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Speaker 1: We are leading off the top with another season preview
Speaker 1: from our power ranking series with number five, the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna do a season preview on the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 1: After that, there was one preseason game last night that
Speaker 1: played the majority of the starters from both teams. That
Speaker 1: was the New Orleans Pelicans versus the Orlando Magic. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna do a breakdown of that game from the
Speaker 1: perspective of both teams. And then at the tail end
Speaker 1: of the show, I've got five clips for another another
Speaker 1: episode of Timpf's tape that we're going to hit at
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Speaker 1: talk some basketball. So number five, this is the last
Speaker 1: team in my if things go right tier, I have
Speaker 1: four teams in the top tier of championship contenders. These
Speaker 1: are teams that I think have way less in the
Speaker 1: way of like holes in terms of like talent deficiencies
Speaker 1: and specific areas of the roster that could make them
Speaker 1: very beatable. Right. So, for instance, like one of the
Speaker 1: things we're going to talk about with the Dallas Mavericks
Speaker 1: today is like they have a substantial hole in their
Speaker 1: starting lineup in terms of perimeter speed. Right You've got
Speaker 1: Klay Thompson, who's a very old guard. You've got Luka
Speaker 1: Doncic who obviously is a big body point guard who
Speaker 1: doesn't cover a ton of ground, and you've got Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irving and PJ Washington. So, like perimeter speed is a
Speaker 1: substantial weakness of that particular team. As you go to
Speaker 1: the teams that are higher up on this tier, they
Speaker 1: have more strengths, a little bit less in the way
Speaker 1: of weaknesses, fewer ways that you could conceive of them
Speaker 1: getting knocked out at various points over the course of
Speaker 1: for playoff rounds. So among this tier though, from teams
Speaker 1: eleven to five, I do think Dallas is the best
Speaker 1: of the if things go right teams, And we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about all the reasons why today. So offseason
Speaker 1: recap real quick. They lost Josh Green, Tim Hardaway, Junior,
Speaker 1: Derek Jones, Alex Fudge, and Greg Brown. They added Spencer
Speaker 1: Dinwoodie who was with the Lakers last year, Kessler Edwards
Speaker 1: who was with the Kings last year, Quinn Grimes, Naji Marshall,
Speaker 1: and Klay Thompson. Before we get into some of the
Speaker 1: specifics with the MAVs for this year, let's go really
Speaker 1: quickly over their free agent addition. So Spencer Dinwoodie. I
Speaker 1: covered him very closely with the Lakers. Mavericks fans will
Speaker 1: obviously know him from a few years ago when he
Speaker 1: was on the team during the Western Conference Finals run.
Speaker 1: Not as good offensively as he used to be. He
Speaker 1: just hasn't shot the ball well from the perimeter since
Speaker 1: leaving Dallas. He's been below a point per jump shot
Speaker 1: in both seasons since leaving Dallas, particularly bad when he
Speaker 1: was in Brooklyn. The last time he shot the ball well, though,
Speaker 1: was in Dallas, and it was a very different role
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn. He was like a primary shot creator for
Speaker 1: that team. With the Lakers, they were running a five
Speaker 1: out off usually with three ball handlers on the floor,
Speaker 1: so it was a lot more read and react and
Speaker 1: kind of flowing from side to side, lots of ball
Speaker 1: and player movement. Right in Dallas, He's going to go
Speaker 1: back to what he did in twenty twenty two, which
Speaker 1: is runs some spread pick and roll and they're kind
Speaker 1: of four out one in attack and then spotting up
Speaker 1: off the ball. And he played really well in that
Speaker 1: role last time. I think, for the most part, how
Speaker 1: well he does in that role this time will come
Speaker 1: down to, as we've talked about, how well he shoots
Speaker 1: the basketball. So we'll just see how quickly he slides
Speaker 1: back into that comfortable feeling he had when he was
Speaker 1: with Dallas last time. I will say when he was
Speaker 1: with the Lakers, I was impressed with him defensively. He's
Speaker 1: a good athlete. He's got long arms, he competes can
Speaker 1: guard the best perimeter player on the other team reasonably well.
Speaker 1: I think that's a legitimate weapon to add to this
Speaker 1: team off the bench. I think he's a great pickup
Speaker 1: at a veteran at a veteran minimum contract. I actually
Speaker 1: wish the Lakers would have kept him. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: exactly why they just let him walk like the way
Speaker 1: that they did, but maybe he just liked the role
Speaker 1: that he could potentially have in Dallas better. So Kessler
Speaker 1: Edwards is an athletic guard defender. He was a fringe
Speaker 1: rotation guy for the Kings last year, didn't play much,
Speaker 1: did have his best three point shooting season last year, though,
Speaker 1: Quentin Grimes, I want you guys to think of him
Speaker 1: as like a discounted, lesser version of Dante DiVincenzo. Like
Speaker 1: he's an aggressive shooter with a quick release, jumps a
Speaker 1: little higher on his shot than Dante does, but he's
Speaker 1: a really good athlete. He competes on defense. He's not
Speaker 1: as good as Dante, but he's kind of that archetype
Speaker 1: of off ball guard. I think he's perfectly fine as
Speaker 1: a back end of the rotation type of guard. And
Speaker 1: then Naji Marshall is one of my favorite bench guards
Speaker 1: in the league. About half dozen times a year as
Speaker 1: I'm watching random Pelicans games, I'll be like, holy shit,
Speaker 1: that was a crazy move from Naji Marshall, Like I
Speaker 1: get like it just as crazy to me, Like like
Speaker 1: for a bench guard. Just like the the the creativity
Speaker 1: and the deep bag of dribble commentation dribble combinations that
Speaker 1: Nasey can get to. He's got some legit off the
Speaker 1: dribble pop. He also just had the best three point
Speaker 1: shoot shooting season of his career, shot thirty nine percent
Speaker 1: last year. And he's got good size. He's big and
Speaker 1: strong as a perimeter defender. I love him as a
Speaker 1: guard off the bench for the MAVs. And then let's
Speaker 1: talk about the Klay Thompson fit. So Klay Thompson was
Speaker 1: a move for the MAVs to go all in on offense.
Speaker 1: Last year. The MAVs core lineups all had three iffy
Speaker 1: above the break three point shooters on the floor. So
Speaker 1: like obviously the center position. Derek Jones Junior shot twenty
Speaker 1: six percent on above the break threes in the playoffs
Speaker 1: and PJ Washington shot thirty one percent on above the
Speaker 1: break threes in the playoffs. So even though PJ and
Speaker 1: Derek Jones were both pretty solid from the corners, it
Speaker 1: was there above the break three point shot and that
Speaker 1: kind of like weakness in their games that became an issue,
Speaker 1: specifically once Lucas started having to use them as screeners.
Speaker 1: I want you guys to imagine the spread floor in
Speaker 1: a four out one end situation, and I want you
Speaker 1: to imagine PJ Washington in one corner Derek Jones in
Speaker 1: the other corner. Let's pretend Luca's on the right wing
Speaker 1: running the action and Kyrie's on the opposite wing. Kyrie
Speaker 1: obviously is a great above the break three point shooter.
Speaker 1: Someone comes up to set the ball screen, let's call
Speaker 1: it Derek Lively, and Luca and Derek get to kind
Speaker 1: of work downhill into the lane, and as long as
Speaker 1: the team is guarding it two on two, Lucas obviously
Speaker 1: gonna either shoot his little patented something in the short
Speaker 1: to mid range or he's gonna throw a lob to
Speaker 1: the big man if the screen defender commits right, and
Speaker 1: then if anybody helps from the weak side. So if
Speaker 1: the two guys in the ball screen kind of coalesce
Speaker 1: around Luca and the lowman, and let's say PJ. Washington's
Speaker 1: in the left corner, that lowman comes over the guy
Speaker 1: guarding PJ to tag Derek Lively. That's where Luca throws
Speaker 1: the skip pass to the weeks A corner and he's
Speaker 1: gonna knock down that corner three. Both Derek Jones and PJ.
Speaker 1: Washington shot well on corner threes. Last year. PJ. Washington
Speaker 1: shot lights out on corner threes in the playoff run, right,
Speaker 1: So like that was kind of how it worked naturally
Speaker 1: for Dallas in the majority of their matchups. Then they
Speaker 1: run into Boston and Boston takes Chris tops Porzingis and
Speaker 1: instead of putting him on Derek Lively and running a
Speaker 1: drop cover, they put Jason Tatum on the center for Dallas.
Speaker 1: And they put christops Porzingis on PJ. Washington or on
Speaker 1: Derek Jones, right, the guys that are the weaker above
Speaker 1: the break shooters. So now imagine that same configuration. Right,
Speaker 1: I've got PJ. Washington in the left corner. We've got
Speaker 1: Dare Jones on the right corner. I've got Kyrie on
Speaker 1: the opposite wing. Here comes Derek Lively to set a pick.
Speaker 1: Now they're just switching it, and now I have Jason
Speaker 1: Tatum on me. And Luca did have stretches where he
Speaker 1: scored the ball well against switches. Against Boston, we all
Speaker 1: know that he filled the box score up right, But
Speaker 1: Dallas's offense overall, on a large scale of the over
Speaker 1: the course of the series, their offense completely fell apart.
Speaker 1: The specific reason why was Luca is basically only able
Speaker 1: to work effectively in ISO so let's say, now we
Speaker 1: know we call Porzingis up into the screen, or we
Speaker 1: call Derek Lively up into the screen. They're just switching it.
Speaker 1: Jaylen Brown runs down with the center. Tatum stays on Luca.
Speaker 1: Luca wants to get into a traditional pick and roll
Speaker 1: coverage so that he can pick them apart with the
Speaker 1: pass right. So now he calls, let's say that PJ.
Speaker 1: Washington is being guarded by Chrisops Porzingis. PJ Washington was
Speaker 1: all the way in the left corner. So now PJ.
Speaker 1: Washington's gonna come up to set the screen. Kyrie is
Speaker 1: gonna slide down to the corner. Derek Lively, though, in
Speaker 1: this case, because he's not a floor spacer, neither was
Speaker 1: Daniel Gafford, that guy's standing in the dunker spot now.
Speaker 1: So now as a result of that guy standing in
Speaker 1: the dunker spot, Jason Tatum is sitting head directly underneath
Speaker 1: the rim in help ready for anything that comes towards
Speaker 1: the rim. It's just really congested down there. Now. When
Speaker 1: Derek Glavely was setting the screen, him and Luca in
Speaker 1: a vacant paint. Him and Luca were rolling together, driving
Speaker 1: and rolling into the paint together. But now since he
Speaker 1: has to call PJ into the screen, Derek's just sitting
Speaker 1: there in the paint, which allows Tatum to be in help.
Speaker 1: Then from there, as Luca comes off the screen, Porzingis
Speaker 1: is there to corral him coming off, and Jalen Brown
Speaker 1: is chasing over the top, and PJ. Washington's only spot
Speaker 1: he can go to because Kyrie's in the left corner
Speaker 1: and Derek Jones is in the right corner, or if
Speaker 1: Derek Jones and PJ are switched, then it's PJ in
Speaker 1: the corner. Whoever it is, there's somebody in the corner,
Speaker 1: but there's the only opening for PJ to go is
Speaker 1: above the break because if he rolls now, there's a
Speaker 1: shit ton of congestion in there because Derek's already in
Speaker 1: there with Tatum on him, Luca's driving in there, and
Speaker 1: like literally, Porzingis the guy who's guarding him, is sitting
Speaker 1: in a drop coverage guarding Luca coming downhill or Horford
Speaker 1: guarding downhill, right, although Horford did some switching in the
Speaker 1: series as well. But PJ. Washington would then pop above
Speaker 1: the break because that's the only opening that he can
Speaker 1: go to and he's not a good above the break shooter,
Speaker 1: and so that was kind of where things fell apart
Speaker 1: for Dallas. The pick and roll attack, which was predicated
Speaker 1: on picking on the opponent center in mistakes that he
Speaker 1: might make, was shut down by Boston's ability to put
Speaker 1: their center onto a weaker above the break shooter. And
Speaker 1: so here's the thing, just simply by we all know
Speaker 1: that Derek Jones Junior is a much better defensive player
Speaker 1: than Clay. That goes without saying, but Clay is the
Speaker 1: second best shooter in the history of the sport. So
Speaker 1: one other thing I'll say about this, PJ. Washington has
Speaker 1: good form on his jump shot. The elbows in he's
Speaker 1: in a line, gets good lift, it's fluid, there's not
Speaker 1: a hitch, there's not a lot of wasted motion. And
Speaker 1: he did shoot thirty seven percent on above the break
Speaker 1: threes for Dallas in the regular season. So the upside
Speaker 1: for this move is you're taking Derrek Jones Junior, who's
Speaker 1: a guy who is a week above the break shooter,
Speaker 1: out of the equation, and you're plugging in Klay Thompson,
Speaker 1: who's one of the best at it in the history
Speaker 1: of the league. Right, But Also, the weak point is
Speaker 1: still there with PJ Washington. Imagine if you face Boston
Speaker 1: again with this exact same lineup, all that's happening is,
Speaker 1: instead of them being able to help off of Derek
Speaker 1: Jones Junior two, in a lot of these cases, they're
Speaker 1: just still going to be helping off of PJ Washington,
Speaker 1: They're just gonna be glued up to Klay Thompson off
Speaker 1: the ball. So let's say it's Drew Holliday on Clay,
Speaker 1: He's gonna be glued up on Clay. You're right, But
Speaker 1: they're still going to put Porzingis on PJ Washington. They're
Speaker 1: still going to put Tatum on Derek Lively, They're still
Speaker 1: going to put Jaylen Brown on Luka Doncic. They're still
Speaker 1: going to switch those ball screens, and they're not just
Speaker 1: gonna suddenly roam off of Clay. They're going to continue
Speaker 1: to roam off of PJ. With the rim protector. So obviously,
Speaker 1: Clay increases the aggregate shooting talent that's on the floor,
Speaker 1: But schematically, in order for this to all work, PJ.
Speaker 1: Washington inevitably is going to have to be able to
Speaker 1: hit above the break threes for the specific matchup of Boston. Now,
Speaker 1: as we talk about this, like, here's the thing. The
Speaker 1: West is kind of wide open. I have Denver and
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City above Dallas. We're gonna talk about why in
Speaker 1: a little bit. I want to make sure I give
Speaker 1: my explanation, like I always do when I make these
Speaker 1: sorts of decisions. I want to explain why but the East, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Nicks have a shot, Yeah the Sixers have a shot,
Speaker 1: Yeah the Bucks have a shot. But Boston. I think
Speaker 1: the gap between Boston and the rest of the East
Speaker 1: is larger than the gap between let's say, Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: or Denver in the rest of the Western Conference, right,
Speaker 1: And so like, with that being the case, the inevitable
Speaker 1: kind of like a barrier standing between Dallas and the
Speaker 1: NBA Championship is Boston. And in order to beat Boston, PJ.
Speaker 1: Washington's going to have to hit above the break three.
Speaker 1: So like, even though I think Clay is a massive
Speaker 1: influx of offensive talent, he's going to make them so
Speaker 1: much better offensively over the course of the season. I
Speaker 1: think Dallas is going to be top three offens this year.
Speaker 1: We're gonna continue to talk about all those reasons why
Speaker 1: but the reality is is the ultimate goal their goal
Speaker 1: of beating Boston if they were going to get out
Speaker 1: of the West and win the NBA Championship. I do
Speaker 1: think PJ. Washington eventually is going to have to hit
Speaker 1: above the break threes at a certain rate. And it's
Speaker 1: a copycat league too. Like any team that has two
Speaker 1: forwards now that they feel realistically could guard Luca at
Speaker 1: least make Luca work, they're just gonna even just one
Speaker 1: because Gafford and Lively are not like back to the
Speaker 1: basket like beat switches types of centers. They're gonna put
Speaker 1: the guy that they think can guard Luca on Luca right,
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna put their bigger forward on the center,
Speaker 1: in this case Lively or Gafford right, They're gonna switch it,
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna leave their center on PJ. Washington.
Speaker 1: Teams are going to copy that. Like it was statistically
Speaker 1: devastating what it did to Dallas's offense, any coaching staff
Speaker 1: worth their salt is going to continue to explore that
Speaker 1: concept as a way to guard Dallas. So with that
Speaker 1: being the case, PJ. Washington's offensive development particularly is an
Speaker 1: above the break shooter, and I think there's some upside there.
Speaker 1: Like I said, his form looks good. He did shoot
Speaker 1: pretty well there in the regular season. PJ Washington's growth
Speaker 1: as an above the break shooter is going to be
Speaker 1: a key thing to keep an eye on from Dallas
Speaker 1: this season, and one of the things I hope they
Speaker 1: do is don't just only plug PJ in the corner
Speaker 1: and make sure that he gets plenty of above the
Speaker 1: break attempts over the course of the season to help
Speaker 1: kind of polish that up and make sure that he's
Speaker 1: comfortable by the time you get to the postseason. Will
Speaker 1: the MAVs run more action? Klay Thompson hit one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty three shots coming off of off ball screens
Speaker 1: last year, is most in the league by far. It's
Speaker 1: eighty four more than any non Warrior in the entire NBA.
Speaker 1: Last year. He also got one point one points per
Speaker 1: shot in those situations in half court settings. One point
Speaker 1: one points per shot is very efficient. Offensive ratings tend
Speaker 1: to get closer to one twenty for the best or
Speaker 1: a little above one twenty for the best offenses in
Speaker 1: the league, but offensive ratings are inflated by things like
Speaker 1: offensive rebounds and transition scoring right because transition offensive ratings
Speaker 1: are typically way higher. One point one points per shot
Speaker 1: in the half court is a really good shot. Can't
Speaker 1: hope to do much better than a one to ten
Speaker 1: offensive rating in the half court. Here's the thing too,
Speaker 1: Naji Marshall can dribble shooting pass. Spencer Dinwoodie can dribble
Speaker 1: shooting pass, Kyrie Irving can dribble shooting pass. Derek Lively
Speaker 1: at the center position is like, in my opinion, one
Speaker 1: of the better like five out prospects that we have
Speaker 1: in the league at the center position because he's so
Speaker 1: good at making reads and making passes out of overplay situations.
Speaker 1: This is a different roster than Dallas had last year.
Speaker 1: It's a lot more ball handling, a lot more guys
Speaker 1: who are capable of doing more than just shooting catch
Speaker 1: and shoot threes on offense. So I'm really curious to
Speaker 1: see if Jason Kidd implements more ball in player movement
Speaker 1: this year. And there's a very specific reason why I
Speaker 1: believe in that those of you guys who watched Timp's
Speaker 1: tape yesterday will know what I'm talking about. When you
Speaker 1: have more on ball action and off ball player movement
Speaker 1: and screening. It makes it so that the defense has
Speaker 1: to make more decisions, right, and the more decisions that
Speaker 1: the defense has to make on any given possession, the
Speaker 1: more possibility for them to make a mistake, and a
Speaker 1: mistake almost always ends in a open shot or a layup. Right.
Speaker 1: So this is where like, am I asking the MAVs
Speaker 1: to ditch Lucaball. No, that absolutely should be their main pitch,
Speaker 1: But Lukaball the spread pick and roll for out one
Speaker 1: end concept that relies entirely on Luca's superpower. The way
Speaker 1: to the defense doesn't make mistakes against Luca Ball. It
Speaker 1: decides what they want to do, make Luca score or
Speaker 1: make him a passer. Right. But when you have more
Speaker 1: off ball action and player movement and on ball action
Speaker 1: to start possessions, that's where you can start getting more
Speaker 1: defensive mistakes where guys just fuck up and someone ends
Speaker 1: up wide open. And so my thing is like, I
Speaker 1: want to see them build that out as a pitch.
Speaker 1: If Luca ball is going to be the fastball, I
Speaker 1: want to see this as a change up. I want
Speaker 1: to see them build it out over the course of
Speaker 1: the season. And No, by the way, when I say
Speaker 1: five out concepts. This doesn't mean just plug Maxi Kleiba
Speaker 1: in that center. That's not what five out is. That's
Speaker 1: just the stretch. Five five out is about multiple actions
Speaker 1: on the same possession. We're getting side to side, we
Speaker 1: are involving multiple ball handlers. There is a flow. It
Speaker 1: is a blender both on and off the ball. That
Speaker 1: is five out. I would like to see Dallas build
Speaker 1: that out as their change up this year so that
Speaker 1: if they run into a matchup where it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: they just tucked the center on PJ. Washington. He's just
Speaker 1: missed two or three consecutive above the break threes. He
Speaker 1: looks a little sketched out by it. Luca is now
Speaker 1: having to attack big forwards and switches. Our offense is
Speaker 1: grinding down a little bit. Hey, why don't we plug
Speaker 1: in an extra ball handler, Like, why don't we throw
Speaker 1: in you know, we'll go you know, Luca, Kyrie and well,
Speaker 1: hell like just say with Clay on the floor, even
Speaker 1: with just those three, and let's just kind of tweak
Speaker 1: the way we play and get a little bit more
Speaker 1: side to side, have a little bit more action being run,
Speaker 1: and see if we can't just loosen things up a
Speaker 1: little bit for a few minutes. My prediction is that
Speaker 1: they won't do that. My prediction is that they'll more
Speaker 1: or less do exactly what they did last year, but
Speaker 1: then add like four to five possessions of game where
Speaker 1: they run Klay Thompson off of some sort of like
Speaker 1: double wide stagger floppy action underneath the basket, something like that,
Speaker 1: where they try to get Clay some catch and shoot threes,
Speaker 1: just kind of randomly mixed in surrounded by typical Luca ball.
Speaker 1: But I'm hoping that they add more of a five
Speaker 1: out look over the course of this season. Either way,
Speaker 1: I expect the MAVs to be a top three offense
Speaker 1: this year. The Luca and Kyrie fit is perfect. Clay
Speaker 1: is a massive upgrade of Derek Jones Junior. On offense.
Speaker 1: I think PJ. Washington will continue to improve this year.
Speaker 1: They have an existing offensive framework that works really well.
Speaker 1: Even the issues that talked about are more matchup specific,
Speaker 1: Like here's the thing, not every team has Jason Tatum
Speaker 1: and Jaylen Brown at the guard or at the forward positions,
Speaker 1: right like I was. I was like kind of going
Speaker 1: through the league and looking at it, and there are
Speaker 1: there are, there are teams, and they're all the good teams, right,
Speaker 1: like the Knicks have some really like a guy like
Speaker 1: the Knicks could put uh og An Andobi on Gafford
Speaker 1: and Lively and look to switch those types of actions.
Speaker 1: That could be something that they that they look to
Speaker 1: do out in the Western Conference. Oklahoma City now that
Speaker 1: they have a little bit more interior size, now that
Speaker 1: they have Alex Caruso is another option. You can imagine
Speaker 1: a situation where they put lou Dort, even Uh on Luca,
Speaker 1: but then put a Uh like a big a bigger,
Speaker 1: stronger forward, or even even put lou Dort on the
Speaker 1: center and put Caruso on Luca and then they can
Speaker 1: switch ball screens. Like I think there are gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of teams that try to mimic what Boston did, right,
Speaker 1: but even that's all. That's all specific playoff match matchups
Speaker 1: for like the later rounds, right Like over the course
Speaker 1: of the eighty two they're gonna dice everybody up. They
Speaker 1: just are. They have too much talent and there's not
Speaker 1: enough teams in the league to have the person l
Speaker 1: to give Dallas the issues that Boston gave them. Defense
Speaker 1: will be tricky Clay fell off of a cliff defensively
Speaker 1: after winning the title in twenty twenty two. Twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two was like an underrated defensive moment of Clay's career,
Speaker 1: Like he kind of switched on to Jaylen Brown about
Speaker 1: halfway through the series and just did a really nice
Speaker 1: job on him. But since that series, he's kind of
Speaker 1: fallen off of a cliff. Kyrie will be their best
Speaker 1: guard defender in the starting lineup. In a lot of matchups,
Speaker 1: They're probably going to have to put PJ Washington on
Speaker 1: the other team's best perimeter player. I'm just curious to
Speaker 1: see how they deploy everyone, Like are they going to
Speaker 1: ask Kyrie and Clay to guard guards so they can
Speaker 1: keep PJ as a low man, or are they going
Speaker 1: to put PJ on the ball and ask Clay to
Speaker 1: spend more possessions and help. I'm really curious just to
Speaker 1: see how they deploy everyone. I don't think they can
Speaker 1: get to a top ten defense with Clay in for
Speaker 1: Derek Jones Junior. I don't think that that's an outcome
Speaker 1: that's on the table for them. But I do think
Speaker 1: they can get to fifteen if everyone buys in. They
Speaker 1: have the rim protection. That's always a great foundation. They
Speaker 1: have size. They are just a little too slow the
Speaker 1: perimeter to be a top ten defense, But defense is
Speaker 1: going to be the main thing. I'm watching with Dallas
Speaker 1: in the early part of the year to see how
Speaker 1: things shape up. In summary, I have Dallas as the
Speaker 1: best of the if things go right teams. I do
Speaker 1: think they're a little matchup dependent, and that's the main
Speaker 1: reason why I don't have them in the top tier.
Speaker 1: Teams that can that have two good forwards that can
Speaker 1: switch their one to five pick and roll, teams that
Speaker 1: can spread them out and attack their weaker defenders in
Speaker 1: space right on the defensive end. Teams like when Luca's
Speaker 1: in help, he's fine. But as soon as there's a
Speaker 1: team that can really spread them out and can attack
Speaker 1: Luca off the dribble consistently, that's where things become a problem.
Speaker 1: I think it would be helpful if Luca got into
Speaker 1: a little bit better shape and got to the point
Speaker 1: where he could hedge and recover, because then he wouldn't
Speaker 1: have to necessarily worry about holding his own on an island.
Speaker 1: If he could just throw a hedge and then sprint
Speaker 1: back to a shooter and chase them off the line.
Speaker 1: We'll see if that's something that they deploy more this year,
Speaker 1: because like they just went with like asking Luca to
Speaker 1: guard in the postseason, and that just didn't work. It
Speaker 1: went horribly well. So so like that's something that I
Speaker 1: would like to see them explore a little bit more
Speaker 1: as having Luca just see if he's capable of hedging.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure his feet are quick enough, but we'll see.
Speaker 1: But among all the teams in this five through eleven tier,
Speaker 1: like we talked about the Minnesota Timberwolves, we talked about
Speaker 1: the Lakers, and the Suns, and the Memphis Grizzlies and
Speaker 1: all these teams, the Philadelphia seventy six ers, all these
Speaker 1: teams that are in this tier, I think Luca is
Speaker 1: the best player in that tier considerably. Giannis is the
Speaker 1: one guy that you could take closer. But I don't
Speaker 1: think Milwaukee has the talent that Dallas has, So I
Speaker 1: think they're clearly the best of this particular tier of teams.
Speaker 1: I think Boston would kick their ass again if they
Speaker 1: played again. I don't think Clay solves the Boston problem, because,
Speaker 1: like I told you guys, they're still just going to
Speaker 1: put Porzingis on PJ. So the upside if you were
Speaker 1: going to be like, hey, Jason explained to me how
Speaker 1: Dallas could beat Boston this year. It's PJ Washington gets
Speaker 1: better at above the break threes. PJ. Washington gets better
Speaker 1: above the break threes. Luca gets in better shape and
Speaker 1: becomes a better perimeter defender. Those two things happen, you
Speaker 1: give yourself a fighting chance against Boston. I think they'd
Speaker 1: get killed by Boston if they played him again. Though,
Speaker 1: Let's say a team like Philly or Milwaukee gets through.
Speaker 1: Though Philly's gonna have Kelly Ubray and Caleb Martin on
Speaker 1: the floor, those are guys that Dallas could deploy Luca
Speaker 1: on and continue to pack the paint, keep him out
Speaker 1: of dribble drive situations, make if he shooters make shots,
Speaker 1: kind of like they did with Minnesota. I think that
Speaker 1: Dallas has a chance, Like I think Dallas would beat
Speaker 1: Philly in a series. Milwaukee another team where there's gonna
Speaker 1: be guys on the floor. They feel comfortable helping off
Speaker 1: and sagging into the paint and packing the paint, not
Speaker 1: having to guard so much in space. Milwaukee is a
Speaker 1: team that I think Dallas would beat in a playoff series.
Speaker 1: So if Dallas can get out of the Western Conference
Speaker 1: and if somebody can upset Boston, I think they have
Speaker 1: a real chance to win the title, and that to
Speaker 1: me puts them kind of classically in this tier of
Speaker 1: if things go right, I don't think there'll be a
Speaker 1: dominant regular season team. I think they'll be above the plan,
Speaker 1: but most likely in that three to six range. So
Speaker 1: the last question is why do I have Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: and Denver above them? Oklahoma City has considerably more talent.
Speaker 1: They're the most talented team in the Western Conference by far.
Speaker 1: That to me is a pretty straightforward explanation. Denver, talent wise,
Speaker 1: is more on the same level as Dallas. Why do
Speaker 1: I have Denver over Dallas Because Denver presents more matchup issues,
Speaker 1: specifically for Boston. Boston does not have a soul who
Speaker 1: can remotely make Jokic feel uncomfortable. Meanwhile, Boston is built
Speaker 1: to stop Dallas like they're built to slow down that offense.
Speaker 1: I think Boston is most likely going to win the East.
Speaker 1: So therefore, Denver is clearly a better candidate to get
Speaker 1: the trophy because they have more capability of beating Boston.
Speaker 1: In a series than Dallas does. But if Boston gets upset,
Speaker 1: I think Dallas has a real shot. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get into Magic Peals also real quick before we get
Speaker 1: into this game. I've every time we get into the
Speaker 1: start of the year, I always have to kind of
Speaker 1: explain this to people. I cover a shit ton of games.
Speaker 1: I would say, we go what on average, five times
Speaker 1: a week and then maybe like a sixth episode for
Speaker 1: something that's usually a big NBA story that drops down
Speaker 1: or something along those lines. Right, But in the five
Speaker 1: games five days a week, I'm on average covering three
Speaker 1: to four games. So we're covering somewhere between fifteen and
Speaker 1: twenty games a week. Okay, I'm going to hit the
Speaker 1: big market teams. I'm gonna hit the Knicks, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hit the Celtics, I'm gonna hit the Sixers, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hit the Warriors, I'm gonna hit the Lakers. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hit all like those are the We just have to
Speaker 1: that's just smart business. The way I compensate for that
Speaker 1: is I just work more and I make sure that
Speaker 1: I cover more games. So like we are still going
Speaker 1: to hit between five and ten games a week. That
Speaker 1: cover teams that are outside of like kind of like
Speaker 1: the major market teams. We are going to cover the Pelicans,
Speaker 1: We're going to cover the Magic as much as most
Speaker 1: of the other national NBA shows in the league. We
Speaker 1: just supplement it by doing more. So, like, here's the thing,
Speaker 1: Not only are there big market teams that I want
Speaker 1: to hit, like the Lakers are my favorite team. You
Speaker 1: don't think I'm gonna watch all the Laker games. Of
Speaker 1: course I'm gonna come on here and share my thoughts.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be and because we market the show based
Speaker 1: on what gives us the best chance to work in
Speaker 1: search engines, Like, yeah, there's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: thumbnails that have Lebron James on it. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of titles that say Lakers this or Warriors that,
Speaker 1: or Nick's this or Celtics that. But usually there's four
Speaker 1: to five segments in that show. And of those four
Speaker 1: to five segments, yeah, two or three of them are
Speaker 1: gonna be hitting major market big topics. But I'm always
Speaker 1: going to do the work to cover the rest of
Speaker 1: the league. So it's one of those things where one
Speaker 1: of the ways that we fight that breakout clips look
Speaker 1: for breakout clips. But two, we put in chapter markers,
Speaker 1: So like, if you don't want to hear Lakers, if
Speaker 1: you're sick of hearing fucking Lakers, click on the video,
Speaker 1: fast forward past the Lakers part, and then you'll get
Speaker 1: to everything else. Again, I always just have to say
Speaker 1: this about once a year just to kind of remind people, like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're going to cover a lot of the mainstream stuff,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean we're not covering everything else. I
Speaker 1: work really hard to make sure that we get to
Speaker 1: a shit ton of games so that we can compensate
Speaker 1: for the fact that we hammer some of the mainstream stuff.
Speaker 1: And again, like, as a basketball fan, yeah, when Lebron retires,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to have a team anymore. He's my
Speaker 1: one sentimental attachment in the NBA right now, and at
Speaker 1: that point, I won't have that specific, you know, desire.
Speaker 1: But like, yeah, we're gonna cover most of the Laker games.
Speaker 1: Why cause I'm going to watch most of the Laker
Speaker 1: games because I'm a Laker fan and I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: opinions about it, and I'm fortunate enough to have a
Speaker 1: situation where I can talk about them. So like, again,
Speaker 1: it's not. And quite frankly, the Lakers have a massive
Speaker 1: fan base, so that stuff makes us money. That stuff
Speaker 1: gives us like a means with which to pay the
Speaker 1: bills and to keep the lights on right. So like again,
Speaker 1: I just have to say that about once a year.
Speaker 1: And on that note, let's talk about the Orlando Magic
Speaker 1: in the New Orleans Pelicans. So Zion looks amazing. He
Speaker 1: had three straight driving assists to start the game. The
Speaker 1: one that was on the first possession of the game
Speaker 1: was kind of like the classic Zion where he comes
Speaker 1: up the right wing, He's got the ball in his
Speaker 1: left hand. He just kind of hits that high hesitation
Speaker 1: and just kind of dribbles a little bit towards the elbow.
Speaker 1: The entire Magic roster just like coalesces around the paint.
Speaker 1: He throws a kickout pass to the wing and I
Speaker 1: think it was Herb Jones, but I can't remember who
Speaker 1: it was. But one of the Pells role players knocks
Speaker 1: down a shot and then next possession, similar thing, next possession,
Speaker 1: similar thing. The Magic we're doing a lot of switching,
Speaker 1: and so even when he would get get different guys
Speaker 1: on switches, he's just trying to get downhill and make
Speaker 1: a kickout pass. There was also a couple of plays
Speaker 1: in that first quarter stint, and both of these made
Speaker 1: my TIMPs tape segments, so you guys will see him
Speaker 1: here in a second. But Zion had these plays where
Speaker 1: he drove really hard to the right. I think one
Speaker 1: was over Wendell Carter Junior and one was over Pala Bancaro,
Speaker 1: but really hard. Dribbles to the right and he gets
Speaker 1: cut off, and then he ends back to the left
Speaker 1: and goes to a hook shot kind of in the
Speaker 1: middle of the floor and knocks it down. This is
Speaker 1: that like over the top shot that I say is
Speaker 1: so important for these downhill guys. This is the one
Speaker 1: that I've been begging Giannis to get forever. Even if
Speaker 1: you're the best athlete in the league at your position,
Speaker 1: you are inevitably going to run into somebody who is
Speaker 1: close to your level of athleticism and can stop you
Speaker 1: from just running rough shot over them all night long.
Speaker 1: Even the guy that is arguably the best athlete NBA history,
Speaker 1: Lebron James, look at his career history, it's like he
Speaker 1: runs into Andrea Guadala, he runs into Kawhi Leonard, even
Speaker 1: in recent years, he runs into Aaron Gordon. Mind you,
Speaker 1: he's not the athlete he was when he was younger,
Speaker 1: but like inevitably, you run into a guy that can
Speaker 1: kind of sort of beat it a spot's chest you
Speaker 1: up and force you to make something over the top.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean you have to make a three. If you
Speaker 1: can drive at that guy and then he cuts you
Speaker 1: off and you can counter back the other way and
Speaker 1: hit something over the top, that is something that you
Speaker 1: can rely on in a tight spot when the defense
Speaker 1: is guarding you one on one and not really helping
Speaker 1: off super far, and there's not a great look elsewhere,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of the best you can do on
Speaker 1: that possession. If you can get to a bucket where
Speaker 1: you could like, hey, I can hit this shot fifty
Speaker 1: to fifty five percent of the time, that's something that
Speaker 1: could really carry you in tight half court situations. Back
Speaker 1: to back of them that looked really, really good. Jonathan
Speaker 1: Isaac checked in off the bench for the Magic Zion
Speaker 1: immediately started bullying him underneath the basket. The Pelicans are
Speaker 1: even just barely scratching the surface of what this can become.
Speaker 1: Because I didn't even see any really great drive and
Speaker 1: kick possessions where they were like multiple touches. I still
Speaker 1: think that's the thing that they can get to over time.
Speaker 1: Like this team is going to be so good on offense.
Speaker 1: If Zion can stay healthy, we could be looking at
Speaker 1: a truly special offensive season from him. And I think
Speaker 1: it's a top ten offense and one that could get
Speaker 1: even higher with Trey Murphy, CJ McCollum. Those guys are
Speaker 1: such good spot up players. John Tay Murray, well, see
Speaker 1: he didn't shoot the three ball well last night, but
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna shoot it pretty well this year.
Speaker 1: Jordan Hawkins came in and shot the seams off the
Speaker 1: basketball like they just have all this shooting. And then
Speaker 1: they have these two guys in Dejonte and in Zion
Speaker 1: that can get downhill and can make plays. And even
Speaker 1: Brandon Ingram as we've been hearing, has looked really good
Speaker 1: in training camp, and so that's another guy that can
Speaker 1: kind of break the defense down. Dejhontey didn't shoot it well.
Speaker 1: He had a couple of his patent mid range shots
Speaker 1: but missed everything else. But he was getting two spots
Speaker 1: and he was getting dribble penetration, and again Orlando's defense
Speaker 1: is insanely good, so like, this is a tough matchup
Speaker 1: for that first version of this offense. At the end
Speaker 1: of the first half, they ran some two man game
Speaker 1: with Dejonte and Zion, and Zion was setting good screens
Speaker 1: and Desonte was easily getting into the paint where he
Speaker 1: could make plays. I thought that was kind of an
Speaker 1: interesting action that we'll see more of this year. I
Speaker 1: think Dejonte's fit overall will take some reps, just because
Speaker 1: it's kind of an interesting fit, but I do think
Speaker 1: it'll go fine. Cj looked great, shot the ball super
Speaker 1: well last year, came right back to work this year.
Speaker 1: Nine points on six jump shots yesterday. Jordan Hawkins eighteen
Speaker 1: points and two assists in twenty one minutes. Kind of
Speaker 1: slided into like the Trey Murphy type of role. And
Speaker 1: what really impressed me about Jordan Hawkins was his ability
Speaker 1: to get dribble penetration off of his shooting ability. He
Speaker 1: was getting a lot of straight line drives off of
Speaker 1: dudes chasing him off the line, and he was able
Speaker 1: to like he made some drop off passes, made some
Speaker 1: mid range stuff. I thought it was a really nice
Speaker 1: game from Jordan Hawkins. You can see the formula for
Speaker 1: the Pelicans, Zion and de Jonte and Brandon getting dribble penetration,
Speaker 1: really high level shoot, drive, pass threats off the ball
Speaker 1: to capitalize on that attention. I think they're gonna score
Speaker 1: a lot of points this year. Orlando. I really I
Speaker 1: love this team because I love a lot of the
Speaker 1: players on the team, but I hate watching them on offense.
Speaker 1: It always looks worse against teams like New Orleans two
Speaker 1: that do a lot of switching. By the way, they've
Speaker 1: got a lot of similar sized players, Orland who does
Speaker 1: so A lot of teams do a lot of switching
Speaker 1: against them. But then they just run into this like
Speaker 1: kind of stagnant thing where they they just bring the
Speaker 1: ball up the floor and they might have a guard
Speaker 1: comes set a screen, but then it just inevitably turns
Speaker 1: into kind of like everyone's standing around and watching Palow
Speaker 1: or Frontz try to make something happen. It looks like
Speaker 1: pickup basketball, but there were some positives. They shot the
Speaker 1: ball well from the perimeter in the first half. They
Speaker 1: got cold in the second half. But in the first half,
Speaker 1: while the Pels starters were still playing, the Magic got
Speaker 1: one point one nine points per jump shot on twenty
Speaker 1: one attempts. Polo's shot looked good again. He was three
Speaker 1: for five on jumpers yesterday. Jonathan Isaac hitd a three,
Speaker 1: Jalen Suggs hit a bunch of threes. Again, they cooled off,
Speaker 1: but I thought that was encouraging after how poorly they
Speaker 1: shot the ball against Cleveland. And then their defense still
Speaker 1: looks insane. They have so much speed and strength in
Speaker 1: the guard corps, even off the bench, like Cole Anthony
Speaker 1: is like competing on the defensive end. Obviously, Anthony Black
Speaker 1: his jump shot still looks a little sketch, but he
Speaker 1: obviously brings a lot defensively to the back court. And
Speaker 1: then they just have so much size and length in
Speaker 1: the front court. Like when Jonathan Isaac checked in, he
Speaker 1: started like ending up in a lot of help side
Speaker 1: possessions and protecting the rim, and like anyone on the
Speaker 1: Pelicans who was in Zion was like scared to shoot
Speaker 1: around the rim because of Jonathan Isaac. I'm so impressed
Speaker 1: by them on the defensive end. I'm so impressed by
Speaker 1: their physical profile. We just have to see more offensive
Speaker 1: growth out of them over the course of the season.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to this week's or today's episode
Speaker 1: of Timp's tape. First couple of clips are going to
Speaker 1: be zion left shoulder hook. So, as I was talking
Speaker 1: about in the last segment, inevitably, even if you're a
Speaker 1: supreme athlete, you're going to run into a guy that
Speaker 1: can kind of sort of match up with you athletically.
Speaker 1: In this case, Pala Bunkara. Zion's gonna make a really
Speaker 1: hard dribble move to the right, and Palo, who's also
Speaker 1: in an elite athlete, beats him to the spot, cuts
Speaker 1: him off. What do you do from there? This is
Speaker 1: where in situations where you need to create your own
Speaker 1: shot and you can't get to the rim, it's important
Speaker 1: to have some sort of calendar to make something over
Speaker 1: the top. Zion's gonna pivot over his right shoulder and
Speaker 1: take like a little five foot hook shot. That is
Speaker 1: a shot that Zion should be able to get to
Speaker 1: against every defender in the league at any time. If
Speaker 1: he can get to the point where he can knock
Speaker 1: that down fifty percent of the time fifty five percent
Speaker 1: of the time, that can become a huge weapon for him,
Speaker 1: especially in a playoff series when things grind down in
Speaker 1: the half court. There's another example against Wendell Carter, really
Speaker 1: good athlete at the center position. Zion's come in from
Speaker 1: the top of the key. This time gonna fast forward
Speaker 1: a little bit, get a switch, So Daniel Tye screens.
Speaker 1: There's a switch. Now we have Wendell Carter hard drive right.
Speaker 1: Wendell beats him to the spot, cuts him off. Zion
Speaker 1: pivots over his right shoulder, knocks down a hook. Again,
Speaker 1: that was over a center. That's a guy that's substantially
Speaker 1: taller than Zion, and he is able to get the
Speaker 1: shot off. Because again, anybody who actually cuts Zion off
Speaker 1: on his hard drive to the right is gonna have
Speaker 1: to really really dig down and take hard slide steps.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be able to quickly recover back going
Speaker 1: the opposite direction. But I thought that was really really encouraging,
Speaker 1: and I'd like to see Zion take a bunch of
Speaker 1: those this year and hopefully hit it around fifty percent.
Speaker 1: This was a really impressive defensive possession from Cole Anthony.
Speaker 1: So we have the Magic loading up on the strong
Speaker 1: side against the Zion drive. Cole Anthony is sinking down
Speaker 1: into the lane to kind of make sure that herb
Speaker 1: Jones doesn't cut to the basket. His man is actually
Speaker 1: CJ McCollum. Watch when the pass gets thrown how quickly
Speaker 1: Cole Anthony recovers out to CJ. Sprints Boom. He's there
Speaker 1: on the catch, completely glued up. Gets a great contest,
Speaker 1: doesn't foul, forces a miss, short catches the ball in transition,
Speaker 1: goes the length of the floor, sees a little opportunity
Speaker 1: where he goes, Hey, Jordan Hawkins not a great athlete,
Speaker 1: not I mean good athlete, but he's not very big
Speaker 1: and strong. I might be able to go through him.
Speaker 1: Sees the opportunity, drops that shoulder, gets the angle. Nice
Speaker 1: athletic finish at the rim. Cole Anthony is one of
Speaker 1: my favorite backup guards in the league. But like it's
Speaker 1: just an example two of defensive culture. Too. Good athlete
Speaker 1: off the bench comes in, brings the same level of
Speaker 1: defensive intensity as the starters. This was a fun one.
Speaker 1: A little action that the Pelicans ran for Zion that
Speaker 1: I really liked. It's kind of a setup out of
Speaker 1: a five out concept. All guys on the perimeter. CJ
Speaker 1: and Dejonte both just basically cross in front of Zion
Speaker 1: and nothing ends up happening, but you do see some
Speaker 1: brief confusion out of Orlando. I do think they'll get
Speaker 1: some openings this year whereas guys are acrossing, people make
Speaker 1: a mistake. I talked to it again. Action gives opportunity
Speaker 1: for the defense to make a mistake. Orlando's an elite defense.
Speaker 1: They don't make a mistake here, but you can kind
Speaker 1: of see the action right these guys cross and notice
Speaker 1: how CACP threw a hedge too. You're going to see
Speaker 1: some situations where the hedge stays too long and Dejonte
Speaker 1: is able to drive that, but inevitably it ends up
Speaker 1: settling back into an ISO. But I do think we're
Speaker 1: going to see a lot more of that action. I'm
Speaker 1: curious to see how it settles down this year. Here's
Speaker 1: your textbook driving kick though. So we have Jalen Suggs
Speaker 1: with his body completely turned towards Zion looking at the ball.
Speaker 1: That gives a close out opportunity for CJ. McCollum. Zion
Speaker 1: throws the ball, Jalen Suggs close out. That's that baked
Speaker 1: in driving lane that I always talk to you guys
Speaker 1: about if He's going to stand here and I get
Speaker 1: a pass on the wing. I have a guaranteed rip
Speaker 1: through to the right because Jalen Suggs is going to
Speaker 1: be closing out at me from my left hand side.
Speaker 1: Rip beats him off the dribble. Okay, so now this
Speaker 1: is where we're at. Now we're going to talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about another element of spacing off ball screening.
Speaker 1: Daniel Tye was down here, Dejontay Murray was over here
Speaker 1: after the uh, after that crossing action that CJ and
Speaker 1: Dejhontey ran, Daniel Tye is going to set a backscreen
Speaker 1: on Contavious Cabb of Pope. Instead of digging down here
Speaker 1: and trying to box box out for an offensive rebound,
Speaker 1: he sets this flare screen for de Jontay Murray, nails KCP.
Speaker 1: CJ McCollum makes the kickout pass, we get a wide
Speaker 1: open three. So again, Daniel Tice is a situation. In
Speaker 1: a situation like that, Wendell Carter's ignoring him and going
Speaker 1: towards the basket, he maintains himself as a threat on
Speaker 1: offense by being a screener off the ball. Jante misses
Speaker 1: the shot, but that's a really good look after an
Speaker 1: interesting little action. Then lastly we're gonna go to a
Speaker 1: different game. Actually this was a play from Oklahoma City,
Speaker 1: San Antonio. I didn't cover this game because there's too
Speaker 1: many players out for both teams, and just in preseason,
Speaker 1: there's so many games to cover, I want to make
Speaker 1: sure I hit ones where everyone's playing. But we get
Speaker 1: this really interesting like double drag dribble handoff with Hartenstein
Speaker 1: as the hub and I talked a lot about this
Speaker 1: in my in my Hertenstein signing reaction. But Hartenstein, I'm
Speaker 1: really fascinated with him operating as a passing folk rum
Speaker 1: out here at the top of the key. But Kazan
Speaker 1: Wallace and Alex Kruzer are gonna set a double wide
Speaker 1: pin down for Chet Holmgren. As Chet's gonna come off,
Speaker 1: it's gonna turn into a switch. But the main key
Speaker 1: here is as the switch occurs, Harrison Barnes is the
Speaker 1: guy that ends up having to grab Hartenstein and then
Speaker 1: Sohan switches out onto Chet. As Sohan switches out aggressively,
Speaker 1: Chet beats him off the dribble, but look at Hartenstein.
Speaker 1: The interior seal on Harrison Barnes creates the angle for
Speaker 1: Chet to get to the basket and dunk. Again. Watch
Speaker 1: Hartenstein right after the pass. He doesn't dilly dally, he
Speaker 1: doesn't sit at the top of the key. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: play this in full speed. Watch how quickly Hartenstein gets
Speaker 1: down from the DHL in here for the seal. See that.
Speaker 1: That's some really impressive two man game from Hartenstein and
Speaker 1: Chet Holmer. We will definitely get a good breakdown of
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City and as soon as they get their starters
Speaker 1: out there, I'm really excited to see those guys. All right,
Speaker 1: That is all I have for today. As always, as
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