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hope all of you guys had an incredible weekend. Gonna keep it real simple today, We're gonna break down four games from last night Warriors, Kings, Sixers, Jazz, Calves, Timberwolves and Lakers Nets. And then just you guys know the schedule the rest of the week. Tomorrow night Live on AMP after Grizzlies Pelicans. It'll be on YouTube later in the night. Wednesday night Live on AMP after Celtics Hawks,

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eight games. A couple of quality wins in there against the Warriors and Calves, although it's been a softer schedule, and the other four wins their fourth in offense during that span, just outscoring teams twenty two in defense during that span. This is a really interesting game because the Kings actually ended up taking a nine point lead kind of midway through the fourth quarter against Golden States bench big shock. We'll get to that in a little bit.

Then Steph and Draymond checked back in the game, and the Warriors immediately go on and run and they take a one thirteen to one ten lead off of a Draymond lay up, and then from there, over the course of four possession the Kings took this game away from the Golden State Warriors. On the Draymond make, Darren Fox gets the inbound pass and just runs down the floor faster than everybody and finishes at the rim. Then over the next three possessions, they just spammed Spain pick and roll,

Darren Fox up top. Sabonis comes and sets the screen. Herders underneath the basket. As Fox and and Sabonis are are working downhill, Kevin Herder relocates to the top of the key. We've talked about that specific play a bunch over the course of the last few months on the show, so I'm not gonna get into those details right now, but that's what they were running. And they got three baskets and three stops, and then the game was over. On the first one, they ended up getting getting on

a switch. Sabonus on on lamb underneath the basket, Draymond was guarding Fox on the right wing. Draymond just abandoned Fox to go help Sabonis. Help on Sabonis, which he needed to do. The kickout pass came to Fox and he knocked down to three, which, by the way, Darren fox is shooting fifty percent on catching shoot threes this year.

On the second play, Clay actually got over the screen and cut Dear and Fox off and it actually turned into an ice so, but Darren Foxes went to his patented little leaning back fade away pull up two and he knocked that down, which, by the way, Darren Foxes shooting un pull up two is this year. So a couple of bread and butter plays there that had led to high quality shots that they knocked down. And then on the third one, Darren fox actually rejected the screen

and went over to the right. Sa Bonus was at the top of the key and Draymond was there, and Draymond just fell asleep, and Sabonus just cut right behind him and got an offensive rebound and put the ball back in the basket, So you know, an unusual, uncharacteristic defensive mistake from Draymond Green that led to that third basket.

Suddenly you're down six in the game is over, um and that's you know, that's kind of like the the problem with what the Warriors are having with their bench is, you know, their starters can play really well, but they're starting from behind a lot of the times when they're coming back in late in these games, like Stephan Draymond

checking this game down on buy nine. So even if you do go on a fifteen to three run to take a lead, that should be a fifteen to three run that puts the game away, and instead you're only up three, and you have a four possession sequence where the Kings run some solid offense and you miss some shots. Lamb missed a wide open catching shoot three on the left wing, Andrew Wiggins missed a wide open catching shoot three on the right wing, and the game is over.

So we're gonna get to the Warriors in a second. But that was just that's just another example of this problem that's been cropping up for them throughout this year. Alright, I had three Kings that I wanted to shout out before we move on to the Warriors. First, Darren Fox. So he's up to twenty five and six on sixty true shooting for the season. I went over his jump

shooting stats earlier, so I won't do that again. But you're seeing what happens when you're a real downhill threat combined with real jump shooting proficiency, when you can actually make a defender have to make a decision between containing the drive and taking away the jump shot. That's what makes you impossible to guard. And we're gonna find out over the course of the season and just how consistent that jumper is, because if this is the way he shoots,

then he's an All Star. And now we have to kind of change the way that we look at the King's moving forward. Uh, Sabonus, just classic Sabonus game, just bullying everywhere for post position and rebounding position. Had a bunch of offensive rebounds in this game, critical ones too at the end of the game. He's so good at using pump fakes and body angles and his strength because he's one of the biggest and strongest players on the floor to find openings and score below the rim despite

not being a great athlete. Then obviously he's always been a great passer. Did a great job passing out of the post, out of the short roll, even face up situations, just grabbing and ripping through to his left and then kick into shooters when guys step over to help. And then Keegan Murray. This was his second twenty point game as a probe. You guys know, I wanted them to take Jade and Ivy. I just thought he had higher upside,

But I understood the Keegan Murray pick. What he represents is the perfect type of dude that you love to have around your stars. A six eight wing that can guard up and down a position, and that can shoot the basketball and do some stuff attacking clothes outs and

he's already really good at those things. This, you know, if you're a young basketball player, especially one that wants to be a good shooter, he's a good guy to watch in terms of his footwork and the way that he establishes his base before the ball gets to him or before he rises up into a shot. So in spot up situations, it's as simple as just already being

crouched down in a shooting position. But in movement possessions, it's moving low and having a nice strong base so that when you catch you can just go straight up instead of having to dip or do anything crazy to establish your base. There. There's one play in particular in this game that I want you guys to look up if you're if you're a young basketball player is trying

to be a shooter. He started in the left corner and he came off of basically a double wide, pinned down and shot a catch and shoot three at the top of the key. And on the play, look at how low he's running. He's running so low to the ground that when he needs to turn that right foot around and elevate, his legs are already prepared to take on the strength it takes to a stay abolish a balanced base off of the move. Because he's moving low. Watch him in his spot up situations, he's waiting low.

Watch him in his movement movement situations. He's moving low. It's he's establishing his base before he gets the basketball, which just quickens his release, which buys you time to get shots off. And he made countless important shots in this game. All right, let's talk about some Warriors. So they were up a hundred in this game when a bench lineup of Andrew Wiggins, Jordan Poole, Covan Luni and Dante DiVincenzo and Anthony Lamb gave up a seven oh run and then Steph checks back in the game and

they immediately go on a fifteen three run. And by the way, Steph was great in this game. They were doubling and trapping him all over the floor, just making the right place. Draymond Green, by the way, continues to be so highly underrated with what he does offensively for the Warriors, making reads out of the short roll, and especially in games like this when Steff is getting double teamed that when you see it, that's when you see it.

Right when he checked in, there was a really nice like kind of a cross screen action with Draymond out of the r out of the left block that got him a three in the right corner. Then he had like a nasty isolation a step back three with his left hand on Davey on Mitchell on the right wing. But you go on that fifteen to three run, you take a one, one ten lead, and then four possessions cost you the game, which we went over earlier. I'm not gonna go over again. But that's it. Four possessions.

And that's the problem that the Warriors are having right now. Their bench is making it so that their starting unit has an incredibly tiny margin for error. A fifteen to three run like the one that Stephan Draymond went when they checked in in the middle of the fourth quarter, that should put teams away, That should end games, and instead it's leaving it, you know, lingering in a in a range where you can have a sequence where one team executes really well for three or four possessions in

a row and you end up losing. They lost the non Steff minutes by seven points. In this game. They lost the game by seven points. I it's it's you know, I'm not gonna talk too long about that tonight because I've done that so many times over the course of the the last couple of weeks. But their bench continues to be a legitimate problem. You can't keep bringing in your starters with a deficit or losing the advantage that you gained during the earlier stretches of the game. You guys

know where I stand. I would trade a couple of the young guys for a veteran wing to bolster the bench, But my guess is they're gonna wait a lot longer before they decided to do anything like that. One last guy I want to talk about with the Warriors, Jordan Pool, is having a pretty rough stretch of basketball his last

six games. Thirteen points, two rebounds, three assists, percent from the field uh from three on pull up jumpers for eighteen at the rim, twenty four turnovers to just twenty assists, and he continues to be really bad on the defensive ended for I misquoted once that there he's thirty from three, but really not shooting well, not taking care of the basketball, not creating shots for his teammates, and struggling on the

defensive end of the floor. And I thought he really struggled during that seven oh run that I referenced earlier, the one where UM Sacramento ended up taking a nine point lead in the fourth quarter, he took a bad quick pull up three and transition that wasn't a great look and kind of felt like a bad momentum shot

that continued to further the run for Sacramento. And then the end of the run, he took a bad contested three out of the deep corner and the left and like he held onto the ball for a long time instead of trying to get something else going. He stood there in the corner for a while and ended up just jacking up a shot. And the problem with corner threes is they typically lead to long rebounds, and when they go long, they're always funneling back towards the other

way right because of the backboard. And when you take a corner three, you're a defensive player that is as far as you could possibly be away from your own basket, and it always leads to transition opportunities. Jordan Pool miss the three out of the left corner, dear and Fox ran out and got to lay up. Now you're down nine, Um, Jordan Pool is not going to be traded obviously, so he just needs to get back on track offfensively to help that bench unit. Alright, Sixers Jazz so uh. The

Sixers win one oh five nine. Joel Embiid fifty nine points, eleven rebounds, eight assists, seven blocks, and he was plus twenty seven, excuse me, plus twenty five in a seven point win. His perimeter shot was really going in last night. It's really been going in all season. Utah tried everything Olenk had no chance. He worked Kessler Edwards with like the Rondo fake uh in the first half. He abuse Ruby Gay a little bit. In the second half, Laurie

markin and he scored against him. He was hitting shots over Jared Vanderbilt. There's just nothing they could do with him. Um. Most of his blocks, the seven blocks that he got were during his stretch of the game when he was guarding Jared Vanderbilt and he just completely ignored him hung

around the basket. Which again, when when you have a big guy who was able to hang out around the basket because he's guarding a non shooting threat, that makes it so all your perimeter defenders are able to push up more on jump shooters because they have leeway knowing that Joel Embiid is behind them, and as a result, they locked in. They got enough stops and they gotta win. You guys know my take on Joel Embiad. He's not my favorite player, but for him, everything is about his

perimeter shot. When teams packed the paint on you, whether that's through double teaming or just just zoning up or whatever it is they do to make it so that you're playing in too much congestion around the paint. You have to be able to do one of two things. You have to be able to pass the basketball well to make teams pay for doing that, or you have to be in a great jump shooter. You have to be willing and able to knock down shots over that

paint congestion, you know. For Janice, because the jump shot is just so far away, it's about the passing. And he's also a very good passer, You're honest, Like Joel Embiad is a bad passer, and we're gonna get to that in a minute. Joannice is a very good passer already. So for him, I'm less worried about the jump shot because his passing ability, combined with his ability to force teams to pack the paint, turn him into an offensive engine. For Joel Embiid not a great passer. He had eight

assists last night, but he had five turnovers. For this season, he has more turnovers than he had assists. So with Joel Embid, I'm always looking at the way he's shooting the basketball further away from the basket because that's the kind of stuff he's gonna have to do to be effective when teams really packed the paint on him. Uh, this season, he's shooting forty five and a half percent outside of the restricted area. Now, we've talked about this a lot over the show over the course of the

last year on the show. You guys remember, in his playoff career, you can basically book him to miss two thirds of his shots outside of the restricted area. That's just what he does every year in the playoffs. He makes a lot of perimeter shots during the regular season, and I don't know if it's the fatigue and just how much more demanding the playoffs are on him physically, or if it's the pressure or what the deal is. He can't make shots outside of the restricted area in

the postseason. He also doesn't get to the foul line as much, and he doesn't pass well enough when teams packed the paint, so has impact. Joe Embid is one of those guys who's impact just kind of craters when

he gets into the postseason. So a big thing to watch for him over the course of this next phase of his career is how well this perimeter shooting translates to the playoffs and if he can get that, if he can have a long playoff run where he shoots this well, it'll lead to team success, and then he'll start entering into those conversations of those who are considered the best players in the world, which right now I don't think he is. I think Joel Embiad Joel Embiid

is clearly outside of that conversation. But forty and a half outside the restricted area this year, if he can maintain that through the season, through the playoffs, through deep playoff run, now we're talking about a guy who's every bit as good as a Nicola Yokis, who's every bit as good as a Janice or staff or any one of those kinds of guys, um ladies and gentlemen. The

Utah Jazz are finally starting to miss some shots. A lot of people have been asking me, you know, like, how are are the Jazz playing so well to start the season, And I don't really think it's that complicated. They don't have a star right although Lori Marketing has been playing like a star. But they have a ton of ball handling and shooting, and they like to share

the basketball. So it's like a classic concept of you know, they're running a ton of high pick and roll, but they're screeners are guys that can shoot, so they're picking and popping, which renders most drop coverage is useless, right, so they're playing teams out of drop coverage or they're

shooting teams out of drop coverage. And they have such a high uh, you know, they have so many shooters, ball handlers and guys who are willing to make the extra pass that they're just generating a ton of jump shots. They're knocking them things down, and their top five in the league and assists because they're sharing the basketball. But like that, shot making guys just rising up and knocking down shots has been a huge part of their offensive

success to start the season. Before this two game losing streak, they had an effective field goal percentage of on pull up jump shots, which was seventh in the league. Their last two games on pull up jumpers including n on pull up three's. Now they're o and two. So as you can see, guys just rising up and knocking down shots for the Jazz has been a huge part of their success. They all they're also third in the league and catching shoot makes per game, so they just they

just part of my languags. Just shoot the ship out of the basketball man and that's really all it takes. Um. You know, in the modern NBA, when you've got enough guys that can do that and can put the ball in the basketball, put the ball on the floor and renders so many of these coverages useless. But maybe this is them cooling off a little bit, and maybe they'll consider to start trading some of their pieces soon. I don't think they want to disqualify themselves from the Victor women.

Yama sweepsticks. All right, Wolves Calves, so the Wolves win. The Calves are really shorthanded. Had no Donovan mitchell Um and no Jared Allen in this game, which is arguably their two best players. This was a classic D'Angelo Russell and Carl Town's game. Uh, Dilo was just working in pick and roll all night long. And the first half you was seeing a steady diet of Darius Garland and robal Netto. And those two guys are just way too slow.

So even when they fight over the screen and get a late contest, Delos just not even seeing those guys because they're too small. Then in the second half, they switched Darius Garland onto Jaden McDaniels and they giving him a steady diet of like Carris Laverte and Isaac Accorro.

But at that point he was already feeling himself, he already had his confidence in his rhythm, and he just kept hitting those tough shots um and then obviously Dealo has always been a really good passer at high pick and roll, especially when he's shooting the ball as well as he is and it dictates more attention. And then Carl Town's the usual stuff, hitting pick and pop threes,

jab step threes and like ISO situations. He beat Evan Mobley to the rim off of a pump Bacon ripped through late in the game, did the same thing to Robin Lopez out of the right corner. He's one of the best face up players in the league. With this game, the Cow's damn near one in anyway, on the strength of a career high fifty one from Darius Garland, got crazy hot from three in the fourth quarter, was making

some really tough shots. Classic I go out of my way last week to talk about how I'm concerned about Darius Garland's shot making because he's a little bit small, and then of course he just goes out and makes

every single damn shot to drop fifty one against the Timberwolves. UM, I know I've talked a lot out about darius defensive shortcomings and they're real, Like he could not guard D'Angel Russell in this game, and then they switched him on too Jaden McDaniels and even Jade McDaniels was scoring over the top of him when he would like cut to the basket or post ups and things along those lines.

But make no mistake, he's that classic combination of great pull up shooting with a good mid range game and the floater and stuff like that that make him a really dynamic pick and roll shot creator, especially with his

well as he passes the basketball. If the Calves do decide to make a move on from him to capitalize on the rest of the talent on this roster, it won't be an easy decision to make because of how gifted he is offensively, And no matter what, they should absolutely wait till the deadline because you want to give this group as much time as possible to try to figure out a way to either hide Darius through some scheming thing like pre switching or putting him on defenders

that um like putting him on offensive players like Jade McDaniels, but maybe I don't know, teaching him to front the post and having him work a little bit harder, just try to find a way to make him functional defensively. So maybe you don't have to make that trade. But here we are and you're sitting at you know, eight and five, and you're two and five in games that Darius Garland has played. So that's definitely something to keep an eye on as the season progresses. All Right, Lakers NETS.

Big win for the Lakers over a NETS team that had won four out of five games. Katie made two free throws to get it down seven in the fourth quarter, and then Austin Reeves, Lonnie Walker and Anthony Davis just

took this game over. Very next possession, Austin Reeves kind of gets the ball late clock on the left wing and has to rescue a possession and makes a really nice to dribble pull up going towards the left elbow, did a really nice job of taking a really long step before that last pull up to get the defender to back off a little bit. Rose up, left it a little short, but got the bounce on the rim. Then on the next possession he runs high pick and

roll with Anthony Davis. This was just I I tweeted a video out of this particular play again, you can find it on my twitter feed at under score Jason lt. But he gets downhill and draws help. Now I said in the video that he made the fourth read in the pick and roll because the reads in order are, if you're coming downhill and you have a layup, you take the layoup. If the big man steps up, you have the drop pass to Anthony Davis. If for some reason the drop pass isn't open, it's usually the week

side corner. But on this play, Patty Mills dropped out of the weak side wing to the week side corner. So the fourth read was the weak side wing. And literally Austin gets downhill, palms the ball with one hand and elevates, then switches the ball to his left hand and hooks throws like a hook pass around the help defender that hits Lonnie Walker wide open on the right wing for three really really impressive piece of high level playmaking from Austin Reeves at a pick and roll. Then

these were the next four possessions. Lonnie Walker started spamming the pick and roll with Anthony Davis, he gets downhill, mrs a layup, Anthony Davis tip slam, Lonnie Walker gets dow on hill and does a pullback drivel, gets a ton of separation, knocks down a fifteen foot jump shot. Then he gets downhill and actually makes the layup, and then he missed another one of those pullback jumpers, but Anthony Davis had Royce O'Neil on him and just went right up and uh dunked it in on the tips.

So like four point game, Katie makes a couple of free throws, were heading towards another Lakers collapse, and then Austin Reeves, Lonnie Walker and Anthony Davis just took this damn game over and then on the other end of the floor one of the Again the Laker defense, I said, is real, and I believe that truly. It was real. You could see it on tape. They were stopping good offenses. Then they started ohing five and those dudes quit. And I don't blame them. They weren't winning. You want to

be rewarded for your action. And over the course of the last two weeks their defense was awful, but last night looked like that Lakers defense that we saw earlier in the season. Anthony Davis had a couple of key stops on Kevin Durant, including a possession where he just straight up denied him the basketball full court on a on a critical defensive stop. And then Katie also missed a couple of short floating jump shots that he usually makes,

and then the game was over. Uh. Anthony Davis So, first time scoring thirty points in a game since February three, which was last season, first time scoring thirty seven in the game since May nine of two thousand one. That's how uncommon that dominant performance from Anthony Davis. Was absolutely dominant on the offensive glass. He had ten offensive rebounds.

Some of it was bullying, you know, Nick Lackston, Kevin Durant, a little bit of Mark Kith Morris, but also in the pick and roll switches, just destroying the nets guards when they wouldn't do their job of boxing out Anthony Davis when there'd be a pick and roll switch. He had a couple of nice post moves in the first half, and then he had a couple of really nice isolation pull up jump shots over Kevin Durant in the second half. Just a vintage dominant Anthony Davis performance. This is why

I hold Anthony Davis to such a high standard. He puts up really good numbers on his bad nights a lot like Lebron. I constantly when I criticize Anthony Davis or Lebron, I'll have people go, like, you know, Lebron had twenty five, ten and eight in this game, how dare you say that he played terrible? And I'm like, Lebron will put up and eight in his sleep. Anthony

Davis will put up twenty four and thirteen in his sleep. Okay, So you've got to pay attention to the difference between when they're really impacting the game the way that you know they're capable of, and when they're sleepwalking. And both of those guys, especially Anthony Davis, over the years, has a tendency to sleep balk Lebron. Those performances are few and far between, but I call them out when they happen as well. Is he is he honest? No, he's

not gonna. He's not gonna be the best player in the world. I think that ship has sailed. He's just not fast enough right now, and he's not physical enough. But there's no reason in the world why he can't average thirty and twelve. That's his basement when he's fully engaged. There's no reason he shouldn't be a defensive Player of the Year candidate every single year. He is in of the heart of the prime of his career. This is not thirty eight. You're old Lebron who you can understand

why he takes a few defensive possessions off. This is part of your prime. Anthony Davis one of the most physically gifted players in the league. There's no reason in the world he should ever average less than thirty and twelve or be a top three Defensive Player of the Year vote getter every single season. You know, I wanted to talk about the Lebron A dpairing for just a minute, because any hope that the Lakers have of contending in

this era depends on those two guys. We talked about a lot of the stuff on the periphery, but those two guys are also not good enough have not been good enough over the course of the last two seasons. The front office has made it perfectly clear that they don't believe in those two anymore. That's why they didn't make a trade. If they believed in Lebron James and Anthony Davis. Russ would be wearing a different jersey right now, Buddy Yield and Miles Turner would be flanking Lebron James

and Anthony Davis. They are not. The front office doesn't believe if Lebron and comes back next Friday, like there's a four full days off now, If Lebron comes back next Friday and he plays the way he did against the Clippers right before he got hurt, and if Anthony Davis continues to play at this level, the rest of the team will defend their ass off and they'll make enough plays offensively for them to go on a winning streak, and they're up on up into a weaker part of

their schedule their next six games, or the Pistons, the Spurs, the Suns, the Spurs, the Spurs, the Pacers. Five, five and one is absolutely doable with Lebron James and Anthony Davis on the roster, and six and oh is possible if you can win a game against the Suns. If you go five and one, now you're eight and eleven. Now, Rob Polinka and Genie Buss will consider pulling the trigger on that deal and then you can go on a run with Buddy Yield and Miles Turner against your tougher opponents.

There was a story from Chris haynes Um for Yahoo Sports Law last week or maybe the week before where there was like some pretty significant like hints that Lebron James and Anthony Davis want a trade to be made. They were publicly advocating for it through leaks to Chris Haines, but Robin Genie clearly will not do so until they believe in that parent. Now. I think that's horseshit. They

should have invested in them before the season started. They set them up to fail by sending them out there against that impossible schedule without enough help on the wing. Robin Genie, it's a it's an it was a completely unacceptable approach from them, but that's their approach. So you need to prove to them, Lebron in a d that you're worth the investment. And if you do, I believe they will invest in this next six game stretch starting on Friday, we're gonna find out a ton about what

Lebron James and Anthony Davis are capable of. And then on the Brooklyn that's front. That was a front. That was their sixth game in ten days. Five of those games are on the road, and this was a back to back. They got really sloppy defensively in the fourth quarter, So I'm going to kind of give them a pass here for fatigue, Uh for fatigue. I really like what

they're building in terms of their identity. They just need to They need to find a way to integrate Kyrie, but like a focused version of Kyrie, because they simply need the talent and they can't flip him for anything. They don't have any real means with which to improve the roster. So this is gonna be Katie's biggest leadership challenge.

He needs to get Kyrie back in that locker room and then, as his friend and as the leader of the basketball team, beg him to stay on task and until the end of June or whenever it is their season ends. That then be like, dude, whatever else you want to do at that point, go nuts, But just for me, man, my friend, please give me this next few months. Let's make a run at this thing. We're good enough. There's a lot of talent on that Nets roster, but not enough. If Kyrie is not there, and not

if he's fully engaged. Not unless he's fully engaged. Whatever it was to start the season, all the bad energy and aura surrounding the team, that can't happen anymore. You need him to be fully engaged in this version of the nets, all right. That is all I have for today, guys, Like said, Tomorrow night live on AMP after Grizzlies Pelicans, Wednesday night Live on AMP after Celtics Hawks, then live

on YouTube after Warrior Sons. Also on Wednesday, Thursday live on AMP for our Power rankings, and then Friday one more film breakdown and then we're out of there for the week. As always, I sincerely appreciate your guys support and I will see you tomorrow. The volume