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Speaker 1: up being something different. But we talked about some war years.

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Speaker 1: end of this. For the YouTube folks, today we're just

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Speaker 1: hitting Kevin Durant, so uh. Adrian Morzanowski reports that the

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Speaker 1: That's what I think this is about. Now, is kde

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Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis. When you make the guard chase over

430
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Speaker 1: the top because of your shooting threat. Because if Buddy healed,

431
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,879
Speaker 1: if you go under that screen, he's knocking down that

432
00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:51,679
Speaker 1: three probably forty percent of the time. If he's open

433
00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:55,000
Speaker 1: off the dribble, that forces you to chase over the top.

434
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Speaker 1: If you chase over the top, now the guard is

435
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Speaker 1: in a disadvantage as Buddy Heald is going downhill. Now

436
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:05,520
Speaker 1: the screen defender has to step over to contain Buddy Healed.

437
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 1: Now Anthony Davis is rolling hard to the rim. That's

438
00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:11,040
Speaker 1: what opens up the pocket pass or forces the help

439
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,040
Speaker 1: defender to come over, so you can swing for open

440
00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:14,919
Speaker 1: threes on the weeks out of the floor. It's a

441
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,960
Speaker 1: simple concept. There's not a whole it's not very complicated,

442
00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:20,720
Speaker 1: but it makes a huge difference in how difficult it

443
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,280
Speaker 1: is to guard your pick and roll action. So I

444
00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:27,000
Speaker 1: love the idea of the Lakers getting a real ball handling,

445
00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:31,240
Speaker 1: aggressive pull up shooter in that guard position, and I

446
00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:34,080
Speaker 1: think Buddy yields a great fit there. So again, the

447
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,919
Speaker 1: Leakers are smart to hold the first pick and and

448
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,000
Speaker 1: hold out on the second pick until they absolutely have to.

449
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,479
Speaker 1: They should still be prioritizing Kyrie, but as a decent

450
00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,479
Speaker 1: backup option, I like the Healed Turner fit. And if

451
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,480
Speaker 1: it costs two picks, it costs two picks. That's what

452
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,879
Speaker 1: it costs to fix the mistake that you made. All right,

453
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:51,680
Speaker 1: let's move on to the Warriors for a second. So

454
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:56,119
Speaker 1: Michael Thompson, Klay Thompson's father said, quote, they won't be complacent.

455
00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,879
Speaker 1: You've got three competitors leading the way, and Draymond, Steph

456
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 1: and Clay they've got four, but you know they want

457
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,359
Speaker 1: to get five, they want to get six. So the

458
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 1: question here is how many more titles do I believe

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Speaker 1: that the Warriors will win? So first of all, I

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00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 1: do want to talk about the motivation part, because I

461
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 1: do find it interesting. You know, I used to work

462
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Speaker 1: in real estate. Calling Coward has used to have this

463
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,200
Speaker 1: one liner that had used in a show. I'm sure

464
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,919
Speaker 1: he's been using it still to this day, but he says, like,

465
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:26,360
Speaker 1: you know, with the real estate agent, any real estate

466
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,720
Speaker 1: agent can have one great year. You have a bunch

467
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,800
Speaker 1: of deals fall in your lap. You're motivated, you're working hard,

468
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,160
Speaker 1: your pipeline gets full, you have a bunch of stuff, clothes,

469
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,600
Speaker 1: you make a ton of money, right, But the truly

470
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 1: great realtors are good year in and year out. You know. Um.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that I learned early on in

472
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Speaker 1: that business was like the difference between your pipeline and

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Speaker 1: the deals that you're actually working, because there's transactional work

474
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Speaker 1: as a realtor and then there's the actual lead generation,

475
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 1: you know, doing open houses, cold calling, door knocking, whatever

476
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:57,720
Speaker 1: it was that you did. Some some realtors even pay

477
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Speaker 1: for leads from the larger companies of own. But what

478
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 1: will happen a lot with realtors is they'll fill their

479
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:07,360
Speaker 1: pipeline and then they'll start closing a bunch of deals.

480
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 1: And when they're closing the deals, they start making a

481
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 1: lot of money, but they're doing this transactional stuff and

482
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,560
Speaker 1: they're not filling the pipeline. So then like you get

483
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 1: to the end and the and the deals all closed,

484
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 1: and you've made all this money, but then your pipeline

485
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,399
Speaker 1: is empty, and then you can go six months without

486
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 1: closing another deal because you didn't continue to fill the

487
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,880
Speaker 1: pipeline along the way. And you see that a lot

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Speaker 1: in professional sports. You see it a lot with specific

489
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Speaker 1: types of athletes. Right you have guys that are you know, competitive,

490
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: guys that are very competitive, and then you have guys

491
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:40,879
Speaker 1: that are psychotically competitive. You see UH teams and players

492
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,440
Speaker 1: where it's like one year they're completely locked in and

493
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,320
Speaker 1: and everything is working, and you could tell the motivation

494
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 1: is on level ten out of ten, but then the

495
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,520
Speaker 1: next season it's just not quite the same. James Harden

496
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Speaker 1: is my favorite example of this if you look at

497
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Speaker 1: the two thousand eighteen season, the year that he won

498
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Speaker 1: the m v P. He was so locked in trying

499
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,880
Speaker 1: on the defensive and the Rockets are following his lead.

500
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,199
Speaker 1: They're locked in. They win sixty five games, they come

501
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 1: up short, but then something's missing. The next season, the

502
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,879
Speaker 1: whole vibe is off. Now he's beefing with Chris Paul,

503
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 1: Like it's just not the same the year internet it

504
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 1: was like, for one year, everything came together and he

505
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: locked in and he damned near won a title, and

506
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 1: then he's never been able to replicate that start to finish,

507
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:25,440
Speaker 1: effort and focus that he had in that specific year. That's,

508
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 1: you know, one side of the spectrum, and then you've

509
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Speaker 1: got like guys like Tom Brady on the other side

510
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,119
Speaker 1: of spectrum, where it's like, dude, you've won seven Super Bowls,

511
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 1: you're unassailably the best quarterback to ever play the game

512
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,640
Speaker 1: of football, probably the best football player of all time.

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Speaker 1: Why are you still trying to win? Like? Why why

514
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:44,680
Speaker 1: are you still trying to play it? But it's it's

515
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 1: really that simple. He he wants eight, you know, like

516
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 1: once he gets eight, you'll probably want to come back

517
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 1: to get nine, and it'll take some combination of his

518
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 1: body failing him and his wife yelling at him for

519
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 1: him to finally and inevitably hang things up. Like that's

520
00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,159
Speaker 1: the spectrum there, and you know you're your all time Grades,

521
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 1: your Lebron's, your Steph Curries, your Warriors, your Spurs. There

522
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 1: on the far side, there, on the Tom Brady side

523
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 1: of that spectrum, they are psychotically competitive, and you always

524
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,119
Speaker 1: see stories and anecdotes that kind of lend credence to

525
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,360
Speaker 1: that idea. But that's why, that's why they're not satisfied

526
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Speaker 1: with number four, and that's why they're gonna keep coming back.

527
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: Now as far as the basketball goes, you know, when

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00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,399
Speaker 1: someone asks me, do I think the Warriors can win five?

529
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 1: Or do I think the Warriors can win six? Like

530
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,160
Speaker 1: so much of it just comes down to luck. Same

531
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,880
Speaker 1: thing goes for Lebron if in his pursuit of five

532
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 1: and six. I'm not worried about Lebron trying hard next season.

533
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about Steph Curry and Clay Thompson and

534
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 1: Draymond Green being locked in. Those guys are all gonna

535
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,880
Speaker 1: be locked in. But things gotta break your way. Things

536
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: gotta break your way with the roster, you know, Like

537
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: the Warriors lost two key rotational players in Auto Porder

538
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,640
Speaker 1: Junior and in Gary Payton the second right, So like

539
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: it's important for Moses Moody and Dante de Vincenzo to

540
00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 1: kind of slide into those roles in order to fill

541
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,239
Speaker 1: those rolls. Right. Health is a big part of it.

542
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 1: Like the Warriors had horrible health luck there for basically

543
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 1: two and a half seasons, right, but things kind of

544
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: all broke right, Like Steph got healthy just in time

545
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 1: for the playoffs, Draymond got healthy really just before the playoffs.

546
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,680
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson was kind of getting his legs underneath him

547
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: right around that time, and it all just kind of

548
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,439
Speaker 1: broke right for them. And you can also see it

549
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,639
Speaker 1: go the other way, right, like the Bucks their cruising along,

550
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 1: everything looks great, uh, you know, they look like a

551
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,919
Speaker 1: team that absolutely could repeat and win another championship. And

552
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 1: Chris Middleton goes down and next thing you know, they're

553
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:37,160
Speaker 1: completely overmatched in a series against the Celtics that somehow,

554
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 1: on the strength of Janice's unbelievable, untamable greatness, they dragged

555
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,679
Speaker 1: it out to seven games. But the point is you

556
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: gotta be lucky along the way to so many things

557
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 1: have to go your way. So the question of whether

558
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,120
Speaker 1: or not the Warriors are gonna win five or six

559
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 1: titles or just stay at four is like, well, everybody

560
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 1: stay healthy, you know, or you know, also the things

561
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 1: like what happened with Kevin Dury in two thousand and

562
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 1: seventeen that can derail a championship opportunity, right, Like the

563
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: Calves were probably thinking, hey, we're repeating in two thousand seventeen.

564
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: We like our chances. We're bringing everybody back. We're that

565
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 1: we have Kyle Korver. Now, like Kevin Love is gonna

566
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: play better because he's not gonna be concussed. You know,

567
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: Lebron's actually getting better in two thousand seven, eighteen ten,

568
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:22,479
Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen, and two thousand eighteen. But it's like

569
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 1: here comes to Kevin Durant move and now it's like

570
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 1: window over. No one's beating that team, right, So, like

571
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:32,679
Speaker 1: there's all these factors that are fluid in these situations,

572
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: and so many things have to go your way to

573
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 1: win a championship that the reality is that it's not

574
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: really a percent under their control. They've got to be

575
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 1: lucky along the way as well. But here's the reality.

576
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: I have them as the favorite going into next season

577
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: because I don't see any reason to believe that they

578
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: won't be right there back in the mix next year.

579
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 1: And if I'm picking between Steph Curry since Lebron James

580
00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 1: is basically out of the I mean he's out of

581
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: contention right now, and the unless the Lakers work a

582
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 1: miracle here over the course in the next couple of months,

583
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: if I'm picking against Steph, with Steph Curry against the honest,

584
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: or picking with Steph Curry against a you know, uh,

585
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant or Nicola Yokitch or a Kawhi Leandard, Like,

586
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 1: I just trust him more. I trust him more. I

587
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: trust Steve kermore, I trust Raymond Green more, I trust

588
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: them more. So Yeah, Like, if all things break right,

589
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: I absolutely think the Warriors can win five or six titles.

590
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 1: But it's just not as simple as going out and

591
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: doing it. You need things to break your way. Uh,

592
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 1: let's be one of the Suns. So uh, Monty Williams

593
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: assigns assigns a contract extension. He's staying with the staying

594
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: with them as a head coach. You know, we were

595
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: wondering whether or not they were gonna end up going

596
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 1: after k D. They did not. Um Well, they obviously

597
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 1: made some offers, but they didn't make an offer that

598
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 1: was legitimately interesting to the to the nets um DeAndre

599
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: Ayton goes out signs a offer sheet with the Indiana Pacers,

600
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 1: he ends up getting signed or the Sun's end up

601
00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: matching the offer. Like I told you, guys, I found

602
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 1: that whole situation to be really strange. I didn't understand

603
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 1: if your goal all along was to keep eating at

604
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 1: something close to the max, then why we're on the

605
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: risk of all the of all the you know, emotional

606
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: baggage of making your player feel unwanted essentially as part

607
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: of the process. I didn't get all that. But either way,

608
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 1: it looks like because as a result of that, he

609
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: can't be traded until uh a significant chunk into the season,

610
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: and he has a trade veto power for one calendar year.

611
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: So Etan's not getting traded. Mcail Bridges is not enough

612
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: to get k D. So the Sons are probably not

613
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 1: getting KD unless some miracle breaks for them here in

614
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks, Right so it looks like

615
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 1: it's going to be largely the same team now. In

616
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: these types of situations, it all comes down to whether

617
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: or not you look at your team and their outcome

618
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: in the last season is something that was bad luck

619
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: or if you read the reality of what happened on

620
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 1: the court, you could as a Sons fan look at

621
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 1: it as bad luck. Like man Devin Booker, he went

622
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 1: cold there towards the end of that series. Um, he

623
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 1: had a hamstring issue in the first round, so like

624
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: maybe he wasn't a physically. They probably had some conversations

625
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 1: behind the scene. Devin Booker probably went up, um, you know,

626
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: to their front office and was like, hey, just you

627
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: guys know, like I wasn't healthy. You know, he probably

628
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: said something like that, Chris Paul had a quad injury.

629
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: Did it looked like literally was incredibly dominant through eight

630
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: playoff games if I remember correctly, and then was a

631
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 1: horrific shell of himself. So Chris Paul can say, hey,

632
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: I was hurt. You know, you can look at it like, hey,

633
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: deandreton is gonna get better. Um, Michael Bridges is gonna

634
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: get better. Cam Johnson's gonna get better. You can look

635
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: at it and from a very optimistic light, or you

636
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: can look at the reality of the basketball, and the

637
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: reality of the basketball for the Suns is they damned

638
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: ear loss to the Lakers two years ago and fortunately

639
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis went down with injury and they were able

640
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: to close that series out in six games. Okay. Uh.

641
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: Then they beat the Denver Nuggets without Jamal Murray. Okay.

642
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: Then they got dragged to six by the l a

643
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: Clippers without Kawhi Leonard. And then they lost four consecutive

644
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: games in the NBA Finals to lose to the Milwaukee

645
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: Bucks in Janice and in the first two games they won,

646
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: but you could argue that Janice was freshly back from

647
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: having his knee inverted and probably wasn't close to Then

648
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: we come into this season and they get dragged to

649
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: six games by the New Orleans Pelicans. Mind you, they

650
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: had some injuries in that series. And then they lose

651
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: to the Dallas Mavericks. Now this was not them losing

652
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: to the Warriors, This was not them losing to a juggernaut.

653
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: They lost to a dark horse title team that was

654
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: significantly like the Dallas Mavericks, had significantly less talent than

655
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns, but they lost largely on the strength

656
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: of Luca's greatness. All last season, I told you, guys,

657
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: I thought the Phoenix Suns were the most talented team

658
00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 1: in basketball from the top down, but they were missing

659
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: that alpha dog talent, and I thought that this season

660
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: would be a great indicator of whether or not they

661
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: were real or fake, you know, frauds or real legitimate

662
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: title contenders, because you know, in this particular case, Chris

663
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: Paul can play is one of the best playmakers in

664
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: the league, right, and Devin Booker is a fantastic three

665
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 1: level score So in theory, the two of them can

666
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: kind of combine and masquerade as a superstar, right. But

667
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: then they ran into a real superstar in Luka don Chez,

668
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: who did not have the level of surrounding talent that

669
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 1: they did, and they looked completely and utterly overmatched, helpless,

670
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: lying on the ground as Lucas stomped them in the

671
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 1: ground like that. That that's what happened. And so to me,

672
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: that's if I was looking at that situation as the

673
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: general manager, and I was trying to decide whether or not,

674
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 1: you know, bad luck was the reason for our outcomes

675
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: or a fundamental flaw and team construction, meaning the lack

676
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: of alpha dog superstar was the problem. I'm looking at

677
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: option number two there, and so if they run it back,

678
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: which it looks like they're going to, that's what I

679
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: would expect. I would expect more of the same dominant

680
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 1: regular season engine. You know, Monty Williams, to his credit

681
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 1: and the reason why he's getting an extension. You know,

682
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: if you watch that team, they are extremely well coached.

683
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: Their offense is a machine five pick and roll, they

684
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: are floor spacing is excellent. They put their backside players

685
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 1: like Michael Bridges Cam Johnson in great position to capitalize

686
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 1: on the defensive attention thrown to the Paul Eyton pick

687
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: and roll, to the book or eight and dribble handoffs

688
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,399
Speaker 1: and everything that they do they have that they're They're

689
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,840
Speaker 1: just extremely well coached and obviously they're a great defensive

690
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 1: team as well. So they they're gonna be a great

691
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: regular season team. They're gonna want a ship ton of games,

692
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna end up running into one of

693
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 1: the many superstars in the Western Conference. Hey guess what

694
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: You've got to go through? Lebron staph Kauai, Nicola Yo

695
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: Kids uh, Luca done. It's like you're just you're gonna

696
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 1: run into potentially five opponents. Obviously you're not gonna play

697
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: all five of them, but one of five opponents, two

698
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: or five opponents, three or five opponents that could have

699
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 1: the will have by far the best player on the

700
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: floor in that series. And so I I would hope

701
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: that at a certain point, whoever's you know, at this point,

702
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:13,880
Speaker 1: James Jones needs just kind of read the writing on

703
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: the wall and understand that that he doesn't have enough talent,

704
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 1: he doesn't have that big piece that he needs to

705
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: get this done, and it's time to start looking elsewhere. Alright,

706
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 1: couple of cool hitters before we get out of here.

707
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 1: So The Volume posted a social media post the other

708
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: day where they put Lebron and Kobe m J and

709
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 1: k D. Shack and Tim Duncan on a photo and

710
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: said which one would you betch? And I'm not gonna

711
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:36,319
Speaker 1: spend a lot of time on this because I think

712
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: it's super cut and dry. You're bench and Tim Duncan.

713
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 1: You guys know, I prefer perimeter players and spaced out basketball,

714
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: So obviously I'm gonna go with Katie, Kobe, Lebron, and

715
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: MJ and then for the center position. Tim Duncan has

716
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: a better career resume. He was dominant for longer, but

717
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 1: Shack was better at his absolute peak. That just goes

718
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 1: without saying it kind of reminds me of the Steph thing. Like,

719
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: I have the utmost respect for Tim Duncan. He was

720
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 1: never really the best player in the league, but he

721
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 1: was always up there in that conversation, and he was

722
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: such a good leader, and he was so coachable that

723
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: he was kind of the ultimate foundational piece for a

724
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: dynastic franchise. So it's not as slight against him Duncan.

725
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 1: I have the utmost respect for him, But Shack was

726
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: a better player at his peak. You just gotta slot

727
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 1: him into that role. But I'm curious here what your

728
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 1: guys thoughts are, So put that in the YouTube comments,

729
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: um before we get out of here. You know, like I,

730
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: like I said, when we get into these off seasons,

731
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: there's a certain amount of filler. There's a certain amount

732
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: of drama, you know. Like I don't like getting on

733
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 1: here and talking about Russell Westbrook every day. I actually

734
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 1: hate it. It's just what we have to do, uh,

735
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 1: as part of the job. And because he's in the news.

736
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 1: It's just it's just the reality, right Like, But the

737
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: basketball is always what I love the most, and um,

738
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: I always want to I want to take time in

739
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: each show to dive into some sort of basketball concept,

740
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 1: and so here at the end, I want to talk

741
00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 1: about five out basketball, which is something I preach all

742
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 1: the time in the show, is something that I personally

743
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 1: advocate for Now, at the end of the day, it's

744
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: about personnel. You have to you have to run what

745
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: fits best for your team. If you consistently have to

746
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: have a player on the floor that can't shoot or dribble,

747
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 1: you can't run five out basketball. So you're limited in

748
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 1: what you can do there. But at the end of

749
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 1: the day, if I have the correct personnel, I've always

750
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:26,399
Speaker 1: preferred five out basketball as a core offensive motion, and

751
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 1: I wanted to take a couple of minutes to kind

752
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: of break down why that is. So. First of all,

753
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: what what what is five out basketball? It is It

754
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: is the motion offense you run when all of your

755
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: actions are finished. So offense is like a progression. The

756
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: first progression is try to score the basketball and transition

757
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: you're gonna stop. You get a rebound, your unlike hell

758
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:45,399
Speaker 1: to the front of the rim and try to dunk

759
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: it or get a layup until someone stops you. If

760
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 1: someone stops you there, you might run what's called a

761
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: secondary break or like a semi transition play. Essentially, it's

762
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: an action that you run as part of transition. It

763
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: might be the guard's interchanging. It might be your point

764
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,719
Speaker 1: guard doing a dribble pitch back to the big nn

765
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 1: trailing the floor for three. It might be a quick

766
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: pin down or a quick double screen, something along those lines.

767
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 1: But it's like a brief action that you run as

768
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 1: part of the transition sequence. If that fails, you might

769
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: run your actual play that you call right and but

770
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:16,959
Speaker 1: if there's a play that you call, there's a couple

771
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 1: of steps to it, but you reach the end of it. Like,

772
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:20,800
Speaker 1: for instance, the high school kids that I coach, we

773
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 1: run a play called Shuffle and Shuffle. You have two

774
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: bigs at the two elbows, and you have two guards

775
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: on the wing. It's like a four high offense right,

776
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: and there's a guy making the entry, the guard making

777
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: the entry up top, and you entry enter the ball

778
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: to the high post and there's like a flex cut

779
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: off of the elbow where you try to hit the

780
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: guy cutting to the basket. Um. But and then after

781
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,240
Speaker 1: that flows into a couple of like double pin downs

782
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: for shooters coming off. But if those don't work, the

783
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 1: plays over and so what do you do? You know,

784
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: Like some some coaches might have you run another play,

785
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 1: but every coach I played for and every coach that

786
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,800
Speaker 1: I know of, typically you flow out of the play

787
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 1: into your core motion offense. It's a it doesn't have

788
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,400
Speaker 1: a step by step instruction. It's more of like a

789
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 1: a concept, right, It's like spacing principles. That's where you're

790
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 1: supposed to stand on the floor, and just some basic rules.

791
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 1: But there's usually a lot of freedom to do what

792
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: you want within that. So you design that based on

793
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 1: your talent and what fits your team. I played on

794
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,720
Speaker 1: a bunch of different I played on three different teams

795
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: in college, and our core motion offense was different for

796
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 1: each team based on personnel. Right, my second year in JUCO,

797
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:30,280
Speaker 1: we ran a three in two out motion offense because

798
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: we were primarily a post up team that had really

799
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: good post players, and the post players would cross screen

800
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: for each other and then the third post player would

801
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: say set a pin down from one of them. To

802
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 1: come up to the top of the key. It was

803
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: kind of like a triangle essentially, uh not not the

804
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,879
Speaker 1: triangle offense, but a triangle of post players and you're

805
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 1: essentially running high low. You're trying to enter the ball

806
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 1: to the high post that you can make a post

807
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: entry down underneath the basket. That's just what we did

808
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 1: for the personnel that we had there. My last year

809
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 1: in college, we ran three out, two in once again

810
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,319
Speaker 1: because had really good post players, and so it was

811
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,479
Speaker 1: kind of like an incessant set of screening rolls where

812
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: you know, the the one big would run up to

813
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 1: set the screen while the other screen would go to

814
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 1: the opposite block to sit in the dunker spot. And

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00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 1: if that didn't work, then the bigs would rotate and

816
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 1: the other big would come up to set the screen

817
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 1: and the other guy would go to the other dunker spot.

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00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: Right like, It's just kind of a flowing run of

819
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,280
Speaker 1: pick and rolls. That's what we did. My high school team.

820
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 1: We run five out, and again it's not a play.

821
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:30,359
Speaker 1: Anything can happen in five out, it's just spacing principles.

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00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: In our high school with our high school team, there's

823
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,400
Speaker 1: gut Top, the key guy, in both wings, guy in

824
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: both corners, which is the way five out exists in

825
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 1: every level basketball because there's just not enough room on

826
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,479
Speaker 1: the floor to stay in anywhere else. But from there

827
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: it's pretty much you can do whatever you want. The

828
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 1: guy who has the basketball can attack the basket, try

829
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 1: to get to the rim. The guy can do a

830
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: dribble hand off, like dribble to the next guy and

831
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 1: pitch it to him and try to hit his man right.

832
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 1: You can pass and screen away. You can call for

833
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 1: a ball screen. You can look for the ball and

834
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:00,320
Speaker 1: cut hard and try to get open. As a cutter,

835
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: you can do literally anything. But as players are moving

836
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: around the floor, you're always rotating and filling in spaces.

837
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: So if you pass, if you're at the top of

838
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: the key and you pass to the right wing and

839
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,879
Speaker 1: you cut through, the guy at the right wing needs

840
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:14,880
Speaker 1: to fill to the top, and the guy out of

841
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 1: the corner needs to fill to the wings, so the

842
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 1: guy who's cutting can fill to the corner. So you're

843
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:22,840
Speaker 1: always like it's kind of like pieces sliding around on

844
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 1: the court, and everyone kind of knows their core spaces

845
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 1: where they're supposed to be. But outside of that, you

846
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: just play basketball. We always tell our kids, just play basketball.

847
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: These are just some rules that you have in place

848
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: to help you know where you're supposed to stay in

849
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: on the floor. That's all. That's all that five out

850
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,760
Speaker 1: basketball is. But there are a couple of key reasons

851
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: why I believe in it so much. Now for starters,

852
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: the we'll start with the detract of what the detractors

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Speaker 1: will say. In order to run five out basketball, you

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Speaker 1: need to have five players that are comfortable playing on

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Speaker 1: the perimeter. That means they have to be able to pass, dribble,

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Speaker 1: and shoot. Okay, So you just can't play five out

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Speaker 1: basketball if you have a traditional center on the floor

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Speaker 1: that can't move his feet, that can't pass the basketball,

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Speaker 1: that can't put the basketball on the floor, and they

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Speaker 1: can't shoot, it just won't work. I mean, if if

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Speaker 1: you had DeAndre Jordan's stand in the week side corner,

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Speaker 1: I mean, no one just no one's gonna guard him, right. So,

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Speaker 1: as a result, and when you have five perimeter players,

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Speaker 1: sometimes you're limited in defensive ability. Sometimes you're limited in rebounding.

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Speaker 1: For example, when the dalax Mavericks went away from Dwight

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Speaker 1: Powell and went to Maxi Kleiba. He was much better

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Speaker 1: in their five out offense because of his ability to

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Speaker 1: shoot and put the basketball on the floor. But he's

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Speaker 1: not the level of defensive player that Dwight Powell is right.

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Speaker 1: He's not the level of rebounder that Dwight Powell. He's

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Speaker 1: not the physical presence in the athlete that Dwight Powell

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Speaker 1: is right. So there there's a trade off in any

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Speaker 1: type of concept of offense. But there's a there's a

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Speaker 1: reason why I believe in five out. So let's say

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Speaker 1: let's say as a starting point that I'm sacrificing a

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Speaker 1: great defensive big man. Okay, I'm ditching a defensive big man.

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Speaker 1: I'm bringing in a smaller, more finesse big to play

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Speaker 1: my five out offense. So I'm losing something on the

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Speaker 1: defensive end and I'm losing something on the glass. But

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Speaker 1: here's what I'm gaining now. The simple answer is spacing.

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Speaker 1: So if I have a guy standing in the dunker spot,

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Speaker 1: the defensive player can play two places at once. He

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Speaker 1: can protect the rim while also guarding his man in

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Speaker 1: the dunker spot. But if he's in the week side

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Speaker 1: corner and there's nobody in the dunker spot. If I

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Speaker 1: beat my man off the dribble, now that helper isn't

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Speaker 1: coming from the block, He's coming from his man on

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Speaker 1: the week side corner. He has to cover so much

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Speaker 1: more ground. If I'm protecting the rim and my and

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Speaker 1: I'm guarding a post player, I can be in two

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Speaker 1: places at once. If I'm guarding the man in the

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Speaker 1: week side corner, I have to abandon my man to

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Speaker 1: come help at the rim. Now the defense is in rotation.

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Speaker 1: That's how the basic spacing concept works. But there's one

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Speaker 1: last reason why I wanted to make this point. I

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Speaker 1: believe that the best way to win basketball games is

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Speaker 1: to have a superstar or an all world talent who's

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Speaker 1: better than everybody else on the floor, as good as

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Speaker 1: the other team's best player, but he's comfortable and he's

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Speaker 1: confident in playing his best basketball. Basketball is a rhythm sport.

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Speaker 1: Confidence and belief in your ability is a huge factor

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Speaker 1: in the result. Think of like when you see Reggie

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Speaker 1: Jackson really in a groove and he's high stepping down

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Speaker 1: the floor kicking his legs. You know he's gonna play

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Speaker 1: well because up here he's fiercely confident. What allows the

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Speaker 1: player to be fiercely confident playing his best basketball. To

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Speaker 1: play his best basketball, you want him to feel comfortable

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Speaker 1: on offense. You want him to have spacing so that

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Speaker 1: he feels unguardable, so that he can ride that confidence

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Speaker 1: way throughout the game. If you play congested basketball, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have nights where it's like, man, all I'm getting

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Speaker 1: is to All I'm getting to is my pull up

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Speaker 1: jump shot, and it's just not falling, and I don't

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Speaker 1: have the space to get into the ring. So I

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Speaker 1: don't feel good about myself. I don't feel good about

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Speaker 1: the way I'm playing. I don't feel confident. And so

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Speaker 1: even if you are getting better defense, even if you

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Speaker 1: are getting better rebounding out of the role players that

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Speaker 1: are clunking things up around the rim, your star is

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Speaker 1: not feeling good. I want Luca to be stomping the

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Speaker 1: Phoenix Suns into the ground in Game seven, even though

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Speaker 1: they're losing things in the physicality areas of the game

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Speaker 1: with Maxi Kleiba. Luca don Chich was peaking in that

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Speaker 1: series with his confidence, his feel, and his strangling of

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Speaker 1: the game, and as a result, he was able to

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Speaker 1: utterly demolish the Phoenix suns. So for me, there's always

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Speaker 1: a trade off with every style, and you can't run

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Speaker 1: a style unless you have the personnel to run it.

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Speaker 1: But if I have the personnel to run five out basketball,

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Speaker 1: I will always favor that because whatever I lose in

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Speaker 1: rebounding or whatever I lose in defensive personnel, I make

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Speaker 1: up for an offensive comfort which is gonna lead to

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Speaker 1: my star feeling the best about himself, which is gonna

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Speaker 1: be what allows him to control the game, especially at

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Speaker 1: the late part of the game when it's closing time

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Speaker 1: when you have to create and make tough shots. I

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Speaker 1: want my star feeling comfortable. I want my best player

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Speaker 1: feeling comfortable. So again, there's all these different ways to

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Speaker 1: do it. It always should be catered towards your personnel.

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Speaker 1: But for me, personally, if you have the personnel, I

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Speaker 1: think five out basketball is the best core offensive philosophy

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Speaker 1: to win basketball games with the modern iteration of basketball

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Speaker 1: that we see around the world. Right now, all right, guys,

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Speaker 1: that is all I have for today. I will keep

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Speaker 1: you posted on my Twitter feed again. Follow me on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: I underscore Jason Lts. You guys can see show announcements

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Speaker 1: and things along those lines. I will keep you posting

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Speaker 1: my Twitter feed about when the next show is. As always,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate your sport. I'm getting excited about eventually getting

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Speaker 1: home and getting back into my studio, but I will

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Speaker 1: probably give you guys another show or two on the

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Speaker 1: cruise as well. I appreciate you guys rocking for with me,

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Speaker 1: and I'll see you next time. The volume