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POST-GAME DEBRIEF: The Warriors Beat The Rockets In Game 7... · Small Ball with Kenny Beecham

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Today we had a game seven and a game one the start to a series the end to a series we're gonna talk about both starting off with the Golden State Warriors uh beating the Houston Rockets in seven.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: I know Rockets fans are pissed, not just because they lost the series.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: I mean you were the underdog even though you had the higher seed.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: At one point you're down 3-1, you forced the game seven.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people didn't look at you as a real contender to win the series at all.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: You're not mad about losing the series, I want to guess.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: I want to guess you're mad because you lost to Steph Curry again.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Again.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Just uh I'm not trying to rub it in.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not trying to rub it in, but for the gazillion time you've lost to that guy.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: And you know what?
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: There was not really a moment in time where I thought the Rockers were gonna win this one because even when Steph Curry was struggling in the first half, I think he went into halftime like three points.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: They were still up by double digits.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: And shout out to Buddy Hill for that.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: But like I was thinking to myself, there's no way Steph Curry is gonna stay this quiet on the offensive side of the ball for an entire game.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: And eventually he started to turn it up, hit a couple big shots down the stretch.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: He had his own personal, what, 8-0 run in the fourth quarter, and and that was that was really it.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: There's a couple different things that surprise the hell out of me.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: I was surprised to see Jonathan Kaminga get some burn early on.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: I know it was talked about by Steve Curr that he wouldn't count it out, but for him to get some early burn, and not only just early burn, he got burned alongside Draymond and Jimmy Butler.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: And that was something that Steve Kerr went on the radio about like two months ago, saying, like, yeah, Kaminga can't play with those two dudes.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: So for it to be a go-home situation, he's like, you know what, maybe he can play with those dudes.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: The minutes were awful.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um, there are a lot of Warriors fans in my mentions when Jonathan Kaminga throughout the last week of the season, plus the end of like the post, he's like, Man, Jonathan Kaminga ain't getting minutes.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: Is Steve Kerr bugging?
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: The answer is probably not.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: And maybe that's just because he hasn't got a lot of burns, so he's lost his confidence, or he's lost a lot of his, or he's just really rusty.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_00: But in the minutes he has played in this series, not good at all.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I don't expect him to play much in next series, let's just say that.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, this was a good team win for the Golden Savers.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: They had times in this game, though, where I absolutely hated the shot attempts they were getting.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: It was like Draymond Green, pull-up jump shots, and so on and so forth.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: But there are a few things that stood out in this game compared to some of the other ones.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we did get a decent amount of the double big lineup for the Houston Rockets.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: One thing that was different is they couldn't run a lot of zone with this uh double big lineup because Buddy Hill was hitting his shot today, because Potts hit an early shot, which was really important to kind of uh change the dynamic of the way they play defense.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: And when you run this double big lineup, one of the luxuries you have is that you can't run that zone, right?
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: And if the others are hitting shots, and in this game they shot 42% from three, 42% from three.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: If the others are hitting shots, you can't really run that zone.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: And the Warriors did run their own zone.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna talk about that in a second.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: But with them not being able to run the zone, that means they have to go to man-to-man coverage.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: And we didn't get to see in the first six game of the series when we did have a double big lineup, a lot of minutes where one of the big, Shin Gunner or Steven Adams, were guarding Draymond Green.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: It's just too dangerous.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's too dangerous because Draymond Green is an amazing short roller.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: He can finish at the rim, of course, he can make that extra pass.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: And the few times they did end up playing that man-to-man coverage with the double big lineup, Draymond Green was picking it apart.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: One of the times he got to the basket, and I actually don't remember if he finished the layup.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's Draymond Green, so I'm gonna assume he didn't.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_00: But I know two of the times it ended up finding Buddy Healed on an open three.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, oh yeah, we can't really do that too much.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: So now the one advantage that we had as a team, which is killing the offensive glass or in the double big lineup and mucking things up defensively, didn't really work out of this game, which is unfortunate for him, for them that it happened in the game seven.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um, they ended up really throwing them out of there, and and you know, the Rockets' offense was really predicated on them being able to get those second chance opportunities.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_00: And unfortunately for the Rockets, we didn't get an amazing uh Fred Van Vlee game who had kept them afloat throughout the last couple.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: Uh let's let's quickly talk about the Houston Rockets at whole because I think one of the things that was very apparent throughout this entire series is how much they're in need of a go-to score down the stretch.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: You don't change anything about the season, right?
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_00: This is one of those teams that you want to see you want to see of your young players who do you think can hold their own in the playoff series.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: And we got some ideas.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_00: This was not a good Albert Shangoon game, all things considered.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: His touch was really off.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: He had a lot of bunnies that just missed.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: You can credit that to Draymond, who's been holding them to like 36% from the field when he's been guarded by him, or you can just credit it to him just losing his touch in his last couple last game.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: But as a whole, you feel good about Albrecht Shangun as a player for the next year's playoff run.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: You feel amazing about Amin Thompson, who was phenomenal in this game, ended up pulling his hamstring or whatever, but he was amazing, especially in that first half.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: We talk about Steph Curry having three points on one of six from shooting from three in that first half.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of that is Amin Thompson playing some amazing defense.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: You feel good about some guys like Jabari Smith Jr., who didn't have a great game today, but he had a couple great games throughout the series, and then you feel bad about others.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_00: You know who I'm talking about.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: And I just don't know what the remedy for that is.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if that means that you go in, you're like, hey man, who wants Jalen Green?
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: We need a go-to score.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: Kevin Oran, Devin Booker.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_00: Who else is available?
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: Kevin O'Ran, Devin Booker.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Zion wouldn't, no, I just don't know who's available, but like Jalen Green's stat lines were just pretty nasty.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: 7 points, 38 points.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: Who looks amazing there?
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_00: 9 points, 8 points, 11 points, 12 points, and then 8 points.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_00: It just all around just was a really bad series.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: And it got to the point late in this game where the Rockets are trying to trying to get back into it, right?
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's like a nine, eight-point game, and Jalen Green is on the court.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm, you know, I'm just refreshing Twitter trying to be interactive with the people.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: And people ask, like, why is Jalen Green even on the court?
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're Imei Udoka in this game, Jabari Smith Jr.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_00: didn't play very well.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I thought Tari Easton looked kind of scared in the moment a couple different times.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_00: He had nasty turnovers and he got credited for two, but it was one that he almost turned it over.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_00: But luckily, Fred Ben Blee was there to stay at us to keep it steady, steady.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_00: And like, again, though he had a terrible series, in the back of your mind, you think to yourself, well, we're down by eight.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_00: We need some creation because the in this series, when we have not scored a lot, this is gonna sound stupid because obviously it's the case.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: When we have not scored a lot, we haven't still had a chance.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: But Jalen Green, man, he hit two shots that he could be on the burner just like that.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's an eight-point game, and now it's a two-point game because Jalen Green hit two threes.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_00: Just the idea of what he could blow out to be was just enough to keep him on the floor, especially if there was nobody on the bench that was playing above him, right?
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, I mean, I'm curious to see what this offseason looks like from the team.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_00: This is a hella successful season.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_00: I I think going into it, when you look back on my video, I thought that they were gonna be like the 11th seed this season.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_00: They were the two, right?
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_00: So again, you don't love the fact that you're a first-round exit, but if you look at it from a bird's eye view, you're thinking about the future of this team, there's nothing but bright things going forward, right?
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so shout out to the Houston Rockets for even making it interesting because I want to remind you this Golden State Warriors team was 23-7 with Jimmy Butler.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_00: You took them 2-7.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: That's like that is a real accomplishment.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm not here for like moral victories, I get.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, maybe I am.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_00: I kind of.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm here for moral victories.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: That's a moral victory for you.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_00: And now we gotta start thinking about the Golden State Warriors being matched up against the Minnesota Timbulls.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll promise you this.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_00: I I mean, I don't know how I feel about the series other than saying that I feel pretty good about the Minnesota Timbulls winning.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_00: Some of those stretches that we saw in this series where the Warriors went four to five minutes multiple times a game without scoring, that's just not gonna be uh something that you can do often.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna be able to get uh get away with it a few different times in the playoff series, but you're not gonna be able to do that often against the Minnesota Timbulls, who are just better on the offensive side of the floor.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_00: They have a guy, Anthony Edwards, who we just saw in the last series, can pick some things apart now.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_00: The Warriors are obviously a better defense than what the the uh Lakers just showed us, but they're also a small team, and we just saw Rudigo Bear Gobzilla give them 20, 26, and 24.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_00: Julius Randle used his size and had a great series.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: So this should be a dogfight for sure.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_00: I'm leaning towards Timberwolves, but I guess I'll talk about that in the future.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um, is there anything else in my notes about this game?
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, oh, uh Warriors through their own zone.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_00: I said I was gonna get into that.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_00: The Warriors getting to their old zone was actually pretty dope because it forced it forced a lot of the Rockets to take long shots.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_00: And because they were taking long shots, like this is the bad thing about a zone.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's a tough to rebound in the zone.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_00: That was something you get taught as a very young kid.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta get a body on people because you're not necessarily guarding somebody one-on-one, right?
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_00: So it's tough to get rebounds.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_00: But because you were forcing the Houston Rockets to take long shots, you didn't have to worry about that because long shots is long misses, and a few different times ended up being a breakaway from Jimmy Butler or Pods heading, something like that.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_00: So it ended up working out pretty well.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_00: I thought Steve Kirk again coached took a game, even if I don't agree with John Dickaminga going out there and playing some early minutes.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's felt like he had um Buddy Healed game in the back of his pocket.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_00: Buddy Hill, 9 of 11 for three.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_00: And some of them, I mean, one of them was what, right before half court at the end of a quarter, like some of these shots were ridiculous.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_00: And some of them, they just completely forgot Buddy Hilled on the floor, right?
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: And and part of that is like we're so hell-bent on making sure Steph Curry is not getting off that if it happens to be Buddy Heal, then so be it.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_00: And it happened to but be Buddy Healed.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_00: I again, though Steph Curry didn't shoot the ball well into the basically the fourth quarter.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: I thought he was fucking amazing defensively, all things considered.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: He ain't he ain't um he ain't Amin Thompson, he ain't Tony Allen, he ain't Ron Harper or Scottie Pippen.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_00: But for his size, he was not giving anything up.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: And this is something I've talked about a lot about Steph Curry.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: I think as a defender, he's always been underrated.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of times he does end up being not necessarily in this era, but some of his previous eras when they were winning championships, he did end up being the worst defensive player on the court, but that didn't make him a bad defensive player.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_00: Being the worst defensive player on the court on the team that was number one and number two in defense could still mean you're a good defensive player.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I thought today, even when his shot was a fallen, I mean he got to the glass.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_00: He um ended up um uh he didn't draw a charge, but he waited he didn't draw the charge.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_00: He oleid away to a mislayup because it looked like he was setting up that he moved last second.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_00: So I just thought, again, had a phenomenal game.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I love the fact that Steve Curry's like, man, this is game seven, Steph.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta play almost every single second.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: And I think he did end up basically playing every minute until the game was out of reach, and then they let the other guys come in.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: So good game for the Golden State Warriors, and they continue to see if they can go on the ultimate run.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to the Houston Rockets.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about Cavs versus Pacers game number one.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: The Pacers go in into Cleveland, win 121 to 112.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_00: A game that we found out like maybe an hour or two before that Darius Garland was not gonna be suited up.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_00: They are really optimistic, though, that he'll get ready for game number two.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_00: So that's cool.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_00: I really want Darius Garland to play in the series because I want this series to be really, really good.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_00: And I think Darius Garland obviously helps that a ton.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_00: One of the questions I had asked the guys is like, where do the Cavaliers start off defensively with Tarryce Halliburn?
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: Will it be Max Struce?
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_00: Will it be this or that?
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: Ended up being Max Struce very early on.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes ended up being Sam Merrow.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_00: They just shifted around quite a bit.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_00: I thought that Tyrese Halliburton did an amazing job in this game.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: Full stop.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: On both sides of the floor, there was a there was a stretch with like two and a half minutes left.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: Tyrese Halliburton himself got three back-to-back to back defensive stops.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_00: And you think about who the Cleveland Cavaliers are, you think about what the Cleveland Cavaliers did in last series when you think about them just completely picking on Tyler Hero defensively, that's who Tyrese Halliburton is gonna be on the defensive side this series.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_00: He is the weakest link defensively on this team.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like we're gonna put you in every single action.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: They were doing that early on, and it was all for not because the Cavs shot terribly from three.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's their second worst shooting game of the entire season.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: But for them to try to go at him with two and a half minutes to go and him to come out there and get three stops and then come down there and hit a dagger, like that's my boy.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: I felt that.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_00: And they felt comfortable with letting it be a pick and roll switch, and Tyree's like, okay, you're gonna switch the big fella on me.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_00: And the big fella Jared Allen is really good into space, all things considered.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_00: Not go cut it today.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_00: Step back three.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: I thought he was amazing.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, he's always gonna raise a level of play on the offensive side of the ball because he is one of the premier playmakers in basketball.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: And when the ball is in his hands, the team will not turn the ball over often.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_00: The stat goes, they are 23 and 7 this season.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: When he scores over 20, damn it, he had 22 today.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: Now, let's take a step back.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, andrew Nimhar, phenomenal game as well.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he's he's about he's getting into that territory.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_00: That territory, you talk you talk about playoff risers, you be thinking about like Jokids, you think about Luca again before this season, you think about some all-time legends.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_00: And then right under that, you gotta think about Andrew Nimhart because he continues to, man, the the sidestep 28 foot three with two seconds on the shot clock.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_00: It would have hurt my soul if I was a Cas fan.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_00: I ain't gonna lie.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_00: He hit that shot and he played good defense all again, all things considered, there's only so much you can do against Donovan Mitchell and stuff.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, Andrew, uh Aaron Eastmith, also really good in this game.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_00: So they had a lot of good things going for them, but let me take a step back.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: They shot 53%.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: 53%.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_00: You know?
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_00: 53%.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_00: That's crazy.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just like, obviously, there's other ways to win games.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_00: There's other ways to win.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_00: They're not gonna shoot 53% four different times to win this series.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: There's other ways the Pacers can beat you.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_00: Do not get me wrong.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_00: But this one, it felt like, what did the mean?
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: The magnet ball mean?
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_00: That's what it felt like it is.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_00: They were not missing on the offensive side.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: There was one three that I think it was um, was it Obi?
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_00: Obi hit a sidestep corner three, and I'm like, I don't know.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what are you supposed to do about that.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_00: On the other side of things, I thought the Cavs um went on some of their best runs or like looked best offensively when OB was on the court.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_00: So I wonder what that's gonna look like if Darius Garland comes back.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um they the the Cavs also had as many points in the paint as a team can have in a single game.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_00: They had 70.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: It was I I made the tweet.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_00: It was like um, I haven't played a ton of Marvel Rivals in the last month or so, but I just be thinking about different alts and Spider-Man, you get a web, you get a web, you get a paint touch, you get a paint touch, you get a paint touch, damn it, because everybody just gets into the basket.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: And part of that was like foul trouble for some dudes, but also the Pacers weren't playing great point of attack defense, and it just ended up being, you know, Donald Mitchell getting downhill, or Evan Mobley had a really good offensive game today.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_00: He's kind of washed out, or like Ty Jerome get into his floater range, and he didn't hit a ton of those today, but like you expect him to hit more.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, there's like optimism on both sides, right?
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_00: Darius Garland's coming back, and you don't expect the opposing two team to shoot 53% from three.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: The optimist on the pages side, hey, we went into a game one, and they always say series don't start till the home team loses.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: We just took a game one.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_00: We still do have one of the best players in the series, and Tyrese Halliburne if he continues to shoot, and well, we just have depth, both teams have depth.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_00: This is gonna be a dog fight.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, my original thing was um was Cavs.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_00: I think I said calves in five.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_00: That was before I knew that Darius Garland was like that toe injury was that bad.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes, like, when you go against an inferior opponent, which is what the Miami Heat word to the Cavs, you can feel okay with just sitting the guy here or there.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_00: I thought that's what it was.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_00: And the same thing with like Drew Holiday in this other series.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't know exactly what to think about that.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um they uh they we did have some zone get thrown out there a little bit, which is again, so every single team, every single series has seen zone so far this playoffs.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's phenomenal that zone is being used so so damn heavily.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's so cool to see Kenny Atkinson go the opposite of like every single team in basketball.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like every team uh has the one player that is strictly there for the defensive side of the ball.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_00: One of these wings that like is an elite level defensive player is Chris Dunn, is Derrick Jones Jr., um it's Amin Thompson.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's like those type of dudes that just are not a threat to shoot the ball whatsoever.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_00: Every single team has one of those dudes, and it feels like those teams end up starting one of those dudes, except for the Cavs, who has a guy like that on the bench, and his name is Isaac Coro, but instead of starting Isaac Koro to hound Tyrese Halliburne, they'd rather just have all the shooting in the world.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: Sam Merrill, you gotta defend tonight, brother.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: We know you can shoot, so go ahead and defend your ass off, too.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's always interesting to see uh different philosophies come out.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: But that's pretty much it.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'm excited to see what the rest of the series hold.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I've said it once, and I'll say it again because next year the Bulls will be in the finals.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um the NBA runs through the central division, baby.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: Always has, always will be.