Analyzing Team Performance & Strategy in Recent Games

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00:00What do you think of, uh, overall of the way they're playing and the way they're moving

00:10it and the way they're spreading it out?

00:13Like we noticed, uh, when they played, uh, the, the Sudanese team that they obviously,

00:20uh, didn't cover, but Carver, I had a prop on, um, Curry and Ann Edwards to both go over

00:2720 and neither one of them really, frankly came close to 20.

00:31Obviously Curry had a bad game, but I'm noticing that even on the best night that Duran had

00:36the best game at 23 when he was eight and nine from the floor and LeBron had a 21 piece,

00:43right?

00:44Um, that it's hard for anyone on this team to go over 20 points cause it's like everyone's

00:49getting burned and they're all getting a few buckets and a few looks and a few shots.

00:55And, um, you know, guys aren't putting up those kinds of numbers at all.

00:59What do you think of the team as a whole and the way they're spreading the, uh, you know,

01:03the peanut butter around?

01:04Well, some of that is a lot of it up until yesterday was minutes driven.

01:10A lot of different players getting minutes because it was the exhibition portion of the

01:15schedule.

01:16And then of course a lot of players got minutes against Serbia, uh, because they dominated

01:20that game.

01:22But I think a lot of what was, what needs to happen for this team happened against South

01:28Sudan, uh, on Wednesday.

01:30And that is the ball moved really for the first time in the seven games.

01:35These guys have played publicly together.

01:37The ball moved a lot and it didn't require Tyrese Halliburton's presence for it to move.

01:42Halliburton was the only ball mover on this team before he got benched inexplicably.

01:49And yesterday we saw them actually start to engage with one another at a high level

01:54and seven games in with four games still to play.

01:58I think that's a good sign.

02:00The Saturday Puerto Rico game will not be important.

02:04They'll probably win.

02:05It really doesn't matter that much.

02:07If they do, then the knockout games start with the quarterfinals and that's when it'll

02:11really matter.

02:12And if they pass the ball as well in those games as they did on Wednesday, I think they

02:19have a great chance to win because every time you pass the ball on this team, you're passing

02:26it to someone who can put it in the goal.

02:28Every player on that team is capable of scoring 35, 40 points in an NBA game, but that's not

02:33what you want.

02:34What you want is every shot you take to be the highest quality possible shot because

02:40then you're having the highest quality possible shot taken by an elite player, a player who

02:47is likely to put it in the goal.

02:49And when you do that, what do opposing defenses do?

02:54What is the answer for that?

02:55Hope, really.

02:57Hope that Anthony Edwards misses or hope that Steph Curry has a 1-9 like he did yesterday.

03:02That's all you have.

03:04So the ball moves and they win.

03:07And yesterday was a good step in that direction.

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