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Speaker 1: one of the best basketball games I've watched in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. That was a great game. One six Nuggets
Speaker 1: only shot nine free throws and hit eight. Lebron had
Speaker 1: thirty points, eleven assists, played absolutely brilliant basketball. That left
Speaker 1: handed shot down the lane in traffic. I think my
Speaker 1: overall take on the game is the rest let them play.
Speaker 1: There was that challenge late by the Lakers, the Jokic
Speaker 1: play with Ad marginal contact. They let it go. Now
Speaker 1: that is I think, big picture. The rest decided tonight.
Speaker 1: And we've said this through the years. Once the playoffs come,
Speaker 1: it's like the NFL ref step out of the way.
Speaker 1: They don't want to decide this stuff. That game was intense,
Speaker 1: it was physical, it was brutal, it was playmaking. I
Speaker 1: thought Lebron and Austin Reeves were fantastic in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Ad had a tremendous night. Defensively, he makes Jokich really
Speaker 1: earnest points. Jokic is going to score forty points in
Speaker 1: some of these playoff games, and he was. He was
Speaker 1: battling tonight to get into the twenties. He was fighting
Speaker 1: like crazy. Lakers season ends. You know, I have all
Speaker 1: sorts of notes here, and then they all are meaningless
Speaker 1: because like I have Austin Reeves missing a shot, Jokic
Speaker 1: coming back and hitting it like a five point swing.
Speaker 1: Then Reeves came back and hit a three, gave the
Speaker 1: Lakers a lead. So it's just fantastic basketball. That's as
Speaker 1: good as basketball gets. I don't believe that's Lebron's last
Speaker 1: game as a Laker. I don't think it is. I
Speaker 1: think Lebron still is on any given night. Like Jamal
Speaker 1: Murray was the best player on the floor tonight in
Speaker 1: the second half, but toe to toe with Lebron James,
Speaker 1: I just don't I wouldn't retire now. I mean the
Speaker 1: reason Tom Brady kept playing he was still effective. Lebron's
Speaker 1: still highly effective. And I mean he also has to
Speaker 1: look over at a D and a D was there
Speaker 1: almost every night this year, and I thought Ada was
Speaker 1: the best defensive player in the league. It's criminal he
Speaker 1: wasn't a top three finisher in DPOY. He was absolutely
Speaker 1: I watch almost every Laker game. He was phenomenal all
Speaker 1: year long. Offensively, you know, tonight was one of those
Speaker 1: games he wasn't a big factor offensively. But I think
Speaker 1: Lebron's a top six player in the league are around there.
Speaker 1: I think a d is a top six or seven player.
Speaker 1: I think they like Austin Reeves. I do think they're
Speaker 1: going to move off d lower. Delo is going to
Speaker 1: move off them, and they'll try to go get a
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell or a Tree Young. But we said before,
Speaker 1: I feel like every Denver Laker game feels the exact same.
Speaker 1: Lakers can hang with him physically, Between Ruey and Lebron
Speaker 1: and Ad, they have the size to match up. What
Speaker 1: a weapon Michael Porter's become. You know, he had kind
Speaker 1: of a reputation you couldn't trust them in big spots
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago for that size and that
Speaker 1: shooting touch. He is such a good player. And I
Speaker 1: look at tonight's game, and you know, the Nuggets had
Speaker 1: six more threes, and it's Ksep, it's Jamal Murray, it's
Speaker 1: Michael Porter. They got weapons. This is a really good team.
Speaker 1: But the series ended how I had predicted. Five game series.
Speaker 1: Denver wins at close games throughout. Lakers led for a
Speaker 1: majority of the series, but Denver's a better finishing team,
Speaker 1: and they were again tonight. I don't think Lebron leaves.
Speaker 1: I think he's good. I think Ad played great. Why
Speaker 1: would you leave that. He's got a running mate who's
Speaker 1: a top six player. You know, if you go back
Speaker 1: to Lebron's career, his first you know, seven years in Cleveland,
Speaker 1: he didn't have a top twenty teammate. D Wade and
Speaker 1: Bosh were both top twelve players in the league. Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irving was a top five or six player when he
Speaker 1: played with Lebron, and Anthony Davis now is a top
Speaker 1: five or six player. I think Lebron would have stayed
Speaker 1: in Cleveland if Kyrie Irving didn't bail on him, he
Speaker 1: would have stayed there and kept winning. But that didn't
Speaker 1: end well. He moves to Los Angeles, and I think
Speaker 1: Ad is more than delivered. He got him a championship,
Speaker 1: he got him to the Western Conference finals, and I'm
Speaker 1: not sure anybody in the league matches up against Jokic
Speaker 1: better than Ad. He makes him work for all his points.
Speaker 1: I think the Lakers need one more star. It's not
Speaker 1: d Lo. That's why he bounces around the league. And
Speaker 1: I think Denver's a really good team. Porzingis's injury tonight
Speaker 1: for Boston, I don't think it's as serious as summer
Speaker 1: speculating on the internet. I think he'll be back in
Speaker 1: a couple of games, if not the next game. But
Speaker 1: I do feel like, to me what I've watched so far,
Speaker 1: Denver's the best team in the league. Boston is second,
Speaker 1: and I think Minnesota is a tough matchup for Denver.
Speaker 1: Minnesota is the Lakers in terms of size, with two
Speaker 1: bigs and a dynamic player and Edwards in his early twenties.
Speaker 1: They're just there's a difference Lebron tonight, Lebron was fantastic.
Speaker 1: In the fourth Lebron was just terrific. But you know,
Speaker 1: we saw a couple of times in the series where
Speaker 1: Lebron was gas late or Ad was gas late. When
Speaker 1: you're twenty two years old and your aunt Edwards, you
Speaker 1: you leave a game with plenty in the tank. So
Speaker 1: I think they'll match up with Denver and give them problems.
Speaker 1: But Jo Kitch, Jamal Murray, Michael Porter Gordon doesn't have
Speaker 1: to score, he's so effective KCP. It's a very deep
Speaker 1: team in terms of offensive skill and one o wait,
Speaker 1: one six hitting six more threes was the difference. And yes,
Speaker 1: I thought the Lakers out played Denver. I thought the
Speaker 1: last hour of the second half was about as good
Speaker 1: an NBA game as I have seen this year. It
Speaker 1: was crazy. We've seen some good ones the next six ers.
Speaker 1: We saw those couple of games in New York that
Speaker 1: were pretty fantastic. But as I read a story today
Speaker 1: about the NBA Amazon esbn's going to pay nbcson the running.
Speaker 1: Amazon's in the running. Listen, nobody watches the regular season
Speaker 1: and so it's got its load management issues. But when
Speaker 1: the playoffs start, this is the first round. This is
Speaker 1: the first round, and I think we've had a half
Speaker 1: a dozen fantastic games. And the Lakers, they just got
Speaker 1: to find their twenty year old star. Okay See has one,
Speaker 1: Denver has one, Minnesota has one, Boston's got a couple.
Speaker 1: They got to find their twenty year old dynamic star.
Speaker 1: Who can you know? The tank still has something left
Speaker 1: in it after the game's over. But overall, I thought,
Speaker 1: I don't bind a Lebron's leaving. I think he's too
Speaker 1: good in Anthony Davis has really become what Lebron was
Speaker 1: hoping he was the year after the championship in the Bubble,
Speaker 1: when Ad came to camp that year out of shape,
Speaker 1: and Lebron was grumbling privately how disappointed he was. AD's
Speaker 1: never been better. I thought he was. Absolutely I bailed
Speaker 1: on the guy two years ago. I was over it.
Speaker 1: He played hurt tonight. He had a weird moment where
Speaker 1: he got his shoulder dinged. Wasn't a lot of contact,
Speaker 1: so he obviously played through pain and delivered. I got
Speaker 1: to tell you this, Denver is I'm sure tired of
Speaker 1: playing the Lakers. I know they beat him almost every game,
Speaker 1: but they Ruey's size and Lebron and Ad. They're a
Speaker 1: tough matchup for him, tough matchup. So I'm enjoying these playoffs.
Speaker 1: I hope you are. I know people can complain about
Speaker 1: the refs, and I try to stay out of that stuff.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to blame the refs. You could have called
Speaker 1: a dozen fouls in the fourth quarter. Lebron complained every
Speaker 1: time he went to the basket. Gordon got mauled a
Speaker 1: couple of times, so did Jokic. The refts were consistent.
Speaker 1: They let them play. I mean, Denver only shot nine
Speaker 1: free throws, hit eight, shot better threes, shot better twos,
Speaker 1: shot better free throw percentage. And that's the difference in
Speaker 1: the game inches not feet. So hell of a night,
Speaker 1: really really fun night. And Boston took it to Miami.
Speaker 1: Me beat him the one game when they hit twenty
Speaker 1: three threes. That's a mismatch. That series is a mismatch.
Speaker 1: Cross your fingers on Porzingis's health. I don't think it's serious.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, cross your fingers, it's not. But boy,
Speaker 1: Boston look good. Boston. They may be asking the league,
Speaker 1: as stan Van Gundy said, they may be asking the
Speaker 1: league if they can play more games in Miami because
Speaker 1: they looked fantastic. Derek White is their fifth best player.
Speaker 1: How good. He was the best guy on the floor
Speaker 1: of tonight for the Celtics. He was absolutely fantastic. I
Speaker 1: think the only team, though, I really feel that can
Speaker 1: match Denver is Boston. I think they can go toe
Speaker 1: to toe with they're starting five. If both they're healthy,
Speaker 1: I think it would be a tremendous, tremendous final. Both
Speaker 1: have an ok bench, nothing stellar. I would take Denver
Speaker 1: because I think they'd be a looser team, play like
Speaker 1: a championship team in big spots, and I trust Jokic
Speaker 1: overtatum in the big you know, star matchup. I think
Speaker 1: Malone probably gets a slight coaching nod, So I'd probably
Speaker 1: take Denver in six or seven if they get through
Speaker 1: the West. So the Nuggets face the Tea Wolves next.
Speaker 1: I like Denver in five or six. I think it's
Speaker 1: six again, Anthony Edwards is going to steal a game,
Speaker 1: and I feel like it's a game in which Denver's
Speaker 1: playoff experience will matter. But Minnesota matches up. You know,
Speaker 1: it's interesting they rolled the dice going with dual centers,
Speaker 1: and I don't think anybody in the league outside of
Speaker 1: Minnesota thought it would work. But it's a handful Karl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns is a tough matchup. Go Bears an elite defender.
Speaker 1: The construct of that team. You know, when the Warriors
Speaker 1: were playing small ball, it was just you weren't prepared
Speaker 1: for it. It was hard to practice for it. It's hard
Speaker 1: to practice for Minnesota. There's nothing else like it in
Speaker 1: the league. Now, Denver's got the size Porter Gordon and Jokic.
Speaker 1: They've got the size and the length to mostly match
Speaker 1: out with them. But Minnesota's going to give Denver some
Speaker 1: problems as well. I watched them play about was that
Speaker 1: about a month ago? It was right end of the
Speaker 1: regular season, so it was about three weeks ago. I
Speaker 1: watched Denver in Minnesota play and it was tied late
Speaker 1: and it was like three minutes to go and it
Speaker 1: was tied. It was a really good game, just a
Speaker 1: forest of big guys. So I'll take Denver, let's say,
Speaker 1: in six. And then I think Denver and the Celtics
Speaker 1: meet in the finals and I would take again Denver
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