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Speaker 1: Five biggest early season takeaways from a highly entertaining start

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Speaker 1: of them already, which is the most in the league.

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Speaker 1: That's been a huge boost to their offense, especially late

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Speaker 1: in games. Kyrie Irving has been a little off to

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Speaker 1: start the year, but it's mostly his jump shot. He's

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Speaker 1: just not hitting his pull up jump shot at the

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Speaker 1: rate that we're customed to seeing with Kyrie. But he

436
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Speaker 1: still looks explosive, he still has these crazy acrobatic finishes.

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Speaker 1: He's still getting to his spots, and his playmaking has

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Speaker 1: been off the charts, so to me, the SHOT's going

439
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Speaker 1: to come and it's going to be fine. I'm encouraged

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Speaker 1: on the Kyrie irving front. And then they're getting great

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Speaker 1: contributions from their role players. Grant Williams is shooting fifty

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Speaker 1: four percent from three. Tim Hardaway is shooting thirty nine

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Speaker 1: percent from three on nine point three attempts per game.

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Speaker 1: He's been great in spot of situations and just really

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Speaker 1: aggressive pull up shooting to just kind of boost the

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Speaker 1: offense a little bit, especially with bench groups. Josh Green

447
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Speaker 1: is shooting forty percent from three, and then even Derek

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Speaker 1: Jones Junior, particularly in his above the break threes. He

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Speaker 1: did make a corner three against the Magic the other day,

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Speaker 1: but he's been struggling a little bit from the corner.

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Speaker 1: But Derek Jones has had enough success knocking down threes

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Speaker 1: and driving closeouts to be kind of a spacing threat

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Speaker 1: in and of himself, which is important because he's been

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Speaker 1: their best point of attack defender to start the year.

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Speaker 1: But we knew this team would score. The most impressive

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Speaker 1: element is they've made a little bit of improvement they

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Speaker 1: needed to make in their ability to hang in the

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Speaker 1: physicality areas of the game, so particularly defense and rebounding.

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Speaker 1: Right last year post Kyrie trade, they were twenty seventh

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Speaker 1: in defensive rating, twenty ninth in defensive or in rebound percentage.

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Speaker 1: This year so far, nineteenth in defensive rating, twenty sixth

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Speaker 1: in rebound percentage, so just a marginal improvement there. They

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Speaker 1: went from being the one of the worst defenses in

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Speaker 1: the league to a middle of the pack defense. And

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Speaker 1: they went from being a team that basically grabbed forty

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Speaker 1: six percent of available rebounds to grabbing about forty eight

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Speaker 1: percent of available rebounds, which can make a significant different difference.

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Speaker 1: Now again not great, still want to see them improve

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Speaker 1: a little bit rebounding. They started the year super well,

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Speaker 1: but they've declined a little bit there. But they needed

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Speaker 1: to make a little bit of an improvement to give

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Speaker 1: themselves a fighting chance for their offense to push over

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Speaker 1: the top, and it's worked now. To be clear, they

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Speaker 1: have some good defensive personnel here, like Derek Jones has

475
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Speaker 1: been a good perimeter defender to start the year. Josh

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Speaker 1: Green is good, but there's some other guys. Again, like

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Speaker 1: in order to get a respectable defense from limited defensive personnel,

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Speaker 1: you need buy in and that means even guys that

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00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 1: have been inconsistent perimeter defenders in their career have to

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Speaker 1: play to their ceiling. Like Kyrie. Irving is known as

481
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Speaker 1: being a bad defensive player, but in the twenty sixteen

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Speaker 1: playoff run with the Cavs, he was actually their best

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Speaker 1: defender on Steph Curry whenever he would go to the bench,

484
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Speaker 1: and like Emon Shumpert would come into the game, they

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Speaker 1: would actually Even though Emon Shrumpert was considered a better

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Speaker 1: perimeter defender in terms of reputation, he struggled to guard

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Speaker 1: Steph in a way that Kyrie did not. Because Kyrie

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Speaker 1: is capable of that, He's a very good defensive playmaker.

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Speaker 1: There were a couple of plays against the Magic where

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Speaker 1: like you'd see him come from off ball to sniff

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Speaker 1: a play out. There was a Cole Anthony spinning fade

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Speaker 1: away right in the middle of the floor where Kyrie

493
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,680
Speaker 1: just made an extra effort because he knew Cole wasn't

494
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Speaker 1: going to throw the pass and just bailed out and

495
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,879
Speaker 1: got a late contest and forced an air ball on

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Speaker 1: the shot. There was another one where he was guarding

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Speaker 1: in the left corner and he sniffed out a back

498
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,640
Speaker 1: door cut and jumped it and poked the ball free.

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Speaker 1: Because he does have good anticipation, he does have quickness

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Speaker 1: in good hands. He is capable of being an impact

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Speaker 1: defensive player. You got to get that from those guys.

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Speaker 1: Tim Hardaway, Jun Your The same thing. Kind of reminds

503
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Speaker 1: me a lot of j. R. Smith in the sense that,

504
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Speaker 1: like he had a reputation as being a bad defender,

505
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Speaker 1: but in that twenty sixteen season, he was a good defender.

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Speaker 1: In this season he's had stretches of really good perimeter defense,

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Speaker 1: and especially in that third quarter run. I encourage you

508
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Speaker 1: guys if you haven't done so yet. They're in that

509
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Speaker 1: third quarter run against the Magic, he did a really

510
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 1: nice job staying glued and applying ball pressure, navigating screens.

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00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: As a team, they have better commitment on the glass

512
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Speaker 1: and help and recover situations. Luka Doncic has flashed a

513
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Speaker 1: lot in that area compared to where he was last year.

514
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Speaker 1: And then they just have that little bit of rim

515
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Speaker 1: protection from Derek Lively in the minutes that he's on

516
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Speaker 1: the floor. There was a play in the first half

517
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Speaker 1: of the Magic game where Pala Boncaro just got going

518
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Speaker 1: downhill right at Derek Lively and Derek just like has

519
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,399
Speaker 1: really good instincts and he backed up and instead of

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Speaker 1: trying to vertical, which Palow would have gone right around him,

521
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 1: he kind of like leaned back and anticipated and reached

522
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,120
Speaker 1: back and blocked him at the top of the square.

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Speaker 1: Derek Lively provides just that little bit of extra rim

524
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Speaker 1: protection when they go into that look, and so as

525
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Speaker 1: a result, they're capable of making defensive runs. They allowed

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Speaker 1: just seventeen points in the third quarter against the Magic

527
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Speaker 1: and just nineteen in the fourth. They contained the ball,

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Speaker 1: they forced tough jumpers. I thought Grant Williams did a

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Speaker 1: really nice job avoiding screens on Palo because one of

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Speaker 1: the things they were doing is just running early screens

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Speaker 1: in the possession to get Palo switched on to a

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Speaker 1: smaller defender and just have him post up until he

533
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Speaker 1: got the defense into rotation and then they'd play out

534
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Speaker 1: of that. Well, Grant Williams in the third quarter was like,

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Speaker 1: screw that, I'm not getting screened, and he just stayed

536
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Speaker 1: on Palo the whole time, stayed in front of him,

537
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:47,400
Speaker 1: forced him into a bunch of tough shots, and their

538
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,200
Speaker 1: defense just completely took over that game and then down

539
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Speaker 1: the stretch, it's just the steady diet of Kyrie and

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Speaker 1: Luca making plays. Now when the schedule does get tougher,

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Speaker 1: and it will in their next ten games, Raptors, that's

542
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Speaker 1: a relatively easy game, although they're going to face a

543
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 1: lot of physical mismatches in that game. But Clippers, that's

544
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Speaker 1: tough Pelicans. Pelicans, those are tough Wizards. That's an easier game.

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Speaker 1: Kings are excuse me, Bucks, that's tough Kings, Tough Lakers,

546
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:15,439
Speaker 1: tough Clippers, tough Rockets. They're playing some better basketball as

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Speaker 1: of late as well. So it's gonna get a little

548
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Speaker 1: tougher here in the next two and a half weeks

549
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 1: or so. In order for them to win over that stretch,

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Speaker 1: they're going to need Kyrie to get his jump shot going,

551
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,680
Speaker 1: and they're going to need to rebound the ball better

552
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: than they have been. But great start for the MAVs

553
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: through seven games. I don't think you can be more

554
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Speaker 1: satisfied considering where they were at the end of the

555
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 1: year last year. All right, before we get out of

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Speaker 1: here for the day, we're going to do our five

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Speaker 1: mail bag questions. First one, Jason Love your breakdowns question.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you can mail bag this, But how do you

559
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Speaker 1: watch the games with breakdowns and positional slash types of

560
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 1: plays on offense? You isolate pick and roll plays and stuff.

561
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Speaker 1: I know you talked about Synergy and the Cleaning the

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Speaker 1: Glass app, but looking to just find out what you

563
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Speaker 1: use to make these breakdowns. So I do use a

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Speaker 1: tool called Synergy. It's extremely expensive. It is an analytics

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Speaker 1: platform that NBA teams use, that college teams use, that

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Speaker 1: even high school teams use, and so it's incredibly in

567
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Speaker 1: depth play clip sorting and things like that. I am very,

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Speaker 1: very lucky to have access to that platform. It makes

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Speaker 1: my job a whole lot easier, but it is not

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Speaker 1: easy to get access to. Cleaning the Glass is a

571
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Speaker 1: lot easier. It's like, I think it's like five bucks

572
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Speaker 1: a month, and they have great lineup data. They sort

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Speaker 1: for half court sets, They with each individual team. They

574
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 1: have a lot of really interesting metrics that you can

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Speaker 1: dig into. I find that to be a useful platform,

576
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: and then learn how to use the NBA site. The

577
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 1: NBA site, if you really take some time to sort through,

578
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: you can get lineup data there as well. It's hard

579
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:58,959
Speaker 1: to do on off stuff on there, but you can

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00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 1: at least put piece together two three, four five man lineups.

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00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: You can track play types there as well, so you

582
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: can actually go look up pick and roll, ball handler,

583
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 1: pick and roll roll man, off screen actions, that kind

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00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: of stuff. That all you can't get the video and

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00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 1: the sorting from it, but you can at least see

586
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: the data. So if you want to at least kind

587
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: of see points per possession in pick and roll or

588
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 1: in post ups or ISOs, you can still get that

589
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 1: for free on the NBA website. They do miscellaneous stats

590
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: so like second chance points, you know, points in the

591
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 1: paint allowed per possession, defensive rebounding percentage, offensive, Like, there's

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Speaker 1: literally hundreds of useful pieces of data that are that

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Speaker 1: is available for free on the NBA site. So like again, Synergy,

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Speaker 1: I don't think is a cost effective way for any

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00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: fan to to get the you know, NBA data, But

596
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: you can get most of the same data without the

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00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: footage on the NBA website. So again, like I think,

598
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 1: I think think there's plenty out there that's affordable to

599
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 1: kind of learn more about the league without having to

600
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: get too crazy. Second mail back question from Shane would

601
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: bringing del off the bench fix the guard's skill set

602
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 1: redundancy problem. So obviously, if you could bring Delo off

603
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:18,959
Speaker 1: the bench with another athlete. So if it was like

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Speaker 1: if you had Austin in an athlete in the back

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Speaker 1: court with the starters, and then you had Dlo and

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Speaker 1: Max Christy off the bench, I think that could work.

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Speaker 1: But then it becomes a problem with the delineation of resources,

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Speaker 1: or I should say the disbursement of resources. So like

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Speaker 1: if you're if you're gonna have a contract circa twenty

610
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Speaker 1: million a year for a player that you know you

611
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Speaker 1: can't play alongside you're starting, you know, better point guard

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Speaker 1: in Austin Reeves, who's going to play thirty five minutes

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Speaker 1: a night, then there's only thirteen minutes available there without

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Speaker 1: having to play them together, which presents those problems. So

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Speaker 1: it's not so much like like whether or not Dlo

616
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Speaker 1: would be successful with this Lakers team coming off the bench,

617
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: because of course you would. It's a redundancy problem and

618
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: it's a misuse of resources, and so you're actually better

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Speaker 1: off trading D'Angelo Russell, having Gabe Vincent be essentially the

620
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 1: skill guard in your bench groups who plays more limited minutes,

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Speaker 1: and when you have the ability to play two guard

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00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 1: line or two small guards against specific matchups. Then you

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Speaker 1: could play Gabe and Austin together, but you need to

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Speaker 1: bring in an athletic guard to slot next to d'angela Russell. Alright,

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Speaker 1: Third mail by question. Hey, Jason, here's a mail back question.

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Speaker 1: I've recently started playing basketball by myself again, not with people, sadly,

627
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: ever since my asthma started and I've been unable to

628
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Speaker 1: sprint up and down the court, and I started working

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Speaker 1: on my pull up mid range, and I wanted to

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Speaker 1: hear your thoughts about the way about the correct way

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Speaker 1: to set your feet. Is it better to do a

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00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: jump stop or to step into the shot? So jump

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00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: stop shooting again? So, like, just imagine if I am

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Speaker 1: running into a shot. Let's just say off the catch

635
00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: or off the bounce. But for the sake of this,

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00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 1: I make this easier. Let's say off the catch. Okay.

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00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: So I'm running the right wing and the ball is

638
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: on the left wing, and I'm wide open trailing the

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00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: play and the guy throws me the pass as I'm

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00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 1: running into a three point shot. And I know you

641
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: specifically mentioned mid range shooting, but this is the exact

642
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: same footwork. So we'll get to that. So if I

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Speaker 1: can say I'm running and I run off my left

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Speaker 1: foot and then I just land on both feet at

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Speaker 1: the same time and rise into a shot, that's like

646
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Speaker 1: a jump stop into a three point shot, doing a split,

647
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 1: a footwork, or call it a one. I refer to

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Speaker 1: it as a one to two. And what I mean

649
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,719
Speaker 1: by that is like you plant your one foot first

650
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: and then you bring your other foot around and plant,

651
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,959
Speaker 1: and that's the one you actually stop yourself with. And

652
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: you can do that left right or you can do

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Speaker 1: it right left. And generally speaking, if you're moving to

654
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: the right, you want to do it left right, and

655
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: if you're moving to the left, you want to do

656
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: it right left. So essentially, as I'm running into a

657
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 1: shot on the wing, instead of doing a jump stop,

658
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 1: I would chot my feet a little bit and basically

659
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: plant left right on the catch and elevate and shoot it.

660
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 1: So generally speaking, I think it's easier to go from

661
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: moving full speed to stopping and elevating with a one

662
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: two than it is a jump stop. It doesn't mean

663
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: you can't do a jump stop. It doesn't mean there's

664
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Speaker 1: no place for it. I do occasionally do it, but

665
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: I find that in order to actually get separation, doing

666
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 1: a left right or right left one two takeoff is

667
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 1: the easiest way to get separation on the move. Now

668
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: imagine it you a pull up jump shooting situation. So

669
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Speaker 1: like I've come off of a ball screen, I've got

670
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: a little bit of separation, but there's back pressure. So

671
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Speaker 1: I want to get one more escape dribble to get

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00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: to the right elbow to elevate for a shot. In

673
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 1: that case, I want to do that hard push ahead dribble,

674
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: plant left and right and elevate and get a bunch

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00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: of lift as I'm taking that shot right. And if

676
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 1: I do a jump stop, I'm probably gonna slow myself

677
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 1: down and probably not be as balanced when I go up.

678
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:58,719
Speaker 1: So again, you want to be able to do both.

679
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 1: And there's a really simple drill that you can do

680
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: that kind of trains your body to balance yourself as

681
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: you're doing this. And this is a drill I do

682
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: with my high school players all the time. So start

683
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: at the free throw line, spin the ball out to

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00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,959
Speaker 1: yourself at the top of the key so you're facing

685
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:16,800
Speaker 1: away from the basket when you roll it out to yourself.

686
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: Jump stop with both feet facing away from the basket.

687
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 1: Then reverse pivot and shoot a jump shot. So keep

688
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,280
Speaker 1: your left foot pivot foot, swing that right foot around

689
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: the inside, rise up and take a shot. Do that

690
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,280
Speaker 1: till you make two of them. Then do a reverse

691
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 1: pivot with your right foot. So now you're in that

692
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,840
Speaker 1: jump stop. Bring your left foot back towards the basket

693
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 1: as you square for a shot. Do that till you

694
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,280
Speaker 1: make it twice. Then do two over the top pivots.

695
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: So jump stop start with my left foot is my pivot.

696
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 1: Bring my right foot away from the basket, swing it

697
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 1: around and shoot. Do that till I make it twice.

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00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 1: Same thing, left foot around away from the basket until

699
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 1: I shoot. Then I do jump stops, so flip it

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00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: out to myself, catch it with a jump stop facing

701
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 1: away from the basket, then jump and spin in mid

702
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: air and land facing the basket on two feet. Shoot

703
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 1: a three. Do it till you make it twice, then

704
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: jump spin the other way. That's like a really easy

705
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,320
Speaker 1: way to train your body from the standpoint of balance

706
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: when you're doing weird footwork into shots, because you'll notice

707
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 1: each way you go your body has a tendency to

708
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:21,959
Speaker 1: try to lean one way or the other. It'll force

709
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: you to keep a wide base and get really strong

710
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: lift into the shot as you're rising up. Okay, two more.

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00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 1: What do you think of the Lakers reaching out to

712
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: the NBA League office to complain about officiating in the

713
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 1: Lakers Heat game and the Lebron tweet in reply to

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Speaker 1: the conclusion that there were no wrong calls in the

715
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: last two minutes. Are the Lakers Lebron's concerns legitimate or

716
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: was that another case of you always say loser mentality

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00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: when it comes to complaints about officiating. I literally thought

718
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:53,320
Speaker 1: it was super lame. Logan, who's our ahead of content

719
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: here at the volume, is also a big Lakers fan,

720
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 1: and we both texted each other immediately after, and we're like,

721
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: what the like, what are these guys like? Come on, like,

722
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 1: you're playing like shit and under no circumstances should you

723
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: have lost that game, even with any of the circumstances

724
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: surrounding injuries and things like that, Like, the Heat just

725
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 1: aren't playing very good basketball and the Lakers are just

726
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 1: better than them. They should have won that game. The

727
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: Lakers are playing bad basketball and blaming it on officiating,

728
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: to me is very much a loser mentality. So I

729
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 1: agree with you Lebron tweeting it out like he's right, Like,

730
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 1: I don't think they were referring necessarily to the last

731
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Speaker 1: two minutes. I didn't think when I go through the

732
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: possessions at the end of the game, I didn't think

733
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: there was a foul that should have been called. Like

734
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 1: the Kyle Lowry play, technically is still a charge. I

735
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,320
Speaker 1: hate that play. I hate when a dude just falls

736
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 1: down when a guy's running full speed. I think it's

737
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 1: bad for the game. I wish they'd get rid of it.

738
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Speaker 1: But by the book, that's a good call. So like,

739
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 1: I don't think I think what Lebron was saying it

740
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 1: was more of a big picture issue as far as

741
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: Lebron and in the way he's officiated. Lebron doesn't get

742
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: a lot of calls, that's true, but he also commits

743
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 1: more uncalled offensive fouls than most players do. He uses

744
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: a lot of off arm, he initiates a ton of contact.

745
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: I'm one of those guys that's like, I want Lebron

746
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: to be able to do that. So I'm okay if

747
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: he doesn't get as many calls at the rim, and

748
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: so to me, Lebron's always been officiated more or less

749
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,720
Speaker 1: fairly because he is a bully ball player that also

750
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: gets fouled and most of it goes uncalled, which is

751
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: the way it should be in my opinion. Last mail

752
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,879
Speaker 1: back question the same quote the Lakers lost, but they'll

753
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 1: figure it out, and quote narrative is tiresome. They're not

754
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,919
Speaker 1: winning the championship this season. This isn't really a male

755
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: bad question. It's more just someone talking shit in the comments.

756
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 1: But this happens every single day and I wanted to

757
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:40,360
Speaker 1: address it, so I I don't think, as currently constructed,

758
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: the Lakers will win the championship. I agree with you.

759
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 1: The only thing within the roster that would potentially fix

760
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 1: the problem is if Jared Vanderbilt turned out to be

761
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 1: a good offensive player this year, Like if he just

762
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: lived in the gym all summer, shooting corner threes and

763
00:37:56,640 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 1: improving his hands and finishing around the basket, and all

764
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 1: of a sudden he was playable, then they can win

765
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: the championship because Jared Vanderbilt solves so many of their

766
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: problems in terms of perimeter defense and crashing the defensive

767
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: glass from the perimeter, and it honestly would potentially allow

768
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: you to get away with having D'Angelo Russell, even though

769
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: I still think they should trade him. But like, at

770
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: the end of the day, like I expect the Lakers

771
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 1: to make a deal. They're equipped for it. They have

772
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: two perfect salaries in Dangel Russell, who doesn't fit with

773
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,839
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves, and in Ruey Hatchamura, who plays the same

774
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 1: position as Lebron And so those two guys are good

775
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: players that have some value around the league, that are

776
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 1: in fair contract numbers. Dlo Is literally gonna be expiring

777
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: next year, so like they're gonna be tradable contracts, and

778
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: then they have two first round picks that they have

779
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 1: access to to trade at the deadline this year. So like,

780
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 1: do I think the Lakers are like done? No, but

781
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 1: they're certainly in a worse position than I expected them

782
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 1: to be at this point. And you're absolutely right. I

783
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna win the title as currently constructed.

784
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 1: They're just not athletic enough. They have serious personnel shortcum.

785
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: But like at the end of the day, like I

786
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: hate early season victory laps for anybody, and that's why

787
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 1: you won't see me take early season victory laps because

788
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 1: it's seven damn games, guys, Like, did you know that

789
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:16,280
Speaker 1: the Nuggets who won the title last year lost four

790
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: out of seven four different times last year. So like again,

791
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 1: we have a tendency to take a small window of

792
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: games at the beginning of an eighty two game season

793
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: and define a team based on that when the reality

794
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 1: is it's an eighty two game grind and like a

795
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: lot of the like, every single team that got off

796
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:43,800
Speaker 1: to a great start this year will have several stretches

797
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 1: this year where they look bad. That's called NBA basketball.

798
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: That's how it works. The best team in the league

799
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 1: last year that beat everyone's ass in the playoffs had

800
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: four stretches identical to this Laker stretch. What usually happens

801
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 1: when team goes and loses four out of seven when

802
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 1: they're good, it's usually injuries and some tough games on

803
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 1: your schedule, And that's literally what it's been for the Lakers.

804
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 1: Two of their four losses were to the two teams

805
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 1: that played in the NBA Finals last year. Right then

806
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,840
Speaker 1: they lost to a Sacramento Kings team that is difficult

807
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: to beat in Sacramento, and that went to overtime, and

808
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: then they lost to an Orlando Magic team on the

809
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:30,320
Speaker 1: road when they were missing all their forwards. They're injured,

810
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 1: they're playing a tougher stretch of their schedule, and they're

811
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: also not playing good basketball. That's what happens. Good teams

812
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:41,240
Speaker 1: usually also have good stretches in toughest parts of their schedule,

813
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,360
Speaker 1: where they rip off for four wins in five tries

814
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: against all playoff teams or something like that. Right now,

815
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 1: in the big picture, if we get to fifty games

816
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: and the Lakers are, you know, a twenty three and

817
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 1: twenty seven, then yeah, we can have a larger conversation

818
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 1: about whether or not it's over. I had like a

819
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: half dozen of you guys in the comments talking about

820
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 1: how like, oh, like Jason's gonna go down with the

821
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 1: Lakers to the dirty end. It's like, dude, it's been

822
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: seven games. It's been seven games, guys, And I like,

823
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: as much as I am a fan of the Lakers,

824
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:14,399
Speaker 1: I'm always going to call it the way I see

825
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,439
Speaker 1: it and what I see right now as a team

826
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 1: that can't win the title is currently constructed but as

827
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 1: well positioned to make a mid season trade and really

828
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 1: only need to fix one massive flaw in order to

829
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:30,240
Speaker 1: fix most of their problems. So again, like I feel

830
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 1: like I'm pretty clear with this show. Is in terms

831
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 1: of my motivations and my biases, I try to fight

832
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: them actively. Lakers fans. Like for those of you guys

833
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: who are not Lakers fans, which is most of you,

834
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:46,720
Speaker 1: obviously Laker fans, a lot of them dislike me because

835
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 1: I'm not a propagandist, because I won't just sit there

836
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:51,720
Speaker 1: and talk about how great they are. I will talk

837
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 1: mostly about the things that they have to get better

838
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: at because I think like a coach, right, That's just

839
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,840
Speaker 1: my approach to the game. And so I look at

840
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: the Lakers is like, these are the things they need

841
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 1: to fix in order to reach the promised Land. I

842
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 1: would imagine most of you guys think the same way

843
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 1: about your teams. I I haven't been up here saying

844
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 1: that the Lakers are are gonna run away with the

845
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 1: championship this season. I never said that. I you know,

846
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: I literally said they'd lose to the Nuggets if they

847
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 1: played again in a playoff series. I said that in preseason,

848
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 1: saying it again now like I I. But at the

849
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,399
Speaker 1: same time, like guys, this is a team that went

850
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: eighteen and eight post deadline without Lebron James, with Austin

851
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 1: Reeves and D'Angel Russell in the backcourt. This is a

852
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: team that went to the conference finals and beat the

853
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:42,800
Speaker 1: defending champs and beat the two seed in the Western

854
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 1: Conference without home court advantage in both series. So like

855
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:53,399
Speaker 1: that matters more than seven games in October, when Ruey

856
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:55,800
Speaker 1: Hachimura is out, when Jared Vanderbilts out, when Gabe Vincent

857
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 1: is out, when Jackson Hayes is out. Like, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's just the truth. So no, you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna get me to write an obituary about how the

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Speaker 1: season is over for the Lakers. That's not how it works.

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Speaker 1: But again, I understand it's fun and it's you know,

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Speaker 1: talking basketball is fun, Talking shit is fun. Taking victory

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Speaker 1: lapse is fun. I'm not hating on you guys. I'm

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Speaker 1: just going to explain my position, and my position is

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Speaker 1: the Lakers suck right now, but I don't think they're

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Speaker 1: gonna suck when they get healthy, and then I think

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Speaker 1: they could be really, really good if they make the

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Speaker 1: right mid season trade. And I feel like that's a

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Speaker 1: pretty fair take. The surrounding what that Laker team is

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Speaker 1: capable of. All right, guys, that is all I have

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Speaker 1: for today. We were playing it on going tonight after

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Speaker 1: Nuggets Warriors, but we're actually gonna put that off and

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Speaker 1: go Thursday morning. My house is getting painted and so

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Speaker 1: I can't get into my studio right now, and so

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Speaker 1: as a result of that, like this room it's nice

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Speaker 1: and lit up right now, but it very much won't

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Speaker 1: be at eleven pm local time, so I can't record

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Speaker 1: in here at night, but I will be able to

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Speaker 1: on Friday when we cover the late night slate. So

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Speaker 1: tonight's slate we're gonna hit Thursday morning. I will see

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Speaker 1: you guys. Then the volume