Speaker 1: Welcome into what's burning. I got Matt, I got stacked
Speaker 1: and coming straight from Puerto Rico. Oh yes, insta Arcus
Speaker 1: cousins bull Ye how is it? Monster monster win for
Speaker 1: your mets out in Puerto Rico playing the BSN. I
Speaker 1: want to know everything. What has it been like so far?
Speaker 1: The atmosphere at these games seemed crazy.
Speaker 2: It's been a vibe honestly on the basketball aspect. It's
Speaker 2: good competition, it's a great fan base. The people of
Speaker 2: Puerto Rico are in love with the game of basketball,
Speaker 2: so that's incredible. Just to play in front of an
Speaker 2: energetic crowd every night, passionate crowd. The level of competition
Speaker 2: is high. It doesn't get a lot of credit, you know,
Speaker 2: from the States or that nature. I know it's considered
Speaker 2: overseas basketball, but it's a very high level of basketball,
Speaker 2: very physical league, competitive league. So it's been great. I'm
Speaker 2: enjoying the process. I'm enjoying being back on the floor
Speaker 2: playing a game. Had a tough win last night, we
Speaker 2: ended up winning.
Speaker 3: A bout one. I had a rather decent game, so
Speaker 3: I'm good on that.
Speaker 4: On that rather decent Yeah, he's putting up Yogi's numbers.
Speaker 5: Rather rather decent thirty one and nineteen Boogy, I got
Speaker 5: a question, have you ran into any kids that look
Speaker 5: like jack but like Brown? They'd probably be like around
Speaker 5: twenty two or twenty three right now. They probably speak
Speaker 5: good English.
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, man, yeah.
Speaker 5: I know, yeah, I knew he had a few illegitimate
Speaker 5: a few illegitimates out there. So I just wonder if
Speaker 5: you haven't, like my dad played the NBA, who's your dad,
Speaker 5: Stephen Jackson?
Speaker 4: Look out of here?
Speaker 6: First off? First off, that was Dominican Republic, not part
Speaker 6: he will have you know, Yeah, I got kids in
Speaker 6: dr not Puerto Rico.
Speaker 7: My bad, bully.
Speaker 1: What do you hope to accomplish down there?
Speaker 2: When it's also to win a championship? That's my goal
Speaker 2: right now. I'm taking this day at the time. Obviously
Speaker 2: I would love to, you know, get to a point
Speaker 2: where I can finish my career off in the League
Speaker 2: of the NBA, But right now, my focus is helping
Speaker 2: this team win, win games, compete for a championship, and
Speaker 2: just change this bullshit narrative that's all my name. So,
Speaker 2: like IM said, I'm taking it a day at the
Speaker 2: time and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 7: Buget. I played.
Speaker 6: I played overseas, Bro, and I can tell a lot
Speaker 6: of people it's definitely not what they think. I enjoyed it,
Speaker 6: just a love and appreciation from the fans. I won
Speaker 6: the championship in Pueblo and the Webb on Dominican Republic, Bro,
Speaker 6: and they carried me from the game all the way
Speaker 6: back to my hotel, the whole crowd. So like their
Speaker 6: appreciation for winning and appreciation for the sport of basketball.
Speaker 7: It's unbelievable over there, Bro. So you win a championship
Speaker 7: over there, I'm telling you are. You probably already got
Speaker 7: a home for life there. But you can go back
Speaker 7: there and get treated like a king for the rest
Speaker 7: of your life.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can have as many kids you want.
Speaker 4: Apparently, Hey, bug, what I wanted to ask.
Speaker 5: Obviously, the game in the NBA has transitioned to a
Speaker 5: more of a guard oriented game, but they're still bigs
Speaker 5: that are obviously winning MVPs here and putting up numbers
Speaker 5: and doing things you were doing.
Speaker 4: Your entire career.
Speaker 5: I personally feel, although you're my brother, there's no bias.
Speaker 5: But I just feel if we're talking straight game, there's
Speaker 5: no reason why your game shouldn't be in the NBA.
Speaker 5: Why do you personally feel like teams aren't giving you
Speaker 5: a chance although you could still play.
Speaker 3: Like I said, it's just a bullshit narrative.
Speaker 2: And in today's society, people don't really take the time,
Speaker 2: you know, get to know people. They they based it
Speaker 2: off what they hear, what somebody else said, or somebody
Speaker 2: else's experienced. So that's just what society is today. Can't
Speaker 2: be mad about it, can't blame anybody for it, but
Speaker 2: you know, that's just the nature of what it is.
Speaker 2: So all I can do is control what I can control,
Speaker 2: be the best version of myself every day, which I'm
Speaker 2: trying to do. And I'm gonna continue pushing and playing
Speaker 2: this game that I love and whatever happens happens, and
Speaker 2: when it's time for me to hang them up, I'm
Speaker 2: a ride off in the sunset.
Speaker 1: Well, you're playing against real NBA talent down there. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of guys in that league who played in
Speaker 1: this league here, so I hope that people see what
Speaker 1: you can do against serious competition.
Speaker 3: It's great.
Speaker 2: We played Random Night and Terrence Jones last night, so
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm I'm blown away of how many NBA
Speaker 2: guys are actually playing in this league that are you know,
Speaker 2: kind of being overlooked or you know, swept under the road.
Speaker 2: But it's a lot of talent in this league, and
Speaker 2: on any given night, you can you can get a
Speaker 2: thirty ball put on your head if you're not ready
Speaker 2: to play.
Speaker 3: So yeah, definitely a good competition.
Speaker 1: Down I love it.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: I want to talk a little playoff NBA basketball because
Speaker 1: the Lakers just took a three to one lead in
Speaker 1: that series over the Warriors. I was at the arena
Speaker 1: last night.
Speaker 7: Guys.
Speaker 1: The momentum shift in the fourth quarter was bananas. Remember
Speaker 1: the Warriors entered that quarter up seven points. By the
Speaker 1: time the buzzer sounded, Lonnie Walker had scored nearly as
Speaker 1: many points in the fourth as the entire Warriors team
Speaker 1: Golden State. In fact, guys had just one bucket in
Speaker 1: the game's final three minutes. Matt I wanted to start
Speaker 1: with you, do you think that's a credit to the Lakers?
Speaker 1: D Is it poor shot selection from your old teammates
Speaker 1: Stephan Clay? What do you make of the way that
Speaker 1: game ended?
Speaker 5: I want to obviously credit the Lakers defense. I mean,
Speaker 5: I think it's been an issue for Golden State the
Speaker 5: entire series. I think their size and their length has disrupted,
Speaker 5: you know, the flow obviously of Steph. Although he's still
Speaker 5: been able to get his numbers, he's really had to
Speaker 5: work for it. And then obviously Clay, and I heard
Speaker 5: Steve Kerr talk about after the game, you know that
Speaker 5: this is our mentality. You know, we live and die
Speaker 5: with these guys. You know, obviously maybe those two shots
Speaker 5: Clay would.
Speaker 4: Have wanted back.
Speaker 5: But I think the one thing that people aren't necessarily
Speaker 5: looking at is they're going at Stephan Clay on the
Speaker 5: defensive end. On the offensive end, Lakers are making Steph
Speaker 5: and Clay work to really tire these guys out. And
Speaker 5: and you know, all these guys, you know, everyone on here,
Speaker 5: you know can shoot and shot in the league. Tired
Speaker 5: lagerer tough, especially in the fourth quarter when you're working
Speaker 5: on both ends. So I definitely credit the Lakers defense
Speaker 5: first and foremost, and then them going at them offensively
Speaker 5: as well to make these guys work. And you know,
Speaker 5: Lonnie Walker, you know, I saw Lebron. Lebron has showed
Speaker 5: that he's human these playoffs. I've never seen Lebron tired
Speaker 5: ever period on or off the court. Never seen him tired.
Speaker 5: Definitely seen him tired. Ad with the big first half
Speaker 5: and only four shot attempts in the second half for
Speaker 5: four points, I'm sure it was a little disappointing for
Speaker 5: Laker fans, But Lonnie Walker is playing with the chip
Speaker 5: on his shoulder. You know, we recall before the trade deadline,
Speaker 5: this guy was playing quality minutes, putting in good buckets,
Speaker 5: playing well, and then he got buried on the bench
Speaker 5: and he got a little glimmer of hope last game,
Speaker 5: and then in this game, you know, not to take
Speaker 5: a shot attempt until the fourth quarter, and then literally,
Speaker 5: you know, he scored fifteen, the Warrior scored seven. He
Speaker 5: and as a team in the fourth they don't win
Speaker 5: this game without Lonnie Walker. So happy for him that
Speaker 5: he was kind of able to unbury himself and find
Speaker 5: the rhythm.
Speaker 4: But this is going to be.
Speaker 5: Obviously we'll talk about this later, but yeah, I'll leave
Speaker 5: it there and let these guys run with it.
Speaker 1: Stack, What did you make of Lonnie Walker? Because it's
Speaker 1: one thing to sort of get that opportunity. We see
Speaker 1: it in the playoffs all the time, right, A guy
Speaker 1: that hasn't gotten a lot of runs, suddenly gets out there.
Speaker 1: But it's one thing to get the chance, it's another
Speaker 1: thing to be ready enough to take it. What do
Speaker 1: you think he did that he was able to take
Speaker 1: the opportunity he.
Speaker 7: Got, you got.
Speaker 6: You gotta salute him from staying ready. You know, being
Speaker 6: a young guy and not getting constant men as it
Speaker 6: can be frustrating. I've been in that position when I
Speaker 6: first got to San Antonio playing, not playing, being on
Speaker 6: the Angel list, just sitting at the end of that bench,
Speaker 6: knowing you deserve to be on that court. It could
Speaker 6: be frustrating and it could.
Speaker 7: Kill your mental well.
Speaker 6: When you do get a chance, you can be out
Speaker 6: there pouting like somebody on Golden State is doing. But
Speaker 6: we're talking about Lonnie right now. Lonnie Lonnie is he
Speaker 6: took advantage of his time. He went out there and
Speaker 6: stayed ready and that you know, they got the line
Speaker 6: stay ready so you don't.
Speaker 7: Have to get ready. He's a perfect example of that.
Speaker 6: But somebody on Golden State team is doing exactly opposite
Speaker 6: what he's doing. Jordan Poole, he'd been pouting the whole
Speaker 6: series when they first when they first went small and
Speaker 6: they didn't start him. He had a little funky attitude
Speaker 6: and and showed up to the game with his energy.
Speaker 7: Was pissed poor his just his.
Speaker 6: Energy on defense, the way he was guarding Peel, with
Speaker 6: the shots he was taking, it was just hard. But
Speaker 6: with the Lakers win the championship, they definitely to give
Speaker 6: Jordan Poole a ring because.
Speaker 7: He's definitely contributed to this series for them winning.
Speaker 6: And but Stephen, you got to give a lot of
Speaker 6: credit to the Lakers defense. Of course, you know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying, Like a d the way he's been clogging
Speaker 6: up the paint, the way he stepped up on D.
Speaker 6: They could talk about him showing up the even games,
Speaker 6: not showing up the all games or whatever it is,
Speaker 6: but he showed up defensively every game this series. And
Speaker 6: that's what's been the difference. They're not really talking about that.
Speaker 6: They're just worried about his offense, but their step even
Speaker 6: though they live and die raged by those threes, they
Speaker 6: got to be smart on some of them. Some of
Speaker 6: them just too outragees when they when they at the
Speaker 6: key moments at his game. You know, if you if
Speaker 6: you look at the finals last year, and and and
Speaker 6: and the Western Conference Finals last year. They was taking
Speaker 6: those same shots rates, but they wasn't as erratic. They
Speaker 6: wouldn't falling out of bounds. They would they were probably
Speaker 6: some of them. Some of them was the same range,
Speaker 6: but there were good looks they wasn't. They weren't seven
Speaker 6: foot is h flying at them and contesting those shots.
Speaker 6: So they got to look at their shots selection too,
Speaker 6: because a lot of those shots were just crazy.
Speaker 1: What did you make of that? Bug? And the Jordan
Speaker 1: Poole situation as well, because look, he only played ten minutes.
Speaker 1: It's I want to ask you guys about that. I mean,
Speaker 1: Jordan Poole is a good basketball player, but his confidence
Speaker 1: and body language has not been great lately, and obviously offensively,
Speaker 1: he's just struggled by.
Speaker 2: What you got to understand about playing for a championship
Speaker 2: and playing championship basketball every night isn't going to be
Speaker 2: a knight. But you have to know that as a
Speaker 2: player and as a teammate. So with that being said,
Speaker 2: you have other ways to contribute to the game and
Speaker 2: affect the game. And credit to Anthony Davis because he's
Speaker 2: been a prime example of that. He's had games where
Speaker 2: he struggled offensively, but it doesn't determine how he impacts
Speaker 2: the game defensive And this is who he is, this
Speaker 2: is who.
Speaker 3: He's always been.
Speaker 2: We could take it all the way back to his
Speaker 2: championship game with the University of Kentucky. He struggled offensively
Speaker 2: in that game. His message to the team was, y'all
Speaker 2: handled the offense and I'll make sure nobody scores on
Speaker 2: his end, and they ended up winning a championship. So
Speaker 2: with that being said, it's levels to this thing, and
Speaker 2: you have to understand, at some point it may not
Speaker 2: be my night, but what can I bring to the team.
Speaker 2: And I think that's the struggle that Jordan Poole is having.
Speaker 2: And on top of that, it's the bad body language,
Speaker 2: the power, and it's the shitty attitude and also not
Speaker 2: want to be critiqued by you know, your veterans, the
Speaker 2: guys that have done this over and over and over again.
Speaker 2: It's been a clip where you know, he kind of
Speaker 2: snatched away from Draymond. We know what the narrative ismond
Speaker 2: is is bully YadA, YadA, YadA, but that was a
Speaker 2: prime example of what you know really is going on
Speaker 2: between those two. It's a big brother little brother relationship,
Speaker 2: and sometimes the little brother gets out of line. You
Speaker 2: got to fall back in line and listen to your
Speaker 2: big brother. But I think it's a very fixable situation.
Speaker 2: It's just upon Jordan Pooh to want to do it
Speaker 2: and understand what the bigger picture is, which is winning
Speaker 2: the championship.
Speaker 3: So it's on him.
Speaker 5: But I also think Rachel and you know, obviously I
Speaker 5: was never fortunate enough to get the type of money
Speaker 5: he got. But it's only natural, right, It's only natural
Speaker 5: to shit, It's only natural to kind of you know,
Speaker 5: that kind of money is that kind of money is
Speaker 5: life changing? And you know, can't does he think because
Speaker 5: he has that kind of money, he doesn't have to listen,
Speaker 5: or he doesn't have to fall in line, or he
Speaker 5: can march to his own beat, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: And again this is all speculation to just guessing, but
Speaker 5: trying to figure out why someone who is so talented
Speaker 5: hasn't been able to.
Speaker 4: Affect the game in any way.
Speaker 5: You know, normally you say, hey, it's an off night,
Speaker 5: you know, what else can you do? I always tell
Speaker 5: my kids that I coach. If the best thing you
Speaker 5: do is taking away house, can you affect the game.
Speaker 5: But he's been a target. I mean, even back to
Speaker 5: the Sacramento series. Whoever he guarded it was, Iso will
Speaker 5: go downhill on him because he's not gonna guard when
Speaker 5: he has the ball, offensive your shots a going. His
Speaker 5: decision making comes into play where just careless turnovers, understanding
Speaker 5: how important each possession is in the playoffs, you can't
Speaker 5: just throw the ball away. So I feel like, obviously,
Speaker 5: like Bully said, it's a fixable situation. It's going to
Speaker 5: be upon him, and I just hope he has someone
Speaker 5: in this corner that he does listen to and that
Speaker 5: can helpfully help him lift this energy he has on
Speaker 5: him because although it's three to one, if any team
Speaker 5: can come back from three to one, it's this dynasty.
Speaker 5: But they're gonna need Jordan Poole to contribute somehow.
Speaker 4: Someway.
Speaker 5: I mean, Steph is busting his ass every single night,
Speaker 5: running two miles a game.
Speaker 4: He had triple double last night.
Speaker 5: Obviously Clay struggled a little bit, but Clay and Jordan
Speaker 5: Poole are going to have to do something if this
Speaker 5: team has a chance to come back from this deficit.
Speaker 5: I trust him Clay because Clay's been there. Clay's gone
Speaker 5: through rough strouts and then he'll break out and give
Speaker 5: you a forty piece because he just he's a He's.
Speaker 4: A consummant pro.
Speaker 5: Jordan Poole is younger, so he may not understand how
Speaker 5: to handle these playoff struggles because the playoff struggles are
Speaker 5: a lot different than regular season struggles. So in order
Speaker 5: for this team to make a move, Jordan Poole is
Speaker 5: going to have to do something and I hope that
Speaker 5: he's able to figure that out as a player before
Speaker 5: it's too late.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Matt, you bring up Steph like he had scratches
Speaker 1: all over his face last night postgame. It was really
Speaker 1: interesting to see how physical they are being with him.
Speaker 1: And of course that's been the book for any Lebron
Speaker 1: team on Steph. Right, But I've been I want to
Speaker 1: shout out Darvin Ham because I don't think he gets
Speaker 1: enough credit. I think anyone who coaches Lebron Anthony Davis team,
Speaker 1: everyone just feels like, oh yeah, the coach is just
Speaker 1: sitting there. I feel like the defensive backbone that Darvin
Speaker 1: has instilled in this squad, you can see it everywhere.
Speaker 1: I mean, I covered Darvin's Pistons team, like, I know
Speaker 1: what they I know the attitude that he brings to
Speaker 1: that side of the ball, and I feel like that
Speaker 1: has been so key in this run since the trade deadline,
Speaker 1: and certainly in this series. Stack you see it, right,
Speaker 1: I Mean it's not just what the Warriors are or
Speaker 1: aren't doing. The Lakers are forcing them into this a
Speaker 1: lot of the time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and Darvin Ham is being super smart. I mean, hey,
Speaker 6: Steve Kerr, if you want to play two non shooters, cool,
Speaker 6: we gonna let Lebron and a just sit in the
Speaker 6: paint on y'all and force Clay and stefp to first
Speaker 6: force Clay to be a playmaker. That's why Clay getting
Speaker 6: all these turnovers because they forcing Clay to be a playmaker.
Speaker 6: They forcing them down on them, picking them screens so
Speaker 6: he ain't coming off.
Speaker 7: For a clear shot.
Speaker 6: So now you got to put the ball down and
Speaker 6: try to make a play. Clay and used to doing that,
Speaker 6: so that's why he's getting all those turnovers, right, So
Speaker 6: they just send them to Clay and Braun and they
Speaker 6: not being able to finish over them.
Speaker 7: And you have it.
Speaker 6: You have Gary Payton, you have Draymond, you have Looney,
Speaker 6: all these guys on the court together that really don't
Speaker 6: want to shoot the ball, so it's easy to play
Speaker 6: three on five on defense, right, So Darvin ham is
Speaker 6: really exploiting that. And I think Steve credit to look
Speaker 6: at have at least four shooters on the court and
Speaker 6: not two or three because it's easier for him to
Speaker 6: guard that.
Speaker 5: I will say, obviously, with this being three to one
Speaker 5: and it's fully in the Lakers control, they need to
Speaker 5: end this series sooner than later because they are exhausted
Speaker 5: out there.
Speaker 4: Lebron is exhausted out there.
Speaker 5: I think his tongue is probably sticking to the roof
Speaker 5: of his mouth at times like cotton mouth. The one
Speaker 5: thing I will say, and you touched on the book,
Speaker 5: I was so impressed with the way that Ad was
Speaker 5: able to stay in front of Steph those last few
Speaker 5: possessions because normally Steph is so hirky jerky, but Ad
Speaker 5: is just so long. All those Steph may get him
Speaker 5: off balance at a second, He's still long enough to
Speaker 5: contest and make it a tough shot. So AD's ability
Speaker 5: to stay in front of Steph, which not too many
Speaker 5: people in the world can do at Ad size and
Speaker 5: still make it tough for Steph to shoot because Steph
Speaker 5: is used to getting you know, his motion is right here,
Speaker 5: but he's having to shoot the thing way higher than
Speaker 5: normal because he knows if he doesn't get it up,
Speaker 5: AD's gonna block that shit.
Speaker 4: So I definitely want.
Speaker 5: To give a d credit where he deserves because he
Speaker 5: has been and Jack, you said it. One thing he's
Speaker 5: shown up every single night in this series is he's
Speaker 5: shown up on the defensive and an ability in the
Speaker 5: fourth quarter to switch out on one of the most
Speaker 5: elusive guys in the greatest shoot that we've ever seen
Speaker 5: and make him take tough shots.
Speaker 4: You've got to credit that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you've seen you've seen Ad grow so much
Speaker 1: in that area. I mean you played with him, you
Speaker 1: know so.
Speaker 2: I mean, like I said, I've seen this time and
Speaker 2: time again, and like I said earlier, it dates back
Speaker 2: all the way to his UK days. The guy understands
Speaker 2: the game. He understands how to play it, he understands
Speaker 2: how to win. He's super unselfish with just him being
Speaker 2: the superstar he is making thirty forty million a year
Speaker 2: and still being able to say, hey, you guys handled
Speaker 2: the offense. I lock down everything on the defensive end.
Speaker 2: That's that's a championship player. That's that's championship basketball. So
Speaker 2: kudos to him, and you know, hopefully we can continue
Speaker 2: to see this great play from him.
Speaker 1: Well it's going to be interesting, right because Matt, you
Speaker 1: say there, their interest is to wrap up this series.
Speaker 1: You got on the other side, you got the Heat
Speaker 1: in Jimmy Butler just flat out taking advantage of the
Speaker 1: Knicks in every possible way. They're up three to one
Speaker 1: as well, just another win from the Eastern Conference finals, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, the last time in the eighth seed
Speaker 1: got to the conference finals was the nineteen ninety nine Knicks,
Speaker 1: and we know they got all the way to the finals.
Speaker 1: So who do you think you have more confidence in
Speaker 1: right now? In terms of three one leads Boogie the Heat.
Speaker 3: Of the Lakers. The Heat, I mean, they're all right,
Speaker 3: the Kniggs.
Speaker 2: Their toughness is I mean, we know the Heats foundation
Speaker 2: is defense is toughness, and this is the perfect stage
Speaker 2: four during the playoffs. So they're just splat out at
Speaker 2: toughening and out playing the Knicks. When it comes to
Speaker 2: the Lakers and Warriors, you got to give credit to
Speaker 2: your Warriors. They've been here before, They've done it before.
Speaker 2: They're literally the most dangerous team in the NBA. They
Speaker 2: can get hot at any time and the whole series
Speaker 2: can change. So I definitely think the Heat are in
Speaker 2: a more comfortable position.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 6: Jimmy Buller has just been the best player by far
Speaker 6: in this series. He's just been dominating on both fans
Speaker 6: of the court. I like Brunton, but I you know,
Speaker 6: I just think the Knicks still are two players away.
Speaker 6: You know, Barrett is cool, uh, Randal Randall game it's
Speaker 6: getting exploded now. He's He's able to do certain things
Speaker 6: in the regular season, but when they take things away,
Speaker 6: he don't really have too many counters to his game.
Speaker 6: His game is real stiff, but he like he dominated
Speaker 6: a regular season, but this is the level goes up
Speaker 6: each round and I don't think his game has grown
Speaker 6: enough to to to carry the Knicks out of this
Speaker 6: round yet. I think he still has some growing to
Speaker 6: it offensively, but Jimmy Butler just just dictating everything on
Speaker 6: the court offensively for his team.
Speaker 7: He got his team confident.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 6: They are definitely the more aggressive team, but Brunson definitely
Speaker 6: needs more help out that he's playing hard, but the
Speaker 6: other guys on the team, especially with quickly being out,
Speaker 6: the other guys on the team don't have enough to
Speaker 6: to to to help them, especially get a road a road,
Speaker 6: a win on the road going home this next game.
Speaker 6: I just I think Jimmy and the and Miami eastmell blood.
Speaker 6: I think they're going to the Garden for a big
Speaker 6: game to go and get some risks so they can
Speaker 6: be ready for the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 1: It's crazy what Miami's doing because if we look at
Speaker 1: the other low seeds on the West, say who have
Speaker 1: been upsetting higher seeds the Warriors. They got Andrew Wiggins back, right,
Speaker 1: so you can see why things have changed for them.
Speaker 1: The Lakers made that huge series of mid season trades,
Speaker 1: and you can see why things have gotten better for them.
Speaker 1: The Miami Heat have lost players, They've lost guys to injury, right,
Speaker 1: Tyler iiro got knocked out in that Bucks series, and
Speaker 1: yet here they are poised to do something no team
Speaker 1: has done in twenty five years. Obviously, Jimmy Butler has
Speaker 1: been possibly the best player in this entire postseason so far.
Speaker 1: Eric Spolstra, you got to give him so much credit
Speaker 1: for the way he is coaching. I just think it's remarkable.
Speaker 1: If you look at this team, they barely made it
Speaker 1: out of the play in they lost their first playing game.
Speaker 1: They could have not been in these playoffs at all,
Speaker 1: and that look what they've done.
Speaker 6: But also for it forced them to to play one
Speaker 6: of the key players who have CHAI Championship experience, Kyle Lowry,
Speaker 6: is forced to play him more to rely on him,
Speaker 6: and he's been and he's been a big difference rates.
Speaker 6: He's been a big difference for them, being able to
Speaker 6: play more minutes now, been able to allow him to
Speaker 6: run the show and make big shots.
Speaker 7: I think that's that's really helped him more than heard him.
Speaker 5: And I think too, Jack, to your point, he's been
Speaker 5: able to be that calming present with that second unit.
Speaker 5: He's been able to run that second unit. They begin
Speaker 5: a lot of production with their bench, with the Martin,
Speaker 5: with the Martin Kidd and and and there's been a
Speaker 5: Duncan Duncan Robinson siding. But I think you hit it, Rachel.
Speaker 5: I don't think Sposter gets enough credit. Obviously, Jimmy is
Speaker 5: one of the greatest competitors game has ever seen.
Speaker 4: Uh right, now, it's mental for.
Speaker 5: Jimmy because he's you know, he's he's going, he's fighting
Speaker 5: through these injuries, but we can never tell that he
Speaker 5: had a terrible ankle spring. Like, it's all mental for Jimmy.
Speaker 5: He's on his Momba ship right now. I tweeted yesterday
Speaker 5: during the game, why with the team who's scoring such
Speaker 5: as the Knicks, how I have a hard time And
Speaker 5: I didn't know the kid's name, and I was and
Speaker 5: trying to just I think his name is McBride. I
Speaker 5: wasn't familiar with this game. But it's hard for me
Speaker 5: to believe that Derrick Rose can't give you nothing. It's
Speaker 5: hard for me to believe a team that's scoring, that
Speaker 5: Evan Fournier can't give you nothing, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 5: there's guys sitting on the bench that have proven that
Speaker 5: they could put the ball in the basket. And I
Speaker 5: don't want to hear neither of these guys play defense
Speaker 5: because no one's fucking playing defense out there for New York.
Speaker 5: So I don't want to care. I don't care about
Speaker 5: the defense. They need some scoring. But you know, to
Speaker 5: answer your question, I definitely trust Miami with this. We
Speaker 5: all know that, like Shaq says, you need the others,
Speaker 5: but your superstars have to carry you in the playoffs,
Speaker 5: and the Knicks don't have any superstars yet. I think
Speaker 5: Jayalen Brunson is a star in learning what becoming a
Speaker 5: superstar means night in, night out, to be able to
Speaker 5: carry your team. Julius Randall with the bad high ankle
Speaker 5: spring going into the playoffs, I don't feel like he's
Speaker 5: really found any rhythm. And then, like Jack said, when
Speaker 5: they're able to take stuff away from him, he doesn't
Speaker 5: really have the ability to counter. So you know, I
Speaker 5: think Miami will close this out. If it's not next game,
Speaker 5: it'll be for sure back in Miami and be able
Speaker 5: to advance to the Eastern Finals. And then again, like
Speaker 5: I said earlier, the Lakers need to finish the Warriors
Speaker 5: off sooner than later, because if the game goes seven,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna trust the Warriors their pace and their ability
Speaker 5: to get hot at any second to win this series.
Speaker 1: And in their own building too. We gotta remember where
Speaker 1: this series will end up if it ends up in
Speaker 1: a game seven. Let's switch over on the other part
Speaker 1: of the West. Nuggets Suns nodded up at two to
Speaker 1: two First of all, I want to give our guy
Speaker 1: Jamal Crawford credit. When Phoenix was down two, he insisted
Speaker 1: the Suns were gonna come back. So shout out Jamal
Speaker 1: for that, and shout out to Phoenix. Since the Sun's
Speaker 1: one game four despite Joker dropping fifty three points, Katie
Speaker 1: and book I mean incredible in game four, very efficient
Speaker 1: seventy two points combined, which is a crazy sentence to say.
Speaker 1: And I would say, you can't depend on those two
Speaker 1: guys to do that every game, But guys, Devin Booker
Speaker 1: has been pretty much doing this every game. He just
Speaker 1: had the best two game shooting performance of the last decade.
Speaker 1: So what do you think, Boogie. Can the Sons rely
Speaker 1: on KD and d book to get them through here?
Speaker 3: I believe?
Speaker 2: So where we all know what Kevin Durant is, so,
Speaker 2: I mean, his talent speaks for himself. Devin Booker is
Speaker 2: still a guy trying to, you know, kind of prove
Speaker 2: and make his name in his league. He's basically a superstar,
Speaker 2: but he's still trying to get to that next level
Speaker 2: with the KDS, the Lebron's and those types.
Speaker 3: So this is a great stage for him as well.
Speaker 3: With the absence of CP.
Speaker 2: This is a step for him to be able to
Speaker 2: step up and step up into his leadership role and
Speaker 2: push his team to new heights. But they're performing at
Speaker 2: all time high. They're playing championship basketball. There's no doubt
Speaker 2: in my mind they can push his team to the
Speaker 2: next round. So I can see them getting past them.
Speaker 7: I think. I think for me, I think I think
Speaker 7: he got a.
Speaker 6: Lot to do with guys like Shamit and uh and
Speaker 6: the other key players the point are because if you
Speaker 6: look at it, Rag, even though Booker and Katie having
Speaker 6: these big games, you put Murray and Yokus points together,
Speaker 6: they still outscoring them. They still they still scoring more
Speaker 6: points if you could, if you can bind them.
Speaker 7: So it's a supporting cast to me.
Speaker 6: You know, the big shot Shaman came and came and
Speaker 6: made the other guys that come in and defensively making
Speaker 6: it harder on Murray and Yokis just just at least
Speaker 6: they trying.
Speaker 7: I think Gordon has to give them for more.
Speaker 6: If he don't give them more, He's doing an okay
Speaker 6: job on defense, but you know, you can't stop KD.
Speaker 6: You got to give them something on offense. You can't
Speaker 6: rely too much on Bruce Brown. He's gonna be your
Speaker 6: energy guy. He gonna get some tip in, some rebounds,
Speaker 6: some big plays because he played with a lot of energy.
Speaker 6: Gordon has to give them more on all on the
Speaker 6: offensive end because if not, they're definitely going home.
Speaker 4: I would also say to Piggybacker.
Speaker 5: I think Michael Porter Jr. Needs to give them more
Speaker 5: on the offensive end as well. To Phoenix's credit, and
Speaker 5: I guess Manti Williams's ability to wake up, he had
Speaker 5: to go to that bench.
Speaker 4: I mean he has scoring on that bench. He has
Speaker 4: Terrence ROSSI has t J. Warren.
Speaker 5: You know, we speak to Lonnie Walker's herogues last night
Speaker 5: and we definitely want to shout him out. But the
Speaker 5: Phoenix Suns don't went without shammit last game or his
Speaker 5: ability to have seventeen points, and I think he had
Speaker 5: three straight threes, four out of five threes in the
Speaker 5: fourth quarter.
Speaker 4: He was huge.
Speaker 5: So I think his Manni's ability to trust his bench
Speaker 5: was important. But then I want to touch on another
Speaker 5: person that I kind of feel like it is on
Speaker 5: some Jordan Poole type shit, and that's Ayden.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's getting he's getting his ass toasted every
Speaker 5: single game out played and we're not. And I don't
Speaker 5: even think it's high expectations. I don't even say this
Speaker 5: with no disrespect. They're not expecting him to give them
Speaker 5: jokic numbers. Bro, you just got paid. You got to
Speaker 5: give them some kind of numbers. And I feel like
Speaker 5: I feel like they're better when they have the other
Speaker 5: dude out there. What's the other dude with the euro
Speaker 5: dude with the shaved head on the side.
Speaker 7: Like a mullet.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Bro, he plays so hard out there and he crashes
Speaker 5: the glass and he doesn't care about getting touches.
Speaker 4: He gets his points where they come.
Speaker 5: Aiden is out there acting like a little prima donna,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, like not shaking people's hands
Speaker 5: and having an attitude when you get put out the game.
Speaker 5: But bro, you're not doing shit, Like you're not doing
Speaker 5: nothing when you're out there. But then you want to
Speaker 5: whine and complain and have bad energy. And I remember,
Speaker 5: this is why Phoenix didn't necessarily want to give him money.
Speaker 5: It makes I know that they didn't necessarily want to
Speaker 5: give him money when contract time came up because of
Speaker 5: they didn't know that he was already a handful of handle.
Speaker 5: They didn't know how he was going to act with
Speaker 5: the bag, and now he's got the bag and he's
Speaker 5: acting funny again. So again this is not to knock
Speaker 5: him because they need him, but he's not giving them
Speaker 5: anything out there. He's not giving them anything. And we
Speaker 5: know what Booker, we know what Ktie are going to do.
Speaker 5: But these others that we mentioned, but I think the
Speaker 5: most important other is is ating. Because Aiden is a
Speaker 5: very solid double double, should be an eighteen twelve guy.
Speaker 5: They're not expecting him to score fifty or forty like Yogic.
Speaker 5: This is the reason why Yokic is the form, you know,
Speaker 5: reigning MVP. They just need him to get come out
Speaker 5: and give me sixteen to eighteen twelve rebounds and just be,
Speaker 5: you know, someone who's gonna block shot and change. And
Speaker 5: I think he's so worried about the other shit that
Speaker 5: he's not given them too much anything. So shout out
Speaker 5: to Mani for not falling for the shit. You know,
Speaker 5: he's playing that other guy when he feels like he
Speaker 5: needs to play him. He played him down the stretch
Speaker 5: and had aid and mad. But at the end of
Speaker 5: the day, man, it's about winning. It's that senular goal
Speaker 5: you know that everyone wants to get to, so without CP,
Speaker 5: without aid and giving them very minimal Booker and KD
Speaker 5: have been absolutely amazing, But on the flip side of
Speaker 5: so have Murray and Jokich and this has been a really,
Speaker 5: really fun series. So there's some guys that have to
Speaker 5: step up on both sides. But as far as star
Speaker 5: power in this game, the stars have given everything that
Speaker 5: they have and it's been fun to watch.
Speaker 2: Pig backing off of Matt definitely has to get his
Speaker 2: head out of his ass. This is also a former
Speaker 2: number one pick, so to say there aren't any expectations
Speaker 2: for him, it's just a damn lie. I'm expecting twenty
Speaker 2: and ten from him every night, not because he's specifically
Speaker 2: the number one pick, because he has the ability to
Speaker 2: do so and it's up to him to go do it. Yes,
Speaker 2: he's nicknaming himself dominating and all that, Well, go show
Speaker 2: me you can dominate a game. That's what Those are
Speaker 2: my expectations from you, and I haven't seen it thus far.
Speaker 2: So you know, all the criticism and all the you know,
Speaker 2: the bad pub he's getting right now is well deserved.
Speaker 2: It's up to him to step up his game and
Speaker 2: go contribute to helping his team win the championship.
Speaker 5: Because we all know one or two big games will
Speaker 5: change the whole native change. You know, the media is
Speaker 5: all about out there that dominating.
Speaker 3: And what.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you go out there and be that dominating
Speaker 5: that you named yourself, and the whole narrative changes and
Speaker 5: you put yourself your team in a position to advance
Speaker 5: to the next round.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I believe Dan Drayton can be a presence in this league.
Speaker 1: I just do. I just need him to do it.
Speaker 3: It's a mindset thing.
Speaker 1: Six or Celtics guys like it to to. Also. Headed
Speaker 1: into Game five, they got a very good look at
Speaker 1: their investment in James Harden. Right two clutch signature James
Speaker 1: Harden games. Here's a great step. James Harden was one
Speaker 1: for ten on three point attempts in the last thirty
Speaker 1: seconds of playoff games going into this series, and he's
Speaker 1: nailed two of them to win games and during this series,
Speaker 1: so he has changed some of his narrative around. But
Speaker 1: what do you guys think stack, Is this the point
Speaker 1: where if he plays well, the Sixers win or is
Speaker 1: this actually on embiid at this point in game five
Speaker 1: to come out and just lay down a monster MVP game.
Speaker 6: Well, just let me say this too, right, I think
Speaker 6: I'm not taking away anything from a way for Boston's
Speaker 6: coach now, but I think when Emy was dead, they
Speaker 6: paid more attention to detail. You know, Emy came from
Speaker 6: that Emay came from that San Antonio cloth where I
Speaker 6: came out of. And I know how important to Scotland
Speaker 6: reports that's sitting on your sitting on your locker coming
Speaker 6: before every game that you have to read to know
Speaker 6: every player's tendencies. Right, If you let James Harden go
Speaker 6: left to the rim, you gonna get cooked. If you
Speaker 6: send them right without staying close and allow him to
Speaker 6: step back, you gonna get cooked.
Speaker 7: Jaylen Brown, I'm not leaving alone in the corner, Jaylen Brown.
Speaker 6: You never leave the corner at the end of a
Speaker 6: game for a wide open three till the hottest.
Speaker 7: Player on the court. Excuse me, bug, you never do that.
Speaker 7: You never do that.
Speaker 6: So all those little things like that, Rach is way
Speaker 6: more important than Embeid are hard and having a big game.
Speaker 6: Boston blew that game. Why did you wait so late
Speaker 6: to go for a shot when you down one knowing
Speaker 6: that you might need to tip in or an extra shot,
Speaker 6: like a lot of those things are showing that the
Speaker 6: experience that they showed last year will making it to
Speaker 6: the finals. Under Emake, they lost some of that. They
Speaker 6: lost some of that because a lot of the games
Speaker 6: that they lost, specially in these playoffs, is because lack
Speaker 6: of concentration, lack of plan, attention to detail, and just
Speaker 6: going just playing free basketball and not understanding what's the
Speaker 6: stake in the playoffs. Each possession counts. So I'm I'm
Speaker 6: crediting up Ja. James is playing well. He proved me wrong.
Speaker 6: I said James couldn't get fort the multiple games in
Speaker 6: the playoffs, so I stayed corrected. James is doing that.
Speaker 6: But the way Boston is, the way Boston is playing
Speaker 6: and not paying attention to detail and giving James Harden
Speaker 6: a great score, one of the best scores we've ever seen.
Speaker 6: Rates to have to go left and to be able
Speaker 6: to go right, and they just giving him whatevery want,
Speaker 6: not taking nothing away. I don't see them really were
Speaker 6: focused on winning this series and being and paying a
Speaker 6: teaching detailed the way Boston normally has in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: I agree with that.
Speaker 5: I think late game execution in ex's and o's and
Speaker 5: I spoke about this song on ESPN the other day,
Speaker 5: and we all know that sometimes you take the end
Speaker 5: of the game. Sometimes coaches don't want to call time
Speaker 5: out because they don't want to allow the defense to
Speaker 5: get set. So you go and you run because you
Speaker 5: have players you can trust. And I get that it
Speaker 5: didn't work. If you get that same opportunity again to
Speaker 5: close the game in overtime, you have to call a
Speaker 5: fucking timeout, and you have to get your two best
Speaker 5: players involved in either Tatum and not that they don't
Speaker 5: have face in Marcus Smart, because Marcus Smart is a
Speaker 5: motherfucking gamer. He's hit big shots his whole career. They
Speaker 5: trust him taking those shots. But you want to get
Speaker 5: your two best players in a situation that one of
Speaker 5: those two guys are going to get the shot, So again,
Speaker 5: you want to I kind of gave him a pass
Speaker 5: for not calling a timeout at the end of regulation
Speaker 5: because there are a lot of coaches in this game,
Speaker 5: Steve Kuby and one of them that I played for
Speaker 5: that just go. I got guys out there I can trust, Brown, Smart,
Speaker 5: Tatum have been here. I trust him. I don't want,
Speaker 5: you know, seventy six ers to set up on defense.
Speaker 5: They got a shot, it didn't go okay. You get
Speaker 5: that same opportunity another time in the same game, in
Speaker 5: an overtime situation, you have to call a timeout. So Jack,
Speaker 5: I think that's a great point of just Missoula learning
Speaker 5: on the fly.
Speaker 7: He's been.
Speaker 5: He's done a great job this year taking over in
Speaker 5: kind of hostile situations, but there's still some learning to
Speaker 5: do on his side, and I think he understands that
Speaker 5: and he'll grow from this. One thing I also wanted
Speaker 5: to add was embat is not healthy, and I think
Speaker 5: the only reason why he is playing is because he
Speaker 5: was named MVP. He's dragging his leg huh.
Speaker 1: And is the playoffs right?
Speaker 5: What's what I'm saying. Well, he's just been named MVP
Speaker 5: where he could have been named MVP the few prior years,
Speaker 5: and it's the playoffs and now they have a chance
Speaker 5: to win. So I think embiid is playing on a
Speaker 5: legue and a half, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 5: I think it is crucial for James to continue to
Speaker 5: be partly that dog we saw in Houston, with the
Speaker 5: intelligence that he's shown that he's grown over here with
Speaker 5: the seventy six ers, because if you think about it,
Speaker 5: everyone used to say, well, you can't win with James
Speaker 5: scoring fifty and doing all this shit. So he's just like, Okay,
Speaker 5: maybe they're right. I'm gonna change my game. So now
Speaker 5: I'm a twenty one to ten guy. But now you
Speaker 5: guys are saying that I don't have it no more.
Speaker 5: So I think he just needs to say fuck all
Speaker 5: of us and whoever else is talking out there and
Speaker 5: be himself because he is one of the greatest scorers
Speaker 5: we've ever seen. But I think he needs to look
Speaker 5: for his options because outside of EMBIID, I want James.
Speaker 5: If it's not in bed taking a shot, I would
Speaker 5: want James taking a shot. Obviously, we know other guys
Speaker 5: have to get going, but James has to be a
Speaker 5: little more selfish and stay aggressive, knowing that EMBIID is
Speaker 5: not fully healthy. EMBIAD is still going to give you
Speaker 5: thirty on a leg and a half, but James has
Speaker 5: to be up there. They have to be one of those,
Speaker 5: you know, Jokic and Murray d or is there, Kad
Speaker 5: and Booker dal was as far as scoring every night,
Speaker 5: those two have to do of the bulk of the
Speaker 5: scoring and hope that some of the others are able
Speaker 5: to step up.
Speaker 1: We got a little bit more rest for Joelle before
Speaker 1: this next game because of the early start that they
Speaker 1: had in the last game. It's like a two and
Speaker 1: a half day rest. So I don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 1: I'm still looking for him. I know. I agree he's
Speaker 1: hurt that me is is not good, and there's no
Speaker 1: question about that. I'm not expecting miracles, but I do
Speaker 1: think he's the MVP, and he's the leader of that team.
Speaker 1: He's the best player, and I want to see him.
Speaker 1: I want to see him have a monster game. I
Speaker 1: just as a fan of the game, I want to
Speaker 1: see that at some point. So let's get to the
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Speaker 1: Who do you think in the next round boogie do
Speaker 1: you feel is going to be the guy that we
Speaker 1: are talking about.
Speaker 3: The most East or West?
Speaker 1: All right, know, let's go west, Wes.
Speaker 2: I think it'll be somebody. I think I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: with Anthony Davis. I think he's on a tear right now. Defensively,
Speaker 2: I think he's pushing his team to new heights. In
Speaker 2: some people's eyes, the Lakers are overachieving based on how
Speaker 2: they started the year off. So I can definitely see
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis being that guy in the West, and when
Speaker 2: it comes to the East, gonna go with James Harden.
Speaker 2: I think they got a great chance of getting past
Speaker 2: the Boston Celtics team just how they've been playing lately.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, the health is kind of up and down
Speaker 2: with MB so it's gonna force you know, a little
Speaker 2: more responsibility on James Harden.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: And I think we have a chance to see the
Speaker 2: James Harden the vote where he is coming out just
Speaker 2: playing this game, you know, the thirty point forty point
Speaker 2: fifty point triple doubles. I think he, I think, is
Speaker 2: still there. It's just up to him to go out
Speaker 2: there and do it. So I'm gonna go with those.
Speaker 1: Two stack the silver approval.
Speaker 7: Uh, that's that's two good picks.
Speaker 6: I'll go with. I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go
Speaker 6: with Tatum. I think he's due to explode. He's been,
Speaker 6: he's been struggling, he's still trying to figure out. I
Speaker 6: think he's just due to explode Rach and we've seen
Speaker 6: him do that and just go on to tear, So
Speaker 6: I think he's due. But I'm gonna go with Mary
Speaker 6: from Denver. Uh, people ain't been talking about him. You know,
Speaker 6: he's been balling, he's been, he's he's been doing this thing.
Speaker 6: I think this next game he's finna have a real
Speaker 6: break game. I think we're gonna be talking about him.
Speaker 6: So I'm gonna go with Tatum and Murray.
Speaker 5: Now, this is this series, right, this is not the
Speaker 5: the Western and Eastern Finals, right, We're talking about this round.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently Nate's.
Speaker 5: Telling me, Okay, Booker for me, I've just been so impressed,
Speaker 5: and I think you're so right Booker. I think he's
Speaker 5: on the way to be in a superstar, but these
Speaker 5: playoffs are gonna stamp him.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: He's been absolutely incredible.
Speaker 5: Uh consistency shooting a sixty percent from the field type
Speaker 5: forty point games is insane. So I got Devin Booker
Speaker 5: on the road, and I just believe in Boston so much.
Speaker 5: I want to say Brown if Jack is gonna go Tatum,
Speaker 5: I want to say Brown because I think he's He's
Speaker 5: one of the best two way players in the game.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 5: He's always looking to explode players with a game a
Speaker 5: lot of confidence. So, and that's not to say that
Speaker 5: I don't believe in Philly, because I really like Philly
Speaker 5: and I'm rooting for them for a lot of different reasons.
Speaker 5: But I'm really a fan of this Boston team in
Speaker 5: the Brown and Tatum duo.
Speaker 1: Look Jalen Brown, despite leaving hard and alone in the
Speaker 1: corner at the end of Game four, he has been
Speaker 1: Boston's best player this series. So it's a great pick.
Speaker 1: I also want to say Kevin Durant does not get
Speaker 1: enough credit for the multiplier effect. I want every time
Speaker 1: we talk about Devin Booker and how legit amazing he
Speaker 1: has been, and obviously that comes from d book and
Speaker 1: all the work and time he has put in, But
Speaker 1: he said it himself. He does not get half of
Speaker 1: these looks if Kevin Durant was not on the floor
Speaker 1: with him doing all the shit that Kevin Durant does.
Speaker 1: So I'm sorry when we talk about KD and how
Speaker 1: good he is, it goes beyond what he does himself.
Speaker 1: It is the effect on other players, and we are
Speaker 1: seeing it right now with Devin Booker. I just think
Speaker 1: we need to include that in every kind.
Speaker 6: Of and some of them shots book hitting, OKD, ain't
Speaker 6: got nothing to do with it, right, some of those
Speaker 6: shooting I'm with two people that ain't got nothing to
Speaker 6: do with KD.
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree. I'm just saying that it changed.
Speaker 1: Devin Booker wasn't wasn't playing like this in previous playoff series.
Speaker 4: In previous series, definitely, I think we touched.
Speaker 5: I think we touched on this on one of these
Speaker 5: What's Burning at the very beginning when book was cooking,
Speaker 5: we called it the KD effect.
Speaker 4: Rachel, I think it was.
Speaker 7: It was.
Speaker 5: It might have been just you and I and I
Speaker 5: and I agree jack Book still has to make these shots,
Speaker 5: but you got to think most of the time, you're
Speaker 5: probably gonna put your best defender on KD, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean. So although he's gonna get Books still
Speaker 5: got to make the ship and make the move.
Speaker 4: The best players normally on KD.
Speaker 5: So I completely agree, and I love and and I
Speaker 5: think we saw this, not to get off track, but
Speaker 5: I think we saw this a little bit when KD
Speaker 5: was with Golden State, where Steph would go off and
Speaker 5: and and obviously Steph is great. This is not taking
Speaker 5: anything away from Steph, but KD is seven feet tall,
Speaker 5: so he probably got the best defense and Steph was
Speaker 5: going off and doing it. And then came when when
Speaker 5: when when when they were able to get into the finals,
Speaker 5: that's when you see KD go on a tear. So
Speaker 5: if Book can continue to do this and KDE kind
Speaker 5: of play his part and they be able to get
Speaker 5: through this next round, it's going to be scary because
Speaker 5: that's probably the scariest duo left in the playoffs, those two,
Speaker 5: because those guys could fuck Aradikaby for ninety one game.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's how good both those guys are.
Speaker 4: Scoring.
Speaker 5: But I agree, Rachel, it's definitely the KD effect and
Speaker 5: he's not getting the credit because Devin Booker deserves a
Speaker 5: ton of the credit because he's out here cooking. But
Speaker 5: I definitely see that it wasn't like this before KT
Speaker 5: got here. And that's not even a knockout book. It
Speaker 5: just is what it is.
Speaker 1: I just think when we talk about the package of
Speaker 1: what Kevin Durant brings to your team, there's a million
Speaker 1: things we talk about, right, the shot, everything that he
Speaker 1: does with the ball, But you also have to talk
Speaker 1: about this. This is a part of his game. Is
Speaker 1: that how much he makes his teammates better and how
Speaker 1: many more opportunities he gives them. We just got to
Speaker 1: talk about it when we talk about the package it
Speaker 1: skills that he has because we're seeing it again with
Speaker 1: Devin Booker. All Right, you can start your NBA Top
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Speaker 1: this postseason. Wednesday Night's games the Knicks at Home three
Speaker 1: and a half point favorites stack. Do you think New
Speaker 1: York can force a game six?
Speaker 7: Absolutely not.
Speaker 6: Jimmy Butler is gonna go to New York and have
Speaker 6: an unbelievable game.
Speaker 7: It's gonna be one for the age.
Speaker 6: You know, everybody have a big all the stars have
Speaker 6: a big just that big one, that one big game
Speaker 6: in the Garden.
Speaker 7: This is Jimmy's right here, and it's gonna be amazing. Rachel,
Speaker 7: strap your seat belts.
Speaker 4: I think they can.
Speaker 5: I think the crowd at the Garden is gonna be
Speaker 5: rocking basketball. That'll be the last game of the season
Speaker 5: in the Garden. I think they'll be able to get
Speaker 5: it back to Miami. But I think when the bus
Speaker 5: gets back to Miami, just bring an X your bag
Speaker 5: because you can start your vacation after Game six. But
Speaker 5: I think that they can. I think the Knicks can.
Speaker 5: I think the Knicks can get it back to Miami,
Speaker 5: but I think the bustle stopped there. But because I
Speaker 5: know the Garden is going to be rocking. Uh, these
Speaker 5: guys understand they want to put on in front of
Speaker 5: their home crowd, and I think they will. Even if
Speaker 5: Jimmy has a good game or a big game, which
Speaker 5: he he has these entire playoffs. I think the Knicks
Speaker 5: can get it back to Miami, but just bring an
Speaker 5: extra suitcase, uh, and just start your vacation after game six?
Speaker 1: What going on this?
Speaker 2: And I think, I think the Knicks. But yeah, it's
Speaker 2: definitely time to pack your bags when you get to Miami.
Speaker 2: The Caribbean is about an hour flight from Miami.
Speaker 4: So what I'm saying, there's a lot of little islands.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of little islands right from Miami.
Speaker 1: You can go to go to Puerto Rico, go go,
Speaker 1: go see right there.
Speaker 2: I think sooner than we think, Like like you said earlier,
Speaker 2: Miami is just flat out dominated the Knicks, so I
Speaker 2: don't expect anything different.
Speaker 1: All Right, it's good to the other game of Wednesday,
Speaker 1: Lakers Warriors Golden State is six point favorites. I actually
Speaker 1: couldn't believe six point favorites. I know they're at home.
Speaker 1: Matter you're surprised, first of all at the odds, and
Speaker 1: also do you believe that that's accurate?
Speaker 5: I don't get you know, I've been looking at these
Speaker 5: odds of late because I've been doing more in game commentating,
Speaker 5: and it's so crazy.
Speaker 4: These odd Makers are so fucking good, Like.
Speaker 7: How do they know?
Speaker 5: Like how did they know these scores? It's crazy to me,
Speaker 5: But yeah, I do have I do have the Warriors
Speaker 5: going back to the crib and just taking it one
Speaker 5: game at a time. Although this is supposed to be
Speaker 5: the game that Ad explodes offensively, so they need to
Speaker 5: watch out. But I feel like going back home, you
Speaker 5: know some of their players that had off nights, we'll
Speaker 5: get back on. We would love to see Jordan Poole
Speaker 5: find his rhythm. And I think the Golden State takes
Speaker 5: this one game at a time. Their goal is to
Speaker 5: win it home, get it back to LA and then
Speaker 5: get it back to the Bay if they possibly can.
Speaker 5: And like I've been saying the Lakers, if they're going
Speaker 5: to win this series, they need to end it next
Speaker 5: game or in six games, because if it goes seven games,
Speaker 5: I just feel like, you know, the Warriors pace and
Speaker 5: experience is going to override the Lakers' length and ability.
Speaker 1: Well that's interesting too, because the pressure changes a little bit,
Speaker 1: right the Warriors if they win the next game, especially
Speaker 1: if they have a big game, Right, everybody knows where
Speaker 1: Game seven is, right, So Boogie, do you think that
Speaker 1: the Lakers will start to get a little tight if
Speaker 1: they do get it to If the Warriors can get
Speaker 1: it to a game six, do you think then the
Speaker 1: Lakers can feel a little tight at home being like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, we have this is our game seven.
Speaker 1: We gotta win this one.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. This is a dangerous Warriors thing.
Speaker 2: We've said it time and time again, and when it
Speaker 2: comes to the Warriors, the series isn't over until it's
Speaker 2: actually over. So as long as these guys have life
Speaker 2: and fight, it's a chance for them to win it.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure everybody in the Warriors' locker room is
Speaker 2: confident that they can come back and make a run
Speaker 2: and win this series. And I'm pretty sure everybody in
Speaker 2: that Lakers locker rooms on their toes and sense of
Speaker 2: urgency is flowing through that locker room like we need
Speaker 2: to get this game sealed and done. So it's definitely
Speaker 2: a danger there. And you know, the Warriors are the Warriors.
Speaker 2: They have a chance that coming back and win it.
Speaker 2: So it is what it is.
Speaker 5: And also remember this corps has come back from three
Speaker 5: to run against Oklahoma City but also lost a three
Speaker 5: one to Lebron in Cleveland, So I think there's a
Speaker 5: little bit of understanding like, hey, we've been here before,
Speaker 5: we can do it again. But let's get this motherfucker
Speaker 5: bron back. We should have another championship, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean. So I think there's a lot and a
Speaker 5: lot of confidence, not arrogance, but a lot of confidence
Speaker 5: for their core three guys to get the rest of
Speaker 5: their team ready.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna get to the All NBA teams
Speaker 1: because they're being announced on Wednesday as well. Stack, I
Speaker 1: want you to go first. Who were your choices for
Speaker 1: first Team All NBA. You're supposed to put in two guards,
Speaker 1: two forwards in the center. Although remember a lot of
Speaker 1: guys are listed at multiple positions, and I will say
Speaker 1: I will reveal my because I was a voter this year.
Speaker 1: I do feel like the game is positionless right now.
Speaker 1: We certainly see guys the reason they're listed in multiple
Speaker 1: positions is because they play multiple positions. So to me,
Speaker 1: three of the best players in the game this year
Speaker 1: were Yannis Jokic and Embiid, and they all made my
Speaker 1: first Team All NBA because they were available to put
Speaker 1: in those spots. And I thought they were three of
Speaker 1: the five best players in the game. So I'll start
Speaker 1: with you, though, Stack, who would you put in your list?
Speaker 7: So I would go I would go Jannis and be Jokic, Darien.
Speaker 4: Fox Ooh, first team, I like it.
Speaker 7: Yeah? Uh were talking about regular season, right, yeah?
Speaker 1: Regular season? And this is the one where you pay
Speaker 1: to me, this is the one where I pay the
Speaker 1: most attention to. How many games did they play?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 2: Were there?
Speaker 1: What was their actual performance? I think when we get
Speaker 1: into like Defensive Player of the Year or MVP, it's
Speaker 1: a little bit the criteria get a little bit more
Speaker 1: about what impact did you have on the game? But
Speaker 1: for all NBA, to me, it is a little bit
Speaker 1: more statistics driven of sort of what did you do
Speaker 1: out on the floor this year?
Speaker 5: Yeah, and Rach, when you're considering that, do you consider
Speaker 5: their team positioning? I mean you're someone who votes. I've
Speaker 5: never really taken it serious. Do you consider what their
Speaker 5: team did to or not that matter?
Speaker 1: I do, but not again, not as much with this
Speaker 1: So with MVP, with Defensive Player of the Year, with
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. For me, how their team did
Speaker 1: matters to me, right, what impact they had on the
Speaker 1: game matters to me, even if they didn't play as
Speaker 1: many games. To me, if we're talking about an MVP
Speaker 1: discussion or most Improved or any of those, the impact
Speaker 1: when you were out on the floor matters to me
Speaker 1: for all NBA. For me, and look, every voter does
Speaker 1: things differently, and that's part of why we have controversy.
Speaker 1: But for me, when we talk about all NBA, to me,
Speaker 1: that's really the record of what happened in this particular
Speaker 1: season with your individual performance. I'll give you, guys an example.
Speaker 1: One of my guards on first Teamba with Shay Gilder's
Speaker 1: Alexandy because his numbers were ridiculous and what he was
Speaker 1: able to do this season was ridiculous, and of course
Speaker 1: the thunder did not finish at the top of the NBA.
Speaker 1: But to me, he deserved that All NBA slot as
Speaker 1: opposed to a guard on a team that did better
Speaker 1: but did not put out the individual performance that he did.
Speaker 1: So that's how I look at all NBA, and everyone
Speaker 1: does it differently. A lot of people I am in
Speaker 1: the minority of putting Jokic, Embiide and Yanis all on
Speaker 1: the first team. Most people will say, you could only
Speaker 1: put two of those guys, and you got to put
Speaker 1: at least one into the second team. But to me,
Speaker 1: it is a positionless game a lot at the time,
Speaker 1: they're listed at both positions. I'm using that up to say,
Speaker 1: these guys had the best individual seasons, I'm putting them
Speaker 1: on first team All NBA. So everyone's a little bit different.
Speaker 1: But that's an example of how I did the guard slot.
Speaker 3: I got, I got my list raised, I'm ready to go.
Speaker 2: All right, what you got you want to say, Dean Jokics,
Speaker 2: mb Yannis, that's first team all the NBA.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 4: Nice, So say say it against Shaye.
Speaker 3: Mbid. First thing.
Speaker 7: I'm going to know.
Speaker 6: I'm going to those four and I'm adding Tatum.
Speaker 1: So right, So Tatum is Tatum is gonna definitely be
Speaker 1: in a lot of people's first team ballots. Luka Doncic
Speaker 1: is going to be in a lot of people's first
Speaker 1: team ballots because, again, despite how the team finished, his
Speaker 1: individual performance this year was sick.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So my here goes my seven and I'm gonna put
Speaker 5: five of them in. So I got Steph, Tatum, Giannis, Embiid, Joker,
Speaker 5: Luca and Booker. So I'm gonna put out of those five,
Speaker 5: I got to put two on the second team. Yes,
Speaker 5: and I think, unfortunately, I'm gonna have to move Booker
Speaker 5: and Joker to the second team, and I don't know
Speaker 5: if Steph is gonna make first team. I mean, I
Speaker 5: don't know if he'll make that.
Speaker 1: You didn't play that's again and again missed a lot
Speaker 1: of games until he missed a lot of games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you played fifty six games this season?
Speaker 4: You're right, that's tough. Yeah, Actually, all right, Steph.
Speaker 1: But here's what's interesting. So Steph did make one of
Speaker 1: my later teams, and the way the voting is supposed
Speaker 1: to be, it's been reported in the new CBA, is
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't even be allowed to vote for Steph
Speaker 1: because the reporting is that you've had a minimum of
Speaker 1: sixty five games, and a ton of guys who are
Speaker 1: going to make these three All NBA teams wouldn't even
Speaker 1: be allowed to be voted for. So I think it's
Speaker 1: going to be very interesting when we do get the
Speaker 1: final results later this week to see how many of
Speaker 1: the guys on the three All NBA teams wouldn't even
Speaker 1: be in contention and off the board, which I think,
Speaker 1: to me, those minimums are a mistake. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't think this was a good decision by the NBA.
Speaker 1: I know that they're trying to get guys to rest less,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure that that's actually gonna matter. I
Speaker 1: think when it comes down to it, whether you make
Speaker 1: All NBA at the end of the year or not
Speaker 1: is not going to affect whether you play a game
Speaker 1: in January. And uh, yeah, I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: that it's just going to take away from the stars
Speaker 1: getting to be stars.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 5: I got my five, change me Shaye Tatum, Giannis embiid Luca.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then who are you putting? You put in
Speaker 1: Jokich on the second team?
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, him and Booker.
Speaker 5: I love that Fox got some first team mentions. Uh,
Speaker 5: definitely because he was a killer. But yeah, I think
Speaker 5: he'll probably be a second or third team this year.
Speaker 5: I have a question for the group, if we're talking
Speaker 5: just straight regular season. Is Brunson an All NBA performer?
Speaker 1: Let's see, I'm looking at my list here. I do
Speaker 1: not have him, I had on the second team. I had.
Speaker 1: I put Tatum on the second team, which I know
Speaker 1: producer Nate is having a heart attack over here, but
Speaker 1: I put Tatum and Jimmy Butler Demonta Sebonis, Uh, Donovan
Speaker 1: Mitchell and Damian Lillard on my second.
Speaker 2: I have a better year than Donovan Mitchell. So Jalen, Yeah, Jalen,
Speaker 2: I don't see Jaylen making when on Ye.
Speaker 7: It was just a question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't. I can't see him being put above.
Speaker 2: You know some of the other Dame I forgot, Dame
Speaker 2: had a few fifty balls this year.
Speaker 4: Your Dame average a career high, didn't he Dame average
Speaker 4: like thirty?
Speaker 3: On my second team, he could possibly be first thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah right, we're talking just regular season. I can't forget Luca.
Speaker 3: I forget.
Speaker 5: You can't forget Shay. I think Rachie made a great point.
Speaker 5: Sh Shaye killed this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he was first team for me. So he's
Speaker 1: gonna be good. It's gonna be very interesting because also
Speaker 1: you all know that contract numbers are tied to all
Speaker 1: NBA too, So I am I am very curious how
Speaker 1: this experiment and the NBA and the Players Association is
Speaker 1: going to work out with these minimums, because I think
Speaker 1: you're going to see the all NBA teams in the future.
Speaker 1: This might be the last year these teams announced Wednesday
Speaker 1: might be the last year, we see true all NBA teams,
Speaker 1: and then from now on it might just be a
Speaker 1: playing a contest of how many games did you play?
Speaker 3: But we'll see.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Buggy. Thank you so much for joining
Speaker 1: us all the way from Puerto Rico. Good luck on you, you're.
Speaker 7: Rach.
Speaker 4: I wanted to say something real quick before we bounce. Obviously, Boogie,
Speaker 4: good luck.
Speaker 5: If I wasn't engaged, i'd be your roommate out there
Speaker 5: right now, and I wouldn't be playing. I'd just be
Speaker 5: moving them in and out for us. But I'm engaged,
Speaker 5: so I can't do that for you. But I really
Speaker 5: just wanted to say something to the younger players pool Aiden,
Speaker 5: even Dylan Brooks.
Speaker 4: And and and.
Speaker 5: Because I never wanted to be an older dude that
Speaker 5: sat back and bash younger guys. And I think none
Speaker 5: of us wanted, like, that's not what we're about. I
Speaker 5: just feel like all of us came in the game
Speaker 5: and unfortunately, Boogie, you never had an og VET, but
Speaker 5: some of these younger guys just I think we're saying
Speaker 5: what a VET would pull you to the side and
Speaker 5: say quietly, like to your face, like eye to eye,
Speaker 5: so you understood exactly what we were saying. You know
Speaker 5: what I mean, we all came in the game with
Speaker 5: some real ogs. You know that they put their arm
Speaker 5: around us. So it's not that, you know, we want
Speaker 5: to sit up here and ship on you guys. But
Speaker 5: it's just like this new era feels like they don't
Speaker 5: have to talk to the media. They make a ton
Speaker 5: of money. It's all about them. It's not about the team,
Speaker 5: and it's you know, as players removed. Would you just
Speaker 5: kind of look at it and wish, like, damn, if
Speaker 5: he was a little bit older, I think he would
Speaker 5: see it different. Or if he had someone that he
Speaker 5: trusted in his corner, you know, Dylan Brooks if he
Speaker 5: has someone he respected, and John Moran if they has that.
Speaker 5: And that's not to say they don't respect Steven Adams.
Speaker 5: I just don't know the situation, but it looks like
Speaker 5: that was one of the teams that needed a bet
Speaker 5: to be able to pool some of these younger guys aside, Like, yo,
Speaker 5: you guys are great, you guys are this, but this
Speaker 5: is where we need to focus.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 5: Obviously it's hard to say because Dre is a great
Speaker 5: leader and we've heard nothing about him, but him being
Speaker 5: a great leader the whole time he's been at Golden State,
Speaker 5: but obviously that situation early.
Speaker 4: In the season is kind of lost.
Speaker 5: I don't know if he's lost his touch with the
Speaker 5: rest of the team, but he's definitely lost his touch
Speaker 5: with someone like Jordan Poole, who I feel like if
Speaker 5: that incident never happened, Draymond would be able to put
Speaker 5: him in a little choke hold, but talk.
Speaker 4: To him like, bro, this is what we need, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean? And then Aiden.
Speaker 5: Aiden's always kind of been a wild card and there
Speaker 5: hasn't really necessarily been a bet there that's kind of
Speaker 5: been able.
Speaker 4: To game him.
Speaker 5: So when we talk on these shows, this not to
Speaker 5: ship on these younger guys or even to try to
Speaker 5: talk doubt about them, because they're all very talented players.
Speaker 5: We're just telling you, in our days, what would have
Speaker 5: pulled you to the side and looked you straighten your
Speaker 5: motherfucking eyeballs and told you. It wouldn't have been in
Speaker 5: the media, it wouldn't have been nowhere. The bet would
Speaker 5: have just told you right to your face. And I
Speaker 5: think it would help some of these younger guys.
Speaker 7: Truth sound like hate The people hate the truth, bro.
Speaker 1: That's why teams need guys like Boogie Cousins. Right, we go?
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