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Speaker 1: in West Virginia. All right, welcome to Hoops Tonight, presented

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Speaker 1: by Fandel here at the volume. I am Jason timp

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Speaker 1: Happy Sunday, everybody. I hope you all had a great weekend.

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Speaker 1: What an incredible first weekend of NBA Playoff basketball. Somewhat

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Speaker 1: chalk in a lot of different ways. Home team is

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Speaker 1: gonna end up winning, assuming that the Phoenix Suns closed

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Speaker 1: the deal here, which I obviously expect them to do.

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Speaker 1: The home team won six out of the eight games,

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Speaker 1: um the favorite on seven out of the eight games

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Speaker 1: because the Jazz were expected to beat the Mavericks without

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Speaker 1: Luca Donte. But at the same time, we had a

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Speaker 1: handful of really exciting games. The series clearly appeared to

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Speaker 1: be more competitive than we thought on on a bunch

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Speaker 1: of fronts, and we learn a lot. The devil's in

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Speaker 1: the details in these NBA playoff series is they're like

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Speaker 1: chess matches. It's more about what you can learn from

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Speaker 1: game one than it is about the outcomes. The outcomes

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Speaker 1: do matter, but as a series progresses, as you've seen

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Speaker 1: so many times over the years, a lot can change

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Speaker 1: over the course of the last few games. If a

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Speaker 1: we're gonna break down. It's some capacity every single series

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Speaker 1: that played out this weekend. We are going to start

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Speaker 1: gonna bring my guy Carson on. We're gonna play some games,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about some playoff adjustments, and then we're

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Speaker 1: also going to get into a little bit of drama

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Speaker 1: with this Kyrie Irving thing having to do with fans,

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Speaker 1: which is something that's been a very common refrain from

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Speaker 1: Because that was an unbelievable performance from Brooklyn. They played

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431
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Speaker 1: gotta box your man out. We're gonna talk about this

432
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Speaker 1: We're gonna hit on the other three games of the

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Speaker 1: So can I ask you about some adjustments that you

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Speaker 1: would make in each of these games? Given how Game

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Speaker 1: one went. We're gonna start with Hawks heat, which Miami

462
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Speaker 1: just dominated one fifteen nine. So given that result, what

463
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Speaker 1: would coach Jason tell the Hawks to switch up and

464
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Speaker 1: fix going forward? They gotta play a little bit of defense, man,

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Speaker 1: I mean I there are two different kinds of playing

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Speaker 1: teams that I've seen over the course of the last

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Speaker 1: couple of years since this tournament has been incepted. You

468
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469
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Speaker 1: talented teams that for whatever reason are un serious all

470
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Speaker 1: regular season and end up falling down there and have

471
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Speaker 1: to fight their way out. And then you get the young,

472
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Speaker 1: try hard team that's kind of out kicking their coverage

473
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Speaker 1: and their talent to you know, a team that should

474
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Speaker 1: be in the lottery, that just plays so incredibly hard

475
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Speaker 1: every night and they just scratch and claw their way there.

476
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Speaker 1: That's like a team like the Pelicans, right. Well, the

477
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Speaker 1: Hawks spent all season long b s ing around on

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Speaker 1: the defensive end of the floor, even though the defense

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Speaker 1: is what carried them in the postseason last year. Everyone

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Speaker 1: thinks about Trey Young. Don't get me wrong. Trey Young

481
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Speaker 1: is a great player who made a lot of great

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Speaker 1: plays in big moments in last year's playoff run. But

483
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Speaker 1: it was their commitment to the defensive end. I know

484
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Speaker 1: Clint Capella wasn't there tonight, but just of all the

485
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Speaker 1: teams I watched this weekend, they were by far the

486
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Speaker 1: sloppy ist in their defensive rotations. You're gonna give up drives.

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Speaker 1: Every team gives up drives. Yes, the Hawks are gonna

488
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Speaker 1: give up more drives because Trey Young is not a

489
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Speaker 1: great defender, Bogdanovich is not a great defender, Gallinari is

490
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Speaker 1: not a great defender. You're gonna give up more drives.

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Speaker 1: But they looked like a like a pickup basketball team

492
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Speaker 1: or a men's league team rotating around on the black

493
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Speaker 1: back end. They looked sloppy. They just looked like an

494
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Speaker 1: un serious team. And guess what's gonna happen when you're

495
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Speaker 1: an un serious team running into that Miami Heat squad

496
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Speaker 1: that's out for blood, who struggled a little bit over

497
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Speaker 1: the course of the last month and is trying to

498
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Speaker 1: reinstill a bunch of those habits. Well, you're gonna get

499
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Speaker 1: your butt kicked. And that's what happened. So they've got

500
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Speaker 1: to get they they've got to get some semblance of

501
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Speaker 1: a functional defensive scheme working, or they're gonna get absolutely

502
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Speaker 1: railroaded in this series. So from the Heat perspective, obviously

503
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 1: they did a phenomenal job on Trey Young, and he

504
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 1: had really just a brutal night and he was obviously

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Speaker 1: a major focal point for them. So what did you

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Speaker 1: think of how they approach that matchup and going forward?

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Speaker 1: Do you think that they stick with how they approached

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Speaker 1: game one? Do you think they have to mix up

509
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Speaker 1: at all how they cover trade? Just what's your perspective

510
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Speaker 1: for the heat on that matchup. I loved their approach.

511
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Speaker 1: I like Trey Young is the head of the snake

512
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Speaker 1: you gotta cut the head of the snake off. You're

513
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Speaker 1: seeing really quickly in this playoff run, just in this

514
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,400
Speaker 1: first weekend, and you're gonna continue to see it. There

515
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Speaker 1: are players that are kind of made for this, and

516
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Speaker 1: there are players that aren't. And Trey Young is one

517
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Speaker 1: of the guys who's made for this. But like you're seeing,

518
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,960
Speaker 1: Danilo Gallinari struggled to create shots in this tough, physical

519
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Speaker 1: playoff environment against Miami's defense. Bogoto, it is a guy

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Speaker 1: who's had a lot of success in regular seasons over

521
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Speaker 1: the years as a as a secondary shot creator, a

522
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Speaker 1: guy who can run bench lineups and run primary pick

523
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Speaker 1: and roll side actions, you know, to start possessions for

524
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Speaker 1: bad teams in the dregs of the regular season, or

525
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Speaker 1: helping the Hawks and the dregs of the regular season,

526
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Speaker 1: but it's harder at this level. And you're seeing what

527
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Speaker 1: the Heat are doing is they're sending all their defensive

528
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Speaker 1: attention towards Trey Young and giving him a nightmare night.

529
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Speaker 1: And they'll be there looking at a boy on Bogdanovich

530
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Speaker 1: and they're looking at Gallo and they're like, hey, beat us,

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Speaker 1: let me see if you can, uh, let me see

532
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Speaker 1: if you can create a shot for yourself off the dribble,

533
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Speaker 1: and they just can't. Bogdanovich had a nightmare game. I

534
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Speaker 1: think he was over eight, So really smart strategy from Miami.

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Speaker 1: I would keep pounding Trey Young as much as you can.

536
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Speaker 1: If he has a disaster series, this thing is gonna

537
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Speaker 1: be over in four games. All right. Let's move on

538
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Speaker 1: to Sons Pelicans, where the Suns ended up winning one.

539
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Speaker 1: They were suffocating defensively in the first half, up big,

540
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Speaker 1: and then the Pelicans had a bit of a mini comeback.

541
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Speaker 1: But obviously New Orleans a bit outmatched here in terms

542
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Speaker 1: of record and probably personnel on paper. But after game one,

543
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Speaker 1: what would coach Jason have them adjust for the rest

544
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Speaker 1: of the series. So, especially early in the game, I

545
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,399
Speaker 1: thought the Pelicans really struggled with the interior shot blocking

546
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Speaker 1: presences of The Sun's Dedre Ayton and JaVale McGee both

547
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Speaker 1: an amazing job. Jail McGee was awesome. That dude is

548
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Speaker 1: like that dude. It was such a clutz for the

549
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:07,919
Speaker 1: first half of his career and was the butt of

550
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Speaker 1: every joke. And he went to Golden State, learned how

551
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Speaker 1: to become a winning contributor, did it again for the Lakers.

552
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 1: He was actually a really good backup center for the Nuggets,

553
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Speaker 1: and now he's doing it for the Sons. I love

554
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 1: that dude. I love his game. He was awesome the Pelicans.

555
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 1: You know, you have two approaches there. You can continue

556
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Speaker 1: trying to shoot over the really tall guy that's gonna

557
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Speaker 1: block all your shots or make you throw up jankie

558
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 1: stuff that you're not gonna make, or you can try

559
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Speaker 1: to make them pay for overhelping in the easiest way.

560
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 1: It's like like we're gonna talk about the Bulls and

561
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Speaker 1: the Bucks. Here is shortly. You know, Nicolayusevitch took ten

562
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Speaker 1: threes today. That's what you gotta do. If they're gonna

563
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Speaker 1: have Brook Lopez sit under the damn basket all game long.

564
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Speaker 1: You gotta take those shots. Did he miss him? Yeah,

565
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Speaker 1: and I hope he's gonna have to find a way

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Speaker 1: to make them. But you gotta do the same thing

567
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Speaker 1: with Jonas Valancunas. You gotta do more pick and pop.

568
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 1: The pick and pop is the perfect counter to a

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Speaker 1: drop average because in a drop coverage, you're gonna have

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Speaker 1: a guy like DeAndre and or JaVale McGee who's going

571
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Speaker 1: to put himself between the ball handler and the rim,

572
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Speaker 1: and then you have the guard chasing over the top

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Speaker 1: of the screen, so you have basically two players staying

574
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Speaker 1: with the ball handler. It just happens to work when

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Speaker 1: there's a guy rolling to the rim because usually the

576
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Speaker 1: bigger athletic bigs can kind of split the difference between

577
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Speaker 1: those two. But if you're a screener pops to the

578
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: three point line, he's wide open every single time. And

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Speaker 1: the Bowls, to their credit, did that with Nikolavuseovitch. The

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Speaker 1: Pelicans have to do more of that with Valenciona. I

581
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Speaker 1: know he has a really slow release, I know he

582
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Speaker 1: doesn't like to take a ton of threes, but you're

583
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Speaker 1: either gonna sit there and try to finish over shop

584
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Speaker 1: blocking all night long, or you can give Jonas valanciinas

585
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Speaker 1: wide open threes, and I like that a little bit better.

586
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Speaker 1: At the very least, you might be able to soften

587
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: up that interior defense and get some easier shots. All right,

588
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: from the Sun's perspective, obviously a whole lot went right,

589
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 1: but it did seem like kind of the one area

590
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 1: that they were outmatched was on the glass. They were

591
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Speaker 1: minus seven on the offensive boards, minus eleven overall, and

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Speaker 1: the Pelicans were really just a great rebounding team this

593
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Speaker 1: whole year. So is that like the biggest point of

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Speaker 1: concern for you in this matchup, if anything? And how

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Speaker 1: do the Sun's go about, you know, trying to negate

596
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Speaker 1: that advantage? Yeah, I mean, if I'm if I'm Monty Williams,

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Speaker 1: I'm going in there and I'm ripping them a new

598
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Speaker 1: one for not boxing out they. I think, Jonas, what

599
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Speaker 1: I last that check? Jonas Callan, you just had nine

600
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Speaker 1: offensive rebounds. I'm not sure how many he finished with,

601
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Speaker 1: but that's just a completely insane number. You think after

602
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 1: like four, there'd be a time out or you're screaming

603
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 1: at your guys, And maybe that did happen, But to

604
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Speaker 1: be clear, this is all just for fun. Like the

605
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Speaker 1: Suns are in absolute control of this series, Montie Williams

606
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Speaker 1: is not sweating the slightest bit. They have too much talent.

607
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Speaker 1: This is a bad matchup for the Pelicans as well

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Speaker 1: in terms of the way they like to play. It's

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Speaker 1: it's not the Pelicans have no chance. But if I'm

610
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Speaker 1: Monty Williams and I'm looking for something to try to

611
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Speaker 1: keep my guys engaged, I'm I'm just just dialing in

612
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Speaker 1: on the box outs. That's gotta be the biggest adjustment

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Speaker 1: moving forward. All Right, Bulls Bucks last game of the

614
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Speaker 1: day here for us was a pretty tight one down

615
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Speaker 1: to the finish after the Bucks were up a little

616
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Speaker 1: bit more convincingly early, ends up being six Milwaukee win.

617
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Speaker 1: So what would coach Jason point out to the Bulls

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Speaker 1: and say, this is what you guys need to adjust

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Speaker 1: and fix going forward. So the same concept as we

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Speaker 1: were talking about with the Pelicans. The Bucks did what

621
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Speaker 1: they've been doing all season overplaying the paint. Yeah, you know,

622
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Speaker 1: Joan is kind of helping out of the week side

623
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Speaker 1: Brook Lopez hanging out around the basket as much as

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Speaker 1: he possibly can. The and I complained coming into this

625
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Speaker 1: series that I was worried about the Bulls because they

626
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Speaker 1: don't shoot enough threes. They attempt to ride around like

627
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Speaker 1: threes per game in the regular season, which was dead

628
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Speaker 1: last in the NBA, and the Bucks give up the

629
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Speaker 1: most threes in the NBA wide open threes. That is,

630
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Speaker 1: they give up over twenty wide open threes every single

631
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Speaker 1: game in the regular season, which was by far the

632
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Speaker 1: most in the league. So I was concerned that the

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Speaker 1: Bulls wouldn't be able to make the Bucks pay the

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Speaker 1: way that they would need to. The weird part is

635
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Speaker 1: is they took thirty seven threes tonight. To their credit,

636
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Speaker 1: they took some really good ones in that pick and

637
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Speaker 1: pop type of scenario with Nikolavuseovitch. Not just in pick

638
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Speaker 1: and pop, but also they had Voussovich when he was

639
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Speaker 1: not involved in the accident action spot up at the

640
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Speaker 1: three point line. Same idea like, at least make Milwaukee

641
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Speaker 1: pay by giving up a wide open shot if they're

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Speaker 1: going to overplay the paint. The problem was, of those

643
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: thirty seven threes, they took way too many of them

644
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 1: were pull up threes. And this is on both Levine

645
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 1: and Davar Dmarda Rosen. I thought both of them struggled

646
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: with kind of understanding how to put their imprint on

647
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: the game offensively, want to be aggressive as scores and

648
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: went to be more willing to play make If you're

649
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: gonna beat the Bucks, you have to have a boatload

650
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: more catch and shoot threes on the week side. And

651
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about the stuff with Nikolavuseovich, Damarta

652
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: rosen And and Zach Levine. Have to be more willing

653
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: to kick out two guys in the corner. I'm really

654
00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: curious to look at this one a little bit more

655
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 1: in the tape because is again, they took thirty seven,

656
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: but from what I could tell, a lot of the

657
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: ones they were taking were difficult, contested threes, not the

658
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 1: kind of threes that you need in order to make

659
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: this Bucks defense pay. So my my biggest takeaway moving

660
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: forward if I'm uh, if I'm the Bulls, is try

661
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: to find a way to declutter the paint by just

662
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: spamming pick and pop with Nicola Vusevitch and if you

663
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: get into the lane and there's help, make the kick

664
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 1: out every time. Trust your shot quality, Trust the fact

665
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: that over the course of the series, even if you

666
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: miss them in one game, you'll make these really good shots.

667
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: Don't do what Demarda Rosen and Zach Levine did and

668
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 1: just keep trying to slam your head into the brick

669
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: wall taking impossible shots, because all you're gonna do is

670
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: keep missing, and now your confidence is gonna waiver. You

671
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 1: like that that that's gonna be the If they make

672
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 1: those reads, you'll soften the defense to the point where

673
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: now you can get higher quality shots and then you

674
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: can get going. If that makes sense. Yeah, absolutely, And

675
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: I think that you make a great point just about

676
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: the bulls willingness to shoot threes because you're watching the

677
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: Bucks drop pick and roll every time and de Rosen's

678
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: just long, too long too. And obviously you can't hate

679
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: on the guy because he does make the shots about

680
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: as efficiently as anybody in basketball, but they just were

681
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 1: not falling today, obviously, So he's earned himself a reputation

682
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: as a guy who just doesn't live up to expectations

683
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Do you think if there's anything to

684
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 1: that with him? There is? I mean, playoff basketball is

685
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 1: just really hard, man, Like, look at what happened to

686
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant tonight, Like if it can happen to Kevin

687
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 1: freaking Durant. Then like all these guys are dealing with similar,

688
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 1: similar coverages, like when you're game planning for the Bulls,

689
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: De Marta Rosen's one a on your on your scouting report,

690
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And so you know, there's

691
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 1: there's a type of shot that you can get regularly

692
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: in the NBA regular season that you can't get in

693
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: the in the playoffs. We were talking about like you know,

694
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: de Rosan getting to those pull up twos against drop

695
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: coverage during isolations like post up turn rounds. They're just

696
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: a little tougher. Now, I wouldn't even say that they're

697
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: a lot tougher. You know, there's this weird culture around

698
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 1: the NBA. People pretend like they don't play defense in

699
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 1: the regular season. They do, but like there's a difference

700
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:15,399
Speaker 1: between like good effort in the regular season and like

701
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 1: okay to sloppy effort in the regular season. In the playoffs,

702
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,839
Speaker 1: it's like any mix of really good effort to like

703
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 1: crazy desperate, psychotic, like fighting for our lives efforts. So

704
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 1: like every possession just has this extra level of intensity.

705
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 1: I thought that in particular, the Bucks did a really

706
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 1: nice job of disrupting DeMar De Rozen's bass, kind of

707
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: making him feel like he was crowded, and you could

708
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,240
Speaker 1: almost see I don't know if you noticed this, Carson,

709
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: but like there was a lack of smoothness to DeMar's

710
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 1: pull ups. He looked like he was pressing, a little bit,

711
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: a little bit stressed, a little bit rushed, and a

712
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: lot more like flailing like he that he just looked uncomfortable.

713
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: And so the thing is is, like, I don't know

714
00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: that DeMar de Rozen because of his size. He's a

715
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 1: decent sized guy, but he's not a huge wing, right,

716
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,399
Speaker 1: He's six ft six, decently strong. He's not the kind

717
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: of guy that's going to be routinely able to get

718
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 1: great shots. Okay, so it's gonna come down to whether

719
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: or not he can make tough shots, and even though

720
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: he's very good at that, over the course of his career,

721
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: he just for whatever reason, hasn't been able to make

722
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: him in the postseason. So for the Bucks, obviously they

723
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: pick up a win here, but it really did come

724
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 1: down to it, and it came down to it on

725
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: a day where de Rozan six of five, vouch is

726
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: nine seven, Levine is six of nineteen like, none of

727
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: the Bulls Big three shoot better than thirty three. So

728
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: just given that, is there anything from this game that

729
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 1: concerns you for Milwaukee given the closeness and the fact

730
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 1: that the Bulls best guys really did struggle. I'm not

731
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: concerned as it pertains to the Buck's ability to win

732
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: the series. But I thought that Chicago demonstrated something that

733
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: was an interesting conundrum for the Bucks today. So, like,

734
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 1: you know, traditionally, the way teams do help defense is

735
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: they'll like it's let's say Janice is isolating on the

736
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: left wing and there's a guy a shooter in the

737
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 1: strong side corner. Usually the guy guarding the shooter in

738
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: the strong side corner stays glued to them because you

739
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: never most defensive schemes never want to give up a

740
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 1: strong side corner three. So usually the help just comes

741
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 1: from the baseline, from the weak side corner, and so

742
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 1: a guy will beat someone off the dribble and they

743
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: usually just have to deal with the help defender at

744
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: the rim. Well, what Chicago did that I thought was

745
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 1: really interesting is wherever Janice caught the ball, even if

746
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: it was one pass away, guys were sitting in his

747
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 1: driving lanes and so but they were kind of like

748
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: splitting the difference. It's kind of like dare you to

749
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: do to make a decision kind of thing, Like you'd

750
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: have Patrick Williams guarding you, Honice staring in right in

751
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 1: the face, and Janice has his rhythm and he's kind

752
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,320
Speaker 1: of trying to figure out whether he's attacking. But there's

753
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 1: Alex Crusoe sitting right in the driving lane to the left,

754
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 1: and you know, there's Derek Jones Jr. Sitting right in

755
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,800
Speaker 1: the driving lane to the right. And it's like, okay,

756
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: even if I beat Patrick Williams, I'm just running right

757
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: into another defender. But at the same time, Alex cruisos

758
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: not doubling. So like if I throw this pass to

759
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: the strong side corner, like it's a three, but it's

760
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 1: gonna be a slightly contested three, like Alex is gonna

761
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 1: close out. And so it kind of flustered the Bucks offense. Now,

762
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: Bucks fans will probably tell you it's rust, it's we

763
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 1: haven't played in a week, it's you know, game one, jitters,

764
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. I looked at it more

765
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 1: as a really really smart scheme from Chicago to dare

766
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 1: Milwaukee to make easy single pass reads to one pass

767
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: away shooters to take lightly contested threes, and I can't

768
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: remember the exact number, but the buckshot in the low

769
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 1: from three today. That whole, that whole dynamic kind of

770
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: psyched him out. The obvious adjustment there is you gotta

771
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 1: make sure Chris Middleton's one of those guys that one

772
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,919
Speaker 1: that's one pass away. Maybe Pat Connaton is the other.

773
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: And then you gotta look at Chris and you gotta

774
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: be like, look, man, when they do this, I'm hitting you.

775
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 1: You've got to shoot it. You've got to find a way,

776
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: just like we were talking about with the Pelicans and

777
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: with the Bulls earlier, you gotta find a way to

778
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 1: loosen that defense. And the only way to do it

779
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: is to demonstrate that you are willing to make them

780
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,839
Speaker 1: pay for it. And way too frequently in this game

781
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 1: they would drive into that traffic and cause problems. So,

782
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: first of all, credit to the Bulls. They defended like crazy.

783
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: That was a really, really impressive performance. But the Bucks

784
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: are gonna have to figure out how to make the

785
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,319
Speaker 1: Bulls pay for just digging into the honest's driving lanes

786
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: all night long. All right, Well, That's all I got

787
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:26,879
Speaker 1: for now, Jason. I'll be back in a sec. We'll

788
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: look forward to the other four playoff series. But great

789
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: insight from coach Jason there. Love that. All right, man,

790
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: We will see you soon, all right. So I wanted

791
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: to talk about this Kyrie Irving quote for just a

792
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 1: minute because this is again like there's kind of like

793
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 1: a I don't know if rebellions the right word, like

794
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:50,240
Speaker 1: a movement among NBA players on a couple of different fronts,

795
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 1: kind of anti media and kind of anti fans, and

796
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 1: as is always the case, like everything the sentiment agree with.

797
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: I actually really really love what my colleague Draymond Green

798
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: has been doing talking about NBA media and their obsession

799
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 1: with drama and the way that there they aren't held accountable.

800
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 1: I'm like a pent in agreement there, like he was.

801
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 1: I thought Draymond Green said such a cool thing when

802
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: he went on that podcast with Evan Turner, Evan Turner

803
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: and Andre Gudala the other days, like the game of

804
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 1: basketball is beautiful, Like let's talk about this beautiful game

805
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: of basketball, and percent agree with him there. Well, one

806
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,240
Speaker 1: of the other movements that these players have been getting

807
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: behind is this anti fan movement, and I this problem

808
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 1: has been around forever. Fans have been heckling forever, and

809
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: they heckle at every level of every sport of all time.

810
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 1: I'll never forget playing an n ai A basketball and

811
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 1: standing to throw an inbounds pass and having uh I

812
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: could I played at a school in Utah, I was

813
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:51,360
Speaker 1: not Mormon, played at a school in Utah, and I

814
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: had all the fans right behind my ear, screaming like

815
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: anti Mormon jokes, like horrible, horrible things right into my ear.

816
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 1: I had that happened to me dozens of times, areas

817
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: different capacities when I was playing in college. It happens

818
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 1: at every level of sport. Even the players say horrible

819
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 1: things to each other at times. It's kind of just

820
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: like the weird nature of of competitiveness, right, and you know,

821
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: but at the same time, like it doesn't make it

822
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,760
Speaker 1: right that people behave that way, but players are bothered

823
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 1: by it. So before we go any further, I want

824
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: to read the Kyrie quote. So after the game, and

825
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 1: you guys saw it looked like in the video it

826
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: looked like some fans were heckling him from behind where

827
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 1: he was inbounding, and it looked like he may or

828
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 1: may not have flipped him off behind his head. At

829
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: least I thought that might have been what happened. I'm

830
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: not sure if anybody actually solidified that or not. But

831
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: the quote from Kyrie, he says, quote, when people start

832
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: yelling pussy and bitch and fuck you, there's only so

833
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:44,800
Speaker 1: much you can take as a competitor. Nah funk that

834
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 1: that's the playoffs. It is what it is. I know

835
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: what to expect in here, and I'm ready to give

836
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: the same energy back to them. And quote and I

837
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: get that. I like, I've just like anybody else who's

838
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 1: ever dealt with heckling or any any time, anybody, all

839
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: of you, just in your day to day life, anytime

840
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 1: you're ever in a setting where someone says something rude

841
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: to you, whether it's like a weird dude in a

842
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: retail setting who like is in customer service who treats

843
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 1: you poorly, or you're at a bar and you're having

844
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: a drink and some guy bumps into you and doesn't

845
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: say I'm sorry, or whatever. It is like you're gonna

846
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 1: run into inconsiderate and people that that are rude and

847
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: and and mean and offensive all the time in your life.

848
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 1: But you not doing that is what separates you from

849
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: those people. Like, the reality is if we allow twenty

850
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: thou people into an arena, we're probably gonna get some

851
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 1: scumbags in there. You know, Like there's gonna be some

852
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: trash human beings in there that don't have it filter,

853
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: that are awful, that are you know, bigots, that are

854
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: that are insensitive, that or whatever it is. You're gonna

855
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,799
Speaker 1: get horrible human beings that are going to interact with

856
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: you in every phase of life, but especially in a

857
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: competitive environment and on a basketball court. And my thing

858
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 1: is like I'm not saying it's easy to deal with.

859
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: I sympathize with the sentiment, but Kyrie, you're not saying

860
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 1: shipped back to them, You're not flipping them off. That's

861
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: what separates you from them. And like, and I understand

862
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: where in this like there's kind of like this new

863
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: ideology that goes around where it's like we always have

864
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: to support what everybody you know, like wants to to

865
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 1: say or do. But it's like at the same time,

866
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 1: like there's gotta be a line somewhere, And like, to me,

867
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: the line is like if somebody's rude to me, I

868
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 1: don't have to be rude back to them. I can

869
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 1: be above that, and then guess what happens. Everyone's gonna

870
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:39,719
Speaker 1: remember all the things that the horrible things that the

871
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 1: fans said to you, and they're gonna have your back

872
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 1: anyway after the fact. It this makes you the story

873
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: in a wrong way, and and I just disagree with

874
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 1: with the approach. And like I get like, as far

875
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,719
Speaker 1: as there's been this other kind of dynamic here where

876
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: NBA players in particular, I want to, uh make it

877
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 1: seem like their job has all these massive downsides, Like

878
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 1: you get heckled, you have to deal with media criticism,

879
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: they're traveling is tough, you have to be away from

880
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,919
Speaker 1: your family for a long time. I get all of that,

881
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: But every single job has pros and cons for various reasons.

882
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 1: I worked in real estate for a half decade before this,

883
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: and like, there was great things. I was my own boss,

884
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:21,880
Speaker 1: I got to set my own schedule. It was freed

885
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 1: me up to be able to do things like make

886
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 1: a podcast and and coach high school basketball and do

887
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: all these things. It was great, but they were also downsides,

888
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: Like I would sometimes be at dinner with my wife

889
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:34,360
Speaker 1: and a phone call would come in that I absolutely

890
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: had to take. Because in real estate, you're on seven

891
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 1: if you're if the deal that you're working has some

892
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 1: urgent need that you have to cater to. You've got

893
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 1: to hop in and you've got to do something, and

894
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 1: so and and and again. Like there are some amazing

895
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 1: perks for NBA players, one of the downsides is is

896
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: you have to play basketball in for the twenty thou people,

897
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: and sometimes there's scumbags and those twenty people they say

898
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: horrible things to you, and you might have to turn

899
00:43:57,200 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 1: the other cheek. You might have to look the other way.

900
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: That's that's just the that's the reality of it. So

901
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 1: my thing is, like I sympathize with Kyrie, but like, man,

902
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: it's a bad look for you to stoop to their level.

903
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 1: Show me, show us, show all of us why you're different,

904
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: why you're better than the scumbag behind you who called

905
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: you a bit in the second row. You know what

906
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like that, that's the kind of an ideology

907
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: that I don't understand. And and and it seems to

908
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,879
Speaker 1: be kind of like boiling over from NBA players right now,

909
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:30,360
Speaker 1: And I've I'd be really curious to hear from older

910
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: players in previous generations, because I would imagine it might

911
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 1: have been even worse back then, you know what I mean.

912
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: So I just I they've gotta you got this is

913
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: the part of the deal man, and you've just gotta

914
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:42,919
Speaker 1: you just gotta take it in stride. I think it's

915
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,879
Speaker 1: It doesn't make it easy. I understand we've all been

916
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 1: there where someone saying something to you and you'd like

917
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:51,439
Speaker 1: to lash out physically, or you'd like to to turn

918
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 1: around and custom out, or you'd like but what did

919
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:55,919
Speaker 1: you guys all do in those situations? For the most part,

920
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 1: we've all cracked before. I've cracked before. But what do

921
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: you usually do, usually privately to yourself. You gotta screw

922
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:03,840
Speaker 1: that guy, and then you just walk away. You know that,

923
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 1: because because you're better than him, that you're not the

924
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 1: kind of person who behaves that way, and so you're

925
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: above that fray and you separate yourself from it as

926
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,359
Speaker 1: much as you can. That's all I had on that front.

927
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,840
Speaker 1: I wanted to bring Carson back on. We're gonna play

928
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:20,800
Speaker 1: a game about some of my predictions from playoff series. Yeah,

929
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:23,839
Speaker 1: just real quick before we get into that Jason, how

930
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:26,280
Speaker 1: do you think the fact that this happened in Boston

931
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: were obviously Kyrie played and there was the whole kind

932
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: of ugly break up. Their factors in all of this,

933
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: and his reaction Obviously, obviously it exacerbates the the heckling.

934
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 1: It obviously makes it harder. But like this is where

935
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: it's like, it's it's like a bad breakup, like you

936
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 1: you lashing out in return, makes it seem that you

937
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: have unresolved feelings about it, you know, like here's the

938
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 1: reality of what happened with Kyrie and Boston. He made

939
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 1: a promise that he was coming back, literally got on

940
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 1: the microphone and said he was gonna sign a correct

941
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:05,359
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong in this car someon. I'm pretty

942
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:06,919
Speaker 1: sure he grabbed the microphone at one point in front

943
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: of the entire stadium. It was like, I'm signing the

944
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 1: extension this summer, Like like the dude, he didn't he

945
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,360
Speaker 1: didn't keep it. He made a He made a he

946
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 1: made a commercial for Nike about his dad playing for

947
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:18,800
Speaker 1: the Celtics at one point, of trying out for the

948
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 1: Celtics at one point, and how he wants his raft

949
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 1: his jersey to hang in the Rafters. So like, yeah, dude,

950
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: you backed out of a commitment, which is fine, Like

951
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: I get it, and I don't blame him for leaving Boston,

952
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:30,359
Speaker 1: but like, all you're doing by playing into this back

953
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 1: and forth with the fans is making it seem like

954
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: you have your own regrets about this whole situation. Like

955
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:39,359
Speaker 1: play it cool, man, Like play it cool. Yeah, I'm

956
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 1: with you there, We're playing it cool. That's not really

957
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:45,800
Speaker 1: Kyrie's brand and that's not exactly what he does. But

958
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: all right, like you said, we are going to play

959
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 1: a game. It's called hold or Bail. So we're gonna

960
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: look back on some of your predictions for the remaining

961
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,399
Speaker 1: four series that we haven't touched on today. You're gonna

962
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: tell me if you're sticking with your original prediction or

963
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:00,839
Speaker 1: if maybe you want to jump ship and change something up.

964
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: So we're gonna start with Raptors sixers. You took Toronto

965
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: in six to win the series. They lost game won

966
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:10,480
Speaker 1: by twenty Are you holding or are you biling here?

967
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 1: I'm holding um. I feel like the Raptors have to

968
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: win one of these first two games, and Game one

969
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:22,399
Speaker 1: didn't look good. But I did a deep dive into

970
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,800
Speaker 1: the film this morning, and I bet you Nick Nurse

971
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: had a full blown connection fit when he went back

972
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 1: and watched the film. There was this weird dynamic in

973
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: that game where the Sixers were playing like the underdog.

974
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it was all of the

975
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: people picking the Raptors. I don't know if it's James

976
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: Harden sick of getting slandered. I don't know if it

977
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 1: was just Raptors laziness or them buying into their own

978
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 1: hype a little bit. But the Raptors had embarrassing effort

979
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 1: in that first quarter, the amount of the amount of

980
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 1: uh time that they just got simply beat down the

981
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 1: floor and transition because they weren't sprinting back, the sloppiness

982
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 1: on the defensive end with their with their switches and

983
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: their rotations, and and uh just just in general, it

984
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: felt to me like the Raptors played one of their

985
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: worst potential basketball games. We talk a lot about like

986
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 1: a punch that the team brings to the table their

987
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 1: best punch and their worst punch. And the Sixers came

988
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 1: out and they were like, this is Game one. Everyone

989
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 1: thinks the Raptors are gonna win. We're throwing our best

990
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: punch and the Raptors were just sloppy. They missed a

991
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: ton of box outs, they didn't rebound well. It was

992
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 1: just an utterly and utterly disastrous performance from Toronto. And

993
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 1: when you are the less talented team, when you are

994
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 1: the team that is vying for an upset, you can't

995
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:48,360
Speaker 1: be the team that loses the effort and focus areas

996
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 1: of the game you have. You have to be the

997
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:54,240
Speaker 1: team that dominates those areas and it's the other team's

998
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 1: talent that keeps them close. Now, this in all of

999
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 1: these situations is where the coaches the advantage, where the

1000
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:04,879
Speaker 1: brain is the advantage, kind of like when you used

1001
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 1: to watch Lebron series is like as the series progresses,

1002
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:12,360
Speaker 1: the smarter teams have the advantage. I do think Toronto

1003
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 1: is the smarter team. I think their biggest and best

1004
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,960
Speaker 1: moments in this series will come later in the series.

1005
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 1: But man like, for a team that's vying for an upset,

1006
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:22,880
Speaker 1: for them to come out in Game one that flat

1007
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:25,439
Speaker 1: was really disappointing. And if they do lose Game two,

1008
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 1: I'm off the ship. But for right now I'm holding

1009
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 1: I expect a much better effort from the Raptors in

1010
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:32,480
Speaker 1: game two, and I hope that that's the one that

1011
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: they steal to get their upset bid on the right track.

1012
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:39,840
Speaker 1: So obviously you mentioned them losing the effort battle. There

1013
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: is there any part of you just watching the offensive

1014
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:47,240
Speaker 1: firepower on the shot creation from Philly's top four guys

1015
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:49,839
Speaker 1: who combined for a hundred and five points in this

1016
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: game compared to Toronto, where sometimes offense doesn't come quite

1017
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 1: as easily. Do you worry at all about them just

1018
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 1: making up that deficit in terms of just like that

1019
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 1: pure lead shot creation and shot making ability. If they

1020
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: guard the way they did in this game, then then

1021
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be able to overcome it. Um and

1022
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: what I'm not just talking about the effort stuff, like

1023
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 1: there was some strategy things that I totally disagree with.

1024
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 1: Like if you guys remember we did a video on

1025
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 1: Harden and Bed after their first three games, after the

1026
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: hard and trade, and what was my big takeaway at

1027
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:27,319
Speaker 1: the end, make hardened beat you, Like, there's way too

1028
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:30,400
Speaker 1: much obsession with these coaches and Nick Nurse is the

1029
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:33,920
Speaker 1: latest where it's like we're paranoid about James Harden and

1030
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 1: where when he has the ball, we're doing all of

1031
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:38,760
Speaker 1: this overhelping and all of the sending a third defender

1032
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 1: into the action and and doing all this stuff, and

1033
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 1: it's like make hard and beat you. I I railed

1034
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 1: out some stats, uh last or earlier this this past week,

1035
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:51,239
Speaker 1: where I showed you guys like, uh, James Harden is

1036
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: finishing at the rim half as often as he did

1037
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 1: in eighteen. He's making pull up jump shots eight percent

1038
00:50:56,760 --> 00:51:00,040
Speaker 1: less often as he did, uhstent this year. He's what

1039
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:01,880
Speaker 1: he's present in his MVP season, So he's not shooting

1040
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 1: well pull ups. He is relying on free throws for

1041
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: almost of his offense. He's just nowhere near as good

1042
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:10,879
Speaker 1: as he was when he was at his peak. And

1043
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:16,360
Speaker 1: like I would double like absolute crazy on every embat action.

1044
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:18,880
Speaker 1: There's nothing they can do with the guy. You cannot

1045
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:22,359
Speaker 1: let that guy be in single coverage. I'm on Nick

1046
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 1: Nurse's aggression in that specific setting. But when James Harden

1047
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:29,719
Speaker 1: has the ball, they kept sending this third defender over,

1048
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 1: and James Harden is so damned smart. He's just working

1049
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:35,880
Speaker 1: his way slowly, methodically into the lane and making easy

1050
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 1: kickouts to really good players on the back end. And

1051
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:40,160
Speaker 1: so the way that I would do that if I

1052
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:41,719
Speaker 1: was them, and they did it a handful of times

1053
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 1: in this game, and when they did it usually worked.

1054
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 1: Just keep it too on two in the Harden and

1055
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 1: Beat pick and roll switch it even if you're putting

1056
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 1: Fred van Vleet on embiid because em Beat then has

1057
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:53,839
Speaker 1: to roll back to the post in order to fight

1058
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: for position, and in that time you can set up

1059
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: your post up double Harden. We'll have to pull the

1060
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 1: ball out to make his post entry, or maybe he'll

1061
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,400
Speaker 1: do something stupid and isolate against the big man that

1062
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 1: he gets switched on too. But my main takeaway is

1063
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 1: when Harden has the ball single coverage on Hardened, when

1064
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 1: em Beat has the ball, throw the kitchen sink. Make

1065
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:17,320
Speaker 1: this series about James Harden trying to do what he

1066
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 1: did in two thousand eighteen, even though he's not physically

1067
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:22,279
Speaker 1: capable of doing it anymore. That would be my entire

1068
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:27,480
Speaker 1: approach if I was Toronto. Yeah, I think you're absolutely right.

1069
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:30,360
Speaker 1: I think that Harden has made it very clear that

1070
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: he's more comfortable facilitating first at this point, and like

1071
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:35,800
Speaker 1: he does still have that control of the game, but

1072
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 1: like you said, the shot making just isn't there. I

1073
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,879
Speaker 1: think his last nine games, he's around eighteen a night

1074
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 1: on like thirty five percent from the field. Like he's

1075
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: just struggling to create those quality looks and he's struggling

1076
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:47,840
Speaker 1: to hit the looks that he does get. So I

1077
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: think that you are right on the money there, all right.

1078
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:55,160
Speaker 1: You took the MAVs over the Jazz in seven. The

1079
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:57,960
Speaker 1: MAVs lost game one by six. There was no Luca.

1080
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 1: It's now looking like Luke is unlikely to play in

1081
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 1: game two. Are you holding or bailing on this one, Jason,

1082
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:11,760
Speaker 1: I'm getting nervous. Um. I was hoping because I picked

1083
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: Mavericks in seven because I was hoping that Luca would

1084
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 1: come back by game three. Just seemed like it would

1085
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 1: make the most sense. Usually I haven't looked at the schedule,

1086
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,399
Speaker 1: but usually in the first round, because they have so

1087
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 1: many games, they will space out an extra day between

1088
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:26,440
Speaker 1: games two and game three, or between game one and

1089
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:30,120
Speaker 1: game two. But I was sitting there thinking, like, if

1090
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:33,080
Speaker 1: you give the Jazz, like if if Luca is healthy,

1091
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 1: I would have picked the Jazz to win or the

1092
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 1: Mavericks to win the series in five games. I have

1093
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:41,480
Speaker 1: a huge believer in Dallas. I think they're specifically equipped

1094
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:43,680
Speaker 1: to shut Utah down on a bunch of different fronts.

1095
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 1: They were one of my dark horse teams to win

1096
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:47,440
Speaker 1: the title. I was so high on them. I was

1097
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 1: so bummed out by that stupid Luka don calf injury,

1098
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:53,359
Speaker 1: and this kind of throws a wrench into all of that.

1099
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:57,440
Speaker 1: What scares me is I think Dallas played one of

1100
00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:01,240
Speaker 1: their best defensive games that they've ever played this season

1101
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:06,680
Speaker 1: in Game one, just stifling competitively on the defense, on

1102
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:09,359
Speaker 1: on the perimeter, sitting in a defensive stance, taking away

1103
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 1: easy driving lanes. The only success Utah was really having

1104
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:16,880
Speaker 1: was attacked attacking Davis Barton's with either Donovan Mitchell or

1105
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:20,400
Speaker 1: with boy On Bogdanovich. They were not getting and they

1106
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 1: were not getting easy shots against the Mavericks, but they

1107
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 1: just couldn't score. And I've been so high on doubt

1108
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 1: on on Spencer Dinwoody as a third creator and Jalen

1109
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:32,319
Speaker 1: Brunson is a backup creator. But with the slotting, when

1110
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 1: those two guys get slot get slotted up into the

1111
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:38,240
Speaker 1: first and second creation roles, they're just not as good

1112
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 1: and they can't create enough shots. And so I'm definitely

1113
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 1: wavering on this one. Yeah, I would say that I

1114
00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:48,239
Speaker 1: would I would switch my pick to the Jazz if

1115
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:50,879
Speaker 1: Luca wasn't back in Game three, But for right now

1116
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 1: through Game one, I'm gonna hold for now, all right, Yeah,

1117
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:59,840
Speaker 1: it is such a bummer with Luca obviously, just entirely

1118
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 1: change of the dynamics of the series in every way.

1119
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 1: All right, Warriors, you took in five over the Nuggets,

1120
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 1: and they were very convincing in Game one, even bringing

1121
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:13,040
Speaker 1: Steph off the bench with a minute's rest restriction. Thing

1122
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 1: are bailing here, I'm holding um. I do think the

1123
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: Nuggets will get one at home. They have enough advantages,

1124
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 1: and this is an older core for the Warriors, so

1125
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:30,320
Speaker 1: they're susceptible to things like mailing in a defensive effort

1126
00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:33,840
Speaker 1: on the road or something like that. Overall, though, the Warriors,

1127
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:37,520
Speaker 1: they're gonna run away with this thing. What an awesome,

1128
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:43,319
Speaker 1: perfect first round series for them. You Steph Curry, just

1129
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:45,839
Speaker 1: because he's an incredible leader. I've said many times he's

1130
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: the best leader in the NBA, decides to come off

1131
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 1: the bench because Jordan Poole has been killing everybody for

1132
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 1: like a couple of months, and Steph Curry is like,

1133
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 1: I don't want to disrupt Jordan Pool's rhythm, and I

1134
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 1: don't want to send Clay Thompson to the bench. All

1135
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:04,279
Speaker 1: sit sit on the bench. And Jordan Pool, of course,

1136
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 1: is incredible. Again that kid, I'll tell you I always

1137
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 1: wonder if if kids that play alongside stars will absorb

1138
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: their greatness in some capacity, and Jordan Poole appears to

1139
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 1: have been that guy with Steph because he's one of

1140
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:20,960
Speaker 1: the few guys in the league now that coming off

1141
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 1: of ball screens, you almost have to devote similar amounts

1142
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:26,719
Speaker 1: of attention to him. And I've been super impressed with him.

1143
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:29,360
Speaker 1: But what a perfect first round series for the Warriors

1144
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:32,319
Speaker 1: to just get their feet wet. And I told you

1145
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 1: guys earlier, I don't expect Draymond Green to really fully

1146
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 1: regain regain his his athletic form until the second round.

1147
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:41,640
Speaker 1: This is a nice, low stress series for him to

1148
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:44,280
Speaker 1: work his way back into shape. Steph Curry to slowly

1149
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 1: work his way through his minutes restriction and eventually work

1150
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:49,719
Speaker 1: his way back into the starting lineup. This could this

1151
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:53,719
Speaker 1: could not have broken better for the Warriors than it did. Yeah,

1152
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: and it does feel like there's just a personnel mismatch

1153
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:58,400
Speaker 1: like I think the Warriors clearly have five of the

1154
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 1: top seven guys in the series and can only do

1155
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:05,759
Speaker 1: so much. Like the Words are just fundamentally a much

1156
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:09,360
Speaker 1: better basketball team. All Right. You took the Grizzlies to

1157
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:11,839
Speaker 1: beat the t Wolves in six. Minnesota came in and

1158
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:18,440
Speaker 1: stole Game one. Are you holding or bailing here? Jason? So?

1159
00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:22,680
Speaker 1: I specifically picked the Grizzlies in six because I thought

1160
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:26,160
Speaker 1: this series would be a lot more competitive than people realized.

1161
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:31,080
Speaker 1: We talked earlier about how the Sixers played like the

1162
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 1: underdog and one in a lot of the effort and

1163
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 1: focus areas of the game. Well, the same thing happened

1164
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:42,440
Speaker 1: to Memphis tonight. They came in confident, We're the favorite.

1165
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 1: We've been whipping everybody's ass all year. Nobody can beat

1166
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 1: us at home. We beat you, and we talked about it.

1167
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:53,800
Speaker 1: And meanwhile, here comes Minnesota and they're like their heart

1168
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:59,440
Speaker 1: and soul is Patrick Beverley, who is literally Mr Like

1169
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 1: like Patrick Beverley is the kind of guy who will

1170
00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 1: walk into that arena and be like, we are the

1171
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 1: favorite to win this series. We are that, we are

1172
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:11,320
Speaker 1: supposed to be here, We're supposed to win this and

1173
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 1: and so I wasn't surprised at all that Minnesota came

1174
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:16,000
Speaker 1: in and punched him in the mouth. And as I've

1175
00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:19,240
Speaker 1: said on many different occasions, they have real advantages here. Okay,

1176
00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:22,360
Speaker 1: one of Memphis big advantages is they're big and athletic

1177
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:24,360
Speaker 1: on the wings. Well, guess who else has big athletic

1178
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 1: wings Minnesota? Does you know? Obviously Minnesota, Memphis has a

1179
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:31,520
Speaker 1: huge mismatch problem. Nobody can guard John Moran at the

1180
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:33,720
Speaker 1: point of attack. They can't keep him from getting to

1181
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 1: the paint at least well, guess what Nobody on Memphis

1182
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 1: can guard Carl Anthony Towns. And the Steven Adams thing

1183
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:43,480
Speaker 1: is an utter disaster. As is always the case, coaches

1184
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:46,200
Speaker 1: stick with their traditional scheme to start series is before

1185
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 1: they adapt. Adams was an absolute disaster. He got killed

1186
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:53,160
Speaker 1: in transition. He couldn't guard Carl Anthony Towns in in

1187
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 1: isolation situations. He was getting beat off the dribble a lot.

1188
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:58,480
Speaker 1: Every time Anthony Edwards had the ball and was coming

1189
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:01,080
Speaker 1: off those Carl Town's ball screen, Adams was in a

1190
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:03,880
Speaker 1: drop coverage right, you know, down by the free throw line.

1191
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:07,120
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards made eight pull up jump shots in that game,

1192
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:09,720
Speaker 1: A huge part of that was Steven Adams and drop coverage.

1193
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:11,960
Speaker 1: I love Steven Adams, one of my favorite players in

1194
00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:15,240
Speaker 1: the NBA. I've been preaching about how these plotting bigs,

1195
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 1: these slow, traditional bigs, are becoming useless in the modern NBA.

1196
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 1: He was useless last night, and what you're gonna see

1197
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 1: is eventually they're gonna send him to the bench. And

1198
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:27,640
Speaker 1: when they do, I think that's when things kind of

1199
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:30,520
Speaker 1: take off for Memphis in the series. Jaren Jackson Jr.

1200
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:33,200
Speaker 1: Can absolutely play the five. He's the only guy that

1201
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 1: has a decent chance of staying in front of Carl

1202
00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:37,320
Speaker 1: Towns on the perimeter. That's when I think this series

1203
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:39,600
Speaker 1: will turn back in memphis favor. They did not play

1204
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:42,520
Speaker 1: hard enough in Game one. I still think this is

1205
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:45,200
Speaker 1: gonna be very competitive throughout, but I think Memphis is

1206
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:47,760
Speaker 1: gonna end up stealing it and finishing him off in six.

1207
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 1: So holding on all four series is Carson. But I

1208
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:54,080
Speaker 1: will say like after game well, I've never missed her

1209
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:56,080
Speaker 1: overreact to Game one, So if we play the same

1210
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:58,479
Speaker 1: game later on, I think there's a much better chance

1211
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:01,720
Speaker 1: that I would waiver on one of my picks. You know,

1212
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:05,280
Speaker 1: I think that's the right tendency. People are generally over reactionary,

1213
01:00:05,320 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 1: and I do think it's better to stick with your gut.

1214
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:11,919
Speaker 1: Just real quick. Is there a world with aunt where

1215
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: like if that pull up jumper just keeps falling through

1216
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:16,360
Speaker 1: this series, that he is like the best guy on

1217
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 1: the floor. That's a good question. Um. John Morae had

1218
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:27,520
Speaker 1: a really bad game one and uh, he got to

1219
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 1: the free throw line of ton early. Didn't get as

1220
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:34,800
Speaker 1: many calls later in the game. He in the fourth

1221
01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:38,240
Speaker 1: quarter especially, I thought he forced a lot in the

1222
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:40,840
Speaker 1: paint and kind of like we've been talking about with

1223
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:44,400
Speaker 1: all these other series, take the easy shot quality that

1224
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:47,920
Speaker 1: is there, make the kickouts to the wide open shooters

1225
01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 1: on the on the wing. Memphis was twenty three and

1226
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:52,959
Speaker 1: three pointers attempted and twenty three and three pointers made

1227
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:55,800
Speaker 1: this year in the entire NBA. It's because their team

1228
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:58,000
Speaker 1: that when they get into the paint and help comes

1229
01:00:58,040 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 1: over at the rim, John Morae and Dylan Brooks and

1230
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:02,760
Speaker 1: all these guys Ties Jones, they go to the floater,

1231
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 1: they shoot out of the mid range, and what you're

1232
01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 1: seeing is there's more congestion in there than ever. Even

1233
01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:10,600
Speaker 1: the floaters and mid range shots aren't really all that open.

1234
01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 1: You gotta make the kickouts. There were many many occasions

1235
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:16,120
Speaker 1: in that fourth quarter where John Moran got into the

1236
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 1: paint and had an opportunity to make a kick out,

1237
01:01:19,840 --> 01:01:22,040
Speaker 1: but instead just was doing what he did all game,

1238
01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:25,400
Speaker 1: which was jumped into the throng of bodies and flail

1239
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:27,520
Speaker 1: around and throw something up and hope for the best.

1240
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:29,400
Speaker 1: And it worked for him early in the game because

1241
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:33,680
Speaker 1: he got twenty free throws, but he wasn't able to

1242
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:36,720
Speaker 1: make those easier reads and as a result didn't get

1243
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:38,680
Speaker 1: the calls late in the game and and went south

1244
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 1: on him. So it's interesting because Anthony Edwards, he was

1245
01:01:43,520 --> 01:01:46,680
Speaker 1: he made eight pull up jump shots last night. He

1246
01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:49,720
Speaker 1: made four pull up jump shots in the playing game

1247
01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:54,040
Speaker 1: over fifty both nights. There were sixty players in the

1248
01:01:54,120 --> 01:01:56,800
Speaker 1: NBA this year that attempted at least five pull up

1249
01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 1: jump shots per game this year, and Anthony Edwards was

1250
01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:02,440
Speaker 1: dead last. And field goal percentage, Now, some of that

1251
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:04,280
Speaker 1: was he takes he takes a lot of threes with

1252
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:06,000
Speaker 1: his pull up shots, but he was dead last. Had

1253
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:07,960
Speaker 1: a sixty players who attempted at least fifty and field

1254
01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:10,200
Speaker 1: goal percentage, so a huge part of this is like

1255
01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 1: he's shooting well right now. So do I think that

1256
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:14,880
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards could be the best player in this series?

1257
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:17,800
Speaker 1: Probably not, because this is the outlier. My guess is

1258
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:19,520
Speaker 1: there will be a few games in this series where

1259
01:02:19,520 --> 01:02:21,919
Speaker 1: Aunt is gunning for with his pull up jump shot

1260
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:24,480
Speaker 1: and the shots don't go in, So it could go

1261
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 1: the other way on him. But also sometimes guys take

1262
01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:29,640
Speaker 1: leaps and suddenly they start making shots and then they

1263
01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:32,240
Speaker 1: never stopped making shots. So if this is what Aunt

1264
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:34,880
Speaker 1: is and he's rounding out into a good pull up

1265
01:02:34,920 --> 01:02:37,920
Speaker 1: jump shooter, then then yeah, absolutely he has that capability.

1266
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 1: He I did this whole rant about him last night.

1267
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:44,240
Speaker 1: He's a site to behold driving to the basket. He's

1268
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:47,680
Speaker 1: like the definition of the modern power to guard, just

1269
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:50,520
Speaker 1: built like a linebacker. When he gets a straight line drive,

1270
01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:53,800
Speaker 1: guys just bounce off of him. Really really impressed by him.

1271
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:55,960
Speaker 1: But I do think Jaw is the best player in

1272
01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:58,040
Speaker 1: the series. I think I'll show it as things go on,

1273
01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:00,880
Speaker 1: and I think Memphis wind up closing out in six.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, that is all I have for tonight.

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Speaker 1: As always, I appreciate your support. We will be back

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Speaker 1: tomorrow night, right, after the last game of the night

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Speaker 1: to break down all of Day three of this NBA

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Speaker 1: Playoff run. As always, I appreciate your support and we'll

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Speaker 1: see you tomorrow. The volume