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Speaker 2: turns out the defending champs face a touch of adversity
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden they're out of here, calling
Speaker 2: the manager. I mean, I'm that was. Somebody's gonna have
Speaker 2: to answer for this. Jaden McDaniel's playing full court defense,
Speaker 2: Nikhil Alexander Walker, who do you think you are? Oh
Speaker 2: my goodness, tough week to be a sensitive Canadian. Oh
Speaker 2: my goodness, here's what missed the cut. Pat Riley chirps
Speaker 2: at Jimmy Butler. That's his story to watch. Micah Parsons
Speaker 2: goes one on one against a sumo wrestler and Ben Simmons,
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Speaker 3: This sumo wrestler was seventeen years old by the way.
Speaker 2: Right and was like not a top three hundred. He
Speaker 2: was training to be a sumo wrestler like the real
Speaker 2: sumo wrestlers evidently would really give Micah that work. Uh totally.
Speaker 2: I mean just a wild skill set, all right, So
Speaker 2: we have to do it. Is mandatory we do a
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Speaker 4: Yeah, So the defending champs have now been embarrassed two
Speaker 4: times in a row at home, so they're down two.
Speaker 3: Are you ready to write them off? Or is it
Speaker 3: impossible to count out.
Speaker 4: The best player in the NBA and a couple other
Speaker 4: or do you are you? Do you want to open
Speaker 4: that debate as well? Open that debate back?
Speaker 2: Well, okay, I am not. I'm not writing off the Nuggets.
Speaker 2: I don't think they're dead, but they're on as shaky
Speaker 2: a ground as possible. We'll get to the Nuggets in
Speaker 2: a moment. The Nuggets will be the focus of this
Speaker 2: because it looks like we're gonna have a lot more
Speaker 2: time to talk about the Timberwolves. But let's start with
Speaker 2: the Timberwolves. As I said yesterday on television. But I
Speaker 2: now also want to remind the audience and see the
Speaker 2: show shout out Tim Conley. Tim Conley built the Denver
Speaker 2: Nuggets and then left a year ago and went to Minnesota.
Speaker 2: Did the Rudy Gobert trade? Built the Timberwolves. So he
Speaker 2: built a team that won a championship and then appears
Speaker 2: to have built the team best equipped to win a championship.
Speaker 2: And I might now I might have to take an
Speaker 2: l on a lot of my Rudy Gobert trade and
Speaker 2: playoff defense takes. With that said, last night might have
Speaker 2: been the best defensive game a team's played in fifteen years,
Speaker 2: and Gobert wasn't there, so maybe he was holding him
Speaker 2: back all along. Who knows. Who's to say speaking of
Speaker 2: Rudy Gobert, I don't put this this part, don't clip
Speaker 2: this individually on social If it goes on its own,
Speaker 2: that's fine. But you know that meme where they show
Speaker 2: Wilt's statline that I don't even know if it's real,
Speaker 2: but it's like fifty six points, thirty one rebounds, eleven
Speaker 2: assists and ten blocks, nine steals that you see a
Speaker 2: lot that is Gilbert Arenas on basically any topic. If
Speaker 2: you're going for the worst opinion. It's like every time
Speaker 2: he's like, guys, don't worry, I've got you covered. Gill's
Speaker 2: take on he didn't see it, Gill's take on the game,
Speaker 2: that baby's gonna be there when you get back. Come on, man,
Speaker 2: Like I mean, that's what I'm saying. He is just
Speaker 2: he just puts up these it's just him and Rashot
Speaker 2: in the cants, just like having a clown off with
Speaker 2: utter regularity. It's unbelievable. But so shout out to the
Speaker 2: Timberwolves for doing that without the defensive player of the year.
Speaker 2: And I oddly think, you know, sports are so funny.
Speaker 2: Karl Anthony Town's got a foul early in this game,
Speaker 2: and this was a he has always struggled with foul trouble.
Speaker 2: There was a great moment at the press conference a
Speaker 2: week ago when Ant was like, you just gotta saw
Speaker 2: fan fallon man. He's like, I know, I know, I tried.
Speaker 2: I think Carl got that foul. And then because there's
Speaker 2: no Rudy, the Nuggets then adjusted their game plan slightly
Speaker 2: to try to instead of run their offense, hunt a
Speaker 2: second foul on on Cat. They then it had a
Speaker 2: twofold negative impact. One is they weren't running the regular stuff.
Speaker 2: The other is that they got frustrated because they weren't
Speaker 2: getting the foul calls. And then it just absolutely snowballed
Speaker 2: on them. But shout out to Anthony Edwards. I mean
Speaker 2: the Jordan's similarities. I know, he said, don't compare me
Speaker 2: to him, but then he did the Jordan shrug after
Speaker 2: hitting a three. Also, Anthony Edwards last night won as
Speaker 2: many playoff games as Jordan did in his entire career
Speaker 2: without Scottie Pippens. So another similarity, really unbelievable thing to see.
Speaker 2: And there is he he is now demands a look
Speaker 2: like you were going to say something about Ant. I
Speaker 2: feel like he has reached this place where it can
Speaker 2: feel like, oh, Ant's not having that good of a game,
Speaker 2: and then you see he had twenty seven and seven
Speaker 2: on seventeen shots, Like, at no point did it feel
Speaker 2: like Ant was dominating the game, and yet he had
Speaker 2: twenty seven seventeen. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he did string together some stuff late.
Speaker 4: But I was I was gonna mention to you, and
Speaker 4: then I saw a tweet right before the show started.
Speaker 4: Your analysis in the beginning, you said the the Lakers'
Speaker 4: best chance to go to the finals was to get
Speaker 4: Denver early.
Speaker 3: And you said, you know they would if they take
Speaker 3: care of them.
Speaker 4: If if the Lakers would have taken care of Denver,
Speaker 4: which they probably, they were close, each each of those
Speaker 4: games are close. They would have gotten destroyed by the
Speaker 4: two Wolves in the next round.
Speaker 3: Oh I.
Speaker 2: Oh, I, Well, the listen and we'll talk. We can talk.
Speaker 2: I understand that Lebron James is, you know, the biggest
Speaker 2: star in the league when he's not playing. So people
Speaker 2: want us to talk about it. That's fine. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: now am not that confident the Lakers would have had
Speaker 2: would have done well against the Timberwolves team. This Timberwolves
Speaker 2: team is the ferocity no pun intended, with which they
Speaker 2: are playing and the way they defend, and the confidence
Speaker 2: that they have. It's and they're undefeated in the postseason.
Speaker 2: They I mean they are. And by the way, they
Speaker 2: have not exactly had it. Totally agree and they it's
Speaker 2: not like they've had I understand the Thunder right now
Speaker 2: undefeated in the postseason. But the Thunders postseason path has
Speaker 2: been four games against the Pelicans without Zion that the
Speaker 2: Timbrels postseason path has been four games against a healthy
Speaker 2: Suns team and two games in Denver. Yeah, and so
Speaker 2: Chris Finch and this team also for being undefeated, it's
Speaker 2: dealt with a lot of adversity. Their coach suffered a
Speaker 2: debilitating injury, had surgery, can't even stand their their defensive
Speaker 2: player of the year, uh it missed the game because
Speaker 2: he was with the birth of his child. And they
Speaker 2: just keep rolling.
Speaker 4: Yeah, go ahead, what were you going no, no, when
Speaker 4: when when it came out there, Rudygobert was having the.
Speaker 3: Kid, I kind of got sad.
Speaker 4: I was thinking in my head, oh, man, like Denver's
Speaker 4: about to guess get this win because.
Speaker 2: And me, yeah, I thought that. I thought that this
Speaker 2: was going to be an incredibly difficult game for Minnesota
Speaker 2: at full strength. You have a desperate Denver team at
Speaker 2: home in essentially a must win. There had been prior
Speaker 2: to last night. Twenty nine instance is in NBA history
Speaker 2: of the home team losing the first two games twenty
Speaker 2: four of those twenty nine they end up losing the series.
Speaker 2: Like this isn't a going down three to zero, but
Speaker 2: going down two to oho at home is a brutal spot.
Speaker 2: And so there is there are real implications there. And
Speaker 2: so I thought Denver was going to play desperate. And
Speaker 2: then when I saw there was no Routie, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: unless Ants somehow scores fifty, I don't see what chance
Speaker 2: the Timberwolves have here. And so shout out to Minnesota.
Speaker 2: It was a four Pistons esque defensive performance and they
Speaker 2: deserve all the credit in the world. Now we must
Speaker 2: get to the Denver side of things. Which I'll get
Speaker 2: to Jamal Moray in a second, but I just have
Speaker 2: this question. Are we going to hold the soon to
Speaker 2: be three time MVP, basically unanimously considered best player alive
Speaker 2: to a lower standard than we are currently holding the
Speaker 2: oldest player in the league in year twenty one, Lebron James.
Speaker 2: Or are we going to hold Jokic to the same
Speaker 2: standard that guys who have either worn the crown or
Speaker 2: tried to wear the crown have been held to, which is,
Speaker 2: if your team is at home as a big favorite
Speaker 2: in a must win round two game, and you come
Speaker 2: out with that type of effort, with that time type
Speaker 2: of performance, it makes us pause and question some things.
Speaker 2: What are we gonna do here? Because if we are
Speaker 2: being honest, Nikola Jokic has gotten absolutely torched on the
Speaker 2: defensive end every game this postseason. Again, if we're being
Speaker 2: honest here, people will be like, oh, man, Anthony Davis
Speaker 2: was unbelievable in that Lakers series. Yeah, and in this
Speaker 2: series thus far, he doesn't even seem engaged defensively, and
Speaker 2: a lot of what the Timberwolves are trying to do
Speaker 2: is go right at him. Let me add something else
Speaker 2: to it. Again, It to who much is given, much
Speaker 2: is expected, and I just want to know, are we
Speaker 2: going to do the same standard we've done for all
Speaker 2: the all time greats, which Jokich is when they have
Speaker 2: this type of potential collapse. I know that to this
Speaker 2: day Jason Tatum has thrown at him man that when
Speaker 2: y'all went to the finals, you had one hundred turnovers
Speaker 2: that playoff run. You were four point two turnovers a game.
Speaker 2: Nikola Jokicic has four turnovers a game thus far this postseason.
Speaker 2: He has eighteen in the last three games. And then
Speaker 2: there is this piece of it, A lot of the
Speaker 2: Yokic legendary where he ranks all time. Discussion that we
Speaker 2: were all having was predicated on, well, the Nuggets making
Speaker 2: the finals and the Nuggets probably winning the championship. If
Speaker 2: they don't, things all of a sudden, if they get
Speaker 2: bounced in round two, things take on a different hue
Speaker 2: because Jokich is already swimming in the waters with Yannis Durant,
Speaker 2: the original Isaiah Thomas, those guys, right, he is, But
Speaker 2: the question was is he ascending past all of those
Speaker 2: guys into the waters with Steph and Shack and drink
Speaker 2: and dream and Bird and those guys. Those were the discussions.
Speaker 2: So it is not holding him to an unfair stand
Speaker 2: to hold him to the standard we held those guys to.
Speaker 2: But those guys became those guys by having repeated year
Speaker 2: after year after year deep postseason runs. The reason Yannis
Speaker 2: Yannis won two MVPs, then won a title, then looked like,
Speaker 2: oh man, he's about to rip off a run. Here
Speaker 2: hasn't been out of round two since. It seems incomprehensible
Speaker 2: that could happen to Jokic, but it seemed incomprehensible that
Speaker 2: that could happen to Yannis. Jason Tatum has the game
Speaker 2: of his life in a Game six, Chris Middleton's out,
Speaker 2: They lose a Game seven. The next year, Yannis gets hurt.
Speaker 2: The next year he's hurt again. Bone. That's three years.
Speaker 2: And so that when we are talking about the legends
Speaker 2: of the game, okay, we gotta be fair about how
Speaker 2: often we saw them on deep late postseason runs. And
Speaker 2: I can go through the list guys Lebron James ten finals,
Speaker 2: four rings, Kareem ten finals, six rings, Michael six finals,
Speaker 2: six rings, No no, no hold on with respect to manse,
Speaker 2: let me cook here for a moment. Start it. I'll
Speaker 2: start it again if we're going to we were talking
Speaker 2: about Nikola Jokicic is one of the twelve ten greatest
Speaker 2: players of all time. So I'll go through it, and
Speaker 2: you guys tell me whether or not if they get
Speaker 2: bounced by a twenty two year old coming into their
Speaker 2: building dominating the series, what it does to the traje
Speaker 2: because the all time greats show up in late May
Speaker 2: and early June, year after year after year. That is
Speaker 2: not an unfair standard. That is the standard. As a
Speaker 2: wise man once said, the standard is the standard. Lebron
Speaker 2: James ten finals, four rings, Kareem ten finals, six rings,
Speaker 2: Michael six finals, six rings, Russell twelve finals, eleven rings,
Speaker 2: Wilt six finals, two rings, Magic nine finals, five rings,
Speaker 2: Bird five finals, three rings. Now, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 2: do some of this off the top of my head.
Speaker 2: I don't want to leave anyone out. Duncan, How many rings, Duncan,
Speaker 2: Guy Duncan? Six finals, five rings, Kobe seven finals, five rings,
Speaker 2: Dream three finals, two rings, Shack six finals, four rings,
Speaker 2: Steph six five is it six or yeah? Six finals,
Speaker 2: four rings. That's the waters that we were trying to
Speaker 2: put Yo kitchen. Don't tell me we weren't. We all
Speaker 2: know we were. That was the discussion, where can he be?
Speaker 2: And if we want to talk go further than that,
Speaker 2: Doctor j four finals, one ring in the NBA, two finals,
Speaker 2: two rings in the ABA. That's the company we were
Speaker 2: talking about him keeping. Now he's already in the Moses
Speaker 2: Malone company, right, Moses two finals, won championship, three MVPs.
Speaker 2: Getting bounced here recalibrates the trajectory significantly. There is no
Speaker 2: way around it. And I know everybody understandably killed me
Speaker 2: for the Lakers. Pick fair deserve it in a weird way.
Speaker 2: When we're talking Jokic and history. If they weren't gonna
Speaker 2: make the conference finals either way, it wouldn't have quite
Speaker 2: stung the trajectory or legacy. If it had just been.
Speaker 3: Go ahead Minnesota goes on to win the championship.
Speaker 2: College, well, no, because then it's just like, oh, why
Speaker 2: is it Anthony Edwards not the best player in the world.
Speaker 2: If Minnesota goes on wins the championship, ant might have
Speaker 2: just ripped the crown from Yokic, might have beats him
Speaker 2: in a series. What I was gonna say is, if
Speaker 2: they were gonna be bounced by the end of round
Speaker 2: two either way. Historically, if they had lost to the Lakers,
Speaker 2: it wouldn't have been remembered as like some bad Yokic moment.
Speaker 2: It would have just been Holy, look what Lebron did.
Speaker 2: That's how it would have been remembered. Instead, it's a
Speaker 2: contemporary of his that he is supposed to be considerably
Speaker 2: better than right now going into his house, pointing at
Speaker 2: his teammates who he's making fall flexing on and ones,
Speaker 2: shrugging at the crowd up thirty the whole game. So again,
Speaker 2: what waters is he's swimming in Because there is nobody
Speaker 2: is to this day as much as I have massive
Speaker 2: respect for this player, and then he's historically underrated. Nobody's
Speaker 2: out here talking about Dirk Novitsky and his place in
Speaker 2: the NBA pantheon. And Jokic obviously has more MVPs than Dirk.
Speaker 2: Dirk has the one, he has three other top three finishes.
Speaker 2: Dirk's got two finals, one ring, and that one ring
Speaker 2: was probably the hardest gauntlet ever gone through to win
Speaker 2: a ring. Not exactly what the Nuggets did last year.
Speaker 2: All I'm saying is this, I was here, I am
Speaker 2: and Nuggets. Fans can get mad, they can act however
Speaker 2: they want. I was here for all of the Jokich
Speaker 2: all time great conversation. I was talking about him as
Speaker 2: if he were one and in someone and he still is.
Speaker 2: But a lot of that how high can he climb
Speaker 2: in the pantheon discussion was assuming at a minimum, they're
Speaker 2: back in the finals this year. You get clocked by
Speaker 2: these kids from Minnesota and you and it's not a
Speaker 2: Lebron against the Magic in the Conference finals in nine
Speaker 2: when he was thirty nine to eight and eight hit
Speaker 2: a game winner, was dominant. It's, oh, you haven't been
Speaker 2: good in either game. You've been a sieve defensively and
Speaker 2: giving the ball away more than twice a quarter offensively.
Speaker 2: Got to recalibrate a bit. Now we get to the
Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson. I'm sorry, we'll get to the Jalen bruns
Speaker 2: and part in a moment, the Jamal Murray piece of it.
Speaker 2: This dude threw two things at a ref because he
Speaker 2: was mad. He threw a towel missed through a heating
Speaker 2: pad that landed on the court during live play. If
Speaker 2: that were to happen in the regular season, it is
Speaker 2: probably a two or three game suspension. I don't know
Speaker 2: what the NBA is going to do. I understand folks
Speaker 2: feeling like it's the semifinals, the teams on the brink,
Speaker 2: don't you know, don't suspend him and tarnish it. I
Speaker 2: get that, But this isn't Amari Stodemeyer stepping off the bench.
Speaker 2: Letter of the law. We must suspend when you don't
Speaker 2: really have to. This is an active choice made two
Speaker 2: times by a key player because he lost his This
Speaker 2: guy was complaining to to Reggie Miller, his dad, his coach,
Speaker 2: his teammates, and then through a temper, Yeah that's what
Speaker 2: I meant, was Reggie Miller. Maybe I'm wrong on Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what I mean. Anyone who would listen. And also,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say something else about it. As great of
Speaker 2: a coach as he is, Michael Malone's gotta wear some
Speaker 2: of it when the lead, When your leader calls a
Speaker 2: time out seemingly to go fight the ref, it's just
Speaker 2: out of his mind with rage. It sets the tone
Speaker 2: of Okay, yeah, it's their fault, it's the ref's fault,
Speaker 2: it's not our fault. And so I don't know what
Speaker 2: the league's gonna do. Here's what I do know, the
Speaker 2: fact that he did three things in this order. He
Speaker 2: pointed out a ref, did a money signed gesture that
Speaker 2: in and of itself got go bear one hundred thousand
Speaker 2: dollars fine earlier this year. Then time to cool down
Speaker 2: on the bench, throws a towel at the ref.
Speaker 3: He's also purposely fouling.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: I think it was Alexander at one point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to make a point one hundred percent, but throws
Speaker 2: the towel, has a moment there where he got away
Speaker 2: with it, didn't hit anyone, no one noticed it, and
Speaker 2: then decided nope, screw that. Give me something with a
Speaker 2: little more haft so I can aim it better, and
Speaker 2: threw a heating pad on the court that slid a foot.
Speaker 2: Now that when people say it's dangerous, I want to
Speaker 2: make this clearer. No one thinks it's dangerous because getting
Speaker 2: hit by a heating pad is gonna hurt that bad.
Speaker 2: That's not what they mean. What they mean is it's
Speaker 2: an object on the floor during live play that if
Speaker 2: Karl Anthony Towns, who was right there, steps on it,
Speaker 2: he can slip and hurt himself. That's what they mean.
Speaker 2: By dangerous, the money signed, the towel, throw in the
Speaker 2: heating pad. This is a totally reasonable suspension if he
Speaker 2: gets it, and the only people anyone should feel badly
Speaker 2: for are Nuggets fans and NBA fans, not Jamal Murray.
Speaker 2: He would have done this to himself and also guys.
Speaker 2: And I'm not trying to just pick on Canadians today
Speaker 2: because Dylan Dylan Brooks did do the same thing. But
Speaker 2: Dylan Brooks got pilloried when he walked out on the
Speaker 2: media repeatedly after the ipoke Bears comments and then got cooked.
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray not talking to anybody after these last two
Speaker 2: games is a bad look. It just is. So I
Speaker 2: don't know what the league's gonna do. What'd you say?
Speaker 4: A little different Dylan Brooks probably a little bit more
Speaker 4: embarrassing not talking to the not talking to the presser
Speaker 4: presser after that.
Speaker 2: Except here's the thing. It might be more embarrassing, but
Speaker 2: it also Jamal Murray had something.
Speaker 4: He needed to say, something, Yeah he needed Dylan, Yeah, yeah, fair.
Speaker 2: And like like Jamal needed to start building his alibi,
Speaker 2: if you will. Jamal needed to somehow concoct a story
Speaker 2: about how he was not throwing that at the ref.
Speaker 2: I I don't know what story there is that's believable,
Speaker 2: but I the you gotta you gotta come up with something,
Speaker 2: and instead he just left it out there. All right,
Speaker 2: the let's go on to the Knicks if we can, demonsey.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Jalen Bronson is on an unreal road.
Speaker 2: Wait, hold on, I'm sorry, hold on, I gotta interrupt
Speaker 2: the producers tell me we have a special photoshop here.
Speaker 2: Let me see it brought to you by Huggies. Well,
Speaker 2: Huggies maybe doesn't want this to be brought They probably.
Speaker 4: Order captain in control relatively. Oh I saw he porter
Speaker 4: did it.
Speaker 2: Shout out to him. And by the way, is sometimes
Speaker 2: I forgot this one piece of it. Man. One of
Speaker 2: the best things that happened to the Timberwolves was Aaron
Speaker 2: Gordon hitting those couple shots early on. Because there Aaron Gordon.
Speaker 2: The rest of the night was like, it's Aaron Gordon.
Speaker 2: I mean, there was one point we're early early in
Speaker 2: a possession he took a turnaround, fade away, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: I think Minnesota's okay with that, buddy.
Speaker 4: Was a couple of possessions where I think Aaron Gordon
Speaker 4: was the only person to touch the.
Speaker 2: Ball absolutely and that could not happen. All right, let's
Speaker 2: go to the Knicks.
Speaker 4: All right, So Jalen Brunson's on a crazy run right now.
Speaker 4: You mentioned in a tweet what elite company he's in.
Speaker 4: Do you think this is something that the Knicks can sustain?
Speaker 4: I mean, Jalen Brunson had to score forty points every
Speaker 4: game just for the mistay in it.
Speaker 3: Do you think they'll be able to do that? Can
Speaker 3: this carry over to the finals?
Speaker 2: Okay? So the tweet was Jalen Brunson's the tenth player
Speaker 2: in NBA history to have two hundred or more points
Speaker 2: over a five game playoff run, joining these people Lebron, Jordan,
Speaker 2: wilt Wells, West Elgin, Rick Barry, Kevin Durant, Allen Iverson,
Speaker 2: Bernard King. So the one name there that doesn't really
Speaker 2: fit with the others is Bernard King, who, by the way,
Speaker 2: was fiftieth on my fifty Best Players the Last fifty
Speaker 2: years list. Underrated guy career absolutely submarined by injury. So
Speaker 2: the question is, like, did so let's look at what
Speaker 2: Bernard did. Bernard did it in the first round of
Speaker 2: the eighty four playoffs against the Pistons, a series the Knicks,
Speaker 2: to be honest, had no business winning, and Bernard willed
Speaker 2: them there. The next round, they then faced Boston, a
Speaker 2: Boston team that was the defending world champions, and that
Speaker 2: series went seven games. And in that series you could
Speaker 2: argue Bernard was the best player. He averaged twenty nine
Speaker 2: a game, Bird averaged thirty birds. Probably, I mean Bird,
Speaker 2: what you can't really I guess argue Bernard was the
Speaker 2: best player. Bird was the best player. But that series
Speaker 2: honestly didn't have real business going seven at all, and
Speaker 2: Bernard was great in that series. Do I think Jalen
Speaker 2: can keep this up for the rest of the playoffs
Speaker 2: forty a game? No? Do I think that if Tyrese
Speaker 2: Haliburton is gonna give you six points six that the
Speaker 2: Knicks could win this series without brunts and keeping it
Speaker 2: up And then could he throw a scare in Boston?
Speaker 2: I do? And here is my would be my only
Speaker 2: concern for Boston Demonse going from the Heat without Jimmy
Speaker 2: Butler to this Cavs team that we don't even know
Speaker 2: what Jared Allen's health it's gonna be to the Knicks,
Speaker 2: who are just gonna beat the hell out of you
Speaker 2: for forty eight minutes. Could be a bit of a
Speaker 2: shock to the system. But Boston has so many wing
Speaker 2: defenders and so much length, You've got to think that
Speaker 2: Jalen's not gonna be able to keep this up and
Speaker 2: that Boston should overwhelm the Knicks.
Speaker 4: Say it again, No, too good on defense, And yeah,
Speaker 4: they they do have like the easiest path to the finals,
Speaker 4: so I mean that will be a word and they
Speaker 4: when they do get passed right, But no, I'm not
Speaker 4: worried about the Knicks.
Speaker 2: But I really I really like watching the Knicks.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: You just know every game is gonna come down in
Speaker 2: the last three minutes, and more often than not, they're
Speaker 2: gonna out execute you. Josh Hart is one of my
Speaker 2: favorite players, one of my favorite role players of the
Speaker 2: last decade to watch like. He is just the definition
Speaker 2: of winning basketball, and his rebounding numbers are in absurdity.
Speaker 2: The dude is six ' four In the playoffs, demanse
Speaker 2: hearers rebounds each game thirteen fifteen, six, seventeen, nine fourteen,
Speaker 2: Josh Hart is averaging twelve and a half rebounds a
Speaker 2: game at six four last night, he also filled it
Speaker 2: up on the offensive end, which is kind of just
Speaker 2: a bonus. Also, here are Josh Hart's minutes played Okay
Speaker 2: in the postseason forty two, forty eight, forty three, forty six,
Speaker 2: fifty three, forty six, forty eight, he is averaging forty
Speaker 2: seven minutes per game. Tibbs, I mean, well, that's the
Speaker 2: other thing you worry about. With the Knicks, they were
Speaker 2: in a six game more with Philly. I don't think
Speaker 2: the Pacers series is gonna be fast, and then the
Speaker 2: Celtics probably gonna have played what what do we think
Speaker 2: ten games by the conference finals back to that gentleman sweeps.
Speaker 2: Probably so, But shout out to Josh Hartman.
Speaker 3: And all he's are playing for each other man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred. This next team is gonna look dangerous
Speaker 2: with Kevin Durant on it.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you all right, next, So MAVs Thunder
Speaker 4: Game one is tonight. The teams are at nearly even odds,
Speaker 4: and they have obviously got the MVP candidates going head
Speaker 4: to head. So do you think the deciding factor will
Speaker 4: be more about the MVP MVP candidates and Shy and
Speaker 4: Luca are more about the surrounding cast?
Speaker 2: So I think this is a Lucas series.
Speaker 3: I think that you always think.
Speaker 2: It's right, but it wasn't in round one and they
Speaker 2: won anyone. So that's the Luca is thus far this
Speaker 2: postseason shooting twenty four from three on eleven a game. Okay,
Speaker 2: despite that, he's still giving you thirty nine and nine
Speaker 2: a night. But similarly to how the Thunder have no
Speaker 2: answer for Lebron, I do not think they're gonna and
Speaker 2: I know it's like, oh, Lou dort Man is gonna
Speaker 2: cook up Lou dort I do not think the Thunder
Speaker 2: are gonna have an answer for Luca, and I think
Speaker 2: that this is going to be uh. I think that
Speaker 2: there is a very real possibility to Monsey that what
Speaker 2: happens on the other side of the bracket. I think
Speaker 2: the Lakers did take something out of the Nuggets, and
Speaker 2: as far as the energy expended to have to come
Speaker 2: back every game, those things and the Terminals taking advantage
Speaker 2: of it. I think that this time if the Timberwolves,
Speaker 2: if the Nuggets claw back right, they are going to
Speaker 2: be spent by the conference finals. If they show any fight,
Speaker 2: they're gonna make the Timberwolves have to work before the
Speaker 2: Conference finals and if the Timbrelves just win, I think
Speaker 2: there might be a bit of an emotional letdown before
Speaker 2: the conference finals. Meanwhile, the MAVs are just chugging along,
Speaker 2: and I think there is I think that there is
Speaker 2: going to be a real anointing fairly of Anthony Edwards
Speaker 2: over these next ten days, and then there is a
Speaker 2: very real possibility Lucas snatches that's right from him, because
Speaker 2: for the MAVs right now to be rolling the way
Speaker 2: they are now, the loss of Maxi Kleiva is brutal
Speaker 2: for them, and he's probably out for the playoffs. That
Speaker 2: is a massive loss. But I think things are breaking
Speaker 2: really well for Dallas. I like Dallas tonight to go
Speaker 2: into Oka se and steal that game. All right, quick
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Speaker 2: done in forty five minutes. I think we've been on
Speaker 2: for forty two minutes, so I'm not gonna quite hit that,
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Speaker 2: a quick game of this or that.
Speaker 4: First off, victim Wimanyama one Rookie of the Year unanimously.
Speaker 3: Well, let's not forget CJ.
Speaker 4: Stroud was in the MVP conversation late into the season,
Speaker 4: led his teams to the second round of the playoffs.
Speaker 4: The better rookie season was Wimby or Stroud. Stroud had
Speaker 4: the better rookie season. Wimby as the higher ceiling like
Speaker 4: the Stroud. I think Stroud had the more impressive an
Speaker 4: impactful rookie season, but Wimby showed you so much as
Speaker 4: rookie season that it seemed like.
Speaker 2: A ton of the hype was Caleb's.
Speaker 3: Will Caleb's rookie season be better than strouts.
Speaker 2: H that's a great question. Second round of the playoffs,
Speaker 2: win the division, good really good numbers. I think it'll
Speaker 2: be equivalent. I think he'll the other thing it'll be.
Speaker 2: I think it'll be equivalent. All right, next, All right, So.
Speaker 4: Rudy Gobert is the runaway favorite to win Defensive Player
Speaker 4: of the Year tonight. Two years back, everybody roasted Minnesota
Speaker 4: for trading a war chest for him. But it's hard
Speaker 4: to deny that things are going pretty great right now
Speaker 4: in Minnesota. The hal for Rudy Gobert was worth it
Speaker 4: or overpay.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, this is gonna be a This is
Speaker 2: trending to a classic category three by me totally wrong.
Speaker 2: I thought it was one of the worst, most ridiculous
Speaker 2: trades I'd seen. But now I they win the damn title,
Speaker 2: it's obviously worth it and how it's readjusted and RecA
Speaker 2: celebrated their team. So I mean, shout out to Tim
Speaker 2: Connelly for seeing something I didn't. I mean, and shout
Speaker 2: out by the way, go ahead, de montse good.
Speaker 4: Did the Wolves getting better on defense last night proved
Speaker 4: that Wimby should have gotten it?
Speaker 3: Anyway?
Speaker 2: No, because that was a I don't think that's long
Speaker 2: term sustainable. And yet I'm not down with the defensive
Speaker 2: Player of the year. Go I'm down with Rookie of
Speaker 2: the Year and other things having nothing to do with winning.
Speaker 2: But Wimby was a part of nineteen wins this year,
Speaker 2: and that I just don't think he was. I don't
Speaker 2: He's gonna win plenty of defensive player of the Year awards.
Speaker 2: All right, next, all.
Speaker 4: Right, the Clippers are once again embarrassed in the playoffs,
Speaker 4: and now Paul George and James Harden are both both
Speaker 4: free agents. LA reportedly wants to run it back. But
Speaker 4: will they even be able to the player most likely
Speaker 4: to return to the Clippers Paul George or James Harden.
Speaker 2: I think James Harden. I think Paul George's out of there.
Speaker 2: I think Paul George is gonna get the full max
Speaker 2: either from Orlando or Philly, and so I just don't
Speaker 2: I think James Harden is not going to have a
Speaker 2: lot of other options.
Speaker 4: All right, next, all right, and one can only be
Speaker 4: described as early May football news, JJ Watt said he'd
Speaker 4: be ready to make a comeback for the Texans that
Speaker 4: they needed him, and the Rams GM doubled Downald saying
Speaker 4: Aaron Donald could make a playoff comeback.
Speaker 3: The more likely comeback is JJ Watt or Aaron Donald.
Speaker 2: Aaron Donald because he's less far removed from the league
Speaker 2: and so, and the jj Watt quote seemed like it
Speaker 2: was taking a little out of context that he told
Speaker 2: Demiko last year, if you need me, I'm here, Like
Speaker 2: I just eat the I think Aaron Donald is I
Speaker 2: don't think either is likely, but I think it's more
Speaker 2: on the board that it's Aaron Donald all right.
Speaker 4: Next, Kenjick, Lamar and Drake have been going back and
Speaker 4: forth with disstracks with no end in sight. Would you
Speaker 4: rather talk about rat beef or anything else?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'd much rather talk about the rat beef, but
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do it in public. There are a
Speaker 2: lot of reasons for it, I am. I guess there's
Speaker 2: just a lot of reasons for it. I also think
Speaker 2: there's a great clique. Everyone should go. Everyone should go
Speaker 2: look at it or go watch it. Of Dave Chappelle
Speaker 2: talking about right after nine to eleven MTV was like,
Speaker 2: can we go now live to Jah Rule to get
Speaker 2: his thoughts on the day, and Chappelle's like, I don't
Speaker 2: want to hear from Ja Rule right now. I don't
Speaker 2: think John's got the answers I need. And I say
Speaker 2: that to say this, I of course have opinions on
Speaker 2: the Kendrick Drake battle. I don't think people right now
Speaker 2: are like, you know who I really need to parse
Speaker 2: this beef? Nick? Right, I just don't I know my
Speaker 2: place in the media hierarchy and I'm fine publicly sitting
Speaker 2: this one out privately, if I know you well enough
Speaker 2: that you have my phone number, I have a lot
Speaker 2: of thoughts on it publicly, I'm not gonna discuss it
Speaker 2: and demand if you really want to say something on it,
Speaker 2: you feel free. I the I'm not all for.
Speaker 4: I am kind of all for the dismantlement of Drake's career,
Speaker 4: but that's the only thing that I'll say.
Speaker 3: I think he's think he's a little.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna, We're gonna that's so I thought you
Speaker 2: might say that I may or may not. Again, I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna include my thoughts on this. I am going
Speaker 2: to remind the audience and maybe also my co host. Uh.
Speaker 2: While honesty is always appreciated, we've only ever had one
Speaker 2: guest ever on this show, and it was, of course
Speaker 2: Lil Wayne, and so we try to be respectful to
Speaker 2: everyone in the space.
Speaker 3: He's my guy at the end of the day, Like
Speaker 3: I don't know, he's a cool dude just like I.
Speaker 2: No, I know that, and that's his artist. And so
Speaker 2: we're just in a rough spot here on the What's
Speaker 2: right universe on discussing this also right now, No, that's fine,
Speaker 2: that's you know, I didn't want to censor you. But
Speaker 2: I also he's like, you know what, let's just we'll
Speaker 2: go ahead and just keep it moving, all right, quick
Speaker 2: listener questions didn't take quick? Then we're gonna wrap the show.
Speaker 2: What's Right? All right? Welcome back in What's Right with Nick? Right? Demansa.
Speaker 2: Let's get to a listener.
Speaker 3: Question, Tony said, fast show.
Speaker 2: Oh he's making because my opening rant was thirty minutes.
Speaker 2: You know, that's a good point. I have to go
Speaker 2: where I said eleven fifteen, it's eleven twenty. I have
Speaker 2: to go. Apologies to anyone who's questions. I didn't get
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