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Dear, NBA... · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: Can I vent to y'all?
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Speaker 2: Can I write for a little second, because right now
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Speaker 2: I'm really really frustrated about the discourse around in our
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Speaker 2: league right now. And the real simple solution to all
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Speaker 2: of this is for me to close my phone. But
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Speaker 2: that's just so much easier said than done. So there's
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Speaker 2: been a lot of conversations around our league, especially since
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Speaker 2: the y'all start break and listen, I want to say
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Speaker 2: this right here, right now. I love the NBA. I
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Speaker 2: love basketball, but I really really do love the NBA.
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Speaker 2: But even as a lover of the NBA, a guy
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Speaker 2: that fell in love with the league in two thousand
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Speaker 2: and three is watching now twenty one to twenty two
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Speaker 2: seasons of the NBA, I understand it is very far
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Speaker 2: from a perfect product. The NBA games start or too
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Speaker 2: late compared to the schedule time. There are too many
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Speaker 2: stoppers of play. I can recognize the negative aspects already.
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Speaker 2: Lead hell, I just dropped the video about All Star
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Speaker 2: Weekend while I was telling you everything I hated about it.
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Speaker 2: So I am not one of those people that think
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Speaker 2: that everything is perfect, perfect, perfect, But there are certain
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Speaker 2: conversations that happen about our league that I just true,
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Speaker 2: truly do not understand. And I feel like people are
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Speaker 2: just repeating the same rhetoric that they heard someone else
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Speaker 2: say and like, yup, that's gotta be a when reality
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Speaker 2: is it's really not, And I think I'm not I'm
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Speaker 2: definitely not taking those shots because these guys are absolutely
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Speaker 2: absolute legends. Everybody that I may refer to in this
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Speaker 2: video absolutely legends done things that I will never be
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Speaker 2: able accomplish, way more successful and all of.
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Speaker 1: That to me.
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Speaker 2: But I think a lot of this stems from some
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Speaker 2: of the people we put on TV to talk about
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Speaker 2: our sport, whether it be the Nenti, THEMA guys, or
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Speaker 2: it be Draymond Green over all Star Weekend. It feels
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Speaker 2: like we just don't have a selection of on camera
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Speaker 2: media that says anything positive about the league. Again, this
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Speaker 2: league is very far from not warranted criticism. You know,
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Speaker 2: give the criticism, but it can't be the only thing
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Speaker 2: that we talk about.
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Speaker 1: It can't be the only thing we talked about.
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Speaker 2: And I think the reason why I'm so frustrated with
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Speaker 2: this because I started the brand this is not a
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Speaker 2: pluggery thing name enjoyed basketball because some of these people
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Speaker 2: or some of the things when Eternal ESPN or Eternal Fox.
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Speaker 1: Sports on whatever whatever. I watched these shows.
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Speaker 2: At least I used to watch these souls And I'm like,
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Speaker 2: are we watching the same thing? Are we watching this?
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Speaker 2: Where are the people that genuinely love the game? This
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Speaker 2: is the only sport of the major sports, the NFL,
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Speaker 2: the MLB, hockey, hell soccer that the past players just
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Speaker 2: look down on the current generation. Hell, even some of
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Speaker 2: the current players is looking down in their peers.
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Speaker 1: Which just clows my mind.
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Speaker 2: Now, you do got the occasional NBA old head that
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Speaker 2: absolutely respects the game that it is right now. I
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Speaker 2: love listening to Kevin Gardnett talk about hoops because he
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Speaker 2: is also critical when necessary, but he'll let you know
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Speaker 2: so and so player is an absolute dog. Jason Tatum
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Speaker 2: is an absolute dog. And I don't think that's just
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Speaker 2: because he's a He's a Boston legend. Jason Taate's an
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Speaker 2: absolute dog. Where I could turn on someone else talk
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Speaker 2: about the Boston Celtics and he's the softest superstar in
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Speaker 2: the history of basketball.
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Speaker 1: Are we talking about hoops or are we not? That's
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Speaker 1: why I love.
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Speaker 2: Players like Alan I Everson, who doesn't do a lot
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Speaker 2: of appearances, but every time you put a microphone in
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Speaker 2: front of Alan Iverson, he has given praises to the
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Speaker 2: younger generation. Lucas Shaye, I mean bron they played against
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Speaker 2: each other four years, but like they just give all
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Speaker 2: the amount of love and I love that type of coverage.
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Speaker 2: You could talk all the trash you want about Reggie
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Speaker 2: Miller in the way he covers the game, or him
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Speaker 2: as an analyst, but damn it, he loves basketball and
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Speaker 2: I feel that when I listen to him talk about
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Speaker 2: a game. I feel the same way about like a
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Speaker 2: Jamal Crawford who hasn't done a ton of broadcast media,
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Speaker 2: but I watch him cover next game.
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Speaker 1: He's out there in joint like.
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Speaker 2: You can tell they have this love for the game
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Speaker 2: and they're not these stuck up, bitter old heads about
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Speaker 2: the new generation. The reality is things evolve, It always
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Speaker 2: has evolved. Every single era of basketball is different than
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Speaker 2: the last. That doesn't make this era any worse than
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Speaker 2: any of the other ones.
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Speaker 1: It is just so.
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Speaker 2: Ridiculous to me and one of my least favorite talking
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Speaker 2: points that people have. And damn it, I've seen it
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Speaker 2: on TV, I've heard it in the barbershop. When when
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Speaker 2: people talk about everybody playing the same way blows mind.
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Speaker 1: Mind.
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Speaker 2: You cannot convince me that the Boston Celtics, the Atlanta Hawks,
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Speaker 2: the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Utah Jazz, the Minnesota tem Wolves
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Speaker 2: all have the same style of basketball?
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Speaker 1: Are we being real? How many games do you really
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Speaker 1: watch it? And it really blows my mouth And a
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Speaker 1: guy like Draymond Green says it becau damn it. You've
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Speaker 1: been in the league for fifteen years.
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Speaker 2: You've been in the league for fifteen years, and you
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Speaker 2: play for a team that has a very unique style
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Speaker 2: of play, but.
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Speaker 1: Everybody plays the same.
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Speaker 2: One of the things Jerymond Green said over the All
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Speaker 2: Star break was talking about the homogenization of the NBA,
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Speaker 2: how everybody's running the same play, and of course he's
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Speaker 2: talking about the pick and roll. The pick and roll
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Speaker 2: has been dominating the league for twenty plus years, basically
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Speaker 2: since the triangle offense kind of died out. After text
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Speaker 2: winner in the Chicago Bulls six six championships in ten
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Speaker 2: years whatever, eight years, a trible offense kind of died
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Speaker 2: other than when like Phil Jackson was a part of
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Speaker 2: the Knicks and the pick and roll became king and
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Speaker 2: then eventually it evolved even more. Well, now, the pick
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Speaker 2: and roll evolved the game where there was times where
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Speaker 2: it was James Harden or Trey Young or Luca Donton's
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Speaker 2: running high screen and row. You have two guys in
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Speaker 2: the corner and that's their style of play. And granted,
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Speaker 2: teams did run that way, but this is a thirty
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Speaker 2: teen league. The way Luca plays, the way Trey plays,
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Speaker 2: the way Jane Prime, James Harden plays, every team.
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Speaker 1: Can't play like that.
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Speaker 2: You know why, because they don't have the fucking dogs
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Speaker 2: of a ball headler that can make that an efficient offense.
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Speaker 2: So when Draymond Green talks about the homogenization of basketball,
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Speaker 2: it blows my mind.
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Speaker 1: This is a real stat.
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Speaker 2: Let me go to my notes, because y'all know, I
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Speaker 2: watch a lot of basketball, and I listen to a
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Speaker 2: lot of broadcasts, and I listen to a lot of
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Speaker 2: people that are way smarter than me talk about basketball.
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Speaker 2: Here's a real stat. This is from the Sea. This season,
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Speaker 2: the NBA is setting sixty five point four ball screens
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Speaker 2: per one Hunter possession, which is the lowest average in
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Speaker 2: the Second Spectrum era. The second spectrum goals through the
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Speaker 2: last twelve years it's not like we have a fifty
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Speaker 2: year sample size. So if Draymond Green is talking about
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Speaker 2: the homogonization of basketball, that everybody's running the same thing,
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Speaker 2: then that's the case from twelve years ago. What everybody
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Speaker 2: says the league was peaked. It is the lowest that
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Speaker 2: it has been in twelve years. And I feel that
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Speaker 2: when I watch these games, I feel it. I'm watching
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Speaker 2: four to five games a night, and I'm always seeing
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Speaker 2: something different. Yes, the three point ball is king, that
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Speaker 2: is something that I cannot deny, but the way those
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Speaker 2: three pointers are generated objectively is just different. Some teams
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Speaker 2: are doing it off ball screen. Some teams are doing
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Speaker 2: with dribble penetration kickout. Some teams are doing hand the
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Speaker 2: dribble handoffs. Some teams are running a high screen and
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Speaker 2: row hoping that you dropping so Jason Tady for shoot
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Speaker 2: the three. This league is as diverse as it ever
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Speaker 2: has been. And if you don't believe me, well we
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Speaker 2: could go to the numbers.
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Speaker 1: Baby.
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Speaker 2: Here's an article written by my guy, Mark Schayer, and
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Speaker 2: it's a guy I think I referenced on this channel
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Speaker 2: four our NBA teams playing the same. This is from
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Speaker 2: the beginning of last the beginning of the season November
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Speaker 2: twenty first, twenty twenty four. Now here's one of the
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Speaker 2: grafts percentage of time in each play style, and this
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Speaker 2: stems from two thousand and four to twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 2: And what you will see is yes, this season and
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Speaker 2: as we continue to evolve, spot up three point shooting
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Speaker 2: or spot up shooting in general is higher than it
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Speaker 2: was in two thousand and four to two thousand and five.
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Speaker 2: Transition offense and that's the thing I want to talk
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Speaker 2: about is higher. But some things that were just not
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Speaker 2: great watches is gone. I'm sorry, I listen, Michael Olowa.
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Speaker 2: Kandi getting a post touch is something I don't want.
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Speaker 1: To see in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 2: Who's the NBA equivalent Alex Lynn getting a post touch
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Speaker 2: for the Lakers is something that I'm happy is cut
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Speaker 2: out of basketball. So with it being lower, I think
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Speaker 2: that's good for the I think that's good for the game.
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Speaker 2: And one of the things that we need to recognize
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Speaker 2: here is this transition because this transition frequency being higher
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Speaker 2: now than it was in twenty fourteen to two thousand
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Speaker 2: and four is one of the reasons why we do
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Speaker 2: get so many spot up three point shots. The game
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Speaker 2: is faster and defenses have to reach yak fascoos means
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Speaker 2: that if I'm getting back on defense, is impossible to
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Speaker 2: cover everything, and because of that, I may give up
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Speaker 2: and open three. That's the full thing. When you talk
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Speaker 2: about teams playing the same what is this? What is this?
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Speaker 2: This right here shows you the percentage of teams possessions
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Speaker 2: and how they generate their offense. So, for example, the
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Speaker 2: Golden State Warriors are number one and points generated through
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Speaker 2: a cut. When if you watch the Warriors with their
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Speaker 2: split action and everything, you see that. You see the
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Speaker 2: same thing with the Denver Nuggets because Nicola Jokis is
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Speaker 2: a passing wizard and gets so many so much attention
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Speaker 2: and Lanta Hawks at the bottom of the list. You
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Speaker 2: have teams like the seventy six ers or the Charlotte Hornets.
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Speaker 2: You have teams like the Utah Jazz that because they
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Speaker 2: don't have much individual on ball creation, they get a
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Speaker 2: lot of their points or a lot of their possessions
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Speaker 2: and within off screens or you get handoffs in isolation,
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Speaker 2: which makes sense if you watch to Boston Celtics a
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Speaker 2: lot of times, it is Jason Tatum or Jayleb Brown
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Speaker 2: cooking their man, getting past the first defender, crashing the
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Speaker 2: defense and kicking out to a three pointer, or going
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Speaker 2: up for a finish. These numbers, if you're watching these games,
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Speaker 2: and make a lot of sense. If you watch let
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Speaker 2: me get this over here. If you watch the Memphor's Grizzlies,
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Speaker 2: you recognize that this is the fastest team in basketball.
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Speaker 2: They are dramatically different. They are like, I don't even know,
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Speaker 2: ten percentage points, twelve percentage points better in transition or
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Speaker 2: more frequent in transition than the Minnesota Temples. You try
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Speaker 2: to explain to me that that's a homogenization of our game.
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Speaker 1: No way, bro, no way.
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Speaker 2: And one thing I do every single offseason. I've been
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Speaker 2: very candid about this. When the offseason hits, I still
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Speaker 2: want my NBA fix, right And what I usually do
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Speaker 2: is I go back and watch old games, whether it
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Speaker 2: be from the latest. I really go is the mid
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Speaker 2: nineties because I can't do six pixels and try is
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Speaker 2: that Julius Irvin.
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Speaker 1: I can't do that.
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Speaker 2: So I go mid nineties and I just watch random
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Speaker 2: NBA games, And luckily for me, a lot of NBA
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Speaker 2: games are just on YouTube full stop.
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Speaker 1: You can watch the full game.
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Speaker 2: You can watch the full series between the Denver Nuggets
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Speaker 2: and the Dallas Mavericks from two thousand and nine.
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Speaker 1: I've done that. It's just all on YouTube. Want to
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Speaker 1: go on more recent.
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Speaker 2: The last like ten to fifteen years, or just on
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Speaker 2: NBA League Pass, So like, I can get a bunch
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Speaker 2: of different eras of basketball, and I watch all of
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Speaker 2: those eras of basketball, and.
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Speaker 1: Guess what I enjoy. I enjoy them all.
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Speaker 2: I'm not one of those people that's gonna compare the
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Speaker 2: way the nineties played to the two thousands, because I
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Speaker 2: recognize the evolution is very important every single sport that
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Speaker 2: we play. I'm not a huge football guy. I'm not
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Speaker 2: a huge football guy. I've watched football. I care about
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Speaker 2: the NFL, but I would definitely never create a YouTube
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Speaker 2: channel about the NFL because I'm not that locked in
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Speaker 2: and I tend to like to at least know a
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Speaker 2: little bit of what I'm talking about when.
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Speaker 1: I be making videos and stuff.
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Speaker 2: But I recognize that the game has evolved so much
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Speaker 2: since when I was a kid, where it felt like
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Speaker 2: every single the back, the running back was the most
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Speaker 2: important player outside of the quarterback. Nowadays, you don't even
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Speaker 2: draft running backs in the first couple of rounds. They
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Speaker 2: just get replacement guys, and just unless you have like
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Speaker 2: a Saquon or something, you just get replacement guys to
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Speaker 2: do their thing. The game has evolved in and I
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Speaker 2: don't never see an old timey player. I'll never see
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Speaker 2: Peyton Man even like back in my day, because they
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Speaker 2: recognize that the.
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Speaker 1: Game is always going to evolve.
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Speaker 2: And I think that nostalgia is one of the most
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Speaker 2: dangerous things when it comes to sports, and I guess
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Speaker 2: media in general, whether it be through through reading or
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Speaker 2: they'd be through TV or movies. Nostalgia kills a lot
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Speaker 2: of things. And I am very, very guilty of looking
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Speaker 2: at things with my nostalgia lens, because at the end
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Speaker 2: of the day, you fall in love with something and
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Speaker 2: that's the thing you want to see all the time.
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Speaker 2: Two thousand and three was like the dead era of basketball.
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Speaker 2: That's right when bron was coming in. This is posts
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Speaker 2: Michael Jordan. Things were not good for the NBA. But
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Speaker 2: when I became a fan, that's what I loved, right.
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Speaker 2: Because people are very nostalgic about their eras of basketball.
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Speaker 2: They use that as a way to say the league
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Speaker 2: is not the same. Basketball is not the same. And
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Speaker 2: need to get back to this. People that say that
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Speaker 2: the league has lost creativity, I swear to you, I
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Speaker 2: question if they actually watched the game when they said
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Speaker 2: they watched the game. This is Clinton Glass is a
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Speaker 2: site that I've used a ton in the last five
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Speaker 2: years of me covering this sport and the furthest they
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Speaker 2: go back in history is two thousand and three, two
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Speaker 2: thousand and four. You can look at the league average,
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Speaker 2: it's this offensive shooting efficiency a frequency. My goodness. In
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Speaker 2: two thousand and three two thousand and four, thirty one
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Speaker 2: percent of fueld goal attempts happened at the rim. Then
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Speaker 2: you get the mid range, where half of the shots
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Speaker 2: attempted this season, almost one hundred thousand shots attempted was
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Speaker 2: in the mid range area, eighteen percent from three. Right,
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Speaker 2: you got a team like the Minnesota Timberwolves, or sixty
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Speaker 2: five percent of the shots that they took in two
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Speaker 2: thousand and three two thousand and four were mid rangers,
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Speaker 2: forty percent of them being classified as long mid rangers. Right,
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Speaker 2: And this is what always bothers me when people talk
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Speaker 2: about these eras of basketball. If I go all the
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Speaker 2: way down to two thousand and three. And if I
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Speaker 2: go to their roster and I say, hey, show me
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Speaker 2: the frequency of each individual player, I could live with
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Speaker 2: Latrell's free well, Kevin Garnet, Sam Cassell taking mit range
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Speaker 2: jump shots.
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Speaker 1: Those the good NBA players.
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Speaker 2: No way in hell you try to convince me that
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Speaker 2: the golden era of basketball is when Keith McLeod was
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Speaker 2: taking fifty percent of his shots from long two. Cut
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Speaker 2: it out, man, cut it out, bro. The NBA has
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Speaker 2: evolved to the point where the random role players no
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Speaker 2: longer going on pin down long mid range twos, but
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Speaker 2: instead those being replaced with threes. And it's the same
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Speaker 2: type of shot, just six feet deeper. And that's the
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Speaker 2: reason the league is bad because now guys on the
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Speaker 2: same level of Keith McLeod can't take.
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Speaker 1: Long mit rangers.
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Speaker 2: That blows my mind, because the greatest players in basketball
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Speaker 2: they're still taking mit rangers. You know why, because that
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Speaker 2: is a good shot for them. That is not a
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Speaker 2: good shot for Keith McLeod. That is not a good
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Speaker 2: shot from player number eight on your favorite team. It
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Speaker 2: just isn't. So the NBA has evolved to the point
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Speaker 2: where that is not a shot that teams want to
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Speaker 2: take anymore. Do we want to see the shot go
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Speaker 2: in or not? It's NBA fans, do you want to
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Speaker 2: see the ball going to the basket or not? Because
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Speaker 2: if you want to revert back to this efficient offenses
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Speaker 2: will not exist.
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Speaker 1: They just won't.
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Speaker 2: And I hate to make Keith McLeod like this the
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Speaker 2: martyr of the video. I don't know anything about him
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Speaker 2: other than the fact that on those loan Midrangers that
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Speaker 2: we're talking about, he shot.
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Speaker 1: Twenty eight percent.
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Speaker 2: So fifty three percent of his shots are from loan
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Speaker 2: two and he shot twenty.
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Speaker 1: Eight percent of them and they went in. But hey,
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Speaker 1: the NBA has lost his juice. Everybody plays the same
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Speaker 1: cut it out man. Just it bothers me.
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Speaker 2: Right now, if we look at those same exact stats
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Speaker 2: from from nowadays, you talk about league averages, Right nowadays,
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Speaker 2: we're come the frequency thirty one percent of shots are
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Speaker 2: coming at the rim, which is the exact same as
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Speaker 2: two thousands. That's almost down to the decimal point. The
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Speaker 2: same amount of rim pressure we have today is what
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Speaker 2: they had in two thousand and three, two thousand and
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Speaker 2: four mid Rangers from fifty percent is down to thirty percent.
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Speaker 2: Now what you will see as long midrangers don't exist
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Speaker 2: as much as they used to. But when we will
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Speaker 2: do this in a second, I'll show you long rimmngers.
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Speaker 2: Long mid rangers do exist for good players. Now they're
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Speaker 2: being replaced with shortened rangers, which is the flow to area.
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Speaker 2: This is where Jared Jackson Junior, Jalen bruntson, some of
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Speaker 2: the great players we have in basketball that flow the
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Speaker 2: area is their bread and butter. And now we take
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Speaker 2: thirty nine percent, rounding up a little bit, thirty nine
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Speaker 2: percent of our shots from three. So here are the
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Speaker 2: numbers on those long mid rangers, the Martioros and Joel
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Speaker 2: and b Chris Middleton, Jamal Murray, Dennis shrew To Paolo
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Speaker 2: ben Carrow, Brandon Ingram, Paul George and we're gonna cut
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Speaker 2: off there. Kevin forty I didn't realize he was taking
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Speaker 2: them any long tunes, Kevin Durant, saw on and so forth.
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Speaker 2: Once you recognize from the top percentage of people when
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Speaker 2: it comes to mid range jump shots, these are the
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Speaker 2: guys who want to take a min range jump shots
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Speaker 2: because at the end of the day, they were just
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Speaker 2: bucket getters, right shout out to Dinner, Shout out to
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Speaker 2: Dennis Shrewd. They're just bucket getters at the end of
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Speaker 2: the day, so you feel comfortable with them taking this shot. Now,
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Speaker 2: going back to two thousand and three, these are the
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Speaker 2: top people taking mid rangers. Bimbo Coles, Omar cook Christian Lanner,
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Speaker 2: shout out to Wolves Legend, Eddie Robinson, Sean Rooks, Jabari Smith, Senior,
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Speaker 2: Reese Gaines, Tom Googliada, Jacques Vaughn.
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Speaker 1: Look at this, bro, look at it. This is insane
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Speaker 1: to me. The average role player took hell of mit
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Speaker 1: rains jump shots. It's not the way we played the
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Speaker 1: game anymore. And I think that's better for the I
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Speaker 1: think that's better for the game. Bro.
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Speaker 2: Like, I've never even heard the name Omar Cooks. Oh,
16:21
Speaker 2: he wasn't in the league really for long.
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Speaker 1: He shot with us.
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Speaker 2: Say, Omar Cooks shot sixty. I was on the eighteen attempts,
16:27
Speaker 2: but sixty to nine percent of his shots were long
16:30
Speaker 2: twos and he was out of the league in one year.
16:33
Speaker 2: There's no NBA player right now that would be able
16:35
Speaker 2: to do that. Dog, You get your ass benched, Bro,
16:38
Speaker 2: You'll never play another second. Another big talking point is
16:41
Speaker 2: about the defense. And granted I can attest to on
16:43
Speaker 2: an average eighty two game season game, defenses are not
16:47
Speaker 2: gonna feel as intense as what you remember. But matter
16:51
Speaker 2: of fact, let's go do some research. Yeah, you know
16:53
Speaker 2: I'd be in these trenches watching these games because I
16:55
Speaker 2: just referred to this whole series and I just found
16:57
Speaker 2: it just like that in two thousand and nine Western
16:59
Speaker 2: Conference in my finals Mavericks versus Nuggets. In this game,
17:02
Speaker 2: Dirk's drop thirty three and sixteen Melo drop thirty one
17:05
Speaker 2: and a battle of two NBA legends, And you remember
17:08
Speaker 2: defenses being better back then. And I think one of
17:11
Speaker 2: the realities of the defenses being better is because the
17:13
Speaker 2: offenses looks so slow and so snaggnant. Let's see, this
17:17
Speaker 2: is considered semi transition. Let's get I want to get
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Speaker 2: a possession where they're okay. Has a poor representation of
17:23
Speaker 2: this era of basketball. Again, I love this era as well,
17:27
Speaker 2: but look at the spacing on these teams. Objectively, it
17:31
Speaker 2: is easier to guard well when this is what the
17:34
Speaker 2: spacing looks like. Right, and now, as we talk about
17:37
Speaker 2: the league being stretched further from the rim, there's a
17:40
Speaker 2: lot more open space for creators. So the defense is
17:43
Speaker 2: going to suffer from that.
17:45
Speaker 1: It just is.
17:46
Speaker 2: Now, this possession is funny. Air Dampier sets the screen,
17:48
Speaker 2: he gets tripped. Lop situation didn't end up in a
17:51
Speaker 2: lot I'm not mistaken. This is the game that air
17:54
Speaker 2: Dampier got boomed on too by Oh my god, who
17:57
Speaker 2: do you get dunked on by? Oh?
17:59
Speaker 1: It's gonna be on my mind anyway. Here's another possession.
18:03
Speaker 2: Look how they're able to just collapse because of the
18:06
Speaker 2: spacing of the team. So you don't need to see that,
18:08
Speaker 2: because I'm sure that you've seen games from this era.
18:10
Speaker 2: So yes, the defense was more intense because the offense
18:14
Speaker 2: wasn't as I don't know the word I'm looking for, advanced.
18:18
Speaker 2: The offenses just weren't as advanced, and so the defense
18:22
Speaker 2: they were okay, would just be in this way. One
18:25
Speaker 2: thing you're gonna recognize from this era is that some
18:27
Speaker 2: of the bad defenders across basketball very rarely got picked
18:29
Speaker 2: on in the same way that we see it today.
18:31
Speaker 2: I just watched the game the Charlotte Hornets versus the
18:33
Speaker 2: Lakers were LaMelo Ball, MOUs Bridges, Dennitt, Nick Smith Junior
18:36
Speaker 2: were going at lucahead. They would not be able to
18:39
Speaker 2: do that if this was two thousand and nine and
18:40
Speaker 2: the spacing was that way, because you had help on
18:43
Speaker 2: both sides. Nowadays, that help does not exist because LaMelo
18:47
Speaker 2: ball can spread out to MOUs bridges or moles Bridges
18:49
Speaker 2: can spread out to LaMelo ball, and you would just say, hey,
18:53
Speaker 2: we think that our back end defense, whether it be
18:55
Speaker 2: Alex Linn or whether it be.
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Speaker 1: Jackson Hayes, will be enough to deter my guy from
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Speaker 1: the rim.
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Speaker 2: We're okay with that being the shot versus and being
19:05
Speaker 2: a kickout three for another person. Now recording this video,
19:07
Speaker 2: at this game is going on, and trust me, I'm
19:09
Speaker 2: gonna go back and watch it because this is a
19:10
Speaker 2: matchup I was really looking forward to.
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Speaker 1: This is a this is live.
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Speaker 2: I just paused it now I want to just see
19:15
Speaker 2: this is I don't know what's gonna happen on this
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Speaker 2: posession because it's live. I just want to show you
19:19
Speaker 2: how much different it really is. There is a ball
19:20
Speaker 2: screen to get aja. Oh, this is what Ben Simmons
19:23
Speaker 2: on the floor his second game with the team. Like,
19:25
Speaker 2: the spacing is just so much better, and that's even
19:28
Speaker 2: what Ben Simmons is a non threat by Donovic, gets
19:31
Speaker 2: gets filed, he gets fouled, he gets fould Let's see
19:33
Speaker 2: the possession before that.
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Speaker 1: Though, this is good basketball. This is good basketball.
19:36
Speaker 2: Man, how are y'all seeing? Y'all don't like this product?
19:40
Speaker 2: Look at this good screen for Petun gets an open look.
19:42
Speaker 1: From a Hall of Fame. But how it blows?
19:44
Speaker 2: It blows my I just I don't understand it. I
19:47
Speaker 2: don't understand it. And again that's coming from me that
19:50
Speaker 2: can be critical of this game. It is very, very
19:53
Speaker 2: far from being perfect. But damn it, y'all be acting
19:56
Speaker 2: like this is the worst thing.
19:57
Speaker 1: Imagine. But when I feel like this is the most
19:59
Speaker 1: diverse lefe.
20:00
Speaker 2: Level of talent we've ever seen, the highest level of
20:02
Speaker 2: talent we've ever seen, and just the best hoops, man,
20:05
Speaker 2: and just the best hoops. The three point variants can
20:08
Speaker 2: make it seem a lot worse than what it is.
20:10
Speaker 2: Where a team can be super hot and hit eleven
20:15
Speaker 2: threes and a half while the other team hits zero,
20:17
Speaker 2: and now it's a fifteen to twenty point lead going
20:21
Speaker 2: into halftime. I recognize that, and because of as some
20:23
Speaker 2: teams can get stuck trying to play catch up, and
20:26
Speaker 2: the way you play catch up and you're down by
20:28
Speaker 2: that much is trying to spray threes as well. I
20:30
Speaker 2: understand that, but I do believe that, you know, when
20:35
Speaker 2: people talk about the game being at a bad point
20:39
Speaker 2: when it comes to viewership or so on and so forth.
20:42
Speaker 2: There are a lot of factors, but one of the
20:43
Speaker 2: factors that stand out to me is the people that
20:46
Speaker 2: we have representing our game on the national level. If
20:50
Speaker 2: you do not care about basketball and this is your
20:52
Speaker 2: first time watching, or you're an average NBA fan and
20:56
Speaker 2: the person before the game starts is telling you how
20:58
Speaker 2: much this game coming up is a is gonna suck,
21:01
Speaker 2: then most of the time you're probably gonna follow that
21:03
Speaker 2: opinion as well. People are just starting games with a
21:07
Speaker 2: negative vision of what the NBA is because that's what
21:10
Speaker 2: they have been told over and over again. It's one
21:13
Speaker 2: of the reasons why I'm happy that there are other
21:15
Speaker 2: people with NBA rights this season. I'm curious to see
21:19
Speaker 2: what NBC's coverage looks like. I'm curious to see what
21:22
Speaker 2: Amazon's coverage looks like and the people that they bring on.
21:24
Speaker 2: I saw Amazon had Blake, Griffin and Dirk as of
21:26
Speaker 2: today that feels dope as hell. I can't imagine what
21:30
Speaker 2: type of stuff they gonna really cook up, and they
21:32
Speaker 2: could potentially change the way people interpret our league. Far
21:37
Speaker 2: from perfect, but I love the NBA and I have
21:40
Speaker 2: yet to see or hear a valid opinion about why
21:45
Speaker 2: our league sucks. And if you have it, leave it
21:47
Speaker 2: in the comments section. Maybe you can convince me. But
21:49
Speaker 2: it's somebody that watches every single night, and have watched
21:52
Speaker 2: every single night for ten years and every other night
21:56
Speaker 2: for ten years before that. This league is great. This
22:00
Speaker 2: product could be better, but this lead for what is
22:03
Speaker 2: worth is a great man.