Speaker 1: All right, let's move on. He is I and I
Speaker 1: am him slim with the tilted brim a dizzle. All right, ad,
Speaker 1: you've been living under a rock. Let me break the
Speaker 1: news to you. The Los Angeles Lakers are the inaugural
Speaker 1: IST champions. They choke out the Indiana Pacers and the
Speaker 1: finals on Saturday in Las Vegas. It was a spectacle
Speaker 1: and Austin Reeves, who was a game time decision because
Speaker 1: he had his own little flu game, came out scored
Speaker 1: twenty two in the first half. Braun said, who's the
Speaker 1: better flu game guy, mj or ar. That's cute for
Speaker 1: team building, but Michael Jordan's got a problem with that
Speaker 1: fucking statement. I promise you that Braun, of course, was
Speaker 1: MVP of the IST because you couldn't, not no one
Speaker 1: else could be. He averaged twenty six, eight and seven.
Speaker 1: He shot sixty percent from the field, well, actually fifty
Speaker 1: seven percent from the field, but sixty percent actually from three.
Speaker 1: During tournament play, Lebron James averaged sixty percent from three.
Speaker 1: Lakers went seven to zero in the IST. Bron was
Speaker 1: a plus one eighteen in those seven games, so he
Speaker 1: should be the hmmy no, sir, no, sir, We'll talk
Speaker 1: about the n season tournament later. It was a massive success.
Speaker 1: But even Braun is not the Hemmie of the week
Speaker 1: because the man of the match in the finals was
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis. He was an absolute hard rock. We give
Speaker 1: him a hard time for how soft he is, but no, no, sir, pause,
Speaker 1: he was harder the rock. How good was Ad put up?
Speaker 1: Put up forty one points, twenty boards, five assists, four
Speaker 1: blocks against the pacers. Nobody could figure out a way
Speaker 1: to stop him whatsoever. They threw everyone out, Myles Turner,
Speaker 1: Obi top and nobody for the For one night, he
Speaker 1: was the best player on the planet Earth. He had
Speaker 1: bad calls go against him all night, but his numbers,
Speaker 1: if they wouldn't have he could have had fifty and thirty.
Speaker 1: It was disgusting. Christian Wood had this to say, I
Speaker 1: think Ad was at level one and then took it
Speaker 1: to level three. He told me before the game, this
Speaker 1: is a game seven for me. I wish I would
Speaker 1: have known that. I wish I would have known. He
Speaker 1: said that I'm gonna show you what a game seven
Speaker 1: is like. I've never been in one before. I said,
Speaker 1: all right, show me, and then Ad went out there
Speaker 1: and he got forty and twenty. Oh my god, he
Speaker 1: is I and I am him. It was a lesson
Speaker 1: to everyone that when Ad plays like that, top five
Speaker 1: player in the league, not even close. We will see
Speaker 1: when that happens consistently. It will it ever happen the
Speaker 1: way that Lebron happens Lebron probably not, But that's why
Speaker 1: Lebron is one of the greatest players, if not the
Speaker 1: greatest player ever. At one point, though, Ad, in his
Speaker 1: soft we'll call it reputation, has gone down a little bit.
Speaker 1: This year, He's been really good. At one point he
Speaker 1: was leading the NBA in minutes played. He's only missed
Speaker 1: one game this season. He leads the NBA in blocks
Speaker 1: per game two point seven, which along with twenty two,
Speaker 1: thirteen and three, probably gonna get him on the All
Speaker 1: Star team. Probably gonna be an All NBA guy, Definitely
Speaker 1: gonna be an All defensive guy. Playing thirty minutes per
Speaker 1: game a quarterway through the season. If we can get
Speaker 1: not skin of paper, glass of bones, what you know,
Speaker 1: skin of paper, bones of glass, he's gonna make. He's
Speaker 1: gonna make All first team, All Defense, probably second or
Speaker 1: third All NBA. The Lakers won the is T just
Speaker 1: like Adam Silver drew it up, and now we won't
Speaker 1: have a similar type of intensity until the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: we won't have a similar break until All Star weekend.
Speaker 1: I will miss the ist, I will think of it fondly.
Speaker 1: But I'm happy for Braun, happy for ad and not
Speaker 1: very happy for the Lakers. I'm about as happy for
Speaker 1: them as a Blazers fan can ever be, which is
Speaker 1: rooting for their demise day by day. That's all the
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