Speaker 1: The volume. All right, here we go, Jason Timpf hoops tonight.
Speaker 1: We got a lot to talk about. Is the NBA
Speaker 1: playoffs start all the odds provided by DraftKings Sports Book,
Speaker 1: by the way, when we mention them. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pick it up set. I'm gonna go Houston Rockets over
Speaker 1: the Warriors. And I don't want to do confirmation bias
Speaker 1: or recency bias because I watched them struggle against Memphis
Speaker 1: and need an inbounds gaff by the Grizzlies to save it.
Speaker 1: But the Jonathan Kaminga piece is really a problem. So
Speaker 1: we've talked about this. It's a highly sophisticated offense. Veterans work,
Speaker 1: Iguidala kd Andrew Bogan, they work, Steph Clay, Draymond they work.
Speaker 1: You can be a quirky player like Draymond Green and
Speaker 1: still be a catalyst. What doesn't work is Wiseman, Jordan Poole,
Speaker 1: DiAngelo Russell, who's a bit squarely when he was younger
Speaker 1: and Cominga's productive, But you can't put them on the
Speaker 1: floor of this unit. Kerr is it's do not play
Speaker 1: coaches decision and they're dying for length. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: watching last night and Zach Eadie is a huge problem.
Speaker 1: They don't have any length and here comes Houston. They
Speaker 1: defend the three mon Thompson gave Steph Fitz last time
Speaker 1: they played length. Now, Curr's the best coach, Curry's the
Speaker 1: best player. I am not denying that. But and if
Speaker 1: the games are close, Jason, you'll take the Warriors. Their
Speaker 1: clutch points are great. They're gonna win these one point
Speaker 1: games like last night's just a great example of how
Speaker 1: the Warriors can manipulate the clock possessions and get better
Speaker 1: defensively when they have to. I don't like this matchup.
Speaker 1: I was looking at the odds. I don't like this
Speaker 1: matchup for the Warriors. Right now, the Rockets are plus
Speaker 1: one sixty five again, odds provided by DraftKings. I'm calling
Speaker 1: the upset. You think I'm crazy, size, lack of depth,
Speaker 1: Corey dependent, what say you?
Speaker 2: I don't want to see you're crazy. I think this
Speaker 2: is let's just put it this way. I think that
Speaker 2: a defensive minded Rockets team is more capable of beating
Speaker 2: Golden State than say, a defensive minded Magic team is
Speaker 2: capable of beating Boston. That said, I think that the
Speaker 2: other side of the floor is where it's going to
Speaker 2: become a problem. I have no doubts that Houston is
Speaker 2: going to cause problems for Golden States offense. In their
Speaker 2: last four games, they've held them to one hundred and
Speaker 2: five or viewer and all four of them they've held
Speaker 2: them below one hundred three times.
Speaker 1: Yea.
Speaker 2: They have a bunch of different things that they do
Speaker 2: that bother them. They put Alburn Shangoon on Moses Moody,
Speaker 2: which is really smart because it allows them to put
Speaker 2: all of their three best perimeter defenders on Draymond, Jimmy
Speaker 2: and Steph and just switch any action that involves those three.
Speaker 2: Aman Thompson is one of the most gifted athletes in
Speaker 2: terms of foot speed in the league.
Speaker 1: Maybe the best in the series. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and the the Rockets have a zone look that
Speaker 2: worked really well against the against the Warriors a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 2: I have no doubts that the Rockets will be able
Speaker 2: to drag the Warriors offense down into the mud. Here's
Speaker 2: the problem. I think the war I think the Warriors
Speaker 2: defense is nearly as good as Houston's defense, and I
Speaker 2: think that they are more capable of doing more damage
Speaker 2: to a Shanngoon, Jalen Green, Fred Van Vliet led offense
Speaker 2: than the Rockets can do to the Warriors on the
Speaker 2: other end of the floor. I would not be surprised
Speaker 2: if it's a longer series. As a Lakers fan, I
Speaker 2: hope that it's very physical and that it wears them down.
Speaker 2: But I just have a really hard time believing that
Speaker 2: the Rockets are going to be able to score enough
Speaker 2: now to beat the Warriors four times now.
Speaker 1: They have shot better in the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: They have they have, So there was here's the thing,
Speaker 1: explain the coming a piece. So listen. I was told
Speaker 1: this years ago by an NFL executive. He says, be
Speaker 1: very careful about the last twenty games of this season.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see teams with winning streaks. Half the league's tanking,
Speaker 1: and half the league is resting starters for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So the Clippers go on this great last fifteen games,
Speaker 1: and the Warriors have that energy when Jimmy Butler arrives
Speaker 1: and they're playing bad teams and they're just rolling people,
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh my god. And I fell for it,
Speaker 1: and I said, oh wait till Kaminga comes back. It
Speaker 1: was about three games with Kaminga in this group, and
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr's like, yeah, I don't Why doesn't it work
Speaker 1: with him? Because I could argue he's exactly what they
Speaker 1: need against Houston size, athletic ability, length. They look small
Speaker 1: last night against Memphis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, right when the Jimmy trade went down,
Speaker 2: one of my initial takeaways was, this is the end
Speaker 2: of Jonathan Kaminga in his time with the Golden State
Speaker 2: Warriors in terms of just him being a meaningful contributor
Speaker 2: to this team. The thing is is they were banking
Speaker 2: on Jonathan Kaminga becoming that player for the Warrior, become
Speaker 2: the Jimmy Butler type of player for the Warriors, the
Speaker 2: big forward that they could put next to Draymond that
Speaker 2: would be the scoring pop alongside the starters. As soon
Speaker 2: as they got Jimmy, they no longer had a role
Speaker 2: for him anymore. You want to know why Kerr went
Speaker 2: with Gie Santos last night, It's because Gi Santos plays
Speaker 2: the same position, but he can count on Gee to
Speaker 2: not do anything stupid, to just play super hard, to
Speaker 2: grab every rebound he can get, and to take a
Speaker 2: wide open catch and shoot three Jonathan Kaminga's upside is
Speaker 2: on the ball if you clear the side for him
Speaker 2: and you let him go one on one facing up
Speaker 2: eighteen feet from the basket. He has a lot of
Speaker 2: potential in the long term to be very good at that,
Speaker 2: but he's not good enough at it now to take
Speaker 2: reps away from Steph and away from Jimmy, and so
Speaker 2: all they need from him is to play defense, to
Speaker 2: knock down wide open catch and shoot threes, and to
Speaker 2: play in their read and react in the half court.
Speaker 2: And he's not very good at any of those three things.
Speaker 2: And so it just is kind of like a death
Speaker 2: sentence in that regard for his role here. And I
Speaker 2: do think that it's probably in the best interest of
Speaker 2: everybody involved after the season is over to look to
Speaker 2: move on from Kminga. That said, you made a very
Speaker 2: interesting point specifically about this matchup. I understood the case
Speaker 2: for the DNPS with Kaminga for the last couple of games,
Speaker 2: super important games. You need higher floor, lower ceiling, like
Speaker 2: you need fewer mistakes. Yes, you couldn't take a risk
Speaker 2: with mistakes in those games. So I understood that case.
Speaker 2: Specifically for this matchup with Houston, they are so big
Speaker 2: and so athletic that I think it could. I think
Speaker 2: it could be a Jimmy Butler and Jonathan kminga type
Speaker 2: of series. I think the two of them and their
Speaker 2: athletic advantages could be something they have to lean on
Speaker 2: a lot, especially if the perimeter defense of Houston wears
Speaker 2: Steph down over the course of the series. So if
Speaker 2: I was Kerr, I would definitely give kaminga some burn
Speaker 2: here in the first couple games of this series, just
Speaker 2: to see what he's got. Now, if he's terrible, bail
Speaker 2: on him, go back to your rotation that you used
Speaker 2: in the last couple of games. But I think he's
Speaker 2: an asset as an athlete that you can't afford to
Speaker 2: keep in your back pocket for a series like this.
Speaker 1: And the Rockets are first of all, they defend the three,
Speaker 1: they got the best athlete in the series, and they
Speaker 1: rebound really well. They're gonna get more. If Cominga doesn't
Speaker 1: play a lot, they're gonna get second. They're gonna get
Speaker 1: a lot of offensive rebound. They're gonna win offensive rebounding throughout
Speaker 1: this series. Looney's gonna play a lot. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to play him if you don't play kaminga a lot.
Speaker 1: You're giving up. You're gonna give up the glass, and
Speaker 1: you can win a series losing on the you know,
Speaker 1: in the in the world we play in now, you know,
Speaker 1: Boston can lose the rebounding battle and hit twenty eight
Speaker 1: threes and they win the game by fifteen. But I'll
Speaker 1: tell you I think Houston. I think I think Houston's
Speaker 1: really gonna challenge him, and I think they're gonna be
Speaker 1: low scoring. I think the one advantage that is clear cut,
Speaker 1: and you saw it last night with the Warriors. They're
Speaker 1: so good with two twenty to play in a tie game,
Speaker 1: they are they just know. I mean it's almost like
Speaker 1: I mean the you know, people grabbing and clutching staff
Speaker 1: and you have to be more careful late because they
Speaker 1: may call a foul. And it's just they just figure
Speaker 1: out ways to get Steph really good looks. It's almost
Speaker 1: like red zone offense in the NFL, where it's cluttered
Speaker 1: and jammed, and yet the good teams find open people.
Speaker 1: I mean, he just I watched them, and I like
Speaker 1: last night they had a great game plan, jump out
Speaker 1: to a sixteen point lead, eighteen point lead, twenty point lead,
Speaker 1: but in the end, you're like, they just don't have bodies.
Speaker 1: They look incredibly small. Uh, And I just think that
Speaker 1: size is gonna make I think they're the close games
Speaker 1: Golden State wins, but I'm going to give Houston a
Speaker 1: couple of games where they just dominate the glass, the
Speaker 1: Warriors look tired and they blow them out. It'll be
Speaker 1: a weird looking series. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I said something similar in my series preview, like I
Speaker 2: wouldn't be surprised if there was a game either early
Speaker 2: in the series, like a Game one, or like a
Speaker 2: Game five, with the Warriors are up three to one,
Speaker 2: where the Rockets just beat the heck out of them
Speaker 2: and win by like twenty five. I have thirty points
Speaker 2: that get going in transition, they look super athletic. I'm
Speaker 2: with you overall with the Warriors in the sense that,
Speaker 2: like there was this stretch post deadline where they were
Speaker 2: beating everybody, and yeah, the schedule was weak, but then
Speaker 2: they got a couple of impressive wins. You beat a
Speaker 2: decent Memphis team, you beat a Nuggets team without Jamal Murray,
Speaker 2: you beat that Lakers team that was one of the
Speaker 2: biggest wins that they had all season. That was a big,
Speaker 2: nationally televised, super important game for both teams that they won.
Speaker 2: But then after that it's like, they lose to Houston,
Speaker 2: they lose to San Antonio, they beat Portland, but then
Speaker 2: they lose to the Clippers at home in a must
Speaker 2: win game, and then last night for stretches, they looked
Speaker 2: unimpressive as they were trailing in the fourth quarter. So
Speaker 2: I'm kind of it up in the air with the
Speaker 2: Warriors in general now because it's hard to tell how
Speaker 2: good they really are when they killed everybody for like
Speaker 2: two months, and then for the last two weeks, they've
Speaker 2: looked pretty unimpressive, So I'm kind of up in the
Speaker 2: air with them. The main reason why I've been dropping
Speaker 2: them down in terms of where i'd rank them among
Speaker 2: contenders is I don't trust their shooting. Their shooting can
Speaker 2: go ice cold around Steph Curry, and then, as you mentioned,
Speaker 2: they're a little bit vulnerable to size and physicality, which
Speaker 2: I think can cause some problems for them. I viewed
Speaker 2: them as a little bit more of a flawed contender
Speaker 2: now than I did two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: All Right, Lakers, all odds provided by DraftKings are minus
Speaker 1: one ninety five against the t Wolves. I think this
Speaker 1: is a very favorable Laker matchup, and I think it's
Speaker 1: pretty obvious the Timberwolves, outside of Aunt Edwards, he's going
Speaker 1: to have to score forty in a couple of these games.
Speaker 1: Julius Randall has historically kind of the classic, plays hard,
Speaker 1: plays with energy, very successful in the regular season, but
Speaker 1: everybody in the postseason plays with energy. And he comes
Speaker 1: right back here. The regressions clear. He's a B player
Speaker 1: who plays with a energy and that is really valuable
Speaker 1: in the regular season, and then you get to the
Speaker 1: postseason and everybody's got equal time off and he's a
Speaker 1: B player and doesn't create sometimes can get a little
Speaker 1: ball selfish. Go Bears, not an offensive player. Mike Conley's
Speaker 1: a play initiator but doesn't provide much offense. And the
Speaker 1: Lakers are the team I mean, Boston maybe the only
Speaker 1: team in the league that does this, that has three
Speaker 1: playmakers and three play initiators and at any one time
Speaker 1: can have the three best offensive players playing well on
Speaker 1: the floor. I don't think it's a good matchup for
Speaker 1: Minnesota at all. This was the bad draw in my
Speaker 1: opinion for the t Wolves. What do you think?
Speaker 2: I totally agree. I think there's a basic talent argument
Speaker 2: you can make for La, which is like, who's better
Speaker 2: Ain't or Luca. You're taking Luca. Who's better Lebron or
Speaker 2: Julius Randall? Yeah, you're taking Lebron. Who's better Austin Reeves
Speaker 2: or a Jaden McDaniels or a Rudy Gobert or Dante DiVincenzo.
Speaker 2: You're taking Austin Reeves. So I think I think the
Speaker 2: Lakers top three guys are just better, and I think
Speaker 2: that that could be enough to make the case. Where
Speaker 2: I think it gets really interesting is the Timberwolves' greatest
Speaker 2: strength on defense is their combination of perimeter defenders and
Speaker 2: Rudy Gobert at the rim, and the Lakers can neutralize that. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: as we saw in the Western Conference Finals last year,
Speaker 2: the best perimeter defender on Minnesota, Jada McDaniels, can't guard Luca.
Speaker 2: He's too skinny. Luca can just throw him around like
Speaker 2: a rag doll. None of the perimeter defenders on Minnesota
Speaker 2: make Luca uncomfortable, and the Lakers, with their five out
Speaker 2: groups with Dorian Finney Smith instead of Jackson Hayes, they
Speaker 2: can space Rudy out to where he cannot protect the
Speaker 2: rim without conceding a wide open three. When Rudy's on
Speaker 2: the perimeter, he's still a good defender, but he's not
Speaker 2: the transcendently impactful defender he is when he can sit
Speaker 2: right underneath the basket. So I think they neutralize him there.
Speaker 2: On the other end of the floor, the Lakers have
Speaker 2: struggled against spread out shooting like against Boston and really
Speaker 2: smart teams with speed like Golden State. Those are the
Speaker 2: teams that have really caused the Lakers issues post Luca trade.
Speaker 2: You know who the Lakers have not struggled with post
Speaker 2: Luca trade. Defensively, the teams that they can load up on.
Speaker 2: You can load up on the Timberwolves. They are not
Speaker 2: a good spot up team. They're a team that you
Speaker 2: can put two on the ball with ant and not
Speaker 2: get burned. That's the high level playmate. It's just I
Speaker 2: look at this as a series where just all of
Speaker 2: the strengths and weaknesses line up in a way to
Speaker 2: where I think the Lakers just have a big advantage.
Speaker 2: This was one of the few series that I picked
Speaker 2: in five games. I think the Lakers are gonna beat
Speaker 2: them in five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel the same way. And the Lakers, I
Speaker 1: could be wrong on this. I think they play as
Speaker 1: good a defense as they need to. I think that
Speaker 1: when I watch them play. There are times I'm like, Oh,
Speaker 1: this is one of those games they really care about.
Speaker 1: And then there are other times I'm like, they're just
Speaker 1: not talking. This is one of those. They either all
Speaker 1: went out and had a nice dinner last night and
Speaker 1: balba bino, They're just not when I watch them, I
Speaker 1: think they're as good as they want to be. Defensively,
Speaker 1: I don't think they're great, but like Denver's got limitations,
Speaker 1: there's just things. I mean, Jokic, there's just limitations. I
Speaker 1: think the Lakers actually have some pretty good lengthened defensive
Speaker 1: personnel outside of Luca. I think they'll they'll play good
Speaker 1: defense in the playoffs because they'll want to. They'll want
Speaker 1: team when they want to. I think they're pretty capable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're as good offensively as they've been with
Speaker 2: their best groups. And by the way, that group with
Speaker 2: Dorian Phinney, Smith and Rui next to Lebron, Luke and
Speaker 2: Austin has been torching everybody for a long time. Now.
Speaker 2: That unit can really score the ball, so they have
Speaker 2: some margin for err on that side of the floor.
Speaker 2: It really is about Lebron. Lebron as like the orchestrator
Speaker 2: on the back line. He plays that Draymond Green esque role,
Speaker 2: just telling everybody where to go, calling out the plays
Speaker 2: as they're starting to take shape. And then Jared Vanderbilt,
Speaker 2: Ruey Hachimura, Dorian Finney Smith. It's just a lot of six'
Speaker 2: nine rangy athletes that can cover. Ground i'm not gonna
Speaker 2: Lie colin like The lakers certainly have an uphill, climb
Speaker 2: and there are gonna be multiple series where there'll be
Speaker 2: an underdog if they get to the third and fourth.
Speaker 2: Round but this could not have broken better for them
Speaker 2: than it. Did now you only have to play one Of,
Speaker 2: DENVER okc and The. Clippers those are three of the
Speaker 2: most dangerous teams in The. West they only have to
Speaker 2: play one of. Them SO i think it actually broke
Speaker 2: really nicely for them. Here if they can take care
Speaker 2: of business against The timberwolves and beat whoever comes out
Speaker 2: of That War Years rocket, series they're right there in
Speaker 2: the in the Against Okay see in the conference, FINALS
Speaker 2: i think they've got a really good chance.
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Speaker 1: Audio it's funny WHEN i look So denver takes on The,
Speaker 1: clippers and The clippers played very well down the, stretch
Speaker 1: and again half the league's tanking half. ARRESTING i did
Speaker 1: think the winner of A Golden state was. IMPRESSIVE i
Speaker 1: Thought James harden and overtime was. GREAT i Thought kawhi Being.
Speaker 1: KAWHI i, mean you never know what he's going to,
Speaker 1: play but when he, does he's Still he's got so
Speaker 1: many components that remind me of a little bit of
Speaker 1: a poor Man Michael. Kobe the hand, size this physical
Speaker 1: strength despite not being a heavy, Player he's a very unique.
Speaker 1: PLAYER i mean five years, AGO i thought he was
Speaker 1: a top three player in the. LEAGUE i was, like
Speaker 1: he's a get a, bucket get a stop, guy and
Speaker 1: he you, know in the last couple of, weeks you're, like,
Speaker 1: wow he is, back and he's just a hard guy
Speaker 1: to get a read on. Him that's why Basically pop just,
Speaker 1: Said i'd rather not make the. Playoffs i'm not going
Speaker 1: to deal with. This he's an. Enigma they don't have
Speaker 1: besides their starting Center, zubas they don't have any. Size
Speaker 1: i mean their backup Center's Ben. Simmons there's just nothing.
Speaker 1: There So yokich is going to have a monster just
Speaker 1: a monster. Series and also they're so when The jokers
Speaker 1: not on the floor that he's going to play forty,
Speaker 1: minutes like they just can't operate without. Him this is.
Speaker 1: WEIRD i Thought denver is going to be a. Dynasty they're,
Speaker 1: not AND i Knew malone would wear everybody. Out he's
Speaker 1: not A spolstra. Occurred he's not the kind of part,
Speaker 1: psychologist part. Coach he's a little bit of an old,
Speaker 1: school intense. PARKER i want to play. WHO i want
Speaker 1: to play battle with THE, gm BUT i don't know
Speaker 1: IF i buy The clippers late season. RUN i don't
Speaker 1: know IF i do AND i get the world's best basketball.
Speaker 1: PLAYER i don't Trust harden in big playoff. SPOTS i
Speaker 1: Know i'm supposed to take The, clippers BUT i just
Speaker 1: can't See jokic getting run out of THE nba playoffs
Speaker 1: in one.
Speaker 2: Round so the point you're making about the regular season
Speaker 2: results down the stretch is a really important. One it's
Speaker 2: really the middle tier that is going as hard as
Speaker 2: they can in this, space because the top tier teams are,
Speaker 2: like we're just trying to be healthy for our first round.
Speaker 2: Series the bottom tier teams are we just Want Cooper.
Speaker 2: Flag the middle tier teams are all, like we do
Speaker 2: not want to be in the play In so we're
Speaker 2: going to go every single game like all these teams
Speaker 2: basically from The lakers all the way down through The
Speaker 2: suns have been playing must win basketball every single night
Speaker 2: since the trade deadline has. Passed that's what happens when
Speaker 2: you have the play in tournament in the, mix and
Speaker 2: SO i do think there's something to be said about
Speaker 2: some of the fake results you could see at this.
Speaker 2: Point the only thing that makes it a little more
Speaker 2: complicated with The clippers is The Kawhi leonard. Part you
Speaker 2: are taking a team that was already a rock solid
Speaker 2: basketball culture anchored By James, harden a very great floor
Speaker 2: raising perimeter player in THE. Nba zubots has become one
Speaker 2: of the top six or seven centers in THE. Nba
Speaker 2: you have the elite perimeter defense talent Of Derek Jones
Speaker 2: junior And. Christne one of the craziest subplots of the
Speaker 2: year is them pivoting From paul Ju, george who averaged
Speaker 2: twenty three points a game for them last, year and
Speaker 2: then being, like, no thank, you and taking two discounted
Speaker 2: perimeter athletes And Derek jones And Chris dunn and basically
Speaker 2: getting a better roster out of, it which is just
Speaker 2: a huge credit to that organization and them just prioritizing
Speaker 2: the right things and the culture they're trying to build,
Speaker 2: there but you're adding to that a player And Kawhi
Speaker 2: leonard that legitimately at this point is an apex superstar
Speaker 2: in this league when he actually has his legs underneath
Speaker 2: him the way he's had him, late the ability to
Speaker 2: get to his, spots the ability to get. Lyft he
Speaker 2: was going On Jimmy butler and making it look, easy
Speaker 2: going Against Raymond green and making it look easy at.
Speaker 2: It he is at his peak as that type of
Speaker 2: gett a, stop get a bucket type of guy right.
Speaker 2: Now that is what changes the ceiling for Me with The.
Speaker 2: CLIPPERS i look at it pretty. Simply they have four
Speaker 2: awesome offensive. Players zoo is like good for twenty points
Speaker 2: a game these, Days harden's good for twenty points a,
Speaker 2: Game powell's good for twenty points a, game And Kawhi
Speaker 2: leonard on any given night can go toe to toe
Speaker 2: with the best superstars in the. League you surround that
Speaker 2: with a strong defensive, foundation elite perimeter. Defense for forty eight,
Speaker 2: Minutes Jamal murray's gonna Have Derek jones And Chris dunn
Speaker 2: all over him that entire. Series zoo even is one
Speaker 2: of the rare guys who's big and strong enough to
Speaker 2: kind of hang hang With jokic a little. Bit jokic
Speaker 2: tried to post up Zu bots six times this, season
Speaker 2: went one for six from the. Field, NOW i think
Speaker 2: he'll do a little. Better he's too good to not
Speaker 2: figure that. Out but him posting Up zoo is not
Speaker 2: the same as him posting up these other skinny centers
Speaker 2: that he posts around the. League it's a little bit
Speaker 2: harder for him to win the ground battle. There really
Speaker 2: what caused me to pick The clippers in this matchup
Speaker 2: was the defense For, denver right, Right The denver's defense
Speaker 2: is so far, Gone. Colin it's like so far. Gone
Speaker 2: it's like off the reservation. Gone doesn't even slightly resemble
Speaker 2: the defense they won the championship with you And.
Speaker 1: Jason they're just not close part of. It AND i
Speaker 1: really believe defense's effort not to interrupt you. Offense offense is.
Speaker 1: Fun defense is. Not you could Tell malone was in
Speaker 1: trouble to me WHEN i watched their, DEFENSE i, Thought,
Speaker 1: okay they they're not playing hard for the. Coach like
Speaker 1: if a team's playing great defense and they're just limited.
Speaker 1: Offensively some of that's just lack of talent when a,
Speaker 1: team And denver's not a great defensive, Team gordon's very
Speaker 1: long and. Athletic but when they stopped playing defense this,
Speaker 1: year AND i don't know what the analytics, said but
Speaker 1: WHEN i watched, THEM i, mean teams scored. Easily remember
Speaker 1: The lakers went down there and just got great looks
Speaker 1: for two. Hours i'm, Like, Okay malone's in big trouble
Speaker 1: because the great defensive, TEAMS i Mean, boston for as
Speaker 1: good as they, are can play. Defense that means they're
Speaker 1: in tune With. Missoula defense is coaching an, effort and
Speaker 1: SO i think a lot of AND i think the
Speaker 1: problem For denver and A, memphis by the, way is
Speaker 1: when you lose your coach and now you've got kind
Speaker 1: of the substitute teacher who's not as good as the head.
Speaker 1: Coach that's the. Difference that's WHY i Think houston they
Speaker 1: like their, coach they can hang With Golden state is
Speaker 1: they'll just give you an incredible effort every. Night AND
Speaker 1: i Think denver's biggest problem is they quit on their.
Speaker 1: Coach and when you qut on your, coach you quit
Speaker 1: on defense because it's a lot of fricking work in
Speaker 1: this league to stop marginal. Players forget the, Stars.
Speaker 2: No, absolutely and it's all about like. Habits and this
Speaker 2: is the Thing denver is starting from a position of
Speaker 2: disadvantage on. Defense jokic is not a good, Defender Jamal
Speaker 2: murray is not a good. Defender Michael Porter junior is
Speaker 2: not a good. Defender so when they were at their best,
Speaker 2: defensively it was a, combination to your, point of strong
Speaker 2: game planning that fit their personnel in a commitment every
Speaker 2: day to be, like we're going to be so sharp
Speaker 2: in these habits that even though we have these weak,
Speaker 2: points we're going to find a way to get enough
Speaker 2: stops that our offense can carry us over the. Top
Speaker 2: the problem this year is they've let go of those.
Speaker 2: Habits and what gets scary is calling like It's april.
Speaker 2: Sixteenth too many examples IN nba history of a team
Speaker 2: who played bad defense all year who was, like all,
Speaker 2: right we got the coach we, want now let's go
Speaker 2: figure this. Out LIKE i just have a hard time
Speaker 2: believing that they're just gonna snap their fingers and look
Speaker 2: like the twenty twenty Three. Nuggets and again they're. Capable
Speaker 2: i've Watched Michael porter junior And jamal And jokic play
Speaker 2: much better defense than they've played this. Season it's just
Speaker 2: hard to just start that engine from. Scratch and so
Speaker 2: here's the. Thing maybe they figure it out AND i
Speaker 2: can't write them. Off this was the hardest series for
Speaker 2: me to Pick colin by, far and right now In,
Speaker 2: DraftKings If i'm not, mistaken it's a pick. Them it's
Speaker 2: minus one to ten both. Ways, yeah so like it
Speaker 2: is as close as it can. Get but the reason
Speaker 2: WHY i ended up taking The clippers IS i just
Speaker 2: think they're substantially better defensively and closer To denver offensively
Speaker 2: Than denver is to them on the other end of the.
Speaker 1: Well And tyleru is probably worth a game in the.
Speaker 1: Series let's be, honest if you have a coaching, advantage
Speaker 1: it's a game in the. Series you make an adjustment
Speaker 1: and the other coaching staff. DOESN'T i think football coaching
Speaker 1: is more valuable than basketball. Coaching BUT i can go
Speaker 1: back to a couple of those That warrior series when
Speaker 1: they beat The celtics in the finals and they went
Speaker 1: back To. Boston, boy that was a lot of. Coaching
Speaker 1: that was great coaching By Steve. Kerr SO i. THINK
Speaker 1: i Think tyleru is one of the more. Understated you,
Speaker 1: know he's not a guy that needs a lot of.
Speaker 1: Publicity he was a grinder as a. Player he's a
Speaker 1: grinder as a. Coach but he'll be worth a game
Speaker 1: against you, know against the substitute. Teacher he's going to
Speaker 1: be worth a game in the. Series SO i. AGREE
Speaker 1: i think The clippers are going to win. Too but
Speaker 1: it is hard BECAUSE i said this the other. DAY
Speaker 1: i had actually somebody come up to me on the
Speaker 1: street and he was a Former. Laker it Was sasha
Speaker 1: AND i, SAID i, SAID i, said the best Center
Speaker 1: i've ever. Seen complete Players kareem AND i grew up with.
Speaker 1: Him he was a fourteen to fifteen Time All Defensive
Speaker 1: team ran the floor when he was, young, rebound, unstoppable offensive, force,
Speaker 1: cerebral prickly but could throw on. Elbow you, know Ask Kent.
Speaker 1: BENSON i think the player he went, after he could
Speaker 1: give you. Everything he was, wiry but even could be.
Speaker 1: PHYSICAL i think because of that defensive, prowess he is
Speaker 1: better Than. JOKIC i Think jokic is the second most
Speaker 1: gifted center of all. Time now people would Say, wilt
Speaker 1: But wilt was. Flaky you didn't know what the effort you.
Speaker 1: Got he wasn't easy to play. With you got different
Speaker 1: variations Of wilt depending on the night, before And wilt
Speaker 1: was kind of Into wilt WHERE i Think jokic is
Speaker 1: actually a really good team. PLAYER i just think he's
Speaker 1: not engaged defensively all the. Time BUT i outside Of,
Speaker 1: KAREEM i mean generally with a, CENTER i can say shack,
Speaker 1: power russell, defense a team, FOOTWORK i can say. SOMETHING
Speaker 1: i look At jokic And i'm.
Speaker 4: Like, like If, KAREEM i mean If kareem Or Vetas
Speaker 4: Sabonis Bill walton had a, Baby it's, like you, KNOW
Speaker 4: i Think Bill walton is the one, player very, briefly
Speaker 4: not the Old walton with A celtics who was, great
Speaker 4: but he wasn't as good as THE ucla or The Portland.
Speaker 1: Walton there was a time When Bill walton was like
Speaker 1: the best passing big, ever the best mid range jumper
Speaker 1: ran the, floor could be super, physical kind of. Weird
Speaker 1: BUT i Think jokic IS i just don't Think i've
Speaker 1: ever quite seen anything like. Him that's my. DAD i
Speaker 1: don't know If i've ever seen anything like.
Speaker 2: Him he's the best offensive Player i've ever Seen Colin
Speaker 2: wow AND i have watched and rooted for two of
Speaker 2: the greats that have ever done that or rooted for.
Speaker 2: AGAINST i should SAY i Think lebron is on the
Speaker 2: short list of guys who are in that. CONVERSATION i
Speaker 2: Think steph is on the shortlist of guys who are
Speaker 2: in that. Conversation having rooted For lebron and then being
Speaker 2: terrified Of steph and rooting against him over the, YEARS
Speaker 2: i know what it's like to be on the other
Speaker 2: end of a player who like legitimately creates a great
Speaker 2: shot almost every time down the. Floor jokic makes it
Speaker 2: look even easier than those guys. Do it's the top
Speaker 2: tier playmaking piece that you get From, lebron the inverted
Speaker 2: spacing that you get From steph that creates all the
Speaker 2: dunks and layups right underneath the, basket but mixed in
Speaker 2: with the lack of variants because Like, steph Like steph
Speaker 2: will have games where he just can't make a shot.
Speaker 2: Right you know that doesn't happen With. Jokic like if
Speaker 2: he gets into the five to ten foot, range it's
Speaker 2: going in two out of three, times like. Clockwork he's
Speaker 2: gonna make it and so there's a lack of, variance
Speaker 2: there's a power element to. It he can kind of
Speaker 2: audible into different, players like it's, Like, Okay i'm playing The,
Speaker 2: Spurs i'm just gonna post up every single time down the.
Speaker 2: Floor watching This clippers, series we won't see as Much
Speaker 2: jokics post. Ups it's not his. Advantage but guess. What
Speaker 2: he can run inverted ball screens and like literally play
Speaker 2: pick and roll as the handler out on the. Perimeter
Speaker 2: he can run two man game With Jamal. Murray his
Speaker 2: versatility and dependability night, tonight mixed with all the inverted
Speaker 2: stuff he does with the, SPACING i have never seen
Speaker 2: a player make it look easier on offense Than Nikola jokic.
Speaker 2: Did like it's it's rooting against him is absolute. Hell
Speaker 2: having had to do that over the last couple of.
Speaker 2: Years he deserves a good amount of criticism for what
Speaker 2: happened to their defense this, year especially in the second
Speaker 2: half of the. YEAR i thought he just straight up
Speaker 2: mailed it, in and you made some good points about
Speaker 2: how that might have had something to do With Mike.
Speaker 2: MALONE i agree with. You but even if you just
Speaker 2: take that and set it, aside he still had one
Speaker 2: of the greatest seasons in the history of the league
Speaker 2: because he's the greatest offensive player to ever touch the.
Speaker 1: Floor, yeah it. Is you, know it's funny Because luca
Speaker 1: and him have kind of similar body types where they're
Speaker 1: in great, shape probably you, know relative for the type
Speaker 1: for the, type But luca's got a lot of hurk
Speaker 1: and jerk and start and stop to his game that gets.
Speaker 1: Open he's very good At he's just keeps you constantly
Speaker 1: on his hip and off. Balance you're never quite sure
Speaker 1: he's not, fast but he is kind of quick for his,
Speaker 1: size and he's always bouncing off you never loses kind
Speaker 1: of composure or the. Ball why there's, contact but it's
Speaker 1: a start stop game that's hard to you, know that's
Speaker 1: hard to. Defend jokis just sort of rolls into, you
Speaker 1: AND i think a lot of players they're Like draymond
Speaker 1: has said, this there's no real book on him because
Speaker 1: it's it's you, know in THE, nfl there's always that
Speaker 1: they always talk about that bad. Body offensive Lineman Donald
Speaker 1: penn was known as this for The. Raiders bad body so,
Speaker 1: effective like there was No week's body was weirdly long
Speaker 1: and he had a weird ass and his shoulders were,
Speaker 1: huge and it was like a bad body offensive lineman
Speaker 1: where it's, like, yeah it's just defensive players couldn't quite
Speaker 1: figure out a weak. SPOT i think there's nobody else
Speaker 1: kind of quite built like, him that plays like, Him
Speaker 1: so you, KNOW i, mean there are certain guys in this.
Speaker 1: LEAGUE i mean just think about. It if you do the,
Speaker 1: silhouette nobody else had a, Skyhook nobody quite moves cardio
Speaker 1: wise Like. STEPH i think part of what he does
Speaker 1: is no other Big when you play, him it's just,
Speaker 1: okay this is there's no warm. Up this is the
Speaker 1: only guy that plays like. This And i'm not saying
Speaker 1: the league is, similar but there are a lot of, twitchy,
Speaker 1: long athletic guys who have similar moves that they learn
Speaker 1: from camps and, coaches right and certain step. MOVES i
Speaker 1: Think jokic is a disaster to defend the. BODY i
Speaker 1: mean a lot of times he just leans in and
Speaker 1: you get trapped under him around the. BACK i ever
Speaker 1: see this when these big guys get trapped and he
Speaker 1: gets like three looks and you just Can't you can't
Speaker 1: get your hips aligned to box him.
Speaker 2: Out you can't jump when you're connected with. Him that's the.
Speaker 2: Thing this is why boxing out is so. Important when
Speaker 2: you box a player, out it keeps him groundbound so
Speaker 2: that you can come in from behind to get the
Speaker 2: rebound elsewhere on the. Floor, Similarly yokic does the same
Speaker 2: thing to defensive. Players he's constantly dislodging you and putting
Speaker 2: you in these situations where you are are not athletic
Speaker 2: because he's disrupted your base so you can't, Jump and
Speaker 2: then that, way he just finds these little angles for
Speaker 2: these little release. POINTS i love the point you made
Speaker 2: about how the league has, changed BECAUSE i foud this
Speaker 2: to be really. Fascinating so part Of Michael jordan's dominance
Speaker 2: was that the league was so big and, slow and
Speaker 2: so he was this lightning quick guard that could just
Speaker 2: cut through everyone like. Butter, similarly With, jokic the league
Speaker 2: is so thin and, fast yes that he's just a
Speaker 2: bowling ball that's just knocking everybody over on his way
Speaker 2: to the rim in a weird, way like part of
Speaker 2: it is just the timing of the. Era but to his,
Speaker 2: credit because this is the, thing there are a lot
Speaker 2: of big centers that can't play in THE nba today
Speaker 2: because they can't do this or they can't do. That
Speaker 2: they struggle with, this they struggle with. That jokic because
Speaker 2: he's good enough in all of these other areas to
Speaker 2: be a USEFUL nba, player can weaponize his, size and
Speaker 2: all of a, sudden it's, like, oh, man there's four
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty players in this, league And Joel embiid
Speaker 2: might be the only guy big enough to actually deal with.
Speaker 2: Him and he's not even healthy all the, time so
Speaker 2: he just has a mismatch every single night because of
Speaker 2: the era that he plays.
Speaker 1: In, well it's Like Derrick, henry the running back for The.
Speaker 1: Ravens as linebackers and safeties have gotten smaller because the
Speaker 1: game is. Faster linebackers are two twenty. Five Dereck henry's two,
Speaker 1: Fifty so you, know twenty years ago linebackers were as
Speaker 1: big As Derrick, henry and now guys can't they Just
Speaker 1: derek is a physical mismatch and he gets a running.
Speaker 1: Start AND i do think That i've said. It the
Speaker 1: league over the last twelve years has become kind of
Speaker 1: the skinny jeans Euro, League like it's a lot of
Speaker 1: centers that weigh two forty three and he's just a load.
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Speaker 1: right one final, thing you, KNOW i was talking To
Speaker 1: Chris bruceard about this. Today so if you look at
Speaker 1: the point, DIFFERENTIAL i think THE okc thunder set AN
Speaker 1: nba record historically for point differential at the end of the.
Speaker 1: Season they ran a lot of teams out of the,
Speaker 1: gym so they have the advantage of they got a dominant,
Speaker 1: score so they always know at the end of a,
Speaker 1: clock they always know who to go. To they've got,
Speaker 1: size they've got, Depth they're well, coached and because they
Speaker 1: don't have a trophy, yet they play their ass. Off
Speaker 1: this is a team that wants home court. Advantage they're
Speaker 1: young enough where they know if there is any disadvantage
Speaker 1: in the. Playoffs it's young guys playing road games at
Speaker 1: The Chase, center you, know At crypto like. That that's
Speaker 1: when they play a veteran team on the. Road that's
Speaker 1: where things get. Dicey you don't get those. Calls role
Speaker 1: players in the playoffs don't play well in the. Road
Speaker 1: they're often very good at, home so they want home court.
Speaker 1: Advantage so part of me, Thinks, okay they're a little
Speaker 1: overvalued as a team because they really remember That Derek rose.
Speaker 1: Teams those teams played so hard they wanted home court.
Speaker 1: Advantage they were. Young boston's like sometimes plays better on
Speaker 1: the road than at. Home you, know it doesn't really
Speaker 1: matter for. THEM i look At okay see AND i, Think,
Speaker 1: okay if you take the regular, season they should sort
Speaker 1: of roll through. This BUT i watched them about six
Speaker 1: times this year in a big game when they played you,
Speaker 1: know The lakers or The celtics or The calves or The,
Speaker 1: bucks and you're, like when everybody brings the. ENERGY i
Speaker 1: don't think they're sweeping. SERIES i THINK i think they'll
Speaker 1: struggle a little bit on the. ROAD i, mean they
Speaker 1: can get REALLY sga. RELIANT i mean he is And,
Speaker 1: ALSO i don't think he'll quite get the. Whistle we've
Speaker 1: seen this With, harden we saw it With Karl. MALONE i,
Speaker 1: mean they're not getting bounced, early BUT i think it'll
Speaker 1: look a little different in the.
Speaker 2: POSTSEASON i agree THE i think THEY'LL i think they'll
Speaker 2: kick the shit out of whoever gets the eight, seed
Speaker 2: Like sacramento Or memphis or whatever like. That those TEAMS
Speaker 2: i think they'll deal. With memphis has been down the
Speaker 2: turning down for a long. Time there's actually a long
Speaker 2: conversation we could have on another day about How memphis
Speaker 2: should probably totally reconsider who they build their team around
Speaker 2: because it just looks it just doesn't look even remotely good.
Speaker 2: Enough But sacramento doesn't have the horses, Defensively dallas because
Speaker 2: of the injury To Kyrie, irving doesn't have the ball.
Speaker 2: Handling they're gonna beat whoever they get in that first round,
Speaker 2: series but from there it's like they're gonna get either
Speaker 2: that Awesome clippers team Or, Nakoliokich and then on the
Speaker 2: other side of the bracket they're gonna get most likely
Speaker 2: either The lakers or The warriors waiting for them on
Speaker 2: the other side there and The warriors have beat The
Speaker 2: thunder this. Year, yeah The lakers have beat The thunder this.
Speaker 2: YEAR i watched that they have their advantages in that.
Speaker 2: Matchup as a matter of, Fact i'd probably picked The
Speaker 2: lakers to beat them if they ran into him in a.
Speaker 2: Series and so it's one of those things WHERE i
Speaker 2: THINK i look back to several of these big games
Speaker 2: and the same thing has happened in every single one of,
Speaker 2: them which is all of the younger. Stars AND i
Speaker 2: like Chet is chet is going to be a PERENNIAL rnba.
Speaker 1: Game really good.
Speaker 2: PLAYER j dub is going to be a Perennial All.
Speaker 2: Star i'm a huge believer in that roster in the big.
Speaker 2: Picture but those are some young, Dudes colin and they
Speaker 2: there is something to be said about, Basketball, Aura and
Speaker 2: you end up on a court with a bunch of
Speaker 2: guys who are more comfortable and more confident and more
Speaker 2: experienced than. You and let's say The thunder make it
Speaker 2: to the. Finals let's say they get to the finals
Speaker 2: and they run Into. Boston how many times IN nba
Speaker 2: history it just happened To boston in twenty twenty. Two
Speaker 2: you end up there and it's like all of a,
Speaker 2: Sudden tatum is just like scared and not playing anything
Speaker 2: like he normally, does and they're just succumbing to the
Speaker 2: aura of The. Warriors over the course that, series even
Speaker 2: the all time Greats Colin steph was pretty rough in
Speaker 2: his FIRST nba. Finals lebron was brutal in his FIRST Nba.
Speaker 2: Finals it is totally normal when you get to that
Speaker 2: stage to be, LIKE, whoa this is. Different there's way more,
Speaker 2: media the games feel. Weird there's like it's just a
Speaker 2: very different type of. Vibe and SO i think my
Speaker 2: concern is that they have two reliable. THINGS i think
Speaker 2: their defense is, reliable AND i Think shay is. Reliable
Speaker 2: BUT i do think there's absolutely a great deal of
Speaker 2: variance in their supporting offensive. Talent and if you have
Speaker 2: that kind of, variance you absolutely can lose to The,
Speaker 2: clippers you absolutely can lose to The, nuggets you absolutely
Speaker 2: can lose to The lakers Or.
Speaker 1: Warriors, WELL i mean we saw it in college. BASKETBALL
Speaker 1: i didn't Pick duke to win. It why too many young?
Speaker 1: Players you get into these close, games you get into
Speaker 1: against more physical, teams and, like if you've never made
Speaker 1: a long playoff run and you're really. Talented you can't
Speaker 1: believe how fricking physical the conference finals. GET i mean
Speaker 1: it is, Noticeable. Jason the referees change the way they
Speaker 1: officiate for the conference. FINALS i mean they swallow the,
Speaker 1: whistle and you'll notice it a little bit early in the.
Speaker 1: Playoffs but a lot of. TIMES i can remember THAT
Speaker 1: okc team that Had harden And westbrook And Kevin. Durant
Speaker 1: they were really good and they just didn't like they
Speaker 1: just quite didn't didn't quite you, know in the regular,
Speaker 1: season they fly into, town they blitz. You you look at a
Speaker 1: little bit of, film they had too much, offenses, like
Speaker 1: what the hell is? This and everybody just kind of you,
Speaker 1: know at that, point we didn't know exactly What harden
Speaker 1: was going to. BE I i think they're going to
Speaker 1: find out in the conference. Final by the second, series
Speaker 1: they're going to find out on the. Road it's a
Speaker 1: totally different.
Speaker 2: SPORT nba history tells us that this team's like this
Speaker 2: thunder team usually win like next year or the year.
Speaker 1: After cleveland two years. Ago we thought was.
Speaker 2: Ready it's, like it's just what usually happens is you
Speaker 2: take a couple of hard losses in late playoff rounds
Speaker 2: and a couple of key players take those losses to
Speaker 2: heart and make important improvements in specific parts of their,
Speaker 2: game and then they end up in a series where
Speaker 2: they're like a two seed instead of the runaway one,
Speaker 2: seed and they're there and they're, like we're not losing this,
Speaker 2: year and then they rise to the occasion and they
Speaker 2: get it. Done it's kind of like what happened with The.
Speaker 2: Celtics you have the disappointment of what happened in twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: two then it gets even worse in the conference finals next,
Speaker 2: year and it's, like, Whoa Jalen brown really needs to
Speaker 2: improve as a ball, handler and then all of it
Speaker 2: just comes together in twenty twenty, four all of a,
Speaker 2: Sudden Jalen brown's Winning FINALS, Mvp like it usually is,
Speaker 2: incremental not immediate when it comes to the success of
Speaker 2: these younger, Teams and, yeah they'll have, breakthroughs they met upset.
Speaker 2: SOMEBODY i wouldn't be surprised if The thunder made it
Speaker 2: to the finals this. Year as a matter of, FACT
Speaker 2: i still think they should be favored to win The.
Speaker 2: West but it's JUST i have a really hard time
Speaker 2: believing that if they made it to the, finals they
Speaker 2: would be the more comfortable and more confident team Against.
Speaker 2: Boston AND i still Think boston has more talent than,
Speaker 2: them SO i just would have a really hard time
Speaker 2: picking against.
Speaker 1: Them, YEAH i think The celtics ARE i think if
Speaker 1: you look at the history of THE, nba because aesthetics
Speaker 1: matter so much that we love The Shaq kobe, dynasty
Speaker 1: The michael, dynasty The katie. Dynasty we didn't love The
Speaker 1: spurs dynasty and it was as good as any of
Speaker 1: them because it wasn't as much. Fun AND i think
Speaker 1: Because boston doesn't have a ton of. Personality Joe mizzoola
Speaker 1: is very, quiet Very, christian very much about team and.
Speaker 1: Defense he's a wonderful, coach no flash from the. Coach
Speaker 1: Tatum is can say he wants to be the face
Speaker 1: of the, league but he just doesn't have that. Aura
Speaker 1: Jalen brown's probably the voice of the locker, room but you,
Speaker 1: know he's almost like, academic and you know he feels
Speaker 1: sort of almost respectful when he speaks with. Confidence, Right
Speaker 1: porzingis isn't that. Guy Drew holliday is one of the
Speaker 1: league's most respected. Players there's not a lot of it's
Speaker 1: not a, yeah it's not a dynamic. TEAM i Think
Speaker 1: boston's really, good AND i think That's San. Antonio you
Speaker 1: had man who's the best six man. Ever duncan's one
Speaker 1: of the ten best players. Ever Tony parker was AN.
Speaker 1: Mvp they had Excellent Bruce, bowen all sorts of different
Speaker 1: players that came in and played great. Roles popovich's top five.
Speaker 1: Coach we never mentioned them because esthetically it just wasn't
Speaker 1: that much. FUN i went to Ten spurs games BECAUSE
Speaker 1: i was In portland at the, time And i've been
Speaker 1: TO i went to ten of their, games The spurs
Speaker 1: games when they were in The. Dynasty, jesus it was so.
Speaker 1: Clinical it was a great surgeon walking, in you, know
Speaker 1: winning one oh one ninety, three and it was like
Speaker 1: did they break a? Sweat it was just every game
Speaker 1: looked the exact. Same and Now boston has very variation
Speaker 1: because of their three point. Shooting they have knights when
Speaker 1: they're just unbelievable and nights when they missed forty two.
Speaker 1: Threes so there's great variables on how they. PLAY i
Speaker 1: think THERE'S i, mean they have nine, guys ten guys
Speaker 1: who could handle the, ball pass and shoot a.
Speaker 2: Three the only Thing i'll say About boston that's concerning
Speaker 2: me just a tiny, bit and it's just something we
Speaker 2: should keep on our, radar call in because we could
Speaker 2: be having a very different conversation in a week or.
Speaker 2: Two Jalen brown got a pain relieving injection and his.
Speaker 2: Knee i'm not sure if you saw. That he's been
Speaker 2: dealing with knee issues throughout the year and he got
Speaker 2: a pain relieving injection when this was about a week.
Speaker 2: Ago and So jalen's, Knee let's say that becomes an
Speaker 2: issue and then like one Of horford Or porzingis goes.
Speaker 2: Down that's where it could end up in a situation
Speaker 2: where you're trying to close games with A Sam houser
Speaker 2: on the, floor or you're trying to close games with
Speaker 2: A Payton pritcher on the, floor and suddenly they become
Speaker 2: a little bit easier to, attack a little bit less
Speaker 2: dynamic on. Offense i'm just my ears are just a
Speaker 2: little pricked, up And i'm a Little i'm paying attention
Speaker 2: to their. Health that is one thing to keep an eye,
Speaker 2: on just Because Jalen. BROWN i, THINK i think if
Speaker 2: you lose one Of tatum Or, brown it just gets
Speaker 2: really hard in terms of shot, creation, because as you
Speaker 2: saw in The maverick, series it's Just jalen's apex athleticism
Speaker 2: is still an important part of the ceiling of This celtics,
Speaker 2: team even though he can be a frustrating, player you,
Speaker 2: know relative To tatum in terms of his. Consistency so
Speaker 2: just something to keep an eye on. There BUT i
Speaker 2: do agree with. YOU i just every TIME i talk through,
Speaker 2: IT i just have such an easier time discussing flaws
Speaker 2: and finding flaws with other teams THAN i do with.
Speaker 2: Last that's really that.
Speaker 1: Simple jason timp oops. Tonight good talking to, You, bud
Speaker 1: can't wait for.
Speaker 2: It good to see you two. Man i'll see next.
Speaker 1: Time the volume