Nuggets own LeBron James & Lakers, LA’s late-game issues, Mavs-Celtics + NBA Mailbag | Hoops Tonight

Nuggets own LeBron James & Lakers, LA’s late-game issues, Mavs-Celtics + NBA Mailbag | Hoops Tonight

All right welcome to Hoops tonight here at the volume happy Sunday everybody hope all you guys are having an incredible weekend we have a jam-pack show for you today I just finished watching Lakers Nuggets which looked just like every other Lakers Nuggets game so we’re going to break that game

Down from the perspective of both teams then we’re going to hit Celtics Mavs from Friday night and then after that I’ve got a mailbag for you guys you guys know the drill before we get started subscribe to our brand new YouTube channel it mean a lot to me if you guys

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Atore Jason LT that’s where I leave film threads like the film thread I made tonight involving the crunch time stretch of Lakers Nuggets that’s also where I put show announcements and then last but not least keep dropping mailbag questions in those comments so we can keep hitting them throughout the season

All right let’s talk some basketball so I’m going to give the nuggets their props for a few minutes here and then I want to go on like an old-fashioned angry fan rant because I’m really irritated with a bunch of specific tactical stuff from the Lakers down the

Stretch of this game but that’s for later on I thought this game you know it’s funny I bet you if you went into the locker room and asked nuggets fans they’d tell you that this wasn’t their best game that they played this year and it certainly wasn’t I didn’t think they

Gave a great effort in the first half in particular but in a weird way I thought it was a resounding demonstration of just how good they are you’ve got Jamal Murray on a bum ankle they’re floating through the first half of the game it’s a Lakers team that just needs this game

So so so much more than the Nuggets not just because of the standings but also because of the uh the reality of the mental advantage in this matchup the the Lakers just need a win against the Nuggets so that they can feel like they have a shot against the Nuggets like

That’s the thing like I think if you asked Lakers fan any Lakers fan any Lakers player any Lakers coach and any nuggets fan player or coach they’d all say that if a play like true serum they’d all say that the Nuggets would probably beat the Lakers and the series

But as is always the case there’s like a spectrum there right like it’s not 100% chance it’s just like 90% chance right but like what’s that 10% what’s that little bit of hope that you cling to right and like whatever that is there’s a basketball formula to get there but

Like in order for you to believe in that 10% when you get there you need to have a win you need to have a win in a regular season game where you just remind yourselves like yeah we’re capable of beating these guys even if it is a long shot we’re capable right and

The nuggets just snuffed that out tonight in such a big way you know the Lakers offense has been so much better as of late it’s a big part of what has uh uh kind of like kept them afloat in this recent stretch without Jared Vanderbilt which has basically been they

Figured out their five out offense stuff they’ve got a lot of guys that are good on the ball a lot of guys that can finish plays the ball movement is really really good and they can have some success and that’s how they were picking the the Nuggets apart in pick and roll

Ear uh early in the this game but they were able to get stops there we’re going to break it down specifically why here in just a few minutes and then on the other end of the floor it just still comes down to the fact that Jamal Murray

Can get whatever he wants Nicole joic can get wherever he wants make whatever he wants gets all these little high percentage shots around the basket whether it’s a left-handed hook over ruy hachimura or it’s a floater in the lane off of a catch off a pocket pass and

Pick and roll for Jamal Murray whether it’s you know a a a three at the top of the key off of a dribble combination or a turnaround jumper over his right shoulder or even just working around a ball screen and getting into the lane like he did for that final basket on C

Redish where he just kind of dribbles and dribbles and dribbles until something opens up and he takes advantage of it even those two Corner threes late I saw a lot of Lakers fans like oh man I can’t believe Justin holiday made that shot I can’t believe Aaron Gordon made that shot Justin

Holiday is a 47% Corner three-point shooter so like yeah if you’re going to if you’re going to tag Aaron if you’re going to double off of of Aaron Gordon with ad and you’re going to tag Aaron Gordon on the Baseline the kickout pass is there to Justin Holliday in the

Corner he’s going to probably make it half the time it’s one point you know whatever that comes out to a little bit under a point and a half per shot that’s a really high percentage look for them even Aaron Gordon this is what was crazy

You know I uh I didn’t really notice it until I was digging into the numbers after the game I was like man I can’t believe how confidently Aaron Gordon rised into that shot and the main reason why I was thinking that is like like Doris Burke pointed out in the broadcast

She’s like his first few misses from three were really ugly and they were but here’s the crazy part Aaron Gordon is 25% on above the break threes this year he’s also 27% on left corner threes this year this is coming into tonight’s game he’s 53% on right corner threes so like

There’s something that happens with Shooters where it’s like there’s something about like deriving confidence as you go into your muscle memory that really helps and like when you know like this is my hot spot like you feel comfortable going into that shot and again I don’t know if that’s the

Scouting department for the Lakers not doing a good job of making Anthony Davis aware or if Anthony Davis was just falling asleep on that possession or being lazy or what the deal was but like Aaron Gordon made them pay with a right corner three that he’s been making all

Season long so like again like a lot of it is just this is what Denver does right and this is the result that you can see and then at the end of the game getting stops in the pick and roll they were getting they were getting killed because their backside help wasn’t

Particularly Sharp and you know specifically Denver’s pick and roll coverage tends to kind of concede the pocket pass and so the Lakers were having a lot of success hitting you know Anthony Davis with those little passes into the pocket and getting good shots out of that well what happened down the

End of the down the stretch of the game they finally sharpened up their backline help by specifically helping off of ruy and cam reddish and I clipped several examples of this and you guys can see in my Twitter feed again _ jlt you can see a bunch of specific examples of them

Loading up on the ball screen actions for the Lakers and causing problems like whether it’s Aaron Gordon you know really being aggressive on LeBron with back pressure because he knows joic can help because they’re ignoring reddish and ruy and you know able to box ad out

Of the lane right or if it’s like that last strip that Michael Porter Jr had on Anthony Davis he was just completely ignoring ruy hamur by the way ruy was open in the dunker spot and Anthony Davis is you know he’s a players made some progress as a passer this year but

He’s not yic he’s not the guy that like when you bring help from a specific spot he identifies it makes you pay every single time that’s not ad and so the the Nuggets did what what they’re good at which is they find a way to get stops against their particular opponent in

This case loading up on the r man in the half court off of the iffy shooters for the Lakers and they got enough stops and next thing you know they end up with a double figure win in a game that it felt like the Lakers controlled for you know

Two and a half quarters you know here’s the bottom line there are some things with the Lakers that really pissed me off tonight and I’m I’m going to go off on them in a minute but the bottom line is Jamal Murray and Nicole jic consistently just straight up outplay

LeBron James and Anthony Davis in crunch time every single time they play no matter what the surrounding factors are Jamal can make shots Nicole yic can make shots LeBron can’t make shots and AD can’t make shots in this matchup and it gets even crazier when you factor in

That LeBron and AD have been awesome in the clutch this year did you guys know that coming into tonight the Lakers were literally the very best clutch team in basketball they were 18- seven that’s a 72% win percentage best in the league LeBron James has been amazing

Offensively in the clutch all season did it again against the Wizards the other night did it again against the Clippers the other night he’s been doing it to everybody but there’s some something up here with this particular matchup where the two of them I don’t know if they

Lose their Mojo or what the deal is but they struggle and by the way I put that I give that credit to Jamal Murray and Nicole yic there is a thing and again this is one of those things that you’d never be able to quantify with analytics

You’d never be able to quantify with a catchall metric or anything like that but if you’ve played the game you know that there is a mental Dynamic that takes place on the floor and when a player has a mental advantage over his opponent his opponent will usually behave uncharacteristically either taking weird

Shots not Rising as confidently in shots as you as he usually does like even LeBron’s like kind of uh uh kind of rising up the wing three that he took at the end of the game barely grazed the side of the rim and and it’s like LeBron in the in

The last clutch game a few weeks ago when they played like he badly bricked a floater driving along the Baseline that like a shot that you’re usually that you usually see him make it’s like there that Jamal Murray and Nicole yic have actually sapped LeBron and AD of their

Confidence in these situations which is crazy 18 and six in clutch games against the rest of the league 0 and2 against the Denver Nuggets and it’s something that they’re going to have to find a way to shake if they want to have any chance of capitalizing on that small sliver of

A chance that they have to potentially win in a playoff series against these guys and hell I mean it’s not even guaranteed that they would get that opportunity at this point being that they’re in the 10 seat right last few guys I wanted to shout out for the

Nuggets I thought Justin holiday played a great game I thought he made a bunch of Big Time defensive plays I thought he made timely shots and then pton Watson I thought he was just an absolute wrecking ball on defense he had three blocks in 16 minutes the Denver Nuggets they’re

They’re the team that you know all year long I’ve been saying if they can stay healthy if they can get those core Five Guys into April and if they can hold up for two months I would just be surprised if they did didn’t win at this point

That’s how much better I think they are than everybody else at that slowdown half court basketball all right on the Lakers front first of all the disclaimers again I’m just going to say this again before I go on my rant the nuggets are just a much better basketball team than the Los Angeles

Lakers and LeBron and AD specifically deserve a lot of blame for how the end of this game went I thought ad was super passive in borderline ineffective on the defensive end down the stretch which is literally his superpower LeBron had two really ugly turnovers trying to get

Downhill in the fourth quarter the two of them in general just had no ability to take control of the game offensively while on the opposite end of the floor Jamal Murray and Nicole yic were dominating the game offensively but some of that was the reality of the lineup

That was on the floor crunch time was an absolute disaster for the Lakers in this game and the Lakers quite literally looked like a poorly coached team first of all there’s three things that I want to hit on first of all why was cam reddish in the

Game cam cam reddish is a player that has been passed around the league already in his brief career nobody seems to want him because of the fact that at this phase in his career he’s an inattentive ineffective defensive player with severe offensive limitations all kinds of potential and I believe he belongs in

The NBA on a roster somewhere where he can be in a devel velmental situation where like maybe just maybe it clicks eventually and he becomes a useful player he belongs on a roster I don’t even dislike him necessarily on the Lakers roster but just like with the tan Prince situation he is being

Misused why did Darin ham play cam reddish down the stretch because Darin is under the impression that cam reddish is some sort of lockdown perimeter Defender and he’s just not he’s not a good defensive player he has great defensive tools and if you watch specific possessions when he kind of

Puts it all together it’ll look good but more often than not he loses balance he uh does a poor job navigating screens he ducked under a late pick on Jamaal Murray like he like he just struggles on that end of the floor he did nothing in this game to remotely make Jamal Murray

Feel uncomfortable and then on the other end of the floor because of the severe offensive itations that cam raddish has I clipped every single defensive possession with less than 5 minutes left in this game on my Twitter feed watch How often Jamal Murray is literally chilling while cam reddish is on the

Floor he’s guarding cam there were two or three possessions that I clipped Jamal the Lakers are playing basketball and cam is or Jamal Murray is literally sitting there with his hands on his knees chilling chilling there were other ones where he’s not on his knees but he’s just standing there like this

Literally it’s like the the body language just screams I don’t have to guard this guy I’m just going to save my legs so that I can make shots and then you wonder why he looks so damn spry on the other end of the floor he’s playing

Half the game he’s playing half the game because instead of playing D’Angelo Russell who by the way also can’t guard Jamal Murray but neither can cam like we’re talk about Jared Vanderbilt in a minute Jared Vanderbilt you’re also going to ignore him but first of all he’s a much better cutter

Than Cam redish he’s a much better offensive rebounder than cam reddish Jared Vanderbilt super flawed offensive player is a much better offensive player than cam reddish and on the other end of the floor you get a starting caliber legitimate perimeter Defender he’s probably he’s not like in that top tier

Perimeter Defenders but he’s probably in that like second tier of versatile perimeter Defenders that can guard a bunch of different types of off defensive initiators like so Jared vanderbel it’s it’s it’s a totally different situation right with Cam reddish you are getting a limited defensive player that cannot

Guard Jamal Murray and who is one of the very worst offensive players in the NBA on the other end of the floor and you bought Jamal Murray the ability to rest before he went over to the other end and cooked your ass that was the first thing that I didn’t understand here’s the

Thing the Lakers are not even a serious playoff team without Jared Vanderbilt which is a whole other thing that we got to get into but if you’re going to give yourself your best chance to win a game like this against the Nuggets you’ve got to play your best players and D’Angelo

Russell is much better than he was last year is playing the best basketball of his career in the last couple of months and is definitively your third or fourth best player and you left him on the bench for a player that would not crack the rotation for any other serious

Basketball team in the league that’s malpractice that’s playing with an arm behind your back that that’s that’s spotting the other team in Advantage I I it it was literally blowing up the Lakers pick and roll attack at the end of the game it it was a huge problem secondly Anthony Davis on

Aaron Gordon instead of Nicole yic here’s the thing I understand why you try ruy on joic I even recommend doing it in spurts they started the game with it though yic cooked him throughout the game and then at the end of the game they went down with it and on pivotal

Possessions it was joic beating ruy with a hook shot over the top over his left shoulder beating ruy and drawing a double team and then still making good kickout passes to Shooters it did not function it did not work and here’s the thing you can run the exact same

Configuration with Anthony Davis on joic you can have ruy guard Aaron Gordon offer late help when it’s there and stay home when he doesn’t need it you can run the exact same configuration with ad on Nicole yic and maybe you give yourself a better chance of holding up in that spot most

Importantly insanity is doing the exact same thing over and over again in expecting different results there was not a single possession where ruie was able to bother Nicole yic on an island I get why you try it again I’d recommend it in small bursts as you’re trying to

Mix coverages but the the fact that they did not even try Anthony Davis on Nicole yic at the end of the game is baffling to me and by the way part of that’s on ad part of that’s like ad you got to go over to Darin and be like hey I’m going

To get him now and he and he just didn’t do so and that’s why I was critical of AD earlier for being kind of passive down the stretch to this game and then lastly organization and scouting Aaron Gordon as I mentioned earlier 25% on above the break 3es 27% on left corner threes

53% on right corner threes that is why he rose up confidently into that shot in crunch time of a basketball game when he had just missed all the other jumpers that he took in the game except for the couple short ones that he made like literally somebody in the Lakers staff

Needs to get an ad’s ear and be like when you’re helping off AG be careful when he starts to venture to that right corner that’s his sweet spot he likes it out there and he’s been making more than half of them this season like where where is that how is

That not something that is being made known to the players or or did ad know and he just you know was lazy on that possession who knows but that that that to me is organization and scouting and then on the other end of the floor there was a possession that you guys might

Remember where ruy haimura missed a pull-up jumper on the right elbow and it was bad floor organization typically what you want in a floor set up is you want your primary action on one side of the floor right in this case the specific possession started with a

LeBron ad pick and roll on the opposite end of the floor though there was ruy on the left wing and Austin Reeves in the left corner that’s poor organization because Austin Reeves is your second side Creator the guy on the wing inevitably ends up running the second

Action LeBron will run the pick and roll if it doesn’t work he’s going to swing it to the Wing from there you’re running action out of that and so typically what you’d want is ruy in the corner where he can spot up and Austin on the wing where

He can run action because he’s your best secondary shot Creator Beyond LeBron James right in at least in that lineup but instead the ball ends up in ruy haimura your fourth best offensive player in that lineup to take a pivotal shot in the game just because of basic

Floor organization stuff here’s why I bring that up you know who never makes those kinds of mistakes is the Denver Nuggets they never make those kinds of mistakes somehow Aaron Gordon does find himself in his Sweet Spot somehow Justin holiday is in the corner where he’s deadly somehow Jamal Murray

Does get to his sweet spots on the floor where he likes to work somehow Nicole yic does that’s the difference and like again like Personnel plays a big role in this kind of stuff but coaching matters coaching is how you maximize the result coaching is how you get the very most

Out of whatever you have in your locker room and and like here’s the thing with that Darin ham Big Picture last year I thought he did a much better job particular ly managing the rotation I thought he hit the right notes when he got to the postseason it was a little

Touch Ando during the regular season but he hit the right notes when he got to the postseason and then two he had the group motivated the Lakers played hard last year they were ravaged by injuries and they they played hard this year they’ve been the worst energy and effort

Team in the league they’re one of the here’s the thing the Lakers are not a a t like they’re not a championship Contender I have them in my long shot tier I have him I think eighth among all my Championship contenders but here’s the thing like they’re way worse they’re

Way better than their record would lead you to believe because they’ve been such a bad energy and effort energy and effort team this year and so when when you have the inability to motivate your guys to bring consistent effort when you have Darin consistently playing lesser players on his team big minutes over

Better players it’s a concern I think he’s in completely over his head leaving your third or fourth best player on the bench against the best team in the league while playing cam reddish who literally his only spot in the NBA right now should be playing garbage time and working with Player Development behind

The scenes to see if maybe he can turn into a useful player he is not a player that should be playing crunch time for any sort of serious basketball team that is on the that is on the coaching staff that is on the coaching staff and and like again this Laker team

Already has an uphill climb Jared Vanderbilt is completely and utterly indispensable to this roster and that’s your one tiny little bit of Hope like if you’re a Lakers fan and you’re looking to cling to something you’re clinging to Jared Vanderbilt because he didn’t play in any of the Nuggets games this year

And yes last year he couldn’t play against the Nuggets but the Lakers ran a completely different offense last year a four out offense where Jared was SP spotting up this year they run a five out offense with lots of BL ball and player movement and Jared Vanderbilt has

Been much more effective in their offense this year that’s your tiny little sliver of Hope do I think Jared Vanderbilt puts the Lakers over the Nuggets no I do not but that’s your tiny little sliver of Hope and that’s on the front office it’s on the front office that this guy is completely

Indispensable because we knew after the Denver Nugget series that they needed a highlevel starter that could defend and be a positive offensive player and they failed to do it over the offseason and they failed to do it at the deadline and so as a result a foot injury to Jared

Vanderbilt that costs you six weeks can literally cost you everything and that’s on the front office but with the group that is there there is a slim chance and I just don’t think Darin is capable of getting them to that slim chance all right I’m off of

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That’s h o o PS the crown is yours all right we’re going to get to uh Boston Dallas this was one of Boston’s best offensive games of the season they had a 138 offensive rating that’s like completely and utterly insane the uh they were taking a ton of jumpers but

Their jumpers were going they took 53 Jumpers in this game for 72 points they were at one point per pull-up jumper I think 21 points on 21 pull-up jumpers but they were a staggering 1.5 94 points per catch and shoot Jumper in the game against Dallas they made 21

Threes on 49% shooting so obviously a great example of Boston’s perimeter skill but they also had a great paint scoring game and this is something I’ve been harping on a lot on this show and I wanted to dive a little bit further into their recent success there they had 62

Points in the paint against Dallas six offensive rebound putbacks mentioned this earlier but uh in earlier shows but they averaged just 2.6 offensive rebound putbacks perame game that ranks 21st in the NBA and they had six of them against Dallas more than double their usual output was a big part

Of their late third quarter run Jason Tatum was beating his man off the dribble drawing in Maxi kba into help and uh Al Horford and porzingis were capitalizing on the back end with offensive rebound putbacks was actually how they helped push the lead from 7 to

13 during that span they scored on a cut to the basket six times in this game they averaged just 3.6 per game which ranks 20th in the league again these are all areas that they’ve massively improved on over the course of the last week for Boston early on their cutting

Was in Dallas’s two3 Zone look Drew holiday and Jaylen Brown both scored on flash cuts to the middle of the floor where they were able to get easy baskets Al Horford though had two buckets out of the dunker spot on possessions where he typically operates out of the

Three-point line there was a I want to say it was a uh it was a I can’t remember if it was a Jaylen brown or a Jason Tatum pick and roll but Xavier Tillman slipped to the basket Dallas is putting two on the ball most of the the

Ball screens late in the game uh they were getting absolutely torched Boston scored 1.48 points per pick and roll including passes in this game which is like completely insane so Dallas was putting two on the ball in the second half and Xavier Tilman slipped to the basket and

Al Horford in a lot of these situations has been just chilling in the right corner waiting for a three but instead he worked his way along the Baseline into the dunker spot and got an easy layup again these are ways to manufacture paint points for a team that

Hasn’t been scoring a ton in the paint this season davier tman scored on a cut along the Baseline where J Jaylen Brown hit him by the way Jaylen Brown had an awesome playmaking game in this game he had five assists with uh with no turnovers thought he had a a bunch of

Timely reads uh specifically where the defense was loading up on him and then Jason Tatum’s physical aggression I thought was a big part of their paint output in this game there was a stretch in the middle of the second quarter where Dallas put Josh green on him and

One of the specific things I’ve been talking about Jason tanum because I I want to say a lot of people get the wrong meaning of what I’m talking about when I talk about scoring in the paint versus pullup jump shots like the pullup jumper is a part of basketball it’s a

Huge part of basketball it’s a huge part of my game personally like you got to be able to make pullup jump shots I’m just a big believer in like working with pull-up jump shots within your physical advantages that’s why I’ve always been such a big kawhai fan kaai takes a lot

Of Pull-Up jumpers but the majority of the ones he takes he uses his physicality to get close to the rim and takes short range pull up jump shots Tatum I was so impressed just literally bullying Josh into that little area right inside the foul line for short range pull-up jump

Shots he made four pull-up jumpers that were inside the paint in this game and I don’t even think he had a Miss in that range off of a jump shot the one jumper that he missed inside the two three-point line was like a uh right elbow extended one that was like a like

A 19 20 footer so like he got to these short range pullup jumpers and he was like and again they’re tough like one of them was like a right shoulder fade one of them was like a one leg fade away one of them was kind of like a step through

Leaner going to his left they’re kind of tough but they’re tough close to the rim which dramatically improves your uh your accuracy in that range and I I I thought all of that was significant in the Boston paint attack in this game do you guys do you guys remember after the

Bulls game I said that the Celtics were averaging just 47 points in the paint per game which ranked 27th in the league they’re averaging 61 points in the paint per game over their last three games which ranks fourth in the league over that span really really encouraging

Trends in that approach all of them stuff that I’ve been talking about on the show uh this game wasn’t so much the running and transition for layups and threes but that or for layups instead of Threes but that was a big one in previous games crashing the offensive

Glass cutting more instead of spotting up the physical aggression into the paint in their postup situations all of that has helped turn around their paint attack over the course of the last week christops porzingis we talked a lot on the show about just how important he is

To and how he unlocks everything that Boston does because of his ability to shoot the basketball to beat switches and to protect the rim credibly he made eight field goals in this game on his way to 24 points he had one but that was outside of those specific play types it

Was a kind of like a offscreen move on on Maxi kba where he like he took him downhill turned his back and then went like with a really hard cell on a left shoulder Fade with like a really hard pump fake Maxi went for it then he

Stepped there and dunked it with two hands but every single other one of his seven shots or the seven others of his eight shots that he made all of them were either help beaters or switch beaters at the start of the game Dallas had Derrik Lively roaming all over the floor like

And it wasn’t even just like you know sitting back in a drop coverage it was like Jaylen Brown would catch the ball in the post and and and Derrick livley would just Sprint down to the basket and just offer backside help and it was clearly it was clearly schematic because

Like Derrick would run and then he’d immediately point to other Dallas Players to rotate around so clearly that was part of the game plan coming into this game but here’s the thing if you’re going to have a game plan where your Center is ignoring your Center to go

Help underneath the basket you got to have a guy who can burn him there and kristofh spinga has just burned him time and time again by hitting deep threes and then one of the biggest stories of this game I thought was Boston trying to attack Luca and Kyrie as much as they

Possibly could in screening actions and in isone post-up situations porzingis was a big part of that he had multiple baskets attacking both Luca and Kyrie Irving in postup situations and I just thought it was a great example of just how important porzingis is to kind of growing the margin of error for this

Team and raising this team ceiling I thought he was incredible and then Jaylen Brown he’s just been outrageously good in the last couple of weeks I was super impressed by his playmaking in this game like I mentioned earlier he was one of the guys that kept punishing

Lively for helping um had four assists just in the first turn uh first half without a single turnover he was another one of those guys that was attacking Luca and Kyrie in switches he blew by Luca on a Baseline Drive and went through him for an and one he like

Bullied Kyrie into the middle of the floor for a little push shot in the lane I thought he was awesome then he blew the game open in the in the early fourth quarter with that run where he beat Luka off the dribble and made the 360 layup

And then he had a step back three uh against I want to say it was against Daniel Gafford and like a Dro coverage on the Wing but he was a big part of how they blew the game open Jaylen Brown’s last four games 27 points seven rebounds

And four assists 60% from the field 43% from three and has had a plus minus of at least plus 15 in all four of his games and again the points in the paint stuff is just super super encouraging they’re starting to figure out that they need more offensive versatility I’ve

Been really really happy with what I’m seeing from them on that end of the floor on the Dallas front I said on the the show that they had been defending really well but that it was against a weaker stretch in their schedule they had a couple of tough games in there

Against the Thunder and against the Suns but for the most part in that stretch it was bad teams or good teams that were severely injury limited and so this road uh this road trip was like a great test for them an opportunity to see if their

Defense is legitimate or if it was some fool’s gold and like I know it’s just four games but man did they fail the test miserably they end up going one and three they give up at least 120 points in every game they had a 126.4 defensive rating in the four games

And for perspective just so you guys can get a feel for what that number means Washington currently holds the worst defensive rating in the league at 11 19.9 so like we’re talking catastrophically bad defense from Dallas now on tape it mostly comes down to poor point of attack defense and overh

Helping I talked a lot about this in the Boston game as it pertained to like leaving christops porzingis but it’s a pretty consistent issue where like even uh uh from the guard position they’re just ignoring Corner Shooters to come into the lane to try to tag rollers and

Things along those lines they gave up 17 made threes on the road trip on 44% shooting both of those dead last in the league over that four game span they only gave up 51 points in the paint per game over that span which is pretty solid actually like that’s not

Bad at all so like overh helping was the main culprit of their defensive issues that in transition defense which we’ll talk about in a little bit um there was a big part of Boston’s run there where uh I like PJ Washington got red hot from

Three made three threes in a row and it was 81 to 79 in the middle of the third quarter and then Boston literally just scored in transition time and time again right after that as they blew the game open because Dallas just wasn’t matched up not talking not communicating like

Two guys two guys on the big man running the floor nobody spreading out to Shooters on the wing they blew the game with defensive execution in transition and an overh help situ situations you know I I like and I want to be clear a lot of this I

Put on Jason kid cuz like I like Derrik Lively it looked like on tape that he wasn’t just helping freelancing it looked like he would leave his leave porzingis to dive down into the lane and he’d be directing traffic and telling people to rotate that tells me it’s

Schematic so like the encouraging side of that is like that means that it’s fixable you know like this transition def defense stuff they’re 26 than transition defense according to cleaning the glass it’s like points added per transition possession or something like that is the the name of the metric but

It’s like their kind of like uh all-inclusive transition metric and they’re 26 they give up 1.33 points per transition possession which I think ranks 27th in the league so like the transition defense thing has been an issue All Season that to me is always fixable that’s just run hard and

Communicate that’s literally all it is run hard and communicate but that said Dallas fans I understand that it can look really dark right now I have five silver linings for you guys that makes me feel like there’s still light at the end of this tunnel even after this the

Discouraging road trip first of all one many of the defensive issues they have are fixable and they have the Personnel to be better than they’ve showed transition defense like I talked about just execution running back and communicating overh helping scheme and execution that’s that’s on the coach that can be

Remedied and then three the Personnel they have good perimeter Defenders and Derek Lively like this is my second Silver Lining Derek Lively is Just Awesome Again the overh helping thing was a scheme I I actually thought he had a really nice two-way game he has really good instincts and length and Mobility

He had an awesome game on offense to running his Lane in transition and rolling hard to the rim and pick and roll he had like this nasty dunk where he dunked on like three Celtics he actually reminds me a lot of Tyson Chandler uh which obviously was the

Anchor of the Dallas championship team so like no matter what happens this season for Dallas that’s a massive Silver Lining just how damn good Derrick Lively is third silver lining as a team they rebounded really well on the road trip they grabbed 73.4% of available defensive rebounds on the road which I

Think is a really strong indicator that the deadline moves they made helped them fortify one of their biggest weaknesses again that was a huge issue for the uh initial chunk of the season they were not a good defensive rebounding team fourth Silver Lining PJ Washington got his three three-point shot going talked

About the three threes in a row that he hit in the third quarter against Boston to get the game close but he shot 36% from three on 6.3 attempts during the road trip that’s super encouraging and then lastly the fifth Silver Lining both Kyrie and Luca were awesome Luca on the

Road trip 3610 and 12 on 53% from the field and 39% from three Kyrie 274 and three on 47% from the field and 39% from three that duo gives you a real chance as long as you can uh sharpen those things up on the defensive end so really discouraging borderline disastrous road

Trip but some Silver Linings in there for Dallas all right let’s get to the mail back hey Jason I love your show and you’ve really educated me on the schematics of basketball I was wondering how come when people talk about the 2000s they say it was Kobe’s era that he

Was the undeniable best player during the era I believe Tim Duncan was just as good if not better and deserves more respect as the best player in the 2000s I believe people should look at this era like they look at the 80s with magic and bird two alltime great players who

Dominated the decade I would love to get your opinion on this please and thank you first of all thank you for supporting the show and for the kind words so I look at it more like I look at like 2000 to 2002 as like the shack dominant stretch and then like 2003 to

2007 as like the Duncan dominant stretch and then I look at 08 to 2010 as like the Kobe dominant stretch but I think all three of them had really uh dominant stretches during that run but that was definitely a golden era of the NBA just

In terms of the top end talent that they had in the league next question wouldn’t Steph winning four championships against the second greatest player of all time LeBron make it that much more impressive than joic winning against a bang up banged up Tyler heroless eighth seed so

This is a great example of uh of kind of like shaping The Narrative um Steph won two of those titles against LeBron with Kevin Durant on his team like that’s you’re taking the three best players in the league LeBron the best player in my opinion Stephen KY the second and third

Best player on the team they together beat LeBron while also having Klay Thompson who is the second best shooter of all time and a uh excellent perimeter Defender Andre gualo who was the best Wing defender in the league at that time and Draymond Green who is the best

Defensive player of his era right like that that mid 2010 stretch he was the best defensive player so like like I I mean I’m I’m not all championships are championships to be clear but all you have to do is ask an NBA player and they’ll tell you which

NBA championship meant more to them LeBron will tell you 2016 meant more to him right than maybe 2020 did right like so that’s the thing is like all championships are championships but not all championships are the same and that doesn’t discredit Steph it’s just I think it’s really like I think it’s

Really unfair framing to just be like Steph beat LeBron four times in his era it’s like yeah but he had the help of the other guy that was on his tier in Kevin Durant right and had the most talented roster in the league the most talented roster in NBA history in the

2017 2018 era does that’s not a shot at Steph I just think turning that against LeBron I think is particularly unfair and then also like just mentioning Tyler heroless for the NBA Finals it that’s he ripped through KD and Devin Booker LeBron James and Anthony Davis and Jimmy

And Bam and like whatever you want to say about the heat Jimmy and Bam are literally like the one of the very best playoff Duos in the league so they took they two they took three legitimate dominant Duos and just ripped through them without an issue and I I think I

Think undercutting that is silly next question all of the Bucks players other than Damon Yannis are in the bottom 10 10 to 15ish percentile or lower in Rim attempts meaning no other no one other than them touches the paint much I think this makes them easier to guard and

Despite them trending in a good direction I don’t think they can Peak their Peak can contend with Boston but I really love the show and wanted to know your thoughts so um Boston uh milwauke has been playing a lot better but they’ve been playing a weak schedule

Over the course of their last four games they played what the injured six or and then they played the Hornets twice and then they played the Bulls so they’re heading into a really tough part of their schedule now and we’re going to be covering them very closely I want to

Kind of withhold my take there until I see them against some of these really good teams in the next week uh week or two just so we can get a better feel of where their defensive progress is next question this one was funny I actually enjoyed this I know you cover only the

Top half of the league that’s worth covering but can you provide a quick minute thought on what Chicago’s lineup of V Vu at the four and Drummond at the five would look like kind of akin to Minnie’s lineup of Rob uh goar and towns Chicago a playing team so technically you’re you’re obligated

To talk about them the same way as the Lakers and the Warriors I thought that was funny I shouldn’t say what it looks like they uh they roll it out against Cleveland or whenever team has a couple of bigs but why not just adopt that philosophy entirely to see how it works

Down the stretch stop playing the opponent and just roll out the two towers and work around them so first of all I pulled the numbers just for fun vich and uh and Drummond played 310 possessions together they have a 119 offensive rating which is very good but they have a 121

Defensive rating and that to me is the big difference between the goar uh like a Drummond vich versus a Gober towns lineup like Drummond is a is is a really interesting player in the sense that like if you catch him on the right night he can be particularly dominant I KN

Know this just because I covered him when he was with the Lakers very closely uh but there’s a difference in foot speed between those two Duos Rudy goar is just so far in away way better defensively than either of those Chicago guys I think what makes the two big

Lineup work there for Minnesota is one cat’s a great shooter but so is V and uh Rudy goar is just this like transcendently great defensive player that can switch and can drop and cover all this ground like it to me it’s it’s just fundamentally different because of

Rudy goar and the lack of foot speed I think has been clear in those lineups 310 possessions is not an not a non-existent sample size it’s a pretty decent sample size and they’ve just gotten run over on defense in that group next question you said a team has to

Have the guy to win the title who was the guy at San Antonio in 2014 and Golden State in 2015 Golden State in 2015 is Steph uh don’t let the finals MVP narrative fool you he was very clearly the finals MVP in 2015 it’s one of the biggest travesties in NBA history

Uh Andre guadala got to guard LeBron with like 17 help Defenders behind him because everyone else on that Cavs team was severely limited offensively or at least other than J.R Smith and uh uh so they he was able to limit his efficiency and then the the Cav started blitzing

Steph Curry late in that series which was leading to Draymond Green short rolls which was leading to Andre guala Corner threes and cuts which is where he got all of his scoring from so like I think the 2015 NBA Finals MVP was a textbook example of like a good chunk of

NBA media not really knowing what they’re watching when they’re watching basketball games next question what is your opinion of the in-season tournament given how poorly the Lakers have been doing ever since winning it any improvements you would recommend couple things uh Jared Vanderbilt is completely and utterly indispensable to the Lakers he’s their

Only starting caliber perimeter Defender so like without him they look like and despite all of that they’ve still the Lakers have been pretty solid since January 7th you know so like I do think the Lakers are better than their record looks and I do think their inseason tournament win was legitimate it’s just

Without without Jared Vanderbilt they they just can’t ever compete defensively the way that they did did during that inseason tournament stretch that does not mean that I think they’re a top tier Contender or anything like that but I do think their win in the tournament was an

Indicator of them being a really good team at that time which was the best version of this particular Lakers team like a a dominant physical pres presence of LeBron James and Anthony Davis but they also were a really good defense during that time because of Jared Vanderbilt improvements for the inseason

Tournament um I don’t know it’s a good question I have to i’ have to think more about it I would say that like uh I would do I could do without the obnoxious red Court I’m not even anti- painted courts but the red was a little

Much uh also like I think I think that you could probably push it to an even bigger field like maybe play for seating and then have 16 teams maybe just because the single elimination format was so much fun but here’s the thing I I think they’ll Tinker with it I think they’ll

Tinker with different times of the Season too but uh overall I was just I was really happy with it next question dude on a separate note I hate to break it to you but when your body starts to fail you and slow down you won’t have time to play guitar at

That point in your life you’ll most likely be spending your time as a fan traveling all over the place watching your kids sports activities I loved this comment uh for those of you guys who didn’t get the backstory I I did say in our last mailbag that when my body

Finally fails me that’s when I’m going to devote more time to playing guitar uh because right now I just only do it for a few hours a week uh here’s the thing um yeah that’s probably what’s going to happen I’m probably going to end up just going around to all my kids sports

Activities but let me just pretend that I’m going to try to still have hobbies when I get there let me at least just go into it with an optimistic attitude and see if maybe I get lucky you made the argument that joic may have a higher peer a higher Peak

Than Steph but he has a ton of ground to gain before uh before he can be in the same conversation as him all time wouldn’t that be the same argument for LeBron and Jordan Jordan had the highest peak six chips in eight years but LeBron clearly has had the better career in

Totality thanks and love the show thanks again for supporting the show this is what makes the goat argument so silly everyone’s criteria is different if you lean towards dominance it’s obviously MJ like here’s the advantage of longevity like so much of this is outside of your control right

Like LeBron getting drafted into a bad franchise like the Cleveland Cavaliers who were poorly run at the time right or Dwayne Wade’s rapid decline after he went to Miami right or like um Anthony Davis’s injury availability KY Irving in his uh demanding of a trade in 2018 hell

Kevin Durant decided to go to the Warriors all these different things are different variables in LeBron’s career right so like variables are variables so the longevity case is if I get 21 years of all NBA caliber play consecutively in a vacuum do I have more chances to win a title than say Jordan

Who did less over less time right that would be where it gets complicated my thing is that’s really difficult to quantify whereas trophies are very easy to quantify there’s trophies one’s got six one’s got four that’s not the end of the day or end of the argument but

That’s why I lean slightly more towards the dominant side than I do the longevity side I still factor in the longevity I think LeBron’s longevity has made it razor thin and like who knows maybe when I look back at this five years from now I might feel differently than I feel now

But right now I still feel like Jordan to me is the greatest basketball player that has ever played and LeBron is just a very very close second that’s just where I feel right now you know I I may I may look at it differently in the

Future and here’s the thing that I I’m not one of those guys that like is will refuse to change his mind like I I always am evolving and taking in new information my perspective changes sometimes like I may just feel differently about the game in five years

But that’s where I stand as of right now hey Jason love the show could you explain how much the mechanics of a jump shot means to your success as a shooter for example Shawn Maran had a very unorthodox shooting form but still wasn’t a terrible shooter how much do

You think a quick release helps a player it’s obviously been pivotable for curry to have such a quick release how much do you think ant or Luca shot could improve if they had quicker releases lower set points first of all the mechanics to me it’s way less about your release and way

More about can you do the exact same thing every single time the two primary things that I look at with shooting is one a lack of wasted movement and two repeating the same exact form every single time if and what I mean by lack of wasted movement are like hitches

Whether that’s a hitch in your lower half a hitch in your upper half whatever it is where like you just waste movement on your way up that’s why I uh I I practice a lot on like no dip shooting and like uh bad pass shooting where like

The ball comes at a different angle and you go straight into your shooting pocket from a different angle I try to start every shot from up high because that allows me to have less waste move wasted movement also if I can repeat the exact same motion every time it doesn’t

Matter if I shoot like that like if I can do the exact same thing every time it’ll go in and that’s kind of the Shawn Maran case right who was a guy who could uh who could be a good shooter right and had seasons in his career where he shot

The ball really well so that that’s the mechanic side of it on the release side of it like a quicker release obviously is a huge Advantage the thing is is like a lot of the bigger players out there just haven’t needed to have a quick release and so they’re able to kind of

Have success with a slower release but like to me a quicker release is always going to be an advantage just cuz gives you a a you know the ability to get the shot off in shorter Windows U another big part of it too is a guy like Curry

Lives and breathes with his jump shot you know a lot of other guys like you know like a LeBron for instance like that’s just kind of more of a counter in his game right and so for him it’s not something that he probably has devoted nearly as much time to well clearly

Hasn’t devoted nearly as much time to um five more what can the Pacers do to have a better defense so first of all Tyrese halberton and Ben Maan are both really really bad perimeter Defenders I think Aaron n Smith being out has really hurt them although he did come back in the

Pelicans game although that Pelicans game they just ran into a buzz saw here’s the thing when you lose Bruce Brown in a trade and then you also lose Aaron n Smith to injury Andrew empart is like your best perimeter Defender and that’s just not going to get the job done from there

Constructing it is really simple you have the the front line right you have a good rim protector in Miles Turner who’s actually pretty solid in switches too and you have Pascal sakam is that big forward that can be your Lowman help Defender and a guy who can clean up the

Defensive glass from there if you have a good point of attack defender in there somewhere someone like an Aaron Smith or if they can upgrade that at some point or if Ben Maan can become that guy then it’s about your other two guys in that back court just being able to do their

Jobs so for a guy like tyres halberton for instance it would be competing and hedging recover situations so like hedging so that you don’t uh so that the guy can’t turn the corner and then sprinting back to chase a shooter helping defensive rebounding all those different things if you can craft

Smaller roles for them with a good perimeter Defender and with seaka man Turner anchoring things those guys can do good do a good job in their smaller defensive roles that’s kind of like the pathway towards constructing a better defense for them next question I wish there was

Another way to see your video analysis because I haven’t used Twitter in like 10 years so here’s the thing why do I always point you guys to Twitter that’s where I originally built up my platform so as a result like I have the majority of my followers are there right

So like my my Instagram account for instance only has like 3,700 followers but I have I I don’t even know how much on Twitter but I have a lot more on Twitter right so like on Twitter that’s where I put out most of my like in between show content just because that’s

Where most of my audience is uh that’s where I do my film threads but I am aware of the fact that like more people want to see more video stuff so I’m actually working on that at the moment I have a couple of different things in

Mind we might try to produce it into the YouTube show again and it just gets a little tricky with like the uh um with like getting flagged by YouTube for using NBA footage and it’s just always like a risk because if they flag you a few times all of a sudden you can’t

Monetize anymore so it gets a little tricky but another thing I’m I’m thinking I’m going to try and probably try in the next week is something called watch playback or I think it’s actually now just called playback but it’s an opportunity that allows me to actually

Put my Synergy feed on the screen and then I can literally go through game film on the screen in like almost like a a like a stream that you guys can jump on it kind of has like a little bit of like a twitch Vibe so I’m going to be

Trying that in the next week I’ll shout it out on Twitter though so like try to get on Twitter at least for the announcement portion of it uh and then I will po put you guys point you guys towards playback and then you guys will be able to see my film film sessions

There next question feel you Jason I played basketball myself and also sprained my ankles maybe seven or eight times in total I never want to watch basketball injuries because I know how painful they are the difference being that these people are playing on their ankles maybe a week or two later it took

Me about a month to even walk properly so I used to have the when I first got out of college I was pretty I I broke my foot my second year in college but other than that I I did pretty well with injuries but when I got out of college like three

Consecutive years in a row I had like one really bad ankle injury and all three times I was out for like like three weeks like you’re talking about but um what actually put me on to this new thing was uh Conor McGregor’s trainer I saw some video of Conor

McGregor’s trainer doing these like gnarly ankle flexibility exercises that made it so that like he could withstand ankle sprains and so I started every single day literally twisting the hell out of my ankle and both directions three ways so like I’d literally get up

On my toe and I’d roll it like as hard as I can without being in like severe pain three times both ways and now ever since then even when I do tweak my ankle I’m able to usually get right back up and play on it so like I don’t know what

It is about that exercise but it just kind of builds like an additional layer of like flexibility and pliability in your ankle tendons and makes it so that when you spray in your ankle it’s not an issue I haven’t missed a significant knock on wood I haven’t missed a

Significant chunk of time with an ankle injury and I’m I’m talking about even a couple of days I haven’t missed a couple of days with an ankle injury since I started doing that exercise now hopefully nothing bad happens after I just jinx myself but uh that is just a

Simple exercise that I would recommend to people next question I appreciate you talking about your playing career I felt the underlying tinge of being ass at ball during high school LOL also never knew you were a giant 66 oh no but yeah man love and appreciate what you do

Here’s my question you said you had consistent you said you had a consistent shooting routine and with me being a young adult I’m getting more into basketball and I wonder if there’s a burnout when it comes to shooting when I shoot a lot my wrist literally starts to

Hurt not in a good way more in a I could injure my wrist kind of way so yeah there is like a built-in limit with the human body when it comes to shooting or just pushing through it help in the long run my bad with the ESS long question no

Worries at all I just appreciate you supporting the show and interacting with us um so here’s the thing I do an obnoxious amount of shooting obviously uh I had an injury though related reled to overuse this was actually when I was in Charlotte this was in

2017 and the story behind this is crazy I was playing in a in a league there in town I was Charlotte had such an awesome basketball Community I was playing in like three different leagues a week every pickup run had like a half dozen dudes who played professionally overseas

Either in the past or currently like it was just it was just so much fun and uh we were in a championship game and I actually ironically I this was a great example of one of those ankle sprains I sprained my ankle in the game and was it

Was in the championship game sprayed my ankle in the game and was able to come back and play just like more or less fine and uh it was tie game with like 5 seconds left and I just hit a dribble combination into a pullup three and hit

It and we won the championship and I was super stoked and like like obviously like at this point in time I was still trying to play professionally overseas too so like I was like fulfilled because I felt like this this like oh my gosh my

Hard work is paying off like this is so cool I literally woke up up the next morning and I couldn’t extend my right elbow all the way and it was weird cuz I didn’t feel any pain during the game the previous day in my elbow so I’m like

That’s weird so I go up to the gym to do my usual shooting routine and I start my shooting routine by going around the world so I start in the block and I make a shot at the Block and then I make a shot at the next block and the next

Block and the next block then the elbow then then I make five free throws then I go into my routine that’s just how I kind of like warm up it’s kind of like form shooting basically right um I go to do my form shooting and I can’t like I I

I stand at the Block and I go to shoot once and it’s just this horrible pain and I and I I can’t shoot and uh so I I my buddy is a doctor those of you guys who follow my other podcast uh uh two sons podcast that one

I uh um the buddy that I record with is a doctor so I I asked him I’m like what’s going on he’s like dude you have tennis elbow so like tennis elbow is basically like an inflammation of that tendon in your elbow and so I ended up

Having to wear like this gnarly brace and I periodically de deal with inflammation in that area although I can I’ve learned how to deal with it but like that’s the one injury I’ve had that I think is effectively burnout when it comes to shooting but with that kind of

Stuff it’s just ice and ibuprofen to treat the inflammation and like honestly it should be fine like your body should be able to withstand high volume shooting last question love the show is there TV footage of when you played college basketball so I played at a small school an niia School in Phoenix

That had less than a thousand students now we were a really good basketball team like we beat a division one while I was there and we like were top five in the nation for niia most of the season um we ended up actually the team that won the national title that year during

The regular season we went to their place and beat them soundly like we were really good NAIA team uh but like obviously we didn’t we weren’t on television so like I have if you go to my Twitter feed _ jlt in my pinned tweet

I have like a 2 and a half minute long video that’s like a compilation of like like footage of me playing in college footage of me playing in Juco footage of me playing in showcases footage of me playing pickup you can find that stuff there that’ll give you just a general

Idea of what I look like as a basketball player all right guys as always I sincerely appreciate you for supporting the show uh we were planning on going for Celtics Warriors tomorrow but it looks like Steph Curry is going to sit so I think we’re going to end up taking

That one off and going Monday morning so uh be ready for the show on Monday for uh uh power rankings as well as some game breakdowns I’m playing on hitting like kings wolves and maybe one or two games from the Sunday slate as always I appreciate you guys and I will see you Then

Jason Timpf reacts to Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets’ 124-114 win over LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers. Jason discusses how Jokic and Jamal Murray continuously outplay LeBron and Anthony Davis in clutch situations as well as his biggest issues with Darvin Ham’s approach for Los Angeles. Later, Jason reacts to Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics’ dominant 138-110 win over Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving, and the Dallas Mavericks. What has Boston done differently that has Jason beyond excited for their potential? And what silver linings can Mavericks fans take from a disappointing road trip. The show ends with Jason answering listener mailbag questions hitting on Steph Curry, Kobe Bryant, and the biggest stars in the NBA.

Timeline:
00:00 – Introduction
00:49 – Nuggets-Lakers familiar story
07:00 – LeBron & AD struggle in clunch vs. Nuggets
10:04 – Why is Cam Reddish playing?
15:24 – Rui Hachimura on Nikola Jokic is insanity
16:52 – Complete Lakers failure
22:03 – Celtics demolish Mavericks
27:56 – Kristaps Porzingis has his way
29:48 – Jaylen Brown taking it to another level
30:54 – Mavericks completely fail road test
33:52 – 5 silver linings for Mavericks
35:54 – Tim Duncan vs. Kobe Bryant
36:48 – Steph’s championships more impressive than Jokic?
38:55 – Can Bucks peak contend with Celtics?
39:42 – Quick thoughts on Bulls
41:25 – Steph robbed of Finals MVP
42:17 – NBA In-Season Tournament
43:51 – Let Jason have his guitar dream
44:35 – LeBron vs. Jordan
46:49 – Shot mechanics
48:45 – How Pacers can improve defense
50:00 – Where to catch Jason’s video breakdowns
51:30 – Jason’s ankle injury prevention
53:05 – Burnout from shooting?
56:08 – Where to find Jason Timpf highlights

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