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Speaker 1: guys are having an incredible week so far. Well, yet
Speaker 1: another completely bizarre game to finish a completely bizarre series,
Speaker 1: as the New York Knicks are advancing to the second
Speaker 1: round to take on the Indiana Pacers, who closed the
Speaker 1: deal against the Milwaukee Bucks earlier. Tonight, we're gonna be
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Speaker 1: rest of the season. So that was probably the most
Speaker 1: bizarre game of the series in terms of the entirety
Speaker 1: of the game. Obviously we've had some crazier finishes, although
Speaker 1: that was a pretty crazy finish in and of itself.
Speaker 1: But this game, man like, we come out the gates
Speaker 1: and it's classic Knicks, right. They just look tougher. They
Speaker 1: look like the team that's playing harder, moving quicker to
Speaker 1: the ball. They're shooting more confidently, brunts and hitting shots.
Speaker 1: Devincenzo's hitting shots out the gate. They're forcing turnovers, they're
Speaker 1: getting out in transition. They go up by twenty points early, right,
Speaker 1: and it looks like, okay, here we go, Nick are
Speaker 1: the better team. They're gonna run away with this one. Nope,
Speaker 1: campaign comes in makes a couple of hustle plays, hits
Speaker 1: a couple of shots. All of a sudden, there's some
Speaker 1: energy in the arena. Buddy healed, gets going. We get
Speaker 1: a really really productive stretch from Joel Embiid off of
Speaker 1: the left block where he's handling double teams well and
Speaker 1: getting good, quick, decisive reads out that are getting swung
Speaker 1: around to the corner for Buddy to hit shots, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it the game's tied, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the Sixers take a little bit of
Speaker 1: a lead and we go into halftime and the Sixers
Speaker 1: are up by three, and it's like fifty four to
Speaker 1: fifty one in a game where both teams seemed like
Speaker 1: completely and totally shook at different parts in the game.
Speaker 1: Early in the game, the Sixers look completely caught off guard.
Speaker 1: They were on their heels. They look dead to right.
Speaker 1: In that second quarter run, the Knicks looked like they
Speaker 1: were dead to right. So they looked like they couldn't score.
Speaker 1: They looked like they couldn't get a stop. They were
Speaker 1: getting outrano transition. It was getting really ugly. Then we
Speaker 1: had into this third quarter stretch. Joel inbe comes out
Speaker 1: hits two threes immediately. He kind of figures out that
Speaker 1: Isaiah Hartenstein can't stop his left shoulder hook, and the
Speaker 1: at that point in the game, the Knicks stopped doubling
Speaker 1: him because they had been burned a few times by
Speaker 1: threes on the weak side. Although I thought it was
Speaker 1: interesting because Buddy Hill wasn't even in the game at
Speaker 1: that point while they were letting and be go to work.
Speaker 1: I think the Sixers went up by as much as
Speaker 1: seven in the middle of the third quarter if I
Speaker 1: remember correctly, and then honestly, what I thought was the
Speaker 1: biggest change in the game in terms of like shifting
Speaker 1: things back, because basically for the second half of the
Speaker 1: first half as well as like starting with that end
Speaker 1: of the first quarter, stretching into that second quarter, run
Speaker 1: into the first stretch of the third quarter, the Sixers
Speaker 1: were like a runaway freight train and it felt like
Speaker 1: nobody could stop them, right and then Mitchell Robinson came in,
Speaker 1: and Mitchell Robinson, as we've talked about a bunch over
Speaker 1: the course of this series, is basically the only guy
Speaker 1: on the team that can credibly defend Joel Embiid, and
Speaker 1: we talked about some of the specifics involving his size
Speaker 1: and Mitch has always been really good at bothering jump shots.
Speaker 1: This has been something I've been kind of pointing out
Speaker 1: over the course of the season in some of our
Speaker 1: film sessions. He gives great effort, He gives great contests.
Speaker 1: He has a great concept of timing when it comes
Speaker 1: to jump shot release right, so he could kind of
Speaker 1: close the gap on Himbiid to take away the jumper
Speaker 1: while also meeting him in spots and taking contact. He
Speaker 1: slowed down Embiid, and when he slowed down Embiid, it
Speaker 1: allowed the Knicks to get stops and to get out
Speaker 1: going the other way. And then a couple of timely
Speaker 1: offensive contributions. Oji Annobi had some contributions. Josh Hart was
Speaker 1: one of the guys during the sixers run that just
Speaker 1: seemed like, hell no, we are not going to lose
Speaker 1: control of this game. You could just feel Josh Hart
Speaker 1: fighting and scratching and clawing for everything during that stretch.
Speaker 1: I thought Duce McBride had a nice hit a several
Speaker 1: big shots, but hit a massive pull up three in
Speaker 1: the early fourth quarter, just kind of lingered around right
Speaker 1: and kind of stayed in the game. And then Brunson
Speaker 1: comes in the fourth quarter and just goes classic vintage
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson. All of a sudden, the Nicks build a
Speaker 1: little bit of a lead, but of course, just like
Speaker 1: everything else in this series, that's not safe. The Sixers
Speaker 1: go on another improbable late game run, more heroics from
Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxis. He gets a driving and one on a
Speaker 1: goaltend to tie the game. All of a sudden, we're tied,
Speaker 1: right But the interesting basketball dynamic at the end of
Speaker 1: the game. Nick Nurse got sick of watching Jalen Brunson
Speaker 1: go to work, and so he just started double teaming it.
Speaker 1: And on that final possession there was a double team.
Speaker 1: Brunson gets rid of the ball, quick gets another DHO
Speaker 1: and just drags both defenders as far off to the
Speaker 1: left as he possibly can. And again him getting that
Speaker 1: head of steam and dragging those defenders a good solid
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty feet off to the left. That pulled both
Speaker 1: defenders with them and cleared a giant window there for
Speaker 1: Josh Hart at the top of the key, and he
Speaker 1: had all damn day to stare that shot down, and
Speaker 1: he sunk it, and the Knicks got to stop, and
Speaker 1: then finally they made their free throws. And making their
Speaker 1: free throws was enough to close the deal. Honestly, really
Speaker 1: really impressive resilience from that Knicks team, and we all
Speaker 1: know that they're an exceptionally tough team. That's why Knicks
Speaker 1: fans love this particular group so much, and honestly, like
Speaker 1: we knew that going into the series. One of the
Speaker 1: things I talked about in this series is that the
Speaker 1: Sixers have like better half court shot creation, but the
Speaker 1: Knicks are a tougher team. And like early on in
Speaker 1: the series, I actually picked the Sixers to win because
Speaker 1: I thought the Sixers half court shot creation would be
Speaker 1: enough to make up that gap. But nope, the toughness
Speaker 1: one time and time again. They had twenty more offensive
Speaker 1: rebounds tonight, just unbelievable resilience and that was more than
Speaker 1: enough to make up for the maxi MB two man game. Again, Like,
Speaker 1: I can't say enough about Mitchell Robinson in that third
Speaker 1: quarter run. I'm sure you guys felt that as Knicks fans,
Speaker 1: it felt like it was going off the rails. It
Speaker 1: felt like it was getting ugly, and Mitchell Robinson came in,
Speaker 1: slowed him beat down and kind of like got that
Speaker 1: momentum wave back under control, which allowed some of the more,
Speaker 1: you know, the consistent knicks that we expect to make plays,
Speaker 1: to start making plays and kind of regain control of
Speaker 1: the game. Jalen Brunson in the last four games, Remember
Speaker 1: the first two games, how the Sixers looked like they
Speaker 1: pretty much had him locked up. In the last four games,
Speaker 1: Brunston goes thirty nine, forty seven, forty and forty one.
Speaker 1: That is completely absurd. What did that cut? What does
Speaker 1: that average out to forty two points per game over
Speaker 1: the course of the last four games of the series.
Speaker 1: Just ridiculous. And again, like people are gonna talk about efficiency,
Speaker 1: but you can't really look too much into that. The
Speaker 1: don't really have reliable shot creation outside of him, and
Speaker 1: so so much depends on Jalen Brunson just putting up shots. Again,
Speaker 1: like people used to say the same thing about Alan
Speaker 1: Iverson on the Philadelphia seventy six ers, and it's like,
Speaker 1: if you look at the way those teams are constructed,
Speaker 1: they're built around defense and hustle, and you need this
Speaker 1: singular person to kind of eat up usage at the
Speaker 1: expense of his efficiency, and he's done an amazing job
Speaker 1: of that for this next team after Julius Randall went down.
Speaker 1: I can't say enough about Jalen Brunson, just clutch shot
Speaker 1: after clutch shot, clutch free throws at the end of
Speaker 1: the game, just an unbelievable performance. Looking forward at the
Speaker 1: next round, I actually really like the Pacers matchup. Ironically,
Speaker 1: had the Sixers somehow found a way to win this series,
Speaker 1: I would have picked the Pacers over the Sixers. They
Speaker 1: just have a couple of very specific advantages between just
Speaker 1: their speed and their ability to get up and down
Speaker 1: the floor in transition, which is something the Sixers can
Speaker 1: struggle with. Also, just Miles Turner as a pick and
Speaker 1: pop big and some of the problems that can cause
Speaker 1: for a team that wants to keep him beat around
Speaker 1: the rim. Like all these different things, but the Pacers
Speaker 1: are a really good matchup for the Knicks. The Knicks
Speaker 1: have the speed at guard to kind of handle their
Speaker 1: up and down pace of play. They are a very
Speaker 1: physically imposing team, and the Pacers are a little bit
Speaker 1: on the thin and slight side. And the most importantly,
Speaker 1: the Pacers have been a bad defensive rebounding team all season.
Speaker 1: They did an okay job against the Milwaukee Bucks. I
Speaker 1: think they had a seventy three percent defensive rebound percentage,
Speaker 1: which is not bad, but for the majority of the
Speaker 1: regular season, they were like atrociously bad before the Siakam
Speaker 1: trade and still bottom ten after the Siacame trade. So
Speaker 1: they're not a good defensive rebounding team. And so we're
Speaker 1: gonna work. I have a tomorrow morning, I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: prepping on this series, and we'll have a full series
Speaker 1: preview with film and all the usual stuff. But just
Speaker 1: like my initial impressions on a Knicks Pacer series, I
Speaker 1: lean heavily towards the Knicks. I think it's just a
Speaker 1: bad matchup for the Pacers. I think they're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to do a lot. I think they're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to do a lot to the to the Pacers,
Speaker 1: especially on the defensive end of the floor, just crashing
Speaker 1: that offensive glass and just being the physically imposing team
Speaker 1: that they are. Again, keep an eye on the feeds
Speaker 1: over the course the next couple of days, we'll have
Speaker 1: a breakdown on the Sixers front. Obviously feels a little
Speaker 1: bit like a lost season, right Joel Embiid was playing
Speaker 1: hurt in that series. I mean, there's a lot to
Speaker 1: talk about with Embiid in terms of like what he
Speaker 1: was and wasn't able to do in this series. There's
Speaker 1: a certain amount of like, yeah, he's hurt, and that's
Speaker 1: gonna affect his ability to get up and down the
Speaker 1: floor and transition, his ability to impact the game defensively,
Speaker 1: his ability to really put his head down and get
Speaker 1: close to the rim. But there also were like these
Speaker 1: wild oscillations back and forth between how comfortable he was
Speaker 1: creating shots and how comfortable he and how when he
Speaker 1: wasn't right, Like I mean, just look at tonight, he
Speaker 1: just was eating them alive off of that left block,
Speaker 1: getting to that little left shoulder hook and making kickout passes.
Speaker 1: And then in Game five he was just like incapable
Speaker 1: of that stuff. And so there's still some things that
Speaker 1: I think Embiid's gonna have to get better at in
Speaker 1: the long run. But the bottom line is is Embiid
Speaker 1: Maxie is a great foundation. You're not gonna do a
Speaker 1: lot better than those two. Right looking around the league,
Speaker 1: I thought MAXI I mean, obviously tonight he had a
Speaker 1: rough shooting ninety six for eighteen from the field, one
Speaker 1: for six from three, but big plays late still over
Speaker 1: the course of the series. I thought he was their
Speaker 1: most reliable shot creator. He was the guy that basically
Speaker 1: extended the series in Game five. And most importantly, if
Speaker 1: you look at if you look at the payroll for
Speaker 1: the Sixers, things are wide open. They pretty much clean
Speaker 1: books moving forward, plenty of draft compensation to offer. One
Speaker 1: of the things that I look at, you know, I
Speaker 1: thought d Anthony Melton. Obviously he was coming back from
Speaker 1: an injury, so he's basically unavailable. But like that was
Speaker 1: the one piece that they didn't really have in the
Speaker 1: sense that, like Nick Watoum and Kelly Ubre, I thought
Speaker 1: he did a good job on the bracket on Brunson
Speaker 1: in the sense that, like their length had the ability
Speaker 1: to bother Brunson from behind, and there was a lot
Speaker 1: of asset with that in the early part of the series.
Speaker 1: But one of the things they struggled with throughout the
Speaker 1: series was screen navigation to actually beat Brunson to the
Speaker 1: spot and flatten out his driving angles. And like, one
Speaker 1: of the things you need for something like that is
Speaker 1: a lower center of gravity, shorter, stockier, super laterally quick
Speaker 1: type of athlete. That type of athlete is the kind
Speaker 1: of guy that can beat people over the top of screens,
Speaker 1: flatten out some of that driving angle and make it
Speaker 1: so that and make it so that Brunson's not operating
Speaker 1: with the defender on his backside the entire game. Right,
Speaker 1: I want to credit Batoum and Uber. I thought they
Speaker 1: did a good job in this series. For the most part.
Speaker 1: They limited Brunson in his efficiency, put him into some
Speaker 1: bad shooting nights. I thought. I thought that Nick Batum
Speaker 1: in particular, played amazing defense on Jalen Brunson down the
Speaker 1: stretch of Game five. He was the one that got
Speaker 1: He timed that Brunson pulled up three on the right
Speaker 1: wing and caused him to turn it over because he
Speaker 1: just kind of anticipated where that pull up angle was
Speaker 1: and close the gap really quick. I want to credit
Speaker 1: those guys. They did a good job. But length on
Speaker 1: the perimeter is a very different type of perimeter defender
Speaker 1: than an actual guard defender, and so I think that's
Speaker 1: something that they'll have to look into in general, just
Speaker 1: surrounding those two with more reliable, starting caliber players right
Speaker 1: like Tobias Harris two inconsistent Kelly Ubray a lot of
Speaker 1: big plays in this series, but I thought he went
Speaker 1: off script offensively and was a little bit of a
Speaker 1: He was just a little bit, you know, unpredictable in
Speaker 1: terms of whether or not he was going to kind
Speaker 1: of hijack a possession and do something off script or
Speaker 1: something along those lines. And so again, you've got your one,
Speaker 1: and you've got your five, You've got Max, you've got embiid.
Speaker 1: You could build out the roster around that tons of
Speaker 1: flexibility heading into this offseason. I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 1: they tried to bring back the Anthony Melton. With his
Speaker 1: bird rights, they can offer him more than a veteran minimum, right,
Speaker 1: So like, maybe that's a guy that they'll look to
Speaker 1: to bring back, but they're gonna need to bolster that team.
Speaker 1: That's your foundation, though. You've got a really good foundation there,
Speaker 1: and honestly, you get some good mid level salaries with
Speaker 1: the type of draft compensation they have. Looking into the
Speaker 1: middle of next season, you could open yourself up to
Speaker 1: a big kind of star trade if you want to
Speaker 1: go after a wing like let's say, for instance, Paul
Speaker 1: George doesn't extend, and you go into next season and
Speaker 1: Paul George becomes available around the middle of the season,
Speaker 1: that's where you can piece some of those salaries together
Speaker 1: and go after a star forward if that's what you want,
Speaker 1: right again, if you want to have a legitimate secondary
Speaker 1: shot creator. But Max Embiid I thought excelled in this series,
Speaker 1: and for the most part, especially given in Bead's injury situation,
Speaker 1: and so I thought there was a lot of encouraging
Speaker 1: stuff there. But at the end of the day, you
Speaker 1: just couldn't match the perimeter toughness of the Knicks, and
Speaker 1: that's something that you're gonna have to figure out heading
Speaker 1: into this offseason. Moving on to Pacers Bucks, a good
Speaker 1: win for the Pacers pretty much controlled it throughout the
Speaker 1: lid by double figures for the majority of the game,
Speaker 1: huge efforts from TJ McConnell and Obti off the bench.
Speaker 1: TJ McConnell twenty points and nine assists, keept getting into
Speaker 1: the paint and just making kickout reads, those little pull
Speaker 1: up jumpers that are kind of like his his mo right,
Speaker 1: those little, short, little drifting fadeaway jumpers after he's gotten
Speaker 1: a good head of steam downhill. He also had two
Speaker 1: threes in this game, which is not really what he's
Speaker 1: known for, but hit a couple of big ones in
Speaker 1: the second half, Obie Topping twenty one points and eight rebounds.
Speaker 1: Really want to just shout out Obi Topping in general.
Speaker 1: He turned himself into a reliable NBA player in a
Speaker 1: way that he wasn't back in New York. Right, like,
Speaker 1: became a much more reliable catch and shoot threat. Didn't
Speaker 1: shoot the ball particularly well in this series, but did
Speaker 1: throughout the regular season, and then identified the ability that
Speaker 1: he had to help this team offensively. Right playing alongside
Speaker 1: Tyres Sliburn running his lane in transition hutting along the
Speaker 1: baseline when his defender as the low man tags the roller.
Speaker 1: He's just a natural play finisher for Tyres Saliburn. Big
Speaker 1: time game from him off the bench. Looking out at
Speaker 1: the first round series for the Pacer, six players average
Speaker 1: double figures for them. Some callbacks to the Steam Phoenix
Speaker 1: Suns teams from the mid to late two thousands. They'd
Speaker 1: have like five to six guys average double figures and
Speaker 1: they'd only have like one guy in the twenties for them.
Speaker 1: That was Sean Marion. For this team, it's it's Pascal Siyakam.
Speaker 1: Pascal Siakam averaged twenty two to nine to four in
Speaker 1: the series on fifty five percent. Shooting just did an
Speaker 1: absolute number on brook Lopez whenever he had the opportunity.
Speaker 1: A lot of timely shot making in the mid range
Speaker 1: area as well. Tyres Haliburton's first playoff series is the
Speaker 1: number one option. Sixteen points, six rebounds and nine assists,
Speaker 1: forty four percent from the field, thirty percent from three
Speaker 1: on nine attempts per game. Really struggled from three. That's
Speaker 1: something that he's gonna have to kind of figure out again,
Speaker 1: like he was shooting it so well at the start
Speaker 1: of the season. That's such an important ability for him
Speaker 1: in terms of scoring and pick and roll and beating
Speaker 1: switches when he gets smaller or excuse me, slower footed
Speaker 1: bigs out on the perimeter. I thought Miles Turner was
Speaker 1: the key of the series, though so many teams ignore
Speaker 1: Miles Turner to try to protect the paint. It is
Speaker 1: like something you almost have to do, the pick and
Speaker 1: pop big. If you choose to take that, it just
Speaker 1: opens up so many issues for you on the back line.
Speaker 1: He's gonna need to hit some shots, and he did,
Speaker 1: and he was attempted seven three pointers per game. Knockdown
Speaker 1: knocked him down at forty four percent just I thought
Speaker 1: he his shot making from the perimeter in this series
Speaker 1: just put Milwaukee in a total mind in terms of
Speaker 1: what they were able to do defensively. Now, obvious mitigating
Speaker 1: factors right like Damon Giannis were out, but they took
Speaker 1: care of business and they won a series they were
Speaker 1: supposed to win. Now, the Knicks are going to be
Speaker 1: a challenge, as they talked about earlier. For those who
Speaker 1: watched this on a breakout clip, I'll go over it again.
Speaker 1: But the Pacers defensive rebounded pretty well against Milwaukee about
Speaker 1: seventy three percent, but that is a weakness there. They
Speaker 1: were one of the very bottom teams in the league
Speaker 1: before the Seacome trade, and then I think they were
Speaker 1: twenty first after the Seacome trades, so still bottom ten
Speaker 1: in the league. The Knicks are a team that are
Speaker 1: relentless attacking the offensive class twenty more offensive rebounds tonight
Speaker 1: against the Sixers. They also have a lot of speed
Speaker 1: at guard, so you're Nemhard Knee Smith, Halliburton, TJ. McConnell
Speaker 1: guard speed equation that you bring to the table like
Speaker 1: get ready for Josh Hart and Miles duce McBride and
Speaker 1: Dante DiVincenzo and Jalen Brunson. It's gonna be a battle
Speaker 1: of the guards here in the second round. But those
Speaker 1: Knicks guards are super, super physical. They have a strength advantage,
Speaker 1: which I think is gonna be something you see over
Speaker 1: the course of the series. And again, the Knicks are
Speaker 1: just going to pound the ball inside on the offensive
Speaker 1: glass as much as possible. We will have a full
Speaker 1: series preview on that matchup coming out over the course
Speaker 1: of the next couple of days. On the Bucks front,
Speaker 1: obviously a last season for a bunch of reasons, even
Speaker 1: with the injuries, Like you're seventeen and nineteen under Doc
Speaker 1: going into this playoff series. So even if, even if
Speaker 1: you want to account for the the Giannis and Dame injuries,
Speaker 1: which obviously are a factor here, you were seventeen and
Speaker 1: nineteen under Doc and you got your ass kicked by
Speaker 1: the Pacers even when you were healthy this year. So
Speaker 1: this year kind of feels like a last year in
Speaker 1: a bunch of different ways, and I understand the pessimism
Speaker 1: surrounding that. But here's the upside. I thought Dame looked
Speaker 1: great in the postseason. His pull up jumper, which was
Speaker 1: super inconsistent all season, he was able to make at
Speaker 1: a much higher clip at least while the games were
Speaker 1: in question. Obviously struggled to get some lyft in tonight's game,
Speaker 1: but I thought, I mean, you could he hit a
Speaker 1: bunch of shots in the fourth quarter that kind of
Speaker 1: fixed his shooting percentage. I thought he looked like he
Speaker 1: had pretty good lift and was getting good separation. Damian
Speaker 1: Giannis is still an excellent foundation. You just have to
Speaker 1: get more athletic at center, and you have to get
Speaker 1: more athletic on the perimeter. If you guys remember on
Speaker 1: Monday this week, we had the NERD Sash guys on
Speaker 1: and we talked about a couple of potential options, and
Speaker 1: one of the options that we put out there was like,
Speaker 1: what if you call the Thunder the Thunder. I'm sure
Speaker 1: would love to have a center. Look where they could
Speaker 1: put Schet at power forward right and actually have like
Speaker 1: a real physical size on the floor, not to mention
Speaker 1: a veteran presence. Well, at the same time, if there's
Speaker 1: a team that's too fast for a Brook to be
Speaker 1: on the floor, you can take Brook off the floor
Speaker 1: and play your traditional lineups right like a team like
Speaker 1: the Thunder might very well be interested in a presence
Speaker 1: like brook Lopez. What if you call them and try
Speaker 1: to get one of their younger perimeter players that are
Speaker 1: athletic and play both ends of the floor, like an
Speaker 1: Aaron Wiggins, like a Kenrich Williams. Right, Like, those are
Speaker 1: guys that I'd be looking at. Just try to get younger,
Speaker 1: more athletic two way players on the perimeter, because you
Speaker 1: can't do much better as a foundation than Damon Giannis.
Speaker 1: That's dam still a top fifteen player in this league.
Speaker 1: Giannis is in my opinion, the third best player in
Speaker 1: the league still. So, like you, you have a really
Speaker 1: good foundation, and when you have players like that, you
Speaker 1: generate small, achievable roles. And when you bring talented young
Speaker 1: players that have skill on both to have skill on
Speaker 1: offense and athleticism in size on defense, you can craft
Speaker 1: as a coach achievable roles for them next year superstars
Speaker 1: and give yourself a better chance of hanging next year.
Speaker 1: Because at the end of the day, like it just was,
Speaker 1: they were, they were way too on athletic, and as
Speaker 1: soon as Jannis left it was beyond the point of
Speaker 1: no return in the ability to handle that sort of
Speaker 1: thing again. Even with the Pacers. There's a reason why
Speaker 1: you went one and four against the Pacers even when
Speaker 1: Yannis was healthy, and it's because even when Giannis is
Speaker 1: on the floor, you're way too slow, You're way too old.
Speaker 1: And so that again, you know what you need to
Speaker 1: do going into this offseason. I'm not one of those guys.
Speaker 1: It's like this thing is over. You got a great foundation.
Speaker 1: You just got to make some tweaks on the fringes.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, that is all I have for tonight.
Speaker 1: As always, as sincerely appreciate you guys for supporting the show.
Speaker 1: I already recorded today with Adamanas from DNVR the full
Speaker 1: series preview on Lakers or excuse me on Nuggets Wolves.
Speaker 1: So have PTSD apparently from that series from the Denver
Speaker 1: tim the Denver Minnesota. That video is coming out tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I also have I think nineteen clips of film that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be recording for a film session tomorrow on
Speaker 1: that series. That'll be coming out later in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: And after that, I'm gonna get to work on Pacers.
Speaker 1: It's playoff season. It's a grind again, gonna get working
Speaker 1: on the Pacers Knicks series all have a full series
Speaker 1: preview on that, and then tomorrow night we have I
Speaker 1: believe we have the Clippers MAVs Game six. And then
Speaker 1: is that the only game that we have tomorrow Let's see. No,
Speaker 1: we also have Calves Magic Game six, So we're gonna
Speaker 1: have a double header tomorrow night. We'll be going live
Speaker 1: on YouTube. After the final buzzer of Clippers MAVs I
Speaker 1: will see you guys. Then the volume