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I am rapped with anticipation for Lakers Warriors 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:28.200 Game two tonight, even though my guess is it will 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.600 go the Warriors way. We will explain that we have 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.840 a fun game to play later in the show. Diora 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:38.480 has been testing out she does an amazing British accent. 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:41.240 She was just a wondering whether or not she should 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.200 do that on today's show. We're gonna save that for 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.480 a later episode. We also have a personal call to 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.040 action that we haven't done on What's Right before that 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.040 we will do later in the show. But first, here's 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:57.560 what missed. Jordan Love signing an extension with the Packers, 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.080 but not really. They're in instead of picking up his 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:04.640 fifty year option, they are doing the equivalent for a 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.560 little less money than the fifth year option would have 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.320 been to a good financial move for them. I'm not 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.320 sure exactly why I Love and his representation accepted it, 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:20.079 but so be it. Lebron, those scally wags at Chase Center. 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:22.520 I feel like they can't use that one again. 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:28.360 Why do you know the genesis of its? Yeah, like 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:30.000 where it's from the etymology of. 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:31.440 The war pirates. 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:33.040 I don't think it's from pirates. 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:34.720 I think it's from pirates. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.040 I actually think it's from the Civil War. 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:39.959 But they were calling people scag. 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:45.240 So here's the thing. So the current definition of scaley 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.840 wag is a person who behaves badly but in an 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:53.680 amusingly mischievous way, or a rascal. The etymology is it 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:57.880 was a white Southerner who collaborated with Northern Republicans during 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:01.920 reconstruction off for personal property. You say this is gonna 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:03.840 be a fast show, en, I was, well, you shouldn't 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:09.160 have interrupted me as I was saying those rascals at 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:15.440 Chase Center taking not giving Lebron his baby powder for 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:20.840 the chalk toss, that's outrageous. It was Lebron every game 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.840 for twenty years has tried to put baby powder or 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.160 chalk in his hands, throw it up. It's a great 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:30.280 moment for the crowd. The Warriors, ops people had the 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:33.120 bottle there and had it empty on purpose. I'm on 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.600 to you, Chase Center and the Bucks not doing exit interviews. 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.680 That's not in the show. Who is in the show 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:44.520 is diora freshly minted eighteen year old Diorra, who is 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.120 in the show in place of Demond's for the next 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:51.560 month or a couple months. She's considering extending it through 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.080 the summer. She wants to be paid. 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.240 Yeah for it. And the only way I'm gonna keep 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.480 doing this after my project is if I'm getting paid. Yeah. 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.960 Well, okay, we'll see how that works out. This is again, 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.760 as you will learn in your field of study, which 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.680 is the performing arts and acting, we are paying you 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:12.000 in exposure and opportunity. Diora, what are we starting the 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:12.800 show with today? 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.920 So today we're going to start with how Demanse was right. 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.000 I guess the Celtics really didn't have to worry. The 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.039 seventy sixers got the MVP back in the lineup and 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.039 we're blown out. Didn't seem so valuable to me? 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.160 Okay, okay. 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.480 Should Philly be encouraged by embiids a return or terrified 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:32.120 because they lost by like a thousand points? 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.360 All right? Neither is the answer. So here's the deal. 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.520 That wasn't an option, okay, but it's the correct answer. 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:46.480 So it is now fifteen consecutive series where if the 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:51.400 home team lost game one, they then win game two. 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:57.400 So fifteen NBA playoff series in a row where the 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.839 road team has had the chance to go up to 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:05.600 they have not done it. We've seen it already, just 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.080 off the top of my head in these playoffs. Miami 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.920 went up one oh in Milwaukee. They then lost Game 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.039 two in Milwaukee. Miami went up one oh in New York. 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.320 They then lost Game two in New York. The Lakers 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.560 went up one oh against Memphis. They then lost Game 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:24.760 two in Memphis. The gonna lose tonight, Well that's we'll 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:28.560 get to that. But it's like history says, yes. Uh. 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.640 The Clippers went up one oh in Phoenix, they then 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:37.720 lost game two. The Sixers went up one oh in Boston. 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:42.359 They then lost game two. These are the home team 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.839 almost never goes down oh two at home, and the 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.599 reason for that is obvious but kind of multi layer. 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.360 The first one is the home team had the better 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:57.160 regular season typically is the better team, so they're not 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:01.120 often gonna lose those first two games. But more important 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:05.000 than that is, even in the playoffs, there's different senses 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:09.560 of urgency. The road team goes into the opening two 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:13.120 games of the series saying, let's steal one, so they 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.720 relax a bit if they win game one, and the 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.920 home team knows we've got to. At the very least 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.880 Salvage is split here, so their intensity is all ratcheted up. 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:28.160 So it was not a surprising result. Here is the 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.920 disappointing part and the concerning part for Philly. 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:33.480 Definitely at show. 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.400 It is gonna be a short show. Just get maybe 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.800 not with all your interruptions, but let me give the audience, 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.720 you know, the analysis of the game. The concerning part 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.560 is Harden goes from the best game of his playoff 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:51.200 career to one of the worst. He was two for fourteen, 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:55.679 He was zero for six. He was a total non factor. 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:03.040 Another concerning part for Philly they annihilated with Jason Tatum 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.000 having as bad of a game as he'll ever have 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:10.600 in the playoffs. He made one shot, he scored seven points. 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:15.880 He was a total non factor. Another at least slightly 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:20.320 concerning part for Philly is Joe Missoula and Boston said 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.480 they wanted to shoot more threes. They wanted to fix 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:27.120 that math problem they were having. They got fifty threes 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:31.880 up and made twenty of them, including ten from Grant 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.720 Williams and Malcolm Brogden off the bench. So none of 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:38.240 that's good. That then is going to lead to the 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:42.000 question of should the Sixers just have sat Joel Embiid 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.960 if they weren't gonna win this game anyway? Most likely, 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.280 should they have just given him the extra two days 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.680 of rest. I say no to that. And this is 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:54.520 where I actually think you can take some solace if 0:07:54.560 --> 0:08:00.560 you're a Sixer fan. Embiid was going to be rusty, 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:05.680 was going to be somewhat ineffective, I believe in his 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:10.600 first game back no matter what. So getting that out 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:14.400 of the way, I think is a legitimate benefit. He 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.480 didn't have to go huge minutes. He went twenty seven minutes. 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:22.360 He wasn't listen. He was not very good offensively, but 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.160 he had five blocks in the first half and he 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:29.360 seemed to be moving fine. So I know the knee 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:33.560 is gonna hamper him, but I didn't watch him and say, oh, 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:37.000 he's a shell of himself. So all of that, to 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.640 me lead you down the road of believing this is 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.679 going to be a long series. I said beforehand, I 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.520 liked Philly and seven going on the road in a 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.200 game seven and winning. I know that's rare, but we 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.920 did just see the Warriors do it. I them getting 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.800 a split of the first two where they didn't have 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.360 him beat for Game one, and seeing that level of 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.280 play from Hardening game one had to make you feel good. 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.600 This was a game that would have been shocking affiliate one. 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:09.560 So yes, Demanse was right ish, but I do not 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:14.280 think that this is massively concerning for Philadelphia. And here's 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:18.040 the last thing I'll say about the Celtics here. They 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:24.439 when they are firing on all cylinders offensively and defensively, 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.920 they do look like the best team in basketball. They 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.120 look like the best defense in the Eastern Conference, an 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.400 offense that has five guys that can go get their 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.960 own bucket. All of those things are positive. It is 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:42.680 odd to me that even in the postseason they are 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:47.160 not consistently able to bring that level of effort night tonight. 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.800 But that's gonna be a great series. It's one to one. 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:50.800 What's next to you are on? 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.880 So after crying about it for years and Beid finally 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.120 won the MVP. Yeah, there are a lot of problems 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.679 with how this turned out. Though Bed only played eighty 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.320 percent of the games and be never made it out 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.960 of Round two and his team is winning without him, 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.199 and a big reason Jannis and Jokic didn't win three 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.840 straight was due to a lack of playoff success, with 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.360 Jokic as dominant as ever. Will we look back on 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:16.760 this as a mistake in the future. 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:22.080 No, So listen, here's the deal turn out. Uh yeah, 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:29.040 you're right about that. The Jannis and Jokic didn't win 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.680 three straight. Yes, in part because of a lack of 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:36.120 playoff success, but also because guys don't win three straight. 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:41.360 In the last fifty years, one guy has won three straight. 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:43.760 It was Larry Bird and he was already a multi 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:49.240 time champion. So I am guys, those guys didn't win 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:54.280 three straight because it's almost impossible to win three straight. 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:58.880 We have plenty of guys who won their first MVP 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:05.720 prior to any postseason success. So Jokic won his first 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.080 MVP before he had been to a finals. Giannis won 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.560 his first MVP before he had been to a finals. Hell, 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:17.080 Steph won his first MVP before he had been to 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.280 a finals. He did end up going to the finals 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.679 that year, we can go Lebron had already been to 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:29.440 a finals, obviously. Berkley won his first MVP before he 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.040 went to the finals. He went that year a Keeam 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.480 won his first MVP before he went to the finals. 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:39.720 He won that year. Robinson won his first MVP before 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.839 he went to the finals. He went a few years later, 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:44.840 Jordan won his first MVP before he had been to 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:49.560 the finals. That happens. It's not so much about you 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.360 have to have had massive playoff success before you win 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:57.760 your first. Historically you have had to have significant playoff 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:02.960 success before you get your second. Now Here is where 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.920 it gets tricky for MBID and I'm gonna do this 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.600 off the top of my head, but I'd be shocked 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:13.720 if I don't get it right. There have been nine 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:20.480 MVPs in league history that don't have a championship. Five 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:27.920 of them at least made a finals, so Berkley, Malone 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:35.520 Iverson hardin Westbrook. Those are five of the nine ringless MVPs, 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:40.520 but they made a finals. Of the other four, three 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:45.760 of them at least made conference finals. So that is 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:50.840 Steve Nash who did it four times, Derrick Rose who 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.079 did it once and then had you know, blew out 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:58.079 his knee, and Joki conference finals. There is one league 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.080 MVP in history who has never made it out of 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:05.520 round two, and it is now Joe l EMBIID. So yes, 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:11.719 emb does need to have a real playoff run, hopefully 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.920 this year, if not very soon thereafter or else. It's 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:19.199 not that the MVP looks bad, it's that he stands 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.720 out as the only MVP in league history to have 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.960 never been to round two or to round three. Pardon me, 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:31.160 but I believe eventually he will break through. I obviously 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.079 picked the sixers this year for that breakthrough to happen, 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:36.760 to get to the finals, and I still believe it will. 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:38.120 What else you got on MVPs? 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.760 So why are you mad Lebron didn't get any votes 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.040 for MVP when he missed twenty seven games and his 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:45.600 team made the. 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:49.760 Play in Okay, I'm not mad at ames. You guys 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.920 are foisting this take upon me. You have to our 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:57.000 our group chat texted, Oh my god, Lebron got no 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:02.680 MVP votes. Yeah, not get really upset. I didn't listen. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.040 No proof there is. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:08.080 Lebron's been in the league twenty years. The way MVP 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.359 voting works is you submit a ballot with five names. 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:15.320 Every year of his career, prior to this one, he 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:21.560 had gotten at least one fifth place vote and Lebron, 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:23.520 I mean, if we're gonna do this. We can do this. 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:31.720 Lebron's history of top three, top five MVP finishes is 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.800 unlike anything we've ever seen or we'll ever see again. 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.640 His rookie year, he finished in ninth, his second year 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:44.560 he finished in sixth, and then just listen to these 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:49.120 next oh, I don't know, fifteen years, here's Lebron MVP 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:59.440 finishes second, fifth, fourth, first, first, third, first, first, second, third, third, fourth, second. 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.920 Then we get to the first year with the Lakers eleventh. 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:05.960 That year he shouldn't have gotten any votes. He was 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.200 hurt and they weren't very good. And then the second 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.840 with the Lakers back in second place, and then thirteenth 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.040 and tenth the last two years, which basically means he 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.600 got one vote in fifth place each the last two years, 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.800 and then this year nothing. I'm not no, I'm just 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:26.360 giving you the history. I'm telling you. From six to eighteen, 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:32.960 Lebron finished top five every single year, and from six 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:41.160 to twenty a fifteen season span, he had four first one, two, three, 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:48.160 four seconds, three thirds, a fourth, a fifth, and an eleventh. 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.600 He didn't deserve a vote this year. I have no 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.800 problem with it. Now, Well, he was hurt, he was 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:55.280 the first year with the Lakers. He was the first 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.960 significant injury of his career. He shouldn't have quick defend well, 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:03.120 he shouldn't have even gotten a vote, but he did. Now, 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:07.520 with all that said, if Lebron's not gonna get a 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.480 single vote to keep the streak alive, I'm not sure 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.600 how Jockett got votes when he missed almost as many 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.120 games as Lebron, and eight of them were because he 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.560 was suspended for bringing a gun to a strip joint. 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.640 I'm not sure how Steph got some votes when his 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.480 team won one more game than Lebron and he played 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.960 one more game than Lebron. I'm not sure how my 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:32.400 large adult Slovenian son Luca got votes when his team 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.680 finished in eleventh place. But I got no problem with 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.200 Lebron not getting a vote. I am interested when the 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.720 votes come out. Oh, people are saying nick mute at 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.320 the text raid. You guys are texting me about bullsh 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:48.160 during Lakers Warriors like the the It's rude. 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.360 Gotta keep close eyes on your best I'm. 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:56.600 Watching the game. I'm yeah, but they're not that invested 0:16:56.640 --> 0:17:00.880 in it. Gabe is sterring stuff up. It's that's birthday, 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.480 so he's obviously three sheets to the wind, just hammered 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:10.040 wet the it's guys, I'm watching Lakers Warriors and you're 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:13.879 texting me about old news. It was hours old at 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.359 that time. Uh Now, what I was gonna say is 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.520 I got distracted? What was I gonna say? I don't remember? 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:22.280 This show isn't going to be under the time. 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.560 It is gonna be under the time next on. 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:29.200 Your Lakers stole Game one behind a dominant showing from 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:29.920 a d Yeah. 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:31.880 Who could have seen that coming? This guy right here. 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.360 But the win took just about everything from the Lakers 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:40.800 old guys. With Lebron and Ad combining for eighty four minutes. 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.080 With games every other night, LA won't have much time 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.600 to rest up throughout the season. Was it smart for 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.639 Darvin Ham to empty the tank so early in the series. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:54.200 We must win game They had to get Game one 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.480 the war that of all the games that are gonna 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.359 be in Chase Center, the that was gonna be easiest 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.000 to get. The one they needed to get was Game one. 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:06.800 The Warriors were coming off a seven game war, the 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:11.200 Lakers were the more rested team. There were no adjustments. Obviously, 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:15.000 the adjustments were yet to be made. They had to 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:18.320 get Game one, and they were dominant in Game one 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.760 until the final few minutes when they almost blew it. 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:27.240 Had they blown it? Utterly devastating because they did fire 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.720 multiple bullets in that game, and they don't have that 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:35.920 many left in their gun for this series. So I now, 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:39.760 did darvinham push it a bit by playing Anthony Davis 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:43.560 the entire second half and was he clearly gassed at 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:46.479 the end of it. Yes, but they got through it 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:53.480 and they got the victory tonight. Very different story tonight. 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:59.480 They are going to have to try to win non 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:05.000 or at least play even the non A D minutes Tonight, 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:09.359 AD and Lebron instead of combining for eighty four minutes, 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:16.159 should probably combine for like seventy four minutes, play thirty 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:21.400 six and thirty eight minutes, respectively. And tonight tonight. If 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:24.199 you're the Lakers, I know it's not your style, but 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:28.400 it's probably just how bombs away from three? See if 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:33.760 we catch fire? This is not It would be shocking 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:40.560 if the Lakers won tonight. At least you can admit it. Well, listen, I. 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.520 Listen, listen, listen. 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:48.159 Well, you are feeding into an incorrect narrative that I 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:55.359 am some just sickophant as opposed to America's most trusted 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:56.480 voice in sports. 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:59.159 See, but you've named yourself. 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:02.160 That, I've named myself What but America's most trusted voice 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:05.080 in sports? No, I didn't. Reuters did look it up. 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:13.840 Did So here's the thing. I'm just giving you great 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:18.640 gambling advice and good picks. That's all I'm here for 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:23.520 in my opinion on things I said before the series, 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:26.480 this series was going to follow the exact beats of 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:30.320 the Memphis series. Lakers win Game one on the road, 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:34.280 Games three, four, and six at home, and that's how 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:37.200 they win the series. They lose Game two, they lose 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:42.120 Game five. Now, if they were to win tonight, Furthermore, 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:46.760 obviously the series would be over. You're not coming back 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:51.000 from losing the first two at home. How could they 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:54.000 win tonight? I said, they got to be bombs away 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:58.359 from three and ad would have to be great on 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:02.600 both ends once again, and at some point Lebron is 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:06.560 gonna make some shots. Lebron is nine of forty nine 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:11.240 from three this postseason, which is just impossibly bad. But 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:17.720 one more note on this Lakers Warriors Game one teams 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:22.600 never lose shooting the way the Warriors shot with the 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:25.120 other team not shooting well. So let me just give 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:30.240 you some facts. The Warriors got up fourteen more shots 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:33.840 than the Lakers, and they made fourteen more threes than 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:38.360 the Lakers, actually fifteen. In all of NBA history, if 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:42.120 you're plus fourteen in field goal attempts and plus fourteen 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:47.440 and threes made, every team that's ever done that has 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:51.840 won every single time except for that Warriors game. Steph 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:56.200 and Clay combining for twelve threes in a playoff game. 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:01.240 The Warriors going into Last Earth Game one that had 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:05.480 only happened nine times, they were eight and one. The 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:10.080 Warriors under curve having eight or fewer turnovers that it 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:15.600 only happened eleven times. They were eleven and two. Teams 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:21.640 that hit fifteen or more threes than their opponent regular 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:26.480 season or the playoffs NBA history that had happened ninety 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:34.359 eight times. Those teams were ninety five and three, and 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:40.400 the Warriors lost that game. Jordan Poole matched Lebron's scoring 0:22:41.600 --> 0:22:47.080 and the Warriors lost that game. That is a brutal 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:53.000 spot for the Warriors. You shoot, you make twenty one threes. 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:57.040 The Lakers make six, Lebron doesn't have a good game offensively, 0:22:57.480 --> 0:23:01.440 and you still lose incredibly ominous for them for the series, 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:05.159 incredibly ominous. I think this is a terrible matchup for 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:08.159 the Warriors. They do not have the size, and I 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:11.480 don't know what obvious adjustment they can make other than 0:23:11.560 --> 0:23:14.520 Steph save us, and that'll work for a couple games, 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:17.280 but that will not work for four games. And the 0:23:17.320 --> 0:23:20.880 fact that the Lakers are five and two this postseason, 0:23:21.560 --> 0:23:25.080 five and two, despite Lebron shooting the way he's shooting, 0:23:25.560 --> 0:23:28.200 that's terrifying for the rest of the league. One other 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:34.440 note before we move on. I have in my pocket 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:38.479 figuratively and we talked about it on this show when 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:42.600 I made the bet, a thousand dollars bet on the 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:47.920 Lakers to win the title at fifty to one. Now, 0:23:48.080 --> 0:23:53.480 during football season, our very first NFL gambling show, I 0:23:53.520 --> 0:23:56.960 gave out a different fifty to one. It was a 0:23:57.080 --> 0:24:02.440 Chiefs Niner super Bowl and we got to the final 0:24:02.520 --> 0:24:05.719 weekend of the NFL playoffs for the second last weekend, 0:24:06.280 --> 0:24:10.960 and the Chiefs and Niners were still alive, and people 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:13.560 were like a hedge buy out of the ticket. Whatever. 0:24:13.640 --> 0:24:16.639 I didn't the Niners quarterbacks get hurt, it loses. But 0:24:16.720 --> 0:24:20.120 I sorry you were. But I had given the audience 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:24.359 a fifty to one bet that with two weeks left 0:24:24.359 --> 0:24:30.040 in the NFL season, was down to like five to one. 0:24:30.240 --> 0:24:36.200 I then, eight weeks ago gave the audience the Lakers 0:24:36.680 --> 0:24:42.360 at fifty to one. This morning they are five to one. 0:24:43.359 --> 0:24:46.240 So I don't listen. I don't hedge bets. But had 0:24:46.320 --> 0:24:51.359 you taken my advice and bet that you could cash 0:24:51.400 --> 0:24:55.840 out right now for ten x the profit, I'm gonna 0:24:55.880 --> 0:24:59.640 ride this to a fifty to one winner and pay 0:24:59.680 --> 0:25:02.639 for year of Do you're at UC Santa Cruz But 0:25:05.960 --> 0:25:12.080 I am in root, dude. There's all these alleged gambling 0:25:12.119 --> 0:25:16.240 shows out there and gambling experts. I've given you two 0:25:16.560 --> 0:25:21.880 fifty to one's overtime that got down to five to 0:25:21.880 --> 0:25:26.800 one and falling already. We are a little late. Let's 0:25:26.800 --> 0:25:28.320 get to the last thing. Go ahead. 0:25:28.400 --> 0:25:31.080 A lot of the discussions surrounding Warriors Lakers have been 0:25:31.119 --> 0:25:34.600 about Steph versus Lebron. Steph has the most to gain. 0:25:34.720 --> 0:25:38.600 Lebron's legacy really only changes with the title, but is 0:25:38.640 --> 0:25:41.439 the person who with the most to lose in the 0:25:41.480 --> 0:25:44.320 series Kevin Durant looks like KD is about to fail 0:25:44.359 --> 0:25:47.359 with yet another super team, while Lebron and Steph are 0:25:47.400 --> 0:25:50.400 still competing for titles with good but not great teams. 0:25:50.640 --> 0:25:52.120 Who do you think has the most to lose? 0:25:52.200 --> 0:25:55.600 Well, listen, I don't consider the Suns of super team. 0:25:56.440 --> 0:25:59.600 But here's what I do think, and this is a 0:25:59.640 --> 0:26:08.640 good lesson for superstars across the league. The team hopping 0:26:09.440 --> 0:26:16.120 build a super team path really only works for Lebron. 0:26:19.160 --> 0:26:24.040 So Lebron went to Miami and they won. He then 0:26:24.080 --> 0:26:27.760