Speaker 1: So to say that Golden State offers a problem to
Speaker 1: any defense is probably the understatement of the year. The
Speaker 1: team runs eleven deep, sometimes twelve. Everybody knows their role.
Speaker 1: Gary Payton the second is back. He's gonna be big
Speaker 1: for them. Also, Andre Iguidala has basically had his entire
Speaker 1: body on ice all season for this moment. He doesn't
Speaker 1: need to play basketball anymore. He only wants to play
Speaker 1: in NBA Finals. That's it, that's it, that's it for him.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows this. They have superstar guys, and they have
Speaker 1: guys on the cusp of greatness.
Speaker 2: They have role players who have been.
Speaker 1: Shunned and discarded from Minnesota. They have rookies who are contributing.
Speaker 1: So depending on how you look at it, it's heaven.
Speaker 1: If you're a Warriors fan, you feel like you've got
Speaker 1: the future, the present, and the past all rolled up
Speaker 1: in one beautiful little team that plays beautiful game of basketball.
Speaker 1: Or it is a complete unmitigated disaster if you're the
Speaker 1: rest of the league wondering whether this Golden State team's
Speaker 1: gonna have.
Speaker 2: Another decade decade of prominence.
Speaker 1: Right email you, dook, I can't even imagine how you
Speaker 1: think about this.
Speaker 2: I'm trying. I'm not doing a great job, but I'm
Speaker 2: not a basketball coach.
Speaker 1: I think you just think about how Memphis did it
Speaker 1: and just try to find ways like Steven Adams changed
Speaker 1: the game for them, brought Kevon Loone in. I don't
Speaker 1: know what they're gonna do for that, but the fact
Speaker 1: that Memphis held Golden State to an adjusted offensive rating
Speaker 1: of negative point seven is something that you need to
Speaker 1: get into the film room and dig into. They had
Speaker 1: an aor adjusted offensive rating of plus ten or better
Speaker 1: against every other team this playoff run. Negative point seven
Speaker 1: against Memphis, plus ten or better on offense against everyone else.
Speaker 1: That's the stat that the Warriors and Boston needs to watch.
Speaker 1: Like I said, the Warriors turn the ball over a
Speaker 1: ton in the regular season, but they cut that down
Speaker 1: a lot in the playoffs. What Golden State now has
Speaker 1: going for them boils down to two big things.
Speaker 2: The first is they are nine to zero at home
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. Wow, that's huge.
Speaker 1: From twenty fifteen to twenty nineteen, they averaged six home
Speaker 1: losses per playoffs.
Speaker 2: This is that's stupid. That's stupid.
Speaker 1: Like they're better than they were in their reign. Why
Speaker 1: how I don't know.
Speaker 2: Second, the fourth quarter, as per usual, has belonged to
Speaker 2: Golden State.
Speaker 1: They have outscored their opponents by twenty five points per
Speaker 1: one hundred possessions in the fourth quarter. That's the best
Speaker 1: by any team in the playoffs in any quarter ever.
Speaker 1: Like ever, this means that they they're like, get up
Speaker 1: by thirty, Get excited, get excited.
Speaker 2: First quarter, second quarter, third quarter, go up, go up
Speaker 2: on us eighteen. All good, Steph Curry, you'll watch him.
Speaker 2: Just watch this.
Speaker 1: Keep this in your mind's eye when you watch this.
Speaker 1: There will be a game where Boston is up like
Speaker 1: seventeen nineteen points, and then they'll cut, they'll cut to
Speaker 1: the bench and it'll be like it'll be like ten
Speaker 1: thirty in the fourth quarter, and Mark Jackson or something
Speaker 1: he'll be like, well, well, Mike.
Speaker 2: I don't know. We couldn't have seen this coming.
Speaker 1: And then as they're talking about how unprecedented this lead
Speaker 1: is for Boston, they'll show Steph Curry on the bench
Speaker 1: with a towel over his head and his little mouthguard
Speaker 1: chewing on it, and you're like, this little is gonna
Speaker 1: come back in and like two minutes and it's night night, and.
Speaker 2: That's what they will do.
Speaker 1: They're a team and Boston, as we know, when they
Speaker 1: get up, they can get complacent. Miami Heat came back
Speaker 1: multiple times, Milwaukee came back multiple times.
Speaker 2: If you get up.
Speaker 1: On Golden State, I don't care if it's thirty, keep
Speaker 1: your boots on their necks until it's that trick time
Speaker 1: and you make Draymond, you know, put the towel in
Speaker 1: the air. Cause it's like there's no insurmountable lead for
Speaker 1: this team.
Speaker 2: They are four and.
Speaker 1: Three when trailing after three and six and four when
Speaker 1: they fall behind by ten or more. They should be
Speaker 1: zero in ten when they fall behind by ten or
Speaker 1: more in the fourth quarter, but they are not.
Speaker 2: They are better than five hundred. No lead is safe.
Speaker 2: How about this? How about this?
Speaker 1: When they get a lead, are they four and six? No,
Speaker 1: they're eight and zero when they're leading after three quarters,
Speaker 1: So you better make sure they're not up after three quarters.
Speaker 2: They're doing this in the playoffs by their passes.
Speaker 1: As we know the beautiful game of basketball. They play
Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty six passes per twenty four minutes.
Speaker 1: What a deluge, confusing, annoying, frustrating, tiring, and player movements.
Speaker 1: Of course, eleven point three miles traveled per twenty four minutes,
Speaker 1: both second in the m They've also let all playoff
Speaker 1: teams in assist percentage. It's gonna be a challenge, folks.
Speaker 1: All these little stats, all these little nuggets. It doesn't
Speaker 1: look good for Boston. This is also gold This is
Speaker 1: Golden State's series to lose for all those reasons. In
Speaker 1: my opinion, I think that Boston poses problems for Golden State,
Speaker 1: but I think Golden State poses a lot bigger problems
Speaker 1: for Boston. I'm not saying that Boston can't win because
Speaker 1: I think Memphis could have beaten Golden State. They certainly
Speaker 1: didn't want to go back to Memphis in Game seven,
Speaker 1: and who knows what would have happened if John Moran
Speaker 1: wouldn't have gotten injured. But like if the nuts or
Speaker 1: candies and nuts, it'd all be Christmas morning or whatever
Speaker 1: the saying is. So Boston's gonna need to win in
Speaker 1: the Bay in order to make this thing happen, and
Speaker 1: that is going to be very very hard to do. Finally,
Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit about X factors for both teams,
Speaker 1: which is which means ancillary pieces peripheral pieces, not star players,
Speaker 1: not key role players, but antillarry players that need to
Speaker 1: step up. And who that could be for Boston, I
Speaker 1: think that's Derek White. Derek White's a very pesky perimeter defender.
Speaker 1: He's like Marcus Smart. He knows emy Udoka's system like
Speaker 1: the back of his hand because he came from San
Speaker 1: Antonio and that's the same San Antonio scheme that emay
Speaker 1: Udoka is running. He's going to be really really big
Speaker 1: in terms of hitting corner threes, hitting three pointers at
Speaker 1: the top as well. If you're open, Derek shoot, Like,
Speaker 1: be confident. They're going to sag. Golden State is going
Speaker 1: to sag off of quote unquote lower shooter percentage guys
Speaker 1: like Let the Scrub shoot, Grant Williams, Derek White. Derek
Speaker 1: White's gonna need to hit a bunch of them in
Speaker 1: order for that to change how Golden State plays their defense.
Speaker 1: He's a very very smart player at understanding angles. He's
Speaker 1: going to be able to cut Steph off instead of
Speaker 1: chasing Steph around. He's gonna be able to like almost
Speaker 1: cut the corner and stop the ball from coming into
Speaker 1: STEP's hands. Bumping players off their spots and if Eric
Speaker 1: White can hit those shots, I think that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a really huge factor there. That's how Dallas won Game four,
Speaker 1: by the way, open shooters in the corner who hit
Speaker 1: him night night. For Golden State, I think we've already
Speaker 1: seen Andrew Wiggins emerge as a key role player. So
Speaker 1: for me, I think the series will hinge on this
Speaker 1: ancillary player, Kevon Looney. If Kevon Looney gets fifteen, sixteen,
Speaker 1: seventeen boards a game, there's just there's that's it. That's
Speaker 1: that's the key stat for me, because he's a six
Speaker 1: eleven small five who has basically played himself out of
Speaker 1: the beginning of the playoffs. They brought him back in
Speaker 1: solely because Steven Adams was playing really well, and now
Speaker 1: he has re emerged as a key cog in this system.
Speaker 1: He can play good defense, and whether he can be
Speaker 1: solid on switches or he's not getting cooked by Tatum
Speaker 1: and Brown, that's gonna be huge. That will be the
Speaker 1: key key stat for me to watch is how Kevon
Speaker 1: Looney gets rebounds. Offensive rebounds, specifically, because Golden State getting
Speaker 1: extra possessions means nothing good for Boston. Conclusion, Boston make
Speaker 1: it a rock fight. Just make it a rock fight,
Speaker 1: make it ugly. Force Golden State to turn the ball
Speaker 1: over a ton. If you can get them to turn
Speaker 1: the ball over fifteen sixteen, seventeen times a game, you're
Speaker 1: going to go up early and you might be able
Speaker 1: to deflate some of the guys that are younger, like
Speaker 1: Jordan Poole's confidence.
Speaker 2: Like think of it like this, Think of it like this.
Speaker 2: This is analogy.
Speaker 1: So imagine you're a chick on the Bachelor and you're
Speaker 1: going on a group date. Right, and you're on the date,
Speaker 1: and the other girl is Miss Universe. Right, You're never
Speaker 1: gonna be able to miss you out Miss Universe.
Speaker 2: Miss Universe.
Speaker 1: You're never gonna be more beautiful than Miss Universe. So
Speaker 1: don't go anywhere where she can be in a bathing
Speaker 1: suit or where she.
Speaker 2: Dresses up in a cock still dress. You're never winning
Speaker 2: that date.
Speaker 1: You need to go somewhere where you're sweaty, where you're
Speaker 1: using your brain, where you're dirty. Maybe she breaks a nail,
Speaker 1: maybe she exposes her lack of intellect.
Speaker 2: That's that's what you need to do. You're uglier.
Speaker 1: They're never gonna be as good as playing as Golden
Speaker 1: State at playing the beautiful game, So they need to
Speaker 1: make things as ugly as humanly possible. That's how you
Speaker 1: put yourself on even footing with them. Boston can't let
Speaker 1: it happen. Golden State, just don't try. Don't turn the
Speaker 1: ball over.
Speaker 2: Really, that's it.
Speaker 1: If you can turn the ball over less than ten
Speaker 1: times a game, that's gonna be it. That's gonna be
Speaker 1: really it for you. Keep the ball moving, offense, moving motion.
Speaker 1: Try to limit Jordan Poole's minutes. Try to figure out
Speaker 1: a way to hide Jordan Poole when he's in the game.
Speaker 1: Like when it's called they call it pool party, like
Speaker 1: make it pool.
Speaker 2: Make it, make it pool conference. Like make it more
Speaker 2: business like you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like when we talk about the pool party, it's a
Speaker 1: little too hectic for me.
Speaker 2: Like it's a little too.
Speaker 1: Vegas summertime, too many drinks, too much bad happens when
Speaker 1: it's the pool party. Make it more like a pool
Speaker 1: business meeting, you know what I'm saying. Like just kind
Speaker 1: of like make it more something that I can rely
Speaker 1: on Jordan Poole to operate effectively on the offense and
Speaker 1: defensive end. Try to get a lot of good production
Speaker 1: out of Clay and Wiggans, So you don't need pools offense.
Speaker 1: You can just like maybe put his ass on the bench.
Speaker 1: No pool party time for me, keep bigger defenders on
Speaker 1: the floor to help out. My prediction, Warriors in six,
Speaker 1: Warriors in six. I think the Warriors will be up
Speaker 1: three to one after four. I think they'll close it
Speaker 1: out in Boston actually, which would be sad because Chase
Speaker 1: fans won't get a ring there. Maybe Warriors in five
Speaker 1: actually feels like it's happening at Chase. Feels like it's
Speaker 1: happening at Chase. For me, that's the only way for
Speaker 1: the legacy. And I think Steph does. I think Steph
Speaker 1: does get his first Finals MVP. Also, very quickly the
Speaker 1: Draymond Kevin Durant thing. Look it up so funny. Draymond
Speaker 1: Green basically said that Steph Curry got seven times more
Speaker 1: double teams than Kevin Durant did when they played on
Speaker 1: the team together. Kevin Durant then went on, which is
Speaker 1: what he does, go on Twitter, quote, tweet it and say,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, this is absolutely false. Steph did not
Speaker 1: get seven times more double teams than me. Oh that's wrong.
Speaker 1: So legacy, legacy versus legacy. A lot of unfortunate situations
Speaker 1: were very elite, skilled players, some of the best to
Speaker 1: ever do it, have to feel some level of insecurity
Speaker 1: where they need to defend their quarter unquote legacy because
Speaker 1: random people on Twitter are dumb enough to believe that
Speaker 1: neither one of them is good enough to be in
Speaker 1: the top ten of all time conversation, which is just
Speaker 1: absolutely bonkers in my opinion, but check that out, go
Speaker 1: and find it. There's a million places where they discuss it.
Speaker 1: And Steph Curry's legacy is unaffected by not having in
Speaker 1: finals VP in my in my opinion, and that's coming
Speaker 1: from someone who has said Steph Curry's not even a
Speaker 1: point guard.
Speaker 2: So there it is.
Speaker 1: That's all the time that we add for the heat check.
Speaker 1: We'll be back Monday.