Speaker 1: Welcome in What's drive in the Great episode three twenty seven.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, A show that the audience is likely
Speaker 1: looking forward to quite a bit more than me. A
Speaker 1: show that you know, it's very ironic. I'm drinking out
Speaker 1: of the coffee cup game theory with Bamani Jones. Bimani
Speaker 1: texts me this morning, just trolling me. Well, he started
Speaker 1: by trolling JJ Reddick, but then he started trolling me
Speaker 1: saying shame the Lakers didn't last long enough for us
Speaker 1: to watch a playoff game together. That would have been fun.
Speaker 1: And I wrote him back. Given how the Lakers playoffs win,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have been fun at all. And so listen,
Speaker 1: let's just get into Demons High. Good to see, uh,
Speaker 1: happy to see. I love you, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1: You're my believed great awesome fun stuff. Let's get to
Speaker 1: what missed the cut. Stefan Castle becomes a fourth San
Speaker 1: Antonio spur To win Rookie of the Year. If he
Speaker 1: does not end his career as one of the twenty
Speaker 1: five greatest players of all time, he has not carried
Speaker 1: on that legacy. No big shoes, kiddo, but Robinson's there
Speaker 1: Duncan's there, Wimby appears to be on his way, Dyson
Speaker 1: Daniels wins Most Improved Player and Boston Flute Gentleman sweep
Speaker 1: of Orlando. A reminder, please like, rate, subscribe, review, check
Speaker 1: out the podcast you control me in the comments. It's final,
Speaker 1: be honest. Probably won't be reading them today, but the
Speaker 1: producers might pick a select few to bring to my
Speaker 1: attention if they find them particularly funny. Because it's not
Speaker 1: just that I'm bummed. It's not just this the second
Speaker 1: straight year that the Lakers and Lebron and the playoffs
Speaker 1: don't get out of round one. It's also that this
Speaker 1: is the first Lakers playoff loss since Lebron's been there
Speaker 1: that is shocking. This one is shocking to me. The
Speaker 1: the when they lost to the Suns that series turned
Speaker 1: on Anthony Davis. Pulling is growing. Like I thought they
Speaker 1: would win that series. But your second best player, best player,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Depending on how you viewed Anthony Davis,
Speaker 1: then Pulls is growing. It changes two years ago when
Speaker 1: they got all the way to the conference finals, I
Speaker 1: thought they could win. They obviously got swept by Denver,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't shocking that they lost last year. When
Speaker 1: I they got Denver in round one and Denver was
Speaker 1: the overwhelming favorite, I said, hey, if you're ever gonna
Speaker 1: beat Denver, round ones the time that you have the
Speaker 1: best chance. But I wasn't shocked by it. This one
Speaker 1: shocked me. And so I have some you know, accounting
Speaker 1: to do on that front. And so I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how much we're going to talk about today that isn't
Speaker 1: about the end of the Lakers season, the ascension of
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards, Rudy Gobert having his annual Rudy Gobert game,
Speaker 1: which is honestly demons here is. You know, it's really
Speaker 1: important to remember stay humble, like Gianness would say, stay humble,
Speaker 1: be grounded, because nobody took more pleasure on TV last
Speaker 1: year than me in the root the last Rudy go
Speaker 1: Beart game we got, because that was against Denver in
Speaker 1: Game seven, and Kevin Wilds was covered in shame and
Speaker 1: I got to mock him for it. And I've never
Speaker 1: really been a Rudy Gobert guy. I don't know if
Speaker 1: there are many Rudy Gobert guys outside of Leone. However,
Speaker 1: I enjoyed that performance and then the Rudy go beart
Speaker 1: game came for me and in really maddening fashion. So again,
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So the Lakers season ended last night, I think,
Speaker 2: and the hands of Anthony Edwards and the Timberwolves, so
Speaker 2: might say. Rudy Gobert JJ w Rennick had a similar scheme.
Speaker 2: He played his starters a lot of minutes. They came
Speaker 2: closer at the end, but then kind of ran out
Speaker 2: of gas. They couldn't do it. How'd you get this
Speaker 2: series so wrong? You said there was this one they
Speaker 2: obviously didn't.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and I said Lakers. I said my favorite
Speaker 1: bet was Lakers minus a game and a half, meaning
Speaker 1: Lakers in four or five or six. And when I
Speaker 1: was giving the analysis of that bet, I said, I
Speaker 1: didn't even really consider the possibility of the Lakers losing
Speaker 1: the series. Is the reason the bet didn't come in.
Speaker 1: I thought it was because the Lakers, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: they win in seven, but I thought they would. I
Speaker 1: thought they would be hard fought games. The Lakers were
Speaker 1: clearly better. So I do want to start with me
Speaker 1: because I gotta a whiff this strong, you gotta figure out.
Speaker 1: You gotta kind of do an autopsy, a post mortem
Speaker 1: of your own tape. And the number one thing that
Speaker 1: I clearly overestimated going into this postseason was how dynamic
Speaker 1: and unstoppable the Lakers offense would be. I thought there
Speaker 1: was a little too much attention paid to the Lakers
Speaker 1: defensive deficiencies, not because I thought they'd be a great defense,
Speaker 1: but because I thought it was pretty clear we had
Speaker 1: proof of concept that the Lakers defense could be average,
Speaker 1: that the Lakers defense could be fine, and that if
Speaker 1: the Lakers defense is fine, even given their size limitations,
Speaker 1: that this offense with Luca and Lebron was going to
Speaker 1: be a top three in the league over the court,
Speaker 1: you know, net rating wise or offensive rating wise offense.
Speaker 1: And it was nothing close to that. And so that
Speaker 1: was with number one whiff. Number one was that the
Speaker 1: Lakers offense would be would put the other team under
Speaker 1: such pressure to keep scoring and to keep pace that
Speaker 1: a younger Timberwolves team, a Timberwolves team that only has
Speaker 1: one true superstar, a Timberwolves team that has a few
Speaker 1: guys who are max players who there have long playoff histories,
Speaker 1: but the playoff histories are you know, checkered in Rudy
Speaker 1: Gobert and Julius Randall that the weight of Lebron and
Speaker 1: Luca on the offensive side of the ball would be
Speaker 1: too much for him. None of that happened. We didn't
Speaker 1: have a single game this series where where Lebron and
Speaker 1: Luca were both outstanding on the offensive end, and we
Speaker 1: did have last night. And we'll talk obviously more about
Speaker 1: the individual parties involved here shortly, but last night was
Speaker 1: the first time in an elimination game that Lebron wasn't
Speaker 1: outstanding in a decade. Honest to god, if you go
Speaker 1: through it was it was somewhat jarring to see if
Speaker 1: you look at what Lebron James, who averages thirty five
Speaker 1: points per game in his career in elimination games, what
Speaker 1: he did last night in comparison, like if I can
Speaker 1: just quickly give you the game logs last year against Denver,
Speaker 1: face well, he had two games facing elimination against Denver.
Speaker 1: The first game he had third thirty five and four.
Speaker 1: The next game and because they won it, he had
Speaker 1: thirty nine and eleven. The year before facing elimination against Denver,
Speaker 1: he had I think thirty in the first half and
Speaker 1: he finished with forty ten and nine. When they lost
Speaker 1: to Phoenix in a game they got, they really didn't
Speaker 1: have much of a chance. If you remember, that's the
Speaker 1: game Anthony Davis started and then played like thirty seconds,
Speaker 1: then came out of the game. Lebron twenty nine to
Speaker 1: nine and seven facing elimination. They never faced elimination and
Speaker 1: route to the bubble in the championship run. And then
Speaker 1: if you look at game seven against Boston or game
Speaker 1: six and seven against Boston facing eliminations, are down three
Speaker 1: to two, forty six, eight and eleven, thirty five, fifteen
Speaker 1: and nine, you can go his whole career. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're facing elimination. I have to ramp it up. Here's
Speaker 1: the part that last night informed me on he fired
Speaker 1: those bullets over the weekend. He felt correctly, clearly we
Speaker 1: were facing elimination in game four and in game three
Speaker 1: he had the thirty eight, ten and four and they
Speaker 1: blew it at the end. In game four he had
Speaker 1: twenty seven, twelve and eight and the defensive stops at
Speaker 1: the end, and in game five the forty. It was
Speaker 1: a weird Lebron game because he had three of his
Speaker 1: most explosive offensive plays of those three dunks that he's
Speaker 1: had all postseason. But he just didn't have the juice
Speaker 1: last night, So Lebron didn't have the juice. Luca's performance
Speaker 1: last night even more shocking because Luca has been a
Speaker 1: back against the wall, I'm gonna f you up everybody's
Speaker 1: top when they're up.
Speaker 2: Lucas seemed pretty messed up, like basically this whole series. Though. Yeah,
Speaker 2: whether it was sicknesses or yesterday, I feel like he
Speaker 2: came out with like some backspasm type of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, listen, he got hurt, but he didn't.
Speaker 1: If it was he had looked awesome and until the
Speaker 1: hard fall, that would be one thing, but that's not
Speaker 1: what it was. Like. He was relatively passive in the
Speaker 1: first quarter, which is when he has crushed. It felt
Speaker 1: early on like Lebron and Luca were both like, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's conserve energy in the first quarter so we have
Speaker 1: more in the fourth quarter. And at first it looked
Speaker 1: like a bad strategy because they were down fourteen, but
Speaker 1: then once despite all that, they were able to claw
Speaker 1: their way back into the game and actually take a
Speaker 1: one point lead, You thought, oh, this could work out,
Speaker 1: but Lebron didn't have the extra gear and Luca didn't
Speaker 1: have it. The really, I don't want to say the
Speaker 1: whole series, but the last three games since he got sick,
Speaker 1: Luca didn't have the Luca playoff gear. Twenty eight to
Speaker 1: seven and nine on seven of eighteen from the field
Speaker 1: for Luca is by his standards, a bad playoff game. Now,
Speaker 1: the flip side to that, and where, folks, where credit
Speaker 1: must be given is the other guys are paid too.
Speaker 1: And the Timberwolves defensive plan against Luca and against Lebron
Speaker 1: was outstanding. The Timberwolves trusting you know what, Austin Reeves.
Speaker 1: If you beat us, you beat us. We don't think
Speaker 1: you're gonna beat us. It was smart, it worked, and
Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna kill Austin Reeves. He had a
Speaker 1: rough series. But also the Lakers shouldn't have needed Austin
Speaker 1: Reeves to be great to force a Game six against
Speaker 1: the Timberwolves. And I understand that the Timberwolves are now
Speaker 1: twenty one to five in their last twenty six and
Speaker 1: I think they have ten or it's either ten or fifteen.
Speaker 1: I don't remember double digit wins in that stretch I
Speaker 1: get that that maybe I was I am still even
Speaker 1: to a degree underrating or disrespecting the Timberwolves. But this
Speaker 1: Lakers team it was not. And this is what's so
Speaker 1: frustrating about the way the season ended. It was not
Speaker 1: some hope in a prayer media creation. They had almost
Speaker 1: the exact same record against the Western Conference as Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City did. They were a dominant team home where they
Speaker 1: lost two of these games. They had I think the
Speaker 1: third best record in the fourth best record in the
Speaker 1: league against the best teams in the league. We saw
Speaker 1: them at the end of the year against a full
Speaker 1: strength Oklahoma City team, blow them out, and then go
Speaker 1: toe to toe with them a week before the playoffs.
Speaker 1: They were rested. All of those things happened, and while
Speaker 1: Lebron did not have a great Game five, you did
Speaker 1: get great Lebron performances in Games two, three, and four.
Speaker 1: So it wasn't that oh the you know, the old
Speaker 1: man slowed down at the end. He did at the
Speaker 1: very end, and they still just got annihilated in this series.
Speaker 1: The thing about last night that made last usually demons.
Speaker 1: If if a team loses a close out game that
Speaker 1: you know, is a one possession game with a few
Speaker 1: minutes left. It's heart wrenching. I gotta tell you, it's
Speaker 1: not how I felt watching the Lakers squander that game
Speaker 1: at the very end, because they were incredibly lucky last
Speaker 1: night that they weren't blown out minutes. I mean, Anthony
Speaker 1: Edwards was zero for eleven from three. The Timberwlves as
Speaker 1: a whole shot forty seven threes and made seven of them.
Speaker 1: Think about that, they were fifteen percent from three. So
Speaker 1: Ant was five of nineteen from the field. And that's
Speaker 1: another weird thing for Ant because he's going to get
Speaker 1: his flowers today, as he should. But it reminded me,
Speaker 1: actually a lot of game Game seven against Denver, the
Speaker 1: biggest win of Anthony Edwards career. He was six of
Speaker 1: twenty four from the field, two of ten from three,
Speaker 1: had sixteen points. It was his worst game of the series,
Speaker 1: and they came back and beat Denver. Anyway, last night,
Speaker 1: he's five of nineteen from the field, oho of eleven
Speaker 1: from three, has fifteen points. And it's the game that
Speaker 1: he knocks off Luca and Lebron that which is a
Speaker 1: testament to the Timberwolves and a testament to Julius Randall
Speaker 1: was excellent. This entire series. Julius Randall was reliable, and
Speaker 1: obviously Rudy Gobert's nine offensive rebounds twenty four total rebounds,
Speaker 1: him scoring twenty seven points in a playoff game was unfathomable.
Speaker 1: And you can say, oh, listen, this is the Lakers
Speaker 1: don't play a center. The Lakers haven't played a center
Speaker 1: all series. Rudy Gobert's stat lines prior to last night
Speaker 1: two and six, six and six, one and three, five
Speaker 1: and ten, and then twenty seven and twenty four. Prior
Speaker 1: to last night, in the series, Rudy Gobert had fourteen
Speaker 1: points twenty five rebounds in the four games. Last night,
Speaker 1: he had twenty seven points, twenty four rebounds.
Speaker 2: Not having a big guy in there is gonna come
Speaker 2: back to bite you eventually, right.
Speaker 1: Well, clearly, I mean so clearly it did. But the
Speaker 1: point that I'm making is, and you guys know from
Speaker 1: what I was saying earlier in the series that I
Speaker 1: thought and even though the Lakers were in a tough spot,
Speaker 1: but one of the things that had worked out for
Speaker 1: them was that the Timberwolves, and we talked about this
Speaker 1: that even though the Lakers were everyone, the Lakers were
Speaker 1: playing with six' eight and. Below rudy wasn't killing them
Speaker 1: that they were getting away with playing that small because
Speaker 1: The timberwolves didn't want to Give Rudy gobert the. Ball
Speaker 1: And i'll be honest last, night they didn't give him
Speaker 1: the ball that. Much it was all on like of
Speaker 1: but it was, yeah it was on offensive, rebounds it
Speaker 1: was on. Putbacks it wasn't a lot of like they
Speaker 1: passed it To Rudy. Gobert and so a guy who
Speaker 1: has in his seventy how how many games is his playoff,
Speaker 1: career seventy four game playoff, career who went into last
Speaker 1: night with five career twenty point playoff games and zero
Speaker 1: career twenty five point playoff, game puts twenty seven on your.
Speaker 1: HEAD a guy who in his seventy four career playoff
Speaker 1: games once going into last, night had more than eighteen
Speaker 1: rebounds in a game in the, playoffs puts twenty four
Speaker 1: rebounds on your. Head it Was it was a dominant
Speaker 1: performance by. Him it was a great performance By jalen
Speaker 1: By Julius. Randall they and that's the other. Piece jade
Speaker 1: McDaniel's in foul trouble immediately and it didn't. Matter so
Speaker 1: this was A it felt to me like and this
Speaker 1: is is not an excuse and it might even be an.
Speaker 1: Indictment it felt to me like The lakers felt they
Speaker 1: lost the series On, sunday and that is and that
Speaker 1: they came out because there was no energy in the first.
Speaker 1: Quarter it was something of a.
Speaker 2: Miracle minnesota was leaving it up there for. Grabs, yes
Speaker 2: they were playing pretty complacent with the, lead taking a
Speaker 2: lot of beef shots instead of. Driving it was a.
Speaker 1: Miracle it's exactly right demonse that this game was closely
Speaker 1: If minnesota just has A c minus shooting night instead
Speaker 1: of the worst shooting night any team will have in
Speaker 1: the playoffs over the next three, years which is really
Speaker 1: what they. Did The lakers are down twenty, five, right
Speaker 1: and so the credit to The. Timberwolves, Man and.
Speaker 2: What about The Mark williams? Trade, Man, like what is?
Speaker 2: Well would that have changed?
Speaker 1: This here's the thing it what they gave up in
Speaker 1: The Mark williams trade Was Dalton connect a first round,
Speaker 1: pick AND i think a. Swap so there is no
Speaker 1: arguments that you made like well for this series in
Speaker 1: this postseason that would have hurt you Because Dalton connect
Speaker 1: got zero. Minutes you know WHAT i. Mean so since
Speaker 1: the guy you traded you never played in the short,
Speaker 1: term And Mark williams took a bit of a victory.
Speaker 1: LAP i understand On, TWITTER i get that it certainly
Speaker 1: felt like and they when they didn't Get Mark, williams
Speaker 1: they Signed Alex, lynn who played zero. Minutes Now Maxi
Speaker 1: kleiba comes off the bench after not playing in months
Speaker 1: because of his, INJURY jj gives him five minutes and
Speaker 1: more ON jj shortly there is. There it sure feels
Speaker 1: like they would have had a better chance now in
Speaker 1: retrospect in this series they Had Mark. Williams we never
Speaker 1: saw him play with him and they now that powder
Speaker 1: is dry for you, know a move this coming summer.
Speaker 1: Potentially BUT i. CAN'T i can't pick a team to
Speaker 1: win the championship and then when they get popped in
Speaker 1: round one and five be, like, well here's all the
Speaker 1: obvious flaws with the, Roster like that's. BULLSHIT i Knew
Speaker 1: Mark williams wasn't on the. TEAM i knew how big
Speaker 1: The timberwolves were WHEN i said After day eighty, Two
Speaker 1: game eighty two of the season THAT i thought the
Speaker 1: bracket fell perfectly for The, lakers and now you look
Speaker 1: at it and you, say, well that was wrong, obviously so,
Speaker 1: no it's A i but at its, core people are,
Speaker 1: GONNA i, think focus on the wrong. THINGS i think
Speaker 1: this what happened to The, lakers in my, opinion is
Speaker 1: three games of this series and they scored less than
Speaker 1: one hundred. Points four games of the series they scored
Speaker 1: less than one oh. Five the one game they won
Speaker 1: they only scored ninety. Four and you can so folks
Speaker 1: are gonna say the issue was they were never gonna
Speaker 1: be good enough, defensively, maybe but the issue in this
Speaker 1: series was an offense that the only way to look
Speaker 1: at This lakers team as a legitimate contender was going
Speaker 1: to be they have an elite. Offense that offense was never.
Speaker 1: Elite it was never even very. Good and it's just
Speaker 1: remarkable to me that it's the same. OFFENSE i saw
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago drop one twenty six IN okc
Speaker 1: in a GAME okc one and then have like one
Speaker 1: ten with six minutes left N okc against that. Defense
Speaker 1: in the, Game luca got ejected IN i the The
Speaker 1: lakers role players all had some. Struggles luca obviously wasn't
Speaker 1: Himself lebron ran out of gas in every every one
Speaker 1: of these fourth, quarters and that's how you lose in.
Speaker 2: Five given, It, Austin, YEAH i feel like you Were
Speaker 2: you did really go easy On Austin. Reeves if those
Speaker 2: guys aren't gonna show, up that who has to show?
Speaker 2: UP i think it has to Be.
Speaker 1: Austin, well, no, LISTEN i So Austin reeves for the
Speaker 1: series was sixteen to five and three on forty one
Speaker 1: thirty two. Splits it's a bad. Series the Reason i'm
Speaker 1: not focusing on that is BECAUSE i JUST i think
Speaker 1: that would be kind of bullshit in THAT i didn't
Speaker 1: pick The. Lakers people ARE i think MAYBE i think
Speaker 1: people that are discerning listeners to HOW i do this
Speaker 1: stuff are maybe at times surprised at how FAIR i
Speaker 1: try to be to what is honest. COMMENTARY i didn't
Speaker 1: pick The lakers BECAUSE i Thought Austin reeves was gonna
Speaker 1: cook so like and so this was the first playoff
Speaker 1: run of his career where a lot was expected of.
Speaker 1: Him that's where and and he didn't. Listen he wasn't,
Speaker 1: great but he's a young player who doesn't make a
Speaker 1: ton of. Money who you just? EAT I i don't
Speaker 1: like when stars are, awesome their team, loses and people
Speaker 1: then blame the. Star the exam of that would would
Speaker 1: have been if after The pacers beat The, bucks if
Speaker 1: people were Like jannis needed to do, More yiannis did
Speaker 1: fucking everything he could have, done and they got. Beat,
Speaker 1: so Like Bill james used to, say bad teams have
Speaker 1: an amazing ability to blame their best players for their biggest,
Speaker 1: problems and SO i try not to do. That but
Speaker 1: WHAT i also try not to do is when a
Speaker 1: team THAT i thought was going to win because of
Speaker 1: the overwhelming star power at the very top doesn't, win
Speaker 1: and those two stars are good but not WHAT i
Speaker 1: thought they would, be then be, like man needed more
Speaker 1: from your third, option LIKE i JUST. I and so
Speaker 1: it's not like That i'm trying to Protect. Austin it's
Speaker 1: nothing like. That it's THAT i he wasn't very, good
Speaker 1: But austin reeves playing at A c minus level again
Speaker 1: should not be the reason you're going home in. Five
Speaker 1: and that's where that's where we end. Up SO i
Speaker 1: H i'm gonna get to a bunch of the other,
Speaker 1: stuff AND i actually. Do demand's want the first thing
Speaker 1: we talk about here in a minute to be Jj.
Speaker 1: Reddick so if we need to adjust our, rundown that's,
Speaker 1: fine BECAUSE i do want to talk about The redick
Speaker 1: piece of. This then we'll get To lebron And. Luca but,
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Speaker 1: Tv all, right, demonse let's get to some of this
Speaker 1: other stuff as we spend a lot of time On Lakers.
Speaker 2: Wolves. Yeah, so Jj reddick was asking a pregame pressor
Speaker 2: if he was going to consult with his assistants a
Speaker 2: little bit, more and he got offended by that and
Speaker 2: kind of stormed out of the, meeting And Dragonfly jones
Speaker 2: came out and, SAID i had the. Show, yeah so,
Speaker 2: quote you can't be the, smug know it all new.
Speaker 2: Coach and then every coach whoever schemed Against rudy did
Speaker 2: a better job than you answer those questions at the, podium.
Speaker 2: Bro yeah, so.
Speaker 1: So here's the. Deal So i'm also not going to
Speaker 1: So i'm big, on and we can Take dragonflies tweet.
Speaker 1: Off i'm big. On this is going to sound, silly
Speaker 1: just being, honest no matter uh how it looks or
Speaker 1: if people think there's an agenda there or. Whatever it.
Speaker 1: Is so over the last couple of, years WHEN i
Speaker 1: have criticized The lakers, coaching it hasn't been to Protect.
Speaker 1: Lebron it hasn't been BECAUSE i was looking for a fall.
Speaker 1: Guy it was BECAUSE i Thought darvinham was objectively, speaking
Speaker 1: a bad, coach AND i thought he put them in
Speaker 1: bad strategic and tactical and line up situations and it
Speaker 1: hurt their chances of. Succeeding that's WHY i. CRITICIZED i
Speaker 1: am not going to all of a sudden because they
Speaker 1: lost a series THAT i thought they should. Win act,
Speaker 1: LIKE i don't THINK Jj reddick over the course of
Speaker 1: the year did an excellent. JOB i think he. DID
Speaker 1: i THINK Jj reddick is a really sharp. COACH i
Speaker 1: think there are a lot of major positives FOR Jj
Speaker 1: reddick from a work, ethic from attention to, detail from,
Speaker 1: tactics from understanding the kind of newer elements of what
Speaker 1: you would call, analytics but it's really just kind of
Speaker 1: smart math on. Things all of those THINGS i give
Speaker 1: him high marks. For with that, said my concern ABOUT
Speaker 1: jj coming in and you guys can remember, this you
Speaker 1: can check the, tape was actually a personality, concern which
Speaker 1: WAS i saw HOW jj dealt with criticism when he
Speaker 1: was in the. MEDIA i saw HOW jj how online
Speaker 1: he was and reading mentioned and reading what was being,
Speaker 1: written AND i was worried that when times got, tough
Speaker 1: THAT Jj reddick wouldn't react well to. That the first
Speaker 1: tough times he really. Had the first real criticism he
Speaker 1: got his entire tenure was after he did something literally
Speaker 1: no coach has ever done in basketball, history play all five,
Speaker 1: starters to play the same five guys all twenty four
Speaker 1: minutes in a playoff game for the second. Half he
Speaker 1: got some criticism for, it and then also was asked
Speaker 1: about it pregame and immediately became a bit of a petulant.
Speaker 1: Child and that was the. Concern here is the other,
Speaker 1: concern and this is ONE jj is not going to
Speaker 1: like to. Hear but the record speaks for. ITSELF Jj,
Speaker 1: reddick his entire basketball life gets tight in big. Spots
Speaker 1: at the peak of his basketball career when he was
Speaker 1: the best player in college basketball At. Duke go look
Speaker 1: at those tournament stat lines and you might, say this is.
Speaker 1: Ridiculous why are you bringing UP Jj, reddicks you, know
Speaker 1: three or six In cuba tournament in talking about The.
Speaker 1: Lakers i'll. Explain BUT Jj reddick as. Great he was
Speaker 1: an unbelievable college basketball player who is not a very
Speaker 1: good In cuba tournament, player was on Four duke, teams
Speaker 1: any of which could have won the national, championship got
Speaker 1: popped in the sweet. Sixteen almost every year made it
Speaker 1: to one final, four and it wasn't, like, OH jj was. Great,
Speaker 1: no that's not how it. Went go back and look
Speaker 1: if you don't, remember, then As Jerry west reminded, him
Speaker 1: WHEN jj did The plumbers And fireman BIT jj and the,
Speaker 1: pros as really good as he was later in his,
Speaker 1: career was not a good playoff. Performer so why AM
Speaker 1: i bringing that up? Now he strikes me as a
Speaker 1: guy who gets a little, tight who's wound a little.
Speaker 1: Tight and when you have on THE tnt broadcast the
Speaker 1: sideline reporter who never that's like the opposite of the
Speaker 1: take industry is the sideline. Reporter when you have the
Speaker 1: sideline reporter telling, us, OOH jj was wound up when
Speaker 1: we met with him before the, game he was on.
Speaker 1: Edge He and then when you HAVE jj storming out
Speaker 1: of a press conference when you have in the, game
Speaker 1: he has committed before the, Game i'm not gonna Play Jackson.
Speaker 1: Hayes but then all of a sudden you are just
Speaker 1: getting your teeth kicked in on the offensive glass and you're, like,
Speaker 1: Well i've already Said i'm not Playing Jackson. Hayes SO
Speaker 1: i Guess Maxi, kleiba who AGAIN i think could have
Speaker 1: been useful for The lakers cuz he's a big guy
Speaker 1: who can, shoot and as a relationship With, luca the
Speaker 1: problem is he hadn't practiced or played with him. Once.
Speaker 1: Ever you put him in like it's a coach who
Speaker 1: got a little. Tight oh my, goodness, SORRY i don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys heard my dog freaking. Out it's
Speaker 1: a coach that gets he got a little. Tight and
Speaker 1: SO i think that IF i am, IF i am
Speaker 1: GIVING Jj reddick a vice for next year and for
Speaker 1: the rest of his coaching, career BECAUSE i do think
Speaker 1: he has a lot of the talent to be a
Speaker 1: really good head, coach And lucas said great things about him.
Speaker 1: Afterwards he said it reminded him of being back In
Speaker 1: europe with the style of coaching and the attention detail all.
Speaker 1: That it honestly is as still as it, sounds just
Speaker 1: chill a little, Man just breathe and.
Speaker 2: Chill AND i think he was also in his head
Speaker 2: about making that decision and like he's, LIKE i don't
Speaker 2: want to call it, embarrassed but like the fact that
Speaker 2: he's being questioned on, it he just can't can't stand.
Speaker 2: It he walked.
Speaker 1: AWAY i also think sorry for the.
Speaker 2: Birds by the, way, Guys OH i loved.
Speaker 1: IT i. WAS i want to ask him about. THAT
Speaker 1: i think it sounds DELIGHT i was, like oh, man
Speaker 1: this is a nice little background to the. Pod just
Speaker 1: Chuir Southern california. Birds BUT i so here's the, thing almost,
Speaker 1: ASSUREDLY i can. BET i can't bet, this BUT i
Speaker 1: would bet almost anything That reddick had no idea that
Speaker 1: no coach ever had played all five guys for the
Speaker 1: second half of a playoff, game like when he was doing, It,
Speaker 1: like why would? HE i didn't know, it you know
Speaker 1: WHAT i? MEAN i may right. Correct i'm sure he
Speaker 1: knew it was, rare you know WHAT i, mean unworthaned
Speaker 1: no team ever in basketball. History and so then when
Speaker 1: they fall apart at the, end and then he finds
Speaker 1: Out i'm the first guy to ever do, THIS i
Speaker 1: bet he felt a little boxed in and maybe even
Speaker 1: a little. Embarrassed and SO i just DON'T i think
Speaker 1: he has wound a little. Tight AND i think that
Speaker 1: that unfortunately manifested itself in big spots in his playing
Speaker 1: career and now first running the, playoffs manifested itself a
Speaker 1: bit in the first really big spot of his coaching.
Speaker 1: Career that's. All it's not a lifelong. Indictment it just
Speaker 1: is what it, is all, right demon S let's get To.
Speaker 2: Luca go, Ahead, Yeah, SO i, mean obviously they made
Speaker 2: the big trade For luca Sent Anthony davis At. Dallas
Speaker 2: what do you, like what does this situation look like
Speaker 2: if they never Traded Anthony davis over?
Speaker 1: There, WELL i don't think they would have gotten into
Speaker 1: the three line had they Kept Anthony. DAVIS i, don't
Speaker 1: especially given the fact that his injury clearly was more
Speaker 1: substantial Than. Luca's SO i think there we do have
Speaker 1: to consider that piece of. It DO i think given
Speaker 1: How luca played in this series That lebron showed you
Speaker 1: he can still get to a high volume scoring level
Speaker 1: in the, playoffs if need be that all, that would
Speaker 1: they maybe have had a better chance in this specific
Speaker 1: series given How luca played all of it against this specific,
Speaker 1: opponent if they Had Anthony, davis maybe DO i think that's?
Speaker 1: Relevant not even a tiny, Bit because if they Had Anthony,
Speaker 1: davis we know that that team was not could not
Speaker 1: generate enough offense to compete for a. Championship we had
Speaker 1: seen it over the last few. Years now you can, say,
Speaker 1: well this team couldn't, either and they. Didn't but there
Speaker 1: is going to be an, immense immense amount Of Luka
Speaker 1: doncic's criticism today and this, offseason and even some folks
Speaker 1: who not naming names BECAUSE i wouldn't want to call
Speaker 1: them Shameless charlatans by naming their. Names Kevin, wilds who
Speaker 1: just a few weeks ago we're going viral for explaining
Speaker 1: How Nico harrison is at the forefront of the modern
Speaker 1: Day Babe ruth, trade which means a few weeks ago these,
Speaker 1: people again not naming, Names Kevin, wilds were Comparing lukadancic
Speaker 1: To Babe. Ruth are now going to be, like, well
Speaker 1: how good is he? Really, LIKE i think that's. RIDICULOUS
Speaker 1: i DO i Think luca had a good? Series? No
Speaker 1: DO i think this is the? Not DO i? Think
Speaker 1: DO i know this is the first time In luca's
Speaker 1: playoff career demanse where you can fairly and honestly, say, man.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: One of the big reasons your team lost was because
Speaker 1: you didn't play as well as they. Needed, yes that is.
Speaker 1: Fair every other series he's, lost he has been either
Speaker 1: a triple plus or his team's just been out. Gunned
Speaker 1: so the first series he ever played against The, clippers
Speaker 1: he was thirty, one ten and nine and hit a
Speaker 1: buzzer beater to win a. Game the second series they
Speaker 1: ever lost was games seven games against The, clippers he
Speaker 1: was thirty six eight. Ten the third series they lost
Speaker 1: was against the team that won the, Championship Golden, state
Speaker 1: in the conference, finals and he was thirty, two nine and.
Speaker 1: Six and the fourth series he lost was Against dallas
Speaker 1: in the finals when he was twenty, nine nine and.
Speaker 1: Six and WHILE I i'm sorry Against boston in the,
Speaker 1: finals WHILE i Underrated boston in that, Series boston has
Speaker 1: proven itself to be a great. Team this, series they
Speaker 1: needed more From luca on both ends and he wasn't
Speaker 1: able to provide. It that's fair to criticize this. Series
Speaker 1: and this is here is the part demands Of luca
Speaker 1: is out of. Shape luca's endurance is not up to
Speaker 1: par THAT i struggle. With, okay all, right let me
Speaker 1: tell you how many players these playoffs have played more
Speaker 1: minutes than Luka, Ancic do you have a? Guess not?
Speaker 2: One?
Speaker 1: Yeah, zero, Yeah he And Jamal murray are tied for the.
Speaker 1: Most so the players who have played two hundred plus
Speaker 1: minutes these Playoffs Lebron, Caid Anthony, Edwards Joker, Og, Luca Jamal. Murray,
Speaker 1: okay now you might be, like, well some of those
Speaker 1: series went four games minutes per game these. Playoffs the
Speaker 1: guys who are playing forty, plus it's the exact same
Speaker 1: list right outside. It right on the outside looking at
Speaker 1: Is Jalen, Brunson Palo, Bancro christian braun And Austin brown
Speaker 1: And Austin. Roots so here is SOMETHING i really struggle
Speaker 1: with when it comes to the criticism Of luca's. Condition
Speaker 1: criticizing his defense to me is obviously totally inbounds and.
Speaker 1: Fair when it comes to criticizing his can, auditioning my problem,
Speaker 1: is would he look less winded and more rested like
Speaker 1: other starters do, if like other, starters he wasn't playing
Speaker 1: more minutes than everyone else in the, playoffs so like.
Speaker 2: The also on the other, end if he's if he's
Speaker 2: not giving you exactly what he needs we need from
Speaker 2: him in order to, win in order to win the,
Speaker 2: series then maybe take him off the court for a
Speaker 2: little bit so he can come back in later and
Speaker 2: have more energy and put out a better offensive output or. Something.
Speaker 1: Right so that so there's just there's what is frustrating
Speaker 1: to me IS i if he was, playing you, know
Speaker 1: average minutes for a superstar and just looked more winded
Speaker 1: than all the other, superstars THEN i would say it's
Speaker 1: more of a. Criticism but when he is in now
Speaker 1: so this, year up to this point in the, postseason
Speaker 1: he's played more minutes than. Everybody last year when everyone
Speaker 1: just killed him for how tired he looked at the,
Speaker 1: end he played nine hundred minutes that. Postseason right Man
Speaker 1: Jason tatum sure looked fresher in those. Finals tatum played
Speaker 1: seven hundred and sixty eight minutes on a per per game.
Speaker 1: Basis last year in the, Playoffs luca was it forty
Speaker 1: one minutes per. Game the only guys to play multiple
Speaker 1: series and be at forty. Plus Where Kyrie, Joker, Tatum,
Speaker 1: Aunt luca And Josh Hart and if you, remember at
Speaker 1: the end of last, Postseason aunt, said MAN i fell
Speaker 1: off BECAUSE i was. Exhausted to what he, said he was,
Speaker 1: LIKE i was. Exhausted and this is year after year
Speaker 1: that this is the case as far As luca's postseason,
Speaker 1: usage and then people, like, Man dude's out of, shape
Speaker 1: WHEN i JUST i, AGAIN i. Don't he obviously is
Speaker 1: not in in tip top physical. Shape i'm not arguing,
Speaker 1: that but.
Speaker 2: Say he also doesn't play like everybody else like you're
Speaker 2: saying he's out there for allows when Its luca isn't
Speaker 2: freaking busting his ass up and down the court like
Speaker 2: he's kind of like moving. Around and then when he
Speaker 2: does have the, ball he plays at his own. Pace
Speaker 2: it's like he makes you play this pace that is
Speaker 2: not a fast. Pace so it's, like, hey, dude.
Speaker 1: No, listen that's all. FAIR i just think it is
Speaker 1: a little It it is a LITTLE i think overstated
Speaker 1: the amount of Man luca's out of. Shape and that's
Speaker 1: the problem when each of the last two postseasons he's
Speaker 1: led THE nba in minutes per, game and when you
Speaker 1: also add to it that the guy who just beat
Speaker 1: him in this series aunt last year said he was
Speaker 1: out of gas And luca was moving on to the. Finals,
Speaker 1: now with that, Said lucas should look at this year
Speaker 1: as a true. Failure the team he wanted to stick
Speaker 1: with gave up on, him and then he got to
Speaker 1: The lakers and they lost as a three seed and
Speaker 1: he wasn't. Great so he does need to be. Better
Speaker 1: he does need to get in better. Shape but there
Speaker 1: is going to, be in my, opinion there is going
Speaker 1: to be a massive overreaction to this. Series and there
Speaker 1: is if you want to, say let's see How ant
Speaker 1: does the rest of the. Postseason is it possible that
Speaker 1: the question you asked the other Day demons could answer
Speaker 1: a Plant luca on THE nba? Hierarchy? Sure DO i
Speaker 1: think he has done it? ALREADY i do. NOT i
Speaker 1: don't think.
Speaker 2: THAT i think especially that he was barely at the
Speaker 2: hands of the win last. Night SO i get that's.
Speaker 1: Fair AND i think that. Right and that's Another so
Speaker 1: that's another piece of it THAT i think has to
Speaker 1: be factored into when we're talking about you, know The
Speaker 1: luca is one of to, me just two guys in
Speaker 1: the league, Him joker And jannis that a game that
Speaker 1: like the One Anthony edwards had last night feels impossible
Speaker 1: where it's just you, know there's only three guys in
Speaker 1: the league where even they're bad, games it's like what
Speaker 1: did he finish With it's like twenty, five nine and,
Speaker 1: seven like the and the fly in that ointment Is friday,
Speaker 1: Night luke at a game WHERE i think it was
Speaker 1: seventeen seven and. Eight but if we take him at
Speaker 1: his word that he was dog, sick then you can
Speaker 1: attribute it more to. That and So i'm not making.
Speaker 1: EXCUSES i am, though explaining WHAT i, think HOW i
Speaker 1: think this went, down and what it means for him moving.
Speaker 1: Forward he does need to be. Better but also this
Speaker 1: one last thing On luke before we get To. Lebron
Speaker 1: i'm amazed at the number of people that will just, say,
Speaker 1: well If luca's on your, team you can't you know
Speaker 1: your defense has a, ceiling as if we didn't see
Speaker 1: a team again last year With luca not only make the,
Speaker 1: finals but from The All star breakthrough or a little
Speaker 1: after The All star break through the finals have the
Speaker 1: number two defense in basketball and in those finals Hold
Speaker 1: boston way below its season averages offensively and and. Play,
Speaker 1: Actually dallas's defense was good in the. Finals its offense
Speaker 1: is why they. Lost like the fact that it's not a,
Speaker 1: night it's not a. Hypothetical can you have an elite
Speaker 1: defense With Luca ancic on. It if you have the right,
Speaker 1: roster you have any one can have an elite defense
Speaker 1: With luca And kyrie on. It and SO I i
Speaker 1: think we just saw. It we literally just saw. It
Speaker 1: and so there's gonna be some, overreaction which is, listen
Speaker 1: which is what we're supposed to do this time of.
Speaker 1: Year but there are get ready demons four AN nba you,
Speaker 1: know player ranking list that doesn't just Have Jason tatum
Speaker 1: ahead Of Luka, ancic that Has Jalen brown ahead Of.
Speaker 1: LUCAS i mean there there is going to BE i
Speaker 1: marked this down. There someone's going someone AND i don't
Speaker 1: mean some someone semi credible will come out with a
Speaker 1: top ten players in the league list going into next
Speaker 1: year and they'll Leave luca off, it like let, me let,
Speaker 1: me let me see IF i can figure out the.
Speaker 1: Ten it'll Be, Joker, Yannis, Sga, tatum, Easy steph grandfathered
Speaker 1: in Because steph listen, Again i'm not saying that WHAT
Speaker 1: i said about Ros A ghoul have to provide balance
Speaker 1: in the. World that When steph's graaty's. Great when he's,
Speaker 1: not we move. On but, uh WATCH tv today and
Speaker 1: see how Much Steph curry criticism there is just. Once
Speaker 1: i'm just. Curious there'll probably be a lot of criticism
Speaker 1: Of Dylan brooks for being mean to. Him but all, right,
Speaker 1: so Uh, Joker Jannis Sga, Tatum, steph that's an easy.
Speaker 1: Five now let ME i JUST i have to look at.
Speaker 1: H the only WAY i can do these lists and
Speaker 1: not leave people out on everything is to just look
Speaker 1: at standings and just go team by. Team Uh, so
Speaker 1: let me just do this real. Quick, Oh Donovan mitchell
Speaker 1: is gonna be on, there especially with What cleveland's. Doing
Speaker 1: there's no question about. It you've got who AM i
Speaker 1: forgetting as An IDAs? One, Yeah donovan will be on.
Speaker 1: There but there's a very obvious one That i'm now leaving.
Speaker 1: Out Jalen. Brunson someone definitively this will be their tenth.
Speaker 1: GUY i gotta find the other two because this is
Speaker 1: what will really get you the. Engagement we'll Put Anthony
Speaker 1: davis at, Ten Anthony davis, Ten luca, eleven and then
Speaker 1: there's two spots. Open SO i don't, Know, Oh. Wimby
Speaker 1: Obviously wimby will be on. There now we need we
Speaker 1: just need one more and so you, know dealer's. CHOICE I,
Speaker 1: supposecade Maybe, bron Maybe durant maybe If denver keeps, rolling
Speaker 1: Playoff Jamal, uh Like Jimmy, butler you know if depending
Speaker 1: on what they, do they'll find somebody and that'll Or.
Speaker 1: Haliburton what About halliburton to get his daddy to chill?
Speaker 1: Out like there you, go you're gonna have. That you're
Speaker 1: gonna have somebody say ON tv maybe even, today if
Speaker 1: you're trying to win a, Championship i'd rather Have Tyrese.
Speaker 1: Haliburton that's gonna, happen like and, so, uh just be
Speaker 1: prepared for, it.
Speaker 4: All.
Speaker 1: Right the ask me The lebron.
Speaker 2: Question how does how does this season or this season
Speaker 2: along with this series Impact lebron's?
Speaker 1: Legacy this season helps, It the series means. Nothing write
Speaker 1: a letter to your mom if you're mad about, it
Speaker 1: not you, demonse that'd beating my. Wife i'm not so All,
Speaker 1: UH i will at some point do because, listen The
Speaker 1: lebron legacy thing is only A lebron Versus jordan conversation
Speaker 1: at this. Point that's what people have made it to.
Speaker 1: Be that's. Fine AND i don't Think lebron was, great
Speaker 1: AND i thought he was great over The it was
Speaker 1: great In games, two, three and, Four but over the
Speaker 1: course of the, SERIES i thought he was. FINE i
Speaker 1: do think he was exponentially and demonstrably better Than Michael
Speaker 1: jordan was in the playoffs at any point after he
Speaker 1: was thirty five And lebron's. Forty and that's Because Michael
Speaker 1: jordan never made the playoffs after he was thirty. Five
Speaker 1: so if we're just gonna do A Lebron jordan, thing
Speaker 1: there's a whole. Thing, Listen i'm not going and don't
Speaker 1: even clip this BECAUSE i. Will IT'S i will BECAUSE
Speaker 1: i know that are the people that are in charge
Speaker 1: of this. Show is like analytics and metrics and all
Speaker 1: that stuff they really need for, me like a full
Speaker 1: Throated lebron thing, Today And i'm not gonna do. It
Speaker 1: and so it's kind of a bummer if you guys
Speaker 1: Were if you guys remind me at some point in
Speaker 1: the next month or, So i'll give YOU i, CAN
Speaker 1: i guarantee. IT i will give, you guys A Lebron
Speaker 1: jordan's side by side take. That even Though i'm not
Speaker 1: on this, PLATFORM i know we'll. Crush we'll do crazy
Speaker 1: on TikTok of all these. THINGS i don't really know
Speaker 1: how to make TikTok, videos but our producers, do and
Speaker 1: we're just gonna do a year by year comp and
Speaker 1: we can put little check marks on. It so just
Speaker 1: the views and clicks we're not gonna get Because i'm
Speaker 1: not doing A lebron thing, today don't. Worry i'll call
Speaker 1: my shot on. This we're gonna have a five million
Speaker 1: view social media thing on the age year by Year
Speaker 1: lebron versus shortened Thing i'll.
Speaker 2: Do in a few.
Speaker 1: WEEKS i don't want to do it, today And i'm
Speaker 1: Not I'M i Just i'm not. Interested and last question
Speaker 1: on this before we get to the other playoff reactions To, Monsey.
Speaker 2: What is next For, Lebron luca and The. Lakers what
Speaker 2: do you think they should do?
Speaker 1: This that's? All oh, wait, okay my.
Speaker 2: Bad how do you think wild is going to be
Speaker 2: on the show? Today?
Speaker 1: Peak? Annoying, yeah, peak like it. Is here's the thing
Speaker 1: about my dear Friend Kevin. WILDS i love, HIM i really. Do.
Speaker 1: Now i've never ever hung out with him outside of
Speaker 1: work and he won't come over to the, house so
Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't feel the same way about. Me BUT
Speaker 1: i love the. MAN i also think he is the
Speaker 1: key to the television show's. SUCCESS i also believe it's
Speaker 1: not that he has bad sports, takes it's that he
Speaker 1: doesn't have. Him he's just a weather vein whatever that thing's.
Speaker 1: Called just wherever the wind's, blowing he's, there and then
Speaker 1: he's over, here and then at the end of it he's,
Speaker 1: like told you, so he picked the Fucking, lakers and
Speaker 1: today he's gonna be wearing a, tuxedo playing a, piano Drinking,
Speaker 1: scotch celebrating a gentleman's. Sweep his lack of take integrity
Speaker 1: is so infuriating that IF i didn't love him as
Speaker 1: much AS i, DO i think we would have come
Speaker 1: to blows at some, point and that wouldn't go well for.
Speaker 1: Me because here's Something america doesn't. Know kevin wilds sneaky,
Speaker 1: jacked like legit sneaky, jacked not just like late forties
Speaker 1: Dad bob, jacked but like jit. JACKED i don't know
Speaker 1: how it. Happened and so, yeah well and so all,
Speaker 1: right so, Yeah wild is gonna be peak. Annoying all.
Speaker 1: Right the producers wanted me to do reactions to these other.
Speaker 1: GAMES i am tight on. Time so let me quickly
Speaker 1: kind of pop pop pop through this if we can
Speaker 1: For gianni's in the. Bucks if you If yannis wants
Speaker 1: a chance to compete for a championship in the next three, Years,
Speaker 1: uh he probably hasked to ascalt and it sucks and
Speaker 1: it's not really what anyone would have, wanted but it
Speaker 1: is the. Reality and and you know, what let me
Speaker 1: text Because i'm supposed to going With kevin. O'Connor let
Speaker 1: me just Text kevin O'Connor real quick THAT i need
Speaker 1: an extra five minutes SO i can give you guys
Speaker 1: real answers to these.
Speaker 2: Things Here burden's dad walk up To Bobby portis instead Of.
Speaker 1: Addis so let me ask you, this demanse honest. Question
Speaker 1: SO i it's two. Questions, one would you have Blamed
Speaker 1: gianness if he hit?
Speaker 2: Him, No i'm not gonna, lie, Man i'm he's he
Speaker 2: walked all the way up to, Him he's he's, taunting
Speaker 2: he's up in his. FACE i WOULD i wouldn't have
Speaker 2: now if he would have just straight up decked, Him
Speaker 2: like IF i would have expected her to do something
Speaker 2: similar that he did the mathin like maybe not knocked
Speaker 2: the guy out, cold but, like, hey, dude.
Speaker 1: Gilt but here's the. Thing If jannis is telling the,
Speaker 1: truth WHICH i, believe you're honest that when it first,
Speaker 1: happened he did not know that Was tyrese's. Father he
Speaker 1: thought it was just a, fan THEN i really wouldn't
Speaker 1: have blamed him for. HITTING i really if you just
Speaker 1: think some fan has walked on the court and it's, Tauning, noah,
Speaker 1: bro you can get knocked. Out If i'm, honest he.
Speaker 2: Was looking at him as if like a pit bull
Speaker 2: was at the dog park and like A, chihuahua like.
Speaker 2: Barking Adham gold.
Speaker 1: Crazy and then and Also tyrese's dad doing an interview,
Speaker 1: yesterday being LIKE i wasn't looking at, HIM i was
Speaker 1: looking through. Him that whole thing is so embarrassing For.
Speaker 1: Tyrese it's so. Here so here's my second, question not
Speaker 1: to compare, you to be, honest, HOWEVER i GOT i
Speaker 1: would get really into your basketball, games right and once,
Speaker 1: ever do you remember When i'm gonna SAY i went
Speaker 1: on the court after a. Game it was this is high.
Speaker 2: SCHOOL i remember something. Vividly what what what was? It what?
Speaker 1: HAPPENED i actually think it was FRESHMAN. Jv. BALL i
Speaker 1: don't think it was VAR i don't think it was
Speaker 1: when you were on, varsity but maybe it. Was you
Speaker 1: went to the free throw line with time expired and
Speaker 1: you had to make both and the game was just
Speaker 1: over and you guys won and you made. Both AND
Speaker 1: i came on the like the game the, moment like
Speaker 1: it was one of those free throws where there's there's
Speaker 1: nobody even nobody, around and you made the second. ONE
Speaker 1: i couldn't help myself AND i just walked up and
Speaker 1: dapped you up before you could even dap up your.
Speaker 1: Teammates and. So BUT i also ONCE aau ball followed
Speaker 1: a ref out of the like out not, outside but
Speaker 1: out of the. Gym and again people are gonna be,
Speaker 1: like you gotta be kidding. Me do you remember WHY
Speaker 1: i did?
Speaker 2: That that's WHAT i feel. LIKE i remember a little bit.
Speaker 2: More but why was? It was? It? OH i remember
Speaker 2: there's the TIME i dunked and LIKE i fell on
Speaker 2: my head or, NO i didn't follow. IT i hang
Speaker 2: on the rim and the ref told me to let
Speaker 2: go of, it AND i was like it was gave
Speaker 2: me a technical all that.
Speaker 1: And and in those and if you got a, technical
Speaker 1: you couldn't play. Anymore, yeah like that was like it
Speaker 1: was like basically one technical. Ejection and so that's exactly
Speaker 1: what it. Was you were on a fast, break dunked
Speaker 1: and your legs went out from under. You, see you
Speaker 1: didn't you didn't play yourself over the. Rim you just you,
Speaker 1: know hung on the rim so you didn't, fall and
Speaker 1: he gave you A. Tech AND I i kind of
Speaker 1: followed him out of the gym saying, that basically saying
Speaker 1: he was like putting your health at, risk your. Safety i'm,
Speaker 1: like like for, real like if you have to, Worry
Speaker 1: i'm gonna get a technical you let go of the.
Speaker 1: Rim so SO i say all that to, SAY i can't,
Speaker 1: imagine you, know if how you feel as a parent
Speaker 1: your kid's AN nba. SUPERSTAR i feel like this because
Speaker 1: my kid was, awesome you, know amateur. Player BUT i
Speaker 1: still never ever would have thought to mess with an
Speaker 1: opponent like you know WHAT i, mean celebrate with you
Speaker 1: sure get angry at the. Ref MAYBE i couldn't believe.
Speaker 1: It all opponents in that, series like the honest was
Speaker 1: the most, honest, Yes and SO i thought that was.
Speaker 1: BRUTAL i also think it's you, know.
Speaker 2: No feeling the.
Speaker 1: Moment, YEAH i JUST i also feel sick for The
Speaker 1: bucks fans Because dame's got the Blown achilles And jannis
Speaker 1: might ask out and you kind of can't blame, him all,
Speaker 1: Right Warriors rockets last? Night can't Listen my pick Was
Speaker 1: rockets in. Seven pick feels shaky even after last. Night
Speaker 1: The warriors are prone to the at throw this game
Speaker 1: away like and that they up three to, one they
Speaker 1: have the ability to do. That that's. Fine game six,
Speaker 1: THOUGH I i if The rockets can get this back
Speaker 1: To houston For game, SEVEN i think they'll win BECAUSE
Speaker 1: i think that The warriors will be worn out AND
Speaker 1: i Think jimmy's banged. Up Winning game six In Golden,
Speaker 1: State Jalen, green can you show up one, time one
Speaker 1: more time for? Us that's the question. There If, Nuggets
Speaker 1: clippers and Or nick's pistons is great, tonight we'll do
Speaker 1: an emergency pod. Tomorrow OTHERWISE i gotta. Go So demon's great. Job,
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Speaker 2: Later we'll try