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Speaker 2: In a previous life, he could have been George Washington,

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Speaker 2: nice cat, perhaps Annie Oakley and look at him.

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Speaker 1: Why it's Napoleon reincarnation.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the Nodungks podcast

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Speaker 2: on the Athletic Network. It's Wednesday, April seventeenth, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: I'm j E.

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Speaker 2: Skeets here in the Classic Factory and alongside me as

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Speaker 2: always tas.

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Speaker 3: Mellis Playoffs slovers. It's not the postseason yet, Playoff slovers.

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Speaker 4: This one's for you.

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Speaker 2: Next to him, it's the beard One, A top shot boy,

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Speaker 2: Trey Kirby, he out hey yo. And last but not least,

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Speaker 2: making the magic happen, super producer jd He there, he

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Speaker 2: is here, we are. I thought it was the postseason,

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Speaker 2: not the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: I never know.

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Speaker 2: That got me a second guess of myself. Is it

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Speaker 2: the postseason or the playoffs? Or is the playoffs and

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Speaker 2: not the postseason?

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Speaker 1: Who knows?

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Speaker 2: got a lot to get to here today we are

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Speaker 2: going to preview and predict the three Western Conference playoff

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Speaker 2: series that we do know. We also have a Giannis update,

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Speaker 2: Blake Griffin has retired. But before all that, we got

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Speaker 2: some play in games to talk about. And let's start

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Speaker 2: with Zion Williamson exiting the game with like three minutes

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Speaker 2: to go with legs soreness, and the Lakers hold off

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Speaker 2: the Pelicans to earn the number seven seed. We'll get

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Speaker 2: to the Lakers Nuggets actual playoff matchup later, but this

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Speaker 2: game was incredible because Zion was cooking. They came back,

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Speaker 2: he had forty points, he had ten boards. It looked

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Speaker 2: like they were maybe gonna win this game. And then

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Speaker 2: after a bucket he comes down tass and is just

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Speaker 2: sort of goes off and throws a towel in frustration,

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Speaker 2: and we never see him again, and we don't even

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Speaker 2: know the severity of this injury leg soreness. I guess

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Speaker 2: he's gonna get some imaging today.

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Speaker 1: Crazy.

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Speaker 3: This was the best Ion game I can remember. This

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Speaker 3: was the best game of his career and the first

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Speaker 3: game of his postseason playoffs. Whatever you call it, this

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Speaker 3: was that's what made it bigger.

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Speaker 4: And he was.

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Speaker 3: Just fantastic at the way he was driving every single possession.

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Speaker 3: I was scared that there was gonna be more mid

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of settling when Lebron was able to

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Speaker 3: even a three. Perhaps there was one, and there was

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Speaker 3: a mid range shot. But he was just driving to

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Speaker 3: every body. It didn't matter who it was, Lebron, Anthony Davis, Jackson, Hayes,

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Speaker 3: and he was going at them. Seventeen of twenty seven shooting.

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Speaker 3: It was a great game, forty points. It would have

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Speaker 3: been higher if he didn't have to exit with three

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Speaker 3: on with the leg. And the Pelicans were able to fight.

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Speaker 3: They were able to make it a tie game minute

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Speaker 3: going to talk about Anthon Davis, because they won this

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Speaker 3: the end of the game, minute thirty left. He got

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Speaker 2: he hustle off too. He went off kind of quickly.

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Speaker 1: I saw Will Gillery from the Athletics said he left

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Speaker 1: the game without a limp, nothing on his leg. All

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Speaker 1: He's awesome when he's on the court, and then the

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Speaker 1: than that, not great from the Pelicans because CJ. McCollum

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Speaker 3: As you said, didn't hit a bucket in the second half.

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Speaker 3: It is unfortunate, very very very unfortunate that one of

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Speaker 3: You'd think it would be c J McCollum to help

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Speaker 3: don't know why the box scoort just game one block.

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Speaker 3: It was a mistake. He blocked Lebron beautifully in the

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Speaker 4: What up with that?

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Speaker 3: He played great defensively too. He was giving it all. Literally,

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Speaker 3: just throwing his body into guys. That one bucket where

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Speaker 4: It sucked.

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Speaker 3: They just need one of their second the former alstar

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Speaker 2: C J McCollum, You throw away Sunday's game where they

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Speaker 2: you have a stretch where he hit like twenty nine

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Speaker 2: three pointers over four game. He couldn't miss there for

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Speaker 2: what a week of basketball? But yeah, one to nine

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Speaker 2: I'll give Willie Green some credit to have sort of

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Speaker 2: Alvarado has just given us more here than you are,

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Speaker 2: so you know, he leaned into those guys. You know,

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Speaker 2: he knocked down. At least did he have both those

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Speaker 1: But that's the one where Reggie was talking about missing

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Speaker 2: Well, no, that was right at the very that was insanity.

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Speaker 2: That was Reggie. I don't know what was happening there where.

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Speaker 2: It's over. And Reggie's talking about, oh should they miss this?

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Speaker 1: No, Reggie Podcaster Now, he wants exciting games. So you

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Speaker 1: got to get the other chance and the other team

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Speaker 1: a chance to tie it up here, Yeah if you can.

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Speaker 1: Yeah that the rebound by eighty that was a highlight rebound.

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Speaker 1: Wharry Nance did a great job. He's usually not the

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Speaker 3: and gave vinzit was awesome. Nine points in this game.

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Speaker 1: The only thing I'm really thinking about right now is

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Speaker 3: Well, the performance by Pelle what was his name, just

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Speaker 1: No, they lost.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 2: Let's move over to Sacramento. Kings eliminated the Warriors one

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Speaker 3: I just love their supporting cast in this game.

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Speaker 4: I thought was awesome.

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Speaker 3: The fact that mainly Kean Ellis and Keegan Murray were

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Speaker 4: No problem. Keegan Murray.

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Speaker 3: This is his second time, obviously after last year and losing.

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Speaker 4: He was ready.

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Speaker 4: This guy's young.

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Speaker 3: He can't he can't do this. He obviously is ready

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Speaker 3: That's what stood out. And they rely on those guys too.

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Speaker 3: They didn't go to the bench like the Pelicans had

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Speaker 1: This is incredible? Honestly from the Kings. They completely dominated

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Speaker 1: But this is great for the Kings to go into

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Speaker 2: thought the officials were letting these two teams play too,

438
00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:48,280
Speaker 2: so you could be a little more physical sort of

439
00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:50,640
Speaker 2: off the ball when they're trying to get Steph coming

440
00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:53,200
Speaker 2: around picks and all that. And uh yeah, to have

441
00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:55,400
Speaker 2: Steph Curry only go for twenty two points, not even

442
00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:57,840
Speaker 2: a ton of shots, and then for Ellis to chip

443
00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:01,639
Speaker 2: in fifteen points, five assists, three steel, three blocks, I mean,

444
00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:03,400
Speaker 2: if you're doing like the stars of the game, it's

445
00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,760
Speaker 2: probably it's one to two between Keegan and Ellis, and

446
00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:10,399
Speaker 2: then you're you're all stars, you're all NBA guys. Probably

447
00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:12,280
Speaker 2: Fox gets the third one. The bonus is right there

448
00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:14,080
Speaker 2: as well. Fox was really good in the third quarter.

449
00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:16,239
Speaker 2: I thought that maybe it got overlooked because of these

450
00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:18,440
Speaker 2: sort of role players stepping up. I thought he did

451
00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:20,480
Speaker 2: great in that quarter where they started to separate. He

452
00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:22,600
Speaker 2: had fourteen I think of his twenty four. It's like

453
00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:24,399
Speaker 2: picking his spots. I thought he played a really just

454
00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:25,120
Speaker 2: smart game.

455
00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:27,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, sort of under control, but it.

456
00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,600
Speaker 2: Was it was good. The Warriors committed sixteen turnovers, they

457
00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:33,359
Speaker 2: gave up fifteen offensive rebounds, way too many threes open looks.

458
00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:37,120
Speaker 2: They looked slow, they looked old. Yeah, then they looked

459
00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:40,399
Speaker 2: you know, especially when Clay's going over ten. Draymond was

460
00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:43,160
Speaker 2: not all that impactful, you know, a couple of nice

461
00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:45,640
Speaker 2: defensive plays, which you expect from but not a huge

462
00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:47,879
Speaker 2: impact on the game. It felt like, it really felt it.

463
00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,560
Speaker 2: I was like, staff, save us, yeah, Staph please anything.

464
00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:54,280
Speaker 2: And they had these guys just running multiple guys on them.

465
00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:56,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Steph stepped out of the out of bounds

466
00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:58,879
Speaker 3: in the fourth court. Sort of Draymond it's just like, whoa,

467
00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:01,240
Speaker 3: these guys, this isn't This isn't the best Warriors that

468
00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,800
Speaker 3: we've seen here over the last decade. But thinking as

469
00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,640
Speaker 3: the playoffs came on, I thought, well, we have seen

470
00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:09,399
Speaker 3: the best Warriors at least the last few weeks. So

471
00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,840
Speaker 3: this was surprising to see. As you mentioned those offensive

472
00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:16,840
Speaker 3: rebounding the numbers for the Sacramento Kings, that's what that's

473
00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:18,919
Speaker 3: where they got popped in Game seven last year. The

474
00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:22,639
Speaker 3: Warriors felt good, and here it was the Kings. Fifteen

475
00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:27,120
Speaker 3: offensive boards is a monstrous number, and they just continued

476
00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:31,400
Speaker 3: to do it quarter after quarter after quarter. You'd think

477
00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:32,360
Speaker 3: the Warriors would come back.

478
00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, you kept waiting. You're like, yeah, when's the ball

479
00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:35,960
Speaker 2: going to drop?

480
00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,280
Speaker 4: Here? This was revenge.

481
00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:39,840
Speaker 3: This literally was a revenge for that entire arena, for

482
00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,800
Speaker 3: that entire fan base. And we're gonna see if they

483
00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:44,440
Speaker 3: can do it again Friday, because they really just shut

484
00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:46,680
Speaker 3: everybody up. They shut me up. I just didn't expect it,

485
00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,480
Speaker 3: especially the last few weeks. They gave up big leads

486
00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:51,560
Speaker 3: in losses. They gave up two twenty point leads, another

487
00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,800
Speaker 3: seventeen point lead, so they thought, how the heck are

488
00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:55,600
Speaker 3: they going to do this for four quarters. But I

489
00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:57,520
Speaker 3: think the Key on Els thing is real, The Key

490
00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,080
Speaker 3: and Merry thing is real. Like they have guys that

491
00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,400
Speaker 3: you can just plug and play right now.

492
00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:04,600
Speaker 2: It felt like one of the weird things in coming

493
00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,280
Speaker 2: down to America, to the South especially was like learning

494
00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:11,159
Speaker 2: about college football, right because it was just something I

495
00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,520
Speaker 2: never followed in Canada. And I bring this up because

496
00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 2: a good friend, Jared. You guys know, he went to

497
00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,400
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech. So I started going to the odd football game.

498
00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:21,159
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech stinks at football. I mean, they haven't been

499
00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:23,639
Speaker 2: good for a long time. And he started explaining though

500
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,440
Speaker 2: that a good season to Georgia Tech would just be

501
00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,320
Speaker 2: beating Georgia. And I'm like, hold on, so you're saying

502
00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:33,000
Speaker 2: your team could go zero to twelve, but if you

503
00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:37,280
Speaker 2: beat Georgia that season, that's a success one hundred percent absolutely,

504
00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:38,919
Speaker 2: And I'm like, you're kidding, right, No, That's how they

505
00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,760
Speaker 2: think here with these rivals between you know, especially like

506
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:47,640
Speaker 2: the underdogs to the big dogs, the actual dogs in Georgia.

507
00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:49,960
Speaker 2: And that's what this sort of felt like for the Kings.

508
00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:51,600
Speaker 2: Now they got another game to play, they got you know,

509
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:53,240
Speaker 2: they want to get into the playoffs again and try

510
00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:54,480
Speaker 2: and win a series. I get all that, but it

511
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,119
Speaker 2: was like, this is there. They're the little brother against

512
00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:59,320
Speaker 2: the big brother, and this was a hell of a

513
00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,400
Speaker 2: victory that they can be like, at least we got

514
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,679
Speaker 2: this in this very weird season where it was a

515
00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,879
Speaker 2: little bit of a disappointment from last year. They got it.

516
00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:09,680
Speaker 2: They got the one to take out their NorCal neighbors. There,

517
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,920
Speaker 2: what are they one hundred miles apart? And they kicked

518
00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,160
Speaker 2: their ass too? Is the other thing? It wasn't oh

519
00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:15,960
Speaker 2: they got lucky on a bounce here there was. It

520
00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:17,760
Speaker 2: was domination, like you said, Trey, sort of all four

521
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,639
Speaker 2: quarters they showed there were a better team. And it

522
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:22,919
Speaker 2: was a long winded way to say all of that,

523
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:24,640
Speaker 2: but I wanted to bring up Georgia Tech football.

524
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,560
Speaker 1: Shout out to Calvin Johnson. That's right, Georgia Tech students

525
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:30,800
Speaker 1: are too smart to be good at football. That's the problem.

526
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,800
Speaker 4: Engineers aren't good at football. I guess you.

527
00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 2: Should engineer a good offense. They ran the wildcat for

528
00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:42,199
Speaker 2: a bit. I know that. Yeah, it turns out you

529
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 2: need the personnel to run that. But anyway, any other

530
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:49,240
Speaker 2: notes on the Kings specifically because we can talk about

531
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:52,800
Speaker 2: the Warriors and whether this is the end of the dynasty.

532
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,960
Speaker 2: Do you think this is the last we saw maybe

533
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 2: Klay Thompson with Golden State or at least this iteration

534
00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:00,520
Speaker 2: of this incredible team from the last decade.

535
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,639
Speaker 3: It's very, very tough to say what Don Levy is

536
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,879
Speaker 3: thinking in that front office, but I think this is

537
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,239
Speaker 3: the end of the dynasty. I think we've seen one

538
00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 3: of the best teams in the history of the NBA. Yes,

539
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 3: no doubt, and Steph is definitely coming back. The question

540
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:19,360
Speaker 3: is the other guys. I know Chris Paul is done

541
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 3: as a Golden State Warrior. I just you just have

542
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:23,119
Speaker 3: to be. He just has to be.

543
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:25,360
Speaker 2: He was nowhere to be found last night.

544
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a backup point guard and they're spending

545
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 1: thirty million dollars exactly doesn't make sense.

546
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,479
Speaker 3: So number reason one for sure. The other questions are

547
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 3: Draymond Green are Klaytopson? And Draymond Green has caused a

548
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,040
Speaker 3: lot of problems these last two seasons. Has been a

549
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 3: dramatic two seasons, and I just don't know if you

550
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,639
Speaker 3: can try and do it again. It's not like we

551
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 3: won this CU We won the title last season.

552
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:51,600
Speaker 1: Give us another one.

553
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 3: They've had two chances now and it hasn't happened. So

554
00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 3: Draymond Green, I think it would be tough, but they'd

555
00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:01,480
Speaker 3: have to find somebody who'd want his contract. So that's

556
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 3: a tough part. The Klay Thompson won that's more like, Hey,

557
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,600
Speaker 3: this guy's is still loved by our franchise, but do

558
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,119
Speaker 3: we just give up on him? And I think it

559
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 3: might be good for Klay Thompson just to go somewhere else.

560
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,200
Speaker 3: Orlando is a hot rumor where he would go and

561
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,639
Speaker 3: just be a guy that would be asked to shoot

562
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 3: every single possession. So that might just me be better

563
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 3: for Klay Thompson if he wants.

564
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 4: That kind of thing.

565
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:24,199
Speaker 2: That's whether he wants that.

566
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 4: Yeah.

567
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, like Tony Parker leaving this SEC or the San

568
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,720
Speaker 3: Antonio Spurs for Charlotte. You know, I want to try

569
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,400
Speaker 3: something new, try something different. So it's kind of up

570
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 3: to Clay really whether or not there's going to be

571
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:37,600
Speaker 3: a dynasty for me. Draymond Green is that's the front

572
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 3: office saying, Okay, we gotta do this, Okay, we got

573
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:43,639
Speaker 3: to give up. I mean, it's those two guys really

574
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,640
Speaker 3: what it comes down to. For me, that's tough. It's

575
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:47,040
Speaker 3: tough call.

576
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's tough because Raymond's actually signed. He's got two

577
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,879
Speaker 1: years left on his deal, plus the plus the option

578
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 1: year that matches up with Steph Curry. But Draymond is

579
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 1: also the reason they've been in the position they have

580
00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 1: been the past couple of seasons. He punched Jordan Poole

581
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:01,439
Speaker 1: in the face that ruined last season, but then they

582
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 1: said it's all good. Jordan Poole's gone. He was the problem.

583
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 1: Draymond missed thirty games basically this year due to suspensions.

584
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 1: They played at a fifty win pace when he was

585
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:11,919
Speaker 1: on the court. They're still good when Draymond plays. They

586
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:13,920
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been in the play in where they're losing

587
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:15,679
Speaker 1: one game and they're out of the playoffs if Draymond

588
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,440
Speaker 1: was able to stay on the court. So yeah, I mean,

589
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 1: I guess if Golden State could find somebody that's interested

590
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:22,679
Speaker 1: in taking on Draymond this late in his career with

591
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,399
Speaker 1: this much money, maybe they would entertain that. But I

592
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 1: think that's unlikely. It's gonna come down to Clay to me,

593
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,159
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be his decision. I think because I

594
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 1: think the Warriors would take him back for the right deal.

595
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 1: But Clay's a pretty proud guy. We've seen how often

596
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:38,680
Speaker 1: he talks about having four rings. Is he gonna want

597
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 1: to take a fifty percent pay cut to stay with

598
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,040
Speaker 1: the only team he's ever played for? Maybe because I

599
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:44,679
Speaker 1: think that's the only way he stays around. Because I'm

600
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 1: with you, Test, they got to move on from Chris Paul.

601
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,120
Speaker 1: That's just too much salary to spend on a back

602
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,119
Speaker 1: up point guard when you've got a guy in Pajeenski

603
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 1: who can handle that sort of role. They got to

604
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 1: figure out what to do with Wiggins. The guy has

605
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,119
Speaker 1: signed through twenty twenty seven, that last option is a

606
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,680
Speaker 1: player year, and he has been completely un reliable on

607
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,120
Speaker 1: the court and being on the court since they won

608
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: the championship. Peyton Gary Payton the second remember that guy.

609
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,160
Speaker 1: We haven't talked about him the entire season. He hasn't

610
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,400
Speaker 1: been able to stay healthy. Looney has taken a step back,

611
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,400
Speaker 1: and honestly, Steph Curry is one of the ten pest

612
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,399
Speaker 1: players in the league. Probably still he's not one of

613
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 1: the five best players. So I kind of think that

614
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:21,639
Speaker 1: the Warriors need to get a second star, So they

615
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 1: should be doing whatever they can packaging Chris Paul Wiggins,

616
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:27,680
Speaker 1: the picks that they have, any of these young guys

617
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: who are still interesting. Like Kaminga is a great player.

618
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,119
Speaker 1: I think he's probably been the second best Warrior the

619
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 1: whole season. They should trade him because I mean, if

620
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 1: you're trying to win with Steph Curry waiting on Kaminga

621
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 1: to be your second best player, it ain't gonna work.

622
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 1: So I think they should probably be in the Karl

623
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:43,479
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns market when it comes down to it.

624
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this is a team too with a

625
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 2: historic luxury tax bill. Yeah, and they ended up the

626
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 2: tenth seed and they're out after one game. So yeah,

627
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 2: these these it sounds like these spending cuts or whatever

628
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 2: are coming. Chris Paul, can you find somebody that's even

629
00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 2: interested in Andrew Wiggins? Draymond's a fascinating one. And then

630
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 2: Klay Thompson. Yeah, I mean, I don't know, my gut

631
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 2: says he just it's interesting. You're right, he's a very

632
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 2: prideful guy. I mean, this stunk. This was weird to see, Like, oh,

633
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 2: for ten we always talked about Klay Thompson in the

634
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 2: Big moments and big games, he generally comes through or

635
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,640
Speaker 2: he's still a threat. But I mean this is now

636
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:17,959
Speaker 2: two years in a row where he's like whoa, whoa

637
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,360
Speaker 2: in like the big moment where he just had a stinker.

638
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 2: I don't know, my gut says he still stays though,

639
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 2: and I hope he I guess I hope he does too.

640
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,119
Speaker 2: You know, I don't want a Tony Park around the

641
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 2: Hornet situation. It's sort of sometimes nice to see these

642
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 2: dynasty teams not like, yeah, still get another chance, but

643
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,119
Speaker 2: just at least even stick together. But he would have

644
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 2: to be at the right cost, because you can't go

645
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 2: given this guy, you know, thirty million dollars or something

646
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 2: like that per you're not even close. I mean you

647
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 2: should get We got Grayson Allen making what twenty million

648
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 2: per a little bit less. It probably should be around that.

649
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 4: Yeah.

650
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 3: I just think the Atlanta Magic would suit him so well.

651
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 3: He wouldn't have to be a great defensive player because

652
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 3: he got great defensive players around you, so many of them.

653
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 3: So you just have to be solid defensively and you

654
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 3: can shoot every time, because we need a guard who

655
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 3: can shoot every time. So that would make sense. But

656
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,400
Speaker 3: I do get not wanting him to stay there, that's

657
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 3: for sure. I compared it to the Spurs situation, but

658
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 3: they had two guys who ended their careers who started

659
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,439
Speaker 3: their careers there, and Duncan and Genobili. So we know

660
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 3: Curry's gonna finish his career there. We know is the

661
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 3: second one going to be Clay. I think there's a

662
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,160
Speaker 3: bigger chance that it's Clay than Draymond. But they gotta

663
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,360
Speaker 3: find somebody who wants Raymond. That's gonna that's hard to do.

664
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 3: The other thing is it's gonna be hard to find

665
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 3: somebody who wants Chris Paul's thirty million dollars if they

666
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 3: opt into that. Maybe if Chris Paul is very nice,

667
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 3: he'll say, I'll take a cheaper contract and you can

668
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 3: trade me somewhere and that would help out.

669
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 4: They're gonna be hard.

670
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 2: Could Chris Paul be done?

671
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 4: He could retire? He could, yeah, first time.

672
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 1: He's not made the playoffs this season, that's right, that's

673
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: right at least, and his money's not guaranteed for next season. No,

674
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: they trade him, they could watch, team can cut him.

675
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very unlikely he'll be with the Warriors. Stuff

676
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 2: for sure, but come into Moody. Those guys become extension

677
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 2: eligible this offseason. There's that as well, like big decisions

678
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 2: of course, and you're saying you still have Steph Curry

679
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 2: still despite his age, is obviously an elite player. You

680
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 2: want to find that that second star because it's it's

681
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 2: not Draymond or Clay anymore, is the truth.

682
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: He wore down this season too. He did an MVP

683
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: candidate through the first half of the season, and then

684
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: he had to carry this team to the tenth seed

685
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: and even got tired.

686
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, who do you think the Thunder would rather

687
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 2: face in the first round here? Now that we know

688
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 2: it's Pelicans Kings on Friday Night. I guess there's the

689
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 2: whole Zion portion of this. Is that the easy answer

690
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 2: they'd rather see a Zion list Pelicans team than.

691
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 3: I think they'd just rather see the Pelicans period. I

692
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 3: know the Pelicans have beaten them five friggin times this season.

693
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 2: Pelicans have beaten the Kings.

694
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 4: Yeh, yes, so.

695
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 3: That would be obviously to that being said, it would

696
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 3: be hard for Zion to do what he just did again,

697
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 3: even if he is playing. I mean, that's that was

698
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 3: an incredible game from Zion. The second thing is who

699
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 3: is their second best player, who would help out Zion?

700
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 3: Brandingham just doesn't look like he just doesn't.

701
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 4: C J McCollum.

702
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 3: Maybe perhaps I just think the Kings are a better

703
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 3: team right now. All five of those guys in their

704
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 3: starting lineup right now are better. I mean there's there's

705
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 3: no starter who's scared, you know, from Fox the Bonus,

706
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 3: the Keys and Keegan Murray and Keon Clark plus Harrison Barnes,

707
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 3: and they barely went to their bench. I think I

708
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 3: think they just think they're a better team right now.

709
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 2: Thunder would prefer the Pells to things.

710
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Yeah, I think that's I don't really think the

711
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: Thunder should be shaken in their boots regardless of who

712
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna play. Shay has lit up both of these teams,

713
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: and I think that they would have an advantage. That's

714
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: why they're the one seed playing against whoever. This is

715
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 1: gonna be the eight sy But with the question marks

716
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: of Zion's injury, how Brandon Ingram has looked since his return,

717
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 1: I think that the Pelicans are the easy choice for Okay, see.

718
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 2: We have a little news when we're looking at injuries. Here,

719
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 2: according to Wolves. The Milwaukee Bucks are preparing to be

720
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 2: without Yannis for the start of their Eastern Conference first

721
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 2: round series against the Pacers. They're hopeful, though, that treatment

722
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 2: on his left calf strain will allow him to return

723
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 2: sometime later in the series. We're going to do our

724
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 2: Eastern Conference playoff previews on tomorrow's show, But just to

725
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 2: slip this news in here, no Johannis over the weekend,

726
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 2: at least for that Game one. So is that gonna

727
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 2: change maybe where you're leaning in a Bucks Pacer series.

728
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,959
Speaker 3: I wasn't pro Bucks in the way they've been playing recently.

729
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 3: No matter what, does Dame kind of go back to

730
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 3: his Portland days and feel pretty good about, you know,

731
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 3: not having to go through Janis if it's just one game,

732
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 3: you just got to have a monster Monster Dame game,

733
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 3: so he could feel extremely comfortable with that where he's

734
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 3: just literally the guy as he was last season, seasons before.

735
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 3: But if this is out the entire you know, whether

736
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 3: it's two, three, four games, I mean, that's that's terrible

737
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 3: for the Bucks in general.

738
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: I think it's a little surprising that we already know

739
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: Jannie is going to miss Game one Sundayyay yeah, exactly

740
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: Sunday game, and then I think they play their second

741
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: game on Tuesday, which is pretty quick turnaround, so it

742
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprising if Jannis misses both these games. I

743
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: wonder how much Dame can throw it back to the

744
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: Portland days because his last five games here in April

745
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: twenty three a game, but he shot thirty nine percent

746
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: from the field in twenty eight from three. He has

747
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: not been the same guy this season, though we have

748
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 1: seen him have like forty point games and hit a

749
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: game winner Dame time mode when Giannis has been resting.

750
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: That was earlier in the season. He's a little bit

751
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: banged up right now. So they're going to need some

752
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 1: major performances from Dame Lillard. And the resistance isn't always

753
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: going to be there from the Pacers, if we're being honest,

754
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 1: But that is the key to me. And then secondarily,

755
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 1: like what is Chris Middleton actually able to do right now?

756
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: He has averaged sixteen points per game fifty percent shooting

757
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,479
Speaker 1: in twelve games during March. In April, sixteen points per

758
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: game ain't nothing. That ain't gonna cut it in the

759
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: postseason for a Bucks team missing their leading scorer especially

760
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: with the question marks of Dames. So we know the

761
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: Pacers are going to score. I'm a little concerned that

762
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: the Bucks are gonna be able to keep up.

763
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's almost like Milwaukee's just decided we're

764
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 2: just gonna try and get him another week of rest here,

765
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 2: cause you're right, a little fascinating, even from a gamesmanship

766
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 2: type of move to just say no, he's out. I mean,

767
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 2: you're telling the Pacers that. Now, you're telling your team that, like, hey,

768
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 2: we gotta do it without him. I get that, but

769
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 2: uh yeah, I think they're just thinking we gotta split.

770
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 2: We gotta split in Milwaukee before we go to Game three. Basically,

771
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 2: you know, we're looking at a week after the start

772
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 2: of the series almost, and maybe that's enough time to

773
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 2: get Jannis back there. If he does return, I mean,

774
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 2: it could be much more severe then they're even.

775
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 3: Leading on and they're gonna rely a lot on Bobby Porters.

776
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 3: I think, I know, I know it sounds a little crazy,

777
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 3: but he's gonna be the guy starting for Yannis, said Tokopo.

778
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 3: And when Yanni's was hurt this season, he put up

779
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 3: monster numbers going into that last game where he had

780
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 3: thirty with Yanny sitting down. He was twenty three and

781
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 3: eleven in those six games that Yanny said miss going

782
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 3: into the final game that Yanny said missed, and I thought, well,

783
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 3: those those aren't real numbers. But Bobby was Bobby, and

784
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 3: he dropped thirty and he looked awesome. And so Bobby

785
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 3: is going to be the guy that they look to

786
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 3: in the mid post. Bobby does and yeah, Chris Middleton

787
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:05,239
Speaker 3: as a third guy. Yeah, we just have to think

788
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 3: about how many games this is forgans, but Trays breaks

789
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,439
Speaker 3: up a good point. It doesn't feel like it's one game.

790
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 3: It feels like it's more, way more than that.

791
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 2: Well, I mean that might depend on how those first

792
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 2: couple games go. And do you panic if you're down

793
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,320
Speaker 2: to Indiana or do you even wave the white flag

794
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 2: if you're down to and say, well, it's not our season.

795
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 2: This was a shit show. Who knows, We'll see. We'll

796
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 2: get to the Eastern Conference playoff previews tomorrow because we're

797
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 2: doing the Western Conference playoff previews right now. Let's start

798
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 2: with the Clippers Mavericks Round three. Between these two teams,

799
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 2: they haven't met in the postseason since twenty twenty one.

800
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 2: LA ousted Dallas four to three in the first round

801
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,800
Speaker 2: that year, and has ushered out the Mavericks in the

802
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 2: last two post seasons they've met. None of that sounds

803
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:53,919
Speaker 2: right to people, though. It feels like they played much

804
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 2: more recently and that Lucas MAVs won one of those times.

805
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 2: But no, the Clippers have beat them two times. So

806
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 2: this is the third go here game one tips on

807
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 2: Sunday in Los Angeles. One thing to watch in this

808
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 2: four or five matchup? What do you got circled?

809
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 4: Well?

810
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 3: As you said, this is a different Mavericks team. This

811
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 3: team plays defense, surprisingly, surprisingly, I didn't know it was coming.

812
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 3: After the Gaffer trade, the PJ. Washington trade. They have

813
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,240
Speaker 3: looked good since March tenth. They've got the league's top

814
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 3: defense so over a month, and they rank first in

815
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 3: rim protection. And the Clippers want to get in that lane,

816
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 3: that's where they want to crash. And I'm looking at

817
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 3: a couple of the guys I'm looking at.

818
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 4: I'm keeping it simple.

819
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 3: Maybe it's just because I watched playing games and I

820
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 3: just want performances from stars. But I'm looking at Kawhi.

821
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 3: If he's going to be back and be able to

822
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 3: do that it is strange. I think, as you said,

823
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 3: people don't know that the it was years ago that

824
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 3: the Mavericks played the Clippers. People don't know that Kwi

825
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 3: has been out for a while and hasn't played. In April,

826
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 3: he played the first sixty two of sixty eight games.

827
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 3: Sixty two of the first sixty eight games, I should say,

828
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 3: and then he hasn't played in April he had treatment

829
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 3: for soreness related to his surgically repaired right knee, and

830
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 3: the sad part is, or the worrisome part is I

831
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 3: should say. Toront Lou was optimistic he'd come back in

832
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 3: those first coup first week or something. You know he'd

833
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,720
Speaker 3: come back, but he's literally been out. So the MAVs

834
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:25,240
Speaker 3: defense is real, and with Kawhi Lender, it looks even

835
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 3: more real. I mean, I think that is what I'm

836
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 3: looking at it, to see if the Maps can just

837
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 3: slow down the Clippers.

838
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 2: And it looks like Kawhi's status for Game one already

839
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 2: up in the air, and it's sort of a here

840
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,359
Speaker 2: we go again. And tasset he hadn't played since March

841
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 2: thirty first, and this knee is causing some issues here.

842
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 2: So I don't think the Clippers can beat the Mavericks

843
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 2: without Kawai. I'm not even sure they could beat the

844
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 2: Mavericks with Kawhi. The way Dallas has played over the

845
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 2: last little bit, and especially since the trade deadline, had

846
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:54,399
Speaker 2: some defense there. But what are you watching besides Kawhi's health?

847
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 1: I guess I mean Kawhi is the big question because

848
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: he's the only guy on the Clippers that can really

849
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 1: outplay Luca and throughout the course of a series and

850
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: make it tough for him. I guess if I'm a

851
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: Clippers fan, I'm a little encouraged that he's already in

852
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: for Team USA plan on being healthy over this summer.

853
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: Maybe that means he's healthy right now, but we've also

854
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,320
Speaker 1: seen Kawhi dominate the first two games of a series

855
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: and then be out for the rest of the playoffs.

856
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: So huge, huge question mark and not knowing what you're

857
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 1: getting from Kawhi. The question for the me then becomes

858
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: can James Harden actually score points? Can he can he

859
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,800
Speaker 1: look like the James Harden that he was when the

860
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: Clippers were going twenty six and five in December. He's

861
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: been playing through shoulder injuries, foot injuries since the All

862
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,439
Speaker 1: Star Break, Harden's only been averaging fifteen points per game

863
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: on thirty nine percent, shooting thirty percent from three, And

864
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:41,320
Speaker 1: like you said, the Mavericks have been a pretty good defense.

865
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: They're thirteenth in the league since the All Star Breaking.

866
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,800
Speaker 1: They've been even better in the last couple of weeks

867
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 1: heading up to the playoffs. Here not to mention Harden

868
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: is probably going to have the best matchups for scoring

869
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 1: because you assume that like Derek Jones Junior and PJ.

870
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,720
Speaker 1: Washington are going to guard the wings for the Clippers,

871
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: whether that be Kawhi or Paul George, depending on who

872
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: it is. Kyrie probably is on Terrence Man, which means

873
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: Luca is getting some of the hardened assignment. There are

874
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 1: similar sized players, and Luca has definitely given a better

875
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: defensive effort this year. But there's got to be times

876
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,399
Speaker 1: when Harden is looking to get to the hoop, draw

877
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: some files rather than just being a pass boy.

878
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 2: If all the stars actually play in this series, it's wild.

879
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 2: You got Luca, Kyrie, Kawhi, Harden, Paul George and Westbrook.

880
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 2: Apparently they've combined for forty seven All Star nods. Two MVPs,

881
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 2: two NBA Finals, MVPs and six scoring titles. That's just

882
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 2: all of the guys. But those are the superstars. Is

883
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 2: there an X factor in this task from either side

884
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 2: that you're looking at.

885
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 3: I gotta go back to James harden As Trade just said,

886
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 3: will the pass boy be the score boy? That's the

887
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 3: important part here because he came to this team and

888
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 3: was very excited to come to this team to be

889
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 3: the third scorer. Really, and now if Kawi's out, he's

890
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 3: got to be a different guy. He's got to be

891
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,320
Speaker 3: what he was in Philadelphia last year, second to Joel Embiid.

892
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,840
Speaker 3: He's got to be second to Paul George at the worst.

893
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 3: And he was good in last year's playoffs. I know

894
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,400
Speaker 3: it didn't end well at all, but he won games.

895
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 3: He really did win games for the Philadelphis and six Ers.

896
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 3: He was the reason they got up three to two

897
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 3: against the Celtics. But then it fizzled and you know,

898
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 3: Trey went through the numbers.

899
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 4: It's been.

900
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 3: It has been bad the last dozen games. It's even

901
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 3: worse if you look at it this way. Thirty six

902
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 3: percent from the floor, twenty six percent from three under

903
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 3: four to three free throws, attempted per game, and that's

904
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,280
Speaker 3: where Harden used to make his money, and it doesn't

905
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,840
Speaker 3: look good. And Luca, I think, will be a pretty

906
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 3: decent defender.

907
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 2: We always us seen some more commitment to that end

908
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 2: of the floor from him and Kyrie. I mean it

909
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 2: just this team effort that it bought in a little

910
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:42,959
Speaker 2: bit more.

911
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're going through the matchups. It was a

912
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 3: good call because if Luca's guarding Harden, it sure feels

913
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 3: that way. It feels like Luca can stay in front

914
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 3: of Harden. Why not he can be that that strong

915
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 3: guy that everybody used to say, Oh, Harden's a really

916
00:39:56,520 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 3: good post defender. I mean Luca's very very strong, and

917
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 3: harn ain't as quick as he used to be.

918
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 2: And the in officiating the game a little differently.

919
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 4: That's true, So it should be a good matchup.

920
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,320
Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's get to the prediction then, TK

921
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,359
Speaker 2: get it started here where you leaning in this one.

922
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:14,439
Speaker 1: I think it's hard to pick the Clippers not knowing

923
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 1: what you're getting from Kawhi, especially considering the Mavericks look

924
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 1: like a real team. They've been I don't know, the

925
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:22,959
Speaker 1: best team in the Western Conference for the last thirty

926
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: games here with the way Denver has, you know, not

927
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 1: they didn't finish the season strong. I don't think we

928
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 1: actually saw some likes mishaps from Denver and Dallas has

929
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 1: looked really, really good. The question for me is gonna

930
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: be what do they get out of their wings. I

931
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 1: think Josh Green is gonna have to have a good

932
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: series and Dante Exam is gonna have to have a

933
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 1: good series. Not to mention PJ. Washington, Derek Jones Junior, like, yeah,

934
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: they got to get something from that foursome of wings

935
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: out there, and they gotta hope for hot shooting from

936
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 1: Tim Hardaway Junior as well. But I don't know. I

937
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: think this is the time that the MAVs are getting through.

938
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: So give me the Dallas Mavericks in seven games.

939
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 2: Okay, go in the distance. Allis winning in LA to

940
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 2: win that game, Sessen says, trade just to speak to

941
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 2: your point. Yeah, the MAVs went sixteen and two there

942
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 2: down the stretch, and then they sort of coasted. They

943
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 2: rested those last couple of games once they were locked in,

944
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:12,839
Speaker 2: so lost a few at the end, but really good.

945
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 2: Probably were the best team at least in the Western

946
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 2: Conference or the last good stretch here. You also taken

947
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 2: the Mavericks.

948
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:19,839
Speaker 4: I am yeah.

949
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:21,840
Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be a lot of Mavericks picks

950
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:22,840
Speaker 2: in the CIEs.

951
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 3: It's it's not fair. Without Kawhi, it would be way

952
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 3: more interesting. I know it should still be a fun,

953
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 3: very fun series, but if Kawhi isn't playing, Paul George

954
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 3: is gonna have to be awesome. He's really gonna have

955
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 3: to be extremely good offensively as the go to guy.

956
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 3: And as you mentioned, the Mavericks have, you know, a

957
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 3: bunch of guards and wings, and Dante Xim will probably

958
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 3: get a lot of minutes out there, even against James Harden.

959
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 3: He was really good when he was a member of

960
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 3: the Utah Jazz guarding James Harden on the Houston Rockets.

961
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 3: He was physical, he was really good. So that's going

962
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:01,959
Speaker 3: to happen throughout this series. They're getting Derek Lively back.

963
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 3: It sure feels like as the alternate to Daniel Gafford.

964
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 3: He hasn't played for a couple of weeks now, so

965
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 3: they look like they got everybody back. They're healthy, and

966
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 3: they're playing really, really well.

967
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:15,800
Speaker 1: I got the Mavericks in six.

968
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 4: Uh oh, yeah, I'm taking Mavericks in six. Feels weird saying.

969
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 3: That because I thought the Clippers would have their have

970
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 3: the number here of the Mavericks, but it ain't. It

971
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 3: ain't the same without Kawhi if he's not playing.

972
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 2: Another stat to illustrate the Mavericks turnaround here, This is

973
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 2: from Schumann. If you take away the last two games again,

974
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 2: they arrested Luca, they arrested Kyrie. The MAVs were eight

975
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 2: point four points per one hundred possessions better after the

976
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 2: trade deadline, after those big moves than they were before it.

977
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 2: That was the league's biggest improvement by a wide margin

978
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,359
Speaker 2: pre trade deadline post trade line. So that's just been

979
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 2: an incredible move. Bringing those guys in in Washington and

980
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 2: Gafford and helping the defense and then letting Luca and

981
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 2: Kyrie just cook and they take over at times they're awesome.

982
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 2: And you went Mas and seven, Mads and six. I'm

983
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:05,760
Speaker 2: going mads in five because this Kawhi man too many times.

984
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 2: I mean, he's already coming in uncertain you said last year, Tray,

985
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 2: he looked awsin for a couple games, then he's out

986
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 2: for the rest of the season. Twenty one, twenty twenty one.

987
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 2: You know, he's just out completely. Even the Raptors Championship,

988
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 2: that guy was playing with a bum leg the entire

989
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 2: time for a good chunk of that. So don't like

990
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 2: their chances. This is I think Dallas is finally going

991
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 2: to get their like little revenge here and finally win

992
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:25,280
Speaker 2: one of these series.

993
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 3: I know we're saying why he's not playing, but he

994
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 3: is supposed to be coming back. Yeah, and the reports

995
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 3: are it is soreness in that knee that's surgically repaired.

996
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 3: And our man law Mary of the Athletic who's cover

997
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 3: this team for a while, said that did happen in

998
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:44,240
Speaker 3: that year? I think it was twenty twenty one, early

999
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 3: in the year, and he was able to come back

1000
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,439
Speaker 3: after twenty five days, which is, you know, a little

1001
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 3: shorter than what we're at right now. So he should

1002
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 3: be back, I guess, But it is it feels like

1003
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 3: that time of year where Kwai gets hurt, right, it

1004
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 3: is late in the year, and he did play against

1005
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:00,840
Speaker 3: sixty two of the four sixty eight games.

1006
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: Maybe you should arrested.

1007
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:03,799
Speaker 4: Damn.

1008
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:07,800
Speaker 1: The a lot of injuries in the second half of

1009
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: the season, I'll say for guys playing through the first half.

1010
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let's move to Wolves Suns. Phoenix. Suns

1011
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 2: dominated their three game season series with Minnesota. Each loss

1012
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 2: from Minnesota just got worse and worse, it felt like.

1013
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 2: But that was then. This is now. There's zero zero

1014
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 2: here on Saturday when they meet again, and yeah, we

1015
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 2: got the Wolves as the number three seed, six seeded

1016
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 2: Suns Game one of that first round series. Can't wait

1017
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 2: for this one. Are the Suns the Timberwolves kryptonite? That's

1018
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:40,720
Speaker 2: what we're gonna find out here? What are you watching

1019
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 2: in this one? TK?

1020
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 1: This is a bad matchup for the Timberwolves, like the

1021
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 1: worst possible matchup. So for me, this series comes down

1022
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: to Karl Anthony Towns. I think he is the biggest

1023
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:52,840
Speaker 1: question mark in this series. He's coming back from a

1024
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: meniscus injuries, played a couple of games, looked super rusty,

1025
00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 1: and who is he gonna guard like? That is a

1026
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 1: huge question for me, because when you're looking at the matchups,

1027
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: Conley's gonna be on Beal, McDaniels and Anthony Edwards are

1028
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:08,399
Speaker 1: gonna take turns on Booker, and KD. Gobart is gonna

1029
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:12,280
Speaker 1: be on Nurkic. So what's happening with Karl Anthony Towns.

1030
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 1: Is he guarding Grayson Allen because that's gonna be a

1031
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,839
Speaker 1: lot of wide open catch and shoot threes for Grayson Allen.

1032
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 1: Or is it gonna be switching it up and Towns

1033
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:23,239
Speaker 1: takes Nurkic and go Beart is the roaming guy. He

1034
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 1: might be looking at some more catching for shoot threes

1035
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: for Grayson Allen. I just think that's a tough position

1036
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 1: for Carl Anthony Towns. I wonder how Chris Finch is

1037
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: gonna scheme this, because it just doesn't make sense to

1038
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: have Towns chasing a small ball four or whatever you

1039
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:42,399
Speaker 1: want to call Grayson Allen or whoever the fourth guy

1040
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: is out there for the Suns. I think there are

1041
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 1: gonna be times when the Timberwolves look their best with

1042
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 1: Towns playing at the five and go Beart resting. That'll

1043
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: probably be the case with Nasried. But when that's the scenario,

1044
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: then it's gonna have to be Carl Anthony Towns punishing

1045
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,799
Speaker 1: a small ball team, making good decisions when he gets

1046
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:03,280
Speaker 1: doubled in the polls, and getting back to all star status,

1047
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: rather than the guy who's turning the ball over all

1048
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 1: the time. So a ton of pressure I think on

1049
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns in this and if you're asking this

1050
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 1: guy to just make good decision after good decision and

1051
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: not get offensive fouls, that's a huge ask.

1052
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great call on the Timberwolves defensive plan.

1053
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 4: Overall.

1054
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 3: This is a great defense, we know that, but this

1055
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,719
Speaker 3: is also a great Suns team in terms of just

1056
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 3: shooting the ball. They are so good at shooting mid

1057
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 3: range shots. They're really good. They shoot the second most

1058
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:36,840
Speaker 3: in the NBA. The Timberwolves allow the fourth most in

1059
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 3: the NBA. So how are you going to stop yet?

1060
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:42,760
Speaker 3: Not only they're big three of beil Booker and Durant,

1061
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 3: but where what's gonna happen with Grayson Allen, who is

1062
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:48,279
Speaker 3: the best three point shooter in the NBA. I know

1063
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 3: I'm extending to range a little bit, but he's had

1064
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 3: the best percentage of the season. So the fact is

1065
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 3: they have crushed them all those three games. As you said,

1066
00:46:56,040 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 3: they're skeets for this reason, because the Suns are just

1067
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 3: able to find open shots and they step up on

1068
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:05,800
Speaker 3: the defensive end. There's no doubt. We've said the Anthony

1069
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 3: Edwards numbers and I'm sure we'll say him again, but

1070
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 3: they step up on the guards that I think their

1071
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 3: guards are just a match, a great match for them.

1072
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:17,240
Speaker 3: I know it's Anthony Edwards and Mike Conley up against

1073
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 3: Booker and.

1074
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 4: Beal, but Bial gives it. He gives it.

1075
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 3: On the defensive end, he has been really, really good

1076
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:28,840
Speaker 3: and overall offensively has been awesome recently thirty six in

1077
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:32,479
Speaker 3: the final game against the Timberwolves, six from six from three,

1078
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 3: the last twelve game, shooting sixty percent from three point land.

1079
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:38,319
Speaker 3: This guy is averaging a steal in a block the

1080
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 3: last a dozen games or so. So it just doesn't

1081
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 3: look good. Like the Sun scored forty four points in

1082
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 3: the first quarter against Timberwolves on Sunday. I know it's

1083
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:51,280
Speaker 3: the regular season, but the matchups are just not good.

1084
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:53,720
Speaker 4: That's just the way it feels.

1085
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 2: The Wolves have been outscored by Phoenix by twenty five,

1086
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 2: twenty six, and seventeen points when Gobert was on the

1087
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 2: floor in those three games. Those are three of his

1088
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 2: four worst plus minus games this season. So it's a

1089
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,760
Speaker 2: difficult matchup for him because of the shooting that Phoenix

1090
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 2: can throw out there, because of their funky, weird lineup,

1091
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 2: and how they play. Also, the Suns are hot right now.

1092
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:13,799
Speaker 2: I mean it's sort of been overlooked a little bit

1093
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:15,879
Speaker 2: talking about the MAVs obviously, those teams at the top

1094
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 2: of the West, and maybe it was a disappointing season

1095
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 2: overall for the Suns. You know, we took the over

1096
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 2: on their over underwin total, but they went ten and

1097
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 2: four down the stretch. They beat the Wolves, they beat

1098
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:26,720
Speaker 2: the Nugs, they beat the Calves, they beat the Clips,

1099
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:28,759
Speaker 2: they beat the Pelicans, they beat the Kings, they beat

1100
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 2: some really good teams. Remember we were talking about their

1101
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 2: schedule at the end of the year. We're like, oh man,

1102
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:36,439
Speaker 2: they might be in trouble. They handled that really well.

1103
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 2: Big part of it was Beale starting to look like

1104
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:42,600
Speaker 2: old bat Bradley Beal. And it's just like unbelievable that

1105
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 2: this Wolf season, as great as it was, they fallen

1106
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 2: to have this three six matchup where they get this

1107
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 2: team that seems to have their number. I'm with you

1108
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 2: so much, Trey On, and I don't like it from

1109
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 2: the Wolf side of things that Karl Anthony Towns is

1110
00:48:56,480 --> 00:49:01,320
Speaker 2: the ultimate X factor in this because they have decided Phoenix,

1111
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 2: we just get the ball out of Anthony Edwards hands,

1112
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 2: and we are not convinced anybody else can beat us

1113
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 2: on your team. And you know, Kat obviously coming back

1114
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 2: from the injury and has just looked rusty him. And

1115
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:14,319
Speaker 2: I think, to some extent, oddly like Conley, they just

1116
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 2: have to be huge in this series because they have

1117
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:20,320
Speaker 2: got a guy, an ant, an All NBA player, possibly

1118
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:23,320
Speaker 2: twenty six points per game. This guy, he's averaged fourteen

1119
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 2: against the Suns in three games, and they just they

1120
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:26,919
Speaker 2: just get the ball out of his hands. They double

1121
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 2: team them, relentlessly, force him to make a play. And then, oh,

1122
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:33,839
Speaker 2: we think we're worried about Gobert or McDaniels or you know, no,

1123
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 2: So it's got to be a Cat, I think, to

1124
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:39,400
Speaker 2: sort of save the Wolves here. But anyone else on

1125
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 2: the X factor lists for Utah.

1126
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 4: It is Cat.

1127
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 3: That's who I had listed. Is he too good to

1128
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 3: be an X factor? I don't know, just because are

1129
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:49,760
Speaker 3: all stars allowed to be X factors?

1130
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:50,799
Speaker 4: I mean he wasn't.

1131
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 1: No, you should, you should be good if you're an

1132
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:53,719
Speaker 1: All Star.

1133
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 3: So it's really the offense is a big question. The

1134
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:00,399
Speaker 3: defense is a huge question. But the offense, as you said,

1135
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 3: he just came back from injury. The first two games

1136
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 3: that he played, he had ten and eleven.

1137
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 4: That's it.

1138
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:06,360
Speaker 3: That's it, just ten in one game and eleven in

1139
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 3: the other game. And so when they get the ball

1140
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 3: of Edwards hands, Rudy Gobert is not going to punish

1141
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:15,399
Speaker 3: the Phoenix Suns Conley. It's unlikely. I mean, we saw

1142
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 3: good games from Jaden McDaniels this year where he had

1143
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:20,719
Speaker 3: twenty eight and there were those moments. But it is

1144
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:25,719
Speaker 3: going to be cat on that end, because I think

1145
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 3: that is an advantage for the Suns when it's Beal

1146
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:31,439
Speaker 3: Booker versus Edwards and Conley. They've just done a great

1147
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:33,919
Speaker 3: job and they've forced those guys to turn it over

1148
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 3: a ton, over and over and over again. They had

1149
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 3: nineteen turnovers in the first half the last time they

1150
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 3: played seven turnovers in the first quarter the time they

1151
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:46,480
Speaker 3: played before that. So Cat Man, you gotta be awesome.

1152
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 4: You have to be like.

1153
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 3: Really really good with his offensive players because I know

1154
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 3: this Timber will seem to look like they were going

1155
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 3: to be the number one team in the West, but

1156
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 3: they've had a very mediocre offensive season. They're middle of

1157
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 3: the pack offensive team, bad and fourth quarters or the

1158
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:03,880
Speaker 3: Phoenix Suns. Actually, so that's that's strange. It's gonna be

1159
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 3: fun watching fourth quarter games. It might just be a

1160
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:07,280
Speaker 3: defense fight.

1161
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:10,359
Speaker 2: A wild card. Yeah, and Carl the Towns. We've seen before.

1162
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 2: A guy can get flustered, frustrated with what the whistle

1163
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 2: that he doesn't think he's getting, or you know, a

1164
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:17,959
Speaker 2: little contact here and there. This quote from Conley jumped

1165
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:19,760
Speaker 2: out of me. He said, we have an emotional team.

1166
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 2: We have a lot of guys who can get lost

1167
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 2: in the game, get lost in the referees, get lost

1168
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 2: with confidence or something like that, in and out of

1169
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:27,399
Speaker 2: the game.

1170
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:30,960
Speaker 1: They were fighting each other out of sidelines last year.

1171
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's true. Punching walls and pushing each other. Yeah,

1172
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 2: not good.

1173
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:37,399
Speaker 1: But honestly, it gets a charging foul in the first

1174
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:39,320
Speaker 1: five minutes of this series. I would not be shocked

1175
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:41,839
Speaker 1: and if if that happens, I will switch my pick

1176
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: because I'm ultimately gonna go with the Timberwolves.

1177
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:46,800
Speaker 2: Okay, get to predictions, all right, Yeah, go in Minnesota.

1178
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know why, all right, I honestly don't

1179
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:52,440
Speaker 1: know why. I don't feel confident about this at all.

1180
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 1: So I feel like I'm self swerving here. But if

1181
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 1: the Timberwolves can keep it close, they can win in

1182
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter because the Suns are just as bad

1183
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:02,439
Speaker 1: as Minnesota is. In clutch offense, Phoenix is twenty third,

1184
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 1: Minnesota is twenty second. That's bottom ten. It gets worse

1185
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 1: because in full fourth quarters, Phoenix is thirtieth. Minnesota though

1186
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 1: a whopping sixteenth. Oh that's almost top half. Almost almost.

1187
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:15,800
Speaker 1: But it's gonna come down to can Jaden McDaniels score.

1188
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 1: He scored twenty five points against the timber Wolves total

1189
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:21,880
Speaker 1: this season, six in one game, six in one yeah, yeah,

1190
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 1: and thirteen in another. They need him to have some

1191
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 1: confidence shooting the ball because they need his defense out

1192
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:31,959
Speaker 1: there against all the scorers that Phoenix has. I'm looking

1193
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,919
Speaker 1: forward to Anthony Edwards and Devin Booker trash talking each other.

1194
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 1: These guys are two of the biggest trash talkers in

1195
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:38,880
Speaker 1: the league, and they're like playing for the same spot

1196
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: best shooting guard in the league. I would say Booker's

1197
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 1: probably like a step ahead because of what he's accomplished,

1198
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: but I think Anthony Edwards is trending up and maybe

1199
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:48,840
Speaker 1: he puts them over the top here. It's gonna have

1200
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 1: to be a massive ant series, which is weird because

1201
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 1: this is one of the teams that plays them the

1202
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: best and does everything they can to make sure somebody

1203
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:58,720
Speaker 1: else beats them. So I'm going with my guy Cat

1204
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 1: timber Wolves in seven towns averages thirty a game for

1205
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 1: the series.

1206
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:08,760
Speaker 5: Oh, this guy's coming back from a meniscus tear. Yeah,

1207
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:11,800
Speaker 5: he's gonna be on a tear, all right, All right, Okay,

1208
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 5: that's a good swerve. Again, it feels like a series

1209
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,799
Speaker 5: sort of similar to the Clippers MAVs where a lot

1210
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 5: of team are a lot of people are taking the

1211
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:20,400
Speaker 5: lower seed just because of the matchups here and the

1212
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 5: way those teams are playing. Right now, Wolves, Suns, what's

1213
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 5: your prediction?

1214
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:27,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm taking the Suns. I've just believed in them

1215
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 3: in the three games that I've watched, and I know

1216
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:34,839
Speaker 3: that the Suns had an abysmal moment. I think that's

1217
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 3: what made you say, Trey, I'm not taking the Suns

1218
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:41,000
Speaker 3: in the playoffs, right and they lost by thirty so

1219
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 3: that was horrendous. So it is going to come down

1220
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 3: to which team can do it in the clutch, because

1221
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:49,360
Speaker 3: I guess they're going to be close games. That's the

1222
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 3: weird thing of this regular season series, if you want

1223
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:55,359
Speaker 3: to factor that in, the Wolves have never been within

1224
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:57,720
Speaker 3: single digits in the second half of any of those games.

1225
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 3: It just doesn't feel like that that's gonna happen in

1226
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 3: the postseason. Feels like it should be closer.

1227
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 1: It should be.

1228
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 2: It's not gonna average fourteen points per game in this series.

1229
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:09,360
Speaker 2: He might have some stinkers, but yeah, he's gonna have

1230
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:11,680
Speaker 2: some probably huge games and probably get some victories.

1231
00:54:11,719 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they do double them and get the ball

1232
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:15,759
Speaker 3: out of his hands. So other guys are gonna have

1233
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 3: to do it. And it could be Cat, that's for sure.

1234
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,319
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's going to be Jade McDaniels,

1235
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:22,840
Speaker 3: who there are moments, but I'm.

1236
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 4: Not sure about that.

1237
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's gonna be Conly so, I

1238
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:26,399
Speaker 3: don't know if they have it. I don't know if

1239
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:29,600
Speaker 3: they have the the offensive key here. Yeah, maybe Nazar

1240
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:31,760
Speaker 3: plays a ton, but I'm taking the sense.

1241
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 4: Sons in.

1242
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 3: I was gonna say just the number of six or seven,

1243
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 3: That's why I was saying. But I can't decide I'll

1244
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 3: go seven. I'll just go seven. But that would be

1245
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 3: a win in Minnesota but it should be a close series.

1246
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:48,840
Speaker 2: Very close. With you, I'm gonna go Suns in six,

1247
00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:52,920
Speaker 2: but definitely an entertaining series. I'm most excited about this

1248
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:55,280
Speaker 2: one because these teams, they both the way they're built,

1249
00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:58,840
Speaker 2: have plans to go further than winning one playoff series.

1250
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 2: You know, I know it's you could say a little

1251
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:03,360
Speaker 2: early for Minnesota, but not really with the amount of

1252
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 2: money spent on their big three there. All right, let's

1253
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 2: move to the final series in the Western Conference. We

1254
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:11,919
Speaker 2: got a rematch of the twenty twenty three Western Conference Finals. Yes,

1255
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:14,839
Speaker 2: as I'm sure you've heard, daddy, as I'm sure you've heard,

1256
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:18,760
Speaker 2: the Nuggets have won eight street games against the Lakers

1257
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 2: here entering game one on Saturday, I mean, yo, kich

1258
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray, He's absolutely cooked the Lakers in a lot

1259
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:29,799
Speaker 2: of these games. So one thing to watch in this

1260
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,879
Speaker 2: two to seven Nuggets Lakers matchup, TK, What do you.

1261
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:36,879
Speaker 1: Got I think the Lakers have to win game one? Okay, okay, kid,

1262
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:39,320
Speaker 1: you argue they have a better rhythm than the Nuggets

1263
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:42,400
Speaker 1: right now. Sure, they've won two in a row, a

1264
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 1: whopping too in a row. And you know we saw

1265
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 1: Denver lose the biggest game of their season against San Antonio.

1266
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:52,319
Speaker 1: I don't know. It feels like for LA to have

1267
00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:53,840
Speaker 1: a chance here, they got to win one of the

1268
00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 1: first two in Denver, because if they go down two,

1269
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:58,799
Speaker 1: then they got to win four or five against this

1270
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 1: Nuggets team. That seems very unlikely to me. I will

1271
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 1: say the Nuggets didn't end the season perfectly, you know

1272
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:09,279
Speaker 1: they had. They won their huge game against the Timberwolves,

1273
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:12,799
Speaker 1: then let it down against against the Spurs there, but

1274
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:14,920
Speaker 1: there have been other times where they actually didn't come

1275
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:17,360
Speaker 1: up clutch, which was surprising to see because through the

1276
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:20,239
Speaker 1: first seventy games of the season they were the best

1277
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:22,440
Speaker 1: clutch team out there. So a couple of little falters.

1278
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:24,520
Speaker 1: I don't think their bench is necessarily as good as

1279
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:27,840
Speaker 1: it was last season, at least a little bit more unproven,

1280
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 1: a little bit more up and down. So I'm just

1281
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 1: looking at that Game one because that's the best chance

1282
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:34,960
Speaker 1: I think for the Lakers to get a win in

1283
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 1: this series and to maybe flip the script here and

1284
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:41,719
Speaker 1: put the Nuggets on the back burner or at least

1285
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:44,840
Speaker 1: put them on their heels. But if it's a blowout

1286
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:47,239
Speaker 1: in Game one for Denver, I would think this is

1287
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:47,720
Speaker 1: a sweep.

1288
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:49,399
Speaker 2: Whoa okay, okay, Oh.

1289
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:50,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a great call.

1290
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:56,280
Speaker 3: I do think the game one obligation here is totally true.

1291
00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 3: And that's why throwing the play in for the Lakers

1292
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:02,919
Speaker 3: is a dumb idea, because they want to if there's

1293
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:04,520
Speaker 3: any chance of beating the Nuggets.

1294
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 4: It is this time where.

1295
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 3: The Nuggets haven't gotten into an incredible flow here going

1296
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:09,879
Speaker 3: into game one.

1297
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray is sort of hampered a little.

1298
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:13,839
Speaker 4: Bit of thing.

1299
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,760
Speaker 3: That's the thing that Michael Malone said about Jamal Murray.

1300
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:17,960
Speaker 3: We got to get him back. We got to get

1301
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 3: him back, and he did play five games to end

1302
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 3: the season, but he said, we got to get in

1303
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 3: a good flow before the end of the season. It's

1304
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 3: it's good also for the bench to see a great

1305
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:30,560
Speaker 3: Jamal Murray. And he was awesome against this Lakers team

1306
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 3: last year.

1307
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 4: I mean he was.

1308
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:34,080
Speaker 3: It was stupid good. And they did get up two.

1309
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 3: Oh and then in the third game, Jokic started a

1310
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 3: little slow, but Jamal Murray just said, I got this

1311
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 3: thirty points in the first half. That was an incredible game.

1312
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 3: The fifty forty ninety I think we don't talk about.

1313
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 3: He had fifty two percent from the field from three,

1314
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:53,440
Speaker 3: ninety five percent from the free throw line.

1315
00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:54,280
Speaker 4: Thirty two points.

1316
00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 3: That's only been done eleven times in NBA history. Averaged

1317
00:57:57,160 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 3: thirty points and go fifty four to ninety in a series.

1318
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 3: Pretty fricking awesome. So I don't know I'm gonna be

1319
00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:05,720
Speaker 3: watching Gabe, but man.

1320
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 2: Gabe, Gabe Millis.

1321
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's coming off the Lakers bench, and he's not

1322
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:13,240
Speaker 3: gonna start by any means. But they got him to

1323
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 3: play against Jamal Murray a little bit.

1324
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 4: I mean, he has heat culture in him. He saw

1325
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:19,080
Speaker 4: him in the finals. He couldn't stop him.

1326
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 3: But but they need somebody, They need somebody to slow

1327
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:23,439
Speaker 3: down Marie.

1328
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:24,360
Speaker 4: And yes, the fact that.

1329
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:27,920
Speaker 3: He hasn't been amazing again only five games to end

1330
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:31,160
Speaker 3: this season, he has been. He was good in those games,

1331
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 3: but he didn't have a game where he was required

1332
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:36,440
Speaker 3: to be awesome. He didn't play thirty minutes in any

1333
00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 3: of those games. He played less. So yeah, it's a

1334
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 3: rhythm thing. And and you're right, Trade, I mean, the

1335
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:44,400
Speaker 3: Lakers are in a flow and they just had a

1336
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 3: bad lebron An a D game, so maybe they're better

1337
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:47,960
Speaker 3: in game one.

1338
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, they have to steal Game one.

1339
00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 2: The one thing to watch is if the Lakers can

1340
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 2: just outplay the Nuggets in clutch time this time, because

1341
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:57,000
Speaker 2: didn't we have the most competitive sweep ever in last

1342
00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 2: year's Western Conference Finals. You know what I'm saying. They

1343
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:02,000
Speaker 2: were all close games. They were all always in the

1344
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 2: game the Lakers, but it was just down the stretch

1345
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:07,760
Speaker 2: when it's the two man game of Yokichen Murray and

1346
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 2: then no one's figured out how to stop. That's when

1347
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 2: they would always just like eke it out get the victory.

1348
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 2: I mean, they were close games. So can the Lakers

1349
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:17,480
Speaker 2: play better in the clutch and obviously hit the big

1350
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:20,720
Speaker 2: shots in Can D'Angel Russell continue, you know, firing away

1351
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 2: and hitting some of these threes. I went over the

1352
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:24,400
Speaker 2: record seventeen and one when he's like sort of on fire,

1353
00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 2: I mean five, there was a lot of three pointers

1354
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 2: made for a guy like him, but they're just almost

1355
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:29,840
Speaker 2: they're almost unbeatable when he's hitting the three and he's

1356
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 2: feeling good. So can we get these competitive games again

1357
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:34,920
Speaker 2: and can they can they finally figure out the Nuggets

1358
00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:36,960
Speaker 2: down the stretch? Do you have an X factor in

1359
00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:37,880
Speaker 2: the series.

1360
00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:40,760
Speaker 1: At least on al Gabe and D'Angelo Russell is one

1361
00:59:40,840 --> 00:59:44,280
Speaker 1: hundred percent the X factor. D'angela Russell averaged six points,

1362
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:46,200
Speaker 1: two rebounds, and three and a half assists against the

1363
00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:48,440
Speaker 1: Laker or against the Nuggets last season and eventually got

1364
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:50,880
Speaker 1: benched for a really hot cha Murrow was actually Austin Reeves,

1365
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:52,720
Speaker 1: who was their best perimeter player. But I kind of

1366
00:59:52,720 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 1: agree that Gabe Vincent is gonna have to play a

1367
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:57,240
Speaker 1: big role in this series because he's a better defender

1368
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:00,560
Speaker 1: than Russell is. But on the flip side, russell shooting

1369
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:03,080
Speaker 1: has been huge for the Lakers as they've made their

1370
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:06,480
Speaker 1: charge after the trade deadline into the postseason. Here, I

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01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 1: also think throwing Gabe Vincent into the mix, the Lakers

1372
01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:12,760
Speaker 1: bench has to outplay Denver's bench, just because I think

1373
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:15,439
Speaker 1: that the lights are a little brighter here. Christian Brown

1374
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: has had some great moments this season, as has Peyton Watson,

1375
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:20,360
Speaker 1: but they're definitely more unproven than they were last year.

1376
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:23,000
Speaker 1: Reggie Jackson, we know he's a Ferris wheel as well,

1377
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 1: So the best chance the Lakers have is like hot

1378
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:28,080
Speaker 1: shooting from Russell, he doesn't get completely killed on the

1379
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 1: defensive end. Maybe Jamal Murray is looking slow out there

1380
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 1: and his shin splints comeback to beat him, and maybe

1381
01:00:34,120 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 1: Gabe can hit some threes and do a little against

1382
01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:42,880
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray in the finals. Murray went for twenty one

1383
01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:46,760
Speaker 1: points in Tennisia games, so I don't know. No, he's

1384
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:49,320
Speaker 1: not really a stopper, but it would be helpful because

1385
01:00:49,360 --> 01:00:52,640
Speaker 1: their perimeter defense it just ain't it, and you need

1386
01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:55,000
Speaker 1: that against a Nuggets team who has the perfect two

1387
01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 1: man game.

1388
01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:58,800
Speaker 3: It's scary because you also need big man defense and

1389
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 3: Anthony Devis doesn't look healthy. Anthony Davis did play obviously

1390
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:07,120
Speaker 3: against the Pelicans, and he played well, but he was

1391
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:10,280
Speaker 3: hobbling a little bit. And now he.

1392
01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:11,920
Speaker 4: Has to be the guy who guards Jokic.

1393
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:15,880
Speaker 3: They decided in last year series, you know what, We'll

1394
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:18,520
Speaker 3: throw Ruey on him at times just to have Anthony

1395
01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:21,280
Speaker 3: Davis be able to be that help defender and to

1396
01:01:21,360 --> 01:01:25,360
Speaker 3: save his body. And I thought that that voted well

1397
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:28,880
Speaker 3: for Anthony Davis through eighty two games. Okay, they're gonna

1398
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:31,600
Speaker 3: keep him healthy, but he hasn't been all that healthy.

1399
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:34,280
Speaker 3: He is a little hobbled. Now you got to guard Jokic,

1400
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 3: so that's a big ask for for Anthony Davis. They

1401
01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:41,640
Speaker 3: don't have a backup guy to guard Jokic.

1402
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:42,920
Speaker 4: I mean, they can throw.

1403
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 3: Jackson, they can throw him out there. They did in

1404
01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:50,600
Speaker 3: that in that Pelican game. I threw him out there

1405
01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:53,120
Speaker 3: because they had enough shooting around him. And so, yeah,

1406
01:01:53,120 --> 01:01:54,680
Speaker 3: the guards are going to be important. They just have

1407
01:01:54,720 --> 01:01:57,640
Speaker 3: to hitch Authentory and Prince has to be awesome. But

1408
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:00,320
Speaker 3: as Jamal Murray said, me and Yokich are the best

1409
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:02,240
Speaker 3: duo in the game, and they're freaking good.

1410
01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 4: They're so good.

1411
01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 3: So Anthony Davis is gonna have to be awesome. And

1412
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:09,560
Speaker 3: he physically he hasn't looked that great even though he's

1413
01:02:09,560 --> 01:02:11,720
Speaker 3: played through it. He has played through and he rebounded

1414
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:13,920
Speaker 3: and all that. But now you got to be that

1415
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 3: against Jokic predictions.

1416
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:17,439
Speaker 2: Let's hear it. There, are you going?

1417
01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:20,840
Speaker 1: I think the Lakers are okay, I think they're a

1418
01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 1: little bit better this season, and I think the Nuggets

1419
01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:27,040
Speaker 1: are a smidge worse, just a smidge, No Bruce, no Jeff.

1420
01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 1: So I'm giving the Lakers one game here, Nuggets in five.

1421
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 4: Oh wow.

1422
01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:34,720
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, still a competitive series, the most competitive five

1423
01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:37,400
Speaker 2: game series we'll ever see. No margin a victory more

1424
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:40,080
Speaker 2: Denver this season Okay, So we get some blowouts here,

1425
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:41,040
Speaker 2: all right, Nuggets in five.

1426
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:45,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was four games twenty four points total last

1427
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:48,480
Speaker 3: season in the Conference final. I do think we're gonna

1428
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:50,240
Speaker 3: get some blows But I do think the Lakers do

1429
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:54,360
Speaker 3: get a dub because, yeah, the Nuggets just aren't cooking

1430
01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 3: cooking right now. They face him in the Conference finals.

1431
01:02:57,280 --> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 3: When Jokic hit a game winning shot against Anthony Davis,

1432
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:04,959
Speaker 3: that was a freaking tough shot. Like they were absolutely

1433
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:08,240
Speaker 3: sizzling at that point, and they're not sizzling right now.

1434
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:12,040
Speaker 3: So one or two, Yeah, I think it's just I'll

1435
01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:12,520
Speaker 3: give him too.

1436
01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:13,360
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give him two.

1437
01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:15,600
Speaker 3: You're going to it feels different, feels wrong because I

1438
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:17,640
Speaker 3: do think Denver should is still the favorite to win

1439
01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:19,520
Speaker 3: the whole thing. But yeah, I'm giving give him two.

1440
01:03:19,560 --> 01:03:19,920
Speaker 4: Lakers.

1441
01:03:19,960 --> 01:03:21,760
Speaker 2: So you think that, you think the Nuggets maybe do

1442
01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:23,720
Speaker 2: drop maybe game one or one of the first two

1443
01:03:23,720 --> 01:03:24,880
Speaker 2: games probably to get there.

1444
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:25,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, you have.

1445
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:27,600
Speaker 3: It has to be on the road, don't. They're not

1446
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:29,760
Speaker 3: gonna lose two games in Los Angeles that way.

1447
01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:32,120
Speaker 2: I'm one hundred percent with your test. I think Nuggets

1448
01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:34,760
Speaker 2: in six. So I'm going Nuggets, but I'm i think

1449
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:37,960
Speaker 2: you know the D'angela Russell is really truly the ultimate

1450
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:39,880
Speaker 2: ext fact you went over it, you said, like he's

1451
01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:42,280
Speaker 2: stone class. Hear they couldn't even play the guy, and

1452
01:03:42,400 --> 01:03:44,000
Speaker 2: he's like been one of the best players for the

1453
01:03:44,080 --> 01:03:45,400
Speaker 2: Lakers over the last couple of months.

1454
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:45,640
Speaker 1: Now.

1455
01:03:46,120 --> 01:03:48,880
Speaker 2: It's very similar to banking on like well Karl Anthony Towns,

1456
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:50,760
Speaker 2: it's gotta be good. That's very similar to a guy

1457
01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:53,240
Speaker 2: like D'angela Russell. But I think he'll come through for

1458
01:03:53,280 --> 01:03:55,280
Speaker 2: a game. I think dangel Russell is going to really

1459
01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:57,080
Speaker 2: help them win one game. Then you still got Lebron

1460
01:03:57,080 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 2: and Nadie. That probably is one more and that's it.

1461
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:02,200
Speaker 2: Hopefully they're competitive games like last year. But I'll go

1462
01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:03,680
Speaker 2: Nuggets and six. You got Nuggets and six. We got

1463
01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 2: Nuggets and five. Let's hear from everybody out there. Three

1464
01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:08,240
Speaker 2: Western Conference series. Call your predictions. I know you're doing

1465
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:10,040
Speaker 2: it in the stream team now and let's see who

1466
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:12,880
Speaker 2: can get all of these right before we go tweet in.

1467
01:04:12,880 --> 01:04:13,320
Speaker 1: The night.

1468
01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:16,680
Speaker 4: Tweet over now.

1469
01:04:17,120 --> 01:04:22,000
Speaker 3: Wow, big news.

1470
01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:26,760
Speaker 1: On Twitter yesterday came to us from Blake Griffin himself.

1471
01:04:27,320 --> 01:04:28,560
Speaker 2: Been that's it.

1472
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:31,439
Speaker 1: That's the whole tweet. Yep, along with this gigantic letter.

1473
01:04:31,480 --> 01:04:33,720
Speaker 1: He wrote that starts. I never envisioned myself as the

1474
01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:36,720
Speaker 1: guy who would have a letter to Basketball retirement announcement.

1475
01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:39,640
Speaker 1: I'm still not gonna be that guy. Then he goes

1476
01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:43,920
Speaker 1: on to write four paragraphs letter to Basketball signs up.

1477
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:47,680
Speaker 1: Thank you, Blake Griffin. Wait, am I that guy? Perfect?

1478
01:04:47,760 --> 01:04:51,720
Speaker 1: From Blake Griffin. He's officially retired after playing for four teams,

1479
01:04:51,760 --> 01:04:54,840
Speaker 1: thirteen seasons in the NBA, six time All Star, five

1480
01:04:54,880 --> 01:04:56,760
Speaker 1: time All NBA. He obviously was the Rookie of the

1481
01:04:56,800 --> 01:05:00,640
Speaker 1: Year yep, after missing his original rookie season in Blake

1482
01:05:00,680 --> 01:05:03,680
Speaker 1: Griffin man an outpouring of love for Blake Griffin on

1483
01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:06,439
Speaker 1: Twitter yesterday, and great to see go around because Blake

1484
01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:09,480
Speaker 1: Griffin has some of the craziest highlights you will ever see.

1485
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:12,360
Speaker 1: From early in his career with the Clippers, he made

1486
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:15,200
Speaker 1: mos gooff into a verb. It's he made us learn

1487
01:05:15,200 --> 01:05:18,080
Speaker 1: the word thrunk. Though I think Dwight Howard gets a

1488
01:05:18,080 --> 01:05:21,600
Speaker 1: little credit as well, but Blake certainly popularized that I

1489
01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:24,480
Speaker 1: know we did or you did? Tassa. Is Blake Griffin

1490
01:05:24,520 --> 01:05:26,080
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer? Short?

1491
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:27,480
Speaker 4: I agree with you.

1492
01:05:27,560 --> 01:05:28,520
Speaker 1: I think he will make it there.

1493
01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:31,439
Speaker 3: The way things are going in the Hall of Fame. Yeah,

1494
01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:34,760
Speaker 3: I think that helps out Blake Griffin because obviously not

1495
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:39,480
Speaker 3: a lot of playoff success, but a guy, you know,

1496
01:05:40,360 --> 01:05:43,560
Speaker 3: and a lot of success overall. And the fact that

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01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:47,040
Speaker 3: he announced it on Twitter was fitting for me selfishly,

1498
01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:49,760
Speaker 3: because he's in my hall because of Twitter.

1499
01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 2: Really yeah, he said peak Twitter, Blake Griffin, he.

1500
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:54,800
Speaker 4: Was the king of Twitter in.

1501
01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:58,680
Speaker 3: Twelve twenty thirteen when he was giving it to Moscov,

1502
01:05:58,760 --> 01:06:01,840
Speaker 3: giving it to Perkins, giving it to paw gasol ig

1503
01:06:02,680 --> 01:06:05,520
Speaker 3: highlights wasn't really a thing yet. YouTube highlights wasn't really

1504
01:06:05,560 --> 01:06:10,600
Speaker 3: a thing yet. TikTok didn't exist. Everybody was watching the

1505
01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:13,880
Speaker 3: experience of Blake Griffin on Twitter, people grabbing clips and

1506
01:06:13,960 --> 01:06:16,040
Speaker 3: just putting it on Twitter, and so it was a

1507
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:19,840
Speaker 3: secondary experience. But it was just me selfishly. That's where

1508
01:06:19,920 --> 01:06:23,840
Speaker 3: fun was for me. Call me a duebis. I think Blake,

1509
01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:28,520
Speaker 3: Blake Griffin likes call himself a geek too, uh And yeah,

1510
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:30,560
Speaker 3: that was my fun. I mean he would he would be.

1511
01:06:31,040 --> 01:06:34,920
Speaker 3: He would also produce lots of great clips, obviously dunking

1512
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:37,479
Speaker 3: on everybody and just showing how high he can jump.

1513
01:06:37,520 --> 01:06:41,400
Speaker 3: Even the Eric Gordon and Blake Griffin won two combo

1514
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:44,919
Speaker 3: was freaking good. But also he would like throw water

1515
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:47,440
Speaker 3: on a fan by accident, you remember that, like right

1516
01:06:47,480 --> 01:06:49,160
Speaker 3: in front of right in front of the score table.

1517
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:51,880
Speaker 3: He just pretended to drop water, but he was just

1518
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:55,120
Speaker 3: doing it to a guy. Like he was just fun overall. Yeah,

1519
01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:58,640
Speaker 3: the stats, you know, maybe maybe you can make it

1520
01:06:59,200 --> 01:07:01,040
Speaker 3: a good case that he he shouldn't be in the

1521
01:07:01,080 --> 01:07:05,280
Speaker 3: hall whatever. Yeah, selfishly, he was just he was the

1522
01:07:05,280 --> 01:07:09,360
Speaker 3: best dunker of five years for sure, before Zach Lavine

1523
01:07:09,400 --> 01:07:12,600
Speaker 3: came around. More it's more than five years. And yeah,

1524
01:07:12,600 --> 01:07:14,320
Speaker 3: he's just he's known, he's known.

1525
01:07:14,480 --> 01:07:16,400
Speaker 2: He has one of the funniest tweets of all time.

1526
01:07:16,800 --> 01:07:18,720
Speaker 2: I would argue when he had the don't agree with

1527
01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:21,240
Speaker 2: the furniture layout, but I'm not an interior designer. When

1528
01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:23,880
Speaker 2: we got the photo of the chair propped up against

1529
01:07:23,880 --> 01:07:26,080
Speaker 2: the door in the big free agency drama there and

1530
01:07:26,120 --> 01:07:29,520
Speaker 2: that fun storyline, so yeah, peak twitter is a good

1531
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:33,160
Speaker 2: way to put it. And average nineteen eighty four over

1532
01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:36,280
Speaker 2: his career, you know, you know what, ballpark eight hundred games,

1533
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:39,840
Speaker 2: but pretty cool. He's still the last player to be

1534
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:42,280
Speaker 2: selected for an All Star Game as a rookie. Now yes,

1535
01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 2: he had the whole year where he sat out sort of.

1536
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:47,480
Speaker 2: It's a red shirt type of thing here, but that's

1537
01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:49,640
Speaker 2: pretty wild. And before that it was yao. So it's

1538
01:07:49,680 --> 01:07:51,480
Speaker 2: just very rare for a rookie to make the All

1539
01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:54,120
Speaker 2: Star Game. And he also won the Slam Dunk contest

1540
01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:57,480
Speaker 2: by jumping over a Kia car right that same weekend

1541
01:07:57,520 --> 01:08:01,520
Speaker 2: that he was there. Number two scoring Clippers history, ten

1542
01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:04,520
Speaker 2: thousand plus points, you know, number one in Clipper's history

1543
01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:06,360
Speaker 2: when it comes to total points. It's a weird one.

1544
01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:08,560
Speaker 4: Elton brand No, no.

1545
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:09,080
Speaker 2: It's a good guest.

1546
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:11,160
Speaker 4: Good guess it's a Bob McAdoo.

1547
01:08:11,200 --> 01:08:14,000
Speaker 2: No, it's not not that old. It's a weird name

1548
01:08:14,120 --> 01:08:15,840
Speaker 2: guy that you just forget.

1549
01:08:16,600 --> 01:08:17,000
Speaker 4: That's good.

1550
01:08:17,080 --> 01:08:17,960
Speaker 2: Make sure I have this.

1551
01:08:18,680 --> 01:08:20,519
Speaker 1: Eric Gordon probably wasn't there long enough.

1552
01:08:21,280 --> 01:08:25,200
Speaker 3: Baron Davis, No, no, no, not a Vinnie del Nagro.

1553
01:08:25,360 --> 01:08:28,719
Speaker 4: And that's not a chance. Could it be in the nineties.

1554
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:34,360
Speaker 2: What we're talking, Uh, we are talking seventies and eighties,

1555
01:08:34,360 --> 01:08:38,479
Speaker 2: but mainly seventies, so we're talking Buffalo franchise, but not

1556
01:08:38,600 --> 01:08:39,839
Speaker 2: Mac Yeah.

1557
01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:40,960
Speaker 1: Michael Ray Richards.

1558
01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:44,120
Speaker 2: No, No, this guy was a shooting guard. This guy

1559
01:08:44,160 --> 01:08:45,040
Speaker 2: was a two time All.

1560
01:08:44,920 --> 01:08:45,880
Speaker 1: Star John Drew.

1561
01:08:46,040 --> 01:08:47,000
Speaker 2: He went the All Star Game.

1562
01:08:47,080 --> 01:08:47,400
Speaker 4: No good.

1563
01:08:47,439 --> 01:08:49,599
Speaker 2: Guess this guy was called the iron Man.

1564
01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:51,519
Speaker 1: Tony Stark.

1565
01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:53,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess.

1566
01:08:54,360 --> 01:08:56,320
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna get it to you because it's tough.

1567
01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:03,080
Speaker 1: Randy Brandy Brewer, Andy Smith, Randy Smith, Randy Smith.

1568
01:09:03,120 --> 01:09:05,160
Speaker 2: He's the all time leader for their franchise.

1569
01:09:05,240 --> 01:09:07,479
Speaker 1: Well, no offense to Randy Smith. I got Blake Griffin

1570
01:09:07,520 --> 01:09:08,439
Speaker 1: as best Clipper ever.

1571
01:09:08,520 --> 01:09:08,960
Speaker 4: That's fair.

1572
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:11,280
Speaker 1: He's the only reason anybody ever cared about the Clippers.

1573
01:09:12,120 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 1: Just Paul would have never become a Clipper if it

1574
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:16,240
Speaker 1: wasn't for Blake Griffin. He was actually going to be

1575
01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:22,280
Speaker 1: a Laker. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But Blake really did

1576
01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:24,760
Speaker 1: put the Clippers on the map that first season when

1577
01:09:24,800 --> 01:09:28,040
Speaker 1: he was playing with Baron Davis, catching Lobbs, playing with

1578
01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:30,160
Speaker 1: Eric Gordon as well. That was a fun team to

1579
01:09:30,200 --> 01:09:32,679
Speaker 1: watch it and you're like, WHOA, somebody cool on the Clippers.

1580
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:35,240
Speaker 1: A number one pick that actually panned out. Even when

1581
01:09:35,240 --> 01:09:37,639
Speaker 1: he finally started getting hurt, he turned into a great

1582
01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:40,120
Speaker 1: basketball player. That's the impressive thing is that, like Blake

1583
01:09:40,160 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 1: Griffin finished third in MVP voting twenty fourteen. This was

1584
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:45,880
Speaker 1: after he was like highlight reel dunks and everything. He

1585
01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:48,200
Speaker 1: was early to the game as like a big guy

1586
01:09:48,320 --> 01:09:50,080
Speaker 1: who's bringing the ball up and making plays.

1587
01:09:50,160 --> 01:09:52,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then he had like that resurgence here in

1588
01:09:52,640 --> 01:09:55,800
Speaker 2: Detroit for all NBA in an All Star and put

1589
01:09:55,920 --> 01:09:58,040
Speaker 2: up monster numbers. He got them to the postseason, right,

1590
01:09:58,040 --> 01:10:00,000
Speaker 2: I don't think they won a game. Did he get injured? Maybe?

1591
01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:00,479
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1592
01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:04,600
Speaker 2: Down stresser, yeah yeah, yeah. So Blake Griffin officially retiring

1593
01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:07,960
Speaker 2: in style there with the funny little love letter to

1594
01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:12,280
Speaker 2: basketball on Twitter. We'll call it there Action Pack Show.

1595
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:15,200
Speaker 2: Thanks everybody for joining us live. We'll be back tomorrow

1596
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:18,720
Speaker 2: to break down tonight's games. One of them will be

1597
01:10:18,800 --> 01:10:20,600
Speaker 2: on playback for We'll start with the first one. We

1598
01:10:20,640 --> 01:10:24,240
Speaker 2: got Heat Sixers starting at seven pm Eastern. Now it's

1599
01:10:24,280 --> 01:10:26,760
Speaker 2: on ESPN, so we know that's a lie. It's gonna

1600
01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:28,720
Speaker 2: be sevent eighteen, seven to twenty, but look, we'll be

1601
01:10:28,800 --> 01:10:31,000
Speaker 2: jumping on playback. That link is in the show notes.

1602
01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:34,000
Speaker 2: We had a blast last night, Come hang out with us.

1603
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:35,960
Speaker 2: We usually stream this to YouTube as well, so we'll

1604
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:38,080
Speaker 2: try and do that again tonight. But that's Heat Sixers

1605
01:10:38,479 --> 01:10:42,519
Speaker 2: on playback. And then we've got Trey Kirby's Chicago Bulls

1606
01:10:42,600 --> 01:10:46,240
Speaker 2: hosting the Atlanta Boks in the second game sight, so

1607
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:48,400
Speaker 2: we'll recap those and then tomorrow we'll do just like

1608
01:10:48,439 --> 01:10:51,800
Speaker 2: we did today, our previews and predictions for the three

1609
01:10:52,200 --> 01:10:54,360
Speaker 2: Eastern Conference series that we will know by the end

1610
01:10:54,400 --> 01:10:54,760
Speaker 2: of the night.

1611
01:10:55,680 --> 01:11:01,960
Speaker 3: Pumped, absolutely ready, absolutely locked into every night, whether it's

1612
01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:03,720
Speaker 3: the playoffs or the postseason.

1613
01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:07,519
Speaker 2: I think this is the postseason, and I think we

1614
01:11:07,560 --> 01:11:10,240
Speaker 2: then have the playoffs when we have our sixteen teams.

1615
01:11:10,240 --> 01:11:12,000
Speaker 2: That's how I have always looked at it.

1616
01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:14,080
Speaker 1: I'm with you. It's like mergatory on Survivor.

1617
01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:17,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh geez, like your best Survivor tonight too.

1618
01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:20,160
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a real playoffs starting Survivor. I think

1619
01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:23,560
Speaker 2: they're actually all together. We're today only one tribe to

1620
01:11:23,640 --> 01:11:24,639
Speaker 2: type tribal console.

1621
01:11:24,680 --> 01:11:25,280
Speaker 1: It seems like.

1622
01:11:25,320 --> 01:11:27,639
Speaker 2: Big night, Big night on the tube.

1623
01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:29,519
Speaker 1: Who's winning tonight? Who's winning these matches?

1624
01:11:31,320 --> 01:11:34,439
Speaker 2: I'm going sixers and I am going your Chicago Bulls.

1625
01:11:34,479 --> 01:11:36,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't believe it. You called it exactly right.

1626
01:11:37,120 --> 01:11:38,040
Speaker 4: I would call the same.

1627
01:11:38,120 --> 01:11:39,120
Speaker 2: Okay, you're smart too.

1628
01:11:39,240 --> 01:11:39,880
Speaker 4: I hope I'm wrong.

1629
01:11:39,960 --> 01:11:42,760
Speaker 2: Ball all right, We're gonna find out. Until then, Clipper Rose.

1630
01:11:42,640 --> 01:11:45,200
Speaker 1: You heard it here first, have a great time turn up.

1631
01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:47,040
Speaker 1: Love you guys awesome.

1632
01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:47,920
Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us.

1633
01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:50,040
Speaker 3: And remember, yes, I know Ball and I also know

1634
01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:53,840
Speaker 3: Randy's now. Because I didn't know Randy's before, I didn't

1635
01:11:53,840 --> 01:11:56,000
Speaker 3: know about Randy Smith. But I will say I know

1636
01:11:56,080 --> 01:11:58,040
Speaker 3: Ball so well that Randy Smith is the best Randy in.

1637
01:11:57,960 --> 01:11:59,000
Speaker 4: The history of the NBA.

1638
01:11:59,080 --> 01:12:00,639
Speaker 2: Better than Randy Foy, better than.

1639
01:12:00,640 --> 01:12:05,439
Speaker 3: Randy four, better than Randy Brown. Wow, yep, any other

1640
01:12:05,479 --> 01:12:12,240
Speaker 3: Randy's not good ones in the eighties, Dent, Brewer, Mahaffey, Whitman.

1641
01:12:12,360 --> 01:12:12,960
Speaker 1: You don't hear.

1642
01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:14,760
Speaker 2: Randy a lot of anymore, do you. That's sort of

1643
01:12:14,760 --> 01:12:16,960
Speaker 2: a lost name, all right. Race to the People.