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Speaker 1: And look at this pass that it forces. It forces a.

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Speaker 2: High deflective, looping pass across the court, which gives Pods

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Speaker 2: a chance to rotate and then force the turnover. That's

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Speaker 2: why it's so important when you're double teaming to pressure

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Speaker 2: the ball. If you allow easy kickouts on double teams,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna get killed. Another botch switched from Jalen Green.

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Speaker 2: So again, look here early possession. We have Jalen Green

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Speaker 2: on Steph screen flowing into the handoff. Jalen Green botches it,

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Speaker 2: get gets disconnected. It's a deeper shot, but because Steph

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Speaker 2: is disconnected, he knows he can get into his rhythm

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Speaker 2: and he knocks down the shot once again, though incredibly

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Speaker 2: difficult shot making from Steph Curry. I thought this was

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Speaker 2: just a genius off ball cut move from Steph to

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Speaker 2: get open against some n Thompson. So I want to

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Speaker 2: play at full speed first, and then I want to

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Speaker 2: see if you guys notice what I'm talking.

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Speaker 1: About here back cut lea. This is the genius of

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Speaker 1: this move.

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Speaker 2: Do you guys remember when we did the uh when

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Speaker 2: we covered the Warrior the Warriors Grizzlies game, how I

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Speaker 2: talked about the physicality and how Steph was able to

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Speaker 2: use that push off move against what was his name,

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Speaker 2: not Luke Canard, the other white dude who plays for

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Speaker 2: the Grizzlies.

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Speaker 1: I'm blanking on his name right now, Conchard, Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Conchart was guarding Steph and Steph like kind of shoved

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Speaker 2: off of him to get open into the screening action.

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Speaker 2: That's a pretty common move you'll see from shooters around

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Speaker 2: the NBA, but it's a great way to set up

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Speaker 2: a backcut. So watch as Steph. I'm gonna play this

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Speaker 2: in slow motion. Watch how Steph shoves himn That shove

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Speaker 2: triggers a man thinking he's going to come off of

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Speaker 2: this screen. Watch how hard a man reacts to the shove,

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Speaker 2: he goes completely out of position. Then Steph beats him

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Speaker 2: on the back cut. Really really smart gamesmanship from Steph

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Speaker 2: Curry to get himself another easy one. A little piece

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Speaker 2: of tough shot making from Jimmy. Butler hits a little

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Speaker 2: bright shoulder fade over a men Thompson. Notice that little

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Speaker 2: shoulder fake is worth everything there on the shoulder fake.

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Speaker 2: Look at him in A man's got his head turned

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Speaker 2: and his body takes that whoops, star guys. His body

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Speaker 2: takes that one negative step way back here to the

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Speaker 2: second block, and that gives Jimmy the separation and needs

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Speaker 2: to knock down the shot. Jimmy made six jump shots

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Speaker 2: in this game, five in the mid range. That was

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Speaker 2: a huge piece of ceiling raising on offense for the Warriors.

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Speaker 2: I have no idea what Jalen Green was doing here.

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Speaker 2: I think Dylan Brooks is also in this action. Let's

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Speaker 2: get over to the corner here, so we have Jimmy

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Speaker 2: being guarded by Dylan Brooks and Pods comes up to

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Speaker 2: set the screen, and I like, Jalen Green just ends

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Speaker 2: up like just clawing all the way up here to

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Speaker 2: double team. And my thing is like, let's say that's

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Speaker 2: a switch. Let's say it's a switch. Make Jimmy dribble

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Speaker 2: off the screen, sit back a little bit, and if

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Speaker 2: Jimmy dribbles off the screen, then you pick him up

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Speaker 2: that way. Dylan Brooks, as he's dribbling off, can drop

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Speaker 2: back and get inside position on Pods to prevent the slip. Instead,

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Speaker 2: Jalen Green just throws this bullshit double team and it

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Speaker 2: just makes the easiest slip pass ever to Pods on

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Speaker 2: the back door. A lot of defensive mistakes from Jalen

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Speaker 2: Green in this one. Another stot. Draymond Green gets a

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Speaker 2: good stop against Shangoon. He won most of those battles

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Speaker 2: last night, like I talked about. And then we get

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Speaker 2: this ISO three from Jimmy Butler against the men Thompson

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Speaker 2: at the end of the clock that puts the Warriors

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Speaker 2: up twenty. Another nice bit of shot making from Jimmy Butler.

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Speaker 2: Draymond did this a couple times last night. So they're

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Speaker 2: trying to set up a high low action here, right,

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Speaker 2: So Tarry Yeason has inside position on Steph Curry, Draymond

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Speaker 2: Green's guarding Shanggon, but Shang Goon just shows an unwillingness

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Speaker 2: to score here, and so when Shangoon throws the pass,

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Speaker 2: Raymond just drops back and he's able to disrupt and

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Speaker 2: get the pass. Then on the other end of the floor,

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Speaker 2: going to fast forward a little bit, you guys know

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Speaker 2: what happens here, Steph gets Jalen Green on a switch

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Speaker 2: late in the shot clock. Here's one of those last

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Speaker 2: four seconds of the clock shots that I was talking about.

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Speaker 2: One of the most ridiculous shots I've seen Steph hit

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Speaker 2: in his career.

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Speaker 1: Boom.

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Speaker 2: Another example of Draymond getting a steal dropping off the passer.

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Speaker 2: So notice he's guarding Steven Adams, but he's not worried

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Speaker 2: about Steven Adams as a scorer. So as the cutter

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Speaker 2: comes through and men Thompson, Draymond drops back and ends

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Speaker 2: up getting his steal. Draymond was unbelievable on defense last night.

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Speaker 2: This was Moses Moody's rescue possession late in the game.

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Speaker 2: I thought this was really impressive too. So we have

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00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 2: Pods ends up trying to create something. He ends up

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Speaker 2: picking up his dribble in the middle of the floor.

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Speaker 2: Moody just flashes right in front of Fred van Vliet,

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Speaker 2: gets open for like a little catch and shoot seventeen

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Speaker 2: foot er fading to his left and knocks it down.

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Speaker 2: I was a big shot in that game when the

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Speaker 2: game got down to four. This was just an insane

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Speaker 2: piece of shot making from Steph Curry look running to

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Speaker 2: his right from about thirty five feet against the contests

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Speaker 2: from Amen Thompson, just sticks it off the back of

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Speaker 2: the rim.

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Speaker 1: Just unbelievable shot.

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Speaker 2: Alrighty, This was a really impressive help defense sequence from

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Speaker 2: Brandon Pajemski and Moses Moody. The two of them were

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Speaker 2: just fantastic down the stretch of this game. So notice

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Speaker 2: as the drive occurs here Pod steps up first, so

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Speaker 2: Pods is on Shane Jabari Smith is going to drive

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Speaker 2: past Jimmy Butler and Pods and Jimmy are going to

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Speaker 2: execute like a switch on the drive. So notice Pod

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Speaker 2: steps up, But where's the red right? You have Moody

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Speaker 2: guarding him Men Thompson here in the right corner. The

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Speaker 2: next obvious read for Jabari Smith is to drop it

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Speaker 2: off to Shangoon. Pods catches the drive, Moody makes the

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Speaker 2: rotation and forces the steel. Jimmy Butler cleans it up.

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Speaker 2: Really really good defense in that sequence from Moses Moody

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Speaker 2: and from uh Brandon Pajemski. This was one of the

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Speaker 2: big time rebounds that Brandon Pajemski had at the end

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Speaker 2: of the game, just out working Fred van Vliet. Here

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Speaker 2: after the shot goes up, Moody gets a clean look

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Speaker 2: but watch so Pods and and Fred are both watching,

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Speaker 2: but Pods makes the effort gets to the tap and

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Speaker 2: when he gets to the tap, he occupies both Shangoon

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Speaker 2: and Jabari Smith, which allows Draymond Green to come in

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Speaker 2: and clean it up from behind. Warriors attacking Jalen Green

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Speaker 2: in action again, this time to get two on the

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Speaker 2: ball and open up.

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Speaker 1: The pocket with Pods.

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Speaker 2: Classic sequence right ball screen A Men Thompson is chasing

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Speaker 2: Jalen Green, is kind of like hanging out a little

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Speaker 2: too long that creates the pocket to Pods. He has

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Speaker 2: a baked in driving lane past Jalen Green, which forces

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Speaker 2: Shangoon to step up, easy kickout to Moody and knocks

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Speaker 2: down a much needed three and big for Moody as well,

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Speaker 2: for as much as he had struggled lately. And then

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Speaker 2: here we go the dagger from Jimmy Butler, that classic

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Speaker 2: side step shot that I always talk about. He gets shanggoon.

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Speaker 2: Watch the side step going to his right. This is

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Speaker 2: the game. This is the go to move that Jimmy

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Speaker 2: Butler has now that he can get to and knock

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Speaker 2: down whenever he needs to. So yeah, as you guys

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Speaker 2: can see a lot of the stuff that we talked

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Speaker 2: about last night, Jalen Green being attacked in action, the

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Speaker 2: Warriors defending extremely well against the Rockets, their zone causing

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Speaker 2: them issues. There's just such a gap in that skill IQ, gamesmanship,

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Speaker 2: decision making, playmaking, all of that skews heavily in Golden

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Speaker 2: State's favor. And as long as they don't completely hemorrhage

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Speaker 2: points on the margins, they're going to do really well.

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Speaker 1: And again they did all right.

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Speaker 2: They were so much more efficient on their second chances

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Speaker 2: that they only lost the second chance points battle by

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Speaker 2: ten and as a result, they were able to allow

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Speaker 2: their half court execution to carry them over the top.

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Speaker 2: All right, guys, it's all I have for today. We'll

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