WEBVTT - What's Wright - Game 5 Reactions: Celtics BLOW OUT Knicks, Wolves ELIMINATE Warriors, NFL schedule release 0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:03.920 Welcome in What's Drive to the Great episode three point 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:07.840 thirty one, in what could be something of a frenetic episode, 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:10.479 because we have the NBA Playoffs from last night, the 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:15.080 Monsee Celtics stay alive. The Timberwolves, after making one conference 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:20.320 finals in their franchise history, have now made consecutive conference finals. 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:25.599 An unbelievably important Game six on deck between Thunder and Nuggets. 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:29.760 And despite all that, one could argue the biggest story 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:33.120 in the sports world right now is the NFL schedule release, 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:35.400 which is why actually we are going to lead the 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:38.080 show with none of those topics. I'll explain that in 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.040 a second. But the other reason DEMANDE today's show is 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:45.800 frenetic is because there is a chance, and I hope 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:50.239 you're ready, that at some point during the show I 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:53.560 have to get up for a few minutes and you 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:57.920 just have to take over. So I have we have 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:01.280 we are in the process of I don't need to 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.360 get into all the details, but someone is coming by 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:08.559 the house today and the window of time they gave 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:12.760 us is nine am to three pm, and we just 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:18.200 need someone here at all times. And if they if 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.200 they show up and we don't answer the door, then 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:26.080 they won't come for another few weeks, so I don't 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.319 think it's going to happen, but it's on the board, 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.240 so just be ready for that, all right, and just 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.680 just just letting you know you look good, just sound good. 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:39.720 Here's what miss missed the cut in what looks like 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:43.559 It's going to be awesome. Nick Cage is gonna play 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.720 John Madden and Al Davis is gonna play Christian Bale 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.960 in a new movie. And that one still image those 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:54.240 guys looked unbelievable. The WNBA season tips off tomorrow and 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.680 the Portland Trailblazers are for sale. The producers have asked 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:03.480 me if the Trailblazers moved to Kansas City, which they won't, 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.000 but if they did, would I become a Trailblazers fan? 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.960 And the answers, Yes, absolutely. If Kansas City got a 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.600 basketball team, that would be my team. The reason I've 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.480 been able to be NBA free agent my whole life 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:22.080 is because the Kansas City Kings moved to Sacramento before 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:24.520 I was born and I never had a team. But yes, 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:28.560 I absolutely would become a Casey Trailblazers fan. Reminder for 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:32.359 everyone out there, like rate subscribe review and today is 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:36.840 a great day where we reward those that have rated, subscribed, 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.240 and review, that are watching us live on YouTube, that 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.440 are spending their time with us, because we are going 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:45.480 to start the show talking about math. Demonsay, go ahead, 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:47.200 Oh all right? 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.000 So the draft, the draft lottery is on Monday. We 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.360 opened the show up on Tuesday talking about it, and 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:53.480 here we are again today. 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.440 You want to discuss it again? Is it more conspiracy stuff? What? 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.000 No? I so this is so listen. I won't spare 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:01.480 a ton of time on this. I will get to 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.919 the basketball, I promise, But I feel, I honestly feel 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:11.000 a responsibility in this moment because this is everything that 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:16.440 is going on surrounding the Draft Lottery is just either 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:22.040 a microcosm or an a metaphor for so much of 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:27.560 the conspiracy bullshit that has pervaded every aspect of our lives, 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:35.760 where it is folks asserting things that are just simply untrue, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:42.360 combined with folks total inability to do simple math. So 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.840 I won't spend ten minutes on it like I did 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:48.840 Monday or Tuesday, but I am going to address because 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:54.120 I made the mistake of reading some of the comments 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.720 on our video when I said everyone who believes the 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:00.800 draft is rigged as an idiot. And there are two 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:07.120 or three kind of overwhelming comments. One of them is this, listen. 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.120 I don't want to believe it's rigged, but it's awful 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:16.320 fishy that they won't let us see the lottery balls 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:21.760 get picked and the process. And the reason that is 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.839 so upsetting is because they do let you see it. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.720 It's on the NBA's YouTube page. You can watch it 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:32.160 right now. In fact, if we tweet out this clip, 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.520 let's then also tweet a link in the replies to 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:38.960 where everyone can watch it. And so the reason that 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:44.719 is irritating is that is you see this in life 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.960 and in politics and on the internet all the time, 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:53.680 which is why have they been hiding this from us? 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.240 And it's like it was on page three of the 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:02.400 budget that was released and has been on the US 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:09.000 government whatever, oh excuse me website all year. The idea 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:13.680 that because you are unaware that something exists for you 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:18.320 to see it doesn't exist. The idea that something is 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:22.800 being hidden when simply because it hasn't been posted to 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:27.520 your idiot Telegram group chat or any of your Facebook groups, 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:31.320 it's not hidden. You just haven't looked for it. That's 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:38.240 the first thing. The second thing is, and this is 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:43.000 really in my sweet spot, people's inability to understand how 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:47.320 math works. And one of the reasons, and sorry, guys, 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:51.240 we're gonna nerd for a moment, one of the reasons 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:56.920 math is great is because it is unambiguous. It is 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:01.040 there is no other side to the r argument. It's 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:05.800 just the numbers. And one of the most common comments 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:12.240 we got after it went MAVs Spurs six ers one 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:18.640 two three, is the odds of those three teams getting 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:24.960 those three picks were, you know, point zero zero one percent. 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:30.960 How do you explain that? And now set aside that 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.840 the fact that when people were crunching those numbers, they 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:40.039 were actually not doing that math correctly, because what they 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:44.040 were doing was taking the odds pre draft of those 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.360 teams going one, two, three and then doing the math 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:53.280 there when, of course, the odds reset slightly once the 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.400 first pick has been off the board, and that the 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:00.560 MAVs chances of getting the second pick are now zero. 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.159 Their odds of getting the second pick are distributed amongst 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.600 the rest of the teams. But don't worry about that, 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:11.800 because that's at least an understandable and a marginal error. 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.560 But here's what people don't understand, and this is what 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.280 I'm going to explain quickly, and then we will move on. 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:25.600 If the lottery stayed perfect, if no one jumped anyone, 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:32.440 it would have gone Jazz, Wizards, hornets. That would have 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:36.720 been the chalk outcome. And this is where people don't 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:43.400 understand math or probabilities. Do you guys know, the most 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:50.760 likely one two three Jazz, Wizards, hornets. What the odds 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:54.640 of that being the exact one two three that we 0:07:54.720 --> 0:08:00.360 got were it's the most likely? What are the odds? 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:07.040 And the answer to that is zero point two percent, 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:15.840 one in five hundred the most likely. Because again, what 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:19.400 you need is a fourteen percent chance to come in 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:23.240 for the jazz, and then after that a thirteen percent 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.960 chance to come in for the wizards, and then after 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:29.000 that a twelve percent chance to come in for the hornets. 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.880 And again we're gonna we're doing the rough calculations here, 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:37.360 but fourteen percent of thirteen percent of twelve percent gives 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:40.680 you point zero two percent, which is to say this, 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:49.000 every single outcome was incredibly unlikely, but we were guaranteed 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:53.560 one of them. And I am only focused on this 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:58.400 because I actually think this is I can't call it 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:03.720 a Canarian the coal mine because the whole world already 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:07.480 has black lung on this. We are so far down 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.440 the road. The Canarian the coal mine on all of 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:15.200 this was actually when it liked sports conspiracies and was 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:19.040 it a warning signal for the rest of us of 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:23.200 other conspiracies? Was the Kyrie irving flat earth stuff? That 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:28.640 was the uh oh. If you're willing to say that's debatable, 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.679 then what you mean is there is no objective truth 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:44.360 in anything. But when you have a monitored, video, authenticated process, 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:51.720 who no matter what, because no team has better than 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.800 a fourteen percent chance of getting the number one pick 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:59.439 and because of the way the NBA has rejiggered the odds. 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:05.800 When you have that, those are the facts that we 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:11.400 all can see, and it is still an overwhelmingly held 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:19.160 opinion that the shit is rigged. It is further evidence 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:34.280 that as a collective, our ability to have a agreed upon 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:40.120 set of facts that we all then understand our reality 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:44.880 and then operate or debate or move, you know, according 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.640 to how we feel that we should in that reality. 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:53.600 It's fraying, and it's dangerous, so we can be done 0:10:53.640 --> 0:11:00.480 with it here. But I am I'm not overreacting and 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:06.560 I'm not wrong, and I'm not trying to just like 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.760 be like, look at me, I can do math. I 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:15.640 am saying that there is a real cost to be 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:21.400 paid for all of us if we, as a collective 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:35.400 just start to feel like anything that happens that isn't 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:40.160 what I expected to happen. There must be an invisible 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:48.800 hand guiding why it happened. And it is doubly dangerous 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:55.320 when it is very very easy to see. Watch the 0:11:55.440 --> 0:12:01.720 process yourself and see how unriggable it is. Crunch the 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:07.280 numbers yourself and see how even though this was very unlikely, 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:14.520 every single possible outcome was very unlikely. And even under 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:22.000 those circumstances, You're like, eh, feels fishy to me. It's dangerous, 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:23.920 all right, lecture. 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.640 Over, Adam Silver, thanks you for your service. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.320 Well, you know, can I tell you one other thing 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:35.280 on that and then will be done. Speaking of Adam Silver, 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:41.040 this was tweeted and this is what really set me off. 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.680 I am going to read you and describe to you 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:47.720 the tweet, and then I'm gonna tell you who tweeted it. 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:54.160 After making big trades just months before the NBA Draft lottery. 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:58.640 These teams ended up winning it, and it was like 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:04.520 the exploding head emoji, like wow, you know, you know 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:10.600 the mind is blown emoji, and it talks about uh 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:15.199 Lebron signing with the Heat Chris Paul traded to the Clippers. 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.840 A D traded Lakers, and Luke had traded the Lakers, 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:28.240 which is just stoking the conspiracy nonsense flames. The account 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:34.200 that tweeted that was the NBA on ESPN, the official 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:45.760 account Adam Silver should have been Bamani text this, text 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:50.920 me this and the and I don't want to, I 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:54.200 don't want to read. Just Bamani won't care. He didn't 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.800 Bamani text it. I'd hit the roof about this if 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:00.120 I was Adam Silver. You're damn straight. It's so well, 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:07.360 it's it is. It is so much worse than the 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:13.000 conspiracy stuff about the chiefs and the officials, because that 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.000 at least people could convince themselves, well, maybe you know 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:24.160 it's one person's bias, one referee or an individual decision, 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:33.320 rather than a multi decade, multi dozen human being conspiracy 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:38.600 to what end? And so and again, I keep saying 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:42.720 I'll leave it like the MAVs winning the lottery was 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:47.960 only slightly slightly more unlikely or less likely than the 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:51.680 Hawks winning it last year to get Alex Saar and 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:55.240 and nobody cared that that team jumped from ten to 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:59.080 one because it was Alex Saar. But again, like it's 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:04.320 so stupid, It's just so stupid. All right, we'll get 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:08.440 to the actual playoffs and the schedule release now, but 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.200 first let me tell you guys, NBA's eighty two game 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.960 grind is done and the real fun has begun. The 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:18.280 NBA Playoffs are here. Time for all the high stakes drama, 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.840 clutch moments, jaw dropping plays. 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It was such a 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.920 relevant draft, I forgot who went first. You guys understood 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:25.199 the point. All right, demons, Now we can get to 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.240 your Celtics and my dogs. 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.760 They won last night, got that twenty five point dub 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.080 over there in Boston without Tatum. 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:33.800 To let that be noted. 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:35.960 So who do you think is the biggest winner here? 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.000 Boston staying alive, New York having a chance to win 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:39.320 it in. 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.040 Their building, or the Pacers. 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.399 It was just like sitting outside while these guys are 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:44.360 dueling it out. 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:48.600 All right, before I say what I think, a little 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:52.399 birdie told me. You now think the Celtics are going 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:53.520 to complete the comeback? 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:55.840 Is that court They got a one hundred percent They 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.240 gotta win the next game. They got to win game six. 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:00.440 If well, obviously they have to win game six to 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.240 win the series. But I'm just saying, if if the 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:05.600 Knicks lose this next game, the Celtics are not gonna 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:09.679 lose Game seven. We're obviously built to lose a player. 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.399 It's our best player. But I think we're we can 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.080 definitely deal with the Knicks without Tatum, as we showed 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:15.560 last night. 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:22.240 Okay, that's gonna be a very common opinion today. Sometimes 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:27.480 Demonse and I do this show and Demanse, who has 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:32.520 no didn't go to school for sports broadcasting. Really, it 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.440 was never like it's not people maybe don't know this, 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:37.840 but like and maybe they'll be surprised by it. It's 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:42.600 not like Demonse growing up with me was like, oh man, 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.639 I want to follow my dad's footsteps and do sports media. 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:50.760 Like that's That's not what this was ever. So it 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.000 was just kind of a happy accident thanks to our 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:55.760 friends at Blue Duck that you and I ended up 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:57.920 trying this together and now we've done it for at 0:18:57.960 --> 0:18:58.600 what for years. 0:18:58.600 --> 0:18:59.720 We're supposed to just be said of. 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:07.240 The exactly right. But sometimes Demands has a take despite 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:10.640 that last that lack of what we would call classical training, 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.280 that is then almost the exact same take I hear 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:16.320 on TV, or sometimes I hear from Brew or Wild's 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:18.919 later in the day, and it always makes me happy. 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:24.240 It makes me happier when I think it's a good take, 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:27.280 unlike this one, which I think is where are we 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:35.280 going here a very commonly held, misbegotten take. So I 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:40.280 think there is going to be a considerable overreaction to 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:47.280 last night, a game where the Knicks understandably, we're going 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:51.320 to be a little less feel, a little bit of 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:55.800 a less sense of urgency, a game where Boston was 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:59.000 going to have the energy of the crowd, and a 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:05.240 game where it was tied at halftime and then Brunson 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:10.040 gets five fouls in eight minutes and the game's over 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:15.560 like there. And so here is why I listen, good 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:24.200 for Boston. Here is why I think you are overstating 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:30.240 how well Boston is built to handle the loss of Tatum. Now, 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:34.000 it is good they got Sam Hauser back yesterday, and 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:39.080 you know, hit his injury in Game one of this 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:44.240 series was significant, and you know, not having him available 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:46.040 to come off the bench hurt them in the middle 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:47.960 part of this series. It's nice they got him back. 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:54.480 But the Celtics obviously don't have Jason Tatum. They also, 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:57.840 for all intents and purposes, don't have Chris STAPs. Porzingis 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:05.600 happy for Luke Cornett that he had that game last night. 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:11.200 That is not duplicable on any level at any time. Again, 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:16.639 Derek White's awesome. I don't think he's got another thirty 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:18.240 four point game in his future. 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:19.840 That's more duplicable though. 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:24.080 Well certainly certainly more than Luke Cornett Damn Near Avenue 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:32.280 seventy double. And so I look at Game six, and 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:35.680 the other thing was a Towns was kind of got 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:40.120 himself out of it with foul trouble. OG was horrifying. 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:43.800 In this game was one for twelve Mikhale Bridges, who 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:46.480 I thought was gonna play really well. He did, and 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:49.800 he was four for fourteen. So all of those things 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:53.159 conspired to where the Knicks, and then the Knicks also, 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:56.640 you know, let go of the rope a bit. So 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:59.879 I think the Knicks will win Friday. But here is 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:09.200 maybe the more controversial opinion, or not controversial but unconventional opinion. 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:12.479 Even if they lose Friday, I think they absolutely can 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:16.399 win a Game seven in Boston. I think that the 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:22.160 Boston Celtics, the idea of the Boston Celtics is very 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:25.680 different than the current reality of the Boston Celtics, which 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:30.960 is the Boston Celtics right now are a team whose 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:35.719 best player is Jalen Brown, whose second best player is 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:41.320 Derek White, whose third and fourth best players are guys 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:44.760 in their mid to late thirties in Holiday and Horford, 0:22:45.040 --> 0:22:47.800 who have not yet shown at any point in this 0:22:47.960 --> 0:22:55.280 series they can in back to back games give you 0:22:56.520 --> 0:23:00.560 high level, impactful minutes. And then we're down to the 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:04.840 Pritchard Cornett tier of guys because Chris STAPs is out. 0:23:05.800 --> 0:23:07.880 He's not out, but he might as well be. Chris 0:23:07.920 --> 0:23:11.639 STAPs is not giving you anything. Tatum is out, and 0:23:11.760 --> 0:23:15.040 I just don't think Holliday and Horford are going to 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:19.119 be as effective in Game six with a day rest 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:23.280 as they were in Game five. And so for all 0:23:23.320 --> 0:23:28.240 those reasons, I think that the and throwing the rundown. 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:31.359 What are the DraftKings? Okay, they already did good job, guys. 0:23:31.640 --> 0:23:35.760 Boston is down to plus two twenty five to win 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:38.320 the series, so the Knicks are probably like minus two sixty. 0:23:40.240 --> 0:23:45.680 I I think that the Knicks take care of business 0:23:45.720 --> 0:23:49.080 in six, and even if they don't, I minus two 0:23:49.160 --> 0:23:53.880 seventy five for New York. I think that Jalen Brunton 0:23:53.960 --> 0:23:57.680 in a Game seven is not going to be intimidated 0:23:57.720 --> 0:24:01.040 by a place where he won games one and to now. 0:24:01.080 --> 0:24:05.440 I will say this for the nixt chances of making 0:24:05.480 --> 0:24:11.359 the finals. Game seven is avoiding a Game seven is 0:24:11.359 --> 0:24:16.080 super valuable to them and having a little more time off, 0:24:16.240 --> 0:24:21.760 especially because the Pacers play at such an insane pace 0:24:22.600 --> 0:24:27.720 and because the Pacers are so deep. Now I want 0:24:27.760 --> 0:24:31.919 to ask you, this is one of those things that 0:24:34.040 --> 0:24:38.560 just don't clip this. If someone else clips it, it's fine. 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:42.800 Let's say you're right, Demanse. This is just a theoretical 0:24:42.920 --> 0:24:46.800 question and it's and by the way, there is no 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:54.120 value judgment here. Okay, we all agree last night Jason 0:24:54.160 --> 0:24:59.760 Tatum was rooting for the Celtics, and we all agree 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:02.119 that in Game six he will be rooting for the 0:25:02.160 --> 0:25:07.640 Celtics if they pull this off. Will there is there 0:25:07.680 --> 0:25:10.520 any point in these playoffs where what you would call, 0:25:10.560 --> 0:25:13.520 I guess those intrusive thoughts in his head is like, okay, 0:25:15.560 --> 0:25:20.720 now we can all right. It's like I'm just I 0:25:21.359 --> 0:25:25.160 maybe this is an indictment on me. But like if 0:25:26.119 --> 0:25:29.320 if I all of a sudden, if I got if 0:25:29.359 --> 0:25:33.480 I had to have some type of like medical procedure 0:25:34.440 --> 0:25:36.680 and I was and they're like, man, Nick's gonna be 0:25:36.720 --> 0:25:39.440 out for first things first for the next three months. 0:25:40.400 --> 0:25:43.400 In the beginning, I would be like all right, fellas, 0:25:43.720 --> 0:25:46.400 keep it rolling, you know what I mean? Keep it rolling. 0:25:46.440 --> 0:25:50.040 I'd be really happy if like three weeks in I 0:25:50.080 --> 0:25:53.320 got like a I saw a PR alert and it 0:25:53.400 --> 0:25:56.400 was like first things first record setting ratings, and then 0:25:56.440 --> 0:25:59.919 like a week later it was like Emmy nominated. At 0:26:00.240 --> 0:26:04.360 some point I might be like, all right, we can 0:26:04.640 --> 0:26:08.040 you know, we can have some rough shows here, like 0:26:08.280 --> 0:26:10.960 and so there. 0:26:11.560 --> 0:26:16.800 I could see that would be in the thought process. 0:26:16.960 --> 0:26:19.720 But yeah, man, I think it's. 0:26:19.560 --> 0:26:22.080 Not an indictment, and that's not Tatum specific. 0:26:22.560 --> 0:26:25.960 That is human characteristic, right, And I. 0:26:25.880 --> 0:26:30.440 Would be saying that same thing if you know, let's 0:26:30.440 --> 0:26:34.000 say Steph's injury instead of being one step obviously really 0:26:34.000 --> 0:26:36.199 wanted the Warriors to somehow pull it out because he 0:26:36.320 --> 0:26:39.040 was coming back. He's like, if you could just stay alive, 0:26:39.080 --> 0:26:42.359 I can come or maybe he was coming back. But 0:26:42.400 --> 0:26:46.879 if Steph's injury was like where he's out three months, maybe, 0:26:47.000 --> 0:26:49.200 like I feel like there'd be a point where even 0:26:49.400 --> 0:26:52.920 where Steph would be like, Okay, you can beat the Timberwolves, 0:26:52.920 --> 0:26:55.239 but let's not get a ring here. I don't know 0:26:55.880 --> 0:26:59.000 the all right, so let's do a Celtics follow U 0:26:59.000 --> 0:27:00.000 before we get to the other stuff. 0:27:02.160 --> 0:27:04.879 Yeah, So now that Tatum's injury is officially official and 0:27:04.920 --> 0:27:07.240 he's likely to miss all of next year, you've had 0:27:07.240 --> 0:27:10.040 more time to think about it. Which dominoes have been 0:27:10.040 --> 0:27:12.120 affected the most? 0:27:12.960 --> 0:27:19.159 Well? Did we talk about? Like I think one of 0:27:19.200 --> 0:27:24.199 the first non Celtics related dominoes is what does this 0:27:24.320 --> 0:27:25.200 mean for Giannis? 0:27:25.480 --> 0:27:26.840 Yeah? 0:27:27.200 --> 0:27:34.160 Does Giannis decide, i'd I'll give it one more year? 0:27:36.280 --> 0:27:40.919 Does Yiannis decide I still want to be traded, but 0:27:41.160 --> 0:27:45.080 staying East if I can sure, seems attractive to me? 0:27:46.040 --> 0:27:53.280 Like where you know, what does what does Giannis does? 0:27:55.119 --> 0:27:59.679 How does Yiannis look at this as far as what 0:27:59.800 --> 0:28:02.920 his decision should be, because and this was the thing 0:28:02.960 --> 0:28:08.600 I might have said on Tuesday, if we are if 0:28:08.640 --> 0:28:13.359 Yiannis goes West and Tatum is out for the year 0:28:15.800 --> 0:28:25.680 next year, the all NBA teams, I would imagine the 0:28:25.720 --> 0:28:32.960 East has three guys that have like would be all 0:28:33.080 --> 0:28:35.399 NBA is the wrong way to do it. Just of 0:28:35.440 --> 0:28:39.080 the fifteen best players in the sport, the East has 0:28:39.120 --> 0:28:44.240 three of them, Jalen Brunson, Donovan, Mitchell, Tyrese Haliburton and 0:28:44.320 --> 0:28:49.920 everyone else is out West. And so the other major 0:28:51.400 --> 0:28:56.040 domino that this impacts obviously is Celtics related, which is 0:28:56.480 --> 0:29:00.640 they were already going to trim salary somewhat. Now I 0:29:00.680 --> 0:29:05.800 think they probably have to trim it massively, and I 0:29:06.000 --> 0:29:13.520 would if I'm a Celtic fan. I am just kind 0:29:13.560 --> 0:29:18.360