WEBVTT - What's Wright - BOLD predictions for Thunder-Pacers NBA Finals + Knicks future 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:04.960 Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright Episode three thirty six, 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:09.719 our finals preview edition. Apologies for kind of the underdressed 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:12.080 nature if you're watching on YouTube. I had a nice 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:14.000 fit on, but we're having the AC fixed at the 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:15.600 house and so we had to turn all the AC 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:18.560 units off in the house, so it is sweltering in here, 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:20.880 so I can't wear what I was supposed to be wearing. 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:24.000 You guys don't care about that. I also, one thing 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:27.000 you guys seem to care about but you maybe shouldn't, 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:32.000 is kind of internescing media beefs and man, there's a 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:37.839 tangled web involving metal arc folks, ESPN folks, ringer folks. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.680 I'm tangentially involved. The whole thing is such a mess, 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.360 so let me just address it in chronological order before 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:48.320 we get to the show. So I went on Levatard show. 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:52.200 He asked me about Pablo Torre and I said, basically, listen, 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:56.400 I'm I'm not a recurring guest on Pablo's podcast. I 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.400 appreciate him asking me on a bunch, but I you know, 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:01.080 it was only so many hours in a day. I'm 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:05.560 a recurring guest on Baumani's podcast Lebatards Dan Patrick's and 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:08.800 Colin Cowherd. The latter three are my three kind of 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.760 as a young person media idols. The first one is 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:14.119 one of my best friends in the world. Everything else 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:18.120 is kind of like, you know, I'll drop in but 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:22.000 pop in here and there, but not regularly. Pablo Tuk 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.440 didn't take that condly kindly, and he banned me. So 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.840 I've now been banned from a show that I had 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:32.240 no interest in going on again, So no problem. The 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:36.240 sad part about that was he banned me with Mina 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:40.120 sitting right there. And Mina and I have an odd 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.200 relationship and by that I mean this. I call her 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.920 a media arrival because she is. I say I will 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:51.040 vanquish her because I'm being tongue in cheek in reality 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:52.960 and I'm gonna pull the curtain all the way back 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:58.120 in reality. I have massive risk not only respect for 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:02.760 Mina Kimes, but I think she's excellent. I think she's excellent. 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:08.520 I also think she is very regularly unfairly maligned in 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.119 the media or really not in the media but by 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:17.880 uh other by other by people on Twitter, and so 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:23.920 I was I was ready to, uh let everyone know 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.400 I'm calling off the media beef with Mina Chimes, especially 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:32.000 after I heard for no reason whatsoever, when there's a 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:35.600 hundred people to pick from, when Roussillo's making a joke 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.720 about what inside the NBA is gonna do on ESPN, 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.280 He's like, maybe the lad Mina Chimes. Now, maybe it's 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:45.040 just a harmless joke. But it was to pick her 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:48.240 of everyone when she is the most unfairly maligned person 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:50.880 on that network. I think it's crazy. So I didn't 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:52.919 love that. I don't know Ryan, but it was. I'm 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.280 sure he didn't intend any harm, but I didn't love that. 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.840 I agreed with me on that. And then I heard 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.560 a clip where Mina compared me to brock Party, to 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:04.720 which I say, feud back on to which I say, 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:08.480 there is a you know what, I take back all 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.040 the compliments. And then in the midst of all that, 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.160 Simmons and Pablo now all of a sudden seem to 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.000 have a real thing where Simmons called him a fake journalist, 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:20.120 and then Pablo's like, actually, I'm glad to hear from you. 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.880 I have a lot of questions I like to have answered, 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:28.600 Like he's the district attorney, so stay tuned. I'm excited 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.760 to hear it, Deman, say give your thoughts real quick. 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.200 I think the dog's attacking the air conditioner, guys, so 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:34.880 I gotta get him in here talk. 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.280 Oh my gosh, I wonder how they compared with a 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.480 Rock Party's similar back. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.040 I had to put Dexter in the room. Those poor 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:47.560 guys probably freaking out. Dexter things he's a guard dog. 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.320 He is not a guard dog. He's just barking like crazy. 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.680 So there's the catch up for everyone on all this. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:58.720 In short, I have no I have no beef with 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.600 Pablo because the Pablo banned me from a show that 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.320 I didn't want to have to keep turning him down 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.800 to go on. So that's fine. I had a fake 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.440 beef with me in a that is now a vehement 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.400 real beef because she compared me to Brock Party. Come on, 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:14.720 that's below the belt. 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.520 Yeah what what similarities like? You know? 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.400 I think she was I think in this context like 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.960 she was Josh Allen and I was Brock Purty, or 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:29.000 it was something like I'm punching above my weight, whatever 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.160 it was. She was egged on by another person on 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:36.040 the pod who was it. I don't want to get 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.360 it wrong. I think David Dennis. I think it was 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.599 who I don't know, but I actually like and it 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.719 was mister irrelevant jokes is none of that. But then 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.839 in the midst of all this man, oh man, this 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.360 Jordan Hudson story, it's got a lot of tentacles, all 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.440 of a sudden and very ominous sight. So now I'm 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.919 plugging Pablo's podcast, which I didn't even want to do. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.760 So I guess you know what, Pablo and your Harvard 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.920 degree maybe outsmarted me. Buddy, point to you the polatory show. 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:06.400 But what did you say? 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.920 I don't know why. I think you show I did it. 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.080 I had to pay for my car there and car Beck. 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:14.159 It's costing me money. 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.520 He on your show costs me money. I'm not asking 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:22.560 to get paid, but my goodness, but somebody can pick 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:27.640 me up. Like it's just hey, hey, bully, like hey, 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:29.800 I need you to I need you to drive me 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.599 to the airport. And by the way, I go to 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:37.360 the airport every two weeks, Like what a second? All right, 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.760 all right here, what missed the cut? Timothy shallow May's 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:44.599 playoff run comes to an end along with the New 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:48.000 York Knicks. Saquon Barkley, named the Madden cover athlete and 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.160 the biggest story in the sports world. The Royals call 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:57.479 up Jeffrey Allen CAGLIONI. Kaglion is how they're gonna pronounce it. 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:01.440 I'm gonna pronounce it CAGLIONI. They call Jack he's going 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.240 to mash and the Royals, which have the best pitching 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:07.320 staff in baseball, now, all of a sudden, are gonna 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:11.000 stop losing games one nothing. They played consecutive games this 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.760 weekend but that they won one nothing and then they 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.440 lost one nothing. It's like the dead ball or at 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:18.840 Kaufman Stadium right now. It's maddening. 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.640 So are those the most exciting baseball games that ends 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.240 one that n one zero? I've been told by an 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:28.200 editor on the staff that those are the most exciting 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:32.400 games as baseball watchers. Well, in the I mean, I 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.760 know it means that, like the pitching was obviously phenomenal 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:37.200 if the score was super low like that. 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:43.880 But I would say one nothing is better than ten 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.960 to eight. I do think that because ten to eight 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.480 to just feel but on and one nothing in the 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:54.080 playoffs is gripping, because you feel like you're in jeopardy 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:58.400 at every moment. The flip side to that is, I 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:03.000 think the best baseball game is probably four to three 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:06.040 or three to two, like good pitching but with some 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:10.240 big hits. Right, But that was a I don't know 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:11.880 the editor that said that to you, and I don't 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.680 want to get you, you know, weird work politics, but 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.120 I feel like he was trying to like be like you, 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:17.840 you're not. 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.920 You don't know what you're talking about. That's his that's 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:21.760 his scheme, that's his. 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.280 That's okay, well, okay, well that's the maybe a step 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.680 far all right. By the way, reminder, like rate subscribe 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:33.440 review YouTube channel. The First Thing's first YouTube channel, by 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.760 the way, seven thousand away from a million. Wow, what's 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:37.520 right with Nick? 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:37.800 Right? 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.480 YouTube channel seven hundred and ninety three thousand away from 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.840 a million, So First Thing's First gonna beat us there. 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.800 Mister Bees just hit four hundred million, so that's probably solid. 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.680 But you can also like rate subscribe review on Spotify 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.360 and on iTunes and everything. And by the way, if 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:58.400 I seem extra amped up, it's for two reasons. One 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.560 is I don't know why, but this morning I just 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.600 I no one else has drank coffee in the house today. 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.520 I made a pot of coffee, which is twelve cups 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.360 worth on the thing, and right before the show, I 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.119 went to pour myself a cup and there it's all gone. 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.679 So I somehow drank a pot of coffee this morning. 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:18.920 I don't know why, but I have. But the other 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:22.320 reason is because I fly to Vegas tonight for the 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.280 World Series of Poker. I could not be more excited. 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:27.880 And so I am amped and ready to go. And 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:31.680 we have an NBA finals. Let's get rolling, demanday. 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.840 Yeah, So the finals are officially set after the Pacers 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:36.199 took care of business. 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.719 The other day and set the tip off on Thursday. 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.719 Okay, see is minus seven hundred to win it all, 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.440 while Indiana's plus five hundred. Are you giving the Pacers 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:46.320 any chance here? 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:56.319 Not? Really? I will. I will make so here. I 0:08:56.360 --> 0:09:03.880 don't think it is. It would only be disrespectful to 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:08.360 Indiana to not give them a chance if I didn't. 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.360 Also think Oklahoma City is in the midst of an 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:15.120 all time season. So if I thought Oklahoma City was 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.080 just a good team and I'm not giving Indiana a chance, 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:23.000 that's disrespectful. But I think Oklahoma City, in the current 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:29.240 construct of the NBA is really really smartly built knows 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:33.800 exactly who they want to be can Aside from Tasha, 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:38.079 I believe with stand an injury if it were to happen. 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.680 It hasn't happened yet this postseason, but they did deal 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.840 with it in the regular season. They dealt with it well. 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.600 And they have just a bunch of different ways to 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:52.880 beat you. And over the course of NBA history, the 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:58.760 formula of what if the team with the best defense 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:04.880 in the league and the team with the leading scorer 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.840 in the league, what if that were the same team, 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:13.040 That's a pretty tough formula to beat. Where you have 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:18.079 the guy who is most certain to get you thirty 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:22.920 and the rare off night that that guy has the 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.880 defense can win the game for you. That's historically speaking, 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:32.120 a very tough formula to beat. And so here is 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:38.839 how the Pacers would win. Okay, the and again I'm 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.840 gonna give better the Year here in a minute, and 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.160 it's gonna indicate that I don't think the Pacers are 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.560 going to win, and I don't think the Pacers really 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:51.880 can win. But here's how they would win. Okay, they 0:10:52.040 --> 0:11:01.600 would win by their pace being such that Oklahoma City 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:05.920 is not able to get it to their set defense 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.560 with regularity the way they want to. Now, Oklahoma City's 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.160 defense is so good de Monse they have great transition 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.839 defense as well, and so the Pacers aren't gonna be 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.760 able to just dominate the transition the way they did 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:20.240 against the Knicks. Go ahead. 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.040 Yeah, no, that's exactly the exact thing that I was saying, 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:24.760 because that was what was getting the Knicks is how 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.040 fast pace they were playing. But okay, see as defense, 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.080 young guys, and I feel like they could stick with 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.120 him somow easiest. 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:33.960 Correctly, certainly better than the Knicks did. But the Pacers 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.240 is still going to try to run, and you're still 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.720 going to have fewer possessions with your set half court 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:45.960 defense than than you've had in any of your previous series. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.720 Because Denver wasn't trying to get out and run, Minnesota 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:52.280 just felt like was drawing dead. The Grizzlies oddly did 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.520 want to get out there and run, but the Grizzlies 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:56.880 just were not good enough. And certainly, once Jah got 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.480 hurt like that series they blew a forty point lead 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.080 or whatever, thirty point lead whatever they blew like that 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:05.520 series was never gonna be competitive. So obviously the Pacers 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.440 are gonna have to get out and run. I do think, 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:12.680 and this isn't an insult to Dagonaal, that the Pacers 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:17.880 have the coaching edge. Carlisle is a really great coach 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:22.200 who adjusts and changes his style and will adjust on 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:26.200 the fly as much as just about anybody. So I 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.120 think that part is, you know, one of the few 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:34.439 check marks the Pacers have. I also think that oddly 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:39.840 this could be a series, well I shouldn't say oddly, 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.000 for the Pacers to have a chance. And this is 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:47.280 gonna surprise you because of what I've said about Shay's 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:53.360 free throws and stuff. They need this to be a 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:58.920 very tight whistle. And the reason they need it to 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:03.559 be a tight whistle is because tight whistle, loose whistle, 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:09.000 regular whistle. I almost added train whistle on there because 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:13.640 I'm a dad joke. Shay's gonna get his free throws. 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.840 What they need is for the for them to have 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:23.040 a real chance, for the refs to early on be like, no, caruso, 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.800 We're not allowing you to play rugby out here, and 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.680 I'm not taking I think Oklahoma City is brilliant with 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:35.200 how they defend, but what they and someone else made 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:41.320 this analogy or used this example, so it's not mine, 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.679 but they have a similar style to the Legion of 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:48.640 Boom Seahawks, which was if we fail you every play, 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.800 you can't be like, we're gonna set the template early 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:58.880 that we are gonna be that physical as I do that. Uh, 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:04.160 and we're gonna set the template early. Uh. That is 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.280 that we're gonna play and we're gonna make sure the 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:11.120 game is officiated on our terms. It I think the 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:15.200 they need the refs to kind of disallow that, so 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.440 to speak, right, So that's so that has to go 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:23.280 their way. Siakam's gotta be awesome, and this was something 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:28.880 that I think some people have forgotten. It's worth referencing. 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:37.880 Siakam in his one career NBA Finals was excellent in 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:43.440 the series. And the I'm pulling it up right now 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:47.520 what his full series line was for the series. He 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:54.080 was twenty points, eight rebounds, four assists. But what jumps 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:59.920 at you is he had two spectacular games. First game 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:04.320 of those finals and that was obviously Durant wasn't back 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:12.160 yet for the brief time he was back. But what, yeah, Durant, 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:14.760 what game did Durant come back for those finals? I 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:18.120 think it was Game two that Durant came back. I'm 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:22.680 gonna double check that. Uh when maybe that hold on, 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.520 Maybe I'm wrong. Let me just double check when Durant 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.120 came back. It doesn't matter. It wasn't that game. Maybe 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:29.920 it was game I don't remember what game it was. 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.120 Maybe it was game five. Uh, I don't know why. 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.760 I don't remember. But regardless, someone in the chat or 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:37.920 the producers tell me which game Durant came back, It 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:43.160 doesn't matter. Point is game one of that series. Uh. 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:48.240 Siakam was fourteen of seventeen from the field, fourteen of 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.800 seventeen his first career Finals game and had thirty two 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.760 and in the closeout game in game six, he had 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:58.760 twenty six and ten to win the title. So he's 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:03.640 gotta be outstanding in that in this series. And it 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:07.320 was game five that Durant came back in those finals. 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.960 I knew it was. I knew the game was in Toronto, 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:11.680 so it had to be game one, two or five 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.080 because there was the you know, there was the time 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.120 people were cheering, and it was after he got hurt. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:21.160 It was ugly, so that all has to happen. And 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.920 then honestly, they've got to get a little lucky. To Manse, 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:25.160 what were you about to. 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:25.880 Say, get lucky? 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.520 I was about to say, throw on, Shay, you should 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.680 try to clog up the mid range. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:35.400 I guess, Okay at three, But but yeah, I feel 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:36.560 like it. 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.520 And make them shoot threes. I agree, and live and 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:47.840 die with non Shay guys killing you. I I agree 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:51.400 with all that, and nim hard should be an annoyance 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.920 to Shay. But Shay has been so I mean, Shane's 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.680 been so great against everyone all year. But then here's 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:02.400 the last part. And and this is the part that 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:05.919 makes when I'm about to give you a bet of 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.840 the year, the only part of me that makes me 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:17.320 a little nervous. Chet and Jadub have been excellent this postseason. Excellent. 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:28.360 Will there be some finals butterflies for those guys specifically? Now, 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.440 you might say, Nick, everyone who plays in this series 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.960 except for Caruso and Siakam it's their first finals. Anybody 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:39.000 can have finals, butterflies, got it? I understand the point. 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.880 I'm trying to lay out how the Pacers would pull 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.520 off the upset, and the answer is that Jadub has 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:48.879 the type of series like he had against Dallas in 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.119 Round two last year, and all those other things happen. 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:59.159 So it's a you gotta hit a superfecta of perfect 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.960 to be this Oklahoma City team four times in seven games, 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:11.560 especially when you don't have anybody on your team that 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.800 is just you can just pencil in for thirty and 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.040 they can pencil Shay in for thirty. Now, Halliburton's a 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:21.760 different type of player. I understand that, But still some 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.800 of Halliburton's effectiveness relies on other guys hitting shots, and 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.800 that's not necessarily the case for Shy. All Right, I've 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:30.840 been teasing at demons, go ahead. 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.200 With the dying to drop your bet of the year 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:34.679 exced on TV. 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.959 Okay, see minus one and a half games at minus 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:38.840 two to seventy five. 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:41.760 Let's hear your logic on this, all. 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.480 Right, it's minus two seventy five. I get that that's 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.800 laying a lot of wood, but that's also a thirty 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:54.520 six percent return on your money. And here's how that 0:18:54.640 --> 0:19:00.560 bet doesn't come through. The Pacers win the series, no bro, 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:05.679 or the series goes seven games. I just don't see it. 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:10.960 So you win if OKAC wins in four or five 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:18.960 or six, and the Daniel is asking is the Is 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.160 this the perfect leg to throw in a parlay? I'm 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:25.000 not sure. It's very hard. This is the type of 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:31.040 bet you typically can't parlay with anything like it's oh, 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:35.719 cross sport parlay. Oh I thought you made a different Well, 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.680 it's no longer better the Year, can I It's no 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:40.720 longer bet of the year if you're thrown into parlay. 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:45.359 I'm just saying, if you want to have, in my opinion, 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:49.840 a great chance to have a thirty six percent return 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:55.040 on your money in the span of two weeks, okay, 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:58.359 se minus a game and a half is where I 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:02.680 would be placing. It's it's it's how I would be 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:08.560 you know, using again gamble responsibly. I always it's always weird. 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:12.000 I don't know what the rules are because like what 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:14.960 I'm this is I'm just giving you my opinion of 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.480 and I'm just telling you how I am going to bet. 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:19.239 But I'm also I think supposed to be like I'm 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:22.000 not providing gambling advice, but like I call it bet 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:23.720 of the year. So again, I don't know any of 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:26.520 these rules here. Please nobody get mad at me. I 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:30.320 don't need the Better Business Bureau coming after what's right? 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:34.120 But this is just for me, how I think how 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:38.080 I would play the series. Lay in seven hundred is 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:42.360 too much. What'd you say, move of the year, bet 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:42.760 of the year. 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:43.840 I don't know, just for. 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:47.639 A Also, I do think, let me think if this, 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:53.520 if I have this right, if it's three two Oklahoma City. Now, 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:56.160 because you're laying minus two seventy five, there's not gonna 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:59.639 be a real like hedge opportunity. You're just gonna have 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:03.280 to write with it. But and if you, I mean, 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:06.080 if you think Okayc's gonna roll, you can get Okay, 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:09.240 see minus two and a half games at like plus 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:13.200 money or even money. But I think, to me, this field, 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:17.120 here's how I think the beats of this series are 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.679 going to go. Demonse, I think it is going to 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:24.200 be Game one Oklahoma City and mark this. Let's see, 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:26.800 I've gotten a lot wrong in these playoffs. My pre 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:32.320 playoff bracket is a travesty, like a true travesty. I 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:35.119 had Oklahoma City losing in Round one. I might have 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:37.840 had Indiana losing because I'm sorry, I didn't have Oklahoma 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:42.919 City losing in round I had Oklahoma City losing to 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:46.040 the Lakers. But the team I had winning the championship 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:48.960 the Lakers. They lost in round one. That's what I meant. 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:53.399 So my champion lost in round one. And I was 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:57.800 so confident that the Cavs would beat the Pacers or 0:21:57.840 --> 0:22:00.560 the Bucks. I might have picked the Buck just because 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:03.400 I wanted to root for Giannis like so I might 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:05.439 have had the Pacers out in round one. So my 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:09.639 bracket's a disaster. So I need to get something right here. 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:15.000 So here's what I'm going for. And this is another one. 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:17.520 I I bet, I bet this bet exists. I didn't 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:23.320 even look exact series, game by game result. Oh my goodness, 0:22:24.119 --> 0:22:29.040 So producers, see if our friends, uh are friends at 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:31.040 DraftKings have that? Now I know. I think we have 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:32.480 to put a little thing on the screen because I 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:36.520 said DraftKings. But see see if see if they have 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:41.000 the exact series, game by game rules or a game 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:45.639 how how the game is gonna go? Game one? Okay? 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:53.480 See game two? Okay? See game three? Pacers? Game four? Oh? 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:55.479 Are we gonna have a series? Is it gonna be two? Two? 0:22:55.560 --> 0:22:57.639 Is it gonna be the best a three? No? Game four? Okay? 0:22:57.720 --> 0:23:05.280 See okc Ooh, this is a tough one because they 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:08.080 haven't lost, they've been so dominant at home. You know what, 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:12.480 give the okac takes their eye off the ball a 0:23:12.480 --> 0:23:16.640 bit Game five, Indiana Game six, Oka. 0:23:16.760 --> 0:23:16.960 See. 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:20.520 I like that, and I also like exactly what I 0:23:20.600 --> 0:23:24.480 just laid out, with the Thunder winning in five, those 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:27.760 would be the two series exactas that I would be 0:23:27.840 --> 0:23:31.800 interested in. All right, let's keep going, Demnsey. 0:23:32.400 --> 0:23:35.119 Which team do you think? Ohs Paul George a bigger 0:23:35.160 --> 0:23:35.520 thank you? 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:42.760 Well, here's what I think I feel for Paul George 0:23:42.760 --> 0:23:46.280 these next couple of weeks, because that is going to 0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:54.919 be a very common discussion point, which is, the Pacers 0:23:54.920 --> 0:24:00.320 had Paul George, they then traded him to Oklahoma City 0:24:00.680 --> 0:24:07.800 for Ola Depot and Sabonis. Sabonis is then who they 0:24:07.840 --> 0:24:14.040 traded for Tyrese Halibert. Oklahoma City then traded Paul George 0:24:14.080 --> 0:24:18.240 to the Clippers for a bunch of stuff, but primarily 0:24:18.359 --> 0:24:22.439 Shay and the draft pick that became Jalen Williams. So 0:24:23.440 --> 0:24:30.200 that is that is the that is the reality of 0:24:30.440 --> 0:24:35.159 how these two teams were built. I would, however, like 0:24:35.280 --> 0:24:39.280 to defend Paul George also in this regard. When it's 0:24:39.320 --> 0:24:47.600 not an a popular it's not a popular stance. To 0:24:47.680 --> 0:24:53.840