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Game Time? 103 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 2: All right, let's talk some basketball. 104 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: So offseason recap on the Milwaukee Bucks a little bit 105 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: of roster turnover. They lost Malik Beasley and Patrick Beverley, 106 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 1: a couple of guards from last year, as well as 107 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 1: Jay Crowder, and replaced them all with a couple of 108 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: guards and a bench wing. Right, So you replaced Jay 109 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 1: Crowder with Torrian Prince. Will get into him in more 110 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,039 Speaker 1: detail in a minute. You replaced Malik Beasley and Patrick 111 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 1: Beverly with Gary Trent Junior in Delawn. 112 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 2: Right. 113 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: They also picked up A. J. Johnson, a late first 114 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: round pick, a guard, a kind of a dribble drive 115 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 1: guard out of Australia. Let's talk a little bit about 116 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: those individual players though. So Torrian Prince I covered him 117 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 1: very closely with the Lakers last year. I actually really 118 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: liked Torrian Prince. I complained a lot about him last year, 119 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 1: but it wasn't about Torrian. It was about the way 120 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 1: he was being used his entire career. Basically, this phase 121 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 1: of his career, he had been used as a bench 122 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:43,919 Speaker 1: wing everywhere else, and then Darvin Ham just decided to 123 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 1: make him like a huge minute starting small forward for 124 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 1: the Lakers. And he's just he has a lot of 125 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:54,039 Speaker 1: like key weaknesses that make him kind of like not 126 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: up to the task of being a starting wing in 127 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: this league. He's not a good rebounder, which is something 128 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 1: you really need from that position in your starting group. 129 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:04,599 Speaker 1: He is a good shooter, but not like an other 130 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 1: worldly shooter. He's a good closeout attacker, but not another 131 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: worldly closeout attacker. He can run action, but he's not 132 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: particularly great at it. He can defend, but typically against 133 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 1: a starting caliber like upper tier shot creator, he's completely overmatched. 134 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: But when you slot him on that bench unit, all 135 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 1: of those little things are actually really useful, especially against 136 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: lower level NBA players that are coming off the bench. 137 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,479 Speaker 1: He's a solid backup wing. He shot forty percent on 138 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 1: catch and shoot jump shots last year. Has like some 139 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: of those like higher level closeout attacking moves, like if 140 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 1: he needs to, like unleash some scoring chops, like a 141 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 1: little step back in the mid range or something that's 142 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:44,479 Speaker 1: a little more crafty around the basket, he's got a 143 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 1: little bit of that, like natural scoring ability. Always does 144 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: his job on defense. The defensive issues are more about limitations. 145 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: He's just he's thin. He's not particularly vertically athletic, not 146 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 1: particularly quick footed. But he will do his job if 147 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:01,359 Speaker 1: his game, if the game plan asks for him to 148 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:03,799 Speaker 1: do certain things with side pick and rolls and certain 149 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: things with top pick and rolls, or certain things with 150 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: this star, but different things with this star, Like you 151 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: can count on him to do his job. He just 152 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 1: has some athletic limitations that are going to prevent him 153 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: from like being a really imposing type of wing. The 154 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: Lakers just started him, put him in a bunch of 155 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: matchups that were kind of beyond his capability, and it 156 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: was issued. So as long as he has the right 157 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: role in Milwaukee, I love the fit. Gary Trent Junior 158 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: one of the best discount signings of the summer. I 159 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 1: think he's a much better version of Malik Beasley. Not 160 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: a good defender overall, but he is good at pressuring 161 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 1: the basketball. He gets really aggressive with his hands, does 162 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 1: a lot of reaching in, gets a lot of deflections 163 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: and a lot of steals. I actually think playing alongside 164 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: Brooke and Giannis is a great fit for him because 165 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: if you're not going to be a good defender in 166 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: the aggregate in all of the different elements of defense, 167 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: it helps if you're good at one particular thing, and 168 00:07:57,520 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 1: the one particular thing Gary Trent is good at is 169 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: ball pressure and attacking the basketball. So if you do 170 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 1: that at the point of attack, you will funnel because 171 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: the way you counter ball pressure, the way you counter 172 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 1: a guy who's recklessly reaching in all the time, is 173 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 1: to make aggressive downhill moves to just get past the guy. 174 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: Because usually when you're reaching and gambling, you're getting out 175 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 1: of position, you're messing up your feet, and you will 176 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: give up dribble drives. Right, So, like I kind of 177 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: like the idea of Gary Trent just pressuring the shit 178 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: out of the basketball, reaching in a lot and forcing 179 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: that guy to drive, because he's going to be driving 180 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,199 Speaker 1: into the strength of your defense, which is your frontline. 181 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: So in a weird way, like, even though I don't 182 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: think Gary Trent is a good defender, he doesn't have 183 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: the pedigree to get that type of respect, but he 184 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 1: has a useful defensive skill that I think can be 185 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 1: plugged into this particular system. And again, like that's you're 186 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: just the bar is low here. You just need to 187 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 1: do better than Malik Beasley did. Right, He shot over 188 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 1: fifty percent on unguarded catch and shoot jump shots last year. 189 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: It was just a deadly, standstill shooter. He gets to 190 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: the rim more than Malik Beasley as well. So I 191 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 1: think he's a substantially better offensive player than Malik Beasley 192 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 1: and a slightly better defensive player. So anytime you can 193 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 1: upgrade a starting spot with a guy who's better on 194 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: both ends of the floor on a veteran minimum contract, 195 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: that's like a slam dunk home run, whatever you will 196 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 1: call it, it's that's just the best that you can 197 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: do in that particular situation. Delon Wright really enjoyed watching 198 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 1: Delon Wright tape today. He shot the ball really well 199 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: from Miami last year. I'll be in a small sample, 200 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: he shot thirty nine percent on catch and shoot threes. 201 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 1: He's thirty two years old now, not quite as quick 202 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 1: as he used to be, but he is a professional defender. 203 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: He's got long arms. He has four consecutive seasons of 204 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: at least two steals per thirty six minutes. He had 205 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:45,839 Speaker 1: two point six steals per thirty six minutes last year. 206 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 1: That was second best in the entire NBA among players 207 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 1: who played at least seven hundred minutes. And the main 208 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:53,200 Speaker 1: thing you guys will see, especially when we start to 209 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 1: look at the tape here later on in the show, 210 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: is he just does a really nice job navigating screens, 211 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 1: and he he's got long arms so he can get 212 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: good rear view contests. He's especially good at getting recovered 213 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: back into position where he can excuse me, bother the 214 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 1: ball handler somewhere in that mid range area where they're 215 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 1: often looking to score. I'll show you guys some clips. 216 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go too much further on to lawn 217 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,079 Speaker 1: because we can get into it in the film session 218 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 1: part of the portion of the show. But I just 219 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: think he's gonna be a way, way, way better guard 220 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 1: defender than anybody that was on Milwaukee last year, even 221 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: than Patrick Beverley in my opinion, because Pat just didn't 222 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: quite have the link. So that's really the big change 223 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 1: in this year's team in terms of the differences in 224 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: role players. Right, So they've improved their point of attack defense. 225 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 1: That was easily the biggest weakness for them last year. 226 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: Malik Beasley got a little better as the year went along, 227 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 1: but he never got good at it, and Dame was 228 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: legitimately terrible all year. I never even realized how bad 229 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:56,000 Speaker 1: Dame was defensively until I watched him on this Milwaukee team. 230 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 1: It was abysmal, and they allowed pick and roll as 231 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: a team, they allowed pick and roll ball handlers to 232 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: get zero point nine to six points per their own 233 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:07,080 Speaker 1: shot attempts, which was the third worst mark in the 234 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,439 Speaker 1: entire NBA. Only the Utah Jazz and the Indiana Pacers 235 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 1: were worse. They just have so many more options to 236 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 1: go to this year. Gary Trent Junior at least has 237 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 1: an elite defensive skill in terms of his activity with 238 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: his hands that you can try to weaponize. Delon Wright 239 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 1: is still just a really good guard defender, and then 240 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 1: Torrian Prince is a nice wing defender option to have 241 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:32,960 Speaker 1: as a bench guy. And like again, especially with the 242 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 1: issues with Chris Middleton and his health over the last 243 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 1: couple of years, I think that Torrian Prince signing was 244 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 1: especially important. The main thing I'm looking for there is 245 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: I just want to see the Bucks recapture the identity 246 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: that made them a Titan in the Eastern Conference. It 247 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 1: was defense and rebounding and Giannis barreling down the floor 248 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: in transition. They were That was what made them great. 249 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: They were a defense to transition type of offense. Yes, 250 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 1: they had these half court weaknesses, right, and that was 251 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 1: fatal most of the time. They outside of the twenty 252 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: twenty one season. That pretty much was the reason they 253 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: lost in every other playoff series. Teams just eventually grind 254 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:09,079 Speaker 1: them into the mud and they can have some half 255 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 1: court issues, but everything else they were great at. Like 256 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: they're just a physical, ass kicking type of team. Now, 257 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 1: the Dame trade helped massively with your half court offense stuff. 258 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 1: You substantially improved overall in your half court offense. I 259 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:26,200 Speaker 1: have the stat later on in the show, but I 260 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 1: think I think they went up from sixteenth to fifth 261 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: in half court offensive efficiency according to Synergy just by 262 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 1: bringing Damian Lillard into the equation. So definitely helped on 263 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 1: that front. But you lost some of that ass kicking 264 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 1: identity with the loss of Drew Holliday, right, Like I 265 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 1: think bringing in Gary, Trent, Delon Wright, Torrian Prince is 266 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 1: about the best that you can possibly do under the circumstances. Again, like, 267 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 1: obviously those guys aren't massive needle movers for you on 268 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 1: the defensive end of the floor, but considering the constraints 269 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: you were operating under with your cap situation, to be 270 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,839 Speaker 1: operating basically on the veteran minimum exception, and to add 271 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: those caliber of players, I think that's about the best 272 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 1: you can do. And again, all you can do is 273 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 1: the best you can do with what you've got in 274 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 1: your hand of cards that you've been dealt, and I 275 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 1: thought Milwaukee did about as good as you possibly can do. 276 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:17,680 Speaker 1: One last note on the defense. Last year, they were 277 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 1: twenty ninth in points off of turnovers per game. Because 278 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 1: Gary Trentz more of an active on ball defender in 279 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 1: terms of reaching and trying to get steals, and because 280 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 1: delawonn Wright is one of the best steels guards in 281 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 1: the league. I would like to see them get more 282 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: aggressive at the point of attack and try to drive 283 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 1: more of that transition attack off of turnovers. I think 284 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: it's one of those things too, where like if you're 285 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: going to be a mediocre defense because you're old, and 286 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,440 Speaker 1: there's like there's just not a lot of footspeed on 287 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,839 Speaker 1: this team, right Like I pulled the stat for a 288 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: different part of the show, but they have fifty one 289 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:57,959 Speaker 1: years of combined NBA seasons of wear and tear on 290 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: Chris Dame, Jannison Brook fifty one seasons. It's a lot 291 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: of wear and tear. There's some foot speed issues there 292 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:09,560 Speaker 1: right beyond Giannis. It's not a fast like cover ground 293 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:12,960 Speaker 1: type of team. So like there's a certain limitation to 294 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 1: what they can get to defensively, but if you can, 295 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 1: if you can counter that by forcing more turnovers and 296 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: getting out in transition more, it undoes some of the 297 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 1: damage that a mediocre defense could do to your chances 298 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 1: in the large sample. Now, the Bucks were a good 299 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: offense last year. They were sixth in offensive rating, they 300 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 1: were fifth and three pointers made per game. Dame, as 301 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, really helped the half court offense. They 302 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 1: went from fifth and half court offensive rating, or from 303 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 1: sixteenth the previous year to fifth last year. But I 304 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: think there's even room for improvement there. Like Dame did 305 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: not have a great year shooting the basketball. Dame got 306 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 1: just one point zero zero points per jump shot last year. 307 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: The year before in Portland he got one point zero 308 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: nine points per jump shot, so a nine percent decrease 309 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 1: year over year in points per shot. That's something that 310 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 1: if Dame can make up some of that ground, that 311 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 1: goes a long way. I thought they left some meat 312 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: on the bone. And pick and roll, there was a 313 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 1: bunch of benefits there. They were a very good pick 314 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 1: and roll team. Overall, there was a substantial increase in 315 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: Yiannis's usage as a role man. He had forty five 316 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 1: field goals made on rolls to the rim the previous season. 317 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: He had seventy five last year. So that's an example 318 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 1: of the Dame effect. But it hasn't become like the 319 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 1: unstoppable action that we all knew it was capable of becoming. Right, 320 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: So I want to talk about some of the specific 321 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: things that I think the Bucks can do better this 322 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: year to be more impactful. In pick and roll number one, 323 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 1: Giannis was kind of inconsistent with his screening and his 324 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 1: rolling a couple of things, specifically, like when he would 325 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 1: go to set screen sometimes he'd slip out of the 326 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: screen too early before getting that initial bit of separation, 327 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 1: or he might not even make contact at all whatsoever. 328 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: Some of it's to be expected, like Jannis was never 329 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 1: really a high volume screener and roller up until this 330 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: Dame partnership. He did it, but not to this extent. 331 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 1: And so it takes Reps to become a guy who's 332 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: like this is now a massive and substantial part of 333 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: the Bucks offense in a way that it didn't used 334 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 1: to be. So it's going to take some time for 335 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: him to kind of figure out some of those intricacies. 336 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: Another thing I noticed is occupied corners, So like the 337 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 1: one of the things I noticed that happened with Gianis 338 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: a lot. Is I talked about with his rolling to 339 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 1: the basket being inconsistent. A lot of times Janis would 340 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: set the screen and then slip out of it. But 341 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: he'd slip and then pop to the top of the key. 342 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: And he would especially do this when there was somebody 343 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: in the corner in the side that he couldn't see, 344 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 1: So like when he'd be rolling, when he would be 345 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 1: looking back at Dame, if there was somebody in this corner, 346 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: he'd be hesitant to roll because he'd think he'd run 347 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 1: into a bunch of bodies. So a lot of times 348 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 1: he'd pop, and then that would defeat the purpose because 349 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: Yannis is not a pick and pop threat, and he's 350 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 1: not getting ahead of steam. Well, he needs to be 351 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 1: able to catch on the roll with a head of 352 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: steam so that he's going into a paint that's a 353 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 1: little more spread. Because Dame's pulling his defender out and 354 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 1: the screen defender is being pulled out, you have more 355 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: space to operate and fewer bodies that you're rolling into 356 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:10,439 Speaker 1: right like that's the advantage, but you need to have 357 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 1: a head of steam. And a lot of times Yannis 358 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: was just a little hesitant to really hit the jets 359 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 1: on those rolls because he couldn't see what was happening 360 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 1: behind him, and so not setting great screens and not 361 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 1: rolling as often as he needs to. Those were a 362 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 1: couple things Janis could get better at. How do we 363 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:29,639 Speaker 1: make sure that Yanis is rolling more well? Some of 364 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 1: it is about understanding the spacing and understanding that Yanis, 365 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 1: like I said, is worried about people being behind him, 366 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 1: So what if you try to do more work without. 367 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:40,679 Speaker 2: That corner being occupied. 368 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:43,640 Speaker 1: Now, some of it is that they run five out 369 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 1: and in five out offense, your corners are occupied like 370 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: cleared side ball screens where the other three guys just 371 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 1: go stand on the opposite end of the floor and 372 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 1: you just play two man game. That's like very much 373 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,200 Speaker 1: a brute force kind of like four out concept. It's 374 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 1: not a thing that you see a lot of five 375 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:00,880 Speaker 1: out teams do. So I under stand why in the 376 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:03,640 Speaker 1: flow of the game you don't see that a ton 377 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: from the bucks, but maybe it's something they could look 378 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,679 Speaker 1: to do in crunch time more where it's like, okay, 379 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:10,719 Speaker 1: now we're not trying to have all the flow of 380 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:13,680 Speaker 1: just establishing rhythm for our offense over the forty eight. 381 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 1: It's three minutes left in the game. 382 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:16,919 Speaker 2: We're tied. 383 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 1: We need to just spam an action that we know 384 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: can get us great shots. Let's go have the other 385 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:24,439 Speaker 1: three guys stand on the opposite end of the floor, 386 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:27,919 Speaker 1: and let's clear the side. Because Yanis just is so 387 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 1: much more aggressive on his rolls to the rim when 388 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 1: the side is cleared, because when he just imagine it 389 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 1: very simply like this, when Giannis sets the pick, Let's 390 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 1: imagine Dame is on the left wing. Okay, Dame is 391 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 1: on the left wing. We have our three guys along 392 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 1: the right wing. Dame's on the left wing. Giannis comes 393 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 1: up and sets the screen, and then he pivots into 394 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 1: a roll that's along the left side. 395 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 2: Of the floor. 396 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 1: As he pivots, he has his back turned to that corner, 397 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:55,120 Speaker 1: but he doesn't have to worry at all because there's 398 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:57,760 Speaker 1: nobody over there. So then Giannis can just catch and 399 00:18:57,800 --> 00:18:59,879 Speaker 1: go right to the rim without any fear of running 400 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: in to a defender he can't see. And when he 401 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 1: catches in turns to look all five defensive players are 402 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,439 Speaker 1: at least three defensive players because the other two are 403 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 1: now on dame. Three defensive players are in his line 404 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 1: of sight, and from there he can either have a 405 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: quick one on one where he's got a downhill burst 406 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 1: of speed going and there's a one single defender in 407 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:23,959 Speaker 1: his way that he can swallow him around and get 408 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 1: all the way to the basket, or if all three 409 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:30,119 Speaker 1: guys coalesce around him, he's got easy kickout reads because 410 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: his face is turned in the direction where all the 411 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: defenders are. There are also little things you could do 412 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: in terms of spacing concepts to make sure that Yiannis 413 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 1: is going against the right type of defensive player there right, 414 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 1: so you clear the side. If you put Brook in 415 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: the corner, then brooks Man is going to be the 416 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: one that rotates. If brooks Man is the one that rotates, 417 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 1: now Giannis is barreling downhill against a big bodied center, 418 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,679 Speaker 1: which might be a tougher finish. Put Brook on the 419 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 1: wing like extended, and you have two different shooters in 420 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 1: the corner and then a little bit further up the wing. 421 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,120 Speaker 1: So if Brooke is the third guy furthest away from 422 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 1: the corner, then his man is probably not going to 423 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 1: be the guy that Jannis runs into when he's rolling 424 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 1: into the basket. If it's somebody from the corner, it's 425 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: probably gonna be a guard. And now Jannis could be 426 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:20,200 Speaker 1: rolling downhill into a guard or maybe even Chris Middleton's defender, 427 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 1: a smaller forward. Now Jannis is barreling downhill with a 428 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: smaller defender in front of him that he can get 429 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:28,679 Speaker 1: around or just go through and go to the basket. 430 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 1: Or again, as we mentioned earlier, if the bodies all 431 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 1: coalesce around him, he has easy kickout reads. So at 432 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 1: the end of games in particular, I want to see 433 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 1: them run more cleared side concepts. By the way, I 434 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,160 Speaker 1: have video clips that are gonna help break this specific 435 00:20:44,200 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 1: concept down in more detail here in a minute out 436 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 1: within five out. When you're doing it with an occupied corner. 437 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: The couple things that I saw that that look to 438 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:11,640 Speaker 1: work better was one, make sure that the guy that's 439 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 1: in the corner Giannis is rolling into the side of 440 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 1: the floor that Jianis is rolling into. 441 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 2: Make sure that's your best shooter. So for instance, like 442 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 2: that needs to be Gary Trent Junior in that corner, 443 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 2: as Jiannis is rolling that way. So at the very least, 444 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 2: it's for one, if that defender stays glued to the shooter, 445 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:34,680 Speaker 2: it's effectively more or less like a empty side ballscreen 446 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 2: because he has that space to work with there. And 447 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 2: then two, if he helps over, it's somebody that's going 448 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 2: to consistently burn them when Yannis does make the read. 449 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:45,119 Speaker 2: And even if he has an occasional turnover, as we 450 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,440 Speaker 2: talked about, Gary Trent shot over fifty percent on unguarded 451 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 2: catching two jump shots last year, So even if Jannis 452 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 2: does turn it over occasionally, he's just going to burn 453 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 2: you so much on that shot that I think it'll 454 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 2: still be a big net positive for the offense. The 455 00:21:58,119 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 2: other thing that I noticed, and I have another video 456 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 2: to demonstrate this is when they do the occupied corner thing, 457 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 2: just slide the action further up to the top of 458 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 2: the key so that when Yannis rolls, he's rolling with 459 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:13,120 Speaker 2: an extra few feet before he runs into any congestion 460 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,399 Speaker 2: from that corner. But these are just like little details 461 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 2: in terms of spacing concepts and like how to handle 462 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 2: different portions of the game that I think will go 463 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 2: a long way. And then if you combine that with 464 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:27,640 Speaker 2: Yannis just setting better screens and rolling harder more consistently, 465 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 2: I think that's where you could get to the true 466 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 2: unstoppable element of that ball screen attack. There were some 467 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 2: games here and there where it looked unstoppable. There was 468 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:39,920 Speaker 2: a Laker game, one of the games that the Lakers won, 469 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,160 Speaker 2: I think it was the overtime one if I remember correctly, 470 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,359 Speaker 2: but there was a stretch in the fourth quarter where 471 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:46,680 Speaker 2: they spammed and it was just like I talked about. 472 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 2: It was where they kind of shifted closer to the 473 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 2: top of the key instead of on the wing, and 474 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,720 Speaker 2: just kind of shoved everybody a little bit further over 475 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,119 Speaker 2: to that side with the occupied corner, and they were 476 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 2: spamming that and getting a bunch of stuff for Yannis 477 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 2: going downhill to the rim. Like they had stretches where 478 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 2: it looked really good last year. But it'd be great 479 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,360 Speaker 2: if they could get it to the point where it's like, oh, 480 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 2: we're in a close game, well let's just go to 481 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 2: this specific action that they literally cannot stop, and we're 482 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 2: going to get a great shot every single time. Now 483 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,879 Speaker 2: we're going to out execute you. That's what Denver has 484 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 2: done for the last several years in a way that 485 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 2: has made them really dominant. So again, these are all 486 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 2: just little details to help squeeze more out of the 487 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:31,360 Speaker 2: sponge for them. Offensively, they're good against sixth in offense, 488 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 2: seventh in clutch offense last year. But this is a 489 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 2: team that's not going to be a good defensive team 490 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:39,879 Speaker 2: or a great defensive team. They can get to good, 491 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 2: but they can't get to great on defense, and so 492 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 2: you need to get too amazing on offense. You need 493 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,679 Speaker 2: to try to get well into that top five for 494 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 2: offensive rating and for half court offense and for clutch 495 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 2: offense and all those different metrics in order to compensate 496 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 2: for a defense that has some issues. And that's where 497 00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:01,360 Speaker 2: those little intricacies in ballscreen up can go a long 498 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:05,160 Speaker 2: way towards squeezing more out of the sponge. So what 499 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,680 Speaker 2: does Milwaukee need to do to rejoin the ranks of 500 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 2: the top tier contenders? I have. 501 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:15,360 Speaker 1: Let's see five items here. Number One, recapture your defensive identity. 502 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,720 Speaker 1: Like we talked about earlier, pressure the ball funnel into 503 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 1: your size. We talked a little bit about forcing turnovers 504 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 1: to try to juice up your offense a little bit. 505 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 1: Two Dame has to return to superstar form. Obviously had 506 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,880 Speaker 1: a lot of distractions last year, but obviously it's a 507 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,919 Speaker 1: different basketball team with a different fit too. But he 508 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 1: scored eight points per game fewer on six percent worse 509 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 1: true shooting than the previous year. Just a massive drop off, 510 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: so like needs to get back to form. The encouraging 511 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: thing is he looked really good in the playoffs. He 512 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 1: shot the seams off the basketball. He got one point 513 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 1: one to one points per jump shot. That's like real 514 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 1: Damian Lillard jump shooting. He ran eighty ball screens including passes, 515 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,720 Speaker 1: for ninety four points. That's one point one to eight 516 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: points per possession. That's awesome. So like that looked more 517 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 1: like real Dame in that first round series against Indiana DA. 518 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: It comes with real defensive shortcomings, so he needs to 519 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 1: be a transcendently great offensive player to justify the move, 520 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 1: and I think he still has that in there. He 521 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: just needs to bring it back this season. Three health 522 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,719 Speaker 1: from your older players. He got a great year out 523 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,879 Speaker 1: of Brook last year. He played seventy nine games. I 524 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 1: think he played seventy eight the year before, so he's 525 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 1: had a good stretch of availability since that rough year. 526 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, but it might have been I 527 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 1: think it was twenty twenty one. Yeah, the year where 528 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 1: he missed most of the season. But Chris Middleton missed 529 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 1: a good chunk of the year for the second consecutive year. 530 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 1: And this team needs Chris not just on offense either, 531 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: like they need him to be a good athletic wing defender, 532 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 1: and he's just had a lot of lower body injuries. 533 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: He had two ankle surgeries this offseason. So they need 534 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: some luck on the health front with their older players 535 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 1: this year. As I mentioned earlier, Giannis, Brooke, Dame and 536 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 1: Chris have a combined fifty one seasons of wear and 537 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 1: tear on their bodies that are that kind of make 538 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,880 Speaker 1: it a little bit scary on the health front. Number four, 539 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 1: you got to optimize your scheme on both ends of 540 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,359 Speaker 1: the floor. On defense, this is a really slow footed team, 541 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,439 Speaker 1: so you need to stay out of foot races as 542 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 1: much as possible. That means you know, prioritize getting back 543 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 1: in transition over attacking the offensive glass, which they basically 544 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,800 Speaker 1: already do. Their bottom five offensive rebounding team in a 545 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 1: top ten transition defense. And then two, you need to 546 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 1: stay out of rotation in a half court, you got 547 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 1: to guard actions two on two as much as possible. 548 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 1: That means your guards have to do a good job 549 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,440 Speaker 1: chasing over the top. As soon as you start needing 550 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,359 Speaker 1: to bring help over from the weak side and the 551 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,160 Speaker 1: ball gets skipped, this team is dead because they don't 552 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:34,439 Speaker 1: have the foot speed to really cover ground in rotation 553 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,440 Speaker 1: when teams start driving and kicking them. So a lot 554 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 1: of pressure on those guards. One of those two guards 555 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 1: in particular, Gary Trent Junior or de Laonn Wright really 556 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 1: needs to pop in a big way on the defensive 557 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: end of the floor in a sizeable role in order 558 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 1: for this to kind of come together. And then on offense, 559 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 1: it's like what we talked about earlier, everything about your 560 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:53,399 Speaker 1: ball screen spacing. 561 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 2: We won't get any further into it. 562 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,480 Speaker 1: Then, lastly, number five, Giannis needs to remind the world 563 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 1: what he's capable of. He's declined a little bit as 564 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,159 Speaker 1: a shot maker. He was just one fifty two or 565 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 1: four to twenty four on shots that were not layups 566 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,400 Speaker 1: or dunks. That's just zero point eight. It's actually less 567 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 1: than zero point eight points per shot. So like that, 568 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,679 Speaker 1: I think that combined with him missing some playoff games, 569 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: like Giannis has played in just two and a half 570 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 1: playoff games total in the last two seasons. Luca and 571 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 1: Nikole Jokic are on the rise, and so I think 572 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: Giannis is flying under the radar a little bit here. 573 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 1: I still firmly have Giannis on the same tier as 574 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 1: those guys. I think he's absolutely capable of going on 575 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,879 Speaker 1: a wrecking ball tour and reasserting himself as one of, 576 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,439 Speaker 1: if not the best player in the league. But in 577 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 1: order for this team to win a championship, that's a 578 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,120 Speaker 1: non negotiable Yiannis has to assert himself as the best 579 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,440 Speaker 1: player in the world. They're not talented enough and well 580 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 1: rounded enough to win with Giannis not playing at that level. 581 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,440 Speaker 1: So what is this team capable of? I think they'll 582 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,119 Speaker 1: win plenty of regular season games. The East is really weak, 583 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,400 Speaker 1: like the Bulls, the Nets, the Raptors, the Hornets, the Wizards, 584 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: and the Pistons are all basically trying to lose. The 585 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 1: Hawks will be bad even though they're try trying to win, 586 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:02,840 Speaker 1: and they may end up trading Trey Young and going 587 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 1: into full tank before the end of the year. So 588 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 1: that's seven bad teams in the Eastern Conference. I looked 589 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:12,399 Speaker 1: up their schedule of their eighty two games. Twenty five 590 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 1: of those eighty two games are against the Bulls, the Nets, 591 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 1: the Raptors, the Hornets, the Wizards, the Pistons, and the Hawks, 592 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: so like they're good. Like something to keep in mind 593 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 1: when we're doing our power rankings list, like regular season 594 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 1: wins don't translate much from conference to conference, Like the 595 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 1: Eastern Conference is just a much much easier schedule. To 596 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 1: give you an idea, the Bucks went thirty four and 597 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 1: eighteen against the East, but they went fifteen and fifteen 598 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 1: against the West. So that's a team that if you 599 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,360 Speaker 1: pick them up and dropped them in the Western Conference, 600 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 1: they're playing team in all likelihood, right, Like, It's it's 601 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 1: very different from conference to conference. And that's why when 602 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 1: we're doing these power rankings, you can't be like, oh, 603 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,959 Speaker 1: like they're gonna win more games or they're gonna get 604 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 1: a higher seed. It's like, well, they're in a different conference. 605 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 1: That makes absolutely no sense. It's very possible that the 606 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: Bucks end up with a better rec than the Mavericks 607 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 1: or a better record than the Minnesota Timberwolves, but aren't 608 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 1: as good at basketball, you know, what I mean. So 609 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 1: that's why we have to be careful with kind of 610 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 1: comparing side to side with conferences. But I do think 611 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,040 Speaker 1: the Bucks are gonna win plenty of regular season games. 612 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 1: As for their potential as a playoff team, I think 613 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 1: they're just like every other team in this tier. I 614 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 1: think they're a little bit vulnerable to certain matchups, but 615 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 1: if they get favorable matchups, they could win the whole thing. 616 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 1: Right Like teams like Boston, Indiana, and New York that 617 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 1: have lots of perimeter skill and speed, I think will 618 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 1: be tough for them. They did go two and two 619 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 1: against Boston last year, but it was kind of weird, 620 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 1: Like the two games they beat Boston, Boston folded in 621 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 1: the first half of both games, like just kind of 622 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 1: let go of the rope, So that was kind of weird. 623 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: I feel like Boston in a playoff series could really 624 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 1: spread Milwaukee out and expose their lack of foot speed. 625 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:51,080 Speaker 2: We'll see. 626 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 1: That's just kind of my read on the situation. I 627 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 1: think they match up really well with some of the 628 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 1: bigger teams though. I think they match up really well 629 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 1: with Philly. I think they match up really well with Orlando. 630 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 1: Cleveland has a really good guard play, but I think 631 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 1: Milwaukee can get away with helping and packing the paint 632 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:09,040 Speaker 1: because of their two big systems. So like see how 633 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 1: that kind of works out. Like I see, Boston, Indiana, 634 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:12,920 Speaker 1: New York is kind of tough matchups for them, but 635 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 1: then I think they match up really well with Philly, Orlando, 636 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: and Cleveland. So I think as long as they end 637 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 1: up on the opposite end of the bracket then Boston, 638 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 1: and if Boston can get eliminated by one of these teams, 639 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 1: I think they have a really really solid chance to 640 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,120 Speaker 1: get out of the conference and make the finals where 641 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,640 Speaker 1: anything can happen. And obviously they have a puncher's chance 642 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 1: against Boston, but Boston would be heavily favored for good reason, 643 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 1: with some of that matchup stuff that they talk about. 644 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 1: So again, more or less, all the teams that I 645 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 1: have in this five to eleven range are teams that 646 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,080 Speaker 1: can win the title but need some luck, need some 647 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 1: things to go their way, and I think Milwaukee falls 648 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 1: into that group as well. All right, let's get into 649 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 1: some of this footage before we get to our mail bag. 650 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 1: So here's our first clip. This is an example of 651 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: Delon Wright offering some really good ball pressure on CJ. 652 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 2: McCollum. 653 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 1: So watch a CJ. McCollum catches here on the wing. 654 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,960 Speaker 1: Delan's gonna get right up into his jersey and start 655 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 1: attacking the ball. Watch his active hands swiping at Alan 656 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 1: Chunis the screen is loaded up, gets over the top 657 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 1: of the screen, reaches in. He's got these long arms, 658 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 1: knocks the ball free. If you watch again, you can 659 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 1: see as soon as he steps over the screen, he 660 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 1: lunges and swipes at the ball. And watch how he 661 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 1: disrupts that dribble. And that's where his long arms become 662 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 1: a huge advantage. Gets down the floor, gets the steal. 663 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 1: Big time play from delon Right, here's a great example 664 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 1: of good back pressure against Jose Alvarado in a ball screen. 665 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 1: So again, remember in ball screen defense, you're probably going 666 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,040 Speaker 1: to give up a downhill drive. That's just kind of 667 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: natural as part of the way these coverages work. Right, Like, 668 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,640 Speaker 1: he's supposed to chase over the top his job in 669 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,959 Speaker 1: this ball screen, Like here comes this ball screen. 670 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:53,200 Speaker 2: If he wanted to. 671 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,920 Speaker 1: Notice how he has to open up to chase over 672 00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 1: the top of the screen. There's a little push by 673 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 1: this screener. He ends up on that high left shoulder. 674 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:07,400 Speaker 1: For Jose Alvarado, this entire action is kind of designed 675 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 1: to get him into trail position. He's not going to 676 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 1: be able to cut off the drive entirely, but his 677 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 1: job at this point is to funnel him into your help. 678 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 1: Funnel into your help, and if he tries to take 679 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,520 Speaker 1: something in the mid range, then you can swipe at 680 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,520 Speaker 1: the basketball. See how he stays attached on that backside 681 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 1: funnel funnel funnel forced him into a tough shot. And 682 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 1: now he's shooting a really tough contested shot because you 683 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:32,920 Speaker 1: did your job in the ball screen. You stayed attached. 684 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 1: You funneled back pressure, back pressure, back pressure, and he's 685 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,880 Speaker 1: got the length to be really bothersome with that back pressure. 686 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,520 Speaker 1: Actually forces an air ball on that one from Jose Albarado. 687 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,960 Speaker 1: Here's an example of game plan discipline. Now he's guarding Campaign. 688 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,360 Speaker 1: Campaign is a player that most scouting reports are going 689 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,440 Speaker 1: to tell you duck underneath the screen. Why because he's 690 00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,760 Speaker 1: kind of got a slow, drawn out pull up jump 691 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,720 Speaker 1: shot and he's really fast when he gets going downhill, 692 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:04,800 Speaker 1: and he could really pick you apart that way. So 693 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,320 Speaker 1: watch the way this play sets up. Ball's gonna work 694 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:08,400 Speaker 1: its way over to campaign. 695 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:10,400 Speaker 2: So here we go. 696 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,160 Speaker 1: Campaign's coming off with the dribble handoff. Delon's gonna duck 697 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,040 Speaker 1: underneath the pick, like the game plan asks. Notice he doesn't. 698 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 1: He kind of like his natural inclination was to go over, 699 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:20,960 Speaker 1: and then he goes, oh, my game plan is to 700 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 1: get underneath. He gets back underneath the pick to cut 701 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,680 Speaker 1: off the drive, forces Cam to come back that way. 702 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 1: Look at the screen navigation. He's racing back around the screen, 703 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,800 Speaker 1: gets a great contest and forces him into a tough 704 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 1: pull up three And I think Cam actually makes this 705 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,360 Speaker 1: one if I remember correctly. Yeah, So like again, don't 706 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: worry so much about the result there. This is really 707 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,880 Speaker 1: good process. I'm gonna run it in full speed again. 708 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:47,040 Speaker 1: Watch he's in help in help ball gets reversed, Cam 709 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:50,680 Speaker 1: shoots up. We're ducking under the pick, navigating back around, 710 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,280 Speaker 1: gets a really good contest. That is solid ball screen 711 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:57,719 Speaker 1: defense from Delon. Right, here's another example of really good 712 00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:01,280 Speaker 1: back pressure on Tyrese MAXI. Tyrese is coming down the floor. 713 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:03,880 Speaker 1: I think Tyrese hits this shot too. But this is again, 714 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,680 Speaker 1: like just really good defense within this game. These are 715 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,000 Speaker 1: these are incredibly talented guards we have in the NBA. 716 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,440 Speaker 1: You're not going to stop them. What you have to 717 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,880 Speaker 1: do is force them into the toughest shots in their 718 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:19,239 Speaker 1: shot profile. A tough contested step back long two is 719 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 1: the best you can do in a ball screen against 720 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:23,480 Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxi. So again, here comes the ball screen. Look 721 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,520 Speaker 1: at the attachment stays attached over the top. Back pressure, 722 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,120 Speaker 1: back pressure. Notice notice the hands in the passing lane two. 723 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,439 Speaker 1: If Tyreese tries to come off of this and throw 724 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,000 Speaker 1: the pocket pass, watch the lawn get his hand into 725 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,279 Speaker 1: the pocket pass owned See he's reaching in there to 726 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:41,440 Speaker 1: take away that pocket pass stays attached attached on that side. 727 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,880 Speaker 1: If Tyrese has no option now but to drive headlong 728 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:49,000 Speaker 1: into a BAM or to take this tough contested too, 729 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,080 Speaker 1: ends of forcing him gets a good contest on that 730 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,520 Speaker 1: shot again, knocks it down. But you're doing your job 731 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:58,040 Speaker 1: there defensively. You're turning an action that can be really 732 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,440 Speaker 1: efficient a ball screen into the least efficient shot that 733 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,279 Speaker 1: they can take, a tough contested fade away two point 734 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,360 Speaker 1: jump shot. Here's another really good one against Kaid Cunningham. 735 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,439 Speaker 1: So we're on kid here. Jalen Duran is setting the pick, 736 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:14,719 Speaker 1: chasing over the top funnel funnel notice, stays attached, stays attached, 737 00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,239 Speaker 1: gets back in front, forces him into a tough gets 738 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,840 Speaker 1: great contest this time forces h miss. That's a really 739 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:26,719 Speaker 1: really good ball screen defense. And then I think this 740 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,640 Speaker 1: is our last one, okay, So he's this is a 741 00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,600 Speaker 1: defensive rebound that Caid's coming back to get the ball. 742 00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,759 Speaker 1: But we get some backcourt ball pressure from Delawn. He 743 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,120 Speaker 1: kind of stunts at Cad, which forces them to not 744 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,719 Speaker 1: go to Kaid. So then Kid doesn't take the basketball 745 00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:44,480 Speaker 1: and runs up the floor instead. But then Delon points 746 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,000 Speaker 1: because he knows Kid's going through. He wants to guard 747 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,200 Speaker 1: the ball, so he points through to Haywood high Smith 748 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:53,360 Speaker 1: stays up on Fournyer, jumps up on Fournier, ducks underneath 749 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,480 Speaker 1: the first pick because it's too far away from the basket. 750 00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,120 Speaker 1: Second pick is closer to the basket, so he chases 751 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,920 Speaker 1: over the top, stays attached, gets a great rear view, 752 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,919 Speaker 1: contests and forces him into a miss. Just really good 753 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,719 Speaker 1: defense the ball pressure their best player into not even 754 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:10,239 Speaker 1: getting the ball, and then or ball deny I should say, 755 00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:11,880 Speaker 1: because he never actually had the ball, but ball deny 756 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,279 Speaker 1: on Kate Cunningham. That gets him to not even get 757 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,320 Speaker 1: the ball, and then you end up switching onto the 758 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,719 Speaker 1: main ball handler and getting a stop. All right, we're 759 00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:21,520 Speaker 1: gonna talk a little bit about Gary Trent junior here. 760 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,560 Speaker 1: Let's look at some examples of him just kind of 761 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,479 Speaker 1: being really aggressive at the point of attack. So here's 762 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,240 Speaker 1: Gary Trent. Just watch how aggressive he is with his hands. 763 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:34,760 Speaker 1: He's just always reaching, always going after the basketball, just reckless. 764 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,839 Speaker 1: Just reach, reach, reach, reach, swipe, swipe, swipe, swite. Here's 765 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:40,880 Speaker 1: another one swipe. See how he's just kind of like 766 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:44,400 Speaker 1: constantly reaching at the basketball. He beat gambles a lot, 767 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,640 Speaker 1: makes a lot of mistakes, but he's been playing with 768 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:50,319 Speaker 1: teams that don't have elite defensive front lines that can 769 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,440 Speaker 1: really cover him in that department. Milwaukee will give him 770 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:58,319 Speaker 1: that opportunity. Here's another example on a play with Kyle 771 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:02,000 Speaker 1: Kuzma of just just wreck list ball pursuit from Gary Trent. 772 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,400 Speaker 1: Notice the ball comes up, swipes, misses it, gets out 773 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:07,239 Speaker 1: of position. But look at how he's just running back, 774 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,759 Speaker 1: swipes back at the ball. He just Gary Trent is 775 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,480 Speaker 1: just a BALLHWK. Like he's not a good defensive player, 776 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:14,320 Speaker 1: but he's a ballhawk, and so if you can plug 777 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,319 Speaker 1: that specifically into a scheme, I think you can get 778 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:21,600 Speaker 1: some positive outcomes there. Here's another example against against Franz 779 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,480 Speaker 1: Wagner picks up the ball. Watch how aggressively is on 780 00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:28,200 Speaker 1: the ball. We got a little bit of a reach swipe, 781 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:32,520 Speaker 1: swipe swipe knocks it away. Really really aggressive on the ball. 782 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,399 Speaker 1: Now it's socks and pick and roll stuff. So here's 783 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,520 Speaker 1: an example of a cleared side ball screen in the 784 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,279 Speaker 1: game against the Lakers. So we're gonna run over to 785 00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,520 Speaker 1: this side. It ends up functioning as a ball screen 786 00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:47,120 Speaker 1: with the cleared side with Middleton, so beasily clears out. 787 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,200 Speaker 1: We have a cleared side. Now fast forward a little 788 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,080 Speaker 1: bit here, all right, So here's our setup. Now, this 789 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:53,919 Speaker 1: is why I was talking about. It's basically a four 790 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,759 Speaker 1: out kind of brute force concept. These three guys are 791 00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:00,320 Speaker 1: basically just standing around off the ball right now, running 792 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,359 Speaker 1: your ball screen. Janna is going to set the pick 793 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,520 Speaker 1: and roll. But when he rolls, look at where he rolls. 794 00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,359 Speaker 1: Now boom right here. From the minute he gets into 795 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,520 Speaker 1: this spot, he has no need to even look or 796 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:15,080 Speaker 1: consider this side of the floor. He is seeing everything 797 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:17,839 Speaker 1: and so it's just a much easier read for him 798 00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,240 Speaker 1: on the catch to not have to worry about this side. 799 00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:21,920 Speaker 1: And this is what I was talking about in the 800 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,920 Speaker 1: pick and roll sequence about one on ones with Giannis 801 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:28,640 Speaker 1: going downhill. When you get Janis on the pocket with 802 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,680 Speaker 1: ahead of steam, he's going to an all likelihood get 803 00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:34,800 Speaker 1: a one on one with him going full speed against 804 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:38,120 Speaker 1: someone that is not a big notice too that they 805 00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:43,600 Speaker 1: have brook Lopez out of the corner. He's going to 806 00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,319 Speaker 1: barrel downhill and Rui just has no chance here. But 807 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,200 Speaker 1: a lot of those times, in situations where this is 808 00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:54,240 Speaker 1: an occupied corner, Janis just won't roll hard or he'll pop, 809 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,799 Speaker 1: or when he does catch, he catches here and he 810 00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,600 Speaker 1: hesitates because he's a little bit worried about the traffic 811 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:03,640 Speaker 1: that's taken place behind him. One of one more time, 812 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,759 Speaker 1: so you can see. So again, I really like the 813 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,200 Speaker 1: idea of spamming that more at the end of games, 814 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,600 Speaker 1: when it's less about rhythm and flow and more about 815 00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:16,360 Speaker 1: we need a bucket right now, here's another one against 816 00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:22,680 Speaker 1: Philly contenting cuts through. Here's our ball screen. Mobomba's up 817 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:26,000 Speaker 1: at the level. Now when he catches, it's the exact 818 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,520 Speaker 1: same setup we talked about with Ruey. There's no extra 819 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,080 Speaker 1: defender over here, there's just the one. Here's our one 820 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,440 Speaker 1: on one, but it's a one on one with Yannis 821 00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:36,000 Speaker 1: having a head of steam and he just goes right 822 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,520 Speaker 1: around him to the basket. We can generate more of 823 00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:42,320 Speaker 1: these one on ones for Yannis with a cleared side 824 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,480 Speaker 1: than we can with an occupied corner. That's the main 825 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:46,839 Speaker 1: point that I'm trying to make here, But again there's 826 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,040 Speaker 1: a time and place for it. One of the things 827 00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:51,480 Speaker 1: I like about a clear side ball screen, too, is 828 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,560 Speaker 1: it's very easy for Yannis to flow into a post 829 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,640 Speaker 1: up out of that action. So here's an example of that, 830 00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,319 Speaker 1: and fast forward a little bit side is cleared. Now 831 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,319 Speaker 1: it's functioning as a cleared side ball screen, but it's 832 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,759 Speaker 1: actually a double It's a double screen, right, so like 833 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:08,840 Speaker 1: in this case, it's actually part of the setup of 834 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,760 Speaker 1: the play. But as we come off here, Yanna sets 835 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,440 Speaker 1: the first screen and then Brooke pops right. But notice 836 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:19,640 Speaker 1: when Jannis rolls, they end up switching watch Schroeder. Schroeder's 837 00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:23,120 Speaker 1: on Dame. Schroeder ends up taking Yannis on that pre 838 00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:26,239 Speaker 1: switch as Cam Johnson runs out on Dame so there 839 00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:28,360 Speaker 1: are gonna be teams that do this and switch a 840 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,640 Speaker 1: small on Giannis. How easy is it that Jannis has 841 00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,200 Speaker 1: rolled exactly to where he would need to be for 842 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:39,839 Speaker 1: a post up swing post entry. Now Jannis goes to work, 843 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:41,960 Speaker 1: draws an easy double team, hits Jay Crowder on the 844 00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,600 Speaker 1: cut for the layup. But again, like that's kind of 845 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,920 Speaker 1: the natural flow of that cleared side too. Oh, it 846 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:50,040 Speaker 1: didn't work, but we got to switch Yiannis is already 847 00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:51,640 Speaker 1: where he needs to be for a post up. It's 848 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,960 Speaker 1: easy and quick. Here's an example of how an occupied 849 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,920 Speaker 1: corner can cause Giannis to hesitate. Notice as he sets 850 00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:02,600 Speaker 1: this pick and slips on the catch. Because McHale bridges 851 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:06,280 Speaker 1: any decent defensive player, and because Jay's not that crazy 852 00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:09,600 Speaker 1: good of a shooter, it's easy for McHale bridges to 853 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:14,160 Speaker 1: stunt and recover. Now, by the time McHale stunts and recovers, 854 00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:18,680 Speaker 1: boom advantage is gone. Now see that, So look at 855 00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:21,279 Speaker 1: how easy it is for McHale bridges with an occupied 856 00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:26,520 Speaker 1: corner to stunt and recover at Giannis and cause that 857 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,400 Speaker 1: play to come to fall apart. Now Jannis ends up 858 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,160 Speaker 1: making a play anyway, just because he's Yannis and he 859 00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:32,680 Speaker 1: just kind of barrels his way into the lane and 860 00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:35,520 Speaker 1: then draws an extra defender and kicks the dame. But 861 00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:37,879 Speaker 1: that's an example of how the occupied corner can cause 862 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:39,600 Speaker 1: an issue. Now, before we go to the next play, 863 00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:42,600 Speaker 1: I want to talk about a couple of things. So 864 00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:45,840 Speaker 1: if you are going to occupy the corner, the corner 865 00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:49,399 Speaker 1: that Yannis is rolling into, which again at the when 866 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,799 Speaker 1: they're if it's an ice, so like if they're icing 867 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:55,920 Speaker 1: the ball screen, meaning they're forcing the offensive player to 868 00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,560 Speaker 1: go away from the screen, then Giannis would be rolling 869 00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:00,919 Speaker 1: this way right because he's not actually going to set 870 00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:02,799 Speaker 1: the pick. He's just going to create kind of a 871 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,160 Speaker 1: passing angle. But in a case like this where they're 872 00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:07,880 Speaker 1: chasing over the top, he's going to be rolling the 873 00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,440 Speaker 1: direction he's facing. So you just want to make sure 874 00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,239 Speaker 1: in this case, if I knew Giannis was going to 875 00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,480 Speaker 1: be rolling this way, I'd want Crowder over here and 876 00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:20,040 Speaker 1: i'd want Beasley over there, because then i've got cam 877 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:23,000 Speaker 1: Thomas as the guy that's digging down, who's not nearly 878 00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,880 Speaker 1: as good or as long of a defensive player as 879 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,640 Speaker 1: McHale Bridges, and i've got a better shooter to make 880 00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:31,800 Speaker 1: them pay. So that's like a little detail of spacing. 881 00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:36,480 Speaker 1: Just swap these two shooters a little detail in spacing 882 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,839 Speaker 1: that could make something work versus not work. Right, those 883 00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,000 Speaker 1: are like those are the kinds of little things that 884 00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,239 Speaker 1: Boston got so damn good at last year that were 885 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:49,200 Speaker 1: difference makers for them in their driving kick attack. The 886 00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:52,480 Speaker 1: other thing I like about this too is instead of 887 00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:57,600 Speaker 1: going with another offensive player on this wing, you could 888 00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:00,480 Speaker 1: take the other big and drop him down into the 889 00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:04,640 Speaker 1: dunker spot. It creates a little bit more traffic, but 890 00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,440 Speaker 1: at least there's more space up here for Giannis to 891 00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:11,000 Speaker 1: roll into without as many guys digging down. But it's 892 00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:14,040 Speaker 1: an imperfect setup. But if you're gonna do it this way, 893 00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,480 Speaker 1: I like more space up top for them to work with. 894 00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,640 Speaker 1: Let's go to our last clip here, all right, So 895 00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:21,640 Speaker 1: here's an example of having your best shooter in the 896 00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,560 Speaker 1: strong side corner and how that can help once again, 897 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:27,000 Speaker 1: Notice how they've shifted the action closer to the top 898 00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,520 Speaker 1: of the key instead of at this wing. That makes 899 00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,120 Speaker 1: it that there's just more area over here for Yiannis 900 00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,600 Speaker 1: to work with. And now we have Malik Beasley, the 901 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:38,280 Speaker 1: best shooter in that space. So now when Yannis catches, 902 00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:42,680 Speaker 1: Yannis catches, and there's a commitment from Spencer Dinwiddie, but 903 00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:45,160 Speaker 1: it's the best shooter on the team that can make 904 00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,960 Speaker 1: them pay for it here in that corner. So those 905 00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:51,080 Speaker 1: are some examples of that one as an example of 906 00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:55,000 Speaker 1: much better spacing in general to generate a higher quality. 907 00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:55,359 Speaker 2: Shot out of it. 908 00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:58,160 Speaker 1: All right, that's all I got on the bucks for today. Guys, 909 00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:21,600 Speaker 1: let's get into our mail bag. Okay, first question, Hi, Jason, 910 00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:23,440 Speaker 1: I was wondering what your thoughts were on the warriors 911 00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:26,319 Speaker 1: potential starting five. If it were up to me, I'd 912 00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:32,000 Speaker 1: start Steph, POD's Comingo, Wiggins, Kminga or Wiggins, Draymond at 913 00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,440 Speaker 1: the power forward, and then Tray Jackson, Davis or Looney 914 00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:37,160 Speaker 1: at center. This, however, leaves much to be desired. Steph 915 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:38,799 Speaker 1: would have to have a top five season this year, 916 00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:40,480 Speaker 1: Pods would have to have one hell of a breakout 917 00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,239 Speaker 1: season proportionate to the responsibility we're putting on him, and 918 00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:46,160 Speaker 1: Comingo would have to take a defensive lead, and Wiggins 919 00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,600 Speaker 1: would have to have a bounce back season. Draymond can't 920 00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:52,120 Speaker 1: regress defensively, and Tray Jackson Davis and Kaman Luni would 921 00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:53,959 Speaker 1: have to be able to defend other dominant biggs while 922 00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,719 Speaker 1: putting pressure on the rit All in all, I'm not 923 00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,040 Speaker 1: too high on us this year, but that could just 924 00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,280 Speaker 1: be dooming gloom Top because of the last two years. 925 00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,279 Speaker 1: I wasn't too upset we missed out on LORII, but 926 00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,120 Speaker 1: I don't know what this team does moving forward to 927 00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,400 Speaker 1: content to keep up the great work. So as far 928 00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:10,360 Speaker 1: as the starting lineup goes, I think it's an obvious answer. 929 00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:13,200 Speaker 1: I would take a page out of JJ Redick's book, 930 00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:16,400 Speaker 1: which is, yeah, it's an imperfect lineup, but go with 931 00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:18,920 Speaker 1: the lineup that was your best lineup last year. The 932 00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,880 Speaker 1: Lakers line up with with Ruy Hatchermurrett the three is 933 00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,160 Speaker 1: an imperfect lineup, but it's their best lineup, So it's 934 00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:27,360 Speaker 1: their best way to go for now until they decide 935 00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:28,880 Speaker 1: whether or not they want to invest more in this 936 00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,560 Speaker 1: season and make some sort of personnel trade. Right, Well, 937 00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:33,919 Speaker 1: what was the best lineup for the Warriors last year? 938 00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:37,000 Speaker 1: It was obvious it was the It was Draymond at 939 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:40,000 Speaker 1: center next to Kaminga and Wiggins. So instead of choosing 940 00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:42,520 Speaker 1: between one of Kaminga and Wiggins and going two bigs, 941 00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,399 Speaker 1: I would just go Wiggins at the three, Minga the four, 942 00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:47,360 Speaker 1: Draymond at the five. That was their best line up 943 00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,239 Speaker 1: by far. It was their most used lineup by far. 944 00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:52,920 Speaker 1: Ye had two hundred and thirty two minutes with Pods 945 00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:56,280 Speaker 1: at the two. They were plus twelve per one hundred possessions, 946 00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,200 Speaker 1: which is great. They were great on both ends of 947 00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:00,680 Speaker 1: the floor, and they rebounded well. They had one hundred 948 00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:03,240 Speaker 1: and fifty seven minutes with Clay at the two instead, 949 00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:07,080 Speaker 1: they were plus eighteen net rating great on both ends 950 00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:09,400 Speaker 1: of the floor. They weren't great on rebounding with that unit, 951 00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:12,120 Speaker 1: but they weren't terrible either. So like that was your 952 00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:15,120 Speaker 1: best you were you were really really good with the 953 00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,680 Speaker 1: Kamingo Wigans Draam on front court. So like, is it 954 00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,880 Speaker 1: a perfect lineup? No, it's It's got some tricky spacing. 955 00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:24,160 Speaker 1: Kaminga is a little bit of a ball stopper. There 956 00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:27,040 Speaker 1: are issues with that lineup, not a ton of offensive firepower. 957 00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,720 Speaker 1: But when end doubt, when you have a flawed roster 958 00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:34,560 Speaker 1: and flawed options one in doubt, just play your five 959 00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:38,240 Speaker 1: best players that will carry you through the regular season 960 00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:40,400 Speaker 1: until you can decide whether or not this team is 961 00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,200 Speaker 1: worth investing in, and you make some move to try 962 00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:48,080 Speaker 1: to balance out a more complete starting lineup. Hey, Jason, 963 00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:50,080 Speaker 1: loved the show. If you were the coach of the Bucks, 964 00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,680 Speaker 1: would you tell Giannis to stop shooting threes with a 965 00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:57,120 Speaker 1: twenty seven percent three point percentage? He's obviously hurting the 966 00:46:57,160 --> 00:46:59,200 Speaker 1: offense when he does it, and he's not keeping the 967 00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,640 Speaker 1: defense honest because they leave him wide open. Do you 968 00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,040 Speaker 1: think there is any value in those shots whatsoever? Even 969 00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:05,600 Speaker 1: the announcers call him out for it and say the 970 00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:07,719 Speaker 1: defense should be sending him thank you cards every time 971 00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:09,960 Speaker 1: he does it. He took one hundred and seventy one 972 00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:12,040 Speaker 1: threes in twenty twenty three and had the worst three 973 00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:14,440 Speaker 1: point percentage out of all players who had as many attempts. 974 00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,880 Speaker 1: Love to hear your thoughts, thanks, So ironically, the threes 975 00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:21,160 Speaker 1: are his most efficient jump shot. He shot thirty three 976 00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:24,279 Speaker 1: percent on mid range jump shots last year. That's just 977 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,680 Speaker 1: zero points six six points per shot. He shot twenty 978 00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:32,600 Speaker 1: seven percent on threes, that's zero point eight points per shot. 979 00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,280 Speaker 1: So like he was kind of efficient on long twos. 980 00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:37,719 Speaker 1: He shot like thirty nine percent on long twos that 981 00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,919 Speaker 1: were outside at seventeen feet according to Synergy. But even 982 00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,600 Speaker 1: that is just zero point seventy nine points per shot, 983 00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:46,080 Speaker 1: which is less than the zero point eight points per 984 00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,440 Speaker 1: shot he was getting on threes. He was really really 985 00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,080 Speaker 1: bad on short range, mid range jump shots that are 986 00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:54,239 Speaker 1: like inside of seventeen feet last year. Now here's the thing. 987 00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,200 Speaker 1: I understand why he's trying to build out that shot. 988 00:47:57,280 --> 00:47:59,919 Speaker 1: In the long run, it's about saving energy. It would 989 00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:03,400 Speaker 1: be great if Jiannis could take three or four threes 990 00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:06,839 Speaker 1: a game and hit him thirty three percent of the time, 991 00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:09,960 Speaker 1: so he gets one point per shot, because then he 992 00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:14,680 Speaker 1: could rest right. So, like my guess is like I 993 00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:18,560 Speaker 1: I would take it out entirely in the postseason. There's 994 00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:20,239 Speaker 1: never a reason for him to take a three in 995 00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:22,319 Speaker 1: the postseason unless it's like late clock and he just 996 00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:25,320 Speaker 1: has to get something up on the rim, which unfortunately 997 00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:27,200 Speaker 1: he's done the opposite of that in his career. He's 998 00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:29,680 Speaker 1: actually taken more threes in his career. He's taken barely 999 00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:31,759 Speaker 1: over to a game in his regular season career. He's 1000 00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:33,920 Speaker 1: taken three a game in his regular season career or 1001 00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,560 Speaker 1: his postseason career. So like he needs to cut those out. 1002 00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:39,160 Speaker 1: But when he's in the eighty two game season and 1003 00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:41,200 Speaker 1: you're in the Eastern Conference, Like the Bucks aren't gonna 1004 00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,080 Speaker 1: fall into the play in There's not enough good teams 1005 00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:44,799 Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference, right like that. If they were 1006 00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:47,040 Speaker 1: in the West, totally different issue. But in the East, 1007 00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:49,520 Speaker 1: they're not gonna have to worry about that. So who 1008 00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:51,640 Speaker 1: cares if he lose a game or two off of 1009 00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:54,920 Speaker 1: some inefficient shots from Giannis. If he's trying to build 1010 00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:56,880 Speaker 1: that out in the long run, if he wants to 1011 00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:59,200 Speaker 1: take two or three threes a game as part of 1012 00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:02,799 Speaker 1: his big picture, who cares because it could eventually help you. 1013 00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:05,080 Speaker 1: But yeah, I do think he needs to stop taking 1014 00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:08,000 Speaker 1: them in the playoffs. I love how Jason. I love 1015 00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:11,840 Speaker 1: how the Lakers ranking is perpetually lifted by this pending 1016 00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:14,480 Speaker 1: trade that Jason has been fantasizing about for the last 1017 00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:17,680 Speaker 1: two seasons. So a couple things. First of all, the 1018 00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:19,680 Speaker 1: Lakers are next in my power rankings. I have them 1019 00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:23,200 Speaker 1: at eight, pretty much in line Vegas has them at 1020 00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,920 Speaker 1: ninth in championship odds. The only team that Vegas had 1021 00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:29,160 Speaker 1: above the Lakers that I didn't is the Milwaukee Bucks. 1022 00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:32,960 Speaker 1: And it's very different to make a trade when you've 1023 00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:34,960 Speaker 1: got two top ten players on your team, like the 1024 00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:38,759 Speaker 1: Lakers have a strong foundation, so a small tweak can 1025 00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:41,480 Speaker 1: go a long way. When you've got two top ten players, 1026 00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:45,280 Speaker 1: you craft really small and achievable roles. When you put 1027 00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:49,040 Speaker 1: good basketball players into small, achievable roles that fit their 1028 00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:53,759 Speaker 1: skill set, you get enhanced returns as opposed to diminishing returns. Right, 1029 00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:57,080 Speaker 1: And so here's the thing, Like I had another mail 1030 00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,840 Speaker 1: back question, someone said, Okay, so the Lakers are getting 1031 00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:01,600 Speaker 1: in the fringed here because they can hit on a 1032 00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:04,239 Speaker 1: trade and have two first round picks. Do you know 1033 00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:07,160 Speaker 1: how many teams below the Lakers have first round picks 1034 00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:08,160 Speaker 1: and have plenty. 1035 00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:09,560 Speaker 2: More to offer. Yeah, you're right. 1036 00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:11,200 Speaker 1: There are a lot of teams that have more to 1037 00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:14,840 Speaker 1: trade than the Lakers, but they're not trading and adding 1038 00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:17,480 Speaker 1: a player, adding players to a team that already has 1039 00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,879 Speaker 1: two top ten players. That's the difference. The Lakers can 1040 00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:23,399 Speaker 1: make a small tweak and get more in return out 1041 00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:26,120 Speaker 1: of it because they have such a strong foundation as 1042 00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:33,080 Speaker 1: far as the Bucks go, because I had a specific 1043 00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:37,800 Speaker 1: comment that was complaining about the Bucks being below the Lakers. 1044 00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:41,279 Speaker 1: The Lakers were better than the Bucks last year even 1045 00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:44,080 Speaker 1: without a trade being made. They had just two fewer 1046 00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:47,120 Speaker 1: wins and a much tougher conference. They beat the Bucks 1047 00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:49,719 Speaker 1: head to head both times, even though Lebron James didn't 1048 00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:52,479 Speaker 1: play in either game. They had more wins against teams 1049 00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:54,759 Speaker 1: that were in the top ten and point differential. The 1050 00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:57,440 Speaker 1: Lakers were just They just had a more impressive and 1051 00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:00,920 Speaker 1: more successful season last year than the Bus in my opinion. 1052 00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:04,080 Speaker 1: So like again, like you can argue one way or another, 1053 00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:07,200 Speaker 1: I have them divided by hairs in this tier like 1054 00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:10,040 Speaker 1: the fifth team and the eleventh team. You could jockey 1055 00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:12,040 Speaker 1: them all around as much as you want. I have 1056 00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:13,880 Speaker 1: the Lakers at eight. I'm sure all the people that 1057 00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:16,919 Speaker 1: hate the Lakers have them lower. I'm going to save 1058 00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:20,400 Speaker 1: most of my Lakers positivity talk until Monday, because on 1059 00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:22,920 Speaker 1: Monday we are covering the Lakers as number eight in 1060 00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:25,759 Speaker 1: our power rankings. I'll make my case there. If you 1061 00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:28,040 Speaker 1: guys disagree and you want to make a basketball case 1062 00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:30,279 Speaker 1: for why you think I'm wrong about the Lakers, throw 1063 00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:33,120 Speaker 1: them in the mailback question on Monday's show and we'll 1064 00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:37,400 Speaker 1: get to those later on in the UH. In this series, 1065 00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:42,000 Speaker 1: if you were coaching a contender level team, maybe in 1066 00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:44,080 Speaker 1: the six to ten range, how would you approach the 1067 00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:46,759 Speaker 1: n Season Tournament. I loved watching it as a fan, 1068 00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:48,640 Speaker 1: but I'm uncertain how a coach would feel about this 1069 00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:52,200 Speaker 1: new institution after year one. I love this question, and 1070 00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:53,759 Speaker 1: I think the answer is very simple. You try to 1071 00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,239 Speaker 1: win it, no question, you win it. You go and 1072 00:51:56,239 --> 00:51:59,400 Speaker 1: you try to win the damn thing. It's about establishing 1073 00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:03,000 Speaker 1: a culture in your franchise that is entirely focused on winning. 1074 00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:07,040 Speaker 1: NBA fans like to pretend that the regular season doesn't matter, 1075 00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:10,000 Speaker 1: but NBA history tells us that the team that wins 1076 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:14,680 Speaker 1: the title almost always attacks the regular season from start 1077 00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:18,160 Speaker 1: to finish the whole. Like flip a switch late in 1078 00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:21,160 Speaker 1: the year. Thing that doesn't happen. It's even rare for 1079 00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:23,640 Speaker 1: a team like Dallas to flip the switch at the 1080 00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:26,319 Speaker 1: tail end of the year and go on a finals run. 1081 00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:27,719 Speaker 1: And by the way, they got their ass kicked when 1082 00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:30,000 Speaker 1: they got there. Like, the team that wins the title 1083 00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:33,200 Speaker 1: is great from start to finish. Winning is part of 1084 00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:38,600 Speaker 1: their character. Real competitors see the n Season Tournament as 1085 00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:42,279 Speaker 1: another opportunity to prove themselves. I actually expect the n 1086 00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:45,680 Speaker 1: Season Tournament trophy will become more and more prestigious as 1087 00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:48,279 Speaker 1: the years go by, because I do think we will 1088 00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:51,560 Speaker 1: see the great teams in the league consistently win it, 1089 00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:55,759 Speaker 1: consistently go after it, because that's just what winners do. 1090 00:52:57,080 --> 00:52:59,080 Speaker 1: And I think we'll even see the seeding games take 1091 00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:01,480 Speaker 1: on another layer of hensity this year because we had 1092 00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:03,560 Speaker 1: some teams that didn't qualify for the tournament last year, 1093 00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:06,440 Speaker 1: because you have to take those games very seriously. So 1094 00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:08,640 Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of the n season Tournament. I 1095 00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:10,320 Speaker 1: think it's going to become a bigger part of the 1096 00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:14,719 Speaker 1: NBA with each passing season. Hey, Jason, when you get 1097 00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:16,840 Speaker 1: to the MAVs, I remember you suggesting earlier that the 1098 00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:18,839 Speaker 1: offense would be a lot better and resilient if they 1099 00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:22,279 Speaker 1: played five out with more movement, especially with the Clay 1100 00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:25,000 Speaker 1: addition in the offseason. I definitely agree with that. However, 1101 00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:26,680 Speaker 1: in some other recent videos, you made it seem like 1102 00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:29,400 Speaker 1: you were skeptical the MAVs would even do so, given 1103 00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,440 Speaker 1: how they empower Luca Ball and that Luca has a 1104 00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:33,840 Speaker 1: very narrow play style. I don't think that's correct. The 1105 00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:37,080 Speaker 1: MAVs do play five out a bunch two. The twenty 1106 00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:39,360 Speaker 1: twenty two Western Conference Finals run was built on it. 1107 00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:41,600 Speaker 1: The reason they hadn't done much this year is because 1108 00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:44,640 Speaker 1: Maxi Kleibo was hurt and he was the center that 1109 00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:46,719 Speaker 1: made that possible. I also don't think Mark that Mark 1110 00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:48,960 Speaker 1: Cuban the interview was really that relevant because he isn't 1111 00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:50,920 Speaker 1: the coach and he doesn't even have control of basketball 1112 00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:54,399 Speaker 1: operations anymore. The part about Mark Cuban's fair like, I 1113 00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:57,440 Speaker 1: am keeping an open mind about Dallas. I'm going to 1114 00:53:57,760 --> 00:53:59,920 Speaker 1: make up my mind about how they play when I 1115 00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,319 Speaker 1: watched them play like that. I want to see what 1116 00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:05,920 Speaker 1: they do. But this is the biggest misconception that I 1117 00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:10,879 Speaker 1: see in the YouTube comments around here. Five out does 1118 00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:15,399 Speaker 1: not mean five shooters. Five out does not mean a 1119 00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:19,359 Speaker 1: center that can shoot threes. Those are elements that can 1120 00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:22,000 Speaker 1: be utilized in five out, and you're right in a 1121 00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:26,000 Speaker 1: very literal sense. When they would play with max Kliba 1122 00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,000 Speaker 1: at the center, Maxic klib at the center, and they 1123 00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,160 Speaker 1: had him screen and pop to the top of the key, 1124 00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:34,880 Speaker 1: that is technically five out because everyone's operating on the perimeter. However, 1125 00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:38,960 Speaker 1: five out is a very complicated play style that encapsulates 1126 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,839 Speaker 1: a bunch of different elements, and one of the key 1127 00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:45,520 Speaker 1: elements that the vast majority of real five out teams 1128 00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:49,640 Speaker 1: use is ball and player movement. Again, the Golden State 1129 00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,799 Speaker 1: Warriors ran one of the best and most devastating five 1130 00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:55,880 Speaker 1: out attacks in the league with two non shooters on 1131 00:54:55,920 --> 00:55:00,640 Speaker 1: the floor at all times. That have andre Iguidala and 1132 00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:04,440 Speaker 1: Draymond Green, or Draymond Green and Kevon Looney or Draymond 1133 00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:08,840 Speaker 1: Green and Andrew Bogit. They consistently had non shooters on 1134 00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:12,600 Speaker 1: the floor, but it was five out because those bigs, 1135 00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:17,920 Speaker 1: those non shooters were screening in passing folkrums that operated 1136 00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:23,240 Speaker 1: from the outside. Dribble, handoff, roll into the paint, not available, catch, 1137 00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:26,120 Speaker 1: go into the next action, right swing, pass, go to 1138 00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:29,839 Speaker 1: the next action. That's the whole point is like ball, 1139 00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:33,439 Speaker 1: Like five out is about ball in player movement, and 1140 00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:39,520 Speaker 1: the paint is not occupied except for temporarily on cuts, flashes, rolls, 1141 00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:45,600 Speaker 1: and drives. That So again, like, I'm not asking for 1142 00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:49,200 Speaker 1: Dallas to employ a stretch five and to run their 1143 00:55:49,239 --> 00:55:51,560 Speaker 1: exact same offense just with the center that can shoot. 1144 00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:55,160 Speaker 1: I want them to flow from side to side with 1145 00:55:55,360 --> 00:55:58,560 Speaker 1: multiple guys running action because that is what makes you 1146 00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:02,640 Speaker 1: truly hard to guard. I am skeptical that they'll do that, 1147 00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:04,960 Speaker 1: but I'm keeping an open mind to see if they 1148 00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:08,600 Speaker 1: will once we get into the season. Hi, Jason, do 1149 00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:11,200 Speaker 1: you think this upcoming season might be Lebron's last season 1150 00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:13,399 Speaker 1: as a top player or when do you think we'll 1151 00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:15,280 Speaker 1: see a significant decline in his game? 1152 00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:16,759 Speaker 2: Thanks? I think this is it. 1153 00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:19,680 Speaker 1: I think this is the last real chance Lebron has 1154 00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:21,279 Speaker 1: to make some noise. I think it depends, like I 1155 00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:24,120 Speaker 1: mentioned on a trade, but like I don't think, I 1156 00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:26,200 Speaker 1: think after this season we're going to start seeing some 1157 00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:28,480 Speaker 1: pretty substantial decline from Lebron. I feel like this is 1158 00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:32,600 Speaker 1: the last good one. I feel like you're setting yourself 1159 00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:34,440 Speaker 1: up to rank the Wolves lower than they should be 1160 00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:36,560 Speaker 1: by referring to them as a bad offense. Can you 1161 00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:39,280 Speaker 1: elaborate on how as a middle of the pack offense 1162 00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:41,600 Speaker 1: during the regular season they were a bad offense, especially 1163 00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:43,600 Speaker 1: when you noted that Ant's elevation in the playoffs was 1164 00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:46,160 Speaker 1: a step you expect him to carry over to the season. 1165 00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:48,880 Speaker 1: Regardless of that, the Wolves were not a bad offense 1166 00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:51,040 Speaker 1: in the playoffs. They weren't a top offense, but they 1167 00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:54,400 Speaker 1: were far from bad. That is all relative. It's relative 1168 00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:56,480 Speaker 1: to the other playoff caliber team. So yeah, they were 1169 00:56:56,520 --> 00:57:00,359 Speaker 1: seventeenth in defensive or offensive rating. But like, this league 1170 00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:03,719 Speaker 1: has ten really bad teams at the bottom that are outliers, right, 1171 00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:06,160 Speaker 1: So like that's the important thing to consider. It's all 1172 00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:09,520 Speaker 1: we're discussing this relative to the other championship teams. They 1173 00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:12,880 Speaker 1: also played one hundred and forty six minutes of clutch 1174 00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:16,480 Speaker 1: basketball last year, so important late game minutes, less than 1175 00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:20,160 Speaker 1: five minutes left inside of five points. They had a 1176 00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:23,480 Speaker 1: one to oh four offensive rating in the regular season 1177 00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:26,040 Speaker 1: in one hundred and forty six minutes of clutch basketball. 1178 00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:31,200 Speaker 1: That is abysmal. All three of their clutch losses against Dallas, 1179 00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:33,680 Speaker 1: they lost three games. I went to crunch time against Dallas. 1180 00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:37,480 Speaker 1: They had an offensive rating of eighty in those three games. 1181 00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:40,720 Speaker 1: In those three situations, they turned the ball over on 1182 00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:44,720 Speaker 1: twenty four percent of their possessions in those three clutch performances. 1183 00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:49,720 Speaker 1: So again, are they really bad offense relative to the 1184 00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:53,640 Speaker 1: rest of the NBA. No, they're below average. But are 1185 00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:57,240 Speaker 1: they bad relative to the real competitive teams at the 1186 00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:59,120 Speaker 1: top of the league. You bet your ass they are. 1187 00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:02,600 Speaker 1: I do agree that Ant's elevation in the playoffs was 1188 00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:04,240 Speaker 1: a step in the right direction, and I think the 1189 00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:06,640 Speaker 1: Wolves will be a better offense this year. I think 1190 00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:08,920 Speaker 1: they'll go up from seventeen to something probably closer to 1191 00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:12,200 Speaker 1: twelve or thirteen. But if they still have those issues 1192 00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:14,760 Speaker 1: scoring in the half court, because teams don't really have 1193 00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:17,040 Speaker 1: to guard Jada McDaniels, because teams don't really have to 1194 00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:19,120 Speaker 1: guard Rudy Gobert, because teams don't really have to guard 1195 00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:21,120 Speaker 1: and kill Alexander Walker, whoever it is that's out there 1196 00:58:21,120 --> 00:58:23,880 Speaker 1: in those moments, then that's still going to be an issue. 1197 00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:25,760 Speaker 1: But we'll get into that in more detail when we 1198 00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:29,280 Speaker 1: get to the Wolves, and they are considerably higher on 1199 00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:32,920 Speaker 1: this list if I remember correctly. Can you touch more 1200 00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:35,720 Speaker 1: on the Miami Heat than how BAM's three point development 1201 00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:39,160 Speaker 1: can help transform their offense. Personally, I think it's going 1202 00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:40,880 Speaker 1: to take them to another level when it comes to 1203 00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:43,400 Speaker 1: handoffs and playing at the top of the key. It 1204 00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:46,320 Speaker 1: just adds another element, specifically when Jimmy posts up and 1205 00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:48,000 Speaker 1: Bam spaces to the corner. I think it'll be a 1206 00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:51,080 Speaker 1: great look. I'd love to hear what you think it'll help. 1207 00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:54,640 Speaker 1: But in order for a shooter to actually create space 1208 00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:56,960 Speaker 1: for an offense, he has to be guarded like a 1209 00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:59,480 Speaker 1: shooter that's a huge difference, right. It's like we were 1210 00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:01,560 Speaker 1: talking about early with the honest, it's not keeping the 1211 00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:04,160 Speaker 1: defense honest if they're never actually guarding you out there. 1212 00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:09,440 Speaker 1: There's only a real multi possession benefit for shooting if 1213 00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:11,560 Speaker 1: you make enough of them to where they actually start 1214 00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:15,040 Speaker 1: accounting for you with their base defensive scheme. So like, 1215 00:59:15,080 --> 00:59:16,560 Speaker 1: he needs to hit enough of them at a high 1216 00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:20,000 Speaker 1: enough rate to where he's actually being shadowed by his defender. 1217 00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:23,800 Speaker 1: If his defender can dig down and just offer a 1218 00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:27,400 Speaker 1: late contest and you're not burning them enough, it just 1219 00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:31,480 Speaker 1: doesn't matter enough. But yeah, if he does unlock that 1220 00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:33,240 Speaker 1: part of his game, if he does become a shooter 1221 00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:36,560 Speaker 1: that people have to guard, that's great, even more than 1222 00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:39,400 Speaker 1: just the spacing stuff with Jimmy posting up or anything 1223 00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:41,480 Speaker 1: like that. It'll unlock two big looks for them, and 1224 00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:44,000 Speaker 1: not two big looks with like Kevin Love or I 1225 00:59:44,040 --> 00:59:46,360 Speaker 1: heard some talk about the heat potentially looking at like 1226 00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:49,680 Speaker 1: Vucevich and that sort of thing. And you don't get 1227 00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:52,320 Speaker 1: the benefits of two bigs if it's a finesse big 1228 00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:55,120 Speaker 1: that doesn't bring much physicality to the table. Like if 1229 00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:58,280 Speaker 1: you have a big defensive center that you can play 1230 00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:00,800 Speaker 1: next to Ban because now he's a good shooter that 1231 01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:05,320 Speaker 1: unleashes a whole other element to your offense or to 1232 01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:08,720 Speaker 1: your defense. I should say, Bradley Beal coming off the 1233 01:00:08,720 --> 01:00:10,800 Speaker 1: bench is what Phoenix needs. As you say, they need 1234 01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:13,160 Speaker 1: a professional defender in the starting lineup, and that can 1235 01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:16,000 Speaker 1: be roy O'Neil, bill Book and Durant is already starting 1236 01:00:16,040 --> 01:00:18,280 Speaker 1: to give you diminishing returns. Another ball handler added to 1237 01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:21,360 Speaker 1: the mix is not it. Here's the thing, this is 1238 01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:24,880 Speaker 1: not going to happen because they just fired their coach 1239 01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:28,560 Speaker 1: and one of the many reasons was Bradley Beal was 1240 01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:31,600 Speaker 1: unhappy with his role. Bradley Bual wants the ball more, 1241 01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:34,880 Speaker 1: and it's crazy. I went back and watched a good 1242 01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:37,920 Speaker 1: chunk of the Wolves Sun series for our son's preview. 1243 01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:41,960 Speaker 1: Bradley Beal was so bad. He was so bad. And 1244 01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:46,240 Speaker 1: it's tough because, like it's a different role than anything 1245 01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:48,320 Speaker 1: he's done in his career. He's off the ball the 1246 01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:50,840 Speaker 1: majority of the time. It's so much more about knocking 1247 01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:54,560 Speaker 1: down open shots, moving without the basketball, driving closeouts, and 1248 01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:57,960 Speaker 1: they desperately need him because he's probably the best athlete 1249 01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:01,280 Speaker 1: in the starting lineup. They desperately need him to guard 1250 01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:03,760 Speaker 1: the ball and to do it well. But he did 1251 01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:06,720 Speaker 1: a poor job guarding the ball in the Minnesota Series, 1252 01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:08,959 Speaker 1: and he did a poor job functioning as a cog 1253 01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:12,560 Speaker 1: in the offense in the series. So like it's a 1254 01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:16,240 Speaker 1: tough role and he's struggling with it. The truth about 1255 01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:18,360 Speaker 1: what Bradley Beal needs to do is it actually does 1256 01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:20,720 Speaker 1: make more sense on this team for him to function 1257 01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:23,720 Speaker 1: as a sixth man so that you can have a 1258 01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:27,000 Speaker 1: better athlete that's committed to the work in the starting lineup, 1259 01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:28,840 Speaker 1: that can guard the other team's best player, be more 1260 01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:31,520 Speaker 1: of a connective piece on offense. Then when brad checks 1261 01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:33,720 Speaker 1: into the game, he can come in guns blazing on 1262 01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:35,600 Speaker 1: offense and have the ball in his hands the whole time. 1263 01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:38,880 Speaker 1: Then then you close the game with him. Right that 1264 01:01:39,440 --> 01:01:43,800 Speaker 1: Bradley Beal makes too much money to be traded and 1265 01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:45,880 Speaker 1: is not good enough for you to just put the 1266 01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:47,840 Speaker 1: ball in his hands and put Devin Booker and Brad 1267 01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:51,640 Speaker 1: and Kevin Durant off the ball. That's a misallocation of resources. 1268 01:01:51,840 --> 01:01:54,400 Speaker 1: So in order for Bradley Beal to maximize his potential 1269 01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:58,160 Speaker 1: on this particular team, he's got to become a souped up, 1270 01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:02,720 Speaker 1: overqualified role play, and I just don't think he's willing 1271 01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:06,280 Speaker 1: to do that, and so I'm not sure that there's 1272 01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:08,400 Speaker 1: really a good answer, and I expect it to look 1273 01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:11,280 Speaker 1: a lot like it looked last year. Hey, bro, another 1274 01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:12,960 Speaker 1: great episode. No one breaks it down the way you do. 1275 01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:15,080 Speaker 1: Keep up what you're doing. Thank you for the kind words. 1276 01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:18,720 Speaker 1: Can you talk about the potential impact of Matas Matas 1277 01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:23,320 Speaker 1: Buzzellis can have on the rebuilding Chicago Bulls team. That 1278 01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:25,439 Speaker 1: young man is so dynamic. I think he's the deal 1279 01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:27,400 Speaker 1: of the draft. We had a question a few weeks back, 1280 01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:29,440 Speaker 1: a mail back question talking about like what the Bulls 1281 01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:31,120 Speaker 1: should do as part of the rebuilt process, and I 1282 01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:32,920 Speaker 1: talked a lot about how you gotta find out what 1283 01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:35,280 Speaker 1: you got. You gotta find out what Josh Kitty has, 1284 01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:38,760 Speaker 1: and Matas Buzzellis is another example of that, Like give 1285 01:02:38,840 --> 01:02:41,320 Speaker 1: him lots of opportunity and find out if you have 1286 01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:44,680 Speaker 1: something there. Once you identify what your foundation is, then 1287 01:02:44,720 --> 01:02:46,800 Speaker 1: you can start to look at their strengths and weaknesses 1288 01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:48,560 Speaker 1: and how to build around them. But you got to 1289 01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:51,120 Speaker 1: find out what your foundation is first. And there was 1290 01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:53,080 Speaker 1: not really much to get excited about in terms of 1291 01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:55,800 Speaker 1: young players in that organization. Mantas Buzzellis is the first 1292 01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:58,720 Speaker 1: guy in a while where it's like, Hey, let's see 1293 01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:01,280 Speaker 1: what this guy's got, and I'm excited to watch him too. 1294 01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:04,560 Speaker 1: We'll be covering him very closely this year. Last question, Jason, 1295 01:03:04,560 --> 01:03:06,360 Speaker 1: if you were the Magic general manager, what would you 1296 01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:08,120 Speaker 1: do in the next calendar year to take the team 1297 01:03:08,160 --> 01:03:10,680 Speaker 1: from Tier two to Tier one? So the key here 1298 01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:13,920 Speaker 1: is you don't want to jump the gun. If I 1299 01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:17,400 Speaker 1: had to improve the Magic in the short term, I 1300 01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:19,800 Speaker 1: would bring in a skill guard. Let's just say, like 1301 01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:23,160 Speaker 1: D'Angelo Russell, for instance, and I'd have him handle the 1302 01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:26,320 Speaker 1: rock and I'd have Palo and Franz operate more off 1303 01:03:26,360 --> 01:03:29,360 Speaker 1: the ball, because those guys are really struggling right now 1304 01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:32,360 Speaker 1: to be decision makers and half court shot creators. Right 1305 01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:36,600 Speaker 1: They're struggling, especially in like slow down physical environments, right 1306 01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:40,600 Speaker 1: A skill guard that you can compensate for by doing 1307 01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:43,360 Speaker 1: all the dirty work and creating an opportunity for him 1308 01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:46,520 Speaker 1: to just set guys up with quality opportunities would go 1309 01:03:46,560 --> 01:03:50,360 Speaker 1: a long way towards elevating the Magic in the short term. 1310 01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:53,760 Speaker 1: But the short term doesn't matter. If it's not good 1311 01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:56,720 Speaker 1: enough to win the championship, which the magic are not 1312 01:03:56,800 --> 01:04:00,960 Speaker 1: there yet. So the goal here is you want to 1313 01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:04,800 Speaker 1: not change too much. You want to continue to force 1314 01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:08,080 Speaker 1: feed Fronz and Pollow to basketball as much as possible 1315 01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:11,360 Speaker 1: over a longer period of time, so you can get 1316 01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:14,480 Speaker 1: a really firm grasp on what they're good at and 1317 01:04:14,560 --> 01:04:19,400 Speaker 1: what they suck at. Then when Palo's a fourth or 1318 01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:23,080 Speaker 1: fifth year player and Franz has even more experience than that, 1319 01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:25,720 Speaker 1: at that point you can sit down as a front office. 1320 01:04:25,720 --> 01:04:29,040 Speaker 1: You can be like, Okay, Palo's played three hundred and 1321 01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:33,800 Speaker 1: fifty NBA games now, you know, or three hundred two 1322 01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:36,200 Speaker 1: to fifty, however many it is. He's played a few 1323 01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:38,960 Speaker 1: hundred NBA games. Now we have a good grasp of 1324 01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:41,560 Speaker 1: what he's getting much better at and what his true 1325 01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:45,400 Speaker 1: weaknesses are. Now we can look to really be more 1326 01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:50,280 Speaker 1: precise and deliberate with tweaks around those guys. But it's 1327 01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:52,360 Speaker 1: just like I was talking about the bulls. You have 1328 01:04:52,400 --> 01:04:55,840 Speaker 1: to find out what you have first. What we know 1329 01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:58,560 Speaker 1: about Fronz and Polo is that they have a world 1330 01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:01,680 Speaker 1: of potential, but we have no idea how much of 1331 01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:04,880 Speaker 1: that potential they're going to reach, and what specific areas 1332 01:05:04,920 --> 01:05:06,720 Speaker 1: they're going to get better at, and what specific areas 1333 01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:09,240 Speaker 1: they're going to struggle with. Like what if we don't 1334 01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:12,240 Speaker 1: know is Palo going to become better and better as 1335 01:05:12,240 --> 01:05:15,240 Speaker 1: a playmaker overtime or better and better as a scorer overtime? 1336 01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:17,120 Speaker 1: Is Palo going to be a guy that becomes a 1337 01:05:17,120 --> 01:05:19,240 Speaker 1: really good jump shooter or is the jump shot never 1338 01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:22,280 Speaker 1: going to come around? Because if the jump shots never 1339 01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:24,440 Speaker 1: going to come around, that alters is ceiling a little bit. 1340 01:05:24,480 --> 01:05:27,760 Speaker 1: Same goes for Front's right. So in the short term, 1341 01:05:27,960 --> 01:05:29,600 Speaker 1: you don't want to jump the gun. You want to 1342 01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:32,480 Speaker 1: give these guys opportunities you can learn about them in 1343 01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:35,200 Speaker 1: real detail, about what they're going to be when they're 1344 01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:37,920 Speaker 1: in their prime, so that you can then build around 1345 01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:41,320 Speaker 1: them at that point. Patience is key with young players. 1346 01:05:42,480 --> 01:05:44,640 Speaker 1: That's all I have for to I have one last point. 1347 01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:47,600 Speaker 1: If you guys are into Rings of Power, My buddy 1348 01:05:47,680 --> 01:05:50,520 Speaker 1: Luke and I this morning just recorded like forty five 1349 01:05:50,520 --> 01:05:55,120 Speaker 1: minutes breaking down that crazy episode seven of the penultimate 1350 01:05:55,160 --> 01:05:56,920 Speaker 1: episode of Rings of Power. So you can find that 1351 01:05:57,040 --> 01:06:00,960 Speaker 1: on my YouTube channel which is two Suns Podcast, or 1352 01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:03,880 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcast. Under two Sun's podcasts. Don't 1353 01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:05,880 Speaker 1: forget to hop over there and support that. We're done 1354 01:06:05,880 --> 01:06:08,200 Speaker 1: for the weekend. I'll be back on Monday to cover 1355 01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:10,720 Speaker 1: the Lakers and read everybody complain about it the comments. 1356 01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:11,640 Speaker 2: I'll see you guys then. 1357 01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:15,040 Speaker 1: The volume. 1358 01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:16,280 Speaker 2: What's up guys. 1359 01:06:16,320 --> 01:06:19,080 Speaker 1: As always, I appreciate you for listening to and supporting 1360 01:06:19,120 --> 01:06:21,760 Speaker 1: OOPS tonight. It would actually be really helpful for us 1361 01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:23,640 Speaker 1: if you guys would take a second and leave a 1362 01:06:23,760 --> 01:06:26,320 Speaker 1: rating and a review. As always, I appreciate you guys 1363 01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:27,960 Speaker 1: supporting us, but if you could take a minute to 1364 01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:29,840 Speaker 1: do that, I'd really appreciate it.