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That just ended. 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:35.720 The thunder hang on and beat the Pelicans two and 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:40.880 it was their MVP candidate again, Shaye Gilgus Alexander with 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.600 a three point play that put them up and then 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:47.720 Chat Holmer hit a free throw may one of two 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:52.000 put them up to and CJ got the ball knocked away, 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.639 got a shot up, but it wasn't It didn't look 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:56.079 like it was close to going in from the back, 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:59.120 and so they hold on to win and keep home 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.600 court as they win ninety four to ninety two. 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:03.079 Watching this ball. 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:07.000 Game, lead change, lead change, ten point lead, nine point lead, 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.160 look like okayc within control of the game, but the 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:14.160 Pelicans comes storming back, take a lead briefly, but the 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.160 pelot but the thunder would not go away. That's a 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.280 very scrappy team and for a team to be so young, 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.079 they find ways to win ball games. Laying the ball game, 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.480 What did you like about what you saw with Joe Man? 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:30.520 I like shy obviously being an MVP candidate. Games like 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.120 this is when you have to step up and play 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.480 like an MVP. Obviously, he was eleven eleven for twenty four. 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.840 The lead changes obviously, the game of basketball being a 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:41.640 game of runs, and that's exactly what. 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:42.280 This game did. 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.760 The lead continued to change back and forth between the 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:49.480 Pails and the Thunder. But Shy coming coming up, big Ship? 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:51.800 Is it shit? I do want to say his name right? 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.040 Ship home? 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:54.800 Yeah? 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.040 Listen play play played well too? 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:57.520 Man? 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.280 Brother brother No brother brother really brother really tall? Now? Yeah, 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.520 brother really tall? He played very well as well. 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:08.480 I like it. I like it. 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.280 I enjoyed the game obviously, you know. 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.280 For me, you know, I'm not much of a basketball 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.360 basketball fan, but watching these games and getting a little 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.880 bit more into it for me has been very very 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.000 exciting and learning the game on the fly and on 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.840 the run as I am now, I'm enjoying it a lot. 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:27.480 Well, you have to get a Thunder credit because they 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.080 did a great job on brandon Ingram. They made it 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.320 tough for him all night. They challenged him, they got 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.200 up under him, they contested every shot he could seem 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.920 to never get a rhythm. But the turnovers late really 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.880 hurt the Pelicans. I thought they had an opportunity. They 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.560 get a rebound and Larry Nace Junior throw the ball 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:46.840 out of bounds. They get another rebound and then they 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.680 turned it over. They let the let the the Thunder 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:51.640 poke the ball out from the back and they give 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.240 that up. Brandon Ingham get a shot, he gets a 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.160 one on one on low door and he gets an 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.320 offensive file call. It was just so many things and 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.039 you would thought this was something that the Thunder would 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.839 do right. I didn't kind of expect the Pails to 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.480 melt down like they did. But give the Thunder credit 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:11.640 because they made the plays when they had to make it, 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.440 because they could have easily folded ten got the press man. 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.440 We had a ten point lead. Here we are late 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:18.880 in the ball game. But they held it together. They 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.640 got the ball to their best player, Shay, and he 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.159 did an unbelievable job. He got the n one, he 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.240 made the shot, and that's what you have to have. 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.279 Your stars have to come up big. And tonight the 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:33.400 Pales best player, Brandon Ingram. Obviously, with Zion being out, 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.440 you're relying heavily on him. Five or seventeen er two 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.080 from the three point line. He only got to the 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:43.080 free throw line twice. That's not good enough. That's not 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.960 good enough. You get twenty one from Trey Murphy eight 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.440 of eighteen, you get nine of twenty two from CJ. 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:49.400 Twenty points. 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.440 You need a brand b I needs to be in 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.680 that twenty point range. I thought Valentiunis did a great 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.680 job on the glass thirteen with twenty boards. He had 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:03.800 nine offensive rebounds that give you an opportunity to get 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:05.080 a lot of second chance points. 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.479 But give the Thunder credit. They health serve at home. 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.880 The one thing that you don't want to do is 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.960 lose Game one on your home court, because now the 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.200 team feels really good. So they've stolen the game, and 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.760 so give the Thunder credit. They played well down the stretch, 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.839 played well enough to win the ball game. This was 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.880 a game I thought the Pailfs could have won and 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.760 probably should have won. But if they want to have 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.000 an opportunity to win this series, brandon Ingram is gonna 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:31.520 have to play better than what he played tonight. 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:35.080 I mean, so obviously brandon Ingram is gonna have to 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.640 play better. Yes, in the situation, do you think the 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:40.320 outcome of the game changes if Zion played tonight. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.680 Oh hell yeah, yeah, I mean we know what Zion is. 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:45.440 I mean he's a guy that can go get your 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:50.320 double double. They have no answer for it. They have 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.040 no answer. They don't have anybody. They don't have anybody 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:53.880 that can put a body on him and keep him 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.080 from getting to the paint man. You see how he 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.320 was going through a d he was going through RUI, 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:02.600 he was going past Lebron the thunder. Don't have anybody 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:06.760 that neutralize that. But probably not gonna be back in 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.440 this series. So you don't even you're not thinking about 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.840 having him. You're not even thinking about him because they 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:15.520 say two weeks, you know, ham string and when you 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.000 got to do certain bursts that they grab. 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:19.360 So you're an air on the. 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.640 Side of caution because you don't want him to rip 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.720 it off the bone. So but all intents and purposes, 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.040 he's not playing in this series. And so you need 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.559 to frame your mind. What we have in this locker 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:33.320 room that dressed and pales gear. That's what That's what 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.760 we're gonna have to win with Brandon Ingram is gonna 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:37.600 have to play better than what he played. I know 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:39.760 herb Jones is better than what he gave. He only 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.360 gave you eight points tonight. They only got thirteen points 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:46.760 off the bench. Ugh Alvarado normally gives them a little 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:47.720 more than what he gave him. 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:49.680 They had. 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:51.720 Let's not take that back. They had eighteen points off 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:52.080 the bench. 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.120 Lad Nas had some big time rebounds, like I said, 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.400 he had eight rebounds. Didn't play a whole lot of play, 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:01.240 less than twenty minutes. But the opportunities that they squandered, 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.640 like I said, three turnovers. You got the ball in 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.119 your hands and Larry Nas throw the ball out of bounds. 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.080 They're CJ standing right in front of him, and he 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:09.960 throws it to a guy that has his back turned. 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:11.680 That damn near out of bounds when he threw it 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.120 to it. And so just the turnovers laid in the 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.720 ball game, and that's the focus. I'm sure Willie Greeny says, Hey, 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:20.920 this is a game we could have won, we probably 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:23.920 should have won. Let's come out there with that same focus, 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:27.240 that same mindset. Clean some of the things up and 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.320 we'll be okay. But the thunder to hang on and 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.120 get a hard part victory ninety four, ninety two. You 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.880 have to be pleased with this because this is a 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:36.880 game that could have swung the other way, but the 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:38.960 thunder half found a way to win the ball game. 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.200 Kawhi Leonard missed the Clippers. 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.679 Season open against the Mavericks on Sunday due to knee inflammation, 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.560 but the Clippers won anyway. The Clippers managed did you 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.079 just find without him in Game one, never trailing in 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.520 the ball game, leading by as many as twenty nine 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.520 points thanks to James Harden and Paul George, who are 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:59.240 combined for fifty Zubos added a career high, playoff high 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:04.080 twenty points, also added fifteen rebounds. Now, if you tell 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.600 me the Beard, you notice I didn't say James Harden. See, 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:09.440 they don't want James Harden to show up. They want 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.680 the Beard to show up. Jack Harden to show up. 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:12.040 You take it. 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:15.120 You going home as long as the Beard shows up 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.920 right and plays like this. He was aggressive, he was 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.040 looking at it, looking for a shot, but he wasn't 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.760 too aggressive that he made other players get out of there. 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:26.240 I love what Tyler did. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:26.520 Early. 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.319 Tyler sayd man, y'all ain't got nobody big enough to 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.920 deal with Big Zoo down Snow down low. If you 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.400 noticed they went to Big Zoo early. That's what they 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.680 normally do with an Anthony Davis. That's what they normally 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.560 do with a Joel Embiid or one of these other 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.880 big guys. But he's like, man, Daniel Gaffer, you two 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:42.960 light in the backside, Bro, you ain't got enough bricks 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.320 in your back pocket. And Zu Boss did a number 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.680 on him early in the ball game. So now we 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.200 got to send double we got to send help. Okay, 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.320 in the process of you sending help, now you're gonna 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:56.200 leave these shooters open. And they made them pay. But 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.760 I thought Beard played really well. PG got it going, 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.400 got it going in the fourth quarter. But they knocked 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.440 down shots, and that's what you have. Terrence Man knocked 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.160 down some big shots. They'll had guys that knocked down 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:12.720 big shots. What would they the three point line, Oh, Joe, 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.480 eighteen to thirty six, eleven or thirteen. 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:16.040 From the file line. 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.400 Obviously they're they're they're a jump shooting team, with the 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:21.560 exception of like I said, the only guy that can 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:25.040 that really posts up is Zubos because dy Lou felt 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.280 that they had an advantage with sides inside. 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.160 Mm hmm, well hell, god damn. The Clippers eventually outscored 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.120 the MAVs. Damn there, twenty to ten. You got James 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.959 Harden playing out his mind, Kawhi is out with injury, 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:42.160 Paul George played played well, and obviously Zubach is a 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:46.280 mismass for really basically, damn near everybody the MAVs have. 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:51.520 Yeah, basically y'all. Gaff gafferd is not big enough. I like, 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:56.040 I like Lively the second He's small, but he's very athletic. 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.120 But what's gonna have to happen? I already know what 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:01.760 I'm gonna get. 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.520 From Kawhi and Luca when he comes back. 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:07.000 I know what I'm gonna get. 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.800 I'm gonna get somewhere around fifty five to sixty five 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.280 points on a nightly basis. What are those other guys 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.560 gonna do? Daniel Jones played eighteen minutes, gave me zero points. 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.360 Daniel Grafford played fourteen minutes, gave me three points. 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:19.079 PJ. 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.439 Washington he gave me eleven. He normally gives me. Yeah, 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.880 probably about fifteen. I could have used that, But then 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.160 what the Cleveland one for five from the field, oh 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:28.679 for three from the three point line. He gave me 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:33.000 three points. Tim Hardwood Junior gave me six points. Lively 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:36.360 gave me three points. That's not good enough. But those 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.679 other guys, because look at it, Paul George had twenty two, 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:44.120 Zubos had twenty, The Beard had twenty eight, Terrence Mann 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.040 had thirteen. Russ came up the bench and gave you thirteen. 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.959 You see the ballance scoring because see now I'm looking 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.480 at it. I'm looking at I already know what Kyrie 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:54.480 and Luca's gonna do. 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:59.319 You can see that. Yeah, none of you other guys 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:00.000 gonna do anything. 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.360 They got the step up hell the first half. 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.520 The Man's had the worst offense in the first half, 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:08.400 and obviously they and they playoff history. So if you 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.560 got to have your supporting cast show up, so Luca 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.360 and damn Kyrie don't have to be Superman, right, If 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.360 they don't have to be Superman, everybody else shows up 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:20.080 the playball, they're gonna be fine. I still think, obviously 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.960 the Clippers have an edge and have an advantage once 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.160 Kawhi comes back. I like the big three as opposed 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:30.160 to their two. They're two headed monster over in Dallas. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.719 So if Beer continues to play consistent and shows up 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.520 not being James Harden but shows up being the beer 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:40.200 and playing consistent, playing consistent basketball, I think they have 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.800 a chance to go pretty damn far in the damn 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:45.160 damn playoffs. 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.520 Yeah, you look, Kevin Bayley shot, they shot less than 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.360 thirty nine percent from the field. The Mavericks dead, they 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:54.800 shot from the three point line. And that's the that's 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.080 the thing, because I'm counting on Luca, like I said, 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.360 fifty five, somewhere between fifty five and sixty five or 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:04.400 the nightly base. Can I get from my other starters? 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.760 Can I get forty? And then can I get another 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:10.400 ten fifteen from a bench? I don't think that's asking 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:14.079 too much. Forty yeah, forty from the other three, that's 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:19.959 only thirteen points. I mean, PJ Washington, what was PJ Washington? 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.400 What did he average for the season. I think he 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:23.480 averaged about fifteen. 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:26.520 They got to be on fire. 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.880 And his playoff time his playoff time too. So you know, 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.000 most of the players don't have the confidence to be 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.120 able to pull a trigger on those shots. 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.360 That's why they traded three. Let that green light go. 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:39.160 It's different. 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.120 Everybody don't have the green like to just pull it. 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:47.000 Finally, Luca has someone that can tag came along with it. 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:48.119 Kyrie. 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.559 He's never had that player. He had it for one 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:51.840 year he had Jalen Brunson. 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:52.679 Mh. 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.040 We see what Jaylen Brunson is doing with his own 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:56.840 team in the Knicks. 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:01.960 Now he has a guy and Kyrie still beyond skill 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:06.360 three level three mid range, the best finisher. He's the 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.839 best small small person finisher in the history of the league. 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.880 He's one of the best finishers ever either hand. Got 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.800 English up and under gypsy dude mid range. Like I said, 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.640 you file him, you go to the fire line. He's 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.520 gonna make ninety percent of those shots. Luca's gonna be Luca. 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:24.080 He averaged thirty four, gave you nine to nine. He 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:27.400 scored assisted more points total points than anybody in NBA history. 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:31.360 We know what he's going to the well except Will. 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.200 We thought we don't. We don't put Will ned the equation. 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.160 But we know what Luca. They're gonna do. But they 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:41.840 need PJ. Washington. What is PJ okay? Ash's looking at thirteen? 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:43.640 So he average thirteen, So he gave you to What 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:47.240 about Daniel Jones? What did he normally give you? Because 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.920 they got to get either or or Tim Hardaway Junior 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.720 is gonna have to give you better production off the bench, 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.880 somebody's gonna have to come along with Luca and Kyrie 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.120 because that's not enough. Two men are not gonna be 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.800 the team because that's what the Clippers have and they 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:06.920 played great team ball. Look, Luca's gonna get it, but 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.920 you gotta make him get it inefficiently. Eleven of twenty six, 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.760 four of twelve. Yeah he had thirty three, but it 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:14.120 took him thirty three shots to get it. 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.720 I can live with that. I just don't want him 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.960 to get thirty three on fifteen. 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:22.680 Sixteen shots shots, right, But I. 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:26.560 Also don't want him Guess what, and I made him 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:28.440 a score He only had six assists. 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.600 See what Luca gets you is that. 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.360 You allow him to get thirty five forty and he 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.080 has thirteen to fifteen assists. So not only is he 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.160 getting his, he's allowing other people to get there. So 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.400 if y'all want to play two man basketball, if y'all 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.200 want to go out there and score sixty five seventy, 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.840 have at it. But the mother three and the rest 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.440 of them ain't getting nothing. And that's the way tay 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.400 Loo's gonna approach it. Look, we're gonna make we can't 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.320 stop them. We can't deal with them. Let's not let 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:54.480 anybody else go crazy. 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:57.080 Clippers. 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:58.960 Look, look they're gonna have to you know it, and 0:15:59.240 --> 0:15:59.560 you know it. 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:01.680 That got to be difficult too. And I think about it, 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:06.360 I'm I don't know how I think about football and 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.760 coming off the bench and how difficult it is to 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.480 get into a rhythm or flowing the game, and think 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:13.640 about Tim Hardaway Junior having to come off the bench 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:15.600 or the bench players in generally having to come off 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.120 the bench and actually get it's god damn difficult to 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:19.160 get into goddamn rhythm. 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.040 No, because that's what you do. It is not like 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:23.760 you all of a sudden, Oh yo, you're a starter. 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.080 That's what you do. Now, if that all of a 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:27.760 sudden they said, well, oh yo, we need you to today, 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.320 We're gonna hold you out the first two series, now 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.520 you would have a compelling argument because that's not what 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:33.400 you normally does. 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:35.240 This is what Tim Hardaway does. 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:39.640 He comes off the bench, right, right, damn that's that. 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:43.320 There's there's no excuse because you're in the exact same 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:47.760 role you've always been in, right, everybody, And that's the thing, 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:49.640 that's what you have to do you have to, And 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.440 that's what the playoff does. The playoff forces you to 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.120 be at least be who you are. Now the greats 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:59.240 take their their playoff, they normally increase, right once he 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.680 increased the rebounds or assist, that's what the greats do. 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:05.920 We just need or the team just need their role 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:09.720 players to do the role what they would normally do. 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.399 So you think they have a chance as far as 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.920 the role players, the players of the bench in game two. 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:19.119 If they played, if they play like they normally played. 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.080 This was one of the most clutch teams. Clutch last 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.359 five minutes of the ball game, game within five points. 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.480 That's what clutchers define their in NBA terms. This was 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:29.600 the best. If I'm not mistaken, this was the best 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.800 clutch team. You can understand why they got Luca, they 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.920 got Kyrie. Put you in the pick and roll. Now 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:37.840 they can lob it to Gafford, they can lob it 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:42.800 the Lively. So yeah, I expect the Mavericks to play better. 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:44.760 I don't think they're gonna go another quarter where they 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:46.840 just score eight points. They's caught eight points in the 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.840 second quarter, oh joep So that kind of doomed though, 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:53.159 and they're fighting an uphill battle from that point on. 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:55.720 He scored eight points in a quarter and you allow 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:57.240 a team to have a twenty six to twenty seven 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.679 point lead. Now you saw Kyrie got to go it 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.800 in the third. I think he'll probably try to insert 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.840 himself a little earlier because Luca got it going early, 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:08.920 Kyrie got of took a back seat, and then Luca 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:10.919 went away in the second. But Kyrie didn't get it 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.600 going to the third, so they let too much separation 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:16.160 get between them and the clips before they were able 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:17.520 to try to put a den in it, and they 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:19.160 always got it. I think they cut it down at 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:23.280 one point, not the final score. The final score is twelve, 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.680 Yes it's twelve, but I think at one point in time, 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:29.119 I think with eight minutes, I think they got in 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:30.280 like fourteen or sixteen. 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.040 But that was really as close as the guy. But PJ. 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.760 Daniel Jones, Daniel Gafford or Hardaway Junior, they're gonna have 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:38.720 to play a lot better. I don't know what happened 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:40.960 to cleeber shot. I mean he was throwing up bricks 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:42.440 left and right. I mean he wasn't even hitting a 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:43.400 rim on those three. 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:49.240 He was taking right, hey, playoff basketball, baby, yeah, and 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.000 make a fool of it, and make a fool of 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:51.520 us all. 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:58.520 Jason Tatum had his first career this is his first 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:04.520