Speaker 1: Welcome in What Driving the Cred Episode three twenty two.
Speaker 1: Fresh off a great night of playoff basketball, I was
Speaker 1: at the Garden for Nick's Piston, so I did miss
Speaker 1: the first quarter ish of Clippers Nuggets, which is just
Speaker 1: going to be an absolute war, and I think every
Speaker 1: game is going to look like the first couple games did,
Speaker 1: where it comes down to the final seconds. I also
Speaker 1: will say this, you know, it's always important in life to,
Speaker 1: you know, stay even keeled, not get too high, and
Speaker 1: not get too low. Last seventy two hours, for the
Speaker 1: first time since I've lived in New York, got in
Speaker 1: a car accident. My fault wrecked my beautiful, just work
Speaker 1: of art car that I love so much, and I lost.
Speaker 1: I've lost every single bet I've made in these NBA playoffs,
Speaker 1: So you know what, sometimes you need that you need
Speaker 1: to just kind of be brought flying a little too high,
Speaker 1: get brought back down to earth. I did. Everything I
Speaker 1: did this weekend are the exact things I've tried to
Speaker 1: counsel Demonsee on not doing distracted driving, check chasing my losses,
Speaker 1: check betting games that I don't really have a feel for,
Speaker 1: just because I'm trying to get even on the other one,
Speaker 1: check all of it, and so you know, it was
Speaker 1: just a really real tour de force. But I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna let that bring me down. Good to see you
Speaker 1: as always, demondse Happy.
Speaker 2: Ladies Easter, Happy Lady Easter. Just stay there. You bring
Speaker 2: yourself back out of that.
Speaker 1: Exactly right. And this is a big moment. The next
Speaker 1: nine hours me deciding, you know what, even though I
Speaker 1: am certain the Lakers are evening the series, and even
Speaker 1: though I have an opportunity to pull myself out of
Speaker 1: the hole with an oversized Lakers money line, bet I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna do it. Because if I do that, even
Speaker 1: if I you know what, just let's just take a
Speaker 1: quick breather. Let's just take a quick breather. Enjoy the games,
Speaker 1: you know, reset, you take a survey of the landscape,
Speaker 1: because the other thing. You always counsel yourself not to
Speaker 1: do this, but it is so hard not to overreact
Speaker 1: to all these games. And so I watch Piston's Knicks
Speaker 1: and we're gonna get into a Piston's next game one
Speaker 1: and I'm like, ah, the Knicks are just so much better.
Speaker 1: These kids aren't ready. And then I'm there yesterday, I'm
Speaker 1: like man, the Pistons have been the better team seven
Speaker 1: of the eight quarters.
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Speaker 1: let's get to what has been two classic games in
Speaker 1: Nuggets Clipper Thus far, it has more than lived up
Speaker 1: to the hype. I think most people thought this would
Speaker 1: be the most competitive Round one series. It has been.
Speaker 3: Go ahead. Uh yeah.
Speaker 2: Kawhi went off last night for thirty nine. Seemed like
Speaker 2: he was hidden just about every shot, and that was
Speaker 2: enough to beat the Nuggets by three points. Jokic did
Speaker 2: his usual stuff on offense. He had a few turnovers
Speaker 2: that he had seven and his free throw for his
Speaker 2: free throws were not hidden. Do you think the Clippers
Speaker 2: took control of this series with the last game.
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone's in control of this series, and
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone's going to be in control of
Speaker 1: this series. The Clippers avoided what would have been emotionally
Speaker 1: very tough to overcome, which is two opportunities to win
Speaker 1: on Denver's home court and not and going over to that,
Speaker 1: to me, would have been more devastating than if these
Speaker 1: games it had been in law Los Angeles. Then obviously
Speaker 1: you can deal with it if you're in if you're
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, and well, I know that's not right.
Speaker 1: They needed to get a split given how well they
Speaker 1: played and the opportunity to steal those games. The story,
Speaker 1: of course, is Kawhi Leonard now James Harden. After the
Speaker 1: game comes out and it's like, listen, Kuhi has always
Speaker 1: been disrespected or whatever it is, that's not true. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna I'm not going to allow for revisionist history.
Speaker 1: I actually think Kawhi Leonard, throughout his NBA career has
Speaker 1: never once ever been underrated. I think he has either
Speaker 1: been properly rated or he had a brief period of
Speaker 1: time right when he signed with the Clippers when he
Speaker 1: was a touch overrated. He's never been underrated, and everyone
Speaker 1: has always understood that a healthy Kawhi Leonard is a
Speaker 1: playoff monster. The question is has been the last few
Speaker 1: years hasn't even really been a question, just been an answer.
Speaker 1: We're not getting healthy Kawhi Leonard in the playoffs this year.
Speaker 1: Through two games, you're getting it. He was okay in
Speaker 1: Game one yesterday, though, was the first truly great Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard playoff moment we've had in a couple of years.
Speaker 1: As you mentioned, he couldn't miss fifteen of nineteen from
Speaker 1: the field. What was he ten of eleven in the
Speaker 1: first half? Thirty nine points, five assists, Good defense in
Speaker 1: a game in a night that Harden didn't really have it,
Speaker 1: that Norman Powell that the tiny violins were out because
Speaker 1: poor Norman Powell had his all star reserve spots stolen
Speaker 1: by Lebron James showing up to the game. Norman Powell
Speaker 1: didn't have it, and Kawhi was exceptional, and I was
Speaker 1: skeptical on what we were going to get from Kawhi
Speaker 1: in this game because of how the schedule fell a
Speaker 1: lot of these guys, or a lot of these series,
Speaker 1: I should say, you had two days between games one
Speaker 1: and two for Clippers Nuggets. They played Saturday night and
Speaker 1: then to Monday night. And when you had that Saturday
Speaker 1: night game go to overtime, you had and we again,
Speaker 1: we did a bonus pod yesterday and we're gonna do
Speaker 1: a bunch of those during these NBA playoffs. So we're
Speaker 1: not gonna do too much on Game one of that
Speaker 1: series today because we now have had Game two. If
Speaker 1: you want to hear my thoughts on game one on
Speaker 1: that series. You can check it out on YouTuber on
Speaker 1: the podcast feed. But game one going to overtime Saturday night,
Speaker 1: and then a quick turnaround Game two at altitude, when
Speaker 1: Kawhi and Harden both played forty plus minutes. I was
Speaker 1: really skeptic or pessimistic is probably the right word about
Speaker 1: how sharp Kawhi was going to look. And while Harden
Speaker 1: looked a little fatigued, Kawhi absolutely unequivocally did not. And
Speaker 1: he was the best player on the court, Which does
Speaker 1: bring us to Nikolejokic, who you do not to. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna kill the guy, but fair is fair. He
Speaker 1: is universally regarded as the best player in the world.
Speaker 1: That was a game his team could have won, and Jokic,
Speaker 1: for the first time, honestly in a couple years, I thought,
Speaker 1: had a downright bad playoff game. I guess you could
Speaker 1: argue Game seven again last year against the Timberwolves, just
Speaker 1: by virtue of blowing that big of a lead at home.
Speaker 1: But Jokich seven turnovers in the fourth quarter, three turnover.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the miss free throw late he had By
Speaker 1: the way, he missed two free throws late in game one,
Speaker 1: they were able to overcome it after the biggest play
Speaker 1: of the game in Game one, he trusted and open
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook to hit that three. That was why you
Speaker 1: know that the Clippers were daring him to take. Last night,
Speaker 1: after was a Christian Brown's awful shot, Jokich had Aaron
Speaker 1: Gordon wide open in the corner, the spot Gordon likes instead,
Speaker 1: and it was very uncharacteristic. He took the shot. It
Speaker 1: wasn't even close. He was kind of flopping about throughout
Speaker 1: the night. And that was the first game in a again,
Speaker 1: depending on how you judged, just the game seven team
Speaker 1: wide meltdown. And I know he had a triple double.
Speaker 1: And I'm curious you can put in the the chat
Speaker 1: Daniel that I can see or in this you know
Speaker 1: our notes if you think I'm being unfair Daniel or
Speaker 1: resident Nuggets fan and you're allowed to have bad playoff games.
Speaker 1: Even the best player in the world can have bad
Speaker 1: playoff games. It was just jarring to see him that
Speaker 1: lose with the ball and to see a game that
Speaker 1: the Nuggets could have won. But he's got aware that
Speaker 1: he was a big part of the loss. And so
Speaker 1: I think that if you are the Clippers through two games,
Speaker 1: the most optimistic thing for the Clippers through two games,
Speaker 1: other than stealing home court is you're kind of happy
Speaker 1: with how you've dealt with Joker, And I know it's
Speaker 1: a testament to his greatness, But twenty nine to nine
Speaker 1: to twelve, Game one on fifty percent, which is about
Speaker 1: as low of a percentage as he's gonna show in
Speaker 1: a game twenty six ten or twelve and ten with
Speaker 1: seven turnovers, again on fifty percent. Game one horrendous defensively
Speaker 1: in the first quarter, and then tighten it up and
Speaker 1: Game two really loose with the ball late. So I
Speaker 1: think most of us, if you picked the Nuggets like
Speaker 1: I did, the argument and the thought process was with
Speaker 1: respect to Zubats, who did as good of a job
Speaker 1: as anyone in the league this year guarding Joker. You
Speaker 1: thought Joker would be so far and away the best
Speaker 1: player in the series that it would be enough to
Speaker 1: overcome the fact that the Clippers are a deeper team
Speaker 1: up to this point. That has not been the case,
Speaker 1: and it is not something I think will continue. But
Speaker 1: it also would be almost disrespectful to his place in
Speaker 1: the league to not acknowledge, Hey man, need more from
Speaker 1: Joker in a game that's in the balance like last night.
Speaker 1: And here's the other piece that worries me for the Nuggets.
Speaker 1: So Michael Porter Junior, after being put on ice in
Speaker 1: game one, they put him in in Game two. He rebounded,
Speaker 1: He played his thirty three minutes, hit him threes, fifteen points,
Speaker 1: fifteen rebounds. He had a few turnovers as well. I
Speaker 1: mean the twenty turnovers for the Nuggets just killed them,
Speaker 1: and going fourteen of twenty two from the line didn't
Speaker 1: help either. But the other piece of that is after
Speaker 1: the game he talked about injuring I think his shoulder.
Speaker 1: They do not have the depth. This is one of
Speaker 1: the reasons Calvin Booth is no longer employed as the GM.
Speaker 1: They do not have the depth to have any of
Speaker 1: their five startup missed time because you're already you're playing
Speaker 1: your five starters, crazy heavy minutes playing Russell Westbrook, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, more minutes than is really you know safe. Now,
Speaker 1: I know Demons sometimes thinks I'm too hard on Russ,
Speaker 1: and Russ has not been a problem this series.
Speaker 3: La Yeah, what he needed to do, no.
Speaker 1: No, no, and and in game one he hit the
Speaker 1: huge three. He had some amazing offensive rebounds. He also
Speaker 1: had another eternal save.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean it was.
Speaker 1: The full game. One was the full Russell Westbrook experience.
Speaker 1: Game two, like twenty minutes from RUSS is about fine,
Speaker 1: But if Michael Porter Junior's out, you're talking forty minutes
Speaker 1: from RUSS. Because Jalen Pickett cannot be in these games.
Speaker 1: Peyton Watson they want to trust, they clearly don't. And hell,
Speaker 1: last night you put DeAndre Jordan on the court for
Speaker 1: five minutes like so they just are not deep enough
Speaker 1: if Michael Porter Junior is truly banged up. So that
Speaker 1: is up to this point in the playoffs, I thought
Speaker 1: we had a super impactful and it would have been
Speaker 1: an absolute shame of an injury on Easter because I
Speaker 1: thought Jason Tatum broke his hand the way he was reacting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Joe knew he didn't.
Speaker 1: Miss Joe is an insane person. I know that's like
Speaker 1: not breaking news to anyone else, but I used to
Speaker 1: think Missoula's kind of demeanor was a bit. But if
Speaker 1: you guys haven't seen the clip, so Jason Tatum goes
Speaker 1: up for Lea, but it wasn't Did you think that
Speaker 1: was a dirty foul? I didn't think it was a
Speaker 1: dirty foul.
Speaker 2: I didn't think it was dirty. I also kind of,
Speaker 2: I honestly did not think that Tatum was about to
Speaker 2: have some long lasting injury after he got up.
Speaker 1: So so here's the thing. The foul and the fall
Speaker 1: all looked normal, right, It just everything looked normal, however,
Speaker 1: and you're you're gonna laugh at me. When I saw
Speaker 1: the way he was grabbing his wrist, like his hand
Speaker 1: and his wrist like this, and then I also saw
Speaker 1: the way he fell, I was like, well, that's exactly
Speaker 1: how I fell a year ago when I broke my arm,
Speaker 1: and exactly when I broke my you know, arm, wrist whatever,
Speaker 1: And it's exactly how I you know, when I fell,
Speaker 1: how I tried to break my fall just kind of
Speaker 1: awkwardly palms down and I was like, I mean you
Speaker 1: And so I was like, oh, that certainly is a
Speaker 1: mechanism where and it doesn't even hurt that bad. It's
Speaker 1: just like, oh shit, like you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: I just broke my arm, and the way he was
Speaker 1: holding it, I was like, oh no, like this is
Speaker 1: his shooting hand. That it's I thought he was going
Speaker 1: to be out. Who did not think he was going
Speaker 1: to be out was Joe Missoula. The trainer is trying
Speaker 1: to go over to Tatum, and Missoula says, like, stops him,
Speaker 1: and then you see him yell, get up like just
Speaker 1: a madman.
Speaker 2: But I think the guy's received that well and and
Speaker 2: I think you I don't want to say he was
Speaker 2: one hundred percent correct for going about it like that,
Speaker 2: but at the end of like you saw, Tatum was
Speaker 2: not hurt, like is the waist and I think it's
Speaker 2: it's also your arm you could get up.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 1: So all right, so let's do a couple follow ups
Speaker 1: for because we're Clippers Nuggets. I the more all of
Speaker 1: the story for me just quickly as Michael Porter Junior's injury.
Speaker 1: The reason I even got on the Tatum thing was
Speaker 1: if he has to miss time, it's our first significant
Speaker 1: injury of the postseason. And if there's any news on
Speaker 1: that that anybody has just like texted to me or
Speaker 1: put it in the doc. I haven't seen anything other
Speaker 1: than his postgame comments last night, which were somewhat alarming.
Speaker 1: All right, what are our follow ups? Where you get
Speaker 1: to Nick's pistons.
Speaker 2: How many players in the league are you taking in
Speaker 2: the playoffs over at healthy Kawhi.
Speaker 1: Joker for sure, Giannis for sure, Luca for sure, I Shay,
Speaker 1: I think has earned it by this regular season, Steph
Speaker 1: lebron Man, and I think that's the So here's here
Speaker 1: is the thing. I so, and this is where I
Speaker 1: think we have to be like honest, like we can
Speaker 1: be respectful to what he did last night and you know,
Speaker 1: even odd by what he did last night without kind
Speaker 1: of over stating, you know, the his his game to
Speaker 1: game impact. So like Game one of this series, that
Speaker 1: was healthy Kwhi he had twenty two points on fifteen shots,
Speaker 1: good efficiency and seven turnovers. So that is like, that's
Speaker 1: that just is what it is. Now last year he
Speaker 1: was not healthy. In the playoffs. Two years ago, he
Speaker 1: was healthy those first two games. And in Game one
Speaker 1: two years ago against Phoenix, he was a lot like
Speaker 1: he was last night. He had thirty eight points on
Speaker 1: fifty four percent from the field in a win, and
Speaker 1: in Game two he had thirty one points in on
Speaker 1: fifty five percent and a loss. I So here's I
Speaker 1: guess the point I'm making Healthy Kawhi is an awesome
Speaker 1: playoff performer, and the way he raises his game in
Speaker 1: the playoffs is really the stuff of legends. But we
Speaker 1: don't need to act as if you know that meme
Speaker 1: people put up sometimes like they show you an athlete,
Speaker 1: like there's like four NBA players and they'll show you
Speaker 1: Steph Curry and it's like but with shack size, or
Speaker 1: they'll you know, it's like add one attribute to these
Speaker 1: great players. We don't need to act as if the
Speaker 1: only thing standing between Kawhi being, you know, the greatest
Speaker 1: player of all time is his health. Like, Kuhi is
Speaker 1: an awesome player and health robbed him of a bunch
Speaker 1: of great playoff runs. But Kawhi at his peak was
Speaker 1: never the best player in the world. And so a
Speaker 1: healthy Kawhi I am not going to put over Jannis,
Speaker 1: Luca or Joker, all of whom either have been or
Speaker 1: will be the best player in the world. And I'm
Speaker 1: not right now, I don't think Kawhi is going to
Speaker 1: be better the rest of these playoffs than Steph or Lebron.
Speaker 1: And so I understand Lebron had a really bad game one,
Speaker 1: and if we want to argue the Lebron. Think Lebron's
Speaker 1: seven years older than Kawi, that Kawhi has passing, so
Speaker 1: be it. So I think that's right where he lands
Speaker 1: in that hierarchy. I don't think that's disrespectful to him.
Speaker 1: I also think it's worth noting that this year on
Speaker 1: his team, James Harden was the best player, so like
Speaker 1: now James Harden's the opposite as far as his playoff
Speaker 1: performance plummets. So I'm not I'm not at all trying
Speaker 1: to take away last night was the best game anyone's
Speaker 1: had in these playoffs so far. I think that's pretty clear.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, there's there's no one I'm missing. With that said,
Speaker 1: there's only been ten games like and so now it'll
Speaker 1: when the playoffs are over, it'll still be one of
Speaker 1: the best games. But yeah, so that's that's where I
Speaker 1: have it shake up. All right, One last question here
Speaker 1: before we move on to Nick's pistons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, does the series have the potential will be
Speaker 2: like six Ers Knicks Round one last year?
Speaker 1: I think it does, meaning every game is you know,
Speaker 1: a bit of something of a classic. I think that
Speaker 1: one only went six right? Am I wrong about that?
Speaker 1: You guys can remind me. I think that was like
Speaker 1: six amazing games with amazing finishes. I think it does.
Speaker 1: That might not bode well at all for either of
Speaker 1: these teams. Team right, and so especially with OKC getting it,
Speaker 1: you know, the NBA version of a first round by
Speaker 1: and so they're gonna be have a week plus off
Speaker 1: like if so this if let me look at the
Speaker 1: NBA calendar real quick. So let's just assume OKAC is
Speaker 1: going to sweep Okay just for the sake of argument.
Speaker 1: Game two, uh is tonight. Game three in the OKAC
Speaker 1: series is Thursday, and Game four is Saturday, so they
Speaker 1: could be done on Saturday, April twenty six. If this
Speaker 1: series does go seven, that Game seven is Saturday, May third,
Speaker 1: which would put game one of Round two Monday, May fifth.
Speaker 1: So if the Thunders sweep, they will have nine days
Speaker 1: off in the middle of the playoffs just to rest
Speaker 1: recuperate all of it. Now I understand people will be
Speaker 1: like Rust versus Rest. The Thunder too good for that
Speaker 1: to matter. And these two teams are gonna beat the
Speaker 1: hell out of each other, all right. Speaking of teams
Speaker 1: that want to beat the hell out of each other,
Speaker 1: let's do Nick Pistons from last night.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, last night you got to watch Detroit in
Speaker 2: person in their playoff drought first playoff win and I
Speaker 2: don't know how.
Speaker 1: Long I heard it was since two thousand and eight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: since two thousand and eight. Crazy. Yes, very happy for them.
Speaker 2: So that series is tied up. Obviously, Kate Cunningham led them.
Speaker 3: Last night.
Speaker 2: New York needed a twenty one oh comeback in game
Speaker 2: one to come back, I can win that one.
Speaker 3: Last night they couldn't do it.
Speaker 2: Are you surprised that the Pistons are hanging with the
Speaker 2: Knicks like this giving them some shits?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's weird. I I said before, my pick
Speaker 1: before the series was nix and six, And so you
Speaker 1: might be like, oh, so you thought it would be
Speaker 1: tightly contested, And my answer was no, not really. The
Speaker 1: way I thought it would go would be the Knicks
Speaker 1: win the first two in New York, not easily, but comfortably.
Speaker 1: They then kind of relax a bit and lose Game
Speaker 1: three in Detroit, which typically happens. They then win game
Speaker 1: four to retake control of the series, and then relax
Speaker 1: a bit, lose a game five, and then wrap it
Speaker 1: up in six. So sometimes a six game series there
Speaker 1: isn't a lot of If it goes up to h
Speaker 1: up three to one, winning six, there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure points. And so I thought that the Pistons
Speaker 1: threw their best shot in Game one. The Knicks overwhelmed
Speaker 1: them with that twenty one to nothing run, where they
Speaker 1: looked frazzled, where they looked young, where they looked unable
Speaker 1: to find their offense. I was like, oh, okay, so
Speaker 1: that happened without anyone on the Knicks having this outlier game.
Speaker 1: So now they're just going to get rolled in Game two.
Speaker 1: And I mentioned losing all these bets. I my bets
Speaker 1: on the Knicks were at the game at halftime because
Speaker 1: I was like, oh the Pistons, you know are they're
Speaker 1: up six the Knicks had at that point. I got
Speaker 1: into the free throw line one time. I was like,
Speaker 1: they're gonna get the calls in the second half. Cadi'll
Speaker 1: cooled down, you know that Jalen will get rolling, and
Speaker 1: the Pistons won't have enough offense. And I was kind
Speaker 1: of right that all those things happened, except for Caid
Speaker 1: cooling down. The Knicks got after shooting two free throws
Speaker 1: in the first half, shot seventeen in the second half.
Speaker 1: The Pistons only made six three pointers the entire game.
Speaker 1: There Jalen you know, flopped around, but also you know,
Speaker 1: got to the bucket and scored. He scored thirty seven.
Speaker 1: The problem for the Knicks was other than Jalen Brunson
Speaker 1: and Miles McBride, who the hell was ready to play?
Speaker 1: I mean, Josh Hart did Josh Hart things, but he's
Speaker 1: not a reliable shooter. Karl Anthony Towns no showed, just
Speaker 1: no show. I mean it was after such a good
Speaker 1: game one from Kat, he let the Pistons big men
Speaker 1: punk him throughout the night, the greatest, the self reclaimed
Speaker 1: greatest shooting big man of all time. It only took
Speaker 1: two threes. Og couldn't slow down Kate on one end
Speaker 1: and couldn't get his offense going on the other end.
Speaker 1: And Michale Bridges, who was okay but man missed so
Speaker 1: many what could have been not dagger but game changing threes.
Speaker 1: And now the Knicks, all of a sudden, with a
Speaker 1: somewhat banged up Jalen Brunson, find themselves in a real fight.
Speaker 1: And the problem with that is this Pistons team is
Speaker 1: so young and so athletic that they are just going
Speaker 1: to keep coming. And I shouldn't say they're so young
Speaker 1: because they do play ten Hardaway Junior and Tobias Harris
Speaker 1: big minutes and shrewder. But really I'm talking about Cad
Speaker 1: Jalen Duran and Asar who I mean, he and his brother.
Speaker 1: If either one of them ever learned to shoot, look
Speaker 1: out everybody. They're just defensive madmen, you know that are
Speaker 1: just insane athletes, just like insane athletes, and they're just
Speaker 1: gonna keep coming at you. And the Knicks meanwhile, I mean,
Speaker 1: we know what Tibbs is gonna do. From a minute's perspective.
Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna be playing forty plus and now they're in
Speaker 1: a real fight, and I can't imagine how on fire
Speaker 1: that Piston's crowd is going to be. So yeah, like
Speaker 1: that is the thing about not having won a playoff
Speaker 1: game since two thousand and eight. An underrated all time
Speaker 1: run by the Way Demands was the three two two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight Detroit Pistons, the Chauncey Rip Hamilton, Ben Wallace,
Speaker 1: Tayshaun Prince oh three fifty wins, Conference finalists, four fifty
Speaker 1: four wins, upset the Shaq Kobe Lakers to win the championship.
Speaker 1: Five fifty four wins, lose in seven to the San
Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs in the finals. Six sixty four wins, lose
Speaker 1: in the conference finals to Shaq d Wade. Oh, seven
Speaker 1: fifty three wins, lose to twenty two year old Lebron
Speaker 1: in the conference finals the forty eight special game. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean is what flips that series? Eight
Speaker 1: fifty nine wins, conference finals, lose to the Big Three Celtics.
Speaker 1: So that team from three to eight, six seasons fifty
Speaker 1: plus wins every single year? Was that seven seasons? Uh
Speaker 1: well from two from two to eight, which is the
Speaker 1: seven seasons, they had fifty wins every single year. But
Speaker 1: three to eight they made the conference finals. Every single year.
Speaker 1: They made an NBA Finals and won it, made an
Speaker 1: NBA Finals and lost to uh maybe you know one
Speaker 1: of the best Spurs teams ever in seven and the
Speaker 1: teams that beat them after they won the championship and
Speaker 1: then lost the finals in seven, they lost to the
Speaker 1: I think I said Shaq Kobe heat, the Shack D
Speaker 1: Wade Heat, Lebron and the Big Three Celtics. But I
Speaker 1: say all that to say this that was the last
Speaker 1: time they won a playoff game. The last playoff game
Speaker 1: that they won was against Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and
Speaker 1: Kevin Garnett in two thousand and eight. George W. Bush
Speaker 1: was the president. Since then, they have made the playoffs
Speaker 1: three times swept, swept, swept, And since they were last
Speaker 1: swept by Giannis in twenty nineteen, they have won the
Speaker 1: following number of games twenty twenty, twenty three, seventeen, fourteen,
Speaker 1: and in this year forty four. It's an unbelievable single
Speaker 1: season turnaround. That and those kids now think they can win.
Speaker 1: And here's the other important thing. They think I They
Speaker 1: think they have the best player in the series, and
Speaker 1: that is I Cade, to me this year had a
Speaker 1: better season than Jalen brunt. I'm not ready to say
Speaker 1: he's a better player than Jalen Brunson, but on my
Speaker 1: fake all NBA teams, I think I had Cade's second
Speaker 1: team and Jalen third team. I'm pretty sure that's how
Speaker 1: I had it. And now the Pistons feel like we
Speaker 1: can beat him up. Karl Anthony Towns is gonna back down,
Speaker 1: and they are and they are not afraid. And so
Speaker 1: I was shocked watching that last night that the and
Speaker 1: some breaking new sham says Dame is playing tonight. That's
Speaker 1: not I mean once he was upgrade to questionable. That's
Speaker 1: about what we expected. We'll talk about that in a
Speaker 1: bit with Pacers Bucks. But I thought last night that
Speaker 1: that when the Knicks were slowly chipping away, demanse that
Speaker 1: if they could just get over the hump, the garden
Speaker 1: was so electric and the Knicks at that point were
Speaker 1: getting every call that I said, Okay, I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna win. And then to his credit, man Dennis Shrewder
Speaker 1: bang bang Yeah. But after the Shrewder three, the Knicks
Speaker 1: had plenty of opportunities. Man, they like we can. The
Speaker 1: Shrewder three was obviously the biggest shout of the game.
Speaker 1: But after the Shrewder three and we ended up with
Speaker 1: I got very lucky. I was able to buy kind
Speaker 1: of last minute some really good seats, so we were
Speaker 1: right behind the Knicks bench. Shout out John Taturo of
Speaker 1: Rounders and Severance and every a bunch of other uh
Speaker 1: fame who we got to talk with for a moment. Uh.
Speaker 1: After that three by Shrewder, the Knicks possessions were Jalen
Speaker 1: Brunson pull up three decent look miss. McHale Bridges pull
Speaker 1: up three wide open miss. They then foul Shrewder. He
Speaker 1: only goes one of two. So now there's eight seconds left,
Speaker 1: you have your time out, you're down four. Make a
Speaker 1: shot and you're gonna have a shot to tie it.
Speaker 1: And Jalen Brunson open three kind of miss and game over.
Speaker 1: And so just a brutal, brutal close to the game
Speaker 1: there for for the Knicks.
Speaker 3: How many years?
Speaker 2: How many years before you think Kate Cunningham can make
Speaker 2: club superstar?
Speaker 1: I guess it's I gotta you know. I think this
Speaker 1: year's too early, but he's in contention and I would
Speaker 1: expect him maybe to be in next year. And so
Speaker 1: that's I would expect next year. It'd be disappointed if
Speaker 1: he's not in next year. And listen if they pull
Speaker 1: up this upset when the Knicks have after Cad, do
Speaker 1: the Knicks have the like of the five best players
Speaker 1: in this series are four on the Knicks, Jalen, cat Bridges,
Speaker 1: Og and Cad. Those are the five best guys in
Speaker 1: the series, right, It'd be pretty remarkable if he pulls
Speaker 1: this off. What's Matthew and the Chad Askin.
Speaker 3: He says, does bitch Robinson need more minutes?
Speaker 1: I mean, if Carly and tam is gonna play like that,
Speaker 1: maybe or maybe you want to go super big and
Speaker 1: play them both kind of kill your spacing. But I
Speaker 1: guess you it won't kill your space because Cat's a
Speaker 1: shooter anyway, but you probably can't play Mitch and Josh
Speaker 1: Hart a ton of minutes together and have two just
Speaker 1: non shooters out there. All right, let's talk Lakers Timberwolves.
Speaker 3: So the Lakers are in a spot.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, they lost their first game at home, so they're
Speaker 2: back tonight. Who do you think has the most pressure
Speaker 2: of figuring out in game two? Between Lebron, JJ or Austin.
Speaker 1: Reeves along with Luca.
Speaker 3: Oh, Luca obviously, sorry, you're fine.
Speaker 1: Sorry, you can clear your throat. This got to be
Speaker 1: a Lebron game. I like, here's the deal. I ain't Lebron.
Speaker 1: You know, can survey the landscape and say warriors rockets
Speaker 1: should be and we'll talk more about that shortly. Should
Speaker 1: be a war and the Lakers should be in good
Speaker 1: position to reach the conference finals if they can figure
Speaker 1: out the Timberwolves. And so I'm sure Lebron, who's very,
Speaker 1: very strategic and understands how much you know, how many
Speaker 1: he has left in the gun better than any athlete
Speaker 1: in sports history, which is why he's been able to
Speaker 1: perform at this level for as long as he has.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Lebron was hoping to not have to shoot
Speaker 1: one of those bullets in the second game of the playoffs,
Speaker 1: But if they lose tonight, they they just might be done.
Speaker 1: Like I'm not, it's not a I feel like if
Speaker 1: the Rockets lose Game two, they are done. That is
Speaker 1: a true must win for the Rockets. They are too
Speaker 1: young and too inexperienced to lose both of the games
Speaker 1: at home to a championship caliber team or a champion
Speaker 1: champion leaden team in Golden State and come back from it.
Speaker 1: I won't call, I won't officially right off the Lakers
Speaker 1: if they lose this game tonight, but they will be
Speaker 1: on life support. And so that means Lebron has to
Speaker 1: be more aggressive from the beginning, like this is to me,
Speaker 1: demon's I'm going to talk about all four of those guys.
Speaker 1: For Lebron, it's simple from the opening tip. He needs
Speaker 1: to be more aggressive offensively Julius Randall seemed to want
Speaker 1: to take on the challenge of going at Lebron on
Speaker 1: one end and guarding him on the other. Awesome, that
Speaker 1: is a that is a real opportunity for Lebron, and
Speaker 1: to also put Julius on the defensive, so to speak,
Speaker 1: from the opening tip, which I think could leak into
Speaker 1: Julius's offensive game, which while he hit open threes in
Speaker 1: Game one and give him credit for it, he also
Speaker 1: had seven turnovers. He also seemed a little too eager
Speaker 1: to go at Lebron and I don't think that's a
Speaker 1: winning matchup for the Timberwolf. So Lebron's just got to
Speaker 1: be more aggressive from the opening tip and as opposed
Speaker 1: to lighting the game come to him Austin if they are,
Speaker 1: Austin cannot let the Timberwolves get away with guarding him.
Speaker 1: With Mike Conley, the Timberwolves are at an offensive edge
Speaker 1: if they are able to keep Mike Conley on the
Speaker 1: floor big minutes because with Aunt being a willing passer,
Speaker 1: if you also have Mike Conley out there and you
Speaker 1: have two willing passers at the guard position, with that
Speaker 1: many good shooters that they have, the Timberwolves will be
Speaker 1: even harder to defend. The way to play Mike Conley
Speaker 1: off the court is to make him defend. They are
Speaker 1: going to try to hide him if they can. I'm
Speaker 1: sure they'll try to hide him on you know, Dorian
Speaker 1: Finney Smith. I guess, but he's probably gonna end up
Speaker 1: matched up on Austin. Austin has to make him pay
Speaker 1: Luca very simple. The Lakers are at their best when
Speaker 1: Luca is collapsing the defense and sprang it out to
Speaker 1: open shooters. Thirty said, Luca played well in game one.
Speaker 1: The idea that he should be you know, how accountable
Speaker 1: he is for only having the one assist when a
Speaker 1: lot of guys listen, there weren't open shooters, and guys
Speaker 1: when they were open weren't making shots. I'm not killing
Speaker 1: Luca for that at all. However, they lukea in that
Speaker 1: game created forty points. That's not gonna be enough because
Speaker 1: he scored thirty seven and had one assist. I'm Luca
Speaker 1: doesn't have to score thirty seven. They do need him
Speaker 1: to have eight, nine, ten assists. And then JJ and
Speaker 1: this is really interesting because JJ and I don't know
Speaker 1: how much of its games been I don't know how
Speaker 1: much of it is Not wanting to tip his hand,
Speaker 1: but JJ saying basically in these press conferences, I liked
Speaker 1: what we were doing schematically, we just didn't execute. I
Speaker 1: I didn't like what they were doing schematically. I'm not
Speaker 1: scapegoating JJ. The players did not come out with enough
Speaker 1: force or energy or intensity. And JJ's been excellent all
Speaker 1: year long. But the Timberwolves are at their most dangerous
Speaker 1: when Anthony Edwards is creating shots for other people. They're
Speaker 1: seven to oh this year when he has eight or
Speaker 1: more assists. Last year in the regular season, they were
Speaker 1: nine and three when he had eight or more assists,
Speaker 1: and the three losses they averaged one hundred and sixteen points.
Speaker 1: So the offense wasn't the problem. The year before that,
Speaker 1: they were six and zero in the regular season when
Speaker 1: he had eight or more assists. That tells you two things.
Speaker 1: One is it's a rare occurrence. Then Anthony Edwards is
Speaker 1: close to double d it assists. The other one is
Speaker 1: that's when their offense is humming. And so no, I
Speaker 1: don't think nas Reed and Jaden McDaniels are going to
Speaker 1: score at the level that they did in Game one.
Speaker 1: But I also think that It wasn't just dumb luck
Speaker 1: that led to them scoring at that level. It was
Speaker 1: the fact that the Lakers were terrified of Anthony Edwards
Speaker 1: getting to the rim on them, and because of that,
Speaker 1: they collapsed a defense that already was packed in the paint.
Speaker 1: And of those forty two Timberwold shots, thirty seven of
Speaker 1: them were classified as either wide open or open. They
Speaker 1: weren't making tough, contested threes, they were making practice shots.
Speaker 1: So Lebron's got to be more aggressive. Luca has to
Speaker 1: try to spoon feed Dorian and Ruie and Austin some
Speaker 1: open looks. Austin has to be more has to be
Speaker 1: more willing to try to hunt a Mike Conley mismatch.
Speaker 1: And JJ has to really figure out is Anthony Edwards
Speaker 1: at his most dangerous when he's flirting with a twenty
Speaker 1: and ten or when he's flirting with a thirty five
Speaker 1: point two assist game? Because I would rather sign up
Speaker 1: for the thirty five point two assist game if I'm
Speaker 1: the Lakers. So that's my thoughts on the series. Demand
Speaker 1: how much trouble do you think the Lakers are in
Speaker 1: before we move on?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I was gonna sit there in a rough spot.
Speaker 2: But I said at the beginning of the series, I
Speaker 2: could I could see it going forward to either way.
Speaker 2: Obviously got to pick up the game tonight. I think
Speaker 2: you lose this game, You're you're in a rough shot.
Speaker 2: You're in a rough spot. The Timberwolves is just younger
Speaker 2: and uh.
Speaker 1: And yeah, Timberwolves are younger and there with ant. They're
Speaker 1: not going to be afraid. I mean they they rolled
Speaker 1: the pacer at the Pacers the Suns in Round one
Speaker 1: last year. They stare Joker in the face in his
Speaker 1: building and beat them, so they're not gonna be afraid.
Speaker 1: I also think this though they are a team that
Speaker 1: will those guys are not going to be quite as
Speaker 1: active defensively if they are not also seeing their own
Speaker 1: shots go in and feeling good about their offense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a it's another reason to not let the defensive
Speaker 1: approach be. Have everyone else other than Anthony Edwards beat you.
Speaker 1: I just think it's the wrong approach. All right, let's
Speaker 1: do Rockets Warriors.
Speaker 2: So after dropping Game one at home, the Rockets are
Speaker 2: now down in that series. You had the Rockets winning
Speaker 2: this series, So how do you see them turning it around?
Speaker 1: Well, so such I think they can. It was really
Speaker 1: interesting game one because when Steph hits that moon ball
Speaker 1: insane three to go up twenty three points, you would
Speaker 1: expect the game to you know, go up twenty three
Speaker 1: points late in the third quarter, the game to just
Speaker 1: be over. And the Rockets never lost faith and never
Speaker 1: lost contact. And despite the fact that they couldn't down
Speaker 1: twenty three in a game where neither team breaks one
Speaker 1: hundred is like being down thirty five in a regular
Speaker 1: NBA game. And despite that, they got it to a
Speaker 1: one possession game late, They had it to a four
Speaker 1: point game when they should have, you know, with the
Speaker 1: ball at one point in the fourth quarter. They just
Speaker 1: couldn't get over the hump. So the how do they
Speaker 1: turn things around? Amen Thompson needs to be better defensively. Listen,
Speaker 1: young player, first playoff game, he's chasing around Steph Curry.
Speaker 1: Get it, no problem. Game two's got to be different.
Speaker 1: Jalen Green has to show up. If Jalen Green, Fred
Speaker 1: van Vliet I believe will show up. I just think
Speaker 1: he had a rough shitight. Fred van Vliet's a champion.
Speaker 1: Fred van Vlietz played big and big spots. Jalen Green
Speaker 1: has got to get you at least twenty. They're just
Speaker 1: not gonna score enough points otherwise. The reason for optimism
Speaker 1: for the Warriors is you played Stephen Jimmy huge minutes.
Speaker 1: They the optimism for the Rockets. I should say. They
Speaker 1: answered with fifty six points between them, but the rest
Speaker 1: of the team only scored thirty nine. Draymond was unbelievable defensively,
Speaker 1: but he had another triple single. They pods gave you
Speaker 1: a little. Moody made one shot. They're throwing Gee Santos
Speaker 1: and Quinton Post who really shouldn't be on the court
Speaker 1: in high leverage playoff spots at this point in their career.
Speaker 1: The Rockets have more high quality rotation players. They just
Speaker 1: have nobody, it seems like, other than Van Vliet and
Speaker 1: Shinnon that are confident offensively. And so yeah, Dylan Brooks
Speaker 1: needs to make the Rockets. Ultimately, when needs happened is
Speaker 1: Rockets got to make some shots and they cannot fall
Speaker 1: down two at home. Now. I thought that they were
Speaker 1: going to win Game one. I obviously was wrong. I
Speaker 1: don't think the Warriors have enough high quality players, and
Speaker 1: I don't think you can rely on Steph and Jimmy
Speaker 1: to combine for around sixty in every game in order
Speaker 1: for the Warriors to run away with this series. But
Speaker 1: my pick was Rockets in seven. And I will admit
Speaker 1: I watched that game thinking, okay, let's say we get
Speaker 1: to a game seven. Who the hell on the Rockets
Speaker 1: is not going to be absolutely petrified every time they
Speaker 1: have the ball. In that game seven, and now, Shingoon
Speaker 1: was more aggressive offensively than he was in most games,
Speaker 1: the only average eighteen points a game the regular season.
Speaker 1: Draymond was daring him to take those ten twelve fourteen footers.
Speaker 1: He took him, he made them. Shingoon's got to be
Speaker 1: even more aggressive offensively, like flatly, Shingoon's just gotta say,
Speaker 1: it's not really my game, but I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: go out here and score thirty. I'm gonna make you
Speaker 1: double me and see if that can generate some open looks.
Speaker 1: And so I thought the Warriors. I thought there was
Speaker 1: a real cost to manse for the Warriors almost blowing
Speaker 1: that twenty three point lead, because if you heard that
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr huddle, he said to Steph and Jimmy, he
Speaker 1: was like, you guys are gonna play forty plus minutes
Speaker 1: do you need a break? Are you tired? And they
Speaker 1: were like no, and he ran with him through the
Speaker 1: end of the game. I don't think that's what they
Speaker 1: wanted to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is that when do you think they would get hit?
Speaker 2: I mean even if they ended up beating Houston the
Speaker 2: next round, I mean.
Speaker 1: I would think the next round it particularly if they're
Speaker 1: playing the Lakers, but maybe even against the Thunder. Like,
Speaker 1: here's the thing about Steph. So Jimmy maybe is more
Speaker 1: used to this, but Jimmy also playoff. Jimmy is unbelievable
Speaker 1: and he is showing up. I had skeptical about if
Speaker 1: it was going to show up this year, but thus
Speaker 1: far in the play in the Clippers game, all those games,
Speaker 1: he has shown up. Steph is not a super high
Speaker 1: minutes guy, even in the playoffs. So Steph last year
Speaker 1: against the Lakers or two years ago, last time they
Speaker 1: made the playoffs, had one game in that series when
Speaker 1: he was at forty minutes and they lost. It's like
Speaker 1: they were cruising. They lost the series. Steph against the
Speaker 1: the Kings that year, they used him super heavy minutes
Speaker 1: in down two to one in the series, and then
Speaker 1: in Game five forty two and forty two minutes, and
Speaker 1: then they just couldn't use him insane minutes in game
Speaker 1: six and in Game seven, where he had one of
Speaker 1: his greatest playoff games ever a fifty piece. In Game seven,
Speaker 1: he still only played thirty seven minutes, even though he
Speaker 1: had fifty points the previous year they made the playoffs.
Speaker 1: When they won the championship in twenty twenty two, that
Speaker 1: entire playoff run, Steph had one game where he played
Speaker 1: more than forty minutes and was forty minutes forty one seconds.
Speaker 1: So like it's he is not a guy, and that's
Speaker 1: when he obviously was far younger that historically. Because and
Speaker 1: this isn't a knock on him, the guys out there
Speaker 1: running mini marathons, you know, without the ball that is
Speaker 1: gonna be playing these super heavy minutes. Now with Jimmy,
Speaker 1: they can survive the non Steph minutes in a way
Speaker 1: they couldn't before. Buy think the Rockets are gonna wear
Speaker 1: him down if this can be a long series. But
Speaker 1: in order for this to be a long series, Rockets
Speaker 1: have to win Game two. All right, let's get to
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Speaker 1: Let's do pacers box quickly before we get out of here.
Speaker 2: There might be some trouble over there at Milwaukee. Halliburton
Speaker 2: struggle to score, and they still won the game pretty easily,
Speaker 2: even with Giannis putting on a show. Dame miss game one,
Speaker 2: but it sounds like he might be back for game two.
Speaker 2: Do you Thinklwaukee can turn this around or is it possibly?
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm I picked them. I'm really worried about them.
Speaker 1: They just don't have enough good players. Man. One takeaway
Speaker 1: from these playoffs the first weekend was man, the three
Speaker 1: teams that had the best records in the regular season
Speaker 1: the Thunder, the Celtics, and the Calves. More so the
Speaker 1: Thunder and Celtics than the Calves, to be totally honest,
Speaker 1: but include the Calves are the only teams that you
Speaker 1: feel like, oh, they can have five quality players on
Speaker 1: the court and equality players sitting on the bench. Every
Speaker 1: other team. You watch them and it's like in Milwaukee
Speaker 1: more than anybody Milwaukee, you watch him and you're like,
Speaker 1: there's one guy out there that I that I think
Speaker 1: is a quality player. I mean, Torrian Prince has been
Speaker 1: cooked for a couple of years. But Arvin ham loves him,
Speaker 1: loved him with the Lakers, loves him. There Kuzma twenty
Speaker 1: point twenty minutes, zero stats, Brook Lopez, God, love him.
Speaker 1: What are we doing? Not? What are we doing? He's
Speaker 1: just old? And Ryan Rollins it was a starter. So
Speaker 1: you look at them and it's like, Okay, yes, Dame
Speaker 1: Will help, and Gary Trent Junior's good and Bobby Portis
Speaker 1: is good, but they don't have enough good players. The Pacers,
Speaker 1: to their credit, have a bunch of good players. They
Speaker 1: have no great players. They're one player who can be great.
Speaker 1: Halliburton had an off night, it didn't matter, and so
Speaker 1: I think the Bucks are in real trouble. I also
Speaker 1: think it would be foolish to expect Dame after a
Speaker 1: month off to come back and immediately look like Dame,
Speaker 1: and Dame is not going to help you defend the Pacers,
Speaker 1: who scored sixty seven in the first half games over
Speaker 1: a halftime is thirty six and twelve. You're down sixty
Speaker 1: seven forty three and a half. So I picked the
Speaker 1: Bucks because I wanted the Bucks to win, because I
Speaker 1: like Giannis. I think there now again overreaction, you know,
Speaker 1: to all these game ones.
Speaker 2: I Bucks, I'm actually problem shocked that you have like
Speaker 2: no faith at all, even like not not a title run,
Speaker 2: but at least to take care of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're playing a lot of bad players, bro it is,
Speaker 1: it's just a lot of players you don't trust. And
Speaker 1: then quickly listen because some of these pods might be
Speaker 1: closer to an hour instead of ninety minutes because we
Speaker 1: might I might be back on the air tomorrow morning
Speaker 1: to do a quick Lakers Timberwolves reaction, uh pod. This
Speaker 1: part of the NBA playoffs, I feel like we almost
Speaker 1: should be on every day. Uh you know, so the
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get and we've got some NFL
Speaker 1: Draft stuff later in the week, so the other series
Speaker 1: we can just do quickly. I'm just gonna tell you
Speaker 1: guys right now, I do this for a living. I
Speaker 1: love the NBA, I love the playoffs. I do not
Speaker 1: feel a personal nor a professional obligation to really watch
Speaker 1: three of these series. Celtics Magic. I don't feel like
Speaker 1: I am doing anyone of disservice by just passively having
Speaker 1: on in the background Calves Heat. I might not watch
Speaker 1: a second of it, I'm telling you right now. Like
Speaker 1: it's gonna the and thunder Grizzlies, you almost want just
Speaker 1: to see how bad of a massacre it can be.
Speaker 1: But like tomorrow night, we have the old seven o'clock Magic, Celtics,
Speaker 1: seven thirty Heat, Calves and then nine thirty one Warriors
Speaker 1: Rockets tomorrow night. You know what that sounds like to me?
Speaker 1: To Monday, that sounds like a date night, an early
Speaker 1: dinner date night, and then back in the house Warriors Rocket.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just it's and by the way, this
Speaker 1: is a this is a out of respect to the Thunder,
Speaker 1: the Celtics and the Calves. It's not because those teams
Speaker 1: aren't interesting. It's not because those teams aren't awesome. It's because, yes,
Speaker 1: see in round two, man, I mean, the Grizzlies got
Speaker 1: beat by fifty. Shay doesn't score twenty for the first
Speaker 1: times in to Halloween. It doesn't matter. The Celtics have
Speaker 1: Tatum Brown and Chris STAPs I think combined for like
Speaker 1: fifteen of forty four. It doesn't matter because the Magic
Speaker 1: can't score. Paalo scores thirty six, the rest of the
Speaker 1: team scored fifty and heat Calves. I can't tell you
Speaker 1: what happened. I can't tell you the score. I'm I
Speaker 1: don't even was that game Sunday?
Speaker 3: When was that?
Speaker 1: That must have been in the middle of the Easter
Speaker 1: egg hunt, because I vividly remember Magic Celtics. Oh, I
Speaker 1: know what happened with Heat Calves. One of my mom's
Speaker 1: dear friends who was over for Easter is married to
Speaker 1: a Canadian and there was the hockey playoffs on, and
Speaker 1: he was like, do you care if we turn on
Speaker 1: the hockey playoffs. I'm like, it's Heat Calves, buddy, you
Speaker 1: go right out at it. So I was like, it
Speaker 1: was like, You're very lucky because this could have been
Speaker 1: a very awk. Like usually when someone's like, hey, do
Speaker 1: you mind if I turned something on, the answers always no,
Speaker 1: of course, go ahead. But if Warriors Rockets was the
Speaker 1: early game, the answer would have been yes, I mind,
Speaker 1: and know you can't. But it was Heat Calves. So
Speaker 1: I watched a little It was two Canadian teams playing
Speaker 1: each other. It is Toronto against Ontario. Maybe I don't know,
Speaker 1: but whatever, I watched a little playoff hockey shout out
Speaker 1: to me and so Heat Calves. I don't know what happened,
Speaker 1: und I'm looking. So I don't have analysis for you
Speaker 1: on it. I don't feel like I'm not doing my
Speaker 1: job because of it. I am. I'm just those series
Speaker 1: are over. Let's all right, remember like rate, subscribe, review,
Speaker 1: do all that cool stuff. And it was Toronto Ottawa.
Speaker 1: There we go, all right, let's do some listener questions.
Speaker 2: Uh, Dylan asked, can Kawhi make the top fifty all time.
Speaker 3: After these playoffs, he's.
Speaker 1: Already in the top fifty all time h A two finals, MVPs,
Speaker 1: a couple seasons where he was top five MVP finisher,
Speaker 1: top fifty all time, Like, I you know that is
Speaker 1: he's already cemented there. If they were to win the championship,
Speaker 1: then top twenty five all time, is I think fair?
Speaker 1: I think like he becomes like a rich rich man's
Speaker 1: Bill Walton, where you know these super high peaks that
Speaker 1: with a career that was kind of derailed a bit
Speaker 1: due to injury. But if he wins a championship here
Speaker 1: and listen, the Clippers are not gonna win the championship.
Speaker 1: But if he were to, then yeah, then you have
Speaker 1: to say that he Like right now, I don't have
Speaker 1: him ahead of and I know this will irk people
Speaker 1: on my all time whole career list. I don't have
Speaker 1: him ahead of James Harden. I understand why is a
Speaker 1: champion and Harden isn't. But Harden has you know, ten
Speaker 1: unbelievable seasons and Kawi just you know has four. Uh,
Speaker 1: But if you were to win the championship even alongside Harden,
Speaker 1: Harden gets a ring too. He then jumps him. If
Speaker 1: Kawi is the man on the run, all right, we
Speaker 1: have another Kauhi question.
Speaker 2: Uh, how is Kawhi eligibile for club Superstar given that
Speaker 2: he's been kicked out before?
Speaker 1: Yes, Anthony Davis got kicked out and got back in.
Speaker 1: Any Davis also might get kicked out again. Then again,
Speaker 1: do you become more of a superstar because you were
Speaker 1: traded for Luka Dancic? I don't know. Go to Christian's question.
Speaker 2: Uh, Christian, do you not live tweet during games because
Speaker 2: you don't want to be tied to your heat of
Speaker 2: the moment takes?
Speaker 1: Well, it's it's a number of reasons. One is I'm
Speaker 1: not really on Twitter during games. I don't enjoy that experience.
Speaker 1: I enjoy watching the games, So there's that. I have
Speaker 1: a hard time if I am tweeting during games. So
Speaker 1: much of it is just going to be ripping Reggie
Speaker 1: Miller's commentary, and that's not good for anybody. So I
Speaker 1: just leave that alone, and I don't feel an obligation.
Speaker 1: So here's the deal, little media, pull back the curtain
Speaker 1: a bit. And I'm sure a lot of you have picked.
Speaker 3: Up on this.
Speaker 1: Some people in my profession live tweet during games to
Speaker 1: try to prove to you there watching. They're not adding
Speaker 1: any like thing super interesting or nuance or whatever. It's
Speaker 1: just like, wow, what a play just to be like, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm watching you see this a lot with guys you
Speaker 1: know in the like late night NBA games. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I stayed up to do this. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not acting like I never did that. So
Speaker 1: I when the TV show first started, especially when like
Speaker 1: you know, TV show was on in the morning, I
Speaker 1: would sometimes intentionally just send a totally banaal tweet, like
Speaker 1: with two minutes left in a one am Lakers game,
Speaker 1: just be like, man, I'm watching this, then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be up. I don't feel an obligation to do that
Speaker 1: anymore because I feel like I I've established myself as someone
Speaker 1: who watches the games, so the I don't think I
Speaker 1: feel like I have to prove it to everyone. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying everyone does that, but some people are
Speaker 1: definitely doing that. And here's the other thing, because I
Speaker 1: did you know, I made it clear I don't read
Speaker 1: my mentions, but I do occasionally when I open Twitter
Speaker 1: click that tab and just you know, see it for
Speaker 1: a second, and there was a lot of folks. Oh,
Speaker 1: after I tweeted out the link to yesterday's emergency pot,
Speaker 1: a lot of people like, oh, this guy was hiding
Speaker 1: all weekend because the Lakers lost and the Warriors won
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah ah this stuff. I'm now gonna
Speaker 1: say something really obnoxious. I understand why for folks fan
Speaker 1: adjacent people who might have, like you know, a team
Speaker 1: oriented spaces that they do on Twitter or a very
Speaker 1: very lightly listen to them and their friends podcast, but
Speaker 1: have a legitimate social media following view media through the
Speaker 1: prism of if you're not giving your take on Twitter,
Speaker 1: you didn't give your take. I happen to have enough
Speaker 1: real platforms that I can say nothing on Twitter and
Speaker 1: the whole world gets to hear what I had to
Speaker 1: say anyway. So I don't feel an obligation to be like,
Speaker 1: oh man, Laker's in trouble in one hundred and forty characters,
Speaker 1: what a shot by Steph, because I'll do that on
Speaker 1: the YouTube show, the podcast, the TV show, or something else.
Speaker 1: So I there's there's very little running that can be
Speaker 1: done when you're on national television every single day. You
Speaker 1: just might have to wait for the actual show to
Speaker 1: get my takes on things. And with that, we'll wrap
Speaker 1: today's show. See you guys all with Colin in about
Speaker 1: ninety minutes. Again, I'm not gonna tweet about that appearance.
Speaker 1: It's still gonna happen. And then I'll see you on
Speaker 1: the TV show in a few hours. Great job demands,
Speaker 1: talk to everybody soon, See you guys. Thanks to Blue Duck,
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