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Speaker 1: So offseason recap on the Milwaukee Bucks a little bit
Speaker 1: of roster turnover. They lost Malik Beasley and Patrick Beverley,
Speaker 1: a couple of guards from last year, as well as
Speaker 1: Jay Crowder, and replaced them all with a couple of
Speaker 1: guards and a bench wing. Right, So you replaced Jay
Speaker 1: Crowder with Torrian Prince. Will get into him in more
Speaker 1: detail in a minute. You replaced Malik Beasley and Patrick
Speaker 1: Beverly with Gary Trent Junior in Delawn.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: They also picked up A. J. Johnson, a late first
Speaker 1: round pick, a guard, a kind of a dribble drive
Speaker 1: guard out of Australia. Let's talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: those individual players though. So Torrian Prince I covered him
Speaker 1: very closely with the Lakers last year. I actually really
Speaker 1: liked Torrian Prince. I complained a lot about him last year,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't about Torrian. It was about the way
Speaker 1: he was being used his entire career. Basically, this phase
Speaker 1: of his career, he had been used as a bench
Speaker 1: wing everywhere else, and then Darvin Ham just decided to
Speaker 1: make him like a huge minute starting small forward for
Speaker 1: the Lakers. And he's just he has a lot of
Speaker 1: like key weaknesses that make him kind of like not
Speaker 1: up to the task of being a starting wing in
Speaker 1: this league. He's not a good rebounder, which is something
Speaker 1: you really need from that position in your starting group.
Speaker 1: He is a good shooter, but not like an other
Speaker 1: worldly shooter. He's a good closeout attacker, but not another
Speaker 1: worldly closeout attacker. He can run action, but he's not
Speaker 1: particularly great at it. He can defend, but typically against
Speaker 1: a starting caliber like upper tier shot creator, he's completely overmatched.
Speaker 1: But when you slot him on that bench unit, all
Speaker 1: of those little things are actually really useful, especially against
Speaker 1: lower level NBA players that are coming off the bench.
Speaker 1: He's a solid backup wing. He shot forty percent on
Speaker 1: catch and shoot jump shots last year. Has like some
Speaker 1: of those like higher level closeout attacking moves, like if
Speaker 1: he needs to, like unleash some scoring chops, like a
Speaker 1: little step back in the mid range or something that's
Speaker 1: a little more crafty around the basket, he's got a
Speaker 1: little bit of that, like natural scoring ability. Always does
Speaker 1: his job on defense. The defensive issues are more about limitations.
Speaker 1: He's just he's thin. He's not particularly vertically athletic, not
Speaker 1: particularly quick footed. But he will do his job if
Speaker 1: his game, if the game plan asks for him to
Speaker 1: do certain things with side pick and rolls and certain
Speaker 1: things with top pick and rolls, or certain things with
Speaker 1: this star, but different things with this star, Like you
Speaker 1: can count on him to do his job. He just
Speaker 1: has some athletic limitations that are going to prevent him
Speaker 1: from like being a really imposing type of wing. The
Speaker 1: Lakers just started him, put him in a bunch of
Speaker 1: matchups that were kind of beyond his capability, and it
Speaker 1: was issued. So as long as he has the right
Speaker 1: role in Milwaukee, I love the fit. Gary Trent Junior
Speaker 1: one of the best discount signings of the summer. I
Speaker 1: think he's a much better version of Malik Beasley. Not
Speaker 1: a good defender overall, but he is good at pressuring
Speaker 1: the basketball. He gets really aggressive with his hands, does
Speaker 1: a lot of reaching in, gets a lot of deflections
Speaker 1: and a lot of steals. I actually think playing alongside
Speaker 1: Brooke and Giannis is a great fit for him because
Speaker 1: if you're not going to be a good defender in
Speaker 1: the aggregate in all of the different elements of defense,
Speaker 1: it helps if you're good at one particular thing, and
Speaker 1: the one particular thing Gary Trent is good at is
Speaker 1: ball pressure and attacking the basketball. So if you do
Speaker 1: that at the point of attack, you will funnel because
Speaker 1: the way you counter ball pressure, the way you counter
Speaker 1: a guy who's recklessly reaching in all the time, is
Speaker 1: to make aggressive downhill moves to just get past the guy.
Speaker 1: Because usually when you're reaching and gambling, you're getting out
Speaker 1: of position, you're messing up your feet, and you will
Speaker 1: give up dribble drives. Right, So, like I kind of
Speaker 1: like the idea of Gary Trent just pressuring the shit
Speaker 1: out of the basketball, reaching in a lot and forcing
Speaker 1: that guy to drive, because he's going to be driving
Speaker 1: into the strength of your defense, which is your frontline.
Speaker 1: So in a weird way, like, even though I don't
Speaker 1: think Gary Trent is a good defender, he doesn't have
Speaker 1: the pedigree to get that type of respect, but he
Speaker 1: has a useful defensive skill that I think can be
Speaker 1: plugged into this particular system. And again, like that's you're
Speaker 1: just the bar is low here. You just need to
Speaker 1: do better than Malik Beasley did. Right, He shot over
Speaker 1: fifty percent on unguarded catch and shoot jump shots last year.
Speaker 1: It was just a deadly, standstill shooter. He gets to
Speaker 1: the rim more than Malik Beasley as well. So I
Speaker 1: think he's a substantially better offensive player than Malik Beasley
Speaker 1: and a slightly better defensive player. So anytime you can
Speaker 1: upgrade a starting spot with a guy who's better on
Speaker 1: both ends of the floor on a veteran minimum contract,
Speaker 1: that's like a slam dunk home run, whatever you will
Speaker 1: call it, it's that's just the best that you can
Speaker 1: do in that particular situation. Delon Wright really enjoyed watching
Speaker 1: Delon Wright tape today. He shot the ball really well
Speaker 1: from Miami last year. I'll be in a small sample,
Speaker 1: he shot thirty nine percent on catch and shoot threes.
Speaker 1: He's thirty two years old now, not quite as quick
Speaker 1: as he used to be, but he is a professional defender.
Speaker 1: He's got long arms. He has four consecutive seasons of
Speaker 1: at least two steals per thirty six minutes. He had
Speaker 1: two point six steals per thirty six minutes last year.
Speaker 1: That was second best in the entire NBA among players
Speaker 1: who played at least seven hundred minutes. And the main
Speaker 1: thing you guys will see, especially when we start to
Speaker 1: look at the tape here later on in the show,
Speaker 1: is he just does a really nice job navigating screens,
Speaker 1: and he he's got long arms so he can get
Speaker 1: good rear view contests. He's especially good at getting recovered
Speaker 1: back into position where he can excuse me, bother the
Speaker 1: ball handler somewhere in that mid range area where they're
Speaker 1: often looking to score. I'll show you guys some clips.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go too much further on to lawn
Speaker 1: because we can get into it in the film session
Speaker 1: part of the portion of the show. But I just
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be a way, way, way better guard
Speaker 1: defender than anybody that was on Milwaukee last year, even
Speaker 1: than Patrick Beverley in my opinion, because Pat just didn't
Speaker 1: quite have the link. So that's really the big change
Speaker 1: in this year's team in terms of the differences in
Speaker 1: role players. Right, So they've improved their point of attack defense.
Speaker 1: That was easily the biggest weakness for them last year.
Speaker 1: Malik Beasley got a little better as the year went along,
Speaker 1: but he never got good at it, and Dame was
Speaker 1: legitimately terrible all year. I never even realized how bad
Speaker 1: Dame was defensively until I watched him on this Milwaukee team.
Speaker 1: It was abysmal, and they allowed pick and roll as
Speaker 1: a team, they allowed pick and roll ball handlers to
Speaker 1: get zero point nine to six points per their own
Speaker 1: shot attempts, which was the third worst mark in the
Speaker 1: entire NBA. Only the Utah Jazz and the Indiana Pacers
Speaker 1: were worse. They just have so many more options to
Speaker 1: go to this year. Gary Trent Junior at least has
Speaker 1: an elite defensive skill in terms of his activity with
Speaker 1: his hands that you can try to weaponize. Delon Wright
Speaker 1: is still just a really good guard defender, and then
Speaker 1: Torrian Prince is a nice wing defender option to have
Speaker 1: as a bench guy. And like again, especially with the
Speaker 1: issues with Chris Middleton and his health over the last
Speaker 1: couple of years, I think that Torrian Prince signing was
Speaker 1: especially important. The main thing I'm looking for there is
Speaker 1: I just want to see the Bucks recapture the identity
Speaker 1: that made them a Titan in the Eastern Conference. It
Speaker 1: was defense and rebounding and Giannis barreling down the floor
Speaker 1: in transition. They were That was what made them great.
Speaker 1: They were a defense to transition type of offense. Yes,
Speaker 1: they had these half court weaknesses, right, and that was
Speaker 1: fatal most of the time. They outside of the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one season. That pretty much was the reason they
Speaker 1: lost in every other playoff series. Teams just eventually grind
Speaker 1: them into the mud and they can have some half
Speaker 1: court issues, but everything else they were great at. Like
Speaker 1: they're just a physical, ass kicking type of team. Now,
Speaker 1: the Dame trade helped massively with your half court offense stuff.
Speaker 1: You substantially improved overall in your half court offense. I
Speaker 1: have the stat later on in the show, but I
Speaker 1: think I think they went up from sixteenth to fifth
Speaker 1: in half court offensive efficiency according to Synergy just by
Speaker 1: bringing Damian Lillard into the equation. So definitely helped on
Speaker 1: that front. But you lost some of that ass kicking
Speaker 1: identity with the loss of Drew Holliday, right, Like I
Speaker 1: think bringing in Gary, Trent, Delon Wright, Torrian Prince is
Speaker 1: about the best that you can possibly do under the circumstances. Again, like,
Speaker 1: obviously those guys aren't massive needle movers for you on
Speaker 1: the defensive end of the floor, but considering the constraints
Speaker 1: you were operating under with your cap situation, to be
Speaker 1: operating basically on the veteran minimum exception, and to add
Speaker 1: those caliber of players, I think that's about the best
Speaker 1: you can do. And again, all you can do is
Speaker 1: the best you can do with what you've got in
Speaker 1: your hand of cards that you've been dealt, and I
Speaker 1: thought Milwaukee did about as good as you possibly can do.
Speaker 1: One last note on the defense. Last year, they were
Speaker 1: twenty ninth in points off of turnovers per game. Because
Speaker 1: Gary Trentz more of an active on ball defender in
Speaker 1: terms of reaching and trying to get steals, and because
Speaker 1: delawonn Wright is one of the best steels guards in
Speaker 1: the league. I would like to see them get more
Speaker 1: aggressive at the point of attack and try to drive
Speaker 1: more of that transition attack off of turnovers. I think
Speaker 1: it's one of those things too, where like if you're
Speaker 1: going to be a mediocre defense because you're old, and
Speaker 1: there's like there's just not a lot of footspeed on
Speaker 1: this team, right Like I pulled the stat for a
Speaker 1: different part of the show, but they have fifty one
Speaker 1: years of combined NBA seasons of wear and tear on
Speaker 1: Chris Dame, Jannison Brook fifty one seasons. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of wear and tear. There's some foot speed issues there
Speaker 1: right beyond Giannis. It's not a fast like cover ground
Speaker 1: type of team. So like there's a certain limitation to
Speaker 1: what they can get to defensively, but if you can,
Speaker 1: if you can counter that by forcing more turnovers and
Speaker 1: getting out in transition more, it undoes some of the
Speaker 1: damage that a mediocre defense could do to your chances
Speaker 1: in the large sample. Now, the Bucks were a good
Speaker 1: offense last year. They were sixth in offensive rating, they
Speaker 1: were fifth and three pointers made per game. Dame, as
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, really helped the half court offense. They
Speaker 1: went from fifth and half court offensive rating, or from
Speaker 1: sixteenth the previous year to fifth last year. But I
Speaker 1: think there's even room for improvement there. Like Dame did
Speaker 1: not have a great year shooting the basketball. Dame got
Speaker 1: just one point zero zero points per jump shot last year.
Speaker 1: The year before in Portland he got one point zero
Speaker 1: nine points per jump shot, so a nine percent decrease
Speaker 1: year over year in points per shot. That's something that
Speaker 1: if Dame can make up some of that ground, that
Speaker 1: goes a long way. I thought they left some meat
Speaker 1: on the bone. And pick and roll, there was a
Speaker 1: bunch of benefits there. They were a very good pick
Speaker 1: and roll team. Overall, there was a substantial increase in
Speaker 1: Yiannis's usage as a role man. He had forty five
Speaker 1: field goals made on rolls to the rim the previous season.
Speaker 1: He had seventy five last year. So that's an example
Speaker 1: of the Dame effect. But it hasn't become like the
Speaker 1: unstoppable action that we all knew it was capable of becoming. Right,
Speaker 1: So I want to talk about some of the specific
Speaker 1: things that I think the Bucks can do better this
Speaker 1: year to be more impactful. In pick and roll number one,
Speaker 1: Giannis was kind of inconsistent with his screening and his
Speaker 1: rolling a couple of things, specifically, like when he would
Speaker 1: go to set screen sometimes he'd slip out of the
Speaker 1: screen too early before getting that initial bit of separation,
Speaker 1: or he might not even make contact at all whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Some of it's to be expected, like Jannis was never
Speaker 1: really a high volume screener and roller up until this
Speaker 1: Dame partnership. He did it, but not to this extent.
Speaker 1: And so it takes Reps to become a guy who's
Speaker 1: like this is now a massive and substantial part of
Speaker 1: the Bucks offense in a way that it didn't used
Speaker 1: to be. So it's going to take some time for
Speaker 1: him to kind of figure out some of those intricacies.
Speaker 1: Another thing I noticed is occupied corners, So like the
Speaker 1: one of the things I noticed that happened with Gianis
Speaker 1: a lot. Is I talked about with his rolling to
Speaker 1: the basket being inconsistent. A lot of times Janis would
Speaker 1: set the screen and then slip out of it. But
Speaker 1: he'd slip and then pop to the top of the key.
Speaker 1: And he would especially do this when there was somebody
Speaker 1: in the corner in the side that he couldn't see,
Speaker 1: So like when he'd be rolling, when he would be
Speaker 1: looking back at Dame, if there was somebody in this corner,
Speaker 1: he'd be hesitant to roll because he'd think he'd run
Speaker 1: into a bunch of bodies. So a lot of times
Speaker 1: he'd pop, and then that would defeat the purpose because
Speaker 1: Yannis is not a pick and pop threat, and he's
Speaker 1: not getting ahead of steam. Well, he needs to be
Speaker 1: able to catch on the roll with a head of
Speaker 1: steam so that he's going into a paint that's a
Speaker 1: little more spread. Because Dame's pulling his defender out and
Speaker 1: the screen defender is being pulled out, you have more
Speaker 1: space to operate and fewer bodies that you're rolling into
Speaker 1: right like that's the advantage, but you need to have
Speaker 1: a head of steam. And a lot of times Yannis
Speaker 1: was just a little hesitant to really hit the jets
Speaker 1: on those rolls because he couldn't see what was happening
Speaker 1: behind him, and so not setting great screens and not
Speaker 1: rolling as often as he needs to. Those were a
Speaker 1: couple things Janis could get better at. How do we
Speaker 1: make sure that Yanis is rolling more well? Some of
Speaker 1: it is about understanding the spacing and understanding that Yanis,
Speaker 1: like I said, is worried about people being behind him,
Speaker 1: So what if you try to do more work without.
Speaker 2: That corner being occupied.
Speaker 1: Now, some of it is that they run five out
Speaker 1: and in five out offense, your corners are occupied like
Speaker 1: cleared side ball screens where the other three guys just
Speaker 1: go stand on the opposite end of the floor and
Speaker 1: you just play two man game. That's like very much
Speaker 1: a brute force kind of like four out concept. It's
Speaker 1: not a thing that you see a lot of five
Speaker 1: out teams do. So I under stand why in the
Speaker 1: flow of the game you don't see that a ton
Speaker 1: from the bucks, but maybe it's something they could look
Speaker 1: to do in crunch time more where it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: now we're not trying to have all the flow of
Speaker 1: just establishing rhythm for our offense over the forty eight.
Speaker 1: It's three minutes left in the game.
Speaker 2: We're tied.
Speaker 1: We need to just spam an action that we know
Speaker 1: can get us great shots. Let's go have the other
Speaker 1: three guys stand on the opposite end of the floor,
Speaker 1: and let's clear the side. Because Yanis just is so
Speaker 1: much more aggressive on his rolls to the rim when
Speaker 1: the side is cleared, because when he just imagine it
Speaker 1: very simply like this, when Giannis sets the pick, Let's
Speaker 1: imagine Dame is on the left wing. Okay, Dame is
Speaker 1: on the left wing. We have our three guys along
Speaker 1: the right wing. Dame's on the left wing. Giannis comes
Speaker 1: up and sets the screen, and then he pivots into
Speaker 1: a roll that's along the left side.
Speaker 2: Of the floor.
Speaker 1: As he pivots, he has his back turned to that corner,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't have to worry at all because there's
Speaker 1: nobody over there. So then Giannis can just catch and
Speaker 1: go right to the rim without any fear of running
Speaker 1: in to a defender he can't see. And when he
Speaker 1: catches in turns to look all five defensive players are
Speaker 1: at least three defensive players because the other two are
Speaker 1: now on dame. Three defensive players are in his line
Speaker 1: of sight, and from there he can either have a
Speaker 1: quick one on one where he's got a downhill burst
Speaker 1: of speed going and there's a one single defender in
Speaker 1: his way that he can swallow him around and get
Speaker 1: all the way to the basket, or if all three
Speaker 1: guys coalesce around him, he's got easy kickout reads because
Speaker 1: his face is turned in the direction where all the
Speaker 1: defenders are. There are also little things you could do
Speaker 1: in terms of spacing concepts to make sure that Yiannis
Speaker 1: is going against the right type of defensive player there right,
Speaker 1: so you clear the side. If you put Brook in
Speaker 1: the corner, then brooks Man is going to be the
Speaker 1: one that rotates. If brooks Man is the one that rotates,
Speaker 1: now Giannis is barreling downhill against a big bodied center,
Speaker 1: which might be a tougher finish. Put Brook on the
Speaker 1: wing like extended, and you have two different shooters in
Speaker 1: the corner and then a little bit further up the wing.
Speaker 1: So if Brooke is the third guy furthest away from
Speaker 1: the corner, then his man is probably not going to
Speaker 1: be the guy that Jannis runs into when he's rolling
Speaker 1: into the basket. If it's somebody from the corner, it's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be a guard. And now Jannis could be
Speaker 1: rolling downhill into a guard or maybe even Chris Middleton's defender,
Speaker 1: a smaller forward. Now Jannis is barreling downhill with a
Speaker 1: smaller defender in front of him that he can get
Speaker 1: around or just go through and go to the basket.
Speaker 1: Or again, as we mentioned earlier, if the bodies all
Speaker 1: coalesce around him, he has easy kickout reads. So at
Speaker 1: the end of games in particular, I want to see
Speaker 1: them run more cleared side concepts. By the way, I
Speaker 1: have video clips that are gonna help break this specific
Speaker 1: concept down in more detail here in a minute out
Speaker 1: within five out. When you're doing it with an occupied corner.
Speaker 1: The couple things that I saw that that look to
Speaker 1: work better was one, make sure that the guy that's
Speaker 1: in the corner Giannis is rolling into the side of
Speaker 1: the floor that Jianis is rolling into.
Speaker 2: Make sure that's your best shooter. So for instance, like
Speaker 2: that needs to be Gary Trent Junior in that corner,
Speaker 2: as Jiannis is rolling that way. So at the very least,
Speaker 2: it's for one, if that defender stays glued to the shooter,
Speaker 2: it's effectively more or less like a empty side ballscreen
Speaker 2: because he has that space to work with there. And
Speaker 2: then two, if he helps over, it's somebody that's going
Speaker 2: to consistently burn them when Yannis does make the read.
Speaker 2: And even if he has an occasional turnover, as we
Speaker 2: talked about, Gary Trent shot over fifty percent on unguarded
Speaker 2: catching two jump shots last year, So even if Jannis
Speaker 2: does turn it over occasionally, he's just going to burn
Speaker 2: you so much on that shot that I think it'll
Speaker 2: still be a big net positive for the offense. The
Speaker 2: other thing that I noticed, and I have another video
Speaker 2: to demonstrate this is when they do the occupied corner thing,
Speaker 2: just slide the action further up to the top of
Speaker 2: the key so that when Yannis rolls, he's rolling with
Speaker 2: an extra few feet before he runs into any congestion
Speaker 2: from that corner. But these are just like little details
Speaker 2: in terms of spacing concepts and like how to handle
Speaker 2: different portions of the game that I think will go
Speaker 2: a long way. And then if you combine that with
Speaker 2: Yannis just setting better screens and rolling harder more consistently,
Speaker 2: I think that's where you could get to the true
Speaker 2: unstoppable element of that ball screen attack. There were some
Speaker 2: games here and there where it looked unstoppable. There was
Speaker 2: a Laker game, one of the games that the Lakers won,
Speaker 2: I think it was the overtime one if I remember correctly,
Speaker 2: but there was a stretch in the fourth quarter where
Speaker 2: they spammed and it was just like I talked about.
Speaker 2: It was where they kind of shifted closer to the
Speaker 2: top of the key instead of on the wing, and
Speaker 2: just kind of shoved everybody a little bit further over
Speaker 2: to that side with the occupied corner, and they were
Speaker 2: spamming that and getting a bunch of stuff for Yannis
Speaker 2: going downhill to the rim. Like they had stretches where
Speaker 2: it looked really good last year. But it'd be great
Speaker 2: if they could get it to the point where it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: we're in a close game, well let's just go to
Speaker 2: this specific action that they literally cannot stop, and we're
Speaker 2: going to get a great shot every single time. Now
Speaker 2: we're going to out execute you. That's what Denver has
Speaker 2: done for the last several years in a way that
Speaker 2: has made them really dominant. So again, these are all
Speaker 2: just little details to help squeeze more out of the
Speaker 2: sponge for them. Offensively, they're good against sixth in offense,
Speaker 2: seventh in clutch offense last year. But this is a
Speaker 2: team that's not going to be a good defensive team
Speaker 2: or a great defensive team. They can get to good,
Speaker 2: but they can't get to great on defense, and so
Speaker 2: you need to get too amazing on offense. You need
Speaker 2: to try to get well into that top five for
Speaker 2: offensive rating and for half court offense and for clutch
Speaker 2: offense and all those different metrics in order to compensate
Speaker 2: for a defense that has some issues. And that's where
Speaker 2: those little intricacies in ballscreen up can go a long
Speaker 2: way towards squeezing more out of the sponge. So what
Speaker 2: does Milwaukee need to do to rejoin the ranks of
Speaker 2: the top tier contenders? I have.
Speaker 1: Let's see five items here. Number One, recapture your defensive identity.
Speaker 1: Like we talked about earlier, pressure the ball funnel into
Speaker 1: your size. We talked a little bit about forcing turnovers
Speaker 1: to try to juice up your offense a little bit.
Speaker 1: Two Dame has to return to superstar form. Obviously had
Speaker 1: a lot of distractions last year, but obviously it's a
Speaker 1: different basketball team with a different fit too. But he
Speaker 1: scored eight points per game fewer on six percent worse
Speaker 1: true shooting than the previous year. Just a massive drop off,
Speaker 1: so like needs to get back to form. The encouraging
Speaker 1: thing is he looked really good in the playoffs. He
Speaker 1: shot the seams off the basketball. He got one point
Speaker 1: one to one points per jump shot. That's like real
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard jump shooting. He ran eighty ball screens including passes,
Speaker 1: for ninety four points. That's one point one to eight
Speaker 1: points per possession. That's awesome. So like that looked more
Speaker 1: like real Dame in that first round series against Indiana DA.
Speaker 1: It comes with real defensive shortcomings, so he needs to
Speaker 1: be a transcendently great offensive player to justify the move,
Speaker 1: and I think he still has that in there. He
Speaker 1: just needs to bring it back this season. Three health
Speaker 1: from your older players. He got a great year out
Speaker 1: of Brook last year. He played seventy nine games. I
Speaker 1: think he played seventy eight the year before, so he's
Speaker 1: had a good stretch of availability since that rough year.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, but it might have been I
Speaker 1: think it was twenty twenty one. Yeah, the year where
Speaker 1: he missed most of the season. But Chris Middleton missed
Speaker 1: a good chunk of the year for the second consecutive year.
Speaker 1: And this team needs Chris not just on offense either,
Speaker 1: like they need him to be a good athletic wing defender,
Speaker 1: and he's just had a lot of lower body injuries.
Speaker 1: He had two ankle surgeries this offseason. So they need
Speaker 1: some luck on the health front with their older players
Speaker 1: this year. As I mentioned earlier, Giannis, Brooke, Dame and
Speaker 1: Chris have a combined fifty one seasons of wear and
Speaker 1: tear on their bodies that are that kind of make
Speaker 1: it a little bit scary on the health front. Number four,
Speaker 1: you got to optimize your scheme on both ends of
Speaker 1: the floor. On defense, this is a really slow footed team,
Speaker 1: so you need to stay out of foot races as
Speaker 1: much as possible. That means you know, prioritize getting back
Speaker 1: in transition over attacking the offensive glass, which they basically
Speaker 1: already do. Their bottom five offensive rebounding team in a
Speaker 1: top ten transition defense. And then two, you need to
Speaker 1: stay out of rotation in a half court, you got
Speaker 1: to guard actions two on two as much as possible.
Speaker 1: That means your guards have to do a good job
Speaker 1: chasing over the top. As soon as you start needing
Speaker 1: to bring help over from the weak side and the
Speaker 1: ball gets skipped, this team is dead because they don't
Speaker 1: have the foot speed to really cover ground in rotation
Speaker 1: when teams start driving and kicking them. So a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure on those guards. One of those two guards
Speaker 1: in particular, Gary Trent Junior or de Laonn Wright really
Speaker 1: needs to pop in a big way on the defensive
Speaker 1: end of the floor in a sizeable role in order
Speaker 1: for this to kind of come together. And then on offense,
Speaker 1: it's like what we talked about earlier, everything about your
Speaker 1: ball screen spacing.
Speaker 2: We won't get any further into it.
Speaker 1: Then, lastly, number five, Giannis needs to remind the world
Speaker 1: what he's capable of. He's declined a little bit as
Speaker 1: a shot maker. He was just one fifty two or
Speaker 1: four to twenty four on shots that were not layups
Speaker 1: or dunks. That's just zero point eight. It's actually less
Speaker 1: than zero point eight points per shot. So like that,
Speaker 1: I think that combined with him missing some playoff games,
Speaker 1: like Giannis has played in just two and a half
Speaker 1: playoff games total in the last two seasons. Luca and
Speaker 1: Nikole Jokic are on the rise, and so I think
Speaker 1: Giannis is flying under the radar a little bit here.
Speaker 1: I still firmly have Giannis on the same tier as
Speaker 1: those guys. I think he's absolutely capable of going on
Speaker 1: a wrecking ball tour and reasserting himself as one of,
Speaker 1: if not the best player in the league. But in
Speaker 1: order for this team to win a championship, that's a
Speaker 1: non negotiable Yiannis has to assert himself as the best
Speaker 1: player in the world. They're not talented enough and well
Speaker 1: rounded enough to win with Giannis not playing at that level.
Speaker 1: So what is this team capable of? I think they'll
Speaker 1: win plenty of regular season games. The East is really weak,
Speaker 1: like the Bulls, the Nets, the Raptors, the Hornets, the Wizards,
Speaker 1: and the Pistons are all basically trying to lose. The
Speaker 1: Hawks will be bad even though they're try trying to win,
Speaker 1: and they may end up trading Trey Young and going
Speaker 1: into full tank before the end of the year. So
Speaker 1: that's seven bad teams in the Eastern Conference. I looked
Speaker 1: up their schedule of their eighty two games. Twenty five
Speaker 1: of those eighty two games are against the Bulls, the Nets,
Speaker 1: the Raptors, the Hornets, the Wizards, the Pistons, and the Hawks,
Speaker 1: so like they're good. Like something to keep in mind
Speaker 1: when we're doing our power rankings list, like regular season
Speaker 1: wins don't translate much from conference to conference, Like the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference is just a much much easier schedule. To
Speaker 1: give you an idea, the Bucks went thirty four and
Speaker 1: eighteen against the East, but they went fifteen and fifteen
Speaker 1: against the West. So that's a team that if you
Speaker 1: pick them up and dropped them in the Western Conference,
Speaker 1: they're playing team in all likelihood, right, Like, It's it's
Speaker 1: very different from conference to conference. And that's why when
Speaker 1: we're doing these power rankings, you can't be like, oh,
Speaker 1: like they're gonna win more games or they're gonna get
Speaker 1: a higher seed. It's like, well, they're in a different conference.
Speaker 1: That makes absolutely no sense. It's very possible that the
Speaker 1: Bucks end up with a better rec than the Mavericks
Speaker 1: or a better record than the Minnesota Timberwolves, but aren't
Speaker 1: as good at basketball, you know, what I mean. So
Speaker 1: that's why we have to be careful with kind of
Speaker 1: comparing side to side with conferences. But I do think
Speaker 1: the Bucks are gonna win plenty of regular season games.
Speaker 1: As for their potential as a playoff team, I think
Speaker 1: they're just like every other team in this tier. I
Speaker 1: think they're a little bit vulnerable to certain matchups, but
Speaker 1: if they get favorable matchups, they could win the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Right Like teams like Boston, Indiana, and New York that
Speaker 1: have lots of perimeter skill and speed, I think will
Speaker 1: be tough for them. They did go two and two
Speaker 1: against Boston last year, but it was kind of weird,
Speaker 1: Like the two games they beat Boston, Boston folded in
Speaker 1: the first half of both games, like just kind of
Speaker 1: let go of the rope, So that was kind of weird.
Speaker 1: I feel like Boston in a playoff series could really
Speaker 1: spread Milwaukee out and expose their lack of foot speed.
Speaker 2: We'll see.
Speaker 1: That's just kind of my read on the situation. I
Speaker 1: think they match up really well with some of the
Speaker 1: bigger teams though. I think they match up really well
Speaker 1: with Philly. I think they match up really well with Orlando.
Speaker 1: Cleveland has a really good guard play, but I think
Speaker 1: Milwaukee can get away with helping and packing the paint
Speaker 1: because of their two big systems. So like see how
Speaker 1: that kind of works out. Like I see, Boston, Indiana,
Speaker 1: New York is kind of tough matchups for them, but
Speaker 1: then I think they match up really well with Philly, Orlando,
Speaker 1: and Cleveland. So I think as long as they end
Speaker 1: up on the opposite end of the bracket then Boston,
Speaker 1: and if Boston can get eliminated by one of these teams,
Speaker 1: I think they have a really really solid chance to
Speaker 1: get out of the conference and make the finals where
Speaker 1: anything can happen. And obviously they have a puncher's chance
Speaker 1: against Boston, but Boston would be heavily favored for good reason,
Speaker 1: with some of that matchup stuff that they talk about.
Speaker 1: So again, more or less, all the teams that I
Speaker 1: have in this five to eleven range are teams that
Speaker 1: can win the title but need some luck, need some
Speaker 1: things to go their way, and I think Milwaukee falls
Speaker 1: into that group as well. All right, let's get into
Speaker 1: some of this footage before we get to our mail bag.
Speaker 1: So here's our first clip. This is an example of
Speaker 1: Delon Wright offering some really good ball pressure on CJ.
Speaker 2: McCollum.
Speaker 1: So watch a CJ. McCollum catches here on the wing.
Speaker 1: Delan's gonna get right up into his jersey and start
Speaker 1: attacking the ball. Watch his active hands swiping at Alan
Speaker 1: Chunis the screen is loaded up, gets over the top
Speaker 1: of the screen, reaches in. He's got these long arms,
Speaker 1: knocks the ball free. If you watch again, you can
Speaker 1: see as soon as he steps over the screen, he
Speaker 1: lunges and swipes at the ball. And watch how he
Speaker 1: disrupts that dribble. And that's where his long arms become
Speaker 1: a huge advantage. Gets down the floor, gets the steal.
Speaker 1: Big time play from delon Right, here's a great example
Speaker 1: of good back pressure against Jose Alvarado in a ball screen.
Speaker 1: So again, remember in ball screen defense, you're probably going
Speaker 1: to give up a downhill drive. That's just kind of
Speaker 1: natural as part of the way these coverages work. Right, Like,
Speaker 1: he's supposed to chase over the top his job in
Speaker 1: this ball screen, Like here comes this ball screen.
Speaker 2: If he wanted to.
Speaker 1: Notice how he has to open up to chase over
Speaker 1: the top of the screen. There's a little push by
Speaker 1: this screener. He ends up on that high left shoulder.
Speaker 1: For Jose Alvarado, this entire action is kind of designed
Speaker 1: to get him into trail position. He's not going to
Speaker 1: be able to cut off the drive entirely, but his
Speaker 1: job at this point is to funnel him into your help.
Speaker 1: Funnel into your help, and if he tries to take
Speaker 1: something in the mid range, then you can swipe at
Speaker 1: the basketball. See how he stays attached on that backside
Speaker 1: funnel funnel funnel forced him into a tough shot. And
Speaker 1: now he's shooting a really tough contested shot because you
Speaker 1: did your job in the ball screen. You stayed attached.
Speaker 1: You funneled back pressure, back pressure, back pressure, and he's
Speaker 1: got the length to be really bothersome with that back pressure.
Speaker 1: Actually forces an air ball on that one from Jose Albarado.
Speaker 1: Here's an example of game plan discipline. Now he's guarding Campaign.
Speaker 1: Campaign is a player that most scouting reports are going
Speaker 1: to tell you duck underneath the screen. Why because he's
Speaker 1: kind of got a slow, drawn out pull up jump
Speaker 1: shot and he's really fast when he gets going downhill,
Speaker 1: and he could really pick you apart that way. So
Speaker 1: watch the way this play sets up. Ball's gonna work
Speaker 1: its way over to campaign.
Speaker 2: So here we go.
Speaker 1: Campaign's coming off with the dribble handoff. Delon's gonna duck
Speaker 1: underneath the pick, like the game plan asks. Notice he doesn't.
Speaker 1: He kind of like his natural inclination was to go over,
Speaker 1: and then he goes, oh, my game plan is to
Speaker 1: get underneath. He gets back underneath the pick to cut
Speaker 1: off the drive, forces Cam to come back that way.
Speaker 1: Look at the screen navigation. He's racing back around the screen,
Speaker 1: gets a great contest and forces him into a tough
Speaker 1: pull up three And I think Cam actually makes this
Speaker 1: one if I remember correctly. Yeah, So like again, don't
Speaker 1: worry so much about the result there. This is really
Speaker 1: good process. I'm gonna run it in full speed again.
Speaker 1: Watch he's in help in help ball gets reversed, Cam
Speaker 1: shoots up. We're ducking under the pick, navigating back around,
Speaker 1: gets a really good contest. That is solid ball screen
Speaker 1: defense from Delon. Right, here's another example of really good
Speaker 1: back pressure on Tyrese MAXI. Tyrese is coming down the floor.
Speaker 1: I think Tyrese hits this shot too. But this is again,
Speaker 1: like just really good defense within this game. These are
Speaker 1: these are incredibly talented guards we have in the NBA.
Speaker 1: You're not going to stop them. What you have to
Speaker 1: do is force them into the toughest shots in their
Speaker 1: shot profile. A tough contested step back long two is
Speaker 1: the best you can do in a ball screen against
Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxi. So again, here comes the ball screen. Look
Speaker 1: at the attachment stays attached over the top. Back pressure,
Speaker 1: back pressure. Notice notice the hands in the passing lane two.
Speaker 1: If Tyreese tries to come off of this and throw
Speaker 1: the pocket pass, watch the lawn get his hand into
Speaker 1: the pocket pass owned See he's reaching in there to
Speaker 1: take away that pocket pass stays attached attached on that side.
Speaker 1: If Tyrese has no option now but to drive headlong
Speaker 1: into a BAM or to take this tough contested too,
Speaker 1: ends of forcing him gets a good contest on that
Speaker 1: shot again, knocks it down. But you're doing your job
Speaker 1: there defensively. You're turning an action that can be really
Speaker 1: efficient a ball screen into the least efficient shot that
Speaker 1: they can take, a tough contested fade away two point
Speaker 1: jump shot. Here's another really good one against Kaid Cunningham.
Speaker 1: So we're on kid here. Jalen Duran is setting the pick,
Speaker 1: chasing over the top funnel funnel notice, stays attached, stays attached,
Speaker 1: gets back in front, forces him into a tough gets
Speaker 1: great contest this time forces h miss. That's a really
Speaker 1: really good ball screen defense. And then I think this
Speaker 1: is our last one, okay, So he's this is a
Speaker 1: defensive rebound that Caid's coming back to get the ball.
Speaker 1: But we get some backcourt ball pressure from Delawn. He
Speaker 1: kind of stunts at Cad, which forces them to not
Speaker 1: go to Kaid. So then Kid doesn't take the basketball
Speaker 1: and runs up the floor instead. But then Delon points
Speaker 1: because he knows Kid's going through. He wants to guard
Speaker 1: the ball, so he points through to Haywood high Smith
Speaker 1: stays up on Fournyer, jumps up on Fournier, ducks underneath
Speaker 1: the first pick because it's too far away from the basket.
Speaker 1: Second pick is closer to the basket, so he chases
Speaker 1: over the top, stays attached, gets a great rear view,
Speaker 1: contests and forces him into a miss. Just really good
Speaker 1: defense the ball pressure their best player into not even
Speaker 1: getting the ball, and then or ball deny I should say,
Speaker 1: because he never actually had the ball, but ball deny
Speaker 1: on Kate Cunningham. That gets him to not even get
Speaker 1: the ball, and then you end up switching onto the
Speaker 1: main ball handler and getting a stop. All right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk a little bit about Gary Trent junior here.
Speaker 1: Let's look at some examples of him just kind of
Speaker 1: being really aggressive at the point of attack. So here's
Speaker 1: Gary Trent. Just watch how aggressive he is with his hands.
Speaker 1: He's just always reaching, always going after the basketball, just reckless.
Speaker 1: Just reach, reach, reach, reach, swipe, swipe, swipe, swite. Here's
Speaker 1: another one swipe. See how he's just kind of like
Speaker 1: constantly reaching at the basketball. He beat gambles a lot,
Speaker 1: makes a lot of mistakes, but he's been playing with
Speaker 1: teams that don't have elite defensive front lines that can
Speaker 1: really cover him in that department. Milwaukee will give him
Speaker 1: that opportunity. Here's another example on a play with Kyle
Speaker 1: Kuzma of just just wreck list ball pursuit from Gary Trent.
Speaker 1: Notice the ball comes up, swipes, misses it, gets out
Speaker 1: of position. But look at how he's just running back,
Speaker 1: swipes back at the ball. He just Gary Trent is
Speaker 1: just a BALLHWK. Like he's not a good defensive player,
Speaker 1: but he's a ballhawk, and so if you can plug
Speaker 1: that specifically into a scheme, I think you can get
Speaker 1: some positive outcomes there. Here's another example against against Franz
Speaker 1: Wagner picks up the ball. Watch how aggressively is on
Speaker 1: the ball. We got a little bit of a reach swipe,
Speaker 1: swipe swipe knocks it away. Really really aggressive on the ball.
Speaker 1: Now it's socks and pick and roll stuff. So here's
Speaker 1: an example of a cleared side ball screen in the
Speaker 1: game against the Lakers. So we're gonna run over to
Speaker 1: this side. It ends up functioning as a ball screen
Speaker 1: with the cleared side with Middleton, so beasily clears out.
Speaker 1: We have a cleared side. Now fast forward a little
Speaker 1: bit here, all right, So here's our setup. Now, this
Speaker 1: is why I was talking about. It's basically a four
Speaker 1: out kind of brute force concept. These three guys are
Speaker 1: basically just standing around off the ball right now, running
Speaker 1: your ball screen. Janna is going to set the pick
Speaker 1: and roll. But when he rolls, look at where he rolls.
Speaker 1: Now boom right here. From the minute he gets into
Speaker 1: this spot, he has no need to even look or
Speaker 1: consider this side of the floor. He is seeing everything
Speaker 1: and so it's just a much easier read for him
Speaker 1: on the catch to not have to worry about this side.
Speaker 1: And this is what I was talking about in the
Speaker 1: pick and roll sequence about one on ones with Giannis
Speaker 1: going downhill. When you get Janis on the pocket with
Speaker 1: ahead of steam, he's going to an all likelihood get
Speaker 1: a one on one with him going full speed against
Speaker 1: someone that is not a big notice too that they
Speaker 1: have brook Lopez out of the corner. He's going to
Speaker 1: barrel downhill and Rui just has no chance here. But
Speaker 1: a lot of those times, in situations where this is
Speaker 1: an occupied corner, Janis just won't roll hard or he'll pop,
Speaker 1: or when he does catch, he catches here and he
Speaker 1: hesitates because he's a little bit worried about the traffic
Speaker 1: that's taken place behind him. One of one more time,
Speaker 1: so you can see. So again, I really like the
Speaker 1: idea of spamming that more at the end of games,
Speaker 1: when it's less about rhythm and flow and more about
Speaker 1: we need a bucket right now, here's another one against
Speaker 1: Philly contenting cuts through. Here's our ball screen. Mobomba's up
Speaker 1: at the level. Now when he catches, it's the exact
Speaker 1: same setup we talked about with Ruey. There's no extra
Speaker 1: defender over here, there's just the one. Here's our one
Speaker 1: on one, but it's a one on one with Yannis
Speaker 1: having a head of steam and he just goes right
Speaker 1: around him to the basket. We can generate more of
Speaker 1: these one on ones for Yannis with a cleared side
Speaker 1: than we can with an occupied corner. That's the main
Speaker 1: point that I'm trying to make here, But again there's
Speaker 1: a time and place for it. One of the things
Speaker 1: I like about a clear side ball screen, too, is
Speaker 1: it's very easy for Yannis to flow into a post
Speaker 1: up out of that action. So here's an example of that,
Speaker 1: and fast forward a little bit side is cleared. Now
Speaker 1: it's functioning as a cleared side ball screen, but it's
Speaker 1: actually a double It's a double screen, right, so like
Speaker 1: in this case, it's actually part of the setup of
Speaker 1: the play. But as we come off here, Yanna sets
Speaker 1: the first screen and then Brooke pops right. But notice
Speaker 1: when Jannis rolls, they end up switching watch Schroeder. Schroeder's
Speaker 1: on Dame. Schroeder ends up taking Yannis on that pre
Speaker 1: switch as Cam Johnson runs out on Dame so there
Speaker 1: are gonna be teams that do this and switch a
Speaker 1: small on Giannis. How easy is it that Jannis has
Speaker 1: rolled exactly to where he would need to be for
Speaker 1: a post up swing post entry. Now Jannis goes to work,
Speaker 1: draws an easy double team, hits Jay Crowder on the
Speaker 1: cut for the layup. But again, like that's kind of
Speaker 1: the natural flow of that cleared side too. Oh, it
Speaker 1: didn't work, but we got to switch Yiannis is already
Speaker 1: where he needs to be for a post up. It's
Speaker 1: easy and quick. Here's an example of how an occupied
Speaker 1: corner can cause Giannis to hesitate. Notice as he sets
Speaker 1: this pick and slips on the catch. Because McHale bridges
Speaker 1: any decent defensive player, and because Jay's not that crazy
Speaker 1: good of a shooter, it's easy for McHale bridges to
Speaker 1: stunt and recover. Now, by the time McHale stunts and recovers,
Speaker 1: boom advantage is gone. Now see that, So look at
Speaker 1: how easy it is for McHale bridges with an occupied
Speaker 1: corner to stunt and recover at Giannis and cause that
Speaker 1: play to come to fall apart. Now Jannis ends up
Speaker 1: making a play anyway, just because he's Yannis and he
Speaker 1: just kind of barrels his way into the lane and
Speaker 1: then draws an extra defender and kicks the dame. But
Speaker 1: that's an example of how the occupied corner can cause
Speaker 1: an issue. Now, before we go to the next play,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about a couple of things. So
Speaker 1: if you are going to occupy the corner, the corner
Speaker 1: that Yannis is rolling into, which again at the when
Speaker 1: they're if it's an ice, so like if they're icing
Speaker 1: the ball screen, meaning they're forcing the offensive player to
Speaker 1: go away from the screen, then Giannis would be rolling
Speaker 1: this way right because he's not actually going to set
Speaker 1: the pick. He's just going to create kind of a
Speaker 1: passing angle. But in a case like this where they're
Speaker 1: chasing over the top, he's going to be rolling the
Speaker 1: direction he's facing. So you just want to make sure
Speaker 1: in this case, if I knew Giannis was going to
Speaker 1: be rolling this way, I'd want Crowder over here and
Speaker 1: i'd want Beasley over there, because then i've got cam
Speaker 1: Thomas as the guy that's digging down, who's not nearly
Speaker 1: as good or as long of a defensive player as
Speaker 1: McHale Bridges, and i've got a better shooter to make
Speaker 1: them pay. So that's like a little detail of spacing.
Speaker 1: Just swap these two shooters a little detail in spacing
Speaker 1: that could make something work versus not work. Right, those
Speaker 1: are like those are the kinds of little things that
Speaker 1: Boston got so damn good at last year that were
Speaker 1: difference makers for them in their driving kick attack. The
Speaker 1: other thing I like about this too is instead of
Speaker 1: going with another offensive player on this wing, you could
Speaker 1: take the other big and drop him down into the
Speaker 1: dunker spot. It creates a little bit more traffic, but
Speaker 1: at least there's more space up here for Giannis to
Speaker 1: roll into without as many guys digging down. But it's
Speaker 1: an imperfect setup. But if you're gonna do it this way,
Speaker 1: I like more space up top for them to work with.
Speaker 1: Let's go to our last clip here, all right, So
Speaker 1: here's an example of having your best shooter in the
Speaker 1: strong side corner and how that can help once again,
Speaker 1: Notice how they've shifted the action closer to the top
Speaker 1: of the key instead of at this wing. That makes
Speaker 1: it that there's just more area over here for Yiannis
Speaker 1: to work with. And now we have Malik Beasley, the
Speaker 1: best shooter in that space. So now when Yannis catches,
Speaker 1: Yannis catches, and there's a commitment from Spencer Dinwiddie, but
Speaker 1: it's the best shooter on the team that can make
Speaker 1: them pay for it here in that corner. So those
Speaker 1: are some examples of that one as an example of
Speaker 1: much better spacing in general to generate a higher quality.
Speaker 2: Shot out of it.
Speaker 1: All right, that's all I got on the bucks for today. Guys,
Speaker 1: let's get into our mail bag. Okay, first question, Hi, Jason,
Speaker 1: I was wondering what your thoughts were on the warriors
Speaker 1: potential starting five. If it were up to me, I'd
Speaker 1: start Steph, POD's Comingo, Wiggins, Kminga or Wiggins, Draymond at
Speaker 1: the power forward, and then Tray Jackson, Davis or Looney
Speaker 1: at center. This, however, leaves much to be desired. Steph
Speaker 1: would have to have a top five season this year,
Speaker 1: Pods would have to have one hell of a breakout
Speaker 1: season proportionate to the responsibility we're putting on him, and
Speaker 1: Comingo would have to take a defensive lead, and Wiggins
Speaker 1: would have to have a bounce back season. Draymond can't
Speaker 1: regress defensively, and Tray Jackson Davis and Kaman Luni would
Speaker 1: have to be able to defend other dominant biggs while
Speaker 1: putting pressure on the rit All in all, I'm not
Speaker 1: too high on us this year, but that could just
Speaker 1: be dooming gloom Top because of the last two years.
Speaker 1: I wasn't too upset we missed out on LORII, but
Speaker 1: I don't know what this team does moving forward to
Speaker 1: content to keep up the great work. So as far
Speaker 1: as the starting lineup goes, I think it's an obvious answer.
Speaker 1: I would take a page out of JJ Redick's book,
Speaker 1: which is, yeah, it's an imperfect lineup, but go with
Speaker 1: the lineup that was your best lineup last year. The
Speaker 1: Lakers line up with with Ruy Hatchermurrett the three is
Speaker 1: an imperfect lineup, but it's their best lineup, So it's
Speaker 1: their best way to go for now until they decide
Speaker 1: whether or not they want to invest more in this
Speaker 1: season and make some sort of personnel trade. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: what was the best lineup for the Warriors last year?
Speaker 1: It was obvious it was the It was Draymond at
Speaker 1: center next to Kaminga and Wiggins. So instead of choosing
Speaker 1: between one of Kaminga and Wiggins and going two bigs,
Speaker 1: I would just go Wiggins at the three, Minga the four,
Speaker 1: Draymond at the five. That was their best line up
Speaker 1: by far. It was their most used lineup by far.
Speaker 1: Ye had two hundred and thirty two minutes with Pods
Speaker 1: at the two. They were plus twelve per one hundred possessions,
Speaker 1: which is great. They were great on both ends of
Speaker 1: the floor, and they rebounded well. They had one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty seven minutes with Clay at the two instead,
Speaker 1: they were plus eighteen net rating great on both ends
Speaker 1: of the floor. They weren't great on rebounding with that unit,
Speaker 1: but they weren't terrible either. So like that was your
Speaker 1: best you were you were really really good with the
Speaker 1: Kamingo Wigans Draam on front court. So like, is it
Speaker 1: a perfect lineup? No, it's It's got some tricky spacing.
Speaker 1: Kaminga is a little bit of a ball stopper. There
Speaker 1: are issues with that lineup, not a ton of offensive firepower.
Speaker 1: But when end doubt, when you have a flawed roster
Speaker 1: and flawed options one in doubt, just play your five
Speaker 1: best players that will carry you through the regular season
Speaker 1: until you can decide whether or not this team is
Speaker 1: worth investing in, and you make some move to try
Speaker 1: to balance out a more complete starting lineup. Hey, Jason,
Speaker 1: loved the show. If you were the coach of the Bucks,
Speaker 1: would you tell Giannis to stop shooting threes with a
Speaker 1: twenty seven percent three point percentage? He's obviously hurting the
Speaker 1: offense when he does it, and he's not keeping the
Speaker 1: defense honest because they leave him wide open. Do you
Speaker 1: think there is any value in those shots whatsoever? Even
Speaker 1: the announcers call him out for it and say the
Speaker 1: defense should be sending him thank you cards every time
Speaker 1: he does it. He took one hundred and seventy one
Speaker 1: threes in twenty twenty three and had the worst three
Speaker 1: point percentage out of all players who had as many attempts.
Speaker 1: Love to hear your thoughts, thanks, So ironically, the threes
Speaker 1: are his most efficient jump shot. He shot thirty three
Speaker 1: percent on mid range jump shots last year. That's just
Speaker 1: zero points six six points per shot. He shot twenty
Speaker 1: seven percent on threes, that's zero point eight points per shot.
Speaker 1: So like he was kind of efficient on long twos.
Speaker 1: He shot like thirty nine percent on long twos that
Speaker 1: were outside at seventeen feet according to Synergy. But even
Speaker 1: that is just zero point seventy nine points per shot,
Speaker 1: which is less than the zero point eight points per
Speaker 1: shot he was getting on threes. He was really really
Speaker 1: bad on short range, mid range jump shots that are
Speaker 1: like inside of seventeen feet last year. Now here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I understand why he's trying to build out that shot.
Speaker 1: In the long run, it's about saving energy. It would
Speaker 1: be great if Jiannis could take three or four threes
Speaker 1: a game and hit him thirty three percent of the time,
Speaker 1: so he gets one point per shot, because then he
Speaker 1: could rest right. So, like my guess is like I
Speaker 1: I would take it out entirely in the postseason. There's
Speaker 1: never a reason for him to take a three in
Speaker 1: the postseason unless it's like late clock and he just
Speaker 1: has to get something up on the rim, which unfortunately
Speaker 1: he's done the opposite of that in his career. He's
Speaker 1: actually taken more threes in his career. He's taken barely
Speaker 1: over to a game in his regular season career. He's
Speaker 1: taken three a game in his regular season career or
Speaker 1: his postseason career. So like he needs to cut those out.
Speaker 1: But when he's in the eighty two game season and
Speaker 1: you're in the Eastern Conference, Like the Bucks aren't gonna
Speaker 1: fall into the play in There's not enough good teams
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference, right like that. If they were
Speaker 1: in the West, totally different issue. But in the East,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna have to worry about that. So who
Speaker 1: cares if he lose a game or two off of
Speaker 1: some inefficient shots from Giannis. If he's trying to build
Speaker 1: that out in the long run, if he wants to
Speaker 1: take two or three threes a game as part of
Speaker 1: his big picture, who cares because it could eventually help you.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I do think he needs to stop taking
Speaker 1: them in the playoffs. I love how Jason. I love
Speaker 1: how the Lakers ranking is perpetually lifted by this pending
Speaker 1: trade that Jason has been fantasizing about for the last
Speaker 1: two seasons. So a couple things. First of all, the
Speaker 1: Lakers are next in my power rankings. I have them
Speaker 1: at eight, pretty much in line Vegas has them at
Speaker 1: ninth in championship odds. The only team that Vegas had
Speaker 1: above the Lakers that I didn't is the Milwaukee Bucks.
Speaker 1: And it's very different to make a trade when you've
Speaker 1: got two top ten players on your team, like the
Speaker 1: Lakers have a strong foundation, so a small tweak can
Speaker 1: go a long way. When you've got two top ten players,
Speaker 1: you craft really small and achievable roles. When you put
Speaker 1: good basketball players into small, achievable roles that fit their
Speaker 1: skill set, you get enhanced returns as opposed to diminishing returns. Right,
Speaker 1: And so here's the thing, Like I had another mail
Speaker 1: back question, someone said, Okay, so the Lakers are getting
Speaker 1: in the fringed here because they can hit on a
Speaker 1: trade and have two first round picks. Do you know
Speaker 1: how many teams below the Lakers have first round picks
Speaker 1: and have plenty.
Speaker 2: More to offer. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of teams that have more to
Speaker 1: trade than the Lakers, but they're not trading and adding
Speaker 1: a player, adding players to a team that already has
Speaker 1: two top ten players. That's the difference. The Lakers can
Speaker 1: make a small tweak and get more in return out
Speaker 1: of it because they have such a strong foundation as
Speaker 1: far as the Bucks go, because I had a specific
Speaker 1: comment that was complaining about the Bucks being below the Lakers.
Speaker 1: The Lakers were better than the Bucks last year even
Speaker 1: without a trade being made. They had just two fewer
Speaker 1: wins and a much tougher conference. They beat the Bucks
Speaker 1: head to head both times, even though Lebron James didn't
Speaker 1: play in either game. They had more wins against teams
Speaker 1: that were in the top ten and point differential. The
Speaker 1: Lakers were just They just had a more impressive and
Speaker 1: more successful season last year than the Bus in my opinion.
Speaker 1: So like again, like you can argue one way or another,
Speaker 1: I have them divided by hairs in this tier like
Speaker 1: the fifth team and the eleventh team. You could jockey
Speaker 1: them all around as much as you want. I have
Speaker 1: the Lakers at eight. I'm sure all the people that
Speaker 1: hate the Lakers have them lower. I'm going to save
Speaker 1: most of my Lakers positivity talk until Monday, because on
Speaker 1: Monday we are covering the Lakers as number eight in
Speaker 1: our power rankings. I'll make my case there. If you
Speaker 1: guys disagree and you want to make a basketball case
Speaker 1: for why you think I'm wrong about the Lakers, throw
Speaker 1: them in the mailback question on Monday's show and we'll
Speaker 1: get to those later on in the UH. In this series,
Speaker 1: if you were coaching a contender level team, maybe in
Speaker 1: the six to ten range, how would you approach the
Speaker 1: n Season Tournament. I loved watching it as a fan,
Speaker 1: but I'm uncertain how a coach would feel about this
Speaker 1: new institution after year one. I love this question, and
Speaker 1: I think the answer is very simple. You try to
Speaker 1: win it, no question, you win it. You go and
Speaker 1: you try to win the damn thing. It's about establishing
Speaker 1: a culture in your franchise that is entirely focused on winning.
Speaker 1: NBA fans like to pretend that the regular season doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: but NBA history tells us that the team that wins
Speaker 1: the title almost always attacks the regular season from start
Speaker 1: to finish the whole. Like flip a switch late in
Speaker 1: the year. Thing that doesn't happen. It's even rare for
Speaker 1: a team like Dallas to flip the switch at the
Speaker 1: tail end of the year and go on a finals run.
Speaker 1: And by the way, they got their ass kicked when
Speaker 1: they got there. Like, the team that wins the title
Speaker 1: is great from start to finish. Winning is part of
Speaker 1: their character. Real competitors see the n Season Tournament as
Speaker 1: another opportunity to prove themselves. I actually expect the n
Speaker 1: Season Tournament trophy will become more and more prestigious as
Speaker 1: the years go by, because I do think we will
Speaker 1: see the great teams in the league consistently win it,
Speaker 1: consistently go after it, because that's just what winners do.
Speaker 1: And I think we'll even see the seeding games take
Speaker 1: on another layer of hensity this year because we had
Speaker 1: some teams that didn't qualify for the tournament last year,
Speaker 1: because you have to take those games very seriously. So
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of the n season Tournament. I
Speaker 1: think it's going to become a bigger part of the
Speaker 1: NBA with each passing season. Hey, Jason, when you get
Speaker 1: to the MAVs, I remember you suggesting earlier that the
Speaker 1: offense would be a lot better and resilient if they
Speaker 1: played five out with more movement, especially with the Clay
Speaker 1: addition in the offseason. I definitely agree with that. However,
Speaker 1: in some other recent videos, you made it seem like
Speaker 1: you were skeptical the MAVs would even do so, given
Speaker 1: how they empower Luca Ball and that Luca has a
Speaker 1: very narrow play style. I don't think that's correct. The
Speaker 1: MAVs do play five out a bunch two. The twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two Western Conference Finals run was built on it.
Speaker 1: The reason they hadn't done much this year is because
Speaker 1: Maxi Kleibo was hurt and he was the center that
Speaker 1: made that possible. I also don't think Mark that Mark
Speaker 1: Cuban the interview was really that relevant because he isn't
Speaker 1: the coach and he doesn't even have control of basketball
Speaker 1: operations anymore. The part about Mark Cuban's fair like, I
Speaker 1: am keeping an open mind about Dallas. I'm going to
Speaker 1: make up my mind about how they play when I
Speaker 1: watched them play like that. I want to see what
Speaker 1: they do. But this is the biggest misconception that I
Speaker 1: see in the YouTube comments around here. Five out does
Speaker 1: not mean five shooters. Five out does not mean a
Speaker 1: center that can shoot threes. Those are elements that can
Speaker 1: be utilized in five out, and you're right in a
Speaker 1: very literal sense. When they would play with max Kliba
Speaker 1: at the center, Maxic klib at the center, and they
Speaker 1: had him screen and pop to the top of the key,
Speaker 1: that is technically five out because everyone's operating on the perimeter. However,
Speaker 1: five out is a very complicated play style that encapsulates
Speaker 1: a bunch of different elements, and one of the key
Speaker 1: elements that the vast majority of real five out teams
Speaker 1: use is ball and player movement. Again, the Golden State
Speaker 1: Warriors ran one of the best and most devastating five
Speaker 1: out attacks in the league with two non shooters on
Speaker 1: the floor at all times. That have andre Iguidala and
Speaker 1: Draymond Green, or Draymond Green and Kevon Looney or Draymond
Speaker 1: Green and Andrew Bogit. They consistently had non shooters on
Speaker 1: the floor, but it was five out because those bigs,
Speaker 1: those non shooters were screening in passing folkrums that operated
Speaker 1: from the outside. Dribble, handoff, roll into the paint, not available, catch,
Speaker 1: go into the next action, right swing, pass, go to
Speaker 1: the next action. That's the whole point is like ball,
Speaker 1: Like five out is about ball in player movement, and
Speaker 1: the paint is not occupied except for temporarily on cuts, flashes, rolls,
Speaker 1: and drives. That So again, like, I'm not asking for
Speaker 1: Dallas to employ a stretch five and to run their
Speaker 1: exact same offense just with the center that can shoot.
Speaker 1: I want them to flow from side to side with
Speaker 1: multiple guys running action because that is what makes you
Speaker 1: truly hard to guard. I am skeptical that they'll do that,
Speaker 1: but I'm keeping an open mind to see if they
Speaker 1: will once we get into the season. Hi, Jason, do
Speaker 1: you think this upcoming season might be Lebron's last season
Speaker 1: as a top player or when do you think we'll
Speaker 1: see a significant decline in his game?
Speaker 2: Thanks? I think this is it.
Speaker 1: I think this is the last real chance Lebron has
Speaker 1: to make some noise. I think it depends, like I
Speaker 1: mentioned on a trade, but like I don't think, I
Speaker 1: think after this season we're going to start seeing some
Speaker 1: pretty substantial decline from Lebron. I feel like this is
Speaker 1: the last good one. I feel like you're setting yourself
Speaker 1: up to rank the Wolves lower than they should be
Speaker 1: by referring to them as a bad offense. Can you
Speaker 1: elaborate on how as a middle of the pack offense
Speaker 1: during the regular season they were a bad offense, especially
Speaker 1: when you noted that Ant's elevation in the playoffs was
Speaker 1: a step you expect him to carry over to the season.
Speaker 1: Regardless of that, the Wolves were not a bad offense
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. They weren't a top offense, but they
Speaker 1: were far from bad. That is all relative. It's relative
Speaker 1: to the other playoff caliber team. So yeah, they were
Speaker 1: seventeenth in defensive or offensive rating. But like, this league
Speaker 1: has ten really bad teams at the bottom that are outliers, right,
Speaker 1: So like that's the important thing to consider. It's all
Speaker 1: we're discussing this relative to the other championship teams. They
Speaker 1: also played one hundred and forty six minutes of clutch
Speaker 1: basketball last year, so important late game minutes, less than
Speaker 1: five minutes left inside of five points. They had a
Speaker 1: one to oh four offensive rating in the regular season
Speaker 1: in one hundred and forty six minutes of clutch basketball.
Speaker 1: That is abysmal. All three of their clutch losses against Dallas,
Speaker 1: they lost three games. I went to crunch time against Dallas.
Speaker 1: They had an offensive rating of eighty in those three games.
Speaker 1: In those three situations, they turned the ball over on
Speaker 1: twenty four percent of their possessions in those three clutch performances.
Speaker 1: So again, are they really bad offense relative to the
Speaker 1: rest of the NBA. No, they're below average. But are
Speaker 1: they bad relative to the real competitive teams at the
Speaker 1: top of the league. You bet your ass they are.
Speaker 1: I do agree that Ant's elevation in the playoffs was
Speaker 1: a step in the right direction, and I think the
Speaker 1: Wolves will be a better offense this year. I think
Speaker 1: they'll go up from seventeen to something probably closer to
Speaker 1: twelve or thirteen. But if they still have those issues
Speaker 1: scoring in the half court, because teams don't really have
Speaker 1: to guard Jada McDaniels, because teams don't really have to
Speaker 1: guard Rudy Gobert, because teams don't really have to guard
Speaker 1: and kill Alexander Walker, whoever it is that's out there
Speaker 1: in those moments, then that's still going to be an issue.
Speaker 1: But we'll get into that in more detail when we
Speaker 1: get to the Wolves, and they are considerably higher on
Speaker 1: this list if I remember correctly. Can you touch more
Speaker 1: on the Miami Heat than how BAM's three point development
Speaker 1: can help transform their offense. Personally, I think it's going
Speaker 1: to take them to another level when it comes to
Speaker 1: handoffs and playing at the top of the key. It
Speaker 1: just adds another element, specifically when Jimmy posts up and
Speaker 1: Bam spaces to the corner. I think it'll be a
Speaker 1: great look. I'd love to hear what you think it'll help.
Speaker 1: But in order for a shooter to actually create space
Speaker 1: for an offense, he has to be guarded like a
Speaker 1: shooter that's a huge difference, right. It's like we were
Speaker 1: talking about early with the honest, it's not keeping the
Speaker 1: defense honest if they're never actually guarding you out there.
Speaker 1: There's only a real multi possession benefit for shooting if
Speaker 1: you make enough of them to where they actually start
Speaker 1: accounting for you with their base defensive scheme. So like,
Speaker 1: he needs to hit enough of them at a high
Speaker 1: enough rate to where he's actually being shadowed by his defender.
Speaker 1: If his defender can dig down and just offer a
Speaker 1: late contest and you're not burning them enough, it just
Speaker 1: doesn't matter enough. But yeah, if he does unlock that
Speaker 1: part of his game, if he does become a shooter
Speaker 1: that people have to guard, that's great, even more than
Speaker 1: just the spacing stuff with Jimmy posting up or anything
Speaker 1: like that. It'll unlock two big looks for them, and
Speaker 1: not two big looks with like Kevin Love or I
Speaker 1: heard some talk about the heat potentially looking at like
Speaker 1: Vucevich and that sort of thing. And you don't get
Speaker 1: the benefits of two bigs if it's a finesse big
Speaker 1: that doesn't bring much physicality to the table. Like if
Speaker 1: you have a big defensive center that you can play
Speaker 1: next to Ban because now he's a good shooter that
Speaker 1: unleashes a whole other element to your offense or to
Speaker 1: your defense. I should say, Bradley Beal coming off the
Speaker 1: bench is what Phoenix needs. As you say, they need
Speaker 1: a professional defender in the starting lineup, and that can
Speaker 1: be roy O'Neil, bill Book and Durant is already starting
Speaker 1: to give you diminishing returns. Another ball handler added to
Speaker 1: the mix is not it. Here's the thing, this is
Speaker 1: not going to happen because they just fired their coach
Speaker 1: and one of the many reasons was Bradley Beal was
Speaker 1: unhappy with his role. Bradley Bual wants the ball more,
Speaker 1: and it's crazy. I went back and watched a good
Speaker 1: chunk of the Wolves Sun series for our son's preview.
Speaker 1: Bradley Beal was so bad. He was so bad. And
Speaker 1: it's tough because, like it's a different role than anything
Speaker 1: he's done in his career. He's off the ball the
Speaker 1: majority of the time. It's so much more about knocking
Speaker 1: down open shots, moving without the basketball, driving closeouts, and
Speaker 1: they desperately need him because he's probably the best athlete
Speaker 1: in the starting lineup. They desperately need him to guard
Speaker 1: the ball and to do it well. But he did
Speaker 1: a poor job guarding the ball in the Minnesota Series,
Speaker 1: and he did a poor job functioning as a cog
Speaker 1: in the offense in the series. So like it's a
Speaker 1: tough role and he's struggling with it. The truth about
Speaker 1: what Bradley Beal needs to do is it actually does
Speaker 1: make more sense on this team for him to function
Speaker 1: as a sixth man so that you can have a
Speaker 1: better athlete that's committed to the work in the starting lineup,
Speaker 1: that can guard the other team's best player, be more
Speaker 1: of a connective piece on offense. Then when brad checks
Speaker 1: into the game, he can come in guns blazing on
Speaker 1: offense and have the ball in his hands the whole time.
Speaker 1: Then then you close the game with him. Right that
Speaker 1: Bradley Beal makes too much money to be traded and
Speaker 1: is not good enough for you to just put the
Speaker 1: ball in his hands and put Devin Booker and Brad
Speaker 1: and Kevin Durant off the ball. That's a misallocation of resources.
Speaker 1: So in order for Bradley Beal to maximize his potential
Speaker 1: on this particular team, he's got to become a souped up,
Speaker 1: overqualified role play, and I just don't think he's willing
Speaker 1: to do that, and so I'm not sure that there's
Speaker 1: really a good answer, and I expect it to look
Speaker 1: a lot like it looked last year. Hey, bro, another
Speaker 1: great episode. No one breaks it down the way you do.
Speaker 1: Keep up what you're doing. Thank you for the kind words.
Speaker 1: Can you talk about the potential impact of Matas Matas
Speaker 1: Buzzellis can have on the rebuilding Chicago Bulls team. That
Speaker 1: young man is so dynamic. I think he's the deal
Speaker 1: of the draft. We had a question a few weeks back,
Speaker 1: a mail back question talking about like what the Bulls
Speaker 1: should do as part of the rebuilt process, and I
Speaker 1: talked a lot about how you gotta find out what
Speaker 1: you got. You gotta find out what Josh Kitty has,
Speaker 1: and Matas Buzzellis is another example of that, Like give
Speaker 1: him lots of opportunity and find out if you have
Speaker 1: something there. Once you identify what your foundation is, then
Speaker 1: you can start to look at their strengths and weaknesses
Speaker 1: and how to build around them. But you got to
Speaker 1: find out what your foundation is first. And there was
Speaker 1: not really much to get excited about in terms of
Speaker 1: young players in that organization. Mantas Buzzellis is the first
Speaker 1: guy in a while where it's like, Hey, let's see
Speaker 1: what this guy's got, and I'm excited to watch him too.
Speaker 1: We'll be covering him very closely this year. Last question, Jason,
Speaker 1: if you were the Magic general manager, what would you
Speaker 1: do in the next calendar year to take the team
Speaker 1: from Tier two to Tier one? So the key here
Speaker 1: is you don't want to jump the gun. If I
Speaker 1: had to improve the Magic in the short term, I
Speaker 1: would bring in a skill guard. Let's just say, like
Speaker 1: D'Angelo Russell, for instance, and I'd have him handle the
Speaker 1: rock and I'd have Palo and Franz operate more off
Speaker 1: the ball, because those guys are really struggling right now
Speaker 1: to be decision makers and half court shot creators. Right
Speaker 1: They're struggling, especially in like slow down physical environments, right
Speaker 1: A skill guard that you can compensate for by doing
Speaker 1: all the dirty work and creating an opportunity for him
Speaker 1: to just set guys up with quality opportunities would go
Speaker 1: a long way towards elevating the Magic in the short term.
Speaker 1: But the short term doesn't matter. If it's not good
Speaker 1: enough to win the championship, which the magic are not
Speaker 1: there yet. So the goal here is you want to
Speaker 1: not change too much. You want to continue to force
Speaker 1: feed Fronz and Pollow to basketball as much as possible
Speaker 1: over a longer period of time, so you can get
Speaker 1: a really firm grasp on what they're good at and
Speaker 1: what they suck at. Then when Palo's a fourth or
Speaker 1: fifth year player and Franz has even more experience than that,
Speaker 1: at that point you can sit down as a front office.
Speaker 1: You can be like, Okay, Palo's played three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty NBA games now, you know, or three hundred two
Speaker 1: to fifty, however many it is. He's played a few
Speaker 1: hundred NBA games. Now we have a good grasp of
Speaker 1: what he's getting much better at and what his true
Speaker 1: weaknesses are. Now we can look to really be more
Speaker 1: precise and deliberate with tweaks around those guys. But it's
Speaker 1: just like I was talking about the bulls. You have
Speaker 1: to find out what you have first. What we know
Speaker 1: about Fronz and Polo is that they have a world
Speaker 1: of potential, but we have no idea how much of
Speaker 1: that potential they're going to reach, and what specific areas
Speaker 1: they're going to get better at, and what specific areas
Speaker 1: they're going to struggle with. Like what if we don't
Speaker 1: know is Palo going to become better and better as
Speaker 1: a playmaker overtime or better and better as a scorer overtime?
Speaker 1: Is Palo going to be a guy that becomes a
Speaker 1: really good jump shooter or is the jump shot never
Speaker 1: going to come around? Because if the jump shots never
Speaker 1: going to come around, that alters is ceiling a little bit.
Speaker 1: Same goes for Front's right. So in the short term,
Speaker 1: you don't want to jump the gun. You want to
Speaker 1: give these guys opportunities you can learn about them in
Speaker 1: real detail, about what they're going to be when they're
Speaker 1: in their prime, so that you can then build around
Speaker 1: them at that point. Patience is key with young players.
Speaker 1: That's all I have for to I have one last point.
Speaker 1: If you guys are into Rings of Power, My buddy
Speaker 1: Luke and I this morning just recorded like forty five
Speaker 1: minutes breaking down that crazy episode seven of the penultimate
Speaker 1: episode of Rings of Power. So you can find that
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Speaker 1: for the weekend. I'll be back on Monday to cover
Speaker 1: the Lakers and read everybody complain about it the comments.
Speaker 2: I'll see you guys then.
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