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Speaker 2: All right, So here's the deal. We have a massive
Speaker 2: show today. We have some breaking news from overnight. The
Speaker 2: NBA Finals start, and I barely slept last night because
Speaker 2: i have some weird head cold going on. So I'm
Speaker 2: gonna try to power through today because I actually I
Speaker 2: feel fine, but I'm obviously I've got something going on.
Speaker 2: But today's a big show, and we had news I
Speaker 2: did not expect to be coming. And if I wasn't
Speaker 2: demands already hyped about the finals, I'm gonna throw a
Speaker 2: curveball at you. A bit here. Guess who the first
Speaker 2: one is gonna be very hard to guess, but once
Speaker 2: you hear the answer that you might be able to
Speaker 2: get to the second one. Guess who the Boston Celtics
Speaker 2: had narrate their hype video that they posted last night.
Speaker 2: It's an all time great athlete from the region basketball.
Speaker 3: Oh from uh uh called Tom Brady.
Speaker 2: Tom Brady is correct, Tom Brady narrated the Celtics hype video.
Speaker 2: Guess who narrated the MAVs hype video.
Speaker 3: Well, uh, it's a.
Speaker 2: Prominent MAVs fan in line with Tom Brady. It was
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes. So it's almost like these finals are a
Speaker 2: goat quarterback proxy war. Like you've got Patrick's MAVs and
Speaker 2: Tom Celtics. Like, I don't know if this goes on
Speaker 2: the goat ledger, but does if the MAVs win, does
Speaker 2: Patrick get like a quarter of a ring in the race.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Some people are saying it, so I
Speaker 2: I'm just I was already hyped for it, but now
Speaker 2: there's just added steak. It's that Brady's doing the MAVs
Speaker 2: or the Celtics. Patrick's doing the MAVs. I think maybe
Speaker 2: do they both show up. I mean, Patrick's definitely showing
Speaker 2: up court side for the MAVs games in Dallas? Does
Speaker 2: Tom show up courtside for the Celtics games in Boston?
Speaker 2: Is he there tonight? I don't know. I just I
Speaker 2: couldn't be more excited. But somehow WOJE stole the show.
Speaker 2: So we can't even start the show with that. But first, quickly,
Speaker 2: what missed the cut? Travis Kelce does not watch Grey's
Speaker 2: Anatomy with Taylor Swift. That should have to be honest, guys,
Speaker 2: missed the cut? For missing the cut, FX is clipped
Speaker 2: premiered Tuesday. I won't watch a second of it. And
Speaker 2: this is sucks. But Novak Djokovic hurting the French Open
Speaker 2: but demons, let's start with the breaking news overnight from
Speaker 2: WOG go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's some breaking news out of Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: A new name being thrown into the ring for the
Speaker 3: Los ang his head coaching position, Yukon's Dan Hurley. So
Speaker 3: I got a couple questions for you with that. Which
Speaker 3: coach do you think has a better chance of leading
Speaker 3: LA back to the finals between him and JJ Reddick?
Speaker 3: And secondly, which coach do you think has a better
Speaker 3: chance to retain Lebron.
Speaker 2: So I don't think Lebron's decision about where he plays
Speaker 2: is going to be impacted much by whether it's Hurley
Speaker 2: or JJ, because he clearly has a lot of respect
Speaker 2: for both of them. He actually replied to a JJ
Speaker 2: interview with Dan Hurley talking about how brilliant he was.
Speaker 2: He obviously thinks JJ's a sharp basketball mind. I so
Speaker 2: I want to be fair here, but I also what
Speaker 2: I owe the audience is honesty. This would be, in
Speaker 2: my opinion, a great hire Dan Hurley.
Speaker 3: He is.
Speaker 2: There are two types of college basketball coaches, not just
Speaker 2: two types, but super high level successful ones. One is
Speaker 2: because they are just great recruiters, kind of like coach
Speaker 2: Cal and the other is because they're obviously very good
Speaker 2: recruiters but excellent tacticians. Dan Hurley seems more the latter
Speaker 2: than the former. He is an excellent tactician, which is
Speaker 2: why I would think it could translate to the NBA.
Speaker 2: I would be pleasantly surprised if the Lakers end up
Speaker 2: landing this plane. Do where I said I owe the
Speaker 2: audience honesty. Do I honestly think that it is on
Speaker 2: the board that the Lakers are floating. This not that
Speaker 2: dissimilar to, Hey, they'd love Jason Kidd, who's under contract
Speaker 2: coaching a team in the playoffs, and then he gets
Speaker 2: an extension. Hey, they'd love of Tylou who's under contract
Speaker 2: coaching a team with the richest owner in sports. And
Speaker 2: that this is to play kate the fan base that
Speaker 2: is underwhelmed by JJ Reddick potentially getting the job. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think that's on the board, and I so I
Speaker 2: am not taking this report to mean Dan Hurley is
Speaker 2: the next Lakers head coach. However, if he is the
Speaker 2: next Lakers head coach, that's a great hire, a great hire.
Speaker 2: And when the other candidates were James Brago, who did
Speaker 2: a nice job with no talent in Charlotte but is
Speaker 2: a little underwhelming. Sam Cassell would be a first time
Speaker 2: head coach. JJ would be a first time anything coach.
Speaker 2: And then you have a guy who was built a
Speaker 2: dynasty in Yukon and is young, and is sharp, and
Speaker 2: is great at developing players, has a brilliant mind for
Speaker 2: offensive basketball. All of that is exciting. It is not
Speaker 2: in the Genie Bus Lakers history that they are going
Speaker 2: to pay a lot of money for a head coach,
Speaker 2: that they are going to have long term commitments to
Speaker 2: a head coach, So it would be going outside of
Speaker 2: what they typically do. But I have been very critical
Speaker 2: of Rob Po Lincoln, Genie Buss for a lot of things,
Speaker 2: and for how they hire coaches, how they lowball coaches,
Speaker 2: all of it. This would redeem a massive amount of that,
Speaker 2: and this would be spending real money, making a big commitment.
Speaker 2: I also, you know, call it because I think I
Speaker 2: Lakers folks have been burned in the past by well
Speaker 2: timed leaks of ah, we just quite didn't get it done.
Speaker 2: I am a little skeptical of how close this is
Speaker 2: to being a done deal. If it is. If it
Speaker 2: does get done, it's a great hire, great hire for
Speaker 2: the Lakers independent of Lebron. AD's young enough and under
Speaker 2: the new CBA, as WoDES talked about, you really do
Speaker 2: have to develop players. He's shown a great track record
Speaker 2: of that at the collegiate level. I like everything about
Speaker 2: the Dan Hurley hire I would like for the Lakers.
Speaker 2: I am walking with some trepidation on whether or not
Speaker 2: they actually think they are going to hire Dan Hurley,
Speaker 2: or whether or not they simply want that to be
Speaker 2: out there. So if they at some point hire JJ Reddick,
Speaker 2: no one can accuse them of not shooting the moon,
Speaker 2: not going not being willing to spend money, all those things.
Speaker 2: So I the that is the to me, the Lakers
Speaker 2: have front office has earned that level of skepticism. But
Speaker 2: this would be a hell of a coup. And if
Speaker 2: they get Dan Hurley, that's an excellent hire. Do you
Speaker 2: have anything you want to follow up there on, demondsay?
Speaker 2: Or do you want to get to the finals? It's
Speaker 2: your call.
Speaker 3: No, I mean we can get to we can get
Speaker 3: to the If they do end up hiring JJ, is
Speaker 3: that a step back?
Speaker 2: Why? I think hired the guy coached above the Pop
Speaker 2: Warner level? Uh? Is? I mean? The we have all
Speaker 2: like it's been such a long process of them targeting JJ,
Speaker 2: seemingly landing on JJ that everyone has just come to
Speaker 2: accept it. When three months ago that would have been
Speaker 2: an absurdity. If the if when Lebron and JJ's podcast launched,
Speaker 2: when Darvinham was already on the hot seat, Someone's like, hey,
Speaker 2: guess what that guy's going to be the next head
Speaker 2: coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, people would have been like,
Speaker 2: you're out of your mind. But there's a bit of
Speaker 2: a boiling frog paradigm going on here, where the temperature
Speaker 2: has just been raised a degree at a time. Do
Speaker 2: you know the boiling frog is frog's.
Speaker 3: In at.
Speaker 2: Exactly because the exactly because they just slowly keep raising
Speaker 2: the temperature. It has been such a slow drip of
Speaker 2: Oh JJ's a candidate. Oh JJ's getting an interview. Oh
Speaker 2: JJ's the leading candidate. Oh in fact, they might have
Speaker 2: picked JJ, but they're waiting for the finals to be over.
Speaker 2: Oh JJ's filling out his staff. That everyone has just
Speaker 2: come to accept the fact that JJ Reddick might be
Speaker 2: the head coach of the Lakers. And so, yeah, it's
Speaker 2: not the higher I would make, but Dan Hurley would
Speaker 2: be great. We will see, we'll see what happens there.
Speaker 2: And I didn't mean to be rude when I said,
Speaker 2: are you familiar with the boiling frog things? Sometimes I
Speaker 2: use these kind of a arcade.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, that question is definitely necessary. Sometimes I
Speaker 3: have no idea what you're talking about. At that time,
Speaker 3: I didn't know what you.
Speaker 2: Were talking Okay, all right, fair enough. And I feel
Speaker 2: like the audience is in your seat a lot of
Speaker 2: these times. So whenever I say something and I see
Speaker 2: a look on your face. You're like, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: what he's referring to him, Like, that's the same look
Speaker 2: a lot of the audience as okay, good, all right,
Speaker 2: let's get to the NBA Finals preview.
Speaker 3: All right, So we've had a lot of time between
Speaker 3: the Eastern and Western Conference finals to get to the finals,
Speaker 3: with the gentlemen's sweep and the sweep on the East side,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna get into We're going to zero in
Speaker 3: on this game in a minute after a few games.
Speaker 3: But with all the time off, do you think everybody's
Speaker 3: bound to overreact to tonight's game?
Speaker 2: Oh, no question about it. I mean, there's because it's
Speaker 2: been so long since we had a basketball game to
Speaker 2: date today, Tonight's game is going to feel disproportionately important.
Speaker 2: And I truly, I know this sounds ridiculous, but I
Speaker 2: truly see a scenario where the MAVs lose tonight and
Speaker 2: then win the next four. I'm not saying that is
Speaker 2: the smartest prediction, but I think that we got used
Speaker 2: to the MAVs winning game ones the last couple rounds.
Speaker 2: But the fact of the matter is Luca in his career.
Speaker 2: Here's how game ones have gone for the MAVs. They
Speaker 2: lost game one his first playoff series against the Clippers.
Speaker 2: They then won game one the next year against the Clippers.
Speaker 2: Then en route to the Western Armence Finals, they lost
Speaker 2: game one to Utah, They lost game one to Phoenix,
Speaker 2: They lost game one to Golden State. This year, they
Speaker 2: lost game one to the Clippers. They lost game one
Speaker 2: to OKC and then so it's not the last couple rounds.
Speaker 2: And then obviously they dominated the Western Roumage Finals and
Speaker 2: they won that. So there has always been with Luca
Speaker 2: an element of the Lebron feel out game to game one,
Speaker 2: which is obviously you're trying to win, but you are
Speaker 2: diagnosingting what's going on? Yeah, exactly right, and you feel
Speaker 2: like it's a long series and I don't have now.
Speaker 2: Another factor of that is this is and this is remarkable.
Speaker 2: Lucas played one, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight.
Speaker 2: This is Luca's ninth career playoff series. Eight of those
Speaker 2: nine times he has not had home court. They have
Speaker 2: been the road team. The one time he had home
Speaker 2: court advantage in a series, he missed the first two
Speaker 2: home games. It's when he was injured against Utah a
Speaker 2: couple of years ago. So the other thing that happens
Speaker 2: in these games is it's also less critical for the
Speaker 2: MAVs in Lucas career to win game one because they
Speaker 2: are the road team. You know, I know it's cliche,
Speaker 2: but it's true. You take care of your home games
Speaker 2: and then try to steal one on the road. So
Speaker 2: I just I so I think there will be overreaction.
Speaker 2: Here are the things, and I hope I'm not stepping
Speaker 2: on the rest of the show, but here are the
Speaker 2: things I am watching tonight. Who is the primary defender
Speaker 2: on Kyrie Irving? I personally think it should be Drew
Speaker 2: Holliday if I were the Celtics. And that's for two reasons. Now,
Speaker 2: you could say we can have Derek White do it, right,
Speaker 2: because Derek White's a good defender. If you have Derek
Speaker 2: White do it and you do a Luca Kyrie pick
Speaker 2: and roll and Derek White ends up on Luca, you're
Speaker 2: in trouble. If you're Boston. You're in a lot of
Speaker 2: trouble if you're Boston. Now, I don't think that Drew Luca,
Speaker 2: Luca and Derek White. Oh, I just think Luca's too big.
Speaker 2: I just think Luca would just back him to Dre.
Speaker 2: Drew is way more and Drew's way more stout, and
Speaker 2: I think Drew is a good enough defender that he
Speaker 2: can really I don't want to say eliminate, but really
Speaker 2: hamper Kyrie really hamper him and so, and you don't
Speaker 2: really need Drew's offense. So I want to see what
Speaker 2: that matchup is, and then I want to see in
Speaker 2: the front court. Okay, so this is a little X's
Speaker 2: and OZ and I will leave this typically to Zach
Speaker 2: Lowe of Zach Lowe's and Kevin O'Connors of the world,
Speaker 2: but it's the finals, so we can do it. For
Speaker 2: a moment. I think that the Celtics are going to
Speaker 2: put Chris STAPs on whomever they believe to be the Mavs'
Speaker 2: least dangerous offensive player, so probably Derek Jones Junior. That way,
Speaker 2: if Luca is trying to get Chris STAPs involved in
Speaker 2: the action on a pick and roll, then his pick
Speaker 2: and roll partner, instead of being Lively right or instead
Speaker 2: of being PJ. Washington, is Derek Jones Junior, who is
Speaker 2: probably the guy you least want to be operating offensively.
Speaker 2: So I think that's an interesting one to watch. I'm
Speaker 2: also curious who do you think demon is gonna be
Speaker 2: guarding Luca? Jason Tate? And again, there's gonna be switches,
Speaker 2: there's gonna be I understand all of that, but his
Speaker 2: primary assignment, who do you think it's gonna be?
Speaker 3: I got a funny feeling it will be Jayleen Brown.
Speaker 2: I think it will be too, so I I the
Speaker 2: question is will it be Tatum or Brown? Really? And
Speaker 2: who do you who? Do you not mind their offense
Speaker 2: getting sapped from to a degree because guarding Lucas is
Speaker 2: gonna take away from your ability on offense? It just is. Now.
Speaker 2: Jalen Brown, I think is a touch better defensive player
Speaker 2: than Jason Tatum. Jason dam is very good defensive player,
Speaker 2: but I think Jayalen Brown's better. But Tatum is so
Speaker 2: much taller that I wonder if Tatum wouldn't have more success.
Speaker 2: But now, all of a sudden, this is where it
Speaker 2: really does. There is some I don't want to say
Speaker 2: ego management because that's because Tatum has been such a
Speaker 2: great teammate and Tatum has conducted himself so well, but
Speaker 2: there is this is I thought that the whole Oh
Speaker 2: did Tatum celebrate Jalen's Eastern Conference Finals MVP enough was ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I thought the idea that there is some battle between
Speaker 2: Tatum and Brown, I haven't seen that. The only thing
Speaker 2: I've seen over the years is maybe Jalen Brown being
Speaker 2: understandably annoyed with yes that every offseason he's included in
Speaker 2: trade rumors and zero off seasons Tatum is you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? So I think there is there, but
Speaker 2: I don't think between those two guys there's any issue.
Speaker 2: With all that said, if you're Jason Tatum and you're
Speaker 2: tasked with guarding Luca and all of a sudden that
Speaker 2: leads to your offensive numbers being depressed, and then Jalen
Speaker 2: Brown one Conference finals MVP, Jalen Brown is having the
Speaker 2: best offensive series, you know, in the finals, that could
Speaker 2: be a tricky spot, and so I'm really intrigued by that.
Speaker 2: I'm also really intrigued by how I am not worried
Speaker 2: about Luca in his first finals at all. This guy
Speaker 2: was playing in EuroLeague tournaments with guys setting flares off
Speaker 2: in the crowd when he was a teenager. He's not
Speaker 2: gonna be intimidated. Kyrie is not going to be intimidated
Speaker 2: everyone else on the MAVs. These are the biggest games
Speaker 2: of their entire lives by a wide margin, wide margin.
Speaker 2: The Celtics meanwhile, every single one of those guys except
Speaker 2: for Chris STAPs was playing in these games two years ago,
Speaker 2: and so so how does and I guess for Drew
Speaker 2: it was three years ago, but still they've all been there.
Speaker 2: How does that impact it? And then the last thing
Speaker 2: is porzingis, which you know we'll get to in a bit,
Speaker 2: but uh, all right, let's get to the next question. Demanse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we just talked about game one, but what
Speaker 3: is your over what's your finals prediction? What do you
Speaker 3: think will be the narrative of this series?
Speaker 2: Oh? I think the narrative of the series is going
Speaker 2: to be Luka Ancic is one of the greatest offensive
Speaker 2: players in the history of the league. I do. I
Speaker 2: think Luca is going to full blown control every possession
Speaker 2: that he wants to. It is going to be not
Speaker 2: that dissimilar from Lebron twenty fifteen against the Warriors. The
Speaker 2: ball is just always in his hands and he is
Speaker 2: making every decision, with the distinction being this Celtics team
Speaker 2: is not quite as good as that twenty to fifteen
Speaker 2: Warriors team, and Kyrie Irving God Willing isn't gonna break
Speaker 2: his kneecap in Game one, and that when Luca needs
Speaker 2: to take possessions off, Kyrie can go cook. But I
Speaker 2: think that you are going to see Luca dissecting a
Speaker 2: great defense, as he has throughout his entire playoff career.
Speaker 2: So that is the other aspect of this that I
Speaker 2: think is noteworthy on a Luca history standpoint, Luca has
Speaker 2: only played against great defenses in his postseason career. In
Speaker 2: his first ever playoffs, and this I think an underrated
Speaker 2: fact about him first ever playoffs, he's playing a fully
Speaker 2: healthy Clippers team that that season was the number five
Speaker 2: defense in the NBA. His second ever playoffs, he's playing
Speaker 2: against a fully healthy Clippers team that was number eight
Speaker 2: in the NBA and Chris DAPs got hurt in it.
Speaker 2: His third playoff season, in round one, he's playing against
Speaker 2: a Utah team that has the now four time Defensive
Speaker 2: Player of the Year who was the number nine defense
Speaker 2: in basketball, then a Phoenix team that that year was
Speaker 2: the number three defense in basketball, then a Warriors team
Speaker 2: that that year was the number two defense in basketball.
Speaker 2: This year in the postseason, he has gone and I'm
Speaker 2: doing the per one hundred, I'm doing true defensive numbers.
Speaker 2: In the first round for the first time in his career,
Speaker 2: he got a break defensively because the Clippers were below
Speaker 2: average at number eighteen. Then in round two they played
Speaker 2: the thunder who were the number four defense. In round
Speaker 2: three they played the Timberwolves, who were the number one defense.
Speaker 2: So Luca has gone up against in his postseason career,
Speaker 2: and now they're playing Boston, who's the number three defense.
Speaker 2: In nine series, he's gone up against eight top ten
Speaker 2: defenses and five top five defenses, and he has put
Speaker 2: up his historic postseason numbers. And so I listen, I
Speaker 2: listened to you know legend of the podcast game Bill
Speaker 2: Simmons tried to talk himself into the idea that we
Speaker 2: should just throw away what the MAVs did against the
Speaker 2: Timberwolves for reasons that never really got explained. Everyone needs
Speaker 2: to remember the way the Timberwolves were being discussed and
Speaker 2: the way that defense was being discussed from a historic
Speaker 2: standpoint during and after the Nugget series, and Luca eviscerated them,
Speaker 2: absolutely eviscerated them, and now he gets a chance to
Speaker 2: do it against Boston and the Thunder and Boston had
Speaker 2: a lot of similarities this year. This year on defense,
Speaker 2: Boston three, Oklahoma City four. On offense, Boston won Oklahoma
Speaker 2: City three on three point percentage. This season, Oklahoma City
Speaker 2: won Boston two very similar teams, and Kyrie in that
Speaker 2: series averaged sixteen points per game and the MAVs won
Speaker 2: in six, and that included giving Game four away. So
Speaker 2: I understand what the Vegas odds are, but for me
Speaker 2: not to take the best player in a series, it
Speaker 2: needs to be a very lopsided situation that is not this.
Speaker 2: It appears to be this because Boston had sixty four
Speaker 2: wins in Dallas had fifty. But once Dallas got these
Speaker 2: players at the trade deadline and started running with this
Speaker 2: starting five, they have the top defense in basketball. They
Speaker 2: have a record of a sixty five win team. So
Speaker 2: I think the matchups dead even. And if it's dead
Speaker 2: even and one player has a guy who's going to
Speaker 2: go down as one of the greatest offensive players in
Speaker 2: the history of the sport and he is seemingly getting
Speaker 2: healthier and peaking, I'm gonna go with them. I know
Speaker 2: that this is, you know, not your thoughts on the
Speaker 2: finals to Monday, your your so I'm curious before we
Speaker 2: move on to anything else, your thoughts on your Celtics,
Speaker 2: your confidence level in this series compared to the last
Speaker 2: finals they were in, and what you think needs to
Speaker 2: happen for Boston to win.
Speaker 3: Well. I obviously have the Celtics. I obviously I said
Speaker 3: that they could get it done in six. I think
Speaker 3: that what they need to do is just just play
Speaker 3: team basketball and not get in those funks where I
Speaker 3: think we just need to avoid the Celtic thing that
Speaker 3: we do with the turnovers late in games. I don't know, man,
Speaker 3: I think that uh where you guys and you in
Speaker 3: the in the Mavericks played a tired Timberwolves team. This
Speaker 3: team isn't tired. I think, like I said before, I
Speaker 3: just think we're way too deep defensively for Luke to
Speaker 3: be able to keep that up and beat us in
Speaker 3: a seven game series, and the and Porzingias isn't injured anymore.
Speaker 3: So like, honestly, with that, I felt pretty fine without him,
Speaker 3: but with him there, that's that's just that much more
Speaker 3: icing on the cake. But uh, but yeah, I'm not nervous.
Speaker 2: You mentioned at all. Oh, you don't sound nervous. So
Speaker 2: you mentioned uh luke and not being able to dissect it.
Speaker 2: So here's an interesting one. Here are the all time
Speaker 2: leaders in NBA Finals points per game. Rick Berry is
Speaker 2: number one at thirty six a game. Michael Jordan is
Speaker 2: number two at thirty three and a half. Jerry West
Speaker 2: is number three at thirty. Kevin Duran is number four
Speaker 2: at just at thirty as well. Shaq is number five
Speaker 2: at twenty eight point eight. Lebron is number six at
Speaker 2: twenty eight point four. Now there's a few other guys
Speaker 2: who would be on that list if they had played
Speaker 2: more than four or five Finals games, like Iverson's at
Speaker 2: like I think thirty five, but he only played five games. Uh.
Speaker 2: Giannis is I think in the mid thirties, but he
Speaker 2: only played six games. Right, Uh, how many points per
Speaker 2: game do you think? And well, we're gonna get to
Speaker 2: this later, but I'll just ask you here, how many
Speaker 2: points per game do you think Luca is going to
Speaker 2: average in this series?
Speaker 3: In this series? Yeah, I mean yeah, oh god, give
Speaker 3: him thirty three, thirty four.
Speaker 2: Thirty right, So that so I I would as well.
Speaker 2: So that is he is going to leave this series
Speaker 2: potentially behind only ahead of Michael Jordan in career finals
Speaker 2: points per game. It's gonna be tough to beat them.
Speaker 2: It just is. I'm not saying it can't be done.
Speaker 2: But if that well, you said five less rings. Oh
Speaker 2: a little Freudian slip. You didn't say six less rings. Oh,
Speaker 2: Demonse's already nervous. All right, Oh, let's uh, you have
Speaker 2: a follow up question here about I think about Jason
Speaker 2: Tatum and then we'll move on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this series seems like it could be a
Speaker 3: referendum on Jason Tatum. He admitted to feeling the pressure
Speaker 3: on media day. So do you think by the end
Speaker 3: of this series that he'll prove himself to be a
Speaker 3: top five guy?
Speaker 2: So listen, I he is not tell me anythink this
Speaker 2: is unfair. He is not better by it. There is
Speaker 2: no way you could make the argument he is better
Speaker 2: than Luca, Djok or Jannis. No matter what happens in
Speaker 2: this series, we are not gonna leave this series thinking
Speaker 2: he's better than any of those three guys. Do you
Speaker 2: agree with that?
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe Luca, depending on like, if you know,
Speaker 3: something crazy could happen in this series. And Tatum just
Speaker 3: gets that thirty five that you're talking about, and Lucas
Speaker 3: the easy twenty.
Speaker 2: Sure, I guess Luca would have to I think Tatum
Speaker 2: would have to average thirty five and Luca would have
Speaker 2: to be bad. And I just can't fathom Luca being bad.
Speaker 2: But so let's just say those three guys are gonna
Speaker 2: be ahead of him. Then you have this next bucket
Speaker 2: of players. Joel Embiid, Jason Tatum, Shay, Anthony Edwards, Anthony Davis.
Speaker 2: Would I think be in that bucket? Is there anybody
Speaker 2: that I'm forgetting that would? I won't even put Lebron
Speaker 2: in there because Lebron's probably, at this point in his
Speaker 2: career in that next bucket right beneath it. Uh, Jalen Brunson,
Speaker 2: I guess you, out of respect him, put him in
Speaker 2: that bucket, all right, He's somewhere in there, right Like,
Speaker 2: if somebody said he's better than Embiid, I would say, Okay,
Speaker 2: I understand what you're saying. I that Embiid he doesn't
Speaker 2: have the regular season accolades of Embiid, But Embiid's health
Speaker 2: plus his postseason issues, you want to say that that's fine? Right?
Speaker 2: So if you now, if somebody said he's better than Shae,
Speaker 2: I would listen to him. I think Shay was better
Speaker 2: this season, but you can, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: you can make that argument. So my point on it now,
Speaker 2: if somebody said postseason stuff, be damned, Embiid average thirty
Speaker 2: four a game, won the MVP, then had a better season,
Speaker 2: I think Embid's better than Tatum, even if you disagreed
Speaker 2: with it. That's a credible argument that people are allowed
Speaker 2: to have that opinion. And if somebody said Shae's younger
Speaker 2: than him and better than him and had a better
Speaker 2: season this year than Tatum's ever had, that's an allowable argument.
Speaker 2: So my point is this, Jason Tatum, and maybe folks
Speaker 2: don't like to hear this, but it's what I think
Speaker 2: is honest, is at best the fourth best player in
Speaker 2: the league, at absolute best, and at worst the eighth
Speaker 2: best player in this league kind of no matter what
Speaker 2: happens in these finals, like, he needs to do more
Speaker 2: for multiple seasons to change that. And that is not
Speaker 2: an indictment, that is not being unfair, that is not
Speaker 2: shortchanging him. And so I just feel like that's who
Speaker 2: he is and where he is now. There is a
Speaker 2: different We had this on the show yesterday, which is
Speaker 2: guys stars to lose their first two finals and you
Speaker 2: know then what it looks like for them. Other than Lebron,
Speaker 2: none of those guys ended up being the best player
Speaker 2: on a champion. You have Clyde Drexler who lost his
Speaker 2: first two finals then went and joined the keem and
Speaker 2: by the way, the Clyde comp and Jason Tatum comp
Speaker 2: career wise, accolades wise. There's a lot of I think
Speaker 2: fair similarities there. And then there's a Jerry West, you know,
Speaker 2: lost his first nine finals or eight finals and then
Speaker 2: won a championship at the end. It's also a little weird.
Speaker 2: You look confused by that demonse. They just kept running
Speaker 2: into the Celtics fan. Yeah, yeah, they just kept running
Speaker 2: in Yeah, Jerry West kept running into the Celtics. It's
Speaker 2: a wild situation. Poor Jerry West. A quick Jerry West,
Speaker 2: little history lesson if we may. Jerry West lost finals
Speaker 2: under the following circumstances. He lost the nineteen sixty two
Speaker 2: finals in seven games, averaging thirty one and five. He
Speaker 2: lost the let me go to the next really brutal
Speaker 2: one for him. He lost the nineteen sixty six finals
Speaker 2: in seven games, averaging thirty four and six, and by
Speaker 2: by he lost two finals in the between those, by
Speaker 2: the way, when he was just good but not unbelievable. Also,
Speaker 2: it should be noted that nineteen sixty six finals that
Speaker 2: he lost in game seven, which was his fourth consecutive
Speaker 2: finals lost. Game seven was decided by two points. The
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty two finals, which he lost, which his first
Speaker 2: finals lost, Game seven was decided by three points. He
Speaker 2: lost then the so here's West finals career if I
Speaker 2: made just quickly nineteen sixty two, lost in seven, nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty three, lost in six, nineteen sixty five, lost in five,
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty six, lost in seven, And I'm not saying
Speaker 2: who he lost to, because every single time the answer
Speaker 2: is Bill Russell. Nineteen sixty eight, lost in six, nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty nine average demonse. Jerry West in those finals averaged
Speaker 2: thirty eight, five and seven. Lost in seven, and yes,
Speaker 2: you guessed it, Game seven was decided by two points.
Speaker 2: Nineteen seventy lost in seven to the Knicks after Russell retired.
Speaker 2: That was the famous Willis Reid comes limping onto the
Speaker 2: court game. And then finally Jerry West nineteen seventy two
Speaker 2: one an NBA Finals against the Knicks. In those finals,
Speaker 2: he averaged twenty points per game. In his previous seven
Speaker 2: finals losses Screw, he averaged thirty five points per game.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's isn't that brutal? Can you imagine being
Speaker 2: that great Demons and every year you make the finals
Speaker 2: and every year you just lose to the same team
Speaker 2: and it's usually in seven games, in a one possession game. Yeah,
Speaker 2: That's how Jerry West's finals career went one in eight
Speaker 2: in the finals, lost his first seven trips. With that said,
Speaker 2: Tatum's not up against a Bill Russell, and he's not
Speaker 2: Jerry West, and he's he's not gonna make sense. He's
Speaker 2: not gonna get nine opportunities there. And so that Jerry
Speaker 2: West is also the guy who took a shot at
Speaker 2: JJ Reddick. It was so funny when JJ did the
Speaker 2: plumbers and they were all plumbers. Oh yeah, fireman back there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Jerry West is like, at some point you got to
Speaker 2: have a resume, young man. He's like, check mine, because
Speaker 2: I was a badass. At some point. You need I
Speaker 2: need you to go ahead and actually have some accolades
Speaker 2: before you say we were all plumbers and firemen because
Speaker 2: you know, I my name's Jerry West, and I once
Speaker 2: hit a sixty foot shot to force overtime of a
Speaker 2: finals game that happened down down two because there was
Speaker 2: no line inbound the ball with one second left and
Speaker 2: just heaved from the right path the free throw line net.
Speaker 2: Let's go to over, tim, I mean yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: he's ah and so I don't know why we did
Speaker 2: all whole Jerry West retrospective, but we did. But point is,
Speaker 2: losing your first two finals is the best player traditionally
Speaker 2: does not bode well. Lebron turned it around. Most guys haven't. Also,
Speaker 2: I said I was gonna do a fast show and
Speaker 2: I just did ten minutes on Jerry West.
Speaker 3: Okay, next, Yeah, So chat, Remember drop your finals questions
Speaker 3: in the chat and we'll get to them at the
Speaker 3: end of the show. Maybe bigger question. The biggest question
Speaker 3: mark of the series is porzingis. He hasn't played since
Speaker 3: April after suffering that calf injury, but he's now set
Speaker 3: to play in Game one. Should the Celtics be worried
Speaker 3: that our number three option is our biggest question mark
Speaker 3: and not datum?
Speaker 2: Well? So, I here's where well, I don't think he's
Speaker 2: the key, but I do think he is the biggest
Speaker 2: question mark. And I this is where the Celtics take
Speaker 2: making care of the Pacers. Pardon me as quickly as
Speaker 2: they did. Kind of worked against them, because I would
Speaker 2: have liked if I were Boston to get Tate, to
Speaker 2: get Chris STAPs on the court in a real game
Speaker 2: a little bit like this. The MAVs Maxi Kliba, who
Speaker 2: is actually an important part of their rotation, good defensively,
Speaker 2: can stretch the court. He suffered that shoulder injury that
Speaker 2: you suffered Demons, and then came back for a few
Speaker 2: minutes in Game four against Minnesota and then more minutes
Speaker 2: in Game five to knock the rust off. So I
Speaker 2: do think that is a tricky, interesting wrinkle of what
Speaker 2: will Christaps look like? All Right, I don't even want
Speaker 2: to do the Lebron Kyrie thing because this unless that's
Speaker 2: a bummer for you. Do you really want me to
Speaker 2: do it? I'd rather the go ahead.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's it's I mean, yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah. So a free agent to be Lebron James
Speaker 3: told his potential future coach, JJ Reddick that he is
Speaker 3: so mad that he's not Kyrie's running mate anymore. Kyrie
Speaker 3: came back and saying that he misses playing with Lebron. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so Lebron's comments on Kyrie are likely maybe what if
Speaker 3: what's going on?
Speaker 2: So they're likely. They're likely just the truth that Lebron
Speaker 2: Lebron never wanted. If you remember when Kyrie demanded the
Speaker 2: trade out of Cleveland, Lebron said, just don't trade him,
Speaker 2: just call his bluff, don't trade him. The Cavs didn't
Speaker 2: traded him. Also, Lebron twice last year tried to get
Speaker 2: the Lakers to acquire Kyrie and they didn't. So it's
Speaker 2: likely just the truth. Maybe it is attempting to set
Speaker 2: the groundwork for them playing together again one day, but
Speaker 2: the MAVs I think had too much success for that
Speaker 2: to be realistic. If the MAVs had gotten clipped by
Speaker 2: the Thunder, then I would have thought Lebron joining the
Speaker 2: MAVs was like on the board. But I don't think
Speaker 2: Lebron's going to join a team that either just won
Speaker 2: the championship or just made the finals, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean? And then I don't even know what the
Speaker 2: what if is, But so I just I don't think.
Speaker 2: What if Lebron goes and joins the MAVs. I suppose,
Speaker 2: but I don't think that's gonna happen. Go ahead.
Speaker 3: What would have happened if Kyrie would have just never
Speaker 3: been like you know one in the show to himself,
Speaker 3: like we're at him, Lebron be this day?
Speaker 2: Well, right, so it would have been intriguing. Would Lebron
Speaker 2: have ended up at leaving Cleveland when he did, I
Speaker 2: don't know. Would the Lakers have been able to beat
Speaker 2: the twenty eighteen Warriors.
Speaker 3: Maybe I don't know a dynasty anymore.
Speaker 2: Right, there's a lot of real This is one of
Speaker 2: one of my biggest sporting frustrations is that when Durant
Speaker 2: wanted to leave OKAC, he didn't just pick Boston. It
Speaker 2: would have just been so perfect because you would have
Speaker 2: had Lebron and Kyrie and Cleveland, Steph Clay and Draymond
Speaker 2: and Golden State KD and Boston with what they were building,
Speaker 2: Harden still in Houston with what he's building, and you'd
Speaker 2: have this, you know, kind of quartet, Harden a lesser guy,
Speaker 2: all competing. And I think if that would have happened
Speaker 2: if Kad would have just picked the Celtics. My guess
Speaker 2: is from seventeen, eighteen and nineteen, Lebron and Kyrie get
Speaker 2: one more, Stephen Clay get one more and Durant figures
Speaker 2: it out some way and gets one. But then all also,
Speaker 2: the ring math for that era makes so much more sense.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, in this you know, in this time,
Speaker 2: Lebron got to Steph got uh, Steph got to right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Steph got to Durant got one. For their careers. You know,
Speaker 2: up until this last five years it had been Durant one,
Speaker 2: Steph two, Lebron four, which is really what the hierarchy
Speaker 2: probably should be, all of those things. But Steph and
Speaker 2: Katie coming together, to me, threw the whole thing off.
Speaker 2: But whatever it is, what it is. All right, We're
Speaker 2: gonna do some gambling and play some games next What's Right?
Speaker 2: All right? Welcome back in What's Right with Nick Right?
Speaker 2: Episode two forty two Demons? What are we doing here?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you think that this finals will be the
Speaker 3: last sporting event that you bet on until maybe the
Speaker 3: NFL futures.
Speaker 2: That's a good question. No, I'll bet, I mean, i'll
Speaker 2: bet some US Open tennis. Uh, because I like betting
Speaker 2: while I'm there. I like getting in the stands, getting
Speaker 2: a feel, seeing what's what, seeing if I can get
Speaker 2: a little edge, I'll do that. I might as the
Speaker 2: baseball season evolves, bet a few Royals games. I'm I might.
Speaker 2: I've been watching a lot of Royals games. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna bet. I'm not gonna bet the WNBA,
Speaker 2: even though Adam Lefko, friend of the show, friend of ours,
Speaker 2: is like the sharpest WNBA better that's ever existed. He
Speaker 2: we have a group chat me, him and Danny Parkins,
Speaker 2: and he just sends these WNBA bets and never I mean,
Speaker 2: he's got to be at seventy ats on these WNBA
Speaker 2: like player props. It's unbelievable. And I don't I may
Speaker 2: or may not bet the Olympics. So there'll be some things.
Speaker 3: But go ahead, Okay, Well sounds like we should cook
Speaker 3: some bets up.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: In the meantime, say you know, keep you keep you
Speaker 3: held over. So today we're gonna play chef right, Okay,
Speaker 3: and it's uh, oh, look at that. It's one of
Speaker 3: the most important times for our restaurant. Chef Right the
Speaker 3: NBA Finals, it's time to set the menu for our
Speaker 3: five course meal. So we got some orders here to
Speaker 3: kick to kick off our menu, we want to get
Speaker 3: the attention of our patrons, so why not spice things
Speaker 3: up immediately and predict the exact series length. We know
Speaker 3: you're picking Dallas, but how they win?
Speaker 2: So I've said Dallas in five. So Dallas in five
Speaker 2: at twelve to one is I like the value of it? Now?
Speaker 2: Would I be better off just betting Dallas in each
Speaker 2: individual game? I don't know. But if I am, if
Speaker 2: I'm doing the if I'm doing a a specific series bet,
Speaker 2: I would go Dallas in five. Dallas in six is
Speaker 2: gonna be a very popular pick. But that's why it's
Speaker 2: only plus five point fifty. Dallas in five at twelve
Speaker 2: to one. I like, go ahead next?
Speaker 3: That is insane? All right, So far, advertiser, Let's see
Speaker 3: what Kyrie can cook up from deep m hmm, all.
Speaker 2: Right, So here are the options over under two and
Speaker 2: a half. Three pointers made per game at minus one
Speaker 2: fifteen five plus threes in any game at minus one,
Speaker 2: twenty two plus threes in all games at plus three fifty.
Speaker 2: I so two and a half threes per game. Is
Speaker 2: he gonna average three made threes a game? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I I think under two and a half have three
Speaker 2: pointers made on average for the series is actually the
Speaker 2: smart bet. I don't think this is gonna be a
Speaker 2: huge Kyrie series. So I know that those seemed kind
Speaker 2: of in conflict with Dallas and five. Uh, but then
Speaker 2: if he has one huge, yeah, I think this. If
Speaker 2: I'm being honest, I think the smart bet is under
Speaker 2: two and a half three pointers made per game for Kyrie.
Speaker 2: So that's the one I would bet there.
Speaker 3: Next, Yes, shift salads are green, Celtics are green. Checks out.
Speaker 3: Let's look at what Tatum and Brown can bring to
Speaker 3: the table.
Speaker 2: All right, So over under two point six three pointers
Speaker 2: per game for Tatum, over under twenty seven point two
Speaker 2: points per game for Tatum, over under twenty three point
Speaker 2: two points per game for Jalen Brown, and those are
Speaker 2: all minus one fifteen on both sides, and they twenty
Speaker 2: plus points in all games for Jalen Brown at plus
Speaker 2: three fifty, I do not so I really like under
Speaker 2: twenty seven point two points per game for Jason Tatum.
Speaker 2: I just don't think he's gonna average twenty seven and
Speaker 2: a half points per game in these finals. I think that, yeah,
Speaker 2: what's up?
Speaker 3: But Brown to score twenty twenty plus each game?
Speaker 2: After the game, well yeah not to No, No, because
Speaker 2: so there's a first and let me finish the Tatum
Speaker 2: point real quick. Tatum is last Finals averaged twenty one
Speaker 2: points per game. But here's the problem for the Jalen
Speaker 2: Brown thing. If there's a blowout, he might not get
Speaker 2: the minutes you know what I mean in order to
Speaker 2: get to twenty, especially if they're getting blown out. Also,
Speaker 2: here is Jalen Brown this postseason points seventeen thirty three,
Speaker 2: twenty two, seventeen twenty five. That's round one, round two,
Speaker 2: thirty two, nineteen twenty eight, twenty seven eleven, Round three
Speaker 2: twenty six forty twenty four to twenty nine. That makes
Speaker 2: me like the bet even less because he hasn't had
Speaker 2: a down game in a while. So no, the plus
Speaker 2: three fifties not good enough odds for me to like
Speaker 2: him to be able to hit twenty plus in every game.
Speaker 3: Next, Yes, chef, we know this is what you. We know,
Speaker 3: this is what you and everybody came here for. So
Speaker 3: let's get everybody what they want. The main course, can
Speaker 3: be served with a pack of SIGs and beer. What
Speaker 3: will Luca do?
Speaker 2: All right? So lead this series in threes at even money,
Speaker 2: be the Finals MVP at plus two five, average a
Speaker 2: triple double at plus twelve hundred, and then there's a
Speaker 2: secret item of him to record a triple double in
Speaker 2: every game at plus twenty thousand. There is only one
Speaker 2: of these bets being offered to me that I like,
Speaker 2: and that's Finals MVP at plus two oh five. I
Speaker 2: am you know I would have. I think his projected
Speaker 2: points are like thirty one and a half. I actually
Speaker 2: like the over there. I think this is going to
Speaker 2: be a huge Lucas scoring series. I don't think he's
Speaker 2: going to average a triple double. I think he'll come
Speaker 2: just short of it. But I like him to have
Speaker 2: Finals MVP at plus two oh five A lot, all right?
Speaker 3: Next? Okay, so for dessert, why don't we jump into
Speaker 3: some NFL bets, some sweet NFL bets. At that sweet,
Speaker 3: I actually mean revolting. Which one of these backups has
Speaker 3: a chance to start?
Speaker 2: So it's Zach Wilson to take the Broncos first snap
Speaker 2: at plus four fifty, justin Fields to take the Steelers
Speaker 2: first snap at plus four fifty and Drew Lock to
Speaker 2: take the Giants first snap at plus two seventy five.
Speaker 2: I the Drew Lock things interesting because Daniel Jeremiah seemed
Speaker 2: to let the cat out of the bag a few
Speaker 2: weeks ago about the Giants really leaning towards Drew Lock.
Speaker 2: But I think Justin Fields is gonna win that job,
Speaker 2: and so I think Justin Fields. If they were the
Speaker 2: same odds, I'd go Lock. But Lock is only plus
Speaker 2: two seventy five and Fields is plus four fifty. So
Speaker 2: I will go with Fields at plus four fifty as
Speaker 2: a little early season. I'm Zach Wilson's not. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be bon Nicks. It has to be Bonnicks
Speaker 2: for the Broncos. I don't love Bonix, but it's gotta
Speaker 2: be Bonicks. All right, We've got listener questions. Plus, there
Speaker 2: is an F one race this weekend, which means we
Speaker 2: have our F one minute coming up. That's all next,
Speaker 2: do you have something else to monsay? I saw you
Speaker 2: put your finger up? Was that for F one? Okay?
Speaker 2: Got it? All right? That's our F one minute and
Speaker 2: your questions next? What's right? All right? Welcome back in
Speaker 2: If you didn't see us last week. We are introducing
Speaker 2: a new segment on Thursdays before races and Tuesdays after races,
Speaker 2: called the F one Minute. My goddaughter, Sierra is an
Speaker 2: aspiring sports journalist. She loves F one. I know nothing
Speaker 2: about it. I was told we need to incorporate F
Speaker 2: one coverage, so I had her do it. Now. The
Speaker 2: way we are doing this is you guys are going
Speaker 2: to see her evolution as a journalist as we go.
Speaker 2: So she sends these in I give no no notes,
Speaker 2: We play them, and then I give notes after the fact.
Speaker 2: So the notes I gave her after her last one
Speaker 2: were the following one is introduce yourself. You didn't say
Speaker 2: who you were. The second one was because of how
Speaker 2: you're recording it. iPhone does the mirror image, so don't
Speaker 2: have words on a sign behind you, because it can
Speaker 2: be distracting to the audience, like it's weird if you
Speaker 2: record on your iPhone sometimes it shows I don't understand why.
Speaker 2: But the reverse and she had a sign, she had
Speaker 2: a poster or something on the wall, but behind her
Speaker 2: last time, and we saw the backwards and the last
Speaker 2: thing I said was don't be afraid to show personality
Speaker 2: and give your picks. So we will see how she
Speaker 2: took those notes all together as we get ready for
Speaker 2: an F one race this weekend. That I'll be honest,
Speaker 2: I don't know where it is. I do know I
Speaker 2: said I I picked a favorite driver. I forgot who
Speaker 2: my favorite driver was that I said I picked. Maybe
Speaker 2: Ker can help me out. Uh, Carlos sains that's my guy.
Speaker 2: I'm a Carlos Saines guy. Uh. And because we know
Speaker 2: that the one guy dominates the F one circuit h
Speaker 2: and so it felt like, you know what, it's not
Speaker 2: really fun to root for him. So here is F
Speaker 2: one minute number two with Sierra hit it.
Speaker 4: Hi guys, my name is Sierra and it's very sweek.
Speaker 4: I'm so excited to bring you this week's rendition of
Speaker 4: F one minute. So there's been a lot of important
Speaker 4: headlines leading up to the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend
Speaker 4: and regarding you know, driver contracts and extensions, one of
Speaker 4: them being Socio Perez who actually extended his contract with
Speaker 4: Red Bull all the way until twenty twenty six. But
Speaker 4: on the other hand, we had Subon Akoon who actually
Speaker 4: has decided to part wiz with the Alpine team at
Speaker 4: the end of the twenty twenty four seasons, so there's
Speaker 4: a lot of things, you know, up in the air,
Speaker 4: you know, especially with Carlos Signs and Lewis Hamilton taking
Speaker 4: a seat in FERI for twenty twenty five. But as
Speaker 4: far as racing gets concerned, I think we're in for
Speaker 4: a real treat this weekend with long straights, three day raisons,
Speaker 4: the tight chit canes, the slow speed corners, but there's
Speaker 4: also a high chance of rain for pretty much the
Speaker 4: entire weekend. So with all that being said, we'll definitely
Speaker 4: be on the edge of our seats watching this race
Speaker 4: this weekend, and I think they'll definitely be a battle
Speaker 4: towards the front of the field, especially with Max Verstappens
Speaker 4: leading the Constructors Championship starting to dwindle and the gap
Speaker 4: is legging tighter and tighter. I'm really excited to see
Speaker 4: some overtakes happening, especially with last year's race we had
Speaker 4: a total of twenty on track overtakes, so I'm sure
Speaker 4: there will be a lot of action this weekend. And
Speaker 4: as far as my predictions go, and no specific order,
Speaker 4: i think I'm gonna go Carlos signs Max Staffing and
Speaker 4: Charles the Clerk as our top four finishers on the
Speaker 4: race this Sunday, So we'll see where that goes. But
Speaker 4: that's all I've got for the F one minute this week.
Speaker 4: I'll see you on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Oh I like that flourish at the end. Well done,
Speaker 2: all right, So I learned a lot there. First of all,
Speaker 2: I still don't yet totally understand what this Constructor's Cup
Speaker 2: thing is. It sounds like that's the points awarded to
Speaker 2: your pit crew. I don't totally know. I'm not quite certain. Also,
Speaker 2: I don't know what DRS means. But I did figure
Speaker 2: out just from that F one minute overtakes must simply
Speaker 2: mean you were ahead of me. Now I'm ahead of you.
Speaker 2: And Sierra said in this race last year there were
Speaker 2: twenty overtakes during the race, so I guess they don't
Speaker 2: happen that often. I don't know. I'm learning along like
Speaker 2: you guys, and it's in Canada, so the time zone
Speaker 2: won't be a problem. I'll watch this weekend. And she
Speaker 2: had my guy Carlos in our top four.
Speaker 3: Your thoughts, demanse, I think she did that so she
Speaker 3: could get a good grade.
Speaker 2: There's no grades.
Speaker 3: Or yeah good, but no, it was awesome evaluation. I saw,
Speaker 3: I saw the improvement from the last time, so it
Speaker 3: was it was really dope.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we might have gone too minimalistic on the background.
Speaker 2: We might have overcorrected there, but the personality was coming
Speaker 2: through also though, and the you know, she'll learn this
Speaker 2: as she goes on. We need we need a meteor prediction.
Speaker 2: Then here's the top four in no order, like I
Speaker 2: need a back back back. But let's see how those
Speaker 2: top four actually do. I was glad to hear my a.
Speaker 2: I didn't know all those things about the contract extensions,
Speaker 2: all of that. That was exciting. That was great. All right,
Speaker 2: let's get to these questions.
Speaker 3: Demansey Curtis Matthews asked, who do you have winning a
Speaker 3: seven game series between the twenty eleven finals Mavericks or
Speaker 3: this year's finals Mavericks.
Speaker 2: This year's Finals Mavericks with respect to Dirk and Jay Kidd.
Speaker 2: This year's Finals Mavericks, I think is a better team.
Speaker 3: Next then they both beat Lebron.
Speaker 2: Well, this Mavericks team didn't beat Lebron. They didn't play Lebron.
Speaker 2: Lebron lost to the Nuggets unfortunately, But Yes, the twenty
Speaker 2: eleven MAVs would Lebron? Oh would they have? Well? That
Speaker 2: was a weird Listen, that was Lebron's one true failure
Speaker 2: of his career. Like, I was Lebron going to have
Speaker 2: that type of kind of short circuiting for the final
Speaker 2: three games of the finals against anybody? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Like if they were, then a lot of teams would
Speaker 2: have ended up beating them.
Speaker 3: Next, Connor Leland asked, if Celtics wins, should Lebron join
Speaker 3: the MAVs? Can they do that financially? In draft Brony.
Speaker 3: I think media will be fine with it because he
Speaker 3: wouldn't be joining a team that has won anything.
Speaker 2: No, Well, I listen, I don't know the media would
Speaker 2: be fine with The media is not gonna be really
Speaker 2: fine with an Lebron does. I'd love to see Lebron
Speaker 2: leave the Lakers. It's unlikely he does. I think the
Speaker 2: Sixers are the one team that could add him, compete
Speaker 2: and pay him. Every other team he'd have to be
Speaker 2: joining for close to the league minimum that has a
Speaker 2: real chance to compete.
Speaker 3: Next, Nick Wright muse, if Dallas wins, do you promise
Speaker 3: to join Celtics? Twitter Space after the last game.
Speaker 2: Oh, that would be fun. Yeah, I think I'd love
Speaker 2: to do that. I don't know if there's Twitter space
Speaker 2: community is as vibrant as the Warriors one is, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I'd love to do that. Producers ask there's a Nick
Speaker 2: Wright muse Yeah, check it out on Twitter. He's got
Speaker 2: a great account. He also just tweeted earlier today just
Speaker 2: to prove I'm not a sick of fan. I think
Speaker 2: the Celtics role in this series. So it's a bad
Speaker 2: take by him, but yeah, it's a good account, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, thanks stick right views. Case Wageman said, don't know
Speaker 3: if he ever did the all Time Cinematic Dog Rankings
Speaker 3: from a few weeks ago. But Balto is one, right,
Speaker 3: Who's Balto?
Speaker 2: Balto dog? I don't know who is Balto. I've never
Speaker 2: heard of Boto, so I don't know who that is.
Speaker 2: Why is Balto famous in not Togo?
Speaker 3: What happened to Balto?
Speaker 2: That's really weird. I don't know what is no that
Speaker 2: the Cinematic Dog Rankings is a whole podcast for when
Speaker 2: it's not NBA Final season.
Speaker 3: H balt a miraculous sled dog medicine delivery. I don't
Speaker 3: think that's what the movie is called.
Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, no, I I the I have no idea.
Speaker 2: I've never heard of Balto.
Speaker 3: But all right, next producers asked break a tie, yeah
Speaker 3: or nay on coastal popsicles, So you got a vieo
Speaker 3: for it.
Speaker 2: No, that's a nag. That's gross, man, it's just gross.
Speaker 2: Like I I saw this on Twitter to uh that
Speaker 2: that's a nay. And also, I understand this is one
Speaker 2: of the reasons this podcast doesn't go viral as much
Speaker 2: to his other podcasts. But with respect to my wonderful
Speaker 2: producers who I adore and who helped the show, I
Speaker 2: do not enjoy responding to the dummish that was on
Speaker 2: the internet this week. I understand that is like the
Speaker 2: skeleton key to viral podcast success for everyone else. I'm
Speaker 2: just not gonna do it. Like, hey, like anyone got
Speaker 2: a thought on the guy who was driving to the
Speaker 2: to court or did a zoom call with an expired license.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, he didn't have an expired license. Oh wait,
Speaker 2: he never had a license. I don't give a shit
Speaker 2: about those things. I think it is actually it is
Speaker 2: part of the ruination of all of us. What'd you say?
Speaker 3: I think that got arrested yesterday though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean again, everyone is just we're just all
Speaker 2: getting dumber. And it's like the and like the and
Speaker 2: so many of these things that are like crazy, and
Speaker 2: it's infuriating also because it's like, oh my god, look
Speaker 2: at this clip of this horrible racism on an airplane,
Speaker 2: and it's like, this is the worst group of actors
Speaker 2: in a skit I've ever seen. Yes, it's obviously fake,
Speaker 2: and it's just created to dupe Rubes and to tear
Speaker 2: our country apart. And then it's like, hey, here is
Speaker 2: the most revolting food item I can ever think of.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say this is a family tradition of mine,
Speaker 2: and it's gonna get sixteen thousand quote tweets and then
Speaker 2: Steve and A's gonna rip it apart on his show.
Speaker 2: I'm not interested. I understand that's why this show is
Speaker 2: not as successful as others. I'm okay with it. I
Speaker 2: think they're playing me off.
Speaker 3: With music really like popsicles.
Speaker 2: I just think it. I just don't like stupidity, that's all.
Speaker 2: I just try to be. You want to have a
Speaker 2: little balt of the Dog conversation, that's fine. You want
Speaker 2: to talk. I'm okay with that, but like, hey, here's
Speaker 2: the thing that the the damn algorithm said we're all
Speaker 2: interested in I'm not interested in it, and now they're
Speaker 2: playing me off like oscars music. I'll see you guys
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