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Speaker 1: Listen Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Well, I would imagine that the last name on earth

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Speaker 2: that you want to hear tonight from Salam is Russell Westbrook.

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Speaker 2: But he's on my mind for a certain reason and

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Speaker 2: for obvious reasons based on what we just saw a

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Speaker 2: little bit over an hour ago. It is Mark Willity

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Speaker 2: from Salam. However, you're listening, whatever you're doing, bringing us

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Speaker 2: in here on a Sunday night with all kinds of

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Speaker 2: stuff to get to thank you very much for doing

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Speaker 2: it here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: My dude, how are we doing tonight?

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Speaker 1: YOA hey, hey, hey, hey, hey man, what's happening? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Man, man, I couldn't be better. I could be better.

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Speaker 2: Actually I could be.

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Speaker 1: A little bit better. I mean well, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean this little I I'm fighting a little bit of

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Speaker 2: a cough from and I'm fighting a little bit of

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Speaker 2: a two to one laker.

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Speaker 4: Okay, fighting a little bit of those two things. Well,

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Speaker 4: which one is worse? Fighting a little That's what I

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Speaker 4: would ask, which one is worse?

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna say

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Speaker 3: this authentically, and you're not gonna believe me. Brother. It's

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Speaker 3: the cough.

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Speaker 2: The cough is more worrisome right now than the two

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Speaker 2: to one lead for the Lakers. The Warriors have been

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Speaker 2: here before and and and I'm not saying that the

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Speaker 2: blow it off, They're gonna come back. I'm not saying

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Speaker 2: that at all. You know, I have a healthy belief

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Speaker 2: in either of these teams to win this series. What

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Speaker 2: I'm saying is, I think all three of these games

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Speaker 2: have gone exactly the way I thought they were gonna go.

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Speaker 3: Is that fair?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fair for you. That's fair for you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's yeah.

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Speaker 2: I thought the first game was the only tight game,

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Speaker 2: and because of the Game seven situation for the Warriors,

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Speaker 2: I thought, uh, this one could be a little bit

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Speaker 2: tough at the end. Game two, I think the Warriors

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Speaker 2: are definitely gonna win that. Game three energy Lakers adjustments,

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Speaker 2: I think they're definitely gonna win that.

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Speaker 3: Now it's game on. Now, it's game on. Really.

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Speaker 2: I mean I've felt that maybe a little bit after

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Speaker 2: each game, but tomorrow night is where things are going

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Speaker 2: to start to to really take shape, is what I

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would agree with that, But what I would

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Speaker 4: say is, you know, in terms of the way these

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Speaker 4: teams are winning, now, you got to blowout wins by

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Speaker 4: each team. So what can you really take from that?

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Speaker 4: And about that? What I what I what I look

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Speaker 4: at is the numbers behind the numbers. Okay, when Golden

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Speaker 4: State and the Lakers played their tight game, the game won. Okay,

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Speaker 4: the Lakers dominated inside and at the free throw line,

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Speaker 4: Golden State dominated behind the arc. This is how these

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Speaker 4: two play, So you throw out the other games that

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Speaker 4: when it comes down to it, that's how they'll play,

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Speaker 4: and which one is sustainable over a seven game series.

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Speaker 1: That's what I look.

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Speaker 2: You would you would think you would think that interior

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Speaker 2: a little bit more than three point shooting. I think

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Speaker 2: that's a little bit of a simplification of the whole process, though,

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Speaker 2: because what we're actually talking about is individuals and how

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Speaker 2: you defend them specifically and what that means for the

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Speaker 2: whole thing at large. In fact, why did I let's

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Speaker 2: since we're already knee deep in this push the I

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Speaker 2: got a Westbrook Harden question for you, and.

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Speaker 3: We can get to that here in a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Let me start with this, Why is Anthony Davis so

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Speaker 2: damn inconsistent? Because as good as he's been in games

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Speaker 2: run nine games, now you know what it is. It's

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Speaker 2: a yo yo Yes, good game, bad game, good game,

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Speaker 2: bad game, good game, bad game. It's been the whole theme.

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Speaker 2: And I'm telling you right now all kinds of awesome

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Speaker 2: that he's done to get the Lakers to this point.

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Speaker 2: If he does what he's done the whole playoffs, which

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Speaker 2: the Warriors are gonna win him all night, and they're

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Speaker 2: gonna end up winning the series because they're in better

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Speaker 2: shape if they do so. I wonder like that's why

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow Night looms so large. Whoever wins Tomorrow Night really

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Speaker 2: has what I think is potentially an insurmountable advantage, even

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Speaker 2: though it would only be too too if it's Golden State.

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Speaker 2: I know these teams can handle on the road late

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Speaker 2: but why why has Anthony Davis not been able to

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Speaker 2: string two games together the whole playoffs.

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Speaker 4: Well through the history of Anthony Davis being Anthony Davis.

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Speaker 4: This is nothing new be labored by injury and inconsistency

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Speaker 4: when he's locked in. He's a top five player in

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Speaker 4: the NBA at any given year. Problem, right, Well, he's

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Speaker 4: been in the league too long to change his stripes.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you are what you are. You are who you are.

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Speaker 4: So with that said, you have to realize, Look, when

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Speaker 4: Anthony Davis is tuned in and he's going and usually

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Speaker 4: at home that happens, then he is a problem defensively, offensively, defensively,

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Speaker 4: he's giving Golden State fits and that's what he's there for. Okay.

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Speaker 4: The thing that concerns me with Golden State's approach to

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Speaker 4: off night. It's hard to win a series with hope

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Speaker 4: when you hope someone on the other team or the

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Speaker 4: other team does something that you can because well, I hear, okay,

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Speaker 4: before you push, before you look forward, promote, I'm okash back. Okay,

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Speaker 4: I would expect you to push back. This is why

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Speaker 4: I like when both of our teams are playing for

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Speaker 4: our teams, we've looked at them objectively, subjectively, all the good,

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Speaker 4: the bad. The entire season, we've tracked what's been going on.

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Speaker 4: And so the reason I say that is when Anthony

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Speaker 4: playing and the two wins on the offense and defensive

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Speaker 4: side of the ball, there has been no answer. And

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Speaker 4: even in Game two when he had a bad game,

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Speaker 4: the shots he still got the same shots. He just

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Speaker 4: kind of tunes out a little bit. But the shots

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Speaker 4: were there. And that's the concerning part I believe Golden

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Speaker 4: of these things. The problem is they have zero person

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Speaker 4: And I think them hoping that you know he struggles

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Speaker 2: You're making a lot of very fair points. The word

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Speaker 2: hope is where I will push back because as much

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Speaker 2: as he annoys eva rebody and as much as we

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Speaker 2: hear in the Bay Area get it, I totally understand.

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Speaker 2: But we had a conversation locally here last week when

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Speaker 2: the Memphis Grizzlies publicly announced that no way, know how

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Speaker 2: will they ever allow Dylan Brooks to wear a Memphis

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Speaker 2: that could help explain to people Nash and Lee who

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Speaker 2: think that Dylan Brooks and Draymond Green are the same guy, instigator, defender, loudmouth.

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Speaker 2: I've heard that when Memphis played the Warriors in the

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Speaker 2: series last year in Round two last year, you heard

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Speaker 2: it all the time when Brooks broke GP two's arm. Aaron,

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Speaker 2: Oh well, now you're mad. Draymond does this stuff all

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Speaker 2: the time. Oh god, no he doesn't. Number one, and

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Speaker 2: oh god, if you think these two are in any

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Speaker 2: way similar on a basketball court, man, you got to

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Speaker 2: enroll in the basketball college and take a class. Because

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Speaker 2: draymondel frustrates you. Believe me, he frustrates the people who

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Speaker 2: root for him because his composure is always at risk,

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Speaker 2: always in every moment, as you can see. But the

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Speaker 2: man is a defensive genius. And if you've watched Anthony

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Speaker 2: you will know that actually nobody gives him a harder time.

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Speaker 2: Nikola Jokic will tell you the same thing, despite how

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Speaker 2: much bigger those two dudes are than Draymond Green.

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Speaker 3: So I don't think it's hope. I don't think it's hope.

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Speaker 2: I think the Warriors have the answers the same way

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Speaker 2: the Lakers have the answers on the Warriors, which is

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Speaker 2: why I have already found this series to be a

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Speaker 2: the ultimate chess match and be a simple matter of execution.

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Speaker 2: I really do think both teams have the answers on

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Speaker 2: their roster to give the other team all kinds of

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Speaker 2: problems and then it's just a matter of who's going

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Speaker 2: to go out and make shots. You got to know

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Speaker 2: a from that. If you're looking at a Warrior team

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Speaker 2: that in the fourth quarter's got sixty eight points on

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Speaker 2: the board when they had thirty in.

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Speaker 3: The first quarter, do the Lakers get some credit for that? Yes?

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Speaker 2: Did you also have a ridiculously poor level of execution

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Speaker 2: So it's It's a total magic elixir that I think

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Speaker 2: both teams have, and it's just going to be a

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Speaker 2: matter of who knocks down the shots and who brings

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Speaker 2: the execution with composure.

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Speaker 3: On any given night. Okay, that's what I think.

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Speaker 1: When you when you have.

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Speaker 4: In the balance, let's say Golden State it hits the

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Speaker 4: same number of threes, or the Lakers hit the same

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Speaker 4: number of threes Golden State does who has the advantage

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Speaker 4: in the rest of the game.

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Speaker 2: Oh God, if the Lakers hit the same number of

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Speaker 4: Halftime, which is what happened right past game. The Lakers actually,

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Speaker 4: but they're not going to How often is that going

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Speaker 4: to happen? The Lakers are nowhere near the three point

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Speaker 4: shooting team. The Warriors are. You're absolutely right, but they

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Speaker 4: almost shoot from the three.

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Speaker 2: Point line because the Warriors completely lost their composure and

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Speaker 2: the Lakers executed at a high level.

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Speaker 4: Yes, the Golden State Warriors are getting fewer and fewer

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Speaker 4: wide open threes because of the length and the defensive

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Speaker 4: rotation of the Lakers, which is what got them to

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Speaker 4: the play in and playing well and out of that

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Speaker 4: first round series. The length and when they all lock in,

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Speaker 4: including Lebron James, because down the stretch in the regular

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Speaker 4: season he was a defensive liability, right, But when it's

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Speaker 4: Angeles Lakers give Golden State a much more difficult time

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Speaker 4: defensively than vice versa. Now, Draymond Green, yes, Graymond Green can,

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Speaker 4: Yes he can guard Anthony Davis, But for how long

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Speaker 4: and how many fouls are you going to use of

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Speaker 4: great Draymond Greens on Anthony Davis.

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Speaker 2: But see, this is what I think we do in

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Speaker 2: the playoffs. You say the Warriors are getting fewer and

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Speaker 2: fewer open shots. No, that was just yesterday, That's all.

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Speaker 2: It was just yesterday. The Game two, that wasn't the case.

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Speaker 2: They were getting more than they were in Game one.

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Speaker 2: So like all I think is they and maybe there

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Speaker 2: is a mental sort of a situation here, because let's

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Speaker 2: be honest, the Lakers in Round one had control of

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Speaker 2: that sucker the whole way. Yes, the Warriors did not.

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Speaker 2: The Warriors did not have control of their series the

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Speaker 2: whole way at all. And to watch to watch how little.

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Speaker 2: In fact, I'd love to ask you this question coming

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Speaker 2: up next because like to watch how little momentum meant

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Speaker 4: Third person, will we will bet our money on Jordan Poole.

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Speaker 4: We will put all our money in on Jordan Poole

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Speaker 1: Need a better Warriors needed game two.

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Speaker 2: real quick aside. Then we'll get back to what we

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Speaker 2: I don't understand why there will be a next team.

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Speaker 2: Can you help me with this? Oh yeah, I can't. Like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: but he can't win. Why on earth would you want

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Speaker 4: Conventionally he's a three and D guy. He had a

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Speaker 4: Look, I'm not a Dylan Brooks fan because he's all bark,

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Speaker 3: When any time your name.

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Speaker 4: And in terms of Dylan Brooks, Dylan Brooks can play basketball.

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Speaker 4: And so if you take him his antics, right and

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Speaker 4: We don't we don't need to. You know, we're not

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and some years.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely had some years. But you know who who

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Speaker 4: hasn't cost themselves money? In fact, his bag is overflowing, right,

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Speaker 4: And that's our very own Steven the bag to say, Steve.

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Speaker 1: Going with Joy.

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Speaker 7: I'm not sure about the money part.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet I bet Steve would challenge the whole

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Speaker 2: major bag alert.

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Speaker 3: Thing that just happened. That's just my guess.

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Speaker 7: But anyway, Hi, Steve, Hello, and got a good stat

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Speaker 7: on what you were talking with the up and down

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Speaker 7: and any Davis in the postseason that I found last night.

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Speaker 7: He has had two good games in a row, by

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Speaker 7: the way, the last two of the first round. It's

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Speaker 7: just that nobody needed to be on the court that

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Speaker 7: long when you win by forty in the clincher against Memphis.

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Speaker 7: But he did have fourteen rebounds in twenty eight minutes

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Speaker 7: in that game, after a great game couple nights before.

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Speaker 7: But how about this from the folks at stat muse

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Speaker 7: this postseason in the odd numbered game of the series,

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Speaker 7: Davis averaging twenty eight points, seventeen rebounds, fifty seven percent

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Speaker 7: shooting even number games thirteen points, ten rebounds, only forty

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Speaker 7: percent shooting well.

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Speaker 2: And remind me, I always forget I mixed this up?

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Speaker 2: Is for an even number or an odd number? Yes,

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Speaker 2: I struggle with this. I'm not great at math.

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Speaker 7: Late tomorrow night, Lakers host Golden State again, with LA

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Speaker 7: up two games to one, coming off a blowout victory.

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Speaker 7: A great item from AP that it's not that common

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Speaker 7: obviously under Steve Kerry's Golden State coach, that the Warriors

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Speaker 7: have been losing a playoff game by at least twenty

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Speaker 7: or thirty for that matter. But the last five times

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Speaker 7: it's happened, they've come back with a victory. Including against

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Speaker 7: Memphis a year ago and also tomorrow. By the way, Miami,

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Speaker 7: leading two games to one, will be hosting New York

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Speaker 7: again to the NBA playoff game tonight. S Denver, top

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Speaker 7: seed in the West, is up thirty four to thirty

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Speaker 7: two at Phoenix at the end of the first quarter.

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Speaker 7: Devin Booker thirteen points in the opening period for the Suns.

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Speaker 7: Veteran guard Chris Paul is out again with a strain groin.

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Speaker 7: Philadelphia in overtime beat Boston today one sixteen one fifteen.

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Speaker 7: James Harden forty two points, including the go ahead three pointer.

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Speaker 7: The had nine assists in just one turnover as well.

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Speaker 7: That series is tied at two games a piece. Joel

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Speaker 7: Embiid scored thirty four points, Marcus Smart of Boston twenty

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Speaker 7: one points, but his three at the end came after

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Speaker 7: the buzzer. He also missed a three at the end

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Speaker 7: of regulation. Stanley Cup playoffs New Jersey and eight to

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Speaker 7: four winner against Carolina right now early third period, Toronto

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Speaker 7: tied two to two at Florida. Allas at Seattle will

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Speaker 7: be the late game in about an hour. Denny Hamlin

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Speaker 7: won the NASCAR race at Kansas, bumping by Kyle Larson

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Speaker 7: on the final lap. Wyndham Clark took the PGA event

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Speaker 7: by four strokes in Charlotte. Sunday night ballgames in San Diego,

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Speaker 7: Padres are leading two nothing over the Dodgers, bottom of

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Speaker 7: the fifth LA with just one hit in twelve innings

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Speaker 7: to start the day. The Braves won three to two

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Speaker 7: over the Orioles, and Philadelphia beat the Red Sox six

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Speaker 7: to one. A sad note from the NBA family that

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Speaker 7: Nick Gilbert passed away, son of the Cavs owner, died

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Speaker 7: at the age of twenty six. He often represented the

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Speaker 7: Cavaliers at the Draft lottery. Nick battle tumors his whole life.

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Speaker 7: His funeral will be Tuesday in Michigan.

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Speaker 2: Pete all right, thank you very much for that, Steve,

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Speaker 2: and our condolences to the whole NBA family with that

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Speaker 2: very difficult news to process. Mark Willard Ephram Salam with

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Speaker 2: you here on Fox Sports Radio and the ti IRAQ

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Speaker 2: dot com studios. Okay, the question was that you threw

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Speaker 2: out who's got the better We're talking Lakers versus Warriors.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna get to some Sixers and Celtics here in

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Speaker 2: just a little bit.

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Speaker 3: But who's got a better bench.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I can jump ahead because I know

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Speaker 2: where this conversation is going to end up. It's the

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00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 2: conversation we have here all year long in the Bay Area,

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Speaker 2: and that is whether you want to applaud Jordan Poole

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Speaker 2: or ring his neck. And Warrior fans cannot figure out

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Speaker 2: which one is the right answer to that because they

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00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 2: cannot win without him playing well, and sometimes you cannot

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Speaker 2: stomach watching him play basketball. So that might be where

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Speaker 2: this conversation ends. But I'd love to hear you answer

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Speaker 2: your own question. I love Hachimura. I think that's a

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Speaker 2: really good player. Shrewder is a smart player. Sometimes he

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00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 2: can shoot, sometimes he can't. The Warriors have a defensive

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Speaker 2: rotation that I guess in this series includes Keban Loony,

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Speaker 2: who was a twenty board guy in the King series.

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Speaker 2: I think this is a difficult matchup for him for

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Speaker 2: some clear reasons because he doesn't offer outside shooting, which

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Speaker 2: is what the Warriors need to pull the Lakers away.

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Speaker 2: So it's I don't know, it's an evolving answer, but

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Speaker 2: I'd love to hear yours first.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So real bench players for Golden State, uh de

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Speaker 4: Vincenzo Jordan Poole and.

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Speaker 1: GP two GP two.

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Speaker 3: And Moody has earned himself in Green.

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Speaker 1: Depending on if Green or Rooney is either Green or Looney?

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Speaker 3: Well, yes, en it was. He was a d NP

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Speaker 3: guy for the last two.

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Speaker 2: Months, right right, He's only he's in there because he

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Speaker 2: can shoot three.

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Speaker 4: Trying to switch it up. They're trying to stretch the

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Speaker 4: Floyd and I get it. Yes, So with that said,

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Speaker 4: your real guys are Gary Payton, Devincenzo and Jordan Poole.

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Speaker 4: Those that's your core bench. Okay, you put Looney back

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Speaker 4: in the starting line up. Jamichael Green what, I don't

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Speaker 4: know what you I don't know where you classifying because

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Speaker 4: he wasn't playing. But we've seen the minutes from Moody,

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Speaker 4: shrink kaminga. He's only gonna get in and lamb all

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Speaker 4: those guys they're not getting in the game.

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Speaker 3: That's garbage.

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Speaker 4: Like three minutes is not a bench Okay, you need guys,

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Speaker 4: bench guys. Twenty plus minutes. That's a real true bench guy.

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Speaker 4: You get in the game twenty plus minutes, then you're

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Speaker 4: a bench guy because that's extended period of time. So

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Speaker 4: when you look at the Lakers in their bench, it's Rory,

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Speaker 4: It's Shrewder. It's a combination. What it was, what's the

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Speaker 4: It was Lonnie Walker and either it was yes, it

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Speaker 4: was brown, it was Brown. But he's because he can't

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Speaker 4: the d His defensive rotations were off. And we saw

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Speaker 4: that in Game two and I was like, Oh, that's

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Speaker 4: that's about to be it for him. Its Lonnie Walker,

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Speaker 4: it's Dennis Shrewder, it's Rory Hotchamour. That's pretty much the

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Speaker 4: core of the Lakers bench. Those guys come in and

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Speaker 4: not only do they give you scoring, but they give

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Speaker 4: you defense.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's the difference you.

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Speaker 2: Got and Tante Devincenzo don't give you defense. They give

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Speaker 2: you defense. They do give you defense. But who so

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Speaker 2: Devincenzo in terms of playing defense, who like GP two?

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Speaker 2: It is a bona fide defensive guy.

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Speaker 1: Period.

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Speaker 4: He gonna dunk on you. He can hit the open three.

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Speaker 4: Occasionally Junior plays Devincenzo. Yeah, we're just gonna take him

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Speaker 4: right down to the post and it's gonna be what

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Speaker 4: it's gonna be.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: He plays his size right. He plays are big. The

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Speaker 1: Lakers are big.

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Speaker 4: So when Rory comes in and he's long, when when

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Speaker 4: Walker comes in, He's long, Dennis Ruder. You want to

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Speaker 4: talk about a defensive specialist, goodness gracious to be as

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Speaker 4: small and as and as thin as he is. He

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Speaker 4: is relentless on the defense and he's okay with that.

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Speaker 4: So to me, when I look at that, and when

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Speaker 4: that second group comes in, when Kurt when when when

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Speaker 4: when Curry sits on the bench, everybody holds their breath?

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Speaker 1: Am I? Right?

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Speaker 4: When Curry sits down, everybody holds it. Can they hang

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Speaker 4: on to the lead or keep it from getting out

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Speaker 4: of hand with Curry sitting down?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely? And that all comes down to can they still score?

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Speaker 2: And that comes down to Jordan Poole, Because if you're

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Speaker 2: gonna sit here and talk about the defense that the

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Speaker 2: Lakers bench offers, I would offer to the Warriors bench

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Speaker 2: offers a lot more offense dot dot dot some times.

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Speaker 2: And in theory, there's something else I need to fill

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Speaker 2: the in that plank.

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Speaker 3: And that's why.

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Speaker 2: That's why, and this is a terrifying thought for Warriors fans,

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Speaker 2: But that's why so much of the season comes down

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Speaker 2: to Jordan Poole, not even in this series, but the

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Speaker 2: whole ar Yeah, like why are they forty four?

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Speaker 3: And thirty eight.

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Speaker 2: Why are they struggling playing from behind in every series?

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Speaker 2: The question is what's different this year? Well, there you

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Speaker 2: have it. The role is bigger off of the bench

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Speaker 2: for Jordan Poole. He's now the supposedly experienced guy coming

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Speaker 2: off the bench. And I'll tell you why coming up next.

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Speaker 2: That's a big problem beyond the obvious, especially in this

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Speaker 2: matchup against the Lakers. They offer something that's difficult for

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Speaker 2: him and length is not what I'm gonna say. More

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Speaker 2: on that coming up in a bit. That's he from

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Speaker 2: Salama Mark Weatherden. This is Fox Sports Radio Okay Live

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Speaker 2: Tyraq dot Com Studios. That seem from Salama Mark Willard

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Speaker 2: my man. So, do you remember last week? I think

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Speaker 2: we were talking about this series getting started, and I

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Speaker 2: said to you, this is a matchup of what I

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Speaker 2: think are the NBA's two smartest teams, and you look

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Speaker 2: at who they just both got rid of, the Lakers

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Speaker 2: and the Warriors. The Lakers got rid of the Memphis Grizzlies.

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Speaker 3: We done already talked that out.

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Speaker 2: And the Warriors got rid of the Sacramento Kings, which

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Speaker 2: I do not think that they are in any stretch

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Speaker 2: a dumb team. I think they're an inexperienced team. And

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Speaker 2: so what you have here is two teams that are

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Speaker 2: just overloaded with players who have been there, seen it all,

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Speaker 2: see things before they happen on the floor. Just very

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Speaker 2: very smart. I would like to find a kind way

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Speaker 2: for me to state and I don't think that that

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Speaker 2: bodes very well for Jordan Poole. This is not a

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Speaker 2: player who lacks talent. My gosh, he can be so dynamic.

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Speaker 2: I've watched him countless times take over a basketball game. Hell,

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Speaker 2: I watched a regular season game live just a boy. Now,

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Speaker 2: it's probably only about a month, month and a half ago.

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Speaker 2: Down the stretch in the regular season came they were struggling,

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Speaker 2: Joel mb just went off. He came to Chase Center

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Speaker 2: and he was his MVP self, and Jordan Poole took

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Speaker 2: over the game in the fourth quarter, won that game

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Speaker 2: for the Golden State Warriors. He will do this, but man,

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Speaker 2: when you ask him to make the right decision at

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Speaker 2: the right moment, who that's tough.

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Speaker 3: That's tough.

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Speaker 2: And watching him, for instance, drive the lane when Lebron

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Speaker 2: James is standing right there in the box. Do you

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00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 2: remember that play yep, where I'm like, Pool's got a

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Speaker 2: wide open corner three, and something in his brain goes.

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Speaker 3: Now, I'm gonna go drive that at the King and

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Speaker 3: I think that this's gonna work out well.

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00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 2: And I'm like, it's not gonna work out well, and

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00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 2: and that shot got so embarrassingly blocked. Jordan hadn't even

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00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 2: tried to start what was gonna happen, and Lebron had

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00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 2: already taken the ball out of his hands. This is

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Speaker 2: where right now the Lakers have an advantage. Is I'll

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Speaker 2: take when you ask your question about bench, I'll take

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Speaker 2: the Lakers decision making over the Warriors decision making with

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Speaker 2: that group.

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Speaker 4: That's that's the most paramount part. That's why it you know,

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Speaker 4: it didn't work with Russell starting or coming off the bench,

654
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 4: because someone has to make the right decisions for the

655
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 4: second group. Right, So, Jordan Poole signed his four year,

656
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,320
Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty eight million dollar contra track with

657
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty three fully guaranteed. He makes an

658
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 4: average of thirty two million a year he comes off

659
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 4: the bench, right that.

660
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 3: Is starting next year. Yes, So that we've got that all.

661
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 1: Kind of what I'm saying, it's making three million this year.

662
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 3: We got it.

663
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 4: You're right, we understand, We understand. But that's a lot

664
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 4: of money, right, and a lot of hope and a

665
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 4: lot of responsibility. You're giving someone who hasn't shown that

666
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 4: he can handle that. Now, Jordan Poole averaged about thirty

667
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,359
Speaker 4: minutes a game in the regular season. He averaged about

668
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:45,760
Speaker 4: twenty points a game. Right, He shot eighty five percent

669
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 4: from the free throw from the free throw line and

670
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 4: thirty six percent from the from three pointers.

671
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 1: Forty three field goal Right.

672
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 4: Normally what happens to players are good players when they

673
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 4: get into the postseason, those numbers tick up because there's

674
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 4: more responsibility and more minutes and more minutes. So he's

675
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 4: averaging eleven points a game, that's nine points less than

676
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 4: the regular season. He's shooting twenty eight percent from the three,

677
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,399
Speaker 4: and he's shooting only seventy five percent from the free

678
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 4: throw line. Now, not the Golden State is going to

679
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 4: the free throw line. They're design not the NBA or

680
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 4: the refs. It's hard to go to the free throw

681
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 4: line shooting thirty seven footers twenty four footers?

682
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 3: Do you agree like I'm not ament right?

683
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 4: The Lakers play inside out that's why they draw more contact.

684
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 4: They're aggressive down below. Kevon Looney gets the rebound, he

685
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 4: doesn't go up to dunk the basketball. He kicks it

686
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:57,879
Speaker 4: back out twenty seven feet. This is how they drive

687
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 4: to the hole, jumping the air and fling the ball

688
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 4: back out twenty seven feet. That's how they play basketball.

689
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 4: Hard to draw fouls on that. Klay Thompson draws a

690
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 4: lot of fouls because he will pump fake. Get into

691
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 4: the middle of the key and he'll pump fake against you.

692
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:13,800
Speaker 1: Again.

693
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 4: He's the master of drawing contact on jump shots because

694
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 4: he just pump. He'll pump fake you to death. Now,

695
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 4: with that said about Jordan Poole, those aren't numbers that

696
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 4: can sustain you against a team like the Lakers. You

697
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 4: cannot come to the series with eleven points a game

698
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:38,280
Speaker 4: when Golden State's relying on at least twenty at least

699
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,359
Speaker 4: and at least shooting forty.

700
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: Percent from the field.

701
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:50,800
Speaker 4: That's where we are, and that's that's where the problem.

702
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 4: I believe Golden State is gonna have to finish this series.

703
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, these are these are fair points right now,

704
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 2: no question about it. The Lakers are going to shoot

705
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 2: more free throws in this series that has already been decided,

706
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 2: and that has nothing to do with whether the refs

707
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:09,399
Speaker 2: are doing a.

708
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 3: Good job or anything like that.

709
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Speaker 2: All Right, much more on this, plus James Harden's series

710
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Speaker 2: and why it.

711
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,800
Speaker 3: Is more impressive than you think, coming up next.

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Speaker 2: That's right, It's going to be a deep dive all

723
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 2: night long on Lakers and Warriors because you got two

724
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 2: people who are deep into the series, no doubt. But

725
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 2: I do not want to let the evening get away

726
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 2: Ephraim without calling out, shouting out James Harden, who has

727
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 2: saved this series for the Philly Sixers.

728
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,360
Speaker 3: And two thoughts come to mind.

729
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,919
Speaker 2: Number One, I was having a conversation with a friend

730
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:21,800
Speaker 2: of mine who said, you know, in the NBA these days,

731
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 2: I don't and this is him talking, I don't believe

732
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:31,360
Speaker 2: your best player, your go to guy can be a sinner,

733
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 2: which is relevant for both the Philly Sixers and the

734
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 2: Denver Nuggets.

735
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 3: So let's start there.

736
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 2: And obviously James Harden what he adds to Philly, it

737
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 2: has kept them alive. Maybe they are still contender. But

738
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 2: what's your response to that. The idea that the Sixers

739
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:55,839
Speaker 2: and the Nuggets by extension are essentially in a little

740
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,240
Speaker 2: bit of a bad spot because their go to guy

741
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 2: is seven feet tall.

742
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 4: Well that's not necessarily true. It depends on how skilled

743
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 4: that seven feet tall guy is. The thing that you

744
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 4: bring to the table is your ability to be able

745
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 4: to score multiple ways inside out, which a lot of teams,

746
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 4: a lot of NBA teams don't have. Right now, we

747
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 4: just got through talking about that.

748
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:16,240
Speaker 1: Right.

749
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 4: The thing about a seven game playoff series is there

750
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 4: will be adjustments, there will be things done, defense is played.

751
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 4: You have to be able to maximize an advantage having

752
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 4: someone is skilled as the joker or jewel Embiid the

753
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 4: last reigning MVPs, the last two MVPs. You want to

754
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 4: talk about a commodity because it puts you in a

755
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 4: situation defensively as an opposing team that you're not used to.

756
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 4: There are not a lot of centers that good. Think

757
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 4: about the last three years the MVP of a three

758
00:42:55,120 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 4: point shooting league has been centers yep. The year before that,

759
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 4: the two years before that is basically a sinner who

760
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 4: could bring the ball up in Giannis, right. These guys

761
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 4: play inside out, So you mean to tell me the

762
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:18,320
Speaker 4: last five years the league's MVP have been big guys

763
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 4: who play inside out. So there's no value there. Someone

764
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 4: hasn't been watching out. Somebody hasn't been watching enough NBA.

765
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 2: Man, Well, hang on, hang on, don't get too excited

766
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 2: about the MVP.

767
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 3: That's not what we're doing here.

768
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 4: I understand we're trying to win championship years championships.

769
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 2: Okay, And I know Yannis got his, but he is

770
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:44,720
Speaker 2: also now the owner of a very surprising, disappointing second

771
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 2: round exit in five games at home. And I know

772
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 2: he missed a game and a half in the series,

773
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 2: but come on, that's uh that, that's that's brushing it off.

774
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 3: I think a.

775
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 2: Little bit too easily and jo kich mb injuries around them.

776
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 2: I understand, but MVPs are not what we're doing here,

777
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 2: and the teams that.

778
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,360
Speaker 3: Are holding parades are are.

779
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,479
Speaker 4: Usually not those teams from Well you would look out

780
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 4: and the only team that would have been would have

781
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 4: been the Warriors, correct, right?

782
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:23,840
Speaker 2: I mean, look, and I know you count the bubble

783
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 2: chip right there with any any championship.

784
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:30,399
Speaker 4: Well, who wouldn't we count the champion? Do we count

785
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:34,319
Speaker 4: the ninety nine championship as a championship? I don't want

786
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 4: to get y'all triggered. No I'm not, But honestly, I'm

787
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 4: want you said, who would I'm not trying to gas

788
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 4: last year. I'm telling you right now.

789
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 3: I am.

790
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,359
Speaker 2: I am that guy, and you can get all mad

791
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 2: at me, and you can accuse me of being a

792
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 2: barrier guy. And it's because the l A teams won

793
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 2: that year. No, it's not.

794
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:01,879
Speaker 3: They're not the same thing.

795
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 2: I'm not saying they're not great accomplishments, but it's they're.

796
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 3: Not the same thing. How on earth?

797
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:12,319
Speaker 2: Like, honestly, just here, can I rally back with this?

798
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:13,879
Speaker 2: Just take baseball?

799
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 3: How on earth? Can anyone tell me? Nope?

800
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 2: Yep, same thing I know they only played sixty games.

801
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 3: Same thing, it's not the same thing. You can be

802
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 3: impressed by it.

803
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 2: You could put a ring on it, you can dance

804
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 2: around and hold a parade, and that's fine. It can

805
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,439
Speaker 2: be great. I didn't say it wasn't great. I said

806
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,800
Speaker 2: it's not the same thing. You cannot tell me nothing

807
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 2: that is as third, as long as all of the

808
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 2: others is.

809
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 3: The same thing. It just isn't. Right.

810
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 2: If I give you a banana Aphraim and a little

811
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 2: mini banana like you get on Halloween, right, or let's

812
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 2: use Halloween that little TwixT that I stick in your

813
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 2: bag on Halloween at my door, that's not the same

814
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 2: thing is when you go to the store and get

815
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 2: the Kingside.

816
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:01,799
Speaker 3: It's not the same thing.

817
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 2: It can still be delicious, you can love it, you

818
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 2: can call it the best candy ever.

819
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:10,919
Speaker 3: But it's two bites and it's not the same thing.

820
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 4: So let me ask you this, good I'm glad. Do

821
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 4: you know how many games the NBA play.

822
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:23,800
Speaker 3: Fewer?

823
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:27,839
Speaker 4: You know it's eighty two games in the regular season, right, Yes,

824
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 4: the NBA played seventy five games, right, So when you

825
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 4: when you're telling me that it's no fans. Yeah, no road,

826
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,399
Speaker 4: but we're talking about basketball. It's right, we're talking about

827
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 4: the number, but you're talking about so fewer games in baseball,

828
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:46,240
Speaker 4: they only played sixty and they missed the hundred and whatever.

829
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 1: Right, I get.

830
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 3: It with that example. That was that example. In the NBA.

831
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:56,440
Speaker 2: I do not find basketball that is not played home

832
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 2: and road to be the same thing. The problem is

833
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 2: when you have this conversation, and the reason so many

834
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 2: people shut down when I say what I'm saying is

835
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:09,799
Speaker 2: because they think that what I'm saying is diminishing an

836
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 2: accomplishment as opposed to shining light on the fact that

837
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,720
Speaker 2: it's a different accomplishment.

838
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:16,719
Speaker 1: Because it sounds.

839
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 3: That's that's fine. It can sound however it says.

840
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 2: It is. It is a different accomplishment. In the NBA,

841
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 2: the home team wins much more than fifty percent of

842
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 2: the time. Removing home court advantage from the process.

843
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 4: And you make everything equal. No, it makes it different. No,

844
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 4: not because you've got every home court advantage is the same.

845
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 4: But I get it. You don't have travel, and you

846
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 4: don't have fans for everybody.

847
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 1: Not just correct.

848
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,800
Speaker 4: Don't say well, because Golden State has the greatest fans

849
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 4: and we didn't get the experience.

850
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 3: I didn't say that, But you're necessarily Golden State, would

851
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 3: you know it?

852
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 2: Not?

853
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:02,799
Speaker 1: Because Golden State, like.

854
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 2: Golden State, was a non factor at that Yes, the

855
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:08,800
Speaker 2: Warriors were a complete non factor. So this has nothing

856
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 2: to do with them. And again, I'm gonna give it

857
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 2: one more shot. It's a great accomplishment. It's a different accomplishment.

858
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 2: It's a different accomplishment. That's all I'm saying. It's not

859
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:25,399
Speaker 2: bad if you want to make it. I've heard people go, oh, hey,

860
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:26,280
Speaker 2: it's even harder.

861
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 3: Great.

862
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 2: We were all coughing, everybody had masks on, people were

863
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:33,280
Speaker 2: rubbing their groceries whatever.

864
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:34,760
Speaker 3: It was different.

865
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 2: Everything that happened for those two years, in my opinion,

866
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,600
Speaker 2: on our whole globe, was different.

867
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 3: Than everything else. And I'm sorry, I'm taking that one

868
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 3: with me to do great.

869
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:49,879
Speaker 4: Take it, hate it. I'm just what we won't take

870
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 4: to the grave. The banner hanging up in the raptors.

871
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 4: That one doesn't go to the grave. That one goes

872
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:58,800
Speaker 4: up in the raptors for all to say.

873
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:02,920
Speaker 2: Well, it's funny though, because it has a name, doesn't

874
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:06,839
Speaker 2: that in and of itself give you pause. They don't

875
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:09,799
Speaker 2: call anything else a bubble chip. They call that a bubble.

876
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: Who calls it the bubble?

877
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:16,280
Speaker 4: Who gave it the Wait a minute, the NBA didn't

878
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 4: call it the bubble chip.

879
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:21,279
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm talking about? What I'm talking about?

880
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 4: The entity itself didn't call it the bubble chip. No,

881
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 4: you can't. You but you can't. You can't give something

882
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:33,879
Speaker 4: the name from home and make it be what that's

883
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 4: what it is.

884
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 2: Right, Lebron James did it to himself. He called him

885
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:40,400
Speaker 2: the King. The league didn't do that. But you know

886
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about when we say it, don't you know?

887
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 1: They they all called him the king.

888
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 4: He was the king before he was even before he

889
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:49,319
Speaker 4: even played the chosen one, sitting on the throne. All

890
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,320
Speaker 4: of that King James, before he stepped foot in the NBA.

891
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 4: He didn't come out and be like, I'm the King,

892
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 4: my name is the King James. They gave him that.

893
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:01,800
Speaker 4: The league, the league, hungry them, didn't do The league

894
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:04,280
Speaker 4: what you you don't think.

895
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:07,400
Speaker 2: I forget you think that David Sterton held a press conference.

896
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 4: You don't, But you don't think they saw what was coming. Oh,

897
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 4: the league, they they're hoping.

898
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:18,360
Speaker 2: They thought something was coming when Darko was coming to

899
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 2: but somethinge coming.

900
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 4: They know now if they, if they trust me, they

901
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 4: didn't think that with Darko. I could promise you that

902
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 4: you want to talk about one of the biggest blunders

903
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 4: in all of.

904
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 1: Sport across the board? Good lord, Piston.

905
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:35,240
Speaker 3: That one, That one's my favorite.

906
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 1: It is.

907
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 2: It is because we had like three highlights. We had

908
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 2: three clips of Darko. Like that was the great thing.

909
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 2: When they did that draft profile, it was like you

910
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 2: you had to watch the same shots ye over the time.

911
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 1: Yes, they only had the.

912
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 2: Three shots, and I'm like, damn, he's never missed. He

913
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 2: made you just made them. He made those three And

914
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 2: everyone's like, okay, number two picking the draft, Wow, ridiculous

915
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 2: passing up on some real.

916
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:05,280
Speaker 1: We don't want Carmelos, we already have wings.

917
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 4: What excuse me, we don't want Chris Bosh because we

918
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 4: already have a say what now?

919
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 1: Good lord? That was dumb?

920
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:24,319
Speaker 4: Okay, anyway, yes, yes, yes, so anyway, moving forward, there

921
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 4: were seventy five games played played there. Okay, the season

922
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 4: was already past the All Star break when the world

923
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:34,840
Speaker 4: turned off and they shut down. Okay, they put it

924
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 4: together that the bubble actually you know, kept people from

925
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 4: jumping out the windows. Man, I mean we were in

926
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 4: think about how much we wanted something, right, we needed something.

927
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:53,799
Speaker 4: So instead of people talking about how unworthy it was,

928
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:57,279
Speaker 4: just remember what it meant to society. And I'm talking

929
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:01,240
Speaker 4: about the world, not just the you know, the NBA.

930
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 4: I'm talking about the world. Being able to turn on

931
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:08,839
Speaker 4: the television and watch live basketball games at a time

932
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 4: where the world had turned off its light switch was tremendous. Absolutely,

933
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 4: So you know, for me, look, we're gonna count it

934
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,799
Speaker 4: as number seventeen. We about to try to get this one,

935
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 4: all right, make it eighteen. The Warriors are in the

936
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 4: way right the series is two to one, Lakers. Can

937
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 4: the Warriors, who've had a history this year of struggling

938
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:42,560
Speaker 4: on the road, can they muster up enough to be

939
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 4: a Los Angeles Laker team at home?

940
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:46,000
Speaker 1: Now?

941
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 4: They did it in Sacramento twice. This not Sacramento. No,

942
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:55,400
Speaker 4: it's not right. This not Sacramento. And we don't have

943
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 4: we don't have a bunch of No it's not we

944
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 4: don't have a bunch of young cats right out here,

945
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 4: just like you know, no, no, no, can you get

946
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:09,760
Speaker 4: it done in in l A hard place to play

947
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 4: and win in the playoffs.

948
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 2: Well, obviously they're going to have to no, no, no

949
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:15,920
Speaker 2: doubt about it. They got two more shots, they got

950
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:18,800
Speaker 2: to get one and handle their own at home or

951
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 2: else it all comes to an end.

952
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 4: That should be the most totally dropping these games at

953
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:29,400
Speaker 4: home because it's hard to play in the Bay in

954
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:31,800
Speaker 4: the especially in the playoffs.

955
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 1: Right, that's hard. It's tough.

956
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 3: It's tough.

957
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:38,200
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962
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:54,279
Speaker 2: question that I have for you, which we will do

963
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 2: coming up next on Fox Sports Radio. Okay, these yearthetyraq

964
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:02,400
Speaker 2: dot com Studios' from Salam and Mark Weard here on

965
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:05,800
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. You know what I loved about

966
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:10,600
Speaker 2: Harden so far in this series, z from is the

967
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:15,360
Speaker 2: fact that it feels like someone who's kind of found himself.

968
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:17,799
Speaker 3: I always think it's difficult.

969
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 2: Professional athletes are at the top of this list, but

970
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 2: maybe it's anybody for that matter. I always feel like

971
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:28,399
Speaker 2: it's difficult for people to realize that when they need

972
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 2: to just take a step back or take a step

973
00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:36,720
Speaker 2: down in life, that's actually when they're going to find

974
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:40,319
Speaker 2: their sweet spot. And I think this is true for

975
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 2: a lot of people. And it's not meant it's for

976
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:45,440
Speaker 2: some reason it's taken that way. It's not meant to

977
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:51,240
Speaker 2: be some sort of criticism. But James Harden is almost

978
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 2: now taking a front seat because he took a back seat,

979
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 2: and I love that he did that this year, had

980
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 2: the awareness to do that this year. There are examples

981
00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 2: all over the NBA of guys who fit better as

982
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:10,279
Speaker 2: a two or a three. Look what Wiggins has done

983
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 2: with the Warriors. I guess even you look at the

984
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:19,120
Speaker 2: pairing of Lebron and Anthony Davis, like, I don't even

985
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 2: know which one you would put the one label on.

986
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 2: But when guys realize that, you know what, a I

987
00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 2: can't do it all by myself, or I shouldn't do

988
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:33,720
Speaker 2: it all by myself, or that's not how it works anyway,

989
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:36,879
Speaker 2: that sort of realization. And I'm not saying I think

990
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 2: Philly's gonna go all the way this year, because I

991
00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:42,319
Speaker 2: don't think that but I do think they are. They're

992
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:48,040
Speaker 2: a much better product with this pairing and the understanding

993
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 2: from each one of them as far as what their

994
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 2: role is.

995
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree on that.

996
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 4: I think the only way Philly has a chance, and

997
00:55:57,120 --> 00:56:02,800
Speaker 4: it's evident is James Harden Rekindle. What made him the MVP,

998
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:07,680
Speaker 4: what had Golden State on the ropes when he was

999
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 4: in Houston, his abilities. I think what we saw in

1000
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:20,760
Speaker 4: game two was him wishing and hoping for a call,

1001
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:24,399
Speaker 4: which he's got into the habit of doing because he's

1002
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:27,160
Speaker 4: been a master manipulator when it comes to driving to

1003
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:29,920
Speaker 4: the hole and getting the calls. Well, what happened was

1004
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:36,359
Speaker 4: after his MVP season, the refs started changing the way

1005
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 4: they called that when the offensive player initiates the contact

1006
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 4: going up to the basket, it becomes a no call.

1007
00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:48,120
Speaker 4: It's taken him a long time to adjust to that

1008
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:53,760
Speaker 4: because it's been part of his game. YEP, blow value

1009
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:57,799
Speaker 4: at the three point line. Instead of looking for the basket,

1010
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:02,919
Speaker 4: he looks for the contact and the basket becomes secondary. Well,

1011
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:06,160
Speaker 4: in the playoffs, they're not going to call that, so

1012
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:10,359
Speaker 4: his focus has shifted and now he's looking for the

1013
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:14,840
Speaker 4: basket if the contact comes. It comes what we've seen

1014
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 4: from him the last game, the first game without Embiid,

1015
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 4: and then today.

1016
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 1: He doesn't care. Here. He put his.

1017
00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 4: Hair back, put his beard back, and he just became

1018
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 4: an assassin. He's going to attack, attack, attack, attack. And

1019
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 4: what happens is he led the league and assists this

1020
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 4: year because so much attention is drawn to him once

1021
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 4: he gets past his defender. In Game two, he couldn't

1022
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:50,600
Speaker 4: get the ball up on the glass, end up on

1023
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 4: the rim because he was looking for the contact. And

1024
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 4: that's not what we saw today. If he continues to

1025
00:57:57,240 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 4: play like this as well, Joel Embiid, you know, got

1026
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:08,880
Speaker 4: twenty six shots right right, thirty four points, forty two points.

1027
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 4: Neither one of these teams use their bench really. They

1028
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 4: have an eight player rotation rotation, and Malcolm Brogden is

1029
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 4: the only one that really really is a bench player

1030
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 4: with any sustainable He plays thirty six minutes right.

1031
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 1: For the Celtics.

1032
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:37,440
Speaker 4: For Philly, Melton, Shake gets twenty five minutes, name gets nineteen.

1033
00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:39,880
Speaker 4: That's that's all we that's all you got. So it's

1034
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 4: basically a seven man rotation. So what you ask yourself

1035
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 4: is the youth of Tatum and Brown, Can it outlast Embiid,

1036
00:58:55,680 --> 00:59:01,320
Speaker 4: the injury of Embiid, and the the the of James Harden,

1037
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:04,480
Speaker 4: Because when you look at this, MBD played forty six,

1038
00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:08,880
Speaker 4: James Harden played forty seven. Right, you look at Tatum

1039
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 4: forty seven, you look at Brown forty four. The bench

1040
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 4: isn't coming in when you when you when you talk

1041
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 4: about bench advantage, it's Brocken him because he comes in

1042
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:23,920
Speaker 4: and he can play starter minutes.

1043
00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 1: So that's a plus.

1044
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 4: So the onus now in order for Philly to close

1045
00:59:30,680 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 4: out this series is going to be the war of attrition.

1046
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:40,080
Speaker 4: Can Joel and bed with that, Knie's brain be healthy enough,

1047
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 4: consistent enough, and can James Harden bottle Games one in

1048
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 4: games four moving forward?

1049
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 3: I mean the answer is probably not.

1050
00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:57,280
Speaker 4: That's a difficult film, right, That's that's hard to do.

1051
00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 2: That's a hell of an ask. Yes, I mean, I

1052
01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 2: think I said this a week ago. We're getting to

1053
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:08,280
Speaker 2: the point and this may be unfair, but man, the

1054
01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:10,400
Speaker 2: avenue is there for the Boston Celtics.

1055
01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 3: Yes, Like I'm.

1056
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:15,640
Speaker 2: Having a hard time with them having a two to

1057
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 2: one lead and home court advantage at that point in

1058
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:22,560
Speaker 2: the NBA Finals last year and to have Steph do

1059
01:00:22,640 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 2: what he did on their floor game four, never win

1060
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:30,480
Speaker 2: another game, then have the Eastern Conference start to fall

1061
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:34,120
Speaker 2: the way that it's falling this year. I don't know, man,

1062
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:36,280
Speaker 2: We're starting to run out of excuses real quick.

1063
01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:40,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, you are. They have it.

1064
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:42,520
Speaker 4: They have the youth, they have the skill, they have

1065
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:46,720
Speaker 4: the length defensively, they got front court, backcourt, defensive players.

1066
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:49,520
Speaker 4: They got a killer six men of a year coming

1067
01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:50,160
Speaker 4: off the bench.

1068
01:00:50,960 --> 01:00:51,160
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1069
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 1: They they can't get it.

1070
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:58,760
Speaker 4: Together, which I'm okay with as a fan because I'm

1071
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:03,600
Speaker 4: a Laker guy. But as a basketball fan, it doesn't

1072
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:07,080
Speaker 4: make sense to me. It doesn't make sense.

1073
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 2: Well, a lot in the Eastern Conference doesn't make sense.

1074
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:13,200
Speaker 2: I mean, what do you make of the Miami Heat

1075
01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:14,920
Speaker 2: right now? Hey man, I don't even know what to

1076
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:16,560
Speaker 2: do with this, because what the hell is going on?

1077
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:20,920
Speaker 2: If the Heat play the Lakers in the finals, Oh

1078
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:21,600
Speaker 2: my god, I.

1079
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:25,400
Speaker 1: Can't wait on earth. Oh please let that happen again.

1080
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:26,000
Speaker 1: We'll take that.

1081
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:28,800
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, it'd be a great story combined

1082
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:33,600
Speaker 2: with an advertisement for for load management and the playing

1083
01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:35,880
Speaker 2: Tournament and all of these things that a lot of

1084
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:36,680
Speaker 2: fans don't like.

1085
01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, the Miami Heat they have some something.

1086
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:44,200
Speaker 1: Called the Butler. The Butler did it?

1087
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:46,440
Speaker 3: Okay, my gosh, he's unbelievable.

1088
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Speaker 4: You can't. You don't want to run into him in

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Speaker 4: a playoff series. You don't want that, Like you, no

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Speaker 4: matter what you I don't care what you think their

1091
01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:57,919
Speaker 4: team has or doesn't have. You don't want to run

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01:01:57,920 --> 01:02:02,240
Speaker 4: into this man in the playoff series because he's unworldly

1093
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:05,680
Speaker 4: when it comes to that, and that is that's something

1094
01:02:05,760 --> 01:02:12,040
Speaker 4: that you can't quantify, you can't explain. You just can't

1095
01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:15,240
Speaker 4: do it, and you don't want it. If whoever, if

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01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:19,439
Speaker 4: Miami makes it out of this, whichever team plays them

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01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:23,840
Speaker 4: in the Eastern Conference Finals are in trouble. That's just

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01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:26,080
Speaker 4: the way I see it. They're in trouble. It's no

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01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 4: telling them what this dude, what Jimmy Butler is gonna do?

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01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:31,800
Speaker 4: You know who else on our team is like that

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01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:37,440
Speaker 4: when we show up to the radio station, when we

1102
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:40,439
Speaker 4: when we show up here and this guy steps into

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01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:45,720
Speaker 4: the door, we know, we know we have a chance

1104
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 4: to win because him showing up is an instant W

1105
01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:54,200
Speaker 4: And that's Stephen W the Sega.

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Speaker 7: Good evening, gentlemen, and you mentioned the Miami Keith. They

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01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:01,240
Speaker 7: lost their playing open a see Atlanta. Let's not first

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01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:04,120
Speaker 7: team exactly had to beat Chicago to stay alive.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 7: Miami's record to start April was forty and thirty seven,

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01:03:09,320 --> 01:03:11,560
Speaker 7: and now Miami, leading two games to one, hosts New

1112
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Speaker 7: York again tomorrow. By the way, for the Knicks last game,

1113
01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:16,360
Speaker 7: the eighty six points was their fewest in a game

1114
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:18,080
Speaker 7: since November, and it.

1115
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:18,880
Speaker 1: Comes against the Heat.

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01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:21,560
Speaker 7: The Heat's record against the East in the regular season

1117
01:03:21,640 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 7: was twenty four and twenty eight. The only playoff team

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01:03:24,560 --> 01:03:28,000
Speaker 7: with a losing record in conference in the East. Lakers

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01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:30,560
Speaker 7: host Golden State again late tomorrow night. With LA up

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Speaker 7: two games to one. Philadelphia is even two games a

1121
01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:36,280
Speaker 7: piece in its second rounder after the overtime win against

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01:03:36,320 --> 01:03:40,040
Speaker 7: Boston won sixteen one point fifteen James Harden forty two points,

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Speaker 7: including the go ahead three pointer. He had nine assists,

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01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:47,120
Speaker 7: one turnover. Harden was sixteen for twenty three shooting from

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Speaker 7: the floor. Remember the previous two games combined, he made

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Speaker 7: five shots five five of twenty eight. Joel Embiid thirty

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01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:56,600
Speaker 7: four points. Marcus Smart at Boston twenty one points, but

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01:03:56,720 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 7: his three at the ind came after the buzzer he

1129
01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:01,320
Speaker 7: missed a three at the end of regulation as well.

1130
01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:04,280
Speaker 7: Jason Tatum started oh of eight shooting from the Florida today.

1131
01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:08,120
Speaker 7: He finished with twenty four points eighteen rebounds in defeat

1132
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:11,800
Speaker 7: Jalen Brown and the Celtics twenty three points. Nuggets one

1133
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:14,600
Speaker 7: seed in the West, currently leading two games to one

1134
01:04:15,120 --> 01:04:18,360
Speaker 7: and leading tonight mid third quarter seventy seven to seventy

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01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:22,560
Speaker 7: five at Phoenix. Nicola Jokic with thirty one points for

1136
01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:25,640
Speaker 7: the Phoenix Suns, twenty five for Devin Booker, twenty one

1137
01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:28,600
Speaker 7: points for Kevin Durant. Chris Paul out again with a

1138
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:31,120
Speaker 7: string growing. Game five of this series will be in

1139
01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:35,280
Speaker 7: Denver late Tuesday. Stanley Cup Playoffs, Florida has just won

1140
01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:38,720
Speaker 7: in overtime three to two over two seed Toronto. That

1141
01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:41,200
Speaker 7: means the Florida Panthers are up three games to none

1142
01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:43,720
Speaker 7: now in this second round series, with Game four in

1143
01:04:43,800 --> 01:04:46,800
Speaker 7: Florida Wednesday. New Jersey was an eight to four winner

1144
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:50,960
Speaker 7: against Carolina today. Game four in New Jersey Tuesday. Hurricanes

1145
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:53,080
Speaker 7: still lead the series two games to one. The late

1146
01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:56,240
Speaker 7: game back to get underway Dallas at Seattle. That series

1147
01:04:56,320 --> 01:04:59,120
Speaker 7: even at a game apiece Sunday night, Baseball top of

1148
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:01,400
Speaker 7: the eighth inning at Santa and Diego Padres two to

1149
01:05:01,400 --> 01:05:04,880
Speaker 7: one over the Dodgers, and among the other games earlier,

1150
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:08,800
Speaker 7: Red Sox actually lost at Philadelphia phil six to one.

1151
01:05:08,960 --> 01:05:11,480
Speaker 7: That was going on roughly the same time Boston against

1152
01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:15,880
Speaker 7: Philadelphia as the NBA Boston at Philadelphia, Atlanta Braves in

1153
01:05:15,960 --> 01:05:19,160
Speaker 7: twelve innings beat the Orioles three to two, Blue Jays,

1154
01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:22,000
Speaker 7: a ten to one winner at the slumping Pirates, Raise

1155
01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:24,720
Speaker 7: one again eight to seven, a comeback against the Yankees,

1156
01:05:24,760 --> 01:05:28,160
Speaker 7: and Garrett cola tenanting win for Tampa Bay Raise record

1157
01:05:28,240 --> 01:05:31,479
Speaker 7: twenty eight and seven. Denny Hamlin took the NASCAR Race

1158
01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:35,000
Speaker 7: at Kansas, bumping by Kyle Larson on the final app

1159
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:37,880
Speaker 7: And by the way, the NBA released the award schedule for.

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Speaker 1: The coming week.

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01:05:38,600 --> 01:05:43,000
Speaker 7: We'll find out daytime tomorrow the All Rookie Team, daytime Tuesday,

1162
01:05:43,040 --> 01:05:46,840
Speaker 7: the All Defensive Team, and pregame Wednesday night will find

1163
01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:48,600
Speaker 7: out the All NBA Team.

1164
01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:52,840
Speaker 2: Back to you, all right, Steve great stop at the

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Speaker 2: For yourself at discover dot com slash match. Hey, the

1169
01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:13,000
Speaker 2: Suns and Nuggets. They've tied things up, erom So I

1170
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:14,959
Speaker 2: don't know which way this is going to go. Maybe

1171
01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:17,000
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a two to two series here in

1172
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 2: another hour and a half or so. But I think

1173
01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:24,040
Speaker 2: fair to ask this question. And Durant looks fine tonight.

1174
01:06:24,320 --> 01:06:28,320
Speaker 2: He's seven for fourteen, twenty three points. But I feel

1175
01:06:28,360 --> 01:06:32,680
Speaker 2: like when he was acquired it felt like okay, and

1176
01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:35,760
Speaker 2: we talked about it so much, the Dallas acquisition, the

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01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:40,439
Speaker 2: Phoenix acquisition. You were going to get overwhelmed offensively by

1178
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:44,280
Speaker 2: this team and it's still Booker's team. And I guess

1179
01:06:44,360 --> 01:06:48,400
Speaker 2: that's fine, But how would you answer that? Why do

1180
01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:52,920
Speaker 2: you think Durant doesn't look like we thought Durant was.

1181
01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:53,640
Speaker 1: Gonna look well?

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Speaker 4: For first off, you know, he hasn't played a lot

1183
01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:00,240
Speaker 4: of basketball this year. He hasn't played a lot of

1184
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:03,360
Speaker 4: basketball this year for this team. But secondly, they're not

1185
01:07:03,480 --> 01:07:07,160
Speaker 4: allowing him to do that. In that first series, they

1186
01:07:07,200 --> 01:07:11,560
Speaker 4: had made a conscious effort to double and get try

1187
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Speaker 4: to get the ball out of Durant's hand. That's why

1188
01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:23,440
Speaker 4: Devin Booker went bananas, right, So teams are more afraid

1189
01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:28,680
Speaker 4: of Kevin Durant than they are of Devin Booker, and

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Speaker 4: Devin Booker is taking advantage of that fear. Right, this

1191
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:36,880
Speaker 4: is what Kevin Durant felt like playing in Golden State

1192
01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:41,200
Speaker 4: when Steph was a two time MVP. Teams were so

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01:07:41,360 --> 01:07:45,920
Speaker 4: hyper focused on running him off the three point line,

1194
01:07:45,960 --> 01:07:49,720
Speaker 4: getting the ball out of his hand. Kevin Durant was open.

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01:07:50,080 --> 01:07:53,000
Speaker 4: He never had been that open in the life in

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01:07:53,040 --> 01:07:58,120
Speaker 4: the NBA. Yep, it's easy to score thirty one you're

1197
01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:03,240
Speaker 4: one on one, and that's what we're seeing. We're seeing

1198
01:08:03,320 --> 01:08:07,960
Speaker 4: teams running at Kevin Durant, forcing Booker to have those

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01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:11,680
Speaker 4: one on one coverages, and he's taking advantage of it.

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01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:14,760
Speaker 4: So it's not so much that I mean Kevin Durant,

1201
01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:17,360
Speaker 4: he has twenty three points, he's only taking fourteen shots.

1202
01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:21,799
Speaker 4: He's seven for fourteen, shooting fifty percent from the field.

1203
01:08:22,800 --> 01:08:25,800
Speaker 4: And these aren't layups. These are all jump shots. So

1204
01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:31,000
Speaker 4: it's not like he has the volume shots. He's shooting

1205
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:34,519
Speaker 4: the ball twenty three thirty times, and he's not putting

1206
01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:41,400
Speaker 4: up the numbers. No, you know, he's you know, he's

1207
01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:47,479
Speaker 4: deferring to Devin Booker number one, Devin Booker's younger got

1208
01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:51,040
Speaker 4: more juice, got more gas. Right, all of this happens

1209
01:08:51,080 --> 01:08:56,160
Speaker 4: what we're seeing in these playoffs. We're seeing these older players, right,

1210
01:08:56,280 --> 01:09:00,760
Speaker 4: the ebbs and flows of a season and then the

1211
01:09:00,800 --> 01:09:04,639
Speaker 4: second season in terms of the playoffs, right, Chris Paul

1212
01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:10,200
Speaker 4: has already gone down, right, These are soft tissue injuries,

1213
01:09:10,240 --> 01:09:15,080
Speaker 4: the growing right. He didn't break anything or twist or spring.

1214
01:09:15,640 --> 01:09:20,160
Speaker 4: It's it's a growing right. So this is really going

1215
01:09:20,240 --> 01:09:25,439
Speaker 4: to be you know, which team with an older star

1216
01:09:26,680 --> 01:09:30,040
Speaker 4: like we're seeing can handle it that James Harden, the

1217
01:09:30,160 --> 01:09:35,960
Speaker 4: Lebron James right, like the two The only team really

1218
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:39,400
Speaker 4: with young the young two young stars are the Celtics,

1219
01:09:39,439 --> 01:09:42,200
Speaker 4: which is why there's such an enigma.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you brought up Brockton, and it's an interesting

1221
01:09:45,360 --> 01:09:48,720
Speaker 2: point because when I look at what happened Dallas and

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01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:52,040
Speaker 2: when I look at what's happening to Phoenix, I'm reminded

1223
01:09:52,720 --> 01:09:55,960
Speaker 2: of the lack of depth that they have. You know,

1224
01:09:56,040 --> 01:10:00,479
Speaker 2: we started off the talking about bench versus in the

1225
01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:05,040
Speaker 2: Lakers Warriors series. The Phoenix Suns are offering almost nothing.

1226
01:10:05,080 --> 01:10:07,479
Speaker 2: They have zero off of their bench, right because they

1227
01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:10,559
Speaker 2: gave it all the way for Kevin Duram and I

1228
01:10:10,760 --> 01:10:13,400
Speaker 2: just I'm not saying that that was a bad move,

1229
01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:16,880
Speaker 2: but it's such a cautionary tale I think for teams

1230
01:10:16,880 --> 01:10:19,599
Speaker 2: out there who are ready to give up their depth

1231
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:23,040
Speaker 2: for one star, because I really don't know if that's

1232
01:10:23,080 --> 01:10:25,120
Speaker 2: as good of a bet as people think it is.

1233
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Speaker 4: It'll get you to the postseason, but it'll make it

1234
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:32,640
Speaker 4: more difficult for you to push through. Right when you

1235
01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:36,519
Speaker 4: look at their bench now, their bench has played a

1236
01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:44,960
Speaker 4: total of thirty four minutes, no, twenty four minutes, twenty

1237
01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:50,720
Speaker 4: eight minutes, and they've given you seven points. Yep, we're

1238
01:10:50,720 --> 01:10:57,840
Speaker 4: in the third quarter with four minutes left. That is unsustainable.

1239
01:10:59,439 --> 01:11:03,920
Speaker 4: It is it's just you will wear down because guess

1240
01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:07,559
Speaker 4: what if you move to the next series, it's just

1241
01:11:07,600 --> 01:11:10,760
Speaker 4: gonna be harder when you move to the finals. If

1242
01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:17,880
Speaker 4: who somebody has to help. Somebody has to help. That's

1243
01:11:17,920 --> 01:11:20,320
Speaker 4: the reason the Lakers were able to take hold of

1244
01:11:20,320 --> 01:11:25,680
Speaker 4: that young Memphis Grizzly series. Rory Hachimora came in. It

1245
01:11:25,720 --> 01:11:32,360
Speaker 4: was crazy. Austin Austen reeves with nuts. The other guys,

1246
01:11:32,400 --> 01:11:36,479
Speaker 4: Dennis Shrewder, look at what D'Angelo Russell did yesterday. The

1247
01:11:36,640 --> 01:11:41,960
Speaker 4: others are allowing our older guys and are often hurt

1248
01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:49,120
Speaker 4: guys to only play thirty four minutes a night. If

1249
01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:52,479
Speaker 4: you can do that and get and maximize their efforts

1250
01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:55,920
Speaker 4: on the defensive end of the court, then you got

1251
01:11:55,960 --> 01:11:58,439
Speaker 4: a shot. If you don't have that guy to come

1252
01:11:58,479 --> 01:12:01,200
Speaker 4: in or those guys to come in and take minutes

1253
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:03,240
Speaker 4: where you don't fall apart.

1254
01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:06,559
Speaker 1: Man, it's gonna be tough. It is gonna be really,

1255
01:12:06,640 --> 01:12:07,200
Speaker 1: really tough.

1256
01:12:08,160 --> 01:12:11,280
Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought up D'Angelo Russell because I would

1257
01:12:11,360 --> 01:12:14,320
Speaker 2: like to bring him up in a completely different tone.

1258
01:12:14,360 --> 01:12:17,040
Speaker 2: There was something you said about James Harden and I'd

1259
01:12:17,080 --> 01:12:19,840
Speaker 2: like to know if you believe it also applies to

1260
01:12:19,960 --> 01:12:23,160
Speaker 2: di'angelo Russell and things we've seen in the first three

1261
01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:26,120
Speaker 2: games of this series against Golden State. So we'll do

1262
01:12:26,280 --> 01:12:29,679
Speaker 2: that coming up next along with e from Salam Mark Willard,

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Speaker 2: It's Fox Sports Radio. Okay, we are live in the

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Speaker 2: ti iraq dot Com studio. Is Mark Willerty from Salam

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01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:41,120
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. Okay, my man, I gotta get my

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01:12:41,200 --> 01:12:42,439
Speaker 2: qualifiers out first.

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01:12:42,479 --> 01:12:42,719
Speaker 1: Now.

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01:12:44,200 --> 01:12:47,200
Speaker 2: I ain't mad at the refs. I'm not mad at

1269
01:12:47,200 --> 01:12:51,840
Speaker 2: the refs. It's not their fault and I'm only gonna

1270
01:12:51,920 --> 01:12:55,840
Speaker 2: use D'Angelo Russell in this particular case as an example.

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Speaker 3: He is far from alone. Hell.

1272
01:12:58,760 --> 01:13:01,439
Speaker 2: One of the reasons I think Chris Paul gets hurt

1273
01:13:01,439 --> 01:13:04,439
Speaker 2: in the playoffs every year, it's because of karma. Honestly,

1274
01:13:04,520 --> 01:13:08,320
Speaker 2: there's something, there's something I hate in the NBA, and

1275
01:13:08,360 --> 01:13:10,879
Speaker 2: there's no team that is immune.

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01:13:11,280 --> 01:13:13,719
Speaker 3: So I'm just gonna use Russell as an example here.

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01:13:14,320 --> 01:13:16,400
Speaker 2: I think there's been a little bit from Draymond in

1278
01:13:16,479 --> 01:13:22,519
Speaker 2: this series in this sort of same area. Certainly other

1279
01:13:22,560 --> 01:13:26,960
Speaker 2: players have gotten away with it. Shrewder with a terrible

1280
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:31,080
Speaker 2: flop earlier in this series. But you brought up something

1281
01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:36,479
Speaker 2: about James Harden. Instead of looking for contact right he's

1282
01:13:36,479 --> 01:13:40,519
Speaker 2: looking for the shot. And I'm sure you've noticed this

1283
01:13:40,640 --> 01:13:43,840
Speaker 2: maneuver that DiAngelo does, and I think it works a

1284
01:13:44,040 --> 01:13:46,160
Speaker 2: because he's got a little bit of an awkward style

1285
01:13:46,560 --> 01:13:48,640
Speaker 2: and b because he's left handed.

1286
01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:51,240
Speaker 3: So dudes just aren't ready for it. But he's got

1287
01:13:51,280 --> 01:13:53,200
Speaker 3: the ball in his left hand, and if he.

1288
01:13:53,240 --> 01:13:58,440
Speaker 2: Finds your arm in a vulnerable spot, he will immediately

1289
01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:02,959
Speaker 2: bring the right arm up to the ball and suddenly

1290
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:04,800
Speaker 2: act like he was going to shoot a shot, which

1291
01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:09,360
Speaker 2: he wasn't gonna do and he draws the foul. Here's

1292
01:14:09,400 --> 01:14:13,080
Speaker 2: the bigger issue. I listen, if it works, you do it.

1293
01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:16,760
Speaker 2: I get it. But there's there's one thing that a

1294
01:14:16,760 --> 01:14:19,880
Speaker 2: lot of NBA players do, and it makes me have

1295
01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:24,200
Speaker 2: a hard time watching those NBA players, And when it's

1296
01:14:24,640 --> 01:14:28,200
Speaker 2: it's when they play from a game of trying to

1297
01:14:28,240 --> 01:14:32,200
Speaker 2: get the ref to think something happened that didn't happen.

1298
01:14:33,320 --> 01:14:38,720
Speaker 2: That that's what That's what I find so difficult, and

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01:14:38,840 --> 01:14:40,800
Speaker 2: I wish there was a.

1300
01:14:40,920 --> 01:14:45,240
Speaker 3: Different way to go about this. And I really think from.

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01:14:45,320 --> 01:14:49,800
Speaker 2: The age of review is offering the answer. If we're

1302
01:14:49,840 --> 01:14:51,600
Speaker 2: going to go review everything to see if it was

1303
01:14:51,640 --> 01:14:54,680
Speaker 2: a flagrant, if we're going to go review everything when

1304
01:14:54,680 --> 01:14:59,160
Speaker 2: there's a challenge, then there needs to be something coming

1305
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:02,680
Speaker 2: back in the other direction. If I review it and

1306
01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:07,000
Speaker 2: it turns out you flopped, it's not a no foul,

1307
01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:11,080
Speaker 2: it's a foul on you. It's a foul on you,

1308
01:15:11,520 --> 01:15:15,120
Speaker 2: or something to that effect. A few years ago, they

1309
01:15:15,120 --> 01:15:17,639
Speaker 2: decided they were going to start finding guys for flopping,

1310
01:15:18,320 --> 01:15:22,680
Speaker 2: and guess what happened with that idea. It flopped. They

1311
01:15:22,760 --> 01:15:25,720
Speaker 2: stopped worrying about it. They're not doing it anymore. It's

1312
01:15:25,720 --> 01:15:28,160
Speaker 2: time to bring it back well.

1313
01:15:28,200 --> 01:15:30,679
Speaker 4: In the NCAA, if you flop, then it's a technical.

1314
01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:35,480
Speaker 4: It's not a personal file or anything. But you you

1315
01:15:35,479 --> 01:15:39,599
Speaker 4: you shoot a technical foul. Three second defensive three seconds

1316
01:15:39,640 --> 01:15:42,760
Speaker 4: is a technical as it should be. Take file is

1317
01:15:42,760 --> 01:15:48,800
Speaker 4: a technical. Let's go right, one shot and continue on.

1318
01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:53,559
Speaker 4: So if that's something that you you know it would

1319
01:15:54,040 --> 01:15:56,720
Speaker 4: it would be that you or willing to sacrifice a

1320
01:15:56,760 --> 01:16:05,759
Speaker 4: point for it. So it has been. I mean, James

1321
01:16:05,800 --> 01:16:10,479
Speaker 4: Harden made that what it is. He made it prevalent.

1322
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:14,679
Speaker 4: Who's scoring thirty six points a game and shooting twenty

1323
01:16:14,680 --> 01:16:19,720
Speaker 4: free throws a game? Right, because you take an unnatural

1324
01:16:21,840 --> 01:16:26,200
Speaker 4: shooting motion. Remember Kevin Durant made the rip through famous.

1325
01:16:27,080 --> 01:16:31,280
Speaker 4: They stopped giving free throws to that because all you

1326
01:16:31,320 --> 01:16:32,840
Speaker 4: would do is just rip through and go up for

1327
01:16:32,960 --> 01:16:34,360
Speaker 4: like a shot, and you go into the free throw

1328
01:16:34,360 --> 01:16:35,760
Speaker 4: line for three free throws.

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01:16:36,240 --> 01:16:39,080
Speaker 2: To me, this looks like almost the exact same thing. Yeah,

1330
01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:45,599
Speaker 2: it's the exact same thing. It's tangling up arms on

1331
01:16:45,720 --> 01:16:49,439
Speaker 2: purpose to get a foul at an odd time that

1332
01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:51,880
Speaker 2: is not when you were going to shoot a basketball.

1333
01:16:52,320 --> 01:16:55,479
Speaker 3: And it's just it's weak. It's just weak.

1334
01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:55,920
Speaker 1: Sauce.

1335
01:16:55,960 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 2: I don't know, any other way to say it. It's

1336
01:16:57,960 --> 01:17:01,519
Speaker 2: not a basketball play. It's not a good play. And

1337
01:17:01,600 --> 01:17:03,360
Speaker 2: too many of the guys that I just threw out

1338
01:17:03,360 --> 01:17:06,920
Speaker 2: on this list, they're too good, quite frankly, for this.

1339
01:17:07,920 --> 01:17:10,640
Speaker 3: They're too good. You're too good of a scorer to

1340
01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:12,120
Speaker 3: resort to that.

1341
01:17:14,760 --> 01:17:17,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, but it's become part of the fabric

1342
01:17:17,800 --> 01:17:21,400
Speaker 4: of the game, right kids are doing it in aau.

1343
01:17:23,040 --> 01:17:25,679
Speaker 4: This is you know, this is what that's what happens,

1344
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:32,760
Speaker 4: and so you know, at some point the refs have

1345
01:17:32,880 --> 01:17:40,479
Speaker 4: to take a stand, but it won't happen until that happens,

1346
01:17:41,960 --> 01:17:45,080
Speaker 4: you know. I just you know, basketball is ever changing

1347
01:17:45,160 --> 01:17:51,600
Speaker 4: every years. It's just it's changing, and you know, it

1348
01:17:52,280 --> 01:17:52,960
Speaker 4: is what it is.

1349
01:17:53,040 --> 01:17:53,240
Speaker 1: You know.

1350
01:17:53,439 --> 01:17:58,160
Speaker 4: I'm just sitting here watching Kevin Durant and Devin Booker

1351
01:17:58,320 --> 01:18:04,320
Speaker 4: just go ham right, Devin Booker is thirty six, Kevin

1352
01:18:04,360 --> 01:18:09,240
Speaker 4: Durant twenty seven. They're both shooting over fifty percent from

1353
01:18:09,280 --> 01:18:10,960
Speaker 4: the field.

1354
01:18:11,800 --> 01:18:14,800
Speaker 1: You know, but how long can they they last.

1355
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:18,760
Speaker 2: Doing this well, and they're only up by six as

1356
01:18:18,760 --> 01:18:22,040
Speaker 2: they start the fourth quarter. Yeah, like Denver, Denver's still

1357
01:18:22,080 --> 01:18:25,360
Speaker 2: right there. Yokis is going crazy tonight. He's got forty

1358
01:18:25,360 --> 01:18:28,240
Speaker 2: two and uh and this is this is one of

1359
01:18:28,280 --> 01:18:31,360
Speaker 2: those games. I mean, Phoenix has got absolutely got to

1360
01:18:31,400 --> 01:18:34,920
Speaker 2: have it. So they're gonna play with a desperation here,

1361
01:18:35,479 --> 01:18:38,280
Speaker 2: and you know, you have to like their chances. But

1362
01:18:39,120 --> 01:18:42,400
Speaker 2: I didn't see anything in the games in Denver that

1363
01:18:42,439 --> 01:18:45,400
Speaker 2: would suggest to me that Phoenix is gonna win a

1364
01:18:45,439 --> 01:18:46,080
Speaker 2: game in Denver.

1365
01:18:46,400 --> 01:18:46,559
Speaker 1: No.

1366
01:18:46,760 --> 01:18:48,719
Speaker 4: No, it's hard to play up there, man, that altitude

1367
01:18:48,880 --> 01:18:50,599
Speaker 4: to jump on you, and along as a series goes,

1368
01:18:50,600 --> 01:18:53,519
Speaker 4: the harder it is to play. What I will say,

1369
01:18:53,720 --> 01:18:59,519
Speaker 4: I'll say this, whoever wins this series, I don't think

1370
01:18:59,520 --> 01:18:59,880
Speaker 4: they can be.

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01:19:00,040 --> 01:19:01,200
Speaker 1: The Lakers are Golden State.

1372
01:19:01,840 --> 01:19:07,639
Speaker 4: So just in terms of style of play, depth, all

1373
01:19:07,680 --> 01:19:09,040
Speaker 4: of that, I just don't see it.

1374
01:19:10,720 --> 01:19:14,160
Speaker 2: That's an interesting statement and definitely a first time statement

1375
01:19:14,520 --> 01:19:19,400
Speaker 2: coming out of a six slash seven series. Yeah yeah,

1376
01:19:19,439 --> 01:19:21,760
Speaker 2: I mean one on Earth. But I'm not sure that

1377
01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:27,000
Speaker 2: I disagree with you. The Lakers and the Warriors and

1378
01:19:27,040 --> 01:19:31,000
Speaker 2: the experience and the calm under pressure that they offer

1379
01:19:31,600 --> 01:19:36,400
Speaker 2: right now seems to kind of rule the day. However,

1380
01:19:36,880 --> 01:19:40,760
Speaker 2: especially since you said that, we also know this as

1381
01:19:40,760 --> 01:19:45,679
Speaker 2: a series draws on the eyeballs on officiating only grow.

1382
01:19:46,360 --> 01:19:48,639
Speaker 2: So this is the question that I asked you coming

1383
01:19:48,760 --> 01:19:53,240
Speaker 2: up next, Ephraim is they love the Lakers versus the Warriors.

1384
01:19:53,680 --> 01:19:57,880
Speaker 2: But which team would the league love to see move

1385
01:19:57,960 --> 01:20:01,719
Speaker 2: on more? That's what we're gonna get to coming up next.

1386
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Speaker 2: got to get to that Laker Warrior question in just

1397
01:20:36,880 --> 01:20:39,519
Speaker 2: a second, but I also notice this, and I wonder

1398
01:20:39,560 --> 01:20:41,960
Speaker 2: what you think. All the way back to the days

1399
01:20:42,000 --> 01:20:45,559
Speaker 2: of Charles Barkley saying that a jump shooting team will

1400
01:20:45,640 --> 01:20:48,240
Speaker 2: never win a championship, and then it became a T

1401
01:20:48,400 --> 01:20:51,920
Speaker 2: shirt when the Warriors first won one. But you look

1402
01:20:51,960 --> 01:20:54,960
Speaker 2: at it right now, the Nuggets in the suns. Here,

1403
01:20:55,000 --> 01:20:57,559
Speaker 2: we are just outside of seven minutes to go in

1404
01:20:57,560 --> 01:21:02,200
Speaker 2: the game. At a total a total of forty three

1405
01:21:02,840 --> 01:21:05,840
Speaker 2: three point attempts have been made in this game.

1406
01:21:06,120 --> 01:21:06,719
Speaker 1: That's crazy.

1407
01:21:06,760 --> 01:21:11,080
Speaker 2: That's why both teams combined. The Warriors would have shot

1408
01:21:11,160 --> 01:21:15,120
Speaker 2: more than that by themselves at this point, which is

1409
01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:18,000
Speaker 2: a problem. They lean a little bit too much in

1410
01:21:18,080 --> 01:21:24,000
Speaker 2: that direction. I mean, they've shot over fifty in a

1411
01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:27,080
Speaker 2: lot of games in these playoffs, so I'm not saying

1412
01:21:27,160 --> 01:21:29,559
Speaker 2: that's the end all be all, But in the age

1413
01:21:29,560 --> 01:21:32,360
Speaker 2: of analytics, where it seems like most people are like, well,

1414
01:21:32,760 --> 01:21:34,759
Speaker 2: I may not be great at math, but it seems

1415
01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:38,680
Speaker 2: to me that three is more than two, and that

1416
01:21:38,760 --> 01:21:42,000
Speaker 2: seems to be the way people go about planning out

1417
01:21:42,000 --> 01:21:42,840
Speaker 2: their offense.

1418
01:21:43,240 --> 01:21:46,040
Speaker 3: What to you, and I know obviously it has to

1419
01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:46,759
Speaker 3: do with who's.

1420
01:21:46,560 --> 01:21:50,200
Speaker 2: Your personnel, But what's a sweet spot about how many

1421
01:21:50,240 --> 01:21:50,679
Speaker 2: per game?

1422
01:21:51,960 --> 01:21:54,040
Speaker 1: I say, if you can get away.

1423
01:21:55,360 --> 01:22:02,320
Speaker 4: With shooting right around thirty the thirty two threes a game,

1424
01:22:03,600 --> 01:22:07,719
Speaker 4: and if you're hitting forty percent of those, I think

1425
01:22:07,800 --> 01:22:15,519
Speaker 4: that's the sweet spot. Because technically, roughly a team will

1426
01:22:15,560 --> 01:22:23,559
Speaker 4: get about anywhere between eighty five and ninety field goal

1427
01:22:23,600 --> 01:22:29,439
Speaker 4: attempts shots per game. Yeah, shots per game, So if

1428
01:22:29,479 --> 01:22:37,200
Speaker 4: you could do a third there, then I think that

1429
01:22:37,200 --> 01:22:41,760
Speaker 4: that would bold well, that means you're you're balanced and

1430
01:22:41,800 --> 01:22:45,120
Speaker 4: you're not relying heavily. That Remember, that's the reason Golden

1431
01:22:45,120 --> 01:22:49,639
Speaker 4: State dismantled Houston that they shot they missed twenty six

1432
01:22:49,680 --> 01:22:53,080
Speaker 4: threes in a row. Well, I know it's a bad

1433
01:22:53,120 --> 01:22:56,120
Speaker 4: shot when it doesn't go in, right, but but these

1434
01:22:56,280 --> 01:22:59,599
Speaker 4: these are highly missed that many. Yeah, it's high. These

1435
01:22:59,600 --> 01:23:04,080
Speaker 4: are high efficient shooters. So you don't expect that you're

1436
01:23:04,120 --> 01:23:07,719
Speaker 4: going to miss, right. You're not gonna you're gonna miss

1437
01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:10,960
Speaker 4: twenty seven in a row, right right now, every shot

1438
01:23:11,040 --> 01:23:14,080
Speaker 4: you take that's an open three, you feel like it's

1439
01:23:14,160 --> 01:23:18,200
Speaker 4: going in. But when it's not, Like the Lakers were

1440
01:23:18,240 --> 01:23:22,800
Speaker 4: able to win Game one and they shot abysmals. Lebron

1441
01:23:22,880 --> 01:23:25,680
Speaker 4: James himself was one for eight, right, I think they

1442
01:23:25,720 --> 01:23:30,519
Speaker 4: I think they only made four threes to Golden States

1443
01:23:30,560 --> 01:23:35,040
Speaker 4: twenty one, but they also shot twenty five free throws.

1444
01:23:36,680 --> 01:23:41,479
Speaker 4: So the balance there. Now, Golden State historically is one

1445
01:23:41,479 --> 01:23:46,320
Speaker 4: of the best shooting three point shooting teams of all time,

1446
01:23:47,560 --> 01:23:53,040
Speaker 4: of all time, it's not even close. So they're gonna

1447
01:23:53,040 --> 01:23:55,400
Speaker 4: live by it and die by it because their team

1448
01:23:55,439 --> 01:24:00,320
Speaker 4: is built like that. Everybody else isn't built life like that,

1449
01:24:00,400 --> 01:24:02,880
Speaker 4: So what do you do? How do you adjust?

1450
01:24:04,240 --> 01:24:09,799
Speaker 1: Right? If you have embiid or if you have Joker,

1451
01:24:10,280 --> 01:24:10,960
Speaker 1: or if you have.

1452
01:24:10,960 --> 01:24:14,920
Speaker 4: Anthony Davis, then I'm like, hey, hey man, y'all need

1453
01:24:14,920 --> 01:24:18,040
Speaker 4: to come on now, cut all that out now, right right,

1454
01:24:18,160 --> 01:24:24,280
Speaker 4: Like if you have a at tangible bucket getter who

1455
01:24:24,320 --> 01:24:27,880
Speaker 4: can go free throw line extended down, then yeah, man,

1456
01:24:27,960 --> 01:24:30,960
Speaker 4: that's where you want to live, because what that does

1457
01:24:31,040 --> 01:24:34,400
Speaker 4: is it draws the defense in and now those very

1458
01:24:34,479 --> 01:24:38,439
Speaker 4: same threes become even more open. Now there's balance. Do

1459
01:24:38,520 --> 01:24:41,639
Speaker 4: you double on the on the big If you do,

1460
01:24:42,240 --> 01:24:44,800
Speaker 4: someone's gonna be wide open for the three? Or are

1461
01:24:44,840 --> 01:24:48,519
Speaker 4: you just coming off screens hoisting up you know, threes.

1462
01:24:49,880 --> 01:24:53,840
Speaker 4: There's a different way to get to the three and

1463
01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:57,280
Speaker 4: normally putting pressure inside And I'm not talking about this

1464
01:24:57,439 --> 01:25:00,720
Speaker 4: new age of driving to the basket, jumping up to

1465
01:25:00,760 --> 01:25:03,760
Speaker 4: the rim and catapulting the ball back out because you're

1466
01:25:03,840 --> 01:25:06,559
Speaker 4: essentially not putting any pressure in. You're just driving to kick,

1467
01:25:06,640 --> 01:25:12,040
Speaker 4: You're not driving to score. And I think the way

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01:25:12,200 --> 01:25:14,920
Speaker 4: the reason Miami has the success they have even with

1469
01:25:15,000 --> 01:25:17,240
Speaker 4: one of their best shooters out with the broken hand

1470
01:25:17,520 --> 01:25:23,719
Speaker 4: and hero, is because Jimmy Butler drives to score. Jimmy

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01:25:23,720 --> 01:25:29,360
Speaker 4: Butler goes to the hole to score, and I think

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01:25:29,840 --> 01:25:35,000
Speaker 4: Lebron James goes to the hole to score. Anthony Davis

1473
01:25:35,080 --> 01:25:38,000
Speaker 4: goes to the hole to score. We saw D'Angelo Russell

1474
01:25:38,400 --> 01:25:41,200
Speaker 4: running off the three point line going to the hole

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01:25:41,280 --> 01:25:43,400
Speaker 4: to score, and I think that's a difference. I think

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01:25:43,439 --> 01:25:45,640
Speaker 4: it brings a different element to the game, and I

1477
01:25:45,680 --> 01:25:49,439
Speaker 4: think it's difficult to uh to guard that.

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Speaker 3: Com slash match. How would you answer that question.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure necessarily what its relevance is because I'm

1486
01:26:12,320 --> 01:26:17,160
Speaker 2: not necessarily a buyer into all of the NBA conspiracy theories.

1487
01:26:17,280 --> 01:26:21,120
Speaker 2: But who do you think the league wants to move on?

1488
01:26:21,880 --> 01:26:25,960
Speaker 2: Between the Lakers and the Warriors. I think it's a

1489
01:26:25,960 --> 01:26:28,960
Speaker 2: toss up. I think you get exactly what you need

1490
01:26:29,040 --> 01:26:33,519
Speaker 2: and what you want from either team. The Golden State

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01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:38,960
Speaker 2: Wards are defending champions. They have SUREFI Hall of Famers

1492
01:26:39,400 --> 01:26:42,880
Speaker 2: have the greatest shooter on the planet Earth, the most

1493
01:26:42,880 --> 01:26:47,240
Speaker 2: relatable team in NBA history in the Golden State Warriors.

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01:26:47,560 --> 01:26:50,519
Speaker 2: And then you have the lineage of Lebron James. You

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01:26:50,600 --> 01:26:55,320
Speaker 2: have the cachet and the greatness of one of the

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01:26:55,760 --> 01:26:59,040
Speaker 2: you know, your storied franchises. Golden State has won seven

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01:26:59,160 --> 01:27:04,080
Speaker 2: NBA championships as well now, So I think either way,

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01:27:04,680 --> 01:27:08,160
Speaker 2: the NBA wished this could be the Western Conference final.

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01:27:09,200 --> 01:27:11,480
Speaker 2: That's what the NBA really wanted.

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Speaker 4: Well, of course, because either when you get whatever team

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01:27:16,000 --> 01:27:18,559
Speaker 4: that came out of that and want to represent the

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01:27:18,600 --> 01:27:23,519
Speaker 4: Western Conference in the finals, you won, you won. So

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01:27:23,880 --> 01:27:28,360
Speaker 4: for me, I don't think the league is leaning either way.

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01:27:28,720 --> 01:27:30,559
Speaker 4: I know people are like, oh, they want Lebron James

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01:27:30,560 --> 01:27:32,560
Speaker 4: to get his name. Yeah, but Steph Curry's one of

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01:27:32,600 --> 01:27:39,120
Speaker 4: those guys on that Mount Rushmore as well. Now they

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01:27:39,160 --> 01:27:45,040
Speaker 4: both moved the needle. So you know, looking at you know,

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Speaker 4: who do you think you know the league?

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01:27:47,720 --> 01:27:47,840
Speaker 2: One?

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01:27:48,080 --> 01:27:52,000
Speaker 4: I really don't. I really can't. I would love to

1511
01:27:52,040 --> 01:27:54,760
Speaker 4: say the Lakers because I'm a Laker guy. But if

1512
01:27:54,800 --> 01:27:59,439
Speaker 4: Golden State continues on they're defending champions, that in itself

1513
01:27:59,520 --> 01:28:00,280
Speaker 4: is the store.

1514
01:28:01,080 --> 01:28:04,639
Speaker 2: The box office. Those are we talked about it last week.

1515
01:28:04,880 --> 01:28:08,000
Speaker 2: These are the one in the two seed in NBA

1516
01:28:08,320 --> 01:28:11,160
Speaker 2: and maybe even sports entertainment right now in terms of

1517
01:28:11,240 --> 01:28:15,360
Speaker 2: box office Steph Curry and Lebron James. So this series

1518
01:28:15,479 --> 01:28:19,439
Speaker 2: is perfect from that standpoint. As far as where it

1519
01:28:19,479 --> 01:28:23,880
Speaker 2: goes next, I mean maybe with the league. You know,

1520
01:28:24,000 --> 01:28:26,479
Speaker 2: as you said, it can't be the Western Conference finals.

1521
01:28:26,479 --> 01:28:29,600
Speaker 3: So what it can be though is long. They can

1522
01:28:29,720 --> 01:28:30,679
Speaker 3: be a long series.

1523
01:28:31,080 --> 01:28:34,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, And again, I know a lot of people believe

1524
01:28:34,160 --> 01:28:36,320
Speaker 2: in this stuff and a lot of people don't.

1525
01:28:36,720 --> 01:28:40,520
Speaker 3: I tend not to. But I also think somewhere.

1526
01:28:40,200 --> 01:28:45,559
Speaker 2: Along the line, there is a humanness to when one

1527
01:28:45,600 --> 01:28:49,519
Speaker 2: team is upset at the end of a game and

1528
01:28:49,560 --> 01:28:53,479
Speaker 2: they are pointing to certain things that have happened with

1529
01:28:53,840 --> 01:28:58,280
Speaker 2: officiating or a certain player, and social media gets a

1530
01:28:58,320 --> 01:29:00,439
Speaker 2: hold of that and starts a top talk about it

1531
01:29:00,479 --> 01:29:03,160
Speaker 2: a lot for forty eight hours. I think there's a

1532
01:29:03,840 --> 01:29:06,839
Speaker 2: there's a sending of the energy in the other direction

1533
01:29:07,479 --> 01:29:10,600
Speaker 2: that tends to show up in the next game. And

1534
01:29:11,439 --> 01:29:15,080
Speaker 2: maybe that's something that will help this series kind of

1535
01:29:15,400 --> 01:29:17,479
Speaker 2: keep going back and forth because I sort of get

1536
01:29:17,479 --> 01:29:18,719
Speaker 2: the feeling that that's what it's going.

1537
01:29:18,680 --> 01:29:21,519
Speaker 4: To do well. And you're talking in terms of the

1538
01:29:21,560 --> 01:29:25,080
Speaker 4: disparity in files. Right, well, yes and no.

1539
01:29:25,240 --> 01:29:27,559
Speaker 2: I mean the Lakers, as you've said, and I agree

1540
01:29:27,560 --> 01:29:30,320
Speaker 2: with you, they're built to end up at the free

1541
01:29:30,360 --> 01:29:32,320
Speaker 2: throw line a lot more than the Warriors are, and

1542
01:29:32,360 --> 01:29:32,880
Speaker 2: they will.

1543
01:29:33,240 --> 01:29:34,559
Speaker 3: And that does not mean.

1544
01:29:34,760 --> 01:29:37,839
Speaker 2: That the fouls are out of whack or the officials

1545
01:29:37,880 --> 01:29:38,960
Speaker 2: are doing something wrong.

1546
01:29:39,360 --> 01:29:40,000
Speaker 3: I think.

1547
01:29:41,479 --> 01:29:43,920
Speaker 2: There's a line to this, But the Lakers are going

1548
01:29:43,920 --> 01:29:46,200
Speaker 2: to get fouled more than the Warriors, and that's not

1549
01:29:46,280 --> 01:29:48,960
Speaker 2: a mystery. The Lakers are going to the basket. The

1550
01:29:49,000 --> 01:29:51,599
Speaker 2: Warriors don't go into the basket as much. It's pretty

1551
01:29:51,600 --> 01:29:55,080
Speaker 2: simple a to b But I do think that when

1552
01:29:55,120 --> 01:29:58,639
Speaker 2: you're looking at certain things. For instance, Steve Kurtz press

1553
01:29:58,680 --> 01:30:03,360
Speaker 2: conference today, it's all about officiating. It wasn't Steve saying it.

1554
01:30:03,360 --> 01:30:06,519
Speaker 2: It was all the questions. Steve kept saying, why are

1555
01:30:06,560 --> 01:30:09,439
Speaker 2: we talking about the refs? We lost by thirty? The

1556
01:30:09,520 --> 01:30:12,559
Speaker 2: refs are not the reason that the Warriors lost the game.

1557
01:30:12,600 --> 01:30:17,160
Speaker 2: And he's right, But why are all the reporters asking

1558
01:30:17,600 --> 01:30:20,320
Speaker 2: Because there's a perception when you come out of the

1559
01:30:20,360 --> 01:30:23,320
Speaker 2: game that the losing team, if they've got certain things

1560
01:30:23,360 --> 01:30:26,680
Speaker 2: they're pointing to that they don't like the refts are

1561
01:30:26,680 --> 01:30:30,000
Speaker 2: going to have that in their heads, whether they try

1562
01:30:30,040 --> 01:30:30,960
Speaker 2: to block it out or not.

1563
01:30:32,120 --> 01:30:38,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's there. But Golden State's not going to change

1564
01:30:38,400 --> 01:30:41,840
Speaker 4: the way they play. So if you're looking for the

1565
01:30:41,880 --> 01:30:46,519
Speaker 4: calls to be so would question are you asking for

1566
01:30:47,880 --> 01:30:53,599
Speaker 4: there'd be less calls called, you know, on Golden State,

1567
01:30:53,760 --> 01:30:57,240
Speaker 4: because I don't think that's what they're asking for. No,

1568
01:30:57,280 --> 01:31:00,680
Speaker 4: it's not even yeah, they're style. A play doesn't warrant

1569
01:31:01,680 --> 01:31:03,160
Speaker 4: them getting more calls.

1570
01:31:03,520 --> 01:31:03,840
Speaker 3: Now.

1571
01:31:04,040 --> 01:31:06,519
Speaker 2: I don't think there's a specific label to it. I

1572
01:31:06,560 --> 01:31:11,360
Speaker 2: think there's just a perception in every NBA game when

1573
01:31:11,400 --> 01:31:14,639
Speaker 2: you walk away from it, there's one side that's kind

1574
01:31:14,640 --> 01:31:19,280
Speaker 2: of like that didn't feel so good. It's obviously usually

1575
01:31:19,360 --> 01:31:24,679
Speaker 2: the losing team. But let's be real, when that losing

1576
01:31:24,760 --> 01:31:29,960
Speaker 2: team is the Warriors or the Lakers or the Celtics

1577
01:31:30,120 --> 01:31:35,439
Speaker 2: or whatever those big brands, there tends to be a

1578
01:31:36,400 --> 01:31:39,160
Speaker 2: corrective aspect in the next game.

1579
01:31:40,000 --> 01:31:41,000
Speaker 3: It's just the way it is.

1580
01:31:41,479 --> 01:31:44,920
Speaker 2: When the Kings came to San Francisco up two games

1581
01:31:44,920 --> 01:31:48,679
Speaker 2: to none the very first time out, where they're doing

1582
01:31:49,240 --> 01:31:52,599
Speaker 2: the miked up situation with Mike Brown the very first

1583
01:31:52,680 --> 01:31:55,559
Speaker 2: time out, you hear him yelling at his team he goes,

1584
01:31:55,720 --> 01:31:57,360
Speaker 2: I told you the reps weren't going to give you

1585
01:31:57,400 --> 01:32:01,200
Speaker 2: any calls tonight, right right. Why are you thinking that

1586
01:32:01,280 --> 01:32:04,320
Speaker 2: they're gonna get you calls? Of course they're not. That's

1587
01:32:04,400 --> 01:32:07,519
Speaker 2: not the way this works. That doesn't mean the league

1588
01:32:07,640 --> 01:32:11,240
Speaker 2: was favoring the Warriors. It's just the natural flow of

1589
01:32:11,840 --> 01:32:12,400
Speaker 2: a series.

1590
01:32:14,600 --> 01:32:19,959
Speaker 4: Yet, you know, playoff series are are are more physical

1591
01:32:20,000 --> 01:32:23,160
Speaker 4: than the regular season. We know that the team gorse,

1592
01:32:23,439 --> 01:32:29,080
Speaker 4: the team that initiates the physicality that bowls well for them.

1593
01:32:29,439 --> 01:32:36,360
Speaker 4: The Lakers are a physical team, always have been. Shout

1594
01:32:36,360 --> 01:32:41,160
Speaker 4: out to the Dodgers. Woof Okay, all right, right top

1595
01:32:41,200 --> 01:32:48,240
Speaker 4: of the tenth, okay, all right, all right my Dodgers. Well,

1596
01:32:48,240 --> 01:32:51,120
Speaker 4: I wouldn't. I wouldn't say you're Padres because you're you.

1597
01:32:51,000 --> 01:32:56,360
Speaker 2: Know, no, I knowed Ted Lightner, He's no, yes.

1598
01:32:56,240 --> 01:33:01,600
Speaker 4: I know, yes. But you know, physicality is something the

1599
01:33:01,680 --> 01:33:08,519
Speaker 4: Lakers do well. They're long, they're aggressive, they're challenging shots.

1600
01:33:08,560 --> 01:33:12,919
Speaker 4: How many teams have a shot blocker? How many teams

1601
01:33:13,479 --> 01:33:20,839
Speaker 4: has somebody who's gonna go up and block shots, literally,

1602
01:33:20,840 --> 01:33:24,160
Speaker 4: a rim protector. There are very few of those, we know,

1603
01:33:24,280 --> 01:33:29,720
Speaker 4: Joel and be right. Ye, so yeah, Steph Curry's not

1604
01:33:29,840 --> 01:33:32,920
Speaker 4: going to get those layups, so those float there. You

1605
01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:36,479
Speaker 4: can have someone who's really gonna block a shot or

1606
01:33:36,520 --> 01:33:39,760
Speaker 4: attempt to block a shot without filing you, because that's

1607
01:33:39,800 --> 01:33:45,200
Speaker 4: what they practice. They practice on that right, they practice

1608
01:33:45,320 --> 01:33:47,200
Speaker 4: on going to reach the ball.

1609
01:33:47,240 --> 01:33:50,240
Speaker 1: At it's tied. Lebron James is chasing block, chasing people

1610
01:33:50,280 --> 01:33:50,800
Speaker 1: down again.

1611
01:33:52,200 --> 01:33:54,800
Speaker 3: He's unbelievable, man, I just did you.

1612
01:33:54,840 --> 01:33:56,920
Speaker 1: See that effort he gave on the defensive end.

1613
01:34:00,120 --> 01:34:02,880
Speaker 2: Is an inch away from being right next to Tom

1614
01:34:02,920 --> 01:34:04,920
Speaker 2: Brady in terms of agelessness.

1615
01:34:05,640 --> 01:34:06,439
Speaker 3: I don't even get it.

1616
01:34:06,479 --> 01:34:09,360
Speaker 2: Which actually it leads to a cool question about him

1617
01:34:09,400 --> 01:34:13,760
Speaker 2: and Brawny, which, now that he has declared for USC,

1618
01:34:14,320 --> 01:34:15,280
Speaker 2: i'll ask you about that.

1619
01:34:15,800 --> 01:34:18,360
Speaker 3: Coming up next. That's THEE from Salam. I'm Mark will It.

1620
01:34:18,479 --> 01:34:23,680
Speaker 2: This is Fox Sports Radio Okay Live, Tyraq dot Com Studios,

1621
01:34:24,640 --> 01:34:27,840
Speaker 2: Mark Willardy from Salam. Before I get to that Lebron thing.

1622
01:34:28,400 --> 01:34:31,200
Speaker 2: Right now, the win percentage for the Suns is at

1623
01:34:31,320 --> 01:34:33,400
Speaker 2: ninety two and a half percent, so it's.

1624
01:34:33,240 --> 01:34:36,880
Speaker 3: Not over yet. They lead by five.

1625
01:34:38,520 --> 01:34:41,880
Speaker 2: With under twenty seconds to go, and actually now it's

1626
01:34:42,520 --> 01:34:46,559
Speaker 2: moving up the board as Joki misses a shot. So

1627
01:34:46,640 --> 01:34:50,640
Speaker 2: in anticipation of a two to two series tie. How

1628
01:34:50,680 --> 01:34:51,439
Speaker 2: do you see it now?

1629
01:34:53,439 --> 01:35:00,720
Speaker 4: I still think the home team has the advantage. You know,

1630
01:35:00,840 --> 01:35:08,600
Speaker 4: you gotta win. I just having home court advantage is

1631
01:35:08,640 --> 01:35:12,000
Speaker 4: so big. And in these playoffs obviously we can see

1632
01:35:12,080 --> 01:35:13,479
Speaker 4: what's what's happening here.

1633
01:35:15,120 --> 01:35:17,120
Speaker 1: Wow, that's something you don't see much of Jokic. You're

1634
01:35:17,120 --> 01:35:19,400
Speaker 1: missing a point blank shot.

1635
01:35:20,080 --> 01:35:25,160
Speaker 4: But hey, man, when you play, when you play all

1636
01:35:25,240 --> 01:35:25,800
Speaker 4: of the men.

1637
01:35:27,080 --> 01:35:30,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, the man scored fifty one, so you know, we'll

1638
01:35:30,160 --> 01:35:32,519
Speaker 2: give him a break on one shot.

1639
01:35:32,880 --> 01:35:37,559
Speaker 4: It's it's gonna take that level for him and for

1640
01:35:37,640 --> 01:35:41,400
Speaker 4: them to win this. But playing in that altitude gives

1641
01:35:41,439 --> 01:35:44,559
Speaker 4: them a distinct advantage at home. It is tough to

1642
01:35:44,560 --> 01:35:50,680
Speaker 4: play up there. Brother, for someone who played there basketball,

1643
01:35:50,720 --> 01:35:52,639
Speaker 4: you running up and down that court and you remember like, oh,

1644
01:35:52,680 --> 01:35:53,519
Speaker 4: well they're in shape.

1645
01:35:53,520 --> 01:35:55,120
Speaker 1: It's just a different type of shape.

1646
01:35:55,760 --> 01:35:56,479
Speaker 3: It's different.

1647
01:35:56,560 --> 01:36:01,880
Speaker 4: And that that in itself is a tremendous home court

1648
01:36:01,960 --> 01:36:08,479
Speaker 4: advantage because now there are elements that you know, it's

1649
01:36:08,520 --> 01:36:12,759
Speaker 4: not the crowd when you can't feel your lungs, and

1650
01:36:13,000 --> 01:36:17,240
Speaker 4: as we've already stated, they don't play a lot of

1651
01:36:17,240 --> 01:36:18,200
Speaker 4: people on their bench.

1652
01:36:20,640 --> 01:36:25,400
Speaker 1: I think they found something in Shama today.

1653
01:36:26,400 --> 01:36:29,040
Speaker 4: He came out, he's played thirty minutes and he was

1654
01:36:29,040 --> 01:36:31,639
Speaker 4: on fire, especially in the fourth quarter.

1655
01:36:32,680 --> 01:36:35,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, hit five threes, ended up with seventeen points. That's

1656
01:36:36,000 --> 01:36:38,479
Speaker 2: the kind of thing though that you know, maybe they

1657
01:36:38,560 --> 01:36:41,639
Speaker 2: found something and maybe they was just a thing, right,

1658
01:36:41,800 --> 01:36:44,960
Speaker 2: Like maybe somebody came out and hit five threes.

1659
01:36:45,280 --> 01:36:48,120
Speaker 3: Like these bench players, you can't depend They got the

1660
01:36:48,160 --> 01:36:50,120
Speaker 3: ability to do that, right, and they do it a

1661
01:36:50,160 --> 01:36:52,240
Speaker 3: lot at home and they tend to not do it.

1662
01:36:52,200 --> 01:36:52,599
Speaker 1: On the road.

1663
01:36:53,520 --> 01:36:58,479
Speaker 4: So I would give the advantage to Denver Steel. Look

1664
01:36:58,720 --> 01:37:01,360
Speaker 4: they're doing with on that know what they're supposed to do, right,

1665
01:37:01,600 --> 01:37:03,599
Speaker 4: you gotta one on your home court.

1666
01:37:05,960 --> 01:37:07,879
Speaker 2: The other thing I want to ask you about Lebron

1667
01:37:07,960 --> 01:37:10,880
Speaker 2: with with the you know, Bronni was in the building yesterday,

1668
01:37:11,000 --> 01:37:14,479
Speaker 2: and you know you look at the USC news and

1669
01:37:15,000 --> 01:37:18,320
Speaker 2: and Lebron obviously has has made it very well known

1670
01:37:18,400 --> 01:37:22,200
Speaker 2: that he'll retire once he's had one year to play

1671
01:37:22,840 --> 01:37:26,720
Speaker 2: with Bronni, I wonder, just as you're watching this now,

1672
01:37:26,760 --> 01:37:29,280
Speaker 2: and I know you're a Laker fan, that's in the moment,

1673
01:37:29,760 --> 01:37:33,040
Speaker 2: but as I even go back a few years when

1674
01:37:33,040 --> 01:37:35,600
Speaker 2: it took a while for the Laker fan base to

1675
01:37:35,680 --> 01:37:40,840
Speaker 2: really accept Lebron because for whatever reason people made this

1676
01:37:41,000 --> 01:37:46,400
Speaker 2: about Lebron or Kobe or if somehow this was challenging

1677
01:37:46,520 --> 01:37:49,599
Speaker 2: the Kobe news of everything. It was a little bit odd,

1678
01:37:50,080 --> 01:37:53,840
Speaker 2: I think from from the outside. But when you now

1679
01:37:53,880 --> 01:37:56,400
Speaker 2: look at a guy that's here now and he's going

1680
01:37:56,479 --> 01:37:59,040
Speaker 2: to try to try to make another run here in

1681
01:37:59,080 --> 01:38:02,280
Speaker 2: a Laker uniform, but is also letting you know that

1682
01:38:02,360 --> 01:38:07,120
Speaker 2: for the future, his allegiance is whatever team ends up

1683
01:38:07,120 --> 01:38:10,519
Speaker 2: with his son, not the Lakers. I just I wonder

1684
01:38:10,520 --> 01:38:11,680
Speaker 2: how this all sits with you.

1685
01:38:12,400 --> 01:38:16,160
Speaker 4: It's fine, man, Lebron James been twenty years in NBA, right,

1686
01:38:16,320 --> 01:38:21,800
Speaker 4: his son is not in my opinion. You know, next

1687
01:38:21,800 --> 01:38:26,400
Speaker 4: season will be twenty one, So in season twenty two,

1688
01:38:27,400 --> 01:38:30,200
Speaker 4: I think that's where he's talking about playing with Bronni

1689
01:38:31,240 --> 01:38:34,559
Speaker 4: yep and I meet personally. Don't believe his son is

1690
01:38:34,600 --> 01:38:37,880
Speaker 4: a one and done player. Now the James name may

1691
01:38:38,000 --> 01:38:41,600
Speaker 4: make that happen, and the team draft him in the

1692
01:38:41,680 --> 01:38:46,000
Speaker 4: late first maybe, you know, second round, whatever that is.

1693
01:38:47,640 --> 01:38:49,080
Speaker 1: Okay, but I don't.

1694
01:38:49,439 --> 01:38:54,360
Speaker 4: I mean, Bronney James is ranked the fifth point guard

1695
01:38:54,439 --> 01:38:58,400
Speaker 4: in his class, and I think the twenty first player

1696
01:38:58,600 --> 01:39:04,920
Speaker 4: overall in the class of twenty twenty three. So that

1697
01:39:05,040 --> 01:39:11,599
Speaker 4: doesn't scream one and done to me? No, So like

1698
01:39:11,800 --> 01:39:14,600
Speaker 4: the kid who's going to SC with him is the

1699
01:39:14,720 --> 01:39:21,320
Speaker 4: number one recruit that screams for one and done? Right,

1700
01:39:21,439 --> 01:39:24,880
Speaker 4: Like that may be the kid that comes out of

1701
01:39:24,960 --> 01:39:30,519
Speaker 4: SC after after one year? Is Bronnie James gonna start?

1702
01:39:32,320 --> 01:39:35,160
Speaker 2: Well, you got to think about it this way too.

1703
01:39:35,200 --> 01:39:36,880
Speaker 2: Now you got to understand, and I know you do,

1704
01:39:37,920 --> 01:39:41,479
Speaker 2: where this story is going to go. If you're a

1705
01:39:41,560 --> 01:39:46,120
Speaker 2: team that let's say you know, after you watch let's

1706
01:39:46,120 --> 01:39:49,760
Speaker 2: say Bronnie does fine, it's not amazing, but he has

1707
01:39:49,840 --> 01:39:52,839
Speaker 2: his freshman year and then he applies for the draft,

1708
01:39:52,920 --> 01:39:56,320
Speaker 2: and like you're saying, you're late in the first round,

1709
01:39:56,400 --> 01:40:00,280
Speaker 2: and you're sitting there going, well, we're not just drafting Bronnie.

1710
01:40:00,760 --> 01:40:05,080
Speaker 2: We're essentially assuring that we're gonna get Lebron as a

1711
01:40:05,080 --> 01:40:07,599
Speaker 2: free agent for a year. There might be a few

1712
01:40:07,640 --> 01:40:09,560
Speaker 2: teams where that's pretty attractive.

1713
01:40:10,560 --> 01:40:14,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but that's not gonna happen early in the draft.

1714
01:40:15,160 --> 01:40:19,840
Speaker 4: You know, like having a Lebron in year twenty now,

1715
01:40:20,320 --> 01:40:23,360
Speaker 4: having a Lebron in year twenty two is not having

1716
01:40:23,439 --> 01:40:26,000
Speaker 4: Lebron even in year twenty.

1717
01:40:26,439 --> 01:40:28,320
Speaker 1: Right, You're not gonna get this Lebron.

1718
01:40:28,800 --> 01:40:33,879
Speaker 4: You're not gonna get last year's Lebron or any year previous.

1719
01:40:34,280 --> 01:40:36,040
Speaker 4: You're gonna get Lebron who can come in, who can

1720
01:40:36,040 --> 01:40:40,240
Speaker 4: still play. But you'll be hard pressed if he's averaging

1721
01:40:40,280 --> 01:40:44,120
Speaker 4: twenty five points a game playing those type log in

1722
01:40:44,160 --> 01:40:46,800
Speaker 4: those types of minutes. We're seeing the wear and tear

1723
01:40:46,880 --> 01:40:52,320
Speaker 4: of it right now, we're watching that happen. You see

1724
01:40:52,360 --> 01:40:55,800
Speaker 4: Lebron lebrin. You see Lebron go sit down on the

1725
01:40:55,840 --> 01:41:02,600
Speaker 4: bench and he is exhausted, exhaust He's eating whatever that

1726
01:41:02,800 --> 01:41:06,400
Speaker 4: orange slices of orange, whatever he's eating to get whatever

1727
01:41:06,479 --> 01:41:11,560
Speaker 4: that energy boost right in the in the tougherware, to

1728
01:41:12,439 --> 01:41:14,600
Speaker 4: get him that that boost.

1729
01:41:15,800 --> 01:41:22,400
Speaker 1: And you know it's like in two more years, what

1730
01:41:22,520 --> 01:41:25,600
Speaker 1: are we what are we talking here? Father with?

1731
01:41:25,760 --> 01:41:29,720
Speaker 4: One thing we do know is Father Time's undefeated. Now

1732
01:41:29,800 --> 01:41:31,960
Speaker 4: Lebron James is holding them off. He's holding him at

1733
01:41:31,960 --> 01:41:34,120
Speaker 4: Bay better than any other player in the history of

1734
01:41:34,439 --> 01:41:37,080
Speaker 4: basketball has done.

1735
01:41:37,439 --> 01:41:39,920
Speaker 1: But guess what this man is still undefeated.

1736
01:41:40,160 --> 01:41:44,839
Speaker 4: Lebron's commercial campaign this year was Father Time Him versus

1737
01:41:44,840 --> 01:41:52,439
Speaker 4: Father Time. So I think if a team, especially a

1738
01:41:52,439 --> 01:41:58,160
Speaker 4: small market team, right a small market team were to

1739
01:41:59,680 --> 01:42:04,240
Speaker 4: draft after Bronnie James and get lebron James. I think

1740
01:42:04,400 --> 01:42:09,439
Speaker 4: market wise, I think it'd be amazing. I think it'd

1741
01:42:09,479 --> 01:42:16,400
Speaker 4: also be very propos if he it was Cleveland, right,

1742
01:42:16,479 --> 01:42:23,559
Speaker 4: Oh goodness, So you know, third times of Charm, So

1743
01:42:24,280 --> 01:42:27,360
Speaker 4: you know it. Unless Bronnie comes out and he's just

1744
01:42:27,479 --> 01:42:31,000
Speaker 4: sensational and he takes and he's one of the reasons

1745
01:42:31,400 --> 01:42:34,680
Speaker 4: that se makes a deep turning run, then that's a

1746
01:42:34,720 --> 01:42:39,679
Speaker 4: different conversation. Now we're having a different conversation. But that's

1747
01:42:39,920 --> 01:42:43,280
Speaker 4: a lot to put on a young man. You know,

1748
01:42:43,479 --> 01:42:47,040
Speaker 4: that's a lot. You want to talk about pressure, that's

1749
01:42:47,080 --> 01:42:49,839
Speaker 4: a lot of pressure to put on a young player

1750
01:42:50,680 --> 01:42:52,559
Speaker 4: who may or may not be able to live up

1751
01:42:52,600 --> 01:42:55,639
Speaker 4: to that. And Bronnie's and he's gotten better every year,

1752
01:42:55,680 --> 01:42:58,519
Speaker 4: he's gotten better. He works, got the best trainers, best regiment,

1753
01:42:58,600 --> 01:43:01,040
Speaker 4: best nutrition is all, all of that makes his own

1754
01:43:01,040 --> 01:43:05,680
Speaker 4: money already, like all of these things are in his favor. Well,

1755
01:43:05,720 --> 01:43:08,120
Speaker 4: one thing you can't hide behind when you step on

1756
01:43:08,160 --> 01:43:11,040
Speaker 4: that court. They don't care who your daddy, your cousin, uncle,

1757
01:43:11,320 --> 01:43:15,559
Speaker 4: they don't care who that is. You got to stand

1758
01:43:15,600 --> 01:43:22,400
Speaker 4: on your own. And so we'll see if he's able

1759
01:43:22,439 --> 01:43:22,840
Speaker 4: to do that.

1760
01:43:25,120 --> 01:43:27,559
Speaker 2: When you talk about that kind of pressure. We usually

1761
01:43:27,560 --> 01:43:31,200
Speaker 2: save that for the veterans, people like Steve de Sager.

1762
01:43:32,560 --> 01:43:36,400
Speaker 2: People like Steve de Sager. Let's find out what's trending tasty.

1763
01:43:37,560 --> 01:43:39,759
Speaker 2: It's one of our veterans, Steve de Sager.

1764
01:43:39,840 --> 01:43:42,519
Speaker 7: Hell we gentlemen, you gotta be said again, out loud.

1765
01:43:42,600 --> 01:43:46,719
Speaker 7: Nikola jokicch had fifty three points and they lost. Phoenix

1766
01:43:46,760 --> 01:43:49,439
Speaker 7: has tied two games apiece in their second round NBA

1767
01:43:49,520 --> 01:43:52,519
Speaker 7: playoff series after a home win against one seed Denver

1768
01:43:52,640 --> 01:43:56,599
Speaker 7: one twenty nine, one twenty four. Jokich with fifty three

1769
01:43:56,640 --> 01:44:00,400
Speaker 7: points on twenty of thirty shooting from the floor. Devin

1770
01:44:00,439 --> 01:44:03,640
Speaker 7: Booker of the Suns thirty six points, twelve assists. He

1771
01:44:03,800 --> 01:44:07,080
Speaker 7: was fourteen of eighteen shooting for the floor. Each club

1772
01:44:07,120 --> 01:44:10,439
Speaker 7: shot about fifty six percent. Sunsguard Chris Paul was out

1773
01:44:10,479 --> 01:44:13,360
Speaker 7: again with a strain growing Kevin Durant thirty six points

1774
01:44:13,640 --> 01:44:17,680
Speaker 7: Game five in Denver late Tuesday. In the East, Philadelphia's

1775
01:44:17,720 --> 01:44:20,719
Speaker 7: tied two games apiece after the overtime home victory against

1776
01:44:20,760 --> 01:44:24,080
Speaker 7: Boston Today. James Harden forty two points, including the go

1777
01:44:24,120 --> 01:44:27,400
Speaker 7: ahead three pointer. Hardin had nine assists just one turnover.

1778
01:44:27,840 --> 01:44:30,920
Speaker 7: He was sixteen of twenty three from the floor. This

1779
01:44:31,040 --> 01:44:33,679
Speaker 7: after just five field goals made in the last two

1780
01:44:33,680 --> 01:44:34,600
Speaker 7: games combined.

1781
01:44:34,640 --> 01:44:35,360
Speaker 1: In this series.

1782
01:44:35,560 --> 01:44:38,880
Speaker 7: Joel Embiid scored thirty four points. Marcus Smart of Boston

1783
01:44:38,920 --> 01:44:40,920
Speaker 7: had twenty one points, but his three at the end

1784
01:44:41,000 --> 01:44:43,240
Speaker 7: came after the buzzer. He missed a three at the

1785
01:44:43,280 --> 01:44:46,479
Speaker 7: end of regulation as well. Game five will be Tuesday

1786
01:44:46,560 --> 01:44:48,840
Speaker 7: in Boston. We know there's a Game six. It's in

1787
01:44:48,880 --> 01:44:52,720
Speaker 7: Philadelphia on Thursday. The Lakers hosts Golden State again. Late

1788
01:44:52,760 --> 01:44:57,240
Speaker 7: tomorrow night, Miami hosts New York again Tomorrow. Stanley Cup Playoffs,

1789
01:44:57,280 --> 01:44:59,840
Speaker 7: Florida's up three games to none after the overtime on

1790
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:02,840
Speaker 7: win against Toronto three to two, New Jersey eight to

1791
01:45:02,880 --> 01:45:06,120
Speaker 7: four over Carolina. Today, Hurricanes lead the series two games

1792
01:45:06,160 --> 01:45:09,799
Speaker 7: to one now scoreless end of one Dallas at Seattle.

1793
01:45:09,880 --> 01:45:13,000
Speaker 7: That second round series tied at a game apiece. Monday night,

1794
01:45:13,080 --> 01:45:16,759
Speaker 7: Vegas plays at Edmonton. Denny Hamlin won the NASCAR race

1795
01:45:16,880 --> 01:45:20,479
Speaker 7: at Kansas, ending a thirty three race drought. Wyndham Clark

1796
01:45:20,520 --> 01:45:23,680
Speaker 7: took the PGA event in Charlotte by four strokes. The

1797
01:45:23,800 --> 01:45:27,160
Speaker 7: NFL schedule for the coming season reportedly will come out

1798
01:45:27,200 --> 01:45:31,000
Speaker 7: this Thursday. We'll find out all the particulars, including which

1799
01:45:31,080 --> 01:45:33,799
Speaker 7: Kansas City home game will be the league's season opener.

1800
01:45:34,000 --> 01:45:36,960
Speaker 7: They are due to play Philadelphia this season, just saying

1801
01:45:37,320 --> 01:45:40,840
Speaker 7: Dodgers winners in ten innings at San Diego tonight five too.

1802
01:45:41,360 --> 01:45:44,120
Speaker 7: Mookie bets the tying solo homer with two outs in

1803
01:45:44,200 --> 01:45:47,240
Speaker 7: the top of the ninth. It came off closer Josh Hater.

1804
01:45:47,720 --> 01:45:50,680
Speaker 7: Texas was a sixteen to eight winner at the Angels.

1805
01:45:50,720 --> 01:45:55,280
Speaker 7: White Sox seventeen to four winners at Cincinnati, Atlanta in

1806
01:45:55,400 --> 01:45:58,599
Speaker 7: twelve atged Baltimore three to two Tampa Bay and ten

1807
01:45:58,640 --> 01:46:01,840
Speaker 7: innings edge the Yankees eighth Tampa Bay Razer nineteen and

1808
01:46:01,920 --> 01:46:05,400
Speaker 7: three at home, and Miami in fourteen innings, won five

1809
01:46:05,439 --> 01:46:08,280
Speaker 7: to four at the Cubs. Red Sox had won eight

1810
01:46:08,320 --> 01:46:12,240
Speaker 7: straight games, but lost at Philadelphia six to one. Kansas

1811
01:46:12,240 --> 01:46:15,439
Speaker 7: City beat Oakland five to one. Kansas City Royals record

1812
01:46:15,520 --> 01:46:19,040
Speaker 7: nine and twenty six, A's record eight and twenty seven,

1813
01:46:19,760 --> 01:46:21,880
Speaker 7: and a guy who pitched for both of them passed away.

1814
01:46:21,920 --> 01:46:24,600
Speaker 7: Former Rays pitcher Vita Blue died at the age of

1815
01:46:24,760 --> 01:46:27,559
Speaker 7: seventy three, A guy who had nearly a decade with

1816
01:46:28,200 --> 01:46:31,880
Speaker 7: the Oakland A's, starting as a teenager and his career

1817
01:46:31,920 --> 01:46:35,720
Speaker 7: ERA with them was two point nine to five. Then

1818
01:46:35,760 --> 01:46:37,920
Speaker 7: he got traded to the Giants, wound up being an

1819
01:46:37,960 --> 01:46:40,320
Speaker 7: All Star three times on one side of the Bay

1820
01:46:40,360 --> 01:46:43,839
Speaker 7: and three times on the other side. Vita Blue, gentleman,

1821
01:46:44,240 --> 01:46:46,599
Speaker 7: at the age of twenty two, was not only cy

1822
01:46:46,680 --> 01:46:49,280
Speaker 7: Young winner in the American League nineteen seventy one, he

1823
01:46:49,400 --> 01:46:52,919
Speaker 7: was MVP in the league that year thirty nine starts,

1824
01:46:53,240 --> 01:46:58,240
Speaker 7: era one point eight two. Again Vita Blue was seventy three.

1825
01:46:58,360 --> 01:46:58,960
Speaker 1: Back to dear.

1826
01:47:00,960 --> 01:47:03,080
Speaker 2: Thank you for that, Steve. Rest in peace, Vida Blue.

1827
01:47:03,120 --> 01:47:05,240
Speaker 2: That's a nice man. That's a nice man. I have

1828
01:47:05,320 --> 01:47:09,280
Speaker 2: the pleasure of meeting and talking to Vida a time

1829
01:47:09,400 --> 01:47:13,800
Speaker 2: or two, and certainly have plenty of old baseball cards

1830
01:47:13,840 --> 01:47:18,160
Speaker 2: sitting around us in a closet somewhere. But rest in peace,

1831
01:47:18,200 --> 01:47:20,920
Speaker 2: the great Vity. That is a very very nice man.

1832
01:47:23,120 --> 01:47:26,200
Speaker 2: Mark Wellerty from Sala, I'm glad you are with us tonight,

1833
01:47:27,560 --> 01:47:30,800
Speaker 2: getting everybody ready for the series that has certainly had

1834
01:47:30,800 --> 01:47:33,800
Speaker 2: the majority of our attention on this show tomorrow night,

1835
01:47:34,520 --> 01:47:35,280
Speaker 2: the what I.

1836
01:47:35,360 --> 01:47:38,280
Speaker 3: Call pivotal Game four.

1837
01:47:39,439 --> 01:47:42,760
Speaker 2: I get into a very silly, repetitive argument sometimes with

1838
01:47:44,280 --> 01:47:47,519
Speaker 2: some of the people I host with here in the

1839
01:47:47,520 --> 01:47:50,920
Speaker 2: Bay Area and even some friends. We always refer to

1840
01:47:51,520 --> 01:47:54,920
Speaker 2: the game three is well, that's pivotal, right when the

1841
01:47:54,920 --> 01:47:57,640
Speaker 2: series is tied one one, it's like, no, it's not,

1842
01:47:57,680 --> 01:47:59,720
Speaker 2: because whoever wins the other team can just go win

1843
01:47:59,760 --> 01:48:04,280
Speaker 2: it right back. Pivotal pivotals the even numbered games. That's

1844
01:48:04,280 --> 01:48:06,120
Speaker 2: when you can make some hey man, that's when you

1845
01:48:06,160 --> 01:48:08,840
Speaker 2: can take off and take a big lead. The Lakers

1846
01:48:09,160 --> 01:48:12,559
Speaker 2: can take a huge lead in this series tomorrow, while

1847
01:48:12,600 --> 01:48:16,559
Speaker 2: the Warriors can actually regain the advantage with a win tomorrow.

1848
01:48:16,600 --> 01:48:18,400
Speaker 2: But Steve Kerse said one thing I agree with, and

1849
01:48:18,400 --> 01:48:23,599
Speaker 2: I wonder if you do too normally the phrase must win,

1850
01:48:23,800 --> 01:48:26,080
Speaker 2: which we do throw around a little bit, and everybody

1851
01:48:26,160 --> 01:48:28,240
Speaker 2: gets to define it as whether they mean that in

1852
01:48:28,280 --> 01:48:32,120
Speaker 2: a mathematics sort of a way or an emotional sort

1853
01:48:32,120 --> 01:48:36,040
Speaker 2: of way. I think there are games that where that

1854
01:48:36,120 --> 01:48:38,880
Speaker 2: are not elimination games, but you have to refer to

1855
01:48:38,920 --> 01:48:39,800
Speaker 2: them as a must win.

1856
01:48:39,880 --> 01:48:40,360
Speaker 3: I would have.

1857
01:48:40,360 --> 01:48:44,200
Speaker 2: Called what the Suns just executed as a must win,

1858
01:48:44,840 --> 01:48:48,559
Speaker 2: because the Lakers and Warriors are who they are. I

1859
01:48:48,600 --> 01:48:51,400
Speaker 2: don't think that exists in this series. There are no

1860
01:48:51,560 --> 01:48:56,800
Speaker 2: must wins until you're facing elimination. I could absolutely see

1861
01:48:57,640 --> 01:49:00,639
Speaker 2: obviously the Lakers won't fall down three games to one.

1862
01:49:01,120 --> 01:49:05,559
Speaker 2: But I, like I do not find tomorrow to be

1863
01:49:05,720 --> 01:49:08,639
Speaker 2: a must win for either team. I think whoever wins,

1864
01:49:08,680 --> 01:49:12,160
Speaker 2: it's got a big edge in the series going forward.

1865
01:49:12,760 --> 01:49:16,719
Speaker 2: But I don't think must win exists until you're actually

1866
01:49:16,760 --> 01:49:18,519
Speaker 2: facing elimination in this series.

1867
01:49:18,680 --> 01:49:22,800
Speaker 4: Well, and that's and that's a good point because you know,

1868
01:49:22,960 --> 01:49:27,200
Speaker 4: for for for the Lakers, you know, being up to one,

1869
01:49:27,640 --> 01:49:33,200
Speaker 4: they stole a game, can they hold serve and even

1870
01:49:33,280 --> 01:49:38,120
Speaker 4: if they were to win Game four, which I suspect

1871
01:49:38,120 --> 01:49:43,160
Speaker 4: they will tomorrow at home, of course. I mean just

1872
01:49:43,439 --> 01:49:45,880
Speaker 4: looking at the history of Golden State on the road

1873
01:49:46,000 --> 01:49:49,200
Speaker 4: the Lakers at home, it you know, this is not

1874
01:49:49,280 --> 01:49:52,720
Speaker 4: a young team. This is an experienced team.

1875
01:49:53,080 --> 01:49:54,880
Speaker 1: So I see that.

1876
01:49:57,600 --> 01:50:04,320
Speaker 4: But going into game what five, I would suspect Golden

1877
01:50:04,360 --> 01:50:10,760
Speaker 4: State win that at home? Right, So given the Lakers

1878
01:50:10,880 --> 01:50:15,200
Speaker 4: two games to win one and you know, closing them

1879
01:50:15,200 --> 01:50:20,320
Speaker 4: out in six, like, I like that. That's what my

1880
01:50:20,880 --> 01:50:29,679
Speaker 4: prognostication was, Lakers and six, right. So Stephen Curry, Chicken Curry,

1881
01:50:30,520 --> 01:50:35,320
Speaker 4: it don't matter, no worry, Lakers and six. Right, So

1882
01:50:36,240 --> 01:50:44,080
Speaker 4: you know, Golden State eliminate, uh fruitcake Lakers and six, whatever, whatever,

1883
01:50:44,160 --> 01:50:47,400
Speaker 4: whatever it is. I picked the Lakers in six because

1884
01:50:47,439 --> 01:50:51,720
Speaker 4: I knew this was going to be a really tough game.

1885
01:50:51,840 --> 01:50:56,320
Speaker 4: Especially when the Lakers won that first game, it immediately

1886
01:50:56,439 --> 01:51:01,439
Speaker 4: gave them the upper hand, the advantage in this series

1887
01:51:01,520 --> 01:51:07,479
Speaker 4: because it's hard to beat Golden State there. And if

1888
01:51:07,479 --> 01:51:13,040
Speaker 4: the Lakers hold hold court tomorrow, that is going to

1889
01:51:13,360 --> 01:51:16,800
Speaker 4: that's you know, then they'll probably rest up for that

1890
01:51:16,960 --> 01:51:21,679
Speaker 4: game six, similar to what they did in the Memphid series.

1891
01:51:22,479 --> 01:51:25,760
Speaker 2: Listen, they may well have the Warriors kryptonite. I can

1892
01:51:25,800 --> 01:51:28,800
Speaker 2: see that the same way you can. And actually there's

1893
01:51:29,000 --> 01:51:32,960
Speaker 2: one other clue that is in the lakers favor in

1894
01:51:33,000 --> 01:51:37,920
Speaker 2: this series that is a little bit more tangible, if

1895
01:51:37,960 --> 01:51:40,840
Speaker 2: you will, than our opinion, and I'll let you know

1896
01:51:40,880 --> 01:51:43,280
Speaker 2: what that is. Coming up next. It's Mark Willin and

1897
01:51:43,320 --> 01:51:46,839
Speaker 2: E from salam on Fox Sports Radio. To beat guarded

1898
01:51:46,840 --> 01:51:50,240
Speaker 2: by Tatum, left Tandrible into the lane at the dotted circle.

1899
01:51:50,280 --> 01:51:52,720
Speaker 1: Double team got the heart. Three point shot for the

1900
01:51:52,760 --> 01:51:53,400
Speaker 1: lead is good.

1901
01:51:53,680 --> 01:51:58,240
Speaker 6: Harden converts eighteen seconds to go Chames Harden for three.

1902
01:51:58,400 --> 01:51:59,639
Speaker 1: He's got forty two.

1903
01:52:00,520 --> 01:52:04,280
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Speaker 2: is one big difference that I wonder if people are

1913
01:52:38,240 --> 01:52:41,439
Speaker 2: aware of, even if you are someone who who.

1914
01:52:41,360 --> 01:52:44,400
Speaker 3: Speaks Vegas, if you will.

1915
01:52:44,520 --> 01:52:48,960
Speaker 2: The Warriors, though trailing two games to none to the

1916
01:52:49,000 --> 01:52:54,639
Speaker 2: Sacramento Kings in round one, the Warriors as soon as

1917
01:52:54,680 --> 01:52:58,759
Speaker 2: they came back and one game three, those still trailing

1918
01:52:59,000 --> 01:53:02,600
Speaker 2: two games to one and did not have home court advantage,

1919
01:53:03,240 --> 01:53:08,679
Speaker 2: they remained the favorite in that series. That's obviously because

1920
01:53:08,800 --> 01:53:15,040
Speaker 2: of the King's inexperience and the Warrior's pedigree. But Vegas,

1921
01:53:15,080 --> 01:53:18,880
Speaker 2: for whatever reason, looked at that and never really bought

1922
01:53:19,320 --> 01:53:23,400
Speaker 2: Sacramento as the favorite in any of those key pivotal games,

1923
01:53:23,920 --> 01:53:26,840
Speaker 2: even sometimes when they were at home. If they did,

1924
01:53:27,120 --> 01:53:30,320
Speaker 2: the Kings would be favored by like one one point

1925
01:53:30,360 --> 01:53:33,640
Speaker 2: maybe or be a Pickham and the Warriors remained the

1926
01:53:33,680 --> 01:53:36,799
Speaker 2: series favorite, and the Warriors remained one of the Western

1927
01:53:36,840 --> 01:53:42,920
Speaker 2: Conference favorites throughout and then they succeed well. Compare that

1928
01:53:43,200 --> 01:53:46,839
Speaker 2: with what we're seeing on these numbers now. The Lakers

1929
01:53:46,840 --> 01:53:51,040
Speaker 2: are favored by three tomorrow, and the Lakers are favored

1930
01:53:51,120 --> 01:53:55,320
Speaker 2: in this series at minus two ten versus the Warriors

1931
01:53:55,360 --> 01:54:01,280
Speaker 2: being plus one eighty. Those are pretty significant numbers. Those

1932
01:54:01,320 --> 01:54:04,599
Speaker 2: are pretty significant for those who understand what's going on.

1933
01:54:05,000 --> 01:54:08,920
Speaker 2: Put it this way, I've never seen the Warriors get

1934
01:54:08,960 --> 01:54:12,920
Speaker 2: a number like that in a situation where Tomorrow night

1935
01:54:13,320 --> 01:54:15,160
Speaker 2: they could go out there win the game, and in

1936
01:54:15,240 --> 01:54:20,840
Speaker 2: theory they've got home court back, and who wouldn't favor

1937
01:54:20,920 --> 01:54:24,519
Speaker 2: them in a best of three scenario with two games

1938
01:54:24,840 --> 01:54:27,040
Speaker 2: at home. I think very few people would. They are

1939
01:54:27,040 --> 01:54:30,240
Speaker 2: only one game away from that being the case. However,

1940
01:54:30,360 --> 01:54:35,360
Speaker 2: Vegas sees them as a pretty significant underdog in the series.

1941
01:54:36,280 --> 01:54:36,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1942
01:54:36,680 --> 01:54:41,560
Speaker 4: I think styles make fights, and I think this is

1943
01:54:41,680 --> 01:54:48,280
Speaker 4: a style that favors LA because of the physicality of it.

1944
01:54:51,840 --> 01:54:55,720
Speaker 4: Like I said, losing that first game at home really

1945
01:54:56,040 --> 01:55:02,520
Speaker 4: changed Golden State, right, and the odds and all of

1946
01:55:02,520 --> 01:55:08,240
Speaker 4: that because of the history trouble they've had this season on.

1947
01:55:08,800 --> 01:55:11,120
Speaker 4: They've won eleven regular season row games, and I know

1948
01:55:11,200 --> 01:55:14,160
Speaker 4: this is the playoffs, but this isn't a young team.

1949
01:55:14,240 --> 01:55:17,040
Speaker 4: This isn't a Sacramento team who just got back into

1950
01:55:17,080 --> 01:55:21,240
Speaker 4: the playoffs after seventeen years. This is a story franchise

1951
01:55:21,640 --> 01:55:24,160
Speaker 4: who three years ago won a championship, whether it be

1952
01:55:24,160 --> 01:55:26,000
Speaker 4: in a bubble or whatever you want to call it.

1953
01:55:27,280 --> 01:55:30,920
Speaker 4: With the same two core pieces in Anthony Davis and

1954
01:55:31,080 --> 01:55:36,560
Speaker 4: Lebron James, they've gotten better since the trade deadline. They've

1955
01:55:36,560 --> 01:55:44,440
Speaker 4: had the best record, the highest defensive efficiency since adding

1956
01:55:44,440 --> 01:55:48,880
Speaker 4: the new pieces, and they just present problems for Golden State.

1957
01:55:49,400 --> 01:55:52,800
Speaker 4: So I think that's why Vegas looks the way it looks,

1958
01:55:53,360 --> 01:55:59,080
Speaker 4: because conventional wisdom says the Lakers will hold court and

1959
01:55:59,160 --> 01:56:02,680
Speaker 4: win tomorrow. Oh now you go back to Golden State

1960
01:56:04,600 --> 01:56:08,840
Speaker 4: down three to one, and the Lakers have, you know,

1961
01:56:08,960 --> 01:56:13,920
Speaker 4: essentially two games or three games to win one.

1962
01:56:15,000 --> 01:56:17,920
Speaker 1: That's a problem.

1963
01:56:18,040 --> 01:56:21,879
Speaker 4: And I think that's why the odds have shifted the

1964
01:56:21,600 --> 01:56:27,560
Speaker 4: way they have because the Lakers style of play doesn't

1965
01:56:27,600 --> 01:56:32,480
Speaker 4: make for a very good fight for Golden State. Now,

1966
01:56:32,520 --> 01:56:36,280
Speaker 4: if everybody's on and I'll say this, and the reason

1967
01:56:36,320 --> 01:56:39,560
Speaker 4: I think it's like that is because their three shooters

1968
01:56:40,040 --> 01:56:45,240
Speaker 4: have phenomenal games. The first game, it was the first

1969
01:56:45,240 --> 01:56:47,480
Speaker 4: time in NBA history, I think in the playoffs where

1970
01:56:47,720 --> 01:56:53,400
Speaker 4: a team had three players hit six threes. I mean,

1971
01:56:53,680 --> 01:56:57,680
Speaker 4: that's crazy. They've had twenty one threes and they still lost.

1972
01:56:57,720 --> 01:57:00,800
Speaker 4: They were down at half and they lost. It's the ballgame,

1973
01:57:01,680 --> 01:57:04,760
Speaker 4: and it took a miraculous fourteen old run at the

1974
01:57:04,880 --> 01:57:08,600
Speaker 4: end of the game to get them in position to

1975
01:57:09,600 --> 01:57:13,440
Speaker 4: have Jordan Poole smoke it at the end. Right, But

1976
01:57:14,720 --> 01:57:19,800
Speaker 4: looking at that, it's like, Okay, that's a problem because

1977
01:57:19,840 --> 01:57:23,560
Speaker 4: they were on in game one at home, and yes,

1978
01:57:23,640 --> 01:57:26,880
Speaker 4: they came off a tough seven game series with Sacramento,

1979
01:57:27,400 --> 01:57:29,680
Speaker 4: and yeah, we know they're tired and all that, but hey,

1980
01:57:30,640 --> 01:57:32,480
Speaker 4: no one cares.

1981
01:57:33,240 --> 01:57:36,840
Speaker 2: Well, they were on, but so was Anthony And for me,

1982
01:57:37,760 --> 01:57:40,160
Speaker 2: he's honestly, let's be real, he's the key.

1983
01:57:40,480 --> 01:57:41,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the key to this series.

1984
01:57:42,560 --> 01:57:46,600
Speaker 2: And it's going to be interesting to see if he

1985
01:57:46,680 --> 01:57:50,160
Speaker 2: can get more consistent, if he's gonna play like he

1986
01:57:50,200 --> 01:57:53,640
Speaker 2: did in Game one and go thirty points and twenty

1987
01:57:53,680 --> 01:57:57,560
Speaker 2: three boards and be that kind of guys that physical presence.

1988
01:57:57,640 --> 01:58:00,360
Speaker 3: Right, Well, I'm not gonna call it a round real

1989
01:58:00,440 --> 01:58:07,160
Speaker 3: damn tough because he doesn't know. But he doesn't do

1990
01:58:07,240 --> 01:58:07,600
Speaker 3: that yet.

1991
01:58:07,680 --> 01:58:08,960
Speaker 1: Right, You're right, he doesn't do that.

1992
01:58:09,640 --> 01:58:13,240
Speaker 2: He doesn't do that every night, and and so I

1993
01:58:13,280 --> 01:58:17,200
Speaker 2: don't know which way it's gonna go. And I know that,

1994
01:58:17,640 --> 01:58:21,320
Speaker 2: I know that plenty of Laker fans feel one man

1995
01:58:21,760 --> 01:58:24,480
Speaker 2: has made life tougher on him than anybody else in

1996
01:58:24,480 --> 01:58:27,840
Speaker 2: the Western Conference. And uh, and that's Draymond Green. So

1997
01:58:27,880 --> 01:58:31,440
Speaker 2: we'll see, we'll see. I've gotten pretty used to the

1998
01:58:31,440 --> 01:58:35,520
Speaker 2: Warriors having the answer when they're in this position. I'm

1999
01:58:35,560 --> 01:58:38,640
Speaker 2: not saying tomorrow night's gonna be that night again, but

2000
01:58:38,680 --> 01:58:41,000
Speaker 2: I've gotten pretty used to it with pretty good reason.

2001
01:58:41,520 --> 01:58:44,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and you're not wrong. We've seen him time

2002
01:58:44,240 --> 01:58:46,960
Speaker 4: and time again be able to be able to weather

2003
01:58:47,040 --> 01:58:50,920
Speaker 4: this storm. But uh, this this, this may be a

2004
01:58:50,960 --> 01:58:51,520
Speaker 4: tough one.

2005
01:58:52,120 --> 01:58:54,640
Speaker 2: This may be tough on It could be. And I'll

2006
01:58:54,680 --> 01:58:57,680
Speaker 2: tell you where I'm most impressed. You talk about how

2007
01:58:57,760 --> 01:58:59,919
Speaker 2: the Lakers rebuilt themselves at the deadline.

2008
01:59:00,800 --> 01:59:02,200
Speaker 3: I don't know how.

2009
01:59:02,000 --> 01:59:07,480
Speaker 2: This team looks so jelled so quickly. I get the

2010
01:59:07,600 --> 01:59:12,680
Speaker 2: Davis and Lebron that's their core, but Russell and Vanderbilt

2011
01:59:12,680 --> 01:59:17,120
Speaker 2: and Hachimura with half of their top six are brand new.

2012
01:59:18,400 --> 01:59:20,160
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, that's the most impressive thing for me.

2013
01:59:20,280 --> 01:59:23,480
Speaker 4: And I think because they're role players, right, and role

2014
01:59:23,480 --> 01:59:26,520
Speaker 4: players can come in and fit their role. They didn't

2015
01:59:26,520 --> 01:59:28,800
Speaker 4: get a bunch of superstars. They got guys who can

2016
01:59:28,840 --> 01:59:31,760
Speaker 4: come in to help, not to come in and take

2017
01:59:31,800 --> 01:59:39,760
Speaker 4: over and lead. And I think that that is the key.

2018
01:59:38,440 --> 01:59:41,080
Speaker 2: My man, enjoy it. I'll send you a text, oh

2019
01:59:41,120 --> 01:59:43,520
Speaker 2: please do. I'll send you a couple of texts if

2020
01:59:43,560 --> 01:59:46,240
Speaker 2: it goes the right way. I promise that, please, please do.