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Speaker 1: time to kind of pour over the film, which will
Speaker 1: be a nice little mix up. Today we're gonna be
Speaker 1: covering the Redeemed Team documentary. There are four things from
Speaker 1: that specific documentary that I want to talk about. A
Speaker 1: little bit about Kobe and how he's revered among his
Speaker 1: peers and how we should factor that more in when
Speaker 1: we're talking about him. A little bit about Larry Brown
Speaker 1: and the O four team that lost in the Olympics,
Speaker 1: which I think is interesting. And then why why I
Speaker 1: think the two thousand twelve team was better than the
Speaker 1: two thousand eight team and comparing the two thousand twelve
Speaker 1: team to original Dream Team. You guys know the drill
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Speaker 1: get your podcasts under Hoops Tonight. On that note, let's
Speaker 1: talk some basketball. So my favorite part about watching that
Speaker 1: particular documentary, which I very much enjoyed a lot of
Speaker 1: cool stuff, like vintage Olympic footage. Um, and it's just
Speaker 1: kind of a cool. Uh. What's kind of cool about
Speaker 1: having that old fashioned film? Is it just when it's
Speaker 1: taking care of man, it just shows up so good
Speaker 1: all these years later, Like some of the camera angles
Speaker 1: on the sideline of Team USA when they only had
Speaker 1: college players. That was really the cool footage. Um. And
Speaker 1: then it was just good to see a lot of
Speaker 1: Kobe and you know, like so so many NBA media
Speaker 1: now um, And I think a lot of this is
Speaker 1: analytics driven, but there's there's several reasons behind it. But
Speaker 1: a lot of NBA media before Kobe's death and even
Speaker 1: now after, hold him in relatively low esteem compared to
Speaker 1: some of his peers around the league. Most people seem
Speaker 1: to have in between ten and thirteen all time based
Speaker 1: on based on some of the more prominent people in
Speaker 1: the media that I hear talk, I have Kobe Bryant
Speaker 1: as the third best basketball player of all time, at
Speaker 1: least in my perimeter players list, because remember I keep
Speaker 1: perimeter players separate from bigs, and you know, I think
Speaker 1: it's pretty straightforward. I think he's firmly ahead of Magic
Speaker 1: Johnson and and Larry Bird. But a lot of people
Speaker 1: disagree with me. I think I think analytics plays a
Speaker 1: huge part in it. I mean, first of all, analytics
Speaker 1: in general, like we talked about, anytime you try to
Speaker 1: simplify a complex game like basketball down into catch all
Speaker 1: metro x or even lower level metrics, but used without context,
Speaker 1: it does it does a terrible job of quantifying the
Speaker 1: game of basketball. Now, it certainly doesn't translate across eras
Speaker 1: that's just not the same watching James Harden go to
Speaker 1: work and spread pick and roller spread is so spread
Speaker 1: by a ton of shooting in many cases without even
Speaker 1: having a center on the floor. That's just not the
Speaker 1: same as Kobe Bryant playing alongside Pau Gasol and Andrew
Speaker 1: buying him are alongside Shack working in a triangle offense
Speaker 1: when the half court set is incredibly congested and there's
Speaker 1: just not a lot of space to operate, and he's
Speaker 1: manufacturing shots through incredibly difficult shot making because that's what
Speaker 1: he needed and that's what the team needed from him
Speaker 1: in order to manufacture points in a very congested mid
Speaker 1: two thousand's basketball game. And so I just don't think
Speaker 1: it's fair to be like, oh, James Harden's true shooting
Speaker 1: percentage is fifty eight percent and Kobe's was fifty three
Speaker 1: there or James Harden is a better basketball player. If
Speaker 1: that's just stupid to me, that's like, just pull my
Speaker 1: hair out. I can't believe what I'm hearing. Stupid, but
Speaker 1: that that type of analytic stuff works against Kobe. He
Speaker 1: was a gunner and just general, a lot of basketball
Speaker 1: a lot of basketball purists don't like gunners. And then
Speaker 1: obviously he has some darker parts of parts of his
Speaker 1: story that we don't have to get into. But all
Speaker 1: of those things kind of amount to Kobe being, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, grossly underrated all time. And the reason why
Speaker 1: I have him at number three is simple. I I simplify.
Speaker 1: I explain the analytics stuff by pointing out the obvious
Speaker 1: differences in the eras if you actually broke it down
Speaker 1: to skill set at the two guard position, there wasn't
Speaker 1: anybody nearly as skilled as Kobe. He was a better
Speaker 1: defensive player. Than everybody at his position. He was just
Speaker 1: the best at what he did. So you have to
Speaker 1: look at the way that these percentages and things worked
Speaker 1: back then and kind of keep it in the context
Speaker 1: of that era, not in the context of pairing him
Speaker 1: to all of the eras. In general. When we're comparing
Speaker 1: eras or comparing players, I think it should focus on
Speaker 1: skill sets. It should focus on how they performed relative
Speaker 1: to their peers, not in the grand scheme of just
Speaker 1: here's how many rebounds he had versus here's how many
Speaker 1: rebounds Michael Jordan had, or here Lebron has more assists
Speaker 1: than you know, so and so like that. To me, that,
Speaker 1: to me is just not a good way to have
Speaker 1: that conversation. We should be talking about how they performed
Speaker 1: against their peers and how they performed in their era
Speaker 1: and the way that they impacted winning on their particular
Speaker 1: basketball teams. And then that pure score thing, the gunner thing.
Speaker 1: I've never looked at that as a negative. It's just
Speaker 1: one of the archetypes. You guys probably remember this summer
Speaker 1: we did a whole thing on all of the different
Speaker 1: uh superstar archetypes, like that super small, super athletic guard,
Speaker 1: like the John Morant, Russell Westbrook, Derrick Rose type of thing. Right,
Speaker 1: then we had the big playmaking forwards like Lebron James
Speaker 1: and your Luca don chich and and guys like that.
Speaker 1: And then we had our you know, big men, guys
Speaker 1: like Nicola Yokitch, Joel Embiid shack all those guys over
Speaker 1: the years. But then we also have the scoring wing. This.
Speaker 1: This is Kevin Durant, this is Kobe Bryant, this is
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's. That has always been a very important part
Speaker 1: of the game of basketball. Does it sometimes get esthetically annoying? Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course it's annoying sometimes when when he rises up
Speaker 1: and shoots over three defenders and misses a shot. I
Speaker 1: can get why that would have fanned basketball purists on
Speaker 1: a certain level. But the reality is is you need
Speaker 1: guys who are capable of taking and making crazy shots.
Speaker 1: You need guys who are insane enough to think that
Speaker 1: instead of making the extra pass or making the right play,
Speaker 1: that they should rise up and shoot. You need guys
Speaker 1: that are wired like that within a team, because not
Speaker 1: everything goes by the book, and sometimes the right play
Speaker 1: doesn't always result in a good result. For instance, at
Speaker 1: the end of the game against Spain. This was the
Speaker 1: grand finale of the documentary. You know, Spain goes zone.
Speaker 1: Uh USA gets tight. They're scoring on the other end.
Speaker 1: The game is close. You need someone who's crazy enough
Speaker 1: to be on the court with Lebron James and Dwyane
Speaker 1: Wade and Dwight Howard and Chris Paul and be like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm shooting this, you know, like him against the zone
Speaker 1: taking a jab step three. That's a bad shot in theory. Right,
Speaker 1: You've got this super talented team, You've got players that
Speaker 1: should be able to succeed against the zone. You have
Speaker 1: a zone offense in theory. Yeah, you know, a jab
Speaker 1: step three basically a contest at three where he literally
Speaker 1: got fouled. That's not a good shot in theory. But
Speaker 1: he's crazy enough to take it. He's talented enough to
Speaker 1: make it. And in a game like that where everyone's
Speaker 1: got sweaty palms and it's just tight, you need somebody
Speaker 1: that's going to rise up and knock that shot down.
Speaker 1: And that's what Kobe did. That's what he was for
Speaker 1: that group. He was the guy that was crazy enough
Speaker 1: to take the reins when everybody was a little concerned
Speaker 1: about who should take the reins that that to me
Speaker 1: is a huge side effect of that pure score archetype.
Speaker 1: It's incredible, valuable in the NBA, and it should never
Speaker 1: be used against Kobe. And the last reason why I
Speaker 1: have him up at number three, I think it matters
Speaker 1: that his peers revered him the way that he did.
Speaker 1: Should it be the end all be all, No, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think it should just be like, Oh,
Speaker 1: people are Kobe fans, therefore he's the best. But it's
Speaker 1: part of that story, you know. I think. I think
Speaker 1: the people that are on the court with him, the
Speaker 1: people that that understand the way his work ethics stacks
Speaker 1: up to theirs, when they are paying him that level
Speaker 1: of respect, we should take notice, you know, like with
Speaker 1: the fact that he was able to throw a few
Speaker 1: morning workouts prepping for the two thousand seven FIBA America's
Speaker 1: UH Games, that he was able to convince the whole
Speaker 1: team to start working out in the mornings. That's an
Speaker 1: aura thing with him. That's a power mentally that he
Speaker 1: had over his opponents, and by the way, that extends
Speaker 1: onto the court. We talked about this all the time.
Speaker 1: We I talked about this a lot in the last
Speaker 1: playoff run with Steph. I believe a huge part of
Speaker 1: why Luca don Che didn't play well in the conference
Speaker 1: finals and Jayson Tatum didn't play well in the NBA
Speaker 1: Finals is they're looking across the way at Steph Curry
Speaker 1: and he's so confident and he's so comfortable and he's
Speaker 1: playing great basketball, and they're nervous, and that battle of
Speaker 1: personalities can really weigh on you on a basketball court.
Speaker 1: There's kind of like a a seesaw effect in every
Speaker 1: basketball game between the two best players on either team.
Speaker 1: When one clearly feels more confident is playing better than
Speaker 1: the other, it can really start to tip that scale.
Speaker 1: And and I just think I think Kobe's persona around
Speaker 1: the league and the respect that he got from his
Speaker 1: peers is woefully underplayed when we're talking about him in
Speaker 1: his career accomplishments. UM I wanted to talk for a
Speaker 1: second about the about Larry Brown and the O four team, which, again,
Speaker 1: regardless of how you look at that they had no
Speaker 1: business losing, regardless of who was on the roster. When
Speaker 1: you have Tim Duncan, when you have Alan Iverson, when
Speaker 1: you have you know, the young talent that they did
Speaker 1: on that team. They should have one, but they didn't.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think, I think in general it
Speaker 1: was an interesting case study. You have poor roster construction
Speaker 1: and the idea of um like the idea of redundancies.
Speaker 1: So for instance, like I, you know, I play a
Speaker 1: lot of pickup basketball these days. You know, typical thirty
Speaker 1: one year old former player, just trying to scratch the
Speaker 1: competitive itch. And you know, I find that when I
Speaker 1: play with guys that know how to play together and
Speaker 1: understand the different roles that have to be filled out
Speaker 1: of asked what court, it's easy to win games, especially
Speaker 1: when there's a clear hierarchy and I know I can
Speaker 1: trust my guys to do what they need to do.
Speaker 1: Then you run into you know, sometimes you go to
Speaker 1: the gym and your some of your buddies are there,
Speaker 1: and the next thing you know, you've got four or
Speaker 1: five high level players on the team, but they're all
Speaker 1: kind of scores right, or they're all dudes who like
Speaker 1: to have the ball in their hands. And then what
Speaker 1: ends up happening is like instead of everybody playing well,
Speaker 1: it kind of hurts everybody, like no one gets in
Speaker 1: a rhythm because it turns into your turn, my turn,
Speaker 1: and you know one of the guys in your team
Speaker 1: feels like he should be shooting more so, like you'll
Speaker 1: force things when he should in or there's a lot
Speaker 1: of just dribbling the basketball at the floor and shooting.
Speaker 1: That kind of concept. That's a basic basketball concept. Just
Speaker 1: you experience it in a pickup game, but you can
Speaker 1: also experience it at any level of basketball. There is
Speaker 1: a redundancy there when you have a bunch of guys
Speaker 1: who like to do the same thing. We talked about
Speaker 1: this all the time. With a basketball line up, there
Speaker 1: are a list of responsibilities that have to be fulfilled.
Speaker 1: And when you have stars that specialize in fulfilling specific
Speaker 1: responsibilities like creating advantages or isolation scoring, you know, mismatch
Speaker 1: attacking things along those lines, driving the ball to the basket.
Speaker 1: But you don't have guys who specialize in spot up rolls.
Speaker 1: You don't have guys who specialize as cutters or as
Speaker 1: off ball screeners or things along those lines. Guys who
Speaker 1: dedicate their life on the within the NBA to defensive
Speaker 1: roles or being in the mix, boxing out and securing
Speaker 1: defensive rebounds, are going after offensive rebounds when you don't
Speaker 1: have guys on the team that target those sorts of things,
Speaker 1: then you just have a bunch of guys who are
Speaker 1: good at this stuff, and you've got those bases covered,
Speaker 1: but you're leaving all these bases uncovered, and you end
Speaker 1: up losing to a team like in Argentina or a
Speaker 1: Greece who has maybe one or two guys that fulfill
Speaker 1: the star responsibilities and the rest of their roster is
Speaker 1: full of guys that specialize in those little things, in
Speaker 1: the dirty work. And ironically, when they were building that
Speaker 1: roster they kind of talked about in the documentary how
Speaker 1: they went after the younger players because they couldn't get
Speaker 1: some of the bigger stars like a Shack or a
Speaker 1: Kobe or things along those lines. Right, Well, instead of
Speaker 1: going after younger stars that Larry Brown wasn't gonna play anyways,
Speaker 1: because Larry Brown famously didn't like playing young players, they
Speaker 1: should have just got old veteran role players. They should
Speaker 1: have just targeted five or six random dudes around the
Speaker 1: league who were vitally important role players for high level
Speaker 1: playoff teams and put them on that roster. And then
Speaker 1: Tim Duncan and Alan hiverson can focus on being who
Speaker 1: they are, knowing that they've got a traditional basketball group
Speaker 1: of dirty work role players behind them that can get
Speaker 1: stuff done. And I think that was just a fundamental
Speaker 1: example of fundamentally poor roster construction. And then the second
Speaker 1: part of it is, Um, you know, the the Carmelo
Speaker 1: Anthony and all those guys really went after Larry Brown
Speaker 1: for just being like wanting them to play the right
Speaker 1: way and things along those lines. I've talked about this
Speaker 1: concept before on the show, Um, but it really bothers
Speaker 1: me when coaches in general try to inflict their philosophy
Speaker 1: on a roster rather than catering their philosophy to what
Speaker 1: the roster is good at. You know, the truth of
Speaker 1: the matter is is there is no right way to
Speaker 1: play basketball. The only right way to play basketball is
Speaker 1: to win. It's to score more points than the other team,
Speaker 1: find some way to get stops, find some way to
Speaker 1: score baskets. And you have an assembly of players and
Speaker 1: they all have a skill set, and there's got to
Speaker 1: be a certain way that they can feel comfortable scoring
Speaker 1: the basketball or playing defense for instance. We talked about
Speaker 1: this all the time on the show. Some teams are
Speaker 1: more geared towards drop. Some teams are more geared towards switching.
Speaker 1: Some teams are like Dallas, are more geared to single
Speaker 1: creators and guys in spot up roles. In some teams
Speaker 1: like Boston and the Clippers are more geared towards like
Speaker 1: equal opportunity, drive and kick. Everyone has lots of time
Speaker 1: with the basketball in their hands. There's just different philosophies
Speaker 1: that fit different types of rosters. And anytime I hear
Speaker 1: something like that where coaches trying to inflict his philosophy
Speaker 1: on a team, I'm always just ready for it to
Speaker 1: go immediately south from there. So kind of looking at
Speaker 1: the uh um uh. Comparing the two thousand eight team
Speaker 1: to the two thousand twelve teams. So this has been
Speaker 1: a take that I've had for years, but I think
Speaker 1: the two thousand twelve team was considerably better than the
Speaker 1: two thousand eight team. And I really, I really boil
Speaker 1: it down to three things. Okay, First of all, Lebron
Speaker 1: in two thousand twelve was twice as good as he
Speaker 1: was in two thousand eight, much more consistent as a shooter,
Speaker 1: a much better defensive player, a much better understanding of
Speaker 1: of how to win basketball games. And the details, controlling
Speaker 1: the pace of the game, understanding how to close games.
Speaker 1: He in the half court, he was so much better
Speaker 1: as a surgical playmaker and as a surgical score than
Speaker 1: he was in two thousand eight. He was just many,
Speaker 1: many times better, and he was still every bit as
Speaker 1: athletic as he was in two thousand eight. So I've
Speaker 1: got a better version of Lebron. That's that's where we're
Speaker 1: starting there. The guy, the two thousand and twelve Lebron.
Speaker 1: Many people think that's his best version. I think it's
Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen. But two thousand twelve, two thirteen Lebron
Speaker 1: is no worse than the second best version of Lebron,
Speaker 1: who is the second best basketball player of all time.
Speaker 1: So let's go ahead and put that up there. Now
Speaker 1: I've got Kobe. I think Kobe was better than two
Speaker 1: thousand twelve than he was in two thousand eight. Now, um,
Speaker 1: I get it, he's a little bit older, but if
Speaker 1: you remember, this was during the stretch where his uh
Speaker 1: where he had gotten some treatment on his knee, so
Speaker 1: he was more explosive. If you've ever looked at Kobe
Speaker 1: Bryant's athleticism in that two thousand twelve two thousand and
Speaker 1: thirteen season, he was jumping out of the gym and
Speaker 1: dunking over literally everybody because his knees were feeling better.
Speaker 1: And then that was the year where he really figured
Speaker 1: out kind of modern basketball and more of the spaced
Speaker 1: out environment where he could operate instead of having to
Speaker 1: operate in the congested area around the free throw line.
Speaker 1: He was working a lot more from the three point line.
Speaker 1: He was working a lot more with a live dribble,
Speaker 1: a lot more spread. I saw a lot more spread
Speaker 1: pick and roll, and his percentages went through the roof.
Speaker 1: If you remember two thousand and twelve, two thousand and
Speaker 1: thirteen was actually one of Kobe's most efficient seasons. Kobe,
Speaker 1: in the year or so before his Achilles injury, I
Speaker 1: think was the best version of Kobe. So I've got
Speaker 1: better Lebron, I've got better Kobe. And then there's the
Speaker 1: Cade versus Dwyane Wade thing. Now, Dwyane Wade is incredible,
Speaker 1: and Circle two thousand eight, Dwyane Wade was incredible. I
Speaker 1: don't dispute that at all, but he kind of primarily
Speaker 1: acted as a bench scorer for that team, although he
Speaker 1: did play in crunch time for a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of the games, but uh, he he had some
Speaker 1: of that redundancy. He his impact on the game was
Speaker 1: somewhat limited because he was in a spot up roll often,
Speaker 1: and Dwyane Wade has never been a fantastic about up player.
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant in that two thousand twelve Olympic run was
Speaker 1: just a knockdown, stand still shooter what I call aggressive
Speaker 1: spot up shooting, meaning like you're hunting three point looks
Speaker 1: off the ball to the extent where even if someone
Speaker 1: rotates to you and contests, you're still rising up into
Speaker 1: a shot. You're just not scared of anything. In that regard,
Speaker 1: that type of aggressive spot up shooting from Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: just made him a much more natural fit with the
Speaker 1: two thousand twelve team than Dwyane Wade was with the
Speaker 1: two thousand eight teams. So even though Wade in OH
Speaker 1: eight I think was probably a better player than Katie
Speaker 1: in two thousand twelve, the reality is a Katie was
Speaker 1: a better fit, which is kind of one of the
Speaker 1: themes of this particular show. So I've got better Lebron,
Speaker 1: better Kobe, and I've got k d who's a better
Speaker 1: fit over Dwayne Wade. So I would take the two
Speaker 1: thousand twelve team over two thousand eight by a pretty
Speaker 1: decent margin. Now when we compare them to the ninety
Speaker 1: two Dream Team, this particular debate is incredibly difficult to
Speaker 1: have of so I don't want to spend too much
Speaker 1: time on it, but it's pretty simple to me. Comparing
Speaker 1: across eras is impossible. I hate it when people start
Speaker 1: talking about like who can guard who, Like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: who's gonna guard Larry Bird on the two? Who's gonna
Speaker 1: guard Michael Jordan? When you're talking about these guys who
Speaker 1: are top ten players of all time at the peak
Speaker 1: of their powers, none of them can guard anybody. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but Lebron in two thousand twelve, if you leave him
Speaker 1: on an island with Michael Jordan's he's gonna kill him.
Speaker 1: If you have both ways, m J can't guard Lebron.
Speaker 1: Lebron can't guard MJ. Kobe and MJ specialize in making
Speaker 1: incredibly difficult shots. Neither of them would be able to
Speaker 1: guard each other. Like I'm sorry, but like as we
Speaker 1: go down the rosters, position by position, everyone is the
Speaker 1: best at what they do. None of them can guard anybody,
Speaker 1: so it's hard to talk about specific matchups or how
Speaker 1: things would work. The two styles that they played based
Speaker 1: on the era were incredibly different, so it's impossible for
Speaker 1: me to compare anything. They're the types of the way
Speaker 1: that the two thousand twelve team played offense. Doesn't even
Speaker 1: resemble the way team played offense. So I don't really
Speaker 1: I can't really get into the weeds of that conversation.
Speaker 1: I would simplify it down to this. I said that
Speaker 1: two of the top I said that my top three
Speaker 1: perimeter players of all time are MG one, Lebron to
Speaker 1: Kobe three. So I'm getting two of the top three
Speaker 1: players of all time at the peak of their powers.
Speaker 1: That's gonna matter to me. Um and then and yes,
Speaker 1: I know my four and five are you know my
Speaker 1: I think I actually just bumped Larry Bird to six
Speaker 1: and put Steph past him. But my four and six
Speaker 1: is Magic and Birds, So yeah, I get that. But
Speaker 1: they weren't even close to the top of their They
Speaker 1: weren't even close to the top of their games. When
Speaker 1: they were right, Magic was still pretty good, but Larry
Speaker 1: was injured and wasn't the same player. So when I
Speaker 1: look at the top. I like what I'm getting out
Speaker 1: of the two thousand twelve team, and then just in
Speaker 1: general as a philosophy, I've always been of the belief
Speaker 1: that modern basketball players are just getting better and better,
Speaker 1: not worse and worse. I know old heads really struggle
Speaker 1: with that conversation, and they truly believe that there was
Speaker 1: like this golden age of basketball when everyone was better
Speaker 1: and then now every ones just worse than they don't
Speaker 1: play the game the right way. I think that's insane.
Speaker 1: I think the two thousand twelve basketball players are just
Speaker 1: better than basketball players. I think the two thousand two
Speaker 1: basketball players are better than the two thousand twelve basketball players,
Speaker 1: and I will think the two thousand thirty two basketball
Speaker 1: players are better than the two thousand twenty two basketball players.
Speaker 1: That's just gonna be a consistent philosophy that I keep
Speaker 1: over the years. I think that's just human nature in
Speaker 1: the way that we advance. We get better and better
Speaker 1: in every industry as time goes on. But I very
Speaker 1: very much enjoyed that documentary. I hope you guys do
Speaker 1: as well. Check it out on Netflix. Um that's all
Speaker 1: I have for today. Like I said, get ready on
Speaker 1: Monday for our season preview, and then Tuesday we're doing
Speaker 1: our first live show of the year in the evening.
Speaker 1: As always, I sincerely appreciate your support. Thanks for rocking
Speaker 1: with me over this summer. I can't even believe how
Speaker 1: how successful we were over this summer. I expected things
Speaker 1: to slow down quite a bit, so I appreciate you
Speaker 1: guys support, and let's get into that real basketball next week.
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