Speaker 1: I ain't on nobody's side. You know, most people jump
Speaker 1: on him and be like, oh he did. I ain't
Speaker 1: jumping on nobody's side because I don't care who went.
Speaker 1: I don't know neither one of these niggas. But what
Speaker 1: I do know is I like I like the competition
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: Welcome Back, Unplugged, our weekly stroll around. What's going on, Jack,
Speaker 2: There's a lot going on. You're coming straight from Virginia.
Speaker 2: I'm happy to be in Miami, so I was in
Speaker 2: classical before we get to that. Real quick tickets on
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Speaker 3: Be there or just keep being a square. Don't want
Speaker 3: to miss it. But how was Virginia? Virginia was cool? Man.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Adam and Ibsen, the Classic, Bobby Ai
Speaker 1: and everybody that was involved, Tim Darius Miles.
Speaker 3: It was great with Yeah, Karee Reid, my.
Speaker 1: Son got a chance to get a great experience being
Speaker 1: with the top player. You know, learning a lot this
Speaker 1: week and uh a lot of these kids that I
Speaker 1: got a chance to grow with that I continue to
Speaker 1: grow with this game, I'm gonna have some great careers
Speaker 1: and a lot I'm gonna be pro. So it was a
Speaker 1: great weekend. I was a yeah, I was good man,
Speaker 1: he was. He was happy to be home. I think
Speaker 1: that the city everybody came out to fill up the
Speaker 1: Hampton Coliseum and uh, you know, you should do something
Speaker 1: like that in your hometown, specially for guys like that.
Speaker 1: We did the dunk contest and three point contests at
Speaker 1: Bethel and it was sold out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was like a Friday high school game, packed the
Speaker 1: water wall. So it was a good weekend. Love it,
Speaker 1: Love it man.
Speaker 2: Shout out the classic shout out to you Patriots roast
Speaker 2: Tom Brady, Craft, Belichick, Kim Kardashi and probably got the
Speaker 2: coldest roast of the whole evening.
Speaker 3: But uh, that was good.
Speaker 2: What was the one guy's name that said the ship
Speaker 2: about Craft and Brady went up there and said, don't
Speaker 2: say that ship again. Jeff Ross, Jeff Jeff Ross were
Speaker 2: talking big. He's the go that you wanted to go
Speaker 2: to ros He said some ship about the massage things,
Speaker 2: and everyone laughed for a second.
Speaker 3: Brady went up there, hot mic, don't do that ship again.
Speaker 2: Uh, Jack any of your former teams. You think he
Speaker 2: could do a roast, It's not even close. That Warrior
Speaker 2: team we had.
Speaker 1: I think that that team would do a hell of
Speaker 1: a roast you Bead, monte Al, Petrice, Ja Rich.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll be pretty wo'd be pretty funny.
Speaker 2: I think that Love City team too, could have could
Speaker 2: definitely do a roast. Have some characters on that team,
Speaker 2: Blake and dj alone, like dj CP with his little
Speaker 2: sneak diss and Jamal his little funny ass JJ.
Speaker 3: That would have been a good one. Stephen A.
Speaker 2: Smith Shaw I went out there while you was busy
Speaker 2: in Virginia to talk to him and check his temperature.
Speaker 3: And he said, when he sees you on side, he's
Speaker 3: smacking you. I cannot wait, I cannot wait. I'm looking
Speaker 3: dead in this camera way.
Speaker 4: No, he just said he wanted to talk to you.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: He said he was a little mad mad at you,
Speaker 2: but he still got love for you. He's got love
Speaker 2: for us, still wants to see do well. Obviously, I
Speaker 2: went out there and kind of, you know, said what
Speaker 2: our issues were, and he explained the side and you know,
Speaker 2: I'm again I've been a big fan of him and
Speaker 2: known it for a long time and obviously don't agree
Speaker 2: with everything he says, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: like I know him well enough to know that he
Speaker 2: means well. You guys have kind of had a little
Speaker 2: back and forth, which is which which makes it good,
Speaker 2: you know, because we are a duo on the team,
Speaker 2: but we're also individual. So at some point if you
Speaker 2: all decide to sit down, Nope, that'll be interesting. Since
Speaker 2: we've last conversated, some teams have been eliminated.
Speaker 4: The Clippers have gone.
Speaker 2: Down, which was you know, my pick at the beginning
Speaker 2: of the year to represent the Western Conference, and it
Speaker 2: wouldn't banned that we all thought they would do. So
Speaker 2: with that ross health health health has been the key.
Speaker 2: They lost in six to Dallas, and we'll get to
Speaker 2: them a little bit. But co I only played two games,
Speaker 2: average twelve points in those games. Both losses hard and
Speaker 2: PG struggled. Russ struggled hard. As a free agent, Paul
Speaker 2: George has a forty eight million dollar player option.
Speaker 4: Russ has a smaller player option.
Speaker 2: Kawhi just extended three years one fifty so he's about
Speaker 2: fifty million a year going into this new arena. Jack,
Speaker 2: what do you see also I think Tylu is a
Speaker 2: free agent from the coaching side, because I'm here talks
Speaker 2: to him possibly going down the hallway Clippers. Overall, pg's staying,
Speaker 2: are going hard and staring tore going. Are we ever
Speaker 2: going to see a healthy Kawhi again?
Speaker 3: That's that's the big question. I mean, I think you
Speaker 3: can't predict that.
Speaker 1: I mean, Tylu made a joke that he made a
Speaker 1: joke that he going back to lower management because he
Speaker 1: missed so many games. But I think it's it's a
Speaker 1: perfect time with the situation, contract situations with everybody, it's
Speaker 1: perfect time to break it up. It's a perfect time
Speaker 1: you going into a new arena. You might as well
Speaker 1: just try to start new. This ain't working, you know,
Speaker 1: you might just try to get new and try to
Speaker 1: try to offload Kawhi if you can. You know, James
Speaker 1: Hard as a free agent, Paul's definitely gonna opt out
Speaker 1: because this teams just want to throw him in the
Speaker 1: bag right now. So this is the perfect time to
Speaker 1: go into that new arena, new coach, new team, and
Speaker 1: just try something new.
Speaker 4: Change the team name while you're at it. No bullshit.
Speaker 2: But I mean, I think the interesting person on the
Speaker 2: roster to me is obviously Kawhi being healthy and if
Speaker 2: we're gonna get a chance to see that, because I
Speaker 2: think he played and I don't want to mistake he
Speaker 2: played a lot of games this year. I know he
Speaker 2: didn't sit out very much, but when they needed him
Speaker 2: the most of the playoffs, he wasn't there. But Paul George,
Speaker 2: you know, there's talks of Indiana, uh shit, the Nicks.
Speaker 2: You're hearing a lot of different things. Obviously this is
Speaker 2: all speculation right now, but I think Paul George could
Speaker 2: be the one guy if he decides to leave. You know,
Speaker 2: teams are still gonna throw him good money, so it'd
Speaker 2: be interesting to see where he lands if he.
Speaker 4: Does decide to leave.
Speaker 2: But again, all three shit, all four of those guys
Speaker 2: we mentioned are at home, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: So there ain't no telling them if they want to
Speaker 2: try to see Hey, let's try one Moey. They just
Speaker 2: haven't been healthy. We haven't seen both these they're both
Speaker 2: their stars healthy at the right time.
Speaker 1: So what if one of those guys go to the
Speaker 1: other locker room?
Speaker 3: Look at it goal with locker room.
Speaker 2: Well, if you remember, if you were calling, we had
Speaker 2: were I think we were talking about this in our
Speaker 2: group chat the other day.
Speaker 4: Doc Rivers did not want to trade SGA.
Speaker 2: For Paul George, and I think that would have if
Speaker 2: it didn't happen, it would have killed the trade and
Speaker 2: Kawhi allegedly would have went to the Lakers. But I
Speaker 2: remember Doc was really adamant about everything they had to
Speaker 2: give up first and foremost, but he.
Speaker 3: Knew Shay was going to be a star.
Speaker 2: So it's been some you know, some some management moves
Speaker 2: on both those LA teams, uh in the front office
Speaker 2: that kind of have hindered teams in the past. Hand
Speaker 2: for the years Milwaukee. Speaking of Doc Rivers losing six
Speaker 2: no Yiannis, which is we knew they weren't going to
Speaker 2: do anything without him and going into that. Those cast
Speaker 2: strains are dangerous, and I think they saw what happened
Speaker 2: with KD with KD trying to push through a calf
Speaker 2: strain and he tore his achilles when he was with
Speaker 2: Golden State, So I think they aired on the side
Speaker 2: of caution, which was very smart.
Speaker 3: I think they should have played the nasties more minutes.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's the closest thing to be honest.
Speaker 2: Like DNA wise, yes, okay, can't get the worse Thanname.
Speaker 4: Dame was hurt.
Speaker 2: Dame was in and now, but played well while he
Speaker 2: was in there. A tough first season for Dame in
Speaker 2: Milwaukee for the first time. You know, we hear him
Speaker 2: mention the off the court stuff, and Dame has always
Speaker 2: been so locked in in one of the blessed players
Speaker 2: this league has seen since he's came in the league.
Speaker 2: But divorce ain't easy, you know, and then moving across
Speaker 2: the country away from your kids on top of it,
Speaker 2: so I can only imagine.
Speaker 3: You know, what he was going through.
Speaker 2: Hopefully he comes back well, arrested mentally and physically and
Speaker 2: stronger next year. Doc Rivers got this big deal. This
Speaker 2: team was thirty and thirteen when Doc took over. Under Doc,
Speaker 2: they were nineteen and twenty three. So obviously Doc gets
Speaker 2: a pass now without their best player being there. But
Speaker 2: for some reason, he keeps getting these opportunities with a
Speaker 2: lot of these teams with a lot of talent and
Speaker 2: hasn't necessarily produced. I mean, when Giannis was there, they
Speaker 2: still were hovering around five hundred.
Speaker 4: So what do you think the outlook for this team is?
Speaker 2: I mean, Lopez is getting older, Porters is getting older,
Speaker 2: Middleton look is getting older. All these guys looked a
Speaker 2: little old during this run. That young Indiana team came
Speaker 2: in there and up the pace and played their game.
Speaker 2: Is it time for this team to blow up as well?
Speaker 3: Let me makes you a serious question.
Speaker 1: How long did we think just running downhill full speed
Speaker 1: dominating was gonna last? You know what I'm saying? Like
Speaker 1: his game never evolved. Gianna's game has been the same.
Speaker 1: He's gotten stronger and bigger since he came into the league.
Speaker 1: As far as this game wise, it's.
Speaker 2: Evolved, I definitely think it's evolved, but I think his
Speaker 2: main thing has been his main thing and going downhill,
Speaker 2: I would say.
Speaker 1: I would say if he starts shooting threes like he
Speaker 1: always been the guy that attack downhill one two dunk
Speaker 1: and he's just been getting stronger and more smarter over
Speaker 1: the years. But this game is like the skill wise
Speaker 1: has not went nowhere. So that's only gonna take you
Speaker 1: so far. So when he when he started to get
Speaker 1: hurt like this, the way he plays, it's gonna continue
Speaker 1: to happen, bro because he's getting older. So what do
Speaker 1: y'all think? Y'all gonna go from here. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Bring it doc in That ain't gonna change nothing.
Speaker 1: Yan is getting older. You see Damee being hurt more.
Speaker 1: Now you got Poortis, you got Lopez. All these guys
Speaker 1: are up the tage. You know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: Middleton is not a guy that you that you can
Speaker 1: just win with byicef. He's not a guy you can
Speaker 1: plug two guys, you know what I mean. Like so
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a big decision making time for them, Matt,
Speaker 1: because they can this This can keep them in a
Speaker 1: in a stagnan place for three four years or you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. They can try to make some
Speaker 1: changes now you know what I mean, just to stay
Speaker 1: in the winning in the winning percentage.
Speaker 2: It just showed you how fast your window can close. Right,
Speaker 2: You thought one player they won a championship, and you
Speaker 2: thought they'd have a window to make a little run.
Speaker 2: And that ship shut before it before before you.
Speaker 4: Knew it, it was shut. Not a ton of assets.
Speaker 2: That trade for Holiday for for for Dame was a
Speaker 2: very interesting trade that you know, sometimes they don't work out,
Speaker 2: and obviously you can't judge something off the first year.
Speaker 2: You know you're gonna be You're gonna take dang though,
Speaker 2: but you are gonna take them. But you I think
Speaker 2: they also or misunderstood how much Drew meant to that team.
Speaker 2: You know, first team on defense, someone that took the
Speaker 2: best guard every time, someone who hit big shots in
Speaker 2: the clutch when Middleton or Jiannis wasn't there working. Holliday
Speaker 2: was someone who stepped up. So I definitely think that
Speaker 2: trade on the defensive end slowed that team down.
Speaker 3: So we'll see.
Speaker 2: Moving on though, to Dallas and what Kyrie Irving has
Speaker 2: been doing, only averaging twenty seven points on fifty two
Speaker 2: to forty five eighty five splits. First, the Clippers in
Speaker 2: the first round looked like a man on a mission.
Speaker 2: Let's compare. First of all, let's just talk about the
Speaker 2: way he played in this first round, So just super confident.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 1: J Kid has given him the confidence just go out
Speaker 1: there and be Kyrie. I think's big that people not
Speaker 1: talking about is how he's competing on the defensive end.
Speaker 1: He shut James down, you know what I'm saying. You know,
Speaker 1: people try to talk about how they had beef and
Speaker 1: all that, but he spoke on it in the press conference.
Speaker 1: I they have respect for each other, but they love
Speaker 1: to compete, and Kyrie played his ass off on defense,
Speaker 1: and so that kind of oh, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm a defensive guy, so I know he can score.
Speaker 1: I know he's probably the most skilled person we've ever
Speaker 1: seen with the basketball, But defensively wise, I think that's
Speaker 1: why they were able to win that series in such
Speaker 1: a decisive manner, because they took the challenge on the
Speaker 1: defensive side.
Speaker 2: I don't think I've seen Kyrie play this well, and
Speaker 2: it's for the reason you said his his he stepped
Speaker 2: up on the defensive end. He's really put that work
Speaker 2: in on the defensive end, and it showed this series.
Speaker 2: And as you said, one of the most skilled guys
Speaker 2: we've ever seen with the ball, which brings me to
Speaker 2: this this comparison. You know, obviously he worked well with
Speaker 2: Braun in Cleveland, and you know, some lips say Lucas
Speaker 2: in the mold of bron and their chemistry and understanding
Speaker 2: of each other's game and this small amount of time
Speaker 2: they've been together, they they're the scariest duo in basketball
Speaker 2: that's left in the playoffs right now. I would say
Speaker 2: so it's gonna be interesting against the young OKC team.
Speaker 2: What do you think about them as a duo and
Speaker 2: and them going into this second round against okay see.
Speaker 1: This first round has helped them because I think, to me,
Speaker 1: okay see, he's a better team. But offensively, the Clippers
Speaker 1: are a better team. As far as harder to guard,
Speaker 1: Clippers were the Clippers were harder to guard in the
Speaker 1: first round, and it will be the guard okay seeing
Speaker 1: this in the second round. And even though they got SGA,
Speaker 1: So I think I think this that first series is
Speaker 1: gonna help them be better in this series. I just
Speaker 1: think as far as the core guys that get mad,
Speaker 1: it always come down to the core guys. With the
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks, we know what you're gonna give from Kyrie
Speaker 1: and Luca and and Luke, and Luca might do some
Speaker 1: crazy shit. Well he'll win your two games on the
Speaker 1: road or something like that. But what are these core
Speaker 1: guys gonna do? Because as as as the playoffs, as
Speaker 1: you go to the next round, each possession gets more tighter,
Speaker 1: the nerves, you know, people can't make those shots because
Speaker 1: of the each each possession count. So it's gonna be
Speaker 1: the core guys to see what they do.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, this is just a perfect example
Speaker 2: of just getting hot at the right time. And I
Speaker 2: feel like they're playing with great chemistry right now. So
Speaker 2: those role players, the hardaway juniors, the Lively, the PJ Washington,
Speaker 2: these guys are all stepping up and maybe playing a
Speaker 2: little bit above who they naturally are because the team
Speaker 2: is rolling so well, and Kyrie and Luco are rolling
Speaker 2: so well. So I think it's definitely gonna be an
Speaker 2: interesting series. Okay see, I mean a young team that
Speaker 2: that's ready to take that leap, you know, and something
Speaker 2: we both says, we just had to see it, not
Speaker 2: that we didn't believe in him, We just had to
Speaker 2: see how these young players perform.
Speaker 4: Under these big lights.
Speaker 2: And okay see, did a great job in the first
Speaker 2: round and they're really going to get tested this next round.
Speaker 3: So definitely looking forward to this series.
Speaker 2: Well, these are great opportunities for you know, the others
Speaker 2: or the Cords you'd like to say, or to really
Speaker 2: make a name for themselves and come out here and
Speaker 2: make a splash. And you were someone who came out
Speaker 2: in the playoffs and made a splash and got yourself
Speaker 2: a nice deal and made yourself a household name. So
Speaker 2: Dallas has a few guys on the team that have
Speaker 2: that opportunity this year in the playoffs, and it'll be
Speaker 2: interesting to see if they make that jump. Lakers Lakers, Lakers, Lakers.
Speaker 2: Darvin Ham canned obviously the fall guy. A lot of
Speaker 2: people have been saying, in particularly JR.
Speaker 3: J R.
Speaker 2: Smith said, he tweeted, but have you seen this team?
Speaker 2: Thoughts on d Ham getting fired? Obviously, this roster was
Speaker 2: poorly constructed. It was something we said a while ago.
Speaker 2: But also, I really want to say before we get
Speaker 2: to dissecting this roster, they just ran into a really
Speaker 2: good Denver team, you know what I mean. If they
Speaker 2: would have drawn someone else, they might not have had
Speaker 2: the dishes. I don't think they would have went to
Speaker 2: the finals, but I think they possibly could have got
Speaker 2: out of the first round. But they just played a
Speaker 2: really good different team. But nevertheless, you know that Lakers
Speaker 2: seat is a hot seat. Our brother, Darvin Ham is gone.
Speaker 2: You know, the front office, I think we talked on
Speaker 2: our last time we spoke with the front office did
Speaker 2: with that Russ move and getting rid of Coups and
Speaker 2: Caruso and Dreb Val McGee and Dwight Howard, the core,
Speaker 2: some of those core others from those championship teams, So
Speaker 2: I really look at more. Darvin Ham has some work
Speaker 2: to do as a head coach, but the roster and
Speaker 2: the moves that managed and made in the last three
Speaker 2: or four years that got him a ring, but has
Speaker 2: also hindered them.
Speaker 1: Dam got to take the blank for this man, because
Speaker 1: you know, history tells us your star players got to
Speaker 1: deal with the buckle the blame.
Speaker 3: They gotta take that heat, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I mean when when San Antonio wasn't winning, they was
Speaker 1: blaming Tima Gino. But they getting older, they getting older,
Speaker 1: then they'll come back and win one. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's all your star players normally get the bull of
Speaker 1: the heat, but for some reason, when it's dealing with
Speaker 1: Lebron the Lakers, he gets no blame. And you can't
Speaker 1: and you can't take you can't take ad out of it. Ad,
Speaker 1: even though you played well in crunch minutes, you was
Speaker 1: not there. So you have to put the guys that
Speaker 1: make the most money have to get the bull of
Speaker 1: the blame. You can't blame the young guys that was
Speaker 1: on the team. They're only getting so many limited shots,
Speaker 1: and half the time you don't know when your shots
Speaker 1: are even coming, you know what I'm saying. So I
Speaker 1: can't put the blame on the others. I just I
Speaker 1: just can't, Bro, you know what I'm saying. If you
Speaker 1: want to put some of the others in that, throw
Speaker 1: some of the stars in there, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, you can't blame these young guys, bro,
Speaker 1: because all when when when when they do win and
Speaker 1: all the glories going up, they giving it to the stars.
Speaker 1: They're not giving the glory to the young guys when
Speaker 1: all the glories talked about with the Lakers. So when y'all,
Speaker 1: y'all want to give the glory to the to the
Speaker 1: stars when they doing all well and they wanted, you
Speaker 1: give the same yeah, yeah to the criticism to those
Speaker 1: guys and blame it on them.
Speaker 3: When you lose, don't blame it on the coach.
Speaker 2: It's always the coach's faults now it's never the player's
Speaker 2: faults anymore, which is crazy because the responsibility has gone
Speaker 2: up for the players because the money's gone up, So
Speaker 2: you're responsibly should go up. But at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, we're seeing a ton of coaches be the
Speaker 2: fall guys for talented teams that first of all weren't
Speaker 2: put well together. And then you know some stars didn't
Speaker 2: play well. So it'll be intering to see, you know,
Speaker 2: moving forward.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question, No, how would you
Speaker 3: handle this situation like that if he was a coach.
Speaker 1: Bron just calls the time out and comes to the
Speaker 1: sideline and uh as as he's coming to line nine
Speaker 1: sid you was drawing up a play, He's just yelling.
Speaker 3: At you give me the board, give me the board,
Speaker 3: give me the board, like that's mad, disrespectful. As the coach,
Speaker 3: he wouldn't do that, the great Papovich.
Speaker 2: I've seen it done before. I've seen Kobe do it though,
Speaker 2: I've seen Baron do it. Though I've seen a lot
Speaker 2: of people do it in those you know, in those minutes.
Speaker 2: I've seen andre iguad to do it with the Warriors.
Speaker 2: So the context sometimes you have to have the full context.
Speaker 2: And I saw the edit just this morning on social media.
Speaker 3: How Bron.
Speaker 2: You know, Bron wanted to draw something up as d hand,
Speaker 2: But I don't say, look at that mean, you could
Speaker 2: be right, some people could look at that, but I've
Speaker 2: seen other star players, and you know, not even the
Speaker 2: best players sometimes Iguadala do that in the Warriors hudle,
Speaker 2: So that didn't really.
Speaker 3: Look it was like, give me this, you don't know
Speaker 3: what you're doing type. I was. I got a coach.
Speaker 2: I mean, I tell you, I mean, the energy has
Speaker 2: to be taken in consideration. I'm not I'm not mad
Speaker 2: at that, but like I said, I've just seen other
Speaker 2: guys do it. But I just think, you know, just
Speaker 2: coaching Bron ain't easy, and guys have fallen by the wayside.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: You look at David Black and his record what he.
Speaker 2: Was able to do, and he was as, yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's Broun is a gift in the curse.
Speaker 3: Keep everybody else look at me. The coaches y'all had
Speaker 3: He's been there.
Speaker 2: Some other ship. You know, it's a lot of other
Speaker 2: ships going on. So we'll have to see what happens
Speaker 2: with these guys and where Bron lands. If the Lakers
Speaker 2: decided to snatch Brownie, I want to see that though,
Speaker 2: I do want to see I'm definitely looking forward to that.
Speaker 2: Opportunity for Home be the first one to do it,
Speaker 2: so we'll have to see a wild take that may
Speaker 2: not end up being that wild. Jason Williams of ESPN said,
Speaker 2: I really think Jayden Brunson is going to go down
Speaker 2: as one of the greatest Knicks, if not the greatest
Speaker 2: Nick of all time.
Speaker 3: Hot take.
Speaker 2: Some may think it's wild, but if you think about it,
Speaker 2: we came up with a short list of you know,
Speaker 2: you thought Walt Frager is the most break it down,
Speaker 2: how you said, how you said it.
Speaker 1: I felt like Walt Fraser is the best Nick of
Speaker 1: all time because he brought a championship there. I felt
Speaker 1: like Mellow is the most known, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and the Patrick Ewing is the most respected.
Speaker 4: So we're just Brunson fitting that Brunson continues, he.
Speaker 1: Wins the championship, He's definitely going to scott past all
Speaker 1: them considering the time wein.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, He's going to pass all
Speaker 3: of them overnight.
Speaker 2: Over What the Knicks have done is, you know, there's
Speaker 2: a couple of those guys are starters. You would think
Speaker 2: normally that a de Vincenzo or Josh Hart would be
Speaker 2: a bench mob type guy. But those guys are playing
Speaker 2: amazing alongside Brunson, so it kind of tastes the depth
Speaker 2: out of their bench if you think about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this day last year start though, because I don't
Speaker 1: go how far they're gonna go. They get another star
Speaker 1: over there and one of them guys going to the wood.
Speaker 2: It's okay if they does. I mean, who is there?
Speaker 2: Who's their number two?
Speaker 3: Right now? I think both those two guys are playing
Speaker 3: their mind right. They have a real number two unless
Speaker 3: you're not.
Speaker 2: I mean, can you call Josh Hard or Demoncenzo all
Speaker 2: as great as they're playing, can you call them a
Speaker 2: real number two? The number two is a twenty plus
Speaker 2: point score every now, play body.
Speaker 3: He could be og some night.
Speaker 1: He slows everything down, he hold the ball. He's one
Speaker 1: dimensional like he don't make you really, don't make nobody better.
Speaker 1: He's a turnover prone like no man. They gotta get
Speaker 1: rid of him.
Speaker 2: So it's time to get rid of him and slide
Speaker 2: at what a PG do and or Donovan Mitchell do.
Speaker 3: In a situation with the Knicks.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go down the Mitch. I'll go more of
Speaker 1: a bigger guard PG PG. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: I do PG.
Speaker 3: You got to get them right. You need to. You
Speaker 3: need to replace Randall with an athletic big man.
Speaker 1: I like the big man that got now because he's brewed,
Speaker 1: he played plays with, he's rebound, he bangs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he does his job and you't got to pay much.
Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards, I think has taken the league by storm,
Speaker 2: the world by storm, you know, as the influx of
Speaker 2: European talent grown has grown and continues to grow. I
Speaker 2: think Anthony Edwards has taken that challenge of being the
Speaker 2: next American face.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I think Joe will get back in that mix once
Speaker 2: we get consistently see him on the court. Jason Tatum
Speaker 2: has an opportunity to be at the top of that
Speaker 2: if he can take his Celtics to the next level.
Speaker 2: But I mean he went they went in and got
Speaker 2: Game one against Denver, and he played incredible. I mean,
Speaker 2: so far he's having in thirty three, eight and six
Speaker 2: on forty three percent shooting from the three point line.
Speaker 2: His moves, his tenacity, You're seeing a lot of MJ
Speaker 2: and Cole and Anthony Edwards at twenty two.
Speaker 3: Scary.
Speaker 1: It's just so exciting, man, because and if she kiss
Speaker 1: keep me funky. We wanted to see some of this
Speaker 1: in Lebron. He's so, he's so, he's so dominant offensively
Speaker 1: and six eighth. We'll never see a basketball player that
Speaker 1: looks like Lebron else we expect him to show that
Speaker 1: same thing that Kobe and George show.
Speaker 3: I don't know what, what does dude eat before games?
Speaker 1: But to see a young kid like that take pride
Speaker 1: in defense and stopping the best player at the end
Speaker 1: of the games and just competing for the whole four
Speaker 1: day minutes match on this level, but also stepping up
Speaker 1: and playing and carrying his team like that's that's that's
Speaker 1: that's it's good to see, man, because people have gotten away,
Speaker 1: well what basketball is. It's not just scoring, it's not
Speaker 1: just being one dimensional. It's playing on both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball. It's competing all games. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: saying talking to little trash, he has he has. He
Speaker 1: has found a way to absorb all the things that
Speaker 1: we love about basketball and show us again why we
Speaker 1: love it.
Speaker 3: Matt.
Speaker 1: A lot of guys don't play like he played a
Speaker 1: game and appreciate the game the way he does. And
Speaker 1: his shows on the court, and I think that's why
Speaker 1: so many people are saying he's the new face of
Speaker 1: the league because he's playing basketball.
Speaker 3: He's not being one dimension.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean both sides of the ball. Three level score.
Speaker 2: Another thing that I think gets overlooked as he's the
Speaker 2: leader of that team too. Yes, I mean I think
Speaker 2: a year or two ago there was a little head
Speaker 2: button of if it's a Cats team or Anthony Edwards team,
Speaker 2: and obviously it's Ants team. And he's been able to
Speaker 2: get those older guys to fall in line and follow
Speaker 2: him the go bearts. The Towns got great role players.
Speaker 2: It's a well put together team. They have depth. You know,
Speaker 2: they got that vet in Mike Conley. But I also
Speaker 2: want to shut out Gobert. I think he takes a
Speaker 2: lot of heat, but he's done his job so far.
Speaker 2: He's done what he's been paid to do. And he
Speaker 2: made it tough for Yokic all game to able to
Speaker 2: throw two other guys on him. So reminists up that
Speaker 2: when the Lakers were able to beat them and Jokicic
Speaker 2: was asked how can he counter their big line up,
Speaker 2: and he said he needed to replicate himself. He needs
Speaker 2: another yolkic you out there to do it. So the
Speaker 2: fact that they went in game one led by Anthony Edwards,
Speaker 2: would he get forty three? Forty three in Denver on
Speaker 2: the defending Champs Court? I mean, so a lot, lot
Speaker 2: of a lot of series left. But just love his
Speaker 2: energy and the way he attacks the game because the
Speaker 2: team follows behind him.
Speaker 3: This beef, this music, beef Jack.
Speaker 2: I love it, but I'm.
Speaker 3: Gonna let you go first. What do you think about this,
Speaker 3: Kendrick Drake? I like it. I mean, I'm enjoined it too.
Speaker 1: I'm not one of those people that sit down and
Speaker 1: dissect every song in every bar, but I like to
Speaker 1: be I really listen to what the beasts and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, for the most part, Kendrick is it's really
Speaker 1: winning it, you know, if you can judge it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I ain't on nobody's side.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Most people jump on him and be like, oh he did.
Speaker 1: I ain't jumping on nobody's side because I don't care
Speaker 1: who win. I don't know neither one of these niggas.
Speaker 3: But what I do know is I like it.
Speaker 1: I like the competition of it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And just as the music side of it. To me,
Speaker 1: my paying Kendrick is making better disc records, that's it.
Speaker 4: I think it's good for the sport. I think it's
Speaker 4: good for the sport of music.
Speaker 2: I think the music has been on life support for
Speaker 2: a little bit, so I think it's bringing energy back.
Speaker 2: I want to shout out Drake for bringing Kendrick back,
Speaker 2: you know, Kendrick. You know, we always like where's Kendrick at?
Speaker 2: You know, And I think this competitiveness has got him outside.
Speaker 2: I think it's good for it. I hope it stays here.
Speaker 2: This could arguably arguably be one of the greatest battles
Speaker 2: of all time, the way these guys are going back
Speaker 2: and forth, and I hope that people don't make it
Speaker 2: see because it really I haven't seen the West Coast
Speaker 2: this united in a long time. The West Coast is
Speaker 2: really united on this Kendrick shit. And I'm I'm a
Speaker 2: huge fan of both. I'm a huge fan of Drake
Speaker 2: as well, and I hope that it after this. I mean,
Speaker 2: people could just respect their crafts and what it is
Speaker 2: and it doesn't have to be one or the other.
Speaker 2: Or if you fuck with Drake, you can't fuck with Kendrick.
Speaker 2: You fucking you can't fuck with Drake stupid. I think
Speaker 2: it's it's been great for the sport. I hope it
Speaker 2: stays sporty. But these motherfuckers are going at each other man,
Speaker 2: and that that mustard beat, and they're not like us.
Speaker 3: Boy.
Speaker 2: So we'll see our guy b Brad Brad Miller drops
Speaker 2: this week this Thursday. It's our guys, shout out brass.
Speaker 2: So you guys make sure you tap in check that
Speaker 2: out out here in Miami right now. So we're gonna
Speaker 2: lock in a couple of shows, so we'll have those
Speaker 2: coming to you soon. And Jack, you're out here doing
Speaker 2: fight town too. Fight time is bad. Talk to us
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 3: What you got going on with your.
Speaker 1: Miami and we out here in Miami and spend times
Speaker 1: with spend time with the great Roy Jones, get to
Speaker 1: know him.
Speaker 3: And also how that David bena Vedez, the Mexican must
Speaker 3: fight times back? Man? Is that next? Better than that?
Speaker 3: Is that Canlo's next matchup? I hope.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see Canelo fight nobody else, but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's Canelo.
Speaker 3: Please, bro, please, you're such a big fan.
Speaker 2: He had a nice show on the other night. It
Speaker 2: looked it looked easy. Can I take another message ahead? Hello,
Speaker 2: coming from five man. I'm a big fan.
Speaker 1: I wonder if you recall when we had the press
Speaker 1: conference in New York how giddy I was to meet you. Remember,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I was just happy to
Speaker 1: be You probably don't remember. Yeah, it's okay.
Speaker 3: You probably understand nothing I said at the time either.
Speaker 1: But Bro, just give us a real good fight for
Speaker 1: this next one man, Please, Bena be there is a
Speaker 1: bug Crawt. Please, Bro, I'm a big fan. Please give us.
Speaker 1: Just give us one of them to next fight.
Speaker 3: Please. Thank you you heard it first. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Catch um plugged on all the Smoke Production YouTube and
Speaker 2: the DraftKings Network.
Speaker 3: We'll see y'all next week.