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Speaker 1: Come on, man, so world, welcome to this episode of
Speaker 1: West Burning. Shout out my brother Mattie in here right now.
Speaker 1: But I got the big diplomat my other brother Gelannie
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Speaker 1: Playoff latest Celtics and Nets. I can't really be mad
Speaker 1: for the simple fact that they're definitely out playing Brooklyn
Speaker 1: and it being out coached. Tatum has taken the challenge
Speaker 1: uh to guard Katie at the step up on both fans,
Speaker 1: he's definitely looking like the better player in this series.
Speaker 1: I can't hate on that. Of the Celtons are the
Speaker 1: way more physical team, I can't hear hate on that.
Speaker 1: But what I can can hate on the Steve Nash.
Speaker 1: He is doing the terrible job coaching. You want to
Speaker 1: throw Blake in there. The last minutes of the game
Speaker 1: and see how quickly times of the ryand start getting
Speaker 1: a different field. You've got Blake and LaMarcus Artis on
Speaker 1: the sideline. I don't care if they're old or not.
Speaker 1: They have the experience, they physical and they know how
Speaker 1: to play in these type of games. So he's definitely
Speaker 1: get our coach. But I give all the credit to
Speaker 1: the young guys in Boston and and uh the head coach.
Speaker 1: They're doing a great job. Absolutely. I think at some
Speaker 1: point in time we got to start talking about coach Nash,
Speaker 1: you know, very beloved as a player, but rights right
Speaker 1: now he's on he's on the coaching he's on the
Speaker 1: sideline making a couple of questionable decisions. Like to your point,
Speaker 1: I think that between LaMarcus and Blake, they could have
Speaker 1: squeezed out of fifteen twenty minutes out of the power
Speaker 1: forward center physicians, regardless of what the point of rebound
Speaker 1: position look like. But another point you spoke to is
Speaker 1: it's is it about time we start looking at the
Speaker 1: Celtics as the formula for winning, you know, like you said,
Speaker 1: we can't be mad at it. And they won through
Speaker 1: the draft. Danny Ames won through the draft, obviously, Brad
Speaker 1: Stevens went to the front office and took over the
Speaker 1: driver's the driver's seat. But they won through the draft.
Speaker 1: They didn't do it through free agency. Um, you gotta
Speaker 1: take your hat off to what they're getting down, best team,
Speaker 1: best defense in the league. They got an identity on
Speaker 1: offense now as opposed to talented is players just trying
Speaker 1: to outdo each other. You know, as much as it
Speaker 1: pains me and you to to, you know, give this
Speaker 1: to eat and nasty name, it might be a time
Speaker 1: that we know, give them the least a hat tap
Speaker 1: out there in Boston, even though it pains me to
Speaker 1: say that. Oh yeah, I mean that's and that's just
Speaker 1: what it is. Broad They got the deepest and player
Speaker 1: the year. They're just a better team and they're showing
Speaker 1: it right now. And take our hats off to him.
Speaker 1: Next team, Heating Hawks heat up three one. They came
Speaker 1: in Atlanta and got one. Uh, Jimmy Butter has been
Speaker 1: playing great. Um, I knew Miami was gonna win this series.
Speaker 1: Miami is focused on the championship. They wouldn't focus gonna
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs. They weren't Folk was gonn getting
Speaker 1: out of the first round of second round, out of
Speaker 1: out of West, All Eastern Conference Finals. They weren't about
Speaker 1: winning the championship. They got the experience. They got the
Speaker 1: team with Kyle Lowry and jim on that with Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butlo on that team, they had the championship championship experience
Speaker 1: they need because both of these guys are all stars.
Speaker 1: Both of these guys are proven in this league and
Speaker 1: they know how to win. Great coach and spostra Um.
Speaker 1: It's over for allowting this game. Yeah, I mean Atlanta
Speaker 1: is an advertising right now. They might be the you know,
Speaker 1: they might be the truffle fries to for for you know,
Speaker 1: the the heat to get to their next their next entrede.
Speaker 1: But I watched a couple of positions. I've watched a
Speaker 1: lot of that Heat game, and they're dialed in on
Speaker 1: defense man, their attention to detail, the wind players that
Speaker 1: where they're adjusting and funding, funding, funding the people to
Speaker 1: their principles. Bad amount of bio can obviously switch out
Speaker 1: on the floor. We've talked about it on the show,
Speaker 1: how he's versatil and obviously can protect the rim. Jimmy's
Speaker 1: out there. They're just bullying. They're bullying trade they're bullying
Speaker 1: the young hawks. They're not giving them an opportunity to
Speaker 1: succeed at any level, whether that's bringing the ball up
Speaker 1: and he's getting passed off to another person, and then
Speaker 1: by the time he gets to the half court, he
Speaker 1: has to deal with Jimmy and somebody else. So that's
Speaker 1: a lot like how do you got to play, Steff?
Speaker 1: I feel like Trey Young is gonna have to, you know,
Speaker 1: sit with this one to have a big offseason where
Speaker 1: he starts suddressing issues with his body. Like remember when
Speaker 1: Steph came back with a little more cat when when
Speaker 1: he was a little skinny. I think Trey is gonna
Speaker 1: have to look at some doing something like that. He's
Speaker 1: gonna end up shooting half court shots, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean the rest of his career. Yep. And they
Speaker 1: gave that hundred million. You know, I'm happy he got
Speaker 1: his money, But that wasn't the batman. I mean, that
Speaker 1: wasn't the robbing to being a batman. To trade Young?
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, you know the fan of nah trade
Speaker 1: trade need a wing man, another guy, bigger player that
Speaker 1: can make more plays. Next team, We'll go to a
Speaker 1: Sixers and Raptors man. Toronto was able to squeeze one
Speaker 1: out Game four at home. Um and be playing hurt.
Speaker 1: But I I see, um put it up your clothes
Speaker 1: in this series out and beat it just too much.
Speaker 1: Right now, I still waiting to see what player James
Speaker 1: Harden is gonna be. Actually, Maxie has been the second
Speaker 1: best player in this series, behind and then b. He's
Speaker 1: been playing well. Even Tobias has been playing well. Like
Speaker 1: I said, Toronto showed a little signs every any team
Speaker 1: can get one at home because of the crowd in
Speaker 1: the field. But Philadelphia is gonna intererstate this game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers is back in that three one situation. I
Speaker 1: hope that, you know, they don't give any more weight
Speaker 1: to that. But like he said, Um, the MBD is
Speaker 1: just too much. Even a halfway interest to James or
Speaker 1: out of check or whatever's going on with James is
Speaker 1: too much for the Raptors to deal with. You got
Speaker 1: one at home, Like he said, everybody's excited in the sets.
Speaker 1: You know, there's the exchange between Champagne and Joe Joel
Speaker 1: after the game. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be the highlight of this series.
Speaker 1: No disrespect Facts. Next in the East. Last one, we'll
Speaker 1: go with Bucks and bulls Man. The Bucks up three one.
Speaker 1: Chicago was feeling good. They got that one win and
Speaker 1: man thought they were gonna do something. But once again
Speaker 1: the Greek freak the most dominant players and shock um,
Speaker 1: he got it on his mind he could take over
Speaker 1: games and from the first round and second round. He
Speaker 1: definitely can do that as great as he is great
Speaker 1: coach with Bud, but is a great great coach. They
Speaker 1: pay attention to detail. I've been coached by Bud and
Speaker 1: I've been I've seen this. Scotten reports that he would
Speaker 1: be prepared before games and you know everything the team
Speaker 1: like to do, which way they like to go, every
Speaker 1: every move they like to make you know everything that
Speaker 1: you need to know to guard somebody. And but Bud
Speaker 1: is one of the best at that. You know. Mil
Speaker 1: Walker is definitely closed the series out to at home. Yep,
Speaker 1: nothing else to say there. It was good that they
Speaker 1: didn't getting better to sweep. I know Bud, you know
Speaker 1: Darvin Hamm is over there. I believe darfn Haim still
Speaker 1: his longtime assistance. Shout out d ham my dog. But
Speaker 1: like you said, too much attention to detail. Too much
Speaker 1: playoff experience, too much Greek free. Grayson Allen is playing
Speaker 1: a role in these playoffs ironically, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: For how much home drum there is about him, He's
Speaker 1: carved out a nice niche in the absence of p J. Tucker.
Speaker 1: It's not p J Tucker, but he's it's Grace and
Speaker 1: Allen's version of what that role should be, giving him
Speaker 1: a little bit more offense. So I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: play out well in the playoffs. So that series is over.
Speaker 1: I just help Zach and the Mark and rest up,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, in the off season and
Speaker 1: make another round Carusoe getting hit. We'll talk about entry
Speaker 1: injuries later. I think the Chicago has just been through
Speaker 1: too much. And that's that's that's series is over. One
Speaker 1: more thing for we lead to East. You know we're
Speaker 1: re calling this on the Monday, Bro, But he check
Speaker 1: this out. The Celtist could be fall when it's come out,
Speaker 1: they could be sweeping boys and as Philadelphia could be
Speaker 1: done with Toronto. To what you think about that facts,
Speaker 1: I mean like he could like by the time you know,
Speaker 1: like by exactly what you said, by the time this
Speaker 1: comes out, that broom could be out the swifter, the broom,
Speaker 1: the little I robot whatever you know. It goes across
Speaker 1: the floor these days to get people up out of
Speaker 1: there and get the you know, get people in the
Speaker 1: trash can. But they could be on the beach somewhere.
Speaker 1: And just in just a couple of hours here, moving
Speaker 1: on to the West Coast, we got the Warriors Nuggets. Man,
Speaker 1: the Warriors team is finally healthy. The team we want
Speaker 1: to see their playing like the three one against the
Speaker 1: Nuggets going home. I definitely see it. Stephan Clay having
Speaker 1: a big game, finishing this thing out. Yo just been great,
Speaker 1: but he's just not enough. I think Draymond Green is
Speaker 1: showing why he's so important to that team, being able
Speaker 1: to make these big plays and and and defend Yoka,
Speaker 1: especially in the in the in the pivotal moments of
Speaker 1: the game, last two minutes of the game, he manning
Speaker 1: up and guarding one on one. I think that's big
Speaker 1: for his team. But they show on a lot of
Speaker 1: signs of the champion team, championship team that we've seen
Speaker 1: in the past, and I'm happy to see them back.
Speaker 1: I'm happy to see them all healthy, winning and feeling good.
Speaker 1: About themselves because the league needed. I know I'm a
Speaker 1: Warrior for life uh as being alumni, but uh it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a tough game for them to close out
Speaker 1: because I know Yoki Gendeva is not gonna go easy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they gotta they gotta motivated m VP candidate that doesn't
Speaker 1: want to go out on his home court. I agree
Speaker 1: with you completely about the Warriors. It's good to see
Speaker 1: Draymond turned back up. It's good to see the full
Speaker 1: contingent out there on the court, Draymond, staff Clay being available. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Pool has done a great job and put himself into
Speaker 1: but they got a like commina that those young players
Speaker 1: that got a lot of experience while Steph was out,
Speaker 1: while Dre is out, they're able to keep themselves focused
Speaker 1: and when they get an opportunity at the end of
Speaker 1: the game and big games during playoffs, shout out to
Speaker 1: those young kids. They're having their moments. So I can't
Speaker 1: imagine not being a bad thing for the Warriors moving forward.
Speaker 1: The Nuggets, they don't have their full compliments that they
Speaker 1: usually work with. But like you said, joke is the
Speaker 1: m v P. He might be able to pull another
Speaker 1: one out on home, depending on what's going on on
Speaker 1: the Warriors situation. But the Warriors should take care of
Speaker 1: business and not to like again, not in the near future.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go on to the Sons and Pelicans. This
Speaker 1: is a surprise series for a lot of people because
Speaker 1: of the injury to Devin Booker, and it's showing how
Speaker 1: important he is to this team. But I gotta give
Speaker 1: props to Willie Green and the Pelicans because regardless who's
Speaker 1: on the court, these guys are coming prepared. They're competing
Speaker 1: their young team, a real young team, and a lot
Speaker 1: of these guys just their first time experience in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So to be without Zion, a new team, a young coach,
Speaker 1: and to be able to compete with the best team
Speaker 1: in the league to be too too. Regardless who's on
Speaker 1: the court right now, they still have Chris Paul. Kudos
Speaker 1: to them and shouts out to them. But for being
Speaker 1: ready to play and stepping up to the moment. I
Speaker 1: don't know how long the book is gonna be out, um,
Speaker 1: but they definitely need him at as you as you see.
Speaker 1: But if he if he don't come back in the series,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be harder things to get out of this one.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a problem. El Sinco. You already already
Speaker 1: know that that matchup with Valutunist and Jackson Hayes them
Speaker 1: at the four and five. I feel like it's is
Speaker 1: a lot for for them to deal with right now.
Speaker 1: Willie green Is, you know, it's done a great job
Speaker 1: with the lineups and getting the matchups that he thinks
Speaker 1: that he need. Obviously, Devin Booker not being there, there's
Speaker 1: a big hole. Crowder didn't have a great start to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I think he hit like he's finally hit
Speaker 1: his first three last game. He's been able to do
Speaker 1: some things defensively well, like that he normally does. But
Speaker 1: I think they got a problem. You know what's gonna
Speaker 1: be the issue is is Alvarado. The Alvarado CP three
Speaker 1: thing is a thing for this series. Every series has
Speaker 1: a backstory. He is getting on CP three's last nerves,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I just love everything about him.
Speaker 1: He was the a C C player, the defensive player
Speaker 1: of the year. I love the hair and the bun
Speaker 1: in the New York He's just not fearful, like you said,
Speaker 1: like he fits with that young team. He's not fearful.
Speaker 1: He got him with the with the what the what
Speaker 1: the job ass thing he does when he post the
Speaker 1: ball from behind you. CP three didn't think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be able to get him. He seems to know about
Speaker 1: the situation. He knows this is a good time to
Speaker 1: play himself into some money. Jack, get us some type
Speaker 1: of identity. But with the fan base, be a favorite,
Speaker 1: you know, a fan favorite, so I just want to
Speaker 1: kill I just think we should keep an eye on
Speaker 1: that situation. And like you said, nobody thought the Pelicans.
Speaker 1: And Pelicans been through a lot, from the twelfth seed
Speaker 1: into the playing into these moments. I think they're primed
Speaker 1: and ready for a situation where if a superstar falls out.
Speaker 1: I think because they're young, they don't know no better.
Speaker 1: And theause this this this could be our first round upset.
Speaker 1: Shout out C. J. Mccaully too for for leading these
Speaker 1: young boys and carrying the team right now. He's bawling
Speaker 1: Grizzlys t Wolves, Man, I see this one going seven.
Speaker 1: You look at Game one, because the stars are showing
Speaker 1: up in this series. Game one to start, one of
Speaker 1: the stars in Minnesota after was stepped up. He had
Speaker 1: a big game for the point game. Game one game too.
Speaker 1: You've seen that job wasn't going like that. He told everybody,
Speaker 1: stay calm, don't worry about it. They gets in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Minnesota get off to a good stop, but the star again,
Speaker 1: Josh shows up again and carries his team to come
Speaker 1: back win in Minnesota Game four. The other star in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: Cat was like, nah, it ain't going down as the
Speaker 1: polt of that team. He's done it. So the stars
Speaker 1: are showing up in this series. I see it going seven.
Speaker 1: But it's a good series to watch. This has been
Speaker 1: one of my best favorite series to watch. To watch
Speaker 1: the matturation and Cat during this playoff series because he
Speaker 1: could have easily laid the laid the egg. He didn't
Speaker 1: have the best start um the way, Like you said,
Speaker 1: the stars are showing up and providing moments, not you know,
Speaker 1: not one to relinquish any type of advantage. I think
Speaker 1: this is this is up there with one of the
Speaker 1: better series we've seen this postseason. We obviously know Jaws
Speaker 1: gonna step to the table. He's is probably gonna have
Speaker 1: some signature moments by the end of this playoff series.
Speaker 1: At the end of this playoffs season, but like Desmond Bain.
Speaker 1: Didn't he go like two straight games hitting seven threes
Speaker 1: or something like that during the season. So again, stat
Speaker 1: you played in the playoffs. We both played in the league.
Speaker 1: There are times in the playoffs where you can play
Speaker 1: yourself into a bad from one playoff series playing in
Speaker 1: the pressure ride situation. We know a lot of guys,
Speaker 1: a lot of guys, even not as talented as guys
Speaker 1: in contract situations, but the fact that they came through
Speaker 1: in those playoffs series for fan bases, it became fan
Speaker 1: fan favorites. They were able to play that to a
Speaker 1: couple of multi year contract you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: for a little bit of stability. So I think that's
Speaker 1: an opportunity for a guy on Memphis or the Wolves team.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of players that are in those situations.
Speaker 1: So that should be you know, there should be an
Speaker 1: asterisk next to that series because it's been a good
Speaker 1: win and it should continue to be. Yeah, definitely gonna
Speaker 1: be good. When I'm tuned the end of that one
Speaker 1: final playoff series in the Western Conference, the Jazz and MAVs.
Speaker 1: Hey man, I'm I'm just gonna start it with saying bye,
Speaker 1: I'm upset with Jay Kidd. Let me tell you why
Speaker 1: I'm upset with. Let me tell you why I'm upset with,
Speaker 1: Jay Kidd. You go and you go up in the
Speaker 1: series to one, you win the first game in Utah.
Speaker 1: Brunson is bawling. He is carrying his team. Lucas still injured,
Speaker 1: but Luca getting the chance to rest, and you bring
Speaker 1: Luca back game for and y'all end up having to
Speaker 1: let down because Brunson had to take the seat back
Speaker 1: to Luca. You gotta ride that wave. You gotta let
Speaker 1: Brunson continue to roll and give Luca another another game
Speaker 1: to rest. And then that just in case you could
Speaker 1: arrest you. You You could have sealed it at home. But
Speaker 1: they made a bad decision with bringing Luca back that game.
Speaker 1: The should have let Bronson rock out, but shot out,
Speaker 1: shot out to Bondanovitch, he is really taking the uh,
Speaker 1: the challenge to guard Luca. He picking him up full court,
Speaker 1: getting still trying to getting pushed offs on Luca. Lucas
Speaker 1: still killing him, but he's taking the challenge and UH
Speaker 1: and they're playing well. Donovan Mitchell and a big for
Speaker 1: the play where to see that game the other day.
Speaker 1: But I think if if the if the marriage would
Speaker 1: have left brushing Rock again on the road just to
Speaker 1: see because there was rolling with without without Luca, and
Speaker 1: gave Luca an extra day to rest. I think they'll
Speaker 1: be going home three one instead of two too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's tough. I mean, if Jaked, if Lucas probably
Speaker 1: putting a lot of pressure on Jaked, if Jack kid
Speaker 1: don't want to lose no playoff game in his first stint,
Speaker 1: if there's some of you know, if Lucas some type
Speaker 1: of Luca is available, I get it. That's the fifty fifty.
Speaker 1: But to your point, Jathan Brunson has been balling, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, and he has the pulse of
Speaker 1: that team. He's done a great job in Lucas absence.
Speaker 1: He's kind of done a great job under the tutelage
Speaker 1: of JACIB. But you know, that's I couldn't. I could
Speaker 1: easily understand that, you know, JACB being sweating about getting
Speaker 1: Luca back into the line, because I'm pretty sure it
Speaker 1: was coming from on high. Luca. He probably was second guesting,
Speaker 1: like if I'm gonna go out, I might as well
Speaker 1: go out, you know with Luca. But you you do
Speaker 1: have there is some validity to your point about you know,
Speaker 1: protecting your superstar and the fact that Brentson was playing
Speaker 1: so well, let's talk about injuries, man, How important injuries
Speaker 1: all to the playoffs. I always talk about when we
Speaker 1: won the championship and oh three we went, we ran
Speaker 1: through that, we were into Dallas in the Western Conference
Speaker 1: finals and Dirk got hurt. That was a big load
Speaker 1: off us. You know, we end up winning four two,
Speaker 1: But I know everybody in their mama, no, it would
Speaker 1: have been a different series if Dirt would have been there. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they would have won, but you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, it might not have been four to
Speaker 1: probably the seven games. But having to beat out, having
Speaker 1: Step out, having Simmons out, having Booked out, and having
Speaker 1: Middleton out. That is all stars, that is all key players,
Speaker 1: two teams, you know, And uh, I really think that
Speaker 1: Phoenix is gonna feel it the most, you know, not
Speaker 1: having book his scoring, his leadership on the team. They
Speaker 1: don't even have close to having other players that can
Speaker 1: go out there and get buckets like he can. And uh,
Speaker 1: as you see in this series is uh, it's taking
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure off New Orleans on defense because
Speaker 1: they don't have to worry about the problem coming down
Speaker 1: to getting thirty to four. They every night, right they
Speaker 1: can they can really focus on Chris Paul his playmaking
Speaker 1: and try to see what other guys are are ready
Speaker 1: to step up and beat you, and they they don't
Speaker 1: have guys it's ready to do that right now. But
Speaker 1: so for me, you know, um, definitely not having a
Speaker 1: Simmons for Brooklyn also is a big problem. Um. But
Speaker 1: with me, it's not the same as em beating book
Speaker 1: in Middleton. It's not the same. This guy just don't
Speaker 1: want to play. I mean, you want to, you want
Speaker 1: to show video, You want to show videos a duncan,
Speaker 1: but you can't. You could while you while you can't
Speaker 1: do that in the game. I just don't get that
Speaker 1: your team is at the point where they are about
Speaker 1: the season is about to be ended by Boston, and
Speaker 1: now you're still sitting on the sidelines, probably worrying about
Speaker 1: some lawsuits. You got to get some money or I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on. But I would not want
Speaker 1: to be his teammate right now because I know I'd
Speaker 1: be speaking my mind to him and I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: he would like Man, it's tough. It's tough to to
Speaker 1: to not have an opinion on how things have gone.
Speaker 1: If we're in the locker room together, if we're on
Speaker 1: the team together, it's like I'm trying to hold you down.
Speaker 1: It's like, I mean, come on, man, I'm not asking
Speaker 1: that you come out here and you know, give me
Speaker 1: a double double. But if you can come out here
Speaker 1: and play fifteen minutes, help out on the defense of
Speaker 1: some of the defensive responsibilities, some of the ball handling.
Speaker 1: We already talked about injuries and nobody's healthy and have
Speaker 1: we both played through injuries. He played a lot more
Speaker 1: minutes heavy, with a lot more responsibilities than I have.
Speaker 1: But it can be done. These are the moments that
Speaker 1: the playoffs are about, and beat is doing it with
Speaker 1: a handle on. That means everything. So although Steph is
Speaker 1: out on the court, we still know that he's not
Speaker 1: at add percent. Booker Middleton Zion for Pete Sex, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. We can't even get his eye on.
Speaker 1: Is trying to get on the court, going between the legs,
Speaker 1: letting people know he wants to rock, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, sitting on the sideline, thirsty. I just don't
Speaker 1: see the thirstiness and being sentence on the sideline cool
Speaker 1: and then Jimmy hend the sunglasses chilling and the spongebobish
Speaker 1: types outfit. It's not enough urgency for me, considering what
Speaker 1: what that team has already been through, for the coaches
Speaker 1: and the front office people that have put their jobs
Speaker 1: on the line to put the young Memphis team the room.
Speaker 1: Just a little bit of appreciation and activity I feel
Speaker 1: like would have went a long way as far as
Speaker 1: the Ben Simmons saga goes. But again to your great point,
Speaker 1: injuries have always been appointed the game, a part of
Speaker 1: the game, especially in the playoffs. But you know what
Speaker 1: I mean as far as it goes with Ben, we
Speaker 1: would like to see him at least try. I don't
Speaker 1: even care if he's the video of him trying and
Speaker 1: then his back hurts and they pull him out. At
Speaker 1: least that does help us in the locker room and
Speaker 1: the sideline with the fellas. I don't know what they're
Speaker 1: playing off off season if he's gonna be there, like,
Speaker 1: he's still gonna have some type of buying with with
Speaker 1: with the guys. So injuries are a part. I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna have a play a bigger part in this playoffs.
Speaker 1: We we don't know if anybody else is gonna get
Speaker 1: hurt moving forward. So like you had another great point
Speaker 1: about CP three having to make an adjustment because he
Speaker 1: usually else to the fourth quarter and then he starts
Speaker 1: turning on his offense. But right now he doesn't have
Speaker 1: deep book to take over that first, second, and third quarter,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be hell is stressed out by the
Speaker 1: time he gets to the fourth and he's playing against Alvarado.
Speaker 1: So injury is gonna be a major factor grooming forward.
Speaker 1: And and and the closed Middleton Milwaukee, we gotta watch.
Speaker 1: We gotta watch that because Middleton is definitely their closer
Speaker 1: and they need him in those closing moments because the
Speaker 1: regree can only do so much as playmaking. So you
Speaker 1: need to watch that as well. Good car on the Radar,
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Speaker 1: The latest odds for conference winners the conference winners for
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference, they have Boston plus one thirty five,
Speaker 1: Miami plus three hundred, Milwaukee plus three fifty, and Philly
Speaker 1: plus three ninety, which one of them all As you're
Speaker 1: taking Jay Mack after I've seen what I've seen from Miami, man,
Speaker 1: and in the last if it can carry you over,
Speaker 1: Like I always try to take a chance. I know
Speaker 1: it's easy to say Austin and Milwaukee in a couple
Speaker 1: of the sad class, but I always take a chance
Speaker 1: with some of my picks. So I'm gonna roll with
Speaker 1: those Miami odds. Yeah, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Miami tune now, and I like the way they
Speaker 1: if just just the way it's shaping out right now,
Speaker 1: they'll be matching up with Boston. I like the way
Speaker 1: they match up with Boston. Not not sure if they
Speaker 1: can beat Boston, but I like the match up. I
Speaker 1: know they're a physical team and they're gonna meet their
Speaker 1: physicality right Yeah. Absolutely. And the collaboration in Miami between
Speaker 1: Spo and Karen shoutout tough Jews and in unity over there,
Speaker 1: they seem they have like an open form of discussion
Speaker 1: before even gets to the bench, and you know that
Speaker 1: means you know what that means in the locker room
Speaker 1: like that, especially in the playoff room, that means everything.
Speaker 1: So they just seem dialed in too much attention to detail.
Speaker 1: Like we spoke earlier, and too much, too much spoke. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those player voices definitely matter. Let's go to the Western Conference.
Speaker 1: They gotta go to State plus one thirty Phoenix plus
Speaker 1: two twenty, Memphis plus five hundred and Dad, it's plast
Speaker 1: one thousand. How are you going there? Go to State.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take that. I'm gonna take that. Golden State.
Speaker 1: Phoenix was the sexy pick at first, you know, but
Speaker 1: the injuries happen. You know, the Western Conference is injury
Speaker 1: interesting because you got Lucas injury, you got the young
Speaker 1: Memphis team, you got Devin Booker's injury, You've got Steph
Speaker 1: coming back from injury. So the Western Conference is really
Speaker 1: a lot, really predicated on health. But I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with the Golden State Warriors. I like what i've seen.
Speaker 1: I think that Denver is gonna push them just enough
Speaker 1: in this first round to get them geared up for
Speaker 1: the next round. Yeah, Memphis in Dallas, they're not ready yet.
Speaker 1: Their young team, dame that they don't have the team
Speaker 1: they need to to pull this off. Phoenix, no Booker,
Speaker 1: no go. Uh, Golden State go to stay healthy. Right now,
Speaker 1: they're looking good. They've been there. That's a that's a
Speaker 1: smart bit with me gonna go to State absolutely going
Speaker 1: one more. I'm making oh Man Alright. So we had
Speaker 1: a chance to have my brother the real McDonald's game
Speaker 1: m v P Shaheen Holloway the new coaches, Seaton Hall.
Speaker 1: We had him on the show, Um is a great show.
Speaker 1: He told us a lot of stuff about how he
Speaker 1: was feeling in his journey to being where he had
Speaker 1: now the head coaches seating all check his tea's out
Speaker 1: you as the head coach, former head coach of St.
Speaker 1: Pete made a historical n C double a run uh
Speaker 1: this past march, being able to build them up, Uh,
Speaker 1: not only into a Cinderella story, but just a well
Speaker 1: disciplined team that played hard, had a lot of heart. Uh.
Speaker 1: What was that talk to us about that process and
Speaker 1: how that happened. You know it was at first it
Speaker 1: was tough, right, any time you go from a high
Speaker 1: major to a low major. Right, things that you're not
Speaker 1: used to know far as budget and how you travel
Speaker 1: and you know, having a strength coach and things like that.
Speaker 1: So I had to work through all that stuff. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, to be honest with you, Matt,
Speaker 1: I which we just gotta do that with that one
Speaker 1: the ball right, just do it. That was hungry, had
Speaker 1: chip on his shoulder, that was underrecruited. People didn't believe
Speaker 1: in them. I brought them in. You know, I like
Speaker 1: tough guys. I I played a certain way, so I
Speaker 1: want God to fit my personality right, So when I
Speaker 1: was going through the process of recruiting guys, I wanted
Speaker 1: guys like that, gods that you know, just hungry and
Speaker 1: it's kind of something to prove. I want to know,
Speaker 1: eat your food, you feel me. And that's kind of
Speaker 1: the guys I brought in. But how hard was it?
Speaker 1: And what did you tell your guys when you decided
Speaker 1: to take the seat and job seat and seeing the
Speaker 1: whole head spot. Well, I'll be honest with you, Matt,
Speaker 1: it was it was easy, right, Um not say easy
Speaker 1: at this point. The guys made it easy for me. Right,
Speaker 1: I want to locker room and we was in there
Speaker 1: for three hours, bro, just chopping it up, kicking it.
Speaker 1: And theil guy was like, Coach, you gotta go. You
Speaker 1: know that's home. You work your butt off for this opportunity,
Speaker 1: Like that's something that we would do if we had
Speaker 1: the opportunity. So when they told me that, you know
Speaker 1: it was it made it easy for me. That's beautiful
Speaker 1: looking back on the journey, on the experience, what particularly
Speaker 1: stood out to you about this tournament run? You know what?
Speaker 1: Just right for these guys, you know, And obviously I'm
Speaker 1: sitting here told to you guys, I'm blessed to be here,
Speaker 1: But it wasn't for those guys, I wouldn't be it
Speaker 1: today talking to you guys, right, So for me, for them,
Speaker 1: it was like everything right. You know, you ad admit major,
Speaker 1: you know, you work your your butt off. You look
Speaker 1: at this type of stuff on TV growing up, and
Speaker 1: for them guys to be in that spotlight and performed
Speaker 1: the way they performed, Like I just was sitting back
Speaker 1: taking it in like for real, for real, Like I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there like these guys get a chance to build
Speaker 1: Dave brand right now, right, I just love the attention
Speaker 1: for them and beyond you just playing against the best
Speaker 1: teams and knocking them off real talk, what was it
Speaker 1: like when you signed your name as the head coach?
Speaker 1: Right right, So I'm gonna be you know, this is
Speaker 1: a real show, so you gotta be be real, right,
Speaker 1: And I looked at that I had to make sure
Speaker 1: it was good because this is home, and when home,
Speaker 1: you don't want to mess it up, right, You don't
Speaker 1: want to go in there and make sure it's the
Speaker 1: right situation with the right people. And I trust the
Speaker 1: people that was here at the time right now, UM,
Speaker 1: and I can't mess it up. It's too important for me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Works I think I speak for all of us. Works
Speaker 1: out and you see what kind of culture you build
Speaker 1: over there. Next up the abuson Classic I can't wait.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this week July. And obviously you've been there.
Speaker 1: You've been a part of everything I've been doing in Memphis,
Speaker 1: and it's a blessing to have Showtime CBS on board
Speaker 1: this year and also body Armor coming on as a
Speaker 1: sponsor as well. I think it's gonna be a beautiful thing,
Speaker 1: a beautiful week I've been coaching this year. One I'm
Speaker 1: excited to, uh to see what these kids gonna bring
Speaker 1: again this year. But Jolynni started off, what you're looking
Speaker 1: forward to this week, uh, seeing from these young guys
Speaker 1: and your experience of the Alaniser classes. From my experience,
Speaker 1: every everything, everything, the moment we got there, everything has
Speaker 1: been authentic, you know, shout out to buy being in
Speaker 1: joy there that I have haven't seen two guys that
Speaker 1: cared so much about the project in a long time.
Speaker 1: Their passion speaks volumes the minute I got there. The authenticity,
Speaker 1: the fact that we're leading and all American game for
Speaker 1: Chuck is just baffling to me. And to see your
Speaker 1: passion about the project and how you pour into the kids.
Speaker 1: How when you first you know what I mean, converted you.
Speaker 1: You know you've been You actually kept going out there.
Speaker 1: You're faster, you went prayed, uh, kept kept that schedule.
Speaker 1: So just watching everything coming to come to fruition obviously
Speaker 1: shout out to Showtime and Showtime always reaching back and
Speaker 1: giving the voices you know what I mean to us
Speaker 1: the athletes and trusting us to go out with different
Speaker 1: projects with the vision. Shout out b D, Shout out
Speaker 1: CBS for hasn't been a long time, stag. I want
Speaker 1: you to you don't want to leave some room for
Speaker 1: you to talk about it. But it hasn't been going
Speaker 1: on for like ten or fifteen years. It's only been
Speaker 1: a couple of years that a bunch of former players
Speaker 1: really got the chance, you know, really decided to get
Speaker 1: together to give you know, flowers to one of our
Speaker 1: most revere basketball players. So I'd like to leave the
Speaker 1: Florida talk to you about how short the window that's been,
Speaker 1: and then how good has it been for you know,
Speaker 1: showtime and former players to get out, you know, get
Speaker 1: out and prop up on our own. Yeah, man, three
Speaker 1: to four years. Man, I just at the first, I
Speaker 1: gotta start with Bobby and John. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: just a passion Bobby and him loving Chuck the way
Speaker 1: and loving a out the way. We all love him
Speaker 1: and want to see ay I get as flowers. We
Speaker 1: as athletes don't really come across too many friends like
Speaker 1: that that want to see us get our flowers, but
Speaker 1: not just talk about it, go out about action and
Speaker 1: doing it the right way. And I think for a
Speaker 1: how to have this game allons the classic right now
Speaker 1: to be just as big as the McDonald's game, if
Speaker 1: not bigger. I know one thing it is that's different.
Speaker 1: We're way more authentic and we're really a part of
Speaker 1: the culture with this game. It's just a blessing, man.
Speaker 1: And you know, like I said, Bobby and jo just uh,
Speaker 1: these two guys are angels to Chuck to be able
Speaker 1: to have this game and for me to be a
Speaker 1: part of from year one, man, just to be able
Speaker 1: to coach these kids, be around them and understand and
Speaker 1: help them understand how important it is that one of
Speaker 1: ours has a game, how important it is for us
Speaker 1: for them to come out there and really put on
Speaker 1: the show, play their hardest, and and and and behave
Speaker 1: just as good as they will behave at any other
Speaker 1: high school classic, you know, like the mcdowance game and
Speaker 1: anything else. And we are providing more. You know, we
Speaker 1: have NBA players everywhere a part of the coach. We
Speaker 1: have the best coaches. Uh. Like you said, Showtime CBS.
Speaker 1: Name another game that that that's affiliated with Showtime CVS. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, shout out to Bobby too, man, I
Speaker 1: think it's just everything is coming together for a reason, man.
Speaker 1: And I think the reason why it's happening because you're
Speaker 1: putting a whole a group, a group of genuine men
Speaker 1: together to come up with great ideas and all love
Speaker 1: chucked the same. But I'll understand the business side of it,
Speaker 1: and we're making it work, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So shout out to everybody involved. Man. I think, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, e Ray, everybody now everybody involved with with
Speaker 1: what we're doing down there and being involved with this
Speaker 1: obvicence class. It's a movie, man, and I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: I get emotional, but I'm just happy that I'm being
Speaker 1: a part of something that Abson deserves. No, I'm big
Speaker 1: at big Time, Eddie Murphy coming to America. I'm very
Speaker 1: happy to be here vibes when when when it comes
Speaker 1: to the Iverson Classic and being a part of the
Speaker 1: Showtime team in the footprint them, so yeah, shout out
Speaker 1: to the team and everybody in tire, Shout out to
Speaker 1: Bobby and jo and I can't wait to see him
Speaker 1: Memphis in a couple of day. Brother. Closing thoughts, Stack,
Speaker 1: You've obviously been very vocal on I g H the
Speaker 1: last couple of days, the last couple of weeks, well
Speaker 1: the last your whole I g lifetime. But this last
Speaker 1: post in particular, you spoke on creators, uh in our stories,
Speaker 1: whether that be athletes, black creators, and and you know
Speaker 1: people that look like us. You know, if you if
Speaker 1: you follow Stack Stack five on Instagram, you will be
Speaker 1: very familiar for the post. With the post, but I'd
Speaker 1: like to give this give you a little time to
Speaker 1: expand on your post. I think feel that there was
Speaker 1: a little more that you wanted to say. Then you
Speaker 1: left a little meat on the bone, you know, as
Speaker 1: as opposed to your ir G post. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you the floor to expand on what exactly you
Speaker 1: meant by that post. Yeah, well, you know, it's at
Speaker 1: a point now where we can't be using other people
Speaker 1: for examples. I mean, you use other people as excuses
Speaker 1: for our success or other people as excuses for telling
Speaker 1: our stories wrong. We have so many shows now, we
Speaker 1: have so many avenues and platforms like we have all
Speaker 1: the smoke or war winning shows like ours and other
Speaker 1: and other platforms that we control our own narrative. And
Speaker 1: it seems anytime we have um some type of issue
Speaker 1: or go through something in life where it blows up
Speaker 1: in the media and it's just an instant hit when
Speaker 1: people talk about it is drama. When it's time for
Speaker 1: us to really everything's out and really clear the story
Speaker 1: out and tell the truth, we always go to places
Speaker 1: where these are the same people that was demeaning you
Speaker 1: the whole time, right so, and and then you runt
Speaker 1: to them to tell you runting them to tell your
Speaker 1: story and really they're not laughing, but they're not laughing
Speaker 1: with you, they're laughing at you. And we put ourselves
Speaker 1: in these and in these predicaments so many times where
Speaker 1: our stories been getting told by other people and after
Speaker 1: after all over the media, all over the tabloids. Oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't say that all Why they twisted it like that?
Speaker 1: They didn't ask me that that way, you know. So
Speaker 1: it just it just sucks that we're still trying to
Speaker 1: use um other people for excuses when we work so
Speaker 1: hard to be in a position we are now to
Speaker 1: be able to have podcasts, to be able to have
Speaker 1: shows that we control our on that to tell our
Speaker 1: own stories and tell them the right way. I appreciate
Speaker 1: all of athletes and guests that's been on our show
Speaker 1: because that's what they trusted to do. They come there
Speaker 1: and we want to catch that vibe that we bring,
Speaker 1: but also expect us to touch on some real topics
Speaker 1: and to and to open up to them the same
Speaker 1: way they opened up to us. But they know they're guarded.
Speaker 1: At the same time, we're not trying to demean anyone,
Speaker 1: and a lot of rappers are are using the million
Speaker 1: dollars a game with Gillen Willow as their platform to
Speaker 1: tell their stories because they know it's gonna be told right.
Speaker 1: It ain't gonna be watered down, and people are gonna
Speaker 1: be able to hear it clear. We have to take
Speaker 1: advantage of each other, uh and and and support each
Speaker 1: other to be proud of each other. But being in
Speaker 1: a position that for a long time we couldn't be
Speaker 1: in right, So we gotta take advantage of these opportunities.
Speaker 1: The doors are open if we don't get it together
Speaker 1: and and and rally up like some many other communities,
Speaker 1: and like we always talk about in our community about
Speaker 1: rallying together and putting them played together and making it
Speaker 1: beneficial for everybody. One thing that I I love about
Speaker 1: working for show Time, and honestly, while I feel so
Speaker 1: honored to be working about working with you and Matt,
Speaker 1: is that the time. Nobody knows the time and the
Speaker 1: effort you guys put into this. And even before I
Speaker 1: came on, there was a great period where you have
Speaker 1: to make sure you sweat me about being you know, technique,
Speaker 1: making sure I got everything study and everything. Shout out
Speaker 1: to e who you know what I mean, who who
Speaker 1: are studying that the need so the authenticity cannot be duplicated.
Speaker 1: It's not fake. Nothing about this show is fake. I
Speaker 1: think we always have a responsibility, even in the edits
Speaker 1: when I'm on the post side, about making sure we're
Speaker 1: painting everybody with enough love and life as you and
Speaker 1: Matt do on the show, saying I know everybody on
Speaker 1: the team takes that very seriously, whether it's the cameraman,
Speaker 1: audio guy. It's just so like it really feels like
Speaker 1: almost like an NBA environment where you know somebody's coming
Speaker 1: from the front office and you know somebody's helping you
Speaker 1: with this and that, Like, I take my job very seriously,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I'm very proud to wear
Speaker 1: all the smoke merchandise. I take you know, my my
Speaker 1: relationship with you and Matt seriously. You know, obviously we're
Speaker 1: ours is gonna We knew each other for a long time,
Speaker 1: but it's continue to evolve in this space. And I
Speaker 1: couldn't whole heartily agree with you about taking advantage about
Speaker 1: using us to tell our stories and then we don't
Speaker 1: have an excuse to blame somebody else. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta go back and give that shot at
Speaker 1: the showtime. You know, this one thing I love about
Speaker 1: the partnership. Then let us come to that does control
Speaker 1: our own environment. Like one thing about Once you meet
Speaker 1: me and Matt, you'll understand that we open everybody. You know,
Speaker 1: love fall. We have love fall. We are we stand
Speaker 1: on that, you know what I mean, and we want
Speaker 1: to see everybody win. So if we can create that
Speaker 1: type of environment, you know, we're all races working together,
Speaker 1: getting the job done, everybody feeling good and enjoining their
Speaker 1: work and their work environment. If we can create this
Speaker 1: environment such a short time, there's so many other people
Speaker 1: that's willing to create that environment but don't have that
Speaker 1: don't have the opportunity, right. So if you see people
Speaker 1: with that opportunity, continue to support them. And if you
Speaker 1: know they're paying the narrative the right way and doing
Speaker 1: the right thing and not trying to demean any race
Speaker 1: or any culture, you've got to support them because that's
Speaker 1: the type of shows we need on TV, and that's
Speaker 1: the people that need to be controlling the narrative. Well,
Speaker 1: he said, what's burning available every week at showtime YouTube
Speaker 1: and on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at show basketball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a good one piece m