WEBVTT - Pacers & Wolves Shock the NBA, will the Cavs Run It Back? Plus, Warriors Future in Doubt 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:04.240 On this episode of the Heat Check, we officially have 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:11.840 to repeat conference finals teams. I don't think anybody had 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:15.120 these teams on their bingo card going to the Conference 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.799 finals again, especially the way that they both started out 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.599 this season. We break down the Pacers and the Timberwolves 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:25.079 and what they have done to get this far twice 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:27.640 in a row and white people counted them out. Then 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.479 we look at the fallout for the Cavaliers and the 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:34.159 Warriors flaming out so much to get to drop that 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:39.280 motherfucker beat that should be Rihanna Wyatt. You're you're listening 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:43.760 to the Hottest, the Hottest. It be a podcast out here. 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:48.480 I said what I said, it's the heat Chet Check Check. 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:55.400 Did anybody out that was a dog, that was a 0:00:55.440 --> 0:01:00.280 puppy fighting in my fingers? Did anybody on the big 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:03.080 board at any time in this NBA season say, you 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.200 know who I think is gonna go to the finals 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.959 of the Conference Finals? The Pacers? You know who I 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:13.479 think looks really good right now, as fucking Julius Randall 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:17.200 was integrating like boo boo, I think the Timberwolves are 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.720 gonna be able to repeat again. Yeah. Here we are 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:26.160 very similar stories. Actually in terms of how they started 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.120 the season and in terms of how they've played in 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:33.280 these playoffs, neither team has even really barely broken a sweats. 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.560 If you look at the four seed four seeded Pacers, 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:42.840 people were like, oh, the Bucks, the Bucks rematch. Johannis 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:47.160 and Dame are both healthy. You don't want to see them. 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:50.400 Bucks were plus one fifty to win the series. I 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:54.640 don't think anybody expected what we saw, which was just 0:01:55.240 --> 0:02:01.160 a lamb basting a curb stop American history X, A debo, 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:03.560 this is our bike, We'll just keep it at my 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:08.400 house kind of a situation. But that's what happened. That 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:12.000 is exactly what happened. Pacers then match up with the 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:17.040 Eastern Conference regular season champions, sixty four win team with 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.360 the defensive player of the year on it, a guy 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.959 in Donovan Mitchell who was playing at an elite level, 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.000 a Monster had the Coach of the Year, defensive player 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.680 of the year, Damn Near had the sixth Man of 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:32.560 the Year and Ty Jerome. You had an All Stars 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:36.840 on this team former All Stars too, and Jared Allen. 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:40.640 Then they made a trade to get another defensive minded 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:44.720 wing in DeAndre Hunter, who was third in six Man 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:49.640 of the year voting this season loaded, and as the 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:53.560 Calvs pretty much put pat Riley in the heat into retirement, 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.519 four zero clapped him up, put him in a suitcase, 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:00.480 winning the last two by eighty two points. No one 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.720 thought the Pacers had a shot except for me. All 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:08.320 twelve MBA personalities picked the Calves don't do that, That's 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.880 not what you want to do, and the Pacers stole 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:15.000 the lifet all the soul, stole the chain, took their shit, 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:19.000 went up into their house multiple times, took the TV 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.720 off the wall, let a pitbull inside the house, and 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.440 shit all over their living room. Basically just squatted on 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:30.600 him to nothing you can do about it. Okay, Darius 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:34.880 Garland's toe is never right. Donovan Mitchell is always dealing 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.160 with something because he's always putting the team on his back. 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.119 So he had an ankle thing and a back thing. 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:44.640 Evan Mobley had an ankle thing. DeAndre Hunter had a 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:50.480 dislocated thumb. That's bad luck for sure, But I don't 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:53.680 know necessarily if a healthy Calves team can beat this 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:57.640 Pacers team right now. As it stand, the Pacers are 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:03.760 not the team you think they are. Yeah, they play fast, absolutely, 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.480 no doubt about it. Probably the fastest playoff team you've 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.600 ever seen in your goddamn life. Yeah, everybody can play 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:11.480 fast in the regular season, but no, this thing. This 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.880 team's playing at mock ten in the playoffs. But then 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:18.919 they punch you in the fucking mouth literally. Ben Mathers swap, 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:23.640 James Johnson, swap swap. They got Tyrese Haliburton giving them 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:27.520 the bye bye bye. Like Damian Lillard. They're a physical 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:32.200 fucking team. Aaron Neith Smith is physical. TJ. McConnell will 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:37.479 get inside your Jim Schortz. Even Rick Carlile, the Pacers coach, 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:42.680 had some words of condolences for Kennie Atkinson, the Cavs 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.800 head coach, because at the end of the day, all 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.360 Rick Carlile did was slap a zone on him and say, 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.520 figure that one out. This is what he says. They 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:54.240 had a great year. I'm sorry that their season had 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.880 to end like this. In a way, Kenny did an 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.000 amazing job. They just kind of had the perfect season, 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.880 and then we came along and we were hot at 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:08.280 the right time. Hot is right fucking hot, and it's 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.800 not just Halliburton, although he's very hot as well. In 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.760 their close out, Game five, where you knew actually, even 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.320 though Cleveland was up, you're like, this isn't gonna last. 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.840 This is not lasting. Calves came out red hot. They 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.760 got a double digit lead early. They tried to muck 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:28.000 it up, play fucking slow as molasses, and they're like, Okay, 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.159 this is not gonna work. But they wore him down 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.200 to a nub. Donovan Mitchell he had thirty nine to 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.000 five and one. That's like thirty nine and above, and 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.520 three of the games that he played he was hobbled 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.240 the whole game. Darius Garland had eleven mode we had 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.120 twenty four, but it didn't matter. Halliburton had six threes. 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.320 Pacers as a whole shot forty three percent from three. 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.120 They built the second half leading. They said, deuces, peace up, 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:56.039 a town down, see you later. All five pacers starters 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.359 scored double digits are better. The lowest net rating was 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:03.839 plus ten for Pascal Siakam. They also played six bench players, 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.000 like I try to tell y'all this team so deep, well, 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:10.200 put your ass to sleep. Eleven total players played, which 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.160 was four short of Game four, when they played all 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:17.080 fifteen players, they hit six more threes in a game. 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.080 They won one fourteen one oh five, and that, it 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:22.800 turns out, was the difference what I'll say about the 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:26.480 Pacers in terms of why we didn't why a lot 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.080 of people, including me at times, didn't believe. Is Tyrese 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.160 Haliburton the start of the year look bad? And I said, 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.200 is he actually not good? Or is he still hurt? 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:39.760 Turns out, as I thought, he's not buns. This man 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.680 is still recovering from a hamstring injury in last playoffs, 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.359 in the in season tournament that he was struggling. He 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.360 had a little decline from the from the end season 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.800 tournament on that carried over and all of a sudden 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.840 we wondered whether he was not good any longer. No, 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:01.960 he is still good. You have all these players they 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.160 beginning of the season, we were wondering if this team 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.960 was even gonna be a playoff team at all. But boy, 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.320 oh boy, when they got their mojo back, when aaron 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.360 Ne Smith got healthy again, with Andrew Nemhar got healthy again, 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:17.360 when Tyrese Halliburn got healthy again, boy it showed what 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:21.280 we'll get into what's happening next for the Caves. But 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.560 right now, Rick Carlisle has this Pacers team playing like 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:29.320 it's swish watch just fearless. It's they're just running like 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:34.920 a German fucking train. Just TikTok, TikTok, everything's running on time. 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:39.840 How fearless are they? You ask? Here's your insane Tristan 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.760 Crieks out of the day. Cleveland was thirty six and 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:48.160 five at home this year against twenty eight other NBA teams. 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:52.640 That's an eighty eight percent win percentage, but zero to 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:57.320 five at the crib against Indiana. They lost as many 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:01.320 home games to Indiana as the rest of the entire 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:05.680 league combined. Cavs lost twenty two games this year, and 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:12.480 seven of those losses were against Indy. Tough. Indiana might 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.080 just be bored dangerous on the road because they have 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.760 these runs, those runs, you know what I'm talking about, 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.360 where you think you're gonna win the game, and then 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.160 all of a sudden, there's only forty seconds left, and 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.320 how could they possibly come back down seven? And then 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.600 all of a sudden, Tyrese Haliburn's giving you the bye bye. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.719 They just take the home crowd completely out of it, 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.760 their shell shot. It happened against Cleveland, and of course 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:41.000 it happened against Milwaukee. We saw two stunning game winning 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:45.520 shots from Tyrese Haliburton. Like I said this, Aaron Smith 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.400 and Andrew Emhardt are the ones. Nie Smiths shooting forty 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:52.360 eight percent from deep Nemhard shot fifty percent from three 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.360 against the Bucks, excuse me and the Cavs while also 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.439 putting up nearly fifteen a game. You can always get 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.280 good play from Siakam. Gonna get good play if he's 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.439 healthy from Halliburn. Miles Turner has been playing so well 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:06.679 and he might not even be able to afford him 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:11.400 after this year. Ben matherin doing his thing, getting massive 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:15.480 contributions that have changed the course of this team. And 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.120 now they wait the winner of the of the Knick 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.880 Celtics series. They've already beaten the Knicks in the playoffs 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.400 last year. Now that was a different team. No mckel 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.960 bridges on that team, no Karl Anthony Towns on that team, 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.360 and then you had injuries to ogn and obn Jalen Brunson. 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.800 So I'm very very interested to see how that series 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.040 ends up. If that's the series that we get, but 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.200 the Pacers could be looking at an NBA Finals run 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:45.480 for the first time since two thousand. So then let's 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:49.680 talk about the Minnesota Timberwolves. Another team that started out slow, 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.160 another team where you were like, oh, man, with what 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.120 they did last year, was that just an anomaly? Was 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:59.080 that just a one time thing? Not a single ESPN 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.160 town took them to beat the Lakers, They barely broke 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.720 a sweat. They took out Luca for it one, putting 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:06.559 them in the semis against Golden State, and Nevers said, 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.840 ohoh's Golden State, Golden State. Oh, Jimmy Butler, even myself, 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:13.920 Jimmy Butler, Steph Curry, they're playing so well. Those two 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.280 together are clutch kings. How is this going to be 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:18.160 able to work? A lot of people had the Warriors 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.839 winning in six or seven. Golden State was about plus 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.320 one fifty to win the series as a whole, and 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:29.319 then the wheels fell off, Warriors lost Steph Curry even 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:32.719 though they won Game one, and the realization was that 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.160 Jimmy Butler was gonna have to be playoff Jimmy Butler 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.800 in a lot more if they were gonna win that series. 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.200 And Jimmy Butler did not deliver. Draymond Green did not 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:48.480 deliver all those antics, all those fucking weird just back 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:52.480 and forth with the Zebras. You had Brandon Pajemski looking buns. 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:57.560 You had our man Jonathan Kaminga thinking that he's Steph Curry. 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:59.760 You had Steve Kerr with his hand on his face, 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:03.880 face on his hand. It was bad, It was really bad. 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.080 Just like that for to one Wolves Night Night Sleep Mask, 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.600 go home, Steph Curry says, don't bother me the rest 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.400 of the summer. At some point we'll talk about the 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:20.040 future of the Warriors next segment. But the Wolves are 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:25.280 dangerous because of why. Aunt Edwards. Aunt Edwards, just like 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.800 jo Kich, just like Shay, is a star and when 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:32.640 the lights get bright, his game gets brighter. He's averaged 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:36.880 twenty six, eight and seven against the Warriors. They had 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.400 no answer. They just even when he has three in 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.960 the first half, thirty five for the game. He shot 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.320 fifty percent or better from three in their final three wins, 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.199 where he had five or more made threes in each game. 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.200 And then we got to put a little respect on 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:59.600 Julius Randall. No one has salvage their reputation more in 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:05.679 one month than Julius Randall. He hasn't looked good. Julius 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.680 Randall has looked fucking great. He has looked at times 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.680 the best player on the walls not named Aunt Edwards. 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.200 He's like looking like better than he did in his 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.000 most improved player season. He's looking like an All Star. 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.800 He averaged twenty five to seven and seven against Golden State, 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.280 and he had twenty three to five and four against 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:27.040 the Lakers. So he's up against Draymond Green, a gritty, 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:32.600 very physical, very intimidating guy, and he's up against Lebron James, 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:37.160 another physically intimidating guy. And he never backed down, never 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.679 back down. He said, come with it, come with it. 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.319 I don't give a fuck, so he said. He has 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.720 been excellent on defense. He has been tough on the boards, 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:49.240 great on offense. One of the most overlooked things he's 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.040 done is he's been more consistent than Ant Edwards. He 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.319 has been steady as fuck from the free throw line. 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.080 He went to the line twenty three times against Golden 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.400 State and he made twenty two of them. Man, Denver 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.720 Nuggets could use that right now. He shot eighty four 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:09.120 percent from the line against Los Angeles. That's just that's 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.360 what you need from a big hit, your fucking free 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.880 throws when you get fouled or We're not gonna do 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:19.080 the hack of Mitchell thing on you. And he's able 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.920 to stay out of foul trouble while still defending one 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:23.600 of the best players on the floor. On a night 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.920 to night basis, he's averaging thirty eight minutes per game, 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.920 only one minute less than Aunt Edwards. And then we 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.439 got to put a little loff, give a little flowers 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:37.240 to oh Ludi, Oh Ludi, you gober oh Bonge Rudy. 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.520 Two close out games this postseason, Rudy Gobert has averaged 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.680 twenty two and sixteen. I didn't know Rudy Gobert could score. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:49.120 I didn't know you can't score seventy eight percent true 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:53.240 shooting and a plus thirty nine net rating. They are athletic, 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:57.240 they are defensive minded, and they are healthy. I don't 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.760 know how much okay Se will enjoy this year if 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.920 they play them. I know the Denver will not enjoy 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.440 it because they had it and they were up twenty 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.760 in the fourth quarter of a game seven at the 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.840 crib and they still went home. I don't think either 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.680 team is going to cause Minnesota to lose any sleep. 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.280 They say, you know what, we already had our lumps 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.040 in the early part of the regular season, and we 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.160 figured some shit out. Chris Finch deserves respect as well. 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.520 When he took over, the Wolves were seven and twenty four, 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:33.080 and all he's done is playoffs, playoffs, Western Conference Finals, 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:37.120 Western Conference Finals. For a team that made the playoffs 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:42.200 once in the previous seventeen years, four years in a row, 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.640 Chris Finch goes to the playoffs. He has more playoff 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:53.400 wins already than all previous Wolves coaches combined. Man, he's awesome. 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.360 He's done in a remarkable job. He's a great adjuster. 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.560 He's figured out a way to integrate Julius Randall in 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.400 a way that we didn't know if it was possible, 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.760 based on the fact that he had experienced with Julius 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:09.920 Randall when Julius played for New Orleans. Remember and Chris 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.720 Finch was an assistant coach. And he has a plan 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:17.600 and that plan is fucking working. So kudos to the 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:23.840 unlikeliest of repeat winners, the Pacers and the Wolves. We 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:27.960 looked at the winning side, moving on, Moving on, we 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:32.560 looked at the winning side. That's my transition sound. There's 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:37.720 a lot more drama on the losing side. Starting in Cleveland, 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:43.000 the entire team fan base city there shook it. Donovan 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.520 Mitchell says he's watched Game five twice already and he 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:50.000 cannot sleep. I would watch that game bag personally. Dan 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:54.920 Gilbert posted a condolence message for the Cavs fans, saying, 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.040 I know it's heartbreaking, but the good news is we 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.240 have a talented young core that we'll learn from this 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:04.480 and continue to get better. We appreciate your incredible support 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.280 all season long. It's not how we wanted it to end, 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.280 but I promise you we will do everything humanly possible, 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:14.880 humanly possible, not humanly possible, humanly possible to address what 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.800 needs to be fixed and end in a much better 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.560 place next year. What is that and what's that gonna be? 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.640 Everything humanly possible. Here's the thing. They're gonna run this 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:30.240 team back. They are. They have to because we don't 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.520 know what they are really yet. Even if we know 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:34.760 what they are, we don't really know. We don't have 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.480 the evidence to say. Because this is how it goes. 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:42.640 When you've got excuses to be had to latch onto, 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.520 you're gonna latch onto them. Kolbe Autman is going to 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:49.920 say the truth of the matter is Darius Garland had 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:53.680 turf toe. He missed four or five games. The truth 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.200 of the matter is Donovan Mitchell had a bad back 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.800 and a bad ankle. The truth of the matter is 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.320 Evan Mobi, our defensive player of the year, was hampered 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.040 by a bad ankle as well. The truth of the 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:08.639 matter is our guy that we traded for at the 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:14.560 deadline and DeAndre Hunter he had a dislocated thumb. So 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.439 what are we really If we were fully healthy, we 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.160 could have made work light work out of these pacers. 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:24.840 Despite the fact, we know that's not true. We know it. 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:27.360 How do we know it because we've seen it before. 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:32.640 We've seen this story before. It's called the Utah Jazz 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:38.520 sixty plus win season. They get eliminated early. We've seen 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:42.159 it from the Portland Trailblazers. You can only go so 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:47.400 far with these little ass guard duos Damon CJ, Mike 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:51.159 Conley and Donovan Mitchell. You just can't do. It just 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.880 doesn't work. We've seen it now when you don't have 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:59.920 the wing support on defense and you've got a four 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.479 who should probably be a five and a five who 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:06.120 should probably be on another team. So they're gonna run 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.479 it back They're probably gonna win less games than they 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:10.480 did last year because there's gonna be a lot of 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:15.479 teams that have figured out how to defend them. And 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:17.720 the elephant in the room is Donovan Mitchell is the 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.320 centerpiece of the team, and he's never been to a 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:24.479 conference finals in his entire career, not one time. He 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:26.320 has never played on a team that has had less 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.639 than forty eight wins. The Cavs this year had sixty 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:34.680 four wins. Only twenty five teams in the history of 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:38.000 the NBA have won more games than his teams have won. 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:44.000 And yet every time Donovan Mitchell's getting injured, Donovan Mitchell 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:48.000 looks gassed, Donovan Mitchell runs out of steam, and his 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:53.479 teams get eliminated early. Kenny Atkinson, amazing coach. Give him 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:57.360 his flowers. He did an incredible job. Congratulations Kenny. You're 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:01.720 gonna have to change your entire offense next year as well, 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:05.640 because teams are gonna spend all off season learning how 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:07.920 to fuck your shit up, just like the Pacers did 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:12.080 Golden stew We'll move on to Golden State. They're another 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.240 problem all together. This team is like actually buns. The 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.399 Calves are like a good regular season team, but you 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:21.439 know they don't have it, have it. The Golden State 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.800 is just like a really bad regular season team that 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:29.520 if you need them to play sixteen games eight games, 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.879 they can sort of figure out how to get to 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:37.200 the finish line. The duo of Jimmy Butler and Golden 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:40.880 State were incredible. They really were. They were twenty four 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:43.159 and seven in the regular season when they played together. 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:48.080 But the truth is this bitches is old. Those bitches 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:51.119 is old. They're both in their mid to late thirties. 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:54.399 They're both starting to break down. You saw Steph Curry 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:58.640 have to scratch and claw just to get this team 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.840 into the playoffs. To get this team out of the plan, 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.480 you had Jimmy Butler do the same. He was suspended 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:08.879 from Miami, he goes to Golden State, he puts the 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:13.520 after burners on. All of a sudden, just like we've 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:19.560 seen many times before, Jimmy Butler gets injured again, pelvic contusion, 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:23.159 but contusion. Steph Curry had his first hamstring injury of 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:26.760 his entire career. I'm gonna say that is likely going 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:31.879 to happen moving forward again. It's probably not the reason 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:35.639 the Warriors lost to the Wolves. If the Warriors and 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:39.399 Wolves were both healthy, I think probably Minnesota wins is 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:44.000 six or seven instead of five. But it's certainly contributed. 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:47.640 If you're a Dubs fan, though, Let's be honest, let's 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:51.879 be real. When you see Steph not playing on this team, 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:57.920 what do you think about? Wow, when he retires, this 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:00.960 isn't gonna be any fun. We are not gonna be 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:05.680 any fun to watch. We really aren't. It's terrible. Brandon Pajemski. 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:09.639 That's what we've got to do with. That's what we're doing. 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:16.000 We've got Gee Santos, we got like Draymond's gonna retire, 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:23.800 We've got nothing for him, Like Trace Jackson Davis. Who 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:26.520 is on this team? Do you like at all? Gary 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:31.560 Payton the second Jimmy Butter's gonna retire When Steph retires, 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:36.879 this team is dead. Jimmy averaged only ten shots and 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:39.399 fifteen and a half points, didn't hit a three in 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:42.080 either Game four or Game five. He's taking a lot 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:44.480 of blame right now, and I think he just didn't 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:46.720 want to do the Miami Heat thing anymore. You know, 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:49.960 I didn't come here for this. I hadn't come here 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:53.359 to play on the Miami heat of the West where 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:56.440 I have to do everything with these fucking bumps. Are 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:59.920 you serious? Steph's not here. If I don't have Batman, 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:03.960 I'm not doing it. I'm injured, I'm old. I want 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:07.400 a title, and it's very apparent that without Steph we're 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:11.960 not getting one. Warriors owner Joe Lacob said the series 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:15.520 loss was disappointing. I really hope we could extend the series. 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:18.120 I'm pretty positive that if we had Steph, we would 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:23.119 have won this series. Joe Lacob, my man is Delulu. 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:27.919 That's what he is. He He's Dlulu. That twenty twenty 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:34.000 two NBA Championship continued his arrogance, and I am I'm 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:38.199 ready for the fall of our dubs. As much as 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:39.840 I love Steph and I love watching him, and I 0:22:39.920 --> 0:22:42.040 love Jimmy Butler and I love watching him, I can't 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:46.679 stand Joe Lacob. What is not up for debate is 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:50.640 that this roster needs an overhaul, starting with Jonathan Kaminga 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:55.320 aka cum Buckets. The tea starting to spill. Joe Lacob 0:22:55.359 --> 0:22:57.159 has a ton of skin in the game when it 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:00.080 comes to Cumbuckets, because over the course of two years, 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:06.840 the Warriors drafted Wiseman Kaminga, Moses Moody, and all three 0:23:07.840 --> 0:23:14.720 are nonsense. All three are pretty valueless. We won't go 0:23:14.800 --> 0:23:18.200 over who they could have drafted, LaMelo Ball for one, 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:22.479 but suffice to say they stuck too long with losing 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:25.359 players and they are in a pickle. They're trying to 0:23:25.359 --> 0:23:27.040 figure out a way out, and I don't know what 0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:30.560 the way out is. The latest from the athletic who 0:23:30.600 --> 0:23:34.600 says it's nearly impossible to believe Joe lacub would let 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:38.040 Kaminga sign an offer sheet elsewhere and walk away for nothing. 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:45.879 Oh okay, this is the best solution. As Kamingo wants out. 0:23:46.080 --> 0:23:48.560 The Warriors have no long term plans for him. Steve 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:51.320 Kerr hates him as a player, maybe not as a guy. 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:53.240 Probably not as a guy. He's a nice enough guy. 0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:56.919 A sign in trade would maybe bring them back some size, 0:23:56.960 --> 0:24:01.879 which is sorely needed. I just see it. As for Jimmy, 0:24:01.920 --> 0:24:06.120 he's happy, he's comfortable, he got his joy back. He said, 0:24:06.160 --> 0:24:08.400 he's very fortunate to be here. But we'll see how 0:24:08.440 --> 0:24:11.679 long that lasts, right, We'll see. He's never been happy 0:24:12.160 --> 0:24:16.479 long term anywhere. And the Warriors, I think the window 0:24:16.680 --> 0:24:20.400 is cracked for one and only season, and I don't 0:24:20.400 --> 0:24:24.680 think if they make any significant upgrades, they're cooked. Steph's 0:24:24.720 --> 0:24:27.800 gonna be thirty eight. He can't win with pods and 0:24:27.880 --> 0:24:31.800 trace Jackson Davis starting. You can't win with an older 0:24:31.920 --> 0:24:35.119 Draymond Green who needs Jimmy Butler to give him a 0:24:35.160 --> 0:24:38.240 battery in his backpack. No one can No one can 0:24:38.240 --> 0:24:40.960 win with these bumps, not even Steph Curry. All right, 0:24:41.000 --> 0:24:44.359 moving on for some news from around the league. Adam 0:24:44.440 --> 0:24:48.720 Silver is still trying to address the All Star Game 0:24:49.160 --> 0:24:55.919