Speaker 1: On this episode of the Heat Check, We've got a
Speaker 1: special Monday episode featuring my guy, Keith Smith is foke track.
Speaker 1: Keith's like one of the best in the business by
Speaker 1: the way. He breaks down the latest on the NBA,
Speaker 1: from what's popping with the Celtics to where a Malik
Speaker 1: Monk might actually fit best in free agency?
Speaker 2: Isn't the Kings? Is it the Kings say?
Speaker 1: It's not the Magic A nice way to start your week. Also,
Speaker 1: we get into.
Speaker 2: A little news from around the league. So Anthony, do
Speaker 2: me a favor of my guy. I know you're just
Speaker 2: coming back from Vegas, but we gotta we.
Speaker 1: Gotta do it like the Omnia drop that motherfucking beat
Speaker 1: that should be Rihanna.
Speaker 2: Okay, So we've got all eyes on March mad next.
Speaker 2: For the past four days, not a lot popping in
Speaker 2: the NBA.
Speaker 1: We're gonna break, except for the fact that the Warriors
Speaker 1: might miss the playoffs all together. But that's popping Draymond
Speaker 1: Green's hand. That they're quiet, they don't have any good habits.
Speaker 1: Steph saying I'll play fifty fucking minutes if I have to,
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr saying no, you fucking want, won't everything's going
Speaker 1: to disarray for our dubs anyway. Not else is happening
Speaker 1: other than that. So we're gonna break down on the
Speaker 1: NBA prospects played out inn Attorney in a week or so,
Speaker 1: but we can touch on a little news before we
Speaker 1: get into this interview with Keith Smith from Spoke Track.
Speaker 1: So Adam Silver and the League front office apparently come
Speaker 1: to what we already knew. The G League Ignite is
Speaker 1: not is not working. It's not working. It's not putting
Speaker 1: out pros. I know that there's been a few. It's
Speaker 1: not much of a shocker since the entire reason that
Speaker 1: it started was to give eighteen year olds a path
Speaker 1: to the NBA that did not involve d one vow
Speaker 1: of poverty. Now that's kind of folks, because last time
Speaker 1: I checked, we got Homie with the with the Val
Speaker 1: Kilmer top gun haircut doing Buffalo Wild Wings commercials straight
Speaker 1: off of a ten to three performance in the lobby
Speaker 1: of his hotel room, immediately getting paid wax on.
Speaker 2: Wax on wax.
Speaker 1: We've got random kids from Yale doing commercials. Oh I
Speaker 1: think Creighton doing commercials for super Cuts. Okay, that's happening,
Speaker 1: So you don't need the G League Knight anymore. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what the G League Knite guys are
Speaker 1: getting paid right now, give me a give me a second, Anthony,
Speaker 1: I gotta know how much they're getting paid. Five hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars? Oh my god, are you fucking joking me?
Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark makes that in about one semester.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is not yet. It like G League Knight
Speaker 2: are two and thirty this season, two and thirty.
Speaker 1: Even if they project to put Ron Holland and Matas
Speaker 1: Boozellis into the lottery of this season, it is disgusting.
Speaker 2: Just didn't work.
Speaker 1: One alumnus who had nothing but good things to say
Speaker 1: is Scoot Henderson, my guy last year's number three picking
Speaker 1: the draft. He said, I really thank the people at
Speaker 1: ack Night, the little people that you don't see. They
Speaker 1: don't get enough credit for how much they have to
Speaker 1: pour into us. The coaches, they don't get enough credit
Speaker 1: for having to get guys from high school to get
Speaker 1: them up to speed in a few weeks to play
Speaker 1: some grown men that have children to feed.
Speaker 2: You don't see that. You see them getting beat a.
Speaker 1: Lot and having a horrible record. You don't see the
Speaker 1: things that they go through day to day. From my viewpoint,
Speaker 1: they helped me in a huge way to be where
Speaker 1: I am right now. I can't thank them enough. How
Speaker 1: about maybe instead of these guys struggling, clawing, scraping their
Speaker 1: own eyes out to get children to play against grown
Speaker 1: men that have children, maybe just roll them out in
Speaker 1: the college game. I don't know, you can't put him
Speaker 1: out against hungry grown men. Imagine that a guy who
Speaker 1: should be in high school right now trying to keep
Speaker 1: Isaiah Thomas MVP from eating his lunch. How about Kenny
Speaker 1: Lofton Junior's cases two lunch who had fifty the.
Speaker 2: Other day in the G League? Good luck? Good luck
Speaker 2: that to that?
Speaker 1: So anyway, rip G League, ignite good idea in theory,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, NCAA came around and
Speaker 1: made you completely irrelevant. Scoot Jalen Green, Jonathan Kaminga, Jayden Hardy.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I said his name like that.
Speaker 1: Dyson Daniels, Isaiah Todd is alumni.
Speaker 2: The legacy is mixed reviews, not gonna lie. It's mixed.
Speaker 2: We'll see how it all ends up working out.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Kaminga, Jalen Green, and Scoot Henderson are probably the
Speaker 1: best ones, but rip.
Speaker 2: We now move on to the college game.
Speaker 1: Moving on Saturday night, the Portland Trailblazers did something that
Speaker 1: hasn't happened since nineteen. They started five count the five
Speaker 1: rookies too, Monti Kamara, Chris Murray, dwarp Wreath, Scoot Henderson
Speaker 1: and Ryan Rupeer.
Speaker 2: What a squad, What a little rookie squad.
Speaker 1: And you know what? They started against the NBA champs,
Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets, albeit without Jokic, so you know it
Speaker 1: is what it is.
Speaker 2: Still we're ten and a half point favorites and the
Speaker 2: team were rookies.
Speaker 1: Would you know it?
Speaker 2: They held their own? They did.
Speaker 1: They lost by three. The game was close the entire time.
Speaker 1: Pretty amazing for the rooks. Scoot had twenty two ten
Speaker 1: and six, Dwap had twenty four eight and two with
Speaker 1: two with three stocks.
Speaker 2: My goodness.
Speaker 1: If you're looking for things to be encouraged by in
Speaker 1: terms of the Blazers for the next I don't know,
Speaker 1: three to five years, you should feel good about these
Speaker 1: little moral victories. Finally, a couple of a couple of
Speaker 1: somewhat disturbing injury updates for the two best teams in
Speaker 1: basketball out West. Jamal Murray second nasty ankle sprain in
Speaker 1: this season in the closing minutes of the game against
Speaker 1: the Knicks. He missed the Blazers game. So the Blazers
Speaker 1: kept it close against Jamal Murray. Against the Jamal Murray
Speaker 1: lists and a yogic list Nuggets, they said, fuck the Blazers.
Speaker 1: We don't care about what they're talking about anyway. According
Speaker 1: to coach Michael Malone, please say the Michael, the injury
Speaker 1: will cause a short term.
Speaker 2: Absence, but it could be longer. The team definitely needs
Speaker 2: a healthy Jamal Murray.
Speaker 1: We know that without Jamal Murray, this team is almost
Speaker 1: as bad as this team without Jokic. If it wants
Speaker 1: to defend their championship, they need to get him back
Speaker 1: on the court asap. Rocky of equal gravity, though, the
Speaker 1: Celtics have some horrible news about Drew Holliday, who has
Speaker 1: been absolutely awesome for them this season, one of the
Speaker 1: reasons that they have the best record in the NBA.
Speaker 1: I think he's actually.
Speaker 2: Shooting like forty one percent from three right now.
Speaker 1: Drew has now missed three state straight games, and now
Speaker 1: we have clarity on why let me tell you this.
Speaker 1: When I tell you why, you're gonna be like, don't
Speaker 1: like the sound of that dead arm? No, no, say
Speaker 1: it ain't so all I know is dead. Any insert
Speaker 1: bodied part after that is fucking I'm out.
Speaker 2: Okay, dead ankle, dead leg, dead torso what the fuck?
Speaker 2: None of it is good.
Speaker 1: He had a sprained right shoulder that leaves him with
Speaker 1: dead arm, which sounds like you probably can't lift it
Speaker 1: if it's dead.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: We have to wait for Drew Holliday's arm to rise
Speaker 1: from the crypt in order for him to get back
Speaker 1: on the court. Like Jamal MraY, there is no timetable
Speaker 1: for his return, no idea of when he returns he'll
Speaker 1: be back to one hundred percent. This is also his
Speaker 1: shooting arm, which I said forty two from three. If
Speaker 1: it doesn't heal quickly, we might be in for a
Speaker 1: Mark Helfolt situation, and we don't want that. We'll definitely
Speaker 1: be keeping our eye on these developing stories.
Speaker 2: As we move forward. But in the meantime, we have
Speaker 2: one of my.
Speaker 1: Favorite guests, Keith Smith of spot Track, who's here to
Speaker 1: give us the latest update on the NBA with a
Speaker 1: touch of March madness.
Speaker 2: Talk thrown in as well.
Speaker 1: Keith is joined on my other show at MGM and
Speaker 1: tonight where I'm joined by my co host, Ryan Horvat
Speaker 1: because my other co host had the flu. Because Ryan
Speaker 1: had the flu two weeks ago, BETAMGM tonight airs seven
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Speaker 2: Maybe I'll get the flu this week in.
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Speaker 1: fun Interview, So let's jump.
Speaker 3: In to talk to the NBA. We're going to do
Speaker 3: with the best right now, Keith Smith, Like you said,
Speaker 3: contributor over at spow Track Front Office Show as well. Keith,
Speaker 3: how you been Mann and how are you enjoying March
Speaker 3: Madness so far? Did you fill out a bracket?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I did. I filled out a bracket for sure.
Speaker 4: We did a little contest with the Front Office show
Speaker 4: listeners and we let whoever wins within reason and appropriateness
Speaker 4: come on and give a little rant or question or
Speaker 4: thought or whatever want to do. So yeah, I have
Speaker 4: a lot of fun with it. I mean, I watch
Speaker 4: mostly for the NBA prospects, but don't get me wrong,
Speaker 4: if an underdog, if a fourteen or fifteen seed is
Speaker 4: putting up a fight, you better believe I'll be all
Speaker 4: in on that underdog.
Speaker 3: That's what I wanted to ask you, man, Like, who's
Speaker 3: the guy that you have your eyeballs on. You know,
Speaker 3: maybe if it's somebody that everybody's talking about or not
Speaker 3: talking about, but like as an NBA prospect, is there
Speaker 3: anybody that you have some interest in in this tournament
Speaker 3: this week?
Speaker 4: Yeah? There is. I mean, Kentucky's getting ready to tip
Speaker 4: off here. They're guys. You know, they've got a ton
Speaker 4: of guys. They've got nine legitimate NBA prospects on that ross.
Speaker 4: So there's a whole bunch. Start with Dillingham and Shephard,
Speaker 4: the two guards who actually both come off the bench
Speaker 4: for this team because they're just that deep in guys.
Speaker 4: Those are guys that might be top five picks. And
Speaker 4: then the other guy I'm really interested to see if
Speaker 4: he can bounce back. Did not play well in the
Speaker 4: first four game. It's coming off an injuries to Colorado. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he needs to have a better game than this next
Speaker 4: one out against Florida tomorrow. You're gonna have some teams
Speaker 4: I think we're gonna start to question, all right, what
Speaker 4: we see doesn't match up to where we want him
Speaker 4: to be as a prospect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Keith, because he was ozerver four from the field
Speaker 1: last night and I was pumping Colorado's tires pretty much
Speaker 1: the entire week about how far Colorado can go and
Speaker 1: he's a big reason why, and then just didn't really deliver.
Speaker 1: Wasn't in the game during crunch time. How much of that, though,
Speaker 1: is the fact that he's trying to push back from
Speaker 1: injury sooner to.
Speaker 2: Help his team make a run. I mean, obviously he
Speaker 2: hurt his face as well.
Speaker 1: He's got an ankle injury that he's nursing. He probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't have to come back if he was really caring
Speaker 1: about his draft stock, but he's trying to figure out
Speaker 1: a way to cut it out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's a tough thing right now. He'll definitely
Speaker 4: get credit from a lot of people for pushing through
Speaker 4: and trying to play, because a lot of guys would
Speaker 4: have said, hey, I'm a likely top ten pick. I
Speaker 4: don't need to push through an injury here, and you
Speaker 4: risk messing up anything for me with the draft and
Speaker 4: anything like that. But he's gotta be better than he
Speaker 4: was in that game. He just he was never really
Speaker 4: like overly engaged in that game. He was just kind
Speaker 4: of out there, So I expect he'll bounce back against Florida,
Speaker 4: but a lot of it's gonna come down to really
Speaker 4: is he healthy and ready to go. That's gonna be
Speaker 4: the big question mark with him tomorrow when they play
Speaker 4: the Gators.
Speaker 1: So Oregon my team eighty seven seventy three over South Carolina.
Speaker 1: I thought that there were a couple of players for
Speaker 1: Oregon that really showed out first and foremost. You had
Speaker 1: Kuznard who had forty former South Carolina game Cock and
Speaker 1: Nefali Dante. Are any of those two players like legit
Speaker 1: NBA guys in your mind?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know about Qsnard. It seems like he's
Speaker 4: not a guy we've heard a lot of, but sometimes
Speaker 4: the guy has or run like that. Not only did
Speaker 4: he have the forty points, but he also had six assists,
Speaker 4: which is a good number in an NCAA game, especially
Speaker 4: when you're putting up forty. So we'll see with him.
Speaker 4: Sometimes those type of performances can put you on the radar.
Speaker 4: But Dante and Evans, those are the two guys who
Speaker 4: are more I think on the radar for NBA guys.
Speaker 4: Dante he's somebody I think a lot of teams liked
Speaker 4: coming into the year, and then Oregon didn't have as
Speaker 4: strong a year I think as some people thought they
Speaker 4: might have. They really went on that great run in
Speaker 4: the final Pac twelve tournament which really kind of lifted them.
Speaker 4: So I think he's a kid who can play, and
Speaker 4: I think there's a chance. You know, it's as much
Speaker 4: as we love to talk about positionless basketball and wings
Speaker 4: and perimeter players, there's still the old axiom holds true
Speaker 4: of you can't.
Speaker 3: Draft size Keith the Western Conference? What am I missing
Speaker 3: right now? I know Karl Anthony Towns is injured, but
Speaker 3: the Timberwolves are fourteen to one to win the West,
Speaker 3: the same price as the Mavericks, and I think that's crazy.
Speaker 2: I think they're for real.
Speaker 3: What do you think about Minnesota in the West.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's been impressive without Karl Anthony Towns
Speaker 4: and even without Rudy Gobert this week, that they're still
Speaker 4: hanging in there and still doing what they're doing. I
Speaker 4: thought that Denver game, even though they lost, it was
Speaker 4: really kind of instructive for all right, the team can
Speaker 4: can can do some stuff even without their main guys,
Speaker 4: and we all hope you know go bearably back. We
Speaker 4: know that, but we all hope Towns can get back. Ideally,
Speaker 4: you want to see him get back for a week
Speaker 4: or so to go in the season and give him
Speaker 4: a couple of games to you know, get his timing right,
Speaker 4: to get his rhythm back, and then you go into
Speaker 4: the playoffs. I think the NBA, maybe more so than
Speaker 4: any other league, we have this thought of you have
Speaker 4: to prove it to me, right, And they went in
Speaker 4: last year. They were an unexpected playoff team. They played
Speaker 4: okay against Denver, really gave Denver a couple issues, but
Speaker 4: they lo Austin. There's no shame in that the Nuggets
Speaker 4: are the champs. But now I think this year it
Speaker 4: is all right, Well, now they've proven it could be
Speaker 4: a really good regular season team, but he's gonna come
Speaker 4: through when it really matters, because that's what we want
Speaker 4: to know. So I think a lot of it's gonna
Speaker 4: intend who do they get in their first round matchup
Speaker 4: or the n spot where they can really do some stuff.
Speaker 4: But I'm a believer within eason, I think they can
Speaker 4: advance around maybe even two rounds. I just don't see
Speaker 4: them getting out of the West agad of the finals
Speaker 4: because I have a hard time seeing anybody beating den Bark.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the play in tournament a little bit in
Speaker 1: terms of like who the Timberwolves could potentially play. I
Speaker 1: actually think them being in the three seed is probably
Speaker 1: the best case scenario if the Kings kind of hold
Speaker 1: that spot. Teams like the Lakers, Sons, even Mavericks kind
Speaker 1: of a tougher matchup for the for the Wolves. But
Speaker 1: in terms of the Mavericks, last year, we saw them
Speaker 1: in the play in mix and they decided to punt
Speaker 1: on the season, risking pissing lukeoff, but making sure that
Speaker 1: they got their first round pick that was top ten
Speaker 1: protected that they would owe to the Knicks if they
Speaker 1: stick around in that play in mix. Again, what do
Speaker 1: you think the MAVs do this year?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they've got a good chance to advance
Speaker 4: out of it. The thing is, if you look at
Speaker 4: it right now, Dad Holds, You're gonna have Phoenix and
Speaker 4: all their guys. You're gonna have the MAVs, You're gonna
Speaker 4: have the Warriors, You're gonna have the Lakers. It's like,
Speaker 4: you know, incredibly you know, star power packed playing tournament
Speaker 4: and and for all as much as I'd like to think,
Speaker 4: you know, the NBA and their TV partners are like, man,
Speaker 4: this is gonna make for a great play in tournament.
Speaker 4: Then they're gonna wake up the next morning and be like,
Speaker 4: wait a minute, A couple of these teams are gone,
Speaker 4: Like I don't know that that's what we really wanted.
Speaker 4: So I think that's a tricky thing. But I think
Speaker 4: Dallas is one of those teams with Luca and with Kyrie,
Speaker 4: they're gonna go into any matchup no matter who they're playing,
Speaker 4: except for maybe Denver feeling like, hey, we might have
Speaker 4: the best and second best player on this team. You know,
Speaker 4: why why not us? You know, why can't we beat
Speaker 4: you know, beat these other teams? Why can we not
Speaker 4: win you know, this series? And that that's a huge
Speaker 4: thing to have because those guys are that good.
Speaker 2: What do you think about Orlando right now?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 3: I mean, like, if you're better the best team against
Speaker 3: the spread, they're forty one and twenty eight, but they're
Speaker 3: only getting better. They're eight and two in their last ten,
Speaker 3: they've won four straight. I don't obviously, I don't think
Speaker 3: they could like make a run to the conference finals,
Speaker 3: But how far off is Orlando this season or you know,
Speaker 3: like in the future, do you think, Yeah, he were.
Speaker 4: Only probably a couple of years away from them making
Speaker 4: a real serious run deep into the playoffs because they're
Speaker 4: set up to add this offseason to the team that
Speaker 4: they have and then we've got it one more year
Speaker 4: before they're going to start to get expensive when extensions
Speaker 4: will start kicking in and guys like Paula Bankero is
Speaker 4: taking a major leap, and we all kind of knew
Speaker 4: this was gonna come because he was acted as a rookie.
Speaker 4: But he's been really efficient this year. He's eliminated a
Speaker 4: lot of the bad shots.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: A lot of that has come from he's not having
Speaker 4: to run the offense as a rookie in the league
Speaker 4: because every single guard on the team is hurt like
Speaker 4: it was for about a third of last season. So
Speaker 4: he's really good. From Slagner's good, They've got pretty good depth.
Speaker 4: They've got a whole bunch of guys who can really play.
Speaker 4: So I think they're they're close. And the big thing
Speaker 4: that they do what they can't lose sight of moving
Speaker 4: forward is for me, one of them is the way
Speaker 4: they defect. You have to continue to give that effort
Speaker 4: and get after it that way repeatedly. Then the other
Speaker 4: part is I think they're in a spot where they cannot.
Speaker 4: We all want to rush to bring in the next
Speaker 4: great player to kind of lift a young team, and
Speaker 4: sometimes when you do that, you take away from the
Speaker 4: guys you already have, And Orlando has to be very
Speaker 4: carefully you don't bring somebody in who takes the ball
Speaker 4: out of Benkara On Wagner's hands too much, because those
Speaker 4: guys are such special players. You want them to continue
Speaker 4: to have the ball to kind of key and lead
Speaker 4: your offense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's such a great point too, because the thing
Speaker 1: that sometimes Orlando struggles with is scoring. Obviously, such a
Speaker 1: great defensive team. And I was going to ask you
Speaker 1: about Malik Monk because he's been linked to the Orlando Magic.
Speaker 1: Do you think that's a fit Because one, Orlando has
Speaker 1: so many guards already, like almost a plethora of too
Speaker 1: many guards. They have Gary Harris at the shooting guard position,
Speaker 1: so he could certainly step in, But like, do you
Speaker 1: think that makes sense for them? Do you think that
Speaker 1: that kind of like maximizes what they want to do,
Speaker 1: or do you think it takes the ball out of
Speaker 1: Franz Wagner and Palo's hands too much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a great, great thought with Milik Bunk because
Speaker 4: I think he's the kind of guy who could really
Speaker 4: fit in well with this team because he is somebody
Speaker 4: who is he's good with the ball in his hands,
Speaker 4: He's good when he comes off the bench, which could
Speaker 4: ultimately still be his role in Orlando. We just talked
Speaker 4: about him on Front Off the show today and it
Speaker 4: seems like there's still sometimes this stigma attached to well,
Speaker 4: you're a bench player. Well, the reality is guys like
Speaker 4: Jamal Crawford and Lou Williams had basically twenty year careers
Speaker 4: of great years coming off the bench, and there's no
Speaker 4: reason a guy like Malik Monk couldn't do that. And
Speaker 4: I think for a team like Orlando, because Monk is
Speaker 4: in a spot where he knows how to play off
Speaker 4: of other guys. He does a great job playing off
Speaker 4: of Darren Fox and especially in two man games with
Speaker 4: a bigger compass like some bonus, he'd fit in perfectly
Speaker 4: with Ben Caro and Wagner. So yeah, I think he's
Speaker 4: the kind of guy who could fit in and yes,
Speaker 4: the Magic could do have a lot of guards, but
Speaker 4: there's some transition that's gonna come with that position. Gary
Speaker 4: Harris is a free agent, Markel Foltz is gonna be
Speaker 4: a free agent. We're gonna see what happens at that position.
Speaker 4: I think Cole Anthony is you know, he's here to
Speaker 4: stay because he's signed, and then Jalen Suggs as somebody
Speaker 4: who's taking major steps forward this year. But the rest
Speaker 4: of that guard's position is a little bit in flux.
Speaker 3: I love Jason Tatum man. I do think there's something
Speaker 3: like when it is in the clutch. Every time I
Speaker 3: need him at least to hit a clutch through, he
Speaker 3: never does it for me.
Speaker 4: But where we.
Speaker 1: Are taking a charge in his entire career.
Speaker 3: Where are we at right now with Boston And who
Speaker 3: scares us the most right now? In the East?
Speaker 4: I hit the East, it's probably still Milwaukee. You know
Speaker 4: they're gonna be tough, right It's uh, you know, Giannis
Speaker 4: will be there when it matters. You're gonna have Damian
Speaker 4: Lillard doing his saying that that's still gonna be a
Speaker 4: tough matchup, you know for the Celtics kit through. I
Speaker 4: always say, you know, the Miami Heat are like the
Speaker 4: classic Corer movie Villain, like until you separate the head
Speaker 4: from the body and bury the ashes and the deepest
Speaker 4: part of two different oceans, like they I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: count them out, Like they'll come back and and you know,
Speaker 4: make things, you know, more nervous than they should be.
Speaker 4: But I think this is the best I felt about
Speaker 4: this Celtics team in a few years now. I think
Speaker 4: they just they've kind of got everything that they need.
Speaker 4: And when you watch them play, I think the the
Speaker 4: worry that people have over you know, they're going to
Speaker 4: close out games and all this stuff, I think it's
Speaker 4: a little overblown. I think they do close out a
Speaker 4: lot of these games. They did it against Milwaukee, and
Speaker 4: it's funny because they did it and everybody's like, I
Speaker 4: need to see the team close out a good team
Speaker 4: in a close game. They did it, and then it
Speaker 4: turned into, oh, well they should have blown them out,
Speaker 4: you know, so that's a problem. It's just, you know,
Speaker 4: I think Jason Tatum hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 4: They've win so much that people have to find reasons
Speaker 4: to complain about them because they just isn't a lot
Speaker 4: of opportunity to do it.
Speaker 2: What team before we let you run. We got about
Speaker 2: a minute.
Speaker 1: What team in the top four in either conference do
Speaker 1: you think is most vulnerable for a first round exit?
Speaker 4: Oklahoma City? And I love what the thunder have done
Speaker 4: and what they've built, but history tells us the NBA
Speaker 4: playoffs are not kind. Two teams on their first run through,
Speaker 4: and the only guy who's had any kind of playoff
Speaker 4: experience there, Shay gilgis Alexander and he's he's a great,
Speaker 4: great player. But there's a lot of stuff that they've
Speaker 4: got to sort through and kind of figure out there
Speaker 4: in Oklahoma City. They're gonna have to do it on
Speaker 4: the fly in the postseason. So I'm not saying they're
Speaker 4: gonna lose in the first round, but I just don't
Speaker 4: know that I see them making this Western Conference Finals
Speaker 4: run because it generally takes at least one trip through
Speaker 4: the playoffs before a team's really ready to win.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 2: Get great stuff, man, take care.
Speaker 3: Enjoyed the tournament, Enjoyed the rest of the NBA season.
Speaker 3: We'll talk again, Sue.
Speaker 4: Thanks Keith, I appreciate it. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 4: Enjoyed the turning.
Speaker 2: That's all the time that we have this episode of
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