Speaker 1: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright quick reaction pod
Speaker 1: to last night's NBA playoff games one. Listen, Grizzlies thunder
Speaker 1: just sim to the end. We'll get to that briefly
Speaker 1: at the end of the pod. Somewhat interesting momentarily or
Speaker 1: at least briefly interesting game between the Bucks and the Pacers,
Speaker 1: a fifteen point lead trimmed to two in the waning moments,
Speaker 1: but the Bucks not able to get over the top
Speaker 1: and what that means for Giannis. But the game of
Speaker 1: the night, which turned into the rock fight of the
Speaker 1: night Lakers ninety four Timberwolves eighty five. I don't think
Speaker 1: anyone is actually surprised by the result. Home team loses
Speaker 1: game one, they are going to come out more urgent,
Speaker 1: more focused, better in game two, and the Lakers did
Speaker 1: and blitzed him in the first quarter thirty four to fifteen,
Speaker 1: and then really just held on the rest of the way,
Speaker 1: culminating in a fourth quarter where neither team could hit shots,
Speaker 1: where the Lakers were just kind of limping to the
Speaker 1: finish line and everyone seemed a little out of gas
Speaker 1: except for the oldest guy on the court. And we
Speaker 1: can do big picture stuff shortly. And I understand that
Speaker 1: some folks will hear this and be like, you gotta
Speaker 1: be kidding me. Lebron scored twenty one. His jumper wasn't falling.
Speaker 1: He was eight of nineteen from the field, one of
Speaker 1: five from three. And you're gonna wax poetic about the
Speaker 1: game Lebron James had And the answer is yes, I am,
Speaker 1: because there was one play late in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: that to me symbolized who Lebron has been since they
Speaker 1: acquired Luca, and who he has been is whoever they
Speaker 1: need him to be. That night, I will mold my
Speaker 1: game accordingly. Three minutes left Lakers with the smallest lead
Speaker 1: that they've had since it was fifteen to eight. They
Speaker 1: are up nine. The Lakers were up at least nine
Speaker 1: points for the final forty minutes of this game, and
Speaker 1: the Timberwolves, however, in the fourth quarter, were slowly trying
Speaker 1: to make it a game, and the Lakers had a
Speaker 1: bad possession. Luca got caught up in the air through
Speaker 1: the ball to basically nowhere, and Luca was excellent. More
Speaker 1: on him in a moment, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the Timberwolves are in transition. Three minutes down nine, chance
Speaker 1: to cut it to six or seven, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, all the pressure will be on La and
Speaker 1: Lebron circles around to where Anthony Edwards is getting the
Speaker 1: ball at mid court in a semi transition situation, steals
Speaker 1: it from Anthony Edwards, burst to the basket, lay up
Speaker 1: up eleven, Game over. And what is to me so
Speaker 1: remarkable about the best player I've ever seen, if people
Speaker 1: are being honest, the best player anyone's ever seen this
Speaker 1: year has been his ability to the instant they got
Speaker 1: Luke Adancic him saying, Okay, I have to be a
Speaker 1: totally different type of player because we're a totally different
Speaker 1: type of team. After for the entirety of my Lakers tenure,
Speaker 1: which at this point is as long as he has
Speaker 1: ever stayed with one team consecutively seven years, he had
Speaker 1: to be on the ball, ball dominant, running the offense.
Speaker 1: His transition from that to a do it all, jack
Speaker 1: of all trades player who in this game said, defense
Speaker 1: is what we needed to lock in on. Defense is
Speaker 1: what we drastically needed to improve on, and in the Lakers'
Speaker 1: best defensive game of the year, at least as far
Speaker 1: as how many points their opponent scored. He was the
Speaker 1: best defender on the court, and get in where you
Speaker 1: fit in on offense, crash the boards, try to get
Speaker 1: other people involved, and lock down defensively to the tune
Speaker 1: of Anthony Edwards, and not that he was on Anthony
Speaker 1: a lot. After having nine assists in game one, zero
Speaker 1: no one other than Julius Randall getting going at all,
Speaker 1: and the Lakers winning a game they had to have
Speaker 1: where they only hit six three pointers now the Timberwolves
Speaker 1: only hit five, where neither team could hit a three
Speaker 1: because it was their best defensive game of the year,
Speaker 1: and the best defensive player for the Lakers, by Jared Vanderbilt,
Speaker 1: was excellent in his very limited defensive moments. He only
Speaker 1: played eight minutes. But the best defensive player for the
Speaker 1: Lakers was Lebron James. And you can get away with
Speaker 1: Lebron only scoring twenty, no one else scoring more than sixteen,
Speaker 1: and hell other than Austin's sixteen Rui who might have
Speaker 1: broke his nose in this game, which is something to
Speaker 1: watch because guys do not like wearing that mask. The
Speaker 1: only player who seems to not mind wearing that mask
Speaker 1: Jordan Goodwin, who's been wearing it for months. If he
Speaker 1: has to wear that mask the rest of the playoffs,
Speaker 1: that's a concern. But the reason they were able to
Speaker 1: win that game when no one had it going offensively
Speaker 1: was because they locked in on the defensive end, led
Speaker 1: by Lebron, and because they hit all their free throws. Now,
Speaker 1: I understand folks are going to bitch and moan about
Speaker 1: the officiating. I thought the officials took too big of
Speaker 1: a hand in this game. However, it was so physical
Speaker 1: and so such a slog on offense. I don't know
Speaker 1: what it would have been if they would have let
Speaker 1: them play even more for folks that care about the
Speaker 1: actual numbers, twenty four fouls on LA, twenty two on
Speaker 1: the Timberwls, twenty free throws by the Lakers, twenty five
Speaker 1: by the Timbrels. Now, the Lakers went twenty of twenty
Speaker 1: from the free throw line, which was damn important when
Speaker 1: the tar Les are trying to cut into the lead late.
Speaker 1: But I am I have just been really taken aback
Speaker 1: by Lebron having the opportunity kind of unexpectedly to prove
Speaker 1: to the world that what he has said his entire career,
Speaker 1: I'll be whatever player this team in this moment needs
Speaker 1: me to be Ego aside that that is actually exactly
Speaker 1: who he's going to be. Usage rate plummets, being on
Speaker 1: the ball plummets, and he just then can expend that
Speaker 1: energy in different places. And so I thought, I have
Speaker 1: thought for the last few years that the fact that
Speaker 1: there is more commentary about Lebron James's defensive failings than
Speaker 1: two of the other, probably not two of the other,
Speaker 1: the two other all time legends in our midst who
Speaker 1: carry a massive offensive workload for their teams. And because
Speaker 1: of that, and because of for those guys, their own
Speaker 1: physical limitations, their downright negative defenders. In Steph Curry, in
Speaker 1: Nikola Jokic, nobody gives a shit. Everybody just recognized as well.
Speaker 1: Steph's undersized, and he's expending so much energy on the
Speaker 1: offensive end, he's got to kind of hide him defensively.
Speaker 1: Joker is doing everything for the Nuggets offensively and is
Speaker 1: so limited athletically that you got to just kind of
Speaker 1: work around that. On the defensive end. Those guys nobody
Speaker 1: ever complains about their defense. Lebron, who has played twenty
Speaker 1: some thousand more minutes maybe thirty thousand now twenty thousand,
Speaker 1: probably more minutes than Steph who's damn near a decade
Speaker 1: older than Joker, who for the Lakers pre Luca carried
Speaker 1: the exact same offensive responsibility on his team as those
Speaker 1: guys did on theirs. Half the commentary seemingly around the
Speaker 1: last couple of years as well, he's not the defender
Speaker 1: he once was, and what he is showing you in
Speaker 1: real time is, yeah, that's been out of necessity. But
Speaker 1: if that role or responsibility shifts, he can still ratchet
Speaker 1: it up to not the defense he was in Miami
Speaker 1: because he's not the athlete he was in Miami, but
Speaker 1: still an excellent, impactful, disruptive, versatile defensive player, and the
Speaker 1: Lakers had to have that yesterday. I'm still waiting for
Speaker 1: the Lakers' offense to show up to this series now.
Speaker 1: The Timberwolves have done a great job of getting out
Speaker 1: on shooters, of not letting anyone other than Luca really
Speaker 1: kill them, of staying connected. They have been able to
Speaker 1: hide Mike Conley, who had a really rough game, and
Speaker 1: other than Mike Conley, anyone and everyone they put out
Speaker 1: there is somewhere from passable defensively, and Julius Randall on
Speaker 1: the scale from passable to excellent. Jaden is obviously excellent.
Speaker 1: Rudy is obviously excellent with a few, you know, glaring weaknesses,
Speaker 1: but his strengths are just massive. Nikhil Alexander Walker when
Speaker 1: he gets out there as great defensively, Anthony Edwards is
Speaker 1: one of the best two way players in the league.
Speaker 1: So this is And by the way, in the next round,
Speaker 1: you are going to be playing an excellent defensive team
Speaker 1: if you're the whoever wins this series, no matter whoever
Speaker 1: wins that series, because the Rockets and the Warriors might
Speaker 1: be the two best defensive teams in the league not
Speaker 1: named Oklahoma City. And in Round three you're probably playing
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City. And so the Lakers locked in defensively, got
Speaker 1: just enough from the offense, had a first quarter that
Speaker 1: the Timberwolves were not ready for, and then held on
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. On Luca, I give Luca
Speaker 1: an a minus for this game, and the only Luca
Speaker 1: was really strong defensively himself. Everyone on the Lakers, everyone
Speaker 1: on the Lakers should feel good about their performance yesterday, honestly,
Speaker 1: except for Jackson Hayes, who at this point you have
Speaker 1: to I think you you keep giving him a chance.
Speaker 1: But that sequence at the beginning of the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: was just as dumb as it gets a totally unnecessary
Speaker 1: illegal screen in the back court and then following that
Speaker 1: up with one of the most obvious goaltends on a
Speaker 1: shot that had no chance of going in and then
Speaker 1: seeming shocked by it. That's that's a maddening sequence. He
Speaker 1: played nine minutes, had five fouls. It was just brutal.
Speaker 1: But what I was trying to get to before I
Speaker 1: interrupted myself on Luca Luca. The reason it is only
Speaker 1: an a is because and you saw bubbling. He almost
Speaker 1: let the refs take him out of this game. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying Luca got a bad whistle. Luca got
Speaker 1: to the line eleven times, but there was a sequence
Speaker 1: when he thought he was getting hit, didn't get the call,
Speaker 1: and then, in a borderline dirty moment, Jaden McDaniels is
Speaker 1: on the ground and with his own ankles, grabs Luca's
Speaker 1: ankle and Luca tumbles, and Luca was livid, and I
Speaker 1: thought he was going to get a technical. If I'm
Speaker 1: being honest, probably deserved a technical. Maybe the ref knew
Speaker 1: he had missed it and so he didn't want to
Speaker 1: give him a technical after the ref missed what was
Speaker 1: honestly in today's NBA a flagrant foul. That's a non
Speaker 1: basketball dangerous play, and Luca you saw him starting to
Speaker 1: unravel a bit emotionally, and the Lakers I think then
Speaker 1: called time out. His teammates got him under control. But
Speaker 1: aside from that brief moment, Luca was unbelievable. Now he
Speaker 1: needs to stop trying so often to just embarrass Rudy Gobert.
Speaker 1: I think that takes the Lakers out of their offense
Speaker 1: to a degree. But thirty one, twelve and nine in
Speaker 1: a game his team scored ninety four points, and he
Speaker 1: was the engine and the catalyst and the guy that
Speaker 1: had it going in the first quarter. He had to
Speaker 1: have almost outscored Minnesota himself in the first quarter. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna actually check that real quick. That the Timberwolves had
Speaker 1: fifteen in the first quarter the Lakers in that game.
Speaker 1: In this game, I should say, let me just go.
Speaker 1: My friends at Basketball Reference are good with this quarter
Speaker 1: one Luca had. Luke had sixteen. So he didn't almost
Speaker 1: outscore the Timberwolves in the first quarter. He did outscore
Speaker 1: the Timberwolves in the first quarter. And we've now had
Speaker 1: thirteen playoff games this year. The best one anyone has
Speaker 1: played is Kawhi's Game two against the Nuggets. The second
Speaker 1: best one anyone has played, given the context of everything,
Speaker 1: was either Steph Curry's Game one against the war against
Speaker 1: the Rockets or Luca Game two against the Timberwolves. Now,
Speaker 1: Giannis might be like, what more do I have to do?
Speaker 1: And more on him in a minute, because the answer
Speaker 1: is I don't know what more he can do, man,
Speaker 1: and you feel sick for him. More on Jannis just momentarily.
Speaker 1: But the Lakers now have the opperation coortunity to take
Speaker 1: a breath. They because of how the schedule falls. They
Speaker 1: don't play tomorrow, which I think is nice. Travel today
Speaker 1: or maybe they maybe they travel tomorrow. Actually I don't
Speaker 1: know who cares when they'll travel. But they play Saturday night.
Speaker 1: Is that right? No? What day is today? Sorry? Today's Wednesday.
Speaker 1: They play Friday, So they go Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday for
Speaker 1: the Friday for this series, I'm screwing this up. I
Speaker 1: apologize it's early in the morning. Point is they get
Speaker 1: two days between between Game one and two, and two
Speaker 1: days between games two and three. Game three is Friday.
Speaker 1: They then have one day between Game three and four,
Speaker 1: and then again in two days between games four and five,
Speaker 1: and then it's every other day however much longer the
Speaker 1: series goes, so I think those will be two important
Speaker 1: days off. I think the offense needs to get rolling.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna check with our friends at what the updated
Speaker 1: series price is. This opened Lakers minus two hundred. Then
Speaker 1: it quickly shifted, obviously after the after the Game one
Speaker 1: win to the Timberwolves as slight favorites. It is now
Speaker 1: a Pickham series, so you would expect it not to
Speaker 1: have shifted a ton from where it was before Game
Speaker 1: two because the Timberwolves were the series' favorites, despite the
Speaker 1: fact the Lakers were big favorites in Game two. My
Speaker 1: if you guys remember what I said, was my favorite
Speaker 1: bet of the Lakers minus a game and a half
Speaker 1: in the series, meaning Lakers to win in four. That's
Speaker 1: off the board. Five or six was plus one twenty.
Speaker 1: It is now after last night, back to plus two
Speaker 1: fifty five. I still like I still think a Lakers
Speaker 1: in six is very on the board. They obviously need
Speaker 1: to win Friday in Minnesota and then a quick turnaround
Speaker 1: because they played Friday late night and then Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 1: We'll see how that one goes. But this was a
Speaker 1: huge win. I thought Lebron was exactly who they needed
Speaker 1: him to be. I thought Luca was exceptional. I thought Austin,
Speaker 1: after a rough first quarter, got it going. Now, Austin's
Speaker 1: gotta stop trying to throw these lobs thirteen feet in
Speaker 1: the air, as Dragonfly Jones wrote, he's trying to throw
Speaker 1: lobs to two thousand and nine Lebron. That guy's not
Speaker 1: walking through the door. And they got to figure out
Speaker 1: what gonna do with Jackson Hayes. On the Timbrewl side
Speaker 1: of things, it is even though I didn't expect him
Speaker 1: to feature Rudy Gobert offensively, it is remarkable to me
Speaker 1: how little they will give him the ball when he
Speaker 1: has a mismatch, and I think that that's good for
Speaker 1: the Lakers. Dante wasn't able to get into this game
Speaker 1: really because of foul trouble. Now, the foul trouble was
Speaker 1: hard to figure out because Reggie kept telling us guys
Speaker 1: had four fouls, and then the graphics kept telling us
Speaker 1: they had three. I didn't know who to believe, but
Speaker 1: nas Reed got in foul trouble as well. Julius Randall
Speaker 1: obviously was exceptional exceptional strong. Julius Randall was the one
Speaker 1: guy on the Timbrels that had it going. They as
Speaker 1: a team had fourteen assists. He had six of them.
Speaker 1: The rest of their starting lineup had two assists, Jayden
Speaker 1: with one, Conly with one. And their ability, which is
Speaker 1: what I begged them to do before the series, to
Speaker 1: listen ant, you're gonna get to the basket sometimes we'll
Speaker 1: deal with that. We are not going to collapse on
Speaker 1: you to all of a sudden leave other guys open.
Speaker 1: I thought they did a way way better job of that,
Speaker 1: which made Aunt have a quiet twenty five point six rebound,
Speaker 1: zero assist game. And so that's the Lakers game. Let
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Speaker 1: the other and again, I'm not gonna spend much time
Speaker 1: really at all on Timberwolves Grizzlies. Just quickly if you
Speaker 1: didn't those that game was on simultaneously with Ice Timberwolves
Speaker 1: Grizzly sorry Thunder Grizzlies of Pacers Bucks. I was watching
Speaker 1: much more of Pacers Bucks. So I don't really have
Speaker 1: great analysis for you, except for the fact that after
Speaker 1: the you know, not scoring twenty points for the first
Speaker 1: time in like seventy five games, scored twenty seven, but
Speaker 1: on twenty nine shots. He actually has had a rough
Speaker 1: couple of games start this series, and it does not
Speaker 1: matter at all because the Grizzlies have no shot and
Speaker 1: don't seem to have a ton of interest in competing
Speaker 1: in this series. So that one's done, the question is
Speaker 1: will the Grizzlies get a game? My answer to that
Speaker 1: is almost assuredly not. If you look at the Thunder
Speaker 1: this year against the Memphis Grizzlies, it is start to
Speaker 1: finish all year long utter domination game one of not
Speaker 1: this series, but this season Thunder Grizzlies, thunder by twenty four,
Speaker 1: game two, thunder by thirteen, game three, thunder by seventeen,
Speaker 1: game four, thunder by twenty one, game five, thunder by
Speaker 1: fifty one, game six, thunder by nineteen. The Thunder against
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies this year have scored one thirty one, twenty
Speaker 1: five one, twenty one, twenty five, one, thirty one one eighteen.
Speaker 1: So the Grizzlies drawing dead in the series. And then
Speaker 1: we get to Pacers Bucks, where, if I'm a Bucks fan,
Speaker 1: I'm really worried. And it's not that I'm worried that
Speaker 1: I'm going to lose this series. I'm worried about something
Speaker 1: far more important. And so Dame came back. I was
Speaker 1: saying on the TV show all week once we heard
Speaker 1: Day might come back, imploring people that We need to
Speaker 1: not act like when a guy has missed a month,
Speaker 1: he's going to come back and look like himself. I know,
Speaker 1: Dame hit, you know, a couple big shots late, but
Speaker 1: he's four of thirteen, he's two of eight from three,
Speaker 1: He's fourteen points, seven assists. He was fine, but it's
Speaker 1: gonna take him time that they don't have to get
Speaker 1: back rolling. Kyle Kuzma after the twenty trillion game showed
Speaker 1: up and Port has played a really good game. Port
Speaker 1: has had almost thirty off the bench. Not a really
Speaker 1: good game, a great game. But the Bucks do not
Speaker 1: have the ability to guard the Pacers, and it's why
Speaker 1: the Pacers scored forty in the first quarter, won twenty
Speaker 1: three for the game. And yeah, there was a moment
Speaker 1: because it was one fifteen to one hundred. I think
Speaker 1: I have that right. I'm gonna double check, but I was.
Speaker 1: I think it was one fifteen, one hundred with five
Speaker 1: minutes five and a half minutes left, and then Milwaukee
Speaker 1: goes on a thirteen nothing run, culminating in a deep
Speaker 1: littard three to make it one fifteen to one thirteen.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh my god, they might steal it. Then
Speaker 1: Siakam hits a three, nim Hard hits a three in
Speaker 1: game over, and so here's where I'm talking about being concerned.
Speaker 1: Janis had thirty four, eighteen and seven. Okay, Yannis in
Speaker 1: this series is averaging thirty five, fifteen and four on
Speaker 1: sixty five percent from the field, and they haven't really
Speaker 1: been competitive in either game. Again, they got this one
Speaker 1: to two with a few minutes left, but the Pacers
Speaker 1: were in have been in firm control for ninety percent
Speaker 1: of the minutes played in this series. And if Giannis
Speaker 1: is you know how after the game guys usually have
Speaker 1: the box score in their hand. If he's looking at
Speaker 1: the box score and he's like, Torrian Prince is in
Speaker 1: my starting lineup. Kyle Kuzma's in my starting lineup. Brook Lopez,
Speaker 1: who I won a championship with God love him, but
Speaker 1: was in the two thousand and eight draft and is
Speaker 1: thirty seven years old, is in my starting lineup. My
Speaker 1: best guy off the bench other than Gary Trent Junior,
Speaker 1: who's a nice player, is Bobby Portis. He's thirty years old.
Speaker 1: We're leaning on Torrian Prince. What is my Kevin Porter
Speaker 1: Junior has become shockingly important to this team. Ryan Rollins,
Speaker 1: who played real minutes in the first game of this
Speaker 1: series because Dame was out. Now that Dame's back is
Speaker 1: a DMP coach's decision. AJ Green's part of the rotation.
Speaker 1: Jericho Simms, who was like the number four center for
Speaker 1: the Knicks a couple of years ago. He's in the road.
Speaker 1: My roster is not good enough and it's not going
Speaker 1: to be good enough. And I understand I am not
Speaker 1: a guy. Listen, you guys know this. I'm from Kansaity, Missouri.
Speaker 1: I'm not into trying to, you know, force guys out
Speaker 1: of small markets. And Giannis has two guaranteed years left
Speaker 1: on his contract with Milwaukee before a player option. But Jannis,
Speaker 1: if it is, it's been a long time since Giannis
Speaker 1: won a playoff game. The last playoff game Yannis won
Speaker 1: was on the court for a win was the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two Eastern Conference Semifinals Game four, Game five to
Speaker 1: go up three to two on Boston. The next year,
Speaker 1: they lost to the Heat in the first round in five.
Speaker 1: He missed the one win. The next year he was
Speaker 1: injured for the playoffs. This year, they're down oh two,
Speaker 1: and I just I don't know the right places for Giannis.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying he definitively is going to ask out,
Speaker 1: but I don't know how credibly he can feel about
Speaker 1: the Bucks as contenders next year, when Dame turns thirty five,
Speaker 1: brook is thirty seven. They they traded a bunch of
Speaker 1: their stuff to win that championship. They then made probably
Speaker 1: a trade they would like back, in the Dame trade,
Speaker 1: if for no other reason, then it facilitated Boston getting
Speaker 1: Drew Holliday and they're stuck now. I know people say,
Speaker 1: you know Brooklyn has been preparing for Yannis. I I
Speaker 1: get that. Why if you're Brooklyn you'd want it. If
Speaker 1: you're Yannis, how does that make you closer? It probably doesn't.
Speaker 1: There are not many teams that have the stuff required
Speaker 1: to get Yannis that then would have enough stuff left
Speaker 1: to compete for a championship. Oddly, this is where sorry
Speaker 1: salt in the wounds. I don't mean to do it.
Speaker 1: If Dallas had played it out this year with Luca
Speaker 1: and then this summer said you know what, we don't
Speaker 1: like him, we think he eats and drinks too much,
Speaker 1: and maybe this year they get popped in round one.
Speaker 1: I don't think they would have whatever. And in that
Speaker 1: alternate universe where Kyrie's not playing forty some minutes a
Speaker 1: game and has this super high workload right before the
Speaker 1: ACL injury, maybe Kyrie doesn't have the ACL. If Dallas
Speaker 1: calls Milwaukee and Luca for Jannis won for one, that's
Speaker 1: a conversation. And if you're honest, you're like, oh, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: I have Kyrie. We have these good Ciners that that's interesting,
Speaker 1: but that's obviously gone. So you look around. Cleveland could
Speaker 1: create a package that they could still compete at a
Speaker 1: super high level. Boston obviously could, but Boston, I don't.
Speaker 1: That's not the business Boston is going to be in.
Speaker 1: The Knicks fired their gun early to get Michale Bridges
Speaker 1: and Karl Anthony Towns. Oddly, the Pacers are an interesting one.
Speaker 1: But do we think Yannis is gonna force his way
Speaker 1: out of one small market for another. There's always the
Speaker 1: Miami smoke. Miami would have nothing left like Jannis and
Speaker 1: Tyler hero Is assuming Bams in the trade. That doesn't
Speaker 1: get you there. So I think it's a weird spot
Speaker 1: where I don't see the obvious move that puts Yannis
Speaker 1: in a better position. Than the one he's in right now,
Speaker 1: So maybe that leads to him staying. But man, oh man,
Speaker 1: I cannot imagine. Jannis feels realistically like this team is
Speaker 1: even close to being close. And so those are my
Speaker 1: takeaways from night What was that? Night four of the
Speaker 1: NBA Playoffs? Tonight is a nice night to potentially, you know,
Speaker 1: take your significant other, your kids, or whomever out for
Speaker 1: dinner and just be like, we just got to be
Speaker 1: home by around nine thirty if you're on the East Coast.
Speaker 1: Magic Celtics tonight, even without Tatum, the Magic are not
Speaker 1: gonna be able to score ninety points nineties certainly not
Speaker 1: ninety five points. The Celtics will win. Heat Calves is
Speaker 1: a don't need to watch, and then Warriors Rockets will
Speaker 1: be awesome. But Magic Celtics heat Calves are two early
Speaker 1: ones that I think you're safe skipping. And then Tomorrow night,
Speaker 1: and it is Tomorrow Night's weird in this regard. Nick's
Speaker 1: Piston seven o'clock TNT Awesome, thunder Grizzlies nine to thirty TNT,
Speaker 1: Why Nuggets Clippers ten o'clock NBA TV Sure feels like
Speaker 1: if you can, you should flipflop those two and put
Speaker 1: Nuggets Clippers on TNT. And again, most people who have
Speaker 1: TNT at this point probably have NBA TV, but it's
Speaker 1: still they. I think they misjudged what the real people
Speaker 1: might be like. Ah, the Thunder deserve a prime spot
Speaker 1: it once the playoffs actually start for them, they might.
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