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Speaker 1: So starting with number twenty five, our first player in

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Speaker 1: He was one point three to one points per spot

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Speaker 1: up possession that was ninety fifth percentile. So I undersold

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Speaker 1: him in the spot up barrier a little bit, but

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00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,920
Speaker 1: shot the ball extremely well in catching shoot situations. One

433
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Speaker 1: point zero four points per pull up jump shot that

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Speaker 1: was in the seventy ninth percentile. His face up jab

435
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Speaker 1: step jump shot one point one point eight points per

436
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Speaker 1: shot that was in the eighty fourth percentile. He shot

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Speaker 1: fifty five percent on floaters, he took almost two of

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Speaker 1: them a game, and he shot sixty one percent at

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Speaker 1: the rim, which is insanely good for a small guard.

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Speaker 1: So to put it simply, last year, Kyrie is one

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Speaker 1: of the best shot creators in the game, and as

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Speaker 1: we mentioned, he was one of only seven players to

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Speaker 1: hit at least twenty five points, five rebounds, and five

444
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Speaker 1: assists on at least sixty percent t shooting and at

445
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Speaker 1: least fifty games. The other guys on that list are

446
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Speaker 1: all big shots Anthony Edwards, Nikola Jokich, Luka, Doncics, Lebron,

447
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,960
Speaker 1: James sche Giosos Alexander and Gianna Santana Koumpo. That's some

448
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 1: quality company for Kyrie Irving in terms of what he

449
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,400
Speaker 1: did as an offensive initiator this year. He's a better

450
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 1: playmaker than he gets credit for him. He had a

451
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 1: two point eight to two assist to turnover ratio. He

452
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 1: was one of only twelve players in the league last

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Speaker 1: year to post a usage percentage over twenty five percent

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Speaker 1: and an assistant turnover ratio over two point five over

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00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,919
Speaker 1: two point five. So like a much better playmaker than

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Speaker 1: you would think for Kyrie Irving, right, And he was

457
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Speaker 1: one of the most efficient, high volume scorers in the

458
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 1: league as well. So this is a guy that you know.

459
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 1: I think he's gone under the radar because of his past,

460
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: but he's still just like in the short list of

461
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Speaker 1: the best offensive players in the league and brings a

462
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Speaker 1: ton of value. As he saw as the second best

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Speaker 1: player on a team that made it within three wins

464
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Speaker 1: of an NBA championship last year. I was really impressed

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Speaker 1: by his versatility. Like I said, he rebounded out. It

466
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Speaker 1: was over five rebounds a game last year. In the

467
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Speaker 1: regular season, he defended better than most small guards at

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Speaker 1: his position. People will point to his rough NBA Finals

469
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 1: as like the reason that Dallas lost, but that's not

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, like Luca is just as destructive to

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Speaker 1: their defense as Kyrie irving was to their offense. And

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Speaker 1: the real problem in my opinion that broke down that

473
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Speaker 1: Dallas attack was they didn't have a role player who

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Speaker 1: they could count on to defend but also hit above

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Speaker 1: the break threes, which played perfectly into the schematic approach

476
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Speaker 1: that Boston had, which was essentially conceding those above the

477
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 1: break threes to their role players or couldn't make them.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was a roster issue. I didn't think

479
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Speaker 1: Luca and Kyrie were the Could they be better, Yeah,

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00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,040
Speaker 1: Luca needs to be better defensively, Kyrie needs to be

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00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,359
Speaker 1: more reliable as a scorer in those settings. But the

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Speaker 1: main reason they lost was that inability to space the

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Speaker 1: floor above the break and how Boston kind of capitalized

484
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Speaker 1: on that. Kyrie's weaknesses his health, I have three of

485
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 1: them down the health piece. He played more than sixty

486
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:48,440
Speaker 1: games just once since leaving Cleveland, just fifty eight last year.

487
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:50,920
Speaker 1: You can basically book Kyrie to miss one out of

488
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,360
Speaker 1: every four games, so that's obviously an issue. He's undersized

489
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:56,720
Speaker 1: his impact as a rebounder went down a level in

490
00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:00,399
Speaker 1: the postseason after the athleticism and effort ramped up. He

491
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 1: went from three point six attempts per game in the

492
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 1: restricted area in the regular season to just two point

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Speaker 1: eight in the playoffs. That's a sizeable reduction there, it's

494
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,359
Speaker 1: basically twenty five percent. And then he's still a bit

495
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 1: reliant on pull up shooting. So he attempted eighteen point

496
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 1: one shots per game in the postseason, eight point six

497
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,199
Speaker 1: of them were pull up jump shots, so that's basically half,

498
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 1: and that's how it should be given his skill set

499
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,119
Speaker 1: and how big he is, and he's he's one of

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Speaker 1: those guys. This is not like Anthony Edwards or Jason

501
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 1: Tatum last year in the regular season where you're like, dude,

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00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: why are you taking so many of these? You're not

503
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 1: hitting enough of them. He got well over a point

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00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 1: per possession on those pull up jump shots, so he

505
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,959
Speaker 1: needs to take them. But as we know, and this

506
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Speaker 1: is just how it leads to where he is in

507
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Speaker 1: the rankings. Despite being one of the better offensive initiators

508
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:45,879
Speaker 1: in the league, he's way down at twenty five, and

509
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 1: a big part of that is he's undersized, so he's

510
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,919
Speaker 1: relying on his pull up jump shot a lot, and

511
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 1: when you rely on your pull up jump shot, that

512
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: leads to a lot of variants. And he went cold

513
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Speaker 1: in the finals and that ended up impacting him quite

514
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Speaker 1: a bit. So. In summary, on Kyrie Irving still on

515
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 1: the short list of guys who are good enough to

516
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Speaker 1: be the second best player on a championship team. He's

517
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 1: one of the best offensive initiators in the league. Still,

518
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: he competes in the dirty work areas of the game,

519
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 1: which makes him easy to build around. He's an excellent

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00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,640
Speaker 1: off ball score, making him even easier to build around,

521
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: and by all accounts, he's been an excellent locker room

522
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:22,120
Speaker 1: guy in Dallas now that he has his financial future setup,

523
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 1: which is why in this current version of our NBA

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Speaker 1: player rankings, I have Kyrie Irving ranked at twenty five,

525
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: number twenty four dearon Fox. Last year's counting stats played

526
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Speaker 1: seventy four games. That was the second straight season with

527
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Speaker 1: at least seventy games played. He averaged twenty six point

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00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: six points per game, four point six rebounds per game,

529
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: five point six assists per game, and two point four

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00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 1: stocks that steals plus blocks per game. Last year, he

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00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,200
Speaker 1: actually led the league in steals last year for the

532
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Speaker 1: first time in his career. His shooting splits. He was

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Speaker 1: forty six point five percent from the field thirty six

534
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: point nine percent from three on eight attempts, so that

535
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: was by far the best three point shooting season of

536
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Speaker 1: his career, seventy three point eight percent at the line

537
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,159
Speaker 1: for a total of fifty seven percent in true shooting percentage.

538
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: Did miss the playoffs, but there's some important context there.

539
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: Malik Monk, Sacramento's second best perimeter shock creator, got hurt

540
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: at the end of the year, and as a result,

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Speaker 1: Sacramento lost five of their last seven games, and if

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Speaker 1: you look at where they were in the standings, they

543
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: finished one game behind the Lakers. So had they won

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Speaker 1: one of those last seven and then gone three and

545
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: four instead of two and five, they would have ended

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00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: up hosting the Lakers in that second playoff game, a

547
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: play in game, and they had the Lakers number all season,

548
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Speaker 1: especially at home. So, like I like, in all likelihood,

549
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: if Malik Monk doesn't get hurt, there's a much better

550
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 1: chance that the Kings just get in like obviously, like

551
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: Lebron ad single game setting, maybe they overpower them but

552
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: I look at it in a more encouraging sense. Dearon

553
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Speaker 1: Fox has been the best player on his team, the

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00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: primary offensive initiator on a team that has a terrible

555
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: defensive front court, which makes it way difficult to win

556
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 1: in the modern NBA. Second best perimeter shot creator is

557
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: the guy who comes off the bench for them, and

558
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: they won forty eight and forty six games in the

559
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: last two seasons in a jam packed Western Conference. So,

560
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: like I'm more of this is a great example of

561
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: what we were talking about at the very beginning when

562
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 1: I was going through the intro and just some of

563
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: the rules don't pay attention to the team's success piece

564
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: when it comes to Dearon Fox. Here he legitimately has

565
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: carried the Kings to being a very good team. In

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Speaker 1: a vacuum, he would be a more a higher contributing

567
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: winner than what he has been in Sacramento on a

568
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: team that isn't really set up to compete in the NBA. Again,

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Speaker 1: Dearon Fox is an example of a guy last year

570
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: on my more bragging rights format that he would have

571
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 1: suffered and he would have potentially fallen out of the

572
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 1: list entirely. But I don't want to do it that way.

573
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Speaker 1: I want to make sure that we acknowledge the realities

574
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: of the surrounding supporting cast within the context of this list.

575
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 1: I was generally very like even though we don't didn't

576
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Speaker 1: get a playoff sample size from Daron Fox this year.

577
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Speaker 1: I was generally very encouraged by Darren Fox's first playoff

578
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: series last year against Golden State. I thought he was

579
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 1: pretty impactful defensively when he wanted to be. I thought

580
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: he could really beat people off the dribble and generate

581
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: good shots. So I think he's going to be a

582
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 1: good playoff player in the long run. So that's not

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00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: something I'm worried about with him. Shot creation data percent

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Speaker 1: energy Darren Fox one point zero one points per pick

585
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,719
Speaker 1: and roll including passes. He made our high volume pick

586
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 1: and roll list again minimum one thousand possessions. He out

587
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: of fifteen players that logged at least a thousand pick

588
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 1: and rolls. He ranked eleventh. Inefficiency ISO one point zero

589
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: four points per possession including passes, that was in the

590
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Speaker 1: seventieth percentile. He also made a high volume list minimum

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Speaker 1: two to fifty. He ranked thirteenth out of the twenty

592
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 1: five players to log at least two hundred fifty ISOs added.

593
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 1: In terms of his shooting stats, he added a semi

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00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: reliable pull up three this season. That was the major development.

595
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,959
Speaker 1: So like two years ago fifty nine makes on off

596
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: the dribble threes just thirty percent. This year one hundred

597
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: and twenty makes forty six percent, so a substantial leap

598
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: for Dearn Fox as a pull up three point shooter,

599
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: pretty good catch and shoot player, not great though, one

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00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,239
Speaker 1: point zero eight points per shot. Really good when he

601
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: was wide open, though he shot forty six percent field

602
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: goal percentage on unguarded catch and shoot jump shots. His

603
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: overall pull up shooting forty percent field goal percentage forty

604
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: nine percent when you weigh it for threes zero point

605
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: nine to eight points per shot. Still not where he

606
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 1: needs to get to, but a really big step in

607
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: the right direction for Dearon Fox. Forty nine percent on

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00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 1: floaters on one hundred and sixty one attempts. He was

609
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 1: a high volume floater guy. Again, took a lot of

610
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: them out of like euro steps where he'd like drive

611
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: into the lane and almost like slow himself down on

612
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: a euro and then get to that little left handed

613
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: floater shot sixty three percent at the rim, which is

614
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: solid for an athletic guard like him, like freaky athletes

615
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 1: like him, I like prefer above sixty five percent, but

616
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 1: that's still pretty good. Nothing to freak out about. His

617
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: biggest weaknesses. He's an ineffective off ball player. He converted

618
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 1: spot at possessions at a zero point nine to eight

619
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: points per possession, which is bad. That ranked sixty third

620
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 1: out of seventy five players to log at least two

621
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty and he scored on a cut to

622
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 1: the basket just fifteen times all season, So a lot

623
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: to improve on in terms of playing off the ball.

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00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:12,479
Speaker 1: That's gonna be something to keep an eye on with

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00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: Demarta Rosen joining the picture, and just how much more

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00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: he's going to have to be able to convert those

627
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: types of opportunities, especially since Demarta Rosen is a very

628
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: good passer. And then this is really not I don't

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Speaker 1: want to direct this purely at Dearon Fox because it's

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00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: not just him, but the uh there's an inconsistent defensive

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00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 1: effort piece with him, and again this was with everybody.

632
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: When the Kings wanted to be they were a very

633
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: good defensive team because they had all of this speed,

634
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 1: especially on the perimeter, but then they would have these

635
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: like extended weeks long stretches where they just didn't guard.

636
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: And Fox has the potential to be one of the

637
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:51,239
Speaker 1: best perimeter defenders in the league. So like, obviously when

638
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 1: it comes to that defensive effort piece, you were hoping

639
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: for a little bit more from Darreon Fox. But I

640
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: mean the way I look at it, like with Dearon,

641
00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: with Demrta Rosen in the picture, he's just going to

642
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: have more energy for that sort of thing. And I

643
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: think we're going to get a very good defensive season

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00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: out of Deer and Fox next year. In summary, deren

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Speaker 1: And he's added a decent jump shot to counter that.

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Speaker 1: And if judging by the massive improvement he had year

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Speaker 1: the jump shot comes around. Now, the Kings have issues

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Speaker 1: Demarto Rosen and again, ninety four wins in that stacked

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Speaker 1: pretty impressive given the limitations they have. So I've deer

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Speaker 1: and Fox as the twenty fourth best player in the

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Speaker 1: NBA going into next season. All right, guys, that is

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Speaker 1: all I have for a round one of our player rankings.

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Speaker 1: In our next video, we'll be getting a few more guys,

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Speaker 1: probably three or four guys in the next video that

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Speaker 1: I'll be coming out within the next couple of days.

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Speaker 1: As always, as sincerely appreciate you guys your supporting the show,

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Speaker 1: and I'll see you guys. Then the Volume the NFL

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