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conference yesterday morning or yesterday before the game

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about what has impressed him the most

3:57

about Keyontay George And... His

4:00

answer was super insists he says blame.

4:04

So. That's a pretty

4:07

interesting. The. One that I

4:09

would have gone was that I was expecting to hear.

4:12

Was. The p audiences looked like

4:14

he belongs most of it on maybe a little

4:16

less so every now and then as he kind

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of seems overwhelmed and tired. Fatigued

4:20

but he generally looks like he belongs

4:23

to me. has been from day one

4:25

like up. Like is sizes right as

4:27

bodies right? His athleticism right is mocks.

4:29

He's right. Like all those things look

4:32

like you've all the something concerning when

4:34

you look at prospects are you can

4:36

really see it. Sometimes they come in

4:38

for draft workouts and. You

4:40

don't said like it's clear that they don't

4:43

belong. That's that's obvious in the first, in

4:45

the first moment. So.

4:49

In that sense that was. But he

4:51

actually went to bring. And

4:53

this is really important for

4:55

the jazz moving forward about

4:57

yonder. He's crazy young. And

5:00

so. One. Of the bunch, there's a

5:02

bunch of things about Qian. That. I've

5:04

watched were honestly I thought to myself like

5:07

okay and bothered him that stop and I

5:09

say okay bees twenty years old. And.

5:12

It's users maturity issues. Well.

5:14

Maturity is gonna happen if there's a brain

5:17

behind it. So that was

5:19

the first thing. It's not what were will

5:21

went with it will on somewhere else other

5:23

a second. but to me. and

5:26

i can lift them up but it doesn't

5:28

do any value good there's things i think

5:30

we've all seen him for the chaos he's

5:32

done this years young player were you watching

5:35

your like earth but he's not refined twenty

5:37

years old is why young players big mistakes

5:39

he's he's never really had a hard time

5:41

with basketball radius that's number seven recruiting class

5:43

and twenty twenty we went to baylor for

5:45

year gets drafted fry lower than he wanted

5:47

sixteenth the bright that your wasn't the most

5:50

fun for him but generally conceptually is he's

5:52

kind of role this is the first time

5:54

he struggled and so we watch him various

6:01

things that we might want him to do. I got it. So

6:03

the fact that Will Hardy goes to his brain leads

6:06

me to believe that all the maturity issues that you

6:08

might be concerned about are all gonna come to fruition

6:11

on the positive side of things. But

6:13

then also what I thought was really interesting

6:15

that Will talked about was how

6:18

much he recalls things. That they

6:20

were, they had a scrimmage the other day and

6:23

that Will, Chianti called a play

6:25

that they hadn't run in like a month. And

6:28

then he has this incredible recall of plays

6:30

and actions and things of that sort. And

6:33

if that's, if what

6:35

Will's talking about is true, that will

6:37

accelerate his growth. Will's point is that

6:39

the NBA is all about pattern recognition.

6:42

And really that's offense in the NBA. It's pattern

6:44

recognition. You know, they do this, I do this.

6:46

They do that, I do these. That's the way

6:48

the game works. And so if

6:52

he's able to have this kind of recall, plus

6:54

the fact he watches a tremendous amount of NBA,

6:56

which is rare these days, there aren't a lot

6:58

of lot of kids that are watching the NBA.

7:00

You think about if you have my daughter's 20

7:02

and 19 and she's a huge fan, which

7:05

means that she watches Instagram and House of Highlights

7:07

and she's probably watched two games all year, maybe

7:09

none. Now that she's not home, she

7:11

probably hasn't sat through an entire NBA game all season

7:13

long since she's gone to college. And

7:16

yet she's a huge fan. She can tell you everything's

7:18

going on. She probably can tell you most of the

7:20

standings. She probably knows what's, you know, and, and knows

7:22

the league. But that's how they're absorbing the league in

7:25

this day and age. And so most of the players

7:27

aren't watching full games, aren't watching to try to figure

7:29

guys out, aren't trying to. It's why Taylor Hendrix comment

7:31

about Jane, Jane McDaniels earlier this year, that

7:33

that's who he's modeling was an interesting comment. So

7:36

this is really a positive

7:38

comment from Will because I think it

7:40

will lead to maturity. It will

7:42

accelerate his growth. And

7:44

then if you recall, and I'll do it again, because we

7:47

did it in the middle of the year, kind of offhand,

7:49

unless you're really diehard every day or love you for that.

7:52

I did a little thing where I looked at guards and when

7:54

they became efficient in the pick and roll. And

7:56

it was, if I remember correctly,

7:58

like it was something crazy like

8:01

5,000 pick and roll plays before you actually

8:03

became efficient Well, that goes to the pattern

8:05

recognition that will hardy's talking about that the

8:07

league is about pattern recognition It takes you

8:09

know, 5,000 pick and rolls for you to

8:12

become Like good at good

8:14

inefficient at pick and roll play And

8:17

so if that's the case some guys are a little

8:19

quicker than others Maybe we're gonna see Chianti be on

8:21

the front side of that, which would

8:23

be great But if you recall,

8:25

I think I looked at The

8:28

Aaron Fox and a bunch

8:30

of other kind of those kind of guards that were

8:32

similar to Kyrie who become point

8:34

guards in their time

8:37

in the NBA and what is their efficiency

8:39

and It all turned out that by the

8:41

third or fourth year of the league when they've suddenly got up

8:43

to about 5,000 Pick and

8:45

rolls do they suddenly become you know That

8:49

level Chianti's run for 1400 pick

8:51

and rolls this year Already, which is just

8:53

great. And if you want and he's probably right, you

8:55

know At one point he ranked last in the NBA

8:57

of the top 90 pick

8:59

and roll guys So that's guys who've run about 480 pick

9:02

and rolls this year Chianti

9:05

ranks Let me

9:07

find I think he's in the 70s now last time I

9:09

checked. He's 85th out of 91. So he's near the bottom

9:13

That's exactly where you expect and who's last

9:15

in the NBA Brandon Miller Who's a rookie

9:17

and then Denny Avada then Killian Hayes Jordan

9:20

Poole Malachi friend Taylor Horton Tucker Chianti George

9:22

So it's not that's not surprising and if

9:24

you send start to look at year after

9:26

year on these pick and roll guards it

9:28

takes time because it's pattern recognition and This

9:31

is exactly the process you want to be you

9:34

know Middle of the pack is you're over one

9:36

point for possession and you want to be over one if you

9:38

get to 1.1 You're one of the top

9:40

guys in the NBA Halliburton and Jason Tatum are the

9:42

only guys over 1.1 in

9:45

the NBA and so you start to go look

9:47

at this from Multiple

9:49

years and look at you know,

9:51

the last five years of guys I'm gonna do it right

9:53

now for you and we'll look at quickly just look at

9:55

deer and Fox if it pulls up Quickly

9:58

enough and you'll see that

10:03

what you have is this type of pattern

10:06

recognition that Will's talking about. And

10:08

so here's De'Aaron Fox, I just

10:10

pulled him randomly, but his rookie

10:12

year, De'Aaron Fox was 0.94, right

10:15

about where exactly where Quillante is, second year

10:17

0.94, third year And

10:20

then last year went to 1.06, one of

10:22

the elite point guards in the NBA. This

10:25

year he's actually slipped, which is part of their problem,

10:27

their offense is off. So let's go back to last

10:29

year when Fox

10:31

kind of had this great year, what were his, how

10:33

many pick and rolls had he run? Well, he came

10:35

into that season having run 6,000 pick and

10:39

rolls at that point of his career, 6,000

10:41

pick and rolls. De'Aaron

10:44

Booker is another one that's interesting in the sense that

10:46

he was not a point guard, 0.97,

10:49

1.03, 1.03, 1.03, 1.08 this year. He

10:53

jumps it pretty quickly because he's such a great

10:56

shooter and now he's evolved into how he does

10:58

it a little bit. And he's probably

11:00

on that same level. So when you start to look

11:02

at these guys and we can pull a bunch of

11:04

them, I mean, even somebody like

11:06

Shay, who is now an MVP candidate,

11:08

Shay goes in his first year, 0.94,

11:10

0.99, he actually

11:13

slips to 0.90, goes back to 0.99, right on.

11:16

And then this year explodes to 1.08 and

11:18

is one of the top guards in the

11:20

NBA. But how many pick and rolls did

11:22

that take? Right? It's

11:24

5, 6,000 number that were 6,600 before

11:27

he ran this year of pick and rolls.

11:29

So Chiante is having a nice

11:31

opportunity this year, but we're

11:34

still, Chiante's run,

11:36

as I said, 1,400 pick and rolls. So

11:38

he still needs four years at

11:40

that level of pick and roll to get to 6,000, 5,000 pick and

11:43

rolls that you need to have the pattern recognition.

11:45

But hopefully that accelerates because of what Will Hardy's

11:47

talking about with his brain. The last thing Will

11:49

added is the next step for Chiante

11:51

is to have the confidence to tell everyone that

11:54

he can see everything and recall it and has

11:56

his brain and use that in a leadership role.

11:59

And he's just not there yet because he's 20. But I thought that was a

12:01

great sign nine turnovers in

12:03

the first quarter is a lot our

12:05

offense was Putrid or

12:08

paltry or whatever weird word I was using

12:10

last night to talk about it but it

12:12

was bad and We'll talk about

12:14

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12:16

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your team Every day. All right nine turnovers

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last night. Here they are in the first

16:18

quarter. It's interesting some of

16:20

them Have a common thread. So

16:22

the first one like first play the game called section

16:24

drives gets in the paint Probably's been remembered

16:26

that there's Victor web and yum around He's

16:30

actually beat show on Collins is actually popped webbing yum is

16:32

not really in the play But first play the game or

16:34

one of the first place the game and

16:36

Colin tracks a pivot foot Collins

16:40

pretty great his scoring has

16:42

been amazing his energies amazing He will

16:45

hardly revealed that he wants to play all 82 and has made

16:47

it perfectly clear The

16:50

amount he cheers on his team. He's a fabulous

16:52

teammate He turned the ball and

16:55

he has really been pretty good at this

16:57

and he had nine assists again last night Which is just

16:59

amazing And you only turned it over three

17:01

times He's had

17:03

seven five eight six and nine assists in this last

17:05

five games. This is not a guy who used to

17:07

pass the basketball All

17:10

right second one fast break Chianti tries to throw

17:12

a lob to Lowry and overthrows it and

17:16

It's turnover. The only thing I would just say

17:18

like early is these are both kind of loose They're

17:22

loose like Chianti's got to make that pass Level

17:25

of detail Collins got to make sure he's in dragon pivot

17:27

Next one's a Jeremy Sohan who ends up with four four

17:29

or five steals in the game Reaches in

17:31

knocks away from John Collins and traffic it becomes a

17:33

jump ball and they win the jump ball turnover We

17:36

get another fast break and in

17:39

that fast break Chianti Gives

17:42

it to John Collins in a terrible spot on the floor

17:44

Our spacing was not good and John Collins runs in the

17:46

skies and it's a turnover on Chianti I would think but

17:48

I think they gave it to John Collins But I would

17:51

have given that to Chianti because he gave him to a

17:53

ball. We didn't have a chance Okay,

17:58

Chianti two turnovers the fast break in my opinion there.

18:00

Like that's there's one reoccurring

18:02

theme. The next

18:04

one Kyra Lewis comes into the game and throws

18:06

a one-hand sloppy pass through the legs of Bryce

18:08

Nesbaw. Oh that

18:11

that's the stuff that gets you so you don't play in the second half. Too

18:15

bad because Kyra really played very very well on

18:17

the one of the road games and then he didn't

18:20

he played six minutes and he turned the ball over and he didn't

18:23

get back in the game. Then

18:28

another fast break not good spacing again. Nesbaw's

18:30

in the middle lane he's been to Eurostep he doesn't

18:32

have a route to the basket he scoops a pass

18:34

to Lewis who's two feet away from they could have

18:36

played Red Rover Red Rover send Will

18:38

Hardy right over and it's

18:41

a turnover. Some

18:43

of this is guys who've never played together right.

18:47

Bryce Nesbaw, Kyra

18:49

Lewis Jr. have probably played 12 possessions

18:52

together. They're just playing basketball out there.

18:54

This is what happens when you

18:57

start to get at this stage of a

18:59

season with a team that's trying to develop

19:01

youth and doesn't have a total order of

19:03

what's going on and you know

19:05

as Jordan plays less and Lowry plays less it's

19:07

only gonna get worse but you just

19:10

have guys who've never played together have no

19:12

idea how to interact with each other and

19:14

don't really know what their next moves and

19:16

so you know

19:18

we're playing lineups that have

19:20

just simply never played

19:23

together before and that

19:26

matters like it it like

19:29

Kyra Lewis Bryce Nesbaw have

19:31

now played a grand total of

19:34

like 73 possessions together and

19:36

were in the minus 23 like this is

19:38

not surprising so

19:41

that's you know that's the reality on that

19:43

Walker catches the ball in the post tries

19:45

to get himself settled jumps into his positioning

19:47

but that moves his pivot feet and that's

19:49

a travel and

19:51

then Walker throws a pass over

19:54

Lucas Saamanich's head again two guys who've

19:56

probably not played a lot together but

19:58

even this one's really goes back to

20:01

just kind of not understanding

20:03

who everybody is on the floor. Taylen

20:05

Horton Tucker throws Walker Kessler a pass,

20:07

Walker's trailing the play, sprinting at full

20:09

court and Taylen Horton Tucker throws Walker

20:11

a pass that is literally

20:14

like he catches it 25 feet and I don't know

20:16

what he's supposed to do with it. Like he's running

20:18

full steam if he comes to a stop he's going

20:20

to travel. You know Walker, Taylen and

20:22

Lucas Ammonich have played 46 possessions together all year

20:24

so then Walker doesn't know where Luca's going to

20:26

be, they don't know each other and Walker throws

20:28

it away. Like this is the reoccurring

20:30

theme to these turnovers when you start playing guys

20:33

who've never never played together, we

20:36

can't dismiss like all the things that we

20:38

actually know matter and then say well when

20:40

our guys do it it's not supposed to

20:42

matter. So you know continuity playing together those

20:45

type of things do really really matter and

20:47

suddenly when you have an

20:49

up you suddenly are in a situation where you're not

20:51

doing those things and it doesn't work I think it

20:53

shouldn't be that so we can't have that surprising. And

20:56

then Kyra Lewis can't get an inbound in. We had three

20:58

inbounds last night we couldn't get in. That's

21:01

an execute, that's probably at least

21:03

in my opinion not on the inbounder but

21:05

on the execution of the guys. It's symbolic

21:07

of kind of also the way the game started. We're just

21:11

understandably the

21:15

guys don't seem to be particularly engaged

21:17

to start a game right now. Like the

21:20

opening juice is not there. There's not, you've lost

21:22

a lot, you've lost 18 of 21 and

21:26

there just doesn't seem to be a lot of eagerness

21:28

to start a game right now. The only thing that's

21:30

really disappointing to me about that is that Chianti and

21:32

Taylor Hendricks are starting right now and so

21:34

you would like to think that those

21:37

two would bring juice but I don't see

21:39

either of those as particularly high energy like

21:41

rah rah energy type players and then I

21:43

don't see John that way, Colin I do

21:45

and Lowry's pretty calm. But

21:47

the jazz open you know it was evident last

21:49

night just offensively the jazz open the night six

21:51

of you know sometimes making buckets gets you going.

21:54

Jazz offensive rating in the first quarter was a

21:56

56 last night. And

21:58

then in the second quarter it started to get a little bit

22:00

better as they pulled it up to 118 and got

22:02

rolling and then they made some shots and then it was

22:04

a one in the third quarter is a 119. So

22:07

it really looked good. And then the fourth quarter, it was a 123. So

22:10

like you really did after the start, play

22:12

good basketball and, and move the

22:14

ball and did what you're supposed to do. But

22:16

that start just kind of unenergetic and, and

22:19

lacking any juice. The one thing

22:21

that is going on, I'll say this, I said this

22:23

yesterday, and this is just long term. And

22:25

this is right now I thought we'll make an interesting point

22:27

about this. We're kind of executing defensively, like we were forcing

22:30

people to take shots in the areas we

22:32

want and things like that. But we're not impacting

22:34

the game defensively. So

22:37

last night, they ended up taking 20

22:39

shots at the rim, which a little bit more, we

22:41

do a decent job of somewhat stopping corner three. So

22:43

they made five of them from the right corner. So

22:45

we weren't as good at that last night. But we're

22:47

not impacting guys are getting their shots in rhythm. They're

22:49

not off pace, the passes are coming from where they're

22:51

supposed to. We're, we're,

22:53

except for last night, we're generally forcing a

22:55

low turnover forcing team. So

22:58

you're not impacting the game. You're not impacting routes, you're not impacting

23:00

things. And that's letting guys get pretty good looks, rhythm looks and

23:02

then the worst three point shooting team in the league last night

23:04

when 16 of 33 from three. So

23:10

that, you know, starts are obviously an issue and trying

23:12

to find a way to find some some gumption in

23:14

the final eight, nine games of the year, we're not

23:16

going to be favored in any of them the

23:19

rest of the way. So we'll see, I was gonna just

23:21

not shave till we won. But

23:23

I might have to abandon that I was not that was kind of a

23:25

joke. I just haven't shaved. All

23:27

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23:30

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is it possible the Utah Jazz are about to

25:58

end up with the. pick of

26:00

the NBA draft. Originally it was a question

26:03

of whether we could get to 10. Well

26:05

here's what's happened right

26:07

now and that is that

26:09

the Memphis Grizzlies are sitting at 7 and 24

26:12

and 49 and the big number honestly is wins

26:14

because nobody's trying to

26:16

none of these teams are really trying to win. Memphis

26:18

has lost two in a row. Brooklyn is trying to

26:20

win. They have won they won their 28th game of

26:24

the season last night. We have won

26:26

29. We will not be favored in

26:28

another game all season long. Brooklyn's pick

26:31

goes to Houston. Brooklyn is under Kevin

26:33

Ollie's trying to prove that they are

26:35

not the team that just lost six

26:37

in a row and they have remaining

26:39

games of you decide which of

26:41

these are possible wins. They play at homey in

26:44

Chicago. They play the Lakers probably

26:46

not. They play Indiana back-to-back. Then they play

26:48

Detroit maybe. Then they

26:50

play Sacramento. Then they

26:53

play Toronto who's generally trying to lose to keep

26:55

their pick and then

26:57

they're at New York and at Philly. So there

26:59

is a real chance they could win against Chicago,

27:01

Detroit or Toronto and if they were to

27:03

get two of those they would get to 30 wins.

27:05

The Jazz are currently sitting

27:07

at 29. They win three

27:10

of those. They go to 31 and

27:12

we're sitting at 29 and if you

27:14

have not done this yet the

27:17

Utah Jazz schedule the rest of the way

27:19

does not have a lot of W's on

27:21

it. In fact it might not have

27:23

any if you lose to

27:25

the San Antonio Spurs at home in a

27:27

game which you're down by eight all the

27:29

time and Lowry plays 40 plus minutes and

27:32

I don't know how many more times Lowry's

27:34

playing 40 plus minutes. We have Houston at

27:36

Sacramento home against Cleveland at Clippers at Warriors

27:38

home against Nuggets home against Rockets at Clippers

27:40

at Warriors. Be

27:44

surprised if we got more than one. So

27:46

I think the Jazz number is gonna be 30. If

27:49

Brooklyn wins two more games we have a part of

27:51

eight. If

27:54

we if

27:56

they win three more games we are eight. The

27:59

bigger news is it... Atlanta keeps winning and is

28:01

now at 33 wins and there's

28:03

zero chance we can catch that. So the jazz

28:05

have really just about solidified the fact they're going to

28:07

get there directly. Remember

28:10

if we were at 10, there was a 25%

28:12

chance that we were going to not get our

28:14

pick. But by being at

28:16

nine, there's about a 97% chance, I think it

28:19

is now, that we're secured to at least have

28:21

a pick in the draft. We also as of

28:23

right now, by the way, have the 27th pick

28:25

from Oklahoma City and then the

28:27

Washington, Detroit losing eight

28:29

in a row has made it so that Washington has

28:31

got a better record. So we now have the 32nd

28:33

pick as well. So we're 32, 27 and nine as of

28:37

right now. So

28:40

it makes it for an interesting little June for

28:42

us to be covering all that. On the other

28:45

end of things on the playoff race, which is

28:47

just fascinating, a lot of interesting things happened last

28:49

night. The Warriors won, which was they were desperately

28:51

in need despite Draymond Green getting ejected early in

28:53

the game. But the Rockets came from behind to

28:55

beat Oklahoma City, 132, 126 in overtime. You're

28:58

going to have to watch that game today. And

29:00

so they are still on the heels of the

29:02

Warriors one game back. The Lakers won again. They're

29:04

playing very well right now. They have

29:06

clicked in. I don't at the beginning to look like you

29:09

would not want to see them at any point. They

29:12

are two games ahead of the Warriors two and a

29:14

half and they are now knocking on the back of

29:16

the door. The Kings only a game and

29:18

a half backs. Kings did not play last night. The Suns

29:20

got a monster win in Denver, 104 to

29:23

97 as Jamal Murray didn't

29:25

play, but still Phoenix needed that win badly.

29:27

Roycio Neal gave him seven rebounds and some

29:29

nice minutes late as

29:31

they went small and didn't have your kitchen that

29:33

game. And the Suns got the

29:35

win and then the Mavericks who've been very, very

29:38

good. The other thing that happened last night was

29:40

top of the standings. Denver lost. Minnesota won. Oklahoma

29:42

City lost. Minnesota's won three in a

29:44

row without Carl Anthony. I told you I thought they'd

29:46

be fine without Carl Anthony down. That's maybe playoff time,

29:48

but rest of the regular season fine. And

29:51

Minnesota is now tied

29:54

with Oklahoma City at 50 and 22 and Denver

29:56

is just a half game behind. It is going

29:58

to be fascinating to see. who

30:00

ends up if you go to playoff status comm which is

30:02

a nice site and give him giving him

30:05

some love basketball reference gets love right

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now it's projected is the number one seed in

30:09

the Western Conference 42% of the Nuggets 36

30:13

to the Timberwolves 22% of the Thunder

30:15

so pretty fascinating and the

30:17

number two's who gets the number two seed is almost

30:19

even across the board as is who gets the three

30:22

though Denver less likely to get the three so

30:24

there's a chance the Thunder could really slip the three

30:26

then they end up with six against Dallas and

30:29

we've talked about that being interested the

30:31

Warriors are still a 64%

30:34

chance of the tenth seed and

30:37

a really a 13% chance of the 11th seed

30:39

so the

30:42

Rockets quest they've won 10 straight they'll be in here

30:44

on Friday is probably

30:47

still a really really big long shot for

30:50

them to try to pull off but

30:52

they have certainly made it awfully

30:54

exciting to see what

30:57

happens and the other

30:59

side is whether I think that's most fascinating is

31:01

where the Kings end up in all this the

31:03

Kings are suddenly having about a 35% chance that

31:05

they are gonna

31:08

slip to eight or lower and

31:11

if that's the case then they

31:14

have a real legitimate chance of not making

31:16

a playoffs the Suns are the other one

31:18

that's fascinating because the Suns are the 64%

31:20

chance of eight or lower and then the

31:22

way the Lakers are playing I don't think anyone wants

31:24

to be in a do-or-die game against Lakers I'm assuming

31:27

the Lakers will beat the Warriors or the Rockets in

31:29

a one or done but who knows and then you're

31:31

playing the Lakers to try to stay alive you're trying

31:33

to knock LeBron out I don't want any part of

31:35

that if I'm any of those teams this is gonna

31:37

be really incredible for us to watch and then from

31:39

a jazz standpoint we may be able to get to

31:41

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