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Speaker 1: he now has effectively forced or baited Cleveland into switching

430
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Speaker 1: Merrill onto de Lo while he has inside position. He's

431
00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:15,840
Speaker 1: just gonna slip right back inside for a layup.

432
00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,320
Speaker 2: How easy is that? Like Dilo is so good at.

433
00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,240
Speaker 1: That that kind of shit, that little that that just

434
00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:24,120
Speaker 1: kind of like quirky, kind of nifty stuff. To take

435
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Speaker 1: advantage of the defensive scheme that's on the table. We

436
00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:30,200
Speaker 1: talked about earlier Lakers running a pick and roll. The

437
00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,720
Speaker 1: calves are in an ice coverage. He screens the ice

438
00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,840
Speaker 1: big to make it so that he's out of position

439
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,840
Speaker 1: in Austin can cross him over completely random generates a layup.

440
00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:43,720
Speaker 1: Same sort of thing here. This is all he's doing.

441
00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 1: He's pointing and baiting. This is all a giant setup

442
00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:51,160
Speaker 1: to basically backscreen, slip and again Garland. The only reason

443
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:53,600
Speaker 1: Garland takes that lunch step out and that's out this

444
00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:55,800
Speaker 1: far as he's thinking, he's gonna be switching on the

445
00:21:55,880 --> 00:22:00,680
Speaker 1: Gabe Vincent easy layup. So again the nation here, and

446
00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,600
Speaker 1: what makes this all work is you've got two guys

447
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,879
Speaker 1: in Anthony Davis and Lebron James be consett screens and

448
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:12,720
Speaker 1: easily slip and easily get into the paint and finish

449
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,920
Speaker 1: in traffic and make reads when the defense collapses on

450
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Speaker 1: him again. A lot of people don't realize this because

451
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,320
Speaker 1: the Lakers don't drive the basketball a time, but they've

452
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Speaker 1: consistently been one of the biggest best paint offenses in

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Speaker 1: the league. They attempt almost all of their shots, or

454
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Speaker 1: the vast majority of their shots compared to the rest

455
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Speaker 1: of the league, inside of five feet from the basket.

456
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Speaker 2: That's what they do.

457
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Speaker 1: That's why they get to the foul line so much.

458
00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:37,240
Speaker 1: Everyone always thinks the Lakers get a ton of foul

459
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Speaker 1: calls because it's some sort of league wide conspiracy. No,

460
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,479
Speaker 1: it's because they take almost all their shots right by

461
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Speaker 1: the basket, and they've got guys that are good at

462
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,520
Speaker 1: drawing fouls, Guys like Anthony Davis, guys like Austin Reeves. Right,

463
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,160
Speaker 1: that's a big part of their attack on the outside.

464
00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:51,840
Speaker 1: They are knockdown three point shooting team, second best three

465
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Speaker 1: point percentage team since January seventh. Every single guy is

466
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Speaker 1: capable of attacking closeouts and extending advantages. Ruey gets mismatches

467
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:03,119
Speaker 1: all time, all the time. They can run guard actions,

468
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:06,919
Speaker 1: inverted ball screens to get to get their guards slipping

469
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Speaker 1: into open spaces. It is just an overwhelming amount of

470
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Speaker 1: offensive skill with interior paint forces of Ruy, Hatchamura, Lebron James,

471
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Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis to tie it all together, and that's

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Speaker 1: why they've been dominating, dominating teams offensively. And again, to

473
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Speaker 1: go back to that YouTube comment, I was talking about

474
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Speaker 1: when things were going really bad for the Lakers, and

475
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 1: remember they were.

476
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Speaker 2: Seventeen and nineteen.

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Speaker 1: At one point, when they were seventeen and nineteen, You're right,

478
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Speaker 1: I was kind of off the bandwagon and the way

479
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Speaker 1: I've been kind of talking about the tiers. I have

480
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Speaker 1: Boston and Denver on this tier, right, and then I

481
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:41,960
Speaker 1: have like a ton of teams in that second tier.

482
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Speaker 1: But then there's like a tier below that that are

483
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Speaker 1: the teams that are clearly lesser than that. Right, That's

484
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Speaker 1: where I have like the Pelicans and the Kings and

485
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Speaker 1: teams like that. Right, I had the Lakers in that

486
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Speaker 1: tier until their offense exploded, And with their offense exploding,

487
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Speaker 1: I now put them back in that middle tier. In

488
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Speaker 1: order to ever have a chance to get up into

489
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Speaker 1: that Denver and Boston tier, I think they needed to.

490
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Speaker 1: I thought they needed to make a significant personnel upgrade

491
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Speaker 1: at the deadline, Like had they got a Bruce Brown,

492
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,239
Speaker 1: had they got a dejon Te Murray, a guy who

493
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Speaker 1: can really contend on the perimeter and generate dribble penetration

494
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Speaker 1: on his own, I would have been more kind of

495
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Speaker 1: inclined to think of the Lakers as an upper tier team.

496
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Speaker 1: But I still believe that those personnel weaknesses will be

497
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Speaker 1: an issue when we get to our contender rankings. You

498
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Speaker 1: guys are gonna hear there in more detail the reasons

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Speaker 1: why I'm not as high on LA's chances, as some

500
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 1: people are that said, I do think their offense is real.

501
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,920
Speaker 1: It's an extended stretch of them being really, really hard

502
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Speaker 1: to guard. I do think they're a better offensive team

503
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Speaker 1: than they were last year by a sizable margin. I

504
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 1: do think that gives them their puncher's chance, their proverbial

505
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 1: puncher's chance. That's gonna put them into that middle tier.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to Nick's Bucks. So the

507
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:51,880
Speaker 1: Bucks played a really good half in the first half,

508
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Speaker 1: and it looked like they were gonna get back on track,

509
00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 1: and then they completely fell apart in the second half.

510
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Speaker 1: They gave up seventy two points while only scoring forty

511
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Speaker 1: eight eight. Main thing I saw on defense, the Knicks

512
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 1: were just relentlessly attacking Damian Lillard. And this is a

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Speaker 1: concept that I've talked about a lot on the show,

514
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Speaker 1: but that we haven't had a chance to look at

515
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Speaker 1: on film. And so what we're gonna do today is

516
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Speaker 1: go look at some clips to demonstrate how Damian Lillard

517
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Speaker 1: can be a pretty devastating weak point in the Milwaukee

518
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Speaker 1: Bucks defense.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's get to the film.

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Speaker 1: All right, This first example here, og and Nanobi is

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Speaker 1: going to attack Dame on a switch. So OG's on Janis.

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Speaker 1: Josh Hart is literally just going to screen real quick

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Speaker 1: on Yannis and then cut through to force Dame to guard. Okay,

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Speaker 1: now Dame's on on island Og. As soon as he

525
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Speaker 1: sees that he's got that opportunity, he's gonna drive hard

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Speaker 1: and then pivot over his shoulder and get an easy,

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Speaker 1: little mid range jump shot. Now that's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: theme that you guys are gonna see a lot here

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Speaker 1: in the film. Is specifically finding a way to get

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Speaker 1: Dame switched onto either Og or onto Jalen Brunson and

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Speaker 1: to have success attacking him in individual actions. Here is

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Speaker 1: an example of a ghost screen.

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Speaker 2: Let's see here.

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Speaker 1: So again, as we pause here, Beasley is is guarding

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown or excuse me, Jayleen Brunson. Dante DiVincenzo is

536
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Speaker 1: setting another kind of impromptu screen because he's trying to

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Speaker 1: get Dame here. Right, Dame is on his heels and

538
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:30,680
Speaker 1: way back. He's way too passive defensively. Jalen Brunson identifies

539
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 1: it immediately and just attacks downhill and does his patent

540
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 1: did low gather move to get to the foul line

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Speaker 1: and the foul, and that's not the last time you'll

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Speaker 1: see there's another example coming up. Like a lot of

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Speaker 1: those are where Dame is getting into his switches. He's

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Speaker 1: switching passively way back on his heels, and he's just

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Speaker 1: too small for that, and so they're able to get

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Speaker 1: like a real head of team going through him to

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Speaker 1: the basket.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: This next one is o j Anobi going through Dame again.

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Speaker 1: So the Knicks runs some offense. There's a miss and

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Speaker 1: an offensive rebound from I think Devincenzo misses or does

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Speaker 1: it get kicked out?

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Speaker 2: Okay gets kicked out.

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Speaker 1: So here's where our This is not so much a

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Speaker 1: action designed to get a switched, but with the defense

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Speaker 1: in rotation, Dame had to rotate to og Okay. Now

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Speaker 1: the way that the cross match has worked here, Giannis

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00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 1: is on Hart and Sign and Brook Lopez is on

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00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 1: Dante DiVincenzo and Oji Annobe quickly identifies this and just

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00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,959
Speaker 1: drives on Dame inside easily gets around and gets into

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00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 1: the lane, draws Brooke and Help and makes the easy

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Speaker 1: kickout pass at Devincenzo.

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Speaker 2: It's a three in the corner.

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Speaker 1: This one is not Dame, but it's a similar example

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Speaker 1: of matchup hunting, and just an example of how devastating

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson can be as a playoff weapon picking on matchups.

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Speaker 1: Here he likes his speed matchup against Jay Crowder, another

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Speaker 1: kind of transition brush screen from The Knicks. They do

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Speaker 1: this kind of thing a lot. Josh Hart's little brush

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00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: screen on Malik gets the swing. Now it's Crowder. Now

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00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:03,919
Speaker 1: they clear the side and he's just gonna hit him

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Speaker 1: with this patent a little between the legs or a

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00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 1: little crossover dribble makes a little bank shot off the glass.

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Speaker 1: How about josh Hart getting on the action a little bit?

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Speaker 1: So Runson's going up against Beasley. Now Dame is guarding

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Speaker 1: josh Hart here, and josh Hart identifies this and they

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Speaker 1: just this is one of the most pitiful efforts to

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Speaker 1: get over the top of the screen I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: Mitchell Robinson doesn't even actually make contact. He slips out

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Speaker 1: of it early. Watch how Dame just concedes the driving lane.

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Speaker 1: There was no contact, there was no screen. He just

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Speaker 1: lazy kind of meanders over the top easily allows josh

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Speaker 1: Hart to get downhill. That allows josh Hart to engage

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Speaker 1: Bobby Portis, which forces Jay Crowder to come off of

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Speaker 1: one of the best shooters in the league, Dante DiVincenzo.

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00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: It forces Crowder to come off to tag Mitchell Robinson

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Speaker 1: to prevent the lob. Josh makes the easy kickout pass

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00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: to Devincenzo in the corner and he knocks down to

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00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: three again. Like it's just there's just got to be

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Speaker 1: a little more effort there, like Josh Hart should not

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00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 1: be able to that easily get to his spots in

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Speaker 1: a ball screen. Not to mention that's probably a guy

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Speaker 1: you can duck under the pick on if anything. This possession,

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00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: the Bucks are in kind of like a matchup zone,

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00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: so as guys are cutting through, you can see them

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00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 1: talking matchups. But once we get into the lake clock here,

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00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 1: it basically converts to man de man Giannis actually follows

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Speaker 1: og all the way up the floor and now it's

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00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 1: just one on one basketball brunts and against Damian Lillard.

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Speaker 1: His eyes light up and he just immediately goes to work.

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00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 1: Now as he's backing down, Dame Jay Crowder is basically

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00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 1: zoning up. He's come all the way over on the

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Speaker 1: strong side, which is forced he is basically forced port

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Speaker 1: Is to come down and get inside position on Mitchell

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Speaker 1: Robinson in case he shoots so he can get a rebound.

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00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 2: This leaves Josh Hart completely unguarded on the weak side corner.

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00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 2: Easy three.

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Speaker 1: So once again picking Dame to bring multiple defenders into

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Speaker 1: the equation. All right, same sort of thing. Here comes

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Speaker 1: Duce McBride. Let's get Dame switched on to Jalen. Got

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Speaker 1: the switch, and now it's just I'm downhill easy getting

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Speaker 1: to my spot for the floater. This one was interesting.

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Speaker 1: I so at first I was like, Okay, maybe this

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Speaker 1: is the scheme. So Pat Conington's guarding Jalen Brunson on

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Speaker 1: an island, Damian Lillard is guarding Dante DiVincenzo on the

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Speaker 1: right wing, okay, and Dame just goes, screw it, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna double okay. And that he's now doubling off of

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Speaker 1: one of the very best shooters in the league, as

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Speaker 1: I keep saying, and a guy that's already made multiple

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Speaker 1: shots recently, so he's in rhythm just being unguarded. And

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Speaker 1: what gave it away for me is here's Doc Rivers.

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Speaker 1: Watch Doc Rivers' reaction, He's like, what.

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Speaker 2: Are you doing?

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00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: So is Dame randomly just impromptu double teaming Jalen Brunson

625
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Speaker 1: off of one of the best shooters on the team.

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00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 1: That doesn't make a ton of sense. That's freelancing. That's

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Speaker 1: the opposite of game plan discipline. This is actually a

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Speaker 1: funny one because uh uh, Jalen misses this shot. But

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Speaker 1: look at how Dame is just running in circles off

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Speaker 1: of this fake from Jalen Brunson, like he's just so

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00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: comfortable working against him one on one. Here we go,

632
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 1: same sort of thing, Dante DiVincenzo screen. Let's get Dame

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Speaker 1: on a switch and let's take Dame off the dribble

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00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: for another bucket. Now here's another example of Dame doing

635
00:31:56,040 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: a soft switch and allowing Jalen Brunson to get ahead

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Speaker 1: of Steam.

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00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 2: Here we go. So they're running up to set it.

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00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: But Jalen actually turns the corner early and Dame is

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00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: just on his heels and has absolutely no chance with

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Speaker 1: him coming at him like that. So again, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's like almost a dozen what's at like ten, ten

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00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: to twelve baskets just in the second half of this game,

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Speaker 1: where they were just relentlessly picking on, picking on Dame

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Speaker 1: whenever they got an opportunity, and like it. It's just

645
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: one of those things where like I talk about entry points,

646
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: the idea of entry points, the idea there is like

647
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 1: this is how I get the defense in rotation. Right,

648
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: So like a loaded up defense when we think of

649
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 1: when we think about a loaded up defense, right, and

650
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: we're gonna see some example. Look, this is a good

651
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: example right here. So this is a loaded up defense, right,

652
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: So we have Giannis is ready, he's the low man.

653
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: He's prepared if anybody gets behind brook Lopez to kind

654
00:32:58,280 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: of clean up the mess there.

655
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 2: It is.

656
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: It is just a more difficult opportunity to score, right.

657
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: But once you're in rotation, it is just driving kick basketball.

658
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: We saw that earlier Dame ended up on ogn Andobi

659
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: brook Lopez ended up on Dante DiVincenzo. It's like everyone's

660
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: in cross matches. Everyone's just closing out on the next guy.

661
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 1: Once you're in rotation, it's just a free for all

662
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: and your set defense doesn't really matter at all at

663
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: that point. And so when you have an entry point,

664
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: a guy like Dame that you can consistently use to

665
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: get the defense into rotation, then it mitigates the strengths

666
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: of your set defense because they're not having to go

667
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 1: against you know, your loaded up kind of scheme. Instead,

668
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 1: it's just close out attack to closed out attack of

669
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: closed out find an open shot here, find an open

670
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: shot there that, or or you're on an island and

671
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: he's just getting easy baskets over the top of Dame.

672
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: And so that's kind of an It's another problem that

673
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: we run into with Like the Minnesota Timberwolves have been

674
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 1: an excellent defense all year, but they really struggle to

675
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: get stops.

676
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 2: And crunch time.

677
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: And a big part of that is, like there's usually

678
00:33:57,760 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: a guy in that lineup that you can pick on.

679
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 1: If you can pick on him, you can get the

680
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: defense in rotation. If you get the defense and rotation,

681
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: it's not go bear waiting waiting on you at the

682
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 1: rim every single time, right. So, like that's kind of

683
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: the concept of that as an entry point on offense.

684
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 1: In this particular game, it's just a lot of bad

685
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: basketball from Damianis. They combined to go five for fifteen

686
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 1: from the field. I only credit Dante DiVincenzo and og Nanobi.

687
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: Oj Nobi just did a really nice job on Yiannis,

688
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 1: like sliding his feet, absorbing contact and digging down at

689
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: the basketball and kind of knocking it loose. Dante DiVincenzo

690
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: did a really good job in ball pressure on Damian

691
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,760
Speaker 1: Lillard and chasing him over the top of screens.

692
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 2: And then the Knicks.

693
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: Biggs did a really good job getting up to the

694
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: level of the screen and stopping those pull up opportunities

695
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: for Dame. Here are a couple of clips just to

696
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 1: show you the Knicks defense. We're just gonna rip through

697
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 1: these pretty quick. There is a transition runout from Giannis.

698
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: Watch watch Ognnobi absorbed the blow from Giannis and force

699
00:34:53,680 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: the turnover. He's going to try to attack, slides his feet,

700
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: absorbs the contact, gets his hands in there, swipes it away.

701
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 1: Exact same kind of thing here, transition runout. Giannis looks

702
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,479
Speaker 1: to attack Og absorb the contact, knock the ball loose.

703
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 2: Here, Jannis is gonna try.

704
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 1: To bully og a Nanobi and he absorbs the contact

705
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: enough for Mitchell Robinson to come over and help.

706
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:28,240
Speaker 2: Watches.

707
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: He takes that contact that slows down Giannis enough for

708
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 1: Mitchell Robinson to get in there and get the block.

709
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 1: I thought Oji did a really nice job in this game.

710
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 1: Here's Dante DiVincenzo staying attached. Look at the difference in

711
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 1: effort getting over the top of the screen from Dante

712
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,320
Speaker 1: compared to that clip I showed you from Dame earlier.

713
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 1: Gets over the top and he doesn't foul, but he

714
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: disrupts and forced Dame to shoot like a leaning forward

715
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 1: jump shot, which is a much much tougher jump shot.

716
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 1: This time, Giannis gets a really good screen, but og

717
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: A Nanobi ends up holding his ground and doing a

718
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: really nice job sliding and staying in front of Dame

719
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,280
Speaker 1: and forcing the miss. Now let's talking about the biggs.

720
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 1: This time Isaiah Hartenstein is gonna hold up on a

721
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 1: switch against Dame and Iso force him into a really

722
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 1: tough step back. Here's the exact same thing in the

723
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 1: first half of that game. Hartenstein on a switch against Dame,

724
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: slides his feet, forces him into a tough step back.

725
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 1: It's a really good contest, forces a miss. And then

726
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 1: this is just incredible effort for Mitchell Robinson. We have

727
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: a transition possession here, so off the brunts and miss

728
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 1: Bucks are running. Watch Mitchell Robinson. This is unbelievable. Watch

729
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,879
Speaker 1: Mischell Robinson. As soon as the ball is caught, he's

730
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: sprinting back Okay, sprint, Sprint, Sprint, Sprint, Sprint. Now Portos

731
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 1: is gonna quick set a screen. Here's communication Josh Hart. Hey,

732
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 1: he's getting ready to set the screen. He's telling him.

733
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 1: Robinson knows that Dame is an excellent shooter and he

734
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: has to be in a high drop coverage. He has

735
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 1: to be up at the level of the screen. He

736
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: gets all the way around to that strong side and

737
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: then Dave takes the shot and Mitchell Robinson blocks it.

738
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: We got to watch that in real time. This is

739
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:20,240
Speaker 1: just unbelievable effort for Mitchell Robinson and communication from the Knicks.

740
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: Shot goes up, Sprint, Sprint, Sprint, sprintce sprint, Josh Hart communicate,

741
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 1: get back over there. They're setting a pick up at

742
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 1: the level. Block the pull up shot. Just unbelievable defense

743
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 1: for Mitchell Robinson. Was really really impressed with the Knicks

744
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 1: all night. All right, last thing we're gonna get into

745
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: in this game before we move on is the Damiannis

746
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: pick and roll. So the Knicks offense obviously really struggled

747
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 1: down the stretch of this game too. They had just

748
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: forty eight points in the second half. And there's a

749
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 1: concept I've been talking about a lot on the show

750
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,240
Speaker 1: this season having to do with the difference between cleared

751
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 1: side actions and occupied corner actions, and how I always

752
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 1: talk about how I like occupied corner actions with the

753
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:58,439
Speaker 1: top tier playmakers in the league, but for the lower

754
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: level playmakers, I prefer or cleared side actions because they

755
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: can actually see the whole floor in front of them

756
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 1: and they can make reads easier. Well, I wanted to

757
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: show some plays to demonstrate that. So first of all,

758
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 1: this is what the Bucks typically do. And to give

759
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,479
Speaker 1: you an example, I didn't count a single cleared side

760
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,879
Speaker 1: ball screen in this particular game. I had a really

761
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: hard time just finding an example of them doing it

762
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: the way that I want. I had to go way

763
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 1: back into older games to find some examples that fit this.

764
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: But here's what they were doing for the most part

765
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: last night. And again, Bobby Portos is on this side

766
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:31,360
Speaker 1: of the floor, so it's occupied. Also, they're running the

767
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 1: ball screen towards the sideline. Giannis is rolling into just

768
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 1: a lot of traffic, so like even when he catches here,

769
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,280
Speaker 1: like he catches here, but everything is on both sides

770
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:44,240
Speaker 1: of him, He's got to read a lot of space.

771
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: Brooke is behind him for instance, and notice how he

772
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: quickly hesitates and picks up his dribble. It's because he's

773
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 1: not comfortable catching with the head of steam right there

774
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: makes the kickout past to Brook and they're able to

775
00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:59,839
Speaker 1: quickly rotate out of it and the advantage is gone.

776
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: And so that's an example. As he's rolling into the

777
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: middle of the floor, he's rolling into traffic. He's less

778
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,240
Speaker 1: confident and it's less of an advantage for the Bucks.

779
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: That play actually ends in a turnover as well.

780
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 2: Here we go.

781
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:23,359
Speaker 1: Here's another one. Jannis sets the screen. Jiannis doesn't even

782
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: roll on this one. It just kind of that's the

783
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: same play actually the next one that guys so working

784
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: out the kinks here, all right, So on this one

785
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:41,399
Speaker 1: we get a good screen, but Giannis just doesn't roll,

786
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: and so Jannie is like, he's not a spot up

787
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 1: threat there. If he rolls hard, he can be in

788
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: this area. And even if Dame misses this layup like

789
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: he does, Giannis is probably going to clean that up.

790
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: But he just doesn't roll. That needs to happen. But

791
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: same sort of thing. He'd be rolling into traffic if

792
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 1: he did. Here's an example from the Pelicans game of

793
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: them giving up Ah on the roll to the rim,

794
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:11,239
Speaker 1: Yonis Valanciunas is able to make an easy rotation, so

795
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,399
Speaker 1: they're gonna go a little dribble hand off with Dame here.

796
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: Dame is then gonna get the ball screen from Yannis.

797
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 2: After they botch that.

798
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 1: Slips out of it. But again he's rolling into traffic.

799
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: He doesn't know what's happening behind him, he can't see

800
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: any of this, and so Jonas is easily able to

801
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,799
Speaker 1: step up and disrupt this play at the rim, because

802
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: once again he's rolling into too much traffic. So here's

803
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: what it looks like when you run the same exact

804
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:38,439
Speaker 1: action the way that I'm asking on a cleared side.

805
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,280
Speaker 1: This one is actually in a little bit of transition.

806
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 1: So Dame's running up the floor, but because of the

807
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 1: way this is laid out, all three bucks are on

808
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:52,320
Speaker 1: the weak side. So this is the exact configuration that

809
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 1: I want. I want Dame working towards the middle, and

810
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 1: I want Yiannis rolling into all of this empty space,

811
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 1: because if he rolls into that empty space and he

812
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 1: catches here, he can have ahead of steam but see

813
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 1: the entire floor in front of him and not have

814
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: to worry about what's going on behind him. In this case,

815
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 1: he rolls into the open space. He didn't have to

816
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:12,359
Speaker 1: worry about someone tagging. He can see all that. If

817
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 1: Nicholas Patum came up, he'd literally be able to see

818
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 1: this happen. Everything's in front of him. He's rolling into

819
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: open space. Same sort of thing here. Because Connaton cuts through,

820
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: we have a cleared side on this side of the floor.

821
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 1: Janna sets the screen. Now he's rolling into open space.

822
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 1: Watch when he catches here. So Jannis catches Philly, still

823
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 1: loaded up, but they're loaded up in a way that

824
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:48,320
Speaker 1: is completely in front of Gianni's He can see everything

825
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 1: and so he's able to quick make a decision here,

826
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 1: like I can turn the corner on Tobias easily just

827
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 1: by dropping my right shoulder. So he gets down he

828
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 1: hill just drops his right shoulder and finish. It's just

829
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 1: an easier decision for him to make when he catches

830
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 1: in open space as opposed to in traffic. One more example,

831
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 1: same sort of thing here, Crowder, Lopez and Malik Beasley.

832
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 2: All on the weak side.

833
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:17,399
Speaker 1: Jannis is going to set the pick and roll into

834
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 1: open space. As he's rolling in open space. Once again,

835
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 1: he can identify everything happening on the floor. In this case,

836
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:25,879
Speaker 1: James Harden is the guy that's got to tag him.

837
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,400
Speaker 1: It's just an easy lob and finished for Yiannis at

838
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: the rim. So again, the key that I'm getting at

839
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: here is getting you on us the ball, but with

840
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 1: a head of steam and with all the defense in

841
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: front of him so that he can easily make reads.

842
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: And if you do it on the cleared side where

843
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:46,839
Speaker 1: he rolls into the short corner, it's just a lot

844
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: easier for him than when you have him rolling into

845
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: the middle of the floor with all that traffic. And

846
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 1: I'm glad that we were able to finally give you

847
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 1: guys kind of a visual representation of what I was

848
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 1: talking about. All right, moving on to Heat Pacers. This

849
00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 1: one We're just going to spend a couple of minutes

850
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: on because I wanted to just kind of show the

851
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: big sequence of the game that kind of determined the outcome. So,

852
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:06,760
Speaker 1: as I've talked about so much on the show, execution

853
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 1: is the biggest thing that determines the outcome of late

854
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 1: game situations, right, And this game was interesting because the

855
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 1: Pacers jumped the Heat early and he battled back and

856
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 1: they actually got it to two with three minutes left.

857
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: It was a one oh three to one oh one game,

858
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: and back to back to back mistakes by the Miami

859
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: Heat cost them, and so I wanted to show you

860
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: guys that just to demonstrate how execution can blow things

861
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: for a team.

862
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 2: Alright, let's get back to the film.

863
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 1: So one of three, one oh one, and we are

864
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 1: going to get an example of a bad hedge like

865
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:39,959
Speaker 1: I talked about from the Lakers game. Okay, Tyler Harrow

866
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: cuts off as TJ McConnell drive, it gets kicked out. Okay,

867
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 1: Now McConnell is going to set a screen on Jimmy

868
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 1: Butler and Tyler Harrow's job is to hedge and then recover,

869
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: Okay to t J McConnell, which is actually probably one

870
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: of the easier hedge and recovers that he would have

871
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: based on the fact that TJ's not like some sort

872
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 1: of lights out movement shooter. Right, what did we talk

873
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 1: about from the Cavs game, Right, Tyler Harrow's job when

874
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: he hedges is to cut off the drive. That's all

875
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 1: that matters. It's the one thing he has to do.

876
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 1: As long as he cuts off the drive, even if

877
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:13,800
Speaker 1: he doesn't give up a three. As long as he

878
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: cuts off the drive, he has done his job. TJ

879
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: sets a screen, slips out Tyler Harrow. Tyler Harrow's hedge

880
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:27,359
Speaker 1: like takes a terrible angle, Like you could tell he's

881
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,280
Speaker 1: getting ready to hedge, but he just takes a terrible

882
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: angle and Tyres Aliburton goes right around him for an

883
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 1: easy layup. And again one job there, come further out.

884
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 1: He's got to meet him. He's got to meet him

885
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 1: out here and just force him to take a retreat dribble.

886
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 1: Because if Tyre's Halliburton takes a retreat dribble, Jimmy Butler rotates,

887
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: Tyler Harrow gets back and then we're fine. But because

888
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 1: he takes a bad angle on this hedge, it's a layup.

889
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 1: Now it's a four point game. Go down to the

890
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: other end. The Miami heater going to run an action

891
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 1: to try to get Tyre's Halliburton switched on to Jimmy Butler.

892
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 2: So the good Jovich.

893
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 1: And basically Jimmy just wants to set this screen to

894
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 1: get Tyres Halliburton switched onto him and then go to

895
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 1: work instead. Yovich goes, it's my turn and drives in

896
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:19,400
Speaker 1: and takes this bad floater and hits the side of

897
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: the backboard, So a bad offensive decision. And then off

898
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: of that we have bad floor balance in transition. Tyler

899
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:33,360
Speaker 1: Harrow walking. Watch Tyler Harrow walking, still walking. Juxtapose that

900
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 1: with the possession we got for Mitchell Robinson sprinting back

901
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 1: on defense in the last segment. He's walking, now he's jogging.

902
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 1: We've got three guys here, right, what are the order?

903
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 2: What's the order of operations for a transition? Right?

904
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:48,359
Speaker 1: Stop the ball, protect the basket. So one of these

905
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: guys needs to be communicating I've got ball, and then

906
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: the other two both need to be getting back to

907
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 1: the rim. Instead, there's no communication, and aaron Ne Smith

908
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,320
Speaker 1: just easily leaks out from behind and gets to the

909
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: foul line, makes both free throws, and literally, just like that,

910
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: we go from a one oh three to one oh

911
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: one game with three minutes left to a one oh

912
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:08,719
Speaker 1: seven to one oh one game with two minutes left,

913
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:10,800
Speaker 1: and it's basically over from there. The Heat would have

914
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:12,399
Speaker 1: to play perfect to win from there, and it's hard

915
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 1: to play perfect. So a great example of how like

916
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,839
Speaker 1: you can play a great basketball game do everything right

917
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: and get into a position where you're where you can win.

918
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:22,320
Speaker 1: And then if you don't execute so three easy mistake

919
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 1: at three mistakes right, Tyler Harrow bad hedge Nikola Jovich,

920
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:27,879
Speaker 1: with eight seconds on the shot clock, shoots a floater

921
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 1: off the side of the backboard when Jimmy Butler has

922
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: Tyre's Haliburton on him closing out at him of all

923
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 1: things too. And then finally bad transition defense not picking

924
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 1: up the ball and protecting the rim, poor communication jogging

925
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 1: from Tyler Harrow. Suddenly your chance to win the game

926
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 1: is over. And that's how quickly it can happen when

927
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 1: it comes to uh to execution. All right, Rockets mass

928
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 1: super super fun game. The Rockets jumped them early, Dallas

929
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: battles back, sends it to ot off of a Dante

930
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 1: Xum three. We're gonna go through some of that on

931
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,280
Speaker 1: film as well. Dallas gets a big win. Kyrie Irving

932
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,800
Speaker 1: had forty eight points in this game. We're starting on

933
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: film by looking at Kyrie Irving's footwork. Now, one of

934
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:05,120
Speaker 1: the things I talk about a lot on this show

935
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:08,360
Speaker 1: is footwork is the means with which you get to

936
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 1: your spots.

937
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 2: So there's a spot on the floor you're trying to

938
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 2: get to.

939
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:14,359
Speaker 1: If you do not have quality footwork, you're not gonna

940
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:16,480
Speaker 1: be able to get there. This one starts with Kyrie

941
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:19,800
Speaker 1: Irving isoing Dylan Brooks, one of the best perimeter defenders

942
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 1: in the league. He's going to use the dribble combination

943
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:23,319
Speaker 1: to get down here to the middle of the floor.

944
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: And when he gets here, watch this right here, he's

945
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:33,839
Speaker 1: gonna spin. But spinning is tough footwork, and a spin

946
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: move by itself is not enough. He needs to spin

947
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 1: and then take two long steps to get to the rim.

948
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:42,280
Speaker 1: Let's watch it in real speed. First, watch how strong

949
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:47,360
Speaker 1: these steps are. Spin one, two up to the basket

950
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:50,399
Speaker 1: to finish through contact. Literally, he had the strength off

951
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:54,800
Speaker 1: of the spin move to take two additional lunging steps

952
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 1: through a bigger, stronger defender and to finish at the rim.

953
00:47:58,719 --> 00:47:59,800
Speaker 2: Just watch it.

954
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:02,319
Speaker 1: Watch the power in his lower body as he makes

955
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 1: this spin move. And this is perfect footwork. Boom spin,

956
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 1: but he maintains that line of power going towards the

957
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,720
Speaker 1: basket and finish. Just incredible footwork from Kyrieving. And again,

958
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 1: that's a spot he's trying to get to. That his

959
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: spin moved footwork is what allowed him to get there.

960
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:22,799
Speaker 1: Same type of thing here working in ISO against Jalen Green.

961
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:28,360
Speaker 1: Drives left right, gets cut off. Then he's going to

962
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 1: step through with his left foot to set Jalen Green

963
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:34,439
Speaker 1: up for a fade away step through, pump, fake spin

964
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: over his right shoulder. Look at this footwork. Watch this again.

965
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:42,359
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put it in slow motion this time. Watch

966
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: Kyrie's footwork because he gets down here boom, step through

967
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:49,800
Speaker 1: with the left foot, fake pivot over the right shoulder.

968
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:52,760
Speaker 2: Just absolutely beautiful.

969
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,320
Speaker 1: Again, it's all about him being able to get to

970
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 1: any spot on the floor with any footwork because he

971
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:00,919
Speaker 1: has polished that specific part of his game so well.

972
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 1: Really impressive stuff from Kyrie Irving. So the next thing

973
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 1: we're gonna be looking at is what I thought was

974
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: the hero of the game for Dallas. Late in this game,

975
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 1: Big plays from their forge defensively. Here we have a

976
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 1: ball screen. On the ball screen, we get a slip

977
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 1: and PJ. Washington is the low man here right. So

978
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 1: because the roller got behind the line of defense, he

979
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 1: has to come off of Cam Whitmore in the corner

980
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 1: and he's got to help at the rim. He's going

981
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: to get the block on Jock Landale. Then he's gonna

982
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:30,319
Speaker 1: run up the floor and we have a really he's

983
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:32,879
Speaker 1: got a smaller defender in front of him, so he's

984
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 1: gonna do a really nice job of tucking to gather

985
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 1: the ball, like taking the contact and finishing at the rim.

986
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:39,319
Speaker 1: See how he protects the ball. Looking at how far

987
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 1: he brought the ball over on his left side right here,

988
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:43,800
Speaker 1: like he's bringing away on his left side to protect,

989
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 1: swinging that right shoulder through to clear out. Getting the

990
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 1: easy layout. Now we're gonna get Maxie Cleeb but getting involved.

991
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:56,960
Speaker 1: I thought he was the unbelievable defensively at the end

992
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 1: of this game. This is going to be an example

993
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 1: of a peel off switch to get a steal. So

994
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 1: this ball is gonna end up in Kyrie Irving's hands.

995
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:08,440
Speaker 1: And when Jabari Smith sets the screen, uh, Kyrie calls

996
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 1: for the switch and then Fred van Vliet kind of

997
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 1: beats him to the side, but Kyrie Irving calls another

998
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: switch and he switches. Watch Kaliba right here he sees

999
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:20,200
Speaker 1: Kyrie's got him. He identifies that Luca's there, Kyrie's there.

1000
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:23,320
Speaker 1: He knows now that he doesn't need to chase anymore,

1001
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 1: and so at the last second he bails out on

1002
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:28,400
Speaker 1: it and pulls back. Fred van Vliet tries toss it

1003
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:36,959
Speaker 1: back to Jabari Smith and Kleba gets the steal. Here's

1004
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 1: a couple of stops, same exact thing twice, Kleiba getting

1005
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 1: switched onto Jalen Green and forcing him into tough pull

1006
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 1: up threes and getting misses miss number one. Same sort

1007
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:55,440
Speaker 1: of thing here, ball screen, kleebah an island. Look at

1008
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:59,239
Speaker 1: this contest. This is a lot of length to force

1009
00:50:59,280 --> 00:50:59,959
Speaker 1: a couple of big myss.

1010
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 2: Is there? All right?

1011
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:03,799
Speaker 1: Let's get into crunch time. So it's one twenty six,

1012
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: one twenty five, and this is actually an example of

1013
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 1: a boxed rotation from the MAVs. So Luca's gonna linger

1014
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,240
Speaker 1: in a hedge here. So Bullock is setting the screen

1015
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 1: and he's gonna flip slip out of it to the

1016
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 1: three point line. Luca lingers in a hedge. Now, Jason

1017
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:21,440
Speaker 1: Kidd has clearly set up a funky system of rotations here.

1018
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:23,879
Speaker 1: Typically this would be a hedge and recover, right, Luca

1019
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 1: would hang out just long enough for X him to

1020
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:29,720
Speaker 1: recover and then Luca would recover. But instead Luca points

1021
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: because it appears you could see him immediately point. They

1022
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 1: do the windshield wiper rotation from the opposite end of

1023
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 1: the floor, so they're expecting Luca to basically recovered to

1024
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:38,760
Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks.

1025
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 2: But PJ.

1026
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:42,840
Speaker 1: Washington is slow and so as you can see Bulock slips,

1027
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 1: Washington should know this rotation is coming. You can see

1028
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: him kind of starting, but he's just too late. And

1029
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 1: when he makes that rotation, it's just too easy a

1030
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 1: look for too good of a shooter. So that gets

1031
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 1: it to one twenty eight, one twenty six. As we know,

1032
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 1: Jabari Smith goes up and misses a couple of free throws,

1033
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,279
Speaker 1: and now we're gonna get our final sequence. This is

1034
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 1: just an example of Luka Doncic's gravity. So Bullock is

1035
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:06,840
Speaker 1: guarding Xom and Dylan Brooks is guarding Luca. He's gonna

1036
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 1: throw that pitch. Reggie Bullock is you can literally see

1037
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:11,279
Speaker 1: it in his body language. This is this is oh

1038
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 1: shit body language. He's like, oh shit, here comes Luca, right,

1039
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 1: So he's like oh no, no, no, and Dylan Brooks

1040
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 1: is chasing so hard from behind, and he gets there.

1041
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: But Dante exam is wide open as a result, and

1042
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: Dante Exam has been dead on, like dead on with

1043
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:27,359
Speaker 1: his catch and shoot shooting this year ties the game

1044
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,799
Speaker 1: and sends it to ot. Here we get another big

1045
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 1: play from Kleeve at the rim on defense. Fred van

1046
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:37,239
Speaker 1: Blied is gonna get downhill and Cleeve is gonna block

1047
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: him on the opposite side of the rim. This is

1048
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:44,839
Speaker 1: actually an example. So down the stretch of this game,

1049
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 1: the Rockets just started hard doubling the MAVs every single time.

1050
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:52,839
Speaker 1: So here we're gonna get a double team a PJ.

1051
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 1: Washington's gonna slip to the middle of the floor. It's

1052
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 1: gonna get swung through really good rotations from from Houston.

1053
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 1: Balling's up with Exum and Xem is dribbling out to

1054
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 1: try to get the ball back to Luca. So he's

1055
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 1: looking at Luca, but Dylan Brooks is on in full

1056
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:09,839
Speaker 1: ball denial literally forty feet from the basket, and there's

1057
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 1: only ten seconds left and Kyrie's all the way down

1058
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 1: over here, so Exum basically has to try to make

1059
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 1: a playoff the bounce, and he's like, sure, I can

1060
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: make plays with the ball in my hands.

1061
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:19,400
Speaker 2: That used to be what I do.

1062
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 1: Hard crossover dribble and Fred Van Vlee easy to the

1063
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:25,279
Speaker 1: basket for a layup. That's really valuable matchup attacking skill

1064
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 1: there from Dante Exum. All right, moving on, how about

1065
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 1: Maxi Kliba at the rim again? So Josh Green beats PJ.

1066
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 1: Washington straight verticality from Kleiba gets to stop at the

1067
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:47,399
Speaker 1: rim just unbelievable defensively, and then going the other way,

1068
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 1: we're gonna get another impromptu double team this time of Kyrie.

1069
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 1: Okay ball gets swung. There's an impromptu double team of

1070
00:53:57,760 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: Luca that gets swung to Kleeba. Kleeba is not in

1071
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 1: a position to score, so he just tosses it to Kyrie.

1072
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 1: We're gonna get another impromptu double team from Jeff Green

1073
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 1: this time Kleiba kind of slips into that opening draws

1074
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:13,279
Speaker 1: Jalen Green and then PJ. Washington gets a wide open

1075
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 1: corner three. So again, just the advantage of having stars

1076
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:19,800
Speaker 1: that continually draw double teams means you're constantly in rotation,

1077
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 1: which means as long as you make good reads, you're

1078
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 1: gonna get great looks. Good read there from Kleeba, wide

1079
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 1: open three for PJ.

1080
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 2: Washington.

1081
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,840
Speaker 1: And how about one more defensive effort for good measure.

1082
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:33,320
Speaker 1: We're gonna get this time. Derek Jones Junior getting switched

1083
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:37,000
Speaker 1: onto Jalen Green and making an athletic play to stop

1084
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 1: him at the rim. Big time win for the MAVs.

1085
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:44,480
Speaker 1: It's crazy how they've turned their season around here down

1086
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:47,360
Speaker 1: the stretch, just with incredible defense, rebounding, and obviously the

1087
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: power of their stars. All right, that's it for our

1088
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 1: film session. We're gonna be headed into our top ten

1089
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:57,440
Speaker 1: contenders now. Actually before we to quick tie off on.

1090
00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:02,239
Speaker 2: The Dallas bid. You know that to me, that Kleba, PJ.

1091
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 1: Washington, Derek Jones Junior, That to me is the main

1092
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:09,880
Speaker 1: difference between Phoenix and Dallas. They're very similar in the

1093
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:12,399
Speaker 1: sense that that these incredible shot creators that are gonna

1094
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:15,960
Speaker 1: consistently draw multiple defenders. Phoenix is gonna look better in

1095
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 1: a lot of those situations just simply because they have

1096
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 1: so much shooting around and they don't have, you know,

1097
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,359
Speaker 1: guys like PJ. Washington maxically, but Derek Jones Junior, where

1098
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 1: it's like, I could live with this guy shooting if

1099
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:28,840
Speaker 1: I want to. Most of the rotation players for Phoenix

1100
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 1: are dead eye shooters. That said, they simply do not

1101
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:36,319
Speaker 1: have the type of versatile defensive forwards that Dallas can

1102
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 1: bring to the table, Guys like PJ. Washington, guys like

1103
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:41,920
Speaker 1: Maxi Kleba. So I actually think Phoenix has a little

1104
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 1: bit higher of a offensive ceiling than Dallas does. But

1105
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:47,279
Speaker 1: I think Dallas has a little bit higher of a

1106
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:50,319
Speaker 1: defensive ceiling, and I think that that could end up

1107
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 1: voting even more well for them when they get to

1108
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 1: the postseason. I'm actually still up in the air for like,

1109
00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:58,839
Speaker 1: Phoenix and Dallas are like my biggest toss up right

1110
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 1: now in my tender rankings, which we're gonna get to

1111
00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 1: later this week. All right, before we get out of

1112
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 1: here today, Like I said, we're gonna be going through

1113
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,440
Speaker 1: our top ten contenders. This is gonna be ranked purely

1114
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 1: based on what I'm expecting from these teams in the postseason.

1115
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 1: A couple of quick notes on the standings. After Boston

1116
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:18,319
Speaker 1: and Denver, Oklahoma City and Minnesota are the next two

1117
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:21,480
Speaker 1: teams in the standings right. They're both young athletic teams

1118
00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:23,759
Speaker 1: that dominated the regular season. They have twenty four and

1119
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 1: twenty five losses. Then we have the Clippers. They have

1120
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:28,040
Speaker 1: twenty eight losses. They were really good for a big

1121
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:29,840
Speaker 1: chunk of the season, and they've been pretty mediocre for

1122
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:31,480
Speaker 1: a big chunk of the season. They're kind of in

1123
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 1: that mid middle zone. But the next thirteen teams Dallas, Milwaukee, Orlando,

1124
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:44,400
Speaker 1: New York, Phoenix, New Orleans, Cleveland, Sacramento, Indiana, the Lakers, Philadelphia, Miami,

1125
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 1: and Golden State. All thirteen teams in that list have

1126
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: between thirty and thirty five losses. They're all separated by

1127
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: five games in the lost column, so like they're all

1128
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 1: crunched up on each other. So standings for, there's a

1129
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 1: bunch of teams in both conferences that I have ranked

1130
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 1: more differently than where they're at in the standings, and

1131
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 1: it's because we're really splitting hairs at this point. Aside

1132
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:11,200
Speaker 1: from those teams at the top of the league, everyone's

1133
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 1: kind of crunched up on each other, and so I'm

1134
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:16,680
Speaker 1: more looking at matchups, personnel, and how I expect those

1135
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:19,320
Speaker 1: things to translate to the postseason. So we're gonna be

1136
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 1: going from ten to one to start, and I'm just

1137
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 1: going to do ten, nine and eight today. So number

1138
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:26,600
Speaker 1: ten is actually going to be a two for one.

1139
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 1: It's the Heat and the Warriors. These are teams that

1140
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 1: were just giving the appropriate amount of respect to the establishment.

1141
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:37,160
Speaker 1: Both of them have had mediocre regular seasons. Both are

1142
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 1: forty three and thirty five. Both are likely to be

1143
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:42,440
Speaker 1: in the play in tournament, the Warriors basically certainly at

1144
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:45,040
Speaker 1: this point and the Heat likely at this point after

1145
00:57:45,080 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 1: their loss to the Pacers, although it's not over for them.

1146
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 1: Both have similar strengths. They're both really good defenses. They're

1147
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 1: both really good at defensive rebounding. They have a superstar

1148
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:56,960
Speaker 1: that thrives in the postseason. Right, you can't do much

1149
00:57:56,960 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 1: better than Jimmy and Steph as postseason stars.

1150
00:57:59,240 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 2: Right.

1151
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:02,720
Speaker 1: Both are extremely well coached. It's pretty much the consensus

1152
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:05,440
Speaker 1: around the league that Steve Kerr and Eric Spolster are

1153
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:08,480
Speaker 1: the two best tactical adjustment coaches that we have in

1154
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 1: the league. Right, They also have similar weaknesses. They're both

1155
00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 1: prone to lolls on offense for the same reasons because

1156
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:18,320
Speaker 1: their superstars are getting a bit old. Both superstars their

1157
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:20,919
Speaker 1: numbers are down from last year, both of them seem

1158
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:22,040
Speaker 1: to be a little bit on the other end of

1159
00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 1: the hill, and neither team has a reliable secondary shot creator,

1160
00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 1: so as a result of that, some nights when guys

1161
00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 1: are playing well, they look great on offense and they

1162
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 1: can beat anybody, But they have the a tendency, especially

1163
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 1: if they're superstars not playing super well, to go really

1164
00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:41,240
Speaker 1: cold offensively and to have a lot of challenges. But

1165
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:46,600
Speaker 1: their playoff strengths are a reality, elite superstar talent, elite coaching,

1166
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:49,520
Speaker 1: and elite defense and rebounding. Those are like three or

1167
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:51,440
Speaker 1: four of the most important things that you can have

1168
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 1: as a playoff threat. And so because of that, I

1169
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:55,800
Speaker 1: think it'd be silly for us to write these teams out,

1170
00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:57,800
Speaker 1: and so that's why I have them in this list

1171
00:58:58,240 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 1: as kind of like a two fer in that tense.

1172
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:04,120
Speaker 1: It's the appropriate amount of respect to the establishment. Their

1173
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 1: defense and rebounding are going to keep games close. So

1174
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 1: it's really going to come down to execution. Now, both

1175
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:13,040
Speaker 1: of these teams, ironically, for being historically good execution teams,

1176
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:15,920
Speaker 1: both of these teams have struggled with execution this season.

1177
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 1: The Warriors have lost a bunch of close games this season.

1178
00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:21,560
Speaker 1: The Heat haven't been a very good clutch team either.

1179
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:24,640
Speaker 1: We just showed examples from the Pacers game of them

1180
00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:28,520
Speaker 1: making critical execution mistakes down the stretch, so relative to

1181
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:31,920
Speaker 1: what we expect from these teams as establishment franchises that

1182
00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 1: haven't been good execution teams this year, but that is

1183
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 1: kind of their reputation. I kind of view these teams

1184
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 1: as like the bouncer at the club, and what I

1185
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 1: mean by that is like, I don't think either of

1186
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:46,880
Speaker 1: them are talented enough to win four rounds. Certainly it

1187
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:50,320
Speaker 1: would be a big long shot, but I do think

1188
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:53,440
Speaker 1: they will expose the fraudulent teams around the league. So

1189
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:55,760
Speaker 1: I'm going to be really tempted to pick the heat

1190
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:58,760
Speaker 1: in the Warriors in just about any series except for

1191
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:02,600
Speaker 1: the very top echelon in the league, simply because of

1192
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:05,280
Speaker 1: the fact that they are the team that will expose

1193
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:08,120
Speaker 1: you if you're not ready, if you have major holes

1194
01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:11,160
Speaker 1: that prevent you from being a postseason team, excuse me,

1195
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: a championship level team. If you have those kinds of holes,

1196
01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:18,800
Speaker 1: it's elite, superstar, elite coaching, elite defense that will expose that.

1197
01:00:19,080 --> 01:00:22,720
Speaker 1: That's what Miami and Golden State do. And so I expect,

1198
01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:25,640
Speaker 1: you know, no matter what, those two teams to be

1199
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 1: a royal pain in the butt. But I'm gonna be

1200
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:29,280
Speaker 1: tempted to pick them just simply because of their ability

1201
01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:30,680
Speaker 1: to expose other teams flaws.

1202
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:31,479
Speaker 2: What is their path?

1203
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:33,200
Speaker 1: So for every one of these teams, I'm gonna go

1204
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:36,560
Speaker 1: strengths weaknesses. What does their path to the championship look like?

1205
01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:41,080
Speaker 1: So for Miami or Golden State to get it done, obviously,

1206
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:44,280
Speaker 1: the superstars have to outplay their matchup consistently. So Steph

1207
01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:45,800
Speaker 1: and Jimmy are gonna have to go toe to toe

1208
01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:47,760
Speaker 1: with the best superstars in the league and outplay them.

1209
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:50,080
Speaker 1: That's a must because talent advantage is not going to

1210
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:52,920
Speaker 1: be in their favor right. Two, the coaches have to

1211
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 1: throw the other teams out of rhythm, so Kerr and

1212
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:58,440
Speaker 1: Spolstra have to coach their ass off, identify and expose

1213
01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:01,000
Speaker 1: weaknesses on the other team. And then lastly, they need

1214
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:05,760
Speaker 1: consistent contribution from their inconsistent offensive co stars or co

1215
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:08,920
Speaker 1: talent on the team. As long as those guys contribute,

1216
01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 1: as long as the coaches make the other teams uncomfortable,

1217
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:13,120
Speaker 1: and as long as Stephan Jimmy playwell, they have a

1218
01:01:13,240 --> 01:01:18,360
Speaker 1: chance to beat anybody. Number nine the Minnesota Timberwolves. They

1219
01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:21,120
Speaker 1: are fifty four and twenty four so far, tied for

1220
01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 1: the one seed in the Western Conference. Their strengths, they

1221
01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:27,600
Speaker 1: are physically overwhelming at every position group. Anthony Edwards is

1222
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:30,120
Speaker 1: one of the biggest, strongest, most athletic guards that we

1223
01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:32,840
Speaker 1: have in the league. Nikile Alexander Walker is another quick

1224
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:35,840
Speaker 1: and long perimeter defender. On the wing, Jaden McDaniels is

1225
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:39,200
Speaker 1: possibly the best wing defender in basketball, and then Rudy

1226
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:42,600
Speaker 1: Gobert obviously the length and versatility at the center position,

1227
01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:45,960
Speaker 1: Carl Towns and his ability to bully smaller wings, especially

1228
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 1: now that he plays alongside another big and even nos

1229
01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:50,920
Speaker 1: Reed in the matchup problems that he presents as just

1230
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:54,160
Speaker 1: a gigantic human being that can shoot. They have physical

1231
01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 1: advantages all over the floor. They've also been the best

1232
01:01:56,840 --> 01:01:58,880
Speaker 1: defense in basketball this year. They are number one in

1233
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:02,200
Speaker 1: defensive rating number one and half court defensive rating according

1234
01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:04,280
Speaker 1: to the Cleaning the last by a mile, almost five

1235
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:06,439
Speaker 1: points better than the second best team in the league

1236
01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:09,200
Speaker 1: and half court defense. They're also an excellent rebounding team.

1237
01:02:09,240 --> 01:02:12,640
Speaker 1: They are seventh in defensive rebounding percentage. Their weaknesses though,

1238
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:16,200
Speaker 1: they're a mediocre offense that becomes flat out bad at

1239
01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 1: the end of games. For the season, they are seventeenth

1240
01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:21,800
Speaker 1: in offensive rating, but that goes down. They scored just

1241
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:25,160
Speaker 1: one hundred and four point three points per one hundred

1242
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:29,000
Speaker 1: possessions offensively when the game is within five points with

1243
01:02:29,080 --> 01:02:31,440
Speaker 1: less than five minutes left. They fall apart at the

1244
01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:34,200
Speaker 1: end of games with their decision making and their spacing,

1245
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:38,440
Speaker 1: and specifically, it comes down to Anthony Edwards as a

1246
01:02:38,480 --> 01:02:42,560
Speaker 1: twenty two year old decision maker, right, Like really, that's

1247
01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:45,240
Speaker 1: really what it comes down to, Like, he's twenty two

1248
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:47,400
Speaker 1: years old and he has a tendency.

1249
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:48,200
Speaker 2: To settle for bad shots.

1250
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:51,600
Speaker 1: Fifteen players in the NBA this year have attempted at

1251
01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:54,640
Speaker 1: least five hundred pull up jump shots this year. Anthony

1252
01:02:54,760 --> 01:02:57,240
Speaker 1: Edwards gets zero point eight to nine points per shot,

1253
01:02:57,280 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 1: which is actually down from last year, and that ranks

1254
01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:05,080
Speaker 1: on that list out of fifteen players, Like only Demart

1255
01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:07,120
Speaker 1: de Rosen has been worse on that list, and it's

1256
01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:09,320
Speaker 1: because he barely ever takes a pull up three, which

1257
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:11,960
Speaker 1: is the higher value shot. So like, he's not a

1258
01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:14,560
Speaker 1: good pull up jump shooter who settles for that shot

1259
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:18,480
Speaker 1: a lot. He's literally in the top fifteen a pull

1260
01:03:18,560 --> 01:03:21,480
Speaker 1: up jump shooting volume in the league this year. Despite

1261
01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:23,040
Speaker 1: the physical gifts that he has to the table that

1262
01:03:23,120 --> 01:03:24,520
Speaker 1: he brings to the table, and so really that's what

1263
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:27,360
Speaker 1: it comes down to. It's like, he's twenty two and

1264
01:03:27,680 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 1: one of the most common things I talked about on

1265
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:31,360
Speaker 1: the show is like the growth of a young basketball

1266
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:34,400
Speaker 1: player is identifying what works and finding out how to

1267
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:37,680
Speaker 1: replicate it, identifying what's not working in finding out how

1268
01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:40,440
Speaker 1: to minimize it. An just hasn't really got to that

1269
01:03:40,560 --> 01:03:43,800
Speaker 1: point yet. And so I'm as big an ant believer

1270
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:46,280
Speaker 1: as you'll find. I think he has a real chance

1271
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:48,120
Speaker 1: to be the best player in the league, which is

1272
01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:50,320
Speaker 1: saying something given some of the talent that we have

1273
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:53,360
Speaker 1: outside of the United States that has come into the league. Right, So, like,

1274
01:03:53,480 --> 01:03:55,960
Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in Anthony Edwards, but it's just

1275
01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:58,920
Speaker 1: really early in his window decision making. Is the weakness

1276
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:01,640
Speaker 1: of the team and that its manifested in that offensive rating.

1277
01:04:02,400 --> 01:04:04,320
Speaker 1: They haven't defended well at the end of games either.

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Speaker 1: They have a one to eighteen point three defensive rating

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Speaker 1: and clutch situations that is the sixth worst mark in

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Speaker 1: the entire NBA for a team that has been the

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Speaker 1: best defense in the league. Outside of those situations. That

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Speaker 1: to me comes down to entry points. Like I talked about,

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Speaker 1: if you can get Mike Conley in the action, get

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Speaker 1: the defense in rotation, If you can get Kyle Towns

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Speaker 1: in the action, get the defense in rotation, Suddenly it

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01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:26,680
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how strong your set defense is. Teams have

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Speaker 1: not had a problem scoring on Minnesota in crunch time

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Speaker 1: this season. I think that will be the death of them.

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Speaker 1: They'll be in every single game because of their defense,

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Speaker 1: but I think they'll just inevitably run into a team

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Speaker 1: that can out execute them in the half court, and

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Speaker 1: I think they'll get knocked out. What does their path

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Speaker 1: look like? Everything comes down to Anthony Edwards. If he

1294
01:04:44,720 --> 01:04:48,400
Speaker 1: plays like a thirty year old vet, under control, good

1295
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Speaker 1: decision making, prioritizing, using his physical gifts to dominate the

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Speaker 1: game on both ends of the floor, devoting resources defensively

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Speaker 1: where you can be absolutely devastating, and then on offense,

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Speaker 1: using his strength to get a and athleticism to get

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Speaker 1: as close to the rim as possible. And then when

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Speaker 1: he does settle shooting a high percentage, a higher percentage

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Speaker 1: than he has in the regular season, which, by the way,

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Speaker 1: he's consistently been a pretty mediocre regular season pull up shooter.

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01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:13,680
Speaker 1: But He's pretty consistently been a great pull up shooter

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01:05:13,720 --> 01:05:16,200
Speaker 1: in the postseason, albeit in a small sample size, only

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01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:19,040
Speaker 1: one round each time. So as long as he can

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Speaker 1: do that over the course of a longer playoff run,

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Speaker 1: make the shots and make quality decisions, they can beat anyone.

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Speaker 1: It's just you're betting on a twenty two year old,

1309
01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:27,800
Speaker 1: and that's a lot to ask. That's why I have

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Speaker 1: them so low relative to where they are in the standings.

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Speaker 1: Number eight, final one for today, the Milwaukee Bucks. This

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01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:37,000
Speaker 1: is the largest gap between how I felt about a

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Speaker 1: team at the start of the season versus now. I

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Speaker 1: had them as the second best championship contender to start

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Speaker 1: the season adam a hair over Boston. Now I have

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Speaker 1: them all the way down at eight. They're forty seven

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01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:49,400
Speaker 1: and thirty one, second in the Eastern Conference, just fifteen

1318
01:05:49,560 --> 01:05:53,040
Speaker 1: and seventeen since Doc Rivers got hired below five hundred

1319
01:05:53,040 --> 01:05:56,000
Speaker 1: and a thirty two game sample size, twentieth best record

1320
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Speaker 1: in the league in that span. Mediocre on both ends

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Speaker 1: of the floor. They're sixteenth on all offense and thirteenth

1322
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Speaker 1: in defense over that thirty two game span. Their strengths,

1323
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Speaker 1: they've been a good offense for most of the season.

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Speaker 1: They're actually fifth and offensive raiding for the whole season,

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Speaker 1: especially against good teams. And this is like your little

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01:06:12,240 --> 01:06:13,960
Speaker 1: silver lining or whatever you want to call it that

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01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:15,920
Speaker 1: you cling to as a Bucks fan. They have a

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Speaker 1: one to twenty two point two offensive rating against teams

1329
01:06:19,080 --> 01:06:21,160
Speaker 1: in the top ten in point differential according to Cleaning

1330
01:06:21,160 --> 01:06:22,919
Speaker 1: the Glass. That is the best rating in the league.

1331
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:25,600
Speaker 1: So their offense has been really good against good teams. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: that's all the optimism for both Lakers fans and Bucks

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01:06:28,560 --> 01:06:31,600
Speaker 1: fans has to center around how they fared against good teams,

1334
01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:34,080
Speaker 1: because those two teams have been better against the best

1335
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Speaker 1: than they've been against the middle of the pack. They

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Speaker 1: are top five in both three pointers made per game

1337
01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:41,680
Speaker 1: and free throws made per game, so they get really

1338
01:06:41,760 --> 01:06:44,880
Speaker 1: efficient shots to kind of bolster their offensive rating. They're

1339
01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 1: an excellent defensive rebounding team their sixth in defensive rebounding percentage.

1340
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Speaker 1: They also have real star power for the postseason, Damian Giannis.

1341
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Speaker 1: Even with as much as dam has struggled this year,

1342
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Speaker 1: I still think Damianiannis is a better duo than anything

1343
01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:59,320
Speaker 1: they'll encounter in the Eastern Conference. It won't be until

1344
01:06:59,320 --> 01:07:00,680
Speaker 1: they run into yok At You and Murray if they

1345
01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:03,120
Speaker 1: get to the finals, that they'll run into a better duo.

1346
01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:05,880
Speaker 1: So like that's a huge advantage going into the postseason.

1347
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:10,160
Speaker 1: I don't think with Jalen Brown's rise and with Dame's fall,

1348
01:07:10,480 --> 01:07:12,760
Speaker 1: I don't think it's like a big gap. I think

1349
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:16,000
Speaker 1: they're barely a better duo the than the Tatum Brown duo.

1350
01:07:16,240 --> 01:07:18,800
Speaker 1: But I do think they're a better duo. Their weaknesses

1351
01:07:18,920 --> 01:07:22,400
Speaker 1: biggest one they're just slow. Outside of Yannis, every single

1352
01:07:22,440 --> 01:07:24,920
Speaker 1: player in their rotation because the young guys don't play much,

1353
01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:27,800
Speaker 1: every single player in their rotation is slower than average

1354
01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:31,000
Speaker 1: for their position group around the league, and so teams

1355
01:07:31,040 --> 01:07:32,960
Speaker 1: get out in transition a lot against them. They get

1356
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:34,919
Speaker 1: out and transition sixteen percent of the time. That ranks

1357
01:07:34,960 --> 01:07:37,160
Speaker 1: twenty second in the NBA. It's a big part of

1358
01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:40,560
Speaker 1: their defensive issues. They were a top ten paint defense

1359
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:42,160
Speaker 1: last year. That used to be a strength of the Bucks.

1360
01:07:42,200 --> 01:07:43,280
Speaker 1: They could protect the paint.

1361
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Speaker 2: Not this year.

1362
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Speaker 1: They're seventeenth in opponent points in the paint per one

1363
01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:49,520
Speaker 1: hundred possessions. This is another gad part. They don't score

1364
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Speaker 1: in the paint. Now A lot of people will say

1365
01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:54,680
Speaker 1: they take a lot of kickout threes because of the

1366
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:57,240
Speaker 1: way teams guard Giannis. That's true, But in the year

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Speaker 1: they won the title, they were fifteenth in points in

1368
01:07:59,280 --> 01:08:02,160
Speaker 1: the paint per one hundred possessions. This year they're twenty ninth,

1369
01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:06,640
Speaker 1: the second worst paint scoring offense in the NBA. They're

1370
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Speaker 1: very dependent on jump shooting. They're a top ten jump

1371
01:08:09,040 --> 01:08:12,480
Speaker 1: shooting frequency team, and so they've kind of leaned a

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01:08:12,520 --> 01:08:15,360
Speaker 1: little bit into too much into the variance themselves. They're slow,

1373
01:08:15,600 --> 01:08:18,240
Speaker 1: they don't get a ton of easy shots right around

1374
01:08:18,280 --> 01:08:20,680
Speaker 1: the basket. They rely on tough shot making a lot.

1375
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Speaker 1: That's just a tough spot to be in offensively, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's a big part of why they've struggled

1377
01:08:24,720 --> 01:08:27,360
Speaker 1: so much offensively as of late. But really they just

1378
01:08:27,400 --> 01:08:29,160
Speaker 1: have never been able to get the dam Giannis two

1379
01:08:29,240 --> 01:08:31,040
Speaker 1: man game off the ground where it needs to go.

1380
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Speaker 1: And we talked about that specifically in our film session

1381
01:08:34,520 --> 01:08:37,080
Speaker 1: today for the Bucks. I gave like six examples of

1382
01:08:37,360 --> 01:08:40,599
Speaker 1: different ball screen configurations that I've been looking at with Milwaukee.

1383
01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:42,320
Speaker 1: Stuff that works and stuff that doesn't. So you can

1384
01:08:42,320 --> 01:08:43,800
Speaker 1: find that a little bit earlier on our feed if

1385
01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:46,080
Speaker 1: you were watching this on a breakout, but they've just

1386
01:08:46,160 --> 01:08:47,960
Speaker 1: never been able to get the damianis two man game

1387
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:50,040
Speaker 1: to be as inevitable as it needs to be, and

1388
01:08:50,120 --> 01:08:52,280
Speaker 1: then Dame as the entry point. And defensively, the Knicks

1389
01:08:52,360 --> 01:08:55,719
Speaker 1: one the other night literally just because they were targeting

1390
01:08:55,760 --> 01:08:57,960
Speaker 1: Dame almost every single time down the floor and getting

1391
01:08:57,960 --> 01:09:01,639
Speaker 1: great shots. As a result, they just have bad vibes.

1392
01:09:01,960 --> 01:09:05,000
Speaker 1: They're under five hundred for almost half of a season's

1393
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:07,719
Speaker 1: worth of games at this point. The Doc Rivers situation,

1394
01:09:07,960 --> 01:09:11,479
Speaker 1: the comments, the energy around the team, it's just not

1395
01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:14,479
Speaker 1: where you want it to be if you're in position

1396
01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:17,400
Speaker 1: to make a championship run. This team doesn't appear to

1397
01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:20,800
Speaker 1: have that energy behind it that you hope for from

1398
01:09:20,840 --> 01:09:23,320
Speaker 1: a contender. What is their path really simple? Dam and

1399
01:09:23,320 --> 01:09:25,240
Speaker 1: Giannis have to figure it out offensively when they get

1400
01:09:25,280 --> 01:09:27,400
Speaker 1: to the postseason, which by the way, is doable. They

1401
01:09:27,479 --> 01:09:30,080
Speaker 1: need excellent shooting runs from Malik Beasley, Brook Lopez and

1402
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:33,240
Speaker 1: Chris Middleton, and lastly Joannison Tennan Kumpo just has to

1403
01:09:33,280 --> 01:09:35,640
Speaker 1: have the defensive playoff runt of his lifetime. He's got

1404
01:09:35,680 --> 01:09:37,960
Speaker 1: to just be so incredibly locked in and focused and

1405
01:09:38,080 --> 01:09:39,920
Speaker 1: be able to clean up so many messes, because the

1406
01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:42,160
Speaker 1: messes are going to be there. But if all that

1407
01:09:42,240 --> 01:09:44,519
Speaker 1: comes together, they have the talent, they have the ability

1408
01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:46,840
Speaker 1: to do it. They've just got a lot of things

1409
01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:49,080
Speaker 1: that are trending in the wrong direction. All right, guys,

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01:09:49,160 --> 01:09:51,360
Speaker 1: that is all I have for today. There's no NBA

1411
01:09:51,479 --> 01:09:53,640
Speaker 1: games tonight because of the National Title Games, so if

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01:09:53,680 --> 01:09:55,639
Speaker 1: we go tomorrow, it'll probably just be a couple more

1413
01:09:55,640 --> 01:09:58,040
Speaker 1: of the contenders that we'll look at. We are going

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01:09:58,080 --> 01:10:00,360
Speaker 1: live on YouTube after the final buzzer of Lakers Warriors

1415
01:10:00,400 --> 01:10:02,200
Speaker 1: tomorrow night, though, so I will see you guys then.

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01:10:02,240 --> 01:10:03,639
Speaker 1: If I don't see you in the morning, I always

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01:10:03,640 --> 01:10:04,360
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 2: See you tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: The volume