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FanDuel app is safe, You get paid fast. 7 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: A lot of ways to play the spread, the money line, 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: team totals, players, props, a lot of stuff over unders, 9 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 1: jump into the action, same game, parlays are my favorite. 10 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 1: Just use the promo code Colin and download the Fan 11 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:53,520 Speaker 1: Duel app today. Hi everybody, and welcome to the Wednesday 12 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: Morning Podcast. Jason Timff hoops tonight at the volume. How 13 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:04,479 Speaker 1: great is he? He is really really good. We stole him, 14 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: you know, somebody else wanted him, very popular network, and 15 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 1: we said, in your face, we're taking him other network. 16 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: All right, So I want to start with this. If 17 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 1: I get upset with my kids or my wife and 18 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:26,680 Speaker 1: I express my disappointment, the reason I do that is 19 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: because I want to be heard and I want you 20 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: to respond. I want some sort of visceral connection. I 21 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: love you, I'm committed to you are you committed to me. 22 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: I want to be heard, and everybody wants to be heard. 23 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: That's why I've never taken criticism personally. If I don't 24 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: want to go to a restaurant anymore, I don't write 25 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: him a letter. I just stop going. When people really 26 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: leave my show, they just stop listening. They don't inform 27 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: me of it. I thought it was interesting that the 28 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 1: Super Bowl had its biggest rating in years. One hundred 29 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: and thirteen million people watched it, third most watched TV 30 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 1: program in American history. This comes, of course, after the 31 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 1: boycott from Colin Kaepernick taking a knee. All I heard 32 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 1: for eighteen months and the words used by all the 33 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: boycotters I'll never watch the NFL again. They didn't say 34 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 1: they'd come back. Eventually, they said I'll never watch it again. 35 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: They all came back. What are you going to do 36 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,359 Speaker 1: for twenty Sundays in the fall? What do you guys, farmers? 37 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 1: In the end, it's the NFL. We bet it, we 38 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 1: watch it, we love it. Many of us played it 39 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: not particularly well, but you wanted to be heard. Conservatives 40 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 1: overwhelmingly wanted to be heard. Remember when the CEO of 41 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: Goya Foods g Oya Foods backed Donald Trump, there was 42 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: a boycott. Liberals were outraged by the comments, we are 43 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: going to boycott Goya Foods. Actually sales went up twenty 44 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: two percent. In the following weeks, Goya reported sales of 45 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: some beans apparently Goya loves their beans rose four hundred percent. 46 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: I remember when Kaepernick did that first Nike ad ooh. 47 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: People wanted to be heard. I will never buy Nike again. 48 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 1: The stock price at the time was sixty eight. It 49 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: is now eighty four percent higher at one hundred and 50 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: twenty six. Actually rose to almost one seventy. Nike's never 51 00:03:56,120 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: been stronger. NFL's never been stronger. Goya Foods is, by 52 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: the way, because of the platforms, the number of platforms 53 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: I'm on today, I get more hate, more ugly comments, 54 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 1: more threats, more boycott tweets than ever before. January was 55 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: my most watched, most listened to, most downloaded month of 56 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 1: my thirty year career. And that's okay, yell scream, call 57 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 1: me an idiot. People want to be heard. Liberals wanted 58 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 1: to be heard with Goya Foods. Conservatives wanted to be 59 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: heard with Kaepernick and Nike in the NFL. That's why 60 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 1: I don't take things personally when people really leave brands, restaurants, leagues, TV. 61 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: By the way, teens do not watch linear TV. Teenagers 62 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: don't watch it. It's down seventy four percent from I 63 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: think like a decade ago. You know what I've never 64 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: ever received in the history of social media, a teenager 65 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: saying I'm no longer watching linear TV. I'm out. They 66 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: just leave to all my media brethren, don't take the 67 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: insults personally. Roger Goodell doesn't, the CEO of Goya Foods doesn't. 68 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: Phil Night at Nike doesn't. All of us. When you're 69 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: connected to something, when you've been a customer, a fan, 70 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,280 Speaker 1: of viewer, a listener, sometimes you just pissed and want 71 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:37,600 Speaker 1: to be heard on the same way. So Aaron Rodgers 72 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: is about ready to go on his darkness retreat for 73 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 1: four days. According to reports from legitimate sources, He's considering 74 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: filming it little irony there, an isolation trip. Hey, let's 75 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: make sure the camera guy's got it. The lighting eyes 76 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: over here. It's supposed to be isolation. Thinking you by yourself, 77 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 1: Aaron wants attention, ripping Adam Schefter, ripping Ian Rappaport, the vaccine. 78 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers wants attention. He wants to feel important. Right, No, kids, 79 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 1: never married, may not have a pet. It's why he 80 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 1: needs to do these weekly hits. Aaron needs to be 81 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: the center of attention. It just cracks me up. Like 82 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: when you go on these retreats, you go to oh Hi, 83 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 1: you're looking for peace. You're not supposed to be making 84 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: another state farm commercial during your isolation trip. You know, 85 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: people myself included, have odd habits. I tend to be 86 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 1: a creature of habit. You know, three or four things 87 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 1: for breakfast my entire life fruit, early, fish, late. I 88 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: eat the same way, I exercise, the same way, same 89 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 1: time of the day. Very much a creature of habit. 90 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 1: And I understand not everybody has the same habits. You know, 91 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: my kids are quirky. I'm quirky, and I've had friends 92 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: that have you know, mannerisms or things that are I 93 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: consider odd. But the one thing I've dropped friends and 94 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:30,119 Speaker 1: people in my social circle over high maintenance slash neediness. Fuck, 95 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: Aaron is needy. He is really really needy. 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His name is Jason Timp. 112 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 1: We were able to grab him a couple of years ago. 113 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 1: He's going to be with us for a long time. 114 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: Hoops Tonight podcast on the Volume Network. So I was 115 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: talking about this Jason, about the Kansas, the Chiefs. If 116 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 1: you were going to beat them, it probably should have 117 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:07,200 Speaker 1: been this year. Kind of a makeshift receiving Corps. Six 118 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 1: rookies played old line is still pretty young, not great 119 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:17,560 Speaker 1: at tackle. Now this year they've got eleven draft picks, 120 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:22,440 Speaker 1: all the rookies at running back in the secondary, we'll 121 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 1: have a year under their belt. Mahomes is only getting better. 122 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:29,719 Speaker 1: And you know, this could have been the vulnerable year, 123 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,199 Speaker 1: right because they were very, very young. And I feel 124 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 1: the same way about the Warriors last year Clay Thompson 125 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 1: at seventy young guys weren't ready to play. Now they've 126 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 1: got Peyton, he'll be ready by the playoffs. Clay's better 127 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 1: pools emerged as more consistent. Dante de Vincenzo's actually a 128 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 1: perfect fit for that system. Now they're actually really deep 129 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: in the next two months, really really deep, and Kuminga 130 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: is at least now a contributor. And so as they 131 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 1: go back and four, we know they're not the same 132 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: team without Steph Curry. But I really believe Milwaukee's the 133 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 1: best team in the league. And I really believe in 134 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 1: two and a half three months, Golden State, a team 135 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 1: that's in Boston's head, will be second. How much of 136 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 1: a believer or a cynic are you of these Warriors 137 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 1: going forward? Well, generally speaking, I'm always going to be 138 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: very bullish on championship cores that still have their core 139 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: that we've seen show what they can do on that level, 140 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 1: because the NBA regular season is so monotonous and boring, 141 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: and they've had issues, like even the core of this 142 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: team has struggled to close games this year, which is 143 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 1: super unusual for a team that you'd expect to execute 144 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 1: super well. And obviously they've had issues with the bench. 145 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 1: But college did you know that there are twenty seven 146 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: five man lineups in the NBA this year that have 147 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,560 Speaker 1: played at least two hundred minutes and Steph Clay, Andrew Wiggins, 148 00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: Raymond Green, and Kevan Luney are still by far in 149 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: the league. They're outscoring teams by twenty two points per 150 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:07,560 Speaker 1: one hundred possessions, five and a half points better than 151 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:11,080 Speaker 1: Denver starters who are treating this season every game like 152 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 1: it's the last game of their lives. Now, again, the 153 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: bench was a little concerning, but at the end of 154 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 1: the day, there's two things that give me optimism there. 155 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 1: First of all, Gary Payton will be available for the playoffs. 156 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: Last year in the playoffs, they outscored teams by three 157 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 1: points per one hundred possessions When Gary Payton was off 158 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 1: the floor and by sixteen points per one hundred possessions 159 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 1: when Gary Payton was on the floor. So you know, 160 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 1: to their credit, they made the Wiseman mistake, but they 161 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: were like, hey, we're gonna undo two mistakes in one 162 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: move here and bring back Gary. Now. It sucks that 163 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:40,440 Speaker 1: he's not going to be available for this next stretch 164 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,079 Speaker 1: of the regular season, but if he's available for the postseason, 165 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 1: that solves a lot of problems. And then Jamichael Green. 166 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: There's been all this talk about them going after a 167 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 1: backup big, but he is shooting the laces off the 168 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: basketball since he returned from injury, and that kind of 169 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: alleviates that issue. Give me Gary Payton, give me Jamichael Green, 170 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 1: Give me Jordan Poole and Dante DiVincenzo with that start 171 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:03,079 Speaker 1: lineup we just talked about in a Western conference, that's 172 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: super flawed. I mean, as anybody is safer bet no 173 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: I I And that's what I go back to. I 174 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 1: do think when you have a veteran team and you 175 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: have a long playoff run, you're talking about twenty more 176 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 1: intense games. This is not Tuesday against the Pelicans at 177 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 1: home at Oracle, right, Like these are. These are play 178 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 1: forty minutes of playoff basketball, and so I don't think 179 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 1: it's surprising. The Warriors were flat defensively, frankly awful defensively 180 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 1: until about, I would say, about two weeks ago. It 181 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:40,960 Speaker 1: feels like there's moments now I think they've gotten They're 182 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,720 Speaker 1: not great, but they've gotten better. Probably has Kur has 183 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: been barking at him, Draymond's been barking at him. But 184 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: I tend to I'm with you on this, until you 185 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 1: have a ring, teams play really hard. Those Chicago Bull 186 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,560 Speaker 1: teams with Derek Rose, Jesus, every game was Game seven. 187 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: You'd go into the United Center and Lebron would go 188 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:03,960 Speaker 1: in there, and then the playoffs show up and Lebron 189 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: shut down de Rows. Speaking of Lebron, I had a 190 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 1: scout I trust say the body language by Ad wasn't 191 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 1: a coincidence. He's had, as you've pointed out on your podcast, 192 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: a series of bizarrely ineffective games, like strangely ineffective first 193 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: half against the Warriors was weird, like not there. And 194 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: I had a scout tell me last week Dallas is 195 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 1: going to make a run at him. Anthony Davis has 196 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 1: sort of kind of believes he's lost the trust of Lebron, 197 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:44,319 Speaker 1: That's what I'm hearing, and that they're going to try 198 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: to get their way into the playoffs. And I do 199 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: think if you if you gave me Lebron and that 200 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 1: roster seven gamer playing, let's get that's a series against Denver, 201 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 1: I'd take my chances with Lebron. What do you believe 202 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 1: of somebody that watches every minute for the Lakers? What 203 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: do you make of the last five to six games 204 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: of Anthony Davis? The Anthony Davis thing is truly bizarre 205 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: because all of the intel is is that his foot 206 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 1: is fine. Now generally speaking, with foot injuries, there's a 207 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 1: difference between fine and I trust myself to explode off 208 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 1: of this foot one I need to. The numbers are 209 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 1: really bad. So he's been back for nine games, twenty 210 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: two points and thirteen rebounds, which is the weird thing 211 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 1: with Lebron and AD there's always such a disconnect between 212 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 1: what their box score production is and what you actually 213 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 1: see on the floor. Because I think he's been bad 214 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: by his standards. He's shooting just sixty one percent in 215 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 1: the restricted area since coming back, which is awful for 216 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 1: a big that's okay for a point guard. To give 217 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 1: you some perspective, DeAndre Eighton is shooting seventy nine percent 218 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 1: in the restricted area this season, so he's just getting 219 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: manhandled around the basket. He's not running up and down 220 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: in transition. He's losing box outs everywhere, right and left. 221 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:58,239 Speaker 1: Now if he's dealing with something up here. The reality 222 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 1: is is this roster is so Allan did now because 223 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 1: they've they've really addressed their two biggest weakness backcourt offensive 224 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 1: skill size on the perimeter with the with Ruey Hotchmer 225 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: and Jared Vanderbilt. So yeah, if they if they get 226 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 1: Lebron back and he's playing at an MVP level at 227 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: a certain point, ad will have no choice but to 228 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: lock back in. And I believe that he will, but 229 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 1: you know if he does not, because one of the 230 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 1: biggest subplots of this Laker's era is Anthony Davis's inability 231 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 1: to remain at his ceiling. Since the twenty twenty playoffs, 232 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: it's been like two games against the Suns in the 233 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 1: first round where he looked really good, like maybe ten 234 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: fifteen games earlier this season, but that's about it. And 235 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: if he can't stay at that level, the Lakers will 236 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 1: have to look seriously at whether or not he can 237 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: be a foundational piece for them. Well, the source told me, 238 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 1: Dallas will make a run on him because Kyrie and 239 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 1: Luca have huge defensive efficiencies and they don't trust Christian. 240 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 1: Would it would make sense. What can you get in 241 00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 1: your opinion for an Anthony Davis at the end of 242 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 1: the year. Man. Okay, So if he does not ever 243 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:08,320 Speaker 1: in this season return to Form, I think he becomes 244 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 1: He's got similar value to Lebron James, meaning like you're 245 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 1: looking at him and you're like, yeah, like I might 246 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: get some top tier superstar production here, but I also 247 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 1: might not. I'm not going to give away three four 248 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 1: first round picks and two three swaps and a good 249 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: young player I was. I actually pitched this idea to Ryan, 250 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: our producer, earlier today. But like, if if ad cannot 251 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 1: return to Form, you start to look at potentially him 252 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 1: being the vehicle for a Kyrie Irving sign in trade, 253 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: which kind of which satisfies both needs. Maybe you get 254 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 1: a Josh Green out of Dallas as well. Maybe you 255 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: get one other first round pick and the two you know, 256 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 1: Jared Vanderbilt, such a good work hard forward for them. 257 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 1: If they can get one other center, you start to 258 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: look at them as a more offensively focused team behind 259 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 1: Kyrie and Lebron. And Lebron when he's surrounded by really 260 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 1: good ball handlers and shooters, he does devote more energy 261 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 1: to the defensive end of the floor and he can 262 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: be really impactful there. Just look at the twenty sixteen calves. 263 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:08,359 Speaker 1: So that would be an interesting direction for them to 264 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 1: look if Anthony Davis can't return to form. And here's 265 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 1: the thing called if I asked you, what are the 266 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: percentage chances that Anthony Davis returns to MVP form before 267 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:17,480 Speaker 1: the end of the season, It's like a coin flip 268 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 1: or worse. Oh, absolutely it is. And I think, as 269 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 1: you pointed out, it may be a little physical, some 270 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 1: of it's mental, and I think that's where he struggled. 271 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:29,920 Speaker 1: You know, there's some things you can teach and some 272 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: things you can't. Passion like Patrick Mahomes visibly in intense 273 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 1: pain during the Super Bowl and sprints for twenty six 274 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 1: yards in my opinion, his greatest moment as a pro player, 275 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 1: and he is wincing. Pain tolerance is a skill. Playing 276 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 1: through injuries is a skill. Dwyane Wade was banged up 277 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: almost the last ten years of his career. He was 278 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:02,160 Speaker 1: constantly on the deck. So let me start with this premise. 279 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 1: I think Milwaukee when healthy's the best team in the league. 280 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:08,480 Speaker 1: Do you agree? I do. I just don't trust Boston 281 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:11,639 Speaker 1: to close games. And then everybody in the West is 282 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: significantly more flawed, and Milwaukee kind of float under the 283 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:17,679 Speaker 1: radar as they were consistently near the top of the 284 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:21,199 Speaker 1: standings despite Chris Middleton being out and Drew Holiday being 285 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,879 Speaker 1: in and out of the lineup, like Janis has been sneaky, 286 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: like a favorite, one of my favorites for MVP this 287 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 1: year and not getting enough credit for it because he's 288 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 1: been floating a really limited roster. And so yeah, again, 289 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 1: it's to me, it's about the safeness of the bet, 290 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,200 Speaker 1: and I just can count on Milwaukee in a way 291 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:42,400 Speaker 1: I can't anybody else out East. So that brings me up. Two. 292 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 1: And you watch the NBA and a more consistent level, 293 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 1: because I'm kind of a generalist than half the cherry 294 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:49,679 Speaker 1: pick stuff. But I've watched the Celtics. I get on 295 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:51,520 Speaker 1: a treadmill and I watched them as much as I can. 296 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:55,399 Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch them tonight when I we hang up 297 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 1: here and I'm gonna go watch their backups play Milwaukee. 298 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: My daughter's actually at that game totally about the health. 299 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 1: Things aren't starting anybody. So one of the things I've 300 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:07,160 Speaker 1: noticed in a game that a lot of people watch 301 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 1: was the Laker game, which was a fantastic night of 302 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 1: NBA basketball, it felt like a playoff game is that 303 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 1: I think Golden State remains in Boston's head is even 304 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: though they won that game and that had a playoff 305 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:26,639 Speaker 1: feel to it. This is and you played college basketball 306 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: at a high level, more good late in the shot clock, 307 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 1: in late in games, the body language tells me that 308 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:40,480 Speaker 1: Jalen Brown is really the alpha. He wants the ball. 309 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 1: He's more aggressive seeking the ball. Now when they design 310 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:48,479 Speaker 1: or set screens for Jason a play, he'll come get it, 311 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:53,680 Speaker 1: but he won't take over a possession. I always feel 312 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:58,360 Speaker 1: like Jalen's the alpha. Tatum's more talented, and I think 313 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:02,159 Speaker 1: when you get into these huge games that may only 314 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:05,439 Speaker 1: rear its head three possessions in the last six minutes, 315 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:09,639 Speaker 1: that's the difference between beating the Warriors and not. There's 316 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 1: something it's almost like Tatum's too nice a guy. That's 317 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:17,399 Speaker 1: my takeaway. It's like, I don't want that when Steph 318 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 1: wants to score, there's nobody else on the floor. Steph. 319 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: Do you see this ever with the Celtics in big 320 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:30,200 Speaker 1: possessions in key spots, some of it is skill set, 321 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 1: Like I think Jalen Brown is much more of an 322 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:37,399 Speaker 1: improvisational score. He can score in the sense that, like 323 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 1: every basket looks different than the last, Jason Tatum is 324 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 1: very much your modern MBA analytical offensive approach. Like he's 325 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:48,640 Speaker 1: he's toned way back on his mid range jump shooting, 326 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:51,479 Speaker 1: He's taken a ton of threes, he's finishing better at 327 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 1: the rim than he used to be. But he's kind 328 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: of becoming a more predictable offensive engine. And at the 329 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,639 Speaker 1: end of games, nothing goes the way you want it too. 330 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:03,320 Speaker 1: There's so much contact that goes on called there's random 331 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:06,159 Speaker 1: double teams and weird schematic things, and having a player 332 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 1: that's an improvisational score, a guy that can take and 333 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 1: make weird shots ends up being a huge advantage there, 334 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:13,919 Speaker 1: and I think that's a huge part of why Jalen 335 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 1: Brown thrives so much in those settings. But it's funny 336 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 1: because I would agree with you that Golden States in 337 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,200 Speaker 1: their head, which even when they won this last game, 338 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 1: they kind of backed into that win. Yeah, they won, 339 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:27,879 Speaker 1: because Golden State also made a bunch of mistakes, like 340 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 1: even on that final possession when Jalen Brown got open, 341 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 1: it was a transition cross match and Jordan Poole got 342 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:36,199 Speaker 1: lost and they left Jalen Brown open. Like again, we 343 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 1: talked about this earlier, but Golden State has struggled with 344 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 1: like game execution. Jason Tatum was awful down the stretch 345 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 1: and regulation of that game, including having Steph Curry on 346 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 1: a switch on the left wing. No double team, dude, 347 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 1: you've got the advantage, and he ended up just like 348 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 1: kind of like trying to step sideways into a three, 349 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 1: and Steph was all over it, and he ended up 350 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 1: turning the basketball over. And you can tell there's something 351 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 1: going on up there. To be clear, Boston's even better 352 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 1: than they were last year. Malcolm Brogden, we talked a 353 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: lot after the NBA Finals about them needing backup ball handling. 354 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:11,119 Speaker 1: Malcolm Brogden was a home run trade. He's been amazing 355 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 1: for them, But at the end of these games, if 356 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 1: I would feel so much better about Boston. If they 357 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 1: just kicked Golden State's ass in those two games, I 358 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 1: would be in a completely different place mentally with them 359 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: if they just closed the deal in those two games emphatically, 360 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 1: and instead they lost one and they fell ass backwards 361 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 1: into a win and the other, and so that just 362 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 1: puts me in the same position where it's the same 363 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: type of flaw when they get to that big stage. Yeah, 364 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: and that's why Golden State. Golden State picks its spots 365 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 1: the Boston game, that Memphis game. You know this, there's 366 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 1: about for defending champions. There's about six nights a year 367 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: their national TV games, or they're the cocky upstart Memphis. 368 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:57,199 Speaker 1: It's like, okay, guys, don't have to be talked into it. 369 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:01,920 Speaker 1: So I think everybody. I've probably seen Phoenix play six 370 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 1: times this year. Chris Paul is not what he was 371 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 1: two years ago. Let's start with that. Mikhail Bridges really 372 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:12,120 Speaker 1: valuable wing defender, no question, that's where they're not as good. 373 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:16,640 Speaker 1: Kevin Durant remains. However, when healthy about the best easiest 374 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:20,479 Speaker 1: bucket in the league, I tend to think it's going 375 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,119 Speaker 1: to work. Because in the NFL, I always feel in 376 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: pro football, an offense needs an identity can overcome lack 377 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:29,959 Speaker 1: of personnel. If you have a New York Giants won 378 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 1: a playoff game, they knew what they were and what 379 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 1: they weren't. I don't worry about that. In the NBA, 380 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 1: what I worry is, do you have elements? Two great wings, 381 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:42,120 Speaker 1: a big that runs the floor, a smart distribution, veteran 382 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 1: point guard, a respected coach. Situationally, I look at Phoenix 383 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: and I think there's a lot of elements here. I like, now, 384 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 1: they're not deep, but you know, Golden State plays eight 385 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 1: guys like depth is a tad overrated. I think Phoenix 386 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 1: could move through some of these teams in about five 387 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:03,400 Speaker 1: six games. I think the Suns it works for me. 388 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: But now in three years this could be a disaster 389 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: if they fall apart. But just for this year, does 390 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 1: it work for you? Well? Overnight they have the most 391 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,919 Speaker 1: talented top four in the NBA in my opinion, I 392 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: putting them ahead of Philly in Boston. There's also schematically 393 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,400 Speaker 1: a supernatural fit for Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant has been 394 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 1: by far the very best pick and roll ball handler 395 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 1: this year. He is having one of the very best 396 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: pull up jump shooting seasons in NBA history. In all 397 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,879 Speaker 1: pick and roll coverages in the NBA concede pull up shots, 398 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,399 Speaker 1: so every team in the league has just been like, 399 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 1: let's just double KD and play four on three in 400 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,120 Speaker 1: the back end, which is why the Nets have been 401 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 1: so good this season when he played. Phoenix is the 402 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: pre eminent pick and roll team in the NBA. That's 403 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,120 Speaker 1: what they run every single possession down the floor. They 404 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,239 Speaker 1: run a variation of it called Spain pick and roll 405 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: where they include a shooter that replaces to the time 406 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 1: the key while Aton is rolling. So KD offensively is 407 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 1: a just an incredibly natural fit with him. He's also 408 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 1: probably the best plug in play star in NBA history 409 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,719 Speaker 1: because his off ball offensive talent is every bit as 410 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 1: effective as his on ball offensive talent, and he makes quick, 411 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:21,280 Speaker 1: predictable decisions, like compared to Luca, where it's like there's 412 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 1: nine seconds of dribbling and you don't necessarily know where 413 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,400 Speaker 1: he's going. That can be tough to play with sometimes, 414 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 1: but when you're playing pickup basketball and there's that dude 415 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,119 Speaker 1: where you know exactly what he's gonna do and he 416 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: makes that decision quickly, it makes it easy to play 417 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:35,719 Speaker 1: with that type of guy. So that's why he plugs 418 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:37,919 Speaker 1: in so well. On the defensive end of the floor. 419 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 1: He's actually having one of his better defensive seasons of 420 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 1: his career as a help defender on the back line 421 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:45,479 Speaker 1: with his length and DeAndre Ayton. One of his biggest 422 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:47,199 Speaker 1: issues is he can be a kind of up and 423 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 1: down defensive player from his motor. From the perspective of 424 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 1: his motor. Now, they're not a perfect team. They're going 425 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 1: to be probably the worst perimeter defense team out of 426 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,879 Speaker 1: the high level playoff teams, and that will put them 427 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:00,959 Speaker 1: in some trouble against dry can kick teams like the 428 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 1: Clippers or Golden State. With Jordan Poole constantly putting downhill 429 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:07,159 Speaker 1: pressure on the rim, they're gonna have some issues. But 430 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,200 Speaker 1: again I go back to what I said with Golden State. 431 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,679 Speaker 1: In a Western conference where everybody is flawed, you'd be 432 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,399 Speaker 1: foolish to write them off. And you're you gotta look 433 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,640 Speaker 1: at the buy out market, Like they snatched Terrence Ross 434 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 1: away from Dallas, I would be surprised if they go 435 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: after someone like Patrick Beverley as well. Like they're gonna 436 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,359 Speaker 1: be there, and I think Kevin Durant might be the 437 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:26,880 Speaker 1: best player in the world right now, So they're gonna 438 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,439 Speaker 1: be a pain in the ass for everybody. Yeah, no, 439 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 1: I I think you really put it well, m he's 440 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,119 Speaker 1: the best plugin play guy in the world, Like I 441 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,119 Speaker 1: love Lebron or Janis, but you have to sort of 442 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 1: build around them, Luca, because he's so ball centric, you 443 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,359 Speaker 1: can he's he I think he's a much better not 444 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,520 Speaker 1: much better. He's a better version of Harden, but I mean, 445 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 1: at his best, James was hard to play with. Like 446 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: Chris Paul for all the misgivings, kind of works in 447 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: every era. 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I think Jaws a better 488 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 1: shooter than those guys. But Jason, he's one hundred and 489 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 1: seventy eight pounds. He's tiny. I don't know if I 490 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,360 Speaker 1: buy Memphis. I just I like their depth, I like 491 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: their coach. Dot. I don't buy this team as a 492 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,720 Speaker 1: championship contender, do you. Yeah? Memphis is who I put 493 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,920 Speaker 1: down as my most overrated team in the league. So 494 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,280 Speaker 1: to give you an idea, these are the top four 495 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 1: teams in the league and their records against teams that 496 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 1: are five hundred or better. Boston is twenty two and 497 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 1: nine against winning teams, Milwaukee twenty one and ten, Denver 498 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 1: nineteen and eleven, Phillies sixteen and ten, Memphis sixteen and 499 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,000 Speaker 1: fifteen once again against Boston. On Sunday, shortly before the 500 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 1: Super Bowl, they competed. They were in the game, it 501 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 1: was close late, and they backed way off of Jaw 502 00:29:58,120 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 1: and made him shoot threes that he couldn't make you 503 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 1: one over four. And on the other end of the floor, 504 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 1: they could not contain Derek White driving to the basket, 505 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:07,920 Speaker 1: which put them in rotation, non stopping. They gave up 506 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 1: a bunch of wide open threes and they lost. This 507 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 1: is a phenomenon I've seen several times in NBA history 508 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 1: where there's a team that has an outstanding regular season 509 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:20,640 Speaker 1: machine to produce wins. My favorite example of this is 510 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one Jazz. They were third in defensive 511 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: rating in the regular season, and then they ran into 512 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 1: the Clippers without Kawhi Leonard and it turns out that 513 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 1: it turns out Mike Conley and Donovan Mitchell couldn't guard anybody. 514 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 1: They gave up one hundred and twenty eight points per 515 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 1: one hundred possessions against the Clippers and lost. And so 516 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 1: what happens is in the regular season, you can set 517 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 1: up a baseline scheme and you can hide guys, But 518 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: then you get to the playoffs and it becomes so 519 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:50,960 Speaker 1: the game slows down and it just teams target your 520 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 1: entry points. And what it is is John Morant is 521 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: one of the easiest entry points in the NBA to 522 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 1: a defense. If you attack him, you can quickly at 523 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 1: them in rotation, and then it doesn't really matter what 524 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,040 Speaker 1: kind of personnel you have in the back end if 525 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 1: you're playing four on three, and then on the other 526 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:07,840 Speaker 1: end of the floor, they just don't have any shot 527 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,120 Speaker 1: creation behind Jaw, and so they're actually a bottom ten 528 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 1: half court offense in the NBA according to Cleaning the Glass. 529 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 1: And so if they can stay up and down in 530 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,440 Speaker 1: transition and in funnel guys to Jaren Jackson in the 531 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 1: regular season, they're fine. But they get to the playoffs, 532 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,120 Speaker 1: the game slows down. It's entirely in the half court. 533 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 1: On both ends, they're attacking Jaw, they're on the other end, 534 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 1: they're back and way off of him, and that's why 535 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 1: they struggle against good teams. Those clutch situations and those 536 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,400 Speaker 1: games against the good teams, those are what mimic the 537 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 1: playoffs most closely. And this is the final stat I'll 538 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,480 Speaker 1: give you. The Jazz are third in regular season defensive 539 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: rating this year. They are twenty fourth in clutch defense 540 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 1: this season. So when the game slows down at the end, 541 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:53,080 Speaker 1: they just can't get stops. Well, this was always my 542 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,480 Speaker 1: knock on Westbrook is that in the regular season, if 543 00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: you face Westbrook and you played the night before and 544 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 1: he has two games asked, you're ft is he's going 545 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,960 Speaker 1: to get sixteen points in transition? And then I mean, 546 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 1: but in the playoffs, we're all equally rested and I 547 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 1: can attack his flaws over and over and frustrate him. 548 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 1: And so Westbrook, Derek Rose, these are remarkable regular season players, 549 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,840 Speaker 1: and they have their moments. I mean, you can't stop 550 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 1: all transition. A team misses you're good in transition. This 551 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 1: has always been my knock on Westbrook, and he's gotten worse, 552 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 1: is that he doesn't have good hands. He won't set 553 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,960 Speaker 1: a pick. He's become a terrible defender. He can't shoot 554 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,640 Speaker 1: midranger outside. So when you take the sloppy transition points 555 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,880 Speaker 1: away for the team, you know, I wonder if in history, 556 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,760 Speaker 1: if you look at Westbrook against the team without equal rest, 557 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,400 Speaker 1: he's just he's a handful. He's just too much athletically 558 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 1: in the half court. And that's always been my knock 559 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,360 Speaker 1: on Westbrook. The playoffs are a different sport. It's not 560 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:55,400 Speaker 1: a coincidence he struggles when we're all equally rested. I 561 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 1: do think he's a good guy. I do think he's 562 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:01,240 Speaker 1: well meaning. But I mean, you and really critical of him. 563 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,680 Speaker 1: Are you ever surprised, or I should say, how surprised 564 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:09,760 Speaker 1: at the pushback you get when it appears his flaws 565 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,960 Speaker 1: are so obvious and counterintuitive to really good, solid, playoff 566 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,840 Speaker 1: level basketball. Right, it seems obvious he can't play off 567 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 1: the ball. My time covering Russell Westbrook with the Lakers 568 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:25,000 Speaker 1: has been one of the more confusing experiences as a 569 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:29,960 Speaker 1: basketball fan, because it goes beyond even just the crazy 570 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:34,560 Speaker 1: angry fans. There's also really smart basketball people that I 571 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: know that don't see it. And for the record, like 572 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 1: I do see the positives with Russ He's excellent at 573 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,320 Speaker 1: pushing the pace. He actually had a lot of success 574 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:47,760 Speaker 1: this year in the middle portions of games against inferior 575 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 1: bench guards when the game had a more up and 576 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 1: down flow. Yeah, I do believe that he could help 577 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:55,880 Speaker 1: a team if he ended up in a situation where 578 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,880 Speaker 1: he was only in those types of situations. That's why 579 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 1: I actually like him for the Flippers, as long as 580 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,960 Speaker 1: Tyler wouldn't play him in crunch time they have so 581 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,640 Speaker 1: much shooting. Give him a big who runs the floor, 582 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,920 Speaker 1: put him in those middle portions of the game, running 583 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:10,680 Speaker 1: up and down, pushing the pace. He can bring a 584 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,319 Speaker 1: lot of value. But the problem is there's a there's 585 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:17,440 Speaker 1: a disconnect between the way league personnel view Westbrook, at 586 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:19,840 Speaker 1: least in terms of the coaching staffs and the players 587 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,600 Speaker 1: around the league, and the way the really smart basketball 588 00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,279 Speaker 1: players see him. Because what would happen is is you 589 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,640 Speaker 1: get in these situations and like Darvin Hamms, like I 590 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,239 Speaker 1: need Russ out there and crunch time, and I'm not 591 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,839 Speaker 1: sure that Tyler wouldn't make the same mistake, and so like, 592 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,920 Speaker 1: if I could create the perfect set of circumstances for 593 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:42,080 Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook, He's still a very productive NBA player. But 594 00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,880 Speaker 1: the problem is is like everything about the playoffs is 595 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,600 Speaker 1: not the perfect set of circumstances. It's about being adaptable, 596 00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:52,080 Speaker 1: it's about having versatility, which is everything that Russell Westbrook 597 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:55,920 Speaker 1: is not. And it was just a frustrating experience because 598 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:57,879 Speaker 1: it wasn't like people would be like, oh, you're hating 599 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,960 Speaker 1: on Russ for the ratings. No one cares. Like no 600 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,719 Speaker 1: one cares. It's like it's authentic. I just as a 601 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,680 Speaker 1: basketball fan, and I've always been a big Lebron fan, 602 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:09,480 Speaker 1: so I've been covering the Lakers and I've been rooting 603 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,160 Speaker 1: for that team. It was like pulling my hair out 604 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,000 Speaker 1: trying to watch the guy. And I'm just thankful that 605 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,000 Speaker 1: he's hopefully going to end up in a better basketball 606 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,520 Speaker 1: situation now because of all the places to have that 607 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,280 Speaker 1: loud and that critical of a fan base. In the 608 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:27,560 Speaker 1: worst possible basketball fit Anthony Davis who doesn't like to 609 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,080 Speaker 1: run the floor and a complete lack of shooting, Like 610 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,480 Speaker 1: it was the worst possible basketball fit, you get scripted 611 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,400 Speaker 1: for him. You know what, I I'll explain it to you. 612 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:43,400 Speaker 1: So in baseball, where personality is often seen as a negative, 613 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,479 Speaker 1: there's a way to play the game. If you don't 614 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:51,720 Speaker 1: work analytically, you don't work. Seamheads push back. They don't 615 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:55,320 Speaker 1: care how cool Cody Bellinger's swing is and how cool 616 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,359 Speaker 1: he is. If you don't work analytically, you don't work. 617 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:03,800 Speaker 1: Basketball has always had an allure to the aesthetic. Style matters. 618 00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,520 Speaker 1: I never trusted Doctor j shooting a free thrower, hitting 619 00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,240 Speaker 1: a jumper, but god, I love watching him and he's 620 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:15,359 Speaker 1: absolutely crucial to the NBA story. World B Free. I 621 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:20,520 Speaker 1: loved World b Free, Marbury, Stevie Francis. You know, I 622 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:22,600 Speaker 1: don't know what their analytics are. They have to be 623 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:30,360 Speaker 1: really suboptimal. But style matters, fashion matters, cool matters. That's 624 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:33,680 Speaker 1: why I love the NBA. There's always these weird, quirky 625 00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:37,839 Speaker 1: players who are completely limited and can be marginalized. I 626 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,040 Speaker 1: love watching them. It doesn't work that way in baseball. 627 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:45,120 Speaker 1: Personality is seen as a weakness, a liability, disrespectful to 628 00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:48,759 Speaker 1: the game. So I get the Westbrook. Like I always said, 629 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,839 Speaker 1: Zach Levine. He's not a winning player, but he has 630 00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:57,120 Speaker 1: fun to watch. Hell yeah, So I do think a 631 00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:00,160 Speaker 1: lot of it is if you love basketball. You know 632 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,360 Speaker 1: I'm old now, man. I watched Wilt in seventy two. 633 00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:06,080 Speaker 1: Will it was a flake, but Will it was cool 634 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,480 Speaker 1: like Wilt. There was value to Wilt being Wilt. And 635 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:14,359 Speaker 1: Moses Malone was amazing, but his game was boring. It 636 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:18,200 Speaker 1: was offensive, rebounding, you know, Paul Silas, a lot of 637 00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,600 Speaker 1: these guys just they're just not vertical players. So that 638 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,920 Speaker 1: I guess that's my explanation is basketball has this unique 639 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:30,480 Speaker 1: relationship with its fan base that style matters. And I 640 00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,520 Speaker 1: mean just I just since I've been a kid, I 641 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:36,920 Speaker 1: loved Spencer Haywood, doctor J World, b Free. I mean, 642 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:41,520 Speaker 1: that's way, way a long time ago. Alex Alex English 643 00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:44,759 Speaker 1: led the damn League in scoring in the eighties. There's 644 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,360 Speaker 1: no such thing as an Alice Alex English fan club. 645 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:51,279 Speaker 1: He led the damn League it's scoring for and by 646 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:55,240 Speaker 1: the way, a good decade the eighties. He wasn't vertical. 647 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,839 Speaker 1: He hit elbow jumpers. So I just think it's it's 648 00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,279 Speaker 1: it's why I loved the NBA, but one sometimes why 649 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,719 Speaker 1: it's maddening to argue about players. Yeah, you know, and 650 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,759 Speaker 1: I wish people could understand that. Me being critical of 651 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,520 Speaker 1: the way Russ is playing for the Lakers when they 652 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,640 Speaker 1: have a championship expectation, which sounds hilarious with the way 653 00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,600 Speaker 1: they've performed. But that is not the same as me 654 00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:22,200 Speaker 1: disliking Russ as a person or not having an appreciation 655 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,400 Speaker 1: for his career. I have so much appreciation for Russell 656 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,680 Speaker 1: Westbrook's all time resume in his accomplishments in this league. 657 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,759 Speaker 1: It's also true that he never adapted to become a 658 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,560 Speaker 1: functional off ball player. It's also true that in a 659 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,839 Speaker 1: league that has been dominated by skill guards in recent years, 660 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,640 Speaker 1: which if literally the skill of guards has completely changed 661 00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,239 Speaker 1: the landscape of the NBA. It's changed every pick and 662 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,080 Speaker 1: roll coverage in the league. It's changed the geometry of 663 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:48,879 Speaker 1: NBA defense. Everything is different because of what Dame does 664 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,319 Speaker 1: and what Kyrie Irving does and what Steph Curry does. 665 00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:53,439 Speaker 1: And in a league where all those guards have gone 666 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:57,359 Speaker 1: this way, Russell Westbrook could be left completely unguarded by 667 00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,600 Speaker 1: himself all season long and shoot twenty nine percent from 668 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,799 Speaker 1: three like at a certain point, like me saying like, hey, dude, 669 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,440 Speaker 1: you didn't adapt is not the same as like I 670 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:10,680 Speaker 1: am now tossing away Russ's entire career resume. Huge Russ 671 00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:13,880 Speaker 1: fan loved watching him play when he was in Oklahoma City, 672 00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:15,719 Speaker 1: it was rough for the Lakers. Man, I don't know 673 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:19,080 Speaker 1: what to tell you. Yeah, no, I mean, and some 674 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,600 Speaker 1: of it is Russ. I don't think it's lack of effort. 675 00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,040 Speaker 1: Derrick Rose shot had a weird spin to it. Russ 676 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:29,880 Speaker 1: has bad handles, like for a guard, he's got nineteen 677 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:34,640 Speaker 1: seventy four power forward hands. He can't catch. And I 678 00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,120 Speaker 1: just think he was even at UCLA, Jason, he was 679 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,359 Speaker 1: just an athlete. He was They didn't know what to 680 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,560 Speaker 1: do with him. I don't think Oklahoma City for the 681 00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:43,879 Speaker 1: first two years, nobody knew what to do with him. 682 00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,640 Speaker 1: But he was too damn athletic to keep off the floor. 683 00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,360 Speaker 1: And again in the regular season and transition, it's like 684 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,960 Speaker 1: John Wall. You just can't. You couldn't stay in front 685 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,320 Speaker 1: of him. And now Russell comes in when they eliminate 686 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,080 Speaker 1: the hand check, so forget it. He's just gonna score 687 00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,560 Speaker 1: at the rim. I mean, hell, Lebron still gets to 688 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,719 Speaker 1: the rim in year twenty. You can't stay in front 689 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:07,920 Speaker 1: of him. I mean really, so anyway, folks, for those 690 00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:10,680 Speaker 1: of you, and of course, if you watch the volume 691 00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,319 Speaker 1: in the YouTube, you know who Jason timp is. But 692 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:18,320 Speaker 1: I think it's the smartest basketball breakdown. We're so happy 693 00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,799 Speaker 1: to have him. I don't know if it's official yet, 694 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:23,640 Speaker 1: but he's going to be with us for a long time. 695 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:28,880 Speaker 1: He just loves the game, played the game. Absolute pleasure 696 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,400 Speaker 1: to have. You. Teaches me stuff every time we talk. 697 00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:37,360 Speaker 1: Keep crushing and go to our YouTube page. It's hoops tonight. 698 00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:40,760 Speaker 1: It's on the Volume Network. Nobody at our company works 699 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:45,040 Speaker 1: harder more consistently. You know, I love you. Your work's fantastic. 700 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:50,080 Speaker 1: You make everybody, including me, much smarter. Thanks buddy. Hey Colin, 701 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,480 Speaker 1: I just wanted to really quickly say congrats on two 702 00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:56,160 Speaker 1: years with the Volume. Hey man, I know it's been 703 00:40:56,200 --> 00:41:00,319 Speaker 1: a successful business venture, but it's also created or a 704 00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:03,600 Speaker 1: bunch of really cool opportunities for a lot of people, 705 00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:07,440 Speaker 1: including myself, and being with the Volume has completely changed 706 00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:10,799 Speaker 1: my life. So I wanted to say congratulations, but also 707 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,000 Speaker 1: I just wanted to say thank you for everything you've done. Man. Listen, 708 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:18,120 Speaker 1: as you age as a sportscaster, the coolest thing is 709 00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:21,280 Speaker 1: passing the ball. I'm like Chris Paul, I can't shoot 710 00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,480 Speaker 1: from three anymore. I really can't defend on back to 711 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:27,400 Speaker 1: back nights. You know what, I mean, I can give 712 00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,600 Speaker 1: you about twenty six decent minutes, but I can still dish, 713 00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,880 Speaker 1: I can still deal, and it's just been great. I 714 00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:35,799 Speaker 1: love having you as a teammate. You can finish the 715 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,640 Speaker 1: fast break for us, buddy, I appreciate it. Thanks, Colin, 716 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:58,319 Speaker 1: We'll see you next time man the Ume. Make sure 717 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:01,600 Speaker 1: to check out The draam On Green Show. 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