Speaker 1: Welcoming into NBA pulsive production of iHeartRadio in the NBA.
Speaker 1: I'm Sarahustak, NBA analyst for the S Network, and today
Speaker 1: is Monday, May twentieth. From our incredible core group of
Speaker 1: NBA journalists were joined now by NBA dot Com Scene
Speaker 1: to writer Michael C.
Speaker 2: Wright.
Speaker 1: Michael, you finally got a chance to come back home
Speaker 1: because the one series that that did not go to
Speaker 1: Game seven was Dallas, Oklahoma City as the MAVs advance
Speaker 1: with a one point win against the Thunder. We're going
Speaker 1: to get to that in just a little bit, but
Speaker 1: they were waiting to see sitting. They're just like we
Speaker 1: were who they were going to face in the Western
Speaker 1: Conference Final. And did we have a game at Denver
Speaker 1: Timberwolves on the road playing a Nuggets team that was
Speaker 1: trying to defend their title from last year and a
Speaker 1: Nuggets team that came out locked in hitting shots, got
Speaker 1: a twenty point lead in that second half, but the
Speaker 1: Timberwolves came back, and no surprise, so much predicated by
Speaker 1: their defense and how they've been able to be incredible
Speaker 1: in that area and just an extraordinary balance.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can go top to bottom of this roster.
Speaker 1: I know Anthony Edwards has become the face of this team,
Speaker 1: and so much of that is not just about his play,
Speaker 1: but just about his disposition, his character, his leadership at
Speaker 1: his young age of what a game for Karl Anthony
Speaker 1: Towns twenty three points, twelve rebounds, again balance across this
Speaker 1: line of Jade McDaniels, how much he contributed. And on
Speaker 1: the other side of things for Denver Nikola Jokic thirty
Speaker 1: four points, nineteen rebounds, seven assists. Did take ten three
Speaker 1: point shots, which I think kind of indicates just what
Speaker 1: Minnesota was doing. We normally don't see him taking that
Speaker 1: many three point shots. But it was a struggle. It
Speaker 1: became one fourth and nuggets on that offensive side of
Speaker 1: the floor. Jamal Murray with thirty five points, but everyone
Speaker 1: else was in single digits, only five points from the
Speaker 1: reserve unit.
Speaker 2: So a lot there, a lot to get to my go.
Speaker 1: But when you look at that game and just kind
Speaker 1: of how it went for both sides, what stood out
Speaker 1: to you most and is most intriguing about the outcome
Speaker 1: of that one?
Speaker 3: You know what, I'm gonna make sure that we give
Speaker 3: this man his proper credit. You mentioned Karl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 3: You mentioned him, and to me that is what stood
Speaker 3: out because in that first half, you saw the Nuggets
Speaker 3: go up by like twenty, and I think Karl Anthony
Speaker 3: Towns basically kept them in it.
Speaker 4: He kept them in that game just.
Speaker 3: Long enough, you know, for them to sort of figure
Speaker 3: things out and then you know, just kind of hit
Speaker 3: the gas in the second half. So I was really
Speaker 3: impressed by what he did because you know, he's got
Speaker 3: that or he's had the reputation.
Speaker 4: As a guy that let's be real here, people say he's.
Speaker 3: Solved, or they'll say that he doesn't play well you
Speaker 3: know under the bright lights.
Speaker 4: Well he just sort of squashed all that.
Speaker 3: Like he is he like these this is the stage
Speaker 3: where you make your reputation as a player, and to me,
Speaker 3: what he did sort of shatter a lot of what
Speaker 3: the narrative was about him. So I was super impressed
Speaker 3: by him. Twenty three points, twelve remails, and the Timberwolves
Speaker 3: are three and oh this in the playoffs this postseason
Speaker 3: whenever he has twenty points and ten rebounds. So he's
Speaker 3: a guy that's capable of repeating that night after night
Speaker 3: can hit you at all three levels as a score
Speaker 3: great on defense. I really liked what he did and
Speaker 3: for all the grief he's taken over the years for
Speaker 3: not being able to perform, you know, on the big stage,
Speaker 3: I thought this was the one that showed everybody that, hey,
Speaker 3: I can do this.
Speaker 1: And he was just you said about maybe some of
Speaker 1: the thoughts or comments about whether it's saw whatever words
Speaker 1: you want to, but also just playing smart and defensively
Speaker 1: and how he's able to keep things clean. And there
Speaker 1: was just so many aspects of that that you were
Speaker 1: able to see unfold with this Minnesota team. And you
Speaker 1: mentioned that third time they won at Denver. Yeah, to
Speaker 1: talk like that is they had a sense of composure,
Speaker 1: of poise, of how they were able to steal maintain
Speaker 1: that resilient resiliency in the in the second half, the
Speaker 1: final seven minutes of the game, like all of these
Speaker 1: things that I think that we had anticipated about Denver
Speaker 1: and the experience that they had coming in and what
Speaker 1: a game would look like when it was tight down
Speaker 1: the stretch. Minnesota changed things around and really took control
Speaker 1: of that. So give a ton of credit to the
Speaker 1: entirety of the group and Chris Finch. I hope his
Speaker 1: knee or his legs okay today because he was supposed
Speaker 1: to be sitting down. It felt like he was standing
Speaker 1: for the better part of that second half and down
Speaker 1: the stretches. I mentioned though, they will meet a Dallas
Speaker 1: team which you saw the series up close and personal. Michael,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you got to get yourself back home. And
Speaker 1: this game did not go to a game seven, but
Speaker 1: what a time was had. And Saturday Night one seventeen
Speaker 1: one to sixteen finish for the Mavericks, uh Luca was fantastic.
Speaker 1: Twenty nine points, ten rebounds, ten assists. Again, so many
Speaker 1: different players.
Speaker 2: PJ.
Speaker 1: Washington in particular, knocking down those free throws but playing
Speaker 1: a role when needed. Derek Jones Junior, of course, how
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving has been playing the bench and Derek Lively
Speaker 1: the second coming off of it. But let's look at
Speaker 1: this real briefly in what we're going to see the matchup,
Speaker 1: the headliners, the faces of this Luka Doncic Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 1: How do you frame what you expect this Western Conference
Speaker 1: Final to be with two of the great stars, and
Speaker 1: Luka Doncics has been one of those in the league,
Speaker 1: but Anthony Edwards is coming for everyone, and we've seen
Speaker 1: that in particular throughout the course of this postseason.
Speaker 3: I think what makes this fun is that we have
Speaker 3: new idea what's going to happen. Because if you go
Speaker 3: back and you look at what these teams did against
Speaker 3: one another in the regular season, Minnesota is three and
Speaker 3: one against the Mavericks. But we're talking about a totally
Speaker 3: different Mavericks team because they played those games before the
Speaker 3: trade deadline when they brought in PJ and Daniel Gap
Speaker 3: And I think that the Dallas Mavericks are just a
Speaker 3: totally different team from that time. Like they're playing different
Speaker 3: they are very comfortable in the scheme that they're playing Defensively.
Speaker 3: You know, the Dallas Mavericks have not ever been really
Speaker 3: known for defending, but you know, I would say that
Speaker 3: last twenty games of the regular season and into the playoffs,
Speaker 3: those guys have been on it. They've been defending their
Speaker 3: butts off. And the funny thing is that Luka Tancic
Speaker 3: is a big part of that. Like people people don't
Speaker 3: want to say that, you know, or people don't give
Speaker 3: him credit for the defense he plays, but he's one
Speaker 3: of the guys that's gonna get you some steals on
Speaker 3: a night to night basis. He's actually like really trying
Speaker 3: hard on that side of the ball, and I think
Speaker 3: I think that makes Dallas a much better team than
Speaker 3: Kyrie Irving. You know, you didn't really see him in
Speaker 3: that in that last series. You didn't really see him
Speaker 3: play a Kyrie Irving game, you know, give you twenty
Speaker 3: five thirty points. But he defended his butt off and
Speaker 3: that in that series, and again, I think that makes
Speaker 3: the difference for them. There different teams. So I'm really
Speaker 3: interested to see it because the matchups also are going
Speaker 3: to be sort of different than what we've seen before. Like, Okay,
Speaker 3: who gets Luka Doncic. I'm guessing Jade McDaniels will be
Speaker 3: on him. I'm guessing that ant Man will be on
Speaker 3: Kyrie Irvvy. Yeah, so it's I'm really interested to see
Speaker 3: how the matchups sort of fall, Like Karl Anthony Towns
Speaker 3: oh boy, like you like, like DJ's got a really
Speaker 3: tough matchup and you know, like he's never been on
Speaker 3: this stage before, so how does that look After he
Speaker 3: had such a great series against Oklahoma City Thunder. I mean,
Speaker 3: I think he gave me twenty nine one night twenty
Speaker 3: seven twenty one, Like he was a guy that really
Speaker 3: is sort of he was a difference maker in that
Speaker 3: in that series against Oklahoma City, So what type of
Speaker 3: impact is he going to have in this series. So
Speaker 3: there's a whole bunch of little moving parts in it
Speaker 3: that I really just I'm excited to look at.
Speaker 1: I am excited too that you said about Dallas's defense
Speaker 1: because I think to give credit to Jason Kidd just
Speaker 1: kind of what he's Sean Sweeney part of what they've
Speaker 1: implemented on that and that's changed the dynamic of how
Speaker 1: they've played, and that's been such a huge reason why
Speaker 1: they're getting so many of these wins. And I get
Speaker 1: the adaptability to I think of how they play, and
Speaker 1: we saw that against the Oklahoma City Thunder, which Michael
Speaker 1: a little bit later. I want to get your take
Speaker 1: on what will be next for that young team that
Speaker 1: obviously has a lot to be optimistic about. But more
Speaker 1: than anything, I think this is gonna be just a
Speaker 1: fascinating matchup that I have a hard time predicting.
Speaker 2: It's been fun.
Speaker 1: Watch, Like it's a fun watch of both of these teams,
Speaker 1: the star power that you have, but how big complimentary
Speaker 1: pieces have been alongside of them, and you said it
Speaker 1: like doubted the play of Kyrie Irving what he's done defensively,
Speaker 1: but also he's been instrumental a lot of this, but
Speaker 1: he's not putting up the flash and the numbers. I've
Speaker 1: had such a good synergy that when you're watching him
Speaker 1: and Luca, but so many other players, and I think
Speaker 1: all of these these pieces in each of these teams,
Speaker 1: they fed off of one another and they're playing with
Speaker 1: a ton of ton of confidence.
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be fun. I think we're gonna
Speaker 2: have fun series.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a long series, and I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see what happens. Another series that went the
Speaker 1: distance and we got to see the game seven last
Speaker 1: night at Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 2: It was rockin' New York.
Speaker 1: His buzzin' and lights though went out thanks to the
Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers one thirty one O nine win on the road.
Speaker 1: They shot sixty seven point one percent from the field,
Speaker 1: setting a NBA playoff record over fifty four percent from
Speaker 1: the three point line. They were locked and loaded, and
Speaker 1: it was interesting. This is, you know, been something we've
Speaker 1: seen with the Knicks throughout the course of the season
Speaker 1: into the postseason, playing without Julius Randall, losing Mitchell Robinson,
Speaker 1: losing boy and Magdanovich, Ogeo and Aobi tried to come
Speaker 1: back and playing this one just to tell didn't have it,
Speaker 1: didn't end up finishing the game. Jalen b left the
Speaker 1: game with a fractured hand. Josh Hart ended up playing
Speaker 1: but had an abdominal injury, so you could tell everyone
Speaker 1: was a little bit limited. But Pacers did what they
Speaker 1: came to do, and they dominated from start to finish.
Speaker 2: What did you make of this one?
Speaker 1: In Indiana having an opportunity to advance and also.
Speaker 2: Doing so in the way that they did here on
Speaker 2: the road.
Speaker 3: I just think that the way Indiana started that just
Speaker 3: made all the difference in the game. I mean, you
Speaker 3: put up thirty nine points in the first quarter, that's
Speaker 3: the most in history in a game seven, and it
Speaker 3: was just something that the Knicks couldn't recover from. But
Speaker 3: I gotta tell you, Sarah like watching that game, and
Speaker 3: I think almost I'm speaking for other people here, but
Speaker 3: I think most people watching that game at some point
Speaker 3: rooted for the Knicks.
Speaker 4: Like the way that or that the arena was rocking.
Speaker 3: You could hear the Organs and they like, they kept
Speaker 3: coming back, they kept making little runs.
Speaker 2: Michael, I thought they were going to Yes, I thought
Speaker 2: they were going to I.
Speaker 1: Didn't care how how what the league looked like every
Speaker 1: they cut it to thirteen or so, I said, oh,
Speaker 1: here we go, here we go.
Speaker 4: And you and you wanted to see it because it's.
Speaker 3: The whole narrative thing, like they've got such a just
Speaker 3: a beat down team, and they just keep on playing hard,
Speaker 3: they just keep coming back.
Speaker 4: Dante DiVincenzo, he was awesome last night. I mean, what
Speaker 4: did you play out record? And so he was awesome.
Speaker 3: And then you know, he made the three and started
Speaker 3: talking his noise and I'm like, oh, here comes a comeback,
Speaker 3: but it never really happened. And then like when Jalen
Speaker 3: Brunson sort of banged his hand off Tyre's Halliburton's knee
Speaker 3: there at the at the close to the end of
Speaker 3: the game, I was like, ah, that's it, and like
Speaker 3: it was sad almost it was like the wind went
Speaker 3: out of the realm, like oh man. So it was
Speaker 3: a very interesting series and I'm curious to see how
Speaker 3: Indiana is going to play against Boston because those styles
Speaker 3: between those teams are so contrasting, uh, you know, with
Speaker 3: the way that Indiana gets up and down the floor. Like,
Speaker 3: I'm interested to see how Boston deals with that. And
Speaker 3: obviously they're great defensively. The Celtics are.
Speaker 4: But you know they're not.
Speaker 3: It's like for a seven game series, you got to
Speaker 3: play the same opponent over and over and over. I
Speaker 3: just want to see how this one unfolds. Like I
Speaker 3: almost think that people are sort of predicting that Boston
Speaker 3: is just going to run right through Indiana, and I'm
Speaker 3: not sure that that's going to be the case. You know,
Speaker 3: the Pacers do have a championship coach in Rick Carlisle,
Speaker 3: So I just think that the chess game is going
Speaker 3: to be really important in that and like the contrasting
Speaker 3: styles make it, you know, it makes it really interesting
Speaker 3: interesting for me.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Yeah, and I agree.
Speaker 1: I sometimes to think for this Pacers team, how they
Speaker 1: play offensively when they get it going. Yeah, they kind
Speaker 1: of got nothing to lose. They're going to come in
Speaker 1: it is the underdog, and Boston is the one that's
Speaker 1: got a lot of expectation and pressure riding on this.
Speaker 1: We've seen them at different moments take their foot off
Speaker 1: the pedal a little bit. So it's going to be
Speaker 1: interesting to see what happens there in the East. But
Speaker 1: speaking of New York and the Knicks, what the offseason
Speaker 1: looks like heading into next year. They've got one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty six million committed in salary, so they've got
Speaker 1: some room. They've got, you know, three picks here, see
Speaker 1: what you'll do with that. They also have og An
Speaker 1: andob that has a player option. Other free agents Isaiah
Speaker 1: Hertenstein is one precious chwo a restricted free agent, Alec Burks.
Speaker 1: You had a nice little run there in the last
Speaker 1: two games, but just kind of how they go about
Speaker 1: either building on what they had the core of the team,
Speaker 1: they were beloved. You said it, I mean they took
Speaker 1: the hearts not only of New York but many is
Speaker 1: just many of NBA fans you know around the country,
Speaker 1: just and how they played and how they played together.
Speaker 1: What do you think is next for the Knicks this offseason?
Speaker 1: I know a lot of discussion around will they will
Speaker 1: they find a big fish, Will they get a big
Speaker 1: stars there's someone they could trade for and bring in.
Speaker 1: What's your expectation thoughts on what they can do or
Speaker 1: what they should do.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't think they're going to have any trouble
Speaker 3: luring somebody to come there. If they want to go
Speaker 3: big star hunting in the off season, that's not going
Speaker 3: to be an issue, I don't think, because I think
Speaker 3: that sort of that core with those building OVA guys.
Speaker 3: I think it's like they are building sort of a
Speaker 3: culture there and it's one that I think other players
Speaker 3: would like to join. So I really like what they're doing,
Speaker 3: Like they are good enough. I think to run it back,
Speaker 3: get your guys healthy and run it back, and maybe
Speaker 3: add a piece or two that can sort of a
Speaker 3: complimentary guy or two that can help you coming off
Speaker 3: the bench. But I think they're in good shape. They got,
Speaker 3: like you said, the picks, they've got the salary cap room,
Speaker 3: and they can pretty much do whatever they want. They're
Speaker 3: very similar to Oklahoma City in that way and that
Speaker 3: they're good enough right now. But if you really want
Speaker 3: to take that next step, you might have to add
Speaker 3: a piece too.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, regardless, they've certainly got themselves in line of just
Speaker 1: being stable, of being desirable. A lot of what we
Speaker 1: have thought of this organization or scene from the past
Speaker 1: is they are on the right path and the right
Speaker 1: direction with a lot of good things to come. We're
Speaker 1: gonna take a look at the direction of a couple
Speaker 1: other teams that recently had their seasons, and the Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City Thunder the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that right after the break.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to NBA Paul Sarah Houstack joined by the
Speaker 1: great Michael c. Wright and Michael we had mentioned Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City Thunder, a young team, impressive what they were able
Speaker 1: to do throughout the course of this season and of
Speaker 1: course in the postseason under the coach of the Year
Speaker 1: Mark Dagnault. Just kind of the opportunity they have in
Speaker 1: the future of the flexibility with space, cap space with picks,
Speaker 1: with the youth of the score. What do you think
Speaker 1: is next for the Thunder in this offseason and what
Speaker 1: it looks like for what they want to come back
Speaker 1: looking like next season.
Speaker 3: Well, I think that what they did in the playoffs
Speaker 3: and just especially this last round against Dallas Mavericks, I
Speaker 3: think that sort of builds them some confidence going into
Speaker 3: this offseason and into next season because throughout that whole series,
Speaker 3: you never saw they were the younger, youngest number one
Speaker 3: seed in NBA history, But you really never saw that youth.
Speaker 3: I mean, they get down and you know, like they
Speaker 3: lost in six games, but you never like they came
Speaker 3: hard every night, and you never saw them making those
Speaker 3: young guy mistakes, you know. I mean you saw it
Speaker 3: a couple of times where they be a little loose
Speaker 3: with the ball, but for the most part, they show that,
Speaker 3: you know, they're sort of ready for this stage. Now, though,
Speaker 3: what do you do in terms of upgrading? You know,
Speaker 3: like you've got a point guard in Josh Giddy who
Speaker 3: obviously he had trouble as a shooter, he had trouble
Speaker 3: defending in this last series, and so do you upgrade there?
Speaker 3: What do you do with as far as developing him
Speaker 3: in the off season. You know, I think that they
Speaker 3: could use another point guard. I think they could use
Speaker 3: maybe a power forward because Jada, I mean really he's
Speaker 3: not a power forward.
Speaker 4: These a three, maybe a two.
Speaker 3: And so you know, if you get a legit power
Speaker 3: forward in there to help with to help with chet
Speaker 3: holmering down low, now you can you know, use Jalen
Speaker 3: More as a secondary ball handler. And so to me,
Speaker 3: that again just like the Knicks, they're right there, but
Speaker 3: it just like and when you're at this spot, it's
Speaker 3: like a really delicate spot because you say, okay, well
Speaker 3: we can do this to take the next step. And
Speaker 3: a lot of times, you know, when you sort of
Speaker 3: get desperate and make those moves, you might take a
Speaker 3: step back. And you know, you've seen it happen with teams,
Speaker 3: you know, time and time again. But I think Oklahoma
Speaker 3: City is going to be very slow and deliberate with
Speaker 3: how they decide to do things. That's how they got
Speaker 3: to this point. And San Presty has said that he
Speaker 3: wants to build this thing where it's sustainable, and it's
Speaker 3: not sustainable when you kind of go out there and
Speaker 3: spend a bunch of money and go star hounting all
Speaker 3: the time, that's not going to help you. You got
Speaker 3: to draft and develop your own people, which is what
Speaker 3: Oklahoma City has done over the years. And I think
Speaker 3: that continues. I just don't know. Like I said, I
Speaker 3: think they may be just a piece or two away,
Speaker 3: but they're going to be right back next season. And
Speaker 3: I'm really excited to see what happens in the West
Speaker 3: because you know, we forget Memphis, I mean Memphis is
Speaker 3: they're going to be back. You know, and here come
Speaker 3: to San Antonio Spurs, here come.
Speaker 4: To Houston Rockets.
Speaker 3: So you know, there's yeah, the West, the West is
Speaker 3: going to be something else in this next five six years.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be crazy.
Speaker 2: Man. You forget about that. I forgot about that till
Speaker 2: you bring it up.
Speaker 1: But to your point, I think with the thunder two,
Speaker 1: you saw it in the postseason in particularly against Dall
Speaker 1: but just the need for a big time they got
Speaker 1: out rebounded, just like that was an area to me
Speaker 1: that you sometimes wonder and it's hide in sight always
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty looking back, but at the trade deadline
Speaker 1: at some point if they could have brought in a
Speaker 1: little bit more size there could that have made a difference.
Speaker 2: In this series or in general.
Speaker 1: But you said they got the pieces, and more importantly
Speaker 1: to they got this experience. I think so often when
Speaker 1: you look at a group of what they're going to do,
Speaker 1: it's about getting this type of experience and learning from it,
Speaker 1: taking it from it. The Denver Nuggets got inexperience. They
Speaker 1: did not want. They were looking to come back and
Speaker 1: duplicate what they were able to do last year defend
Speaker 1: their championship title, and it was not the case, as
Speaker 1: we've already talked about, especially I think disappointing to see
Speaker 1: them have a twenty point lead on their home floor
Speaker 1: in Game seven and relinquish that to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 1: They they're well over the cap, they're into the second apron.
Speaker 1: They've got some free agents that they need to make
Speaker 1: some decisions, with Contavious Caldwell Pope being one of those,
Speaker 1: Reggie Jackson also with a player option, Justin Holliday a
Speaker 1: free agent. But otherwise you kind of look at this
Speaker 1: team and the options or what they want to do.
Speaker 1: They had some young players and reserve players that didn't
Speaker 1: quite live up and fill the reserve roles that they
Speaker 1: saw from a few players last year. In particular, you
Speaker 1: look at Bruce Brown what they could not retain with
Speaker 1: what he commanded on the market last year in helping
Speaker 1: them to a title. What do you expect from Denver
Speaker 1: in what they will do next year this offseason.
Speaker 3: Well, I think they're gonna look at sort of the
Speaker 3: way they performed throughout, you know, this last series, because like,
Speaker 3: yes they lost the series, but there were just things
Speaker 3: that that were atypical of the Denver Nuggets. I mean,
Speaker 3: they shot eight of thirty three from three point range
Speaker 3: last night.
Speaker 4: That doesn't happen.
Speaker 3: Usually, they shot twenty eight point five percent from three
Speaker 3: point range in the four.
Speaker 4: Losses they had.
Speaker 3: That doesn't happen with them. Michael Porter Jr. But I
Speaker 3: think the last four games of the series, he didn't
Speaker 3: even get into double digits. That doesn't happen. So that, like,
Speaker 3: so I think they look at it from that standpoint,
Speaker 3: like just being practical and saying, Okay, how can we
Speaker 3: make sure that these guys can perform more more consistently
Speaker 3: in these series, and so like they don't panic and
Speaker 3: go make a bunch of moves. Well, and they really
Speaker 3: can't anyway, But I think bringing Bruce Brown back would
Speaker 3: be a good start for them if we're talking about
Speaker 3: making any kinds of additions. But Christian Brown, you know,
Speaker 3: like he needs to take another step in his development.
Speaker 3: He was pretty good this past year, but he's still,
Speaker 3: you know, a step or two away from getting exactly
Speaker 3: where the Nuggets need him to be. But I think
Speaker 3: the Nuggets are good enough to run it back, you know,
Speaker 3: Like like I said, it was just really a typical
Speaker 3: of the Denver Nuggets just to you know, you get
Speaker 3: up by twenty finning champ a veteran team, and you
Speaker 3: let them come back like that.
Speaker 4: That just doesn't happen.
Speaker 3: And they sort of got themselves in a real buying
Speaker 3: there because nicolea Jokic, he really needed a rest in
Speaker 3: that second half. But you got to keep it more
Speaker 3: on the floor while Minnesota is making that run, and
Speaker 3: so they kind of got called they were in a
Speaker 3: catch twenty two situation. And so, like I said, I
Speaker 3: don't want to over you know, kind of I don't know,
Speaker 3: over react to what happened with the Denver Nuggets because
Speaker 3: I still think they're a really good team that's going
Speaker 3: to be like a top three team in the West
Speaker 3: moving forward.
Speaker 1: A lot of questions that will be answered throughout the
Speaker 1: course of this offseason. But in the meantime, we got
Speaker 1: some fun, fun Western Conference and Eastern Conference finals that
Speaker 1: are coming up. Beginning on Tuesday, is Indiana visits Boston
Speaker 1: at a pm Eastern on ESPN, and on Wednesday, Dallas
Speaker 1: is at the Timberwolves on TNT at a thirty pm Eastern.
Speaker 1: Until then, Michael, we appreciate you safe travels. We will
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