Les Claypool
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The Ryen Russillo Podcast
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They're number one in pick-and-roll ball handler as far as the ball handler. Keeping the ball, that's the sprints and possessions. They're number one in points per possession in the NBA and that kind of stuff. But like I said, I'm just... The defensive profile is some of the stuff that we've been talking about here.
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Because I still think with a healthy AD and a healthy Kyrie, and I've mentioned this before, I really like Dallas and their offseason and some of their improvements around this team with Luka in place, considering this is a finals team last year that had to navigate a really tough West. But, all right, so Luka's gone. We've covered that.
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That does not tell me that they're actually a championship contender or even going to get out of the East. Let's go to the Milwaukee Bucks, your fourth seed. So on offense, 13th. Defense, 10th. Last 15th. Offense kind of tanking here a bit. They're 8-7 in their last 15. They're 22nd in offense there. Last year, they were 6th on offense, 19th on defense.
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So they've improved the defense that felt like just a disaster for them last year. But You're looking at the offense here that's taking a dip down. There are two guys that played a good amount, considering Giannis and Dame's history here. Giannis has played 47-59. Dame's played 49-59. 49-59, right, like I said. This is going to be Giannis' seventh straight season with a top-four MVP finish.
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He was fourth last year. I voted him second. People thought I was crazy. I did not think I was crazy. Um, they actually, if you look at the expanded standings of the East of the top six teams, they have a worse record against teams 500 or better New York's 12 and 14. As of this note, uh, Milwaukee is 10 and 14. I can double check that. Yep. It is still 10 and 14.
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This morning, there was an old guy stat in there because sometimes they do look a bit older. I think there's some stuff with Dame where you're not going to get like some of those in-between plays that I always talk about at times. I think Brooke has been kind of up and down from a movement standpoint. I think he looks better now, but they are last in the NBA in loose balls recovered during a game.
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We don't do this very often, boys and girls, we've got a two-part podcast for the Ryan So, part one, Kyrie Irving out for the season. Let's talk some Mavs. We're going to be really nice to Mavs fans. That's how we feel for you. Also, the East, after last week's West, 15 teams in 15 minutes, we do the East, 15 teams in 45 minutes. Sorry, went long. Let's Claypool.
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Does that mean anything? Uh, they started one at six. Then they went 11 and three. Then they were at 25 and 17. Then they went three and seven. Then they went eight and three. So in that eight and three stretch over 11 games, they had wins against Minnesota, the Clippers. I thought the Denver win was really impressive. Uh, the, the game against Dallas. So, uh,
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they've been an incredibly streaky team, but like I said, they're the only, there's another part here too. They're the only top 16 in the East that has a losing record on the road. The Pacers are 15 and 15. Um, They're huge right now with the four guys they're using in the starting lineup around Dame with Kuzma, who I think provides a little bit more juice than Middleton does.
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Prince has been playing, might be out of position at two guard, but they said they're basically experimenting with this on the top of Lopez and Giannis all around Dame. Will that be something that they go with as a closing lineup just to stride? Like, let's be huge out here. Or they try to balance out the Prince part of it with the A.J. Green shooting.
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because it looks like the Andre Jackson experiment is over as far as where he is rotationally. They keep trying this Kevin Porter Jr. thing. He was abysmal in the start of the first five minutes. If you want to go back, you will not because it'd be pointless. But just trust me on this.
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Having him run offensive possessions in a tight game against Houston the first five minutes of that fourth quarter, it was a disaster. He was better, though, against Denver. So maybe they're just going to keep rolling with it, wondering if they have somebody with the second unit during the playoffs. That would surprise me. Okay, let's go Pacers. So Pacers, we know the offense is good.
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It's number eight. Defense, number 19. Last year, their offense was the second best in the NBA, and their defense was even worse than it was this season. So it was 24th. They feel a bit like the Midwest Knicks. So I like them. We have not talked about them a lot. because I think it's met with kind of a collective shrug. Like, yeah, you know, like I like their depth.
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There's a bunch of players I like. The problem is, is when the Pacers play in a playoff series, how often are they ever going to have the best player in a series? My guess is never. In the 4-5 matchup against Milwaukee, no. Say they beat them against Cleveland, no. So Halliburton, I don't think, will ever be the best player on the floor in a playoff series. And it's tough to survive.
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then you're thinking at least for 25 with a healthy AD who's been incredible the last couple of years, which again was another whole reason why for all the reasons the trade was ridiculous and should have never happened. You're trading for an Anthony Davis that I think the biggest Anthony Davis fans would tell you, you're always worried about that next moment.
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It's tough to be a team that goes deep in the playoffs. Now, I know what you're saying, Pacers fans. Oh, really? Russillo? They made it to the Eastern Conference Finals last year. Well, I think there's some conference finals doubt. I would put them in that group of teams that makes a conference finals, but that's not really who you are.
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I don't look at you as a Final Four team, one of the four or five best teams in the NBA. Because if you look at the path last year against Milwaukee, Giannis played zero games in the six-game series. Dane played four of the six. Against the Knicks, OG played three of the seven games. Mitchell played 12 total minutes. Brunson was pretty banged up. The overall number's pretty good there.
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So, you know, defensively, it's been pretty bad throughout. And if we go through this in February, they were 20th. January, they were second. And then December, they were 21st. November, they were 24th. So they had a January number in there that was really good defensively, but it's really probably not who they are. I like the eight with Neesmith back.
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Halliburton post-All-Star has been reminiscent of pre-All-Star Halliburton in 23-24, where he was, what, a 22-12 on assists per game, 49-40% shooting splits. Then 26 games after the All-Star break, he was 17-10. That's the assist number there, not rebounds, and the shooting splits were terrible for him, 45-30.
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So I think at least that part of it, because he was so good at the beginning of last year, you're like, oh, my God, look at this guy. Dudes are just getting on some bonuses case. He's like, I'm over here boxing dudes out. How is this my fault? But, you know, the OB TJ McConnell minutes with Thomas Bryant playing center because of the injuries this year, they're all net negatives.
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You're asking a lot of Turner. You're asking a lot of Thomas in the playoff series to come in and spell them. Maybe they'll go small. I think there's a Mather and Neesmith decision here where if you look at the Neesmith minutes, it probably feels like it's going to be advantage Neesmith here. And, you know, Neesmith... 26 minutes a game in February.
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Matherin's three-point shooting, it's been bad two of the last three months after kind of a nice start there. So it might be a Neesmith closing group here. It's just hard to take them seriously with this defense. All right, let's talk about everybody's favorite team from the Midwest right now, and that's your Detroit Pistons. So the Pistons are 12th on offenses. Ninth on defense. Okay.
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Last year, they were 27th on offense, 25th on defense. They won 10 of 11 games this year when they won 10 of 11 after the win against Utah. That's the first time they've won 10 and 11 since 2007, 2008 series. A season, I should say. Sorry. The last 15, they're the number three offense, the number three defense, number three in net rating behind Cleveland and OKC.
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I mean, one of the, I don't even want to use the word funny, but you know, living in LA when 80 was hurt, you know, it's after the title, uh, And there's this kind of like limbo phase of the Lakers. And local radio would be like, well, what could you get for AD? And it's a bit like the Zion conversation where, okay, what's the market for Zion?
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And it's not really about the passing and the touches because there's been talks of like, and again, I still would love to know how many Pistons games Monte Williams has watched this season. Because I wonder if he ever just watches like, hey, they've got some good players on this team.
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The passing, touching, movement, all that kind of tracking data, you wonder, oh, is it they're getting... No, because a Cade is a bit like the Luka Harden model of like, I'm going to kind of figure it out until I figure out how to best use this possession, and it has worked for them.
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But playing defense at a higher level and having your true shooting percentage improve from 26th in the NBA to 14th in the NBA, even just being average, means you're going to be in a lot more of these games. So shooting and defense has helped a lot of this stuff.
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And I think Cade also is a bit of the Luca Tatum mold of when you're that big and you have that big of a frame and you have that big of a handle. I think SJ is a little different because I think he floats a little bit more than these guys, even though he has all the tricks and the angles down.
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There is something to be said about the way the game is officiated right now, that if you're playing to contact, but your body is almost a shield against the defender, once you can figure those things out, and around the rim where Cade had struggled so much earlier in his career. He's figured that out.
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On top of everything else with Cunningham, where he's just got this terrific vision to keep the possession going later or keeping his teammates engaged later because then he knows he might find them. That's an incredibly great place to start. They also play a million dudes. This is like a hockey team with what they're doing with the rotations in February.
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I don't know what that's going to mean, but the Pistons right now are a half a game back from hosting a playoff round at home. They're only a half a game behind Milwaukee and the Pacers that are in front of them in the four and five seed. All right, we go to Miami. Number 19 on offense, number 12 on defense last year, 21st on offense, fifth on defense. So they're playing better defense last year.
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This team is an absolute snooze fest. They're 29 and 31. If you look at their schedule and the records throughout, they're basically always like two to three games around 500. Bam's terrific. I love him. Hero, I actually have more respect for just because of his creativity and difficult shot making. after watching him try to defend the Celtics' wings in the playoffs last year.
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Jovic has been shooting really well the last few months. Davion Mitchell is terrorizing people, but he is your starting point guard because the Rozier thing, as bad as it was last year, has been even worse this year. But Davion should really be a third or fourth guard on a basketball team. Jaquez, who I remember coming out of the draft, he lights it up. Miami, they tricked it.
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Not tricked, but Miami did it again. What's wrong with everybody? Well, the reason why our kids lasted as long as he did is because he wasn't a great athlete. He didn't shoot it all that well. Um, He's had months this year where he's shot 90% from three, 17% from three, 20% from three. So the draft questions actually kind of became true a little bit more later on.
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I still think he's such a smart player, and he's probably going to play in the league a really long time, but maybe it isn't the Miami smarter than everybody else, and everybody's draft questions were stupid about this guy because there's been a bit of a reset on who he is. I think Khalil Ware has been a huge, huge plus for this team. But this team's just going to be stuck.
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I mean, some of the most negative, absurd Zion being at the lowest value rating was still just ridiculous. It's like, look, another team would trade for him. But I think the win in what you're seeing from the way Zion is playing is that the Pelicans are like, okay, I think we actually need to pivot off of this. Um, his market has recovered.
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And I think Heat fans look at it as if they're entitled to expect the next star to just want to end up in South Beach. And I don't know, is it true or is it bullshit? Because they pull off the Shaq thing, they get the title with Wade in 06. Braun decides to go there with Bosch, but did they go there because of heat culture?
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And again, I'll never make fun of heat culture again after the finals run, losing to Denver, right? I've decided to never do that again because Caleb Martin turned into somebody else and gave Vincent turned to somebody else. And those dudes turn into dudes. They're kind of not, but, um, LeBron probably went there because it was Miami and because it was Wade already being in place.
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And the Jimmy Butler part, you know, they took advantage of an opportunity of Philly making the wrong decision on Ben Simmons and Jimmy Butler. But at the time, everybody kind of understood it. So is it that they are going to figure out a way to get the next guy? Because there's actually not really as much as I love BAM. There's not a top 20 guy really in place.
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I mean, if you want to get weirder about it, like how far down the rankings is the best player in the NBA, the best player for Miami, and again, it's Bam. I love him, but you're never going to run your offense through him in a way where it's like, hey, get us a couple buckets. I know he's somebody who will start a possession or his passing is really good, so they'll get the ball to him a lot, but
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I think Heat fans just kind of look at the landscape of the NBA and be like, hey, who's coming? Who's next? I don't know who's coming. I think this team is really stuck right now. Speaking of stuck on offense, let's talk Orlando Magic. 28th on offense, number two on defense. That split is the widest split in the NBA in those two categories. I don't even know what second.
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I didn't bother looking it up. Last year, they were 22nd on offense, third on defense. To say it one more time, this team went to seven games last year with the Cleveland Cavaliers in the playoffs. Should Jalen Suggs get MVP votes? Well, he's not going to. He's not going to qualify. And now he's out for the season. Knee surgery. Kept trying to figure out what this contusion was.
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If you look at the on-off stuff, there's a pretty significant swing for Jalen Suggs. I think it's like around nine points the last time I looked at it. The problem for them, well, there's a lot of problems. But their two best players, Paolo and Franz, are shooting 30% on threes. And...
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They take 12 a game, or at least they take 12 a game in February, where Franz is shooting 29%, and Powell is down to 27% on threes. So you're looking at two scores that are combining for 50 points a game in February, and they're at a number where you're not going to tell these guys to stop taking threes, but other people would be told to stop taking threes.
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Now, some of it, to be fair to two players that I still really like, Um, there's just so bad on offense, whatever they're trying to get into. And man, I'm telling you when it is bad, it is unwatchable. I think there was a Stan Van Gundy game where I just really appreciated his just absolute like exasperation watching them try to figure out what they were going to do.
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It will recover if he continues to play like this and is healthy going into the off season. So when you think about the lowest point of the Anthony Davis stretches, was it where it wasn't about his playing? It was about his availability and then trying to project out as he got older and be like, okay, well,
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And I don't know why it's this bad. But it's a lot of, oh, what do you want to do? Maybe we'll do this. Oh, this isn't working. Okay. Fran, shoot it. Paolo, shoot it. So I have, I think, a fairer eye in how bad some of the shooting is. I don't know what the shot quality stuff is here because I was looking at...
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The wide open shots, I was looking at some of the quality tracking stuff that's out there because I was like, is it that they just have the lowest quality of shots? Well, on wide open shots, they actually were like 14th most in just a closest defender, not even being within 10 feet. That's how they track wide open shots. So it's not like they're not getting any of them.
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Um, but this team is just forever has spacing issues. And for 66 million, you wanted a little bit more out of KCP and he's shooting 31%. And you want to talk like all don't notice him. I think he's all don't know to some second team NBA this year. I guess I could just say all don't know to some second team. KCP would get some votes.
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There's some other guys who are just like, I know they've had some injury stuff here, but you're like, what the fuck is going on with that guy? It is so bad on offense. It's just so bad. They have a really good one-two. They'll have Suggs back.
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you know, the Anthony Black stuff, the numbers are okay, but I expected a little bit more out of him, especially with the opportunity because of the other injuries. Cole Anthony's been really good for him. He's probably a six man forever. Jet Howard has not been really good for them.
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But I think ultimately what you do if you're running this team is you go, we had an awful year for a bunch of different reasons and you stay the course and you run it back next year because that's what most basketball teams do. And I think Orlando would probably be considered one of the more patient front offices in the entire NBA. This episode is brought to you by State Farm.
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kind of contract do you want to do for somebody like this like how much can you really bank on him and then you have local talk shows which again i'm not even being critical of the local talk shows because i did it and it's just kind of what you do is like could you trade anthony davis what do you get for him and back to the zion point is that really the best thing you can hope for is that he plays well and then if you wanted to make a move that he would be available or more interesting to more teams because you just start to talk yourself into the recency bias of what you've just seen from a player
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So at the beginning of the year, I was hopeful. I think three summers going in, I kind of like some of their guys. They move on from DeJounte Murray, which wasn't playing basketball. It was taking turns between he and Trey last year. I think the Dyson pairing next to Trey is a lot better for them. Jalen Johnson is one of my favorite young players to watch in the entire league. He is out.
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Last game that he played in, the team finished up with a loss at 22-22. But now that Hunter is gone, that Jalen has been hurt, Bogdan was gone, I think we could get into some Bogdanovich stuff or just asset management stuff in general and talk about that. But they got Terrence Mann back, so that's fine. And Bogdanovich was shooting 30% from three this year.
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Just some terrible advance numbers with him. Hunter... He went from too expensive, bad contract, what are they doing, to teams really wanted him. Although, you know, look, they didn't kill it necessarily on draft pick compensation coming back with three second rounders and two swaps. And again, I can't get on the DeJounte trade.
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I can on the first part of it, but moving him out when I like the Dyson compliment better to trade. The problem is now that these dudes are gone, we're back to peak Trey, and it's terrible. He's 31% usage since the trade. Since the deadline, he's 31% on threes, taking 10 of them a game. He's 33% on threes for the season, the lowest since his rookie year.
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He's got the worst advanced stats since his rookie year. And it's a significant drop off in the direction that it's been going here. The end of the Detroit game was just gross. If you watch it, you know exactly what I'm talking about. And here's a stat for you. If you log the opposing player scoring against your player in the paint, Trey ranks 547th out of 547 players. Not where you want to be.
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Chicago. Hanging on. Looks like they're going to be your 10th seed as the teams behind them race to tank. Chicago is 18th on offense, 26th on defense. Last year they were 19th on offense, 26th on defense. They make Miami seem exciting. What do you possibly want me to say about the Bulls that's insightful? I tried. Remember January 22? So let's go back three years ago and a month or so.
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They were 27 and 11. I remember doing a thing and being like, man, that's a really good start. But I'm wondering, do they have enough size on the perimeter to deal with Giannis in the playoffs? Then we didn't have to worry about that. If you go from that 27-11 record, again, from January of 22, they are 122 and 147 over three years. I don't know what they're doing.
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I don't know what the point of the team is.
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Fuch has good stats. He's 34. Giddey's 37% from three this year, and he's been insane from three in February. But they just have a bunch of guards that are probably all guys that come off the bench on other teams. Pat Williams, just not going to work out. Bezelis is the most exciting thing about this team. Again, Bezelis is the most exciting thing about this team because you're just like, maybe.
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Okay, Brooklyn, let's talk about the bad teams here because, man, are these teams bad when it comes to some of the rankings. They were 27th on offense, 23rd on defense. Last year, they were 22nd on offense, and they were 20th on defense. They were 14-33, then went 7-2. They've lost four straight. Another team that plays really hard, but you need Google when you watch them. Cam Thomas is back.
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He's had some rough stretches of just missing games from November 25th. Didn't play until December 29th and played on January 2nd. and his first game back, um, Friday night, 17 shots, 21 minutes. He is better than I gave him credit for this summer. I just think he's a pretty high volume guy that plays the game one way, but I would say the difficult shot making is impressive. Um,
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Cam Johnson, asset. Claxton, kind of an asset. Those three guys are probably your starters. Keyon Johnson to get a ton of minutes. Killian Hayes, 38% from three with the Nets. That's probably not going to last. I've seen games where Watford is the number one option.
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I've seen games, there was a recent game where the rotation, the five that were out there, I believe, were Watford, Reese Beekman, Tyrese Martin, Jalen Wilson, who's been okay, but not shooting it great. And then Tosan Iwuma, who played soccer at one point. So yeah, this is the real ones out there. who he played for, like the guys on TNT would be like the Nets.
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And in this case, Anthony Davis goes to, what could you get for him into Luka Doncic years later? Because AD was healthy and playing really well. But the fact that you would trade Luka, again, to just one team. And I know there's been some reports that they had kicked the tires on other players. From what I had heard,
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I'm just going to keep guessing Nets. So I just wonder like what the player trade asset here is. Cause if you think of Brooklyn still as a destination, I don't know if people still look at it that way. I mean, I know you get something for Cam Johnson.
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You probably could flip Claxton for something, but considering, I don't know that there was a ton of interest in extending him a contract beyond what he had already made. Um, I just don't know what is really enticing about the asset here. Again, this is what's going to happen with some of these bad teams. Their lottery odds are 6th, 7th best depending on the day. And honestly, like,
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You just wonder, like, are they going to end up playing too well because they play so hard as these teams crank up the tanking here? Like, even when they use that second unit, those guys all play their asses off. Like, I'm actually impressed with that part of it. But is that going to cost them some lottery balls with it?
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And then, ultimately, I think it's the question of what Cam Thomas' ceiling is because, you know... he's, he's likely like, is he good enough to be the third guy on a really good team? I know his scoring is that, uh, and again, he was better this year. I know Nets fans go crazy for him because he puts up huge, huge numbers, but you know, whatever.
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I don't even know that we need to dig into it all that much more. All right. The Sixers offense, 24th defense, 25th last year, offense, 14th defense, 11th. We know the obvious stuff. Um, Paul George, worst advanced stats of his career. Max's three-point shooting has gone down four straight years, 43, 43, 37, 34.
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I think that's a volume thing where I really felt like he was pressing because they needed him so badly offensively to just kind of carry them. So I'd give him a bit of a pass on some of the efficiency declining here. The McCain injury ruined the one feel-good story about this team, and then ultimately we're stuck with Embiid and an unknown future. The Embiid extension was irresponsible.
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There's plenty of times where something will happen, I'll have a thought, and then a couple days removed from that thought or somebody will say, hey, you know what was really going on here was like this thing or that thing. You can try me on the Embiid thing and tell me there's all these things that I don't understand about it. I'm not changing my mind.
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Three years, $193 million, fully guaranteed, not like the previous extension where they had protections. You saw him laboring. Thanks for the Serbia quarter, but for the most part, he looked like he was diminished. And maybe that's the positive. Cause like the on off stuff with him and Embiid historically has been, this is a special basketball team in the regular season when he's been out there.
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That did not happen this year because when you watch it, it's like, Hey, he got his stats, but did you see him? He does not move unless he has the ball or knows exactly where he's moving. So knowing that they gave him this extension and, when they had him under contract for two years and a player option, right? It's inexcusable.
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You want to talk about, well, we've given George and we've given Max this, so we owed it to him. Wait. Wait. He's hurt all the time. Wait. I don't understand it. He's going to be 34 years old and he's going to have a player option for $69 million a few years from now.
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Dallas may have inquired about other stars, but didn't really lay out any kind of blueprint that involved Luca. So then it becomes a debate of semantics. So even if you love Anthony Davis, which is kind of funny because I think there was like a player reaction to it, you know, players in the media being like, you know, Anthony Davis isn't nothing. All of us
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So you pray you land in the top six because the other element of this Sixers thing is that that draft pick lands outside of the top six and it ends up with Oklahoma City.
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But they are... what, four and a half games off the New Orleans pace. They're just going to have to hope to get lucky here with this thing because that would just be the icing on the cake for this season. All right, let's move to the next team. The Toronto Raptors. Highest approval rating for me of any NBA city. 26th on offense, 24th on defense. Last year, 24th on offense, 26th on defense.
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So switching it up. What is this team doing? So, the fact that they're even 19-42, though, I'm kind of impressed. They have 19 wins. They were 8-31 and then went 8-2. They had wins against Golden State, against Boston. Is Orlando a good win anymore against the Clippers? But they've gone, I think, 3-9 in their last 12. So... During that stretch, they were playing incredible defense.
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So January 12th to January 30th, that's how they did it. The offense was 22nd. The defense, they were playing the second best defense in the NBA over the course of two plus weeks in January. More positives. Grady Dick might be a thing, or it could be the sophomore opportunity bump that I mentioned so often where it's
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The numbers aren't awesome, but he just gets more shot attempts because he has more minutes. But at the very least, it's not a Johnny Davis scenario here. Agbaje might be something. 40% from three this year. Like a legitimate rotation guy. Boucher is a legitimate rotation guy. But ultimately, this comes down to... the payroll.
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So next year, Scotty Barnes, 38.6 million, RJ Barrett, 28 million, quickly 32 and a half million. And they just signed Brandon Ingram to three years and 120 million fully guaranteed for whatever fucking reason. I have no idea. I don't know who you're competing against. He doesn't play enough. And I think he's a good regular season score.
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I think when things get a little tighter, as we saw Oklahoma city, just horrifying last year, I think that's, that's kind of real. So Those four players are going to be making $137 million next year combined. For what? This is a list of guys, and I'm not including Scotty Barnes in this. I like RJ Barrett a little bit until I have to pay him. I understand quickly until I have to pay him.
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Brandon Ingram, yeah, he gets you some nice buckets. Even maybe a little side of passing.
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At their core, they have guys that even if you kind of like, you don't want to pay. The Scottie Barnes stuff is not great. Three-point percentage are just kind of disastrous. The advanced numbers have dipped a bit here, but I like him too much, and he's too young, and the good stuff was too good for me to just kind of collectively turn the page on this guy.
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understand that okay every single person that had a comment on this trade all understood like the best version of anthony davis is an awesome basketball player like he's a top 10 player in the league but he's 31 and he's hurt all the time after two really healthy years so like okay now he's had the two healthy years now it's never going to be an issue again so he gets hurt immediately so now the trade is even worse and
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I don't know that he'd ever be the number one option. And again, the number one option on a really good basketball team, I don't think that list is more than five or seven guys anyway. So to ask that of him is too much of an ask. And he's such a great in-between player and complimentary in the things that he can do. I still hold out a lot of hope for him, but like...
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Yeah, I look at Palo potentially being the face of a franchise of a good team. I don't see that for Scottie necessarily, but I think the Scottie stuff's going to be a little too negative because of the dip in some of this stuff. I just don't understand the point of this team. Speaking of, let's talk Charlotte Hornets. 29th on offense, 16th on defense. Hey, look at those guys.
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Their offense, 28th last year. Defense was terrible last year. If I bring it up here again, they were 29. So, yeah. I mean, that Charlotte defensive number is so surprising. I'm checking it again here. They were 6-9 at one point. Then they went 8-37. They're the worst shooting team in the NBA. I like some of the pieces, sort of. Miller's going to be a player.
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Mark Williams part two has been really good. Salon in. I don't know what it is. That might be scary, but I'm in. Only three players have played 50 games for him this year. Josh Green, Seth Curry, and Diabate. Lamello, three-point decline, four straight seasons. Lamello, 21.9 field goal attempts per game, the most in the NBA. 41% overall from the floor. Those two numbers can't happen.
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We know his skill. We know the fun parts. But they are the Hawks North. They have a face of the franchise that's really popular, that is very flawed. Look, at least Trey's won big games for them. This guy's never even played in a game. They have a major attraction that is a major problem. And finally... Ryan, when are you going to do the Wizards? Phrasing. I have Wizard stuff.
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It's on another page. They're 30th on offense, 28th on defense. 24, do you care? No. They're 183 winning percentage. Oh no, they lost again. At 186, their winning percentage at 186, only 32nd worst all time in the history of the NBA. So that's a positive. 2-32 against teams 500 or better. I like Koulibaly. I like Bob Carrington. I like maybe... George, maybe. I don't know.
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Sarge had some good months shooting. I think it's just important that Sarge is taking those shots. Champagny is a rotation guy. They found something there. I'll tell you this. If the trade deadline in the NBA were April 1st, I think they'd have some options here.
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Brogdon, but it is not April 1st. It's February 8th this year. Poole, two more years at $32 million and $34 million. That's each year. He's arguably my least favorite player in the league right now. I did read the piece recently about his leadership and the young guys responding and how he handled being benched last year.
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It's turned his career around, and I read it, and I read it, and I was like, oh, that's really interesting. It also sounds like somebody being like, we want to pump this guy up so we can trade him this summer. I guess if you're trying to lose games, Poole is great for you. I don't know how much longer I'd want to be rebuilding, having that guy take the most shots on my basketball team.
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You're thinking, okay, what are the hopes for this team that were just in the NBA finals? And Kyrie's having this terrific year. And you've gotten the best, most stable stretch of Kyrie going all the way back to the end of the Cleveland run, which is nine years ago. And then he goes out with the ACL. So it's not karma. I don't know how much I believe in karma.
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But again, if it's about losing, good stuff. It's still amazing to me, the Jordan Poole story, that someone that was so important to Golden State winning a title in 22, he was 17 a game during that run. His shooting splits 51 and 39%. big shots from Jordan pool on a championship team that he could play the game this way.
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Now it'd be like having an eight year old and a 10 year old son, daughter, daughter, daughter, son, son, whatever you want to do, man. And say, Hey, I'm going to leave for the day, but could you guys build a deck? It's a shed with a bunch of tools right there. And then you came back at 5 o'clock and they tried to build a deck and used your stuff. The materials were all on site.
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That's kind of how I think Jordan Poole plays basketball. I'll close with this. That was longer than 15 minutes. I had this conversation.
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I think it's pretty clear how I feel about LaMelo. He's, he's not the option. He's more talented than some of the other options. Is Cam Thomas in the conversation? Is Vooch or Kobe White in the conversation? Cause then it can become like a little bit like, who do you want or who is it right now? I'm, I'm open to suggestions.
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Like somebody offered up Lori Markin and I was like, come on, dude, that's, that's, I think sharp is good enough with Portland that I would put them ahead of some of these other dudes. Um, I mean, Toronto does not have an option because I think I'd rather have Scottie Barnes than everybody that I've just mentioned.
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So let's strike that from the record as if he was even suggested because he wasn't suggested by a team. I'm just going through, okay, here are the bad teams. Because if you go through the other teams, like, you know, Bam is still a hell of a lot better than the worst team's best player. I'll submit Poole. Yeah, I think Jordan Poole.
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But from a talent standpoint, there'd be teams that'd be like, no, there's no way. But do it. Go through the exercise. Look at every team. List the 30 best players on each and every team. And then tell me who actually has the worst best player. So is it even an insult? It's like, no, you're just not as good as the best player on every other team. I think it's Poole.
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This is a real pleasure for me as a guy who has been a fan for decades and first opening Frizzle Fry. He is the bassist of Primus and generally considered one of the best bass players in the world. So quite the introduction, Les. Thanks for doing this. How are you?
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All right. Efficient. So this drummer search, it's not something that you've not had to do before. So it's covered territory with the history of Primus. But what was different about this?
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I just, because maybe you work in my business long enough and you're like, I don't know if that's true or not. It'd be nice. Maybe, maybe it is true. It's cool if you believe in it, but I don't really think that's the best way to look at this because it's not about the karma of ownership or a front office that made this disastrous decision and an ownership that I just don't think gets it.
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Yeah, the tryout part of it. How many different drummers did you try out? Because I know there were kind of different stages of the tryouts, but I loved reading about the journey of this.
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So, yeah, it felt it was just a very classic Primus thing to do where I was like, I don't know if they're going to put this on Craigslist, but it it feels like once we were over 6000 applicants, it was it was similar. But now this is for a drummer who not only knows your music, but understands the level of musicianship that you bring in the history.
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I have to imagine those tryouts, like as much as they're just supposed to play and impress you, it had to be kind of like noticeable to you, like who's playing freely and who's trying to win the job.
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at all um you have a bunch of fans that at least get to see kairi and then the timetable for ad and like what would be funnier than a again i don't even want to use funny or what would be more rewarding than just a entertaining playoff run you win a series you're in it you start talking yourself into it you know have a moment of joy realizing that the other guy's playing in the lakers uniform and he's never coming back um yeah so i just feel for mass fans let's do this
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Because of your playing style, and I think there's almost like a joke where the older brother gets the guitar and the younger brother gets the bass. And there's just so many bass players. It's like, you just hang out in the back. We don't want to hear from you. We don't want you having any of the stage presence or anything. And you've been the opposite of that, which I want to get into.
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But based on how powerful your playing is, is there something that you look for in a drummer that maybe other bass players aren't looking for?
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I'd love to go back to some of the beginning stuff. I was watching all these YouTube clips the last couple of days in preparation for this. I was watching your Stanford radio gig, I think in 89. Oh my God. Shirt off.
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Perhaps the greatest bass player alive from Primus, four decades long. The search for a new drummer, his career, and appreciation for what he's accomplished. And the Letterman story that I'd never heard before. I was fired up to talk to Wes Claypool, man. I have loved this guy for a really long time, so it was cool. I'm going to get to the East here. 15 teams in 15 minutes-ish.
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I'm just thinking like, man, the fun and the freedom and you're about to, you know, become I know you were doing well locally and you're about to, you know, as the pivots towards the 90s, you know, take on a whole nother level of success. But I'd like to go back to the very beginning of it, because as an aside, When you look at different actors, actresses, it's like you can only do this, right?
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There's certain movies I may not even like, but I'm like, I'm glad they made that one. It happens in a lot of kind of front facing industries where you're out there, your work is your performance. And people are like, these are the rules. Thinking about your approach. Hey, I'm a bass player. This is how I'm going to sing. These are the things I'm going to sing about.
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And I want to have the bass be the lead attraction of this band, right? How many people told you you were out of your fucking mind in the beginning?
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15 teams, 15 minutes-ish. We'll go by the standings of this morning. Some of these numbers are sorted through the last 48 hours. We start with Cleveland. So Cleveland's come back against Boston, and I know that Porzingis being out and Drew Holiday being out leads to some defensive matchups and switching and hunting that Cleveland would likely not have the option to attack.
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When did it click for you? I mean, first of all, that was an incredible answer. So it's what I wanted to dig into. I think I probably have a follow-up to that, but I have a follow-up before that one. It's just, I think those of us that can see somebody master something to the level that you have playing bass...
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was there, I know all of us want to be like, did you just pick it up one day and you were, you were a natural and you were just a genius. Obviously that's not the answer, but what was the moment where it was like, Oh shit.
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if Drew Holiday and Przingis are playing in a playoff series. But the biggest compliment I can give to Cleveland is that I didn't care about any of the regular season outcomes. I just thought there were bad matchups there on the perimeter for Cleveland against Boston. There's no way I was ever picking Cleveland against Boston in a playoff series. Now I'm open to it. I'm flirting with doing it.
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No, but I do understand it. I understand. I think that's one of the most amazing things about instruments is the first time you try to mess around with something, you go, what am I thinking? What am I thinking? And then there'll be that moment where the next day you'll go, wait, my finger just went there. It just went there automatically. And I don't care who you are.
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If you've never played an instrument, I don't know that you could ever understand that process of like... unlocking your brain i don't know what else there is that maybe it's some stuff in athletics where you just subconsciously like you just know where you're supposed to move um but yeah that's that's something that unlocks something that um is probably very underutilized
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You mentioned Jay Lane a bunch of times here. What were those early days of coming up with the lyrics, coming up with these characters and these concepts, and really doing something a lot of people hadn't been doing for a rock group?
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And I know I said it with Bill on Sunday. I said it earlier today on FanDuel TV. But I love this Cleveland team. If you look at the overall numbers, let's run through it. First on offense, seventh on defense. Last season, they were 16th on offense, seventh on defense. Which... you know, coaching is probably not as impactful as we'd like to think it can be.
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You did. You did. Because I know that at least in some of the interviews that I've read, just your timeline of family members on this, it's just so funny. It's hard to keep up with. But just some of the creative stuff of like, all right, what got us to that next level? Because there had to have been...
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Was there ever like an executive meeting where it's like, Hey, you, you're quirky little thing here and you're pretty good on that instrument, but like, there's no way there's long-term success. There's no way there's long-term commercial appeal to what you're trying to do say on the first couple albums.
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Certainly coaches that, that pursue that profession when it comes to the NBA, more often than not, like who's on the team, but Atkinson is really unlocked something. And on top of the Hunter acquisition and everything that's happening with the rest of this team, they are nine deep. If you want to go 10 with a coral, you can do that. I'll say nine.
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I can only like, you know, I kind of go back to like the guys that I would hang out with. And I was always like, this band sucks. Not you. Like somebody said, you know, I was like a little pretentious about it. Right. I'd be like, these guys are good. And this is like the good list. And this is the bad list.
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And whether it's Dean Wade coming in and being like, Oh, you're going to switch into Dean Wade and he's going to hold up defensively. Well, Have you not watched any of these Cavs games? Like he does a terrific job and stretches the floor. Strews, if you want to use him flying off of screens in a catch and shoot, that's a little bit different.
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And then I was working at a CD place and your CDs were in there and I could never understand the cover. I'd be like, what the fuck is that? and then a guy who played guitar, and then his brother who played bass. They were like, you don't listen to Primus? And I was kind of like laughing, being like, you do? They're like, you're nuts.
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I thought it was like, because there was younger kids coming in and buying it. But again, I wasn't even that old. I was only like 16 or less. But I was like a little pretentious like Allman Brothers, and I was getting into my jazz phase, you know, which is funny enough, because when once I started listening... Yeah, right. What a dick. Yeah.
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I also love rap too, but I, I remember, I think I listened to Stanley Clark school days before I ever listened to you. And then once I listened to you on the early stuff and then I was, it's, you know, and I've read you talk about Stanley and him being an influence.
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Um, I've talked about Jocko cause that teen town live from Brazil thing on the fretless base is like, to this day, I could, I could still go back and listen to it all the time. Um, But once I understood, there was different elements to it. Again, this is just me talking to you, but it was fun. But then it was the grooves. The grooves always brought me back. And the way you would get into stuff.
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And then it just felt like everybody was kind of sort of on board once it was Sailing the Seas of Cheese. I feel like Sailing the Seas of Cheese is when there was the full buy-in from the rest of the people that just didn't quite get it.
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I was lucky enough to see you with Oysterhead in New York. I know it was short-lived. What was it like to have that kind of departure to two people like Stuart and Trey after, you know, at that point, obviously a lot of different drummers, but, you know, basically being Primus for 25 years? What was that like?
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It's not even a key moves more into his three than say a DeAndre Hunter does right now. But you have all of these options on top of if you want to go double bigs with Alan Mobley, you can do that. If you want to split them up like they did at the end of the Boston game and keep Mobley in and keep Hunter in, you can do that. Ty Jerome is like everybody's favorite player right now.
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Uh, that frog brigade show that you did, I think it was what summer of 23. Um, that was my, my brother, his first concert. So I was able to bring him to that. Um, which was, which was really cool. It was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, No, he was, he loved it. And you, you put on a show too.
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I just, it was, it was kind of like, you know, he was almost like looking around going like, this is, this is what these people can do. And I'm like, yeah, like, especially when, when they're this special. I can close on this because I don't want to take up more of your time, but You mentioned Danny Carey, who I'm lucky enough to have met a bunch of different times through a mutual friend.
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Sam Merrill provides spacing as well. And then you have the studs in the backcourt who, depending on the night, if one doesn't have it going, the other one probably does. And Donovan Mitchell is not afraid of Austin at all. And whatever you think about him and likely not really being considered like a top 10 player for the majority of whatever his production has been, you know this.
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I've been lucky enough to go see Tool live. And I always thought the first time I saw Tool play in L.A. and we went backstage, I saw like every musician imaginable. And it was like a thing that jumped out. I go, think about this. like tool playing here.
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And then granted, you know, it's being in LA, so there's a lot of guys around, but that this many people from this many genres wanted to make sure that they saw it. That has to be like one of the ultimate compliments. And I feel like you are the same kind of guy where the appreciation of 40 years of doing this that other musicians have for you.
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I know you're probably a pretty well-grounded guy and maybe there aren't days where you're just egos through the roof, but. this is an incredible run for something that was so different than everybody else. I'm, I'm wondering if you're getting to an age in your life where you're acknowledging how, how special this run has been.
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No.
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No, I just watched the video this morning again. I've been doing a lot of Primus prep and it looked like the mask was driving you fucking crazy halfway through the song.
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He is capable of some absolutely high-level defense. scoring outburst in the playoffs because he's done it his entire career, even though there's not the deep run in there to get really excited. I mean, it seems ridiculous that this is a team, for the most part, that went to seven games of the Orlando Magic, if you want to talk about two teams going in opposite directions. So,
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Had you ever run into Letterman after that?
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I can't imagine booking Primus and then going, well, wait, you guys are going to do something weird. I don't know.
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Maybe it'll come full circle and you'll be, you'll be a guest on his. I know, I know you have the tour coming up. So that's starting up soon, right? I mean, as far as the, the 25 dates,
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I was trying to figure out something here. Could I find any kind of number here with Cleveland? I'll just run through it. They have the best clutch winning percentage. They're number one in clutch shooting. They're shooting 55% in clutch time. That is a crazy number because, again, clutch time, the shots just don't go in as much.
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I can't wait. I'm excited for you guys. And I just want to, as a fan, as so many Primus fans out there, you know, to put together this kind of music and to try the things that you've tried and to be this successful. And all the joy that I've had from listening to you guys over the years is a sincere thank you. So thanks.
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All right. We'll run into you again. Thanks, Les.
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Okay, that's part one. We've got part two coming up with Todd McShay coming off of the Combine. And we've got life advice. So thanks to Wargon. Thanks to Saruti, Kyle, and Jonathan Frias. We'll put together part one. Enjoy part two of the Ryan Russell Podcast from your Spotify.
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That's why I think sometimes when we look at these players, we're like, oh, this guy's like one for 18 in his last game winning shot attempts as the buzzer expires. You're like, you know how hard so many of those shots are? I don't know that anybody has a good field goal percentage of that stuff to compare their 55 percent clutch shooting percentage with, let's say, who's in last in the NBA.
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It's Houston, which, again, we've talked about their offense being terrible in the clutch time, yet the record is still pretty good. But Houston shoots 37 percent as a team that's last in the NBA on clutch shooting to put that number to perspective. We mentioned the nine guys. Some of you would say 10. Let's just run through a bunch of these ridiculous things.
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Is there one thing they do here that isn't necessarily great if we go points per possession? Well, on spot-up shots, they're number two in points per possession. They're number two on handoffs. They're number three on the pick-and-roll man. That's the roll man receiving the pass. They're number three on pick-and-roll ball. Ball handler, ball handler, keeping it obviously off the pick and roll.
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They're number one in points per possession in transition. They're number one on points per possession in cuts. The only thing I could find, funny enough, when Mitchell and Garland's creativity, they're 14th in points per possession on isolation. So you run through it. It's hard to find anything there that's a negative with Cleveland or isn't outstanding.
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But we have to start with the headline, the breaking news this morning. Kyrie Irving lost for the season with a torn ACL. We were watching it last night on the drive. You were wondering, could it have been something else? He's helped off. He makes the free throws. And then we get the word this morning. I'll just tell you right now, Mavs fans, I feel for you.
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So I think it'll be a Hunter kind of Strews decision. It also be a Hunter Allen decision for Atkinson, depending on the matchup. Um, the, again, how they close with Boston may be a window into what Atkinson will want to do with the Hunter Mobley lineup out there. Um, Look, they are special right now.
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You could talk about touches where they don't move the ball a ton because they're fifth lowest in touches for the NBA tracking stuff. Like how many touches per game do you have over the course of an entire game for all your players? So they're fifth lowest. Does that mean anything? Well, Houston's 30th, Boston's 28th. I love them, and I'm getting real dangerous here.
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I don't want to make too much of Friday night's game because Drew and Przingis did not play. But do not hit me with the they've never done anything before because I cannot wait for that series. And we'll see how I feel about it going into it to see who I pick. Again, having that kind of open mind about it tells you everything you need to know about what I think about this basketball team.
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Let's pivot to Boston. All right. So Boston, number three on offense, number five on defense last year, number one on offense, number two on defense. Last year was a special basketball team. And I still think that they're really special. We know when they have their five guys, they're going to be brutal to deal with because Przingis provides that spacing that you need for a stretch five.
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I think every team actually needs that. Doesn't mean every team's going to have it. But then on top of that, you have the Przingis rim protection numbers, which he doesn't get nearly enough credit for. I have mentioned this. I mentioned it with Bill, the hunt happy scenarios where they get really hunt happy in their matchups.
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where when I'll watch them, I'll admit there are certain things on certain nights where I'm like, wow, they're getting a little stagnant. Do I really like what they're doing here on offense? And even in these moments where I wonder if I like it or if it's some kind of flaw, there's almost no number over the course of the season that backs up this being that big of a deal.
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So it's like I'm being too hard on them. They're number four in clutch offense. They're 24th on clutch defense. So what does that mean? They can't play defense when it matters most. I don't know. I don't know what to do with that number because OKC, as we mentioned, we did the West. They're 23rd. So maybe that number doesn't really mean anything.
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They have the second lowest amount of drives in the NBA. So it's like, OK, is that something? Does this team settle a little bit? too much. Well, Denver's last. Denver's last on drives. They pass it per game, the fifth lowest in the NBA. Total number of passes in a game. Behind them, though, Lakers, Denver, Milwaukee. Maybe Milwaukee's not your
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Maybe the Lakers are going to be a little less movementy with Luka being so dominant with the ball and LeBron and Reeves looking for his kind of matchups. Denver maybe is just different from everybody else because Jokic is just this maestro pulling all the strings and all these different things. But like these numbers don't really mean anything, even if they seem a little bit lower.
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I mean, this is an absolutely brutal, brutal stretch. You know, I know some of the talking points on this are kind of the karma element of it, but you're also doing that to millions of Mavs fans. So if this were about karma... they would deserve a deep playoff run.
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I mean, they even have one number here where they have the most shots in the NBA between 25 and 29 feet. So that's 33 attempts on those shots per game. That's five more than number two Golden State. That's a pretty big differential between number one and two, but they make 37% of them.
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So there could be a few things over the course of a Celtics game where I'm like, I don't know what's going on there. I think if there's an anti-Celtics argument, it could be, hey, they coasted through the East because everybody was hurt the whole time. So some of those questions we had about stagnant
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kind of one-on-one basketball, but not really driving and settling for some of these mid-range, getting into threes a little bit too early? Was that not exposed because they weren't really tested? And maybe Dallas wasn't even the best team from the West, and that's who they faced in the finals. It's a terrible matchup for the Mavs.
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I can understand some of that stuff, but I almost think the standard that And I'll just say for me, my standard is probably just too high for them because of how special I think they are. It almost feels like when the SEC loses a national championship or in this case, last couple years, doesn't play in one. It's like, hey, what's wrong with those guys? So that's where I'm at with Boston.
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All right. The Knicks. Probably guess where I'm going with this. The Knicks defensively. That's really what this conversation is about. They're one of my favorite teams to watch, by the way. If the Knicks are on, it's a lot of fun. They win a ton of close games. You know their starting five is going to be. That's pretty clear because you've seen him throughout.
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So defensively or offensively, start there first. Number four in the NBA, 18th on defense. Last 15, 22nd in defense. Last year, they were seventh in offense, ninth in defense. So defensively, I can't believe the defensive numbers are actually this bad with OG, McHale, Hart.
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But it's a bit like a baseball team having a bad defensive shortstop and catcher because when your point guard is Brunson and can be attacked, and Cat is going to be brought up into every single switch and get used to it.
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If this team closes with Cat in playoff games because they have the Mitchell-Robinson scenario, which is now back, which I'll get to here in a second, I don't know if Tibbs is going to be able to play Mitchell-Robinson and Cat together. Maybe he's just going to have to to try to bring up some sort of rim protection. I don't know what he's going to do.
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Let's see how Mitchell looks coming back to this, but in the times where Cat's going to be out there by himself, he's just going to be brought up. every single time at every single switch. Uh, the other biggest issue, which we've covered their own seven against OKC Cleveland and Boston, the point differential in those games is like 20 points. Um,
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Mitchell in 24, this wasn't a great number for him saving this team or at least getting them competitively in this range of defensive numbers that you would need from them.
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There were 15 players that I sorted by minutes last year, so the top 15 guys in minutes, and Mitchell actually had the worst defensive rating of any of those guys, which doesn't seem to make a ton of sense, but I think he's being looked at as somebody who's going to I don't know if it's save it, but change course here where we can start to take them a little bit seriously.
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I just don't see anything where this team gets through both Boston and Cleveland in the East with this kind of defense on paper last year. They're sixth worst in points in the paint allowed. They have five of the top 23 players in minutes per game. They allow the fewest opposing rebounds per game, so that's pretty good. They've got the second-best winning percentage.