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Speaker 1: Today we're gonna break down yet another heartbreaking collapse for

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Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Lakers at home against the Boston Celtics,

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Speaker 1: and then the Sacramento Kings continue their struggles against the

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Speaker 1: podcasts under Hoops to Night. So that was a really

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Speaker 1: impressive end to the road trip for Boston if you

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Speaker 1: So you drop a couple of really tough games to

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Speaker 1: for signature wins on their home floor. You dropped those games.

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Speaker 1: That's tough, but that happens. And then you have it

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Speaker 1: I pointed this out, even with all of the collapses,

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Speaker 1: up jump shooters in the league at that volume, takes

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Speaker 1: a pull up jump shot, jogs back in transition and

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Speaker 1: guards nobody. Marcus Smart drives past Lebron James on the

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Speaker 1: right wing. Bad defense from Lebron there again, I thought

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Speaker 1: Lebron and A d in particular were completely wiped out.

435
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Speaker 1: At the end of this game, Marcus Smart gets down

436
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Speaker 1: to the middle, Anthony Davis contains Marcus Smart. Grant Williams

437
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Speaker 1: is wide open on the right wing. If Russell Westbrook

438
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Speaker 1: was in normal defensive position, that would have been his rotation.

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00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:58,720
Speaker 1: He's not even in the play. In fact, he's guarding

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Speaker 1: nobody On this play, he loses a side of man

441
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Speaker 1: and ball and he's drifting out to the left wing,

442
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Speaker 1: completely unaware of anything that's going around him. Grant Williams

443
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,520
Speaker 1: makes it three, the Celtics are up by one. That's

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Speaker 1: the that's the up and down nature of the Russell

445
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Speaker 1: Westbrook experience, and Russ fans only see the positive and

446
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Speaker 1: they refuse to see the negative. As we zoom out

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Speaker 1: on Russ's season, now, he's had a lot of good games.

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Speaker 1: He's probably had ten or so good games where he's

449
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Speaker 1: been like a significant positive. But the bad plays are

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Speaker 1: starting to outweigh the good plays again, and the bad

451
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Speaker 1: games are starting to outplay outweigh the good games. So

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Speaker 1: here's where we're at in totality this season. The Lakers

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Speaker 1: are plus twenty eight when Russ is off the floor.

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Speaker 1: They are minus seventy one when he's on, which is

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Speaker 1: dead last on the team. Even if we account for possessions,

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Speaker 1: he's minus three point seven per one possessions, which is

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Speaker 1: the worst among the Lakers rotation players. The Lakers are

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Speaker 1: thirteen points better with a D on versus a D off.

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Speaker 1: They are one point two points better with Lebron on

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Speaker 1: versus Lebron off, they are seven points worse with Russ

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Speaker 1: on versus Russ off. So the bottom line is is

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Speaker 1: that things have probably gone as good as they possibly

463
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Speaker 1: could have gone for us this season, and it's still

464
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Speaker 1: has been a complete disaster in the aggregate. And he's

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Speaker 1: undercutting which what has been a pretty dominant stretch from

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Speaker 1: Lebron James and Anthony Davis since November six, Anthony Davis

467
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Speaker 1: thirty points and thirteen rebounds a game on six shooting

468
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Speaker 1: Lebron James since November six, eight and six on from

469
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Speaker 1: the field and from three, and yet the Lakers are

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Speaker 1: dropping winnable games in large part because they have the

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Speaker 1: majority of their salary resources their most expensive player. The

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Speaker 1: majority of those resources are tied up in a player

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Speaker 1: that actually hurts the team but makes enough momentum plays

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Speaker 1: to fool the staff in front office into thinking that

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Speaker 1: he's been a positive when he clearly is not, and

476
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Speaker 1: there's this narrative surrounding him that he's been the sixth

477
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Speaker 1: man of the year this year. Oh, we moved russ

478
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,880
Speaker 1: to the bench and everything has been better, and there

479
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Speaker 1: have been good moments in good games with Russ on

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Speaker 1: the bench, But the reality is in the aggregate they're

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Speaker 1: getting destroyed when he's on the floor, and they're positive

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Speaker 1: when he's off. He and when he's alongside Lebron James,

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Speaker 1: there's too many rogue possessions of pull up threes. There's

484
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Speaker 1: two little activity off the basketball to remain a threat,

485
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Speaker 1: and he makes too many defensive mistakes. But the problem

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Speaker 1: is that narrative of him being the sixth man of

487
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Speaker 1: the Year, that's gonna be enough to trick the Lakers

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Speaker 1: into thinking that that's where he should be and they're

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Speaker 1: gonna keep him. I will be shocked if the Lakers

490
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Speaker 1: actually decided to move Russ, and it's a shame because

491
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Speaker 1: it's gonna undercut any chance that Lebron James and Anthony

492
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Speaker 1: Davis have to make a run this year. Last thing

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Speaker 1: I wanted touch on with the Lakers is Lebron James

494
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Speaker 1: anything to us with fatigue. So part of the issue

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Speaker 1: with Russ taking up this kind of salary resources with

496
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Speaker 1: him being the most expensive player on the team, the

497
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 1: Lakers have a severe depth problem. They don't have enough

498
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Speaker 1: good basketball players to run lineups with the two of

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Speaker 1: them staggered more frequently playing fewer minutes. So Lebron played

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Speaker 1: forty two minutes, played the entire fourth quarter, in overtime,

501
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 1: took just one brief rest in the third quarter. Anthony

502
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 1: Davis played forty six minutes and played the entire second

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Speaker 1: half and overtime. So when we look at things like

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Speaker 1: that botched switch where Anthony Davis and Lebron should have

505
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Speaker 1: switched the Jalon Brown Marcus Smart action, when we look

506
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Speaker 1: at Lebron getting beat to the basket by Marcus Smart

507
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Speaker 1: in overtime, you know, on the Grant Williams shot, which

508
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Speaker 1: ended up being the lead changer. I'm I can't get

509
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Speaker 1: super upset at those two guys because they're tired. It's

510
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:54,119
Speaker 1: just natural. Now. I would hope that, especially when you

511
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Speaker 1: factor in the gravity of that particular game, that they'd

512
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Speaker 1: be able to lock in and get those stops. But

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be over really critical of them when

514
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Speaker 1: it's clear that they're tired. And you know, I talked

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Speaker 1: before the season, I said, if Rob Polinka and Genie

516
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Speaker 1: Buss are patient with the trades, they might be able

517
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Speaker 1: to get something better. I admitted that before training camp.

518
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Speaker 1: I get it, there is upside there but there was

519
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:24,680
Speaker 1: an obvious downside by skipping the opportunity to give your

520
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 1: team a full training camp to integrate players, by burying

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Speaker 1: yourself in the standings because the Lakers, they knew they

522
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Speaker 1: had a difficult schedule to start the year. By digging

523
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 1: that hole in the standings and by losing that continuity,

524
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Speaker 1: now in the process, you're running your stars into the

525
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Speaker 1: ground and you're digging yourself a massive hole in the standings.

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Speaker 1: Is that worth it to potentially have something ten better

527
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Speaker 1: in the trade market? I don't think so, because this

528
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Speaker 1: group I don't think has the stamin unnecessary to go

529
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Speaker 1: on an incredibly difficult playoff run. It was a stratg

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Speaker 1: G that I thought was clearly flawed from the start,

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Speaker 1: and big shock, he came back to bite the Lakers

532
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 1: in the butt alright, moving on to King's sixers. So

533
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Speaker 1: this was a dominant win for Philly. They led by

534
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Speaker 1: twenty five for most of the game. Really good balance

535
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Speaker 1: for Philly. They had six players and double figures. Joel

536
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Speaker 1: Embiad at thirty one and seven on sixteen shots. Joel

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Speaker 1: Embiad is averaging thirty seven points per game in his

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Speaker 1: last ten games. He's not really there's you know, it's

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Speaker 1: funny because there's been a lot of talk like, oh,

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Speaker 1: why isn't it be getting enough as much attention for

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Speaker 1: this recent play as Anthony Davis has been getting. And

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00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,360
Speaker 1: I think that's silly because Anthony Davis has been better.

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00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 1: He's been the best defensive player in basketball during that stretch,

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Speaker 1: and he's been the best rebounder in basketball. He's averaging

545
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Speaker 1: fourteen rebounds per game in this recent stretch. So like, yes,

546
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Speaker 1: and Beat is scoring the way that Anthony Davis has

547
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: been even a little bit better, but he's not having

548
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Speaker 1: the overall impact the way that Anthony Davis has had.

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00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: That said, Joel Embiid is having a really impressive run

550
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Speaker 1: as a score. He had fifty three against Charlotte the

551
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Speaker 1: other night, averaging thirty seven points per game in his

552
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 1: last ten games, really really impressive night. I just want

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Speaker 1: to draw a line between him and what Anthony Davis

554
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: is doing, which is like, like, there's a reason why

555
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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis has been being called one of the best

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Speaker 1: players in the world in the last month or a

557
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Speaker 1: month and a half or so. It's because he's literally

558
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: been the best defensive player in basketball, the best rebounder

559
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Speaker 1: in basketball, and he's scoring at a Joel and Be

560
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: type of rate. UM, But kudos and Joel and B

561
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Speaker 1: because like he's on a ridiculous scoring run right now. Uh.

562
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Speaker 1: James Harden twenty one and fifteen assists on thirteen shots.

563
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Speaker 1: He had three more mid range shots in this game.

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Speaker 1: We talked a lot last week about James Harden and

565
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: his mid range scoring um, and then Tobias Harris pitched

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Speaker 1: in twenty one and seven. But I thought they won

567
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: this game on the defensive end of the floor. Batiste,

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00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: heybel It's interesting because he's been kind of like a

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Speaker 1: polarizing player within Sixers Twitter because a lot of Sixers

570
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: fans wanted to play more, but then a lot of

571
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: other Sixers fans are like, no, he's too bad offensively,

572
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: and he kind of goes in and out of the

573
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 1: rotation based on what you know. DC Rivers thinks they

574
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: need on the offensive end of the floor. But he

575
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: is so damn good defensively. Um. And he did such

576
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: a good job in this game, in particular now vigating screens,

577
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: having a good idea of one to go under versus

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00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: one to go over when he thought he had a

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Speaker 1: chance to recover and using his length to bother Dear

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00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 1: and Fox in his pull up jump shooting, which is

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00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,239
Speaker 1: such an important part of his scoring out of pick

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Speaker 1: and roll. And then when you have Joel and Beat

583
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: at the rim, especially with a guy like Sabonis who

584
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: will take perimeter jump shots but doesn't like to take

585
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Speaker 1: them at volume, it really allowed Philly to continue to

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00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: contain Deer and Fox and give him a really tough night. Um.

587
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: The Sixers have now won three in a row to

588
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: get back up to fifteen and twelve. They're the fifth

589
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 1: seed in the East right now since Phillies five and

590
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: seven start, So since November twelve, they are ten and five,

591
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: which is the fourth best record in basketball. They are

592
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: thirteenth and offense and fourth and defense, and they've been

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Speaker 1: missing a bunch of guys over that span. They're actually

594
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:46,719
Speaker 1: starting to get healthy now, which kind of leads you

595
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: to the conclusion of why their offense has been a

596
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 1: little uneven. Um, So keep an eye in the Sixers

597
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 1: because if Tyrese Maxie comes back, which I think they're

598
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Speaker 1: planning around Christmas, if Tyrese Maxie comes back, they've kind

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Speaker 1: of established themselves on the defensive end, in a way

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Speaker 1: that they didn't early in the year. I would be

601
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: I'd be surprised if the Sixers don't go on a

602
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: run to start next year in January. So the Sacramento

603
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 1: Kings continue to struggle against good teams. They are seven

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Speaker 1: and one this season when they're playing against teams that

605
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: are below five hundred, and they are seven and eleven

606
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 1: this season when playing against teams that are five hundred

607
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: are better. The realities, they just can't. I talked a

608
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: lot about this before the season, like, you have to

609
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: be able to play defense to beat the good teams

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Speaker 1: in the league, because you know, there's kind of like

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Speaker 1: a baseline level of what you can accomplish um defensively

612
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 1: in a game with a miniscule level of effort that

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00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: bad teams won't be able to exploit. So, for instance,

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Speaker 1: if you play lazy defense where you just chase guys

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Speaker 1: out the three point line and funnel them into the paint,

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Speaker 1: and you know, teams that aren't willing to make the

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Speaker 1: extra passes to get high quality shots so they don't

618
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: test your defensive rotations, you'll be able to get enough

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Speaker 1: stops to win games, especially when on the other end

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Speaker 1: you're playing against a bad defense, and your offense can

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Speaker 1: light them on fire. But when you're playing against a

622
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Speaker 1: good team, there's a certain level of shot making and

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Speaker 1: offensive you know, um organization with extra passes and and

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00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: and cutting and things like that that squeeze out extra

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00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: points on the offensive end of the floor, and then

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00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: on the other end of the floor, your offense will

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Speaker 1: be less effective because you're going up against a great

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Speaker 1: defensive team. You need to be able to lock in

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Speaker 1: and get stops to beat the good teams in the league.

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Speaker 1: According to Cleaning the Glass, when the Sacramento Kings play

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00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: a top ten team in the league by point differential,

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Speaker 1: they have a defensive rating of one seventeen, which ranks

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Speaker 1: in the league, and you can see it in the

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00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: results if you start to look at their schedule. They

635
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 1: lost to Atlanta, they lost to Boston, they lost to Phoenix.

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00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: Then they beat the Pacers. Then they beat the Clippers

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Speaker 1: without Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. Then they beat the

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00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls team, which is kind of spiraling. Then they

639
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: lose something to the Milwaukee Bucks. Then they beat the

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00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: Calves without Donovan Mitchell. Then they lose to the Knicks

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Speaker 1: and the Sixers. So the reality is of the Sacramento

642
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: Kings is they're just a fun, mediocre team that will

643
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 1: probably lose in the playing tournament or get swept in

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Speaker 1: the first round. I really am interested in a bunch

645
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: of specific players is on their team. I like Dearon Fox.

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Speaker 1: I made a lot of improvements as a jump shooter

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Speaker 1: this year. I liked him. Honesta Bonus is that bullyball

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Speaker 1: post player that passes the ball really well. I think

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Speaker 1: he had five more sists in this game. Um. I

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Speaker 1: really like Kegan Murray as a future kind of three

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Speaker 1: and D player that has more of like a lightning

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Speaker 1: quick Clay Thompson asked, type of release you know, dave

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Speaker 1: On Mitchell is starting to add some offense to offset,

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Speaker 1: you know, to to add to what he brings on

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Speaker 1: the defensive end of the four. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: good to like with the Sacramento Kings, but at this

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Speaker 1: point it's just an interesting team, not a good team.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, That is all I have for today.

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Speaker 1: As always, I sincerely appreciate your support. We're gonna be

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Speaker 1: back tomorrow with our with the power rankings, I believe

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Speaker 1: is the plan at this point. So we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: to hit on a bunch of teams tomorrow. Um. As always,

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Speaker 1: I sincerely appreciate your guys to support. Keep an eye

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Speaker 1: on the Twitter feeds, you guys can see show announcement.

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Speaker 1: So I'll let you know when the show is coming

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Speaker 1: out and I'll see you guys. Then the volume