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Speaker 1: Welcome to hoops Tonight, presented by FanDuel here at the volume.

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Speaker 1: Happy Friday. Everybody, congrats on making it to the weekend.

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Speaker 1: I woke up and I watched some NBA basketball this morning,

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Speaker 1: some real recent NBA basketball Warriors versus the Wizards in Japan.

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Speaker 1: We have two Warriors related videos coming out today. This morning,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do about ten minutes or so give or

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Speaker 1: our Power Rankings videos, we've been doing deep dives into

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Speaker 1: And with everybody, I've had to use last year's footage

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Speaker 1: Under Hoops tonight. So to start the poor shooting so

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Speaker 1: the ball. What do we preach about all the time

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Speaker 1: on this show, like those are two? Pull Up shooting

431
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Speaker 1: is the is the number one skill to beat most coverages,

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Speaker 1: because most coverages are designed to take away the easy

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Speaker 1: things and lead at the expense of leaving open the

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Speaker 1: more difficult things like pull up jump shooting, for instance.

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Speaker 1: And then on the defensive end of the floor, containing

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Speaker 1: the basketball is the key to make any defensive scheme work.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk a lot about that today. The point

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Speaker 1: is is their player development in Golden State teaches the

439
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Speaker 1: right things and so as a result, they've got a

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Speaker 1: team full of really well rounded basketball players, and that's

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Speaker 1: a huge part of why they're as good as they are. Coaching.

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Speaker 1: Steve Kurrent Erik Spoelstra are the two best coaches in

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Speaker 1: the league in my opinion, they understand what works best

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Speaker 1: in the modern NBA on both ends of the floor.

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Speaker 1: So many coaches around the league have a very traditional approach.

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Speaker 1: We talked about this a lot with Mike Budenholzer and

447
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Speaker 1: what he's what he's what Darvin hamm is bringing to

448
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Speaker 1: the Lakers. We talked about this a lot with the

449
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Speaker 1: Lakers in general, with the way they're constructing their roster

450
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Speaker 1: with small guards and and big athletic players as opposed

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Speaker 1: to wings that can defend multiple positions and play a

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Speaker 1: more versatile style. The Golden State Warriors from the top

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Speaker 1: down are targeting the right types of players that succeed

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Speaker 1: in the modern NBA, and then their coach, Steve Kur

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Speaker 1: is teaching them to play a modern style. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk a lot about that today, particularly as it pertains

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Speaker 1: to their five out offense, which we'll talk about quite

458
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Speaker 1: a bit um their uh They're malleable with their defensive

459
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Speaker 1: and offensive approach. They're willing to make adjustments. There's not

460
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Speaker 1: a lot of pride there. Like they like a ball

461
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Speaker 1: movement player movement offense right well. In the NBA Finals

462
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Speaker 1: against Boston's drop coverage, Day leaned heavily into high pick

463
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Speaker 1: and roll, trying to get Steff off the dribble, jump shots.

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Speaker 1: Jump shots. Why because that's what the Boston defense was giving.

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Speaker 1: That's that's Steve Kerr not being stubborn and understanding that

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Speaker 1: his job is not to coach the Warrior's offense in

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Speaker 1: a vacuum. His job is to coach the Warrior's offense

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Speaker 1: against that specific opponent. And like I said, they preached

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Speaker 1: the right things perimeter contained player movement versus ball movement.

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Speaker 1: A lot of teams around the league will pass the

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Speaker 1: ball well, but they don't keep their bodies in motion

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Speaker 1: as much as Golden State does. Their attention to detail

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Speaker 1: in every aspect of the game is as good as

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Speaker 1: you'll find around the league, if not the best. When

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Speaker 1: we get to a defense section, wait till you guys,

476
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Speaker 1: wait till I read to you guys the defensive metrics.

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Speaker 1: I've had, you know, five or six defensive metrics that

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Speaker 1: I've targeted as indicators of coaching, and the Warriors are

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Speaker 1: near the top and literally every single category. So hats

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Speaker 1: off to Steve Kerr. That's a huge part of why

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Speaker 1: I'm so confident in them. Experience. This is the idea

482
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Speaker 1: of understanding how to win basketball games. We could talk

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Speaker 1: about talent all day long. We can talk about schemes

484
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 1: all day long, advantages, you know, mismatches in a playoff

485
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Speaker 1: series or whatever, or skill sets. We can talk about

486
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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff all day long. But basketball games

487
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Speaker 1: are usually one in those details. And that's not just

488
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Speaker 1: Steve Kerr. That's Clay Steph and Draymond and all the

489
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Speaker 1: guys who've been around all these years that have felt

490
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Speaker 1: the pain of loss enough times and understood what it

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Speaker 1: took to win enough times that they know that those

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Speaker 1: details are what wins games more often than not. And

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Speaker 1: this will be a theme throughout this entire season as

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Speaker 1: we're covering in the league. Containing the basketball on the

495
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Speaker 1: perimeter like sliding your feet, extra effort and rotation, reboundings

496
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,200
Speaker 1: like boxing out, crashing the glass, getting to loose balls,

497
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Speaker 1: transition defense, burning back and getting matched up, talking to

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Speaker 1: each other, Understanding the flow of the game like never

499
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:13,480
Speaker 1: getting too high, never getting too low, responding well to runs,

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Speaker 1: staying on the gas when you get a lead, and

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00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 1: then closing out games when it's a four point game

502
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Speaker 1: with four minutes left. You can win a lot of

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Speaker 1: basketball games just by executing like every possession down down

504
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Speaker 1: the floor, running the right set, getting the right shot

505
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Speaker 1: in defending well, yes, some shots are gonna go in

506
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Speaker 1: and some shots are gonna miss, but if you execute

507
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 1: well at the end of games, you're going to win

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Speaker 1: most of the time. The Warriors have a great deal

509
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Speaker 1: of of experience. They understand how to win basketball games,

510
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Speaker 1: and that's a huge part of why I have them

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Speaker 1: at the top. The Warriors have been there and done

512
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Speaker 1: that so many times that I just trust them everything.

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Speaker 1: Going into that NBA Finals series against Boston, everything was

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Speaker 1: pointing me towards Boston from matchup matchups around the floor

515
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Speaker 1: in terms of the physicality the perimeter players. I thought

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown and Jayson Tatum would able to get to

517
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Speaker 1: their spots pretty easy against that group. And I still

518
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Speaker 1: picked the Warriors. You know why all of those things

519
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 1: because I knew the Celtics were a little bit better,

520
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Speaker 1: but I knew they weren't as good as a basketball team,

521
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Speaker 1: because being a basketball team is all of those things

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Speaker 1: that I just laid out and then last but not least, continuity.

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Speaker 1: And I spent a great deal of this a time

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Speaker 1: on this on Warriors Media Day, so I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: go too bunch further. Locker room chemistry. Those guys are

526
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Speaker 1: like brothers. They have clear understanding of roles. It's easy

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Speaker 1: to plug new players in, and they have basketball chemistry.

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Speaker 1: They have a good feel of where they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: on the floor at any given time. And last, but

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Speaker 1: not least, understanding their schemes. Steve Kerr has a complicated scheme.

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Speaker 1: They run more sets than anybody in the league. So

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Speaker 1: if you have the same guys there for that long,

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Speaker 1: they all know the offense, and so to me, they're

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Speaker 1: a clear number one. And I don't think even though

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Speaker 1: we have a top tier with Milwaukee and Boston and

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Speaker 1: the Clippers and the Warriors, there's one team that separates

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Speaker 1: themselves and all of those categories in its golden state.

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Speaker 1: That's why I had them at number one. So last

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Speaker 1: year they were fifty three and twenty nine. They won

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Speaker 1: the championship. They were sixteen an offense and second in defense.

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Speaker 1: Steph Clay and Draymond only played in one forty two

542
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Speaker 1: of two hundred and forty six available games, so they

543
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Speaker 1: were not dealt a very good handed cards last year either.

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Speaker 1: All three of them were still ramping up in the

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Speaker 1: Denver series. Steph was just coming back from a foot strain,

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Speaker 1: uh footsprain, Draymond Green had been working his way back

547
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Speaker 1: from a back injury, and then Clay Thompson was just

548
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Speaker 1: back to playing NBA basketball for a couple of months.

549
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Speaker 1: Um So, just a really impressive season all around. The

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Speaker 1: this offseason, they lost Auto Porter Jr. And Gary Payton

551
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Speaker 1: the second The interesting thing there is if you look

552
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Speaker 1: at their on off numbers from the playoffs, they were

553
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Speaker 1: dominant with Gary Payton on the floor and they were

554
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Speaker 1: actually negative with him off the floor. So he was

555
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Speaker 1: a plus minus hero in the playoffs because of what

556
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Speaker 1: he did defensively and the little ways he found ways

557
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Speaker 1: to be dangerous on the offensive ended floor, whether that

558
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 1: was knocking down the occasional corner three or running pick

559
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Speaker 1: and roll with Stephen rolling to the basket, cutting to

560
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Speaker 1: the basket, offensive rebounds, things along those lines. They're gonna

561
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Speaker 1: need to find some buddy that can replace that role

562
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Speaker 1: him in Outo Porter Jr. They did add Dante de Vincenzo,

563
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Speaker 1: who I will who I think will help JA. Michael

564
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: Green I'm less excited about, but you know, I want

565
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: to see how things shake out a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: But they're gonna need one of Cominga or Moody to

567
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Speaker 1: blossom into a reliable playoff player this year to replace

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Speaker 1: Gary Payton. A second, looking at the depth chart at

569
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Speaker 1: the guard position, Steph Curry and Jordan Poole on the wing,

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Speaker 1: Clay Thompson, Andrew Wiggins, Jonathan Cominga, Dante DiVincenzo, Moses Moody,

571
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Speaker 1: ja Michael Green, and Patrick Baldwin Jr. I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: talk much about Patrick Baldwin Jr. Tonight because I just

573
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Speaker 1: need to watch a lot more of him before I

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Speaker 1: can have an opinion. You guys know me, I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to really talk about something if I if I

576
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Speaker 1: don't know enough. And then Big Draymond Green, James Wiseman,

577
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 1: and Kevon Looney um so talking about the offensive end

578
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 1: the floor, they ran a couple of non five out

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Speaker 1: sets in that preseason game. And I'm thankful at the

580
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Speaker 1: preseason game because all these other teams, I had to

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Speaker 1: go into old footage to try to do the best

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Speaker 1: I could to figure out what they run on offense.

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Speaker 1: I got actual stuff that they're running from this training camp,

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Speaker 1: which was which was helpful. And informative here. So they

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00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 1: they ran a horn set where James Wiseman and Draymond

586
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 1: bracketed around Steph and that ended up kind of breaking

587
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: down and then uh, Wiseman ended up getting a seal

588
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: because it ended up in a switch and Monty Morris

589
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 1: was on him. They also ran a random four outset

590
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Speaker 1: where Steph was at the block and it was a

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Speaker 1: classic screen the screen or set like Steph backscreen for

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Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins. Monty Morris like just barely hesitated as he

593
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 1: went to help on the Andrew Wiggins screen, and then

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00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 1: Steph immediately came off of a second pin down and

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00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:37,679
Speaker 1: got a wide uh not a wide open, but a

596
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: pretty decent look at three. But other than those two sets,

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00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 1: almost everything they ran the entire game was five out.

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Speaker 1: That means guys in the two corners, guys on the

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Speaker 1: two wings, guy at the top of the key. Now

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Speaker 1: the difference, you guys know, I love five out basketball,

601
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: talk about that all the time on the show. But

602
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Speaker 1: there's a big difference between the way the Warriors run

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Speaker 1: five out and the way the rest of the league

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00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 1: runs five out. First of all, the Warriors run sets

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Speaker 1: out of five out like the a lot a lot

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Speaker 1: of teams. Five out is a spacing concepts. It's more

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Speaker 1: just this is how we situate the floor, and we

608
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 1: just need somebody to beat somebody off the dribble so

609
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: that we can start our driving kick and start to

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Speaker 1: start to get good stuff out of that. But the

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Speaker 1: Warriors are are running sets, and I mean, I mean

612
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 1: they're running sets almost every time down the floor. They

613
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Speaker 1: run more sets than anybody in the league, and it's

614
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Speaker 1: not even close. About three out of four times when

615
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: they come up the floor they're running a set, and

616
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Speaker 1: even on that fourth time, they're running some kind of action,

617
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 1: maybe just a high ball screen or something along those lines.

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Speaker 1: They don't just play pickup basketball. They run organized basketball.

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Speaker 1: I saw a stat earlier the uh the best metric

620
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Speaker 1: that I've seen that kind of tracks this kind of

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Speaker 1: thing is number of shot attempts that you take off

622
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Speaker 1: of screens. The Golden State Warriors took about eleven shots

623
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 1: per game off of screens, and the second place team

624
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: in the league was the Portland Trailblazers with six. So so, literally,

625
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 1: the Warriors run almost twice as many sets per game

626
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: as the rest of the teams in the league. Other

627
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 1: teams you see near the top. They're like teams like Miami.

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Speaker 1: They run a lot of sets too, But the Warriors

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00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: run sets more frequently than any team in the league.

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Speaker 1: Why do they do it five out Because most teams

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Speaker 1: run sets they want players around the block like horns

632
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Speaker 1: or four high or four low, because they want their

633
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 1: bigs around the screen. The reason why they run everything

634
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: on the perimeter is because the Warriors players have gravity.

635
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: We've talked about this concept before. When Stephen Clay and

636
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 1: Jordan Pool are running off the screens, one of the

637
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: most frequent defensive breakdowns is multiple defenders following them. But

638
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: those two defenders are going away from the basket that's

639
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,479
Speaker 1: taking place outside of the three point line. So in

640
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 1: the same way that five out offense is designed to

641
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: build driving lanes for driving kicked teams like the Clippers

642
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 1: and the Celtics, for the Warriors, it's actually meant to

643
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: open up cutting lanes and slipping lanes and roll lanes.

644
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: So like a lot of their actions are you know,

645
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: dribble handoffs or all screens, but it's designed for Draymond

646
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 1: or Looney or whoever it is, to slip those actions

647
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: when his man offers help as Steph or Clay's coming

648
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 1: off that screen. It just has so much open space

649
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: around the basket for them to slip and roll into

650
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: and have space to finish around the rim. And then

651
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: the fundamental concept in five out, and this is the

652
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: same for driving kick teams as well. It's just harder

653
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: for you to cover ground in rotation. So if I'm

654
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: in a four out one in and I beat my

655
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: man off the dribble, or I hit a pick and

656
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 1: pop slipper like a guy slipping to the basket, the

657
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: health defenders that one in and he's already there because

658
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: the four out one in the inside guys probably gonna

659
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: be on the opposite block and what we call the

660
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 1: dunker spot, so his defender is gonna be standing right

661
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: under the basket. Because as far as the NBA is concerned,

662
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: as far as the rule goes, you can be in

663
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: the paint if your arms length away from your defender

664
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: right if you're like within legal guarding distance of your defender.

665
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: So I can stand directly under the rim because my

666
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 1: guys in the dunker spot, I'm in legal guarding position

667
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 1: now turning and I'm helping as guys are driving right

668
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: into me. But what if instead of him being in

669
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: the dunker spot, he's in the opposite corner. Now I'm

670
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: in a bit of a predicament. I have to like

671
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: step into the lane and then step out of the lane,

672
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: and then step into the lane and then step out

673
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: of the lane. A lot of really good offensive players

674
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: will time their drives or time their slips or cuts

675
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: right as you're lunging out of the lane, which is

676
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: what opens things up around the basket. Or if you

677
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: do have to help, you have to abandon your man

678
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: in the short corner now and now that short corner

679
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: is open. Just covering ground and rotation and actually offering

680
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 1: helps side defenses ten times harder in a five out

681
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: scheme than it is in a four out one in

682
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: or a three out two in schemes. So that's why

683
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: the Warriors do it, That's why the rest of the

684
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 1: league does it. But the key difference is that the

685
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: Warriors will do it with the intention of slipping and

686
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 1: rolling and cutting rather than UH necessarily driving to the basket.

687
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: So they opened up the game with a five out

688
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: double dribble handoff with Jordan Pool coming out of the

689
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: left corner. UH Loony and Draymond both uh I went

690
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: to go set the screen. There was a dribble handoff

691
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: Jordan Pool him off. If he actually ended up getting

692
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 1: a wide open twenty foot or at the top of

693
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: the key, he just missed it. They ran this particular

694
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: action a bunch, the double dribble handoff coming out of

695
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: the corner. They had a really interesting counter there where

696
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: if the guy in the corner, so like a lot

697
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 1: of teams will see this action coming right and so

698
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: they top side. So like, if I'm guarding Jordan Pool

699
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: and I know he's coming off of that double dribble

700
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: handoff going this way, I might literally just get entirely

701
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 1: in his way, so he has to go through my chest. Well,

702
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: in that case, they just cut out. And when they

703
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 1: cut out, what will happen is the first screener will

704
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: just turn and he'll come off the screen instead, and

705
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: they'll run something out of that. So it's like kind

706
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: of like a read and react system. There's they've got

707
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 1: baked in counters from when you try to jump in

708
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 1: front of their place, which is the way smart offenses run.

709
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: And it was really impressive to see that this morning

710
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: from the Warriors UM they also uh They also like

711
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: instead of a dribble handoff version of that play, they

712
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: run a past version of that place. So like just

713
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 1: two guys will go screen for Steph Curry coming out

714
00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: of the corner, and then they'll pass it to him

715
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: as he's coming off of that screen. They had one

716
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: of those in the first half where they hit Draymond slipping,

717
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: so Draymond was the second screener. Steph caught the pass

718
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 1: right as he was coming off Draymond's man. I think

719
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 1: it was Christaps Porzingis in this case hedged out on Steph.

720
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: So step just throwing easy little drop pass into the

721
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: pocket and Draymond went up and made a layup. They

722
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 1: ran a lot of double high ball screens, so they'll

723
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: have Steph bring it up on the left wing. They'll

724
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: have one guy in the left corner and then the

725
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: guy at the top of the key, and then the

726
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: right wing will be Wiseman and and and Draymond or

727
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: Draymond and and Looney and they'll both come over and

728
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: set that double screen. Anytime we talked about double pick

729
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 1: and roll, as you guys know, one guy will typically

730
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: roll to the basket, the other will pop to the

731
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: three point line because both bigs will typically drop and

732
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: usually you get open stuff around the top of the key.

733
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: They also ran just some basic high pick and roll

734
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: with Wiseman um usually Steph coming out of the wing,

735
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 1: Wiseman top of the key. They would set it. They

736
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 1: have Draymond on the on the right wing or in

737
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: the right corner away from the ball as far as

738
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: he could be, and then two shoters in the corner

739
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: and the wing, and then just run regular pick and roll.

740
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: They got a lob dunk out of that immediately on

741
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 1: the next possession. After the lob dunk, Draymond was in

742
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,720
Speaker 1: the right corner and Kyle Kuzman had to tag the roller,

743
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 1: which opened up a wide open three for Draymond. So basic,

744
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,399
Speaker 1: kind of like give and take of help defense when

745
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: you start to have success in the paint. But they

746
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 1: just run a ton of stuff every time down the floor,

747
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,800
Speaker 1: usually some form of double screen, either a double ball screen,

748
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,760
Speaker 1: a double drible handoff, or double a double off ball screen.

749
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: But it's all designed to get that initial advantage of

750
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 1: usually a guy slipping to the basket or cutting, and

751
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: then from there they just play basketball, Like if Draymond

752
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 1: slips down the lane and he doesn't have a lap,

753
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: he might kick it out to the guy in the

754
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 1: corner and then they play their driving kick. So they

755
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 1: will play driving kick whether you do it out of

756
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,280
Speaker 1: uh sets rather than doing it out of initial advantage creation.

757
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: And it makes sense because you know this is not

758
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 1: a huge, physically imposing ball handling team. You know this

759
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: isn't this isn't Kawhi Leonard and Paul George coming at

760
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: you every possession, so you're not worried about getting bludgeoned

761
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:05,879
Speaker 1: by driving. These are smaller, skinnier players that operate off

762
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: a screen. So it makes sense that a team like

763
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: the Clippers would beat you with dribble penetration and then

764
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,280
Speaker 1: a team like the Warriors would beat you with sets.

765
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 1: But then once that initial advantage is created and they

766
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: get into rotation, then it's just driving kicked basketball and

767
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: everyone's kind of doing the same thing at that point.

768
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 1: Um Looking at isolation, they were the most frequent isolation

769
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 1: team in the league, but the eighth most effective. This

770
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 1: is just about being picky about when you isolate. Steph

771
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,959
Speaker 1: averaged one point two points per possession and isolation, which

772
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: is literally outstanding. But he only ran a hundred and

773
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: seventeen of those possessions all season. That's because he's picky.

774
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 1: You usually will only do it if he gets a

775
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,800
Speaker 1: big on a switch. Again, that's just about being smart,

776
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 1: understanding what your strengths are and being picky about things

777
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,360
Speaker 1: that you're that that you don't want to do is often,

778
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: and then leaning into your strengths. This is a great

779
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 1: off screen team, That's why they lean heavily into that. Um.

780
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: They had the third most efficient can roll ball handling

781
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 1: trio in the league. Uh, this is about pull up

782
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: jump shooting. Like we talked about earlier, pull up jump

783
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 1: shooting is the best way to beat most pick and

784
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: roll coverages. Jordan Pool and Staff were both in the

785
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: eighty five percentile league wide as pick and roll ball handlers,

786
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,240
Speaker 1: which is awesome. They were the sixth most frequent dribble

787
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: handoff team and tenth most efficient. Clay Thompson was pulling

788
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: the most way here. He was at one point zero

789
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: two points per possession and dribble handoffs, which was the

790
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: seventy four percentile in the league. No NBA team cuts

791
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 1: to the basket more than the Warriors do. They register

792
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 1: twelve cut possessions per game at one point three points

793
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: per possession, both awesome. To give you comparison, the MAVs

794
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 1: and the Sixers register about half as many cut possessions

795
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 1: per games. That just kind of gives you some perspective

796
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: on how frequently they do that. Um, they, like I

797
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: talked about earlier, already mentioned this that they run almost

798
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:54,439
Speaker 1: twice as many off screen possessions as as the rest

799
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 1: of the league eleven for them. The Blazers were in

800
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: second place with six. Again, this is just one of

801
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: the man any indicators, and you could just tell by

802
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 1: watching the Warriors play that this is the case. But

803
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: this is one of the many indicators that they run

804
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 1: more sets than the rest of the league. Most of

805
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: the teams that I encountered during this series, they would

806
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: run sets to start quarters. They would run stets out

807
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,320
Speaker 1: of basically dead ball situations like made free throws or

808
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: or like out of time outs, things like that. But

809
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: in the actual flow of the game, the vast majority

810
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: of these teams are just running the ball up the

811
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 1: floor and running a high pick and roll or picking

812
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 1: on a matchup and trying to get into their driving kick.

813
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 1: The Warriors run sets live ball dead ball whatever about

814
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: the possessions. From what I can tell by watching, that's

815
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: a stat that kind of shows, uh, it shows an

816
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: example of how that gets quantified. It's just harder to

817
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 1: defend player movement than stagnation. That's just a basic concept

818
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 1: in basketball. If you bring up the ball and and

819
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 1: you just get to your spacing and one guy starts

820
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 1: to work off the dribble, the other four guys are standing,

821
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: and if I'm guarding a Warrior's team, were on every

822
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,760
Speaker 1: possession there's three or four interchanges and in an action

823
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: being run, it's just more fatiguing physically to try to

824
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: guard a team like that. And I think that's one

825
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: of the biggest playoff advantages. The Warriors almost always go

826
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 1: up too oh in a playoff series. It's uncommon for

827
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: them to drop one of their first two playoff games,

828
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:16,320
Speaker 1: and a huge part of that is their offensive system

829
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 1: is so different from the rest of the league that

830
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 1: teams get caught off guard early in playoff series. It

831
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 1: takes a little while to adjust. Speaking of adjustments there,

832
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr's willingness to adjust is one of the things

833
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: I appreciate about him. He's not stubborn, even though he

834
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: has a strong basketball belief system. Off the dribble shooting

835
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: verse Boston is the best indicator of this. So during

836
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: the regular season, the Warriors attempted about twenty two pull

837
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: up jump shots per game, but they were playing against

838
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics team that was very good defensively and

839
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 1: that switched a lot of off ball actions, particularly ones

840
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: that regard to guard. So as a result, like because

841
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: they were dropping running drop coverage against ball screens or

842
00:39:56,640 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: other things that involved the big man, um, Steve Kerr

843
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: leaned heavily into pick and roll. Why because he's got

844
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 1: Steph Curry, the best off the dribble shooter of all time,

845
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: and off the dribble, three point shooting is one of

846
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 1: the best ways to beat a drop coverage, especially one

847
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: like the Celtics where the big man was was lagging

848
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 1: too far back. Well, they went up from twenty two

849
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 1: pull up jump shots per game in the regular season

850
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,720
Speaker 1: to pull up jump shots per game in the Celtics series.

851
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: That's an indicator of how they were willing to adjust

852
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 1: their offensive approach to match the actual need of what

853
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: they needed to beat that Boston defense. Another example of

854
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,400
Speaker 1: this willingness to adjust was against the Calves in two

855
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: thousand fifteen when Um, when they were trapping the staff

856
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,359
Speaker 1: high pick and roll and they just got into They

857
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: just just spamed high pick and roll, hitting Draymond as

858
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 1: the slipper, Uh slipping to the basket and then him

859
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 1: hitting on Dregudal in the corner. Again, that was not

860
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 1: a team that just spamed high pick and roll in

861
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 1: the regular season. That was just something they did as

862
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 1: an adjustment to beat a specific matchup. No, there's no

863
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: value in being stubborn. All that matters is winning the

864
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: basketball game. And I trust Steve Kerr to make those adjustments. Um, Steph,

865
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: Sometimes things just don't go right in the playoff series

866
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 1: and you need a heroic effort to carry you. And

867
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: that's Steph in Game four of the Finals. Like, sometimes

868
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: you're down two games to one and the physical matchups

869
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,439
Speaker 1: aren't really going your way, and you're on the road

870
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: against a really talented team, and you just need some

871
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: guy to reach down and pull out an all time

872
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 1: great NBA playoff performance. And that's what Steph did in

873
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: Game four of the Finals. This is why we were

874
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 1: we talked so much about best player in the world.

875
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: This is why we talked so much about top tier

876
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 1: superstars in the game of basketball just matters more than

877
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: a dozen other sports. As we go back in champions

878
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: Steph last year, Jannice the year before that, Lebron the

879
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:45,240
Speaker 1: year before that, Kauai, then Stephen Katie, then Stephen Katie,

880
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,240
Speaker 1: then Lebron, then Steph, then Kauai, then Lebron, then Lebron.

881
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,240
Speaker 1: You get the point, you need one of those guys,

882
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: and the Warriors have one of those guys and Steff,

883
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 1: and then, like we talked about earlier, the players surrounding

884
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: Steff are all good basketball players. They all are versatile.

885
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: They're not sp shlists moving to the defensive end of

886
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:06,479
Speaker 1: the floor. Um their scheme, they switch one through three

887
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: or one through four, depending on whether or not they

888
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: have one or two bigs on the floor, and then

889
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: they drop with their bigs, but they don't switch in discriminately.

890
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 1: They're they're picky about it to try to avoid mismatches.

891
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,799
Speaker 1: The vast majority of NBA teams try to attack step

892
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:22,280
Speaker 1: as much as possible. And Steff is a good defensive player.

893
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that in a minute, but it's

894
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,799
Speaker 1: mainly for fatigued purposes. It's it's not like, oh, it'll

895
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 1: be easy to score on Staff. It's if we attack

896
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: Steph all game long, we might be able to wear

897
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:32,799
Speaker 1: out his legs and he might miss some jump shots

898
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:34,880
Speaker 1: on the other end of the floor. Well, Warriors, the

899
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 1: Warriors will do things like pre switching as they make

900
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 1: adjustments in series. They will put step on matchups where

901
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 1: they don't like to use them in ball screens. A

902
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 1: great example of this is that Maverick series. Early in

903
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:49,399
Speaker 1: the series, Steff is guarding Reggie Bullock and they kept

904
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: doing like quick picking pops with him with Luca, and

905
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: it was just challenging, uh for Steff to guard those actions.

906
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 1: So they like switch that and put I can't remember

907
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: exactly what put him on um. It might have been

908
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 1: Dorian Phinney Smith, I can't remember, but they put him

909
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: somewhere else, so I think it was DFS because they

910
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: put him there because Dorian Phinney Smith is not as

911
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 1: good as a pop like movement shooter and so those

912
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,239
Speaker 1: little pick and pop actions weren't working as well. Those

913
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: are just little xs and those things and adjustments that

914
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 1: the Warriors will do to stop teams from targeting Staff again.

915
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 1: For the purpose of saving him the fatigue that's caused

916
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:28,800
Speaker 1: from it um metrics from last year. This is insane.

917
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:30,840
Speaker 1: If you guys remember the things that I talked about,

918
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,839
Speaker 1: that talked to me, that teach me about how good

919
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 1: a coach is and how good his attention to detail is.

920
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: Defensive rebounding, how well they do dribble contain, um points

921
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: in the paint allowed, and defending the three point line,

922
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: understanding the most valuable shots, transition defense, those are the

923
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 1: things I look at. Well. Not only were the Warriors

924
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: second in defensive rating, they were six in defensive rebounding percentage,

925
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: so they were a great defensive rebounding team. They were

926
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 1: third in steels that's associated to dribble contain. We're gonna

927
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: talk about that in a minute. They were fourth and

928
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 1: paint points allowed. They were sixth in transition defense according

929
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,479
Speaker 1: to Cleaning the Glass, and they were fourteen and three

930
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: point defense. So of the five key metrics that I

931
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:12,840
Speaker 1: tracked the most associated with coaching, they were top six

932
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 1: and four of them, and they were top half in

933
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 1: the other with fourteenth and three point defense. And to

934
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: be I it's just really difficult to do both if

935
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 1: you prioritize the three point line, you're naturally going to

936
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,760
Speaker 1: give up more stuff in the paint. So Steve Kerr

937
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 1: just he understands what works in modern NBA defense. He

938
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: coaches it really well. The guys are bought in. They um,

939
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,800
Speaker 1: you know, their stars death. The biggest credit I offered

940
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: to Steff is is that he just tries hard on

941
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:40,280
Speaker 1: defense every single night, even though he's only slightly above average.

942
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 1: Just that effort goes so long towards setting the tone

943
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 1: for the rest of the roster. The last thing I

944
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,720
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about, as it pertains to the Warriors

945
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:51,760
Speaker 1: on the defensive end, is the value of dribble contained.

946
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,759
Speaker 1: And so I wanted to start with the finals here

947
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 1: so early in the series, to go down two to one,

948
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: and Warriors fans, some Warriors fans like, oh, they're just

949
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:03,799
Speaker 1: making all the threes or you know, over helping too

950
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:06,320
Speaker 1: much or whatever it was. Yes, they were making a

951
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: lot of threes, and yes the Warriors were helping too much,

952
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 1: which was allowing the Celtics to get into their dribble

953
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: contained But the main reason why was the Celtics were

954
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,760
Speaker 1: getting great dribble penetration and they were getting great dribble

955
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 1: penetration because it's Marcus Smart, you know, Jayson Tatum, Jalen Brown,

956
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 1: and Derek White that are getting into the lane a lot,

957
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: and their difficult matchups to handle. But what really happened

958
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:30,839
Speaker 1: over the course of that series is at the end

959
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: of the series, mainly Clay Thompson and Andrew Wiggins, but

960
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 1: also some Draymond Green and Gary Payton, they just started

961
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: containing the basketball. Clay Thompson did an amazing job on

962
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown towards the end of that series of sliding

963
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:47,400
Speaker 1: his feet, taking that contact in the chest and turning

964
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown into a pull up jump shooter. And then

965
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins obviously, like I talked about how I think

966
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: Jayson Tatum is the best perimeter defender in basketball, Andrew

967
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: Wiggins is right there. It's like those two guys and

968
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: McKay Bridges and uh and like Ben Simmons that I

969
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,919
Speaker 1: put I put in that tier. Andrew Wiggins is right there,

970
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 1: and the job that he did on Jayson Tatum containing

971
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 1: that ball handler was so important. Now this is where

972
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 1: the turnovers and the steels come into play, because think

973
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:17,720
Speaker 1: of it like this, if I don't have to help

974
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,840
Speaker 1: because you're containing the basketball. Now I get to be

975
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:26,360
Speaker 1: a normal guarding position. What's normal guarding position depends on

976
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: who your guarding, but typically that means I'm far enough

977
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 1: away that I can help, but close enough that I

978
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:37,799
Speaker 1: can recover if there's a shooter there. Translation, you're in

979
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,319
Speaker 1: the passing lane. Okay, you're kind of like a little

980
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 1: bit of distance off of your man, looking at the ball,

981
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 1: looking at the man, ready for the past to come

982
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 1: out so you can close out or play the passing lane. Well,

983
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: what ended up happening a lot with the Celtics is

984
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 1: as Clay Thompson and Andrew Wiggins and Gary Payton and

985
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,879
Speaker 1: and Draymond Green contained the basketball, those guys would drive

986
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: into the lane a little bit like get to the

987
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 1: sixteen seventeen feet, get cut off, and then panic and

988
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 1: look around and no one's open, and no one's open

989
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: because they're not helping, and they're not helping because you're

990
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 1: containing the basketball. And so then one ends up happening

991
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 1: is you panic and you just throw some stupid pass

992
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 1: that looks open and it's not. The next thing you know,

993
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:18,799
Speaker 1: they're running the other way. And there's other stuff. There

994
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,479
Speaker 1: was some sloppy ball handling. You know, Tatum got picked

995
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 1: at half court a few times. There was some sloppiness

996
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: in there. But a lot of those Boston Celtics turnovers

997
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 1: were fueled by Clay Thompson, Draymond Grand, Gary Payton, and

998
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins just containing the basketball so that no one

999
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 1: else had to help. And when no one else had

1000
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 1: to help, no one was open. And so when they

1001
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: were throwing those passes, they're throwing them into dangerous passing

1002
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: lanes and they're turning them over. That dynamic swung the series.

1003
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 1: The Celtics went up to one because they were getting

1004
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: dribble penetration, and then they lost three straight because they

1005
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:51,919
Speaker 1: no longer were getting dribble penetration. And that's a ton

1006
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 1: of that credit. I want to heap on the Warriors

1007
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: perimeter guys for just sitting in a damn stance, sliding

1008
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 1: your feet and taking that contact in the chest. It's

1009
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 1: just good basketball. Again, this is a huge part of

1010
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: player development. I thought it was really interesting and I

1011
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 1: talked more in detail about this uh in the preseason

1012
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 1: breakdown that I did. But Moses Moody and then putting

1013
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 1: him on Bradley Beal in that preseason game today them

1014
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: saying like, look, man, if you're going to be someone

1015
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 1: that we can depend on in a playoff series, we

1016
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 1: need you to be able to contain the basketball. I

1017
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: think they're gonna throw him all sorts of difficult matchups

1018
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 1: early in the season just to kind of build that up.

1019
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 1: And he's gonna have to learn a unique way, a

1020
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: unique way to play defense because he's not as fast.

1021
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to give more ground and make up

1022
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:35,719
Speaker 1: with his length um as more of like a positional

1023
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:38,720
Speaker 1: defender as we always talk about. But I'm really curious

1024
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: to see how Moses Moody handles those matchups over the

1025
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 1: course of the season. But internally, organizationally, the Warriors are

1026
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: always hammering home that concept of perimeter contain everything else

1027
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: in defense works better when you contain not only did

1028
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 1: the turnovers like we were talking about, but then you

1029
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 1: stay out of rotation. So like, if if I give

1030
00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: up a straight line drive, my teammates gotta cover for me,

1031
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: so I've got to sprint over to some other spot

1032
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: on the floor to get the next guy. And is

1033
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 1: if we stay out of rotation, it's just less running.

1034
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 1: So it's like if one guy does his job. Containing

1035
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 1: the basketball makes everyone else's job more physically easy. It's

1036
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:15,360
Speaker 1: also easier to rebound because in rotation you get cross matches.

1037
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 1: When you get cross matches, you have little guys on

1038
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 1: big guys, and when little guys are on big guys,

1039
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:21,799
Speaker 1: the big guy usually gets a rebound. So just just

1040
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:25,839
Speaker 1: in general that that UH dribble contained concept is so

1041
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:27,719
Speaker 1: important and the Warriors are great at It's a huge

1042
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 1: part of why they're so successful defensively. So what's the

1043
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 1: best case scenario for this Warrior's team? Don't need to

1044
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: spend too much time on that. There are more talented

1045
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:37,759
Speaker 1: version of last year, so they should repeat if the

1046
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 1: young guys developed worst case scenario. Obviously, injuries are always

1047
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:45,439
Speaker 1: a problem with these teams. UH. An injury to someone

1048
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:47,239
Speaker 1: like a Clay or a Draymond or step would be

1049
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:50,440
Speaker 1: pretty catastrophic, especially if it was steph Um. If they

1050
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 1: fail to replace that Gary Payton the second rule role,

1051
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 1: that could be an issue when they get to the

1052
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: later rounds like the conference finals and finals, just when

1053
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 1: they're playing more talented teams. UM. If that happens, they

1054
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: could potentially lose to one of the top tier teams

1055
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: and like the conference finals, but to me, they're the

1056
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 1: clear favorite in the league. Biggest X factor. This is

1057
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 1: the first time I've done three guys instead of one,

1058
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:15,720
Speaker 1: but I put Wiseman, Moody cominga they let OUTO Porter Jr.

1059
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: And Gary Payton the second go because these guys are

1060
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: supposed to fill those roles. If for Wiseman in particular,

1061
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:24,919
Speaker 1: it's a tricky dynamic because they don't really need him

1062
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:27,839
Speaker 1: in the rotation when they're healthy. Looney and Draymond proved

1063
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: last year that they were enough, but it's obviously a

1064
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 1: little bit extra depth there. But because he's that third

1065
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: big in a league that's going away from Biggs, it

1066
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:41,879
Speaker 1: makes his role a little bit somewhat inconsistent, a little

1067
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Speaker 1: bit clunky. His ability to shoot the three should help

1068
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Speaker 1: in theory there a little bit, but his his role

1069
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Speaker 1: is going to be inconsistent throughout the year. I'm a

1070
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Speaker 1: little bit worried about. So he's the one guy that

1071
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Speaker 1: would keep an eye on um because that can mess

1072
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Speaker 1: with the young player's rhythm too. But he needs to

1073
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Speaker 1: play more physical on both ends of the floor, which

1074
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Speaker 1: we talked about in detail in this morning's video. So

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Speaker 1: I won't go any further, but he needs lastly, he

1076
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Speaker 1: needs to embrace the little things to earn a playoff

1077
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Speaker 1: spot in this rotation. They he went for twenty and

1078
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Speaker 1: nine this morning. That's great. I think he's a guy

1079
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Speaker 1: who could average twenty and ten in the league for

1080
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Speaker 1: a long time. But on this team, they don't need that.

1081
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Speaker 1: They need him to be a version of Looney that

1082
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Speaker 1: has some vertical spacing and some perimeter spacing. That's what

1083
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Speaker 1: they need from it. They need defense. They need him

1084
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 1: to be a functional cog in the Golden State machine offensively.

1085
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Speaker 1: So if he embraces those little things, he will claw

1086
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Speaker 1: out a rotation spot because he's talented enough. But if

1087
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Speaker 1: he doesn't, and he worries about a shot too much

1088
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 1: and he doesn't embrace the little things, he could be

1089
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 1: one of the guys that could squeeze out of the

1090
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:44,320
Speaker 1: rotation towards the end of the year. Then with Moody

1091
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: and Cominga, it's offense defense. I think Moody is already

1092
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Speaker 1: at a point where they trust him offensively, but I

1093
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 1: don't think he's good enough defensively, And I think Cominge

1094
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 1: is already a point where they trust him defensively. But

1095
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 1: they don't trust him offensively. I actually think Comminge has

1096
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: got further to go on the offensive end then Moody

1097
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Speaker 1: does on the deep fensive end. So Moody is the

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Speaker 1: guy that I look at as a guy that I

1099
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Speaker 1: think we'll get more and more minutes as the season progresses.

1100
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Speaker 1: Like I said, tough matchups early on in the year

1101
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Speaker 1: to test his defensive metal. He's the guy that's gonna

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Speaker 1: be uh that that they end up depending on in

1103
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Speaker 1: a playoff series and all likelihood. I'm not gonna elaborate

1104
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Speaker 1: too much there because I talked about that a little

1105
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Speaker 1: bit this morning. But yeah, that's all I got on

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Speaker 1: the Warriors for today. Have a lot of Warriors basketball

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Speaker 1: this week. Um. We will be back on Monday with

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Speaker 1: another seven games worth of preseason content. We're also gonna

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Speaker 1: do some gambling stuff over the next couple of weeks,

1110
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Speaker 1: so like over unders and m v P First Team

1111
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Speaker 1: All NBA Coach of the Year, that kind of stuff. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: lots of film breakdown, lots of you know, NBA futures

1113
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Speaker 1: and stuff over the next couple of weeks, and then

1114
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Speaker 1: we're what two two and a half weeks away from

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Speaker 1: regular season basketball, So it's gonna be a marathon not

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Speaker 1: to sprint a lot of basketball. But I appreciate having

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Speaker 1: you guys along for the ride. As always, I sincerely

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Speaker 1: appreciate your support and now we'll see you next time.

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Speaker 1: The volume