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Speaker 1: goodwin for Phoenix UM. Their offense was humming, and even

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Speaker 1: much over. At that point, CP three finally got going

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Speaker 1: cool to see him take these leaps. Again, we're only

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Speaker 1: set it up and he gets basically the same type

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Speaker 1: of fading three on that left wing, except for this

433
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Speaker 1: time it's for the win rather than for the tie,

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Speaker 1: and he just missed it, which it is what it is.

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Speaker 1: I had a feeling this game would be close. Uh.

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Speaker 1: In the interest of full disclosure, this is one of

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Speaker 1: my first bets of the season. I bet New Orleans

438
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Speaker 1: money line because I got them at plus two hundred

439
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Speaker 1: on fan duel. You know they're down three starters. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: with the Jones being out he hyper extended his knee.

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00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,520
Speaker 1: The other day, Brandon Ingram got a concussion and then

442
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,520
Speaker 1: Zion Williamson took a pretty nasty fall that on a

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Speaker 1: shot that he got blocked, which led to a hip contusions.

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Speaker 1: All three of those guys were out, and obviously that's

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Speaker 1: gonna skew things towards Dallas, But the New Orleans Pelicans

446
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Speaker 1: have one of the most talented rosters in the league.

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Speaker 1: And the reality is is that if you uh, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about this a little bit more in

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Speaker 1: a minute, as it pertains to the rest of the league,

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Speaker 1: but when you're playing these super talented teams and you

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Speaker 1: don't bring your a game, you could get beat. This

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Speaker 1: Pelicans team is deep on the wing. They're deep and

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Speaker 1: skilled pull up jump shooting. I like their front court.

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Speaker 1: This is actually one of my favorite Kevin Durant destinations

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Speaker 1: over the course of the summer. If you guys remember

456
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Speaker 1: I was pro them trying to flip um Zion Williamson

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Speaker 1: for k D because I thought the rest of the

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Speaker 1: roster was so incredibly stacked that I thought it was

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Speaker 1: immediately propel you into being a top tier contender, if

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Speaker 1: not something better. And you know, Zion, obviously, with his

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Speaker 1: injury history, I thought was a little bit more of

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Speaker 1: a risk. Um. I don't think you're wrong going either way.

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Speaker 1: They're obviously going to be fantastic with Zion. Zion looks

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Speaker 1: amazing to start the season. But I've always been a

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Speaker 1: huge fan of this roster and and UH, David Griffin

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Speaker 1: in particular deserves a lot of credit, you know, um

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Speaker 1: in this You know, I was tweeting about this earlier

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Speaker 1: today because Anfrony Simon's just completely went off against the

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Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets last night, had like a twenty four point

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Speaker 1: quarter and was hitting all these shots. And the level

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Speaker 1: of skill in the n b A at the guard

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Speaker 1: position in particular right now is so incredibly high that

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Speaker 1: there's just this ridiculous amount of parody because the it

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Speaker 1: used to be, you know that you didn't have guys

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Speaker 1: hitting crazy wild pull up jump shots if you got

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Speaker 1: caught on a ball screen or if you had your

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Speaker 1: big man dropping back to the basket. You weren't having

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Speaker 1: guys consistently beat you with pull up floaters or pull

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Speaker 1: up jump shots or things along those lines. But now

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Speaker 1: that skill level is is all over the place in

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Speaker 1: this league. I mean, you took out three starters for

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Speaker 1: New Orleans and UH and coming back any coming back

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Speaker 1: at you anyway. You have c. J. McCollum, one of

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Speaker 1: the better three level scorers in the league, Davante Grahama,

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Speaker 1: player that can hit a lot of pull up jump shots,

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Speaker 1: Trey Murphy had an awesome offensive game as well. They

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Speaker 1: just have tons and tons of offensive talent, and in

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Speaker 1: in this league, in this era, if you bring eight

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Speaker 1: percent defensive effort and you kind of get caught on

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Speaker 1: ball screens and your bigs are too far back and drop,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get barbecued, just because that's how skilled the

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Speaker 1: NBA is right now. Now, Dallas did take control of

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Speaker 1: this game later on in the third quarter. They put

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Speaker 1: together a much better defensive quarter ended up taking a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a lead. But any time that you

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Speaker 1: play a poor defensive game and you allow game to

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Speaker 1: stay close, you throw shot variants into the equation. And

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Speaker 1: when they are all these skilled players in the league,

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Speaker 1: all it takes is somebody beating hot. And in this

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter it was c. J. McCollum. And what an unbelievable,

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Speaker 1: magnificent fourth quarter it was from him. Do It started

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Speaker 1: in pick and roll. He had like a nice little

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Speaker 1: floater um against a dropping big. He had a pull

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Speaker 1: up three against the drop. But then after that, uh,

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Speaker 1: Dallas started sending lots of defensive attention to him outright

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Speaker 1: doubling him on a couple of different occasions, and he

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Speaker 1: just started to pick them apart with the past. There

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Speaker 1: was a really like c J. McCollum is really gifted

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Speaker 1: in particular with setting his man up, which is such

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Speaker 1: an important skill when you're not a fantastic athlete. And

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Speaker 1: c J McCollum, for all of his great qualities, he's

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Speaker 1: not a fantastic athlete at the guard position. But there

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Speaker 1: was a play he ended up getting Maxi Cleiba on

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Speaker 1: a switch and he kind of dragged him out to

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Speaker 1: half court and he did a retreat dribble and kind

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Speaker 1: of exposed the basketball and relaxed for a second and

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Speaker 1: just waited for Cleban to get a little too aggressive

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Speaker 1: and lean forward. And as soon as he leaned forward,

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Speaker 1: he blew right past him, drew help, swung over to

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Speaker 1: Trey Murphy, and try Murphy knocked down to three. That's

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Speaker 1: the kind of stuff that CJ is so good at,

522
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 1: is baiting you into getting out of position because he's

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Speaker 1: not gonna beat you off the dribble if you're in position,

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Speaker 1: because you're probably gonna be a better athlete than him.

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Speaker 1: But in this particular case, he's he's gonna get you

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Speaker 1: to make a mistake and throw yourself out of position

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Speaker 1: so that he can gain his advantage. After that, he

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Speaker 1: hit Larry Nance in the short roll for a kick

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Speaker 1: out three there. Then after that they just started outright

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Speaker 1: double teaming him. There's a play where they just dribbled

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Speaker 1: the ball off the floor. He was dribbling it on

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Speaker 1: the right wing and Dallas just a band in Davonte

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Speaker 1: Graham to double him on the wing and it was

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Speaker 1: just easy swing pass, Bam, Davontae Graham makes the three.

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Speaker 1: Then there's another play where Reggie Bullock and Luca don

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Speaker 1: Che's just randomly double to him on the right wing

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Speaker 1: and he ended up throwing a bounce pass to Larry

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Speaker 1: Nance for a lap. And you know, I always say like,

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Speaker 1: when you play with fire, you have the chance to

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Speaker 1: get burned. See Jim McCollum. You know, Is has always

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Speaker 1: been capable of that type of fourth quarter. He's not

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Speaker 1: the most consistent player in the world. But when you

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Speaker 1: let a game stay close because you didn't bring the

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Speaker 1: quisite defensive effort against a team that's down three starters,

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Speaker 1: you put yourself at risk for a guy getting hot

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Speaker 1: and c J just you know, one of my favorite

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Speaker 1: all time favorite playoff moments. So CJ McCollum going into

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Speaker 1: Denver in Game seven a few years back and just

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00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: executing the Nuggets on their home floor to steal a

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Speaker 1: playoff series. He has that type of high end ceiling.

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Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite things about him being in

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Speaker 1: New Orleans because if he's your third best player, you

553
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: are in fantastic shape. This is when one of my

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00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,399
Speaker 1: favorite rosters in the league as a result Trey Murphy

555
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,880
Speaker 1: his offensive ability. He's actually a much better offensive player

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Speaker 1: than Irv Jones. He kind of fell out of the

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Speaker 1: rotation last year in the playoffs just because of some

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Speaker 1: defensive limitations, so that's typical for a young player, but

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Speaker 1: he is a super, super talented offensive player. And then

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Speaker 1: we got this other wing, one of my favorite defensive

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Speaker 1: wings from the draft, a guy who really physically developed

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Speaker 1: in his year in the G League, Dyson Daniels, who

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00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 1: was given Lucas some problems and Luca was doing everything

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Speaker 1: he could to get him switched off of him. He

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Speaker 1: has a nose for the basketball, and he's got super

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Speaker 1: strong hands and just another super exciting wing uh in

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Speaker 1: New Orleans, and if you're a Pelicans fan, you've just

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Speaker 1: got to be incredibly stoked. At this point with where

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Speaker 1: your team is sitting, with all this talent coming back

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00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: to from injury soon um Dallas. You know, obviously their

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Speaker 1: defense wasn't good in the first half and in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter they had really struggled with c. J. McCollum,

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Speaker 1: but their offense was fantastic throughout this game. Coming into tonight,

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Speaker 1: they were number one in offensive rating by a mile.

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Speaker 1: I believe they were about six points better than the

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Speaker 1: next best team in the league on the offensive end

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Speaker 1: of the floor. I attribute that to three things in particular. One,

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Speaker 1: they're truly playing five out basketball all the time. Dwight

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Speaker 1: Powell is out of the rotation. Now they're just going

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Speaker 1: with Christian Wood and Maxi Cleveland. So as a result,

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Speaker 1: they've constantly got four shooters surrounding Luca and now they

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Speaker 1: just have all sorts of space to operate. You know,

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Speaker 1: I want to be clear, like vertical spacing is a

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Speaker 1: real thing. Wipal is not even really much of a

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Speaker 1: vertical spacer. But you know, JaVale McGee gives you some

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Speaker 1: vertical spacing. But the the when they they're going away

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Speaker 1: from JaVale McGee early in these games, they're not playing

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Speaker 1: him more than maybe one or two shifts a game,

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00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: and they're just staying five out the rest of the night.

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Speaker 1: Vertical spacing is real, but it's not the same as

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Speaker 1: five out spacing, real perimeter spacing. The main reason why

592
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: is you have to cover more ground defensively. It's just

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00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 1: a much harder rotation to make coming out of the

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Speaker 1: week side corner to protect the rim than it is

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Speaker 1: to come out of the dunker spot to protect the rim.

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00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 1: It makes everybody cover more ground, it makes defenses make

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00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 1: more mistakes. It will always make you better on the

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Speaker 1: offensive end of the floor at a minimum, and Maxikaliba

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00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: is arguably their best perimeter defender at the big position. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: you actually had a lot of success against C. G.

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Speaker 1: McCollum and isolation, especially throughout the majority of the game

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00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: before that fourth quarter Um. But yeah, if you look

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Speaker 1: at some of their offensive nun last year in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: you know, with Dwight Powell in particular, their offense just

605
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 1: wasn't nearly as good. And you go around the league

606
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: and you look at the vertical spacing biggs versus the

607
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 1: perimeter spacing biggs, and almost every team in the league

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Speaker 1: plays much better on the offensive end when they go

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Speaker 1: five out and with the flexibility of having Christian Wood

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Speaker 1: and Maxi Cleib on your roster, you could play five

611
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: out basketball all the time if you want to. But

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Speaker 1: you've got JaVale McGee if you should need a bigger

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Speaker 1: center for specific matchups, which is important. The second thing

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Speaker 1: I attribute their offense too is Christian Wood. And this

615
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Speaker 1: dude is you know. I remember when I when I

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Speaker 1: was watching the stuff of him in Houston to kind

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Speaker 1: of prep for the season. I was looking at the

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Speaker 1: stuff he does well, Like he catches and shoots the ball, well,

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Speaker 1: he's good catching shoot shooter. He's was actually a pretty

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Speaker 1: damn good pull up three point shooter. He was taking

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Speaker 1: like two a game and hit him at in Houston.

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Speaker 1: He was good in post ups, and he was good

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Speaker 1: in the short role. And if you guys remember my

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Speaker 1: question was, I'm confused as to whether or not that

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Speaker 1: was just garbage time basketball with a bad team where

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Speaker 1: he's just jacking up shots, or whether it was real,

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00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 1: legitimate scoring that translates in a winning environment. And I

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00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 1: think we I think he has answered that question resoundingly

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Speaker 1: to start this season. This dude has, you know, and

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00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: it's so hard to explain. It's just a natural scoring ability.

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00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: Yes he can shoot, Yes he has touched. But there

632
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: are a lot of guys around the league that have touch,

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00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: that can shoot, that can dribble, that have all of

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00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: those things, but they just don't have a scores mentality.

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00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: A scores mentality is a combination of creativity, a willingness

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Speaker 1: to try things that go outside of your rigid fundamentals,

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00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 1: and then audacity, the bravery to take difficult shots and

638
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: difficult situations like Christian Wood staring down Dyson Daniels and

639
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 1: ripping through getting cut off by Dyson Daniels, but then

640
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 1: euro stepping back to finish with his left hand like

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00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: overly fundamental basketball players don't have that level of creativity,

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00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: And there's just there's a number of years around the

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00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 1: league that have that kind of mix of audacity and

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00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: creativity with skill level that makes them natural scores. And

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Speaker 1: Christian Wood is one of those guys, and they they've

646
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: been able to throw it to him in the post

647
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: and he's been able to create advantages, he's been able

648
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: to succeed in the role. Luka Dontech already has really

649
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: good chemistry with him there. He's bailing out possessions with

650
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: step back threes. He hit like a really nasty kind

651
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: of like Kobe used to do this like triple threat

652
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: three point shot where he would kind of start to

653
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 1: rip through like a jab step and then elevate from

654
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: there as opposed to his normal shooting pocket. He had

655
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: one of those on the right baseline that was a

656
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: big shot in the fourth quarter that I think tied

657
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: the game at eight seven. He's either late third or

658
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: early fourth. He's got all sorts of natural scoring ability

659
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: and that's just a huge influx of offensive creation that

660
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: has made their offense better. And the last but at

661
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: least Luca don Che's he is coming into the season

662
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:55,479
Speaker 1: in shape because of euro Basket, and as a result,

663
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: he's averaging thirty four, eight and eight on sixty try shooting.

664
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 1: That's career high. Is obviously early for both points and

665
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 1: true shooting. He's been really really good, and so at

666
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: this point, at this point, like there, you gotta be

667
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 1: extremely excited about their offense. Obviously they need to play

668
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: better defensively, especially in games like this, but too really

669
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 1: exciting basketball games. Excuse me, basketball teams that played a

670
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: really interesting game. All right, We're gonna do rapid fire

671
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: through these last two games. We're gonna hit Brooklyn Memphis

672
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 1: really quick and then Spurs Wolf. So obviously Katie and Kyrie,

673
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: John Moran, Desmond Baine, they all combined for or they

674
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: all score at least thirty seven points. Brooklyn kept it

675
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: close in the first half, but they ended up giving

676
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:35,959
Speaker 1: seventy in the second half. They never really tripped, they

677
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: never really truly threatened. I think they got it within

678
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 1: six in the fourth quarter, but never really felt close.

679
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 1: Desmond Baine finally got going, so that's good for Memphis

680
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: fans because he didn't really look like himself to start

681
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: the season. Still looked a little stiff and his jump

682
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 1: shot was really short, didn't really um amount too much

683
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: early on, but he finally he got He was on

684
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: fire in that second half. Katie talked a lot after

685
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 1: the game about three point shooting being the biggest issue.

686
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: The Grizzlies attempted night team open or wide open threes

687
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: and then Net's only attempt at twelve. Yes, they shot

688
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 1: better than you, but they got better threes than you

689
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 1: because you're not defending the same way that they are defending,

690
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 1: and that is all a distraction away from the fact

691
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 1: that the Nets it's not about them knocking down shots.

692
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:20,959
Speaker 1: Their offense. They've been seventh and offense, and they're actually

693
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: gonna get better as time goes on. But the reality

694
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: is is they are continuing night and the night out

695
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: to get absolutely obliterated in the effort in physicality areas

696
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: of the game. They are dead last in defensive writing,

697
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: so they're giving up more points per possession than anybody

698
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: in the league. They're dead lasted defensive rebounding percentage, so

699
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: when the other team shoots a shot, they are the

700
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: worst team in the league gets at ending the possession

701
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 1: with the defensive rebound. They are giving up the highest

702
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: three point percentage in the league. Now, so much of

703
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: that is shot result, and you see a lot of

704
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: guys be like, oh, teams will shoot better, teams will

705
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: shoot worse. I see part of that, but I also

706
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: see the other side of it, which is your shot

707
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,240
Speaker 1: result is also a product of the defensive intensity throughout

708
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: the game. If you are playing physical, if you are

709
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,760
Speaker 1: getting into people with ball pressure, if you are playing

710
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 1: hard on both ends of the floor and making the

711
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,359
Speaker 1: other team work, then when they are open, they will

712
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: be tired and they are less likely, and because they're

713
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 1: less comfortable and they're more fatigued, they're less likely to

714
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 1: make those open shots. So yes, over the course of

715
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: the ad two game season, we'll get to learn how

716
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 1: good they really are defending the three point line. But

717
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: I tend to think that when you're playing bad defense

718
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: and they're shooting well, those are too intricately connected things.

719
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: You are allowing them to be too comfortable and comfortable

720
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 1: NBA professional shooters are going to make shots, so at

721
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you can't just blame three

722
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: point percentage unless you're going out there and making teams

723
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 1: feel uncomfortable. They are the second worst paint defense in

724
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 1: the league. They're allowing one point six points per transition

725
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: possession off of turnovers, which is fourth worst in the league,

726
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: which means when they throw the ball away, it's a

727
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: layup line the other way, basically, it made layup almost

728
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 1: every single possession, and that's all inexcusable. They have plenty

729
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: of length and athleticism with Kevin Durant, with Ben Simmons,

730
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:09,839
Speaker 1: with Roy so Knew, who they picked up with Nick

731
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 1: Klaxton is obviously a good athlete in this league. They

732
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: simply have to dedicate themselves to those details or they

733
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: will not win basketball games. You can't win just by

734
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 1: putting the ball in the basket. I used to joke

735
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: all the time, I said this about Brooklyn. Actually last

736
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: week you you you can love basketball, that's great, but

737
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: you have to hate losing enough to do the things

738
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: that are not fun in basketball. Because all of those

739
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,320
Speaker 1: things that I'm talking about getting back in transition, defense,

740
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: boxing out, you know, playing defense, fighting over the top

741
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,399
Speaker 1: of screens, closing out on shooters, none of that is fun.

742
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: No one plays basketball because it's fun to do that stuff.

743
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 1: You do it because you hate to lose. And right

744
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:49,280
Speaker 1: now Brooklyn has not hated these losses enough to change

745
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 1: their habits on those end of the floor. One note

746
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: on Memphis that's exciting John Moran's jump shooting. Over the summer,

747
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 1: I talked about how he's my favorite of the hyper

748
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: athletic guards that have come through this league the because

749
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: he's so good with passing the basketball already, so good

750
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: getting to the rim. But he's a much better jump

751
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: shooter already than any of those guys ever were. And

752
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 1: this season he's starting super hot from the perimeter. He's

753
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 1: fift on catching shoot threes and on pull up threes.

754
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,839
Speaker 1: Obviously he's gonna come down to earth a little bit.

755
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: But I always thought he'd be a good jump shooter

756
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 1: because he has good form, which is more than you

757
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: could say about Russell Westbrook or about Derrick Rose, or

758
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: about any of the super athletic guards that have come

759
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 1: through the league in the past. So obviously still's got

760
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: he still has to get better defensively in the half court.

761
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:39,319
Speaker 1: He's making some transition defensive plays, but he's looking like

762
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: a player that is rapidly ascending alright, really quick before

763
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,720
Speaker 1: we get out of here. Spurs Wolves, So the Spurs

764
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: just kicked the ship out of him. Was there's a

765
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: fake come back late, um, But they were up by

766
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:52,240
Speaker 1: thirty five at one point. The Spurs are super athletic,

767
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,839
Speaker 1: they play super hard. They just did this to Philadelphia

768
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: the other day as well. This is another NBA team

769
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,399
Speaker 1: that looks easy on the schedule, but if don't bring

770
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,280
Speaker 1: your a game, you're gonna get beat. Kind of similar

771
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: to Utah. Just another example of all the things I've

772
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 1: been talking about as it pertains to parody in the league. Um,

773
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: Devin Vacel in particular, totally lit up the Timberwolves, made

774
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: five threes's, averaging twenty five and five to start the season.

775
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: He's another freaky, athletic, versatile wing coming through the San

776
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: Antonio system. I'm super excited to watch more of him

777
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:23,879
Speaker 1: this season and to learn more about him because he

778
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: is after you give up de John Day Murray, there's

779
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 1: a lot of reason to be depressed if you're a

780
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: Spurs fan. But this kid just might be better than it,

781
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: which we're gonna find out over the course of the

782
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: next couple of years. So really quickly on Minnesota, my

783
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 1: three main concerns after the Rudy Gobert trade coming into

784
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 1: the season. If you guys remember I said I'm concerned

785
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 1: about their perimeter defense. Because they lost some perimeter defensive players,

786
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: You're now going to be asking uh Karl Anthony Towns

787
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: to guard quicker players on the perimeter. And Rudy Gobert

788
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: is good defensively if you can keep him by the paint,

789
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 1: but as soon as he starts getting pulled into help

790
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: all over the place, and now he's rotating out to

791
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:00,800
Speaker 1: different players. Now there's different players on the back line

792
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: and it's not as effective defensively. We just learned this

793
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: with his entire career in Utah, Like, yes, if you

794
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 1: can funnel to him, that's great, but if you can't

795
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: and he's on the perimeter, then you're gonna struggle and

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00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: um And that's been a that's been a problem to

797
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,439
Speaker 1: start the season. Their twentye and paint points allowed per game.

798
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 1: That's with Rudy Gobert on the roster, and that's because

799
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert is being pulled away from the paint too often.

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00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: The second thing I was concerned with was Rudy Gobert

801
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,360
Speaker 1: clogging up things on offense. They have a hundred and

802
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,879
Speaker 1: four point four offensive rating with Gobert on the floor,

803
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: which is worst on the team for rotation players. Like

804
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: I said, vertical spacing is a real thing, but it

805
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: is not the same as perimeter spacing that you get

806
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: from nas read and that you get from Carl Town's

807
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: and it's gonna hurt you on the offensive end of

808
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: the floor. Rudy Gobert cannot punish switches in the post.

809
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: All he can do well is really screen hard on

810
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 1: the perimeter and roll hard to the basket. For vertical spacing,

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00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 1: he was inevitably going to mess things up for them offensively,

812
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: and then last, but not least, transition defense. Um, anytime

813
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:58,800
Speaker 1: you have two bigs on the floor, I immediately become

814
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: concerned about your overall foot speed. And it's not just

815
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 1: about like, oh, Rudy Gobert because he's so damn long,

816
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 1: he can defend a guard on a switch. I'm not

817
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: worried about that. I'm worried about you know, you miss

818
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: a shot and now Rudy Gobert and Carl Towns are

819
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:14,879
Speaker 1: running or jogging up the floor. When you've got all

820
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 1: these quick perimeter players on the other team, well, they're

821
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: dead last in transition defense off of turnovers. Once again,

822
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: if you throw the ball away with Minnesota, it's a

823
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: layup line the other way because overall their foot speed

824
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 1: is just too low. So where do they go from here?

825
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: It's early. This might get better, but fundamentally, I don't

826
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: think you can play with two bigs unless both are

827
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:39,720
Speaker 1: gifted on the perimeter on both ends of the floor,

828
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Speaker 1: like you can do Lebron James Anthony Davis. Because they

829
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 1: both can guard wings, and they both can guard guards,

830
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,760
Speaker 1: and they both can guard bigs. You can do Janie

831
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Speaker 1: and brook Lopez, because brook Lopez can shoot the three,

832
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 1: Janice is one of the best offensive players in the league,

833
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: and they both can defend on the perimeter and on

834
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: the interior. You need a specific type of personnel to

835
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 1: play that style. And notice that's lap on in Janice,

836
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 1: not Carl Towns playing at the four. So fundamentally, I

837
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,359
Speaker 1: don't really think this makes a ton of sense. Now

838
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: we have this weird dynamic forming between Carl Towns and

839
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards where it almost as like Anthony Edwards just

840
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 1: making kind of subtle comments about their spacing and Carl

841
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: Towns is insulting his diet. So there and you can

842
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: see kind of like a rift forming there, which, by

843
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: the way, the fan base is more in on Anthony Edwards.

844
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: They view him as the star, as they should. He's

845
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: the best player on the team in my opinion, and

846
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: so Carl Towns is kind of getting the odd man

847
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: out type of thing here. So I think this inevitably

848
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: ends with the Wolves viewing go Bart and Edwards as

849
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:38,359
Speaker 1: their cornerstones, mainly because Gobert is never gonna be able

850
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: to be traded for as much as they just got

851
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 1: him for. So at the end of the day, I

852
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 1: think they're gonna end up sending uh D'Angelo Russell and

853
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: Carl Town's out to get players that compliment and and

854
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 1: Gobert better. And I think that's what this will inevitably go.

855
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: Not for a while. I think they'll give it, you know,

856
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: for forty games or until the deadline to kind of

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Speaker 1: ends with Carl Town's go wing out of town. Alright, guys,

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Speaker 1: that is all I have for right now. As always,

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Speaker 1: I sincerely appreciate your support. The volume on