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Speaker 2: the Lakers and of kind of blowing out the Nuggets
Speaker 2: until the end of the bench guys come in and
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Speaker 2: a big win against the Denver Nuggets, who sat out
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray and Nicole Yokitchen this one. We also have
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Speaker 2: bit about Kawhi Leonard. And then the third segment of
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Speaker 2: the second twenty five point triple double of his career
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Speaker 2: All right, let's talk some basketball. So I'm not going
Speaker 2: to spend too much time on this particular game because
Speaker 2: I do want to kind of get to the mail
Speaker 2: bag as this game wasn't particularly interesting with all the
Speaker 2: guys that were out, But I did think that there
Speaker 2: were some things that were at least somewhat translatable to
Speaker 2: what we're going to see when we get into the postseason.
Speaker 2: If these two teams were to face each other. Now
Speaker 2: the Nuggets decide to sit Jamal Murray and Nicole Jokich,
Speaker 2: we don't really have much of a theory or much
Speaker 2: in the way of reporting on what's going on that front,
Speaker 2: except for there's a couple of ankle injuries that they're
Speaker 2: dealing with. I also think that Mike Malone probably just
Speaker 2: looked at him and was like, we're not playing good
Speaker 2: basketball right now, and you guys look banged up. So
Speaker 2: I'd rather have you guys take a little bit of
Speaker 2: time off and come back and then let's hit this
Speaker 2: thing hard and try to sharpen up some details before
Speaker 2: we get into the postseason. But it ended up being
Speaker 2: the same group that upset Golden State Warriors the other night,
Speaker 2: trying to win on the road in LA, and it
Speaker 2: was kind of the same issue that happened when Jamal
Speaker 2: Murray and Nikola Jokic played back in Denver, which is
Speaker 2: that the Nuggets can't guard the Lakers, And that really
Speaker 2: is one of the fundamental concepts that I go into
Speaker 2: any matchup with the Lakers and Nuggets if they were
Speaker 2: to face each other in the postseason. Like, I also
Speaker 2: don't know if the Lakers are going to be able
Speaker 2: to guard the Nuggets, but it feels pretty certain to
Speaker 2: me at this point that whether it's Jokic coming up
Speaker 2: to the level in pick and roll scheme, whether it's
Speaker 2: him dropping back, whether it's the small ball groups that
Speaker 2: they'll have out there when Jokic is off the floor.
Speaker 2: There's not a defender on the Nuggets roster that makes
Speaker 2: Luka Dancych feel uncomfortable one on one. And they're not
Speaker 2: a great defensive rotation team to be able to clean
Speaker 2: stuff up on the back end. Like, if you're going
Speaker 2: to be able to have a strong defensive foundation, you
Speaker 2: better be good at something. You better be an elite
Speaker 2: perimeter defense or an elite rim protection defense, or an
Speaker 2: elite in rotation defense in terms of closing off gaps
Speaker 2: and being attached and communicating through defensive rotations. And they're
Speaker 2: just not good at any of those things. And we
Speaker 2: know that they can be. We've seen them at time
Speaker 2: in times past be able to put together a coherent defense.
Speaker 2: But one of the things that concerns me is NBA
Speaker 2: history tells us that if you practice being a bad
Speaker 2: defense all season, you're probably going to be a bad
Speaker 2: defense when it matters. Generally speaking, you fall back on
Speaker 2: your habits when you run into adversity, and that's why
Speaker 2: it's so important for you to make a habit out
Speaker 2: of doing all the right things, because when the shit
Speaker 2: hits the fan and the chips are down and it's
Speaker 2: time to play must win basketball, your habits are what
Speaker 2: carry you in those situations. A lot of the variance
Speaker 2: is out of your control. But if you're a habitually
Speaker 2: good defense, if you're a habitually good, attention to detailed
Speaker 2: type of team, you can make up that ground. And
Speaker 2: so that would be my main concern. But there's there's
Speaker 2: just these nuggets, I should say, these nuggets with the
Speaker 2: nuggets that I see that kind of keep me from
Speaker 2: getting off the train entirely because it's like, you know
Speaker 2: that they've been a very good fourth quarter defense this year,
Speaker 2: which is a strong indicator of them tightening things up
Speaker 2: when they need to. We've seen Aaron Gordon, Nikola Jokich,
Speaker 2: Michael Porter, junior Jamal Murray and an athletic, defensive minded
Speaker 2: guard be able to get stops in the postseason. But again,
Speaker 2: it's just I look back through NBA history and the
Speaker 2: teams that kind of cut corners in the regular season
Speaker 2: and hoist the trophy are the Katie Steph Warriors in
Speaker 2: like twenty eighteen, or the Shaq Kobe Lakers, or you know,
Speaker 2: like teams that are overwhelmingly talented and they present that
Speaker 2: advantage that buys them so much margin for error that
Speaker 2: they can get away with that sort of play when
Speaker 2: they get up in those situations. But again, like I,
Speaker 2: even above and beyond anything having to do with their sharpness,
Speaker 2: there are clear personnel limitations for them in this specific matchup,
Speaker 2: and it all comes down to Luka Doncic. There were
Speaker 2: advantages that the Lakers had in this matchup on offense
Speaker 2: before Luca. We saw that last year with them just
Speaker 2: picking apart the Nuggets and pick and roll and ad
Speaker 2: doing a lot of one on one damage with Jokic.
Speaker 2: But Mike Malone was able to reconfigure matchups, right, Okay, well,
Speaker 2: let's put KCP on Lebron, Let's put Aaron Gordon on
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis, and let's put Nicola Jokich on Ruy Mura.
Speaker 2: Let's reconfigure the matchups, and they were able to get
Speaker 2: enough stops to win some key games in that series
Speaker 2: and overcome the fact that the Lakers had a lead
Speaker 2: for most of that series. With Luka Doncic, they don't
Speaker 2: have that same flexibility. The issue that you saw tonight
Speaker 2: is exacerbated when Lebron and Ruey Hacha Mura come back
Speaker 2: to the table. It's exacerbated when Nikola Jokic comes back
Speaker 2: into the equation because it's going to be them with
Speaker 2: Luka bringing Yokic up to the level over and over
Speaker 2: and over again and triggering the four on threes, and
Speaker 2: the other four players on the floor are going to
Speaker 2: be some combination of Lebron, James Rijachamura, Austin Reeves, Jackson
Speaker 2: Hayes rolling to the ram, Dorian Finney Smith spotting up
Speaker 2: in the corner, gave Vincent spotting up in the corner
Speaker 2: on the wing. They just have the ability to spread
Speaker 2: the nuggets out and pick them apart for wide open shots.
Speaker 2: Now where it gets complicated is on the other end
Speaker 2: of the floor. As we saw in the matchup that
Speaker 2: they won when they were in Denver, the Lakers did
Speaker 2: a lot of damage by denying by funneling towards the sideline,
Speaker 2: doubling from the baseline they did. The denial worked in
Speaker 2: limiting a lot of Jokic's touches, forcing his touches to
Speaker 2: be further away from the basket, and then they had
Speaker 2: a plan for how to handle it with help. Now.
Speaker 2: The way that Denver countered that is they generated these
Speaker 2: wide open catch and shoot threes for guys like Aaron Gordon,
Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook, Christian Brown, and they were hitting. That's, you know,
Speaker 2: the one big thing that's been screaming off the screen
Speaker 2: as you watch the Nuggets as a positive over the core.
Speaker 2: So the last couple of weeks is Aaron Gordon is
Speaker 2: shooting the living shit out of the basketball. And I
Speaker 2: love the the I love the bit that Tim Legler
Speaker 2: was talking about how he went up to Aaron Gordon
Speaker 2: and specifically discussed, like why are you shooting the ball
Speaker 2: so well? And Aaron just started talking about how he's
Speaker 2: just at his home gym, just shooting over and over
Speaker 2: and over and over and over again. Because like, that's
Speaker 2: literally what it takes. Guys, your kids out there that
Speaker 2: are still playing in high school, that are trying to
Speaker 2: make it into your rotation and a college team or
Speaker 2: whatever it is. If you think that you're going to
Speaker 2: be able to make shots without literally taking hundreds and
Speaker 2: hundreds and hundreds of shots every single week, you're never
Speaker 2: gonna get there. There's no there is no cutting that corner.
Speaker 2: There's no way to get from point A to point B,
Speaker 2: with point A being you being a lesser shooter and
Speaker 2: point B being you being a better shooter without taking
Speaker 2: hundreds and hundreds of shots. And so what you saw
Speaker 2: there there was a lot of reps where like Jackson
Speaker 2: Hayes would end up on Aaron Gordon. And if Jackson
Speaker 2: Hayes on Aaron Gordon, he has this tendency to want
Speaker 2: to help in the paint. It's not just Jackson Hayes
Speaker 2: as a fore man. Gordon's gonna draw defender that gets
Speaker 2: a lot of low man responsibilities. The low man has
Speaker 2: an instinctual desire to help at the basket because that's
Speaker 2: how it works. In the defensive scheme. Aaron Gordon's going
Speaker 2: to get some wide open looks and him knocking them
Speaker 2: down at the rate that he's been knocking them down
Speaker 2: is going to allow Denver to score. And so as
Speaker 2: I look at the matchup between these two teams in
Speaker 2: a playoff series, I feel relatively certain that the Lakers
Speaker 2: are going to be able to consistently generate great shots.
Speaker 2: I feel like the Lakers have a chance to at
Speaker 2: least tilt Denver's offense towards shot attempts for certain types
Speaker 2: of players. The problem is if those guys hit them
Speaker 2: the way that they've been hitting them, it could end
Speaker 2: up being a situation where we have one hell of
Speaker 2: a shootout type of series between these two types of teams.
Speaker 2: But again, we've only seen one matchup between these two
Speaker 2: teams at relatively full strength in the game in Denver,
Speaker 2: and so it's hard for me to take too much
Speaker 2: from anything that we've seen to this point. But it
Speaker 2: sure would be fun to watch these two teams play
Speaker 2: against each other, and I think the shootout part of
Speaker 2: it would be real. It would be an interesting kind
Speaker 2: of like who could score more points in terms of
Speaker 2: this open shot generating contest between the two teams, and
Speaker 2: just there's not gonna be a whole lot of rock
Speaker 2: fight sequences where they score ten points in ten minutes
Speaker 2: or anything along those lines. These two teams are going
Speaker 2: to be able to score on each other. Lucas shot
Speaker 2: making continues to make incredible leaps. He had twenty points
Speaker 2: in the first quarter of this game. One of the
Speaker 2: biggest things that has me excited about the team's potential,
Speaker 2: the Lakers potential and the big picture is if you
Speaker 2: remember when they went on that winning streak shortly after
Speaker 2: Luca joined the team. In that winning streak, they were
Speaker 2: not scoring the ball well. In the game against Denver,
Speaker 2: they scored the ball well because they Denver's defense is
Speaker 2: terrible and it's a terrible matchup for them because of
Speaker 2: their ability to skip the ball over the top and
Speaker 2: generate four on threes. But a lot of teams made
Speaker 2: the Lakers struggle to score over that stretch with switching,
Speaker 2: physical ball pressure, blitzing Luca and the Lakers struggling to
Speaker 2: handle it a little bit. And there are a couple
Speaker 2: of key things that have started to come to the surface.
Speaker 2: One Luca's overall shot making, the Luka Doncic that was
Speaker 2: playing with Lebron James before or he got hurt, the
Speaker 2: one that went on that massive win streak. That Luka
Speaker 2: Doncic is not the same guy anymore. He is a
Speaker 2: red hot scorer right now. The advantage of Lebron being
Speaker 2: out the way he did he was it gave Luca
Speaker 2: a ton of repetition for him to round out some
Speaker 2: of the elements of his skill set and to build
Speaker 2: his rhythm. Lebron and Rui are going to be coming
Speaker 2: back to a team that has substantially more offensive firepower.
Speaker 2: It also gave them the second piece of it is
Speaker 2: they get a lot more repetition in terms of handling blitzes,
Speaker 2: something they struggled with early on in the Luca experience.
Speaker 2: But they're starting to get better and better at That's
Speaker 2: what makes me so excited about this team. In the
Speaker 2: big picture, you get Lebron James and Rui back in here.
Speaker 2: Those are your back line guys. How often tonight did
Speaker 2: you see the Lakers look unathletic in transition? How often
Speaker 2: tonight did you see the Lakers give up dribble penetration
Speaker 2: and struggle to help at the rim? On the back line,
Speaker 2: their forwards are hot, or at least their starting forwards
Speaker 2: are out, and so getting Lebron James and Ruy Hachamura
Speaker 2: basically five hundred pound of big, strong athlete out there
Speaker 2: is going to go a long way towards cleaning up
Speaker 2: some of their issues and help side defense and on
Speaker 2: the glass. And when you're skipping the ball across the court,
Speaker 2: instead of it being Jared Vanderbilt, instead of it being
Speaker 2: Jordan good One, instead of it being some of these
Speaker 2: limited offensive players, it's gonna be Rui, who's been a
Speaker 2: deadly catch and shoot three point shooter this year. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be Lebron, who's been a deadly catch and shoot
Speaker 2: three point shooter this year. Those guys are going to
Speaker 2: get their opportunities, and as all of this starts to
Speaker 2: come together, they're going to have a level that they
Speaker 2: can get to on both ends of the floor that
Speaker 2: very few teams in this league can get to. And
Speaker 2: I think that's all very exciting. Again, I want you, guys,
Speaker 2: we can get a little bit further into this matchup,
Speaker 2: further into stuff with the Lakers and the Nuggets, but
Speaker 2: let's do it in the mail bag here. In a
Speaker 2: little bit, we're going to work through our other couple
Speaker 2: of segments. Make sure you drop your questions in the chat,
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Speaker 2: we're discussing Kawhi Leonard in his latest return to form
Speaker 2: from injury. Kawi looked fantastic in the win against the
Speaker 2: Cavs last night. We did a full breakdown of it
Speaker 2: this morning. You guys can find it a little bit
Speaker 2: further back on our feed. He had thirty three, seven
Speaker 2: and four with forced deals. You looked athletic. He was
Speaker 2: five to six from three. I think he was twelve
Speaker 2: for nineteen from the field, super efficient. Again, we spend
Speaker 2: a good amount of time on it this morning, especially
Speaker 2: talking about how strong his base looks. His legs look strong.
Speaker 2: He's the dead giveaway for Kawhi being Kawhi as he
Speaker 2: starts to dislodge dudes from their base, when he makes
Speaker 2: those aggressive moves into the short to mid range, and
Speaker 2: then he's the guy that's getting great lyft and easily
Speaker 2: knocking down jump shots in that short to mid range.
Speaker 2: I'm just amazed because of how many times we've been
Speaker 2: in this cycle with Kawhi. From the knee tendon to
Speaker 2: pathy issue that he have with San Antonio that led
Speaker 2: to his departure there, the twenty twenty one knee injury
Speaker 2: that took him out for two seasons, the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: three knee injury that took him out of the playoffs,
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty four knee injury that took him out
Speaker 2: of the playoffs. This is literally the fourth time that
Speaker 2: he's had season ending injury come into the equation and
Speaker 2: that he's been able to recover and look like himself
Speaker 2: now again. For us as fans, and for like the
Speaker 2: Clippers front office or forever Kawhi ends up playing for
Speaker 2: for the rest of his career, there are certain realities
Speaker 2: that have to be factored in in terms of his reliability,
Speaker 2: but that doesn't change the fact that Kawhi just keeps
Speaker 2: on coming back. And that's the amazing part to me.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine how discouraging it would be to ride
Speaker 2: the roller coaster he's been riding the last seven years,
Speaker 2: repeatedly working his ass off behind the scenes, to get
Speaker 2: back in shape, getting there being within stre viking distance
Speaker 2: of his ultimate goals, only for it all to come
Speaker 2: crashing down again. Imagine last year in the Dallas series,
Speaker 2: after what was a Game three, when he came out
Speaker 2: of the game early, after yet another season of working
Speaker 2: his ass off to get back into form, they looked
Speaker 2: like a bona fide championship contender. Remember they lost their
Speaker 2: first six games or whatever it was with James Harden,
Speaker 2: and then they just started kicking everybody's ass. For months,
Speaker 2: we were talking about them as a bona fide top
Speaker 2: tier championship contender, only for him to break down again
Speaker 2: and lose. Can you imagine what he was thinking. I
Speaker 2: wonder how often the idea of retirement has come up
Speaker 2: for him mentally, and yet here he is again, right
Speaker 2: back at it, looking like the best player on the
Speaker 2: floor in a game against the best team in the league.
Speaker 2: My guess is there are two things that keep driving
Speaker 2: Kawhi to try again and again in the face of
Speaker 2: these issues that he's had. One his love for the
Speaker 2: game of basketball. It's crazy how that'll get you to
Speaker 2: do anything, like you'll if you love the game, you'll
Speaker 2: find a way to play at all costs. And then two,
Speaker 2: the simple fact that it only takes one opportunity, one
Speaker 2: stretch of things going his way for him to get
Speaker 2: what he wants, one season of him actually holding up
Speaker 2: until June for him to have a chance to hoist
Speaker 2: the trophy again, and if he does, that accomplishment lasts forever.
Speaker 2: So I think that's what drives him, and I just
Speaker 2: want to shout out Kwhi Leonard for continually trying to
Speaker 2: be the best basketball player that he can be despite
Speaker 2: the horrible injury luck that he's had in the last decade.
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Speaker 2: talk Piston's heat for a little bit and then we'll
Speaker 2: get into our mailbag. Don't forget keep dropping those questions
Speaker 2: in the chat, so the Piston's gonna come from behind,
Speaker 2: winning on the road in Miami k got off to
Speaker 2: a rough shooting start. I think he was two for
Speaker 2: his first nine if I remember correctly, but he got
Speaker 2: going eventually, and he just has a lot of size
Speaker 2: advantage that he could work against. In this matchup, he
Speaker 2: hit a couple of these like left shoulder hooks that
Speaker 2: he hit against Heywood, high Smith and hime Hakes where
Speaker 2: he just kind of like slowly and methodically backed them
Speaker 2: down into a range that he felt comfortable hit him
Speaker 2: one more time to dislodge that base and then just
Speaker 2: use that momentum to flow into like these easy, breezy
Speaker 2: left shoulder hooks, And it was just a reminder of
Speaker 2: how good this guy can be in the big picture
Speaker 2: as he gets better and better at replicating that easy stuff. Again,
Speaker 2: that's the thing with younger players. They struggled to replicate
Speaker 2: what's working, and they struggled to stop doing what's not working.
Speaker 2: When you become a veteran, a lot of times, like
Speaker 2: any skill improvement gets undercut by your diminishing athleticism. But
Speaker 2: what changes is your understanding of the game and the
Speaker 2: way that you can parse out the things that work
Speaker 2: really well for you and hyper focus on them and
Speaker 2: limit the things you struggle with to improve your efficiency.
Speaker 2: And again, like there's going to be a lot of
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff with Caid when he's in the
Speaker 2: heart of his prime, where he's taken some, you know,
Speaker 2: not necessarily the most skillful shots in the world, like
Speaker 2: crazy step backs or nifty combinations of dribble, combination of
Speaker 2: dribble and footwear combinations. But he's going to have a
Speaker 2: lot of these easy, breezy shots because he's six', eight
Speaker 2: he's big and, strong and he can get to wherever
Speaker 2: he wants on the. Floor he did a lot of
Speaker 2: great work putting defenders in jail in this. Game he
Speaker 2: had a fun. Work, again whenever we talk about putting
Speaker 2: defenders in, jail all that is is when you get
Speaker 2: an angle on a, player whether it's in, transition whether
Speaker 2: it's in AN, iso whether it's in a posset up,
Speaker 2: situation whether it's in a pick and, roll whatever it,
Speaker 2: is when you get the defender onto your hip or your,
Speaker 2: backside when you slow down and you basically revert post,
Speaker 2: up meaning you're posting, up but instead of trying to
Speaker 2: back the dude, down you're leading him forward while trapping
Speaker 2: him in a position on your body that you feel comfortable,
Speaker 2: with and you have an open lane in front of,
Speaker 2: you which forces the defense to make a. Decision he
Speaker 2: had a fun one in the fourth quarter where he
Speaker 2: pump faked like four or five times while dudes are
Speaker 2: just flying around about, him and he hit like a
Speaker 2: little casual six foot fade away over the. Top he's
Speaker 2: getting really good at using his size and transition as
Speaker 2: an opportunity to get that easy. Angle like he'll look
Speaker 2: up at the rim with the ball in his right
Speaker 2: hand and he'll just like do that push cross and
Speaker 2: drop his right shoulder and he'll take an aggressive dribble
Speaker 2: and then the defender's on his side and he'll get
Speaker 2: that advantage at like twenty five feet and, then just
Speaker 2: like he does in a ball, screen he'll just work
Speaker 2: his way. Downhill no one stops, him he'll go all
Speaker 2: the way to the front of the. Rim if, not
Speaker 2: he'll just kind of wait for the defense to. React
Speaker 2: and again when he gets into those, situations that's where
Speaker 2: the similarities To luca are like jarring for, me because
Speaker 2: there's a dynamic that takes place when he gets the
Speaker 2: defender on his hip er on his, back he slows
Speaker 2: way the hell. Down he can get painfully slow sometimes
Speaker 2: on his drive in that sort of position when he's
Speaker 2: got the defender, pinned AND i say pin painfully for the.
Speaker 2: Defense dribble penetration makes help defenders make. Decisions him slowing
Speaker 2: down is what allows those openings to fully. Form while
Speaker 2: he's going, slow defenders are flying and they're making, decisions
Speaker 2: and they're fully committing to whatever defensive read they. Make
Speaker 2: that allows him to allow the play to develop so
Speaker 2: that he can find the read and make. It and
Speaker 2: from there he just has his reads down Pat every
Speaker 2: one of his teammates know where to. Be Tim hardaway
Speaker 2: And Malik beasley know that If kate throws him the
Speaker 2: ball and a kick ahead and transition or a kickout
Speaker 2: in a ball, screen even if the closeout is, there
Speaker 2: he wants them to shoot. It he's rifling it to
Speaker 2: them because he knows they're good contested three point. Shooters
Speaker 2: he wants them to take. It he got a dunk
Speaker 2: For Jalen duran in the second half when he got
Speaker 2: blitzed around the right elbow And miami forgot to tag
Speaker 2: the roller just elevated and rifled pass The dalen during
Speaker 2: easy dunk it actually might have Been Isaiah. STEWART i
Speaker 2: can't even remember who's in the game at that. Point
Speaker 2: he's developing this really fun chemistry With Asar thompson. Too
Speaker 2: he generated three dunks for him off of cuts in various.
Speaker 2: SITUATIONS i talked about this concept With Jonathan kaminga a
Speaker 2: couple of days. Ago but the idea of, runways you,
Speaker 2: know we always think about help side defense as an
Speaker 2: opportunity to get a wide open catch and shoot, Three
Speaker 2: but the same exact thing happens for an athlete in
Speaker 2: a different way in the form of a runway. Appearing
Speaker 2: so you can imagine if you're a in the corner
Speaker 2: and the ball gets skipped to you in your, helper
Speaker 2: the guy who's guarding you steps into the. Paint you
Speaker 2: think of it as this wide open catch and shoot.
Speaker 2: Three but if you read it before the pass and
Speaker 2: the defender steps, up all of a, sudden there's like
Speaker 2: twenty five feet of space or twenty two feet of
Speaker 2: space between you and the corner and the front of
Speaker 2: the rim with nobody standing, there and that's an opportunity
Speaker 2: for an athlete to get a running. Start And asar
Speaker 2: is just finding those runways in two day diferent spots
Speaker 2: along the baseline when he's in the. Corner but he
Speaker 2: also got one off Of kid's drive swooping in from
Speaker 2: behind along the. Wing this is Where kaid's slowing down
Speaker 2: as an. Advantage he slows down the play, develops everyone
Speaker 2: kind of coalesces around. HIM A sara finds an opening
Speaker 2: and just zooms in from. Behind he drops him. Off
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if there's congestion in the. PAINT a
Speaker 2: star sits a freak. Athlete once he gets ahead of
Speaker 2: steam like, that no one's jumping with, him no one's
Speaker 2: stopping him there, again he had three dunks tonight on
Speaker 2: cuts off of k, drives and then of Course kay
Speaker 2: tops it all off by stealing victory from defeat with
Speaker 2: a couple of threes down the. Stretch there was a
Speaker 2: missed three From Elik beasley on the right. Wing Jalen
Speaker 2: duran just Buries kalel where right under the. Rim and
Speaker 2: by the Way kalel was rough down the stretch of this,
Speaker 2: game he didn't really understand what he was doing around the.
Speaker 2: Rim he gave up that key offensive. Rebound he had
Speaker 2: another weird play where he tried like a corn test you,
Speaker 2: know The Luke cornett like jump up and just clap
Speaker 2: from underneath the. Basket he tried one of those on
Speaker 2: a post move where he had no chance to block the,
Speaker 2: shot and thanks to him leaving his, feet he was
Speaker 2: not in a position to get the defensive, rebound and
Speaker 2: someone just swooped in right behind him and got the
Speaker 2: offensive rebound put. Back i'm, like what are you, doing?
Speaker 2: Dude but the heat look really. Bad we're going to
Speaker 2: talk about that in a. Minute that's an entirely separate.
Speaker 2: Issue but, Anyway durren gets the offensive, rebound pitches it
Speaker 2: out to. Kid he hits the three to put The
Speaker 2: pistons up. Two Then Tyler harrow ties the, game drawing
Speaker 2: a foul On Jalen. Durnant and that really is the
Speaker 2: next step For Jalen duran in his. Development he's got
Speaker 2: to learn how to defend on the. Perimeter you got
Speaker 2: switched on to a. Guard your job at that, point
Speaker 2: depending on the game, plan whatever the coach that tells you.
Speaker 2: Is you, know if he's an elite jump, shooter let's
Speaker 2: Say Steph, curry your job is to play up on
Speaker 2: the jump shot and funnel him in a direction where
Speaker 2: you have planned. Help if it's a guy that you're
Speaker 2: less worried about him making a pull up jump, shot
Speaker 2: then it's about containment and from there you don't need
Speaker 2: to block the jump. Shot no one's asking you to
Speaker 2: block the jump. Shot they're asking you to contest the jump.
Speaker 2: Shot they want you to at least make the guy
Speaker 2: make it contested. Shot it If Tyler harrow hits a
Speaker 2: contested seventeen foot or off the, bounce there you kind
Speaker 2: of have to live with. That leaving your feet trying
Speaker 2: to block the shot Allowed Tyler harrow to get two
Speaker 2: free throws which he's going to, make and again that's
Speaker 2: just the stuff that he's got to work on in his.
Speaker 2: Development you put your hand, up you live with the
Speaker 2: results in those situations instead of jumping out of your.
Speaker 2: Shoes guards are always going to go for fakes against
Speaker 2: a big man in space because once big dudes start
Speaker 2: moving one way or the other or leave their, feet
Speaker 2: they're so big that it's hard for them to change
Speaker 2: direction and regain control of their. Body once they get
Speaker 2: you a lunge one way or to leave their, feet
Speaker 2: that's where the quickness comes in for the guard and
Speaker 2: they're going right around. You that's why it's about positional,
Speaker 2: defense staying, disciplined doing what the game plan needs from
Speaker 2: you in that sort of. Situation he'll get better in.
Speaker 2: Time he just needs. Reps The it would Do jalen
Speaker 2: a lot of good to this summer to start showing
Speaker 2: up to some workouts with some PERIMETER nba players and
Speaker 2: just ask to guard and be, like, oh you guys
Speaker 2: are doing. Ones let me hop in and just get
Speaker 2: reps guarding you guys one on, one because that's the
Speaker 2: kind of thing that will help him when it comes
Speaker 2: to defending out on the. Perimeter but, anyway herotize it
Speaker 2: and Then kate ends up banking in the pull up
Speaker 2: three Over bam at the. Buzzer really high degree of difficulty,
Speaker 2: shot but he got it up over the. Contest and,
Speaker 2: again when you shoot it right there at the top
Speaker 2: of the, key you can afford to miss. Long you missed,
Speaker 2: long but went right in off the back of the.
Speaker 2: Rim they're off the. Backboard kate finished with twenty five
Speaker 2: twelve and. Eleven it's his ninth triple double this, season
Speaker 2: his second twenty five point triple double of his. Career
Speaker 2: pissons are, fun, Man they have so many fun, subplots
Speaker 2: LIKE i don't really know what to think Of Ron
Speaker 2: holland yet BECAUSE i don't know what he'll become. Offensively
Speaker 2: but he had a really fun stretch of this game
Speaker 2: where he just ball pressured the hell out Of Alec
Speaker 2: burk's in the second, half and you could see him
Speaker 2: really becoming a defensive. Weapon sooner than. Later he was
Speaker 2: plus eleven in twelve. Minutes Malik beasley hasn't just been
Speaker 2: one of the best three point shooters in the league this.
Speaker 2: Year he's shown some really impressive scoring, chops like hitting
Speaker 2: tough shots off of different bits of footwork and ball
Speaker 2: handling over great, contests doing excellent work off the. Bounce
Speaker 2: he's shooting thirty eight percent off the dribble jump shots this,
Speaker 2: year waited for. Threes he's getting over a point per.
Speaker 2: Shot he's having a wonderful scoring. Season Tobias harris is
Speaker 2: having a great season and really coming around as a
Speaker 2: secondary shot creator for them after The Jaden ivy. Injury
Speaker 2: Asar thompson's in a different role than his. Brother Like,
Speaker 2: Amen thompson is getting a lot of inverted spacing situations
Speaker 2: because Of. Shanggoon i've talked about this concept with Like
Speaker 2: Aaron gordon and Nakolea. Jokic an athlete on the back
Speaker 2: line has infinitely more value when the big man is
Speaker 2: playing out around the elbows because that is pulling the
Speaker 2: rim protector out to guard the big man out around the.
Speaker 2: Elbows that allows those runways to appear more frequently along
Speaker 2: the back. LINE a Men thompson is going to have
Speaker 2: a lot of success feasting off of The shannggoon inverted.
Speaker 2: Spacing with The Detroit, pistons they don't have that type
Speaker 2: of inverted, spacing so those opportunities are fewer and further
Speaker 2: between for us are but you can still see some
Speaker 2: similar flashes of his vertical spacing ability of the wrecking
Speaker 2: ball that he can be on defense just like A
Speaker 2: Men thompson can. Be he ran some ball screen action
Speaker 2: of his own in the second half of this game
Speaker 2: With Jalen, dura and he got a good downhill rep
Speaker 2: against Kalel ware where he caved his chest in and
Speaker 2: got an easy little left handed layup right at the
Speaker 2: front of the. Rim, again The pistons are just fun
Speaker 2: and now they're only one game back Of indiana and
Speaker 2: the standings for the four seed and potentially home court
Speaker 2: in the first. Round that, said they do have a
Speaker 2: very tough remaining. Schedule the remaining schedule opponent combined opponent
Speaker 2: win percentages over fifty five, Percent SO i think they're
Speaker 2: probably headed for that sixth seed and a first round
Speaker 2: series against The, knicks unless obviously some things go. Differently that,
Speaker 2: said like we've talked about in the, PAST i think
Speaker 2: The pistons might actually match up better With New york
Speaker 2: than they do With indiana Or, milwaukee so that that
Speaker 2: would be a really fun first round. Series AND i
Speaker 2: guess we'll see when the time. Comes BUT i thought
Speaker 2: like the most interesting story of that game was just
Speaker 2: how lifeless The Miami heat. Looked they've lost nine in a,
Speaker 2: row but that's underselling the. Situation they're just four and
Speaker 2: sixteen in their last twenty. GAMES i, mean can you
Speaker 2: remember a worst stretch Under Eric. SPOULSTRA i, can't at
Speaker 2: least not in these serious years over the last half.
Speaker 2: Decade the twenty eighth in offense in that, span seventeenth in.
Speaker 2: Defense and the scary part is when you watch, them
Speaker 2: they literally look like a team that's let go of the.
Speaker 2: Rope that's not believing in what they're. Doing that's given
Speaker 2: up one of the Strangest heat Games i've watched in
Speaker 2: a long time in terms of, process just Because i'm
Speaker 2: so used to The heat being the sharp effort and
Speaker 2: execution team Hashtag heat. Culture they brought out their zone
Speaker 2: to start the fourth quarter and they immediately gave up
Speaker 2: a easy driving scoop shot foul On Dennis schroeder Because
Speaker 2: bam was kind of asleep on his back line and
Speaker 2: didn't make a. Rotation they gave up a dunk To
Speaker 2: Tobias harris in crunch. Time it was a three point
Speaker 2: game with five minutes, left And Tobias harris was just
Speaker 2: standing on the left wing completely. Unguarded caye just threw
Speaker 2: in the, ball he drove down the lane and dunked.
Speaker 2: It you know how bad of a transition defensive possession that.
Speaker 2: Is for it to be like a semi, transition like
Speaker 2: we're back on, defense we're not Guarding tobias and no
Speaker 2: one's helping at the. Rim that's beyond. Sloppy that's Very Unmiami,
Speaker 2: heat like just to sleep at the. Wheel but, again
Speaker 2: the offense was WHAT i found super. Bizarre what used
Speaker 2: to be a sophisticated system of ball in player movement
Speaker 2: has degraded to what looks like a pickup. GAME a
Speaker 2: lot of the. Time they have these weird possessions where
Speaker 2: they just Let Davion mitchell dribble the ball up the
Speaker 2: court and play like one on one off the, wing
Speaker 2: like He's John morant trying to initiate, offense LIKE i
Speaker 2: don't understand. It they have these super ugly bam at
Speaker 2: a bio possessions where he's just facing up in a
Speaker 2: triple threat and everyone's just kind of standing, around and then,
Speaker 2: suddenly with three seconds, left after he's done, nothing he'll
Speaker 2: either throw some bs up or he'll turn and run
Speaker 2: a last second dho With Duncan. Robinson a lot of
Speaker 2: rushed bad shots From Duncan robinson And Tyler. Harrow Tyler
Speaker 2: harrow shot a floater over a double team that hit
Speaker 2: the top of the. Backboard in the fourth, Quarter Duncan,
Speaker 2: robinson with eleven on the shot, clock took a, drifting
Speaker 2: fading jump shot out of the right corner that missed
Speaker 2: the basket by several. Feet there's no point in even
Speaker 2: discussing anything further with this team because they look like
Speaker 2: they aren't even. Competing most of these Plays i'm discussing
Speaker 2: took place in a close game in the fourth. Quarter
Speaker 2: it's just. Bizarre and the scariest thing is there isn't
Speaker 2: any upside to this. Situation harrow's having the best season
Speaker 2: of his, career and he looks like he's not good.
Speaker 2: Enough like IF i ask you who's Better Tyler harrow
Speaker 2: Or Austin, reeves it's. Close that's not enough to build
Speaker 2: a franchise. Around if you're waiting on Bam adebio to
Speaker 2: develop on, offense he's twenty seven years, Old i'm not
Speaker 2: sure that's ever gonna. Happen Kell aware has some, tools
Speaker 2: but he's super raw and mistake prone like most young.
Speaker 2: Players he certainly doesn't look like a franchise altering. Talent and,
Speaker 2: yeah they have some scrappy role player, dudes but they're
Speaker 2: useless without the star. TALENT i don't know what saves this.
Speaker 2: Situation it's definitely bleak times For heat fans for. Sure All,
Speaker 2: Right so a couple about a month, ago we got
Speaker 2: a new producer for a, Show Jackson. Staphone he's been
Speaker 2: doing incredible work for us adding, film you guys are
Speaker 2: always in the comments telling us how much you desperately
Speaker 2: want film in the, show And jackson's been fighting the
Speaker 2: good fight behind the, scenes trying to add film whenever he.
Speaker 2: Can we're gonna hit about fifteen minutes or so questions
Speaker 2: from the. Chat jackson is one of my favorite people
Speaker 2: to talk basketball. With he's gonna come on and help
Speaker 2: us answer some of these. Questions all, Right, jackson what
Speaker 2: do we got so?
Speaker 1: Far what's going?
Speaker 2: On?
Speaker 1: Jason thank you for the, warm warm, intro and what's
Speaker 1: up to the hoops? Tonight, listeners, everyone just keep dropping
Speaker 1: your questions in the live in the YouTube chat AND
Speaker 1: i will pick the best. Ones but first it's From.
Speaker 1: Eric let's see. Here WHILE i think the most most
Speaker 1: of the recent play and playoff exits are due to,
Speaker 1: injury how long Can yiannis be largely out of THE
Speaker 1: nba title picture until he isn't a consensus top three
Speaker 1: player in the.
Speaker 2: WORLD i always have such a hard time with this
Speaker 2: sort of thing because of what happened With, steph what's
Speaker 2: currently happening WITH, kd what even happened With lebron early
Speaker 2: in the, Year and those players aren't even close to
Speaker 2: the athletic prime That giannis is still. IN i think
Speaker 2: that playing bad basketball and losing games is super, discouraging
Speaker 2: AND i think it's starting to wear on him a little.
Speaker 2: Bit he's not playing. WELL i talked about this in
Speaker 2: my show this. Morning his three worst field goal percentage
Speaker 2: games of the entire season took place in the last. Week,
Speaker 2: so like you can, tell he's starting to kind of
Speaker 2: get a little frustrated or at least be banged up
Speaker 2: or missing that extra bit of. Exertion but LIKE i,
Speaker 2: mean MY i don't know about, You. JACKSON i have
Speaker 2: a feeling The bucks if they lose in disappointing fashion the,
Speaker 2: summer that this whole thing's blown, up don't you, Think
Speaker 2: oh for?
Speaker 1: SURE i mean it didn't feel like they got a
Speaker 1: fair shake on. There you're one of The dame experience
Speaker 1: because of the. Injuries but this, year assuming they're, healthy
Speaker 1: if they don't get past the second, round it's, like
Speaker 1: what are we doing all this?
Speaker 2: For they can't. Score it's the craziest.
Speaker 1: Thing it's insane to Replace Drew holliday With Damian. Lillard
Speaker 1: the only place you're upgrading is on one side of the, floor,
Speaker 1: obviously and like by a LOT i THINK i think
Speaker 1: it's fair to say buy a lot and they still
Speaker 1: can't score. It they just can't get generate good.
Speaker 2: Shots it's busy despite having a lot of shooting. Too
Speaker 2: like it's it's really strange to, me but LIKE i,
Speaker 2: mean it's one of those things where LIKE i can't
Speaker 2: write them off completely because you get in a playoff.
Speaker 2: Setting we haven't seen Playoff giannis since that second round
Speaker 2: series against The celtics when he was a literal wrecking
Speaker 2: ball that like single handedly extended that series to seven.
Speaker 2: Games and Obviously dame presents the problems that he. Presents the,
Speaker 2: teams and they do have a lot of three point,
Speaker 2: shooting and they do have a lot of, size but
Speaker 2: the they, just to, me they're not LIKE i always
Speaker 2: talk about like having an elite. Unit they don't have
Speaker 2: any a unit on either end of the floor THAT
Speaker 2: i think strikes real fear in.
Speaker 1: Anybody, yeah AND i to your point About. GIANNIS i
Speaker 1: was talking about this with some other with some friends
Speaker 1: the other, day like teams that have the capability to
Speaker 1: win the title this, year AND i think you still
Speaker 1: have to include The bucks in that list because Of
Speaker 1: giannis could just turn into a superhero for two months
Speaker 1: and take them all the way. There but so because of,
Speaker 1: that it's hard to really write them. Off but they
Speaker 1: haven't looked very good at.
Speaker 2: Really much of.
Speaker 1: Anything LIKE i, mean they're, good they're, fine they're like
Speaker 1: a fine basketball, team but they haven't looked elite at.
Speaker 2: Anything they're really, big AND i think that will give
Speaker 2: them the ability to present some problems that they get
Speaker 2: a favorable matchup here. There they've weirdly been good against
Speaker 2: The celtics for the last couple of, years like they've
Speaker 2: had some big wins, there but, like but, yeah so
Speaker 2: a lot of that stuff was schedule related To so
Speaker 2: it's hard for me to. Say here's the. THING nba
Speaker 2: history tells us that The bucks don't, Win so do
Speaker 2: with that information what you will, anyway.
Speaker 1: All, right all, right next, one because you mentioned The,
Speaker 1: celtics and BECAUSE i am A celtics, fan will go From,
Speaker 1: chris do you Think boston's three point obsession will come
Speaker 1: back to haunt them in the playoffs this?
Speaker 2: YEAR i literally don't care about three point. VOLUME i
Speaker 2: care about shot, Quality like that is the only thing
Speaker 2: that matters to. Me, like if you if you are
Speaker 2: generating wide open catch and shoot. Threes as The Boston,
Speaker 2: celtics you're going to win the. Title, like if they
Speaker 2: generate wide open catch and shoot threes in every, round
Speaker 2: they're going to. Win to, me if they, lost it
Speaker 2: would manifest As tatum And brown missing a lot of
Speaker 2: really tough pull up jump shots and these ugly possessions
Speaker 2: where they only ask the ball around the perimeter and
Speaker 2: they take like kind of semi, contested, good not great
Speaker 2: types of. Threes that's when they get into their cold.
Speaker 2: Spells is when you have these extended stretches where they're
Speaker 2: getting good shots that we know The celtics can, make
Speaker 2: but they're not the kind of shots that they won
Speaker 2: the title with last. Year the shots they won the
Speaker 2: title with last year was when they would Beat Luka
Speaker 2: dancis off the dribble pass. Pass suddenly it's a wide
Speaker 2: open catch and shoot three off of a paint. Touch
Speaker 2: that's when they're at their. Best BUT i don't, THINK i,
Speaker 2: THINK i don't think like them missing a bunch of
Speaker 2: easy catch and shoot threes is how they.
Speaker 1: Lose, YEAH i, AGREE i MEAN i think it's and
Speaker 1: that's HOW i. Appreciate that's How Joe missoula talks about it.
Speaker 1: Too it's not just about pure, volume although that is
Speaker 1: part of the you, know the math, equation but it's
Speaker 1: all about. Process and he's, like if it's a good,
Speaker 1: three we could take a hundred of. Them like if
Speaker 1: it's if it's if it's a high quality catch and, shoot,
Speaker 1: LOOK i would take on every single. Possession and that's
Speaker 1: HOW i feel it. Too it's less about the make
Speaker 1: of the, miss even though ultimately that's sort of what decides.
Speaker 1: It but from a process, STANDPOINT i think it's been
Speaker 1: a little shakier. ULTIMATELY i mean we've you've talked about
Speaker 1: this on the show a couple of times recently about
Speaker 1: How Jalen bred And Drew holliday are not shooting as.
Speaker 1: Well just straight, up they are not shooting as, well
Speaker 1: whether whatever kind of look you want to make, it
Speaker 1: they're not shooting as. Well and so if, that if
Speaker 1: they continue to shoot in the low, THIRTIES i, mean
Speaker 1: it's gonna maybe potentially create some. Problems from a process,
Speaker 1: Standpoint it's hard to be too upset about well generate.
Speaker 2: Three even the LIKE i don't think they'll lose Because
Speaker 2: drew And jalen miss a ton of wide open. THREES
Speaker 2: i think they'll lose If drew And jalen miss a
Speaker 2: bunch of, contested mediocre threes because they didn't trust their.
Speaker 2: Process LIKE i. Was, ACTUALLY i was at a As
Speaker 2: i've told you, guys we had a death in the
Speaker 2: family about a month, ago and we had an event
Speaker 2: today about, that and SO i got to hang out
Speaker 2: a little bit with my wife's former high school, coach
Speaker 2: and we were just kind of talking like big picture
Speaker 2: of basketball stuff because he's coaching somewhere else right now
Speaker 2: And i'm coaching some high school and and he was
Speaker 2: kind of an old school, dude is, like, yeah like you,
Speaker 2: KNOW i like to see more mid. Range everyone's you,
Speaker 2: know focusing on the layups in the, threes and you,
Speaker 2: KNOW i kind of got into like this philosophical conversation
Speaker 2: with him about like shot quality and, process and, like,
Speaker 2: honestly it's really simple to. Me the goal of every
Speaker 2: possession should be to get a wide open layup or
Speaker 2: catch and shoot. Three that should be the. Goal AND i,
Speaker 2: SAY i should say a wide open layup or a
Speaker 2: wide open catch and shoot. Three that's what you're trying
Speaker 2: to do every single time down the. Floor and if
Speaker 2: you generate a hundred of. Them, great you're gonna win
Speaker 2: and you're gonna score one hundred and fifty, points but
Speaker 2: there should be some like what you don't want to
Speaker 2: do is take an uncomfortable out of rhythm catch and
Speaker 2: shoot three or an uncomfortable forced in traffic rim attempt
Speaker 2: over a wide open mid range attempt that's available later
Speaker 2: in the shot. Clock that's WHERE i THINK i kind
Speaker 2: of differentiate from some of, these uh like more analytically
Speaker 2: focused shot, quality you, know some of those, thesis some
Speaker 2: of that you, know thought Process i've heard out. THERE
Speaker 2: i just think there's an order of, operations and if
Speaker 2: you can't get a wide open catch in two three
Speaker 2: or a wide open, layup the next best thing is
Speaker 2: a good in rhythm shot for a player who's good
Speaker 2: at that, shot wherever it is on the. Floor if
Speaker 2: that makes, sense.
Speaker 1: One hundred Percent for the next, one let's do a
Speaker 1: one that's BEEN i feel like trending online this week From.
Speaker 1: Brendan do you Think austin reeves he said it is
Speaker 1: one of the best third options in the. LEAGUE i
Speaker 1: think that's pretty fair to. Characterize but where would you
Speaker 1: say he ranks amongst third? Options in the.
Speaker 2: League, man this is such a tough question because there's
Speaker 2: so many different types of third options all around the.
Speaker 2: LEAGUE i saw the debate between him And Norman powell
Speaker 2: with The. CLIPPERS i tweeted this stat out, earlier But
Speaker 2: Norman powell's career high and assists in any basketball game
Speaker 2: in THE, nba whether it's regular season or playoffs is.
Speaker 2: Six austin eleven times in his career has put up
Speaker 2: twenty five points and seven assists in a. Game Like
Speaker 2: austin is a whole other level of well round did ball.
Speaker 2: Handler but, like, again AS i always talk, about your
Speaker 2: value to your team is unique to your value in that,
Speaker 2: system and, like there's no doubt That Norman powell's jump
Speaker 2: shooting has been immensely valuable off the, ball not just
Speaker 2: in catch and shoot, situations but also off the. Move
Speaker 2: for The. Clippers where it gets tricky is like kind
Speaker 2: of similar to what's happening With. AUSTIN a good amount
Speaker 2: of that happened Without Kawhi leonard in the. Lineup and
Speaker 2: so obviously it's like a different type of role with
Speaker 2: different types of shots, now but as you go around the,
Speaker 2: league it's, Like, okay let's talk about chrisops porzingis, well
Speaker 2: he's a back to the basket post up threat and
Speaker 2: a rim. Protector just a fundamentally different type of player
Speaker 2: than what you're looking at with An Austin. Reeves right
Speaker 2: as you go around the, league these different guys are
Speaker 2: Like Chet holmgren is a very different type of third,
Speaker 2: option going To Evan mobley with Or Ti jerome with
Speaker 2: the with The, calves Like Ty jerome is in a
Speaker 2: bench guard, Role he's in a different type of role
Speaker 2: Than Austin. REEVES i Think austin's better Than, tie but
Speaker 2: how much it's hard to, dictate, right everything's unique to
Speaker 2: your system that you're. In and you, KNOW i Think
Speaker 2: austin's been fantastic for The, lakers AND i don't know
Speaker 2: exactly where i'd rank, him but he's definitely up there
Speaker 2: among the third. Options, YEAH i.
Speaker 1: AGREE i also saw Some Desmond bane, talk WHICH i
Speaker 1: think is is a good one THAT i feel like
Speaker 1: those two are actually in a similar archetype of can
Speaker 1: it function as a true third? Option but also if you're,
Speaker 1: like can you just run thing for five?
Speaker 2: Minutes, yeah can you get us forty tonight because we need? It,
Speaker 2: yeah that kind of.
Speaker 1: Thing they can totally do, that and then you know
Speaker 1: Whichever nick's player is their third best. Player if you
Speaker 1: want to pick like that's that's Og McHale Josh hart,
Speaker 1: LIKE i think pick your boys in, there but IT'S
Speaker 1: i THINK i Think mchal's better Than austin as. WELL
Speaker 1: i Think McHale's better Than. Austin all, right next, one
Speaker 1: let's do from Chef. Steph what are your thoughts On
Speaker 1: kaminga's long term role in The warriors and if The
Speaker 1: warriors should still continue investing in him or trade him
Speaker 1: for the right player in a.
Speaker 2: Win, now, well If i'm not, mistaken isn't he a
Speaker 2: free agent this? Summer he will be AN. Rfa, Yeah,
Speaker 2: SO i mean you've crossed your fingers and you hope
Speaker 2: that he doesn't get like some massive offer thrown at.
Speaker 2: HIM i have a feeling because, again if we talk
Speaker 2: about what we were just talking about, earlier with value
Speaker 2: in your specific, system there's gonna be some team out
Speaker 2: there that's, like, WAIT i can throw a bunch of
Speaker 2: money at this six' nine freaky, athletic FORWARD and i
Speaker 2: can let him grow in our ecosystem and at a,
Speaker 2: certain point, let's say let's say some team throws, four
Speaker 2: years one hundred and twenty Million, at kamingo so thirty
Speaker 2: million per for. Four years now you're looking at it
Speaker 2: As the warriors and, You're, like okay is he remotely
Speaker 2: capable of snatching the starting spot From A moses moody
Speaker 2: Or A. Brandon, pajemski no they need those roles, too
Speaker 2: badly like They need moses. Is awesome he's been doing
Speaker 2: so good in, that job in. That job, You Know
Speaker 2: brandon pajemski's been doing so good in. That role and,
Speaker 2: you know the one Thing that kaminga does well enough
Speaker 2: to do it with the starters is like guard. The
Speaker 2: ball but there's all these other weaknesses both, off ball
Speaker 2: defensively and functioning within their offense with with with the
Speaker 2: starters that it just doesn't make a ton. Of sense
Speaker 2: SO LIKE i i it would be a bummer to
Speaker 2: lose him for nothing, this SUMMER but i do think
Speaker 2: it's an outcome that's on. The table, and like as
Speaker 2: far as the big picture potential For, the warriors unless
Speaker 2: he becomes a knockdown three point shooter and a good
Speaker 2: read and react guy and a good off, ball defender
Speaker 2: he can't get into the, starting lineup and if he
Speaker 2: can't get into the, STARTING lineup i just don't see
Speaker 2: a version of that that makes a ton. OF sense, i, mean,
Speaker 2: like well let me. Ask you you've been Following the
Speaker 2: warriors pretty closely over the last. Few years what do?
Speaker 2: You see what do You see kamena's big term long
Speaker 2: term POTENTIAL as.
Speaker 1: I don't see it On, the. WARRIORS don't i just
Speaker 1: don't see the long term fit on. THE roster, I
Speaker 1: mean i think it's so hard to predict HOW these rfa,
Speaker 1: situations go especially with the new we haven't had that
Speaker 1: many experiences of players in a role like him under
Speaker 1: this new Second eight briton sort of. Cap era so
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see How the warriors. Play THAT
Speaker 1: but i just think that he and maybe, rightfully so
Speaker 1: wants a lot more touches than he's getting on this on.
Speaker 1: This roster like if you, put him if you swapped
Speaker 1: him with any number Of The houston rockets, wing athletes,
Speaker 1: right like he would he would love. That team if
Speaker 1: he was On The, houston rockets. He fits he Is
Speaker 1: A houston rocket functionally with the way he, plays basketball,
Speaker 1: right like he is made to be just a run
Speaker 1: gun athlete offense downhill and like athletic on ball defender
Speaker 1: that kind of makes a lot of, Mental mistakes like
Speaker 1: he is A Perfect houston rocket right now that he's
Speaker 1: gonna end up there because they had a lot of,
Speaker 1: Players ALREADY but i just don't think, that stylistically he's
Speaker 1: the type of player that fits all that well In the,
Speaker 1: warriors ecosystem and from a financial and, roll STANDPOINT it's i,
Speaker 1: DON'T know i find it a little challenging for a
Speaker 1: long term that's really.
Speaker 2: Well put so he Souped Up tarry easton is what
Speaker 2: you're saying in a in a very. COMPLIMENTARY way I Love.
Speaker 1: Jonathan kaminga he is so fun, to watch but he
Speaker 1: he's kind of swooped.
Speaker 2: Up here YOU and i have talked. About this it's
Speaker 2: it's just the bummer that like it was, right there
Speaker 2: the blow it up and rebuild and give the Keys
Speaker 2: to jonathan was right there. Right now, it's, like shit
Speaker 2: we just run one thirteen out of Fourteen with jimmy
Speaker 2: and now are dead serious championship team and we can't
Speaker 2: afford To let john mess. Around anymore but it is what. It,
Speaker 2: is yeah and. He plays.
Speaker 1: He plays he plays a lot of JOY and i
Speaker 1: really like, watching him but it's just it doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like the the. Right, thing ultimately, all right let's close
Speaker 1: for tonight with one more Question. From wolfe he was
Speaker 1: really asking this question. A lot he really wanted to
Speaker 1: know the answer to. This. Question uh, wolfe asked would
Speaker 1: you ever make a real life? Basketball video you're really
Speaker 1: good and it'll be fun to, see it maybe even
Speaker 1: collab with other. Content creators jason is very good.
Speaker 2: At basketball he's very. TALL man i had a PHASE
Speaker 2: where i was recording a lot of my. Basketball stuff
Speaker 2: i've been out of that phase for a. While now
Speaker 2: i'm still playing quite, a bit but it's more Just
Speaker 2: like i've just been so inundated with other Stuff that
Speaker 2: i've been kind of away from some. Of that maybe
Speaker 2: This summer i'll try to get. Into It logan logan
Speaker 2: is our head of content here at. The volume he
Speaker 2: called me about two months ago and wanted to kind
Speaker 2: of explore the idea of doing some on. COURT stuff
Speaker 2: i would imagine that we'll eventually do, some stuff but
Speaker 2: it's just as YOU and, I, know jackson we're so
Speaker 2: geared up for, the playoffs, right now it just hasn't
Speaker 2: been like Something that i've been really. Seriously Considering but.
Speaker 2: I'll try i'll try to make some time before the
Speaker 2: end of this calendar year to get some more video
Speaker 2: content around. Me playing, but again It's not I'm a
Speaker 2: i'm a good, basketball Player but i'm NOT an, Nba player,
Speaker 2: so like if, you care if you care, to watch
Speaker 2: it's just because you're a fan of the show and
Speaker 2: you want to see, me PLAY which. I appreciate i
Speaker 2: appreciate the support on. That level, All, right jackson that.
Speaker 2: Was fun, all, Right guys it's all we have for
Speaker 2: tonight is always sincerely appreciate you guys for supporting me
Speaker 2: and supporting. The show we have some breakouts from tonight's
Speaker 2: show that'll be coming out over the course of the
Speaker 2: next couple. Of days i'm. ACTUALLY traveling i didn't think
Speaker 2: this trip was going to happen in light of what
Speaker 2: happened a few, weeks ago but we are actually doing
Speaker 2: one more. Ski Trip so i'm leaving to Go to
Speaker 2: idaho TOMORROW and i will be Back on, monday night
Speaker 2: and then one more kind of funky WEEK because i
Speaker 2: go To see Dead in company next Week. In Vegas
Speaker 2: but JACKSON and i have already made a plan to
Speaker 2: record a bunch of content during the two and a
Speaker 2: half Days that i'm in town so that we'll still
Speaker 2: have stuff running on, the show and it kind of
Speaker 2: coincides nicely WITH the. Ncaa tournament there's NO national tv
Speaker 2: games ON the nba chilled out on the schedule and
Speaker 2: gave us a bunch of. Lighter ones so we're going
Speaker 2: to take one, last little kind of relatively light stretch
Speaker 2: here over the course of the, next week next week and,
Speaker 2: a half and then once we Get, into april it's
Speaker 2: go time for three straight months of just absolute chaos.
Speaker 2: And basketball so we're looking forward to. It again we
Speaker 2: appreciate you guys for rocking, with us and we will
Speaker 2: see you on two you say.
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