WEBVTT - Nightcap - Hour 1: The Nuggets beat the Thunder to force a game 7, KD has an interesting take on X! 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:18.759 The volume. Come on, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.280 joining us as the Denver Nuggets four sex Game seven 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:25.200 with a one nineteen one oh seven victory over a O. 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:28.760 KC. They got production from where they needed it. 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.920 Nicola Jokic was sensation to night twenty nine points, fourteen rebounds, 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:35.920 eight assists. He got twenty five points from Jamal Murray, 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:40.680 twenty three points from Christian Braun. But it was Strawford 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:42.880 off the bench that gave that was four to fourth 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:44.639 from the free throw line, in three or four from 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.000 the three point line, four of eight from the field. 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:49.680 They gave him fifteen big points off the bench and 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.239 that was the difference as they win by twelve one 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.040 nineteen to one oh seven. Oh Joe, we've got a 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.840 game seven. Game seven. I guess you can play a 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:03.400 series sports. 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Michael Porter Jr. He 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.599 came to the party of the night. He didn't take 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.440 many shots, but he made the shots that he took. 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:34.560 He made those counts. He had ten points, but it 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.520 was Strawthord off the bench that gave him fifteen big points. 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.839 He was three or four from the three point line 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:41.840 and four to eight from the free throw Excuse me 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.320 from the field watching this game, matrix, What did you 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:47.320 like about what you saw from the Nuggets? Because I 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:49.840 thought they took control early in the first quarter, and 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:51.240 then they kind of let it slip away in the 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:51.839 second quarter. 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:53.800 They regained it in the third. 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.520 Quarter, and then when cruised home in the fourth quarter, 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:58.679 it was tough nipping tuck, but they broke the game open. 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:00.840 What did you like about what you saw from the 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:04.520 Nuggets tonight? Championship pedigree? You got two of the best 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:09.000 closers in the game right now with a Joker and Murray. Man. 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:10.960 Murray stepped up big. You know, he came up. 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.159 They say he was sick before the game, but man, 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.719 you know, I think he's uh, he's special. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:15.920 Man. 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.680 I think he don't get enough credit as he deserved. Man, 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:22.240 I think he you gonna ask two minutes, Tom, that's 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:23.400 a tough team to beat man. 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:25.880 You know what I like. 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.280 I like the fact that they're really aggressive. They shot 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.520 thirty two free throws tonight, so that tells me they're 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.200 not They weren't settling. They were trying to put pressure 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.600 on the OKC defense. You know, this is a very 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.960 good defensive team. They got guys that can offend. They 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:42.400 switch everything. They got two bigs that can protect the paint. 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:46.159 You got Jalen Williams, who's a great defender, Loudor, you 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:50.920 have a Caruso, Isaiah, Joe Wiggins, Wallace. You got guys. 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.880 They got about sixty seven guys that can defend the wing. 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.760 And they switch everything because they don't want to try 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:58.799 to they don't want to help and leave guys wide open. 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:00.960 And I thought the Nuggets did a great job tonight 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:03.560 matrix of putting the ball on the floor, trying to 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:03.920 get the. 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:05.560 Ball to the rims and they drew a lot of five. 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:07.800 They shot thirty two free throw a tempts they was 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.760 twenty seven or thirty two and the thunder was only 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.840 ten or sixteen, and Shay Gil just shot eleven of 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:16.039 the sixteen free throws. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.400 I thought Jaylen Williams, he was off the night. 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:20.440 He was three or sixteen from the floor, oh four 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:22.400 from three, and he didn't get to the free throw 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.960 line at all. Hartenstein, He doesn't really normally get to 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:26.800 the free throw line. Lou Dort didn't get to the 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.239 free throw line. But when you only got three guys 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.239 and they take all your free all sixteen, that tells 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.599 me you're not nearly aggressive enough, and maybe you settle 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.600 a little bit more for threes than you you should have. Yeah, 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.240 theyin'ted somebody else stept up to night. You know, I 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:41.880 think when you look at this game, you know, they 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.520 are a young team. You know, I think they're they're 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.120 they're growing, they're getting better as they keep playing. By man, 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.080 you know, I think the excuse me of Denver just 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.280 just prevailed and they just man, they played smart and 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:53.640 they took care of the ball, and they needed too. 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:57.359 They had so many mistakes out their young mistakes. You know. 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.520 It's it's some mentality of these young teams, tams that 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.680 that they I loved. Okay, see, they played hard, you know, 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.839 they played break with their hands. But I think sometimes 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.839 they just seem like they're going meuthargically, going through the 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.960 motions at times, and they just they gelped that they 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:13.680 get off there. They pumped the brakes a little bit 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:15.080 when they need to be putting their foot foot on 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.400 the pedals and taking it to another level. They've shown 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.160 them signs they can do it. They're a resilient team. 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.280 But when the mistakes catching up with them, they turned 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.080 the ball all a little too much. Yeah, and they're 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:27.840 not a three point shooting team. Oh till they were 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.360 eleven or forty. Tonight they were twenty seven and a 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:34.480 half percent. Julian Strawford, he hit more threes than any 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:38.040 player on ok SE uh and so we knew that. 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:41.200 Look the big guns they got a fire tonight, Joker 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.640 and and and Murray they did that. 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.239 Now where else can we get some production? 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.920 Because they needed those points because in the fourth quarter 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.520 he had some big threes, he got a couple of rebounding, 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.440 put some footbacks. Because you look at it, uh Okac's 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:59.960 bench is better is wall. It's better than the Nuggets bench. 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.280 And so they needed some production off that bench, and 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.920 Julius Strauther gave that to them. Fifteen points, a career 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.440 playoff high three or four from the three point line. 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.040 I thought Christian Brown was Family Fabulous Tonight, twenty three points, 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.160 Ojo eleven of rebounds, five or Sais three steals, He 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.680 was three or six from the three point line. 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:19.280 He had more points than Jay Dubb. 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.520 He had more rebounds than Hartenstein, more steals than Carusso's, 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.040 and more may threes than Shape. He's the youngest player 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.440 in franchise history with a twenty ten five and three 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:32.240 game in playoff. In a playoff game, Jamal Murray has 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.000 twenty five points in playoff games. 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:34.840 I mean, think about it. 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.800 Jamal Murray has more twenty five point playoff games than 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:43.040 Devin Booker, Jaylen Brunson, Joel Embiid, Kevin Garnett, Tracy McGrady, 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.960 Bill Russell, Deack Rose, Penny Hardway, Johnson Phillips, and Bence Carter. 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:49.840 We don't look at we don't look at Jamal like 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:51.800 that because he's never been on the All the NBA team, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.200 he's never been an All Star. But as metrics, as 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.480 you said, he can ball and the moment, he's a 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.360 big He's like James Worthy. He's a big game player. 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.680 The bigger the game, the better he played. He knew 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.400 his backup with his back was against the wall. If 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.560 I don't play well. The series is over in six games. 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.160 Let's get it back to OKC, and let's see who 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:16.440 can have the pressure more better we or them. I 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:19.320 love the way they played tonight. I love the championship medal. 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.240 As Matrix mentioned, the Nuggets showed. What did you like 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:23.600 about what you saw from the Nuggets? 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:23.840 So Jo? 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.239 I mean, obviously they played well. They suffocated. They suffocated. 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.120 I'm just gonna say it. I feel they suffocated. The 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:36.520 goddamn the thunder. It was one on four. I'm I'm 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.400 gonna call it like that. It was one on five actually, 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:41.320 because Shay was the only one that showed up to night, 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.320 even though he had twenty points, but he only had 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:48.560 two assists and he had four turnovers. But Joker doing 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:52.319 what he does, and god damn Jamal Murray with twenty 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.040 five at night. Listen, they set the tone. You expect 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.480 a game like this. You want to be able. A 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:59.400 young team like that, that can, that's up and down 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.360 the floor. They played the defense. You want to be 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.600 able to close out a game like this. You want 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.040 to be able to But obviously the Nuggets having that 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.160 championship pedigree and and being that they've been in. 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.640 This position before they were able to pull this game off. 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:13.719 The fact that Shae, the fact that it was the 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.240 game of this this much importance, and Shae was the 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:18.480 only one to show up the night, and nobody else did. 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:23.319 Lou Dort, Hartenstein, Javin Williams. They played, They played bad. 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.040 They played bad, and I don't know if if maybe 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.120 they might have been tired. They may, they may want 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:31.319 to get the game seven and then just pull a 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.360 pull a rabbit, pull up a rabbit out that had 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:33.800 a seven. 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:36.720 Naw, you can't chance that, o Jo, because you a 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.600 road ankle, you an elbow, you you you're a bad play, 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.760 you a push, you lose your composure, You one play 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.120 away from being out of this thing. And so you 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.319 never you never put off tomorrow what you can get 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:50.600 done today. Now why I get that, you know in 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.319 front of our home crowd, but your home crowd doesn't 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:54.360 guarantee you a win. 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:56.680 And so that's why I would be out look. 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:59.280 And plus the Nuggets have been in game seven, They've 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.839 been here, they done that, They're battle tested, they got 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:04.880 a three time league MVP, and they got one of 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:09.160 the best big game finishers in Jamal Murray in the NBA, 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.680 so I wouldn't want to test that. I thought Chest 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.520 played really good today. He was eight or fourteen. He 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:18.320 had eleven rebounds. But Jaylen Williams, who's their second best player, 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.080 did not have his best game. He had six points 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.120 with sixteen shots, So Joe, he was all four from 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.080 the three, and he didn't get to the free throw line. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.600 So that tells me he was settling. He wasn't nearly 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.080 aggressive as he needed to be because he can put 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.719 the ball on the floor, and he settled for those 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:40.280 three point shots, which the Nuggets would gladly accept. Sixteen 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:45.600 free throws three attempts. That's not from the basketball. They 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:49.000 need to be somewhere between twenty five and thirty free 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:54.120 throw attempts and keep that the three point attempts somewhere 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.400 like if you get to thirty, you can live with that. 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:58.560 You can live with that. But they got the forty 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.440 and they only made eleven. They weren't nearly aggressive enough. 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:03.760 I think that that that that that's that that was 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.240 a problem for them tonight. But the Nuggets with plenty 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.440 plenty aggressive with thirty three thirty two free throw a tempts. 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.560 Looking at this game, so projecting matrix going to a 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:17.120 game seven, What do you think, OKAYC need to do 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.200 to keep the Nuggets from coming into their building in 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:23.600 a game seven and walking out there going to the 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:25.079 Western Conference finals? 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.439 Who who? What Dad say? Show up? 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:34.120 I mean, I think it's uh, it's it's gonna be 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:35.720 simple to them, and that's not gonna be simple. But 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.400 you need your yo yo. Your role players play batter 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.160 at home. So this is that's gonna be that hospital 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:40.920 home court advantage? 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:41.600 Is that right now? 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.880 This postseason, so it's been isn't paying off, but both 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.040 teams have won them both on both their home courts. 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:51.360 So h oh, listen that seven game, man, you just 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:53.200 you just don't know. Man, you got you throwing them 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:54.760 up in the air and like, listen, let's go to 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:56.320 the war. You know you got come, you gotta come 0:12:56.360 --> 0:13:02.200 to fight. You know, you just don't know. Because Lebron's 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:03.959 been been struggling the last three games, you know what 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.480 I'm saying, two or three games? Yeah, and shoot he 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:10.880 found this shot shot to night. So look, Gordon's has 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.160 been playing great. He didn't have a great eight knight. 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.880 He'site five points. I think what is called how many 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.679 points or Gordon scored. He had five points on two 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:20.839 or seven. But did I see him? Did you think 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.880 you looked like he grabbed his hamstring like that that 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.480 left hand. Me started bothering him because he was doing it. 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:27.840 You know, he was grabbing a little bit. 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.520 Now, yeah, left one, the left, the left side. 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:33.160 Dams facing nothing to play with if he hurt. Now 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.199 that that's that's I don't want that. I don't want 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.400 to see no injuries in the postseason. But man, that 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.600 that can that can change the dynamic of everything. 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:41.199 You know what I'm saying. 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.960 Certain teams know he's a big part to their team 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:45.920 and what he's done for this uh, for the postseason 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.360 and helped to win the championship two years ago. 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.400 So it's gonna be interesting to see who shows up. 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.960 Man, It's like, ain't no more schemes, ain't no more 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:56.480 drawn up this and that? 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:01.440 It does. They know, they know when they go, they 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:02.680 know when to fight, going to the bath. 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:05.520 They know. 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.960 So let's let's let's come a war, baby. Yeah. 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.719 I thought the Nuggets. I thought the Nuggets. I thought 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.640 the Nuggets bench. They got twenty seven points from the 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.960 bench to offset the thirty points because normally the thunder 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.120 bench blows the Nuggets bench away. 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.440 Yeah, tonight it was only a plus three. 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.320 Well you could live with that because the Nuggets are 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.160 only gonna play like three guys off the bench. Russ, 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.440 Watson and Strawther those are the only two. Those are 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.160 only three guys that's gonna get off the bench. 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:38.920 Now we know. 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:42.040 Okay, see they're gonna play five guys coming off the bench. 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.080 That's what they do. That's what they normally do. 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.960 Uh. Tonight they played a few more, but it was 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:48.840 in mop up duty, so I don't really count those. 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.600 But you look at guys that Wallace played twenty seven minutes, 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.600 Wiggans play twelve minutes, Caruso played twenty seven minutes, and 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.720 Jay Williams played fourteen minutes. So that's one two three four. 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:02.400 So they played nine guys. Sometimes occasionally they'll play ten. 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:05.320 Actually they played well you can look at they play 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.360 ten because Isaiah Joe played eight minutes. All the other 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.800 guys played one minutes. That was mop up duty. So 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.040 you know they're normally gonna run nine to ten guys 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.640 at you O Joe, And that's where they kind of 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.520 do a lot of their damage because they got guys 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.600 that can go get buckets against your second unit. You 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.360 look at Caruso, you look at Carson Wallace, you look 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:28.000 at a Wiggins and Isaiah Joe. Those guys can score. 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.280 And so that's normally the deciding factor is that when 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.800 they take their starters out, okay, see takes their starters out, 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:37.440 the second unit can get some distance or they can 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.600 claw back if they're behind, they can claw back some 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.520 of the some of the dig into the lead that 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.120 you have. But I thought the Nuggets bench played extremely 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.920 well tonight. I think coach Adaman is gonna be very 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.960 pleased with the performance that he got. You know, Jamal 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.000 Murray got a little careless with the basketball late in. 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:52.400 The ball game. 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.640 I think he had like two or three consecutive turnovers 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.520 and got in the game a little bit more interesting 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.080 than probably what it should have been late. 0:15:58.440 --> 0:15:59.760 But I love the way they. 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.200 Regathered themselves and it was able to close this game 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.120 out by twelve. So we have a game seven in 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.400 the Western Conference Semmifinals the Denver Nuggets about the score 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.040 of one nineteen to one oh seven over the OKC 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.800 thunder forced the game seven, and that game will be 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.840 on Sunday and we'll break be right here to you. 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.240 The Nuggets will play in Game seven for the seventh 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.880 time in the Yokic era. Sunday would be their first 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:26.960 Game seven on the road. They had a road game 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.080 during the Bubble, but that doesn't count because everybody was 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:34.600 on the road. Oh Joe, who you like? Oh Joe, 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.000 who you like? In this Game seven, you're taking the Thunder. 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:38.040 You're taking the Nuggets. 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.160 Listen, the Nuggets have already been there before. I want 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:41.480 to see Shae winn it. I want to see the 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.400 MVP get into it. I think the difference in this 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.120 game is gonna have to be the bench. They got 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.720 to be the bench. The goddamn bench got to show up. 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:49.680 Shae ConA do what he does. Jay and William shit, 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.040 they gonna do what they do. I think the bench 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.520 is gonna be the difference. They have no choice. I mean, 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.600 Game seven for one, and I'm giving the ad to 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:58.960 the Thunder because they're gonna be at home. 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:01.280 They're gonna be at home, So I got damn. If 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:02.680 you want to put a little money on it, let. 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:06.040 Me know, man. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:07.879 I told you it was concerning to me because I 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.760 saw Aaron Gordon grabbing that hamstring, and that's not a 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.520 good sign. And I understand they got they don't play again, 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.840 oh Joe until Sunday. If that hamster, hopefully it would 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.080 like a little dehydration and it's just grabbing on it. 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.800 It just spasoming it up. It's not a strain of anything. 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.440 So let's let's just hope hope for that. Let's let's 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.560 you know, pray for the best. Yeah, that's all that's 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:29.120 all we can do at this point in time now. 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.600 But they got their work cut out for him. If if, if, 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:33.560 if Gordon was one hundred percent healthy and I didn't 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:35.920 see him grab that ham string, I probably would have 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:40.879 went with the Nuggets. Wait playing it And it doesn't matter, Okay, 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.360 I like I like your kitchen and Murray to pull 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.520 this thing out. If all I want to do is 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:48.160 get the lead, See I would to get I want 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:49.400 to keep your crowd out of the game. 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:51.520 And make sure you know this. The longer I can. 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.159 Keep your crowd out of the game, the better my 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.040 chances are because the home team's gonna feed off that energy. 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:57.720 But I ain't gonna give you nothing to cheer about. 0:17:57.960 --> 0:17:59.720 I'm gonna come I jump out on your ten nothing 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:01.399 makes you call the time out. You hit a bucket, 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.280 then we're gonna go on another front. And so we're 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:05.840 gonna keep the crowd on the hands were gonna We're 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.600 gonna have the crowd waiting for you to give them 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:09.920