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Speaker 1: so we have Mobile at the level. Beal comes over

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Speaker 1: the top. U Banks is rolling into the lane. Mitchell's

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Speaker 1: gonna kind of sort of stunt at him, but Bill

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Speaker 1: at this point has already identified that Lavert is coming

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Speaker 1: in to step in and guard you Banks, and Bial

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Speaker 1: makes a very nice skip pass to the week side corner.

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Speaker 1: Two Bowl Bull, who by the way, is shooting forty

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Speaker 1: eight percent field goal percentage on catch and shoot jump

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Speaker 1: shots this season, and he knocks down the corner three. Alrighty,

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Speaker 1: this is our last offensive play before we get into

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Speaker 1: our pick and roll coverages. This one actually starts with

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Speaker 1: Bull Bull on a switch against Donovan Mitchell picking him

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Speaker 1: clean doing more work on the defensive end. That's not

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Speaker 1: the last we're gonna hear of Bull Bull on the

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Speaker 1: defensive end. We'll get back there in a minute. We

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Speaker 1: run down to the other end of the floor. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna get what's called a RAMS screen for use of Nurkic.

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Speaker 1: So I'm so excited about this because I've talked about

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Speaker 1: so many of these concepts on the show, and I

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Speaker 1: haven't been able to actually give you guys visual examples,

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Speaker 1: and now we can so a RAM screen. As I've

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Speaker 1: talked about so many times over the years. The purpose

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Speaker 1: of the RAM screen is to get a gap between

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Speaker 1: these two guys, because if Jared Allen, who's an excellent

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Speaker 1: pick and roll defender, is able to just walk into

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Speaker 1: his defensive coverage, it's a lot easier for him to

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Speaker 1: do his job. But if you can create a separation

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Speaker 1: between these two guys, Yusuf Nurkicic can sprint up into

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Speaker 1: the screen and there's going to be a minute there

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Speaker 1: or a second there where it's a two on one

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Speaker 1: where the screen defenders trailing the play and you can

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Speaker 1: create an advantage. And this one doesn't actually amount to anything,

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Speaker 1: but I wanted to actually just kind of demonstrate to

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Speaker 1: you guys the concept. This does turn into a bucket

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Speaker 1: for Phoenix, but in a counter So here's our ram screen.

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Speaker 1: Eric Gordon is setting the pin down on Jared Allen

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Speaker 1: to try and Yusuf nurkicch is running up to set

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Speaker 1: the screen right. So Eric Gordon does a good job.

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Speaker 1: He makes contact. Now we get our separation. There's our

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Speaker 1: separation right. LeVert counters this by icing the ball screen.

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Speaker 1: So Nurkic is coming up to that right hand side.

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Speaker 1: If Devin Booker could get to his right hand here,

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Speaker 1: Allen would be compromised because he's fighting up around this way.

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Speaker 1: Devin Booker, in all likelihood would turn the corner and

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Speaker 1: get all the way to the basket. So Lavert counters

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Speaker 1: this by icing the screen, which means denying the use

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Speaker 1: of the screen. So look, he's sitting on the high

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Speaker 1: side and begging Devin Booker to drive back to this

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Speaker 1: left hand side. So again there's another hop to the

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Speaker 1: high side. His Nurkics tried to create even more angle

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Speaker 1: for Devin Booker to go right. Lavert is completely denying

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Speaker 1: the use of the screen, and the move to the

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Speaker 1: right but obviously that bakes in a driving lane to

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Speaker 1: the left, which is Jared Allen's job to catch right.

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Speaker 1: In any sort of ice coverage, this big guy is

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Speaker 1: typically going to drop back and catch that drive away

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Speaker 1: from the screen. So Devin Booker drives, He engages Allan,

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Speaker 1: and Devin Booker knows he's not just gonna drive by

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Speaker 1: him or shoot over the top. He is now waiting

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Speaker 1: for Nurkic to break open as he slips out of

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Speaker 1: the screen, patiently waiting, patiently waiting, makes the pass, puts

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Speaker 1: it in a perfect spot where LeVert can't get to it.

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Speaker 1: Nurkish does a good job of a low gather there.

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Speaker 1: You could see him actually take a low gather to

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Speaker 1: prevent to prevent Darius Garland from reaching down. And because

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Speaker 1: he's behind the roll man, because the roleman is behind

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Speaker 1: the screen defender, that forces Struss to step over from

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Speaker 1: bull Bull out of the corner, which creates a wide

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Speaker 1: open three for bow Bull in the corner, who again

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Speaker 1: is shooting forty eight percent on catch and shoot three.

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Speaker 1: So that's it for the offensive end of the floor.

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Speaker 1: And again I hope that that provides you guys a

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Speaker 1: good example. Again, we're talking about a difference here of

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Speaker 1: thirteen percent in the percentage of their field goals that

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Speaker 1: are assisted during this four game stretch compared to what

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Speaker 1: it was like last year in the postseason. They are

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Speaker 1: not playing hero ball. They are not playing we have

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Speaker 1: to take tough shots every time down the floor. They

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Speaker 1: are playing advantage creation basketball, and they're giving really high

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Speaker 1: level offensive players high quality opportunities to convert into points.

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Speaker 1: And that's how you light up a bunch of top

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Speaker 1: ten defenses consecutively. All right, let's get back to the

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Speaker 1: film and talk about the defensive end of the floor.

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Speaker 1: H our first pick and roll defensive clip. Now, on

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Speaker 1: this first action, we're gonna get a ball screen here

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Speaker 1: with Evan Mobley on Darius Garland. Okay, as he sets

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Speaker 1: the screen, Devin Booker identifies it immediately. If you look

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Speaker 1: at Booker, he's chilling here in the corner, but he

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Speaker 1: identifies the ball screen immediately and steps up into the

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Speaker 1: driving lane. So see steps up into this driving lane.

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Speaker 1: He's put himself in a position where if Darius Garland

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Speaker 1: turns the corner, he can offer help, but he also

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Speaker 1: feels comfortable closing out to the high side of Karris

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Speaker 1: Lavert and chasing him on that baseline side where Kevin

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Speaker 1: Durant can help. And in that case, if he were

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Speaker 1: to chase Lavert off, Kevin Durant would help, and knee

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Speaker 1: inks coming out. Booker could honestly just switch after he

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Speaker 1: gets beat. So this is really smart help from Devin Booker.

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Speaker 1: Typically you don't help out of the strong side corner,

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Speaker 1: but he just knows that he has the ability to

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Speaker 1: chase Lavert off there. So this forces a reversal. The

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Speaker 1: ball gets reversed around to the other end of the floor,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna get Max Strus in a ball screen

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Speaker 1: with Evan Mobley. We have Roy O'Neil chasing over the top,

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Speaker 1: does a good job staying physical and staying attached. But

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Speaker 1: Max Truce nice little extra crossover dribbled to beat Royce

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Speaker 1: O'Neil and get into the lane. Watch Devin Booker here though,

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Speaker 1: Devin Booker this whole time, this action's happening over here. Look,

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Speaker 1: he's pointing. He's telling kd Hey, they're running a ball screen.

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Speaker 1: They might get beat. You're gonna have to be the

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Speaker 1: low man here, which means if Mobley sneaks behind or

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Speaker 1: if anybody gets downhill, Kevin Durant's cleaning that up. That

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Speaker 1: means the next step in the windshield wiper rotation is

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Speaker 1: Devin Booker has to rotate down here to Niang in

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Speaker 1: the corner, and Eric Gordon has to rotate here to

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Speaker 1: Karros Lavert on the wing. Devin Booker's ahead of the play.

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Speaker 1: This is that communication piece. The action hasn't even the

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Speaker 1: action is just now happening. Booker's been calling out the

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Speaker 1: coverage here for a few seconds, and that allows them

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Speaker 1: to be ahead of it. So when he gets beat,

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Speaker 1: KD steps up. As KD steps up, look at Booker.

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Speaker 1: Booker immediately takes a slide step. As soon as KD goes,

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Speaker 1: KDI goes, Booker slidestep and he forces the turnover. And

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Speaker 1: you can actually see if you watch Eric Gordon, Eric

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Speaker 1: Gordon is already ready right here to make the rotation

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Speaker 1: to Lavert. See he's not worried about Garland anymore. He's

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Speaker 1: rotating to Lavert. So again the communication on the back

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Speaker 1: line and the effort to get to the right place

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Speaker 1: in time, and you force a turnover. Another interesting example

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Speaker 1: here is Devin Booker is one of the best pick

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Speaker 1: and role players in the league. He understands these reads

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Speaker 1: better than everybody, and so he, as a defender, can

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Speaker 1: actually channel that offensive IQ to understand the reads and

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Speaker 1: actually get ahead of them as the defensive player. All right,

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Speaker 1: on to clip number eight. This is a textbook example

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Speaker 1: of what's called a peel off switch. So we have

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Speaker 1: a transition opportunity here for the suns. Lavert sees an opportunity.

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Speaker 1: He's like, I've got bull Bull on me. Bull Bull

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Speaker 1: is a forward. He's not going to be particularly good

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Speaker 1: at navigating screens. We talked about this all the time.

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Speaker 1: So what a great time to run a ball screen

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Speaker 1: because Bu Bull probably doesn't know how to guard it. Well,

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Speaker 1: it turns out bo Bul does know how to guard it.

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Speaker 1: So as the ball screen comes, Mobili to set it.

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Speaker 1: As he sets it, you can see bo Bull try

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Speaker 1: to fight over the top. He tries to fight over

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Speaker 1: the top of the screen, but then he sees right

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Speaker 1: here he identifies that Bradley Beal has effectively switched. So

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Speaker 1: this is what's called a peel off switch. When you're

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Speaker 1: in a ball screen and you're trying to fight over

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Speaker 1: the top and you end up getting caught a little

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Speaker 1: bit and your screen defender switches. Your read as the

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Speaker 1: on ball defender is to peel off of your man

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Speaker 1: and to take the role man and to in many cases,

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Speaker 1: if the guard is looking to shoot, in many cases

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Speaker 1: your job is just to keep him off the glass.

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Speaker 1: But in this case, Karris Slivert is gonna try to

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Speaker 1: throw it over the top pass to Evan Mobley. But

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Speaker 1: because bull Bull peeled off so quickly, and because he

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Speaker 1: has such outstanding physical tools, he's able to knock that away.

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Speaker 1: So he blows up the play guarding on the ball

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Speaker 1: in the ball screen by knowing what to do, which

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Speaker 1: is example, which is an example of him being an

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Speaker 1: extremely versatile defensive player. But again, Kri Slivert thought he

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Speaker 1: saw food there. He thought he thought he saw an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to take advantage of a defensive weakness and situation,

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Speaker 1: and it turned out to be a defensive strength. Alright,

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Speaker 1: here we go. This one is really high level pick

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Speaker 1: and roll defense against a complicated action. So what these

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Speaker 1: calves are doing here as they're running an action that

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Speaker 1: feeds into a ball screen. So Mobley's going to try

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Speaker 1: to screen Gordon first, and then Mitchell's going to set

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Speaker 1: the first pick and they're setting a staggered ball screen. Typically,

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Speaker 1: in a staggered ball screen, the one of the guys

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Speaker 1: is going to roll hard to the rim and the

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Speaker 1: other guy is going to pop. In this case, obviously

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Speaker 1: that's going to be Mitchell as the popper and Evan

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Speaker 1: Mobley as the roller. The idea here is to try

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Speaker 1: to confuse this coverage because it's a three man action

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Speaker 1: instead of a two man action. You can actually see

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Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell. Watch Donovan Mitchell try to reach out and tap,

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Speaker 1: just tap Devin Booker on the hip. Watch this, see

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Speaker 1: that little tap. There's a very specific reason why he

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Speaker 1: does that. He's think a lot of teams will switch

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Speaker 1: the guard guard version of this screen. So a lot

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Speaker 1: of teams would be like, oh, Eric Gordon's gonna jump

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Speaker 1: off on Darius Garland here and Devin Booker is going

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Speaker 1: to now switch on to Donovan Mitchell. Donovan Mitchell is

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Speaker 1: trying to trigger that because he sees Eric Gordon with

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Speaker 1: his back turned to Garland and he knows if he

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Speaker 1: can force a switch, Garland will be able to come

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Speaker 1: over the top here easily into his spot. But instead

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Speaker 1: Mitchell's trying to tap the Devin Booker to fool him

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Speaker 1: into thinking that's a screen, trying to get Devin Booker

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Speaker 1: to trigger a switch so that he switches on to Mitchell.

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Speaker 1: Booker does not fall for it. Eric Gordon stays attached.

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Speaker 1: Booker fights over the top. Now, this is a textbook

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Speaker 1: example of no roller behind drop coverage. So watch a Nurkic.

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Speaker 1: He's staying in a position where he can help on

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Speaker 1: Mobiley and help on Garland. He's playing, he's playing the

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Speaker 1: low man here. Royce O'Neil is trying to read Nurkic

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Speaker 1: and he's in there just just in case he does

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Speaker 1: need to help. But he quickly identifies watching O'Neill right there,

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Speaker 1: he identif Nurkic has this. He's like, I'm in there,

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Speaker 1: I'm in there. I'm in there right now. He's like,

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Speaker 1: Nurkic has this. He hops back. Okay, Now Garland makes

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Speaker 1: the skip pass. Because of that hop, he's in position

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Speaker 1: to close out if he doesn't make that hop and

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Speaker 1: he's in the lane. This is a wide open three

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Speaker 1: for kars Lavert. We get a really good close out

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Speaker 1: from Roys. O'Neil traps him on that baseline side and

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Speaker 1: he ends up ripping him from behind on the dribble move,

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Speaker 1: enforcing the turnover. So it's really good pick and roll

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Speaker 1: defense because the guys out top at the initial action,

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Speaker 1: we're communicating and not falling for the disguise of that

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Speaker 1: of that specific action. And then Roys O'Neil in his

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Speaker 1: pick and roll coverage, identifying as the low man that

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Speaker 1: Nurkic was in good position and staying in a position

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Speaker 1: where he could close out on the weak side. That's

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Speaker 1: an example of not overhelping. All right, here's our last

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Speaker 1: clip of our film session. This one actually ends in

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Speaker 1: a basket, but I thought it was an interesting example

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Speaker 1: of pre switching to beat a rams screen. So let's

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Speaker 1: go over how this works out here. So Cleveland is

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Speaker 1: setting up in the same type of situation that we

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Speaker 1: saw Phoenix set up in earlier. Darius Garland wants to

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Speaker 1: create a gap between Jared Jared Allen and Drew you Banks,

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Speaker 1: and so they're gonna use Donna Mitchell to set a

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Speaker 1: ram screen down on you Banks to try to get

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Speaker 1: Allen a gap. Devin Booker, super smart offensive player, runs

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Speaker 1: this same action himself. He identifies it. Him and u

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00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 1: Banks are looking at each other right now and they're

660
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: communicating and they know here comes a RAM screen, so

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00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: they're gonna talk. Hey, let's pre switch it. See they

662
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 1: both signal to each other, we're going to pre switch

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Speaker 1: this action. So what they're doing is Devin Booker is

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Speaker 1: switching onto Jared Allen. So now that RAM screen is

665
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 1: completely neutralized, and now you can switch this ball screen

666
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 1: out top. Now here's where they make a mistake though.

667
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: Bradley Beal as soon as he identifies that Devin Booker

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00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 1: is up here and that Allen is actually trying to

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00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 1: screen on his outside side, Bradley Beal should just be

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Speaker 1: jumping up to this high side immediately because he knows

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Speaker 1: if he gets beat to the right hand side, Devin

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00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: Booker's there. So this is an example of them botching

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Speaker 1: this part of the coverage. But I did think that

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Speaker 1: the pre switch was a really interesting example of a

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Speaker 1: way to counter the RAM screen. So because they don't

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00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: do that, Darius Garland's able to turn the corner going left,

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Speaker 1: which pulls, which pulls Beal up high enough that they

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Speaker 1: can get the ball to Allen and he just catches

679
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: too deep and that's just too easy of a shot.

680
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: But again I thought that that was an interesting example.

681
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Speaker 1: As you can tell, even though they gave up a

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Speaker 1: basket in that specific case, the effort on the back

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Speaker 1: line of those guys, Like again, as the action is developing,

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Speaker 1: Devin Booker and Drew Eubanks are talking to each other,

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Speaker 1: They're pointing, they're communicating, they they're letting each other know

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Speaker 1: where they need to go. I thought that was a

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Speaker 1: consistent theme throughout this particular set of clips, just seeing

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Speaker 1: that level of communication and effort on the back line

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Speaker 1: defensively to guard and pick and roll. And again, they

690
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: were excellent in pick and roll throughout that particular game.

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Speaker 1: Final note on the Suns, like, I, you know, it's interesting.

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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think Phoenix has a lot of physical

693
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Speaker 1: strength after Nurkic. That's definitely the weakness of their particular roster.

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Speaker 1: As you look around the league, every team has weaknesses,

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Speaker 1: that's not a shot. But after Nurkic, they have a

696
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Speaker 1: ton of speed, a ton of skill, and a ton

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Speaker 1: of basketball IQ and the Nurkic brings the unique element

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Speaker 1: of strength for that very specific Denver matchup in Nikolea Jokic.

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Speaker 1: And so because they're playing a better brand of basketball now,

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Speaker 1: because they're not playing hero ball. They're playing advantage creation

701
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: basketball again, like I mentioned earlier, assisting on seventy percent

702
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Speaker 1: of their midfield goals in this four game span versus

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Speaker 1: fifty seven percent in the playoffs last year. That's allowing

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Speaker 1: them to reach a higher level offensive ceiling. And then

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Speaker 1: they're competing defensively and communicating and defending pick and roll

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Speaker 1: really well. I personally think that Phoenix is probably at

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Speaker 1: this point, if I had to pick a team out

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Speaker 1: West that I think is the second best team in

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Speaker 1: the West behind Denver, right now, I lean towards Phoenix.

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Speaker 1: I think they have the best combination of personnel, playoff scalability,

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Speaker 1: and the ability to compete on both ends of the floor.

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Speaker 1: Not to mention the big white whale in the West,

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Speaker 1: meaning that's an unfortunate accidental metaphor for Jokic, but I

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Speaker 1: meant just like Denver as a unit, as an entity,

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Speaker 1: they are the terrifying world destroyer in the Western Conference.

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Speaker 1: Phoenix is the team that I think is most well

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Speaker 1: equipped to beat them. So as of right now, I

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Speaker 1: think they're the team that I view as the second

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Speaker 1: best team in the Western Conference. All right, let's move

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Speaker 1: on to our next segment in our mailbag. Hey Jason

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Speaker 1: Wemby question, I've been watching your show for a few

722
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Speaker 1: years now, top zero point one percent of Spotify listeners.

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Speaker 1: By the way, huge fan. Thanks for supporting the show.

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00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. And I've heard that you say

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Speaker 1: the primary goal of rebuilding a franchise is to go

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Speaker 1: get a superstar. By all metrics, it looks like Wemby

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00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 1: is that guy. If you were the GM of the Spurs,

728
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: what would you do next? Who are you keeping, who

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00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: are you letting go? What kinds of player archetypes are

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00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: you looking to bring in through trades slash drafts? And

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Speaker 1: then thank you so much for your work. It has

732
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,240
Speaker 1: helped me understand and enjoy basketball so much more than before. Again,

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Speaker 1: I sincerely appreciate the kind words and for supporting. So

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Speaker 1: the initial structure is what I want to look at here.

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Speaker 1: So if we agree that Victor wem Minyama is our

736
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 1: superstar to kind of anchor everything with San Antonio, now

737
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 1: we look at like the ideal kind of five man

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00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:24,439
Speaker 1: lineup right now for me, right next to Victor Wembnyama

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Speaker 1: at that forward spot I'm looking for a big, strong

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Speaker 1: forward that can help in defensive rebounding situations and in

741
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 1: low man situations, kind of like we were talking about

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00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 1: in the Suns earlier, that guy that steps over in

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00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,399
Speaker 1: ball screen situations when Victor Wembinyama has to come up

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Speaker 1: to the level of the screen. Right at the three spot,

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00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: we're looking for a guy who can defend on the perimeter,

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Speaker 1: knock down threes, and attack closeouts really well. At the

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Speaker 1: two spot, I'm primarily looking for in the two to

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Speaker 1: one depending on who you end up building around. If

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Speaker 1: it ends up being Devin Vessel, Devin Vessel at the

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00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: two ends up being your skill guard, right Like he's

751
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Speaker 1: the guy that is going to have the ball in

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Speaker 1: his hands a lot, be running a lot of pick

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Speaker 1: and roll. I really need the point guard in that

754
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: case to be an outstanding perimeter defender, a guy who

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Speaker 1: can navigate screens well, guard the other team's best guard,

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00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: so on and so forth. Now, with Devin Vessel being

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Speaker 1: a skill guard, I do think that from the forward position,

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Speaker 1: one of those two forwards, whether it's the three or

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00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: the four, needs to be a really high level offensive player.

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Speaker 1: I do think that's something that they'll need in the

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Speaker 1: long run. What makes this complicated is you look the payroll.

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00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 1: Devin Vessel is locked up on a pretty affordable deal,

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Speaker 1: especially when you factor in how the salary cap could

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00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: change over the next TV deal. Keldon Johnson and Zach

765
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: Collins are your main larger contracts. They're in the high teens. Well,

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00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: most of the young guys are on rookie deals. So

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00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: like with those guys, you're not going to be dumping

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00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: them for salary. You might include them in a star

769
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 1: trade if you're looking to bring somebody back, but there's

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00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: no reason, like they don't really make up much of

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Speaker 1: a factor in your payroll situation. Right, But we also

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Speaker 1: have to acknowledge the reality of Wenby's development arc. He

773
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: is so good, so fast, there's like a better than

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00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 1: fifty percent chance in my opinion, that he's going to

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00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 1: be a top ten player in the league next year.

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Speaker 1: And it's on the table that he could be a

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00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 1: top five player in the league next year. That's how

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Speaker 1: freaking good Victor wen Binyama is. And we're talking about

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Speaker 1: another six seven months or longer of development before we

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Speaker 1: get to that point. So like that, you can't be

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma City and do a five year slow burn of

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00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 1: a rebuild, you can't take this slow. There's a certain

783
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 1: urgency element here based on the reality of Victor wen

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Speaker 1: Minyama's development. So from there I would look at as

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Speaker 1: far as the young guys go. None of them would

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00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 1: be safe for me except for Devin Vessel in Victor

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Speaker 1: wen Binyama, and I would trade Devin Vessel if it

788
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,760
Speaker 1: brought back a superstar shot creator. But like the other guys,

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Speaker 1: like like I like Jeremy so chan a Sohan not

790
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 1: enough to view him as untouchable, like Trey Jones, not

791
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Speaker 1: enough to view hims untouchable. I've never been a big

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00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,800
Speaker 1: Keldon Johnson fan. I think he's a little tunnel vision

793
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: and not a good enough shooter. So like, from there,

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00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: it really is about who you who becomes available in

795
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 1: the offseason. I really do think they need to make

796
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: some type of all in move for an all star

797
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:13,879
Speaker 1: in their prime sooner than later, sometime in the next

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Speaker 1: two years. Trey Young is an interesting option, but he's

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00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: a very risky option. He's a guy that I think

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00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 1: unlocks a lot offensively right away, but he's gonna be

801
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:25,319
Speaker 1: expensive to get. And then two, there's a question, there's

802
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 1: a there's a case to be made that it's that

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00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: it's cashing into early and for not a good enough player,

804
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Speaker 1: and so the Trey Young thing, I'm kind of more

805
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 1: leaning towards. I would hold back if I was san Antonio,

806
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: but that is an interesting option, and I do like

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Speaker 1: the offensive fit with Victor wembin Yama. From there, I'd

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Speaker 1: be looking for a forward, someone that can work in

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Speaker 1: that three to four spot, who is a much higher

810
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 1: level offensive player than what you've had in over the

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Speaker 1: course of this season. A guy like Lori Markinen is

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Speaker 1: guy look at guy like Brandon Ingram, Like what if

813
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: the Pels flame out and they decide that, you know,

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Speaker 1: Zion is the guy they want to build around and

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Speaker 1: they're and the guy that they need to cash in

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Speaker 1: as someone like a brandon Ingram, That's a guy that

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Speaker 1: I'd be looking at. McHale Bridges. I know Brooklyn loves

818
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Speaker 1: him and views him as a foundational piece, but that's

819
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: completely irrational given where they're at in terms of talent

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Speaker 1: on that roster and mckail bridge's age and where he's

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Speaker 1: at in his development and the fact that he's kind

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00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 1: of close to his ceiling. Mckel bridges is a guy

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Speaker 1: that I'd be looking at. But again, in terms of

824
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: the actual structure of the roster two forwards there, one

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00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 1: of them needs to be a score of some kind,

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Speaker 1: a high level offensive player. The three needs to be

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Speaker 1: able to navigate on the perimeter defensively, the four needs

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Speaker 1: to be bigger and stronger, especially since Victor is a

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Speaker 1: little bit on the skinny side. And then at those guards,

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Speaker 1: one of your guards needs to be a high level

831
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Speaker 1: skill guard, and then the other one needs to be

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Speaker 1: some kind of bulldog like point of attack defender that

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Speaker 1: can navigate screens. That would be the structure that I

834
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Speaker 1: go with from there. But I do think that they

835
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 1: need to make some sort of all in moves sooner

836
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: than later, just because of Victor women Yama's development. Before

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Speaker 1: we get out of here, the Julius Randall injury. So

838
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 1: it turns out that he tried to rehab the shoulder

839
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 1: and it just isn't gonna come around, and so he's

840
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 1: getting surgery and he's gonna be out for the rest

841
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:06,320
Speaker 1: of the season. What does that mean for the Knicks.

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00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. Theoretically, if Ojan Andobe can come back

843
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,880
Speaker 1: and get the elbow inflammation under control, I do think

844
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:18,360
Speaker 1: he can slide into that four spot. And Isaiah Hartenstein

845
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 1: is playing so incredibly well, and Mitchell Robinson is back

846
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 1: into the equation in a way that he wasn't earlier

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00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,839
Speaker 1: in the season. Right, So, like, the Knicks are still formidable,

848
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: but the reality is they need a consistent shot creator

849
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: beyond beyond Jalen brunts And we saw last year when

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00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 1: Julius Randall was available and he just wasn't quite good

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00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: enough because he was out of rhythm and playing on

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Speaker 1: a bum ankle. We saw that that wasn't enough, and

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Speaker 1: so it's a lot of pressure on O Jannoby to

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Speaker 1: kind of be that matchup attacking forward to create shots.

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Speaker 1: And so I had really high aspirations for the Knicks,

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Speaker 1: and I still do in the long run, and I'm

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Speaker 1: really curious to see what they do this summer to

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Speaker 1: kind of bring in that legitimate secondary shot creator next

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Speaker 1: to Jalen Brunson. That's just Julius Randalld getting healthy, or

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Speaker 1: it's some sort of trade or free agent acquisition. But

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Speaker 1: I'm interested to see what they do in the long run.

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Speaker 1: But I just don't know that they can get through

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Speaker 1: that gauntlet at the top of the Eastern Conference without

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Speaker 1: having a bona fide secondary shot creator, and so I

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Speaker 1: kind of view that Julius Randall injury as a bit

866
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Speaker 1: of a death sentence. That said, again, I think the

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Speaker 1: way you kind of structure this in the short term

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Speaker 1: is when og and Obi comes back, you play him

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Speaker 1: at the four and essentially ask him to do a

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Speaker 1: lot of what Julius Randall does, targeting smaller guards and

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Speaker 1: screening actions to get switches into do that bully ball

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Speaker 1: post up attack. Just to have an option to spell

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson as much as you can. New York is

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00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 1: still going to be a pain in the ass. Again,

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Speaker 1: Julius Randall wasn't even very good last year, and they were,

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Speaker 1: you know, a few shots away from being in a

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Speaker 1: good position to make it to the conference finals. So

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Speaker 1: I still believe in the Knicks as a like a

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00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 1: kind of a pain in the ass type of threat.

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00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 1: But firepower is just going to eventually be an issue

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00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: for them. There's just too many teams around the league

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00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: that have more shot creation than the Knicks two, and

883
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Speaker 1: so the Julius Randall injury is more or less a

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Speaker 1: death sentence at this point. Unfortunately, it's been a fun

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Speaker 1: next season. They've competed through it all, and they have

886
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Speaker 1: such a bright future and they have so much talent

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Speaker 1: on the roster, but it's just their only hope relied

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Speaker 1: on Julius Randall coming back this year and being a

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Speaker 1: reliable secondary shot creator. All Right, guys, that is all

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Speaker 1: we have for this morning. As of right now, We're

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Speaker 1: planning on going live tonight on YouTube after the final

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Speaker 1: buzzer of Nuggets Clippers, unless a bunch of superstars end

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Speaker 1: up not playing. So we'll see how the injury report

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Speaker 1: comes out. But I hope you guys have been enjoying

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Speaker 1: these film sessions. I'm excited to keep building them out

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Speaker 1: in the long run. I appreciate you guys a support,

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Speaker 1: and I will see you next time. The volume