HOUSTON ROCKETS TRADE FOR STEVEN ADAMS! JALEN GREEN OFFERED TO THE NETS FOR MIKAL BRIDGES? AND MORE!

HOUSTON ROCKETS TRADE FOR STEVEN ADAMS! JALEN GREEN OFFERED TO THE NETS FOR MIKAL BRIDGES? AND MORE!

Stephen Adams traded to the Rockets Jaylen green rumors alpr shenon did not get picked for the All-Star Game and what’s wrong with the Rockets offense I talk about all of this right now tap in Enjoy the Rockets Chop Shop is your One-Stop shop for all your basketball needs for highlights analyses podcast we do it all here at the Rockets Chop Shop make sure you hit the like button on the videos that you watch if you enjoy them hit the Subscribe button to get

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Episode of the Rockets Chop Shop pod I got a special guest today now you guys know I don’t really like to uh collab a lot most of my videos are isos but I definitely wanted to bring my brother midy on because he talks the Talks Of

The Gods which is the data and um midi just uh launched a new site a little bit ago called Center culture it is a godsend for me because I’m a guy I have about six different subscriptions to Synergy to cleaning the glass to stat all this stuff and you got to dig

Through each team’s a dashboard to get all the data I use for these videos that y’all love midi has made my life easier because on his website everything is just right there for you to just filter and sort midi what is good brother nothing much man a lot of stuff

Has happened uh the trade just just happened with um we literally just we were about to write record the podcast and the trade with Stephen Adams just happened um Alp just got snubbed they just did the the announcements um we don’t know if he’s a reserve or not or a

Wild card or whatever you want to call it and then also um some news about Jaylen on a from a pod I guess a podcast uh by Sam amek I guess they wrote the article with Kelly and whatever but glad to be here man if you’re not subscribed

To him please do he’s probably one of the best um analy analysis guys in uh not only Rockets basketball but just in NBA General man that’s a appreciate that brother appreciate that and we’re both uh Shang goon truthers if if just for all transparency me and midy are the one

Of the few um sane Minds in in the Rockets Kingdom to actually uh understand what we’re seeing when we watch basketball but uh nonetheless bro I mean you just laid out three juicy topics obviously we’re going to start off with the trade um I’m going to give

My reactions and I’ll let you kind of kick back personally um I you know I’m I’m kind of having mixed feelings about this trade right right now because it’s not in a vacuum if you look at it just as an isolated trade what it looks like

The Rockets have done is Kick the Can down the road one more um deadline basically you trade one injured player for another injured player with uh the with Stephen Adams being traded for vo uh Stephen Adams is a $12 million uh two-year salary so next year he being

Expiring Vo expires this year um as a salary so you basically just kind of lock in that spot without possibly losing Victor oo um this year but the cost is is three us it was a three second round picks now in a vacuum Stephen Adams good player you know

Definitely one of the like known vets in the NBA um I I love what he does for guards he plays with so this is a good in a vacuum if you think let’s say he’s fully healthy you’re thinking about Jaylen you’re thinking about if he’s here you’re thinking about am man

Thompson you’re thinking about all the guards and for a shenon mentoring another tough International player that he possibly could Jael with and give him a different look than uh the bowan hugs that uh we normally get in the high fives that bowan does so somebody’s actually gonna teach him like different

Things on the core rebounding boxing out kind of that tough guy approach that I think Shang gun’s game could definitely use um but the reason we got Victor oo brother is because um we traded kpj and we traded kpj because of KJ’s actions and that trade cost us two second round

Picks so basically we traded kpj to the Thunder uh for two picks they gave us vo and now we’re trading vo with three picks to Stephen Adams so basically the whole kpj situation has cost the Rockets five second round picks now as we’re even recording I was looking through my

Twitter there are people that are saying oh it’s just second round picks if you are a listener of this channel you think second round picks after these pass few deadlines are useless then you just don’t know ball just just to say it plainly I don’t know if you remember

Midi last year last year’s deadline there were starting level wings and role players that on contenders that were being moved around for second round picks in fact a number two overall pick James wisman from the Warriors was traded for the same and not saying he’s good but the same amount of of second

Round picks that it took for us to offload Porter Jr now we we can talk about the basketball stuff about the you know possibly in the future with Stephen but what is your yeah like view on the trade just initially as you haven’t really had time to think

About I think it’s good um you have you obviously just get another backup center uh but like you said again like they pushed the the can down the road like they’ve been doing and we have yet to see some sort of consolid consolidation mode or uh move for stone he’s kind of

Just in this um like he doesn’t want to make a direct decision to just make it make a big change yet um he’s still kind of I guess Gathering dat and seeing what we what he has before he gets gets one of those contracts that are kind of like

Longterm that the coach likes um maybe maybe it’s m Bridges or whatever whatever down the road but they they want some I guess what I’m saying is they just they’re kicking down kicking kicking the can down the road but I do think Stephen Adams is going to be

Really good for alpie um and just kind of our rebounding in defense in general we the strongest biggest guy that we have is U is alpie and he’s he’s a 21y old guy um and then when they kind of want to go a little bit smaller or like

Even just change him jock doesn’t really do anything Jeff is Jeff is okay but he’s he’s he’s getting old and he’s he moves like a four a bit and sometimes he’s just sometimes he just completely gassed on the court for whatever reason and you got to take him out um and then

Javari Javari is not there yet 20 years old um but I think I think it’s going to be good for alpie um I think they’re going to be able to work with him during uh I guess during practice and uh kind of I guess simulate uh how it would be

Against other NBA centers and all that stuff but um I’m okay with the I’m okay with the move I’m curious whether eay wants to play alpi with um with Adams I don’t think that would be the case but you know um we’ll see I’m I’m I’m okay

Like it’s a it’s it’s an okay trade for me but like you said five second round picks um yeah not not good yeah and and now that that was from the asset standpoint from the basketball standpoint in like if just Pur assuming he comes back healthy right that his

Knees aren’t pixie dust um that he comes back healthy and he’s playable and he actually competes next year um I think this is I mean he’s a good player Stephen Adams is one of the best rebounders in the league um when he is healthy and also one of the best

Screeners um I think that’s this is a dude that if you look at his track record with the guards that he’s played with throughout his career um it’s you know the russes the the John Morant and things like that I don’t think it’s a coincidence that a lot of these young

Guards really got into their own under him and and honestly like a good screener is a guard’s best friend and it’s no wonder why jayen really thrives with Alp when Alp is like the one in the middle of his action screening for him and things like that um now as far as

Play style like to me I wanted somebody a little more athletic um that’s able to kind of run because I like what we were doing with the second unit um having kind of because our our main first unit even though they can run in Pace they’re

GNA be a halfcourt team and which is perfectly fine and I don’t I do not mind that because um to me half court is a playoff style and if you’re good at it in a regular season that usually trans well into the playoffs the teams that

Are yeah teams te that are Pace teams in the playoffs they either struggle or their Pace slows down to a hul like at some point you have to get comfortable playing at us sub 100 Pace uh in the NBA and I’m I’m okay with that being our

Brand but I did like the the counter punch of bringing am man Thompson cam Whitmore Off the Bench and they maybe still be able to do that with additional players that they bring in um but um you know I just I wanted a different type of

Center but as a player I think I do value what he brings him and LP together to me though I I just really don’t see that I the spacing to me is is not there and he’s not Dynamic enough as an offensive player to really uh or or

Honestly as a defensive player as well to really kind of uh make that work in my opinion unless you think shenon takes a a leap as far as with his Mobility on both ends of the Court no I agree with that um yeah I don’t think uh I don’t think it would be

Actually that much of a great um I guess Duo if if they’re playing playing on the same um I guess on the same lineup um Ali would probably need to get a three-point shot or something in the summer and also be a little bit more

Mobile um though you did bring up a good point about uh Stephen Adams being good for the guards and I think that’s absolutely true uh he’s one of the best he’s actually absolutely one of the best screeners in the NBA um and he he has

Been for a while um during his time in OKC his time uh with the Grizzlies I think he played for the Pelicans as well but did did yeah yeah he he he really I mean and you talked to other NBA players and a lot of their

Comments on uh Stephen add is is that you try to like you try to like if if he’s screening you and you’re you’re like you’re on defense and you hit him it’s just like it’s it’s a stone wall and you you get hurt you get hurt a lot

Of the times and it’s it’s not easy to play against him um but he’s gonna be great for obviously pick and rolls and um like but he’s also not not the most mobile um and I I do think that eay likes to have couple lineups where he

Can he can switch everything and that’s where Jabari comes in at the five um so yeah I mean we’ll see um it’s it’s just you know another one of those things where it’s just like we gota we got to wait a little bit it’s nothing

Um nothing I guess right now that we can you know I guess yeah yeah mess with and and obviously he’s hurt so he has a knee injury so he’s not going to play this season guys so it’s going to be next year so look looking at the contracts I

Wrote them down that are left so the Rockets well so Olo Dio’s off off the table um we still have Jeff Green at 9.6 million we still have Jack LEL at eight million we still have Tay 6.5 Bullocks and holiday together combined about five million all together I mean aggregated

That’s $29 million in salary um and uh kind of pivoting over to the to the to the next story that we’re going to talk about with Jaylen green um Sam mamek from the athletic just uh they wrote a piece kind of describing which everybody kind of heard about the piece but in the

Podcast uh that he basically kind of expounded on him more saying that specifically that the Rockets do not view jayen as a like a centerpiece uh of the core going forward and they’re willing to have discussions about moving him and chasing a star and what I think

We now have learned is that you know we have this breakout season from shenon who was clearly a foundational for what they’re doing and I’ll be honest and not to like hit the rewind button too much but man like the the Steven Silas era was obviously just one of those that

Will kind of be forgotten as they pivoted you know during the the post Harden time but I will say that you know sangon and what he is now compared to the kind of the part he had in the program under Silas is just vastly different and EMA has pulled that out of

Him I think he deserves credit for that um but jayen green is was the focus of the story that that uh Kelly and shabs and I put together together and essentially that that uh he’s just he’s not seen internally as the building block uh and that they have been open to

Not only talking about him but looking at bigger names they’re star hunting so to speak which to me was shocking I’m not going to lie um and not even shocking that they may think that but the shocking that it leaked and somebody actually gave him that in a story which

Is really weird um to me to me that that is weird to me if you throw his contract in there they have up to $8 million uh to I guess chase a star that they want or maybe a a semi star and somebody else do you think in this trade deadline like

What is your view on what the Rockets should do with the assets they still have left is do you are you go go in on something big right now or are you looking at still kind of assessing where where the team needs to go uh from here no absolutely assessing where the team

Needs to go you if I I don’t think you should trade Jaylen green at all this deadline um and I and like you said like he’s on a rookie contract you said it before that those rookie contracts are very valuable and you get to decide what

They do because they also always end in in an RFA a restricted free agency so you control wherever he goes if somebody wants to pay him big bucks and you you got to make the decision where you want to pay him big bucks or you let him go

My personal opinion about Jaylen green is just you know let him go to RFA and let him uh let him get that contract uh if he actually you know performs well um but you know the biggest thing is and I think we’re going to get into this in

The offense uh section of this but it’s it’s shooting we need shooting we’re we’re one of the worst shooting shooting teams in the NBA by far um we are and then also I’ll talk about this in offenses as well but we’re one of the lowest spot up uh shooting like in

Frequency we don’t spot up as many other teams we’re 28th in spot up attempts um a spot a percentage so there’s there’s a lot of work that we need to and that there’s that’s also because eay doesn’t want to really trust the shooters and there’s other ways to score depends on

Other things that’s another subject but we need Shooters um I like Malcolm Rogen but I think uh I feel like fe uh Portland is starting to get his um kind of be happy with what he provides them and maybe provides them with veteran leadership as well as just production in

General um so there’s Malcolm Brockton um there’s a couple others I’m not remembering off the top of my head but that’s the first thing that comes to comes to my mind um it’s you know this is uh if if if we want to get Alp and

Like all these other guys Jabari tari um everyone everyone of the young core like experience even Jaylen you need you you want to make the plan you got to get Shooters that’s the first thing um backup center I I I wouldn’t mind a backup center uh we already spent the

Money or I guess spent the assets to get one but um that would be that would be nice to have a third Center in rotation a center that you could play right now um but yeah those are those are my thoughts on that yeah this I mean I

Think with the move to um get Stephen Adams they still could like theoretically get either somebody that’s um on the just a vet minimum or a guy like bismach bomo is still out there reunite him and Stephen Adams get the whole Memphis uh discarded front Court

From them um and you know there’s other guys you can get off the The Scrap Heap just to put a body that isn’t jacqu landel which would be a a thousand per Improvement right u i call Jo the human White Flag every time I see him checking

The game I’m like ah yeah game over right we’re giving up but yeah I definitely agree I think um that I’m with you on like what we should do and you’ve seen my videos like I don’t think that even this has nothing to do with Jaylen green whether you hate him or

Love him strictly just being a prudent team you don’t want to just give him away for a player that may or may not move the needle for you when you still have the small even if it’s a very slight chance of it happening that he could actually turn out to be really

Good um there are a lot of things he’s still you know obviously the last few games showing that there are some things that he could bring to the table personally um even with his success in the last few games I do think these are things that are sustainable um I still

Think there’s a big gap as to where he needs to be in order for him to justify being like a centerpiece for a team um the scoring like the numbers do not move me I look at his aggression the play Styles him obviously attacking the rim driving getting to the free throw line

Those type of things um the the thing that I’m not seeing yet though and Calvin Murphy alluded to this in the last postgame against the Pelicans is that when he scores it’s in a it’s in a vacuum like it doesn’t really I mean he had a nice skip pass which is very nice

To see but his scoring yet hasn’t yet reached the point where it’s leveraging his gravity to produce for the team and to me that’s the mark of a star that’s why I’m high on shenon um that’s why I’m you know guys like LCA the Trey Youngs like

Scoring in itself is is a very useful skill but it’s one of the most meaningless to winning basketball games um can you score and then can you bend the defense and then can you generate offense out of that um I have not seen that production from him that may take

Years for him to get that um and and so all the numbers and stuff are great I love the rebounding love the driving but all that to say I still think the kid has a chance to be special even though it’s it’s not like the level special

That I thought initially I thought he’d be like one of the greats but even not uh if if he’s not Kobe Bryant I mean he still has a chance to be a great starting two guard in the NBA and I think when you have a player like shenon

Um him just being an above average guard could be enough like for us especially if you can get him on on a cheap deal uh going forward I did want to also touch on real quick with the with the um I know we’re going to talk about the

Offensive play Styles and all all the stuff that they do um with with um Al shenon right now uh with the allstar thing they did take him off the uh he’s not on the reserves right he he is he’s not voted on even though he had the

Ability to be on there uh to me the the numbers don’t back it up my argument as to why I’m okay with it the Rockets suck right because you can’t be a 11 12 seed and you got guys that are like second third and fourth seas and say that

You’re an All-Star so I’m I’m perfectly fine what what is what is your uh initial reaction to the shanon allstar uh snow even though he was balling out I mean like it’s it’s the thing is it’s it’s impressive that he even got into this conversation in the first place

That’s what I care about the most is that he was in the conversation people were talking about him um people are even upset that he not I’m I’m obviously Rockets fans were upset there’s other people around the league um I saw on Twitter a little bit some uh media folks

Weren weren uh we’re really happy about that but anyways I mean it’s important that he’s just in the conversation and um and that that he he’s he’s making something he’s he’s making something sustainable for the future um I I think he can continue this production um later

On uh next next year for and he’s only he’s only 21 I think he’s about to turn 22 in July but um I’m not that upset about it uh because I saw I kind of saw this coming but um like I said it’s just awesome that he was in the convers

Now pivoting over to the actual offense which was going to be the main topic of what we talked about before these stories came out um the Rockets are in know like I mean I I every game I watch the Rockets they come out and they it seems like try to get other players

Involved and a lot of times it’s going to be uh Jaylen green they try to get him going early he does a lot of um kind of just pick and roll coming off the screen attacking downhill um or just attacking Isola um then another game and maybe Jabari

Maybe it’s Fred trying to get a shot then in the second half it’s like a different offense I have not seen one unifying quality about this offensive system that coach adoka is is running for the rockets and if I had a criticism for him and I’ve been very you know

Complimentary of of email Oka but I’ve been severely disappointed like this this what we’re seeing offensively I know the guys are bad and you’re going to definitely we’re going to talk about the shooting Wes but to me the players you have there’s so much he’s leaving on

The table as far as trying to maximize everyone’s Talent um I put a tweet out that says using the way the Rockets use Al shenon is like somebody putting regular gas in a Lamborghini like you have a player that has that much gravity and you’re reducing him to just a pick

And roll ROM man um that is a a huge huge shame um I think that it seems like some they like they stumbled onto shenon this season and it kind of goes back to um what Sam emic you know we were listening to part of the Pod earlier

Where he talked about how he wasn’t really a a priority in the silus era and now it’s like eeme came here it’s like I don’t know if you guys if you ever worked at like at a restaurant where you got you come in after somebody else and

You got it like damn they didn’t do nothing like this one of those things were like shenon like you like damn he’s this good and he’s just been sitting here so we’re watching him do all this screening and all this kind of random stuff that is for worst players holiday

Some nights Fred and it’s it’s hella frustrating bro because like you’re going to point out and I’ve been looking at some of these stats for the past few years running and spamming pick and rolls um with a guard like Fred Van vet that has no natural uh uh leverage over

The defense it’s kind of stupid and the fact that they’re even middle of the pack efficiency as a pick and roll with uh shenon being the heavy part of the the that scoring punch in there is impressive you know I mean and not saying I’m not I’m not uh you know I’m

Low on Fred Van vet but even for me I I think that they’re not even using him properly like he’s they’re just spamming the same actions and it’s not resulting in good offense it’s really ugly I completely agree I I think that uh eay went into the training camp as maybe

Thinking oh jaylen’s our guy or someone else is our guy like we got to get these people involved Fred’s going to be our main guy Dylan’s going to be main guy or whatever you want to call it he stumbled a training camp with with maybe a plan

And started kind of basic for everybody he kind of throughout the season noticed that alpie alpie is that guy alpie is that guy that you can kind of create an offense R you can you can put players around him um you can build build an offense around him but you have to you

Have to build around the defense obviously because he has limitations on that and also I think by the way I just think uh players get better at defense as they get older uh it’s just I I think I think he’s going to be fine in that department I don’t really have that much

Concerns but the offense um like you said it’s kind of a kind of a disgrace um if you if you look at the top five pick and roll um usage numbers in in the NBA the top five teams that run pick and roll the most is the Charlotte Hornets

The Chicago Bulls the Portland Trailblazers the Houston Rockets and the Detroit Pistons and then what do all those teams have in common they’re ranked bottom 10 and offensive rating so they are um they’re terrible they’re terrible offensive teams and they they rely on the pick and roll because they

Don’t have the creativity to do anything else um and also not even that we’re we’re U we’re about 27th in spot up shooting um frequency in the NBA so we’re not even I I at this point I don’t I’m not sure if it’s Em’s just um lack

Of creativity which I don’t think it is but I think it’s also lot due to the Personnel um but we’re also we’re also um about bottom 10 in off ball screens and hand dhos and handoffs um if you want to see if you want to see more um

You want to see more off ball movement you want to see people running around especially when shangan has the ball and they’ve been kind of doing this especially in the Lakers game when Alie had the ball all you you had guards you had guards everybody running around setting screens for each other and

Getting open shots and that’s that’s what I love that’s and I I tweeted that I said by the way this is how this is how you play Alper and shenon um and then also one of our one of our biggest lowest numbers um which which actually

Kind of like flew out of my radar but we’re on on cuts on scoring off a Cuts we’re 25th in frequency so and and then if you look at the teams that are actually like you know that have the playmaking big uh such as sabonis jic uh

The um I guess yeah like uh the Denver Nuggets and the Sacramento Kings and those categories in uh off-ball screening they are let me pull up the numbers yeah in DHL and handoffs they’re top three they’re top three in those usage and they’re also top three in cuts

Um and they they don’t have they’re they’re very low in pick and roll they don’t use pick and roll they have they have a very Advanced offense and maybe it’s because we start base start from basic and we’re starting from pick and roll but at a certain point during the

Season you you want to see that off ball movement you want to see people actually um getting open shots now Al also the Personnel you need Shooters to do that so uh we’re going to see what what e does with um hopefully some uh new people in the building that can actually

Uh shoot the basketball let me let me give you a stat um that I’ve been following so the Rockets have been top five in pick and roll frequency since uh 2021 since like the the jaylen’s rookie year right yeah in that period we’ve been the worst corner three frequency

Team in in the league three years in a row and even into E’s uh era the reason that’s significant when you are running a pick and roll one of the uh defensive um kind of principles in guarding the pick and roll is to stop the big man

From Rolling while the drop big usually most teams run a drop so and this is kind of ties into the shenon um quote unquote defensive issues um when you have a big man in a drop let’s say alp’s in a drop and let’s say Anthony Simons has uh Aiden screening for him Aiden

Sets the screen Anthony comes off the screen right now shenon is waiting for Fred or Jaylen to get around Aiden’s body to get back into position to um guard Anthony as that screen happens Aiden starts to roll shenon if he’s playing the Deep drop has to keep both

Two men in front of them at the same time depending on who the player that has the ball is if it’s a shooter you can’t completely drop too deep so you have to kind of play too and a lot of times when he struggles it’s against those type of players that

Are shooting threats not just driving if it’s a driving threat he can just kind of cheat over to the big and sell out to stop that if it’s a shooting threat there’s about two or three guys in the NBA that are long enough to be able to

Contest or at least fake contest on a a good shooter or or a guard that’s Dynamic and still have enough length to peel back and disrupt the lob and he is definitely not one of them how teams comp uh you know how they uh they they counter that on defense whoever is on

The weak side is supposed to come down and yes pre roll and tag you know the term tag that big man and then their job is to hold that big man from getting a dunk until either your big man gets back in a position or if he never does and

Has to switch out you have to then split tagging that big man and your assignment in the corner so what that does all that to say on Elite pick and roll teams you generate a lot of corner threes because if you have a dynamic guard you have a

Good lob threat then you’re putting that defense in a bind more often than not that tag has to come or it’s gonna be lobs lobs on your head we saw this with James Harden that’s why PJ Tucker got paid right this how PJ Tucker made his money shooting Corner threes one of the

The corner three Maestra why was he so open from the corner cuz Clint capella and James Harden with reigning Terror on opposing defenses if you cannot generate Corner threes out of a pick and roll then what you were doing is playing in a box and basically our two-man game for

The Rockets is Fred and alpie and the against the rest of the defense yeah and I don’t know I could blame Fred for that because Fred’s Vision in the pick and roll to me for a guard as good as he is as bad he doesn’t really read the game

And the other aspect of that is who’s he kicking it out to Bro Jon taton the corner green amen Thompson in the slot like so this goes back to what you’re saying about the roster being just bad like we just need some adequate shooting not even great like um I posted this

Yesterday the Rockets are currently as we speak last 15 games the worst three-point shooting team in the NBA yeah just flat out no rates just 31 31% the worst free throw shooting team we’re also the worst team on wide openen threes in NBA that’s crazy four spots lower than the Detroit Pistons bro

That’s crazy wide open threes wide open that’s listen bro wide open the not the open the the one where the defender is six feet away yeah so so this is what we’re dealing with like so for me the assessment on this on alpr shanon’s play and his Effectiveness it

Just kind of ties back into why I think that he needs to be like to me at this point I’m building my team to compliment him in this era I’ve already seen enough data from him to know that this is a um a guy that he’s going to be if maybe

He’s not the centerpiece but he is a centerpiece within this thing because his skill set is dynamic I think right now he just needs somebody on the perimeter to match that is it Jaylen is it somebody is it a man we don’t know yet but um yeah th those numbers are

Jarring let me ask you what do you think aside from just getting Shooters I know you alluded to it with some of the Sacramento and the Denver uh teams what what play style do you think would would like with what we have maybe had a couple Shooters here that they can

Realistically transition to um over time that you know obviously we’re not GNA be running the triangle or anything or or the warrior style motion but what is something that you would like to see them kind of do uh with him and some of the guards on the

Team um I mean you have two options you have um you have Jaylen on the roster and you could already start doing it with the dhl’s handoffs and interestingly enough we kind of did that during the Salis ER and that that kind of it was it was a little effective like

You got you got some jayen buckets here and there and also um alpie would pick and pop and then also maybe passed out to somebody else um but I do like I do like what Denver is doing um I kind of would want to emulate them a little bit

More than Sacramento Sacramento is like um like all gas no breaks they’re they’re fast team they got dear and fox um sabonis he’s he’s aggressive extremely aggressive and um I don’t think I don’t know their Pace but I’m I’m sure they’re um they’re they’re just a fast Team FAST aggressive team Denver

Is the definition of what you call the halfcourt offense they get everyone in motion you have Shooters all around you um and then you also have just like a weak this is on defense you have Aaron Gordon who can kind of hit threes but also he’s he’s just a great um he’s a

Great inverse picking roll with option with uh joic and I haven’t even seen that I want to see like um I know jabari’s kind of he’s not like grown into but I would want to see an inverse pick and roll with Jabari and alpie at some point in time where alie’s the the

Ball handler and jabari’s like screener that pick him right yeah EXA exactly if you notice that to me I was saying this when Alp drives like downhill he’s one of the like best drivers to get into the basket in the league exactly yeah in the

League he he he has he has the I did a stat um on Drive uh I think drives per points percentage like points per drive basically um if you if you basically filtered It Out by more than 250 drives Alp is ranked fourth so you have players like Jason

Tatum Joel embiid Joel ‘s like a 98% he he every time he drives he gets points some way or another um Jason Tatum uh I think someone else was on a couple other people but they were all like in that tier one caliber so he’s he’s already

Putting a Mark um that he’s he’s one of the best guys in um in the role like as as a as a driver or in the role um but I I really I really think we’re doing him a disservice and you know I think it’s

Also could be due to um Personnel I do have a stat from 2022 where um because I I do think adoka is capable of doing this um in 2022 when he coached the Celtics I think the Celtics had um they had uh they’re one of the best teams in

Terms of um yeah they were one of the best teams in terms of um off ball screens and um and spot up shots the top top like a top five I think but not pick and roll frequency like frequency wise not picking well but they did all that

And even Cuts so I think I think yok is capable it’s just that we don’t have the Personnel that’s that’s the reason why I believe I think OK is the coach um but we just haven’t been seeing it yet and it’s it’s because it’s because we just

Don’t have the Personnel I’m I’m praying you’re right and I think what you’re alluding to the Celtics were top five in spot UPS they were top five in spoted percentage spoted frequency um they were also top five in three-point attempts so I did a video on Coach adoka like his

Coaching like his play Styles and what we’re seeing is not what I imagine that’s why I’m just really really disappointed um and it’s it’s kind of odd because one thing I know his offense does is generate threes and honestly we generate threes um at a middle of the

Pack rate so even with all the troubles we have I mean our guys are getting open shots they just can’t hit them you talked about Denver I’m looking on um on on the site on censors culture that’s the link is for that site is going to be

In the description for this podcast so y’all check it out it’s really easy but and I love real quick I love how you put the rankings next to this the measure um so I don’t even have to filter it out I already know where they rank amongst the different things that that’s definitely

Different love that um so Denver you look at their play Styles uh the offensive frequency on that they are uh number six in off screens number three in dhos uh they’re also number three in off cuts and interestingly enough number one in post-ups which to me is the

Perfect profile for a team that has a dominant post player um a pick and roll in my opinion is a guard like if I had a Luca Harden I’m gonna spam the pick and roll because you’re basically making that guard the Savant the the the brain that’s running

That pick and roll they are supposed to be able to see the entire court all four other players and make the best decision for your team to score every single time that is not the case with fedan Fleet sadly so I I’m I’m thinking that you

Know the Rockets not that Alp I don’t I don’t really care about him posting up but what we’re talking about is him getting it at different spots on the court where you can run the guards off of that and then uh even like with sabonis how they use sabonis how he gets

All these assists is that the off balls and the off screen movements from guys like Keegan Murray who come off those screens flying those are the easiest assists that you can get where you just bounce the ball guy picks it up and shoots I think Jabari can do that inside

The three-point line um I think Jaylen can get some dhos um inside the arc where he can get to the basket and get a drive even at the top of the key and one thing we don’t see Alp get to do is slip screens right if you start running dh’s

Just like sabonis that’s how he gets a lot of his easy buckets is that you fake a handoff and slip out and now you got the ball and a Defender is caught off guard it’s just a lot of u a lot of hard it’s just like to me more of the silus

Era offense really disappointing in that yeah yeah really disappointed man appreciate you dog for coming through um to pod with us once again it’s midi on on Twitter the website is centers culture for y’all all you stae heads I know some of y’all on the channel um

Have your own own channels check out the website um show them support uh and and also you said you’re going to add a a players version right I know you have the team rankings up but future state is going to be like um where you have all

The player ratings and all that stuff up in the same way correct absolutely and I’m also adding a matchup so you know how you got the matchup data for Anthony Davis versus uh Alp and Alp kind of like defended really well against that so I’ll have that for every single game

Where you’ll see the best defense against the like the worst of like Defender I guess or I guess the worst off off offense person and then the best uh offense against the worst defense and then you’ll have like you get you’ll have a list of them and then you’ll have

The like the single matchups and then against the whole team so there’s a lot coming um I I want like I want this to be free I want every everyone to be able to see it and this is honestly how I how I do my analytics it’s this is what I

Look at I look at this screen I don’t look at anything else um there’s it there’s just so much valuable data that NBA gives you for free and I’m just aggregating it and uh making it better and also it might go into predictions later but right now it’s it’s awesome I

Appreciate it though no I appreciate you we we’re gonna I’m definitely gonna have you back more because like I said we’re speaking the same language but appreciate you bro um shout out to all the Chop Shop listeners if you’re new to the channel hit the Subscribe button if

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