WEBVTT - The Draymond Green Show - Lakers/Nuggets Game 2 Reaction 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:12.760 The volume. What's up, everybody, Welcome back to the Draymond 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:17.960 Green show Man. This Conference Finals has been fun to watch, 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.800 although I must say it's annoying to watch, and I 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:26.320 will continue to remind you of that. But in saying that, 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:31.200 as a basketball fan, it's always fun to watch guys 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:36.640 and in the battle, you know, just trying to do 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.519 what you can to put yourself in a better position 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:42.400 to be the team that's moving on. And so we're 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:44.640 gonna break down this game. As you know, we're gonna 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:48.360 break down this series. We'll talk about both series. Really 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:52.880 really really locked into this Nuggets Lakers series, but I'm 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.560 locked into both. We'll talk through both of them, but 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:57.520 let's get right into it. The Nuggets take a two 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:01.840 zero lead, beating the one O eight to one oh 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:07.800 three in Game two, a game that the Lakers pretty 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:11.760 much dominated for majority of the game. If you are 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:18.760 the Denver Nuggets, I saw coach Mo Coach Malone comments 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:22.800 about being up one to zero and everybody talking about 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:26.399 the Lakers and how their adjustment has won them the series, 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.160 and he said, We're we're sitting here at one oh 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:34.400 and everybody's pretty much talking like we lost the series. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:36.880 And I'll tell you this, one of the worst things 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:38.840 in the playoffs that can happen is when you blow 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.280 a team out in game one and then you come 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:42.160 back game two. 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:45.200 It's always a natural letdown. 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:48.160 That team that you blew off is pissed off, blew 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:56.960 out is pissed off. You're naturally just gonna relax just 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.520 a little bit, and that's just enough to make game 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.320 two really tough and game two really tough to and 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:07.120 not not only really tough, but makes it even tougher 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.760 to win in an already tough environment to win in 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.799 the playoffs, it's hard to win playoff games, and that 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.120 makes it a lot tougher. So when you leave game 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:21.160 one like the Nuggets did, where everyone's essentially talking about 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.359 the Lakers as if they won game one, it allows 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:29.440 you not to naturally relax. Now, in saying that, you 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:35.160 look at the start of game two and you say 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:40.840 one of two things, you still relaxed, or the Lakers 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.000 just came out with their adjustments that they made, which 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:48.359 we'll get into with the adjustments that they made, pissed off, 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.560 they came out guns blazing, in fact, they did. 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.799 How did that happen? Though? 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.600 How did So, as you all know, doesn't take a 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.919 rocket scientist to figure out that Jared Vanderbilt went back 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:09.520 into the Star lineup for Dennis Shrewder, something that we 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.919 spoke about a couple days ago that could possibly happen. 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.520 Although I didn't think it would be Shrewter to come 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:17.560 out of the lineup. I thought it would be d 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.440 Loo to come out of the lineup. They went Shrewter 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:30.560 and that was that. Now we also saw Lebron, James Garden, 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:35.600 Joker a lot more than we did in Game one. 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.400 One thing that I noticed that the Lakers was doing 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.560 is they went Ruie. They win Lebron, they went a 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:44.800 d They did not give Joker a steady diet of anything. 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:49.640 They gave him different looks at some point. At times 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.680 le Bron was just fronting with Ad on the backside. 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.160 At times Ad was guarded straight up. At times they 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.760 sent the double team. They did a bunch of different things. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:04.360 Now you'd say, all right, logically, you should go back 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.000 to the film and see which one of those worked, right, 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:10.080 Which one of those were stifling Joker, which one of 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:14.120 those were what which coverage we were in when we 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:19.400 were making our runs. Quite frankly, I think most of 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:24.719 them worked. Actually think most other coverage is most study 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.680 adjustments they made on Joker work. I thought when they 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:29.920 were sending the double team, and I'm gonna get into 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.480 a couple specific plays, but when they were sending double team, 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:38.080 I thought it was good. I thought they invited the 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.680 first pass out. And so for those who don't understand, 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.480 if you go, we call it a fire, which is 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.760 if Joker catches the ball on the post, the first 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.440 wing that got fires, which means they go on the 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.640 trap Joker on the block or right off the block 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:56.320 where they were trapping them, which then puts you into 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.600 what we were describing last game, or what I was 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.760 explaining the last game, which is a full rotation. Next 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:06.000 guy goes over, next guy rotates over. Guy who's leaving 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:11.640 the trap fires out to the weak side corner or 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.640 to the man in the dunker, but most often not 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:16.960 you're firing out to the weak side dunker because you 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:21.080 want to keep either Bron or Ad on that week's 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.800 side dunker man, which is Aaron Gordon. Because if you 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.120 if you fire out of the trap, which is usually 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.679 a guard because the guard was the man rotating down 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:32.360 on the trap. If you're not rotate out of it, 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.880 and that guy just rotates to Aaron Gordon and the dunker. 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.279 Good luck Aaron Gordon's office and rebound and Aaron Gordon's 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.200 dunk in the basketball. So you actually need to keep 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.560 Bron and Ad in that spot for rebounding position, so 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.280 that guard is then that guard then needs to get 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:50.520 all the way out to the weak side corner. They 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:54.320 were successful in guarding that way. They didn't give up 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.320 many back doors out of it. They didn't give up 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.560 many shots out of it until they did one play 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:06.599 in particular. It was at a very very it was 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:10.719 a kind of a turning point in the game, and 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.440 they fired. KCP was right there on the wing. They 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:19.239 kick it out to KCP. Rotation doesn't get there fast enough. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:24.440 KCP hits a three that takes the lead from forty 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:28.960 two to thirty five. It makes the lead forty two 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.240 to thirty five. Takes the score from to forty two 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:36.560 thirty five. The significance of that, and so, as I 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.839 told y'all, for me, I like to educate on the 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.640 game of basketball. And so one thing that I understand 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.400 people don't realize is how to actually watch a game 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:49.440 and how to watch film, and so when I'm watching film, 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.160 when I'm watching the game, I'm also looking at turning points. 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.599 And a big turning point in the game was the 0:06:55.720 --> 0:07:02.680 Lebron mishap on the dunk, because that takes an eight 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.640 point lead to a ten point league. You get a 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:12.880 time out there, everything's rolling right, Bron bobbles the ball, 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:16.840 ball goes out of bounds. At that time, I think, 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.040 if I'm not mistaken, it was forty to thirty two 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.520 and ball goes out of bounds. Nuggets come back down, 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:28.680 they don't score. Lakers come down, don't score, back don't 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.960 score Nuggets. Lakers come back down and they score. But 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.600 the rhythm is off, like it's no longer the game's 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.480 no longer flowing like it was flowing leading up to that. 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:43.400 And then you get the Joker. You get the Joker 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:50.080 kickout three from KCP. Now that gets KCP going because 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.440 if you remember, KCP had two quick files, didn't have 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:57.400 a rhythm. Now you get the other guys going. See, 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:02.280 initially Joker was scoring, but he weren't getting any assists. 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.640 And remember we spoke about this Joker not having assists. 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:06.920 That is the key. 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.360 At one point in the game, he had twelve two 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.160 and two and the Lakers were dominated. Then he had 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.840 fourteen two and two, Lakers were dominating. And so now 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:21.040 the game stops, the flow stops, and that turns to 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:26.280 the advantage at that time to the Denver Nuggets forty 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:31.320 two to thirty five. That happens, and then they start 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:36.839 to walk the Lakers down. Now they were doing a 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.120 great job of keeping all the other guys out and 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:43.680 taking Jokers passing away, and towards the end of the third, 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.280 end of the second quarter, I'd say maybe about five 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:51.160 six minutes to go, the Nuggets started to create transition opportunities. 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:55.360 And once they started to create transition opportunities, that then 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.120 opened the game up for Joker. Now all of a sudden, 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.439 he's getting assisted in transition. The assist total goes from 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.480 two to five really quick, and now you're playing a 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:06.880 totally different ball game. So now they get they start 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.640 to get out in transition, and they start to make 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:13.959 plays in transition. Jokers gotten loose. Good luck from there. 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:20.240 Now another thing happened and Denver Nuggets, you may want 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:21.920 to talk to your ball boy about this. I'm just 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.839 watching the game and they're getting out in transition, it's 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:28.319 two minutes to go in the half, right around two minutes, 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.800 maybe a little under two minutes, and. 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.080 The ball goes out of bound. 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:36.560 The ball boy stops the game by walking over there 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.239 and wiping up sweat off the floor, so the referee 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:45.960 has to pause, and at this time the Denver Nuggets 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:51.720 has taken control of the game. What that allowed to 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.040 happen is, if you all don't know, Joker runs to 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.559 the referee, he gets the ball out fast. If nobody's looking, 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.920 he's gonna throw a long pass for home run layup. 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:03.920 If not, still get the ball out fast, and you 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.200 can push the pace because the defense is walking back. 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.199 They're not set. You push the pace. Now they're like, oh, oh, 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.040 we gotta play defense. And now it's essentially just like 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.920 you're in transition playing against the scrambling defense, which is 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:20.800 how they had started taking control of the game in transition. 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:26.439 Lakers transition defense has been bad all year. First team, 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:30.080 their second team transition defense has been bad. They were 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:35.040 number one defense after the All Star break with the 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.319 new team the new roster, they were still twenty fifth 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:41.160 in transition defense, So that has been an area of 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.720 concern for the Lakers all year, and it's showing up 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.000 in a major way in this series. As it's shown 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.880 up at times in the previous two series, it's really 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.079 showing up in these first two games of this series. 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.920 Plus you got altitude, let's not forget about that. So 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.320 now they end up playing against a set defense and 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:05.160 they have started making their run. In making their run, 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.520 the guy stops the game. They come down, they don't score, 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.400 Lakers didn't score to make it fifty one to forty eight. 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.360 Got another stop on the joker miss Lakers come down, 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:20.439 doesn't score, Nuggets come down, don't score again. Ruey then 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:22.560 makes it fifty three to forty eight. They scored on 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:26.120 a couple free throws. Those are run breakers, and so 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.120 I hope they can identify that the guy who actually 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.120 broke their run up was their ball boy going out 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.520 to wipe the sweat up off the floor. Hey, my man, 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.880 when the game goes down the court, then you come 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.480 out and wipe that up. The game's going down the floor. 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.280 It's one thing if they're staying on that they're staying 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.760 on that side of the floor, then yes, safety of course, 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:46.920 but they're about to take off down the floor. Let 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:48.719 them take off, then go wipe that up so they 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:52.480 can get their transition opportunity. That really stopped the game 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:58.160 because Joker had three assists during that two to three 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.800 minute span and they all coming off transition, and he 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:03.600 had one off the cut where he caught it in 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.360 the post. He lobbed it up to Bruce Brown. Bruce 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.640 Brown made an incredible catching, incredible finish. But other than that, 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.480 everything was coming out of transition for them, and even 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:14.600 a couple of plays where he didn't get the assist, 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:17.320 but the hockey assists for those that don't know what 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.560 the hockey assist is, that's how passed it to Steph. 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:23.360 Steph passed it to Clay. I his Steph, he hit Clay. 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:25.760 I don't get an assist for that. STEP's getting assist, 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.280 But in hockey, both guys get the assists, so we. 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:29.400 Call that the hockey assist. 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.320 So he had a couple hockey assists during that stretch 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:34.880 as well that won't quite show up in the stat shee, 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:39.680 but that really stopped their run going into the break, 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:46.960 Gay the lake or something going into the break. And 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:48.559 now you come out of the break if you're the 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.040 Nuggets and you're like all right, we made our run. 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:52.160 And it's one thing. 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:53.800 When you make that run if they're abody to take 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.560 that from forty nine to forty eight to fifty to 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:57.280 forty nine. 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.800 When you make that run and you don't end. 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:04.280 Up head, that's like a if you're in a boxing mash, 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:07.679 that's just like another jab right to slow the God down. 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:08.480 Another job, and. 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:10.640 You're like, man, I just put a good combo together. 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.280 God keep hitting me with a job to slow me down. 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.440 That's a job in the heavyweight fight. As we're watching 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.360 a heavyweight fight, it's a job that the job kept 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.880 working and so that slows them down. 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:22.600 Going into the half. 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:26.280 They come out of the half, doesn't play great in 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.719 the third quarter either, and they eventually figures it out 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:34.599 in the fourth. Another key moment that I thought in 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:39.640 the game in this segment as well as as Bron. 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:42.520 They were up ten, the Lakers were up ten, and 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:46.480 Bron was at the score table. By the time Bron 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.760 was able to check in, they were up too and 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:52.000 Darvinham had to take a time out. And I thought 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:55.840 that was really important because, as I've told you all, 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.440 I think Bron has to really control this series, dominating 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.000 the basketball, getting them into the things that they want 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.880 to because Denver has a good defense, but they also 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.480 have a couple holes on their defense that you can't 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.200 exploit if you get guys in the right position. And 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.719 bron being caught at the score sable from where the 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.599 lead was ten points all the way down to it 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.720 was two, the entire momentum of the game change and 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:23.680 I thought that was a really key moment. 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.800 Denver goes on the a to Zho run and that 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:29.560 really allowed. 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:33.200 The Nuggets to get their fit, get their get their footing, 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.920 allowed them to change the game, allowed them to get 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:40.920 out in transition, and now they're rolling. So you in 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.160 the game with Joker with twenty three seventeen and twelve assists. 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:48.680 Didn't quite get thirty, but he got twelve assists, So 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.400 in turn, you ends up you end up allowing all 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:56.440 the other guys to get going. Now, what ultimately ended 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.480 up winning the Nuggets the game was Jamal Murray's performance 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:04.400 in the fourth quarter. Jamal Murray had twenty three of 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:08.720 his thirty seven points in the fourth quarter and totally 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.480 took the game over. He was five to six from 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.840 three in the fourth quarter. Lakers scored twenty four points 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.240 in the fourth quarter. Jamal Murray had twenty three points 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:23.320 in the fourth quarter, and if you watch it, all 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:28.120 of the buckets really came on switches. They're switching Jamal 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.200 Murray's getting to his shot. He had a couple buckets 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.760 on ad. He had a couple buckets on Brown, which 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:36.800 goes back to my theory. This is a Jared Vanderbilt series. 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:40.840 Jared Vanderbilt has to play minutes, and I know the 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.600 thing is going to be oh but they needed shooting 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.960 on the floor, but Jared Vanderbilt has never provided you shooting. 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.400 So it's almost like, oh man, the other guys are 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.560 struggling with shooting the basketball. We need to get more 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.000 shooting on the floor. But your guys who shoot for 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.680 you are struggling to shoot basketball. There's not really anyone 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:03.440 else your roster that's changing that. Maybe you go Malie Beasley. 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.480 I don't know. Austin Reaves has been shooting the lights ole, 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.440 but guys have really been struggling to shoot for them 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:16.640 all all postseason long. Like this isn't like, oh man, 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.120 they just went cold for the most part, with the 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:22.320 exception of maybe two three games, they've been cold from three. 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.360 They're not a great three point shooting team. That's just 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:26.240 not their strength. 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:28.800 So to all of a sudden, you go, oh man, 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:32.920 we need to get more shooting. Denver hasn't necessarily shown 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:37.000 the ability to really stop you from getting to the rim. 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:45.000 They haven't really shown that ability. So I'm not. 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:48.480 Sure if what everybody is making of the shooting is 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:52.200 the actual thing. Again, the Denver Nuggets have been rolling 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.320 with Aaron Gordon who hasn't provided any shooting at all. 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.080 Now you can say, oh, yeah, but Jamal Murray was 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.720 hitting shots and other guys were hitting shots. Yeah, but 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:01.720 they're still giving you a guy to help off of 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:03.720 to cover all of that and to take some of 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:09.119 those shots away. So maybe it's not the shooting, and 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.840 maybe it's Jared Vanderbilt you need in there to take 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:15.360 Jamal Murray away, to take Jamal Murray out the game, 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.960 because guess what, he had a very tough first quarter, 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:23.639 He had a very rough first half. Jared Vanderbilt played 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.240 more in the first quarter in the first half, So 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:30.200 I actually think this is a Vanderbilt series, and I 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:36.240 think Dennis Schroeder has been very important for this team. 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.280 Jamal Murray may not be the matchup for Dennis Schroeder, 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.280 I still think Dennis Schroeder can affect I still think 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:44.800 Dennis Schroeder can affect their. 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:47.440 Defensive outcome. 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.240 For instance, say if I got Jared Vanderbilt on the 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:52.840 floor and he's guarding Jamal Murray, and I got Dennis 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:57.919 Schroder on the floor, say he's guarden KCP. He's going 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:01.399 to get underneath KCP. Doesn't allow KCP to put the 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.879 ball on the floor at all. Because Dennis Schroeder is 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.560 a really good defender, and if your handle isn't absolutely incredible, 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:09.959 he's going to get to some of that. So you 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.879 take KCP coming out of the corner downhill to his 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:13.600 right hand. 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.399 You kind of take that away. 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.439 Michael Porter Junior doesn't really take advantage of his size 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.879 and mismatches. He may go to the mid post, but 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.520 if he goes to the mid post and you crowd 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:30.320 the paint, then he's taking tough shots, which I'd prefer 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.159 to Michael Porter to take tough shots and some of 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:36.800 the things that they've been getting to. So you could 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.679 put Dennis Schroeder there as well. I'm not saying you 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:43.000 need to take Dinnis Strouder atlantup or uh less than 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:44.920 its minutes, because I think that would be the wrong 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.879 thing to do. But I do think you have, like 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:53.359 it's absolutely necessary that Jared vander Will plays more minutes. 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:59.919 That is what will allow them to better guard Jamal Murray. 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.040 That's two games in a row now Jamal Murray has 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:08.480 had thirty points. He's got to be a priority, has 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:13.719 to be a priority. And I mean if he's not 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:18.040 a priority, he's now shown you that two times and 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.359 two nights he can beat you. 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:22.840 AD didn't have a great game. 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.560 I thought he played a really good game, really good 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:31.760 floor game. Stats can't always be measured by scoring. Finishing 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:37.040 game eighteen points, fourteen rebounds on four for fifteen shooting. 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.240 Why it's very important for AD to have good games, 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.560 but not even so much have good games, but be 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:47.000 extremely aggressive. As Joker is his matchup, you have to 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:50.399 make him work on both sides of the floor. The 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:54.160 Lakers are capable of doing that because they have AD. 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:58.040 AD didn't play a very good game or a very 0:19:58.040 --> 0:19:59.800 aggressive game. I should say it's like I said, I 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:03.879 thought he played a good game, but he wasn't extremely 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:07.520 aggressive on the offensive end, which allows Joker to sit back, 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:11.080 which allows him to get a little more rest. It 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:13.399 doesn't put as much pressure on him as that doesn't 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.240 put as much pressure on their defense. And so I 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:19.600 thought the Lakers needed a much more aggressive AD. They're 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:21.800 going to continue to need a much more aggressive AD, 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:25.720 not only to make Joker defend, but I also don't 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:27.879 think they have the team to where AD can't be 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:30.600 aggressive and they can still win. Now you can say, hey, 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:33.320 they were winning the entire game and Jamal Murray got going. 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:34.400 And yes, that's the fact. 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.080 But if you have Anthony Davis being extremely aggressive when 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:39.520 you are winning the entire game, all of a sudden, 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:41.359 your lead isn't to the whole game, It isn't for 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:42.960 the whole game. Yeah, you get it to ten and 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:45.919 it goes right back down. Now you start to extend 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:49.040 that lead because AD is playing aggressive, you put it 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:51.320 a little a little more out of reach. You make 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:53.200 it a little tougher for them to make a comeback. 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:58.320 So I thought they needed a much more aggressive AD, 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:02.840 and they're going to continue to need that as this 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:05.720 series goes on. Let's get into a couple of things 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:08.200 that happened during the game. The DNS Will Russell flagrant file. 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:11.600 I thought it was extremely soft. He goes up to 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:18.800 block the shot. This is the playoffs, like flagrant foul. 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:24.040 And then everybody say, oh man, the NBA is soft. 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:29.879 And as I've told you all before, I agree, but 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:32.880 we blame it on players. We say, oh man, these 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:37.879 guys are soft for that, and we blame it on players. No, 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:41.000 no player did did did anything for that flagran file. 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:43.120 Quite frankly, I don't think the player who was given 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:45.760 a flagran file should have been given a flag and file. 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:51.440 But that doesn't make players soft. 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:56.560 The rules are a lot softer, but I can't necessarily say, 0:21:56.560 --> 0:21:59.960 oh man, guys are softer because they call a flagran file. 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:06.040 So like, if that's a flager file, like is that 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:06.840 what we're selling? 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:10.199 Or like do we need to go revisit. 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:14.679 These flagrant file rules, which quite frankly I'm in favor of, Like, 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:18.639 let's let's revisit these flagran file rules because I just 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:22.520 cannot agree that that's a flagrant file. Like how do you, like, 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:24.560 like do you softly file and give up a layup? 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:26.040 Or do you make sure you don't give up to 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:31.399 three point play? And so I wasn't I wasn't. I 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:35.040 wasn't too thrilled with the Flager file. As you can 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:38.159 see by my tweet, that's soft. That is soft, soft, 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:45.240 very soft flagran file. Can we be better with that? Like, again, 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:47.120 I'm watching the game as a fan right now, I'm 0:22:47.119 --> 0:22:48.000 not watching as a player. 0:22:48.040 --> 0:22:52.840 I'm watching as a fan right now. That's like, I. 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:54.920 Don't know if that's what I'm paying my cable bill 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:57.479 to see. I don't really pay cable bill to watch movies. 0:22:57.680 --> 0:22:59.800 I pay cable bill to watch sports. I'm not sure 0:22:59.840 --> 0:23:02.720 that that's what I'm paying to see. Like, come on, Like, 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:05.760 it's the playoffs. It's supposed to be harder, it's supposed 0:23:05.800 --> 0:23:06.399 to be tougher. 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:08.600 I don't know. 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:11.960 Maybe you all think differently, and maybe that's why I 0:23:12.000 --> 0:23:14.240 always end up with a bunch of flaking file points. 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:17.720 But I am just not rolling that. That's a flag 0:23:17.800 --> 0:23:20.240 and file. I can't roll with that. And going into 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:23.639