WEBVTT - Kings Without A Crowd 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.120 On this episode of This League, we talk about the 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:06.680 most disappointing team of twenty twenty one, the Dallas Mavericks. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:09.600 No matter how hot the Utah Jazz get, why they 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:13.000 still have a shitload to prove, the sneaky reason that 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.280 no one's playing defense this year, and we answer a 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:21.000 bunch more listener dms so without further ado, Oh wow, 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.600 what a great fade out, Such a solid fade out. 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:26.680 Before we get started today, let me just say this 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:30.360 for everyone who watched the game last night, I'm talking 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:34.680 about the Nets Wizards game. The Russell Westbrook segment is coming. 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:39.640 It's I know he's healthy for the first time in 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.880 forever and he's got his bounce back. But I want 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.120 to take my time on this segment. I didn't have 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.760 enough time to get it done. You're gonna have to 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:50.640 wait till Friday, because do I ever have lots of 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:53.960 things to say. So let's get into really what I 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:55.600 want to talk about, which is this. 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.040 Do you know what I'm tired of hearing? 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:02.520 Oh, that Giannis is a top five MVP candidate, that 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.720 the Bucks are favorite to win the East, maybe that 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:07.640 they have an eighty three percent chance to win the 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:08.119 NBA time. 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:08.679 I mean that. 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:09.679 Percentage was crazy. 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.520 When the when ESPN put that out horrible, I was like, 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:14.440 I mean they're I mean, they're not gonna win the 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:14.959 first round. 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.600 Well yeah, I mean just eighty three percent a wild number. 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:20.959 I mean it's a bubble year there was. 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.240 That was just an insane But yes, I am tired 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.000 of hearing that, obviously, But that's not what I'm talking about. 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.760 What I am talking about is Luca and the MAVs. 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.760 How many times? How many goddamn times am I gonna 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:37.280 have to hear Luca drops thirty, he balls out these 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:38.600 crazy stats. 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.360 And the MAVs lose. In a MAVs loss, Luca goes 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.360 off the ship is gross. It is. 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.440 He's top five in the MVP race, he's averaging almost 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:53.040 a triple double. He's averaging thirty nine and nine, and 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:59.640 they're thirteenth in the Western Conference. And it's concerning. It's 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.919 not like they're just losing in a in the last 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:07.240 minute fashion. Sometimes they go down twenty and five minutes. 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:12.720 Sometimes they blow a twenty point lead. The only thing 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.200 that's a constant with these MAVs games is that Luca 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:16.800 goes off and he's gassed. 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.000 And can't finish. 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:24.040 He can't be Superman for the entire thirty six forty minutes. 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.400 The only team that they've beaten, of note is that 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.919 one fifty point game against the Clippers, and Lord knows 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:32.920 Luca was. 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:33.760 Fresh in that game. 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:35.399 Yeah, no Kawhi either. 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:39.919 No Kawhi and the game was over before it even started. 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:44.119 The Dallas Mavericks are eight and twelve. They've lost eight 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:48.840 of their last ten. I mean, come on, big question, 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:53.360 how did they get here? Bigger question? Why were their 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.000 expectations so high coming in? 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:56.280 What? 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.600 How did they become a team that everyone thought was 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:00.919 gonna lead the West? 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:03.480 I had listeners. 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.800 Hitting me up like Trista, how much better did the 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.080 MAVs get with all this three and D that they've added? 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.360 And I believe my answer in the preseason was like, 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:14.400 did they get three and D? 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:14.840 Help? 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.920 I don't remember them doing that. I don't remember adding 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:19.799 those pieces. 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:27.320 Josh richards Are they thinking of Josh Richardson? I was 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.840 prepping for this segment and I was like, I don't 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:36.000 think so. I saw a news story from a month ago, 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:42.040 and the news story said this, Dallas Mavericks, why they 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:47.520 crushed the off season Dallas Mavericks are in a position 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:49.200 to contend. 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:50.720 Sits. 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.600 Okay, so here's what this Big Jay had to say 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:58.640 about the MAVs. The acquisition of Josh Richardson is going 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:03.560 to do wonders for this team. No, Richardson gives the 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.680 MAVs a gritty and raunchy edge that simply wasn't there 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:10.240 a season ago. While losing Seth Curry hurts, the Mavericks 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.440 still have all kinds of scoring throughout their rotation. And 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:17.160 while he's unproven, did add Tyrell Terry in the draft 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.240 to replace some of that dead eye marksmanship from the 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:21.080 three point line. 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:28.200 Tyrel Terry m dead eye marksman. He's averaging one point. 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:34.480 That writer also said this that Josh Richardson could d 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:41.560 up Kawhi. Imagine thinking in any universe that Josh Richardson 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:45.760 could put clamps on Kawhi Leonard. Imagine thinking you could 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.640 compete against the Clippers. The reason that you got Josh 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.360 Richardson was so that you could beat the. 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:51.520 Clippers in the first round. 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:55.480 You're you're not even gonna get one game off the 0:04:55.560 --> 0:05:00.240 Clippers now that they have Sir Jabaka yeah and Nick two. 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.520 Let's be real, Let's just call it what it is. 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:04.440 Spade is spade. 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:11.400 This roster, this MAV's roster is not good. Look at 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:16.680 that roster from start to finish. Jalen Brunson. Jalen Brunson 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:20.760 is your third option. Tim Hardaway Junior is your fourth option. 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:23.920 Stunning. 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.680 It's not even like they were great last year and 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.480 then they just lost pieces. The only guy they lost 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.200 was Seth Curry. And I'm not trying to slander Seth Curry, 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:34.960 but he's not. 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.760 He's not the reason that you're underperforming. 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:38.920 Now. 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:40.200 Yeah, he's not a team killer. 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.800 No, No, it's not like, oh, I'm building around Seth Curry. 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.200 No one ever has said that. No one. 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:51.680 They might have mispronounced Steth Curry, but not about Seth Curry. 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.120 Luca has covered up how bad this team has been. 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.960 Let's spit facts for a second. They were three and 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.360 five in the bubble last year in the regular season, 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.960 they were two and four in the playoffs, and everyone 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:08.000 was sucking their dick coming into this season and they 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:12.200 didn't get better because of Josh Richardson. Josh Richardson's the 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.200 reason you're gonna be a contender. 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.919 Luca made that cool three in the bubble be serious. 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.839 He had that step back, and everyone's like, oh my god. 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.960 And like those two wins that the Clippers, that the 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:28.720 MAVs got over the Clippers, those weren't like astounding wins. 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:34.200 Those were last second wins. Yeah, so I don't understand 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:35.200 it whatsoever. 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:37.240 Josh Richardson. 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.040 The only reason that Josh Richardson is who he is 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.760 and everybody thinks he's so good is because he played 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.120 for the Miami Heat, and Miami Heat is the reason 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.720 that he was playing. Well, you saw what he did 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.799 when he was on the Philadelphia seventy six ers. Not much, 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.200 or they wouldn't have gotten rid of him. They should 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.279 have tried to go get Tobias Harris, even Lucas, like 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:01.320 this is ridiculous. I played it Europe my whole life, 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.479 and I've never played with lazier people that I'm playing 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.560 with right now, Like this is crazy, Like Europe is 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.799 the king and queen of like work life balance. 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:10.200 They're all his. 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.040 He's like, my teammates are normally on the beaches of 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:17.720 the Adriatic Sea, and at least they cared whether we won. 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:22.240 Here's what Luca had to say after their last loss by. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:26.680 Way y'all's play and effort tonight terrible. 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:29.000 Can you elaborate? 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:34.000 There's really not much to say. I never felt like this, 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.720 and we're gonna do something because this is not looking good, 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:43.040 and you know, we gotta step up and you know, 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.640 just talk to each other and play way better than this. 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:52.559 It's mostly after yikes, I've never felt like this. It's 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:56.920 not looking good. It's mostly effort. And later on in 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.720 the next part of the interview, he says, it looks 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:03.440 like we don't even care if we should win or not. 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:06.880 I mean, it doesn't get any worse than that. 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.120 I don't think you're paid, don't play games to win them, 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:14.800 and you just don't care whatsoever. A twenty one year 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.520 old is like, yo, what's up? Are you guys wanting 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:23.920 to compete? Like? Yo, compete? Compete? Play basketball? This is 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.920 not a winning culture. And then Christat said something. 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:28.200 What did he say? Postgames? 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:30.920 Yeah? Here, I've got it. He said, we don't have 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.680 that chemistry yet that we're looking for. We don't have 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.640 our roles clear, we're just kind of out there playing. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.400 We're a talented group. But until we have everybody playing 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.760 together and having also some time off the court, I 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:44.400 think we won't have that chemistry. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:50.920 Excuse me, who who is we? Who Christas is acting 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.559 like it's not him? Until we have everyone playing together, 0:08:54.640 --> 0:09:01.160 we won't have that chemistry. Hey, Zinger, you are the 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.400 one that's not healthy. You are the one that tore 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.560 your ACL and had to miss multiple seasons to recover. 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:08.880 You are the one that sticks out, sits out back 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.120 to back games for maintenance reasons. 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:13.760 You cannot build chemistry from the bench. 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.959 No, you cannot, And no one's gonna want to hang 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.000 out with you if you don't play games with them. 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:21.679 So off, Oh, when we play off, when we're off 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:23.839 the court, Like we're gonna build chemistry off the court too, 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:25.800 Like you're always off the court, right. 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:31.280 You have to play together and not half the time. 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.920 You have to play all the time. You have to 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.240 develop a rhythm in those big moments in order to 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.480 feel good when those big moments come again. 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:41.720 Yeah, and Chris Steps has played in about half of 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:42.600 their games this year. 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:47.400 And what's wild about that is that they are three 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:48.880 and six with him in the lineup. 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.760 This thirteen team in the Western. 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:55.079 Conference is statistically better when he's not around. And this 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.400 is a roster that he's the second best guy on 0:09:58.280 --> 0:09:59.440 that's fucking crazy. 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:03.400 Yeah, yeah, no, he's actually uh, he's actually playing in 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.920 less percentage of games in Dallas than he did when 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.959 he was on the Knicks, like seventy five for the 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:09.640 next seventy three percent for Dallas. 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:10.520 I mean it's brutal. 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.920 I don't think that's what the Dallas Mavericks were anticipating 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:18.120 when they when they got Christabs Porzingis. So let me 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.520 let me fill you in Mark Cuban on a little secret. 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.680 Porzingis isn't good anymore. He's not good. He's brittle. 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.200 He's never gonna be good anymore because he's never going 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:30.200 to be healthy anymore. 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:31.320 That's just facts. 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:36.280 His prior injuries make him completely immobile, and then on 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:40.200 top of that, he still needs to miss time just 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:41.960 to maintain where he's at. 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:43.840 That's crazy. 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:48.560 Yeah, that's crazy. Have you watched him out there playing defense? 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.760 Oh yeah, no, he's stood as board. 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.880 Dude, It's like his feet are stuck to the court. 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:59.360 He just gets cooked, absolutely cooked, because he can't move. Yeah, 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:02.959 you're seven feet tall with ligament issues and you're underweight, 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.680 and the facts are you are maxed out at like 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:09.080 forty games a year, and it's not like you're. 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:09.760 A cheap player. 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:14.000 The mass traded two first rounders and some table scraps 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.280 to the Knicks for Porzingis, and then they had to 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:17.760 sign him with the super Max for one hundred and 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:18.680 sixty million dollars. 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.800 Yeah, and they also took on Tim Hardaway's crazy deal 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:23.760 that they're still paying. I think he's making like seventeen 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:24.480 million this year. 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:29.360 I mean, how do you lose the trade? James Dolan? 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.760 Yikes, This gets worse and worse the more I think 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:37.800 about it. That's like getting spotted two strokes a hole 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:41.319 the Charles Barkley in a match, straight up and still 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:42.400 losing to this dude. 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.000 It's impossible. It's impossible. 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.040 How long is it gonna be before Luca either breaks 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:51.200 down because he's the number one, number two and number 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:52.880 three option and you know he's a hard rock. 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:54.679 You know he's gonna do everything that. 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:58.319 He can to keep them in games, and then now 0:11:58.400 --> 0:11:59.520 he's got injuries. 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:00.720 That's tough. 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:05.760 How long until Lukes like, uh, I don't really wanna 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:10.320 be here anymore. Dallas is fine, but like Milwaukee's not 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.600 that cold in the winter. I like Walt Disney World 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:19.000 just fine, Like Orlando seems good to me anywhere else, 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.439 but here you're not getting me any help. This dude 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.280 that's supposed to be my big man one can't guard 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:31.840 anyone and he's barely even around. I do not think 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:35.360 that the MAVs have played this correctly. They think that 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:39.280 they have a European who's got the patience of Dirk Novitzky, 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:40.640 and I promise you they do not. 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.280 He's not gonna wait eighteen years to get a ring. 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:49.840 No way, prediction. Don't ratio me for this. I know 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.560 that that's what Twitter and TikTok even wants to do. Now, 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:56.839 this MAVs team might just fuck around and miss the 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:58.360 playoffs all together. 0:12:58.480 --> 0:12:59.480 There's a little known fact. 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:05.320 I am a world class musher, meaning every time I 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:09.240 get excited about a bet or a team, they stumble. 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:13.720 I'm not a bad gambler per se. But the games 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:18.440 that I consider the lock of the Century aka Utah 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:23.240 Jazz minus two and a half against the Denver Nuggets, 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.439 that is when I take an ol that could be 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.640 said about segments two. As soon as I create a 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:33.520 segment like, oh my god, this team is sick. They 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.480 do what they did if they have the game before 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:40.240 I record bet everything on the other team that they're playing. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:47.040 So yeah, I was juiced on playing and writing about 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.520 how the Jazz were built to contend eleven straight wins. 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:55.640 Conley underrated playing like an MVP, locking guys down, being 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:59.160 a playmaker like you read about go Bear earning every penny. 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.160 Holy moly, Jordan Clarkson playing like the second coming of 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:03.880 Lou Williams Woo. 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.880 I was like, huh, yeah, they're eleven and one against 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.800 the spread in their last twelve. They're just like killing people. 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.760 I didn't bet them on yesterday, just some days. I've 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:16.920 just tried to get away from basketball betting because I 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:20.040 do too much during the week. But yeah, I gave 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:22.440 when they played the Hawks, I gave that out as 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:23.120 a lock and they won. 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:23.920 So yeah. 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:27.960 So I unfortunately bet the first half and the full game, 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:33.320 and both times I got fucked. So of course, in 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.080 Trista Mush fashion, the Jazz went out and gave up 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.680 seventy nine points in the first half to the Nuggets 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.840 nine forty three in the first quarter. 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.520 Just so bad, just so so bad. How does that 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:47.000 even happen? I didn't. 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.320 That was not what I anticipated when I called them. 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:54.800 They messed my entire parlay up them and the Wizards 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.920 tough number one in the West, and then pow clunk. 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.480 Just terrible. Anyway, a bad game is a bad game. 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.000 And this is of course not an Exceus and O's 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.920 podcast that was more stats and numbers than probably go 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.680 ever here. But just know that I'm aware of this atrocity. 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.560 I still want to say things. We've had the Daughtava 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:21.080 Mitchell talk the world has, but nothing really is going 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.720 to change my mind about the long term chances. Even 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.520 when I was writing this, in my mind like okay, 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:30.840 what am I going to say about the Jazz, I thought, 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:31.800 you know what. 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:33.520 Maybe they're still built to contend. This is just a 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:35.200 one game thing. I admit it. 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.720 I was on the Great Jazz gravy train. When a 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:42.520 team's hot, they're hot. I like winning money. I get excited, 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.040 and you know how recency bias goes. We've talked about 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.240 this before. When a team's hot, you're like, damn, they 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:56.040 could beat anyone. But nothing can change my heart. And 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.880 that Coldwater game was perfect because I remember what I 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:03.600 know to be true, which is when this team goes cold, 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:09.200 it spreads like the black plague. Everyone everyone is cold 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:14.080 at once. Spider three for twelve, it's not great. Conley 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:19.360 two for ten, Clarkson four for thirteen. People, listen up. 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.520 Listen up, you little provo Utah residents. 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.120 This is what I've told you multiple times about the Jazz. 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:32.440 It's not marginalization, Kira. When this team goes cold, they 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:33.320 go ice. 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:35.280 Cold, ice cold. 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.880 They are about as outgorithm as you would imagine someone 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:43.880 from Utah to beat, just offbeat, clapping off the off 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:47.480 the snare just unaware of how dancing works, like a 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:49.800 team that you would expect to be called the Jazz 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:53.480 from Utah, just like totally not in sync with music. 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.480 I mean, it's not usually one game. 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.200 I'm probably gonna take the other side of these bets 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.880 for the next two or three. Yeah, and guess what 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:05.679 that is a bad recipe for success in the playoffs. 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.440 Let's say they finished third in the West. 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:10.800 That's not a stretch. We know it's probably gonna be Lakers', 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.240 probably gonna be Clippers. Right, So say they finished third 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.760 and they've got to face the sixth seed. Who could 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:21.679 that be? Oh uh, oh, Phoenix Suns. Your team just 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:27.520 could be hate that matchup. Oh yeah, Tahker, Ayton, Chris Paul, 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:29.800 Michel Bridges, Jesus Christ. 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:31.199 That's a bad matchup, isn't it? 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:32.120 Oh? Yeah, horrible? 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:33.679 I mean, these dudes are gonna cook them. 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.120 DeAndre Ayton is as sending. People may not be aware 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.640 of it, but he's His last ten games have been special. 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.800 I cannot wait for the Aight and go Bear matchup. 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:42.240 Me too? 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:46.040 Huh yikes. Portland Trail Blazers could be another team sneaky 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:50.400 game time bye bye, bye bye. I don't care. If 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.400 you have go Beart, let him have fifty. I don't care. 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:57.960 Nirk will be back by then, and it's Canner's sneaky even. 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:01.520 Though least likely scenario is the Golden State Warrior. Now, 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:03.639 let's not act like that's a walk in the park. 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:07.080 These dudes are certified. They've played in big games before. 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.360 You don't think Steph Curry can and Draymond can give 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:11.800 a little raw ross speech. 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:13.880 To get these boys up. Yeah? 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.640 I know that's probably not what's gonna be the case, right, 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:19.119 But do I think that they would be? Just? No? 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:22.320 But can they? Yeah? 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:24.720 Who's more likely to go ice cold than your mind? 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:27.879 Steph Curry or Conley and Donovan Mitchell. 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:29.000 Yeah, that's pretty easy. 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:33.360 That's pretty easy. This is not a Spider Haterrade podcast. 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.400 But eleven games in a row in the regular season 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.520 is not gonna make me change my mind, folks, it's 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.600 just not. I'm happy for Mike Conley. He's got resurrecting 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:47.359 his career. Nice guy, having an MVP like season, even 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:50.760 even averaging seventeen It's like, yo, Mike Conley is the 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:52.640 reason that the Utah Jazz are winning. 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:53.560 Yeah, he's been awesome. 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:56.840 Until this team proves to me that they're not gonna 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.680 choke away a three to one lead. I don't care 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.080 how how many games in a row they win. I 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:07.360 am still super skip thank God for those cold water games, 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:09.600 or I might have lost my damn mind and says 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:11.880 some shit I might regret. So the song coming into 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:15.919 this segment is all about being in your feelings. You 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:19.919 know what I love about basketball in general how close 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:25.720 the crowd is to the players. That is that does 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:29.240 something to the ego of the player. It's not like football. 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:31.720 You're You're as close as I am to you right 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.240 now if you're court side, sometimes closer. 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:39.560 Sometimes they're like on you. They fall on you when. 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:44.720 You're ten fifteen feet away from some random fan court side, 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:48.840 and you get embarrassed by your opponent. Imagine this, I 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:52.240 thought he thought, sitting there with their low cut top 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:57.399 on body con dress, oily tan legs, looking at you 0:19:57.480 --> 0:19:59.720 like she wants to give you the business boy. 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.400 And you're like, yes, I'm gonna get her number after 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:04.679 the game. Mm. 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:08.600 She's ignoring her man and then right next to her 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:12.760 you get posterized. What do you think that cocktail does 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:21.360 to the male ego? Does something right? Yeah, there's nothing 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:25.439 more embarrassing than getting embarrassed in front of someone that 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:26.399 you want to have sex with. 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:27.040 Facts. 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:28.800 That's I mean, just nothing. 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:32.600 Yeah, you are one of the people that she came 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:37.280 to watch perform, and then you got someone's nuts on 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:41.399 your face. You couldn't perform. It was like you needed 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:45.960 viagra to do your job. Someone's gotta be the one 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:48.480 with the nuts on their face and that was you. 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:51.159 And you think you're gonna be able to smash after that, 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:54.000 you better do something to reply and put that in 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:54.440 her mind. 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:58.720 With the recency bias, something happens. You know what it does? 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:03.520 It makes you want to compete effort, It makes you 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:07.680 want to compete, to ball out, to play hard, to 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:11.840 not get embarrassed in front of people that you visually 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:18.000 see who paid money to see you. You to avoid 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:20.879 them getting up right in front of you and walking 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:21.879 out the door. 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:26.120 Because you suck the. 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:32.960 Booze, the screams, the disappointment, the judgment that plays into 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:35.920 how you play basketball. I swear on my life that's 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:38.720 how it is. That's how different it is than the NFL. 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:44.439