Speaker 1: possessions against the zone were literally Peyton Watson driving closeouts
Speaker 1: and he had one on Paul George and another on
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard and again like he's obviously super raw and
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to polish up the skill stuff. But
Speaker 1: Peyton Watson's like slashing ability is a real exciting talent
Speaker 1: that could amount to something in the big picture. And
Speaker 1: then the last guy I wanted to shout out was
Speaker 1: Hunter Tyson, a player haven't had a chance to watch at.
Speaker 1: He's big, and he can score the basketball. He hasn't
Speaker 1: shot well in previous preseason games, but when I watched
Speaker 1: him in the game against the Clippers, he looked like
Speaker 1: an NBA player. He had a nice jumper and pick
Speaker 1: and roll around like ten feet from the basket. He
Speaker 1: had a transition possession where he bodied Robert Covington at
Speaker 1: the rim for a finish. He had a couple of
Speaker 1: nice threes on the move, getting his feet set quickly.
Speaker 1: He had a powerful transition dunk. Again, he just looks
Speaker 1: like an NBA player. I'm not sure if he'll make
Speaker 1: the Nuggets roster, but he just looks like a guy
Speaker 1: that i'd see in the NBA somewhere. He's tall, can shoot, mobile,
Speaker 1: smart kid. I think he's someone that can play in
Speaker 1: the league, all right, Thunderbucks. Chet Holmgren struggled a little
Speaker 1: bit with Robin Lopez's physicality. You could tell Robin was
Speaker 1: going out of his way to just shove him under
Speaker 1: the basket and shove him out of position on box outs,
Speaker 1: and jam him on screens and do everything in his
Speaker 1: power to make him feel uncomfortable. You could tell Chet
Speaker 1: was getting a little frustrated and a little fatigu in particular.
Speaker 1: But I don't think that's going to be an issue
Speaker 1: in the big picture, because Chet also had a good
Speaker 1: game in this game overall, I thought. But I thought
Speaker 1: that was an example of some of the struggles he'll
Speaker 1: have in his first season just by being finn which
Speaker 1: is something that is not unique to him. There are
Speaker 1: a lot of thin big men in the NBA, but
Speaker 1: that's something he'll run into. I thought. You saw some
Speaker 1: of his defensive upside against Damian Lillard. We all saw
Speaker 1: the clip on social media of Dame coming off against
Speaker 1: a switch and hitting that hard step back to his
Speaker 1: right and check blocking him. But there were also a
Speaker 1: couple possessions in that first quarter where Chet really bothered
Speaker 1: Dame on pull up jump shots and pick and roll
Speaker 1: just by having his length up to contest. There's one
Speaker 1: in particular at the top of the key where Dame
Speaker 1: changed his release a little bit and shot it higher
Speaker 1: and ended up leaving it short in a large part
Speaker 1: because Check got a good contest, and if you look
Speaker 1: at the replay, Check didn't even come out that far.
Speaker 1: He didn't even come out above the level of the screen.
Speaker 1: And that's the unique thing with his physical tools, with
Speaker 1: how long he can be, he can just cause problems
Speaker 1: without having to go all the way out, which is
Speaker 1: a real weapon. Josh Giddy had a nice game. He
Speaker 1: had nineteen points on twelve shots, generated a lot of
Speaker 1: good close out opportunities with skip passes. That's his unique talent, right.
Speaker 1: He's big, and he could see over the floor and
Speaker 1: he sees the floor well, so he can make those
Speaker 1: skip passes in a way a lot of smaller players can't.
Speaker 1: He's been an important connective piece for them over the
Speaker 1: course of the last couple of seasons. He's at one
Speaker 1: point three six points per pick and roll and one
Speaker 1: point sixty seven points per ISO in preseason nice game
Speaker 1: from Josh Gitty. Jannis just obliterated the Thunder front line
Speaker 1: when he was out there. It was actually kind of funny.
Speaker 1: There were several possessions where he was posting up Jalen
Speaker 1: Williams and it honestly looked like a man amongst boys,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, that phrase gets used all the time,
Speaker 1: but this was like the literal version of that. There
Speaker 1: was a play where like he posted up Jalen Williams
Speaker 1: on the left block and like spun baseline and just
Speaker 1: dunked over chet Holmgrin like Jannis is in prime shape obviously.
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard though a little out of shape in my opinion,
Speaker 1: he left a lot of jump shots short on the
Speaker 1: front of the rim in this game. It really just
Speaker 1: he just seems like he's just not quite in that
Speaker 1: mid season groove. Yet He's just three for sixteen on
Speaker 1: jump shots in preseason. That's his best skill as an
Speaker 1: NBA player, right, so obviously he's gonna make those shots.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't overreact to it. To me, it's more important
Speaker 1: that he gets guarded like Dame, and he's still very
Speaker 1: much is getting guarded like Dame. There was a stretch
Speaker 1: in the early second quarter where Dame was out there
Speaker 1: without Giannis and it was all reserves with him, and
Speaker 1: in that lineup, like the thunder were just double teaming
Speaker 1: and whenever he had the basketball and there wasn't enough
Speaker 1: skill on the floor around him to make them pay.
Speaker 1: But like, teams are still guarding Dame like Dame, and
Speaker 1: that will met obviously, and to win the title, they're
Speaker 1: gonna need Dame to make shots, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: I believe he will make shots. But in the big picture,
Speaker 1: especially in the early part of the regular season, while
Speaker 1: Dame's playing his way into shape, it's more important that
Speaker 1: he's guarded like he's Damian Lillard. And he is very
Speaker 1: much still being guarded like Damian Lillard. And he did
Speaker 1: end up coming out for the start of the second
Speaker 1: half and playing an extra shift there in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: and he had a driving left handed layup, and he
Speaker 1: hit a pull up jump shot in pick and roll
Speaker 1: where he didn't have much separation and he rose up
Speaker 1: and knocked it down and was like just inside the
Speaker 1: three point line. So I'm not worried about Dame in
Speaker 1: the big picture. Last Bucks player I wanted to shout
Speaker 1: out was Malik Beasley, got super hot, made six threes.
Speaker 1: Something to keep in mind because I talked a lot
Speaker 1: about how I view Beasley moore as a bench player
Speaker 1: in the big picture, and I think Pat Connaton can start.
Speaker 1: This is something he's capable of doing though, Like he
Speaker 1: played really really poorly with the Lakers last year, but
Speaker 1: he still had four games where he hit six plus threes.
Speaker 1: Like when he gets hot, he can get unconsciously hot,
Speaker 1: and that's just kind of part of the Malik Beasley experience.
Speaker 1: It comes in waves with him, and I think that's
Speaker 1: an interesting way for them to approach the rotation, especially
Speaker 1: when it comes to the Pat Connatan Malik Beasley kind
Speaker 1: of decision making process is like you can go with
Speaker 1: whichever one of them is hot. You know, I think
Speaker 1: Pat Connaton's got a higher floor, but there's no doubt
Speaker 1: that Malik Beasley has a higher singling and you can
Speaker 1: kind of make that read as the coach based on
Speaker 1: which one of them is playing better in that moment.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the mailbag. First question
Speaker 1: is from Teddy. You mentioned in the Bucks video that
Speaker 1: they were a team that were honest with themselves and
Speaker 1: about their weaknesses and then they made a move. Are
Speaker 1: there any other teams in the league that need to
Speaker 1: do that and make a trade I know you've mentioned
Speaker 1: the Calves, but anyone else I put down three teams
Speaker 1: the Bulls. I just think it's amazing that they've been
Speaker 1: running it back despite basically being a below five hundred
Speaker 1: non playoff team, while being fully healthy last year, with
Speaker 1: that kind of star talent on the roster that all
Speaker 1: has trade value, got like Demarta, rozen's on an expiring
Speaker 1: deal and brings real like like playmaking and scoring. You
Speaker 1: have to think that he's valuable to a contending team
Speaker 1: that can take a chance on him to give them
Speaker 1: an up, you know, like a like a potential upside
Speaker 1: during this season and then cap space in the big picture,
Speaker 1: right And then obviously Zach Lavine is another guy that
Speaker 1: a lot of teams have been linked to over the years.
Speaker 1: So it's just kind of weird to me that they've
Speaker 1: continued to run it back that way. I still think
Speaker 1: the Bulls end up blowing it up at the deadline,
Speaker 1: but we'll see the Miami heat like, you just don't
Speaker 1: have enough talent? How many times are you gonna keep
Speaker 1: running it back with Jimmy and Bam and Spoe And
Speaker 1: obviously I think that group needs to stay, but I
Speaker 1: wish they'd get more aggressive on the peripher to try
Speaker 1: to bring in some talent. I'd love to see them
Speaker 1: go after James Harden, even though it's a risk, just
Speaker 1: because there is a window here. Jimmy is getting older,
Speaker 1: right like, and you just simply don't have enough talent.
Speaker 1: So I'd like to see them get aggressive. And then
Speaker 1: lastly the Clippers if they can't be healthy in the
Speaker 1: playoffs this year, Again, at a certain point, it's your
Speaker 1: fault if you keep running it back right and like,
Speaker 1: maybe it all works out and they win the title
Speaker 1: this year. And I'm not saying they should do it now,
Speaker 1: but if they get to the end of the season
Speaker 1: and someone else has the trophy again and Koir Paul George,
Speaker 1: we're unable to finish the season, at what point do
Speaker 1: you just acknowledge that that's the reality of the predicament
Speaker 1: with those two as your foundational stars and make a
Speaker 1: move at that point. Next mail back question, D'Angelo Russell
Speaker 1: said that he wants to shift his game into playing
Speaker 1: like Derek White. If you could give d lo an
Speaker 1: NBA player to study and replicate, who would it be?
Speaker 1: My answer would be Mike Conley. So I actually think
Speaker 1: the Derek White comp makes a lot of sense on
Speaker 1: a couple of levels. Derek White is definitely a better athlete.
Speaker 1: He's a little more slender, a little quicker, a little
Speaker 1: bit longer, has longer arms, better shot blocker, things like that.
Speaker 1: But he's also a very very smart team defender, and
Speaker 1: that's something that Dangel Russell's capable of being. D'angela Russell's big,
Speaker 1: he actually has a decent amount of size and so
Speaker 1: playing passing lanes and switching systems, and he actually has
Speaker 1: been competing a lot in ball screens this year, getting
Speaker 1: over the top and back pressuring. But like in general,
Speaker 1: just by being in the right spot where you're supposed
Speaker 1: to be in the scheme while having a decent set
Speaker 1: of physical tools like he does, you can be an
Speaker 1: impactful defender and then on the offensive end of the floor.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a very similar role in the sense that,
Speaker 1: like you know, a lot of times the Celtics, even
Speaker 1: though they're a Tatum and Brown led team, they would
Speaker 1: use Derek White to get the defense in rotation because
Speaker 1: of his ability to get dribble penetration, and you know,
Speaker 1: D'Angel Russell is just it's less about dribble penetration with him,
Speaker 1: and more about his ability to methodically work and pick
Speaker 1: and roll and make the right reads which generate those
Speaker 1: close out opportunities, which is kind of a similar type
Speaker 1: of impact, right, Like, if you generate a close out
Speaker 1: opportunity for an athlete on the wing, that's every bit
Speaker 1: as good as you slashing by your man. Right, It's
Speaker 1: just who can draw multiple defenders and make the right reads,
Speaker 1: which is something I think D'angela Russell can do at
Speaker 1: a high level. Still, I think Derek White is the
Speaker 1: perfect comp for him, and I'm not surprised at all
Speaker 1: that he said. So last mailback question from Luke. You
Speaker 1: talk a lot about injury luck and luck in general
Speaker 1: being necessary for a championship. Do you think that is
Speaker 1: part of the reason that pat Riley did not throw
Speaker 1: the kitchen sink in for Dame because he can reasonably
Speaker 1: convince himself that injury luck had bounced the other way
Speaker 1: in any of the past four years, the heat would
Speaker 1: have won the chip Bam and Drodgits in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: Harrow and Jimmy in twenty twenty two, and Harrow in
Speaker 1: twenty three. So and then there's a second question from
Speaker 1: Luke also, will Hoops Tonight be getting exclusive content on
Speaker 1: the channel throughout the season or mostly just reposts. I'll
Speaker 1: answer that in a second, but the gist of it
Speaker 1: is is like I tend to think you need both, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you do need injury luck to win the title, But
Speaker 1: have you noticed I don't have the Mini Heat listed
Speaker 1: as a top tier contender, Like, I don't have them
Speaker 1: listed there because as of right now, they simply do
Speaker 1: not have enough talent to go toe to toe with
Speaker 1: the very best teams in the league. They're usually good
Speaker 1: at exposing the flawed teams that are above them, but
Speaker 1: every year they do eventually run into a team that
Speaker 1: just simply brings too much firepower to bear. And so
Speaker 1: like again like, yeah, you need luck. Yeah, Dame is
Speaker 1: a particularly risky pick as a guard who's thirty three
Speaker 1: years old or whatever. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you just simply don't have enough talent right now. So
Speaker 1: luck is even a factor for you because you don't
Speaker 1: have the firepower. So I think they should be aggressive anyway.
Speaker 1: And the second part of his question, will Hoops tonight
Speaker 1: be getting exclusive content on that channel throughout the season
Speaker 1: or mostly just reposts. My shows with Colin Cowhard will
Speaker 1: be on the Volumes feed, but everything else is going
Speaker 1: to be on the Hoops to Night channel. Just imagine
Speaker 1: the way last year went from the same point of
Speaker 1: our content being on the Volumes channel, all of that
Speaker 1: will just be on the Hoops Tonight channel. Now. The
Speaker 1: only thing that's gonna be different this year compared to
Speaker 1: last year is we're using breakout clips. Now, what that
Speaker 1: means is every day I'm gonna do a show like this.
Speaker 1: This show is gonna be right around forty minutes. Most
Speaker 1: of them are gonna be around the same length, maybe
Speaker 1: a little shorter during the season, right, Like that thirty
Speaker 1: forty fifty minute clip is actually gonna have four or
Speaker 1: five topics, right, And what ends up happening is the
Speaker 1: YouTube thumbnail is limited in how much we can market,
Speaker 1: and the title is limited in how much we can market.
Speaker 1: It's why half of you guys think all I talk
Speaker 1: about is the Warriors and Lakers, even though I talk
Speaker 1: about every team in the league. Right, And so what
Speaker 1: we do, what we're going to do this season is
Speaker 1: we'll have the full show, but then we're gonna do
Speaker 1: breakout clips for every segment. So if you're a Celtics
Speaker 1: fan and you only want to listen to the segments
Speaker 1: that are about the Celtics, all you gotta do is
Speaker 1: go to the YouTube channel and look for a Celtics
Speaker 1: thumbnail and it'll be in there somewhere. If you're an
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City Thunder fan, just go look for that, right. So,
Speaker 1: like when we're doing our game breakdowns during the season,
Speaker 1: if I cover five games on a Thursday morning after
Speaker 1: a jam packed Wednesday night slate, it'll be one big show,
Speaker 1: but there will be you know, like you know, it'll
Speaker 1: be like Lakers Nuggets for one of them, and it'll
Speaker 1: be like, you know, Warriors Kings for another one, and
Speaker 1: there will be individual breakout clips in the channel. So
Speaker 1: you can see. Now we are going to try to
Speaker 1: change the marketing so that there's like a very clear
Speaker 1: distinction between the two. So like the thumbnails for the
Speaker 1: full shows will look one way, then the breakout clips
Speaker 1: will look a little different, just so it's easier for
Speaker 1: you guys to see. But it's going to be the
Speaker 1: same coverage. It's just going to be parsed out into
Speaker 1: more videos, just so that people that are from the
Speaker 1: smaller fan bases can still see their content and look,
Speaker 1: I get it. I am a Lakers fan, so I
Speaker 1: talk a lot of Lakers. They're also the largest fan
Speaker 1: base in the NBA, so I talk a lot of Lakers.
Speaker 1: I also talk a lot of Warriors. Right, I'm going
Speaker 1: to talk about a lot of the bigger teams in
Speaker 1: the league a lot, but I also talk about the
Speaker 1: rest of the teams, and if you get sick of
Speaker 1: hearing that stuff, I want to have you, guys be
Speaker 1: able to easily access the content that you're looking for.
Speaker 1: But we have big plans for that YouTube channel this year.
Speaker 1: It's going to be more active than we have been
Speaker 1: in previous year. So just keep an eye on that
Speaker 1: feed over the course of the season. All Right, guys,
Speaker 1: that's all I have for today, where we have one
Speaker 1: more show this week. You're gonna go tomorrow. I think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do rookies. I think I'm gonna go deep
Speaker 1: dive on like a men Thompson and a Sorry Thompson
Speaker 1: and chat who's technically gonna be playing his first full
Speaker 1: season in Victor Wemban Yama and Brandon Miller's a guy
Speaker 1: I haven't talked about yet. Scoot Anderson's the guy I
Speaker 1: haven't talked about yet, So I think I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: rookies tomorrow, and then Monday we're gonna do like kind
Speaker 1: of a big picture of season preview, just talking about
Speaker 1: some predictions, and then Tuesday night instant reaction videos to
Speaker 1: both of the games before we head into the groove.
Speaker 1: All Right, guys, I appreciate you, and I will see
Speaker 1: you tomorrow. The volume