Speaker 1: The volume. Hi, everybody, let's have an instant reaction off
Speaker 1: the Nuggets one thirty two, one twenty six win over
Speaker 1: the Lakers. If you're the Lakers, I think you have
Speaker 1: to feel pretty pretty good. And I'll get to the
Speaker 1: Nuggets in a second. But Denver was about as good
Speaker 1: as a basketball team can be. In the first half.
Speaker 1: Jokic put on a first quarter that was like a
Speaker 1: skills competition. They hit everything, They're passing their energy, they
Speaker 1: outworked the Lakers, they dominated the boards, and in the end,
Speaker 1: after a thirty seven point first quarter with the Lakers
Speaker 1: trailed by twelve, and then another second quarter when the
Speaker 1: Lakers were outscored by six thirty five to twenty nine,
Speaker 1: it felt pretty hopeless. But the playoffs are about tweaking.
Speaker 1: This is the knock on Doc Rivers. He didn't tweak,
Speaker 1: he did an adjust So Darvin Ham, we've talked about this,
Speaker 1: has done a really good job of adjusting. So they
Speaker 1: started making some defensive adjustments. Put Ruey on Jokic have
Speaker 1: ad as the help defender. That's something that was obvious.
Speaker 1: I also thought their effort improved. I also thought Jokic
Speaker 1: felt like he tired a little bit later in the game.
Speaker 1: But I think overall, what's really interesting from the box
Speaker 1: score tonight, if you look at it field goals. Both
Speaker 1: team shot fifty four percent three point shooting. Both team
Speaker 1: shot basically forty six percent excellent free throws. Lakers were
Speaker 1: twenty three to twenty six. Both team shot very well
Speaker 1: from the free throw line. The difference in the game
Speaker 1: assists were even, steals were even, turnovers were low. Points
Speaker 1: in the paint both had fifty. The big advantage was rebounds.
Speaker 1: The Lakers were out rebounded badly forty seven to thirty.
Speaker 1: And I think one of the things that's pretty remarkable
Speaker 1: about what the Warriors have done it was small ball
Speaker 1: at speed and pacing and three point shooting. But I
Speaker 1: remember a conversation and Denver's really big. Michael Porter's six ' ten,
Speaker 1: Gordon's six ' nine, Jokic is huge, even KCP six
Speaker 1: five and a half's a tall guard. They're just a big,
Speaker 1: long team. And Mark Warkinteam the late Mark Warkan team
Speaker 1: used to coach basketball and assistant at UNLV that was
Speaker 1: a GM around the league or for the Knicks Blazers.
Speaker 1: He used to talk about length all the time, and
Speaker 1: I remember one time we had a conversation about the
Speaker 1: Bulls teams with Pippin and Jordan, and he was talking
Speaker 1: about between you know, Ku Coach and Rodman and Harper
Speaker 1: and Jordan and Pippen and Luke Longley's they always had
Speaker 1: so much length. They're bigs like Cartwright, weren't dominant, but
Speaker 1: they were long. And he said, over the course of
Speaker 1: a game, they would get five loose balls, five tip passes.
Speaker 1: And he said, if you give those to Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: on the other end, he shoots fifty percent, there's your ballgame.
Speaker 1: He goes, how many games to the Bulls win by four, six,
Speaker 1: seven points. Their length was so significant, and it's amazing.
Speaker 1: The Warriors put up this dynasty where you know, once
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant left, and pre Kevin Durant, they were never
Speaker 1: a tearly long team. So you don't get the freebies underneath,
Speaker 1: you don't get the pass deflections, the tip balls, the
Speaker 1: tip passes. Denver lived off those in the first half.
Speaker 1: They're length and hustle points. The Nuggets just carved up
Speaker 1: the Lakers, volleyballing it around, getting second and third chances,
Speaker 1: and then again you tighten things up at halftime and
Speaker 1: the Lakers played a much better second half. Again, I
Speaker 1: think they have to feel pretty good considering Denver was
Speaker 1: a nearly flawless team at home altitude advantage for Game one.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a really interesting series.
Speaker 1: You know, they always say styles make fights in title fights.
Speaker 1: You can see why Denver was a number one seed.
Speaker 1: Highly efficient. They don't shoot a ton of threes. When
Speaker 1: they did, they hit him. I think they had one
Speaker 1: of the lower number of threes in the NBA this year,
Speaker 1: but were very efficient. They don't turn the ball over
Speaker 1: a lot, They get a lot of second chance points
Speaker 1: because of their length, and Late helps him on both ends.
Speaker 1: So you can see they don't shoot a ton of threes,
Speaker 1: but Jamal Murray's really good when he does. You can
Speaker 1: see why Denver's a really good team. Plus the altitude
Speaker 1: that's always been anytime the Nuggets have been good, they've
Speaker 1: been very good at home. So I think we're going
Speaker 1: to have a six to seven game series. I think
Speaker 1: the quality of basketball on the floor tonight, I mean
Speaker 1: the talent KCP, Jokich, Michael Porter, Gordon, Jamal Murray, Ruey
Speaker 1: had a really good night. Austin Reeves had a couple
Speaker 1: of big threes late. Anthony Davis really woke up in
Speaker 1: the second half offensively, Lebron James. It's no coincidence these
Speaker 1: teams are here, the Lakers and the Nuggets. Just it's
Speaker 1: trees against bigger trees. And that was the difference tonight.
Speaker 1: Those seventeen rebounds, second chance points most it felt like
Speaker 1: a lot of them were in the first half. The
Speaker 1: Nuggets were playing downhill, but the Lakers, and they do
Speaker 1: this when you're very good defensively, you can just make
Speaker 1: enough stops, you go on a little Ruey gets hot,
Speaker 1: Reeves gets hot, Lebron hits a couple, Davis gets in
Speaker 1: his groove, and all of a sudden, you're out played.
Speaker 1: And you looked up and you were like, oh, they're
Speaker 1: down six, they're down four. So Lakers going to hang
Speaker 1: around like that. And that's what length and defense and
Speaker 1: adjusting does. My takeaway as if Los Angeles would have
Speaker 1: stolen that game, that would have taken the wind out
Speaker 1: of Denver's sales. They didn't good effort. Denver's earned that
Speaker 1: number one seed. We knew they were big coming in,
Speaker 1: but you really when you watch the Warriors lack of
Speaker 1: size against the Lakers, and then you watch the Lakers
Speaker 1: and they look small compared to Denver. It gives you
Speaker 1: an idea if you're the Warriors watching this game tonight, saying, okay,
Speaker 1: in the offseason, we've got to get bigger. You know
Speaker 1: when when that small ball first introduced and those players
Speaker 1: were in their prime, Clay and Steph and Draymond, it
Speaker 1: was a little faster. They've slowed down a bit now
Speaker 1: they don't have the size, and that Denver's the real deal,
Speaker 1: really really nice. Went okay, I'm going to take a
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Speaker 1: lottery has the San Antonio Spurs winning Victor Wambinyama, the
Speaker 1: French prodigy goes. Tony Parker played in France, so there's
Speaker 1: a huge Spurs fan base in that area. And Victor
Speaker 1: said afterwards that a lot of people were hoping you
Speaker 1: went to San Antonio. They were the one of the
Speaker 1: teams with the odds on favorite, one of the three
Speaker 1: favorites going into the Ping Pong ball Lottery. Listen, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna go anywhere, you know my heart was rooting
Speaker 1: for the Portland Trailblazers, who have had the worst string
Speaker 1: of luck of any professional sports franchise in America. Bill
Speaker 1: Walton was a brilliant college and pro basketball player, fell
Speaker 1: apart in Portland. Sam Bouie, a remarkable player with the
Speaker 1: Kentucky Wildcats, fell apart, greg Odin, Brandon Roy never ends Portland.
Speaker 1: It's ironic. Their smallest player, Damian Lillard, has been the
Speaker 1: one that's had the great career not the big guys,
Speaker 1: so'm I was kind of rooting for the Portland Trailblazers
Speaker 1: to get a break. They are saying, is he's a
Speaker 1: better prospect than Magic Johnson and Lebron James. Let me
Speaker 1: push back a little bit on that. I think what
Speaker 1: made Magic so special and he had a short career,
Speaker 1: but what has made Lebron special is their body type.
Speaker 1: I was watching Lebron and you had that black pullover
Speaker 1: on before the game warming up. He looks like a
Speaker 1: defensive end in the NFL. So much of Lebron's success
Speaker 1: is his body. Not only has he taken care of it,
Speaker 1: but it's just built to last. You know, I said
Speaker 1: this about Tom Brady. I've stood around Tom Brady one time,
Speaker 1: and Tom Brady is six five, two thirty. Tom Brady's
Speaker 1: a big man. You know, these small quarterbacks. The two
Speaker 1: is the Kyler Murray's day age. Fast. Brady is big
Speaker 1: and didn't get hit much. So wan Minyama is a
Speaker 1: very seven to three and growing very thin. That body
Speaker 1: type historically is not an eighteen year body type. And
Speaker 1: to break Lebron James records, you're going to have to
Speaker 1: play for eighteen years at least Magic Johnson, body type, big,
Speaker 1: huge for a guard. You know, a lot a chem
Speaker 1: o laja one. If you look, if you look at
Speaker 1: the players who have been great, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, you
Speaker 1: know he didn't get hurt much in his career, very
Speaker 1: strong player. You think of Kareem as thin, kind of angular,
Speaker 1: very strong player, good bass. I don't know. I look
Speaker 1: at Victor Wambin Yama and I think, oh, he's absolutely
Speaker 1: offensively gifted. Nobody's ever going to block his shot. He's
Speaker 1: going to get twenty points a game. He'll get pushed
Speaker 1: around for the first couple of years, but he's going
Speaker 1: to score a lot of points very quickly. But that frame,
Speaker 1: you know, we've seen a lot of really really good
Speaker 1: players and putting on weight and he needs to. It's
Speaker 1: not always easy. You know. You go from playing internationally
Speaker 1: at nineteen years old to the NBA in an eighty
Speaker 1: two game schedule. You're dropping. You've got to play on
Speaker 1: both ends of the floor in the NBA. Okay, you're
Speaker 1: getting they'll come back and score on you. You're dropping six seven,
Speaker 1: eight thousand calories a night, getting on a plane, too
Speaker 1: tired to eat, falling asleep landing late guys, rookies hit
Speaker 1: a wall. I mean, your body's still grown eighteen nineteen
Speaker 1: years old. So you know, I said this about chet
Speaker 1: Holmgren when he went to OKC. I'd put him on
Speaker 1: like a fifty eight game schedule. I wouldn't even let
Speaker 1: him for the first two years play eighty two games.
Speaker 1: I'd go like fifty eight games first year, stay away
Speaker 1: from back most back to backs unless they're home, and
Speaker 1: then I'd go maybe sixty eight games a year the
Speaker 1: second year. Then you can let him go. But to
Speaker 1: go from thirty six games at Gonzaga for chet Holmgren
Speaker 1: to eighty two with that body type, there's no way
Speaker 1: I'm doing it. There's no way. And he got hurt
Speaker 1: very quickly. Nobody's to blame on that, but I you know,
Speaker 1: there's going to be so much pressure. He's young. The
Speaker 1: NBA schedule is daunting. You have to play both ends.
Speaker 1: He'll be tested because he's being called the greatest player ever,
Speaker 1: prospect ever. Guys are going to go after him. They're
Speaker 1: going to go right after him, be overly physical with him.
Speaker 1: I'm excited. The thing I think that really is ideal.
Speaker 1: David Robinson Tim Duncan. This is not the first rodeo
Speaker 1: for the Spurs. They've had this kind of prodigy, They've
Speaker 1: had this great player. This is what they do. Popovich
Speaker 1: knows what he's doing. He'll be patient. The San Antonio
Speaker 1: press is not unrealistic. It's not New York, Boston, Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: The Fangs aren't out. Good ownership, excellent front office, and
Speaker 1: they can kind of build the team they want. They
Speaker 1: got a lot of salary cap room. They can build
Speaker 1: a team they want. They've they've let go, they've abandoned
Speaker 1: other players. So there's no egos, no divas. They're going
Speaker 1: to build around him on his timeline. So I can't
Speaker 1: wait to watch it. I mean, I would rather see
Speaker 1: a young quarterback go to Andy Reid or Sean McVay
Speaker 1: that a defensive coach, right, I would rather see one
Speaker 1: of these young players go to the Spurs and Greg
Speaker 1: Popovich than some guy that's going to get run out.
Speaker 1: I mean, in the last couple of days, it's Monny
Speaker 1: Williams gone, Doc Rivers gone. Is chaos runs the NBA.
Speaker 1: San Antonio doesn't have a lot of it, and so
Speaker 1: he's going to a very solid no chaos reputable organization
Speaker 1: with a history of developing players and winning under Greg Popovich,
Speaker 1: a very strong system. Nice place to live. You can
Speaker 1: kind of hide in San Antonio, so if you've got
Speaker 1: to go anywhere, that's the place. Good for him. So
Speaker 1: big night, nice win for the Nuggets, who looked the
Speaker 1: part as the number one seed, held on to win.
Speaker 1: And Victor wambin Yama, who they're calling woe, said his
Speaker 1: source is saying he's the greatest prospect ever. That doesn't
Speaker 1: mean he'd be the greatest player ever. Michael Jordan was
Speaker 1: the third pick. Like, let's take a deep breath. But
Speaker 1: he will score. I mean you can. I've talked to
Speaker 1: a couple of scouts there. He'll walk into the league
Speaker 1: and score a lot really quickly. Cross your fingers on
Speaker 1: his health. I can't wait to watch it. So much fun,
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