WEBVTT - The Drop | Second-Round Predictions: Suns-Nugs, Nets-Bucks, Sixers-Hawks 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:04.920 Wait a meeting. 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:10.760 You're supposed to poop into toilet facing out, but I 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.119 thought you should on the toilet this way, so you 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:14.880 had that nice little show for your comic book and 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.880 your chocolate nuke. Because then you got the flesh reggio. 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:21.320 No oh gee, that's amazing. 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:33.800 Good morning Shirl and welcome to the No Dunks Podcast 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:38.239 all the Athletic Network. It's Friday, June fourth. This is 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.040 the Drop podcast on J E. Skeets And alongside me 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.159 a guy who has so much blood he does know 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.960 what to do with it. Tas Melice, Let's up to you. 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.520 What's up? 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Let's do a quick recap of 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.320 those Western Conference games last night, and then we'll get 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.520 into these Suns Nuggets and then we'll move to the 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:02.640 Eastern Conference series and predict those. But yeah, Devin Booker 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:07.160 erupting for forty seven points as the Suns eliminate the 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:10.600 Lakers in Game six, A bit of a shocker task. 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.560 It was sort of well, I get over in a hurry. 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.000 I mean, Phoenix came out and punched the Lakers in 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.800 the mouth, and the Anthony Davis injury came into play 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:20.160 very early, and it was it. 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:26.280 Was over the Phoenix Suns all grown. They came into 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.960 Los Angeles and showed they weren't afraid. Their defense was 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.600 looking great, and then Anthony Davis goes out five minutes 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.920 in with that growing injury, and that incredible Suns defense 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:39.520 just did not let up, and Lebron was not enough 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:43.040 to overcome everything that the Sons are right now, including 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.919 you know, Jay Crowder who has hit his Miami heat 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.680 type streak from last year, hitting six threes, and Devin 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:52.720 Booker feeling oh so fricking confident now. It took him 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.160 a few games in this series, but dropping forty seven 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.480 doing the Tray Young like shoulder shrug at the end 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:00.800 of the game. I'm pretty sure he was watching Trey 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:04.120 Young end a series in Madison Square Garden the night before. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.200 Then he goes into LA and does it, and they 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.079 didn't need Chris Paul to be at full strength. Can 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.280 you freaking believe that? I think they do need Chris Paul. 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.920 We'll talk about that later on when we preview Sons 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:20.320 and Nuggets, But all that to say, man, this freaking 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:25.280 team absolutely knows their roles. Devin Booker had to be 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.280 a superstar in this series, and he ended up being 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.360 the best player in this series. In the series with 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:33.320 freaking Lebron James and Anthony Davis, who obviously was not 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.080 himself and everyone questioning should he have been out there? 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.520 But it's all about the suns for me. We talk enough. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.080 I think about Lebron and his legacy. And then you 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:45.720 saw Lebron hand over his jersey after the game. Postgame 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:49.040 locker room signs his jersey for Devin Booker, who, yeah, 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:53.000 is just feeling oh so freaking good in his first 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:56.280 playoff run. Man doesn't seem like it's his first playoff 0:03:56.360 --> 0:04:00.480 run the way he's feeling it. Forty seven. I know, 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.000 we just say numbers all the time, but forty seven, 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:05.200 that's that's incredible. 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:08.040 Yeah, twenty two in the first quarter alone, hit eight 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.440 three pointers. He was cooking the Lakers in the mid 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:14.120 range game. They just came out and just attacked Trey 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.120 like right from the drub. I like how they attacked 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.440 Anthony Davis. Even they're like, oh, oh, he's gonna play hmmm, 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.839 all right, well let's see if he can actually move laterally, 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:23.440 And the answer was he couldn't and he had zero 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.839 explosiveness and that's why he was off after five or 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:27.920 six minutes after he sort of reaggravated the groin or 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.479 whatever it was. But that was smart by Monnie Williams 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.040 and Booker and CP three, like, let's go at him 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.800 and Jay Crowder is going to be open here because 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:37.480 ad probably can't get out there to get him. 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.800 Yeah, what did you call it yesterdayly a clinical elimination 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.640 something along those lines. That's exactly what it was for 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:46.880 the Suns. They saw Anthony Davis come out and say, 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.360 let's see how that leg's working, buddy. It was not working, 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:52.440 and the Suns took care of business. I don't know 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.160 what the final score ended up being in the first quarter, 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.359 but when I first looked at the box score, it 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.240 was twenty two and eighteen Devin Booker. And that's kind 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.120 of you just knew what the writing was on the 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:04.320 wall for the Lakers last night. Shout out to the 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:06.440 Suns not letting them off the hook at all. If 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.360 you come into a game and you see Anthony Davis, 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.479 who was dominant in games two and three, you see 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:12.080 he's not gonna be able to play in game five. 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.440 You see he's gonna be limited in Game six. Could 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.240 have been easy for a young team that doesn't have 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:18.240 a lot of playoff experience to say, oh, we got this, 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.159 this is gonna be easy. That was not the case 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.520 at all for Phoenix. They came out smacked the Lakers 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.159 right in the face. It was over after a quarter. 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.480 Ended up being what I guess, twenty two to fourteen 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.760 for the Lakers or for Devin Booker, whatever it was 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.080 in the first quarter, but incredible stuff. The Lakers just 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.640 weren't close. They didn't get contributions from any of their 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.000 role players. They just seem to know that they were 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.120 drawn dead once Anthony Davis wasn't going to be at 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:45.000 full strength and Lebron wasn't enough to lift the Lakers 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:49.039 over the Suns. Impressive win for Phoenix, great series for them. 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.280 Yeah, for the first time a team led by lebron 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.840 Ley has been eliminated in the first round. It's Devin 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.039 Booker the King Slayer here, which I'm excited about. I 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.400 do love that. I love a Booker man, But yeah, 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.800 what'd you think about Lebron overall in this game? Like, 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.159 it wasn't Lebron We've obviously seen in the past, that killer, 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:09.640 you know, look in his eyes, attack, attack, attack, What happened. 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:11.960 Did he just like sort of know he was eltmanned? 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.640 Did he just like is he exhausted? Do we give 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:16.720 him the excuse of the ankle? What did you think 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:18.240 of his game at least in this one. 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:19.600 Well a little bit of all of that, I mean, 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:21.839 but the Sons did come out from this start of 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.800 this game and took control, so Lebron was playing catch up. 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.240 And when Anthony Davis was out, as we've seen at 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.479 other times in this series, that offense, if it's not 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.800 coming from Lebron, really you're wondering who who's going to 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:34.880 generate it? And Lebron has to do so much for 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.520 that team. He ended up playing forty one minutes last night, 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.479 and you know it wasn't closed, but it got to 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.080 ten with about eight minutes to go there, and it 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.040 just like it was in Game four there on Sunday 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.960 in Los Angeles, it was like, what happens now? Because 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.680 this team is inexperienced apart from of course Chris Paul 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.280 out there. But that didn't the Sons didn't give it up. 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:56.400 And I think crucially here as well, for Monty Williams, 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.040 Devin Booker played forty six minutes. He didn't at any 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:00.880 point sort of look ahead to the next series and say, 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:02.240 I want to get my guy out in case he 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.920 gets injured or rest him. It's like, no, you've got 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.120 to kill the Lakers now while you get the chance. 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.400 And I think that's what's the most impressive thing for 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.120 me about this. In the Phoenix Suns, they were down 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.160 to one in this series, you know, and it looked 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.400 like perhaps they were going to get overrun because of 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.280 the injury to Chris Paul and because the Lakers had 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.680 seemed to found their groove. But that didn't happen. Of course, 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.200 the injury to Anthony Davis has an impact on that, 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.880 but that's not to take anything away from Phoenix. They 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.360 won this game last night. This wasn't like the Lakers 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.080 had no power at all. I mean, they've still got 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.960 Lebron James, and anytime Lebron's on the court, his team 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.680 is usually the favorite. But that's what really was for me. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.840 Jay Crowder started hitting threes again. He goes through these phases, 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:41.200 you know, he can hit threes and then he can 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.440 go cold for a few games. But he didn't do that, 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.120 and so that's what I think the Sun's takeout of 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.320 this is this wasn't in any way a hollow victory 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.600 because of the Anthony Davis injury. It wasn't in any 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:53.480 way something that you can say, Wow, they got lucky. 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.760 At any time they won this series. They were in 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.200 a battle in this series, they trailed in this series, 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.920 they lost home court, and they four back. And it 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:04.600 really was their young star, their franchise star, who stood 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:06.240 up the most here in Game six, and again I 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.120 think he was six to six in that first quarter, 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.280 could not miss that step back over Anthony Davis early 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.239 was just gorgeous. And then once those three started following, 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.200 they built that lead and didn't really surrender it. I mean, 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:18.640 you knew the Lakers were going to make a push, 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.160 as I mentioned, but the Suns still had enough in 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.760 their game to make sure they closed this out and 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.680 didn't give Lebron even just a sniff, even just a 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.200 chance to maybe extend it to overtime or to win 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.920 this game. So super impressed on all counts here from 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.400 the Phoenix Suns, and they go into the next series 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.640 and should feel very very confident with themselves. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.840 Yeah, I just love how defensively they did play Lebron 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.040 because I think they just look at the rest of 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.199 the Lakers roster, especially with a hobbled a d Or 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.920 when he wasn't even out there, and they go, well, 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.360 who's going to beat us? There's not a great a 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.520 bunch of shooters on this team, like a Lebron team 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.320 usually at the least in the playoff series. If you 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.079 go back and look at all his squads, he usually 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.760 has one like knockout three point shoot or at least one, 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.320 sometimes two where it's like, well, we can't load up 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.920 too much on Lebron because he's just gonna pick us 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.720 apart to this one particular guy who's you know, gonna 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.160 shoot fifty or sixty percent from three task. We know 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.920 this as Raptors fans. We saw the Raptors load up 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.880 on Lebron in playoff series many times. And who was it? 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:20.160 It was like JR. Smith just torching them with wide 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.920 open three after wide open three. You know, Mike Miller 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:24.760 comes to mind, of course, like I said, Jr. Even 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.719 bubble KCP last year was that guy that was sort 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.920 of like their best sort of three point shooter. But 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.880 in this series, shrewder eight for twenty six from three 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.880 Wesley Matthews, your boy seven for twenty five, Kuzma four 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:39.360 for twenty three, an injured KCP only four of nineteen, 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.240 and Carus of five to seventeen. So like, it was 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.400 just a great game plan I think from the Suns, 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.640 and they had the defensive guys in Crowder and Bridges 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.959 and just like everybody could lock in zero in a 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:53.160 little bit wall off to some extent Lebron, Oh yeah, 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.160 Scott the ankle sprain is obviously old and has a 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.160 lot of mileage on his legs, and that's the way 0:09:58.160 --> 0:09:59.679 to play it. Try and make these other guys beat him. 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:01.800 They couldn' like their best shooter was Marc Gasol to 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:03.800 us and you know we know he's not gonna let 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.320 any three corners go. Yeah, exactly. So well, great game 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.160 plan and you know, to some extent, once eighty's out 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.720 of the equation here, they just don't have the roster. 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.840 I think that we've seen work time and time again 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:17.960 with a Lebron team, which is to have been as 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:19.480 many shooters as possible around them. 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.200 In my opinion, Yeah, those guys didn't come through in 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:25.360 last year's roster that was a championship winning roster. Was 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.200 it all that different? No? 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.520 But majors hit shots, Yeah, exactly, Rondo was hitting shots, 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:31.520 KCP was hitting shots. 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.760 Yeah, yeah, for sure, KCPA was a big difference. And yeah, 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:38.439 they tried here in desperation, the center moved going from 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.360 Andre Drummond to Marcus Sool here to try and open 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.320 up the floor. That was definitely the game plan. But 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.400 if yeah, if you look at them, you if you 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.840 look at a defense against Lebron, you usually see it shrink, expand, shrink, 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:51.840 expand and go out to those three point shooters. It 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:53.960 was just shrunk in this series. It was just they 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:55.760 were just able to build a wall and Lebron was 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.240 not barreling through it. For most of the series. We 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.320 saw it happen, you know, from Game two to Game three, 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.679 I felt like Lebron was coming on, but then it 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.240 went back to Lebron not really driving the same way. 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.559 And yeah, the Lakers were not able to open up 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:14.080 that defense to make them expand. I know, we you know, 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:17.560 it's it's kind of pointless putting a blame on one 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.800 guy because this is a team experience here. But Dennis 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.800 Shruder was signed to be the third best offensive player. 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.319 That's what he was supposed to be, and he was 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.680 supposed to take pressure off last year. They went from 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.480 you know, being a really great defensive unit and again 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.160 they're somehow able to carry that on. But they decided, 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:38.439 you know, maybe we need a little bit of offense. So 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.520 they go out and get Dennis Schruter, who has wanted 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.240 to be a number one offensive player in the NBA. 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.800 He's had that issue in Atlanta. He looked really good 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.800 in Okay sees playoff run last year, and even though 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:53.720 the numbers actually are fairly similar to last year when 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.480 he was with Chris Paul and he didn't have the 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.120 gravity of a Lebron James or Anthony Davis, at times 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.280 didn't perform here. He didn't, you know, the fourteen points 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:07.679 per game was not enough. And I'm I'm kind of 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:09.640 you know, I'm fifty to fifty as to whether or 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.080 not he comes back. This was not a good run. 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:14.000 He said all the right things. Afterwards, he says, if 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:15.320 we bring back, our guys were going to go on 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:21.160 a championship run next year. He took the description of 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:25.160 his profile away, He took off took off PG of 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:28.960 the Los Angeles Lakers away from his profile. If anything 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:32.079 is to be made to that crap, but it is surprising. 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:33.760 It is shocking all the guys saying the right things, 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.640 and Anthony Davis as well. He said after this game, 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.839 I got to be on the floor, and obviously it's 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.640 clear it's on me. I wasn't on the floor. I 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.480 don't agree that the best ability is availability, but for 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.240 Anthony Davis sometimes it is. And Trey said it before 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:50.880 the series. He's not on the floor at all times. 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:53.400 I expected him to be on the floor, and obviously 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.600 that was a part of it. So there's there's blame 0:12:55.640 --> 0:13:00.240 to go around with the Lakers, but obviously emotionally they 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.120 were just kind of done after Ad went down to 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:04.360 get spanked like that. Yeah. 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:06.360 Absolutely, And we can do a deep dive on what 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:08.720 the Lakers should do in the offseason, who should come back, 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.480 who they should target, what they can even do with 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.760 their team currently constructed as it is. We got lots 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:16.199 of time to do that. But let's keep it going 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:17.920 because let's go to the other game from last night. 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:22.000 It was a lot of fun Jokich with the MVP performance. 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.400 He helps down the Blazers in six games. We thought 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.120 it was going seven. The Joker said no, especially in 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:29.360 the third quarter tray. 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.839 And yeah, y'all thought it was going seven. I've seen 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.559 Jokic be the best player in the league for the 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.200 whole season. I was not too worried in this one. 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.520 But things were looking good for Portland for a while. 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.960 They were up fourteen points in the third quarter. Jokic 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.400 did not have a great first half, only scored nine 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.520 points on seven shots through the first twenty four minutes, 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:52.559 and most importantly at halftime use if Nurkic had zero 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:56.240 personal files. Then over the course of five minutes in 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.360 the third quarter, Nurkic picked up a quick four pack 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.000 of fouls, three of them drawn by Jokic. The next 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:05.000 one was a charge. Uh oh. Suddenly twenty points in 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.760 the third quarter for Nikola Jokic. Monte Morris hit a 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.120 buzzer beater to end the third quarter. It was a 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.520 three point lead for Portland at that point heading into 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:16.040 the fourth quarter, but Denver had all the momentum. Their 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.520 bench kept chipping into the lead. By the time Jokic 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.560 finally comes back in the fourth quarter, it's a one 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:24.080 point game, but you could tell that Portland just did 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.840 not have it at that point. Jokic immediately hits a 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:30.800 three to put Denver up. They never trailed again. Good night, Blazers. 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:34.840 Incredible game though for Jokic thirty six points, eight rebounds, 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.800 six assists. He had at least thirty four in every 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:41.040 game of this series, except for Game four, when Michael 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.560 Malone called the entire team out for playing soft. But 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.600 I think the second star for the Nuggets last night 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:50.400 has to be Monte Morris twenty two points, nine assists. 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.880 In the fourth quarter. He had nine points, three assists. 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.680 He hit that huge buzzer beater at the end of 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:59.080 the third quarter. Big for Morale. A huge win for 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.840 the Nuggets to pull this off, but a bummer ending 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:06.000 to the season for Portland. Fully healthy at home, they 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:09.040 lost to a team missing two starters. Really felt like 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.680 the last time we're going to see this Blazers team. 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.080 Yeah, it does feel like that. 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:13.280 Lee. 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.160 It was a bad loss and bad loss, and of 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.800 course should have should have got some help for Lillard 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:20.680 there in Game five, and you know you win that 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.600 in this completely different series, man. Yeah, Morris and Jokic 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.800 picking rolling their ass to death there in the fourth 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.320 It was the same play over and over again. And 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.880 the Blazers, you know, they just have no defense as 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.280 they've shown sort of time and time again. But yeah, 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.280 was shocking. Looked like the Blazers were like, yeah, we're 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.360 going to Game seven. You know, it's always playing Game 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:40.640 seven series, and it looked like it was going to 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.600 go back to Denver. And then you said it there 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.160 Trey breaking it down there with those with the fouls, 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.480 and then you'll get just taking over too and Lillard 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.880 having nothing left in the tank in the fourth quarter. 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.240 But yeah, Lee, what do you think again? I don't think. 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:53.720 I don't want to go like super long on what 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.040 ye where the Blazers go from here? Do they do? 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.400 We once again bring up the McCollum trade. You know, 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.400 is Terry Stotts out. I know it's gonna happen here, 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.680 You're gonna hear it on another podcast. But what did 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:04.560 you think about the game specifically here? 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:07.680 Well, Devin Booker, of course, was the star last night, 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:09.920 but let's not forget Michael Porter had twenty two points 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.960 in that first quarter. He was hitting everything. I think 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:14.840 you finished with twenty six of the game. But that's 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.440 okay because then you start took over in the fourth 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.640 quarter there, Nikoli Yokich. But when it was that fourteen 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.200 point game in the third quarter. This had Game seven 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:24.120 written all over it, as like, there's no way Lillard's 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:26.600 going out like this. But even you saw him in 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.800 that fourth quarter when the lead Lake got to sort 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:30.920 of six points and then eight points, Lillard was trying 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:32.560 a few of those bombs that we know he's hit. 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.040 He hit him for so long in his career, but 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.240 even he just seemed the legs just seemed a little 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.400 bit heavy and they weren't dropping, and that's when you 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.760 sort of knew it was over for good. So incredible 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.040 resilience here shown by the Nuggets of this series, because 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.800 they did lose Game one and again without Jamal Murray. 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.280 I specifically thought that was going to catch up with 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.360 him in the series because of their backcourt. But yeah, 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.960 Monte Morris, I mean in that fourth quarter was fantastic 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.800 driving inside when it was there or just feeding into Yokic, 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.440 and we know Yokic can either finish or find a 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.760 shooter on the perimeter there. So yeah, this has been 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:05.280 a great run here from Denver and for Portland. Yeah, 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.520 I think this team is going to look drastically different 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.119 next season. Apart from Damian Lil I'd be surprised if 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.440 you see too many of those same faces back. I 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.480 think they have to do some make some changes here 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:17.560 because it's a good team. It's a good regular season team, 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.199 but it doesn't really go all that far into the playoffs. 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:22.639 I know they made the conference finals a couple of 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.720 years ago against the Warriors before they got swept. But 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.280 at this point, I think there's some changes needed because 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:32.000 they were outplayed and Denver were fantastic and Yo Kitch, 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.879 I mean, he's just so incredibly fun to watch because 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.720 he doesn't get rattled. He's got so much variety to 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.600 his game. He complains a lot like Don Chic every 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:43.360 time there's a fowl. He's got that to the referee. 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.560 But they're a fun team, and I'm happy for Michael Malone. 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.040 I really am happy for the Nuggets to advance here, 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:50.919 and they haven't got a lot of time to prepare 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:52.119 for their next round. They're going to be in for 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:53.879 a tough one immediately against the Suns. 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:55.800 Yeah, we'll start bringing that down in a second. But 0:17:56.040 --> 0:18:00.000 tass any tekawez from their scheme, they jump out of you. 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.399 Well, just narrative wise, I'm happy that Jokic, the MVP 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:05.399 is moving on to the second round, so everybody can 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:09.600 shut up and about questioning him. In general, he's just 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.440 an incredible player, and he's not the player that used 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:14.680 to fade away at times in the first quarter or 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.840 second quarter or third quarter. Yeah, he had one subpar game, 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:22.280 but every great player does. He was fricking phenomenal throughout 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.359 the entire series. And then on the other side, I 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.560 think it's time for the Blazers to go to a 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:30.199 real defensive type center that's agile enough not to be 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:32.680 pick and roll to death. I don't think it's the CJ. 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:34.760 McCollum move. I think it's just it's time to move 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:36.560 on from use of Nurkic and to get a real 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:40.600 a defensive guy that can cover everywhere. And not to 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:43.160 put this on your Nurkic, but when it's when you've 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.280 got Lillard and McCallum in the backcourt, that's that's going 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:48.160 to be the game plan is to try and beat 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.639 them up, trying to get by them, and they need 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:52.719 better defense around him. They tried it this year with 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:56.760 Robert Covington and Derek Jones Junior, who obviously wasn't really 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.439 a part of the rotation there, but then you know, 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:01.719 Nurkic is the backbone. You can't just pick and roll 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:03.880 of the team if they have got a really agile big. 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:05.840 So it's time I think for them to move on 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:09.320 from there. And his quote after the game wasn't all 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:12.080 that Rosie vote his future in Portland. He was asked 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:13.800 if he wanted to be in the right situation. He said, yeah, 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.520 in the right situation. Yes, what's the right situation, We'll see. 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.280 I don't know yet, because this is not it. Maybe 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.680 he wants the ball more. I don't know, but I 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.040 don't know. Maybe he thinks he can be nikoliokichefter being 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.840 his teammate for a long time in Denver. But it's 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:30.600 they got to move on. They just it's not his fault, 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.920 but they've got it. If you've got an all offensive backcourt, 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.440 you need an off defensive front court. 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:39.040 For me, I think the all offensive backcourt is personally 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:40.879 the problem. I think they stayed attached to c J. 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:43.840 McCollum for way too long. The Blazers are not a 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.720 great team. Damian Lillard is incredible and he's carried this 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.280 team farther than a lot of players could. But I 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:52.280 mean c J. McCollum didn't outplay Michael Porter Junior, and 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:53.840 we thought that was going to be the case coming 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:56.719 into this series. We said, maybe Michael Porter Junior has 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:58.639 got to score twenty five twenty six a game to 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:02.119 be able to equal what CJ McCollum did. CJ, you 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:04.160 know he was going giving you as twenty points a game. 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:06.720 That's about it. Not a lot of impact in this series. 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:09.080 Yeah, and then I mean it was it turned into 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.840 like this duel of course between MVP Yokich and then 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:14.960 this unbelievable Damian Lillard like for most part throughout the series, 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:17.480 but you know, you saw time and time again it 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.080 felt like, Ley, you do need help. You need guys 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.440 to hit some like timely shots at the very least. 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.000 And you know, Michael Porter Junior catching on fire in 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:27.880 the first quarter was huge, But like Austin rivers another 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:30.560 like sort of like classic Dagger Rivers three late in 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.280 this game, Aaron Gordon had one in the corner. Jamichael 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:36.760 Green was like grabbing huge offensive rebounds and making big 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:38.800 plays and it was just like, you just look at that. 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:41.639 A little help for Yokich, it's all you need. You 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:44.280 just need some timely help, and a lot of times 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:46.800 I felt like in this series, be it McCollum, be 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:50.080 it Norman Powell, they just came up when they had 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:52.280 open looks to like, hey man, we need to stop 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:53.840 the bleeding here, or we need a big shot or 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:56.760 score here, and lil It really couldn't get that help 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:59.640 more times than not, I thought personally. But yeah, it's 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:02.480 gonna be. I expect it to be. I don't know 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:05.159 how it couldn't be a Raptors like sort of, you know, 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:06.920 a huge switch up here when they had de Rozan 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:08.720 and Lowry and you just keep sort of coming up 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:11.080 short in playoffs here. He's like, you got to do something, 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:14.920 be it the coach or or probably probably moving one 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:16.119 of them, but we'll see it. 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:16.680 Yeah. 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:20.040 Yeah, Dame had a cryptic sort of Instagram message there 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:22.520 last night as well. But look, if you're the Blazers, 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:24.840 I think you say, listen, we're not trading Lilard unless 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:27.120 he comes and says, I've been here for now what 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:31.199 ten seasons, eleven seasons, I've given everything. I'd like to 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:33.400 go somewhere else, and I think the Blazers should grant 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:34.840 him that wish if that's what he does but I 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:36.560 don't think he's that type of guy. I think he'd 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:38.800 rather just sort of stay there for now, and he 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:40.320 doesn't want to be known as one of those guys 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:43.399 who's asked to be traded. I think starts with probably 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:45.440 Terry Stotts. I think he's probably not coming back. 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:48.159 He's but some people say Lillard's loyalty to the Blazers 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:51.720 organization and to start specifically, has kept Terry Starts there 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:54.240 for these years, and every year Lillard says, no, he's 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:56.240 the guy. He's fine. I love him as a coach. 0:21:56.280 --> 0:21:59.360 I mean this could could be an issue where ownership 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:01.080 and the GM has I know you love a man, 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:03.520 I know you're like super loyal here, but we're going 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:04.400 to try something else. 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:07.679 Yeah, well that's that, you know, That's what you have 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:09.879 to do if you're Neil Ushe and you have to say, okay, 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:12.080 well I can't sort of keep going down this path 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:14.000 myself if we were not winning, we have to make 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:17.120 a change. So and little it has power. I think 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:19.480 within that franchise, we like that because he's been there 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:21.960 for so long, he's so loyal, and he's so beloved 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:24.959 as well in Portland. So you're trying to not upset him, 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:26.720 but you also have to have a hard conversation, say, 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:28.760 we can't just keep making the first round and going 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:31.280 out in the first round like that. I think so, 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:33.520 I think I think Stott's probably starts there, and then 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:35.200 I think CJ is what they see they can get 0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:38.320 for him, and obviously Nurkisch as well, because you know, 0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:40.160 the funny thing talk about those threes last night, yeat, 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:42.359 Austin Rivers hit a massive one, Aaron Gordon hit a 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:44.320 massive one, and who had the chance for the Blazers 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:47.480 down the other end, Norm Power and he absolutely clunked. 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:47.960 I care. 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:51.560 Yeah, So yeah, that was the difference. Those sort of 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:54.679 those margins that can really just alter a game and 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:57.800 ultimately a series. But you know, it's been good to 0:22:57.840 --> 0:22:59.600 watch the Blazers. They have sort of punched above their 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:02.680 weight for while now, but they've reached the point where 0:23:02.680 --> 0:23:04.719 it's like you can sort of see what the ceiling 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:07.120 is for this group and they need to make some changes. 0:23:07.800 --> 0:23:11.280 Well, let's get to the Sun's Nugget series. I'm very 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:13.360 excited for. This series is a two to three matchup. 0:23:13.400 --> 0:23:16.400 A little chalk there with those seeds going through. Let's 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:18.639 start breaking it down, we'll make our predictions. What we 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:20.879 like to do with these is, you know, give you 0:23:20.920 --> 0:23:23.560 the keys to the series. Just everybody knows. They had 0:23:23.680 --> 0:23:27.320 one of the most tightly contested season series of the year. 0:23:27.440 --> 0:23:30.360 Between them, their three games were decided by an average 0:23:30.359 --> 0:23:33.159 margin of five points. One game went to overtime, the 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:36.160 other game went to double overtime, both on consecutive days, 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:38.960 if you remember there in Phoenix. Denver ultimately got the 0:23:38.960 --> 0:23:41.080 best of them in those extra frames, so they took 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:43.320 the season series two to one. Booker didn't play in 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:47.160 one of the games, but Game one Nuggets Suns Monday 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:51.040 night at on TNT, the late game. So Lee, why 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:52.359 don't you go to start? What's your key to the 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:54.040 series here between the Suns and the Nuggets. 0:23:54.280 --> 0:23:56.840 Well, I'm going to start with the Nuggets backcourt because 0:23:56.840 --> 0:23:58.520 it did pretty well against the Blazes. We thought I 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:00.199 was sitting the U and I skates the ya going 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:03.600 to be a weakness. Lillard was huge, McCollum's numbers were good, 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:05.320 but he just didn't have the impact. But now for 0:24:05.359 --> 0:24:10.200 the Nuggets starting backcourt of Austin Rivers and Compazzo, it's 0:24:10.240 --> 0:24:12.159 going to be up against Chris Paul and Devin Booker. 0:24:12.240 --> 0:24:14.200 Now Monte Morris, as we talked about, he was probably 0:24:14.200 --> 0:24:16.040 the nuggets third best player in the series, and I 0:24:16.080 --> 0:24:19.160 wonder if Michael Malone considers starting him because I think 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:22.119 he's the best scorer of those three out of Compasso 0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:26.000 and Austin Rivers. But either way, all three of them 0:24:26.119 --> 0:24:27.879 need to be really good. You know, can Austin Wevers 0:24:27.880 --> 0:24:33.840 win them the playoffs? For Austin Rivers, you will be 0:24:34.760 --> 0:24:37.840 will because listen, if you can do one quarter like that, 0:24:37.840 --> 0:24:39.760 that could be huge for the Nuggets. Because I do 0:24:39.920 --> 0:24:43.320 also think fatigue could play a factor here, mainly for 0:24:43.359 --> 0:24:45.480 the Nuggets, because if you look at the four teams 0:24:45.480 --> 0:24:47.720 who made the conference finals in the Bubbles, only the 0:24:47.800 --> 0:24:51.080 Nuggets remain. The Heat Lakers and Celtics won three games 0:24:51.280 --> 0:24:52.879 in the playoffs this season, and if you look at 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:54.760 the knock on effect of that, pat Riley has said 0:24:54.760 --> 0:24:56.720 everyone in Miami, we're taking a month off. We have 0:24:56.840 --> 0:24:59.919 just exhausted. Brad Stevens no longer the coach in Boston, 0:25:00.200 --> 0:25:02.320 Danny Angers moved on, and Lebron while he did play 0:25:02.359 --> 0:25:04.639 in the series against the Suns, he suffered the longest 0:25:04.720 --> 0:25:07.359 layoff of his career just before the playoff, and Anthony 0:25:07.440 --> 0:25:09.080 Davis of course was injured there too, so I think 0:25:09.080 --> 0:25:11.840 there's some sort of a link there. And the Nuggets 0:25:11.920 --> 0:25:14.960 also already without their second best player in Jamal Murray, 0:25:15.160 --> 0:25:17.520 coming off a tough six game series against the Blazers, 0:25:17.520 --> 0:25:20.120 and they immediately go onto the road to play Phoenix, 0:25:20.320 --> 0:25:22.439 and apart from obviously Chris Paul and Ja Crowd, no 0:25:22.440 --> 0:25:27.200 one really has that playoff experience. So I think that 0:25:27.280 --> 0:25:29.840 could play a factor here because you know that the 0:25:29.880 --> 0:25:32.240 Suns are going to be feeling great, and I know 0:25:32.320 --> 0:25:34.760 that having home court advantage is going to be huge, 0:25:34.760 --> 0:25:36.480 I think in this series, and I think that could 0:25:36.560 --> 0:25:40.080 be a key here. So that backcourt for Denver has 0:25:40.160 --> 0:25:43.440 to be huge from the start. They can't they can't 0:25:43.440 --> 0:25:45.120 afford to get off to a slow start, and they've 0:25:45.160 --> 0:25:47.400 got to try to make Devin book when Chris Paul 0:25:47.480 --> 0:25:50.280 work on that defensive end. And again I think maybe 0:25:50.320 --> 0:25:52.680 Monte Morris is a little bit better at just making 0:25:53.000 --> 0:25:56.480 Devon or Chris Paul work, whichever one it is, because 0:25:56.480 --> 0:25:58.320 if they can just get into their offensive flow, it 0:25:58.320 --> 0:26:00.000 makes it a lot harder, I think for the Nuggets 0:26:00.040 --> 0:26:02.200 to keep up. So it's going to be a fascinating series. 0:26:02.240 --> 0:26:05.320 I think the Nuggets, obviously with Jokich there have the 0:26:05.720 --> 0:26:09.320 ultimately the best player currently in the series. But I 0:26:09.400 --> 0:26:12.720 just wonder if that backcourt will they survived against the Blazers, 0:26:12.720 --> 0:26:14.680 but I didn't think outside of little of the Blazers 0:26:14.680 --> 0:26:17.320 were all that good. Will they be able to sort 0:26:17.359 --> 0:26:19.400 of keep up again with these guys in Chris Paul 0:26:19.440 --> 0:26:21.439 and Jay Crowd and then when guys coming off the 0:26:21.480 --> 0:26:23.639 bench like you know, whoever it is there for the 0:26:23.640 --> 0:26:27.199 Phoenix Huns just again keeping up the pace. So that 0:26:27.320 --> 0:26:29.000 I think is the biggest question for the Nuggets. Again, 0:26:29.040 --> 0:26:30.760 when you start on the road, you've got to get 0:26:30.760 --> 0:26:32.840 off to a good start, and that's going to be 0:26:32.840 --> 0:26:34.840 the toughest part I think for the for the Nuggets 0:26:34.880 --> 0:26:35.919 coming off this tough series. 0:26:36.119 --> 0:26:37.520 Cass, what do you think key to the series? 0:26:38.680 --> 0:26:40.800 I think it's gonna be a pretty big jolt going 0:26:40.920 --> 0:26:45.720 from the Blazers defense to the Sun Ye. Yes, yeah, 0:26:45.760 --> 0:26:46.560 that's the biggest thing. 0:26:46.600 --> 0:26:49.120 I mean, no defense to add defense. 0:26:49.520 --> 0:26:52.600 Yeah yeah, So Yokich is gonna score no matter what 0:26:52.880 --> 0:26:54.760 he does. It doesn't matter if you' you've got the 0:26:54.760 --> 0:26:57.879 best defense against him the second best defense, I think again, 0:26:58.000 --> 0:27:00.520 it's it's going to be interesting to see what Michael 0:27:00.520 --> 0:27:02.800 Porter Junior can do because he was really good in 0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:06.040 the opening series. Nineteen points per game, fifty four from 0:27:06.119 --> 0:27:09.080 the floor, forty one from three to ninety one from 0:27:09.080 --> 0:27:11.760 the free throw line. We saw the Sons were good 0:27:11.840 --> 0:27:14.399 enough to beat a team with one star. You know, 0:27:14.440 --> 0:27:16.879 whether it's a little half of Lebron half in Anthony Davis, 0:27:16.920 --> 0:27:19.880 but this is this is different. You got the one 0:27:19.920 --> 0:27:22.520 star in Jokic, you definitely need one to step up 0:27:22.680 --> 0:27:24.840 in Michael Port Junior. Now, it's going to be different 0:27:24.880 --> 0:27:29.040 for him because of Michel Bridges coming at him as 0:27:29.080 --> 0:27:32.359 a defensive guy. He's four inches shorter Michel Bridges is, 0:27:33.040 --> 0:27:35.880 but he's got a longer wingspan, and I think that's 0:27:35.920 --> 0:27:39.280 going to really help Michael Port Jr. Against Michael Porter Jr. 0:27:39.400 --> 0:27:42.280 It's weird. He's sixty six against Michael Port Junior six 0:27:42.280 --> 0:27:44.840 to ten, but his seven to one wingspan against Michael 0:27:44.840 --> 0:27:47.240 Porter Junior seven foot winspan, that's going to be interesting 0:27:47.280 --> 0:27:50.080 to see him running around screens as Porter was able 0:27:50.119 --> 0:27:52.479 to do on Robert Covington or whoever was guarding him 0:27:52.520 --> 0:27:55.119 on the perimeter and score like a madman in quarter 0:27:55.240 --> 0:27:57.679 one there of Game six. This is going to be 0:27:57.720 --> 0:28:00.760 fun to watch. So the Sons were able to keep 0:28:00.800 --> 0:28:03.720 the Lakers out of the paint because they didn't have 0:28:03.800 --> 0:28:05.640 to go to the three point line. But if Porter 0:28:05.720 --> 0:28:08.560 gets going, he can open things up for Jokic a bit, 0:28:08.600 --> 0:28:10.760 but that doesn't matter. He's going to score more importantly, 0:28:10.800 --> 0:28:13.680 yet's the driving lanes for Composo rivers, Monty Morris and 0:28:13.760 --> 0:28:17.280 those Aaron Gordon cuts. I'm just concerned that this is 0:28:17.440 --> 0:28:20.760 finally the series that the Nuggets missed Jamal Murray finally 0:28:20.760 --> 0:28:23.840 because in that season series against the Suns he was 0:28:23.960 --> 0:28:29.280 really big. But TBD, if Porter steps up, maybe they don't. 0:28:29.680 --> 0:28:33.240 They have a lot of players who are obviously thriving, 0:28:33.560 --> 0:28:36.199 just because of the confidence of Nicole Jokic, all those 0:28:36.280 --> 0:28:38.640 guys I just mentioned, all those guards Lee just went through, 0:28:38.720 --> 0:28:43.520 and if if, if Porter steps up, which you know 0:28:43.560 --> 0:28:46.360 it's a big question. Mark Porter has made an incredible leap, 0:28:46.880 --> 0:28:49.000 got played off the floor last year in the bubble. 0:28:49.360 --> 0:28:51.719 He was he was, you know, sometimes in the rotation 0:28:51.760 --> 0:28:54.200 and sometimes not. Now he's going to be asked to 0:28:54.240 --> 0:28:55.960 do a lot against a really good defense. 0:28:56.440 --> 0:28:59.960 Yeah, I mean it will help if Monte Morris continues 0:29:00.040 --> 0:29:01.920 put up like twenty five game, which he basically did 0:29:01.960 --> 0:29:03.840 over the last two in that series, which is amazing. 0:29:03.880 --> 0:29:05.680 He had twenty eight right in game five and then 0:29:05.760 --> 0:29:08.480 had the twenty two and the pick and roll with 0:29:08.560 --> 0:29:11.440 Jokic the Blazers to death there in game six. He 0:29:11.560 --> 0:29:13.840 was awesome. Can he continue to do that? But Trey, 0:29:13.840 --> 0:29:16.280 what are you watching? Let's go talk some big men here, man, 0:29:16.280 --> 0:29:17.280 you're the big man of the group. 0:29:17.400 --> 0:29:20.240 Well, guards are gonna be interesting, gonna be interesting. I 0:29:20.280 --> 0:29:23.360 don't think Phoenix is gonna let Denver off the hook 0:29:23.480 --> 0:29:25.880 quite the way that Portland did. I think Composo is 0:29:25.880 --> 0:29:28.080 going to stay in the starting lineup with Austin Rivers, though. 0:29:28.120 --> 0:29:30.440 I think they're gonna use him on Chris Paul. That's 0:29:30.440 --> 0:29:33.880 gonna be a hilarious matchup to watch. Somebody's taking an 0:29:33.920 --> 0:29:36.240 elbow to the face by game three between those two, 0:29:36.280 --> 0:29:39.520 it's gonna be very funny and honestly, with Chris Paul's health, 0:29:39.560 --> 0:29:41.720 I guess we'll see how he holds up. At least 0:29:41.760 --> 0:29:47.080 you're gonna expect and tangibles, defense, playmaking, veteranship, poise from 0:29:47.160 --> 0:29:50.400 Chris Paul. We'll see about the shooting. Booker is gonna 0:29:50.440 --> 0:29:53.440 be lillardy again. He's gonna score points, There's no doubt 0:29:53.440 --> 0:29:56.080 about it. So to me, a lot of pressure on 0:29:56.160 --> 0:29:59.720 DeAndre Ayton in this one. Once again, he did incredible. 0:30:00.000 --> 0:30:03.479 It's the Lakers. Sixteen points, eleven rebounds a game, eighty 0:30:03.560 --> 0:30:06.680 percent field goal shooting, and the big number to me, 0:30:07.360 --> 0:30:11.440 eighteen fouls in six games. That's great for DeAndre and 0:30:11.480 --> 0:30:13.560 he's gonna need to do it again because he's the 0:30:13.560 --> 0:30:17.320 primary matchup for Nikola Jokic. Jokis, though, is healthy and 0:30:17.440 --> 0:30:21.400 ballin thirty three, ten and five in the series against Portland, 0:30:21.680 --> 0:30:24.360 fifty three percent from the field, forty three from three 0:30:24.360 --> 0:30:26.600 to ninety two from the line, and as we saw 0:30:26.640 --> 0:30:29.400 with use off Nurkic, the guy draws fouls like a 0:30:29.560 --> 0:30:32.800 mug eight. And though he was awesome in Round one, 0:30:32.880 --> 0:30:34.959 great all year, but he was still out played by 0:30:34.960 --> 0:30:37.360 Anthony Davis in games two and three when Davis was 0:30:37.400 --> 0:30:40.320 really healthy. The Nuggets can win this series. The Nuggets 0:30:40.320 --> 0:30:42.040 can still win the championship. I don't know if you 0:30:42.040 --> 0:30:45.160 guys believe me yet. A massive Yokic series is coming 0:30:45.640 --> 0:30:48.240 unless Ayton can stay on the court and limit him 0:30:48.280 --> 0:30:50.520 a little bit. Because the Sun's back court is gonna 0:30:50.560 --> 0:30:53.200 do it. The advantage for the Nuggets is inside Jokic 0:30:53.320 --> 0:30:55.560 is going to ball out. Ayton has to do something 0:30:55.600 --> 0:30:56.320 to counteract it. 0:30:56.600 --> 0:30:58.800 Yeah, I always like catch myself thinking, like how do 0:30:58.840 --> 0:31:00.560 you guard Yokich. What's the best way to do it? 0:31:00.560 --> 0:31:03.480 Could you get like don Nelsony with it and throw 0:31:03.560 --> 0:31:06.120 like a smaller j crowder on him, like just get 0:31:06.200 --> 0:31:08.520 up in him. And then you're like, no, you can't. 0:31:08.560 --> 0:31:10.800 You can't do what you maybe used to be able 0:31:10.840 --> 0:31:13.120 to do to like a younger Dirk where that's what 0:31:13.160 --> 0:31:15.080 they would do, you know, like be it a Stephen 0:31:15.160 --> 0:31:17.360 Jackson or a Matt Barnes, like a smaller guy and 0:31:17.400 --> 0:31:19.400 just get way up on him and make them uncomfortable 0:31:19.440 --> 0:31:21.000 and try and like make him a playmaker. But you 0:31:21.000 --> 0:31:23.040 can't do a deal good because he's one probably the 0:31:23.080 --> 0:31:25.120 best passer in the league. And then two, he's just 0:31:25.160 --> 0:31:28.040 so huge, Like if you threw a crowder on him, 0:31:28.280 --> 0:31:30.239 he'd just put his ass in the basket, that's all 0:31:30.240 --> 0:31:32.200 he would do, Just back up and he'd either be 0:31:32.240 --> 0:31:35.120 fouled or he would just score. Because He's just a monster. 0:31:35.200 --> 0:31:37.600 And that's like where he's obviously so much different than 0:31:37.640 --> 0:31:40.040 a Dirk, even though there are there are some similarities 0:31:40.240 --> 0:31:41.880 just with their impact on a game. And we saw 0:31:41.920 --> 0:31:43.920 what Dirk did his own run to the finals there 0:31:43.960 --> 0:31:46.360 when he really had it going. But let's get to predictions, 0:31:46.360 --> 0:31:49.320 man Lee, this is a tough one. I love him 0:31:49.320 --> 0:31:51.200 taking what all you guys are saying right now. I 0:31:51.240 --> 0:31:53.440 haven't even made my official prediction. I don't have anything 0:31:53.440 --> 0:31:54.920 written down because I want to hear what you guys 0:31:54.920 --> 0:31:57.520 said as the experts here. I want to know where 0:31:57.760 --> 0:31:59.880 Trey was leaning, where you're leaning. What do you have? 0:32:00.200 --> 0:32:01.760 What's your prediction for Sons Nuggets? 0:32:03.360 --> 0:32:07.480 This one is a tough one because I do think 0:32:07.480 --> 0:32:09.920 the Nuggets have the best player, but I think the 0:32:10.080 --> 0:32:14.000 Suns having home court advantage gives them the edge in 0:32:14.000 --> 0:32:14.320 this one. 0:32:14.320 --> 0:32:17.400 And again they were just super, super impressive in that 0:32:17.440 --> 0:32:18.000 first round. 0:32:18.160 --> 0:32:19.200 Obviously the I guess. 0:32:19.000 --> 0:32:21.800 Word too, so I just have a little bit more 0:32:21.800 --> 0:32:24.560 faith I think in collectively the defense of the Suns 0:32:24.920 --> 0:32:27.960 and the fact that you know, Devin Booker was incredible 0:32:28.000 --> 0:32:30.240 in his first playoff series. So I think it's a 0:32:30.280 --> 0:32:32.000 long one. I hope it's a long one, but I'm 0:32:32.040 --> 0:32:34.720 giving the tilta to the Suns home court advantage, I 0:32:34.720 --> 0:32:35.880 says Phoenix in seven. 0:32:36.280 --> 0:32:39.160 Okay, Sons and seven, I wouldn't be angry with that. There, 0:32:39.280 --> 0:32:40.480 serious task. What's your prediction? 0:32:42.440 --> 0:32:47.560 Oh, is that tough? It really is. I assume the 0:32:47.600 --> 0:32:51.080 Sons have been able to manage Chris Pol's pain level 0:32:51.160 --> 0:32:53.760 and are able to keep him on the floor, because, yeah, 0:32:53.800 --> 0:32:56.960 he doesn't have to score obviously, he like he didn't 0:32:56.960 --> 0:32:58.880 do against Los Angeles Lakers, but he needs to be 0:32:59.000 --> 0:33:01.560 on the floor just to kind of keep Devin Booker 0:33:01.600 --> 0:33:03.760 in his role of off the ball and let him 0:33:03.760 --> 0:33:06.000 be a shooting guard. He gives the confidence to the 0:33:06.000 --> 0:33:08.240 rest of the guys. He allows Campaign to come off 0:33:08.240 --> 0:33:10.560 the bench so he doesn't have a huge burden on 0:33:10.600 --> 0:33:13.960 his shoulders, which is really important. Three days before Game one. 0:33:13.960 --> 0:33:15.880 Does that help Chris Paul? I guess, But we have 0:33:15.960 --> 0:33:19.960 seen Chris Paul, you know, crumble and fall and be injured. Frankly, 0:33:20.000 --> 0:33:22.160 you know, I just watched Anthony Davis do it, so 0:33:22.360 --> 0:33:24.240 it's can't get that out of my mind. At the 0:33:24.280 --> 0:33:26.080 same time, it seems like they've managed to do that, 0:33:26.120 --> 0:33:29.480 so that's really important. They are fricking tough as nails. 0:33:29.480 --> 0:33:31.480 That's why I want Chris Paul on the floor, just 0:33:31.520 --> 0:33:34.160 to keep that up on the floor. And yeah, the 0:33:34.360 --> 0:33:37.160 big man battle DeAndre aight and being able to stay 0:33:37.160 --> 0:33:39.680 on the floor. They managed to do it, and they 0:33:39.720 --> 0:33:42.640 managed to be able to hold up even in Dario 0:33:42.720 --> 0:33:46.560 Sarich and Frank Kaminski minutes. So I think they play 0:33:46.600 --> 0:33:49.040 one on one with with Nicola jokicchen don't let that 0:33:49.240 --> 0:33:51.560 the passing kill them, don't let the air and Gordon 0:33:51.600 --> 0:33:55.080 cuts kill them. And they managed to pull it out 0:33:55.160 --> 0:33:58.480 in in a fight, in a scrap. I'll say seven 0:33:58.520 --> 0:34:01.920 as well, because the Nuggets have to be mad respected, all. 0:34:01.880 --> 0:34:05.880 Right, So Suns and seven ultimately going with Okay, Trey, 0:34:06.200 --> 0:34:07.760 you're gonna run with the Nuggets. They go into the 0:34:07.800 --> 0:34:08.560 finals here, big. 0:34:08.480 --> 0:34:11.480 Gay, Well, they're going to the conference finals, Nuggets in six. Here. 0:34:11.880 --> 0:34:14.279 Jokic is unstoppable right now. He's been the best player 0:34:14.280 --> 0:34:16.440 in the league from the first month of the season. 0:34:16.560 --> 0:34:18.359 He's still been the best player in the league through 0:34:18.400 --> 0:34:20.680 the first two weeks of the playoffs. I don't see 0:34:20.680 --> 0:34:23.880 that stopping. Apparently the stream team is saying Will Barton 0:34:23.960 --> 0:34:27.200 maybe coming back. That would be huge for the Nuggets. 0:34:27.360 --> 0:34:29.120 I actually think they'll do a decent job of being 0:34:29.160 --> 0:34:32.320 able to match up on the perimeter as well. Obviously, 0:34:32.360 --> 0:34:35.160 Aaron Gordon isn't gonna start on Devin Booker, but surely 0:34:35.200 --> 0:34:37.439 he'll get a chance at some point. Like I said, 0:34:37.480 --> 0:34:40.040 compose O versus Chris Paul is gonna be a hilarious 0:34:40.080 --> 0:34:42.319 matchup to watch. And I think you're gonna be able 0:34:42.320 --> 0:34:45.120 to You're gonna be able to hide Michael Porter Junior 0:34:45.120 --> 0:34:46.879 on defense a little bit. And then yeah, he's gonna 0:34:46.880 --> 0:34:49.080 have a tough matchup trying to score against Michale Bridges. 0:34:49.120 --> 0:34:51.959 But I'm a little bit of a Porter Junior believer here, 0:34:52.000 --> 0:34:53.600 So give me the Nuggets in six. 0:34:54.360 --> 0:34:57.560 Okay, I'm gonna hedge a little bit. I'm also going Nuggets, 0:34:57.600 --> 0:35:00.400 but I'm gonna go Denver in seven. This will be 0:35:00.440 --> 0:35:04.240 the weird seven game series that Denver genuinely or regularly 0:35:04.239 --> 0:35:06.680 excuse me, plays in. I just think some things are 0:35:06.680 --> 0:35:08.960 gonna maybe disappear here for the Suns a little bit. 0:35:09.480 --> 0:35:11.680 Is campaign gonna like continue to like have like two 0:35:11.800 --> 0:35:13.960 or three monster games in this series? I mean, I 0:35:13.960 --> 0:35:18.520 guess it's possible, but I'm gonna bet against it. You know, Crowder, 0:35:18.560 --> 0:35:21.040 as we've talked about, the guy can like never miss 0:35:21.120 --> 0:35:22.799 or he can never hit a three, So maybe that 0:35:22.880 --> 0:35:25.040 comes back to earth a little bit. He was unbelievable 0:35:25.080 --> 0:35:27.960 there of course in Game six. Ah, and just the 0:35:28.040 --> 0:35:30.920 Yokich factor. He is the best player in the series. 0:35:30.960 --> 0:35:32.840 And I think I'm ultimately That's what I'm coming down to. 0:35:32.920 --> 0:35:35.600 As much as I love Devin Booker, Booker should have, 0:35:36.520 --> 0:35:39.600 I would assume some monster like games in this series, 0:35:39.680 --> 0:35:41.359 Like would you be shocked if we see a couple 0:35:41.440 --> 0:35:45.080 forty plus maybe even some fifty pluses against this Denver team? 0:35:45.120 --> 0:35:46.879 I wouldn't. I mean, we've seen it before from other 0:35:47.040 --> 0:35:51.040 stars in series against the Nuggets, you know last year 0:35:51.080 --> 0:35:53.560 and of course even last series with Lillard. So Booker's 0:35:53.640 --> 0:35:56.600 probably got that under his in his bag. But I'll 0:35:56.600 --> 0:35:59.919 go Denver in seven. But it's tight. It is tight. 0:36:00.160 --> 0:36:03.920 So tass and Lee takes Sons and seven. Trey Kurby's 0:36:03.960 --> 0:36:06.200 got Nuggets in six, and I'm hedging, like I said, 0:36:06.200 --> 0:36:09.160 and going Nuggets and seven, taking the road, you know, rare. 0:36:09.239 --> 0:36:12.080 I guess Game seven win. All right, let's hear from 0:36:12.120 --> 0:36:14.279 you guys in the stream team your predictions. Drop them 0:36:14.280 --> 0:36:16.960 below the YouTube video. Let's take a quick break though, 0:36:17.000 --> 0:36:21.239 before we get over to our Eastern Conference semifinals predictions. 0:36:22.440 --> 0:36:24.279 I thought you're talking about your trapped win, Lee. I 0:36:24.280 --> 0:36:26.319 thought you were saying I got an exit tado, because 0:36:26.360 --> 0:36:27.200 I got trapped win. 0:36:27.360 --> 0:36:30.400 Here, I want to start like texting the guys before 0:36:30.440 --> 0:36:32.120 a big game. Say, any guys horny for. 0:36:32.120 --> 0:36:35.400 This game, I'm superry. 0:36:35.520 --> 0:36:36.040 I'm sorry. 0:36:36.520 --> 0:36:39.439 Next series, we're about to break down here. I didn't 0:36:39.440 --> 0:36:42.600 even take any blue juice. Yeah, all right, let's get 0:36:42.640 --> 0:36:46.239 to them in the Eastern Conference, we've got our two matchups. 0:36:46.400 --> 0:36:49.120 They are getting under way this weekend. We'll start with 0:36:49.160 --> 0:36:53.239 the Nets Bucks in the two three series. There Game 0:36:53.280 --> 0:36:57.640 one Saturday night, everybody seven thirty, perfect horning time for 0:36:57.680 --> 0:37:00.320 everybody enjoying Game one. The Bucks may have taking the 0:37:00.360 --> 0:37:02.000 season series two games to one, but they have yet 0:37:02.000 --> 0:37:04.320 to see the Nets of course Big three at full strength, 0:37:04.360 --> 0:37:07.319 because almost no one did except maybe the first round. 0:37:07.360 --> 0:37:07.560 There. 0:37:08.200 --> 0:37:09.680 Let's get to the keys to the series and we'll 0:37:09.719 --> 0:37:11.600 make our predictions. Trey, We're gonna start with you on 0:37:11.640 --> 0:37:14.319 this one. Nets Bucks, what's key to the series for you? 0:37:14.640 --> 0:37:19.799 Oh skeets I am mooe Extato this one. These two 0:37:19.840 --> 0:37:22.520 teams look so good in Round one. Can't wait to 0:37:22.560 --> 0:37:27.560 see him smashing bodies. Exitato themselves. Don't make you Exitato, 0:37:27.760 --> 0:37:32.160 bab The honest to me is a problem that the 0:37:32.160 --> 0:37:34.560 Nets don't have an answer for. Katie's gonna get some 0:37:34.600 --> 0:37:38.520 turns for sure, Blake, perhaps, Nick Claxton. Maybe I think 0:37:38.560 --> 0:37:41.040 they'll miss Jeff Green a little bit. But really, the 0:37:41.120 --> 0:37:44.680 Nets don't have a Yannis stopper obviously, so they're gonna 0:37:44.680 --> 0:37:47.240 do everything they possibly can to help out on Gianness, 0:37:47.280 --> 0:37:49.640 whether that's doubling him when he has the ball down low, 0:37:50.000 --> 0:37:52.320 building a wall, just playing off him, kind of challenging 0:37:52.360 --> 0:37:54.640 him to shoot. They're gonna do whatever they can to 0:37:54.680 --> 0:37:58.520 make other players on the Bucks beat them offensively. So 0:37:58.719 --> 0:38:01.480 it's imperative that the Bucks hit their threes because they 0:38:01.520 --> 0:38:04.640 got to keep up with the Nets scoring. Milwaukee finished 0:38:04.800 --> 0:38:07.839 fifth in percentage, fifth in makes from the three point 0:38:07.880 --> 0:38:10.520 line this year. But the guy I'm looking at most 0:38:10.760 --> 0:38:14.080 interestedly in this series from a three point shooting perspective 0:38:14.480 --> 0:38:18.080 gotta be Pat Connaton got the start for Dante DiVincenzo 0:38:18.239 --> 0:38:21.120 in Game four against the Heat. He's my guess is 0:38:21.120 --> 0:38:22.719 the guy that's going to be a crack in the 0:38:22.719 --> 0:38:25.480 lineup as a starter, and at least Game one, more 0:38:25.520 --> 0:38:28.440 than likely he starts on James Harden just because you know, 0:38:28.440 --> 0:38:31.520 Pat Conton's kind of a quickish, strongish guy just like Harden. 0:38:31.560 --> 0:38:33.640 Maybe can take some of the bumps, but he's definitely 0:38:33.680 --> 0:38:35.560 got the guy that the Nets are going to challenge 0:38:35.640 --> 0:38:38.560 to make some shots. Shot thirty seven percent from three 0:38:38.600 --> 0:38:41.160 this year, a career high since he became a rotation player. 0:38:41.520 --> 0:38:43.920 You need that guy, not the one who shot fifteen 0:38:43.960 --> 0:38:46.799 percent in the series against the Bucks last year. The 0:38:46.880 --> 0:38:49.480 question to me is, how are the Bucks gonna possibly 0:38:49.600 --> 0:38:53.040 kind of keep up offensively with the Nets. It's got 0:38:53.040 --> 0:38:55.920 to be three point shooting. So Conton's got to knock 0:38:55.960 --> 0:38:57.960 him down. PJ. Tucker's got to knock him down when 0:38:58.000 --> 0:39:00.239 he's in Bobby Portis. You need to see a Bryn 0:39:00.440 --> 0:39:03.799 Forbes game. Basically, the Bucks have to shoot threes to 0:39:03.840 --> 0:39:04.480 win this series. 0:39:04.880 --> 0:39:08.759 Fair guyness is gonna have to be a monster inside 0:39:08.840 --> 0:39:12.960 because he really wasn't against the Miami Heat surprisingly even 0:39:13.000 --> 0:39:15.240 though they got a sweep. He's got to be way 0:39:15.360 --> 0:39:18.080 way better because yeah, he does have an advantage inside, 0:39:18.120 --> 0:39:21.560 they shouldn't be able to stop him inside. But he 0:39:21.640 --> 0:39:24.839 only shot forty five percent from the floor against the heat. 0:39:24.920 --> 0:39:27.279 That's a surprising number for Yen Stetkooba, who should be 0:39:27.280 --> 0:39:30.759 able to dunk on everybody in that front line. And 0:39:30.800 --> 0:39:33.000 he took a lot of threes against the heat. He's 0:39:33.040 --> 0:39:36.719 only six percent from three. That wasn't a typo, that's 0:39:36.800 --> 0:39:42.160 six percent from three. Yeah, so inside, what the hell 0:39:42.600 --> 0:39:46.960 do the Nets do? Obviously Kevin Durant is going to 0:39:47.000 --> 0:39:50.040 be his primary guy, but with Yannies, you always have 0:39:50.080 --> 0:39:53.680 a second guy there. And I think if it's Blake 0:39:53.719 --> 0:39:57.680 Griffin starting, which is possible because they like that defensive 0:39:58.280 --> 0:40:01.960 able ability to sort of rotate, whether it's Nick Claxon 0:40:02.000 --> 0:40:04.919 the young young fella, or they dust off DeAndre Jordan 0:40:04.920 --> 0:40:07.080 which isn't good for the rotations, or Bruce Brown. They 0:40:07.120 --> 0:40:08.919 really do miss Jeff Green, who isn't going to start 0:40:08.960 --> 0:40:13.319 this series, most likely with the Planner faship problem. No 0:40:13.360 --> 0:40:15.239 matter how you slice it, no matter how you look 0:40:15.280 --> 0:40:17.319 at it, the Nets are going to put up a 0:40:17.840 --> 0:40:19.920 shit ton of points. That's just the way it is. 0:40:20.040 --> 0:40:22.799 It's just an incredible offense. So yeah, they're gonna have 0:40:22.800 --> 0:40:26.000 to hit threes, but Yannis has the big advantage inside. 0:40:26.280 --> 0:40:28.520 He's got to be a forty point guy, I think 0:40:28.800 --> 0:40:31.240 when it comes down to it for their wins anyways, 0:40:31.800 --> 0:40:33.600 the Nets are going to score one hundred and twenty 0:40:33.600 --> 0:40:37.080 one hundred and thirty points, and yeah, it's definitely a 0:40:37.120 --> 0:40:40.080 worry something from the from the outside, but also just 0:40:40.160 --> 0:40:45.640 Yannis has to go get it because the Bucks I 0:40:45.640 --> 0:40:47.839 think they're just a tad over hyped right now because 0:40:47.880 --> 0:40:50.120 they did get they did get the big sweep, but 0:40:50.160 --> 0:40:54.080 Miami was absolutely horrendous after that. You know, the first 0:40:54.080 --> 0:40:56.799 game was a close game and then you know, three blowouts, 0:40:57.200 --> 0:40:59.279 but Miami just didn't know what the heck they were 0:40:59.280 --> 0:41:01.920 doing on offense. The Nets do. And the good thing 0:41:02.000 --> 0:41:04.440 is they've got great defensive matchups for the Nets that 0:41:04.480 --> 0:41:08.480 we'll get into. But offensively, they they're not playing the 0:41:08.520 --> 0:41:10.680 heat anymore. They're gonna have to put up a lot 0:41:10.719 --> 0:41:13.200 of points on the offensive. And starts with Yanni's for me, Well. 0:41:13.160 --> 0:41:16.520 Joannis and Durant had like one of the best games 0:41:16.560 --> 0:41:18.120 of the year, didn't they when they went like for 0:41:18.120 --> 0:41:20.239 forty nine. I think Giannis had in one of those games. 0:41:20.280 --> 0:41:22.120 And then I think Durant had a forty plus in 0:41:22.160 --> 0:41:24.520 the same game, just like shooting lights out. Do you 0:41:24.520 --> 0:41:27.720 think Nashville put kd on Giannis to start the series 0:41:27.800 --> 0:41:29.800 task or will it? We saw a lot of Blake 0:41:29.840 --> 0:41:32.680 on him actually, like in those two of the last 0:41:32.719 --> 0:41:35.759 games that he got the matchup there, you know you're 0:41:35.800 --> 0:41:37.400 saving Katie offensively a little bit. You don't want to 0:41:37.400 --> 0:41:38.960 get him to foul trouble and the pressure that Janice 0:41:38.960 --> 0:41:40.239 could put on. Or do you just say no, he's 0:41:40.239 --> 0:41:41.840 our best defender, Let's put him on it, just like 0:41:41.880 --> 0:41:44.960 they did the Bucks finally did, putting Giannis on Jimmy Butler. 0:41:45.560 --> 0:41:48.360 Yeah, I guess you know, nash is a lot smarter 0:41:48.440 --> 0:41:51.080 than I am. So maybe he saves Kevin Durant for 0:41:51.160 --> 0:41:54.400 later in the games, because Yeanny should be able to 0:41:54.440 --> 0:41:58.240 smoke Blake. He just has too much lateral speed, he's longer, 0:41:58.280 --> 0:42:01.080 he's bigger. Kevin Durant just seems like the more natural matchup. 0:42:01.600 --> 0:42:06.600 John Hollinger brought up a heck of an idea with 0:42:06.760 --> 0:42:11.640 James Harden potentially guarding Yanni's down low because he is 0:42:11.760 --> 0:42:14.440 such a stout guy. He is really good at guarding 0:42:14.480 --> 0:42:17.560 guys in the post and you look up down the roster. 0:42:17.600 --> 0:42:19.520 I mean I threw all those names out there. Amongst 0:42:19.520 --> 0:42:22.320 the bigs. You got Kevin Grant, then Blake Griffin, Nick Clackson, 0:42:22.360 --> 0:42:25.960 DeAndre Jordan, Bruce Brown, Jeff Green, James Harden makes some 0:42:26.040 --> 0:42:30.000 freaking sense, and you can definitely hide him. You know, 0:42:30.040 --> 0:42:32.840 you can take Harden off of Pat Connaton or whoever 0:42:33.280 --> 0:42:36.440 and and throw him on on Yanni's At times, I 0:42:36.440 --> 0:42:39.520 guess we're just gonna see, like every great player, a 0:42:39.520 --> 0:42:42.440 ton of people on Yanny's all basically all those names 0:42:42.440 --> 0:42:45.040 except DeAndre Jordan. I don't think he gets dusted off. Yeah, 0:42:45.120 --> 0:42:48.279 that's that's a lot, man, It's a yeah. At the 0:42:48.320 --> 0:42:53.120 same time, maybe they just score enough to win regardless. 0:42:53.320 --> 0:42:53.520 Yeah. 0:42:53.560 --> 0:42:56.320 Maybe they don't even talk about defense in the Nets 0:42:56.320 --> 0:42:59.120 locker room. They're like, who cares, honestly, don't worry about it. 0:42:59.160 --> 0:43:01.560 We'll score enough. But Lee, what's your key to the series? 0:43:01.920 --> 0:43:02.120 Yeah? 0:43:02.120 --> 0:43:03.960 Well, look, I do think the Bucks are as well 0:43:03.960 --> 0:43:06.680 equipped as any other team to have players to put 0:43:06.680 --> 0:43:09.560 on the stars. Like Yiannis athletically is big enough and 0:43:09.560 --> 0:43:11.439 strong enough to at least stick with Katie. No one's 0:43:11.440 --> 0:43:13.480 stopping him. No, one's going to shut him down, but 0:43:13.520 --> 0:43:15.400 at least he could be the most difficult match up 0:43:15.480 --> 0:43:18.000 Katie faces and Drew Holliday is a really good defensive 0:43:18.000 --> 0:43:20.719 matchup for Kyrie Irving. He just plays him well again, 0:43:20.719 --> 0:43:22.400 you're not stopping him. Kyrie is going to get his, 0:43:22.480 --> 0:43:24.560 but he could at least make it more difficult than 0:43:24.560 --> 0:43:27.919 anyone Drew Holiday. But that just does leave James Harden. 0:43:28.000 --> 0:43:29.360 Who's that going to be? Is it going to be 0:43:29.360 --> 0:43:32.560 Pat Conaton, because it's either him or Chris Middleton, And 0:43:32.600 --> 0:43:34.759 that's really I think the biggest problem here for the 0:43:34.800 --> 0:43:38.319 Bucks is, you know, you can look that those big 0:43:38.360 --> 0:43:40.440 three can all go for forty points easily even in 0:43:40.520 --> 0:43:43.239 one game potentially if they had to, and you just 0:43:43.320 --> 0:43:45.640 have to find a way to try to slow down 0:43:45.920 --> 0:43:48.160 at least one or two of them if you can. 0:43:48.400 --> 0:43:51.680 Middleton is going to cause the Nets to work on 0:43:51.719 --> 0:43:54.120 the defensive end because he's been fantastic for them in 0:43:54.160 --> 0:43:56.680 that mid range. But what sort of effect can he 0:43:56.760 --> 0:43:59.319 have on stifling James Harden if he's on him, you know, 0:43:59.440 --> 0:44:01.800 or if it's pa Because James Harden we know he 0:44:02.200 --> 0:44:05.120 can get inside. He's more than happy to play facilitator. 0:44:05.200 --> 0:44:06.440 He has to, but he's also going to be able 0:44:06.440 --> 0:44:08.320 to shoot, hit those step backs and go to the 0:44:08.360 --> 0:44:10.480 free throat line. So that's just a big, big problem 0:44:10.480 --> 0:44:14.080 I think here for Milwaukee because even as we saw 0:44:14.120 --> 0:44:16.640 it in the series for the Nets in the first 0:44:16.719 --> 0:44:18.719 round there against the Celtics, at times, you know, I 0:44:18.719 --> 0:44:21.399 think it was Kyrie only had fifteen points in one game. 0:44:21.440 --> 0:44:24.160 Now they blew them out. But the point is, even 0:44:24.200 --> 0:44:25.680 if one of the big three doesn't go off, the 0:44:25.760 --> 0:44:28.279 other two still can, so you have to try to 0:44:28.280 --> 0:44:29.520 find a way to stop him. But I think the 0:44:29.560 --> 0:44:32.200 real key as well for the Bucks is to get 0:44:32.200 --> 0:44:34.160 as many easy baskets as you can. And if it 0:44:34.200 --> 0:44:37.440 is Blake Griffin, then Yannis has to just go inside 0:44:37.480 --> 0:44:39.520 because you have to put pressure on that defense and 0:44:39.840 --> 0:44:42.719 not let the Nets just not have to try on 0:44:42.719 --> 0:44:44.920 the defensive end. So that's where Yannis has to I 0:44:44.920 --> 0:44:46.920 hope he puts the three pointer away for this series. 0:44:46.960 --> 0:44:49.120 I hope he just goes inside and tries to take 0:44:49.160 --> 0:44:52.319 advantage of his athletical advantage that he has. If it 0:44:52.360 --> 0:44:57.719 is against Blake and James Harden does have a fantastic Yeah, 0:44:58.200 --> 0:45:00.200 I got a great subscription to the Asplet. 0:45:03.239 --> 0:45:04.560 A Spanish version. 0:45:04.239 --> 0:45:09.560 Of James harden As as a as a body post defender. 0:45:09.800 --> 0:45:11.960 I think that isn't actually the worst idea in the world. 0:45:11.960 --> 0:45:14.640 I think he can cause Jannas some problems. But I 0:45:14.680 --> 0:45:17.160 think Jannis, if he sees Blake, he's like, right, I'm 0:45:17.160 --> 0:45:19.000 just going into the paint. If you're the net, You're like, 0:45:19.000 --> 0:45:21.319 you're gonna hopefully try to draw some offensive fouls get 0:45:21.360 --> 0:45:23.360 Yannas in trouble. But if it can work in the 0:45:23.400 --> 0:45:25.960 bucks favor, that's good. But if not, then you do 0:45:26.080 --> 0:45:29.640 throw Kevin around on him if necessary. So I see, 0:45:29.920 --> 0:45:32.720 I see just a few different Even though the Bucks 0:45:32.719 --> 0:45:35.240 defense is good again, there's just like it's like playing 0:45:35.239 --> 0:45:36.840 what's that whack a Moley thing where it's like you 0:45:36.880 --> 0:45:45.080 can potentially buck of MOLLYU a Molly, you can potentially 0:45:45.239 --> 0:45:48.080 at least have good players, you know, to sort of 0:45:48.200 --> 0:45:50.359 stifle those other guys, but then you know someone else 0:45:50.440 --> 0:45:51.440 is going to pop up and score. 0:45:51.480 --> 0:45:53.480 So okay. I was like, well that was like finished 0:45:53.520 --> 0:45:54.160 that analogy. 0:45:54.239 --> 0:45:57.200 Yeah, yeah, something something, Okay. 0:45:57.239 --> 0:46:00.439 I have a question though, for really danced around. Yeah, 0:46:00.520 --> 0:46:03.239 Jo honest is gonna try and block a shot again 0:46:03.280 --> 0:46:05.800 like we saw during the regular season and blew everybody's minds, like, 0:46:05.840 --> 0:46:07.160 well even though that was possible. 0:46:07.200 --> 0:46:09.080 So that's one of the funniest clips to me. He 0:46:09.080 --> 0:46:12.960 blocks his shot, but the Nets get three points on that. Yeah, yeah, 0:46:13.000 --> 0:46:14.719 Like it's at three pointer from the corner, and that's 0:46:14.719 --> 0:46:16.960 gonna kind of be the story, isn't it. Like you 0:46:16.960 --> 0:46:19.520 can stop a couple of guys. They've got three Hall 0:46:19.560 --> 0:46:21.920 of Famers out there. Plus we haven't even mentioned Joe 0:46:21.920 --> 0:46:22.319 Harris yet. 0:46:22.760 --> 0:46:23.160 Interesting. 0:46:23.239 --> 0:46:26.080 Oh yeah, he could easily hit four or five threes 0:46:26.120 --> 0:46:27.920 in a quarter and blow the game open. But I 0:46:27.960 --> 0:46:30.520 was gonna say, okay, take Katie out of the equation, 0:46:30.760 --> 0:46:32.960 because again, he's gonna get thirty. That's just what he 0:46:32.960 --> 0:46:35.799 does in every playoff series. It feels like, who would 0:46:35.840 --> 0:46:38.560 you prefer if you're game planning to try and slow 0:46:38.600 --> 0:46:43.880 the Nets, would you focus on stopping more Harden or Kyrie? 0:46:44.360 --> 0:46:47.280 So like, who is the you know, the the straw 0:46:47.360 --> 0:46:49.719 that stirs the Nets drink there? Like if you had 0:46:49.760 --> 0:46:51.680 to just pick one, And I asked that because you 0:46:51.719 --> 0:46:54.000 say Drew Holiday will be on Kyrie, and I'm not 0:46:54.040 --> 0:46:56.640 so sure about that. If you believe Harden is actually 0:46:56.680 --> 0:46:59.040 the one that you sort of want to like really 0:46:59.120 --> 0:47:01.319 try and gum up and slow down because he likes 0:47:01.320 --> 0:47:03.120 to set up guys and stuff like that. And maybe 0:47:03.120 --> 0:47:05.960 you put actually Drew on James Harden to try and 0:47:06.200 --> 0:47:08.799 and you know, prevent him from you know, popping off 0:47:08.800 --> 0:47:10.360 and setting up guys left and right, because Drew is 0:47:10.360 --> 0:47:12.560 an unbelievable defender and the best probably perimeter defender on 0:47:12.640 --> 0:47:14.600 the box. And then you know you're putting somebody else 0:47:14.640 --> 0:47:16.360 on a Kyrie. It's going to be a tough matchup, 0:47:16.400 --> 0:47:18.920 but you know, a middle tinner content stuff like that. Well, 0:47:18.960 --> 0:47:20.800 what do you think or what is your answer, I 0:47:20.800 --> 0:47:21.520 guess to that question. 0:47:21.680 --> 0:47:24.319 Yeah, Well, I think Drew probably does get some time 0:47:24.360 --> 0:47:27.759 on Harden as well because of his defensive prowess there. 0:47:27.760 --> 0:47:30.240 But I guess you probably want to stop Harden first 0:47:30.600 --> 0:47:33.800 because I think he's he's got a little bit more. 0:47:34.400 --> 0:47:37.640 I mean, we've seen Kyrie go for forty easily, but 0:47:37.680 --> 0:47:39.000 I guess Harden is probably. 0:47:38.760 --> 0:47:41.879 Outs like Kyry can go for forty, but Hardy could 0:47:41.920 --> 0:47:45.120 go for twenty eight, but fourteen assists, Yeah, and it's 0:47:45.160 --> 0:47:46.560 just going to be that's a lot more. 0:47:46.800 --> 0:47:49.320 He's a better I think passer of the lobs inside 0:47:49.400 --> 0:47:52.759 James Harden than Kyrie Iving. But we saw when James 0:47:52.800 --> 0:47:55.000 Harden was at his best this season before the hamstring injury, 0:47:55.160 --> 0:47:57.640 he forced his way into the MVP conversation because he 0:47:57.719 --> 0:48:01.400 was just so dominant, so more happy to play facilitita. 0:48:01.480 --> 0:48:03.800 But Ulsa James Todden is going to have a period 0:48:03.800 --> 0:48:05.440 at least where he's like, all right now I'm scoring 0:48:06.040 --> 0:48:07.800 doing whatever. One getting too the free throad line. So 0:48:08.280 --> 0:48:12.320 it's uh, it's a Sophie's choice for the boodenholes the 0:48:12.360 --> 0:48:16.080 mandate because you know, it's when you're playing Walkamolia, there's 0:48:16.080 --> 0:48:17.840 always one that pops up and the kind of capable 0:48:18.000 --> 0:48:19.040 day on go. 0:48:19.000 --> 0:48:24.000 Back to it, mooe, one of those guacamole's is gonna 0:48:24.000 --> 0:48:25.080 be pointing right. 0:48:25.160 --> 0:48:30.120 Okay, my key to the series here before we get 0:48:30.160 --> 0:48:32.040 to our predictions for this one, I think it is 0:48:32.120 --> 0:48:35.319 Chris Middleton on both sides of the ball. You know, 0:48:35.440 --> 0:48:37.319 he averaged twenty one and a half points per game, 0:48:37.920 --> 0:48:40.000 four and a half assists per game, shooting fifty percent 0:48:40.000 --> 0:48:41.920 from the floor forty one percent from three in that 0:48:41.960 --> 0:48:44.719 first round against the Heat. They're going to need him 0:48:44.880 --> 0:48:48.879 to maintain that production here, of course, against the nets 0:48:48.960 --> 0:48:52.680 and try and at least you know, if Harden is 0:48:52.719 --> 0:48:54.600 the guy going twenty eight, Like, come on, Middleton, give 0:48:54.640 --> 0:48:57.400 us twenty five, because if you go back to the 0:48:57.440 --> 0:49:01.560 bucks last two playoff series, law us that is twenty 0:49:01.560 --> 0:49:03.680 twenty seventies versus Miami, so last year in the Bubble 0:49:03.760 --> 0:49:06.440 and then twenty nineteen Eastern Conference Finals versus the Raptors. 0:49:07.239 --> 0:49:09.279 The fact of the matter is Middleton was just inconsistent 0:49:09.719 --> 0:49:12.360 against the Raptors. He was quite frankly horrible. Outside a 0:49:12.360 --> 0:49:14.320 one thirty point game which also came in a loss, 0:49:14.480 --> 0:49:16.239 he didn't score over fifteen points in any of the 0:49:16.239 --> 0:49:18.480 other games. That ain't gonna fly in this series. And 0:49:18.520 --> 0:49:20.799 then even against the Bubble heat he shot well in 0:49:20.840 --> 0:49:23.880 the opener and he had a thirty six eight to 0:49:23.920 --> 0:49:26.400 eight in Milwaukee's loan win. But those other games, you know, 0:49:26.480 --> 0:49:29.600 shot six of fifteen zero threes, only scored eighteen in 0:49:29.640 --> 0:49:31.960 the other game, fouled out, shot eight to twenty five 0:49:32.000 --> 0:49:33.960 in Game five, played a lot of minutes, you know, 0:49:33.960 --> 0:49:35.880 there was no Jiannis and all that had six turnovers. 0:49:35.880 --> 0:49:38.640 He fouled out again. You can't have this from Middleton. 0:49:38.640 --> 0:49:43.600 Middleton has to be offensively, especially rock solid. I think, 0:49:43.880 --> 0:49:45.800 I mean well, at least four times of course to 0:49:46.440 --> 0:49:49.120 win this series. And then again, like we just talked 0:49:49.120 --> 0:49:50.880 about the defense, I think he's going to get some 0:49:50.880 --> 0:49:54.080 minutes on Kyrie, maybe on Harden. And he's not a 0:49:54.080 --> 0:49:56.680 bad defender. We don't talk about Chris Middleton defensely at all. 0:49:56.800 --> 0:49:59.520 He gets no respect. But he's good. He is legit good. 0:50:00.280 --> 0:50:02.759 But can anybody actually slow those guys? He's got to 0:50:02.760 --> 0:50:04.719 be special. That's my key to the series, for the 0:50:04.719 --> 0:50:06.680 Bucks to pull this off and to win me one 0:50:06.719 --> 0:50:09.279 hundred dollars, because that's really what we're focusing on here. 0:50:10.280 --> 0:50:13.640 It's the Task Mails versus J. E. Skeets bet Uh, 0:50:13.680 --> 0:50:15.560 you know, at least my first crack at it of 0:50:15.640 --> 0:50:17.919 trying to win one hundred dollars task because Task had 0:50:17.960 --> 0:50:20.440 the Nets going to the finals as soon as they 0:50:20.480 --> 0:50:23.200 made the hardened deal and I said, no, chemistry is 0:50:23.239 --> 0:50:25.960 a real thing and they might lose here in a 0:50:26.120 --> 0:50:26.840 one of these series. 0:50:26.880 --> 0:50:28.960 So, Skeates, have you ever taken a picture with one 0:50:29.000 --> 0:50:29.600 hundred dollars? 0:50:29.600 --> 0:50:29.799 Now? 0:50:30.080 --> 0:50:31.759 I've made a split screen this year. 0:50:31.760 --> 0:50:35.640 I can geez, I don't have ever any money on 0:50:35.680 --> 0:50:37.839 me anymore? Can I just hold up my credit card 0:50:37.880 --> 0:50:43.480 and cover the numbers. I'll do it or something like that. 0:50:43.560 --> 0:50:45.640 Yeah, I took both those last night. 0:50:45.800 --> 0:50:50.759 So the man night on the town. Let's get to predictions. 0:50:51.320 --> 0:50:55.120 Tray you go first, Bucks, Nets, Who are you going task? 0:50:55.200 --> 0:50:58.400 You're a smart guy. Man. During Round one of the playoffs, 0:50:58.440 --> 0:51:00.160 you said that the big thing for the Nets is 0:51:00.200 --> 0:51:02.399 going to be getting to know each other, And that's 0:51:02.480 --> 0:51:06.560 exactly what happened. Even the Big Three was saying, Yeah, 0:51:06.600 --> 0:51:08.960 we're not even worried about the playoff run right now. 0:51:08.960 --> 0:51:11.000 We're just worried about getting back out there and playing 0:51:11.040 --> 0:51:13.600 basketball together. So I think you're smart for that, And 0:51:13.600 --> 0:51:15.520 I think you're also smart for saying in the other 0:51:15.560 --> 0:51:18.120 two three series in the Western Conference, what a bump 0:51:18.200 --> 0:51:20.520 up in difficulty that the Nuggets are gonna face playing 0:51:20.520 --> 0:51:22.480 against the Suns. Now, same thing is going to be 0:51:22.480 --> 0:51:25.680 happening for the Nets here. There wasn't much defense played 0:51:25.719 --> 0:51:28.560 by the Boston Celtics in their Round one series. They 0:51:28.560 --> 0:51:30.879 were content to just try and outscore them, and that's 0:51:31.160 --> 0:51:32.719 what they're gonna try and do against the Bucks. But 0:51:32.760 --> 0:51:35.279 the Bucks defense is so much better. That being said, 0:51:35.320 --> 0:51:37.759 I think the Nets have too many options. Give me 0:51:37.880 --> 0:51:39.080 Brooklyn in seven. 0:51:39.719 --> 0:51:43.200 Okay, and that's in seven, another seven game series here, 0:51:43.400 --> 0:51:44.640 task go next. What's your prediction. 0:51:45.960 --> 0:51:49.839 Yeah, I really hope that Pat Conaton can do some 0:51:49.960 --> 0:51:52.759 kind of job on one of those Nets cards. But 0:51:53.320 --> 0:51:57.640 I think Mike Budenholzer is gonna see that not working 0:51:57.719 --> 0:51:59.800 too well. So Kyrie and James arn are gonna be 0:51:59.840 --> 0:52:01.839 going off and he's gonna say, hey, Chris Middleton, come 0:52:01.880 --> 0:52:04.359 on over, man, we need you to play some defense here. 0:52:04.880 --> 0:52:07.799 And that's going to exhausted dude. I think we kind 0:52:07.800 --> 0:52:10.760 of undervalue how important Chris Middleton is on the offense. 0:52:10.800 --> 0:52:12.880 Evevent skeets. You went through it there. He is so 0:52:12.880 --> 0:52:15.400 so important on the offensive end. He doesn't hit that 0:52:15.480 --> 0:52:17.840 game winner in Game one. I don't know where that 0:52:17.960 --> 0:52:22.480 series goes against the Miami Heat. So I just worry 0:52:22.560 --> 0:52:25.960 about that Bucks defense, although it does definitely have really 0:52:26.000 --> 0:52:30.359 good matchups defensively, the Nets just to have too many 0:52:30.440 --> 0:52:33.520 fricking weapons that are cooking, and I don't know if 0:52:33.520 --> 0:52:37.120 that chemistry thing ever happened ever, you know, is an 0:52:37.239 --> 0:52:41.640 actual downfall for this Brooklyn Nets team until the finals 0:52:41.719 --> 0:52:44.080 maybe or not. Yeah, A lot of people saying that 0:52:44.120 --> 0:52:47.359 this is the NBA finals. I can start to see 0:52:47.400 --> 0:52:50.880 that now for sure. I'm buying that the Nets are 0:52:50.960 --> 0:52:54.799 definitely the stronger team though, considering what the Milwaukee Bucks 0:52:54.840 --> 0:52:57.920 played in that first round, and even though people, you know, 0:52:58.320 --> 0:53:00.759 look to those two matchups at the end of the 0:53:00.800 --> 0:53:03.759 season there where yeah, the Bucks came out on top 0:53:03.800 --> 0:53:06.120 of the Nets. James Harden wasn't playing in either one 0:53:06.160 --> 0:53:08.600 of those. So I think the Bucks are a little 0:53:08.600 --> 0:53:10.760 over hyped right now, and I think the Nets bringing 0:53:10.800 --> 0:53:12.960 back to Earth. I think the Nets will win in six. 0:53:14.040 --> 0:53:15.880 You know, I hope the Bucks prove me wrong. I 0:53:16.200 --> 0:53:17.600 hope we get seven, but I'll go six. 0:53:17.640 --> 0:53:19.359 Okay, Leally, what's your pick. 0:53:19.800 --> 0:53:21.520 Yeah, I think this is obviously going to be a 0:53:21.600 --> 0:53:23.719 much more difficult matchup for the Nets coming off the 0:53:23.760 --> 0:53:27.960 Celtics series, and Jannis has the ability to really put 0:53:28.000 --> 0:53:30.719 some pressure on that Nets defense, which is their weeks Well, 0:53:30.719 --> 0:53:33.520 that's their vulnerability here. And if Yannis can stay out 0:53:33.560 --> 0:53:36.360 of foul trouble in terms of offensive foul if failing, 0:53:36.400 --> 0:53:38.480 and he can get inside and just just score those 0:53:38.480 --> 0:53:41.200 easy baskets and put that three pointer away, and then 0:53:41.239 --> 0:53:43.839 he does get help from the other guys out there, 0:53:43.880 --> 0:53:45.919 like Drew Holliday, who was really good in the first 0:53:45.960 --> 0:53:48.319 round series. He's been brought in, of course because Eric 0:53:48.320 --> 0:53:50.759 Bledsoe couldn't play in the playoffs. So I think there's 0:53:50.800 --> 0:53:52.680 a lot there for the Bucks. But I just think 0:53:52.760 --> 0:53:55.560 ultimately that Nets offense is just a little too heavy 0:53:56.239 --> 0:53:57.759 and they pull it out. But I think we're going 0:53:57.840 --> 0:53:58.600 I think we're going long. 0:53:58.640 --> 0:53:59.360 I think we're going to. 0:53:59.480 --> 0:54:01.479 Six or sive. But I'll say the Nets in seven 0:54:01.480 --> 0:54:04.320 because I have home court. But I would also like 0:54:04.360 --> 0:54:06.120 to be proven wrong. I'd like to say the Bucks 0:54:06.880 --> 0:54:08.719 upset them here. But I just feel there's just a 0:54:08.719 --> 0:54:11.680 little too much fai pal from those vits for the 0:54:11.880 --> 0:54:13.560 Brooklyn Nets. Brooklyn in seven. 0:54:14.280 --> 0:54:17.439 This is where PJ. Tucker makes his money. We didn't 0:54:17.480 --> 0:54:20.520 bring up Tucker there. I mean he's gonna get obviously 0:54:20.600 --> 0:54:23.080 chances I think on his old friend Kevin Durant, and 0:54:23.760 --> 0:54:25.640 I mean I'm excited to see what Bud does with 0:54:25.840 --> 0:54:28.080 brook Lopez. I mean, I think there's less of a 0:54:28.160 --> 0:54:30.520 role for a guy like him probably in this series. 0:54:30.840 --> 0:54:32.960 Be difficult to keep him out there. He'll get his chance, 0:54:33.080 --> 0:54:35.680 and if Brookn hit the threes, that's big. As you 0:54:35.719 --> 0:54:39.600 talked about Trey with a three point shooting. Look, if 0:54:39.600 --> 0:54:41.000 you guys are all taking the Nets, I have to 0:54:41.040 --> 0:54:42.640 take the Bucks. I mean I already got one hundred 0:54:42.640 --> 0:54:44.880 dollar bet riding on it. I mean what would I do? 0:54:44.920 --> 0:54:46.719 I could sort of like do the weird hedge where 0:54:46.719 --> 0:54:48.359 it's like, well, you know, I am either gonna lose 0:54:48.360 --> 0:54:50.839 one hundred dollars or I'm gonna be the smart gag 0:54:50.880 --> 0:54:53.960 as I got the pick right. Screw that. It's Milwaukee Bucks, man. 0:54:54.000 --> 0:54:58.200 I believe in them. You know, Drew Holiday is fantastic. 0:54:58.520 --> 0:55:02.000 He needs to neutralize one of those guards. God, can 0:55:02.080 --> 0:55:03.680 you do it? That's the thing I know we always 0:55:03.680 --> 0:55:06.279 get into like I don't care how good your defense is. 0:55:07.960 --> 0:55:10.520 When the offense is that elite, can it be stopped? Well, 0:55:10.560 --> 0:55:13.279 let's find out. I'm gonna go Bucks, though, So what 0:55:13.280 --> 0:55:14.839 do I do? I guess I'll just have to go 0:55:14.920 --> 0:55:17.640 Bucks and six shout out to Brandon Jennings once again. 0:55:18.600 --> 0:55:20.960 Well we'll go with that. Hopefully we get a very 0:55:21.000 --> 0:55:24.279 long series and it should be a super tightly contested series. 0:55:24.360 --> 0:55:26.600 Let's hear from the stream team, though. Drop your predictions, 0:55:27.120 --> 0:55:31.239 leave them below the video Nets Bucks game one Saturday Night. 0:55:31.280 --> 0:55:32.759 We're horny as hell for this one. 0:55:32.920 --> 0:55:39.720 And could you like bet somebody else one on the nets? 0:55:40.160 --> 0:55:43.600 Somebody take the Bucks in this series? Oh yeah, rushes all. 0:55:43.520 --> 0:55:45.960 He's ready for a bet. So yeah. I could call 0:55:46.040 --> 0:55:47.799 him up right now and say, hey, man, you want 0:55:47.800 --> 0:55:51.160 to bet on the Bucks Net series? He would say yes, absolutely, 0:55:51.840 --> 0:55:54.280 And then I say, all right, I don't take the Nets. 0:55:54.320 --> 0:55:56.839 I guess see what he says. I think he would 0:55:56.880 --> 0:55:59.000 take the Bucks. There are a lot of people picking Milwaukee. 0:55:59.040 --> 0:56:02.000 I mean, no doubt, a very good team. It's just 0:56:02.080 --> 0:56:04.440 like you know, it is tough to like, it's just 0:56:04.520 --> 0:56:07.440 tough to wrap your head around. I guess you know. 0:56:07.800 --> 0:56:09.680 Four games sort of out gunning the Nets is what 0:56:09.719 --> 0:56:11.719 we're getting out here. If everybody's healthy, now, this can 0:56:11.800 --> 0:56:14.000 change in a hurry. Right there's a rolled ankle for 0:56:14.040 --> 0:56:16.279 a KD or Kyrie or something, and then it's maybe 0:56:16.280 --> 0:56:18.680 a little more even. But yeah, okay, I'll call up. 0:56:19.040 --> 0:56:20.239 I'm gonna do that. That's a good call. 0:56:21.080 --> 0:56:23.440 And listen. I just want to address this comment from Ziggy, 0:56:23.680 --> 0:56:27.680 who's always in the stream team talking about the opponents 0:56:27.719 --> 0:56:31.000 in the first round for both these Bucks and the Nets. 0:56:31.080 --> 0:56:33.399 He says heat were better than the Celtics at least, 0:56:33.440 --> 0:56:36.880 I don't get that take. Honestly, the Heat were horrendous. 0:56:37.360 --> 0:56:38.880 They didn't know what they were doing. 0:56:39.040 --> 0:56:41.800 Hondous because of the Bucks. Is the is the counter 0:56:41.880 --> 0:56:42.160 to that? 0:56:42.320 --> 0:56:45.880 Because their pants once Jianna started guarding Jimmy Butler, they 0:56:45.880 --> 0:56:48.279 pooped their pants, and they had pooping their pants for 0:56:48.320 --> 0:56:49.840 the whole series and didn't know what to do with it. 0:56:52.000 --> 0:56:54.120 They did, They blew it. They completely blew it. The 0:56:54.160 --> 0:56:56.880 Heat were playing better than the Celtics coming into the playoffs, 0:56:56.920 --> 0:56:58.840 and then the Celtics were better than the Heat in 0:56:58.880 --> 0:57:01.279 the playoffs basically because they got a fifty point game. 0:57:01.400 --> 0:57:03.560 You need to see some Chris Middleton fifty point games. Yeah, 0:57:03.600 --> 0:57:05.080 he needs to be the Jason Tatum for them in 0:57:05.120 --> 0:57:05.600 this series. 0:57:05.920 --> 0:57:07.719 Yeah, I don't. I don't. I don't find I don't 0:57:07.719 --> 0:57:09.759 think it's just the Bucks that made the Heat look 0:57:09.800 --> 0:57:11.520 bad that he just looked bad on their own. Jimmy 0:57:11.520 --> 0:57:15.560 Butler just wasn't hitting shots. I mean like he was driving, 0:57:15.680 --> 0:57:17.360 wasn't any shots. Bam had to buy it in't look Yeah, 0:57:17.400 --> 0:57:19.120 but he knew where he was getting his shot. 0:57:19.320 --> 0:57:20.880 That was Why didn't they do that the year prior? 0:57:20.960 --> 0:57:22.880 No one knows he never played them. They never put 0:57:22.920 --> 0:57:24.960 Youannis on Butler, but they did this series. 0:57:25.160 --> 0:57:27.040 No, he couldn't bank a shot home. I mean he 0:57:27.040 --> 0:57:30.680 couldn't do anything. He couldn't. He literally just stopped being 0:57:30.720 --> 0:57:32.200 able to be Jimmy Butler. I don't think it was 0:57:32.240 --> 0:57:34.200 just Yannis at all. I think it was I disagree 0:57:34.280 --> 0:57:35.360 that he was just bad. 0:57:35.440 --> 0:57:38.160 All right, Well that's why they're ziggy. Keep the comments coming, though, 0:57:38.200 --> 0:57:41.120 we love it. Stream team. Okay, final series here for 0:57:41.120 --> 0:57:43.120 our for us to predict here on the on the 0:57:43.200 --> 0:57:48.320 Drop podcast. But too Still, Yeah, Sixers Haks the one 0:57:48.360 --> 0:57:50.760 to five matchup. Sixers took the season series two games 0:57:50.760 --> 0:57:53.680 to one, dominated the last two meetings, actually winning by 0:57:53.680 --> 0:57:56.360 a combined sixty six points, both of those coming at 0:57:56.360 --> 0:57:59.280 the Wells Fargo Center. Philly's lone lost TI the Hawks 0:57:59.320 --> 0:58:01.040 game in January, though, I think that was the game 0:58:01.040 --> 0:58:04.040 that the Sixers were missing, like eight guys, like health 0:58:04.080 --> 0:58:07.600 and safety protocol. I don't think Simmons played anyway. Game one, Sunday, 0:58:08.040 --> 0:58:12.520 Hawks Sixers on ABC. Yeah, that's right, one pm Eastern. 0:58:12.800 --> 0:58:14.960 Keys to the series. I'll just start because it's the 0:58:15.080 --> 0:58:18.480 number one key to the series. Joell Ebiad's health. How 0:58:18.520 --> 0:58:21.120 healthy is he is he playing, because you know, if 0:58:21.120 --> 0:58:24.720 he doesn't, completely changes the complexion of this matchup the Sixers. 0:58:24.720 --> 0:58:27.920 I saw Schumann with this stat thirty and six when 0:58:27.960 --> 0:58:31.000 their full starting lineup were playing, and one of those 0:58:31.040 --> 0:58:33.600 losses was Game four against Washington when Embiid didn't play 0:58:33.600 --> 0:58:35.800 after the first quarter. So you know, let's call it 0:58:35.840 --> 0:58:37.640 maybe thirty one and five if he continues to play, 0:58:37.640 --> 0:58:40.000 and they probably win that game. So this is just like, 0:58:40.080 --> 0:58:43.080 it's huge. I don't think the Sixers will win this 0:58:43.120 --> 0:58:45.560 series without Joel Embii. Yeah, because I believe in the 0:58:45.560 --> 0:58:47.680 Hawks at least that much, and I think they're that good. 0:58:47.800 --> 0:58:50.320 They're playing with house money at this point, they're loose. 0:58:50.480 --> 0:58:52.680 No one's picking really of them to win again like 0:58:52.720 --> 0:58:55.280 most people weren't against the next So I just think 0:58:55.280 --> 0:58:57.640 Embiid puts so much pressure on a Capella and a 0:58:57.680 --> 0:58:59.360 call ins he gets him in foul trouble. He lives 0:58:59.400 --> 0:59:02.240 at the line easy points. But if he doesn't play 0:59:02.680 --> 0:59:04.880 because of the knee, then man, then it's more of 0:59:04.920 --> 0:59:07.120 a coin flip to me. So that's the that's the key, 0:59:07.520 --> 0:59:09.120 And I don't think we really know the answer to 0:59:09.160 --> 0:59:11.800 that right right now as of recording this on Friday. 0:59:12.200 --> 0:59:15.440 I think they're hoping he'll play right task, but who 0:59:15.520 --> 0:59:19.080 knows a giant dude that could play like we just 0:59:19.120 --> 0:59:22.160 saw with the Anthony Davis lands awkwardly and then he's 0:59:22.160 --> 0:59:25.360 out for the season series again. So that's massive to me. 0:59:25.440 --> 0:59:28.080 But I don't know, maybe you disagree that the Sixers 0:59:28.960 --> 0:59:31.600 couldn't They couldn't win even if Embiid didn't play. Does 0:59:31.640 --> 0:59:32.560 anybody disagree with that? 0:59:33.120 --> 0:59:35.880 Yeah? I think the Sixers could win even without him Beid, Yeah, 0:59:35.920 --> 0:59:38.959 I think. I mean, starting with the fact that they're 0:59:39.040 --> 0:59:42.680 able to guard Trey Young with Ben Simmons too, That's 0:59:42.760 --> 0:59:45.400 just that's got to be so so different than the 0:59:45.640 --> 0:59:47.960 Knick series, who are giving him a lot of space 0:59:48.000 --> 0:59:52.000 and Taj Gibson was dropping back, and I think, I mean, 0:59:52.000 --> 0:59:53.760 that would be a lot on Joel Embid if he 0:59:53.800 --> 0:59:56.080 comes out and plays and they get him involved in 0:59:56.120 --> 0:59:59.160 the pick and roll, I think, you know, it's just 0:59:59.160 --> 1:00:01.760 going to be up to Ben's Simmons really to get 1:00:01.800 --> 1:00:04.520 out there and scramble back so Joel Embiid can can 1:00:04.560 --> 1:00:07.920 fall back himself and stop Clint Capella, you know, Dwight 1:00:07.920 --> 1:00:10.680 Howard might be just healthier and better suited to do 1:00:10.720 --> 1:00:13.920 that right now. But either way, Simmons out there on 1:00:14.000 --> 1:00:18.160 Trey Young. He's going to take this extremely personally. He 1:00:18.280 --> 1:00:21.080 keeps on calling himself defensive player of the Year. He's 1:00:21.120 --> 1:00:22.840 going to do a really good job on Trey Young, 1:00:23.040 --> 1:00:25.040 and it's going to be up, I think, to the 1:00:25.120 --> 1:00:27.560 other Hawks to make up for what Trey Young isn't 1:00:27.600 --> 1:00:30.200 able to do in terms of setting guys up. A big, 1:00:30.240 --> 1:00:33.040 big pressure on bog Down Bogdanovic. But I think, yeah, 1:00:32.840 --> 1:00:36.520 the Simmons defense just takes away Clint Cappella to a 1:00:36.560 --> 1:00:38.920 degree because the center, whoever it is, if it's Dwight 1:00:38.960 --> 1:00:41.160 or Joel Embiid, can drop back. But Simmons is not 1:00:41.160 --> 1:00:44.160 going to allow that space that the Knicks. You just 1:00:44.240 --> 1:00:48.240 saw Trey Young, he definitely perused into the lane a 1:00:48.240 --> 1:00:50.920 little too much, just too much, and they dropped and 1:00:50.920 --> 1:00:53.280 they put todsh Gibson in there, and he was a 1:00:53.320 --> 1:00:56.840 he was a fallback guy. And Embeid, you know, I 1:00:56.960 --> 1:01:00.240 worry almost that if he does play, it's just so 1:01:00.440 --> 1:01:03.720 much to ask. He'll probably play like todsh Gibson did. 1:01:03.720 --> 1:01:06.400 But Bed Simmons will be out there it'll be a 1:01:06.400 --> 1:01:09.280 lot different than Reggie Bullock. So that's uh, that's interesting. 1:01:09.360 --> 1:01:12.160 Treyon could could pick him apart as well if if 1:01:12.200 --> 1:01:14.480 they decide to, you know, fall back in that coverage. 1:01:15.000 --> 1:01:17.560 But it's it's hard not to really believe in Ben 1:01:17.640 --> 1:01:21.400 who doesn't have a lot of offensive responsibility. I guess 1:01:21.400 --> 1:01:23.200 it goes up if Joel Embiid is out though, So 1:01:23.240 --> 1:01:26.080 that's yeah, that's a huge, huge question mark whether in 1:01:26.120 --> 1:01:27.920 bed plays I think he tries to fight through it. 1:01:28.320 --> 1:01:30.920 I think there's this was his season, he was an 1:01:30.960 --> 1:01:34.480 MVP candidate. I think we'll see him out there, you know, 1:01:34.840 --> 1:01:38.680 when this thing gets going. But how long it's it's 1:01:38.720 --> 1:01:40.760 it's totally fair. Who the heck knows that. 1:01:41.040 --> 1:01:42.240 Trey what's your key to the series? 1:01:42.640 --> 1:01:46.120 Well, Skates, you're right. Embiid's health is the number one 1:01:46.200 --> 1:01:48.560 key to this series. If he's one hundred percent, the 1:01:48.600 --> 1:01:51.200 Sixers win this series pretty easily, I think. But it 1:01:51.280 --> 1:01:53.120 does not look like he's going to be one hundred percent. 1:01:53.120 --> 1:01:54.720 We have no idea what's going to happen. We have 1:01:54.760 --> 1:01:56.720 no idea if he's even gonna play it. People in 1:01:56.760 --> 1:01:59.840 the stream team are suggesting perhaps the Sixers keep him 1:01:59.880 --> 1:02:02.600 up until they lose a game that could certainly happen, 1:02:02.640 --> 1:02:04.600 give him a little bit more rest, but it's a 1:02:04.680 --> 1:02:08.120 huge unknown. That's why Tobias Harris is Movernie key to 1:02:08.160 --> 1:02:10.000 me in this series because he might have to be 1:02:10.040 --> 1:02:12.160 the seventy six ers leading scorer. We don't know what 1:02:12.200 --> 1:02:15.920 we're getting from Embiid Simmons is unreliable as a scorer, 1:02:16.000 --> 1:02:18.720 at least coming into this series. I think Tobias Harris 1:02:18.760 --> 1:02:22.240 has to be in an offensive hub for the Sixers. 1:02:22.280 --> 1:02:24.320 It's gonna be a nice matchup. I think he'll have 1:02:24.400 --> 1:02:26.400 DeAndre Hunter on him a little bit. I think he'll 1:02:26.400 --> 1:02:28.680 have John Collins on him a little bit. They did 1:02:28.720 --> 1:02:31.400 a great job on Julius Randall, forced them into a 1:02:31.480 --> 1:02:35.240 lot of ISOs, played physical and just made every possession tough. 1:02:35.320 --> 1:02:37.640 It felt like Randal was taking forty eight dribbles every 1:02:37.640 --> 1:02:40.040 single time he had the ball. Harris is certainly a 1:02:40.040 --> 1:02:42.520 more skilled scorer than Randall. He scores in a lot 1:02:42.800 --> 1:02:45.760 different ways. He actually did lead the Sixers in scoring 1:02:45.800 --> 1:02:49.280 in Round one twenty five a game fifty percent from 1:02:49.320 --> 1:02:51.960 the field, thirty eight from three to ninety from the line. 1:02:52.200 --> 1:02:55.720 You need that again from Toby Harry, quick smart decisions 1:02:55.880 --> 1:02:58.040 looking to get buckets because the Hawks are gonna score 1:02:58.120 --> 1:03:00.720 pretty well in this series. I think Trey Young will 1:03:00.760 --> 1:03:04.480 certainly have a toper series than he had against the 1:03:04.560 --> 1:03:07.960 Knicks with Bible and Simmons on him. But there's still 1:03:08.000 --> 1:03:09.720 a lot of scores on the Hawks. They've been playing 1:03:09.760 --> 1:03:12.520 pretty well this second half of the season. That's why 1:03:12.560 --> 1:03:14.480 to me, Tobias Harris got a lot of pressure on 1:03:14.560 --> 1:03:17.520 him this series to actually be a consistent scorer each 1:03:17.520 --> 1:03:18.320 and every game. 1:03:18.560 --> 1:03:21.640 Very similar to Chris Middleton there in the Total Bucks series. 1:03:21.680 --> 1:03:24.000 I always think of those two guys as similar guys. 1:03:24.000 --> 1:03:26.960 They're like just on that borderline of like they're all 1:03:27.000 --> 1:03:29.600 stars sort of guys, and some nights they look like 1:03:29.640 --> 1:03:32.640 almost borderline superstar guys and they have these inconsistent nights. Anyway, 1:03:32.800 --> 1:03:34.640 Tobias Harris is a big one in this series, especially 1:03:34.640 --> 1:03:36.320 if there's no embid for a first couple of games. 1:03:36.360 --> 1:03:37.640 Maybe Lee keyt in the series. 1:03:37.680 --> 1:03:39.520 Before we get to predictions, well, I think it's a 1:03:39.560 --> 1:03:42.520 three point shooting for both teams really, because ultimately, yes, 1:03:42.560 --> 1:03:44.760 Trey Young is going to face a much stiffer challenge. 1:03:44.800 --> 1:03:46.680 I think it's either Simmons or Thible, both of them 1:03:46.680 --> 1:03:48.280 are going to get him at some point. Bible is 1:03:48.280 --> 1:03:51.160 an incredible defender. He's got that length as well. And 1:03:51.200 --> 1:03:53.240 then even Tyre's Max, he might even get some minutes 1:03:53.280 --> 1:03:55.520 on him. He's when those guys are resting, and I 1:03:55.560 --> 1:03:57.640 think the six is know like, if you can slow 1:03:57.720 --> 1:03:59.720 Trey Young down, that can really stop their offense. Don't 1:03:59.760 --> 1:04:01.800 let Heim get going. But then Trey's probably going to 1:04:01.840 --> 1:04:04.280 prepare for and so's Nami Millen and say, bog Danovitch, 1:04:04.320 --> 1:04:06.960 you've got to hit those threes again. John Collins got 1:04:07.000 --> 1:04:09.000 it going towards the end of that series. Kevin Guerreta 1:04:09.240 --> 1:04:11.480 coming off the bench, he can hit them threes. And 1:04:11.520 --> 1:04:14.560 then you've got Gallinari man and he poor man Daniella. 1:04:14.640 --> 1:04:16.920 Gallinari moves like a cement mixer out there, but he 1:04:17.000 --> 1:04:21.080 can still hit the three pointer, and that especially down 1:04:21.120 --> 1:04:22.720 here in Atlanta. He was very good and he was 1:04:23.240 --> 1:04:25.360 getting pretty carried away down there. Two had a nice 1:04:25.400 --> 1:04:27.240 little step back, sort of between the legs move. He 1:04:27.280 --> 1:04:29.360 missed it, but once those threes are falling, he's just 1:04:29.360 --> 1:04:31.320 confident because he kind of and this is again where 1:04:31.320 --> 1:04:34.840 they will potentially if Joel Embiid is not playing, Daniella 1:04:34.880 --> 1:04:36.760 Gallinari almost sort of fills in as they're sort of 1:04:36.760 --> 1:04:39.360 big man there for a while as well when Capella's 1:04:39.360 --> 1:04:42.080 on the bench, and sometimes as John Collins and Danella Gallinari. 1:04:42.200 --> 1:04:44.960 If Joel Embiid is playing, they cannot have Gallinari out 1:04:45.000 --> 1:04:47.400 there defending em beat at all. He will get destroyed. 1:04:47.440 --> 1:04:49.600 But I think as well for the Sixers, you know, 1:04:49.640 --> 1:04:51.520 like Seth Curry was good in this series, Danny Green 1:04:51.600 --> 1:04:53.800 hit thirteen threes in the series against the Wizards. It's 1:04:53.800 --> 1:04:56.720 the Wizards, but Danny Green as a veteran can still 1:04:56.720 --> 1:04:56.960 do that. 1:04:57.040 --> 1:04:58.320 In the corner Raptors. 1:04:58.360 --> 1:05:00.360 Fans know he had one good game Agains the Warrior 1:05:00.400 --> 1:05:02.520 is that time, but he hit six threes in that game. 1:05:02.560 --> 1:05:04.480 I think it was Game three in Oakland where he 1:05:04.560 --> 1:05:06.400 hit those threes. And he did the same thing for 1:05:06.440 --> 1:05:08.160 the Lakers in the bubble there. So he might only 1:05:08.160 --> 1:05:10.000 have one or two good games, but it could be 1:05:10.280 --> 1:05:13.800 game turning events for him. So I think with Philadelphia, 1:05:13.880 --> 1:05:15.800 if those threes are falling, I mean Ben Simmons, as 1:05:15.840 --> 1:05:17.920 we know he doesn't shoot them, but certainly if he 1:05:17.960 --> 1:05:21.200 can penetrate and get those guys into their spots and 1:05:21.200 --> 1:05:24.040 they're knocking them down. That offense for Philadelphia is fantastic. 1:05:24.280 --> 1:05:27.440 As far as Jowel Embiid, I wonder if the Sixers 1:05:27.440 --> 1:05:29.520 look and see what happened with Anthony Davis last night 1:05:29.560 --> 1:05:31.240 and think, you know, it's not worth the risk. They 1:05:31.240 --> 1:05:33.040 look at maybe Kevin Duran in the finals against the 1:05:33.120 --> 1:05:35.040 Raptors a couple of years ago. He clearly wasn't ready 1:05:35.080 --> 1:05:37.520 to go and did further damage. I don't know what 1:05:37.560 --> 1:05:40.440 a meniscous tear, how serious that is, but it just 1:05:40.520 --> 1:05:43.400 sounds grotesque and sounds awful to me. So I'll be 1:05:43.480 --> 1:05:46.280 surprised if Embiid is certainly playing in the first game 1:05:46.360 --> 1:05:48.520 or two, and then depending on how the series is, 1:05:48.520 --> 1:05:51.880 maybe Philadelphia decides to risk it. But it's sad because 1:05:51.880 --> 1:05:53.840 we want to see the best players out there. That's 1:05:53.880 --> 1:05:56.320 the best thing for fans is to see the teams 1:05:56.360 --> 1:05:58.400 at full strength playing each other. And I think even 1:05:58.400 --> 1:06:00.560 if e Beid does play, will be able to tell. 1:06:00.600 --> 1:06:01.880 I think if he's on the court in the first 1:06:01.920 --> 1:06:03.760 five minutes whether or not that knee is bothering him, 1:06:04.200 --> 1:06:06.240 because we saw that with Chris Paul he wasn't at 1:06:06.280 --> 1:06:08.440 his best, and we saw that with Anthony Davis, he 1:06:08.480 --> 1:06:11.120 clearly wasn't at his best, So we might get a 1:06:11.160 --> 1:06:14.080 glimpse either way of just how bad that knee is. 1:06:14.120 --> 1:06:16.600 But yeah, I think if those threes are falling for 1:06:16.640 --> 1:06:18.800 the Hawks, that's the best chance of staying here with 1:06:18.760 --> 1:06:21.480 Philadelphi because this is a much better defensive team. Well 1:06:21.520 --> 1:06:24.040 I say that the Knicks actually had a great defensive. 1:06:23.600 --> 1:06:26.720 Rating, but but this is different because like Tams saying, like, 1:06:27.160 --> 1:06:29.040 by no means you're playing Trey Young, are you're gonna 1:06:29.080 --> 1:06:31.360 do drop coverage. That'd be silly. So you're gonna run 1:06:31.440 --> 1:06:33.040 him over and you're gonna get him into the paint. 1:06:33.080 --> 1:06:36.160 But they're so long and so fast, Tybal Yeah, and Simmons, 1:06:36.200 --> 1:06:38.760 they're gonna be challenging from behind on these floaters Like 1:06:38.760 --> 1:06:40.880 that gets in your head as an offensive player, just 1:06:40.880 --> 1:06:45.400 that much exactly. You'll see that. See the old Chris 1:06:45.400 --> 1:06:47.400 Paul stop there, and I'm sure he'll get some of them. 1:06:47.440 --> 1:06:50.240 But then too, Embeid, we're talking offensively, like he put 1:06:50.320 --> 1:06:52.000 up thirty and fifteen, I'm sure in this series if 1:06:52.000 --> 1:06:54.960 he's playing, but like defensively, yeah, you're going to like 1:06:55.280 --> 1:06:57.560 get Trey in there, and then Embiid's in there, and 1:06:57.600 --> 1:06:59.120 that's going to like make Trey think twice out there 1:06:59.160 --> 1:07:01.000 him and stuff like that, maybe take away those lops. 1:07:01.040 --> 1:07:04.040 So that's why he's huge. You But you're right, Nick's 1:07:04.040 --> 1:07:05.400 had a good defense, But I think it's just such 1:07:05.440 --> 1:07:07.680 a different defense for the Sixers. But yeah, the guys 1:07:07.680 --> 1:07:09.120 they have that you can put on the perimeter. 1:07:09.480 --> 1:07:12.200 Yeah, and statistically throughout the regular season's just different. In 1:07:12.200 --> 1:07:14.720 a series the Nate mc millan, the Hawks found a 1:07:14.720 --> 1:07:17.200 way to basically pick it apart and it didn't. It 1:07:17.200 --> 1:07:19.960 didn't look anywhere near as convincing in the playoffs in 1:07:19.960 --> 1:07:22.280 that series. So yeah, I looks have a lot of 1:07:22.280 --> 1:07:25.000 offensive firepower like you guys do, but those that can 1:07:25.040 --> 1:07:27.160 get those shots just have to fall, Like like for 1:07:27.240 --> 1:07:29.240 any team, once they're falling, it just spreads the floor 1:07:29.280 --> 1:07:31.680 and it opens it up. And you know, Bogdanovic and 1:07:32.160 --> 1:07:34.400 Gallinari weren't all that great in New York, but they 1:07:34.400 --> 1:07:36.600 were pretty good down here in Atlanta. So if they 1:07:36.600 --> 1:07:38.800 can even it out a little bit more, that's going 1:07:38.840 --> 1:07:39.560 to help the Hawks. 1:07:39.680 --> 1:07:42.400 All right, Well, let's talk actual predictions here at Treo. 1:07:42.520 --> 1:07:46.120 Back to you, who's winning this how many games. I'm 1:07:46.120 --> 1:07:49.360 excited to see if anybody will take the hometown Hawks 1:07:49.360 --> 1:07:52.080 here to continue. But TK you go. 1:07:52.080 --> 1:07:58.120 First, because we have no idea what's going on with Embiid. 1:07:58.200 --> 1:08:01.800 If somehow he comes back, and this meniscus tear is 1:08:01.800 --> 1:08:03.640 a little bit more like a sprain, which I don't 1:08:03.680 --> 1:08:05.760 think a lot of people realize a sprain is just 1:08:05.800 --> 1:08:08.760 a tiny miniscus tear. It really is. But if he's 1:08:08.800 --> 1:08:11.040 able to play, if he's able to be at ninety 1:08:11.040 --> 1:08:13.360 five percent, this is an easy win I think for 1:08:13.440 --> 1:08:16.800 the Sixers. But I'm not super confident that Embiid is 1:08:16.800 --> 1:08:19.160 gonna be able to play at his best for the 1:08:19.320 --> 1:08:22.040 entire series. But is that enough to make you want 1:08:22.040 --> 1:08:24.280 to pick the Hawks, I don't know. Because we've seen 1:08:24.520 --> 1:08:27.160 in the past the Sixers have been successful playing with 1:08:27.240 --> 1:08:29.559 Ben Simmons at the five. I think they can even 1:08:29.560 --> 1:08:32.479 do okay with Dwight Howard getting twenty five minutes at 1:08:32.479 --> 1:08:35.320 the five just smashing his body into Clint Cappella in 1:08:35.360 --> 1:08:36.560 a revenge. 1:08:36.120 --> 1:08:37.639 Series for Dwight Howard. 1:08:38.400 --> 1:08:40.839 This is almost a double revenge series for Dwight Howard 1:08:40.880 --> 1:08:44.360 because he was replaced as the Houston center by Clint 1:08:44.360 --> 1:08:47.080 Cappella and he was waived by the Atlanta Hawks. 1:08:47.360 --> 1:08:48.040 Wow. 1:08:48.080 --> 1:08:49.560 Maybe Dwight Howard. 1:08:49.280 --> 1:08:52.599 Is the key to this series. I think. I think 1:08:52.640 --> 1:08:54.960 we'll know a lot in Game one. Like Lee is saying, here, 1:08:55.000 --> 1:08:58.520 with what we see from Embiid, I'm gonna go sixers 1:08:58.600 --> 1:09:01.040 in six it can go the other way, certainly. 1:09:01.160 --> 1:09:02.880 Okay, Tess, where are you going? 1:09:04.040 --> 1:09:06.679 Yeah? A great putter here in the stream, Team Nare 1:09:06.800 --> 1:09:12.080 comments Embiid should trust the healing process. And you know, 1:09:12.280 --> 1:09:16.040 I first say Emid's gonna play through that pain because 1:09:16.080 --> 1:09:20.240 it's his MVP season, MVP caliber season, and he should 1:09:21.000 --> 1:09:22.639 want to play out there. But then in the other 1:09:22.760 --> 1:09:25.000 on the other side, Yeah, he had this same meniscus 1:09:25.040 --> 1:09:28.080 stare in his rookie year. He ended up having to 1:09:28.200 --> 1:09:32.160 undergo season ending surgery. So I don't know anything about 1:09:32.200 --> 1:09:36.519 his physical health. I just think that the Sixers are 1:09:36.600 --> 1:09:39.680 rolling right now going up against the Atlanta Hawks. I 1:09:39.720 --> 1:09:42.240 think Seth Curry is going to have a great series 1:09:42.560 --> 1:09:44.960 going up against the back coourd of Trey Young and 1:09:45.000 --> 1:09:48.040 bogged down Bogdanovich. Seth Curry is a streaky player, just 1:09:48.120 --> 1:09:51.240 came off a thirty point night feeling good. To end 1:09:51.240 --> 1:09:53.679 that series against the Wizards, and Trey Young's not gonna 1:09:53.680 --> 1:09:56.200 be able to hide. I don't think during this series 1:09:56.760 --> 1:09:58.559 it's gonna be a it's gonna be a little different 1:09:58.640 --> 1:10:02.200 for him. So well win Tray's guarding Seth. I don't 1:10:02.200 --> 1:10:05.080 really think there's much more of another option. Really, I 1:10:05.120 --> 1:10:06.599 guess you throw them on Danny any. 1:10:06.479 --> 1:10:08.680 Green for sure. They'll be very similar I think to 1:10:08.720 --> 1:10:11.080 Reggie Bullock, where it's like you're fine because if he 1:10:11.120 --> 1:10:13.880 gets off a screen, Yeah, they might be open for 1:10:13.920 --> 1:10:15.679 a split second there, but you're not worried about Danny 1:10:15.680 --> 1:10:17.840 Green putting the ball on the floor and getting the hoop. 1:10:17.880 --> 1:10:19.920 Same with Reggie Bullock. That's where he's gonna hide. 1:10:19.960 --> 1:10:23.479 I think it's totally true. Then just get Danny Green 1:10:23.520 --> 1:10:25.639 off the floor. I think if you're Doc Rivers, I mean, 1:10:25.680 --> 1:10:27.840 just go with Ben Simmons and Tree Young in your backcourt, 1:10:28.280 --> 1:10:32.080 and then Ben Simmons and yeah, exactly, and Seth in 1:10:32.120 --> 1:10:35.880 your backcourt and then figure it out from there. I just, yeah, 1:10:36.400 --> 1:10:38.280 you know, I want to take the hometown Hawks, and 1:10:38.320 --> 1:10:41.200 I felt good doing it in Series one, but there's 1:10:41.240 --> 1:10:43.920 not only is Seth Curry playing well. You talked about 1:10:43.920 --> 1:10:47.800 Tobias Harris being a key. He's feeling good too. He's 1:10:47.840 --> 1:10:50.559 playing really well, so is Ben Simmons, and I think 1:10:50.600 --> 1:10:54.759 that's important. The confidence level of a number one seeded 1:10:54.760 --> 1:10:57.760 team should never be questioned. But these guys have, you know, 1:10:57.840 --> 1:10:59.800 never really been in this position, but they got a 1:10:59.840 --> 1:11:01.920 few feel good. They have to feel good right now, 1:11:02.240 --> 1:11:05.400 and I think they make life hell for Treon. I'll 1:11:05.400 --> 1:11:06.080 take them in six. 1:11:06.240 --> 1:11:10.320 Okay, I'm heading down to the Fortress for at least 1:11:10.320 --> 1:11:15.040 one of these. Yeah, of course, of course, it was 1:11:15.080 --> 1:11:17.360 so much fun down there last week. I want to 1:11:17.439 --> 1:11:19.160 cheer for the Hawks. I want the Hawks to win. 1:11:19.520 --> 1:11:21.800 I think they can win. I think things have to 1:11:21.840 --> 1:11:24.240 go right for them, you know. And I do think 1:11:24.240 --> 1:11:26.280 the MB factor is going to be significant in this 1:11:26.320 --> 1:11:29.760 series because Dwight, you know, he still gets himself in 1:11:29.840 --> 1:11:32.280 these silly fouls and he can get a flagrant every 1:11:32.320 --> 1:11:34.000 now and again. Look, he's going to put a body 1:11:34.040 --> 1:11:34.800 on Capella for. 1:11:34.720 --> 1:11:37.080 Sure, definitely picking up a flagrant, of course he is. 1:11:37.120 --> 1:11:38.920 He does it all the time. You know. 1:11:38.960 --> 1:11:41.160 He'll catch them lobs and they'll they'll throw that those 1:11:41.240 --> 1:11:42.920 dungkst to him, but he'll get that. He'll get himself 1:11:42.920 --> 1:11:46.360 into his own into a mess as always, and I 1:11:46.560 --> 1:11:49.320 again like, I just have faith in that those threes 1:11:49.400 --> 1:11:51.320 being able to fall for the Hawks here. I think 1:11:51.680 --> 1:11:53.479 I think they've got some really good players, and I 1:11:53.479 --> 1:11:55.960 think they've got some really good I thought that defense 1:11:56.080 --> 1:11:58.000 was way more impressive too in this series, and I 1:11:58.000 --> 1:12:00.760 think they understand it has to be at that same level, 1:12:00.840 --> 1:12:03.960 if not increased here for this series against Philadelphia. So 1:12:04.560 --> 1:12:06.320 I'm taking the hometown Hawks. 1:12:06.320 --> 1:12:07.040 Give me the Hawks. 1:12:07.040 --> 1:12:09.160 We're gonna close it out in six. The Fortress is 1:12:09.200 --> 1:12:10.000 gonna be bumping. 1:12:10.160 --> 1:12:12.160 Oh yeah, it sounds like you'll be there in person. 1:12:12.960 --> 1:12:15.040 Well, it might not even go six. Maybe the Hawks 1:12:15.040 --> 1:12:16.400 sweep him in four or five. 1:12:17.720 --> 1:12:19.439 Crazy, Okay, So you're taking Hawks and six? 1:12:19.640 --> 1:12:21.400 Yeah, why why not? 1:12:21.479 --> 1:12:24.000 That's the way to look at it. Man, I'm one 1:12:24.000 --> 1:12:25.719 with the other two guys. I'm going sixers and six, 1:12:25.760 --> 1:12:28.680 I do think and Bead's ultimately gonna play, and I 1:12:28.680 --> 1:12:30.679 think they just have the defensive guys to slow Tray 1:12:30.720 --> 1:12:33.040 Young and Doc Rivers is not an idiot. They're gonna 1:12:33.040 --> 1:12:34.599 go at Trey yup. They're gonna put him in action 1:12:34.840 --> 1:12:36.400 and he won't be able to hide as easy as 1:12:36.400 --> 1:12:38.519 he definitely did in the Knicks, Like the almost never 1:12:38.560 --> 1:12:40.840 went at him. He didn't have to do anything defensively. 1:12:41.160 --> 1:12:43.000 Who do you really think is gonna exploit Trey Young? 1:12:43.200 --> 1:12:45.920 Well, just like Seth Curry and Ben Simmons, if that's 1:12:45.920 --> 1:12:47.919 the back court they're going to be going to at times, 1:12:48.160 --> 1:12:50.240 he's going to be in action, there would be no. 1:12:50.160 --> 1:12:53.120 Way to hide him. I think that's probably true. But 1:12:53.160 --> 1:12:55.160 I mean, if Seth Curry's taking all your shots, I 1:12:55.200 --> 1:12:58.280 think that's a win for the Hawks. Well, yeah, he 1:12:58.320 --> 1:13:00.519 can hide on Bible, he can hide on Danny Green 1:13:00.640 --> 1:13:02.519 like we're saying, he can kind of hide a little 1:13:02.520 --> 1:13:03.439 bit on Ben Simmons. 1:13:04.479 --> 1:13:06.120 Ah, he shouldn't be able to. 1:13:06.280 --> 1:13:10.360 I mean, ye, send him then, like anytime he gets 1:13:10.400 --> 1:13:12.000 him in the post follum, send them to the line. 1:13:12.080 --> 1:13:14.000 Yeah, yeah, we'll see if there'll be the little chess 1:13:14.000 --> 1:13:16.160 mass here between Nate McMillan and Doc Rivers. I got 1:13:16.160 --> 1:13:17.800 six ers and six, so I'm going with the task 1:13:17.840 --> 1:13:20.080 and Tray in this one, and Lee's going Hawks and six. 1:13:20.160 --> 1:13:22.840 Let's see the stream team's picks. Drop them there, drop 1:13:22.920 --> 1:13:25.000 them in the video below or in the comments below 1:13:25.000 --> 1:13:26.679 the video. I should say, Okay, we still got five 1:13:26.720 --> 1:13:28.920 star Friday to get to. We've got tweeted the night 1:13:29.040 --> 1:13:31.200 we got rapid Fire, which we actually have to try 1:13:31.240 --> 1:13:34.400 and make rapid this time. But first or finally, another 1:13:34.479 --> 1:13:37.920 quick break? Do you hear from our sponsors? All right, 1:13:38.040 --> 1:13:46.320 let's get to some five star Friday fun. Trey Kirby 1:13:46.360 --> 1:13:50.040 explain this for any of the new listeners or YouTube viewers. 1:13:50.520 --> 1:13:54.040 Don't mind the my news skeatsing ten five star Friday. 1:13:54.360 --> 1:13:57.680 The first Friday of every month, we read five of 1:13:58.000 --> 1:14:02.720 the best five star review on Apple podcasts from the 1:14:02.760 --> 1:14:06.040 previous month. These reviews help us in the rankings. The 1:14:06.120 --> 1:14:08.599 rankings help us on the charts. The charts help us 1:14:08.600 --> 1:14:11.280 on the downloads. The downloads help us on everything. So 1:14:11.439 --> 1:14:14.439 get your reviews in, get us up on them charts. 1:14:14.439 --> 1:14:18.280 We want to be at number one by tomorrow afternoon. 1:14:19.120 --> 1:14:22.400 How you doing right, Skeats, Make a big ask, Make 1:14:22.439 --> 1:14:24.839 a huge ask and see what they come in on. Anyways, 1:14:24.840 --> 1:14:28.160 here are your top five five star reviews from the 1:14:28.200 --> 1:14:32.040 month of May. First one oops and thought loops from 1:14:32.120 --> 1:14:38.240 the Impatient Chopo Hit Squad. Leave Basketball Reference behind and 1:14:38.320 --> 1:14:43.840 let these certified psychonauts guide you across a vast mindscape 1:14:43.880 --> 1:14:47.520 full of wedgies and roast beef and the only podcast 1:14:47.600 --> 1:14:51.320 approved by Manu Jenobili and Terrence McKenna. 1:14:52.320 --> 1:14:52.960 What a start. 1:14:53.400 --> 1:14:55.599 Yeah, no doubt. This one makes me feel like we're 1:14:55.640 --> 1:14:59.439 talking some real big brain stuff on here, not just 1:14:59.520 --> 1:15:03.960 jokes out drinking water and me carrying you to your car. 1:15:05.680 --> 1:15:08.880 Great review. Our second five star review comes to us 1:15:08.880 --> 1:15:11.519 from Jeheidi White. I don't think it's that one. Maybe 1:15:11.560 --> 1:15:16.040 a pseudonym. Silky Underscore Johnson is the title for no reason, 1:15:17.120 --> 1:15:19.960 best podcast period. I love the laid back hoop talk. 1:15:20.439 --> 1:15:22.559 This makes you feel like you're just talking hoops with 1:15:22.640 --> 1:15:25.639 a group of friends. Keep up all the great work 1:15:25.960 --> 1:15:28.680 and hard work. Thanks for the all the effort you 1:15:28.720 --> 1:15:34.480 guys put in every day, especially JD Tulip Blue Skies Blossom, 1:15:34.640 --> 1:15:36.320 Thank you, Jahati White. 1:15:36.479 --> 1:15:39.479 Yeah, I like that little specific shout. You like that 1:15:39.680 --> 1:15:41.320 absolutely you feel loved. 1:15:41.680 --> 1:15:44.080 Oh I love it. Thank you Silky. 1:15:45.000 --> 1:15:51.400 Rachel put in that. 1:15:54.920 --> 1:15:56.720 I like the blossom in there too. What about a 1:15:56.760 --> 1:15:57.720 Blossom reunion? 1:15:59.320 --> 1:16:05.680 Yes it's happening. I think so. Whoa, it's been rebooted. 1:16:05.720 --> 1:16:11.040 It's aboo oh oh six up to haven't heard much 1:16:11.040 --> 1:16:11.639 about Pricks? 1:16:12.520 --> 1:16:14.240 Yeah, nothing at all. 1:16:14.520 --> 1:16:15.719 This guy is into gardening. 1:16:17.840 --> 1:16:18.560 Yeah, I do like that. 1:16:18.680 --> 1:16:18.880 Nice. 1:16:18.920 --> 1:16:22.880 Our next review comes to us from Big Daddy Watermelon. Okay, 1:16:22.960 --> 1:16:25.840 this is actually kind of funny? Is the title here? 1:16:26.640 --> 1:16:30.479 Always fun always funny, and very entertaining. If you're thinking 1:16:31.000 --> 1:16:32.840 this is tough to get into, there seems to be 1:16:32.880 --> 1:16:35.559 so many in jokes I don't get. Just wait it 1:16:35.560 --> 1:16:37.640 out and you'll have a whole new set to be 1:16:37.680 --> 1:16:40.599 a part of before you know it. These guys aren't 1:16:40.600 --> 1:16:42.920 pretentious and they actually know what they're talking about, making 1:16:42.920 --> 1:16:47.679 it much better automatically than ninety percent of b ball podds. 1:16:47.760 --> 1:16:49.559 I love the part this is. 1:16:49.560 --> 1:16:50.320 Tough to get into. 1:16:50.680 --> 1:16:53.360 There seems to be so many in jokes I don't get, 1:16:53.479 --> 1:16:56.160 But just wait it out. Literally, just wait a week 1:16:56.160 --> 1:16:58.720 and there'll be a whole fresh slated jokes for you 1:16:58.800 --> 1:17:03.760 to understand. Speaking of inside jokes that you may not understand, 1:17:03.800 --> 1:17:08.640 our next review comes to us from Selena Quill, titled Infectious. 1:17:08.720 --> 1:17:12.479 Here's a couple of those inside jokes, the spoon fork 1:17:12.600 --> 1:17:16.080 and trucks that self food in them. Confusion is catching on, 1:17:16.600 --> 1:17:20.040 as No Dunks promoted two other podcasts recently. I spent 1:17:20.080 --> 1:17:23.880 an entire shattered episode, wondering when it was gonna move 1:17:23.920 --> 1:17:26.800 on from the Knicks and start talking about basketball in 1:17:26.800 --> 1:17:30.800 the nineteen eighties, before realizing I meant to start Death 1:17:30.840 --> 1:17:33.599 at the wing. Five or five stars would be willing 1:17:33.640 --> 1:17:37.600 to take more podcast recommendations and muddle headedness thrown in 1:17:37.640 --> 1:17:40.120 the tagline at the end. What's better than this? Guys 1:17:40.160 --> 1:17:43.439 being dudes? Turn up love you guys awesome. You're getting 1:17:43.600 --> 1:17:48.920 four inside jokes, two podcast recommendations. That's why you gotta 1:17:48.960 --> 1:17:50.040 stick with no ducks. 1:17:50.320 --> 1:17:54.599 I've never heard the word muddle headedness now muddle had 1:17:54.600 --> 1:17:56.800 never seen it, never heard it. Is it a real word? 1:17:56.840 --> 1:17:57.400 I guess it is. 1:17:58.960 --> 1:18:01.080 I don't all thrown in your really, dog, I've got 1:18:01.120 --> 1:18:09.040 to be check your babs. Very muddleheadedness to me sounds 1:18:09.080 --> 1:18:11.960 like an elf when he starts calling people cotton headed, 1:18:12.040 --> 1:18:15.600 ninni muggins, very similar words. I don't know why, but 1:18:15.720 --> 1:18:18.800 that was our fourth review. Our last and final five 1:18:18.840 --> 1:18:22.320 star review comes from He Show five to five five stars. 1:18:23.120 --> 1:18:27.320 Y'all are nice dudes, keep it up, we will it 1:18:27.520 --> 1:18:29.000 Kicks show. 1:18:28.800 --> 1:18:31.000 A five star review. They don't need to be uh 1:18:31.360 --> 1:18:33.840 like long paragraphs. That's short and sweet to the point. 1:18:33.880 --> 1:18:36.120 Thank you so much to everybody out there dropping those 1:18:36.120 --> 1:18:38.519 five star ratings and reviews on Apple podcasts. They do 1:18:38.600 --> 1:18:41.200 sincerely help us out. Uh so, if you haven't dropped 1:18:41.200 --> 1:18:43.640 on you listen to us on Apple podcasts, please go 1:18:43.680 --> 1:18:45.640 ahead take a second and do it. Still can't do 1:18:45.680 --> 1:18:47.160 it on Spotify? Hey, what's up with that? 1:18:47.800 --> 1:18:48.040 You know? 1:18:48.720 --> 1:18:51.400 Weird? Just weird? If you ask me, they want to 1:18:51.439 --> 1:18:54.639 handle the recommendations I know over there at Spotify rather 1:18:54.680 --> 1:18:55.559 than letting the people. 1:18:55.920 --> 1:18:58.519 But I will say count thanks to everybody that's been 1:18:58.560 --> 1:19:01.879 like tagging us on Instagram, especially like I guess Spotify 1:19:01.920 --> 1:19:03.920 had one of those recent things where like they look 1:19:03.920 --> 1:19:06.479 at all the music and podcasts you listen to and say, hey, 1:19:07.280 --> 1:19:10.760 you're a weird guy, you like the No Dunk's podcasts, 1:19:10.760 --> 1:19:12.679 and then like you could share it on social anyway, 1:19:12.680 --> 1:19:14.640 everybody was taging us, So thanks for everybody for doing that. 1:19:14.960 --> 1:19:19.760 All right, let's get too Tweet of the night, Tweet. 1:19:19.479 --> 1:19:27.519 Of the night, Wow twitt. All right, well, it's almost 1:19:27.520 --> 1:19:31.479 summertime here in the Northern Hemisphere. I guess that's some 1:19:31.600 --> 1:19:33.559 big brain stuff right there. I know it's summer in 1:19:33.560 --> 1:19:38.599 the Northern Hemisphere anyway, So people are talking about ice cream, right, yep, yeah, 1:19:38.640 --> 1:19:41.120 of course I've been looking at the Baskin Robbins near 1:19:41.240 --> 1:19:44.120 me thinking about some mint chocolate chip, which some people hate. 1:19:44.360 --> 1:19:46.479 Some people don't like mint chocolate chip at all. I 1:19:46.520 --> 1:19:48.920 get it. I understand. That brings me to tweet of 1:19:48.960 --> 1:19:53.800 the night by Andrea Nordgren, who asks what are you 1:19:53.960 --> 1:19:57.080 ordering from the ice cream truck? And then many many 1:19:57.120 --> 1:20:00.680 photos of different ice creams, including us Ungebob Bar, a 1:20:00.760 --> 1:20:04.400 Choco Taco, strawberry shortcake, a snow cone, a firecracker, screwball 1:20:04.479 --> 1:20:07.720 chip which can't go, and ice cream sandwich, push up Pops, Drumstick, 1:20:07.960 --> 1:20:11.680 Powerpuff Girls, bar, Creamsicle, m Chocolate a Claire, and a 1:20:11.760 --> 1:20:15.160 fudge pop. W Wow, it's tough. It's tough. I'll start 1:20:15.240 --> 1:20:19.040 us off. I go classic chip Witch. I love the 1:20:19.080 --> 1:20:24.160 texture on the outside. Oh yeah, baby, I hope it's 1:20:24.160 --> 1:20:26.519 not a real cheap one. But even then, I'd probably 1:20:26.560 --> 1:20:29.519 still go chip wich. I'd look at the creamsicle, Yep, 1:20:30.040 --> 1:20:33.360 I'd look at the ice cream sandwich, but chip wich. Yeah, 1:20:33.360 --> 1:20:35.840 It's just something about the multiple textures you get with 1:20:35.880 --> 1:20:38.720 the heart and the soft and I'd look at the 1:20:38.800 --> 1:20:41.040 Powerpuff girls bar and I'd say, what the hell is that? 1:20:41.920 --> 1:20:43.479 And then I'd choose a chip witch. What are you 1:20:43.520 --> 1:20:44.840 guys taking from this? Well? 1:20:45.200 --> 1:20:46.599 Love, I love that you went with this because Lee, 1:20:46.720 --> 1:20:49.040 you were like just sharing on one of your Instagram 1:20:49.160 --> 1:20:52.519 or Twitter accounts the ice cream truck. You were not 1:20:52.600 --> 1:20:53.200 happy with it. 1:20:53.320 --> 1:20:56.400 A van, yeah, that was yesterday. 1:20:56.479 --> 1:20:57.000 Yeah. 1:20:57.160 --> 1:20:59.360 The van, a didd y old thing with just the 1:20:59.400 --> 1:21:02.439 magnets on the side. No roomance anymore, you don't go 1:21:02.520 --> 1:21:04.280 up anymore. And you see the little man wearing his 1:21:04.360 --> 1:21:06.439 hat and like, you know, doing the dance. It's just 1:21:06.520 --> 1:21:08.519 got a like rough he pulls over. 1:21:08.640 --> 1:21:10.120 What do you want this? 1:21:10.600 --> 1:21:13.640 Have that. 1:21:17.120 --> 1:21:20.599 Disgustard with that ice cream dance? 1:21:21.280 --> 1:21:23.360 Yeah, but at least they used to get into it 1:21:23.400 --> 1:21:23.880 a little bit. 1:21:23.920 --> 1:21:26.280 I mean, and you can get into it. Well, they 1:21:26.320 --> 1:21:26.760 used to at. 1:21:26.720 --> 1:21:27.800 Least have the pop up van. 1:21:27.920 --> 1:21:28.080 Right. 1:21:28.120 --> 1:21:30.360 This guy was just driving the like the rental you 1:21:30.400 --> 1:21:33.360 mean more of a truck. Yeah, this was this was 1:21:33.439 --> 1:21:35.880 just a van. This was just like someone's van. That's like, 1:21:35.920 --> 1:21:37.840 all right, this is the best i can do for 1:21:37.880 --> 1:21:38.519 the kids day. 1:21:38.600 --> 1:21:39.559 I don't care anymore. 1:21:39.560 --> 1:21:42.080 I'm just in it for the money. That's actually. 1:21:44.080 --> 1:21:46.240 It's too high. It was tough to get up there 1:21:46.280 --> 1:21:47.160 when you were small. 1:21:47.439 --> 1:21:49.280 But at least the part of the journey was going 1:21:49.360 --> 1:21:51.240 up to the truck and checking it out and seeing 1:21:51.240 --> 1:21:53.320 all the decorations on the side. This thing needed a 1:21:53.360 --> 1:21:56.400 good wash for one, ah, and it just needed a. 1:21:56.400 --> 1:21:57.240 Little bit more color. 1:21:57.280 --> 1:22:02.000 It cleaner, just clean the wheels, do something, man, Yeah, 1:22:02.240 --> 1:22:06.120 you're such a man. I just I just like a 1:22:06.160 --> 1:22:09.679 little tradition with my ice cream trucks. Okay, the game. 1:22:09.520 --> 1:22:12.800 Has changed, man, Okay, well what are you hearing? 1:22:13.040 --> 1:22:13.240 Well? 1:22:13.280 --> 1:22:16.080 I like the caricature ice creams. You know, now in 1:22:16.080 --> 1:22:20.040 this particular one, you know, you've got SpongeBob or powder 1:22:20.040 --> 1:22:25.000 Puff Girls. You know, I prefer like a Scooby Doo 1:22:25.080 --> 1:22:29.599 or a Ninja Turtle something like that. So I'd be 1:22:29.600 --> 1:22:33.760 doing that, yeah, of course. Yeah, But now seeing in 1:22:33.800 --> 1:22:37.400 this particular option we have here there's none of those, 1:22:37.439 --> 1:22:38.760 I'd probably go with a creamsicle. 1:22:38.760 --> 1:22:41.520 Actually, I don't mind the cream. I love a creamsicle. 1:22:41.560 --> 1:22:46.280 That's yeah, no problem with that Ring City over here, because. 1:22:46.080 --> 1:22:48.280 I look, you know, I don't know if I want 1:22:48.280 --> 1:22:49.960 to be walking around with a powder Puff Girls, but 1:22:50.120 --> 1:22:52.600 I'm just not sure. I think at least Scooby or 1:22:52.920 --> 1:22:55.600 Donatello or Leonardo whoever the Ninja Turtles is is. You know, 1:22:55.680 --> 1:22:58.120 it's fine, but it wasn't really powder Puff. 1:22:58.400 --> 1:22:59.480 I believe it's Powerpuff. 1:22:59.560 --> 1:23:00.519 Oh power Pop is it? 1:23:00.560 --> 1:23:00.880 Okay? 1:23:01.040 --> 1:23:04.240 Yeah, there you get, so give me the creamsicle in 1:23:04.240 --> 1:23:04.719 this case? 1:23:05.120 --> 1:23:07.479 Wow, all right, Trey, what do you picking? 1:23:07.560 --> 1:23:07.720 Man? 1:23:08.080 --> 1:23:10.559 I'm going Choco Taco if they actually have them. I 1:23:10.600 --> 1:23:12.519 will say that it's not my favorite on here, but 1:23:12.600 --> 1:23:15.120 I cannot resist when I see it. It's I don't know, 1:23:15.160 --> 1:23:18.800 it just feels like limited addition to me, because whether 1:23:18.840 --> 1:23:22.600 it be a truck, a well maintained truck with a 1:23:22.640 --> 1:23:26.519 man dancing in it, or a disgusting grown tesque man, 1:23:27.000 --> 1:23:29.680 not everyone will have a Choco Taco. But if it's there, 1:23:29.720 --> 1:23:31.400 I got to order it just because it feels it's 1:23:31.400 --> 1:23:33.120 almost like a shamrock shape to me. It's like, oh 1:23:33.120 --> 1:23:36.000 it's here, I'm gonna get it. Generally, though, I'm going 1:23:36.080 --> 1:23:38.639 Chocolate Eclaire for these ones. 1:23:39.080 --> 1:23:42.120 Okay, Oh, I mean there's you guys know, I'm picking 1:23:42.120 --> 1:23:44.479 something that has a popsicle stick so I can chew 1:23:44.520 --> 1:23:47.519 on that after doing the treat. So there's like seven 1:23:47.560 --> 1:23:50.480 options here with a stick. But I'll love a creamsicle. 1:23:50.520 --> 1:23:52.360 I like that where you guys were leaning there, I 1:23:52.360 --> 1:23:54.640 know task your sort of thinking about it, and you 1:23:54.760 --> 1:23:57.440 two Lely, I'll just keep it simple. This is summertime. 1:23:57.680 --> 1:24:00.840 Give me a firecracker, getting three different flavors in one, 1:24:01.439 --> 1:24:04.360 and I get the stick. Yeah, it's also I remember 1:24:04.360 --> 1:24:07.040 them being like, well, actually a little deceiving, right, some 1:24:07.080 --> 1:24:09.880 of them are wider than others, where I remember it 1:24:09.880 --> 1:24:11.559 being a little bit longer, so it felt like more 1:24:11.560 --> 1:24:13.439 of a treat. But give me the classic, probably the 1:24:13.520 --> 1:24:16.000 cheapest in the truck too. That dirty truck that just 1:24:16.040 --> 1:24:19.080 pulled up threw it at me, Jade, what are you picking? 1:24:19.840 --> 1:24:23.719 I'm exactly on the same page as Trey. I gotta 1:24:23.760 --> 1:24:28.599 have that chocolate, It's funny. And then second second is 1:24:28.640 --> 1:24:31.880 the chocolated Claire. I like it busy. Like Tass said, 1:24:31.880 --> 1:24:34.840 you gotta have the crunchy with the sweet and a 1:24:34.840 --> 1:24:38.000 little bit of savory with the nuts there. But yeah, 1:24:38.280 --> 1:24:42.080 Choco taco is is underrated treat. 1:24:42.760 --> 1:24:45.000 Okay, all right, let's hear from everybody. Can't wait to 1:24:45.000 --> 1:24:47.160 see the answers. Everybody's got a strong opinion about the 1:24:47.520 --> 1:24:49.920 ice cream truck, especially Leela's apparently. 1:24:50.200 --> 1:24:55.439 Of difference there between the snowball and what was that 1:24:55.479 --> 1:24:59.519 other one called screwball. Snow cone and screwball look very 1:24:59.560 --> 1:25:01.880 similar to me, just like a slushy sort of thing. 1:25:02.040 --> 1:25:03.559 I don't know, I don't know. I've seen those, and 1:25:03.600 --> 1:25:06.360 I guess king cone and drumstick are pretty similar as well. 1:25:06.600 --> 1:25:09.000 I would say king cone over drumstick personally. 1:25:08.720 --> 1:25:12.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, those are similar. I've never seen a screwball, 1:25:12.040 --> 1:25:14.040 but yeah, it's like the same thing to me, right 1:25:14.240 --> 1:25:15.879 just in a clear cup. People are saying. 1:25:15.720 --> 1:25:19.400 It comes with gum. It comes with gum. Then you 1:25:19.400 --> 1:25:22.040 have something from when all your friends are done, like 1:25:22.080 --> 1:25:24.599 you're sharing this gum. I don't know that's what. That's 1:25:24.920 --> 1:25:27.240 a that's crazy talk to me. You have something when 1:25:27.280 --> 1:25:29.679 all your friends are done with their ice cream two 1:25:29.720 --> 1:25:33.000 treats for one. I know you like chewing on that stick, 1:25:33.080 --> 1:25:35.200 but you're getting Wow, you're getting a nice deal here 1:25:35.200 --> 1:25:35.959 on that screwball. 1:25:36.600 --> 1:25:39.120 I just don't remember them having screwballs in the ice 1:25:39.120 --> 1:25:41.439 cream trucks in Canada. There was a couple of I 1:25:41.479 --> 1:25:43.240 don't think we had that, but I didn't know the 1:25:43.240 --> 1:25:45.240 gum option. Good to know they should do a better 1:25:45.320 --> 1:25:48.120 job of calling something else, like, I don't think gum 1:25:48.120 --> 1:25:50.719 when I think it's screwball called chewball. 1:25:51.040 --> 1:25:52.480 Yeah, I thought alcohol. 1:25:53.640 --> 1:25:56.760 Yeah, it does look like the booty drink. All right, 1:25:56.840 --> 1:26:01.439 so great, let's wrap this up with a little rapid fire. 1:26:01.520 --> 1:26:02.240 Let's try and. 1:26:02.160 --> 1:26:05.240 Make its multiple guys. Come on, let's do it. JD, 1:26:05.400 --> 1:26:06.920 you've got questions today. 1:26:07.080 --> 1:26:07.759 All right, guys. 1:26:07.960 --> 1:26:12.080 Trey Young expertly trolled the crowd at MSG Wednesday night 1:26:12.120 --> 1:26:15.960 with a Reggie Miller esque bow at center court after 1:26:16.040 --> 1:26:19.400 he mailed a thirty foot basket to cap off the series. 1:26:19.800 --> 1:26:23.799 Tell us about a time you slipped into full villain mode. 1:26:23.960 --> 1:26:28.519 Tax Well, nightly, I've been reading a comic to my 1:26:28.760 --> 1:26:32.920 young girl. It's called Double Trouble. It's Spider Man versus Venom. 1:26:33.040 --> 1:26:35.200 So every night I've got to take on the role 1:26:35.240 --> 1:26:39.559 of Venom, who often uses gum to catch Spider Man. 1:26:40.200 --> 1:26:43.080 What a jerk. I mean, recently they've been living together 1:26:43.640 --> 1:26:46.519 and Spider Man will make food for the both of them. 1:26:46.600 --> 1:26:49.400 Ven will just come in and suck every noodle back 1:26:49.640 --> 1:26:53.120 and not leave Spider Man with anything. What a jerk. 1:26:53.200 --> 1:26:53.599 Huh huh. 1:26:54.200 --> 1:26:56.760 Anyway, so yeah, I gotta, I gotta I pull it. 1:26:57.080 --> 1:27:01.760 Spider man, my geeky Spider Man voice is getting super geeky's. 1:27:02.160 --> 1:27:04.960 It's just kind of normal. But yeah, I've kind of been. 1:27:05.439 --> 1:27:08.160 I've been going really crazy with my venoms. It's almost 1:27:08.160 --> 1:27:14.160 Batman asks like heay, don't touch my noodles again, so. 1:27:15.320 --> 1:27:16.400 Very Peter Proker. 1:27:17.920 --> 1:27:20.040 Touch my news. 1:27:20.080 --> 1:27:23.280 Pretty much, anytime someone brings up something about New Zealand 1:27:23.800 --> 1:27:26.960 or Adelaide and Australia, I have to go into full 1:27:27.040 --> 1:27:30.320 villain mode and pick on those cities and those countries 1:27:30.600 --> 1:27:32.280 with New Zealand and just make fun of them. I 1:27:32.360 --> 1:27:33.880 have to do it. I can't not do it. 1:27:34.080 --> 1:27:34.280 Now. 1:27:34.320 --> 1:27:37.000 Most people know I'm only joking, but not everyone does. 1:27:37.040 --> 1:27:39.120 And I get a few nasty messages from people saying, 1:27:39.120 --> 1:27:41.920 if you man, it's way cool of the development. I'm like, 1:27:42.400 --> 1:27:46.960 it's not, it's not. It's just not no. And if 1:27:46.960 --> 1:27:49.439 anyone compliments New Zealand, I just have to say, yeah, 1:27:49.439 --> 1:27:51.599 but it's still New Zealand. So you know, a lot 1:27:51.600 --> 1:27:52.760 of my key we friends know. 1:27:52.760 --> 1:27:53.240 I'm just there. 1:27:53.280 --> 1:27:55.160 It's part of the it's part of the big brother 1:27:55.240 --> 1:27:57.280 little brother sort of rivalry that we have there between 1:27:57.320 --> 1:27:59.880 Australia and New Zealand. But I can't let an opportunity, 1:28:00.360 --> 1:28:01.960 so I have to do it every single time. 1:28:02.680 --> 1:28:04.160 Hey, you got to it skates. 1:28:04.720 --> 1:28:07.000 Uh Well, I've talked about my godson before. He's six 1:28:07.080 --> 1:28:09.639 years old. He's a pretty athletic. He's into all sports 1:28:09.640 --> 1:28:12.800 like most kids are. So he's playing baseball, he's playing 1:28:12.800 --> 1:28:15.599 football now or flight football down here in the South 1:28:15.640 --> 1:28:18.400 and playing a little soccer, and you know, he thinks 1:28:18.400 --> 1:28:21.120 he's the greatest athlete of all time. So sometimes I 1:28:21.160 --> 1:28:22.760 got to really put him in his place and I 1:28:22.840 --> 1:28:25.720 just go full villain mode, especially a soccer little match 1:28:25.760 --> 1:28:27.040 we had. It was not a match where he was 1:28:27.040 --> 1:28:28.840 playing sort of like one on one just in my 1:28:28.920 --> 1:28:31.960 little uh yard here, but I just decided I had 1:28:32.000 --> 1:28:34.000 heard enough of him saying he's like the greatest soccer 1:28:34.000 --> 1:28:36.439 player ever, and I just like went full Billy Madison 1:28:36.680 --> 1:28:39.759 just destroyed him because usually you know, you're like giving 1:28:39.880 --> 1:28:42.280 up a goal or two whatever if you're playing hoops, 1:28:42.320 --> 1:28:44.400 and I was like, nah, I'm just going to crush 1:28:44.439 --> 1:28:46.200 it off your face. I like popped him in the 1:28:46.200 --> 1:28:48.360 head once with a wall. There was ten nothing. We 1:28:48.400 --> 1:28:50.640 were playing a ten ten nothing, and you know, you 1:28:50.720 --> 1:28:51.880 just got to put him in your place. But that 1:28:51.920 --> 1:28:53.240 I have full villain mode for sure. 1:28:53.439 --> 1:28:53.679 Yeah. 1:28:53.760 --> 1:28:56.160 Nothing. I love better than to bring a kid down 1:28:56.160 --> 1:29:00.599 a couple. Yeah, you have to have all right. 1:29:00.640 --> 1:29:04.200 Next one, we got a comment from Joseph in Fort Worth, 1:29:04.360 --> 1:29:08.760 Texas that simply says, I, for one dig the coaches 1:29:08.800 --> 1:29:12.639 wearing the team pullovers. Okay, I mean, I guess they're fine. 1:29:12.880 --> 1:29:14.559 It kind of reminds me of when you guys were 1:29:14.600 --> 1:29:19.040 forced to wear the mechanic shirts back in the summer league. 1:29:19.600 --> 1:29:22.000 Here they are in the stream team. You're looking at 1:29:22.040 --> 1:29:22.439 them here. 1:29:23.960 --> 1:29:27.680 To be honest, I was annoyed when it happened, but the. 1:29:27.680 --> 1:29:32.000 Look actually kind of grew on years did start looking cool. 1:29:31.840 --> 1:29:32.719 For some weird reasons. 1:29:32.800 --> 1:29:36.080 Yeah, I don't know, I just kind of like it. Now. 1:29:36.479 --> 1:29:38.439 I have a couple of my closet. I may actually 1:29:38.479 --> 1:29:39.839 wear them around this summer. 1:29:40.000 --> 1:29:40.479 Why not? 1:29:40.760 --> 1:29:45.920 Right, So tell me what's something you kind of hated 1:29:45.960 --> 1:29:48.880 at the time, but looking back, that wasn't that bad? 1:29:49.080 --> 1:29:49.360 Tass. 1:29:50.200 --> 1:29:55.000 Okay, here's a stupid answer. I used to whenever I 1:29:55.120 --> 1:29:57.439 was you know, usually it would happen I'm at a 1:29:57.479 --> 1:29:59.960 red light and I'd just be leaning on my hands 1:30:00.280 --> 1:30:02.679 or I rub my hand across my face. I noticed 1:30:02.680 --> 1:30:04.719 that there was a stray hair coming out of my nose, 1:30:05.360 --> 1:30:08.680 so I just pull it up and it hurts. It 1:30:08.720 --> 1:30:12.840 definitely hurts. Yeah, definitely. A tear may come out of 1:30:12.880 --> 1:30:16.519 the eye, but I mean last it's pretty quick, but yeah, 1:30:16.840 --> 1:30:21.880 definitely hurts. Maybe a sneeze happens. Now plug, I've got 1:30:21.880 --> 1:30:25.640 the Mandscape nose trimmer. I get in there finish the 1:30:25.760 --> 1:30:27.960 job not having to pull it out. But looking back, 1:30:28.240 --> 1:30:30.519 it wasn't that bad. You know. It's just a real, 1:30:30.800 --> 1:30:33.679 real quick two seconds of real pain and I didn't 1:30:33.680 --> 1:30:36.800 need a device to use it to get it, so cool. 1:30:36.840 --> 1:30:39.479 Answer man, do you snip it like your ear wax? 1:30:41.240 --> 1:30:42.120 Why bother. 1:30:45.080 --> 1:30:47.800 Actually dumb question, I'm sorry, dumb question. 1:30:49.479 --> 1:30:52.280 Do you ever do the wax like a full wax broom? 1:30:54.400 --> 1:30:55.240 Have you? Yes? 1:30:55.320 --> 1:31:02.760 Of course, Scott. I love it. It fry your tears. 1:31:02.439 --> 1:31:04.960 Tears, Yeah, and I get usually I get Jackson or 1:31:04.960 --> 1:31:07.599 Lincoln to do it at both at the same time too. 1:31:07.800 --> 1:31:13.120 Boom plugger. Oh yeah, I. 1:31:13.040 --> 1:31:15.160 Should have to do that one of my payoffs, because 1:31:15.160 --> 1:31:16.160 I don't want to do that and. 1:31:16.120 --> 1:31:16.679 That will hurt. 1:31:17.000 --> 1:31:20.760 Yeah, and you and you owe too, so one for 1:31:20.880 --> 1:31:22.080 each nostril. 1:31:21.760 --> 1:31:27.840 Right wo I didn't think of that. Hold on. 1:31:27.920 --> 1:31:30.840 I'm curious how you get the wax in your nose, Like, are. 1:31:30.680 --> 1:31:32.880 You just pouring up your nose? 1:31:33.040 --> 1:31:35.840 Now, there's an applicator. It's uh, you buy a kit 1:31:36.080 --> 1:31:38.960 and it's a it's got a it's it's pretty cool actually, 1:31:39.400 --> 1:31:41.240 and then you it's like hot wax. It has to 1:31:41.240 --> 1:31:45.559 be a specific texture and temperature and you just put 1:31:45.640 --> 1:31:47.639 it up there and you leave it there for ninety 1:31:47.680 --> 1:31:53.120 seconds and then you yank it wax hot wax? 1:31:53.200 --> 1:31:53.479 Okay? 1:31:53.520 --> 1:31:53.720 Could? 1:31:53.720 --> 1:31:56.439 I would it be like dangerous if as a pick 1:31:56.479 --> 1:31:58.320 and payoff during one of these shows, I put it 1:31:58.360 --> 1:32:00.439 in at the start of the show and it has 1:32:00.479 --> 1:32:02.519 to stay there for the entire show, and then at 1:32:02.560 --> 1:32:03.679 the end I rip. 1:32:03.520 --> 1:32:06.120 It out or I would. I wouldn't advise it. 1:32:06.240 --> 1:32:08.120 I think that you need to sort of do it 1:32:08.160 --> 1:32:10.559 beforehand because it turns rock. 1:32:10.400 --> 1:32:14.679 Hard, so it would like skin from the side. Okay. 1:32:14.800 --> 1:32:17.160 I mean, I don't know for sure, but I would 1:32:17.160 --> 1:32:18.240 suspect would. 1:32:18.560 --> 1:32:21.840 It's just I know from when that lady did the 1:32:22.200 --> 1:32:24.120 waxing of my chest on the show that it was 1:32:24.160 --> 1:32:26.000 sort of a piece by piece thing. You put it 1:32:26.000 --> 1:32:28.320 on and then rip it off pretty much say letting 1:32:28.360 --> 1:32:29.280 it stick around. 1:32:29.439 --> 1:32:33.000 So yeah, and you wait the nightmare scenario. You got 1:32:33.040 --> 1:32:34.840 to use the applicator because if you use like a 1:32:34.920 --> 1:32:37.200 cue tip or something where the stick can rip off 1:32:37.240 --> 1:32:40.360 and then leave all that wax in there, then you're 1:32:40.400 --> 1:32:41.200 not getting it out. 1:32:41.360 --> 1:32:45.040 So yeah, I don't like the sound of this at all. Yeah, 1:32:45.240 --> 1:32:51.160 and then we gotta do exactly, Yeah, we'll do We'll 1:32:51.160 --> 1:32:51.599 do something. 1:32:52.160 --> 1:32:57.920 What's your Yeah, I thought, say it's a bit anyway. Yeah, 1:32:58.280 --> 1:32:59.840 you guys know, I've got a lot of photos off 1:33:00.240 --> 1:33:02.880 and one of them I didn't like. You know, I 1:33:02.920 --> 1:33:04.560 sort of kept it hidden, But now talking about it, 1:33:04.640 --> 1:33:06.880 Claires and ice cream, I still think this is the 1:33:06.880 --> 1:33:09.280 best a Claire that I had. It was from I 1:33:09.280 --> 1:33:13.559 think was in Syria and here it is there like. 1:33:13.520 --> 1:33:14.719 A totally photo shout. 1:33:15.520 --> 1:33:16.679 Was not a real. 1:33:17.200 --> 1:33:18.439 What the hell was the question? 1:33:18.520 --> 1:33:21.600 Again, something that you didn't like at the time, but 1:33:21.640 --> 1:33:23.280 you don't mind it now, And that was that was 1:33:23.320 --> 1:33:24.559 one that I've kept hidden for a while. 1:33:24.600 --> 1:33:29.560 But it's You've never looked more Australian. I know, absolutely, 1:33:29.640 --> 1:33:29.960 I know. 1:33:30.080 --> 1:33:32.680 I know it's about six hundred degrees out there at 1:33:32.720 --> 1:33:33.280 the time, but. 1:33:33.560 --> 1:33:34.679 Are you wearing two shirts? 1:33:34.880 --> 1:33:37.519 No, it's not it's it's it looks like two shirts, 1:33:37.520 --> 1:33:38.960 but it's a fake undershirt. 1:33:39.040 --> 1:33:41.080 You can see how sweaty I shot. I'm not sure 1:33:41.120 --> 1:33:42.600 what are you wearing? A dicky shut it. 1:33:47.000 --> 1:33:49.559 Now, I'm with you, gend Almost every part of that 1:33:49.680 --> 1:33:53.560 looks fake, like the hat, leave's face, the Claire in 1:33:53.640 --> 1:33:56.960 the background, like this is a composite image made by 1:33:57.439 --> 1:34:01.880 a Russian. Both makes and make something that looks like 1:34:01.880 --> 1:34:05.000 an Australian eating in a Claire in Syria. You're plugging 1:34:05.080 --> 1:34:06.720 into some kind of program and this is. 1:34:06.640 --> 1:34:10.320 When comes up, Oh my goods, Yeah, you like that 1:34:10.360 --> 1:34:13.720 in the collection, So you know you just gotta find 1:34:13.720 --> 1:34:15.160 a reason to shoe hoole them into the. 1:34:15.080 --> 1:34:15.880 Show like today. 1:34:17.600 --> 1:34:20.000 So what are you saying you didn't like the Claire? 1:34:20.120 --> 1:34:23.280 Well, I like, I like the Claires, just the photo 1:34:23.280 --> 1:34:24.559 I've kept eating. I was like, and I know if 1:34:24.560 --> 1:34:25.880 I want to put that one out there, But then 1:34:25.880 --> 1:34:27.320 I thought, why not put it out there? 1:34:27.360 --> 1:34:27.800 It's fun? 1:34:29.240 --> 1:34:29.639 All right? 1:34:30.720 --> 1:34:33.240 You just have a whole segment where we go, all right, 1:34:33.560 --> 1:34:35.439 show us an old photo show. 1:34:37.880 --> 1:34:38.200 All right. 1:34:38.280 --> 1:34:42.519 My answer to this is stairs because when I used 1:34:42.520 --> 1:34:47.080 to live at Bass Lofts, I lived on the third story. Uh, 1:34:47.400 --> 1:34:49.960 you know, no elevator. You had to walk up all 1:34:50.000 --> 1:34:51.920 of these stair isn't it. You know at times you're like, 1:34:51.920 --> 1:34:55.880 oh god, you're exhausted, groceries anything like that. You know, 1:34:55.920 --> 1:34:58.960 you get annoyed with it, uh, you know, honestly. Then 1:34:58.960 --> 1:35:01.080 I moved into the new house. We barely have any 1:35:01.080 --> 1:35:03.360 stairs all one level. It's like, you know, stairs to 1:35:03.439 --> 1:35:06.599 go down my backyard. That's it. But I miss him 1:35:06.640 --> 1:35:09.679 because you know, stairs like just a sneaky good workout 1:35:09.720 --> 1:35:12.040 every time, like going up and down those all the time. 1:35:12.479 --> 1:35:15.799 You've lost your dumper completely. Man, Yeah, no booty anymore. 1:35:15.880 --> 1:35:16.280 That's right. 1:35:16.360 --> 1:35:19.439 Man, I started doing some stairs. You just go up 1:35:19.439 --> 1:35:21.680 and down your stairs in the back one hundred times 1:35:21.720 --> 1:35:22.000 a day. 1:35:22.080 --> 1:35:25.200 Get that as five of them. So yeah, I missed 1:35:25.240 --> 1:35:28.760 those three stories. But yeah, only looking back, I guess 1:35:28.800 --> 1:35:30.479 it wasn't that bad. Yeah, I enjoy it. And I 1:35:30.560 --> 1:35:33.559 like to take stairs quickly too, like to run upstairs 1:35:33.560 --> 1:35:35.840 two at a time, sometimes three if I'm feeling uh 1:35:36.160 --> 1:35:37.519 you know, frisky. 1:35:37.479 --> 1:35:40.320 Yeah, you're better off with that. The stairs. Pain has 1:35:40.360 --> 1:35:43.160 no memory, man, pain has no matter. It's true, all right. 1:35:43.240 --> 1:35:46.200 Last one, Lucky the Leprechaun had a pretty bad week. 1:35:46.360 --> 1:35:47.160 First he got. 1:35:46.960 --> 1:35:48.320 Stomped on by Kyrie Irving. 1:35:48.520 --> 1:35:52.599 Then, to add insult to injury, he didn't even make 1:35:52.720 --> 1:35:56.479 Tray's Top five Leprechauns, which I think we're still waiting for. 1:35:56.600 --> 1:35:59.400 But still he's not on the list. Tell us a 1:35:59.479 --> 1:36:03.240 that a time. I'm your luck finally ran out tasks. 1:36:04.360 --> 1:36:07.000 Well, I was lucky to never get chicken pox as 1:36:07.040 --> 1:36:10.840 a kid, never had it. Then in my twenties my 1:36:10.920 --> 1:36:15.599 niece had it, and so I asked a doctor should 1:36:15.640 --> 1:36:17.519 I get the chicken pox? Should I, actually, you know, 1:36:17.680 --> 1:36:19.639 go rub cheeks with her and get her chicken pox? 1:36:19.720 --> 1:36:23.599 He said, no, you idiots, just try not to get them. 1:36:23.680 --> 1:36:26.680 But I saw her mother, my sister in law, get 1:36:26.720 --> 1:36:28.760 them at about the age of forty. She got it. Well, 1:36:28.840 --> 1:36:31.000 my niece got it and it was not a good experience. 1:36:31.040 --> 1:36:34.080 So I was saying to the doc, you know you're 1:36:34.160 --> 1:36:36.360 the doctor here, but I might want to get it 1:36:36.400 --> 1:36:41.040 now because in my thirties went to Europe. Actually I 1:36:41.080 --> 1:36:44.719 came back it was like twelve days later. I'd done 1:36:44.760 --> 1:36:48.320 ten days of insanity with my boy Chawnte, was feeling great. 1:36:48.320 --> 1:36:49.800 Then all of a sudden I come down with the 1:36:49.840 --> 1:36:52.160 chicken pox. Now, why did I mention that Europe trip. 1:36:52.160 --> 1:36:55.439 I'm pretty sure I contracted it somewhere on the plane somewhere. 1:36:55.479 --> 1:36:58.120 It takes fourteen days up to fourteen days as an 1:36:58.160 --> 1:37:01.800 incubation period, So I got the chicken box. Was not fun, 1:37:03.040 --> 1:37:05.960 but it wasn't too too bad. I'm sure a lot 1:37:05.960 --> 1:37:08.040 of people got it worse, but it was not not 1:37:08.240 --> 1:37:12.040 super duper fun. In twenty fourteen, the year. 1:37:12.040 --> 1:37:13.400 Was Yeah, I was gonna say, luckily it was the 1:37:14.080 --> 1:37:15.120 right Yeah. 1:37:15.080 --> 1:37:15.360 It was. 1:37:15.439 --> 1:37:16.920 It was kind of the off season we were doing. 1:37:17.479 --> 1:37:20.800 I was I was zooming in for meetings at the time, 1:37:21.040 --> 1:37:26.080 so my face was my ugly face was on your computers, 1:37:26.200 --> 1:37:27.840 but we didn't. It was like it was lucky. 1:37:28.560 --> 1:37:29.880 You did not look comfortable. 1:37:30.120 --> 1:37:33.800 Yeah, it was. It was like September October, luckily, so 1:37:33.840 --> 1:37:36.920 it wasn't peak television time for us. But yeah, those 1:37:36.920 --> 1:37:39.559 were the NBA TV days. Yeah, when we weren't doing 1:37:39.560 --> 1:37:43.160 too many previews. So yeah, I was lucky. But you know, 1:37:43.520 --> 1:37:46.519 it didn't work out too well, I guess. But yeah, 1:37:46.520 --> 1:37:49.160 but now you can go without getting chicken pox at 1:37:49.160 --> 1:37:50.120 all until. 1:37:49.920 --> 1:37:51.280 Oh really, I was going to ask you if your 1:37:51.360 --> 1:37:52.560 kids had them tests. 1:37:53.320 --> 1:37:54.360 No, no, no, no. 1:37:54.200 --> 1:37:56.559 No, I didn't know that vaccine for it. 1:37:56.640 --> 1:37:58.960 Now I think, wow for chicken pox. 1:37:59.040 --> 1:38:00.559 Crazy Yeah, Leally. 1:38:01.520 --> 1:38:05.679 So you guys know that Singapore Airport is my favorite. 1:38:05.720 --> 1:38:08.479 Airports is so clean, and that the reason I like 1:38:08.560 --> 1:38:11.280 it is because I never in my thirty nine years 1:38:11.760 --> 1:38:14.840 had taken a dump on an aeroplane. But I went 1:38:14.880 --> 1:38:17.760 to Europe to one year, and the night before I 1:38:17.800 --> 1:38:20.120 flew back to Atlanta, I went out for a huge 1:38:20.120 --> 1:38:23.320 dinner of chicken curry and probably five to ten pints 1:38:23.320 --> 1:38:28.880 of guinness. And the next day, before we'd even taken 1:38:28.920 --> 1:38:35.080 off that virgin Atlantic aircraft, I could I was looking 1:38:35.080 --> 1:38:37.720 at a nine hour flight across the Atlantic. I was like, 1:38:37.840 --> 1:38:39.080 there is jazz. 1:38:38.840 --> 1:38:39.880 No way in the world. 1:38:41.200 --> 1:38:41.759 No more. 1:38:46.200 --> 1:38:48.920 So the thirty nine year streak was broken, was ended 1:38:49.439 --> 1:38:50.799 by chicken curry and guinness. 1:38:50.840 --> 1:38:56.479 But you know, st start peeding this picture like you peed. 1:38:56.640 --> 1:39:00.479 The thing was though I got in there before the 1:39:00.479 --> 1:39:02.280 flight took off, not the end of the flight, so 1:39:02.720 --> 1:39:05.360 it was probably as clean and hygienic as possible. 1:39:05.400 --> 1:39:10.679 But oh good, Yeah, you just had another nine hours fly. 1:39:13.680 --> 1:39:14.000 All right. 1:39:15.760 --> 1:39:18.080 Yeah, I don't want to follow these two guys so 1:39:18.320 --> 1:39:28.200 very simply. Alane, I had in an apartment. Definitely a classic. Yeah, 1:39:28.240 --> 1:39:31.240 I was in Toronto, like a free cable television was 1:39:31.240 --> 1:39:34.280 like still hooked up, it still worked, and it was like, oh, 1:39:34.400 --> 1:39:36.320 this is great. You know, no one wants to pay 1:39:36.320 --> 1:39:38.960 for television, nobody. It's awesome when you get it free. 1:39:39.280 --> 1:39:41.840 And uh, eventually that luck ran out just one day. 1:39:41.840 --> 1:39:44.800 It just stops working and you're like what why, Like 1:39:44.840 --> 1:39:46.479 how did they figure it out? How did they know 1:39:46.600 --> 1:39:49.160 to cut that wire that service? But we had it 1:39:49.160 --> 1:39:50.600 for a while there. I think it was when we 1:39:50.600 --> 1:39:52.599 were living on Major Street, if I remember correctly. So 1:39:53.120 --> 1:39:55.439 that's my answer. Not as exciting as Lee's taking a 1:39:55.520 --> 1:39:56.560 dump in an airplane. 1:39:57.000 --> 1:40:00.880 Never is though, And back then it was literally that 1:40:01.000 --> 1:40:05.080 person opens the box and literally just I guess we 1:40:05.160 --> 1:40:06.759 forgot to unplug that cable. 1:40:07.160 --> 1:40:09.120 Yeah. Now it's a click of the computer for sure, 1:40:09.160 --> 1:40:12.080 you're right. Yeah, yeah, a little different then, But that's 1:40:12.160 --> 1:40:15.120 my answer, And that's rapid fire. Was it fast? Not really? 1:40:15.160 --> 1:40:16.880 But it was fun, wasn't it. Guys? Thank you so 1:40:16.920 --> 1:40:19.320 much for joining us here for a very long edition 1:40:19.320 --> 1:40:20.880 of the Drop podcast. But we had a lot to 1:40:20.880 --> 1:40:23.200 talk about those games last night and setting up the 1:40:23.320 --> 1:40:26.400 second round series. We got one game on tonight. Just 1:40:26.760 --> 1:40:29.800 quickly around the horn, Trey. Task, Then, Lee, do the 1:40:29.800 --> 1:40:31.640 Mavericks close this out on Friday night? Or are we 1:40:31.680 --> 1:40:33.720 going to game seven baby on the weekend. What do 1:40:33.720 --> 1:40:34.200 you think, Trey? 1:40:35.240 --> 1:40:37.479 I think the Mavericks should win this game, but I'm 1:40:37.479 --> 1:40:39.479 picking the Clippers to win it because I would love 1:40:39.560 --> 1:40:41.720 to see a Hobo sweep skeatsy if I want to 1:40:41.720 --> 1:40:43.680 see the road team win every single game, So I 1:40:43.680 --> 1:40:45.240 will officially pick the Clippers. 1:40:45.439 --> 1:40:45.639 Task. 1:40:45.680 --> 1:40:46.120 What do you think? 1:40:47.200 --> 1:40:50.400 I think it's over, ladies and gentlemen. Just having watched 1:40:50.680 --> 1:40:54.000 the way the Blazers rolled from Game five to Game six, 1:40:54.040 --> 1:40:56.000 same with the Lakers Game five, Game six, I think 1:40:56.000 --> 1:40:57.640 the SAME's going to happen. I think the life is 1:40:57.680 --> 1:40:58.800 out of the Clippers a little bit. 1:40:59.200 --> 1:41:01.599 Lee, MAVs please just end it. 1:41:02.960 --> 1:41:05.000 I mean, at this point, with the teams we have 1:41:05.080 --> 1:41:07.759 in the second round already in the West, I really 1:41:07.800 --> 1:41:09.960 want the Mavericks to win. I want Luca in there. 1:41:10.040 --> 1:41:12.760 I tweeted this last night. Mitchell twenty four, Luca twenty two, 1:41:12.760 --> 1:41:15.559 Booker twenty four, yolkis twenty six. My god, Like, that's 1:41:15.680 --> 1:41:17.439 just the West, you know, because then you can get 1:41:17.439 --> 1:41:19.439 into Trey young what he's doing. Even Giannis is still 1:41:19.439 --> 1:41:21.800 fairly young, Ben Simmons and all that. But yeah, I 1:41:21.800 --> 1:41:23.600 think I'll be I think, like most people will be 1:41:23.640 --> 1:41:26.360 cheering for Luka Dantchen the MAVs to win Game six. 1:41:26.400 --> 1:41:27.960 But at the very least we'll have a Game seven 1:41:27.960 --> 1:41:31.320 on the weekend if the Clippers continue the the Hobo 1:41:31.400 --> 1:41:34.000 sweep possibilities here, So we'll see that game's on tonight. 1:41:34.080 --> 1:41:35.880 Sort of getting into like a one game a night 1:41:35.920 --> 1:41:37.720 thing here. We got one game on tonight, got one 1:41:37.760 --> 1:41:41.000 game on Saturday, possibly one on Sunday, depending on what 1:41:41.000 --> 1:41:44.439 happens in that Mavericks Clippers series tonight, and then Monday 1:41:44.479 --> 1:41:46.160 night we know the Suns and Nuggets are playing. Anyway, 1:41:46.160 --> 1:41:47.960 we'll be back on Monday to break it all down. 1:41:48.080 --> 1:41:50.200 Thanks so much for joining us show to the stream team. 1:41:50.400 --> 1:41:52.799 Please leave your five star ratings and review on Apple Podcasts. 1:41:52.800 --> 1:41:55.200 Subscribe to us. Note on subscribe excuse me to no 1:41:55.280 --> 1:41:57.880 dunks on YouTube and send in your question no dunks 1:41:57.920 --> 1:42:01.320 at the Athletic dot Com. All right, guys, we'll see 1:42:01.320 --> 1:42:04.439 you this weekend. Actually, hey, Lee, you bought some weird 1:42:04.479 --> 1:42:05.559 slipping slide that we're. 1:42:05.400 --> 1:42:09.760 All gonna go j yeah tomorrow. Uh well, I'm gonna 1:42:09.800 --> 1:42:12.000 call him my body Grisi's house because uh yeah, that's 1:42:12.040 --> 1:42:12.559 where we're going. 1:42:13.040 --> 1:42:15.320 I can't wait. Hey, order an ice cream truck late. 1:42:15.560 --> 1:42:17.519 I'd be white, all white. 1:42:18.200 --> 1:42:19.000 I can't trust him. 1:42:19.000 --> 1:42:20.719 I that won that dude. Y'all think Tony. 1:42:20.760 --> 1:42:22.920 I'm all right, all right, Clipper bros. 1:42:23.320 --> 1:42:25.880 You heard it here first. Have a great time, turn up. 1:42:26.040 --> 1:42:27.280 Love you guys awesome. 1:42:28.000 --> 1:42:31.160 Thanks for joining us, and remember, in the words of 1:42:31.240 --> 1:42:34.360 Hootski here on the stream team, whoa, we're still live. 1:42:34.400 --> 1:42:36.280 A couple of minutes ago, he tweeted, Yes, we do 1:42:36.320 --> 1:42:38.080 every show live, all the way from the front of 1:42:38.160 --> 1:42:41.439 the back of this nearly two hour episode. Thanks for 1:42:42.040 --> 1:42:44.160 sticking with us and thanks for coming back. Hootski. 1:42:44.320 --> 1:42:45.720 Embrace the weekend people. 1:42:46.320 --> 1:42:50.080 You stay every day. 1:42:52.400 --> 1:42:54.200 Happy. 1:42:57.000 --> 1:42:58.479 It's been so long with. 1:43:00.120 --> 1:43:00.920 Wainfall. 1:43:02.640 --> 1:43:06.559 It's happened already. It's gonna be grippy.