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Speaker 1: five feet from the rim, who's walking into a twenty

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Speaker 1: three footer and knocking it down easily uncontested. But even

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Speaker 1: beyond that, it's the picking and popping, and like last night,

431
00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,720
Speaker 1: he just had that jump shot going and time and

432
00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:04,320
Speaker 1: time again punished Embiid for helping elsewhere on the floor,

433
00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,840
Speaker 1: and that ended up being, you know, one of the

434
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Speaker 1: many ways that they gave the Philly defense issues in

435
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Speaker 1: this particular game. And then you know Jason Tatum. It's

436
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Speaker 1: kind of the combination of Al Horford and Tatum. Tatum's

437
00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,520
Speaker 1: always given embead issues because you know, we remember in

438
00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:20,479
Speaker 1: Game seven last year was a similar type of thing

439
00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:25,080
Speaker 1: where Tatum just absolutely cooked the Sixers in pick and

440
00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:28,080
Speaker 1: roll by basically beating Embiad in a deep drop then

441
00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:31,280
Speaker 1: eventually forcing switches and hitting jumpers in his face, and like,

442
00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:33,800
Speaker 1: you know, they didn't quite get to the scoring on

443
00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,480
Speaker 1: him in iso element in this particular game, just because

444
00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:39,840
Speaker 1: Philly never really went to hard switches against him against Tatum,

445
00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,159
Speaker 1: but we've seen him do that as well, and this

446
00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,560
Speaker 1: particular matchup is just that this team is just good

447
00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:50,200
Speaker 1: at getting Embiid into precarious defensive positions and getting easy baskets.

448
00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:52,800
Speaker 1: You know, we had a mailback question the other day

449
00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,320
Speaker 1: talking about the Celtics in their depth surrounding, you know,

450
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Speaker 1: whether or not the bench was good enough, And one

451
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Speaker 1: of the things I said is like, when you have

452
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Speaker 1: six high level star ars in the lineup, like you know,

453
00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:05,080
Speaker 1: you can always just stagger different things and fine lineups

454
00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,200
Speaker 1: that work. And I thought this was an interesting example

455
00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:11,159
Speaker 1: of how the talent of this team does create, you know,

456
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Speaker 1: successful opportunities for their role players. Like Chris hops porzingis

457
00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:17,920
Speaker 1: is out, you're just sliding in another starting NBA center

458
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Speaker 1: into that spot, right, Jalen Brown is out, You're bringing

459
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Speaker 1: Sam Hauser in there. But whether it's Piemakailou, whether it's

460
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Speaker 1: Peyton Pritchard, Like, these are good basketball players, and they're

461
00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,520
Speaker 1: not playing in a role that they can't achieve. They're

462
00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,719
Speaker 1: not being asked to do things that they're incapable of doing. Right, Like,

463
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Speaker 1: it's not like you're saying, hey, Sam Houser, go guard

464
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Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxi. No, they have Jrew Holliday still healthy and

465
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Speaker 1: ready to play, Derek White still healthy and ready to play,

466
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Speaker 1: Jason Tatum still healthy and ready to play. Those are

467
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Speaker 1: three outstanding perimeter defenders. So you're not asking them to

468
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,000
Speaker 1: guard anybody that they can't guard. You're not asking them

469
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Speaker 1: to consistently create shots against a set defense. You're asking

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Speaker 1: them to play classic role player basketball, drive and kick

471
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Speaker 1: when you have an opportunity, knock down open three, when

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Speaker 1: you have an opportunity, do your job and help and

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00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,439
Speaker 1: recover situations or on your lanes and transition. If you

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Speaker 1: can do that, you can succeed. And again, these are

475
00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 1: good players. You know. Howser has been like absolutely, he's

476
00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:14,040
Speaker 1: been an absolute flamethrower as of late, knocking down his

477
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Speaker 1: three point shot. Peyton Pritchard's been in a little bit

478
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Speaker 1: of slump, but he made a couple shots in this game.

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00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,480
Speaker 1: You know, Saphem Kailou. I thought kind of got caught

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Speaker 1: up in that wave of Celtics three point shooting and

481
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:25,760
Speaker 1: made a couple big ones himself, like, these are good

482
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Speaker 1: basketball players, and they're going to be able to step

483
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Speaker 1: in and succeed when they're surrounded by great basketball players.

484
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Speaker 1: Even when that's the advantage of having six great basketball

485
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Speaker 1: players is you just have the ability to build a

486
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Speaker 1: functional basketball team night in and night out, regardless. The

487
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Speaker 1: one thing that worries me again with this team is

488
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Speaker 1: just overall center depth. If Porzingis and Horford go down,

489
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if that's something they can handle. Jayson

490
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Speaker 1: Tatum's backdown game, So I thought this was an interesting example.

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Speaker 1: There's a huge play at the end of this game

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Speaker 1: where I think it was one of five one hundred

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Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, and Jason Tatum posted up to

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Speaker 1: Anthony Meltin and humpaked on a right shoulder fade got

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Speaker 1: d Anthony Milton to leave his shoes essentially, and then

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Speaker 1: he drew the foul, went to the free throw line

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Speaker 1: and made both. And again there's like a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a chess match that sets that up right, Like

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Speaker 1: and Tatum in general, has been using the back down

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Speaker 1: game a lot more. He's still up over four post

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00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 1: ups a game, which is more than double than he

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Speaker 1: did last year. And like, there's an early possession of

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Speaker 1: this game where he posted up Tobias Harris and backed

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Speaker 1: him down and made a right shoulder fade, which, by

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Speaker 1: the way, Tobias Harris is like two hundred and thirty

506
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Speaker 1: pounds and Tatum just like backed him down easy in

507
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Speaker 1: to get to a spot close to the basket so

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Speaker 1: he could make that little right shoulder fade. Then he

509
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 1: actually missed a right shoulder fade against Anthony Melton, like

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Speaker 1: two possessions before the one where he drew the foul.

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Speaker 1: And what was interesting about it is like he backed

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Speaker 1: him down, got a really good look, but he missed it.

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Speaker 1: And then he used that and d Anthony Melton contesting

514
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Speaker 1: that shot to bait him and took the exact same shot,

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Speaker 1: this time from the opposite block, and Anthony Melton left

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Speaker 1: his shoes and that's how he was able to draw

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Speaker 1: the foul. And like, those are like little things that

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Speaker 1: he'll get even better at over the course of the

519
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Speaker 1: season as he leans into this post up attack even further.

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Speaker 1: And then Lastly, I wanted to shout out Drew Holliday.

521
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Speaker 1: He dominated this game early on, Like the Celtics went

522
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Speaker 1: up thirty nine to twenty two, and then the Sixers

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Speaker 1: went on this crazy run to get it back up.

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Speaker 1: I think they went up by five in the early

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Speaker 1: second quarter or third quarter, and then the Celtics just

526
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 1: basically took over the game again from there. But he

527
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 1: dominated the game earlier. Is attacking matchups in the post.

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00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 1: He can attack the smaller Sixers guards. He was getting

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Speaker 1: a lot of deflections and forcing turnovers. The Sixers in

530
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 1: general were a little accadaisical and he was capitalizing on that.

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Speaker 1: On the Sixers front, they're just not playing very good

532
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Speaker 1: basketball at the moment, particularly on the defensive end of

533
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Speaker 1: the floor. They've now lost two in a row. But

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00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,000
Speaker 1: their defensive issues actually started in the first Indiana game,

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Speaker 1: and we talked about this yesterday, but it's a I

536
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Speaker 1: think it comes down to two particular things. One is

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Speaker 1: the defensive limitations of Embiid when he's going against really

538
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,560
Speaker 1: good pick and roll shot creators that are also surrounded

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Speaker 1: by spacing. And now again in one thing, I'll say

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Speaker 1: in Embid's defense, that's the hardest thing to guard, right,

541
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Speaker 1: Like the hardest thing to guard in the NBA is

542
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Speaker 1: like a really good pick and roll shot creator surrounded

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Speaker 1: by lots of offensive skill that can make you pay

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Speaker 1: for sending help right. So like again, it's not easy.

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Speaker 1: But that's the difference between the guys at the very

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Speaker 1: top of the league and wherever Embiid is, which is,

547
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Speaker 1: you know, in my opinion, a second third, you know,

548
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Speaker 1: somewhere else in one of the lower tiers of the

549
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Speaker 1: good defensive players in the league. And Bead's a good

550
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,239
Speaker 1: defensive player, but he's not in the same tier as

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Speaker 1: the top guys in large part because once you actually

552
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Speaker 1: start to space him out, you can actually kind of

553
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 1: slice and dice the Sixers in a lot of ways.

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Speaker 1: And we talked about how Tyrese Haliburton in his pull

555
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 1: up three point shooting was kind of causing problems pulling

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Speaker 1: Embid up to the level of the screen, and then

557
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: they were picking apart the low man by cutting on

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Speaker 1: the back door with Obi toppin right in this particular game,

559
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Speaker 1: it's the same type of thing, like Embiid wants to

560
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 1: drop back but he can't against Tatum in particular, but

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00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,679
Speaker 1: also against Derek White like you can't, and then you

562
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,399
Speaker 1: know on the when he's sitting, when he comes up

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00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,360
Speaker 1: to the level, then they start to have issues in rotation.

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00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 1: And again, the Sixers to start the year were excellent

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Speaker 1: defensively at the point of attack and in rotation, but

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Speaker 1: in the last three games in particular, they're just not

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Speaker 1: doing a very good job. I put a bunch of

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Speaker 1: clips in that thread demonstrating examples where the Sixers just

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00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 1: weren't communicating in rotation. Like there'll be a play where

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Speaker 1: like Tobias Harris is guarding a shooter in the right

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Speaker 1: on the right wing, or on he's facing the right,

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Speaker 1: so I guess the left wing if you're the offensive player,

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Speaker 1: And like Tyree Smacksy's you know, coming out of a

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Speaker 1: hedge and recover situation, and he's just sprinting to a

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Speaker 1: guy who's already covered, which then causes another panic rotation

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Speaker 1: from another guy, which leaves another dude open, and like

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Speaker 1: kind of the exact opposite of the thing I was

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00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 1: talking about with the Phoenix Suns, where just guys aren't

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Speaker 1: on a string, which is like, again, you make up

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Speaker 1: for that by communicating and then establishing habitual rotations to

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Speaker 1: the point where, like you everyone is just so locked

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Speaker 1: in and everyone is so you know, communicating, and everyone's

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00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 1: so you know, bought in from an effort standpoint, that

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00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,479
Speaker 1: the rotations become effective and you can start to recover

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Speaker 1: out of situations like that. But right now they're just

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Speaker 1: not playing very good help and recover defense. And then lastly,

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00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: the unnecessary over aggressiveness. Like you know, it's one thing

588
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,919
Speaker 1: to offer a little bit of a high show to

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00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 1: make a to make a pull up jump shot harder,

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00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:17,479
Speaker 1: but they they'll outright double team guys for no reason.

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00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,120
Speaker 1: Like there was a late possession in this game where

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00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 1: they straight up double team Derek White in a ball

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00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: screen up in the right wing, and it's like, yeah, like,

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Speaker 1: do you want to let him walk into an easy

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00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: pull up jump shot with no contest? No, But like

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00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 1: at the same time, I don't think you need a

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00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: blitz him and get the ball out of his hands.

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00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 1: And I can't remember exactly what happened on the on

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00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: the Derek White blitz play, but they ended up getting

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Speaker 1: an easy shot out of it. I think it ended

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00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,639
Speaker 1: up being Sam Hauser cut to the basket, which pulled

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Speaker 1: Embiid in which then was the skip pass to al

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00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 1: Horford and he made the shot, and yeah, that was

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00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: the play because everyone after the game was like out

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00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 1: because Alivard blew a kiss at Joel embiand when he

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00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: made the shot, and it's like, it's not in Bead's fault.

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00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: I mean, it's Nick Nurse's fault because he sent a

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00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 1: double team at Derek White and as a result, Sam

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00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:58,120
Speaker 1: Hauser was wide open on the cut and al Horford,

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Speaker 1: you know, ended up getting wide open because had to

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00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: leave him right. But like, there was another play where

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00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverly and Marcus Morris just randomly double teamed. I

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Speaker 1: don't even remember who it was some I think it

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00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: was like Drew Holiday or somebody in the left corner

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00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: in a transition possession. It was like swing, swing, wide

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00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: open shot, and you're like, why are you double team?

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00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:17,639
Speaker 1: Why are you double teaming Gham right there? Like it

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00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: just doesn't make any sense. But now, for those of

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Speaker 1: you guys who remember my coverage of the Raptors over

620
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, that's kind of Nick Nurse's thing.

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Speaker 1: He's a super super aggressive defensive coach. And now, in

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Speaker 1: my opinion, there's a time and a place for that.

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Speaker 1: But if you are going to do that all the time,

624
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:33,640
Speaker 1: you need to rotate well out of it. And right

625
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: now the Sixers just aren't. That's going to exacerbate that

626
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: situation every single time. They have a one twenty five

627
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: defensive rating in their last three games. Not not good. Now,

628
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: big picture, what does that mean? Sometimes teams just play

629
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Speaker 1: bad basketball. That's what I said about the Lakers earlier

630
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: in the season. They're still playing bad basketball. But like again,

631
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes team play teams play bad basketball. These

632
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: are a lot of these are the same groups of

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Speaker 1: guys that were defending at a higher level to start

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Speaker 1: this season. Is there a certain ceiling to what the

635
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: Sixers are capable of? Sure, but none of us are

636
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: picking the Sixers to win the Eastern Conference right so, like,

637
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: at least not unless they make some sort of massive trade.

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00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: So again, like within the context of the regular season,

639
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 1: they're fine, They're just playing bad basketball right now. The

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Speaker 1: other thing I noticed in this game, and some of

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Speaker 1: it is just personnel related, but the Celtics had a

642
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 1: lot of success doubling and recovering out from Joel and

643
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 1: beat similar type of thing that we were talking about

644
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: in terms of being on a string and rotating out

645
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: of it. But the Sixers are a pretty easy team

646
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: to rotate against because they don't have a lot of

647
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: ball handling outside of their starters. So like Tobas Harris, Tyris,

648
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 1: Maxy Joel and b d Anthony Melton, those are all

649
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 1: really versatile offensive players that can dribble, shoot and pass,

650
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 1: and that kind of makes it so they can play

651
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: drive and kick basketball. But the rest of the roster

652
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: are all guys that are not great at that, Like

653
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 1: Robert Covington, who had a good game in this game.

654
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: He's a good offensive rebounder of cutting to the basket. Well,

655
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: Marcus Morris, you know, at one point in time was

656
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:54,719
Speaker 1: a guy who could do this pretty well, but right

657
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: now he's a lot older and a lot slower. Paul

658
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: Reid definitely not a high level dribble shoot pass guy.

659
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverlely like a legit ball stopper, Like he's incapable

660
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: of doing anything after he catches the basketball until after

661
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: he's pump faked and done a jab step Like it's

662
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 1: like I just remember that from when I covered him

663
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: with the Lakers. It's like catching the corner pump fake

664
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: jab step and then maybe he'll do something right. And

665
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: then Jaden Springer was really exciting young point of attack defender,

666
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 1: had some good possessions on Jason Tatum, ripped him clean,

667
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: took him to the basket. Was a victim of a

668
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 1: bullshit call on Derek White late in the game where

669
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 1: he just slid his feet to contact in the chest

670
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: and got called for a foul. But again, not a

671
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: guy who's out top tier, you know, dribble shoot pass guy.

672
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: So one of the things that'll happen is like when

673
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: they get out away from their starters. Like there was

674
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 1: a lineup in the third quarter that was like I

675
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: want to say it was Joel Embiid with Robert Covington,

676
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: Marcus Morris, Patrick Beverley, and I can't remember who the

677
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: fifth guy was, but like they were able to rotate

678
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: out of those kickout passes because it like there was

679
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: a skip pass to Patrick Beverly who like couldn't do

680
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 1: something quickly with it ended up in Marcus Morris's hands

681
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 1: on the on the left wing, and he's slow to

682
00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 1: make a decision and like there's too many balls stop.

683
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: That's gonna make it really hard to beat double teams.

684
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: And this is a big part of the reason why

685
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: I want the Sixers, who eventually make some sort of

686
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: all in trade, to bring in another high level offensive player,

687
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 1: because just one more guy, especially with cali Ubre eventually

688
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: coming back from his injuries, one more guy like that,

689
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: that's the guy who could dribble, shoot in pass, is

690
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: gonna go a long way towards making it harder for

691
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 1: teams to throw the kitchen sink at Joel Embiid. All Right,

692
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 1: moving on to Nix Hawks, The Knicks are a brute

693
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: force basketball team. This concept I've talked about a lot.

694
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: And you know, they're a very good defensive team. They're

695
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: a very good rebounding team. They're not a team that's

696
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,479
Speaker 1: gonna run super fluid offense and do a lot of

697
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: play a lot of pretty offensive basketball. But they do

698
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: have some good shot creators, and when those shot creators

699
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: are making shots, they can be tough to beat. Again,

700
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: like the the Jalen Brunson and Julius Randall, them and

701
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: them just playing at the and it's not even they

702
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: don't even need to be amazing. They need to be

703
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: like if they can just be around that twenty five

704
00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 1: points per game around fifty seven percent true shooting. Like,

705
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: as long as both of them are kind of consistently

706
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 1: in that window, they're a really hard team to beat,

707
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,959
Speaker 1: especially with how well RJ. Barrett has been playing of late,

708
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: and as how well Emmanuel Quickly's been playing as of late, right,

709
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 1: And like you know, last night against the Hawks was

710
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: a great example of what this team looks like against

711
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: a good team on the road, because I think the

712
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: Hawks are good against a good team on the road

713
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: when you have both of those guys cooking, like Julius

714
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: Randall got the game started early and was making his

715
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: little turnaround fade away and his little short mid range

716
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: jump shot. There was like a stretch in the third

717
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: quarter where the Knicks one on a run just because

718
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: Julius Randall and Jalen Brunson made three consecutive contested threes

719
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: while they were getting stops at the other end. And

720
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: next thing you look up and the Knicks are up

721
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: by nine or whatever they were up at that point, right,

722
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: And then at the end of the game, same thing,

723
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: it's Julius Randall hitting a tough contested three over over

724
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: Bogdan mcdonovitch. Right, it's Jalen Brunson hitting two massive threes,

725
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 1: one on an offensive rebound for Mitchell Robinson, another one

726
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: on a relocation off of a Julius Randall post up

727
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 1: where he kind of caught DeAndre Hunter not looking and

728
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: relocated to the corner, made the shot, and then you know, uh,

729
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: this game stayed close late because Trey Young got a

730
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: bunch of really officiating in the NBA is in a

731
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 1: really bad spot in my opinion, And one of my

732
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: biggest pet peeves right now is the whole Like, let

733
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 1: me just you know, defenders right here, I'm right here,

734
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna dribble to the right, and then like

735
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 1: when he meets me at the spot, I'm just gonna

736
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: throw the ball up, and then it gets It's like

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00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: they're rewarding that every single time, even in crunch time.

738
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,959
Speaker 1: I think it's a huge problem in the NBA. And like,

739
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: if you want to be all weird and be like, oh,

740
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 1: it's technically by the book, you know, he wasn't in

741
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: legal guarding position. If it's in the book, that that's

742
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: a foul, the book needs to be changed. If it's

743
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: not in the book, then the refs need to change

744
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,479
Speaker 1: the way they're officiating because like, these players are doing

745
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: this because they're getting rewarded for it, and until you

746
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 1: stop rewarding them for it, they will not stop doing it.

747
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: And like it's ugly basketball, Like Jalen Brunson and he's

748
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson ended this game by knocking down a legitimate

749
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 1: pull up jump shot. But he's not off the hook either,

750
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: because he does this a lot too. Trey Young's just

751
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: one of the worst in the league at it. And again,

752
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: I don't blame the players. I do not blame the players.

753
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: Everyone's like, oh, why don't you complain about it when

754
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves does it. I hate it when Austin Reeves

755
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: does it too. Like at the end of the day,

756
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: I don't blame any of the players. They are just

757
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 1: competitors taking advantage of a situation that benefits them in

758
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: the league. It'd be weird if they didn't do that

759
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 1: because you're trying to win basketball games and as of

760
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 1: right now, refs are giving them those calls, right. But

761
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: the flip side of that is, like, I think the

762
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: league would be in a better place overall if the

763
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: officials stopped rewarding those calls and we didn't see that anymore,

764
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: and we saw more of what Jalen Brunson did at

765
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: the end of the game. And that's kind of like

766
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: the juxtaposition. On one end of the floor, Trey Young

767
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: just drives in and throws up some bullshit and gets

768
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 1: two free throws for it, and on the other end

769
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: of the floor, Jalen Brunson against a drop coverage knocks

770
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: down a pull up jump shot. I would much rather

771
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: see that determine the outcome of games, makes or misses

772
00:34:56,680 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: on real basketball shots than foul drifty stuff. So I'm

773
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: off my soapbox, but like that, that that's definitely something

774
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: that's been bothering me as of late. But that that's

775
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 1: kind of the whole, the whole, you know, identity for

776
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 1: this Knicks team is they play ugly basketball on the

777
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: offensive end from time to time, but they've got guys

778
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 1: that can score in brute force ways, and as long

779
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: as their defense and rebounding can keep them close in games,

780
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 1: Julius Randall and Jalen Brunston have a chance to pull

781
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: them home. Right. Julius Randall twenty nine points in this game.

782
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,919
Speaker 1: He had a comments after a game a few weeks

783
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: back or like a week or so ago talking about

784
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: how like you know, hey, I had ankle surgery, Like

785
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: did you guys expect me to come into the season

786
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 1: and be ready to go? And we talked about that early, right,

787
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 1: Like Jalen Brunston and Julius Randall both came into the

788
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 1: season kind of out of shape. And Julius Randalls was

789
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: clearly as a result of the ankle injury that hampered

790
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: him towards the end of last season. And you can

791
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 1: see him starting to come in to form. Twenty nine

792
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 1: points on fifty percent shooting in this game. Another big

793
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: giveaway for Julius Randall he had two shots early in

794
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 1: the game. Or like one of the things that Julius

795
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: Randalla always will do. Just imagine him on the left

796
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 1: block dribbling with his right hand and then he wants

797
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,399
Speaker 1: to kind of lean into the middle of the floor

798
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 1: and rise up and shoot that left handed jumper and

799
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: a lot of times he's getting hit on this arm.

800
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 1: And you know, we talk a lot about lyft and

801
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: pull up jump shooting. Like a big sign for Julius Randall,

802
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 1: like having his conditioning and his legs underneath him is

803
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 1: when he can power up through contact with that left

804
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: arm and then rise up and knock down that left

805
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: handed jump shot right. He hit a couple of those

806
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,359
Speaker 1: in this game. Julius Randol's last five games twenty five points,

807
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: ten rebounds, and five assists on fifty six percent true shooting.

808
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 1: It's been making some big plays as well. I think

809
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 1: he had eight assists in one turnover in this game,

810
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: including a huge pass to to Jalen Brunson relocating in

811
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:38,240
Speaker 1: the corner in crunch time. He's starting to play good basketball,

812
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: and I'm really interested to see because Jallen Brunston had

813
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: twenty four as well. And one of the things that

814
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: Jaylen Brunston was doing at a high level in this

815
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: game was bringing two defenders to the ball, which then

816
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 1: allowed the Knicks to start their driving kick on the backside,

817
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: and specifically guys like Emmanuel Quickly. I mean Emanuel Quickly

818
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: can do some stuff on the ball and hit some

819
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 1: big shots on the ball in this game. But Emmanuel

820
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: Quickly and Josh Harden particular are both really good and

821
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 1: kick players, and so they do a nice job kind

822
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: of working in those four on threes after Jalen Brunson

823
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 1: brings two to the ball, but particularly I'm excited to

824
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 1: see this Knicks team for an extended stretch with a

825
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: healthy Brunson and Randall, because last year they didn't defend

826
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 1: at this level, and so if they're defending like this,

827
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 1: like their fifth in defense and defensive rating, they're number

828
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: one in the league and rebounding, like I'm really excited

829
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: to see that combined with the version of Randall and

830
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,399
Speaker 1: Brunson that we're seeing here in the last week or so.

831
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: And then also Emmanuel Quickly and r J. Barrett are

832
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 1: both playing pretty well. I guess r J. Barret's dealing

833
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: with the I think it's a migraine that has him

834
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 1: out right now. But I'm really I'm just interested to

835
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: see the Knicks at full strength and what they're capable

836
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 1: of the in general. Like this was another example of

837
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 1: one of those games of where you see the juxtaposition

838
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 1: of a team that's really locked in on the details

839
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 1: and a team that's not. Where I talk about the

840
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,959
Speaker 1: Hawks in a minute, but they are just another team

841
00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 1: that's so undisciplined on the defense end in terms of

842
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,919
Speaker 1: their in terms of their rotations, in terms of boxing out,

843
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: in terms of getting beat on back cuts, and all

844
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 1: these different things, and the Knicks are a team that

845
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 1: just has really good habits, Like you'll see just relentless

846
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: effort every single possession from these guys. There is a

847
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 1: play in the early fourth quarter and it's like shot

848
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: goes up. Anyaka Kongwu just looks up for the ball.

849
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: Isaiah Hartenstein crashes hard, gets an offensive rebound. Right like

850
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: shot goes up, Jalen Johnson just looks up at the ball.

851
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 1: Mitchell Robinson comes flying in and gets the offensive rebound.

852
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:35,439
Speaker 1: That was the one that led to the kickout three

853
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 1: to Jalen Brunson at the top of the key. That

854
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: was like huge momentum shot in the game. Right, There's

855
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 1: a huge play at the end of the game where

856
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 1: where Trey Young has Josh Hart in a box out

857
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 1: and then just stops boxing him out, and Josh Hart,

858
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 1: because it's habitual for him, just crashes after Trey Young

859
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 1: releases the box out gets the offensive rebound. Like they

860
00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 1: just they are so gritty and so tough, and it

861
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:03,839
Speaker 1: is their basketball character to outwork you and when you

862
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 1: come that just naturally creates a lot of margin for

863
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: error because like are Jalen Brunson and Julius Randall, R J.

864
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 1: Barrett Emmanuel quickly. Are they as good as shot creators

865
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: as the best players in the league. No, they're just not.

866
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 1: But they don't have to be. When they defend this well,

867
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: when they rebound this well, when they crash the offensive

868
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:24,879
Speaker 1: glass this well, when they run in transition this well.

869
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: They're doing a really good job this season scoring off

870
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:31,840
Speaker 1: of turnovers and quickly running out the other way for

871
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:35,240
Speaker 1: layups and dunks. They're just they're just a really fun

872
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: basketball team to watch. And again, like you got to remember,

873
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,400
Speaker 1: I root for the Lakers. That's the team that I

874
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:41,479
Speaker 1: root for, and like they're a miserable team to watch

875
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 1: because they just have the exact opposite of that basketball

876
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: character Like they do not have, you know, habits of

877
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: making extra efforts and being focused in and locked in

878
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: on the details. So a good win for the Knicks

879
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: on the road over a good Hawks team. I'm excited

880
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:58,959
Speaker 1: to see what they look like when they come into

881
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 1: full strength here soon. On the Hawks front, I really

882
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 1: like what I'm seeing from this team offensively, and that's

883
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 1: kind of the bummer with how bad they've been defensively.

884
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: The driving kick stuff is beautiful. Jalen Johnson has been

885
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 1: a revelation, and like, again, some of this is Quinn Snyder,

886
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: some of this is getting John Collins out of there.

887
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,359
Speaker 1: As good as John Collins is a good basketball player,

888
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: but he because he's essentially offensively a big, he was

889
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: one of the worst spot He was the worst spot

890
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 1: up player in the league among qualifying players last year.

891
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: I want to say it was like a minimum one

892
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 1: hundred spot up reps. He was like dead last in

893
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,959
Speaker 1: the NBA. And so, like, he doesn't dribble, shooting, pass

894
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 1: well enough to kind of be in a driving kick system,

895
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 1: and so they kind of had to run a classic

896
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,399
Speaker 1: two big like pick and roll system with the team

897
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: with the guy in the dunker spot, which, as we've

898
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: talked about with Cleveland so much like that can be

899
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: really easy to guard if you have a good rim

900
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: protector playing on that back line. Right. So, just in general,

901
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: like seeing them kind of go to four perimeter players

902
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 1: alongside Capella and playing real drive and kick basketball has

903
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: made them more dynamic offensively. There's a specif I want

904
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 1: you guys to see that's in my feed, that it

905
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 1: started with pick and roll and it was a kickout.

906
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: I want to say it was Sidik Bay in the

907
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: right corner and sidiq Bay like pump fakes and drives

908
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: middle and then Ki makes a kickout past to Jalen

909
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: Brunson on the left wing and he knocks down a three.

910
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 1: And it was a good example because it was like

911
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 1: after excuse me, after the the tray Young I believe

912
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 1: brought two to the ball. There was three passes after that,

913
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: and I clipped this play. It's in the thread that

914
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: you guys can find. But that's the thing that you

915
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:32,359
Speaker 1: need to do to beat elite defenses. Like we talked

916
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: about this concept a lot on the show. But like

917
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 1: when you play a bad defense in the playoffs, you

918
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 1: might be able to, you know, get away with coming

919
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 1: off a ball screen, making one pass, getting an open

920
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: shot a lot of the time. But against the really

921
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:45,919
Speaker 1: good defenses, they're set up for that and they're they're

922
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 1: pre rotating and they're getting into position to be able

923
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 1: to take away the advanced level reads. And like you

924
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:53,760
Speaker 1: have to really break down the defense by chipping away

925
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 1: at it. That means chipping away the first step is

926
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: like getting the defense in rotation and then from there

927
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 1: expanding the advantage to then finishing the play right, and

928
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:07,280
Speaker 1: like that's where having you know, two additional perimeter players

929
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: next to Trey Young and de Jontay Murray goes a

930
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: long way. Ironically, the one guy that's been kind of

931
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 1: a break in that chain is DeAndre Hunter. He kind

932
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 1: of reminds me of a lot of Ruby Hatcha Mura

933
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,319
Speaker 1: in the sense that he's like a deadly accurate mid

934
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: range pull up shooter, and when he's making that mid

935
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 1: range jump shot, it's good. But he's a ball stopper

936
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 1: and he's not looking to keep that chain moving and

937
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 1: he can actually break a lot of those driving kick

938
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: possessions down, whereas like sidiq Ba and Jalen Johnson are

939
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:32,359
Speaker 1: just naturals at it. And shout out to Dejontey Murray too,

940
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 1: like he's kind of a natural at it too, Like

941
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: he was a really bad off ball player last year,

942
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: but he's doing a much better job this season, just

943
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 1: kind of like taking advantage of the easy opportunities he

944
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 1: can get playing off of Trey Young, which is a

945
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:48,240
Speaker 1: natural thing that comes from continuity, And obviously Quinn Sneyder

946
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 1: has probably come in and implemented some of that stuff

947
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 1: as well. I wanted to shout out Jalen Johnson sixteen

948
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: for thirty two on catch and shoot jumpers this year.

949
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: That comes out to one point four to seven points

950
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,399
Speaker 1: per shot. That's outrageous. And then he's attacking closeouts really well.

951
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 1: I clipped a couple of them in this in the thread,

952
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 1: but there was one in the left corner where I

953
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: think it was against Julius Randall where he pump faked

954
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: and then spun off of him and got all the

955
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: way to the rim for a layout. There's another one

956
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,840
Speaker 1: in the second half or like pump fake rip floater

957
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 1: in the lane. That's a shot he can get every

958
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,799
Speaker 1: single time because of how big an athletic he is.

959
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: But he's converting spot up possessions at one point three

960
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:22,280
Speaker 1: to five points per possession right now, which is insane.

961
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,240
Speaker 1: Sadiq Bay fifty six percent on catch and shoot jumpers

962
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:27,359
Speaker 1: as well, that's really good. He had a nasty tip

963
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:31,360
Speaker 1: dunk at the end of this game as well. But

964
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:35,439
Speaker 1: the defensive discipline is just so bad. Like the late

965
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: game mistakes from Atlanta in this game were insane. They

966
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 1: were like DeAndre Hunter had two bad ones. There's one

967
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 1: where he's Julius Randall's working kind of in the middle

968
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,280
Speaker 1: of the floor in ISO, and Trey Young is pretend

969
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 1: I'm DeAndre Hunter and Trey Young is my man. He

970
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 1: was facing Randall like this with uh and it was Julius,

971
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 1: it was Jaylen Brunson was behind us who was So

972
00:43:56,760 --> 00:44:00,839
Speaker 1: he's guarding Jalen Brunson. He's in help kind like, he's

973
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: in position where he can help, but he's not really

974
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: doing anything on Julius Randall. And he's facing Randall like

975
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 1: this with Jalen Brunston behind him. So Jalen Brunson just

976
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 1: runs to the corner and then Julius Randall throws the

977
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:12,800
Speaker 1: pass and he gets a wide open three and he

978
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:14,799
Speaker 1: knocks it down his critical play in the game. And

979
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 1: then do you guys remember that big I think it

980
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: was a dunk, but that big cut from Julius Randall

981
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 1: at the end of the game where you got the

982
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: I think it was a dunk, but where Julius Randall

983
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: cut back door and got into the lane, that was

984
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hunter just not keeping an eye on his man

985
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:28,800
Speaker 1: and the ball and losing his man on a backcut

986
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 1: like that's just that's just not sharp. And then like

987
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:33,759
Speaker 1: Trey I'd mentioned the Trey Young box out, like he's

988
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: literally in a box out, He's got josh Hart pinned

989
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 1: behind him, and then just goes, let's go and just

990
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 1: kind of meanders into the lane to go get the basketball,

991
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 1: and josh Hart just then runs in and gets the

992
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:48,280
Speaker 1: offensive rebound. It was like one of the more bizarre

993
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 1: plays that I can remember seeing, And all of these

994
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:54,399
Speaker 1: ended up being critical baskets, like the Jalen Johnson missed

995
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: a box out on Mitchell Robinson led to a critical basket.

996
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: Like just the discipline and the ex cution of this

997
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:03,799
Speaker 1: team defensively is not there, which is disappointing because they

998
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 1: like they have the potential. We've seen Atlanta have long

999
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:10,880
Speaker 1: extended stretches for like a half or they look like

1000
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: an excellent defensive team. So it's there. I've seen Trey

1001
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 1: Young give this type of effort even within this season,

1002
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 1: so like it's there, the personnel is there. It's just

1003
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 1: a focus in a discipline thing. And again, like I said,

1004
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:28,879
Speaker 1: it's early to kind of like characterize them as that

1005
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 1: for the big picture, but at this point, you know,

1006
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 1: we're a decent chunk end of the season and they

1007
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: haven't shown any real commitment to trying to get better

1008
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,439
Speaker 1: on the defensive end of the floor. All right, let's

1009
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:40,959
Speaker 1: head to the mailbag, Jason, why are you so high

1010
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,719
Speaker 1: on Austin Reeves after one great playoff run. Don't get

1011
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 1: me wrong, he projects to be a great number three

1012
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:47,360
Speaker 1: or even number two in the future. But if the

1013
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 1: Lakers never made the Western Conference finals, we would have

1014
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: never found out early enough how great he can be offensively.

1015
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: And just like Jordan Poole, he had one great playoff run,

1016
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,759
Speaker 1: then you predicted he would struggle the following season like

1017
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:00,440
Speaker 1: every young player would. But you see to still be

1018
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 1: very high on Austin right now after only one great

1019
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:05,839
Speaker 1: playoff run in his resume. Same case with Michael Porter

1020
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: junior in Denver. Really good question. I think it's a

1021
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:11,240
Speaker 1: little bit different on a couple of different levels. One,

1022
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: Austin is a year older than Jordan, and we are

1023
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 1: now a year further into the future. Like if the

1024
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: Lakers play in the NBA Finals this year, Austin will

1025
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 1: be twenty six years old, which is not that's we're

1026
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 1: no longer in young guard territory there, Like when Jordan

1027
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: Poole was struggling last year, he was twenty three years old.

1028
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:30,320
Speaker 1: It's a little bit more of that in a different

1029
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: kind of timeframe, right Michael Porter Junior, for instance, like

1030
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:35,919
Speaker 1: he was the one player below the age of twenty five,

1031
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 1: or I think he was either twenty five younger below

1032
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:40,359
Speaker 1: the age twenty five, can't remember in the finals last year.

1033
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 1: So like, again, he's a little bit older. That's that's

1034
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 1: a totally fair point. And I'll be really curious to

1035
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:48,839
Speaker 1: see if that theory stays true, because if Austin does

1036
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 1: really struggle in this year's playoffs, that would be an

1037
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,879
Speaker 1: indicator of that. But hopefully what will push Austin over

1038
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 1: the edge there is him being a little bit older

1039
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 1: than Jordan Poole was in last year's playoff run, about

1040
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:03,240
Speaker 1: two years older than Jordan Poole was in last year's

1041
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 1: playoff run. That said is his slump this year has

1042
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: been weird, and he's had really good moments this year.

1043
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: He's been excellent in crunch time in particular, and he's

1044
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: there was like a three game stretch earlier where he

1045
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:17,239
Speaker 1: was scoring with good volume and efficiency. But he's had

1046
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 1: a lot of bad games this year and he was

1047
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,279
Speaker 1: bad again against the Kings last night and you know again,

1048
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say the same thing that I say, you

1049
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: know about teams, right, I said the same thing about

1050
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 1: the Sixers earlier, Like, sometimes good basketball players play bad basketball.

1051
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:34,240
Speaker 1: Sometimes good basketball teams play bad basketball, right, And that's

1052
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 1: kind of the way I look at it, Like, Austin

1053
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:38,879
Speaker 1: Reeves had eight twenty point games in the playoffs last year,

1054
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 1: so we shouldn't overreact to eight bad regular season games.

1055
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 1: And while I think that's a really good point as

1056
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: it pertains to the playoffs, and I'll be really curious

1057
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: to see if Austin succeeds in this year's playoff run.

1058
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:52,839
Speaker 1: Within the scope of this regular season, I expect him

1059
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 1: to get it together and start playing better. I saw

1060
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 1: people saying things like, oh, he's higher on the scouting report.

1061
00:47:58,280 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 1: No he's not. He's in the exact same spot on

1062
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:02,880
Speaker 1: the scout report he was last year when he was succeeding, right, Like,

1063
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:06,799
Speaker 1: like he's playing he was seeing similar defensive coverages that

1064
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 1: he did last year. There's been a reorientation of the offense.

1065
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 1: He's not getting his touches in the same way that

1066
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:13,879
Speaker 1: he used to. D'Angelo russells off to a pretty good

1067
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 1: start this season offensively, at least with exception of his

1068
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 1: three point shooting, which he broke out of that slump

1069
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: last earlier this week. But like so his touches are

1070
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:24,319
Speaker 1: a little different, and I think that's a part of it.

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00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:27,880
Speaker 1: I think his I think he's a little bit worn

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00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 1: down in general as well. But like, I'm not off

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00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,280
Speaker 1: of the Austin Reeves train, because, like he was awesome

1074
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: after the Rush trade last year, he was awesome in

1075
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 1: the playoffs, he was awesome in Foeba, he was awesome

1076
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,360
Speaker 1: in training camp, and then he just started to struggle

1077
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:42,479
Speaker 1: when we got into the regular season. So like again,

1078
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 1: it's too small of a sample size to overreact to.

1079
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 1: In the big picture, what draws me to Austin Reeves

1080
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 1: is I think he plays really well with other stars,

1081
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: and I think that kind of uniquely is a thing

1082
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:57,000
Speaker 1: that separates him from Jordan Poole as well. Like Jordan

1083
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:00,399
Speaker 1: Pool is very much like a you know, he needs

1084
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 1: to cook, he needs to kind of run the show,

1085
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 1: whereas like Austin, it's like if you give him a

1086
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 1: ton of space and touches, he can do that. But

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00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: at the same time, he's an excellent player within a

1088
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 1: five man system where he's playing off the ball. He's

1089
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 1: a great spot up shooter. Hasn't shot the ball well

1090
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 1: this year, but he shot the ball amazingly well all

1091
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: year last year and in the playoffs it's like forty

1092
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:19,400
Speaker 1: four percent from three in the playoffs. He's just not

1093
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: shooting the ball well this year, but he could shoot

1094
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:23,399
Speaker 1: the ball well. He can attack close outs well, he's

1095
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 1: a good passer, like he just he's a connective piece

1096
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: in that sense. But another big piece with Austin that's

1097
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: kind of holding him back right now is he's not

1098
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 1: defending or rebounding well. And and like that's a problem

1099
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 1: because last year he was a I wouldn't say he

1100
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:39,400
Speaker 1: was a good defender, but he was a plus defender.

1101
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 1: Like he wasn't the guy. He was a slightly above

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00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: average defender that was not hurting you on that end

1103
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: of the floor and made some big plays defensively for

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00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 1: the Lakers last year. So like that piece is the

1105
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 1: more concerning piece to me, Like the offensive piece, like

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00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 1: Austin's gonna be fine, he's gonna figure it out. The

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00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:55,760
Speaker 1: again new system is going to disrupt a lot of people,

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00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 1: But the defensive end and him just kind of being

1109
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:02,879
Speaker 1: a little bit more offering less resistance there it has been.

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00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:04,319
Speaker 1: And then I don't think he's been a very good

1111
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,920
Speaker 1: in box out situations either. That's the more concerning thing.

1112
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 1: But again, that to me is just you know, I

1113
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: don't I don't know if it's conditioning or if it's

1114
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: an effort thing. But I'm not worried about him eventually

1115
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:15,880
Speaker 1: figuring that stuff out. But really good point about the

1116
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:19,439
Speaker 1: about the Jordan Pool comp and again there's a little

1117
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 1: bit of a difference there, but I am curious to

1118
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: see what ends up being the result when we get

1119
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 1: into this year's playoffs. But in the big picture, like

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00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 1: as far as the Lakers go, the I think the

1121
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 1: same thing that I've I've always said in the sense

1122
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 1: that like it's the same guys, right, it's it's d Lo,

1123
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 1: it's Austin, it's it's Ruey, it's Lebron, it's a d

1124
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: Like they're good there, do you know? I saw I

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00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:42,319
Speaker 1: saw somebody say in the comments a few weeks back

1126
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 1: there like they're like, oh, you're you overrate the post

1127
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 1: deadline uh run last year because they were playing a

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00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:51,440
Speaker 1: week schedule and they were playing desperate to win every

1129
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 1: single game. Some of those teams are trying to lose,

1130
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 1: that's true, but they also beat the two seed and

1131
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:57,719
Speaker 1: beat the defending champions in a playoff series. So like,

1132
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:00,880
Speaker 1: there's no such thing as a bad team that beats

1133
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:02,799
Speaker 1: the two seed without home court advantage and then beats

1134
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,759
Speaker 1: the defending champs without home court advantage. So like, I'm

1135
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:07,839
Speaker 1: just not gonna entertain the Lakers are bad thing because

1136
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 1: that just literally doesn't make any sense. It lies in

1137
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:12,400
Speaker 1: the face of everything we know about the game of basketball.

1138
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:14,839
Speaker 1: You don't beat good teams four times out of seven

1139
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,400
Speaker 1: unless you are a better team. Like, that's just how

1140
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:19,880
Speaker 1: it works. So like, am I concerned about the Lakers

1141
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 1: in the big picture? No. I said before the year

1142
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 1: they needed to make a trade. They haven't made that

1143
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:25,120
Speaker 1: trade yet. They're not gonna be able to until at

1144
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 1: least January fifteenth, right, I think it's January fifteenth, and

1145
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:31,839
Speaker 1: at that point we can more appropriately value evaluate what

1146
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 1: the Lakers ceiling is. But for right now, they're playing

1147
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:38,359
Speaker 1: bad basketball, and Anthony Davis is playing bad basketball, and

1148
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 1: Ausin Reeves is playing bad basketball. And until those guys

1149
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:44,399
Speaker 1: get it together and Jared Vanderbilt comes back, I don't

1150
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 1: think this team's gonna be as good as they're capable

1151
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: of being in the regular season. Right now, here's the upside,

1152
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: last little kind of silver lining. What did I say

1153
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: before the season? I said, I still think the Lakers

1154
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:57,399
Speaker 1: will win a lot of regular season games. And that's

1155
00:51:57,440 --> 00:51:59,359
Speaker 1: the exciting part, because I think they're five hundred right

1156
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 1: right now, right like, they're six and six. So they're

1157
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:05,879
Speaker 1: sitting at six and six despite playing one good basketball game.

1158
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:09,360
Speaker 1: They played one good basketball game against a terrible Memphis

1159
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:12,440
Speaker 1: Grizzlies team. Outside of that, even their wins have been ugly.

1160
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 1: It's been like they play like shit for three quarters

1161
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 1: and then they lock in for twelve minutes and they

1162
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: get a win. So like they're playing like shit and

1163
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:21,880
Speaker 1: they're six and six. So like that to me is

1164
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 1: a strong indicator of this team being a healthy, above

1165
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: five hundred team in the big picture, because they will

1166
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 1: have stretches where they play better basketball, they'll get healthy,

1167
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:32,400
Speaker 1: they'll play really good basketball, they'll get into stretches of

1168
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 1: their schedule to have some easier opponents. Like that, to me,

1169
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 1: is a strong indicator of them being a good regular

1170
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:39,239
Speaker 1: season team. But my opinion about the Lakers remains the

1171
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:42,239
Speaker 1: same as it pertains to the playoff ceiling depends what

1172
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 1: they get back for D'Angelo Russell, and if they go

1173
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: back with d' angelo Russell, they're gonna lose the Denver

1174
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:50,759
Speaker 1: or potentially somebody earlier because they're not athletic enough, particularly

1175
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 1: at the point of attack, to be able to beat

1176
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 1: the really, really, really good teams in the NBA. All right,

1177
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:58,399
Speaker 1: next question. Honestly, as a Warriors fan, I don't care

1178
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:01,760
Speaker 1: about the Curry injury or Green injection or Clay slow start.

1179
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:04,920
Speaker 1: That his business as usual for me. What's new for me, however,

1180
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: is Pazziemski's performance, and now he completely changes the energy

1181
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: on the floor. He reminds me a lot of early

1182
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 1: rookies Steph and Draymond years before KD Era, where they

1183
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: were intimidating and how their energy was contagious. And I

1184
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,399
Speaker 1: really wish to see more of that beautiful basketball, even

1185
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 1: if they lose all of the remaining eighty two games.

1186
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,800
Speaker 1: So this technically not even a mailback question, but I

1187
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:25,839
Speaker 1: thought this was a good opportunity for us to talk

1188
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 1: about Pazzemski because he had a you know, one of

1189
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 1: the silver linings of that shit show against Minnesota was

1190
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 1: he looked great and you know, specific there was a

1191
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:35,400
Speaker 1: couple of things that really stood out to me in

1192
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 1: that game. One very good rebounder and this is something

1193
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 1: we saw from him coming out of college. I think

1194
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 1: he averaged eight rebounds a game his last year in college.

1195
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 1: But specifically, he's he's actually a pretty big and strong

1196
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 1: player and he plays hard and when you combine those

1197
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 1: two things, that helps a lot. I mean, you don't

1198
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 1: have to be a top tier athlete to have success

1199
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 1: in that environment, like we've literally seen, you know, we've

1200
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:57,440
Speaker 1: seen Josh Hart for instance, as like a similar type

1201
00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:00,040
Speaker 1: of physique that has had a lot of success doing

1202
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:02,240
Speaker 1: the dirty work, right. We knew coming into the season

1203
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 1: that he would have a lot of success in the

1204
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 1: Warriors system, and we saw that right. Like we saw

1205
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 1: him hit pull up threes in ball screens when a

1206
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:10,640
Speaker 1: defender dies on a pick. We saw him get downhill

1207
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 1: off of a dribble handoff and knock down a floater.

1208
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:15,320
Speaker 1: We saw him attacking closeouts and those sorts of things.

1209
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 1: But what was really exciting was the rescue possessions. He

1210
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:20,799
Speaker 1: had a couple of really nice tough shots that he

1211
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:22,759
Speaker 1: hit off the dribble against a set defense and his

1212
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:27,240
Speaker 1: set defender, and I think that's a strong indicator of

1213
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:31,600
Speaker 1: of Like, you know, one of the things that Steve

1214
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:33,440
Speaker 1: Kerr said in his postgame presser is he called him

1215
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 1: like a connector. And to me, being a connector is

1216
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 1: being good at multiple things. Cause like if you're only

1217
00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:41,680
Speaker 1: good at one thing and that thing fails you, then

1218
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 1: you struggle to impact winning in other ways. But that's

1219
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:46,479
Speaker 1: what's nice with Patzemski. Is he gonna average twenty points

1220
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:48,279
Speaker 1: a game, of course not, But Kerse said he is

1221
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 1: going to be in the rotation a lot. And so

1222
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 1: if he competes as hard as he can defensively, and

1223
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:55,479
Speaker 1: he competes on the glass the way that he did,

1224
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:58,280
Speaker 1: and he attacks closeouts and does the stuff in the system,

1225
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:00,920
Speaker 1: then even when he's missing his tougher, he'll still be

1226
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 1: a connective piece that helps the team win, right, And Like,

1227
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:06,280
Speaker 1: I am really interested to see where the minutes come from,

1228
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:10,160
Speaker 1: because if Pizziemski gets more minutes, like who who who's

1229
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:12,360
Speaker 1: not gonna get minutes? It's that gonna be Is that

1230
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 1: gonna be less? Uh Moses Moody, who's already kind of

1231
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:18,359
Speaker 1: struggling to crack into the rotation, Like Corey Joseph got

1232
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: minutes the other day. That was weird, right, So, like,

1233
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure how the rotation is gonna work

1234
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 1: out at this point with Pizzemsky kind of getting into

1235
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 1: the rotation the way Steve Kerr said. But no matter what,

1236
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 1: that's exciting. I think in general, what you've gotten from

1237
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 1: Tracey Jackson Davis and Brandon pat Ziemski this year, combined

1238
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:37,360
Speaker 1: with Jonathan Kaminga and everything he can do as a

1239
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:39,320
Speaker 1: matchup attacker in the post and just as an athlete

1240
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 1: in his ability to get to the foul line, You're

1241
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:43,000
Speaker 1: seeing a lot of exciting stuff from the young guys.

1242
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 1: And so even if this does end up ending and

1243
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 1: turning into a rebuild at some point in the future,

1244
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:50,239
Speaker 1: there's a lot of exciting stuff in the current set

1245
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:54,560
Speaker 1: of young players. What the franchise has all right? Next question, Hey, Jason,

1246
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 1: I generally play big at my local gym and I

1247
00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 1: want to grow some guard skills, mainly my left handed dribble.

1248
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 1: Are there any specific drills you recommend to start laying

1249
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:06,839
Speaker 1: down a good groundwork? Thanks? Great question. Again, I've hit

1250
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:08,720
Speaker 1: this on the show before, but I'll hit it really quick. Again,

1251
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:11,719
Speaker 1: Everyone's got different stuff here, Like, for instance, you know

1252
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 1: a lot of people believe in two ball handling, like

1253
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:16,160
Speaker 1: Steph Curry's way better ball handler than me, believes in

1254
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 1: two ball handling. I'm not a big believer in two

1255
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:20,279
Speaker 1: ball handling because you never do that in a game.

1256
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 1: I understand it's a hand eye hand eye coordination exercise,

1257
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 1: but for me personally, I really like to just do

1258
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:29,480
Speaker 1: the same moves that I use in games, just practice

1259
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 1: them at game speed as much as possible. And again,

1260
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 1: that's just what works for me. Everyone's different, right, But

1261
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:36,360
Speaker 1: I'll tell you guys about the drills that I do.

1262
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:38,439
Speaker 1: So I have four drills that I do every single day.

1263
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:41,080
Speaker 1: I'm not doing them currently because I'm injured, but I'm

1264
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:43,319
Speaker 1: about to ramp back up from my achilles injury here

1265
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks, and when I do, I

1266
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 1: will be doing this drill every single day. And essentially

1267
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:52,360
Speaker 1: I start half court right side, in and out crossover

1268
00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: starting in my right hand four times, so in and

1269
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:57,279
Speaker 1: out crossover to my left and out crossover to my

1270
00:56:57,360 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 1: right and out crossover to my left, in and out

1271
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:01,440
Speaker 1: crossover my right I'm ending with the ball in my

1272
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:04,279
Speaker 1: right hand, exploding to the rim, layup back to the

1273
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 1: left side, in and out crossover starting in the left hand,

1274
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:09,360
Speaker 1: ending in the left hand, left handed layup back to

1275
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:11,239
Speaker 1: the right side, in and out crossover starting in the

1276
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 1: right hand, ending in the right hand. Four times right

1277
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 1: pull up jump shot, same thing on the left side,

1278
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:19,160
Speaker 1: pull up jump shot, then same thing in and out

1279
00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:23,400
Speaker 1: between the legs. Okay four times, layup, four times, layup,

1280
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,040
Speaker 1: four times, jumper, four times jumper. Then in and out

1281
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:29,080
Speaker 1: behind the back four times, layup, four times, layup, four times, jumper,

1282
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 1: four times jumper. That to me, hits the four dribble

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00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:33,880
Speaker 1: moves that I hit most commonly in games. In and out,

1284
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 1: crossover between the legs, behind the back, at game speed,

1285
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:39,320
Speaker 1: lots of reps while also warming up my body. Right

1286
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:42,400
Speaker 1: I'm making aggressive moves to the basket, jumping into pull

1287
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 1: up jump shots and things like that. Right then I

1288
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:47,440
Speaker 1: go to pull up shooting. So what I do is

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00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 1: I roll the ball out to myself at thirty feet

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00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 1: with my back away from the back of my back

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00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 1: facing the baskets. I'm facing my person. My face is

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00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:56,520
Speaker 1: facing away from the basket, I'm gonna reverse pivot with

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00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 1: my left foot and rip through to the right. Then

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00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 1: I'm going to hit a counter move back to the left,

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00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,120
Speaker 1: back to left, some kind of triple combination. I usually

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00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 1: mix it up, and I'm gonna end up at about

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00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:08,360
Speaker 1: the high school line, and I'm gonna shoot a pull

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00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 1: up jumper going left. Remember when I'm going left, I

1299
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 1: want to plant that left foot last, so I'm planning

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00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:16,200
Speaker 1: right left, elevate into the shot right, then spin it

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00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:19,080
Speaker 1: out to myself right foot, pivot, rip through the left,

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00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:22,520
Speaker 1: counter move back to the right, left, right, pull up

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00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 1: jump shot right. I'm gonna do that until I make

1304
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:27,560
Speaker 1: five going both ways, so it's ten total mix. Then

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00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:30,080
Speaker 1: from there i want to shoot NBA length pull up three.

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00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:32,520
Speaker 1: So I'm starting at thirty feet, roll the ball out

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00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 1: to myself, left foot, pivot, rip through, pull up jumper

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00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 1: going right again left right take off. I want to

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00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:40,920
Speaker 1: take that shot at around twenty five feet. Then I'm

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00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:42,480
Speaker 1: gonna do the same thing going left until I make

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00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 1: five going both ways. Then from there I go into

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00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 1: movement shooting same thing. Roll the ball out to myself

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00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:51,160
Speaker 1: at about twenty five feet, and I want to be

1314
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:54,080
Speaker 1: going directly across from the basket. So if like the

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00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 1: three point lines like this and the baskets here, I'm

1316
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:58,439
Speaker 1: gonna be running this way, and then what I'm gonna

1317
00:58:58,440 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 1: do is I'm gonna roll the ball out to myself

1318
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:02,720
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna catch it, plant that left foot, swing

1319
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 1: that right foot around, and square up in mid air

1320
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:08,160
Speaker 1: to take that movement jump shot drifting to the right right.

1321
00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:09,640
Speaker 1: And then I'm gonna do the same thing going to

1322
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:11,520
Speaker 1: the left. I'm gonna go to the opposite side of

1323
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 1: the court, roll it out, plant right left, and the

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00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:15,439
Speaker 1: move there is i want to act like I'm coming

1325
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:17,360
Speaker 1: flying off a screen, and I need to get my

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00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:20,200
Speaker 1: feet set and elevate into a shot. So for me,

1327
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:22,800
Speaker 1: the only time I ever shoot just stand still catch

1328
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 1: and shoot jump shots is when I'm done training my

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00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:26,680
Speaker 1: high school kids. I'll set up the gun and I'll

1330
00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:28,720
Speaker 1: just shoot, stand still, catch and shoot jump shots. But

1331
00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:31,280
Speaker 1: for me, I want and I'll shoot literally like seven

1332
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:33,360
Speaker 1: hundred of them a week, because I'll do three hundred

1333
00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 1: and fifty twice a week, right, But I am doing

1334
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:39,560
Speaker 1: a ton of every single other drill I do has

1335
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:42,160
Speaker 1: ball handling mixed into it, and I'm working on pull

1336
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 1: up shooting, and then again with pull up shooting. I'm

1337
00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 1: I'm I'm always focusing on going straight up and down. Anyway,

1338
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 1: My goal is for my catch and shoot jump shot

1339
00:59:50,200 --> 00:59:51,800
Speaker 1: and for my pull up jump shot to look the

1340
00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:54,600
Speaker 1: same if you were to trim off the dribbling part

1341
00:59:54,760 --> 00:59:56,240
Speaker 1: and you were to just watch me go up and

1342
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:58,480
Speaker 1: down that way. Essentially, I'm trying to get to my

1343
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 1: muscle memory. There are a certain shots that's where you

1344
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:02,480
Speaker 1: have to drift, and you'll like those. Are you guys

1345
01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:05,920
Speaker 1: who've those? Are you guys who are scorers know what

1346
01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 1: I'm talking about? Were like, you're shooting left shoulder fades

1347
01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 1: in the post, right shoulder fades in the post. Some

1348
01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:11,840
Speaker 1: pull up jump shots off the move where you have

1349
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 1: to be drifting a certain amount. But even then I

1350
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:16,640
Speaker 1: want to get so much lyft that it feels like

1351
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:18,600
Speaker 1: I'm going straight up and down. And usually that ends

1352
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:20,160
Speaker 1: up being the difference in make or miss for me

1353
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 1: is whether or not I get the appropriate amount of lyft.

1354
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 1: But those four drills again, the ball handling at the beginning,

1355
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 1: the counter move, pull up jump shot, the straight up

1356
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:29,320
Speaker 1: pull up jump shot, and the movement dribble, those are

1357
01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 1: the four drills I do every single day, and I

1358
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:32,640
Speaker 1: feel like they do a good job of kind of

1359
01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:36,880
Speaker 1: checking the boxes, so to speak of basic skill development.

1360
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:42,240
Speaker 1: All right, next question, you're ducking okce Hart have you been?

1361
01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:45,680
Speaker 1: You have been talking about everybody, even Victor Than when

1362
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: he plays us, it's hush mode. So this is uh.

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01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:50,960
Speaker 1: I just pulled this one out because it's a a

1364
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:55,280
Speaker 1: little bit of a pet peeve of mine. I work

1365
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 1: really really hard to cover the entire league. It's extremely

1366
01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:01,760
Speaker 1: difficult to do, as you guys know. And there's thirty

1367
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:05,280
Speaker 1: teams and even worse, like twenty of them are good,

1368
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:08,000
Speaker 1: and like it just takes a lot of time to

1369
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:10,880
Speaker 1: cover every single team. Like, for instance, today I hit

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01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:13,920
Speaker 1: three games, right, I hit the Wolves Suns, I hit

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01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 1: Sixers Celtics, and I hit Nicks Hawks. It straight up

1372
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:19,000
Speaker 1: took me like six and a half hours to watch

1373
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:23,960
Speaker 1: all those games and to really get into watching the

1374
01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 1: defensive coverages that are taking place, looking at all the

1375
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:29,400
Speaker 1: A lot of times I'm rewatching a play three four

1376
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:31,040
Speaker 1: times to kind of pick up on all the little

1377
01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:33,880
Speaker 1: things that happen on that specific possession. And so it's

1378
01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:36,200
Speaker 1: difficult to do. And so what I'm trying to do

1379
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:38,840
Speaker 1: in place because I can't. I can't realistically cover the

1380
01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:41,560
Speaker 1: thunder twice a week. It's not possible. But what I

1381
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:43,840
Speaker 1: can do is when I do cover the thunder, give

1382
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:46,440
Speaker 1: you guys my best. And so here's the thing. Tonight,

1383
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 1: you know, Golden State plays the thunder, Like tomorrow, we'll

1384
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:53,080
Speaker 1: talk thunder and I'll give it my best, and I'll

1385
01:01:53,120 --> 01:01:55,360
Speaker 1: make sure I give you guys a quality breakdown. But

1386
01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, like it's I'm not

1387
01:01:56,920 --> 01:01:59,800
Speaker 1: ducking your favorite team. I promise, it's just really, really

1388
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 1: hard hard to hit everybody. Like this week. I was

1389
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:04,440
Speaker 1: able to hit the Knicks and the Pacers right, and

1390
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:06,320
Speaker 1: I was able to hit the Hawks, and I was

1391
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 1: able to get into that Minnesota Timberwolves deep dive and

1392
01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:11,680
Speaker 1: some of those things. But it's just really difficult for

1393
01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:13,840
Speaker 1: me to get to all thirty teams. And so again,

1394
01:02:14,120 --> 01:02:17,400
Speaker 1: if you're a fan of any specific team and I

1395
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:19,919
Speaker 1: haven't talked about your team, I promise it's not because

1396
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:22,080
Speaker 1: I'm ducking them or ignoring them or I'm not aware

1397
01:02:22,120 --> 01:02:24,120
Speaker 1: of their success. I just don't want to give you

1398
01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:26,320
Speaker 1: guys bullshit analysis. I don't want to come up here

1399
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 1: and talk about your team if I don't, if I

1400
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:32,480
Speaker 1: haven't really watched them closely enough to give a good

1401
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:36,040
Speaker 1: bit of analysis. And so I will make sure that

1402
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:39,120
Speaker 1: I get to your teams eventually, especially if they're good.

1403
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:41,480
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, I hope you

1404
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:46,480
Speaker 1: guys can understand that there's like a certain limitation. It's

1405
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 1: basically impossible to cover the entire league as thoroughly as

1406
01:02:51,520 --> 01:02:55,120
Speaker 1: everybody wants me to. And if anything, I've already got

1407
01:02:55,160 --> 01:02:57,480
Speaker 1: my wife and my producer beating me up about working

1408
01:02:57,480 --> 01:03:00,000
Speaker 1: too much, and so if anything, I'm looking for more

1409
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:02,080
Speaker 1: opportunities to try to pull back and that and that

1410
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:04,640
Speaker 1: makes it even harder. But I just hope you guys

1411
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:07,600
Speaker 1: understand that, Like it's it's nothing intentional. I'm not ignoring

1412
01:03:07,640 --> 01:03:09,760
Speaker 1: your team's success. It's just I'm trying to do the

1413
01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:13,640
Speaker 1: best I can in that In that respect, last comment,

1414
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:16,480
Speaker 1: you kept calling Tyrese Haliburt and Tyrese MAXI. Oh god,

1415
01:03:16,520 --> 01:03:20,960
Speaker 1: I was so frustrated as this was happening yesterday. I

1416
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:23,280
Speaker 1: generally struggle with this kind of thing. I struggle to

1417
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:25,960
Speaker 1: remember names in general. That was a pain in the

1418
01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:27,720
Speaker 1: ass when I worked in real estate. You guys wouldn't believe,

1419
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:30,280
Speaker 1: especially when I was like doing open houses, and like

1420
01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:32,240
Speaker 1: I'd meet someone at the door and like shake their

1421
01:03:32,240 --> 01:03:34,200
Speaker 1: hand and get their name, and then like ten seconds later,

1422
01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:36,520
Speaker 1: I'd be like, ah, I can't remember that dude's name.

1423
01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:39,800
Speaker 1: It was an absolute nightmare. But the other thing too,

1424
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:43,000
Speaker 1: is like like the when I'm recording these shows, especially

1425
01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:46,040
Speaker 1: these daytime ones, they're after I've been staring at a

1426
01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:49,280
Speaker 1: computer screen for like six hours, and and so like

1427
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:51,200
Speaker 1: I kind of get a little brain fried from time

1428
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:53,959
Speaker 1: to time. And I'm really sorry, pacers fans. I hope

1429
01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:58,080
Speaker 1: that it wasn't too frustrating for that video, because I

1430
01:03:58,080 --> 01:04:00,520
Speaker 1: really did put a lot of effort into trying to

1431
01:04:00,520 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 1: give you guys a good breakdown of Tyre saliburtn. So

1432
01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:06,680
Speaker 1: I apologize for butchering the names a lot. Doesn't help

1433
01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:08,200
Speaker 1: that they played against each other and have the same

1434
01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:10,480
Speaker 1: first name, let's just put it that way. Definitely was

1435
01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:13,200
Speaker 1: enough to trick my brain into making a bunch of mistakes.

1436
01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:15,000
Speaker 1: All right, guys, That's all I have for today is

1437
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:17,720
Speaker 1: always as sincerely appreciate you guys supporting the show. We'll

1438
01:04:18,040 --> 01:04:20,280
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow with a breakdown probably of just the

1439
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:23,520
Speaker 1: okay see Golden State game. Probably taking an easy day

1440
01:04:23,560 --> 01:04:25,200
Speaker 1: before we head into Friday, or before we had it

1441
01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:27,400
Speaker 1: into the weekend. As always, I appreciate you guys, and

1442
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 1: I will see you tomorrow. The volume