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Speaker 2: This is Prime Cuts, the best of the Colin Coward Podcast.

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Speaker 2: So I saw the story where Tua quarterback Miami Dolphins,

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Speaker 2: acknowledged and admitted that he strongly considered retirement this past

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Speaker 2: year when he dealt with concussions, and that's something. Had

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Speaker 2: it happened to me, it happened to a family member,

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Speaker 2: you should consider retirement. You know, we get into these

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Speaker 2: things in sports, these tunnels where everybody's afraid to get

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Speaker 2: canceled and called out, and so people don't acknowledge stuff

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Speaker 2: which is like obvious. And I felt like three or

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Speaker 2: four years ago when I brought up that Kyler Murray

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Speaker 2: was a little too small for my taste or that

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Speaker 2: size mattered at quarterback, I got a lot of pushback

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Speaker 2: on this stuff. And it's like, now, can we all

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Speaker 2: admit it that Bryce young size is a little concerning

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Speaker 2: out of Alabama, and it should be. That Tua is

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Speaker 2: small and Jalen Hurts is not ideal, though I wouldn't

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Speaker 2: classify him as small. He's been dinged up. And that

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Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield, you know, for a number one pick, Baker's

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Speaker 2: six feet tall and not a great athlete. Tried to

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Speaker 2: size up a safety after an interception, banged on his shoulder,

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Speaker 2: got hurt. Never the same quarterback. We have to be

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Speaker 2: honest about this stuff. Is that Mahomes and Herbert and

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Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence and Joe Burrow and Josh Allen. These are

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Speaker 2: bigger than average men. It matters. Go look at the

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Speaker 2: list of Hall of Fame quarterbacks. You're John Elways, your Brady's,

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Speaker 2: your Peyton Mannings, your big Bends, You're Joe Montana's, and

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Speaker 2: Steve Young's not a lot of five ten guys there.

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Speaker 2: So and I think it's a I think it's a

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Speaker 2: real concern about Bryce Young. It's why there's a quarterback

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Speaker 2: for Tennessee that may go in the second round, Hendon Hooker.

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Speaker 2: The knock on him is that he had an ACL injury.

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Speaker 2: But he's a big, strong kid who throws a beautiful football.

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Speaker 2: He may be your best bet. He may be your

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Speaker 2: best bet in this draft. I don't know that to

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Speaker 2: be true. But he is big, he's strong, he's got

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Speaker 2: a big arm, and you know he's older. So he's

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Speaker 2: a more mature kid, right than your average twenty one

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Speaker 2: twenty two year old quarterback coming in. He's you know,

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Speaker 2: he's been around a while. So this stuff with Tua

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Speaker 2: is you know, he's got an extension possibility coming up.

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Speaker 2: I just I couldn't give it to him. I just couldn't,

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Speaker 2: you know the way I look at Tua, great kid,

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Speaker 2: great high school and college career, limitations at the pro level,

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Speaker 2: and I said, we're to a point now where the

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Speaker 2: media is not going to give you a pass on concussions.

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Speaker 2: And not only are they not going to give you

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Speaker 2: a pass concussions, the opinions will be swift, they'll be punitive.

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Speaker 2: And I think the Miami Dolphins, if Tua has a concussion,

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Speaker 2: you can't plan for a month minimum. I mean if

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Speaker 2: third week of the year, September concussion, if you plan

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Speaker 2: before Thanksgiving, you're going to get hammered by people. It's

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Speaker 2: the one injury where the media is relentless, and no

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Speaker 2: company wants to get banged on by the media for

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Speaker 2: eight to ten weeks. They don't all right, So it's

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Speaker 2: a bummer like some guys, you know, I've seen it

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Speaker 2: at every position in the NFL. Some guys are built

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Speaker 2: for high school and college. It's not quite built for

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Speaker 2: the NFL. And I don't know if Twua is I mean,

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Speaker 2: he has admitted before. Now he's admitting he thought about retirement,

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Speaker 2: and he's admitted before he struggles at times to see

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Speaker 2: over the offensive line. It's okay, we can acknowledge this

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Speaker 2: right like it's an adult conversation now. And it's why

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Speaker 2: Sean Payton came on my show and said, be very

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Speaker 2: very careful about not going prototype in the first ten

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Speaker 2: to fifteen picks. Do not get an offensive tackle that's

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Speaker 2: six two or sixty three. You got to be six

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Speaker 2: the Dolphins are in a really tricky situation. Two is

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Speaker 2: a really good guy. They want to protect him. They should.

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Speaker 2: Tua also needs to be protected, like most pro athletes

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Speaker 2: from themselves, because they're all competitors and all want to play.

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Speaker 2: But that news that Tua considered retirement, how do you

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Speaker 2: not consider that? If you're the Miami Dolphins going forward,

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Speaker 2: Warriors in six. My question was how much do you

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Speaker 2: Andrew Wiggins was having not played for three months?

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Speaker 1: I was, I mean, he's such a freak athlete that

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Speaker 1: And he looked like that it did catch up with him, right,

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Speaker 1: he was winded. I think it was one for eight

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Speaker 1: the game, basically wide open from the corner. So you

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Speaker 1: could see like the effects of it. But man, let

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Speaker 1: me let me tell you Kyler. After the game in

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Speaker 1: And that was kind of the sentiment like we're jet

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Speaker 1: the words to never get down. They very rarely get down.

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Speaker 1: That's still one of the higher moments I felt in

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Speaker 2: Well, now with Kaminga and Wiggins, Peyton will get to

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Speaker 2: him in a second, and Dante DiVincenzo. They do have

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Speaker 2: know veteran players. You know a player the Warriors don't

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Speaker 2: have to mention Jordan Poole by name, but it's pretty obvious.

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Speaker 2: Kerr and Draymond take turns, you know, firing shots at

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Speaker 2: him defensively, Marcus, he's it's a problem, like he's not engaged.

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Speaker 2: I thought he had three or four lapses defensively, and

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Speaker 2: I honestly thought it cost them the game. Are his minutes?

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Speaker 2: I mean last year in the playoffs, Marcus, the longer

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it matters if he's engaged or not.

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Speaker 1: He's just not very good at it, so it doesn't

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Speaker 1: So what he's not guarding Malik Monk. So the thing

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Speaker 1: all right, you broke with him. Like there was a

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Speaker 1: Milik Monk going at each other, and it was like,

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Speaker 2: Like I know, but.

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Speaker 1: Crunch time, you just get the sense in this series

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Speaker 1: He probably won't be playing down the stretch, not that much.

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Speaker 1: He didn't play that much this game, Like he just

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Speaker 1: He's going to lean defense. Every time they scored one

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Speaker 1: They gave up one twenty six. That was the problem.

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Speaker 2: What are they going to get now from Peyton who

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Speaker 1: He seemed to be fine. He said he felt good.

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Speaker 1: He came back in. He just you know, Peyton is

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Speaker 1: that sense, like a running back, Like he's all his

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Speaker 1: just he's so physical with the way he plays. He's

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Speaker 1: a revelatory. He changes everything to them. He gives him something.

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Speaker 1: I feel like he might get a lot of Pool mints.

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Speaker 1: If it's not Wiggins, it'll be Gary Payton. I honestly

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Speaker 1: think that Peyton's a better fit. I think when I

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Speaker 1: but they don't trust him. I think they trust Peyton

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Speaker 1: But in the same vein, he's taking that play and

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Speaker 1: So they gotta live with it. And you know what,

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Speaker 1: he watched him take bad shots. He learned from them, right.

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Speaker 1: He his swagger, his confidence, they reeded it. So this

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Speaker 1: much belief in himself and also that many flaws. You

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Speaker 1: But also it's some things on the court that frustrates you.

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Speaker 1: And they're all thirty thirty plus years old, they've got

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Speaker 1: four championships, they're veterans, right, you know, they make mistakes too,

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Speaker 1: because bottom line, if Gary Payton's out there, that's one

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Speaker 1: less score. And if Klay's not making his shots like

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Speaker 1: creates offense at that point. Now it's like, yo, you

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Speaker 1: go get a bucket.

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Speaker 2: So Draymond does podcasts right after the games he did

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Speaker 2: last year. You know, it's I see people take shots

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Speaker 2: head him. It's not like he divulges game plans. How

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Speaker 2: gives you insight that literally nobody in basketball gives you.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they will, but you know, going back

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Speaker 2: play like I think play. There is a path that

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Speaker 2: you know a lot of the good teams don't the

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Speaker 1: But doesn't look feasible. I mean, like even like Joh

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they were trailing by four. That was

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Speaker 2: Getting fun nominal looks. Their ball movement was excellent. That's

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Speaker 1: Hotchi Bower bandwagon, not hop it on? You not ready

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Speaker 1: hotchiburrs average of twenty four for the entire series. Put

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Speaker 2: Yeah, But I will say their third leading score Russell

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Speaker 2: all I mean, D'Angelo Russell is capable of drop twenty six,

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Speaker 2: I think any Laker fans saw it coming, like you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you put it perfectly. Every Laker fan saw this coming.

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Speaker 3: This has been it. You know, this Lakers season has

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Speaker 3: They tried that tonight. And that's a young, scrappy Memphis

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Speaker 3: and they got a big win.

426
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Speaker 1: Well.

427
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:48,680
Speaker 2: And the other thing is they are a better defensive team.

428
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:51,480
Speaker 2: Memphis is when jaws not on the floor and the

429
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:54,120
Speaker 2: ball moves better. And I've said this before, I said

430
00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:57,040
Speaker 2: it today on FS one. I said, flashy point guards

431
00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,359
Speaker 2: like sports cars. They're not built for bad weather or

432
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:04,600
Speaker 2: a trip cross country, but god, they're fun, really fun.

433
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 2: Trey Young, you'll throw even Steph Curry and Steph Curry,

434
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:14,160
Speaker 2: Trey Young, John Wall, John Morant, Dereck Rose. They are

435
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:20,360
Speaker 2: players that get exposed defensively. They're usually a little I mean,

436
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 2: they're all a little thin, a little light. Westbrook was

437
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,159
Speaker 2: more stocky, but again he plays defense when he feels

438
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,639
Speaker 2: like it. But when you get these Jahn Morant type players,

439
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:36,440
Speaker 2: is they're exhilarating and ball movement slows down. You kind

440
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,400
Speaker 2: of stare, you, kind of watch Derrick Rose perform, watch

441
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 2: John Wall, and they're not great. They give you so

442
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,879
Speaker 2: much energy on the offensive end, they don't give you

443
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,399
Speaker 2: a ton on the defensive end. Now, Steph Curry and

444
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 2: the Warriors, they've built the team Draymon Clay when he

445
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,120
Speaker 2: was a great defender. They bring in Gary Payton, they

446
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 2: see his weaknesses and they build around him. But when

447
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,600
Speaker 2: I watch Memphis, and I've seen this now three years,

448
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,719
Speaker 2: Tyas Jones played better defense. I've seen this the last

449
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 2: you know, ten times that he's played. They're a better

450
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 2: defensive team. He's not a great scorer, but the forwards

451
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,119
Speaker 2: and the wings move the ball really, really, really well.

452
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,640
Speaker 2: And by the way, I remember John Wall years ago

453
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 2: a missing games for the Wizards. They won like nine

454
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 2: or ten straight. It doesn't mean Wall's not great, but

455
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,880
Speaker 2: you know, everybody then feels like when the flashy point

456
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,680
Speaker 2: guards out, hey, I'm gonna get touches tonight, like I'm

457
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,959
Speaker 2: going to be included in this game plan, and you

458
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 2: really want to play well, showing the coaches Okay, when

459
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 2: the guy comes back, I want touches. And I think

460
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:38,399
Speaker 2: Memphis tonight played a lot of energy, moved it really

461
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:43,480
Speaker 2: really well. Everybody just the ball moves better. And it's

462
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,600
Speaker 2: not a knock on John Rant. He's exhilarating. But I

463
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 2: see this sometimes even with the Warriors, Like sometimes if

464
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,199
Speaker 2: Draymond's not setting screens, it's a lot of guys watching

465
00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 2: Steph do is you know, Harlem globetrotter ball movement flying

466
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,560
Speaker 2: around And I just I looked at me Emphis tonight,

467
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 2: and I'm like, they're a good team without Jaw. They're

468
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 2: a different team, but they're a good team without him.

469
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 3: The way you broke it down is perfect, Like it's

470
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:12,199
Speaker 3: a there's a baseline kind of like fundamental list of

471
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,120
Speaker 3: things that if you do well as a basketball team,

472
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 3: you have a chance to win no matter what right, Like,

473
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 3: even without a top tier superstar, if you can protect

474
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 3: the rim really well, if you compete really hard in

475
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 3: all of the effort and energy parts of the game,

476
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 3: like sliding your defensively on the perimeter, beating guys to

477
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:32,879
Speaker 3: the to the rim on help situations, crashing the offensive glass,

478
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 3: crashing the defensive glass. Just by playing super hard and

479
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,439
Speaker 3: having a couple of baseline pieces that you need, you

480
00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 3: can win in the NBA, especially since a lot of

481
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 3: these NBA players are good. Like we spend a lot

482
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 3: of time talking about role players in the Shortcomings, but

483
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,399
Speaker 3: a lot of these guys were all conference dudes in

484
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,159
Speaker 3: college and guys who average twenty five thirty points a

485
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 3: game in high school. So if you give them close

486
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,720
Speaker 3: out situations, even against good NBA defenses, they're gonna be

487
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 3: able to score. And so if you don't guard the

488
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 3: ball and you give give up dribble penetry, the guys

489
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 3: are attacking closeouts all night long, they're going to score.

490
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,119
Speaker 3: That's why, Like, honestly, from a schematic standpoint, watching this game,

491
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 3: I remain extremely confident that the Lakers are going to

492
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 3: win the series. The only thing that really stood out

493
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:16,120
Speaker 3: to me schematically was the Jared Vanderbilt problem, and it too,

494
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 3: it's twofold. Half of it is Jared Vanderbilt and the

495
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,440
Speaker 3: fact that he's such a non threat offensively that Memphis

496
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,160
Speaker 3: can stick Jared Jackson on him and just muck everything

497
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 3: up underneath the basket. But the flip side of it

498
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 3: is Ruey Hatchimura is ascending in front of us. This

499
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 3: is something that has We've seen the two twenty point

500
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,159
Speaker 3: point game, the two twenty plus point games in this series,

501
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 3: but it actually extends backwards a few weeks now. His

502
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 3: original His initial tenure with the Lakers went a little

503
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:45,880
Speaker 3: bit rough. He got moved to the bench after the trade.

504
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 3: But Phil hand he's been working with him relentlessly before

505
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 3: games and in practice on polishing up some things in

506
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,640
Speaker 3: his skill set. He's been working with Darvin Ham really

507
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 3: hard to find little areas of the game where he

508
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 3: can impact the game. Defensively, He's become kind of a sneaky,

509
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:03,240
Speaker 3: solid help defender under the rim, blocking shots, grabbing contested rebounds.

510
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 3: They're gonna he's big. He's big, he's huge. They're gonna

511
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 3: slide him into that starting lineup at some point in

512
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,199
Speaker 3: this playoff run, maybe even in Game three of this series,

513
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,160
Speaker 3: and I think they're gonna cut way back on Jared

514
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,879
Speaker 3: Vanderbilt's minutes. That was really the only schematic thing that

515
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 3: bothered me, uh or concerned me. I should say about

516
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 3: the Lakers, Yeah.

517
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 2: But I will say they didn't play well. Started slow,

518
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 2: were on the road, ad didn't give you much offensively,

519
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:32,920
Speaker 2: and they were in the game with two minutes ago.

520
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 2: You know, I mean, when the Knicks play poorly, they

521
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 2: get rolled Miami, not even Yannis on the Florida Nights

522
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 2: getting rolled. Lakers were on the road without or with

523
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,639
Speaker 2: John Morant. Memphis is a very upper echelon team, and

524
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 2: they competed, and they really didn't play their best basketball.

525
00:27:53,520 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 2: It was like, I since the trade, I think they're

526
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 2: much more competitive team. I think they have more options.

527
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 2: I like, I watched the night and I thought, you

528
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 2: very early, it's like, it's not going to be their night.

529
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,640
Speaker 2: It's not going to be their night. But they competed,

530
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,120
Speaker 2: they hung in the game. You know, it wasn't a blowout.

531
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:14,640
Speaker 2: They were you know, there was a little brief moment

532
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 2: with about four and a half five left, You're like, oh, okay,

533
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:21,439
Speaker 2: we got it. It's six. So My takeaway is go

534
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 2: back home, win both games. Jaw's not going to be

535
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 2: playing much in this series, and the faster you can

536
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,719
Speaker 2: close it out the better because this is this is Lebron.

537
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,399
Speaker 2: James is old and you can see it like he

538
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 2: can't go seven game series or they'll pay for it

539
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 2: next series.

540
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the way you broke it down is perfect.

541
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 3: Like the there's a competitiveness that you'd like to see

542
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 3: when a team loses that shows them that they're just

543
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 3: a victim of victims, not even the right word, but

544
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 3: just shows them that this is a natural ebb and

545
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 3: flow in the series. From the point that the Grizzlies

546
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 3: went up sixty six to forty six, they were up twenty.

547
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 3: This was the early third quarter. I thought the Lakers

548
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 3: really controlled the rest of that game. They just were

549
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 3: a little bit too far away, especially with Dangel Russell

550
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 3: being incapable of making a shot. Anthony Davis was missing

551
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 3: everything around the basket. They just didn't quite have the

552
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 3: offensive firepower tonight to make up for the hole that

553
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 3: they dug themselves. But once they locked in defensively in

554
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 3: that second half, they got plenty of stops. Now the

555
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 3: problem is and you just said this, and this is

556
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 3: so important this particular Lakers team. Rest is going to

557
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 3: be key for them, and dying this series quickly is

558
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 3: so important because there will be long series ahead. The

559
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 3: next series against Sacramento of Golden State probably a longer

560
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 3: series because the Lakers struggle with transition defense and the

561
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 3: way that they run their coverage is going to leave

562
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 3: some things open for the Kings guards and the Warriors guards.

563
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 3: In the conference finals against a team like Phoenix or

564
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 3: the Clippers or Denver, they're going to be in for

565
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 3: a long series. Whoever comes out of the West or East.

566
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 3: That's a six or seven game series. So if they

567
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 3: could buy little tiny chunks of like three or four

568
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 3: days off here or there for Broughn and Anthony Davis

569
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 3: to rest ending this series in five would go a

570
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 3: long way towards that. So, Colin, everyone was accusing us

571
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 3: of backing up our volume guy, which I think is

572
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 3: ridiculous because it's just.

573
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 1: I don't know.

574
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 3: I don't know what's gotten into everybody, Colin, because I

575
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 3: feel like this is the most reasonable opinion in the world,

576
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 3: and everyone's calling me immoral. You know how it goes.

577
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 3: But I could see the case for the I could

578
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 3: see the case for the ejection. Now I disagreed with it,

579
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 3: but I could see the case, and the case was

580
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 3: Draymond's history fair. I thought the decision to suspend him

581
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 3: was completely outrageous. Where did you land on that?

582
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 2: The reality is if I went up and punched you,

583
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 2: and you punched me back, and you knocked me out

584
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 2: and I just grazed you, you could say, well, he

585
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 2: started it, and that's a real defense. If you broke

586
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 2: into my house and I shot you and you had

587
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 2: a terrible injury, and maybe maybe I didn't need to

588
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 2: be as violent. Again to you, I would say, he

589
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 2: broke into my house, right, Sabonis got a technical and

590
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 2: initiated the circus. Draymond pulling out then added to it.

591
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 2: But that's a real defense, which is you know, he's

592
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 2: swung first, or he broke in, or he grabbed my leg.

593
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 2: So to me, that's not why they threw him out

594
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 2: for the next game. I believe at my core because

595
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 2: Sabonis a started it and played the remaining seven and

596
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 2: a half minutes. He was fine. And you know, again,

597
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 2: if there would have been an injury, then there's a

598
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 2: different component. But I think and I don't blame Adam

599
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 2: Silver for this. Deep in the DNA of the NBA,

600
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 2: the Malice at the Palace was their darkest moment. And

601
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 2: when Draymond got up as a road player and started

602
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 2: taunting the crowd and Adam Silver's in the building, I

603
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 2: think that's a non starter. If you're at Chase Center,

604
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 2: it's different. But if you're on the road, Adam's there,

605
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 2: he hears those fans, he sees the double birds. He

606
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 2: It's like, no way, we're not going there. That even

607
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 2: though I defended the players in Malice of the Palace

608
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 2: because if you went back and looked at the people

609
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 2: and the fans involved, many of them had criminal records.

610
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 2: They were just there to be trouble. I defended run

611
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 2: our Test. I defended the players because I would have

612
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,719
Speaker 2: been terrified to be in an arena, an opposing arena.

613
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 2: But it does matter what arena it is. You can't

614
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 2: do that on the road in a hostile playoff environment, Jason,

615
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 2: you just can't do it.

616
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 3: You know.

617
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 2: There's the old saying you can't yell fire in a

618
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 2: crowded theater. You can't. So I think Silver being there,

619
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 2: and cause you know, when Draymond's doing that. Adam's hearing

620
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 2: those fans and he's seeing those double birds and he's like,

621
00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 2: I'm not going there repercussions. Again, Draymond's a veteran, He's

622
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 2: not a rookie. Like you could see a rookie losing

623
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 2: their shit.

624
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: You could.

625
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 2: I mean, seriously, a nineteen year old kid gets worked up.

626
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 2: This is a wise NBA sage. You know, Draymond's been

627
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 2: in these wars forever. So I think it's like resume

628
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 2: road insiding. Because I'm with you, if you do something first,

629
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 2: you do have a right a cheap shot. To me,

630
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 2: you do have a right to cheap shot back. And

631
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 2: that would have easily been two technicals keep playing. But

632
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 2: that that crowd and that even somebody said it today

633
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 2: on my show. I forget who it was, but it

634
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 2: was me. Have been Sam Amick. He just said, you know,

635
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 2: if he'd just run through the tunnel, it would have

636
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 2: felt different. Just I'm out out.

637
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: It was like.

638
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 2: Ninety seconds of come on, you want a piece of me.

639
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: I didn't like it.

640
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 3: Well, there are things that are debatable about this, and

641
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 3: there are things or not debatable, Like the debatable side

642
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 3: of it is should he have been suspended. Sure, you know,

643
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 3: like we can go back and forth about that. Here's

644
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 3: what's not debatable. Draymond brought this on himself and his team.

645
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 3: That goes like, regardless of what the decision making process was,

646
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 3: the risk was willingly took on by Draymond with his

647
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,720
Speaker 3: behavior and especially what you're talking about after the timeout,

648
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 3: because again, like and I think I think it's a

649
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 3: complicated topic, and I know you've talked about this a

650
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,240
Speaker 3: little bit on your show, yeaally, but like the dynamic

651
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 3: between the fans and players is super complicated because like,

652
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 3: you're heated, you're super competitive, and you're riled up, and

653
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 3: now some dudes saying some wildly disrespectful stuff from to you,

654
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:43,280
Speaker 3: like twenty feet away, and there's really like this barrier

655
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 3: between you that extends beyond the distance. It's also like

656
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 3: Adam Silver standing there between you because it could literally

657
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 3: mess up your entire season and everything that you and

658
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 3: your team are trying to build towards. But again, like

659
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 3: there's a difference between like I think I personally would

660
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,879
Speaker 3: not have suspended him. That said, that's a debate, that's

661
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 3: a fair debate. There's no question that Draymond brought it

662
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 3: on himself at least through his decision making process and

663
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 3: knowing what kind of history he had. Now with this

664
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 3: series gets really interesting from here. I don't think it's

665
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 3: overcallin and I'm still pretty confident that Golden State's gonna win.

666
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 3: I know it sounds crazy, but a couple of different things.

667
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 3: They kind of started to figure out some stuff in

668
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 3: Game two that I believe might have led them to

669
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 3: a victory had Draymond been able to stay in the game.

670
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 3: When Andrew Wiggins is on the floor and when Gary

671
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 3: Payton is on the floor, they have straightforward matchups for

672
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:42,479
Speaker 3: Fox and Monk and they're actually doing a decent job

673
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 3: containing him there. Then they have to go to pick

674
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 3: and roll to get rid of the on ball defender,

675
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 3: and Draymond is blowing all of that stuff up as

676
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 3: the screen defender. At the end of the game, they

677
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 3: had to go to Looney and then they went to

678
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,799
Speaker 3: pick and roll, and Looney couldn't stop anybody at the rim,

679
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,280
Speaker 3: so that ended up being the problem problem. But functionally

680
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:02,919
Speaker 3: from the lineup, you can kind of see the two

681
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,359
Speaker 3: teams finding their five that works. The Kings are going

682
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:09,399
Speaker 3: with Davion Mitchell because he can guards death credibly right.

683
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 3: And then they're going with Malik Monk and Deer and

684
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 3: Fox with Harrison Barnes and Demanta Sabonis. With the Warriors,

685
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 3: it's Draymond with Andrew Wiggins and then Gary Payton Stephen Clay.

686
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 3: That's where they've got their lineups that are working. That's

687
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 3: where these two teams are going to go down with

688
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 3: the ship. If the Warriors can survive Game three, which

689
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,439
Speaker 3: is totally possible with how well they play in front

690
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 3: of their home crowd even without Draymond, especially against the

691
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 3: King's team that cannot be overly physical sometimes. If they

692
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 3: can survive Game three, Draymond comes back for Game four,

693
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,439
Speaker 3: I believe they will win that game on the road.

694
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 3: In Game five, as long as they can stay in

695
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 3: it long enough to get to their core lineup at

696
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 3: the end, I think they have a really good chance

697
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 3: to win this series. As bad as Golden State was

698
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 3: on the road in Sacramento, expects Sacramento to look just

699
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 3: as bad in Golden State.

700
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:59,879
Speaker 2: In my opinion, Well, what I worry about without draim

701
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,359
Speaker 2: On He's a great passer on the offensive end. He's

702
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 2: also a great screen setter, and he's now they have

703
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 2: plenty of smart players, but he does add an intellect.

704
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 2: He's just got a real good sense. I mean, it's

705
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 2: all this sort of intellectual bandwidth the Celtics play with.

706
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 2: When you've got four guys who are on the floor

707
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 2: for six years, Like the Celtics passing is excellent. Whereas

708
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 2: Atlanta's got a new GM, a new coach, a new system.

709
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just a bunch of new parts. And

710
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 2: I think, I think when I watch the Warriors with

711
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 2: Draymon's Steph Clay on the floor, Man, there are times

712
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,920
Speaker 2: it's just they can really read each other's minds. And

713
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,839
Speaker 2: that's the kind of capital that load management eats away at.

714
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 2: It's what I mean. We've talked about this. It's why

715
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 2: the Clippers sometimes in a half court set are amful

716
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 2: to watch. There's no play together. So if they can

717
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:55,879
Speaker 2: get through this game, I agree with you. But man,

718
00:37:55,960 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 2: sometimes without Draymond, the passing's not as the ball movements

719
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 2: not quite as good. You know, Clay is not a

720
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 2: great ball handler, and now he's not a great defender,

721
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 2: so you get two different versions of Clay. There's catch

722
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 2: and shoot, and he's hot at home, Clay great, and

723
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 2: then there's on the road struggling handling the ball, guys

724
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 2: blowing by him. You know, you used to kind of

725
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 2: know with Clay that if he wasn't on, you got

726
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 2: a great defender. Now and he's not on, you get

727
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 2: a sometimes a suboptimal ball handler and defender. So his

728
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 2: game doesn't necessarily you'd think, because he's a catch and

729
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 2: shoot guy, his game would age well. But he's got

730
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:40,800
Speaker 2: to play better. He and Jordan Poole have got to

731
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 2: help Steph. Jordan Pool's been awful in the series. Awful.

732
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 3: I agree, you're the Draymon thing is certainly a threat.

733
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 3: And this is where I fundamentally disagree with the suspension, Like,

734
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,839
Speaker 3: make the Kings go earn the damn series, make them

735
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 3: go beat Golden State in Golden State, make them beat

736
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 3: him with Draymond, like especially on it, like especially I've

737
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 3: been getting on my soapbox again. I didn't like that

738
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 3: that suspension at all, Like because now if the Kings

739
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 3: win the series, it's gonna feel a little cheap, but

740
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 3: it is.

741
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:12,879
Speaker 2: You know, Jason, I've always felt I will always give

742
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 2: an athlete a pass in the moment. Tom Brady yelling

743
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 2: at a coach, Peyton Manning barking, I'll always give an

744
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 2: athlete they can leave their body. It's an out of

745
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 2: body experience. Emotionally, I mean, your testosterone's going you've been putting.

746
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,919
Speaker 2: So the Draymond kick, it's like, I get it. That's

747
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 2: his style. He's the bouncer at the night club. He's

748
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:34,399
Speaker 2: a tough guy. It's the Okay, I've been ejected. Now

749
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go and taunt the crowd. Come on, you're

750
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 2: a mid thirty year old player, Like, like, I have

751
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,359
Speaker 2: a right to be mad if I'm on the air

752
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 2: and somebody doesn't roll the tape and I'm barking, But

753
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 2: three minutes later, I've got to go, Okay, we have

754
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 2: a show to do. Take a deep breath, get over yourself.

755
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 2: Let's do the show. So I that part, I'll defend

756
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,399
Speaker 2: Draymond in the moment guy grabs your foot, you stomp

757
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 2: him back. I'll defend him forever on that. But you

758
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 2: got to know better already, four to thirty five year

759
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 2: old guy on the road to get that crowd riled up, Like,

760
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 2: that's just not the play.

761
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 3: I can't argue with anything. You're saying, Colin, So I'm

762
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 3: gonna change. I'm gonna change my take as a basketball fan.

763
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 3: I'm annoyed that Draymond's not playing in Game three. How

764
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 3: about that? Right, We'll just go with that.

765
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 1: So that's I do.

766
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 3: I do still think. I think that if the Warriors

767
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 3: can survive the Draymond suspension in Game three, I think

768
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 3: they still have a very good chance to win the series.

769
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 3: So Clippers versus Suns, this is the series that I

770
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 3: have been most wrong about in my pre playoffs previews.

771
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 3: I expected the Clippers to get swept. They very much

772
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 3: did not, as they went into Phoenix and stole game one.

773
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 3: You know what's interesting about this series, Colin? The numbers

774
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 3: coming out of of the like kind of shot profile

775
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 3: stuff does not look good for Phoenix. This is wild.

776
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 3: So the Suns have attempted just seventeen shots excuse me,

777
00:40:55,719 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 3: nineteen shots in the restricted area in this series, and

778
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 3: the Clippers have attempted thirty seven, so like almost double

779
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 3: and then in wide open threes, which by NBA dot

780
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 3: Com is factored in as defender at least six foot

781
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,760
Speaker 3: six feet away. The Clippers have also generated about twice

782
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 3: as many as the Suns. The reasons why this, the

783
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 3: reason why the Suns won Game two is what's the

784
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 3: other shot that's available. So, if you're not scoring at

785
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 3: the rim and you're not making these kickout threes to

786
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 3: guys that are wide open, it's contested pull up off

787
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 3: the dribble long jump shots in the mid range.

788
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: Right.

789
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 3: What's crazy is the Suns shot thirty five percent in

790
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 3: effective field goal percentage on pull up jump shots in

791
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 3: game one and they lost. They shot sixty one percent

792
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 3: effective field goal percentage on pull up jump shots off

793
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 3: the dribble in Game two and they won. And so

794
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 3: everything for me for the Suns comes down to can

795
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 3: they continue to knock down these tough, contested pull up

796
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:57,280
Speaker 3: jump shots.

797
00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 1: And I'm just not.

798
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 3: I believe they'll make enough to beat the Clippers, but

799
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 3: I after two games feel less confident than ever that

800
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 3: the Sons can get out of the conference because they're

801
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 3: just not generating enough easy shots.

802
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 2: Well, I feel these are opposite teams. The Clippers have

803
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 2: depth but are missing a star. The Sons have stars

804
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:21,959
Speaker 2: and are missing depth. And when they made the move

805
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,800
Speaker 2: to get KD, you had to give up Michale Bridges.

806
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:28,320
Speaker 2: That was the gem but they gave up two other players,

807
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,399
Speaker 2: and one of those players had twenty eight the other

808
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:36,400
Speaker 2: night for Brooklyn against Philadelphia. And when I watch the Suns,

809
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,719
Speaker 2: I feel I said this on TV today, they're a

810
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 2: guy shy. If I just said Norman Powell's on the Suns,

811
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, they're a finals team. I almost think

812
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 2: they're tentative defensively because they know they can't get into

813
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:55,399
Speaker 2: foul trouble. Chris Paul's backup is hurt and he may

814
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 2: not play in Game three. Booker doesn't really have a backup.

815
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 2: They don't really have have backups for their stars, and

816
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 2: it almost makes them a little tentative defensively, Whereas the

817
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 2: Clippers have depth, play really hard defensively. Westbrook gets in

818
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 2: foul trouble, you can throw in man Norman Powell, they go.

819
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 2: They've got depth. So I think it makes them play

820
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:20,400
Speaker 2: a little more tentative defensively. Monty Williams knows that we

821
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 2: can't go to the bench early. We just can't. And

822
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 2: the other thing is Chris Paul's the one guy that

823
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 2: needs a break and until his backup comes in who's

824
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 2: been out, that's I know he may play in Game three.

825
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 2: But I think that's a big thing. Like Chris at

826
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 2: this point in his career need to spell. And so

827
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 2: when I've been watching Chris Paul in the second half,

828
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:47,799
Speaker 2: his jumpers are short. His just stuff that went in

829
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 2: three years ago is just not there, and it's I

830
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:53,399
Speaker 2: mean it was the other night he missed a couple

831
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 2: seventy eight footage. I'm like, that was a seventy percent

832
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 2: shot three years ago, Like just Chris didn't miss those.

833
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,800
Speaker 2: So I feel like I feel like to get Kevin Durant,

834
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 2: they had to give away a bunch of picks and

835
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 2: three dudes. If they give away two, they can be

836
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,880
Speaker 2: more aggressive on the defensive end. You could rest guys.

837
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,760
Speaker 2: I mean, they're gonna have to play Durant and Booker,

838
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 2: They're gonna have to play them forty minutes. That's who

839
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 2: they are now, That's who they are.

840
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: Yeah.

841
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:23,359
Speaker 3: I said this before the playoffs, and I still feel

842
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 3: very strongly about this, Like I have no idea what's

843
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 3: gonna happen with this Sun's team, but I do know

844
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 3: what's gonna happen this summer. They're gonna sign somebody and

845
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 3: it's gonna be like, hey, listen, do you want to

846
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 3: be a start the starting forward, like guaranteed starting spot

847
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 3: alongside Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, Chris Paul Deandraton. They're gonna

848
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 3: be able to pitch that position like that using the

849
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 3: mid level exception or whatever contract they decide to offer,

850
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:50,360
Speaker 3: and they are going to get some massively underpaid forward

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Speaker 3: that can play on both ends of the floor that

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00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,360
Speaker 3: wants to just go win a championship next to the

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00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 3: two of them. They're gonna get two or three more

854
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,919
Speaker 3: veteran minimum contracts that kind of follow a similar similar mold,

855
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 3: and they're gonna be awesome next year. I feel very

856
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 3: strongly about that. This team is kind of playing with

857
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 3: house money a little bit because I think I think

858
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 3: the expectations are a little lower on them because of that.

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Speaker 3: The minutes thing is complicated because I'm less concerned about

860
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 3: it on the offensive end, because workload matters, Like splitting

861
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 3: a heavy duty shot creation workload between just Kyrie and Lebron.

862
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 3: That can get a little fatiguing and you need an

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00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,880
Speaker 3: other worldly athlete like Lebron to survive that. But like

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Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you throw a third guy in there,

865
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,320
Speaker 3: and it's like they're haters. Splitting those duties three ways,

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00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 3: it becomes a little more achievable. The defensive end is

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Speaker 3: where is where you hit the nail on the head.

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Speaker 3: You can't win a title in the NBA without playing

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00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 3: elite defense. You can't play elite defense without committing to

870
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Speaker 3: devote physical resources to it. And when you devote physical

871
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Speaker 3: resources to it to the tune of forty four minutes

872
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 3: a night, one of two things is going to happen.

873
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Speaker 3: They're either going to not devo the necessary physical resources

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Speaker 3: to it and coast and not reach the defensive ceiling

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Speaker 3: they need to reach. Or they're going to pour in

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Speaker 3: the necessary effort for forty four minutes to get stops

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Speaker 3: and they're gonna suffer on the offense and end when

878
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 3: they're fatigued. So like, that's where it gets difficult, and

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Speaker 3: I don't really have a good answer for them. Kevin

880
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 3: Durant famously said this after they lost to the to

881
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 3: the Bucks in at Crazy Game seven, that won't his

882
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 3: toe is on the line. I don't know if you

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Speaker 3: remember the turner on tipper he said that.

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Speaker 1: Of course he said this.

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Speaker 3: After the series he goes, everyone thinks if I was

886
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 3: won the inch further back, we would have won the championship.

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Speaker 3: He's like, that was the second round. He's like, he's

888
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 3: like we had He's like James Harden was playing on

889
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 3: a bad hamstring. Kyrie was completely unavailable. I had to

890
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:44,320
Speaker 3: create every single shot. He's like, we were winning the

891
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 3: title that year. Like it's just too much to ask

892
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Speaker 3: a guy to do that that much without any depth

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Speaker 3: behind it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think if they get paying the backup to

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Speaker 2: Chris Paul, I think if they get him back, I

896
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:01,239
Speaker 2: think that helps, you know, like there's like I don't

897
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Speaker 2: know what he plays eighteen minutes, sixteen minutes. That helps

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Speaker 2: a little bit. But I to your point, they'll get

899
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Speaker 2: a couple of mid level exemptions, and they'll get a

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Speaker 2: couple of veterans that want to win, you know, like

901
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:12,240
Speaker 2: the Heat did when they went and grabbed like Ray Allen.

902
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 2: You'll get a guy like that that's like, man, I

903
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 2: just want a title. When David West came to the Warriors,

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Speaker 2: there's a guy out there that like can give you

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Speaker 2: like twelve really good minutes in the postseason. Jay Crowder's

906
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 2: bounced around and become kind of like that guy. At

907
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:28,720
Speaker 2: the end of his career, so, and they Jay Crowder

908
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 2: got moved in that Brooklyn deal. So it's like, so,

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Speaker 2: you know Michale Bridges, yes, And then you start moving

910
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Speaker 2: a couple other pieces and you look up and it's like, oh,

911
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,799
Speaker 2: Cam Johnson dropped almost thirty against Holy and you're like,

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