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Speaker 2: Number one on the list is the Sun's losing game
Speaker 2: four one sixteen to the Timberwools U in the suite
Speaker 2: and if I'm honest. The Suns is always is a
Speaker 2: touchy one for me, m because I'm a little conflicted.
Speaker 2: I like to see I want to see the sounds
Speaker 2: due well. Matt ishby a Spartan dog, uh got you know,
Speaker 2: became the owner of the Phoenix Suns franchise about a
Speaker 2: year ago. So I'm always rooting for Ish. Book Man,
Speaker 2: I'm always rooting for Book. You know. I've talked to
Speaker 2: you all a million times about, you know, my love
Speaker 2: for Book and wanting to see him succeed. And Book
Speaker 2: got that seriousness to him that you need from your
Speaker 2: star players in order to win in these big moments,
Speaker 2: and I really want to see that happen for him.
Speaker 2: I think Book is in year eight now, if I'm
Speaker 2: not mistaken your seven or eight, you know. And the
Speaker 2: thing about Book is Book Book windows started a while ago,
Speaker 2: and he's been so good for you know, since coming
Speaker 2: into the league. He's you know, when his rookie year started,
Speaker 2: wasn't playing a ton and you can quickly see he
Speaker 2: was the best player on the team and before you
Speaker 2: know what, the ball was in his hands, and you
Speaker 2: know it's been in his hands since and so you know,
Speaker 2: I don't want to see book get to that point
Speaker 2: where people start writing him off as if he's not
Speaker 2: one of the guys, because he is one of them guys.
Speaker 2: And so uh there, I man, I got nothing but
Speaker 2: love for Brad. Uh. You know, I wanted to see
Speaker 2: just seeing Brad compete. Uh. Yesday he filed out trying
Speaker 2: to guard Anthony Evers. And I talked to y'all before
Speaker 2: about what I think needed to happen in that series.
Speaker 2: And Brad went down swinging, and everybody will say, oh, man,
Speaker 2: he had nine points and blah blah blah, like no
Speaker 2: brother was guarding Anthony Edwards. And so if you go
Speaker 2: back to what I said about what Kevin Durant needed
Speaker 2: to do, Kevin Durant needed to go take on that
Speaker 2: challenge and the reasons I said that. One of the
Speaker 2: things that I did say when I gave the reason
Speaker 2: is was Kevin should not focus on offense. Kevin should
Speaker 2: lock in on Anthony Edwards on the defensive end, play
Speaker 2: a role on the offensive end, get what comes to
Speaker 2: him on the offensive end because he's still Kevin Durant.
Speaker 2: So the defense going to overreact, but lock in on
Speaker 2: the defensive side of the ball and you know, whether
Speaker 2: that's spotting up, whether that's you know, getting your spot
Speaker 2: every now and then on the offensive end. But your
Speaker 2: main focus shouldn't be on the offensive end, because I
Speaker 2: don't think that's what the team would need at that point.
Speaker 2: With Grayson Allen being out, a lot of that changes
Speaker 2: because they're missing about fifteen to twenty points from Grace
Speaker 2: and Allen. They're missing some floor spacing that Grayson Allen provides.
Speaker 2: They're missing, you know, graceon Allen's presence, and so I
Speaker 2: do understand it a little more from that standpoint, But
Speaker 2: essentially what I'm getting at is that's essentially what happened
Speaker 2: to brad Bill. Brad Bill is so focused on trying
Speaker 2: to take anything thatwards out the game. Legs gone, came,
Speaker 2: hit a shot, it starts spiraling f fast, foul, trouble.
Speaker 2: Buddy went down swinging, and I gotta respect that. And
Speaker 2: unfortunately that is all, folks, That is all. Uh. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure which which tweet age worse. Shout out to
Speaker 2: my man Coos. I love COO's got nothing. You know,
Speaker 2: known cous for many many moons, but there's no Cou's.
Speaker 2: KOs is a truth teller who's Who's is a real
Speaker 2: and there's no secret that KU's is tweet about not
Speaker 2: being the team did not age well this year. It
Speaker 2: just didn't age well. Washington struggled a bit this year,
Speaker 2: finished with almost identical records to the Detroit Pistons after
Speaker 2: Koos's tweet and so the tweet, the tweets spoiled fast
Speaker 2: for cools though, like it's spoiled fast, and ironically the
Speaker 2: tweet may have spoiled even faster from from the big
Speaker 2: softy uh big softy one, the tweet after we lost.
Speaker 2: You know on post pictures that that tweet is spoiled
Speaker 2: so fast, like that is spoiled milk. And yeah that
Speaker 2: is all folks. So you know, you got to be
Speaker 2: really careful when you're not that's successful, and you try
Speaker 2: to take jobs at people because you really don't when
Speaker 2: you really don't have control of your own success, you know,
Speaker 2: when you don't, when you don't play a large enough
Speaker 2: role in your team success, when you can't really affect
Speaker 2: the outcome of the game, like you can go, you
Speaker 2: can go have twenty rebounds and lose a game, you know,
Speaker 2: like when you really don't affect the outcome of the game,
Speaker 2: it's really tough to take jobs at people because you
Speaker 2: got a job and then like you can't affect you
Speaker 2: know what your what your air result is, you know.
Speaker 2: And so yeah, the big softy bowed out. Uh, you know,
Speaker 2: Rudy Gobert played great. Hey, by the way, Rudy Gobert,
Speaker 2: Carl Anthony Towns. It's been in the league maybe eight years,
Speaker 2: eight to ten years for both of them, give or take.
Speaker 2: And what Anthony Edwards has taken those guys and done
Speaker 2: is absolutely amazing. Like Rudy, Rudy, Rudy actually not trash anymore.
Speaker 2: Like and I think I think it's like a lot
Speaker 2: of people agree that he just wasn't like he defends
Speaker 2: now and ironically, you know he got all the defensive
Speaker 2: where but I mean, like when you see him on
Speaker 2: the switches, he's up at the level. He not just
Speaker 2: sitting back in the drop no more. When he gets
Speaker 2: switched on to the guy, it's like his antennas pop on,
Speaker 2: like oh I gotta sit down and like they're about
Speaker 2: to go at me and I'm guarding. And I think
Speaker 2: it's been interesting to watch because he is actually impact
Speaker 2: and winning and he's actually doing that on the defensive end,
Speaker 2: where as opposed to other series, he's gotten played off
Speaker 2: the floor. Although Phoenix went small at times to try
Speaker 2: to get back in the game, there were times that
Speaker 2: they still played Rudy on Royce O'Neill. Before, if you
Speaker 2: win five guards, there was no chance Rudy Gobert can play,
Speaker 2: like zero percent chance. Even if you win a big
Speaker 2: that can stretch the floor, big that can move it,
Speaker 2: there was zero percent chance that he could play. And
Speaker 2: those things have changed, And if I'm honest, I don't
Speaker 2: think at this point that was a change in ability.
Speaker 2: That is a change in what's required of you. And
Speaker 2: quite frankly, like even if you listen to ask press
Speaker 2: conference last night, he's talking about Kat filing too much. Like,
Speaker 2: quite frankly, I think that that's the leader required more
Speaker 2: of both of those guys. Like I saw some things
Speaker 2: during the game last night, especially when Kat was at
Speaker 2: the five and Rudy was out, that I'm like, Kat,
Speaker 2: you can still cover that, Like you know, maybe like dude,
Speaker 2: you guarden Royce O'Neil. He had the free throw line
Speaker 2: drop one extra step, you could take that lay up
Speaker 2: away deep book just got and things like that. However,
Speaker 2: Kat is not a defensive minded player. So to try
Speaker 2: to nitpick at all of those little things, it's pointless
Speaker 2: to do, you know, And then saying that, I think
Speaker 2: what Anthony Edwards has required from those guys has allowed
Speaker 2: them to take the next step in their careers. A
Speaker 2: young twenty two year old basketball player, superstar fee nine,
Speaker 2: whatever you want to call him, I personally can tell
Speaker 2: when something is being required from a leadership perspective. And
Speaker 2: the way Kat is attempting to defend, like Kat was
Speaker 2: chasing Kevin Durant around, nas Reed was chasing Kevin Durant around,
Speaker 2: it is guys ain't do that before. And yes, I
Speaker 2: do give Chris Finch his credit as a coach. I
Speaker 2: do think, you know, he's a good coach. But man
Speaker 2: in the NBA, at the point of their careers that
Speaker 2: those guys are at, ain't no coach making you slide
Speaker 2: your feet like Rudy Gobert sliding his feet. Now Kat
Speaker 2: attempting to defend, that's a guy who you out there
Speaker 2: with saying, yo, this is what I need and you
Speaker 2: don't want to continue to hear from that guy, and
Speaker 2: definitely gives me that demeanor. And I think what he's
Speaker 2: feeding to those guys. Like, yes, his play with stellar,
Speaker 2: but I think what he's feeding to those guys is
Speaker 2: even more important because his play could be as stellar
Speaker 2: as it want if he ain't got those guys playing
Speaker 2: the way they're playing. It's the same old Timberwolves. What's
Speaker 2: changing is his demeanor and changing all of those guys.
Speaker 2: And now you look at that team, and that was
Speaker 2: a far more complete team than the Phoenix Suns, if
Speaker 2: I'm honest, that's a far more complete team than the
Speaker 2: Denver Nuggets. We'll get into the Denver Nuggets a little
Speaker 2: later in this show, but that team that we just watched,
Speaker 2: that are the Minnesota Timberwolves, is a complete team. Now,
Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards has had the luxury of bringing in over
Speaker 2: the last year and a half of veteran point guard
Speaker 2: like Mike Connley, and I know, and it's pulling things
Speaker 2: from him and and that's huge. But we've seen Mike
Speaker 2: Conley with star big man before not be able to
Speaker 2: get it done. So I got to get that credit
Speaker 2: credit to Anthony Edwards man now not taking nothing from
Speaker 2: Mike Conley. Uh, Mike Conley is has been a mainstay
Speaker 2: in this league for a long time we've had battles
Speaker 2: with team that's Mike Conley's been on. I got nothing
Speaker 2: but love and respect for Mike Conley and this has
Speaker 2: This is not a hit at all to Mike Conley,
Speaker 2: but more so the praise of Anthony Edwards. That kid
Speaker 2: is special and what he's doing it's no surprise, you
Speaker 2: know why, because he said all alone, this is what
Speaker 2: he believes, and this is what he was going to do,
Speaker 2: and he's just going to do it now. And so
Speaker 2: I think, I think, man, that was beautiful to watch.
Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards is the start that I've believed he could
Speaker 2: be since day one, and that I'm sure a lot
Speaker 2: of people did believe he could be still remember trying
Speaker 2: to figure out how to trade up from two to
Speaker 2: one and getting that man. But you know, special, special talent.
Speaker 2: So the question that comes next is what happens to
Speaker 2: the Phoenix Suns. What does this mean for the Sons
Speaker 2: Big three? Blah blah blah. Nothing. They'll come back in
Speaker 2: next year with that same big three and hopefully they'll
Speaker 2: try to retool around that big three. Now, we knew
Speaker 2: coming into the year that not having a point guard's
Speaker 2: going to be a problem. That that was going to
Speaker 2: be an issue no matter what, and everybody said, no,
Speaker 2: Devin Booker can play the point, Brad Bial can play
Speaker 2: the point. And don't get me wrong, they can get
Speaker 2: you an offense, they can win you games, but they're
Speaker 2: not point guards. And being a point guard and trying
Speaker 2: to think, oh, man, Kevin hasn't had a shot, Oh man,
Speaker 2: deep Book hasn't had a shot, or Brad you know,
Speaker 2: deep Book thinking, oh Brad haven't had a That's a
Speaker 2: totally different game you gotta play. Then come down, all right,
Speaker 2: get to my spot, get us some good get us,
Speaker 2: get us a good shot. That's a totally different game
Speaker 2: you gotta play. And quite frankly, it doesn't best suit
Speaker 2: those guys to play that game. Can they play that
Speaker 2: in spurts, of course, but to play that game an
Speaker 2: entire season that it's a tall task that quite frankly
Speaker 2: showed to be proved to be one that they couldn't
Speaker 2: overcome because all year long, you know, you see them
Speaker 2: and they start to make a run, and those guys
Speaker 2: are playing well and then it just like fall off.
Speaker 2: And I think that is because you know, the consistency
Speaker 2: in the style of play due to not having an
Speaker 2: initiator that you know, all right, this game every night,
Speaker 2: this guy is getting us into X, Y and Z,
Speaker 2: and I think that that made all the difference. And
Speaker 2: so if you're the Phoenix Signs, the highest trade value
Speaker 2: you're gonna have is Devin Booker. Do you want to
Speaker 2: move off your franchise player Devin Booker. I highly doubt
Speaker 2: that Matt Ishbia taken over as a new owner. I
Speaker 2: highly doubt he's going to come in and within a
Speaker 2: year move on from Devin Booker. The book is also
Speaker 2: one of those special players that you just don't just
Speaker 2: move on from. But he will have the highest trade
Speaker 2: value of the three for a couple of reasons. His age, obviously,
Speaker 2: his play contract situation. You know he's like got a
Speaker 2: couple of years left, could sign an extension, all these things,
Speaker 2: but he's twenty seven, and so he'll have the highest
Speaker 2: value of all of them. Brad's contract is big with
Speaker 2: the injury history, and you know some people are looking say, oh,
Speaker 2: he only had nine points in this last game, we
Speaker 2: can't trade him, so his value would be less than
Speaker 2: book Kd's in here eighteen. So his value will be
Speaker 2: less than the books. So with no draft picks, and
Speaker 2: the next they got a draft pick. I think the
Speaker 2: Suns had a twenty second draft pick this year, but
Speaker 2: outside of that, doesn't have another draft pick through twenty thirty,
Speaker 2: So you don't have picks to move, and you don't
Speaker 2: really have many players to move outside of those three
Speaker 2: and two of those, well, one Brad value on a
Speaker 2: trade market probably wouldn't be as high with the salary
Speaker 2: that Brad has and then the new second Apron and
Speaker 2: all those things coming into effect. That makes it tough there.
Speaker 2: Like I said, Katie, and you're eighteen, you know, with
Speaker 2: a team not knowing where if he's even gonna want
Speaker 2: to come there or blah blah blah. And so your
Speaker 2: biggest asset is Devin Booker? Do you move on from
Speaker 2: Devin Booker? Now, interestingly enough, we talked about Rudy Gobert.
Speaker 2: The Rudy Gobert trade completely killed the trade market because
Speaker 2: they took five first round picks, and then no one
Speaker 2: wants to ever do that again. So you've even seen
Speaker 2: guys like Dame I think it moved for two or
Speaker 2: three first round picks. So with book what's the most
Speaker 2: you can get and what's worth it? I don't think
Speaker 2: anything's worth it, but you have to assess everything when
Speaker 2: you're in a position that the Suns are in now. However,
Speaker 2: they've played together for one year. The books are what
Speaker 2: they are anyway, So my opinion, you got to come
Speaker 2: back with those guys, you got to try to retool
Speaker 2: around them, and you got to give it another go.
Speaker 2: The reality is, none of these things really work in
Speaker 2: the first year. Unless you're to go to State Warriors,
Speaker 2: then they work in the first year. But none of
Speaker 2: these things really ever work in the first year. So
Speaker 2: I'm awesome, I'm not on the hype train. Oh it's
Speaker 2: over and they need to figure out and blah blah blah,
Speaker 2: and like no, but you definitely have to go back
Speaker 2: to the drawing board, you know. I saw the whole
Speaker 2: Frank Vogel would be fire thing. Quite frankly, I think
Speaker 2: that that was a decision that we all questioned as
Speaker 2: soon as it happened. I don't think any of us
Speaker 2: thought that Frank Vogel would be Moni's replacement until Frank
Speaker 2: Vogel's name came up, and you're like, whoa, And so
Speaker 2: just in thinking back to that, I don't you know,
Speaker 2: you know Kevin saying I didn't know my role in offense,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if Kevin said that or not.
Speaker 2: That was a quote that's been put out there from sources.
Speaker 2: You can never be so sure those sources, oftentimes are correct.
Speaker 2: Frank Vogel is not an offensive coach. So Frank Vogel
Speaker 2: I personally don't think was ever going to be the
Speaker 2: one to put all of those pieces into place. From
Speaker 2: a standpoint that, A, we don't have a point guard,
Speaker 2: how can we make this work moving all of these
Speaker 2: different guys around and being creative. That's not what Frank
Speaker 2: Bogo does And so I never expected that and yet
Speaker 2: to see that come out, that's no surprise, yuse. Kevin's
Speaker 2: not someone that's just going to bring the ball up
Speaker 2: alah book allah, brad beial and get his own That's
Speaker 2: not what Kevin's going to do. So that does not
Speaker 2: shock me one bit one bit. You didn't see Kevin
Speaker 2: coming off any pin downs to the elbow area, getting
Speaker 2: to his bag. That's when Kevin is most dangerous. When
Speaker 2: you get Kevin in those spots where okay, I can't
Speaker 2: just raise up on you because you're too small, wonder
Speaker 2: will pull up I can completely get rid of, like
Speaker 2: you gotta know the spots to get Kevin in. And
Speaker 2: to Kevin's credit, if that statement is true that Kevin
Speaker 2: said that, I agree, he did stand in the corner. Now,
Speaker 2: I do know that Kevin will sometimes get upset and
Speaker 2: just go to the corner. But all year he was
Speaker 2: just in the corner. And like I said, you watched
Speaker 2: their offense, and none of those players was getting Kevin
Speaker 2: to the spots that he likes to get to. I know,
Speaker 2: the spots that he wants to get to the score.
Speaker 2: None of the says that they were running were really
Speaker 2: getting him into those spots. And as great of a
Speaker 2: scorer as he is, he still needs the ball in
Speaker 2: the spots in order to be as efficient and productive
Speaker 2: as as he can be. Get him to his spots
Speaker 2: in this rat who's going to stop him? And so
Speaker 2: I ain't never seen any of that, And like I said,
Speaker 2: I'm not very surprised by it, because I didn't when
Speaker 2: the hire happened to Frank Vogel, I didn't view that as, oh,
Speaker 2: their offense is about to be crazy. No, the first
Speaker 2: thought would be there going to be a good defensive
Speaker 2: team and quite frankly their offense. They struggled a lot
Speaker 2: of fourth quarters, and that usually tells you don't have
Speaker 2: a point guard to get you into the things that
Speaker 2: you need to get into. So in turn, it turns
Speaker 2: in the light book getting off or Brad trying to
Speaker 2: get to it. But how sustainable is that to do
Speaker 2: that for entire quarters. All of a sudden, you miss
Speaker 2: a couple and you go down, and that team's been
Speaker 2: playing team basketball. So nonetheless, I don't think it's over
Speaker 2: for the Sun's Big three. Yes, every hell out of
Speaker 2: the water they go next, or is it over like?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think you got to try
Speaker 2: to retool around those guys. You bring Grayson Allen back,
Speaker 2: But you bring Grayson Allen back, if I'm honest, he
Speaker 2: got to come off the bench because you need a
Speaker 2: point guard. Now. You signed Isad Thomas for the rest
Speaker 2: of the season. I thought that he'd at least get
Speaker 2: a shot to try to see if he could take
Speaker 2: on some of the responsibility. We didn't see that. So
Speaker 2: that's the Suns timber Wolves moving on. I'm excited for
Speaker 2: the next series with the timber Wolves. We all think
Speaker 2: that it'll be the Denver Nuggets. Denver Nuggets also has
Speaker 2: their share of issues. Their bench is not it. They
Speaker 2: do not have a very good bench at all, and
Speaker 2: you need a bench to win championships, and I just
Speaker 2: don't know if their bench is going to get it done.
Speaker 2: Should be enough to get it done in this series.
Speaker 2: I think for sure it'll be enough to get it
Speaker 2: done in this series. But as you go deeper into
Speaker 2: the playoffs, the flaws that you have get more and
Speaker 2: more exposed. And if it's going to get exposed, it
Speaker 2: has to be this next round. It has to be
Speaker 2: by Anthony Edwards in the Minnesota Timberwolves. Now, all of
Speaker 2: the praise that I just gave to the Timberwolves and
Speaker 2: they're Bigs and Rudy Gobert and Kat and what they've done,
Speaker 2: but Anthony Erwars has done for them. And next next year,
Speaker 2: if they go on to face the Denver Nuggets, that
Speaker 2: will be put to the test with the big fella
Speaker 2: Joker and we will see. But right now, timber Woods
Speaker 2: are looking like cut and dry, the best, second best
Speaker 2: team in the West, arguably the first best team in
Speaker 2: the West. Like I said, just with their depth on
Speaker 2: you know, with their depth that puts them ahead of Denver.
Speaker 2: What brings them right back to Denver is Joker gonna
Speaker 2: be like, I don't need no help. I mean, you
Speaker 2: know you need help. What he tell Rudy go brother,
Speaker 2: I got I got forty seven. You need a double team.
Speaker 2: So it's gonna come down to Ken Rudy Gobert not
Speaker 2: stopp him, because you're not stopping Joker. But can he
Speaker 2: affect the game the way he was affecting the game
Speaker 2: in last series, that'll be a big thing. Ain't gonna
Speaker 2: do what he do? It was good to see Cap
Speaker 2: back out there and have a good series coming off
Speaker 2: that long layoff, still food defenix Suns and telling them
Speaker 2: that he was the most important player in the series.
Speaker 2: It wasn't. That was a lie at is and will
Speaker 2: be the most important player in the series. That's that.
Speaker 2: And moving on, The Knicks beat the seventy six ers
Speaker 2: ninety seven to ninety two to take a three to
Speaker 2: one lead in the series. And the first question is
Speaker 2: do I personally need to apologize to jaylen Brunson for
Speaker 2: saying he shouldn't dominate the ball? My answers no, Here's why.
Speaker 2: Number one, some things that work in the first round. Cool.
Speaker 2: They work in the first round, they won't work moving forward.
Speaker 2: It's funny because I had a conversation with a friend
Speaker 2: of mine last week, Benny Fowler, and I was talking
Speaker 2: to him actually about Jaylen Brunston, and I was watching
Speaker 2: the Knicks and I was like, man, I called him
Speaker 2: and I said, YO, tell me if I'm tripping, like
Speaker 2: Jayleen Brunton is really good, and I feel like I
Speaker 2: have to believe how good he is. And I thought,
Speaker 2: I've always believe how good he is. Playing at the
Speaker 2: level that he'd be playing at is a different level
Speaker 2: than I always thought. I think most people thought. I mean,
Speaker 2: even when he signed for one hundred million with the Knicks,
Speaker 2: everybody said that was a crazy deal and he was overpaid.
Speaker 2: So we're not going to act like it's just me. However,
Speaker 2: I called my boy and I'm like, man, I don't
Speaker 2: really know if I'm supposed to believe like Jaylen Brunson,
Speaker 2: like because I know better beings like I know better,
Speaker 2: Like I know that this gets to a certain level
Speaker 2: and it stops, like he can only do this up
Speaker 2: to a certain point being your number one option. But
Speaker 2: you look at him competing, he's smarter and he gonna
Speaker 2: get smaller card. And like I kind of was in
Speaker 2: this role of like arguing for him, arguing against them,
Speaker 2: arguing for them, arguing against and that's how I feel
Speaker 2: about it. But and so I'll say this, he does
Speaker 2: have my respect. He's always had my respect. That's not
Speaker 2: up for debate. What is up for debate is can
Speaker 2: he carry a team to the Promised Land. By the way,
Speaker 2: the Conference finals to me is not the promise Land.
Speaker 2: We saw Trey Young go to the conference finals against
Speaker 2: these very New York Knicks, well dealing with the New
Speaker 2: York Knicks along the way and to get to the
Speaker 2: conference final and hasn't been back since. And so the
Speaker 2: conference finals is not the holy Grail to me. So
Speaker 2: although that's a huge step for him to take him
Speaker 2: to the conference finals, I will take my hat, tip
Speaker 2: my hat to him respect, But that's not like the
Speaker 2: promised Land to me. But I'll give him that. And
Speaker 2: so I went through this whole thing with my point,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't know, like forty seven points, ten assists,
Speaker 2: one turnover, eighteen to thirty from from the field. The
Speaker 2: one thing that was glaringly noticeable to me when I
Speaker 2: was watching the game was that Philly plays with Joel
Speaker 2: and the drop, and so what they did was just
Speaker 2: kept putting Joel in the pick and roll and Jalen
Speaker 2: Brunson got whatever he wanted because he was in the drop.
Speaker 2: At some point, you gotta move up the floor, building
Speaker 2: the help and make those other guys beat you. Now
Speaker 2: they've shown that they could beat you. But are you
Speaker 2: gonna let Jaylen Brunce get forty seven ten assists and
Speaker 2: only one turnover. The only reason the reason he only
Speaker 2: got one turnover is because that drop, there's no pressure
Speaker 2: on him. He coming off and Jaylen Brunton when he
Speaker 2: come off the screen and there's nobody there, he's not
Speaker 2: even now looking at the guy in the drop no more.
Speaker 2: He now starts back paying attention to his guy, which is,
Speaker 2: let me lock him in back here so he can't
Speaker 2: get back to the front square the ball up. Now
Speaker 2: he's locked in behind the play and he gets whatever
Speaker 2: you want float or MIDI. That's where he lived, not
Speaker 2: even after three. He lives in those ranges, and so
Speaker 2: of course he gonna go off of there. But what
Speaker 2: happens if you bring the guy up to the level
Speaker 2: of the screen, They gotta do something else though, like Philly,
Speaker 2: you can't just stay in the drop just because it's Joel.
Speaker 2: How do you win like that? You gotta do something
Speaker 2: else like and then also you got Joel and b
Speaker 2: Tyrese Maxi. You gotta score more than ninety two points
Speaker 2: because if you hold a team to ninety seven. See
Speaker 2: here's the thing, the game plan in theory actually works.
Speaker 2: You let Jayleen Brounson get his forty seven ten assists,
Speaker 2: they scored ninety seven points. So number one, you have
Speaker 2: to score more points ninety two points they scored ninety seven,
Speaker 2: you should win that game. In the NBA, So in theory,
Speaker 2: Jalen dominating the ball actually doesn't work because they only
Speaker 2: score ninety seven points doing it. But you gotta give
Speaker 2: him his credit because it worked to get a win.
Speaker 2: But if a team scored ninety seven, you got the
Speaker 2: MVP of the NBA on your team at home, where
Speaker 2: role players should be shooting better and making hustle play,
Speaker 2: you only get ninety two points. That's why you lose.
Speaker 2: So the conuntrum, that the conundrum that I've been kind
Speaker 2: of calleding and dealing with on Jaylen bruston jury still
Speaker 2: out and again I got nothing but love and respect
Speaker 2: for Jaylen Bruston and love his game and respect his game.
Speaker 2: But I'm talking about to go to the Promised Land.
Speaker 2: Can he be your best player to go to the
Speaker 2: Promised Land? I don't know, but damn is he balling?
Speaker 2: He doing it? Give them his credit. And when you
Speaker 2: look at the series, I personally think the series can
Speaker 2: still be turned around because I think Joe Ellenbid is
Speaker 2: that good. But Joe ellenb got to go be that good,
Speaker 2: like when you got the best player in the series.
Speaker 2: And right now, Jaylen Bruston is looking like the best
Speaker 2: player in the series. But I'm not doing that. Joe
Speaker 2: ellenb is the best player in the series. When you
Speaker 2: got the best player in the series, you always have
Speaker 2: a chance. And so I still think they have a
Speaker 2: chance because Joel can do that. But it's looking like
Speaker 2: it's over and they're ready to quit. We'll see Nicks
Speaker 2: going back home. You see the way they invaded Wells
Speaker 2: Fargo yesterday. Oh they going back home. Shut the streets
Speaker 2: of New York City down that they win this game five,
Speaker 2: because it's a rap. We shall see Clippers versus the
Speaker 2: Mavericks was a very interesting one great game, down thirty points,
Speaker 2: come back, still don't win. No, why remember what I
Speaker 2: told you all about them taking Kawhi up to the
Speaker 2: brink and they're like, ah, he's out. You're playing a
Speaker 2: different team. No surprise to me. The Mavericks got down
Speaker 2: by thirty points. You know why because when you go
Speaker 2: into that game and you don't know if Kawhi Leondard
Speaker 2: is playing Kawhi Leonards that good, you have to prepare
Speaker 2: for Kawhi Lennard. Well, guess what you're prepared for a
Speaker 2: team that you're not playing against, because they're totally different
Speaker 2: team when Kawhi Lender doesn't play. So they get down
Speaker 2: thirty points, nonetheless come roaring back. Why because you got
Speaker 2: two of the best scorers in our game, Kyrie Hervan Luka.
Speaker 2: Doncons they come roaring back ends up not being enough.
Speaker 2: James Harden looked like James Harden. Didn't even look like
Speaker 2: Houston James Harden. James Harden looked like ok C James Harden.
Speaker 2: You know why he didn't look like Houston James Harden
Speaker 2: because Houston James Harden didn't shoot real floaters. For real
Speaker 2: Houston James Harden did not shoot me rain shots Houston.
Speaker 2: James Harden shot layups in threes that looked like the
Speaker 2: Oka cee James Hard and I thought it was very
Speaker 2: interesting because Dallas is going to have to figure out
Speaker 2: who's guarding James Harden move for moving forward, and why
Speaker 2: they're going to need to figure that out is because
Speaker 2: I personally don't think PJ. Washington is the answer. PJ
Speaker 2: has shown to be a good defender, a guy that's
Speaker 2: willing to take on that role for this team, and
Speaker 2: I respect it, but he can't guard James Harden. Every
Speaker 2: time James Harden made one move, he looked like Ricky Rubio.
Speaker 2: Y'all remember that time Ricky Rubio is Garden James Harden.
Speaker 2: If this is the real Ricky Rubio is Guarden j
Speaker 2: Harden forcing him to the like crazy stuff crazy when
Speaker 2: I saw Ricky Rubio doing that. However, one move and
Speaker 2: that's how PJ. Tucker looked. PJ was behind James every
Speaker 2: time he crossed over, like way behind him and out
Speaker 2: the play, and he's he's banking on getting to what's
Speaker 2: shot contest, getting the block, coming from behind James Harden
Speaker 2: and getting the block. However, James doesn't shoot his floater
Speaker 2: like a normal floater. James kind of shoots his floater
Speaker 2: out like this and push it, and so there's no
Speaker 2: way you can get back to getting the block without
Speaker 2: following him, which we saw a couple d ones on
Speaker 2: the floater. But I was also a little disappointed in
Speaker 2: Dallas's defense from the standpoint, like Terris's man is on
Speaker 2: the floor, somebody shrinked the floor and make terrace Man
Speaker 2: be you James hard can't just keep getting to the
Speaker 2: middle of the paint when no one else started shooting
Speaker 2: the floor. At some point, somebody who's guarding Terriss Man
Speaker 2: just come and stand there. I know where he going go.
Speaker 2: Stand there, all right, Gret, you're gonna throw the ball
Speaker 2: tenns Man as terns Man beats us. Great, we're supposed
Speaker 2: to go home. But to keep letting James get by
Speaker 2: PJ and just going to the floater and get whatever
Speaker 2: he wanted. Nah, that can't work. PG hit some big shots.
Speaker 2: Big shots from PG wanted all the smoke. And I
Speaker 2: also loved the type of time that PG was on.
Speaker 2: You know, PJ. Washington had this whole thing, and I
Speaker 2: respect that too, But PG ain't forget and see It's
Speaker 2: always funny watching these young fellas have they moment and
Speaker 2: start talking, because you start barking up the tree of
Speaker 2: the guys that have been doing this for a long time.
Speaker 2: And PG been doing that to guys for a long time.
Speaker 2: And PG got the last live the three he hit
Speaker 2: over Dereck Jones in the corner. Insane, by the way.
Speaker 2: But let's move backwards a little bit, so PJ. Washington,
Speaker 2: I personally don't think it's the match up for James
Speaker 2: Harden and I think if they're going to have a
Speaker 2: chance of stopping James hard, if James come out with
Speaker 2: that same mentality again, James is in your what sixteen fifteen.
Speaker 2: It's hard to do that every night, you know, but
Speaker 2: it is the playoffs. You get days in between. But
Speaker 2: if James is playing that same style of basketball, ay,
Speaker 2: go help off. Terrence Man. Come on now, Jared Dully.
Speaker 2: Jared Dully always talk about how he got the game plans.
Speaker 2: Come on now, Dudds. Let's see it going up against
Speaker 2: old T lou over there, you know t Loui mastermind.
Speaker 2: Let's see it does we got we got excuse me,
Speaker 2: we gotta see these defensive game plans because James can't
Speaker 2: just get there and beat you like that. So if
Speaker 2: James is going to stay that aggressive, though, who's going
Speaker 2: to end up being the key in this series who
Speaker 2: can actually stay in front of James take the hit
Speaker 2: the shoulder that James delivers. It's Josh Green. Josh Green
Speaker 2: has not played much just series. He's playing here and there,
Speaker 2: but he is the one guy who can actually stay
Speaker 2: in front and take the bump. PJ. Washington can take
Speaker 2: the bump, but he didn't do a good job of
Speaker 2: staying in front. Now you know, he may take on
Speaker 2: the challenge and say I'm sitting down, but that was
Speaker 2: that didn't look good last night. And personally, I think
Speaker 2: Dallas should still take this series, especially without that with
Speaker 2: the uncertainty of Kawhi, I think the Clippers are better
Speaker 2: off now playing Kawhi the rest of the series. You
Speaker 2: gotta see what you got. You gotta also be certain
Speaker 2: with your guys, because you don't want guys like, oh,
Speaker 2: he's playing this game on the same the regular season.
Speaker 2: This is the playoffs. Coming in and out of the
Speaker 2: lineup is tough, can be tough to adjust in one game.
Speaker 2: One play change is a series. So if I'm them.
Speaker 2: They need to just be certain with what they got.
Speaker 2: You still got James, you still got PG, and you
Speaker 2: still got Russell Westbrook. You still got two MVPs. In
Speaker 2: a perennial MVP candidate should still be able to go
Speaker 2: out there and compete possibly win the series. Uh, but
Speaker 2: I wouldn't keep mixing Kawhi in and out and then
Speaker 2: also wishing Kawhi well. We never want to see that.
Speaker 2: And last, but not least, on this episode of The
Speaker 2: Draymond Green Show, is the Lakers beat the Nuggets to
Speaker 2: extend this, to extend the series, they will play again
Speaker 2: tonight in Denver Game five. Do they have a chance
Speaker 2: to come back? Yes, they have a chance to come back.
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you why. I don't think they're coming back,
Speaker 2: but I they do think they have a chance. Number One,
Speaker 2: Dangelo Russell played well. Dangelo Russell played well, Lakers can win.
Speaker 2: Lakers went at a high level when Dangelo Russell played well.
Speaker 2: So d Loo just got to take that on the
Speaker 2: chin and go play well. Can't have a game here,
Speaker 2: game there, This is the playoffs. Go play well again
Speaker 2: to night d Low. The reason I think the Lakers
Speaker 2: have a chance is because again, their bench is not
Speaker 2: good Denvers. Denver's bench is not good, so that is
Speaker 2: something they've been able to play at this whole series.
Speaker 2: They've been leading the whole series, they just ain't won,
Speaker 2: got to win. So I think they can come back.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's likely that they're going to come back,
Speaker 2: but I definitely think so, because all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray cash strained questionable. If Jamal Murray doesn't go
Speaker 2: tonight or if he is one hundred percent and Lakers
Speaker 2: take the series back to LA three to two, probably
Speaker 2: winning Game six, so Nan it's a game seven, it's
Speaker 2: a coin flip. So I think the Lakers can do it.
Speaker 2: I see everybody talking to Bron does this, He's to go?
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I hate when people try to make
Speaker 2: one incident. Oh if you do this, then you to go.
Speaker 2: But if not, then what is he like? Then? What? Yeah?
Speaker 2: So like these people be crazy with all this stuff.
Speaker 2: But I definitely think it's possible. Denver's bench is a
Speaker 2: huge concern. However, as possible as it is, I got
Speaker 2: a joker coming out tonight, sending them boys home, finishing
Speaker 2: their breakfast, moving on. But if anybody can do it.
Speaker 2: Take her from me. Brian can pull it off. So
Speaker 2: we shall see. But I got that one ending tonight. However,
Speaker 2: shout out to d ham Man getting the guys to
Speaker 2: respond a way responded. Everybody trying to throw DM under
Speaker 2: the bus. I hate it. That's whack to me. But
Speaker 2: he got the guys that respond and they got another chance,
Speaker 2: so we shall see what happens. I got that one
Speaker 2: ending tonight in five and that is a wrap from
Speaker 2: this episode of The Draymond Green Show. Excuse me, that's all, folks. Peace,