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Speaker 2: Hell.

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Speaker 3: And welcome to Nodunk Say Basketball podcast on the Athletic

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Speaker 3: Podcast Network. Whether you're part of the stream team watching

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Speaker 3: live on YouTube right now, we're catching the podcast a

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Speaker 3: little bit later. We're very happy to have you. I'm

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Speaker 3: your host for today, Trey Kirby, and joining me is

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Speaker 3: Tass Mellus.

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Speaker 2: It's the most wonderful time of the year, a beautiful weekend.

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Speaker 3: We got the man making the magic happen over here. JD.

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Speaker 2: Hello, it's crazy to see.

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Speaker 3: You, know Skeets Today he's running the Boston Marathon, scheduled

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Speaker 3: to leave at ten twenty five Eastern. It's ten oh

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Speaker 3: five Eastern right now, so we'll have an update I

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Speaker 3: guess in about a half hour, maybe at the end

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Speaker 3: of the show as well. He'll be back on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: Good luck to him. And if you happen to be

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Speaker 3: watching this and you see him on the course, tell him.

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Speaker 3: We said, high yeah, send our best.

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Speaker 2: Let us know. Hold on, where's the start time for

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Speaker 2: each person? Because I'm tracking my niece Meka, but I

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Speaker 3: I only know start time, Yeah, only via via a message.

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Speaker 2: At one point, because I'm tracking Jay Skeets as well.

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Speaker 2: BIB number, but not when he starts. Anyways, it seems

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Speaker 2: like the website's really kicking. This is the time of year.

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Speaker 2: Boston Marathon app? I gotta track, gotta track.

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Speaker 3: You're not checking it the other eleven months of the year.

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Speaker 3: Say I'm with you on about one one app. You

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Speaker 3: might want to check Weggie Tracker. Yeah, I like that

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Speaker 3: for a segue. Sicky's Wishes had one this weekend, number

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Speaker 3: forty seven on the season. Nikhil Alexander Walker stuck one

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Speaker 3: against the Lakers, A little finger roll on the right side,

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Speaker 3: playoffs on Pace for fifty.

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Speaker 2: Yes, baby, I don't want to correct you. That's Trey.

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Speaker 2: But you called it an app. I mean it's a

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Speaker 2: mere website.

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Speaker 3: It's a mere website. Any crowdfunding could get the app built.

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Speaker 2: Nikil Alexander Walker gets a Weggie while they're airing the

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Speaker 2: Chris Finch interview. Huh, so it's like a box in box.

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Speaker 2: So that's why our quality is an excellent anyway, Nikil

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Speaker 2: Alexander Walker, just just a pure shot, no touch, no

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Speaker 3: Just missed it pretty bad. Yeah, it's stuck in the

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Speaker 3: rid like that, but we appreciate it. Number forty seven

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Speaker 3: on the season. I guess we got a nice chance

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Speaker 3: That's all right, we'll take it. You mentioned it. Great weekend, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: last time of the year. All kinds of stuff on TV.

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Speaker 3: Eight playoff games for the NBA. I would say Saturday

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Speaker 2: Started, Well, let's go to Lakers Wolves. When it comes

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Speaker 2: to Lakers Wolves, LA is for lazyzy game.

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Speaker 2: I think you can look at a bunch of different reasons.

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Speaker 2: Let's look at Jade McDaniels, the guy shot eleven of thirteen.

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Speaker 2: Many guys had open shots. I know it's simple to

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Speaker 3: Lebron's gonna have a better game. He's had feel out

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Speaker 2: I think you're right about Anthony Edwards making great passes.

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Speaker 2: this thing. You know, you can point to things and say, oh, well,

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Speaker 2: this series. Well, again, the Lakers just have to make

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Speaker 2: It was not a game whatsoever after that first quarter. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Luca was fantastic, he really was. But again, the fight

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Speaker 2: So the Wolves have that advantage against the Lakers team.

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Speaker 3: about your pick result of the weekend, right, just how

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Speaker 3: right about Lebron. He did not have a great game.

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Speaker 2: I think I took the Wolves. Yeah, this was the

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Speaker 2: Obviously the Warriors did it, but much closer game and

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Speaker 2: you know, we're all sort of picking the Warriors almost

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Speaker 3: Feels like a lot of adjustments to be made on

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Speaker 2: More hands up, how about that JJ Reddick.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, played defense with the huge ajusin.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the fight and JJ Reddick calls them stickhands. That's

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Speaker 3: No stick hands.

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Speaker 2: Lebron was not sticky on his hands at times while

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Speaker 3: Number one thing to watch for in game two. Where's

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Speaker 2: Maybe fans should just have a big hand on a

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Speaker 3: Exactly do this thing. I think it's a great idea,

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Speaker 3: not bad. One game that did have a lot of

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Speaker 3: but the nineties are back, ninety five eighty five Golden

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Speaker 3: He played in nineteen ninety seven and in those games

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Speaker 3: Kevin Harlan saying geometrically that should not have happened an

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Speaker 3: Alprin sh gun and then the dagger dunk, basically to

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Speaker 3: the twenty eighth time in the series out of twenty nine,

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Speaker 3: I think is what they were saying for this Golden

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Speaker 3: was nobody could score on either side. Twenty two offensive

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Speaker 3: more Jabari Smith. He was a little out of sorts,

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Speaker 3: like they did from Jalen Green and Fred Vanvleek. Fred

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Speaker 3: van Vleek combined to score seventeen points on seven of

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Speaker 3: thirty four shooting. Just isn't going to cut it in

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Speaker 3: a series that should be tight. Houston's an awesome defense.

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Speaker 3: I think we forget that Golden State is nearly there

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Speaker 3: fourth quarter, and that's exactly how Game one played up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought the Rockets kind of let Steph go

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Speaker 2: It was a four point game late in the second quarter,

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Speaker 2: as the Rockets don't have, you can't let Steph free.

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Speaker 2: And again, you know, we're all talking about the last

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Speaker 2: call it Steph jumping on Jimmy's back because Jimmy had

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Speaker 2: it going from the get go. Great sign for the Warriors.

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Speaker 2: Those two guys got it going. And Brandon Pajemski had

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Speaker 2: a double digit game. I mean they only needed three

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Speaker 2: But Brandon Pajemski had been cold and he got enough

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Speaker 2: a great sign for them. But the Rockets just have to.

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Speaker 2: They gotta be smarter. They literally can't let go Steph

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Speaker 2: and they are kind of fun to watch these wild

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Speaker 2: They're like the game sucked back then. Look at these guys.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's not fun. But sometimes, as you said,

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Speaker 2: and that's what happened in this game. To see twenty two,

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Speaker 2: I believe offensive rebounds from the Houston Rockets. Yeah, they

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Speaker 3: on both sides. Curry was spectacular in this game, thirty

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Speaker 3: nine threes, which just sounds like a lot for everybody else,

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Speaker 3: If he had a sliver of daylight, the shot was

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Speaker 3: I thought he was a little skittish with the ball

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Speaker 3: nice pass to Moody. Moody hit a big three as well.

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Speaker 3: Those guy made some awesome plays. Otherwise, I thought this

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Speaker 3: turnovers for Sheng Goon, But that was a guy that

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Speaker 3: was big. It was basically though, if Jalen Green and

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Speaker 3: if Jalen Green is going to go three to fifteen

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Speaker 3: be tough sledding for Houston. They scored eighty five points.

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Speaker 3: I think that's the lowest all season. This is a

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Speaker 2: That's totally true. Yeah, great sign Shangoon looked great, but

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Speaker 2: weren't in their flow. Some highlights obviously, like you said,

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Speaker 2: the Shangun poster, fantastic, the Jalen Green able to get

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Speaker 2: they got to have more defense, even though you know

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Speaker 3: Hey, ninety five points is pretty solid. It's solid you

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Speaker 3: them back into the game. Steven Adams was having an

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Speaker 3: impact out there, but that lineup is just so hard

430
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Speaker 3: to score with there. You're basically going to be playing

431
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Speaker 3: three non shooters for the most part. So I don't know,

432
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Speaker 3: it's like, keep doing it, but also find a way

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Speaker 3: to do it a little bit better.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I'll see and little spurts. I think it'll

435
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Speaker 2: be fun for them to try it out. But yeah,

436
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Speaker 2: Jalen Green just has to get in a better flow.

437
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Speaker 2: That's just a bad playoff debut. Yeah, that was.

438
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Speaker 3: That's kind of like the definition of a bad Jalen

439
00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:16,360
Speaker 3: Green game as well, where he's just no plan when

440
00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:18,920
Speaker 3: he's attacking, just going into the lane, and like we're

441
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Speaker 3: talking about the lane, it's played pretty clogged up right now,

442
00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,280
Speaker 3: just flying in there smashing into dudes. I don't know

443
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Speaker 3: if you got any random notes from this game.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't really.

445
00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:31,359
Speaker 3: I liked when Kevin Harlan was doing a Walmart ad

446
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Speaker 3: read in this game. He goes, it's ten twenty seven.

447
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Speaker 3: If I order depends, will it be there before the

448
00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:44,360
Speaker 3: game's over? At Regie goes, did you just say it depends?

449
00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,560
Speaker 3: Like Harlott starts dyeing, laughing. He's like, I couldn't have

450
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Speaker 3: faked of anything else, my guys. He's like asking for

451
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Speaker 3: adult diapers to be delivered to the game so that

452
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Speaker 3: fans don't have to leave their like their couches. He said,

453
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Speaker 3: you throw your depends on. You could just go, oh, okay,

454
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Speaker 3: I have to leave the couch already. Thing was one

455
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Speaker 3: of the choice I ever heard.

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Speaker 2: What a choice it depends you chose? Depends?

457
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Speaker 3: Yeah, good stuff for any product was awesome.

458
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Speaker 2: That's it for notes.

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Speaker 3: For me, let's do another round of it's just one game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let's go to the La Nuggets series. For me,

461
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,520
Speaker 2: it's just one game. But it's still the Clippers series.

462
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Speaker 2: To lose to the Nuggets. I think it's theirs. They

463
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Speaker 2: played great. They can win like they did in the

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Speaker 2: first quarter. They were awesome in the first quarter, and

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Speaker 2: then they just stopped doing it. First quarter, first eight

466
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Speaker 2: and a half minutes of this game, they had twenty

467
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Speaker 2: two points in the paint. Eleven buckets in eleven and

468
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Speaker 2: eight and a half minutes. Excuse me, in the paint

469
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Speaker 2: because they're moving it so frickin' well, they're.

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Speaker 3: Just passing it a lot of easy baskets. Yeah, just

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Speaker 3: move man.

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Speaker 2: The Nuggets defense is not a championship type offense. It

473
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Speaker 2: just hasn't been. Will turn up in game two, Game three,

474
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Speaker 2: maybe after after what you did in Game one? I

475
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Speaker 2: guess it's possible. But those first eight and a half

476
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Speaker 2: minutes they showed that they just keep cutting. Guys like

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Speaker 2: Chris Dunn getting to the hoop no problem, James Harden

478
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Speaker 2: getting into the hoop no problem. Obviously, the zub getting

479
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Speaker 2: to Zubats was awesome. So you score like that for

480
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Speaker 2: the first and a half minutes, it's great. But then the

481
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,880
Speaker 2: team just died. They had zero turnovers in the first

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Speaker 2: eight and a half minutes, and then they had twenty

483
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Speaker 2: after that, and they were just bad, like Norman Powell,

484
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Speaker 2: ball slipping out of his hands, Zubots passed to nobody

485
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Speaker 2: in the corner, goes out of bounds, bugged down, Bogdanovic

486
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Speaker 2: lost the ball out of bounds, just just bad ones

487
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Speaker 2: you don't see an NBA team often do. And then

488
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Speaker 2: you know, fourth quarter, midway through the fourth quarter, they

489
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Speaker 2: got super bad in an important part of the game.

490
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Speaker 2: Midway through the fourth and then less than a half

491
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Speaker 2: minutes left, Kawhi loses the ball. Harden lost the ball

492
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Speaker 2: halfway through the fourth and then in ot you saw

493
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Speaker 2: the Nuggets make some key plays like the brand Christian

494
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,439
Speaker 2: Brown save and Westbrook knocked the ball off Harden with

495
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 2: ten seconds left. Awesome stuff where they were. The scrap

496
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Speaker 2: level turned up for the Nuggets after those first eight

497
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 2: and a half minutes. But again, the yeah, we're coming

498
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 2: up with some key names, some some key lines in

499
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,919
Speaker 2: the playoffs. I'm getting them from JJ right, I can

500
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Speaker 2: get them from anybody. But the Clippers twenty turnovers resulted

501
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Speaker 2: in twenty nine points for the Nuggets. The other way,

502
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Speaker 2: you don't win a basketball game like that. In a

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Speaker 2: game where the Nuggets only scored one hundred and twelve points,

504
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 2: it's freaking a quarter of your points off transition in

505
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Speaker 2: a low scoring game. It's a low scoring nineteen nineties

506
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Speaker 2: games as a low scoring twenty twenty game, because that

507
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:44,120
Speaker 2: went into overtime. Again, the turnovers were bad. You can

508
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 2: look at a bunch of things, like Chris Dunn was

509
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,159
Speaker 2: dropping the ball under the hoop. There's offensive boards, you

510
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 2: can look at, misfree throws, you can look at. But

511
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,080
Speaker 2: the key ones were you know, Leonard Let's Murray put

512
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Speaker 2: it off him and Westbrook the tip off hard and

513
00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 2: but I think it was way too much of that. Again,

514
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Speaker 2: twenty turnover, just frankly bat So the Nuggets win a

515
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Speaker 2: game where Jamal Murray's only seven of twenty and Russell

516
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Speaker 2: Westbrook's only five of seventeen because of bad toosh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the possession game was huge in this one.

518
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 3: You said at twenty turnovers for the Clippers, just eleven

519
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 3: for Denver Denver also added twelve offensive rebounds. Clippers are

520
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:24,120
Speaker 3: usually a good ball security team, not a high turnover team,

521
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Speaker 3: and they're also usually a really good defensive rebounding team.

522
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Speaker 3: So for Denver to win both aspects of the possession game,

523
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 3: that really was the game. When you look at seven

524
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:35,959
Speaker 3: turnovers for Kawhi Leonard. It was an overtime game, end

525
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 3: up being at two point victory regardless. But I thought

526
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Speaker 3: you were going to say that this is the Clippers

527
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Speaker 3: series to lose because they lost to Russell Westbrook hitting

528
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Speaker 3: a wide open three pointer. Yeah, completely unguarded a lot

529
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Speaker 3: of confidence from Jokic to pass it to Westbrook on

530
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Speaker 3: a night where he's not shooting the ball. Well finished

531
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Speaker 3: five of seventeen, but made the biggest shot of the game,

532
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Speaker 3: the wide open three, like what twenty seconds left. Then

533
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Speaker 3: you mentioned had the deflection as well. Westbrook closed for

534
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Speaker 3: Mike Porter Junior. His defense was huge. I thought in

535
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Speaker 3: this game a lot of the reason that the Clippers

536
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Speaker 3: turned the ball over twenty times was Westbrook bringing it

537
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Speaker 3: at the point of attack. I thought Jokic was much

538
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Speaker 3: better in the second half as well. They brought him

539
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,160
Speaker 3: up to the level of the screen and just made

540
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 3: things a lot more chaotic for the Clippers. Denver finished

541
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Speaker 3: the second quarter on a thirteen to five run, and that,

542
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 3: to me is where the game really flipped things. Their

543
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,400
Speaker 3: physicality was better. They were just slowing down the Clippers

544
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 3: and making them take forever and ever to get into

545
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Speaker 3: their offense. Over the course of the last three quarters

546
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Speaker 3: in overtime, LA only scored seventy two points. Like that

547
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 3: is championship level defense from Denver, a team that we've

548
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Speaker 3: seen succeed on the defensive end of the ball in

549
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 3: big moments. Maybe they're not always locked in, and they

550
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 3: definitely weren't locked in in the first quarter. Harden went off.

551
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Speaker 3: I think he had fifteen. He was the best player

552
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 3: for the Clippers in this game, scoring as well. Laid

553
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,640
Speaker 3: into the fourth quarter float float or floater. But Kawi

554
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 3: slowed down in this game. I mentioned seven turnovers in

555
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 3: the second half, he only scored eight points, finished with

556
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Speaker 3: twenty two. He looked a little bit out of sorts. Yeah,

557
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 3: I thought, it's not necessarily the most natural playmaker, and

558
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 3: the Clippers just kind of got bogged down in the

559
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 3: one on one game. So I would say a little

560
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:09,920
Speaker 3: bit more Harden and Zubats.

561
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Speaker 2: They were successful, Yeah, pass it more. Sometimes Kawhi got

562
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 2: pushed out a little bit beyond the three point line

563
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 2: and it wasn't working for him out there, but you

564
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,679
Speaker 2: could see, you know, if I'm sure they're checking the tape,

565
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 2: I'm sure Tyler is checking the tape. He talked about

566
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,719
Speaker 2: the twenty turnovers after it, like even just little tiny

567
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,120
Speaker 2: clutch moments like the passes for Chris Don underneath the hoop,

568
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 2: the baseline cuts. They were working, but he just bobbled,

569
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 2: babbled at once lost it another time Zubots passed it

570
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 2: out of bounds. There's too many of those plays in general.

571
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Speaker 2: And that's why I think the Nuggets, I don't know

572
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 2: if they can turn up this defense often enough. They

573
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:52,239
Speaker 2: have lost that scrap level. They have lost it. It

574
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 2: isn't the same as it was two years ago. And

575
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,119
Speaker 2: they can win games with offense, there's no doubt in

576
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,159
Speaker 2: the regular season. And so maybe this is too for

577
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:01,919
Speaker 2: the Clippers to give away a game like that that

578
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:06,439
Speaker 2: was winnable and I know Russ came through, but you

579
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 2: can see that the bad Russ was very evident in

580
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:12,679
Speaker 2: this game. Obviously, five was seventeen even David Adlman, the

581
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 2: guy who's their interim coach, took over, and yeah, he

582
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 2: commented on the Big Three, but lately he also sort

583
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 2: of commented on end of regulation where Rust didn't take

584
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Speaker 2: a shot he saw one on one. We know what

585
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 2: Russ does, He's a dog. He goes after it, right,

586
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 2: he goes after that matchup. But he literally just lost

587
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 2: the ball and didn't pass to anybody and nothing happened.

588
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 3: They were up as well, right, they were up by one.

589
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 3: I think when he caught the ball and like saw

590
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 3: nobody in front of him and nearly had the turnover.

591
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 3: Could have just stayed there and got fouled. Also, they sore.

592
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess they ran the play for Jokic

593
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 3: at the end of regulation, but it finds its way

594
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 3: to Westbrook after a good late double on Jokic and

595
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 3: Westbrook just like jumping through the ball off of whoever

596
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 3: his defender was. There was bad west moments as well,

597
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 3: but he hit the biggest shot of the game, yeah,

598
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 3: or one of. I mean, Christian Brown had a monster

599
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 3: shot as well. But still this is a good Westbrook game,

600
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Speaker 3: So I think good for the Nuggets to win it.

601
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 3: You know, if they would have lost this in overtime.

602
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 3: I think that's a crushing defeat to get a big

603
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 3: shot like that from Westbrook to go to the extra period.

604
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 3: If they would have lost it, not so much. Jokic

605
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 3: was great in this game, of course, twenty nine points,

606
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 3: twelve assists, nine rebounds. I think they actually took away

607
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,479
Speaker 3: one of his rebounds at one point, which is kind

608
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 3: of funny to think. But the Clippers, you heard Tyler

609
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 3: talk about it postgame. He basically said, we were messing

610
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 3: up timing wise on our double teams of Yokich. They

611
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 3: were coming too early, giving Yokic a chance to map

612
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 3: the floor and find the outlet, find the release, and

613
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 3: the guy's going to pick you apart. So they try

614
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 3: and do it. I guess when he's blind, is what

615
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 3: Tyler said. So somebody coming from behind, they'll be a

616
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 3: little tighter on that one. Murray had it going in

617
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 3: the second half as well. He finished with twenty one points,

618
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,719
Speaker 3: seven assists, and nine rebounds. He was just taking it

619
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Speaker 3: to Chris Dunna. I fought in the second half after

620
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 3: Dunn had the upper hand in the first half, and

621
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Speaker 3: then I also liked Nikola Jokich versus Jeff Van Gundy

622
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 3: on the sideline wants the quick inbound, but Jeff van

623
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Speaker 3: Gundy understands that he's trying to get the ball back

624
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 3: up the court, so he holds on tight. It was

625
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 3: like shades of the Mattieshpia incident with Jokic last year,

626
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 3: and then of course shades of Jeff Van Gundy versus

627
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 3: Alonzo Moarning from way back holding onto the legs. So

628
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Speaker 3: that was an awesome throwback.

629
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Speaker 2: To see there. It was fantastic. Yeah, Yokic called for

630
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 2: a tech in this game. The drama. It shouldn't have

631
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 2: got to that point if you're the Clippers, it really shouldn't.

632
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 2: They got out to that big lead and some things

633
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 2: happened at the end that were, you know, classic Russ

634
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 2: fighting for balls, Christian Brown fricking flying out of bounds

635
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 2: to save it. Great stuff. But if the Nuggets weren't

636
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 2: able to win in overtime, you would have just seen

637
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 2: that last play of regulation. Russ kind of lost the

638
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 2: ball and David Adelman said, we could have pulled it

639
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 2: out and executed. Yeah, but you went to overtime and

640
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 2: you kind of executed. So unfortunately, unfortunately for the Clippers,

641
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 2: they lost but fortunately for the Nuggets, the montage ain't

642
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 2: Russ just losing the ball, because that's what it was.

643
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 2: It was classic Russ. And again David Adelman to say

644
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 2: after the game, Russ is Russ and all that stuff,

645
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 2: all the good stuff, and then you know, we could

646
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 2: have pulled that out and executed. He gave you. He

647
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 2: gave even their interim coach exactly what he is.

648
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. It is like he's been doing it for

649
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,479
Speaker 3: seventeen years. He's not going to listen to me, the

650
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 3: interim guy who's been in charge for a week and

651
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 3: a half. Right, good stuff. This still feels like a

652
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 3: long series, that's for sure. And see in Game one

653
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 3: go into overtime. Why would that change your mind?

654
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true. And the Nuggets rotation is getting tighter

655
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 2: and tighter and tighter. They played seven point twenty five guys,

656
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 2: I'd called it with Jalen Pickett just playing a few minutes.

657
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, they anymore from Michael Porter Junior, he had an

658
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 3: ugly one. Should he should at least have some opportunities

659
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 3: in this one. I mean Westbrook got seventeen shots up.

660
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 3: There are shots to be had from the third scorer position,

661
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 3: but next game from Aaron Gordon as well. Cool series.

662
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 3: Moving on to New York Detroit. It's just one game,

663
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 3: but there is no substitute for experience task mellist. This

664
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 3: was a close game until it wasn't. Dennis Shrewder hit

665
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 3: a lamp to put Detroit up by eight with nine

666
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 3: minutes left, Jalen Brunson is hobbling around on a turn

667
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 3: to ankle. It's looking bad for New York. Instead, the

668
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 3: Knicks rip off a twenty one to zero run to

669
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 3: win this game. Campaign hit a lamp, then he had

670
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 3: an and one. Then Jalen Brunson hit a mid range jumper.

671
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 3: Then a Campaign three pointer ties it up. Brunson scores

672
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 3: inside again, another three pointer from Campaign. Brunson scores inside again,

673
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 3: then again, Then Josh Hart gets a layup. Then Josh

674
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 3: Hart gets another layup. Brunson gets a technical free throw

675
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 3: and another heart layup. Suddenly the Knicks are up thirteen

676
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 3: in five minutes. I thought it was a combination of

677
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 3: bad Piston's offense, like they were kind of panicking trying

678
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 3: to get their shots. But the Knicks defense was awesome,

679
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 3: including Karl Anthony Towns. He was he combined with Ojannanobi

680
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 3: to get a block. He got a steal off of

681
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 3: a Brutalcade Cunningham turnover. He was a little bit too

682
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 3: lax with it, I thought. In the fourth quarter, Town's

683
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 3: got another steal, and he was closing down a lot

684
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 3: of these possessions for New York with offensive rebounds. He

685
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 3: definitely outplayed Jalen Duran and Beef stew I thought Shrewder

686
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 3: gave some good minutes for the Pistons, but good stuff

687
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 3: for the Knicks to pull this one out, because I

688
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 3: thought this was a really good opportunity for the Pistons

689
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 3: to be able to steal this game. Malik Beasley, Tobias Harris,

690
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 3: Tim Hardaway Junior were all hitting three pointers six to

691
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 3: twelve for Beasley, four or five for Harris, three of

692
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 3: eight for Tim Hardaway Junior. And then in the fourth

693
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 3: quarter they went to combined one of six. You know,

694
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 3: the Vets were carrying them there for a while and

695
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 3: then they started missing. Cade had an ok game, twenty

696
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 3: one points, twelve assists. That's good, went eight of twenty

697
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 3: one from the field, had six turnovers, including three in

698
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 3: the fourth quarter. That's bad. It's his first playoff game,

699
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 3: so there's gonna be ups and downs, and now he

700
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 3: sees the like intensity that they need for all forty

701
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 3: eight minutes. So good stuff for the next because this

702
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 3: one looked Piston's tilted for sure up until campaign went nuts.

703
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 2: Tobias Harris at freaking twenty two points at half. Tobias

704
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 2: Harris was their number two guy, and it seemed like

705
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 2: he was gonna be the guy to help kid, but

706
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 2: they needed Kaid to be a little steadier in the

707
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 2: fourth quarter. As you said, kat was all up in

708
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 2: his shorts, turning him over. But I think this is

709
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 2: one of those clear examples that he could say, well,

710
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 2: the lights are a little brighter in Madison Square Garden

711
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,359
Speaker 2: for a guy like Dennis Shrewder to not be able

712
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 2: to inbound the ball at the beginning of a quarter,

713
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 2: some of you don't see too often a five second

714
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,320
Speaker 2: violation at the beginning of a quarter. That's weird because

715
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 2: the light shouldn't be bright for that guy. That guy's

716
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 2: won freaking championships and titles with for Germany, you know,

717
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 2: in international competition, so that wasn't the excuse for him.

718
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,760
Speaker 2: But then you see after that early in the fourth quarter,

719
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 2: like Asar Thompson does no, the shot clock's about to

720
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 2: go off and doesn't get a shot off, and then

721
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 2: he freaking missed a dunk, which is just a flub unfortunately,

722
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 2: but it just felt like, Yeah, they weren't ready for

723
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 2: that fourth quarter. I mean as simple as that. As

724
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 2: I said, like Kat was up in someone shorts there.

725
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 2: And I think the scary part, though, you know, defense

726
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 2: great for the next scary part is that Jalen Brunson,

727
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 2: after a slow start, he got this baby going. He

728
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 2: shot at two of thirteen to start this game and

729
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 2: then ten to fourteen after that. And I know you've

730
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 2: been saying the last couple of weeks how he got

731
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 2: it going against Kelly Ubray last year in the playoffs

732
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 2: after two games and lots of our streamers say, what.

733
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:38,479
Speaker 3: Are you talking about? Men?

734
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 2: He had a great series. Yeah, well, he had a

735
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 2: couple of slow games and in this case, he had

736
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 2: a slow start and that's that. I think that might

737
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 2: be over for Jalen Brunson. He may have his flow

738
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 2: already in this series. So that's a scary part for

739
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 2: the Pistons.

740
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, finished with thirty four and that includes I don't

741
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 3: know how much time he missed in this one. Rolled

742
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 3: an ankle. Yeah, went back and Tom Thibodeau great lines

743
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 3: that I think he grabbed his cape because Brunton was

744
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 3: really solidary go to campaign as well. Fourteen points eleven

745
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter, hit two big threes, and like Campaign,

746
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,399
Speaker 3: when he's hitting these are big time momentum shots because

747
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 3: you're like, oh, I don't mind if Brunton's hitting a

748
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 3: shot against us, but Campaign, that's frustrating Campaign. Yeah, I

749
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 3: really thought I thought Pistons were gonna steal this one. Yeah,

750
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 3: and you know, a little bit more execution down the

751
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 3: stretch I think they do.

752
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's a that's a good call. And the broadcasters,

753
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 2: you know, come up with a stat there that I'd

754
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 2: forgotten about that campaign. When Chris Paul was hurt when

755
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 2: they went to the NBA Finals with the Phoenix Suns,

756
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 2: Campaign had to chip in. Started a game in the

757
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 2: conference finals and dropped twenty nine, and that was an

758
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 2: important game in a conference final. So he has that

759
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,399
Speaker 2: in him. Yeah, and he had that fourth quarter in him.

760
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 2: One random thing I saw in this game, Jalen Duran

761
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 2: was called for three defensive second calls three times. The

762
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 2: same guy was called for three seconds in the key.

763
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever seen that, And it was

764
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,720
Speaker 2: three different NBA referees that called it. That was weird.

765
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 2: I'm not going to NBA conspiracy on anything, but three

766
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 2: different calls from three different guys, I don't know. I've

767
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 2: just never seen it, same guy, same call.

768
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 3: Makes you think it must have been a point of

769
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 3: emphasis somehow, whether that comes from you know, the NBA

770
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,919
Speaker 3: just kind of briefing everybody before the playoffs start, saying, hey,

771
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:22,799
Speaker 3: we can't have people just standing in the lane all time,

772
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 3: or if you want to go super conspiracy mode, maybe

773
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 3: the Nicks sent something to the league saying, hey, watch out,

774
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 3: this guy stands in the lane a lot. Yeah, and

775
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 3: it all got filtered down. But three in one game,

776
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:33,879
Speaker 3: that's a lot.

777
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:35,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, by the same guy is weird.

778
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 3: Yeah.

779
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 2: He'd always point to his feet like hey I got out,

780
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 2: but you look at his feet and he didn't get out.

781
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 2: He's literally on the paint. So very strange for jail

782
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:47,720
Speaker 2: En during Yes, just a unique one.

783
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 3: I think it was Lisa Salters who was the sideline

784
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 3: reporter for this one, and she explained the rules that

785
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 3: Malik Beasley has been given for when he can and

786
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 3: cannot shimmy, so is always allowed to shimmy. But JB.

787
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 3: Bickerstaff told him, you can only go for like the

788
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 3: full saucy shimmy if the three pointer leads to a

789
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,359
Speaker 3: timeout for the other team. And Malik Beasley, I guess

790
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,280
Speaker 3: is like I want to get. I want to average

791
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 3: one full shimmy per game where the crowd is going

792
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 3: so crazy that the other team has to take a

793
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 3: time out. He got one in this game, third quarter,

794
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,720
Speaker 3: minute thirty five left, hits the corner, three deep shimmy

795
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:33,360
Speaker 3: from Mlik Beasley. This is when the story is getting told.

796
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,240
Speaker 3: And then the Pistons were outscored forty five to twenty

797
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 3: seven from that mark. So I wonder if maybe the

798
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,320
Speaker 3: shimmy rules will change going forward.

799
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 2: Shimmy rules, Yeah, very funny. It's funny because every time

800
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 2: you see him hit a shot, I'm waiting for it.

801
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 2: Everybody's waiting for it, even when a guy is like

802
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,400
Speaker 2: running through him to get back on defense. I'm just

803
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,280
Speaker 2: are you still gonna pull like a half a shimmy?

804
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 2: But I guess that's the rule. Yeah, weird rule. That's

805
00:38:58,120 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 2: a weird one.

806
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 3: That's smart. I mean when he's really shimmying. It takes

807
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:05,280
Speaker 3: it could take ten seconds. Yeah, of hip shaking. Yeah,

808
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 3: in the corner. You know it's a long time time rumba.

809
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,959
Speaker 2: Well, why is the NBA so concerned with how much

810
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 2: he should?

811
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 3: I think this is a this is a JB. Bickerstaff.

812
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 3: Oh hey, man, get back on defense. Okay, but if

813
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 3: there's a timeout, shoot me all you want. I'm drawing

814
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 3: up a play anyway. It's going to take a few seconds.

815
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 3: You can catch up. What do you come by? I

816
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 3: thought that was funny.

817
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 2: It is funny.

818
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:28,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he shot the ball well until he didn't

819
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 3: make shots in the fourth quarter. Got to make them

820
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 3: all game long. Let's do what another four rounds here?

821
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 3: Real quick. We're halfway through the playoffs.

822
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 2: Yeah we are. Well. This next one flashes back to

823
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 2: last year. It's just one game, but the Celtics are

824
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:46,839
Speaker 2: actually better than the championship team. I think they looked fantastic.

825
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 2: It's the support guys that are highlighting things. Derek White

826
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 2: was freaking awesome dropping thirty points. It feels like, you know,

827
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,360
Speaker 2: it is a flashback to last year. Seven threes for

828
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 2: this guy, open threes. He will take them, and he

829
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:03,840
Speaker 2: will make them. Peyton Richard, this is not just hyperbole.

830
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 2: He is better than last season. He has grown as

831
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 2: a player. He was fricking awesome coming off the bench.

832
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 2: Nineteen points, four of six from three. This is the

833
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 2: best version of him. And then Drew Holiday, very very important,

834
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 2: Drew Holiday. We've asked, We've wondered this whole season long.

835
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 3: How's Drew doing?

836
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,959
Speaker 2: Is he still the same Drew? Well, they go into

837
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 2: half and they're down, so they were Land of Magic

838
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 2: and they talked about it. I'm sure in the locker room. Hey,

839
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,800
Speaker 2: we got to play defense, Drew. You gotta guard everybody

840
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 2: because he always does. You got to guard Franz Wagner.

841
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 2: And it was so important, Like right out of the gate,

842
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 2: he stuck on Franz, he fought over his screen, forced

843
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 2: to miss. Then he tapped a rebound that got the

844
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 2: Celtics running and he got a three right into it,

845
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 2: and then he stopped bon Carro and then he turned

846
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 2: over Franz at mid court led into a three the

847
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 2: other ways, and then he had another triple in the

848
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 2: third quarter, So three triples for him in the third quarter.

849
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 2: Orlando had six turnovers in the quarter. That's the story.

850
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,919
Speaker 2: It really was a close game at half the magic up,

851
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 2: but the Celtics turned it on. They look fantastic, the

852
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,879
Speaker 2: sporting guys, especially the sporting guys we can get into

853
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 2: Tatum and Brown. Brown looked good after the knee injury.

854
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 2: I thought he looked solid, the dunks. He was locking

855
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 2: in defensively. He pulled Paula Buon Carroll's jersey one time.

856
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 2: I noticed. I noticed early in the game there he

857
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 2: lost the ball very easily because of it. But I

858
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 2: would say Celtics overall, especially because if you're relying if

859
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 2: you can rely on White Holiday Pritchard off the bench.

860
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 2: I mean, I didn't even mention Porzingis and Horford, but

861
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 2: they are so frickin deep it's like a championship team.

862
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly right. That you can see the different levels

863
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 3: of these teams in this game. Orlando gets a great

864
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 3: game from their number one option, Paula Boncarro thirty six

865
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 3: points on fourteen of twenty seven shooting. Franz had a

866
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 3: pretty good game, not great, but okay, he's scoring as well.

867
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 3: But they basically got nothing from their players in this game.

868
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:03,800
Speaker 3: On the other side of things, Boston gets a dud

869
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 3: from their game in Game one from their number one

870
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:10,280
Speaker 3: option Tatum seventeen points on eight of twenty two field

871
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 3: goals shooting, but fifteen threes from their others, their role players.

872
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 3: Thirty for White, Prichard was awesome. Drew Holliday, like you're saying,

873
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:22,359
Speaker 3: had a dominant nine point game, got nine in that

874
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 3: third quarter. It just felt like the Celtics foot the

875
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 3: switch basically only for the third quarter. They needed one

876
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 3: quarter of not playing with their food to extend things here.

877
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 3: So Orlando, you're looking at it. Their defense was pretty solid, right,

878
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 3: They only allowed one hundred and three to the Celtics.

879
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:44,240
Speaker 3: They took eleven three pointers off their season average, limited

880
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 3: their attempts, but eighty six points. It just ain't gonna

881
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,720
Speaker 3: cut it against the Celtics team that just like the Warriors,

882
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 3: I think you forget they're a top five defense as well.

883
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 3: The Celtics are. They made it really really tough for Orlando,

884
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 3: thirty one in that second quarter, but everything all three

885
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 3: other quarters were under twenty point and it's just kind

886
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:04,360
Speaker 3: of hard to see how this team is gonna score

887
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 3: all productively and efficiently. They're just gonna have to get

888
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 3: hot from three one game and that's the recipe I

889
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:13,399
Speaker 3: think for stealing one against the Celtics, But this one

890
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 3: kind of played out how you would think it would play.

891
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good point, and Bunker was awesome. I

892
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 2: would say Franz Vogger didn't start awesome, but he was

893
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 2: willing to take big shots. And the ten of twenty

894
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 2: four not good efficiency, but twenty three points I think

895
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 2: bodes well. It's good enough. I mean, not good enough

896
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 2: to beat the Celtics, but good in just the case

897
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 2: of Franz Vogner individually. And it's clear that besides those

898
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 2: two guys, their highest score had seven points. So I mean,

899
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 2: you're probably just wishing they bang home some threes. Jalen

900
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:51,359
Speaker 2: Sugg's back would be nice, and I don't know, you're

901
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 2: really gonna wish that somebody like Contavious Caldwell, Pope or

902
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 2: an Anthony Black. We talked about Caleb Houston. I mean,

903
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 2: the hot man played, he played, he played, he did

904
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 2: some stuff, but then he dribbled into the lane and

905
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 2: he turned over. Because yeah, the Celtics again are just

906
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 2: damn good defensively, and it is something that has skipped.

907
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,800
Speaker 2: Plus their great defense, excuse me, plus their great offense.

908
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 2: They're they're just so well rounded.

909
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they can easily an eight for twenty

910
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 3: two game from the number one score. On most teams,

911
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 3: you're in a dogfight at the very least. The Celtics

912
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 3: kid an eight for twenty two from Tatum and they

913
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 3: basically blew this one out in the second half. That's

914
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 3: the difference.

915
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 2: I mean, you.

916
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:33,399
Speaker 3: Nailed at KCP was the leading scorer from the back

917
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 3: court from the Magic He had six points. Zero for Corey.

918
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 3: Joseph Cole Anthony had that awesome game in the play

919
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 3: in tournament. He had four. They're just gonna have to

920
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:44,360
Speaker 3: get completely hot and maybe that'll happen more likely I

921
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 3: guess that it would happen in Orlando, but we shall see.

922
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:49,399
Speaker 3: Jason Tatum took a hard follow in this game ended

923
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 3: up being a flagrant for Wendell Carter Junior.

924
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 2: Though I like CP, I thank you, Oh.

925
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 3: Casep got the got it there was the two of

926
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 3: them went up and knocked him down. I know he

927
00:44:58,120 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 3: was down by the stanchion for a little bit, but

928
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:02,399
Speaker 3: I did like Joe Mizzoula telling the Celtics trainer not

929
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 3: to go check on him. And you can see him

930
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 3: yelling get up, Tato. That guy's not going to coddle

931
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 3: you with an injury. He's like, I know, he's fine,

932
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 3: that's fine, that's awesome.

933
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 2: Get up, you're not hurt, and they give him a

934
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 2: quick MRI or is an x rays one of the two.

935
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 3: I think they said whatever was negative whatever exactly.

936
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's yeah, it works. Yeah. I was worried

937
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 2: when it happened. Was you know, held bread there for

938
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 2: a second? Bad enough? Yeah, although Joe Mazula didn't think so.

939
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 2: But I was also keeping note because we had our

940
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:41,280
Speaker 2: Instigator draft last week. We were drafted. Each guy who

941
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 2: you know, we deemed would either get a TECH or

942
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 2: a flagrant or ejected, and we'd get point points for it.

943
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 2: Contavious Caldwell Pope was my random third round pick, and

944
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 2: he randomly got a flagrant. Yeah, random, very very random.

945
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:56,240
Speaker 2: I was keeping track.

946
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 3: So you're the leader. That's the only thing that happened.

947
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:02,320
Speaker 2: I think exactly one zero zero Tray's Team of Tray's

948
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 2: Team of You. Title in progress here Triple D call

949
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 2: it for now Draymond, Doncicic and Darius Garland. Yeah, not

950
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 2: zero points. Title in work here for Skeets team. I

951
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 2: called him bad. Dylan Brooks, Anthony Edwards and Lou Dort.

952
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 2: You know, we're working on zero points. Isaiah Stewart a

953
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:26,919
Speaker 2: couple other guys. That's the name for my team because

954
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 2: because Isaiah Stewart's the big name here, along with Tatum

955
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 2: and Kntavious called weell Pope, we've got one point. The

956
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:39,359
Speaker 2: altercations or the sorry the penalties this weekend texts were

957
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:42,319
Speaker 2: Pascal Siakam and Damian Lillard off the bench they had

958
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,280
Speaker 2: that double tech. You know, we'll get to that series.

959
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:48,919
Speaker 2: Jokic had one, Chris Finch, Wolves head coach had one.

960
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,759
Speaker 2: Julius Randall also had a text, So five texts there,

961
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 2: and then flagrants from Pat Connaton who just came in

962
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:57,760
Speaker 2: at the end of the game. Yeah, and Kentavius calledwell Pope.

963
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 2: So I guess those one point each.

964
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:03,400
Speaker 3: I forget flagrants are one unless it's a flagrant.

965
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:04,920
Speaker 2: Two okay, and tex are obviously one.

966
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,399
Speaker 3: If you're getting points from your third round pick, you're

967
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 3: gonna win. Probably crazy p.

968
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:11,280
Speaker 2: He's gonna be gone pretty soon though. That's the problem

969
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 2: with Yeah.

970
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 3: But I mean again, Jenny, that's nice.

971
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 2: That's really nice.

972
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,879
Speaker 3: Really really nice, really nice for that guy. Yeah, really great, flavorite. Well,

973
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 3: Indiana beat the Bucks one seventeen to ninety eight at

974
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:25,239
Speaker 3: just one game. But Jannis can't beat this Pacers team

975
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 3: by himself. This was the first game Saturday. Jannis came

976
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 3: out and did what Jannis does thirty six points, twelve rebounds,

977
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 3: a steal, two blocks, fourteen to twenty three from the field,

978
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:38,319
Speaker 3: but he only had one assist because the rest of

979
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 3: Milwaukee went twenty one of sixty one for the field.

980
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 3: That's thirty four percent. Meanwhile, the Pacers came out with

981
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 3: a balanced attack. Siakama had twenty five, Turner had nineteen,

982
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 3: them Hard seventeen, Halliburton had ten points twelve assists. I

983
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 3: thought he was spectacular, Mathrin thirteen off the bench, and

984
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 3: McConnell had eleven. Indiana was getting any shot they wanted

985
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 3: early in this game. Nemhard in particular, I thought, was

986
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 3: killing him with downhill attacks. Pacers defense was doing a

987
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:07,760
Speaker 3: really good job. I thought of fighting over the screens,

988
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 3: throwing a whole bunch of different coverages at Jannis. Like

989
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,919
Speaker 3: I said, he still scored pretty well thirty six points

990
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 3: on twenty three shots. You're not gonna be able to

991
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 3: stop him all the time. But they stopped him enough times,

992
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 3: and there were so many stops. I thought at the rim,

993
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 3: whether it be missed layups or block shots, that those

994
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:27,280
Speaker 3: turned into free points because the Pacers were awesome pushing

995
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 3: the pace in this one twenty two to five. From

996
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 3: a fast break standpoint, it kind of feels like the

997
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 3: prescription for the Milwaukee Bucks without Dame Lillard Beck will

998
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 3: be Yannis carrying as much as he can, trying to

999
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:42,720
Speaker 3: get to forty points efficiently, and can he foul guys

1000
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 3: out soon enough? Because I thought that was going to

1001
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 3: be a concern for the pacers. Yiannis probably drew I

1002
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 3: know he had. I think he drew nine files in

1003
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 3: the first half alone, Like he was going to the

1004
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:54,919
Speaker 3: line all the time, and they were packing the paint.

1005
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 3: They were making it tough for you, honest, they were

1006
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 3: picking up fouls. But over the course of things, a

1007
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 3: zero point night for Kyle Kuzma was bad. He went

1008
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 3: Tony snell Moode twenty two minutes, zero points, zero rebounds,

1009
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 3: zero sis, zero steals, zero blocks, zero for five from

1010
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:13,759
Speaker 3: the field, zero for two from three. Made it so

1011
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 3: that Tory and Prince didn't even get noticed for having

1012
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,360
Speaker 3: a zero point game because at least he was doing

1013
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 3: some stuff out there. The Bucks did have some success

1014
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 3: with a small lineup in the second half. It was Giannis,

1015
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:27,919
Speaker 3: it was Gary Trent Junior, it was aj Green, Kevin

1016
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 3: Porter Junior, and Bobby Portis. They had an eleven to

1017
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 3: one run. They had a nine to zero run in

1018
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 3: the third quarter. In the fourth quarter cut the lead

1019
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 3: down to twelve, but the Pacers ended up I think

1020
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 3: shutting out the Bucks for like the last four minutes

1021
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 3: of this game. Pacers are just good on both ends

1022
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 3: of the court. They know who they want to be

1023
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:46,760
Speaker 3: on offense, and they play enough defense on defense.

1024
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:50,760
Speaker 2: They're good, and they really are, especially when the support

1025
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 2: guys for the Bucks couldn't hit threes likek Tory and

1026
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:55,359
Speaker 2: Prince was an incredible three point shooter all season long.

1027
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 2: Goes over in this one doesn't have a lot of opportunities.

1028
00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 2: Kyle Kuzma goes over as you said, Bobby Portis, oh

1029
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 2: for And the question for Giannis having the ball go

1030
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 2: through him being a frickin' machine, I mean, he was

1031
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:11,320
Speaker 2: so resilient to shoot twenty three times and have fifteen

1032
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 2: free throws. The question for him is maybe you look

1033
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 2: for you guys a little bit more just to get

1034
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:21,799
Speaker 2: them going to get in a flow, maybe just to

1035
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:25,400
Speaker 2: help out because along with Brooke, didn't have three, So

1036
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 2: really you only had one three from your starting lineup.

1037
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:33,359
Speaker 2: I just ain't gonna win against number one, a great

1038
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 2: Indiana Pacers team and a super athletic Indiana Pacers team.

1039
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:40,040
Speaker 2: Giannis was the only guy in double digits at half

1040
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:43,760
Speaker 2: for the Milwaukee Bucks, while the Pacers had multiple guys,

1041
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 2: led by Nemhart at fifteen. So they were just down

1042
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:49,240
Speaker 2: in this hole and the Pacers win the fast break points,

1043
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 2: that's what they're gonna do. So yeah, maybe maybe more

1044
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:56,799
Speaker 2: Bucks have to shoot. Maybe you stop some fast break

1045
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:59,399
Speaker 2: points because because the Bucks were, you know, a little

1046
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 2: too slow to the those guys, and they're a little

1047
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,439
Speaker 2: too slow to get out to the Pacers Shooters. Positive sign.

1048
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 2: Damian Lillard gets into it with Pascal Siakam like off

1049
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 2: the bench. He's coming off the bench, and it sure

1050
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 2: looks like he's going to come back in this series.

1051
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:15,759
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm reading into body language guy who's overcome

1052
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 2: a blood clot, but it sure feels like because he's

1053
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 2: been practicing recently that this guy's going to come back.

1054
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 2: But the only way is for I assume Jannis has

1055
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 2: to pass two guys more. But they're riding this Gianis

1056
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 2: plus four athletic guys and the zone defense as we

1057
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 2: talked about coming into this series.

1058
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 3: So yeah, that was their best lineup. They looked their

1059
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:39,920
Speaker 3: best when they were playing the smaller, faster guys basically

1060
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:43,919
Speaker 3: Giannis and four shooters. So I wonder if Kevin Porter

1061
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 3: Junior will get the start for Ryan Rollins just for

1062
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 3: the athleticism and somebody else who has the ball and

1063
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 3: can create factor. My guess is that Prince probably stays

1064
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:54,839
Speaker 3: in the starting line up at least for Game two,

1065
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 3: but you could see him being replaced by Gary Trent

1066
00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:01,280
Speaker 3: Junior or AJ Green in Game three. But yeah, Lillard

1067
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 3: was talking like he's going to be playing soon. You know,

1068
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 3: you don't get into it on the court with Tyrese Haliburton.

1069
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 3: Obviously they've got a little bit of history with the

1070
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 3: tapping of the wrist from last season. And I know

1071
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 3: there were people out there reading Dame's lips and I

1072
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 3: thought that they were interpreting it as Dame saying I'll

1073
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 3: see you Tuesday, which is when game two. Maybe it happens, Yeah,

1074
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 3: maybe it happens. But I thought that was an awesome

1075
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 3: performance for the Pacers. Definitely the Bucks can be better.

1076
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 3: Ye in a lot of spots, but not a lot

1077
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 3: of answers. Halliburton only three of thirteen from the field,

1078
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 3: but twelve assists in one turnover. He just gets off

1079
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 3: the ball at the perfect time and he knew who

1080
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 3: to find and that was Pascal Siakam ten to fifteen

1081
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:41,360
Speaker 3: from the field. I thought Mathren was really good in

1082
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 3: this one, drawing files went to the free throw line

1083
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 3: eight times. Wasn't an efficient scorer, but you're knocking down

1084
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,800
Speaker 3: those free throws that definitely helps. And only eleven threes

1085
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:53,920
Speaker 3: attempted for the Bucks from their starting lineup. You're totally right.

1086
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 3: They gotta get some more shots up. So I assume

1087
00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:57,959
Speaker 3: that'll be just playing a little bit faster, a little

1088
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:01,760
Speaker 3: bit more athletic. And I just don't know about brook

1089
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 3: Lopez his role this series. He looked like an albatross

1090
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 3: to me out there, looked like the slowest guy. Miles

1091
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 3: Turner got a lot of good looks based out of

1092
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:12,319
Speaker 3: playing pick and pop with Halliburton. So I wonder how

1093
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 3: Lopez fits into this series because the Bucks aren't a

1094
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 3: deep team. They're gonna have to still play all of

1095
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 3: their top eight guys. But it might be asking Doc

1096
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 3: to do things he's not comfortable with with regards to adjusting.

1097
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be Bobby Portis, who was part of

1098
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:29,839
Speaker 2: those four athletic guys around Yannis Tota Kupo that could

1099
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:35,760
Speaker 2: shoot the three balls. Bobby, it's Porter, it's Gary Trenton

1100
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 2: aj Green. But maybe you see more Bobby sobbing in

1101
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 2: for Brook because Brook just, yeah, you got outplayed by

1102
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 2: Miles Turner in this one. I do sort of lump

1103
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:45,920
Speaker 2: that in with not being able to get out to

1104
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 2: three point shooters for the Bucks because the Pacers were

1105
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 2: just ultra confident. I mean that Miles Turner dunk to

1106
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:56,800
Speaker 2: really seal this thing just shows that, yeah, the Bucks

1107
00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 2: weren't playing well enough. I'll turn out a step back.

1108
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:03,960
Speaker 2: That was great too. He looked great.

1109
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 3: That's crazy hearing them talk about all the different eras

1110
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:08,399
Speaker 3: he's played. When he played in the Paul George era,

1111
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 3: that was a long time ago, the Paul George era

1112
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 3: in Indiana, but he's been around for a lot of

1113
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:15,920
Speaker 3: different random playoff runs and it was nice to be

1114
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:18,879
Speaker 3: reminded of Brent Barry this weekend. He's the only guy

1115
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:21,399
Speaker 3: who's played more minutes in a playoff game to have

1116
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 3: a trillion, like Kyle Kuzma. He's played like twenty two

1117
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:28,239
Speaker 3: and change minutes, whereas Kuzma played twenty one minutes in

1118
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:32,400
Speaker 3: thirty five seconds. If Kuzma doesn't do anything not good

1119
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:35,239
Speaker 3: for the Bucks, you gotta do something out there.

1120
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 2: The backhanded slap you get mentioned that he used to

1121
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 2: play in the NBA, but you mentioned because he had

1122
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 2: a trillion, stinker.

1123
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:44,680
Speaker 3: We gotta go back and find those Brent Barry low lights.

1124
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 3: I don't know what you're looking for. And yeah, look,

1125
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:50,879
Speaker 3: sweet jogs. All right, take us to our last couple

1126
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 3: of games here, Tassy.

1127
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 2: Well, as far as the Cavs Heat go, Ty Jeron

1128
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 2: is the MVP of this freaking team. Ty Jerome was amazing.

1129
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 2: He was phenomenal and this was a close game. Early

1130
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter in Miami, Heat chose to play

1131
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:08,360
Speaker 2: the zone defense, which was fantastic. It was pushing pushing

1132
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:11,640
Speaker 2: Mitchell to the outside, who missed his first seven threes

1133
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:13,279
Speaker 2: of this game, and they said, okay, well, this is

1134
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 2: what we'll do to Donovan Mitchell. This will help us.

1135
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:20,279
Speaker 2: But ty Jerome said, all right, I'm gonna penetrate that

1136
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:22,239
Speaker 2: fricking zone. It was the Ty Jerome show. In the

1137
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:25,320
Speaker 2: fourth quarter, he took Heyward high Smith into the lane,

1138
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:28,439
Speaker 2: hit a tough floater over a guy who's defending him

1139
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:32,600
Speaker 2: really really closely, and then he just started splashing. I mean,

1140
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 2: it was I'm definitely exaggerating with this. He's the MVP

1141
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:39,799
Speaker 2: because there's some moments where he lost a ball with

1142
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:41,799
Speaker 2: five minutes left. You he was dribbling on Tyler Hero

1143
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 2: and he kind of lost the ball in the lane,

1144
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 2: but he picked it up and hit a shot over

1145
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,120
Speaker 2: I mean, this is just your night. So it's my night.

1146
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:49,440
Speaker 2: You know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna shoot from

1147
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:53,480
Speaker 2: thirty one feet on the next possession, Bang thirty one feet.

1148
00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:58,160
Speaker 2: The broadcasters, the bench, everyone thought, whoa this dude in

1149
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:02,279
Speaker 2: his freaking playoffs debut. You that doesn't get better than that.

1150
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 2: His fourth quarter was six shots, made sixteen points in

1151
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:09,120
Speaker 2: that quarter of his twenty eight overall, So he had

1152
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:11,840
Speaker 2: sixteen in the fourth. The next highest Cave only had six,

1153
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:14,920
Speaker 2: but to see that debut go twenty eight points ten

1154
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:17,800
Speaker 2: to fifteen, five of eight from three type for the

1155
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:20,120
Speaker 2: most threes on the team. In just twenty six minutes,

1156
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:23,480
Speaker 2: he had twenty eight of the cast thirty four bench points.

1157
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 2: He was the key. He was literally the key to

1158
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:29,239
Speaker 2: this team to just put it over the top. And

1159
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:31,720
Speaker 2: because the pressure was on him a little bit more.

1160
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:34,799
Speaker 2: I know Donovan Mitchell's numbers ended up being good, but

1161
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:37,760
Speaker 2: I thought because the pressure moved over to him against

1162
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 2: the zone, that's when Donovan Mitchell stepped back from in

1163
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 2: that three point line or from that three point line

1164
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:44,920
Speaker 2: and buried a three. He started to feel good. In

1165
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, Darius Garland came through in the fourth

1166
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:49,960
Speaker 2: quarter doing that two fingers over the tongue. He was

1167
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:50,640
Speaker 2: doing celebration.

1168
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:53,319
Speaker 3: Heah, doing a lot of kiss into the crowd. Was

1169
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 3: that a yeah, you're right. I don't know exactly what

1170
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:57,360
Speaker 3: he was Tongue in his fingers.

1171
00:56:57,360 --> 00:56:58,799
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what he was doing at there.

1172
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:00,919
Speaker 2: I guess there was a kiss. I wouldn't tell.

1173
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:01,800
Speaker 3: Tongue in his fingers.

1174
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:04,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I kind of looked like to me

1175
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:04,880
Speaker 2: when I saw it.

1176
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:06,840
Speaker 3: But I think I heard something like that in Sinners

1177
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:12,360
Speaker 3: this week. Yeah, great movie, but yeah, this was a

1178
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:14,279
Speaker 3: close game, Like it was pretty close. It was a

1179
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:17,760
Speaker 3: one point game. Calves were leading, but Tidrome just went

1180
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 3: completely insane in that one. That was an unexpected cavalanche.

1181
00:57:22,080 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 3: Like you said, sixteen of his twenty eight in the

1182
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:28,440
Speaker 3: fourth quarter. The backcourt of Jerome, Mitchell and Garland combined

1183
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 3: to score eighty five points for Cleveland. I thought they

1184
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 3: played like at best a B plus game, like this

1185
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 3: was not a great game for the Calves, and they

1186
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:38,920
Speaker 3: completely handled the heat that he just didn't have the

1187
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 3: matchups on the perimeter to stick with Cleveland. It's like

1188
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 3: Davion Mitchell, I thought, had a pretty solid game for Miami,

1189
00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:48,880
Speaker 3: finished with eighteen points and nine assists. He's their best

1190
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 3: perimeter defender. But there's only one of them, and whoever

1191
00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:54,480
Speaker 3: that other guy is is just going off. Sometimes it's

1192
00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 3: Mitchell guarding Mitchell and Garland as the guy. Sometimes it's

1193
00:57:57,120 --> 00:58:01,720
Speaker 3: Mitchell guarding Garland, and some ty Jerome goes off. So

1194
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:04,760
Speaker 3: I thought a pretty good game from the back court there,

1195
00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:08,760
Speaker 3: and that should be an advantage for the Cavs going forward,

1196
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:10,919
Speaker 3: and I assume their defense will probably step the game

1197
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 3: up a little bit as well, though in general I

1198
00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 3: thought their front court played out outplayed the heat front

1199
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:18,120
Speaker 3: court though. Nice game for BAM.

1200
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:20,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they did it. I think a good job

1201
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:23,720
Speaker 2: against Tyler Hero who you know it gets twenty one,

1202
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 2: but they just kept him out of the lane as

1203
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:30,000
Speaker 2: much as possible defensively, yes, so that threw him off.

1204
00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:33,439
Speaker 3: Just a lot of jumpers, a lot of jumpers for Hero.

1205
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 3: I did like in this game. I think it was

1206
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 3: at the end of the first quarter. Was this Brian

1207
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 3: Anderson on the call? Whoever was on the actual call

1208
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 3: the boar or like the desk Mike's went out, so

1209
00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 3: Dennis Scott just had to do oh play by play

1210
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:49,840
Speaker 3: from the sideway like his was the only microphone that

1211
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 3: was working.

1212
00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 2: He did a pretty good job.

1213
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:54,160
Speaker 3: Like he started he came it. It was like he

1214
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:57,080
Speaker 3: had some sort of bit about like are the Cavaliers

1215
00:58:57,520 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 3: gonna graduate to contender status? They had a photoshopped to

1216
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:04,480
Speaker 3: diploma and everything out there. I was thinking, three, d

1217
00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 3: must have his son must be graduating, like in the

1218
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:09,360
Speaker 3: next couple of weeks. Why's he got graduation on the mine?

1219
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:09,720
Speaker 2: Oh?

1220
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 3: But then he realized, oh, I have nobody to toss

1221
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:14,480
Speaker 3: it to. So he just started going into play by play.

1222
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 3: Wiggans dishes to wear back to Wiggans moneyball.

1223
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:21,280
Speaker 2: Here's pretty smooth. They come back on and whoever was

1224
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:25,040
Speaker 2: the maybe it was I think the Spirodatis and Candas Parker.

1225
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:27,959
Speaker 3: There we go, and Candas Parker says, how many times

1226
00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 3: did three D say leave it? Zero times? I was impressed.

1227
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:36,360
Speaker 3: Good stuff from Dy not trade times, not trade times because.

1228
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 2: Of our tray and his son, Trey Scott. He goes,

1229
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 2: he's already in college. Yeah, yeah, it's a good point. Yeah,

1230
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 2: so anyways, good for him, Good for him.

1231
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:48,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that move that Garland was doing.

1232
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a kiss, Maybe I'm exaggerating.

1233
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 3: The first play he hit a three from like the

1234
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:54,360
Speaker 3: right wing and he did a like a gentle version

1235
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:59,760
Speaker 3: of it, like casting out a yo yo. And then

1236
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:02,240
Speaker 3: he had another three from basically the same place and

1237
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:04,680
Speaker 3: he went for the full walk the dog yo yo tis.

1238
01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:05,120
Speaker 2: With the kiss.

1239
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:05,760
Speaker 3: It was nice.

1240
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:06,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, good for him.

1241
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:09,040
Speaker 3: It's an important time to come up with your new

1242
01:00:09,040 --> 01:00:11,440
Speaker 3: three points celebrations. John Morant had to come up with

1243
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:13,320
Speaker 3: a new one and he didn't need it very much.

1244
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:15,360
Speaker 3: There's another segue for you. It's just one game, but

1245
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:19,439
Speaker 3: Thunder Grizzlies is over. This one is done, okay. Se

1246
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 3: wins one hundred and thirty one to eighty against the Grizzlies,

1247
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:26,960
Speaker 3: a fifty one point victory, the fifth biggest margin of

1248
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 3: victory in playoff history. The Thunder are the sixth team

1249
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 3: ever to win a playoff game by fifty or more points,

1250
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:36,600
Speaker 3: and this is the largest game one victory ever. You

1251
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:39,000
Speaker 3: gotta say, Memphis was in a pretty tough spot here.

1252
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:42,640
Speaker 3: They played two play in games, including the late one

1253
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:45,920
Speaker 3: on Friday, thirty six hours later, they have to go

1254
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:48,480
Speaker 3: and play against a well rested Thunder team who are

1255
01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 3: the best team in the league and look like they

1256
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 3: were completely ready, very sharpened this one. They forced twenty

1257
01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:56,760
Speaker 3: two turnovers off of Memphis, shot seventeen of forty eight

1258
01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:59,640
Speaker 3: from three. Memphis only went six of thirty four, and

1259
01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:02,400
Speaker 3: I thought their front court dominated. Nineteen and ten for

1260
01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:06,520
Speaker 3: Chet Holmgren, fourteen, eight and five for Isaiah Hartenstein. Meanwhile,

1261
01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:09,520
Speaker 3: Zachia he goes for four points, nine rebounds, and just

1262
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 3: four points on two of thirteen shooting. For Jared Jackson Junior,

1263
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:14,959
Speaker 3: he didn't really show up. The other thing I thought

1264
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:16,960
Speaker 3: was funny from this game is shay Gil just Alexander

1265
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:20,000
Speaker 3: only scored fifteen points, went four to thirteen from the field,

1266
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:23,200
Speaker 3: but because it was a blowout, he didn't get to

1267
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:26,520
Speaker 3: his twenty point plats out many times did you do

1268
01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:27,560
Speaker 3: it during the regular season?

1269
01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 2: He did it seventy two straight.

1270
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:30,720
Speaker 3: Seventy two straight times.

1271
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:33,200
Speaker 2: He only scored not in the playoffs, youwer than twenty

1272
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:36,280
Speaker 2: once it's over. He didn't need to in this way.

1273
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:37,120
Speaker 3: He didn't need to.

1274
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:39,040
Speaker 2: He had two buckets at half and they're already up

1275
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:39,520
Speaker 2: thirty two.

1276
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:41,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how they dominated.

1277
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:44,480
Speaker 2: Now. I know John Ran said postgame, We're never going

1278
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:47,040
Speaker 2: to play that bad again. It's true. I'm sure Jaws

1279
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:50,080
Speaker 2: feels like he could have made some of those shots

1280
01:01:50,120 --> 01:01:52,520
Speaker 2: that he probably rushed himself into a little bit, which

1281
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:56,720
Speaker 2: is fairly true. But this defense is just so freaking good,

1282
01:01:57,160 --> 01:02:01,040
Speaker 2: simple as that. I mean, I thought of an example

1283
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:06,120
Speaker 2: where Morant was being defended by lou Dort up top.

1284
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:10,320
Speaker 2: Dort gets picked off. The home Grin comes in and

1285
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:12,480
Speaker 2: is able to push off long enough for Dort to

1286
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:17,840
Speaker 2: recover and he fell again. I mean, he felt this

1287
01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:19,919
Speaker 2: is like got out of the way again and he fell.

1288
01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:21,960
Speaker 2: This time, he got up and was able to contest

1289
01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 2: John Rant. That's why those bigs are there. That's why

1290
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:28,920
Speaker 2: they got Isaiah Hartenstein this time now to pair with

1291
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 2: Chet Holmgren. Both of those guys are able to close

1292
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:35,040
Speaker 2: on that space and recover. They're just too damn good.

1293
01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 2: They're literally so good. So even when Shay has a

1294
01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:41,560
Speaker 2: quiet night, I thought Jalen Williams was super good his

1295
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:44,680
Speaker 2: twenty points. He was working off their new guy, their

1296
01:02:44,720 --> 01:02:47,600
Speaker 2: new hub by Isaiah Hartenstein, who was able to find

1297
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:50,080
Speaker 2: him three different times. He had three assists to Jalen

1298
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:53,760
Speaker 2: Williams because of those cuts whatever, whichever cut it was.

1299
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 2: I mean he was snaking, He's doing these seat cuts

1300
01:02:56,600 --> 01:03:00,240
Speaker 2: and he fished finished a beautiful alley loup. So yeah, yeah,

1301
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:03,840
Speaker 2: I think Grizzlies think they can play better. They probably will.

1302
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:07,360
Speaker 2: They probably won't lose by fifty. Yeah, it's just so

1303
01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:10,480
Speaker 2: hard against this this team. There's just too many defenders.

1304
01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:12,240
Speaker 2: They're so freaking good, and she's one of them. I mean,

1305
01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:14,760
Speaker 2: Shaye blocked a seven foot four guy from behind, he

1306
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:16,800
Speaker 2: blocks Ackadi. That was freaking cool.

1307
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:19,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty two turnovers got to be better. I was

1308
01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:22,320
Speaker 3: thinking for adjustments, and it was just play better is

1309
01:03:22,360 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 3: the main adjustment in this one. Maybe maybe more Marvin Bagley.

1310
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:28,880
Speaker 3: He was good seventeen points, eight of eight from the field. Yeah,

1311
01:03:28,920 --> 01:03:31,800
Speaker 3: he's an athlete that can hang with OKC, maybe more

1312
01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:35,000
Speaker 3: so than Edie can. But also I'm like, are you

1313
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:37,720
Speaker 3: gonna get a better game than that from Martin Bagley?

1314
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:41,160
Speaker 3: Probably not, but you need better performances from Jared Jackson Junior,

1315
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:43,880
Speaker 3: like I mentioned, had his worst playoff game and then

1316
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:46,840
Speaker 3: a minus fifty one to nine points on three of

1317
01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:50,920
Speaker 3: twelve shooting for Desmond Baine. Jaw was just okay in

1318
01:03:51,040 --> 01:03:55,480
Speaker 3: this game. Jared Jackson Junior, Desmond Baine, We're bad. If

1319
01:03:55,480 --> 01:03:57,360
Speaker 3: the Grizzlies are gonna have any sort of chance of

1320
01:03:57,400 --> 01:04:00,640
Speaker 3: making this competitive, they have to show up because man,

1321
01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:02,880
Speaker 3: thunder just looked like the thunder do. They didn't play

1322
01:04:02,920 --> 01:04:06,280
Speaker 3: great offensively, but their defense is number one for a reason. Yeah,

1323
01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:06,880
Speaker 3: good stuff.

1324
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:10,800
Speaker 2: They're pretty fierce on that end. Link Alex Grusso comes

1325
01:04:10,840 --> 01:04:16,120
Speaker 2: in and is just himself. Even that caseon Wallas didn't

1326
01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:18,720
Speaker 2: have great offensive game, but a mean dunk because he

1327
01:04:18,840 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 2: was fierce himself. And yes, some unfortunate blunders like Desmond

1328
01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 2: Bean passed it right off Zach Edy's head. You don't

1329
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:28,680
Speaker 2: see a doer like that too often.

1330
01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 3: I think they're threw two passes off of heads.

1331
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:31,520
Speaker 2: I didn't see that.

1332
01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:33,960
Speaker 3: It's not good. No, you want to limit that to zero.

1333
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:35,680
Speaker 3: That's the number one thing.

1334
01:04:35,840 --> 01:04:38,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a golf score. Keep it low as possible.

1335
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:41,160
Speaker 3: Keep it as low as possible. Another thing, you want

1336
01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 3: to keep as low as possible. Your Boston Marathon time.

1337
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:46,120
Speaker 3: Looks like our guy Skeets is five k of the

1338
01:04:46,160 --> 01:04:49,200
Speaker 3: way through so far. He's putting up seven minute miles

1339
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:50,360
Speaker 3: right now, looking good.

1340
01:04:50,600 --> 01:04:53,600
Speaker 2: Oh my girl, Mika is just a minute slower than

1341
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:57,760
Speaker 2: there we go, mister j E. Skeets. Nice, they're approaching

1342
01:04:57,840 --> 01:04:58,520
Speaker 2: ten ok.

1343
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:01,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yeah, I'm just looking at the splits here.

1344
01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:03,320
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah cool. Yeah.

1345
01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:08,080
Speaker 2: Him and his buddy Jared, oh yeah, neck and neck.

1346
01:05:08,120 --> 01:05:09,120
Speaker 2: I think they're running together.

1347
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:12,080
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, you're right. This says last

1348
01:05:12,080 --> 01:05:15,080
Speaker 3: spot at five k predicted finished three minutes and eight seconds.

1349
01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:15,600
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1350
01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:17,200
Speaker 3: Maybe it gets harder in the second half, you know,

1351
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:18,240
Speaker 3: because of fatigue.

1352
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:18,960
Speaker 2: I got it.

1353
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:22,160
Speaker 3: There's also a big hill's big old hill, heart attack hill.

1354
01:05:22,240 --> 01:05:23,720
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1355
01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:26,720
Speaker 3: Yeah. Over the weekend is it heartbreak.

1356
01:05:27,080 --> 01:05:29,080
Speaker 2: I thought it was heard attack, but it's not. I

1357
01:05:29,080 --> 01:05:32,920
Speaker 2: don't think it's what is that hill name us? I

1358
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:35,360
Speaker 2: hear it? That's the classic art once a year.

1359
01:05:35,720 --> 01:05:39,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, something's happening to your heart on that hill.

1360
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:44,439
Speaker 2: Damn it? What is it heart heart hill? I can't. Yeah.

1361
01:05:44,560 --> 01:05:46,680
Speaker 2: The thing is when you type in hart hill, that's

1362
01:05:46,720 --> 01:05:50,840
Speaker 2: exactly what I was typing in heartbreak. Yeah, looks like heartbreak,

1363
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:55,400
Speaker 2: all right, Yeah, no attacks quite yet. Although, yeah, it's

1364
01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:57,840
Speaker 2: great to add Jared to the list and anybody who

1365
01:05:57,880 --> 01:06:01,720
Speaker 2: also has dent as part of their last name. That's fine, man.

1366
01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:05,920
Speaker 2: Good luck to Jida Denton and Rachel Denting.

1367
01:06:06,840 --> 01:06:10,080
Speaker 3: Oh big, big time. I was cheering for Rachel. I

1368
01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:13,800
Speaker 3: know she's gonna have a big race. No segue for

1369
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:15,280
Speaker 3: this one. We don't get a little bit of news

1370
01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:18,440
Speaker 3: from the NBA. Couldn't think of anything, but the NBA

1371
01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:23,680
Speaker 3: has named their three finalists for the seven major awards

1372
01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:29,280
Speaker 3: Most Valuable Player, alongside of m P, Defensive Player of

1373
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:31,320
Speaker 3: the Year, Rookie of the Year, six Man, Coach of

1374
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:34,560
Speaker 3: the Year, and Clutch Player of the Year. So yeah,

1375
01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:38,080
Speaker 3: seven final or three finalists for all seven awards. Anything

1376
01:06:38,120 --> 01:06:41,520
Speaker 3: you were surprised by task or a snub from any

1377
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:43,640
Speaker 3: of these categories that you would have liked to see

1378
01:06:43,640 --> 01:06:44,720
Speaker 3: somebody else thrown in there.

1379
01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:48,360
Speaker 2: Mark Dagnautt as head coach of Okase has to be

1380
01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:51,560
Speaker 2: on the list for Coach of the Year. They beat

1381
01:06:51,560 --> 01:06:54,120
Speaker 2: their opponents by the most total points in the history

1382
01:06:54,120 --> 01:06:58,320
Speaker 2: of the NBA, the biggest gap ever. Why can't he

1383
01:06:58,440 --> 01:07:02,919
Speaker 2: be on the list even if you know that you're

1384
01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:06,000
Speaker 2: not picking him again because he won last year? He

1385
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:09,560
Speaker 2: can be a nominee. He just deserves it. And I

1386
01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:13,880
Speaker 2: suppose because they don't, they don't want to, or they

1387
01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:18,080
Speaker 2: ain't gonna make him the winner twice in a row.

1388
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:20,040
Speaker 2: I guess that's what the thing is. But still, I

1389
01:07:20,040 --> 01:07:24,080
Speaker 2: mean he deserved They won sixteen eighty two games, and

1390
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:26,320
Speaker 2: they beat teams by a total of one thousand and

1391
01:07:26,360 --> 01:07:28,919
Speaker 2: fifty five points, better than any other team. Why can't

1392
01:07:28,920 --> 01:07:32,280
Speaker 2: he Why these guys are all deserving that are on

1393
01:07:32,360 --> 01:07:37,919
Speaker 2: there in Bicker, Steph, Atkinson and Udoka, but I'd include him.

1394
01:07:38,280 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 3: The first place I saw this graphic with regards to

1395
01:07:42,320 --> 01:07:45,080
Speaker 3: the candidates for the award was on Andrew Schleck's Twitter

1396
01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:48,120
Speaker 3: page and it said biggest snub and I think that's

1397
01:07:48,640 --> 01:07:51,680
Speaker 3: indicative because you could say there are our biggest snubs

1398
01:07:51,720 --> 01:07:53,280
Speaker 3: for a lot of the Thunder run here, like you're

1399
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:56,840
Speaker 3: saying Mark Dagnall, Mark Danel not getting mentioned for Coach

1400
01:07:56,880 --> 01:07:59,919
Speaker 3: of the Year. He will probably finish in the top five.

1401
01:08:00,120 --> 01:08:02,520
Speaker 3: But no Lou dort On Defensive Player of the Year

1402
01:08:02,600 --> 01:08:05,520
Speaker 3: I think is kind of a questionable call as well.

1403
01:08:05,560 --> 01:08:07,920
Speaker 3: He's a guy that I would consider on my ballot

1404
01:08:08,080 --> 01:08:10,840
Speaker 3: for sure. I think you could argue that Sga is

1405
01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:13,280
Speaker 3: in Clutch Player of the Year, and I don't know,

1406
01:08:13,320 --> 01:08:15,760
Speaker 3: maybe you would even argue Jalen Williams could get some

1407
01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:17,960
Speaker 3: most Improved Player votes. I don't know. But the fact

1408
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:20,400
Speaker 3: that the Thunder are by far the best team in

1409
01:08:20,400 --> 01:08:22,280
Speaker 3: the league and have one name on here and you

1410
01:08:22,320 --> 01:08:24,840
Speaker 3: know which one, it's going to be a little disappointing.

1411
01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 3: I would also say no Amen Thompson in the Defensive

1412
01:08:28,160 --> 01:08:30,720
Speaker 3: Player of the Year category is a little bit surprising,

1413
01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:32,880
Speaker 3: but maybe he ends up on an All defensive team

1414
01:08:33,120 --> 01:08:34,640
Speaker 3: as well. And then the other one that kind of

1415
01:08:34,640 --> 01:08:38,640
Speaker 3: caught my eye was Anthony Edwards getting a Clutch Player nominee.

1416
01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:40,920
Speaker 3: I only say that because I know the Timberwolves are

1417
01:08:40,960 --> 01:08:43,240
Speaker 3: pretty bad in the clutch this year, like one of

1418
01:08:43,240 --> 01:08:46,040
Speaker 3: the five worst teams in the clutch now has I'm

1419
01:08:46,040 --> 01:08:49,280
Speaker 3: sure great stats in those because he's their main guy,

1420
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:53,120
Speaker 3: but it wasn't a stellar clutch season in general. I

1421
01:08:53,160 --> 01:08:55,840
Speaker 3: didn't think from the Timberwolves. So a little surprising.

1422
01:08:55,479 --> 01:08:58,240
Speaker 2: There, Yeah, right, there were I guess twenty second in

1423
01:08:58,479 --> 01:09:02,200
Speaker 2: clutch performance this year or is it twentieth Maybe I'm

1424
01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:05,080
Speaker 2: flopping the seasons because they've been bad the last two seasons.

1425
01:09:05,080 --> 01:09:06,800
Speaker 2: But I went to the stats because I thought, why

1426
01:09:06,800 --> 01:09:08,880
Speaker 2: isn't Darius Garland part of the Clutch of the year.

1427
01:09:10,040 --> 01:09:12,760
Speaker 2: That being said, his numbers kind of dropped off, and

1428
01:09:12,840 --> 01:09:15,599
Speaker 2: I think this is what it's all about, numbers when

1429
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:18,679
Speaker 2: it comes to Clutch of the year, and is slightly

1430
01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:23,200
Speaker 2: better than Darius Garland, So I thought that one was

1431
01:09:23,400 --> 01:09:25,320
Speaker 2: all right. I do think the Defensive Player of the

1432
01:09:25,360 --> 01:09:29,080
Speaker 2: Year is interesting. It's gonna be an interesting discussion Dyson Daniels,

1433
01:09:29,120 --> 01:09:32,559
Speaker 2: Draymond Green, and Evan Mobley. It is interesting that Dyson

1434
01:09:32,600 --> 01:09:36,519
Speaker 2: Daniels appears there and most improved, while Evan Mobley doesn't

1435
01:09:36,560 --> 01:09:38,519
Speaker 2: appear in the Defensive Player the Year and most in

1436
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:42,960
Speaker 2: roothed although I know he got better, but his numbers

1437
01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:48,000
Speaker 2: aren't valiantly or dramatically better, so Kid, Dyson, Daniels and

1438
01:09:48,080 --> 01:09:54,600
Speaker 2: Zubots also just deserving gents MVP. They got it perfect

1439
01:09:54,960 --> 01:09:59,600
Speaker 2: in Shae Jokicen and Yannis Rookie of the Year the

1440
01:09:59,720 --> 01:10:03,599
Speaker 2: con since conversation, Who's gonna win that thing?

1441
01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:06,439
Speaker 3: Yeah that it looks like a little surprised that Wells

1442
01:10:06,520 --> 01:10:08,640
Speaker 3: was the third guy, but to me he would be

1443
01:10:09,160 --> 01:10:11,520
Speaker 3: in the mix as well. But Castle and Resa che

1444
01:10:11,720 --> 01:10:14,280
Speaker 3: getting the nooms I think makes sense. You would have

1445
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:16,680
Speaker 3: thought maybe Edie sneaks in as the third guy.

1446
01:10:16,720 --> 01:10:20,519
Speaker 2: But good stuff and six Man is great the last

1447
01:10:20,520 --> 01:10:24,040
Speaker 2: one since I like listing them all, Beasley tied, Jerome

1448
01:10:24,080 --> 01:10:28,720
Speaker 2: and Peyton Pritchard good great, great discussion because I think

1449
01:10:28,800 --> 01:10:31,040
Speaker 2: I think all three of those three guys are definitely

1450
01:10:31,120 --> 01:10:34,439
Speaker 2: worthy and could win. And Peyton is kind of like

1451
01:10:34,600 --> 01:10:37,400
Speaker 2: an overlooked guy. Is maybe because it was beginning beginning

1452
01:10:37,439 --> 01:10:39,800
Speaker 2: of the season where he was, you know, made his

1453
01:10:39,920 --> 01:10:44,680
Speaker 2: name and then Beasley started doing the shimmys and he

1454
01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:47,680
Speaker 2: I freaking won the title last year, so he's overlooked.

1455
01:10:47,920 --> 01:10:50,360
Speaker 2: But all three guys again really good.

1456
01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:53,719
Speaker 3: I would say shout out to Evitza Zubats, and Draymond

1457
01:10:53,760 --> 01:10:55,960
Speaker 3: Green pr pushes because I don't think that they make

1458
01:10:56,080 --> 01:11:00,760
Speaker 3: these finalist awards like a month ago. Yeah, but you know,

1459
01:11:00,880 --> 01:11:03,439
Speaker 3: Zubots has really picked up steam as a candidate here

1460
01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:06,680
Speaker 3: either for Most Improved Defensive Player of the Year. I

1461
01:11:06,680 --> 01:11:08,519
Speaker 3: think he'll get some votes as well All Defense Team.

1462
01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:10,439
Speaker 3: I think he's there. And then Draymond, you know, once

1463
01:11:10,479 --> 01:11:12,479
Speaker 3: the Jimmy Butler trade happened, he's like, hey, remember me,

1464
01:11:12,479 --> 01:11:16,880
Speaker 3: I played defense. Really got his name back in the mix.

1465
01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:19,320
Speaker 3: And it's an award to be one because there wasn't

1466
01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:22,840
Speaker 3: one great candidate once Wenby went down with his deep

1467
01:11:22,920 --> 01:11:26,600
Speaker 3: vame Thrombosa's got two game twos tonight, Tassi Oh and

1468
01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:30,040
Speaker 3: New York play at seven thirty. Clippers and Denver play

1469
01:11:30,080 --> 01:11:33,439
Speaker 3: at ten o'clock PM Eastern time. Those are both on

1470
01:11:33,560 --> 01:11:37,840
Speaker 3: TNT slash Max. Who he thinks most likely to even

1471
01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:40,559
Speaker 3: their series tonight the Clippers or the Pistons.

1472
01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:43,360
Speaker 2: It's a great question. I'm gonna have to skip over

1473
01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:47,200
Speaker 2: the Pistons after what they did in Game one. Fantastic

1474
01:11:47,240 --> 01:11:49,519
Speaker 2: first three quarters, but you'd think the Knicks would fight

1475
01:11:49,600 --> 01:11:52,360
Speaker 2: back and play better to start the game, So that

1476
01:11:52,439 --> 01:11:54,160
Speaker 2: doesn't bode well for them. That being said, you could

1477
01:11:54,160 --> 01:11:55,800
Speaker 2: say the same thing about the Nuggets, who are not

1478
01:11:55,880 --> 01:11:57,880
Speaker 2: great in the first quarter while the Clippers were just

1479
01:11:58,400 --> 01:12:01,880
Speaker 2: passing them to death the beginning of that game. But

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01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:03,720
Speaker 2: I think the Clippers have a better chance because I

1481
01:12:03,720 --> 01:12:06,720
Speaker 2: think they are the better team overall if they want

1482
01:12:06,760 --> 01:12:09,080
Speaker 2: to execute, if they don't want to turn it over

1483
01:12:09,120 --> 01:12:12,240
Speaker 2: as much. Kawhi Leonard can't turn it over seven times again,

1484
01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:15,679
Speaker 2: so those twenty turnovers are what Tyler is talking about.

1485
01:12:15,800 --> 01:12:17,960
Speaker 2: They just can't do that. And I just don't think

1486
01:12:17,960 --> 01:12:20,720
Speaker 2: the Nickets are an incredible defensive team. The scrappiness was there,

1487
01:12:20,720 --> 01:12:23,439
Speaker 2: but I'm taking the Clippers, what about you.

1488
01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:27,240
Speaker 3: I think the Clippers definitely have a better chance of

1489
01:12:27,439 --> 01:12:30,559
Speaker 3: narrowing things to or tying things up one to one here,

1490
01:12:30,640 --> 01:12:35,759
Speaker 3: but they've got to get better performances from Kawhi Leonard especially.

1491
01:12:35,760 --> 01:12:37,200
Speaker 3: I thought he was great in the first half. I

1492
01:12:37,200 --> 01:12:40,320
Speaker 3: thought Harden was great throughout, but Kawhi is the guy

1493
01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:42,000
Speaker 3: you kind of expect to carry you over the line

1494
01:12:42,240 --> 01:12:44,280
Speaker 3: at the end there. And as for the Pistons, I

1495
01:12:44,280 --> 01:12:46,200
Speaker 3: think they'll get their first win when they get back home.

1496
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:48,160
Speaker 3: But I think they'll win when they get back home.

1497
01:12:48,200 --> 01:12:50,679
Speaker 3: I just think it's a big ask and we'll see

1498
01:12:50,760 --> 01:12:53,639
Speaker 3: what happens tonight. Skeets just past the ten k mark.

1499
01:12:54,040 --> 01:12:57,960
Speaker 3: He is doing seven minute, fifteen second miles, so still

1500
01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:04,200
Speaker 3: cooking a mile per hour pace. Cool cool for him.

1501
01:13:04,240 --> 01:13:07,080
Speaker 3: Eight miles per hour pace twenty six point two miles

1502
01:13:07,160 --> 01:13:10,000
Speaker 3: sounds like a three hour marathon to me. Excellent stuff.

1503
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:12,840
Speaker 3: Two guys who will be watching the game tonight, the

1504
01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:19,720
Speaker 3: Clipper bros. Yeah you heard it here first, have a

1505
01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:23,040
Speaker 3: great time, turn up, Love you guys. Awesome, that's only

1506
01:13:23,080 --> 01:13:25,760
Speaker 3: one guy there, you know that was the confusing part.

1507
01:13:25,800 --> 01:13:27,960
Speaker 3: I said, two guys. There's just one Clipper bro who

1508
01:13:27,960 --> 01:13:31,639
Speaker 3: makes the cut, right, Yeah, the other charismatic gentleman didn't

1509
01:13:31,680 --> 01:13:31,960
Speaker 3: make it.

1510
01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:35,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, gentlemen, thank you, Thank you for using the word

1511
01:13:35,720 --> 01:13:38,880
Speaker 2: gentleman yet, as I said about for guys here, yeah,

1512
01:13:38,960 --> 01:13:42,960
Speaker 2: totally proper. I wasn't ready for a quote. Thanks for

1513
01:13:43,040 --> 01:13:46,840
Speaker 2: joining us. And remember I was thinking of a quote.

1514
01:13:47,479 --> 01:13:51,560
Speaker 2: Here it is I do. Oh you know why I

1515
01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:56,519
Speaker 2: knew it was heartbreak Hill JD being a fellow lifetime

1516
01:13:56,520 --> 01:14:00,400
Speaker 2: fitness Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, lady docs me thanks. Yeah.

1517
01:14:01,200 --> 01:14:05,240
Speaker 2: I also just dxed. I also just ducks myself that's true. Yeah, Hey,

1518
01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:07,000
Speaker 2: we go to a lifetime Okay, I took a chance

1519
01:14:07,320 --> 01:14:10,200
Speaker 2: left taking it. I'm taking Well, we also jog, and

1520
01:14:10,200 --> 01:14:13,120
Speaker 2: that's why. That's why the trainers are like, you're on heartbreak. Hell,

1521
01:14:13,840 --> 01:14:17,599
Speaker 2: it's a four percent incline. The heartbreak hell is way worse.

1522
01:14:17,600 --> 01:14:18,160
Speaker 3: Can you do it?

1523
01:14:18,680 --> 01:14:21,800
Speaker 2: Thanks for the motivation. Yeah, I appreciate it. That's all.

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01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:23,120
Speaker 3: Embrace the hills people,