WEBVTT - #thisleague UNCUT: Post-game show meets Coaching Carousel 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.320 Welcome to this League Uncut in the rule of twenty 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:05.480 four hour NBA News. 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:09.160 This's you, Chris Hans. 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:18.080 It's time, work's time, it's some time. This League Uncut 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:22.439 is underway and on fire. This should be a good one. 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:28.760 Everyone, Welcome to another edition of This League Uncut. Mark 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:32.080 Stein here with Chris Haynes. In the second half of 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:35.520 this show, we will naturally take a detailed look at 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:40.400 the headline news out of Milwaukee Thursday, the Bucks announcing 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:44.680 that they have parted ways with championship winning coach Mike Budenholzer. 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.280 But we're gonna start with the playoffs. It's not often 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.720 again that we get the chance to come on or 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:53.040 the chance to record. Right after the final buzzer, we 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.720 made the decision we're recording this on Thursday night for 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.320 a Friday morning release, and we made the decision, Hey, 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.040 we gotta we got to wait and let this Lakers 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:06.040 Warriors Game two play out and then record. And so, 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:10.640 unfortunately we were not treated to a classic like Game one. 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.160 We were basically treated to the rerun of what happened 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:18.959 in the Boston Philly series. Just a game to route snooze. 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:20.520 Not happy. 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.080 Yeah, we could, we could have actually start a recording 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:23.640 a halftime. 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:25.760 Yeah, we could have when we tried to do the 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.160 responsible thing. It's funny though, one of my mentors, the 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:34.280 great Tommy Bank from the La Times before that the 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:38.360 Houston Post. He is actually basketball historians will remember that 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:42.360 it was Tommy Bank in the Houston Post who christened 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:47.800 the famed University of Houston team starring a Chem Olijuan 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.200 and Clyde Drexler. He's the one who came up with 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:55.080 five Slama jama and many years later, when we were 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.560 both covering tennis, believe it or not, he taught me 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:02.880 some famed sports writer psychology. If you can't play good, 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.640 play fast to help the guys on deadline. And I 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.560 think that's kind of what we got tonight. The second 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.680 half just zoom by because it wasn't much of a contest. 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:15.280 Third quarter, Warriors came out blew the thing open. So 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:19.240 we got it's it's one one Lakers Warriors, it's one 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:23.400 to one Nicks heat, it's one to one six or Celtics. 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.560 The only two to zero is Denver going to Phoenix 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:30.680 now with a two oh lead, and Phoenix no Chris 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.359 Paul in Game three, probably not in game four or 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.440 five either, So the Suns are in huge trouble. But 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.160 I mean, how how big of a come doown was 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.839 this for you? Game one you're working sideline, You're right 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.640 in the heart of the action, the chaos, the energy 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:49.320 that was oozing through the screen tonight, you weren't there. 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.000 I guess actually worked out. You picked, you picked. It's 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:55.280 a good thing that ESPN had this game, because I didn't. 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.000 I didn't feel much energy and excitement, uh, you know, 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.239 bouncing off the TV screen tonight. 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:07.000 Stein. I was pumped up for game one, stein Stein, 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:11.280 But twenty minutes before Tip, my body is just like 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:15.240 I'm just lightweight shaking. I just had so much energy 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.359 in me. Man, It's the Marquee matchup. It's what everybody 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.600 wanted to see, man. And I was you know, I 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:23.360 was blessed to be a part of it, you know, 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.360 be a part of that broadcast. Man. So I just 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.440 had so much energy, and I you know, I was prepared. 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.120 It just it's felt good and the excitement, it was 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:37.360 by far, probably the best atmosphere I've experienced in the 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:39.640 and this year's playoffs that's far. 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.560 So you can I mean, I think, like I said, 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.560 even the people at home could feel it. There was 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:51.320 there was so much anticipation for that game, and you 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.240 know so much was made about it's Lebron versus staphf. 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.000 But you know, a D outshine and everyone in game 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.640 one and then tonight just such a passive performance from 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.360 Ad that's gonna get everybody on his case again. Now, 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:07.400 this is exactly the kind of game that that drives 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:09.600 people nuts about a D when you know he was 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:13.480 otherworldly with thirty twenty three what was it five blocks? 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:18.440 Just I mean, he was the decisive factor in game 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:20.560 one and tonight passive. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:24.960 I think you gotta Stine. I'm gonna tell you, I'm 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:28.200 gonna tell you Stein. And I've noticed I noticed this 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.839 my first year of covering the Warriors when I was 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:37.479 at ESPN, so this would have been twenty sixteen, and 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.719 this is the first time I noticed Draymond guards Anthony 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:47.440 Davis really good. He's He's probably dray Mind is probably 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.360 the toughest defender for a D. I don't know if 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.479 Ad has ever said that or ever acknowledged that, but 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:58.080 the years I've seen him, half a decade, seven years 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:01.679 or whatever it's been, Dre has always played Ad tough, 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:06.200 and you look at Ad not being aggressive today. I 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.000 think that had a lot to do with Draymond. And 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.400 I'm not saying Ad can't get his buckets, can't get 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:14.480 his baskets, but Draymond is always being physical, always pushing 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.240 them out of his comfort zone. You know you're going 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.960 to get a bump with Draymond, and sometimes a lot 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:24.279 of players like to avoid just being touched. And I 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:28.120 would expect Ad to come out much better, much more 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:32.880 sertive in Game three. But this matchup, that matchup has 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:36.440 changed the complexion of this series. And it's not necessarily 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:39.359 like I know, hey, Steve Kurbs catching strays, he was 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:42.120 catching a lot of strays right before the game. When 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:45.479 it was announced that Jamichael Green is stepping into the 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.719 starting lineup in place of Kevon Looney, who's been getting 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.279 twenty rebounds, it seems like for this whole month, but 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:54.960 it worked out. Jamiael Green had a good game, But 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:59.960 most importantly, Draymond was the primary defender on Anthony Day, 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:01.719 and I think that had a lot to do with 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:03.280 AD's performance a game too. 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.680 Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. It's interesting. I was 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:09.680 talking to I will call him a well placed observer 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:14.599 like you, very familiar with the dynamics at play here 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:19.560 when we're talking about Draymond Green historically against Anthony Davis, 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.320 and the way it was described to me was, let 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:25.520 me make sure I got this exactly right. Draymond has 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.520 always taken that match up personally, and I think you 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:32.080 could really see it in this game too. Warriors go 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:39.000 ultra small, and Draymon had just a Draymond game, really 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:43.280 impactful at the defensive end and at the offensive end, 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:48.080 the playmaking. You know, again, I am old, And I 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.039 don't know if you have you ever seen The Fish 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:51.880 That Save Pittsburgh. Have you seen that movie? 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:53.719 Never even heard of it? 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:57.200 You have to find it, you have to watch it. 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.080 Is it is. It is one of to me, the 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.000 five best basketball movies ever. Now, there is a lot 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.480 of nonsense in it, a lot of nonsense. You have 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:09.760 to suspend some level of belief because it is nonsensical. 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:13.040 But it came out in the late seventies starring Doctor 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:21.520 j about a fictional NBA team in Pittsburgh that adopts 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:26.960 a astrological strategy and only gets players under the sign 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.520 of Pisces and they become this amazing team. But the 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.960 reason it was so great this is the late seventies. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:38.840 There's not that much NBA on national TV. And I 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.240 always say, if you like it came out when I 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:45.760 was around ten at that time. The White Shadow, which 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.440 to me is still probably the greatest television show ever, 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:52.679 and then The Fish that Save Pittsburgh. Like that, those 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:56.520 basketball shows were more accessible to me than being able 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:58.280 to watch national games. Of course I was living in 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.400 southern California at the time, so I could see the Lakers, 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.200 but like watching The White Shadow every day, and then 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.720 the Fish at Save Pittsburgh. Like Doctor J is the 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:10.160 star of this movie. Incredible dunk the Dunk montage. Just 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.520 look just look up on YouTube the Dunk montage of 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.760 Doctor J and Fish at Save Pittsburgh in nineteen seventy nine. 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:18.680 This was off the charts incredible. 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.080 But the reason you're giving you're giving me two assignments. 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:23.440 You've got no because you've got. 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.000 To watch it, but you give me. 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:26.600 To you haven't seen the White Shadow either. 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.680 I haven't seen the White Shadow as well. I've never 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:30.160 never heard of the White Shadow. 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:34.920 O my Chris Haynes, this is like I'll do. This 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:40.720 is a dagger Okay, The White Shadow is the greatest 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:45.520 show in television history if you're a basketball fan. Ken Reeves, 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:51.560 fictional former Chicago Bull goes to coach, suffers a career 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:56.640 ending knee injury and goes to coach the legendary Well, 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.199 it wasn't legendary until he got there. The Carver High 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:03.760 basketball team in South central LA. Unbelievable. This show was 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:05.960 ahead of its time. And like I'm telling you, as 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.880 a basketball like at ten, this this was the basketball 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.160 that I got to see more than NBA games. But 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.319 the reason I got on this whole tangent was in this. 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.720 In The Fish at Save Pittsburgh, Metal Arc Lemon, Globe 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:24.360 Trotter's legend plays this playmaking center who was a reverend 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.480 and just all and like when Draymond is like playing, 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.120 he's playing small ball center and making all these plays. 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.160 That's what it reminds me. But it reminds me of 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:38.160 Meta Lark Lemon just just running the show offensively like 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.080 he did in The Fish That Save Pittsburgh. We saw 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:42.440 some of that out of Draymond too. 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:47.800 Okay, Okay, look, look, please, hey people, please tweet. If 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.679 you're on Twitter, you can send an email find us 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.559 find our email address, or even on Instagram, send a 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:57.280 comment remark, have y'all ever heard of these two movies? Please? 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:01.360 He's called these movies the best basketball It's in my 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:02.040 top five. 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.760 Not Fish that Save Pittsburgh is not the best basketball 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.400 movie of all time, but it's it's in my top five. 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:09.600 And you know who agrees with me. At your next 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.079 TNT staff meeting, do me a favor, or the next time, 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.720 the next time you do a hit for Inside the NBA, 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:21.640 holler at Shack and ask Shack. Hey, Shaq Stein keeps 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.880 telling me about this movie, The Fish That Save Pittsburgh. 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.800 Shaq will tell you that movie helped change his life. 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:30.520 Because just just if you don't watch the movie, which 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.520 is I understand you might not want to go back 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.880 and watch a movie from nineteen seventy nine that, like 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:37.959 I said, has a lot of it has a lot 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:39.920 of it has a lot of stupid stuff in it too. 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:44.480 But just go on YouTube and dial up the Doctor J. 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.680 Dunk montage from The Fish That Save Pittsburgh and think 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:52.800 about this isn't twenty twenty three, this is nineteen seventy nine, 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:56.000 So this is like mind blowing stuff for a ten 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.679 year old kid to watch Us and The White Shadow best. 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.240 Maybe people are gonna argue with me about is it 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.400 the best TV show of all time? Best TV show theme? 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.959 I will put the opening music of The White Shadow 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:12.880 up against any TV show ever. And yes, I want. 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.959 I I look. I know our younger, our younger, our 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.439 younger listeners are gonna think I have lost my mind. 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.520 But there are gonna be some. There are gonna be 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.040 some older listeners who are like, yeah, Stein, you are, 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.760 tell Tell them about the White Shadow. Tell him about 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:28.680 the fish that save Pittsburgh. 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:30.760 You know it's a movie called He Got Game. 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.000 Yeah, okay, Yes, I've heard chips. Yeah, Blue Love Blue 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:35.400 Chips is in my top five too. 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:36.400 Coach Carter. 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:40.000 Coach Carter didn't make it. White white men, white men 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.480 can't jump is number one. Here. Let me call up. 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.760 I did this for the I'm gonna try to find 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.160 it while we're looking. I did my top five for 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:52.280 the New York Times about five years ago, and I'll 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:52.679 find it. 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:52.880 Well. 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.160 Well, while we're talking about the reason I got on 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:55.800 that whole tangent. 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.079 But but you went all, yeah, I get, I get 0:11:58.080 --> 0:11:59.640 while you went on that tangent, you went all the 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.680 way to the seventies because the seventies movie reminded you 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:04.679 of Draymond Green Tramon's. 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:09.920 Raymond's playmaking as a small Ball five was Meadow Lark 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:11.280 Lemon esque. 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:15.800 Oh boy, it was. I actually met Medal Lark a 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:21.280 few years before. You know, man, pretty it was pretty 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:25.560 soon after before he passed, came to Portland. He was 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.040 doing it. He did a last stint with the Globetrotters. 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.719 That was cool. That was cool. So that that that 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.600 legend right there. I do know all these other individuals 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:36.680 you mentioned mentioning I have to do, like. 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:38.440 I said, just you know what, and like I said, 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:40.640 you don't. You're a busy man. Maybe you don't have time. 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:42.520 So if you don't have time to watch the whole movie, 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:44.600 and if you don't have time to watch a bunch 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:48.040 of one hour episodes, just go on YouTube and just 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.320 watch the Doctor J. Dunk montage from the Fish at 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:54.760 Save Pittsburgh and then just watch the intro to any 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.400 episode of The White Shadow. And just if you just 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.360 do that for me, like I will consider that a 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:01.079 personal favor. 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:12.679 So, Draymond Stein, I was at Game one. I had 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.240 the assignment and it's it's it's interested in seeing the 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:22.199 dynamic of Draymond and how he can go at officials 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:29.840 and just how officials officiate or regulate after they've already 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:35.160 given him a technical and he knows its poor Ed, 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:39.600 but lord, poor Ed. Oh boy, I'm right there. Stean 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:43.920 Ed gives him a tech and dray didn't stop. Matter 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:50.080 of fact, it got worse, it got worse. So fans 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:55.480 don't understand how like it got worse worse. I'm not 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.080 gonna say this stuff. Dre was saying it got worse, 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.880 and you know, and drey didn't get a second tech. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.320 But you know, you can just see the dynamic with 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:09.120 the officials. How you know, Draymond's a big part of 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.600 of what the Warriors do. And it's it's like that 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:13.960 with a lot of players in the league that get 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.040 you know, Luka Donkis gets a lot, picks up a 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.600 lot of texts. I wouldn't put Dylan Brooks on their level, 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:23.360 but Dylan Brooks gets a lot of texts. But how 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.640 referees are quick to give that first tech and then 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:30.440 the players know, the players know the official. The officials 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.400 do not want to be the center of attention by 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.800 ejecting someone who is very crucial to the team and 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.480 to the to the outcome, potentially the outcome of that 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.920 basketball game, and how much more leeway they give them 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:47.320 after the first tech. It was, it was, it was amazing. 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.000 It was amazing, which which leads me to believe, well, 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.800 which leads me to saying I should say is I 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:55.880 think there needs to be a lot more leeway in 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:59.960 the first TECH for some people because I think, you know, 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.960 but it depends, like you see officials giving players text 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:08.120 for waving their arms, you know, or they'll make a gesture, 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.680 not a not a finger gesture, make a gesture at 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.480 the hand, like swiping down at the official after a 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:19.680 call quick t But then right after that the talking 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.520 gets worse, you know, it's get worse after that, and 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:23.960 they don't get it, you know, they don't get a 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.360 TECH because the rest are scared to call a TECH. 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.440 So it was just, you know, I really enjoyed just 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:34.000 seeing that dynamic and see how officials call things and 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:38.000 how they don't call things after a TECH is already whistled. 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:39.280 Well in interesting. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.400 I'm sure the Lakers are kind of gonna come away 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.480 from this furious though, because they went to the line 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.040 a ton in Game one. I think only four free 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:50.200 throws in the first half Tonight doesn't excuse the second 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:54.200 half performance. I mean that was just a second half borderline, 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.080 no show. Third quarter Warriors just ran up the score 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:00.960 on them. We don't normally talk about game two Clay, 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:06.200 but he was tonight found the three ball. But I mean, 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:11.280 Anthony Davis was so brilliant in Game one, didn't leave 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.040 the floor in the second half. But that naturally led 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.600 to the question, how much did that take out of him? 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:20.600 I think the good you know, I guess good news 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:22.680 is probably too strong. The silver lining here for the 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.400 Lakers is, you know, they got blown out. They didn't 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:29.000 really tax Lebron and Ad tonight. They're gonna have to 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:33.200 bounce back with I mean those two. It always it 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.840 obviously starts with those two stat I saw. The Lakers 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.480 have actually won nine straight game threes out of a 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.600 one to one tie. We'll see how much that actually 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:43.000 means for this. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.600 You call this arrest. You call this arrest for the Lakers. 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:47.640 I mean in the second in the fourth quarter, they 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:49.960 sure did. I mean d Ham basically it was over, 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:53.640 you know, to start the fourth he was he basically 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:54.400 knew it was over. 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:55.360 So I mean, that's. 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:58.640 That's the only good news, because yeah, I mean drain, 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:02.640 I mean, ad did not look good tonight. And you know, 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.200 Draymond is going to take a lot of confidence out 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:09.520 of this that he's that his tactics are already working. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:13.600 I mean, he's he's done it before, he's done it before. 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.760 Didn't Draymond tell us on on on on our podcast 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.359 when he came on probably about a month ago. Didn't 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.880 he tell us he wasn't going to be potting during 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:24.480 the playoffs? 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:26.919 No, no, no, he said, he's not gonna be interviewing. 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.760 So that's why, that's why he wasn't going to ask 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:32.840 us on anytime soon, because you know, that was that 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.160 was the trade. That was the I did not get 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.159 any Executive of the Year votes this year. I got zero, 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:39.720 but I think I should have because I think I 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.960 made the best trade of the season when I said, Draymond, sure, 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.560 come on our pod and then we'll drop on your 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.239 pod whenever you want, and he said, let's wait till 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:52.399 after the playoffs for your guys invite because after the 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.280 play in the playoffs, he only does postgame soliloquies. He 0:17:55.359 --> 0:18:03.080 just gets on there and and and it's great. I mean, 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.560 I love listening to him because he you know, I 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:07.240 don't know how I don't know how the Warriors actually 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:10.320 feel about it, but he breaks it down in his 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:12.520 in his candid way. 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:15.119 It's just a new day. It's a new day. You 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.480 see the mixed reaction out there. There's a lot of 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:21.320 people who like it, who like getting a basketball breakdown 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:25.720 from somebody who's actually playing in that series the very 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.159 next day or maybe the same night, and it just 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:32.960 drops the next day. Then you have others who believe, hey, 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.840 he should be locked in twenty four hours. You shouldn't 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:37.919 be You shouldn't have time for this. It's just a 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:40.120 new day at the end of the day, if he's 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:44.640 still bringing it, and that's all that matters. And definitely 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:46.200 he brought it for Game two. 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:50.480 Now since as you know, I'm living vicariously through you 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:52.440 here for you know where you know, I'm not going 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:54.520 to any of these games. You're the You're you're repping 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.639 the show on the road here. Are you sticking with 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:01.440 this series or are you are you diverting elsewhere? What's 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:03.440 what's your next what's your next TV gig? 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:07.800 I'm sticking through this series through so game three is 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:12.760 another ESPN game. Game three is Friday. I have Game 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:18.960 four Monday, and I have Game five Wednesday next week. 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:23.120 Those putting you on the spot, but you if if 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:23.680 you wanted to. 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:25.640 Call, but I am, but I will be. I will 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:29.640 be at game three. But just just as a report, if. 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:32.199 You want to decline to answer this, I totally get it, 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:32.879 but I'm gonna ask it. 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.760 I don't. I don't duck, no small shoot. 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:42.240 So atmosphere wise to work the sideline, sit courtside. What 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:47.080 do you like better? Chase Center or the place that 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.399 I'm not ready to call its new name, Staples Center. 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:55.960 I would say that's a good question. I'm not ducking 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.280 like Stein. It's equal. Equal, It's equal. 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:01.240 I would have thought it would have been a Staples layup. 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:03.960 Well why just because the people? 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:07.520 I mean, it's just look, I mean again, I'm letting 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:11.320 my personal biases come in. My formative years were spent 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:14.520 in southern California. I'm a former Lakers beat writer. There's 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:17.320 just and I feel every time I go back, there 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:22.640 is just something about being court side at a Laker game, 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:26.600 like there is there is a court side energy because 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:28.520 and you know, the people watching is a big part 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:30.240 of it. But like I just feel it every time 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:34.440 I come home, and you know, and I've never in 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:36.440 I'm I'm just sitting in the you know, the press 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:38.520 row seats. I mean you, you know as the TNT 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:42.120 sideline guy, like you have the best press seat there is. 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:45.879 Yeah. Well, I was looking at it from a different angle, 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:49.080 all right. Question. I was looking at it like like 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:53.720 which arena allows me to do my job? The belt, 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.320 you know, listen walking around, you know, trying to listen 0:20:57.400 --> 0:20:58.960 to see what I can get from, you know, the 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:02.760 timeout huddles. And I said, San Francisco and La are 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:06.760 the same because I can walk there. There's an hourway. 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:09.600 There's a pathway. I can walk to the Lakers side 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:13.320 and walk straight to the to the opposite side, to 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:17.280 the Warriors side, the Kings. You haven't you haven't been 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:23.520 to god, Okay, there is not a pathway, so I 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:27.439 have to It's a weird setup. So I sit at 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:30.800 the scorers table. But in order to get to the 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:35.120 Warriors side, I have to walk up some stairs that's 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:38.719 behind me. There's about six steps, walk up some stairs 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:43.840 that are behind me, and I walk towards the Warriors side. 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:47.040 And then but I have to pass the Warriors bench. 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:50.760 So I passed the Warriors bench about twenty feet past them, 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:55.239 walk down, then go to the Warriors. Then I can 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:58.440 get to the Warriors bench the same. It's the same path. 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:00.760 If I want to go to the Kings, go right 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:05.040 back up these stairs, go towards the King's bench, past 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:08.440 the King's bench about twenty feet, go down the steps, 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:11.760 then get over to the Kings. So there's not a 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:15.520 there's not a one path hour way from each bench. 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:18.200 And so those are and so that's what I don't 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:21.080