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Speaker 1: Just two guys enjoying the Swans.

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Speaker 2: What's better than this man?

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Speaker 3: Nothing?

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Speaker 2: Van can't beat it, can't beat it.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, swim and welcome to the No Dunks Podcast

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Speaker 4: on the Athletic Network. We're back in the Classic Factory

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Speaker 4: and it feels so good. It's Wednesday, April thirteenth.

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Speaker 2: I'm j E.

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Speaker 4: Skeets and alongside me as always, we got task.

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Speaker 1: It feels real good. It feels good to be playing

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Speaker 1: with my my audio nod.

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Speaker 3: That's great.

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Speaker 4: We got a touch a hot boy right there rocking

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Speaker 4: the No Dunks T shirt, Trey Kirby. Ah Hey, the

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Speaker 4: international Man of Mystery taking it too, the max new haircut,

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Speaker 4: same shirt as Trey. That's Lee Ellis friend really looking

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Speaker 4: sharp man.

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Speaker 3: Thanks.

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Speaker 4: You took a lot off.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I did well. I took it. I did it

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Speaker 3: before the trip because I knew it was going to

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Speaker 3: be doing a lot of snorkeling.

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Speaker 4: And I never noticed when we were on the yard

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Speaker 4: there you couldn't tell. Maybe with the cans on that's

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Speaker 3: And uh yeah, I didn't realize until last year how

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Speaker 3: much extra maintenance goes into a trip to the beach

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Speaker 3: when you got long hair. It's not fun.

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Speaker 2: It's not fun.

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Speaker 3: So trimmed up, look shop great.

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Speaker 4: You look great. Nice to be right back. Besides thank you,

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Speaker 4: thank you, and speaking to be a back from vacation,

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Speaker 4: super producer, super tanned GD.

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Speaker 5: Oh not that tan. They got to see my dermatologist

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Speaker 5: next week. He's not going to be happy with me.

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Speaker 4: But it's nothing healthy about a tan. That's what they say.

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Speaker 5: Nah, except you look great.

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Speaker 1: You got to glow to you though, I do.

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Speaker 5: That's just the rest and relaxation you're seeing.

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Speaker 4: Did you consume any of our shows while you were

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Speaker 4: down there?

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Speaker 5: I well, I tuned in Live. I tuned in Live

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Speaker 5: well while I was waiting for my COVID test on

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Speaker 5: that Okay, so that was enjoyable. Yeah, I popped in

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Speaker 5: from time to time.

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Speaker 1: It's excellent. He did text me and said, what's up

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Speaker 1: with your elbow? Yeah? Elbow? And I texted right back.

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Speaker 1: I said, oh, you must have been waiting for a

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Speaker 1: to find something to do. That's right.

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Speaker 5: I was like, And these guys even still doing his show?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: But then I also tuned into No Buffs this morning

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Speaker 5: because I had to watch I couldn't watch Survivor while I.

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Speaker 1: Was down there.

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Speaker 5: Oh I just couldn't get Hell. I mean I probably

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Speaker 5: could have, but I didn't try.

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Speaker 2: It that hard. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I opened Paramount Plus and I was like, doesn't work here.

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Speaker 4: Oh well, I guess I could get a VPN, but

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Speaker 4: not going to be doing that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 5: So you had a good time, though, awesome time. Great

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Speaker 5: to be back. Port of by Arta is the greatest.

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Speaker 4: Okay, shout out to a stream team joining us live

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Speaker 4: right now on YouTube. I know you guys are excited.

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Speaker 4: We're back in the Classic Factory. So like the video,

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Speaker 4: Athletic dot Com. Keep those cubes coming, guys. And before

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Speaker 4: we get into it here, don't forget to check out

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Speaker 4: yesterday's No Breaks. Yes, Trey and Graydon had a very

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Speaker 4: special guest on Charles Leclair. It is Lee Ellis there,

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Speaker 4: noted petrol Head, noted Revhead, noted Ozzy Head, noted nanner Head,

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Speaker 4: Lee Ellis and I've had a chance to listen to

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Speaker 4: most of this and it's a really fun episode. So Leah,

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Speaker 4: you knocked it out of the park.

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Speaker 2: You're great.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know I said to try on the show.

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Speaker 3: Anytime I get a chance to brag or boast about

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Speaker 4: So check out No Breaks that dropped yesterday, and No

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Speaker 4: Breaks does have its own YouTube feed and podcast feed. Okay, tons,

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Speaker 4: to get to here, we had two games, two really

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Speaker 4: entertaining games last night, the first two playing games to discuss.

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Speaker 4: But we start in the target center tasks. What a

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Speaker 4: start with this crazy game?

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Speaker 1: Definitely not starting with the officiating, despite it taking as

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Speaker 1: Hey, hey, that's how it just reminds you how good

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Speaker 1: He didn't panic whatsoever he fouled out. The Wolves recover.

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Speaker 2: On tables.

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Speaker 3: Wasn't sure if he should lift his shirt or not.

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Speaker 3: Are we doing that?

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Speaker 4: Are we really doing that?

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Speaker 3: Patrick Beverley was just walking around like they had won

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Speaker 3: all the experience, you can't pick and choose which part

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Speaker 4: They don't win this game, but no, of course.

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Speaker 3: But he also sort of gave the Clippers big chance

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Speaker 3: So I thought over all, this as a fantastically well

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Speaker 3: managed game by Chris Finch, as tast mentioned that he

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Speaker 3: didn't seem to panic at any point. He didn't, and

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Speaker 3: I think he saw some of those offensive fouls and thought, color,

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Speaker 3: And then Paul George ends up shooting you free The

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Speaker 3: We've seen crazy stuff and Paul George to three as well,

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Speaker 3: he thought someone sort of slipped or fall and something

438
00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:08,560
Speaker 3: like that and they were trying to help her off.

439
00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:10,919
Speaker 3: That wasn't the case. And then they realized like she

440
00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:12,879
Speaker 3: was right or they thought she was writing something. Allegle

441
00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:16,680
Speaker 3: Force comes in side gluing a handy like what what what? What?

442
00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:17,240
Speaker 2: What is that?

443
00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:17,800
Speaker 3: What is that?

444
00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:20,040
Speaker 4: Right? So she's uh and she had something on her

445
00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:23,280
Speaker 4: on her T shirt basically protesting Glenn Taylor's from what

446
00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:26,159
Speaker 4: I can tell, like egg Farm, which reportedly killed like

447
00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:30,359
Speaker 4: five million birds chickens because of yeah, because of a flu.

448
00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:30,920
Speaker 3: Uh.

449
00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:33,199
Speaker 4: They do it like ventilation shut down and stuff like that,

450
00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:35,320
Speaker 4: basically like mass killing them because they have the flu.

451
00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,280
Speaker 4: So that's what they that's what she is protesting. And uh,

452
00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:42,359
Speaker 4: I just talked about it, so I guess, uh miss

453
00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:47,280
Speaker 4: for the animal rights protest, but insane incident. So you're saying.

454
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Speaker 2: Reggie was wrong when he said that she was writing

455
00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:55,160
Speaker 2: bacon eater. That was a little weird. She was writing

456
00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:59,639
Speaker 2: bacon on the floor. Strange. All I could think what

457
00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:03,359
Speaker 2: I saw this was next pick and payoff. Somebody's gonna

458
00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:10,439
Speaker 2: glue table for a hole. Very funny to have your

459
00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,240
Speaker 2: hand glued to the table for an hour and a half.

460
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Speaker 4: Yeah, any other any other notes about this game or

461
00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:19,520
Speaker 4: any other players that the Wolves had, I mean, like,

462
00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:21,440
Speaker 4: look we talcked up out. Then the Edwards, Dangel Russell

463
00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:23,080
Speaker 4: that you brought in Nasried, I thought he played it.

464
00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:25,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, well there was stretch there, uh and.

465
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Speaker 4: Big shots like you said from some of these other guys.

466
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Speaker 3: Anything else, Well, only Nasrie did finish plus seventeen, and

467
00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,400
Speaker 3: I thought he realized like he was their last big

468
00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,040
Speaker 3: remaining he just had to compete and contest and keep

469
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Speaker 3: some balls alive. And I thought he did a decent

470
00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:39,040
Speaker 3: job of that, Like his box score is certainly not

471
00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:40,920
Speaker 3: going to blow you away, but his presence was there

472
00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:41,920
Speaker 3: and felt.

473
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Speaker 4: He's played greenols he is, he has.

474
00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:44,840
Speaker 3: He has, He's been a very good play for them.

475
00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,320
Speaker 3: And Chris Finch. I mean he did play basically play

476
00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:49,439
Speaker 3: eight guys, which is which is important I think. I mean,

477
00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:51,199
Speaker 3: we talk a lot that you've got to tighten your rotation,

478
00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,359
Speaker 3: but he got twenty plus minutes out of three guys

479
00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:55,119
Speaker 3: off the bench, and that's going to be important. That

480
00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:57,720
Speaker 3: Now going against the Grizzlies, it's going to be good series.

481
00:20:57,760 --> 00:20:59,840
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to it because Grizzlies is probably going

482
00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:02,160
Speaker 3: to be well, they are the favorite, but I expect

483
00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:04,080
Speaker 3: this one to be a pretty you know, this is

484
00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:05,520
Speaker 3: gonna be a battle, I think fun.

485
00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:09,560
Speaker 4: What's the over under on the number of Yeah, I

486
00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:11,720
Speaker 4: guess in this series. Let's talk a little bit just

487
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Speaker 4: first thoughts on Wolves Grizzlies Game one in Memphis on

488
00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:19,000
Speaker 4: Saturday afternoon. Yeah, what do you what do you set

489
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Speaker 4: the line up? Because we have Beverly and you know

490
00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:23,560
Speaker 4: Beverly and versus John Morant. You know he's gonna get

491
00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,440
Speaker 4: a lot of that matchup. I mean, Dylan Brook's gonna

492
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Speaker 4: be in there, Anthony Edwards Nay Russell like yeah, like

493
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,040
Speaker 4: he's sort of Anthony, excuse me, Patrick Beverly late in

494
00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,960
Speaker 4: some regards, it's gonna be nuts this one. Yeah, and

495
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,639
Speaker 4: then both crowds are gonna be amazing. It's gonna be.

496
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see if Patrick

497
00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,959
Speaker 3: Beverley can show any sort of control though, because if

498
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 3: he does get into these things where he's getting tech

499
00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,719
Speaker 3: foules early and maybe getting fouls it didn't cost him

500
00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:51,800
Speaker 3: in the end last night, but it certainly could in

501
00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,000
Speaker 3: another game. And so you know, this is a series

502
00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:55,639
Speaker 3: is not win or go home in this sense like

503
00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,359
Speaker 3: it was there last night. But you know he's gonna

504
00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,240
Speaker 3: want that Jar Morant battle that match up. It's just

505
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,399
Speaker 3: whether or not he can actually show any sort of control,

506
00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:06,040
Speaker 3: because I thought that was the thing, going back to

507
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:07,840
Speaker 3: what we said in the first quarter. You want a

508
00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 3: veteran to at least know there's a line somewhere certainly

509
00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,080
Speaker 3: early on in the game, you know, and he can't

510
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,439
Speaker 3: seem to do that. So that may be something that

511
00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,919
Speaker 3: the Grizzlies try to also exploit, Like someone get up.

512
00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,240
Speaker 3: Dylan Brooks is a great get under Patrick Beverly skin,

513
00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:24,560
Speaker 3: get him in foul trouble, get tech fouls on him,

514
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:26,400
Speaker 3: get him off the sort of floor if he can,

515
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:30,320
Speaker 3: because then that takes away their most tenacious defender of Jarmorant.

516
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,640
Speaker 3: But Grizzlies, you know they're going to spread the floor.

517
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,440
Speaker 3: They've got three point shooters. They're not gonna be It's

518
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,160
Speaker 3: not like they rely solely on Jarmrant. They've played very

519
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:39,160
Speaker 3: very well without him, So even if he is taken

520
00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,159
Speaker 3: out of the game somewhat, the Grizzly is going to

521
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Speaker 3: feel pretty good still.

522
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Speaker 4: But you think this is going to be a competitive series,

523
00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:44,480
Speaker 4: I think so.

524
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't see a sweep or anything like that.

525
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Speaker 3: I think it's going to be pretty tight.

526
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Speaker 1: You agree with that, I can't wait. I think there's

527
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,880
Speaker 1: gonna be lots of extra curriculars. Obviously, the last time

528
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:56,360
Speaker 1: that they played it was in Memphis. Jommrant's dad jar

529
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Speaker 1: jackin with D'Angelo or Russell and D'Angel Russell. And if

530
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Speaker 1: they ever they have got an advantage, I think on

531
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:06,080
Speaker 1: the perimeter, you know, John's gotta guard somebody, uh, and

532
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 1: then it's you know, Desmond Bane or Dylan Brooks out there.

533
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:11,159
Speaker 1: I think they those two dudes, and it showed them

534
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 1: their last game. John Moran, I'm sorry. Dames l us

535
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 1: at thirty seven points and eight assists and was able

536
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 1: to end this game. It was a lot like what

537
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,240
Speaker 1: happened with the Clippers. Karlington Towns did not have a

538
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:25,240
Speaker 1: good game and Dangel Russell was able to just be him.

539
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,879
Speaker 1: So I know we sort of ride this Dangelo Russell

540
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 1: roller coaster, but I don't know the way he was

541
00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:33,640
Speaker 1: so calm. I think that the Wolves have gotta feel

542
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,160
Speaker 1: good going in along with Anthony Edwards beside him, those

543
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 1: two dudes, along with yeah, resilient bunch, and Karlington Towns

544
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 1: has to play a heck of a lot better. I think.

545
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:43,040
Speaker 1: I think we're sitting here.

546
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Speaker 4: Does he have to have like a really, like at

547
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,960
Speaker 4: least solid game one to you, uh and and Willie

548
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 4: because he probably won't be going up against like a

549
00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:52,679
Speaker 4: really small mobile forward like we saw with the Clippers

550
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 4: and what Tyler Tyler did. It will be Steve Steve Adams.

551
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Speaker 3: One on one.

552
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's just I can't believe they won this

553
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,440
Speaker 1: game when it comes when it comes down to him

554
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: scoring eleven points being a minus fourteen out. Yeah, and really,

555
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:14,359
Speaker 1: besides Anthony Edwards and D'Angel Russell, not incredible performances from

556
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,120
Speaker 1: basically anybody else. I mean, they have one other guy

557
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 1: in double digits and Malik Beasley. So I think the

558
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 1: Wolves have to feel really, really good. Obviously the Grizzlies

559
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:27,399
Speaker 1: feel incredibly great as well, but yeah, I think it

560
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:31,480
Speaker 1: does help. Yeah, Timberwolves going up against a Grizzlies team

561
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 1: that does play a center, Yeah that helps.

562
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Speaker 4: First thoughts on grizz Wolves here as we get ready

563
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Speaker 4: on Saturday.

564
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Speaker 2: This is the SIKO series here. Yeah, it probably will

565
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,280
Speaker 2: weirdly be on NBA TV since you know it is

566
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,439
Speaker 2: the Memphis Grizzlies and the Minnesota Timberwolves. But both of

567
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 2: these teams were kind of everybody's second favorite team for

568
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 2: a big chunk of this season. They both talk a

569
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,080
Speaker 2: lot of trash, so like, keeping emotions in check is

570
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 2: going to be huge. Beverly is able to play with

571
00:24:58,160 --> 00:24:59,679
Speaker 2: that edge. As we saw last night, he had a

572
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,879
Speaker 2: bad half, but he contributed in the second half. Towns

573
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:04,640
Speaker 2: wasn't able to play with that edge. He was being

574
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 2: a Patrick Beverley out there, but he was just never

575
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 2: able to get back on track and get being able

576
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,119
Speaker 2: to contribute to a winning cause there, So I mean,

577
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Speaker 2: I think it goes the other way for the Grizzlies

578
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 2: as well. You know that Patrick Beverley's gonna try something

579
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 2: with John Morant, and when that happens, like Steven Adams

580
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,199
Speaker 2: needs to step in and be like it's over. This

581
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,400
Speaker 2: is we're not having an actual fight here because I'm

582
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 2: Steven Adams. And I think that that's an advantage for

583
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies because both of these teams play with a

584
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,560
Speaker 2: ton of edge and a ton of physicality. So whoever's

585
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 2: able to keep their heads is probably going to be

586
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 2: at a little bit of an advantage here. And I mean,

587
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 2: if you're the Wolves, you have to feel like we've

588
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:41,000
Speaker 2: got a little bit of momentum. You know, the Grizzlies

589
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 2: are going to be getting back there all NBA guy

590
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 2: and John Morant, which will throw a wrench into things

591
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,360
Speaker 2: just having to adjust to playing that style once again.

592
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 2: Whereas the Timberwolves are coming off an unexpected win though

593
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 2: they kind of expected it, they're still you know, they

594
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:56,199
Speaker 2: got to be riding a high a little bit here,

595
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 2: So I wouldn't be totally surprised to see Minnesota take

596
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:00,400
Speaker 2: game one officiating.

597
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be huge in this series too,

598
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,120
Speaker 4: just in the sense like these teams are chatty, they

599
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,399
Speaker 4: play aggressive, like you know they're gonna get up under you.

600
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 4: And what will those three officials on that given night

601
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 4: allow and try and like nipping the butt early and

602
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 4: or let them play. Because it's a playoff series, you know,

603
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,399
Speaker 4: it's it's it's gonna have an impact for sure. It

604
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 4: won't be the last time I think that we're talking

605
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:20,439
Speaker 4: about officials.

606
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, what's the over under and not how many guys

607
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 3: Steven Adams will lift off the ground three and a half,

608
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 3: I would tell at one time or possibly yeah, yeah, yeah.

609
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 1: We were there in person when Tony Bradley in the

610
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls got into the face of John Morant, so

611
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 1: Steven Adams to take.

612
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 2: Him away, walked him back to Chicago.

613
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,919
Speaker 1: I know he hugs Patrick Beverley's gonna end well.

614
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 3: Toddler at the you know, at the playground and the

615
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 3: pairs like, oh.

616
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,680
Speaker 4: We gotta go. We're going down to the Fortress tonight.

617
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 4: Tickets have been secured. We're gonna go watch the Hornets Hawks.

618
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 4: But I gotta be honest. Soon as I saw the

619
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Speaker 4: Wolves wrap up this victory, I was like, hmmm, do

620
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:04,400
Speaker 4: we make the trip back to Memphis Timberwolves Grizzlies action.

621
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 4: Probably not gonna happen, you know, for games one or two,

622
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:11,359
Speaker 4: but if the series goes to a game seven, hey,

623
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Speaker 4: I'm just saying.

624
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 2: I'm just saying.

625
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,159
Speaker 4: Later in the show too, because the Wolves are in

626
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 4: the playoffs, Trey is gonna bless us with his rendition

627
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 4: of well, the were Wolves of London, but the Timberwolves

628
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 4: of Minnesota.

629
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 2: Yeah. Unfortunately, my electric guitar pulling a little bit of

630
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 2: a Karl Anthony Towns this morning, Oh no, completely broke down.

631
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:34,199
Speaker 2: But luckily JD came through with an acoustics sleep around

632
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 2: a little bit later.

633
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: Exactly.

634
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,880
Speaker 4: Okay, great, we got to talk about the other game

635
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 4: from last night. The Nets defeat the Calves one fifteen,

636
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,640
Speaker 4: one oh eight. Cleveland stuck around, They made a game

637
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 4: a bit, but where do you want to start.

638
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 3: Well again, if you look at the box score this,

639
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 3: Cleveland won three quarters of this game, but they got

640
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 3: themselves in such a hole in that first quarter exactly,

641
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:58,199
Speaker 3: and they were kind of digging themselves out, and they

642
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 3: didn't have that margin for error in this game. I

643
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 3: thought they had to be pretty much perfect because we

644
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 3: found out just before the game Jared Allen wasn't going

645
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,120
Speaker 3: to be playing, which was going to hurt. We sort

646
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,440
Speaker 3: of thought he probably wouldn't, but it was confirmed that

647
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 3: he wasn't going to play, so that hurt their depth

648
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,439
Speaker 3: and their size inside. And then they withstood an almost

649
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,159
Speaker 3: perfect night from Kyrie Irving, who was just on fire

650
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 3: shooting the ball, and then Kevin Durant. I actually think

651
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant was the player of the game because he

652
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 3: was just so controlled. He hit the huge three late,

653
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 3: he hit a couple of those mid ranges as well.

654
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 4: Yes for jumpers in your eyes exactly just as the Cats.

655
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 3: The Cats had a chance to get this to within

656
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,360
Speaker 3: a possession or two. I think they got it down

657
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 3: to five in fact in that fourth quarter, but you

658
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 3: could just see the difference. Is Hey, who's on your team?

659
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 3: Is it Kevin Durant or Kyrie Irving? No, it's other

660
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 3: guys like a Carrouslavert. Darius Garland was good mark and

661
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 3: then hit a couple of shots in the fourth, but

662
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 3: he wasn't doing a whole lot outside of that. And

663
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 3: then defensively, you saw Bruce Brown and Nick Claxton just

664
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 3: throwing some easy lobs there at the end was just gave.

665
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 4: Because there's so much attention put exactly Kyrie MKD that

666
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 4: it at times felt like it was Bruce Brown and

667
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 4: Nick Claxton playing one other CAS player. Just so much

668
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 4: more to and credit to Bruce Brown. He basically was

669
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 4: dreamond Green in that game.

670
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 3: He was He was smart enough to realize, like, there's

671
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 3: the advantage. And I think early on as well, you saw,

672
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 3: like in a playoff style game, you saw intensity on

673
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 3: the defensive end from the Brooklyn nets. We've questioned their

674
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 3: vulnerability at that end, Kevin aroand blocking shots, contesting shots,

675
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 3: just making it not giving up any easy baskets. They

676
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 3: were crashing the boards a little bit more. And I

677
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 3: think that you saw Evan Mobley and again Marknen not

678
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 3: quite physically engaged at that end. It was what they

679
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 3: were sort of overpowered a little bit. So that wasn't good.

680
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 3: But in that second quarter, after the initial first burst,

681
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 3: that forty to twenty quarter in the first quarter, Cleveland

682
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 3: had a real opportunity. In the second quarter, Brooklyn couldn't score.

683
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 3: They had eight points through about eight minutes, had seven

684
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 3: turnovers as well. Everyone was stepping on the line, like

685
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 3: four guys last night.

686
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 4: It was wild, back to back possession. Yeah curry Nn

687
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 4: Mills stepping on the sidelines, and then yeah drum in

688
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 4: like a minute later.

689
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 3: And then someone for Cleveland, I think it was Garland

690
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 3: as well, did to Cleveland. So they had their chances here,

691
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 3: but they just didn't. They lacked that sort of quality finish,

692
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 3: and I think that was the real difference to you.

693
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant, as we mentioned, he came down and said,

694
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 3: all right, I'll just hit these mid ranges just to

695
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 3: keep us ahead a couple of possessions and that was enough.

696
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 3: So I thought, overall, a decent performance from Cleveland. Bad start,

697
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 3: they made up for it, but they just couldn't get

698
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 3: over line. And you just saw Kevin Durant playoff. Kevin

699
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 3: Durant is just an incredible species. And if Kyrie Irving

700
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 3: can played like he did last night, then this is

701
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 3: going to be an incredible series against the Boston Celtics.

702
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, two seven matchup Boston and Brooklyn. The Cavs tasks

703
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 4: your boys. You know, a crazy season. They fought, they

704
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 4: did get back into it, and they have one more chance.

705
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 4: They're obviously going to be taking on the winner of

706
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 4: tonight's Hornet Talks games. But what do you think of

707
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 4: this one?

708
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: And you said the other day, maybe Jared Allen is

709
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 1: waiting for this second game almost.

710
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 4: I mean, look, I have no intel on this. Yeah,

711
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 4: if I'm a betanman, I think he plays.

712
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he plays.

713
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 4: On Friday night, he was warming up in the back

714
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 4: they went to Greenberry obviously for like his hit from

715
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 4: the floor back to the studio, and you saw Jared

716
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 4: Allen back there, you know, with the ball in his hands.

717
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 2: Jared and Jerry it's it's it is like.

718
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 4: It's this non shooting hand. I mean, the general he's

719
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 4: good play.

720
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought I should play.

721
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: I thought he was gonna play in this game because

722
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: I got fooled by the footage, you know, watching it

723
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,959
Speaker 1: from my couch as well. Yeah, it is strange. It's

724
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: his offhand, he said, it's the defensive end where it's

725
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: the problem that he could injure his hand. Yeah, it's strange.

726
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 1: It's strange. But maybe he is waiting for the second

727
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: game of played the tournament where if they are playing

728
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 1: at home and they're the favorite, whoever they play the

729
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: Hawks or the Hornets, because they showed that they are

730
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 1: a resilient bunch. They made some mistakes in that first

731
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: quarter to go down forty twenty just really really hurt.

732
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: I think they got a little too cute with the

733
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 1: defense at times. They switched from a zone to a

734
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: man to man within the same possession, and then that

735
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: they got a Bruce Brown three in their eye because

736
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 1: of it. But the Nets just, yeah, they showed up,

737
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: and they really showed up with that d in the

738
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: first quarter. Kevin Durant didn't take a shot until the

739
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: seven thirty mark of that first quarter. He said, his

740
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: friends don't know that he's a playmaker, and he proved

741
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: each otherm his best skill is not but it's a

742
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: really it's a real lebron in the reverse. That's the

743
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: exact reverse. He said, coming into this game, I've been

744
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: making plays, been setting guys up for years. Even my

745
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: buddies don't know. And yeah, listen, eleven assists in this game.

746
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: And yeah, and but closed it obviously, But yeah, he

747
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: was he took a back seat. And it's an amazing

748
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: thing just to watch Drummond and Bruce Brown to start

749
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: this game. They were the guys making place, and then

750
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: you obviously Kyrie started in his flow. So and then

751
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: the second quarter where I'm sure they were saying to

752
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, look, you could be out there right here,

753
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: right now leading this second unit at least maybe, but

754
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: I mean that's a real, real tough task to ask him.

755
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 1: But yeah, that that second quarter stint where the Cavs

756
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:56,719
Speaker 1: were able to get back in this game and they

757
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: couldn't score. It was you know, drag Itch and Kyrie

758
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: irving in the back court. Ben Simmons could be big

759
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: if he if he could play those minutes and we'll

760
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 1: get to the Boston Celtics breakdown, he could be even

761
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: bigger on the defense, and that's where they're gonna need him.

762
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just such a huge hole for the

763
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 1: Calves to get down. And again, the Nets were destroying

764
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: them offensively fifty nine thirty five percent in that first half,

765
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: six blocks to two blocks. You don't think of the

766
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 1: nets as blocking shots much, but yeah, Kevin Durant really

767
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: bring it that huge block of market in. Oh yeah,

768
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: it just shows.

769
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 4: And then he blocked Garland and I think both of

770
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 4: those blocks led to points in transition for the Nets. Too,

771
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 4: so it was you know, not only did you stop

772
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 4: them on one end that just led to a baskets

773
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 4: on the other end. He was amazing, he played great,

774
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 4: You're right, I don't. I mean Kyrie went when he

775
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 4: started nine for nine, yeah, toll fifteen overall. I mean

776
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 4: they h half nine for the first half, that's right,

777
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 4: and then ten for ten and he hit that shot

778
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 4: at the end of the first half where it was

779
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 4: like he received the ball at half with like four

780
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 4: seconds to go, he got doubled karros Laver, I mean

781
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 4: a soft double from Mobiley and then hits like this

782
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 4: fadeaway jumper in front of his own bench and just

783
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 4: like ran too the locker room. I mean, he was

784
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 4: just one of those nights where it's like every shot

785
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 4: he's taking us going in like he was hitting tough shots.

786
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 2: So what do you do?

787
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 4: But are the Celtics looking at this tray going Okay,

788
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 4: it's Kyrie and KD and then yeah, and then it's

789
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 4: I mean, Bruce Brown did have a good game, but

790
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 4: I think there'll be happy if he's trying to replicate

791
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 4: triple doubles for the rest of the series.

792
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, thirty four and twelve for Kyrie twenty five and

793
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 2: eleven for KD eighteen nine and eight for Bruce Brown

794
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 2: and then that's one by seven. Like, if you're the Celtics,

795
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 2: you're thinking, all right, I mean we don't have Robert Williams.

796
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 2: Bruce Brown called that out and Kevin Durant had shut up.

797
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 3: Man.

798
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess it's like caffeine talking. I thought that

799
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 2: was a pretty funny, way funny.

800
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 4: No caffeine pride talk. I've never heard that.

801
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 2: So, yeah, Bruce Brown finishes playing a basketball game and

802
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:50,479
Speaker 2: just has like a coke.

803
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:52,959
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I thought that was weird.

804
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 2: But I mean, like we've seen recently great games from

805
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 2: Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant and the Nets you'll lose. Yeah,

806
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,320
Speaker 2: they played incredibly well last night. I mean the Calves

807
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 2: did a great job to stay close and to keep

808
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 2: it close. But it didn't really feel I didn't feel

809
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,760
Speaker 2: like the Nets were threatened there. They're gonna be threatened

810
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 2: against the Celtics. It's like, you scored how many points

811
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 2: last night against the Cleveland Cavaliers, who are fine one

812
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 2: hundred and fifteen points? Are you going to be able

813
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 2: to stop the Celtics from scoring one more? Than I'm fifteen.

814
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 2: I don't know. So at the very least, it was

815
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 2: like great win for the Nets. Incredible performances from their stars.

816
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,919
Speaker 2: They got good performances as well from their role guys

817
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 2: like Drummond had a good game, Claxton had a good game,

818
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 2: They made a shot threes incredibly well. But they had

819
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 2: three other role players really step up and they squeaked

820
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 2: this one out. So if you're the Celtics, you're thinking

821
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 2: long term, our depth is gonna win out in the

822
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,840
Speaker 2: series as long as we don't get beat by you know,

823
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 2: one hundred combined points from their two best players, Nick.

824
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 3: Claxton hitting jump shots. Is that's found money for the

825
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 3: Brooklyn Nets. I mean it was the end of the

826
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 3: quarter or whatever, but still I thought he was good.

827
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 3: But yeah, if you're the Celtics, you know, Marcus Smart's

828
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 3: probably going to be first job on Kyrie. Of you

829
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 3: got Derek White who can come out there. Jalen Brown's

830
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 3: probably gonna get a go, and then obviously Jayson Tatum's

831
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 3: probably gonna start on Kevin Durant. I think, I mean,

832
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 3: the Nets have the best player in Kevin Durant in

833
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,720
Speaker 3: this series, but I think the depth and the amount

834
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 3: of different guys, and you know, those flexible, switchy, long

835
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 3: armed guys are gonna make it offensively way more challenging

836
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 3: for Kyrie in this series than he saw last night

837
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 3: against Brooklyn.

838
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, the scary part for me if I'm the Brooklyn

839
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: nets is who does Curry and Kyrie guard in the

840
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: fourth quarter? I mean they're just tight. One of them

841
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: can sort of hide on Marcus Smart yep. The other

842
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 1: one has nowhere to hide. And I think you saw

843
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter of this game, Karri Silvert was

844
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: going at Kyrie Irving. They continuously win at Kyrie on

845
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 1: several possessions. But that's gonna be Jalen Brown in the

846
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: next series. I think that's the big worrisome part. You

847
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: play Curry Kyrie, sometimes you play Paddy Mills. I think

848
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: that's Jalen Brown's gonna have a big series. I think

849
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 1: I think that's where they miss Ben Ben Simmons big time.

850
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 1: At the end of this game, Kyrie Curry are going

851
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 1: to be on the floor. Maybe Patty Mill is gonna

852
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 1: be on the floor. Who do they guard. It's a

853
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: combination of Smart and freakin Jalen Brown. So that's the

854
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: scary part, I think, and and even Durant's got a

855
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: guard Tatum probably that's that's his only matchup, and that's

856
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: and that's fine. But who else do they throw on

857
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: Tatum when they want give Durant a little bit of

858
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,240
Speaker 1: Bruce Brown? Probably, yeah, Tatum just shoots over him. Probably,

859
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 1: Or they throw Kessler Edwards, the guy who had a

860
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 1: very very tough game in this one.

861
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 2: He's not going to be playing very much in this

862
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:28,439
Speaker 2: next series.

863
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: They did not look ready, but they dropped James john

864
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: They just dropped James Johnson, who was, you know, a

865
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: good defensive player for Kessler Edwards. I just thinking about

866
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:41,240
Speaker 1: a guy that they're gonna put on Tatum. It's Durant,

867
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: that's it. And he's just got to play a ton

868
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:45,959
Speaker 1: I guess, because Kessler Edwards is not a great option.

869
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think the Celtics just caused them so

870
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 1: many problems defensively. I think Jalen Brown could have a

871
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,439
Speaker 1: monstrous series against the Kyrie Curry Mills backward.

872
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 3: And they were gonna miss Robert Williams. But Wholeford there,

873
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 3: we just know defensively is way smart than we give

874
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 3: him credit for. Like he's he always knows the right

875
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 3: position to be in him and Andre Drummond. That's Andre

876
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 3: Drumm is not gonna cook him inside or anything like that.

877
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 3: So so many advantages I think go in Boston's way

878
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 3: in the series.

879
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 4: Any other random notes just from from nets Calves before

880
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 4: we move on. We didn't have somebody gluing themselves.

881
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 3: No, no glue?

882
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 4: What else did you have?

883
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 2: The Calves need to start Kevin Love on Friday marking In,

884
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,239
Speaker 2: he ain't cutting it. Kevin Love completely changed the game

885
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 2: for the Calves. That's why they came back in the

886
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 2: second quarter. He was playing the hardest of anybody out there.

887
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 2: He was drawing two guys like on the glass. They

888
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 2: had to send two guys to box him out. He

889
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 2: tried to dunk on Nick Claxton like Kevin Love has

890
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:38,240
Speaker 2: he dunked in the past three seasons.

891
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 4: He checked, I actually checked, how many dunks does Kevin

892
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 4: Love have this season? Surprisingly had five. Yeah.

893
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 2: I don't think they're on anybody. Yeah yeah, but uh yeah,

894
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,879
Speaker 2: marking In he had a better second half. I thought,

895
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 2: you know, he at least scored in transition. But I

896
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 2: thought that was crazy that JB. Bickerstaff had him guarding

897
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant like.

898
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:58,399
Speaker 1: He poked it from him. A couple who cares?

899
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:02,240
Speaker 2: Who cares? If you're on offense, you want Laurie Markining

900
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 2: guarding your ball handler. And bicker Staff was just running

901
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 2: him out there. I mean, it's Kevin Durant, nobody's gonna

902
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 2: stop him. But market In was bad. Marketing In was

903
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 2: really bad. He just played incredibly soft.

904
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 3: Yeah he did. He hit the big three light and

905
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 3: he had another I had a dunkin Saide, but that

906
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 3: was sort of overall his game. He was just out

907
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 3: of his depth. I thought they need him to be

908
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 3: better because I think he can be better. I mean,

909
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 3: he's a stretchy guy who can spread the floor a

910
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 3: little bit there, but it wasn't good enough early on.

911
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 4: I mean, look, they need Jared Allen to play. I

912
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 4: think we'd all agree with that in this Friday game.

913
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 4: That would help. Even if he even if he's limited,

914
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 4: he's gonna help. A Corl's got to do something. Jenny

915
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 4: Osmond's got to do something. I mean, because Garland had

916
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 4: a monster game. He played great. I mean I loved

917
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 4: when he rattled home the three. He was tapping up

918
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 4: people in the front row mobiley for a rook you know,

919
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 4: shooting nine to thirteen like he had nineteen and seven.

920
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,839
Speaker 4: I feel like he would like there were a lot

921
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 4: of times in the game I forgot he was out there,

922
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 4: I guess if that makes sense. But still it's not

923
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 4: like he had a bad game. But uh, yeah, the

924
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 4: guys that you were saying, like markt In and I'm

925
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 4: with you, it was sort of it was incredibly love

926
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 4: and Rondo there at the second quarter. That was like

927
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 4: trying to get them back in the game and at

928
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 4: least close the gap a little bit. But do you

929
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 4: like their chances against either the Hornets or Hawks. I

930
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 4: know it's tough to say because they don't know who

931
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 4: to play it yet.

932
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 3: But again, you're at home, so I think, as we've

933
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 3: seen that that's a big advantage. They should feel confident

934
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,320
Speaker 3: because both of these teams at Landa and Charlotte have

935
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 3: their vulnerabilities and weaknesses defensively. But having said that, it's open.

936
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 3: It's absolutely open for all three of these teams. If

937
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 3: it goes it falls their way. Whoever goes to Cleveland

938
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 3: on Friday night, we've got to feel like this is

939
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 3: a winnable game too.

940
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 4: Final other or a few other notes I have. I think,

941
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 4: gd you have a photo Ben Simmons, maybe he is

942
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,799
Speaker 4: coming back to play Boston. We're in that Celtic's green

943
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 4: last night there, and I guess it's not leather. According

944
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 4: to Jared Greenberg, it's it's lamb.

945
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 2: Well, you're not gonna believe this, skeets. They can make

946
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 2: leather out of lamb skin. Yeah, yeah, that's leather, leather.

947
00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, there it is. But yeah, I got the Celtics

948
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:03,399
Speaker 4: green there and uh just got a couple of shots.

949
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 4: How many think Lee? I think I no.

950
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 3: I also think that wouldn't be all that comfortable sitting

951
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 3: around a lot of sweaty guys. To me, it's not

952
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 3: that breathable, so you might be a little bit sticky there.

953
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 4: But well, there are reports that Simmons and practices walking

954
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:22,760
Speaker 4: around like he's Michael Jordan, and the and the nets put.

955
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 3: Up video of him knocking in shots the other day.

956
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 4: Don't put that stuff out. All that's gonna do.

957
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 3: They shouldn't be doing doing because we've never seen him

958
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 3: miss a social media shot ever. But we know that

959
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 3: the whole reason he's in this position is because of

960
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 3: things that happened in the place where he wouldn't shoot,

961
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 3: So don't put that out there. And him walking around

962
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 3: like Jordan, Like what, I.

963
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 4: Don't think he's walking around Like look at me, I'm

964
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 4: walking around Michael Jordan. Some reports, but it's just.

965
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 3: You want to be like that guy is like man

966
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 3: that practices. No, I can get ney a practice and

967
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:02,720
Speaker 3: I play. Yeah, I just practice.

968
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 1: What is that report? I don't know, Scoot Be the

969
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 1: guy is literally playing one on er. He's not he's

970
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: not practicing. Yeah, he's just around the hoop putting the

971
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 1: ball up. He's not sprinting, he's not ready to play,

972
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:26,280
Speaker 1: but he's walking around walking the bravado of Michael Jordan.

973
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 3: It's just that what notoriously ultra uncompetitive person who always

974
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 3: always like putting these best efforts of practice and not

975
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 3: in games.

976
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 4: Well, speaking of Jordan there in the nineties and his fame,

977
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 4: I got a real kick out of Tommy Heights, who

978
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 4: we know because we worked with at Turtor Sports is

979
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,240
Speaker 4: one of the producers on the broadcast and they named

980
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 4: it Tommy Heights is ninety one ninety two Nuggets Media Guide,

981
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 4: which was showing Birdie Bickerstaff and Winston Garland. I just

982
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:57,720
Speaker 4: laughed out loud. It was like a real lest Tommy

983
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 4: Heights as the Ls got the old guy, Oh Bigger Staff.

984
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 4: Here's the connection.

985
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 3: I've got a hoop magazine with a heading Bernie Bigger

986
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 3: Staff has sonics booming when he was coaching them. And

987
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 3: Winston Garland. I remember from one of the very first

988
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,840
Speaker 3: playoff games I ever saw Jazz Warriors Big upset the

989
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,959
Speaker 3: seven Warriors over the Jazz Winston Garland played just before

990
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:20,839
Speaker 3: the run TMC days. He was he was their last

991
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 3: point guard before Tim Hardaway.

992
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 4: So it's just why he puts that on the broadcast

993
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 4: for someone like you exactly.

994
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 3: You see that little mustache, the little dad mustache from

995
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,760
Speaker 3: the eighties that everyone seemed to have. It was awesome

996
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,760
Speaker 3: to see. So I'm surprised Winston Garland. I mean, Darius

997
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 3: is what only twenty something, so you just been a

998
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 3: older father. But then I was too, I was thirty five,

999
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 3: so maybe it's no different.

1000
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 1: Oh you'll see him. He attends the game held me there.

1001
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 1: I'm sure they got to go back to this graphic.

1002
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:53,399
Speaker 4: I don't know if they do. Actually, yeah, I don't think.

1003
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:56,959
Speaker 4: I don't know, doesn't Gez. I love the stank stank

1004
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 4: feast reaction to we had a couple of great g

1005
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:01,399
Speaker 4: Z reactions. Actually some good stuff there.

1006
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 3: Reminded me that one of Lebron that time, remember with

1007
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 3: I think Beyonce I was there too, which jay Z

1008
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,399
Speaker 3: was like really love Yeah, he had like a fatal

1009
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:10,320
Speaker 3: way Yeah yeah yeah.

1010
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 4: Fat away yeah. And I just my my final note

1011
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 4: is we always do this with like stuff Courry, like

1012
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:18,879
Speaker 4: one game, just let stuff Curry shoot every single time,

1013
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:21,399
Speaker 4: which would be fun to see. I'd love to see

1014
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 4: it with Kevin Durant too.

1015
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 2: He could passers.

1016
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,759
Speaker 4: Oh he's a passer, but you saw as he took

1017
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 4: over there at the end, He's like, I'll hit these

1018
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 4: jumpers and we'll end this game. It's just like he's unguardable.

1019
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,319
Speaker 4: It's I would love to see him come down every

1020
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 4: time and just shoot the sixteen to three pointers, shot

1021
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:39,800
Speaker 4: wherever he wants to on the floor because it's not

1022
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 4: being stopped. And how many points could he accumulate? Be

1023
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 4: fun to see it go.

1024
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:45,720
Speaker 2: For one hundred, Yeah, that's the question. He could easily.

1025
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 2: I thought it was hilarious in the first quarter. You know,

1026
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:51,439
Speaker 2: it was basically Bruce Brown and Andre Drummond were scoring

1027
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:53,359
Speaker 2: for the whole first half of the quarter, and Van

1028
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 2: Gundy's on the call, He's like, Calves are doing a

1029
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:58,839
Speaker 2: great job holding Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. They haven't

1030
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 2: taken a shot yet. And then the next and you know,

1031
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 2: they were nine for nine at the end of the

1032
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,919
Speaker 2: first quarter. You're like, ooh, yeah, it's probably bad news

1033
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 2: when you're losing and the two stars haven't even gotten

1034
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:10,320
Speaker 2: heated up yet. But ma'am, Kevin Durant felt like he

1035
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 2: was playing at about seventy five percent capacity last night

1036
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 2: and he completely dominated the game every moment he was

1037
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 2: out there. Great stuff.

1038
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:18,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the closest we've seen to Kevin Durant

1039
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 1: taken every shot was Game seven last year against the Bucks.

1040
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 1: They just gave the ball over and over. He played

1041
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 1: fifty three minutes that game. He only scored.

1042
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 3: Was that a didn't he have the monster or something

1043
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 3: like that.

1044
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 2: It was that.

1045
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 4: I don't remember, but it was a lot. And yeah,

1046
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 4: I just I want to see him do it against

1047
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 4: like the Thunder in early April, late March, just just

1048
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 4: for fun, let's see Curry try it as well. Okay,

1049
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 4: anything else from this game or you know Celtics nets

1050
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,879
Speaker 4: or Calves versus. The winner of tonight's horned Hawks.

1051
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 3: Just fanned out. Brad Rowland on Twitter, tonight's game sellout.

1052
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:01,839
Speaker 4: Good thing we want. I already talked to our guy Larry.

1053
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 4: He's got seats. I said, you know where we'll be. Yeah, yeah,

1054
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:09,439
Speaker 4: you know whe're standing you know our corner. We're apart seven.

1055
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 4: He's swinging by, going on yeah yeah, yeah, he's bringing

1056
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:16,839
Speaker 4: the entire hawksbro section. So I can't wait for seven

1057
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 4: o'clock start.

1058
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, perfect?

1059
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:21,879
Speaker 4: What time you're gonna get there? You always we didn't

1060
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 4: get a spot.

1061
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 3: That's the thing, that's the thing, box out rules off.

1062
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 3: First thing. You got to stand there and just can't move.

1063
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 4: So we halee. We need you tonight. I need you

1064
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 4: there six fifteen. Yeah, you know, bring some rope.

1065
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 3: Well okay, okay, someone else is on base. You know

1066
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 3: we're gonna be very when you when we when we

1067
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,279
Speaker 3: go into the toilets as well, We've got to make

1068
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 3: sure someone's really holding out place there because people will

1069
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 3: people will poach you.

1070
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 4: Our spot for sure, for sure. All right, let's take

1071
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 4: a break. When we come back, we'll get into bucks Bulls, Sixers, Raptors,

1072
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 4: and a whole lot more. Don't go anywhere, all right,

1073
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 4: back with No Dung's here in the Classic Factory, JD.

1074
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 4: I loved how you timed this your return from vacation,

1075
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 4: you know, first day back here in the factory talking

1076
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 4: about great playing games. Well done, sir, I was skeptical

1077
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 4: at first, cutting too close, JD. In my mind, Nope,

1078
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Speaker 4: you nail it. Energy's high in the Classifactory.

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Speaker 1: You better believe it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, doing big numbers here today too. So if you're

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Speaker 4: who knows, maybe on the plane, maybe on the weekends sometimes,

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think that's why JD actually timed it this way,

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Speaker 1: because there was some talk about maybe some evening post playing,

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Speaker 1: but he didn't show up after the first play, just

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Speaker 1: to make sure we didn't do it that way.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, like, subscribe to No Dunks really help us out. Okay,

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Speaker 4: we've uh, we've talked about the two playing games from

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00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 4: last night. Let's get to some of the Eastern Conference series.

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Speaker 4: We touched on them briefly earlier in the week, but

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00:47:55,360 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 4: let's preview them and make our predictions. Game one, Bucks Bulls, Babe,

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00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 4: I never know what to say. Do you say Bucks

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00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 4: Bulls or Bulls Bucks? Do you put the higher seed

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00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 4: first or the seed that's the visiting team first? I

1097
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:10,319
Speaker 4: go back and forth.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you, Skeets. I sent a tweet today

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00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 2: about the Bucks Bulls and I put Bucks Bulls. You know,

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00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 2: if you're talking about an individual game, you would say

1101
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 2: Bulls Bucks road team first. But I think you got

1102
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 2: to give the honor to the team that earned the

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00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:23,760
Speaker 2: better right talk about the playoffs.

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00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 4: I think you're right. It's Bucks Bulls Game one this Sunday,

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00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 4: April seventeenth, six thirty pm Eastern, start there in Milwaukee.

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00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 4: Let me just set you up here. Bucks went a

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00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:35,720
Speaker 4: perfect four to zero against Chicago during the regular season.

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00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 4: Giannis has not lost to Chicago in a very very

1109
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:41,880
Speaker 4: long time. Two of the games though this year, decided

1110
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 4: by single digits, the other two blowouts, So we'll see

1111
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,400
Speaker 4: if we get a more competitive series. Can't wait to

1112
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 4: hear Trade's thoughts and Bucks third and offense, fourteenth defense

1113
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:53,320
Speaker 4: on the year. I probably have that wrong. Actually, scratch that,

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00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 4: I forgot to update something, so don't worry about that part.

1115
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,480
Speaker 4: But Tray, is this going to be more competitive or

1116
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 4: could this be brooms for Milwaukee?

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00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 2: Say it ain't so, Skeets say it ain't so. No

1118
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 2: brooms por fo or key to this series and the

1119
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:12,320
Speaker 2: potential X factor are one and the same. Can the

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00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:16,919
Speaker 2: Chicago Bulls discover time travel and go back to twenty

1121
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,320
Speaker 2: fifteen when they could actually beat Gianni Santa Toakupo in

1122
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 2: the playoffs? There were not a lot of good matchups

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00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,359
Speaker 2: for the Bulls once they dropped down into the five

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00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 2: to six sort of zone. This one is particularly bad.

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Speaker 2: Like you mentioned, Skeets, Bulls haven't beat a Yannis Bucks

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00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:34,240
Speaker 2: team since December twenty six, twenty seventeen. That's thirteen straight games,

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00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 2: so it seems a pretty tall task to beat them

1128
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 2: four times out of seven. I do think the Bulls

1129
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 2: can steal one game if everything goes perfectly according to plan.

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Speaker 2: The Bucks first of all, have to go cold from

1131
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 2: three point land. They had sixteen games this season where

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00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 2: they shot thirty percent or lower. They went just six

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00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:54,839
Speaker 2: and ten in those games. Of course, one of those

1134
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:57,320
Speaker 2: was against the Bulls, switch the Bucks won. The second

1135
00:49:57,560 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 2: is that Patrick Williams has to hold up a little

1136
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 2: bit against Giannis, and that's kind of a silver lining

1137
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 2: for Bulls fans is they actually get to see what

1138
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 2: Patrick Williams looks like going against Yannis, since theoretically he's

1139
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 2: going to be the guy that will guard him for

1140
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 2: the next four or five seasons, so it'll be cool

1141
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 2: to see if he has any sort of chance. I'm

1142
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 2: not super optimistic. And third, DeMar de Rosen really has

1143
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 2: to control the game and be on fire and then

1144
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,240
Speaker 2: just go off in the fourth quarter. Basically, the Bucks

1145
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 2: or the Bulls are gonna have to outshoot the Bucks

1146
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 2: and hope that the that that that Damar is the

1147
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:29,359
Speaker 2: best player in the fourth quarter and that he out

1148
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 2: shoots Chris Middleton most likely. So my head says Bucks

1149
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 2: in five, my heart says Bulls in six.

1150
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 1: So if there's no sweep, maybe we get you, said Sadan,

1151
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:41,759
Speaker 1: And so Satane's so Weezer performance, since we're getting the

1152
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 1: Werewolves of London performance.

1153
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 2: So if the.

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Speaker 4: Bulls win, we get to hear you play yer.

1155
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:51,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, the album that sounds good.

1156
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,399
Speaker 1: I'm in it, in for it, I can be back

1157
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 1: up something, backup vocals. Listen, I think the analysis on

1158
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:02,279
Speaker 1: this series. I don't want to be simple, but I

1159
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: just don't believe the Buck in the Bulls being gritty

1160
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 1: enough to beat the Bucks. The fifty to fifty balls,

1161
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: I think are gonna be like ninety ten balls because

1162
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 1: the Bucks, that's what they do. I mean, they put

1163
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 1: it up on the glass even if they missed. We

1164
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:15,360
Speaker 1: saw what they did in the postseason last year, and

1165
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:17,919
Speaker 1: they would get extra possessions. Even if they don't shoot

1166
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:19,839
Speaker 1: all that well, they're gonna get extra possessions against the Bulls,

1167
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: who are a good defensive rebounding team. They are, but

1168
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:26,399
Speaker 1: I think in the postseason the second chance points which

1169
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 1: the Bulls didn't allow are probably not gonna happen because

1170
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: they just haven't had a really good defensive performance in

1171
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: a while. One of the last ones, going back and

1172
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,279
Speaker 1: reading about the Bucks and the bull series was for

1173
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 1: their whole season was probably against the Bucks in like

1174
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:44,840
Speaker 1: late January January twenty first, there was the Greats and

1175
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 1: Allen game that was probably one of their better defensive

1176
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:50,800
Speaker 1: performances of the last two and a half months. So

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Speaker 1: I just don't believe them in being tough enough.

1178
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 4: Now.

1179
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:57,800
Speaker 1: I think DeRozan, yeah, as he said, he's got to

1180
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 1: go off. But Drew Holliday for a series against the

1181
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 1: Rosen is going to be a problem. Droology is going

1182
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 1: to be his guy. Derozen excuse me. His first playoff

1183
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 1: performance with the Bulls. Looking forward to that. But we

1184
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,320
Speaker 1: know his numbers aren't as good as they are in

1185
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 1: the regular season traditionally, you know, going back actually he

1186
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:19,880
Speaker 1: had a good series against the Nuggets with the Spurs

1187
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:23,480
Speaker 1: in his last postseason performance, but you know, going back

1188
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:27,360
Speaker 1: to his Raptors days, his numbers aren't going to go up.

1189
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:29,440
Speaker 1: And I think you need the Bulls offense to be

1190
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:32,920
Speaker 1: better because I just don't think they're gonna be able

1191
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:34,319
Speaker 1: to stop the Bucks all that well. I think their

1192
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:36,719
Speaker 1: scoring has to be high. This is Levine's first postseason.

1193
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 1: He's not one hundred percent. He's sort of been up

1194
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: and down the last month with Nolanso Ball. The Bulls

1195
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:43,360
Speaker 1: are gonna have to outscore the Bucks. I just I

1196
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 1: say five. I say five for the Bucks.

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00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:49,240
Speaker 4: So lay keys to this series or potential X factors.

1198
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:50,800
Speaker 4: I mean, I think a part of it that sucks

1199
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Speaker 4: is we'd be more excited for this series, hypothetically if

1200
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 4: the Bulls hadn't played like one of the worst teams

1201
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,839
Speaker 4: over the last stretch of the regular season. They were bad,

1202
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 4: very bad.

1203
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 3: And one of those problems is Vucci inside is just

1204
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:05,440
Speaker 3: not big enough. And now he's probably going to have

1205
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:08,839
Speaker 3: Brook and Yannis there sort of just bouncing him out

1206
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 3: of the way there, and that's gonna be a problem.

1207
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 4: I mean, Rucci Beb's going to prove that all NBA

1208
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:14,399
Speaker 4: ninth team selection.

1209
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:17,240
Speaker 1: Beg enough. He just doesn't.

1210
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 3: Lopez is just like a gigantic human beings, and then

1211
00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 3: Yannis will just like, get out of my way. I'm

1212
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 3: dunking here now. Vucci offensively, he can stretch him out

1213
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 3: a little bit. If he can hit that mid ranger

1214
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:30,239
Speaker 3: and step it out and hit some threes, keep the

1215
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 3: offense going there, he can at least counter what he's

1216
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 3: perhaps giving up at the other end. I think though,

1217
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:37,839
Speaker 3: for Chicago, I mean Alix Caruso, I think he has

1218
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 3: to have a huge series on a Middleton or a

1219
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 3: Drew Holiday, someone like that. He's been He's been really

1220
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:45,240
Speaker 3: good when he's played for them, giving them some good energy,

1221
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 3: but it just feels like they just don't have enough

1222
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 3: to be able to really compete. I mean, Chris Middleton,

1223
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 3: love him, I hate him, whatever you feel he has

1224
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:55,239
Speaker 3: performed in the playoff. He was fantastic when Yannis went

1225
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 3: down last year against the Atlanta Hawks. He was obviously

1226
00:53:58,160 --> 00:53:59,880
Speaker 3: very good for most of the series against the Phoenix,

1227
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:02,600
Speaker 3: and Drew Holiday is just he's just one of the

1228
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 3: most composed, calm players on both ends of the floor.

1229
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:07,840
Speaker 3: You know, he can get a defensive stop, and he

1230
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 3: can You're very comfortable with Drew Holiday having the ball

1231
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 3: in his hand late if the game is close. But

1232
00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 3: ultimately it comes down to Yannis. Like, what can the

1233
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 3: Bulls possibly do to slow Yannis down other than hoping

1234
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 3: he misses. But as we've seen, Yannis is playing for

1235
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:22,800
Speaker 3: forty eight minutes even if the Bulls are having a

1236
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 3: really good game, So it's gonna be done. I do

1237
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:26,720
Speaker 3: think the Bulls. I think it's very hard to sweep

1238
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:28,920
Speaker 3: teams in these four games, you know, at a best

1239
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:30,880
Speaker 3: out of seven series, So I think the Bulls get one.

1240
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:33,799
Speaker 3: I think they get one at home, but it's probably more.

1241
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:35,840
Speaker 3: It might be their gentleman's sweep though.

1242
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:38,320
Speaker 4: Oh you think it. So we're not getting a douchebag sweep.

1243
00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 2: Just for those that don't know.

1244
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 4: Douchebag sweep is when the underdog or really any team

1245
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:46,800
Speaker 4: wins the first game, Yes, but then you'll lose the

1246
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:49,319
Speaker 4: next four. Yes, it's the douchebag part because it's like, yeah,

1247
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:50,879
Speaker 4: they almost give it to you at the beginning. Real

1248
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 4: douchebags get your hopes up there and kill you. The

1249
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:56,840
Speaker 4: gentleman sweep, well, we consider a gentleman sweep is we

1250
00:54:56,960 --> 00:54:59,319
Speaker 4: take you know, he takes the first three games as

1251
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:01,840
Speaker 4: a gentleman offer you. Usually it's at home, it's in

1252
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 4: the arena. Here is the fourth game anyway? Yeah, and

1253
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 4: we'll take care of it. Okay, So there, But you

1254
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 4: think it's gentleman sweet pot, that's.

1255
00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:11,279
Speaker 3: Where I think it is. I mean, look, I think

1256
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 3: if it's close, DeRozan has shown us this season that

1257
00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 3: he can get the Bulls over the line, there's no

1258
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 3: doubt about that. Yeah, but they have to get it

1259
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:19,560
Speaker 3: close enough for DeRozan to be able to execute. And

1260
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 3: that's where I think it's going to be tough.

1261
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:23,160
Speaker 4: It feels like in you guys setting up this series,

1262
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:26,880
Speaker 4: like so many things have to go perfectly for the Bulls. Yeh, good,

1263
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 4: derozis good. Levine Caruso has got to get back to

1264
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 4: his dominant defensive ways. Vucci's got to hit threes and

1265
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 4: do work insides like all of this stuff in theory. Yeah,

1266
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:39,040
Speaker 4: you added up the Bulls could win a game or two,

1267
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:42,719
Speaker 4: but you need everything to align whereas the box like

1268
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 4: I mean, they'll be able to win games even if

1269
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:48,720
Speaker 4: Middleton and the Ferris wheel is down one, right because

1270
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 4: of Giannis and Drew and stuff like that, and their

1271
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 4: role players and they've just been through they've been through

1272
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 4: these wars before, so they're not going to be phased.

1273
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 3: It'd be interesting to see how the Grays and Allen

1274
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:00,719
Speaker 3: Alice Caruso thing goes, because I think I think it's

1275
00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 3: evened up and in fact it's going the other way now.

1276
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 3: I think the Bulls are ahead in that series. But

1277
00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 3: what happens now? Does that become a factor? You know it?

1278
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:09,719
Speaker 3: Does it become a bit of an eye for an

1279
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:11,720
Speaker 3: eye series? Is it going to get some physical stuff,

1280
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 3: some flagrants and things like that, because I think it's

1281
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 3: got the potential for it and that could help Chicago

1282
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 3: for sure. If if it does get a little bit

1283
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 3: scrappy like.

1284
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 4: That, uh, anything else with this one? So so you're

1285
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:24,800
Speaker 4: bad you're Bucks and five trays.

1286
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:28,160
Speaker 2: You know he's a Bulls fan, Balls and six, and

1287
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 2: they're not going to beat the Bucks at home.

1288
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:34,320
Speaker 3: This is a real brand exactly.

1289
00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 4: Okay, you're also saying you're calling the gentleman sweep. You're

1290
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:40,719
Speaker 4: sitting Bucks and five. I'm going to go Bucks in

1291
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 4: five as well. I will say the Bulls take game

1292
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:44,640
Speaker 4: three though, to really get argument, what's that one?

1293
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:47,400
Speaker 3: But you did do a whole break.

1294
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:51,959
Speaker 2: The game three when I forget what that would be called.

1295
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:53,320
Speaker 2: I'll be there though, You're.

1296
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 4: Gonna go for that one? Oh, then they're dead lock it.

1297
00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:58,880
Speaker 2: In Friday Nights forever to finally announce it. But Friday

1298
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:00,880
Speaker 2: night nice, whatever that is.

1299
00:57:01,239 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 4: Okay, So are we gonna have you on the Drop

1300
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:05,319
Speaker 4: podcast and you're flying after the show?

1301
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:06,960
Speaker 3: Second twenty seconds?

1302
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I no, no, I don't know. I booked my

1303
00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 2: I booked my flight a couple of days ago, and

1304
00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:12,400
Speaker 2: I booked it for Thursday in the middle of day

1305
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 2: because I didn't know when they had announced the game.

1306
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 2: I was like, it's gonna be Thursday, Friday, or Saturday.

1307
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:19,439
Speaker 2: I'll be home for all of them. So, yeah, game three,

1308
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:23,240
Speaker 2: catch me wilden out. I just guilted. I just guilted

1309
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 2: my buddy Adam. He was like, I got a school

1310
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:27,000
Speaker 2: he told me. He's like, if you fly home, I'll

1311
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:28,920
Speaker 2: go to the game with I'm like, cool, that's awesome.

1312
00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:31,520
Speaker 2: I booked my ticket. He said, awesome, I'm in. Then today,

1313
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:33,880
Speaker 2: I said, all right. Games on Friday? He said, oh,

1314
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 2: I committed to a thing at school and I never

1315
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 2: break my commitments. I said, you committed to me too,

1316
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 2: So he broke his commitment. Shut the Bulls.

1317
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 4: The kid's future. Friday not important, all right, So let's

1318
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 4: hear from the stream team. Let's hear your predictions. Who

1319
00:57:57,160 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 4: do you like in this one? Are you signing with

1320
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:01,080
Speaker 4: Tea Cake and the Bulls pull off the upset? Or

1321
00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 4: do you like the Bucks? And if so, how many games?

1322
00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 4: Is it a sweep? A lot of people are picking

1323
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 4: this one in sweep. I've seen seeing a lot of

1324
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:10,000
Speaker 4: Bucks in five. Maybe think Chicago can stretch it out

1325
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:13,440
Speaker 4: a little bit longer. Okay, let's get to the other

1326
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 4: series in these that we know. One are very excited about. Saturday,

1327
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:21,760
Speaker 4: April sixteenth, six pm Eastern start Game one Sixers Raptors.

1328
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 4: It's in Philadelphia at the Wells Fargo Center. What do

1329
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 4: you got here?

1330
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 2: Tasks?

1331
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:27,560
Speaker 4: Where do you want to go? Raps have been hot,

1332
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 4: that's the thing. Like, yes, the Sixers have more wins,

1333
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:35,280
Speaker 4: but the Raptors thirty four and seventeen basically since we

1334
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 4: went over to twenty twenty two and seven and two

1335
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:40,320
Speaker 4: against the top four teams in the East, including two

1336
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:42,920
Speaker 4: wins against the Sixers here recently. So what do you

1337
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:44,440
Speaker 4: think of this one? What's the key to the series?

1338
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, people look at that record, that thirty four

1339
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:49,320
Speaker 1: and seventeen record, they're in their last fifty one games

1340
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:52,160
Speaker 1: and say this team is probably a good regular season team.

1341
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 1: But the Sixers are going to have the best player

1342
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 1: on the floor that is unstoppable. It's going to be

1343
00:58:57,120 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 1: tough for the Raptors to slow down and be Now.

1344
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:01,760
Speaker 1: They got a bit of a template from watching the

1345
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 1: way Karl Anthony Towns was guarded. They gotta throw so

1346
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 1: many of their six to nine bodies at him, and

1347
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 1: they're they're going to do a good job of that.

1348
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:10,959
Speaker 1: But Embiid should win his minutes when he's on the floor,

1349
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 1: just he just should and he will. He's done that

1350
00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:15,919
Speaker 1: against the Raptors. I don't know if they can sign

1351
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 1: Marcus solback for Game one, but they don't have a

1352
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 1: guy that can guard him. That being said, the Raptors

1353
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 1: just are going to be resilient when Embid goes to

1354
00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:25,680
Speaker 1: the bench. They can be just got to play a

1355
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:29,640
Speaker 1: lot because they shouldn't feel comfortable that James Harden's gonna

1356
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:31,880
Speaker 1: pick up that slack as the secondary guy, and the

1357
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 1: Raptors are gonna throw so many different six nine bodies

1358
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:38,120
Speaker 1: at him to try and speed him up. He hasn't

1359
00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:40,000
Speaker 1: looked great now. I think Harden will probably be good

1360
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 1: to start the series. If we look back at the

1361
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 1: hardened series in the past, Game one, Game two feeling good,

1362
00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:49,200
Speaker 1: things just kind of go downhill from there. But yeah,

1363
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:53,040
Speaker 1: I'm I'm buying in the Raptors. Pascal Siakam has just

1364
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:55,040
Speaker 1: been playing so so well, and of course he can't

1365
00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 1: match Joel Embiid as a star, but I think he's

1366
00:59:57,840 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 1: going to have a really good series. It's gonna be

1367
00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:01,520
Speaker 1: interesting to watch the first two games if they put

1368
01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:05,080
Speaker 1: Matisse Steibel on him, because Matisse Steibel can't go to

1369
01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 1: Toronto and play because of the vaccination requirement, so that

1370
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:10,960
Speaker 1: I think is gonna throw off the Sixers a little bit.

1371
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:13,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know who really guards Siakim. Of

1372
01:00:13,560 --> 01:00:16,640
Speaker 1: course Tobias Harris will get some minutes, but has just

1373
01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:20,640
Speaker 1: looked really, really, really good. So I'm buying the ensemble

1374
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:22,680
Speaker 1: is when it comes down to it, what we what

1375
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:26,720
Speaker 1: we saw in the last game recently with the Raptors

1376
01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:29,280
Speaker 1: taking care of the Sixers, throw a lot of bodies

1377
01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:33,480
Speaker 1: in Embiid, win the non Embiid minutes and just get

1378
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:38,320
Speaker 1: freaking creative. Chris Finch got creative, you know, helping out

1379
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:41,959
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns, finding a way Nick Nurse, He's gonna

1380
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:44,480
Speaker 1: find a way to throw bodies at Joel Embiid. I

1381
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 1: just mentioned that because I like the Nick Nurse factor

1382
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:51,320
Speaker 1: in this series. Sometimes when you got guys like four guys,

1383
01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:53,600
Speaker 1: let's say, you know, having their eyes on Embid, it

1384
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:57,400
Speaker 1: keeps everyone engaged. And this is a big series for

1385
01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:01,520
Speaker 1: the five, six, seven, eight guys, for ogn and Obi,

1386
01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:05,400
Speaker 1: for the three point shooters, just waiting for Pascal Siakam

1387
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 1: to make up play. The Raptors are deeper, and I

1388
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:11,760
Speaker 1: just believe it's just that's more of a belief thing.

1389
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:16,280
Speaker 1: I mean, Embiid should should dominate and should win this series.

1390
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:20,920
Speaker 1: But I'm just buying the Raptors vibes defensive tenacity and depth.

1391
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:23,720
Speaker 4: Well, Shoe had a great breakdown his little preview for

1392
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:26,120
Speaker 4: NBA dot Com and talking about how the Sixers bench

1393
01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:28,040
Speaker 4: could determine the series. What you're talking about there with

1394
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 4: Embiid when he goes to the bench, they fall apart.

1395
01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:32,800
Speaker 4: In each of their two post All Star losses to

1396
01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:36,480
Speaker 4: the Raps, Embiid recorded a positive plus minus with the

1397
01:01:36,520 --> 01:01:38,960
Speaker 4: Sixers outscoring Toronto by fifteen points in his total seventy

1398
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:41,360
Speaker 4: five minutes. These were the two regular season games. Philly

1399
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:44,720
Speaker 4: was outscored sixty one to thirty six in Embiid's twenty

1400
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:47,520
Speaker 4: one minutes on the bench. In those two regular season games.

1401
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:50,720
Speaker 4: If that sounds familiar against his shoe, because the Sixers

1402
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:53,200
Speaker 4: were outscored by one oh nine, one hundred and nine

1403
01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:55,320
Speaker 4: points in ninety nine minutes with Embid off the floor

1404
01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:59,120
Speaker 4: back in the twenty nineteen Conference semifinals where Kawhi ultimately

1405
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:00,680
Speaker 4: hit the shot in the corner. That was the story

1406
01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:02,480
Speaker 4: there be It was awesome when he was out there,

1407
01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:05,200
Speaker 4: Sixers would win or lead, and when he would go

1408
01:02:05,240 --> 01:02:08,000
Speaker 4: to the bench, it would all be given back because

1409
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:10,600
Speaker 4: you know, they just couldn't hold on to it and

1410
01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 4: because of the Raptor's depth and stuff like that. So

1411
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:16,000
Speaker 4: that's why you go get Jims Harden in theory, right,

1412
01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:19,400
Speaker 4: Like Harden he has to be he has to be

1413
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:21,920
Speaker 4: either the second or third best player in the series

1414
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:24,800
Speaker 4: and prove that he's got this extra gear that we're like, oh,

1415
01:02:24,880 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 4: maybe he's just saving it or maybe he doesn't.

1416
01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:29,680
Speaker 3: Oh, I haven't seen any evidence that he does still

1417
01:02:29,720 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 3: have it.

1418
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:32,080
Speaker 4: And that's especially against a Raptor's defense.

1419
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:34,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he just seems to have been after his

1420
01:02:34,280 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 3: initial burst. When he got in Philadelphia, had a prid

1421
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:38,480
Speaker 3: of a soft schedule, he looked good, but since then

1422
01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:40,640
Speaker 3: he's kind of looked like and the last game against

1423
01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:42,920
Speaker 3: the Raptors he was like, yeah, I'm just not in it.

1424
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:45,120
Speaker 3: I'm just not feeling it. And he had fifteen assists

1425
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:47,680
Speaker 3: in that game. He'll say, well, he's distributing, but he

1426
01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:49,840
Speaker 3: needs to be way more aggressive scoring the ball and

1427
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:52,280
Speaker 3: taking it at defenders. And this is another problem if

1428
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:53,919
Speaker 3: you look at it. The Raptors can put on James

1429
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:57,200
Speaker 3: Harden like an Ogna. No, Barenes will probably probably, but

1430
01:02:57,920 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 3: you've got so many guys who can just get there

1431
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 3: and physically can get right in his space. And because

1432
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:04,920
Speaker 3: he doesn't seem to have that explosiveness anymore, he's not

1433
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:07,800
Speaker 3: blowing past guys like Anaonobe and then I love Og

1434
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:10,000
Speaker 3: at the other end, when he came back from the injury,

1435
01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 3: his health is going to be a bit of a

1436
01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:13,040
Speaker 3: concern because he's missed a lot of time there. But

1437
01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:14,720
Speaker 3: in the five games he did came back, he was

1438
01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:16,920
Speaker 3: shooting the three ball really well and just giving the

1439
01:03:17,040 --> 01:03:20,120
Speaker 3: Raptors another body, another defender, another guy who can spread

1440
01:03:20,160 --> 01:03:22,280
Speaker 3: the floor. Fred's are same. I think that's the concern

1441
01:03:22,320 --> 01:03:24,720
Speaker 3: here for the Raptors. Are these guys one hundred percent healthy?

1442
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:27,480
Speaker 3: Fred's played a ton of minutes, He's had a lot

1443
01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:30,120
Speaker 3: of missed games towards a stretch here. He's going to

1444
01:03:30,160 --> 01:03:32,600
Speaker 3: have a big series. I like I said, I said

1445
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:35,240
Speaker 3: the Raptors are going to devour Philadelphia in the series.

1446
01:03:35,560 --> 01:03:37,120
Speaker 3: I mean you can't say that and then say, well,

1447
01:03:37,120 --> 01:03:38,640
Speaker 3: I pick the Raptors in seven. So I have to

1448
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 3: pick a back five or six because normally you would

1449
01:03:43,600 --> 01:03:45,400
Speaker 3: say best player in the series is what you want

1450
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:47,360
Speaker 3: on your team, and I think Philadelphia has that. But

1451
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 3: when he's not on the floor, I think then the

1452
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 3: gap is enormous between the two teams and heavily favors

1453
01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:54,280
Speaker 3: Toronto in that sense where.

1454
01:03:54,080 --> 01:03:56,360
Speaker 4: It's so different when Siakam is not out there yet

1455
01:03:56,840 --> 01:03:58,720
Speaker 4: by far the raptors best player for the last couple

1456
01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:01,280
Speaker 4: of months. It's not like they can exactly because they

1457
01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:04,280
Speaker 4: have all these crazy like Precious and Bouche and Birch's

1458
01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:05,520
Speaker 4: gonna give you minutes, and Daddy is.

1459
01:04:05,560 --> 01:04:07,360
Speaker 3: Young and the other thing. The other thing, like when

1460
01:04:07,400 --> 01:04:09,320
Speaker 3: you look at Embiid, you know, as great as he

1461
01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 3: can be, I think he does wear down when he

1462
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:13,720
Speaker 3: has to play forty three forty four minutes because his

1463
01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:15,920
Speaker 3: body just you can't. It's not like Yannis who seemed

1464
01:04:15,920 --> 01:04:19,640
Speaker 3: to grow another you know, physical size when he gets

1465
01:04:19,680 --> 01:04:23,160
Speaker 3: out there. You know we've seen that. And Embiid he's

1466
01:04:23,160 --> 01:04:25,000
Speaker 3: probably looking at this series and going, man, I am

1467
01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:27,080
Speaker 3: going to have to carry these guys. And that's not

1468
01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:30,240
Speaker 3: a good sign for Philadelphia, especially again when we know

1469
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:33,120
Speaker 3: Doc Rivers has had some playoff mess ups more than

1470
01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:36,320
Speaker 3: you know, anybody else. You mentioned Harden already. Tobias Harris

1471
01:04:36,440 --> 01:04:38,360
Speaker 3: is another guy that I'm like, oh god, I wouldn't

1472
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:40,400
Speaker 3: be relying on him to get you through a series

1473
01:04:40,840 --> 01:04:41,680
Speaker 3: and then you got any.

1474
01:04:41,880 --> 01:04:43,560
Speaker 4: But he will probably have a game.

1475
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:49,520
Speaker 3: One. Yeah, he's the Chris Middleton light Fairs for us.

1476
01:04:49,600 --> 01:04:51,400
Speaker 3: Like it's like there are times where you're yeah, he

1477
01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:53,080
Speaker 3: had thirty four and twelve and was really good, and

1478
01:04:53,120 --> 01:04:54,880
Speaker 3: then he just doesn't impact the game.

1479
01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:57,560
Speaker 4: So and Maxi here is in like his first real,

1480
01:04:57,880 --> 01:04:58,840
Speaker 4: like important series.

1481
01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:01,400
Speaker 3: He can't be there second best player though, as good

1482
01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:04,160
Speaker 3: as he is, I love Maxi, but that he's got

1483
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 3: to be their fourth best player at minimum, I think,

1484
01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 3: because I just think you've got to see the veterans

1485
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:11,880
Speaker 3: step up, and I don't have a lot of faith

1486
01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:15,280
Speaker 3: in those veterans. So I'm sticking to the devouring.

1487
01:05:17,520 --> 01:05:21,360
Speaker 4: Can devouring six be a devour? I guess six could

1488
01:05:21,360 --> 01:05:23,400
Speaker 4: be a devour if there's like a couple of blowouts

1489
01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:26,040
Speaker 4: in there, maybe the sixer squeak out a close one.

1490
01:05:26,200 --> 01:05:29,360
Speaker 4: I could still look at that as a devouring. Good.

1491
01:05:30,720 --> 01:05:32,600
Speaker 3: The Tible thing as well, is huge. The Tyble is

1492
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:35,680
Speaker 3: a brilliant defender. You know, he gets in those past lanes.

1493
01:05:35,720 --> 01:05:38,280
Speaker 3: He's long. He can cause guys like Gary Trent problems.

1494
01:05:38,320 --> 01:05:39,600
Speaker 3: So Gary Trent I think is a bit of an

1495
01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:42,280
Speaker 3: X factor there for the Ruggers. So if he can't

1496
01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:45,400
Speaker 3: play in two, potentially three games in this series, that's

1497
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:47,400
Speaker 3: going to be massive. They haven't got anybody who can

1498
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 3: replace what Tible does.

1499
01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 2: Now.

1500
01:05:48,560 --> 01:05:51,960
Speaker 3: Tyble offensively is almost the complete opposite. He can't hit

1501
01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:54,920
Speaker 3: that three pointer, he's not a reliable shooter. He can

1502
01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:56,920
Speaker 3: fill the lanes. He should do more of that, But

1503
01:05:57,320 --> 01:06:01,560
Speaker 3: the Sixers offensively aren't relying. They were lying nam hugely

1504
01:06:01,600 --> 01:06:02,160
Speaker 3: fit defense.

1505
01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:04,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so interesting you say that, because I've seen

1506
01:06:04,640 --> 01:06:07,320
Speaker 4: some people wonder is it actually to the detriment of

1507
01:06:07,360 --> 01:06:10,000
Speaker 4: the Raptors if Tibel can't play because of what Nurse

1508
01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:12,400
Speaker 4: can do and how creative he can get of leaving

1509
01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:14,840
Speaker 4: a guy like him. Yeah, he's awesome defensively, but you

1510
01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:17,640
Speaker 4: can sort of just totally forget about him, and that

1511
01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:19,680
Speaker 4: sometimes fits into the game plan of what Nurse wants

1512
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:21,720
Speaker 4: to do and run bodies at guys and doubling embid.

1513
01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:23,560
Speaker 4: But we will see, Trey. What are your thoughts on

1514
01:06:24,080 --> 01:06:25,120
Speaker 4: the Sixers Raptors here?

1515
01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:27,600
Speaker 2: This is definitely a styles make fights kind of matchup,

1516
01:06:27,640 --> 01:06:30,240
Speaker 2: it feels like, because for as much as we're saying

1517
01:06:30,280 --> 01:06:32,440
Speaker 2: the Raptors are a bad matchup for the Sixers with

1518
01:06:32,560 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 2: their depth and their athleticism, Like Embiid is a terrible

1519
01:06:34,920 --> 01:06:37,040
Speaker 2: matchup for the Raptors. They got nobody that guards him.

1520
01:06:37,120 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 2: So it kind of feels like this comes down to

1521
01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:41,800
Speaker 2: the eight minutes a game that Joel Embiid doesn't play,

1522
01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:44,200
Speaker 2: Like can the Raptors win enough in those eight minutes?

1523
01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:46,520
Speaker 2: Because even if you look at the playoffs, like last

1524
01:06:46,600 --> 01:06:48,400
Speaker 2: year when it was coming down to it for the Sixers,

1525
01:06:48,440 --> 01:06:50,120
Speaker 2: like Embid was going like forty two minutes in a

1526
01:06:50,160 --> 01:06:52,440
Speaker 2: Game seven, there's an opportunity there where he has to

1527
01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:54,480
Speaker 2: go to the bench at some point. It'll either be

1528
01:06:54,560 --> 01:06:57,440
Speaker 2: Paul Reid, maybe DeAndre Jordan.

1529
01:06:57,560 --> 01:06:59,320
Speaker 4: I mean maybe he just said this. He's like, we're

1530
01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:01,400
Speaker 4: gonna go. We're gonna go Jordan. If it's a big

1531
01:07:01,840 --> 01:07:03,240
Speaker 4: We're gonna maybe go Paul Reed.

1532
01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:05,200
Speaker 1: If it's yeah, yeah, Nick Nurse will find a guy

1533
01:07:05,320 --> 01:07:07,840
Speaker 1: to leave in this series, like yeah, Mitis Staib won't

1534
01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:08,640
Speaker 1: be there. He'll find a guy.

1535
01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:11,880
Speaker 2: Yeah. So so it comes down to, like Embid's minutes,

1536
01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:13,880
Speaker 2: he's got to stay out of foul trouble as well.

1537
01:07:13,920 --> 01:07:15,800
Speaker 2: And I don't necessarily know if there's somebody on the

1538
01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:18,440
Speaker 2: Raptors who's gonna get him into foul trouble. Maybe that's

1539
01:07:18,480 --> 01:07:21,320
Speaker 2: when the tible absence comes into play. Is in those

1540
01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:23,440
Speaker 2: games three and four, maybe sia COM's at the rim

1541
01:07:23,520 --> 01:07:25,200
Speaker 2: a bunch and Be picks up a couple of quick

1542
01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:27,480
Speaker 2: ones and suddenly they're playing a James Harden lead lineup

1543
01:07:27,600 --> 01:07:29,920
Speaker 2: for more than they're comfortable with. So his scoring them

1544
01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:32,160
Speaker 2: with you Lee as an X factor, and then Niang,

1545
01:07:32,200 --> 01:07:34,800
Speaker 2: Harris and Green making three pointers. I think it's gonna

1546
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:36,560
Speaker 2: be huge for the seventy six ers as well because

1547
01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:39,200
Speaker 2: Nick Nurse is gonna get funky with it. Defensively, it'll

1548
01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:42,480
Speaker 2: be hard for Joel Embiid even when he's playing. It'll

1549
01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:44,880
Speaker 2: be hard for James Harden. It's gonna just be tricky

1550
01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:48,080
Speaker 2: to get shots. Surely their three point shooters are going

1551
01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:50,120
Speaker 2: to be open. We've seen Danny Green be one of

1552
01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:52,560
Speaker 2: the streakiest shooters out there, Tobias Harris as well, and

1553
01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:54,680
Speaker 2: Niang has had some good games. But if he's not hitting,

1554
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:56,920
Speaker 2: he's kind of a detriment to your team. So their

1555
01:07:56,960 --> 01:07:59,440
Speaker 2: three shooters have got to shoot, and it's gonna be tight.

1556
01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:01,800
Speaker 2: You know, is embid good enough to win it in

1557
01:08:01,880 --> 01:08:04,640
Speaker 2: forty minutes. Yeah, a lot of the times he is.

1558
01:08:04,720 --> 01:08:07,080
Speaker 2: I think the Sixers have won his minutes when he's

1559
01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:09,480
Speaker 2: on the court in five of their last seven matchups

1560
01:08:09,480 --> 01:08:13,439
Speaker 2: against the Raptors. So four minutes a half are gonna

1561
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:15,240
Speaker 2: be very, very harrowing for the Sixers.

1562
01:08:15,280 --> 01:08:17,639
Speaker 1: It feels like, yeah, and I continuously say, you gotta

1563
01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:19,080
Speaker 1: play and bid more, you gotta play and bid Moore.

1564
01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:21,960
Speaker 1: But I'm with you in that it's probably like a

1565
01:08:22,040 --> 01:08:22,920
Speaker 1: forty minute barrier.

1566
01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:23,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't.

1567
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:24,120
Speaker 2: He can't play.

1568
01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:26,200
Speaker 4: He's not like a KD built guy.

1569
01:08:26,280 --> 01:08:27,080
Speaker 2: I mean, you can't play.

1570
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:31,040
Speaker 1: You just can't. And so those minutes it is weird

1571
01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:33,040
Speaker 1: analyzing a series and talking about it that way. But yeah,

1572
01:08:33,040 --> 01:08:36,759
Speaker 1: those minutes are obviously key. But I think Joel Embiid

1573
01:08:37,120 --> 01:08:38,960
Speaker 1: just looks at James Harden and just wants him to

1574
01:08:39,040 --> 01:08:42,400
Speaker 1: be a little Jimmy Butler, like a little bit more

1575
01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:45,200
Speaker 1: like the Harden that they expected. And there's a funny video,

1576
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:48,680
Speaker 1: Well it's funny if you interpret it as funny with

1577
01:08:49,439 --> 01:08:51,600
Speaker 1: James Harden practicing the last couple days shooting threes and

1578
01:08:51,640 --> 01:08:53,519
Speaker 1: Joel and be just sitting on the baseline just watching

1579
01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:57,320
Speaker 1: what's this guy gonna do? You just watching him shoot threes?

1580
01:08:57,880 --> 01:09:01,719
Speaker 1: And really, if James Harden is anywhere close to MVP level,

1581
01:09:01,920 --> 01:09:04,640
Speaker 1: they could have the two best players ye series. And

1582
01:09:04,840 --> 01:09:07,160
Speaker 1: that's the scary part. So I think we'll see some good,

1583
01:09:07,240 --> 01:09:10,320
Speaker 1: harding games to start this series. But yeah, the Reps

1584
01:09:10,439 --> 01:09:12,920
Speaker 1: literally have four starters that they can throw at him

1585
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:17,240
Speaker 1: and rotate with Barnes siakam Og being the three man guys,

1586
01:09:17,280 --> 01:09:20,200
Speaker 1: and then fred Is. You know, he's a pest, he's

1587
01:09:20,240 --> 01:09:22,360
Speaker 1: a he's a bowl and you can't move the guy.

1588
01:09:22,439 --> 01:09:24,280
Speaker 1: So I think he will be He'll be tough to

1589
01:09:24,280 --> 01:09:28,160
Speaker 1: play against the deflections. It's Harden just has to make

1590
01:09:28,240 --> 01:09:30,320
Speaker 1: up his mind and just you know, toss some shots up.

1591
01:09:30,360 --> 01:09:31,800
Speaker 1: Hope you get some foul calls.

1592
01:09:31,560 --> 01:09:33,479
Speaker 4: And they'll live with the line. There'll be a lot

1593
01:09:33,560 --> 01:09:36,439
Speaker 4: of that. It'll be time for rest with guys shooting

1594
01:09:36,439 --> 01:09:39,320
Speaker 4: free throws to be like hunched over grabbing his shorts.

1595
01:09:39,360 --> 01:09:40,439
Speaker 4: So he's gonna have to play a lot.

1596
01:09:40,520 --> 01:09:43,720
Speaker 3: But also interesting to see how Nurse attacks hard and defensively. Yeah,

1597
01:09:43,920 --> 01:09:45,800
Speaker 3: and just say, all right, whoever he picks up, you

1598
01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:47,840
Speaker 3: just keep running, keep running, go straight at the paint.

1599
01:09:47,880 --> 01:09:50,200
Speaker 3: Because that's another problem Harden as where he just checks

1600
01:09:50,240 --> 01:09:54,080
Speaker 3: out defensively, but he I mean this is they got him,

1601
01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:56,000
Speaker 3: got him.

1602
01:09:56,040 --> 01:09:58,280
Speaker 4: Well, that's the thing. I mean, even Sixers fans, I'm

1603
01:09:58,280 --> 01:10:00,280
Speaker 4: sure they're hoping Philly wins. Of course, this is a

1604
01:10:00,400 --> 01:10:02,880
Speaker 4: nice little call it whatever a rivalry I guess sort

1605
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:05,040
Speaker 4: of brewing here between these two teams in the same division.

1606
01:10:05,080 --> 01:10:08,400
Speaker 4: But if you're betting on James Harden in a playoff

1607
01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:11,320
Speaker 4: series to come through four to seven times, like I'm

1608
01:10:11,360 --> 01:10:13,880
Speaker 4: gonna bet against that, especially what I've seen from Harden

1609
01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:16,599
Speaker 4: over the last couple of weeks, which is why also

1610
01:10:16,880 --> 01:10:19,479
Speaker 4: homework card being played. Of course, I think the Raptors.

1611
01:10:20,520 --> 01:10:22,360
Speaker 4: I think the Raptors can win this series, of course.

1612
01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:24,240
Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be close, though, very very close,

1613
01:10:24,280 --> 01:10:27,360
Speaker 4: and it will probably be these fringe players, the Tobias

1614
01:10:27,400 --> 01:10:29,880
Speaker 4: harris Is, the Ogs, the Gary Trentz, you know, the

1615
01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:32,680
Speaker 4: kniags even like who pops off in particular games here,

1616
01:10:33,200 --> 01:10:35,200
Speaker 4: because the stars should be good, it's gonna be a monster.

1617
01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:38,880
Speaker 4: I think Siakam can out play Harden. I think Van Vleet,

1618
01:10:38,920 --> 01:10:41,760
Speaker 4: depending on his health, can out play Maxi. And then

1619
01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:43,679
Speaker 4: it's we get into these like sort of role players.

1620
01:10:44,080 --> 01:10:46,920
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go Raptors in seven. I think this is

1621
01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:49,880
Speaker 4: going the distance, and I'll take the road team to

1622
01:10:49,960 --> 01:10:51,920
Speaker 4: win in Philadelphia, which is maybe a little weird, but

1623
01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:53,639
Speaker 4: that's where that's where I go Raps in seven.

1624
01:10:54,240 --> 01:10:57,920
Speaker 3: I'm going back to my devouring predictions. I honestly do

1625
01:10:58,080 --> 01:11:02,120
Speaker 3: feel way better about Toronto than I'll do band Philadelphia. Yeah,

1626
01:11:02,120 --> 01:11:03,519
Speaker 3: there's a lot of questions there.

1627
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:06,599
Speaker 4: Okay, uh, are you going to Classic Wraps in six?

1628
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:06,960
Speaker 2: What do you think?

1629
01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:09,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got to go Classic Raps in six. Yes,

1630
01:11:09,880 --> 01:11:12,360
Speaker 1: I do think the Sixers are going to be better

1631
01:11:13,160 --> 01:11:15,880
Speaker 1: than we expect. I do think Harden's saving it a

1632
01:11:15,920 --> 01:11:17,080
Speaker 1: little bit for the postseason.

1633
01:11:17,479 --> 01:11:20,720
Speaker 4: Why do you say, I'm just curious? Why do you say?

1634
01:11:21,320 --> 01:11:23,479
Speaker 4: I guess I also think it's somewhere deep down inside.

1635
01:11:23,520 --> 01:11:26,680
Speaker 1: But because Harden is as much as we criticize him

1636
01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:28,960
Speaker 1: in big moments, in fourth quarter moments where he was

1637
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:31,280
Speaker 1: the number one guy, he doesn't have to be the

1638
01:11:31,360 --> 01:11:33,080
Speaker 1: number one guy on this team. You know he's going

1639
01:11:33,160 --> 01:11:35,000
Speaker 1: to pass off over and over and over again in

1640
01:11:35,040 --> 01:11:37,559
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter to embied. He just has to get

1641
01:11:37,600 --> 01:11:39,120
Speaker 1: them there to the fourth quarter, which.

1642
01:11:39,320 --> 01:11:41,599
Speaker 4: Has has to play those minutes when it beads off

1643
01:11:41,680 --> 01:11:43,160
Speaker 4: and lead that team and and be.

1644
01:11:43,200 --> 01:11:45,519
Speaker 1: Better and be better than he has been the last month.

1645
01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:48,040
Speaker 1: He just can't look like that guy. And I'm I

1646
01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:50,080
Speaker 1: would worry if I was Darryl Mory making this deal.

1647
01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:52,479
Speaker 1: For sure. You know, thirty two year old with that

1648
01:11:52,560 --> 01:11:55,439
Speaker 1: hamstring injury from last year, he doesn't have the burst.

1649
01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:59,880
Speaker 1: I get that, But for one series, it could have

1650
01:12:00,280 --> 01:12:02,439
Speaker 1: either way. I'm not taking them, no way. I'm taking

1651
01:12:02,479 --> 01:12:03,520
Speaker 1: the Thruner Raptors.

1652
01:12:03,200 --> 01:12:07,000
Speaker 2: In six and Trey I gotta swerve, gotta swerve here.

1653
01:12:07,320 --> 01:12:09,599
Speaker 2: Six Ers did lose a Game seven at home last

1654
01:12:09,680 --> 01:12:12,679
Speaker 2: year in the playoffs to Trey Young. But I'm gonna

1655
01:12:12,680 --> 01:12:13,719
Speaker 2: go with the Sixers and seven.

1656
01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:15,439
Speaker 4: Okay, So tight series here.

1657
01:12:15,560 --> 01:12:19,519
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, a competitive series. I think embiid and Hardened

1658
01:12:19,680 --> 01:12:23,560
Speaker 2: should be at their freshest playoff wise because it's the

1659
01:12:23,640 --> 01:12:27,680
Speaker 2: first round, so weak off, yeah, exactly, they had a

1660
01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:29,719
Speaker 2: week off. You should be good to go forty minutes

1661
01:12:29,760 --> 01:12:32,400
Speaker 2: a night at this point. So I think the high

1662
01:12:32,479 --> 01:12:34,120
Speaker 2: end talent's gonna matter a little bit if.

1663
01:12:34,040 --> 01:12:36,120
Speaker 3: My prediction holds and they do it in five. I

1664
01:12:36,200 --> 01:12:39,200
Speaker 3: am excited to see the Philadelphia crowds reaction. If Hoden

1665
01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:41,320
Speaker 3: is you know, breaking it and just not putting it,

1666
01:12:41,560 --> 01:12:42,360
Speaker 3: it'll be incredible.

1667
01:12:42,439 --> 01:12:43,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, that'd be a Game five at home.

1668
01:12:44,120 --> 01:12:44,320
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1669
01:12:45,320 --> 01:12:48,160
Speaker 4: Who Okay, let's hear from the stream team. Who do

1670
01:12:48,160 --> 01:12:49,519
Speaker 4: you like in this one? Obviously see a lot of

1671
01:12:49,560 --> 01:12:52,000
Speaker 4: people picking the Raptors, some six Ers fans saying, yeah

1672
01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:53,920
Speaker 4: you got embiid. We'll see what you get from Harden.

1673
01:12:54,240 --> 01:12:56,360
Speaker 4: Let us know who you got winning this Year's very

1674
01:12:56,400 --> 01:12:58,439
Speaker 4: excited for this one. Not excited, though. I gotta admit

1675
01:12:59,040 --> 01:13:01,400
Speaker 4: to start standing in front of the television again during

1676
01:13:01,479 --> 01:13:02,080
Speaker 4: after this game.

1677
01:13:02,160 --> 01:13:03,240
Speaker 3: You're gonna get practiced tonight.

1678
01:13:03,320 --> 01:13:07,280
Speaker 4: Man. I am standing situation on the Hawks game.

1679
01:13:07,360 --> 01:13:09,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just anymore.

1680
01:13:10,080 --> 01:13:11,120
Speaker 4: I just yeah, I'm older.

1681
01:13:11,280 --> 01:13:12,640
Speaker 1: You're right, got a yoga mat.

1682
01:13:13,479 --> 01:13:18,759
Speaker 4: I know it's more. I can definitely still stand.

1683
01:13:18,920 --> 01:13:21,800
Speaker 1: I'm really that old man, But you're marathons. I hope

1684
01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:22,320
Speaker 1: you stand.

1685
01:13:22,439 --> 01:13:26,599
Speaker 4: The anxiety is just living and dying with every possession.

1686
01:13:26,680 --> 01:13:31,120
Speaker 4: It's I don't know if I'm mentally ready right now,

1687
01:13:31,240 --> 01:13:32,120
Speaker 4: So let's see what happens.

1688
01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:35,160
Speaker 2: Why don't you glue your feet to the floor, they

1689
01:13:35,240 --> 01:13:35,680
Speaker 2: won't move.

1690
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:37,760
Speaker 4: I should glue my hands in the ceiling.

1691
01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:40,360
Speaker 2: Batstyle.

1692
01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:44,559
Speaker 4: Hang out all right, can't wait to start breaking down

1693
01:13:44,600 --> 01:13:46,800
Speaker 4: these series as they kick off on the weekend. We're

1694
01:13:46,800 --> 01:13:48,920
Speaker 4: gonna take one more break before we go to break

1695
01:13:49,360 --> 01:13:51,559
Speaker 4: like the video, subscribe to no on YouTube, and when

1696
01:13:51,560 --> 01:13:53,000
Speaker 4: we come back, we don't have tweet of the night. No,

1697
01:13:53,360 --> 01:13:58,080
Speaker 4: get out of here, Trey, Hey, Gareth, get the guitar,

1698
01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:03,560
Speaker 4: get the guitar tray and play the Timberwolves of Minnesota

1699
01:14:03,640 --> 01:14:07,640
Speaker 4: the Werewolves of London Remix. I don't go anywhere. All

1700
01:14:07,720 --> 01:14:10,360
Speaker 4: right back with no dunks in the Classic Factory, no

1701
01:14:10,600 --> 01:14:13,920
Speaker 4: tweet in the night tonight No. Trey Kirby promised the

1702
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:19,040
Speaker 4: Wolves fans out there that if Minnesota actually made the playoffs,

1703
01:14:19,120 --> 01:14:21,040
Speaker 4: not the playing game they had to get into the playoffs,

1704
01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:26,040
Speaker 4: that you in working on practicing the Werewolves of London

1705
01:14:26,240 --> 01:14:29,439
Speaker 4: Remix the Timberwolves of Minnesota, you would bless us with

1706
01:14:29,520 --> 01:14:30,040
Speaker 4: a rendition.

1707
01:14:30,479 --> 01:14:33,240
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it started. I said, if the Wolves

1708
01:14:33,320 --> 01:14:35,200
Speaker 2: go to the conference finals, I'll play it. But I

1709
01:14:35,240 --> 01:14:37,240
Speaker 2: saw that there are only one win shy of however

1710
01:14:37,320 --> 01:14:39,400
Speaker 2: many wins they had during the entirety of two thousand

1711
01:14:39,400 --> 01:14:43,439
Speaker 2: and four, so I think this counts. I've never played

1712
01:14:43,479 --> 01:14:45,320
Speaker 2: a guitar and sang in front of people before.

1713
01:14:45,840 --> 01:14:46,040
Speaker 1: Huh.

1714
01:14:46,479 --> 01:14:50,000
Speaker 2: Also never played this guitar before. Also never sat and

1715
01:14:50,080 --> 01:14:54,679
Speaker 2: played sang this song before. JD. Let's give it a shot.

1716
01:14:55,800 --> 01:14:59,880
Speaker 4: Here we go, Tray Kirby doing the Timberwolves of Minnesota.

1717
01:15:20,360 --> 01:15:23,160
Speaker 6: I saw timber Wolf with the Chinese menu in his hand.

1718
01:15:23,280 --> 01:15:26,920
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, walking through the streets of Saint Paul in

1719
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:31,680
Speaker 6: the rain. He was looking for a place called the

1720
01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:36,599
Speaker 6: Target Center. Kind of get a big dish of beet

1721
01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:37,400
Speaker 6: you out.

1722
01:15:37,280 --> 01:15:37,759
Speaker 3: Mane.

1723
01:15:39,680 --> 01:15:51,920
Speaker 7: Oh timber Wolfs of Minnesota. Oh, ow, timber Wolfs of Minnesota.

1724
01:15:53,880 --> 01:16:03,320
Speaker 4: How your hair of Holland around your kitchen door? You

1725
01:16:03,439 --> 01:16:04,479
Speaker 4: better not let him in.

1726
01:16:07,479 --> 01:16:08,040
Speaker 3: Then alone.

1727
01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:09,439
Speaker 4: Lady glit her hands to the floor.

1728
01:16:09,600 --> 01:16:19,880
Speaker 6: Last night Timberwolfs of Minnesota again. Oh, Gimberwold of Minnesota.

1729
01:16:21,680 --> 01:16:29,560
Speaker 6: How Oh bimber wolda Minnesota.

1730
01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:38,120
Speaker 2: Oh he've be going, got the guitar solo?

1731
01:16:38,400 --> 01:16:42,519
Speaker 4: Yeah, guys, emailing your n MEI questions to no dungsthy

1732
01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:45,479
Speaker 4: Athletic dot Com. You keep going, Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook,

1733
01:16:45,520 --> 01:16:47,840
Speaker 4: TikTok add no dum saying happing up buddy, get yourself

1734
01:16:47,880 --> 01:16:50,599
Speaker 4: an athletic subscription. The Athletic dot com sst no dugs.

1735
01:16:51,479 --> 01:16:57,479
Speaker 6: Yeah, I get a Henry Handers Jem random fucking cat. Lately,

1736
01:16:57,720 --> 01:16:59,680
Speaker 6: he's been overheard in Minneapolis.

1737
01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:05,160
Speaker 4: You better stay away from him. He'll rip your lungs out.

1738
01:17:05,360 --> 01:17:13,439
Speaker 8: Finchah, I'd like to eat Glenn Taylor. Oh timber Wolfs

1739
01:17:13,479 --> 01:17:23,680
Speaker 8: of Minnesota. Oh oh, kinder Wolds of Minnesota.

1740
01:17:23,600 --> 01:17:26,479
Speaker 4: Drop your woods stream.

1741
01:17:29,360 --> 01:17:31,639
Speaker 2: Well. I saw Anthony Edwards blocking with KG.

1742
01:17:31,880 --> 01:17:34,519
Speaker 4: I didn't realize he was good the Erics doing big timber.

1743
01:17:34,320 --> 01:17:35,440
Speaker 2: Wolves of Minnesota.

1744
01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:40,599
Speaker 4: I saw Karl Anthony Town blocking with KG.

1745
01:17:42,320 --> 01:17:44,320
Speaker 2: Doing the wear Wolves of tim Minnesota.

1746
01:17:46,479 --> 01:17:49,760
Speaker 6: I saw D'Angelo Russell drinking a Pina Kolada trader Vix.

1747
01:17:51,520 --> 01:17:52,320
Speaker 2: His hair was.

1748
01:17:52,400 --> 01:17:58,840
Speaker 4: Perfect, yep. Oh timber Wolves in Minnesota.

1749
01:18:00,520 --> 01:18:05,320
Speaker 3: Oh oh.

1750
01:18:06,680 --> 01:18:07,680
Speaker 2: Wolf of Minnesota.

1751
01:18:09,320 --> 01:18:19,760
Speaker 4: Oh yeah it was not the Wolves celebrated last night.

1752
01:18:20,400 --> 01:18:25,360
Speaker 4: There's nothing on t K putting it down. Good stuff.

1753
01:18:25,360 --> 01:18:28,240
Speaker 4: I didn't realize you were doing the whole lyric. My goodness,

1754
01:18:28,240 --> 01:18:29,120
Speaker 4: I though you're just playing guitar.

1755
01:18:30,640 --> 01:18:34,200
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, how do feel nailed it?

1756
01:18:35,640 --> 01:18:38,200
Speaker 4: Guys? We're gonna see you tomorrow here live at ten

1757
01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:40,920
Speaker 4: am Eastern from the Classic Factory. Yeah, take us out

1758
01:18:40,960 --> 01:18:45,120
Speaker 4: again until then, Blipper Rose, you're hearting at first.

1759
01:18:45,360 --> 01:18:47,559
Speaker 2: I'm a great time turn up. Love you guys.

1760
01:18:47,840 --> 01:18:52,720
Speaker 1: Also, none of that was planned. The bridge weren't perfectly

1761
01:18:53,040 --> 01:18:57,080
Speaker 1: set up for our emails. JD just got back from vacation.

1762
01:18:58,600 --> 01:19:00,640
Speaker 1: It doesn't get much better than this. We're taking our

1763
01:19:00,680 --> 01:19:02,960
Speaker 1: shirts off as soon as the cameras are done.

1764
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:04,439
Speaker 4: Really embrace the day. People.

1765
01:19:10,479 --> 01:19:10,719
Speaker 1: Nice