Speaker 1: No, no, Come on on this episode of the Heat Check.
Speaker 1: Let's break down on the final, shall we Golden State
Speaker 1: versus Boston Celtics. Where are the mismatches? How do these
Speaker 1: two teams compare and contrast? Who has the final long
Speaker 1: slow edge? Will Rob Williams be able to play in
Speaker 1: this series? And will Steph win the illustrious finals? MVP?
Speaker 1: Cohing around, we're not talking about that part. Let's dig
Speaker 1: into it, Brock, go ahead and drop that house. It's
Speaker 1: every time the same time, got you? I mean, she's
Speaker 1: on a schedule. We got a cleaning lady here. Just
Speaker 1: to let you guys in on the background of all this.
Speaker 1: Every time when I record, we have a cleaning late
Speaker 1: that I always get nervous she's gonna come into the
Speaker 1: studio when we're recording, because that's how my anxiety works.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, come in here, and she never does.
Speaker 1: Thirty teams start the NBA season and most of them fail.
Speaker 1: Most of them fail at the goal that they are
Speaker 1: trying to achieve, except for Oklahoma City Thunder. They have
Speaker 1: completed their mission. I tell you what, probably five to
Speaker 1: six teams out of those teams have real championship aspirations.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about fan bases like Laker fans have
Speaker 1: title hopes every single year, but we knew real people
Speaker 1: within the Lakers organization new titles are not coming this year,
Speaker 1: no matter how trash they are. There's a sobering feeling
Speaker 1: within the actual organizations themselves. I'm talking about discussions and
Speaker 1: preseason I'm talking about locker rooms. I'm talking about breaking
Speaker 1: down film talks between players, free agents, coaching changes. Like
Speaker 1: there are people who know, like starting of the season,
Speaker 1: after Summer League, after summer training camp, they know like
Speaker 1: we've we've kind of got something. We might mess around
Speaker 1: and really do something here. This year, I think it
Speaker 1: was the Bucks, the Suns, the Nets, the heat for them,
Speaker 1: the Warriors, and the Sixers. I don't think anyone, including
Speaker 1: Dallas in the preseason believed they could end up going
Speaker 1: to the Western Conference finals. I don't think they thought
Speaker 1: we're in the conversation for a chip. They hadn't even
Speaker 1: gotten out of the first round with Luca yet and
Speaker 1: with the first year head coach in Boston. There is
Speaker 1: a reason this team was forty to one to win
Speaker 1: it all before the season began, right, So now we
Speaker 1: have our final set. On one side, we have the Warriors,
Speaker 1: who have recaptured what a lot of people, especially their
Speaker 1: annoying fan base, predicted. They got fully healthy and they
Speaker 1: got back to their greatness. Almost just threw up my mouth.
Speaker 1: And the other a mediocre team that make no sense.
Speaker 1: The roster was janky as fuck. Didn't think it would
Speaker 1: work ever, A team that many felt needed to be
Speaker 1: broken up for parts, A team built for disappointments, and
Speaker 1: in fact, they did disappoint for most of the season.
Speaker 1: They came together, though, and became the most dominant team
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference for most of the second half
Speaker 1: of the season. So pretty big turnaround. As we said
Speaker 1: in last episode, a tale of two teams, one desperately
Speaker 1: trying to recapture the old glory like a college quarterback
Speaker 1: coming back from injury. Will Rico Jamison return back. I
Speaker 1: just made that name up return back for Blue Mountain State.
Speaker 1: Great show to show their fans we are not delusional.
Speaker 1: Our championship aspirations are real. We went into the luxury
Speaker 1: text for the reason this banners and the other an angry,
Speaker 1: cantankerous fan base with the most amount of banners under
Speaker 1: their belt. But we haven't seen one since the KG era,
Speaker 1: and it was only one. They act like they've won
Speaker 1: four titles since the ABA, more than four titles since
Speaker 1: the ABA NBA merger, but they have not. Secretly, they
Speaker 1: know it's hard to win a chip in this era.
Speaker 1: So I think we got we got a dogfight on
Speaker 1: our fan hands, folks. We got Boston versus Golden State,
Speaker 1: we got Tatum versus Steph And I'm gonna say something
Speaker 1: very sounding hyperbolic. This is a generational defense, a generational
Speaker 1: defense versus a transformational offense that changed the game of
Speaker 1: basketball and how it's played forever. So you're gonna say, Tristan,
Speaker 1: do not be hyperbolic. The Celtics have good defense, but
Speaker 1: generational defense. I'm not being hyperbolic, folks, Like this is
Speaker 1: the most interesting part of a chess match for a reason.
Speaker 1: Celtics defense versus the Warriors offense. This is where it clashes.
Speaker 1: This is where the shit goes down in those trenches
Speaker 1: is where the series will get one, I promise you.
Speaker 1: So let's bring it on. Let's bring it on, folks.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at both teams, talk a little
Speaker 1: about them and what it's going to take for them
Speaker 1: to win the title. Let's start with Boston. When you
Speaker 1: talk Celtics, you're talking about their defense. Of course, you
Speaker 1: know you've got Tatum. Of course, you know you've got Brown.
Speaker 1: They've been able to get buckets on io forever and
Speaker 1: it hasn't works. They're they're changed their offense, They've changed
Speaker 1: their their roster around lockdown, smash mouth, smothering, switch everything defense.
Speaker 1: For his magazine, because I do a little reading myself,
Speaker 1: broke down their defensive running the playoffs this year. Are
Speaker 1: you sitting down? Sit down? If you're listening to this
Speaker 1: and you're standing up, sit down, ho sit down, because
Speaker 1: I nearly fell to the floor when I read this.
Speaker 1: Boston's half court production doesn't just stack up well with
Speaker 1: great modern defenses, it actually is off the charts, ranking
Speaker 1: first in relative defensive ratings. Since two thousand and four.
Speaker 1: Through eighteen playoff games, the Celtics have upheld opponents to
Speaker 1: just eighty six point eight points per one hundred half
Speaker 1: court possessions. Their run to the finals is not built
Speaker 1: on just great defense. It's built on historically great defense.
Speaker 1: Eighty six point eight points per one hundred half court possessions?
Speaker 1: Are you serious? What that's like forty four but forty
Speaker 1: three buckets? Excuse me, holy shit? Better than the twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen Warriors, folks, Yes, who many can see consider to
Speaker 1: be the greatest team ever assembled, and they are a
Speaker 1: distant second defensively, Yes, yes, it's true. In this playoffs,
Speaker 1: the Celtics swept the Nets, as we know, despite the
Speaker 1: fact that Brooklyn shot fifty four point seven percent from
Speaker 1: two and forty two point two percent from three houseway.
Speaker 1: How how's that possible? Well, they make the nets and
Speaker 1: made the Nets turn the ball over on sixteen point
Speaker 1: one percent of their offensive possessions. Swipe, swipe. That's hours
Speaker 1: we're running out in transition getting buckets. How did they
Speaker 1: stop Giannis? Well, they almost did it. But what they
Speaker 1: did do was they made the Bucks turn the ball
Speaker 1: over fourteen percent of the time. Shitload. What about the heat?
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler, as we know, almost single handedly ended the
Speaker 1: Celtics run, just based on his own greatness alone and
Speaker 1: some bad decision making by Jalen Brown and Marcus Smart
Speaker 1: which could be their Achilles heel, but we'll get to
Speaker 1: that in another time. How did the Celtics win? They
Speaker 1: made Miami turn the ball over fourteen percent of the time.
Speaker 1: So to recap the defensive pressure that this Boston team
Speaker 1: puts on star players. We are talking about Durant, Kyrie, Jannis, Drew, Butler, Tyler,
Speaker 1: hero guys who are professional bucket getters who were turning
Speaker 1: the ball over like crazy. And what we also know
Speaker 1: about this opponent. I had to look this up and
Speaker 1: it was shocking. We all know of it. What Golden
Speaker 1: State does well is this free flowing motion Picasso like
Speaker 1: maybe even more like Jackson Pollock. Just shit everywhere all
Speaker 1: the time, splashes the thing that the thing that is
Speaker 1: the achilles heel of something so creative, something so chaotic,
Speaker 1: is turnovers, lots of them. How many? You might ask,
Speaker 1: how does Golden State rank in the NBA in terms
Speaker 1: of turning the ball over? Are they are they like
Speaker 1: bottom third? No, it's worse than that. Are they twenty second, No,
Speaker 1: it's worse than that. They're twenty ninth, folks, twenty ninth
Speaker 1: out of thirty at turning the ball over. Think to yourself,
Speaker 1: who would be the one team in the NBA that
Speaker 1: could turn the ball over more than the Golden State Warriors?
Speaker 1: Just tick talk, tick talk, you know, it's Houston. You know,
Speaker 1: it's Jalen Green, you know it's Kevin Porter junior. He
Speaker 1: throws the ball around more erratically and chaotically than he
Speaker 1: does bowls of soup at his former teammates. That's what
Speaker 1: they do. Couple of young bloods, just Chris Crossing, trying
Speaker 1: to vibe out, getting buckets, turning the ball over like
Speaker 1: Golden State back to them. They turned the ball over
Speaker 1: in the regular season fifteen times per game. Uh uh no, no,
Speaker 1: that SIT's not gonna work here, folks. No, no, So
Speaker 1: in some ways, this is a feather in Boston's cap, right.
Speaker 1: I think that's the one way, the one thing that
Speaker 1: they can see when they're in their little meetings right now.
Speaker 1: I don't want to mean to diminish it, but like
Speaker 1: they're in their little meetings right now, and they've got
Speaker 1: to be looking at that like that's the thing we
Speaker 1: need to zero in on. That's what Memphis did really well.
Speaker 1: Got Golden State to turn the ball over, got out
Speaker 1: into transition, got huge leads, and then tried to milk
Speaker 1: the clock out as much as possible for the rest
Speaker 1: of the game. Let's break down how their defense works
Speaker 1: and how they want to run it on somebody like
Speaker 1: Golden State because the challenges are immense. So the Celtics
Speaker 1: built their defense in a way, according to eme Udoka,
Speaker 1: in a way to like lull an offense to sleep,
Speaker 1: just in time for them to say, Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get this opposing team to be comfortable and complacent. And
Speaker 1: then as soon as they think that they've got us
Speaker 1: and our defense figured out, like this isn't such a
Speaker 1: historic defense, then that's when they turn the beat around, folks.
Speaker 1: They turn the heat up, the flames start to pop
Speaker 1: up in their mouth, and that's that's what Boston. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what that means. Boston will have to
Speaker 1: be extremely disciplined though on Golden State in order to
Speaker 1: do this, because not only do they have very specific
Speaker 1: defensive schemes, they're gonna need to change those defensive schemes
Speaker 1: on Golden State, like multiple times in one possession. You're
Speaker 1: talking about totally different mentalities on defense changing and a
Speaker 1: meshing in one possession just based on what Golden State does.
Speaker 1: That is a challenge. The communication is gonna need to
Speaker 1: be there, the discipline is gonna be needing to be there,
Speaker 1: and every single player. Every role that you have, you
Speaker 1: need to be locked in on your assignment and how
Speaker 1: that assignment changes. As Golden State does their Jackson Pollock thing. Cause,
Speaker 1: like when you are trying to defend Jackson Pollock, I mean,
Speaker 1: this shit's everywhere. It's everywhere. You got this constant free
Speaker 1: motion offense, a million tiny little wrinkles inside, dribble handoffs,
Speaker 1: fake dribble handoffs, backcut, fake actions, shooters that pull up
Speaker 1: from anywhere. If you try to go underneath the screen,
Speaker 1: it's night night sleep mask for you. If you try
Speaker 1: to go over the screen, you're on their backside. They
Speaker 1: pull up like a like somebody who's on the freeway
Speaker 1: tapping their brakes. You collide. Now they're at the free
Speaker 1: throw line. Excuse me, this is a challenge. Even for
Speaker 1: a legendary defense, They're gonna need to be locked in.
Speaker 1: The Warriors set would feel like constant screens. I watched
Speaker 1: an eight second clip where there was three screens on
Speaker 1: the perimeter that looked like it was dumping off the
Speaker 1: ball to Draymond Green only to get Steph Curry free
Speaker 1: for a quarter. Three. Just can't even notice how many
Speaker 1: they run. It's just boom boom boom, boom boom. So
Speaker 1: what you need to do is you need to either
Speaker 1: lull Golden State into this arrogance. That's what Memphis did, carelessness, recklessness,
Speaker 1: and then capitalize on those mistakes, whether that's their bad
Speaker 1: shot selection, which they have the propensity to do, because
Speaker 1: again they're vibe and they're creating. They're just painting out there,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And then also make them
Speaker 1: turn the ball over. Limit them also to just one
Speaker 1: possession if they have those careless, careless threes bad shots.
Speaker 1: You cannot let Kevon Looney get an offensive rebound and
Speaker 1: then start the possession all over again. They got a
Speaker 1: new canvas. And now you're tired and you're disheartened and
Speaker 1: your egos diminished, and you're like, god, damn, I gotta
Speaker 1: do this for forty eight minutes. She sh and then
Speaker 1: Chase Center's going crazy, a staff and VP They're like,
Speaker 1: I can't read the assignment. No, you get one possession
Speaker 1: and get out into transition. Run run, run, And then
Speaker 1: on offense, when you get the ball back off of
Speaker 1: a make be extremely slow, methodical. Just run your offense,
Speaker 1: make sure you get a good shot. If not a
Speaker 1: good shot, probably a great shot. Make sure that those
Speaker 1: guys like Grant Williams and Derek White and especially Marks
Speaker 1: Smart are locked in and no, we're not taking bad
Speaker 1: shots tonight, folks, because that turns into fifteen extra points
Speaker 1: for a Golden State. Also, where their best offensive players out,
Speaker 1: where Golden State's best offensive players out on defense, be
Speaker 1: very physical, try your damnedest from stopping them from getting
Speaker 1: out into transition and creating this deluge a waterfall of threes.
Speaker 1: And I think the thing that's interesting for Boston offensively
Speaker 1: is that they're much bigger and stronger than Golden State.
Speaker 1: Is right, that's not necessarily going to be a fed
Speaker 1: They're in their cap defensively because Golden State, I think
Speaker 1: will have ways to mitigate that. But offensively, I think
Speaker 1: this is a strength for them. They should use their strength,
Speaker 1: their athleticism, their size to either pull up over smaller
Speaker 1: defenders like Jordan Poole and nullify him. You need to
Speaker 1: figure out a way to dampen the Golden State offense
Speaker 1: by taking offensive players just completely off the floor. Like
Speaker 1: if you can go at Jordan Poole and make him
Speaker 1: get into foul trouble, make him take bad shots, out
Speaker 1: of frustration, make him basically unplayable. Now you've got a
Speaker 1: guy who can put up thirty who's now on the
Speaker 1: fucking bench, and another guy like Otto Porter who averages
Speaker 1: like four. Okay, so then now we're starting to play
Speaker 1: with Now we're cooking with gas. Now we're cooking with gas.
Speaker 1: So they should attack Pool as much as possible the
Speaker 1: same way that they did Luca and isolate him. Make
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr make hard decisions, make his ass play less minutes.
Speaker 1: Shane Young from Forbes broke down the biggest problem for
Speaker 1: Boston and why I think Golden State will win, which
Speaker 1: is just gross for me to say. This is what
Speaker 1: he wrote. Golden State's offensive, flow, prowess, and pure intelligence
Speaker 1: are on vastly different levels than Milwaukee and Miami. The
Speaker 1: film session is now dedicated to a sharp shooting phenom
Speaker 1: one that never gets tired, doesn't even need the ball
Speaker 1: to tear your defense to shreds, and already has twenty
Speaker 1: eight Finals games under his belt. No other player, no
Speaker 1: other player has seen more defensive coverages than Steph Curry.
Speaker 1: Boston won't give him anything new to figure out, but
Speaker 1: they will be the most physical, aggressive, and switchable defense
Speaker 1: that he's ever faced in a series, and I think
Speaker 1: that's true. Much better team than any of those Cleveland
Speaker 1: Cavalier squads, much better team than the Toronto Raptors, even
Speaker 1: with Kawhi Leonards. This is the problem that varies. Few
Speaker 1: teams have solved, and Boston needs to figure this out
Speaker 1: very quickly or this might be night night. That would
Speaker 1: be four, you know. So to say that Golden State
Speaker 1: offers a problem to any defense is probably the understatement
Speaker 1: of the year. The team runs eleven deep, sometimes twelve.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows their role. Gary Payton, the second is back.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be big for them. Also, andre Iguidala has
Speaker 1: basically had his entire body on ice all season. For
Speaker 1: this moment. He doesn't need to play basketball anymore. He
Speaker 1: only wants to play in NBA Finals. That's it, that's it,
Speaker 1: that's it for him. Everyone knows this. They have superstar guys,
Speaker 1: and they have guys on the cusp of greatness. They
Speaker 1: have role players who have been shunned and discarded from Minnesota.
Speaker 1: They have rookies who are contributing. So depending on how
Speaker 1: you look at it, it's heaven. If you're a Warriors fan,
Speaker 1: you feel like you've got the future, the present, and
Speaker 1: the past all rolled up in one beautiful little team
Speaker 1: that plays beautiful game of basketball. Or it is a
Speaker 1: complete unmitigated disaster. If you're the rest of the league
Speaker 1: wondering whether this Golden State team's gonna have another decade
Speaker 1: decade of prominence, right you're email you DONK. I can't
Speaker 1: even imagine how you think about this. I'm trying. I'm
Speaker 1: not doing a great job, but I'm 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 Looney 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 Warrior turn the ball over a
Speaker 1: ton in the regular season, but they've 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. The
Speaker 1: first is they are nine to zero at home in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Wow, that's huge. From twenty fifteen to twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: they averaged six home losses per playoffs. This is that's stupid.
Speaker 1: That's stupid. Like they're better than they were in their reign.
Speaker 1: Why how? I don't know. Second, the fourth quarter, as
Speaker 1: per usual, has belonged to Golden State. They have outscored
Speaker 1: their opponents by twenty five points per one hundred possessions
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. That's the best by any team
Speaker 1: in the playoffs in any quarter ever. Like ever, this
Speaker 1: means that they they're like, get up by thirty, Get excited,
Speaker 1: get excited. First quarter, second quarter, third quarter, go up,
Speaker 1: go up on us eighteen twenty All good, Steph Curry.
Speaker 1: You'll watch him. Just watch this. Keep this in your
Speaker 1: mind's eye when you watch this. There will be a
Speaker 1: game where Boston is up like seventeen nineteen points, and
Speaker 1: then they'll cut, they'll cut to the bench and it'll
Speaker 1: be like it'll be like ten thirty in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter and Mark Jackson or something. He'll be like, well, well, Mike,
Speaker 1: I don't know. We couldn't have seen this coming. And
Speaker 1: then as they're talking about how unprecedented this lead is
Speaker 1: for Boston, they'll show Steph Curry on the bench with
Speaker 1: a towel over his head and his little mouthguard chewing
Speaker 1: on it, and you're like, this little fucker is gonna
Speaker 1: come back in in like two minutes and it's night night,
Speaker 1: and that's what they will do. They're a team and Boston,
Speaker 1: as we know, when they get up, they can get complacent.
Speaker 1: Miami Heat came back multiple times. Milwaukee came back multiple times.
Speaker 1: If you get up on Golden's I don't care if
Speaker 1: it's thirty, keep your boots on their necks until it's
Speaker 1: whooped that trick time and you make Draymond, you know,
Speaker 1: put the towel in the air. Cause it's like, there's
Speaker 1: no insurmountable lead for this team. 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. They
Speaker 1: are better than five hundred. No lead is safe. How
Speaker 1: about this? How about this. When they get a lead,
Speaker 1: are they four and six? No, they're eight and zero
Speaker 1: when they're leading after three quarters, So you better make
Speaker 1: sure they're not up after three quarters. They're doing this
Speaker 1: in the playoffs by their passes, as we know the
Speaker 1: beautiful game of basketball. That they play three hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty six passes per twenty four minutes. What a deluge, confusing, annoying, frustrating, tiring,
Speaker 1: and player movements. Of course, eleven point three miles traveled
Speaker 1: per twenty four minutes, both second in the NBA. They've
Speaker 1: also let all playoff teams in assist percentage. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a challenge, folks. All these little stats, all these
Speaker 1: little nuggets. It doesn't look good for Boston. This is
Speaker 1: also gold This is Golden State's series to lose for
Speaker 1: all those reasons. In my opinion, I think that Boston
Speaker 1: poses problems for Golden State, but I think Golden State
Speaker 1: poses a lot bigger problems for Boston. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that Boston can't win because I think Memphis could have
Speaker 1: beaten Golden State. They certainly didn't want to go back
Speaker 1: to Memphis in Game seven, and who knows what would
Speaker 1: have happened, if John Moran wouldn't have gotten injured. But
Speaker 1: like if some nuts or candies and nuts, it'd all
Speaker 1: be Christmas morning or whatever the saying is. So Boston's
Speaker 1: gonna need to win in the Bay in order to
Speaker 1: make this thing happen, and that is going to be very,
Speaker 1: very hard to do. Finally, let's talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about X factors for both teams, which is which means
Speaker 1: ancillary piece, peripheral pieces, not star players, not key role players,
Speaker 1: but ancillary players that need to step up. And who
Speaker 1: that could be for Boston. I think that's Derek White.
Speaker 1: Derek White's a very pesky perimeter defender. He's like Marcus Smart.
Speaker 1: He knows emy Udoka's system like the back of his
Speaker 1: hand because he came from San Antonio and that's the
Speaker 1: same San Antonio scheme that emay Udoka is running. He's
Speaker 1: going to be really really big in terms of hitting
Speaker 1: corner threes, hitting three pointers at the top as well.
Speaker 1: If you're open, Derek shoot, like, be confident. They're going
Speaker 1: to sag. Golden State is going to sag off of
Speaker 1: quote unquote lower shooter percentage. Guys like let the Scrub shoot,
Speaker 1: Grant Williams, Derek White. Derek White's gonna need to hit
Speaker 1: a bunch of them in order for that to change
Speaker 1: how Golden State plays their defense. He's a very very
Speaker 1: smart player at understanding angles. He's going to be able
Speaker 1: to cut Steph off instead of chasing Steph around. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be able to like almost cut the corner and
Speaker 1: stop the from coming into Stef's hands, bumping players off
Speaker 1: their spots. And if Derek White can hit those shots,
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be a really huge factor there.
Speaker 1: That's how Dallas won Game four, by the way, open
Speaker 1: shooters in the corner who hit him night night for
Speaker 1: Golden State, I think we've already seen Andrew Wiggins emerge
Speaker 1: as a key role player. So for me, I think
Speaker 1: the series will hinge on this ancillary player, Kevon Looney.
Speaker 1: If Kevon Looney gets fifteen, sixteen, seventeen boards a game,
Speaker 1: there's just there's that's it. That's that's the key stat
Speaker 1: for me, because he's a six eleven small five who
Speaker 1: has basically played himself out of the beginning of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: They brought him back in solely because Steven Adams was
Speaker 1: playing really well, and now he has re emerged as
Speaker 1: a key cog in this system. He can play good defense,
Speaker 1: and whether he can be solid on switches or he's
Speaker 1: not getting by Tatum and Brown, that's gonna be huge.
Speaker 1: That will be the key stat for me to watch
Speaker 1: is how Kevon Looney gets rebounds offensive rebounds, specifically because
Speaker 1: Golden State getting extra possessions means nothing good for Boston. Conclusion, Boston,
Speaker 1: make 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. Like think of it like this, Think
Speaker 1: of it like this. This is analogy. So imagine you're
Speaker 1: a chick on the Bachelor and you're going on a
Speaker 1: group date. Right, and you're on the date and the
Speaker 1: other girl is Miss Universe. Right, You're never gonna be
Speaker 1: able to miss you out Miss Universe. Miss Universe. You're
Speaker 1: never gonna be more beautiful than Miss Universe. So don't
Speaker 1: go anywhere where she can be in a bathing suit
Speaker 1: or where she dresses up in a cocktail dress. You're
Speaker 1: never winning that date. You need to go somewhere where
Speaker 1: you're sweaty, where you're using your brain, where you're dirty.
Speaker 1: Maybe she breaks a nail, maybe she exposes her lack
Speaker 1: of intellect. 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. Really that's it. If you can turn the
Speaker 1: ball over less than ten times a game, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be it. That's gonna be really it for you. Keep
Speaker 1: the ball moving, offense, moving motion. Try to limit Jordan
Speaker 1: Poole's minutes. Try to figure out a way to hide
Speaker 1: Jordan Poole when he's in the game. Like when it's
Speaker 1: called they call it pool party, like make it pool
Speaker 1: make it pool conference, like, make it more business like
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like when we talk about
Speaker 1: the pool party, it's a little too hectic for me,
Speaker 1: Like it's a little too Vegas summertime, too many drinks,
Speaker 1: too much bad shit happens when it's the pool party.
Speaker 1: Make it more like a pool business meeting, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like just kind of like make it
Speaker 1: more something that I can rely on Jordan Poole to
Speaker 1: operate effectively on the offense and defensive end. Try to
Speaker 1: get a lot of good production out of Clay and Wiggans,
Speaker 1: so you don't need pools offense. You can just like
Speaker 1: maybe put his ass on the bench. No pool party
Speaker 1: time for me, keep bigger defenders on the floor to
Speaker 1: help out. My prediction Warriors in six, Warriors in six,
Speaker 1: I think the Warriors will be up three to one
Speaker 1: after four. I think they'll close it out in Boston actually,
Speaker 1: which would be sad because Chase fans they won't get
Speaker 1: a ring there. Maybe Warriors in five actually feels like
Speaker 1: it's happening at Chase. Feels like it's happening at Chase
Speaker 1: for me. That's the only way for the legacy, And
Speaker 1: I think Steph does. I think Steph does get his
Speaker 1: first finals MVP. Also very quickly the Draymond Kevin Durant thing.
Speaker 1: Look it up so funny. Draymond Green basically said that
Speaker 1: Steph Curry got seven times more double teams than Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant did when they played on the team together. Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant then went on, which is what he does, go
Speaker 1: on Twitter, quote tweet it and say, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: this is absolutely false. Steph did not get seven times
Speaker 1: more double teams than me. Oh that's wrong. So legacy
Speaker 1: legacy versus legacy. A lot of unfortunate situations were very elite,
Speaker 1: skilled players, some of the best to ever do it.
Speaker 1: I have to feel some level of insecurity where they
Speaker 1: need to defend their quote unquote legacy because random people
Speaker 1: on Twitter are dumb enough to believe that neither one
Speaker 1: of them is good enough to be in the top
Speaker 1: ten of all time conversation, which is just absolutely bunkers
Speaker 1: in my opinion. But check that out, go and find it.
Speaker 1: There's a million places where they discuss it. And Steph
Speaker 1: Curry's legacy is unaffected by not having a finals mvpm
Speaker 1: my in my opinion, and that's coming from someone who
Speaker 1: has said Steph Curry's not even a point guard. So
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