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Speaker 1: the volume. Happy Tuesday, everybody. Hope all of you guys

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Speaker 1: are having a great week so far. Today is Denver

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Speaker 1: Nuggets Day. We finally made it to the end of

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Speaker 1: our last list of the off season, our power ranking

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Speaker 1: season previews, and at number one is the Denver Nuggets,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk about their preseason so far, talk

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Speaker 1: about some specific production from guys like Jamal Murray and

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Speaker 1: some of their younger players as well. And then the

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Speaker 1: second half of the show, we're gonna do our full

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Speaker 1: season preview. Like we usually do, We're gonna go over

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Speaker 1: the offseason changes, their depth chart, talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: about what I expect to see from them this season,

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Speaker 1: and then talk about why I have them at the

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Speaker 1: top of my list of contenders, specifically over each team.

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Speaker 1: let's talk some basketball. So the Nuggets are two and

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Speaker 1: one so far in preseason. Michael Porter Junior hasn't played yet,

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Speaker 1: but all four starters have played and have played well.

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Speaker 1: They all have logged net ratings of at least plus

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Speaker 1: seven points per one hundred possessions, so they're picking up

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Speaker 1: pretty much right where they left off. Yokich has been great.

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Speaker 1: He's four out of six on hook shots and floaters,

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Speaker 1: right at that two out of three like he always is.

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Speaker 1: He's eight of nine at the rim. He's fifty five

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Speaker 1: percent effective field goal percentage on jump shots. He's run

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Speaker 1: twelve self creation possessions either picking rolls, ISOs or post

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Speaker 1: and he's gotten twelve points out of them. That's a

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Speaker 1: point and a half per possession. So yo Kicch is

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Speaker 1: you know more or less what you expect to see

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Speaker 1: from Yogicch. Jamal Murray has been exciting. I talked a

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Speaker 1: lot in the player rankings video this summer. I put

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Speaker 1: him at number sixteen if you guys remember, and one

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Speaker 1: things that he needs to actually be on the level

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Speaker 1: of his peers, and I have him higher than most

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Speaker 1: people because I value playoff success so much compared to

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Speaker 1: other people. I get crap for that on this show

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Speaker 1: all the time. Right, But like, in order to get

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Speaker 1: we got to media Day and Mike Malone basically said

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Speaker 1: the same thing, challenging Jamal Murray to demonstrate that he

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Speaker 1: could do it over the course of the regular season.

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Speaker 1: Now in the preseason, it's tough to kind of like

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Speaker 1: put those numbers together from the standpoint of them playing

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Speaker 1: limited shifts, right because they're trying to keep their minutes

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Speaker 1: down in the preseason. But if I extrapolate out to

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Speaker 1: turn it into what that production would look like in

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Speaker 1: a normal NBA game, Right, Like Jamal Murray actually played

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Speaker 1: about thirty three minutes per game last year, but a

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Speaker 1: So it's a way to kind of extrapolate out right, Well,

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Speaker 1: Jamal Murray is averaging twenty five points in preseason so

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Speaker 1: far per thirty six minutes to go with three rebounds

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Speaker 1: If he does that for a top four seed in

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Speaker 1: And what's crazy is he's putting up that twenty five

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Speaker 1: that's not what it was. The guys were just tired.

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Speaker 1: They were tired because they just finished playing in October

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Speaker 1: then Jamal actually literally gets hurt and then that whole

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Speaker 1: necessarily fair. I think he became really freaking good in

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Speaker 1: have better reputations around the league. But I thought that

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Speaker 1: eleven jump shots so far in preseason. Aaron Gordon's jumper

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Speaker 1: been hearing all this talk about Julian Strawther, Julian Strawther,

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Speaker 1: and obviously, like the Nuggets made the fewest changes of

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Speaker 1: classic on ball scoring threat. He's averaging twenty points per

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Speaker 1: fifty percent from three. And most importantly, he's brought something

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Speaker 1: that's like real fluidity in his dribble pull up jump

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Speaker 1: as he's recovering back to the role man, that's when

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Speaker 1: what he's made damn near all of them. He's made

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Speaker 1: nine pull up jump shots so far in preseason. Excuse me,

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Speaker 1: he's taken nine pull up jump shots so far in preseason,

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Speaker 1: made six of them, five of them are pull up threes.

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Speaker 1: On all jump shots so far in preseason, he's at

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Speaker 1: seventy six percent in effective field goal percentage. He's hit

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Speaker 1: he's hit them and pick and roll, he's hit them

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Speaker 1: in ISOs. It's been really truly impressive. And again, it's

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Speaker 1: we've seen a role player come in and knock down

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Speaker 1: This is a confident score that is demonstrating something that

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Speaker 1: he clearly has been working on all offseason. He's run

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Speaker 1: And so, like, the reality is is, in order to

428
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Speaker 1: beat the Nuggets, you need one of two things to happen.

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Speaker 1: You need a team that is a truly elite offense

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Speaker 1: and a truly elite defense, which we'll go through the contenders,

431
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Speaker 1: but I don't necessarily think one of those teams exists

432
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Speaker 1: right now, or you need one of the core Nuggets

433
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Speaker 1: players to get hurt. And so, from that standpoint, to me,

434
00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:15,800
Speaker 1: like I can count on the Nuggets offense to find

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Speaker 1: a way to score against anybody in the league. Is

436
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Speaker 1: there a team that can hold them to that level

437
00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,520
Speaker 1: that those defenses did last year, because God knows what

438
00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:29,560
Speaker 1: it could have been if they faced four offensive minded teams, right,

439
00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:32,960
Speaker 1: Can they find a team that can make them work

440
00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,760
Speaker 1: as hard as some of those defenses did, but also

441
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Speaker 1: make them pay on the other end. I don't know

442
00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,720
Speaker 1: if that team exists. Because you can't say whatever you

443
00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,840
Speaker 1: want about the Nuggets defense, the Jokics, pick and roll coverages,

444
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:49,040
Speaker 1: they use the schemes that Mike Malone implemented. They worked

445
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Speaker 1: well enough against the teams that they played against last year.

446
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Speaker 1: And so I mean, like, I don't necessarily see a

447
00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:01,560
Speaker 1: team that can solve that specific problem. And like, here's

448
00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 1: the thing. Will the Nuggets repeat? Probably not, just because

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Speaker 1: of what NBA history tells us, Right, Like, the last

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Speaker 1: team that even won their conference two times in a

451
00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,320
Speaker 1: row was the Golden State Warriors with Kevin Durant and

452
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Speaker 1: Steph Curry. So every year we see different teams win

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Speaker 1: their conference and different teams win the championship. That's just

454
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Speaker 1: kind of the nature of the NBA at this point.

455
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:27,080
Speaker 1: Too much depth of talent, stars are linking up all

456
00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:30,440
Speaker 1: over the place. It's just really really hard to dominate

457
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Speaker 1: the league the way teams have done in the past. Right,

458
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Speaker 1: But that said, is there any single team that I'd

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Speaker 1: pick over the Nuggets? Like, for the Bucks, they have

460
00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:44,960
Speaker 1: a real perimeter defense issue, and they're also super vulnerable

461
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Speaker 1: from the standpoint of depth and injuries to their core players.

462
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Speaker 1: For the Celtics, did they really alleviate the Jason Tatum

463
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Speaker 1: half court offense shot creation element? Not really? And they

464
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Speaker 1: sacrifice depth to upgrade at point guard and center for

465
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Speaker 1: the Suns. I really don't trust their ability to get

466
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Speaker 1: into a damn rock fight and defend and rebound and

467
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,159
Speaker 1: be physical and be able to knock down pull up

468
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Speaker 1: jump shots while doing that, not to mention just the

469
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Speaker 1: general process of taking pull up jump shots primarily in

470
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Speaker 1: your offense and us never really seeing a team win

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Speaker 1: a title that way. The Lakers have all the depth

472
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Speaker 1: in the world, but they lack perimeter defense too, And

473
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Speaker 1: then we talked about this ad nauseum all summer, but

474
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Speaker 1: their shot making is a huge weakness against the top

475
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Speaker 1: teams in the league. Unless we see some gigantic improvement

476
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Speaker 1: from Lebron and ad and then the Warriors, I think

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Speaker 1: they're clearly worse than all those teams, even though I'll

478
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Speaker 1: always consider them a competitor a contender because of their

479
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Speaker 1: starting five. They're older, they're smaller than everybody. They lack

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Speaker 1: depth as well. So like again, if I had to

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Speaker 1: choose the field or to choose the Nuggets, I would

482
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Speaker 1: probably choose the field, just because of what NBA history

483
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Speaker 1: tells us from the same point of just parody and

484
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Speaker 1: how you have to get lucky now to get injury luck.

485
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 1: You gotta get a match up here or there that

486
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Speaker 1: breaks your way. You gotta avoid one of the top

487
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Speaker 1: teams in the league because they happened to choke and

488
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Speaker 1: lose early. Like you, I'm not criticizing the Nuggets last year,

489
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Speaker 1: because every title has been like this, Right, Like the

490
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,560
Speaker 1: Nuggets didn't have to face the Celtics or Bucks and

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Speaker 1: primarily faced limited offenses, and they were a limited defense.

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Speaker 1: They got a little bit lucky. Right. Looking at the Warriors, right,

493
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:26,760
Speaker 1: you catch the Lebron and Ad messing around with Russell

494
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Speaker 1: Westbrook thing, and how that kind of removed them from

495
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Speaker 1: the equation. The Sons, who are the best team in

496
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Speaker 1: the league all season, there's this weird COVID thing, and

497
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,639
Speaker 1: then Luca mentally dominates them, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you have a pretty limited Dallas Mavericks team in the

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Speaker 1: conference finals, right, and then you get to face a

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Speaker 1: Boston Celtics team that's obviously very good but is led

501
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 1: by a super young superstar. They got scared in front

502
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Speaker 1: of Steph Curry. You go back to twenty twenty one

503
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:53,600
Speaker 1: and it's like, wait, the Paul George No Kawhi Clippers

504
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 1: were in the conference finals and Trey Young and the

505
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 1: Hawks were in the conference finals and Giannis had to

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Speaker 1: play a team with no top ten players to win

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Speaker 1: the trophy. You know, you go back to twenty twenty

508
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 1: and it's like Kevin Durant and Steph Curry are on

509
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 1: their couches for Lebron and Anthony Davis to dominate everybody

510
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:12,200
Speaker 1: in the bubble. You go back to twenty nineteen and

511
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Speaker 1: you have the Kevin Durant Klay Thompson injuries, like it's

512
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Speaker 1: just You go back to twenty eighteen and you have

513
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Speaker 1: the Chris Paul injury when they're up three to two,

514
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Speaker 1: Like every champion gets lucky. That's just the reality. It's

515
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 1: such an important part of the equation. And so in

516
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 1: a league this deep, it's it's hard to imagine things

517
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Speaker 1: breaking right for the Nuggets. Again just based on what

518
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 1: happens in recent NBA history, but there is no singular

519
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:40,399
Speaker 1: team that their specific situation appears better to than Denver

520
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 1: for me, so in a wide open league, and this again,

521
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Speaker 1: I want to be clear, this is a basketball case.

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Speaker 1: It's not just I am a loyalist of the banner.

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Speaker 1: I do believe the Nuggets deserve to have the bragging

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Speaker 1: rights throughout this entire season, but also fundamentally, they have

525
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Speaker 1: the best player in the world, the most unguardable playoff

526
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,240
Speaker 1: offense in the world, and they have proven the abilit

527
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Speaker 1: to take limited offenses in the playoffs and guard them

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00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 1: well even if they defend well on the other end

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00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 1: of the floor. And Jamal Murray has proven multiple postseasons

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Speaker 1: now to be able to produce at a superstar level

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Speaker 1: as a legitimate number two alongside Nicole Jokic. That makes

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00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 1: him a say for bet. They also have the best

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Speaker 1: home court advantage in the NBA statistically, It's just hard

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Speaker 1: to go any other direction right now as a pick

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Speaker 1: than the Denver Nuggets. All Right, two mail back questions

536
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: before we get out of here today versus from Felipe,

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Speaker 1: Most people have Phoenix above the Lakers, even though they

538
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 1: can't guard Jokic or ad How would you see a

539
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,160
Speaker 1: potential Phoenix Denver in Phoenix LA matchup? So Denver in LA,

540
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 1: in my opinion, are the two most physically imposing teams

541
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Speaker 1: in the entire NBA other than maybe the Milwaukee Bucks, right,

542
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,160
Speaker 1: and that's really more of a Yiannis thing, right. Their

543
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 1: front lines are just massive with the Lakers. It's like

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00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 1: you have to deal with Anthony Davis, you have to

545
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: deal with Lebron James and his big physical matchup attacking.

546
00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,240
Speaker 1: You have to deal with with Ruby Hatcha Mura and

547
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 1: his big physical matchup attacking. They're going. They're big all

548
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: at all these positions, right, even their guards. I mean

549
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,120
Speaker 1: they're not as athletic as they should be. But D'Angelo

550
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 1: Russell can post up smaller defenders. We saw him do

551
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,639
Speaker 1: that to Steph Curry a lot in the postseason last year. Right,

552
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 1: we go to the Nuggets, they're huge. It's it's Nicole Jokic,

553
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 1: probably the most physically imposing center in the league. It's

554
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:23,399
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon, you know, in that archetype of big, strong

555
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: role player forward. He's one of the top three or

556
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 1: four guys in the league at that position. It was

557
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 1: a great rebounder, six foot ten. There was a play

558
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: in the game, remember Game one in the NBA Finals,

559
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 1: that they just opened up against the heat by just

560
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 1: giving the ball to Aaron Gordon the post and him

561
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,120
Speaker 1: dominating everybody. They play a six ' ten to three

562
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 1: in Michael Porter junior. Jamal Murray is a big physically

563
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 1: imposing guard who can inflict that on smaller guards around

564
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 1: the league. So the Lakers and Nuggets to me, are

565
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:53,159
Speaker 1: the two most physically imposing teams, and in order to

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Speaker 1: beat them, you have to hold up under that physical

567
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: onslaught And like, I have no doubt that the Sons

568
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 1: are gonna win a shit ton of regular season with

569
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,119
Speaker 1: all their offensive skill, but like there is there is

570
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: something to be said about playing in a physical environment

571
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,120
Speaker 1: and the impact that has on your ability to knock

572
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 1: down pull up jump shots. In general, it's really difficult

573
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: to knock down enough pull up jump shots to be

574
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,919
Speaker 1: an efficient offense. But when you factor in doing that

575
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: against the team that's beating you up on the other

576
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: end and wearing you down and making those jump shots

577
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: even harder, I don't think it's a coincidence that most

578
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 1: pull up jump shooters go down in efficiency when they

579
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 1: end up in settings like that. We even saw Steph

580
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:31,439
Speaker 1: Curry have his least efficient postseason or postseason series since

581
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: I think it in like five years. It was back

582
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 1: to like the twenty nineteen series against the Rockets because

583
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: they were so damn physical with them. The Lakers were

584
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 1: all over the place, Like I just I'm not a

585
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: doubter in the Suns in what they're capable of from

586
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 1: the standpoint of their ceiling with all the talent that

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00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: they have. To me, it's just a simple reality of

588
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 1: the way playoff basketball goes. It always degenerates into a knockdown,

589
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,719
Speaker 1: drag out fist fight, and the teams that rely on

590
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 1: really tough shot making as a posed to as like

591
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: a as like a counter, like the Nuggets made a

592
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: lot of tough shots Yo Kitchen Murray, crazy end the

593
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: clock shots in key moments throughout the postseason. That was

594
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: not their bread and butter. They made those shots when

595
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 1: they needed to as like a ceiling razor. For the Suns,

596
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: that is who they are. In that first preseason game

597
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 1: that Booker, I'm gonna check up on the Sun's more

598
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 1: recent preseason games later this week, But in that first

599
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: preseason game, Booker, kd and Beale took twenty one shots

600
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: in what fifteen or sixteen of them were pull up

601
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: jump shots. That's not their counter, That's not how they

602
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 1: rescue possessions at the end of the clock. That's literally

603
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 1: what they do every single possession. So I just don't

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Speaker 1: trust that in a seven game series the way that

605
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 1: I trust Enver. In LA final mail back question, I

606
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Speaker 1: was curious why you don't talk about the WWNBA during

607
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 1: the offseason, considering the WNBA playoffs occur when NBA basketball

608
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 1: is in its off season, and it would give us

609
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 1: some basketball content to go over. Also, I am just

610
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: interested in analysis on at WNBA games. I'm watching the

611
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: WNBA finals now and their style of play is very

612
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: different from NBA ball. So I don't cover the WNBA

613
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: for the same reason I don't cover college basketball. I

614
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: am a big believer and like, if you spread yourself

615
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 1: too thin, all it does is sacrifice the quality of work.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of people out there that cover

617
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Speaker 1: THEWNBA and do a really good job. But for me, like,

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Speaker 1: in order to be the best NBA analyst that I

619
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: can be, I need to devote my attention and energy

620
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 1: towards the NBA and so like, I have a very

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Speaker 1: specific calendar, right like from basically now all the way

622
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 1: through to the middle of June, it's NBA basketball. But

623
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Speaker 1: then when we get to the middle of June, like

624
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: immediately after that, I'm going to start looking at draft prospects,

625
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to watch a ton of college hoops.

626
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 1: I'm going to watch specific film on specific players and

627
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: specific traits that might be able to translate to the

628
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Speaker 1: NBA level. Then we get in to the free agent

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00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 1: period right in July, right, and then I have NBA

630
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: Summer League, right and then my wife and I like

631
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: to go on vacation for a little while, and then

632
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Speaker 1: when I get back, like there are specific things that

633
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: I want to do every single summer. The player rankings

634
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: are something that are very important to me. To me,

635
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: that's like kind of a really fun part of the

636
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: NBA off season is like where are these guys at

637
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: in terms of bragging rights going into this following season?

638
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: And also, if anything, I'm looking to cut back in

639
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: how much I work in the off season. I was

640
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: talking with my wife the other day, but after we

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Speaker 1: And over the course of the following ten weeks, I

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Speaker 1: powers that be already and I've talked to my wife, like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing that next year. Like it just I

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Speaker 1: So it would be a disservice if I did a

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Speaker 1: it well, and so I'm going to leave it to

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Speaker 1: the people that do it well and just focus on

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Speaker 1: my specific wheelhouse, which is the NBA. But that is

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Speaker 1: a great question. I'm not one of those guys who

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Speaker 1: by the individual players. I have really enjoyed women's college hoops.

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Speaker 1: I really enjoyed the w the Women's National Tournament. Last year.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to order the Sabrinna Ynescu basketball shoes from Nike,

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Speaker 1: and they straight up don't make them in my size,

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Speaker 1: so that was a huge bummer. Like, it's not an

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Speaker 1: wanting to put out, you know, half aster bullshit content,

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Speaker 1: but great question. All right, guys, that is all I

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Speaker 1: questions in the YouTube comments. We're now officially done with

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Speaker 1: the power rankings. We're gonna do probably two more preseason

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Speaker 1: reactions this week of some kind, and then probably on Monday,

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Speaker 1: we'll probably do some form of season predictions episode of

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Speaker 1: and what is it Warrior Suns. I'm not even sure

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Speaker 1: what the second game is, but we will be getting

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Speaker 1: into the usual routine of covering our daily NBA live

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Speaker 1: starting next Tuesday. I appreciate you guys rocking with me

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Speaker 1: this summer. I know I announced a new YouTube channel yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I don't know when they're officially launching it, but it's

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Speaker 1: supposed to be this week, so just keep an eye

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Speaker 1: on the When it's actually official, I'll start announcing it

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Speaker 1: at the beginning of every show. But I think one

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Speaker 1: of my biggest goals this year is to build that

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel into something significant. So when that does happen,

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Speaker 1: if you guys could take the time to subscribe. I

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Speaker 1: would really appreciate it, but again I appreciate you guys

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Speaker 1: and all your support over the course of the summer

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Speaker 1: and for supporting through those lists. We will be back

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Speaker 1: tomorrow with more preseason reaction contents. The volume