Bouncing Around: Recent Episodes
Samson Folk & Evin Gualberto
Samson Folk and Evin Gualberto get together once a week to talk about all the NBA-wide happenings with a hard slant towards analysis from a coach's and writers perspective.
1:33 - DeMar DeRozan is FEASTING
3:38 - Starting at the End, Paul George's incredible close
7:30 - Shoutout to Sabreena Merchant
12:55 - Luke Kennard has found his spot
14:40 - Isaiah Hartenstein makes a difference
17:40 - SGA might be the best driver in the league
20:45 - Bazley is a fascinating mover
21:38 - Terrence Mann is so functional
27:56 - Josh Giddey talk with THE Ben Pfeifer
31:03 - Giddey’s scoring - utilizing his size on drives
31:44 - Shoutout to Nekias Duncan
Nekias also co-hosts the Dunker Spot pod with the GREAT Steve Jones Jr [Evin’s personal hero]
32:25 - Josh’s floater
34:22 - Shoutout to Polar!
37:55 - Shoutout to PD Web
43:00 - JOSH GIDDEY. PRIMETIME PASSER.
51:08 - Josh Giddey is bleeding into Ben’s life
54:20 - KINGS v PELICANS [Oct 29 2021]
55:15 - Willie Green: 4 Finals in 5 years as an assistant
59:30 - The development of the rest of De’Aaron’s game
1:01:45 - Fox going body to body with Jonas
1:02:20 - Nash Scoops!
1:06:20 - Shoutout to Mike Prada
1:07:44 - Brandon Ingram - a style similar to one DeMar?
1:14:14 - PELICANS SET BREAKDOWNS
1:14:20 - Horns Out Chicago [Pels x Suns]
1:15:14 - Horns Clear [Pels x Suns]
1:15:41 - Delay Chicago [Pels x Suns]
1:17:51 - Shoutout to Caitlin Cooper. ARCC.
1:17:55 - Dunker Spot DHO [Pels x Grizzlies]
1:18:21 - Angled Spain [Pels x Suns x Grizzlies]
1:19:29 - Horns 45/Elbow Get + Exit
1:19:40 - Shoutout to Bowser2Bowser
2:16 - Posting positively about Paul George
5:05 - Jumping straight in on the Minnesota Timberwolves
7:16 - Karl-Anthony Towns is insulated
11:14 - An Isiah Thomas comp AND clip?!
15:00 - The task of containing Kevin Porter Jr is like trying to hold water in your hand.
17:40 - Karl-Anthony Towns. Anthony Edwards. Two man game.
19:54 - D’Angelo Russell driving the ball?! Getting to the line?!
30:05 - Bud & Pop. The buddy coach comedy you didn’t know you wanted
32:24 - Giannis throwing up a Dirk fade in Texas
32:53 - Dueling drop coverages
35:20 - The incredible moldable Spurs
36:09 - Douglas Richard McDermott. Monsieur McBuckets.
37:14 - An automatic for the Spurs: no straight line drive = DHO
37:41 - Pistol Chicago [and give & go ability of Doug]
38:55 - Doug McDermott is TRON
43:15 - The Pressing San Antonio Spurs
44:30 - Olympic Gold medalist Keldon Johnson
45:25 - Keldon TRIED it with Giannis but adjusted after getting rejected
47:26 - Iverson Slice STS for San Antonio was clunky
48:00 - Dejounte & Derrick against drop coverage. Midrange monsters.
48:10 - Dejounte Murray talk.
50:15 - Derrick White!
51:30 - Jakob Poeltl is tremendous. Perhaps a DPOY nominee if he was playing more basketball of consequence
54:30 - Devin Vassell
55:00 - Finding new pockets of basketball
57:50 - Samson gives me props and I eat it up.
58:10 - Who is Samson excited to watch this season?
58:34 - Evan Mobley.
58:44 - Larry Nance Jr.
59:01 - De'Aaron Fox.
59:09 - The Memphis Grizzlies and Ja being OD so far.
If you want to Bounce Around the episode:
2:27 - Vucevic, DeMar, and LaVine aren’t exactly going light the world on fire defensively
5:56 - Vuc as an offensive hub
7:19 - Shoutout to PD Web
10:39 - The LaVine/Vuc two man actions that can sustain an entire offense
14:37 - FILM BREAKDOWN for the Bulls
15:16 - Delay + Brush
16:10 - Delay + Brush + Chase
17:36 - PnPop + Chase
18:17 - Punch + 45/Pin-in
19:42 - Delay + 45
20:10 - The Bulls defense . . . that Evin doesn't wanna talk about
22:55 - Derrick Jones Jr - weakside eraser?
37:34 - Memphis Grizzlies!
48:25 - Kyle Anderson aka SloMo
50:03 - Evin’s perfect Griz front court pairing: a defensively engaged Jaren & SloMo
58:55 - FILM BREAKDOWN for the Griz
59:14 - Angled Spain!
1:00:02 - Horns Out Flip (Back)
1:00:51 - Horns Out Elbow Get
1:01:26 - Elbow Split Cross Screen
1:02:36 - Triple Stagger (Slip)
1:05:25 - San Antonio Spurs
1:09:10 - Devin Vassell
1:09:50 - The Devin Vassell/Doctor Strange crossover you didn’t know you needed
1:10:30 - The Samson Folk/San Franciso Giants/San Antonio Spurs crossover you…
1:12:20 - Who is Derrick White really?
1:21:59 - Shoutout to Sabreena Merchant and our WNBA show The Step Through
https://twitter.com/sabreenajm
Every ep of The Step Through: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ...
1:26:30 - Gregg Popovich likely won’t chase the win record
3:14 - The Brooklyn Nets = 50/40/90
4:24 - Luka/Kleber/Porzingis/Game 7
16:30 - Samson waxes poetic about Paul George
18:54 - Big L for me thinking that Josh Richardson would be the answer to the Mavs problems back before the season started
22:33 - BROOKLYN v MILWAUKEE
25:10 - Jrue Holiday had a few defensive gaffes from our perspective
25:34 - Samson provides some important context in the conversation about evaluating a mistake defensively
28:04 - The Brooklyn Nets play with court geometry at an exceptionally high level.
28:18 - Weaponizing Joe Harris
29:19 - Joe Harris makes it impossible for you to help.
33:25 - Weakside i
34:06 - “It’s not that Milwaukee messed it up. It’s really not.” The Nets are just that good.
36:16 - “Joe Harris is bending the defense in a way that is breaking Budenholzer’s brain.”
39:48 - Bruce Brown “a revolutionary as a 6’4” guy in the dunker spot”
40:18 - Samson RUNS US THROUGH PLAYS.
49:18 - The Bucks ran a Spain-ish action
57:12 - SUNS v NUGGETS
58:23 - Jokic elevates everyone else on the roster
59:02 - Ayton vs Jokic and the mutual respect they have
59:30 - Evin Stops The Best Players In The World
1:01:00 - Michael Porter Jr is a great tough shot maker
1:03:46 - Samson brilliantly runs through how Deandre Ayton did damage to the Nuggets
1:05:21 - UCLA reject - PnR - Exit
1:11:11 - Devin Booker manipulating with his eyes + Michael Porter Jr making NOT GREAT DECISIONS
1:15:07 - The Nuggets KNOW the Suns are running stack but Michael Porter Jr’s coverage isn’t great.
1:17:21 - Porter Jr’s fault or master manipulation by the Phoenix Suns?
1:26:17 - The Suns continue to ask you questions that you don’t yet have answers for
1:27:48 - Campazzo & Cam Payne - both FwG winners
1:30 – Doug McDermott buried the Hornets and they never recovered
12:45 – The Pacers will be in trouble: teams can dare Sabonis to beat them by himself
19:24 – GRIZZLIES vs SPURS
20:18 – An ode to drop defense!
25:58 - Jakob Poeltl vs the kings of the floater
31:49 – I wanted MORE invert action just to change the flow of the game.
34:31 – WIZARDS vs CELTICS
34:42 - Finally, a realistic Robin Lopez comparison
36:40 – “Make Tatum make reads” was the game plan in the 2020 playoffs.
39:36 – BOS SLOB Rip STS
40:43 – BOS Horns Hammer
41:30 – BOS SLOB Ghost Rip
42:10 – BOS SLOB - fakes the Rip STS – and it turns into a double stagger
43:07 – BOS Zipper Backdoor
43:26 – The Spurs used to have Manu Ginobili go zipper backdoor
45:20 – Jayson Tatum is a world class defender ESPECIALLY at the nail
47:47 – Shifting from reactive passer to proactive passer is the next step in Tatum’s ascendance
48:20 – LAKERS vs WARRIORS
49:20 – The Lakers took the ball out of Steph’s hands but at the cost of downhill momentum
aka Samson’s brilliantly breaks down the defense this game and I couldn’t be more proud.
50:28 – Scram switching for both teams
52:40 – “Andrew Wiggins at the point of attack was borderline transcendent”
58:51 – Alex Caruso love
59:55 – The Lakers are a level of connected on both ends that you’d expect of NBA champions
1:03:23 – Draymond is so impactful defensively because you can’t beat him in a cat-and-mouse game even with an advantage
1:05:37 – “It would be easier to find a nickel on the beach than it would be to find a defensive misstep from Draymond this game”
1:08:20 – A counter Samson wanted to see more of: Andrew Wiggins screen for Steph and having him attack downhill
1:11:30 – Samson has been on the Andrew Wiggins train since before the season began.
3:23 - Evan defines “feel”
4:47 - Pattern recognition
5:40 - Visual processing
6:40 - Processing speed
10:46 - Invasion sports
15:48 - “You need an opportunity to try and fail as much as possible, especially younger, when the results don’t matter as much”
19:20 - Mirror neurons!
22:42 - Hit Ahead Passes!
27:50 - “What is chunking?”
29:28 - DeMar DeRozan, chunking in the pick and roll
31:36 - Reactive reads vs proactive reads
35:05 - Predictive passers create the windows themselves
40:42 - Evan loves the Heat development context + egalitarian offense
43:44 - Evan waxes poetic about Nikola Jokic
48:56 - PD sent in some Qs for Evan to answer
49:09 - “If he were design an offense to develop a ballhandlers feel, what would be the pieces you would want to make their development easier?”
50:29 - PHX Spain PnR mention
51:05 - “same games as they have now, who is a better player: A Jokic-shaped KD or a KD-shaped Jokic?
53:39 - FILM BREAKDOWN with THE EZ Hoops
54:37 - Clip 1 - Ja Morant be chunking.
56:24 - Clip 2 - Ja Morant: reactionary or proactive passing?
1:01:50 - Clip 3 - THE Luka overhead pass
1:03:58 - Clip 4 - Luka
1:05:30 - Clip 5 - D’Angelo Russell against the Wolves
1:10:38 - New James Harden nickname?
1:10:51 - Clip 6 - D’Angelo Russell making the most out of a small passing window
1:14:07 - Clip 7 - Manu Ginobili + Tim Duncan + slipping screens = killer coordination
1:17:03 - Manu’s deceleration
1:17:30 - Clip 8 - James Harden putting himself in a can’t lose situation
1:20:30 - Evan plugs the GOODS. No need to list it here because it was already listed above.
3:18 - Suns vs Knicks (Evin’s Game of the Week)
4:25 - Phoenix and the art of disguising sets
4:50 - Evin explains the difference between Chicago & Miami action
5:28 - Shoutout to Evan Zaucha aka EZ Hoops
6:26 - I admit that it is a silly way but you’ll remember it forever.
9:04 - PHX Horns Chest
11:48 - Knicks defending Spain
17:30 - Devin Booker & the influences of Chris Paul
18:50 - I failed to talk about the many doubles Phoenix sent Randle’s way in the pod.
19:01 - Julius Randle REALLY competes defensively.
19:26 - Samson talks about Randle against the Raptors
21:30 - Tom Thibodeau & the Knicks defense
24:04 - An ideal playoff matchup for the Knicks?
25:10 - A discussion on Deandre Ayton
27:30 - A (slightly) deeper dive into Deandre against the Bucks
29:02 - There’s always room to show Jrue Holiday love on this channel.
30:13 - Chris Paul got TWO BLOCKS!
34:12 - The Fish with Gun on the Phoenix Suns - Cameron Payne
38:15 - Grizzlies vs Blazers (Samson’s GotW)
41:10 - Jaren Jackson Jr as a play connector + shooting threats
44:20 - Ja Morant is an in-air passing savant.
45:25 - XAVIER TILLMAN love aka X Gon’ Give It to Ya
47:37 - Shoutout to PD Web
49:30 - “Jaren Jackson Jr is like the platonic ideal of a rangy defensive big man”
50:23 - Samson wants to cover the Grizzlies in the playoffs. Someone important make that happen!
55:55 - The Grizzlies hierarchy
56:30 - Evin & Samson disagree?!
57:32 - JJJ being used like JJ Redick!
58:34 - A little tease of what is to come - Spain/Stack PnR
01:01:55 - POST POD CREDITS SCENE
1:41 - Caitlin’s favorite and least favorite aspects of building an offensive hub around Domantas Sabonis
3:31 - Myles Turner deserves credit for getting better at finding spots and moving off ball
5:18 - Sabonis + Turner.
Chicago action defined
7:30 - Domantas Sabonis, the maestro in the middle
8:30 - Caris LeVert: a linguini-esque player who looks like he plays basketball on a pogo stick
10:20 - LeVert and Brogdon having the ball in their hands
14:55 - The development of the two-man game of Sabonis & Brogdon
17:10 - Caitlin’s ability to illustrate concepts is unmatched
18:01 - Bjorkgren put a stop to static spacing
23:54 - Does Bjorkgren operate at a higher plane than what the roster is capable of?
25:33 - Is there a player that has benefited the most from Nate’s insertion as HC?
31:15 - The Pacers are neck-in-neck with the Kings for most points in the paint given up.
36:29 - Caitlin asks me a question and that gives me license to recklessly speculate.
37:36 - Mike Budenholzer’s philosophy on creating a defensive intensity
39:16 - Zone talk!
41:55 - Caitlin is over the (needless) OVERS
44:04 - Nate McMillan was not experimental. Nate Bjorkgren is very experimental.
49:18 - Caitlin’s brain is a dictionary of basketball terms.
Also, she tells us how her basketball brain was developed.
53:13 - Nexting and why it would really help the Pacers
54:07 - Sarunas Jasikevicus dropped his team into a 2-3 zone MID possession
55:00 - Peel Switching
1:00:12 - The Garfunkel screen returns.
1:01:37 - Caitlin Cooper knows what a Garfunkel screen is and she can describe it better from memory than anyone on Bouncing Around
1:06:02 - The Edmond Sumner experience explained
1:08:25 - We reminisce about the great Jermaine O’Neal
Samson Folk & Evin Gualberto get together to discuss the NBA this week + their games of the week.
- Evin's game of the week (76ers vs. Wolves)
- Karl-Anthony Towns vs. Joel Embiid
- Establishing post position
- Tobias Harris continues to impress
- Samson's game of the week (Heat vs. Warriors)
- Top-locking and attacking against it
- Cutting with purpose (Fish with Gun)
- Thanks for listening
Samson Folk and Evin Gualberto talk about the NBA this past week.
- Nuggets vs. Hawks
- Aaron Gordon's debut with the Nuggets
- Facu Campazzo, fish with gun
- Kings vs. Cavs
- Emulating LeBron's gamewinner
- Collin Sexton & De'Aaron Fox are stars
- Delon Wright, what to expect?
- Larry Nance Jr. you genius
- Learning with Evin
Samson Folk and Evin Gualberto walk through the NBA's most recent week, focusing in on the games between the Mavericks, Blazers, Bulls, and Nuggets.
- Chasing the tight 35
- Blazers vs. Mavs (Samson's Game of the Week)
- heliocentrism can be alluring
- Damian Lillard and the drag screen
- Kanter was a little bit of food
- CJ McCollum and Streamlining a Role
- Hardaway and Kleber do their thing
- Fish with Gun?
- Nugs vs. Bulls (Evin's Game of the Week)
- A tale of two halves
- The wonderful synergy of Murray and Jokic
- Will Barton making his case
- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, you genius
Samson Folk and Evin Gualberto walk through the latest in the NBA and their games of the week.
- The woes of a compressed schedule
- Analyzing a game you didn't see
- Blake Griffin, Jeff Green, and Mr. Claxton
- Cavs vs. Hawks
- Knicks vs. Bucks
- RJ Barrett, left handed hammer
- The Bucks had it from the start
- Giannis, the playmaker
- chase and drop defense
- Barret's big steps
- The origin of the garfunkel screen
Samson Folk and Evin Gualberto bring on PD Web, a celebrated basketball analyst, to discuss the changing landscape of shot perception/selection and a bunch of other basketball minutiae.
Samson Folk and Evin Gualberto discuss the NBA landscape.
- All-Star Snubs, who's getting in?
- Thunder vs. Spurs (Samson's game of the week)
- Shai's unbelievable season
- Getting lucky with team building
- Lakers vs. Jazz (Evin's game of the week)
Samson Folk & Evin Gualberto come together to discuss the NBA at large. With a special focus on:
Games of the week: Samson - Nets vs. Suns. Evin - Warriors vs. Heat.
- Chris Finch, stolen from the Raptors
- The most prolific 3-point games
- Steph Curry, you've done it
- The Heat and all their actions
- The Suns played Nets basketball
- Jeff Green is so, so good
- James Harden takes it home
- Our dream games to watch together
- Games of the week for next week
Samson Folk and Evin Gualberto talk about their games of the week, and some All-Star stuff at the end.
- Celtics vs. Pistons
- Saddiq Bey, Blake Griffin, and Delon Wright
- Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and an undersized frontcourt
- Kings vs. 76ers
- De'Aaron Fox, the speed demon
- Tyrese Haliburton, the clever fox
- Dwight & Shake two-man game
- Complementary actions for Embiid & the 76ers
- All-Star is a mess
- Closeout King
- Jump-stop MVP
- Kris Dunn Award
- Nightwing Award
- Bang for Buck Award
- Troy Barnes/Donald Glover Award
- Firefly Award
Samson Folk & Evin Gualberto bounce around the league, talking about basketball.
- Utah Jazz vs. Dallas Mavericks
- Denver Nuggets vs. Miami Heat
- NBA Street teams
Samson Folk and Evin Gualberto run through the NBA at large.
1:40 - Inside the NBA, is it antiquated?
14:40 - The World-ending Joel Embiid
21:25 - Lakers vs. Bucks (Evin's game of the week)
41:25 - Clippers vs. Thunder (Sam's game of the week)
45:25 - Batum is the greatest French thief
Samson Folk and Evin Gualberto bounce around the NBA, covering a bunch of topics.
2:22 - Harden & KD
6:50 - Vucevic
7:50 - Brooklyn vs. Philly
10:54 - Evin stops the best players in the world
16:00 - Wolves vs. Grizzlies
29:47 - Pacers vs. Warriors
1:21 COVID Protocols
14:55 Indiana Pacers
19:15 Embiid for MVP
21:25 Celtics, Jaylen Brown
29:30 Julius Randle
31:18 Herro at point guard
34:45 Paul George
40:00 Lakers
42:30 - Warriors
48:10 Hornets vs. Pelicans
50:15 Zion Williamson
1:00:00 Spurs transition + DeMar
1:04:45 Schroder
1:07:35 Spurs Adjustments
1:15:40 Know what you don't know
Samson Folk and Evin Gualberto come together to discuss a whole bunch of NBA topics.
00:45 - Trae Young's quick-stop foul drawing
13:45 - The league-pass champs, the Charlotte Hornets
16:50 - Becky Hammon, making history
18:50 - Keldon Johnson, a special player
21:50 - Tyrese Maxey, what a steal
23:55 - Suns vs. Nuggets
37:25 - Hawks vs. Nets
43:40 - Richaun Holmes
47:10 - Deni Avdija
48:05 - Mikal Bridges
Evin Gualberto and Samson Folk come together to discuss the first week of NBA Basketball.
- The best left-handed players in the NBA
- James Harden, the world-ender
- Reviewing the previews they did for 7 teams
- Blazers
- Warriors
- Timberwolves
- Pelicans
- Raptors
- Hawks
- Mavericks