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Speaker 1: Now that let's talk some basketball. So for the Warriors tonight,
Speaker 1: that was three quarters of easy, breezy, dominant basketball. Never
Speaker 1: truly threatened. Steph kind of pulled back his usage a
Speaker 1: little bit and seated the reins to Clay into Jordan
Speaker 1: Pool to get a bunch of shots up, and that's
Speaker 1: exactly what they did. Of course, Jordan Pool got going,
Speaker 1: which was exactly what he needed. He had a really
Speaker 1: good game I thought against Dallas. Particularly as a passer.
Speaker 1: It's so important for Jordan Pool to be making reads
Speaker 1: into like primarily focused on shot creation rather than necessarily
Speaker 1: shot making. But you need to have both and it
Speaker 1: was good to see him get have a good shot
Speaker 1: making game, made a bunch of threes, made some tough shots,
Speaker 1: so those confident Jordan Pool shots that you know are
Speaker 1: so important to him when he's really really in a groove. So,
Speaker 1: you know, the the nature of this game kind of
Speaker 1: allowed them to force feed him and let him get going.
Speaker 1: Clay was really just jacking shots up and took a
Speaker 1: lot of bad ones, particularly in the fourth quarter. But
Speaker 1: to Clay's credit, he made a couple of huge play
Speaker 1: days um At the end of that game, he drew
Speaker 1: a post up foul and gore and dragics and made
Speaker 1: two free throws, and then he hit a nice pull
Speaker 1: up jumper at the foul line that basically ice to
Speaker 1: the game. But that kind of fast and loose nature
Speaker 1: the first three quarters went away in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and the fourth quarter to me was all about the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bles going on runs against laziness from the Warriors,
Speaker 1: but then the Warriors taking back control of the game
Speaker 1: with their execution on both ends of the floor. The
Speaker 1: first run, the Bulls get it back within four um.
Speaker 1: Javonte Green actually goes to the free throw line after
Speaker 1: an and one with a chance to get it back
Speaker 1: within three and he misses the free throws, so they're
Speaker 1: still up for But this stretch the Warriors did it
Speaker 1: with offensive execution. You guys might remember a play that
Speaker 1: I drew out, well, didn't draw, but I showed you
Speaker 1: guys on my Twitter feed. And then in our last show,
Speaker 1: it was the show earlier this week, um where the
Speaker 1: Lakers are The Warriors, excuse me, run like a five
Speaker 1: outset where they have Kvan Looney on the left kind
Speaker 1: of like elbow extended up to the three point line,
Speaker 1: and Clay Thompson on the right, elbow extended up to
Speaker 1: the three point line, and then the other two players
Speaker 1: are on the right side, right wing, right corner spotting
Speaker 1: up and Steph starts all the way on the left
Speaker 1: and he comes He drags off of the two screens
Speaker 1: on the top, and then Clay Thompson comes off of
Speaker 1: Kevon Looney or Draymond grad whoever. The big is off
Speaker 1: to the left wing with like a clear side. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like the Warriors version of a Spain pick
Speaker 1: and roll that they'll run. Most times Spain pick and roll,
Speaker 1: the shooter will start under the basket. This time they're
Speaker 1: just having Clay start up atop the key. But they
Speaker 1: ran it um against the Minnesota Timberwolves in that game
Speaker 1: that I was talking about earlier, and Clay attacked close
Speaker 1: out and got a floater. So those of you guys
Speaker 1: who watched that video I put on Twitter will know
Speaker 1: exactly which play I'm talking about. But the Warriors spanned
Speaker 1: this play two times in a row, right when the
Speaker 1: Bulls got it back within four. The first time, both
Speaker 1: guards stayed with Steph Curry. Clay Thompson had a wide
Speaker 1: open three like one that was so wide open that
Speaker 1: he got to take a free dribble to get the
Speaker 1: laces right and get his rhythm and knocked it down.
Speaker 1: Then Lavine goes down and travels. Next time down the floor,
Speaker 1: they run the exact same thing. Both players stay with
Speaker 1: Steph or excuse me, uh, Clay's man stays with Clay
Speaker 1: this time, and as a result, Steff gets downhill on
Speaker 1: the screen, he gets into Vosovich's body and makes a
Speaker 1: right handed lay up. Now they're back up by eight,
Speaker 1: so again Bulls go on a run. The Warriors settled down,
Speaker 1: they execute an offense, they get a stop. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, it's back to eight. But then the Bulls
Speaker 1: went on another big run. Russovitch shit a tough jumper
Speaker 1: with Looney's hand in his face, Javonta Green had a
Speaker 1: nice little backdoor cut with a layup, and then Zach
Speaker 1: Lavine hits the three. All of a sudden, it's one
Speaker 1: ten to one oh nine, and it's a one point game,
Speaker 1: and it feels like the game's up in the air.
Speaker 1: And then the Warriors utterly and completely locked in on
Speaker 1: defense in Chicago didn't score again until a meaningless draws
Speaker 1: lay up with a few seconds left that Golden State conceded.
Speaker 1: Not only did they not score, if I'm remembering correctly
Speaker 1: from watching that game, they only got one shot off,
Speaker 1: they attempted four and three of them were blocked. So
Speaker 1: they leaned on their defense to put the game away.
Speaker 1: After they got it back within one, Draymond Green hit
Speaker 1: a massive three that wasn't really all that open. Then
Speaker 1: uh kevonm Luney timed the DeRozan pull up. Rosen does
Speaker 1: like a hard hesitation dribble before he goes into that
Speaker 1: pull up, So if you jumped too early, or if
Speaker 1: you jumped too late, he can get it off. But
Speaker 1: if you time it right, Luney's got so much length
Speaker 1: on him there he could get to the shot and
Speaker 1: he blocked it. Then Clay Thompson post up on the
Speaker 1: left way. They originally ran it as a post as
Speaker 1: like a post split cut, but they ended up pulling
Speaker 1: it out and trying to throw the ball into Clay
Speaker 1: in the post. This is what's wild. Clay Thompson has
Speaker 1: scored a grand total of four points on post ups
Speaker 1: this year. And instead of just allowing Clay Thompson to
Speaker 1: catch the ball and attempt a shot Overgore and draw
Speaker 1: d just got over zealous while the Bulls were in
Speaker 1: the penalty and foul to Clay on the post entry
Speaker 1: and he was able to go in and make both
Speaker 1: free throws. Then Draymond Green blocks Zach Levine at the
Speaker 1: rim on the play that got challenged. Then Clay goes
Speaker 1: down and sticks that pull up jumper at the foul line.
Speaker 1: Then they go down and Draymond blocks and Alex Cruiso
Speaker 1: three with a close out, and Draymond Green has always
Speaker 1: been one of the best players in the league. Get
Speaker 1: closing out, then the game was over. So like the
Speaker 1: Bulls barely could even get a shot up once they
Speaker 1: got it back within one. But that's the Warriors for you. Like,
Speaker 1: they can mess around, things can get tight, but when
Speaker 1: it comes to offensive execution and defensive habits, they're just
Speaker 1: better than most teams, and they're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: close to you out there. So it's a really nice
Speaker 1: win against the reeling Bulls team. The Bulls are now
Speaker 1: four and nine in their last thirteen games. People were
Speaker 1: throwing out trades earlier today in the last couple of
Speaker 1: days involving de Rosen and Vussovich, including the Lakers potentially
Speaker 1: trading Russell Westbrook for those two guys. If it gets
Speaker 1: much worse, they might have to consider it, not necessarily
Speaker 1: the rush trade, but consider blowing this thing up. But
Speaker 1: the tough part for Bulls fans is they don't really
Speaker 1: have a ton to be excited about, aside from like,
Speaker 1: I mean, I really like I had assume Move is
Speaker 1: like a defensive guard that can do some stuff offensively.
Speaker 1: And Patrick Williams, you know, if you watch him on
Speaker 1: the right night, looks like a two way wing. But
Speaker 1: neither of them look like stars, you know, neither of
Speaker 1: them look like you know, stars in the making. So
Speaker 1: it's a tough spot. For the Bulls fans to be in.
Speaker 1: But when you do stuff like that, when you make
Speaker 1: a trade for a guy like Lucevich and when you
Speaker 1: go out of your way to get a guy like Derosan,
Speaker 1: you're going all in on that particular core working. And
Speaker 1: as a result, they just don't have a ton to
Speaker 1: work with now that that seems to not be working,
Speaker 1: although the Bulls have a couple of signature wins this year,
Speaker 1: so they're always a threat if they can get things right. Um,
Speaker 1: I wanted to take a few minutes talk about Draymond
Speaker 1: Green because in in addition to the massive three point
Speaker 1: shot that he hit and the two blocks that he
Speaker 1: had at the end, he had thirteen points, nine rebounds,
Speaker 1: tennessis and was a team best plus twenty. And so
Speaker 1: the reason why I bring that up is, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the keys to the season really turning around
Speaker 1: for the Warriors has been Steve Kerr doing what I
Speaker 1: asked earlier, which is no more hockey. You know lines,
Speaker 1: line you know, line changes, just stagger your starters with
Speaker 1: your subs. And one of the keys to this particular
Speaker 1: season has been staggering Draymond, particularly with Jordan's pool, not
Speaker 1: just with the bench, but with Jordan Pool coming into tonight.
Speaker 1: When Jordan Pool has played without Draymond, the Warriors have
Speaker 1: had a minus twelve net rating many they've They've been
Speaker 1: outscored by twelve points per one hundred possessions in seven
Speaker 1: and fifty seven possessions, pretty bix sample size. But when
Speaker 1: they played Draymond with Jordan Pool, the Warriors are plus
Speaker 1: four in five D sixteen possessions, which is also a
Speaker 1: pretty big sample size. You know, just having Draymond their
Speaker 1: one so that when they run their screening actions, you
Speaker 1: have a real high i Q player that can capitalize
Speaker 1: on that attention that Jordan Pool commands, and then also
Speaker 1: just kind of reins in Jordan's Pool's decision making having
Speaker 1: a really smart player on the floor. I'm a big
Speaker 1: believer in aggregate anything when it comes to a skill set,
Speaker 1: aggregate shooting, aggregate quickness, aggregate size, aggregate length, aggregate basketball. Like,
Speaker 1: you get a bunch of smart basketball players on the floor,
Speaker 1: good things usually will happen. Jordan Pool can be a
Speaker 1: little fast and loose with his decision making sometime, getting
Speaker 1: him a guy like Draymond in there to just kind
Speaker 1: of calling him down and get him in the right
Speaker 1: spots and getting making getting him to help him make
Speaker 1: the right decisions goes a long way. Uh. And then defensively,
Speaker 1: Draymond can just make any unit work. It was really
Speaker 1: fun watching him guard De mar de Rosen tonight, picking
Speaker 1: him up full court, sometimes applying a bunch up pressure,
Speaker 1: making him feel uncomfortable. His really long wingspan bothers him
Speaker 1: on that pull up shot. Kind of reminded me of
Speaker 1: when Draymond switched on to Jalen Brown in the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1: You know, this is the type of versatility that comes
Speaker 1: with Draymond, and it's why he's one of the best
Speaker 1: defensive players in the league. It's not just the defensive
Speaker 1: anchor stuff and the back line stuff, in the intensity,
Speaker 1: in the in the vocal leadership. He can straight up
Speaker 1: switch and guard some of the best perimeter scorers in
Speaker 1: the league. And that's a big part of what makes
Speaker 1: him so valuable. You know, Jonathan Cominga had a rough
Speaker 1: night tonight, but I want to see him get more
Speaker 1: reps alongside Draymond at the four. I tried to talk
Speaker 1: about this a little bit on Tuesday night, but we
Speaker 1: were having all those technical difficulties um the that in
Speaker 1: that Dallas game, they Steve Kerve for the first time
Speaker 1: the season, try to line up of Draymond Green with
Speaker 1: Dante DiVincenzo, Jordan Pool, Jonathan Cominga and Anthony Lamb, and
Speaker 1: that lineup was plus twelve in nine minutes against Dallas.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, this season, when Draymond Green
Speaker 1: and Jonathan Cominga are on the floor together with no
Speaker 1: Jamichael Green, no James Wiseman, no Kevon Looney, and no
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins. So when Cominga can truly play the four
Speaker 1: rather than playing the three where he's got to have
Speaker 1: more ball handling responsibilities. When he's truly at the four
Speaker 1: and Draymond is truly at the five, they've actually had
Speaker 1: a lot of success. They've in fifty seven percent, excuse me,
Speaker 1: in fifty seven possessions with that group, which is a
Speaker 1: small sample, but not nothing. It's half of a basketball
Speaker 1: game's worth. Um. In those fifty seven possessions with Draymond
Speaker 1: and Comina at the four five, the Warriors have a
Speaker 1: one thirty offensive rating in a ninety two defensive rating.
Speaker 1: That's plus thirty eight points per one possessions. You know,
Speaker 1: a big part of it is you know Draymond Green's
Speaker 1: offensive i Q. They could put him in those in
Speaker 1: those positions where he's in the short role, which then
Speaker 1: tucks cominga in the weeks side corner where he doesn't
Speaker 1: have to make decisions. He just has to if Draymonds
Speaker 1: roll into the room, cut back door for the dunk
Speaker 1: or the lob, you know, the drop off or the lob,
Speaker 1: or crash the offensive glass, it simplifies his defense. It
Speaker 1: simplifies his decision making process. And then Jonathan coming his
Speaker 1: defense has been the thing that separated him from the
Speaker 1: other young players on the roster and it makes him
Speaker 1: an exciting prospect. He like, he's just surprisingly big and strong,
Speaker 1: super long arms, freak athlete, moves his feet well, he's
Speaker 1: a good defensive player. So the Warriors are back over
Speaker 1: five and they have three winnable games coming out. They
Speaker 1: play the Rockets at home, the Pacers at home, then
Speaker 1: they have a somewhat tough game on the road in Utah.
Speaker 1: But if they win all three of those are in
Speaker 1: a good spot heading into a couple of really tough
Speaker 1: matchups with the Boston Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks back
Speaker 1: to back. All right, let's move on to this heat
Speaker 1: Celtics game. This is a really entertaining game. I just
Speaker 1: just caught up on it here in the last half
Speaker 1: hour or so. So the heat on sixteen tat Tatum
Speaker 1: had a nightmare shooting night. But I went back and
Speaker 1: watched all the shooting attempts. He was five or eight
Speaker 1: team from the field and over seven from three. But
Speaker 1: I actually thought he got pretty decent shot quality. It
Speaker 1: kind of just felt like nightmare game for him. You know.
Speaker 1: Bam at a bio and his postgame presser, I was
Speaker 1: talking about how you know, uh, they're just gonna live
Speaker 1: with the result with Jayson Tatum taking tough shots. And
Speaker 1: I get that, and I get that from a shot
Speaker 1: from a philosophy. And don't get me wrong, if you're
Speaker 1: guarding Jayson Tatum, you gotta live with some of these
Speaker 1: step back threes that he's taken. But I mean Tatum
Speaker 1: missed at least, by my count, five layups like right
Speaker 1: around the rim, like easy layups that he does not
Speaker 1: usually miss. You know, this has been Tatum's best rim
Speaker 1: finishing season of his career by far. He clearly worked
Speaker 1: a lot this season on finishing or offseason on finishing
Speaker 1: through contact, and he's been hitting in like the mid
Speaker 1: seventies on high volume around the rim. Just a bad night,
Speaker 1: it happens, you know. Jimmy Butler once again just has
Speaker 1: the Celtics number, and anytime you put him in a
Speaker 1: big game like that, he's just just about guaranteed to
Speaker 1: play really to play really well. He had a massive
Speaker 1: jumper to almost seal the game in regulation and then
Speaker 1: actually hit the one that ice the game. In Ot
Speaker 1: made all sorts of huge defensive plays and including a
Speaker 1: huge block on Jalen Brown at the rim. In Ot
Speaker 1: Heat fans in general just have to feel good about
Speaker 1: having him back because he solves so many of their problems.
Speaker 1: But the real hero that I want to give a
Speaker 1: bunch of attention to right now is bam At a bio.
Speaker 1: So he had twenty eight points tonight on eighteen shots.
Speaker 1: He scored twenty eight or more, and three of his
Speaker 1: last four games for the season, he's averaging a career
Speaker 1: high twenty one points per game on fifty for shooting.
Speaker 1: And he's just in general finally starting to be aggressive
Speaker 1: looking for his own shot rather than just trying to
Speaker 1: play within the flow of the offense, which is something
Speaker 1: that I've been begging for. You know, the Heat have
Speaker 1: a signal. They have a lot of guys that can
Speaker 1: dribble and can shoot, but you know, athleticism and physical
Speaker 1: tools are such an important deal, especially when you get
Speaker 1: into postseason environments like I always talk about, like the
Speaker 1: mismatch attacking forward and you know, with this Heat roster,
Speaker 1: one of the weaknesses for them is their guards can't
Speaker 1: really create shots unless they're coming over screens and getting advantages,
Speaker 1: and so they really only have one forward is jim
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler who can like consistently create his own shot
Speaker 1: against a mismatch, and that's been a severe limitation for them.
Speaker 1: And even with that limitation, they damn near one a title.
Speaker 1: They were one shot away from making the finals last year,
Speaker 1: so that's I mean, obviously it's not the same as
Speaker 1: getting the trophy, but that's relatively close. So you know, realistically,
Speaker 1: having Bam become another one of those guys, another big
Speaker 1: forward that can consistently attack a mismatch, that goes a
Speaker 1: long way towards solving a lot of Miami's offensive issues.
Speaker 1: You know, they need, they need not just ultraversatile one
Speaker 1: of the best defensive players in the world. Bam. They
Speaker 1: need two way BAM. They need more Anthony Davis than
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert, if that makes sense. They need what they
Speaker 1: got tonight. So like it's one twelve, one twelve, Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler just blocks Jalen Brown at the rim like a
Speaker 1: ridiculous block with his left hand extended out um and
Speaker 1: snatches the basketball. They run down and they clear out
Speaker 1: and isolate Bama a bio on the right block against
Speaker 1: Grant Williams. And Grant Williams is a great defensive player.
Speaker 1: This is a guy who was guarding honest and doing
Speaker 1: a pretty damn good job last year in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and he just backs his way in on Grant, turns
Speaker 1: over his left shoulder and knocks down a jump shot,
Speaker 1: a tough, fade away jump shot over his left shoulder.
Speaker 1: That's difficult, high level shot making, and that ended up
Speaker 1: giving the Heat the lead. You know, like that that's
Speaker 1: the thing that's gonna cook that, that's the thing that's
Speaker 1: gonna put Miami over the edge. High level shot making
Speaker 1: from BAM. Legit mismatch attacking from BAM, especially since for
Speaker 1: him and you know, a lot of the shot making
Speaker 1: that he displayed tonight was relatively close to the rim
Speaker 1: and that like five to seven foot range. That could
Speaker 1: be something that's really reliable in a playoff series. Look
Speaker 1: at the Lakers tonight with Lebron James and Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: At the end of that game, they won with shot
Speaker 1: making at the rim, like making shots like five seven
Speaker 1: ft away from the basket. If Bam can get that
Speaker 1: stuff nailed down, that could be like Tim Duncan esque
Speaker 1: reliable go to scoring at the end of games or
Speaker 1: in big, you know, pivotal stretches of pivotal playoff games.
Speaker 1: Looking at some of the day, uh Bam has scored
Speaker 1: fifty points on fifty two post ups, which is below average,
Speaker 1: but he's been very good in isolation. He scored including passes,
Speaker 1: which is in the sixty seven percentile in the NBA. Now,
Speaker 1: the Heat still desperately need a legit two way front
Speaker 1: court option just to add some depth. They're my guess
Speaker 1: is they'll be very I mean, they were literally playing
Speaker 1: Udonis Haslem in these games like that's a problem. You know. Um,
Speaker 1: They're gonna need to target somebody either in the trade
Speaker 1: market in the buyout market to bolster that front court.
Speaker 1: But if this scoring burst from bam is real, and
Speaker 1: I hope they keep feeding him all season to try
Speaker 1: to develop that further and further, there's some real Lebron
Speaker 1: A D type potential here. You know what makes the
Speaker 1: Lebron A D pairing so devastating. It's not just that
Speaker 1: Anthony Davison Lebron can combine for seventy two points or
Speaker 1: whatever they did tonight. It's that on the other end
Speaker 1: of the floor, Lebron was guarding Janice and Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: was guarding Janice, and A D was protecting the rim,
Speaker 1: and they were grabbing all these contested rebounds and make
Speaker 1: all these pivotal defensive plays. That's the key. You need,
Speaker 1: the two ways pairing of superstars. You've seen it with
Speaker 1: Jalen Brownie, Jason Tatum. That sort of thing is such
Speaker 1: a valuable playoff weapon. And if Bamata Bio can meet
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler in that true two way superstar level, that
Speaker 1: changes the way we have to evaluate the Heat. But
Speaker 1: massive win, I mean, I was talking about the Lakers
Speaker 1: earlier tonight because they had a massive road win against
Speaker 1: the second best team in the league. This was the
Speaker 1: Mimei Heat getting a massive road win over the very
Speaker 1: best team in the league. So shout out to the Heat,
Speaker 1: Shout out to Bamata Bio. I might have to start
Speaker 1: talking about the Heat a little bit more, which could
Speaker 1: be fun because they're a fun team to watch and
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler is one of my favorite players. All Right,
Speaker 1: what a huge win for the Lakers. Do you guys
Speaker 1: remember what I said on Thursday? I said they've won
Speaker 1: six out of eight, really should be seven out of eight.
Speaker 1: You're up seventeen with nine minutes left against the Pacers
Speaker 1: at home. You should win that game. They choked it away.
Speaker 1: They paid dear the for it. But their schedule was
Speaker 1: weak in that stretch, and a lot of people are
Speaker 1: going to point to the schedule, which is normal, and honestly,
Speaker 1: it's the reality of what happened. They beat some bad
Speaker 1: teams during that stretch, but they also played some good basketball.
Speaker 1: That's a decent Blazer's team, even without Dame, with a
Speaker 1: lot of wing size and athleticism that they beat handily
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. That Pacers team that they were up seventeen on,
Speaker 1: that's a decent basketball team. They were playing good basketball,
Speaker 1: but they needed a signature win something to legitimize it,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's kind of reminds me of the
Speaker 1: King's situation. If you guys remember when the Kings went
Speaker 1: on that long heart hot street. I pointed out the
Speaker 1: simple fact that they hadn't played many good teams and
Speaker 1: that they were basically just beating up on weaker competition.
Speaker 1: But I said, they will have a chance to prove it,
Speaker 1: and they did. They went out to Atlanta, Boston, and
Speaker 1: Phoenix three games in a row and lost all three
Speaker 1: of them. So when they had an opportunity to prove
Speaker 1: the legitimacy of their recent good play, they couldn't do it. Now,
Speaker 1: I expected that with the Kings because they weren't defending well.
Speaker 1: The reason why I thought the Lakers actually had a
Speaker 1: decent chance to continue this momentum is Lebron James, Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis and the seventh best defense in the league that
Speaker 1: actually is the second best half court defense. They're just
Speaker 1: an atrocious transition defense. I thought they had the capability
Speaker 1: to keep this momentum going, but this was a really
Speaker 1: difficult first challenge. This Bucks team, I think is the
Speaker 1: second best team in the league. Um is the second
Speaker 1: best team in the standings. They were my second championship
Speaker 1: pick behind the Golden State Warriors. They were eleven and
Speaker 1: two at home this year coming into tonight, and they
Speaker 1: were the best paint defense in the league, giving up
Speaker 1: just forty four point five points per one possessions in
Speaker 1: the paint, which was first place in the entire NBA.
Speaker 1: And this is a Lakers team that is very dependent
Speaker 1: on getting into the paint. They are fourth and paint
Speaker 1: points per game, and obviously Lebron James and Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: do the majority of their damage in the restricted area.
Speaker 1: So with Chris Middleton coming back with Pat Connaughton, I
Speaker 1: think this was his fifth game back, this was a
Speaker 1: really difficult road game and an excellent opportunity for the
Speaker 1: Lakers to prove that they've been playing some good basketball,
Speaker 1: and they did. They controlled this game really. You know,
Speaker 1: there was a little bit of a back and forth
Speaker 1: at the beginning, and then the Bucks actually took a
Speaker 1: brief lead late before the Lakers took it back and
Speaker 1: won the game. But the Lakers pretty much controlled this game,
Speaker 1: kind of stiff armed the Bucks out to that you know,
Speaker 1: five six points uh through most of that second half
Speaker 1: until the Bucks got it close, and so it was
Speaker 1: a really really impressive win, especially when the Bucks made
Speaker 1: seventeen threes. You get a forty piece from Janice and
Speaker 1: you still win. It's really impressive. And again for that
Speaker 1: best paint defense in the league, giving up just forty
Speaker 1: four point five points per one possessions in the paint. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Lebron Russ and Anthony Davis butchered them for seventy paint
Speaker 1: points in this game. But that's the power of all
Speaker 1: world talent. You know, when I when I was talking
Speaker 1: about the Lakers coming into the season, and everyone makes
Speaker 1: their jokes about the roster, and I get it, dude,
Speaker 1: I've been talking about the roster too, But the reality
Speaker 1: of the situation was is Anthony Davis wasn't available for
Speaker 1: most of last season, and when he was available, he
Speaker 1: didn't look like Anthony Davis. He looked like a lesser
Speaker 1: version of Anthony Davis. He looked like Clint Capella with
Speaker 1: with the occasional really nice dribble move and a jump shot,
Speaker 1: although he'd shoot like below on jump shots. That's the
Speaker 1: type of players you were getting earlier on in the
Speaker 1: last two seasons with Anthony Davis and then Lebron James
Speaker 1: wasn't playing very much on the defensive end. He was
Speaker 1: just scoring the basketball efficient efficiently last year and Russ
Speaker 1: was a disaster last year. But if Anthony Davis plays
Speaker 1: like the Anthony Davis that helped the Lakers win the
Speaker 1: title in and if Lebron James plays like Lebron James,
Speaker 1: then you have to scrap all of that. Do they
Speaker 1: need to make a deal a trade to become a
Speaker 1: true contender? Yeah, of course, because it's too much to
Speaker 1: ask for Lebron James and Anthony Davis to go out
Speaker 1: and score seventy points. Everything will game. But this is
Speaker 1: the power of all world talent. This is why it's
Speaker 1: worth investing, and this is why I've been pushing them
Speaker 1: to push their chips in the middle. So what I
Speaker 1: want to do with the Lakers tonight is I just
Speaker 1: want to focus on their three stars. So let's start
Speaker 1: with a D forty four and ten with three blocks.
Speaker 1: I thought he soundly outplayed Janice, who did most of
Speaker 1: his damage and transition against that horrific Lakers transition defense.
Speaker 1: I thought they actually defended Janice really well in the
Speaker 1: half court. Anthony Davis made nine shots outside of the
Speaker 1: restricted area in this game, which is reminiscent of Bubble
Speaker 1: A D. Because that was what Bubble A D did.
Speaker 1: Really was good in that mid range with his pull
Speaker 1: up jump shot. He had a critical driving layup past
Speaker 1: Brook Lopez late in the fourth, grabbed a bunch of
Speaker 1: critical um, decontested defensive rebounds. He just he just was
Speaker 1: dominant all game long. You know, this is I keep
Speaker 1: talking about the difference between like regular Anthony Davis what
Speaker 1: I what I jokingly called the better version of Clint Capella.
Speaker 1: I keep comparing the difference between you know, that version
Speaker 1: of Anthony Davis and this version of Anthony Davis. And
Speaker 1: this is why, like and eight where the Lakers lose
Speaker 1: and he jogs back in transition a bunch, and I'm
Speaker 1: screaming from the mountaintops, like Anthony Davis is not playing well.
Speaker 1: And you know Anthony Davis fans would be like he
Speaker 1: had five and eight. Yeah, he had and eight. That's
Speaker 1: not good from him compared to what he is capable of.
Speaker 1: Look what he's done in this last two and a
Speaker 1: half three weeks. Yeah, like he when Anthony Davis is
Speaker 1: actually locked in on both ends of the floor and
Speaker 1: has that level of shot making that he has when
Speaker 1: he's in shape, in rhythm and actually like polishing his skills.
Speaker 1: He is a top five player in the NBA. That's
Speaker 1: how good he is. That's why I hold him to
Speaker 1: that standard. And what happened was is he won the
Speaker 1: trophy and just let go of the work showed up
Speaker 1: to camp. It was widely reported that he showed up
Speaker 1: to camp each of the next two seasons out of shape,
Speaker 1: which directly leads to things like injuries. And when you're
Speaker 1: out the gym and you're not working on your game,
Speaker 1: guess what happens. Your jump shot stops falling. He let
Speaker 1: go of it. But you know, as I was hoping
Speaker 1: coming into the season, the humiliation of the previous two
Speaker 1: years would be enough to whip a d back into shape.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what's happened. He's been incredible this year,
Speaker 1: just like I expected him to be moving on to Lebron.
Speaker 1: In the first half, it was a lot of really
Speaker 1: good individual defense on Janice. I've always joked about how
Speaker 1: if you were picking like the perfect defenders to guard Janice,
Speaker 1: the two names that come to my mind are Draymond
Speaker 1: Green and Lebron James Lebron just says that unique combination
Speaker 1: of mobility and legit powerful strength that not many players
Speaker 1: in the league. Half and then the same thing goes
Speaker 1: for Draymond and he's not quite the athlete that Lebron is,
Speaker 1: but he just has incredible defensive instincts, so he's good
Speaker 1: at picking up cover. Like Lebron got caught on a
Speaker 1: late screen for Janice that led to an and one
Speaker 1: layup that it's like one of those things where you
Speaker 1: know Lebron's physically equipped for that, but he just didn't
Speaker 1: anticipate it enough. Draymond Green is gonna be on top
Speaker 1: of those sorts of things like those are the two
Speaker 1: guys that I've always thought of as the perfect Johnie defenders.
Speaker 1: And I thought Lebron did a really nice job on it.
Speaker 1: Like I said, uh, he got a few baskets. He
Speaker 1: had a spinning dunk in the first half, he had
Speaker 1: that and one layup. In the second half. He had
Speaker 1: to pull up jump shots that he knocked down in
Speaker 1: Lebron's face right around like the top of the key um.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, I thought Lebron did a
Speaker 1: good job. Most of Janice's damage came in transition and
Speaker 1: against those two funky line ups that Darvin Hamm ran
Speaker 1: with no Lebron James and Anthony Davis off the floor
Speaker 1: while Janice was on and Johannice just bullied his way
Speaker 1: to the rim. Off to look at the numbers later,
Speaker 1: but I think the Lakers the only reason this game
Speaker 1: wasn't a ten fifteen point when was because of those
Speaker 1: specific stretches of the game oft to look at those
Speaker 1: when the data updates. Um. But like he also had
Speaker 1: like a really nice stretch there in that second quarter
Speaker 1: where he got some good pick and roll chemistry with
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis ended up getting a dunk in
Speaker 1: that sequence, and then in the second half it was
Speaker 1: just pure shot creation, including a masterful fourth quarter with
Speaker 1: countless pivotal baskets, like some huge jump shots in layups
Speaker 1: and feeds for other important shots here that um that
Speaker 1: uh um really nice like pocket past Anthony Davis in
Speaker 1: the early fourth right when the Bucks got it back too.
Speaker 1: I think it was right after the Bucks tied the game,
Speaker 1: finished the game with eight and eleven and he didn't
Speaker 1: even shoot that well. I think he was seven from
Speaker 1: the field. Know, it's funny. I was thinking at the
Speaker 1: end of the third quarter. I think I actually drafted
Speaker 1: out the tweet and ended up not sending it, But
Speaker 1: I was thinking that this is a winnable game, and
Speaker 1: Lebron's had a bad season by his standards for the
Speaker 1: most part, although he's had some really good games as
Speaker 1: of late, and this is an opportunity to send a
Speaker 1: message and to get a monumentally important win for his team.
Speaker 1: I was curious what he would do in that fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and he was incredible. Um Down the stretch of that game,
Speaker 1: the Lakers spammed a Lebron Anthony Davis pick and roll
Speaker 1: out of a triple threat with the cleared side lowered
Speaker 1: to the basket almost down like seventeen eighteen feet, and
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about that from a couple of
Speaker 1: different angles. So, first of all, the Lebron a d
Speaker 1: pick and roll is deadly when teams don't switch it.
Speaker 1: The problem is is the vast majority of teams will
Speaker 1: switch that action because they'll just put a big forward
Speaker 1: on a D and a big forward on Lebron, So
Speaker 1: who cares about the matchup. They'll switch it, and they
Speaker 1: probably feel like they can force both of them to
Speaker 1: settle for jump shots, you know, at least try to
Speaker 1: if they switch the action. But the Bucks were guarding
Speaker 1: it with Janice and help, you know, or sometimes Janice
Speaker 1: was on Anthony Davis when Brooke was off the floor,
Speaker 1: but they primarily put Brooke on Anthony Davis and Drew
Speaker 1: Holiday on Lebron, two very different types of defenders, so
Speaker 1: they weren't switching the action. They were in a legit
Speaker 1: drop coverage towards the end. Drew really tried to ice
Speaker 1: the coverage, trying to force Lebron towards the baseline, but
Speaker 1: he just used pivot moves and rescreening to get back
Speaker 1: towards the middle. But there's a couple of different interesting
Speaker 1: things there. Why they cleared the side is simple, you
Speaker 1: push it to that side. It simplifies your reads. You
Speaker 1: don't have to look both ways to see if there's
Speaker 1: a helper coming out of the corner in instead, you
Speaker 1: just have to see the one side of the floor. Also,
Speaker 1: by clearing the side, you push the whole action over
Speaker 1: a bit. Now the help defenders have to come further
Speaker 1: off of their shooters, which either you know, puts them
Speaker 1: in more of a a position where they have to
Speaker 1: make a more difficult decision. Am I gonna a band
Speaker 1: in the shooter to help or am I gonna stay home?
Speaker 1: And then the reason why they started low is it
Speaker 1: simplifies the shot making piece of it all. So if
Speaker 1: you run the high pick and roll, and you know,
Speaker 1: Drew gets caught on the screen, but they're digging over
Speaker 1: on the roll man and Brooke is containing Lebron as
Speaker 1: he's driving to the basket, he might have to make
Speaker 1: some tougher pull up jump shots. He might have to
Speaker 1: make a pull up you know, eighteen foot or a
Speaker 1: tougher floater or something along those lines. But when you
Speaker 1: move the action inside that far. Once Lebron got over
Speaker 1: the screen and Drew Holiday was on his backside, he's
Speaker 1: already at like ten ft, and so from there, if
Speaker 1: he has a step, it's one extra step to the
Speaker 1: rim for a layout. If he doesn't have the step
Speaker 1: and Drew fights over, now he can just go to
Speaker 1: like a short little jump hook, and Lebron made a
Speaker 1: couple of really nice little short range jump shots in there.
Speaker 1: Just by moving the action in it made it so
Speaker 1: that the shot making piece of the ball handler and
Speaker 1: pick and roll was not pull up three pull up
Speaker 1: you know, long too it was hook shot or lay up.
Speaker 1: It just simplified the shot making piece. I thought it
Speaker 1: was really smart, um and that's the kind of thing
Speaker 1: that Lebron James. You know, he's just a chess master
Speaker 1: in those sorts of situations. I also thought like just
Speaker 1: by starting at eighteen feet allowed Lebron to start with
Speaker 1: a triple threat rather than with a live dribble. If
Speaker 1: you go with a live dribble, Drew Holiday can punish
Speaker 1: the handle, which is one of his best gifts, work
Speaker 1: it out of a triple threat. Now Drew Holiday can't
Speaker 1: get into the handle. Lebron's working with ripped throughs and
Speaker 1: he's protecting the basketball. It's just a lot easier for
Speaker 1: him to manage Drew's ball pressure at that point. I
Speaker 1: will I'm I really thought that was an interesting basketball
Speaker 1: chess match. So at some point next week, probably on
Speaker 1: Monday or Tuesday, I'm gonna do a video breakdown of
Speaker 1: um A that Lebron a d low pick and roll
Speaker 1: out of triple threat. I thought that was a really
Speaker 1: interesting sequence. But what an amazing two way performance from
Speaker 1: Lebron and exactly the type of thing that you're that
Speaker 1: this team requires in order to beat the best teams
Speaker 1: on the league, or excuse me, on the road in
Speaker 1: the league. That was vintage throwback Lebron is fun to watch,
Speaker 1: all right, Let's talk about some Russ. What did I
Speaker 1: say after Wednesday? He was four or four teen from
Speaker 1: the field and only had four assists, But I said
Speaker 1: it was one of his best games as a Laker
Speaker 1: because he limited his mistakes, he got consistent drible penetration,
Speaker 1: and he played solid on the defensive end. When he
Speaker 1: does those things, he can still be a damn effective
Speaker 1: NBA player. And he went out and did all three
Speaker 1: of those things again tonight to an even higher level.
Speaker 1: And what I thought was his best game as a Laker.
Speaker 1: Some Laker fans are gonna point to. I think it
Speaker 1: was the Hornets game last year where he had like
Speaker 1: thirty three or something like that and he won the
Speaker 1: game with some big time shot making. But that's that
Speaker 1: to me is a rale. There was bad team on
Speaker 1: the road, Lebron and d D were out. You were
Speaker 1: just kind of like, okay, go ahead, Russ, try to
Speaker 1: win this game. And he did. But this was like
Speaker 1: high stakes team with real expectations. Season still very much
Speaker 1: in play on the road. Second best team in the league.
Speaker 1: Lebron and a d are out there playing great, and
Speaker 1: they need Russ to find a way to contribute to
Speaker 1: the two stars that are playing at the top of
Speaker 1: their games on this night. They needed him to supplement that,
Speaker 1: and the only way he could do that is once
Speaker 1: again limiting mistakes, getting consistent drivel penetration, and playing solid defense.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what he did. He had five assists
Speaker 1: on his first five offensive possessions. I'm not sure I've
Speaker 1: ever actually seen that before. It was like there was
Speaker 1: like Russ assist, Russ assist, Russ assist right like it was.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable on his way to an eleven assist night,
Speaker 1: and he limited his mistakes. He only took two shots
Speaker 1: I didn't like. There was a a one like fade
Speaker 1: away over Drew Holiday. I think it was in his
Speaker 1: first shift that he actually made that was like early
Speaker 1: shot clock where I was like, man, we probably don't
Speaker 1: need that shot, but he made it. And then the
Speaker 1: second one was the two for one that he went
Speaker 1: for the pull up three. And the general idea there
Speaker 1: is you go for the two for one because of
Speaker 1: the math of it all right, Like, Okay, if I
Speaker 1: have two possessions, and you know, I run these two
Speaker 1: actions and I get on average one point whatever points
Speaker 1: per possession, you know, just by math, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: a better chance of scoring, you know, Whereas if I
Speaker 1: go one possession and they go one possession, just the
Speaker 1: odds are are less in my favor. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's all about shot quality because a pull up early
Speaker 1: Russ three early and the shot clock has like what
Speaker 1: a ten twelve percent chance of going in. So when
Speaker 1: you really look at the points per possession on that possession,
Speaker 1: it's so low that you're actually better off running a
Speaker 1: really good, sound offensive possession. But those were the only
Speaker 1: two shots I like he had. Didn't like he had
Speaker 1: zero turnovers. That's two games in a row. Was zero
Speaker 1: turnovers after he had twelve in the last two games. Um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, so like I'd say, what two mistakes total?
Speaker 1: And he played just on just under thirty minutes, Like
Speaker 1: that's a great way to contribute. And then he played
Speaker 1: a great defensive game, you know what I gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta hand it to him too, like that diving play
Speaker 1: where he dove at the ball. Um when Chris Middleton
Speaker 1: went to the ground and he kept the ball alive.
Speaker 1: That led to the run out dunk from Lebron to
Speaker 1: a d That was a game winning type of play.
Speaker 1: You Know, it's funny with Russ. He he has he
Speaker 1: has so much like moxie an audacity that like, when
Speaker 1: he sees those opportunities to make those pivotal momentum plays,
Speaker 1: he always goes for it. And sometimes it can hurt
Speaker 1: him when he does something like shooting that late through
Speaker 1: pull up jump shot that he did against the Blazers
Speaker 1: in the third game of the season. Like you're like,
Speaker 1: he felt an opportunity to ice the game there and
Speaker 1: he just couldn't help himself, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But like in this version of Russ, when he's measured
Speaker 1: a little bit more and he's a little bit more calm,
Speaker 1: when he goes for those types of plays. You know,
Speaker 1: that was that that that's the type of play that
Speaker 1: you put your heart on the line for. The way
Speaker 1: that he did um and just just unbelievable um performance
Speaker 1: from him tonight. Like I said, I thought it was
Speaker 1: his best game as a Laker. I was talking to
Speaker 1: one of my co workers at the volume and I said,
Speaker 1: to him. You know, I'm like, I still think at
Speaker 1: this exact moment in time that you know the Russ's
Speaker 1: salary because of the vehicle that that provides you to
Speaker 1: bring back multiple larger salaries. I still think that that's
Speaker 1: the way to go in terms of trade at the
Speaker 1: trade market. But it's because these performances like these last
Speaker 1: two games have been more the exception, Like he's had
Speaker 1: like probably four or five games where they've met this
Speaker 1: standard that I think really helped the team, and then
Speaker 1: another four or five what was kind of a mixed bag,
Speaker 1: and then there's been some bad ones. Right, But if
Speaker 1: he puts together like three or four more like this
Speaker 1: in a row where it becomes like consistent that he's
Speaker 1: figured out how to fit within this group, like he's
Speaker 1: being so productive that at that point you have to
Speaker 1: keep him. And so if he puts three or four
Speaker 1: games like that in a row over the course of
Speaker 1: this road trip, I will start to think or consider
Speaker 1: the idea that maybe a Patrick Beverley Kendrick Nunn package
Speaker 1: targeting one mid level salary is actually a better option.
Speaker 1: It all depends on how good Russ is and if
Speaker 1: he's gonna be there, if he's gonna be this good,
Speaker 1: then that changes that math. The Lakers have a classic
Speaker 1: trap game on Sunday there on the road in Washington. UM.
Speaker 1: I believe that game starts at three pm Pacific Standard time,
Speaker 1: so it's kind of like an early start. It's off
Speaker 1: of a big win, so it's tempting to bring a
Speaker 1: sloppy efforts, like a letdown type of game. They need
Speaker 1: to keep their foot on the gas, uh, to keep
Speaker 1: building momentum. Why because they are nine and twelve and
Speaker 1: they've banked too many losses. They don't have room in
Speaker 1: the standings to mess around. A couple of notes on
Speaker 1: the Bucks, I need to look at the film, but
Speaker 1: it looked like a rough half court game for your
Speaker 1: honest it seemed like the vast majority of his damage
Speaker 1: was in transition. And then, like I said, against those
Speaker 1: non lebron A D lineups. But I need to look
Speaker 1: back at the film, so I will dig back into
Speaker 1: that a little bit to keep an eye on my
Speaker 1: Twitter feed. And then again, like the Lakers are a
Speaker 1: good half court defense, or the second best half court
Speaker 1: defense in the league. So with a team that struggles
Speaker 1: to score in the half court like the Bucks and
Speaker 1: a player generally struggles to score in the half court
Speaker 1: in Janice against a really good half court defense, you know,
Speaker 1: that's kind of that thing's uh, that's the kind of
Speaker 1: thing that's going to happen. But once again in transition,
Speaker 1: he was completely unstoppable. I bet you he scored on
Speaker 1: every single run out. I didn't even think he played
Speaker 1: all that well, and he had forty seven and five
Speaker 1: on shooting like he is so clearly the best player
Speaker 1: in the world. To me, um Chris Middleton, I said
Speaker 1: that I liked this as a first matchup for him
Speaker 1: because of the overhelping from the Lakers, which he got
Speaker 1: some good three point looks from he made three out
Speaker 1: of four threes, and then the shorter Laker wings I
Speaker 1: gave him good options to shoot over the top. He
Speaker 1: had seventeen points in twenty seven minutes, and I thought
Speaker 1: he was playmaking. Was the most impressive thing that I
Speaker 1: saw tonight, and I think that's really gonna help the
Speaker 1: Bucks in their half court offense moving forward. He finished
Speaker 1: with seven assists. You know, like, as a Bucks fan,
Speaker 1: the way you gotta look back at this is like
Speaker 1: just tip the cap to Lebron in a d because Look,
Speaker 1: how did the Lakers win the title? They want it
Speaker 1: because Lebron was the best player in the world and
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis was something like the fourth or fifth best
Speaker 1: player in the world. Two top five players playing at
Speaker 1: the top of their games. You're gonna have a really
Speaker 1: hard time beating them when they're like that. Now. One
Speaker 1: of the reasons why I don't have the Lakers as
Speaker 1: my championship favorite and instead I have, you know, the Warriors,
Speaker 1: Bucks and Celtics, is because I trust your honest and
Speaker 1: Drew and Chris to be good almost every single night,
Speaker 1: and I trust Jalen Brown and Jayson Tatum to be
Speaker 1: good almost every single night. And I trust Steph Curry
Speaker 1: and those guys to be good every single night. Like
Speaker 1: this is the first time in a long time that
Speaker 1: Lebron and a D have been this dominant together. I
Speaker 1: would need to see them demonstrate that over months and
Speaker 1: months for me to really believe in the ultimate ceiling
Speaker 1: of the Lakers. So as a Bucks fan, you just
Speaker 1: gotta tip your cat. You know, Lebron and A D
Speaker 1: came in to night and they both played like top
Speaker 1: five players, and you got beat and it was this
Speaker 1: close anyway in spite of all that, and that just
Speaker 1: goes to show you how good your team is, and
Speaker 1: so you gotta be feeling good about where you are,
Speaker 1: all right, guys, That's all I have for tonight is
Speaker 1: always I sincerely appreciate your support. I hope you guys
Speaker 1: enjoy the rest of your weekend, and I will see
Speaker 1: you on Monday. The Volume