Speaker 1: Well, well, well, the nil suddenly look mortal and Anthony
Speaker 1: Edwards appears to be immortal, and we've got a ton
Speaker 1: of great playoff basketball to discuss with our very own
Speaker 1: super producer podcaster Churtless Jerry Davis.
Speaker 2: On today's episode, I'm Miles Gray and I'm Jack O'Brien
Speaker 2: and this is magic three.
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Speaker 3: Who's gonna try another three? Mister? Look on James to
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Speaker 3: What you got?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: First episode? Free? Yeah I am free Mile.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, freedom for you,
Speaker 1: Yes you are, Yes, And welcome Tobari, Welcome to the
Speaker 1: couchment this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, what do you want to watch today?
Speaker 4: Should we?
Speaker 1: Let's let's turn on the I guess well, as we
Speaker 1: record this, Oklahoma City and the MAVs are having their
Speaker 1: first game series. I mean, yeah, they were two and
Speaker 1: two against each other during the regular season and split
Speaker 1: games on each court, so, you know, seemingly very even.
Speaker 1: But I'm wondering. I know we were talking a little
Speaker 1: bit before what we think of this matchup. Jack, You're
Speaker 1: definitely incentivized.
Speaker 3: To I'm incentivized for the Oklahoma City Thunder. Yes, he's incentivized.
Speaker 3: That's all you need, folks.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm just as Just watching the MAVs
Speaker 1: close out their series of the Clippers, I was.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, they might they might have something there too.
Speaker 3: The MAVs are the hot pick, They're the sexy pick
Speaker 3: among pickers. They are they the favorite? They're not the favorite,
Speaker 3: I don't think, but I think it's very close.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it feels like. Jabari, how are you
Speaker 1: looking at the series? You are you leaning one way?
Speaker 1: I mean I think earlier I was saying, I I
Speaker 1: think I like the Mavericks.
Speaker 3: But let me tell you why.
Speaker 1: First, I believe that because of what is happening in
Speaker 1: hip hop, Canadian players are wobbling right now.
Speaker 3: So Lou Dort, I mean, yeah.
Speaker 1: That matchup with Luca could look cool, But I believe
Speaker 1: you're born in Montreal. Shake Gills is Alexander, I believe
Speaker 1: you're also Canadian.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't like their spirit. I mean, look what happened
Speaker 1: to Jamal. You know Jamal Murray has also we'll get
Speaker 1: to that series in a second. But that is my
Speaker 1: hair brained theory that has no science behind it. It's
Speaker 1: pure conjecture and it's responsible.
Speaker 3: It just feels so scientific.
Speaker 1: Science's advanced science. It's called West Coast science, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. This is where where aggrieved West Coasters
Speaker 1: can find someone to take out their collective frustration on.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know. I mean I think I
Speaker 3: think it could be really close. I just personally my
Speaker 3: my fa the Mavericks because of the second Like, I'm
Speaker 3: just glad that the Nuggets Wolves series didn't like start
Speaker 3: the day that we were about to record something, so
Speaker 3: I wasn't like on there, you know, making any predictions
Speaker 3: because like that, I think we're learning it's so matchup based, right,
Speaker 3: like what happens, And I mean, I just the thing
Speaker 3: I'm saying about the Nuggets and Wolves is obviously I
Speaker 3: would have picked that the Wolves would win the first
Speaker 3: two the second game by twenty to thirty points on
Speaker 3: the road, because I just wouldn't want people It just
Speaker 3: sounds like a lot of pressure because then everybody would
Speaker 3: assume that like I'm the Nostradamis of the.
Speaker 1: NBA exactly, And after the shellacking the Lakers got, I
Speaker 1: would have projected that Jamal Murray would be a minus
Speaker 1: thirty eight in the series.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would have predicted that.
Speaker 4: I would have because but to Jack's point, you're one
Speaker 4: hundred percent right.
Speaker 5: It's all matchup based, like we can look at, we
Speaker 5: can look get and and truthfully, we can pretty much
Speaker 5: throw out what took place in a regular season because
Speaker 5: you're not catching teams on the you know, back end
Speaker 5: of a you know, three games out of four days
Speaker 5: and things of that nature.
Speaker 4: You know, everybody's going to be ready.
Speaker 5: When I look at the Mavericks and okay, see my heart,
Speaker 5: uh you know, actually I'll start with my head. My
Speaker 5: head tells me the Mavericks is going to take this
Speaker 5: because I you know, like when I think of two
Speaker 5: teams are somewhat evenly matched, I look for who's the
Speaker 5: best player in the series, and I've got that as
Speaker 5: and I've got that as Luca. No disrespect to Shay,
Speaker 5: you know, he had an MVP type you know season
Speaker 5: this year, but I would still give that advantage to Luca.
Speaker 4: So really what it boils down to is, you know,
Speaker 4: who are the other guys that.
Speaker 5: Are going to make the difference. I mean, you pretty
Speaker 5: much know you expect, you know what to expect out
Speaker 5: of Kyrie and Shaye. But I'm looking at guys like
Speaker 5: Jalen Williams and PJ. Washington as X factors in this matchup,
Speaker 5: like truly, and I know that's not you know, groundbreaking analysis,
Speaker 5: but you know, this feels like the matchup that someone
Speaker 5: like that is going to swing it.
Speaker 3: I like Jalen Williams in that matchup between those two.
Speaker 3: I don't know, man, Loud Lou dort Lou, don't I
Speaker 3: like him. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good about the Okay. See,
Speaker 3: I think you know, I think it's I don't think
Speaker 3: it's very clear.
Speaker 1: I think at this point, I'm just gonna rely on
Speaker 1: my West Coast biases to take me away to a
Speaker 1: place called uh inaccuracy and pure emotion.
Speaker 3: We'll see, we'll see how its. So you're riding with
Speaker 3: Mavericks over okay. See because of the Kendrick Drake beef. Yes, yes, oh,
Speaker 3: purely be purely based off of that.
Speaker 1: I'm taking energy from a completely unrelated industry and field
Speaker 1: and transposing it onto the NBA and saying this is
Speaker 1: what the universe.
Speaker 3: This is how the universe is bending currently. It feels
Speaker 3: like these are both two teams that their main their
Speaker 3: achilles heel is they don't have enough size, but the
Speaker 3: fact that they're going against each other gives them one
Speaker 3: more round where they can, you know, look like normal
Speaker 3: NBA teams. And then who knows, but the Wolves and
Speaker 3: the Nuggets are seen. Those guys. Those guys are big big,
Speaker 3: Those guys big, real big. Yeah. Oh well, so growing
Speaker 3: big up there in Minnesota. Oh yeah, they do, they do.
Speaker 3: Do they even have one player that's a local? I'm
Speaker 3: not even sure. Oh yeah, definitely every NBA team. I
Speaker 3: assume all their players are local.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Oh, I mean that people always do lists
Speaker 1: like that, were like who wins team l A, team
Speaker 1: like Bay Area.
Speaker 3: L A would dominate. I mean, it's crazy. We were
Speaker 3: just looking because I was trying to, you know, in
Speaker 3: preparation for the eulogy for my sexers. I was looking
Speaker 3: at Melton and I was like, oh, he also from
Speaker 3: l A, from the great Los Angeles. Shut up. This
Speaker 3: series could go any direction. I'm totally not I don't
Speaker 3: feel confident in any of my picks other than that
Speaker 3: it would be cool if ok see one.
Speaker 1: Okay, so then you're saying and so moving on because
Speaker 1: I think whoever goes on to face the winner of
Speaker 1: this next series, it's going to be very difficult.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he seems feel like beyond the Celtics, they
Speaker 3: would be the favorite to win the title. Whoever wins
Speaker 3: this next series. NuGet Timberwolves, Timberwolves. Yeah. So game one
Speaker 3: and man, it was like, wow, this is going to
Speaker 3: be a war.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, complete total dominant. What do you put it, like
Speaker 1: forty three points? Yeah, it was obscene. It was obscene
Speaker 1: to watch. And you know, Jabari we were talking a
Speaker 1: little bit before. I was like, I'm not that it's
Speaker 1: any kind of flash in the pan moment. I'm like,
Speaker 1: is he just on a hot streak or is this
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards proclaiming to the world that he is in
Speaker 1: fact here and he is ready to just be that
Speaker 1: guy again.
Speaker 4: You're right, we were talking about it. I think he's
Speaker 4: absolutely here. You know. Now he'll go out in game
Speaker 4: three and of course have a you.
Speaker 5: Know, have a bad game, and people will listen and
Speaker 5: say like, oh, well, those guys on mad Lucius didn't
Speaker 5: know what the hell they were talking about.
Speaker 3: But they don't. Nobody cares. Nobody cares about the show.
Speaker 3: We're pretty clear about the fact that we're he did,
Speaker 3: so you don't have to worry. You're you're in with
Speaker 3: the dumb dumbs Jabbari. Nobody don't bet your money on
Speaker 3: our picks except for check except for yeah, except for
Speaker 3: my off season picks based on seeing a single highlight
Speaker 3: of chet. Yeah, I don't want to play money.
Speaker 4: I do think that Minnesota has figured out this. You
Speaker 4: know this mix. I mean even in Game two they
Speaker 4: didn't even have go Beer in the mix.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: I know that he was criticized for missing a game again,
Speaker 5: people will say whatever, but you know what, family first,
Speaker 5: and I get it. Plus, hey, look their defense got
Speaker 5: even better without them.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, Gilbert is like that kid's going to
Speaker 3: be there when you get done. Hey, look, I've had
Speaker 3: two children being there for the childbirth is over ray.
Speaker 3: Hey man, I think that's cool that he was able
Speaker 3: to do that.
Speaker 1: I missed the birth of my son to go get
Speaker 1: a basketball autocraft by skip skip to Malu at foot
Speaker 1: Action UH in downtown LA.
Speaker 3: And it was it was worth it. Yeah, it was
Speaker 3: worth it. It was a headache. Was there too.
Speaker 1: AO all the A one people, I was like, I
Speaker 1: told I told my partner, I was like, I gotta
Speaker 1: get down there.
Speaker 3: But one was like, a wow, the Wolves are here.
Speaker 3: They're like serious, They're going to be able to make
Speaker 3: this a series with a team that I think a
Speaker 3: lot of people were probably expecting. Not me, obviously, I
Speaker 3: knew that they were gonna win both the first two games,
Speaker 3: but a lot of people were expecting Nuggets five, like
Speaker 3: five games. Nuggets in five, maybe Nuggets in six would
Speaker 3: have been generous. Game one were like, wow, ant is here.
Speaker 3: The Wolves are serious. After that game, I don't know
Speaker 3: anybody who was prepared for Game two, just being pure Dominash. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and they're just absolutely I don't know. I did not,
Speaker 3: And you could tell that the Nuggets felt it early on,
Speaker 3: like they just looked dejected. Coach Malone was on his mind. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he lost himself in the moment the music. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: we were saying his on off numbers weren't great. Well,
Speaker 3: you have to keep in mind, when he's off, he's
Speaker 3: still contributing by throwing heatpacks onto the court. So that's wild.
Speaker 1: What kind of what kind of reverberations do you think
Speaker 1: that's going to have, Like what's the worst sort of penalty.
Speaker 3: That he could face? I think a suspension? How many?
Speaker 3: Probably one? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he threw a talel and a heat pack.
Speaker 1: It's like the talent didn't reach its intended destination and
Speaker 1: the heat pack didn't either. But that does not seem
Speaker 1: like that ends well considering that the league is looking
Speaker 1: into that.
Speaker 3: It did make me, uh kind of realized that if
Speaker 3: I was an NBA player, I would be doing stuff
Speaker 3: like that all the time. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah of
Speaker 3: the thing where he's filled the drink to like stop, yeah,
Speaker 3: and like it. When that happened, I also was like, man,
Speaker 3: how do they not do this every time? Like because
Speaker 3: I'm such a like you know, I scream things like
Speaker 3: when I'm in my home, Like when when that shot
Speaker 3: went up from heart to like beat the sixth way,
Speaker 3: it was tie game. Heart gets an open look. He's
Speaker 3: been killing us all series. We had like friends staying
Speaker 3: with us. They're in the kitchen. I'm in the other
Speaker 3: room and I'm just like no, no, no, no, Like
Speaker 3: they like came in to check on me. Yeah, they
Speaker 3: thought you were like you caught fire or something. My
Speaker 3: kids are coming in being like, what is wrong is Max? No, No,
Speaker 3: we're fine. It's fine. It's we're fine. We're fine. It's
Speaker 3: it's it is what it was. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: again like Cat nas Reid, My goodness. Look, Kat is
Speaker 3: playing much better than I ever thought. Like Game one
Speaker 3: he was really strong like that, you know, there's the
Speaker 3: cat things that where he has like lapses here and there,
Speaker 3: but just much better offensively than I thought I would
Speaker 3: see in a playoff series. And then Game two he
Speaker 3: is even better.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what this running from Cat reminds me
Speaker 5: of honestly, twenty twenty Anthony Davis win Final. He was
Speaker 5: no longer on his own team, no longer having to
Speaker 5: carry the load, no longer having to be the guy
Speaker 5: in every way, and you just focus on playing basketball
Speaker 5: and suddenly he, you know, you be, put up his
Speaker 5: statistical best, best year of his career. I'm not necessarily
Speaker 5: saying the Cat's going to do that, but to you know,
Speaker 5: to your point, he looks like he's at peace. He
Speaker 5: looks like he's just playing at ease. And that's a
Speaker 5: dangerous that's a scary thing if you're if you're facing
Speaker 5: these Simberwolves.
Speaker 3: Former UK Wildcats with a prominent eyebrow, you know, like exactly,
Speaker 3: it's all there, It's all there. I would say, I
Speaker 3: would say that this is more out of the blue.
Speaker 3: Anthony Davis was always thought to be, like have the
Speaker 3: potential to be one of the better players in the league,
Speaker 3: like prior prior to that run. Sure, maybe maybe I've
Speaker 3: just been an underestimating cat, but uh yeah, this has
Speaker 3: been fun and it really does seem to come back
Speaker 3: to Anthony Edwards. Uh just nobody saw this coming for him,
Speaker 3: this long after e R's run ended. I'm gonna doctor
Speaker 3: joke for as long as he is in the NBA.
Speaker 6: For our younger listeners, they're like, what are they Okay,
Speaker 6: he's got like Michael Jordan in two years and I'm
Speaker 6: still gonna be making Anthony Edwards from E R T
Speaker 6: from R. They Yeah, it's a I'm he's like he's
Speaker 6: doing he's doing the MJS shrug, he's flexing on the crowd.
Speaker 1: He's just got, he's got. I'm absolutely uh invested in
Speaker 1: in him right now. Like I just and by that
Speaker 1: as a Laker fan, I mean like, come home, Anthony,
Speaker 1: come home.
Speaker 3: He's not He's not from LA right you just mean
Speaker 3: come home in terms of every great player. And the
Speaker 3: best thing I saw about him was somebody who went
Speaker 3: to high school with him was like, you never saw
Speaker 3: him walking through the hallway without a different beautiful woman
Speaker 3: under each arm or I guess girls once its high school.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, that's Christmas. He's got he's got the
Speaker 3: riz as we don't really as we say as old
Speaker 3: people who try to sound like young people, say this.
Speaker 5: Somewhat to that point, I feel like we spent the
Speaker 5: year asking, you know, openly, like, okay, we got to
Speaker 5: kind of having a change in of the guard. Who's
Speaker 5: going to be the face of the league. We you know,
Speaker 5: we threw a bunch of names out there, and Anthony
Speaker 5: Edwards just told you all.
Speaker 4: No, it's me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Just also that the defense and gin I just as
Speaker 1: someone who watched that Lakers series, I'm like, wow, So
Speaker 1: that's what it looks like when players buy into what
Speaker 1: the coach is saying, yeah and like really executing to
Speaker 1: the letter of the law. That then I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm taking notes. Uh, they have a coach that
Speaker 1: is yeah they are Yeah, And again, like to your
Speaker 1: point about the twenty twenty Lakers. They're defending Jokic like
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty Lakers too, which somehow the Lakers of
Speaker 1: now couldn't remember that. That's well, I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: Darbnham couldn't remember. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah. We just we're lacking. We're lacking the depth, we're
Speaker 3: lacking the size. It's all the scheme is. With the Lakers,
Speaker 3: it was Dwight javail on Jokic with a d helping,
Speaker 3: And with the Wolves it's Cat and nas on ball
Speaker 3: with Golbert helping.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and even when even when Gobert was out, it's
Speaker 1: like they still this is my thing, do you I
Speaker 1: part of me to just center the Lakers again asparta.
Speaker 3: Yeah, was like how do we make this about the Lakers?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, And I will tell you why.
Speaker 1: I believe that they had to, Like by beating the Lakers,
Speaker 1: it psychologically set them up to say, because we were
Speaker 1: the last stop for them to go to the finals
Speaker 1: last year, and I think they were like, we've overcome
Speaker 1: this team, and I we're probably in a good place.
Speaker 1: I don't because some people are like, oh, they're just washed.
Speaker 1: It's like the NFL or you know, you like the
Speaker 1: one team next one years. You doesn't have it together
Speaker 1: the next season.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: It just seems there's like a level of frustration that
Speaker 1: you're seeing from the Nuggets that feels.
Speaker 3: Like a bit I don't know, like they were really
Speaker 3: expecting things. You're expecting it to go the other way.
Speaker 3: It also just seems like Murray is a step slow.
Speaker 3: He's very frustrated, and we really see a massive difference
Speaker 3: in this team, like anding Yokichen and everything when he's
Speaker 3: not like it. Just that is the thing that unlocked everything,
Speaker 3: which I guess we knew that about the NBA, Like
Speaker 3: having somebody who is a knockdown shooter who can get
Speaker 3: his own shot and knockdown ridiculous shots is a shot
Speaker 3: making is the name of the game? Is the thing
Speaker 3: that I say, because I'm really smart, I disagree.
Speaker 1: I think it all boils down to how many Canadians
Speaker 1: you have on your team. That's right, and that's my
Speaker 1: own analysis, and that's called West West.
Speaker 3: Y'all all right, should we go to a break and
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Speaker 3: podcasting in Memoriam Dearly.
Speaker 1: And we're back, and it's time to send a few
Speaker 1: more teams to the big court in the sky.
Speaker 3: Yeah, made Park.
Speaker 1: I think now, although each team fought valiantly, we're going
Speaker 1: to need the Clippers to step right up first the
Speaker 1: low Clipper Nation. So I mean it feels like the
Speaker 1: Clippers remain on an endless time loop that consists of
Speaker 1: off season positivity, optimism, media and fans alike a great
Speaker 1: run in December or January, only to wind.
Speaker 3: Up in the same position each postseason.
Speaker 1: Put Simply building around several players that have routinely been
Speaker 1: injured at the end of the year might not be
Speaker 1: the best of options.
Speaker 3: Any notes on that eulogy, get that? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: I wouldn't know anything about building a team around several
Speaker 3: players that have routinely been injured at the end of
Speaker 3: the year. So yeah, I just I can't do anything
Speaker 3: but sit here and feel sorry for Clippers fans. Yeah
Speaker 3: that must stink. Yeah. No, I did not appreciate the
Speaker 3: way Kawhi just decided to spite me and not play
Speaker 3: well in the playoffs. After I you heard what you said,
Speaker 3: you heard My big pre playoffs note was watch out
Speaker 3: for the Kauhi guy. Yeah, last year, you know he
Speaker 3: was a little bit hurt. He's best player in the
Speaker 3: league for two games. It's uh, I don't know. I
Speaker 3: wanted to see them do well. I was pulling for
Speaker 3: the Clippers and they once again, you know, it's just
Speaker 3: a it's not they didn't match up well. But uh,
Speaker 3: I don't I don't think they were beating many people.
Speaker 3: They It seems like not a hopeful situation for this too,
Speaker 3: thought Jack.
Speaker 5: I think what you're the words you're looking for is clips,
Speaker 5: going clip and see you guys next year for the
Speaker 5: same exact thing.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those weren't what I was trying to say, but
Speaker 3: go ahead, Well it felt like it. It felt like
Speaker 3: that's where I was going.
Speaker 1: Lakers fans, That's what That was a lot.
Speaker 3: That was a lot, uh Jack? Would you like to
Speaker 3: step up to the lectern? Not really, but okay. The
Speaker 3: Philadelphia seventy six ers, speaking of teams built around players
Speaker 3: who are routinely injured, at the end of the year,
Speaker 3: we have reached the time of the year where I
Speaker 3: can officially take a deep breath and contemplate whether I
Speaker 3: want to take this ride ever again with these Sixers.
Speaker 1: You do.
Speaker 3: We found we found our other star in Tyrese Maxey.
Speaker 3: But maybe it's time to tear it all down around
Speaker 3: MBT M Maxi and rework the supporting cast yet again,
Speaker 3: I've seen the list of people who are going to
Speaker 3: be available. I don't know if that makes sense. Maybe
Speaker 3: it's time to tear it all down around Maxi only
Speaker 3: oh oh, send the big fella wherever he'd like to go.
Speaker 3: So it's I wish I could say it was a
Speaker 3: fun ride, but yeah, it was more of the same
Speaker 3: and a little bit good pointing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, rest peach Jabari any other comments for these Philadelphians.
Speaker 5: I can't, I can't like pour this on no man,
Speaker 5: I feels mans I do not even just yet.
Speaker 4: I got Buddy on I got Buddy on Twitter. It's
Speaker 4: saying the same thing.
Speaker 5: He every year tells me this is their year, and
Speaker 5: every year I have to tell them it's not going
Speaker 5: to be.
Speaker 4: But I'll see you at the end.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, but see this time Embiid was hurt. If
Speaker 3: he was not hurt this time, then we would have
Speaker 3: been we would have won the championship exactly. Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, Like I think it might be
Speaker 3: time to experiment with radical things like maybe he doesn't
Speaker 3: play for the first half of the season or the
Speaker 3: first half of games. I don't know. This schedule does
Speaker 3: not work, it turns out. But he's he's great. I
Speaker 3: appreciate the opportunity to get to root for him. It's
Speaker 3: just the playoff frustration feels like it's not going any
Speaker 3: anywhere for a while.
Speaker 1: Absolutely well. That brings us to the Orlando Magic. And
Speaker 1: we wanted to give Orlando's offense the benefit of the
Speaker 1: doubt after their shooters caught fire following Game two. But
Speaker 1: just when they needed to seal the deal, their trio
Speaker 1: of Paolo France and Suggs combined to go just thirteen
Speaker 1: of sixty four in an elimination game in which they
Speaker 1: had an eighteen point lead at one point.
Speaker 3: Tragic stuff.
Speaker 1: And now come to Klay Thompson or Bradley Beal, rumors
Speaker 1: that are likely to be a large part of this
Speaker 1: summer's discussion.
Speaker 3: And I may already be exhausted by them. But thank you,
Speaker 3: or you gave us something, You gave us something that
Speaker 3: was It was a good It was a good run.
Speaker 4: It was a good run.
Speaker 3: I gotta say. By the way he mentions like Paolo
Speaker 3: Franz Suggs combination is like like ninety percent of those
Speaker 3: makes were Paolo, Like the front Suggs combination was yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: well that was really dire when you get down to
Speaker 3: that met I enjoyed watching the magic. They are like
Speaker 3: a you know, they're just a very unique team. It
Speaker 3: was almost like watching a different sport when they're out there,
Speaker 3: because their offense is yeah, their offenses as we've described,
Speaker 3: their defense is a weapon, like their defense is their offense.
Speaker 3: There they get turnovers in ways that I've not seen
Speaker 3: NBA teams get turnovers, just like ripping you right when
Speaker 3: you come across the court. Apparently Sugs is even better
Speaker 3: than this usually and was like a little bit hampered
Speaker 3: by injuries. They were fun. It was like I love
Speaker 3: having a team that has a super specific identity in
Speaker 3: the playoffs like along the Way. And I actually would
Speaker 3: have liked to see them go against the Celtics because
Speaker 3: I think they would have made the Celtics somewhat uncomfortable
Speaker 3: and made it at least, like, I don't know, painful
Speaker 3: for the Celtics to roll on for the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 5: I don't want this to sound disrespectful, you know, because
Speaker 5: I'm not in any way saying they're like a high
Speaker 5: school level team. But to you know, to the point
Speaker 5: you just made about their defense, it seems as though,
Speaker 5: you know, you remember, like a great high school defense,
Speaker 5: how we can impact the game.
Speaker 4: It felt more like that. Yeah, honestly, if you give
Speaker 4: them just a couple.
Speaker 5: More competent offensive players, I think the match are going
Speaker 5: to be right in the mix next year. Maybe not
Speaker 5: you know, title contenders, but you know, still be top
Speaker 5: of the Eastern Conference and pushing teams.
Speaker 3: But Clay and Bradley Beal are not it. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know who we're looking at here. That's the
Speaker 3: I gotta I gotta take another look at these free
Speaker 3: agents and off season tradeables and you know, signables, because
Speaker 3: that wouldn't do it, I don't think, and.
Speaker 1: I don't mean to be disrespectful, but I have to go,
Speaker 1: and I hate to do that in the most professional
Speaker 1: way in the middle of the podcast recording, but thank you,
Speaker 1: this is not a bit I do have to run
Speaker 1: because I have a family gathering that I got to
Speaker 1: get to. But I will be back next to and
Speaker 1: I you're you're in good hands with Jack and Jabbari.
Speaker 3: The stuff we're gonna say about you after you're gone.
Speaker 3: Believe stuff? Is he for real? His camera is still on.
Speaker 3: He's just back there, Taco Bell. He's trying to do that.
Speaker 3: Baby is going to be there tomorrow. Miles family.
Speaker 1: I turned out, I go, but my camera's on. I'm
Speaker 1: just rehearsing a TikTok dance. I'm trying to get down
Speaker 1: really good.
Speaker 3: All right, y'all, let's see, all right, my Miles Jabari.
Speaker 3: Time has come to talk about the Bucks. Milwaukee a
Speaker 3: technical hometown.
Speaker 4: Even though I grew up in Los Angeles, I was
Speaker 4: born in Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: There you go. So do you want to take this one?
Speaker 4: Sure? The Bucks?
Speaker 5: What more can I say? Wouldn't wish the job on anybody?
Speaker 5: I mean except Doc Rivers.
Speaker 4: He's the one guy would wish his job on.
Speaker 3: Well, he's a hero, he is. I mean, it was brave.
Speaker 3: It was brave when he came through and took that
Speaker 3: job over.
Speaker 4: Are they still giving out like purple? No?
Speaker 3: No, I don't think the military can technically give it
Speaker 3: to him, but it's definitely I'm just gonna say it
Speaker 3: was under discussion in the Pentagon.
Speaker 4: I can see why. I mean, you know, Milwaukee they
Speaker 4: still have.
Speaker 5: They still got Yannis and Dame under contract, But no
Speaker 5: word on the whether the travel party or the team
Speaker 5: managers or any of the you know, just just driver, yeah,
Speaker 5: bus driver, anybody else, anyone can get it. When it
Speaker 5: comes to Doc Rivers, no word on whether they're you know,
Speaker 5: what their future holds. And you know, it's interesting because
Speaker 5: you know, before the show you talked about you asked
Speaker 5: whether Doc was coming back, And the more I think
Speaker 5: about it, it's like, well, what the hell else is
Speaker 5: he gonna do?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he'll be back and we'll be right here again
Speaker 4: next year, and.
Speaker 3: We'll be right here feeling sorry for him again. I mean,
Speaker 3: having to coach yannas Jannis, like it's not even how
Speaker 3: you pronounced g yeah, yeah, yeah, what. Yeah, It'll be
Speaker 3: interesting to see what happens to them, Johanna's Dame, and
Speaker 3: then who knows after that. But yeah, I mean, Darryl
Speaker 3: Morey was like, it's going to be a teardown around
Speaker 3: MBT M MAXI basically at his postseason press conference, and
Speaker 3: Doc has said the same thing about the support staff
Speaker 3: and the bus drivers and everything else.
Speaker 5: And that's why I'm going to buy yourself more time. Yeah,
Speaker 5: walk and tear it down. You're automatically given another year
Speaker 5: or two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Eastern Conference Celtics, Calves. I don't have
Speaker 3: a ton of hope that this one's going to be
Speaker 3: super competitive. Any glimmers of hope here.
Speaker 5: Jabari, Honestly no, like I would like to lie to
Speaker 5: you and say that, yeah, I could see the Calves,
Speaker 5: you know, pulling this off. And while I'm not going
Speaker 5: to say they're going to get swept or anything like that,
Speaker 5: because you know they they are. You know, when they
Speaker 5: get it going, they can be effective. I just can't
Speaker 5: see them winning, you know, four out of seven against
Speaker 5: his team, not you know, high level analysis.
Speaker 4: One team's just better than the other.
Speaker 5: And even with porzingis probably or likely out for this round,
Speaker 5: I still.
Speaker 4: Look at what Boston has and I just don't see
Speaker 4: you away from Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I think everybody's kind of counting the Celtics,
Speaker 3: like just putting the Celtics in the finals, and the
Speaker 3: other series Knicks Pacers, I don't know, Like again, I
Speaker 3: don't foresee either of these teams able to defeat the Celtics.
Speaker 3: The Knicks are tough, at least of the remaining teams
Speaker 3: in the Eastern Conference. I feel like the Knicks probably
Speaker 3: have the best chance.
Speaker 5: What do you think, I think that's gonna be the
Speaker 5: best series, like of the Eastern Conference as Celtics and Knicks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we will eagerly await that, assuming that the
Speaker 3: Knicks are able to win three more. They did win
Speaker 3: Game one. Jalen Brunson fourth straight forty point performance by
Speaker 3: a six foot guard Ishah yeah, six foot ish guard
Speaker 3: is unbelievable. Like his ability to the ball in is
Speaker 3: truly I mean he's the man and then yeah, the
Speaker 3: villanova like Josh Hart Evencenzo thing. It's really wild because
Speaker 3: like I remember watching them in school and being like, man,
Speaker 3: these guys are good. Like I feel like Brunson was
Speaker 3: one of those. I remember having this with Embiid two
Speaker 3: where like Brunson looked awesome in college, but like he
Speaker 3: didn't necessarily look like a pro, you know, because he's
Speaker 3: a little bit smaller and it's not like blinding speed
Speaker 3: or anything like that. And I remember having that with
Speaker 3: embiid where like watching the Wigans game where it was
Speaker 3: like Wiggans versus Jabbari, like that that game is like
Speaker 3: these are the guys who are gonna be the best
Speaker 3: and like watching him being like embiid is gonna be incredible, right,
Speaker 3: and everyone's like yeah, I mean maybe, but yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't know it. It's like the thing that you always imagine,
Speaker 3: like a good college team. It's like all these guys
Speaker 3: are gonna stay together in the pros. They're gonna be
Speaker 3: best friend. But it's like somehow working for them. It's
Speaker 3: a fun story.
Speaker 5: Team chemistry is a real thing, and when you have
Speaker 5: effective guys that are you know, also friends, yeah we are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was never going to work out for me
Speaker 3: and my buddies, but we thought it would. All right,
Speaker 3: should we go to one more break and then come
Speaker 3: back and do the rapid fire. There's one question on here.
Speaker 3: I really like, all right, we'll be right back, and
Speaker 3: we're back, and oh, super producer Jabbari, you have entered
Speaker 3: the rapid fire round of questioning and we're just gonna
Speaker 3: do one question because we we've answered all these other questions.
Speaker 3: We had a guest bail last second, so just a
Speaker 3: little peak behind the curtain. So that's what's what's going
Speaker 3: on here. We're not going to say names, but we
Speaker 3: are going to do a single rapid fire round of
Speaker 3: questioning question that I liked so much. It comes from
Speaker 3: our discord from Charlie Xavier on the discord or Charlie Javieer,
Speaker 3: depending on how accurately you want me to pronounce it.
Speaker 3: But the question is, so, the Tom Brady roast just
Speaker 3: happened as we're recording. This a big success for a
Speaker 3: lot of people, and Charlie's wondering Lebron is the obvious choice.
Speaker 3: Shack is a roast regular, but with the release of
Speaker 3: the Tom Brady Roast, I'm wondering if we're going to
Speaker 3: see more live athlete roasts on Netflix and what NBA
Speaker 3: stars they would want to target. Just tossing this out
Speaker 3: because it might make a good lightening round question someday.
Speaker 3: What player would you want to see a roast of?
Speaker 3: Charlie today? Is that day? It's a good lightning round
Speaker 3: question right now, Well done, very good question. So Lebron
Speaker 3: is the obvious choice and feels like the one that
Speaker 3: we would be most likely to get. Lebron or staph Yes,
Speaker 3: and those would both be bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you know nobody wants to say anything about
Speaker 4: like an old timer.
Speaker 3: You know you're roasting a brand.
Speaker 5: Yeah, unless it's Shack, because folks for whatever, well for
Speaker 5: a lot of different reasons, feel like, yeah, I can
Speaker 5: give him the business. Yeah, but you know, all a
Speaker 5: guy like that, it's like, yeah, what are you gonna say? Hey,
Speaker 5: family guy? Hey, you know you look like you have
Speaker 5: a healthy family.
Speaker 4: Cool. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it just feels like it wouldn't be that fun.
Speaker 3: But then again, Tom Brady didn't seem like it would
Speaker 3: have been that fun, and they just I think they
Speaker 3: like gave three subjects that were off limits and then
Speaker 3: just went to town just body shots on everything else.
Speaker 3: So maybe it would be fun no matter who we pick.
Speaker 3: Charles Barkley, I feel like, would also be sort of
Speaker 3: an obvious pick in the same vein as Shack, being
Speaker 3: kind of a roast regular. Who are you thinking I'm.
Speaker 5: Gonna steal Miles's answer? And you know what, since he's
Speaker 5: not here, that's what you get, Miles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what you get. Miles. Nice. Try should have
Speaker 3: stuck around.
Speaker 5: I want give me Draymond and you know what, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna be careful here. But for one, I think he
Speaker 5: would be a good sport about it and.
Speaker 4: Really get into it. But then there's also the flip side.
Speaker 4: What if he's not. They give me that too. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we've seen what he can do. It's gonna be entertaining,
Speaker 4: you know either way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I would enjoy that. I think, I mean,
Speaker 3: if you could get Jordan, which you can't, but that
Speaker 3: would be interesting. We know, we saw the last Dance.
Speaker 3: We know that he takes things personally that are not
Speaker 3: remotely insulting to anyone besides him, So it would be
Speaker 3: I feel like we would watch a man walk out
Speaker 3: of a room with like a list of thirty lives
Speaker 3: to ruin. But I don't know. I think that would
Speaker 3: be a lot of fun personally.
Speaker 5: Mike would take his boot cuts off to expose some
Speaker 5: fresh sports yeah, and say, everybody line up, let's go.
Speaker 3: I would just want to see them roast his wardrobe
Speaker 3: like that would be just fun enough on its tone.
Speaker 3: All right, Jabari, we did it. We we rapid fired
Speaker 3: one question. We're at the end of the show. We
Speaker 3: are ready, So I guess we didn't do picks on
Speaker 3: the on the series. But who do you like? MAVs? Okay, See,
Speaker 3: like I.
Speaker 5: Said, my heart, shoot, my head is telling me the MAVs.
Speaker 5: But I'm gonna go with my heart here and you
Speaker 5: want to know why I am a shameless corporate shill. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and it benefits this show if OKAC continues to be successful.
Speaker 4: Yeah that's right, let me get okay, see in that series.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's pretty pretty straightforward. Do you like the Wolves?
Speaker 3: Do you think the Wolves are gonna do it?
Speaker 4: And I will admit I did not have them before
Speaker 4: the series.
Speaker 5: Now that we've seen two games, yes, you know, I've
Speaker 5: seen what they did on the road in those two games,
Speaker 5: really setting the tone.
Speaker 4: I believe the Wolves are gonna take that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, we're both aligned there, Nicks over Pacers.
Speaker 5: Nick's over Pacers. I hope it's a good series. I
Speaker 5: hope it's a better series, and I'm anticipating this for
Speaker 5: some reason. This just feel this feels like one of
Speaker 5: those four to one, maybe four two, you know, Nick series.
Speaker 5: But I would definitely take you know, a seven gamer
Speaker 5: that would be fantastic.
Speaker 4: Still got the Knicks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this is one where I might have
Speaker 3: picked the Pacers before game one, and I might still.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna pick the Pacers just to go wild, even
Speaker 3: though they're down one to oh at the stage. I
Speaker 3: just I think they have a lot of offensive firepower. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna be an easier team for the
Speaker 3: Celtics to play, but I do think that they have
Speaker 3: a pretty good shot in that series. And then I'm
Speaker 3: going Calves over Celton now Celtics.
Speaker 5: I was like, well that that is definitely one and
Speaker 5: you know what, all of you know what? We do
Speaker 5: have someone else and shout out to this guy forgot
Speaker 5: his name off Ham, but he's in our discord.
Speaker 4: He picked Calves in.
Speaker 3: Five calves and five calves and five why.
Speaker 4: You know, not at that level with him, but I
Speaker 4: appreciate his confident.
Speaker 3: I mean, a man after my own heart or a
Speaker 3: woman I don't know. All right, that is going to
Speaker 3: do it. For this episode of Miles and Jack got
Speaker 3: mad Boosties Jabari, Where can people find you? Follow you
Speaker 3: all that good stuff?
Speaker 5: I'm easy at Jabari Davis NBA. Make sure you follow
Speaker 5: Miles at Miles of Gray.
Speaker 3: Uh huh. You can follow me on Twitter at Jack
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Speaker 3: join the discord. You can submit questions for the Rapid
Speaker 3: Fire Round of Questioning. All that good stuff. That is
Speaker 3: another one in the books. Haha ah he said we
Speaker 3: couldn't do it, but that's episode one twelve where the
Speaker 3: players dwell, you know, there we go, bye bye,