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Speaker 1: title in his three pet at twenty one years old.

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Speaker 1: That's not tagging along that is that is one of

431
00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:15,159
Speaker 1: the game's all time greatest players finding a way to

432
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 1: help his team win on his way to his first

433
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Speaker 1: of his five NBA championships. Now, the next two titles

434
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,280
Speaker 1: much more in line with what we expect from Kobe Bryant.

435
00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:26,719
Speaker 1: Right twenty eight, seven and five. In those two playoff

436
00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:31,560
Speaker 1: runs on fifty five percent true shooting, No one's saying

437
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:35,280
Speaker 1: shit about those two right now. After that, there was

438
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:38,480
Speaker 1: an extended draft of playoff success, right, they didn't win

439
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,960
Speaker 1: an O three. That was the season where Shaq got

440
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Speaker 1: surgery at the start of the season, didn't win an

441
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Speaker 1: O four. Basically the story of those two years Shack

442
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 1: got fat. That's that's basically the story. Like Shack, I

443
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,440
Speaker 1: believe he was up to like three hundred and ninety

444
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,919
Speaker 1: five pounds at that point. I think he's personally admitted that.

445
00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:55,880
Speaker 1: So he was big at that point. But then Shaq

446
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,359
Speaker 1: leaves and things don't go well. Kobe doesn't win a

447
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,679
Speaker 1: single playoff series for three years. Then Shaq wins a

448
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 1: title in O six with the Heat and kind of

449
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,600
Speaker 1: like we talked about was Steph yesterday, Now a narrative

450
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:11,480
Speaker 1: starts to form. Right, Kobe's a ballhawk. He can't win

451
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 1: without Shack. Right, we get the trade request on local

452
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,639
Speaker 1: Los Angeles radio, right like, it gets ugly there for

453
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,399
Speaker 1: a minute. Then power Gasol comes in and they end

454
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Speaker 1: up losing to Boston. They get kind of back into relevance,

455
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,639
Speaker 1: but they lose to Boston. Right, So things were not great.

456
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,439
Speaker 1: But this is where Kobe's crowning achievement came in. And

457
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start it with the two thousand and eight

458
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Speaker 1: Olympics on the redeemed team before he won his two

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Speaker 1: titles with the Lakers. You gotta remember when the shit

460
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,159
Speaker 1: hit the fan against Spain. There was a lot of

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Speaker 1: young players on that team, Young Dwayne Wade, young Lebron

462
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 1: James right, young Carmelo Anthony the like. In that situation

463
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,639
Speaker 1: when everybody had sweaty palms and was wondering what the

464
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:56,959
Speaker 1: hell to do? Kobe stepped up and clearly asserted himself

465
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Speaker 1: as the best basketball player alive in secuted the Spain

466
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Speaker 1: national team. That was like that first kind of step

467
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,880
Speaker 1: into that crowning achievement, and then he follows that up

468
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 1: with back to back titles with the Lakers in two

469
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Speaker 1: thousand and nine and twenty ten. In those playoff runs,

470
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Speaker 1: averages thirty points, six rebounds, and six assists on fifty

471
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Speaker 1: five percent true shooting, and wins the first two finals

472
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Speaker 1: MVPs of his career. It went from all of the

473
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Speaker 1: question marks surrounding Shack's departure and everything about Kobe and

474
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Speaker 1: whether or not he was a winning player to you

475
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:30,600
Speaker 1: could not deny it. He was the best player in

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Speaker 1: the world. Now, there was a debate at the time,

477
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Speaker 1: was it Lebron or Kobe? Lebron or Kobe? Right, And

478
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,960
Speaker 1: that was the Orlando Magic ruin to the Lebron Kobe Finals.

479
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Speaker 1: And to be clear, I think the Lakers would have

480
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Speaker 1: beat that Calves team one. That Calves team had a

481
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Speaker 1: lot of shortcomings, but Lebron wasn't ready. Lebron wasn't ready yet.

482
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Speaker 1: I mean, the twenty eleven series tells you all you

483
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Speaker 1: need to know about that. That debate is interesting to

484
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 1: me because, like it reminds me a lot of Yannis

485
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 1: Lebron circa twenty twenty, where everyone's like, oh my god,

486
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 1: Yannis the best player in the world. Look at this,

487
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: He's kicking everybody's ass. And don't get me wrong, I

488
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,240
Speaker 1: think Giannis was the best regular season player potentially, although

489
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Speaker 1: I think Lebron deserved to win MVP that you're in

490
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Speaker 1: a very good season, but like Jiannis was a very

491
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Speaker 1: very good regular season player that was at Lebron's level,

492
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Speaker 1: But then you got into the playoffs and Lebron's just

493
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Speaker 1: clearly way better than him because with his age and

494
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Speaker 1: his experience and having been through all those playoff wars

495
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 1: and having grounded out his skill set a little bit

496
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:29,959
Speaker 1: more feeling the pain and suffering of loss. I talk

497
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,359
Speaker 1: to you guys about that a lot. The pain and

498
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 1: suffering of loss is the carrot that drives a competitor

499
00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 1: to that next level, and in that playoff run, Lebron

500
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 1: clearly demonstrated he was the better player. That's kind of

501
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,600
Speaker 1: the way I feel about Kobe in that era with Lebron,

502
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Speaker 1: Like Lebron wins back to back MVP's two sixty plus

503
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,119
Speaker 1: win seasons with the Kaz probably the best regular season

504
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 1: player in the league, but like Kobe was the guy

505
00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:57,200
Speaker 1: that was most confident on the biggest stages and knew

506
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 1: how to win high leverage basketball games. That's what led

507
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Speaker 1: him to lead TSA in two thousand and eight, and

508
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,200
Speaker 1: that's what led him to get the job done in

509
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Speaker 1: two thousand and nine and in twenty ten. If I'm

510
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 1: like breaking down your best player in the world eras right,

511
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 1: you got like MJ in the nineties, right, and then

512
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 1: you got like Shack from nineteen ninety nine to two

513
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: thousand and two, Duncan from like two thousand and three

514
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 1: to two thousand and seven, and then it's Kobe from

515
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight to twenty eleven or so until

516
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: Lebron took over in twenty twelve. Once twenty twelve came,

517
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: Lebron had experienced enough pain from loss that he addressed

518
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Speaker 1: a lot of his big weaknesses that were exposed in

519
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 1: the Dallas Maverick series. And then suddenly from twenty twelve

520
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,400
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty, Lebron took over as like that definitive

521
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Speaker 1: best player in the world. But I thought Kobe had

522
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Speaker 1: that title there in the late two thousands. I thought

523
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Speaker 1: he was better than Lebron in that period. Now, what

524
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Speaker 1: is the biggest what if of Kobe's career? What if

525
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,360
Speaker 1: Kobe had played in the modern era? Talked a little

526
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: bit about this a few days ago or a week

527
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 1: ago or so. But Kobe is a victim, in my opinion,

528
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 1: of the modern day obsession with efficiency. We draw lines,

529
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 1: we compare apples to apples eras here, when really the

530
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: eras could not be more different, Like I broke down earlier,

531
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,159
Speaker 1: but it even goes deeper than that. The scoring, like

532
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: the shot selection. The guys are taking more threes, guys

533
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: are getting easier shots. In the spacing of the game.

534
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 1: There's more pace, which pushes up the volume of scoring

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00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 1: to a certain degree. Right, There are a lot of

536
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 1: things that influence that, but here's this is the best

537
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 1: case for the fact that if Kobe played today, he'd

538
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: be far more efficient than he was in the late

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Speaker 1: two thousands. In the twenty thirteen season on a janky

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00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: as Lakers team with dwy Howard and Pagasol Steve Nashen

541
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: out of the lineup, you guys, remember he average twenty

542
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 1: seven six and six, it was a fifty. He shot

543
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 1: fifty point four percent in effective field goal percentage, which

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00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,639
Speaker 1: was the highest mark of his career, his entire career.

545
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 1: So literally he was peaking in terms of his efficiency

546
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,439
Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, right before he got hurt. As the

547
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: league was changing. He was like thirty four. So like obviously,

548
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 1: like he wasn't close to the athlete he was when

549
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 1: he was younger, and so again like that to me

550
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: is the dead giveaway, like Kobe was, like many players

551
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: from that era, like Carmelo Anthony, right, like Alan Iverson,

552
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,439
Speaker 1: Like even if you look at Lebron James's efficiency in

553
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 1: the era, it's lower everybody that played in the late

554
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Speaker 1: two thousands and in the mid two thousands and early

555
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 1: two thousands. It was an ISO heavy league with very

556
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: poor spacing, very slow pace, and guys just had to

557
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 1: take a lot of really tough shots. Now, I want you,

558
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 1: guys to envision Kobe Bryant playing in the Devin Booker

559
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: role with the Phoenix Suns over the last few years. Okay,

560
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 1: I want you to imagine a really good pick and

561
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 1: roll threat with good hands like DeAndre Ayden, outstanding backside

562
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: shooting with Mikhale Bridges and Cam Johnson and Chris paul

563
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 1: As like this guy that could you could throw the

564
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: ball to and he could take possessions off so that

565
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: you don't have to do it too much over the

566
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: course of a game and fatigue and then just spamming

567
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: high pick and roll in Spain pick and roll like

568
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 1: Devin Booker does. You don't think Kobe Bryant is going

569
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: to have a sixty two percent true shooting percentage in

570
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 1: that situation. Of course he is. He was like the

571
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: best pull up jump shooter in the league when he

572
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: was playing. He was literally the most skilled player in

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00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: the league when he was playing. If you picked him

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Speaker 1: up and you dropped him off on the twenty twenty

575
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: two Sons in the regular season, he's averaging thirty two

576
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 1: thirty three points per game. He's shooting sixty two sixty

577
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: three percent in true shooting percentage. He's lighting these guys up.

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00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: He is, So don't compare apples to oranges. Don't compare

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Speaker 1: a completely different game of basketball from fifteen years ago

580
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 1: to what these guys have today. It's not the same.

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00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: And I think that that I think when we talk

582
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: because I think Kobe's the third best perimeter player of

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00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: all time, behind Lebron and MJ. I've talked about this,

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00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 1: right most. A lot of people have Kobe. My guy

585
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: Carson has him further back at guys have him closer

586
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: to ten. A lot some people have him like twelve thirteen.

587
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 1: I'm like, are you kidding me? Twelve time All Defense,

588
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: eleven time first Team All NBA most skilled player in

589
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: the league, five time NBA champion, victim of some of

590
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: the like Literally, I think people saw James Harden scoring totals,

591
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: intro shooting percentages and just decided Kobe was overrated. It's

592
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 1: the dumbest thing. I really don't understand. But yeah, that's

593
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: the biggest one if of Kobe's career, in my opinion,

594
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 1: is what if he had played in the modern era?

595
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: All right? Only one? Only time for one male back

596
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 1: question today? This is from Ali At least, if I'm

597
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: interpreting the YouTube handle correctly, I believe your name is Ali.

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Speaker 1: Having started watching the NBA for the past two to

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Speaker 1: three years, Why don't most teams use zone defense in

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00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: the playoffs like Miami did? And why did Miami use

601
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: it sparingly like Spo didn't even use it all the time, Like,

602
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: I know the personnel and coaching have to be immaculate

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00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 1: to pull it off, and I get reserving it for

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00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 1: the surprise element, But even still, having seen how effectively

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00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: the Heat deployed it against the Bucks and Celtics, I

606
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: don't get why Miami or other teams are who I

607
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 1: am sure have better personnel than Miami can't seem to

608
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: want to employ it. Very good question. I find this

609
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: one very interesting because this is kind of like a

610
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: tactical thing with the game of basketball. So there's a

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00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: very specific reason, in my opinion, why teams don't use

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00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: zone more frequently in the NBA. Zone has baked in

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00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 1: weaknesses in a man demand's scheme. When the personnel run

614
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: it correctly, there are no holes, right, Like, let's just

615
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: talk about a drop coverage scheme where you defend pick

616
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: and roll two on two with typical week side help,

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00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: where guys have a foot in the paint, but they're

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00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: in a position where they can rotate out. Okay, In

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Speaker 1: that situation, if the guard chases over the top of

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Speaker 1: the screen properly and stays attached, the offensive guard has

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Speaker 1: no choice but to continue to go downhill. If he

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00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: continues to go downhill, he going to run into the

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Speaker 1: center who's in drop coverage, and the roleman's rolling directly

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00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: into it. Right, even if you talk about like specific openings,

625
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 1: like let's say it's a pick and pop play where

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00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: the big man's in drop coverage and the guy stays

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00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: attached over the top, and now the pass to the

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00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: to the big man popping to the top of the

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00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: key is open in theory, if the defender on the

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00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: weak side rotates to the top to the shooter, the

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00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: big man can rotate out and you're matched up again. Right,

632
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 1: The man demand principles, when executed properly, don't have openings.

633
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: When you see guys score or make shots against man defense,

634
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: it's either they made a contested shot or someone didn't

635
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 1: do their job. There's a breakdown. Zone defense is entirely different.

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00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: There are literally gaps in it like it is because

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00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 1: of the nature of the zone when teams run overload sets,

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00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 1: or they run high low, or they run ball screens

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00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: at the top like there are automatic baked in openings

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00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: in zone defense, and so as a result for that

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00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: of that, when you run zone defense in large doses

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00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: against professional basketball players, they will solve it, they will

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Speaker 1: consistently get great shots and they will beat you. That's

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Speaker 1: why zone defense in the NBA is best used in

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Speaker 1: very small bursts because it's a rhythm disruptor. Because in

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Speaker 1: a small sample size, an NBA offense is gonna be like,

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Speaker 1: oh shit, they're running zone. The first time they see it.

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Speaker 1: They might not identify its zone until there's ten seconds

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Speaker 1: on the shot clock, and then they don't have time

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Speaker 1: to run anything and someone jacks up a bad shot.

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Speaker 1: Then they go down again and they have to remember

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Speaker 1: what their zone offense was, which in the NBA regular season,

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Speaker 1: they don't practice, so like they're like then their head,

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Speaker 1: they're like, okay, we need yeah, you know, ad go

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Speaker 1: to the high post or no, no, go to the baseline.

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Speaker 1: We'll have Lebron play the high post. Blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: And then and then they start doing it, but they

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Speaker 1: it just it's yank because they haven't practiced it. But

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Speaker 1: then if you run it seven possessions in a row

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Speaker 1: and there's a timeout mixed in there, they drop their

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Speaker 1: set really quick. They run in a few times. They're

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Speaker 1: professional basketball players. They're gonna find those baked in holes

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna exploit them. It's not just holes in

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Speaker 1: the defense's holes in rebounding by virtue of five players

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Speaker 1: guarding spots on the floor versus guarding players. When offensive

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Speaker 1: players move around, rebounding matchups get confused, and so usually

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Speaker 1: someone's going to miss a box out and you'll give

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Speaker 1: up an offensive rebound. The zone defenses are inherently flawed,

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Speaker 1: and that's why they are best used as rhythm disruptors.

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Speaker 1: And the only reason it made sense for Miami to

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Speaker 1: use and any sort of sample size is the fact

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Speaker 1: that Denver was barbecuing their man and man defense so

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Speaker 1: badly that they had no choice but to try something different. Right.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, so that's very good question from Ali. We

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Speaker 1: have two more players this week and then we're going

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Speaker 1: to get into twenty season previews starting next week. Don't

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Speaker 1: forget to drop mailback questions in the YouTube comments. As always,

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Speaker 1: I sincerely appreciate you guys, and I will see you tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: The volume