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#12: Mo Dakhil & scouting the East contenders

Thinking Basketball

Thinking Basketball

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4.8965 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Former Spurs & Clippers video coordinator Mo Dakhil (@MoDakhil_NBA) stops by to size up Xs and Os among the Celtics, Bucks, 76ers and Raptors. We discuss how to watch a game, Toronto’s 2 different offenses, tradeoffs with defensive schemes for Milwaukee and playoff-defining movie speeches from Draft Day and Any Given Sunday. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0

One of my favorite movies is Draft Day.

0:02.0

Wait, your all-time favorite movie is Draft Day?

0:04.0

If I catch it on TV, it does stop me in my tracks. Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.

0:15.0

Welcome back to another episode.

0:20.0

Today, something a little different I asked Mo Dociel to come by and really add an X's

0:26.8

and O's coaching video perspective to the conversation about these four teams in the Eastern Conference.

0:34.4

Of course we talk a lot about stats and analytics on this podcast, but as you know,

0:39.7

I am a huge proponent of marrying data and measurements to the context and

0:45.2

information that they live in and sometimes we can be very short on the X's

0:49.9

and O side or how stuff fits together from a schematic or coaching standpoint.

0:55.2

And Mo has a tremendous background in this area.

0:58.2

He spent eight years as the Los Angeles Clipper's video coordinator,

1:02.2

another three years with the Spurs,

1:05.0

three more years with the men's national team in Australia, including an Olympic

1:08.6

bid.

1:09.6

So Mo is really a guy I've been trying to get on to talk about the game from this

1:14.8

perspective and we go through the four teams got a bunch of interesting nuggets in

1:19.0

this conversation and at a few points I will pause and interject some of the stats we were talking about.

1:25.0

But otherwise here is my conversation with Mo Doc Heel.

1:29.0

Hope you guys enjoy it.

1:30.0

Mo, thanks so much for coming on.

1:32.0

Oh, Ben, thank you for having me man.

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