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Speaker 1: It was a great game. What an unbelievable game. I

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Speaker 1: highly entertaining game. Like kind of a slow week for

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Speaker 1: Allen swings it to Bradley Beal on the right wing.

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Speaker 1: Draymond Green closes out on Beal, Beal swings it to

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Speaker 1: the corner to Eric Gordon. Draymond closes back out and

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Speaker 1: stops Eric Gordon from shooting, and Padziemski rotates back to

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Speaker 1: Bradley Beal and chases him off the line, and then

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Speaker 1: there's no time left on the shot clock and he

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Speaker 1: ends up having to take like kind of a rushed

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Speaker 1: step back jump shot going to his left and he

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Speaker 1: misses it. So they finally got the stop they needed.

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Speaker 1: And then on the final play at one twelve point ten,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant's guarding Steph and he's just wrapped up on

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Speaker 1: him right well, Steve Kerr really smart play design uses

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Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins to kind of set a brush screen on

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Speaker 1: Draymond Green's man, which was Bradley Beal in this case,

446
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Speaker 1: and it gets Bradley Bealle into a trailing position. What

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Speaker 1: that means is, so you'll see this a lot in

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Speaker 1: pick and roll in the NBA, where like ball handler's

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Speaker 1: working at top of the key, screeners down under the basket,

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Speaker 1: and you'll screen the screeners man so that when he

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Speaker 1: runs up into the pick and roll, instead of the

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Speaker 1: screen defender being right there with him, he's lagging behind

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Speaker 1: the play, which kind of creates like a bigger window

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Speaker 1: for your ball handler to work with. Right. So they

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Speaker 1: did a similar version of that on the sideline out

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Speaker 1: of bounds. They screened Bradley Beal, which got him into

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Speaker 1: kind of a trailing position as Draymond Green was going

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Speaker 1: to screen Kevin Durant and so Bradley Beal was already

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Speaker 1: in like a sprint recover situation, which caused him to

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Speaker 1: opt to gamble. So when Steph flashes to the top

461
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Speaker 1: of the key, Bradley Beal, who's already trailing the play,

462
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Speaker 1: gambles into the passing lane and then Steph just a

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Speaker 1: textbook pivot over his left shoulder, turns in fires and

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Speaker 1: wins it for the Warriors. I have this drill and

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Speaker 1: those of you guys who have been listening to the

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Speaker 1: show for a long time have heard me break down

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Speaker 1: this drill before. But it's one of the footwork drills

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Speaker 1: that I work with with shooters at the high school

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Speaker 1: that I coach at, And it's basically just a pivot drill,

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Speaker 1: so like you spin the ball out to yourself at

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Speaker 1: the top of the key, and you do a combination

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Speaker 1: of like reverse pivots going both ways, over the top

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Speaker 1: pivots going both ways, and then jump spins. It's a

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Speaker 1: drill I personally stole from Kelly Olynnock who used to

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Speaker 1: do it with the Miami Heat, and I think it's

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Speaker 1: a really good way to work on balance when it

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Speaker 1: comes to shooting on the move, because whether or not

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Speaker 1: you're coming over the top of the screen or you're

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Speaker 1: reverse pivoting in some sort of iso, that specific pivot

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Speaker 1: footwork is a super important part of shooting, and so

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Speaker 1: those over the top pivots in particular, they're the most

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Speaker 1: important pivots for a movement shooter. If I'm coming off

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Speaker 1: of a screen going to going to my right hand side,

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Speaker 1: I need to be able to plant my left foot

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Speaker 1: and swing that right foot around and plant it too,

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Speaker 1: and then square up in mid air to knock the

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Speaker 1: shot down. But then if I'm going the other way,

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Speaker 1: I need to plant my right foot first and swing

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Speaker 1: my left foot around. And I'm already squared up because

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Speaker 1: I'm alrighty and I can rise up and shoot right

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Speaker 1: and like that is a basic movement shooting footwork and

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Speaker 1: just doing basic reverse pivot or over the top pivots

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Speaker 1: into shots is a great way to train your body

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Speaker 1: to be used to shooting while pivoting like that. And

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Speaker 1: it's crazy because I guarantee you Steph has his own

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Speaker 1: version of that drill that he probably does god knows

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Speaker 1: how many thousands of times every summer. And it's wild

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Speaker 1: because like Steph just turned and fired. He knew he

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Speaker 1: was open as soon as Bradley Beal gambled. He knew

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Speaker 1: I got two seconds here. I don't need to take

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Speaker 1: a dribble. I'm close enough to the basket. This is

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Speaker 1: footwork that I'm used to doing. Just turn and fire

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Speaker 1: over his left shoulder like that, just drills it off

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Speaker 1: the back of the rim. It was literally is beautiful

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Speaker 1: and like, honestly like a nice kind of finish for

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Speaker 1: the warriors who have been on the wrong side of

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Speaker 1: so many of these close games as of late, but

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Speaker 1: they were on the right side of this one, and

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Speaker 1: just another crazy Steph Curry moment. A couple notes on

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Speaker 1: the Warriors front, and again, like I was talking about

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Speaker 1: earlier with the Celtics, like I really want to dive

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Speaker 1: into the weeds tactically with these teams now that we're

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Speaker 1: post deadline and try to figure out as much as

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Speaker 1: we can as we head down the stretch. Having Gary

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Speaker 1: Payton the second out there just adds another layer to

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Speaker 1: the athletic waves of this team. I've talked about this

517
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Speaker 1: ever since Wiggins and Kaminga have started playing together, so

518
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Speaker 1: much like Golden Stage just brings wave after wave of athleticism.

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Speaker 1: And there was a stretch there in the early fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter where where Gary Payton was doing a nice job

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Speaker 1: guarding Bradley Beal and like got a deflection on an

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Speaker 1: inbounds pass and he's just flying around, and then it's

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Speaker 1: like he comes out of the game and incomes Wiggins

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Speaker 1: and Kaminga and it's more of the same. And so like,

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Speaker 1: I just think having him out there to kind of

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Speaker 1: fortify things at the point of attack and add to

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Speaker 1: that kind of physical athletic imposition on the game is

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Speaker 1: huge for them. It's good to see him back out there.

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Speaker 1: The Green Wiggins Kaminga front line was plus five in

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Speaker 1: twenty four minutes against the Suns. They are now plus

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Speaker 1: ninety five on the season. Like I said in our

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Speaker 1: last Warriors pod, they were one game away from it

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Speaker 1: being their best lineup of the season. Well now it

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Speaker 1: is so. Previously their best lineup of the season. I

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Speaker 1: want to say, was Potzemski, Sarich Paul if I remember correctly,

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Speaker 1: and they were plus ninety one on the season. Well,

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Speaker 1: now Green Wiggins kaminas plus ninety five on the season.

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Speaker 1: It is officially the best three man grouping that the

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Speaker 1: Warriors have in any capacity this season. Warriors have won

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Speaker 1: six of their last seven games. They have real and

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Speaker 1: sustainable momentum. They're defending at a high level. A one

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Speaker 1: oh seven defensive rating against Phoenix, and remember that Phoenix

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Speaker 1: offense has been insane, so slowed down the Phoenix offense

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Speaker 1: a one oh seven defensive rating in total over the

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Speaker 1: seven game stretch, which is the second best mark in

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Speaker 1: the league. They're rebounding their six and def defensive rebound

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Speaker 1: percentage over the span and they're scoring well eleventh in offense,

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Speaker 1: and so a lot of those boxes, like real defensive versatility,

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Speaker 1: the ability to score or excuse me, the ability to

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Speaker 1: guard in different ways because of all the athletic versatility

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Speaker 1: on that front line. They're led by a legit superstar

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Speaker 1: playing MVP basketball during this stretch. That's always a big,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of hallmark. The defensive rating, the rebound percentage,

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Speaker 1: and they're getting reliable secondary scoring out of Jonathan Camingo

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Speaker 1: once again, another twenty one points against the Suns. He's

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Speaker 1: gone for twenty plus in ten of the last thirteen games.

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Speaker 1: So now again it's only been seven games, so I

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Speaker 1: don't want to jump to too many conclusions. Obviously, we'd

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Speaker 1: like to see a larger sample size. And they have

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Speaker 1: four tough games coming up. They have two on the

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Speaker 1: road in Utah, and then they play the Lakers, Clippers,

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Speaker 1: and Nuggets all in the next six games. So in

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Speaker 1: this six game stretch, if they go four and two

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Speaker 1: or five and one, I think that would be a

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Speaker 1: good hallmark for what this group is capable. And again,

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Speaker 1: like that's just we always want to see. I was

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Speaker 1: talking about this with the Lakers earlier in the year too,

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Speaker 1: Like you want to see like a fifteen to twenty

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Speaker 1: game stretch where a team looks dominant. That to me

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Speaker 1: is like basically a prerequisite to contend for an NBA championship.

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Speaker 1: This is the beginning of that phase. They need to

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Speaker 1: keep it going for a couple more weeks. We'll be

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Speaker 1: keeping a close eye on him over that stretch. Our

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Speaker 1: next topic, the Los Angeles Lakers, after getting nobody in

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Speaker 1: the trade market, signed Spencer Dinwitty for it looks like

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Speaker 1: a pro rated one and a half million dollars over

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Speaker 1: the course of the rest of the season, with a

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Speaker 1: one dollar bonus should the Lakers win the NBA Championship.

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Speaker 1: I hate to break it to Spencer, but I think

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Speaker 1: it's a pretty long shot that they'd get that one

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Speaker 1: extra dollar based on some of my concerns with this team.

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Speaker 1: But I do think that especially for the talent, what

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Speaker 1: you're getting for the money in terms of like one

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Speaker 1: point five million dollars, you know, a pro rated end

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Speaker 1: of the season discounted deal to get a player like

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Speaker 1: Spencer Dinwiddie, even with his flaws, I think is a

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Speaker 1: good thing for the Lakers. And so I did a

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Speaker 1: film dive on Saturday morning, I think if I remember correctly,

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Speaker 1: on Spencer Dinwoody, and so I wanted to kind of

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Speaker 1: share some of those findings with you guys today. So

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Speaker 1: there are three things in particular that intrigue me about

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Speaker 1: Spencer Dinwiddie being on the Lakers. Number One, he's a

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Speaker 1: bigger and more athletic version of any of the Lakers'

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Speaker 1: skill guards. So like one of the things I've talked

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Speaker 1: about is like Austin Reeves and D'Angelo Russell, they can

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Speaker 1: really run into issues against more athletic backcourts, especially when

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Speaker 1: both of them are on the floor at the same time.

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Speaker 1: And like Spencer Dinwiddie, for all of his flaws, he

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Speaker 1: is a much much better athlete in terms of size,

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Speaker 1: strength and just mobility than those two guards. And so

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Speaker 1: I think that that's just a significant option in the

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Speaker 1: series where in a series where you have an issue

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Speaker 1: with D'Angelo Russell, for instance, or Austin Reeves, rather than

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Speaker 1: having to go to a really inexperienced Mac Christy or

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00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 1: really flawed Cam Reddish, you know, or or if Gabe

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00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: Vincent's injured and he's not available, you have the ability

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Speaker 1: to go like Hey, Spencer is a better athlete, He's

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Speaker 1: got a better chance of hanging here, and we're still

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Speaker 1: getting some of the upside that comes from Austin or

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Speaker 1: D'Angelo Russell, and so, like I think, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: dive into that a little bit deeper when we get

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Speaker 1: to the defensive end. But like to me, just having

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Speaker 1: a bigger and better athlete in the in the guard

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Speaker 1: corps is a huge advantage for the Lakers, because that's

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Speaker 1: a guard corps that just does not have a good

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Speaker 1: athlete that also is a plus offensive player, except for

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Speaker 1: Max Christy, who's twenty years old. So like, that's why

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Speaker 1: I see that as so important. Number Two, Spencer's an

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Speaker 1: excellent closeout attacker. It's one point two points per spot

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00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: up possession this season for the Nets. That brings thirty

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Speaker 1: fourth out of one hundred and eighty nine players to

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Speaker 1: run at least one hundred spot up possessions. So he's

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Speaker 1: been one of the better spot up players in the league,

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Speaker 1: albeit at somewhat low volume. He's done I think one

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty nine possessions this year. He's a bad

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Speaker 1: shooter when he's contested thirty percent on guarded catch and

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00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: shoot jump shots twenty nine percent on pull up jump shots,

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Speaker 1: but forty two percent on unguarded catch and shoot jump shots,

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Speaker 1: which is one point twenty six points per shot. So

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Speaker 1: he can knock down the open ones. And then he's

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Speaker 1: just a really good driving kick players good at making

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Speaker 1: driving kick passes. He uh has a little bit of

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Speaker 1: that like in between high level close out tack attacking

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00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: game with like the floaters and the short shots around

635
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Speaker 1: the basket. He's actually one of only ten players in

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Speaker 1: the league to average at least six assists per game

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Speaker 1: with fewer than two turnovers, and Daniel Russell's also on

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Speaker 1: that list, So one of the higher level like assists

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Speaker 1: to turnover guys in the league, and a big part

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Speaker 1: of that is his ability to play driving kick basketball.

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Speaker 1: I'm actually really intrigued specific matchups. Only in specific matchups,

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Speaker 1: but I'm really intrigued by the potential of a three

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Speaker 1: guard lineup here. You know, think of it like this,

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Speaker 1: if torriing Prince hasn't given you what you're getting, which

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00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: you're expecting, you know, from a good tour in Prince game,

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Speaker 1: and Cam is not in a position offensively to contribute

647
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: and max Chrissy's too young for a situation, and it

648
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: needs a perimeter matchup because Ruyachamura can't navigate screens and

649
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 1: Jared Vanderbilt is still hurt. Like you can imagine a

650
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: scenario where where Spencer Dinwoody at the three, and again,

651
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: it would be very matchup. Depending would be against teams

652
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 1: that are particularly smaller right where the athletic stuff isn't

653
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: as important, but it would be a look that they

654
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: could go to where you just have a ton of

655
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: offensive firepower on the floor. I've talked a lot about

656
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 1: this before, like don't try to lean into something that

657
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: you're not going to be as good as other teams at,

658
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And the Lakers are just

659
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 1: so weak in their perimeter defense core and they've made

660
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: no attempt to address it. And so because of that,

661
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 1: like like leaning into defense all of a sudden isn't

662
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 1: as much of an option for this team as it

663
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 1: was in years past. You know, like if Jared Vanderbilt

664
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 1: can't go, you're too best options from last year Dennis

665
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: Schroeder and Jared Vanderbilt are just not in the picture.

666
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:06,959
Speaker 1: And I know Lakers fans are like, oh wait till

667
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: we get Cam Reddish back. I think relying on Cam

668
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: Reddish is foolish. Oh, Max Christy, he's twenty years old.

669
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,479
Speaker 1: How many twenty year olds are deeply impactful in playoff

670
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: runs in NBA history? Right, So, like to me, it

671
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: would be an interesting thing to look at as an option,

672
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: and again very matchup dependent, but to potentially play Austin,

673
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: Dilo and Spencer all together and just kind of lean

674
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 1: more into the offensive kind of five out style and

675
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: just see if you can outscore team sometimes and then

676
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: maybe Lebron and Ad can engage themselves physically and you

677
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: can get enough stops to win with that group. It

678
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: be an interesting look, right. The third thing that intrigues

679
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: me about Spencer Dinwoodie on the Lakers is he's a

680
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: legit shot creator. It's having a down year in Brooklyn

681
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 1: by anybody's opinion, but in six hundred and sixty seven

682
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: post ups ISOs and pick and rolls including passes, he's

683
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 1: amounted six hundred and ninety one points, which is one

684
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: point zero four points per possession, which is well above that.

685
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: So he's been a good shot creator this year in

686
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: what's considered a bad season in the twenty twenty two

687
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: playoffs for Dallas, he ran two hundred and fourteen picking rolls,

688
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: ISOs and post ups, amounting to two hundred and six points,

689
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: which is zero point ninety six points per possession, so

690
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: right around a point for per possession in the playoff

691
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: context two during his best season there with Dallas. And

692
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: so to me, like that's a big part of that

693
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: is just he is an athlete. He's good. He's got

694
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: good size and athleticism for the position, and he's got

695
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: good three level scoring tools which kind of gives him

696
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: the ability to get to his spots. And then, like

697
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: we talked about earlier, he's a good passer. So there's

698
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: a lot of upside with the spencer. Dinwidy think there's

699
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: two things that concern me. One, he really struggles with

700
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: rim decision making. He will drive into traffic and instead

701
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: of driving to kick, he'll try to finish over rim

702
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: protectors and just kind of struggle sometimes with making those

703
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: decisions while he's slashing downhill towards the basket. As a

704
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: matter of fact, shooting just fifty three percent on layups

705
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: this year, that's one hundred and twenty second and out

706
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: of one hundred and fifty six players to have attempted

707
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: at least one hundred layups, and I remember in the

708
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: Dallas playoff run in twenty twenty two that was another

709
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 1: big issue for him and he shot in the forties.

710
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: I can't remember the exact percentage, but he shot in

711
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 1: the forties on layups during that playoff run. So it's

712
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: been a consistent issue throughout his career, just something to

713
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 1: keep an eye on. One thing I'll say specifically with

714
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 1: specifically with the Lakers is Anthony Davis is a guy

715
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 1: who likes to attack. The offensive glass is kind of

716
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: like a second layer right of the attack, and when

717
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 1: you miss layups, you engage the rim protector, and when

718
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 1: you engage the rim protector, there's an opportunity there. There's

719
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: some upside. I want to be clear. Miss layups to

720
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 1: me are mostly bad because they almost always trigger transition

721
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,240
Speaker 1: opportunities the other way because when you miss a layup,

722
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: there usually got one of your guards, who's usually a

723
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:51,400
Speaker 1: guy who's back is now behind the backboard, and that

724
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 1: usually can cause some problems. But there's a tiny bit

725
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,439
Speaker 1: of upside to getting to the basket a lot, even

726
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: when you're missing, And so I think the Lakers will

727
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: be able to cap lies on some of that, but

728
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: I am concerned about his rim finishing and rim decision making.

729
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,879
Speaker 1: And then lastly, will he commit to the defensive end.

730
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 1: Like I've watched Spencer Dinwoody a lot over the years,

731
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: and for the most part he's been a bad defensive player,

732
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: but I have seen, especially for stretches there in Dallas,

733
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:21,319
Speaker 1: he can defend. He has the tools, And I talk

734
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: a lot about this concept of diminishing returns. We talked

735
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: about this a lot with Bradley Beal on the Suns. Like,

736
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 1: if Bradley Beal just wants to play like Bradley Beal

737
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 1: with the Suns, there's a diminishing return there. But if

738
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,839
Speaker 1: he wants to lean into all the details that they

739
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: need out of that position, he is a better basketball

740
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: player than most two guards in the league. And he's

741
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 1: such a gifted athlete, like he could do those things

742
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 1: even better than most people. And so that's something to

743
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: keep an eye on with brad right now. Spencer's not

744
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: the same level as brad as an athlete or as

745
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 1: a player, but it's a similar concept. If he comes

746
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 1: in and tries to play Spencer Dinwoody basketball, just like

747
00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: he did in Brooklyn. It's gonna be what you would expect.

748
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: There will be good nights, there will be bad nights,

749
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: but so much of it will just come down to

750
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: whether or not he's playing well on offense. But like,

751
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: if he really commits to the defensive end in a

752
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:12,720
Speaker 1: guard corps that desperately needs a guard with some athletic

753
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: tools to engage themselves defensively, there could be an enhanced

754
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: return that comes from that, And so a huge swing

755
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,880
Speaker 1: factor for the Spencer didn't what he's signing for the

756
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: Lakers is just simply going to be will he can

757
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: compete on the defensive end of the floor, And it's

758
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: something that we're going to be keeping an eye on

759
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 1: starting tomorrow night, when I think they play the Pistons.

760
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,280
Speaker 1: They have a light schedule this week before the deadline,

761
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 1: they play I think they play the Pistons, and then

762
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: they go on the road to Utah, which is going

763
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: to be a challenging game that they can go two

764
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: and zero before the deadline and head into the or

765
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 1: excuse me, the All Star break. If they can head

766
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 1: into the All Star Break at what would that put

767
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 1: them at thirty and twenty six? And then they come

768
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: back and they play the Warriors next Thursday. That's a

769
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 1: team that they've consistently dominated over the course of the

770
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 1: last two years, so they can keep that kind of

771
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 1: train move in that direction. They're they've won eleven of

772
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 1: their last seventeen games. They are eleven on their last

773
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,840
Speaker 1: eighteen games, excuse me, And so they're they're on a

774
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 1: little bit of a run. And so like if they

775
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: could get that up to you know, winning fifteen out

776
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 1: of twenty five games or something, or like, you know,

777
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: sixteen out of twenty five games, that's where they could

778
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,799
Speaker 1: be in a situation where they're kind of building some

779
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 1: a steam towards the playoffs. So something to keep an

780
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: eye on down the stretch of the season. All right,

781
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 1: before we get out of here today, let's do our

782
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:33,359
Speaker 1: power inkings. One team dropped out, the Sacramento Kings, and

783
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: we have a new team that's on that hasn't been

784
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: on for a few weeks that we'll be adding number ten,

785
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 1: the New Orleans Pelicans. They had the most impressive win

786
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 1: of the week last week, going into LA and handing

787
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 1: the Clippers a pretty impressive or defeating the Clippers in

788
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 1: a pretty impressive victory. They've won the perimeter battle on

789
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 1: both ends of the floor. Just they put Zi on

790
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 1: Williamson on Kawhi Leonard kind of contended strength for strength,

791
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,800
Speaker 1: right and Ingram was on Paul George length for length,

792
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: and and then they were able to put Herb Jones

793
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: on James Harden and just completely disrupt him at the

794
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: start of that game. And then on the other end

795
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 1: of the floor just drove and kick him to death

796
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 1: with just really smart perimeter attacks from guys like c

797
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: Jim McCollum. Larry Nanns was big in that game too,

798
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:16,800
Speaker 1: Just really really impressive win. It was the most impressive

799
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 1: win of the week in my opinion. The Pelicans have

800
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: won five of their last six games, their sixth in

801
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: offense and sixth in defense over that span. Did have

802
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 1: a rough end of the week though. Ian Williamson got

803
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: absolutely barbecued on defense by the Lakers and then Dyson

804
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 1: Daniels Torres Meniscus, so we wish him a speedy recovery.

805
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 1: But Pelicans on the uptick at number ten in our

806
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:39,360
Speaker 1: power rankings, number nine. The Milwaukee Bucks just two and

807
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: five since Doc Rivers got hired, now just three games

808
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: up on the Knicks for the four seeds, something to

809
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 1: keep an eye on to because you want to stay

810
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 1: above that four seed so that you can avoid Boston

811
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: until the conference finals. But I'm not reading too much

812
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 1: into this streak because Dame missed their last two losses

813
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 1: and the other three losses were all on this West

814
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: Coast road, and I am seeing encouraging signs in their

815
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,720
Speaker 1: defensive commitment that I think will bode well down the stretch.

816
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: So really ugly to go too and five hunderd doc.

817
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 1: Obviously the narrative business is gonna jump all over that,

818
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,360
Speaker 1: and it obviously isn't a great look for you to

819
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: have a little dance party when you fire your coach

820
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 1: and then to drop five of the next seven games.

821
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: But they are playing better basketball, and I am encouraged

822
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 1: about the Bucks in the big picture. The Middleton's missed

823
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: time in that stretch too, so as Brook Lopez like

824
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: injuries that played a big role in that number. Eight.

825
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 1: The Phoenix Suns, they had won five out of six

826
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 1: before the Steph Curry game winner, although it's worth keeping

827
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,240
Speaker 1: an eye on there because they their last two losses

828
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 1: are to Steph and Trey Young and both of them

829
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: went off in those games. Something to keep an eye

830
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: on with their perimeter defense. Devin Booker is still on

831
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 1: a heater. He was completely unbelievable down the stretch of

832
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 1: that Warriors game, just cooking Jonathan kaminga cooking Brandon Poziemski,

833
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: just really really high level shot making. Looked like the

834
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: Devin Booker that we saw in the playoffs last year.

835
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 1: Really encouraging. There's sixteen and seven since Bradley Beal rejoined

836
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: the lineup full time. That's the fifth best record in

837
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 1: the league over that span. Number seven Oklahoma City Thunder.

838
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 1: Two losses to Utah and Dallas have dropped them to

839
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 1: four and four in their last eight games, their eighteenth

840
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,839
Speaker 1: in offense and twentieth in defense over that span. Lou

841
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 1: Dort and Josh Giddy are still slumping, which has been

842
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: a big part of their offense falling apart. Number six

843
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Timberwolves. They beat Miami, but they lost to Chicago.

844
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 1: Late game offense was an issue again against Chicago. They

845
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,319
Speaker 1: were ducking under picks on Mike Conley and he was

846
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: kind of passive and unwilling to shoot him, and then

847
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 1: Alex Crusoe was able to match up with Anthony Edwards

848
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 1: athletically in a real way. That kind of slowed him

849
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 1: down and forced him into some tough shots down the

850
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:45,840
Speaker 1: stretch and from there. Minnesota is not a good closeout

851
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: attacking team, so if you chase them off the three

852
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 1: point line, their offense can fall apart. And Chicago came

853
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 1: back and beat them after Minnesota led by I think

854
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,840
Speaker 1: as much as twenty three in that game, and so

855
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 1: that's something to keep an eye on with them with

856
00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 1: their late game offense. But they did have a big

857
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: balance back win against the Miami Heat. Number five the

858
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,839
Speaker 1: New York Knicks. They had a one in two week

859
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 1: with losses to the Dallas Mavericks and the Indiana Pacers.

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Speaker 1: Just utterly decimated by injuries. They basically have to learn

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Speaker 1: to play a different style of basketball until they get

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Speaker 1: their guys back. Oj and Andobi apparently had a procedure

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Speaker 1: to remove like something out of his elbow, So it

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00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: turns out that it wasn't something he could just rest.

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Speaker 1: Very different than I was thinking he was having like

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Speaker 1: a tennis elbow kind of thing, But it sounds like

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Speaker 1: there was a loose body in there, which is kind

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Speaker 1: of Gnarly, so like he's been out obviously, Julius Randall

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Speaker 1: with the shoulder. Those two guys just are a huge

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Speaker 1: part of the physical imposition of that basketball team, and

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Speaker 1: so without them they basically have to learn how to

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Speaker 1: play a different style temporarily, and so it's impossible to

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Speaker 1: judge the Knicks in the short term. Still have them

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Speaker 1: up at number five, number four. The Cleveland Cavaliers, they're

875
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 1: in a soft spot of their schedule right now. They

876
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: just racked up back to back to back wins against

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Speaker 1: the Wizards, the Nets, and the Raptors. But they did

878
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Speaker 1: have a big win early in the week against the

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Speaker 1: Sacramento ca just blew him out at home. Evan Mobley

880
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:06,720
Speaker 1: three for seven from three since our last Power rankings.

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00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: That's kind of an interesting trend, albeit in a very

882
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Speaker 1: small sample size. He's shooting sixty one percent in the

883
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Speaker 1: last week. Darius Garland's a little out of rhythm, as

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Speaker 1: you can tell coming back. That's something that I've noticed

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Speaker 1: with Darius Garland when he misses time or at the

886
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Speaker 1: beginning of the season, when he's kind of getting ramped up,

887
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Speaker 1: his jumper tends to struggle and he's struggling but give

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Speaker 1: him some time. He's very much a rhythm player. Number Three.

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Speaker 1: The Denver Nuggets got blown out by Sacramento the other night.

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Speaker 1: But again, like this, this is kind of textbook stuff

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Speaker 1: that we see in defending champion types of seasons. You're

892
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Speaker 1: always getting the other team's best shot, because if you

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Speaker 1: can beat Denver, it's a huge kind of like step

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Speaker 1: forward for your team to over the course of the

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Speaker 1: regular season. But too often I'm seeing Denver, whether it's

896
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Speaker 1: in a big time game against the Lakers, who were

897
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Speaker 1: treating that like a must win because they were on

898
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 1: a little bit of a win streak, whether it's the

899
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Speaker 1: Celtics game, they just have the ability to methodically walk

900
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Speaker 1: you down in the half court, and guys like Jamal

901
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 1: Murray just raised their game to another level in that setting.

902
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: Nikole Jokic is comfortably the best player in the world.

903
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 1: Just too difficult to manage them in that situation. And

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Speaker 1: here's the thing. Good dropping games in Sacramento and getting

905
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Speaker 1: blown out. That'll hurt you in a regular season power rankings.

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Speaker 1: But I still feel very confident that the Nuggets are

907
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Speaker 1: the best team in the league, and I still have

908
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,839
Speaker 1: them comfortably as my championship favorite at this point. Number two.

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Speaker 1: The one team that I kind of have my eye

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Speaker 1: on is like a real threat to the Nuggets out west,

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Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Clippers. The offense looked a little clunky

912
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Speaker 1: this week for the Clippers. They fell apart against the

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Speaker 1: Pelicans and then they kind of struggled to score against Detroit.

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Speaker 1: It's been playing some kind of spunky basketball as of late.

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Speaker 1: Jade and Ivy has been hooping something to keep an

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Speaker 1: eye on. He's been one of my favorite young players

917
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Speaker 1: in the league and it's good to see him kind

918
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Speaker 1: of getting some momentum. Shooting the three ball really well too,

919
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Speaker 1: So shout out to Jade and Ivy. But Paul George

920
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: had a really rough game against the Pelicans and Thenkawhi

921
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 1: Leonard had a really rough game against the Piston. So

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a slump there, but still a

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Speaker 1: one in one week. The number one a new number

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Speaker 1: one after going undefeated after last week. Pushing them to

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Speaker 1: number one is the Boston Celtics huge win against the

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Speaker 1: Miami Heat yesterday. I did an in depth breakdown in

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Speaker 1: today's show about Boston's matchup, attacking and specifically the different

928
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Speaker 1: kind of like spots on the floor where they had

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Speaker 1: the most success and some of the reasons why that

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Speaker 1: is the case. So in case you miss that, if

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Speaker 1: you're just watching the Power Rankings breakout clip. If you're

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Speaker 1: a Celtics fan, make sure you check out our Celtics

933
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Speaker 1: breakdown of their win against the Miami Heat last night,

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Speaker 1: because there's some good stuff in there, just in terms

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Speaker 1: of their offensive process on more of an X's and

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Speaker 1: O's level. All right, guys, that is all I have

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Speaker 1: for today. As always, I sincerely appreciate you guys for

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Speaker 1: supporting the show. We will be back tomorrow with some

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Speaker 1: instant reactions as well as a mailbag. I will see

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Speaker 1: you guys. Then the volume