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Speaker 3: You want to see a news story that I don't love.
Speaker 4: Hey, let's see it.
Speaker 5: Man shot during robbery of eight thousand dollars chain in Manhattan.
Speaker 5: My thing is like when people like rob people for
Speaker 5: those chains and public and stuff like that, It's like,
Speaker 5: how do they know that the chain is worth the
Speaker 5: I mean, the crimes obviously never worth it, but like, like.
Speaker 4: What if that chain was a fake chain and it
Speaker 4: was like six hundred bucks? Right?
Speaker 3: In other words, should you be worried about someone robbing?
Speaker 3: Is that the question? Welcome in to this episode twenty
Speaker 3: six of What's Right with Nick right in the podcast
Speaker 3: in YouTube show. But today is somewhat of a special episode.
Speaker 3: So here's the deal. Usually we record these, you know,
Speaker 3: in the afternoon evening, and then they come out the
Speaker 3: following day. However, we are recording this Wednesday late at
Speaker 3: late morning. It's gonna come out sometime today and it's
Speaker 3: gonna be an abbreviated episode. Then we're gonna do a
Speaker 3: full show tomorrow reacting to Game three of the Finals.
Speaker 3: That's gonna come out sometime in the day on Thursday.
Speaker 3: So you're gonna get bonus episodes this week and next
Speaker 3: week because of the final schedule doesn't make a lot
Speaker 3: of sense. First to our full regular show today, then
Speaker 3: the game is played and so we're not able to
Speaker 3: react to it. So we have a short show coming
Speaker 3: today about a ten minute, quick little teaser show, and
Speaker 3: then the full show tomorrow. We appreciate you listening, you subscribing,
Speaker 3: doing all those things before we even get into the
Speaker 3: show to Monday. I'm told there are things they want
Speaker 3: to throw up at me, throw on the screen, there
Speaker 3: are some funny things we're gonna do. We're not even
Speaker 3: doing what we missed. Am I just supposed to go
Speaker 3: right to you.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: At some point they're gonna try to throw me off
Speaker 3: because we're doing this new new vangled show. They think
Speaker 3: I'm not a broadcast professional, but I'm not gonna be
Speaker 3: able to deal with them, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: like a running back in open space making defenders miss.
Speaker 3: All right, but what are we talking about today? I
Speaker 3: know what we're talking about, but just go ahead.
Speaker 5: You switched up on the Warriors after Game two. Mm hm,
Speaker 5: I don't even think that type of stuff was allowed.
Speaker 3: You know, well, you're supposed to be honest with the audience.
Speaker 3: You no longer thought the Warriors were gonna win.
Speaker 5: You being a man of your word and all, Well, yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm a man of my word.
Speaker 3: I thought the Warriors were gonna win. I no longer
Speaker 3: thought they were gonna win, So I owed the audience honesty.
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
Speaker 5: I feel like there's a specific argument I can make,
Speaker 5: but I will continue.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So I've got some questions about your character.
Speaker 5: Okay, but the producers has got some questions for you,
Speaker 5: and they want to know what's gonna happen in game three.
Speaker 3: Okay, just real quick for I get into game three.
Speaker 3: It's just a little note for you, as you're a fledgling,
Speaker 3: up and coming broadcaster. If there's an argument you want
Speaker 3: to make, you should either make it or keep the
Speaker 3: fact that there's an argument you could make in your head.
Speaker 3: What is not great is like there's something I could
Speaker 3: say here, like when you're arguing with your girlfriend, Like, oh,
Speaker 3: I could say something here, but I'm not going to
Speaker 3: that's not great. Now what do I? Oh? I say?
Speaker 3: This is funny they put on the screen. Can you
Speaker 3: even do that? Nick the charlatan? And then the word integrity? Okay,
Speaker 3: at least they didn't put a question work after integrity.
Speaker 3: So here's the deal. I think Boston's gonna win tonight.
Speaker 3: And I think Jeff Van Gundee talked about this, and
Speaker 3: I think he's absolutely right. Oh, these are the photoshops.
Speaker 3: It's the meme of me walking with a girl and
Speaker 3: you see the more attractive girls so you look the
Speaker 3: other way. That's honestly not the greatest photoshop job by
Speaker 3: our tech staff.
Speaker 4: And Boston has always been the girl in the blue
Speaker 4: for me.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's good to know. Then me, you know, me
Speaker 3: taking the Celtics off ramp exit. That's great. Okay, this
Speaker 3: is why you subscribe on YouTube so you can see
Speaker 3: these shoddily done photo shops on ms paint that these
Speaker 3: guys have put together. I don't even know what this
Speaker 3: toy story photoshop is. I want to actually get into
Speaker 3: these are the things that were gonna surprise me with.
Speaker 3: I want to get into what I think is gonna
Speaker 3: happen to Waz thinks these are hilarious. He's dying man.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: So here's what I think is gonna happen. I think
Speaker 3: the Celtics are gonna try to bait Draymond from the
Speaker 3: very beginning of the game, Jeff Van Gundy said this
Speaker 3: to Zach Lowe, and I think he's right. He said,
Speaker 3: the Celtics either have to decide we are going to
Speaker 3: ignore him entirely, or every time he woolfs at somebody,
Speaker 3: we're gonna woof back, We're gonna, you know, have Grant
Speaker 3: maybe start Grant Williams and have Grant Williams try to
Speaker 3: muck it up with him early. Scott Foster is the
Speaker 3: ref tonight, which is to me noteworthy because Scott Foster
Speaker 3: loves the center of attention stuff. We'll throw Draymond out.
Speaker 3: I think Draymond taunting the refs was a big mistake
Speaker 3: on his end, and I think the Celtics absolutely can
Speaker 3: bait him into an early technical. Now folks will say, oh,
Speaker 3: Draymond knows this, so he's not gonna act that way.
Speaker 3: First of all, if he doesn't act borderline unhinged, he's
Speaker 3: not that effective of a play. A huge part of
Speaker 3: what he does is frustrating the opponent, getting in the
Speaker 3: other guy's heads, doing slightly illegal to full on illegal screens,
Speaker 3: grabbing guys, getting guys after the whistle. That is part
Speaker 3: of what makes him great. As long as the refs
Speaker 3: let him do it, So that's first of all. Second
Speaker 3: of all, folks are acting like Draymond has a level
Speaker 3: of self control that we have not yet seen demonstrated.
Speaker 3: He absolutely, unequivocally could have been thrown out of Game two.
Speaker 3: He already had the technical. He then got into it
Speaker 3: with Jalen Brown. They went to the monitors instilled didn't.
Speaker 4: Technically they didn't.
Speaker 3: But my point is that was just dumb luck by
Speaker 3: Draymond that they didn't give him a technical there. It
Speaker 3: wasn't that Draymond ratcheted it down. It wasn't that Draymond
Speaker 3: all of a sudden started being a better actor. It
Speaker 3: was that the rest decided we're not throwing out for this.
Speaker 3: It was on the board. He was gonna get thrown
Speaker 3: out right there. The way he acted after he was
Speaker 3: ejected from the Grizzlies game is a guy that he
Speaker 3: gets himself so hyped up and to such a froth,
Speaker 3: if you will, that I don't think he can ratchet
Speaker 3: it down and still be as effective as he needs
Speaker 3: to be. So that's one of the reasons I like
Speaker 3: the Celtics tonight. Another reason I like the Celtics tonight
Speaker 3: is this going into the series. When I picked the Warriors, initially,
Speaker 3: I said, if it's close late, I don't trust Boston.
Speaker 3: If it's close late, who is the five on the
Speaker 3: four for Golden State? We know Steps out there, we
Speaker 3: know Draymond's out there, But now you're really playing five
Speaker 3: on four on offense. We know Wiggins is.
Speaker 4: Out there, Cold Clay Clay, which.
Speaker 3: Is not necessarily a good thing right now, and then
Speaker 3: who's their fifth. I don't think you can have Jordan
Speaker 3: Poole and Croach crunch time. I don't think you can
Speaker 3: have Kevon Looney and Draymond out there simultaneously in crunch time.
Speaker 3: Not against Boston. Wiggins, I already said, Wiggins, Wiggins, Clay, Steph, Draymond,
Speaker 3: Gary Payton. I don't think you can have Pool out there.
Speaker 3: And I don't think against Boston you can play the
Speaker 3: two bigs, because if you play the two bigs, Boston
Speaker 3: can go small with some signs. So you go Looney
Speaker 3: and Draymond. Boston can have Grant Williams and Al Horford
Speaker 3: and play five out Now you'll crush him on the glass.
Speaker 3: But I don't think you can defend if Boston has
Speaker 3: five shooters or super shooters out there. I just.
Speaker 5: I think in.
Speaker 3: Order for the Warriors to win, Steph has to be phenomenal.
Speaker 3: And I also think it's worth noting that game threes.
Speaker 3: The Warriors in the twenty fifteen finals lost Game three
Speaker 3: to Lebron and just Lebron, and they fell down two
Speaker 3: to one. Warriors in the twenty sixteen Finals went up
Speaker 3: three to one. The only of the first four they
Speaker 3: lost was Game three. Warriors in the twenty seventeen Finals
Speaker 3: they won Game three, but Katie was sensational. Where's in
Speaker 3: the twenty eighteen finals, they won Game three, but Katie
Speaker 3: had forty three points. Where's in the twenty nineteen Finals
Speaker 3: lost Game three. So game three, for one reason or another,
Speaker 3: has been the spot where they haven't had success. It's
Speaker 3: for them, it's always been the first road game. I
Speaker 3: don't know if Toronto it was the first road game
Speaker 3: or not, now that I think of it, but regardless,
Speaker 3: in fact, I can check that Real Quick was Toronto
Speaker 3: their first road game that year. This year, it of
Speaker 3: course is their first road game, and without Kevin Durant
Speaker 3: they've never won a Game three in the finals. That
Speaker 3: to me is at least that semi relevant especially because
Speaker 3: they had had so much success against Toronto. That was
Speaker 3: not the first road game that was back at home,
Speaker 3: because against Toronto they didn't have home for it. That's
Speaker 3: what I thought. I wasn't sure. So I really like
Speaker 3: the Celtics tonight. I also like for Boston that Boston
Speaker 3: has tied one to one with Tatum and Brown both
Speaker 3: averaging twenty points and to me not playing great. Like
Speaker 3: they've had moments, but they haven't played great. So you
Speaker 3: were a little despondent after Game two. Let's be honest.
Speaker 3: You put on a brave face the next day. I
Speaker 3: was sitting next to you. I saw you were upset.
Speaker 3: At one point, you did the thing I do, which
Speaker 3: is after the third quarter when Poole hit that three,
Speaker 3: you got up, you left the room. I think you
Speaker 3: took Dexter for a walk and then came back.
Speaker 4: You were upset.
Speaker 3: What is your level of confidence tonight now going into
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 4: It's extremely high, extremely high.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean because I do think that Draymond had
Speaker 5: a lot to do with the last win, yep, And
Speaker 5: I just don't think that he has the ability to
Speaker 5: do that again. And then, like you said, Jason Tatum
Speaker 5: and Jaylen Brown on the averaging twenty points. I just
Speaker 5: think they've been they've been kind of inconsistent throughout the whole,
Speaker 5: like playoffs, and I just think there's a moment where
Speaker 5: they just eventually they kick it on, like it's just
Speaker 5: too bad to be true that they're consistently playing bad.
Speaker 3: Listen, Marcus Smart's not gonna go one for six again.
Speaker 3: Al Horford's not gonna go one for four again. Jalen
Speaker 3: Brown isn't gonna go one for eleven in quarters two, three,
Speaker 3: and four and so. And I do think there is
Speaker 3: something to the fact that Tatum, without playing that well,
Speaker 3: had twenty eight points and only.
Speaker 4: Played three quarters or I guess twenty one after the first.
Speaker 3: He had twenty one after the first half, he had
Speaker 3: seven and the third, and he had zero in the
Speaker 3: fourth and bear and didn't play much in the fourth.
Speaker 3: I just a lot of the big signs to me
Speaker 3: right now are favoring Boston. I listen, I've told you
Speaker 3: I don't want you gambling on these games. I also
Speaker 3: would tell you if there was going to be one
Speaker 3: game this entire series that I would think to bet,
Speaker 3: it would be this game. Boston minus three and a half,
Speaker 3: and you probably don't even have to lay the points
Speaker 3: with the dope shoe.
Speaker 4: Na hit hit my boy Dani Lo.
Speaker 3: Okay again, I'm not encouraging this behavior. However, if you're
Speaker 3: gonna gamble on one game, this this Finals, this would
Speaker 3: be the game. This is the game I have, and
Speaker 3: this might come back to bite me. I pitched for
Speaker 3: us to do a quick little mini show today. We
Speaker 3: didn't even have to do it because we're doing a
Speaker 3: full show tomorrow in reaction to Game three of the finals.
Speaker 3: So maybe this is gonna come back to bite me.
Speaker 3: There's gonna be a clip of me saying, this is
Speaker 3: the game I'm most confident in. I really like Boston tonight.
Speaker 3: I like I like the energy from the crowd. I
Speaker 3: like the fact that that home court in Boston would
Speaker 3: see I know this. This year, they haven't been great
Speaker 3: in the at home. In the playoffs, they were two
Speaker 3: and zero against the Nets, but since then they're three
Speaker 3: and four at home, which is odd. But I do
Speaker 3: think that home crowd gives them real energy. I think
Speaker 3: the Warriors are far less likely to have that monster
Speaker 3: third quarter when they don't have the crowd brry them
Speaker 3: exactly right and I think, you know, the first Finals
Speaker 3: game played in Boston in a dozen years. This to
Speaker 3: me feels like it could be a flood gates game
Speaker 3: for Boston where Boston gets out to.
Speaker 4: Another regular playoff game the Finals. Correct.
Speaker 3: And the other question I have is this, and this
Speaker 3: is something Kerr. In game one, you can say it's
Speaker 3: game one of the Finals. We're gonna wait and you know,
Speaker 3: see how far we need to stretch Steph. Game two,
Speaker 3: it didn't matter because they had a twenty three point
Speaker 3: lead after the third quarter. How much is Kerr willing
Speaker 3: to push Steph if the because Steph typically plays the
Speaker 3: entire first, the entire third, and half of the second
Speaker 3: half of the fourth, and that's how Steph gets to
Speaker 3: his thirty six to forty minutes. If the Celtics are
Speaker 3: up thirty two to twenty three after one, is he
Speaker 3: still going to let Steph Curry spend the first five
Speaker 3: six minutes of the second quarter on the bench or
Speaker 3: is he going to push step when especially you have
Speaker 3: these big gaps between games. The only game now, the
Speaker 3: only game there's not the extra day of rest between
Speaker 3: his games three and four. Game three, the you know
Speaker 3: is tonight obviously in Game four is Friday, but still
Speaker 3: there's no travel there. So that's what I'm interested to see.
Speaker 3: I'm really interested to see. Also, how long of a
Speaker 3: leash does Clay have? Because quietly, no real.
Speaker 5: That's I don't want to say that's disrespectful, but that's all.
Speaker 5: It's kind of because, I mean, Draymond's leash is pretty long.
Speaker 3: Well, yes, Ramon Clay was killing them in Game three.
Speaker 3: I mean, it is absolutely noteworthy that lay Thompson through
Speaker 3: three quarters played twenty two minutes. First of all, it's
Speaker 3: noteworthy that he only played twenty two minutes through three quarters.
Speaker 3: That means he was pacing for around thirty minutes. That's
Speaker 3: less than you'd expect, your a little shorter. And the
Speaker 3: reason he only played those twenty two minutes. In those
Speaker 3: twenty two minutes, Golden State was minus one in the
Speaker 3: other fourteen minutes of Game three one through three Game
Speaker 3: two quarters one through three they were plus twenty four.
Speaker 3: So the Warriors were plus twenty four when Clay sat
Speaker 3: in the first three quarters of Game two, they were
Speaker 3: minus one when he was playing. That's noteworthy. I like
Speaker 3: Boston big tonight. I'm sure you're gonna be very happy
Speaker 3: that's our mini show. That's all we have for you today.
Speaker 3: We will be right back here tomorrow afternoon with a
Speaker 3: full breakdown analysis of what I think will be a
Speaker 3: big Celtics win. Demons will make some money, I might
Speaker 3: make some money. We'll do all that. That's tomorrow on
Speaker 3: What's Right with Nick Craig.