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Speaker 3: podcast here on a Friday. Bunch of series to look
Speaker 3: ahead to here in the second round, got three of them,
Speaker 3: in fact a bit of a surprise with two of
Speaker 3: them ending last night. Let's do a quick recap of
Speaker 3: those Western Conference games last night, and then we'll get
Speaker 3: into these Suns Nuggets and then we'll move to the
Speaker 3: Eastern Conference series and predict those. But yeah, Devin Booker
Speaker 3: erupting for forty seven points as the Suns eliminate the
Speaker 3: Lakers in Game six, A bit of a shocker task.
Speaker 3: It was sort of well, I get over in a hurry.
Speaker 3: I mean, Phoenix came out and punched the Lakers in
Speaker 3: the mouth, and the Anthony Davis injury came into play
Speaker 3: very early, and it was it.
Speaker 4: Was over the Phoenix Suns all grown. They came into
Speaker 4: Los Angeles and showed they weren't afraid. Their defense was
Speaker 4: looking great, and then Anthony Davis goes out five minutes
Speaker 4: in with that growing injury, and that incredible Suns defense
Speaker 4: just did not let up, and Lebron was not enough
Speaker 4: to overcome everything that the Sons are right now, including
Speaker 4: you know, Jay Crowder who has hit his Miami heat
Speaker 4: type streak from last year, hitting six threes, and Devin
Speaker 4: Booker feeling oh so fricking confident now. It took him
Speaker 4: a few games in this series, but dropping forty seven
Speaker 4: doing the Tray Young like shoulder shrug at the end
Speaker 4: of the game. I'm pretty sure he was watching Trey
Speaker 4: Young end a series in Madison Square Garden the night before.
Speaker 4: Then he goes into LA and does it, and they
Speaker 4: didn't need Chris Paul to be at full strength. Can
Speaker 4: you freaking believe that? I think they do need Chris Paul.
Speaker 4: We'll talk about that later on when we preview Sons
Speaker 4: and Nuggets, But all that to say, man, this freaking
Speaker 4: team absolutely knows their roles. Devin Booker had to be
Speaker 4: a superstar in this series, and he ended up being
Speaker 4: the best player in this series. In the series with
Speaker 4: freaking Lebron James and Anthony Davis, who obviously was not
Speaker 4: himself and everyone questioning should he have been out there?
Speaker 4: But it's all about the suns for me. We talk enough.
Speaker 4: I think about Lebron and his legacy. And then you
Speaker 4: saw Lebron hand over his jersey after the game. Postgame
Speaker 4: locker room signs his jersey for Devin Booker, who, yeah,
Speaker 4: is just feeling oh so freaking good in his first
Speaker 4: playoff run. Man doesn't seem like it's his first playoff
Speaker 4: run the way he's feeling it. Forty seven. I know,
Speaker 4: we just say numbers all the time, but forty seven,
Speaker 4: that's that's incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty two in the first quarter alone, hit eight
Speaker 3: three pointers. He was cooking the Lakers in the mid
Speaker 3: range game. They just came out and just attacked Trey
Speaker 3: like right from the drub. I like how they attacked
Speaker 3: Anthony Davis. Even they're like, oh, oh, he's gonna play hmmm,
Speaker 3: all right, well let's see if he can actually move laterally,
Speaker 3: And the answer was he couldn't and he had zero
Speaker 3: explosiveness and that's why he was off after five or
Speaker 3: six minutes after he sort of reaggravated the groin or
Speaker 3: whatever it was. But that was smart by Monnie Williams
Speaker 3: and Booker and CP three, like, let's go at him
Speaker 3: and Jay Crowder is going to be open here because
Speaker 3: ad probably can't get out there to get him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what did you call it yesterdayly a clinical elimination
Speaker 5: something along those lines. That's exactly what it was for
Speaker 5: the Suns. They saw Anthony Davis come out and say,
Speaker 5: let's see how that leg's working, buddy. It was not working,
Speaker 5: and the Suns took care of business. I don't know
Speaker 5: what the final score ended up being in the first quarter,
Speaker 5: but when I first looked at the box score, it
Speaker 5: was twenty two and eighteen Devin Booker. And that's kind
Speaker 5: of you just knew what the writing was on the
Speaker 5: wall for the Lakers last night. Shout out to the
Speaker 5: Suns not letting them off the hook at all. If
Speaker 5: you come into a game and you see Anthony Davis,
Speaker 5: who was dominant in games two and three, you see
Speaker 5: he's not gonna be able to play in game five.
Speaker 5: You see he's gonna be limited in Game six. Could
Speaker 5: have been easy for a young team that doesn't have
Speaker 5: a lot of playoff experience to say, oh, we got this,
Speaker 5: this is gonna be easy. That was not the case
Speaker 5: at all for Phoenix. They came out smacked the Lakers
Speaker 5: right in the face. It was over after a quarter.
Speaker 5: Ended up being what I guess, twenty two to fourteen
Speaker 5: for the Lakers or for Devin Booker, whatever it was
Speaker 5: in the first quarter, but incredible stuff. The Lakers just
Speaker 5: weren't close. They didn't get contributions from any of their
Speaker 5: role players. They just seem to know that they were
Speaker 5: drawn dead once Anthony Davis wasn't going to be at
Speaker 5: full strength and Lebron wasn't enough to lift the Lakers
Speaker 5: over the Suns. Impressive win for Phoenix, great series for them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for the first time a team led by lebron
Speaker 3: Ley has been eliminated in the first round. It's Devin
Speaker 3: Booker the King Slayer here, which I'm excited about. I
Speaker 3: do love that. I love a Booker man, But yeah,
Speaker 3: what'd you think about Lebron overall in this game? Like,
Speaker 3: it wasn't Lebron We've obviously seen in the past, that killer,
Speaker 3: you know, look in his eyes, attack, attack, attack, What happened.
Speaker 3: Did he just like sort of know he was eltmanned?
Speaker 3: Did he just like is he exhausted? Do we give
Speaker 3: him the excuse of the ankle? What did you think
Speaker 3: of his game at least in this one.
Speaker 6: Well a little bit of all of that, I mean,
Speaker 6: but the Sons did come out from this start of
Speaker 6: this game and took control, so Lebron was playing catch up.
Speaker 6: And when Anthony Davis was out, as we've seen at
Speaker 6: other times in this series, that offense, if it's not
Speaker 6: coming from Lebron, really you're wondering who who's going to
Speaker 6: generate it? And Lebron has to do so much for
Speaker 6: that team. He ended up playing forty one minutes last night,
Speaker 6: and you know it wasn't closed, but it got to
Speaker 6: ten with about eight minutes to go there, and it
Speaker 6: just like it was in Game four there on Sunday
Speaker 6: in Los Angeles, it was like, what happens now? Because
Speaker 6: this team is inexperienced apart from of course Chris Paul
Speaker 6: out there. But that didn't the Sons didn't give it up.
Speaker 6: And I think crucially here as well, for Monty Williams,
Speaker 6: Devin Booker played forty six minutes. He didn't at any
Speaker 6: point sort of look ahead to the next series and say,
Speaker 6: I want to get my guy out in case he
Speaker 6: gets injured or rest him. It's like, no, you've got
Speaker 6: to kill the Lakers now while you get the chance.
Speaker 6: And I think that's what's the most impressive thing for
Speaker 6: me about this. In the Phoenix Suns, they were down
Speaker 6: to one in this series, you know, and it looked
Speaker 6: like perhaps they were going to get overrun because of
Speaker 6: the injury to Chris Paul and because the Lakers had
Speaker 6: seemed to found their groove. But that didn't happen. Of course,
Speaker 6: the injury to Anthony Davis has an impact on that,
Speaker 6: but that's not to take anything away from Phoenix. They
Speaker 6: won this game last night. This wasn't like the Lakers
Speaker 6: had no power at all. I mean, they've still got
Speaker 6: Lebron James, and anytime Lebron's on the court, his team
Speaker 6: is usually the favorite. But that's what really was for me.
Speaker 6: Jay Crowder started hitting threes again. He goes through these phases,
Speaker 6: you know, he can hit threes and then he can
Speaker 6: go cold for a few games. But he didn't do that,
Speaker 6: and so that's what I think the Sun's takeout of
Speaker 6: this is this wasn't in any way a hollow victory
Speaker 6: because of the Anthony Davis injury. It wasn't in any
Speaker 6: way something that you can say, Wow, they got lucky.
Speaker 6: At any time they won this series. They were in
Speaker 6: a battle in this series, they trailed in this series,
Speaker 6: they lost home court, and they four back. And it
Speaker 6: really was their young star, their franchise star, who stood
Speaker 6: up the most here in Game six, and again I
Speaker 6: think he was six to six in that first quarter,
Speaker 6: could not miss that step back over Anthony Davis early
Speaker 6: was just gorgeous. And then once those three started following,
Speaker 6: they built that lead and didn't really surrender it. I mean,
Speaker 6: you knew the Lakers were going to make a push,
Speaker 6: as I mentioned, but the Suns still had enough in
Speaker 6: their game to make sure they closed this out and
Speaker 6: didn't give Lebron even just a sniff, even just a
Speaker 6: chance to maybe extend it to overtime or to win
Speaker 6: this game. So super impressed on all counts here from
Speaker 6: the Phoenix Suns, and they go into the next series
Speaker 6: and should feel very very confident with themselves.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just love how defensively they did play Lebron
Speaker 3: because I think they just look at the rest of
Speaker 3: the Lakers roster, especially with a hobbled a d Or
Speaker 3: when he wasn't even out there, and they go, well,
Speaker 3: who's going to beat us? There's not a great a
Speaker 3: bunch of shooters on this team, like a Lebron team
Speaker 3: usually at the least in the playoff series. If you
Speaker 3: go back and look at all his squads, he usually
Speaker 3: has one like knockout three point shoot or at least one,
Speaker 3: sometimes two where it's like, well, we can't load up
Speaker 3: too much on Lebron because he's just gonna pick us
Speaker 3: apart to this one particular guy who's you know, gonna
Speaker 3: shoot fifty or sixty percent from three task. We know
Speaker 3: this as Raptors fans. We saw the Raptors load up
Speaker 3: on Lebron in playoff series many times. And who was it?
Speaker 3: It was like JR. Smith just torching them with wide
Speaker 3: open three after wide open three. You know, Mike Miller
Speaker 3: comes to mind, of course, like I said, Jr. Even
Speaker 3: bubble KCP last year was that guy that was sort
Speaker 3: of like their best sort of three point shooter. But
Speaker 3: in this series, shrewder eight for twenty six from three
Speaker 3: Wesley Matthews, your boy seven for twenty five, Kuzma four
Speaker 3: for twenty three, an injured KCP only four of nineteen,
Speaker 3: and Carus of five to seventeen. So like, it was
Speaker 3: just a great game plan I think from the Suns,
Speaker 3: and they had the defensive guys in Crowder and Bridges
Speaker 3: and just like everybody could lock in zero in a
Speaker 3: little bit wall off to some extent Lebron, Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: Scott the ankle sprain is obviously old and has a
Speaker 3: lot of mileage on his legs, and that's the way
Speaker 3: to play it. Try and make these other guys beat him.
Speaker 3: They couldn' like their best shooter was Marc Gasol to
Speaker 3: us and you know we know he's not gonna let
Speaker 3: any three corners go. Yeah, exactly. So well, great game
Speaker 3: plan and you know, to some extent, once eighty's out
Speaker 3: of the equation here, they just don't have the roster.
Speaker 3: I think that we've seen work time and time again
Speaker 3: with a Lebron team, which is to have been as
Speaker 3: many shooters as possible around them.
Speaker 4: In my opinion, Yeah, those guys didn't come through in
Speaker 4: last year's roster that was a championship winning roster. Was
Speaker 4: it all that different? No?
Speaker 3: But majors hit shots, Yeah, exactly, Rondo was hitting shots,
Speaker 3: KCP was hitting shots.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, for sure, KCPA was a big difference. And yeah,
Speaker 4: they tried here in desperation, the center moved going from
Speaker 4: Andre Drummond to Marcus Sool here to try and open
Speaker 4: up the floor. That was definitely the game plan. But
Speaker 4: if yeah, if you look at them, you if you
Speaker 4: look at a defense against Lebron, you usually see it shrink, expand, shrink,
Speaker 4: expand and go out to those three point shooters. It
Speaker 4: was just shrunk in this series. It was just they
Speaker 4: were just able to build a wall and Lebron was
Speaker 4: not barreling through it. For most of the series. We
Speaker 4: saw it happen, you know, from Game two to Game three,
Speaker 4: I felt like Lebron was coming on, but then it
Speaker 4: went back to Lebron not really driving the same way.
Speaker 4: And yeah, the Lakers were not able to open up
Speaker 4: that defense to make them expand. I know, we you know,
Speaker 4: it's it's kind of pointless putting a blame on one
Speaker 4: guy because this is a team experience here. But Dennis
Speaker 4: Shruder was signed to be the third best offensive player.
Speaker 4: That's what he was supposed to be, and he was
Speaker 4: supposed to take pressure off last year. They went from
Speaker 4: you know, being a really great defensive unit and again
Speaker 4: they're somehow able to carry that on. But they decided,
Speaker 4: you know, maybe we need a little bit of offense. So
Speaker 4: they go out and get Dennis Schruter, who has wanted
Speaker 4: to be a number one offensive player in the NBA.
Speaker 4: He's had that issue in Atlanta. He looked really good
Speaker 4: in Okay sees playoff run last year, and even though
Speaker 4: the numbers actually are fairly similar to last year when
Speaker 4: he was with Chris Paul and he didn't have the
Speaker 4: gravity of a Lebron James or Anthony Davis, at times
Speaker 4: didn't perform here. He didn't, you know, the fourteen points
Speaker 4: per game was not enough. And I'm I'm kind of
Speaker 4: you know, I'm fifty to fifty as to whether or
Speaker 4: not he comes back. This was not a good run.
Speaker 4: He said all the right things. Afterwards, he says, if
Speaker 4: we bring back, our guys were going to go on
Speaker 4: a championship run next year. He took the description of
Speaker 4: his profile away, He took off took off PG of
Speaker 4: the Los Angeles Lakers away from his profile. If anything
Speaker 4: is to be made to that crap, but it is surprising.
Speaker 4: It is shocking all the guys saying the right things,
Speaker 4: and Anthony Davis as well. He said after this game,
Speaker 4: I got to be on the floor, and obviously it's
Speaker 4: clear it's on me. I wasn't on the floor. I
Speaker 4: don't agree that the best ability is availability, but for
Speaker 4: Anthony Davis sometimes it is. And Trey said it before
Speaker 4: the series. He's not on the floor at all times.
Speaker 4: I expected him to be on the floor, and obviously
Speaker 4: that was a part of it. So there's there's blame
Speaker 4: to go around with the Lakers, but obviously emotionally they
Speaker 4: were just kind of done after Ad went down to
Speaker 4: get spanked like that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And we can do a deep dive on what
Speaker 3: the Lakers should do in the offseason, who should come back,
Speaker 3: who they should target, what they can even do with
Speaker 3: their team currently constructed as it is. We got lots
Speaker 3: of time to do that. But let's keep it going
Speaker 3: because let's go to the other game from last night.
Speaker 3: It was a lot of fun Jokich with the MVP performance.
Speaker 3: He helps down the Blazers in six games. We thought
Speaker 3: it was going seven. The Joker said no, especially in
Speaker 3: the third quarter tray.
Speaker 5: And yeah, y'all thought it was going seven. I've seen
Speaker 5: Jokic be the best player in the league for the
Speaker 5: whole season. I was not too worried in this one.
Speaker 5: But things were looking good for Portland for a while.
Speaker 5: They were up fourteen points in the third quarter. Jokic
Speaker 5: did not have a great first half, only scored nine
Speaker 5: points on seven shots through the first twenty four minutes,
Speaker 5: and most importantly at halftime use if Nurkic had zero
Speaker 5: personal files. Then over the course of five minutes in
Speaker 5: the third quarter, Nurkic picked up a quick four pack
Speaker 5: of fouls, three of them drawn by Jokic. The next
Speaker 5: one was a charge. Uh oh. Suddenly twenty points in
Speaker 5: the third quarter for Nikola Jokic. Monte Morris hit a
Speaker 5: buzzer beater to end the third quarter. It was a
Speaker 5: three point lead for Portland at that point heading into
Speaker 5: the fourth quarter, but Denver had all the momentum. Their
Speaker 5: bench kept chipping into the lead. By the time Jokic
Speaker 5: finally comes back in the fourth quarter, it's a one
Speaker 5: point game, but you could tell that Portland just did
Speaker 5: not have it at that point. Jokic immediately hits a
Speaker 5: three to put Denver up. They never trailed again. Good night, Blazers.
Speaker 5: Incredible game though for Jokic thirty six points, eight rebounds,
Speaker 5: six assists. He had at least thirty four in every
Speaker 5: game of this series, except for Game four, when Michael
Speaker 5: Malone called the entire team out for playing soft. But
Speaker 5: I think the second star for the Nuggets last night
Speaker 5: has to be Monte Morris twenty two points, nine assists.
Speaker 5: In the fourth quarter. He had nine points, three assists.
Speaker 5: He hit that huge buzzer beater at the end of
Speaker 5: the third quarter. Big for Morale. A huge win for
Speaker 5: the Nuggets to pull this off, but a bummer ending
Speaker 5: to the season for Portland. Fully healthy at home, they
Speaker 5: lost to a team missing two starters. Really felt like
Speaker 5: the last time we're going to see this Blazers team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it does feel like that.
Speaker 4: Lee.
Speaker 3: It was a bad loss and bad loss, and of
Speaker 3: course should have should have got some help for Lillard
Speaker 3: there in Game five, and you know you win that
Speaker 3: in this completely different series, man. Yeah, Morris and Jokic
Speaker 3: picking rolling their ass to death there in the fourth
Speaker 3: It was the same play over and over again. And
Speaker 3: the Blazers, you know, they just have no defense as
Speaker 3: they've shown sort of time and time again. But yeah,
Speaker 3: was shocking. Looked like the Blazers were like, yeah, we're
Speaker 3: going to Game seven. You know, it's always playing Game
Speaker 3: seven series, and it looked like it was going to
Speaker 3: go back to Denver. And then you said it there
Speaker 3: Trey breaking it down there with those with the fouls,
Speaker 3: and then you'll get just taking over too and Lillard
Speaker 3: having nothing left in the tank in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Lee, what do you think again? I don't think.
Speaker 3: I don't want to go like super long on what
Speaker 3: ye where the Blazers go from here? Do they do?
Speaker 3: We once again bring up the McCollum trade. You know,
Speaker 3: is Terry Stotts out. I know it's gonna happen here,
Speaker 3: You're gonna hear it on another podcast. But what did
Speaker 3: you think about the game specifically here?
Speaker 6: Well, Devin Booker, of course, was the star last night,
Speaker 6: but let's not forget Michael Porter had twenty two points
Speaker 6: in that first quarter. He was hitting everything. I think
Speaker 6: you finished with twenty six of the game. But that's
Speaker 6: okay because then you start took over in the fourth
Speaker 6: quarter there, Nikoli Yokich. But when it was that fourteen
Speaker 6: point game in the third quarter. This had Game seven
Speaker 6: written all over it, as like, there's no way Lillard's
Speaker 6: going out like this. But even you saw him in
Speaker 6: that fourth quarter when the lead Lake got to sort
Speaker 6: of six points and then eight points, Lillard was trying
Speaker 6: a few of those bombs that we know he's hit.
Speaker 6: He hit him for so long in his career, but
Speaker 6: even he just seemed the legs just seemed a little
Speaker 6: bit heavy and they weren't dropping, and that's when you
Speaker 6: sort of knew it was over for good. So incredible
Speaker 6: resilience here shown by the Nuggets of this series, because
Speaker 6: they did lose Game one and again without Jamal Murray.
Speaker 6: I specifically thought that was going to catch up with
Speaker 6: him in the series because of their backcourt. But yeah,
Speaker 6: Monte Morris, I mean in that fourth quarter was fantastic
Speaker 6: driving inside when it was there or just feeding into Yokic,
Speaker 6: and we know Yokic can either finish or find a
Speaker 6: shooter on the perimeter there. So yeah, this has been
Speaker 6: a great run here from Denver and for Portland. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I think this team is going to look drastically different
Speaker 6: next season. Apart from Damian Lil I'd be surprised if
Speaker 6: you see too many of those same faces back. I
Speaker 6: think they have to do some make some changes here
Speaker 6: because it's a good team. It's a good regular season team,
Speaker 6: but it doesn't really go all that far into the playoffs.
Speaker 6: I know they made the conference finals a couple of
Speaker 6: years ago against the Warriors before they got swept. But
Speaker 6: at this point, I think there's some changes needed because
Speaker 6: they were outplayed and Denver were fantastic and Yo Kitch,
Speaker 6: I mean, he's just so incredibly fun to watch because
Speaker 6: he doesn't get rattled. He's got so much variety to
Speaker 6: his game. He complains a lot like Don Chic every
Speaker 6: time there's a fowl. He's got that to the referee.
Speaker 6: But they're a fun team, and I'm happy for Michael Malone.
Speaker 6: I really am happy for the Nuggets to advance here,
Speaker 6: and they haven't got a lot of time to prepare
Speaker 6: for their next round. They're going to be in for
Speaker 6: a tough one immediately against the Suns.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll start bringing that down in a second. But
Speaker 3: tass any tekawez from their scheme, they jump out of you.
Speaker 4: Well, just narrative wise, I'm happy that Jokic, the MVP
Speaker 4: is moving on to the second round, so everybody can
Speaker 4: shut up and about questioning him. In general, he's just
Speaker 4: an incredible player, and he's not the player that used
Speaker 4: to fade away at times in the first quarter or
Speaker 4: second quarter or third quarter. Yeah, he had one subpar game,
Speaker 4: but every great player does. He was fricking phenomenal throughout
Speaker 4: the entire series. And then on the other side, I
Speaker 4: think it's time for the Blazers to go to a
Speaker 4: real defensive type center that's agile enough not to be
Speaker 4: pick and roll to death. I don't think it's the CJ.
Speaker 4: McCollum move. I think it's just it's time to move
Speaker 4: on from use of Nurkic and to get a real
Speaker 4: a defensive guy that can cover everywhere. And not to
Speaker 4: put this on your Nurkic, but when it's when you've
Speaker 4: got Lillard and McCallum in the backcourt, that's that's going
Speaker 4: to be the game plan is to try and beat
Speaker 4: them up, trying to get by them, and they need
Speaker 4: better defense around him. They tried it this year with
Speaker 4: Robert Covington and Derek Jones Junior, who obviously wasn't really
Speaker 4: a part of the rotation there, but then you know,
Speaker 4: Nurkic is the backbone. You can't just pick and roll
Speaker 4: of the team if they have got a really agile big.
Speaker 4: So it's time I think for them to move on
Speaker 4: from there. And his quote after the game wasn't all
Speaker 4: that Rosie vote his future in Portland. He was asked
Speaker 4: if he wanted to be in the right situation. He said, yeah,
Speaker 4: in the right situation. Yes, what's the right situation, We'll see.
Speaker 4: I don't know yet, because this is not it. Maybe
Speaker 4: he wants the ball more. I don't know, but I
Speaker 4: don't know. Maybe he thinks he can be nikoliokichefter being
Speaker 4: his teammate for a long time in Denver. But it's
Speaker 4: they got to move on. They just it's not his fault,
Speaker 4: but they've got it. If you've got an all offensive backcourt,
Speaker 4: you need an off defensive front court.
Speaker 5: For me, I think the all offensive backcourt is personally
Speaker 5: the problem. I think they stayed attached to c J.
Speaker 5: McCollum for way too long. The Blazers are not a
Speaker 5: great team. Damian Lillard is incredible and he's carried this
Speaker 5: team farther than a lot of players could. But I
Speaker 5: mean c J. McCollum didn't outplay Michael Porter Junior, and
Speaker 5: we thought that was going to be the case coming
Speaker 5: into this series. We said, maybe Michael Porter Junior has
Speaker 5: got to score twenty five twenty six a game to
Speaker 5: be able to equal what CJ McCollum did. CJ, you
Speaker 5: know he was going giving you as twenty points a game.
Speaker 5: That's about it. Not a lot of impact in this series.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then I mean it was it turned into
Speaker 3: like this duel of course between MVP Yokich and then
Speaker 3: this unbelievable Damian Lillard like for most part throughout the series,
Speaker 3: but you know, you saw time and time again it
Speaker 3: felt like, Ley, you do need help. You need guys
Speaker 3: to hit some like timely shots at the very least.
Speaker 3: And you know, Michael Porter Junior catching on fire in
Speaker 3: the first quarter was huge, But like Austin rivers another
Speaker 3: like sort of like classic Dagger Rivers three late in
Speaker 3: this game, Aaron Gordon had one in the corner. Jamichael
Speaker 3: Green was like grabbing huge offensive rebounds and making big
Speaker 3: plays and it was just like, you just look at that.
Speaker 3: A little help for Yokich, it's all you need. You
Speaker 3: just need some timely help, and a lot of times
Speaker 3: I felt like in this series, be it McCollum, be
Speaker 3: it Norman Powell, they just came up when they had
Speaker 3: open looks to like, hey man, we need to stop
Speaker 3: the bleeding here, or we need a big shot or
Speaker 3: score here, and lil It really couldn't get that help
Speaker 3: more times than not, I thought personally. But yeah, it's
Speaker 3: gonna be. I expect it to be. I don't know
Speaker 3: how it couldn't be a Raptors like sort of, you know,
Speaker 3: a huge switch up here when they had de Rozan
Speaker 3: and Lowry and you just keep sort of coming up
Speaker 3: short in playoffs here. He's like, you got to do something,
Speaker 3: be it the coach or or probably probably moving one
Speaker 3: of them, but we'll see it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Dame had a cryptic sort of Instagram message there
Speaker 6: last night as well. But look, if you're the Blazers,
Speaker 6: I think you say, listen, we're not trading Lilard unless
Speaker 6: he comes and says, I've been here for now what
Speaker 6: ten seasons, eleven seasons, I've given everything. I'd like to
Speaker 6: go somewhere else, and I think the Blazers should grant
Speaker 6: him that wish if that's what he does but I
Speaker 6: don't think he's that type of guy. I think he'd
Speaker 6: rather just sort of stay there for now, and he
Speaker 6: doesn't want to be known as one of those guys
Speaker 6: who's asked to be traded. I think starts with probably
Speaker 6: Terry Stotts. I think he's probably not coming back.
Speaker 3: He's but some people say Lillard's loyalty to the Blazers
Speaker 3: organization and to start specifically, has kept Terry Starts there
Speaker 3: for these years, and every year Lillard says, no, he's
Speaker 3: the guy. He's fine. I love him as a coach.
Speaker 3: I mean this could could be an issue where ownership
Speaker 3: and the GM has I know you love a man,
Speaker 3: I know you're like super loyal here, but we're going
Speaker 3: to try something else.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well that's that, you know, That's what you have
Speaker 6: to do if you're Neil Ushe and you have to say, okay,
Speaker 6: well I can't sort of keep going down this path
Speaker 6: myself if we were not winning, we have to make
Speaker 6: a change. So and little it has power. I think
Speaker 6: within that franchise, we like that because he's been there
Speaker 6: for so long, he's so loyal, and he's so beloved
Speaker 6: as well in Portland. So you're trying to not upset him,
Speaker 6: but you also have to have a hard conversation, say,
Speaker 6: we can't just keep making the first round and going
Speaker 6: out in the first round like that. I think so,
Speaker 6: I think I think Stott's probably starts there, and then
Speaker 6: I think CJ is what they see they can get
Speaker 6: for him, and obviously Nurkisch as well, because you know,
Speaker 6: the funny thing talk about those threes last night, yeat,
Speaker 6: Austin Rivers hit a massive one, Aaron Gordon hit a
Speaker 6: massive one, and who had the chance for the Blazers
Speaker 6: down the other end, Norm Power and he absolutely clunked.
Speaker 3: I care.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So yeah, that was the difference. Those sort of
Speaker 6: those margins that can really just alter a game and
Speaker 6: ultimately a series. But you know, it's been good to
Speaker 6: watch the Blazers. They have sort of punched above their
Speaker 6: weight for while now, but they've reached the point where
Speaker 6: it's like you can sort of see what the ceiling
Speaker 6: is for this group and they need to make some changes.
Speaker 3: Well, let's get to the Sun's Nugget series. I'm very
Speaker 3: excited for. This series is a two to three matchup.
Speaker 3: A little chalk there with those seeds going through. Let's
Speaker 3: start breaking it down, we'll make our predictions. What we
Speaker 3: like to do with these is, you know, give you
Speaker 3: the keys to the series. Just everybody knows. They had
Speaker 3: one of the most tightly contested season series of the year.
Speaker 3: Between them, their three games were decided by an average
Speaker 3: margin of five points. One game went to overtime, the
Speaker 3: other game went to double overtime, both on consecutive days,
Speaker 3: if you remember there in Phoenix. Denver ultimately got the
Speaker 3: best of them in those extra frames, so they took
Speaker 3: the season series two to one. Booker didn't play in
Speaker 3: one of the games, but Game one Nuggets Suns Monday
Speaker 3: night at on TNT, the late game. So Lee, why
Speaker 3: don't you go to start? What's your key to the
Speaker 3: series here between the Suns and the Nuggets.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm going to start with the Nuggets backcourt because
Speaker 6: it did pretty well against the Blazes. We thought I
Speaker 6: was sitting the U and I skates the ya going
Speaker 6: to be a weakness. Lillard was huge, McCollum's numbers were good,
Speaker 6: but he just didn't have the impact. But now for
Speaker 6: the Nuggets starting backcourt of Austin Rivers and Compazzo, it's
Speaker 6: going to be up against Chris Paul and Devin Booker.
Speaker 6: Now Monte Morris, as we talked about, he was probably
Speaker 6: the nuggets third best player in the series, and I
Speaker 6: wonder if Michael Malone considers starting him because I think
Speaker 6: he's the best scorer of those three out of Compasso
Speaker 6: and Austin Rivers. But either way, all three of them
Speaker 6: need to be really good. You know, can Austin Wevers
Speaker 6: win them the playoffs? For Austin Rivers, you will be
Speaker 6: will because listen, if you can do one quarter like that,
Speaker 6: that could be huge for the Nuggets. Because I do
Speaker 6: also think fatigue could play a factor here, mainly for
Speaker 6: the Nuggets, because if you look at the four teams
Speaker 6: who made the conference finals in the Bubbles, only the
Speaker 6: Nuggets remain. The Heat Lakers and Celtics won three games
Speaker 6: in the playoffs this season, and if you look at
Speaker 6: the knock on effect of that, pat Riley has said
Speaker 6: everyone in Miami, we're taking a month off. We have
Speaker 6: just exhausted. Brad Stevens no longer the coach in Boston,
Speaker 6: Danny Angers moved on, and Lebron while he did play
Speaker 6: in the series against the Suns, he suffered the longest
Speaker 6: layoff of his career just before the playoff, and Anthony
Speaker 6: Davis of course was injured there too, so I think
Speaker 6: there's some sort of a link there. And the Nuggets
Speaker 6: also already without their second best player in Jamal Murray,
Speaker 6: coming off a tough six game series against the Blazers,
Speaker 6: and they immediately go onto the road to play Phoenix,
Speaker 6: and apart from obviously Chris Paul and Ja Crowd, no
Speaker 6: one really has that playoff experience. So I think that
Speaker 6: could play a factor here because you know that the
Speaker 6: Suns are going to be feeling great, and I know
Speaker 6: that having home court advantage is going to be huge,
Speaker 6: I think in this series, and I think that could
Speaker 6: be a key here. So that backcourt for Denver has
Speaker 6: to be huge from the start. They can't they can't
Speaker 6: afford to get off to a slow start, and they've
Speaker 6: got to try to make Devin book when Chris Paul
Speaker 6: work on that defensive end. And again I think maybe
Speaker 6: Monte Morris is a little bit better at just making
Speaker 6: Devon or Chris Paul work, whichever one it is, because
Speaker 6: if they can just get into their offensive flow, it
Speaker 6: makes it a lot harder, I think for the Nuggets
Speaker 6: to keep up. So it's going to be a fascinating series.
Speaker 6: I think the Nuggets, obviously with Jokich there have the
Speaker 6: ultimately the best player currently in the series. But I
Speaker 6: just wonder if that backcourt will they survived against the Blazers,
Speaker 6: but I didn't think outside of little of the Blazers
Speaker 6: were all that good. Will they be able to sort
Speaker 6: of keep up again with these guys in Chris Paul
Speaker 6: and Jay Crowd and then when guys coming off the
Speaker 6: bench like you know, whoever it is there for the
Speaker 6: Phoenix Huns just again keeping up the pace. So that
Speaker 6: I think is the biggest question for the Nuggets. Again,
Speaker 6: when you start on the road, you've got to get
Speaker 6: off to a good start, and that's going to be
Speaker 6: the toughest part I think for the for the Nuggets
Speaker 6: coming off this tough series.
Speaker 3: Cass, what do you think key to the series?
Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be a pretty big jolt going
Speaker 4: from the Blazers defense to the Sun Ye. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 5: I mean, no defense to add defense.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, So Yokich is gonna score no matter what
Speaker 4: he does. It doesn't matter if you' you've got the
Speaker 4: best defense against him the second best defense, I think again,
Speaker 4: it's it's going to be interesting to see what Michael
Speaker 4: Porter Junior can do because he was really good in
Speaker 4: the opening series. Nineteen points per game, fifty four from
Speaker 4: the floor, forty one from three to ninety one from
Speaker 4: the free throw line. We saw the Sons were good
Speaker 4: enough to beat a team with one star. You know,
Speaker 4: whether it's a little half of Lebron half in Anthony Davis,
Speaker 4: but this is this is different. You got the one
Speaker 4: star in Jokic, you definitely need one to step up
Speaker 4: in Michael Port Junior. Now, it's going to be different
Speaker 4: for him because of Michel Bridges coming at him as
Speaker 4: a defensive guy. He's four inches shorter Michel Bridges is,
Speaker 4: but he's got a longer wingspan, and I think that's
Speaker 4: going to really help Michael Port Jr. Against Michael Porter Jr.
Speaker 4: It's weird. He's sixty six against Michael Port Junior six
Speaker 4: to ten, but his seven to one wingspan against Michael
Speaker 4: Porter Junior seven foot winspan, that's going to be interesting
Speaker 4: to see him running around screens as Porter was able
Speaker 4: to do on Robert Covington or whoever was guarding him
Speaker 4: on the perimeter and score like a madman in quarter
Speaker 4: one there of Game six. This is going to be
Speaker 4: fun to watch. So the Sons were able to keep
Speaker 4: the Lakers out of the paint because they didn't have
Speaker 4: to go to the three point line. But if Porter
Speaker 4: gets going, he can open things up for Jokic a bit,
Speaker 4: but that doesn't matter. He's going to score more importantly,
Speaker 4: yet's the driving lanes for Composo rivers, Monty Morris and
Speaker 4: those Aaron Gordon cuts. I'm just concerned that this is
Speaker 4: finally the series that the Nuggets missed Jamal Murray finally
Speaker 4: because in that season series against the Suns he was
Speaker 4: really big. But TBD, if Porter steps up, maybe they don't.
Speaker 4: They have a lot of players who are obviously thriving,
Speaker 4: just because of the confidence of Nicole Jokic, all those
Speaker 4: guys I just mentioned, all those guards Lee just went through,
Speaker 4: and if if, if Porter steps up, which you know
Speaker 4: it's a big question. Mark Porter has made an incredible leap,
Speaker 4: got played off the floor last year in the bubble.
Speaker 4: He was he was, you know, sometimes in the rotation
Speaker 4: and sometimes not. Now he's going to be asked to
Speaker 4: do a lot against a really good defense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it will help if Monte Morris continues
Speaker 3: put up like twenty five game, which he basically did
Speaker 3: over the last two in that series, which is amazing.
Speaker 3: He had twenty eight right in game five and then
Speaker 3: had the twenty two and the pick and roll with
Speaker 3: Jokic the Blazers to death there in game six. He
Speaker 3: was awesome. Can he continue to do that? But Trey,
Speaker 3: what are you watching? Let's go talk some big men here, man,
Speaker 3: you're the big man of the group.
Speaker 5: Well, guards are gonna be interesting, gonna be interesting. I
Speaker 5: don't think Phoenix is gonna let Denver off the hook
Speaker 5: quite the way that Portland did. I think Composo is
Speaker 5: going to stay in the starting lineup with Austin Rivers, though.
Speaker 5: I think they're gonna use him on Chris Paul. That's
Speaker 5: gonna be a hilarious matchup to watch. Somebody's taking an
Speaker 5: elbow to the face by game three between those two,
Speaker 5: it's gonna be very funny and honestly, with Chris Paul's health,
Speaker 5: I guess we'll see how he holds up. At least
Speaker 5: you're gonna expect and tangibles, defense, playmaking, veteranship, poise from
Speaker 5: Chris Paul. We'll see about the shooting. Booker is gonna
Speaker 5: be lillardy again. He's gonna score points, There's no doubt
Speaker 5: about it. So to me, a lot of pressure on
Speaker 5: DeAndre Ayton in this one. Once again, he did incredible.
Speaker 5: It's the Lakers. Sixteen points, eleven rebounds a game, eighty
Speaker 5: percent field goal shooting, and the big number to me,
Speaker 5: eighteen fouls in six games. That's great for DeAndre and
Speaker 5: he's gonna need to do it again because he's the
Speaker 5: primary matchup for Nikola Jokic. Jokis, though, is healthy and
Speaker 5: ballin thirty three, ten and five in the series against Portland,
Speaker 5: fifty three percent from the field, forty three from three
Speaker 5: to ninety two from the line, and as we saw
Speaker 5: with use off Nurkic, the guy draws fouls like a
Speaker 5: mug eight. And though he was awesome in Round one,
Speaker 5: great all year, but he was still out played by
Speaker 5: Anthony Davis in games two and three when Davis was
Speaker 5: really healthy. The Nuggets can win this series. The Nuggets
Speaker 5: can still win the championship. I don't know if you
Speaker 5: guys believe me yet. A massive Yokic series is coming
Speaker 5: unless Ayton can stay on the court and limit him
Speaker 5: a little bit. Because the Sun's back court is gonna
Speaker 5: do it. The advantage for the Nuggets is inside Jokic
Speaker 5: is going to ball out. Ayton has to do something
Speaker 5: to counteract it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I always like catch myself thinking, like how do
Speaker 3: you guard Yokich. What's the best way to do it?
Speaker 3: Could you get like don Nelsony with it and throw
Speaker 3: like a smaller j crowder on him, like just get
Speaker 3: up in him. And then you're like, no, you can't.
Speaker 3: You can't do what you maybe used to be able
Speaker 3: to do to like a younger Dirk where that's what
Speaker 3: they would do, you know, like be it a Stephen
Speaker 3: Jackson or a Matt Barnes, like a smaller guy and
Speaker 3: just get way up on him and make them uncomfortable
Speaker 3: and try and like make him a playmaker. But you
Speaker 3: can't do a deal good because he's one probably the
Speaker 3: best passer in the league. And then two, he's just
Speaker 3: so huge, Like if you threw a crowder on him,
Speaker 3: he'd just put his ass in the basket, that's all
Speaker 3: he would do, Just back up and he'd either be
Speaker 3: fouled or he would just score. Because He's just a monster.
Speaker 3: And that's like where he's obviously so much different than
Speaker 3: a Dirk, even though there are there are some similarities
Speaker 3: just with their impact on a game. And we saw
Speaker 3: what Dirk did his own run to the finals there
Speaker 3: when he really had it going. But let's get to predictions,
Speaker 3: man Lee, this is a tough one. I love him
Speaker 3: taking what all you guys are saying right now. I
Speaker 3: haven't even made my official prediction. I don't have anything
Speaker 3: written down because I want to hear what you guys
Speaker 3: said as the experts here. I want to know where
Speaker 3: Trey was leaning, where you're leaning. What do you have?
Speaker 3: What's your prediction for Sons Nuggets?
Speaker 7: This one is a tough one because I do think
Speaker 7: the Nuggets have the best player, but I think the
Speaker 7: Suns having home court advantage gives them the edge in
Speaker 7: this one.
Speaker 6: And again they were just super, super impressive in that
Speaker 6: first round.
Speaker 3: Obviously the I guess.
Speaker 6: Word too, so I just have a little bit more
Speaker 6: faith I think in collectively the defense of the Suns
Speaker 6: and the fact that you know, Devin Booker was incredible
Speaker 6: in his first playoff series. So I think it's a
Speaker 6: long one. I hope it's a long one, but I'm
Speaker 6: giving the tilta to the Suns home court advantage, I
Speaker 6: says Phoenix in seven.
Speaker 3: Okay, Sons and seven, I wouldn't be angry with that. There,
Speaker 3: serious task. What's your prediction?
Speaker 4: Oh, is that tough? It really is. I assume the
Speaker 4: Sons have been able to manage Chris Pol's pain level
Speaker 4: and are able to keep him on the floor, because, yeah,
Speaker 4: he doesn't have to score obviously, he like he didn't
Speaker 4: do against Los Angeles Lakers, but he needs to be
Speaker 4: on the floor just to kind of keep Devin Booker
Speaker 4: in his role of off the ball and let him
Speaker 4: be a shooting guard. He gives the confidence to the
Speaker 4: rest of the guys. He allows Campaign to come off
Speaker 4: the bench so he doesn't have a huge burden on
Speaker 4: his shoulders, which is really important. Three days before Game one.
Speaker 4: Does that help Chris Paul? I guess, But we have
Speaker 4: seen Chris Paul, you know, crumble and fall and be injured. Frankly,
Speaker 4: you know, I just watched Anthony Davis do it, so
Speaker 4: it's can't get that out of my mind. At the
Speaker 4: same time, it seems like they've managed to do that,
Speaker 4: so that's really important. They are fricking tough as nails.
Speaker 4: That's why I want Chris Paul on the floor, just
Speaker 4: to keep that up on the floor. And yeah, the
Speaker 4: big man battle DeAndre aight and being able to stay
Speaker 4: on the floor. They managed to do it, and they
Speaker 4: managed to be able to hold up even in Dario
Speaker 4: Sarich and Frank Kaminski minutes. So I think they play
Speaker 4: one on one with with Nicola jokicchen don't let that
Speaker 4: the passing kill them, don't let the air and Gordon
Speaker 4: cuts kill them. And they managed to pull it out
Speaker 4: in in a fight, in a scrap. I'll say seven
Speaker 4: as well, because the Nuggets have to be mad respected, all.
Speaker 3: Right, So Suns and seven ultimately going with Okay, Trey,
Speaker 3: you're gonna run with the Nuggets. They go into the
Speaker 3: finals here, big.
Speaker 5: Gay, Well, they're going to the conference finals, Nuggets in six. Here.
Speaker 5: Jokic is unstoppable right now. He's been the best player
Speaker 5: in the league from the first month of the season.
Speaker 5: He's still been the best player in the league through
Speaker 5: the first two weeks of the playoffs. I don't see
Speaker 5: that stopping. Apparently the stream team is saying Will Barton
Speaker 5: maybe coming back. That would be huge for the Nuggets.
Speaker 5: I actually think they'll do a decent job of being
Speaker 5: able to match up on the perimeter as well. Obviously,
Speaker 5: Aaron Gordon isn't gonna start on Devin Booker, but surely
Speaker 5: he'll get a chance at some point. Like I said,
Speaker 5: compose O versus Chris Paul is gonna be a hilarious
Speaker 5: matchup to watch. And I think you're gonna be able
Speaker 5: to You're gonna be able to hide Michael Porter Junior
Speaker 5: on defense a little bit. And then yeah, he's gonna
Speaker 5: have a tough matchup trying to score against Michale Bridges.
Speaker 5: But I'm a little bit of a Porter Junior believer here,
Speaker 5: So give me the Nuggets in six.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna hedge a little bit. I'm also going Nuggets,
Speaker 3: but I'm gonna go Denver in seven. This will be
Speaker 3: the weird seven game series that Denver genuinely or regularly
Speaker 3: excuse me, plays in. I just think some things are
Speaker 3: gonna maybe disappear here for the Suns a little bit.
Speaker 3: Is campaign gonna like continue to like have like two
Speaker 3: or three monster games in this series? I mean, I
Speaker 3: guess it's possible, but I'm gonna bet against it. You know, Crowder,
Speaker 3: as we've talked about, the guy can like never miss
Speaker 3: or he can never hit a three, So maybe that
Speaker 3: comes back to earth a little bit. He was unbelievable
Speaker 3: there of course in Game six. Ah, and just the
Speaker 3: Yokich factor. He is the best player in the series.
Speaker 3: And I think I'm ultimately That's what I'm coming down to.
Speaker 3: As much as I love Devin Booker, Booker should have,
Speaker 3: I would assume some monster like games in this series,
Speaker 3: Like would you be shocked if we see a couple
Speaker 3: forty plus maybe even some fifty pluses against this Denver team?
Speaker 3: I wouldn't. I mean, we've seen it before from other
Speaker 3: stars in series against the Nuggets, you know last year
Speaker 3: and of course even last series with Lillard. So Booker's
Speaker 3: probably got that under his in his bag. But I'll
Speaker 3: go Denver in seven. But it's tight. It is tight.
Speaker 3: So tass and Lee takes Sons and seven. Trey Kurby's
Speaker 3: got Nuggets in six, and I'm hedging, like I said,
Speaker 3: and going Nuggets and seven, taking the road, you know, rare.
Speaker 3: I guess Game seven win. All right, let's hear from
Speaker 3: you guys in the stream team your predictions. Drop them
Speaker 3: below the YouTube video. Let's take a quick break though,
Speaker 3: before we get over to our Eastern Conference semifinals predictions.
Speaker 4: I thought you're talking about your trapped win, Lee. I
Speaker 4: thought you were saying I got an exit tado, because
Speaker 4: I got trapped win.
Speaker 3: Here, I want to start like texting the guys before
Speaker 3: a big game. Say, any guys horny for.
Speaker 6: This game, I'm superry.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Next series, we're about to break down here. I didn't
Speaker 3: even take any blue juice. Yeah, all right, let's get
Speaker 3: to them in the Eastern Conference, we've got our two matchups.
Speaker 3: They are getting under way this weekend. We'll start with
Speaker 3: the Nets Bucks in the two three series. There Game
Speaker 3: one Saturday night, everybody seven thirty, perfect horning time for
Speaker 3: everybody enjoying Game one. The Bucks may have taking the
Speaker 3: season series two games to one, but they have yet
Speaker 3: to see the Nets of course Big three at full strength,
Speaker 3: because almost no one did except maybe the first round.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 3: Let's get to the keys to the series and we'll
Speaker 3: make our predictions. Trey, We're gonna start with you on
Speaker 3: this one. Nets Bucks, what's key to the series for you?
Speaker 5: Oh skeets I am mooe Extato this one. These two
Speaker 5: teams look so good in Round one. Can't wait to
Speaker 5: see him smashing bodies. Exitato themselves. Don't make you Exitato,
Speaker 5: bab The honest to me is a problem that the
Speaker 5: Nets don't have an answer for. Katie's gonna get some
Speaker 5: turns for sure, Blake, perhaps, Nick Claxton. Maybe I think
Speaker 5: they'll miss Jeff Green a little bit. But really, the
Speaker 5: Nets don't have a Yannis stopper obviously, so they're gonna
Speaker 5: do everything they possibly can to help out on Gianness,
Speaker 5: whether that's doubling him when he has the ball down low,
Speaker 5: building a wall, just playing off him, kind of challenging
Speaker 5: him to shoot. They're gonna do whatever they can to
Speaker 5: make other players on the Bucks beat them offensively. So
Speaker 5: it's imperative that the Bucks hit their threes because they
Speaker 5: got to keep up with the Nets scoring. Milwaukee finished
Speaker 5: fifth in percentage, fifth in makes from the three point
Speaker 5: line this year. But the guy I'm looking at most
Speaker 5: interestedly in this series from a three point shooting perspective
Speaker 5: gotta be Pat Connaton got the start for Dante DiVincenzo
Speaker 5: in Game four against the Heat. He's my guess is
Speaker 5: the guy that's going to be a crack in the
Speaker 5: lineup as a starter, and at least Game one, more
Speaker 5: than likely he starts on James Harden just because you know,
Speaker 5: Pat Conton's kind of a quickish, strongish guy just like Harden.
Speaker 5: Maybe can take some of the bumps, but he's definitely
Speaker 5: got the guy that the Nets are going to challenge
Speaker 5: to make some shots. Shot thirty seven percent from three
Speaker 5: this year, a career high since he became a rotation player.
Speaker 5: You need that guy, not the one who shot fifteen
Speaker 5: percent in the series against the Bucks last year. The
Speaker 5: question to me is, how are the Bucks gonna possibly
Speaker 5: kind of keep up offensively with the Nets. It's got
Speaker 5: to be three point shooting. So Conton's got to knock
Speaker 5: him down. PJ. Tucker's got to knock him down when
Speaker 5: he's in Bobby Portis. You need to see a Bryn
Speaker 5: Forbes game. Basically, the Bucks have to shoot threes to
Speaker 5: win this series.
Speaker 4: Fair guyness is gonna have to be a monster inside
Speaker 4: because he really wasn't against the Miami Heat surprisingly even
Speaker 4: though they got a sweep. He's got to be way
Speaker 4: way better because yeah, he does have an advantage inside,
Speaker 4: they shouldn't be able to stop him inside. But he
Speaker 4: only shot forty five percent from the floor against the heat.
Speaker 4: That's a surprising number for Yen Stetkooba, who should be
Speaker 4: able to dunk on everybody in that front line. And
Speaker 4: he took a lot of threes against the heat. He's
Speaker 4: only six percent from three. That wasn't a typo, that's
Speaker 4: six percent from three. Yeah, so inside, what the hell
Speaker 4: do the Nets do? Obviously Kevin Durant is going to
Speaker 4: be his primary guy, but with Yannies, you always have
Speaker 4: a second guy there. And I think if it's Blake
Speaker 4: Griffin starting, which is possible because they like that defensive
Speaker 4: able ability to sort of rotate, whether it's Nick Claxon
Speaker 4: the young young fella, or they dust off DeAndre Jordan
Speaker 4: which isn't good for the rotations, or Bruce Brown. They
Speaker 4: really do miss Jeff Green, who isn't going to start
Speaker 4: this series, most likely with the Planner faship problem. No
Speaker 4: matter how you slice it, no matter how you look
Speaker 4: at it, the Nets are going to put up a
Speaker 4: shit ton of points. That's just the way it is.
Speaker 4: It's just an incredible offense. So yeah, they're gonna have
Speaker 4: to hit threes, but Yannis has the big advantage inside.
Speaker 4: He's got to be a forty point guy, I think
Speaker 4: when it comes down to it for their wins anyways,
Speaker 4: the Nets are going to score one hundred and twenty
Speaker 4: one hundred and thirty points, and yeah, it's definitely a
Speaker 4: worry something from the from the outside, but also just
Speaker 4: Yannis has to go get it because the Bucks I
Speaker 4: think they're just a tad over hyped right now because
Speaker 4: they did get they did get the big sweep, but
Speaker 4: Miami was absolutely horrendous after that. You know, the first
Speaker 4: game was a close game and then you know, three blowouts,
Speaker 4: but Miami just didn't know what the heck they were
Speaker 4: doing on offense. The Nets do. And the good thing
Speaker 4: is they've got great defensive matchups for the Nets that
Speaker 4: we'll get into. But offensively, they they're not playing the
Speaker 4: heat anymore. They're gonna have to put up a lot
Speaker 4: of points on the offensive. And starts with Yanni's for me, Well.
Speaker 3: Joannis and Durant had like one of the best games
Speaker 3: of the year, didn't they when they went like for
Speaker 3: forty nine. I think Giannis had in one of those games.
Speaker 3: And then I think Durant had a forty plus in
Speaker 3: the same game, just like shooting lights out. Do you
Speaker 3: think Nashville put kd on Giannis to start the series
Speaker 3: task or will it? We saw a lot of Blake
Speaker 3: on him actually, like in those two of the last
Speaker 3: games that he got the matchup there, you know you're
Speaker 3: saving Katie offensively a little bit. You don't want to
Speaker 3: get him to foul trouble and the pressure that Janice
Speaker 3: could put on. Or do you just say no, he's
Speaker 3: our best defender, Let's put him on it, just like
Speaker 3: they did the Bucks finally did, putting Giannis on Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess you know, nash is a lot smarter
Speaker 4: than I am. So maybe he saves Kevin Durant for
Speaker 4: later in the games, because Yeanny should be able to
Speaker 4: smoke Blake. He just has too much lateral speed, he's longer,
Speaker 4: he's bigger. Kevin Durant just seems like the more natural matchup.
Speaker 4: John Hollinger brought up a heck of an idea with
Speaker 4: James Harden potentially guarding Yanni's down low because he is
Speaker 4: such a stout guy. He is really good at guarding
Speaker 4: guys in the post and you look up down the roster.
Speaker 4: I mean I threw all those names out there. Amongst
Speaker 4: the bigs. You got Kevin Grant, then Blake Griffin, Nick Clackson,
Speaker 4: DeAndre Jordan, Bruce Brown, Jeff Green, James Harden makes some
Speaker 4: freaking sense, and you can definitely hide him. You know,
Speaker 4: you can take Harden off of Pat Connaton or whoever
Speaker 4: and and throw him on on Yanni's At times, I
Speaker 4: guess we're just gonna see, like every great player, a
Speaker 4: ton of people on Yanny's all basically all those names
Speaker 4: except DeAndre Jordan. I don't think he gets dusted off. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's that's a lot, man, It's a yeah. At the
Speaker 4: same time, maybe they just score enough to win regardless.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Maybe they don't even talk about defense in the Nets
Speaker 3: locker room. They're like, who cares, honestly, don't worry about it.
Speaker 3: We'll score enough. But Lee, what's your key to the series?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Well, look, I do think the Bucks are as well
Speaker 6: equipped as any other team to have players to put
Speaker 6: on the stars. Like Yiannis athletically is big enough and
Speaker 6: strong enough to at least stick with Katie. No one's
Speaker 6: stopping him. No, one's going to shut him down, but
Speaker 6: at least he could be the most difficult match up
Speaker 6: Katie faces and Drew Holliday is a really good defensive
Speaker 6: matchup for Kyrie Irving. He just plays him well again,
Speaker 6: you're not stopping him. Kyrie is going to get his,
Speaker 6: but he could at least make it more difficult than
Speaker 6: anyone Drew Holiday. But that just does leave James Harden.
Speaker 6: Who's that going to be? Is it going to be
Speaker 6: Pat Conaton, because it's either him or Chris Middleton, And
Speaker 6: that's really I think the biggest problem here for the
Speaker 6: Bucks is, you know, you can look that those big
Speaker 6: three can all go for forty points easily even in
Speaker 6: one game potentially if they had to, and you just
Speaker 6: have to find a way to try to slow down
Speaker 6: at least one or two of them if you can.
Speaker 6: Middleton is going to cause the Nets to work on
Speaker 6: the defensive end because he's been fantastic for them in
Speaker 6: that mid range. But what sort of effect can he
Speaker 6: have on stifling James Harden if he's on him, you know,
Speaker 6: or if it's pa Because James Harden we know he
Speaker 6: can get inside. He's more than happy to play facilitator.
Speaker 6: He has to, but he's also going to be able
Speaker 6: to shoot, hit those step backs and go to the
Speaker 6: free throat line. So that's just a big, big problem
Speaker 6: I think here for Milwaukee because even as we saw
Speaker 6: it in the series for the Nets in the first
Speaker 6: round there against the Celtics, at times, you know, I
Speaker 6: think it was Kyrie only had fifteen points in one game.
Speaker 6: Now they blew them out. But the point is, even
Speaker 6: if one of the big three doesn't go off, the
Speaker 6: other two still can, so you have to try to
Speaker 6: find a way to stop him. But I think the
Speaker 6: real key as well for the Bucks is to get
Speaker 6: as many easy baskets as you can. And if it
Speaker 6: is Blake Griffin, then Yannis has to just go inside
Speaker 6: because you have to put pressure on that defense and
Speaker 6: not let the Nets just not have to try on
Speaker 6: the defensive end. So that's where Yannis has to I
Speaker 6: hope he puts the three pointer away for this series.
Speaker 6: I hope he just goes inside and tries to take
Speaker 6: advantage of his athletical advantage that he has. If it
Speaker 6: is against Blake and James Harden does have a fantastic Yeah,
Speaker 6: I got a great subscription to the Asplet.
Speaker 3: A Spanish version.
Speaker 6: Of James harden As as a as a body post defender.
Speaker 6: I think that isn't actually the worst idea in the world.
Speaker 6: I think he can cause Jannas some problems. But I
Speaker 6: think Jannis, if he sees Blake, he's like, right, I'm
Speaker 6: just going into the paint. If you're the net, You're like,
Speaker 6: you're gonna hopefully try to draw some offensive fouls get
Speaker 6: Yannas in trouble. But if it can work in the
Speaker 6: bucks favor, that's good. But if not, then you do
Speaker 6: throw Kevin around on him if necessary. So I see,
Speaker 6: I see just a few different Even though the Bucks
Speaker 6: defense is good again, there's just like it's like playing
Speaker 6: what's that whack a Moley thing where it's like you
Speaker 6: can potentially buck of MOLLYU a Molly, you can potentially
Speaker 6: at least have good players, you know, to sort of
Speaker 6: stifle those other guys, but then you know someone else
Speaker 6: is going to pop up and score.
Speaker 3: So okay. I was like, well that was like finished
Speaker 3: that analogy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, something something, Okay.
Speaker 3: I have a question though, for really danced around. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Jo honest is gonna try and block a shot again
Speaker 3: like we saw during the regular season and blew everybody's minds, like,
Speaker 3: well even though that was possible.
Speaker 5: So that's one of the funniest clips to me. He
Speaker 5: blocks his shot, but the Nets get three points on that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: Like it's at three pointer from the corner, and that's
Speaker 5: gonna kind of be the story, isn't it. Like you
Speaker 5: can stop a couple of guys. They've got three Hall
Speaker 5: of Famers out there. Plus we haven't even mentioned Joe
Speaker 5: Harris yet.
Speaker 4: Interesting.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he could easily hit four or five threes
Speaker 3: in a quarter and blow the game open. But I
Speaker 3: was gonna say, okay, take Katie out of the equation,
Speaker 3: because again, he's gonna get thirty. That's just what he
Speaker 3: does in every playoff series. It feels like, who would
Speaker 3: you prefer if you're game planning to try and slow
Speaker 3: the Nets, would you focus on stopping more Harden or Kyrie?
Speaker 3: So like, who is the you know, the the straw
Speaker 3: that stirs the Nets drink there? Like if you had
Speaker 3: to just pick one, And I asked that because you
Speaker 3: say Drew Holiday will be on Kyrie, and I'm not
Speaker 3: so sure about that. If you believe Harden is actually
Speaker 3: the one that you sort of want to like really
Speaker 3: try and gum up and slow down because he likes
Speaker 3: to set up guys and stuff like that. And maybe
Speaker 3: you put actually Drew on James Harden to try and
Speaker 3: and you know, prevent him from you know, popping off
Speaker 3: and setting up guys left and right, because Drew is
Speaker 3: an unbelievable defender and the best probably perimeter defender on
Speaker 3: the box. And then you know you're putting somebody else
Speaker 3: on a Kyrie. It's going to be a tough matchup,
Speaker 3: but you know, a middle tinner content stuff like that. Well,
Speaker 3: what do you think or what is your answer, I
Speaker 3: guess to that question.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Well, I think Drew probably does get some time
Speaker 6: on Harden as well because of his defensive prowess there.
Speaker 6: But I guess you probably want to stop Harden first
Speaker 6: because I think he's he's got a little bit more.
Speaker 6: I mean, we've seen Kyrie go for forty easily, but
Speaker 6: I guess Harden is probably.
Speaker 3: Outs like Kyry can go for forty, but Hardy could
Speaker 3: go for twenty eight, but fourteen assists, Yeah, and it's
Speaker 3: just going to be that's a lot more.
Speaker 6: He's a better I think passer of the lobs inside
Speaker 6: James Harden than Kyrie Iving. But we saw when James
Speaker 6: Harden was at his best this season before the hamstring injury,
Speaker 6: he forced his way into the MVP conversation because he
Speaker 6: was just so dominant, so more happy to play facilitita.
Speaker 6: But Ulsa James Todden is going to have a period
Speaker 6: at least where he's like, all right now I'm scoring
Speaker 6: doing whatever. One getting too the free throad line. So
Speaker 6: it's uh, it's a Sophie's choice for the boodenholes the
Speaker 6: mandate because you know, it's when you're playing Walkamolia, there's
Speaker 6: always one that pops up and the kind of capable
Speaker 6: day on go.
Speaker 4: Back to it, mooe, one of those guacamole's is gonna
Speaker 4: be pointing right.
Speaker 3: Okay, my key to the series here before we get
Speaker 3: to our predictions for this one, I think it is
Speaker 3: Chris Middleton on both sides of the ball. You know,
Speaker 3: he averaged twenty one and a half points per game,
Speaker 3: four and a half assists per game, shooting fifty percent
Speaker 3: from the floor forty one percent from three in that
Speaker 3: first round against the Heat. They're going to need him
Speaker 3: to maintain that production here, of course, against the nets
Speaker 3: and try and at least you know, if Harden is
Speaker 3: the guy going twenty eight, Like, come on, Middleton, give
Speaker 3: us twenty five, because if you go back to the
Speaker 3: bucks last two playoff series, law us that is twenty
Speaker 3: twenty seventies versus Miami, so last year in the Bubble
Speaker 3: and then twenty nineteen Eastern Conference Finals versus the Raptors.
Speaker 3: The fact of the matter is Middleton was just inconsistent
Speaker 3: against the Raptors. He was quite frankly horrible. Outside a
Speaker 3: one thirty point game which also came in a loss,
Speaker 3: he didn't score over fifteen points in any of the
Speaker 3: other games. That ain't gonna fly in this series. And
Speaker 3: then even against the Bubble heat he shot well in
Speaker 3: the opener and he had a thirty six eight to
Speaker 3: eight in Milwaukee's loan win. But those other games, you know,
Speaker 3: shot six of fifteen zero threes, only scored eighteen in
Speaker 3: the other game, fouled out, shot eight to twenty five
Speaker 3: in Game five, played a lot of minutes, you know,
Speaker 3: there was no Jiannis and all that had six turnovers.
Speaker 3: He fouled out again. You can't have this from Middleton.
Speaker 3: Middleton has to be offensively, especially rock solid. I think,
Speaker 3: I mean well, at least four times of course to
Speaker 3: win this series. And then again, like we just talked
Speaker 3: about the defense, I think he's going to get some
Speaker 3: minutes on Kyrie, maybe on Harden. And he's not a
Speaker 3: bad defender. We don't talk about Chris Middleton defensely at all.
Speaker 3: He gets no respect. But he's good. He is legit good.
Speaker 3: But can anybody actually slow those guys? He's got to
Speaker 3: be special. That's my key to the series, for the
Speaker 3: Bucks to pull this off and to win me one
Speaker 3: hundred dollars, because that's really what we're focusing on here.
Speaker 3: It's the Task Mails versus J. E. Skeets bet Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, at least my first crack at it of
Speaker 3: trying to win one hundred dollars task because Task had
Speaker 3: the Nets going to the finals as soon as they
Speaker 3: made the hardened deal and I said, no, chemistry is
Speaker 3: a real thing and they might lose here in a
Speaker 3: one of these series.
Speaker 5: So, Skeates, have you ever taken a picture with one
Speaker 5: hundred dollars?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 5: I've made a split screen this year.
Speaker 3: I can geez, I don't have ever any money on
Speaker 3: me anymore? Can I just hold up my credit card
Speaker 3: and cover the numbers. I'll do it or something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I took both those last night.
Speaker 3: So the man night on the town. Let's get to predictions.
Speaker 3: Tray you go first, Bucks, Nets, Who are you going task?
Speaker 5: You're a smart guy. Man. During Round one of the playoffs,
Speaker 5: you said that the big thing for the Nets is
Speaker 5: going to be getting to know each other, And that's
Speaker 5: exactly what happened. Even the Big Three was saying, Yeah,
Speaker 5: we're not even worried about the playoff run right now.
Speaker 5: We're just worried about getting back out there and playing
Speaker 5: basketball together. So I think you're smart for that, And
Speaker 5: I think you're also smart for saying in the other
Speaker 5: two three series in the Western Conference, what a bump
Speaker 5: up in difficulty that the Nuggets are gonna face playing
Speaker 5: against the Suns. Now, same thing is going to be
Speaker 5: happening for the Nets here. There wasn't much defense played
Speaker 5: by the Boston Celtics in their Round one series. They
Speaker 5: were content to just try and outscore them, and that's
Speaker 5: what they're gonna try and do against the Bucks. But
Speaker 5: the Bucks defense is so much better. That being said,
Speaker 5: I think the Nets have too many options. Give me
Speaker 5: Brooklyn in seven.
Speaker 3: Okay, and that's in seven, another seven game series here,
Speaker 3: task go next. What's your prediction.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I really hope that Pat Conaton can do some
Speaker 4: kind of job on one of those Nets cards. But
Speaker 4: I think Mike Budenholzer is gonna see that not working
Speaker 4: too well. So Kyrie and James arn are gonna be
Speaker 4: going off and he's gonna say, hey, Chris Middleton, come
Speaker 4: on over, man, we need you to play some defense here.
Speaker 4: And that's going to exhausted dude. I think we kind
Speaker 4: of undervalue how important Chris Middleton is on the offense.
Speaker 4: Evevent skeets. You went through it there. He is so
Speaker 4: so important on the offensive end. He doesn't hit that
Speaker 4: game winner in Game one. I don't know where that
Speaker 4: series goes against the Miami Heat. So I just worry
Speaker 4: about that Bucks defense, although it does definitely have really
Speaker 4: good matchups defensively, the Nets just to have too many
Speaker 4: fricking weapons that are cooking, and I don't know if
Speaker 4: that chemistry thing ever happened ever, you know, is an
Speaker 4: actual downfall for this Brooklyn Nets team until the finals
Speaker 4: maybe or not. Yeah, A lot of people saying that
Speaker 4: this is the NBA finals. I can start to see
Speaker 4: that now for sure. I'm buying that the Nets are
Speaker 4: definitely the stronger team though, considering what the Milwaukee Bucks
Speaker 4: played in that first round, and even though people, you know,
Speaker 4: look to those two matchups at the end of the
Speaker 4: season there where yeah, the Bucks came out on top
Speaker 4: of the Nets. James Harden wasn't playing in either one
Speaker 4: of those. So I think the Bucks are a little
Speaker 4: over hyped right now, and I think the Nets bringing
Speaker 4: back to Earth. I think the Nets will win in six.
Speaker 4: You know, I hope the Bucks prove me wrong. I
Speaker 4: hope we get seven, but I'll go six.
Speaker 3: Okay, Leally, what's your pick.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think this is obviously going to be a
Speaker 6: much more difficult matchup for the Nets coming off the
Speaker 6: Celtics series, and Jannis has the ability to really put
Speaker 6: some pressure on that Nets defense, which is their weeks Well,
Speaker 6: that's their vulnerability here. And if Yannis can stay out
Speaker 6: of foul trouble in terms of offensive foul if failing,
Speaker 6: and he can get inside and just just score those
Speaker 6: easy baskets and put that three pointer away, and then
Speaker 6: he does get help from the other guys out there,
Speaker 6: like Drew Holliday, who was really good in the first
Speaker 6: round series. He's been brought in, of course because Eric
Speaker 6: Bledsoe couldn't play in the playoffs. So I think there's
Speaker 6: a lot there for the Bucks. But I just think
Speaker 6: ultimately that Nets offense is just a little too heavy
Speaker 6: and they pull it out. But I think we're going
Speaker 6: I think we're going long.
Speaker 3: I think we're going to.
Speaker 6: Six or sive. But I'll say the Nets in seven
Speaker 6: because I have home court. But I would also like
Speaker 6: to be proven wrong. I'd like to say the Bucks
Speaker 6: upset them here. But I just feel there's just a
Speaker 6: little too much fai pal from those vits for the
Speaker 6: Brooklyn Nets. Brooklyn in seven.
Speaker 3: This is where PJ. Tucker makes his money. We didn't
Speaker 3: bring up Tucker there. I mean he's gonna get obviously
Speaker 3: chances I think on his old friend Kevin Durant, and
Speaker 3: I mean I'm excited to see what Bud does with
Speaker 3: brook Lopez. I mean, I think there's less of a
Speaker 3: role for a guy like him probably in this series.
Speaker 3: Be difficult to keep him out there. He'll get his chance,
Speaker 3: and if Brookn hit the threes, that's big. As you
Speaker 3: talked about Trey with a three point shooting. Look, if
Speaker 3: you guys are all taking the Nets, I have to
Speaker 3: take the Bucks. I mean I already got one hundred
Speaker 3: dollar bet riding on it. I mean what would I do?
Speaker 3: I could sort of like do the weird hedge where
Speaker 3: it's like, well, you know, I am either gonna lose
Speaker 3: one hundred dollars or I'm gonna be the smart gag
Speaker 3: as I got the pick right. Screw that. It's Milwaukee Bucks, man.
Speaker 3: I believe in them. You know, Drew Holiday is fantastic.
Speaker 3: He needs to neutralize one of those guards. God, can
Speaker 3: you do it? That's the thing I know we always
Speaker 3: get into like I don't care how good your defense is.
Speaker 3: When the offense is that elite, can it be stopped? Well,
Speaker 3: let's find out. I'm gonna go Bucks, though, So what
Speaker 3: do I do? I guess I'll just have to go
Speaker 3: Bucks and six shout out to Brandon Jennings once again.
Speaker 3: Well we'll go with that. Hopefully we get a very
Speaker 3: long series and it should be a super tightly contested series.
Speaker 3: Let's hear from the stream team, though. Drop your predictions,
Speaker 3: leave them below the video Nets Bucks game one Saturday Night.
Speaker 3: We're horny as hell for this one.
Speaker 4: And could you like bet somebody else one on the nets?
Speaker 4: Somebody take the Bucks in this series? Oh yeah, rushes all.
Speaker 3: He's ready for a bet. So yeah. I could call
Speaker 3: him up right now and say, hey, man, you want
Speaker 3: to bet on the Bucks Net series? He would say yes, absolutely,
Speaker 3: And then I say, all right, I don't take the Nets.
Speaker 3: I guess see what he says. I think he would
Speaker 3: take the Bucks. There are a lot of people picking Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: I mean, no doubt, a very good team. It's just
Speaker 3: like you know, it is tough to like, it's just
Speaker 3: tough to wrap your head around. I guess you know.
Speaker 3: Four games sort of out gunning the Nets is what
Speaker 3: we're getting out here. If everybody's healthy, now, this can
Speaker 3: change in a hurry. Right there's a rolled ankle for
Speaker 3: a KD or Kyrie or something, and then it's maybe
Speaker 3: a little more even. But yeah, okay, I'll call up.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do that. That's a good call.
Speaker 4: And listen. I just want to address this comment from Ziggy,
Speaker 4: who's always in the stream team talking about the opponents
Speaker 4: in the first round for both these Bucks and the Nets.
Speaker 4: He says heat were better than the Celtics at least,
Speaker 4: I don't get that take. Honestly, the Heat were horrendous.
Speaker 4: They didn't know what they were doing.
Speaker 3: Hondous because of the Bucks. Is the is the counter
Speaker 3: to that?
Speaker 5: Because their pants once Jianna started guarding Jimmy Butler, they
Speaker 5: pooped their pants, and they had pooping their pants for
Speaker 5: the whole series and didn't know what to do with it.
Speaker 5: They did, They blew it. They completely blew it. The
Speaker 5: Heat were playing better than the Celtics coming into the playoffs,
Speaker 5: and then the Celtics were better than the Heat in
Speaker 5: the playoffs basically because they got a fifty point game.
Speaker 5: You need to see some Chris Middleton fifty point games. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he needs to be the Jason Tatum for them in
Speaker 5: this series.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't. I don't. I don't find I don't
Speaker 4: think it's just the Bucks that made the Heat look
Speaker 4: bad that he just looked bad on their own. Jimmy
Speaker 4: Butler just wasn't hitting shots. I mean like he was driving,
Speaker 4: wasn't any shots. Bam had to buy it in't look Yeah,
Speaker 4: but he knew where he was getting his shot.
Speaker 3: That was Why didn't they do that the year prior?
Speaker 3: No one knows he never played them. They never put
Speaker 3: Youannis on Butler, but they did this series.
Speaker 4: No, he couldn't bank a shot home. I mean he
Speaker 4: couldn't do anything. He couldn't. He literally just stopped being
Speaker 4: able to be Jimmy Butler. I don't think it was
Speaker 4: just Yannis at all. I think it was I disagree
Speaker 4: that he was just bad.
Speaker 3: All right, Well that's why they're ziggy. Keep the comments coming, though,
Speaker 3: we love it. Stream team. Okay, final series here for
Speaker 3: our for us to predict here on the on the
Speaker 3: Drop podcast. But too Still, Yeah, Sixers Haks the one
Speaker 3: to five matchup. Sixers took the season series two games
Speaker 3: to one, dominated the last two meetings, actually winning by
Speaker 3: a combined sixty six points, both of those coming at
Speaker 3: the Wells Fargo Center. Philly's lone lost TI the Hawks
Speaker 3: game in January, though, I think that was the game
Speaker 3: that the Sixers were missing, like eight guys, like health
Speaker 3: and safety protocol. I don't think Simmons played anyway. Game one, Sunday,
Speaker 3: Hawks Sixers on ABC. Yeah, that's right, one pm Eastern.
Speaker 3: Keys to the series. I'll just start because it's the
Speaker 3: number one key to the series. Joell Ebiad's health. How
Speaker 3: healthy is he is he playing, because you know, if
Speaker 3: he doesn't, completely changes the complexion of this matchup the Sixers.
Speaker 3: I saw Schumann with this stat thirty and six when
Speaker 3: their full starting lineup were playing, and one of those
Speaker 3: losses was Game four against Washington when Embiid didn't play
Speaker 3: after the first quarter. So you know, let's call it
Speaker 3: maybe thirty one and five if he continues to play,
Speaker 3: and they probably win that game. So this is just like,
Speaker 3: it's huge. I don't think the Sixers will win this
Speaker 3: series without Joel Embii. Yeah, because I believe in the
Speaker 3: Hawks at least that much, and I think they're that good.
Speaker 3: They're playing with house money at this point, they're loose.
Speaker 3: No one's picking really of them to win again like
Speaker 3: most people weren't against the next So I just think
Speaker 3: Embiid puts so much pressure on a Capella and a
Speaker 3: call ins he gets him in foul trouble. He lives
Speaker 3: at the line easy points. But if he doesn't play
Speaker 3: because of the knee, then man, then it's more of
Speaker 3: a coin flip to me. So that's the that's the key,
Speaker 3: And I don't think we really know the answer to
Speaker 3: that right right now as of recording this on Friday.
Speaker 3: I think they're hoping he'll play right task, but who
Speaker 3: knows a giant dude that could play like we just
Speaker 3: saw with the Anthony Davis lands awkwardly and then he's
Speaker 3: out for the season series again. So that's massive to me.
Speaker 3: But I don't know, maybe you disagree that the Sixers
Speaker 3: couldn't They couldn't win even if Embiid didn't play. Does
Speaker 3: anybody disagree with that?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I think the Sixers could win even without him Beid, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think. I mean, starting with the fact that they're
Speaker 4: able to guard Trey Young with Ben Simmons too, That's
Speaker 4: just that's got to be so so different than the
Speaker 4: Knick series, who are giving him a lot of space
Speaker 4: and Taj Gibson was dropping back, and I think, I mean,
Speaker 4: that would be a lot on Joel Embid if he
Speaker 4: comes out and plays and they get him involved in
Speaker 4: the pick and roll, I think, you know, it's just
Speaker 4: going to be up to Ben's Simmons really to get
Speaker 4: out there and scramble back so Joel Embiid can can
Speaker 4: fall back himself and stop Clint Capella, you know, Dwight
Speaker 4: Howard might be just healthier and better suited to do
Speaker 4: that right now. But either way, Simmons out there on
Speaker 4: Trey Young. He's going to take this extremely personally. He
Speaker 4: keeps on calling himself defensive player of the Year. He's
Speaker 4: going to do a really good job on Trey Young,
Speaker 4: and it's going to be up, I think, to the
Speaker 4: other Hawks to make up for what Trey Young isn't
Speaker 4: able to do in terms of setting guys up. A big,
Speaker 4: big pressure on bog Down Bogdanovic. But I think, yeah,
Speaker 4: the Simmons defense just takes away Clint Cappella to a
Speaker 4: degree because the center, whoever it is, if it's Dwight
Speaker 4: or Joel Embiid, can drop back. But Simmons is not
Speaker 4: going to allow that space that the Knicks. You just
Speaker 4: saw Trey Young, he definitely perused into the lane a
Speaker 4: little too much, just too much, and they dropped and
Speaker 4: they put todsh Gibson in there, and he was a
Speaker 4: he was a fallback guy. And Embeid, you know, I
Speaker 4: worry almost that if he does play, it's just so
Speaker 4: much to ask. He'll probably play like todsh Gibson did.
Speaker 4: But Bed Simmons will be out there it'll be a
Speaker 4: lot different than Reggie Bullock. So that's uh, that's interesting.
Speaker 4: Treyon could could pick him apart as well if if
Speaker 4: they decide to, you know, fall back in that coverage.
Speaker 4: But it's it's hard not to really believe in Ben
Speaker 4: who doesn't have a lot of offensive responsibility. I guess
Speaker 4: it goes up if Joel Embiid is out though, So
Speaker 4: that's yeah, that's a huge, huge question mark whether in
Speaker 4: bed plays I think he tries to fight through it.
Speaker 4: I think there's this was his season, he was an
Speaker 4: MVP candidate. I think we'll see him out there, you know,
Speaker 4: when this thing gets going. But how long it's it's
Speaker 4: it's totally fair. Who the heck knows that.
Speaker 3: Trey what's your key to the series?
Speaker 5: Well, Skates, you're right. Embiid's health is the number one
Speaker 5: key to this series. If he's one hundred percent, the
Speaker 5: Sixers win this series pretty easily, I think. But it
Speaker 5: does not look like he's going to be one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: We have no idea what's going to happen. We have
Speaker 5: no idea if he's even gonna play it. People in
Speaker 5: the stream team are suggesting perhaps the Sixers keep him
Speaker 5: up until they lose a game that could certainly happen,
Speaker 5: give him a little bit more rest, but it's a
Speaker 5: huge unknown. That's why Tobias Harris is Movernie key to
Speaker 5: me in this series because he might have to be
Speaker 5: the seventy six ers leading scorer. We don't know what
Speaker 5: we're getting from Embiid Simmons is unreliable as a scorer,
Speaker 5: at least coming into this series. I think Tobias Harris
Speaker 5: has to be in an offensive hub for the Sixers.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be a nice matchup. I think he'll have
Speaker 5: DeAndre Hunter on him a little bit. I think he'll
Speaker 5: have John Collins on him a little bit. They did
Speaker 5: a great job on Julius Randall, forced them into a
Speaker 5: lot of ISOs, played physical and just made every possession tough.
Speaker 5: It felt like Randal was taking forty eight dribbles every
Speaker 5: single time he had the ball. Harris is certainly a
Speaker 5: more skilled scorer than Randall. He scores in a lot
Speaker 5: different ways. He actually did lead the Sixers in scoring
Speaker 5: in Round one twenty five a game fifty percent from
Speaker 5: the field, thirty eight from three to ninety from the line.
Speaker 5: You need that again from Toby Harry, quick smart decisions
Speaker 5: looking to get buckets because the Hawks are gonna score
Speaker 5: pretty well in this series. I think Trey Young will
Speaker 5: certainly have a toper series than he had against the
Speaker 5: Knicks with Bible and Simmons on him. But there's still
Speaker 5: a lot of scores on the Hawks. They've been playing
Speaker 5: pretty well this second half of the season. That's why
Speaker 5: to me, Tobias Harris got a lot of pressure on
Speaker 5: him this series to actually be a consistent scorer each
Speaker 5: and every game.
Speaker 3: Very similar to Chris Middleton there in the Total Bucks series.
Speaker 3: I always think of those two guys as similar guys.
Speaker 3: They're like just on that borderline of like they're all
Speaker 3: stars sort of guys, and some nights they look like
Speaker 3: almost borderline superstar guys and they have these inconsistent nights. Anyway,
Speaker 3: Tobias Harris is a big one in this series, especially
Speaker 3: if there's no embid for a first couple of games.
Speaker 3: Maybe Lee keyt in the series.
Speaker 6: Before we get to predictions, well, I think it's a
Speaker 6: three point shooting for both teams really, because ultimately, yes,
Speaker 6: Trey Young is going to face a much stiffer challenge.
Speaker 6: I think it's either Simmons or Thible, both of them
Speaker 6: are going to get him at some point. Bible is
Speaker 6: an incredible defender. He's got that length as well. And
Speaker 6: then even Tyre's Max, he might even get some minutes
Speaker 6: on him. He's when those guys are resting, and I
Speaker 6: think the six is know like, if you can slow
Speaker 6: Trey Young down, that can really stop their offense. Don't
Speaker 6: let Heim get going. But then Trey's probably going to
Speaker 6: prepare for and so's Nami Millen and say, bog Danovitch,
Speaker 6: you've got to hit those threes again. John Collins got
Speaker 6: it going towards the end of that series. Kevin Guerreta
Speaker 6: coming off the bench, he can hit them threes. And
Speaker 6: then you've got Gallinari man and he poor man Daniella.
Speaker 6: Gallinari moves like a cement mixer out there, but he
Speaker 6: can still hit the three pointer, and that especially down
Speaker 6: here in Atlanta. He was very good and he was
Speaker 6: getting pretty carried away down there. Two had a nice
Speaker 6: little step back, sort of between the legs move. He
Speaker 6: missed it, but once those threes are falling, he's just
Speaker 6: confident because he kind of and this is again where
Speaker 6: they will potentially if Joel Embiid is not playing, Daniella
Speaker 6: Gallinari almost sort of fills in as they're sort of
Speaker 6: big man there for a while as well when Capella's
Speaker 6: on the bench, and sometimes as John Collins and Danella Gallinari.
Speaker 6: If Joel Embiid is playing, they cannot have Gallinari out
Speaker 6: there defending em beat at all. He will get destroyed.
Speaker 6: But I think as well for the Sixers, you know,
Speaker 6: like Seth Curry was good in this series, Danny Green
Speaker 6: hit thirteen threes in the series against the Wizards. It's
Speaker 6: the Wizards, but Danny Green as a veteran can still
Speaker 6: do that.
Speaker 4: In the corner Raptors.
Speaker 6: Fans know he had one good game Agains the Warrior
Speaker 6: is that time, but he hit six threes in that game.
Speaker 6: I think it was Game three in Oakland where he
Speaker 6: hit those threes. And he did the same thing for
Speaker 6: the Lakers in the bubble there. So he might only
Speaker 6: have one or two good games, but it could be
Speaker 6: game turning events for him. So I think with Philadelphia,
Speaker 6: if those threes are falling, I mean Ben Simmons, as
Speaker 6: we know he doesn't shoot them, but certainly if he
Speaker 6: can penetrate and get those guys into their spots and
Speaker 6: they're knocking them down. That offense for Philadelphia is fantastic.
Speaker 6: As far as Jowel Embiid, I wonder if the Sixers
Speaker 6: look and see what happened with Anthony Davis last night
Speaker 6: and think, you know, it's not worth the risk. They
Speaker 6: look at maybe Kevin Duran in the finals against the
Speaker 6: Raptors a couple of years ago. He clearly wasn't ready
Speaker 6: to go and did further damage. I don't know what
Speaker 6: a meniscous tear, how serious that is, but it just
Speaker 6: sounds grotesque and sounds awful to me. So I'll be
Speaker 6: surprised if Embiid is certainly playing in the first game
Speaker 6: or two, and then depending on how the series is,
Speaker 6: maybe Philadelphia decides to risk it. But it's sad because
Speaker 6: we want to see the best players out there. That's
Speaker 6: the best thing for fans is to see the teams
Speaker 6: at full strength playing each other. And I think even
Speaker 6: if e Beid does play, will be able to tell.
Speaker 6: I think if he's on the court in the first
Speaker 6: five minutes whether or not that knee is bothering him,
Speaker 6: because we saw that with Chris Paul he wasn't at
Speaker 6: his best, and we saw that with Anthony Davis, he
Speaker 6: clearly wasn't at his best, So we might get a
Speaker 6: glimpse either way of just how bad that knee is.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I think if those threes are falling for
Speaker 6: the Hawks, that's the best chance of staying here with
Speaker 6: Philadelphi because this is a much better defensive team. Well
Speaker 6: I say that the Knicks actually had a great defensive.
Speaker 3: Rating, but but this is different because like Tams saying, like,
Speaker 3: by no means you're playing Trey Young, are you're gonna
Speaker 3: do drop coverage. That'd be silly. So you're gonna run
Speaker 3: him over and you're gonna get him into the paint.
Speaker 3: But they're so long and so fast, Tybal Yeah, and Simmons,
Speaker 3: they're gonna be challenging from behind on these floaters Like
Speaker 3: that gets in your head as an offensive player, just
Speaker 3: that much exactly. You'll see that. See the old Chris
Speaker 3: Paul stop there, and I'm sure he'll get some of them.
Speaker 3: But then too, Embeid, we're talking offensively, like he put
Speaker 3: up thirty and fifteen, I'm sure in this series if
Speaker 3: he's playing, but like defensively, yeah, you're going to like
Speaker 3: get Trey in there, and then Embiid's in there, and
Speaker 3: that's going to like make Trey think twice out there
Speaker 3: him and stuff like that, maybe take away those lops.
Speaker 3: So that's why he's huge. You But you're right, Nick's
Speaker 3: had a good defense, But I think it's just such
Speaker 3: a different defense for the Sixers. But yeah, the guys
Speaker 3: they have that you can put on the perimeter.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and statistically throughout the regular season's just different. In
Speaker 6: a series the Nate mc millan, the Hawks found a
Speaker 6: way to basically pick it apart and it didn't. It
Speaker 6: didn't look anywhere near as convincing in the playoffs in
Speaker 6: that series. So yeah, I looks have a lot of
Speaker 6: offensive firepower like you guys do, but those that can
Speaker 6: get those shots just have to fall, Like like for
Speaker 6: any team, once they're falling, it just spreads the floor
Speaker 6: and it opens it up. And you know, Bogdanovic and
Speaker 6: Gallinari weren't all that great in New York, but they
Speaker 6: were pretty good down here in Atlanta. So if they
Speaker 6: can even it out a little bit more, that's going
Speaker 6: to help the Hawks.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, let's talk actual predictions here at Treo.
Speaker 3: Back to you, who's winning this how many games. I'm
Speaker 3: excited to see if anybody will take the hometown Hawks
Speaker 3: here to continue. But TK you go.
Speaker 5: First, because we have no idea what's going on with Embiid.
Speaker 5: If somehow he comes back, and this meniscus tear is
Speaker 5: a little bit more like a sprain, which I don't
Speaker 5: think a lot of people realize a sprain is just
Speaker 5: a tiny miniscus tear. It really is. But if he's
Speaker 5: able to play, if he's able to be at ninety
Speaker 5: five percent, this is an easy win I think for
Speaker 5: the Sixers. But I'm not super confident that Embiid is
Speaker 5: gonna be able to play at his best for the
Speaker 5: entire series. But is that enough to make you want
Speaker 5: to pick the Hawks, I don't know. Because we've seen
Speaker 5: in the past the Sixers have been successful playing with
Speaker 5: Ben Simmons at the five. I think they can even
Speaker 5: do okay with Dwight Howard getting twenty five minutes at
Speaker 5: the five just smashing his body into Clint Cappella in
Speaker 5: a revenge.
Speaker 3: Series for Dwight Howard.
Speaker 5: This is almost a double revenge series for Dwight Howard
Speaker 5: because he was replaced as the Houston center by Clint
Speaker 5: Cappella and he was waived by the Atlanta Hawks.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: Maybe Dwight Howard.
Speaker 5: Is the key to this series. I think. I think
Speaker 5: we'll know a lot in Game one. Like Lee is saying, here,
Speaker 5: with what we see from Embiid, I'm gonna go sixers
Speaker 5: in six it can go the other way, certainly.
Speaker 3: Okay, Tess, where are you going?
Speaker 4: Yeah? A great putter here in the stream, Team Nare
Speaker 4: comments Embiid should trust the healing process. And you know,
Speaker 4: I first say Emid's gonna play through that pain because
Speaker 4: it's his MVP season, MVP caliber season, and he should
Speaker 4: want to play out there. But then in the other
Speaker 4: on the other side, Yeah, he had this same meniscus
Speaker 4: stare in his rookie year. He ended up having to
Speaker 4: undergo season ending surgery. So I don't know anything about
Speaker 4: his physical health. I just think that the Sixers are
Speaker 4: rolling right now going up against the Atlanta Hawks. I
Speaker 4: think Seth Curry is going to have a great series
Speaker 4: going up against the back coourd of Trey Young and
Speaker 4: bogged down Bogdanovich. Seth Curry is a streaky player, just
Speaker 4: came off a thirty point night feeling good. To end
Speaker 4: that series against the Wizards, and Trey Young's not gonna
Speaker 4: be able to hide. I don't think during this series
Speaker 4: it's gonna be a it's gonna be a little different
Speaker 4: for him. So well win Tray's guarding Seth. I don't
Speaker 4: really think there's much more of another option. Really, I
Speaker 4: guess you throw them on Danny any.
Speaker 5: Green for sure. They'll be very similar I think to
Speaker 5: Reggie Bullock, where it's like you're fine because if he
Speaker 5: gets off a screen, Yeah, they might be open for
Speaker 5: a split second there, but you're not worried about Danny
Speaker 5: Green putting the ball on the floor and getting the hoop.
Speaker 5: Same with Reggie Bullock. That's where he's gonna hide.
Speaker 4: I think it's totally true. Then just get Danny Green
Speaker 4: off the floor. I think if you're Doc Rivers, I mean,
Speaker 4: just go with Ben Simmons and Tree Young in your backcourt,
Speaker 4: and then Ben Simmons and yeah, exactly, and Seth in
Speaker 4: your backcourt and then figure it out from there. I just, yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, I want to take the hometown Hawks, and
Speaker 4: I felt good doing it in Series one, but there's
Speaker 4: not only is Seth Curry playing well. You talked about
Speaker 4: Tobias Harris being a key. He's feeling good too. He's
Speaker 4: playing really well, so is Ben Simmons, and I think
Speaker 4: that's important. The confidence level of a number one seeded
Speaker 4: team should never be questioned. But these guys have, you know,
Speaker 4: never really been in this position, but they got a
Speaker 4: few feel good. They have to feel good right now,
Speaker 4: and I think they make life hell for Treon. I'll
Speaker 4: take them in six.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm heading down to the Fortress for at least
Speaker 6: one of these. Yeah, of course, of course, it was
Speaker 6: so much fun down there last week. I want to
Speaker 6: cheer for the Hawks. I want the Hawks to win.
Speaker 6: I think they can win. I think things have to
Speaker 6: go right for them, you know. And I do think
Speaker 6: the MB factor is going to be significant in this
Speaker 6: series because Dwight, you know, he still gets himself in
Speaker 6: these silly fouls and he can get a flagrant every
Speaker 6: now and again. Look, he's going to put a body
Speaker 6: on Capella for.
Speaker 3: Sure, definitely picking up a flagrant, of course he is.
Speaker 3: He does it all the time. You know.
Speaker 6: He'll catch them lobs and they'll they'll throw that those
Speaker 6: dungkst to him, but he'll get that. He'll get himself
Speaker 6: into his own into a mess as always, and I
Speaker 6: again like, I just have faith in that those threes
Speaker 6: being able to fall for the Hawks here. I think
Speaker 6: I think they've got some really good players, and I
Speaker 6: think they've got some really good I thought that defense
Speaker 6: was way more impressive too in this series, and I
Speaker 6: think they understand it has to be at that same level,
Speaker 6: if not increased here for this series against Philadelphia. So
Speaker 6: I'm taking the hometown Hawks.
Speaker 3: Give me the Hawks.
Speaker 6: We're gonna close it out in six. The Fortress is
Speaker 6: gonna be bumping.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it sounds like you'll be there in person.
Speaker 6: Well, it might not even go six. Maybe the Hawks
Speaker 6: sweep him in four or five.
Speaker 3: Crazy, Okay, So you're taking Hawks and six?
Speaker 6: Yeah, why why not?
Speaker 3: That's the way to look at it. Man, I'm one
Speaker 3: with the other two guys. I'm going sixers and six,
Speaker 3: I do think and Bead's ultimately gonna play, and I
Speaker 3: think they just have the defensive guys to slow Tray
Speaker 3: Young and Doc Rivers is not an idiot. They're gonna
Speaker 3: go at Trey yup. They're gonna put him in action
Speaker 3: and he won't be able to hide as easy as
Speaker 3: he definitely did in the Knicks, Like the almost never
Speaker 3: went at him. He didn't have to do anything defensively.
Speaker 5: Who do you really think is gonna exploit Trey Young?
Speaker 3: Well, just like Seth Curry and Ben Simmons, if that's
Speaker 3: the back court they're going to be going to at times,
Speaker 3: he's going to be in action, there would be no.
Speaker 5: Way to hide him. I think that's probably true. But
Speaker 5: I mean, if Seth Curry's taking all your shots, I
Speaker 5: think that's a win for the Hawks. Well, yeah, he
Speaker 5: can hide on Bible, he can hide on Danny Green
Speaker 5: like we're saying, he can kind of hide a little
Speaker 5: bit on Ben Simmons.
Speaker 3: Ah, he shouldn't be able to.
Speaker 5: I mean, ye, send him then, like anytime he gets
Speaker 5: him in the post follum, send them to the line.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we'll see if there'll be the little chess
Speaker 3: mass here between Nate McMillan and Doc Rivers. I got
Speaker 3: six ers and six, so I'm going with the task
Speaker 3: and Tray in this one, and Lee's going Hawks and six.
Speaker 3: Let's see the stream team's picks. Drop them there, drop
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Speaker 3: All right, let's get too Tweet of the night, Tweet.
Speaker 4: Of the night, Wow twitt. All right, well, it's almost
Speaker 4: summertime here in the Northern Hemisphere. I guess that's some
Speaker 4: big brain stuff right there. I know it's summer in
Speaker 4: the Northern Hemisphere anyway, So people are talking about ice cream, right, yep, yeah,
Speaker 4: of course I've been looking at the Baskin Robbins near
Speaker 4: me thinking about some mint chocolate chip, which some people hate.
Speaker 4: Some people don't like mint chocolate chip at all. I
Speaker 4: get it. I understand. That brings me to tweet of
Speaker 4: the night by Andrea Nordgren, who asks what are you
Speaker 4: ordering from the ice cream truck? And then many many
Speaker 4: photos of different ice creams, including us Ungebob Bar, a
Speaker 4: Choco Taco, strawberry shortcake, a snow cone, a firecracker, screwball
Speaker 4: chip which can't go, and ice cream sandwich, push up Pops, Drumstick,
Speaker 4: Powerpuff Girls, bar, Creamsicle, m Chocolate a Claire, and a
Speaker 4: fudge pop. W Wow, it's tough. It's tough. I'll start
Speaker 4: us off. I go classic chip Witch. I love the
Speaker 4: texture on the outside. Oh yeah, baby, I hope it's
Speaker 4: not a real cheap one. But even then, I'd probably
Speaker 4: still go chip wich. I'd look at the creamsicle, Yep,
Speaker 4: I'd look at the ice cream sandwich, but chip wich. Yeah,
Speaker 4: It's just something about the multiple textures you get with
Speaker 4: the heart and the soft and I'd look at the
Speaker 4: Powerpuff girls bar and I'd say, what the hell is that?
Speaker 4: And then I'd choose a chip witch. What are you
Speaker 4: guys taking from this? Well?
Speaker 3: Love, I love that you went with this because Lee,
Speaker 3: you were like just sharing on one of your Instagram
Speaker 3: or Twitter accounts the ice cream truck. You were not
Speaker 3: happy with it.
Speaker 6: A van, yeah, that was yesterday.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: The van, a didd y old thing with just the
Speaker 6: magnets on the side. No roomance anymore, you don't go
Speaker 6: up anymore. And you see the little man wearing his
Speaker 6: hat and like, you know, doing the dance. It's just
Speaker 6: got a like rough he pulls over.
Speaker 3: What do you want this?
Speaker 5: Have that.
Speaker 4: Disgustard with that ice cream dance?
Speaker 6: Yeah, but at least they used to get into it
Speaker 6: a little bit.
Speaker 3: I mean, and you can get into it. Well, they
Speaker 3: used to at.
Speaker 6: Least have the pop up van.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 6: This guy was just driving the like the rental you
Speaker 6: mean more of a truck. Yeah, this was this was
Speaker 6: just a van. This was just like someone's van. That's like,
Speaker 6: all right, this is the best i can do for
Speaker 6: the kids day.
Speaker 3: I don't care anymore.
Speaker 6: I'm just in it for the money. That's actually.
Speaker 3: It's too high. It was tough to get up there
Speaker 3: when you were small.
Speaker 6: But at least the part of the journey was going
Speaker 6: up to the truck and checking it out and seeing
Speaker 6: all the decorations on the side. This thing needed a
Speaker 6: good wash for one, ah, and it just needed a.
Speaker 3: Little bit more color.
Speaker 6: It cleaner, just clean the wheels, do something, man, Yeah,
Speaker 6: you're such a man. I just I just like a
Speaker 6: little tradition with my ice cream trucks. Okay, the game.
Speaker 3: Has changed, man, Okay, well what are you hearing?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 6: I like the caricature ice creams. You know, now in
Speaker 6: this particular one, you know, you've got SpongeBob or powder
Speaker 6: Puff Girls. You know, I prefer like a Scooby Doo
Speaker 6: or a Ninja Turtle something like that. So I'd be
Speaker 6: doing that, yeah, of course. Yeah, But now seeing in
Speaker 6: this particular option we have here there's none of those,
Speaker 6: I'd probably go with a creamsicle.
Speaker 3: Actually, I don't mind the cream. I love a creamsicle.
Speaker 3: That's yeah, no problem with that Ring City over here, because.
Speaker 6: I look, you know, I don't know if I want
Speaker 6: to be walking around with a powder Puff Girls, but
Speaker 6: I'm just not sure. I think at least Scooby or
Speaker 6: Donatello or Leonardo whoever the Ninja Turtles is is. You know,
Speaker 6: it's fine, but it wasn't really powder Puff.
Speaker 4: I believe it's Powerpuff.
Speaker 6: Oh power Pop is it?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 6: Yeah, there you get, so give me the creamsicle in
Speaker 6: this case?
Speaker 3: Wow, all right, Trey, what do you picking?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 5: I'm going Choco Taco if they actually have them. I
Speaker 5: will say that it's not my favorite on here, but
Speaker 5: I cannot resist when I see it. It's I don't know,
Speaker 5: it just feels like limited addition to me, because whether
Speaker 5: it be a truck, a well maintained truck with a
Speaker 5: man dancing in it, or a disgusting grown tesque man,
Speaker 5: not everyone will have a Choco Taco. But if it's there,
Speaker 5: I got to order it just because it feels it's
Speaker 5: almost like a shamrock shape to me. It's like, oh
Speaker 5: it's here, I'm gonna get it. Generally, though, I'm going
Speaker 5: Chocolate Eclaire for these ones.
Speaker 3: Okay, Oh, I mean there's you guys know, I'm picking
Speaker 3: something that has a popsicle stick so I can chew
Speaker 3: on that after doing the treat. So there's like seven
Speaker 3: options here with a stick. But I'll love a creamsicle.
Speaker 3: I like that where you guys were leaning there, I
Speaker 3: know task your sort of thinking about it, and you
Speaker 3: two Lely, I'll just keep it simple. This is summertime.
Speaker 3: Give me a firecracker, getting three different flavors in one,
Speaker 3: and I get the stick. Yeah, it's also I remember
Speaker 3: them being like, well, actually a little deceiving, right, some
Speaker 3: of them are wider than others, where I remember it
Speaker 3: being a little bit longer, so it felt like more
Speaker 3: of a treat. But give me the classic, probably the
Speaker 3: cheapest in the truck too. That dirty truck that just
Speaker 3: pulled up threw it at me, Jade, what are you picking?
Speaker 8: I'm exactly on the same page as Trey. I gotta
Speaker 8: have that chocolate, It's funny. And then second second is
Speaker 8: the chocolated Claire. I like it busy. Like Tass said,
Speaker 8: you gotta have the crunchy with the sweet and a
Speaker 8: little bit of savory with the nuts there. But yeah,
Speaker 8: Choco taco is is underrated treat.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, let's hear from everybody. Can't wait to
Speaker 3: see the answers. Everybody's got a strong opinion about the
Speaker 3: ice cream truck, especially Leela's apparently.
Speaker 5: Of difference there between the snowball and what was that
Speaker 5: other one called screwball. Snow cone and screwball look very
Speaker 5: similar to me, just like a slushy sort of thing.
Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't know. I've seen those, and
Speaker 5: I guess king cone and drumstick are pretty similar as well.
Speaker 5: I would say king cone over drumstick personally.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, those are similar. I've never seen a screwball,
Speaker 3: but yeah, it's like the same thing to me, right
Speaker 3: just in a clear cup. People are saying.
Speaker 5: It comes with gum. It comes with gum. Then you
Speaker 5: have something from when all your friends are done, like
Speaker 5: you're sharing this gum. I don't know that's what. That's
Speaker 5: a that's crazy talk to me. You have something when
Speaker 5: all your friends are done with their ice cream two
Speaker 5: treats for one. I know you like chewing on that stick,
Speaker 5: but you're getting Wow, you're getting a nice deal here
Speaker 5: on that screwball.
Speaker 3: I just don't remember them having screwballs in the ice
Speaker 3: cream trucks in Canada. There was a couple of I
Speaker 3: don't think we had that, but I didn't know the
Speaker 3: gum option. Good to know they should do a better
Speaker 3: job of calling something else, like, I don't think gum
Speaker 3: when I think it's screwball called chewball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought alcohol.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it does look like the booty drink. All right,
Speaker 3: so great, let's wrap this up with a little rapid fire.
Speaker 5: Let's try and.
Speaker 3: Make its multiple guys. Come on, let's do it. JD,
Speaker 3: you've got questions today.
Speaker 1: All right, guys.
Speaker 8: Trey Young expertly trolled the crowd at MSG Wednesday night
Speaker 8: with a Reggie Miller esque bow at center court after
Speaker 8: he mailed a thirty foot basket to cap off the series.
Speaker 8: Tell us about a time you slipped into full villain mode.
Speaker 4: Tax Well, nightly, I've been reading a comic to my
Speaker 4: young girl. It's called Double Trouble. It's Spider Man versus Venom.
Speaker 4: So every night I've got to take on the role
Speaker 4: of Venom, who often uses gum to catch Spider Man.
Speaker 4: What a jerk. I mean, recently they've been living together
Speaker 4: and Spider Man will make food for the both of them.
Speaker 4: Ven will just come in and suck every noodle back
Speaker 4: and not leave Spider Man with anything. What a jerk.
Speaker 1: Huh huh.
Speaker 4: Anyway, so yeah, I gotta, I gotta I pull it.
Speaker 4: Spider man, my geeky Spider Man voice is getting super geeky's.
Speaker 4: It's just kind of normal. But yeah, I've kind of been.
Speaker 4: I've been going really crazy with my venoms. It's almost
Speaker 4: Batman asks like heay, don't touch my noodles again, so.
Speaker 5: Very Peter Proker.
Speaker 4: Touch my news.
Speaker 6: Pretty much, anytime someone brings up something about New Zealand
Speaker 6: or Adelaide and Australia, I have to go into full
Speaker 6: villain mode and pick on those cities and those countries
Speaker 6: with New Zealand and just make fun of them. I
Speaker 6: have to do it. I can't not do it.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 6: Most people know I'm only joking, but not everyone does.
Speaker 6: And I get a few nasty messages from people saying,
Speaker 6: if you man, it's way cool of the development. I'm like,
Speaker 6: it's not, it's not. It's just not no. And if
Speaker 6: anyone compliments New Zealand, I just have to say, yeah,
Speaker 6: but it's still New Zealand. So you know, a lot
Speaker 6: of my key we friends know.
Speaker 3: I'm just there.
Speaker 6: It's part of the it's part of the big brother
Speaker 6: little brother sort of rivalry that we have there between
Speaker 6: Australia and New Zealand. But I can't let an opportunity,
Speaker 6: so I have to do it every single time.
Speaker 1: Hey, you got to it skates.
Speaker 3: Uh Well, I've talked about my godson before. He's six
Speaker 3: years old. He's a pretty athletic. He's into all sports
Speaker 3: like most kids are. So he's playing baseball, he's playing
Speaker 3: football now or flight football down here in the South
Speaker 3: and playing a little soccer, and you know, he thinks
Speaker 3: he's the greatest athlete of all time. So sometimes I
Speaker 3: got to really put him in his place and I
Speaker 3: just go full villain mode, especially a soccer little match
Speaker 3: we had. It was not a match where he was
Speaker 3: playing sort of like one on one just in my
Speaker 3: little uh yard here, but I just decided I had
Speaker 3: heard enough of him saying he's like the greatest soccer
Speaker 3: player ever, and I just like went full Billy Madison
Speaker 3: just destroyed him because usually you know, you're like giving
Speaker 3: up a goal or two whatever if you're playing hoops,
Speaker 3: and I was like, nah, I'm just going to crush
Speaker 3: it off your face. I like popped him in the
Speaker 3: head once with a wall. There was ten nothing. We
Speaker 3: were playing a ten ten nothing, and you know, you
Speaker 3: just got to put him in your place. But that
Speaker 3: I have full villain mode for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Nothing. I love better than to bring a kid down
Speaker 1: a couple. Yeah, you have to have all right.
Speaker 8: Next one, we got a comment from Joseph in Fort Worth,
Speaker 8: Texas that simply says, I, for one dig the coaches
Speaker 8: wearing the team pullovers. Okay, I mean, I guess they're fine.
Speaker 8: It kind of reminds me of when you guys were
Speaker 8: forced to wear the mechanic shirts back in the summer league.
Speaker 8: Here they are in the stream team. You're looking at
Speaker 8: them here.
Speaker 1: To be honest, I was annoyed when it happened, but the.
Speaker 5: Look actually kind of grew on years did start looking cool.
Speaker 3: For some weird reasons.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, I just kind of like it. Now.
Speaker 8: I have a couple of my closet. I may actually
Speaker 8: wear them around this summer.
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 8: Right, So tell me what's something you kind of hated
Speaker 8: at the time, but looking back, that wasn't that bad?
Speaker 1: Tass.
Speaker 4: Okay, here's a stupid answer. I used to whenever I
Speaker 4: was you know, usually it would happen I'm at a
Speaker 4: red light and I'd just be leaning on my hands
Speaker 4: or I rub my hand across my face. I noticed
Speaker 4: that there was a stray hair coming out of my nose,
Speaker 4: so I just pull it up and it hurts. It
Speaker 4: definitely hurts. Yeah, definitely. A tear may come out of
Speaker 4: the eye, but I mean last it's pretty quick, but yeah,
Speaker 4: definitely hurts. Maybe a sneeze happens. Now plug, I've got
Speaker 4: the Mandscape nose trimmer. I get in there finish the
Speaker 4: job not having to pull it out. But looking back,
Speaker 4: it wasn't that bad. You know. It's just a real,
Speaker 4: real quick two seconds of real pain and I didn't
Speaker 4: need a device to use it to get it, so cool.
Speaker 3: Answer man, do you snip it like your ear wax?
Speaker 1: Why bother.
Speaker 3: Actually dumb question, I'm sorry, dumb question.
Speaker 1: Do you ever do the wax like a full wax broom?
Speaker 4: Have you? Yes?
Speaker 1: Of course, Scott. I love it. It fry your tears.
Speaker 8: Tears, Yeah, and I get usually I get Jackson or
Speaker 8: Lincoln to do it at both at the same time too.
Speaker 1: Boom plugger. Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Should have to do that one of my payoffs, because
Speaker 3: I don't want to do that and.
Speaker 5: That will hurt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you and you owe too, so one for
Speaker 1: each nostril.
Speaker 3: Right wo I didn't think of that. Hold on.
Speaker 5: I'm curious how you get the wax in your nose, Like, are.
Speaker 1: You just pouring up your nose?
Speaker 8: Now, there's an applicator. It's uh, you buy a kit
Speaker 8: and it's a it's got a it's it's pretty cool actually,
Speaker 8: and then you it's like hot wax. It has to
Speaker 8: be a specific texture and temperature and you just put
Speaker 8: it up there and you leave it there for ninety
Speaker 8: seconds and then you yank it wax hot wax?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 1: Could?
Speaker 3: I would it be like dangerous if as a pick
Speaker 3: and payoff during one of these shows, I put it
Speaker 3: in at the start of the show and it has
Speaker 3: to stay there for the entire show, and then at
Speaker 3: the end I rip.
Speaker 1: It out or I would. I wouldn't advise it.
Speaker 8: I think that you need to sort of do it
Speaker 8: beforehand because it turns rock.
Speaker 3: Hard, so it would like skin from the side. Okay.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know for sure, but I would
Speaker 1: suspect would.
Speaker 6: It's just I know from when that lady did the
Speaker 6: waxing of my chest on the show that it was
Speaker 6: sort of a piece by piece thing. You put it
Speaker 6: on and then rip it off pretty much say letting
Speaker 6: it stick around.
Speaker 8: So yeah, and you wait the nightmare scenario. You got
Speaker 8: to use the applicator because if you use like a
Speaker 8: cue tip or something where the stick can rip off
Speaker 8: and then leave all that wax in there, then you're
Speaker 8: not getting it out.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't like the sound of this at all. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then we gotta do exactly, Yeah, we'll do We'll
Speaker 3: do something.
Speaker 6: What's your Yeah, I thought, say it's a bit anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you guys know, I've got a lot of photos off
Speaker 6: and one of them I didn't like. You know, I
Speaker 6: sort of kept it hidden, But now talking about it,
Speaker 6: Claires and ice cream, I still think this is the
Speaker 6: best a Claire that I had. It was from I
Speaker 6: think was in Syria and here it is there like.
Speaker 1: A totally photo shout.
Speaker 5: Was not a real.
Speaker 3: What the hell was the question?
Speaker 6: Again, something that you didn't like at the time, but
Speaker 6: you don't mind it now, And that was that was
Speaker 6: one that I've kept hidden for a while.
Speaker 4: But it's You've never looked more Australian. I know, absolutely,
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 6: I know it's about six hundred degrees out there at
Speaker 6: the time, but.
Speaker 4: Are you wearing two shirts?
Speaker 6: No, it's not it's it's it looks like two shirts,
Speaker 6: but it's a fake undershirt.
Speaker 3: You can see how sweaty I shot. I'm not sure
Speaker 3: what are you wearing? A dicky shut it.
Speaker 5: Now, I'm with you, gend Almost every part of that
Speaker 5: looks fake, like the hat, leave's face, the Claire in
Speaker 5: the background, like this is a composite image made by
Speaker 5: a Russian. Both makes and make something that looks like
Speaker 5: an Australian eating in a Claire in Syria. You're plugging
Speaker 5: into some kind of program and this is.
Speaker 6: When comes up, Oh my goods, Yeah, you like that
Speaker 6: in the collection, So you know you just gotta find
Speaker 6: a reason to shoe hoole them into the.
Speaker 3: Show like today.
Speaker 1: So what are you saying you didn't like the Claire?
Speaker 6: Well, I like, I like the Claires, just the photo
Speaker 6: I've kept eating. I was like, and I know if
Speaker 6: I want to put that one out there, But then
Speaker 6: I thought, why not put it out there?
Speaker 3: It's fun?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: You just have a whole segment where we go, all right,
Speaker 3: show us an old photo show.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: My answer to this is stairs because when I used
Speaker 3: to live at Bass Lofts, I lived on the third story. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, no elevator. You had to walk up all
Speaker 3: of these stair isn't it. You know at times you're like,
Speaker 3: oh god, you're exhausted, groceries anything like that. You know,
Speaker 3: you get annoyed with it, uh, you know, honestly. Then
Speaker 3: I moved into the new house. We barely have any
Speaker 3: stairs all one level. It's like, you know, stairs to
Speaker 3: go down my backyard. That's it. But I miss him
Speaker 3: because you know, stairs like just a sneaky good workout
Speaker 3: every time, like going up and down those all the time.
Speaker 5: You've lost your dumper completely. Man, Yeah, no booty anymore.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 5: Man, I started doing some stairs. You just go up
Speaker 5: and down your stairs in the back one hundred times
Speaker 5: a day.
Speaker 3: Get that as five of them. So yeah, I missed
Speaker 3: those three stories. But yeah, only looking back, I guess
Speaker 3: it wasn't that bad. Yeah, I enjoy it. And I
Speaker 3: like to take stairs quickly too, like to run upstairs
Speaker 3: two at a time, sometimes three if I'm feeling uh
Speaker 3: you know, frisky.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're better off with that. The stairs. Pain has
Speaker 1: no memory, man, pain has no matter. It's true, all right.
Speaker 8: Last one, Lucky the Leprechaun had a pretty bad week.
Speaker 8: First he got.
Speaker 1: Stomped on by Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 8: Then, to add insult to injury, he didn't even make
Speaker 8: Tray's Top five Leprechauns, which I think we're still waiting for.
Speaker 8: But still he's not on the list. Tell us a
Speaker 8: that a time. I'm your luck finally ran out tasks.
Speaker 4: Well, I was lucky to never get chicken pox as
Speaker 4: a kid, never had it. Then in my twenties my
Speaker 4: niece had it, and so I asked a doctor should
Speaker 4: I get the chicken pox? Should I, actually, you know,
Speaker 4: go rub cheeks with her and get her chicken pox?
Speaker 4: He said, no, you idiots, just try not to get them.
Speaker 4: But I saw her mother, my sister in law, get
Speaker 4: them at about the age of forty. She got it. Well,
Speaker 4: my niece got it and it was not a good experience.
Speaker 4: So I was saying to the doc, you know you're
Speaker 4: the doctor here, but I might want to get it
Speaker 4: now because in my thirties went to Europe. Actually I
Speaker 4: came back it was like twelve days later. I'd done
Speaker 4: ten days of insanity with my boy Chawnte, was feeling great.
Speaker 4: Then all of a sudden I come down with the
Speaker 4: chicken pox. Now, why did I mention that Europe trip.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure I contracted it somewhere on the plane somewhere.
Speaker 4: It takes fourteen days up to fourteen days as an
Speaker 4: incubation period, So I got the chicken box. Was not fun,
Speaker 4: but it wasn't too too bad. I'm sure a lot
Speaker 4: of people got it worse, but it was not not
Speaker 4: super duper fun. In twenty fourteen, the year.
Speaker 3: Was Yeah, I was gonna say, luckily it was the
Speaker 3: right Yeah.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 4: It was kind of the off season we were doing.
Speaker 4: I was I was zooming in for meetings at the time,
Speaker 4: so my face was my ugly face was on your computers,
Speaker 4: but we didn't. It was like it was lucky.
Speaker 1: You did not look comfortable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was. It was like September October, luckily, so
Speaker 4: it wasn't peak television time for us. But yeah, those
Speaker 4: were the NBA TV days. Yeah, when we weren't doing
Speaker 4: too many previews. So yeah, I was lucky. But you know,
Speaker 4: it didn't work out too well, I guess. But yeah,
Speaker 4: but now you can go without getting chicken pox at
Speaker 4: all until.
Speaker 3: Oh really, I was going to ask you if your
Speaker 3: kids had them tests.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't know that vaccine for it.
Speaker 3: Now I think, wow for chicken pox.
Speaker 1: Crazy Yeah, Leally.
Speaker 6: So you guys know that Singapore Airport is my favorite.
Speaker 6: Airports is so clean, and that the reason I like
Speaker 6: it is because I never in my thirty nine years
Speaker 6: had taken a dump on an aeroplane. But I went
Speaker 6: to Europe to one year, and the night before I
Speaker 6: flew back to Atlanta, I went out for a huge
Speaker 6: dinner of chicken curry and probably five to ten pints
Speaker 6: of guinness. And the next day, before we'd even taken
Speaker 6: off that virgin Atlantic aircraft, I could I was looking
Speaker 6: at a nine hour flight across the Atlantic. I was like,
Speaker 6: there is jazz.
Speaker 1: No way in the world.
Speaker 4: No more.
Speaker 6: So the thirty nine year streak was broken, was ended
Speaker 6: by chicken curry and guinness.
Speaker 3: But you know, st start peeding this picture like you peed.
Speaker 6: The thing was though I got in there before the
Speaker 6: flight took off, not the end of the flight, so
Speaker 6: it was probably as clean and hygienic as possible.
Speaker 5: But oh good, Yeah, you just had another nine hours fly.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want to follow these two guys so
Speaker 3: very simply. Alane, I had in an apartment. Definitely a classic. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I was in Toronto, like a free cable television was
Speaker 3: like still hooked up, it still worked, and it was like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is great. You know, no one wants to pay
Speaker 3: for television, nobody. It's awesome when you get it free.
Speaker 3: And uh, eventually that luck ran out just one day.
Speaker 3: It just stops working and you're like what why, Like
Speaker 3: how did they figure it out? How did they know
Speaker 3: to cut that wire that service? But we had it
Speaker 3: for a while there. I think it was when we
Speaker 3: were living on Major Street, if I remember correctly. So
Speaker 3: that's my answer. Not as exciting as Lee's taking a
Speaker 3: dump in an airplane.
Speaker 8: Never is though, And back then it was literally that
Speaker 8: person opens the box and literally just I guess we
Speaker 8: forgot to unplug that cable.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Now it's a click of the computer for sure,
Speaker 3: you're right. Yeah, yeah, a little different then, But that's
Speaker 3: my answer, And that's rapid fire. Was it fast? Not really?
Speaker 3: But it was fun, wasn't it. Guys? Thank you so
Speaker 3: much for joining us here for a very long edition
Speaker 3: of the Drop podcast. But we had a lot to
Speaker 3: talk about those games last night and setting up the
Speaker 3: second round series. We got one game on tonight. Just
Speaker 3: quickly around the horn, Trey. Task, Then, Lee, do the
Speaker 3: Mavericks close this out on Friday night? Or are we
Speaker 3: going to game seven baby on the weekend. What do
Speaker 3: you think, Trey?
Speaker 5: I think the Mavericks should win this game, but I'm
Speaker 5: picking the Clippers to win it because I would love
Speaker 5: to see a Hobo sweep skeatsy if I want to
Speaker 5: see the road team win every single game, So I
Speaker 5: will officially pick the Clippers.
Speaker 4: Task.
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 4: I think it's over, ladies and gentlemen. Just having watched
Speaker 4: the way the Blazers rolled from Game five to Game six,
Speaker 4: same with the Lakers Game five, Game six, I think
Speaker 4: the SAME's going to happen. I think the life is
Speaker 4: out of the Clippers a little bit.
Speaker 6: Lee, MAVs please just end it.
Speaker 3: I mean, at this point, with the teams we have
Speaker 3: in the second round already in the West, I really
Speaker 3: want the Mavericks to win. I want Luca in there.
Speaker 3: I tweeted this last night. Mitchell twenty four, Luca twenty two,
Speaker 3: Booker twenty four, yolkis twenty six. My god, Like, that's
Speaker 3: just the West, you know, because then you can get
Speaker 3: into Trey young what he's doing. Even Giannis is still
Speaker 3: fairly young, Ben Simmons and all that. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: think I'll be I think, like most people will be
Speaker 3: cheering for Luka Dantchen the MAVs to win Game six.
Speaker 3: But at the very least we'll have a Game seven
Speaker 3: on the weekend if the Clippers continue the the Hobo
Speaker 3: sweep possibilities here, So we'll see that game's on tonight.
Speaker 3: Sort of getting into like a one game a night
Speaker 3: thing here. We got one game on tonight, got one
Speaker 3: game on Saturday, possibly one on Sunday, depending on what
Speaker 3: happens in that Mavericks Clippers series tonight, and then Monday
Speaker 3: night we know the Suns and Nuggets are playing. Anyway,
Speaker 3: we'll be back on Monday to break it all down.
Speaker 3: Thanks so much for joining us show to the stream team.
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Speaker 3: you this weekend. Actually, hey, Lee, you bought some weird
Speaker 3: slipping slide that we're.
Speaker 6: All gonna go j yeah tomorrow. Uh well, I'm gonna
Speaker 6: call him my body Grisi's house because uh yeah, that's
Speaker 6: where we're going.
Speaker 3: I can't wait. Hey, order an ice cream truck late.
Speaker 4: I'd be white, all white.
Speaker 3: I can't trust him.
Speaker 6: I that won that dude. Y'all think Tony.
Speaker 3: I'm all right, all right, Clipper bros.
Speaker 5: You heard it here first. Have a great time, turn up.
Speaker 5: Love you guys awesome.
Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us, and remember, in the words of
Speaker 4: Hootski here on the stream team, whoa, we're still live.
Speaker 4: A couple of minutes ago, he tweeted, Yes, we do
Speaker 4: every show live, all the way from the front of
Speaker 4: the back of this nearly two hour episode. Thanks for
Speaker 4: sticking with us and thanks for coming back. Hootski.
Speaker 3: Embrace the weekend people.
Speaker 1: You stay every day.
Speaker 3: Happy.
Speaker 5: It's been so long with.
Speaker 3: Wainfall.
Speaker 4: It's happened already. It's gonna be grippy.