Episode 3: Basketball Evolution

Mind the Game with LeBron James and JJ Redick

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Basketball, Sports

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Episode 3 of Mind the Game with LeBron James and JJ Redick. In this episode, JJ and LeBron talk about adapting and evolving with the game of basketball. Each of them discuss lessons they learned in high school that helped shape the rest of their careers. Next the guys talk about college basketball and whether LeBron ever wishes he could've played in the NCAA tournament / March Madness. Then the guys move on to talk about LeBron's first NBA basket and the way the game has changed from way back then to today. JJ goes on to discuss the impact of the 2009 Orlando Magic and why Stan Van Gundy's offense was revolutionary at the time. The rest of the conversation centers around LeBron's time with Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and the Miami Heat. They talk through how the team recovered from the 2011 NBA Finals against the Dallas Mavericks and Coach Erik Spoelstra's innovation that led to NBA championships and how Chris Bosh had to sacrifice for the good of the team. Then we take a beat to appreciate how Chris Bosh influenced many of today's big men like Bam Adebayo, Nikola Jokic and Chet Holmgren. This is such a fun episode so let's get to it. Subscribe to Mind the Game with LeBron James (The Los Angeles Lakers) and JJ Redick today for more NBA insight, analysis, highlights and more. #nba #lebronjames #mindthegame

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0:00.0	I mean I don't know if it was intentional.
0:02.0	Had so many people like wine people text me.
0:04.0	Oh yeah me too.
0:05.0	Me too.
0:06.0	Couldn't quite make out.
0:07.0	I knew I knew you were drinking the one Rousseau.
0:09.0	What was the other one or?
0:10.0	Yeah.
0:11.0	Someone caught me last episode one since he's not he's not gonna waste a drop of that wine
0:15.6	but I poured juice out I didn't know you another glass I poured juice up and we're talking to me a conversation
0:21.8	I wiped them out of like click my finger,
0:24.0	then was like, oh yeah, he's not wasting the drop of that. Welcome back to Mind the Game with LeBron James and Me, J.J. Reddick.
0:48.0	This is episode three. We're going to be talking a little bit about the evolution of spacing in the NBA during both
0:56.4	LeBron's career and my career. We're also going to be talking about the
1:00.4	evolution of certain positions, certain cuts. It's going to be a great episode.
1:07.2	No, we have not upgraded to animation. No, we don't have a whiteboard yet. The whiteboard was sent to Los Angeles. I'm
1:14.4	recording this in Brooklyn. So you're stuck with the paper guys. A few key
1:20.4	concepts I just want to review before we get to our conversation.
1:25.0	Just as a review from episode one, floppy is a catch and shoot play.
1:30.0	It's very simple. On either side of the lane there's two bigs. The point guard has the ball
1:36.0	up top and the two wing players are underneath the basket. The shooter can come out either
1:41.9	side, make a play. In the context of this conversation, it's
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