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Talk a 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:42.080 lot about rhythm in the way that uh no, you know, 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:44.320 if all two shots are the same, right like, if 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.480 I've a wide open shot for Steph Curry on the 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:51.160 right wing, why does one go in and one doesn't. Well, 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.320 a lot of it is like dialing things in and 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:57.320 feeling comfortable. And this was the textbook type of wicked 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.240 curveball of a basketball game. That is the kind the 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.400 thing that can throw really good basketball players out of whack, 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.240 and I thought it was super interesting. We're going to 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:08.680 dive into the weeds of this game on all fronts. 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.000 We are also going to get into Boston Milwaukee a 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.679 little bit more, and then if you guys stick around 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:15.880 form the end of the show, we're gonna go over 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:17.640 some of the biggest questions going on in the NBA 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.880 right now, including reaction to Nicola Yokits winning his second 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.000 consecutive m v P, and a bunch of other good stuff. 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.520 So we got an action pack show for you for 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:28.240 you guys tonight, I appreciate you coming to hang out. 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:31.040 A couple of quick housekeeping notes before we get started. 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:33.480 Make sure you like this video and subscribe to the 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.960 Volumes YouTube channel so that you don't miss any more 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.680 of our videos. 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So you know, 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.320 I talked to you guys right after the John Morant injury. 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:09.560 I said that I said that the Grizzlies were not 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:15.040 a better team without Jaw, but they were a different team. 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:18.600 You know, with John Morant on the floor, it's very heliocentric, 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:20.240 it's very him at the top of the key of 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:23.719 making every decision, so obviously it impacts other players rhythm 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:27.080 on the floor. And then secondly, John Morant is the 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.880 worst defensive player on this roster, or at least in 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.400 the rotation by a long shot. Tis Jones, who's, you know, 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.680 not a fantastic defensive player, is a much better defensive 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:40.000 player than Jaw. And so when you pump all of 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.839 those job minutes out of the lineup and you replace 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.240 them with a little bit more Taias Jones and a 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.640 little bit more size and athleticism, you get a much 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:53.440 better defensive team. This season, when Jah was off the floor, 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:57.280 the Grizzlies were about five points better per one possessions 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.279 on the defensive end of the floor. They actually were 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:03.080 better in their overall net rating with Jaw off the floor. 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.800 And again it's not because Jaw is, you know, hurting 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:08.960 the team or the team is better without him. But 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.200 in the small sample sizes that they went without him 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.120 actually wasn't even that small. They played twenty five games 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.400 I think without him this year. But in those games 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.040 they played a different brand of basketball. It was more bruising, 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:24.400 more physical, more defensive oriented, and they ran through a 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:26.320 lot of teams this year, a lot of good teams. 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.160 We saw that Brooklyn Nets team with Katie and Kyrie 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.719 walk into Memphis without Jaw and get beat towards the 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.360 end of the season. They are a really, really difficult 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.880 team to deal with. They were already one of the 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.440 biggest and most athletic teams in the league without Job 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.719 or with Jaw. Taking him out of the lineup and 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:46.200 putting another bigger player in there was inevitably going to 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:50.839 cause that type of curveball you know that defensive that 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:54.799 increased defensive pressure completely through Golden State out of whack. 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:59.080 In that first half, Jordan Pool and Steph only played 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.920 thirty forty eight available minutes. You know, obviously if both 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.280 players played the full half, they could have played forty 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.599 eight minutes. They only played thirty. I thought that was 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:11.159 a direct reaction from Mike Brown to the increase in 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.040 size and then struggling with the physicality. They played Clay 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.320 Thompson twenty one first half minutes, which I mean, again, 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.440 even if you are trying to fight the size, I 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.799 wouldn't have done that. But again, like Mike Brown's getting 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.960 tossed into the fire there. He hasn't been coaching the 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.200 team all season. He's just thrown into that spot. So 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.960 obviously it's it's tough to hold him super accountable for 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.520 for that. But I thought that was an interesting reaction 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:35.479 to Memphis coming with a ton of size. You saw 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:37.720 it directly affect their shooting. We talked about how in 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:43.640 game game two the Warriors Stars shot horrible. Step shot horrible, 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.039 Clay shot horrible, Jordan Pool shot horrible, Andrew Wiggins shot horrible. 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.160 Then they all got going in game three, well, this 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.599 curve ball from Memphis threw them all out of whack again. 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:55.159 In the first half. Jordan Pool, Steph Andrew Wiggins, and 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:59.400 Clay Thompson were one for seventeen from three, one for seventeen, 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.040 And there were some good looks in there, don't get 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:02.840 me wrong, but a lot of it was you could 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:04.960 just tell they were thrown off by the whole rhythm 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.000 of the game and the way that it changed. They 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.480 had eleven first half turnovers, which led to nine points 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.680 for the Grizzlies. That's, you know, sloppiness, and I'm struggling 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.080 with some of the length and athleticism that was on 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.920 the floor, you know. I I thought it was a 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:22.560 really really interesting decision to go back to Steven Adams 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.480 in the lineups line up from Taylor Jenkins. He has 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:30.720 been completely removed from the rotation in this playoff run. Obviously. 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.080 You know, we saw him play I think three minutes 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.080 in Game two of the Minnesota series before he basically disappeared. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:40.320 He only played six minutes total in games one through three. Well, 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:44.600 they played him twenty seven minutes tonight. Fifteen rebounds, six 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.680 offensive rebounds. It was plus eleven, just a dominant performance 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:50.800 from Steven Adams coming in off the bench and in 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:54.840 that big guy role. You know, that's the interesting thing 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.640 about what Taylor Jenkins did in this specific scenario. Do 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.920 you guys remember how I was super critical of Doc 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.400 Rivers for the way that he went about games one 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:07.160 and two in that Miami Philly series. I told you, guys, 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:11.560 I thought that they could never hope to play their 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:16.200 same style against Miami without Joe l Embiide and when 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.320 there's never a chance because at that point it's the 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.040 loss of talent. So I thought it was a terrible 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.520 idea to go rolling into Miami with your centers, with 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.800 DeAndre Jordans on the floor, with Paul Reid on the floor, 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.400 and try to play traditional conventional basketball against a team 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:33.920 that just has more talent than you. I thought that 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.240 was a really poor decision. I thought their best opportunity 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:41.920 to win down in Miami was to go crazy and weird, 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:48.320 because in a small sample size, weird can work. And 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:52.640 tonight's a great example of that. You know, you when 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.680 Philly went with all guards and wings, they had a 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.600 ton of success down there in Miami because it was 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:02.360 it's just weird. Eyes don't know where to stand guy's perimeter. 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.400 You know, gard guards that are typically guarding you know, 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.280 perimeter players suddenly are you know, dealing with a bigger 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.000 wing in the post. You'll have big guys that are 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.800 traditionally hanging around the basket having to chase a shooter 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.440 around or having to cover a ton of ground of rotation. 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:19.240 It throws everybody off. But instead, you know, Doc Rivers 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.240 went conventional and got his butt kicked. I thought it 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.480 was really interesting that Taylor Jenkins was like, no, I'm 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:28.040 gonna go weird. I'm gonna go huge. I'm gonna play 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:29.920 Steven Adams, even though I haven't been able to play 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.440 him at all in this entire playoff run. We're just 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:37.559 going to physically mall Golden State in this game, and 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.720 that's that. That was their best chance to muck things 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:41.400 up and get that going the way that they did. 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.800 To Golden State's credit, they battled back, and I a 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.720 lot of that credit I give to Steph you know 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.360 uh In in that game in particular, as as a 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.640 result of the way that the thing's got tight, you know, 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.760 sweaty palms, lots of pressure. You're down by eight to 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.640 ten points in the second I think they were actually 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:01.720 down by eleven at one point, a lot of guys 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.520 start pressing. You saw that from like Clay Thompson. It 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.280 was just like, you know, quick shots and transition, quick 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.559 tough shots around the rim, over penetrating when you when 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:14.720 you're attacking a close out. Jordan Pool like guys. Jordan 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:17.400 Pool was so good in Game three as an initial 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.800 dribble drive creator, getting that like first step on somebody 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:24.040 to get into the lane. But because everyone was shooting poorly, 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.520 guys were playing off of Jordan Pool like got Jordan 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.880 Pool would start to kind of mix up with his 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.400 rhythm dribbles as he's getting ready to attack and the 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:34.960 defender's back pedaling, and it's hard because do you take 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.920 a quick pull up three at the early in the 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.720 possession when your team's not shooting particularly well, Like that's 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.160 a it's a it's a It gets in your head 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.520 a little bit, it becomes complicated, and you could tell 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:48.400 that that was disrupting a lot of what they were doing. 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.199 It two steps credit. He just came into that fourth 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:52.880 quarter and was like, I need to make some plays, 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:54.640 and he made some places, got to the rim. I 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.480 thought it was really smart that he started punishing Steven Adams. 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.600 Like again, like we talked a lot about how styles 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:03.280 makes you know, it's not that you know. I'm a 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.120 big believer in small ball. That's why I'm a big 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:10.559 believer in this Warriors team. But regardless of if a 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.360 if a small ball team plays against a big team, 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:17.040 the small ball team is not guaranteed to win. The 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:20.480 small ball team has to do small ball things really well. 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.959 Look at like so for instance, like I always talk 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.679 about the give and take of going small. If a 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.079 team goes big, you can expect that and you're small, 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.240 you can expect them to get a lot offensive rebounds. 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.479 You can expect them to bully you in specific matchups 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:39.320 like driving to the rim through thinner, smaller defenders or 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.920 posting up thinner, smaller defenders. Like that's part of the deal, right, 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.600 Like that that's gonna happen. You can expect to face 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:49.160 stiff rim opposition, right Like you can expect you can 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.000 expect when you're attacking the basket against this team and 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:53.800 they're big, that you're gonna have to deal with a 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:55.520 lot of big bodies around the basket. Those are all 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:59.000 the trade offs, right. But the flip side of that is, 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.800 you have a massive skill advantage, a massive foot speed advantage, 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.160 and like quickness, and you have a massive straight line 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.040 drive speed advantage, like sprinting up and down the floor. 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.800 You have advantages on the floor. And so what it 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.840 becomes is what wins. Is it the big team that's 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:20.040 being more physically imposing and winning all those altercations and 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.240 containing all of the small ball things that you do, 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:25.120 because if that's the case, you'll lose to the big team. 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.400 I personally am a big believer in that small ball style, 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.600 but it has to be played well. And in that 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.719 first half, especially through the first three quarters, really Go 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.800 and Stay just wasn't playing well. They were losing those 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:40.080 physical physical altercations all over the floor. They were struggling 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.920 in individual matchups. Jaren Jackson Jr. Kudos to him, Like 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.600 he figured out about halfway through that game that outo 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.840 Porter Jr. Just could not keep him from getting to 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:49.960 the basket, and he just started rip him through and 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.079 going to the rim and he was getting whatever he wanted. 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.320 And again, that's always been Jaren Jackson's game, is that 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.840 bullyball game. And I don't know what took him so 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.240 long to understand that that was his biggest advance image 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.000 in this series. But tonight he got that figured it out. 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.000 He got that figured out, and he was attacking the basket. 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:10.360 But again Memphis was winning the style fight. There were 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.480 two different styles on the floor and they were playing better. 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.920 But as the game progressed, you know, and you know, 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.560 Golden State. I thought Tim Leigler did a really nice 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.560 job breaking this down with J. J Reddick on on 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:23.520 their podcast that they did the other day, and they 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.320 were talking about how, you know, Golden State has a 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.079 tendency to get out of what makes them very good. 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.360 This is what happened in the two thousand eight team playoffs, 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:36.040 if you guys remember against Houston, and its credit to Houston, 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.840 they did it by switching everything and kind of throwing 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.520 off all of the split cuts and off ball actions 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.719 and on ball actions that Golden State runs. But they 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:48.240 got ice so heavy and Katie and Steph both kind 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.600 of fell into it in that series and they got 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.920 out of whack. Their ball movement stopped and it became 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.920 a matchup attacking series and James Harden and Chris Paul 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:01.160 were having as much success attacking matchups. Stephen KD were 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.280 you know, and one of the biggest indicator. Obviously Chris 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.920 Paul went out and it caused it took that kind 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:09.920 of question out of the equation. But had Chris Paul 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.320 stayed healthy, that series would have come down to could 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.520 Golden State have gotten back into their style of basketball? 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:21.440 Golden State style bass basketball is movement. It's multiple passes 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:24.840 on every possession. It's multiple getting your defense in in 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.800 a ton of rotations, you know, because as we always 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.960 talked about, especially against elite defenses, they'll communicate well on 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.840 the first action. They might communicate well and engage on 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:36.480 the second action, but that third action, that fourth action, 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:39.960 that's when you start having guys have tougher responsibilities, more 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.440 difficult you know, communication type of situations, and they botch 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.000 stuff and then you start to get open shots, especially 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.720 against a young team like this Memphis team. But they 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.800 go through these extended stretches sometimes where they forget that 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:54.880 they did back in two thousand eighteen in the playoffs, 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:56.960 and they did it a little bit tonight, and all 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.040 of a sudden, it was like early shots, quick in 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.640 the possession. All of a sudden, it was like transition 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.800 pull up threes. All of a sudden. It's it's difficult 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:06.920 shot make, and you know some of it is like 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:10.880 like Steph, I've never seen Steph missed that many wide 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.720 open shots. Like some of it you gotta. But that 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:15.600 gets in your head then, right, and then you start 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.600 forcing things even more. You start to feel like it's 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.240 not your night. Especially for guys like Clay Thompson and 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.560 Georgian Jordan Pool. You saw a lot of that. But 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.840 to their credit, they reined it in and they got 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:26.760 it together in that fourth quarter and they got going. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.280 It's a really really weird game. You know. I don't 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.520 know how you could say it translates forward, because again 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.120 it's the the small sample sizes the advantage of the 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:40.120 weird team, right Like, obviously, if Philly played a seven 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:43.800 game series against Miami with no bigs by game three 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.280 or game four, Eric Spoelster is going to figure out 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:50.200 ways to consistently exploit you for not having any size 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.520 on the floor. Right, But in that first game or two, 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.120 you have your advantage. You know, this was the game. 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.600 If you were Memphis, you had to win because you 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.600 made things super weird. If you win this game, maybe 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:02.520 you can eat out one more of those in your 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.840 buzz saw in front of your home crowd. But like 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.240 at the longer this goes, they're gonna have a lot 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:09.880 of time over the course of the next couple of 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:13.000 days to dig into the film see where their areas 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.440 opportunity were. There's no way in the world that Memphis 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.840 should get away with having Steven Adams on the floor 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.800 for more than half the game against your five out attack. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.800 It just shouldn't happen. So Golden State's got a lot 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.960 of stuff that they got to figure out, but they're 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:32.880 all readily available adjustments. And again, this is game five, 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:36.320 they should have a much better opportunity to um to 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.560 make Memphis pay for being as big and as slow 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:41.760 as they were. A couple of quick shout outs I 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.120 just talked about Jaren Jackson. I thought he had a 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:48.040 monstrous two way performance. Just you know, that guy's young 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.400 and he doesn't see the floor super well, and it's 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:53.640 it's gonna be hard for him to be as impactful 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.640 as he's capable of and consistently enough at this phase 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:00.280 in his career. But he's gonna be really good because, 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:01.840 like man, there was a moment there in that game 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:03.760 where he just suddenly it dawned on him that no 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.359 one could guard En, and he was just going to 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:08.960 the room every time and just quick little rip throughs 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.320 and stuff and just you know, getting the defender on 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:13.240 his hip and then making shots off the glass, you know, 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.720 extremely tough left handed layup off the glass there and 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.159 crunch time. Just an unbelievable performance. And then credit to 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.920 Tyas Jones, you know his I remember when ty Jones 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:26.640 was coming out of college, he was kind of you know, uh, 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:31.000 portrayed as the the like prototypical point guard, like the 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.679 guy that is just the guy who can run a team, 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:35.320 you know, which is not a thing that you see 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:38.760 too often in the NBA these days, because most guards 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:43.040 are high, pick and roll heavy, like really like mechanical 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.200 decision makers. If he gets caught on the screen, I'm shooting. 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:47.479 If he's kind of caught on the screen, it's still there. 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:49.440 I'm gonna drive into the lane further. If I'm gonna 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.320 get into my floater, I'm gonna get to my pull 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:53.000 up shot, I'm gonna get all the way to the rim, 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:55.920 and if someone absolutely forces me to, then I'll give 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.479 the ball up. You know. That's the way most guards 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.480 are wired in the NBA these days are just aren't 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:02.879 many guys like Tyas Jones who can just execute and 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:05.000 run a team, and he didn't really nice job of 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.520 that tonight, so credit to him. But good, good, good 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.160 comeback win from from a Golden State. Like I said, 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.880 Steph in the fourth quarter was incredible. I thought Kevin 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.640 Looney came in and gave some really important minutes. There 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.920 was a monster play from Jordan's Pool after defensive stop 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.200 or he whipped that behind the back dribble and actually 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:22.679 threw it way out in front of him and like 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:24.680 chased it down and got it and got all the 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:26.640 way to the rim for the layup in transition. That's 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:30.080 that freak of nature straight line speed that Jordan Pool 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.960 has that was so good. Traymond Green had a monster 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.960 block on Jaren Jackson Jr. On one of the final 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.919 possessions where he uh where Jaren Jackson kind of forced 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:40.760 like a pull up three off the dribble and he 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:44.040 blocked it. Clay Thompson had a big defensive play towards 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.040 the end of the game on Desmond bain So for 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:47.480 for a team that had a lot of guys that 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.240 had rough nights out of Porter Junior struggled guarding Jaren 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.400 Jackson Jr. But he was the only guy making shots. 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:56.480 You know. Andrew Wiggins had a massive block on Desmond 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:58.879 Bay and going down the lane. So everyone had a 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:03.280 rough night in a Golden State Jersey, but everybody came 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:06.680 through and made the big plays. And that's what the 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:10.720 championship teams do. And I mean again, I still my 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:12.760 concerns the Golden State remain the same that they've been 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.679 this entire playoff run. Like because they're up three one now, 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:17.440 they're probably gonna win this series, probably gonna go to 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:19.719 the next round. They're gonna face someone like Phoenix or Dallas, right, 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:24.600 but consistently in this series, they've struggled a little bit 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:26.960 with memphisis size, so that's gonna be their big flaw. 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:30.639 But every team has flaws. Dallas is flaws after Luca, 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.919 the offensive creation is super inconsistent, and they don't have 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:37.840 great defensive personnel, although they've been guarding super well. Phoenix's 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.280 biggest flies you've seen is when they play against a 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:44.000 good dribble drive team like Dallas is all of a sudden, 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:46.440 like Chris Paul starts to struggle a little bit guys 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:48.639 like Mchail Bridges and Cam Johnson starts to struggle a bit. 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:50.520 Devin Booker is really the only guy who's been good 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:52.879 on the road in Dallas. So you're seeing Phoenix is 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:56.040 showing some limitations and shot creation against really good defensive teams, 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.280 which is exactly what happened to them in the NBA 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:01.600 Finals against Milwaukee Boston. We just we're gonna talk about 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:03.560 them here just a minute. Their offense goes through these 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:07.200 extended stretches where they're sloppy. So all these teams have flaws. 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.000 So I'm not trying to act like Golden States the 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:11.720 only team with the flaw. It's just this is their 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:15.160 specific flaw. When they play teams that are very big 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.040 and physical, it can cause them some issues. Tonight they 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:19.520 were able to overcome it. I thought there was a 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:23.080 big step for them. Obviously, that will be the matchups 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.000 are the things that determine these types of outcomes, and 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:26.879 we'll see what happens when they move further along. But 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:29.159 three one in this there is the only team in 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:31.520