One more thing. The Dallas Mavericks need to learn these things if they want to win the playoffs next year. Welcome here. Still locked on to the Dallas Mavericks, your team every day. My name is Dick Engstead. Today's episode brought to you by Fanduel. Right now, new customers can bet just $5. If you win, you get $250, or $150 and bonus bets if your first bet, went to head of Fanduil.com to get started. It's the one more thing. We're sharing playoff lessons that we've learned watching the first round of the NBA playoffs. I enjoyed a lot of the NBA basketball I've been watching so far. NBA basketball redundant, but that's okay. Isaac Harris joined me, the One More Thing, He himself. I'm going to start with one of my first ones. We're going to go rapid fire.

Classic lockdown maps fashion. We're like, hey, let's pick three lessons each and we both have seven. So let's go quick in this. You can build a good defense in the NBA around a few

great athletes. I think that's something that I'm learning in the NBA. If you got a couple

really good wings, you can create a really good defense.

The Raptors, I just watched them take the Cavs, the seven with Scotty Barnes,

Colin Murray Boyles just mucking things up, Jamal Shed doing his thing, you know,

RJ Barrett being an explosive athlete.

You just watch some of these guys like, man, they created a good defense out of just a couple of those of those wings, you know, but around a perdle who is who is slow and around some of their other guards. Pistons, Jalen Duren, Assar Thompson, Isaiah Stewart, boom, the wolves with obviously to gobert in the middle, but some of their guys, the thunder, obviously, with their athletes. I think one of the lessons I learned in this is that you have to have a good defense in the playoffs to a certain degree. The Lakers, I don't know how they're getting away with their defense. It's like JJ Redick's scheme is just beating everybody else. But with Cooper Flagg and like, give me two more really good defensive athletes and I think the maps can have a really good

defense like quicker than we think I'll counter you a little bit and play a little bit devil's advocate

I'm saying you can't you can't go full Nico Harrison and just say like hey I just want like

defensive wings okay absolutely absolutely not no I've got multiple things on offense. But you can build a good defense. I say you look at the Hawks. I think there's no, no disrespect to CJ McCollum, but there's a reason why CJ looked like Damien Lillard. Right. Because they just like Dyson Daniels, like some of those guys that they got on the perimeter is like you can all, you have all these like lengthy, lengthy, you know, athletes on the perimeter. But it's like you still got to have some scoring too. But yeah, that is a dude, a Sarr Thompson is just insane defensively. Yeah. And I think you kind of need to have one of those insane athlete guys or an insane one insane defender, basically. I mean, even the Lakers, Marcus Mark kind of turned into that guy during that series. Gobert was, Gobert was insane. The Thunder had multiple insane guys. I thought, you know, Scotty Barnes and Colmarie Boyles were insane in that series even though they lost. Everybody's got that one insane defender.

And I think the maps, it could be Derek lively if he stays healthy, but I still think they have to find that player.

Please be healthy, Derek Clyle.

I know.

Okay.

So one of mine, I wouldn't, we'll say learn, but just how slow the game slows down in the NBA playoffs.

So Kurt Goldsbury at the ringer wrote this piece recently last week about just how much it slowed down this year.

He said this is from his piece.

Kirk Goldsbury, we just watched the highest scoring regular season since 1969. 70.

It's a long time ago.

Highest scoring, like just straight up points per game. Just highest scoring regular season since 1969 70 it's a long time ago highest scoring like just straight up points per game just highest scoring regular season since the 69 70 season uh and now you get to the playoffs now it says

teams have gone from scoring an average 115.6 points per game in the regular season down to

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