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Speaker 1: The day, sweet world, and welcome to No Dunks on

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Speaker 1: the Athletic Network. It's Sunday, August sixteenth, and this is

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Speaker 1: our official twenty twenty Western Conference Playoffs preview podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Jay Skeats and joining us here on the horn. We

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Speaker 1: got Task Millis, Here we go. Everybody, Hey, Task, we

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Speaker 1: got the Beard one, Tray Kirby, Hey, hey, who the

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Speaker 1: international man of Mystery taking into the Max Lee Ellis friends, Last,

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Speaker 1: but not least, making the magic happen.

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Speaker 2: JD.

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Speaker 1: Hello, there he is, and here we are on a Sunday. Yes, guys,

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Speaker 1: make sure you check out our Eastern Conference Playoff preview podcast.

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Speaker 1: We posted that on Friday. Tomorrow, Monday, August seventeenth, We're

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Speaker 1: gonna go live on YouTube around ten am Eastern with

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Speaker 1: a brand new Beach stepin. So get your questions in

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Speaker 1: your comments for that No Dunks at the Athletic dot Com.

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Speaker 1: I know we got some questions about Elvin Gentry being

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Speaker 1: fired and the King's front off, this shakeup and all that,

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Speaker 1: So we'll get all to all that on tomorrow's beach

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Speaker 1: stepping and finally, Tasks a big happy blated birthday, big guy,

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Speaker 1: how you doing.

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Speaker 3: Terrible No, I'm doing great. Thanks so much for the

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Speaker 3: well wishes out there. Yeah, it feels good to be

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Speaker 3: thirty nine, to be the old Dominic hashek day marker,

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Speaker 3: all the new Dwight Howard D.

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Speaker 1: White Hour. Yeah, Tom Tolbert, did you get up to

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Speaker 1: anything special there on Saturday? On your actual birthday?

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Speaker 3: I had some family around, dipped in the pool a

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Speaker 3: little bit nice. Got a cake that was nice, freshly

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Speaker 3: made cake, nothing like it, nothing like it.

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Speaker 1: Better than a cookie, better than a brownie.

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Speaker 3: What was our cake debate? Oh? Our debate was whether

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Speaker 3: or not we like those designer cakes, like biting into

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Speaker 3: a piece of sushi. But it's a cake.

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Speaker 1: Everything is cake.

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Speaker 3: It was just a regular cake. So boring.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll happy birthday man.

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Speaker 3: Alright, thanks.

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Speaker 1: Let's start breaking down the Western Conference first round matchups.

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Speaker 1: We now know them all because man, we had a

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Speaker 1: fantastic playing game on Saturday between the Blazers and Grizzlies.

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Speaker 1: That was awesome, Blazer's pulling it out in the NCJ

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Speaker 1: McCollum hitting big shots. But the Blazers on to play

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Speaker 1: the Lakers. It's the rare one eight matchup that is

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Speaker 1: going to draw more than some passing interest. You know,

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Speaker 1: this is the Blazers. They're maybe not really an eighth seed,

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Speaker 1: you know, with the talent there. This one tips on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: August eighteenth, nine pm Eastern on TNT, so it's getting

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Speaker 1: the marquee spot there. Lakers took the season series two

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Speaker 1: out of three, they won, and the key injuries. You know,

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Speaker 1: we've got no Avery Bradley going for the Lakers, so

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Speaker 1: that's tough. You're losing him on possibly guarding Damian Lillard.

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Speaker 1: And then there's no Trevor Ariza for the Blazers and

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Speaker 1: So they're not there. There might be some other ones

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Speaker 1: into the keys to the series here task. Why don't

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Speaker 1: you get it started? Lakers Blazers? What are you watching?

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Speaker 3: You mentioned it right there, Skeets. I don't know if

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Speaker 3: I've ever been more excited for a one to eight matchup,

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Speaker 3: but yeah, hot, Damian Lillard going against this Lakers team

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Speaker 3: that has been struggling offensively is what I'm looking at.

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Speaker 3: The Lakers offense with two of the best players in

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Speaker 3: The Pacers what the magic? The Nets were all better.

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Speaker 3: They have not looked like themselves. But I think the

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Speaker 3: Because you mentioned Trevor Reeze is not there. This Blazers defense,

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Speaker 3: I mentioned Anthony Davis, same thing, Zack Collins, Nurkic Whiteside.

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Speaker 3: He did a number on the Blazers two years ago

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Speaker 3: and I think they'll be ready to play, and that

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I saw the old Schumann stat for you here

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Speaker 1: early in the podcast. You're talking about the Lakers offense struggling,

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Speaker 1: which it has. They can't hit shots. But Anthony Davis

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Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like it. He He also, you know,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you got to pick your poison there

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Speaker 4: But if he gets hot, then I don't know how

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Speaker 4: He started off his bubble on fire, but then as

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Speaker 4: you could just tell they just didn't have that same juice.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I expect that.

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Speaker 4: He will be a big, big point of what the

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Speaker 4: how the Blazers even slow him down, let alone hope

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's the one thing then you're watching it? Is

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Speaker 1: it that ad Nerk matchup or something else?

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Speaker 4: Well, first off, I will say, Nurk, what an incredible

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Speaker 3: But like most of the.

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Speaker 4: and if he's even going to guard, Dave's going to

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Speaker 4: match up. The Blazers technically have three in nurk each,

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Speaker 5: And they're all play on Whiteside and Nurkic together against

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the thing about Whiteside, he's a big body,

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Speaker 1: Colin has been horrible, Yeah, has been brutal.

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Speaker 4: You think if he's out there trying to guard Dwight,

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Speaker 4: Howard hit Dwight, I mean, just destroy me. May be

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Speaker 4: that means Nurkic basically is going to have to do

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Speaker 4: So if he can stay on the floor though, and

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Speaker 4: make the Lakers work defensively, it just gives the Blazers

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Speaker 4: you know, defensively they're gonna struggle. So I hope Nork

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Speaker 1: Hot at it. And I don't think anyone's played harder, No, honestly,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's I was like, oh, they're all playing hard,

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Speaker 1: you idiot, But like he feels like more than anyone

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Speaker 1: hitting the floor obviously giving it is all. He's exhausted

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Speaker 1: half the time you see him, and near the end

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Speaker 1: of games, of course, playing heavy minutes, like you said,

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Speaker 1: having asked to do so much, both offensively and defensively.

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Speaker 1: Sort of though it's not a bunch there that they're doing.

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Speaker 1: Not much of a fight they're putting up on that end. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he is, he's really impressed, Like he just busted his ass.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you had him on your own bubble team

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Speaker 1: looking back at it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he does have to work his ass off defensively

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Speaker 3: because of the way guys get blown by on the perimeter, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he is. He's got to cover a lot of area.

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Speaker 3: And I think the the thing about the Lakers is

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Speaker 3: they're a huge team.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: Javail and Dwight Howard have something to play for here.

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Speaker 3: They have a role they got to go stop Nirkish,

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Speaker 3: They got to keep him off the boards. And every

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Speaker 3: game you saw we watched the Blazers, Nirkers was on

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Speaker 1: Let's just get into that. Is like, like you were

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Speaker 1: But can he just keep playing? I mean, guy's gotta

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Speaker 1: Lebron James might actually start playing like Lebron of old.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean CJ was incredible yesterday, liked the game seven

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Speaker 1: At least four games, minimum of four games.

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Speaker 4: But that's the thing with the Blazers, I mean, there's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Trey, what's your key to this series?

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Speaker 5: We haven't talked much about Lebron James, and I think

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Speaker 5: it's kind of we're just expecting him to go out

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Speaker 5: does seem like Mellow's going to be guarding him. Who

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Speaker 5: crazy thing the Blazers. They don't make the playoffs without Mellow.

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Speaker 5: He's been really good for him in the bub sixteen

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Speaker 5: guarding Lebron and it didn't work in twenty twelve. That

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Speaker 5: I think was wearing number eighty five. Mellow did have

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Speaker 5: a great Game four, but he shot like twenty two

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Speaker 5: We're just hoping to see if he can get back

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Speaker 5: I would think defensively as well. You know, the guards

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Speaker 1: Maybe we're getting the throwback Mellow. It'd be awesome get

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Speaker 5: Mellow has never been a lockdown guy, and now you're

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Speaker 1: Was Mike was Mike?

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Speaker 4: Maybe the double oh on the Knicks, then it is

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Speaker 4: double l I don't remember him at all on the Knicks,

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Speaker 4: Like I mean, I know that, Yeah, he bounced around

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Speaker 1: But okay, that's enough, Mike Bibby, enough you caught your mic.

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Speaker 1: If you keep going on, yeah, anything to add here does.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'll just jump in. I agree. Or I do

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Speaker 3: wonder about Lebron coming into the bubble here and just

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Speaker 3: the fact that they were just sort of all kind

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Speaker 3: know it's a weird thing to say, but I think

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Speaker 3: that's he's perfect now because he's not, Okay, Cee Mellow,

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Speaker 3: He's not Rockets Mellow. He's there ready to fire at

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Speaker 1: Come on, yeah, but and hey, the Lakers they can't

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Speaker 1: So let's get to our predictions then, task get as started.

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Speaker 1: You go in. Is this a sweep to you because

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if I really buy into them

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Speaker 3: j McCollum, but they did have months off coming into

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Speaker 3: It wouldn't be surprising if they took two, but I'll

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Speaker 3: go Lakers just because they're just so much better in

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Speaker 1: Okay, Trey, Yeah, I'm with Tass.

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Speaker 5: win the game after we've seen them win a bunch

429
00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:09,720
Speaker 5: of clutch games just to make it into the playoffs.

430
00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:12,400
Speaker 5: And Lillard obviously has been playing incredibly well. You think

431
00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,760
Speaker 5: he'll probably get hot, maybe put up another fifty spot

432
00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:17,320
Speaker 5: at some point. But I'm gonna go Lakers in five.

433
00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:19,720
Speaker 5: I think Lebron and eighty will both shoot over eighty

434
00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:23,640
Speaker 5: percent of this series. Feel like you guys are talking

435
00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,960
Speaker 5: about maybe the Lakers get cold from three, I'm wondering

436
00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:29,240
Speaker 5: if they're even gonna take threes? Yeah, right right, like

437
00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:31,560
Speaker 5: they they could play. It could be like a football

438
00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,840
Speaker 5: game where a team just rushes five hundred times and

439
00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:36,520
Speaker 5: throws six passes. They're just gonna dunk every single time,

440
00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:38,320
Speaker 5: and if they if they happen to miss a shot

441
00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:40,840
Speaker 5: from fifteen feet, they'll probably get the rebound again.

442
00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:44,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so two Lakers and five lee where you lean,

443
00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:46,280
Speaker 1: and you're like all the sweeps there in the Eastern Conference,

444
00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:47,119
Speaker 1: He's sticking with it here.

445
00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:49,680
Speaker 4: There's no way I'm gonna predict the sweep against name,

446
00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:53,320
Speaker 4: even though it's probably the highest possibility of happening right now.

447
00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:56,000
Speaker 4: But I think Lila just carries them to at least

448
00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:58,840
Speaker 4: one victory. So yeah, Lakers in five.

449
00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,440
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I can't change my tune now. For weeks

450
00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:04,439
Speaker 1: I've been saying, no matter who the Lakers play in

451
00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,359
Speaker 1: the first round, they're gonna drop two. It's gonna be

452
00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:07,919
Speaker 1: a fight. It's gonna be a bit of a battle,

453
00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,320
Speaker 1: especially for a one eight matchup, which usually is like,

454
00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,480
Speaker 1: all right, sweep or five. Like you guys are saying,

455
00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:16,600
Speaker 1: Lakers and six. Though I think they somehow pull it off,

456
00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:18,280
Speaker 1: it will be a mixture of maybe the Lakers still

457
00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:21,520
Speaker 1: looking a little rough, Maybe Lebron's still not up to speed,

458
00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:23,879
Speaker 1: maybe he is affected by no fans. For all we know,

459
00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:26,560
Speaker 1: it's very weird, but maybe there is some truth to that.

460
00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:28,840
Speaker 1: And then yeah, I'm not come on, Damian Lillard and

461
00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,440
Speaker 1: c J McCollum and both guys going for thirty plus

462
00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:35,240
Speaker 1: on any given night, I think wins them two. I

463
00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:37,399
Speaker 1: really hope they win one of the first two games,

464
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Speaker 1: like I'd like, yeah, even the first game would be

465
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Speaker 1: awesome because it would be like, oh, now this is

466
00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:43,760
Speaker 1: this is spicy. This could be interesting because then you

467
00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:45,680
Speaker 1: gotta really wake up the Lakers and they really got

468
00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,400
Speaker 1: to play. So all right, I got Lakers and six.

469
00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:51,879
Speaker 1: Everybody else has Lakers in five. Our next matchup the

470
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Speaker 1: number two seed Clippers versus the number seven seed Mavericks.

471
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Speaker 1: This one goes on Monday. This is the Lake Game

472
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Speaker 1: August seventeenth, nine pm Eastern on ESPN. Clippers took the

473
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Speaker 1: season series three h pretty dominant. Let's get right into

474
00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:05,680
Speaker 1: this one, though, tasks what's key to.

475
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Speaker 3: This Well, Luka Dacic in his first playoffs going up

476
00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:14,120
Speaker 3: against those defenders from LA. It's no, there's no really

477
00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:19,560
Speaker 3: way to stop Luka Dacic, but Beverly Kawhi Paul George

478
00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:22,480
Speaker 3: should be able to slow him down. And I wonder

479
00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:24,720
Speaker 3: how Lucas gonna be able to play in fourth quarters

480
00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:27,119
Speaker 3: because yeah, he's sort of James Harden, like you know,

481
00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:29,160
Speaker 3: going back a few years that in that he has

482
00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,639
Speaker 3: to do so much for his team, possession after possession

483
00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,360
Speaker 3: after possession, and they kind of slowed him in those

484
00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:37,800
Speaker 3: three games. But then I think, you know, this offense

485
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:41,040
Speaker 3: is too good. The other guys will find shots, whether

486
00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:43,199
Speaker 3: it's Porzingis or other guys on this Dallas team. But

487
00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:46,120
Speaker 3: then you look at the way Luca has been struggling

488
00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:48,320
Speaker 3: in clutch situations, and I don't even want to believe

489
00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:52,440
Speaker 3: these stats. I mean, they're just so bad under five

490
00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:54,239
Speaker 3: minutes when the game is really close. I'm not even

491
00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,760
Speaker 3: gonna mention them because they're I think they are these

492
00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,680
Speaker 3: stats that I don't know. I just I just don't

493
00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:01,159
Speaker 3: buy a lot into them. I don't think you can

494
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,199
Speaker 3: take a lot from them. But the part of that

495
00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,399
Speaker 3: I do believe is that he does too much for

496
00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,240
Speaker 3: this team and he needs another ball handler to take

497
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,960
Speaker 3: on some more role. And especially with those guys I mentioned,

498
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 3: I think we're gonna see as the series goes on,

499
00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 3: especially in every fourth quarter, the shots will be short

500
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,960
Speaker 3: from Luca and he'll be passing off and he always

501
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,080
Speaker 3: makes the right pass. But I just don't see the

502
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,760
Speaker 3: end of games going well in close game situations, and

503
00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,920
Speaker 3: I expect games to be close because the Mavericks offense

504
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:35,439
Speaker 3: is that good. But when it's winning time and Patrick

505
00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,000
Speaker 3: Beverley wants to be super annoying and Kawhi is going

506
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:39,680
Speaker 3: to be Kawhi and Paul George is gonna be Paul

507
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:41,880
Speaker 3: George on the defensive end, it's going to be hard

508
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,639
Speaker 3: for Luca to get shots off, to have any space

509
00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:47,359
Speaker 3: out there when they really really want to play d

510
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,119
Speaker 3: for the last five minutes of the game. So I'm

511
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,960
Speaker 3: gonna be watching Luca real closely in those last few

512
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,800
Speaker 3: minutes and hope those clutch numbers which are like fifteen

513
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:58,720
Speaker 3: percent from the floor, what fifteen percent from three and

514
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:01,399
Speaker 3: it's like twenty five percent from the floor, I should

515
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:02,200
Speaker 3: say not good.

516
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:06,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, he needs a because you're saying right, he needs

517
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,160
Speaker 1: a second bowler. He needs a guy to like break

518
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 1: some ankles like CJ could, But maybe it's Porzingis Tray

519
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 1: Why not KP. He's not breaking ankles, but could you

520
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:14,680
Speaker 1: go to him. He's been really damn good. He's scored

521
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 1: thirty points per game.

522
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,960
Speaker 5: Down there, thirty and ten in the bubble. That's great.

523
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 5: They need it every single night from Porzingis. If Dallas

524
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 5: is gonna get any wins off the Clippers because the

525
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 5: advantages of the Clippers have are massive, and they're basically

526
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,440
Speaker 5: everywhere right. They've got more depth, they've got more high

527
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:30,720
Speaker 5: end talent, they've got more talent on the wing, they've

528
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:34,200
Speaker 5: got better guards. Everywhere you look. It's all Clippers except

529
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:38,200
Speaker 5: for down low. Maybe Kristaps Porzingis can swing a game

530
00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,439
Speaker 5: by being a real big guy. You know, Zubats has

531
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 5: been pretty good for the Clippers in the bubble. But

532
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:44,639
Speaker 5: if Porzingis can keep him off the glass and then

533
00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,400
Speaker 5: use his quickness advantage on the offensive end, that's good

534
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:51,240
Speaker 5: for Dallas. Montrez Harral hasn't played yet. Porzingis is gonna

535
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 5: have size over a Jamichael Green who might guard him.

536
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:55,399
Speaker 5: Maybe a Morris who guards him. You could just shoot

537
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 5: right over him. And the great thing is with Porzingis,

538
00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:00,480
Speaker 5: he's not a great post player, but the Slippers on't

539
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 5: a team that's going to force you to want to

540
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 5: go to Porzingis in the post. I don't think I

541
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 5: think he'll be able to play his game and still

542
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 5: be successful doing it. There's not a lot of creators

543
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,639
Speaker 5: on Dallas's team, so you need to be able to

544
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:13,680
Speaker 5: go to Porzingis and give him the ball with ten

545
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,440
Speaker 5: seconds left on the shot clock, and even if it's

546
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 5: just the fade away over somebody from fifteen feet, he

547
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:19,479
Speaker 5: should be able to shoot over him. He's been playing

548
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 5: super well as of late. We just need to see

549
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 5: Porzingis continue to be reliable for Dallas' offense to carry

550
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,120
Speaker 5: to them to any sort of wins they might get here.

551
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 5: And I'm a little confident in it. I think he's

552
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 5: been really really good and reliable thus far. So we'll

553
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,439
Speaker 5: see if it keeps up. We'll see if what the

554
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 5: Clippers try against him, because you know, he's super tall

555
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 5: and that's going to be a huge advantage for Dallas,

556
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,639
Speaker 5: especially since you imagine Maxi Kleeboget a little bit of

557
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 5: time as well, So Porzingis probably slides up to the

558
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 5: five quite a bit.

559
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 1: We'll see.

560
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,880
Speaker 5: We'll see if Boban gets on the court. But I'm

561
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 5: not very confident in Dallas. But you know, Porzingis has

562
00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:59,040
Speaker 5: been right there with Doncic looking like a number two

563
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:02,080
Speaker 5: star in Orland, and that's something that wasn't always the

564
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:04,920
Speaker 5: case during the season. So I do feel a little

565
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,399
Speaker 5: a little bit better about Dallas than I would have

566
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 5: in March.

567
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder if they should just like, hey, porzingis,

568
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: you should shoot fifteen threes a game, and like, I mean,

569
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:16,359
Speaker 1: their offense is not the problem, that's true. I mean

570
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 1: they got to try and get some stops, but there's

571
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,239
Speaker 1: not really anyone on the on the Clippers, despite being

572
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,640
Speaker 1: a great obviously defensive unit that's going to stop him.

573
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 1: Like he could bomb away if he wants, and maybe

574
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:30,639
Speaker 1: that's the best bet. I don't know, it's Rick Carlile

575
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 1: will try something like that. I feel like it's like, yeah,

576
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 1: shoot fifteen twenty threes, Like you hit eight of them.

577
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 1: Were you know, we're happy. Lee went seven.

578
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,160
Speaker 5: Attempts per game in the Bubble and thirty eight percent.

579
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,360
Speaker 5: That's pretty good. Jackie sure, yeah, got.

580
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 3: Into He got into the paint against the Clippers in

581
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 3: their Bubble game. He realized, I'm the biggest dude on

582
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 3: the floor, like I Am going to go to the paint,

583
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 3: and he had eight shots in the paint, and whether

584
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 3: you know their post ops or not, he drove. He

585
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 3: just realized, all right, I mean there's space out there

586
00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 3: with the way they play, and he had thirty points

587
00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 3: that game. He just like the Lakers going up against

588
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:07,159
Speaker 3: the Clippers. They have that advantage, you know, the MAVs

589
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 3: have a size advantage for that one position. He's he's

590
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:10,879
Speaker 3: got to hammer it.

591
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, But like you said, like this is Lucas first

592
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: playoff experience, it's also Porzingis's first playoff experience. I don't

593
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: know if it'll matter at all, but sometimes the buttholes

594
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,679
Speaker 1: get tight with some of these guys when the games

595
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: actually truly really matter. Here, sticks are sticks are high.

596
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 1: But Lee, what are you watching in this.

597
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 4: Well, you're just one more thing with Porzingis. Against the

598
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 4: Clippers this season, he only shot thirty five percent, so

599
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 4: he and Doncic both struggled. And that's why I think

600
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 4: it's down to those other players on the Mavericks offensively

601
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 4: during Phinney Smith, Tim Hardaway, Junior, Maxi Kleeber And remember

602
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 4: Trey Burke hit eight threes in the first game with

603
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 4: the Bubble. Well he get eight for the remaining games

604
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:47,879
Speaker 4: of the Bubble as well, So I'm not sure if

605
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:49,439
Speaker 4: you're going to get too much out of him. But

606
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 4: the point is that if Dallas is going to win

607
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,399
Speaker 4: any games in this series at all, they just have

608
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:56,400
Speaker 4: to outrun the Clippers and make it a track meet

609
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 4: and score one hundred and fifty points. So everyone just

610
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,159
Speaker 4: needs to score, and they're going to get chances because

611
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 4: you know that the defense on Luca is going to

612
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 4: be pretty tight, So I think the Clippers are going

613
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 4: to say, let these guys beat us. So if they

614
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 4: are knocking in shots and the Maps are at least

615
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 4: keeping up with the Clippers, then they have a chance.

616
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 4: But if those guys go cold, and we know they

617
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 4: can all go as cold as they can go hot,

618
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,679
Speaker 4: then it really just makes it tough. Because Don Chic

619
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 4: struggled against the Clippers this season. You know, Porzingers have

620
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,880
Speaker 4: already mentioned he's got an opportunity there, but you feel

621
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 4: that the Clippers would be like, we can we can

622
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,919
Speaker 4: guard these two guys and let those other guys go.

623
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 4: So it's a little bit like the Houston Rockets. Basically,

624
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,439
Speaker 4: it's like, if you can get these other guys hitting shots,

625
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 4: then it changes a little bit the outlook of this game.

626
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 4: But if Don Chic is struggling and then those other

627
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 4: guys aren't able to hit shots, it's really tough to

628
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 4: see how Dallas is going to be able to keep

629
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 4: up with the Clippers. So you know, they're all capable guys,

630
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 4: and they're all going to get minutes, and Rick Carlos

631
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 4: is just going to throw them all out there. He

632
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,440
Speaker 4: doesn't go super deep in the playoffs either. But and

633
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 4: their offense is just, you know, get out, run and

634
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 4: shoot if you're open. So if they can knock them down,

635
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 4: then it's okay for the maps. But if they can't,

636
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 4: then they're in real trouble in this series.

637
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 1: Are you predicting Tim Hardaway junior fifty point game in

638
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:04,879
Speaker 1: the playoffs? Why not? Why not?

639
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 4: You know, it's it's possible. But like, I'm sure he's

640
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 4: you know what, I'll predict a thirty point half?

641
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 1: How about that? Oh yeah, he's good for that. He

642
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 1: always does that. He's like, it never comes through on

643
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Speaker 1: the fifty for me.

644
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,439
Speaker 4: But exactly, you might be the second half might be

645
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 4: the first half. But the fact is those guys are

646
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 4: gonna get shots, they're gonna get opportunities. They have to

647
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 4: knock them down. That's really the only way I see

648
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,120
Speaker 4: the Mavericks keeping his thing close at all.

649
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:29,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, you need a couple of random podium games from

650
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 1: the strange guys on the MAVs. Like you're saying to

651
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: maybe make this a series. I hear you on that. Look,

652
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 1: I think the Clippers are going to ultimately win this series.

653
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: It might be entertaining and it might go a little

654
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 1: longer than some expect. But I'm just zeroing in on

655
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: like the full clips here because this team, they've only

656
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 1: had their entire roster intact. I think it's like seven

657
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: games all season long. This is prior to the bubble,

658
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 1: of course, because then down there, you know, Lou Williams

659
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: wasn't there, Montres Harrell missed a lot of time tending

660
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: to personal matters, Patrick Beverly in and out of the lineup,

661
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: the MAVs, you know, they should just be like a

662
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: little appetizer for the full clips. I think here maybe

663
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: even the hot towel before the meal before they try

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Speaker 1: to make this like deep playoff run. So that's just

665
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: something to watch, Like, And what I mean by that

666
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: is like, well, who's playing, who's playing in clutch minutes,

667
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 1: crunch time? Where does doc go? I mean it depends,

668
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: of course on the matchups. So from series a series,

669
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: I get that, but like that is interesting to me,

670
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: Like if this Clippers team is a legit title contender,

671
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people still believe it.

672
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: You know, they should. They should handle the MAVs here,

673
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: and it's just something to keep an eye on all

674
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: these guys, like who's in playing with who and where

675
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: are they going? So I will say before we get

676
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 1: to the predictions the athletics. Jovon Buha, he wrote, and

677
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: we're talking about this with the Blazers, were they a

678
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 1: typical eight seed? He wrote? Are the Mavlicks really a

679
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 1: typical seventh seed? Right? Because they have an MVP candidate

680
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: in Luca, They got an all Star level big in Porzingis.

681
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: Their coach is a championship coach, you know, an elite tectician,

682
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: as Jovann says in Rick Carlisle, best offensive all time,

683
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: all time, and they have the third best net rating

684
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: in the West behind the Clippers and Lakers. This is

685
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: the seventh seed. Let's you know, a pretty damn good

686
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 1: little checklist there for a seventh seed. So I don't know,

687
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: does that make a series for you? Tasks? Can the

688
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 1: MAVs go upset? Can they make this go seven? What's

689
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: your prediction?

690
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 3: Definitely the best offense in the NBA today, but I

691
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 3: think it gets slowed down a little bit playing the

692
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 3: Clippers full clipper, you know, when they want to go

693
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 3: at it. When Patrick Beverley is definitely going to get

694
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 3: five fouls per game but save that six because he

695
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 3: doesn't want to foul, they are going to be all

696
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 3: over dunk. And the reason why they're not greatest because

697
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 3: they have a drop off defensively, and I think the

698
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 3: Clippers will take advantage of that. Hey, I think it

699
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 3: should be fun. I think there should be close games

700
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 3: down the stretch, but Clippers will be good enough to

701
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 3: win in five.

702
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Speaker 1: I think Clips in five. Wow.

703
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Speaker 5: Okay, Trey, I'm the same. I'm looking forward to the series.

704
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 5: I think it's going to be a really fun watch.

705
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 5: But when your Kawhi stopper is Maxi Kleeba, it's not

706
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 5: going to go well. Me the Clippers in five.

707
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Speaker 4: I don't think it even goes that far. I think

708
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 4: the Clippers just got too much at both ends. I

709
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 4: think they sweep them. I do, yeah, I just I

710
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 4: mean the Dallas defense is awful offensively, Like I said,

711
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 4: they've got some They've got some guys who can fill

712
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 4: it up. But I think the Clippers are well equipped

713
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 4: to defend them. So I think I think if this

714
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Speaker 4: was an actual series where you go on to Dallas

715
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Speaker 4: and you're going to Los Angeles. I'd probably picked the

716
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Speaker 4: Maps to win at least one, maybe two. But down there,

717
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Speaker 4: I just think the Clippers are going to be too good.

718
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, who's going to stop Kawhi on the

719
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Speaker 4: on the Maps?

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Speaker 3: I can't.

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Speaker 4: I can't figure it. And I think Patrick beverly Is

722
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 4: is back too, so that's another you know, bulldog who's

723
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Speaker 4: going to come out and go at Donchic and just

724
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Speaker 4: make it so hard for the MAVs. So Clippers in

725
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 4: a sweep.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, Okay, I'm going Clippers at six. I got

727
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 1: a little more faith in an MVP guy in Luca

728
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 1: to figure out a win or two, and I'm and

729
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: I'm high. Like you said, Trey Onis being the one

730
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: real problem, like maybe four, the Clippers just try and

731
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Speaker 1: figure out. And again, I think Carlisle would try anything

732
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Speaker 1: if that includes just let's go to KP every single

733
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Speaker 1: damn time. Sure, why not? And he's been good, this

734
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Speaker 1: is good. Poor Zingis is bumballing, so I think him

735
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: maybe with like you said, a weird random mav guy

736
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: catching fire, getting open looks, hitting a bunch of threes,

737
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: that gets some w Luca gets someone that's two, and

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Speaker 1: that's it. But I hope I like to test that.

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Speaker 1: I hope it's a I hope it's a competitive series,

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Speaker 1: even if you think it's a sweep or five, like

741
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 1: close games down the stretch. Can Luca hit some shots

742
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: in crunch time? You know Kawhi and Paul George are

743
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: gonna be matched up on them, so that'd be a

744
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: fun watch. So hopefully we get that. At the very least.

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Speaker 1: I got clippers in six. Lee's got the sweep clips.

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Speaker 1: The other two guys clippers in five. All right, two

747
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Speaker 1: Nuggets versus the Utah Jazz. George carl Is pumped. Game

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Speaker 1: one Monday, August seventeenth, one thirty pm Eastern. He's not

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00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 1: pumped about that. He wishes is on a little bit later.

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00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: This one's on ESPN. Nuggets took the season series three

782
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: to zero, but all three of those games were very

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00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,760
Speaker 1: very close, including that double overtime victory down in the Bubble.

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00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: In fact, I think Denver took the three games by

785
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: combined eleven points, so very very tight. No boy on

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00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: Bogdanovitch for the Jazz, we know that. And the Nuggets,

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00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe you guys know still without Gary

788
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 1: Harris and Will Barton, I mean tbd. I guess on

789
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,760
Speaker 1: those two, whether they're gonna actually be playing in this series,

790
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,879
Speaker 1: I'm not really quite sure, but task get us started here.

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Speaker 1: Key to the Nuggets Jazz three to six series.

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Speaker 3: I wonder if the Jazz can score enough against this

793
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Speaker 3: Nuggets offense. And this is another series I'm looking forward

794
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:31,720
Speaker 3: to because I like watching Denver's offense work. It's pretty

795
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 3: watching Michael Porter's smooth game and Nikola Jokic and Jamal

796
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,319
Speaker 3: Murray and up and down the roster, I think they're

797
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 3: gonna score enough, but they'll probably let the Jazz into

798
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 3: games because they haven't been all that spicy enough on

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Speaker 3: the defensive end. But Paul Millsapp will definitely play and

800
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 3: start along those three, and then the fifth starter, I

801
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 3: don't know if it's Tory Craig or Gary Harris if

802
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 3: he comes back. There's a balance of offense and defense there,

803
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 3: but they'll probably let the Jazz score some. But this

804
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 3: isn't even like a scientific or a numerical observation, but

805
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,279
Speaker 3: just watching the Utah Jazz play. They're obviously going to

806
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 3: get lots from Donovan Mitchell. But I just because boy

807
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 3: Aguig Danovic isn't there, I just don't have faith in

808
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 3: Rudy Gobert and Joe Ingles and Mike Conley chippin in

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00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 3: eighteen each time you might get a wild Jordan Clarkson

810
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 3: game with thirty off the bench, But those three guys

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Speaker 3: I mentioned, plus Royce O'Neil and Donovan Mitchell are their starters,

812
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,320
Speaker 3: and I don't think they can keep up Donovan Mitchell

813
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 3: has been good in clutch time situations when it's it's

814
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 3: give him the ball, make it happen, real good stats,

815
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 3: but his teammates are two for nineteen in clutch situations.

816
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 3: And so yeah, there might be close games because the Nuggets,

817
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 3: so their defense has not been incredible. There should be

818
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 3: some close games down the stretch. But I have a

819
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 3: lot more faith in Jokic in his driveway Dad game

820
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 3: or Michael Porter Junior to finish them off. And so

821
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 3: I'm just I just don't like watching that Jazz offense.

822
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 3: It's just not not great without bogdanovichin and a guy

823
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 3: like Joe Ingles is probably their barometer if he's if

824
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 3: he's really good U, then they'll be good. But he

825
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 3: just hasn't found his flow. And I'm I keep holding

826
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,280
Speaker 3: out faith for Mike Conley for some reason, but he hasn't.

827
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 3: He just hasn't been Memphis Mike Conley, And so yeah,

828
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,399
Speaker 3: I just wonder if they can keep up with this

829
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 3: beauty Denver Nuggets offense.

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Speaker 1: No one's stock it feels like, has dropped more than

831
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 1: the Utah Jazz over the course of this season for

832
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: a number of reasons I get, but wow, it feels

833
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 1: like we were so high on Utah. I'm saying we

834
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: as like maybe us A on the media, and like

835
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: now it just feels like people are so down on them.

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00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: People are like, ugh, I don't know Jazz, Like I

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00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: guess we'll throw them on at one point thirty on

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00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 1: ESPN's just like that seems a little strange to me,

839
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Speaker 1: because yeah, outside of losing Bogdanovich, not much has change me.

840
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 1: You still got Mitchell. We saw what he can do,

841
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:54,800
Speaker 1: still take over games at the end in that one

842
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: double overtime loss, even here to Denver and then go

843
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: bear manning the middle. It's just weird to me. I do.

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Speaker 1: What I love this series is that it feels like

845
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: both teams wanted each other, you know, Lee, Like they

846
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 1: were like jockeying to be like, oh no no. Denver's like, yeah,

847
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 1: we won't to play Utah that great anymore, and Youta

848
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 1: was like, no, no, no, we want to drop so we

849
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Speaker 1: can play Denver. We don't want nothing to do with Houston,

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00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: so like we think we can beat them. So I

851
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 1: like that. I think both teams are coming into this

852
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 1: fight going oh yeah, yeah this is who we want.

853
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 1: We can beat these guys from maybe an interesting series,

854
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 1: But Lee, why don't you go to your next point here, like,

855
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: what's the key to the series for you?

856
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 4: Well, Michael Porter Junior has been a revelation down there

857
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 4: in the in the Bowl certainly started off, you know,

858
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:33,839
Speaker 4: super hot. He called off the last couple of games,

859
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 4: but then again the Nuggets kind of rested some of

860
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 4: their star players and now he comes into this series

861
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 4: and I think he is really just an incredibly tough matchup.

862
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:43,799
Speaker 4: Defensively for the Jazz. I'm not sure who they put on,

863
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 4: probably Royce O'Neil, maybe Joe Ingles, you know, I'm not

864
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 4: sure who else it would be. And on the defensive end,

865
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:51,720
Speaker 4: maybe they can use their speed to get around Michael

866
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 4: Porter Junior make him work. But he's just been so

867
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 4: good for Denver, adding that extra offensive weapon to them

868
00:38:57,960 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 4: that it just you know, he can shoot the three,

869
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 4: he can go inside and once he gets into the paint,

870
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 4: he rises up. You can virtually unstoppable that shot. So

871
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 4: he's been so so good for Denver. And you know

872
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 4: what you're saying there about how these teams want each other,

873
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,880
Speaker 4: you can see why because Denver at times, Denver at

874
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 4: times are just like, what the hell is going on?

875
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 4: And then other times you think, man, these they could

876
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 4: easily take the Clippers or the Lakers in a series

877
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 4: if they are playing out their best. So but the

878
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 4: Jazz defensively, and a lot of it I think is

879
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 4: with Gobert. He's been bad this year defensively, I think,

880
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:30,439
Speaker 4: and and that's that's what they that's the stable by

881
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 4: his standards for sure, he standards for top teams. Yeah,

882
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:36,879
Speaker 4: I know, but teams teams are trying to exploit him,

883
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 4: and it's working a little bit. It did this year anyway.

884
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 4: But anyway, I think I think Michael Porter Junr. Is

885
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 4: just such a handful for for the Jazz to stop him.

886
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:46,799
Speaker 4: And if he gets going, if he gets up to

887
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 4: those thirty point games again, I really see the Nuggets

888
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 4: winning this series pretty comforbly. But I also don't think

889
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 4: he's going to do it. Like I don't think it's

890
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 4: going to be a sweep. I think I think, you know,

891
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 4: Porter Junior is going to be good, but I don't

892
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,439
Speaker 4: think he can just do it game after game the game.

893
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 4: I think this is going to be a tougher series

894
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 4: in that sense. But he's just come along and you

895
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 4: could see why, you know, people were so high on

896
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 4: him before he got drafted, why he dropped because of

897
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 4: the injury, and they you can see you think he's

898
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,879
Speaker 4: got the talent. When he's healthy, he's just a huge

899
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 4: difference maker.

900
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the thing with both these teams. They feel

901
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: like there's such a roller coaster ride. It's like from

902
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,319
Speaker 1: one game you're like, Wow, yeah, this team is damn good.

903
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:23,760
Speaker 1: They're clicking here, look at they got all the pieces,

904
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,919
Speaker 1: they got a decent defense, and then the next game

905
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: you're like, ugh, yeah, I wouldn't be taking them, Like

906
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 1: both teams Nuggets in Jazz. I feel that way every

907
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: time I watch him. I hate betting on these two teams.

908
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 1: I do not want to make a prediction on this

909
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 1: series because I can't stand these teams when it comes

910
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:37,399
Speaker 1: to that, because you really don't know what you're gonna

911
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 1: get from night tonight. But Trey, what do you have

912
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: as a key to the series.

913
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 5: The reason the jazz Is stock dropped so much during

914
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,840
Speaker 5: the layoff is because they lost Bogdanovitch, because he honestly

915
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 5: addresses both of these problems that Tass and Lee are

916
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 5: bringing up. He's a great scorer, he's a really good shooter.

917
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,399
Speaker 5: It really helps on offense, and he's a good enough

918
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 5: defender with some serious size to stick Michael Porter Junior.

919
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,240
Speaker 5: Not to mention, Bogdanovic has playoff reps like he's guarded

920
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 5: Lebron James and the playoffs. I'm sure he would relish

921
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:03,319
Speaker 5: the challenge of a guy of a rookie who's had

922
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 5: two straight weeks, two great weeks. That's why a key

923
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 5: to me is Royce O'Neil. You guys have mentioned him

924
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 5: a couple of times as maybe he's gonna step in

925
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,280
Speaker 5: and try and guard Michael Porter Junior. I would imagine

926
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,240
Speaker 5: he's their first choice since he seems to be their stopper.

927
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:19,240
Speaker 5: But size wise, he's a lot smaller than Michael Porter Junior.

928
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 5: I think if Royce O'Neil is being like six seven,

929
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 5: six eight, he's only listed at six four, and we

930
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 5: know Michael Porter Junior is six'. Ten we saw him

931
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 5: knocking down threes from the, corner just shooting over. Guys

932
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,320
Speaker 5: you would think that's gonna be an avenue that he

933
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,359
Speaker 5: could get some points as. Well maybe they Try Joe,

934
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:35,800
Speaker 5: ingles BUT i don't know if that's gonna necessarily Hinder

935
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 5: Michael Porter, junior and then on the offensive. END i,

936
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 5: mean who, knows, Right Like Michael Porter, junior we don't

937
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 5: know what he's going to be like in the.

938
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 1: Playoffs i'm expecting him to be.

939
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 5: Good he's had a hot streak right, now but things are,

940
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 5: different and it's a lot different when you're playing the

941
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 5: same team every single. Time But royce O'Neil also has

942
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 5: to score. Offensively he can't just be a defensive guy out.

943
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 5: There he can't just be.

944
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 1: There Tory.

945
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:56,800
Speaker 5: Craig he was about ten points per game in the,

946
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 5: bubble which was an. Improvement they need, that and they

947
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 5: need him to make every three point shot that kids

948
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 5: kicked out to him because there just aren't a lot

949
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,319
Speaker 5: of wing options for The jazz With bogdanovich on the.

950
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 1: Bench, yeah my key to the series is Always kitchener's

951
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: Finest Jamal, murray especially The nuggets in any playoff. Series

952
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: he's such he's so important to them winning games series

953
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: going on a deep. Run if you remember last, year

954
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 1: that was the case in the. Playoffs When Jamal murray played,

955
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: well shot the, ball, efficiently, scored The nuggets generally. Won

956
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: when he, didn't they. Lost it was sort of that.

957
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: Simple so he played in fourteen playoff. Games denver won

958
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: seven and lost, seven and the seven wins he scored

959
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 1: twenty four points per. Game in the seven, losses usually

960
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 1: on bad, efficiency he only scored eighteen points per. Game

961
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 1: it's a bit of a window. There so he's. Interesting

962
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: he from game to, game he's he can be frustrating

963
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 1: because he's tough at trying to string them. Together but

964
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 1: when he's going now With Michael Porter junior and then

965
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 1: of Course yokich having his way at times With, GO i,

966
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: mean let's be, honest, too we haven't really gotten into.

967
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: That that's a tough matchup for, anybody and Even gobert

968
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: has struggles with him when you could just thrown around

969
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: his weight, there even slimyal Kitch jamal to me is

970
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 1: just can he play solid in four? Games and if he,

971
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: DOES i Like denver's chances to have enough offensive firepower

972
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 1: to beat The. Jazz but let's get to predictions tasks

973
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 1: where you leaning.

974
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 3: Who i'm not a fan of watching This jazz offense,

975
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 3: play BUT i have dreams of Or ingles stepping out

976
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 3: with that funny looking flat hand shot and bearing some

977
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 3: threes And Mike conley's being his old, self but you

978
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 3: know that hasn't. Happened you lose your number two scorer And,

979
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:44,839
Speaker 3: bogdanovic those guys are gonna have to have a huge,

980
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 3: turnaround like you, know A Michael porter junior coming out

981
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:49,400
Speaker 3: of nowhere these last two. Weeks Joe ingle's gonna have

982
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 3: to come out of, Nowhere Mike conley's gonna have to

983
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 3: come out of nowhere for them to be. Great SO

984
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 3: i think The nuggets should take care of, business but

985
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:56,800
Speaker 3: their defense isn't good good enough for a.

986
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,879
Speaker 2: Sweep nuggets in, Five nuggets in, five all, Right, LEE

987
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 2: i think both teams are going to fall asleep for

988
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 2: a couple of games in this series and sort of

989
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 2: look like they could take.

990
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 4: It but ULTIMATELY i Think denver's got too much, offense

991
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:13,320
Speaker 4: AND i JUST i just don't trust The. Jazz they've

992
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,800
Speaker 4: been a very frustrating team all season and in the.

993
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 4: Bubble BUT i do think they're capable against The nuggets

994
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 4: of pulling off a couple of. Victories So i'll Say

995
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 4: denver and, six.

996
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: It's in six, tray where are you?

997
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 5: Going i've got a little bit of confidence in The

998
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,359
Speaker 5: jazz as a team that's been to the playoffs a few,

999
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,800
Speaker 5: times go. Beart you can get scored on by A,

1000
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 5: jokic but he's also a pretty decent offensive player so

1001
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 5: far Against denver this. Season that being, SAID i feel

1002
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:41,399
Speaker 5: Like denver is going to be up more than they're,

1003
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:44,360
Speaker 5: down whereas The jazz likely down a little bit more than.

1004
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 5: Up that's how it is in The. Mountains a couple

1005
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 5: of mountain man teams. Here give me The nuggets in.

1006
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 5: Seven you Know. Denver denver can have some stinkers. Too

1007
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 5: jokic can have, stinkers Said. Steets murray has. Stinkers, Yeah

1008
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 5: Donovan mitchell can go for twenty five and a half

1009
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 5: and then six and a. Half it's the same team

1010
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 5: that they wear different kinds of. Jerseys SO i don't

1011
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 5: see how it doesn't go seven.

1012
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: Games all? Right, WOW i Saw. Schumann he was breaking

1013
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 1: down like the efficiency and points scored by the location

1014
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 1: and type in regular season series between a lot of these,

1015
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:16,840
Speaker 1: teams and with these two, teams the contrast is crazy.

1016
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 1: Wild it's The nuggets were plus ninety five on two

1017
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 1: point shots and at the free throw, line and The

1018
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 1: jazz were plus eighty. Four from three point. Range those

1019
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 1: are wild numbers for not that many. Games so you

1020
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: can just see where The nuggets are trying to get

1021
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 1: theirs and The. JAZZ i, mean maybe it shocks a

1022
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:34,759
Speaker 1: lot of, people but in this, series at least in

1023
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 1: the games they've, played you, know just dominating them from.

1024
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:40,839
Speaker 1: Distance No Bug. Donovich that does, hurt but that's gonna

1025
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 1: be fun to. Watch i'm With, trey, THOUGH i can't

1026
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 1: trust either of these teams from night to, night which

1027
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:48,359
Speaker 1: means this thing probably goes long when both teams at

1028
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,400
Speaker 1: times maybe even have the opportunity to like end the,

1029
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 1: series you know WHAT i, mean, like uh, oh we

1030
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: could just end it here now and be over in.

1031
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,839
Speaker 1: Five uh, huh that's not gonna. HAPPEN i Like nuggets

1032
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 1: in seven as. WELL i think The jazz might actually

1033
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 1: surprise some people because some people think The nuggets might

1034
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: roll over, them AND i think we have a weird series.

1035
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: Here it just feels right to, me we gotta. Have

1036
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: this would be my FIRST i Think TREY u two

1037
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 1: our first seven game prediction in the first. Round there's

1038
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:16,720
Speaker 1: gotta be one or two out there in the, bubble

1039
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 1: right feels specially with no home court. ADVANTAGE i, mean

1040
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:21,759
Speaker 1: gotta get something wild happening down. There so all, Right

1041
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: i'm nuggets and seven With Trey task you wet nuggets and?

1042
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: Fives that, correct m And, lee you went nuggets in

1043
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 1: six Yep okay final series guys four or Five rockets

1044
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 1: Thunder rockets have home court. Advantage throw that in their.

1045
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: Quotes i'm upset by that BECAUSE i like to say

1046
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 1: Thunder rockets instead Of. Rockets Thunder Thunder rockets is always

1047
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 1: more fun to. Say but, no It's Rockets. Thunder game

1048
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 1: one Tips, Tuesday august, eighteenth that's six thirty PM, Tnt

1049
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 1: Little Dinner. Basketball OK c took the season series two to.

1050
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: One the last time they played was back In, january

1051
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:59,439
Speaker 1: which IS i believe eight years. Ago so the real

1052
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: injury with the, one the key injury is how long

1053
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:04,359
Speaker 1: Can houston last Without Russell. Westbrook he's scheduled to miss

1054
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: at least the start of the. Series is it a

1055
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: game or? Two does it actually depend if The rockets

1056
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: lose the first, game they lose the second? Game oh We,

1057
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 1: Russ you've got to get. Back who knows? Task besides

1058
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 1: The westbrook, equation, though what else is the key to

1059
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 1: the series for.

1060
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 3: You, well, yeah Because Russell westbrook is, Out guys are

1061
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:24,280
Speaker 3: gonna have to step up for The rockets that usually

1062
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 3: don't have to step. Up Eric gordon has been a

1063
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 3: pretty prominent player in their, past but this year he

1064
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 3: just hasn't Been Eric, gordon and he hasn't had to

1065
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 3: be Because Russell westbrook took on so much of the playmaking.

1066
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:39,799
Speaker 3: Responsibilities but Now westbrook out at least a game two

1067
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 3: three to start the, series whatever that. Means and so

1068
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,760
Speaker 3: a lot's gonna be putting On james harden. Shoulders obviously

1069
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 3: he's gonna have to do a. Ton what happens When

1070
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 3: James harden goes to the, Bench who the heck knows

1071
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 3: because it was All Russell westbrook when he went to the.

1072
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:54,799
Speaker 3: Bench he was setting up. Everything twenty five drives per

1073
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 3: game in the. Bubble it's third in THE. Nba And

1074
00:47:57,960 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 3: Eric gordon has not looked like, himself LIKE i, said all,

1075
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:02,479
Speaker 3: season but he's only been back after an injury for two.

1076
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 3: Games he's played thirty six games all. Year it's gonna

1077
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 3: be scary stuff for The. Rockets it's it's weird to

1078
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 3: think of The, okay see thunder coming into the season

1079
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 3: as a deep, team but in comparison to The, rockets

1080
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 3: they're real. Deep they're so so, deep And James arn's

1081
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 3: probably gonna have Lou dort the loutensil shout out To

1082
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 3: canada on, him and that's not gonna be.

1083
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 1: Easy the status with Lou, dort AND i know he

1084
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:28,800
Speaker 1: got banged up near the end of the, bubble is

1085
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:30,400
Speaker 1: he think he's? Okay is he good to?

1086
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 2: Go?

1087
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: Okay that's, huge like tass is. RIGHT i, mean he's

1088
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:36,840
Speaker 1: their hardened stopper or, slower BUT i know he. Was

1089
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 1: he had a pretty nasty little injury at the end of.

1090
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:40,799
Speaker 1: There but they're saying it's, okay that's.

1091
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 3: Good, yeah they're, gonna you, know hunt out switches For

1092
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 3: harden obviously and get doored off of. Him but all in,

1093
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 3: All harden was not good against The thunder this. Season

1094
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,280
Speaker 3: he shot thirty seven percent against the only five. Assists

1095
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:58,320
Speaker 3: thanks to our Man John, schuman let's end this podcast

1096
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:01,440
Speaker 3: with A john schumans that started With John schumannstadt the guys,

1097
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 3: everywhere and So i'm not really. Concerned even When dort's

1098
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 3: not on, HIM i think The thunder will find a.

1099
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:13,359
Speaker 3: Way Eric gordon is going to have to be big

1100
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 3: in this, series And i'm just not buying it right.

1101
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:19,279
Speaker 3: Now and then if it's Not Eric gordon is A

1102
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 3: Daniel houses At covington and then off the Bench Austin

1103
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:24,879
Speaker 3: river has Been, Maclamore Jeff, Green Tomorry. Carroll those guys

1104
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 3: are gonna have to step. Up So i'm a little

1105
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 3: bit worried about The rockets And Eric. Gordon oh my, god.

1106
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:32,839
Speaker 1: That's got to pain you to say, that being such

1107
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 1: An Eric gordon fan. Too, Man, Right, yeah he just

1108
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 1: gets Your Austin rivers stock. Though he's gonna do.

1109
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 3: It man to buy, it, sure, sure sure Off.

1110
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 1: Rivers good luck with, That good luck with?

1111
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 2: That all?

1112
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 1: Right try what's your key to the? Series? Thunder Rockets Rockets.

1113
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,320
Speaker 5: THUNDER i think The rockets can still win this series

1114
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:50,920
Speaker 5: Without Russell.

1115
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 1: Westbrook the key is.

1116
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:54,439
Speaker 5: Playing Steven adams off the, floor, because like you're, saying

1117
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 5: The thunder have more. Depth but if you can't play

1118
00:49:56,840 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 5: your third best, guy then that that really hurts because

1119
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 5: it means at that point it would mean that The

1120
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:05,400
Speaker 5: rockets are not getting killed on the glass because The

1121
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 5: thunder wouldn't necessarily need the rebounding From Steven adams or

1122
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 5: maybe it's just not. Effective it would also mean that

1123
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 5: The rockets bigs bigs if you WILL. Pj, Tucker Jeff,

1124
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:18,919
Speaker 5: Green robert Coving. To it means they're hitting. Threes that's

1125
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 5: good for. Math there's a huge responsibility for everybody else

1126
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 5: now on the glass for The, rockets BECAUSE i think

1127
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:26,839
Speaker 5: that's something you kind of forget with With russ brook,

1128
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 5: is not only is he a great, creator not only

1129
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 5: is he a great offensive player who creates so much in,

1130
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 5: transition he's a great rebounding, guard right like he's their

1131
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 5: power forward hitting the. Glass so that's a you're gonna

1132
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 5: need a lot of boards FROM. Pj tucker And Jeff.

1133
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 5: Green you're gonna need him to hit their threes when

1134
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 5: it gets kicked out to the corner because they're gonna be,

1135
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 5: open right Like Steven adams ain't gonna be able to

1136
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 5: get over to the corner when when they're sitting out

1137
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 5: there after a drive From. Harden you got to make,

1138
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:53,759
Speaker 5: okay see adjust and Play rockets style basketball because then

1139
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 5: that makes The thunders defense way worse and they're not

1140
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 5: used to playing that way where where The rockets are

1141
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 5: maybe can out shoot. Him maybe you can out math.

1142
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 5: Him The thunder are not a three point shooting. Team

1143
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:06,600
Speaker 5: they love it in the mid, range whereas we Know

1144
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:08,840
Speaker 5: houston wants to knockdown. Threes if you can turn the

1145
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,400
Speaker 5: math your, way if you can get the big big

1146
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 5: off the, court there's a chance for The.

1147
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: Rockets, Yeah adams is fascinating to watching this series because

1148
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 1: all what you're saying is. True can they play him

1149
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:19,759
Speaker 1: off the? Floor but the flip side of that is

1150
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: that he just feasts on these Smaller rockets guys and

1151
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:26,360
Speaker 1: just cleans up. Inside and he's LOOKED i thought he

1152
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 1: looked strong early, on especially in the bubble and they

1153
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: were like going to. Him we talked about it before

1154
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: on a couple of Those Bubble wrap, podcasts like they'll

1155
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:35,919
Speaker 1: look To adams and like he can he'll get deep boast.

1156
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: Position you can throw it to, him he'll catch it

1157
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 1: and he's a bit of a bucket there and if he,

1158
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:42,360
Speaker 1: misses he's got a good chance to get the. Rebound. Anyway, Okay,

1159
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: lee what are you watching in the?

1160
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 4: Series, well that is my, key This Steven. Adams what

1161
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 4: happens with him because he's just such a, big strong

1162
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 4: body down there and you KNOW.

1163
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:51,359
Speaker 1: Pj.

1164
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 4: Tucker we know he's a, big strong body as, well

1165
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:55,359
Speaker 4: and he's gonna try to get in the corner and

1166
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 4: hit those. Threes but you, Know John holder pointed out

1167
00:51:58,080 --> 00:51:59,919
Speaker 4: in an article as well this, morning like we see

1168
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:01,839
Speaker 4: The rockets as a three point shooting, team but they

1169
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 4: only shoot thirty five percent from, downtown so it's not

1170
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:07,440
Speaker 4: like that actually really kills. Teams and we know as

1171
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 4: well The rockets they also go freezing cold sometimes in,

1172
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 4: games so that's going to be. Key Without westbrook out,

1173
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 4: there it just so much more of it falls on

1174
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 4: the shoulders Of James harden to get those other guys,

1175
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 4: shots and a bit like The mavericks, earlier if they're hitting,

1176
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:21,120
Speaker 4: shots then The.

1177
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:21,840
Speaker 1: Rockets stay in the.

1178
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:24,319
Speaker 4: Game but if they're, not you really wonder how they're

1179
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 4: going to compete, Still AND i Think Steven adams actually

1180
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 4: didn't have big numbers against The thunder in the games

1181
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 4: they played this. Year one game he barely played against The,

1182
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:36,719
Speaker 4: rockets but he will just gobble UP i think all

1183
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 4: those rebounds BECAUSE i just don't see The rockets crashing

1184
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 4: the offensive. Glass they basically shoot it and if it goes,

1185
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 4: in great and if not they get back on, Defense

1186
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:47,240
Speaker 4: so that's the key. Here and then Again Steven adams,

1187
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 4: inside if you get him inside and posting, up getting

1188
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:52,080
Speaker 4: some easy, baskets AND i Think Chris paul will try

1189
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 4: to get inside and exploit. That THEN i think it

1190
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 4: just gives The thunder another. Advantage but The rockets are

1191
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 4: a funny team because you, Know Daryl moury went with

1192
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 4: this small ball and definitely at times before the bubble

1193
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:07,839
Speaker 4: or before the, suspension it was. Working you, know they

1194
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 4: were able to sort of outrun. Team so that'll be

1195
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:12,480
Speaker 4: what they try to do. Here BUT i think If

1196
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 4: Steven adams is out there on the floor and is

1197
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:16,359
Speaker 4: effective at both, ends he's going to have all the,

1198
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:19,920
Speaker 4: rebounds and you know he'll have the size advantage. Inside

1199
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 4: and then you've got i'll Just, Alexander you've Got Chris

1200
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:25,200
Speaker 4: paul as, well who's been incredible this. Season SO i

1201
00:53:25,239 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 4: think The thunder have just a few different options and

1202
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 4: a few different weapons that are going to be tough

1203
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:33,279
Speaker 4: for A rockets team that also doesn't play great.

1204
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: Defense, yeah that's What i'm watching this. Series i've talked

1205
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 1: about it already a little bit when we were like

1206
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: knowing that these two teams could play each. Other SO

1207
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 1: i won't go that long on, it but it's like

1208
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:45,440
Speaker 1: this control who controls the piece of this? Series because

1209
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:47,600
Speaker 1: you said that The, ROCKETS i mean they're all in

1210
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 1: on small. Wall they're doing. That they have no other.

1211
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 1: Options capella's, gone they'll have any big. Guys so they're

1212
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 1: going to you, know get up and. Down everything's going

1213
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:58,359
Speaker 1: to go Through harden of, course and they'll fire away from.

1214
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: Three yeah they shoot thirty five pers but they shoot

1215
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:02,959
Speaker 1: like sixty three point, attempts so the math maybe works

1216
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 1: out for. Them, yeah they make the most in the. League, yeah,

1217
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: right so that's. Them but then the thunder With Chris

1218
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:13,759
Speaker 1: paul as like the total you, know air traffic, controller

1219
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 1: like he has his fingerprints on everything. Happening he's NOT

1220
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: i don't think he's gonna like fall into the trap

1221
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:22,920
Speaker 1: of playing at that. Speed that's just not. Him he's

1222
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 1: he knows it's gonna make The rockets more uncomfortable to

1223
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:28,960
Speaker 1: use twenty three seconds out of the shot clock to

1224
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: maybe pick at your spots when you want to run or,

1225
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,000
Speaker 1: not like he will just maybe try and just like

1226
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:36,839
Speaker 1: upset them because he's like, no, no, no we're gonna

1227
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 1: play like, This we're gonna go inside To, Adams we're

1228
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:40,319
Speaker 1: gonna move the ball a little. Bit so that to

1229
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 1: me is just, Fascinating like especially The Chris paul versus

1230
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 1: hard and style of up and down versus the slow it?

1231
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 1: Down who wins? That who can who can do? That

1232
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:53,239
Speaker 1: enough here to take four games in the seven game.

1233
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: Series so that's WHAT i got my. Eye And i'll

1234
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 1: just add that if these games are, close that might

1235
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:03,400
Speaker 1: favor Okay see who had an insane record in close,

1236
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 1: games mainly because Of Chris, paul But shruder was a

1237
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: bit huge in Moments Sga. Gallinari those guys like played

1238
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:13,320
Speaker 1: in a ton of clutch time when you know games

1239
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:16,120
Speaker 1: were five points or less in the final five minutes

1240
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: of the, game they were like a thirty and fourteen.

1241
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 1: Record Okay see was just that's a, crazy crazy stat

1242
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 1: for close games and like pulling them out more times than.

1243
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:26,840
Speaker 1: Not and that's Like Chris paul, like, Nope i'll just

1244
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 1: get my jumper and uh it'll be. Over i'll get

1245
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:32,319
Speaker 1: to my. Spot i'm Like Kawhi, Leonard Mini Kawhi leonard

1246
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:34,520
Speaker 1: and hit my jumper, there so that will Be, uh

1247
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:36,279
Speaker 1: that'll be fun if it's close. Games so let's get.

1248
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:38,959
Speaker 1: Predictions final one. Here let's start with, You, lee because

1249
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 1: you have been talking up this series for. Months you

1250
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:44,440
Speaker 1: said way way back, BACK i don't know when'd you

1251
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:47,720
Speaker 1: say This january something like, That, yeah that The thunder

1252
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna upset Their, rockets and we were all, like, whoa,

1253
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:54,760
Speaker 1: man you're. Crazy so are you sticking with that? Prediction?

1254
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 2: Uh, No i'm.

1255
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:58,040
Speaker 4: Changing i'm going on The rockets in. Six now go

1256
00:55:58,239 --> 00:55:59,799
Speaker 4: to The. THUNDER i think THAT i can win. Again

1257
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:03,279
Speaker 4: I'D i think Without. Westbrook that also adds it into

1258
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:05,840
Speaker 4: the fiver of The. Thunder, Sorry i'll got The. Thunder

1259
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:08,320
Speaker 4: but of, course you know the way The rockets, play

1260
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:10,400
Speaker 4: the way that their offense, is they're gonna win a

1261
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 4: couple of. Games i'll Side thunder and, Six thunder and.

1262
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:15,400
Speaker 1: Six he is sticking with his upset and it is

1263
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:17,799
Speaker 1: an upset because, okay in the five, spots so that

1264
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:20,480
Speaker 1: worked out For is it an? Upset are they on our? Favorites?

1265
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:20,719
Speaker 5: Now?

1266
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:23,359
Speaker 1: NO i, THOUGHT i, thought, well do you mean just

1267
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:26,480
Speaker 1: like from the media, Perspective, yeah well, yeah you might be,

1268
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 1: right but technically it is a four or. Five AS i,

1269
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:30,759
Speaker 1: Said houston is the home, team SO i guess it

1270
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:31,279
Speaker 1: wouldn't be an.

1271
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:34,240
Speaker 3: Upset so let's say what's happening in The Thunder rockets betting.

1272
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 3: Lines so it's basically like a pick.

1273
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 1: Them it's a pick. Them, okay so, task where are you? Going?

1274
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 3: THEN i think we're gonna get a team winning one,

1275
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:44,360
Speaker 3: game then the other team winning another, game all the

1276
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:47,760
Speaker 3: way to. Seven we're giving wins back and forth until

1277
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 3: The thunder take it all in seven. GAMES i. THINK

1278
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 3: i think this will be the the long one and

1279
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:55,919
Speaker 3: it'll be a, nice tough ass series With Chris paul

1280
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:59,279
Speaker 3: And James harden going at. It it should be a fun.

1281
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:04,279
Speaker 1: One, Okay thunder and Seven Lisa's thunder and, Six, trey my,

1282
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:07,239
Speaker 1: man are we gonna have a disagreement here on one

1283
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:09,800
Speaker 1: of these playoff previous? Podcasts are you gonna Go? Rockets?

1284
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 5: Skeets you can count on? Me give me the reverse

1285
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:14,680
Speaker 5: anti Upset rockets in?

1286
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 1: Seven.

1287
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:17,880
Speaker 5: OKAY i think if The thunder posting Up Steven adams,

1288
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 5: regularly that is a win For.

1289
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:21,080
Speaker 1: Houston you know.

1290
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 5: That'll be, like, okay, Cool you'll go to a post

1291
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 5: up play one of the most inefficient plays in all of. Basketball,

1292
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 5: great we'll go take a three. Pointer on the other,

1293
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 5: end they will take that math all day. Long i've

1294
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 5: Got Austin rivers. Stock he shows up in the. Playoffs

1295
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 5: he plays, defense and you know he's got the confidence

1296
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:37,400
Speaker 5: to hit a. Shot will we See westbrook who Knows

1297
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 5: that definitely changes things To houston's. Advantage but even With,

1298
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 5: Autumn i'm still confident that The rockets can knock off

1299
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 5: the Thunder buckets in.

1300
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 1: Seven Oh, Man rockets in. Seven we've got a thunder

1301
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 1: and seven out. There i'm. Torn i'm torn on this.

1302
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:54,480
Speaker 1: Win you guys are making great cases for both. TEAMS

1303
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:56,760
Speaker 1: i gotta, Say trays almost got me to change my

1304
00:57:56,840 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 1: pick here and, say.

1305
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 5: Oh a file to say anything About Chris paul, negatively

1306
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:04,920
Speaker 5: BUT i appreciate all those clutch stats from the regular.

1307
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:08,480
Speaker 1: Season yeah, Yeah but Like harden is a. MONSTER i,

1308
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:10,720
Speaker 1: mean you're trying to convince me, that LIKE i love Lou,

1309
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:12,920
Speaker 1: dort don't get me, wrong especially being A, canadian but

1310
00:58:13,240 --> 00:58:14,880
Speaker 1: It's James. HART i, mean he's gonna figure out how

1311
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 1: to score on Lou. Dort he's gonna get to the, line.

1312
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 4: He's gonna hit threes on that last, name isn't it you?

1313
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 1: Kin it's The Steve holt like we did in the summer.

1314
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 1: Ue it's loud. Dord, Wow i'm with, You, Trey i'm flipping.

1315
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 1: IT i can't believe having of my notes thunder and.

1316
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 1: Seven BUT i think you've convinced. Me now this Whole

1317
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 1: Steven adams, thing maybe that works in their. Favor, ah,

1318
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 1: man give me The rockets and. Seven it's going. Seven

1319
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 1: i'm convinced on that. One so who shows up in

1320
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 1: game seven and ken The rockets basically hit threes in

1321
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 1: a game? Seven that's. All it comes down.

1322
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:50,680
Speaker 5: To notoriously good three point shooting team in game seven's as,

1323
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:53,440
Speaker 5: well right, Historically.

1324
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:55,760
Speaker 1: But regret this pick for. Sure, Okay So trey AND

1325
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:58,200
Speaker 1: i Going rockets and, seven task going thunder and seven

1326
00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:01,720
Speaker 1: and all my man going thunder in. Six those are

1327
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:13,800
Speaker 1: Our Western conference first round. Predictions, wow so he'll miss

1328
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 1: at least a couple of. Games.

1329
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:23,560
Speaker 3: No FOUR d. Approved if you're if you've taken a

1330
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:26,680
Speaker 3: test every day that you're, gone which will you wish you?

1331
00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:28,520
Speaker 3: Will if you have negative tests every day you're, Gone,

1332
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:30,000
Speaker 3: yeah it's a four day quarantine Upon so.

1333
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:39,400
Speaker 1: He's gonna miss two or three games, though right? Yeah, okay, wow,

1334
00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:39,959
Speaker 1: wow wow?

1335
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:40,280
Speaker 3: Wow.

1336
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 1: Okay does anybody want to change their? Nuggets uh jazz

1337
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 1: pick because of This Mike conley. News go, ahead now's your.

1338
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 1: Time i'll hold my. Peace, Okay, Yeah i'm.

1339
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 3: Good i'm.

1340
00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:53,800
Speaker 1: Good, okay me, too me. Too all, right let's hear

1341
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:55,840
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1342
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:57,840
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1343
00:59:57,880 --> 00:59:59,800
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01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:06,800
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01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:09,200
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1348
01:00:09,280 --> 01:00:10,800
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1349
01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:13,800
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01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:16,000
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1355
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:30,720
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1356
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:33,920
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1357
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:36,880
Speaker 1: Bros you heard it here. First have a great, time turn,

1358
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:39,680
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1359
01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:42,000
Speaker 3: FOLKS i got two parting words of wisdom because you

1360
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:43,720
Speaker 3: made me think of one THAT i didn't like with

1361
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 3: that Lu dort. Comment when people say bowl, bull the

1362
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 3: emphasis on the first bowl very. Wrong it's bul. Bul

1363
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:53,440
Speaker 3: it's not bul. Bull it's bowl. BULL i know you

1364
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:54,720
Speaker 3: can't really hear it WHEN i say it like, that

1365
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:58,080
Speaker 3: but it's definitely not bull. Bull it's bowl. Bull my

1366
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:02,440
Speaker 3: second parting word of wisdom strange. Playoffs home court advantage is,

1367
01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:06,959
Speaker 3: gone but home music advantage is very much. Alive shout

1368
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 3: out To John hollinger for that.

1369
01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 1: ONE i embrace The dame. People you could stay boo

1370
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:14,440
Speaker 1: every day.

1371
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:17,920
Speaker 2: And dagge happy every.

1372
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:24,800
Speaker 1: Minute it's been so long that your no wanna waiting.

1373
01:01:25,040 --> 01:01:27,640
Speaker 2: For it's happened.

1374
01:01:27,680 --> 01:01:30,960
Speaker 5: Already it's gonna be grevy