WEBVTT - What's Wright - NBA Finals Reaction: Thunder win title, Haliburton injury + Kevin Durant to Rockets 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:06.320 Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright Episode three forty three, 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:09.399 and this episode, as always of What's Right with Nick Wright, 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:14.600 is brought to you by boost Mobile. NBA season over, 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.000 we got as good of a postseason as one could 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:21.599 have asked for, as compelling of a finals as one 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:26.000 could have asked for. And shout out to America for 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:33.320 reminding the really the Charlotte Tins on social media, the 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:37.519 go broke crowd that add, doesn't really matter who's in 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:40.000 the NBA Finals. If it's a game seven, people are 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:44.080 gonna watch. Sixteen million people watched Game seven of the 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:47.880 Finals on average, peaking near twenty million. I don't actually 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.400 care that much about the rating stuff. I do care 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.640 about some of the worst people on the internet being 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:56.160 proven wrong. So I do enjoy that the highest rated 0:00:56.200 --> 0:01:00.600 Finals since twenty nineteen, the last pre COVID final. So 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:05.760 great for the league, great for the thunder, tragic but 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.960 in a somewhat sports heroic way for Tyrese Halliburton and 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.760 the Indiana Pacers. We will get to all of that 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.640 in just a moment. Also, Kevin Durant has been traded. 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:20.759 The NBA Draft is tomorrow night. Programming. Note, we are 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:25.360 going to be doing a live draft show during the 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.959 at least the lottery portion of the NBA Draft. It 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:32.280 will be somewhat on the prospects, more about with the 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.920 teams and the fits and all of that. That'll be 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:39.400 fun Tomorrow night. Also programming note regular show on Thursday, 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.960 and then I am gone for about a week and 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.520 a half and then we'll be back shortly after the 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.720 fourth of July. Right now, though, straight to the voicemail 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:52.360 brought to you by our friends at boost Mobile. Isaiah 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:58.240 Hartenstein's son sleeps through the trophy presentation and shout out 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:03.800 to Shay protect the Shae support the head Shait father. 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.919 Shay came over and was like, yo, bro, I really 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.520 liked that. I thought that was an endearing moment by him. 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.600 Shane gillis to host the SPI's He is a guy 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.280 that I have consumed none of his content, but people 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.120 who have tell me he is quite funny. Okay, that's 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:23.280 why everybody who's like watches him likes him. I just 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.680 I'm not that familiar with him. And Big weekend in 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:31.040 New York thanks to Michael Rubin's Fanatics Fest, so a 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:35.520 lot of folks here. Bron kd Draymond, like all of 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:39.320 the NBA royalty that was not in the finals was 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.520 here in New York and some autograph seekers. We're pretty 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.240 annoying to Kevin Durant, and I don't really blame him 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:49.000 for being Oh, this isn't even the one the video 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.120 that I thought it was. I thought there were there 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.399 were a few of those videos, but we can get 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.320 to those at another time where oh, that's funny they 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:58.359 all threw stuff at him. I thought this was when 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.560 he was walking down the street and people ran up 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:05.200 on him. All right, reminder, please like rate, subscribe review. 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.799 This is typically the time of year where subscriptions start 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:13.640 to slow because July and August we have vacation. There's 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.760 not you know, huge sports going on. We will try. 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:20.800 I have a strategy to not only have this be 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:25.960 not where subscription slow and viewership drops, but where it 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:31.040 pops and involves not even Demandse's generation, but the generation 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:35.440 beneath him, the Gen Z, the Zoomers, maybe Gen Alpha 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:37.640 getting involved. We're gonna have to clean up our language 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.840 on that. If that happens. We will debut that strategy 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.920 sometime in July. But something that I ever thought I 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:48.440 would do, which is be like, Hey, those twitch streamers 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:52.600 that got thirty million viewer of followers, maybe we should 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.720 be maybe we should collab with them a little more often. 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.760 So maybe that'll come this summer. But demands great to 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:05.200 see you. I like that shirt. You look great. The 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.720 NBA season is over and the best team all year 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.320 won the championship. Go right ahead. 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.040 Yeah, so the thundered and up winning that game. It 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.560 was It was a little weird, though weird game seven. 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:20.880 Is this more about okay See winning or is this 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:22.960 more about Halliburton getting getting injured? 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.560 There so looked a certain type of way. 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:31.520 What do you mean like in the beginning, in the beginning. 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:37.720 But so here's why the Halliburton story will resonate for years. 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:42.279 Halliburton will become the new go to name for a 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:46.120 guy who plays through injury. And and this is and 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:47.880 we'll get to this more when we talk about I 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.159 do want to mostly talk about Okay See off the top, 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:56.839 but there's what I will say about Halliburton. Quickly, risk 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:03.960 means risk, and like if they're the if you are 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:08.800 tightrope walking on a harness with a net beneath you, 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:14.520 you're not tightrope walking. And for Tyrese Haliburton. One of 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:18.760 the reasons what he did was so admirable from a 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.920 sports perspective and from a team perspective was because this 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:30.000 was possible and he now and I thought brew made 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:34.560 a really good point, which is what it People are 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:38.400 looking at it from what this injury could mean for 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:43.400 the rest of his career, and Bru's point was what 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.080 not playing in those games could have meant for him 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.919 psychologically for the rest of his career could be a 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:56.240 totally different type of career altering incident. And so Tyrese 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.400 Haliburton took a major risk. We'll talk, and you know 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:03.960 obviously paid the price for it. We will talk for right. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:09.400 It will always be an iconic image in a terrible way, 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:13.200 but his name will be synonymous with putting it all 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.600 on the line for your team for a chance at 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:20.840 the ultimate glory. Where I do not necessarily agree with 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.280 what it seems like demand's a you were I don't 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:27.600 want to say implying but hinting at is just because 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.160 the Pacers looked really good early and just because they 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:36.560 were up one at halftime despite Haliburton's injury. I am 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:40.760 not ready to say that that means oh, clearly, had 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.160 he not gotten hurt, they would have won. Now it 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:47.159 is clear had he not gotten hurt, they could have won. 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:51.479 But the thing is, even with him hurt, they could 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:55.279 have won. They were down, they were up one at halftime, 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.680 and they were down four with three and a half 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:02.320 minutes left in the third quarter. They had stayed attached. 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:06.320 And then the reason that I'm going to say for 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.920 the today, for the moment, not for the long term, 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.840 the story is OKC winning is because OKC won the 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:19.120 way they won all year, which is in a very 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:28.400 similar but totally different way that the Warriors even pre KD. 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:33.640 But certainly with KD you would feel like you were close. 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.840 It would you might even be leading at halftime, and 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.120 then you just knew there is going to be a 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:46.880 moment in the third quarter where in ninety seconds the 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:50.800 Warriors hit four threes, it's a twelve to two run, 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:56.720 and the game has flipped. OKC all year long had 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:00.400 an air of inevitability that they were going to do 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:05.760 something similar with their defense, and that is exactly what 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.840 they did from the end of the third quarter through 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.840 a few minutes into the fourth quarter, when they turned 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:16.000 a four point lead into a twenty one point lead 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.480 thanks to a nineteen to two run. It might have 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.760 been twenty one to four. Whatever it was, they outscored 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.520 him by seventeen over seven minute stretch. Through defense, they 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.440 had four steals and blocks. The Pacers were one of 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:33.679 eleven from the field. OKC won that game through their defense. 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.000 My favorite stat of game seven of the finals demonse. 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:42.160 OKC shot forty percent, Indiana shot forty one percent. OKC 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:47.280 made eleven threes. Indiana made eleven threes. OKC made twenty 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.720 two free throws. Indiana made twenty two free throws. OKAC 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:55.880 had thirteen rebounds, Indiana offensive rebounds. Indiana had twelve offensive rebounds. 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.520 So how in the world, given the field goal percentage, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.360 threes made, free throws made, offensive rebounds being dead even 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:07.319 was that game a twelve point margin. OKC took seventeen 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:13.559 more shots than Indiana because they had fourteen fewer turnovers. 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:18.720 It was the defense and their possession game that won 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:23.000 them a championship, and that is also it. There were 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:28.440 two through lines of okac's brilliance this year, Shay's consistent 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:34.800 offensive performance and the team's overall relentlessness on defense, and 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:38.559 that is why they won the championship. Go ahead, It 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:39.680 seemed like you want to say something. 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.040 Uh yeah, I mean, well, on the on the defense, 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.480 go ahead. Do you think the teams will model their 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.959 teams how OKAC has and kind of harp on a 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:51.680 good defense. 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.600 Well, I think it's easier said than done. I think 0:09:55.640 --> 0:10:00.560 everybody that knows the league knows you go through all 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:05.720 NBA champions and it is a very, very very short 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:09.640 list of teams that didn't have a great defense. By 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:12.480 the way, Victor, I can hear you in at least 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:16.400 in my ear piece in the in the control room 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.800 that didn't So it's a very short list of teams 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:23.440 that didn't have a great defense. And it's almost a 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:27.240 non existent list of teams that didn't have a good 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:32.720 defense now modeling, So it's one thing to prioritize defense, 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.040 another thing to have those bodies and have you know, 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:41.560 that personnel. So that part is I think easier said 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:49.360 than done. Right, Exactly, what I do think is this 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:57.640 OKC team is going to be the standard, not just 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:01.280 because they won the championship, but in large part every 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:06.760 team that thinks they are building a contender is going 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:10.800 to ask themselves, how do we match up against this 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:16.720 specific team, and by the way, that does happen all 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:21.840 the time. It's happened with the last three champions. Specifically, 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:27.920 when the Nuggets won, everyone's question was, Okay, we have 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:30.959 to build our team as best as we possibly can, 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.360 and then we also have to make sure if we 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:38.040 face Nikola Jokic, what is our plan, like, what is 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:42.680 our plan for him? Specifically? Last year the Celtics won, 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.920 and the Knicks in the conference said, you know what, 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.080 what if we just try to build a team to 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:53.079 beat Boston, which they did, by the way, shout out 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:57.840 to them. And now I think teams, particularly in the West, 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:02.040 but are going to say what are we going to 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.200 do to deal with Oklahoma City? And I do want 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:12.240 to this is I think sometimes or some folks, I 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:16.320 should say, might be hearing this and saying, Nick, you're 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:20.080 paying all this respect to Okase. Now you picked the 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.920 Lakers to win the conference, the Lakers to beat them 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:27.920 in the conference finals. And I actually think now the 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.800 Lakers were flawed for a bunch of different reasons, right, 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:35.560 most notably you know, the lack of a center. And 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:37.960 I think as good of a job as JJ did 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.360 over the course of the year, rookie head coach in 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:45.679 the playoffs, he had some issues, so maybe it wouldn't 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:50.000 have mattered. But the reason the Lakers, in my opinion, 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:56.560 actually were a tough ish matchup for Oklahoma City. I 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.880 think you saw throughout these playoffs. And here's why Demant say, 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:06.240 when the ball is going to be handled for forty 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:11.400 eight minutes essentially by either Luca or Lebron, when those 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:15.040 two guys are going to be pulling the trigger on 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:19.240 your offense and your decision maker, you're just not going 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:25.920 to have those twelve turnover halves that OKC forced on 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:31.080 everyone else. Like you saw their guys on the perimeter, 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:36.720 their Dort and Caruso and Wallace and all those guys. 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:43.280 Their physicality, their strength, JDB, their length, bother everybody. Poor 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.240 TJ McConnell was in hell once he had to play, 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:51.760 you know, a full stretch. Haliburton was struggling really throughout 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.240 the series. You saw what they did to Aunt. They 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.640 made all these guys look like, what's wrong with them? 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.880 Why aren't they being more aggressive? And just because of 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.720 the size Luke and Lebron both being six' eight and the, 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:11.920 strength it wasn't at The lakers were not going to 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:16.960 have these repeated twenty plus turnover. Games and that Was 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:21.240 okac's cheek. Code, now flipside might have been even without, 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.040 that The lakers didn't have anyone who could Guard shay 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:28.880 or you, know consistently Guard jadab Or chad or, whatever 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.440 and they would have lost because of. That but it. 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.960 Wasn't when you look back and you, Say okac just 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.240 rolled through, everybody and at the end of the regular, 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:42.880 season in games they seemed to take, seriously The lakers 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:44.680 blew them out one and then we're in position to 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:48.880 beat them. Another why was? That my answer is flatly 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:53.920 because they weren't going, to you, know be able to 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:59.840 be as piranha ish When luke And lebron are handling 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.760 the decision making for the entirety of the. Game but didn't. 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:07.600 Matter The lakers couldn't get Past minnesota the. Thunder, meanwhile 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:15.880 very very unique postseason demons in that rounds one in 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:21.320 rounds three FOR, okc no resistance, whatsoever and then rounds 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:26.240 two in rounds, four lose game, one Lose game, three 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:31.080 lose game, six face a game, seven and then kind 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:35.120 of control the majority of that game. Seven all, RIGHT 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.120 i know you have a bunch MORE okc, questions so 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:38.120 let's let's roll through. 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.840 Them do you think that they're in a position to 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:42.960 keep winning or will this be more of like a 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:43.800 one and done type of? 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:48.840 Situation SO i, MEAN i go. 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.960 AHEAD i WAS i was gonna lead into the other follow, 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.920 up especially with do you think that they're gonna ref 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:56.040 shade differently next? 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.240 Year as far as the free, Throws, like how how that? 0:15:59.360 --> 0:15:59.960 Work do you? Think? 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.760 NO i listen, NOW i Think shay will probably get 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:06.440 an even friendlier. Whistle, okay now that you are a 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:10.800 truly minted super duper, star like if he was getting 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.360 a friendly whistle. Before? 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.280 Braun, okay fair, Enough braun never got a friendly whistle 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:17.760 to begin with? 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.760 This, Correct, yeah like the and by the Like, yeah 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:27.280 here's the. Thing the only super duper stars of my 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:34.240 lifetime who haven't gotten a great whistle are the guys 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:41.040 who refs think, ah it's a little Unfair, shaq like 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.360 for Real, Shaq Broun, giannis the guys where it's, like 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:48.760 well they can deal with the. Contact and those guys 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:52.240 are not. Right and Again i'm not trying TO i 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:57.600 Know lebron gets killed for what people call flopping when 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:01.960 it's really like he if he it's hit on, this. 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.680 He's not gonna hit it like he's, well. 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:09.040 No he's he is going to at times once a 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:13.720 foul's been, called or like make it seem like he got. 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.160 Sniped but what he doesn't, do and What giannis doesn't, 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:21.960 know what What shack didn't, do is oh there's, contact let 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:25.359 me sell the contact and fall off. Balance it's not 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.680 how they, play and it's not how they should play 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:29.920 because they can play through. It but all the other. 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:34.679 Soup once you're a super, superstar unless you are just this, 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:39.000 overwhelming physically imposing, force you get a better. Whistle SO 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.359 i don't. THINK i think the whistle at least stays 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.919 the same For, shay if not gets. Better BUT i 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:47.840 WHAT i will say is as far as the one 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:54.119 and done trend dating back to twenty, nineteen not only 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:58.119 has no one, repeated no one has made it past 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:03.040 round two up to thus far in their title. Defense 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:07.720 the only team demanz since twenty nineteen to at any 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:12.720 point after winning the title even make another conference finals 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:18.520 is The. LAKERS a couple years, ago everybody Thought denver 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:22.560 was going to reel off a bunch everyone, thought including 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.720 and here is the reason THAT i really would, say 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:31.119 just pump the brakes a touch On. Okac long, term 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:35.560 there were a lot of people demanse that right now 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:40.320 today are Saying okac's gonna you, know this is the 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:48.560 beginning of a dynasty that six weeks ago thought we 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:52.040 were in the midst of a dynasty for a different. 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:56.119 Team six weeks, ago they were, like, well, Listen boston 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:00.159 is the team to. Beat boston is set. Up the 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.119 only thing that's gonna Stop boston is, uh you, know 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:07.479 the the newest de facto hard cap and Second apron 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:09.760 and all. That and by the, WAY i didn't even 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.119 tease off top of the. Show Obviously Drew holiday traded this. 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:17.400 Morning we'll get to that. Shortly SO I i do 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:23.320 THINK okac has real staying. Power they have, topitch you, 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.359 know who was a lottery you, know maybe a top 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.400 five caliber pick who hasn't played for them, yet who'll 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:32.000 play for him next. Year they have all these draft. 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:41.440 Assets they but they what prevents you from Repeating sometimes 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:43.880 team gets. Old well that's not gonna. Happen, Okay, see 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:50.240 they're incredibly. Young sometimes bad, luck bad, matchup certainly on the. 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.800 Board you know WHAT i mean that that what happened 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:57.720 To denver last year happens To. Oka see where it's, 0:19:57.760 --> 0:19:59.399 like all of a, sudden you just run into the 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:02.359 wrong tea early in the playoffs and they clip. You 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:05.800 Rudy gobert hits a turnaround twelve footer and all of a, 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:10.840 sudden your season's. Over what happened To boston this, year 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:14.320 sadly can get. You the, injuries you know WHAT i? 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:18.040 Mean LIKE, okc while dealing with injuries in the regular, 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:22.920 season had perfect health in the. Playoffs the other thing 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:25.680 that can get you is and this is a Point 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:28.159 wild's has been, making AND i think it's a smart. 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:36.400 One ownership more than the. Players ownership relaxes because they got. 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:40.119 One it's, like well we got, one so do you, 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:42.440 know do we need to go deep into the? Tax 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:44.679 do we need to do these? Things so all of 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:51.240 those THINGS i think are in. Play and the other 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:55.239 THING i would say is, this let's just look at 0:20:55.240 --> 0:21:01.080 The Western conference over the next five. Years if you 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:04.159 THINK okac is about to go on a real dominant 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:09.280 run and say win the conference three of the next five, 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.359 years that's not even win the, title just win the 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:15.880 conference three of the next five. Years so that means 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:20.640 in the next five years just for finals, appearances there 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:24.400 would only be too available For jokics through the rest 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:29.920 of his, Prime luca in his entirety of his prime 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:35.440 essentially with The, lakers Whatever wimby. Becomes This rockets team 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:42.920 THAT i think is spectacular aunt With, Minnesota Stephen jimmy 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:49.840 together like there is an element of there's gonna be 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:53.480 a lot of people left without a seat in the 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:56.560 musical chairs of just trying to make a, finals much 0:21:56.640 --> 0:22:00.560 less win a. Championship so DO i think That thunder 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:06.080 are built like to have the runway similar to The 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:08.520 spurs With, duncan, who by the, Way presty was part 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:11.800 of building that. Team we're from nine to two thousand and, 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:17.400 seven that team won four. CHAMPIONSHIPS i do think they 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:23.560 are built. SIMILARLY i also think we have to adjust 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:26.919 our eyes for what dominance can be in THE. Nba 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:30.760 somebody tweeted this demands and THEN i know you have 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:32.520 a bunch of follow ups that we still need to get. 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:34.560 To BUT i thought this was such a unique way 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:38.160 to look at, it and it. Was this was actually 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:41.720 being tweeted in the midst of like A Jordan lebron, 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:47.000 argument but separate that part from, it and it's just 0:22:47.080 --> 0:22:51.520 kind of A i think interesting. Perspective and it was 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:57.439 a very simplistic timeline of as time goes on in THE, 0:22:57.560 --> 0:23:09.240 nba the hurdle or the maximum championships possible gets lower and. 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:13.320 Lower so the person's point was, this THE nba basically, 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:16.800 starts what's the most you can? Win, WELL i don't. 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:20.720 Know Russell celtics won, eleven so that's the you know 0:23:20.760 --> 0:23:23.000 WHAT i, mean there's eight teams for most of that 0:23:23.359 --> 0:23:26.560 the most you can win is basically all of. Them then, 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:32.160 next you, know kind of era of iconic top ten 0:23:32.240 --> 0:23:35.919 with a bullet in the goat debate Players kareem And 0:23:36.000 --> 0:23:40.440 Michael kareem the seventies through the. Eighties michael the eighties 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:44.200 through the, nineties what's the most you can? Win six? 0:23:44.280 --> 0:23:44.520 Each? 0:23:45.240 --> 0:23:53.479 Okay? Interesting then the next iconic Guys kobe And, duncan 0:23:54.160 --> 0:23:57.600 what's the most you can? Win they both won? Five 0:23:58.359 --> 0:24:02.840 and then the next iconic Guys lebron And steph what's 0:24:02.880 --> 0:24:06.480 the most you can? Win they both won? Four so 0:24:07.520 --> 0:24:11.800 is you, know so again it's it's probably a little too. 0:24:11.920 --> 0:24:20.520 Simplistic but the point being is For wimby in TODAY'S, 0:24:20.640 --> 0:24:26.560 nba is like the maximum going to be actually, three you, 0:24:26.600 --> 0:24:30.720 know like that's realistically possible to? Do or is it 0:24:30.760 --> 0:24:33.919 gonna be reset again or is it just going to For, 0:24:34.560 --> 0:24:40.879 Jokic Jannis, Tatum Shay, luca, who by the, way is 0:24:40.920 --> 0:24:44.119 the one man of that young top five that's you 0:24:44.119 --> 0:24:47.720 know without One ant as, well but and has also 0:24:47.720 --> 0:24:49.800 hasn't even been to a, finals AND i think people 0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:53.840 Think luke is better Than. Ant is it a race 0:24:53.960 --> 0:24:57.600 right now who can get two? First because that's what 0:24:57.640 --> 0:25:01.520 it feels like to. Me it feels like For, Joker Jannis, 0:25:01.840 --> 0:25:03.840 tatum who sadly is gonna have to miss the, Year 0:25:04.320 --> 0:25:08.160 shaye And, luca And luca's behind in that. Race, obviously 0:25:08.800 --> 0:25:13.400 it's who can get their second and kind of take 0:25:13.440 --> 0:25:17.439 control of. This all, right let's keep going with these follow. Ups. 0:25:18.119 --> 0:25:21.560 Uh was there a signature moment in these finals outside 0:25:21.600 --> 0:25:23.600 of or that Wasn't Ala burton's injury to? 0:25:23.680 --> 0:25:30.040 You, YES i think. SO i Think shay's performance at 0:25:30.040 --> 0:25:33.720 the end Of game four that was the fulcrum of the. 0:25:33.840 --> 0:25:40.840 Series Where indiana's up to, one they're up seven and 0:25:42.119 --> 0:25:48.200 uh and seven going into the fourth And shay's three 0:25:48.400 --> 0:25:53.879 to cut it to, one and then The jordan esque 0:25:53.920 --> 0:25:58.760 push off. JUMPER i, THOUGHT i thought that's THE i 0:25:58.800 --> 0:26:02.960 thought that was the swing moment of the. Series by the, 0:26:02.960 --> 0:26:06.639 WAY i was In miami for, that because that was 0:26:06.680 --> 0:26:10.600 That friday. Night first Things, first was In, miami AND 0:26:11.840 --> 0:26:17.600 i THE tv in my hotel room was all messed, 0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:21.040 up LIKE i could only like watch, movies like the 0:26:21.080 --> 0:26:24.280 actual channels wouldn't, work AND i didn't want to watch 0:26:24.280 --> 0:26:27.000 it on my. Computer SO i go down to the 0:26:27.000 --> 0:26:32.439 hotel bar Forgett For game four of The, FINALS i 0:26:32.480 --> 0:26:34.680 watched the first half in my room on my. Computer 0:26:35.200 --> 0:26:36.960 for the second, HALF i go down to the hotel. 0:26:36.960 --> 0:26:41.080 Bar there's two guys at the. Bar ONE tv is 0:26:41.160 --> 0:26:46.439 on sports that aren't the. Finals the OTHER tv is 0:26:46.480 --> 0:26:51.840 on a movie with, captions And i'm, like this stresses me, 0:26:51.920 --> 0:26:52.800 out even though. 0:26:52.760 --> 0:26:58.120 LIKE i go down there was a. 0:26:58.080 --> 0:27:03.080 Group of guys playing. Pool they had they didn't care at, 0:27:03.119 --> 0:27:06.480 All and SO i say to the, bartender this nice older, 0:27:06.560 --> 0:27:09.160 Lady i'm, like, hey can you put THE Nba finals? 0:27:09.200 --> 0:27:12.680 On she's, like, yeah of, Course so she changes THE 0:27:12.760 --> 0:27:15.879 tv that is sports on it the OTHER. Tv the, 0:27:15.960 --> 0:27:18.920 guy the guy at the bar is like intently watching 0:27:18.960 --> 0:27:23.879 this movie with, aptions and it's, like do you? Mind 0:27:24.000 --> 0:27:27.600 do you mind if we put the finals? On and 0:27:27.680 --> 0:27:30.560 he gave it like AN i GUESS. 0:27:31.119 --> 0:27:33.040 I i snapped on. 0:27:33.240 --> 0:27:35.080