Clifford Augustin
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The Ringer NBA Show
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Yeah, well, look, he will be fine. Like, so, you know, we're doing a little – a mini deep dive into – you know, his offensive game and what was lacking last night. But look, this is, to some degree, this is natural progression. We talk about this all the time in a star, in a superstar, in a player in general, right?
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Like, you're going to go through these things and you're going to learn from them, hopefully. You'll go back to the drawing board and the next time we see you, you'll have an answer to that. I do think that You know, if you watch the game closely, you could also make an argument that that Shea plays from the top a lot. Right.
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Well, the difference is, for whatever reason, Minnesota was not throwing as many bodies at Shea all night long as as OKC was throwing at Ant. They threw them early. Like there was a play. I remember Shea had it on maybe the left block. He was backing his man down. There were three dudes flooded. Right.
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And Richard Jefferson even said it, I think, after Shea split through three people and laid it up like, bro, if you're going to have three people there, he can't get all the way to the rim. But but he did. So you have to give a lot of credit to OKC and the bodies that he saw. But I want to go back to Shea, right? And you asked me, what does Ant need to work on?
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Shea does a great job of, even though their body's there, being really patient. He's got like a herky-jerky kind of like move. He makes that little like, I was trying to show my son Ty the move where he kind of like steps back off that right foot, the balls in his left pocket. And what that step back does is just gives you time to read, right? We're talking space now.
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It's like you're going into a double dutch. Yeah, but like, so I'm going to like kind of step back on you and create, I don't know, two to three feet of space by me stepping away from you. What are you going to do now? If you stay back, then that's enough space for me to shoot that jump shot, right? He's also got a wicked Hezzy off of that.
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But if you close that space, now your force is moving this way and my force is moving that way. And I'm already faster than you. So you're dead. So that gives him like an answer to being out there. And what he does when he gets in the paint is he plays off a two a lot. And by that, I mean he gets to two feet. So he's got a lot available to him. Ant used to do this.
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Like Ant used to get in the paint, have his fade, have his spin fade. It wasn't there. He stepped through. That wasn't there. He'd get back to the spin fade. Like Shea does that really well. And what Ant has done with the getting all the way to the rim is everything is kind of in the air off of one foot. You saw him last night in there like flying at the rim.
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Yeah, but so I would add to Ant is maybe playing off a two a little bit more, and that would go hand in hand with getting to that second level scoring when you have to. If the three's going in, Logan, look, I'm not an old curmudgeon. If you're shooting and making enough threes to win games, do it. But you become more predictable when that's what you're doing, especially when they're not running.
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Steph does it because they run all kind of shit that gets him open threes.
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It's not like he's just handling the ball and casting up threes. That's what they're doing with Ant.
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okay but it's more nuanced you know what i'm saying because i i do but what i think to some degree if you will what you're missing in that is like it it's a threat for steph because he shoots it so well and because of how they keep him moving to get them the action that sets up his three is a very reflexive action. So you do this and you make that wrong read and Steph's popping for a three.
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And because he's such a good shooter, people are closing out to him, just trying to run him off of that three. So now you've got a live dribble where you can shoot the head fake and use the threat to get by your man. Ant doesn't have that luxury because everything is off the bounce. Like, look, look. Yeah. Let me do this right now. I'm going to do this right now.
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Like, I got a young son that plays like Ty. People have heard me talk about him before. Right. And he plays in a program that that it's a very good Under Armour program. But the guy who coaches him at the Under Armour level isn't his high school coach. Right. And I kind of stay out of it. Like, I just watch him play. But Ty's a pretty good scorer and they need Ty to score.
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This coach has kind of intimated that Ty's so good at scoring that he doesn't run anything for him. He'll just let him go get buckets. To which they got beat the last time they played. They had a good team from Cali. They did what they did to Ant. They bodied him over every screen. They threw three bodies at him every time he drive the ball and all of that.
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And what I said to his coach who asked me the question, I said, hey, man, That's fine. Like he's going to beat a lot of teams doing that. Like you just rolling it out and telling him to go get 20. It's fine. I was like, but when you see those teams that are going to stack a defense, they know all of his tendencies to do all of that.
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Then you got to help him by running some actions that get him a touch with a live dribble. So he can now use his ball fake. to get by people. You know what I'm saying? Or like, those are different touches than ants getting.
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And I, the only reason I'm, I'm, I'm really dialed in is because it just happened a couple of weeks ago, which is like, look, if your only option to shoot a three is having to like wiggle your man and, and, and come, you know, and, and shoot a three off the bounce or come off of pick and roll, which they can take away by sending by, by just staying with you as a secondary defender, like you're not going to get many of those.
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Well, it definitely plays a part, Logan. Anytime you have real competent support, it lessens what someone can do to take you away because of the threat of them beating you. It is always going to boil down to, at least in large part, to what are you willing to live with? What do you want to say beat you if it beat you? Do you want to say that, hey, the others beat me?
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Or do you want to look someone in the face and say, yeah, I let the fucking MVP beat me?
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Now I don't have the answer to that. Your, your answer might be, Hey man, we'll let him score 50 and we'll try to choke them out. And I've told you in the past that I've gotten multiple instances where we either employed that strategy or we, we, or someone employed it against us and it, and it bore fruit. I'm finding the balance of that again. Sorry guys. I'm geeky. This is geeky shit, man.
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This is really weeds. This is in the weeds of basketball, but like, When Ant goes, Ant goes full speed. Yeah. There's very little probing. Once he decides he's not shooting the three, he's on top of the rim, right? Well, let's say we don't double you right away. Think about decision making. Do you make better decisions when you have more or less time? You have less time.
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When you have more time, right? So if Ant is going from A to B and it's taking him 0.5 seconds, all right, and then all of a sudden as he starts moving, boom, here's a double team. That's a small amount of time to make a decision and make a play and decide you want to still score. Whereas Shea is like probing a lot of the time, trying to work his way to the basket.
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So that same 0.5 seconds to get to the rim for Ant, Shea's doing it in two seconds, right? That's four times the amount of time. Because he's so decisive. Yeah. Yeah. But it's also just his style of play. Right. So like when you're trying to send doubles at him, they don't really surprise him.
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He's still under control and he's playing at a speed where now he can make the decision that kills you over and over again. Right. So like he's harder to double.
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I would say if I was devising a defense, I would say it's harder to double him, not just because he's got better supporting pieces, but because the style, the pace, and the areas where he is at on the floor at times can make it harder for him to double. I would still say to you, Denver zoned him. That was their answer to taking SGA away, right? Zone. Yeah.
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Now, you're going to tell me they had Jokic and that's true too, like in whatever. But that was their effort to say, yo, this dude is not going to single-handedly beat me. And they got him to what? Seven games? Seven games.
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That's a zone with Jokic. Granted, zone with Jokic. I'm not saying that you go out and you say, yo, I'm about to run a bunch of zone. I'm not saying that you come out and you say we're blitzing him every time he touches it. I'm not telling you that you come out and every pick and roll, which is a free hit, by the way, because they're just bringing a secondary defender up there.
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But I'm not telling you to do that. What I am telling you is throw some shit at the wall. What about a little box in one from time to time? I'm not saying it's going to be like the answer, but maybe that throws them off with their rhythm a little bit. We're just talking, you lost by what? Two points?
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Any little break in the rhythm. Triangle in two? You saw Golden State use that a few years ago against Toronto. Remember that? Like we were like, oh shit, look at that. Like you got to have some wrinkles to at least see if it throws them off of their spot. You can't let this man come out here and be 40 balling you with 10 and nine. You can't do that.
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Yeah, thanks, man. I don't know if it's good potting, but it's real talk. I enjoyed it.
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Again, I'm here for it. I mean, I, I, I like the physical brand of basketball. I enjoy watching it. Um, but we're not going to come on here and, and, and to some, I hope Howard's listening. Cause like last pod, I felt like he was really trying to argue like kind of lightweight, subtly that like the whistle was the same. We can all agree that it's not the same, right? We're watching the same shit.
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You know, he put on his specs and said, you know, we got data. We got data. The data says. We're watching the same shit though, right? I'm not arguing that they don't blow, but they are letting those dudes like really get after each other physically. The amount of bodies that were like splaying on the floor.
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Bring your hard hats. And you know what? I have always... Basketball is a contact sport. Now, you have to make contact legally, but if you do that, there is contact that is appropriate and should be in the game. To the degree that they legislated some of it out, I disagreed with, but I like the style of play. I like the way the refs are handling it.
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I don't think it has reached a point of boiling over at any real time that I can remember. I'm for it, and I think that when you're talking about a champion, it shouldn't just be the team that shoots the best or executes offensively the best. These are grown men, bro. That's why you spend all that time in the weight room. That's why you take care of your bodies. That's why you do all of that.
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I can't say that I was. I mean, I may have been at one or two, but that wasn't at my regular stop after a game. Okay. You didn't go after practice.
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There should be a component of that that goes into the equation when you're trying to parse through who's the better team. And allowing the physicality to be in the game allows that to be a part of it.
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Can I request a segment? I'm just annoyed by it. Can I request a segment? I don't know if we have the technological capabilities here. Victoria is one of the greatest of all time. Put some respect on her name. He went to the free throw line 14 times last night, right?
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Yeah. No, I lived in the other direction. I lived down towards St. Joe's. Okay. So like, you know, after practice, yeah, I'd be, I'd be, I'd be out the other way. No disrespect to Fridays. I like a Fridays. And I've been in that Fridays many a time with my uncle and, and my family. But like, I wasn't a regular with Chuck and his crew at the Fridays.
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If there would be a way that we could bring up all of the plays where he was fouled and awarded free throws, I'd like to go through them. With you, with Howard, with anyone. Look, it might wind up that the jury says it was foul baiting. Let's figure that out. But I'd like to do that exercise. I was watching last night. I'm with you, Logan. He's a tough person to guard.
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He has mastered putting you as the defender in a compromised situation and having to make contact with him. And he's even further mastered once you make that contact, exposing it. And if that is a foul merchant or a baiter, I don't see it as a baiter. What is the true definition of merchant? Let me look up merchant. Does it have a negative connotation in any way, shape, or form?
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Well, then I would... Okay. Okay. I don't see that as a negative. The only reason I was asking is because I thought there might be some language and some other definition of it that suggested he was doing something nefarious or that it was illegal. If I'm selling a foul that has happened so that you realize it has happened, I'm not apologizing for that. I'm not apologizing for him for that.
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That is what you are supposed to do. When you are a professional scorer, any professional scorer knows that there are going to be nights when that thing is not going in the basket in the normal way. You have a bad shooting night. The way you supplement and you're able to continue to score and point produce is by getting to the what? Get to the free throw line.
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You don't average 30 a game unless you get to the free throw line. You don't. People master that. And sure, does he push the envelope? And like he hit a shot last night. I think it was going right. He took that little bump that he normally takes and he kind of like threw himself to the right, but he still banked that sucker in. They didn't give him the call. They didn't give him the call.
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He banked it in. Like, yeah, some of them that he doesn't get, push the line further than it should be pushed. But I think the refs have done a relatively good job, at least in the playoffs when I've been tuned into every game of letting that go.
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Yeah, he is making it obvious that there is a legal contact in some of those situations and receiving the benefit that is the foul.
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But hear what I'm saying to you. In some of those situations, they give it to him and some they don't. But he doesn't rely on that.
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to score this man is still out there putting on a clinic offensively he is he is taking it to the rim like fuck these officials on a lot of occasions he's not relying on them on those middies all the time but if he gets you in a bad way i.e um uh rudy gobert on the switch and rudy got that nine foot arm out there on his fucking hip and he feels it he's gonna go up into the air and get that arm to come down on his off arm and draw two free throws
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That's what he's going to do, and that's why he's a professional scorer. And if you don't like it, go look at everybody. Let me tell you this story again. I've said it before. Kobe Bryant, everybody's favorite, okay? Said to an official in front of me, in my presence, at a game, at the Staples Center, call it both ways. I couldn't believe my ears. I'm going to say this again. You want to clip it?
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I don't give a fuck. We got heated. I was up in his space. He hit me with an elbow, split my lip. We got kind of chest to chest. He felt like I had challenged him in a way. He looked at the official and said, call it even tonight. I was appalled.
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Look up how many. That's not fire. That's not fire. That's not fire. That's some bullshit. But look at how many free throws I shot that night. And look at how many free throws I historically shot when we played the Lakers. Do you remember the game specifically?
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This would have been, I was with Utah more than likely. So it would have been 04 or 05 in the Staples Center. I don't remember which one of those years it was. Okay. I will look that up during the break. The point is, all of your favorite players, all of your best players get a whistle that the ninth guy on the bench doesn't get. They get a whistle that the fifth starter doesn't get.
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They get a whistle that the number three player on the team doesn't get. Book it.
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Who else? Give me other names. I mean, give me other names. Let me see. What does LeBron average in the playoffs? What does Larry Bird average in the playoffs?
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I wasn't trying to say we were going deep into Overbrook or anything like that. I was simply saying when I left PCOM, at the light at City Ave, I make a right to go to Friday's, or I make that left and I hit the shop right on the right-hand side, get me a little something for lunch, and then I'm straight to the executive house. So I wasn't making the right. I was making the left.
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It's one of my wildest NBA stories. It's just wild.
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It's probably less than that when we played the Lakers. So the fact that they gave me seven was way out of character when I played them Jokers. It's nuts. It's only to say your favorite player gets to the free throw line, dude.
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I don't want to be. I don't need no clips. I don't want to be.
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It doesn't mean that I want it. You understand what I'm saying? You're acting like Howard right now, bro. You're acting real scary right now. Jesus. Well, bitch, why don't you get your ass up there and get aggregated by millions of fucking Kobe fans?
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How do you feel about that, sir? I mean, I don't even remember what I said about that, but... i can't i can't uh listen aggregation is it kind of comes with the territory i guess but uh if i can avoid it like i don't want to incite it so like i don't i don't mind being i mean i'm not on there like that you know that so half of the shit that i get aggregated for it goes with
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Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I guess I said from the jump, I don't have a real great feeling on this series. It's kind of played out like that. I mean, 20-point lead disappeared for the Knicks, 20-point lead disappeared for the Pacers. It's just a weird series. Carl Anthony Towns was fantastic in the fourth quarter. Aggressive. decisive, just in his bag all around.
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I think how he continues to do that is going to require... want to be delicate when I say this, but I think other people have made the point. I've said it before, too, as it relates to... I've even said it as it related to Jason Tatum when he got hot and he was on the ball.
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What?
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Jalen Brunson is going to have to find the happy medium, that balance between being the assassin that he is and closing games, but leaving enough opportunity for the others to help him out and not just completely kind of throwing... Throwing the flow of the offense off. That sounds so crazy because I'm not... This isn't accusatory in any way. He is their offense a lot of nights.
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You know what I mean? But you have to have a good feel for when you've got to give up a few of those touches and a few of those isos and a few of those monopolizing possessions to just get it up and get it moving and let other people get a taste.
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That's what y'all came on here. Y'all had a pre-pod meeting. Y'all was just going to fuck with me today. That's what that is.
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Well, he was in foul trouble. Yeah.
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Well, at that point, you're coaching. I mean, you're coaching, man. Like, I don't think he benched him because he didn't like what he was doing. He sat him down because he was trying to protect him from the foul trouble. But once you're sitting there, if we are hooping, hooping, hooping, I mean, I'm riding that for a while. I owe it to everybody out there. You too, included.
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You're on the team, right? So while you're still my best player and my best closer, I'm going to ride this wave until it crashes on the shore, right? And then we'll call that timeout, try to get you in the game or what have you. So I didn't have a problem with it. It would have been different had they said, he's having a bad night. We're going to just sit our star.
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I don't think it didn't come about like that. So I was okay with it.
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Yeah, that's tough. McBride in the first half. McBride in the first half was... he was good. But I think ultimately for me, it's heart. And the reason being because he was asked to sit down to start a game. He was asked to play a different role. And I don't know that he was asked, but he was put in a situation to have to sacrifice for the betterment of the team.
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And you always talk to young players about that, young athletes, just about
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know what you can control what you can't control and how you act in the face of change and and how that relates to a team being able to have success because of you or a team not being able to have success because of you and i thought he just went about that the right way i thought he went about that and i had no doubt he would but like i that's just something you can always point to as a dad as a coach you know as a mentor and say look at look at that
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Sat him down, didn't sulk, came out, didn't score a lot of points, but was just doing everything that they need him to do.
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I will say this. I will say this. My first apartment, and maybe this is why I didn't go to, to, to Friday's a whole lot because my first apartment upon, you know, arrival in Philly for that second year was a nice little, like, uh, apartment complex tucked back behind the TGI Fridays. And yeah, I was robbed very quickly in there on a road trip.
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Yeah, that's not even in your bag, homie. That's not even... Stop playing, bro. He was in mid-backdown. You don't practice that shot. Is that your shot? It was a great defensive play, but that was not... You could tell that was not comfortable.
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That was a great block. Not to go back a series, but there were two blocks last night that were incredible. Jaden McDaniels on the... J. Will had the... the layup that he wrapped behind his back and McDaniels was already contesting that and came down and then, and then beat up the shot on the other side of the backboard. And then Chet's block late off of, off of like, wow.
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Um, I haven't known from the beginning. I would say that, the pace of this series has come back down into the Knicks wheelhouse. You had like, you know, one thirties, although that was inflated because of overtime in the first game. But then you were like one, one 14, um, I think was the, was the winning number in game two. And then what was it? One Oh six. Um, in the last game, one Oh six, 100.
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If you're holding Indiana to a hundred, um, A sub 110, if you can hold them to that with a combination of dictating pace and defending, that's a good spot for the Knicks to be in. Very good spot for the Knicks to be in. If we are talking in that next five-point range, the 110 to 115, I don't have a great idea. Anything could happen. 115 plus, you're going to lose. Yeah.
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So, you know, that's what I think I know. What happens in the series, how they do it, like, this shit's all over the place. I didn't have a good feel coming in. I still don't. Because you can make the same case that the Pacers should be riding 3-0 right now and everybody's packing their bags for Cancun. That's what I'm saying.
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So there wasn't a whole lot that I wanted to do over in that area. I was just taking it back down to St. Joe's. You were a little triggered.
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I actually, I don't know, but I tell you what, I don't, and I don't know why like this isn't like a prediction or anything. I just have a gut. I think the Pacers, I think the Pacers might, might hang a number on him tonight. I don't know why I feel like that. There's nothing supporting that. It's just kind of my gut. I don't know.
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He's out here in these streets, Rob. You know what, man? Here's what I'll say to that. Definitely not a good look on the heels of everything that transpired, right? we can agree. Um, but, but, um, you know, that seems to be who he is. It's, and, and we should probably know that because like his son kind of gets down and, and has some antics and is known to pop a little shit.
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You're over here sweating like a slave in the pigeon coop.
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So like, I'm not mad at you, dad, the time and the place. Yeah. Time and a place, right. Time and place. But, uh, good for him being back in the building. I, That's your child, man. And do you know how proud? I mean, I can only imagine. I mean, I'm proud as hell just watching my kids do their youth sports and stuff like that.
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But if I had a kid playing a professional sport this late in the playoffs, I mean, I remember my parents being in the building and the pride that them and my grandparents and aunts and uncles had. I don't want anyone to miss out on that unnecessarily. So I paid his penance, man, did the time, let him back.
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Wait, how did he act like he was above him? What do you do? I mean, maybe I missed something. What do you do?
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A true Philly fan.
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It wasn't that long ago, and I remember, I don't know what episode, or I would try to clip farm it, where you said something about, we don't want Tobias Harris no more. We already know what he does. I remember that. Cause I'm, cause I'm friends with Tobias as well. Right. But what I'd say, shout out to Tobias.
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I got a lot of questions. Why would you be on Broad Street with your windows down so that you could be interacting with anyone? I would have no idea why you would be doing that.
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Take your ass in a Sprinter with tents. With tents, dog. He's driving. At minimum. He's driving himself. At minimum, be in a suite, like, hanging out in the bowels of the stadium until, like, the traffic dies down. But, P, holla at me if you need some advice on beating the traffic, dog, because I'm an expert in that. In terms of...
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Listen, this is just, I mean, again, you guys as Philly fans are so passionate. It's what everyone loves about you when they play for the team. It's what everyone else hates about you. But he's like what people fail to realize. It used to happen to me a lot was what happened on the court was just a small part of my life. You know what I mean?
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And the fan is so invested in it that it creeps over into every part of their life. They're going to work. They're talking about the Sixers game, the Knicks game. They're going to the dinner at Mama's house. They're hitting Logan on a Sunday afternoon about what the fuck is going on. Yeah. And when we step away from it, we try our best to leave it where it was.
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So we're not like holding on to any of those feelings about, yo, I wasn't good enough last night. And so I can't be riding. We're just not, we're not.
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But in terms of, in terms of like, in terms of his, his message, like him laughing that off, like he, he worried about it. Like, he just ain't worried about it.
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There's nothing he can do about it right now.
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Step into my office, Cliff. Step into my office. Dr. Raj is going to... I like this.
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Could it be that Cliff... The Philly fan, the representation, the embodiment of the Philly fan is projecting their feelings of a needed apology on Paul when all he's doing is sitting at a microphone and telling, no, no, he's not apologizing though. You know what I'm saying? You're projecting that on the man. The man's just telling you what happened. The man, he ain't tripping off of that.
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Y'all motherfuckers want to talk about we don't want an apology tour.
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I ain't got to do shit but cash these checks and show up. if we're keeping it a buck.
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That's all I got to do. We not trying to... Listen. That's a fact of life, but we not trying to hear none of that. You can hear or try to hear whatever you want or don't want to hear, but I'm telling you, as far as I'm concerned, if I'm Paul... Listen, I ain't apologizing to y'all for shit. I didn't have a good year. Most of my years have been good ones. This one wasn't.
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I'm going to go back to the drawing board. I'm going to work my ass off. I'm going to come back and earnestly pursue a championship with these Philadelphia 76ers. But if I should happen to be bad again next year, don't give a fuck about what none of y'all are talking about. I'm going to be right up on my podcast handling mine.
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Paul, hey, Paul, if you don't like to speak like this, dog, I'm available. I'll figure out a rate. I'll tell all these motherfuckers, hey, bro, Paul ain't got to worry about shit.
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If we're keeping it a buck, I do get love in Philly. But if we're really keeping it a buck, it was for a very, very, very small sample size. Right? And that next year.
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But you know what I wasn't about to be doing that next year? When I wasn't good? Apologizing to no motherfucker in the King of Prussia mall. I wasn't about to walk into City Blue and be like, yo, my bad, y'all. I wasn't good last night, bro. I can see that Ava Rex. Nah, we ain't doing that.
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At what point does Paul, when all of these questions start coming at him, just do this to the locker right next to his?
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What Gilly said on the podcast.
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I guess my point would be, I mean, if we're going to have a reboot or a replay of this year, next year, That ire should be squarely pointed at one of the two of them, and it ain't Paul. Hey, that's what – Right? You know what I'm saying? So, like, at some point, the Philly fan, you're going to direct that anger to where it's supposed to be directed.
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Yeah, why I'm not in the front office anymore as well, who knows whether I would have wound up being good at it long term, but... I really enjoyed it working with the Cavs and stuff, but my kids were so young, Cliff. It was too hard to balance being the dad I wanted to be with. You did say that before. Listen, don't get me wrong.
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What they used to do, what Griff used to do with me was he'd take me in and there would be a... you know, like a ticket holder event and stuff like that. And it'd be like a state of the team, right? Before we came out and really played games. And I'd give that address, right? Like I'd give the state of the team. I'd let the fans fire questions at me and stuff like that.
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So like, I actually enjoy stuff like that. Those were like the easy parts of my job. So maybe, who knows in another, like, you know, once the kids are grown or something like that, if there are ever any opportunities, but like, nah, dog, I... No, I mean, I like to be at these games.
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Tell them to holler at me, man. If they let me off the leash, that's my only condition, bro. I got to be unleashed.
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Well, let me just – I mean, I would agree with that. 13 for 30 – Like, that's not a bad game for a 40 ball with 10 and nine. Like, pretty good game.
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There are layers to this. I was watching it in real time, and then I watched it again. Look, We spoke on, I think it was the last pod, or maybe it was two pods ago, about how Ant, if he wanted to score more efficiently, needed to get behind the first wave of defense and so on and so forth.
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And then towards the end of that, I said, and the only other thing you could really do offensively if you're Ant, with the way OKC is playing you, is just distribute the hell out of the ball and hope that others are making shots in a way that could win a game for you if you were just the primary shifter of defense.
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Like everything you're trying to do offensively is to get the defense to kind of like shift or rotate to where two people have to be responsible for one and then the ball starts moving, right? That's typically how it works unless they're just going to really just stay at home and then it's kind of one-on-one, right? Ant did that last night.
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Ant said, look, they're doubling me almost every time I put it on the floor. Anytime they give me a real look with Dort and I go to get somewhere, here comes the bodies. And he was kicking it around. And kudos to his teammates who were cash. Like, they were on and in support. All night. Nikhil Alexander Walker. Dudes were... The only one that didn't really support him was Julius Randle.
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Here's what I would say. I heard his postgame where he said, I didn't feel like I had an off game or a bad game. I just didn't shoot enough. What I thought... Shea did a much better job of, and some of this is the defense. Minnesota's not choosing to double him in that way, although they were early flooding to him when he was on the strong side of the floor.
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He stayed patient early because J. Will was really carrying him really early in that game, right? Shea hadn't really got it going yet. I hear everybody saying that Shea came out and he was on his shit from the jump. He really wasn't. He was just kind of letting the game come to him.
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No, but he wasn't even forcing it, though. He was just distributing early. And J. Will, if my memory serves me correctly, and this was first quarter, but J. Will was making the first four or five shots of the game, right? And then what Shea did better than Ant was just not succumb to, oh, they're trying to take me away and I'm only going to be a facilitator.
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Shea just kept checking his offense, right? Sporadically, boop, boop, until he hit one. You hit one and you're like, OK, here's here's a little wrinkle like now. Now he's cooking. And what Ant didn't. Ant didn't stay present as an offensive bucket in the way that he needed to.
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I don't like people asking me dumb shit, though.
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Yeah, well, first of all, I mean, some of that has to do with, I mean, Lou Dort, is phenomenal when he's on him. There's no breathing room coming off any of those screens. And the few times that he did have breathing room, you know, Ant made a play, right? But like Lou Dort is connected. The screener's man, the defender that's guarding the screener is up and corralling the hell out of him.
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They're just throwing a lot of bodies at him. And even when you got Kaysen on him and other people, like they did a really good job on him. What he doesn't have yet that Shea has is the ability to put somebody on his hip. Like that is an equalizer sometimes. Like Ant wants to play facing you off of that live dribble. And again, in a lot of those instances, he's up high on the court. Do you know?
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Listen, we'll just geek out for a second. Do you know what I'd say? Like if you're playing a basketball game and you got a primary scorer and they're running a zone, do you know where you do not want that guy to be?
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If you're going to double him, like it's hard to double if he's in the middle, right? But against a zone, like you don't want that guy, your best player all the time to be at the top of the key. Now, If you start him at the top of the key and then you run him through so he's getting to the wing or the baseline, that's fine.
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But the reason you don't want him at the top of the key is because all eyes have their butts to the baseline and they're looking at him. So everyone is in a natural support position to help against the dude with the ball. You're theoretically your best player. That's where they have ant almost all the time.
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And so if a team is dedicated to like stacking, you know, the lanes and choking off your angles to the basket or doubling you, soft doubling you off a pick and roll, it's going to be tough sledding if he's always there. They, Minnesota did some stuff late in the game that I liked. They got him off the ball and they started running him off of screens.
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You weren't asking. Let's be clear. Just to clarify. You weren't asking if I was good. How are you doing today, man? You having any feelings that you need to talk through with anybody? You weren't asking me that. You were asking me if I was recording, to which I would say again, I don't like people asking me dumb shit.
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And the few times they ran him off of screens, he got right downhill. He got right downhill and on top of the basket. And you just got to move him around and you got to help him out because he is developing into the offensive player that Shea is. Shea's got some years on him. Shea's got some experience on him. Shea is a little bit more
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polished in terms of you throw this at me i can do i have these answers to the test doesn't mean ant won't get there but like last night he let them take him out of that game and he was brilliant in terms of spraying it around but they they needed and they should they had a chance to win but like you need him that to point produce a little bit more than that they had a chance to win i don't i there was never a moment during the game where i was like
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Well, I've said this before, and I don't know if this was analytically driven by their team or his trainers. or if this is just who he is as a player. But if my memory serves me correctly again, Ant used to play more in the mid-range space than he is currently playing. When I watch him play now, it feels like if you don't give him the three, he's got to get all the way to the basket.
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And I'll just say this again. Doesn't mean that won't work through the course of an entire season and you can't be really good at doing that. But when you come up against the best defenses, the best perimeter defenders, the nut crunch time in the playoffs, there needs to be a little bit more variance to his offensive game. There needs to be more second level scoring for me.
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whether that is without a dribble, and I'm just giving you a nice catch on an elbow or around the free throw line if I'm afraid of them doubling, and you can play a la Dirk where you have clear vision both ways. They can't double you. Paul Pierce used to do that a lot. Or it's more mellow in KD where that's on the side of the floor, and we're just going to let you cook there.
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Or have the offense – and he would need help with this from Minnesota – Not always have to have him on the ball and initiating with pick and roll. Do what I said they did, like, fractionally and very sparsely last night, which was, like, run him off of some stuff, a la Reggie Miller, Rip Hamilton. Like, you know, we don't run – or Stephen Curry in today's day and age.
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Like, move him a little bit more if he doesn't want to do – The Shea, where I'll just bring you down and put you on a hip and then kind of go to work. Brunson does that very well. Then help him find some variance in his scoring repertoire so that he can be three levels more than he is right now.
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Right now, he's two levels, and I think that's by design, but I don't agree with it in playoffs all the time.